Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

This blog will pay for itself.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Bark louder, little dog.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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It’s a pleasure to be back in this den of Republican Lite neo-liberals.

I arrived home in Sydney from Marrakech at 6 o’clock this morning after a 36 hour slog that was only enlivened by lashings of first class bubbly, and a knee trembler in the dunnies at Dubai airport with Bob Hastings, an insurance executive from Reading.

I spent the whole day today trying not to sleep in order to avoid the jetlag, then left it too long and have passed into being so tired I can’t sleep, so I’m not so much drunk blogging as “have been drunk, insomiac and constipated since the Kennedy administration” blogging.

And tormenting the dog with a tiny, tiny fez, apparently.

So what have I missed, aside from all of you turning your back on the true Democrat party to support some woman who isn’t even a Democrat but is just using the Democratic primary process for her own nefarious purposes?

No, wait. I’m confused. Where’s that fez gone?

Anyway, I also have Halsey’s “New Americana” on a permanent loop in my head, apparently because my ipad got stuck playing it over and over for six hours while I tried to sleep on the plane. There are worse fates, so I’m embedding it in both dance remix and live versions for the purists at each extreme.

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  5. 5.

    gogol's wife

    You can’t faze me. I looked up “knee trembler” after it was used on Grantchester.

  7. 7.

    SteveinSC

    Where the fuck are you? Is that the fucking Australia type of Sydney? Have you heard something about the future and Trump? Jesus Christ, I’ve got to pack.

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    SARAH!!! My dear sweetie! Kiss kiss and all that!

    Your trip to Morocco was quite jealousy inducing. And we will certainly share a tea and a biscuit discussing that insurance executive.

    Proper authoritahs shall also be alerted to your presence.

  13. 13.

    Miss Bianca

    I have a feeling this blog is about to get even more entertaining now that S, P & T is back in town (so to speak).

    Dog with tiny fez + tongue sticking out = comic genius.

  15. 15.

    Luthe

    @Shell: It will be interesting to see if Sarah can succeed where Doctor Who failed: bringing back the fez.

    Sarah, you got any good Trump stories for us?

  17. 17.

    Patricia Kayden

    Jealous of anyone who has been to Morocco. Heard nothing but good things about that country and it’s on my bucket list.

  22. 22.

    Patricia Kayden

    @MomSense: My Sister-in-Law is from there and keeps inviting me to travel with her so the next time she’s going, I’ll join her (even if it bankrupts me).

    @Miss Bianca: I’m trying to figure out if the dog went to Morocco with Sarah and is sticking its tongue out at us in a “I got to go and you didn’t” way. Cute photo.

  26. 26.

    Humdog

    @Patricia Kayden: my friends took a short trip to Morocco in during winter break from college in England and at a Marrakech (sp?) souk they were held in the back of a rug shop and had to buy a rug in order to be allowed to leave the souk. I would have been rattled but they made the experience sound like loads of fun. Ah, college days, often surprised we survived our reckless stupid adventures!
    ETA not to say Morocco is not a great bucket list destination! Just don’t be a dundering naive college student’ wherever you go!

  28. 28.

    raven

    Stupid fucking title but some of you might like it.

    Hideous Kinky is the story of two sisters (seven and five years old) traveling with their hippie mother from London to Morocco. They encounter many adventures, new experiences, and interesting culture as they tag along on their mother’s search for freedom and love.

  31. 31.

    MomSense

    @Patricia Kayden:

    I almost made it once when a gentleman I met while traveling in Egypt invited me to go with him as his guest. I was really close to accepting but then I chickened out. Not sure I made the right choice. He was quite handsome.

  32. 32.

    J R in WV

    Sarah, P&T:

    Great to hear from you. Sorry you’re jetlagged, that always happens to me too.

    And c u n d gulag, where you been!? I know, I know, those other high-faluting blogs like LGM!

    I guess now that the election is getting (getting?) serious, I should have expected you guys to crawl back into the daylight and make us happy to see you!

    Don’t be strangers! And mind the troolls! (sic)

  33. 33.

    raven

    A Breathing Brochure of Morrocco

    “Hideous Kinky” is not a plot-driven movie but more of a meditation on time and place. And I can live with that. The photography is so rich with colors and beautiful locales, I want to visit Morrocco. The acting in splendid across the board with particular note to the two young girls who were handed quite a bit of duty with the roles. Where this movie failed me is in the character played by Kate Winslet. She behaves with such selfishness and stupidity–not once–but over and over again, that I really grew to dislike her. Sure…she may be a young, naive, adventurous, hippie in the early ’70’s, but a I refuse to believe she didn’t realize what kind of danger she was putting her children in. “Hideous Kinky” is a good movie–not great. And it’s good for one viewing, maybe two for the cinematography.

