I thought Swalwell was one of the good guys, and I’m disappointed to say the least. That said, I won’t make excuses for him, that’s a Republican thing. Swalwell did this to himself and I will reserve my sympathies for his family he has hurt so deeply.
I agree - another attractive sociopath goes down - but at least it happened before he achieved even higher office. I just wonder what kind of lies they tell themselves to be able to commit sexual assaults and think it won't eventually come out?
Same. The news was terrible since I only know him as a staunch Trump critic and I was rooting for him for governor. But as far as I’m concerned there is no room on the left for a creep like him. Good riddance.
He does cater to them in some ways though he shot himself in the foot recently with that AI picture of him healing like Jesus. But, I get the feeling that it's more and more just lip service with him. They may wake up eventually but then they may go with someone else who tells them what they want to hear.
It might be more accurate to say that Trump is what happens when those who claim to follow God forget Psalms 146:3 where it warns us to not put our trust in human leaders.
If I could add a class requirement for graduation from high school then it would be one on how to reason and how to spot obvious lies. Shermer's book on why people believe weird things would be on the reading list.
It's a traditional but probably not accurate depiction. The truth is that we don't know what Jesus looked like. Each culture seems to come up with its picture of Jesus which makes it easier to relate to.
The "godly" morality of the right? It's only bad if you have a D next to your name. I am getting tired of the rank and file Republicans ignoring the hypocrisy. The secular left will eject anyone who does bad things, even their own. The religious right only rejects people who do bad things when they are a, forced to or b, the wrongdoing is done by someone on the other side.
The only major backlash against Trump we have seen from the MAGA crowd is from the Trump-as-Jesus image. Not the things he has done that would have had them calling for prison time for anyone who wasn't MAGA.
"The secular left will eject anyone who does bad things" or, as in this case and other instances of sexual misconduct allegations, is merely accused of them.
Statistics show that in all likelihood, if they are accused, they are guilty. Since only roughly 2-10% of accusations are false. No one is saying throw him in prison without trial, all we’re saying is let’s not give him power over people without getting to the bottom of this. And since the accusations are supported by a lot of other evidence, this is a logical approach.
Yes, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. Holding a political office is a privilege, not a right, and there are plenty of viable candidates who don't have any baggage dangling over their heads. Accusing a powerful man of a sex crime has led to the ruin of the accuser far more often than the accused- usually in spectacular public fashion- even when the accusation had a mountain of evidence behind it. It's a sad commentary on US-ian politics, but I'm more likely to believe that any given cis/het man holding (or seeking) public office is a sex pest than I am to believe that an accuser is making up their story.
On what quality of data are those statistics based? The American criminal justice system is massively biased: against working class people, against non-white people, and in some instances against male defendants (studies around the world show male judges hand down slightly shorter sentences to female defendants for similar convictions than to male defendants).
"if they are accused, they are guilty". Well, you wrote that.
If all the data is biased, then there’s no way to ever know anything, that’s convenient for rapists. It is clear that the justice system is biased toward the rapists and not the victims, so you could conclude that the numbers would be even worse, less than 2-10% are false, meaning that it is even more likely that accused is guilty.
One correction: It turns out that House Republicans (a Christian bunch) DID call for Gonzales to resign. That call turned bipartisan before Gonzales finally resigned/announced his retirement. How many of those GQPers were evilgelicals, I do not know.
Except we knew about Gonzales for months before anything happened. Their actions now reek of "well we're going to finally do what we should have done last year, praise us!" energy
I don't wonder. I know it won't happen. That's how it goes. You can do horrible things in office and the investigations end when you resign. I remember Michelle Buchanan getting into some serious legal trouble then resigning and Obama ended all the investigations. I guess he felt there wasn't a point to it. I think that was a mistake.
All I can say about Swalwell is DAMN. I'm sorry for all of his victims, and especially his family - his little kids didn't deserve this.
I will note, though, that it took a scandal on the democratic side to push so-called 'family values' party to kick one of their own in the ass. I also note Gonzales is being allowed to retire, not being forced to resign or get expelled. The double standard is alive and well.
My concern is that people knew about Swalwell's crimes and said nothing until it became public knowledge and people who knew and did say something but were ignored.
It's always the same though isn't it? People knew about Jimmy Savile and said nothing, people said something and were ignored. And this was one of the most evil bastards on God's earth. Same with Rolf Harris. I guess when people are powerful and can hamper your career ...
