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Could You Give the Definition of Carpetbagger?

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Looks like there are 9 Republicans running for the seat in CO-4, which makes me wonder if Boebert has any regrets about switching to the new district in order to have a chance of keeping her seat.

Oh wait, that’s not why she moved, just ask her yourself.  (I bolded the best question and the Palin-like word salad in the answer.)

As expected, Boebert faced sharp questions about her decision to move into a new congressional district to escape a rematch with Frisch.

“Could you give the definition of carpetbagger?” Lynch asked Boebert.

Boebert said she is proud to be Weld County’s “newest resident.”

“My boys and I needed a fresh start. That’s been very public of what home life looked like,” she said.

Could You Give the Definition of Carpetbagger? 1

This guy, the competitor next to her at the public event,  looks like a big fan.

Could You Give the Definition of Carpetbagger?

I’m beginning to think that Boebert may not be all that smart.

Arrest Records Draw Crowd Laughter

Six of the nine candidates on Thursday raised their hand in response to a question of whether they have been arrested at some point.

That included Boebert, Holtorf, Leisy, Lynch, Phelan and Sonnenberg.

oh my god.  All the best people.

*It also occurs to me that this isn’t a very charitable post for a Sunday morning.

Open thread.

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  3. 3.

    H.E.Wolf

     *It also occurs to me that this isn’t a very charitable post for a Sunday morning.

    No worries. Sunday isn’t a universal Sabbath. :)

  4. 4.

    Steeplejack

    “I’m beginning to think that Boebert may not be all that smart.”

    Well, we all know you can fake being smart. 🙄

  5. 5.

    Scout211

    Poor, Lauren.  Cry those sad, salty tears for your home life.  But what about your social life?  That’s more fun, right?  Amirite?

    PS:  WaterGirl, you asked for a reminder to put up two NFL championship game posts today.

    Chiefs at Ravens 3 ET

    Lions at 49ers 6:30 ET

    *start time has been corrected

  6. 6.

    Brit in Chicago

    “That’s been very public of what home life looked like” 

    I can’t parse the syntax of this. If English is her native language, she’s in trouble. More evidence for the “not very smart” view.

  7. 7.

    lowtechcyclist

    *It also occurs to me that this isn’t a very charitable post for a Sunday morning.

    No worries here!

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    @Steeplejack: Ha!

    Apparently Boebert can’t even fake that!

    Speaking of Trump’s failed attorney, do we think that when she says “you can fake being smart” that she is perhaps thinking that you can fake being smart by somehow looking smart, perhaps by adding a pair of glasses?

  12. 12.

    laura

    Big angry eddie with his red hat is having some thoughts- and he’s a perfect example of MAGA man; he both reviles her carpetbagging ass, and would definitely tap that if given half a chance.

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    @Scout211: You will get no judgment from me – I suck at time zones!

    I did go back and correct noon to 3pm so we won’t have a hundred comments with corrections. :-)  Hope that’s okay.

  14. 14.

    Scout211

    @WaterGirl: Yes, I corrected it.* Sorry!  On PT here but that’s no excuse for my brain fart.  🙄

    *I  tried to edit that comment three times and it failed to edit all three times.    😡 So thank you!

    That has never happened to me before.

    ETA: editing fine on this, a very unimportant comment.  LOL. Just my luck.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    @laura:

    Big angry eddie with his red hat is having some thoughts- and he’s a perfect example of MAGA man; he both reviles her carpetbagging ass, and would definitely tap that if given half a chance.

    My first laugh out load of the day.  thanks for that!

    If only it weren’t too long for a rotating tag.

  16. 16.

    Betty Cracker

    Boebert is dumber than a pile of pencil shavings and a spiteful, malevolent fuck-squib to boot, but the man in the hideous red ball cap who’s scowling at her in one of the images above looks like such a colossal dickhead that I almost feel a twinge of empathy for Boebert. Almost.

  18. 18.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    *It also occurs to me that this isn’t a very charitable post for a Sunday morning.

