Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

When I was faster i was always behind.

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  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    As I just said in the squirrel thread about the man with the squirrel hairpiece:
    “I fucking hate Donald Trump so fucking much.”

  7. 7.

    MJS

    So Spicer lied, again. Wonder if there will be any repercussions with the White House press corps? Just kidding.

  9. 9.

    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ….

  13. 13.

    bupalos

    Booooo. booooooooooooooooo. I wanted to see how embarrassing the count was going to be!!!

  14. 14.

    Mike J

    Alex Seitz-Wald‏ Verified account @aseitzwald 23 minutes ago
    Cities: Dem wins PA House special in landslide even though only candidate on ballot was Republican.

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    Also, I like Costa’s follow-up tweet: “”I don’t blame Paul,” Trump tells me”. Translation: Trump: “I blame Paul.”

  16. 16.

    Ian G.

    @JMG:

    Somewhere, John Boehner is popping his 3rd bottle of pinot noir, lighting a Marlboro, and laughing his ass off.

  19. 19.

    pk

    I like this kind of “Winning” a lot. I hope he strokes out. I can’t wait for the tweets.

  21. 21.

    dmsilev

    OK, so what happens now? I mean, The Base must have their Obamacare Repeal, so the GOP has to hork up _something_, but WTF can they do?

    Also, is schadenfreude overdose a covered condition under ACA plans? Just curious.

  22. 22.

    Buskertype

    honestly, at this point I expect to spend the next 22 months playing this game
    “we’re gonna repeal it on Tuesday! 100% for real this time, no backing down! Wolverines!”

  24. 24.

    bupalos

    Yaaaaaaay!!! They’re going to parade out ZEGS for a presser. I hope he’s brought out in a cage with 8 miserable shrivelled congressional bearers like Steve King all stripped to the waist and bleeding, with Nancy Smash forcing them along with a spiked bull whip!

  25. 25.

    TenguPhule

    @dmsilev:

    OK, so what happens now?

    They try again, with an even worse playing field because no reconciliation to hide behind.

    Or let Trump sabotage the ACA by having him appointing people to maintain it that want to kill it. Which he is already doing.

  26. 26.

    Anya

    He is so bad at this.

    Were John Miller and John Barron busy? Why is the vulgarian doing his own calls to the media?

  27. 27.

    trollhattan

    @Ian G.:
    Or, a preceding “Because I used to love her, but…”

    So much winning you’ll become tired of all the winning.

  28. 28.

    Gin & Tonic

    Why is the President telling the Speaker of the House what to do with respect to legislation? I thought these were separate branches of government.

    Yes, I am home from the hospital, and yes, I feel like taking some powerful drugs and slleeping for a while. So maybe more later, guardedly optimistic.

  31. 31.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    @Marcopolo: Definitely the one to watch. Rosneft really helps explain and connect it all, and naturally DT demanded a piece of the action. If that part can be proven, that’s a pretty big smoking gun.

  33. 33.

    Elizabelle

    @Gin & Tonic: Hope you will recover speedily.

    WRT the topic: this week, Americans saw the psychopaths behind the Republican masks. I hope they can’t unsee that, and burn up the phones whenever the GOP decides to take another whack at healthcare.

    Or taxes, or anything big. These are not public servants. Resist.

  34. 34.

    Chris

    What does that mean? Just that they’re giving themselves a few more days to try to summon all the votes, or that they’re actually backing off from the whole thing?

  35. 35.

    Ksmiami

    We have to tell Trump that he can make Obamacare better and call it Trumpcare and defenestrate Ryan (R-Sociopath) at the same time

  37. 37.

    japa21

    If Trump tries to get pissy with some of the GOP reps, I wouldn’t be surprised if suddenly they change their committee votes and have his taxes released. This is a major blow to his image of being a master negotiator. And, a major reason why he got as many votes as he did is because that was how he was perceived by a lot of his voters.

    And Ryan has basically admitted he has no power as speaker.

  39. 39.

    SFAW

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Yes, I am home from the hospital, and yes, I feel like taking some powerful drugs and slleeping for a while. So maybe more later, guardedly optimistic.

    Fortunately, this is not a drug-induced hallucination. (The thread, I mean.)

    Glad you’re home, best wishes for a speedy recovery. The Mets need you!

  40. 40.

    JMG

    Meanwhile, Wall St. Journal is reporting Flynn, while on Turkey’s payroll, plotted to kidnap that Gulen guy who’s living in Pennsylvania and have him returned to Turkey. Kidnapping is a very bad crime. I wonder if he’s looking for witness protection even as I type this.

