Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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

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

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

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

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

How are Republicans going to find someone with more charisma and personal charm than Jim Jordan?

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

I was promised a recession.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

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

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

This fight is for everything.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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  7. 7.

    Droppy

    Just ordered “Eyewitness to the Bowling Green Massacre” by Frederick Douglass from Amazon. He was the one who pulled her out of the rubble, I’m pretty sure.

  11. 11.

    Yarrow

    That picture is both horrifying and hilarious. She really has no class. No respect. It’s all about her.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I’m going to listen. It’s difficult to both watch and follow comments here. But I can listen to my local NPR station on the iPhone, and participate in the snarkfest that seems certain to erupt here on the iPad, and all will be well, all will be well, all will be exceeding well.

  14. 14.

    Jerzy Russian

    OK, that image made my laugh. I don’t have a TV on which to watch the shitshow, so I am counting on Balloon Juice for material that I can point to and laugh at.

  15. 15.

    efgoldman

    Nobody hates Kelly Anne Rienstahl more than I do, but this isn’t really worthy of anybody’s time and effort. A total nothing burger.
    BYW, she’s been awfully quiet since exposing the media’s failures in reporting the Bowling Green Massacre.
    Not watching or listening to Tangerine Tumerous. I don’t want to buy new TVs

  20. 20.

    lamh36

    @CTDems 17m17 minutes ago
    More
    Congrats to Representative-elect Dorinda Borer on her huge win in #WestHaven!

  24. 24.

    geg6

    @efgoldman:

    Other than the complete unprofessionalism displayed, that is. As the only woman in the room (that I can tell), this is not a good look.

  26. 26.

    Jeffro

    The only thing I’d be watching for is – hoping against hope here – a Dem walkout at Trumpov’s first lie. It’s not like he’s going to propose any details or policies of any kind.

    This is a guy who thinks America’s inner cities (all black, did you know that?) are war zones, that Obamacare is “a disaster”, and that Jewish people are probably the ones calling in the bomb threats to JCCs all over America. False flag, dontcha know.

    Anyway, gonna take good care of the ol’ blood pressure and read a good book instead!

  28. 28.

    Keith P.

    @Baud: You’ll have to watch Paul Ryan to tell. Mitch McConnell has a fart pokerface, but you’ll know the second the smell hits them when Paul Ryan’s “Golly, gee, welcome to united Republican leadership” expression turns to “Is that ketchup? Ketchup and onions?”

  31. 31.

    danielx

    Is that fucking harpy actually related to Ann Coulter? Who is, be it noted, considerably past her “hot blonde conservative” sell-by date.

  37. 37.

    japa21

    Based on what was discussed on the last thread and other things to cpome out of Trump’s mouth since 1/20, I sent out a tweet which said

    Two phrases associated with Truman that Trump doesn’t get. “If you can ‘t stand the heat get out of the kitchen” and “the buck stops here”.

    And doing so I realized two of our Presidents have a last name starting “Trum”. Other than that t5hey couldn’t be further apart from each other.

  38. 38.

    JMG

    John, you’re a stronger man than I am. I look forward to waking up tomorrow and reading your rant on this topic. For now, I’m going upstairs to re-read Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy. I am just at the chapter where Sherman’s army goes through South Carolina.

  40. 40.

    Ian G.

    @geg6:

    Speaking of the Penguins and hockey, the New York Islanders look like they’ll be calling up a top prospect, Joshua Ho-Sang, for their game against Dallas on Thursday. Who is he? Well, he’s from Canada, but his father is from Jamaica and emigrated to Canada. Dad is 3/4 black and 1/4 Chinese (hence the surname). Mom emigrated to Canada from Chile, but is of Russian-Swedish-Jewish heritage.

    So the Isles have a hot prospect of Jewish-Black-Chinese-Hispanic heritage. I feel like his existence will cause a few strokes among “alt right” hockey fans out there. If so, good.

  42. 42.

