Do you realize there’s not a single homosexual on that jury?
You can’t disregard an entire post because a single typo! For if you, then shouldn’t we also ignore this whole thread? And if this whole thread is not worth our time, then isn’t this an indictment of the message board institution in general? I put it to you, iiandyiii isn’t this an indictment of our entire internet society? Well, you can do whatever you want with my post, but I’m not going to sit here and watch you bad mouth The Straight Dope!
<walks out humming the Star Spangled Banner>
Don’t forget to hug the flag.
Bravo!
Interesting analysis…
TL;DR- The Republican party is now so crazy that trumpy is boring and conventional. It’s the oldest horror plot in the book: you create a monster and one day it turns on you and it eats your face.
Something happened last Saturday that was significant because it was unprecedented: Donald Trump spoke at a rally in the heart of Trump country—Cullman, Alabama, which gave the incumbent president more than 88 percent of the vote in 2020—and he was booed. The jeers were scattered but noticeable, enough so that Trump responded to them.
Trump had encouraged those in the audience to get vaccinated. “I believe totally in your freedoms. I do. You’ve got to do what you have to do,” Trump said, “but I recommend: Take the vaccines. I did it—it’s good.” Yet for a large number of Trump supporters in the audience, even though the former president hadn’t embraced government or private-sector mandates, he had crossed a redline.
Two days later Alex Jones, the far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Trump courted in 2016, rebuked Trump. After playing a clip of Trump declaring that the vaccines are working, Jones responded, “BS. Trump, that’s a lie. You’re not stupid.” Jones added, “Shame on you, Trump. Seriously. Hey, if you don’t have the good sense to save yourself and your political career, that’s okay. At least you’re gonna get some good Republicans elected, and you know, we like ya. But my God. Maybe you’re not that bright. Maybe Trump’s actually a dumbass.”
…Not long ago, Trump was viewed as avant-garde, outrageous, and scandalous, America’s enfant terrible . His actions were viewed as so shocking and norm-shattering that he couldn’t be ignored. In today’s Republican Party, however, Trump is becoming what was once unthinkable—conventional, unexceptional, even something of an establishment figure.
In a right-wing movement that is home to a growing assortment of cranks and kooks—Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar and Lauren Boebert, Mo Brooks and Madison Cawthorn, Ron Johnson and Marsha Blackburn, Mike Lindell and Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, Cyber Ninjas and QAnon, anti-vaxxers and insurrectionists—Trump looks rather ordinary.
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BTW, the author was a lifelong Republican up until 2016.
You misspelled hump.
Mea maxima culpa.
I think this link is necessary.
As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11 Trump wants you know that Soleimani, the terrorist killed under his watch, was way badder than that wimp Osama bin Laden.
He falsely claimed that Osama only had “one hit” (he did concede that it was a bad one) but he wasn’t a real monster, the only real monsters are the ones slain by the Great Monsterkiller Trump, who is so much better at slaying terrorists than Obama was.
THIS is the kind of shit Trump thinks about all day, he just can’t take it that Obama gets credit for anything.
After reading that, I am shocked that they did not devote at least two paragraphs on how to deal with stains from jism.
The good old Red, White, Blue, and White.
I still say all this started with Obama joking about him. His face was red, not orange! And that’s all this was about. He told GOP he wants revenge on the Black guy, they guided the rest.
That, and he’s an asshole.
Complete headline:
Trump’s D.C. Hotel Permanently Bans Forbes Reporter After … Wait For It … Taking Photos
Forbes journalist Zach Everson has been permanently banned from the Trump International Hotel, ostensibly for taking photographs, he reported Friday.
After a quick visit to the bar of the Washington hangout, a drink, a few photos and a text on Thursday night, Everson said he was ordered to leave by Ernest Wojciech, the hotel’s director of security. Wojciech told the journalist he was getting the boot for “taking photos without permission,” Everson reported in Forbes. The reporter was then told the ban was for life.
Photos of the bar, lobby and restaurant of the renovated Old Post Office Building — owned by taxpayers and leased by the Trump Organization — have been the focus of countless Twitter, Instagram and Facebook posts showing who’s dropping a dime in hopes of currying favor with former President.
…Everson had headed to the hotel Thursday night after seeing that its room prices had soared. The “cheapest” room was suddenly listed at $2,400 a night, an astonishing jump from $400 just weeks before, he noted.
It might have been a rate boost to profit from the next pro-Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol, planned for Sept. 18, which is already on police radar.
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No matter what, The Donald just keeps making money.
If rooms have gotten that expensive, that quickly, it sounds like the property has just gotten a lot more valuable. I hope the government raises the rental price significantly when the lease comes up for renewal.
This is sweet. 
The lawyers who battled for President Donald Trump in the days after the 2020 election are now fighting to salvage their professional careers—a fight they pretty much invited by openly flouting many of the core ethical precepts to which licensed attorneys are bound. Last November, we warned these lawyers that this could happen. Today, they face punishing financial and professional consequences, including the potential loss of their license to practice law. This is exactly what should happen.
On Wednesday, in a 110-page opinion that will likely serve as required reading in future law-school ethics classes, U.S. District Court Judge Linda Parker delivered her comprehensive sanctions ruling against Sidney Powell and her merry band of “Kraken” lawyers. The ruling addressed in clear terms the difference between “cable-news lawyering” and the actual practice of law. “While there are many arenas—including print, television, and social media—where protestations, conjecture, and speculation may be advanced,” Parker wrote, “such expressions are neither permitted nor welcomed in a court of law.” Her ruling outlined how Powell’s team had relied upon affidavits riddled with baseless speculation and accusations contradicted by existing public evidence to advance their claims seeking extraordinary relief that would have effectively nullified the votes of millions of Americans in Michigan. As Parker wrote, “this case was never about fraud—it was about undermining the People’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so.”
…Those lawyers now must pay significant legal bills as a form of restitution, complete legal-education retraining, and, perhaps most important, face potential disbarment by the states in which they are licensed to practice.
That’s the cost of masquerading conspiracy theories as serious legal claims, and that is as it should be.
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All riiiiiight! That’s the stuff I like!
Fucking YAY.
How may people in Trumps orbit are either in prison or are in serious, serious trouble? About 15.
I guess we should count the traitors, seditionists and insurrectionists too. So over 500.
Everything he touches turns to shit.
This rate increase is an illegal campaign contribution by “interested” parties. I’ve written/emailed my congress critters for a reaction. Note that the DumpsterFire organization does not own the the building; it’s leased, but is trying to sell the lease.