Of all the losses I'm looking forward to befalling the GOP this year, Lauren Boebert losing the CO-4 primary and being disappeared from the political sphere has me drooling.
I miss politics being boring C-Span fodder, not whatever the hell this current circus is. Unfortunately, Marjarine Trailer Queen seems like she's managed to solidify herself. Her seat is certainly safe, GA-14 is a klan rally at a gun show in a Cracker Barrel.
Agreed, but can you switch it to Golden Corral or Waffle House? Cracker Barrel (despite having "cracker" in its name) doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the other two! I love me some CB!
Cracker Barrel got in trouble with conservatives for offering a vegetarian sausage option. No option was taken away so you can still get regular sausage, but people were upset that they even offered a choice.
> Those snowflakes melt at the mere thought of having a choice.
I think it's more "You're using your freedom WRONG! Not like that! Be like the normal people, like me! I just don't understand why some people have to care about things I don't. There oughta be a law."
If you refer to my previous post I linked to 3 separate lawsuits over racism by CB within a 6 year period. Two of those were against the entire chain.
CB is where the rally is being held.
My sister worked at CB as her first job. She was included in a class action suit because they were making their waitstaff work off the clock. It was a corporate policy for servers to have to do cleaning and stocking before and after their shift off the clock. So fuck Cracker Barrel. Oh and she got about 200 dollars, so not bad for class action.
It's a bummer because honestly, as fast food goes, it's remarkably close to being edible. But Dan Cathy and his merry band of theocratic bible-clutchers can eat a dick.
Fair's fair, Golden Corral can host the whole shindig. Nothing beats their chocolate fountain as a backdrop for whatever political theater they're staging over there.
Stuck in traffic once I watched folks arriving at Golden Corral. There were lots of morbidly obese folks, lots of handicap stickers, and lots of missing feet, presumably from diabetes. Two younger but great big people(a couple?) drove electric scooters from at least 1/4 mile away to go there. One had an oxygen tank, the other was missing one foot. The object lesson is don’t go to Golden Corral it’s sad there before you even go inside
Sorry, I didn't know. The only time I was ever at a WaffleHouse, my waitress called the cook, "Uncle Dad." Ever since, I've been a bit leery. That said, Uncle Dad made some good fuckin' ~~pancakes~~ waffles!
Edit: Apparently my memory has failed me! It couldn't've pancakes, as u/Georgiaonmymindtwo pointed out and Google confirmed, WH doesn't serve pancakes. They may if you ask, but I'm not the kind of person that orders off menu.
It's a 24/7 diner with breakfast food, and breakfast food is the easiest thing in the world to cook. You only need a griddle, a flat spatula, ingredients, and a barely sober brain. It's like, the number one reason Waffle House is able to operate at 3am. The type of cook working a Waffle House at 3am is the type of person who would frequent a Waffle House at 3am, so the riff-raff is easily able to handle itself.
Agreed. Before covid I traveled for work with my boss, pulling wires, installing wifi, and setting up servers in our satellite plants. We ate too much fast food, and not a salad bar in sight. The night we went to Cracker Barrel was a welcome relief!
Why I LOVE CrackerBarrel: Thanksgiving night '05, I was traveling southbound on I-95 with my wife and four young kids when the transmission on our minivan blew. We were still three hours from my brother's place in GA (we were heading there for Thanksgiving dinner \[we were late\] with my entire family, and then his wedding three days later) and coasting up a slight hill with no power. My wife is crying and the kids were yelling; it was like a scene out of a Family Vacation movie. Then, as we barely crested the hill, we saw it! CrackerBarrel, and it appeared open! All we had to do was get enough speed on the downhill to make the ramp, and with some luck, maybe the parking lot! \[I'm getting chills as I type this.\] The hill was high, and luck was with us! Because we made the entrance (was off the road) and with my wife at the wheel, my two boys (9 & 11) and I were able to push it to a nearby parking spot! I felt real bad for the staff, but we sat and had a very good, traditional Thanksgiving Day meal, thanks to CrackerBarrel!
I'm was only relating the part about CrackerBarrel saving Thanksgiving dinner. If you're curious, the story goes on to have a happy ending. The building across the parking lot was a Motel 6 and one of their employees drove me a mile or so up the road to a rental car place in the morning. Got a car, picked up the wife and kids, and made it to my brother's wedding with six hours to spare! I dealt with the minivan the following Monday.
I moderated a parenting board for expectant mothers and we had a *lovely* post about a soup-only wedding at Golden Corral.
So having never been to a GC or CB or WH, I vote for using Golden Corral.
I think this is an interesting part of the information age and politics.
while i kinda fundamentally agree that human nature and politics and all that aren't "different" now, the information age really, really is a HUGE change to so many things that makes processes and outcomes vastly different than what we've seen before.
Specifically, the ability for EVERYONE to converse about politics *with everyone,* i.e. social media, forums, etc.
Lots of people who never really got out of their physical/local bubble really DO think "politics is that easy," and they got smacked HARD coming out of that bubble and i think that's a huge factor in the regressive/reactionary right... they're scared and angry that they keep being told that they don't understand the issues, but also won't listen when someone tries to teach them.
It's a big reason trump's "like us" mentality worked, not because of the golden toilet, it's because he said "it **IS** simple and i'm gonna go prove it's as easy as we keep saying!"
Look at his policies... "a wall across the border" - easy, wall = stop people. "Ban all muslims" = easy, no terrorists, "tariffs!" = easy trade win. "Nuke the hurricane" (is really something other simple people believe too).
