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GOP Governor’s spend Biden Covid relief money they where against…Open Thread for 12/15/2021

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This was to be expected….

The same will be for the Biden Build Back Better money….

In the American post Trump political world?

The ‘deal’ is you talk against Biden and Democrats getting ya the money….

As you take it and spend it and tag it as your own effort…

Thus biting the hand that is feeding ya and getting away with it….

And Democrats just remain mute…

Republican leaders across the country have been engaged in a similarly awkward dance over the past few months as they accept — and often champion — money from the $350 billion bucket of state and local aid included in the stimulus bill, which passed Congress without a single Republican vote. In some states, like Ohio and Arizona, Republican governors are spending the funds while attempting to undercut the law that allowed the money to flow. Other governors are faulting Congress for not giving their state enough money.

And, like their counterparts in Congress, many Republicans have blasted Mr. Biden’s stimulus bill for fueling inflation, even as they take the funds, and criticized Democrats for pushing for additional government spending plans.

“I urge President Biden and Democrats in D.C. to turn off the spigot of out-of-control spending and get inflation under control,” said Gov. Greg Gianforte, Republican of Montana, whose state has used some of its $906 million in stimulus money to invest in nursing homes and return-to-work bonuses.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican of Florida, complained last week that the federal formula for allocating money to states based on their jobless rate had essentially penalized Florida for not imposing lockdowns and allowing businesses to remain open during the pandemic.

“I think you’d have to acknowledge that we got the short end of the stick compared to these other states,” Mr. DeSantis said.

Florida, which was allotted a total of $8.8 billion, has so far received about $3.4 billion, which Mr. DeSantis said would go toward infrastructure, transportation and work force retention. The governor justified keeping the money by arguing that the federal government fueled economic disruption with shutdowns and vaccine and mask mandates that he opposed.

Despite his complaints, the cash cushion could help Florida build as much as $17 billion in reserves by the end of next year, according to Mr. DeSantis, and allow the state to afford to pay for priorities that are unrelated to the pandemic….

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White House officials said that despite some disagreements about the relief money, governors and their staffs have privately been working well with the Biden administration….

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    • I just sent James a chart showing the death rate between Republican and Democratic counties death rates. Will he post it?

      Three times higher for Republicans. No wonder they think Biden’s covid policy is a disaster. It’s a disaster for them.

      But, no masks, no mandates, freedom to kill yourself from the pro-life party.

        • There are likely several socioeconomic factors at play here in regards to death rates and matters related to income, education levels, overall health care participation, etc.

          You all grew up in a time where it was considered implausible that the poor or “working class” could be voting Republican, and that has certainly now changed.

          • Fact: Republicans are three times more likely to die from Covid than Democrats.

            People can bullshit all they want about the socio-economic reasons people vote the way they do, but it remains astounding that the party that claims pro-life status is actively assisting in killing its supporters.

            Because, that’s what is happening.

            Or, as Trump once said, “I love the poorly educated.”

            • None of us grew up at a time when the well-educated (people with graduate degrees) were so overwhelmingly Democratic. I remember when I was in college in the late 70s, I sometimes felt isolated socially being a Democrat.

              I recall the contempt I received in my religion class at Seton Hall when I suggested it was wrong for the Catholic Church to oppose birth control in an over-populated world. I was literally afraid that the priest who taught that class would call my parents. He never did!

    • This will be the first Christmas in twenty years that the United States is not at war.

      Merry Christmas everyone!

  4. A survey by the Chicago public School system found that 23% of students self identify as LGBTQ+. I assume it was only for students in grades 9-12. Am I the only one surprised by such large numbers? Those numbers are more than twice as high as I would have guessed.

    The school system is changing the signs on the rest room to “men+” and “women+” to allow for transgendered students.

    • Right now?

      They will have enough trouble dealing with virus hits send homes and teacher coverage…..

        • Seung Min Kim
          @seungminkim
          Overnight, the Senate confirmed Biden’s 40th judge — the most since Reagan, who also got 40 judges confirmed in his first year. Biden’s confirmed judges also far surpass the number of judges Trump got confirmed in his first year (18)

  5. BREAKING

    Manchin will NOT support Biden’s Build Back Better package…..

