Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

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

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. Do not congratulate. This is not business as usual.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

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

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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

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

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

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His twitter feed is a thing of beauty. If he’s reading it, his head must be about to explode. Some of my favorites:

Also, I cribbed this from someone last night and I think I’m going to have it made into a t-shirt or better yet, frame it:

“Nevertheless, she persisted.” Please let this also be my life’s legacy.

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  1. 1.

    MARCION

    ALL CAPS MAKE ME FEEL EXTRA SAFE! YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD MAKE ME FEEL EVEN MORE REASSURED? MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!! GET ON IT DONNIE!!!!!!!

  2. 2.

    skerry

    TBogg ‏@tbogg

    Trump: I lost the court’s popular vote 3-0. But I still won, right?
    Reince: How’s ’bout you get in your robe and eat some KFC. Sound good?

  4. 4.

    TS

    (repost from below)

    I love this from the ruling – reads to me that the Judges have no faith in the President words as he may redefine what he says whenever it suits

    The White House counsel is not the President, and he is not known to be in the chain of command for any of the Executive Departments. Moreover, in light of the Government’s shifting interpretations of the Executive Order, we cannot say that the current interpretation by White House counsel, even if authoritative and binding, will persist past the immediate stage of these proceedings.

  8. 8.

    JMG

    The unit of China’s State Security Bureau assigned to monitor Trump’s tweets must be getting high on that top fuel dragster liquid they call liquor and laughing their asses off right now.

  9. 9.

    Pogonip

    May I interrupt to ask a question of the legal beagles here? I tried to apply for a BP gas card and they issued a BP VISA card, at 27% interest (gee, thanks!). I’m filing a fraud complaint with my state’s excellent attorney general. My question is, how do I prove I did my best to cancel the card? Send BP a certified letter and copy all the credit bureaus? If there is a better way I would be grateful to hear of it.

    Thank you. We now return you to your scheduled programming–all Trump, all the time. (And boy will I be glad when he leaves office! I want the pets, recipes, and Cole-accident stories to return to their former prominence.)

  11. 11.

    Dave

    @JMG: I figure much of the Chinese power structure has been giving each other significant looks and stifling giggles since election night. At least someone should have a good time with this.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Repeated from down below:

    Seen just now on Facebook:

    “SEE YOU IN COURT” is just the grown-up version of “I’M TELLING MOM.”

  15. 15.

    Pogonip

    @dmsilev: ⏰?⏱⏲ The clock’s ticking!

    This phone came with every smilie you can imagine, and some you probably couldn’t–except a barfie. With things rapidly heading downward in a handbasket, a barfie would come in handy. Does anyone know where to find, and how to install, a barfie?

  24. 24.

    Pogonip

    @SiubhanDuinne: Never mind Mom, I’M telling the state AG!

    All I wanted was a simple gas card so I don’t have to stand in line twice when it’s cold. I cannot understand why a CEO would think it worthwhile to pull a scam over such a small thing. I’ll never spend another fucking dime at BP.

    I don’t understand modern business plans.

  25. 25.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Baud: Schilling thought he could go from one successful stand alone game to an MMO as the next offering. Totally different kettles of fish, require different developer skillsets. He’s a moran, in short.

  29. 29.

    D58826

    Listening to Tweetie. What an A*hole. He continues to rant that the judges can’t predict the future so we have to trust the President. Well, why is the President any more capable of predicting the future. Under the claim of ‘national security’ you can justify anything esp. if you don’t have to produce any evidence.

  31. 31.

    Pogonip

    @Baud: Baud 2020 says: Ban ban!

    (Another gripe of mine–Proctor and Gamble dumped Ban gel in favor of that chalky white stuff that is virtually impossible to wash off. Had to switch to Secret or Old Spice. Grumble.)

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Pogonip:

    Might as well cc your MoC, both of your Senators, whatever state reps/sens you have, and Senator Professor Elizabeth Warren for shits and giggles.

  34. 34.

    HeleninEire

    @Corner Stone: I WAS SITTING IN THE PUB ARGUING ABOUT IRISH LINE DANCING AND RAVEN TOLD ME ABOUT THE RULING.

    Wait, what? I’m so fucking happy right now I can’t ingest it. This is like Obergfell.

  40. 40.

    Corner Stone

    Tweety has never pissed his pants as hard as he is during this kerfuffle. He is legit scared to death that the court’s ruling hurts the country and that a “weakened” president is not good for anyone.

