Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Republicans would impeach Biden if he bit into a whole Kit Kat rather than breaking the sections apart.

We won’t go back.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

In my day, never was longer.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

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

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

Come on, man.

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Gonna be harping on this for a while yet, cuz there’s a lot to pick apart…


(Why it matters that the reporter was Haredim)

Self-described “Former independent presidential candidate, CIA operative”:

Meanwhile, out in the real world…

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  2. 2.

    marcion

    I’ll believe Trump will go when I see it. As someone on another blog said, Trump will be a political cockroach as long as his party is full of invertebrates.

  3. 3.

    sukabi

    That was some crazy assed presser… The Russians have to be reassessing their investment in drumpf…talking about shooting up their ship and nuclear holocaust in the same breath…

    Also sounds like he’s been ‘briefed’ on the dangers of uranium and nuclear war at a kindergarten level…

  4. 4.

    BlueDWarrior

    @marcion: I don’t even think they would know what to do if Trump was to go full, um, what’s a good fictional analogue for a President that completely loses his mind and starts doing things that at least 2/3rd of the country would find legitimately dangerous to our continued existence (short of ordering a nuclear first strike).

  7. 7.

    opiejeanne

    @sukabi: Maybe they finally got through to him a little bit, at some basic level, those times he asked during a briefing why we can’t use nukes if we have them.

  8. 8.

    sukabi

    @opiejeanne: that was my first thought…and the next one was that to get that kind of briefing he’s had to have been suggesting that we should drop a few nukes here and there to show who’s boss…

  9. 9.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @Big R: We get Pence playing the role of Prinny?

    I think I’d rather have Prinny.

    ? They will tear each other into pieces / Jesus Christ this will be fun / Da da da da da ?

  10. 10.

    prob50

    He takes such great pride in his refusal to listen to or believe people who actually know what they are talking about. And apparently even greater pride in parading his own ignorant, idiotic, or foolish, fact-free view of things.

    And each outright lie is followed either by what would be pathetic, laughable excuses or step-backs by his ridiculous spokespeople if he didn’t happen to be President of the United States.

    I think even the Red Queen would be shocked.

  12. 12.

    TS

    I’ve not found much to praise the Australian PM about over the past couple of years – but I appreciate these 2 comments

    A very great politician, Winston Churchill, once said that politicians complaining about the newspapers is like a sailor complaining about the sea,” he told reporters in New Zealand.
    “There is not much point. That is the media we live with and we have to get our message across and we thank you all in the media for your kind attention.”

    and

    Mr Turnbull, who was in New Zealand for official talks with his counterpart Bill English, said he would carefully assess any requests from the US for more troops to fight the Islamic State group.
    “As I just said earlier we will assess any and every request from the United States on its merits and make a decision,” he said.
    “We haven’t received that request, but when we do we will assess it very carefully.”
    [And if he doesn’t say NO, Australia will get a new PM]
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-17/donald-trump-malcolm-turnbull-media-criticism-wasting-his-time/8281696

  13. 13.

    prob50

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:

    We get Pence playing the role of Prinny?

    Yeah, the idea of Pence moving into the Presidency is not a thought that brings much relief. At this point I’m not sure if he is as dangerous than Trump, but he might be able to accomplish more harmful legislation. (Sigh) Another potential Dick Chaney-style “Adult In The Room” assuming way too much power.

  14. 14.

    Joyce H

    Interesting new tidbit of news – I only read the first paragraph because the rest of the article was behind the WSJ paywall, but that paragraph was enough. Turns out the Army is unable to find any evidence that Gen Flynn requested and obtained prior permission from the Army before he accepted payment from a foreign government in that 2015 trip to Russia. Well, of course, as a retired officer, you can’t do that. Will be interesting to see what comes of it…

  15. 15.

    opiejeanne

    @sukabi: He did so before the election and at least twice. He asked why, if we have nukes, can’t we use them. It was those briefings both candidates received before the election.

  16. 16.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So was Trump bing watching Info Wars and thought it would be awesome to copy that guys stream of ID style himself?

    And

    When is Trump going to demand an investigation into how NASA faked the Moon landings?

  17. 17.

    sukabi

    @opiejeanne: I know, but I think he keeps chewing at that bone and would be his ‘go to’ solution if he wasn’t constantly being ‘briefed’ on the down side of using ‘the nuclear’…

  24. 24.

    NorthLeft12

    Not surprised about the drop in business travel to the US. I would be surprised if that kind of drop is not shown in all tourism.

    Deadbeat Donald ran on a platform of isolationism, fear, and hatred of immigrants and foreigners in general, so what would you expect? We hear his message loud and clear.

  28. 28.

    Ella in New Mexico

    What the ever loving fuck was he talking about yesterday with that “cheap plastic button” shit Hillary supposedly hit?

    And yeah, I’m sure a lot of foreign visitors are are thinking twice about co I got here right now, given the chaos we’re creating for them at Customs. That’s gonna hurt by the end of the year in a shit-ton of places.

  30. 30.

    opiejeanne

    Reset button
    It was 2009, Russia was different from what it is now, and this was an attempt by the Obama Administration to start a better relationship with Russia.

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