    It appears Democrats will NOT get the votes to go any further with the Biden agenda…..

      • But somewhat predictable…

        In my view ,Biden was ill advised on this “go big” agenda.To have made this whole thing dependent on the vote of a Senator who in the past has expressed reservations about this type of big spending measure was a major risk all along.

        Apparently Biden figured he could somehow bring Manchin along.In the end he couldn’t..

        • The Democrats have a no seat majority Jack.

          If you don’t try you never get.

          The bill he currently says he opposes has provisions to continue the black lung program for WV miners.

          Manchin chose to announce this on Fox News to avoid tough questions. Has he been honest here?

          This is part of the legislative process. For once I agree with Bernie, bring it to the floor and make them publicly vote no. That would be all the Republicans too.

          But what would you have had Biden do? Everything in the bill is even more necessary than it was yesterday as this pandemic reignites.

    • Isakson stood by Trump after Access Hollywood. It was a deal breaker even as I was contemplating the notion of voting HRC and a check on Presidential power at that time.

      Still, miles upon miles better than the servile quartet of Kelly Loeffler, Doug Collins, David “Chicken Shit” Perdue, and Hershel Walker.

    • I can’t find anything that included Isakson’s response to Access Hollywood, but he went far further rhetorically in speaking out against Trump, after Trump was President, than most Republican Senators did. He basically said Trump should be “whipped” for continuing to attack John McCain.

      • I heard the comments in a GA Public Broadcasting debate between him and the other two candidates in that election. Tame compared to recent disgraceful utterances, but I was having none of it at that time.

  8. The Tories are set to lose their majority in the next British general election, with a number of notable Conservative MPs set to lose their seats, according to new analysis.

    The polling, carried out by political consultancy Electoral Calculus and pollster Find Out Now, was based on over 10,200 respondents, carried out between 29 November and December 1. The poll found that if a general election were held now, the Tories would fall 38 seats short of a majority.

    The Conservatives have a lead over Labour of only 1 percent, which is down from 4 percent from a similar poll for the Telegraph in September, and significantly down from 13pc in May. The poll puts the Tories on 36 percent while Labour are on 35 percent, the Lib Dems on 11 percent. The Greens and SNP [Scottish National Party] are on 8 percent and 5 percent respectively.

    Although the Conservatives would still have the highest number of seats with 288, it would mean that they would’ve lost 77 seats while the Labour Party on 271, would’ve gained 68 seats. The Liberal Democrats would also lose 3 seats, down to 8 from 11 in 2019, while the Greens would still only have 1 seat in Parliament….

    https://leftfootforward.org/2021/12/tories-set-to-lose-their-majority-according-to-new-poll/

    After the shock Lib Dem by-election win in North Shropshire, where the party overturned a 23,000 majority to defeat the Tories, some are calling for a formal progressive alliance to help oust the Tories at the next general election.

    Although the Labour Party came second in 2019 and the Lib Dems came from third to topple the Tories, some have taken the tactical voting that took place in the by-election as proof that the only way to defeat the Tories is through a progressive alliance.

    Neal Lawson, Director of Compass, the pressure group campaigning for a progressive alliance, said: “This is a good day for all progressives. Voters have formed an alliance and are way ahead of the politicians in wanting a change of government and politics.’

    ‘But what is given in by-elections is often taken away in generals unless progressive parties learn to work more effectively together.

    ‘Labour was playing with fire in this by-election. The party locally ignored the quiet deal that Keir Starmer [Labour Party leader] and Ed Davey [LDP leader] had clearly done – and could have split the vote to disastrous effect. In a general election, splitting the progressive vote is the Tories best hope of staying in power.

    ‘In 1997 Labour and the Liberal Democrats worked successfully together. Today the electoral mountain is much steeper. We need 1997-plus levels of cross-party working, but we are getting 1997-minus.

    ‘The electoral map is crystal clear. The Lib Dems are second in 80 Tory seats. They and Labour have no fight with each other.

