Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Everybody saw this coming.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Nothing worth doing is easy.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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

Battle won, war still ongoing.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

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

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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Full time douche canoe and State Senator Chris McDaniel took to facebook with this bit of idiocy:

He’s proud of that, too! A couple of quick things:

1.) The protests were not about free birth control.

2.) This is when you can tell they are spooked- when all they have is dumbassery to puke up. You’ve no doubt seen some of the other crap the wingnuts have tried- pictures of trash left behind after the march gasping about dirty liberals, idiots wondering “what did it accomplish,” or others barfing up stuff like “what if they had not spent money on tickets and donated it to women’s shelters” and on and on. When you see that, what you should recognize is that the protests worked and it unnerved them. They have no response, so rather than confront the issue head on, they’ll bicker around the edges.

3.) And I am sure David Anderson aka Richard Mayhew will chime in, but for now, THIS IS NOT HOW INSURANCE WORKS. INSURANCE IS NOT FREE SHIT. INSURANCE IS SOMETHING WE ALL PAY INTO TO HAVE THINGS COVERED.

So when women mention that birth control should be covered by insurance, it’s not because they want free shit, it’s because they want their health needs treated equally to men’s health needs. Additionally, while called “birth control,” birth control isn’t just for stopping unwanted pregnancies.

So a hearty middle finger to the full time penis impersonator from Mississippi, who not only is an asshole, but a stupid asshole who doesn’t even know what health insurance is and how it works.

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  5. 5.

    Trentrunner

    If the shit keeps coming this fast & hard for four years…I’ll be dead by March. Keystone, election fraud, SCOTUS nominee, fake inauguration counts…and this is Day 5?

    Also not pleased that Dems are not voting no on EVERYTHING Trump proposes. Even Warren and Sanders apparently voted YES on Ben Carson for HUD. WTF, liberals?

    So, yeah. Worse than I thought since our side is STILL bringing a knife to an extinction-level event fight.

  7. 7.

    guachi

    I’ve been trying to politely warn my conservative friends on Facebook that their right wing media outlets are found them a disservice by downplaying the rallies.

    Rather than mock them, they should fear them and start organizing themselves.

  8. 8.

    debbie

    I’d like to ask him if he hadd condemned the rallies that led to the creation of the Tea Party, and if not, why is he being such a fucking hypocrite?

  10. 10.

    Capri

    I retain some wingnutty facebook friends, mainly to see what they are thinking. Their take away is that the march was 100% about being for abortion. Guess when they see fetus vessels that’s all they can think of.

  12. 12.

    Lurking Buffoon

    So a hearty middle finger to the full time penis impersonator from Mississippi, who not only is an asshole, but a stupid asshole who doesn’t even know what health insurance is and how it works.

    Republicans in positions of power who don’t know how anything works is a feature, not a bug.

  13. 13.

    ms_canadada

    “…dumbassery to puke up.” John Cole, you are a poet, but do you know it?
    Brilliant!

  17. 17.

    Kryptik

    Like…motherfucker, really? It’s not even about “Free birth control” at this rate, as much of a misrepresentation of the deal as it is, it’s about free ACCESS to birth control at this rate, because fuckers like this keep trying to make it more and more impossible to get any kind of contraception, even out of pocket.

  19. 19.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I honestly believe there is no way to get through to these people except through Richard Spencer communication techniques.

    And even then, it’s iffy.

  22. 22.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    3.) And I am sure David Anderson aka Richard Mayhew will chime in, but for now, THIS IS NOT HOW INSURANCE WORKS. INSURANCE IS NOT FREE SHIT. INSURANCE IS SOMETHING WE ALL PAY INTO TO HAVE THINGS COVERED.

    Hear, hear. I”ve heard too many Dems and supporters using the word “free” to describe preventive care, check-ups. It’s not free, it’s covered.

    @Major Major Major Major: I gather she broke her streak on Haley.

  24. 24.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Trentrunner: I think the logic on Carson was “he’s utterly unqualified and in over his head, so he’ll probably do minimal damage”.

  25. 25.

    amk

    @Baud: I oppose everything is a good enough reason as far as this fascist destructive admin is concerned. Time to stop playing good germans due to the global implications.

  26. 26.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s covered in order to avoid allowing conditions to develop over time that will cost a lot more to address down the road. Avoid them with preventative care. This makes so much sense that NATURALLY Rethugs are opposed to it.

  27. 27.