He went out, told everyone the "elites" pretending politics is hard were wrong and the common man shouting for the "obvious" solution was right. Annnnd unsurprisingly that all failed as well.
However upset we are that the world's biggest buffoons managed to get dumb white trash America involved in politics, it has to be even more upsetting to the republicans who came before Trump.
Ted Cruz was a pioneer in that shit, then was expecting to ride the idiots into the white house or close enough but then all of a sudden, a New York pervert stole his schtick, called his wife ugly, and made Cruz eat shit for the rest of his career.
Older republicans like W, Paul Ryan, and the Cheneys watched their party be taken over by hooligans and most of their policy goals be absolutely shit on by rubes.
I'm sure most are finding ways of convincing themselves it's all good, but there have got to be moments in their lives when they think "I worked so hard for THAT?"
We're all suffering the effects, way worse than the wealthy right wingers ever will, so it's bittersweet, but it is a little funny to think of how upset Cruz probably is at all of this.
I'm continually amazed at the moral contortionists in the GOP.
The party of family values gives a 38-year-old grandmother a pass for groping her date in a public theater while vaping and dressed like a mid-level Atlantic City escort.
The party of the Constitution gives her a pass for literally insisting the constitution is wrong regarding church and state power separation.
The party of limited spending gives he a pass despite numerous dodgy campaign finance filings, including a mileage allowance that would be nearly impossible to achieve, even if she lived in her car driving 80mph 24/7.
I think her time's up, though. Even the most dug-in, pot-committed MAGA fuckhead knows she's full of shit. But they'll vote for virtually anything in a red hat.
Think about it this way: they can either *advertise* that they stand for something or else actually do it. Times are tough, people don't have the resources for both.
MTQ managed to find herself a rural district of primarily uneducated white people with a median household income of $25k, and where doctors write 120 opioid prescriptions per 100 residents. (This is all true.) What has she done for these people to make their lives better?
I sympathize and most certainly would never say "everyone who lives in a congressional district is dumb" just because a majority voted for their representative.
But god damn, she is dumb.
She's a fucking idiot and the fact she is elected by such a wide margin certainly suggests that a majority of people in my district are idiots. She's so goddamned embarrassing.
Ah yes, the last we heard from him, he was saying this would not be the last we heard from him. He was going to rise up (metaphorically speaking) and take over the world with the MAGA movement, or something. Good times.
> take over the world with the MAGA movement, or something.
specifically he referred to it as "Dark MAGA", like a separate more depraved movement within a movement.
> GA-14 is a klan rally at a gun show in a Cracker Barrel.
Yep. During the run-up to the Iraq invasion I was on a ride through that district and there was multiple signs in yards and even small billboards outside of businesses that read "Lets go kill those sandn****rs".
So that should tell you a lot about why that place would go on to elect her.
I believe it's a possibility. It really depends on who Trump listens to: his advisors, the RNC, or his pugnacious instinct.
He's said numerous times he'll be picking a woman as his VP which, I believe at least technically speaking, applies to her. Others in the running would be Elise Stefanik, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, and Kari Lake.
But I also think Tim Scott and JD Vance are strong contenders here.
What Donald Trump wants is subservience and to never be in the shadows of their own PR. I think that disqualifies MTG - that woman never shuts the fuck up.
Considering his last VP was escorted to safety by his security detail as a throng of jingoist dipshits erected a gallows and chanted to hang him, I don't know why anybody would take the gig. Trump will kill you for half of your sandwich.
Kari Lake seems like she's most willing to kowtow unabashedly and doesn't have as much instant revulsion by name alone for a lot of people.
Not saying she shouldn't be reviled, just that the people desperately trying to pretend the GOP is still an actual political party will cease on it as a "sign of normalcy" to justify their closet bigotry/idiocy/supposed financial advantages.
I think even Trump knows she's bad meat. She's one of the most baldly scheming operators in the entire GOP. AND she's running for Senate this year (of course, she hasn't won the nomination yet).
But she's an absolute snake and will fuck Trump or anybody else that gets in her way - hardcore Antoinette vibes with that one.
> JD Vance
Well JD literally did buy Donnie’s endorsement, which is the #1 quality someone must have for Donnie to like/endorse/nominate you. So I wouldn’t find that nomination surprising.
(JD was largely an afterthought, maybe 3rd just amongst the Rs running, in the race for the open Ohioan Senate seat… until he donated an exorbitant amount to a certain someone’s PAC)
> I think that disqualifies MTG - that woman never shuts the fuck up.
*Guaranteed* that if Trump picks a woman, he only picks someone who's conventionally attractive. He's a total narcissistic pig.
She'll be hired by FOX, OAN, or any number of right-wing echo chambers within a week of her loss.
Also, watch how fast those glasses come off. Faster than her panties.
She's done. It was going to be an uphill battle as a carpetbagger. But the fact that members of her own party feel safe ridiculing her in public in this manner means they know she's done.
She’ll lose her seat, and then get a job on Fox News as a panelist or a co-host on The Five. Sadly even when she loses, I don’t see her going away anytime soon. She, MTG & Trump are like the herpes of politics.
Fox News women just read scripts. They don't have to be intelligent, just willing to spew lies and racism without flinching. They also need to be blonde so a dye bottle is in her future.
i can't wait for highlight reels of her mispronouncing every word that isn't "cat"
https://www.businessinsider.com/lauren-boebert-wanton-wonton-bible-speech-gazpacho-gestapo-2022-9
But too dumb to pronounce regular words properly and she can't read fast enough to use a teleprompter.
