Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) says he won't back Trump in 2024:
"President Trump is the first president, in the Republican side at least, to lose the House, the Senate and the presidency in 4 years."
Trump is indeed the first since 1932 to accomplish this.https://t.co/8rxxUHQUiN
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 19, 2021
No, really — not every professional Republican is convinced that TFG is their god-emperor, going forward. Here’s Rick ‘Sparklepants’ Lowry, in Tiger Beat on the Potomac (aka Politico) — “What if Trump’s Grip on the GOP Isn’t as Strong as It Seems?”:
… Even the senior-most GOP politicians still seek Trump’s backing. Sen. Chuck Grassley, along with other top elected Republicans in Iowa, attended Trump’s rally in Des Moines the other day, where the 88-year-old senator, running for his eighth term, happily accepted his endorsement.
Trump’s rallies are still remarkably well-attended — part political events, part Grateful Dead concerts, part Andrew Dice Clay sets. The recent one in Alabama may well have been the largest political rally in state history, with roughly 50,000 people on hand…
Big majorities of Republicans tell pollsters they want Trump to run for president. Seventy-seven percent of Republicans in a Hill/HarrisX poll, and 67 percent in a Morning Consult/POLITICO poll said they want the Trump Train to depart the station once again. Morning Consult/POLITICO found that Trump has an 82 percent approval rating among Republicans.
A Pew poll came up with less encouraging numbers for Trump, with two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents saying he should stay politically active, but only 44 percent saying he should run for president. Still, Pew found that 63 percent of Republicans say the party should not be accepting, or at least too accepting, of GOP officials who openly criticize Trump.
And yet, despite all this, there are reasons to believe Trump’s dominance is exaggerated and that it is slowly degrading, such that by the time the 2024 Republican primaries roll around, he’ll be challengeable and beatable if he runs…
Trump’s media footprint is much reduced. The press is publishing fewer Trump stories, and there are fewer clicks on those stories. Data from SocialFlow shows engagement with Trump stories plummeting in March of this year and it took another jag down in August and September…
GOP politicians have every reason to do what they can to keep Trump and his voters on board in the interest of a unified base in the run-up to the 2022 midterms. But if Republicans take Congress next year and are worried about keeping it in 2024, they will be wary of once again needing candidates to run better than Trump in swing districts to keep their gavels…
Trump, for his part, is not exactly exuding the overwhelming concern with the interests of the party one would expect of a party leader. At a rally in Georgia, he mused that it might be better if Stacey Abrams were governor rather than Brian Kemp, the Republican who became persona non grata for not going along with Trump’s schemes to overturn the 2020 result in Georgia. He’s also threatened that Republican voters won’t show up in 2022 or 2024 if the alleged theft of 2020 is not taken care of, in some unspecified way…
The GOP is the Big Business Party, after all; if Trump and his cultists threaten its survival, the people who make their very nice livelihoods running it are not going to be sentimental about dumping him for a newer, better-performing model.
If VA Ds were telling Biden not to come campaign, you better believe every single news orgs possible—but especially gossip rags like Politico—would be blasting that from rooftops. But Youngkin is keeping Trump away & news media is all too happy to help him try & keep that quiet https://t.co/61CuAIOwA4
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) October 17, 2021
it's good to not ignore what Trump is doing now, since it's antithetical to a democracy to have an insurrectionist dictate terms. But there's too much "Trump is in charge of his party" and not enough "a 75-25 split within the GOP puts them in weaker position to win"
— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) October 16, 2021
— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) October 16, 2021
We need less breathless"this guy is going to fly a rocket across the grand canyon" and more "this is a stupid idea".
See: The Emperor's New Clothes
Anderson, H.C.
Journal of the Politically Obvious/fin
— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) October 16, 2021
Starfish
For those of you who may have forgotten who Trump is, his response to Colin Powell’s death was one of the reasons that this dude is such an exhausting asshole.
The responses to Alec Baldwin shooting a person by J. D. Vance and Lauren Boebert were really awful today, too.
Cameron
You mean 2024 might be….DeSantis Time?
