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John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

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

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

I was promised a recession.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Let there be snark.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

The willow is too close to the house.

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

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  1. 1.

    West of the Rockies

    ACB is an ideological hack.  Klobuchar and co. made that clear to all. The GOP will get their judge… At the cost of their integrity and soul.  I hope they choke on it.

    Also, I am one of apparently 18 people who has never seen Goodfellas.

  4. 4.

    A Ghost To Most

    Desperate people do desperate things. Combined with their unwavering committment to doubling down, things will get dicey. Are you ready for some Calvinball?

  5. 5.

    H.E.Wolf

    I agree with the other folks who have said they prefer to speak of her by her full name: Amy Comey Barrett.

    Spitting 3 times is optional.

  7. 7.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @A Ghost To Most: They Conservatives are upset that Biden was so rude as to tell Trump to shut up with Trump was talking over Biden and Trump has made YMCA the theme song for his campaign, we are already there on Caliven Ball.

  15. 15.

    RobertDSC-iPhone 8

    As long as the GOP end up like Morrie, Carbone, Stacks, and Tommy, I’m fine with it.

  16. 16.

    Oklahomo

    The nomination, the voter suppression, and don’t forget the census.  A live census taker came Saturday.  Seems that the online census that I completely way back in March didn’t take, the data was lost, what can you do, amiright?  Hopefully this data makes it.

  17. 17.

    Roger Moore

    @misterpuff:

    There is a category of women who keep their maiden name as a middle name and make a point of using it as a way of making some obscure political point.  It isn’t always the same point, though.  For some women (e.g. Hillary Rodham Clinton) it’s a way of showing they haven’t completely subsumed their identity into their husband’s.  For others (e.g. Ronna Romney McDaniel) it’s a way of highlighting that they’re from a political dynasty.  I’m not sure why Amy Covid Barret does it.

  20. 20.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Thom Tillis brought a note from his doctor, and apparently wants a cookie.

    Also, I have never seen Goodfellas.

  21. 21.

    misterpuff

    BTW I just voted and dropped it into The California Approved Drop Box.

     

    The whole nation should make it as easy to vote as here.

  23. 23.

    geg6

    Dang, I hate mobster movies and even I have seen Goodfellas multiple times.  Only because it’s vastly superior to the Godfather, which I think is a terrible series of films.  Much less romanticizing these creeps, IMHO.

  24. 24.

    gene108

    @H.E.Wolf:

    I agree with the other folks who have said they prefer to speak of her by her full name: Amy Comey Barrett.

    I prefer the more traditional Mrs. Jesse M. Barrett. Seems more fitting based on her ideology.

  27. 27.

    lurkypants

    @Roger Moore: There is a category of women who keep their maiden name as a middle name and make a point of using it as a way of making some obscure political point. It isn’t always the same point, though. For some women (e.g. Hillary Rodham Clinton) it’s a way of showing they haven’t completely subsumed their identity into their husband’s. For others (e.g. Ronna Romney McDaniel) it’s a way of highlighting that they’re from a political dynasty. I’m not sure why Amy Covid Barret does it.

    Because her parents were big wheels in the People of Praise.

  30. 30.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @JaySinWA: (Raises hand)

    Also haven’t seen Pulp Fiction or any Godfather movies. Or Reservoir Dogs. I’m way behind on my mandatory Guy Movie list.

    I did see Big Lebowski but I don’t get why it’s so popular.

  33. 33.

    pamelabrown53

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Hah! Haven’t seen “Goodfellas” either. Don’t care for gangster movies, boxing movies or sports movies (unless the sport is ancillary to a more personal plot).

  38. 38.

    WereBear

    @lurkypants: I understand the mini-series was really good, but I knew I couldn’t watch it.

    Much like some can’t watch Goodfellas.

    In my case, I can handle gangster movies because all these people signed up for it. Unlike oppressing the innocent and powerless.

  39. 39.

    Shakti

    @H.E.Wolf:

     

    @misterpuff:

     

    She will be Covid Barrett to me and given what we know about her taking her maskless self and her maskless kids to a White House superspreader event and then back to their school(s), multiple fatalities are only a matter of time.

     

    ETA: Amy Coathanger  ‘Bortion also works, but more syllables.

  42. 42.

    CapnMubbers

    Another non Goodfellas watcher.