    ‘The two parties need to create a national mood that it’s time for change and then get out of each other’s way.’…

    https://leftfootforward.org/2021/12/calls-for-a-formal-progressive-alliance-after-lib-dem-win-in-north-shropshire/

  10. Trump and O’Reilly got booed for telling a crowd on their tour that they got booster shots.

    Maybe Sarah “Over my dead body Pain” is preparing to primary Trump.

  11. Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) will not seek reelection. Her seat will be considered likely to flip to Republicans.

    (but yes. Albio Sires (D-NJ) is is also retiring will be succeeded by a Democrat, apparently Bob Menendez’s son.)

    • One of the candidates in that district whom I hope does not get nominated is State Rep. Anthony Sabatini, who is a Gaetz-like nut case.

      I *think* (it was either him or someone who went on to work for him) that back in the P1 days, he used to comment there and and in 2007 would send me very long emails about how horrible Mitt Romney was. He was a Huckabee guy.

      • Sopranos would be Essex County.

        Old neighborhood in Donald Payne’s district but of course living in luxury in the suburban district of Mikkie Sherril.

        • Unlike you, I recognize from living in NJ a lot of the areas shown on the Sapranos, and it is a lot more than Hudson County. There are scenes from Essex, Middlesex, Passaic, Union and Bergen Counties, and at least a couple of south NJ counties. When they reference streets on the show, I almost always know where they are. And yes they are dispropttionately in the Hudson County, and Sires district includes the poorer section of Newark and Belleville (Hudson County)where there were a lot of scenes from the Sapranos.

          Tony Sapronas actual home I think is in North Caldwell. I don’t recall how I new that, but I think you are right that it is in Sherrill’s district.

            • I have been re-watching the Sopranos for the first time in years and am towards the beginning of Season Five.

              After each episode, I listen to the “Talking Sopranos” podcast on YouTube.

              • Edie Falco (Carmela Soprano) more recently played Hillary Clinton on the FX “Impeachment” series which I also watched.

                She’s a great actress but it was virtually impossible to separate the two roles at times. The scene where Hillary got furious and swore and threw things at Bill over Monica Lewinsky was indistinguishable from the scene of the Sopranos where Carmela got furious, swore, and threw things at Tony over the one-legged Russian.

                • Pretty appropriate that AJ Soprano wanted to work for Trump. Member of a crime family, not too bright. It makes sense.

          • Thank you for confirming the many locations on the Sopranos that is nowhere near Essex County, including so many of those Kersey City (Hudson County) locations in Sires district, A look at Sires district shows that it includes parts of Essex Couny including the poorer sections of Newark and most if not all of Belleville, both prominent locations on the Sopranos.. I enjoy it when CG proves he is wrong by providing a link.

            The Pulaski highway featured on the beginning of the show is mostly Jersey City, although I think the less scenic part of that multi-mile bridge is in Essex County.

            Although the city of Nutley (Essex County)is continually referenced in the Sopranos, and at least two of the shows’s mobsters were said to be living there, none of the show was filmed in Nutley because the city of Nutley (which has a large Italian American community) did not want itself to be associated with the mafia, requested there be no filming there.

            Interestingly, there still is a remnants of a real mafia in Nutley, albeit one much less powerful than on the Sapranos. One of my coworkers has some good stories of him running into “Jimmy the boot” at a restaurant.

            • The main setting was Essex County and the Newark region. The new prequel movie is called “Many Saints of Newark.” It was where the main characters lived and the supposed location of most of the locales. Sometimes, they filmed things outside of Essex County even though it was supposed to take place in Essex County.

              The Pine Barrens episode (supposedly South Jersey) was filmed in Upstate New York.

              I would think the “poorer section” of Newark would be mostly in Donald Payne’s district. Newark would make up a very small portion of Sires’ district.

              • Thank goodness no.

                I even know what street the Sopranos live on though…

                And Assemblyman Zellman was one corrupt Democrat.

                • You need to get out of your house more and see the world. I think you will find that a lot of your impressions are flat out wrong.

      • The Almanac of Am. Politics 2020 says about the N.J. 8th:

        Median income: $57,017
        = rank among 435 CD’s 205
        Poverty rate: 17.6%
        Cash public assistance: 4%
        SNAP & Food stamps: 16.6%

        25.3 % white
        8.5% black
        54.6% Latino
        8.8% Asian
        2.7% mixed or other race

        • I am almost at the end of Ohio House members/districts in my Politics in America 2022. I did all the Governors and Senators before that.

