Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, man.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

The words do not have to be perfect.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

You cannot shame the shameless.

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Late-Night Wingnut Wurlizter Open Thread: Tucker Carlson’s Vanity Project – Willing Putin Accomplices or Useful Idiots?

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I know ‘can you imagine… ‘ is an overworked trope, but if — for instance — Think Progress had published an op-ed like this, the Daily Caller would be screaming for Trump to send Seal Team Six through their office window.


Bring out the puke funnel, boys…

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  1. 1.

    mike in dc

    “This ‘Helter-Skelter’ Murder Investigation Is Turning Into A Witch Hunt” by Mr. C. Manson.
    Mr. Manson is a prominent figure in the LA youth counterculture community

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Tucker Carlson is a traitor.

    Wow, that’s fucking shocking, isn’t it?

  4. 4.

    Debbie(aussie)

    Even from the side of the planet this seems amazing. To answer the question in the title, I’ll go with both ☹️

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    Trump probably wants to deny the affair. He was already in the doghouse with Melania before word of it came out; and there’s a chance, however slim, that he might sue the Graun for calling the affair a fact.

  10. 10.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Amir Khalid:No lawsuit of anyone by trump would ever get to discovery. That said, here’s my alternative headline:

    How trump tried to keep his relationship with Stormy Daniels a secret

  12. 12.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Texas, it’s a whole ‘nother country:

    A Texas judge has been rebuked after he ordered a defendant to be shocked repeatedly with a 50,000-volt stun belt for failing to answer his questions. The remote-controlled bands usually wrap around the legs or waist and are occasionally deployed to immobilize prisoners who turn violent or try to escape, despite ethical and safety concerns.

    Terry Lee Morris was not violent during his 2014 trial in Tarrant County, near Dallas. But George Gallagher, the judge, grew vexed when Morris demanded that Gallagher recuse himself.
    “Are you going to follow the rules?” Gallagher asked.
    Morris replied: “I have a lawsuit pending against you.”
    “Hit him,” Gallagher told a bailiff, who pressed the button to activate the belt.
    “Are you going to behave?” Gallagher then asked Morris, who responded, “I have a history of mental illness.”
    “Hit him again,” the judge said.
    ………………
    Justice Yvonne Rodriguez wrote that “electrocuting a defendant until he provides the judge with behavior he likes” is an abuse of power. The court added that since Morris had been removed from the courtroom, he was too scared to return and refused to leave his cell, and therefore his constitutional right to attend his own trial was impaired. Rodriguez added that if it allowed such judicial conduct to be left unaddressed, it risked a “drift from justice into barbarism”.

    Gee, ya think?

    In a follow-up report by the Washington Post, Gallagher declined to comment, citing “judicial ethics”.

    I’m just gonna take a wild guess and say that the judge and I have different ideas of just exactly what constitutes “judicial ethics”.

  14. 14.

    Tony Jay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I’m not sure he’s smart enough to be a traitor.

    That gets said a lot in relation to the various turds swimming around the American Right’s toilet bowl but it’s not really that much of a contradiction. I think history would bear me out if I said that while some traitors have been smart and cunning enough to achieve their aims and actually grasp and hold onto power (in which case the old saw about “If treason doth prosper, none dare call it treason” comes into effect), the majority of traitors, especially the ones who do it for money, aren’t likely to be the sharpest tools in the box. They can’t be, as they’re doing something incredibly dangerous for an often piddling financial reward, but they’re not capable of doing a simple risk/reward calculation beforehand.

    I think that’s the case with most of the treason being unearthed by Mueller’s investigation. So many of these chancers, scoundrels and grifters – right on up to the occupier of the Oval Office – have been playing Russia’s game at whatever remove because they saw a way to make money out of it. Ideology, however much they personally buy into it, was always secondary to the prospect of shady moolah. And they thought they’d get away with it because they always had in the past. The idea that riding their Russian money-train right into the White House might bring out the bright klieg lights of serious investigation never seemed to occur to them… because they’re stupid.

    tl:dr – Most traitors aren’t smart, they’re just greedy.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    @OzarkHillbilly

    One step forward, 30,000 steps back. Shameful, disgraceful, repugnant and a raft of other adjectives unfit for polite company.

    GM’s World of Tomorrow exhibit at the ’39 World’s Fair expunged a lot of the future.

  16. 16.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Tony Jay: This is America where the pursuit of money is the national past time. Just being greedy ain’t enough. Just being greedy and stupid ain’t enough. Otherwise Dana Rohrabacher would have been in prison decades ago.

  17. 17.

    lowtechcyclist

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    @Villago Delenda Est: I’m not sure he’s smart enough to be a traitor.

    As Tony Jay said, you don’t need to be smart to be a traitor.

    My mind still boggles at how totally all-in the right wing is with the new “Russia’s great, fuck Europe” party line. I’m 64, and one of the defining GOP memes for my entire lifetime up until the past few years has been “you can count on us to be tougher against Russia than those spineless comsymp Dems.” And suddenly, they’re Putin’s little buddy.