Baud
@Starfish:
If it were a conservative celebrity, I’d believe it was intentional.
Starfish
@Baud: I had to read over the tweet about the news story a couple of times this morning because it sounded like Baldwin had gone on a shooting rampage from whatever clickbait headline I read, and then slowly it dawned on me that it was an accident on a movie set.
WaterGirl
@Starfish:
I didn’t want to give him any clicks so I hadn’t see it yet. But I did click this time. Holy shit.
pattonbt
They’ll all fall in line like they always do.
Craig
@Starfish: This from a woman who leaves loaded guns around her kids, and stacks ’em on shelves for her Zoom calls. And Vance is just a ghoulish asshole.
Baud
@WaterGirl: Can you imagine the amount of celebration that will happen when Trump dies? Honestly, I’m a little scared at the thought of that amount of joy being unleased all at once.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Obama just popped in on ESPN with a surprise anniversary salutation that left them literally speechless (video)
Baud
@Baud:
Unleased = unleashed.
Starfish
@Baud: Here on Balloon Juice, we insufferably correct other people’s spelling to show them that we are smart. We don’t insufferably correct our own spelling.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Something like this?
Baud
@Starfish:
I do it all the time. My autocorrect hates me with a passion.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Actually, autocorrect started the club.*
*Yeah, there’s a club. They wouldn’t take me though.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Less stiff upper lip.
WaterGirl
@Baud: You posted your correction 4 minutes after the error. Why not edit your first comment?
zhena gogolia
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: He’s such a nice guy.
WE HAVE ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Why are you questioning Baud?
SpaceUnit
I’m almost looking forward to the ’24 republican primary. It’s going to be a shit show for the ages.
Okay, I’m also dreading it.
debbie
Well, isn’t this special? They’re all TFG now.
Starfish
@SpaceUnit: We are going to have to switch our party affiliation and vote in the Republican Primary to make sure they don’t elect any Nazis, aren’t we?
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Switched devices.
@Omnes Omnibus:
This site has become a police state.
Starfish
@Omnes Omnibus: If he is going to run for President in 2024, he has to learn to think on his feet.
Kay
Omnes Omnibus
@Starfish: Does he even have feet?
geg6
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
That was awesome. He has the best comic chops of ANY politician ever. Including Al Franken.
Baud
@Starfish:
I thought I just needed a good teleprompter.
mrmoshpotato
I’ll believe they’re no longer Dump humpers when they can prove it, or when I can take a piss on the orange shitstain’s headstone and then do a victory dance on his grave.
New Breed Leader
@Baud: BOOM!
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: It is shocking, isn’t it? How dare I?
SpaceUnit
@Starfish:
At this point I doubt there’ll be anyone on that ballot other than nazis.
I guess we can hope.
WaterGirl
@Baud:
I laughed out loud. Literally. The real literally.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Kay:
And Manchin wants to limit that to only one year
gwangung
Trump isn’t the problem; Trumpism is.
Rob
@WaterGirl: Yep. I read it and I was quite appalled. Then, this afternoon, I saw something where he called Meghan McCain a bully and a low-life. The projection is strong in that one.
Starfish
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The problem with this is that some of the child tax credit stuff was worked on by my Senator who is the most centrist of centrist Democrats so if Manchin decides that he is going to piss off the people who are politically the closest to him in the Democratic Party, what is going to happen with any of his priorities?
mrmoshpotato
They’re both ghoulish assholes. Throw in MTG, and then they
can beare the Three Assholesfor Halloween.Ohio Mom
@Omnes Omnibus: The celebrations when Thatcher died is also what I thought of, and also the celebrations when the votes were finished being tallied and we knew Trump lost.
There’s lots I worry about — I am a natural born worrywart — but I made up my mind I was not worrying about Trump running again until I see it actually happening. So much can occur in tne mean time.
Woodrow/asim
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: One of the things I forget is how T2F2G* has an actual sense of competitiveness, and when to turn that shit on and off. That’s the most PTI I’ve ever watched, and he makes it a fun little bit, even lacking context.
.
.