  42. 42.

    Lyrebird

    I am so glad to have some good news… Bummed big time that DeVos went through with more of a fight than Sessions did. UGH.

    Favorite bit so far from this ruling (thanks dmsilev)

    There is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability, which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy.

    YES.

  44. 44.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Pogonip:

    Everybody boycott BP, Donald Trump’s favorite oil company!

    Serious question. I would love to boycott BP, but don’t honestly know who would be better. Is there a not-totally-evil national brand that I could use with a minimum sense of guilt? (FWIW, I’ve done my best to boycott Exxon since the ExxonValdez spill back in the late 1980s or whenever it was — but I’m running out of places to boycott.

  46. 46.

    jl

    @TS: Some one needs to translate the decision into simple street English. I guess the part you quoted would be ‘WTF cares what you say about anything, Trump sez goofy shit every other minute, and who knows what the hell he thinks he’s doing/”

  51. 51.

    Dave

    @Corner Stone: Tweety is an authoritarian at heart or perhaps more accurately a daddies boy since he doesn’t seem quite as bad as many full on authoritarian followers are. He really want’s an elected dictator which is all well and dandy until said dictator decides elections as a whole are passe.

  53. 53.

    hovercraft

    @Pogonip:
    I’ll boycott them for the Gulf of Mexico debacle and they what they’ve behaved towards the people whose lives they destroyed, but I think his favorite oil company is Exxon, after all he gave over our foreign policy to them.

  55. 55.

    jl

    @Lyrebird: I guess that part is ‘Hey, might be a good idea to try to explain to your nuts boss that he can’t have some flunky scribble down ‘national security’ on some scrap paper and do whatever the fuck he wants.’

  56. 56.

    ? Martin

    The states are going to subpoena Giuliani given that the order states that intent was considered in their decision. One thing the courts understand that Trump appears not to, and what much of the public appears not to, is that a visa is granted. The government makes a decision whether to issue a visa or not, so if you have a visa, that means that the US State Department has gone through a vetting process of one sort or another. So Trump is really arguing that the government’s own review process for these people was deficient, while providing no evidence how it was.

    And the ruling calls out Trumps motives pretty hard:

    “The States argue that the Executive Order violates the Establishment and Equal Protection Clauses because it was intended to disfavor Muslims. In support of this argument, the States have offered evidence of numerous statements by the President about his intent to implement a “Muslim ban” as well as evidence they claim suggests that the Executive Order was intended to be that ban, including sections 5(b) and 5(e) of the Order. It is well established that evidence of purpose beyond the face of the challenged law may be considered in evaluating Establishment and Equal Protection Clause claims.”

    Not it doesn’t say those were his motives, but it opens the door to that argument. 5(b) and 5(e) state:

    prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality.

    and

    the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security may jointly determine to admit individuals to the United States as refugees on a case-by-case basis, in their discretion, but only so long as they determine that the admission of such individuals as refugees is in the national interest — including when the person is a religious minority in his country of nationality facing religious persecution

    Because these are all Muslim-majority countries, everyone who isn’t Muslim is by definition a religious minority. It is clearly constructed to be a Muslim ban.

  64. 64.

    Jeffro

    This.

    Will make you pee your pants laughing – Donald Trump: a man so obnoxious that karma may see him reincarnated as himself

    It says a lot about the man that building a giant wall isn’t even in the top five most Game of Thrones things about him. Of course, presidents always enter office with something to prove, it’s just rarely their sanity.

    You look into Trump’s eyes and you see the fear and confusion of a man who has just been told he’s got stage-four cervical cancer. He is a super-villain in a world without heroes, a man so obnoxious and unhappy that karma may see him reincarnated as himself. You kind of wish he’d get therapy, but at this stage it’s like hiring a window cleaner for a burning building. It’s still difficult to classify him exactly: he’s not a classic Nazi, but would burn books if his supporters knew how to read

    (apologies if this was linked to yesterday or earlier today – I just saw it)

  65. 65.

    Dave

    @Pogonip: Chris Mathews see discussion about how excited he gets about manly presidents and bent he gets when the president is checked. He’s honestly not the worst of the type.

  66. 66.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    @Aleta: Yup…

    I’d reckon this fight is far from over…

    And Lord, am I hoping there’s not a bad terrorist attack in the immediate future he can tie to this… no matter what its genesis…

    Just sayin’…

  67. 67.

    p.a.

