Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

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

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

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

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

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

Tick tock motherfuckers!

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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But I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers

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I go back and forth about the Russia stuff. On the one hand, I think the Trump campaign’s behavior was genuinely treasonous from a moral perspective and that Trump’s behavior to stifle the investigation is mostly likely criminal from a legal perspective. On the other, none of it’s as important to me as the millions of people’s heath care, or whether 750,000 dreamers get to stay here, or the future of the American middle-class.

But I think we’re certainly headed towards a constitutional crisis. If it lasts til January 2019, it’s probably not the end of the world. If it lasts til January 2021, I think there starts to be real damage.

The Republican party will never hold Trump accountable no matter what he does. The sooner we can get Democrats into power, the better it is for everybody.

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  2. 2.

    Calouste

    I can’t see how it won’t last until 2021. The shitgibbon had already shown that he doesn’t care if Congress passes something with 95% of the votes, why would he care if the Democrats win the House? I expect there will be a really long government shutdown, it’s what the Banana Republicans want.

  3. 3.

    Crashman

    I know there’s still plenty of time till November but the Dems generic polling lead seems to be shrinking in a big way. Keep fighting but…ugh.

  5. 5.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    @Crashman:

    Yeah, that’s going to happen. It’s going to go up and down. Manbaby gives a speech and doesn’t shit himself or set his dick on fire, and it’s going to go down. Then he does something awful and it goes back up again. There’s a long time until November, but overall, I’d sure as hell be in our seats and theirs. One thing we need to do is not flip out every time the generic ballot margin goes down a few points.

  6. 6.

    Doug R

    ActBlue hung on me when I was trying to donate to Conor Lamb last week. I reloaded and now I notice two $25 charges on my visa statement. This better be worth it.

  9. 9.

    zhena gogolia

    It’s not important to you that the person who should rightfully be in the White House, and who would not have done any of those things you’re worrying about, was kept out of there by Putin?

  10. 10.

    Doug R

    @Crashman:

    I know there’s still plenty of time till November but the Dems generic polling lead seems to be shrinking in a big way. Keep fighting but…ugh.

    Lowest rating for a State of the uniom since CNN started asking the question in 1998.
    They ask people if they are going to watch, then call back and ask their opinion. So it skews partisan, this one was R+7, he still only got a 48% approve.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    @Crashman:
    Don’t worry too much about it. There will be plenty of new outrages this year to keep the public angry. I know it because a bunch of Republicans with the clock running out on their Congressional careers now have nothing to hold them back from perpetrating those outrages.

    I like Paul Simon as a songwriter, even if he was never as generous a musical partner to Artie as he could have been.

  21. 21.

    marcopolo

    It’s a depressing thought, but after the way events have played out this month (the total capitulation of elected Rs) I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that Trump will be staying in office until the next presidential election. He is not getting impeached unless Ds have control of both houses and there is really no way for that to happen in the Senate in 2018.

    So, as far as I am concerned, the important thing is to put our heads down, focus our energy, and work to elect as many Democrats as possible at all levels of government. I do think we will flip the House and accomplishing that should at least bring some Executive Branch oversight back. And while giving money is nice, it’s not something everyone can do so I offer another way to help:

    Postcards to Voters are friendly, handwritten reminders from volunteers to targeted voters giving Democrats a winning edge in close, key races coast to coast.

    Working with Postcards to Voters, my St. Louis Indivisible group wrote over 16,000 GOTV post cards in January for the four MO special house elections happening on Feb. 6th. Postcards to Voters is adding new special elections all the time, usually several per week. They currently have a campaign running for Conor Lamb in PA-18, though it appears all their other races have been completed which reflects the numbers of folks they currently have participating.

    Check them out. It is easy peasy. You sign up, they send you a list of 5 addresses (no names), the message you need to put on the postcard (along with other candidate info in case you want to embellish), and you supply the postcards, the stamps, and the writing.

  22. 22.

    Suzanne

    So I was offered a pretty good counter-offer today but I turned it down. ***stressful and I feel bad for being disappointing*** I am trying to get over this cultural programming but it is hard.