    I’m a new resident of Utah and made sure to register to vote. This county is by mail only and they are mailing ballots from October 13 to 27. Seems awfully late.

    ETA: I will return my ballot to the county clerk’s office, not depend on the mail.

  50. 50.

    Hellbastard

    I got my ballot in the mail today here in Washington State. Get to fill it out at my kitchen table and walk it over to the ballot drop box. Feel a bit guilty having it so easy.

  51. 51.

    Ohio Mom

    I’ve never seen Goodfellas either but I’ve seen enough clips to get the general idea.

    And I grew up in New York back when the Mafia was part of the landscape.

  53. 53.

    West of the Rockies

    I’m not a mob movie fan either.  Never saw any of the Godfather films, nor a single episode of The Sopranos.  But I did enjoy Hell’s Kitchen and The Gentlemen.  A History of Violence was kind of fun, too.  None made romantic or heroic the actual Mafia though.

  54. 54.

    WaterGirl

    @Ohio Mom: I grew up in Chicago, where we would refer to the mafian peeps with a reference to “knowing someone whose name ends in a vowel”.

    One of my classmates had a dad who was very high up in the mafia.

  55. 55.

    Betty

    Another non-Good Fellas viewer. I like to call her Little Miss Amy in light of her submissive demeanor.

  56. 56.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @West of the Rockies: I didn’t dislike Lebowski. Just kind of meh. I don’t get the big appeal.

    And while we’re talking mandatory guy stuff I’ve never seen, subcategory gangsters, I never watched a single episode of The Sopranos. Or Breaking Bad.

    Nothing against either one, I heard great things, just never got around to them.

    Jeeze, they’re gonna come knocking at my door and take away my card.

  59. 59.

    japa21

    @WaterGirl: Used to work with a Sicilian lady. She always said that if I or Mrs. Japa were being hassled to let her know. She “knew people”.

  60. 60.

    hueyplong

    As that apparently rare person here who has seen Goodfellas, I’d say the bustout has been going on for nearly four years.  The GOP is bitter because the country is large and rich enough that they need 8 years to clean it out completely.

  61. 61.

    matt

    Oh, I think in the lame duck period there will be considerably more pinata party action. Assuming they somehow don’t steal it.

  62. 62.

    Faithful Lurker

    Hellcat,You got your ballot already?I’m very jealous. Our county says they’re mailing ours out tomorrow.  I intend to haunt the mailbox. Where are you in WA state? I’ve been waiting for 4 years to vote the bastard out and now I’m counting every minute. Broken glass, man, broken glass.

  63. 63.

    Calouste

    @Yarrow: The month is still young.

    I noticed on electoral vote that the most recent poll in Arkansas only had Biden down by 4 or so, and that poll was from June. That could be an unexpected pickup. We’ll know if the campaign sends Bill C. there to put in a few words for Biden.

  64. 64.

    Benw

    Amy Conan Barbarian, what is best in life?

    TO CRUSH THE GAYS, TO SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU, AND TO HEAR THE LAMENTATION OF THE LBGTQ COMMUNITY

  67. 67.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @japa21: A high school buddy got extremely drunk at a class reunion and made me a similar offer. He’d been in construction in NJ, which apparently means it’s almost mandatory that you’re going to deal with the Mafia but that you could stand to make a lot of money if you play ball with them. So he claimed anyway.

    So yeah, he said he knew people.

  68. 68.

    Kent

    @Roger Moore:The GOP won’t lose their integrity or soul over this nomination, because they haven’t had either one in at least a generation.

    Two generations.  One generation ago was Nixon and Reagan.  You gotta go back to Eisenhower to find national GOP leadership with integrity.

  70. 70.

    divF

    @japa21: My Italian-American father grew up in highly multi-ethnic neighborhoods on New York’s East Side in the 1930s. My Grandmother had only one rule regarding his playmates, which was not to hang out with the Sicilian boys, who were “too rough”.

  72. 72.

    prostratedragon

    @hueyplong:  I’d say it goes back to the housing crisis, though that wasn’t nominally a Republican caper. That’s also about when mere centimillionaires became hoi polloi.

  75. 75.

    JoyceH

    Just heard Pelosi tell Wolf Blitzer, “With all due respect, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

  76. 76.

    rp

    Of course I’m not expecting this to happen, but it would be absolutely hilarious if after all of this preening and posturing and gloating and fake piety, a handful of GOP senators just said “meh, I don’t like her and I don’t want her to be my legacy.”