    Instead, the Government has taken the position that the President’s decisions about immigration policy, particularly when motivated by national security concerns, are unreviewable, even if those actions potentially contravene constitutional rights and protections. The Government indeed asserts that it violates separation of powers for the judiciary to entertain a constitutional challenge to executive actions such as this one.

    There is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability, which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy.

    IANAL but tRumpists claiming (according to above from the 9th) that tRump EO > Marbury v Madison, as well as the succeeding 214 years of Cons Law??!!

  68. 68.

    hovercraft

    @D58826:
    Tweety has had a man crush on him from the beginning, all that strong tell it like it is machismo, speaking up for the white guy whose “lost” it all because of the rise of all those other people.

  69. 69.

    NotMax

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Is there a Costco convenient to you? Many of them sell gasoline. Discounted, even.

    (So old that used to gas up at Sinclair because of the cool dinosaur toys.)

  70. 70.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    There is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability…

    But… but… what about magical thinking?

    What about that? Huh? Huh?

    Suck on it, libtards!

  72. 72.

    El Caganer

    SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE! ALSO I AM CONTACTING YOU ON BEHALF OF AN ESTATE WISHING YOUR ASSISTANCE BIGLY IN TAKING POSSESSION OF AMOUNT 10 MILLION EUROS, PLEASE SEND BANK INFORMATION TO DONALD TRUMP C/O THE WHITE HOUSE.

  73. 73.

    Pogonip

    @Yarrow: I haven’t seen MSNBC in years. The only ones I remember clearly are Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman.

    I highly recommend life without cable news, and without BP. When I’m in a waiting room somewhere and cable news is blathering, I wonder why I ever found it worth watching.

  75. 75.

    Jeffro

    @MARCION: Clearly the ACLU’s “See You In Court” got under his skin, and now he’s thinking, “IT WORKS TWO WAYS LIEBRULZ!!!1!”

    Except…the SC will probably shoot this down something like 5-3 against. Even with Not-Garland assuming his stolen seat at some point, Trumpov’s STILL not going to get his way.

    Speaking of Trumpov: where is my fucking counter-intelligence report about the Russia connections? Hello IC?!?

    I’m not kidding, we need to kick this clown while he’s down AND then expose him as the Putin-Puppet that he is. History’s Greatest Monster my ass…how about America’s Greatest Stooge?

  77. 77.

    ? Martin

    @SiubhanDuinne: Just so people know, its basically impossible to boycott an oil company. Extracted oil drilled by BP is sold on the open market to a refiner (who might also be BP) and then the refined gasoline is again sold on the open market to a distributor (who again might also be BP). They then distribute to retail locations but BP sold off all of their retail operations, so the stations are all franchises and not owned by BP at all. They are branded BP but the gas they buy could have been extracted by Exxon and refined by Chevron.

    The only way to boycott an oil company is to boycott oil. As stated above, buy a Chevy Bolt.

  79. 79.

    Roger Moore

    @? Martin:

    Because these are all Muslim-majority countries, everyone who isn’t Muslim is by definition a religious minority.

    Yep. A smart lawyer, though, could argue that it would extend to minority Muslim sects, e.g. Sunnis in a majority Shia country, and thus isn’t targeting Muslims at all.

  80. 80.

    Mike J

    Joshua Lyle ‏@joshlyle 16 minutes ago
    “In our courts tweets don’t dominate, evidence dominates… The President can tweet till the cows come home.” @GovInslee on Appeals ruling

  81. 81.

    Yarrow

    @Pogonip: I commented earlier today that I have changed the TV receiver to be on TCM instead of something where I might see news (cable or local stations). I’ve been enjoying their “31 Days of Oscar” where they’re going through Oscar winning (or also maybe nominated?) films in alphabetical order. They’re on the G’s now. It’s been fun to dip in and out of some old films I’ve either never seen or haven’t seen in a long time. Way more relaxing than cable news.

  82. 82.

    laura

    think I’m going to have it made into a t-shirt or better yet, frame it:

    “Nevertheless, she persisted.”
    Wonkette beat you to it!
    Check out the fabulous swag, tee shirts, mugs, babby stuff & prints at the Wonkette website.
    Love the graphics and will be purchasing a couple.

  84. 84.

    Jeffro

    @Corner Stone:

    Tweety has never pissed his pants as hard as he is during this kerfuffle. He is legit scared to death that the court’s ruling hurts the country and that a “weakened” president is not good for anyone.