    Don’t worry, Boebert doesn’t deserve it anyway

  19. 19.

    brantl

    I’m beginning to think that Boebert may not be all that smart.

     

    Where have you been living, in a cave?

  21. 21.

    lowtechcyclist

    @laura:

    he both reviles her carpetbagging ass, and would definitely tap that if given half a chance.

    If he can stand looking at her face, he’s a good deal less choosy than I would be.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    @brantl: I hesitated, wondering if I should add some snark indicator, but I confidently pressed PUBLISH knowing that BJ peeps would know that “beginning to think” was not intended as a factual statement.

  28. 28.

    Betsy

    She’s starting to look like the prim middle-aged redneck she was meant to be.  Live by the sword, die by the …

  30. 30.

    Another Scott

    Sundays are for griping, right??

    Friday it was 80F in DC – perfectly normal… It’s 45F and damp now.

    Doggie is harshing my mellow, barking ferociously at other dogs that dare to walk on the sidewalk where she can see them. How dare they!!11

    I’m moving all my stuff over to a new phone (Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra) that I received yesterday. The old phone (S20+) has 500GB internal storage, and a 500GB flash card where I saved photos. The new phone only has 500 GB internal storage, but that’s plenty. The Samsung tool to move stuff to the new phone, and the Google backup to Google One, is fairly painless but apparently only backs up apps that came from the Play Store. So, I get to copy a bunch of stuff manually, while also figuring out how I want to copy the photos over. And I need to manually upgrade an important app (Pimlical) via installing an APK which is new to me…

    I’ve been using Brave as the browser on the old phone, but it has some quirks that I don’t like, and I need an adblocker, and I’m thinking about moving away from Chrome everywhere, so I’m trying Firefox on the S24. It has an automagic Twitter to Nitter plugin that someone mentioned here that seems to work well part of the time (nothing as good on Chrome that I’ve found). But (as others have mentioned over the years), Firefox has occasional weird issues with the Leave a Comment “visual” editor on the phone – the keyboard doesn’t popup (but works fine in the Nym, Email, and Website fields. And the keyboard works fine in the “Text” editor (though it includes “data-mce” garbage that others have mentioned). I tried GBoard, Samsung’s keyboard, messed around with the keyboard settings. (On a PC I default to the Text editor, when I remember. Visual needs less work on the phone for me.)

    In desperation, I installed the Firefox Nightly version, and hey! The keyboard works properly!

    What’s this?? Going back to the regular Firefox and the keyboard works properly too??!!?? At least part of the time anyway. :-/

    I hate software gremlins. I’ll keep messing with it, but may starting using the Nightly version if that’s what works best here.

    Oh, and I’ve got to manually move the URLs for my normal 72 tabs from Brave to Firefox…

    [ /griping ]

    I hope everyone is having a good Sunday. Here’s hoping that this week starts to see the breaking of the logjam on the Supplemental, the Budget, and other things that need to get done. It won’t be all we want, and some things we won’t like, but we know that. We can fix them when we squash the monsters in November, if we do the work to squash enough of them.

    Forward!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  31. 31.

    slybrarian

    A couple days ago, there was a comment asking about the “Kids Online Safety Act” and whether it was a good or bad thing. I didn’t have time to find a good explainer then but the short answer is “incredibly terrible and designed to let states the ability to stamp pro-LGBT content from the internet”. Here’s a post from the owner of a small social media site called Dreamwidth, who basically invented the concept of website Trust & Safety: Talking points for calling your Senators about KOSA

    There’s also a related post about various state level laws, most of which are aimed at “protecting” kids by allowing any abusive parents total control over what they see: In which we help to sue Ohio

    If you’re in a state with Democratic senators or representative, please consider calling or mailing them in opposition to the bill.

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    @Another Scott:  Interesting.

    Do you copy all your photos over or do you go through and delete all the bad photos that are mixed in with the good?  Though you might have to quit your day job in order to have enough time to do that.

    What the heck is Firefox Nightly?

