Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

In after Baud. Damn.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

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

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

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Please don’t feed the bears.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

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The cut to the car chase at the end is peak Fox.

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  8. 8.

    NotMax

    Lesson to keep in mind – the denouement of Lord Haw-Haw.

    4 January 1946: William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, who started his Nazi propaganda broadcasts with ‘Germany calling,’ is executed for treason. Source

  9. 9.

    Bruce K

    Props for the title. Although there’s half a dozen people who’d be candidates for that particular lordship in early-21st-century America.

  10. 10.

    Just One More Canuck

    @danjos: Someone asked if he should appear on Maury Povich to determine if Fred Flintstone is his father. It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

  12. 12.

    MJS

    How long until Trump changes his tune on this from “fake news” to “yes, I did consider firing him, because I was fighting back”? All it will take is one or two more Fox News segments saying how it’s his absolute right to fire Mueller. Left unanswered will be, what innocent person “fights” an investigation? Fights charges? Sure. Fights false accusations? Sure. But an investigation? “That police officer was attempting to investigate me for drunk driving. I had every right to defend myself by running him over with my car.”

  13. 13.

    Another Scott

    Who was it that yesterday posted the June tweet from Hannity telling Donnie to fire Mueller? Adam? I can’t seem to find it.

    Anywho. Hannity is a stupid clown. The truth doesn’t matter to him.

    It’s a real shame that the Teabaggers continue to drive what is discussed in the MSM and here. :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“Who looked around for something else to talk about, but nothing jumps out at him at the moment.”)

  14. 14.

    PVDMichael

    2017 Q4 GDP = 2.6%

    The poo-flinging monkey brigade have been REALLY trumpeting the previous two quarters of 3%+ GDP growth (as if anything Trump did could have had that fast of an effect on a 20 trillion dollar economy).

    There’s been a lot of “Remember when Obama said 3% GDP growth was impossible”?
    1) He never said that. He said >sustaining that< would be difficult
    2) The economy achieved 3% growth for many quarters during the Obama presidency.

  15. 15.

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

    @MJS:

    “That police officer was attempting to investigate me for drunk driving. I had every right to defend myself by running him over with my car.”

    Isn’t that what right always does (metaphorically speaking) when their hand gets caught in the cookie jar? So much for “law and order”.

  18. 18.

    retiredeng

    @danjos: Here’s hoping that Hannity is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He’s looking rather ragged lately. Must be the whiplash trying to keep up with zigzagging Trump.

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    For those so inclined, an interesting half-hour radio documentary on the life and trial of Lord Haw-Haw.

    BTW, he was born in Brooklyn and his being an American citizen was a point of contention in the British trial.

  25. 25.

    geg6

    @Chyron HR:

    I believe it was meant as a British dig at how lowbrow the German propagandists were. Joyce was not the first nor the only pro-Nazi radio personality broadcasting propaganda out of Germany to be called the name, but he is generally the most famous. He used a fake British accent, but was actually an Irish American.

  26. 26.

    Skippy-san

    The British at least knew what to do with William Joyce after the war. Pity the same cannot be said for Hannity.

  27. 27.

    Betty Cracker

    This is one of my all-time favorite examples of Fox News dissonance — “America is not a racist nation! Now, please enjoy these clips of treasonous and threatening black people!”

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    @Chyron HR

    Among other things, because of his affected phony upper class accent.

    And because one could not say Lord Shitspouter in mixed company or over the air.

  30. 30.

    JMG

    2.6 percent quarterly growth is perfectly respectable and in line with most of the growth rate since 2009. But that’s the problem with bamboozling rubes through endless use of superlatives. “Perfectly respectable” then becomes “not good enough.”

  32. 32.

    Peale

    @JMG: well they spent 8 years ignoring the numbers, claiming they were fixed, talking about how we were living in Weimar because inflation and unemployment were so bad. So now I guess Trump has fixed the innacuracy problem at Census.

  33. 33.

    Kay

    I’m relieved they’re back to defending and lying. For a minute there it seemed like they were making some headway in their campaign to discredit anyone who questions Dear Leader.