  34. 34.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    Welcome back SPAT. I am truly looking forward to your contributions here. Even if you are Tom Levenson in drag.
    I’m chilling at GSP for a few hours, trying to get out of the Palmetto State. I should be working, and I probably will. But my expenses are up to date and it’s Friday afternoon so I’m gong to people watch and catch up on blogs.

  37. 37.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @raven:
    I abide by the firm rule of never spending a dime in an airport except to tip the deserving. And I’m not a drinker either. They’ve torn the hell out of this airport to rehab it. With more TSA lanes I hope. went through precheck with about 30 pairs of eye-beam sized holes bored through me from the long regular line.

  39. 39.

    rikyrah

    Political Animal Blog

    June 03, 2016 1:00 PM
    Obama’s Anti-Trump Secret Weapon
    By Steven Waldman

    President Obama just put Trump In a very-classy-and-beauitful-gold-plated box with his announcement that he now supports an increase in Social Security benefits.

    If Trump supports the idea he pisses off mainstream Republicans at a time he’s trying to court them. If he opposes it, he annoys his own base of crotchety white seniors.

    Most of the time when Democrats ruminate on how to appeal to potential Trump voters they think about income inequality, raising the minimum wage or maybe tweaking trade laws.

    But that forgets one fact: Trump’s base is old. The latest Quinnepiac poll had Trump beating Hillary among those over 50 and losing among those who are younger.

    It was considered a sign of his daring heterodoxy when Trump earlier this year came out against cutting Social Security. But Obama upped the ante, and Hillary has already come out for an increase. Trump already had some vulnerabilities because he had suggested privatizing the program in one of his books.

    In this year of surprises, the newest wedge issue might be a golden oldie.

  41. 41.

    HinTN

    @raven: Clearly, it has been years. They got over the little bottles long ago. Still have the red dots, tho.

  42. 42.

    A Ghost To Most

    Welcome Back! Please send an emergency supply of Victoria Bitters, and don’t mind the mess we’ve made of the place.

  43. 43.

    HinTN

    @Ultraviolet Thunder: Three in front of me in the Pre line at MCO; thousands in the ten (+) other lines. No glares that I noticed but they were mostly preoccupied with their kids.

  44. 44.

    dr. luba

    @raven: A friend of mine had a son who decided to do the same, but with wife and 2 small children. One of the kids got sick in Turkey, didn’t get adequate medical care, and by the time they managed to get her back to Canada she had permanent brain/neurological damage from encephalitis or meningitis (Grandma wasn’t clear on the details).

    So, yes, it is risky, in many ways.

  45. 45.

    hovercraft

    By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer

    June 2 at 7:45 PM 

    If you look at the polls, it is clear who’s winning the 2016 presidential contest: Barack Obama.

    There remains the technical impediment that the president is constitutionally barred from a third term. But the longer the campaign goes on, the higher Obama’s approval rating rises. This should be bad for Donald Trump and good for the eventual Democratic nominee, almost certainly Hillary Clinton. But it is even better for Obama’s legacy.

    According to Gallup, which has been charting the nation’s assessment of its presidents longer than anyone else, Obama’s approval stands at 52 percent, compared with 44 percent disapproval. That may not look impressive but it is actually quite good for a president nearing the end of his second term; Ronald Reagan, by comparison, had 49 percent approval at this point in his tenu

  50. 50.

    hovercraft

    @Patricia Kayden:
    No.
    But it is mean to laugh at the emotionally stunted, narcissistic, petty, vulgar, misogynistic, racist, stupid, pathological liar, delusional, needy, short fingered , person. A person like that should be pitied.

  51. 51.

    Mike J

    It appears that sometime this evening, somebody may well get a chance to use the line, “the smartest man in the world just took my backpack.”

  52. 52.

    Luthe

    @Patricia Kayden: As the only orange people I’ve ever seen have been white people who didn’t know where to stop with the fake tans, no it is not racist to mock them.

    (Pro-tip: if your tan clashes with your natural hair color, it’s time to stop. Love, an olive-skinned Latinx)

  53. 53.

    ...now I try to be amused

    @rikyrah:

    If Trump supports [increasing Social Security benefits] he pisses off mainstream Republicans at a time he’s trying to court them. If he opposes it, he annoys his own base of crotchety white seniors.

