Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

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

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Republicans do not trust women.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

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

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

White supremacy is terrorism.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

Good lord, these people are nuts.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

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  1. 1.

    Citizen Alan

    I’m actually becoming cautiously optimistic about Kavanaugh. Mainly because even if he gets on, He may actually be vulnerable to impeachment by a Dem congress and get replaced by a Dem president. That crazy woman with the 7 kids probably has squeaky clean finances.

  2. 2.

    oatler.

    “Scrotes” I believe was coined by Joseph Wambaugh’s “The Choirboys” novel.Still too good for these whiff-of-grapeshot-attractors.

  4. 4.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The only rights Kavanaugh is interested in protecting are those of the 1% to exploit the other 99%.

    Which is why he and all Federalist Society filth need to be driven under rocks.

  5. 5.

    R-Jud

    @John Revolta: This is simultaneously the darkest and dumbest timeline.

    Still can’t decide whether the precipitating factor was David Bowie’s death or the Cubs’ WS win. ?

  6. 6.

    Mnemosyne

    @John Revolta:

    Define “lately.” ?

    Given what I remember from the Clinton years (much as I long to forget it), the Republicans have always been this weird, but the MSM was able to keep it under wraps. Twitter no longer allows that.

  7. 7.

    J R in WV

    The weird Rs used to be more discrete, when the House Speaker went into the wading pool on the National Mall with his squeeze, that was nearly kept a secret. No one talked about Jack’s girlfriends, probably because they were adults and friends, with no worker/employer relationship.

    They used to be more discrete because their sex was more typical, in a culture primed for the wealthy and powerful to go to a nice hotel with a friend, pay in advance, spend an hour or two, and slide away separately was no big deal.

    Now we have so many options to choose from, and most folks pick more than just one, so we wind up with at least theoretical dog-and-pony shows. Plus twitter. Facebook, hookup with friends apps.

  9. 9.

    jacy

    @R-Jud:

    I forget now which came first (because time has no meaning anymore). Maybe one caused the other and then it was just a domino affect….

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    @J R in WV

    I think you may be referring to the Wilbur Mills and Fanne Foxe incident.

    He was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, not Speaker.

    She jumped into the Tidal Basin (10 feet deep), not a wading pool on the Mall.

    Mills was re-elected afterwards. It took a later, second drunken altercation involving Foxe that finally forced him to step down as chairman and not seek further re-election.

  13. 13.

    SectionH

    Shit detectors. Some ppl have them, some don’t. I so remember when Mr Bill won the first time, I said to my husband, please I hope he can keep his pants zipped for a few years. It was so damn obvious. I wish the Methodist church had saints, because I think Hillary should be a candidate. Doesn’t mean I don’t recognize the good things Mr Bill did, and there were plenty – including, maybe especially, actually raising taxes for a change. But it still pisses me off.

    The Republicans have been trying to repeal the New Deal since FDR made it begin to happen. JFC, you want persistence… the evil gets handed down.

  14. 14.

    John Revolta

    @J R in WV: You reminded me of the time Nixon snuck out of the White House in the wee hours to hang out with the protestors at the Lincoln Memorial. I guess that was pretty weird.
    I feel lots of echoes from back then lately. I was just a fledgling political junky and crazy shit was happening every day……………..

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    JoyceH

    @Mnemosyne:

    Given what I remember from the Clinton years (much as I long to forget it), the Republicans have always been this weird, but the MSM was able to keep it under wraps.

    No, I think there is a large subset of GOP officeholders that are qualitatively different from their predecessors. Yes, back in the 80s and 90s, Newt Gingrich brought in the ‘smear your opponent’ strategy and sold it to the eager youngsters of his ‘revolution’, but here’s the thing. They didn’t BELIEVE it. They knew it was just fodder for the gullible rubes of the GOP base.

    But then they created a monster. Those gullible rubes started running for office, first local and then national, and now you have a significant portion of the Republicans in Congress who aren’t just selling the lies and conspiracy theories, they also believe them. A Gingrich-led House would never have held that open hearing for Strzok, because back then, the House members would GET that the smearing of Strzok was really just a tactic to undermine the Mueller investigation, and that Strzok wasn’t really the sinister mastermind they were painting him to be. They would have known that allowing Strzok to speak publicly would blow up in their faces because it would be clear to the public that the smear was false. SOME House members, the old timers, still realize they’re pushing a bogus narrative, but often these days they get trampled by the faction that genuinely believes the bogus narrative.

  17. 17.

    Platonailedit

    . @realDonaldTrump no longer just offensive. Is becoming an enemy of Britain by undermining rules based system WTO NATO UN EU. supports autocratic not democrats. Trashes friendly Canada. Putins little helper.— Vince Cable (@vincecable) July 12, 2018

    Theresa May has invited President Trump to our country at a time when his dangerous and inhumane policies are putting the lives and wellbeing of millions of people at risk. #TrumpUKVisit pic.twitter.com/69HdBTzkji— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) July 13, 2018

    making amurkkka grate again.

  18. 18.