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    @Another Scott:

    I have started to get the first twinges of new phone lust/​anxiety. My Samsung Galaxy S10e will be five years old in May! It still works fine and I like it a lot, but that is ancient in phone years. I periodically look at “what phone to get” articles, but I haven’t done any serious research. I don’t want a huge phone, and I think the Samsungs have been getting bigger? For some reason I have a positive feeling about one of the Google Pixels, but it’s subliminal at this point.

    Good luck with your phone migration! 🤞

  40. 40.

    cope

    Gee, you left out the funniest bit, the one where six of the nine mouth breathers raised their hands when the group was asked “how many of you have been arrested”.  The response raised a hearty round of chuckles from the assembled audience.

  41. 41.

    Tony Jay

    @Betty Cracker:

    The context you’re missing is that Boebert had just responded to a question about how she would “Protect children of American heritage from corruptive influences” by hiking a thumb at Jowls McFacefuzz and sneering “You mean like Suspect Number One through Six here? Don’t tell his wife but I think he’s still got milkshake and gummy bears on his breath.”

    Making friends. It’s what she does.

  42. 42.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, should Rick Scott get half a cookie?? TheHill.com:

    Scott also criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for not pushing Democrats harder for a deal more Republicans would agree on.

    “We need to secure the border today, and the only way you can do that with a lawless administration is you have to make them do it. You have to tie it to something,” Scott said. “And what I don’t get, is Mitch McConnell doesn’t want to do that.”

    The senator said blame for dissent over a border deal shouldn’t be placed at the feet of Turnip, but instead hard-line anti-immigration voters.

    “If you don’t want a secure the border today, don’t blame it on Turnip. Say you don’t care what the voters think,” he added. “It’s not all what Trump thinks, the voters want a secure border today.”

    Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), meanwhile, has denounced Turnip’s influence over negotiations on Thursday, calling it “immoral” for the GOP to consider the former president’s electability when discussing policy.

    “I didn’t come here to have the president as a boss or a candidate as a boss. I came here to pass good, solid policy,” Tillis said. “It is immoral for me to think you looked the other way because you think this is the linchpin for President Turnip to win.”

    Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) had the same sentiment, calling efforts to kill negotations “appalling.”

    No, he should not get half a cookie.

    But it’s good to see them fighting each other a tiny bit. It shows they’re worried and know that they have to pass something.

    They don’t want Turnip’s looooser stink on them, but still haven’t quite figured out to stay away from that while keeping his voters (what’s left of them).

    I like our chances – a lot.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  43. 43.

    laura

    “That’s been very public of what home life looked like”

    I’m so glad Claire Upton worked with her on debate prep: https://youtu.be/lj3iNxZ8Dww?

    Wonder if there was candidate fancy pageant walking or just more Q & A on policymaking and such like.

  47. 47.

    kindness

    Boebert says ‘Her boys and her need a fresh start’.  As I recall from police reports from her old neighbors, they hated the spoiled brats that ran wild and weren’t thrilled with the parents, either.  Her new neighbors are no doubt going to be thrilled to have them.

  51. 51.

    sab

    @Betty Cracker: I think that the red hat guy  beares a striking resemblance to Ohio’s own JD Vance, who is himself a bit of a carpetbagger (he fled the state as fast as he could and only came back when Peter Thiel ordered him to.)

  52. 52.

    cope

    @Tony Jay: Jowls McFacefuzz is a Weld County commissioner Trent Leisy.  When copping to having been arrested, he neglected to say what it was for:

    “Leisy was arrested for a harassment incident involving a child in 2016, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation.”

    Nice

    ETA: Sorry the details of his arrest at the Greeley Tribune linked to is paywalled.

  56. 56.

    Another Scott

    @Steeplejack:  What pushed me to get the S24 Ultra now was that it was about $200 cheaper than the Pixel 8 Pro on Google Fi (my other potential choice), and the cellular radios (Qualcomm) should be much better on the S24 than the Pixel.  It made the choice very easy for me (the S20+ is  only worth about $100 as a trade-in so it’s not worth the bother).

