Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

I really should read my own blog.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Second rate reporter says what?

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

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

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

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

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

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(One of the Law & Order series? Or does Fox News show Matlock re-runs?)


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  2. 2.

    M31

    “Sometimes you get some pretty good information by watching shows.”

    1) not the shows you watch
    2) not when you’re an idiot

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    Pause to remember that Gotti was called “Teflon John” – until he wasn’t.

    Also, memo to Dolt 45: Baywatch wasn’t a legal drama.

  5. 5.

    Mike in NC

    Trump’s pathetic life story revolves around not being treated fairly by many mean people.

  6. 6.

    Ruckus

    I can’t figure out why shitgibbon would be in a bad mood, just because a number of his money/legal/fixit guys have been found guilty or plead guilty and are rolling on him to save their own skins….. But I am somewhat enjoying that it’s happening.
    I am also wondering which country or state we are going to attack when his kids are hauled in…..

  9. 9.

    Ruckus

    @Mike in NC:
    Also.
    I thought that was the result of his pathetic life, and the stick that his life revolves around was the one stuck up his…….

  12. 12.

    Ruckus

    @NotMax:
    I sort of thought that Baywatch was a bit too high drama for shitgibbon to have watched, I thought he got all his inspiration from Soupy Sales. And, there were boobs so I doubt he watched it with the sound on, didn’t want to spoil the moment for himself.

  13. 13.

    Aleta

    Trump? Perry Mason.
    “I Object You Honor Your That question is Incompetent, Irrelevant and Immaterial.”

  15. 15.

    Platonailedit

    @feebog:

    They both rob the rubes while personally enriching themselves. I am sure the totus totally identifies himself with that kinda grift.

  17. 17.

    namekarB

    Well alrighty then. Trump accused Cohen of “making up lies.” Why is Trump upset that other people lie?

  18. 18.

    jl

    No ‘It’s a damn shame what the dirty feds did to Al Capone!” this time?
    Not interested then. I want classic Trump, not this second rate stuff.

    Maybe if there were more high quality nonsense about what he learns from TV shows…

  21. 21.

    Ruckus

    @NotMax:
    What did they do to anyone?

    And take care.
    I’ve spent a lovely week and a half crossing the Atlantic in a medium sized ship during a rather pleasant winter storm where the wind speed never dropped below 90 mph with periods over 110 and we ended up a few hundred miles off course. I won’t talk about the wave heights.
    It was fun.

  22. 22.

    The Dangerman

    Deep in Nunes territory tonight (Fresno; I’ll accept all condolences you care to offer). Nunes signs everyplace. Challenger signs everyplace (I can’t pull his name out of my head; it was a hot drive – and I never run AC unless I flat out HAVE to do so and it wasn’t THAT hot – anyway, time to rehydrate). Lots of money being spent at the print shops.

  23. 23.

    Platonailedit

    Eric Swalwell told @maddow tonight that the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a meeting tomorrow on Hillary Clinton's emails. The day after Michael Cohen's plea agreement, that's what was scheduled.

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 24, 2018

    Talk about straw clutching.

  24. 24.

    namekarB

    Hmmm. Upset that Cohen didn’t do the honorable thing and lie, but rather did the dishonorable thing and told the truth. Well okay then.

  25. 25.

    Ruckus

    @namekarB:
    Because the lies don’t make him look good? Like his are supposed to.
    Geez, haven’t you been watching?
    (If you haven’t, I don’t blame you, it is a pretty disgusting show.)

  26. 26.

    Mike in NC

    Funny how Trump spent his entire crime cartel life surrounded by snitches, spies, ratfuckers and backstabbers. But he complains about flipping for the prosecution. Got that, Mr. Soprano.

  30. 30.

    randy khan

    I’m trying to imagine a Law and Order episode – really, any crime show – that featured a campaign finance law plot line. (“Your Honor, it’s not a violation of Section 13-g(2) if the contribution was made without the intent to exceed the statutory maximum.” Yeah, that would get big ratings.)

  34. 34.

    James E Powell

    I mentioned this in another thread and the more I think about it the more I think it’s a sure thing. When does Kasich announce he will run against Trump in 2020? When does Romney follow suit? Lil Marco?

  36. 36.

    jl

    @randy khan: In Law and Order, would there be a ‘datDONKK!!’ after the detectives watched a suspect confess to a crime on national TV? After the fourth or fifth time, would they play it for humor, or do more ‘daDONKS’?

  38. 38.

    Major Major Major Major

    @randy khan:

    “Your Honor, it’s not a violation of Section 13-g(2) if the contribution was made without the intent to exceed the statutory maximum.” Yeah, that would get big ratings.

    I’ll bet the Coen brothers could make this a memorable line.

  39. 39.

    Platonailedit

    BREAKING: Manhattan D.A. considering criminal charges against Trump’s business—The Trump Organization—and two Senior Executives.

    TRANSLATION: There are now multiple criminal investigations swirling around the illegitimate president of the United States. https://t.co/MUsM0qDjE8

    — Ryan Knight ? (@ProudResister) August 24, 2018

    Live by lawsuits, die by lawsuits.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @James E Powell: my money’s on Kasich. I’m not gonna bet it happens, but I won’t be surprised if it does. Willard? I really doubt it. His own political future may not go beyond Utah, but if Tagg or Ragg is ever gonna fulfill the White Horse/Mormon Kennedys fantasy, he’s gonna need the goobers. Same reasons we’ll never see Jebbie, Part II: The Revenge of the Pantsed. That creepy young goon in Texas has ambition.

