Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

T R E 4 5 O N

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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Details as they emerge, but I imagine that since their advertisers are nonexistent these days and the only thing propping that shithole up is wingnut welfare from the Mercers and others, Bannon just had to go.

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  3. 3.

    Mnemosyne

    I’m wondering if Michael Wolff was the beneficiary of that weird thing that sometimes happens where racist white people automatically assume that all white people are secretly with them and just don’t feel comfortable saying it in mixed groups. Bannon saw a middle-aged white guy and assumed that Wolff would go along with everything because of white racial solidarity. Whoops!

  4. 4.

    jk

    Even after Steve Bannon went home to get his shinebox, with that over the top groveling apology, it still wasn’t good enough for the Mercers.

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    @Mnemosyne:
    Possibly. We can blend in pretty easy, just give me a nice enough suit and I can handle choosing the wine and discussing the 17th at Pebble.

  9. 9.

    Swannie

    Bannon plans to spend more time leaking shit about his family while he tries to suck his own dick.

  11. 11.

    Patricia Kayden

    Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bloated bigot. Bye Felicia. Wonder where he’ll wash up next.

  13. 13.

    jl

    @Mnemosyne: In interviews, Wolff said he thinks he survived so long because the Trumpsters had a hard time understanding what the statement ‘I’d like to use this for the book I’m writing’ meant. What was this ‘book’ thing? Also, he said when he told them the book would be published ‘sometime next year’, that time horizon was so much longer than they typically think about, it meant nothing to them. Sort of like trying to imagine a kalpa of kalpa of kalpas.

  14. 14.

    The Moar You Know

    I would say “that guy’s fucked”, but he’s a multimillionaire who will never have to work another day in his life.

    I don’t think it’s going to be a very long life, though.

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne

    @jk:

    The Mercers are neck-deep in treason with Russia themselves, and all because Mercer Sr got himself in trouble with the IRS and owes millions (possibly billions) in back taxes that he doesn’t want to pay.

  19. 19.

    Cermet

    He broke a cardinal rule – never speak truth in the thug party. Out the door and on his ass. So much for the brain that got the orange fart cloud elected.

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne

    @jl:

    I can believe that. I also think the Trump crowd believed their own PR and actually thought that running the White House would be easy. They didn’t think it actually was hard work, so they would be in control of every narrative and no one would bother to read his book.

    Again — whoops!

  22. 22.

    Yutsano

    @Mnemosyne: He’s in trouble with the Large Business and Industry division. Those folks don’t play nice. He must have some hella good tax lawyers if he’s still walking around with a billion in tax liabilities.

    ($1.3 billion last I heard)

    @Major Major Major Major: And it’s only Tuesday!

  23. 23.

    SRW1

    Dear Rebekah M,

    Good luck with cramming that Neo-Nazi gunk back into the Breitbart bottle.

    ,

  24. 24.

    hellslittlestangel

    So now Bannon will be outside the tent pissing in, probably literally. Suits me.

  25. 25.

    waspuppet

    Matt Gertz pointed out that the Trump administration has called for the firings of quite a few media figures. Breitbart is the only one that has obeyed. that’s gotta give the people who work there a warm feeling (not that I care about their feelings).

  26. 26.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Mnemosyne:

    that weird thing that sometimes happens where racist white people automatically assume that all white people are secretly with them and just don’t feel comfortable saying it in mixed groups

    I’m a civil servant, and I’m always dumbfounded by how often this happens to me when I interact with a member of the public in my official capacity – some racist doofus will lean toward lily-white me and stage-whisper something about “the Chinese” or “the Mexicans” or whoever, perfectly sure that I will nod and agree – and we’re in San Francisco. I try not to be racist, but sometimes I fear there is indeed a melanin-intelligence linkage and it goes exactly the opposite of the way these berks think.

    /rant. Good riddance, although I almost hope Bannon has a book deal.

