Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“woke” is the new caravan.

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

T R E 4 5 O N

He really is that stupid.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

This really is a full service blog.

Everybody saw this coming.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I really should read my own blog.

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

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

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

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

In after Baud. Damn.

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

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  6. 6.

    Mary G

    Republicans hate unions, so Freudian slip.

    Sometimes the sheer incompetence bothers me more than the slow-motion coup that’s going on.

  11. 11.

    Adam L Silverman

    Speaking of oops!

  13. 13.

    Duane

    What’s the odds on Trump saying “uniom” during his speech. Adam, can you get hold of a teleprompter?

  14. 14.

    Skepticat

    Not to mention that there should be a capital H in house, it should be Visitors’ Gallery (misplaced apostrophe) and p.m., and the th in 115th should not be superscript.

  19. 19.

    Mike in NC

    State of the Unisom? Trump’s dumbass bloviating will definitely put a lot of people to sleep.

    For many months there was a Thai restaurant near my office in NoVA that had “Crap Meat” listed on the lunch menu, even after we pointed it out to them.

  26. 26.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mike in NC:

    For many months there was a Thai restaurant near my office in NoVA that had “Crap Meat” listed on the lunch menu, even after we pointed it out to them.

    Maybe they just considered it truth in advertising.

    @Baud: LOL! Thank God I wasn’t holding my beer!

  33. 33.

    Adam L Silverman

    @schrodingers_cat: Haven’t had much reason to use any of them for a long time. I can introduce myself, ask how people are, order off a menu, and that’s about it these days. Definitely perishable skills.

  34. 34.

    magurakurin

    anyone know why Wilmer is stepping on the Democratic Party response to the SOTU with his own? what a dick.

  35. 35.

    Hungry Joe

    Beating a dead horse dept.: The NY Times’ lead photos of the Australian Open winners were 1) Caroline Wozniacki tossing her racket in the air after the final point, and 2) Roger Federer kissing the winner’s trophy. Dozens (hundreds?) of the best sports photogs on the planet, filing thousands of explosive, action-filled shots, and photo editors go with those. Every time.

    And Donald J. Trump is still President. I tell you, it’s just one damn thing after another.

  38. 38.

    Leto

    I would’ve been more surprised if it wasn’t fucked up; with the amount of typo’s that make it through every publically released document they serve up, can we really be shocked that they’d screw this up too? Just par for the course.

  42. 42.

    Aleta

    Well maybe they’ll be worth something after T is ridden out of town on a rail that’s covered in blazing tar sands oil. So I advise the lucky people to keep the tickets and stay home.

  45. 45.

    Steeplejack

    @Corner Stone:

    Damn, did you see former Rep. Nan Hayworth on Hardball?! Apparently she’s the new designated Trump whisperer, but even in that role she was completely over the top. She tried to attribute part of Trump’s success in bringing down black unemployment (note: not intended to be a true statement) to the passing of “tax reform.” Even the other Republican lite panelist did a spit-take, and I thought Matthews was going to have a stroke.

    Then she went for the two-point conversion in the “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment by memorializing the anniversary of the Challenger disaster—which, unfortunately, was yesterday, not today. Nobody called her on that.

    She has jumped onto the punchable-faces Top 40 with a bullet.

  47. 47.

    Mnemosyne

    This shit really grates on me because it’s just more evidence of how they don’t take their jobs seriously. They think that running a country of 320 million people is a goddamned joke.

    Plus I do a lot of copyediting/proofreading so this stuff drives me up a wall anyway, but these assholes do it over and over and over again and they don’t care enough to get better at it.

  51. 51.

    Pinacacci

    OK way off t but was looking for an open thread and what the hell is this.

    This article is the first I’ve heard about Nikki Haley being slut-shamed and I am an internet junkie. What the hell NYT? I now believe there really is something seriously wrong over there. This is such pure propaganda, accusing people of behavior that as far as I can tell hasn’t happened yet.

    ETA context, they are writing as if Nikki Haley is the mysterious current affair the orange boil is having according to the Wolff book. this is infuriating

  56. 56.

    Corner Stone

    @Steeplejack: I mute her. She has been balls out fucking crazy for a few years now. She also gets louder the crazier her talking point gets.
    Susan Del Percio is also mildly R-rwnj but nothing even close to Nanners.