T2F2G=The Tan, Fun Former Guy
Kay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I’m just glad they even vaguely connected it to Biden, in some “good feeling” way.
Baud
@Kay:
It’ll be nice when the bill is done and we have something solid to point people to.
mrmoshpotato
@SpaceUnit: I’m betting the trash repeats the 2016 RNC platform again, no matter who gets the
nomfascistination.NotMax
Baud
>Version chosen with Steeplejack in mind as it calls out Falls Church.
;)
mrmoshpotato
@SpaceUnit:
I was gonna say.
mrmoshpotato
@gwangung: Don’t You Dare Call It ‘Trump-ism’
Kay
This is good- blunt and just packed with info. I had no idea how many media jobs Meghan McCain has had, especially because she says she is discriminated against because of her views:
Captain C
For any of you Jackals in or near NYC tomorrow, I’ll be playing in Civil DISCObedience, part of HONK! NYC this year. We’ll be starting at Washington Square Park at about noon, doing our fairly short performance, and then moving on to performances Astor Place, St. Mark’s Church, and wrapping up at Tompkins Square Park. I’ll be the bari sax player in a chair, or wheelchair (due to recent knee surgery, it’s not permanent). If anyone wants to joint the dancers, or band (it’s two simple songs, one of which is a version of Stayin’ Alive), please feel welcome. Or, just check it out.
craigie
Why are the arrow keys now disabled on this site? (chrome on linux)
WaterGirl
@craigie: What do you mean by “the arrow keys”?
I don’t think you mean the fly-outs that take you to the next thread.
Do you mean the up/down/right/left arrows in the white menu bar at the top?
Do you mean the < and > arrows in your browser?
Cameron
@mrmoshpotato: Three Assholes for Halloween? Is that some early Christian celebration?
NotMax
@WaterGirl
The right side fly-out has been playing peek-a-boo for several days now.
SpaceUnit
@mrmoshpotato:
I’ll be rooting for casualties.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Huh. First I’ve heard of it.
Just the right fly-out, I take it, not the left.
Is anyone else having that problem?
Ksmiami
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): he’s just such a fucking entitled pos.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I’ve never noticed either are missing.
Poe Larity
@craigie: Baud doesn’t want anyone going left or right
Geminid
@Captain C: That sounds like fun! I hope it all goes well. New York City is a wonderful place. I only lived there for less than three months, but I could see that the City was special, the people even more so. You will be bringing them joy, and that is what music is for.
dr. bloor
Trump is their Moses–he showed them the way. It scarcely matters if they dump him and keep him out of the promised land at this point, since they are all Trump.
Omnes Omnibus
@Poe Larity: Might be an Andrew Yang thang…
dr. bloor
@SpaceUnit:
It’s going to be a shit show for the ages, and whoever emerges from it will go into the general with 210+ electoral votes in his/her pocket.
SpaceUnit
@dr. bloor:
Yeah, I’m quite aware. That’s the part I dread.
CarolPW
@WaterGirl: The right fly-out has been there for me, but over the last several days it had a medium-width white line through it about 60% of the time. No equivalent white line on the left.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: That was cool
Ken
Let’s ask Harry Whittington about that.
Ken
Lost Stooges short. One of the Joe Besser ones, so not that much of a loss.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Only on the right. Can at times take 30, even as long as 60 minutes before it shows up after a successive post for it to point to has been made.
Spanky
@debbie:
That might be what happened to me this morning (Samsung S21/Samsung Internet Beta) when the right flyout went AWOL on the Covid-19 post.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Just to be sure…
Sometimes scheduled posts don’t go up when they are scheduled, and then someone notices and makes it post immediately.
If that happens on OTR, let’s say, if they force the post at 5:35 but they don’t explicitly change the start time that was set up, it will show up as 5:00 in the time date stamp for the post, but it won’t show up in the fly-out until 5:35 when someone explicitly posts it.
So the key is whether it actually showed up on the front page yet there isn’t a fly-out for it.
From you what you are describing, I can’t tell whether it might be the first thing I described, or the second.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
The second. Post is there on the front page, no fly-out directing to it on the preceding comments page.