Weinstein, Cosby, so many we can’t even name. It’s always the same, none of these things happen in the dark, and they never cover it up as well as they think they do.
Women have been dealing with this for eternity and men really do live like this. That every woman present is a perk of the office or job. Women have been used as rewards for men to do great things, football teams offer girls to recruit athletes, daughters of kings are used for building peace between countries, prima nocta, half the plot of Mad Men is based on choosing second wives from the clerical staff, etc. but we just have to wait for the system built around raping women to stop men from raping us. It is never a surprise to any woman when a man is accused, the only news is the body count. It doesn’t matter what label the men take, don’t practically all the “new atheists” have accusations? Stephen Hawking was. Feminist men often are. No matter the good men are involved in, there’s always someone around taking advantage of women, overstepping boundaries, forcing himself onto women, and we have tell ourselves over and over “innocent until proven guilty” because otherwise some man might not reach his full potential, leaving bodies in his wake.
It's as if rape is the bloody entrance fee to the inner circle, for a certain sort of man. If you aren't willing to take what you want, by force or coercion, you don't get to play at the big boys' table.
Frankly, I see that stupid pic has nothing more than an exercise of Trump's ego. Once again, he's attempting to excuse his poor judgment after the fact, rather than opting to use judgment before taking foolish action.
And deleting the pic is meaningless in the age of the internet. That picture has now become a meme with multiple sometimes hilarious variations. Trump has yet to learn that foolish actions have untoward consequences.
This is a lesson that he deserves to have drilled into his head.
Of course he refused to apologize for even putting the foul thing up to begin with. Did anyone really expect him to apologize? He never does. That would mean admitting he made a mistake. He thinks he’s infallible.
Trump gave the Democrats a weapon they can use against him and every other Republican who supported him or stood silently by while the Mango Mutilator worked his evil.
I thought the massive doses of uppers he's been on for decades kept him from getting a moment's rest. His all-night sundowning rants on Lie Unsocial show that.
Wouldn't surprise me that all those uppers have messed with his psychology big time. Whoever prescribed them is not acting in the patient's best interest.
It galls me that his obvious dementia is making more waves than his obvious fascism. I mean, both are bad, but... one was abundantly clear all along, and too many people saw it as a 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, while the other they ignored even 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 it was obvious- long after, because he was arglebargling his way through even his first term- until it started hitting them directly in the wallet. There are no words for how much I fucking hate the electorate in this country right now.
"Innocent until proven guilty" is a fine standard for the average person, but anyone seeking power has already asked for public scrutiny by running for office- they can, and should, be dropped cold the moment they so much as glance sideways at any kind of misconduct.
𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 in a time when the opposition enabling a rapist needs to be a core message in a critical election season, because that's exactly what they're fucking doing, and having even a 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 sex pest in our camp is going to undermine that message. It shouldn't, because one has already been adjudicated while the other is still only an accusation, and Democrats to their credit have proven more willing to excise the abusers in their midst than Republicans (Slick Willy 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 being a tawdry exception, unfortunately- I said that they were 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 willing, not that they were 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 at it)... but right-wing media is already treating the accusation as worse than the court-proven facts they've been ignoring for years. We can't afford any screw-ups, at this point. Not even one.
As for Swalwell himself... fuck him. He's nothing special; he's not even the best candidate on the field- and even if he were, that wouldn't change what needs to happen. Public office is not a right; seeking it is not guaranteed by dint of not having been convicted of something awful. This is literally a matter for the court of public opinion, not a court of law. Were I one of his constituents, I honestly would not vote for him over a rival Democrat even if he were exonerated in court- because at the end of the day, if there's even room to 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 that he's crossed a line, he's not worthy of holding office.
Those who would lead and hold power over us must be held to a higher standard. They need to 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 us that they deserve our trust. 𝘕𝘰𝘵 holding politicians to a higher standard is a rather large part of how we ended up in this fucking mess. Enough is enough. No more Trumps, no more Thomases, no more Kavanaughs, no more Clintons- and no more Swalwells. Prove you're squeaky clean, beyond any shadow of a doubt, every moment of every day, or 𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬. 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. 𝘖𝘧𝘧.
When I was in the U.S.A.F., they taught us that to stay out of trouble we should remember the acronym KPIP. Keep Pecker In Pants. Apparently Mr. Swalwell didn't learn that lesson.
I always wonder, is it "that kind of person" who goes into politics or is it politics that turns a regular person into "that kind of person"? 🤔
"Stick to matters of morality." Sure won't find any morality in the Trump regime.
