Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

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

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Books are my comfort food!

Cole is on a roll !

No one could have predicted…

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  6. 6.

    TenguPhule

    Question, are any of these organizations following up on the reported polling place issues from this election? Because it always seems to disappear from view until right before the next election.

    Ounce of prevention, pound of cure and that.

  10. 10.

    debbie

    I spent my donating budget last week. I donated to SPLC, among other organizations, because they have worked ceaselessly to expose the evil in this country. Plus, SPLC has now been labeled as a hate group by the Right. In my book, that’s a bonus!

  11. 11.

    Florida Frog

    @Doug!: I didn’t know that. I heard it referred to as the unofficial black national anthem. We sing it occasionally at my UU church.

  16. 16.

    Brachiator

    @TenguPhule: Here’s the example of a voter who mysteriously found that she was listed as an inactive voter.

    In an email, Melton told The Root: “I queued to vote, and the pollster saw I was marked inactive, so she sent me to another table. They said that because I was marked as inactive, I needed to complete a voter-update form in order to vote. Then I would need to requeue. The form seemed normal: name, address, ID number, etc.

    “At the bottom, though, it required your birth state, city, county. To turn the form in, you had to complete the full form. I felt some kind of way (enough to tweet about it) because I was born in a different state, though I’ve lived in Alabama most of my life,” she added.

    People who could not remember the name of the county they were born in were not able to complete the form. Imagine if you were born in some small town out of state but then lived in Alabama your entire life. Not knowing the name of the county, the city or the town you were born in would preclude you from voting in today’s election.

    Fortunately for Melton, she had her birth certificate with her.

    And yes, there is follow-up.

    If you’re reporting an issue with voting in #Alabama, please include the county and precinct. Makes it easier for us to troubleshoot. #PreparedtoVote

    We have volunteers in #Alabama for voter protection. If you have any problems casting a ballot due to “inactive” status or other issues, please call 202 682 1300 #ALSen #AlabamaSenateRace #EveryVoteCounts

  18. 18.

    Doug!

    @ruemara:

    It’s funny. Although my family is white, my dad was obsessed with this song. He found some cool arrangement of it and played it on the piano constantly.

  20. 20.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Cacti: I love how he’s trying to take all the credit, even though he didn’t do a single thing. he didn’t endorse, he didn’t fundraise or offer volunteers, he didn’t go on tee vee in support. In fact, most of his supporters on the net were calling for a boycott of Jones because he didn’t endorse single payer. (not that he said anything bad about it, he just didn’t endorse it)

    Armando‏ @armandodkos Dec 13

    Are you fucking kidding me? I joked that Bernie folks would claim the win for Bernie. Little did I know Bernie himself would claim it for The Revolution. You’re a fucking joke Bernie.

    95 replies 516 retweets 1,517 likes

  22. 22.

    ruemara

    @Doug!: You know, maybe he felt a connection. AA culture has contributed tons to the arts, so, not surprised.

    OT, I’m debating using Squarespace to host my website as opposed to my current ISP. Any thoughts from the web techs here? I guess I’m just lazy and don’t feel quite like having to both edit new reel footage for the site and having to now learn how to put video backgrounds into it. I mean, it takes me a few tries to brush up my web skills and lord knows I didn’t even have an interface design curricula when I went to college. I just never see new skills benefiting me on my paycheck so it’s hard to take on one more task. But I’ve never dealt with squarespace and don’t know if they’re evil, Satan or just annoying.

  25. 25.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Bernie Bro Tim Robbins Says Winning South Carolina “Like Winning Guam”

    Hmmm. white skin >>>>. dark skin

  28. 28.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Chyron HR:

    They’re already rewriting history. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia

    Andy Richter‏ @AndyRichter

    The next time somebody suggests Democrats make an effort to pander to Trumpists just say the word “Alabama” and hopefully they’ll sit right down

    83 replies 670 retweets 4,903 likes

    Atrios @Atrios

    Who has ever actually suggested this?

    Mike Branom‏ @mbranom

    Earlier tonight, Atrios was claiming no one said, post-’16, Dems needed to do exactly that.

    1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes

    Armando‏ @armandodkos

    He’s lost his mind for a while now.

