Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

When we show up, we win.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

Republicans in disarray!

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  2. 2.

    dmsilev

    Sarah Palin says about her husband, “He’s got the rifle, I’ve got the rack,” and then pulls out a Big Gulp from the lectern and silently drinks it for a while, before saying, “Dude it’s just pop.” This all actually happened.

    And the audience collectively “saw starbursts”.

  4. 4.

    amk

    Palin, whose family is involved in most reality programs on television, says “We don’t have leadership coming out of Washington, we have reality television.”

  6. 6.

    Corner Stone

    I enjoyed some of those but for me the real winner was on the right sidebar. If you scroll down a bit you’ll see a pic of “Steven Seagal meets Putin”. Holy jeebus but Seagal is freakin’ huge these days! Damn but he doesn’t look like the white Fu Manchu version of Shaq or some shit.

  7. 7.

    aimai

    @dmsilev:

    That picture is worth a thousand words. And these people bitch that the President and First Lady don’t know how to behave in the White House. Holy shit.

  8. 8.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik

    @amk:

    Almost everything she’s saying amounts to some serious projection.

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    @aimai: You just know that (a) if Palin was Veep she’d be acting the same way and (b) the people who disparage the Obamas would be defending Palin’s “authenticity”.

  13. 13.

    Citizen Alan

    The comments by K Carl Smith (of the cynically named Frederick Douglas Republicans) are perhaps the saddest thing I have ever read, describing as they do how a self-loathing black man and a white Southern racist who was openly pro-slavery “left as friends.” I don’t see how Smith can look at himself in the mirror without contemplating suicide.

  14. 14.

    dmbeaster

    @dmsilev:
    I guess her thought that is her rack rather than another possession of her husband is her version of liberation.

    I hope she didn’t straddle Tod’s rifle onstage ala Apocalypse Now

  15. 15.

    PsiFighter37

    @dmsilev: I hope there were ponchos handed out so that there wasn’t too much collateral damage when the crowd collectively creamed itself.

  18. 18.

    bemused

    @Schlemizel:

    I’ve heard Thom Hartmann several times play a tape of Johnson talking to Dirksen after getting wind of Nixon’s deal with the North Vietnamese. More tapes out will be fascinating to read.

  21. 21.

    PeakVT

    @Schlemizel:

    Chennault was despatched to the South Vietnamese embassy with a clear message: the South Vietnamese government should withdraw from the talks, refuse to deal with Johnson, and if Nixon was elected, they would get a much better deal.
    ..
    So on the eve of his planned announcement of a halt to the bombing, Johnson learned the South Vietnamese were pulling out.
    ..
    He was also told why. The FBI had bugged the ambassador’s phone and a transcripts of Anna Chennault’s calls were sent to the White House. In one conversation she tells the ambassador to “just hang on through election”.

    Party before country. It’s the Repuke way.

  22. 22.

    Citizen_X

    @dmsilev: So, what? The guys are supposed to…lay their rifles across the ladeez’ racks? Talk about ur doin it rong.

    Oh, and don’t EVER cross rifles, or press racks together! Don’t even THINK about it!

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    @Baud: Fuck Grandpa Walnuts for thinking with his dick. No one will ever convince me he didn’t choose Bible Spice on that basis alone.

  25. 25.

    patroclus

    When does Dear Leader Greenwald speak? I’m very interested in what he has to say to his allies.

  26. 26.

    bemused

    @aimai:

    I agree. I’m sure it went over big with the CPAC crowd but it is really tacky coming from an ex VP candidate.

    I’ve never gotten over the joke Laura Bush told at a WH Press Corps dinner. George has learned a lot about ranching since he tried to milk a horse….big laughs…What’s worse, it was a male horse….huge laughs.

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yutsano:

    Fuck Grandpa Walnuts for thinking with his dick. No one will ever convince me he didn’t choose Bible Spice on that basis alone.

    She is not, and never was, that hot. Hell, in my view, she doesn’t ever get trashy hot right. All she manages is a second rate version of a “Real Housewives of…” spinoff look.

  30. 30.

    Yutsano

    @Omnes Omnibus: All she needed was a big rack (there’s that word again!) and a nice little wink at Grandpa. It’s not like he has a spotless record of fidelity or anything.

