Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Let me file that under fuck it.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

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GOP Stupid Venality / Venal Stupidity Open Thread: As Above, So Below

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Both Steve ‘Pigmuck’ King and Louie ‘Dumbest Dude in Congress’ Gohmert are quite silly enough to have called this hearing out of genuine confusion about Facebook’s filtering protocols, or in sympathy with the “rights” of a couple of African-American Trump supporters to monetize the How-Can-He-Be-A-Racist-When-He-Has-Black-Friends market, if only they’d been able to keep a straight face…

(Spoiler: Diamond & Silk were not “censored”, although it’s an open question whether or not they understand that.)

Aaaand, to tip the scales from stupid to venal, look who else showed up…

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  4. 4.

    Peale

    @Baud: I think it’s just your consumer rights, which aren’t in the constitution, sadly. When’s the last time you received the actual pie you were promised?

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    Major Major Major Major

    One thing I forgot to mention about the hearing: after it was over Darrell Issa went up to chat with Diamond and Silk and talked about how Wikipedia is also mean to conservatives

    …huh.

    Meanwhile, from the things-more-credible-than-2018 files, I got line edits back for my short story about near-future psychic Kabbalistic librarians, so (not to count too many chickens) I’m optimistic the editor will buy it after I work out a few kinks.

  8. 8.

    Mnemosyne

    @rikyrah:

    My biracial niece in IL used to wear her hair like that when she was little, but usually in just one bun — we called it “the pouf.” ?

    Now she’s all grown up at age 12 and insists on braids. Sigh.

  12. 12.

    Chyron HR

    Giving Madea a sidekick has really revitalized this classic franchise! Summer fun for the whole family! ***1/2

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    dmsilev

    how Wikipedia is also mean to conservatives

    How long until House GOP members start reading Conservapedia articles into the Congressional Record?

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Major Major Major Major: Given that her Javert has now decided to go after Markos Moulitsos, I think what was looking bad is now going to get very interesting. My guess is that whoever the twitter user is, she is either a sock puppet for someone whose name we’d recognize or she’s working on behalf of someone whose name we’d recognize.

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    TenguPhule

    I wish for very bad things to happen to Diamond & Silk. They have gone the extra mile to being complete assholes in addition to grifting crooks.

  22. 22.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    Since when do people have the right to an audience? This is ridiculous bullshit and a waste of taxpayer dollars. The House killed their Russia investigation for this?

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    @Mnemosyne: There…isn’t very much that needs translated there. It’s a lot of Engrish and babble.

    But oh man that looks addictive.

  24. 24.

    Chyron HR

    @TenguPhule:

    I wish for very bad things to happen to Diamond & Silk.

    What, you mean worse than the usual violent death you wish on generic Republicans?

  26. 26.

    efgoldman

    @dmsilev:

    How long until House GOP members start reading Conservapedia articles into the Congressional Record?

    Remember Newtnik’s “special orders” in the mid-90s? That’s essentially what they did, droning along on CSPAN after dinner.

  27. 27.

    Gin & Tonic

    I’m delighted that I have no idea whatsoever what this is about. I’m also delighted that I’m two cocktails into Friday now.

  31. 31.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Basically they accused at least two members of Congress of lying about the FEC having documentation from the Trump campaign reimbursing/paying them on the basis that the FEC report is fake news. So that would mean that the President’s campaign falsified its FEC filings.

    What’s even worse is that they’ve been paid around $30K by Paul Nehlen’s campaign.

  33. 33.

    Aleta

    JiaJing @JiaJing_Liu

    Replying to @justinsreedy @tomscocca @jbouie
    How convenient of (Andrew) Sullivan to forget about the British Empire and its overseas colonies. Prior to 1971, the majority of non-white people who moved to Britain were from Commonwealth countries, aka British subjects, not immigrants.

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    Gravenstone

    I’ve seen multiple comments about Diamond and Silk (or Zircon and Dacron as I believe someone tagged them), but never looked into them. Assumed they were misguided kids. Had no idea they were 40something clowns.

  37. 37.

    Aleta

    @Major Major Major Major: Overtly racist mourning about the changed demographics of London, fed by his homemade facts, easily disproved. Which he expands to float his ideas about immigration = not good. He feels OK with that bc he’s superior to other ims, I suppose.

    NY Magazine doesn’t edit him for accuracy, apparently. That agreement, if that’s what happened when he signed, lets him freely damage their reputation. What he brings them is a measurable amount of attention paid to his stupidity; and maybe they’re fine with that.

  43. 43.

    chopper

    Steve King is entering Jim Hoft’s Gateway Pundit articles into the record at Diamond & Silk’s House Judiciary Committee hearing

    none of this statement makes any sense.

  44. 44.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Jay: I read that, and while I agree that people write things they later don’t believe and that’s okay (hi Cole!), well, you gotta own up to it. (Edited to correct misconception about article; apparently I only read a lengthy excerpt, not the full piece)

  45. 45.

    sdhays

    @Major Major Major Major: I don’t watch cable news (so no one should really care about my opinion), but everything I’ve seen up to now has left me very impressed with Joy Reid. I believe her.

    Either way, her network hired Mrs. “Santa Claus IS NOT BLACK” and rehabilitated Brian Fucking Williams so they had better crawl through hot coals and broken glass defending her unless they want other members of the NBC family to be subject to unflattering comparisons in her treatment…

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    Boris, Rasputin's Evil Twin

    @Adam L Silverman: A 10 year old boy came into my library this week asking for material on the Illuminati. I was tempted to say, Sorry, we can’t tell you anything about us – oops!” Should we see about recruiting him?

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