    1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes

  31. 31.

    Cookie Monster

    According to our progressive betters, the Win in AL is sort of Schroedinger’s Win. Simultaneously down to The Revolution, yet razor thing caused by nominating Yet Another Centerist Establishment Neo-Liberal[tm], proof we need to start feeling the B*rn to really win. I guess some are mad they didn’t get their toldyaso purity trip.

  32. 32.

    TenguPhule

    Holy Fuckballs, Day two of Roy Moore STILL not conceding.

    He really does seem determined to die on this hill.

  34. 34.

    Aleta

    Here’s some numbers, from an article in Mic

    As part of its $2.1 million outreach program, Black PAC, focused on organizing black communities to drive electoral change, said canvassers knocked 250,000 doors in the last five days of the election. In contrast, Jones said in his victory speech that the campaign knocked on 300,000 doors throughout the race. The PAC’s outreach focused on Alabama’s predominantly black cities.

    LaTosha Brown, organizer of Black Voters Matter, said she raised $200,000 in a week to help community groups across 19 Alabama counties pay to canvass black areas. Her outreach focused on areas that saw less support from the Jones campaign or Black PAC. On Tuesday, she drove across the state’s “Black Belt” of counties with large black populations handing out “Black Voters Matter” T-shirts.

    From an earlier Mic article (just before election day)

    Black PAC, focused on organizing black communities to drive electoral change, has more than 400 staffers in Alabama working to bring black voters to the polls.

  35. 35.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Major Major Major Major: well, he has firmly advocated ignoring suburbs, saying they’ll never vote for a democrat, and that suburbs are the real racists, not rural voters. (not joking)

    But the landslide results in Virginia and the results in Alabama show the opposite.

  36. 36.

    Kay

    Yay! I’ll donate.

    I still think a percentage of all Dem campaign money raised should go towards voting rights protections and process – an actual, dedicated set aside. If your campaign raises 2000, you have to put 200 in the pot or be shunned.

    I realize there would be campaign finance reporting issues but come on, we can figure that out.

  39. 39.

    jl

    ‘This post is in C.R.E.A.M’ so I guess this is on-topic

    Just saw this tweet from Josh Marshall. Seems that the same music promoter who contacted Don Jr. for meeting on Russian adoptions and/or HRC email dirt, had been talking to Trump himself about meeting Putin since beginning of campaign. I haven’t followed this stuff closely, but I wonder if Don Jr. will have to refresh his memory and revise and resubmit some assertions he has made.

    @joshtpm
    It’s almost like they haven’t told us the whole story
    https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/941461616385765376

  43. 43.

    Kay

    @jl:

    We should all be grateful for Don Jr.

    He’s the dumb one. He keeps turning up because he’s the weak link.

  46. 46.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Doug!: Although the last stanza refers to being proud of the U.S., I recall singing it all the time while growing up in Canada. It’s a rousing song.

  49. 49.

    Sab

    @Kay: Yes to this. If we aren’t doing voter registration and get-out–the-vote then why even bother. Otherwise we are just funneling donations to tv stations for ads.

  52. 52.

    Sab

    @Brachiator: Not relevant to Alabama voting, but I was born in NC and live in Ohio. I had to get a copy of my birth certificate from NC about ten years ago to get a passport and it took many months. Good luck voting timely if you need to get the birth certificate to prove US birth.

  53. 53.

    Yarrow

    In case anyone missed it, I was glad to see this:

    Let me be clear: We won in Alabama and Virginia because #BlackWomen led us to victory. Black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party, and we can’t take that for granted. Period.— Tom Perez (@TomPerez) December 13, 2017

  55. 55.

    Another Scott

    OT: Ted Nelm’s [sic] new show “The Fake News” on Comedy Central is pretty good.

    I “give at the office” to the NAACP (really!), but kicked in some more.

    Thanks DougJ.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  58. 58.

    Mike J

    @jl:

    Re Bernie, I don’t know what he’s saying now, but he did give African-American vote prominent credit in his statement on Doug Jones’ victory.

    That bit about the young progressive mayor neglects to mention that he helped run Clinton’s campaign in AL.

