Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Let me file that under fuck it.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

So many bastards, so little time.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

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

… gradually, and then suddenly.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

Everybody saw this coming.

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I’m not quite as apoplectic as DougJ but nowhere near as confident as Adam, but I will just put this out there for you to think about:

The Trump administration felt that firing Comey was their least bad option.

I’m going to go back to my chair to watch dystopian sci-fi on netflix because at least there I know the screams are fake.

Also, my teeth hurt from a deep cleaning, crown replacement, and two fillings, and my tongue hurts from rubbing against the rough temp crown. I know, sack up you whiner. Fuck you.

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  1. 1.

    Trentrunner

    Nothing will happen until Dems have a majority in the House and/or Senate.

    Until then, we get to see how craven and UnAmerican the GOP will get, and how much of America will be destroyed.

    Good times!

  3. 3.

    amk

    dystopian is the apt description. The so called institutions and the checks & balances are in tatters.

  5. 5.

    Nicole

    Reading the attempts by people I know to try to “Both Sides” it makes me want to punch a hole in something.

    And my right-winger ex-boyfriend from high school, who posted a picture of the Lego White House he and his 2nd wife built together. He had exactly 2 likes on it last I saw.

  6. 6.

    TenguPhule

    Also, my teeth hurt from a deep cleaning, crown replacement, and two fillings, and my tongue hurts from rubbing against the rough temp crown.

    Shouldn’t have eaten all that sugar and brushed your teeth more often.

    /channeling the fingerwagger

  9. 9.

    TenguPhule

    I’m going to go back to my chair to watch dystopian sci-fi on netflix because at least there I know the screams are fake.

    For now.

  10. 10.

    Mnemosyne

    Now the word “dystopian” reminds me of my favorite meme from the March for Science:

    First they came for the scientists…
    And the National Parks Service said, “lol, no” and went rogue and we were all like, “I was not expecting the park rangers to lead the resistance, none of the dystopian novels I read prepared me for this but cool.”
    Source: scarlettohairdye

    Resistance is going to come from unexpected quarters. Not Republican ones, but people and organizations you didn’t expect.

  11. 11.

    PhoenixRising

    ‘junta’ is actually not correctly pronounced as if it were a Spanish word, either.

    I never thought I would feel this bad for those who got sober before Nov. 8th. I feel for all of you. Your bravery is indescribable and a statue will be erected in honor of Those Who Survived the Trump Months* Without Self-Medicating.

    *from my keyboard to G-d’s ear

  13. 13.

    Elie

    LOL — I hate oral pain… The only thing that I can say is that it will feel better tomorrow and the day after. A couple of beers may do wonders. I also recommend a hot bath with Epsom salts to soothe before bed time. Works wonders and will knock you out clean as too much booze but without the hangover.

    Feel better!

  14. 14.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    (CNN) Susan Sarandon, a Bernie Sanders’ surrogate, says Donald Trump would be more likely to usher in “the revolution” than Hillary Clinton.

    “Some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately, if he gets in”, said Sarandon.

    Cornel West‏ @CornelWest

    Brother Bernie and Brother Trump are authentic human beings in stark contrast to their donor-driven opponents.

    7:04 PM – 24 Aug 2015 (link)

    720 replies 1,057 retweets 1,382 likes

    OAKLAND — As Washington grapples with health care policy again, the head of the 185,000-member National Nurses United is turning her attention to a seemingly unlikely advocate for a single-payer system. “The one I’m counting on the most is Trump,” RoseAnn DeMoro said,

    DeMoro, who serves as executive director of both the Oakland-based National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association, told POLITICO California on Thursday that she is “disgusted” with Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and believes that the president-elect may actually get action.

    Well done, Alt Left – well done

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    @TenguPhule:

    It’s not the brushing, it’s the flossing. I basically stopped getting cavities once I got into the daily flossing habit.

  17. 17.

    Nicole

    Also, it’s okay to be upset about the teeth. I just had my second cancer-related surgery (reconstruction, so it’s the brighter part of the whole experience) and the pain and bruising is painful, sure, but the freaking itching is what makes me want to leap out a window.

    My poor husband and six-year-old- I haven’t started screaming at anyone yet, but it’s really taking everything I have not to. I should go apologize in advance.

  18. 18.