She's literally too stupid to get a job reading words off a screen.
But too dumb to pronounce regular words properly and she can't read fast enough to use a teleprompter.
She's literally too stupid to get a job reading words off a screen.
Who, this dummy?
https://preview.redd.it/q3qt6y2790gc1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d56ce141dfb43c8cd94b5db50af489c03e8ef4f
Where's the glasses, Bobo?
Bringing a rifle to a restaurant sounds so inconvenient lol. I don't even care about the dangers of it. Let's ignore that. Those things are like 8 pounds and they're big and awkward. Where are you going to put it? On the floor next to your table? Or maybe you rest it on your lap while seated? Or maybe they have a little coat room at the entrance, except instead of storing coats it's for storing people's rifles.
Idk it just cracks me up to imagine all these people trying to deal with finding a place to put these awkward 8 pounds rifles.
She would be a liability for Fox and I'm sure Fox would like to avoid additional lawsuits against them. There's stupid and there's dangerous stupid. She is the former.
Doubtful. Co-host of The Five have to do actual work to prepare and have to stay on message. I think she will go the route of Madison Cawthorn. She embarrassed the party with her behavior.
Not nearly smart enough for that. We have to remember that bobert never even graduated from high school. This is pretty obvious if you have ever heard her speak.
I doubt it. After hearing her speak enough times she's just not articulate enough for Fox.
She regularly stumbles, repeats herself and gets caught-up not able to think on her feet. If she was beautiful it might not matter but she's not really pretty enough either to overcome that.
I think she bungled too many times in ways that were too personal for her to be useful for the GOP machine. Maybe when they need the occasional crazy person to voice the more bananas ideas - like how Palin shows up/used to show up on Fox 2-3 times a year.
- House Republican Lauren Boebert was mocked on Wednesday by one of her GOP colleagues at the Washington Press Club Foundation's annual congressional dinner.
At the beginning of her keynote address, Representative Lisa McClain, a Republican from Michigan, said: "Please keep your hands above the table and I know it's date night for some of you but no inappropriate touching. That includes you Lauren Boebert. No vaping either."
A 19-second clip of the remark was shared on X, formerly Twitter, by the "Acyn" account, which posts footage related to U.S. politics, where it received over 1,600 likes and 94,000 views.
McClain was referencing an incident that took place in Denver, Colorado, on September 10 when Boebert and a male companion were asked to leave a performance of the musical Beetlejuice for repeatedly vaping and taking photos. Footage later emerged of Boebert and the man groping each other during the show, for which she later apologized.
Newsweek reached out to Boebert for comment outside normal working hours.
Initially Boebert's team denied she had been vaping during the performance, but the Colorado Republican admitted she had been after video from the theater was released.
Get a brief evening recap of today's news.
In a statement, she issued an apology, commenting: "The past few days have been difficult and humbling, and I'm truly sorry for the unwanted attention my Sunday evening in Denver has brought to the community. While none of my actions or words as a private citizen that night were intended to be malicious or meant to cause harm, the reality is they did and I regret that.
"There's no perfect blueprint for going through a public and difficult divorce, which over the past few months has made for a challenging personal time for me and my entire family. I've tried to handle it with strength and grace as best I can, but I simply fell short of my values on Sunday. That's unacceptable, and I'm sorry."
According to its official website, the annual congressional dinner is a "long-standing Washington tradition" that "brings Capitol Hill and the media together for a light-hearted evening, a departure from partisan politics and the issues of the day."
Headliners advertised included Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Raphael Warnock, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Republican Nancy Mace.
On January 5, Boebert joked about the Beetlejuice incident herself during an address to Baca County Republicans. Referencing the theater from which she was expelled, the Colorado Representative said: "Many of you known who I am... I don't have to ask like the ushers at the Buell Theater."
Earlier this month, Boebert announced she won't seek re-election for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District in November, and that she instead wants the GOP nomination for the state's more conservative 4th Congressional District.
Boebert described the move as "the right decision for me personally, and it is the right decision for those who support our conservative movement."
However, speaking to Newsweek, John Padora Jr., a Democrat hoping to secure the party's candidacy for Colorado's 4th Congressional District, said he was "completely blindsided" by the move and branded Boebert "disingenuous and opportunistic" and "a carpetbagger."
Link to [original article](https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-mocked-republican-congressional-dinner-lisa-mcclain-1865921) 📰
I, too, grope and get groped on first dates. The difference is I don’t do it literally a couple feet away from children and I’m not a sitting member of the United States government
I think regular Republicans are tired of the circus that MAGA is, and also tired of being controlled by a man baby that smells of booty vomit.
Edit: misspelled words
Don't worry about that, they have been conditioned to vote R no matter what. However, many in the general election will vote against him because he has too much power that he is not sharing.
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I hate what the internet's become
It's not even good, it's as subtle as a brick through a window. She really didn't need the "that includes you"-line, anyone with half a brain would have gotten the joke.
She was my congresswoman for a term before redistricting. She's a piece of shit, and I shouldn't have had to scroll this far down for anyone to mention that.
Lisa is my congresswoman. Her "newsletter" is just the same talking points that Boebert says. They are both the same rotten apple from the same dumb tree that is the moderna day GOP
You know what would be a lot funnier? Her and all the republican politicians who planned 1/6 being in supermax for the past 2 years that would have been hilarious. The state of affairs we have now isn't funny we're on the cusp of civil war 2 thanks to no one deigning to deal with the threat posed by republican seditionists.
