Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

The words do not have to be perfect.

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

We won’t go back.

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

People are complicated. Love is not.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Republicans would impeach Biden if he bit into a whole Kit Kat rather than breaking the sections apart.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

When we show up, we win.

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

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

Books are my comfort food!

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    Every single time I hear Cohen say “Mr. Trump” out loud I start laughing. He sounds like such a fucking ball less goon who is the dog on Saturday morning cartoons.
    “I will love him and pet him and squeeze him”

  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    “Everyone who works for Mr. Trump sees him as more than an employer. He’s a sage and a father figure. He’s family. If you have a problem, Mr. Trump will say ‘Let me lay hands on you my child’, and it will all go away.”

  6. 6.

    rikyrah

    @JPL:
    BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz should padlock their American factories beginning tomorrow. Let his MAGA voters feel all that winning.

  7. 7.

    TenguPhule

    @Corner Stone:

    He’s a sage and a father figure. He’s family. If you have a problem, Mr. Trump will say ‘Let me lay hands on you my child’, and it will all go away.”

    That is incredibly disturbing. It must be five o clock somewhere.

  8. 8.

    JPL

    @rikyrah: The AIC went to Mercedes Benz Stadium for the college playoff. He is vindictive because Angela didn’t kiss his butt. I agree with you, that you have to fight back.

    just a reminder that AIC is asshole in chief. I don’t want to get the Samantha Bee treatment. lol

  9. 9.

    Mike J

    @JPL: Good reason for me to wear my COtA Mercedes cap. Red, white, and blue under the brim with white merc logo on white cap. Mercedes pisses off Trump and employs the only black driver in F1.

  12. 12.

    eclare

    @rikyrah: BMW in SC, Mercedes in AL, yep. Don’t know about BMW, but a friend I used to work with, a CPA, said he regretted not following through with plans to interview with Mercedes. He was originally from AL, and he said some factory jobs there paid $100k, which goes far in AL.

  13. 13.

    Tokyokie

    @JPL: I’ve never owned a Benz or BMW, and two of the VWs I’ve owned were probably the worst cars I’ve ever had. And don’t get me started on the horribly designed (by BMW) Mini I used to drive. And although such a ban will likely never affect me directly — I’ll never own another German car — such a move profoundly offends me. Setting foreign policy based entirely on pique is absolutely disastrous.

  15. 15.

    Bobby Thomson

    As lawyers behaving badly stuff goes, this is pretty weak fuckin’ tea.

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne

    @JPL:

    So in theory that shouldn’t hurt American workers in local factories since the tariff wouldn’t apply to their products … unless BMW, Mercedes, and VW decide to make it hurt. ?

  19. 19.

    Jeffro

    @JPL: Yet another swipe from the Spite Administration… no basis for this move other than sheer toddler temper tantrum .

    Just remember Republicans, your economic interests could be next .

  22. 22.

    smintheus

    Just emailed CVS to say that I’ll be boycotting them over their support for America First Policies, a goon PAC run by Trump supporters.

    “If [companies] have a problem with being associated with the racist, sexist or homophobic comments of the people who are working for America First Policies… because they worry about what their clients or customers would say, then maybe they shouldn’t do it,” said Marge Baker, an executive vice president at People For The American Way, a progressive advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. “The dark money is such a problem because it allows you to be associated with it but not have any accountability.”

  23. 23.

    eclare

    @JPL: Thank you for the definition, where I used to work AIC stood for Annual Incentive Comp. I prefer POS for him, I think everyone knows what that means.

  24. 24.

    kindness

    OK, read the link the The Hill on the Mercedes thingy. I can see Trump saying such things but I think the people he actually wants to be seen as a peer would murder him for us if he did. It’s so preposterous that it’s just more Trump chaos smokescreen to keep us all off what they are really doing.

    Like the EPA move to gut emissions standards and California’s ability to write their own. That is today’s biggie.

  25. 25.

    Corner Stone

    @schrodingers_cat: Cohen is on record as saying Trump is a sage and “like family” and that everyone who ever worked for him thought of him as more than an employer and would go to him with their problems. But I took a slight dramatic license with the Jesus touching absolution part.

  26. 26.

    TenguPhule

    @Jeffro:

    Just remember Republicans, your economic interests could be next .

    Dude, their economic interests got gutted yesterday and today.

  27. 27.

    JPL

    @kindness: He’s a vindictive asshole, and if you think someone can stop him ask Trudeau how that is working out for him and is country.