  28. 28.

    stibbert

    wow, Bannon’s out w/ nowhere to go. When Karl Rove left the WH, his bridges weren’t burnt, he did rather well directing (& skimming from) massive Repub media buys. Bannon won’t get any of that action.

  31. 31.

    jl

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I agree. Same with sexist bigotry. If you’re a white guy, random retrograde white guys often just assume you believe all sorts of toxic ridiculous stuff, just like they do. Some with some white women too, but I see that less frequently.

  33. 33.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @WaterGirl: I was just gonna say. He’ll be at the White House, or at least one of the golf courses, by Flag Day. Rumors of phone calls by the Ides of March

  36. 36.

    Anotherlurker

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: This has happened to me multiple time, here in Fl. and when I lived and worked in NY. It seems to happen more to me, here in Fl.
    As an O.W.D. (Old White Dude) I have to say that I’m not really comfortable around my age cohort.

  39. 39.

    The Moar You Know

    Dear Rebekah M,

    Good luck with cramming that Neo-Nazi gunk back into the Breitbart bottle.

    @SRW1: I don’t think she has a problem with the Neo-Nazi shit. At all. He wasn’t a problem until he admitted that the Trumps and, by extension, the GOP had committed treason, and then he had to go. Immediately.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @WaterGirl: I believe it was Jane Mayer who reported that the real rift between Bannon and the Mercers wasn’t the Wolff book, much less that he was mean to Slabhead Donnie, but he spoke out against the tax bill.

    I think Bannon could still win over a sizable chunk of his people, but the Mercers wanted him out at Brietbart. I imagine he could start up his own platform. He could fucking blog. But I think that would take more energy and work than he’s willing to do. He wants to sit and bloviate.

  41. 41.

    ruemara

    @Mnemosyne: I think it’s billions. And fuck Bannon and Breitbart. I don’t care about shakeups in old & evil. Call me when they’re a smoking crater.

  43. 43.

    rikyrah

    @The Moar You Know:

    He wasn’t a problem until he admitted that the Trumps and, by extension, the GOP had committed treason, and then he had to go. Immediately.

    Never forget…the data stuff being investigated in 2016 ALWAYS ALWAYS

    Leads back to Kushner and The Mercers.

  44. 44.

    The Moar You Know

    All that groveling and…nothing. Hilarious.

    @Yarrow: I learned a valuable life lesson the first time I got dumped. NEVER try to crawl back. It ends just like this.

    I would assume, perhaps wrongly, that Bannon would have had enough experience in life to know that.

    And yes, it’s fucking hilarious.

  47. 47.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    wasn’t it Bannon who is supposed to have owned a chunk of Seinfled and Rob Reiner’s production company? or was that Manafort?

  51. 51.

    Mike in NC

    Bannon to erect puptent in Lafayette Park in order to launch his 2020 presidential campaign.

  52. 52.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Good riddance, although I almost hope Bannon has a book deal.

    Good point. I can’t imagine he’s not already in talks.

    @Frankensteinbeck: I thought through Obama’s terms I had been underestimating racism in America, now I realize that people who think like my (mostly) dead Archie Bunkerish uncles are everywhere, in every generation.

  53. 53.

    clay

    This is so obvious that it should’ve been the #1 issue about the Trump/Russia connection (going back way before the election), but I don’t think I’ve seen it stated so simply before:

    73/ *Any* government or non-government investigator would have found this sketchy, and would have subcontracted a Russia expert to look into it. Simpson made the right call, and found exactly the right man for the job (Steele). pic.twitter.com/s63vbztDhF— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 9, 2018

    74/ Simpson says when he subcontracted with Steele he wasn't particularly focused on any ties Trump might have had with the Russia government, but Trump speaking so eloquently (as it were) about wanting to do deals in Russia and then claiming to have no business there whatsoever.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 9, 2018

    Yeah… why DIDN’T Trump have any (public) business dealing with Russia after repeatedly talking about how he was going to?