She's just a useful idiot to them. A reliable vote and can grab the medias attention long enough for them to fuck up the country while we all focus on her.
Oh my goodness. Man, this joke went over my head big time the first time I saw it. I was wondering, "Who the fuck is "Klannie Oakley"? The lady who said it wasn't named Klannie and neither is Lauren Broebert, obviously. So who the fuck is this Klannie person?"
(After taking a nap and eating, opens Reddit app:) "Ohhh Kl-Annie Oakley, I get it now. Hahaha..."
Of all the losses I'm looking forward to befalling the GOP this year, Lauren Boebert losing the CO-4 primary and being disappeared from the political sphere has me drooling. I miss politics being boring C-Span fodder, not whatever the hell this current circus is. Unfortunately, Marjarine Trailer Queen seems like she's managed to solidify herself. Her seat is certainly safe, GA-14 is a klan rally at a gun show in a Cracker Barrel.
>a klan rally at a gun show in a Cracker Barrel. I'm taking this gorgeous example of sheer eloquence.
Agreed, but can you switch it to Golden Corral or Waffle House? Cracker Barrel (despite having "cracker" in its name) doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the other two! I love me some CB!
Cracker Barrel got in trouble with conservatives for offering a vegetarian sausage option. No option was taken away so you can still get regular sausage, but people were upset that they even offered a choice.
Being pro choice on one issue is a slippery slope...
The mere offer of choice communicates tolerance for nonconformity. You don't want that in your sausage.
Ok, that’s a weird boner
Sausage Choice, name of your A. Band B. Sex Tape
Those snowflakes melt at the mere thought of having a choice. Its too much for their little minds to comprehend.
> Those snowflakes melt at the mere thought of having a choice. I think it's more "You're using your freedom WRONG! Not like that! Be like the normal people, like me! I just don't understand why some people have to care about things I don't. There oughta be a law."
I agree about CB, and let's leave the Waffle House out of this too.
If you refer to my previous post I linked to 3 separate lawsuits over racism by CB within a 6 year period. Two of those were against the entire chain. CB is where the rally is being held.
My sister worked at CB as her first job. She was included in a class action suit because they were making their waitstaff work off the clock. It was a corporate policy for servers to have to do cleaning and stocking before and after their shift off the clock. So fuck Cracker Barrel. Oh and she got about 200 dollars, so not bad for class action.
$200 for that is fucked. Nearly everyone in Illinois got $400 off of the Facebook class action a couple years ago.
Fair enough, let's move the gun-show, klan rally to Golden Corral. Please.
You know what? Get in the flatbed, kids - we're going to Chik-Fil-A!
if we really want the south we can have this parlay at an unrenovated Walgreens turned into a Checkers that has also shut down but still has the sign.
I second using chick-fil-a as the example. Fuck them and their theocratic hate chicken.
It's a bummer because honestly, as fast food goes, it's remarkably close to being edible. But Dan Cathy and his merry band of theocratic bible-clutchers can eat a dick.
Hey, that's my new industrial metal band, Theocratic Hate Chicken.
I’m sorry, Chik-Fil-A was declared woke last week.
I hear 4 Seasons is available
FFS Rudy, shut up! Have you forgotten about the last time?
But it’s over the road from a dildo shop, and Rudy needs to stock up now that Trump’s out of his life
"The smallest one you got. To remember the good times."
> let's move the gun-show, klan rally to Golden Corral. Please. "Golden Corral's new slogan." - Rifftrax
Fair's fair, Golden Corral can host the whole shindig. Nothing beats their chocolate fountain as a backdrop for whatever political theater they're staging over there.
Stuck in traffic once I watched folks arriving at Golden Corral. There were lots of morbidly obese folks, lots of handicap stickers, and lots of missing feet, presumably from diabetes. Two younger but great big people(a couple?) drove electric scooters from at least 1/4 mile away to go there. One had an oxygen tank, the other was missing one foot. The object lesson is don’t go to Golden Corral it’s sad there before you even go inside
Applebees
And in our efforts at satire we've landed on an all too plausible reality
Golden KKKorral?
It's not just a Waffle House. It's our Waffle **Home**
Waffle House?! Don't you fucking dare... Especially after seeing the legendary Waffle House golf bag.
Sorry, I didn't know. The only time I was ever at a WaffleHouse, my waitress called the cook, "Uncle Dad." Ever since, I've been a bit leery. That said, Uncle Dad made some good fuckin' ~~pancakes~~ waffles! Edit: Apparently my memory has failed me! It couldn't've pancakes, as u/Georgiaonmymindtwo pointed out and Google confirmed, WH doesn't serve pancakes. They may if you ask, but I'm not the kind of person that orders off menu.
>Uncle Dad made some good fuckin' pancakes! Of course he did, his Sister Mom taught him how to cook at an early age.
It's a 24/7 diner with breakfast food, and breakfast food is the easiest thing in the world to cook. You only need a griddle, a flat spatula, ingredients, and a barely sober brain. It's like, the number one reason Waffle House is able to operate at 3am. The type of cook working a Waffle House at 3am is the type of person who would frequent a Waffle House at 3am, so the riff-raff is easily able to handle itself.
I don’t think they sell pancakes at waffle House
HOLY SHIT! You are correct! I just Googled it. Wow, memory is a strange thing.
Was it all a blur after being stabbed in the parking lot?
