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… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

A dilettante blog from the great progressive state of West Virginia.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

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

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

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

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  1. 1.

    Derelict

    President’s mouthpiece sez president not at all under suspicion.
    Our media is populated with figures who are even dumber than the people they’re interviewing. And THAT is a major problem.

  2. 2.

    Hobbes83

    How in the flying fuck would he know unless he was actually in the grand jury when the indictments were obtained? Trump ate this man’s soul, and he has nothing to show for it, and yet he still shills for him. Pathetic.

  7. 7.

    Patricia Kayden

    @germy: When do voters kick her butt out of office and elect a Democratic Senator? That’s all that matters now.

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): It doesn’t matter what Trump’s liars say about anything because Mueller is the one who will decide if there was collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia and he’s not playing.

  9. 9.

    feebog

    It’s going to take years to undo all the damage Christie inflicted on New Jersey. His job is approval is somewhere around 15% last time I checked. Nothing left by the hard core morons.

  10. 10.

    Hunter Gathers

    Why anyone listens to a word of what this future Barstool Sports podcast host has to say is beyond me.

  11. 11.

    Corner Stone

    “…and those people got the chaayyrr”
    How Gorka is still ambulatory is a mystery to me.

  14. 14.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Corner Stone: Probably not because the MSM is completely useless when it comes to asking reasonably important questions. They let Republican operatives lie in their faces and just smile, nod and then move on to the next topic.

  18. 18.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Crispy Creme said it and that settles it. Robert Mueller is going to close up shop any day now.

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    @geg6:
    That was my thought too. As things stand it seems unlikely that Bobby Three Sticks and his crew have found compelling evidence to exculpate den Scheißgibbon. And even if they had, they need to preserve their leverage over their investigation’s target so they wouldn’t want to give that away.

  22. 22.

    Corner Stone

    I just don’t know what could have happened to you in your life to make a person be this warped and twisted. And do it all with the same smile plastered on her face.

  25. 25.

    RepubAnon

    The Golden Rule: those who have the gold, make the rules (especially if they own all the stations).

    One would think journalists would have a better command of the English language (Gov. Christie “claims” would have been more accurate).

    Proposed solution: let’s tell the media that Trump is Hillary Clinton’s cousin*. They’ll immediately go into full-on Clinton-rules mode, and claim Trump’s guilty beyond any doubt.

    *One might have to go back to Noah (or an Australopithecus ancestor such as”Lucy“) to find a common ancestor, but that just determines how many times removed one’s cousin is.

  26. 26.

    oldgold

    The worst part of this morning’s tweet storm:

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump
    …are now fighting back like never before. There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING?

    Who is he ordering to DO SOMETHING?

    And what are they to DO?

    Of all of his crazed tweets, Thiis one might be the most ominous.

  27. 27.

    Corner Stone

    @JPL: I’m not sure of anything when it comes to this buffoon. But citizen posses aren’t going to save him from Mueller. I think he’s trying to scare Congress into sticking with him when the real shit starts breaking.
    Any type of punitive action against HRC would certainly distract the news media, but not Mueller.

  29. 29.

    JPL

    @Corner Stone: When I saw his tweets, it showed me that he is worried about something.
    That’s good for us.

    He hasn’t tweeted anything for thirty minutes. Kelly must have arrived at the White House.

  31. 31.

    Patricia Kayden

    @oldgold: There is nothing they can do without looking like fascists. You don’t arrest your former political opponent because your wrongdoing is being exposed and indictments are dropping. That’s not how a democracy works.

  32. 32.

    GregB

    So when Trump’s mobs burn down Mark Burnett’s Big Hollywood studio, will he regret not releasing the video tapes?

  33. 33.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @oldgold: It is totally ominous and almost chilling. There are people who will decide it’s directed to them.

  37. 37.

    Amir Khalid

    @Patricia Kayden:

    You don’t arrest your former political opponent because your wrongdoing is being exposed and indictments are dropping. That’s not how a democracy works.

    If der Scheißgibbon knew that, and I’m confident he does not, he wouldn’t care.

  38. 38.

