I don't know where else to put this, so I'll put it here.  I was watching the Hamster Chuck Todd this morning and he had some interesting takes on Hurricane Ian.  "How should homeowners rebuild in the face of more extreme weather, and who should foot the bill?"  Hm.  Weird priorities here.  Turning a natural disaster into an economic challenge.  Top of the coverage "It will cost 47 Billion dollars in insured losses alone".  Ok, so fuck those 21 (and assuredly more as the final tally is confirmed) dead people?  "And as more extreme weather events hit the United States, there are some big questions about who should pay to rebuild and, more importantly, where we should rebuild."

Ok, I'm not as blue-blood as Chuck Todd over here, but this sure sounds to me like a whole bunch of poor folks are about to get fuuucked.  "Where?"  I imagine those places in the path of the hurricane, right?  Why is this even a question?  Because some victimized communities are about to get fuuucked.  Fuck your mobile homes, poors!  Why should "we" (intersesting denomination) "foot the bill" for your being so stupid as to live in the path of the consequences of our climate changing weather anomalies?  (Same Chuck Todd who never brought up the record-setting quarterly profits of the top oil companies even as Biden was calling them out.)  So what next?  Chuck Todd brings out Sen. Rick Scott, who's biggest policy contribution as of late has been to release his policy plan for America that would end the 'earned income tax credit', forcing a tax hike on half of American workers, and putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block of Congressional approval.  In short, fucking the poors.  And in his segment with Herr Chuck Todd (fuck him if he's Jewish), Scott spends his time, in this time of need in the face of a natural disaster, prioritizing the need to crack down on "insurance fraud" in the wake of giving these victims the help that they need.

Chuck Todd needs to fucking hang.

Another story that Chuck didn't cover today is this week's explosive news that Britain just about shit their financial bed.  Why?  Because this little bitch Liz Truss decided that now was a good time to declare some unprecedented tax cuts for the rich while leaving them unfunded for the rest of the government to be forced into cutting social services.  This exploded the value of the pound, and reverberated across all of the international financial markets, including our own.  "Oh well" this bitch says.  She's still committed to it.  This is the new neo-liberalism, the private coercion of austerity by starving the public coffers with wealthy tax cuts.  Just like stock buybacks in the middle of a pandemic, and hoarding quarterly profits in the wake of staggering inflation.  What is happening right now is not a market meltdown from Joe Biden's policies.  It is an international smash-and-grab under the pretense that it's "now or never" before a recession that they're committed to impose on the rest of us, while the Federal Reserve assures employament and wage stagnation as well as mortgage ransom through interest rates.  This is the middle of an economic war on the middle class and they're showing very little attempt to disguise the fangs.  And corporate media, like Chuck Todd, is busy slathering our collective assholes with anaesthetic lube.  Why should they be bothered to point out the slander of Democrat's wanting to codify infanticide?  Because they don't want them standing in the way of their last few years of packing up the last of the financial inventory.  You're going to drown, they're going to be OK.
 

At least their disgraced politicians actually resign.

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Jinnistan wrote:

Back at RT, I'd do a State of the Union commentary thread, usually called "American Dulcolax" or something to that nature.  A cleansing, a flushing, a voiding of the past year's obstructions and blockages.  Doing our business, together, a mutual movement called upon by nature itself.  Pull up a stool and take a load off of our gaping national debt-xcrement.  This shit is gonna be fire.  Assholes and elbows, gentlemen.  Pinch off some Corn Pop.  Joe Biden is about to slip through your britches.

I just noticed Biden transform in real–time, from crumpled old senior with slurred speech, to a formidable rhetorician. He regained his diction, posture, and stage presence in the blink of an eye. It was as if his meds kicked in, somewhat ironic in that he was talking about health care at the time. As soon as people started applauding Medicare, he straightened up. I think his meds in this case was crowd energy. 
I'm not criticizing. Whatever works, baby. 

Yesterday I saw some headline about a poll suggesting Democrats want somebody besides Biden in 2024. Oh yeah? Who ya got? Who???

I do believe I hear crickets.

Yeah, there were some stumbles,  Some words he aborted after a couple of syllables.  I thought maybe it's a denture issue, hoping he doesn't lose a set mid-sentence on live national television.

But the sentiment is what counts.  Perfect mix of stoic and sympathetic.  And let the Republicans show their asses.  They want to sit out the ovation on the line "We must give hate no safe harbor"?  Let them show us how they really feel, a day after neo-Nazis tried to blackout Baltimore.
 