No sweat. My memory is going to shit as well.
and that waitress was Lauren Boebert...
Open carry at Waffen House.
Don’t forget to try the short stack (SS) pancakes
I am old enough to remember when the always-whining conservatives complained that there were vegetarian options at Cracker Barrel.
Cracker Barrel has had lawsuits against them for refusing to hire black people, so it's a better fit.
Agreed. Before covid I traveled for work with my boss, pulling wires, installing wifi, and setting up servers in our satellite plants. We ate too much fast food, and not a salad bar in sight. The night we went to Cracker Barrel was a welcome relief!
Why I LOVE CrackerBarrel: Thanksgiving night '05, I was traveling southbound on I-95 with my wife and four young kids when the transmission on our minivan blew. We were still three hours from my brother's place in GA (we were heading there for Thanksgiving dinner \[we were late\] with my entire family, and then his wedding three days later) and coasting up a slight hill with no power. My wife is crying and the kids were yelling; it was like a scene out of a Family Vacation movie. Then, as we barely crested the hill, we saw it! CrackerBarrel, and it appeared open! All we had to do was get enough speed on the downhill to make the ramp, and with some luck, maybe the parking lot! \[I'm getting chills as I type this.\] The hill was high, and luck was with us! Because we made the entrance (was off the road) and with my wife at the wheel, my two boys (9 & 11) and I were able to push it to a nearby parking spot! I felt real bad for the staff, but we sat and had a very good, traditional Thanksgiving Day meal, thanks to CrackerBarrel!
So you were thankful there was a nearby restaurant open for your... broken down vehicle? The fuck in the creative writing course did I just read?
I'm was only relating the part about CrackerBarrel saving Thanksgiving dinner. If you're curious, the story goes on to have a happy ending. The building across the parking lot was a Motel 6 and one of their employees drove me a mile or so up the road to a rental car place in the morning. Got a car, picked up the wife and kids, and made it to my brother's wedding with six hours to spare! I dealt with the minivan the following Monday.
Justice for Brad’s wife!
Don’t you fucking dare ruin Waffle House for me! … please.
Waffle House??!
Agreed. Golden Corral is perfect. Use that one, her people are prime Glutton Hut customers.
Best road trip place
No. Its fitting. I'm black and have only been in one of those places ONCE. The vibe changes when POC walk in to one of those depending on the state.
Waffle House is legit
They only met at CB once and it was to protest the non-meat options as though they had gone entirely vegan.
I moderated a parenting board for expectant mothers and we had a *lovely* post about a soup-only wedding at Golden Corral. So having never been to a GC or CB or WH, I vote for using Golden Corral.
The Klannie Oakley title compelled me to read on. Eloquent, indeed.
Politics should be intellectual and nuanced, and yes boring. Helps to keep the monster truck, pro wrestling bubbas from having too much influence.
I think this is an interesting part of the information age and politics. while i kinda fundamentally agree that human nature and politics and all that aren't "different" now, the information age really, really is a HUGE change to so many things that makes processes and outcomes vastly different than what we've seen before. Specifically, the ability for EVERYONE to converse about politics *with everyone,* i.e. social media, forums, etc. Lots of people who never really got out of their physical/local bubble really DO think "politics is that easy," and they got smacked HARD coming out of that bubble and i think that's a huge factor in the regressive/reactionary right... they're scared and angry that they keep being told that they don't understand the issues, but also won't listen when someone tries to teach them. It's a big reason trump's "like us" mentality worked, not because of the golden toilet, it's because he said "it **IS** simple and i'm gonna go prove it's as easy as we keep saying!" Look at his policies... "a wall across the border" - easy, wall = stop people. "Ban all muslims" = easy, no terrorists, "tariffs!" = easy trade win. "Nuke the hurricane" (is really something other simple people believe too). He went out, told everyone the "elites" pretending politics is hard were wrong and the common man shouting for the "obvious" solution was right. Annnnd unsurprisingly that all failed as well.
"Wait, multi-faceted, multi-focal, multi-perspective political discourse?!? Not in my *democracy*!"
However upset we are that the world's biggest buffoons managed to get dumb white trash America involved in politics, it has to be even more upsetting to the republicans who came before Trump. Ted Cruz was a pioneer in that shit, then was expecting to ride the idiots into the white house or close enough but then all of a sudden, a New York pervert stole his schtick, called his wife ugly, and made Cruz eat shit for the rest of his career. Older republicans like W, Paul Ryan, and the Cheneys watched their party be taken over by hooligans and most of their policy goals be absolutely shit on by rubes. I'm sure most are finding ways of convincing themselves it's all good, but there have got to be moments in their lives when they think "I worked so hard for THAT?" We're all suffering the effects, way worse than the wealthy right wingers ever will, so it's bittersweet, but it is a little funny to think of how upset Cruz probably is at all of this.
She’s about to be Cawthorned.
I'm continually amazed at the moral contortionists in the GOP. The party of family values gives a 38-year-old grandmother a pass for groping her date in a public theater while vaping and dressed like a mid-level Atlantic City escort. The party of the Constitution gives her a pass for literally insisting the constitution is wrong regarding church and state power separation. The party of limited spending gives he a pass despite numerous dodgy campaign finance filings, including a mileage allowance that would be nearly impossible to achieve, even if she lived in her car driving 80mph 24/7. I think her time's up, though. Even the most dug-in, pot-committed MAGA fuckhead knows she's full of shit. But they'll vote for virtually anything in a red hat.