  30. 30.

    TenguPhule

    @kindness:

    It’s so preposterous that it’s just more Trump chaos smokescreen to keep us all off what they are really doing.

    Its simple. He really is that stupid and crazy. Nothing is too preposterous for him. NOTHING.

  31. 31.

    TenguPhule

    @JPL:

    ask Trudeau how that is working out for him and is country.

    Canada just declared WAAAAAAAAAAAGHHH on American Products.

  35. 35.

    Another Scott

    In other news, Josh Eidelson on Twitter:

    Josh Eidelson Verified account
    @josheidelson

    Breaking: Boeing technicians in South Carolina have voted to unionize, by a margin of 104 to 65, according to National Labor Relations Board

    1:45 PM – 31 May 2018

    Hehe. One of the reasons Boeing went to South Carolina in the first place was to get away from their Seattle unions.

    Bloomberg has more.

    Good, good. More, please.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  36. 36.

    Tokyokie

    @Corner Stone: The last VW I owned was about 25 years ago. Since then, it’s been a Subaru (totaled by a friend), a Toyota (totaled by a semi-trailer rig), three Hondas, and the current Kia, as well as the accursed Mini. But if I could, I’d get a Fiat 500 (2-door, manual transmission).

  39. 39.

    JPL

    @Tokyokie: I owned Volvo’s and now a Honda, but son and DIL have Audi’s. She was hoping to get a new SUV, but it appears she better do so soon.

  40. 40.

    chris

    Donohue warned that withdrawing from NAFTA could cost as many as 1.8 million U.S. jobs in the first year, according to the Journal, while he also warned that tariffs against China and the steel and aluminum tariffs, among others, could cost hundreds of thousands more jobs.

    That would be the head of the US Chamber of Commerce an organisation I despise for reasons but still…

  49. 49.

    JPL

    @Omnes Omnibus: lol You convinced me to just continue calling him the asshole in chief, but if I get the Samantha Bee treatment I blame you. No acronyms for me.

  50. 50.

    Mai naem mobile

    I bet Trumpov is so stupid he doesn’t realize his base states are where the German cars are made in the US. Also I doubt Jared, Vanki and most of his cabinet would be ha00y. They all come across as Beemer and Benz consumers. For the cachet ofcourse .

  54. 54.

    JPL

    @debbie: yup I do wish they would strike first though. Britain could come out and say he is not welcome this summer in their country. At the G7 summit , they could turn their backs, or better yet take a knee.
    wishful thinking

  56. 56.

    chris

    @JPL: Um, OK… not sure I get your point. My problem with the Chamber is their climate change denialism. It should be everybody’s problem but it gives them a lot of wingnut cred.

    ETA: And supporting the orange POS of course. Til now anyway.

  58. 58.

    debbie

    @JPL:

    I want them all to start making deals with each other, locking out the U.S. I am that vindictive. ?

  59. 59.

    JPL

    @chris: In GA the chamber didn’t support Perdue. He ran against them, although they came back during the general election. .
    Senator Perdue, not the former governor.

  60. 60.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @debbie: Can’t get it into the shop until a week from today. Luckily, temps should be in the 70s until then.

  61. 61.

    Calouste

    @debbie: That will happen naturally, because what is the point in making a deal with someone who doesn’t keep their word?

  64. 64.

    Brachiator

    @chris:

    Donohue warned that withdrawing from NAFTA could cost as many as 1.8 million U.S. jobs in the first year, according to the Journal, while he also warned that tariffs against China and the steel and aluminum tariffs, among others, could cost hundreds of thousands more jobs.

    I took a look at the comments in a couple of conservative news sites. Trump supporters don’t care about jobs. They just want to see Trump punish designated enemies. His anger is their anger.

  65. 65.

    chris

    @JPL: Ah, gotcha.

    At Trudeau’s press conference one reporter asked him about the G7 meeting in June In Quebec. Reporter corrected himself and said G6+1. It’s gonna be… interesting.

  66. 66.

    JPL

    @chris: lol They need to start punching first, because the asshole in chief will fold. He’s a bully and coward.

  67. 67.

    rikyrah

    @eclare:
    The one in Spartanburg, SC- a City Councilman said that there were 34,000 jobs attached to the car plant, with ancillary businesses . Phuck all of them. They wanted to MAGA. Let them feel it.??