  32. 32.

    Davis X. Machina

    @PeakVT: For correctly-oriented cadres, this is all as it should be.

    The organs of the State, including its defense and foreign policy apparatus, exist to serve the Party. This is logical, because the Party, and not the State, is the Vanguard of the Revolution. In fact, the State is destined to wither away after the final triumph of the Revolution.

    All power to the soviets of preachers and hedge-fund managers!

  33. 33.

    Joey Maloney

    @Yutsano: Fuck Grandpa Walnuts? Hell, I thank him. Had he selected someone who didn’t terrify sane people at the thought of nuclear codes in her possession, he could possibly have won the election.

  34. 34.

    Dillon

    Appearing at CPAC holding a large soda is band-aid-with-a-purple-heart awesome. Say what you will about Palin, but the woman knows how to pander.

  36. 36.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    CPAC has confused “Show us your tits!” with reaching out to younger voters.

  37. 37.

    Citizen_X

    @Baud: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:

    Heartbeat Shove down the stairs away from the presidency.

    McCain would have been lucky to survive the first year in the White House with Queen Grifter behind him.

  41. 41.

    The Dangerman

    @PsiFighter37:

    …wasn’t too much collateral damage when the crowd collectively creamed itself.

    It would look like a Gallagher show if she talked about her weight training, specifically her snatch.

    ETA I’ve heard the Straw Poll today is using beads.

  43. 43.

    Redshift

    @Schlemizel:

    A practice St. Ronald repeated a few years later on Iran

    And W’s crowd repeated it again with the Israeli/Palestinian peace talks in 2000. They don’t care how much blood they spill to gain power. Scumbags of the highest order.

  48. 48.

    scav

    Skipped out, even though it’s not that grand a day out. Ep one of Neverwhere is up, for those that are intersted and want to claw out. Should be a downloadable podcast of ep one (only) available on Friday. Harder to send a solid cup of tea and a sit next to a slightly drippy window down the tubes.

  50. 50.

    The Sailor

    Palin is her own cottage (cheese) industry.
    +++++++++++++++
    Memphis and Southern Miss are having a hell of a game, but the IU game is starting out pretty well.
    Badgers!? We don’t need no stinkin’ Badgers!

  51. 51.

    quannlace

    Just looked out the window and it’s frickin’ snowing!! It’s March 16 and almost 40 degrees, why the hell is it snowing??

    Sorry, got a cruel tease last week when it warmed up till nearly 60; right after that nasty north’easter which I hoped was gonna be the last winter storm of the season; vain is the hope of man. Gotta haul in a trunk load of groceries thru this. Wheee!

  52. 52.

    MaryRC

    @aimai: Unbelievable, isn’t it? In the same week that FLOTUS poses regally for Vogue, Palin uses her appearance at a political convention to make a crude joke about her breasts, but these people will claim that it’s the Obamas who don’t know how to behave.

    By the way, shouldn’t Ann Coulter be looking over her shoulder right now? Because Palin appears to be aiming for her turf.

  54. 54.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    Cornell up 2-1 on Mercyhurst after two periods. BC up 3-1 on Harvard at the same point.

    God, I’d rather be playing anyone but North Dakota this afternoon.

  55. 55.

    The Sailor

    @MaryRC:

    By the way, shouldn’t Ann Coulter be looking over her shoulder right now? Because Palin appears to be aiming for her turf.

    Eww, just ewww.

  57. 57.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @Citizen Alan: Mr Smith is what you call a house servant, he eats massa’s leftovers, sleeps in massa’s attic or in the basement. When massa is ill, he asks are we sick Massa? Malcom X had words for people like K Carl Smith

  58. 58.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    posted this on the wrong thread
    Brietbart is hosting a side convention, “Th Uninvited”, apparently for anti-Islamic obsessives like Gaffney and Pamela Gellar who offend Grover Norquist. Orly Taitz is protesting the Breitbart panel of excludeds for excluding Birthers. I guess this gives David Gregory a hook to call CPAC a gathering of moderates.

    @MaryRC: Coulter looks like she went to Boehner’s tanning salon and melted a little.

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