Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Second rate reporter says what?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

As long as McCarthy is Speaker, the House will never be in order.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

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

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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Apart from that, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

Tom Perez is off to a quick start, good for him…

One more thing to blame Lord Smallgloves (and his fussy little hand tics) for:

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  2. 2.

    Hal

    The number of times I have thought this, especially since Trump:

    KingofTorts Retweeted
    Charles Clymer‏ @cmclymer

    It all comes down to this: if Obama were white, he’d be on Mt. Rushmore. If Trump were black, he’d be doing 20 in a federal penitentiary.
    7:04 PM · Feb 26, 2017

    And before and since Trump, I’ve lost count of the number of times this bit of dialogue from Angels in America has run through my brain:

    Belize: I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. Nothing but a bunch of big ideas and stories and people dying, and then people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word ‘free’ to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on Earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, Louis, I’ll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, Louis. I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s gotta love somethin’.

    I did have an annoying Monday though, so maybe I’m just in a bad mood.

  3. 3.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Hal: At the very least, a semi-literate idiot like Trump wouldn’t be anywhere close to the White House if he were anything but White. He’s very lucky to have been born into a wealthy household.

  7. 7.

    germy

    U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters on Monday that recent bomb threats made against Jewish groups are “unacceptable” and a “very serious and destructive practice.”

  8. 8.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Christopher Hayes‏Verified account @ chrislhayes 3m3 minutes ago
    Who said it and about whom?

    “And he is central casting, do we agree? Central casting. He’s been great. “

    The second question is the harder one

  9. 9.

    KG

    @Patricia Kayden: I think Trump being born rich has more to do with him being in the White House than anything else. If his grandfather hadn’t made a killing off of miners during the goldrush, and if his father hadn’t made even more money in real estate when it was easier to get into, Trump would not have owned an Atlantic City casino, he’d have been one of the guys sweeping the casino floor while cursing his bosses for not paying him more.

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @germy:

    U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters on Monday that recent bomb threats made against Jewish groups are “unacceptable” and a “very serious and destructive practice.”

    Well, that’s harsh language. Why didn’t he just say “inappropriate”?

  14. 14.

    Patricia Kayden

    @KG:

    he’d have been one of the guys sweeping the casino floor while cursing his bosses for not paying him more.

    Trump strikes me as someone without any natural skills or talents so yeah to your comment although there is nothing wrong with making an honest living sweeping floors. His wealth has allowed him to be entitled and pretty much get whatever he wants, including the Presidency, even though he’s dangerously unqualified. Money talks.

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    mai naem mobile

    Pig fuckwr Mulvane said they’ll put the Border Wall cost on a supplemental bill just like Dubbya did with the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and then Voila! it’s Obamas bill. Fuck these people.

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    mai naem mobile

    @SiubhanDuinne: bit it’s not a hate crime. I’m sure if an evangelical snowflake was told to move their vehicle at an abortion clinix because an emergency vehicle was trying to make it through Sessions would call it a hate crime.

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    raven

    @mai naem mobile: This is an updated article that I posted earlier.

    As the defendants wept, a Douglas County judge on Monday sentenced two people to lengthy prison terms for their part in disrupting an African-American birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs and armed threats in 2015.

    Superior Court Judge William McClain castigated the two, Kayla Rae Norton, 25, and Jose Ismael Torres, 26, for perpetrating what he called a hate crime.

    He sentenced Torres to 20 years, with 13 to serve in prison; Norton was given 15 years, with six to serve. Upon their release, McClain ordered them to be permanently banished from Douglas County.

  23. 23.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I’m a bit confused about what Mark Pitcavage is tweeting about. The alt-right Nazis are false flagging a gesture or something?

  25. 25.

    artem1s

    Does anyone know who the Dems are rebutting the Tweet of the Union with? Hope it is someone with real fire. Are the Teahaddists/Freedum Caucus going to do their own rebuttal again too? Why stop now when they’ve reached peak asshole?

  27. 27.

    raven

    @artem1s: Democratic leaders have tapped former Kentucky governor Steve Beshear to respond to President Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress — signaling their intention to use the moment to mount a renewed defense of the Affordable Care Act in the face of Republican efforts to repeal and replace it.

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    efgoldman

    @humboldtblue: @raven: Still say the Dems should boycott, or walk our, or just stand facing away from the podium. Anything to show strength, unity, and opposition to an illegitimate preznit.
    Taking immigrants and people helped by the ACA as guests is nice, but it’s nowhere near as effective.

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    FlyingToaster

    I’m hoping that the D attendees each have a staffer on fact check so that every lie Trump tells, you see 200+ official tweets calling him on his lie. Live during the SOTU. When Trump can’t answer until afterward.

    Seriously. If we don’t want to call him a liar on the floor of Congress (ahem decorum ahem), at least hit him where it will leave a mark.

    #LiarLiarPantsOnFire

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    Adria McDowell (formerly Lurker Extraordinaire

    @Mnemosyne: No, I didn’t see it, but will look it up on the ‘Tube. Thanks for the heads up.

    And how did Moana lose to Zootopia?! I mean, it’s a cute movie, but C’MON!

  36. 36.

    Mnemosyne

    @Betty:

    I found out today that she got hit at least once during rehearsal as well — they had to sit her down and do a concussion protocol, but she was okay. So at least she kind of expected it.

    @Adria McDowell (formerly Lurker Extraordinaire:

    Don’t make me choose. I love them both so much.

    I was annoyed that one of those lame-ass “LaLa Land” songs won. Even John Legend couldn’t save them.

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