I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts:  to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."

    Sydney J. Harris

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    This is the GOP pf today. They have reduced their brains to cobwebs and garbage. Living evil.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    Dumping Trump??? Really???? Too much for ya now ???????

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    I have not one iota of love for Christie, but I have to say he is not afraid to be destructive towards the guy he hoped to worked for way back when.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    The Court has become a total disgrace and far removed from what it should be. Needs fixing bad.

  • illinoislady
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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    What you said.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    We can certainly hope. I hope the many are enough to change things back to reasonable.

  • illinoislady
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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794
    ‘Feeble’ Trump Claims His Worsening Verbal Gaffes Are ‘Fake’ And Created With Artificial Intelligence

    Failed one-term, twice-impeached, and multiply-indicted former president Donald Trump says that videos showing him making blatant verbal gaffes on the campaign trail were actually created using artificial intelligence (A.I.) and are therefore not real.

    Trump made his comments on social media in response to a devastating new ad from The Lincoln Project entitled “Feeble.”

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    The ad was posted online Monday, which prompted this angry response from the disgraced ex-president:

    “The perverts and losers at the failed and once disbanded Lincoln Project, and others, are using A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) in their Fake television commercials in order to make me look as bad and pathetic as Crooked Joe Biden, not an easy thing to do. Fox News shouldn’t run these ads, just as low ratings CNN & MSDNC will not, under any circumstances, run negative ads on Biden or the Democrats.

    “They are, after all, in-kind campaign contributors to the Dems!”

    In the ad (which you can watch below), a narrator says, “You need help getting around” as Trump has trouble pronouncing the word “anonymous.”

    The narrator also asks, “Are you sure you don’t have dementia? It runs in the family” as a photo of the former president with his later father, Fred, appears on the screen. Fred Trump died in 1999 from Alzheimer’s Disease.

    The ad contrasts Trump’s obese frame with the healthy form exhibited by President Joe Biden, who is shown jogging and riding a bike.

    “You’re falling apart Donald,” the narrator warns. “Breaking down right in front of our eyes.”

    As we’ve seen over the years, everything Donald Trump says about someone else (i.e. that Biden is old and mentally-challenged) is classic projection by the ex-president. He accuses others of what he knows are his own weaknesses. If he were a nicer person, it might be possible to feel some measure and sympathy for Donald. But he’s just a megalomaniacal asshole who deserves whatever karma has in store for him.

  • illinoislady
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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    Bryan Cranston on Trump:

    "I've stopped worrying about Donald Trump's sanity. He's not sane. And the realization of his illness doesn't fill me with anger, but with profound sadness. What I now worry about is the sanity of anyone who can still support this deeply troubled man to lead our country."

    Do you agree?

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    I definitely agree with Cranston. I don't fear the Loon or even see him as a huge danger. It is the amt. of infection left behind. What might we have to go through to get rid of that pandemic? How long, and can we stay in power long enough to get enough repair??

    The Loon is crazy and now going quite senile, not even knowing his own son very well save that he is quite tall. The Loon would get that seeing as how it is impressive while the Loon has to wear lifts.

    I always said and still totally believe that if people all stood up at the same time and said no to the Loon he would be powerless period.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    A little something to soften the day:

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794
  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    He's trying — hope he can make a dent.

  • miriandra
    miriandra Member Posts: 2,211

    This is why I want to see a bodily autonomy law. "No person shall be forced or coerced to allow their organs to be used without their consent to extend the life of another person." Boom. All done.

  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,336

    I agree with this proposal.

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,614
    edited December 2023

    Republican Tommy Tuberville's military holds in protest of abortion policy come to an end

    WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville's blockade on military promotions that stretched over 10 months has come to an end.

    The Alabama lawmaker, who has been protesting a Pentagon policy on abortion since February, told reporters Tuesday he will be lifting holds on military promotions for nominees three-stars and below. The blockade has prevented more than 400 military jobs from being filled.

    "It's been a long fight. We fought hard. We did the right thing for the unborn and for our military," he said Tuesday.

