Chairslinger

A few hours ago I was going to make a joke about how Vince finally got his longtime wish for a supposed angle that was going to happen: he fucked his daughter.

I held off on it because it was a pretty harsh joke for a situation where a lot is still unclear. But I am starting to wonder if it was more apt than I realized. Looking more and more likely that the party buying WWE is Saudi Arabia and they may take it private. If this is the case one can only imagine Steph probably isn't happy for the implications that would have on female wrestling in the WWE.

I guess he is looking to cash in on the conservative grievance crowd.

Because even if you put everything else aside, who the fuck is looking to go to an 85 year old stand up comic's show? I know he was probably playing it up for the trial, but wasn't he stumbling around the courtroom acting like he was unfit to stand trial....and that was like 5 years ago.

Like I said, even everything else aside this has "way more sad than funny" written all over it even if his material was good(and he was like C+ comedy on his best day to begin with....so I wouldn't count on it).

1 minute ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

You got it!

Did the scene play like Gaetz did it on purpose and then basically taunt them about getting the math wrong after the fact and that's why the physical altercation almost happened?

As much as I love seeing McCarthy humiliated this whole thing strikes me as now being about nothing more than Gaetz dragging it out for his own gratification.

15 minutes ago, Zaku3 said:

 

Who would have thought Republicans have a problem with the concept that no means no.

23 minutes ago, Jason said:

3 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Imagine being so bad at your job you can’t make congresspersons do the one thing they love most: do nothing 

I am surprised no one has photoshopped McCarthy into the Cersei shame walk yet.

4 minutes ago, ort said:

I haven't really been paying that much attention, can someone explain why they keep voting over and over and over? Doesn't he already know that he doesn't have the votes? Why are they voting 3 times a day when they know what the outcome is going to be? Doesn't that just make Kevin McCarthy look like a more of a total loser and waste everyone's time?

Part bargaining and part chicken.

McCarthy and his allies are counting on the fact that ultimately there is no real viable alternative. Fatigue and math will eventually go in his favor.

Shame no longer exists in the GOP, so McCarthy doesn't care how many times he has to be embarrassed as long as he eventually wins the vote so he can become the most ineffectual and irrelevant Speaker in history

Sinema's entire Senate career summed up in a Bart Simpson YouTube Short.....

11 hours ago, thewhyteboar said:

Heckuva job, Spicy:

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After renegade nurse chops off man’s foot, state finds heap of system failures

That's one of those sentences that just keeps you on the edge of your seat. Like 5 plot twists in 13 words....

1 hour ago, thewhyteboar said:

Just got to hand it to Sarah Palin, she really is an all-time loser. One of the best to ever do it, the Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps of losing. 

She's the Hillary Clinton of Republicans.

17 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I... don't even know how to react to this

 

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Back in the late 1980s, when Beau James started pro wrestling, the crowds came for a show between good and evil, to see a story about heroes and villains, to enjoy the bouts and then go home.

 

This guy is ballsy and crazy... he may be in real danger here. One of the bigger wrestling promotions needs to hire him immediately.

The bigger companies don't want real heat anymore. Too many lawsuits or social media scandals waiting to happen.

This reminds me a lot of what Cornette was doing with the Ganstas in Smokey Mountain back in the 90's. 

14 hours ago, Jason said:

  

This is one scenario where the Brazzers meme is pretty tame for what that photo looks like.

By and large no, but LotR definately has the ability to suck me down a rabbit hole if the damn YouTube algorithm decides I need to see the Ride of the Rohirrim that day.

3 hours ago, SaysWho? said:

Wow.

1 hour ago, Xbob42 said:

Hey I got the answer to the question I've sporadically asked for a while now!

 

 

What a shame!

I have been saying this for a while.

Obviously it is not as simple as just comparing Covid deaths to vote counts, and we need to be careful assigning morality tales to real life....but in states where these elections come down to 4 or even 3 digit differentials the effect seems pretty obvious and inescapable.

11 hours ago, Bacon said:

Insects are still gross alien-looking creepy little fucks that deserve nothing but death should the decide to wander in my direction. Please exist somewhere else, thanks! Even spiders get the tissue should they wander too far down from my spider approved air space.

Yeah, I don't know about others but I am not "afraid" of bugs, I am disgusted by them.

I don't have a "fear" of buckets full of shit either, but that doesn't mean I want one in the room with me.

It will be really interesting to see how things play out if the rightwing media continues to attempt to cut Trump loose.

As bad as these midterms have been for the GOP what typically would have happened during the Trump years is that a scandal rocks Trump and the worse it was the longer it would take the media and party to coalesce around talking points that swept it under the rug. But usually no more than a week before Lindsey was making excuses and McCarthy was taking a flight to Florida to kiss Trump's ring.

It won't be for a week or two before we really know how serious they are about dumping Trump. And then it will be interesting to see what effect that has on Trump's ability to bounce back without the echo chamber on his side.

Right now things looks bad for Trump, but keep in mind that he can absolutely burn the party to the ground on the way out if he really wants to. Not only electorally, though that would be bad enough. He probably knows shit that could get Reps and Senators jail time if he goes full "If I'm going down I am taking you with me" mode.