  69. 69.

    debbie

    @JPL:

    What ticks me off the most is that he’s turned his back on the countries that stood behind America after 9/11. Regardless of the wrongness of the invasion of Iraq, those countries showed the kind of heart and humanity Trump will never be able to grasp. This is not making us great again.

  71. 71.

    chris

    @Brachiator:

    Trump supporters don’t care about jobs.

    Well, it won’t be their jobs, right? Right? Shitgibbon may be smarter than his base but that ain’t sayin’ much.

  74. 74.

    Elizabelle

    Maybe this business about the German cars will go over as well as threatening Delta, as that asshat Georgia legislator did a few months back. Over losing the NRA discount. Because too many schools were getting shot up.

    It’s disheartening to live through, but a lot of this might be motivating people to vote Republicans out.

  75. 75.

    debbie

    @JPL:

    In fact, I am so vindictive, I want Martha Stewart to tell Trump to shove his pardon up his ass.

  76. 76.

    Platonailedit

    @Brachiator: You are wasting time trying to rationalize what trumpaloons think and do, when everyone here already knows that.

  77. 77.

    Matt McIrvin

    If Trump really starts going nuts with the pardon power, it could make Washington, DC a very dangerous place to be, since basically everything there is under federal jurisdiction.

  79. 79.

    NotMax

    @debbie

    With the unbelievable, greatest ever in history windfall* from the ‘tax cuts,’ people won’t bat an eye

    :).

    *Not intended to be or resemble truth.

  81. 81.

    Brachiator

    @schrodingers_cat:

    How many of those are sock puppets and bots? How many unique T supporters.

    Good question. Of course, conservative sites would have no reason to try to filter out bots that support their cause.

  85. 85.

    Brachiator

    @Platonailedit:

    You are wasting time trying to rationalize what trumpaloons think and do, when everyone here already knows that.

    I’m curious to see how far they will go. It’s like studying rats in a maze.

  88. 88.

    chopper

    i heard that on the radio on the way to pick up the kids. jesus cohen sounds like such a schmuck. like he’s trying real hard to be a wise guy or something. like there’s a voice in his head all what would joe pesci do?

  89. 89.

    NotMax

    @JPL

    Have a ceramic frying pan I like from her brand.

    Didn’t realize it was her brand until got it home. Purely an impulse buy as it was on a clearance table at Macy’s at 80% off..

  93. 93.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    Trump does not like Angela.

    And Angela does not like Trump. From Ben Rhodes’ new book, via the NYT:

    Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama that she felt more obliged to run for another term because of Mr. Trump’s election to defend the liberal international order. When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.

    Trump is pissing off world leaders in Europe, Asia, and North America, at least. If he hasn’t already, it’s only a matter of time before he also alienates leaders, friend and foe alike, in South America (aka MS-13), Africa (aka shithole countries), and Oz/NZ.

  97. 97.

    Brachiator

    @chris:

    Trump has just issued this statement in response to Trudeau

    Trump really has this mania about someone taking advantage, and fair deals. I wonder what happened to him as a kid, what his “rosebud” moment might be. Also, I’m tired of the country having to suffer because of his psychological issues.

  101. 101.

    Baud

    @SiubhanDuinne: I don’t know, but I’d imagine Merkel would have enjoyed working collaboratively with Hillary as the most powerful two women in the world.

  102. 102.

    chris

    @Brachiator: Dale remarked that Trump seems to have taken Justin’s speech personally. I’m sure JT tried to avoid that but he was visibly holding in his anger. Like his father, he does not suffer fools well at all.

  103. 103.

    Corner Stone

    @Baud:

    as the most powerful two women in the world.

    “Wonder Twin powers activate! In the form of: Ass Kicking Badasses who kick everyone’s ass!”

  109. 109.

    Jeffro

    @Brachiator:

    Trump supporters don’t care about jobs. They just want to see Trump punish designated enemies. His anger is their anger.

    Hence the “I AM YOUR VOICE!!1! ARGLEBARGLEGAHHH!!” speech at the RNC convention. At the time it seemed laughable…

  110. 110.

    Brachiator

    @chris:

    Dale remarked that Trump seems to have taken Justin’s speech personally. I’m sure JT tried to avoid that but he was visibly holding in his anger.

    Trump and the other goons in his administration can dish it out, but can’t take any push back.

    I also vaguely recall Trump in the past bragging that he deliberately lied to JT about some issue.

    Ah, CNN story from March.