    Patricia Kayden

    Joy Reid just showed an ad from Ed Gillespie, who is running as the Republican gubernatorial candidate for Virginia. I didn’t know that he is running an ad where he shows the Robert Lee statue in Charlottesville and promised to keep all Confederate statues up. That is straight up White supremacy and quite shocking given what just happened in Charlottesville. I’m hoping that minority voters in Virginia show up in droves for that reason alone to vote for Northam.

  40. 40.

    Brachiator

    There is regular discussion about the failure of the media to be fair to the Democrats and liberals, and nostalgic calls for a return to the good old days and the Fairness Doctrine. But the country ain’t going back, and the greater danger is the consolidation of new and larger right wing media groups. Bloomberg News has a great article about how the GOP dominated FCC is aiding the expansion of Sinclair Broadcasting Group, which already controls a number of media outlets.

    Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. has prospered in Washington since President Donald Trump took office, as policy changes open a path for the conservative-leaning broadcaster to expand nationwide.

    Sinclair’s regulatory winning streak continued this week with proposals at the Federal Communications Commission to ease ownership restrictions and approve a new broadcast standard….

    On Tuesday, the FCC eliminated a requirement for broadcasters to keep a local studio. A day later, Pai called for easing ownership restrictions, potentially taking pressure off Sinclair’s $3.9 billion deal for Tribune Media Co.’s TV stations. Earlier, he had restored an obsolete rule, making the deal possible. On Thursday, the agency moved toward blessing a new broadcasting standard that may enrich Sinclair as it offers viewers sharper pictures….

    The Tribune merger would give Sinclair, a once-obscure Maryland broadcaster, a total of 233 stations, forming a conservative TV giant rivaling Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News empire. The deal would enlarge the platform for Sinclair’s chief political analyst Boris Epshteyn, a former Trump aide hired in April.

    In short, the deal would greatly expand Sinclair’s media reach, and also let them charge other companies to use their broadcast technology.

    Also, everyone would have to buy new TV’s or tv adaptors to use this tech.

    There are also rumors that Steve Bannon would be hired to head the newly expanded broadcast organization.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump stops sending his shills to the mainstream news shows altogether and depends solely on his Twitter, Fox and Sinclair.

    The Sunday shows have been turning to crap for years now. Last week, some female guest on Meet the Press seemed to say that because Trump was elected and is now our president, we should just accommodate his whims and utterances. I had to switch the channel while she was in mid mindlessness. I don’t know if these shows are desperate for ratings or people have been bought off. But they have much less influence, especially since younger viewers prefer Internets gossip to this drivel.

  44. 44.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Brachiator:
    I know I’m not very imaginative, but how do you stop Sinclair and other media consolidation other than by cracking some heads and scaring people? They won’t stop otherwise and they’re attempting to keep a perpetual lock on power.

  45. 45.

    schrodingers_cat

    @GregB: T is going to win in 2020 because Ds support open borders. Sully is shitting on immigrants because he is now a naturalized citizen.

    ETA: And Ds too, but then he was always a conservative apologist whatever his immigration status.

  48. 48.

    amygdala

    Most of the morning’s Twitter whingefest was about Mueller, but he got one in about health care (I refuse to link him). He essentially admits he’s trying to do health care reform via tax cuts, with the inevitable claim that premium hikes are on Democrats. Health wonk Twitter, in particular Charles Gaba, is dragging the hell out of him for it, and it’s a thing of beauty.

  50. 50.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @amygdala:
    Trump just don’t understand that he’s in charge now and he’s responsible for all of that in the eyes of voters.

  52. 52.

    Mike in NC

    Governor of Puerto Rico wants the sweetheart $300M deal with Whitefish terminated. Who will inform Trump as he is probably on hole #4 at one of his properties?

  56. 56.

    germy

    @schrodingers_cat: I used to work with a british woman who admitted to me that half the time she had no idea what she was doing, but our bosses couldn’t get enough of her accent. It’s sort of the opposite of a Brooklyn or New Jersey accent.

    I remember hearing a journalist who had an interview with one of the top physicists of his generation, and she joked that he sounded like a movie mobster to her.

    People trust their ears and believe stereotypes (positive and negative).

  58. 58.

