Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Everybody saw this coming.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

I was promised a recession.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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

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

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

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

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

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Say it with me: YOU DID THIS, REPUBLICANS!

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  1. 1.

    shinobi42

    I’ve decided to start calling him our Toddler In Chief. Which I’m sure will be more appropriate after he sees this week’s SNL.

    I never thought I would say this but SNL may be the only thing that keeps me sane for the next little bit. Melissa McCarthy is LIFE

  2. 2.

    amk

    Kumail Nanjiani @kumailn

    How to make terrorists:

    1. Ban everybody from a certain group from entering the country.
    2. Wait.

    Retweets 51,548 Likes 112,146

    8:24 AM – 28 Jan 2017

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Daniel W. Drezner ✔@ dandrezner
    And it’s almost as if the executive order on immigration was designed to incite and increase the likelihood of such an attack occurring.

    Damn, that’s a self-described conservative talking

  6. 6.

    hilts

    How long can McConnell and Ryan tolerate Trumpenstein’s thuggish, erratic, and infantile behavior before they decide to have him declared mentally incompetent and get his fat ass out of the White House?

  9. 9.

    SFGary

    Ryan and McConnell can put up with anything that allows them to serve their masters with tax cuts and reductions in regulations. Nothing else is important to them. Obviously. It makes me laugh tears of sadness that so many of us just don’t see that. We keep waiting for Trump to go too far and expect the GOP to come to Jesus but…. There is no too far.

  10. 10.

    Anne Laurie

    @hilts:

    How long can McConnell and Ryan tolerate Trumpenstein’s thuggish, erratic, and infantile behavior before they decide to have him declared mentally incompetent and get his fat ass out of the White House?

    Until 37 seconds after a serious primary challenge shows up in their districts, is how long.

    And even then, it’ll probably have to be an even less honest more venial Talibangelical from the farther right fringes.

  11. 11.

    Kat

    If there’s a hell, I suspect an ice-skating rink just appeared there…

    Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying

    In the conservative media, we conditioned people not to trust facts or mainstream news outlets.

    By CHARLES J. SYKES FEB. 4, 2017

    At an event marking Black History Month last week, the president took a detour from a discussion of Frederick Douglass — he described the abolitionist as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more” — to talk about the press. “A lot of the media is actually the opposition party — they’re so biased,” he said. “So much of the media is the opposition party and knowingly saying incorrect things.”

    Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base, which has been conditioned to reject reporting from news sites outside of the conservative media ecosystem.

    For years, as a conservative radio talk show host, I played a role in that conditioning by hammering the mainstream media for its bias and double standards. But the price turned out to be far higher than I imagined. The cumulative effect of the attacks was to delegitimize those outlets and essentially destroy much of the right’s immunity to false information. We thought we were creating a savvier, more skeptical audience. Instead, we opened the door for President Trump, who found an audience that could be easily misled.

    …

    All administrations lie, but what we are seeing here is an attack on credibility itself.

    The Russian dissident and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov drew upon long familiarity with that process when he tweeted: “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

    Mr. Kasparov grasps that the real threat is not merely that a large number of Americans have become accustomed to rejecting factual information, or even that they have become habituated to believing hoaxes. The real danger is that, inundated with “alternative facts,” many voters will simply shrug, asking, “What is truth?” — and not wait for an answer.

    In that world, the leader becomes the only reliable source of truth; a familiar phenomenon in an authoritarian state, but a radical departure from the norms of a democratic society. The battle over truth is now central to our politics.

    …

    Perhaps just as important, it will be incumbent on conservative media outlets to push back as well. Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter. There may be short-term advantages to running headlines about millions of illegal immigrants voting or secret United Nations plots to steal your guns, but the longer the right enables such fabrications, the weaker it will be in the long run. As uncomfortable as it may be, it will fall to the conservative media to police its worst actors.

    The conservative media ecosystem — like the rest of us — has to recognize how critical, but also how fragile, credibility is in the Orwellian age of Donald Trump.

    I saw only one troll-post in the first 100-or-so comments, and many of the rest are downright inspiring.

  17. 17.

    hilts

    @Kat:

    If there’s a hell

    Satan will need to build a massive annex to make room for all of the ratfucking Republican bastards in Congress, retired Republican politicians, and conservative pundits who all served as enablers for this putrid sumbag Donald Trump.