  54. 54.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Mnemosyne: People have said blatantly racist things around me too. I am petite. not too dark, I guess I do not look threatening, mostly about Puerto Ricans and sometimes about black people and Jewish people too..

  55. 55.

    Calouste

    I assume Bannon has been bought off, because he is almost the textbook definition of someone who knows too much to be walking around.

  56. 56.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    I think this is the core phenomenon anyone trying to understand US politics needs to get. Half of American whites find it hard to believe anyone is hiding thoughts like this. The other half believe everyone is.

    INORITE!?! If you’re in the “I can’t believe someone who seemed so nice just spewed that hideously bigoted garbage” camp, it’s like seeing half of someone’s chest suddenly peel away to reveal rotting roadkill where his heart should be. I wonder how it feels for those people to discover I’m not one of them. That’s just too big an empathy leap for me to manage.

  57. 57.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: some rich 29 year old NFL heiress was just arrested for a hate crime against Jews in NYC.

    The wealthy daughter of late Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke has been arrested in New York and charged with a New Year’s Eve assault on a California man who was left bloodied in front of his family.
    ***
    The family was leaving the restaurant when Cooke, behind them in the coat check line, allegedly uttered “Hurry up, Jew,” Haberkorn’s attorney Andrew Miltenberg told ABC News.

    “And his wife turned around and said, ‘What did you say?’” Miltenberg said. “And [Cooke] says, ‘Hurry up Jew I got places to be.’”

    Miltenberg said Haberkorn followed his family outside and confronted Cooke over her remarks.

    “Why would you say that to my wife and children and mother,” Haberkorn asked Cooke, according to Miltenberg. “Then she took a swing at him and hit him in the head with her purse.”

    Haberkorn was left with a gash to the head, blood dripping down his cheek, Miltenberg said. He was hit with a box-shaped purse made of glass that caused two lacerations, according to the criminal complaint.

    “He’s pretty upset,” Miltenberg added.

    The #EconomicAnxiety of the young, trust fund, super rich is the worst.

  59. 59.

    p.a.

    Bannon could still resonate with the truly economically anxious WWC, but for a functioning hockey team you need at least 15 players for successful practices. Where the other 9 will come from IDK.

  61. 61.

    jk

    OT

    Why has Kellyanne Conway gone into the Witness Protection program since the Fire and Fury story broke last week?

  63. 63.

    Timurid

    So the apologies didn’t work and now he’s got nothing left to lose?
    Time for some therapy with Dr. Mueller…

  69. 69.

    MoxieM

    @schrodingers_cat: I’m so white I’m practically transparent, visually speaking, and yeah, all my life. Probably helps that I have a whitey-white name too. Younger, I was just like, “I don’t really think that way.” Now, I’m more like, “That was an outrageous fucking racist thing you said, and unacceptable.” I got a guy thrown out of a restaurant one time, I had youngsters with me and he was setting such an appalling example.

    No, I do not deserve a bitch cookie. Just acting human.

  71. 71.

    Shana

    @clay: I suspect it’s ‘cuz Trump didn’t pay off the right people, or couldn’t afford to pay them as much as they insisted on being paid in order to get something built in Russia.

  74. 74.

    Mnemosyne

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:

    It happened with one of my cousins when she was drunk at a family party. Not surprisingly, she’s also the only one who was pulling for Trump, though now she tries to pretend on Facebook that she didn’t. Doesn’t matter, I don’t speak to her anymore.

  76. 76.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Just heard on MSNBC that Bannon has lost his Sirius/XM show because they don’t want to be associated with a white supremacist with a history of encouraging racism and anti-semitism.

    Just kidding, it’s because the show is a Breitbart outlet. Sirius/XM is cool with the racism.