  78. 78.

    jackmac

    @West of the Rockies: I’m also among that elite group that has never seen ‘Goodfellas.’ I’ve never seen ‘A Christmas Story’ either, mostly because a boss I really hated just loved it. Not gonna bother.

  79. 79.

    RaflW

    Supremes won’t take a Census case, meaning the count is suspended, I believe.

    I’m not a galaxy-brain Republican, so I’m unclear on why undercounting in TX, AZ, FL and other diverse, immigrant containing states helps them.

    Does Rhode Island or Michigan not losing a Rep in reappointment matter to the GOP? And if aid to states is based on the census, do Republicans think that east Africans working in the massive chicken plant in Lexington, Nebraska got counted?

  80. 80.

    JoyceH

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Glad she did, because he was driving me nuts. He kept asking her, why don’t you accept the president’s $1.8 trillion proposal? It’s $1.8 TRILLION! And she kept trying to explain to him, “Because I know what’s in the bill and you don’t!”

  81. 81.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @JoyceH: Blitzer had Andrew Yang on yesterday opining that Pelosi should take the deal Trump offered. Yang’s opinion probably has about as much informed validity as mine would. Blitzer took it seriously and is using is to lecture Pelosi on what she should do.

  85. 85.

    JoyceH

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I know! It’s like all they’re looking at is the dollar amount and not what it’s spent on. Yeah yeah yeah, people want to put food on the table, but does this bill DO that? What? ANOTHER tax cut for the wealthy, paid for by cutting the earned income tax credit?

  87. 87.

    hueyplong

    @Calouste: “I wonder if Mitt Romney wants to put the shiv in the shitgibbon, just like McCain did with the ACA.”

    Narrator:  He doesn’t.  Not on this point.

  88. 88.

    Kent

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:@JoyceH: Blitzer had Andrew Yang on yesterday opining that Pelosi should take the deal Trump offered. Yang’s opinion probably has about as much informed validity as mine would. Blitzer took it seriously and is using is to lecture Pelosi on what she should do.

    He’s never held elective office and has no background in economics.   So yeah, why are they even talking to him?  Are they going to ask Marianne Williamson next?

  92. 92.

    Kent

    @rp:Of course I’m not expecting this to happen, but it would be absolutely hilarious if after all of this preening and posturing and gloating and fake piety, a handful of GOP senators just said “meh, I don’t like her and I don’t want her to be my legacy.”

    A REALLY boss move by a couple of GOP Senators would be to re-instate the SCOTUS filibuster right on the eve of a Democratic president.  Announce that they will only be willing to support a SCOTUS nominee if that nominee gets 60  votes, and that the quid pro quo will be an absolute guarantee of the same consideration during the next Congress.  It would make them absolute kingmakers during the next administration

    I could see Romney joining in that sort of effort.  He doesn’t oppose Barrett or any other Trump nominee.  He just expects them to get bipartisan support.

  93. 93.

    rp

    @Calouste: I had the same thought. Romney said earlier he supported moving forward, but I think it’s possible that he did that intending to shiv Trump in the actual vote. This is probably Romney’s last job, and he doesn’t need money, so he’s not really beholden to anyone. And I think he cares about his legacy.

  94. 94.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    One of my classmates had a dad who was very high up in the mafia.

    Me too! I was a classmate of Marie Accardo, whose father was Tony “Big Tuna” Accardo, longtime boss of the Chicago Outfit.

  97. 97.

    LuciaMia

    But why did she make  her children sit thru these (I’m sure to them) interminable hearings?

  99. 99.

    Bill Arnold

    @Kent:

    A REALLY boss move by a couple of GOP Senators would be to re-instate the SCOTUS filibuster right on the eve of a Democratic president.

    It’s a Civil War move. And it’d make too many unstable people (330 Million US population) think about how the “lifetime appointment” language can be …. uhm … gamed.

  101. 101.

    FelonyGovt

    @misterpuff: I dropped mine into a (real) CA drop box last Thursday, but Ballot Trax still doesn’t show it as received… should I be concerned yet?

  102. 102.

    Kent

    @Bill Arnold:It’s a Civil War move. And it’d make too many unstable people (330 Million US population) think about how the “lifetime appointment” language can be …. uhm … gamed.