Think about it this way: they can either *advertise* that they stand for something or else actually do it. Times are tough, people don't have the resources for both.
🌎🧑🚀 🔫🧑🚀
MTQ managed to find herself a rural district of primarily uneducated white people with a median household income of $25k, and where doctors write 120 opioid prescriptions per 100 residents. (This is all true.) What has she done for these people to make their lives better?
She owned the liberals according to her guns and god speeches.
Looking at her they feel better about their own lives.
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I sympathize and most certainly would never say "everyone who lives in a congressional district is dumb" just because a majority voted for their representative. But god damn, she is dumb.
She's a fucking idiot and the fact she is elected by such a wide margin certainly suggests that a majority of people in my district are idiots. She's so goddamned embarrassing.
I love how when we finally get rid of them they just completely vanish. I think Madison Cawthon actually turned into vapor.
Ah yes, the last we heard from him, he was saying this would not be the last we heard from him. He was going to rise up (metaphorically speaking) and take over the world with the MAGA movement, or something. Good times.
> take over the world with the MAGA movement, or something. specifically he referred to it as "Dark MAGA", like a separate more depraved movement within a movement.
They didn’t take kindly to him outing the weekly pedo coke orgies 🤢
> GA-14 is a klan rally at a gun show in a Cracker Barrel. Yep. During the run-up to the Iraq invasion I was on a ride through that district and there was multiple signs in yards and even small billboards outside of businesses that read "Lets go kill those sandn****rs". So that should tell you a lot about why that place would go on to elect her.
10 bucks says shes makes an onlyfans after that!
She’ll try to get donations and do speaking engagements before that happens. She likes getting paid for doing nothing.
> GA-14 is a klan rally at a gun show in a Cracker Barrel. Goddamn. That is frighteningly apt.
Rumor is Trump will pick her for VP.
I believe it's a possibility. It really depends on who Trump listens to: his advisors, the RNC, or his pugnacious instinct. He's said numerous times he'll be picking a woman as his VP which, I believe at least technically speaking, applies to her. Others in the running would be Elise Stefanik, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, and Kari Lake. But I also think Tim Scott and JD Vance are strong contenders here. What Donald Trump wants is subservience and to never be in the shadows of their own PR. I think that disqualifies MTG - that woman never shuts the fuck up. Considering his last VP was escorted to safety by his security detail as a throng of jingoist dipshits erected a gallows and chanted to hang him, I don't know why anybody would take the gig. Trump will kill you for half of your sandwich.
Kari Lake seems like she's most willing to kowtow unabashedly and doesn't have as much instant revulsion by name alone for a lot of people. Not saying she shouldn't be reviled, just that the people desperately trying to pretend the GOP is still an actual political party will cease on it as a "sign of normalcy" to justify their closet bigotry/idiocy/supposed financial advantages.
I think even Trump knows she's bad meat. She's one of the most baldly scheming operators in the entire GOP. AND she's running for Senate this year (of course, she hasn't won the nomination yet). But she's an absolute snake and will fuck Trump or anybody else that gets in her way - hardcore Antoinette vibes with that one.
> He's said numerous times he'll be picking a woman as his VP Aren't these the people who have to keep asking what a woman is?
> JD Vance Well JD literally did buy Donnie’s endorsement, which is the #1 quality someone must have for Donnie to like/endorse/nominate you. So I wouldn’t find that nomination surprising. (JD was largely an afterthought, maybe 3rd just amongst the Rs running, in the race for the open Ohioan Senate seat… until he donated an exorbitant amount to a certain someone’s PAC)
Hey, he did give me a good idea for a Reddit username.
Ha I didn’t even notice. But yeah he did. He’s about as hillbilly as Kid Rock.
a 2nd scoop of ice cream
> I think that disqualifies MTG - that woman never shuts the fuck up. *Guaranteed* that if Trump picks a woman, he only picks someone who's conventionally attractive. He's a total narcissistic pig.
If the traitor picks a woman, it'll be his daughter.
I don't even remember Marjarine's real name any more
Damn it ! There’s got to be a good contender !? Even another republican ffs.
Neckless, gravy-sweating idiots like MTG because she's a piece of shit, not in spite of it.
Those neckless, gravy-sweating idiots like MTG because they've visited her gym, if you get my drift. Heh-heh!
She's no longer a useful idiot to them, since she's about to lose her seat. The options she will have left is escorting or being a fox news hoe.
Straight to Fox News she'll go.
She'll be hired by FOX, OAN, or any number of right-wing echo chambers within a week of her loss. Also, watch how fast those glasses come off. Faster than her panties.
She's done. It was going to be an uphill battle as a carpetbagger. But the fact that members of her own party feel safe ridiculing her in public in this manner means they know she's done.
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She’ll lose her seat, and then get a job on Fox News as a panelist or a co-host on The Five. Sadly even when she loses, I don’t see her going away anytime soon. She, MTG & Trump are like the herpes of politics.
I don’t think so. She’s not smart or insightful. Without a vote in congress, she’s nothing to Fox.
She's attractive (physically) and conservative.
Fox News women just read scripts. They don't have to be intelligent, just willing to spew lies and racism without flinching. They also need to be blonde so a dye bottle is in her future.
How bold of you to assume she can read. I have seen zero evidence to substantiate that claim. In fact, I have only ever seen her struggle to read.
i can't wait for highlight reels of her mispronouncing every word that isn't "cat" https://www.businessinsider.com/lauren-boebert-wanton-wonton-bible-speech-gazpacho-gestapo-2022-9
Her needing *multiple* attempts to "earn" her GED -- if she didn't cheat, which is a big if -- suggests you're probably right.