    Patricia Kayden

    @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Trump doesn’t care what the majority of Americans think about him or anything he does. His tweets are strictly targeted towards his bigoted supporters. So that’s why he tweets out ridiculous stuff like, “Even though it is clear that I have done all I could do to destroy the ACA, Democrats are responsible for its destruction.” He knows that his supporters will lap all that nonsense up. He doesn’t care that the rest of us won’t buy it because we don’t matter to him.

  59. 59.

    Elizabelle

    WaPost breaking news: in entirety:

    Puerto Rico governor calls for cancellation of $300 million contract with small Montana firm to repair power lines

    Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said that the contract with Whitefish Energy was a distraction after critics in the electric power industry, Congress and the Federal Emergency Management Agency raised questions. The power authority, also known as PREPA, opted to hire Whitefish rather than activate the “mutual aid” arrangements it has with other utilities.
    This is a developing story. It will be updated.

    Investigate the hell out of that contract.

  60. 60.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Amaranthine RBG

    But some people have an irrational hatred of Sullivan.

    Uh oh.

  62. 62.

    Amir Khalid

    @germy:
    Was it an actual upper-class accent? I can understand that if you talk like Professor Higgins the impressionable will be impressed, but if you talk like Eliza Doolittle …

  63. 63.

    Patricia Kayden

    @schrodingers_cat: I’m not even going to ask how D’s support “open borders” because whatever. Who really cares what Sullivan thinks about anything at this point in time. I confess that I used to enjoy his blog but only because he was very pro-Obama. I gave it up after he claimed that President Obama was “lazy” after the first Obama-Romney debate where Romney gish galloped a tired looking Obama (who probably didn’t want to be there given that it was his wedding anniversary).

  66. 66.

    MattF

    @germy: I’m having trouble visualizing that. It’s probably been decades since Christie actually saw the organ in question.

  67. 67.

    Boatboy_srq

    @germy: The Maine GOP doesn’t get it that Margaret Chase Smith is dead, and that the GOTea peers from elsewhere escaped from the maximum security nuttery.

    OTOH, Maine Dems aren’t much tonwrite home about, and the local Dem machines are (or were) horribly corrupt, and most of the GOTea outside a certain former mayor from Waterville are less so.

    Boils doen to All Politics Are Local.

  68. 68.

    Mike J

    J.K. Rowling‏ Verified account @jk_rowling 1 hour ago
    Nothing expresses calm confidence better than a caps-locked scream of ‘DO SOMETHING!’

  70. 70.

    germy

    @Amir Khalid: Upper class accent.

    Interesting trivia: George Martin, the upper-class sounding producer of all those Beatle records. grew up with a thick cockney accent. He later consciously imitated the radio announcers he heard, because he knew his career would go nowhere if he spoke like his family.

  71. 71.

    James E. Powell

    @Patricia Kayden:

    I don’t think they mind looking like fascists. Their followers seem to enjoy it. I’m pretty sure almost all of them would love to be wearing matching jackets that “those people” aren’t allowed to wear. Tomorrow belongs to them, and all that.

    And the press/media absolutely love this. Rating are up! Millennials are reading legacy media! Trump is their savior.

  74. 74.

    Kay

    I watched some of it. It is amazing. They’re down the rabbit hole. They’re covering this as the dueling scandals of the Trump and Hillary Clinton Administrations. CNN actually led with the Clinton Administration scandals, although the Clinton Administration is imaginary.

    Pack it in. They’re lost and they’ll never be found- wandering forever in Trump’s made-up world, pursuing the Crimes of Hillary Clinton. I wonder if normal people watch it and are like “WTF- is she President?”

    They are a reality show. All of them. All we can do is watch.

  75. 75.

    Kay

    Indictments are real, however. They are or are not taking one of these assholes into custody tomorrow. I wonder when reality hits for that person. It must be wild to operate in this other dimension and then have something real and serious and extremely personal occur. That person or persons won’t be able to play anymore.

  76. 76.

    Baud

    @Kay:

    CNN actually led with the Clinton Administration scandals, although the Clinton Administration is imaginary.

    To be fair, her scandals were imaginary too.

  77. 77.

    Kay

    Donald J. Trump‏Verified account
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    …are now fighting back like never before. There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING!

    And they ALL covered it as if it’s real. Remember that. There are two separate worlds and they willingly and eagerly decided to live in Donald Trump’s. Hillary Clinton doesn’t even WORK in government anymore yet she is on all the cable shows as if she is some alternate government. I have no idea what these people would talk about without her. She is their careers.

