Thanks for the information. I have WiFi but only an iPad.

You're certainly welcome, but please see Bashi's post at [17] where he explains how the Firefox desktop version that uses Gecko doesn't translate the same to Apple's operating system iOS because they keep control of third-party browser software by having them use Apple's WebKit native browser engine versus their own Gecko. So on your phone, this might work as well (or as bad) as the (likely) Safari web browser you're using. This actually currently applies to all third-party browser software on the iOS in the United States and is dumber than a bag of hammers.

You might get no relief unless you get yourself a laptop and a wifi connection. :)

Thanks — I just loaded it up.

You can try this, and it might work but all browsers on Apple ios (iphone/ipad) are just wrappers around webkit, the native Apple browser engine. Not the same as the Firefox desktop version which uses gecko as it's engine.

Yes, dang it, forgot the United States is hopelessly behind a very large part of the world on this. There is hope in the form of the European Union Digital Markets Act of 2022 which has legislated changes coming to fruition (albeit slowly).

Japan has mandated similar.

The United States DOJ is working on it, in case anyone was wondering why Tim Apple (not his name) is bending the knee to the effin' moron who will sell America if it benefits him financially:

Justice Department Sues Apple for Monopolizing Smartphone Markets

i don't want a plethora, i want original content. and bashi is right, you used to be much better at it.

Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has *no idea* what it means to have a plethora.
-El Guapo, Three Amigos!

I do my thing solely on an iPhone.

1- This website keeps making me log in even though I always check the “remember me” box.
2- It also keeps informing that whatever I’m trying to post is “not secure” and makes me elect to proceed.

Try installing Firefox on your iPhone:

1. Open the App Store
2. Search for "Firefox for iOS"
3. Select the Firefox app
4. Select the "Get" or "Cloud" icon
5. Authenticate with your Apple ID
6. Open Firefox
7. Navigate to chrisweigant.com
8. Login and check the "remember me" box

Let us know if that helps. :)

What are Johnson's options? He tries to herd the GOP cats,

if by "GOP cats" you mean the "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party"

needing every single one on board even though they fundamentally disagree on major parts of a budget bill

if by "every single one" you mean "almost every single one"

- or he goes to Jeffries,

if by "Jeffries," you mean the "practically de facto Speaker of the House,"

hat in hand,

if by "hat" you mean "tiny little prick"

to make a deal that excises all GOP culture war stuff from the budget so the Dems can support it.

"All"? I try not to use small words that mean ginormous things.

But if he does the latter, having failed on the former, the GOP radicals take him down - as with the previous GOP Speakers.

Well, that depends entirely on Donald Trump and at what point (he thinks) he no longer needs Mike Johnson and/or (he thinks) he knows that Mike Johnson has spoken facts about him. Example: He's a "fucking moron" - Rex Tillerson (Secretary of State).

I think he is way beyond that stage. The parallels to Trump's vindictive madness is creepy...

Well, you have descended in to a sloppy version. Once upon a time you would actually link to it and post just a paragraph or three. Which quite likely does fall under most outlets re-posting guidelines...

You can try this, and it might work but all browsers on Apple ios (iphone/ipad) are just wrappers around webkit, the native Apple browser engine. Not the same as the Firefox desktop version which uses gecko as it's engine.

Every article that has the REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION label IS reprinted with permission, you dumbass retarded moron. And you have ZERO facts that prove otherwise..

You mean other than the re-posting guidelines of the originating site that you refuse to link to? Which is also quite likely part of the re-posting guidelines?

Hey I got promoted! Twelve words this time to try to insult me — let’s see if cho’mo can hit fourteen or fifteen words next time.

(thinking)

On the other hand, nypoet22, I suppose this qualifies as actual original writing and not cut-a-pasted crap.

if you're not trying to have a real discussion, what's the point, to be as annoying as possible to the people you don't like?

Like, Duh.

Cho’mo must have been something back in the day for y’all to engage with someone who reprints right-wing garbage at repeated and great lengths. He may not write for himself because like MAGAts he has to be told what to believe. Stop wasting time on this child molester and maybe we can get a COGENT Conservative to participate down here.*smh*

Anything I post is my opinion whether I actually write it or not so you have a plethora of opinions that you can discuss if that is truly what you want to do.

Pick one and we can talk about it. Or not It's totally up to you.

But I have been posting this way for over 15 years. Do you honestly think I'm going to change now.

unlike some folks here, i am actually interested in reading your opinions.

but I'm not interested enough to sift through fifteen pages of copy-pasted opinion pieces to find them. if you're not trying to have a real discussion, what's the point, to be as annoying as possible to the people you don't like? it doesn't seem to me like a very fruitful pursuit, but if that's the audience you want to cater to, knock yourself out.

JL

But duty calls and I must answer the call of keeping the streets of Florida safe for all.. :D

So, all these facts about how AWESOME PRESIDENT Trump is will have to wait until tomorrow..

Stay tuned.. :D

Victoria Troll,

BBBBWWAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

As usual, your pathetic and hysterical screeds are long on whining and pathetic hysterics with absolutely ZERO facts to back them up..

Every article that has the REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION label IS reprinted with permission, you dumbass retarded moron. And you have ZERO facts that prove otherwise..

So why don't you quit yer hysterical whining and crying cuz yer always getting beat down and try to come up with some OBJECTIVE reality, eh??

The Wong case has NOTHING to do with PRESIDENT Trump's current Executive Order.. Wong's parents were LEGAL immigrants and LEGAL residents of the United States..

As such, the case has ZERO bearing on issues of children of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS...

ZERO... ZILCH... NADA... NONE... NIX...

I realize that you are too stupid and to retarded to understand this very basic, but oh so relevant and deterministic FACT, but it's the ONLY relevant fact nonetheless..

