Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

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Open Thread: Repub-on-Repub Mayhem Tonight

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The Guardian, praise goddess & real journalism, is liveblogging both screamfests here.

Per the Washington Post, Fox News streams the undercard (Fiorina/Huckabee/Santorum/Gilmore) starting at 7pm EST; CBSN may livestream the Trump Show warm-up at 8pm; and then the ‘competition’: Fox with the ‘authorized’ debate, and

(Also, Jeb “Wrong Again” Bush seems to be out twenty bucks.)

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  4. 4.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Cruz Crumbles in Corn Country on Canada Concerns

    PublicPolicyPolling ‏@ppppolls 5h5 hours ago

    Our new IA poll- Trump 31, Cruz 23, Rubio 14, Carson 9, Bush/Huckabee/Paul 4, Christie/Kasich 2, GIlmore/Santorum 1

    58 retweets 31 likes

    PublicPolicyPolling ‏@ppppolls 5h5 hours ago

    Big decline in Cruz’s favorability rating in Iowa over the last few weeks- from 69/18 down to 56/35:

    17 retweets 11 likes

    PublicPolicyPolling ‏@ppppolls 5h5 hours ago

    Big Cruz fav drop comes as Trump pushes birther issue- only 32% of IA GOP think someone born outside US should be allowed to be POTUS

    61 retweets 40 likes

  5. 5.

    jl

    Now that the similarity of the GOP primary race to Wrestlemania is ‘out there’ in social media, and we have to talk about it, I might watch another one of these crazy shows if the two teams get in the same ring for a tag team match.

    But I have to be assured that scenario would be good. I saw a clip of Wrestlemania where they had ladders and that was so cool. Guys were hitting each other over the head with the ladders, and they would climb to the top of the ladders and slug each other in the face.

    I’m not really interested unless the GOP can top that.

  7. 7.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Katy Tur reports Trump supporters in Iowa believe Trump will return “Christian values” back to country.

    Yes, a foul mouth, racist, sexist, lying, philandering, thrice married casinø owner, who never attends church epitomizes “Christian values”

  10. 10.

    Germy

    It just struck me that Donald Trump is a walking mashup of The Imperial March and Yakity Sax.
    Rob Beschizza at 10:49 am

  12. 12.

    dogwood

    The last debates I watched were the three presidential debates in ’08. I try to avoid right wing nonsense whenever possible; it used to be kinda funny, but now it’s just pathetically maddening. I don’t know why I skipped the Obama/Romney debates other than I was pretty sick of it all by then.

  13. 13.

    Redshift

    So are Huckabee and Santorum going to TrumpFest after doing the undercard debate? That’s kind of underwhelming, compared to blowing it off.

    Also, I find it hilarious that “Don’t Google Me” Santorum is in the “Fox News – Google GOP Debate.”

  15. 15.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Open Thread? My publisher is about to give me a ARC of the third Inscrutable Machine book, presumably a .mobi file, and wants me to find fans to give it to so there can be reviews up the first day. Any suggestions how this can be arranged without email addresses being passed around publicly?

  16. 16.

    sigaba

    Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) via email: “Do Republicans support Donald Trump’s empty podium or Ted Cruz’s empty suit?”

    I think we know the answer is “yes.”

  17. 17.

    Shell

    Christ, Santorum is still in the race??? I know Trump sucks the oxygen out of any room, but when was the last time you heard anything of or about Santorum in the media.

  19. 19.

    Anne Laurie

    @Karen:

    I’m confused did CNN just come up with the event Trump will be at?

    I think CNN decided to cover Trump’s ‘GOP Is Not Boss of ME’ whatever-it-is because Fox had a prior commitment to air the official debate.

    Underdogs unite!, cries CNN…

  21. 21.

    Mike J

    Gabriel Sherman ‏@gabrielsherman 5h5 hours ago
    Realistic chance Trump could have his cake and eat it, too: he told people this afternoon he might go to debate tonight after his event.

  24. 24.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    @Shell: My sources told me Santorum was ending his bid for president to go back to his produce manager job at A&P.

  28. 28.

    Germy

    In October 1980, Kantner was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in serious condition from a cerebral hemorrhage. Kantner had been working in Los Angeles on an album when he became ill.

    He was 39 years old at the time and beat considerable odds with a full recovery without surgery. A year later, Kantner talked about the experience, saying, “If there was a Big Guy up there willing to talk to me, I was willing to listen. But nothing happened. It was all just like a small vacation.”

    It was his second brush with serious illness or injury, having suffered a serious motorcycle accident in the early 1960s: “I hit a tree at 40 miles an hour head first and nearly shattered my skull. I had a plate in there for a while.” The injury from the motorcycle accident was credited with saving Kantner from serious complications from the cerebral hemorrhage; the hole left by the accident relieved the accompanying cranial pressure.

