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Sopranos or the Supreme Court?

The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled this evening that the state Democratic Party can replace the name of Robert G. Torricelli on the Nov. 5 ballot for United States senator.

“It is in the public interest and the general interest of the election laws to preserve the two-party system and to submit to the electorate ballot bearing the names of candidates of both major political parties as well as of all qualifying parties and groups,” the court ruled.

Laws are for lesser mortals, not Democrats and Supreme Court Justices. It appears that the price of an election in New Jersey has now increased from the 65 million spent by the Junior Senator, John Corzine, by $800,000, which is how much the New Jersey Supreme Court is ordering the Democrats to pay in order to print new ballots.

Like the old joke:

A man asks an attractive girl he has met in a posh bar: ”If I give you $ 1000, will you go to bed with me?” After briefly considering this, she replies: ”Yes, for $ 1000 I think I will.”
So he continues: ”But I don’t have that much money; so will you go to bed with me for $ 20 ?” ”Of course not!” she replies. ”Who do you think I am? What kind of girl do you take me for?” He coolly returns: ”We have already established what kind of girl you are. We are now just haggling over the price.”

We now know what future elections in New Jersey (or anywhere Democrats are losing) will look like. In the future, all they will have to do is haggle for the price.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

T R E 4 5 O N

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Bark louder, little dog.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

In my day, never was longer.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Sopranos or the Supreme Court?