    Well then, as many here have surmised, Tweety is a fucking idiot.

    A weakened President is difficult for the country, but a weakened, humiliated, scorned, thrashing and sputtering Trumpov is a source of great entertainment to the masses. A circus, as it were, to go with the bread.

  87. 87.

    danielx

    @jl:

    Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt and any thing that may not misbecome the mighty sender(s)

  88. 88.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @El Caganer:

    SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE! ALSO I AM CONTACTING YOU ON BEHALF OF AN ESTATE WISHING YOUR ASSISTANCE BIGLY IN TAKING POSSESSION OF AMOUNT 10 MILLION EUROS, PLEASE SEND BANK INFORMATION TO DONALD TRUMP C/O THE WHITE HOUSE.

    #NOTANIGERIANPRINCE #SERIOUSLY,NEITHERNIGERIANNORAPRINCE,THISISLEGIT
    #HOWCANYOUDOUBTME,IVENEVERLIEDTOYOU

  89. 89.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    @Roger Moore:

    A smart lawyer, though, could argue that it would extend to minority Muslim sects, e.g. Sunnis in a majority Shia country, and thus isn’t targeting Muslims at all.

    I’m surprised they didn’t try that tack…

  90. 90.

    Yarrow

    @Jeffro:

    I’m not kidding, we need to kick this clown while he’s down AND then expose him as the Putin-Puppet that he is. History’s Greatest Monster my ass…how about America’s Greatest Stooge?

    We need to tie the Republican leadership to him. THEY KNEW. Take them all down with him when he goes.

  93. 93.

    Adam L Silverman

    @D58826: I’m going to be very blunt: I am convinced that if Chris Matthews ever new what the word policy meant, he has forgotten. He is using the term incorrectly in regard to this.

  95. 95.

    Jeffro

    @Pogonip:

    I highly recommend life without cable news, and without BP. When I’m in a waiting room somewhere and cable news is blathering, I wonder why I ever found it worth watching.

    Oh my god, SECONDED (bigly!)

    I find it hard to talk with people who only get their news from cable tv of any kind. Fox is (obviously) RWNJ propaganda, MSNBC is schizophrenic left and right wing propaganda, and CNN is the televised version of the National Enquirer.

  99. 99.

    efgoldman

    @philpm:

    Wonder how much furniture and how many mirrors he’s destroyed in the last hour or so.

    With those little teeny tiny hands? Too much risk of injury,

    Anyway, I’m pretty sure the WH has a “you broke it, you buy it” policy.

  100. 100.

    Jeffro

    @D58826: J-Rubs has been on point ever since the primaries! Conservatives who actually stick to their principles are my new thing – they’re like unicorns, only even more of a fantasy.

  101. 101.

    Joyce H

    SEE YOU IN COURT

    I’m sure that line worked well for Trump throughout his career. He’s no doubt proud of the macho swagger of it. But here’s the thing. It’s one thing when you’re a real estate developer. Most of your peers manage to conduct their business without constantly dropping lawsuits left and right with savage abandon, so your threat to sue, and your filing suit, is a real threat and poses a real problem for them.

    But this is government now. State governments and the federal government are used to suing and being sued. All. the. time. It’s routine for them. They have whole battalions of lawyers on staff, not on retainer, so they’re drawing a salary whether they’re in court or not.

    Your old rebar supplier maybe shook in his boots when you snapped “SEE YOU IN COURT” and flounced out of his office. A government? They’ll yawn, and say “Sure, okay, see ya then.”

  102. 102.

    Dave

    @D58826: She actually has been since the election. Which is not exactly to her credit since it shows she was capable of it but felt it better to push her glorious conservative whatever until it blew up in her face.

  105. 105.

    Jeffro

    @Joyce H: I’m telling y’all, he’s referencing the ACLU’s recent tweets and posts and other media: they put “SEE YOU IN COURT” in his face on inauguration day (it was easy to see because there was no parade crowd to block the signs ;)

    He really thinks he’s going to win in SCOTUS. Good ol’ Double-Down Donnie. Hard to imagine how this guy lost billions and declared bankruptcy a minimum of four times, eh?

  108. 108.

    efgoldman

    @Roger Moore:

    He blew his money trying to create a competitor for WoW.

    Actually the money he blew mostly came from the taxpayers of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

  110. 110.