  41. 41.

    Turgidson

    Enjoying the spectacle of Hair Furor and the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver doing a simultaneous face plant into a pile of dog shit. But now Hair Furor will just direct that cruel zombie of a ghoul he appointed to HHS to destroy Obamacare administratively, which will unleash its own world of hurt on people who deserve better, and try to pin that shitshow on Obama. I doubt he’ll succeed in the latter goal, but the former is what worries me.

  43. 43.

    Chris

    CNN: “Rep. Andy Barr said Ryan told them health care is basically dead for the rest of the Congress.”

    Oh please, oh please, oh pleasepleaseplease, let it be true.

  45. 45.

    germy

    ryan is giving a press conference? These live stream things always crash our computer. Can someone give me the key words?

  46. 46.

    Elizabelle

    @Chris: I hope that is true. I’d think we can pick up seats in the midterms, and who knows what will happen with Trump and all the cozied up to Russian Republicans in the meantime?

  48. 48.

    Brachiator

    @dmsilev:

    OK, so what happens now? I mean, The Base must have their Obamacare Repeal, so the GOP has to hork up _something_, but WTF can they do?

    The Republicans want to pass something before everyone leaves for Easter recess, April 7. If they hold it over until after they come back from recess, they allow more time for back biting and social media criticism.

    But with any luck, we will get to see Trump act out and do something stupid because he did not get his way.

    Were the major holdouts still the Freedom Caucus?

  50. 50.

    Anya

    Some former of current (I am not sure) republican representative was on CNN last night and was arguing that if this bill fails then it will be prove that the republicans cannot govern. He was arguing for the importance of passing the bill but not because it was a good bill but because it would help the republican party survive or something like that. I hope this is right and this failure is repeated over and over again. Trump will just rely on Executive Orders. It’s an easy momentary win for him.

  51. 51.

    tobie

    OT…Do we have any idea why Comey went to the White House today? Could it be related to the story @JMG: referenced that Flynn was conspiring with the govt of Turkey to kidnap the Turkish cleric Gulen living in Pennsylvania? Flynn’s turning out to be one arrogant, stupid turd blabbering about possible crimes in communications with foreign governments he should have suspected were monitored.

  52. 52.

    Elizabelle

    CNN’s talkers make me wish they just put up a yule log while waiting for press conferences.

    And here’s Ryan.

    “Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. …. Doing big things is hard. We need time to reflect how we got to this moment, and how we could have done it better.”

    A plea to work together. There’s so much they can do to improve people’s lives.

    Ryan and everyone in Congress is there to improve Americans’ lives. Now he’s disasterporning about Obamacare.

    I can’t type fast enough to keep up with the lies and spin.

    Trump gave all in this effort. LOL.

  53. 53.

    Turgidson

    @Brachiator:

    Odds are pretty good that there will be a late night Twitter shit fit of some sort tonight, or at least before Monday. The question is whether he’ll unleash a world of butthurt on his own party’s House majority, or he’ll say a bunch of batshit crazy shit to make sure the media changes the subject and forgets how big of a LOSER he looks like today. I’m hoping for the former. And they’re not mutually exclusive, so things could get interesting.

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    He’s in a spring green tie. His nose does look really long.

    Says Ocare is so fundamentally flawed that propping it up isn’t even possible.

    talks about death spirals.

    I am tired of these lying shitweasels. Happier not watching the news.

    Now asked if it’s the conservatives that defeated, same folks who drove out Boehner.

  56. 56.

    Turgidson

    @Elizabelle:

    It would just be swell if some intrepid reporter or pundit would tell this shithead to his face that he’s full of shit about Obamacare and ask him if he ever gets tired of being a lying twit.

  57. 57.

    Elizabelle

    Ryan believes that Ocare is collapsing, that’s it’s flawed, that it’s hurting families.

    I’m kinda glad he’s doing his FoxWorld patter.

    Admits Ocare is the law of the land. We will be LIVING with it for the forseeable future.

    Ryan says he thinks they were doing the Dems a favor by passing this law.** Typing, so I can’t see his nose.

    He is a liar, isn’t he?

    He talks about the architects of Ocare. At least Ocare HAD architects. It’s a skilled profession.

    ** Because OCare is so bad. He is in a different world, along with Trump.

  59. 59.