          • Sorry, it is the Almanac of American Politics 2022 that I own.

            Politics in America is a publication that no longer exists I believe.

  12. CA-48
    Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard is going to retire too.

    3 Democratic Retirements in one Day.

    Democrats are DONE in this Congress. They are finished.

    CG,
    Murphy and Crist will be both replaced by Republicans.

      • An all GOP Congress would probably mean the Camp Auschwitz t shirt guy and the Confederate flag waver from Jan 6 will be allowed back in the Capiol.

        Either as statues or House GOP freshmen.

            • pro-Trump perhaps. No evidence they are “Republicans.” Trump had and has a lot of support from non-Republicans. Look at those Kennedy-cult loving QAnon freaks for instance.

              Took some poetic license in saying that Camp Auschwitz would intern for Tlaib but there are a handful of Democrats in the House who are not exactly friends to the Jews, as some of their Jewish colleagues in the Democrat Caucus would attest.

              • Those who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6 are either Republicans or are “conservative independents” supported and/or defended by Republicans. The idea that any of them want anything to do with the Democratic Party or liberal or even moderate causes is laughable.

                • or Trump Democrats or all around goofballs.

                  And many were said to be pot-smoking anti-police folks who disliked Mike Pence.

                  • You still don’t see do you?

                    The January 6 weirdos are more indicative of the GOP than you or Liz Cheney are.

                    Ppt smoking Joe Rogan podcast listening to incel guys bearing Capitol Police with Blue Lives Matter flagsare more influential than people like you pretending it’s still Mitt Romney or Jeb Bushes party.

                    • That’s only if you let them take over the definition, which many of them do not even want to do.

                      They don’t call themselves Republicans. The rest is ancillary.

                      They represent Trumpism. Republicanism is being held hostage/and or has capitulated to Trumpism.

                    • I have my doubts that a “Trump Democrat” will ever vote for a Democrat again.

                      And most non-Trumpist Republicans that I know don’t even consider themselves Republicans anymore.

                    • I thought CG had pretty much abandoned the Republican Party?

                      He said earlier he no longer attended Republican meetings and turned in his “ GOP” license plate.

                      Who is he then to “ define” who is or is not a Republican ?These domestic Terrorists were the epitome of Republicans.Many traveled hundreds of miles at the behest of the Republican President ( whom CG didn’t vote for) in an effort to steal the election for the Republican Party.

                      He has also stated in the past they he would never support anyone who supported Trump( which eliminates about 95% of the Republican candidates throughout the country).

                      CG can play in his fantasy world if he wants but the Republican Party has moved on.Trumpism is now the overwhelmingly dominant philosophy and people like Desantis, Cruz, Hawley, Cotton, McCarthy MTG ( Trumpites one and all) are now the face and voice of the party .

                      Indeed, he is now ,in the parlance of the new Republican Party , a RINO.

                    • jack has some confusion here that I hope I can clarify.

                      I never would have said that I would never in the future vote for anyone who had supported Trump. Of course it also has to be noted that unlike myself, he has already voted for pro-Trump Republicans where he lives. I would not have cast those votes for the red-hat wearing candidates he did, but I understand his reasons for doing so.

                      To be as succinct as possible, I would not vote for a candidate who was running a Trumpist campaign. However, it would be a bad idea to rule out anybody who had (mistakenly in my view) voted for Trump in the past. While I had never supported Trump, even for one solitary moment, of course, even Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger had supported him at one time.

                    • and the Trump cultists don’t even call me a RINO at this point. I would be called a Democrat or a socialist.

                      Just like for years on this site I have been compared to a Nazi sympathizer on here by a prominent poster with the most minimal of pushback from others.

                      All of these things are of course is ridiculous, but most things said by political tribalists, especially online, on both sides are ridiculous.

                    • In terms of “definitions”, it is not really all that complicated.

                      Yes, Trump ran as a Republican and received strong support from Republicans. There are many factors that can be considered regarding that. You all should know my views on that matter.