    Davis X. Machina

    @Joyce H:

    A government? They’ll yawn, and say “Sure, okay, see ya then.”

    Or the ACLU

    SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!

    ACLU National @ACLU

    We have been saying this for a while.

  112. 112.

    Pogonip

    @NotMax: No, it was the Gulf Oil Company.

    There is a louse species named after Gary Larson. Mr. Larson was so flattered he mentioned it in one of his books.

  113. 113.

    amk

    @Yarrow:

    Pretty soon companies are going to be lining up to oppose Trump.

    They need to if they want to survive twitler. The fucking ‘stock market’ reacting to this loonie tunes tweets is fucking pathetic.

  114. 114.

    Jeffro

    @Yarrow:

    We need to tie the Republican leadership to him. THEY KNEW. Take them all down with him when he goes.

    That’s the thing – it (the report) doesn’t even have to directly or initially implicate Trump. Just drop the bomb on Manafort and Page, IC! Then it’s “what did Lewandowski…and Flynn and Cohen…and hey, Trump too…know, and when did they know it?” And then it’s all coming out. And to keep it from coming out, who knows if Trump steps down?

  115. 115.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    @El Caganer: You might be right about that…

    I remember that…

    “Sunni? Shia? WTF are those? I thought we were dealing w/ MOOOOSLIMS here!”

  116. 116.

    Mike J

    @Yarrow: T[J|K] Maxx didn’t drop Trump merch, They removed signs promoting the line and rather than having displays promoting it just mixed her clothes in with others on the racks.

    Probably a first step in dropping, but they’ll quietly sell inventory and just not reorder.

  117. 117.

    ? Martin

    @Roger Moore: But they won’t do that because it’s not particularly rational. From Iran you’re allowing Sunni Muslims and from Libya you’re allowing Shia Muslims. What’s their rationale for that?

    Further, the bigger issue is that the ban applied not just to people yet to be granted a visa, but people that currently have one – and may have had one for YEARS. Had the EO applied only to the first group, they would be on stronger standing. But to revoke an F1 or H1B visa (or PR, as originally was done) that may have been standing for a decade with exceptions only for religious minorities is utterly nonsensical. I have a student I just graduated after 10 years on an F1 visa. A year out from his PhD he should have his visa revoked because he’s not a religious minority? He’s been in the us continuously for 9 years. It’s utterly arbitrary.

  118. 118.

    hovercraft

    @Corner Stone:
    Funny how he never seemed worried about court rulings weakening Obama. I seem to remember him telling Obama to listen to the voices of the Tea Party since they were the voice of the people, now the protesters and courts are not respecting the will of the people.

  119. 119.

    jl

    @Roger Moore:

    ” Yep. A smart lawyer…”

    I think a smart lawyer working for Trump would also know he’d get fired if he won any part of the case on that basis.

  121. 121.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    @Yarrow:

    We need to tie the Republican leadership to him.

    We need to tie him around their necks like a farkin’ millstone and then push ’em overboard… in DEEP water…

  123. 123.

    Pogonip

    @El Caganer: I bet maybe 10% of the U.S. population knows Islam has different sects. U. S. religious education is in a deplorable (grin) state. I once encountered a kid who attended the Vanderbilt University who thought Vatican II occurred in the Middle Ages. I do not see how people who do not know the basics about the world’s religions can evaluate a politician’s foreign policy proposals.

    Here in the U. S. a lot of people don’t even know anything about their own religion. I have lost count of the Americans I’ve encountered who think Martin Luther and Martin Luther King are the same person.

  125. 125.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Roger Moore: Or in my case a clydesdale or shire horse. I’d probably cause serious lower back problems for a pony and I like to be kind to our four footed, or hooved, friends.

  126. 126.

    schrodingers_cat

    @hovercraft: White is right. He would have been on the side of the East India Company in 1857 and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, British Empire during the Revolutionary War, Confederacy in the Civil War, need I go on.

  128. 128.

    Roger Moore

    @? Martin:

    But they won’t do that because it’s not particularly rational.

    Two points:

    1) The Muslim ban is itself highly irrational. It’s blind fear and hatred wrapped in National Security as an excuse.

    2) The goal is to win in court, not to actually let Muslims in. By arguing that religious persecution could include intra-Muslim persecution, you could counter the argument that the EO is a Muslim ban, even if in practice it would be.

  129. 129.