As for Iran, Couchfucker? The guy you support set you up to fail in negotiations so he can throw you under the bus for the Iran clusterfuck. After the bus runs you over will you still lick Trump's ass?
As long as Trump has the power, weasels like Vance will sucker up to his pucker- and do it with a smile, no matter the abuse he heaps upon them. They have no shame at all.
If Trump continues to throw people under the bus the same way he did in his first administration, eventually he'll get to the point where he will have no one to deal with other than himself.
Whereupon one wonders if he would have the cojones to throw himself under the bus. Personally, I suspect not.
If Vance ever makes it to Vatican City, he would do well to watch his mouth around Leo. Somehow, I get the feeling Leo has a better command of language than JD does!
It's a sad commentary on the state of reality when the Roman Catholic Kiddie-Raping Church actually, against all odds and to the bewilderment of all reason, holds the moral high ground over... 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦.
Da Pope's from the Southside of Chicago (the baddest part of town). He needs to get busy excommunicating JDivan for dissing him. Them's the rules, as I've been given to understand (Never been RC, though the in-laws are). Also Couchfuck McGee killed the last Pope, which is probably a complete utter major sin over and above murdering regular folk.
There's always more than one woman when we find out about men like this. They never get caught the first time and they always keep going until either they get caught or die.
(in Gilbert Gottfried's voice): "Oh, THERE'S a big surprise! That's such an incredible...I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and DIE from that surprise!"
I'm liking both Becerra and Porter, but if we get Steyer, it'll do.
I gotta give props for Steyer's amusing ads pointing out all the important votes Swalwell had missed. Look them up; frat bro Eric, silly graphics. Last night I was watching something I recorded like a month ago and saw one of them.
[chuckle] Considering that the commodity didn't exist in the first place, no replacement is wanted, desired, or solicited. It's bad enough we have a fuck-up for president. We hardly need a fuck-up for a deity.
I thought Swalwell was one of the good guys, and I’m disappointed to say the least. That said, I won’t make excuses for him, that’s a Republican thing. Swalwell did this to himself and I will reserve my sympathies for his family he has hurt so deeply.
I agree - another attractive sociopath goes down - but at least it happened before he achieved even higher office. I just wonder what kind of lies they tell themselves to be able to commit sexual assaults and think it won't eventually come out?
That thing between their legs has a mind of its own.
For some it seems to be the only "mind" they have.
The little head that does all their thinking.
I thought our national motto was changed in 2016 to 'Grab em by the pussy.' They let you do that when you're famous.
Sounds better in Latin.
Almost everything sounds better in Latin!
Or French, everything sounds sexy in French.
Capto ab eis catulus!
It's the motto of Trump University.
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Same. The news was terrible since I only know him as a staunch Trump critic and I was rooting for him for governor. But as far as I’m concerned there is no room on the left for a creep like him. Good riddance.
Yeah, (with unintentional irony), ‘me too’.
Same here, much as I did when John Edwards turned out to be a shitheel
I almost forgot about that flagrant sex pest!
The better looking ones often are.
And for the women he raped.
imagine worrying first about his wife
Great, now get rid of the child rapist and adjudicated sex offender at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
That would require actual accountability from the MAGA base. They have blinded themselves to the hypocrisy of their position.
After so many years of supporting him, it's hard for them to admit they were fooled by him and so a number of them just double down.
Because he caters to your fellow delusional, hypocritical Christians.
He does cater to them in some ways though he shot himself in the foot recently with that AI picture of him healing like Jesus. But, I get the feeling that it's more and more just lip service with him. They may wake up eventually but then they may go with someone else who tells them what they want to hear.
Trump could indeed shoot someone on the proverbial Fifth Avenue and they'd probably help him select and clean the gun.
Your Jesus is one fucked up fictional man-god.
It might be more accurate to say that Trump is what happens when those who claim to follow God forget Psalms 146:3 where it warns us to not put our trust in human leaders.
Yes, because they have been trained up from birth to be gullible.
Much to our societal loss.
If I could add a class requirement for graduation from high school then it would be one on how to reason and how to spot obvious lies. Shermer's book on why people believe weird things would be on the reading list.
How do you know that's what Jesus looks like?
5'6", kinky hair, dark complexion.