    Trump really exposes people, reveals what and who they are, so I’ll give him that. Jesus, what a clownish hack Ron Johnson is, huh? WTF was that all about? Is he embarrassed today, that he pissed away any reputation he had with that ham-handed, desperate intervention on behalf of Trump? Did he volunteer? If he did it’s almost worse than being threatened or paid off.

  36. 36.

    Quinerly

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Getting stuff together to clear out from Las Cruces (what a wild day yesterday! Met a wealthy Birther! In the flesh) to start heading north to TorC and Albuquerque….had MJ on in the room. Then went for my breakfast included with the room and the dining area had MSNBC on. Really no way to avoid it.

  37. 37.

    Boatboy_srq

    @MJS: Works in private practice. Investigation would cover stiffed contractors, unsafe working conditions, health department complaints, questionable funding sources. Of course Lord Dampnut would go after such investigations – but most of those would be by journalists. He doesn’t grok that the investigators in this case aren’t merely after his reputation.

  38. 38.

    japa21

    @Kay: What is surprising, and disappointing, is that Ron Johnson had any reputation to piss away in the first place.

  39. 39.

    rikyrah

    I agree with those that this story about Dolt45 wanting to fire Bobby Three Sticks has come out because HE WANTS TO DO IT AGAIN.

    The NYT says that they have four sources for that story.
    Folks are singing. And, they have no intentions of going to jail for Dolt45.

    It amuses me that Bobby Three Sticks knew all of this.
    Who walked into their meetings with him, unaware of how much he knew?

    LOL

  40. 40.

    Kay

    @Boatboy_srq:

    To volunteer as the “crazy senator” and then walk it back immediately is inexplicable.

    At least stick to your conspiracy theory for 10 minutes, or don’t bother.

    I can’t listen to them- any of them. Sarah Sanders was out making excuses for Trump not addressing school shootings by babbling some shit about “gang members”. I mean, seriously. Isn’t she ashamed? They’re WORSE than they have to be. They volunteer.

  41. 41.

    rikyrah

    Trump is not going to sit down voluntarily with Mueller. He can not possibly do that without lying, not because it’s a trap, but because he lies all the time. And, despite his bravado, Trump is a coward. He is just trying to make people think he wants to do it for PR purposes. 1/

    — Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) January 26, 2018

  42. 42.

    Kay

    @rikyrah:

    I love all the organized crime language people use. My youngest is doing a paper for high school on organized crime and I butted in and made him look at RICO with me. Part of the intro to RICO’s passage is a reference to “the traditional crime families”

    They should have looked at the less traditional crime families, too! Many crime bosses got away! Apparently “the real estate families” in NYC are more of a threat than the Gambino family ever was. NOT enough thinking outside the box in the FBI.

  43. 43.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Quinerly: My wife insisted on having it on. I can’t bear to listen, but in the few unavoidable moments it came across with not just a super-flat affect, but made me think of a high school kid having to read out loud a paper that he didn’t write, which uses words he’s not familiar with.

  46. 46.

    Betty Cracker

    @rikyrah: I agree, unless President Oppositional Defiance Disorder tells his legal team they’re not the boss of him and insists that he’ll emerge unscathed from an interview because his genius brain will allow him to outwit Mueller. In which case, the legal team, if they have any sense, will resign en masse.

  47. 47.

    Kay

    @sdhays:

    I wonder what Hannity’s connections to Russia are. It seems like anyone who’s anyone in the Republican Party nowadays has been lavished by the attentions of the Putin and/or his cronies.

    That’s the problem, though. You can’t tell if they like kleptocrat authoritarian leaders because they’ve been bought or compromised OR because they genuinely support the ideology and hope to model the US on it.

    Bought or compromised is actually better in this situation. Volunteers are more committed and passionate.

  49. 49.

    Mike in DC

    @Kay:
    Hannity is a committed conservative populist ideologue and white nationalist to boot. His audience and Trump’s base are entirely congruent.

  50. 50.

    Brachiator

    @MattF:

    Hannity is trying to persuade Trump to appoint him Attorney General. You heard it here.

    Is Hannity a lawyer? Is he even a human being?

  52. 52.

    Kay

    @Betty Cracker:

    In which case, the legal team, if they have any sense, will resign en masse.

    Why would they, though? They knew going in Trump wasn’t taking advice from them. This is exactly what they signed up for.