  42. 42.

    MisterForkbeard

    @randy khan: Yes. Perhaps if the law broken was about illicitly paying hush money to prostitutes and porn stars just ahead of an election and not reporting it. Maybe that would make a good episode.

  43. 43.

    Mart

    @The Dangerman: Spent the night in Fresno a couple weeks back. Bottom of the ramp off the expressway a big ‘ol Nunes sign. Thought it looked better in the original Cyrillic script.

    On the bright side hit a Persian restaurant that was yummy.

  47. 47.

    Amir Khalid

    @Mike in NC:
    In Donald Trump’s book, snitching, spying, ratfucking, and backstabbing are bad things only when done to Trump. It’s the same book that says that if you do something illegal, it’s not a crime unless he doesn’t like you anymore.

  49. 49.

    Yutsano

    @Mart: Did you find the drive-thru sushi stand? I had it when I was down there for training and discovered that little gem. It’s not bad. And I want to know why these aren’t all over the Northwest because the concept is brilliant.

  50. 50.

    magurakurin

    @NotMax:

    Pause to remember that Gotti was called “Teflon John” – until he wasn’t.

    and to remember that it was Robert Mueller that put Gotti in prison.

  51. 51.

    Calouste

    @Mart: Duh. Fresno is in California, not in Florida.

    Now if you said you hit a Persian restaurant in say Orlando, we would all be looking forward to tomorrow’s episode of Adam’s series.

  55. 55.

    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid: Here in New England, at least, quite a few expatriates from Iran are known to get huffy about being Persian, actually. Their stated reason usually comes down to not wanting to be identified with Those Ridiculous Mullahs. I’ve always considered it less about ‘fear’ than about fastidiousness — analogous to my own Don’t blame me for what the Repubs do, I did my best to get HRC elected — but in these parlous days, it can’t be ruled out, alas.

  56. 56.

    Yarrow

    @Amir Khalid: A friend who is Iranian took a group of us to a restaurant owned by a family friend. It serves Persian cuisine. Maybe it just sounds more exotic and less scary or something. It was very good but not as good as his mom’s cooking. Gormeh sabzi and tahdig ftw.

  57. 57.

    Roger Moore

    @randy khan:

    I’m trying to imagine a Law and Order episode – really, any crime show – that featured a campaign finance law plot line.

    There have been a few good real-life campaign finance law plot lines. There was Dinesh D’Sousa making illegal campaign donations where one of his straw donors was his mistress’s husband. And who could forget Charles Kushner (Jared’s father) trying to wriggle out of his campaign finance case by having a prostitute seduce his brother-in-law, film the event, and try to use it to blackmail him into not testifying? Either of those could make a very entertaining TV episode

  58. 58.

    jl

    @Amir Khalid: I dunno. Iranians I know around here, of various political stripes, say that while the country is called Iran, the culture is called Person. So, in their view, it should be Persian Restaurant. Probably my personal sample is not large enough for me to know if that is a consensus.

  59. 59.

    jl

    @Anne Laurie: We were both typing at the same time on it. You do have point: anti-Mullah people, and particularly those that left after the revolution (and there are lots of those in California) are particularly insistent on the distinction and eager to explain why it is so important. But other say the same thing.

  61. 61.

    prostratedragon

    @Roger Moore: And speaking of Perry Mason, consider how many episodes require a run through small town zoning ordinances and such to pick up the trail.

    Something a little breezy for the Hunters and, it seems the whole GOP:

    <"The Floater"

    (Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap!)

  62. 62.

    Mnemosyne

    @Amir Khalid:

    Something that I did not know until fairly recently is that Iran has a fairly large ethnic Armenian population that identifies themselves as Iranian Armenians. That may be another reason why many people from Iran who immigrate to the US identify themselves by their ethnic group (Persian) than by the country’s name.

  63. 63.

    jl

    @Mnemosyne: If you are still here, is there a large community of Iranian Armenians in Southern California? Most of the Armenians in Northern California were from Turkish or Russian parts. At least all the Armenians I knew through some neighbors when I was a kid.

  65. 65.

    J R in WV

    @Ruckus:

    I’ve spent a lovely week and a half crossing the Atlantic in a medium sized ship during a rather pleasant winter storm where the wind speed never dropped below 90 mph with periods over 110 and we ended up a few hundred miles off course. I won’t talk about the wave heights.
    It was fun.

    Really!?!! Just now, you mean, not a recollection of being in the Navy?

    What ship was it? I would love to cross the Atlantic on a ship, imagine being able to walk around and sit at a table. As opposed to being even in First Class on an aeroplane I mean. And the storm, that could be scary at times, but interesting all around.

  67. 67.

    ewrunning

    Getting legal advice from the shows recalls this line from Lionel Hutz, Attorney on the Simpsons: “Mr. Simpson, don’t worry. Matlock was on the tv in the bar last night. The sound was off, but I think I got the gist of it.”

    Of course, we already know a significant percentage of Trump’s “briefing papers” consists of screen grabs of Faux News chyrons.

  69. 69.

    The Other Chuck

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Republicans who actually want a chance at winning are looking at 2024. This isn’t to say they won’t throw some token sacrifice in along with the rest of of the grifters and glory hounds who will run every chance they get, but I don’t think the usual suspects want the loser stink on them next cycle.

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