    Samsung and others really want people to get new phones every year, and if one shops around and does a smart trade-in of a recent model then it isn’t that expensive.  But the hassle of transferring stuff to a new phone, spending time reconfiguring everything (No I don’t want 11,000 notifications going off all the time) makes that much less appealing for me.  And getting a new one – even with a substantial discount – can be spendy (I spent around $690 all up).

    The S20+ has been a good phone for me, but it’s no longer getting OS updates.

    I’ve had good luck on Swappa.  It might be worth checking there.

    Good luck!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  57. 57.

    Michael Bersin

    Well, at least Colorado is Not Missouri.

    A proposed amendment this past week to the Missouri Senate Rules:

    “…The two senators shall agree to the terms of the duel, including choice of weapons, which shall be witnessed and enforced by their respective seconds. The duel shall take place in the well of the senate at the hour of high noon…”

    Try caning first

    I’m all for it if they have to wear clown shoes. They just renovated the Senate Chamber a few years ago – I suppose they’ll put down sufficient plastic sheeting in the well to protect the carpet.

  60. 60.

    trollhattan

    BBC headline gives one pause.

    Sinner starts 2024 in inspired form

    Republican presidential hopeful? Nope, Australian Open men’s winner.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    @cope:

    What the hell is “unsupervised probation”?  That doesn’t sound much like probation at all.  I thought the whole point of probation was the supervision part.

  66. 66.

    trollhattan

    @Another Scott: In addition to the routine security updates my S20 on Verizon got a bunch of features added, last December I think. IDK if this varies by carrier with the older models.

    If it weren’t on the desk I’d add this is the longest a phone has lived for me, but since it is I’m not saying a thing.

  67. 67.

    Fair Economist

    I’m beginning to think that Boebert may not be all that smart.

    Oh, I think that’s a very charitable description of Boebart.

    @Betty Cracker is more on the mark.

  71. 71.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I’m beginning to think that Boebert may not be all that smart.

    Wasn’t Boebert accused of being a sex worker?  Supposedly “smart” in that kind of work means “wears glasses”.

  72. 72.

    Geminid

    @cope: They should try a new format at the next 4th CD debate: hook the candidates up to polygraph machines and have the moderators conduct background checks. Audience members could ask questions too.

  74. 74.

    Tony Jay

    @cope:

    Shocked. Gutted. All of that. He’s the best manager in world football and a titan of feel-good football. If it hadn’t been for Cheaty and their antics he’d have won a lot more with The Reds, but even so he’s established us as the only team in the country able to live with and challenge the state-funded sports washers.

    That said. He owes us absolutely nothing because he’s already given us his all. If he’s running on fumes and needs time out, then that’s exactly what we as fans should demand for him.

    And if he wants to come back in a few years when whoever replaces him (cough * Alonso * cough) moves on to the Real job, there’s a throne with his name on it waiting for him.

  76. 76.

    Eric S.

    @Steeplejack: I’m on my second Pixel. (I bounced the first one on a sidewalk.) I’ve been quite happy with them although I’m certainly not a power user. I also use Google Fi. It’s been good service where I live and gone.

  77. 77.

    Jeffro

    OT but I see via ‘Red Hat guy’ above (and other instances I’ve seen this past week) that it’s now “SAVE AMERICA” in MAGA-land.  It’s not even possible to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, backs are to the wall, the chips are down, it’ll take everything we’ve got to SAVE AMERICA, peeps!  Hoo boy.

    Best economy in decades, unemployment down, wages up, gas prices down, steady hand at the helm with Ukraine and Israel, but nope, a Democrat is president and someone somewhere is sneaking across the border RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT so it’s time to “SAVE AMERICA”

    Just stroke out already, RWNJs!

  81. 81.

    Nukular Biskits

    @Steeplejack:

    My Samsung Galaxy S10e will be five years old in May! It still works fine and I like it a lot, but that is ancient in phone years.

    I see your phone and raise you one Samsung SM-J737V, chiseled from stone somewhere back around 2018.

  83. 83.

    cope

    @Tony Jay: That’s a good summary of my feelings as well.  I coached high school soccer for 27 or 28 years and he is exactly the type of coach I would have loved playing for or coaching with.

