Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

So many bastards, so little time.

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

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

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

Republicans do not pay their debts.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

The lights are all blinking red.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

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A Few More Photos From Saturday

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I thought this deserved to be FP:

PhoenixRising says:

A note on ‘the Democrats sold us out:

Your youth and naivete are adorable, love you, really.

Let me try this one more time in case the static breaks up at the perfect moment…The Democrats in office are the opposition. Yes, they should *oppose* every damn thing Trump proposes, and the winners (Gillibrand/Heinrich 2020) have that figured out. But they are not going to resist. That is not their job. It is our job. And if we do it long enough, and thoroughly enough, by pushing, pulling and dragging citizens who don’t care about politics out of the grey zone and onto our team…elected Democrats will do what we tell them to. Because they will be afraid not to.

And that, ladies and germs, is how we got Democrats to govern in the 20th century. The New Deal, the Voting Rights Act, health insurance that has to cover mammograms, marriage equality…all of those nice things didn’t just happen because Democrats are nicer, smarter and more enlightened. (Though that has since become true, more’s the pity.)

When I first attended a topical protest, 19 states enforced sodomy laws. Don’t try to tell me protest doesn’t work, because I know it does. I also know that no elected Democrats got in front of the tidal wave for marriage equality until the alternative was to lose their seats.

Light up their phones and faxes, one issue at a time, be consistent, and don’t be afraid to mass. Democrats aren’t going to lead us, but they will follow us.

Here are a few more photos…believe it or not, I still have some…so the good feels shall continue until moral improves (or at least until tomorrow).

From the Kansas March:

My niece and her friends. My niece made all the signs herself, Every time I talk with her, she gives me so much damn hope for the future.

We had 4,000 people show up in front of the Kansas Capital. Lots of pink hats. Warm, wonderful crowd. Even great weather. I’m still kinda buzzing about it. Especially here in Kansas, where it’s always wonderful to find fellow lefties. Whenever I stumble across someone like that in the rural area where I live, it’s like meeting a long lost friend.

You know how I love my links, Valerie made a slideshow of all the great DC photos she had, click here

To find out who this handsome fellow is, you’ll have to check below the fold.

That’s our very own Raven at the Athens, GA march.

The statue is Athena and was installed as part of the Olympics here.

Sara sent this nice collage – she didn’t say where the march was, but then, she didn’t really have to, LOL – and her photo is at the top of this post:

And finally for tonight from Suzanne:

Open thread!

 

 

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  1. 1.

    Mnemosyne

    I have to go through my stash, but I’m pretty sure I have some pink cotton yarn suitable for summer-weight pussyhats.

    And there’s always the option of switching to a kitty headband for those in the hottest climates.

    Can’t stop the signal.

  3. 3.

    Yoda Dog

    That was awesome. I quit smoking, but I wanted a cigarrette after reading that.

    One Love. We got this.

  9. 9.

    Yarrow

    Raven! Looking fierce! And is that Suzanne and family all in pink hats? Excellent stuff. Love all the photos.

    I wonder if the Science March people will go with some kind of distinctive hats?

  10. 10.

    slag

    I’m going to go all Tom Friedman for a second, but my Lyft driver tonight was a Bolivian man who was talking about how bad traffic was on Saturday due to the protests. I asked him why he didn’t join them and he explained that he really thought about it but couldn’t find a place to park his car.

    He then told me how upset he was at his family members in Florida who didn’t vote because “Trump is such a clown there’s no way he will win.” I complained that I have no idea how to keep Democrats from falling for this ruse. As if there’s an inverse relationship between the level of sanity of the opposition and our ability to defeat it. So frustrating.

  11. 11.

    Omnes Omnibus

    For people looking for something to do, find a person who needs help and help. Give a little money to someone who needs it. Help a short person get something off a tall shelf. Decency and kindness matter.

  13. 13.

    Cacti

    Well, shit.

    Butch Trucks, one of the drummers and co-founders from the Allman Brothers Band died today. 69 years old.

  17. 17.

    GregB

    After seeing some of the polling for Clementine Caligula, I think we may end up grabbing the rudder before this ship hits the shoals.

    Let’s hope Mary Tyler Moore was right:

    We’re gonna make it after all.

  22. 22.

    Mike J

    @GregB:

    Let’s hope Mary Tyler Moore was right:

    We’re gonna make it after all.

    Saturday or Sunday afternoon, there should be a pussyhat salute to MTM. 21 people gather at a public spot, spin, and throw their pussyhats in the air.

  23. 23.

    ? Martin

    @slag:

    He then told me how upset he was at his family members in Florida who didn’t vote because “Trump is such a clown there’s no way he will win.”

    This is why making voting difficult is a viable strategy for the right. Democrats would be wise to call hurdles to voting a ‘poll tax’. We recognize people’s time as having value – unless it comes to voting.

  24. 24.

    slag

    @BillinGlendaleCA: It’s at least partly how we got GW as well. Remember Nader’s whole schtick about how anyone should be able to beat the Bush? We defeat ourselves as much as anything else. It’s a problem.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    @Yarrow:

    Knowing scientists and mathematicians, they’ll probably wear pink pussyhats knitted by themselves or their colleagues. There is a HUGE crossover between knitters and scientists, and several prominent knitting designers I can think of (like Cookie A) were in science fields before their design careers took off.

  30. 30.

    slag

    @? Martin:

    This is why making voting difficult is a viable strategy for the right.