    Trentrunner

    @Major Major Major Major: You don’t mean “Gillibrand,” you mean “the new early frontrunner for 2020.” :)

    Yes, I had heard that, too. I really don’t understand the justification for any Dem voting yes on any of these cabinet posts. Why?

  29. 29.

    Jack the Second

    While I know the are non-birth-control uses of birth control treatments, I don’t think we should cede ground.

    Universal access to birth control is important because it is important that women have the ability to choose when and if they get pregnant. That is what the fight is for.

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    So when women mention that birth control should be covered by insurance, it’s not because they want free shit, it’s because they want their health needs treated equally to men’s health needs.

    People like McDaniel see women as defective men. They have these … things, vulvas and uteri and such that men don’t have and don’t need. So women’s health needs are frivolous, secondary, unnecessary. And if they just shut up and stayed pregnant all the time, like the Lord God intended, they would have even less need of health insurance.

    Sadly enough, there are conservative women who endorse McDaniel’s views.

  32. 32.

    Morzer

    MAX IM A KOOPA ‏@meakoopa Jan 22
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    Fascism wriggles into democracies by insisting on right to be heard, achieves critical mass, then dissolves the organs that installed it.

    Seems pretty much on point to me.

  33. 33.

    amk

    @Baud: If they don’t hear from the base/voters/partisans/whatev, then on what they are basing their strategy/tactics/whatev on?

    eta: you know kinda holding the kenyan’s feet on fire 24×7?

  35. 35.

    Waldo

    … the protests worked and it unnerved them.

    Good. Now what should we do to keep them that way?

  37. 37.

    Baud

    @amk: I don’t understand the inner workings enough to answer, but my guess is most of the voters they hear from in their states aren’t like us.

  38. 38.

    cosima

    When the oil company that I worked for was bought (in a roundabout way) by a shit (now huge) oil company based in OK one of the sudden changes to my coverage was that my birth control was no longer covered — I had to pay full price ($25/mo). I looked at the coverage, saw that it covered Viagra, phoned HR and told them that if they didn’t start covering bc I was going to sue their asses. It started covering bc. Who knows how long the stupid women working in OK had been putting up with insurance that covered Viagra but not bc. I don’t think that company was ready for the women they got when they bought/acquired our company. We had some warriors, and I was one of the feistiest.

  39. 39.

    Jeffro

    @amk: see that kind of response is light years better than trying to refute them point by point !!

    Nice work !

  42. 42.

    JMG

    It would have been very simple for every Democratic Senator to vote no on every nomination with the simple statement, “this person was nominated by a person unfit for office, so I cannot support them.” Just repeat that 48 times for 15 nominations and Trump would be insane. But they’re just not tough enough. Strike that. They are too conventional for an unconventional situation.

  44. 44.

    Baud

    @Baud: My bad. Politico is reporting that Haley was confirmed.

    96-4 vote. Aside from Coons, I’m not sure who voted no. Checking…

    ETA: No votes:

    Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Chris Coons (D-Delaware) Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) and Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) who voted against her.

    So Gillibrand broke her streak.

  45. 45.

    Morzer

    @Waldo:

    Keep them under scrutiny. Keep exposing the lies, the fraud, the grift, the incompetence, the theft of public assets, the attacks on free speech, the hatred of real Americans by a gang of fiscal terrorists who have never done an honest day’s work in their Russian-owned lives. Keep making it clear that Trump is not and never will be a legitimate president and that the only place he and his cronies belong is prison, awaiting a trial and a firing squad.

  46. 46.

    ThresherK

    @AB: Actually, some of us men love our Caswell-Massey too!

    (Jeez, did I just go “Not All Men” about high-end soap?)

  47. 47.

    hovercraft

    @Jack the Second:

    Universal access to birth control is important because it is important that women have the ability to choose when and if they get pregnant. That is what the fight is for.

    That’s why they are against it, sluts should be punished for having sex, and if they are kept barefoot and pregnant, they won’t be able to compete with the menfolk for the top jobs.

  48. 48.

    amk

    @Baud:

    I don’t understand the inner workings

    That’s what pisses of people. Whichever dems ‘attended’ the Saturday rallies should have got that.

  53. 53.

    amk

    @Baud: They did care about not normalizing this shitfest of an admin. Which the dems are doing right now. With their insidery stuff.

  55. 55.

    Baud

    @amk: Maybe you’re right, but I don’t think most ordinary people will care about Dems not going full 100% no on everything.