    Honestly, no one who isn’t already a partisan really gives that much of a shit, at least I don’t think.  Trump has already normalized every possible version of crazy.  This would be a “principled stand” and the villagers would cream their pants in praise.

  104. 104.

    SiubhanDuinne

    (REPLY BUTTON NOT WORKING!!)

    @WaterGirl: Correct, this was at OPRF-HS. I knew you were from the Chicago suburbs, but don’t think I knew that you were from Berwyn. So close!

    (EDIT: LOST MY NYM AND EMAIL, TOO!! WTF?)

  105. 105.

    Sab

    @WaterGirl: Seven kids and works full time. Is there a nanny?  Is she documented? Was payroll tax paid? If it matters for AG nominee it certainly matters for S Ct nominee.

  106. 106.

    Roger Moore

    @RaflW:

    I’m not a galaxy-brain Republican, so I’m unclear on why undercounting in TX, AZ, FL and other diverse, immigrant containing states helps them.

    It’s possible that what they’re after is undercounting immigrant-heavy areas in those diverse states.  Undercounting those areas would give them an advantage even if there’s some kind of impartial redistricting commission or other attempt to prevent gerrymandering, both at the congressional and state level.

  108. 108.

    Roger Moore

    @LuciaMia:

    But why did she make her children sit thru these (I’m sure to them) interminable hearings?

    She thinks having her family there helps her image, and that’s way more important than what the kids think.  Children are supposed to be seen and not heard, don’t you know.

  109. 109.

    A Ghost to Most

    @Baud: Yea. As a long punked Bills fan, I’m thinking they might pick this fucking asterisk year to finally win it.

  110. 110.

    evodevo

    @West of the Rockies: Well, the reason to see it is to understand a mob parallel to what the Repubs have been doing to our country…the “bustout” scene….I have used it several times on Facebook posts to illustrate a point.  You can access the relevant scene on Youtube, which is what I do…it’s very instructive to those who can’t understand GOPer looting…

  112. 112.

    RaflW

    @Roger Moore: But what is the advantage? I guess the GOP gets to screw California, and that’s no small thing.

    But many erstwhile Republican states have a lot of people who could be undercounted.

    Maybe this favors the midwest & plains states, but I don’t see what the big bonus is. It seems pyrrhic, but it’s what the GOP wants. Huh.

  115. 115.

    Anomalous Cowherd

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage:

     

    I call her Amy Coney Barratry, but that’s because I consider her dissent in Kanter vs Barr an obvious application for the seat.  I still maintain that a conservative intellectual of integrity would decline the nomination at this time since the machinations blatantly employed on her behalf will tarnish her reputation – and ultimately, the court’s reputation as well.

  117. 117.

    Calouste

    @hueyplong: It’s possibly Romney’s last opportunity to take revenge. It’s not like there’s any shitgibbon-favored legislation making its way from the House to the Senate.

  120. 120.

    Roger Moore

    @RaflW:

    The point is that they’re thinking in terms of within state distribution rather than between state distribution.  My understanding is that redistricting is unlikely to result in a big swing of Congressional districts between states.  Some big blue states might lose a district or two, and some red states might pick them up, but it’s at most a handful of seats.  It may be more valuable to them to optimize the distribution of districts within the states rather than between them.

    That’s especially true because the census is used for more than just redistricting.  It also controls things like where federal money gets spent.  Shifting the apparent distribution of people within would help to divert money from the cities to rural areas, which they would very much like.

  121. 121.

    Ruckus

    @japa21:

    My background is supposed to be Sicilian, 1 generation removed, and I’ve got none of the know someone or anything like that from any of the family, even back those 2 generations.

  124. 124.

    KenK

    @geg6: Goodfellas is entertaining. Agree with you on GF series, although GF II is pretty good (IMO). Road to Perdition a good flick.

  125. 125.

    Kent

    @RaflW:

    I’m not a galaxy-brain Republican, so I’m unclear on why undercounting in TX, AZ, FL and other diverse, immigrant containing states helps them.

    Does Rhode Island or Michigan not losing a Rep in reappointment matter to the GOP? And if aid to states is based on the census, do Republicans think that east Africans working in the massive chicken plant in Lexington, Nebraska got counted?