    Good, but not enough. When will President Obama come out in favor of breathing?

  55. 55.

    hovercraft

    From the Washington Post Plum Line

    The media have reached a turning point in covering Donald Trump. He may not survive it.

    By Paul Waldman

    June 3 at 12:44 PM 

    REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

    The news media have come in for a lot of criticism in the way they’ve reported this election, which makes it exactly like every other election. But something may have changed just in the last few days. I have no idea how meaningful it will turn out to be or how long it will last.

    But it’s possible that when we look back over the sweep of this most unusual campaign, we’ll mark this week as a significant turning point: the time when journalists finally figured out how to cover Donald Trump.

    They didn’t do it by coming up with some new model of coverage, or putting aside what they were taught in journalism school. They’re doing it by rediscovering the fundamental values and norms that are supposed to guide their profession. (And for the record, even though I’m part of “the media” I’m speaking in the third person here because I’m an opinion writer, and this is about the reporters whose job it is to objectively relay the events of the day).

    If this evolution in coverage takes hold, we can trace it to the combined effect of a few events and developments happening in a short amount of time. The first was Trump’s press conference on Tuesday, the ostensible purpose of which was to answer questions about a fundraiser he held in January to raise money for veterans’ groups. In the course of the press conference, Trump was at his petulant, abusive worst, attacking reporters in general and those in the room. “The political press is among the most dishonest people that I’ve ever met,” he said, saying to one journalist who had asked a perfectly reasonable question, “You’re a sleaze.” These kinds of criticisms are not new — anyone who has reported a Trump rally can tell you how Trump always tosses some insults at the press, at which point his supporters turn around and hurl their own abuse at those covering the event — but Trump seemed particularly angry and unsettled.

    To see how the press looked at that revealing event, it’s critical to understand what led to it. It happened because the Post’s David Fahrenthold and some other reporters did what journalists are supposed to do. They raised questions about Trump’s fundraiser, and when they didn’t get adequate answers, they investigated, gathered facts, and asked more questions.

    It was excellent work — time-consuming, difficult, and ultimately paying dividends in public understanding. And Trump’s attack on them for doing their jobs the way those jobs are supposed to be done couldn’t have been better designed to get every other journalist to want to do the same. They’re no different than anyone else: When you make a direct attack on their professionalism, they’re likely to react by reaching back to their profession’s core values to demonstrate that they can live up to them. Trump may have wanted to intimidate them, but it’s likely to have the opposite effect.

    The same day as the press conference, a trove of documents from Trump University was released as part of a class-action lawsuit accusing Trump of fraud. The documents revealed allegations as to just what a scam that enterprise was: high-pressure sales tactics, nothing resembling knowledge being imparted to the “students,” people in financial trouble preyed upon and told to max out their credit cards to pay for more seminars and courses. Some of Trump’s other schemes may have been comical, but as far as we know nobody was victimized too terribly by buying a Trump Steak or a bottle of Trump Vodka. Trump University is something entirely different, and it’s not over yet; questions are now being raised about an investigation the Texas Attorney General’s office undertook of Trump University, which concluded that it was cheating Texans out of large sums of money; the investigation was dropped by then-AG Greg Abbott, who later got $35,000 in contributions from Trump and is now the state’s governor.

    Plenty of presidential candidates have had shady doings in their pasts, but can you think of anything that compares to Trump University? A party’s nominee allegedly running a con not just on unsuspecting victims, but on victims specifically chosen for their vulnerability and desperation? It’s no wonder that you can’t find any Republicans who’ll defend it, in a time when ordinarily you can get a partisan hack to justify almost anything their party’s leader is doing or has done.

  59. 59.

    Gin & Tonic

    @raven: Used to fly in/out of CAE a lot; I recall the mini-bottles, too. But then again I was in RDU when Wake County was “dry” and you had to go to a private club to get a drink.

    Fuck, I hated Columbia.

  61. 61.

    Iowa Old Lady

    I didn’t know what a knee trembler was, so I had hopes it would involve sex on the luggage belt. As always, I’m doomed to disappointment.

  62. 62.

    Bob In Portland

    Who is most likely to continue the wars in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan?

    Oh, that’s right. No one here cares. Dead people, but they’re over there.

  63. 63.

    PurpleGirl

    @Patricia Kayden: Not if it comes from a spray can and using it leaves those weird white circles around the eyes. I first learned about pray-on tans when I accidentally watched one of those reality shows about children’s beauty pageants.

