Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

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

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Second rate reporter says what?

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

When we show up, we win.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

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Should’ve known there was more to Lord Smallgloves’ sudden emotional investment in SPACE! FARCE! than selling a few branded tchotches. Per the LA Times:

… The concept had been pushed unsuccessfully since 2016 by a small group of current and former government officials, some with deep financial ties to the aerospace industry, who see creation of the sixth military service as a surefire way to hike Pentagon spending on satellite and other space systems.

Still, when Trump abruptly embraced the idea at Miramar — and began promoting it to wild applause at other rallies — a moribund notion opposed by much of the Pentagon hierarchy and senior members of the Senate became a real possibility.

A few days after the San Diego speech, Trump took a phone call at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida from Rep. Mike D. Rogers, an Alabama Republican who is chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces. He had been promoting the space force to Trump and his advisors for months.

“This is something we have to do,” Rogers said he told Trump. “It’s a national security imperative.”

“I’m all in,” Trump replied, according to Rogers. “We are going to have a space force.”…

Last summer, Rogers and Cooper inserted an amendment in the annual defense policy bill to create a separate service they called the space corps. It would be part of the Air Force, just as the Marine Corps is technically in the Navy.

But Rogers worried that putting it in the Air Force might not fly. The Air Force is dominated by fliers more interested in warplanes than in outer space, he noted in a speech last year, explaining Air Force opposition to a separate service…

Rogers, who was first elected to Congress by a razor-thin margin in 2002, has solidified control of his rural district, with a campaign war chest swelled with money from the aerospace industry. Defense industry firms have contributed $395,000 to his campaign committee and leadership PAC since 2017, becoming by far his largest industry donor, according to Open Secrets, a campaign spending database.

Also key in pushing for the space corps was Douglas L. Loverro, a retired Air Force officer and the former executive director of its Space and Missile Systems Center in El Segundo. Loverro said in an interview that a dedicated corps of space experts would be necessary to ensure a space force could fulfill its mission…

The aerospace industry, which was initially cool to the plan, began to come around as well, seeing it as a lucrative avenue not just for expensive new space systems but potentially for uniforms, constructions projects, support services and other trappings of a new military service

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called a space force “an excellent way to bypass the bureaucratic resistance President Trump would have faced had he tried to push our terrestrial service branches into focusing resources outside the atmosphere.”

Gingrich, a space enthusiast and informal Trump advisor, credited Trump’s marketing instinct with turning the space corps into the space force. “The genesis of the name was him writing it into a speech,” he said in an interview…

Vanity project for a Potemkin president.

(Nick Anderson via GoComics.com)
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  2. 2.

    Patricia Kayden

    Grifter-in-Chief. You’d think a billionaire wouldn’t need to always be looking for ways to make money. Sheesh!!

  4. 4.

    stinger

    I’ve pre-ordered BJ’s own Dorothy Winsor‘s The Wind Reader — can’t wait! September 28 seems a long way off! Her earlier books, Finders Keepers and Deep as a Tomb, are highly recommended.

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    Mike in NC

    Fucking Gingrich promised to have built a colony on the moon before the end of his second term, but apparently nobody else agreed.

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    NotMax

    But Dolt 45 stated it is his idea. Don’t tell me he might (gasp) lie?

    Can save beaucoups bucks if we use the already extant anthem.

    Ride through the stars to the rescue in a hurry
    Ready to defend any Tom, Dick or Murray

    :)

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    lol chikinburd

    Open thread: Madison, WI is flooded. I am temporarily flooded out of a way home. Home is across the street. It’s absurd.

    Anybody sees a bony guy in a cloak wave their boat toward this retail parking lot

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    lol chikinburd

    @Adam L Silverman: I had mercifully forgotten that song and much of that era.

    After waiting, and wading, I did get home, and my car (in a lot across the street, and not in the building’s parking aquarium) still starts, and I’m ecstatic about that. Worst I should face is some storage and some damage to a pair of shoes, so I’m lucky. Reports say everyone in the area who needed water rescue has thus far got rescued, so that’s also better than it could be.

    Tip your ferryman; be nice.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I am still convinced it will come out this Space Command will be staffed by the latest of Prince’s Mercs.

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    Tehanu

    I thought there was some kind of treaty about not militarizing space? Not that I expect Dolt 45 and his lackeys* to pay any attention to treaties, of course, but shouldn’t somebody at least mention it?

    * “Minions” are too nice to be lumped in with the kind of servile tools he’s got surrounding him.

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