    They’re not going to prison. They’ll stay on as long as he’s paying them.

  53. 53.

    danielx

    @Peale:

    So now I guess Trump has fixed the inaccuracy problem at Census.

    Jeebus, I hope not. People actually use that data to make real-world decisions.

  58. 58.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Let’s not forget April Ryan broke this story last June:

    April Ryan nailed it: April Ryan told CNN on the night of June 12, 2017 that the White House was in “mass hysteria” with staffers fearing serial lying psychopath Trump was about to fire special counsel Robert Mueller corroborates NYT bombshell http://bit.ly/2DFUSha @AprilDRyan

  59. 59.

    Kay

    @Mike in DC:

    The best would be if they quit because he isn’t paying them. They couldn’t say that because it would breach confidentiality but they could let us know – wink, wink :)

    To me is his refusal to pay people for the work they do is part and parcel of his dishonesty. It disgusts me that not paying people is portrayed as savvy business practices. It’s stealing. He’s a fucking thief. He took their work and didn’t pay them for it.

  60. 60.

    rikyrah

    The great part about the false narratives being spread by many within the GOP in brutally attacking the FBI is that all of these people are considered co-conspirators in the Trump / Russia investigation if in fact Trump or anyone in his inner circle asked them to do so.

    — Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) January 26, 2018

  62. 62.

    Kay

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    Whatever he says on stage there is nothing Donald Trump will like more than having the globalists bow and applaud the kid from Queens he never got over being…

    I’m sick of this too. This whole “kid from Queens” bullshit. Trump had every advantage. Presenting him as “he’s an asshole but it’s because there are people he thinks are better than him” is an excuse. Plenty of people who had it much harder than the coddled giant baby-man are not assholes and there is always SOMEONE who is “better” than them, unless they’re Supreme Ruler of the World.

    Presenting this bottomless, sucking, needy pit of a human being who requires constant attention and constant applause to feed his GIANT ego as a victim is just unbearable. He’s an asshole because he’s an asshole. “Queens” had nothing to do with it.

  63. 63.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So Trump is going on about citizenship for DREAMers. I am taking this is a sign Trump is really feeling the heat from Mueler; cornered narcissist trying to bribe their way out since bullying and lying isn’t working.

  66. 66.

    rp

    @Kay: I don’t see that as an excuse. I think it’s true that from his perspective he’s a kid from Queens who isn’t respected by his social betters, but the objective reality of his privileged upbringing makes his perception and behavior that much more ridiculous.

  69. 69.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Kay:

    I’m sick of this too. This whole “kid from Queens”

    Oh come on Kay, as the Trump standing in on Head Office explained “Twenty years ago I came to this town, I had less then forty-three million dollars in my pocket” It was hardscrabble back in those leans years for the man. Once Trump was just some kid in NYC is ridiculous hair and the morals a of a pig raised in a Skinner box, Now after all the hard work with his friends Trump is president.

  72. 72.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: That begs the question; did Trump actually have a mother? Are we sure he isn’t just some odd ass clone with bad hair of Fred Trump because it’s hard to believe any woman letting her kid turn into a swine like that.

  73. 73.

    Kay

    Obama, that “kid from Kansas” somehow managed to keep his insecurity in check and act like a decent human being, even when the “kid from Queens” launched a racist years-long campaign to question his legitimacy as a citizen.

    Poor widdle boo-boo feels “less than”. Maybe he feels less than because he IS less than. He’s a horrible person, and every once a while when he’s all alone he faces that. Maybe that’s what created the giant hole where a person should be. He knows, on some level, that he is IN FACT less than most people.

  77. 77.

    Jinchi

    The cut to the car chase at the end is peak Fox.

    It works as a great metaphor for the whole segment, complete with the crash at the end.

  78. 78.

    KickBoxBanana

    Who cares what Manatee says. Faux noise is a BS factory and he produces more of it than the rest of them combined. It’s not news, it’s not information, it’s not based in reality. It has maybe 1% fact sprinkled in to make it seem more plausible to the morons that watch. I don’t even know why I am trying to explain it if some of you haven’t figured this out yet. Yes, it matters even if you do it to just to point and laugh and fill your post quota to get your free cat calendar or whatever.

