Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Come on, man.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

T R E 4 5 O N

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

The willow is too close to the house.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

Everybody saw this coming.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

No one could have predicted…

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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  2. 2.

    Roger Moore

    You would think GOP Senators would be embarrassed…

    No, I wouldn’t. Embarrassment requires shame, and the contemporary GOP has shown it has none.

  4. 4.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Big Media Matt has hit the proverbial nail on the head with his observation.

    It’s about the racism.

  5. 5.

    Mai naem mobile

    Just fucking imagine if Reid and Obama had pulled shut like this. Even worse if it was Schumer and Obama because it would have been the Commie Muslin and the Commie Joo doing their Rothschild One World Government!!! Saul Soros George Alinsky!!! Marxist DemonRATs!!!

  6. 6.

    Mike in NC

    NY Daily News Shreds ‘Clown King’ Trump In Blistering Independence Day Cover

    The newspaper’s editorial vows that Trump “won’t conquer the bedrock values this nation was founded on.”

  7. 7.

    Steve in the ATL

    I’m confused by the multiple threads each with only a handful of comments

  8. 8.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    That’s exactly it. Russians are just as big as racists as white Republicans are. That’s why they like Russia now.

    They think diversity is weakness. This is particularly rich coming from a country whose economy is smaller than Italy’s and the only the reason they are a “world power” is because of the nuclear weapons they inherited from the SU. Let’s see where Russia is in 30-40 years. How’s that declining birthrate working out for you?

  9. 9.

    zhena gogolia

    @Steve in the ATL:

    Adam is parceling out the Declaration of Independence with a small chunk every hour. I think it’s kind of cool, but it’s splintering the commentariat.

  10. 10.

    Yarrow

    I did not expect to see Andrea Mitchell saying this:

    You would think GOP Senators would be embarrassed to be cozying up to FM Lavrov in Moscow the same day GOP led Senate Intel committee issues report endorsing 2017 intel assessment that Kremlin tried to tip 2016 election to Trump over Clinton.

    Thought she was way more bothsides than that.

  11. 11.

    B.B.A.

    This scandal is unfolding too slowly. Can we get to the part where we all die of polonium poisoning already?

  13. 13.

    MattF

    So, right off the bat, Trump gets his to-do list from Big Boss.

    Always bear in mind that Putin is extremely wealthy.

  14. 14.

    Yarrow

    So an email from Uncommon Goods hit my inbox that said they’re partnering with Democracy Works to help people register to vote and vote. They’re selling an “I’m a voter” necklace, keychain and paperweight. Here’s the link to the necklace.
    Description:

    The Polls Are Open

    Show your proud support for the right we all have to make our voices heard with this necklace, inspired by the iconic ballot box. The stylish, architectural design is crafted from sterling silver and gold plate, and comes on a card that says, “I’m a voter”— a reminder that yours matters.

    $5 from your purchase goes to Democracy Works, a nonpartisan organization that helps make voting a simple, seamless experience for all Americans so that no one misses an election. Learn more about their TurboVote tool: you’ll receive election reminders, get registered to vote, and apply for your absentee ballot.

    Very cool!

  15. 15.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    Question: Would the Russians be willing to murder people like David Hogg or would that be too high-profile?

  17. 17.

    Aleta

    Jeffrey Guterman, Ph.D. @JeffreyGuterman Jul 3-4

    I was just visited by two Secret Service officers regarding my tweets about tR. I told them I have no thoughts, plans, or intent to harm tR and I never have. They advised not to post anything that may be interpreted as a threat. I was impressed with their professionalism.

    Many are asking what I tweeted that prompted a Secret Service visit today. I won’t restate the long deleted tweets because it might be misinterpreted as a threat. Critiques of tR are fine providing they do not cross the line in a way that one may interpret as a threat.

    One of the Secret Service officers had a folder with print outs of some of my past tweets and my article, “A Mental Health Counselor’s Views on Speculations About President Trump’s Mental Health” (psychcentral.com) I gladly summarized for them the thesis of my article.

    Thanks for the support I’ve received on Twitter about my visit with Secret Service today. To avoid future visits, I will refrain from tweeting anything that may be interpreted as a threat to the orangePOTUS or anyone else. I will persist at critiquing the bastard. MAGA-suckers

    I am thinking about writing an article on my Medium account about today’s visit from the Secret Service.

    Let me clarify again I do not think my article on tR’s mental health was deemed a potential threat by Secret Service. Some users have this impression. The article was printed out and in their folder. SS told me that their concern was tweets I’ve since deleted.

    I am in the process of reading the many replies in this thread and elsewhere. The positive support that has been expressed toward me and, more importantly, the First Amendment is powerful. Thank you, America. I love you.