Kinda like every other male in Jesus' region in the 1st Century. 🙂
It's a traditional but probably not accurate depiction. The truth is that we don't know what Jesus looked like. Each culture seems to come up with its picture of Jesus which makes it easier to relate to.
𝐻𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛; 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜’𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑢𝑐𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜-𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑.
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
The "godly" morality of the right? It's only bad if you have a D next to your name. I am getting tired of the rank and file Republicans ignoring the hypocrisy. The secular left will eject anyone who does bad things, even their own. The religious right only rejects people who do bad things when they are a, forced to or b, the wrongdoing is done by someone on the other side.
The only major backlash against Trump we have seen from the MAGA crowd is from the Trump-as-Jesus image. Not the things he has done that would have had them calling for prison time for anyone who wasn't MAGA.
And how many MAGAts who were at the Capitol on Jan 6 have since been re-arrested for new crimes (a number of them involving sexual assault of minors).
Yes, not war, rape, murder of civilians...
"The secular left will eject anyone who does bad things" or, as in this case and other instances of sexual misconduct allegations, is merely accused of them.
Statistics show that in all likelihood, if they are accused, they are guilty. Since only roughly 2-10% of accusations are false. No one is saying throw him in prison without trial, all we’re saying is let’s not give him power over people without getting to the bottom of this. And since the accusations are supported by a lot of other evidence, this is a logical approach.
Yes, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. Holding a political office is a privilege, not a right, and there are plenty of viable candidates who don't have any baggage dangling over their heads. Accusing a powerful man of a sex crime has led to the ruin of the accuser far more often than the accused- usually in spectacular public fashion- even when the accusation had a mountain of evidence behind it. It's a sad commentary on US-ian politics, but I'm more likely to believe that any given cis/het man holding (or seeking) public office is a sex pest than I am to believe that an accuser is making up their story.
On what quality of data are those statistics based? The American criminal justice system is massively biased: against working class people, against non-white people, and in some instances against male defendants (studies around the world show male judges hand down slightly shorter sentences to female defendants for similar convictions than to male defendants).
"if they are accused, they are guilty". Well, you wrote that.
That’s only part of what Val wrote and changes the meaning. Accuracy is valued around here.
The statistics I used were straight from NIH, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21164210/
If all the data is biased, then there’s no way to ever know anything, that’s convenient for rapists. It is clear that the justice system is biased toward the rapists and not the victims, so you could conclude that the numbers would be even worse, less than 2-10% are false, meaning that it is even more likely that accused is guilty.
Keep it up rape apologist.
One correction: It turns out that House Republicans (a Christian bunch) DID call for Gonzales to resign. That call turned bipartisan before Gonzales finally resigned/announced his retirement. How many of those GQPers were evilgelicals, I do not know.
Except we knew about Gonzales for months before anything happened. Their actions now reek of "well we're going to finally do what we should have done last year, praise us!" energy
Wonder if that House Ethics Committee will still investigate Gonzales after his announcement that he's stepping down?
I don't wonder. I know it won't happen. That's how it goes. You can do horrible things in office and the investigations end when you resign. I remember Michelle Buchanan getting into some serious legal trouble then resigning and Obama ended all the investigations. I guess he felt there wasn't a point to it. I think that was a mistake.
OT: I will be stepping away from the blog for a few days, need a vacation from all the craziness of the world. So talk to you folks later.
As for the subject, investigate, lay charges, go to trial, if found guilty, throw the book at him!
Enjoy the downtime. We'll see you on the other side. :)
Be good to YOU, bro! All the best!
All I can say about Swalwell is DAMN. I'm sorry for all of his victims, and especially his family - his little kids didn't deserve this.
I will note, though, that it took a scandal on the democratic side to push so-called 'family values' party to kick one of their own in the ass. I also note Gonzales is being allowed to retire, not being forced to resign or get expelled. The double standard is alive and well.
My concern is that people knew about Swalwell's crimes and said nothing until it became public knowledge and people who knew and did say something but were ignored.
It's always the same though isn't it? People knew about Jimmy Savile and said nothing, people said something and were ignored. And this was one of the most evil bastards on God's earth. Same with Rolf Harris. I guess when people are powerful and can hamper your career ...