  19. 19.

    Robert Sneddon

    @lowtechcyclist: Today’s Russia is right-wing, pseudo-Christian, militaristic, racist and sexist and yearns for the Good Old Days. What’s not to like in that for American right-wingers compared to Germanistan or sharia-dominated Britain (both of whom have weak feeble female leaders too!)

  20. 20.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    @Debbie(aussie): Yeah, I get asked to explain Trump all the time. I try, but it’s not always easy. After the election somebody asked me why I was so upset, and I said “Imagine Pauline Hanson just became the Prime Minister and her party had a full majority in both houses of Parliament. Would you find that, stressful?” I found that worked.

  23. 23.

    Tony Jay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Well, yeah. Rohrabacher is a great example. Clearly he’s a dim little rat who has been the Kremlin’s bag-man for a long time, but he was getting away with it because the pursuit of dirty cash is, like you say, as American as dancing girls and maverick TV cops, and the people who – should – have been on his case saw nothing wrong with a little Russian grift as long as it was paying for things that benefitted them. Ryan said as much in his not-famous-enough warning about keeping all the Russian funding on the down-low. They didn’t care that it could be looked at as treason because they’re ‘savvy’ enough to look at it as just another shady funding stream that would let them achieve their real aims of billionaire welfare and mass disenfranchisment of minorities.

    What’s changed is the scale of the grift and its obviousness. All of the little rats found their individual small and not-so-small shennanigans coalescing into one great, big, foreign intelligence operation aimed at torpedoing U.S. democracy, and now they’re exposed and in the open. It no longer really matters what coy little euphemisms they use amongst themselves to cloak what they did for money. The US Intelligence Agencies, via Mueller, have their own terms of reference for their actions, like bribery, conspiracy and, in Rohrabacher’s case, probably some kind of espionage. He and the others may have done it for money, which was stupid, but what they did went far beyond just financial crimes.

  24. 24.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Amir Khalid:

    I don’t understand why he’s still a judge.

    It’s Texas. Unless the judge is unlucky he is now a shoo-in for the Texas Courts of Appeals.

    The defendant’s own attorney didn’t feel obliged to object to the electrocution.

    That’s Texas.

  25. 25.

    Marmot

    Texas, it’s a whole ‘nother country:

    A Texas judge has been rebuked after he ordered a defendant to be shocked …

    That’s horrible. But the lesson you took is that it’s the fault of Texas?

    That’s kind of impressive. Lots of cowboy movies in your childhood? You know that among 27 million people, the odds of random stories cropping up about terrible people are a bit high, right?

  27. 27.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Marmot:

    We Texas Dems are doing our damnedest, and you pricks aren’t helping.

    Whoa there buckaroo, somebody put a burr under your saddle?

    I didn’t mention Dems. I assumed, correctly, that the judge was a Republican, and that his actions were the sort of actions that please Republicans.

    Fucking get yourself a geography lesson.

    Don’t see how that would help. I know where Texas is. It’s a small state where, if Florida is America’s penis then Texas is located right around where the bumhole would be.

    If you want to blame someone for pointing out that the torturing of defendants in court is not a good idea, start blaming those who voted to allow the accused to be fitted out with electroshock in the first place and then expected it would not get abused, i.e. your fellow Texans. If that doesn’t help get Dems elected, then fuck Texas.

  29. 29.

    germy

    My local sinclair tv news station features Boris Russianlastname as a regular commentor. The station also has a news tip line. I was tempted to call in and tell them Boris was being questioned by Mueller, but I was too lazy.

    Sinclair actually owns a bunch of stations. One that plays only shitty, 4th-rate sci fi films, another one that’s intended for young people that consists of young people juggling and skateboarding (remarkably content-free), another one that plays ’70s action films, another one that’s all sports. And there’s a “CW” one that’s playing reruns of Tim Allen’s cancelled show… This is all in addition to their news channel. It’s quite a monopoly.

  31. 31.

    jc

    “This includes no disclosure of Deripaska’s ties to Putin or Manafort.”

    Naturally. It’s Tucker Carlson, human superfund site of toxic sludge.

  32. 32.

    Ruckus

    @lowtechcyclist:
    It was communism that was the issue, not Russia per se. After all we were allies with them during the WAR. And we weren’t fighting the USSR/Russia in Vietnam, we were fighting to stop communism. Now that Russia is no longer communist, all is well and they are the greatest. We Won! And then, primarily because they are exactly the country that conservatives would like us to be. The very, very wealthy get to do whatever the fuck they want and everyone else gets to help them do that. The ones that help the ultra wealthy get paid and promoted well and the rest can suck it. They like Vlad because he’s exactly their roll model.

  33. 33.

    Ruckus

    @Viva BrisVegas:

    The defendant’s own attorney didn’t feel obliged to object to the electrocution.

    Probably/possibly figured correctly that if he did object he’d get the volts as well.

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