Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

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

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Bark louder, little dog.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Motown is Joe-Town!

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

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Saturday Evening Open Thread: Look Forward, Not Backwards

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  1. 1.

    tom

    We could add to this list all day, but if Dems take the House, we also get Elijah Cummings replacing Trey Gowdy on the Oversight Committee.

  3. 3.

    Skepticat

    I was working in a small television station in Maine at the time and happened to be working late when this news hit. This was when teletype machines rang bells for breaking news, and it was cacophony. Suffice it to say I wrote very little copy for a few days, as I was glued to the monitors in the control room.

  5. 5.

    Brachiator

    And after 45 years, I still giggle over the headline:
    Nixon Discharges Cox.

    Yes, I’m that immature.

    ETA. Sadly, what the GOP learned was to stand by their man no matter what. Trump is more important to them than the country.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Skepticat:

    I was working in a small television station in Maine at the time and happened to be working late when this news hit. This was when teletype machines rang bells for breaking news, and it was cacophony. Suffice it to say I wrote very little copy for a few days, as I was glued to the monitors in the control room.

    Similarly, I was working at WUSF-FM, NPR station in Tampa, when the teletype bells went berserk that evening. Believe it or not, we had no TV monitors on the radio side, so I had nothing to watch until my shift was done and I was back home. Crazy, unforgettable times to have worked in any kind of media.

  7. 7.

    jl

    A small item for Annals of GOP Outreach:

    Trump Seeks Out ‘Hispanic Americans’ In Crowd At Nevada Rally
    By Kate Riga October 20, 2018 3:04 pm

    While delivering many of his greatest hits at a Nevada campaign rally Saturday, President Donald Trump sought out “Hispanic Americans” in the crowd.
    “Do we have many Hispanic Americans here?” he asked. “Eh. Not the most, not the most. I’d give it 5 percent. That’s ok.”

    www talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-seeks-out-hispanic-americans-in-nevada-crowd
    (link html thing not working)

  8. 8.

    Lyrebird

    @germy: Representative Cummings to the Chair’s position is at the top of my list! That man is an inadequately celebrated treasure.

    Y’all have mentioned these postcard campaigns enough that I’ve ordered mine, arriving in the next day or so, and I look forward to sending some.

  9. 9.

    sukabi

    @Brachiator: to be perfectly clear, it wouldn’t matter if the corpse of Jeffery Dahmer was the president, the republicans would stand with him. it’s not the insane clown that’s the attraction, it’s the quest for unfettered wealth and power that draws them in.

  12. 12.

    Marcopolo

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  13. 13.

    Major Major Major Major

    @sukabi:

    to be perfectly clear, it wouldn’t matter if the corpse of Jeffery Dahmer was the president, the republicans would stand with him.

    That homo, that abomination before the lord?

    ETA he would probably try to force local Christian restaurants to prepare his, ah, queer cuisine…

  14. 14.

    Jeffro

    Beschloss’ other tweets are quite shrill these days…earlier today he called Trumpov a “sociopath “ with a “sick ego to feed”

    I mean, that’s totally accurate, but wow…

  15. 15.

    oldgold

    @germy:

    Maya Rockeymoore Cummings was running to be the Democratic candidate for Governor of Maryland. In early January of 2018 she suspended her campaign after Represenative Cummings experience heath issues.

  16. 16.

    JPL

    @Jeffro: We all reach our breaking point.

    Trump is going to announce the great middle class tax cut plan before the election. If nothing else works try buying votes.

  17. 17.

    James E Powell

    @Brachiator:

    Standing by their man works for Republicans because their base will never leave them and the press/media will either bury whatever it is under the blanket of “both sides” or just grow bored with it and move on. I mean, how long did “Records show president committed tax fraud” stay a story? A day or two?

  19. 19.

    JPL

    @James E Powell: Trump calls more than half the country evil for voting democratic, but Hillary said a third of Trump voters were deplorable. You tell me which on gained the medias attention.
    They just accept that half the country is evil.
    As EFG would say fuckem..

  21. 21.

    JPL

    When you look at the front page how many of those folks are still alive. I swear Kissenger will never die, the bastard.

  22. 22.

    jonas

    “Records show president committed tax fraud”

    I know. Trump spends the past three years accusing the Clinton of being a corrupt fraud. Massive evidence is published showing him to be, in fact, a massive corrupt fraud. Response from media and the public: ZZZZZzzzzzz. It testifies to the power of narrative to command reality in the human psyche. If the story says X, but evidence and your own eyes say Y…you’re pretty much gonna go with X, because, hey, it makes sense. Plus the people pushing Y are probably just “elites” who think they know stuff because they’ve studied it for years and have “expertise”.

  23. 23.

    sukabi

    @JPL: institutional bias on display. Media is wired for right leaning voices / policies. Has been that way for decades, they tend to follow the rightward drift and normalize it. They help promote the “look forward for the sake of the country” bullshit.

    Yes, there are a few journalists that try and push back, but the overall tone / bent of yhe coverage is always wired —>right.

  24. 24.

    Gelfling 545

    @James E Powell: Well the President of the United States being an accessory after the fact in a torture murder is rather startling. Grabs the attention somewhat.

  28. 28.

    sukabi

    @Major Major Major Major: the problem with that is the evangelicals* have been very good at shedding their ‘superior morality’ in favor of gaining wealth and power. If they thought riding Dahmer’s corpse would further their objectives they’d do it without a second thought.

    * #notallevangelicals

  30. 30.

    boatboy_srq

    @sukabi: I’m not sure whether it was a consensus that that the Protestant Work Ethic had been misinterpreted and that Wealth equaled Godliness, or that one too many of the upcoming generation noticed that telepreaching was insanely profitable, but whatever the reason much of that sect abandoned Jeebus for Mammon decades ago and has not looked back.

  31. 31.

    J R in WV

    Saturday Night Massacre ~!!~

    I will never forget. My family still was involved with a small town WV newspaper business. Saturday nights were the night off for the AM newspaper, which went to press at 11:30 or 12 midnight… it was a long time ago, so some details are now vague. We were at a work party, listening to a radio, drinking beer and shooting the bull about what was going on. Then the firing of the AG was announced!

    Wife and I left shortly after, and went to the newspaper offices/plant where there was a teletype room with over a dozen teletypewriters banging out news copy on giant boxes of fan-fold copy paper. As others have said, when a prominent new story started over the wire, bells would ring, to notify the wire editors to take a look.

    No one else was there at 11 or 12 Saturday night, the only night of the week with no editors or news staff, or compositors or pressmen, for that matter, in the building. We were alone, watching history from the viewpoint of the NY Times wire, The AP, UPI, Wall Street Journal, being recorded on the newswires for publication.

    Now I wish we had gathered up some of that news copy and kept it for historical purposes. I can’t wait for other more corrupt Republicans to suffer the ignoble fate of being fired by Congress… let us hope!!

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