  61. 61.

    Amaranthine RBG

    The Jones victory is nice but I can’t help but wonder whether a more progressive candidate would have won more bigly

  62. 62.

    Aleta

    by Rebecca Ballhaus, WSJ

    Special Counsel Robert Mueller has requested that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s campaign, turn over documents as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, according to people familiar with the matter.
    Mr. Mueller asked the firm in the fall to turn over the emails of any Cambridge Analytica employees who worked on the Trump campaign, in a sign that the special counsel is probing the Trump campaign’s data operation.
    The special counsel’s request, which the firm complied with, wasn’t previously known. The emails had earlier been turned over to the House Intelligence Committee, the people said, adding that both requests were voluntary.

    On Thursday, Cambridge Analytica Chief Executive Alexander Nix interviewed via videoconference with the House Intelligence Committee, according to a person familiar with the matter.

    Mr. Mueller’s request for employee emails was made before media outlets reported in October that Mr. Nix had contacted WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange during the 2016 campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Sweden-based WikiLeaks last year published a trove of Hillary Clinton-related emails that U.S. intelligence agencies later determined had been stolen by Russian intelligence and given to the website.
    …
    Mr. Mueller’s team and congressional investigators are probing whether Trump associates colluded in a Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election. …

    Mr. Nix, in a Lisbon speech in November, said he had asked the office that handles his speaking engagements to contact Mr. Assange in “early June 2016,” after reading a newspaper report that WikiLeaks planned to publish the Clinton-related emails. He asked if Mr. Assange “might share that information with us.” Mr. Assange has said he declined the request. Mr. Nix’s outreach to WikiLeaks came at the same time as his firm started working for Mr. Trump’s campaign, the Journal has reported.

    Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told the Journal earlier this year that ties between Cambridge Analytica and WikiLeaks were of “deep interest” to the committee. The House panel also asked Cambridge Analytica to preserve its data on Trump voters and supporters, but it hasn’t asked that the firm turn the data over, according to a person familiar with the matter.

    Two months after Mr. Nix directed his speaker’s bureau to contact Mr. Assange, top Trump donor Rebekah Mercer asked him whether Cambridge Analytica could help better organize the emails WikiLeaks was releasing, the Journal has reported. Ms. Mercer and her father, hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, are part owners of Cambridge Analytica.

    Ms. Mercer and Mr. Nix haven’t commented on the matter.
    During the campaign, Cambridge Analytica provided data, polling and research services to the campaign. Steve Bannon had introduced Mr. Nix to the campaign in mid-May. Mr. Bannon became the campaign’s chief executive officer in August 2016 and later joined the White House as a top strategist. He left the administration in August of this year. —Julie Bykowicz contributed to this article.

  66. 66.

    Kelly

    Here’s a link to see if a bot used your name to comment on net neutrality. I found a couple dozen with my name but not my address. Comments are mostly word for word copies with about 4 variants. Not sure what I’d do if I found my ID there. Probably contact my Senators and Congressman.

    https://ag.ny.gov/fakecomments

  67. 67.

    Chyron HR

    @Amaranthine RBG:

    It’s okay, Bro. Now that net neutrality is gone, Messiah can get in bed with Comcast and make them throttle the bandwidth on any blog that blasphemes against His holy glory.

  69. 69.

    Cacti

    @Amaranthine RBG:

    The Jones victory is nice but I can’t help but wonder whether a more progressive candidate would have won more bigly

    If by “more progressive” you mean “endorsed by Bernie,” the answer is no.

    Nobody endorsed by Bernie wins anything.

  72. 72.

    Kathleen

    I kicked in to NAACP here.
    Really OT, but anyone else see on Twitter that TeaPain, Rick Wilson, Schindler and Mariotti are hinting that something big is about to drop? Asking for a friend. I tend to be leery of drum beating because I don’t know who has what agendas, though I realize there are some very smart, knowledgeable Tweeters out there.

  85. 85.

    Corner Stone

    @germy:

    I think it has something to do with Cambridge Anal

    Tom Levenson is/was over in the UK. Maybe he can take a roto rooter scope and see what he can find out. In between tea sessions, natch.

