Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The revolution will be supervised.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

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

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Republicans don’t trust women.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

Republicans in disarray!

No Justins, No Peace

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

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.

He really is that stupid.

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

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

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Thing is, partway through the President’s speech, my Spousal Unit returned home with our freshly-dental’d, slightly woozy, extremely self-pitying little dogs. And Dog #3, who’s been on edge since the other two ‘disappeared’ last night, was extremely suspicious about the whole thing. I can’t really apologize for prioritizing their needs…

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    NotMax

    End of an era.

    Alexander & Baldwin Inc. […] announced that it is transitioning out of farming sugar and will instead pursue a diversified agricultural model for its 36,000-acre Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company plantation on Maui.

    Sugar operations will be phased out by the end of 2016, and the transition to a new model will occur over a multi-year period.
    [snip]
    “A&B’s roots literally began with the planting of sugar cane on 570 acres in Makawao, Maui, 145 years ago,” said Stanley M. Kuriyama, A&B executive chairman.… Source

    Maui was the first Hawaiian island to grow cane commercially, now it will also be the last to cease.

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    David Koch

    The constipated look on Sanders face – doesn’t he know there are over-the-counter solutions?

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    Mike J

    Meanwhile, we’ve cut our imports of foreign oil by nearly sixty percent, and cut carbon pollution more than any other country on Earth.
    Gas under two bucks a gallon ain’t bad, either.

    Meanwhile, Royal Bank of Scotland is literally telling people to sell every investment they own because of the disastrous consequences of oil falling to $16/bbl. It’s almost like the priorities of investors don’t actually align with those of humans.

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    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    Didn’t follow the SOTU, but over the last few nights, I watched the Swedish TV miniseries of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy. I recommend it highly, but it’s brutal and disturbing. Noomi Rapace puts in one of the most phenomenal acting performances I’ve ever seen, and the movies simply wouldn’t work if she was even just very good.

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    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    @Mike J: Oil falling to $16 a barrel is a consequence of what they’re warning about, not the cause. That said, I suspect that they are talking their book.

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    amk

    The military honchos seemed a bit morose. What happened? Kenyan didn’t want to bomb the ayatollahs to free 10 sailors?

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    Davebo

    @Origuy: The Scottish, the Dutch, the Norwegians, etc. Not to mention the 4th largest city in the US.

    I spent time today talking with a man with over 50 years working in the oil patch, almost all of it overseas. I was lamenting the drop to $30 and he laughed. He’s seen it worse many times before.

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    bystander

    The Moanin’ Joe crew were all whining that Obama didn’t bring up the Farsi Island 6 deal. What they wanted was a President Trump ululating and gesticulating and all they got was a cool headed, rational guy who values diplomacy over bellicosity.

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    NotMax

    @raven

    Can’t say will miss the smoke and associated rains of ash.

    However the sight of nighttime field burning when looking down from the higher slopes is (soon to be was) memorable.

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    Uncle Cosmo

    @David Koch: Actually the Donald appeared in Tehran last night, browbeat the mullah-fokkers into letting them go, & never left his comfortable living room. He has this new superpower to be anywhere instantaneously. It’s called asshole projection…

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    low-tech cyclist

    @bystander:

    What they wanted was a President Trump ululating and gesticulating and all they got was a cool headed, rational guy who values diplomacy over bellicosity.

    The nerve of that Kenyan Muslim, being all cool and rational!

    Wonder what he’ll do as ex-President. He’ll be just 55 when he leaves the White House, and he may still have as much of his adult life ahead of him as he has in his rearview mirror.

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    It’s called asshole projection…

    Good one!

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    SFAW

    @low-tech cyclist:

    Wonder what he’ll do as ex-President. He’ll be just 55 when he leaves the White House, and he may still have as much of his adult life ahead of him as he has in his rearview mirror.

    He’ll get drunk, and re-enact a movie scene he likes:
    “You don’t understand, Handsome Joe – I coulda been a contender uniter, instead of a bum divder, which is what I am – let’s face it Joe.”

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    SFAW

    @Ben Cisco:

    Ol’ Marco looked kinda pissed that he actually had to show up to work.

    Even more pissed because El Otro Cubano apparently didn’t have to.

    ETA: Speaking of that slimy fuck: Laurence Tribe had an interesting op-ed in yesterday’s Glob. He pointed out that Rafael “El Pendejo” Cruz is a Constitutional “originalist,” except when it might work to his disadvantage. No surprise, just made for some mildly amusing reading.

    PS: The “slimy fuck” is NOT Professor Tribe, by the way.

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    The Other Chuck

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I read all three books, and while I only saw the first movie, it’s far far better than the awful books I slogged through just to get them done with (and they get progressively worse at that). Lisbeth Salander is the very definition of a Mary Sue. Fuck, we should just call them Lisbeths, because Larsson just perfected the type.

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