    Mary G

    I watch because I get motivated to continue resistance and out of a feeling of duty to witness, also it’s fun to comment on here.

  46. 46.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Baud:

    I hope he farts in the middle of his address.

    Do you mean apart from whatever Bannon has given him to emerge from his mouth? His tiny little pursed assholean sphincterish mouth?

  47. 47.

    danielx

    I am just at the chapter where Sherman’s army goes through South Carolina.

    Which is absolutely delightful to read.

    @japa21:

    From what I gather, his motto throughout his career has been “the buck stops anywhere else, and I’ll move it there if need be”.

  51. 51.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @amk:

    Isn’t there also a GA special election for fucking price’s seat?

    Yup, April 18th, with a runoff in, I think, June.

    I live one district over so cannot vote, but plan to do some phonebanking or doorknocking or whatever is needed.

  52. 52.

    lamh36

    @Aleta: yes…the meds finally kicked in and I was able to actually get a restful night’s sleep.

    Tomorrow I get the keys to my new apartment and I get to go bedroom shopping for a better bedroom

  54. 54.

    Alain the site fixer

    I’m hoping for three rants so that all America that is watching, and the morning shows tomorrow, have lots of fertile ground for sound and video clips. Sad that that’s where I’m at; much as I despised President Bush, I never hoped for substandard public performances nor stark policy departures from the norm, but in many ways, I’m hoping for a heightened contradiction between trumpism and the normal American way. That seems logical and right, and that’s a scary place to be, hoping for corruption to be so obvious as to be unavoidable for society and people at large to confront and ameliorate.

  55. 55.

    Cain

    I dunno about the outrage of couchgate… the picture seems to be taken while she’s looking for a photo app? Who knows? Not that I give a shit if she’s get pummeled after all Obama also got it for putting his feet on the desk.

    You guys are stronger people than I am for watching this shit storm. I’m going to watch it through twitter and snark.. I’m heading out for dinner.

  57. 57.

    SiubhanDuinne

    As mentioned, I will be listening but not watching. The only reason that I’d be tempted to watch is to see whether any Dems stand and quietly walk out. But, being Dems, that’s pretty unlikely, so I’m content to listen on NPR and follow along/participate in commentary here.

  58. 58.

    Keith P.

    The more I think about it, Mike Pence *would* react to Trump farting, but it would be one of those things where his whole body pivots a bit to the left, then pivots back to the right, and then goes back to staring blankly at the camera.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Cain:

    the picture seems to be taken while she’s looking for a photo app?

    There was one taken either right before or right after a shot of KAC taking a picture of the HBCU prezzes (still on the sofa with her legs spread). Apart from everything else, there is presumably an official WH photographer. Why the hell would KellyAnne need to be taking bad, out-of-focus, ineptly-composed shots of a bunch of people in the Oval when there’s a professional to capture the moment?

  65. 65.

    Yarrow

    @SiubhanDuinne: Listening seems like an even worse punishment than watching. At least with watching you occasionally get a crowd reaction shot.

    I’m sure some place like The Guardian will liveblog it. And people will comment here. And Twitter. That’s all I need to see if anything exciting happens. I can always tune in then if there’s some good drama to watch.

  78. 78.

    SFAW

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Kellyanne has no talent at all.

    I disagree. She has talent, just not for anything that makes the world a better place. Riefenstahl COULD have done good work, were she not a Nazi, KAC could never be anything but what she is today.

  82. 82.

    danielx

    There’s a (possibly apocryphal) story about a wealthy Republican in Chicago during Lyndon Johnson’s administration who truly hated LBJ. Supposedly, every time Johnson made a televised speech the guy would buy a new television so when Johnson came out with his customary “Mah fellow Amuricans…” greeting, he could fire a shotgun into the TV screen.

    You know, thinking about it, TVs are pretty cheap now…no. Must not go there.