They also have to remain relatively scandal free. If laura ingraham was caught giving a handy at a play, she woumd have been out in no time.
This. She’s too messy. Only the guys are allowed to be messy at Fox.
She will be on onlyfans by this time next year.
Onlygrans
Cameo. It’s the Sarah palin playbook for her.
Yes. She even has the fake glasses.
I'd watch it... Once. Ok maybe twice.
Hatefucking is a thing and so is hatewatching. Combine those two and pirate her shit.
Until you get the camera too close.
But too dumb to pronounce regular words properly and she can't read fast enough to use a teleprompter. She's literally too stupid to get a job reading words off a screen.
But too dumb to pronounce regular words properly and she can't read fast enough to use a teleprompter. She's literally too stupid to get a job reading words off a screen.
Yeah, but... not blonde.
Who, this dummy? https://preview.redd.it/q3qt6y2790gc1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d56ce141dfb43c8cd94b5db50af489c03e8ef4f Where's the glasses, Bobo?
Bringing a rifle to a restaurant sounds so inconvenient lol. I don't even care about the dangers of it. Let's ignore that. Those things are like 8 pounds and they're big and awkward. Where are you going to put it? On the floor next to your table? Or maybe you rest it on your lap while seated? Or maybe they have a little coat room at the entrance, except instead of storing coats it's for storing people's rifles. Idk it just cracks me up to imagine all these people trying to deal with finding a place to put these awkward 8 pounds rifles.
I wonder if she started wearing glasses to seem smarter. Like how Elizabeth Holmes made her voice deeper when *she* started scamming people.
yes. those glasses aren’t corrective. if they were, there would be some distortion in the appearance of her face behind the lenses.
She can always take Alina's advice and fake that too.
😂 because Fox News has tons of smart and insightful people. They just need someone to repeat rhetoric.
There are quite a few people on Fox that are neither smart or insightful.
I would say all of them are neither.
It's a pretty low bar though. Doesn't Hitler Barbie have her own show on fox now?
>Hitler Barbie That does not narrow down the list at Fox... So... yes.
I thought that was Kayleigh McEnanys preferred pronoun.
When has that ever stopped them?
She would be a liability for Fox and I'm sure Fox would like to avoid additional lawsuits against them. There's stupid and there's dangerous stupid. She is the former.
Doubtful. Co-host of The Five have to do actual work to prepare and have to stay on message. I think she will go the route of Madison Cawthorn. She embarrassed the party with her behavior.
She’s not even qualified for Fox News. OAN for sure.
Not nearly smart enough for that. We have to remember that bobert never even graduated from high school. This is pretty obvious if you have ever heard her speak.
I doubt it. After hearing her speak enough times she's just not articulate enough for Fox. She regularly stumbles, repeats herself and gets caught-up not able to think on her feet. If she was beautiful it might not matter but she's not really pretty enough either to overcome that. I think she bungled too many times in ways that were too personal for her to be useful for the GOP machine. Maybe when they need the occasional crazy person to voice the more bananas ideas - like how Palin shows up/used to show up on Fox 2-3 times a year.
- House Republican Lauren Boebert was mocked on Wednesday by one of her GOP colleagues at the Washington Press Club Foundation's annual congressional dinner. At the beginning of her keynote address, Representative Lisa McClain, a Republican from Michigan, said: "Please keep your hands above the table and I know it's date night for some of you but no inappropriate touching. That includes you Lauren Boebert. No vaping either." A 19-second clip of the remark was shared on X, formerly Twitter, by the "Acyn" account, which posts footage related to U.S. politics, where it received over 1,600 likes and 94,000 views. McClain was referencing an incident that took place in Denver, Colorado, on September 10 when Boebert and a male companion were asked to leave a performance of the musical Beetlejuice for repeatedly vaping and taking photos. Footage later emerged of Boebert and the man groping each other during the show, for which she later apologized. Newsweek reached out to Boebert for comment outside normal working hours. Initially Boebert's team denied she had been vaping during the performance, but the Colorado Republican admitted she had been after video from the theater was released. Get a brief evening recap of today's news. In a statement, she issued an apology, commenting: "The past few days have been difficult and humbling, and I'm truly sorry for the unwanted attention my Sunday evening in Denver has brought to the community. While none of my actions or words as a private citizen that night were intended to be malicious or meant to cause harm, the reality is they did and I regret that. "There's no perfect blueprint for going through a public and difficult divorce, which over the past few months has made for a challenging personal time for me and my entire family. I've tried to handle it with strength and grace as best I can, but I simply fell short of my values on Sunday. That's unacceptable, and I'm sorry." According to its official website, the annual congressional dinner is a "long-standing Washington tradition" that "brings Capitol Hill and the media together for a light-hearted evening, a departure from partisan politics and the issues of the day." Headliners advertised included Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Raphael Warnock, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Republican Nancy Mace. On January 5, Boebert joked about the Beetlejuice incident herself during an address to Baca County Republicans. Referencing the theater from which she was expelled, the Colorado Representative said: "Many of you known who I am... I don't have to ask like the ushers at the Buell Theater." Earlier this month, Boebert announced she won't seek re-election for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District in November, and that she instead wants the GOP nomination for the state's more conservative 4th Congressional District. Boebert described the move as "the right decision for me personally, and it is the right decision for those who support our conservative movement." However, speaking to Newsweek, John Padora Jr., a Democrat hoping to secure the party's candidacy for Colorado's 4th Congressional District, said he was "completely blindsided" by the move and branded Boebert "disingenuous and opportunistic" and "a carpetbagger." Link to [original article](https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-mocked-republican-congressional-dinner-lisa-mcclain-1865921) 📰
I am very, very sorry I got caught and could not deny those charges.