  58. 58.

    Aleta

    @delk: Also they sliced off the bottom lines:
    Admission fee of $550 to be paid in cash at the door.
    (Add $450 for folding chair.)

  63. 63.

    Mike J

    @Skepticat: It’s not improper, it depends on house style. Word defaults to superscripting them.

    If you’re filing with a court you should never use them, because the courts have said they don’t want them. I honestly don’t care that much about style, but the grammar errors really bother me. Especially from a White House run by racists. You’d think they would be able to get basic English right. If they can’t, I know plenty of immigrants who can copy edit better than anybody there.

  65. 65.

    Baud

    WaPo

    President Trump is seeking to parlay his first State of the Union address on Tuesday into cash for his reelection campaign by offering supporters a chance to see their name flashed on the screen during a broadcast of the speech.

    In a fundraising solicitation on Monday, Trump offered those willing to pay at least $35 the opportunity to see their name displayed during a live streaming of the address on his campaign website.

  66. 66.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mnemosyne: I’m with you. I’m not all the way past “point and laugh” stage, but I do find myself stung to senseless rage over little shit like that, shit that just so clearly says, “we don’t give a shyt.”

  72. 72.

    PIGL

    We don’t get nearly enough new music since mistermix hung it up. Since this is an open thread, let me introduce Ms. Sarah Jane Scouten, from Bowen Island on Canada’s misty yet majestic west coast. I saw her play on a Boxing Day gig at the Wise Hall, for those who know EastVan.

    I hope you like Show Pony as much as I do.

  78. 78.

    mad citizen

    @Skepticat: Excellent attention to detail! As well as the comment pointing out the crowding of the time with the box margin. The incompetence is brutal!

    Also, I liked how the Juicers pointed out the delicious timing of the leaked story the other day while the trump team was sleeping in europe. I’m hoping some delicious story will be leaked tomorrow so he isn’t able to dominate the news cycle. I’m so tired of these people complaining when politics intrudes on the precious “place event name here–grammys”. Nikki Haley doesn’t like politics with her Grammys. Has she ever listened to any lyrics of any decently political song? I’m sorry, but as long as the toddler president tries to dominate all media, the rest of us will fight back.

  80. 80.

    Pinacacci

    @Mnemosyne: I have no brief for Nikki Haley, she’s not been a credit to her species (human), but that story is a ridiculously obvious attempt to stir up a controversy where none exists. If I’ve misread, apologies!

  81. 81.

    Mike J

    BTW, anybody who listens/watches/reads BBC on American news and think they’re getting one of the best news orgs in the world, check this hed:
    “FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quits ahead of agency review”

    Fox could have run that.

  83. 83.

    Steeplejack

    @Corner Stone:

    I have seen Hayworth only a few times and didn’t have the cone-of-silence macro set up.

    I was mildly surprised to see Del Percio identified as a “Republican consultant,” because she seems way too sane for the current crop. Haven’t seen her much, always assumed she was “political reporter for [insert stodgy publication here].”

  84. 84.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Gravenstone:

    : I liked the Chinese take out joint near here that featured a ‘spicy Human sauce’ in one dish.

    By an obvious train of thought: what ever happened to the BJ commenter who used the nym “Freshly ground black people”?

  92. 92.

    Mike J

    @Major Major Major Major: It really is, but their US coverage has sucked as long as I’ve followed them, and that’s a long time. It always made me wonder if their other coverage was just as bad but I didn’t have the background to know it.

  93. 93.

    Aleta

    Something else is off about the tickets (besides “Visitor’s Gallery” and the font they got off the internet): the ticket shown is not even cut along its black border on the left and bottom. So who the fuck did they pay to print and cut the tickets? Or didn’t they know the Obama employees weren’t making them this year? So they ran them out “in-house” at someone’s desk on the day they were needed.

    Also, very very weird is the filigree, for want of a better word, before and especially after the “House of Reps.” No idea what that curled up off-line snail shell thing is. Or the shaded part that’s … god, the longer I look at it, the stronger the flulike symptoms.