Weinstein, Cosby, so many we can’t even name. It’s always the same, none of these things happen in the dark, and they never cover it up as well as they think they do.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17yMVdxdNJ/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Women have been dealing with this for eternity and men really do live like this. That every woman present is a perk of the office or job. Women have been used as rewards for men to do great things, football teams offer girls to recruit athletes, daughters of kings are used for building peace between countries, prima nocta, half the plot of Mad Men is based on choosing second wives from the clerical staff, etc. but we just have to wait for the system built around raping women to stop men from raping us. It is never a surprise to any woman when a man is accused, the only news is the body count. It doesn’t matter what label the men take, don’t practically all the “new atheists” have accusations? Stephen Hawking was. Feminist men often are. No matter the good men are involved in, there’s always someone around taking advantage of women, overstepping boundaries, forcing himself onto women, and we have tell ourselves over and over “innocent until proven guilty” because otherwise some man might not reach his full potential, leaving bodies in his wake.
It's as if rape is the bloody entrance fee to the inner circle, for a certain sort of man. If you aren't willing to take what you want, by force or coercion, you don't get to play at the big boys' table.
Hemant made the Daily Beast (maybe paywall).
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-raises-fresh-health-concerns-after-unbelievable-mix-up/
Frankly, I see that stupid pic has nothing more than an exercise of Trump's ego. Once again, he's attempting to excuse his poor judgment after the fact, rather than opting to use judgment before taking foolish action.
And deleting the pic is meaningless in the age of the internet. That picture has now become a meme with multiple sometimes hilarious variations. Trump has yet to learn that foolish actions have untoward consequences.
This is a lesson that he deserves to have drilled into his head.
And no anesthesia.
And a dull drillbit.
Oh, HELL, YEAH!!!
Of course he refused to apologize for even putting the foul thing up to begin with. Did anyone really expect him to apologize? He never does. That would mean admitting he made a mistake. He thinks he’s infallible.
This is why we need to turn the heat up on Trump even further. We can't give that idiot a moment's rest.
Trump gave the Democrats a weapon they can use against him and every other Republican who supported him or stood silently by while the Mango Mutilator worked his evil.
I thought the massive doses of uppers he's been on for decades kept him from getting a moment's rest. His all-night sundowning rants on Lie Unsocial show that.
Wouldn't surprise me that all those uppers have messed with his psychology big time. Whoever prescribed them is not acting in the patient's best interest.
Oh, I dunno. Hit Trump enough times with the same uncompromising message long enough and there may be a chance that it might just register.
Maybe that's excessively optimistic of me. I still think it's worth the effort.
It galls me that his obvious dementia is making more waves than his obvious fascism. I mean, both are bad, but... one was abundantly clear all along, and too many people saw it as a 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, while the other they ignored even 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 it was obvious- long after, because he was arglebargling his way through even his first term- until it started hitting them directly in the wallet. There are no words for how much I fucking hate the electorate in this country right now.
One guy I enjoy watching sometimes wears a shirt that reads, "Have the day you voted for".
"Innocent until proven guilty" is a fine standard for the average person, but anyone seeking power has already asked for public scrutiny by running for office- they can, and should, be dropped cold the moment they so much as glance sideways at any kind of misconduct.
𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 in a time when the opposition enabling a rapist needs to be a core message in a critical election season, because that's exactly what they're fucking doing, and having even a 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 sex pest in our camp is going to undermine that message. It shouldn't, because one has already been adjudicated while the other is still only an accusation, and Democrats to their credit have proven more willing to excise the abusers in their midst than Republicans (Slick Willy 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 being a tawdry exception, unfortunately- I said that they were 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 willing, not that they were 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 at it)... but right-wing media is already treating the accusation as worse than the court-proven facts they've been ignoring for years. We can't afford any screw-ups, at this point. Not even one.
As for Swalwell himself... fuck him. He's nothing special; he's not even the best candidate on the field- and even if he were, that wouldn't change what needs to happen. Public office is not a right; seeking it is not guaranteed by dint of not having been convicted of something awful. This is literally a matter for the court of public opinion, not a court of law. Were I one of his constituents, I honestly would not vote for him over a rival Democrat even if he were exonerated in court- because at the end of the day, if there's even room to 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 that he's crossed a line, he's not worthy of holding office.
Those who would lead and hold power over us must be held to a higher standard. They need to 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 us that they deserve our trust. 𝘕𝘰𝘵 holding politicians to a higher standard is a rather large part of how we ended up in this fucking mess. Enough is enough. No more Trumps, no more Thomases, no more Kavanaughs, no more Clintons- and no more Swalwells. Prove you're squeaky clean, beyond any shadow of a doubt, every moment of every day, or 𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬. 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. 𝘖𝘧𝘧.