    So I’m listening to beautiful music.

  26. 26.

    Suzanne

    @marcopolo:

    I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that Trump will be staying in office until the next presidential election.

    Yes. If not the election after that.
    Taking up heavy drinking in 3, 2, 1…..

  31. 31.

    Crashman06

    @Yutsano: Five Thirty Eight was tweeting about it earlier and Monmouth has a new generic congressional poll
    showing the Dem lead down to 6%, which won’t be enough to take the House. But as others have said up thread, it’ll go up and down and there’s still lots of time.

  32. 32.

    marcopolo

    @Suzanne: Well, I did present an alternative (or if you’d like complimentary–though I don’t know how boozy GOTV postcards would go over) activity to occupy your time that might be slightly more productive and healthier for your liver.

  35. 35.

    Another Scott

    Done and done.

    The wind is still at our backs, Donnie is still horribly unpopular, the courts are still willing to uphold the law and norms even if Donnie and the Teabagger Congress won’t.

    Don’t get discouraged. Remember all the pain and hardship our grandparents and parents went through to leave this country for us. Working to win elections is a cakewalk compared to what they went through.

    Let’s get it done by fighting these horrible monsters every single day.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  37. 37.

    rikyrah

    For 2018, Democrats need to pay special attention to Florida
    1. We should support any effort to register those new residents of Florida from Puerto Rico
    2. We need to support the referendum on the ballot to restore voting rights of ex-felons.

    The former will help us in 2018.
    The latter could put Florida in the BLUE column solidly from 2020 on.

  39. 39.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Mark Corallo, the former spokesman for President Donald Trump’s legal team, will reportedly tell special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators that White House communications director Hope Hicks said Donald Trump Jr.’s emails about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians “will never get out.” According to The New York Times, Corallo was concerned that Hicks “could be contemplating obstructing justice.”

    conspiracy to obstruct justice.

  41. 41.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Nick Jack Pappas @Pappiness

    Hope Hicks has had an inspiring career. She went from spokesperson for Ivanka’s fashion line to White House Communications Director to being indicted for lying to the FBI and obstructing justice all before the age of 30!

    111 replies 763 retweets 2,259 likes

  42. 42.

    Ohio Mom

    @Suzanne: I missed a few threads, didn’t know you’d given your notice.

    Does it ever really work when someone accepts a counter offer? The new place that was going to steal the person away is pissed and does the old place ever again really trust the almost-deserter?

    Anyway, congrats!

  43. 43.

    Mike in NC

    Trump was turned as a Kremlin asset way back in 1987. The entire family needs to go to prison for the rest of their sorry lives.

  45. 45.

    James E. Powell

    @Amir Khalid: @Crashman:

    The last time I was told not to worry was November 2016, so I’m more with @Crashman. I can’t help but worry. I’ve completely lost faith in everyone except hardcore Democratic voters.

  46. 46.

    marcopolo

    And here is something just off the wires:

    Adam Schiff
    @RepAdamSchiff

    BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House – changes not approved by the Committee. White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release.

    So there’s a pretty crowded D primary to run against Nunes but can we all agree to do a fundraiser for whomever makes it through to the general election? He is such an @sshole Drumpf shitkisser.

  47. 47.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Kristin Vohl @KrissyCougar

    Hope Hicks is #1 trending on Twitter. The one thing she always wanted. Except now it for obstruction of justice and borderline treason.

    2 replies 5 retweets 12 likes

  48. 48.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    “I have never met Hope Hicks. I have never been in the same room with Hope Hicks. I wouldn’t know what she looks like. Believe me! Believe me!”

  49. 49.

    mainmata

    At this point, there is little question that (probably Trump himself) and certainly Jr, Jared and a whole host of his campaign people were working with the Russians to screw the election. That’s straight up treason. We will also find out that Trump has long been a money launderer for the Russian mafia and Central Asian oligarchs. Trump will be convicted of multiple crimes but only after he is no longer “President”. If we survive.

  50. 50.