    I do give him credit for going out in style, off to Mallorca to chill with his wife.

  84. 84.

    Jeffro

    This is intriguing: Koch network still backing Nikki Haley, but is preparing to shift to keeping the Senate in GOP hands if trump is the nominee

    (meaning, “trump will definitely lose if he’s the nominee, so we’re going to McConnellize the hell out of the Senate for at least 2 and possibly all 4 years of Biden’s 2nd term”)

    In a presentation to the network’s top donors, Emily Seidel and Michael Palmer – senior advisers to Americans for Prosperity Action – said the narrowing of the GOP race to just Trump and Haley demonstrates she was the right candidate to back as a Trump alternative, according to a summary of the presentation provided to CNN by an AFP Action official.
    AFP Action endorsed the former South Carolina governor in November and will continue to support her – even as she faces what Koch officials acknowledge is an “uphill battle” for the nomination.
    …Seidel and Palmer, however, also emphasized that the organization stands ready to shift its resources and say that flipping the Senate from Democratic control is a top priority that grows all the more important if Trump wins the nomination.

  86. 86.

    citizen dave

    I’ve had at least three Samsung phones (and washer/dryer/laptop/external hard drive–what don’t they make?).  Had an S8 for 5-6 years, traded it (mail-in rebate with Samsung) for an unlocked A54 last summer.  Fairly inexpensive model these days.  Every once in a while I hit the wrong button and the frickin’ Bixby thing pops up; or the other week it was intercepted my voice calls and going to “Bixby voice to text”.  People couldn’t hear me!

    As far as I know there is no way to remove Bixby from Samsung phones.

  87. 87.

    artem1s

    @Another Scott: ​ 

    “I didn’t come here to have the president as a boss or a candidate as a boss. I came here to pass good, solid policy,” Tillis said. “It is immoral for me to think you looked the other way because you think this is the linchpin for President Turnip to win.”

    TL, isn’t factual: IOW – I need those migrant workers in the fields in NC or my R-Overlords/Moneybags are going to primary me in the next election.

  88. 88.

    E.

    @WaterGirl: It’s probation in that a new offense will or might get you jailed but you don’t have to report to a probation officer every week. It’s real, I’ve done it many times!

  90. 90.

    Another Scott

    @trollhattan: ​By OS updates, I mean it is stuck on OneUI 5.1. It won’t get 6.x.

    I got the January security update a few days ago.

    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  91. 91.

    Mousebumples

    @Steeplejack: Just ordered a new Galaxy S24 Ultra that should arrive in the next week. Happy to give a hands on opinion on a few days. (last phone S9+, current phone S20)

    **

    Different topic that came to mind as I’m nerding out over the med last that was in AL’s early am post from Trump’s WH. Anyone interested in a “what is this, and what does it do” comment/post about the drugs? Might take some time to put together (cross referencing on my phone, etc.), but it’s in my pharmacist wheelhouse.

  92. 92.

    Mousebumples

    @citizen dave: As far as I know there is no way to remove Bixby from Samsung phones.

    I don’t remember what I did, but I think I managed to disable it on this phone (S20). I remember it being more of an issue on my last phone. Maybe I just reassigned the default Bixby button to something else, so its just lurking? 😉

    Eta – looked in settings and my side button is Power Off Menu vs Wake Bixby.

    Hopefully that’s an option on the S24.

  93. 93.

    Ruckus

    @Tony Jay:

    Republicans. They go lower.

    When you are Hell, the reality is that there is only one direction possible.

    And no I did not leave out the in after are.

  95. 95.

    Nukular Biskits

    @citizen dave:

    As far as I know there is no way to remove Bixby from Samsung phones.

    And that is one of the major peeves I have with a lot of consumer electronics.  This is arguably primarily a problem with phones but it also is an issue on other devices (like tablets); i.e., the inability to remove unwanted features.

    I don’t hate Bixby, but I do find it an unnecessary and unwanted feature on my Samsung phones.  But Samsung insists I SHALL have it.

