Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Bark louder, little dog.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

This blog will pay for itself.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

The willow is too close to the house.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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Late Night Idiocracy Open Thread: SPRINGTIME FOR ‘SHERIFF’ ARPAIO

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If you thought the ‘Oprah for President 2020, or Not’ fooferaw was silly, pardoned felon Joe Arpaio has a bridge candidacy to sell you!


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  2. 2.

    piratedan

    believe it when he files, he’s probably just milking the gullible for cash…

    McSally is a shark though, she’ll play herself off as a “moderate” to the general population but she was knee deep in the Congressional travesties earlier this year. She’s not as dumb as some of her fellow reps (i.e. Gohmert, Blackburn), she’s quite possibly savvy enough to pull it off, at least she’s demonstrably smarter in not publicly exposing herself as an idiot. Hoping that the Dem wave inundates her and leaves her broken, but suspect she’ll land on her feet

  3. 3.

    Roger Moore

    @piratedan:

    believe it when he files, he’s probably just milking the gullible for cash…

    I fully expect him to file, since the grifting opportunities multiply for candidates and even more for corrupt officials.

  4. 4.

    Mike G

    This is gold —
    Portland’s officials dubiously assert a right to search anyone’s garbage without a warrant:

    Prosecutor Mark McDonnell says that once you set your garbage out on the curb, it becomes public property.
    “She placed her garbage can out in the open, open to public view, in the public right of way,” McDonnell told Judge Jean Kerr Maurer earlier this month. “There were no signs on the garbage, ‘Do not open. Do not trespass.’ There was every indication…she had relinquished her privacy, possessory interest.”

    Police Chief Mark Kroeker echoed this reasoning. “Most judges have the opinion that [once] trash is put out…it’s trash, and abandoned in terms of privacy,” he told WW.

    So Willamette Week swiped their trash from public rights of way, and reported on the contents.
    http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-1616-rubbish.html-2

  5. 5.

    Jay S

    @Roger Moore: Here’s hoping his campaign thoroughly milks the rubes until it collapses, Hopefully Arizona voters have had enough of him, and he gives Republicans heartburn for as long as possible.

  6. 6.

    Jay S

    @Mike G: Actually the story is from 2002 and was updated in December 2017 for some reason. The assertion is not dubious, unfortunately. There are very few states with garbage privacy rights.

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    One of the reasons Arpaiao lost as sheriff was because it came out that he was so obsessed with illegal immigration that he allowed child molesters and rapists to run rampant without so much as an investigation of the reports that were filed because he wanted those deputies to work illegal immigration cases instead.

    It’s child molesters all the way down in the Republican Party.

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    Joe Arpaio believes that, because a Presidential pardon rendered his sentencing hearing moot, his conviction for disobeying a Federal judge is void. I have to wonder why a man who doesn’t seem to understand or respect Federal law is so keen to have a hand in making it. At best, given Arizona voters’ disenchantment with him, I think he might end up like Roy Moore — a nominee with only tepid support from a Republican party that finds him an embarrassment.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    On a happier note, The Girl and I have spent a lovely day practising the riff from Neil Young’s Hey Hey My My (Into The Black). It sounds good with the Fender Champ 20 on a metal setting. Tonight we might have a whack at the solo.

  12. 12.

    opiejeanne

    @Jay S: It is quiet but I need to sleep soon. Been sick since Christmas Eve, today felt like I’m finally starting to recover but sleep is still what I need most.

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    Mary G

    I don’t think it’s the wingnut welfare. Like Twitler he has to see his name in print no matter what. Now that he’s out of office he’s not getting the fix, so this will provide.

  18. 18.

    mardam422

    This is just a continuation of Arpaio’s grifting. But hey, Trump had no intentions of becoming President, either. So the longer this goes on, the better for Dems in AZ.

  19. 19.

    kindness

    This Oprah thing. I admire her but the last thing I want is a media person running the country. It has never worked out well when that happened.

    Who do you think is priming the Oprah pump as I see it everywhere?

  21. 21.

    worn

    @Mike G: @Mike G: Dude, Mark K hasn’t been our chief for a long ass time & Mayor Katz passed away last year. The story is from late December 2002.

    ETA: Jay S got there first.

  22. 22.

    J R in WV

    @Raven:

    Sorry you’re still under the weather. Your Dawgs did well, gave Bama all they could handle. Nothing embarrassing about losing by 3 in double overtime. It was a great football game beginning to end.

    I wish I could have seen it, but I found a play-by-play on the NCAA site and so could follow it a little bit. As in til the end.

    Take care of yourself, we aren’t spring chickens any more!

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