    Platonailedit

    I'll be honest, I can't believe that good money has been spent on allowing this plastic monstrosity, full of hot air, to fly over the UK.

    The balloon however is pretty cool. #TrumpUKVisit

    — Dave Nicholas (@Sawboman) July 13, 2018

    LOL.

  24. 24.

    Platonailedit

    Theresa May tried sucking up to Donald Trump.The results? He came to Britain and humiliated her.Sucking up to Trump does not work – so join us on the streets today. #TrumpUKVisit— Owen Jones? (@OwenJones84) July 13, 2018

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    R-Jud

    Just arrived in London. Grabbing a coffee before heading over to the muster point for Women’s March volunteers. It’s mostly sunny with a predicted high of 76. I’ll be posting photos on Twitter @rosejudson.

  29. 29.

    Platonailedit

    Well, I will be here all night (and day) if I start posting every funny tweet on the traitorous thug’s UK visit. Toodles.

  30. 30.

    NotMax

    @Patricia Kayden

    To be immediately followed by a small fleet of vans pulling up to the palace, bearing a company name and the legend “Fumigators to the Royal Household since 1847.”

    :)

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    Repeating.

    U.S. State Department officially put out a warning to Americans in the U.K. to “keep a low profile.”

    Estimates are some 50,000 Americans living in London. Guess what, Foggy Bottom? They aren’t the target of protestors.

  32. 32.

    Chyron HR

    Kavanaugh calls Rehnquist “my first judicial hero.” Rehnquist […] supported all-white primaries

    Well, shit, I guess he’s got Bernie’s vote.

  33. 33.

    Platonailedit

    @NotMax:

    How stupid you have to be to warn your own citizens to lay low when your own dear leader is visiting?

  34. 34.

    hervevillechaizelounge

    @SectionH:
    To quote the great Joan Didion:

    No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched [Clinton] running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent.

    FWIW, I think the current republican politicians are different from their predecessors because of Fox News; they’ve been indoctrinated with lies and conspiratorial thinking for decades.

    Fox News also provides a guaranteed safe space. If you watched the whole hearing today they all look unhinged but Fox will lovingly edit the clips until every single one of them is Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Fucking Smith Goes to Washington.

    BTW, I asked about this on a previous thread that was in its death throes—not that it matters, but does anyone here know if Strzok is a registered republican?

  38. 38.

    Kay

    Carpool dad is a disaster for voting rights and he’ll happily disenfranchise tens of millions of people:

    Kavanaugh downplayed the racially charged origins of South Carolina’s voter ID law and its impact on voters of color. Members of the South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus walked out of the Legislature when the bill was first considered. After the law passed, Ed Koziol, a Republican supporter of the law, wrote an email to the bill’s author, Rep. Alan Clemmons of Myrtle Beach, saying that if African Americans were offered a $100 award for obtaining voter ID, “you would see how fast they got voter ID cards with their picture. It would be like a swarm of bees going after a watermelon.”
    “Amen, Ed,” Clemmons responded. “Thank you for your support of voter ID.”
    Though Kavanaugh said he was “troubled” by that racist email, he wrote that “one legislator’s failure to immediately denounce those views in his responsive email, as he later testified he should have done—do not speak for the two Houses of the South Carolina Legislature, or the South Carolina Governor.”

    Always comes down on the side of the powerful. Always.

    The far Right Supreme Court makes it more important than ever that Republicans be beaten at the state level, which is where the laws that will be rubber-stamped originate. Cut off the source of the crap.

  39. 39.

    mad citizen

    It’s always baseball with these idiots. George Will took a somewhat interesting sport and bored the hell out of it for 400 pages. If baseball is the province of the right wing intellectuals, it’s surely on a downward spiral. Of course much irony in that so many major leaguers are brown and speak Spanish.

  40. 40.

    Platonailedit

    @Kay:

    The rethugs always percolate odious policies and thuggish schemes upwards through the court system and win. I will give them that.

  41. 41.

    jimmiraybob

    @SectionH:

    The Republicans have been trying to repeal the New Deal since FDR made it begin to happen.

    I will argue that the spirit of today’s republicans goes back to the abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and the rise of “states rights” to oppress the masses (slaves and dirt poor whites) in favor of the plantation owners and their politicians. One thing, among many, that I liked about Obama was his emphasis on playing long ball.

  42. 42.

    VOR

    @JoyceH:

    But then they created a monster. Those gullible rubes started running for office, first local and then national, and now you have a significant portion of the Republicans in Congress who aren’t just selling the lies and conspiracy theories, they also believe them.

    Yes, absolutely. That is how you get the likes of Michele Bachmann, Louis Gohmert, and Virginia Foxx in Congress. And their voters believe this stuff too – just watch whenever the Daily Show or another satirical show does interviews with people at Trump rallies.

  43. 43.

    Shana

    @JoyceH: After yesterday’s Strzok hearings there’s something I don’t understand: He testified behind closed doors the day before (?). Didn’t they pay attention to what happened there? Was it a completely different committee and no one bothered to tell yesterday’s crew what had happened? How could they have been surprised at what he said and how he said it?

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