    Elizabelle

    Says he thinks tax reform will be a heavier lift. And he used to lead the committee, so he knows something about that.

    snicker

  60. 60.

    TenguPhule

    @JMG:

    Wall St. Journal is reporting Flynn, while on Turkey’s payroll, plotted to kidnap that Gulen guy who’s living in Pennsylvania and have him returned to Turkey.

    The FSM can’t possibly luv me enough for this to be true.

  61. 61.

    Tom

    In lieu of flowers, leave a flaming bag of dog shit on the door step at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.

  63. 63.

    danielx

    @bupalos:

    Now there is an image I can use.

    Note to Marmalade Shithead: This ain’t the New York City Board of Zoning Appeals, pilgrim.

  64. 64.

    NorthLeft12

    The part of this that still bothers me is that the bill failed to get enough Republican support to pass because it was too generous to ordinary people and not mean and nasty enough for the Creepy Caucus.
    Think about that.

  66. 66.

    germy

    Maggie Haberman‏V @maggieNYT

    TRUMP tells me in interview this is now the Democrats’ fault, and that he anticipates that when Obama “explodes” they will be ready to deal

  67. 67.

    Elizabelle

    @germy: Yeah. I noticed that one.

    Obama(Care) is not going to explode. That’s Fox News lies. Ryan was peddling the same line. Because he’s such a policy-driven wonk.

    They are psychopaths. Full stop.

  68. 68.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Elizabelle:

    He talks about the architects of Ocare.

    This means Scary Jonathan Gruber, right, who said an inartful thing once about how it was designed?

  70. 70.

    germy

    Senator Bob Menendez ✔@SenatorMenendez

    Hey Republicans, don’t worry, that burn is covered under the Affordable Care Act

  81. 81.

    Felonius Monk

    @WereBear: There was a crowd of people at Elise’s office in Glens Falls this morning having a “Die In”. They showed it on local news. Good times.

  82. 82.

    TenguPhule

    @Elizabelle: When you use hung, it means something entirely different, which has to do with male genitals. Unintentionally funny, but mixes your metaphors, so to speak.

  83. 83.

    Turgidson

    @Elizabelle:

    Ryan says he thinks they were doing the Dems a favor by passing this law.

    Well. In an extremely perverse way, this is true. Obamacare’s approval rating would have shot into the stratosphere once it was taken away and the flaming pile of cruel dog shit they called a bill took effect and threw millions off their insurance while also fucking with the plans of people who didn’t lose it. And even our extremely messaging-impaired Democratic Party would have had trouble fucking up the electoral windfall that would create. But that’s extremely cold comfort given the toll of human carnage inflicted by this piece of shit.

  85. 85.

    Death Panel Truck

    @Ian G.: It’s probably a reference to the Valentinos’ song “It’s All Over Now,” covered by the Rolling Stones in 1964.

  86. 86.

    Feebog

    So apparently trying to bully congress critters in safe red districts does not work. When that is the only rabbit you have in your hat, you are truly and royally screwed.

  87. 87.

    msdc

    I love that Costa breaks the news while he’s still got Trump on the phone. Live by the tweet, die by the tweet…

  88. 88.

    artem1s

    @Brachiator: They moved a couple of the Freedum Caucus back to yes by promising they’d get to skull f*ck dead kittens and deny maternity care to the not-fetuses. But that only causes a dozen or so of the less crazy Pubes to bail into NO category. Also the Kuck Bros threatened to primary anyone who voted yes.

  90. 90.

    Miss Bianca

    @Elizabelle: OMG – that tool. “This governatin’ sure is HARDER than just being against everything the black guy wanted! WHO KNEW? Oh, gee, Democrats, come and hold our hands while we figure out how to pass EFFECTIVE legislation that screws the 99%!”

  91. 91.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Elizabelle:

    String ’em up.

    In business news, the Chicago Board of Trade late this afternoon saw abrupt upward movement in the price of hemp futures…

  93. 93.

    Elie

    @japa21:

    He did himself some real damage by all those tweets and the approval rating of 37% –combined with an approval rate of their plan at 17%. There was no cover and add to that he threatened them. His own House Ways and Means Chair told him NO.

  95. 95.

    Zinsky

    What. A. Colossal. Failure. The Democrats should have the video of Trump saying his health care plan was going to be “beautiful” and “everyone will be covered” on the front page of the DNC’s website on a continuous loop. This pervert couldn’t take a shit and have it come out properly. Pathetic.

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