                      However, not all Republicans supported Trump and not all Trump supporters are Republicans.

                      It should not be hard to accept both facts. Some though have had a personal reflexive interest in fighting Republicans for over 50 years, going long back before Trump, or including the times when Trump himself was a Democrat, so these attack lines get blurred and presented in a way that is not fully accurate.

                  • I have been watching the show pretty regularly on HBOMax for the last two months. Almost every episode, They reference other towns or streets that are not in Essex county, and a lot perhaps most) of the locations you provided on the link were NOT in Essex County.

                    Newark has lots of very poor areas and some of those especially on the west side (near Irvington) are in Payne’s district., as are most if not all of the better areas of Newark (downtown, Ironbound, University Heights). But when I think of the worst section of Newark, I think of the north side which appears to be in Sires district.

                    Have you ever even been to Newark?

  13. I did very well on today’s Jeopardy “Electoral College” category.

    Daily Double was- “The only men to garner more than 1,000 electoral votes in their political careers were FDR & these 2 Republicans”

    Anyone know? No cheating…

  14. Winter begins as of tomorrow which gives us the less among of Sun light during the day for the year…….

    • Wrong, James, completely wrong.

      While meteorological Winter (= what everyone else calls winter) began in December and continues into February, the (astronomical) Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, i.e. the day with the least sunshine in the Northern Hemisphere. After tomorrow, we’ll see a few MORE minutes of sunlight every day for six months until the Summer Solstice (Midsummer’s Day) on or around June 21st, after which daylight starts again to diminish.

      In between are the two midpoints in this cycle when day and night last an equal number of hours: the Spring or Vernal Equinox (Latin for “equal night”) around March 21st, and the Autumnal Equinox around September 21st.

      Even though we’re entering the coldest months and weeks of the year, there’s a very good reason that many religions and cultures have Festivals of Light around this time (e.g. Christmas, Diwali and Têt) — the return of the sun from its longest daily absence suggests rebirth.

      • Hmmmmmm?

        The winter solstice, also called the hiemal solstice, hibernal solstice, and brumal solstice, occurs when either of Earth’s poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky.[3] Either pole experiences continuous darkness or twilight around its winter solstice. The opposite event is the summer solstice. Depending on the hemisphere’s winter solstice, at the Tropic of Cancer or Capricorn, the Sun reaches 90° below the observer’s horizon at solar midnight, to the nadir.

        The winter solstice occurs during the hemisphere’s winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (usually December 21 or 22) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (usually June 20 or 21). Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term sometimes refers to the day on which it occurs…..

        Wiki….

        Bold added by me….

  15. President Bidem brilliantly noted this afternoon that he and Trump agreed on getting a booster shot. Hopefully this will move the needle among Trump Republicans–the group most likely to be vaccine resistant. Plus it reminds Trump he was booed by his own Republican supporters when he said he got his booster. Some thing I heard Bill O’Reilly had to console him over.

    Imagine going to the likes of Bill O’Reilly for comfort and affirmation. Yikes!

    • Trump will still use the virus and mandates AGAINST Biden and Democrats while getting his 3 shots…..

  16. COVID-19, Declining Birth Rates and International Migration Resulted in Historically Small Population Gains

    LUKE ROGERS, U.S. Census Bureau
    DECEMBER 21, 2021

    The U.S. population grew at a slower rate in 2021 than in any other year since the founding of the nation, based on historical decennial censuses and annual population estimates.

    The U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2021 Population Estimates released today show that population grew only 0.1% and that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the slower growth the country has experienced in recent years.

    The year 2021 is the first time since 1937 that the U.S. population grew by fewer than one million people, featuring the lowest numeric growth since at least 1900, when the Census Bureau began annual population estimates.

    Apart from the last few years, when population growth slowed to historically low levels, the slowest rate of growth in the 20th century was from 1918-1919 amid the influenza pandemic and World War I….

    https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/12/us-population-grew-in-2021-slowest-rate-since-founding-of-the-nation.htm

    [Births & net migration dropped, while deaths increased.]

    https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/stories/2021/12/us-population-grew-in-2021-slowest-rate-since-founding-of-the-nation-figure-2.jpg

  17. Biden went a bit out of his way for the first time to praise the Trump Administration over vaccine development and Fox News is now reporting that Trump is over the moon and appreciative that Biden did this and that he is saying that the “healing can now begin” or something like that.

