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Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

This fight is for everything.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

We will not go back.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

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Two More Quick Ones

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Still downloading all the pictures that you all sent in, and I came across these brothers:

McLovin’

Buehler. As soon as I saw that pose, especially the way the back legs are splayed all over the place, the first thing that came to mind was Bill the Cat. Oop Ack!

Slow Sunday morning around here. Nothing I want to write about, so I am just watching CBS Sunday morning and doing some work. I will see you all later.

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  1. 1.

    SGEW

    "I remember going up to Nancy this one time with my tongue out, going ‘Ack! Ack! Ack!’ (laughs) She didn’t get it."

    – President Ronald Reagan

  4. 4.

    SGEW

    O/T

    Finally got around to reading the whole Tim Dickinson article about McCain in Rolling Stone (click here to read, h/t TPM), and yowza is it something. Sure, it’s got great verbiage slamming McCain ("In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot." Ouch.), and there are all sorts of salacious details about John Sidney McCain III’s sex life (Rio=Better Chance To Get Laid for McCain, apparently), but it’s the psychological profile that really sets off depth charges:

    Even as a toddler, McCain recalls in Faith of My Fathers, his volcanic temper was on display. "At the smallest provocation," he would hold his breath until he passed out: "I would go off in a mad frenzy, and then, suddenly, crash to the floor unconscious." His parents cured him of this habit in a way only a CIA interrogator could appreciate: by dropping their blue-faced boy in a bathtub of ice-cold water.
    Trailing his hard-charging, hard-drinking father from post to post, McCain didn’t play well with others. Indeed, he concedes, his runty physique inspired a Napoleon complex: "My small stature motivated me to . . . fight the first kid who provoked me."
    . . .
    Even McCain admits to an "immature and unprofessional reaction to slights" that is "little changed from the reactions to such provocations I had as a schoolboy."(emphasis added)

    Holy shit. And I thought I was scared of him before!

    But what is truly destroying about the piece is the comments from Republican Senators about John McCain’s principles and temperament:

    "John has made a pact with the devil," says Lincoln Chafee, the former GOP senator, who has been appalled at his one-time colleague’s readiness to sacrifice principle for power.
    . . .
    "On all three [the Bush tax cuts, ANWR drilling, and blocking radical judges] — sadly, sadly, sadly — McCain has flip-flopped," Chafee says. And forget all the "Country First" sloganeering, he adds. "McCain is putting himself first. He’s putting himself first in blinking neon lights."
    . . .
    At least three of McCain’s GOP colleagues have gone on record to say that they consider him temperamentally unsuited to be commander in chief. [Former Republican Sen. Bob Smith of New Hampshire], has said that McCain’s "temper would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind, it should disqualify him." Sen. Domenici of New Mexico has said he doesn’t "want this guy anywhere near a trigger." And Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi weighed in that "the thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded."(emphasis added)

    Republican Senators Chafee, Smith, Domenici, and Cochran said this about John McCain. This should be on video, on national t.v., every day until the election.

  5. 5.

    JGabriel

    [McCain’s] parents cured him of this habit in a way only a CIA interrogator could appreciate: by dropping their blue-faced boy in a bathtub of ice-cold water.

    Damn.

    You know, if my parents had made a habit of dropping into ice cold water, I’d be a pretty angry person too.

    Well, angrier.

    .

  9. 9.

    Scott H

    For once I am enjoying the bobble-heads on CNN: Leslie Sanchez, Republican strategist, women & Hispanic issues consultant, saying "Lets call a spade a spade" while talking about the Obama campaign.

    At least, Wolf Blitzer’s panel isn’t four old, fat, bloviating white guys. (Yeah, I can say that ’cause I are one.)

    Update: Alex Castellanos, Republican strategist, says "It’s time to get out the prayer rug." Appeaser! Paller around with terrorists!

  10. 10.

    SGEW

    O/T

    For more unambiguous good news for Obama, check out The Economist‘s latest informal poll of economists: [click here for the link]

    Basically, economists who answered the poll overwhelmingly favored Obama’s economic policies. Check it out.

    Dollars to doughnuts The Economist is gonna endorse Obama/Biden – after all, they’ve already (more or less) apologized for their 2000 endorsement of W. Bush and endorsed Kerry in 2004 (making the jump off the crazy train before certain other conservative institutions managed to, cough cough).

    On Topic: My kitteh is now at aprox. 117 degrees, rubbing her back against my ankle. If she is not given attention soon, a retraction to 30-35 is forecasted, accompanied by sharp fings on my foot.

    [edit: link fixd. Forecast correct. Ow. Ow.]

  11. 11.

    gbear

    Regarding Tim Dickinson’s Rolling Stone article;

    I read it a few days ago and it confirmed every fear I have of a McCain presidency but I was surprised that Dickinson missed one damning McCain story that was making the rounds a while back. It would have fit the story well.

    …."During lunch, McCain said, almost with mischievous glee, that he had slipped some highly technical questions to [James McClure] to ask Mofford — questions she wouldn’t be prepared to answer or expected to answer.

    "Flabbergasted, I asked McCain why would he want to sabotage Mofford’s testimony, when in fact the CAP was the nonpartisan pet of Republicans and Democrats — such as far-left Udall and far-right Goldwater — since its inception.

    "His reply, as near as I remember, was, ‘I’ll embarrass a Democrat any time I get the chance.’

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