Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

No one could have predicted…

Let there be snark.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

Let’s finish the job.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

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Open Thread: Yet Another GOP Debate Tonight

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This time on CBS:

… This will be the last debate before South Carolina’s Republican primary on Feb. 20, and it will take place at the Peace Center in Greenville, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET…

“Face the Nation” host and CBS News political director John Dickerson will serve as the main moderator for the debate. He will be joined by two panelists: CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett and The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel.

CBS News will offer multi-platform coverage of the debate, with extensive coverage before, during, and after the debate via CBSN, the network’s 24/7 digital streaming news service…

Not sure I can stand to watch another one of these clown shows, especially with Major Garrett smarming up the audio.

Fans of political bloodshed will have noted that South Carolina has a reputation to uphold, although I doubt CBS will allow the locals much traction…

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  4. 4.

    Ruckus

    What could possibly be learned from watching this? That the GOP candidates are crazy, hateful and just plain bad? Which shouldn’t have been very hard to figure out long ago. That the closest person they have to an actual human is Kasich and he’s horrible?

    Save yourself the brain cells and just loath them now.

  10. 10.

    Wilson Heath

    It was striking me this morning when I heard there was yet another debate tonight how much NASCAR republicans are running the party now. They keep watching these guys go round and round, and nominally they care about who wins, but you get the feeling they’re just waiting for a massive multi-[clown-]car crash.

  13. 13.

    kped

    @SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel: I wonder what happens with the court. Does the Senate sit on it’s hands and say “not until the next President”?

    and does this end the idiotic “Bernie or bust” talk? Whoever has the D beside their name gets your vote. Full stop.

  23. 23.

    Corner Stone

    CNN nor MSNBC picking up any news feed on it.

    ETA, CNN is live also, too. MSNBC still doing recorded caught on camera pr0n.

  26. 26.

    Ruckus

    @the Conster, la Citoyenne:
    So now we have an 8 person court. Is there any concept that the senate will confirm anyone that President Obama nominates?

    What I do see is that we have to GET OUT THE VOTE. We have to get the senate and the WH.

  28. 28.

    Warren Terra

    If Scalia really has gone to his reward, I expect a bipartisan consensus to rapidly emerge, cheered on by the editorial board of the Washington Post, to insist that his seat be filled by nominating the distinguished labor lawyer Eugene Scalia.

  31. 31.

    Parmenides

    Considering this was the only way he was ever leaving the court, I don’t think its a problem being happy he’s died. This is macabre calculation that takes place with life time appointments. Which might be a reason to change it.

  32. 32.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratice

    Thank G-d. I know that makes me a horrible person, but I’ll take that label for the sake of all the death and misery this will prevent.

    Free at last, free at last.

  33. 33.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    This will be the mother of all confirmation fights, and should mobilize every sentient being to vote.

  34. 34.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Ho. Lee. Shit.
    I would love to be a fly on the walls of the White House right now.

  36. 36.

    Cicada

    The Scalia news certainly underscores the need to GOTV in November. Can you imagine who Trump or Cruz would nominate?

  39. 39.

    Warren Terra

    @Cicada:

    The Scalia news certainly underscores the need to GOTV in November. Can you imagine who Trump or Cruz would nominate?

    There is no good reason for Scalia’s replacement not to be nominated by Obama. I give it a 50/50 chance.

  40. 40.

    Ruckus

    To those of you celebrating: He excelled at screwing over “lesser” people than himself for seemingly the fun of it. And he seemed to be of the type that would have celebrated your dying if informed of it so why should you feel bad?

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    How loud will the rumpus be to forcefully state the nation should wait a year before any candidate is put forth? And will PBO do the right thing and send forth a qualified candidate by end of March if not sooner?

  44. 44.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @ruemara:

    Probably at one of those stocked ranches for cruel fucknuts to hunt at. Scum of the earth, and hope Cheney follows him right to hell.

  47. 47.

    DesertFriar

    Obama should take a page out of the Republican Playbook. Nominate the most liberal federal judge that is willing to go down in flames. Then a “not as ultra liberal” judge to get confirmed.

  48. 48.

    gogol's wife

    @the Conster, la Citoyenne:

    One report says they were quail hunting the day before. Yeah, quail that have been raised and fed by humans so as not to have a natural fear.

    This is an unsubstantiated allegation on my part, but I’m in a spiteful mood.

  49. 49.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    It’s bad when someone dies. It’s really good when a Democrat is in the White House and that person was on the Supreme Court.

  50. 50.

    Hal

    If this is true and Obama gets a replacement I think that could be an argument to take a chance on Sanders instead of Clinton. The supreme court was one of my big reasons for wanting another den term and I’m still not at the Bernie can win point. All I know is I feel a little bad hoping this is true. Glob forgive me.