  78. 78.

    MattF

    @Kay: Manafort must know he’s under the bus and being repeatedly run over. The others… I really have no idea. ‘Mad as hell’ is the starting point, but it could go anywhere from there.

  79. 79.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    Another massive failure. They’ll be leading Trump out in handcuffs and these assholes will still be debating the imaginary Clinton Administration. They fail and fail and fail. They’re actually getting worse.

  80. 80.

    Corner Stone

    @Kay: Think for a second that we honestly have about 10 legitimate candidates for who that *first* indictment may be headed for! We can narrow it down to 3 or 4 that make the most sense but it could easily be any of another 5 or so as well!

  83. 83.

    Kay

    @MattF:

    Chris Christie is the person they choose to interview. The least popular governor in NJ history and someone who doesn’t even work in the Trump Administration. That’s who they chose to present this to the public. In a way it fits, since they’re covering the imaginary Clinton Administration they may as well have the completely irrelevant and imaginary “national leader” Chris Christie do the reporting. It’s beautiful. This isn’t real. Its not that it’s poor quality work. It’s not even real work. It’s a show- entertainment.

  87. 87.

    Kay

    @Corner Stone:

    I said I think it’s Flynn. He’s worse than Manafort because Manafort was already a sleazy scumbag lobbyist and operative. Flynn was supposedly a higher-ranking official. That’s worse. Flynn only retired in 2014. He was running this con from inside.

  88. 88.

    Mr Wu's Pigs

    What does this mean, “Everyone involved with “Meet The Press”, “Face The Nation”, etc goes up against the wall when the revolution comes. It sounds like you want them to get shot?

    Maybe its meant as hyperbole, but I want to respectfully ask if that is appropriate imagery?
    “Lock her up!” is pretty tame compared to ‘Against the wall’.

  89. 89.

    Kay

    It’s the opposite of Watergate. In this version, media cover up the scandal while law enforcement operates without them.

  91. 91.

    debbie

    @Corner Stone:

    Jesus. Six tweets in an hour or so — this must be a record! This tweet takes the cake:

    Never seen such Republican ANGER & UNITY as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton made Fake Dossier (now $12,000,000?),….— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2017

    What kind of dossier costs 12 million dollars???

  92. 92.

    MattF

    @Kay: The trouble with Flynn is that he’s patently nuts. From a prosecutor’s point of view, that makes him an unattractive target.

  93. 93.

    Elie

    Could there be more than one indictment? How about Flynn AND Manafort.

    No matter who it is, the regime and its supporters will be swirling with rumors of betrayal and so many lies that even THEY will be unable to keep their lies straight. They will be terrified and in part, its due to their own monstrous incompetence. They have no idea who on their “team” knows what and therefore, who can have the goods on any of them. And being the fine people that they are, they will be lined up to throw each other under the bus. These folks will lose even more of their minds (the little that remains anyway). We are in for some very, very rough times because the chaos to our government is going to be unimaginable…

  95. 95.

    Corner Stone

    @Kay: I will be disappointed if it’s Flynn. *Unless* they also scoop up Flynn Jr. That’s when shit would get real for the Fabulous Flying Mishkas.
    I want it to be Manafort because I think he knows something about everything. Getting him sweating and having Trump not know to what degree he is cooperating…that would start the heat.
    I *really* want it to be JarJar but that’s because I want to get this shit started proper. And that would set the fuse on fire.

  96. 96.

    Kay

    I know a lot of you like cable shows and I did too at one time – I like Joy Reid as a announcer or whatever you call them. But I watched this morning and it’s bad for me. It’s just poison. I don’t know that there’s anyway to make it better, even. They all try at one time or another to make it worthwhile but it may be impossible. They have to start over :)

    I knew it was a mistake. I swear I’m dumber for watching.

  97. 97.

    Jeffro

    Maybe our national snooze media could ask GOP members of Congress what outcome they feel Trumpov is looking for by putting “DO SOMETHING!” out there?

  98. 98.

    Corner Stone

    @MattF: Flynn is fucking nuts and he’s now got Bug Fucking Nuts Ass Crazy James Woolsey coming after him also too. So I think Mueller already has Flynn where he wants him and knows what Flynn knows.