    Google indexes this stuff to determine relevancy. It’s not always smart enough to separate sarcasm from fact.

  79. 79.

    SRW1

    Hannity, dear, if you wanna distract from a wreck, showing an actual car wreck may people make bad connections!

  82. 82.

    Kay

    @MattF:

    I was a kid from Queens

    But were you a scrappy street fighter warming your hands over a barrel fire while peddling newspapers as the elite carriages rolled by and splashed you with mud? This is a movie scene they’re giving him. It’s an excuse.

    Donald Trump was BORN with every possible advantage a person in the United States can have. He’s still mean-spirited and nasty and ungenerous. It’s him. It’s his fault.

  86. 86.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Kay: I’m all for media elites reminding trump that the Manhattan elites have always looked down on him and always will. Barring some hard evidence and brass balls on the part of NYS AG Schneiderman, that may be as close to consequences as trump comes in this life. And that’s the only one I believe in.

  88. 88.

    WaterGirl

    @Another Scott: I saw it earlier today as I caught up on what happened after I went to bed last night. I think it was Adam or Cheryl. Definitely a front pager because it wasn’t a text version of the tweet. I think it would have been after the Sacramento Meet-up thread, if that helps, because I only had a couple of BJ threads open when I went to bed.

  89. 89.

    MattF

    @Kay: Well, it’s fair to say that the elites tend to bypass Queens. In The Great Gatsby, Queens appears as the home of ‘the valley of ashes.’ Wikipedia says it was the Corona Ash Dump.

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    @rikyrah:

    Who walked into their meetings with him, unaware of how much he knew?

    I’m hoping that the correct answer to your question is ALL OF THEM. Every single one.

  96. 96.

    The Moar You Know

    Prepare to be freaked right the fuck out; this is real

    @Betty Cracker: GODDAMN

    Got his looks and his hair from mama. Fred Trump, at least, doesn’t look like he went to summer camp on top of an operating reactor.

  97. 97.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @Kay:

    Donald Trump was BORN with every possible advantage a person in the United States can have. He’s still mean-spirited and nasty and ungenerous. It’s him. It’s his fault.

    He’s an aggressively bad person. And so twisted that with all he has now (no matter how much he owes, he lives a life of luxury) he still holds a grudge that NYC society looks down on him. And they do, because he’s an asshole and a thief. He’s the guy you had to get cash from for a table at a charity dinner, because the check would be “in the mail” and/or bounce. He’s the guy who went to sit on the dais at a charity celebration when he didn’t donate.

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    @Betty Cracker: Preet is very confident that they can subpoena Trump and compel him to testify before the grand jury. So was his very experienced and knowledgable guest.

  102. 102.

    Gin & Tonic

    @WaterGirl: I remain very concerned that if he is subpoenaed, he’ll simply wipe his fat ass with the subpoena and ignore it. Then what?

  103. 103.

    WaterGirl

    @rikyrah: I am hoping that the fact that Trump ORDERED the firing helps make the obstruction case. Hoping it won’t matter that he wasn’t fired – that the thing that matters is that Trump ORDERED the firing.

  104. 104.

    clay

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: One of the few times Trump actually followed through on his threat to sue someone was when he sued Bill Maher for saying Donald was the result of Trump’s mother having sex with an orangutan.

    The lawsuit was literally laughed out of court.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    @Gin & Tonic: I am not a lawyer. I think that IF Trump refuses to testify after he is issued a subpoena to testify before the grand jury THEN he is going to learn that somebody really is the boss of him, and it’s a grand jury. I think he’s going to be shocked that he can’t bluff and bully his way out of this one.

    Have you listened to any of Preet’s podcasts? If not, and you’re interested, I can steer you toward the ones where this is discussed.

  106. 106.

    Mike in DC

    @Gin & Tonic:
    Then Mueller gets a court order enforcing the subpoena. The Secret Service is not going to take sides when federal matshals show up to escort Trump to the grand jury room.

  107. 107.

    trollhattan

    @Kay:
    Knew almost nothing about Sen. Johnson before he popped up with the FBI nonsense, then he was everywhere and when interviewed on NPR went full Gish gallop–chattering nonsense at 100mph while not letting the interviewer into the “conversation.” World’s finest deliberative body.

