Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

The willow is too close to the house.

All hail the time of the bunny!

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

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

When we show up, we win.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

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Good for Representative Pelosi (as Dave Weigel notes). Congress could even title it the “Scalise Voting Rights Act Amendment”…

Apart from schadenfreude, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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  3. 3.

    Couldn't Stand the Weather

    These guys are just ridiculous.
    A new movie could be made (without Carrey and Daniels), call it Stupider and Stupidest.

    And, it’d be hilarious if Duke went through with that threat and named more names.

  4. 4.

    Schlemazel

    OH DEAR!! PLEASE MR. DUKE, PLEASE, NO! PLEASE DO NOT NAME ALL THE OTHER POLS THAT HAVE KISSED YOUR SHINY WHITE ASS FOR VOTES.

    That would just be terrible.

    HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa

  5. 5.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    Scalise just won his whip job & doesnt face reelection until 2016. Boehner, on the other hand, has his election to the speakership in a week

    oh hey that’s a coincidence

  6. 6.

    jl

    I am reflecting deeply on the 49ers owner’s press conference re coach Harbaugh departure yesterday.

    I don’t understand why the room did not burst out in riotous laughter at some of the self-serving BS York dished out yesterday. I guess we will have 2 Bay Area football teams are pathetic losers for a while, though 49ers may take a few years to be really horrible. But, it is only football, so won’t be too bad. But probably be reminded too frequently that the 49ers owner is a schmuck.

    Hilarious how he said that they can find a good new coach because they will set out on the hiring process ‘with that goal in mind’. Sure that is all it takes, you moron. Why did your team stink for over ten years, then?

    Effing hilarious and disgusting press conference by 49er Bigshot.
    I guess there will be a few more of those around the league, Interesting to see how many owners can compete with York for asinine football team owner performance of the year.

    I would go on, but no time to write a damn Russian length novel about what a scmuck performance York turned in yesterday.
    OK, I am done reflecting on it. Tired out from laughing about it.

  8. 8.

    jl

    @TFinSF: Scalise surely thought he was speaking at a conference on international monetary economics. That’s the ticket! What a doofus.

  9. 9.

    kindness

    If only Weigal was close. You see, in order for his statement to be accurate that would require that Republicans have any shame what so ever. I say they do not and they go out of their way to prove it every Fox News appearance and every Sunday Talk show.

  10. 10.

    Mike in NC

    @jl: I well remember when several European countries were suffering even worse than the US during the Great (Bush) Recession, with higher unemployment, austerity budgets, etc.

    Many wingnuts pointed to economic problems in Greece and Spain and gloated about how the Euro was going to crash and have to be abolished, and thus in the process bankrupt the entire continent. Must have been a meme over at FOX News at the time.

  11. 11.

    Shalimar

    @jl: He just coincidentally gave a speech about how the government steals money from real people and HUD gives it away to blacks. Could have happened to anyone.

  13. 13.

    Anne Laurie

    @kindness: Wouldn’t require “shame” on the GOPer’s part, just a sense of self-protection. #NotAllRepublicans!!! That’s why the Democrats need to keep this story churning — the Wingnut Wurlitzer wants to bury Scalise’s ‘little mistake’ as old news, move along, nothing to see here during this (traditionally) slow news cycle.

  14. 14.

    jl

    @Shalimar: Well, every school child knows HUD fronting for the lazy blacks is THE BIG problem with the Eurozone. Just ask Krugman. He’s an expert.

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    Tenar Darell

    @kindness: Well, Chuckles Todd basically admitted that no one but comedians are willing to hold them to account. So, I guess that’s never going to happen. (You ever get the feeling that doom and gloom is just built into our lives now? I know I do).

  18. 18.

    Howard Beale IV

    Fun Fact: More people in the United States have been killed on American soil by toddlers than terrorists.

  20. 20.

    beth

    @FormerSwingVoter: Coming up behind police officers and startling them a few days after two cops were ambushed was a fucking stupid thing to do. The cops should have been the grown-ups and not harassed/assaulted him but I’m not sure I wouldn’t have slapped him silly.

  22. 22.

    Southern Beale

    Interesting: the blogger who got the Steve Scalise scoop is the same guy Andrew Breitbart got into his “putz” argument with an hour before he died:

    Andrew Breitbart — a man famed for his untamed insults and uncensored political attacks — could not have known that his last public act would be to call a 29-year-old law student from Dallas a “putz.”

    “I called you a putz cause I thought you were being intentionally disingenuous. If not I apologize. @CenLamar @dust92,” Breitbart tweeted via his iPad at 11:25 p.m. Wednesday.

    Less than an hour later, the brazen commentator and conservative activist collapsed outside his California home. The cause has not been announced, but he had a history of heart problems.

    Today the “putz” in that final tweet said he wore Breitbart’s insult “as a badge of honor.”

    “I profoundly disagree with him on a number of issues… but you can’t deny that Andrew Breitbart had verve and panache,” said Lamar White Jr., who is in his first year of law school at Southern Methodist University.

    Ironic, to say the least.

  23. 23.

    Howard Beale IV

    @Baud:

    That’s why abortion rights are so important. We fight them in there so we don’t have to fight them out here.

    Oooookayyyyy…….

  28. 28.

    Howard Beale IV

    @Baud:

    So no War on Toddlers?

    Let me put it to you this way: I wish this would have been Wayne LaPierre’s wife and toddler.

  29. 29.

    Turgidson

    @jl:

    The McCaskeys usually have the marketed cornered on being douchey owners, but you really can’t blame them for firing their coach and GM after leading an on-paper 10-6 team to a 5-11 record that was actually worse than it looks because a few of those losses were so pathetic they should have counted double.

    Firing a 3-times-in-4-years conference championship participant, whose team was still 8-8 despite tons of injuries and his uncertain status hanging over the team all season, because he’s a grating personality or whatever the reason was, is unusually douchey though.

  30. 30.

    Bystander

    Do we have a copy of the speech Scalise’s delivered to EURO? I haven’t seen a transcript or a description of his speech anywhere.

  31. 31.

    PurpleGirl

    @jl:

    …they can find a good new coach because they will set out on the hiring process ‘with that goal in mind’.

    You mean other teams plan to hire a bad coach.

  32. 32.

    PsiFighter37

    @Bystander: “I am not a crook!”

    I’m sure Scalise is hoping / praying that all copies were thrown out and burned. He probably said some shit in their that is resignation-worthy.

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    jl

    @Turgidson: Maybe York had a good reason to fire Harbaugh. I’ve read decent criticism of the ex-coach, and I don’t have all the info that went into the decision. But that didn’t mean that York had to talk like a conceited self-righteous hypocritical incoherent incompetent delusional schmuck in front of the general public yesterday.

    Edit: Oh wait, York is a major league sportsball owner. So maybe that meant that he did have to make an ass of himself. They might have a code of conduct, for all I know.

    Edit: I forgot ‘classless’. The more that guy talks about the need for class, the more I think the need starts with him.

  37. 37.

    Hal

    Scalise is born and raised in LA but had no idea what group he was speaking to? Riiiiggght. I realize David Duke isn’t quite as famous as he was in the 90s, but any Louisianan must know who that man is and what he stands for.

  39. 39.

    greennotGreen

    Even without a memory of the event, eventually the child will be told. It’s hard to think there won’t be any repercussions. Even though this tragedy is totally the mother’s fault.

  40. 40.

    someofparts

    “Scalise Voting Rights Act Amendment”… roflmao – bless you for my morning laugh.

    Here’s one to go with it – Vote Bush/Clinton 2016 – because nothing ever changes!

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