Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

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

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

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

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

The National Guard is not Batman.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

This fight is for everything.

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Late Night Open Thread: Disappointing Nobody, Except Possibly His Long-Suffering Wife

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Pete “The Mucker” King is upfront about his reasons: He’s already got “a good full-time job, talking on television about Homeland Security“; campaigning for president costs money he doesn’t have.

But, most importantly, he only suggested running in the first place because “Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, people like that” were getting entirely too much attention yapping about their ideas, and he didn’t want anyone “to get the wrong idea about what the Republican Party was really about.” Now, of course, Little Prince Rand and the Cruz-bot have done such a fine job of breaking their own ankles, Long Island’s own Mucker can rest on his laurels.

Ninety percent of all political calculation breaks down to questions of vanity or cupidity, but one should never overlook the rich seasonings of envy and vengeance…

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    With so many people already running for the Republican nomination, was there really anyone left to support Peter King?

  2. 2.

    Ruckus

    @Amir Khalid:
    There seems to always be someone. Crazy, sociopathic, hateful, whatever, they have money and are used to buying whatever/whomever they want. And we have gotten to the point that we have made that easy.
    On the other hand it is possible that there are limits. You’d never know it by the current republican party but there may still be a limit. Maybe Peter King is on the wrong side of that.

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    srv

    I, for one, think this King fellow is a bit out there to add to the diverse selection already available, but I’d rather talk about him than some democrat packing a stadium today in a strong GOP state.

    There can only be one, and we all know who that is.

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    Mary G

    He will never forgive Cruz et al for trying to block aid for Hurricane Sandy relief.

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    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid: There wasn’t that kind of support for King before the last half-dozen klowns climbed aboard, and he knew that very well. It wasn’t about the threat of actually running, it was King’s public statement of the Irish-American version of jihad* against that glory-hog Cruz and the flap-mouthed Rand, son of Ron. He said that, back in December.

    I’m just amused that he got to go on tv and tell Wolf Blitzer, yep, checked off that box, there’s no need to waste energy destroying Teddy the Cross and Little Prince Rand, because they’ve done so well talking themselves out of contention.

    *not meant to be sacriligeous; to us Irish-Americans, Aragorn’s line “Then we must live without hope; there is always vengeance.” is a first principle.

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    jl

    The very idea is so ridiculous and Blitzer looked like he was taking the whole thing so seriously, I started cracking up half way through.

    Probably I am just tired and need to go to sleep.

    I hate to admit it but with King out, I am beginning to think it just might be possible that there will not be fifty (or was it fifty-four, I forget) GOPers on the stage for the first debate.

    Edit: OK, I remember now, my slogan for the first GOP primary debate was ‘Fifty-four GOPers or fight!’. I predicted fifty-four. I bet somebody a couple of beers on that. I might be wiped out if it doesn’t happen.

  9. 9.

    jl

    @EconWatcher: Thanks. I heard about Winton’s death on the news, and wondered about the details of his story, which is quite inspiring. Very understated and modest person, he was.

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    90%? That leaves a paltry sliver for arrogance, wrath, envy, casuistry, villainy, ignorance and a plethora of others to cram together.

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    OT: gorgeous red moon out there tonight.

    Wish I had raven’s camera-handling skills.

  12. 12.

    mai naem mobile

    @EconWatcher: don’t mean to add a downer but the BBC had one of their Witness pieces a few weeks ago on some older kids who survived the Holocaust/csmps, and via the.BBC found relatives to take them in around the world. Anyhow, I was genuinely shocked that some of these relatives treated these people like crap. One guy went to an uncle and the uncle was locking up everything because he thought this kid was going to steal from him. One was sleeping in his uncle’s( a doctor) waiting room and had rent taken out from his check by his aunt who did him the ‘favor’ of cashing his paycheck.

  14. 14.

    raven

    @Elizabelle: I was able to walk out on the new subfloor of our addition and determine that it’s too cloudy to see it this morning!

  15. 15.

    Waldo

    So, in addition to covering every marginal no-hope candidate running for president, CNN is going to cover every marginal no-hope candidate who isn’t running? That’s one way to fill up a 24-hour news day, I guess.

  16. 16.

    MattF

    King would appeal to the “I’m not a psychopath” constituency– a sadly underrepresented segment of the Republican party. Even so, he’s apparently decided that there aren’t enough votes there.

  17. 17.

    Schlemazel

    @Mary G:
    Nor should he since Crud has no problem demanding relief when it is TX that gets hit. Apparently it is easier to see the sociopath in others than in himself.

  19. 19.

    Splitting Image

    @Amir Khalid:

    With so many people already running for the Republican nomination, was there really anyone left to support Peter King?

    Terrorists.

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    Howlin Wolfe

    The dumbasses at NPR felt it necessary the other day to have a long soundbite from Peter King about the high level of threat from terrorism over this 4th of July. He talked “knowingly” of credible threats that have come over his transom (in the loony bin?) and he was giving us the warning. I was thinking, why is Peter fucking King making this announcement? Shouldn’t Homeland Security be doing this? Why is NPR even playing this? When did Peter King become part of the Obama administration? It stank to high heaven – apparently part of the ongoing decay of the corpse of National Public Radio.

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    Dennis

    My brother is disappointed. He loves Pete King, which is funny, because he didn’t my uncles who acted like Pete King.

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