  96. 96.

    MomSense

    They are all so ridiculously stupid.  Even the so-called smart ones who function in the world as professionals seem to be trapped by their biases into believing the dumbest things.  This could be fascinating to study if it weren’t so damned dangerous.

    I’ve said before that I listen to a podcast called The Necessary Conversation.  The progressive kids are dumb in that they think all politicians are corrupt, including Biden, and also seem to believe some pretty stupid things that fit their narrative. They have enough privilege to hold those opinions.  The parents are just gone.  The dad incites violence routinely, says racist things all the time, is convinced that a civil / race war is coming.  The way he insults his children is awful.  The mom comes across with less violence but just as pathetically stupid.  She went on this whole thing about Michelle Obama being a trans person which included an obituary for a Marion Robinson. It apparently never occurred to her that there might be more than one because that obituary includes mention of the son, Michael (PROOF!1!!1!).  Michelle Obama’s mother is very much alive.

    I started following the instagram account the mother runs and it is just dumb reel after dumb reel from insane sources.  One of them was all about Joe Biden being executed for high treason on 1/20/2021 and then something something about Obama and the real president.  Maybe it was Obama is the real president and this bizarre conspiracy theory is how they account for trump’s syphillitic campaign rantings. I swear that watching these videos is killing my brain cells.  If you apply a smidgen of critical thinking to these videos and memes they are just staggeringly stupid.

    WTF are we going to do about all these stupid people?  It’s a serious problem.

  97. 97.

    trollhattan

    @Another Scott: ​
    Makes sense. I don’t follow Android so wouldn’t know 6 from an order of fries. (Mmm, fries.)

    In settings one can limit charging to 85% and I credit that for my phone’s long life. Every other smartphone I’ve had died of battery failure–last Samsung popped apart like a bad clam.

  98. 98.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    It’s likely mostly an indicator for the judicial side that this is number  one so that the next time they can slap them with a hankie. IOW it’s a record but not really punishment.

  99. 99.

    Kelly

    @Nukular Biskits: I see your phone and raise you one Samsung SM-J737V, chiseled from stone somewhere back around 2018.

    I replaced my ancient 2017 Moto G5+ in November with a Pixel Pro 8. The Moto is still serviceable as a phone and for browsing. I used the Moto camera way more than I expected and wanted a better camera in my pocket. Pixel Pro camera isn’t as good a camera as my Panasonic GX85, but it’s much more waterproof, takes OK pics in good light and better pics in low light. I went with Pixel for unadulterated Android and timely updates.

  100. 100.

    TBone

    @WaterGirl:

    Well, I was sittin’ in this beer joint down in Houston, Texas
    Was drinkin’ Colorado Kool-Aid and talkin’ to some Mexicans
    An’ we was… what’s that you say?
    What’s Colorado Kool-Aid?

    Well, it’s a can of Coors brewed from a mountain stream
    It’ll set you head on fire an’ make your kidneys scream
    Oh, it sure is fine
    Yeah, we was havin’ ourselves one of them real good times

    But you know every beer joint that you’ve ever been in
    Some big, mean drunk who just ain’t got no friend
    Sure enough, he wants to fight
    Yeah, he’s gonna whip everything in sight

    Well, he took him a big swallow of beer
    And he spit in my Mexican friends ear
    And, sure enough, that made my buddie real mad
    That’s somethin’ like he ain’t never had

    Well, sir, he pulled out a big, long switch blade knife
    Quick as a whistle he began to slice
    An, that big mean drunk stood back, his face full of tears
    Lookin’ down at the floor, an’ one of his ears

    Ha, he cut that thing off, even with the sideburns
    You might say the little Mexican fella, he just didn’t give a durn
    But he was a gentleman about it, an’ bent over and with a half way grin
    Picked it up and handed it back to him

    He said: “Now big man, you get the urge to spit a little beer
    “Just open up your hand there, and spit it in your own ear
    “Won’t be no trouble that way.” That’s what I heard him say

