Quiverin’ Qevin claims that it’s only reporters who are asking the House Republicans about the coming indictment of Dear Leader, but he has upped his sedition by suggesting that Republicans could potentially strip federal funding from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and other district attorneys’ offices in retaliation, tweeting “Republicans stopped the radical DC crime law, and we will investigate any use of federal funds that are used to facilitate the perversion of justice by Soros-backed DA’s across the country.”
Nothing saps the strength out of a country like its saps, and, boy, have we got 'em both on the street and in high places. But bless them for thinking that showing up for protests this time will ensnare them in a Dem trap. At least the prosecutions of the 1/6 rioters and insurrectionists may be having some deterrent effect.
They keep blathering the same old bull Schitt. What’s wrong, propaganda nuts, no creativity. Nah, it’s just that the old crap, repeated ad nauseam, just works with the brain dead. So embarrassing that the willfully ignorant just show the worst of humanity. If these cretins had been in charge of human progress for millennia, we would still throw rocks at each other. They are an embarrassment to the human race…
Taughm (his preferred spelling) was a major character. He and his friend Peter referred to their cigar smoking as "Italian yoga." (Ray, the younger one, did not smoke.) And if someone interacted with them, they never let on who they were. I first encountered Taughm and Peter in the fall of '06. It was a chilly day and they were hanging out with their cigars outside the Paradiso cafe in Harvard Square. I had no idea that one of the people I was talking to was a car talk guy. I asked them if I could take their picture smoking (I have hundreds of photos of people smoking) and they said Sure! I got a great shot of them.
Then, a couple of months later I sat with Taughm and Ray at a Motor Press Xmas party, not realizing that I'd met Taughm once already (and I don't think Taughm recognized me).
Several weeks later, I was in the Paradiso, and Taughm came walking in with a few other people. I quickly realized it was Taughm, and then I realized that Taughm was one of the guys I'd photographed smoking!
I'm also a native, although I spent half of my post-university adulthood in DC, and my first four years in Seattle, minus the two months in Boston after I was born there. (I was conceived in Seattle. Are you still a New Englander? (I used to get so nostalgic over the accent when I lived in DC!)
I’m in Florida…sigh. Born and raised in RI and moved here after college. My Rhode Island-ese comes out when I’m around family or have a brew or two…not to be confused with a drink from the bubble-uh ! 😜
"War on Reality". Boy, is that true. I just noted that one of my MAGAt friends posted a very long and detailed comment on how the "liberal reality" is just fantasy and we're all idiots for falling for the mask mandates. The sky is a different color in his world.
But then you have the people who are now believing that the statement for protests are really a trick played on them by the democrats... heads I win, tails you lose must be their mantra.
This may be a naive question but arent there slander and/or libel laws in this country? I seem to remember hearing of them years ago (little sarcasm there). Are they no longer in effect? These idiots are slandering people with LIES - as I remember - there used to be lawsuits regarding both. Or is it just so dam expensive to do so currently. The crap said & printed about George Soros seems to me to apply.
Not exempt - if that was the case there would be no Dominion suit against Fox. If the people doing the defaming are using "facts" they know are not true - or can be shown not to care whether T or F - that is "actual malice" and they can be sued. I'm pretty sure the R's slurs on Soros qualify.
Wouldnt you think? Why is no one making any attempt at all to at least put it out there - I mean - think of all the ridiculous lawsuits from numnuts! No one is really fighting any of this garbage - just allowing it to be thrown out there as if its true. Frustrating.
thing is, Tom, I'm pretty sure they all believe it. it'd certainly be a major legal challenge to prove to a jury that they were all completely aware they were lying. and I think Soros figures he has better things to do.
sometimes (and certainly in THESE times) the First Amendment can seem to bite us in the ass.
Roll the drums, TC---another great column. Lots of laughs here, but a lot of pain seeing these goofballs carry on their raving -- whatever else one calls them it is becoming clear that they are Evil in the purest sense---and also guilty of a lot......
Yes Ellen, all of our patient education, discharge instructions etc. have to be written at a 5th grade level. I have developed many and then they go through a 5th grade vetting process. Sadly there are still many who can’t even read or comprehend at the 5th grade level.