  78. 78.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Mnemosyne: I don’t think they are trying to intimidate me. Its often said in conspiratorial tones like they are letting me in on a big secret. Usually by people who I was acquaintances with, kinda like a secret handshake, like now you are part of the gang.
    Sometimes I will lull them into a false sense of complacency and innocently ask questions till they get tangled in their own gibberish.
    ETA: I had a student like that, who would come and share the most outrageous Jewish conspiracy theories at my office hours.

  80. 80.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Mnemosyne:

    I’m wondering if Michael Wolff was the beneficiary of that weird thing that sometimes happens where racist white people automatically assume that all white people are secretly with them

    Probably Wolff is an actual moderate conservative so can sympathize enough that the wingnuts forget Wolff isn’t cool with the crazy.

  81. 81.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    @WaterGirl: Bannon cannot sign legislation. Bannon cannot issue executive orders. Bannon cannot appoint people to positions in the executive branch of the federal government. Trump can, and he has been cooperative and complaisant with their requirements. Bannon may say what they want to hear, he may want to work to the same goals they share, but what power does he have, without Trump? Even with a fabulously wealthy backer, he still has to have access to the power of the presidency and majorities in both houses of Congress. Bannon’s assistance was not required to pass the tax bill, and there are other people who can manage Trump while being more discreet–they hope.

    I won’t say “Stick a fork in him–he’s done,”, but barring a stroke of luck and a lot of work, he’s reduced to Newt Gingrich’s level–still here, still grifting, still trying to stir up shit, and still largely irrelevant outside of a tightly circumscribed circle.

  82. 82.

    Jeffro

    It’s funny – you know how we joked everything truck touches turns to shit ?

    That even includes Steve frickin’ BANNON(!)
    I wouldn’t have thought it would be possible to degrade him even further but hey look at that!!

    LOLOL

  84. 84.

    different-church-lady

    @jk:

    Why has Kellyanne Conway gone into the Witness Protection program since the Fire and Fury story broke last week?

    We were told somebody already died because of the Fusion testimony release. You don’t suppose…

  85. 85.

    Gelfling 545

    @MoxieM: My son in law has all the markers. Blond, blue eyes, pretty “arayan” surname, military vet, very military bearing. People are always saying stuff like that to him. Thing is, he’s got a way of looking at someone who’s irritating him that can be…scary. No actions, just the look. He gives them the look and says “Do you want to repeat that?” Somehow, they never do. I like to think it’s a good lesson on the old book/cover judging thing for them.

  88. 88.

    Sloane Ranger

    @different-church-lady: I think it was the dossier not the testimony. That’s probably me being pedantic but we need to be careful. We don’t want rumours started that Feinstein got someone killed by releasing the testimony.

  89. 89.

    feebog

    From the looks of him, Bannon is about two weeks away from drinking himself to death anyway. You know the saying, “I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire”? That joke was about Bannon.

  90. 90.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: So spozedly

    the real rift between Bannon and the Mercers wasn’t the Wolff book, much less that he was mean to Slabhead Donnie, but he spoke out against the tax bill.

    One wonders if Bannon fancies himself Ernst Roehm 2.0 (minus the alleged perversions), leading his brownshirts to take down the elites now that the Party is in power. Yeah, well, good luck with that, Steverino – you’ll be poured a polonium mint julep on the next Night of the Long Sporks. Better you should pull an Otto Strasser & join the witless protection program & end up spearfishing from a leaky kayak in Baffin Bay…

  91. 91.

    WaterGirl

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I just watched the intro to last night’s Late Late Show. It was a little skit with Reggie Watts as Trump and James Corden as Bannon. Corden was brilliant – he captured Bannon perfectly.

  92. 92.

    JaneSays

    @Mnemosyne: I’m sure he did, but I highly doubt blatant racism would ever be a cause for anybody to get terminated from Breitbart.

    He was tossed for expressing insufficient fealty to the king.

