Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

“woke” is the new caravan.

This really is a full service blog.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Please don’t feed the bears.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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

When the time comes to make an endorsement, the pain of NYT editors will be palpable as they reluctantly whisper “Biden.”

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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

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

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Quid Pro Quo

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This seems significant (via NPR):

2016 RNC Delegate: Trump Directed Change To Party Platform On Ukraine Support

President Trump may have been involved with a change to the Republican Party campaign platform last year that watered down support for U.S. assistance to Ukraine, according to new information from someone who was involved.

Diana Denman, a Republican delegate who supported arming U.S. allies in Ukraine, has told people that Trump aide J.D. Gordon said at the Republican Convention in 2016 that Trump directed him to support weakening that position in the official platform.

Recall that this was the only proposed platform policy the Trump people saw fit to adjust. After running a “populist” campaign that was credited by the more gullible members of the Beltway media herd for rejecting GOP orthodoxy and goring Republican sacred cows left and right, when the so-called insurgents seized control, the sole alteration they requested just coincidentally was designed to make Putin’s life easier.

Trump’s flunky Gordon now denies he told Denman that the platform change request came from Trump. Uh huh.

I’ve always thought this platform change smelled fishier than a scratch-and-dent Chicken of the Sea warehouse.

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Begging For It

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I just can’t tell if these guys are this fucking stupid or this arrogant because they have never had to deal with the consequences of their actions:

The special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Monday accused President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, of working with a Russian colleague to draft an opinion piece about his political work for Ukraine.

In court filings, a prosecutor working with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team said Manafort was working on the article as recently as Nov. 30.

Had it been published, prosecutors say it would have violated a Nov. 8 court order not to discuss the case publicly.

The Russian colleague who was working with Manafort allegedly to shape public opinion about his work for a Ukrainian political party has ties to Russian intelligence agencies, according to the filing.

Manafort ultimately never published the opinion piece, after prosecutors reached out to his attorneys to alert them, they said in the filing.

Due to Manafort’s actions, prosecutors said the judge should reject his request to modify his bail conditions.

Just put the motherfucker in jail already.

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Just seventeen if you know what I mean

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The George Soros forgeries are getting better and better:

Debbie Wesson Gibson was in her attic hauling out boxes of Christmas decorations last week when she noticed a storage bin she said she had forgotten about. Inside was a scrapbook from her senior year of high school, and taped to a page titled “Those Who Inspire” was a graduation card.

“Happy graduation Debbie,” it read in slanted cursive handwriting. “I wanted to give you this card myself. I know that you’ll be a success in anything you do. Roy.”

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At a Nov. 27 campaign event in the north Alabama town of Henagar, Moore said, “The allegations are completely false. They are malicious. Specifically, I do not know any of these women.”

At a Nov. 29 rally at a church in the south Alabama town of Theodore, Moore said, “Let me state once again: I do not know any of these women…

I hope Alabama is ready for lots of boycotts if they elect this pedophile.

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Monday Afternoon Open Thread

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For the past few days, I’ve been slacking on the blog and social media (not to mention work) because of the arrival of this early Christmas present to myself:

My husband got a motorcycle a couple of months ago, and I can’t bear to let him go through a mid-life crisis alone, so I got one too. When I first met my husband, he drove a motorcycle, which was the sole misgiving my mom had about him. But then we took a 20-year break from motorcycling to nurture the next generation of Crackers.

Since I hadn’t ridden a proper motorcycle in years, I took a class a few weeks ago, then found a deal on this Suzuki Boulevard S40, an entry-level cruiser with a single cylinder 650cc engine. I like it a lot so far. It’s got a low center of gravity and is quick and nimble.

I’m still learning its quirks and regaining my motorcycling chops, which were never all that great to begin with, to be honest. So I’ve just been riding around our little town and out in the country among the strawberry fields, avoiding the highways because 1) I’m a chickenshit (according to my husband), or 2) I have a well-developed sense of self-preservation (according to me).

So far, I’ve had the opportunity to test my reflexes when two people backed cars out of their driveways right in front of me. Yesterday, a Jack Russell Terrier who bore a striking resemblance to Cole’s Miss Rosie (only not quite as spherical as she) chased me for a while. I let her almost catch me and then gunned it. Haha, dog! She retreated to her yard.

Anyhoo, that’s what I’ve been up to lately. I know it’s dangerous, I’m stupid to ride a donorcycle, etc. Whatever, man.

Open thread!

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Pure excitement, misled

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It’s beginning to look a like obstruction:

The White House’s chief lawyer told President Donald Trump in January he believed then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled the FBI and lied to Vice President Mike Pence and should be fired, a source familiar with the matter said Monday.

Most you know this but the upshot is that Trump asking Comey to go easy on Flynn is obstruction of justice if Trump knew Flynn committed a crime.

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Excellent Read: “Inside the secretive nerve center of the Mueller investigation”

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No matter how many tantrums Lord Smallgloves throws, or how anxious the rest of us, it doesn’t seem like Mr. Mueller is gonna be finished by the end of 2017:

… With his stealth morning arrival Thursday, White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn II became the latest in a string of high-level witnesses to enter the secretive nerve center of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Twenty hours later, Mueller and his team emerged into public view to rattle Washington with the dramatic announcement that former national security adviser Michael Flynn would plead guilty to lying to the FBI.

The ensnaring of Flynn, the second former aide to President Trump to cooperate with the inquiry, serves as the latest indication that Mueller’s operation is rapidly pursuing an expansive mission, drilling deeper into Trump’s inner circle.

In the past two months, Mueller and his deputies have received private debriefs from two dozen current and former Trump advisers, each of whom has made the trek to the special counsel’s secure office suite…

The special counsel has continued to make ongoing requests for records from associates of the Trump campaign, according to two people familiar with the requests. The campaign associates aren’t expected to finish producing these documents by the end of the year. Mueller’s team is also newly scrutinizing an Alexandria-based office and advisers who worked there on foreign policy for the campaign.

In the past several weeks, Mueller’s operation has reached out to new witnesses in Trump’s circle, telling them they may be asked to come in for an interview. One person who was recently contacted said it is hard to find a lawyer available for advice on how to interact with the special counsel because so many Trump aides have already hired attorneys…

People familiar with the Mueller team said they convey a sense of calm that is unsettling.

“These guys are confident, impressive, pretty friendly — joking a little, even,” one lawyer said. When prosecutors strike that kind of tone, he said, defense lawyers tend to think: “Uh oh, my guy is in a heap of trouble.”

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