Does the speech and debate clause protect the Sedition Caucus when they threaten a state official with financial consequences for exercising the functions of his or her office? Otherwise, wouldn’t this all constitute obstruction of justice and interference with official proceedings?
"rump’s Truest Believers are fearful that his calls for protests are a “trap” set by Democrats." Gave me a smile.
Could this be good news, that some of their paranoia is reaching such a level to create mental paralysis and may even cause some of that behavioral conditioning which leads rat snakes to begin eating themselves?
Reminds me of the childrens fable about the fellow who awoke in tremendous fright to the sight of two ghostly orbs staring at him from the foot of his bed. Reaching slowly for his shotgun leaning against the nightstand and taking careful aim in the pale weak moonlight filtering through the window, he gave the fiendish beast both barrels and blew both of his big toes off.
He deserved worse. He said his ribs were broken too from the neighbor incident and that he won’t ever live a day again without pain. Poor baby. I have had fractured ribs that punctured my lung from a car accident and they healed and the pain is gone. He is such an asshole. Sorry, but I really can’t stand him.
The idiots are all blowing their anti-Semitic dog whistles. If it weren’t so disturbing it would be funny. Well actually their ridiculous, pathetic gibberish spewing from their marionette yappers is somewhat comical when you see who is pulling their strings. Free advertising for the orange “victim’s” grift.
I assume I'm not the only one who read the front page story in today's NYT about the two "Libertarian guys" who are behind the proposed fascist "reforms" of the Israeli legal system.
once again, Queens has become the punchline to a bad NYC joke.
Nothing saps the strength out of a country like its saps, and, boy, have we got 'em both on the street and in high places. But bless them for thinking that showing up for protests this time will ensnare them in a Dem trap. At least the prosecutions of the 1/6 rioters and insurrectionists may be having some deterrent effect.
They keep blathering the same old bull Schitt. What’s wrong, propaganda nuts, no creativity. Nah, it’s just that the old crap, repeated ad nauseam, just works with the brain dead. So embarrassing that the willfully ignorant just show the worst of humanity. If these cretins had been in charge of human progress for millennia, we would still throw rocks at each other. They are an embarrassment to the human race…
Benjamin “Nitwityahu” still makes me smile.
The Cartalk guys referred to him as Notyetyouyahoo. And "yahu" is almost certainly a misspelling by TC. He meant Nitwityahoo.
Whenever I heard the talking heads on TV pronouncing it, it has always translated as three words (in my head) ... "Nyet, an yahoo."
We loved Click and Clack! Brilliant and hilarious…and with that “wicked” Boston accent..
Taughm (his preferred spelling) was a major character. He and his friend Peter referred to their cigar smoking as "Italian yoga." (Ray, the younger one, did not smoke.) And if someone interacted with them, they never let on who they were. I first encountered Taughm and Peter in the fall of '06. It was a chilly day and they were hanging out with their cigars outside the Paradiso cafe in Harvard Square. I had no idea that one of the people I was talking to was a car talk guy. I asked them if I could take their picture smoking (I have hundreds of photos of people smoking) and they said Sure! I got a great shot of them.
Then, a couple of months later I sat with Taughm and Ray at a Motor Press Xmas party, not realizing that I'd met Taughm once already (and I don't think Taughm recognized me).
Several weeks later, I was in the Paradiso, and Taughm came walking in with a few other people. I quickly realized it was Taughm, and then I realized that Taughm was one of the guys I'd photographed smoking!
I do love the Boston accents!
Yeah, the car talk guys were great. And their advice was good. I loved the law firm: Dewey, Cheatham & Howe.
This native New England-uh loved your story!
I'm also a native, although I spent half of my post-university adulthood in DC, and my first four years in Seattle, minus the two months in Boston after I was born there. (I was conceived in Seattle. Are you still a New Englander? (I used to get so nostalgic over the accent when I lived in DC!)