  100. 100.

    debbie

    @Brachiator:

    Boris speaks at the end of my local Fox station’s newscast most nights. It is unbelievable how he twists any and everything to highlight Trump’s sense of grievance. I wish some Democrat would demand equal time. Boris’s statements cross the line into political advertising.

  103. 103.

    JPL

    Face the Nation correction

    Correction: Gov. Christie says “no one has told” Trump that he is under investigation.

    Sorry if it has been posted before, but that puts a different spin on it.

  104. 104.

    Corner Stone

    @Kay: It might be Flynn. He would be a small fish at the periphery of all the Trump Treason. Flynn has his whole bag of fish that is rotten so he’s as easy as anyone for Mueller to start on solid footing and then wedge in.
    There has to be a reason Trump was so energized to try and keep Flynn in the WH and get Comey to back off. It’s certainly not because he likes the guy or has any loyalty to him.

  105. 105.

    debbie

    All of this "Russia" talk right when the Republicans are making their big push for historic Tax Cuts & Reform. Is this coincidental? NOT!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2017

    Dude, pay attention. All this Russia talk started well before you got the idea to game the Electoral College.

  106. 106.

    Corner Stone

    @JPL: Definitely a different spin but just as meaningless. That just means he is pushing Trump propaganda straight from Trump’s camp.

  107. 107.

    rikyrah

    @Kay:
    I remember earlier this week when someone was getting very upset here about the alternative universe, and I thought that it showed that they were scared. That something was about to happen.

    It is. I don’t know who, but it IS a damn shame that there are so many, that we literally don’t know who it will be.

    I will say it again….
    If 44 had but ONE of these no good muthaphuckas around him….. impeachment papers would already be drawn.

  108. 108.

    Elie

    Whoever it is, we are going to be in the middle of chaos and incredible dysfunction for the foreseeable future. Trump is already crazy but as we have seen, way too many around him are as well. They are likely to do more damage to our system both to deflect and distract but also out of spite. These are dangerous people with very few checks on their behavior — especially as the Republican Part refuses to be in any way patriotic. Do not underestimate our danger while bringing these people to justice.

  113. 113.

    Brachiator

    @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:

    I know I’m not very imaginative, but how do you stop Sinclair and other media consolidation other than by cracking some heads and scaring people?

    Cracking heads won’t necessarily scare people. They will hire their own goons. But who knows how the system may degenerate into chaos.

  114. 114.

    Corner Stone

    @rikyrah: I see Flynn as being in an isolated lane. Beyond his backdoor deals with Russians, which I have to believe by now that Mueller already knows all about, what else can Flynn give up?
    We know Pence is dirty rotten too, but I think Pence’s biggest weakness is actually Manafort. Not the “lies” Flynn told him.

  115. 115.

    Millard Filmore

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Andrew Sullivan’s fondest wish is to be a Kapo in Pat Robertson’s Vernichtungslager for fags

    Please, “kapo” is not the word you want. Sonderkommandos, a work detail, were selected in a semi-random fashion from the incoming prisoner transports at the death camps for whatever labor needed to be done. “Kapos” were the foremen, similarly semi-randomly selected from the prisoner transports to be in charge of those work details. I have never seen any reports that there were joyful volunteers for that position.

    “Slave catcher” would be a much better way to describe Sullivan.

  117. 117.

    burnspbesq

    @Elizabelle:

    Investigate the hell out of that contract.

    It’s easy to surmise that the fix is in, and the only logical guess on who the fixer is/was is Zinke. A grand jury investigation is absolutely called for.

  119. 119.

    Mike in Pasadena

    @Amaranthine RBG: I read the main opinion piece at the link concerning American politics. It hurts me to admit that I agree with much of what soiled Sully wrote there. However, i will never forgive him for calling us traitors for opposing W’s Grand Invasion of Iraq. Fuck Bush. And fuck Asshole Sullivan. My hatred of Sullivan is entirely rational, thank you.

  120. 120.

    dww44

    @rikyrah: And the trial would have taken place forthwith. I wonder if it EVER gives Republicans pause that in the post WWII era a Republican got impeached and resigned and two of their most recent Presidents actually won without a clear mandate from voters but nevertheless always behaved as if they did.

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