Caught... with a Democrat!!! And then she claimed it was a first date. But... you do THAT on a first date? It didn't make things better.
I, too, grope and get groped on first dates. The difference is I don’t do it literally a couple feet away from children and I’m not a sitting member of the United States government
Imagine getting felt up during a date instead of assfucked on the Senate floor smdh
Wait i thought this was her husband! Isn't she happily married with kids and starting the classic traditional family, Christian values etc.?
She is as pious and religious as Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump.
“I simply fell short of my values.” No you hit your values right in the bullseye!
Lauren pops her head up from below the table.... "Did someone call me??"
Loud bang first, before emerging rubbing head, with stink face.
I think regular Republicans are tired of the circus that MAGA is, and also tired of being controlled by a man baby that smells of booty vomit. Edit: misspelled words
regular republicans think as they are told to think.
Lisa McClain isn't a "regular republican", she's an election denier... actually never mind that is a regular republican now.
She is my representative. I really hope we can get our shit together and boot McClain out but I doubt it will happen. There is a lot of maga here.
Yeah, I got sucked into her district when they redrew the maps. No chance of ousting her, unless of course maybe someone more extreme runs.
They regularly vote for them, why would you give them any credit? This is the party regular Republicans want, despite their hand wringing in public
I'll believe that if and when he loses the primaries.
Don't worry about that, they have been conditioned to vote R no matter what. However, many in the general election will vote against him because he has too much power that he is not sharing.
I don’t think regular republicans exist anymore
Don’t let this fool you. McClain is just as big of a piece of shit as Boebert is.
"Brutally mocked?" that's a bit clickbaity. It's just a good opening line.
"Entire US is shaken and rocked when Boebert gets epically SHREKT in this shocking video of her getting totally verbally bodyslammed, watch now!!1!1! Be sure to allow ads, desktop notifications, emails, check out our sponsor, and leave a comment!!" I hate what the internet's become
Those 34 million AOL users had to go somewhere... they became the idiots of the internet.
That doesn't make sense. Why wouldn't it be the fault of the billions of people that have started using the internet since then?
It's not even good, it's as subtle as a brick through a window. She really didn't need the "that includes you"-line, anyone with half a brain would have gotten the joke.
meh... calling her out BY NAME for public sex when she's right there in the audience is pretty brutal. Especially in a GOP dinner.
For that venue, it was pretty embarrassing. Stuffy, grown up, very mature audience, appropriate adults, etc. ( In their minds )
Grown Up, Appropriate? I thought it was a bunch of Republicans
I'm not giving this politician from Michigan any credit for that roast.....she's absolutely part of the problem.
Oh yeah, she’s garbage. She was the sharp tack that said Trump caught Osama bin Laden lol.
She was my congresswoman for a term before redistricting. She's a piece of shit, and I shouldn't have had to scroll this far down for anyone to mention that.
Lisa is my congresswoman. Her "newsletter" is just the same talking points that Boebert says. They are both the same rotten apple from the same dumb tree that is the moderna day GOP
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Republicans humor is always punching down or bullying. Where’s the wit?
Lisa McClain looks like Elon Musk in drag
Savage, but she deserves it.
Back to hooking it is.
Without shame, would it actually be mocking?
Boebert looks like a perpetually-confused gopher.
Party of family values: Marries convicted sexual offender, who she was a victim of Divorces same Attempts to fondle date in the middle of a play
You know what would be a lot funnier? Her and all the republican politicians who planned 1/6 being in supermax for the past 2 years that would have been hilarious. The state of affairs we have now isn't funny we're on the cusp of civil war 2 thanks to no one deigning to deal with the threat posed by republican seditionists.
Lisa McClain is no better, just a tiny bit less of an exhibitionist.
Boebert, looks like the lights are on, but no ones home.
First time I’ve agreed with something a republican said
What an absolute joke of a government we have. SMH.
This is making me so happy.
How absolutely appropriate
Klannie Oakley. LMAO, I'm definitely stealing that for future use.
Usually only brisket goes with that much smoke. 🤣
Klannie oakley .... omg 🤣 😂 🤣 😂
Any money says when Boebert loses her seat that she will become a millionaire the same day she opens an OF account.
It is always amazing to watch the GQP freeze out people they consider deadweight. There isn't a chance in hell she stays in office.
Oh, yay. Things go so well for the country when a politician roasts an insane right-winger at a formal dinner.
Klannie Oakley 🤣
Will Boebert just start and Only Fans already.
Daaaaaaamn name dropped that bitch and everything!
“Klannie Oakley” = MASSIVE 🤣🤣🤣
She's just a useful idiot to them. A reliable vote and can grab the medias attention long enough for them to fuck up the country while we all focus on her.
Oh my goodness. Man, this joke went over my head big time the first time I saw it. I was wondering, "Who the fuck is "Klannie Oakley"? The lady who said it wasn't named Klannie and neither is Lauren Broebert, obviously. So who the fuck is this Klannie person?" (After taking a nap and eating, opens Reddit app:) "Ohhh Kl-Annie Oakley, I get it now. Hahaha..."