Inconsistent insofar as time of day when this hiccup occurs.
Jinchi
I don’t know. You could have written this same post on January 6th and put Lindsay Graham’s face on the headline, instead. Republicans have no problem flipping on this issue.
Brachiator
Trump is a wild card. I don’t know what he may do. However, I don’t trust any Republican to stand up to him should he choose to run in2024, and the GOP will stomp any moderates into the ground.
Angry, ignorant Trumpism may continue to fester. This and gerrymandered districts may be our biggest problem. Pundits and right wing media will continue to lie.
I think that Democrats may do better with swing voters than will the GOP.
Baud
Back button isn’t working well again.
Sam
Voted early in Virginia today, the lines were incredible. Longer than for the presidential in 2020. Didn’t do any polling but I liked the turnout. iMO McAuliffe was a pretty good governor before. I think plenty agree with me.
I think Trump is effectively on the ballot. As long as the Repub candidates have to kiss the ring they are going to get a large anti Trump turnout.
Baud
@Sam:
?
craigie
@WaterGirl: I mean the up down left right arrow keys on my keyboard. Normally, I can use the up/down to scroll the page. But recently, they stopped working, just on this site.
A Good Woman
@WaterGirl:
Hi — Right flyout on this post is MIA, Left flyout is present. Previous post, both flyouts are present.
Dell Chromebook
Your Chromebook is up to date
Version 94.0.4606.104 (Official Build) (64-bit
debbie
@A Good Woman:
You won’t see the right one because this is the newest post.
trollhattan
@Starfish:
For a sec I thought that first Tweet was from Ashley Babbitt. Whoa, eerie, right?
Gvg
@craigie: wouldn’t the right fly out be to the preceding post which, since this is currently the first post, doesn’t exist? Therefore there can not be a right fly out key, except on posts #2 and on.
Cameron
@Ken: Wasn’t sure. Thought it also could have been a lost Sergio Leone movie.
MomSense
I’m officially off work for a week and I may just sleep the whole time. I really let myself get run down.
Brachiator
@Kay:
I think the good feeling will increase significantly when CTC recipients file their 2021 tax returns.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Besides JD Vance, there is this person, who is for some reason a VSP, column published by Bloomberg and other VSP outlets
lurker
@A Good Woman:
@WaterGirl:
noticed the right flyout was missing on this post. Which is something, ‘cuz I ignore the flyouts aggressively. The comments made me look.
Anyway, I realized there is no next post for a right flyout to go to. So if you are reading the most recent post, you should likely not expect a right flyout – it will be missing … until there is a next post. The left flyout for the previous post should likely work until you have clicked it a few thousand times to get to JC’s hello world post which was written on a stone tablet using a woodpecker or whatever that bird is in the flintstones (I had one for writing when I was a kid, can’t remember what it was called but it sure did squawk).
Elizabelle
@Sam:
Yea you. Proud of you. Bank that Virginia vote. Good to hear about the long lines.
If I may ask, where in VA (roughly) do you live?
Starfish
@lurker: The right one is supposed to be missing since this is the most recent post.
Geminid
@Brachiator: I think Chris Christie will run, and he won’t wait for trump’s approval. If he does run, that will put pressure on people like DeSantis (if he is reelected) and Pompeo to get off the dime. A lot will depend to the state and federal primary elections next year, and the general election results. The Georgia Republican primaries and general election will be a good test of trump’s power.
lurker
@Starfish: yeah… I think we agree
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: So Balloon Juice is working as it’s supposed to.
Starfish
@lurker: You are right! We agree.
@WaterGirl: I pressed up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right B A on my keyboard and did not unlock any secret Balloon Juice levels. Can you fix it?
debbie
@MomSense:
Enjoy, awake or asleep!
I had today off and got all my errands done, just so I can sleep in tomorrow.
NotMax
@Starfish
As in Fizzbin, that comes into play only on Tuesdays.
:)
NotMax
@Baud
Look ahead, not back.
