Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Everybody saw this coming.

White supremacy is terrorism.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

After roe, women are no longer free.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

T R E 4 5 O N

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

In my day, never was longer.

I was promised a recession.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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  4. 4.

    Dan B

    Night’s out from the left coast, from a night owl. Sorta sounds like a title for a sci-fi dystopian novel of the takeover of a big money party by evil yellow spawn of a giant yellow spawn-birthing creature that occupies the sest of power. No resemblance to current persons or events, except symbolically.

  6. 6.

    p.a.

    Just a theory, but maybe the Republican Party is a dumpster fire right now because they are controlled by truly bad people.

    Let’s not forget ‘supported’. Controlled and supported.

  9. 9.

    m0nty

    If it came out later that McConnell tortured puppies, kept a harem of slaves or enabled a friend’s abuse it might not even make the top five evil things he has done in his life.

  10. 10.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    GOP leaders now sees Kavanaugh fight as a turnout tool that unites the right

    That’s the latest spin, that it’s really Great News for McCain them.

    Yet fresh polls shows the rape guy is causing them to bleed even more gop suburban women.

  11. 11.

    Aleta

    (Alexandra Petri) Brett Kavanaugh did not go out much. He was a quiet, respectful lad. His only hobby — more of a passion than a hobby — was to update a meticulous calendar of all of his social outings in case he needed to consult it in 30 or more years. Sometimes, for fun, he would pay a respectful visit to one of 65 girls his own age, although this was but seldom, as he had a lot of homework and volunteer work and future leadership to do.
    (—)
    Bart was on the football team and the basketball team. It was nice having a doppelganger, because that way Bart could play football on Brett’s behalf and Brett did not have to worry about getting head injuries.
    …
    Bart never said much. He mainly communicated by downing kegs. One keg meant yes; three kegs could mean anything. Brett was half in awe and half terrified of him.

    “Have An Extra Respectful Weekend!” Brett wrote on his calendar. He was already dreading the moment he would have to go out with the car and pour Bart into the back seat, give him water and Tylenol, and put him to bed, as happened most weekends. Boys will be boys, he reminded himself.
    …
    That night in their bedroom (Bart slept in the bed, Brett shunted himself underneath), he began to wonder about the rest of their shared life. Was Yale going to be like this, too? Probably Bart would join some sort of frat immediately and leave Brett to do their homework and get them ready for law school.
    Then, life? Brett had a plan: He would become a clerk, then work in a White House, then become a judge someday with clerks of his own — female clerks he could show respect to, as had been his hobby for so long — then maybe someday join the Supreme Court. There were calendars upon calendars, all planned out to the day. But if Bart continued to carry on as he had, what would become of them?
    (—)

  12. 12.

    Aleta

    Lindsey Graham wants to know if he has become a parody account:

    Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC

    Why would any reasonable person continue to hang around people like this?

    Why would any person continue to put their friends and themselves in danger?

    Isn’t there some duty to warn others?

  14. 14.

    gene108

    It is interesting one of the arguments against CBF, among Republicans men, is that if we were all culpable in adulthood for act she from high school, millions upon millions of men’s lives will be ruined.

    But I see no Democratic men joining them.

    It seems like Republicans are trying to rally support on the basis that Anya guy can have his career ruined based on unsubstantiated allegations from any point in his past.

    Hopefully this strategy is falling flat on its face, as most men do not have sexual assault skeletons in their closets, and should point out they are not worried because they never assulted anyone.

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    TS (the original)

    Lots of men on MJ – one very seriously discussed how you can’t just believe an accusation by a woman because a seat on the SCOTUS is being considered. I turned it off.

    He who would be a SC Justice must be above suspicion – and this man is not. Also, he lies.

  19. 19.

    gene108

    @TS (the original):

    Avoiding the appearance of impropriety only applies to Democrats. If there isn’t not a rule against, with prosecutors willing to dish out severe penalties, than anything is fair game for Republicans. And even then, it is not much of a roadblock, if they think they won’t get caught, like all the people in the Trump campaign.

  21. 21.

    John S.

    @gene108:

    This is exactly my position.

    Me personally? I’ve never sexually harassed a woman. I’ve never tried to sexually assault a woman. And therefore, I’ve never had to lie about it.

    I sleep pretty well at night next to the same woman – the only woman – I’ve been with for the entire 23 years of my adult life.

    I honestly don’t understand what is wrong with these people. Maybe because in my youth (and as an adult), I didn’t associate with scumbags.

  26. 26.

    Immanentize

    I wonder if Avanetti is going to bring his client to the hearing and tell the Senators she is ready to testify. That would be his style.

  27. 27.

    Tony Jay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Dey wants our precious bodily fluids.

    I think the problem for many Republicans is that the opposite is true, but they don’t see why they have to take no for an answer.

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    Aleta

    @gene108: if we were all culpable in adulthood for act she from high school, millions upon millions of men’s lives will be ruined.

    And then their attention turns back to the lives of teenage girls.

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    Patricia Kayden

    @OzarkHillbilly: Lol! That’s pretty much it. Did you hear Trump’s press conference yesterday where he kept bringing up how evil women had accused him of sexual harassment? Did you know he is a victim?

  33. 33.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Patricia Kayden: Dey is always lurkin’ around corners wit dere ‘luring bodies tryin’ to entrap us wit de evil. A man’s can’t blamed fer it ifn’s decades later she lies and tells tales.

  38. 38.

    J R in WV

    I’m going to try to take the kitties to the vet for their booster vaccinations and regular checkup. Make sure they’re still full of meanness!

    I should take the dawgs too, they have become so lazy their toenails aren’t being worn down properly, and so click on the floor when they walk. It’s loud enuff to wake the dead!

    There shouldn’t be any news at the vet’s clinic, so that’s a good thing. Cannot even think of attempting to watch a bunch of pure-evil women-hating patriarchs interview a witness about sexual assault, “No, No, No!” as Amy Winehouse once said.

  39. 39.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @gene108:

    It is interesting one of the arguments against CBF, among Republicans men, is that if we were all culpable in adulthood for act she from high school, millions upon millions of men’s lives will be ruined.

    Considering there reaction “I did nothing wrong” I suspect this behavior wasn’t just in High School. I am pretty sure I did plenty wrong back in the day, nothing illegal mind you, but plenty to disappoint my partners lol

  40. 40.

    Duane

    Trump accussing democrats of being con artists and running a con job is some first class projection. His hypcocrisy gun is set on stunning.

  42. 42.

    BlueGirlFromWyo

    @gene108: Yes, men can’t be held culpable for anything they did it high school. But young women not reporting groups of men who could beat them for it, that’s fair game.

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