Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

The willow is too close to the house.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)

You can’t love your country only when you win.

People are complicated. Love is not.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

He really is that stupid.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

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

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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Trump’s unearned “success” has made the NRA’s plumpest pigeons complacent. SAD!

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  1. 1.

    Major Major Major Major

    Decades from now this will be an artifact barely believed by students learning about a fascistic strand of early 21st century US politics

    On my more optimistic days I think this about many things from this era.

  4. 4.

    SRW1

    Dana’s just lame. Couldn’t the NRA hire that fire and brimstone preacher lady, whats her name … ah got it, Joyce Meyer. That girl’s got napalm in her eyes and bullets in her words.

  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The NRA is a terrorist organization, just like Al Qaeda or Daesch.

    They should be treated exactly as Obama dealt with Osama bin Laden.

  11. 11.

    opiejeanne

    HI,
    Mr opiejeanne and I will be in SoCal probably by this Friday and don’t have to be back in Seattle until November 15th, so would anyone like another meet up?

  13. 13.

    jl

    According to Gallup daily tracking poll, after a brief jump in approval that had Drumpy touch 40 percent for one day, Dummy has been stuck in mid-thirties for last week. So, if NRA wants to tie itself to the Trumspter himself, good luck to them.

  15. 15.

    jl

    This tweet from a well known national security expert concerns me. It seems hard to believe. Consensus among who? Senators like Corker and McCain, they are damning the Drumpster all over the place. What Dem would be stupid, spineless and irresponsible enough to sign on? Jeebus, the Gold Star family letter scandal showed once again that Trump is a damned liar and irresponsible fantasist, and toxic sociopath who cannot be trusted. There is even a flow chart on it. And it was self-generated by Trump out of nothing. He wasn’t even asked if he had written the families, he was asked why no public statement. Trump is an dysfunctional idiot. Two thirds of the population knows this. The very idea that a consensus would grow on any Trump decision, on the WH furniture dusting schedule, let alone war, is asinine. The tweet is just as unbelievable as it is frightening.

    Calling all Adam Silverman front posters!

    Joe Cirincione
    @cirincirone
    ‘ Seems to be an inexplicable consensus growing in administration for a strike on NK & the fear among D’s of looking “weak”. Feels like 2002. ‘
    https://twitter.com/Cirincione/status/922671238639706112

    Edit: maybe Ciricione means that the idiots in the Trump administration think that they can buffalo the Dems into appearing weak and supporting such madness? Has the WH thought about trouble from moderate GOPers in the Senate who are pissed enough at Trump to make a stink?

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    opiejeanne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yes, I just did. My dad worked for the City of Los Angeles when it was being built, in the electrical lab*. He got to inspect the wiring for the lights in the outfield when the stadium was being built. I’ve never been sure if he had to climb up there to check on them or if stayed on the ground, and he’s not around to ask any more. It’s a long way up.

    *Los Angeles ran their own Underwriters’ Lab. His job was mostly in a big building where they tried to make tvs explode and check the wiring in various appliances to make sure they were safe.

  17. 17.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @jl:

    Calling all Adam Silverman front posters!

    There’s more than one?

    And to your point, ANY Democrat who doesn’t see that a preemptive strike on DPRK is madness needs to leave public life for good and seek professional help.

  18. 18.

    opiejeanne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Great photo. And YAY! for a meet up. I hope we can at least get everyone we had last time and Mary G as well. Did you mention a Chinese restaurant near you?

  23. 23.

    Duane

    Loesch is as dumb as the day is long. Try listening to her radio show sometime.
    The NRA hiring her as a spokesperson is laughable.

  28. 28.

    sharl

    @jl: Yep, Cheryl Rofer was also (re)tweeting out a bunch of grim stuff along those lines yesterday, along with her usual efforts to keep her “favorite” Iran-hating “think tank” honest. (I’m glad she keeps trying, but that bunch clearly isn’t being paid to provide fact-based viewpoints, or for that matter publishing reports subject to review, verification and discussion.)