//
Danielx
@mrmoshpotato:
He best be buried in an undisclosed location, else people will be lined up to piss on his grave for months at a time.
NotMax
@
Sell tickets. We can retire the national debt.
;)
lurker
@Starfish: got to the secret level. totally lame. you can move the willow up and down. not left and right in the yard, not closer or further from the house. you can just make the tree levitate or burrow into the ground. totally lame.
but you should check your controller for joy con drift if you cannot get there…
NotMax
#95 meant to be @Danielx
Mea culpa.
Danielx
@NotMax:
definitely a thought
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Starfish: The secret Balloon Juice levels are stored with the mustard.
Jim Appleton
I’m worn by the number of times I knew TFG was cooked.
I’ll believe it when Trumpism is clearly dead.
JPL
@Jim Appleton: I won’t even believe it then. It’s possible that trump is indicted and the republicans will secretly rejoice, and then they will run on the mean democrats. MSM will forget to mention that trump has been funded by the mob and the Russians most of his life.
In other words, he will forever haunt us.
happy halloween
Urban Suburbanite
@Starfish: I had some Airwalk sneakers with that code on the soles.
mrmoshpotato
@Danielx:
Yup.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL:
Well, at some point Satan will welcome him home.
burnspbesq
ICYMI, I promise this story will make you laugh.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/politics/texas-voter-fraud-award/index.html
Cameron
I don’t want to piss on TFG’s grave. I want to do what he hates most ignore him. Never acknowledge that he even existed. As a great American patriot flashed us: “I Don’t Care. Do U?”
debbie
@burnspbesq:
That ought to thrill his donors. ??♀️
coin operated
@Danielx: I’ll arrive graveside with a 3-liter hydration pack…
Steeplejack
@Starfish:
Mary G
I wrote an obscenely large check, endured four days of loud sawing and pounding and swearing and am now the owner of a ductless mini-split heat pump/air conditioner system, the first time since my dad died in 1967 that I have lived anywhere that had more than wall heaters and fans/plus I was on my second window AC unit until it died last spring). We each have an individual remote for our bedrooms, so there won’t be any arguing over the thermostat.
Of course, we don’t need it now, with a high today of 61 and a low of 57. We were forecasted a chance of rain, which did not arrive. We have another rain chance on Monday. I spent about 8 hours outside pruning herbs gone wild, potting and starting propagating cuttings of rare succulents I bought on Etsy three weeks ago and had been putting off taking care of. Fortunately they began sprouting rootlets in their mailing box without waiting for me, so I have high hopes of success. I am going to try growing other rare echeverias from seed tomorrow. The seeds are so tiny I can’t see them at all, so I got a magnifying glass. The seller says to pick them up using the end of a wet toothpick. Hopes of success with them not as high, though other buyers have posted pictures of tiny green sprouts. Seedlings are so finicky about water and humidity, and I am obviously not good at the twice daily fussings they need.
I feel so much better without looking at Twitter and Balloon Juice constantly, though I have read most of the comments while eating dinner.
eclare
@Mary G: What a great day! Lots of things accomplished. Congrats on the new climate control!
O. Felix Culpa
@NotMax: You rang?
Spanky
@Mary G: Congrats on your mini-splits! I’m pretty sure that’s in our future as well.
How do you get a seed to let go of the wet toothpick?
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
“Where’s zat?”
Mary G
@Spanky: I’m thinking of just snipping off the end of the toothpick, because knowing me I’d get frustrated with trying to tap it off and send it flying off into space. It’s going to be a project for sure; today I had to sieve all my planting medium so it’s all fine as sand.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@burnspbesq: who do you think Patrick will have to pay out on this one (h/t Rachel Maddow)?
StringOnAStick
Got home from 3 days in a small Oregon coastal town. Watched lots of angry seas, got a photo up close of a lit lighthouse lens with white caps behind it, drove through miles of golden maples on the way home. The kitties ran to see us as we walked in the door; they like their pet sitter but we’re in the top slot.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … AlJazeera:
Cheers,
Scott.
eclare
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Karma is a bitch…
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Even the Conservatives can’t take Small Hands and Mushroom Dick seriously as a former president if they want him in some shit talking contest with an actor who parodied him.