    I started outlining my article “My Visit with the Secret Service.” The article is on Medium at my page. At this time, the article only includes an initial outline. It will eventually be a polished, well-written article.

  19. 19.

    ARoomWithAMoose

    The pee-pee tape (or whatever, probably getting caught in the equivalent of statutory rape or a well staged manslaughter setup: liveboy/dead girl situation) and the sudden intervention of an “understanding” friend to hush it up/fend off prosecution has paid off handsomely for the Russian Federation. The Russian Intel Services _KNOW_ how to play various personality disorders to create unwitting and even willing recruited assets…

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    Trump wants to meet with Putin alone, with no other aides present on either side

    No witnesses to the sodomy.

  21. 21.

    Yarrow

    @Aleta: The Secret Service has long visited people who say and do things that could be interpreted as threats. Unless people who are in a position to know are suggesting that such visits from the SS have somehow changed under Trump and/or that he tells the SS who to visit, then this sort of thing is nothing new. Twitter may be a new vehicle for people to use to threaten the president, but the concept of threat leads to visit from the Secret Service is not new.

  22. 22.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @Aleta: I don’t understand what he’s saying. He didn’t threaten T, but he deleted threatening tweets? The Secret Service visited him because they DIDN’T think his tweets were a threat? I don’t know who this man is and I am confused.

  23. 23.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Yarrow: For example, someone sent a letter or email or something to the deserting coward and said “Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee” and this was interpreted as a threat of physical violence.

  25. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    It’s nice of them to let us know who among the GOP is most forthright in their treason. I say we all send them Thank you cards for this unexpected gift.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Does anybody know anything about this Kay Granger or why she’s a member of this delegation? She’s a 75-year-old back-bencher who’s been in Congress for 20+ years. As far as I can tell, she’s never held a leadership position. She is the only House member (and the only woman) to be part of this CoDel. Why? What does she bring to the table? I feel as though I’m missing something important.

  32. 32.

    EZSmirkzz

    Happy Fourth Anne Laurie! Rained like hell and killed the Freedom Over Texas shows, but the fireworks are still going to be lit off, but if you want to hear a female guitar player as fast as Stevie Ray Vaughn and as smooth as Eric Clapton, give Jackie Venson a listen to. I think you’ll like her or I wouldn’t have bothered you today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKKzyLwCFM This woman is the real deal. Highly recommended.

    (Edited for syntax sucks.)

  33. 33.

    Cheryl Rofer

    For those who missed it when I posted it yesterday. Anyway, I love this.

  37. 37.

    The Dangerman

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Take your time, we’ll wait…

    Correction: YOU’LL wait. For me, there is a burger on the grill approaching carbonization, a brew getting unpleasantly warm, and shit to blow up (OK, that’s about 9p at the Pismo Pier; anyone in the area wanna find me? I’ll be the one in swim trunks).

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    Trump wants to meet with Putin alone, with no other aides present on either side, in Helsinki this month. That means no note-takers, witnesses, or official record.

    To be fair, nobody wants to have other people in the room while your boss gives you your annual performance review.

  39. 39.

    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: Putin will make sure everything is recorded. And as was the case with the Oval Office meeting with Lavrov and Kislyak, as well as the meeting that AL referenced in the post with the GOP senatorial delegation’s meeting with Russian officials, Putin will dribble the material out that he wants out for maximum effect.

  40. 40.

    feebog

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Does anybody know anything about this Kay Granger or why she’s a member of this delegation?

    Someone has to fetch the coffee from the lobby.

  41. 41.

    MattF

    At this point I’m mainly curious about the degree to which Trump will prostrate himself before Putin. If I was Estonian, I’d be worried.

  42. 42.

    Roger Moore

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:

    Question: Would the Russians be willing to murder people like David Hogg or would that be too high-profile?

    Maybe not directly, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were involved in his swatting incident.

  43. 43.

    SFAW

    Well, maybe I’m a commie pinko, but I would go to Russia if I could meet Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Ivanov. The rest of his countrymen, not so much.

    That being said: as we have been saying for awhile, the Rethugs are traitors to America, every fucking one of them. But now they appear to be unworried enough (about electoral changes) that they’re brazen about it.

    As a wise man once* said:

    Fuckem.

    *Where “once” translates to “a shitload of times.”

  45. 45.

    MattF

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: Part of the authoritarian model is doing what you believe the Big Boss wants. In this case Putin bots will harass people like Hogg and, if they’re just a teensy bit unbalanced, go further. The advantage is that you’re doing what the boss wants and it’s deniable

  46. 46.

    Bill Arnold

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Putin will make sure everything is recorded.