    And I said: “Barmaid, set us up a round of that Colorado Kool-Aid
    “An while you’re up their, bring this big fella, here, a box of Band Aids”

    Now let me tell you: if you’re ever ridin’ down in south of Texas
    Decide to stop an’ drink some Colorado Kool-Aid
    An’ maybe talk to some Mexicans
    An’ you get the urge to get a little tough
    Better make damn sure you got your knife proof ear-muff

    Hey, ain’t that right big man? I said ain’t that right big man?
    Ah, hell he can’t hear, not on this side anyway, he ain’t got no ear
    Hey barmaid, bring us all a big, tall glass of that Colorado Kool-Aid
    How about it?
    How you doin’, big man? Still got your ear there in your hand?

  101. 101.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl: Normal probation requires you to have regular meetings with a probation officer.  Drug testing, etc.  If you violate any of the conditions, you can get yeeted back to prison instantly.  With unsupervised probation, the only condition is not committing another crime.  If you do, you finish your original sentence plus the new one.  Make sense?

  105. 105.

    Tony Jay

    @cope:

    He’s earned it. Given his personality, though, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him in the German national team job sooner rather than later.

  107. 107.

    Kelly

    @WaterGirl: MAGA man reviles Boebert’s carpetbagging ass, and would definitely tap that if given half a chance.

    Hate F*** is definitely a thing amongst misogynist jerks.

  109. 109.

    Delk

    So, I googled red hat guy. There are pictures of him wearing a t-shirt with trump’s face and “sexiest man alive”   And if that’s not bad enough, there are pictures of him wearing a completely different t-shirt with the same photo/slogan.

  112. 112.

    Kirk

    @eclare: So to be a contrarian,

    I have a stutter. And I am subject to my brain getting two steps and one track over from where my mouth is, which throws in malapropisms.

    Add to that English is a mongrel kleptomaniac of a language, not only with words but phrasing – and don’t forget regional linguistic variations and dialects and oh yes immigrants with it as a second language – and it’s a wonder I can somewhat communicate with anyone.

    Hilarious scene, frustrates me if I think about it.

  114. 114.

    eclare

    @Kirk:

    I am sorry you have to deal with that frustration, my dad had to deal with that his whole life.  I think 99% of people would stutter if someone pointed a gun in our face, though.  I know I would, or I would be speechless.

  117. 117.

    mrmoshpotato

    *It also occurs to me that this isn’t a very charitable post for a Sunday morning.

    Well, when your post is about living, breathing garbage fires…

  119. 119.

    NotMax

    @Steeplejack

    For flagship Android phones the brand new OnePlus 12 looks like a winner. Costs less than comparable Pixels or Samsungs too.

    Also comes as a lower price point model with fewer bells and whistles, the 12R.

  121. 121.

    karen marie

    “The last thing you want is the federal government running your life. The same way you don’t want the government to tell you to get the vaccine,” Yu said. “Regardless of how heinous you think abortion is, you don’t want the federal government telling you how to live your life.”

    A couple follow-up questions that are never asked is. How is an abortion ban not the “government telling you how to live your life.” What federal law makes abortion mandatory. Do you support state funding for legal services for women seeking care for a dangerous pregnancy when the state passes such a ban.

  122. 122.

    Another Scott

    @trollhattan: I’ve got an old Samsung tablet that has about a 1/4″ gap from the swollen battery. It’s going in the recycling bin. ;-)

    I think they’ve gotten better at their battery tech after the Note 7 fires in 2016.  :-/

    My S20+ mostly charged wirelessly overnight (except when plugged into my Niro for Android Auto). As long as the battery lasted all day (and it always did), I didn’t care how quickly it charged.

    The new Chinese phones that charge at 210W scare me. 210W is a lot of power and seem like disasters waiting to happen.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  123. 123.

    RevRick

    @WaterGirl: Hatred towards the usual despised groups + white libruls because they betrayed their race.

     

    @UncleEbeneezer: I see pure loathing, probably because he sees Boebert horning in on the nomination that “belongs” to a white guy.

  125. 125.