The big optic of the night was Biden goading Republicans into committing to not touching Medicare and Social Security.

The fact of the issue is that Sen. Rick Scott, most particularly, has absolutely put his name on the proposal, not to necessarily sunset these entitlement programs, but to make it possible to sunset them every five years.  That seems to be an odd thing to promise if you weren't interested in sunsetting these programs.  Other Republicans (to be fair, none as powerful as Rick Scott) have proposed sunsetting all federal programs unless they're re-approved every year.  The fact that we're now in a position where the debt ceiling, as it currently is, has become an annual Damoclean sword hanging over our economy, dangled for ransom by congressional Republicans (and this development should be considered as Sen. Ted Cruz's legacy, as he pioneered the tactic a decade ago), it's easy to imagine the annual shitshow.  At least the news media will love the crisis-drama and anxiety-ratings.

The reason why Mitch McConnell was so upset when Rick Scott released his plan was presicely because Mitch wanted plausible deniability before pulling the trigger.  But Scott put it on paper.  Quietly, at least as these kinds of moves go, McConnell just booted Rick Scott from the Commerce Committee last week, but that was more due to Scott's attempt to usurp the seat of Senate Leader, a lame and desperate shot that McConnell dodged with his turtle-slow matrix-magic.  Anyway, Rick Scott.  Fucking douche-nozzle.
 

Jinnistan wrote:

Look at this Sarah Cupcake Sanders, Chocolate Grimace, Karen the Hut.  I'm not saying she's fat.  I'm saying she looks like Mandy Moore in a fat suit.

Appropriate contrast to Biden's demeanor.  She's playing on the fear, the pity, the mean.  I half-expect her to start talking about "I'm not a witch".  No, but you're a hungry gingerbread house sitting bitch.  Talking about the culture war, "this is not a war we chose to fight".  Spoken like a true confederate.  "We will stand for freedom of speech".  Just don't say "gay" or "slave owner" in schools, y'all.  Tries to play the ageism.  "I'm the youngest governor in the country.  Joe Biden is the oldest president of all time."  That's not the self-compliment you think it is.  Urgh, that smile at the end.  Smell that cold pea soup on her breath. 
 

😂😂😂

"We will stand for freedom of speech?"
Didn't she also brag in that same video about banning words? 😂
Two things consistently come to my mind whenever I see Syrup Hickabee: Reba McEntire, and a cow. Without fail, whenever she comes to mind, a certain sound pops into my imagination, which I guess is best described as how the word "moo" would sound if she were saying it. But when I try to spell it out, it just doesn't read right. "Meww" looks more like a variation on a cat sound. "Meuuu" looks like it would rhyme with "adieu." Jim Carrey voiced it accurately in the Family Dozens sketch back in the 90s but that's a pretty distant reference. But the sound is so ingrained in my mind — actually it's not so much ingrained as glued in a milky sort of way, like a glob of ice cream bar dropped in the middle seat of a station wagon so long ago that it's permanently fused to the pleather — that whenever she appears on my screen I actually say it out loud. No really, I actually do that. Why resist it? Suruh’s tawkin own the teyvey, and the inclination just comes naturally to let it out, echoing her in chorus, "Meuuww." It's soothing, somehow. She's unique among Republicans in that she can actually make me smile. Most of them just make me mad, disgusted, what–have–you. But this heifer's bovine bake is insidiously disarming. How can I stay mad at that pitifow wittuw... it's like being vitriolic towards someone with Downs syndrome, it just feels unfair. 
It may be a low blow to make fun of people’s looks, but sometimes their actions just make it too easy to forget not to. I probably wouldn't stoop to make fun of the fact that she actually looks like a melting cupcake in that shot, or a smeared photo of Brooke Shields, but there's something hypnotic about the clearance aisle souls of these culture warriors that distracts me from keeping a tight grip on the meanness leash. And that’s how they get ya. Chicken or egg, right? (she'll have both) Whether she turned to the Dark Side after being teased as a calf, or vice–versa, I guess we do need to find a bell for her neck, in case she learns to jump. And she looks like she might be practicing. Aww, isn’t that a precious image? Suruh with a jump rope? In pig tails? I bet she luvs her jump rope. Her daddy gave it to her. I won’t take this into incestuous bestiality territory. I’m sure Pa Hickabee was a perfectly decent steer. He knew better than to get her another trampoline. 
 