    Anyway, I think spray-on tans look gross.

  66. 66.

    Mike E

    @HinTN: Sign inside every bathroom stall at NC State’s stadium during football season: Don’t put airplane bottles in toilet!

  70. 70.

    John Revolta

    @Poopyman: Lordy. I’m just about to become eligible and now I’m wondering what to do…………….if/when they raise benefits, are they gonna go “Well, too bad guy, we’re just raising them for future claimees…………………..ya shoulda waited heh heh”. Yes I worry about stuff a lot, why do you ask??

  71. 71.

    Mike E

    @raven: LEOs have a spotter on the roof, radio security when they see somebody toss back a nip…kids get hammered anyway. What can ya do?

  74. 74.

    MomSense

    @raven:

    The heart wants what it wants and the way to a man’s heart is via his stomach. At least that’s how the story goes.

  78. 78.

    Mike E

    @Gin & Tonic: Raleigh is quite un-dry,seems to be our business model lately. Last of NC’s dry counties gave in a few years back…liquor-by-the-drink is 30 years old now in Charlotte

  80. 80.

    Yutsano

    @raven: Just keep swimming…Just keep swimming…Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming…What do we do? We swim, swim, swim.

  83. 83.

    MomSense

    @raven:

    Nice! My son texted me a picture of a 100lb halibut that he had to clean and prepare at the restaurant where he works. Unbelievable. So beautiful.

  84. 84.

    WaterGirl

    @Iowa Old Lady: The definition I found was “sex while standing up”. As long as you are standing up on a luggage belt, you scenario could work!

  87. 87.

    Kay

    Pretty good stuff on the “new voters” line Trump uses:

    While Trump’s insurgent candidacy has spurred record-setting Republican primary turnout in state after state, the early statistics show that the vast majority of those voters aren’t actually new to voting or to the Republican Party, but rather they are reliable past voters in general elections. They are only casting ballots in a Republican primary for the first time.

    The search for the missing white voters continues…. :)

  90. 90.

    Fester Addams

    @…now I try to be amused:

    Good, but not enough. When will President Obama come out in favor of breathing?

    Shh… don’t talk about the secret weapon. (Just between us, I heard it’s going to be: Presidential Directive to all Americans – do not drink Clorox.)

  92. 92.

    Patricia Kayden

    @hovercraft:

    And Trump’s attack on them for doing their jobs the way those jobs are supposed to be done couldn’t have been better designed to get every other journalist to want to do the same.

    So only when Trump directly attacks journalists do other journalists get the bright idea to do their actual jobs and challenge his claims? Alrighty then. Anyways, kudos to the Washington Post journalist for actually doing his job and researching Trump’s claim that he had donated millions to veterans’ groups. That’s a step in the right direction.

  94. 94.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Jealous of anyone who has been to Morocco. Heard nothing but good things about that country and it’s on my bucket list.

    They arrest men for having sex with each other. There, you’ve heard something bad.

  100. 100.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: I got that impression from the short bit I saw on the TV machine since she was smiling while being egged. That video and the comments of the observers inside the hotel really confirms that impression.

  103. 103.

    Another Holocene Human

    To be fair I love Moroccan architecture, food, and textiles, all the Moroccans I’ve ever met were gracious and I’d love to visit myself. Just that one little problem.

  104. 104.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Your keen observations on the lifestyles of the short fingered and vulgar have been sorely missed, SPT.

  105. 105.

    Brachiator

    @Kay:

    While Trump’s insurgent candidacy has spurred record-setting Republican primary turnout in state after state, the early statistics show that the vast majority of those voters aren’t actually new to voting or to the Republican Party, but rather they are reliable past voters in general elections. They are only casting ballots in a Republican primary for the first time.

    Interesting analysis, but it is still worrisome:

    Any way it’s sliced, the historic primary turnout of 2016 is good news for the GOP. It is a sign, as it was for Democrats in 2008 when the Clinton-Obama contest shattered old turnout records, of energy and enthusiasm that can often be translated into volunteer hours and campaign cash. And Democrats this year, despite the surprisingly close contest between Clinton and Bernie Sanders, are far below their previous turnout highs—raising the specter of a problematic enthusiasm gap this fall.

    And yes, what happens in the primaries does not cleanly predict what happens in the general election, but the Democrats have their work cut out for them getting out the vote in general, and pushing younger voters toward Hillary.

  106. 106.

    Baud

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Can’t stop laughing at this tweet about Trump and his Oompa Loompa coloring.

    I assume he turned himself orange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

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