  109. 109.

    SFAW

    @MattF:

    And, for the record, I was a kid from Queens, and I’m not a racist or a liar.

    Which means you probably didn’t grow up in Elmhoist.

    (Kidding, of course.)

  110. 110.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @rikyrah:
    Trump does not want to do it again. He never stopped wanting to do it. That’s why none of this breaking news is ever the tipping point where Trump decides to fire Mueller, and never will be. He isn’t doing it because something, or more likely someone, is stopping him. He is too cowardly to override that person(s?) and always will be. The risk of Mueller being fired is that we don’t know the dynamic behind someone stopping him, so we don’t know what might change things.

    @Boatboy_srq:
    And like the scale before it, stupid, evil, and purchased go together so easily.

  111. 111.

    MattF

    @SFAW: Elmhurst was a neighboring neighborhood. I watched ‘The Godfather’ in the Elmhurst Theater– and overheard the guy behind me reassuring his son that ‘It’s not like that’.

  112. 112.

    SFAW

    @father pusbucket:

    Don’t you think he looks tired?

    Is that one word? Or six?

    Also, I can never see “Davos” without thinking of this guy.

    I spelled it “Davros” the other day, someone corrected my speling.

  120. 120.

    MCA1

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Good point. In addition to being an entitled, infinitely narcissistic, incurious asshole, he’s also incredibly tacky and unrefined and brash. The NY elite hate that sort of totally unWASPy behavior.

    One of the reasons I (and Kay, if I’m reading her correctly) can’t stand him is that he’s either (i) the living embodiment of The Exception to The Rule, or (ii) a daily reminder that The Rules Don’t Actually Matter.

    We all follow guidelines of behavior drilled into us by parents, school, religious institutions and society. Partly out of guilt, partly out of fear. We’re told that we’ll be considered bad people if we break the rules enough or in big ways, or worse yet we’ll get in trouble or fail in life if we don’t conform in some minimal sense to societal expectations. We have hero mythologies and venerate virtuous people. So we buy in to the Social Contract. We trust that The System will elevate those who live generally within the parameters set for success and respect. And it’s not just angels and pure conformity that’s demanded – those parameters allow for a certain amount of selfishness, and ambition, and non-conformance. There’s flexibility built in.

    We know there will be some bad people who slip through the cracks unnoticed, or manage to exploit the very nature of the system and prey on our good virtue and ethics to their own advantage. There are parasites in every ecosystem, and we get that. But those people shouldn’t get to be fucking President of the Goddamned United States. They should be viewed as the trash and grifters that they are.

    One of the things leading to the existential angst I’ve felt these long 14 months has been the nagging feeling that, while this may just be the biggest ever fluke, where someone eludes the rules and their application due to a glitch in the programming, it’s just as likely that the rules are a farce and always have been. Or that we’ve eroded as a society to the point that they’ve also broken down. It bothers me to no end that this person has not only never faced consequences for his shit actions and his horribleness, but that he’s CONSISTENTLY been REWARDED for it. That’s why I can’t shake the WASF feeling. Dotard is the canary in the coal mine.

  124. 124.

    Vor

    I think I am going to start referring to Fox News as the Ministry of Truth. And maybe to Hannity as Lord Haw Haw.

  127. 127.

    SFAW

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I once convinced a girlfriend that the Jones Beach water tower was a missile silo.

    I was SO tempted to write “that was my sister, mofo!” just to bust your stones a little.

    But I doff my figurative cap to you. My power of persuasion is a mere shadow of yours.

    Did you also invite her to watch the submarine races with you?

  128. 128.

    AWJ

    At every few moments the fury of the crowd boiled over and the voice of the speaker was drowned by a wild beast-like roaring that rose uncontrollably from thousands of throats. The most savage yells of all came from the schoolchildren. The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker’s hand. He unrolled and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia!

    (If you want a picture of the future, imagine a cartoon frog sneering “triggered, snowflake?” — for ever)

  129. 129.

    Ruckus

    @Kay:
    It’s like they are trying to be this diseased. And thinking that is normal, being that you want to be this ugly and stupid, that you have to strive for it.

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