    D58826

    @hovercraft: And I don’t remember the GOP saying the states do not have standing when it was Texas suing Obama on immigration issues. but you know the drill Its ok if……..

  130. 130.

    NotMax

    @Mike J

    Can’t readily find the clip from The John Larroquette Show that is reminiscent of.

    He won an electric Ford Th!nk in a raffle and parked it on the street. Covered with a grayish car cover which had a tubular extension out the front for the charging cord to run through.

    Anyway, a randy male elephant somehow was shoehorned into the episode and, well, let’s just say it was love at first sight.

    Come the morning, the car was essentially a pancake.

  133. 133.

    ? Martin

    BTW, regarding Chaffetz and Conway, be very skeptical. I’ll bet anything that Trump and Chaffetz agreed to throw Conway under the bus to throw attention off of Trump, and now that Sessions’ choice of Solicitor General has declined (thank God) they’ll offer it to Conway’s husband instead.

  134. 134.

    hovercraft

    @Baud: @Yarrow:
    He loved Obama’s speeches, but he always felt he was too liberal in his policies. Bush was strong, and his swagger was impressive, he loved the flight suit, and the image of strength he projected, but he didn’t want to go into Iraq. Our current presidents swagger and business acumen are very impressive, and he spoke for the forgotten white man, who has been ignored for too long.

  135. 135.

    Adam L Silverman

    @D58826: I only caught the last bit of apoplexy as I was setting up the DVR. I was curious about Chris Hayes now delayed Chicago special. My understanding is that this refers to a deep dish with the patty sausage or a natural casing vienna beef hot dog on a poppy seed bun with mustard, nuclear green relish, tomato slices, sport peppers, and celery seeds.

  139. 139.

    ? Martin

    @Roger Moore: But if they defend the EO on that basis and then don’t grant access to those minorities, then they’re right back in court and now the court is pissed. And don’t think the ACLU with their war chest won’t bring those suits. You don’t deliberately lie to federal courts.

  142. 142.

    hovercraft

    @Corner Stone:
    He says his father was a real “cloth coat” republican, as was his mother, but he is sure that when she went into the voting booth in 1960 she secretly voted for JFK. His brothers are republicans, and he is as about as anti abortion, (no one is pro-abortion) as you can be, while still claiming to be pro-choice.

  146. 146.

    Pogonip

    @Roger Moore: Well, not necessarily. If a kid whose parents could afford to send her to expensive private schools got no religious education, where’s the average public-school victim going to get it? You can’t blame people for not knowing what they haven’t been taught, and many Americans are not literate enough to research on their own. I blame the people who draw up the curricula.

  151. 151.

    ? Martin

    Looks like California is making a coordinated pro-refugee push. The state leg introduced a bill to grant instate tuition to refugees and to give refugee military interpreters the same standing as veterans for benefits. Today Kamala Harris introduced a bill to guarantee legal counsel to people detained on entering the country:

    Harris’s legislation would guarantee access to legal counsel for people detained trying to enter the country. She called it an urgent measure to address the confusion that followed Trump’s executive order temporarily banning refugees and citizens of seven Muslim nations, when people were stopped on arrival at the airport and detained.

    “As people started to arrive I received countless calls from attorneys at airports around the country, certainly California and Dulles (outside Washington D.C.) in a panic because they were being denied access to these detainees,” said Harris, who was California’s attorney general before her election to the U.S. Senate.

    I doubt the national bill will go anywhere (the state one will likely be signed), but a theme is developing…

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    Jeffro

    Btw if we could just get morning Joe to show the upcoming cover of the Economist, we would not have to worry about the 25th amendment or impeachment … we would have a very brief and insincere ceremony and then begin dealing with the incredibly odious but at least partially seen Mike Pence .

  155. 155.

    efgoldman

    @amk:

    why are we discussing about knownothings like tweety?

    Because some of our fellow Balloonies are masochists, but they can’t afford scourging.

  156. 156.

    Betsy

    @? Martin: thanks for the highlights. Now, as long as we’re talking emojis, how can I include the “children walking” sign in my handle?

  159. 159.

    ThresherK

    @Dave: I really should have figured out before now how much Tweety’s work can be reduced to “looking for Daddy’s approval”.

  160. 160.

    debbie

    @Pogonip:

    You may have more time than you think, considering how distracted they are with ACA, Cabinet appointments, SC hearings, etc. Busy little bees, they are.

  161. 161.

    Pogonip

    @Mike J: An American church? Where the pastor is probably also American?