    Actual adult experts are a bit alarmed by the extra saber-rattling, but as far as I can tell they aren’t certain whether it’s a coordinated high-stakes stunt by Team Twitler’s neocons to try to force negotiations (either with DPRK or Iran, or both), or genuine desire for military engagement.

    What a time to be alive! ????

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Man, I really needed that spoof remake to quell the stank of that Loesch ad. Oof!

  33. 33.

    randy khan

    I watched only the alternative version, but her language bears a striking resemblance to some stuff I’ve heard from communist and socialist worker types. Weird.

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    Cheryl Rofer

    @jl: @sharl: I have seen others besides Joe Cirincione saying that the war drums seem to be beating along the Potomac. I retweeted that one because he says the Democrats seem to be going along with it.

    Another thing I’ve been tweeting is an overview of gender in foreign policy. That has been a topic of annoyance for me for some time. It is simply not possible to publish anything in “serious” outlets on the subject. I’ve had that confirmed by others. Papers and articles are being written, and they are being rejected. There are specific historical reasons for that, which I’ve touched on so far, along with a more general societal rejection of such arguments. You might think that in 2017 that some could experiment with publishing such radical ideas, but no. There is one foundational paper that I suspect has burned enough people that they want never to hear of such things again.

    Coming back to Cirincione’s tweet, I think this whole “looking weak” thing is part of the gendering of foreign policy. When people talk about “muscular foreign policy” (and they still do), they are not talking about the creative uterine muscles of birth. And there’s lots more like that. Historically, that sort of thinking has been, um, on steroids since the 1990s, when we had a unipolar world for a while and decided to go the masculinist route. But it is very real in the Democrats as well as the Republicans and conflicted with a lot of what Obama wanted to do.

  36. 36.

    kindness

    Why do I keep getting the feeling that the NRA types are trying to get some unhinged person/people to start a shooting civil war among the citizenry? Oh yea, because it would sell more guns, that’s right.

    Karma can’t happen soon enough to some.

  39. 39.

    Matt McIrvin

    @jl: Hasn’t China pretty much explicitly said they’d nuke us if we did this without an NK first strike? Am I misremembering something?

  41. 41.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Cheryl Rofer:
    Cheryl, thank you for the link to Carol Cohn’s paper, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals”. I’m very glad, and very perturbed, to have read it. “Foundational” is right.

  42. 42.

    SFAW

    @NotMax:

    The thought apparently decided to take the scenic route

    Did it (or you) at least take pictures to send to Alain for posting?

  45. 45.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    @opiejeanne: What time/place for meet up are y’all thinking? If Sat eve/night I could probably make it. Would love to meet some local juicers. I’m in Pasadena so Glendale is super-easy.

  46. 46.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    @Ruckus: I assume the criteria are: 1.) drinks, 2.) food, 3.) not too loud. If so, I can make suggestions out for places out here in Pasadena/Altadena. But also open to Burbank/Glendale etc.

  48. 48.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    @Ruckus: Nice. As an Altadena resident I love the Altadena AleHouse (Fair Oaks and Woodbury.). Great beer and wine and usually not terribly loud but pretty limited food (Costco pizzas that are still pretty yummy.).

    Also always love the Lucky Baldwins bars (Sierra Madre, Allen and Old Town, in order of from fave-to-least but they’re all good.). There’s also always Eagle Rock and Highland Park which both have numerous options.

  49. 49.

    Miss Bianca

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    There is one foundational paper that I suspect has burned enough people that they want never to hear of such things again.

    OK, I have the article queued up, but what’s the source of the “burn”? The article was poorly-written, and so discredited the field? Or perhaps it was *too* well-written, and discredited the old boys’ club?

  50. 50.

    Tehanu

    @Van Buren:

    [Dana Loesch] will be remembered much like Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose; a spokesperson for the enemies of Democracy.

    From your keyboard to God’s screen….

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