    Mothra

    You can alternate Tylenol and Advil for that kind of pain. Check with the pharmacist about how far apart to take them so you don’t overdo it and hurt yourself-but you probably need some relief so you don’t keep pushing your teeth with your tongue!

  20. 20.

    Baud

    The Trump administration felt that firing Comey was their least bad option.

    Trump does not think that strategically.

  22. 22.

    amk

    cole has officially gone into the long in the tooth (get off my lawn!!!) category today?

  23. 23.

    Oatler.

    Seems the NYT is now part of the coup. Been watching “Soylent Green” this evening, which posits the weird scenario of a corporation running the world.

  26. 26.

    Jeffro

    Beginning of the end for Trumpov & Co – grand juries are already hearing evidence, FBI regulars are going to go apeshit, Dems have no reason to hold back or talk about anything else between now and (impeachment) or Nov 2018.

    We’re not there yet but we’re on our way. This is what it looks like, folks.

  27. 27.

    piratedan

    I think we’re about to find out just how compromised and rotten the GOP actually is and my biggest fear is that it is completely and totally comprised with the exception of maybe a member or two…

    I see three possible factions….

    The Compromised – I place McConnell, Ryan, Cornyn, Cruz, Sessions and Rubio in this camp. Along with guys like Christie, Nunes, Gingrinch, Priebus and Guilliani, plus folks like Page, Stone, Manafort, Conway and Lewandoski.

    The Complicit – the party over country guys, who may be both idiotic or cowards who will go along because showing any spine would be hurtful… I see McCain, Graham, Collins, Grassley, Imhofe, and a good many of the “so called moderates” also residing here. I look for no comfort from these folks. They’ve betrayed America and its very ideals by accepting this shit or being bought off.

    The unknowns – I see perhaps Sasse and Murkowski here and maybe an unexpected other or two… these are the only likely sources to actually allow any cover for the Dems to bring any pressure to bear on what the fuck is happening to our country.

    Maybe the media wakes up, but then again, they’ve been so wired to kissing the GOP’s ass and giving them cover for so long, who knows? I certainly don’t trust the NYT, I think they’ve been bought off by being given a free hand to go after HRC. Hard to see them change course now.

    I fully expect that if Trump is NOT challenged on this, that police crackdowns on dissent are next… because wwho will stop him or Sessions from doing what they want, laws be damned.

  30. 30.

    Bobby Thomson

    The Trump administration felt that firing Comey was their least bad option.

    Dude, it’s not like these are master strategists. Do you really think Trump even thought one move ahead? He’s just a really, really dumb guy who’s escaped accountability his entire life.

  32. 32.

    TenguPhule

    @piratedan: The problem is that the first two factions are a solid majority of the Legislative branch. And 4-5 of the judges of the SC are compromised (Don’t trust Kennedy at all).

    Trump can’t be allowed to prosper.

  33. 33.

    lamh36

    Elijah Cummings on Rachel when asked what can be done, he said honestly, nothing will occur unless, “someone like speaker of the house and mcconell say I put country before party”

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Nicole:

    I feels ya. I have not had anything cancer-related, but about 16 years ago I had quadruple bypass surgery. They slit me from my guggle to my zatch, and to this day the scar can get kind of sweaty and itchy. You learn to live with it, although I shudder to think of how often I’ve mindlessly clawed away at my chest. In public.

    There is a nice oatmeal-based soap that I found soothing during the worst of the itching. I don’t remember the brand offhand but could probably find it for you. Or perhaps Satby has an anti-itch formula in her soap pharmacopeia (pharmasoapia?)

    Hope you feel better soon!

  36. 36.

    Gin & Tonic

    Statement from my Congressman tonight:

    President Trump claims that Congress and the public have lost faith in the FBI when what they are losing faith in is his presidency.

  38. 38.

    hueyplong

    @lamh36: When have we ever seen the modern GOP put country before party? I’d feel better if given a single example, even when it wasn’t against their own personal interests to do so, and right now a decent number of them are subject to kompromat. There is a reason why their own emails have never been “leaked.”

  40. 40.

    Olivia

    Get some dental wax to put on your temporary crown. It will help your tongue feel better.

  41. 41.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @PhoenixRising:

    ‘junta’ is actually not correctly pronounced as if it were a Spanish word, either.

    Can you help? The microwave isn’t saying.

  43. 43.

    p.a.