    In a speech at a Republican fundraiser on Wednesday, President Trump revealed that he made some stuff up when talking with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

    Trump recalled how Trudeau claimed that the US had a trade surplus with Canada. ‘Wrong, Justin, you do,'” Trump recounted saying. “I didn’t even know. … I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong,’ You know why? Because we’re so stupid. … And I thought they were smart. I said, ‘You’re wrong, Justin.’ He said, ‘Nope, we have no trade deficit.’ I said, ‘Well, in that case, I feel differently,’ I said, ‘but I don’t believe it.'”

    “I didn’t even know…I had no idea.”

    So, Trump claiming that Canada is taking advantage is pure bullshit meant to keep idiot supporters excited. Meanwhile, the GOP leadership stands by while Trump alienates an ally just for shits and giggles.

    Link

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/politics/trump-trudeau-facts/index.html

  111. 111.

    Jeffro

    @Brachiator:

    Trump really has this mania about someone taking advantage, and fair deals. I wonder what happened to him as a kid, what his “rosebud” moment might be. Also, I’m tired of the country having to suffer because of his psychological issues.

    This is exactly it – it’s what he learned from his dad, Fred Trump. There are no deals where both sides come out ahead. It’s take or be taken. It’s I win, you lose. He (Fred) was horrendous and his abuse is a direct cause of DJT’s abusive impulses (because he never dealt with any of it in a healthy way…hell, he never had to).

    I’m surprised more anti-trumpers of all stripes – comedians, activists, the more brazen Dem candidates – don’t throw it in Trumpov’s face. Want him to stroke out? Remind him that no matter how many brown families he shatters at the border or however many p____s he grabs or however much grifter $$$ he rakes in from Rosneft or whatever, it’ll never be good enough. See what the reaction is then…

  112. 112.

    raven

    Against my better judgement we took both pups down to the beach at sunset. The coppers pulled in to entrance to the beach and sat there for almost an hour. I told my wife that the dogs were screened by mu fishing chart and we had to just wait them out. After an hour the dude pulled down to within 30 yards of us, checked a bunch of permits for people having a luaua and waved at us and split! We got lucky. Anyway I thought ya’ll would like this shot of this lady walking the beach with an enormous cat on her shoulder!

  113. 113.

    different-church-lady

    @Jeffro:

    Remind him that no matter how many brown families he shatters at the border or however many p____s he grabs or however much grifter $$$ he rakes in from Rosneft or whatever, it’ll never be good enough. See what the reaction is then…

    “BRING ME THE FOOTBALL! NOW!”

  115. 115.

    Jack the Second

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    and Oz/NZ

    I really want to make the joke, “Those c**** can go fuck themselves”, but I also really don’t like that word, so I’ll leave it meta.

    (While I understand the argument that some people use offensive words in a way devoid of the original misogynistic, etc, content, like the Brits/Aussies claim to, I think that for some words and phrases the original discriminatory intent is still close enough to the surface that we should respect the people who say they are hurt by the words, and refrain from using derogatory idioms revolving around genitalia, disability, or sexual practices.)

  116. 116.

    Jager

    BMW is in North Carolina, they have 5 Series Highway patrol cars and cops ride BMW motorcycles. They have been building BMWs in Spartanburg since ’94. They build 1900 cars a day at that plant. MB has been in Alabama since the late 90’s. trump is fucking nuts. last year he was bitching about Toyota and Honda, both have been building cars here forever. I was listening to “The World” when I was driving today. The had the Dutch woman who heads up the European Union’s trade organization…she said something to the effect, the US hasn’t been negotiating with them at all (like Ross said we have) they’ve just shown up and made demands. She jammed trump a bit, He said, “winning a trade war is easy” she said, I suppose you can look at it like that, but it it’s not easy because what happens here has a ripple effect all over the world,

  118. 118.

    Jeffro

    Speaking of only the best (barf) people…here’s the kind of thing that Trumpism is dragging out into the open: Congressional Candidate in Virginia Admits He’s a Pedophile

    He ain’t running as a Dem, is all I’m saying:

    Asked whether there was a “grain of truth” in his essay about father-daughter incest and another about raping his ex-wife repeatedly, he said yes, offering that plenty of women have rape fantasies.

    According to Larson’s campaign manifesto, his platform as a “quasi-neoreactionary libertarian” candidate includes protecting gun ownership rights, establishing free trade and protecting “benevolent white supremacy,” as well as legalizing incestuous marriage and child pornography.

