Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

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

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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

People are weird.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

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  3. 3.

    Jay

    https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/steven-and-louise-vacation-in-cabo.html?m=1

    “Hi! Beloved Treasury Secretary and Wonder Woman executive producer Steven Mnuchin here. You probably weren’t expecting to hear from me over the holidays, especially since I’m on vacation in Mexico, but I just wanted to pop in and let the American people know that there’s no danger that every last bank in the country will suddenly run out of money on Monday. In fact, I was so concerned that you might be afraid that the economic system would abruptly grind to a halt within 24 hours, I spent part of my vacation calling bank CEOs on their vacations so I could bring you with this confident, forward-looking statement that says, apropos of nothing, that I have no reason to believe that your life savings will be as worthless as paper in the face of what’s coming on Monday, which is nothing. Nothing is coming on Monday, except for a big meeting which I am convening on Christmas Eve so that we can all talk about how everything is totally fine and good and cool and we definitely won’t be stabbing each other in the streets over scraps of bread by Christmas morning. Why, what have you heard?”

  5. 5.

    Martin

    Trump’s not that tethered to reality, tbh. And Cartman’s cabinet is a good rung higher on the intellectual ladder, as well.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    In other news, Supreme Court agrees to hear J. G. Giant v. S. Claus to determine once and for all who owns the rights to “Ho ho ho.”

  8. 8.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Jay:
    This is good news for Syndicalism! Not that namby-pamby false consciousness “democratic socalist” shit.

  14. 14.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    Ugh. I hate South Park for it’s often smug contrarianism and glibtarianism. However, when it gets something right, rare as that may be, it gets it right. This is one of those times.

  16. 16.

    Mary G

    Worms are thinking of turning – Ed Rogers in WaPo: The vice president should be preparing for the worst:

    One good thing about holding a senior position in government is you get a lot of free advice — which brings me to the choice Vice President Mike Pence is about to make when he chooses a new chief of staff.

    The vice president should consider taking a different approach from what has become the norm in Washington. Specifically, he should neither elevate a staffer, nor appoint a political generalist or media handler. He should appoint a serious adult with experience in senior positions in government. The vice president’s office is already known in Washington as ”the pod of normalcy,” based primarily on Pence’s own sound judgment and calm demeanor. His office is populated with good people who are capable, get along well with each other and are not part of the wild dramas constantly emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

    But now, the White House needs ballast. It needs more seasoned experts who bring gravitas to the administration at a time when it seems to be teetering.

    Oh, that’ll settle the Toddler-in-Chief right down. Cue the “I hardly even know Mike Pence, and he is a looooser who needs to go” tweets by 9:45 tonight.

  20. 20.

    Jay

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??:

    Yup, it was clear.

    “
    Paul Krugman
    @paulkrugman
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    23h
    This is amazing. It’s as if Mnuchin was trying to create a panic over something nobody was worried about until this release 1/

    Quote Tweet
    Steven Mnuchin
    @stevenmnuchin1
    Today I convened individual calls with the CEOs of the nation’s six largest banks. See attached statement.
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  22. 22.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mary G: It has a few funny moments. Often they are funnier separated out from the rest of the show and used, like the one above, for specific purposes other than what they were originally intended for.

  24. 24.

    Redshift

    There have been many variations on the theme, but I liked Krugman’s description of Mnuchin’s “reassuring” statement as being like the pilot of your aircraft coming on the PA and announcing that they definitely have enough fuel to land.

  25. 25.

    Mnemosyne

    @Jay:

    I agree with the people who think Mnuchin made the calls so he can claim reimbursement for his luxury vacation from taxpayers by calling it a business trip. It’s exactly the kind of cheap grift he would think was clever.

  27. 27.

    MagdaInBlack

    I openly admit to liking South Park. I had dvds but they seem to have vanished…I blame my ex buzzkill.
    And, I went to the movie on a date.
    I’m with Dave Grohl on this: F guilty pleasures. If you like something, effin’ like it. ☺️
    Thanks, Adam, you made me laugh

  28. 28.

    TS (the original)

    @Mnemosyne: trump told him to DO SOMETHING to stop the dow falling. This was what he thought was a great thing to do – or else he hates trump – I’m undecided on which one.

  29. 29.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Mary G: @Adam L Silverman:

    I remember catching the end of an episode once and it had something to do with being anti-Big Box Store/chain and supporting local small businesses. One of the main characters got on their soapbox and condemned the Buy Local people for being anti-Big Box (Walmart was one of them). That the people who owned these chains were ultimately just like the people who owned the local small businesses and that anti-Big Box people were hypocrites or something.

    It was completely devoid of nuance IIRC. It was some bizarre contrarian take on the issue that only idiots like Trey Parker could come up with. If I could compare it to anything, it was like something Bobo of the NYT would write.