    Who wouldn’t expect this from Presnit 5iron, but no one around him has the sense, or pull, to suggest something less draconian? They have reliable traitors in McConnell and Ryan to gum up the works…

  44. 44.

    dm

    @Mnemosyne: When my dental hygienist told me it was okay to floss in the morning instead of before going to bed, it became a lot easier to be a regular flosser.

    It’s not as good, but it’s way better than being too tired to bother with flossing and not doing it.

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    @TenguPhule:

    I was brushing twice a day, but the cavities didn’t stop until I managed to make flossing a daily habit.

    ETA: My dentist said he wanted to make a “Scared Straight”-style video of me for his other patients. ?

    @dm:

    I’ve formed a solid enough habit now that I can’t fall asleep if I don’t floss first. The stuff between my teeth bugs me too much.

  50. 50.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Baud: Brokaw just said Comey made a lot of mistakes. And now Andrea Mitchell.

    It sickening the way they play Calvin Ball.

    Not once in the last 6 months did they ever say Comey made a mistake with the Clinton statements. To the contrary they praised him.

    Why just last week they were blasting Clinton for blaming Comey.

    Now that the narrative turns, we’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

  51. 51.

    jacy

    @Nicole:

    I have found with my surgery related incision scars that a really high-quality moisturizer (like an anti-aging cream by Loreal) really helps the itching and heat. Not just cocoa butter or shea or vitamin E, but the fancy stuff. It makes a world of difference. And use it often, like 18 times a day.

  52. 52.

    Morzer

    “The Trump administration felt that firing Comey was their least bad option.”

    Never discount Trump’s capacity for doing something astoundingly crass and stupid just to appease his pathetic insecurity and sense of having been slighted. My bet is that Comey refused to give Trump assurances last week that he would proclaim Donnie Putinobitch innocent of any and all treasonous activities related to Russia. Trump stewed, whined. raged and called in the newly appointed flunky Rosenstein to fire Apprentice Comey forthwith. Of course, he’s now liberated Comey from any sense of obligation or need to cover his ass. Heckuva plan, Donnie.

    We handle these things better in Korea. One corrupt conservative president impeached and removed. One honest liberal president elected.

    And we didn’t even need to ask Mexico to pay for it….

  53. 53.

    Gravenstone

    @dm: I’m sure Christie is also mindful of the myriad humiliations forced upon him by Trump. Talk about a chance for payback…

  54. 54.

    Gian

    And as we did with Iran Contra, we will find out the GOP has learned from Watergate.
    Never, Ever break ranks with the President, no matter how crooked.

    Yes, I’d love to be wrong about that.

  55. 55.

    Ruckus

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    I seem to have an itching problem with most soaps. Only 2 over the counter soaps that I’ve tried work for me. And I tried several of Satbys soaps. No go for me there either. I liked them, but they still made me itch, even though there is nothing in them that should do that. I’m like that with a lot of medications as well, several that I’ve been put on, my reactions are in the 2-3% that are no es bueno. My two soaps are Safeguard white (much cheaper) and Neutrogena (not so much on the cheap)

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I have very little use for Comey, but if this (from the NYTimes) is accurate, it is appalling:

    Mr. Comey, who is three years into a 10-year term at the helm of the F.B.I., learned from news reports that he had been fired while addressing bureau employees in Los Angeles. While Mr. Comey spoke, television screens in the background began flashing the news. In response to the reports, Mr. Comey laughed, saying that he thought it was a fairly funny prank.

    But shortly after, Mr. Trump’s letter was delivered to F.B.I. Headquarters in Washington.

    They released the news of Comey’s firing to the national media before the letter was delivered to FBI HQ, before anyone had the simple basic human courtesy to tell him in person?

    This goes way beyond incoherent and incompetent. This is egregiously cruel. Yeah, even to Comey.

    These people are fucking monsters.

  57. 57.

    Ruckus

    @??‍? Martin:
    OK that got me to LOL.
    Wouldn’t put it past anyone in this maladministration though. Least of the all the top turd on the pile of shit.

  58. 58.

    petesh

    @Morzer: Never discount Trump’s capacity for doing something astoundingly crass and stupid just to appease his pathetic insecurity and sense of having been slighted.

    Evidently, the trigger was when Comey said it made him nauseous to think he had swayed the election.

  60. 60.

    Jeffro

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    Brokaw just said Comey made a lot of mistakes. And now Andrea Mitchell.