  56. 56.

    Morzer

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/that-sounds-right

    Another candidate for DNC Chair was just on MSNBC making his case for himself, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. I’ve never heard of him before. But he closed out with this ….

    Look, we’ve got a fight. We’ve also got to be fighting for our values. For far too long, Democratic strategy and policy has been organized completely around Republican strategy and policy.
    And all we do is take the yardstick of what have they’re doing and then fight over how ferociously to oppose it or how many parts of it to take up. That is not a strategy that is derived from our own values and our own principles. And if we’re talking about our values before we even bother talking about the republicans, then we can do things like talk about what’s right for the country. And dare Donald Trump to either do it or fail to do it.
    Running the DNC is about a lot more than a few good turns of phrase. But this resonated with me.

    We should always take our values and policies as the norm and make clear that the GOP are a bunch of vicious, degenerate sadists looking to abuse and steal from ordinary Americans to fund their sick habits.

  59. 59.

    amk

    @Baud: well, rethugs gained nearly universal power with their nearly 100% NO over the last eight years. So, may be ordinary voters do care.

  60. 60.

    hilzoy

    It was so very expensive to hop a ride with some friends and then take the Metro there and back. I could probably have bought as many as five condoms for all that money!

  62. 62.

    Baud

    @Major Major Major Major: Sure. It may prove to be an advantage for candidates not in Washington, since they don’t have to deal with the administration as much.

    @amk: As has been shown earlier today, the GOP didn’t do that. They were strategic with their obstruction, and they escalated when they were rewarded for it by the voters.

  63. 63.

    hovercraft

    @amk:
    From what I can find, his last election in 2015, he got 85.8 % to his opponents 14.2 %. So I’m guessing his constituents are happy with him. He’s the guy whose allies snuck in to a nursing home to take photos of Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife. He denied any involvement or knowledge, wink, wink, but as I said was reelected the following year.

  67. 67.

    amk

    @Baud:

    they escalated when they were rewarded for it by the voters.

    my whatev is don’t fucking normalize this admin. in any way.

  69. 69.

    Mary G

    I went to his facebook page to tell him to DIAF and that a family I know with four voting-age members just moved to Mississippi from Washington State (for work and they got a shitload of money, because nobody wants to move to MS) and are certainly not going to vote like he seems to think everyone there does. But he had thousands of angry women after him already, so I think I’ll let it be a surprise.

  70. 70.

    Baud

    @amk: I get it. You favor a 100% no strategy. Senate Dems are not doing that. I can’t say which way will work better, so I’m not going to get angry with them over this.

  73. 73.

    Morzer

    @hovercraft:

    At some point, possibly already reached, people are going to get used to the idea that Trump and his maladministration are incapable of telling the truth on any topic, at which point they’ll be open to any and all accusations, conspiracy theories and allegations that the world cares to throw at them. Not the best place for a political party to be.

  74. 74.

    MomSense

    30 years ago oral contraceptives cost $36 a month and were not covered. By the time Instopped taking them they were around $75-80 per month. Now they are even more expensive. And yes we take hm so we don’t get pregnant but they are also prescribed for many other uses. They were prescribed for me to treat my blood disorder.

  75. 75.

    Roger Moore

    @Baud:

    But I think she’s given a reason for all three other than “I oppose everything.”

    Sure. The reason to oppose Trump is because what he’s doing is bad. If he occasionally comes up with a good nominee or idea, we should be willing to support it, both to support good stuff and to prove we aren’t mindlessly opposing everything he does. The thing to do in that case, though, is to make it clear the support is for the idea or nominee, not for Trump.

  77. 77.

    hovercraft

    Report: Trump Complains Negative Press Means He Can’t ‘Enjoy’ White House

    By ESME CRIBB Published JANUARY 24, 2017, 6:56 PM EDT

    President Donald Trump thinks that unfavorable media coverage of his first weekend in office has not allowed him to “enjoy” the White House, according to a Tuesday report by the Associated Press.

    Trump believed that the media would cover him more favorably after he was inaugurated, according to an Associated Press report citing two anonymous sources close to the President, but instead believes it has worsened.

    The President said that the negative press has not allowed him to “enjoy” the White House on his first weekend in office, according to an anonymous source who spoke with him also cited in the report.

    Trump’s administration faced a rocky weekend of media coverage on its first weekend in the White House.

