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A beautiful French woman takes you to her bed and prepares your pipe, all the while spouting philosophy. I call this scene The Perfect Date. From Apocalypse Now Redux. perfect_date.mp4

You're on -- bring it! It's ok to start with just the first half dozen. But also tell why each hasn't held up in court.

Funniest post in the thread! Thanks, made my day. By running for president he can write off his entire lifestyle as campaign costs. He can also keep hitting up his supporters for more $$$. It is being reported that the Dems have spent TEN TIMES more on the midterms than the GOP. So I'm wondering if they are running low on $$$ (it seems they are always coming up with fundraising events) or they didn't want to spend it on their orange headache. DT has picked their pockets by instructing his followers to send donations to HIM, not the RNC. As of yet there has been no report of RNC support for the sore losers, my guess is they are not going to be drawn into the legal expenses like they were with the former president's stolen election claims, which put quite a dent in their coffers.

Did we really need Rachel Maddow's wife to point out what the building looked like?

Translation: "I know somebody who knows somebody who said . . . " Sounds like "next week is infrastructure week!" Slimey reality TV promises to entice you to watch the next episode. I'm not an activist, but from what we've had to sit through I suspect this orange-faced business will still be an issue in the 2032 presidential race, providing he is still alive and is not a semi-vegetable being fed pablum by a nursemaid. The promise of a DT indictment is as valid as the notion of bipartisanship in US Congress. Prove me wrong, General Garland!

House of Games Where are you from? HOG.mp4

At one time this seemed to be the most popular movie in Pattaya (and elsewhere), it seemed to be playing in every expat bar at any hour. I think this scene was a fave for a lot of people, for obvious reasons.

More like crawled out of an Everglades swamp. Or alien spaceship and is trying to pass for a human.

I think we have reached the point where the new delay goalpost is after November 7 2024. I don't see why anyone still even mentions the Hatch Act, Comey took a hatchet to it in 2016. Something about Rick Scott gives me the creeps, can't say what it is.

I hope Prayuth didn't catch it when Joe called him "sonny."

She might be going for "homicidal ex-wife" motif. A daytime TV personality turned soap opera character. Maybe she'll be Hollywood bound.

Tea Party morphed into Trumpsim, which will morph into this: Meet the ‘Black Robe Regiment’ of Extremist Pastors Spreading Christian Nationalism

One of my all-time favorites, the sugarbowl scene from American Gangster WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART sugarbowl0.mp4

Bite your tongue, er, fingertips, she could be DT's VP running mate. Bannon is the one who advocated for corrupting the electoral system from the ground up, down to the people who work the polls. Arizona was to be his illustration of vote corruption and basis for the argument that voting is passe. He said this was his plan on a broadcast, in not as many words, e.g. effort was applied to have the count process dragged out, the idea being the longer it takes the more suspicious it looks and the less confidence in the system. The guy is a disgrace to humanity. https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/watch-rachel-maddow-connect-steve-bannon-potential-election-denialism-arizona

Paternity suit in the works?

I saw him on a few things in the past few months, he's grown more slimey and loathsome in my eyes. Bill Maher was trying to get him to say he doesn't support DT and he managed to slide past actually saying it. They don't drain the swamps in Jersey.

He's priming up for the 2024 run, I think he has until July to throw his hat in the ring. With the hanging business he outdistances all others trying to shed DT affiliations. My own prognostications at this point: there's something unimpressive about DeSantis, I don't think he'll make it to the primaries. Pence will be the "your father's Oldsmobile" GOP candidate, he's at his best when he's not speaking and doing that sagely dad head-shake. I think he can emerge as the "back to normal" Republican candidate -- by normal I mean pre-Tea Party and all the charlatans that rode in on it. The disrupter will be Flynn, who is currently touring the US with a bunch of preachers and MAGA boosters (Pillow Guy, Overstock guy, et al), all about Jesus and America and racial destiny. It seems his preachers of color are turning a blind eye to the white supremacy aspects. I think this will be a little too far for even church-going voters. I'm waiting to see if Flynn tries to run himself, as third party, or anoints DT as the messiah. There will be the usual GOP clown car with the likes of Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco, Lindsey, and some new "talent" like Youngkin (DT already taking shots at him), maybe those Georgia white guys like Kemp. Pompeo has long been known to have grand political ambitions, and he's trying desperately to get the stench of orange spray-tan off of himself. These are but my opinions and are subject to change. Soon.

Trump and his allies say there is evidence of corruption in emails and documents allegedly found on a laptop belonging to Democrat Joe Biden’s son. They say those and other documents show that Hunter Biden used his father’s influence to enrich himself through business deals in Ukraine and China, and that his father not only facilitated that, but may have benefited financially. No mention of credible sources. In NYC's Chinatown there is a chicken that tells fortunes that has more cred. "They say," and the they is the people who said Covid is a hoax, the 1/6 riot was just well-behaved tourists, trusting Putin over US intelligence sources (is it treason yet?), just a taste of the four years of utter nonsense of a self-serving occupant of the Oval Office. Rudy Giuliani, who has met with Russian agents in his effort to dig dirt on the Bidens. Brings the old collusion word back into play. A president who had his finger on the scale every moment of his adult life term, but the focus is on the other party.

Biker fight in A Bronx Tale

I never liked the Dems, but I dislike them as I would an _sshole relative. To me the GOP/conservatives are self-serving hypocrites hiding behind christian and patriotic facades. Now in the Citizen's United era they are literally hogs at the trough. All these bs issues they come up with, like transgender kids, serves to distract from the real problems, like school shootings and money in politics. Every issue brought forward by the GOP in Congress is in service to their sponsors. And of course there are some Congressional Dems cut from the same stuff. In early 2013 Bernie was asked about who in Congress takes money: he said all Republicans (repeated it as "awl" so people in NYC could understand ???? ) and some Dems. When pressed for how many Dems he mumbled what sounded like 40 percent. So, I'm not a Democrat but I vehemently declare I am not now and have never been a Republican. The only time I even considered voting that way was when it looked like 2008 would be Hillary v. McCain. I vote Dem to keep the Republicans out. Third party is the turd in the punchbowl for US presidential elections.

Maybe women these days are turned off by goatees, that's why the guys become rapists. Extradition treaties are no guarantee of anything, I learned that living in Brazil. Very common to see stories in the press about foreigners being deported simply because "we don't want you in our country." The articles will usually contain a paragraph about the moral superiority of their country versus where the no-goodnik is from (especially Western Hemisphere countries); this is good for a laugh because the country is even more corrupt than LOS. When this guy was busted a member of Congress down there made a speech questioning how an obvious foreigner (he had very long blonde hair when busted) can be in the country so long without being detected.

Heard someone on the radio the other day specify "people who have female reproductive organs."

IMO the current right-wing sentiment in US Congress toward diminishing support for Ukraine is borne of the influence of Team Putin. Even if DT's submission to Vlad were to vanish it wouldn't matter, the link between Fox News and RT says it all. Remember "Moscow Mitch" making deals with the Russian oligarchs?

The races were too tight to make such a claim. Factor in margin of error and you'll see many of the races near equal.

"Mistakes were made" is my favorite in that category.