James E Powell
@Another Scott:
So it’s only a “senior” leader. Remember back in the Bush/Cheney days when we kept killing the “number three”? It was like the drummers in Spinal Tap.
brantl
@Ken: Losing all of the Three Stooges wouldn’t be much of a loss;
debbie
@Mary G:
I’ve started echeverias from leaves and tops, but never seeds. Good luck!
Jeffro
@Geminid: I am trying to picture a 2024 GOP field that includes Christie, DeSantis, and Pompeo all trying to out-asshole and out-trumpov-imitate each other (same thing, really)
Should be really appealing to the country at large. Please proceed, GOP!
Jeffro
@Danielx: wherever it is, I want the beer concession stand. Omg am I gonna make bank on that
Another Scott
@James E Powell: It’s so weird.
We were told that Al Qaeda was yesterday’s news.
Why are we still in Syria? I thought TFG got everyone out when we abandoned the Kurds to Erdogan??! And we were supposedly there to defeat Daesh/ISIS/etc (who has no “state” there any more).
Task&Purpose (from September 16):
It’s amazing that Biden gets any sleep given all the crap he was left when TFG ran away…
Cheers,
Scott.
Jackie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Lol Just watched that, thinking the same question. Double trouble: voting twice and forging voter signature voting for dead person.
James E Powell
@Jeffro:
The press/media will promote them all as Very Serious People with Proven Track Records and Fresh Ideas and other things that people will capitalize for no reason.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
@burnspbesq:
This reminds me of a portion of a thread I was reading on iswintercoming?.com where a bunch of commenters (ca. 2012) were bashing GRRM for talking about how bad Voter ID is on his NotaBlog on LiveJournal, saying that “both sides” always try to accuse the other side of bad things to work up their own voters in an election year, that GRRM was being “hyperbolic”, and that “every Western democracy” requires a photo ID to vote, so GRRM was worrying over nothing.
I even remember somebody who was from the Netherlands being shocked at the idea that you didn’t need a photo ID to vote in areas of the US, an attitude I found interesting
A couple of those commenters were open conservatives, plus the general dislike of GRRM explains some of the above. Plus I’m sure Europeans are pretty ignorant around America’s racism and how that permeates everything. It always amuses me that the “They’re ALL crooks!” types think they’re so savvy too
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “Who could have both received a ballot sent to my address and known what my dead wife’s signature looked like? It’s a mystery….”
James E Powell
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Euros might not realize all the bullshit that goes along with the ID requirement. Perhaps socialist police states like the Netherlands issue everybody an ID card that satisfies all ID requirements. Don’t know why we don’t do that here.
Mary G
@Another Scott: Protecting Kurdish allies my Aunt Fanny. TFG was taking all the troops out until he was told there were oil wells Turkey might steal or ISIS blow up. We are guarding those.
Another Scott
ICYMI, Mysterious ‘A Team’ rescues dogs trapped on La Palma.
Good, good.
The idea of trying, somehow, to rescue them with drones sounded like madness.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kelly
@James E Powell:
Papers Please Paranoia
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): In most of those countries you have a national ID, so asking for an ID to vote is trivial.
Barry
Anne: “The GOP is the Big Business Party, after all; if Trump and his cultists threaten its survival, the people who make their very nice livelihoods running it are not going to be sentimental about dumping him for a newer, better-performing model.”
They are at least half the party of Nazism and Christofascism.
And Big Business watched watched the GOP crash the country twice, and still supports the GOP. They know that the GOP will cut their taxes, cut their regulations and bail them out with tens of billions of $.
Citizen Alan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: As I have said many times, I think the most repulsive thing about republicans is the fact that they only care about a loss of human life when they can use it to slander democrats
Geminid
@Citizen Alan: How are you liking life in the City? Have you taken a ride on the Staten Island Ferry yet? It’s nice to ride out on the water.
Hellbastard
Sure. I guess. But how many one-term presidents got three SCOTUS picks? By that metric he was wildly effective.