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Jay:

    Today I convened individual calls with the CEOs of the nation’s six largest banks. See attached statement.

    How, exactly, does one convene an individual call?

    I would have been fine if he had said “Today I initiated…” or similar.

  33. 33.

    Chris Johnson

    @WereBear: “We’ll let people have all the guns they want, and lock up all the bullets”

    (I’m not THAT old, but I grew up being able to listen to that record. There was an LP of Pat Paulsen for President. I bet it’s on youtube somewhere)

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

  37. 37.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Anne Laurie: @Mary G: That picture was not taken today. He never left the residence. The Marine guard never took his post today outside the Oval Office.

  40. 40.

    cynthia ackerman

    @Mary G:

    First, I don’t think iDJT will notice this.

    Second, “gravitas” and Pence is a hilarious joke. Guy’s a .01 watt bulb.

  41. 41.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Bostondreams:
    I guess that’s good? Are they really acknowledging that climate change is real?
    I personally like Amazon. It’s extremely convenient, but it’s not difficult to see that it’s causing problems, like with driving up property prices and rents in NYC with it’s HQ2 or putting brick and mortar stores out of business.

  42. 42.

    CliosFanBoy

    Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year to all my fellow Jackals. and big hugs and pets and tummy rubs to the pets of Balloon Juice..

  45. 45.

    CliosFanBoy

    @Adam L Silverman: FWIW< My wife and I got a tour of the West Wing a few years ago in the evening while President Obama was elsewhere. While there WAS Secret Service there, watching us carefully, there was no Marine Guard. The Oval Office was marked off by a velvet rope, but I did stick my toe in, probably only the 1 millionth person to do so…

  47. 47.

    boatboy_srq

    @Mary G:

    based primarily on Pence’s own sound judgment and calm demeanor

    That there is some serious deliberate self-delusion on Rogers’ part. “Sound judgment” falls flat when one looks at IN health policies that enabled an HIV pandemic because Heroin Addicts Deserve What They Get, and there’s precious little distance between “calm demeanor” and “I’m too thick-headed to respond to external stimuli.”

  50. 50.

    waratah

    ICE bought busloads of migrant families in to El Paso and just left them there. Beto put out a call for help on hid Facebook and Twitter. I have not seen any numbers.
    I think they decided if they could not send them to where they came from they would dump them in the treats.

  51. 51.

    BC in Illinois

    Trump has not been in the West Wing all day. He is up in the residence, probably still in his jammies, watching cable news and tweeting.

    Our retiree-president.

  54. 54.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Jay: I’m sure it’s a legit picture, but from all available reporting that isn’t the President self reporting, he’s not been in the Oval Office at all today. So it’s a real picture of him in the Oval Office, just not a real picture of him in the Oval Office today.

  56. 56.

    Jay

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I was looking to see if it was this years tree, or last years tree.

    Because it has the Orange Bloat in it we know it’s not a stock model photo from Getty Images.

  57. 57.

    Mnemosyne

    @MagdaInBlack:

    When “South Park” is good, it can be really good, but they’re terrible at politics because they’re lazy libertarians who don’t want to have to think too hard and tend to conflate their hatred of specific celebrities with their hatred of specific politicians.

    I still say that their Jennifer Lopez/Ben Affleck episode (“tacos!”) is simultaneously the most hilarious and most disturbing half hour of American television ever.

  59. 59.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @CliosFanBoy:

    The Oval Office was marked off by a velvet rope

    Q-Anon: “See!? The Velvet rope is a reference to the velvet glove the Deep State uses to control us all through Q-Waves broadcast through the chips implanted in our teeth by dentists, who are really MIB undercover. It’s also a reference to gloves black athletes wore in protest at the Olympic Games of 1968. Ergo, Obama was a black supremacist member of the New Black Panther Party and this was his way of virtue signaling to his fellow travelers.”

    Did I capture the feeling of a conspiracy theorist?

  67. 67.

    J R in WV

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Folks, he’s clearly not there.

    Hasn’t been there in years now, judging from his public behavior, walking away from his limo, not signing the Order his news conference was called to sign, etc, etc.

  68. 68.

    Bill Arnold

    @Jay:
    Re P. Krugman’s “It’s as if Mnuchin was trying to create a panic over something nobody was worried about until this release.”,
    (and not PK’s “or he’s an idiot” in the next tweet), it’s quite possible that this is true. That Mnuchin (and perhaps DJT) are deliberately trying to panic the markets.
    – Mnuchin, one possible motive would be to spark a quick recession with a gamble that is not deep and is over before 2020 and that they can spin a widely believed “blame the Democrats” narrative, which they couldn’t; the press including the financial press wouldn’t buy it (excepting maybe the WSJ editorial page but they’ve been nuts for all the decades I’ve glanced at them).
    – DJT because he’d rather tear it all down than lose.

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