    Does DJT realize this? I’m sure he’s been told it a lot. And why the F wouldn’t he be recording as well?
    (The only answer I’m coming up with is that DJT won’t record it because he’s been “asked” by Putin to not record it. Are there any theories that don’t strongly suggest full a full owned/owner relationship? )

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Jeet Heer @ HeerJeet
    The New York Times is spending more resources investigating Alan Dershowitz getting the side-eye at Martha’s Vineyard than they did to Russian interference during the 2016 election.

    In 2003, Alan Dershowitz told New York magazine that one of his favorite dinner guests at Martha’s Vineyard was Harvey Weinstein:

  50. 50.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Bill Arnold: If you read the article about the President wanting to invade Venezuela last year, you’ll recall that it reports that he was briefed and told to specifically not bring up the idea when he met with the heads of several other Latin American countries. The first thing he did at the meeting as to ask each of them if they thought the US should invade Venezuela.

    It doesn’t matter what he’s told. What he’s been briefed. What his advisors say to him.

    ETA: He won’t record it himself.

  51. 51.

    sukabi

    Re last tweet…

    Donald J. Trump
    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump
    Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..
    4:50 AM · Jul 9, 2017

    Pretty sure he means guarded from FBI and intelligence agencies snooping.

    Second civil war better include impeachment of these treasonous gasbags.

  52. 52.

    Gvg

    Sometimes I think Trump also has a personality quirk of contrarianism. If serious people warn him of something he immediately believes the opposite. So much of his philosophy from way back seems to be so especially dumb, like this.

  54. 54.

    efgoldman

    @Adam L Silverman:

    it reports that he was briefed and told to specifically not bring up the idea when he met with the heads of several other Latin American countries.

    I’m find with that, as long as Weasel Face, personally, leads the charge up the beach. Nice to see him blubbering like a baby.

  55. 55.

    joel hanes

    @The Dangerman:

    Pismo

    What a great place to be on the 4th!

    Hope the marine layer made the morning delightfully cool and grey,
    the afternoon is warm,
    and that the fog holds off so you can see the fireworks.

  56. 56.

    SFAW

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Jeet Heer @ HeerJeet
    The New York Times is spending more resources investigating Alan Dershowitz getting the side-eye at Martha’s Vineyard than they did to Russian interference during the 2016 election.

    Well, of course. After all, didn’t History’s Greatest Monster go to the Vineyard with Bill and Chelsea one time? Or maybe it was Nantucket. Or P-town. But it doesn’t matter which location, because if she HAD been at the Vineyard, she might have THOUGHT about shunning Doucheowitz, which is yet another demonstration of why she is unfit to be dogcatcher.

    And even if she didn’t do any of that, nor had considered it, Pinche’ Sulzberger knows — he just KNOWS — that she woulda.

  57. 57.

    efgoldman

    @Gvg:

    I think Trump also has a personality quirk of contrarianism

    Too complicated
    If Obama’s name is attached to something in any way, Weasel Face has to nuke it.

  59. 59.

    Chris Johnson

    Russia is not really all about cementing Republican power. I think that’s why they went. I think it’s ‘oh please don’t let our house of cards fall down just yet, what must we do’.

  64. 64.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: I figured that’s where it was heading when I saw the initial reporting last night.

    Now the questions are whether these folks stumbled into a leftover cache or something that was treated, but not used during the attack on the Skripols or whether this is Putin trying to muddy the waters to cover his tracks.

  66. 66.

    efgoldman

    @Yarrow:

    couple from #Amebsury Wiltshire who were taken to hospital in Salisbury at the weekend had been exposed to the nerve agent #Novichok

    Russian emigres? ANY connection with the motherland?

  67. 67.

    Yarrow

    @efgoldman: Unclear at this point. Seems to be weird that it’s random, especially given that the UK government said the public was safe.

  68. 68.

    Kathleen

    @Yarrow: Shock #2 for me. I’m sure she’ll be back to her hand wringing both sides civility script very soon.

  72. 72.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Here’s the BBC report on the Novichok poisoning, being updated.

    And the Scotland Yard statement.

    The couple are believed to be Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess. Those names do not sound Russian.

    There was “nothing in their background” to suggest the pair were targeted, the Met Police said.

    There is no evidence to suggest either visited the sites that were decontaminated following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.

    Looks to me like the most likely way this poisoning would be related to the Skripal poisoning would be that these two somehow came in contact with preparations for, or discarding after, the Skripal poisoning.

    From discussion on Twitter, I seem to be in a minority, but it looks to me like something Putin would do to remind the British government that they haven’t found the perpetrator yet, Trump that he is a powerful and ruthless man, and the rest of us that he is still President of Russia and all its nukes.