    It’s not about advantaging or disadvantaging TX vs OH or PA in the national count. It’s about advantaging the white GOP areas within each state at the state level so that they can maintain their grip on power within states like TX.  If they drastically undercount blue Houston then they might lose a Congressman (probably a blue one).  But they will also be better able to keep a tighter grip on the Texas legislature, which will control restricting and everything else within TX.  And that will better enable them to keep control of the TX Congressional delegation through partisan gerrymandering.

    The TX GOP would rather have the current delegation of 36 Congressmen with 23 Republicans and 13 Democrats.  Than get an extra Congressman by finding more POC in Houston and Dallas and wind up with a delegation of 37 that is split 19 Dem and 18 GOP through loss of gerrymandering

    Especially since that congressional seat they will lose will likely go to Ohio and stay red anyway.

  126. 126.

    debbie

    @misterpuff:

    By the way, whoever told me a couple of days ago that those GOP drop boxes in CA were no biggie I think is not correct. I just listened to an interview with a GOP representative behind the drop boxes, some of which are in churches and gun shops, and he’s angling to get sued by the state so he can righteously accuse the Dems of voter suppression. He said he’s just following the Dems’ rules, whatever that means.

    I hope voters aren’t falling for this bullshit—unless they’re Rethuglicans, of course.

  132. 132.

    Aleta

    The way I view it it’s  another day of nearly unspeakable pain, brought upon us by the F-society and the unconditionally corrupt Senate Repubs

  133. 133.

    RaflW

    @Roger Moore:
    @Kent:

    Appreciate the responses. The in-state apportionment part makes sense, to the extent that any GOP anti-democratic maneuvering ‘makes sense.’

    The part about reducing fed aid to cities does seem pennywise and pound foolish (again, it’s the GOP, so that’s standard operating procedure). Making blue cities in red states more broke doesn’t help the net finances of the state. If anything, it increases the risk of the cities being fiscal drags that burden the state.

    But anything to punish the libruls and the black and brown folk!

  134. 134.

    trollhattan

    @debbie:

    The latest on this stunt.

    But Secretary of State Padilla and Attorney General Becerra say the law is clear: the unofficial, unauthorized drop boxes in question violate state law and jeopardize the security of voters’ ballots. According to the state officials, the unofficial boxes that appeared over the weekend in Fresno, Los Angeles and Orange Counties misled voters to believe they were official and secure boxes. Some were set up outside gas stations, party headquarters, and gun stores.

    According to Becerra, the only valid drop boxes are secure receptacles established by local elections officials that also adhere to state security standards, and anyone returning a ballot on behalf of a voter must provide their name, signature and relation to the voter on the return ballot. Voters must also know who specifically is returning their ballot.

    “Those ballot boxes would be completely legal if they instead just had a person there,” Mitchell said. “They could say ‘Tom is going to be at the gun shop all day long, you can turn your ballot into Tom,’ and that would be totally legal under California law.”

    The California Republican Party has until Oct. 15 to reply to the cease and desist letter from the state, at which point Barajas said the party intends to push back against the state’s legal reasoning. Several state leaders expressed support for the removal of the boxes, including Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who on Tuesday tweeted that California will “do everything in our power to protect the sanctity of the vote.”
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article246424595.html#storylink=cpy

    I know on my ballot envelope is a place for me to authorize somebody to take it in for me, but that would not accommodate putting it in a 3rd party’s box because the person has to be named. Don’t know if every CA county does the same.

  136. 136.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @KenK: Have you seen You Kill Me? It stars Ben Kingsley as a hitman for the Polish mob in Buffalo… Doesn’t get much lower on the mafia pecking order than that. It’s a pretty funny dark comedy.

  141. 141.

    Hellbastard

    It’s interesting listening to Senator Kennedy speak at the ACB hearing. Today, with 30 minutes and a lot to say, he is verbally quick. Yet when  I see him on TV facing off with the media he has this exaggerated southern drawl with slow speech and sounds like Cletus with a banjo… As if he is trying to eat the clock.

  144. 144.

    Richard

    @Oklahomo: @Oklahomo: 
    Oklahomo i had the same experience. I filled it out way back in May using the website. It was important to me.
    Then in September i got two cards wedged into my door and on the third try the census person found me at home. She explained that because of covid-19 they are having to redo a lot of results. I hope they counted me this time. I have my doubts.

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