Jinnistan wrote:

I have to reiterate, for all those folks who say that it's uncouth to criticize a woman's looks, for not aligning to some kind of artificial beauty standard.

There are a number of artificial standards involved in SHS' "image", but all of that aside, what makes her...not ugly per se but, let's call it grotesquely hangry, has more to do with the reflection of her character than in any cosmetically physical attributes that she has no control over.  That smile, for instance, isn't the product of some kind of unfortunate facial deformity.  Her smile is hideous because it exposes her hideous character.  She's mean, she's dishonest, she knows it but is wrestling with herself to disguise it.  It's in the eyes, not the fat, where her insidious hunger lies.  We can say the same about any number of Republican men.  Despite whatever comically distorted physical attribute - Matt Gaetz's frankenskull, Rick Scott's reptilian pallor, Rand Paul's merkin curl - none of these things would be truly unattractive if they exuded something akin to kindness and compassion.  What truly makes them hideous vermin is in their mean-ass eyes.  Michelle Wolf had Sarah Sanders pegged: "Maybe it's Maybelline, maybe it's the lies."  Yeah, I think it's those lying-ass eyes.
 

Oh yes, no doubt. 

Spotting fake smiles might be one of the first skills I learned in early childhood. It's something I can't un–see, which means I also can't see the world through the eyes of people who are fooled by fake smiles. Or by bad acting in general, for that matter. 
And I'm sure we can all agree Republicans by no means have a corner on the fake smile market. It's very much a thing among politicians in general. 
It kind of reminds me of the grill on one of those wooden nutcracker soldiers. 

As soon as the White House announced yesterday that there were no plans for Biden to visit Kiev, I thought......

...this motherfucker's about to show up in Kiev.
 

Look at all these chumps acting all shocked and appalled because Joe Biden won't have any primary debates.  Here's a question: when was the last time an incumbent president had a primary debate?  1948.  And even then, you may say that the incumbent, Harry Truman, was only an incumbent by succession, rather than electoral victory,  So where was all of this outrage in 2020 when Trump refused to debate Bill Weld?  Or in 2012 when Obama refused to debate John Wolfe Jr.?  Or in 2004 when George W Bush refused to debate Bill Wyatt?  Or 1996 when Bill Clinton refused to debate Roland Riemers?  Or 1984 when Reagan refused to debate Harold Stassen?  1972 when Nixon refused to debate John Ashbrook?  Eisenhower refusing John Bricker in '56?  I swear to god, I could easily have made up half of those names, and you wouldn't know the difference.  Nobody gives a fuck about them.  But ne-owww, all the fucking sudden, people are acting like this is some kind of crisis of democracy.  And if there's a need to answer the question for why presidential incumbents don't feel obliged to entertain primary challenges, then consider the fact that, in the past 50 years, in the only intraparty primary challenges against incumbents that were entertained by the parties - Reagan v. Ford in '76, Ted Kennedy v. Carter in '80, Buchanan v. Bush in '92 - the incumbent party lost the White House.  That's not a coincidence.  Hell, Truman almost lost the White House in '48.  It's something about the foundational integrity of houses?

It is true that none of the previous mentioned primary candidates against party incumbents were receiving millions in donations from Wall Street and billionaire interests, as Dean Phillips is currently (even with next to zero popular support).  It turns out that Wall Street is willing to risk another Trump term than risk having their taxes raised.  Even with such morbid logic as that, Nikki Haley and Dean Phillips will not be coming to their rescue.

So what's the leftists' excuse?  Pitiful little bitches that they are, they'd rather have a self-righteous martyrdom than a pragmatic victory.  Rather than build on Biden's team's already impressive legislative and regulatory track record, if they can't get absolutely everything they want, they'd rather throw it all away.  It's almost as if they would prefer an authoritarian of their own to rule by fiat.  Rather than complaining about Biden's failures, which in truth are actually either congressional failures or judicial obstructions or events that Biden simply doesn't have that much control over, these lefties should be more focused on developing down-ballot talent.  Why isn't Cornel West running for Senate?  Why aren't we focused on securing the necessary majorities to not only forgive student debt but to ensure free state colleges?  Why aren't we focused on state legislatures to curb the purge of our school curriculums?  Why is the left so obsessed with this Joe Biden defeatism?  Just so they can say "told you so" when he loses because they didn't show up to vote again?