    – from wikipedia

  29. 29.

    raven

    @Germy: Oh yea, he had many miles on him. I appreciated Bowie but the Airplane, the Dead, Hendrix, Quicksilver, Janis. . . that was my music.

  33. 33.

    raven

    I mark an Airplane show as the beginning of the end of rock for me for a couple of decades. It was probably 74 or so and someone had printed a couple of hundred counterfeit tickets all for the same seat in the Assembly Hall at Illinois. The cops were chasing people all over the joint and lots got thrown out. The thing that really killed it, and shows in general, was that they decided to make people sit down. . .for an Airplane show! Years lated I got back on it with a few Dead shows before Jerry died but the 70’s and 80’s were dead to me.

  34. 34.

    Germy

    We’re entering an era where every other day we’ll be learning about the death of some ’60s rock star or another (even more than we did in the ’60s) as now they’re all aging out.

  37. 37.

    Germy

    So this Trump event at Drake is shaping up EXACTLY like Wrestlemania

    Chauncey Devega has written that Trump is playing the part of the wrestling “heel” (the bad guy) everyone loves to boo.

  39. 39.

    dogwood

    @Germy:
    As a 62 year old myself, I’ve been to 4 funerals in the past 5 weeks. One of them my brother whose estate I’m going to have to figure out. So the death of 60 something rock stars and celebrities hasn’t moved me much. I think I’ve been commenting here a lot more than usual because I don’t want to think about those good people in my life who are now gone. BJ is a good distraction.

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    So MSNBC has both Clintons and Bernie Sanders on mute so they can talk about Trump while waiting to go live to Trump?

    Steve Schmidt. Maybe Hayes will mention there’s a direct line from picking Palin to Trump winning.

  50. 50.

    Anne Laurie

    @raven:

    I bet there won’t be any Kantner threads.

    He was never in my wheelhouse — I’m not musically sophisticated — but if you have any links you’d like to see front-paged, by all means let me know.

  51. 51.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Was looking for a link to the story about Vandehai and Mike Allen parting ways with Politico when I saw this

    POLITICOVerified account
    ‏@ politico
    The latest Obama administration crisis comes on the wings of a mosquito

  54. 54.

    raven

    @Anne Laurie: Nah, I don’t think the Airplane had the kind of widespread appeal as some of these other folks. Jorma and Cassidy were the real driving force of the music and that’s evidenced by the continuing popularity of Hot Tuna. I take heart that my FB friends from those days are joining in. You had to be there.

  61. 61.

    frosty fka Bro Shotgun etc etc

    @raven:

    Nah, I don’t think the Airplane had the kind of widespread appeal as some of these other folks.

    The Airplane was my gateway to the Haight Ashbury musical scene. They were the first band I heard in my backwater Pennsylvania town and probably my favorite of them all. Picked up on Big Brother and Zappa a little later. I was never much of a Deadhead but a big Quicksilver fan.

  62. 62.

    Howard Beale IV

    @Steeplejack:

    I was fortunate to be at the reunion concert at Pine Knob in 1989: had 3rd row seats. Caught a panda bear that Grace Slick was throwing out in the audience (it was the name of the last track of the reunion tour album/CD.)

    Jorma and Casady performed their acoustic set on our side of the stage-saw all of Jorma’s tats.

    Something I’ll never forget for sure.

  64. 64.

    mclaren

    What a clusterfuck shitshow fail parade America has become. Now the latest great idea: set up a site to crowdfund people’s astronomical medical bills. Because this sick joke of a country can’t manage to set up the same nationalized single-payer health care system every other advanced country uses:
    Crowdfunding site helps pay patients’ medical bills

    Hey! Here’s a brilliant idea! We could extend this!

    Instead of taxes, we could hold bake sales whenever we need to build a bridge or a dam. And then we set up a lemonade stand to fund our military! And then we could sell brownies if we need to fund the National Institute of Health…

    The so-called country misnamed America is such a bizarre joke, it’s like watching a bunch of three-year-olds trying to operate a nation. Beyond absurd. The world points at us and laughs with mixed disgust and disbelief.

  66. 66.

    J R in WV

    @Frankensteinbeck: Do you have an author web site, or author blog or book site or anything like that?

    Because people could send you their web site, or you could coordinate with the publisher, who has a web site, to receive email addresses from fans here, for example, or wherever you alert fans to the ARC opportunity.

    Annie Laurie is semipublic and we all know her email address, perhaps she would accumulate them and forward them to you?

    I imagine she would be willing to do that for a famous published author blog poster. Exp with such a classy Nym as yours!!

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