  97. 97.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud:

    President Trump is seeking to parlay his first State of the Union address on Tuesday into cash for his reelection campaign by offering supporters a chance to see their name flashed on the screen during a broadcast of the speech.

    Is that even legal?????

  100. 100.

    The Lodger

    @Aleta: I think that’s the same logo they use on all House of Reps visitor passes, complete with the lowercase “h”. It looks like the ones we got when we visited the Capitol in spring 2016. Ugly as hell but authentic.

  103. 103.

    Steeplejack

    @Aleta:

    Read the second paragraph above. Donors will “see their name displayed during a live streaming of the address on his campaign website.”

  104. 104.

    feathers

    Le sigh. This is what happens when someone is used to using Powerpoint or other Microsoft Office software, and is bumped up to something like InDesign, which doesn’t have spell check. It is also what happens when you have one person doing the graphic design and the printing. I don’t have good eyes for this sort of thing when it’s my work. It always irked me when a co-worker (in the same job) griped about looking something like this over.

    Also, I’m guessing either an intern who said they knew how to use the software or someone who thinks that having to create tickets is very beneath them.

  105. 105.

    The Midnight Lurker

    I don’t know what you people are complaining about. These tickets are the best, the greatest, and clearly the product of a good and stable brain.

  106. 106.

    Gin & Tonic

    @WaterGirl:

    Is that even legal?????

    Legal, illegal, it seems nobody cares any more.

    Increased sanctions against Russia were passed by large bipartisan majorities in both Houses (the vote was 98-2 in the Senate [for extra credit, name the two]) and the Trump admin says “nah, we don’t feel like implementing this.” And that’s that. The Executive branch can now simply ignore the Legislative.

    The Constitution had a good run. Oh, well.

  107. 107.

    WaterGirl

    @Gin & Tonic:

    The Constitution had a good run. Oh, well.

    That’s kinda how I am feeling today. My eyes are tired from being wide-eyed with disbelief at so many things in the news today. It’s appalling.

  108. 108.

    Jay S

    @feathers:

    Also, I’m guessing either an intern who said they knew how to use the software or someone who thinks that having to create tickets is very beneath them

    Creative incompetence to the rescue! Or a coded cry for help.

  109. 109.

    Felanius Kootea

    @SiubhanDuinne: That would be me – it was based on a funny story someone posted about a typo in a recipe. “Salt and freshly ground black pepper” morphed into “salt and freshly ground black people.” I used that as my BJ nym for a little while but, not surprisingly, people who hadn’t heard the original story took it the wrong way. Not the smartest move on my part.

  112. 112.

    Aleta

    @Jay S: Thanks! Also, does it seem like someone may be passing the buck to the Sgt of A? Since he’s been in office since 2012 and the tickets were OK til now?

  113. 113.

    Bill Arnold

    @Steeplejack:

    Rep. Nan Hayworth

    I was very happy to see her defeated, then re-defeated, by Patrick Maloney. Her husband Scott Hayworth is (still is according to wikipedia) president of a very large medical group (Mount Kisco medical group), one of those organizations that often had (maybe still has) Fox News playing in their many waiting room lobbies. (A relative used them because they had no real choice.)

  117. 117.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Adam L Silverman: Oh, come on, put on your thinking cap. Casting that vote would require going against the orthodoxy of the two-party system, would require an independent voice.

  118. 118.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Gin & Tonic: The other rhymes with Like Mee? Meve Stanchin? Ced Truz? Sernie Banders?

    To circle back, Paul’s vote is not surprising given his dad’s longstanding ties to the Russians.

  126. 126.

    Tehanu

    @Peale:

    skim milk al fredo sauce.

    Well, al fredo sauce is the most appropriate for the Dump Administration, since (h/t: Simon Maloy on Twitter, 5/26/17) they’re all Fredos.

  129. 129.

    Marina

    In Bradbury’s short story ‘A Sound of Thunder’ the first signs that everything’s gone to hell are misspellings on a campaign poster.

    O/T, but the NYT has a front-page story complaining about the lack of decorum in having celebrities–specifically HRC– reading from ‘Fire and Fury’. Reporter states polls showed public disapproval. Commenter points out Neilson ratings only track TV watchers, and many (e.g., me) now watch TV shows on other devices. NYT mired in the past. Also, fuck decorum.

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