    Trump is one needy, insecure person.

    • Needy and insecure, and the leader of the Republican Party.

      The denial here by our Republican apologist Corey that both Trump and the mob he sent to the Capitol to overthrow a Constitutionally elected President are somehow not Republicans is pathetic. They are both Republicans and the core of the Party.

      This isn’t Poppy Bush’s party anymore Corey, the racist genie is out of the bottle and Trump speaks for them, and yes there are several scary similarities to what those Republicans did on January 6th and what the Nazis did to grab power in Germany.

      I only joked right after the last election when I asked, “when does Trump start his Reichstag fire?” The answer: January 6th.

      You can’t blame it on just one man when the overwhelming elected membership of your party voted to overthrow a duly certified election. And now they, Republican legislators all over the country, are making it legal for them to steal the next election. They are planning this coup in the open nd not one Republican that I can see has objected.

      So stop with the fucking Trumper bullshit and simply insert the word Republican. They have been on this road for fifty years and they are about to go full authoritarian on us.

      Anyone who understands politics understands this Corey, why do you deny it?

      • Yes, I read his posts several times.

        As best I can tell, he views himself as sort of an arbiter of who may call themselves “ Republican.”Of course the problem is as I stated that the vast majority of Republicans would regard him as a “RINO” or as he himself admitted maybe even a Democrat or a Communist.Accordingly, this all seems a moot argument.

        CG is in a state of denial.His Party is gone and he can’t brings himself to admit it.

          • SD-Sen: Rumors are circulating that Sen. John Thune (R) is considering retirement due to former President Trump’s continued grip over the GOP. Thune is the Senate GOP’s top lieutenant behind Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R). McConnell himself has begged Thune to run for re-election in addition to Sens. Lindsey Graham (R) and Susan Collins (R). Thune has said he will make a final decision over the holidays…

            More…

  18. Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a leading voice of House Democrats’ moderate wing, announced Monday she won’t seek reelection next fall in another stinging loss for her party.

    The Florida Democrat — who flipped a GOP-held battleground seat in 2016 and helped write the party’s playbook for its House takeover two years later — said she is leaving the Hill to spend more time with her family, including her two school-aged children.

    “It’s been a real honor for me to serve in Congress, but it does come at a personal sacrifice. My time away has been hard on my family and my kids and on me,” Murphy told POLITICO.

    A leader of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition, Murphy once mulled a challenge against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) next fall. Instead, she said she will leave after finishing her current term in the House, where she and other moderates hope to help salvage President Joe Biden’s climate and social spending bill….

    — Sarah Ferris, Politico,
    Mon, December 20, 2021, 11:49 AM

    https://news.yahoo.com/murphy-leader-house-dem-centrists-164924863.html

    • If California and New York do this?
      It could work to even up the score in redistricting?

      California Democrats Score Big Win with New Map

      Cook Political Report: “On Monday, California’s citizens’ redistricting commission voted 14-0 to approve a map that’s a dream for Democrats. Technically, the commission (five Democrats, five Republicans and four others) was prohibited from taking partisan or incumbent data into consideration.”

      “But the end product features strong districts for California’s 42 Democratic incumbents (save for two who are retiring) and makes five out of 11 GOP incumbents more vulnerable.”

      Politocalwire

      • Morning people….

        I hope Santa is getting his final check List in order….

        We ALL could use a LOT of stuff….

          • James seems to have just implied that he likes attention. But I guess that still doesn’t conclusively answer whether he was vaccinated. It is noteworthy that he said he likes attention, but at the same time he didn’t deny being an idiot and a potential murderer.

  21. Yes – I hope Santa gets you your booster (CG claimed you are already got your first two shots).

    • Yes that matter has never been resolved.

      For months James has refused to admit to his vaccination status.Keith, in particular, has questioned him about it for some time,yet James refuses to comment.

      Then CG claims that,in fact, James has been vaccinated And was refusing to state so because he simply enjoyed the attention and number of posts his intransigence was getting.

