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Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

I was promised a recession.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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We are aware of all internet traditions.

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Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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  1. 1.

    BR

    Speaking of teamwork, apparently congress is considering overriding Obama’s veto of the -Interstate Recognition of Notarization Act- Help Banks Foreclose Act tomorrow.

    I just called my congressperson and senators about it and told them to vote no.

    As a reminder, the inimitable Sec. Jennifer Brunner spoke out strongly against this the first time around:

    Last Wednesday, the day before I announced the DOJ referral, JPMorgan Chase announced it was having third party counsel review its document procedures for foreclosures. Just two days before, the U.S. Senate had rushed through H.R. 3808. Something didn’t seem right. Since then others agree with me.
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    Notarizing a document requires the signer to make a fundamental statement, an acknowledgment, before a notary public. It is used for documents of great sensitivity or value, like when the title of a car is transferred on its sale or when a bank tells a court how much is owed on a note for a mortgage when it wants to foreclose.
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    Some states have adopted “electronic notarization” laws that ignore the requirement of a signer’s personal appearance before a notary. A notary’s signature is that of a trusted, impartial third party, whose notarization bolsters the integrity of the document. Many of these policies for electronic notarization are driven by technology rather than by principle, and they are dangerous to consumers.

  4. 4.

    MattR

    So I just found out that the Westboro Baptist asshats will be protesting a high school near where I grew up this Saturday because they are performing “The Laramie Project”. I was probably gonna be in the area anyway so I will probably head over to counter protest. Any slogans, sign ideas or arguments I should keep in mind?

  5. 5.

    Ash Can

    @MattR:

    GOD HATES SIGNS

    GOD HATES BIGOTRY

    LOL

    I LOVE PIE

    or, if you can stand close enough to the pigfuckers,

    WE WORSHIP MONEY

    MONEY IS GOD

  6. 6.

    MattR

    @Ash Can: If I force myself to stand close to them, I have to make sure it’s obvious that I don’t agree with them. Your signs might be a little too subtle for some. If anything I might just buy an “I’m with Stupid” shirt/hat/sign and stand silently next to the WBC clowns.

    Or maybe I’ll bring my dog and a “Dog Loves Fags” sign.

  9. 9.

    Elizabelle

    PBS edits out Tina Fey remarks on Palin from its broadcast of Mark Twain Award presentation. Claims they were pressed for time.

    This is ridiculous. Twain was an excellent writer and social critic and he himself would have left the honoree’s (!) remarks alone.

    What was cut, per Los Angeles Times:

    On Nov. 9, Tina Fey was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor during a made-for-TV ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. But when PBS broadcast the event the following Sunday, part of Fey’s acceptance speech was missing — specifically, the part where Fey made fun of her favorite “Saturday Night Live” target, Sarah Palin. The following remarks were cut from the broadcast:

    “And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women — except, of course, those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape kit ’n’ stuff. But for everybody else, it’s a win-win. Unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years — whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know what? Actually, I take it back. The whole thing’s a disaster.”

    “Earlier during the night, Fey credited Palin for helping her win the prize. “I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn’t thank Sarah Palin for helping get me here tonight,” she said. “My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that have ever happened to me.” Those comments made their way into the broadcast, but many of Fey’s Palin jokes did not.

    PBS claims the decision was made not for political reasons, but purely due to time constraints.”

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/11/pbs-cuts-sarah-palin-jokes-from-tina-fey-special.html

    Link includes full video of Fey’s acceptance remarks.

  13. 13.

    Mnemosyne

    @Elizabelle:

    Meh, I watched the show and I don’t think those remarks were missed. For one thing, they showed the entire sketch where Clinton and Palin give a speech on sexism together (which includes the infamous “I can see Russia from my house!” line). And there were many, many other Palin jokes, so PBS could have just felt it was repetitive.

    The one bit of censorship I did catch was when Fey talked about Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends and they cut out one of her lines, and that made me mad.

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