    Jager

    Every time my congress person, Julia Brownley-D CA 26th, posts something on Facebook, the same three trolls show up in order, 1, 2, 3. I don’t know if they are bots or just cranky old SoCal trolls who spend their lives waiting for her to post something.

  51. 51.

    marcopolo

    I ‘m off to bed soon, but will leave y’all with this good news (apologies if it has already been noted):

    San Francisco will retroactively apply California’s marijuana-legalization laws to past criminal cases, District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday — expunging or reducing misdemeanor and felony convictions going back decades.

    The unprecedented move will affect thousands of people whose marijuana convictions brand them with criminal histories that can hurt chances of finding jobs and obtaining some government benefits.

  52. 52.

    chris

    @Gin & Tonic: Hicks is a true believer of some sort, has to be to stand that lot. I will not be at all surprised to hear that she has a discreet swastika tattoo.

  53. 53.

    Anne Laurie

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I don’t get her. She’s 29, not independently wealthy AFAIK, and is going to have to spend a shitload of money on attorneys.

    She went from a gated suburb in the Aryan-from-Darien CT suburbs, to an internship-turned-job as marketing assistant for Ivanka, to “personal assistant” to The Most Powerful Man in the World. Where the fvck was she gonna pick up enough outside-the-bubble information to realize that sludge rising up around their hips wasn’t chocolate pudding?

  55. 55.

    danielx

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    He was bad, but he had enough wit to at least listen to other people with more expertise than him in a given policy area. Granted that it didn’t take much to exceed Dubya’s expertise, his response depended on with whom he surrounded himself. But even more – way more – than with Bush, personal loyalty to Trump himself and his policies counts more than expertise, particularly nonpartisan expertise. However…unlike Bush, Republicans, most especially Republican donors, are seeing their policy preferences being enacted in law beyond their wildest fantasies. Maybe another word there, Republican fantasies being something upon which I do not care to speculate.

    The greater wit and wisdom of George W. Bush. Talk about phrases I never thought I’d be typing.

    I am starting to think I have lived too long.

  56. 56.

    Mary G

    this article by Ed Kilgore in MY Mag cheered me up: “Trump’s Job Approval Is Underwater in 18 States He Carried in 2016.”

    Trump was actually under 40 percent in Texas, and no better than 43 percent in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, Michigan, and North Carolina.

    and

    A Republican president who can’t top 40 percent job approval in the Lone Star State has a Texas-sized problem.

    @Suzanne: learning that you can say no and be a hardass negotiator is a tough one for women, but when you get their next counter offer for more money it will be sweet.

  57. 57.

    mai naem mobile

    Despite everything – voter suppression,midterm election,gerrymand Erin – if the Dems can’t take the House back this year, they might as well fold up as a party and declare bankruptcy. If you can’t get your voters to come out and vote for you with everything Dolt45 and Congressional Republicons are doing, there is no hope.

  63. 63.

    Suzanne

    @Ohio Mom:

    Does it ever really work when someone accepts a counter offer? The new place that was going to steal the person away is pissed and does the old place ever again really trust the almost-deserter?

    Yeah, I know. And honestly, I don’t think my current team really is positioned to do the kind of work I want to do.

  64. 64.

    mai naem mobile

    @Gin & Tonic: I read somewhere her parents have money. Not super rich but enough for some lawyers fees. She’ll get plenty of money from a book deal or FOX presenter.

  69. 69.

    mai naem mobile

    I remember years ago, Forbes or Fortune had Greenwich was either the richest zip code or richest town in the country going by average household income. I was surprised since I would have expected it to be NY or California.

  71. 71.

    Lyrebird

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    And is anything gated there? Too old to gate, I would think.

    Plenty of homes have their own gates/fences. “Homes” meaning like “estates”… there are little apartments downtown and whatnot, but outside of there, big lovely properties. Few signs of life.

  75. 75.

    Jager

    @Lyrebird:

    A century ago I dated a woman from Greenwich, her parent’s home was the size of St Andrews golf club. The patio was the size of normal suburban house lot.

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