    It’s also so enjoyable how the “far left” plays right into this strategy. Republicans spend a ton of effort to minimize voter turnout, and the puritans simultaneously convince themselves that voting is for rubes and sell-outs.

    It’s about as sensical as “rebelling” by paying a ton of money to Phillip Morris to kill you slowly.

    Sometimes I just want to shake people: “Can’t you see that you’re giving them exactly what they want?!?”

  32. 32.

    Lizzy L

    @Omnes Omnibus: it doesn’t. It fades off suggestively.

    I was thinking about the Juggalos marching on Washington to protest DJT. They aren’t actually doing that — but how the hell will a man like him react to the Juggalos? The mind boggles.

  33. 33.

    phantomist

    “To find out who this handsome fellow is, you’ll have to check below the fold.”

    Before the fold.
    Mike Ehrmantraut?

  35. 35.

    Mnemosyne

    @slag:

    Republicans spend a ton of effort to minimize voter turnout, and the puritans simultaneously convince themselves that voting is for rubes and sell-outs.

    This. The con the Republicans are running is, It doesn’t matter who you vote for, and lefties fall for it every. single. goddamned. time.

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Dilemma: If I go to bed soon, I will wake up to a day of remedial training for someone who works under me. I hate this kind of shit. If I don’t go to bed soon, I will wake up to a day of remedial training for someone who works under me while really tired. I am a procrastinator.

  42. 42.

    slag

    @Mnemosyne: Not only do they fall for it, they seem to lust after it. It’s as if their great joy in life is getting thoroughly played by the system that they’re far too cool for. I’d be embarrassed for them if I could just get past my irritation with them.

  48. 48.

    GregB

    Adam, have you talked about the reports of the FSB cyber intel operatives in Russia who have been arrested yet?

  49. 49.

    Yarrow

    @Omnes Omnibus: Well, it might go better if you’re not tired. On the other hand, the sooner you’re in bed the sooner it will seem like morning arrives. So…

  51. 51.

    Adam L Silverman

    @GregB: No. I’ve seen the reports. Also reports of several top level Russian (Intel) general officer deaths in the past few months. But now I’m going to rack out. I’m pooped.

  52. 52.

    Leaving Texas

    @Mnemosyne:

    Knowing scientists and mathematicians, they’ll probably wear pink pussyhats knitted by themselves or their colleagues

    I really hope they do. That way even the casual political observer will say oh the pink hats are out again, this might be important to people. I also love that the hats are handmade and girlish. It counteracts any characterization of these protests as elitist or militant.

  57. 57.

    Larkspur

    @Adam L Silverman: Wait wait. How tall are you? Are you “getting things down from a shelf” tall? It is like a survey going on. I’m 5’7″ but I’m good at standing on tiptoes. Now go the f*ck to sleep and pleasant dreams.

  63. 63.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    My neighbor asked if I got rid of my car, said yes. He said his B-I-L has one for sale, I know the car, nope.

    ETA: I was more diplomatic than that, I said I was thinking of a Prius.

  66. 66.

    Ol' Nat

    I especially loved three things about the pussyhats: that they were handmade and given away; that all the stores ran out of pink yarn, so mine is actually pink and grey stripes; and that you could see who came to the march together by the fact that their hats were all of the same yarn!

  73. 73.

    Peale

    @GrandJury: yep. On the plus side, trump has done nothing to peal away people who voted for Clinton. On the minus side, he hasn’t done anything to get more votes. Our stress has to be on governors mansions and state legislatures as bastions against his polIcies. If after all this we still can’t convince our voters to pay attention to their congressman and their governor, I think we’re done for quite some time.

  75. 75.

    Larkspur

    @Ol’ Nat: Yep, all that about the pussyhats is very cool. Plus I no longer hate pink. I realized my pink hatred was reactionary. Although I haven’t found the shade of pink that works for me, probably because my skin color is pinkish, kind of like a pencil eraser color of pink, neither luminous nor fresh, just eraser color. But I will wear some kind of pink anyway. Pink and gray might work, and at my age it would be credible. Now really I’m going to go the fuck to sleep.

  76. 76.

    NotMax

    @Larkspur

    Easy-peasy. Just go back through the photos of the newly painted rooms chez Cole until you find the shade of pink you prefer.

    /irresistible

  84. 84.

    jackie

    For anyone awake at this hour. Check out the WP front page (web) coverage of Trump’s first TV news conference. The man is now revealing himself to be actually insane! Truly bonkers! (sorry can’t link)

  90. 90.

    jackie

    @amk:

    Thanks for linking that. Someone needs to get him out of there fast. Before he does something even more crazy.

  93. 93.

    NotMax

    Bound to happen.

    Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 spike after Trump spokesperson presents ‘alternative facts’While the phrase “alternative facts” reminded many of the terms “falsehoods,” “lies” and “untruths,” it reminded many others of George Orwell’s dystopian, politically-charged novel “1984.”

    Not only were people inspired to tweet about that, they wanted to purchase a copy. By early Wednesday morning, the novel was the best-selling book on Amazon.com.

    Also, too:

    Employees from more than a dozen U.S. government agencies have established a network of unofficial “rogue” Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle federal climate change research and other science. Source

  95. 95.

    raven

    @Medicine Man: I was at a week long training once and and African American woman asked me if I was married to an AA? “You sure have soul”! I always liked that!

  100. 100.

    Miss Bianca

    @Raven: No, it’s not! I pictured you as a dashing blade based on the pics you’ve posted of your salad days, and I see I’m not wrong!

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