1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Reminds me of all the brothers I know that blame their lack of success not on the systemic inequities built into American society that has plaugued African Americans since we were brought here in chains, but on Jews who control space lasers with their blood sucking reptilian alien overlords running shit from their secret bases under Antartica, The Amazon and The moon 

Kyrie is having a bad enough start to the season right now without you going right at him like that, man.

2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

lol

Lower the maximum Twittering age to 50.

2 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Hannah Fingerhut can not be a real name. 

Chris Megerian also has a bit of "I started to Keysor Soze a name and just kind of gave up towards the end" sound to it as well.

There are a lot of silent Never Trumpers in the Republican Party. The Mitch McConnells who desperately want to get rid of Trump but don't actually want to effectuate a modicum of the bravery that Liz Cheney showed by actually openly opposing him.

It is this wing that dressed up a potato in a suit, hooked up a Trump chatbot to it, and has convinced a good portion of the country that this thing is the Republican party's, and thus the country as a whole, only salvation from Trump.

It reminds me a lot of the kneejerk reactions of those who claimed the search warrant on Trump would hand Trump a second term. The thinking was Trump's influence was waning, but giving him this "issue" to rail against has reinvigorated him. But that waning of Trump was always going to end, it's called election season. Whether a Republican primary or general election, you can't fucking tiptoe past Trump to get to the presidency. Sooner or later you are going to have to take him on head-on.

2 years worth of DeSantis's handlers carefully passive aggressively splitting hairs by passing unsourced stories to news outlets about how Ron did this or that better than Trump can and most likely will be completely obliterated in the first 5 minutes of a full frontal assault by Trump on a debate stage.

I am kind of surprised how different my opinion of DeSantis is than a lot of you.

Florida is a red state now and was before DeSantis. In fact, Florida was already a red state on the election night when DeSantis BARELY won the first time.

Most of DeSantis's appeal is the result of conservative "elite" wishful thinking and training wheels.

1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Just waking up and what I'm realizing (that I kinda already knew but started to forget) is that if it wasn't for gerrymandering Republicans probably wouldn't win too many elections on the national level. They redrew the lines dramatically and with the current climate and Biden's approval rating being in the basement, last night should have been a democratic bloodbath. Maybe they should realize that Donald Trump and his base of deplorables, idiots and lunatics is NOT the way forward for them or the country. I mean damn. Even IF they win the Senate and The house ultimately, this is SHOULD be a wake up call for them.

The problem with just dumping Trump is I don't think the party knows who they are once Trump is gone.

Their policies were already quite unpopular in 2016(which is part of the reason they chose the cult of personality to begin with). By the time 2024 rolls around it will have been nearly a decade since any answer to any policy question put to them was, "Whatever Trump most recently said about that particular topic". 

The fact that the party has little in terms of future prospects outside of the "Trumpism without Trump" idea shows how rudderless they are right now. I am pretty pessimistic about a lot of stuff in politics, but I remain pretty optimistic about the fact that Smart Trump/Trump without the baggage will be a spectacular failure for them. I despise Trump as much as anyone, but believing you can just plug in a bland politician that parrots his meaningless word salad to take his place is to completely misunderstand the unique appeal he had. Trump is actually more popular than the party. His problem is that he has proven incapable of stirring up that support without causing an even greater political backlash.

3 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Fox going all-in on DeSantis:

 

Keep in mind, Fox was anti-Trump in 2016....until they weren't.

Just now, Kal-El814 said:

Do we think DeSantis has more juice than someone like Scott Walker did?

 

I will go on record as saying no. Even the chance of DeSantis taking over in the next 2 years is more about how the party and rightwing propaganda machine present him than the man himself. 

The question that I don't think anyone has the answer to is if Trump's 4 years in office improved his ability to project his appeal to the base, or hindered it. All the scandals and baggage suggests the latter. The fact that he got 75 million votes in 2020 suggests the former.

1 minute ago, MarSolo said:

The Red Wave/Tsunami summed up in one video:

 

 

The GOP right now as WCW circa 1999 might be pretty apropos if Trump runs and loses again in 2024.

All political common wisdom says that Trump should lose his hold on the party now. 2018 was a disaster for them. Then he lost the presidency in 2020(making him the first one term president in 25 years) and then went on to almost single handedly lose them the Senate runoffs that cost them the Senate. Now this wet fart of a result.

Oh, and he's going to be indicted soon.

On paper DeSantis should be primed to take over the party for him. In practice, I still think it all too likely that Trump will give DeSantis a goofy nickname at the first primary debate and Trump will yet again be the prohibitive favorite. Part of that is because he is the idiot whisperer of politics. He is the patronus of privileged white grievance in this country. He speaks to them in a way no one else does,. And partly because DeSantis and his ilk are trying to beat him by outTrumping him. Why would they vote for a guy like Trump when they could just vote for Trump. And they have bought into all of Trump's hobby horses as the official party line. Saying that elections are free and fair on a Republican debate stage is nearly the equivalent of saying you are pro-choice at this point. When simply saying that Trump lost in 2020 makes you a RINO, why wouldn't you nominate him again? Every real Republican should just be grateful that circumstances allow for them to run this surefire winner for a third election victory!

6 hours ago, LazyPiranha said:

 

Poochie's exit was more natural.