    Depending on the case, the Pentagon can give service members time off and pay for travel to have an abortion. The policy was put into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

    Tuberville's release on the holds still requires four-star nominees – which currently number 11 – to be voted on individually on the Senate floor.

    "We didn't get as much out of it as we wanted," he said of his blockade.

    The retired college football coach said he has no regrets blocking the nominations in protest of the Pentagon's policy.

    "The only opportunity you got to get people on the left up here to listen to you in the minority is to put a hold on something and that's what we did," he said. "I think we opened our eyes a little bit. We didn't get the win that we wanted. We've still got a bad policy."

    Tuberville said he is now looking to Republicans in the House to rescind the Pentagon abortion policy in the annual defense spending bill.

    "We're pleased obviously that that situation seems to have been ameliorated," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said after Tuberville's announcement.

    ***** Just hours after Tuberville's announcement, the Senate voted to confirm over 400 military promotions, leaving the 11 four-star nominees' confirmations pending.

    Republicans urged Tuberville to end blockade

    Tuberville's decision to release the holds comes after Republican colleagues have pushed the Alabama lawmaker to cave on the protest.

    The Senate Rules Committee voted along party lines in November to change a rule that Tuberville has used to block the nominations and promotions. But the rule change would need 60 votes on the Senate floor to go into effect.

    Senate leaders from both sides of the aisle have condemned Tuberville for blocking the nominations. McConnell previously called Tuberville's actions "dangerous."

    The situation escalated in November when a group of senators took to the Senate floorurging Tuberville to lift the hold. The lawmakers, over the course of five hours, highlighted the names, biographies and pictures of military nominees and called for individual votes on each.

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,614
    edited December 2023

    Tuberville is such a moronic asshole. Fighting for the “unborn”, leaving our country in a danger. The Republicans are afraid he’s going to cost them votes in their own state.

  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,336

    His use of the collective "we" to describe his single armed blockade is despicable. I agree with your description, divine. I hope he costs them many military votes since he blocked them from promotions, the salary increases related to those promotions and that military women recognize he was in control of their uterus. He wasn't fighting for the unborn, he was fostering his belief that women are subservient to men. He doesn't give a damn about the child once it is born since he deprives them of food, education, housing, etc.

    I hope the Repugnicans lose major seats in the next election. How he got elected in the first place astonishes me. What does a football coach know about legislating?

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    Tickled pink to see military promotions now in the offing. I hope we do rid Congress of his seat (him) and so many of the others who are not for the people. How are these people vetted to run for these seats. Just because they speak English and have a nice smile and maybe were saucerful at their 'former' professions means a lot less to me than whether they will take their OATH serious and follow through. Not real sure how there is a way to know that, so maybe there should be an automatic way to dismiss sitting members who make a statement by hurt and disruption of our norms.

    Less gifts (money) and less lobbyists pushing for things Americans don't want or need. Too much big money and Tuberville and others just make it plain how evil it manifests.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    Get ready for a mouthful.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794

    We know this and yet he is allowed to run. What the hell is wrong with people.

    Senior Assistant Special Counsel Molly Gaston wrote the Justice Department planned to introduce evidence at next year's trial about an unnamed and unindicted co-conspirator who worked on Trump's 2020 campaign.This person allegedly sent text messages to a Trump lawyer where he "encouraged rioting and other methods of obstruction" after the vote count at Detroit's TCF Center leaned in Joe Biden's direction on Nov. 4, 2020.Around that same time, an election official at that Detroit site saw people flooding to the area and making "illegitimate and aggressive challenges" to the voting tallies, the DOJ filing said. For his part, Trump posted false claims about election activities there, "when in truth his agent was seeking to cause a riot to disrupt the count," prosecutor Gaston wrote."This evidence is admissible to demonstrate that the defendant, his co-conspirators, and agents had knowledge that the defendant had lost the election, as well as their intent and motive to obstruct and overturn the legitimate results," Gaston wrote.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,794