Nancy Pelosi will not seek re-election, ending decades-long House career
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T. A. Gardner
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You know, Bismarck once remarked politics is like making sausage and this wiener sounds like a winner at a sausage fest.
T. A. Gardner
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Maybe he'll end up going out like Biden's baggage thief did. That weirdo was a deviant too.
Don't count on it. There's not a Democrat in the world who'll dare to differ from whatever Wiener says or does, IMO.
T. A. Gardner
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So, you're saying they all swallow Weiner and enjoy it, hum?
I don't think you are taking this seriously.
To continue making "wiener" jokes about an impending clear and present danger to the nation strikes me as irresponsible after a while.
T. A. Gardner
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If you look at the history of this, the higher this guy goes, the more likely he ends up being charged with something and that's that. He would hardly be the first congress critter to be charged with some heinous sex crime.
Her husband has owned an investment firm for decades.
T. A. Gardner
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Yea, but he can't get her to write a bill letting his tuna factory workers in American Samoa get paid less than minimum wage legally now...
I'm pretty sure that a party who manifestly did not care when two of their staffers literally recorded themselves butt-fucking in the Senate chamber are not going to let one of their Senators be impeached.
Barney Frank got off with a motion to reprimand - the least severe formal sanction - when he was caught running a gay brothel out of his townhouse. Frank won re-election in 1990 with 66% of the Democrat vote.
T. A. Gardner
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That used to be the case. However, now things like that can't be covered up and a compliant MSM makes little difference. The electronics age has made it possible for such scandals to stay in the light and grow massively. What happens now is once some scandal like that starts, people come out of the woodwork and find more and more and it only grows.
T. A. Gardner
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He is out performing almost everyone. I doubt it is without inside information. I'd like to see how he does after Nancy leaves office. But I don't think that information will be public then.
Franken quit, he wasn't forced out, (despite the phony calls for him to resign that dishonest Democrats hoped you'd swallow and he later regretted resigning, because he knew Democrats would've backed him no matter what. Guess what? The same Democrats who unctuously uttered their insincere "calls to resign" admitted latter that they didn't mean it.
Ex-US Senator Al Franken regrets resigning over sexual misconduct claims
Seven of the more than 30 Democrats who called on Mr Franken to step down now say they regret it.
www.bbc.com
He resigned, too.
Weiner resigns after sexting scandal
Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner heeded calls from across the political spectrum by resigning from office Thursday, saying the sexting scandal he first lied about and then admitted caused such a distraction that it was impossible for him to continue his work in Congress.
www.cnn.com
He could've brazened it out like Franken did, and he would've been applauded by his fellow Democrats.
He was mainly worried about staying alive after Killary's incriminating emails were found on his laptop.
Pious public tut-tutting from Democrats in cases like this is meaningless window dressing to fool rubes.
Name them. I guarantee the circumstances of each can be explained in the same way. Democrats are incapable of honesty and they don't care what one one of their own does, despite their public statements, which are meaningless PR only suckers believe.
Blow Job Bill refused to quit, and Democrats looked the other way. You'll note that on this forum, JPP Democrats consistently defended him, supported him, and they still do all these years later. Same thing nationwide.
These are the party loyalists who march in leftist lockstep every minute of every day.
They still claim that Barack Hussein Obama's Reign of Error was "scandal free".
What Democrats say and what they do are very different.
They dissemble automatically and in unison. How gullible are you?
It strikes me that you're so desperate to "win" your point that you're willing to suspend disbelief and take Democrats at their word. I won't.
Political scientists run studies where they give subjects identical policy paragraphs but change the party label. Roughly 70–80% of strong partisans flip their opinion to match the party cue (see the work by Lilliana Mason, Uncivil Agreement).
Progressive Democrats called Joe Biden and Shamala “complicit in genocide” over Gaza in 2023–24, and 98% of them endorsed his stand-in in 2024 and campaigned for her.
Bernie Bros ditto.
In practice, the public moral/ethical/legal statements are mostly theater. The unspoken rule is: “What I said yesterday is less important than what my team needs me to say today to win tomorrow.”
The pattern breaks rarely. Citing outliers as "proof" of a wider trend is a symptom of a weak intellect. You don’t hide the outliers; you show them and explain why they don’t disprove the rule.
There is a recurring pattern in the Democrat Party's history where high-profile members involved in scandals face strong verbal condemnation from party leaders and colleagues, often framed as demands for accountability, ethics reforms, or resignations, but these public statements stop short of sustained, meaningful internal enforcement, such as expulsion, stripping away committee roles, or coordinated efforts to end the offender's career.
This allows many tainted Democrats to retain influence, run for office again, or avoid lasting party sanctions, even as Democrats publicly position themselves as the party of integrity and contrast themselves with Republicans.
This dynamic is not unique to Democrats, but it stands out because the Party of the Jackass has defined itself as the sanctimonious opposition to "corruption" and "abuse" (e.g., by mischaracterizing everything Trump does or says) while tolerating similar issues internally.