    I used to live in a parish where we frequently had visiting priests from Nigeria (apparently in parts of Nigeria you can’t walk ten feet without meeting a priest). Those guys knew their religion and the history of same. They gave great sermons.

  164. 164.

    ? Martin

    @? Martin: And just to note, California has this somewhat nice, somewhat annoying reflexive habit of watching a national narrative develop that we disagree with and then actively doing the opposite. We don’t just oppose the narrative, we actively go the other way. So when states are trying to limit abortion, we pass a bunch of laws making it more accessible. Its annoying because there’s really no reason why it shouldn’t have been that way before – we seem to only pay attention once someone does something dickish at which point was say ‘hey, that thing over there is dickish, what do we do here? Oh, hey, that’s a little bit dickish too, let’s reverse that’. So we do good things more often when someone else does something horrible. Would be nice if we could have a habit of doing good things just as a normal effort.

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    El Caganer

    @hovercraft: Yeah, he has one Republican brother who was a commissioner in Montgomery County, PA – I think he ran for some other stuff but didn’t make it. Amazing. I’ve only lived in Florida for 5 months and I’ve forgotten a whole hell of a lot of what my 48 years in Pennsylvania were like.

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    jl

    On the bright side, and I always try to find one, we non-lawyers can use this notable event to educate and edify ourselves.

    Two key lessons for me, next time I land in court, are
    1. Don’t make fantastical lunatic claims the centerpiece of your arguments.
    2. Consider bringing some evidence for something or other related to the case.

    Now that I think about it, those are really key. How many ordinary people understand them, or are even aware of them? I didn’t see anything in ‘Appellate Hearings on Unconstitutional Executive Actions for Dummies’. Don’t remember much in the famous pamphlet ‘So, You’ve Just Issued a Really Dumbshit Executive Order…. the Next Steps’.

  169. 169.

    ? Martin

    @Betsy: Not sure about other platforms, but on the Mac you open up the emoji & symbols panel in the languages menu and just drag the emoji you want into your handle. On iPhone/iPad you’d select the emoji keyboard (lower left) and just type it in there.

  170. 170.

    Millard Filmore

    @? Martin:

    Because these are all Muslim-majority countries, everyone who isn’t Muslim is by definition a religious minority.

    This is like credit card companies that forbid retailers from adding a credit card fee, but allow a discount for a cash purchase.

  172. 172.

    ? Martin

    @jl: To the DOJs credit, their argument was ‘he plans on ruling like a dictator and you have no right to overrule him’, therefore evidence was unnecessary. Granted, it was a stupid argument, yet it was totally truthful.

  174. 174.

    Mike J

    Kyung Lah Verified account ‏@KyungLah CNN
    Auditorium for Cong Chaffetz Town hall packed. Police say 1000 outside. Now chanting, “You work for us!” @UtahIndivisible @IndivisibleTeam

  176. 176.

    dmsilev

    Hah. Top-rated comment on the NYT’s story:

    I am currently 14 hours into labor with my first child, and this is all the pain relief I need.

  177. 177.

    jl

    @? Martin: Hey, look, buddy,he just wants to run a nice place, OK? He don’t want no trouble, just does what he has to, so the place is, you know.. real nice and quiet, and classy. Yeah… classy, that’s it.’

  181. 181.

    JMG

    The whole thing is, the courts would rather rule for the executive in national security matters. But Trump’s side didn’t even try. The court was basically saying, “come back when you’ve done some homework.”
    I somehow feel any sentence that has to include the proper noun “Trump” and the verb or noun “work” will never actually describe reality.

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    Jilli Brown

    The tshirt version of your cribbed line is available through thinkprogress.org – for a donation to their resist fund.

  192. 192.

    efgoldman

    @Pogonip:

    Lent’s coming up, start your penance early! Watch cable news tonight!

    Sometimes being a Jewish atheist has its advantages.

  194. 194.

    efgoldman

    @Mike J:

    Auditorium for Cong Chaffetz Town hall packed. Police say 1000 outside. Now chanting, “You work for us!”

    Keep it up / Keep it up / Keep it up / Keep it up / Keep it up / Keep it up / Keep it up / Keep it up / Keep it up /

  195. 195.

    Adria McDowell (formerly LurkerExtraordinaire)

    @? Martin:

    Looks like California is making a coordinated pro-refugee push. The state leg introduced a bill to grant instate tuition to refugees and to give refugee military interpreters the same standing as veterans for benefits.