  89. 89.

    Corner Stone

    @Kathleen:

    Really OT, but anyone else see on Twitter that TeaPain, Rick Wilson, Schindler and Mariotti are hinting that something big is about to drop?

    They continue to do that, basically without end. They hint darkly at *some thing* that’s about to be really bad. However, they never give an outline or specific item to look for. It’s always just *some thing*. Then they claim credit for anything that happens, no matter what it is. Or they let it go and start over again a week or two from then. If Kush, DJTJ or Trump himself gets indicted I will give them all the props in the world. Until then…

  90. 90.

    germy

    @Corner Stone:

    They continue to do that, basically without end. They hint darkly at *some thing* that’s about to be really bad.

    It’s the Palmer Report school of twitter.

  91. 91.

    germy

    FLORIDIANS: If you're gonna call Rubio, this is a great strategy (both the messaging and the wine). https://t.co/NHkzEWGosO— shauna (@goldengateblond) December 15, 2017

    Told him how thrilling it was to see him take a stand on the child tax credit and that it puts him in good stead for a 2020 run. I may even have said, "Go Rubio!" Washing my mouth out with wine— Jaynie's Got a Bun (@FreeGirlNowNYC) December 14, 2017

  95. 95.

    Brachiator

    @Matt McIrvin:

    When I saw Melton’s tweet I wondered how I’d fill out that form, since I wasn’t born in a county.

    Who knows what Alabama rules are. I think people in Louisiana reside in parishes, not counties. Some people are not born in a state, etc.

    And of course, the larger issue are the shady laws that let officials purge the roles of valid voters.

    These are the wars in the electoral trenches.

  96. 96.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Sab: A bunch of states can get it to you fast via a service provided by Lexis-Nexis… but it’s pricey. (Lexis-Nexis is Elsevier, the famously greedy academic publisher, so this should not be surprising.)

  97. 97.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @jl:

    but he did give African-American vote prominent credit

    Who’s he to give credit to anyone. He was completely missing in action on this election. Yet he jumps in front of parade after the win. If he’s not going to participate during the election, then he can’t participate after the win.

  99. 99.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Kathleen: From what I read, it seem Mueller is about to indict Don Jr or Jared.

    EFS‏ @EdSayGo
    Replying to @TheRickWilson

    Fredo!!! Is Fredo going fishing?
    2:57 PM – 14 Dec 2017

    Rick Wilson‏ @TheRickWilson
    5h5 hours ago

    Warmer.

    115 replies 68 retweets 404 likes

    People refer to Don Jr as Fredo because he’s dumb. So it could be him, but when Wilson says “warmer” it means Don jr or someone like Don Jr, which could only be Jared (ie a family member, close to Drumpf who is also dumb).

  100. 100.

    J R in WV

    My dad was a blue-eyed blonde businessman in a small southern WV town, in the late 1950s, and quit the Elks/Junior Chamber of Commerce/Country Club, etc because they were all segregated. Then he joined the NAACP. All that, and he was a Republican. But that was long ago and far away!! Back when Republicans believed in personal privacy, personal freedom, the things only Democrats believe in today.

    I tried to hit up the NAACP fund-raising, but my CC rejected, even though I’m an Act-Blue regularly scheduled donator. And the card worked fine all afternoon running errands. I’ll try again later on.

    Proud of B J to have raised that amount in just a few hours tonight, out of the blue!! Thanks all~!!!

    ETA: My dad was a nudist, Republican, atheist – perhaps one of the only such in the nation.

  103. 103.

    AxelFoley

    @Doug!:

    @ruemara:

    It’s funny. Although my family is white, my dad was obsessed with this song. He found some cool arrangement of it and played it on the piano constantly.

    Well, shit. With all the song titles from black artists you reference in your thread titles, I could’ve sworn you were black, Doug.

    But, your dad’s interest in this song might explain that. ;)

  104. 104.

    low-tech cyclist

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    Bernie Bro Tim Robbins Says Winning South Carolina “Like Winning Guam”

    Million-dollar actor, but still got the five-cent head.

    He and Susan Sarandon may have gone their separate ways, but they’re still both dumb as dirt offstage.

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