  93. 93.

    kattails

    I’m always late to these threads because of odd work hours, but as to the Mercer connection: the clan purchased a small mountain just down the road from me a couple of years ago. Used to be known as Rice Mountain. Several eccentric but fun buildings up there, the former owners were decent people and opened the place up for garden and music fundraisers on a regular basis. You can actually find pics in a book called “The Accidental Architect”. I’ve been there several times.
    Well, no more of that Public crap. The property is heavily forested (as is most of the area) and quite well hidden from below, with properly posted no trespassing signs every 30′ along the large perimeter. It is, however, visible particularly at night from a road about a mile away. I say night because these people have no concept of energy conservation, it’s lit up like a Christmas village all the time. Christmas for them, that is, with the latest tax breaks. I’ve noticed that it seems to be much brighter than usual when something’s afloat. More minions, more outbuildings, more security? Aside from that road, I can actually see the damned lights from my house, through at least a mile of trees, with the bare winter branches, right bloody now, if I stick my head out my back door.
    It is very strange to read threads with them as background noise and then observe those lights. Makes my hackles rise. And I’m a cat person–do cats even have hackles?
    Oh yes, it’s been quite bright the last two nights.

  95. 95.

    Bill Arnold

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I believe it was Jane Mayer who reported that the real rift between Bannon and the Mercers wasn’t the Wolff book, much less that he was mean to Slabhead Donnie, but he spoke out against the tax bill.

    Link? Was it this?
    Steve Bannon mocks Ivanka Trump: ‘There’s a special place in hell’ for Republicans who don’t back Roy Moore
    My transcript (bold mine):

    “…that doesn’t have Trumps backing or they don’t have his back.
    What they want him for is that corporate tax cut – that’s all they want him for. Soon as they get that tax cut, you watch what happens. There’s a special place in hell for Republicans that should know better.”

    (IMO he was correct about the corporate tax cut. We shall see. Plenty of smoke obscuring the mirrors ATM. )
    Anyway, if S. Bannon wants to continue his project of evisceration of the degenerate amoral Republican Party establishment, I for one am welcome to have him as a temporary ally. We need, eventually, a proper opposition party, even if their members believe in what we (Democrats/Progressives) believe to be evil. We very much do not need the principle-less septic tank that the Republican party has devolved into, where the focus is overtly and proudly on making the rich richer relative to the poor, where “wins” for the tribe are more infinitely more important than the content of the wins, where anything the Democrats, and especially B. Obama, ever did is bad, where a litmus test of preferred policy is that it angers liberals (making them stupidly vulnerable to manipulation), etc.
    (Maybe: “Pump out the septic tank!” a better metaphor than “drain the swamp”?)

    Have said this before; my favorite (right) wingut, a Breitbart fan, believes in single payer because he doesn’t think private health insurance is workable without un-American levels of regulation. There is common ground. (Also wedges, and lack of trust, and etc, but reformations of canon/dogma, and realignments of the electorate, are possible, and interesting.)

  96. 96.

    Bill Arnold

    @a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio):

    I won’t say “Stick a fork in him–he’s done,”, but barring a stroke of luck and a lot of work, he’s reduced to Newt Gingrich’s level–still here, still grifting, still trying to stir up shit, and still largely irrelevant outside of a tightly circumscribed circle.

    IMO he has a lot more talent at political manipulation than Newt Gingrich. Could be broader, but Newt is shallow by comparison.
    Could be wrong. The Alabama Jones win was hard fought and I believe that a proper analysis (if it ever happens) will show it was contested in a lot of venues, and that the Democrats and their allies have been rapidly improving their tactics/skills in areas (both geographical and more abstract) where they were relatively weak.

  97. 97.

    Mnemosyne

    @JaneSays:

    Sorry, I may not have been clear: I was positing that Bannon was more willing to confide in Wolff the way he did because he automatically assumed that he had racial solidarity with Wolff. Bannon assumed that it was (white) Bros Before Hos and was stunned to discover that he’d been played.

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