      Now we know that ,unlike the rest of us here,James and CG have an off site back channel.Accordingly, the question arises, did James confide the above to CG or is CG just surmising such because it accords with his view of James as an attention seeker?

      In this holiday season it is time for the truth to be told and if he ,in fact, has been vaccinated but was simply refusing to admit the same because he “ enjoyed” the attention the question was drawing to himself?Then the only response I can make to that is…

      Of all the DUMB things I have seen on this site in the past over ten years?That about the DUMBEST one of all!

      • Yes. If James does enjoys the attention of being being called an idiot and a potential murderer just so he can get more comments, then that helps us to understand James better. With James, you never know for sure. James makes a lot of posts that I don’t understand what he is trying to say, although I don’t spend much time trying to understand him.

  22. Joe Manchin has said he will support a new tax on billionaires.

    So much for any talk of him switching parties.

    • Manchin votes Democratic more than 90% of the time

      This IS negotiating thhe Biden bill that WILL BE passed as some of us including Pelosi, Schumer and Biden KNEW from the jump…..

      Manchin is actually helping the progressives and swing state other law makers

      The progressives should STFU for once and let the man do his job …..

      • I had read earlier that Mitch McConnell was wooing Manchin but a few days later I read him saying that he didn’t think Manchin was going to switch .

        I imagine that the wooing ended when Manchin told him his tax views.

        Mitch could accept some things I suppose ,but a Republican tax raiser?

        No way,!

    • Manchin could co-sponsor it with Elizabeth Warren. I love it.

      It is really astounding that rural America is willing to put up with candidates that favor the wealthy so much. Tax cuts to the wealthy is not just bad economics (that relatively few economists support); it is horrible for worsening the income distribution. Yet for some reason.rural America doesn’t care. They are still waiting for that promised new steel mill!

  23. If James likes the attention so much, he should go to a New York radio station and announce his consideration of a Primary challenge to President Biden on a platform of “Ain’t Gonna Happen” and “Americans Do Love Their Guns.”

    Finley/Gross could be the ticket that beats Trump Mach II and saves America.

    • No thanks

      I ‘m just an old dog running a wildly pipular political blog …..

      That is enough….

      • “ wildly popular.”

        I presume that is a purposefully farcical statement?

        If not, it gives new meaning to the word, “ popular.”

          • In the past he has claimed several hundred.

            A former poster, RepubliCAN, who seemed to possess some knowledge of such matters, said that most ,if not all of these unknown hits ,were “bots.”

            Seeing as how it is very rare that anyone ,other than the regulars offers a post ,that explanation rang true with me.

            If in fact there are hundreds visiting here daily without commenting?That would seem to indicate that they were just visiting to either view James’s editorial comments or our gems of knowledge ,an unlikely explanation.

            • Truthfully, the main reason I come or the site is to read commentary from some (but not all) people.

      • James, I noticed the pdog101 domain expires in July 2022. What does that mean? Are you planning new features?

        • Remember those polls James would occassionally run?

          The problem was that there were usually no more than 5 or 6 votes cast.

          I remember inquiring as to why there weren’t many more votes from the hundreds he claimed were viewing here daily.

          I never saw another poll after that inquiry.

    • It would have to be CG/ Finley for CG to sign on.

      If you notice ,in his various fantasizing about a bipartisan fusion ticket, the Republican is always in the top spot.

      • Consider the wildly successful outcome of the last bipartisan unity ticket of Abe Lincoln (R) & Andrew Johnson (D) in 1864.

        Reconstruction nearly never happened.

        Or Anderson (R) – Lucey (D) in 1980.

      • a JBF/CG ticket would promise increased military spending lower taxes on gas prices, some oil pipeline over environmentally sensitive areas, all financed by borrowing from China.

        • Plus a health-care plan NOT Medicate for All) that might have pleased the insurers and Big Pharma more than those they cover (or don’t cover).

          We all know what a wild-eyed unrealistic Utopian revolutionary Clement Attlee was in 1948.

  24. Damn! I missed Festvus this year. I missed it last year too! I was looking forward to airing my grievances.

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