  53. 53.

    SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel

    To bring together both the breaking news and the ostensible reason for this thread: What do you suppose the chances are that there will be a question to the candidates about whom they would appoint if they were President right now.

    Ah, and here is CNN with breaking “very sad” news. Don’t editorialise, CNN.

    (LOL, newsanchorperson said “At this point, no foul play is suspected.” L.O.L.)

  54. 54.

    Brachiator

    Hol-ee Sheet!! I saw the breaking news about Scalia. WTF?!

    Now the debates and the election takes on a new meaning, or at least one aspect of its importance has been magnified like a muthafucka.

    It will be interesting to see what the GOP candidates have to say about this.

    Should Obama even bother trying to nominate someone for the position?

    Damn, things political have just got extra juicy.

    Scalia dead. I just had to type that out so I could read it back.

  55. 55.

    D58826

    Stop the presses – 81 of the latest Hillary e-mails are CLASSIFIED. AH HA the smoking gun. Oh wait about 6 paragraphs down it says they wore retroactively classified.

    And the biggest bomb shell of the election season is the the report that Anton Scala has passed away. If true that will set the chattering class on its ear for the rest of the Obama presidency.

  59. 59.

    Ruckus

    @Baud:
    No worries, the truth is the truth, was just saying.
    I think I’m going to do myself a disservice and go check out FB. Putting on the flame proof suit first though.

  60. 60.

    SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel

    I belong to an opera group on Facebook, and posted the following message for them about 15 minutes ago:

    A lot of people here are aware of the shared love of opera between Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    Scalia died today at a ranch in Texas. I was raised not to speak ill of people who can no longer speak back, so I will just say that the music world will surely miss a devoted operaphile. And I’m sure Justice Ginsburg will miss her seat mate at performances.

    (Of course here at Balloon Juice I don’t feel compelled to remember my upbringing in quite the same way.)

  62. 62.

    D58826

    @Hal: I would still be leary of Bernie on the SCOTUS issue. A couple of the liberal justices are pushing 80 or more. Obama could pick a moderate liberal and a gop president could still wind up picking 2-3 reactionaries.

  67. 67.

    Disgruntled former Baud supporter

    @Hal: You do know that the next President is very likely to fill another one or two SC vacancies, right?

  68. 68.

    Brachiator

    @Doug R:

    Open Thread? The final Batman v Superman trailer. My official reaction-Squeeee!

    I continue to be underwhelmed. Dour, brooding Superman vs dour, brooding Batman, with a dour, brooding Wonder Woman cameo. This version of Luther is six versions of lame. And there should be a special place in hell for marketers who insist on using generic whitebread rock music in action movie trailers.

    Please God, now that Fat Tony is gone, one more wish: a great Suicide Squad movie to rescue Warner’s sorry ass.

  69. 69.

    D58826

    Certainly no fan of Scala’s but there are family and friends who loved him and will mourn his passing. Hopefully the left can be gracious at this moment and offer a sincere RIP. We know how the right reacted when Teddy K. died. I think we can do better.

  70. 70.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    It’s bad when someone dies.
    No, no it’s not. It is perfectly normal.

    Everybody has loved ones and deserves to be mourned for the sake of the living.
    Even a member of The Eagles.

  71. 71.

    Ruckus

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    Now if someone had beaten him to death or some such, that would have been wrong.
    As you say it is normal for everyone of us to die. The bad part is we had to count him among us and on the USSC for so long.

  72. 72.

    Brachiator

    @SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel:

    Scalia died today at a ranch in Texas. I was raised not to speak ill of people who can no longer speak back…

    Brings to mind my favorite quote:

    If You Can’t Say Something Good About Someone, Sit Right Here by Me
    — attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  74. 74.

    D58826

    @efgoldman: Possible but nominations to SCOTUS are in a different category. It would mean Scotus will be a 4-4 tie for the next 12-18 months on the major cases before it. From the democratic side it does give them a concrete case in point why the next election is important.

  76. 76.

    D58826

    @Ruckus: No you don’t have to mourn him but a respectful silence seems like showing that we have good manners. We would expect the same courtesy from the right if it was RBG. That doesn’t mean that we can’t discuss his legacy however. I’m sure Obama will order the flags to fly at half-staff. It is that kind of courtesy that I’m talking about.

  78. 78.

    Ruckus

    @D58826:
    Maybe if he had shown a respectful silence to those he was supposed to serve I could see your point. And I didn’t say that flags shouldn’t be a half staff, etc. Only that I shouldn’t have to morn his dead ass.

  79. 79.

    satby

    Well I should feel bad that I am not the slightest bit sorry for him, only for his immediate family. I’ve been waiting for that seething bubble of bile to blow a gasket for years.

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