    Mike in Pasadena

    Anyone else surprised only 6 of 9 Republicans have been arrested? Now I’ll read the thread.

  127. 127.

    Shalimar

    @Betty Cracker: I’m still trying to figure out what some dumbass in rural eastern Colorado thinks he is saving America from.  Most likely some threat he saw on the tv rather than anything in his actual life.

  129. 129.

    Shalimar

    @Omnes Omnibus: I am probably the most boring person here, but I have been arrested before for driving with a suspended license after failing to pay a speeding ticket.  It happens even to those of us who avoid people at all costs.

  130. 130.

    RaflW

    Mike “DWI and gun charge” Lynch, who just resigned his House minority chair position (but not his CO House seat) is in some very fine company. Meaning a wide assortment of gutter trash.

  132. 132.

    RaflW

    @Brit in Chicago: “That’s been very public of what home life looked like”

    Does this mean she was making out with & groping guys not her husband at home on the couch, as well as in a theater? I only ask because think of the children.

  133. 133.

    Ruckus

    @trollhattan:

    I have iPhone and am on my second one after the first one lasted 7-8 yrs and still had trade in value.

    I charge – and always have to 100% and over the last 8 yrs of usage I haven’t lost 1% of capacity. iPhone has a very good charging concept, they taper off after 90% full and it takes almost the same amount of time to go to 100% as it did to get from 20% to 90%.

    Also I had an android phone before the first iPhone and to me it wasn’t worth the money, but I did purchase that early in this century to replace the flip phone I had before that so the technology has come a ways. Along with the service. And I haven’t had a landline for most of this century.

  135. 135.

    Steeplejack

    @citizen dave:

    Bixby is my one (big) complaint about my S10e. I have never used Bixby, don’t want to use Bixby, but there is a dedicated Bixby button on the phone that I have trained my gripping hand to avoid. Way back in the past I discovered that you could remap the Bixby button to something else, but you had to activate Bixby first to do that. Ugh. No dice.

    I think my subliminal good feeling about Pixels is that they are supposed to be relatively free of bloatware. And I’m an Android guy, so no iPhone. (Although I did get an iPad Pro last fall and like it a lot.)

  138. 138.

    Quinerly

    “Detained” at Reynolds Coliseum, NC State University, while wearing pink, green, and white satin. Ruffled shirt. White Go Go Boots

    Rod Stewart’s “Blondes Have More Fun”/ “Da Ya Think I Am Sexy Tour.” 1979

    Looking back, those campus police should have thrown  the book at me. My White Go Go Boots had mud on them.

  141. 141.

    Quaker in a Basement

    @laura: I believe that’s Tim Liesy. He called for the justices of the Colorado Supreme Court to be executed for treason because they found Trump could be thrown off the primary ballot.

     

    So, he’s, you know, a moderate.

  142. 142.

    WaterGirl

    @Quaker in a Basement: Oh, ugh.

    I don’t know if he has *hate in his heart, but he sure as hell has hate written all over his face.

    *upon reading your comment again – executed for treason??? – yeah, he has hate in his heart.  Double ugh.

    Thanks for pointing out who he is.

  144. 144.

    RaflW

    Sen. Tim Scott today “Talking about someone’s age is inappropriate when especially they are competent, qualified and ready to go.”

    Now, of course, the pathetic sycophant was talking about D. J. Turnip, but there’s no one not in the cult who believes the orange menace is competent or qualified. So that leaves our guy Joe!

  145. 145.

    Dave

    @Betty Cracker: I know I should accept it but the for some reason it bugs me that the most relatable and normal thing about her, horny awkward divorced energy, seems to be the thing that finally really damaged her.

     

    Don’t get me wrong I’ll take it and she is sufficiently malignant that I’ll accept anything that takes her down, much like a smaller scale Trump, but it still bothers me.

  146. 146.

    Dave

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Not entirely fair I strongly suspect that the bell curve regarding the smarts of sex workers tends to be a bit more heavily weighted to both the left and right sides of the curve as opposed to a standard curve.

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