    Oh, that is fantastic. Love it.

  197. 197.

    Svensker

    @raven:

    Note that in Chicago, Illinois, some people use the word “Piccalilli” to refer to Sweet Pickle Relish.

    Seattle, Wash., too.

  198. 198.

    Mike in NC

    Just got back from a neighbor’s birthday party. Great to see patriotic judges pissing in the Manhattan Mussolini’s corn flakes.

  200. 200.

    ?eric

    does this mean that Donald will appear in the trial court to defend his actions? can we but dream!

  201. 201.

    EBT

    @Villago Delenda Est: He didn’t make two games, The MMO ended up being down scaled to a multi-player off line thing then down scaled again to the boring single player Kingdom of Amalur. It plays like someone tried to copy Vanilla WoW (I lost track of how many flavors of spider leg it asked for real fast) then realized netcode is hard and shipped an empty boring 4/10.

  205. 205.

    Steve in the ATL

    @NotMax:

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Is there a Costco convenient to you? Many of them sell gasoline. Discounted, even.

    Your stalking skill is impressive. There is a Costco near her, though there is a Quik Trip halfway between her crib and Costco. Don’t know how right wing QT is (energy company based in Oklahoma, so make your guesses….) but they treat their employees really well. Not unlike Costco.

  206. 206.

    Steve in the ATL

    @? Martin:

    Considering that Trump only won about 45% in Utah, yeah, they don’t care for him all that much there.

    Yes, but those pendejos still won’t vote for a Democrat.

  207. 207.

    Miss Bianca

    @efgoldman: you all have NO IDEA how happy this makes me rigght now. I want that smarmy little punchable-face pissant to be shaking in his go-go boots right now…and until he gets tossed out on his ass. Go, Utah!

  210. 210.

    Patricia Kayden

    @? Martin: Rudy Giuliani called it a Muslim Ban and claimed that Trump contacted him about hiding that fact. The gig is up. I thought Trump promised us that there would be so much winning that we’d be tired of winning.

  212. 212.

    Mike in NC

    @? Martin: Yeah, I was stationed in California for a year and regret ever yeaving. But we visited Lake Tahoe for a week last year and loved it.

  218. 218.

    Pogonip

    @efgoldman: Lent’s actually not as bad as people think. I’ve given up things that stayed given up because I found out they weren’t all that great anyway.

  220. 220.

    Chris T.

    I used to live in the area that is now Chaffetz territory (it was already gerrymandered like crazy, they shifted the boundaries again and again to get Matheson out, and I got stuck with Mr Benghazi until I moved out of the state entirely). Good to see some serious pushback there…

  221. 221.

    El Caganer

    @Alain the site fixer: Hey, I initially tried to palm it off as ‘Masked Avenger of the Intertubes,’ but some spoilsport actually Googled it up. Still haven’t gotten a figure to put in GF’s creche thingie.

  223. 223.

    El Caganer

    @schrodingers_cat: I continue to be amazed – because this actually has had at least a little publicity – at the number of people who think Sikhs are Muslims. “But they wear turbans” – yes, you dolt, and how many Muslims in America wear turbans?

  225. 225.

    El Caganer

    @amk: I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that there’s been more serious violence against Sikhs than against Muslims, since the pinheads…uh, patriots…..watched too much Aladdin/Sinbad/Thief of Baghdad shit in their misspent HFCS youth and assume that turban = terrorist. I know there have been at least a few instances in which Sikhs were murdered, like the temple shooting.

  226. 226.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @jl:

    Two key lessons for me, next time I land in court, are
    1. Don’t make fantastical lunatic claims the centerpiece of your arguments.
    2. Consider bringing some evidence for something or other related to the case.

    ROFL! I shall forward this to my lawyer son, who will appreciate your perspicacity.

  228. 228.

    Brachiator

    I’ve been listening to Rachel Maddow make a case that the government’s argument before the Ninth judges was flawed and possibly incompetent. Is this a case of junior league attorneys being used, or Trump forcing veteran attorneys to present a flawed case because of team Trump’s stupidity?

  229. 229.

    J R in WV

    @El Caganer:

    “…how many Muslims in America wear turbans?”

    Uhhhh – none! Turbans aren’t a Muslim thing at all. They’re an ethnic thing, and worn in some places where there are some Muslims, and in other places where there are very few Muslims.

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