    Thousands of marchers attended protests on Saturday along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as well as in hundreds of other cities across the United States and around the world, many carrying anti-Trump signs. And an official estimate from D.C. Metro authority showed that the transit system had its second-busiest day ever on the day of the Women’s March on Washington, far surpassing its ridership on the day of Trump’s inauguration.

    Following reports of low attendance at his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Trump pushed White House press secretary Sean Spicer to issue a fiery public response, according to a Washington Post report published Sunday citing interviews with Trump’s advisors and confidants as well as a number of senior White House officials.

    In his Saturday remarks railing against the media, Spicer included a number of incorrect figures which were quickly highlighted as baseless. Trump, however, thought that Spicer’s statement was not forceful enough, according to the Washington Post’s report.

    Spicer continued to condemn the media’s treatment of Donald Trump in his first daily briefing with reporters from the White House on Monday, saying that it is “demoralizing” for the President to see unfavorable coverage.

    “There is this constant theme to undercut the enormous support that he has,” Spicer said. “I think it’s unbelievably frustrating when you’re continually told it’s not big enough, it’s not good enough, you can’t win.”

  81. 81.

    gratuitous

    Another outstanding example of someone opening his pie-hole and removing all doubt. Thank you for your concern, Sen. McDaniel. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

  82. 82.

    Major Major Major Major

    Via The AV Club: link

    Get Involved, Internet: Help this raw onion get more Twitter followers than Donald Trump

    Donald Trump wields his Twitter audience like a cudgel, as if the 22 million people that choose to be privy to his various outrages and transparently staged photo-ops have a political mandate to do so. He confuses audience with approval, and, worse, he may be right. On Friday he received the greatest possible positive reinforcement for his belief that the angry little thing that lives in his brain is correct.

    So it’s the least the Twitter-using public can do to follow @HalfOnionInABag, a Twitter account started on Friday that purports to literally be half of an onion in a plastic bag.

  90. 90.

    PPCLI

    I hope the good senator gets lots of letters and emails filling him in on the point of the march. Letters like this:

    Dear Senator McDaniel:
    The core message of the march — a message you describe as “objectionable” — was this: We are disgusted that the leader of your party has shown, in both his words and his repeated actions, that he believes sexually assaulting women is OK. We believe that sexual assault is despicable. Are you saying that it is OK? And that it is objectionable to complain about it?
    Thanks for letting us know.
    Best,
    Millions of American Women

  91. 91.

    Groucho48

    Meanwhile, Tweety, who is always rhapsodizing about good, hard working real American [white], blue collar union workers, finally had a couple on his show. Yay! Finally!, I thought to myself. Then, he basically asks them..is Trump’s rejection of TPP good for workers or great for workers? They seemed a bit equivocal, but, hard to tell for sure, as Tweety did his usual interrupting constantly.

  92. 92.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    a)

    This is when you can tell they are spooked- when all they have is dumbassery to puke up

    Quoted for the truth, I have never seen fear like this out of politicians.

    b) Fraking giving birth is the like the godman human frAKING condition. What do the Conservatards think the Baby Jesus ridding a dinosaur brings the little babies the Evil Hillterdemon wants to abort? They complain about the low birth rate among white, maybe giving the young folks some help? eh?

  93. 93.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Alternative fact of the day

    The loudest band in history was The Monkey’s doing the song “Day Dream Believer” in concert on this day in 1967,.

  94. 94.

    Aleta

    I’m making a small donation in his name to Planned Parenthood for every mean spirited post (and there are many ) (talk about fake christians) he puts up. The more he posts these insults, the more money Planned Parenthood will receive from his effort.

  95. 95.

    getsmartin

    By the way, this asshole very nearly became a US Senator in 2014. He lost narrowly to incumbent Thad Cochran. During that campaign a journo acquaintance got “ejected” from a McDaniel rally for simply being there (he had written a series of “harsh” pieces about him). He truly is an irredeemable scumbag…

  96. 96.

    chopper

    THIS IS NOT HOW INSURANCE WORKS. INSURANCE IS NOT FREE SHIT.

    I know, right? women aren’t asking for free birth control. women are asking to be able to pay for birth control.

    these are the same idiots who argue that social security and medicare are “free shit”.

  97. 97.

    leeleeFl

    @Mortal Coyle: I happen to have a nephew in Michigan and Coyle is my maiden name. Coincidence? If so, I would love to adopt you into this branch of Coyles! Awesome blog! Will be reading you everyday!

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