Sources across the political spectrum, including left-leaning outlets like The New York Times and Mother Jones, have even recognized this as a "corruption problem" that erodes trust and provides fodder for accusations of hypocrisy.
Democrats overwhelmingly defended Clinton during impeachment, downplaying the affair as "private" and accusing Republicans of a partisan witch hunt. Despite admissions of perjury and multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, the party rallied around him. He completed his term, remained a revered figure, and headlined fundraisers for decades. Verbal outrage was minimal internally; external criticism was dismissed as right-wing conspiracy. "Me Too" didn't apply to Democrats in any real sense.
After explicit photos led to Anthony Weiner's 2011 resignation from Congress, Democrats (including Nancy Pelosi and DNC leaders) piously called it a "distraction" and pretended publicly that they'd "pushed him out". But in 2013, he ran for NYC mayor with full Democrat backing until a second scandal erupted, and even then, no formal party ban had prevented his comeback attempt. His 2016 scandal indirectly revived the Killary email probes, yet he faced no DNC blacklisting and has flirted with returns to politics ever since.
John Edwards admitted an extramarital affair and fathering a child with his mistress while his wife battled cancer. Democrats distanced themselves verbally during his presidential run, but no formal party sanctions followed his 2011 indictment. He avoided expulsion from party circles and has since re-emerged at events like the 2024 DNC.
Dozens of Democrat senators (including much of leadership) pretended to demand Al Franken's resignation citing #MeToo pressure, but their main concern was the effect his silly groping photo would have on their female voters if they didn't act horrified. Later, the mendacious members of the chorus of condemnation (along with Franken himself) expressed regret, calling his resignation"rushed" without a full ethics probe. No equivalent haste applied to Republicans in similar scandals. I guess Al lost his nerve temporarily and reckoned he wasn't good enough, wasn't smart enough, and gosh darn it, people didn't like him. He's still revered by leftists, BTW. The gushing is nauseating: https://kidadl.com/facts/quotes/stu...affirmations-from-the-hilarious-snl-character
Nearly every Democrat (including Sleepy Joe Biden, Shutdown Schumer, and Kirsten Gillibrand) pretended to condemn Anthony Cuomo and called for his resignation after an AG report found he harassed 11 women. He obediently resigned, but faced no criminal charges, and many who pretended to condemn him endorsed his doomed 2025 NYC mayoral bid (over 40% of his top backers previously called him unfit).
After he barely escaped justice due to a 2017 mistrial, Democrats backed the reelection of Bob Menendez. In 2023, over half the Senate Democrat caucus pretended to demand his resignation when his lurid bribery case was exposed, yet he refused to quit (because he knew they didn't mean it), and he ran again. He only faced expulsion threats after a 2024 guilty verdict meant he would sink the Party's chances in the upcoming election - and he was never actually expelled. Party leadership supported him in 2018 despite the earlier case, and Democrats still remember him fondly. Since February 2025, Menendez's daughter Alicia has co-hosted MSNBC's 7pm ET weekday newscast.
Joe Biden did not suffer meaningful or lasting reputational damage among Democrats from the credible accusations of sexual impropriety leveled against him, primarily Tara Reade's 2020 allegation of digital penetration without consent, alongside earlier claims from multiple women about unwanted touching, hair-sniffing, and invasions of personal space that made them uncomfortable.The Reade accusation, corroborated by contemporaneous accounts from her brother, a friend, and a neighbor who recalled her describing a traumatic sexual incident involving Biden shortly after it occurred, emerged in March 2020 and gained traction in April-May amid media scrutiny. Yet Democrat voters and leaders overwhelmingly closed ranks behind Biden, viewing the claims through a partisan lens where defeating Trump superseded #MeToo principles for many.
In short, the pattern is real and well-documented: loud words, limited deeds. It mirrors Republican tolerance in some cases but contradicts Democrats' frequent (and false) claims of moral superiority on ethics.
I beleive that the reason Democrats pretend to be horrified by Trump's statements about loyalty https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...shoot-somebody-still-maintain-support-n502911) is because they recognize their own behavior whenever the subject comes up, although they won't ever admit iit in public. In fact, this response may even be so ingrained in them that they subconsciously react without even thinking.
It's a defense mechanism where someone unconsciously recognizes their own hidden feelings, thoughts, cations, or traits in an opponent. When those publicly-disowned traits are displayed by "the enemy", it triggers strong negative reactions (disgust, anger, contempt) because it forces a confrontation with the very thing they're desperately trying to keep buried in their own public image.
They hate in you what you hate in them, they just don't think you know that. Now, you do.
Barack Obama "The faggot who sucked Chicago dry" - hard to imagine HE would be party of Epstein's group for anonymous, deviant sex with random strangers....
Sieg Heil indeed.
Love the Jihadist in Mamdanistan who in July called for "Allah purge this world of Israel."
Hey, but what's a little genocide - he's new and openly Communist blood.
It's California - that could easily happen. Our "representatives" are appointed by the party.
The younger the better is his motto.