  18. 18.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    Meanwhile, up in Roseland, north of Sacramento, Representative Tom McClintock (R) had to be escorted from his own town hall meeting w/ constituents of his heavily Republican district due to the number of demonstrators who turned out for the affair…

    After the theater reached its maximum safe capacity of approximately 200 people, hundreds more collected outside, waving signs and chanting “This is what democracy looks like”…

    Please take note… this was in extremely RED country – California’s 4th Congressional district – and this is what I would call “taking it to the bastards on their own turf”… just sayin’…

    (The link is to the Sacramento Bee, if anyone is wondering…)

  20. 20.

    amk

    UK woman names her tumour after Donald Trump

    A woman in the United Kingdom has vowed not to lose her humour after she was diagnosed with an uncommon form of cancer and named her tumour after US President Donald Trump.

    Elise Stapleton was left stunned when doctors told her she had Hodgkin lymphoma in September last year.

    The diagnosis meant the 24-year-old needed to undergo intensive chemotherapy which caused her to lose her hair, Mirror reported.

    But rather than shying away from the ordeal, she decided to write a blog in the hope of inspiring others.

    Elise poked fun at Trump after naming her tumour after him.

    “I decided to name it ‘Donald’ as in Donald Trump — one big, ugly, useless mass that is good at one thing: hurting people.”

  21. 21.

    jl

    Re-re tweet via Hend Amry via Josh Marshall’s twitter: Looks like people around the world are watching what the US population does closely.
    Encouraging, and reason to keep up protesting and contacting Congress, pressuring state and local governments to stand up for decent and lawful federal government..

    This is what I mean about the American people sending a message louder than Trump:
    https://twitter.com/LibyaLiberty/status/827912181081636864

  22. 22.

    Kat

    @hilts:

    Not that hell is close to freezing over yet, but what if, like Sykes, more of the ratfuckers repent, and work to undo the damage they’ve done?

    Since it took the looming 4th Reich to wake Sykes up, they’ve got a lot more introspecting to do before I’d trust them to be decent members of a democratic society.

  23. 23.

    bluehill

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Bannon has openly talked about a war against Islam, but he probably realizes that the majority of the public would not support a preemptive strike. However, if there was another 9/11-style attack or an attack on an embassy, he would get the popular support or I should say Congressional support needed to go to war. This is one of my big concerns with Bannon on the NSC. He’s provoking the terrorists with the ban and new Iran sanctions and he will have access to intelligence about potential terror threats. What if he decides to let one proceed?

  24. 24.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    @bluehill:

    Bannon has openly talked about a war against Islam, but he probably realizes that the majority of the public would not support a preemptive strike.

    Then there’s always the problem of waging a war against a religion… as opposed to, oh say, a country…

    Not unlike the really successful wars on drugs or terror…

  26. 26.

    hilts

    @amk:

    That makes perfect sense. Also, Dennis Potter named his cancer Rupert after Rupert Murdoch.

    I see Trump as a malignant cancer and I only hope he can be removed from office either by being judged mentally incompetent or getting convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors because this country can’t survive 4 years with this fucking lunatic in charge.

  27. 27.

    Chet Murthy

    Oh my! A thought. I read someplace that it would be “not stability-inducing” for our European allies to recall their ambassadors. But what about a UN General Assembly Resolution censuring the US? Seems like that’s much more feasible, and has no “this means war” implications?

    Ehh, I don’t know nuthin’. Just wishin’ for the rest of the world to rescue us, I guess. It’s our job, though.

  28. 28.

    hilts

    @Kat:

    More of the ratfuckers repent

    I don’t know what more evidence these Republican assholes in Congress need to see. Trump is clearly a goddamn lunatic who’s not in command of his mental faculties. This isn’t a hypothetical situation anymore. These dirtbags in Congress need to put the country’s interests ahead of the interests of their fucking political party.

  32. 32.

    The Lodger

    @Kat: Anyone who disbelieves evolution or manmade climate change has been partaking of alternative facts for a long time. Decades. Charlie Sykes’ life has been dominated by lies and the toleration of lies for a lot longer than he is letting on. In the terminology of the 12-step movement, he hasn’t hit bottom yet, and he won’t have much credibility until he does.

  34. 34.

    EBT

    @sharl: On Wonkette the picture of the sculpture of deadbeat donnie with the tiny penis makes the rounds almost daily still.

  36. 36.

    Darkrose

    @EBT: Not Sacramento. Sacramento is pretty blue; Roseville is quite red. The district actually includes parts of Tahoe and Yosemite. The fact that McClintock was chased from a town hall there is pretty stunning.

  37. 37.

    Ian

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    The policies they (the thuglicans) enact on terrorism is no different of a philosophy than they enact against the poor or on education. Break the system, reap the rewards. What in the past thirty years has given them any indication it will not benefit them?

  39. 39.

    Ian

    @PeakVT:
    That is the worst, most unsourced Mother Jones story I ever read. What happened to Kevin Drum, did he fall of his bike and hit his head? Or has he just given up?