  83. 83.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    I really don’t care how KAC is sitting and whether it is “lady-like” or not… bigger Trump issues to focus upon. It strikes me like when Repubs worried over Michelle’s bare arms. YMMV.

  86. 86.

    Ruckus

    @danielx:

    Who is, be it noted, considerably past her “hot blonde conservative” sell-by date.

    She has always and forever been past that, not that she hasn’t tried selling herself innumerable times.

  88. 88.

    patroclus

    Good start – he actually mentioned the anti-Jewish pogrom and racism in the context of Black History Month. Obviously, someone wrote that for him and he doesn’t mean it, but still a good start.

  90. 90.

    Aleta

    Getting stomach cramps, brain is bleeding, lower back bilious. Can’t take the applause. I think I’m about to cave.

  91. 91.

    efgoldman

    @Jeffro:

    This is a guy who thinks America’s inner cities (all black, did you know that?) are war zones

    Isn’t the Tasteless Tower, where he lives, smack in the middle of an inner city?

  95. 95.

    JGabriel

    John Coie @ Top:

    I lied. I can’t watch this fucking shit. I’m going to play a video game.

    Me too. Which game? I went with Skyrim.

  96. 96.

    SiubhanDuinne

    So far it’s a campaign speech. Nothing more, nothing less.

    Boring. I expect I’ll wander off soon.

  98. 98.

    efgoldman

    @vhh:

    Riefenstahl, please.

    I typod it, but Alain has apparently put us into “randomly not allowing editing” mode tonite for fun and profit.

  101. 101.

    Miss Bianca

    @Yarrow: I’m hoping Adam is watching out of his farmore highly-developed-than-mine sense of civic responsibility, and will be reporting back.

  102. 102.

    patroclus

    Good to know that we’re going to destroy ISIS, end crime, end drug addiction, create jobs, and all the rest. No mention of how we’re going to do any of that.

  106. 106.

    Darkrose

    @efgoldman: Like I said over at LGM, it’s one more example of this administration’s contempt for black folks. They can’t even be arsed to do a photo op right. And when you remember that these are the HBCU administrators, and Betsy DeDumbass whitesplained to us all about how HBCU’s are a shining example of school choice, this picture encapsulates the regime’s lack of respect perfectly.

  109. 109.

    Darkrose

    @JGabriel: I’ve been playing a lot of Skyrim lately. I love Final Fantasy XIV, but I’m not comfortable playing MMO’s and having to deal with people right now. Skyrim allows me to kill racist Nords and Nazi Elves and have fun doing it.

  112. 112.

    Soprano2

    They’re going to lower the cost of health insurance? How? More bullshit promises with no way to do it.

  116. 116.

    The Lodger

    @Cain: Doesn’t anyone else remember the West Wing episode where Bartlet chews out the clueless conservative blonde and finishes by saying, “When the President stands, everybody stands.”

  119. 119.

    danielx

    Going to have to turn off everything….sounds and looks like the weather is getting pretty sporty. We are definitely expecting rain, as the saying goes. Keep those of us affected updated please!

  120. 120.

    jake the antisoshul soshulist

    I have decided that someone needs to knock that smirk off Paul Ryan’s face.
    You could tell when Trump was lying by the smirk.
    Ryan may have the second most punchable face in the Republican Party.

  121. 121.

    JGabriel

    Darkrose:

    Skyrim allows me to kill racist Nords and Nazi Elves and have fun doing it.

    I only started replaying it a few weeks ago – hadn’t thought about the killing racist Nords aspect, but you make a good point. I usually play as neutral/indifferent to the Nord/Imperial conflict, but maybe I should join up with the Imperials this time around.

  122. 122.

    Cogitari Safari

    I couldn’t watch more than a few minutes myself even though I know it’s important to watch (and not merely read the transcript) to catch the tone, body language, attitude, responses, etc. It was just too grotesque watching that recalcitrant anti-American addressing the American congress. It was akin to watching your mother get raped by Neanderthals.

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