    It sickening the way they play Calvin Ball.

    Not once in the last 6 months did they ever say Comey made a mistake with the Clinton statements. To the contrary they praised him.

    it’s not really Calvinball (unless you mean, Calvinball played only against Dems). It’s this weird both-sides-erism, plus Hillary-hate, plus being bullied into submission for fear of being called “liberal” by wacko conservatives who were never, are never, going to let up on that schtick.

  62. 62.

    Ruckus

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    These people are fucking monsters.

    That they are.
    That they are.
    But come on, that’s classic asshole businessman behavior, send an email or have the fired schmuck find out from TV. I mean what asshole who’s made his entire everything from OPM wouldn’t do that?

  65. 65.

    efgoldman

    @Morzer:

    called in the newly appointed flunky Rosenstein to fire Apprentice Comey forthwith.

    I thought Rosenstein was one of the honest good guys. Some media or other told me that.

  66. 66.

    efgoldman

    @Ruckus:

    that’s classic asshole businessman behavior

    Hell, sports fans see this all the time, when a player gets traded or a coach/manager fired, these days, often as not, it’s tweeted out by a third party before the subject is officially notified.

  67. 67.

    Nicole

    @SiubhanDuinne: Thank you; that might be nice for when I’m allowed to take baths again (I have another week to go). It’s not even the stitches that are itching right now; it’s (probably more info than anyone wants, but hey, it’s good to talk about these things) where they put in fat to make the reconstruction look smoother. Gadzooks; I want to claw that area off me. Thank goodness there’s a surgical bra and a big elastic band separating my fingernails nails from the skin.

    The doc did say I can take Benadryl for the itching, which I do before bed to help me get to sleep, too. It dopes me up enough that I stay down all night, which is good because sleeping on my back is quite uncomfortable.

  68. 68.

    Nicole

    @jacy: Thank you; I’ll look for something good. The instructions said to start massaging the scars regularly in a few weeks and that it’ll take about a year for them to totally mature so to keep doing it. I’m really, really bad at keeping up with that kind of thing. We’ll see how it goes.

  69. 69.

    Millard Filmore

    @petesh:

    Evidently, the trigger was when Comey said it made him nauseous to think he had swayed the election.

    There is the problem! Trump won the Presidency all on his own don’cha know.

  70. 70.

    mskitty

    @efgoldman – I looked up Rod Rosenstein – I think he IS one of the good guys, amazing he was nominated by this president*. He’s been a US Attorney and he teaches some law courses, at U Maryland and U Baltimore, and does law lectures – I do not believe a corrupt lawyer would bother. Also, The Guardian sez he did good work handling corruption cases. What I think … the Trump boyz think he can be had, and they will be surprised. What he said in the memo recommending firing Comey was all correct.

  71. 71.

    Ruckus

    @Nicole:
    I have a reasonably major surgery scar near a somewhat sensitive area and yes it did take nearly a year to not bother me and to heal as much as it’s ever going to. But every once in a while it lets me know that it’s still there. I guess that’s good, it’s one way I know that something got fixed and is now better.

  72. 72.

    Raoul

    The Trump administration felt that firing Comey was their least bad option.

    Some suggestions that the WH is also surprised that this has blown up so much. How they thought this would be a short news cycle and move on, I’m not sure (tough Lindsey Graham’s profile in twitter cowardice this evening gives a clue about what the WH was hoping for).

    The WH is shot thru with idiots, starting at the top (he probably wrote the crazy ‘told three times I’m innocent’ part, and no one could tell him it was bad!).

    I just hope the idiocy brings this admin down before the admin brings our nation to it’s knees.

  73. 73.

    Morzer

    @mskitty:

    You’d be amazed what even “good guys” will do when they sense a chance to get into the corner office.

  75. 75.

    Elie

    @Nicole:
    Hat tip to you, Nicole. It will all get better. I did not have reconstruction but the radiotherapy itched and burned the last three weeks. I don’t remember as clearly anymore after 12 yrs and as soon as everything is healed and you get to settle in, you will also begin to forget. Life asserts itself very strongly. I send you my very best

  76. 76.

    Citizen Alan

    @Ruckus:

    Giuliani famously had a press conference to announce that he was divorcing his second wife without telling her first. It’s typical behavior for their degenerate breed.

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