  40. 40.

    amk

    The US federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s request to reinstate a travel ban blocked by a federal judge on Friday.

    The late night ruling means the travel ban will remain suspended until the full case has been heard.

    The court gave the White House and the states challenging it a deadline of Monday to present more arguments.

  41. 41.

    Skippy-san

    Trump desperately wants his Reichstag fire. A terrorist attack would be the stuff of his dreams. Problem is-it won’t be his supporters who suffer because of it, much as they deserve to.

  44. 44.

    TriassicSands

    @bluehill:

    What if he decides to let one proceed?

    Bannon is on the NSC, he’s not the whole thing. It’s not like he’s going to be the only one who knows about an impending attack. Bannon might welcome an attack, but others would view it as potentially career-ending failure on their part. I think you’re over-reacting to Bannon.

  45. 45.

    TriassicSands

    @Skippy-san:

    Trump desperately wants his Reichstag fire.

    Ordinarily, meaning if we didn’t have a lunatic in the White House, I’d say that the president needs to have the attack happen very soon, so he can blame it on the previous administration. Once the Trump team is in place and fully responsible for intelligence failures, it’s an open question as to whether a successful attack would be as much a cause for our attacking someone as it would be seen as a total failure on the part of Trump. An attack is going to be blamed on someone — and we all know how adept the Republicans are at shifting blame. I admit that Trump’s supporters are probably easily manipulated into believing that any attack, no matter when it happens, will be Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s fault. But I’m not sure if Trump wants to be seen as the president who let the next 9/11 happen. Still, he’s crazy…and stupid…

  46. 46.

    TriassicSands

    @Skippy-san:

    NOAA is forecasting a Category 11 tweeturcane accompanied by multiple F-11 tweetnadoes.

    Head for the storm cellar!

    PS Damn those “so-called appeals judges.”

  47. 47.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @SFGary:
    I’m from Kentucky. Everyone here underestimates McConnell. He’s a Kentucky aristocrat, and he does have a principle beyond shoveling money to the rich. McConnell’s heart and soul are pledged to white men ruling America, now and always and without question. He was the very first to go apeshit when a black man became president. He just did it in fancier language.

    Ryan wants tax cuts and the destruction of Medicare. McConnell wants voter suppression, and lots of it. Neither wants America’s foreign policy to explode, which is my hope for an impeachment. Pence is their man.

  48. 48.

    greennotGreen

    @TriassicSands: Trump probably doesn’t want to be seen as the President under which a second 9/11 happens, but he is so mind-numbingly obtuse that it would be very easy for Brannon to manipulate him into setting up the right conditions for an attack. The Muslim travel ban is a prime example.

  49. 49.

    TriassicSands

    @greennotGreen:

    I don’t disagree.

    Trump is such an idiot and so unprepared to be president that if Bannon convinced him to start WWIII, but Trump had to pee first and ran into a janitor on the way back to “push the launch button,” he could easily end up ordering toilet bowl cleaner instead.

    If we survive this, I would expect more books to be written about Trump’s presidency than about all 44 who preceded him.

  51. 51.

    Vor

    @TriassicSands: they will blame any attack on the previous administration no matter when it occurs. Bush 43 dodged responsibility for 9/11 even though it was 8 months into his administration.

  52. 52.

    SFAW

    @TriassicSands:

    I would expect more books to be written about Trump’s presidency than about all 44 who preceded him.

    And Burgess Meredith will have plenty of time to read them, until his eyeglasses get broken.

  53. 53.

    SFAW

    @Vor:

    they will blame any attack on the previous administration no matter when it occurs. Bush 43 dodged responsibility for 9/11 even though it was 8 months into his administration.

    Reagan blamed Carter for everything bad, even into 1984 or 1986. Well, not everything, but far more than was rational. The wingnuts blamed Clinton for 9/11, presumably because Al Gore (or perhaps Michael Moore) was fat. Any new terrist attack will be traced directly back to Hitlary’s (as yet unhacked) private server, and Obama giving the Mooooslims the “attack” order for Benghaziiiii!!!

    And so on.

  55. 55.

    Feebog

    The country rallied around Bush after 9/11 because we were stunned that such an attack could happen. It was years before we fully understood the incompetence and neglect of Bush and Cheney in failing to take the possibility of an attack seriously. I don’t think the public will be so forgiving of this administration. They already present as a gang of incompetent assholes. If a large scale attack did occur, I suspect there would be a lot of ass covering in the way of leaks and finger pointing.

  56. 56.

    LosGatosCA

    This isn’t new:

    Bring it on!

    Fly paper for the terrorists.

    These people (conservative Republican leaders) are proof the private school system has failed America.

    They are incapable of learning – from books, from experience, from whatever.

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