    In the manifesto, Larson called Nazi leader Adolf Hitler a “white supremacist hero.” He urged Congress to repeal the Violence Against Women Act, adding, “We need to switch to a system that classifies women as property, initially of their fathers and later of their husbands.” He also showed sympathy for men who identify as involuntary celibates, or incels, suggesting it is unfair that they “are forced to pay taxes for schools, welfare, and other support for other men’s children.”

    This guy is about one hair away from being Dave Brat, so let’s be sure to focus our fire on…Dave Brat and the like. The ones who slip by with just enough normalcy to get elected.
    This pathetic worm will get what’s coming to him sooner or later. Brat…he’ll have to be run out of office first.

  121. 121.

    Bobby Thomson

    @Brachiator:

    I wonder what happened to him as a kid

    Not that complicated. He was raised by a slumlord Klansman, spoiled, and shipped off to military school because he was such an asshole even Fred didn’t want him around.

  122. 122.

    Mnemosyne

    @chopper:

    like there’s a voice in his head all what would joe pesci do?

    Dude probably should have paid better attention to what happens to the Joe Pesci character at the end of every one of Scorsese’s mob movies.

  123. 123.

    Mary G

    @raven: That is one pampered purrbot. Glad you got away with the puppers on the beach and hope you’re catching enough fish!

  124. 124.

    raven

    Sally Field
    ✔
    @sally_field
    I like Samantha Bee a lot, but she is flat wrong to call Ivanka a cunt.

    Cunts are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest.
    2:05 PM – May 31, 2018

  125. 125.

    raven

    @Mary G: The two really nice pompano were great for our mid afternoon dinner. I’m about to hit it and gets up@4:30 to get to the boat for the red snapper run. I’m happy as a hog rootin in manure!

  126. 126.

    GregB

    Some people just want to see the world burn. Trump is the global arsonist they have been waiting for.

  127. 127.

    Amir Khalid

    @JPL:
    An idle question: would the VW-owned Italian Sportwagenmacher Lamborghini S.p.A. be subject to this ban?

  131. 131.

    Peale

    @Jager: yep. They are living in this imaginary world where everyone is poor and will ship us commodotites for next to nothing because they need our food. And will buy our manufactured goods and no one else’s because we say so. where all the leaders have command economies and can just order their businesses and consumers to buy fewer products from other countries and favor ours.

  134. 134.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Bobby Thomson: I’m guessing his dad was pretty abusive, because he is to his own kids, spouses, etc. He likely learned it from somewhere.

  136. 136.

    Ruckus

    @Jager:

    they’ve just shown up and made demands.

    To these morons that is negotiating.
    They don’t understand that the world is not the same as conservatives have perceived it for the last 75 yrs, that is that the USA! is so far out ahead that it owns every thing and everyone else. The morons aren’t negotiating in the understood sense of the word, they are, in an over privileged completely irrational way.

  138. 138.

    Amir Khalid

    @Jack the Second:
    There are foulmouthed Britons and Aussies who use “cunt” very freely, more so than most foulmouthed Americans. But the notion that that means the word is less offensive in those countries than in America strikes me as simply wrong.

  139. 139.

    NotMax

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Just FYI. FemForce:

    …The first lady of the time, Mrs. Roosevelt, is the person who has intervened on their behalf. What happened? Mrs. Roosevelt was in her car during an outing, accompanied by Joan Wayne (in her civilians clothes). Their car was waylaid by the 5th columnists and in a matter of seconds the guards were shot down. The 5th columnist is a group of people who clandestinely undermine a larger group such as a nation from within, to help an external enemy (Nazi’s here). So Joan was the only person that can protect Mrs. Roosevelt. With her body invulnerable to bullets and her superhuman strength she quickly took care of all the attackers.

    Mrs. Roosevelt was immensely grateful for this act of bravery. She browbeat her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, into making Ms. Victory and her females cronies national heroes. The President has officially formed this group of women as an auxiliary force for the nation.Source

    N.B.: Ought to be several [sic]s in there.

  142. 142.

    Another Scott

    @Jager: Ouch. :-(

    I wonder if it was fear of spending hours at the DMV after he missed the expiration date was the reason why that guy in Ohio who was running for governor – Ed FitzGerald – didn’t have a drivers license for 10 years…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  144. 144.

    otmar

    @NotMax: fyi, Austrian TV does not bleep. At all.

    We just don’t understand the American sensibilities regarding foul language. And nudity.

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