Hear hear!
When I was in the U.S.A.F., they taught us that to stay out of trouble we should remember the acronym KPIP. Keep Pecker In Pants. Apparently Mr. Swalwell didn't learn that lesson.
I always wonder, is it "that kind of person" who goes into politics or is it politics that turns a regular person into "that kind of person"? 🤔
I suspect "that kind of person" are some of the ones who believe in their own greatness enough to go into politics.
Thank the gods that I will never go into politics and become "that kind of person." :D
On topic:
JD Vance defends Trump amid spat with Pope Leo: ‘Stick to matters of morality’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/jd-vance-defends-trump-pope-leo-spat
"Stick to matters of morality." Sure won't find any morality in the Trump regime.
As for Iran, Couchfucker? The guy you support set you up to fail in negotiations so he can throw you under the bus for the Iran clusterfuck. After the bus runs you over will you still lick Trump's ass?
"Stick to matters of morality."
JD should stick to matters of upholstery.
Sticky upholstery.
As long as Trump has the power, weasels like Vance will sucker up to his pucker- and do it with a smile, no matter the abuse he heaps upon them. They have no shame at all.
"Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot."
If Trump continues to throw people under the bus the same way he did in his first administration, eventually he'll get to the point where he will have no one to deal with other than himself.
Whereupon one wonders if he would have the cojones to throw himself under the bus. Personally, I suspect not.
He has a habit of replacing incompetent people with even more incompetent people who are also doomed to fail.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome? Guess what that makes Trump.
To be fair, he's no more acquainted with the underside of a bus than he is with the 𝘪𝘯side of one.
"Stick to matters of morality?!?" HAR-DE-HAR-HAR!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Well – plenty of room isn't there – both with the Trump administration and the church. JD should be careful what he wishes for.
If Vance ever makes it to Vatican City, he would do well to watch his mouth around Leo. Somehow, I get the feeling Leo has a better command of language than JD does!
Crap like that is well over the MDR of iron-y for who knows how many people! 😝
That's into "damn, it's iron poisoning, better chelate STAT" territory.
It's a sad commentary on the state of reality when the Roman Catholic Kiddie-Raping Church actually, against all odds and to the bewilderment of all reason, holds the moral high ground over... 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦.
I wish they'd both go away. Tough call on who's worse.
Photo finish.
Da Pope's from the Southside of Chicago (the baddest part of town). He needs to get busy excommunicating JDivan for dissing him. Them's the rules, as I've been given to understand (Never been RC, though the in-laws are). Also Couchfuck McGee killed the last Pope, which is probably a complete utter major sin over and above murdering regular folk.
I know the statistics. And I know women are 100% correct to choose the bear and any "male loneliness epidemic" is entirely the fault of my gender.
It's still difficult for me to fathom how many men out there operate and pass as "normal" and yet are awful predators and abusers.
Good riddance.
Always believe the woman/women when they are the victims of a man’s unwanted attention.
There's always more than one woman when we find out about men like this. They never get caught the first time and they always keep going until either they get caught or die.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f86b4ec535ef6cfe17aaec93b5463d4062c7f6225b4b2c81e3d8b7c0524db1ba.jpg
Certainly one way to get a, um, rise, out of ICE officials. *cymbal crash*
OT:
Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC
Péter Magyar called the payments a “crime” and said his government would stop the funds.
https://newrepublic.com/post/209035/hungary-prime-minister-victor-orban-paying-cpac
(in Gilbert Gottfried's voice): "Oh, THERE'S a big surprise! That's such an incredible...I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and DIE from that surprise!"
And then "AFLAC!"..... and then silence.
No one is irreplaceable, not even god...
Pick another slice of Wonderbread from the pile of cis/het white guys in politics. It's not as if there's any shortage.
I'm looking at Xavier Becerra, his age scares me though. He's 67. Personally I prefer Katie Porter but I'm afraid she can't win. btw I'm 67...
I'm liking both Becerra and Porter, but if we get Steyer, it'll do.
I gotta give props for Steyer's amusing ads pointing out all the important votes Swalwell had missed. Look them up; frat bro Eric, silly graphics. Last night I was watching something I recorded like a month ago and saw one of them.
How do you replace something that has no demonstrable existence? 😁
In your mind…
[chuckle] Considering that the commodity didn't exist in the first place, no replacement is wanted, desired, or solicited. It's bad enough we have a fuck-up for president. We hardly need a fuck-up for a deity.