Townhall:
Math really must be racist because the Democrats and their TV toadies have utterly abandoned it. ABC, which none of us watch because we are not invalids unable to change the channel to literally anything else, recently tweeted: “A single senator is about to seriously set back an entire presidential agenda” and there’s a big pic of the enbitchener-in-chief Joe Manchin. If he didn’t have a stupid mask on, you could see his grin at having forced Chuck Schumer to pull the “Build Back Better” bill – which should be called “Take Your Money to Give to Freeloaders and Democrat Donors and Make Things Much, Much Worse” bill – from consideration for the foreseeable future. The collective “phew” you hear is a bunch of Democrat senators running in 2022 thanking Gaia that they dodged having to vote for that Marxist albatross.
Anyway, ABC and the rest of the liberal bloc might not realize it, but there are fifty Republicans against this legislative abomination, so 50 + Manchin is … 51, which is a majority under normal math, but these are very stupid times and our elite is composed of very stupid people so somehow a burning tire fire of a bill that loses 49-51 is proof that democracy is dead.
But BBB being DOA was not the big story of the week. The big story of the week was North Shropshire, and the Democrats have no clue about it. They should, since what happened in that riding on the west side of England is a lesson in the pain that is heading their way in 2022. North Shropshire, which sounds like a place that is overrun with elves and toadstools, is deep blue, which is deep red in American terms. It’s been Conservative since 1832. It’s like Wyoming, but Cheney-free. There was a by-election there on December 16, 2021. The Conservatives lost. Hard. The swing since the smashing victory under Boris Johnson in the last general election was 31% away from the Tories. Oops.
I want that here in the USA where it counts.
Mickey, It depends on who’s doing the counting.
Someone needs to tell Trump this shit, not just Democrats. He went on his little shit with Bill O’Reilly who at least 60% of his voters don’t like or trust and pushed the death jab and boosters again and when booed said it was just a tiny group. Wanted “we” to take credit for the death jab and speaking against the death jab played into their hands.
It depends on who’s voting machines are used. And who gets to mail out ballots.
@Deplorable Second Class: “And who gets to mail out ballots.”
I think you mean “who gets to fill out the ‘mail-in’ ballots.” (-:
All political systems are kleptocracies.
Some are more oppressive than others, but the game is essentially the same: grab all you can and constrain the peons (for their own good, of course).
If we consider the Khanate and, say, Mao or Xi as opposite ends of the political spectrum it makes little difference to the average chink whose life isn’t worth a penny. The Khanate murdered (roughly) 100 Million. And the Communists murdered (roughly) 100 Million. Dead is dead – particularly for a soulless chink.
The graft and corruption waxes and wanes as the peons pay attention or don’t. We’re living through a time of rampant corruption and brazen theft by maggots who think they’re our “betters” and don’t even attempt to disguise their criminalities – such is their disregard for our abilities to resist and our vitality. The judiciary wipes its ass with the Constitution and dares us to object. The maggots stole an election and both sides of the aisle blink stupidly and say “What fraud? NOTHING! I see NOTHING!”
Maybe they’re on to something?
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
I love President Trump but part ways with him on the jab.
I don’t know that it isn’t 52-48 – has Sinema signaled support for BBB?
Elections? Ok.
*giggle*
Just hand me your ballot and we’ll see how that works out for ya…
A coup has never been reversed by voting.
Trump opposes mandates. Period. Full stop. As for his part in the rest of this nonsense the progressive movement had him in a box. He did about as well as could be done given the circumstances.
JDhasty he’s no longer in a box, yet he continues pushing the shots and now boosters and is resorting to calling us who disagree a tiny group who needs to shut up.
He is entitled to his opinion on the shot or nobody is entitled to their opinion. Including you and me. I think he’s wrong on that and that is my prerogative. What he is adamantly against is mandating any shots whatsoever by any entity whatsoever. I can disagree with his opinion on a small minority of subjects he opines on yet still admire the man.
@JDHasty December 21, 2021 at 11:46 am
> He did about as well as could be done given the circumstances.
The circumstances of being Donald J. Trump.