  73. 73.

    Heidi Mom

    @MattF: “Working toward the Fuhrer” (per the first volume of Ian Kershaw’s biography of Hitler).

  75. 75.

    H.E.Wolf

    @feebog:

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    Does anybody know anything about this Kay Granger or why she’s a member of this delegation?

    Someone has to fetch the coffee from the lobby.

    (I think that joke was less amusing than you intended. Moving on…. Here’s the info that SuibhanDuinne asked for.)

    ETA: fixed detail on # of terms in Congress.

    Per her official website, US Rep Kay Granger (TX-12), an 11-term Congresswoman, is the current Chairwoman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.

    She seems to be a right-wing super-hawk, which means, in my view, that she’s a dangerous person to have in the US government.

    Presumably she’s in the delegation to Russia because to be ultra-right-wing in the GOP these days is to be pro-Putin. Blech.

  76. 76.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    but it looks to me like something Putin would do to remind the British government that they haven’t found the perpetrator yet, Trump that he is a powerful and ruthless man, and the rest of us that he is still President of Russia and all its nukes.

    This above because of what the Brexit investigations are revealing or an attempt to muddy the waters. If Russian Embassy London or the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweets something about it that states that the British authorities obviously identified the wrong suspects when the Skripols were poisoned.

    Could go either way, but it’ll be one of these two.

  77. 77.

    Mike G

    And Putin hauls in more kompromat tapes of Repuke traitors with underage girls and boys, to add to his collection.

  78. 78.

    Steve in the ATL

    @zhena gogolia: oh, sorry. I’m not familiar with that document. Here in red state land we are more focused on Newt’s contract with America.

  79. 79.

    The Dangerman

    @joel hanes:

    Hope the marine layer made the morning delightfully cool and grey

    Very. Brrrrrr.

    the afternoon is warm

    So far, so good.

    and that the fog holds off so you can see the fireworks.

    Aye, therein lies the rub; Pismo with fog is not much fun. Weatherman says … maybe (he’s good, if noncommital … weather around here is so flaky)

    ETA: Weather around here … don’t like it … drive 20 miles, it can change radically. Also, for those ever desiring a Central Coast vacation, best weather is always Avila.

    ETA2: No, I don’t own property in Avila. I wish :-(

  80. 80.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    From discussion on Twitter, I seem to be in a minority, but it looks to me like something Putin would do to remind the British government that they haven’t found the perpetrator yet, Trump that he is a powerful and ruthless man, and the rest of us that he is still President of Russia and all its nukes.

    I’ll join the minority with you.

  81. 81.

    The Dangerman

    @Gin & Tonic:

    …and the rest of us that he is still President of Russia and all its nukes.

    Bartender!

    Trump and nukes…

    BARTENDER!!!

  82. 82.

    Gin & Tonic

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:

    Question: Would the Russians be willing to murder people like David Hogg or would that be too high-profile?

    Despite the existence of some questionable edge cases, I think terminating someone who’s had no connection with Mother Russia, and doing it in the USofA, is still a bridge just a bit too far.

  83. 83.

    Dan Yurman

    @Cheryl Rofer: While this scenario is certainly plausible, another perspective might be that the operatives who placed the nerve agent in the first place did one or more of the following; (1) disposed of the surplus not needed to poison the victims by randomly tossing it in the nearby shrubbery, (2) were sloppy in their handling of the binary nerve agent substances, and spilled some on their way in while mixing the intended lethal batch, or (3) wanted to create random terror in the region that there might be other essentially invisible, perhaps odorless, applications of the nerve agent as a message that Russia’s power in everywhere and cannot be contained. #3 conforms to Rofer’s scenario and can’t be discounted

  84. 84.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    It doesn’t matter what he’s told. What he’s been briefed. What his advisors say to him.

    It’s not just that it doesn’t matter. As a toxic narcissist, he has a compulsion to reject any action by other people that he thinks is trying to control him. If you tell a narc not to do or say X, he or she will do or say X and then dare you to say anything about it.

  86. 86.

    lollipopguild

    @MattF: If I were anybody in Europe I would be worried. Gee, the Baltic States, Poland, Sweden, Finland, maybe Putin wants East Germany back too.

  88. 88.

    Ruckus

    Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..

    Guarded as in protected from people knowing that’s what they were doing?

  89. 89.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Cheryl Rofer: it looks to me like something Putin would do to remind the British government that they haven’t found the perpetrator yet, Trump that he is a powerful and ruthless man, and the rest of us that he is still President of Russia and all its nukes.

    and Paul Manafort and maybe even Michael Cohen and … ?

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