I’m in Florida…sigh. Born and raised in RI and moved here after college. My Rhode Island-ese comes out when I’m around family or have a brew or two…not to be confused with a drink from the bubble-uh ! 😜
"War on Reality". Boy, is that true. I just noted that one of my MAGAt friends posted a very long and detailed comment on how the "liberal reality" is just fantasy and we're all idiots for falling for the mask mandates. The sky is a different color in his world.
But then you have the people who are now believing that the statement for protests are really a trick played on them by the democrats... heads I win, tails you lose must be their mantra.
GooberWorld, where the sky is green and the grass is blue.
This may be a naive question but arent there slander and/or libel laws in this country? I seem to remember hearing of them years ago (little sarcasm there). Are they no longer in effect? These idiots are slandering people with LIES - as I remember - there used to be lawsuits regarding both. Or is it just so dam expensive to do so currently. The crap said & printed about George Soros seems to me to apply.
I think people lobbing slander are exempt when their targets public figures, and Soros qualifies as a public figure. But I'm not 100% certain of this.
Not exempt - if that was the case there would be no Dominion suit against Fox. If the people doing the defaming are using "facts" they know are not true - or can be shown not to care whether T or F - that is "actual malice" and they can be sued. I'm pretty sure the R's slurs on Soros qualify.
Wouldnt you think? Why is no one making any attempt at all to at least put it out there - I mean - think of all the ridiculous lawsuits from numnuts! No one is really fighting any of this garbage - just allowing it to be thrown out there as if its true. Frustrating.
thing is, Tom, I'm pretty sure they all believe it. it'd certainly be a major legal challenge to prove to a jury that they were all completely aware they were lying. and I think Soros figures he has better things to do.
sometimes (and certainly in THESE times) the First Amendment can seem to bite us in the ass.
Roll the drums, TC---another great column. Lots of laughs here, but a lot of pain seeing these goofballs carry on their raving -- whatever else one calls them it is becoming clear that they are Evil in the purest sense---and also guilty of a lot......
Indeed.
It is truly distressing to note the millions in this country whose reading level is below 6th grade with corresponding IQ. Fox fans.
Yes Ellen, all of our patient education, discharge instructions etc. have to be written at a 5th grade level. I have developed many and then they go through a 5th grade vetting process. Sadly there are still many who can’t even read or comprehend at the 5th grade level.
Does the speech and debate clause protect the Sedition Caucus when they threaten a state official with financial consequences for exercising the functions of his or her office? Otherwise, wouldn’t this all constitute obstruction of justice and interference with official proceedings?
Asking for a friend.
The answer is yes to both questions. A good example of how "legal" criminals work.
"rump’s Truest Believers are fearful that his calls for protests are a “trap” set by Democrats." Gave me a smile.
Could this be good news, that some of their paranoia is reaching such a level to create mental paralysis and may even cause some of that behavioral conditioning which leads rat snakes to begin eating themselves?
Reminds me of the childrens fable about the fellow who awoke in tremendous fright to the sight of two ghostly orbs staring at him from the foot of his bed. Reaching slowly for his shotgun leaning against the nightstand and taking careful aim in the pale weak moonlight filtering through the window, he gave the fiendish beast both barrels and blew both of his big toes off.
He deserved worse. He said his ribs were broken too from the neighbor incident and that he won’t ever live a day again without pain. Poor baby. I have had fractured ribs that punctured my lung from a car accident and they healed and the pain is gone. He is such an asshole. Sorry, but I really can’t stand him.
And he never misses an opportunity to remind you of what a complete asshole he is.
The idiots are all blowing their anti-Semitic dog whistles. If it weren’t so disturbing it would be funny. Well actually their ridiculous, pathetic gibberish spewing from their marionette yappers is somewhat comical when you see who is pulling their strings. Free advertising for the orange “victim’s” grift.
Thank you, TC, for making me laugh....great renaming (rebranding?) of these dolts.
I assume I'm not the only one who read the front page story in today's NYT about the two "Libertarian guys" who are behind the proposed fascist "reforms" of the Israeli legal system.
once again, Queens has become the punchline to a bad NYC joke.
envy is not something I tend to feel very often.
but I felt it in a really stinging way that time Rand Paul's next-door neighbor broke the stupid prick's arm.
Why $3300.00?
Thank you TC. Priceless!