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Few people remember that Norm MacDonald began his career as a ventriloquist
MacDonald's old partner Adam Egot revealed that MacDonald repurposed a bit with one of his ventriloquist dolls -- that he was a "bad guy" who "didn't believe the Holocaust happened" -- for the Norm MacDonald show, in which he claimed Egot didn't believe in the Holocaust.

Funniest thing I've read about the Virginia mess. Back when they were hustling the referendum through the assembly both Senators, Warner and Kaine, advised them to go slow and play by the rules. Louise Lucas said she respected them but didn't need advice from the "cuck chair" in the corner. The gerrymandering was overturned and Louise is heading for the big house. Edward G. Robinson voice "where's your cuck now?"
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Chris
@chriswithans

"Ahhhhh ahh I put my career on the line for Louise Lucas and Jay Jones thinking they'd vault me into presidential contention and we ended up costing Democrats 20 House seats and unleashing a Reverse Dobbs ahhhhh ahhh"

Forgotten 80s Mystery Click That Sums Up the Democrat Communist Party Today
Something is wrong as I hold you near
Somebody else holds your heart, yeah
You turn to me with your icy tears
And then it's raining, feels like it's raining

TJM wonders about world building in stories, mostly The Hunger Games

"It's f**king f**ked."
-- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source"
Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat

🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

Only a cult does this.

Now they've lost 84%.

Annunziata Rees-Mogg
@zatzi
If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

The British Patriot
@TheBritLad

🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.<
br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult.
Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges

Reform are basically wiping Labour out in the North. It's not a defeat. It's not even a rout. Labour are simply ceasing to exist.

Nick Lowles
@lowles_nick

Tonight’s results are calamitous for Labour. Not just for Keir Starmer's leadership, but for the very future of the party

STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98.
Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years.
Fulton County Georgia just discovered 400 boxes of ballots for Labour
Update: REF +156, LAB -107, CON -45
Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%.
I'm sure it's not this simple, but Reform is straight taking Labour's and the "Conservatives'" seats. They've lost almost exactly what Reform gained. If understand this right (and warning, I probably don't), all of London's council seats are up for election, and Labour might lose hugely there, as their old voters abandon them for Reform, Muslim Indenpendents, and the Greens.
REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.

Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that.
People claim that while Labour has adopted the Sharia Agenda to appeal to the million Muslims it allowed to migrate to the country, those voters are ditching Labour to vote for the Muslim Independent Party or the Greens. Delicious. This shadenfreude is going straight to my thighs.
Oh, and if Starmer loses about as badly as expected, Labour will toss him out of a window Braveheart style and replace him. He will announce he is resigning to spend more time with his Gay Ukrainian Male Prostitutes.

Media bias and senationalism are as old as, well, the media:

That was written by Denny O'Neill and illustrated by, get this, Frank Miller. Editor to the Stars Jim Shooter was in charge at the time.
I always thought the gag was original to the comic book, but in fact the "Threat or Menace" headline was a satirical joke about media bias and sensationalism for a long while. The Harvard Lampoon used it in a parody of Life magazine: "Flying Saucers: Threat or Menace?"

Hamas is Humiliating Trump's 'Board of Peace'
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As an Alaskan I see this as crap. I've heard that Senator Stevens son owns a bunch of property on that island? I'm sure the monies could be used on projects that would benefit more than those who live or utilize the island. It's time ALL the senators stop thinking of ways to spend and start thinking of ways to save.

I'll ditto the comments of Dketch (ketch as in Ketchikan I assume?).

As an erstwhile Alaskan, I can assure you that the only economic development you'll see out of this is the development of the wallets of the political families and cronies.

Alaska, remember, has no personal state taxes. As in "The Alaska Department of Revenue does not levy personal income or sales/use tax. "

They actually work the OTHER way. They have a permanent fund which gives out dividends every year to residents. In October, every man, woman, and child resident in Alaska was sent a check for $845.76. That is their share of the $1.7 Billion the state made from Oil royalties in 2005.

Now there is NOTHING wrong with the above! That is a great way to economically run a resource-rich state. BUT...with that kind of local money why should any of the rest of the US have to pay anything for a purely local project?

Pork indeed, and a particularly egregious case.

As an Alaskan I see this as crap. I've heard that Senator Stevens son owns a bunch of property on that island?

I thought it was Don Young's son in law, and that it was prime land near where the Knik Arm bridge was going to be.

I live in Kenai, btw.

Two different bridges Doug? The knik arm bridge is supposed to link the Valley with Anchorage I believe...That one's not a bad idea seeing as how that area has been experiencing a huge house/population boom...in any case those with the connections will reap the windfall.
Had an opportunity to move to Kenia but my wife nixed it...she likes city life....beautiful country you live in.

While the Ketchikan bridge is one of the most shameful pork projects I'd wager any of us has ever seen, the Knik Arm bridge actually makes sense. Question is, who should pay for it?

To be frank, I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think it's fair to use taxes from the lower 48 to build a bridge most of them will never use, but on the other hand, since the rest of the country is so adamant that Alaska be one big national park, hamstringing development to the extent that it literally takes an act of Congress to run a fucking utility line in some places (thanks to Jimmy Carter's ANILCA), and forbiddng drilling in a godforsaken corner of tundra that nobody goes to, then they should have to pony up a little extra dough now and again.

Actually, the libertarian argument applies extremely well to this case. This is considered a pork project because the benefits are confined to an extremely small portion of the population that expenditure is supposed to serve. The economic benefits are vanishingly small. Thus this is something far better left to private enterprise to offer a satisfactory solution for the minuscule market. As I recall, this currently takes the form of a ferry but whether that is privately owned I haven't seen mentioned in any of the coverage I've read.

Similar situations can be seen not far from where I live. Some people really like having houses miles away from anything on top of forested mountains. The roads connecting their driveways to the state and federally funded roads are maintained out of the residents own pockets.

Alaskan Bridges To Nowhere Back