Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

I did not have this on my fuck 2024 bingo card.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

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

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Come on, man.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

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

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

He really is that stupid.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

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Late Night Creepshow Open Thread: Nothing Says FREEDUMB Like Locking People Up

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Would-be seditionist and “GOP manly man” (note new Lincoln-esque beard) Senator Tom Cotton is outraged, outraged!

… He described efforts to restore voting rights to felons as a partisan tactic to drive up Democratic turnout and make it easier for people to find jobs after they exit prison. At one point, he directly accused such policies of creating higher rates of crime.

There are 2.3 million Americans in jails, prisons, and juvenile corrections facilities today. Nearly one half of all American children have at least one parent with a criminal record, which makes it prohibitively difficult to even get a job interview let alone find employment.

America is by far the world’s leading jailer, with less than 5 percent of the planet’s population but more than 20 percent of its prison population. Half of all the countries in the world imprison fewer than 150 out of every 100,000 citizens. The U.S. puts 716 out of every 100,000 Americans is in prison — compared to 475 in Russia, 294 in South Africa, 274 in Brazil, 132 in Malaysia, and 80 in Egypt…

It may be tempting to dismiss Cotton as an unserious figure. But his backward approach to criminal justice is already having a tangible influence on the still-young bipartisan movement to walk back years of self-defeating policy crafted in the heyday of Tough On Crime politics…

My emphasis. Imagine the horror, says the bought & paid for Kochsucker, of making it easier for former felons to get jobs, i.e., removing them from the prison-industrial complex that siphons so much money to the right (Right) pockets. And they’d probably use their new freedoms to vote wrong, too.

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  2. 2.

    NotMax

    Of course, new thread just as posted, so repeating.

    Hey-o! “Don’t trust anybody over 30.” Wild in the Streets coming up on TCM at 1:15 a.m. Eastern.

    Also, Friday at 8 p.m., Rod Steiger and a very young Jeff Bridges in the misleadingly named
    Lolly-Madonna XXX    .

  4. 4.

    scav

    Let’s think about points of agreement: Are there not many dodgy bankers, hedge-fund managers and wealthy tax-evaders that don’t deserve to be off breaking rock somewhere? Hard time, not club fed.

  7. 7.

    burnspbesq

    “It may be tempting to treat Cotton as an unserious figure.”

    For some, perhaps. I think he’s going to be Trump’s VP nominee.

  8. 8.

    burnspbesq

    @the Conster, la Citoyenne:

    From the linked article:

    It was like listening to some prelates apologize for covering up the sexual abuse of children 15 years ago, more self-justification than contrition.

    That’s gonna leave a mark.

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    I like beards in general, but Cotton manages to look even creepier in one. Easy to imagine him trying to lure children into a panel van.

  10. 10.

    Mike J

    @chopper: When Wonderful came out they played Columbia and Zander nearly got my friend KA kicked out of the dorms because he was screaming in the hallway at three am, in a girl’s dorm. Good times, good times.

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    Wild in the Streets: Featuring the bona fide chart hit “Shape of Things to Come,” by Max Frost and the Troopers.

    Lord, I think I saw this movie on the big screen in an Air Force theater on Okinawa. (So much for crushing government censorship.) An interesting historical relic. Maybe aging Berniebros will get a frisson. (See how I related that to current events?)

  15. 15.

    Prescott Cactus

    Caught a presentation / Meet and Greet from the Dem candidate for Maricopa County Attorney, Diego Rodriguez. Very intelligent guy and great speaker. He mentioned just about everything that Crazy Cotten did, but was on the other side of everything.

    He spoke of the Repub he is running against is both a Koch head and a Sheriff Joe enabler. AZ is 6th highest in US for prison population and 48th in school funding. The correlation he said, was direct.

  16. 16.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @burnspbesq:

    I sure hope so, but I think Sanders is strapped in as a kamikaze because he doesn’t know how to land this thing he made.

  17. 17.

    NotMax

    @Steeplejack

    Only ever saw it once, back when it was initially released.

    Mostly sure it won’t hold up well. Hell, it didn’t hold up well then.

    IIRC, last film appearance of Ed Begley, Sr.

  19. 19.

    WarMunchkin

    Just watched Hillary Clinton’s speech at the DNC in 2008. It’s amazing how much changed from those days. I absolutely hated her campaign then, couldn’t wait for her to be gone. But today? Brings tears to my eyes. It’s a liberal speech.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    @NotMax

    Also too, kind’a, sort’a precursor to the short-lived cult comic book series Prez, from DC’s “let’s throw everything against the wall and pray something sticks” period (shortly before what came to be known as the DC Implosion).

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    Palate cleanser Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) at 5:00 a.m. EDT. That will definitely hold up!

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    Accidentally watched a bunch of Million Dollar Listing New York on Bravo tonight. Want to kill everyone involved with that show.

    On a better note, Shetland is awesome. The previous seasons’ stories comprised two one-hour episodes each, but this current season is one long story, episode four just finished tonight. Really, really good.

  26. 26.

    FEMA Camp Counselor

    Cotton genuinely unnerves me on a Cruz-like level. Keep an eye on him, I see a (hopefully doomed) presidential run in his future.

  30. 30.

    Ruckus

    I wonder where I want to live when I retire? Because I’m getting more and more convinced that I don’t want to live here. Read Adam’s thread upstairs if you need to be just a bit more discouraged. These fuckers are so loathsome and inhuman that I’m very much starting to lose my faith in mankind. How can we recover from this, this republican experiment in bad politics called the southern strategy? Thirty five + years of bullshit and grifting and this is end result? Now I know many are as disgusted as I am and that the numbers of the truly fucked up are not all that large but the second level is not much better and is much larger. And the bullshit is being spread as fast as electrons can move. That there is even a small receptive audience is not a compelling thought.

  34. 34.

    Ruckus

    @NotMax:
    I’m really not but this has been a tough week for me on a personal health level, and the level of crap that this presidential season has brought on, drumpf and his supporters, Sanders starting out to look decent if not at Clinton’s level and ending up being worthless and worse…….
    Hard to have/keep a positive attitude. My half full cup seems to be down to about 1/64th full about now.

  35. 35.

    Steeplejack

    @Ruckus, @NotMax:

    Also remember that the Internet is a frictionless medium that allows the faintest signal to travel far and wide. When I worked on a mid-sized city newspaper in the the ’70s we would regularly get crank letters to the editorial page and even phone calls from various bigots and nut cases. I remember one guy who was always ranting that the League of Nations—not the United Nations, the League of Nations—was behind all sorts of heinous shit. Nowadays all those idiots are just a tweet away. It’s not that there are more of them now; they’re just so much more accessible.

    ETA: The flip side of this is that there were more of them back then than we thought there were.

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    @Steeplejack:
    This was somewhat my point. Yes they are relatively small in numbers but out of over 300+million that’s probably not an insignificant number. And the drumpf is giving them permission to let their freak flag fly. Just like those who are 30 yrs old have never really seen/heard much about Clinton that isn’t tainted by right wing bullshit, those 35-50 yr olds have been seeing/hearing the southern strategy for their entire lives. And I don’t see this changing all that much in my remaining lifetime.

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