If you had a SINGLE brain cell left in your empty head (I know your head is empty because you rent me the entire space in your head) you would shut up about it and quit embarrassing yourself.

Because you just HAVE to know that, as with everything else from the past year, you will be wrong on how the court's rule..

You were wrong on Roe v Wade, you were wrong on Basement Biden (who??) finishing the election, you were wrong about Headboard Harris (who??) winning the election.... You were wrong about EVERYTHING!!

So, what makes you think that you have any a SMIDGEN... an IOTA.. of credibility here??

Yer just like the dishonorably discharged scumbag druggie addict inmate, Caddy...

Alone and pathetic and completely devoid of ANY semblance of intelligence whatsoever...

Even with such a brain dead dullard as yourself, you just HAVE to know that the SCOTUS will uphold PRESIDENT Trump's Executive Order...

You are just too stupid and retarded to even realize how utterly stupid and retarded you really are...

:eyeroll:

Say hi to your brother for me... :D

Jesus!!

No wonder the Army kicked you out...

Not only are you a disgusting and pathetic druggie who will die as you lived... Hated and alone...

Yer a pussy who whines and cries like a pathetic fool...

:eyeroll:

As far as the problems you are describing with Weigantia....

-you DO realize that I coined that term, right?? So every time you use the term 'Weigantia', you are acknowledging my superior intellect... :D

Anyways, those problems you are having here in Weigantian HAVE been discussed and a fix was mentioned..

But you were probably just too high to pay attention..

OR the fix was mentioned while your block was on lockdown and you missed it..

But, being that I am the awesome guy I am, I'll be happy to pass it on to you..

Use Firefox, you useless pathetic dishonorably discharged scumbag druggie addict inmate who will die as he lived.. Pathetic, unloved and alone..

No wonder your wife left you... :eyeroll:

There.. Don't say I never did anything nice for you.. :D

:eyeroll:

Since michale is paying you the big bucks you let him shit all over Weigantia.

How much I donated to CW is between CW and myself..

Just because yer a useless dishonorably discharged drug addict inmate who doesn't have a dime to his name, don't blame others for your fuck-ups..

Maybe if you weren't such a useless and pathetic drug addict, you could afford to hold down a work release job, eh?

:eyeroll:

I do my thing solely on an iPhone.

1- This website keeps making me log in even though I always check the “remember me” box.
2- It also keeps informing that whatever I’m trying to post is “not secure” and makes me elect to proceed.
3- I can’t wait for the block function. Since michale is paying you the big bucks you let him shit all over Weigantia. I am disabled and I’m lucky the VA has kept a roof over my head since 2016 and that I have a SNAP card. So you have yet to see a dime from me but you deliver on the block function and I’ll figure out a way to get a couple-three-four hundred bucks to you. Maybe I’ll sling my pain pills.

When, not if, this happens, I'd like to think it would naturally tip the balance for the 2026 congressional elections but I fear the culture war indoctrination outweighs the good of one's own children for some. So people will need to be reminded all the time that Representative Rightwing voted in favour of all the bad stuff that has happened to you and your family (perhaps with a reminder of Rightwing's personal wealth gained at the expense of people like you), but Candidate Concerned will promise to represent your best interests if elected.

There are areas, like one I used to live in, where the effective choice is only between more or less right wing, but even a few more Rs willing to vote for the actual good of their constituencies would help.

I think Chris's point is that if Johnson can only get the budget passed and the debt limit raised, with Jeffries' (the Dems) cooperation, bypassing the radicals in the GOP Freedom Caucus, those radicals will retaliate by nuking Johnson with a motion to remove him as Speaker - like the previous Speakers, as Chris notes.

What are Johnson's options? He tries to herd the GOP cats, needing every single one on board even though they fundamentally disagree on major parts of a budget bill - or he goes to Jeffries, hat in hand, to make a deal that excises all GOP culture war stuff from the budget so the Dems can support it. But if he does the latter, having failed on the former, the GOP radicals take him down - as with the previous GOP Speakers.

While CW prefers to refer to these jellyfish as the "Chaos Caucus," I favor the much more dead-on-balls accurate term of "Castrated Caucus."

Right. How is Johnson going to get through this puzzle this winter?

Same as last winter: Nothing (except partisan culture war bullshit that won't pass the Senate) will get done unless Hakeem Jeffries wants it. :)

A recession not so easily blamed on the democrats might have some in congress jump ship, or at least grow a pair...

A pair? Oh, right... you mean brain cells. Heh. ;)

Trump seems determined to push our allies into the awaiting arms of ________ <----- [fill in blank here]. The bullying bullshit could backfire spectacularly.

I took note particularly of this comment:

"...Speaker Johnson and the people in charge of actually writing the budget legislation face the same conundrum they always do: giving in to one faction of Republicans or another might mean losing enough votes (from another faction) that means they can't pass it on a party-line vote. Which would mean having to convince some Democrats to vote for it -- which would mean having to strip out the most noxious of the culture-war ideas from any such bill.

"This unsolvable puzzle has already taken down the past three speakers (John Boehner , Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy). So far, Johnson's leadership job looks secure, but if he is forced to get Democratic votes to pass their budget this could change very quickly."

Right. How is Johnson going to get through this puzzle this winter?

And we can be sure that the president will have basically zero ability to understand the problem on a practical level and actually help "his" party's Congressional leadership govern the country effectively.

Can you imagine the hair-on-fire poutrage of the conspiracy theorist raging Righties if Barack Obama had not placed his hand on a Bible? Rhetorical question.

I'm also curious to see if we get any Manchin/Sinema equivalents that are willing to vote with the President...for a price. Lot's of opportunities for graft and corruption, and Trump is not so good spreading the wealth...