Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

“But what about the lurkers?”

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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‘Junkets’ Under Fire Open Thread: Calling Trump’s Cronies Amateurs Is An Insult to People Who Don’t Get Paid

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Guess Trump really *did* enjoy his SooperSekrit Iraq drop-in… he got to hang around with real live G.I. Joes, and some of them were properly thrilled when he signed MAGA hats for them. Not sure his minions understood that normal people might have different reactions…

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  1. 1.

    poleaxedbyboatwork

    It’s actually (tho necessary) insulting that Pelosi must interact with Trump.

    I long for the day (soon, FSM make it so) when every-fucking-one can treat Trump and alla his minions with the scorn and contempt with which they so richly deserve.

  3. 3.

    Bess

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Send them picture postcards of beautiful places they will never again see and delicious food they will never again eat.

    Unusual punishment but perhaps we could sneak past the cruel censor….

  6. 6.

    Aleta

    NBC: Trump administration officials weighed speeding up the deportation of migrant children by denying them their legal right to asylum hearings after separating them from their parents, according to comments on a late 2017 draft of what became the administration’s family separation policy obtained by NBC News.

    The draft also shows officials wanted to specifically target parents in migrant families for increased prosecutions, contradicting the administration’s previous statements. In June, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the administration did “not have a policy of separating families at the border” but was simply enforcing existing law.

    The authors noted that the “increase in prosecutions would be reported by the media and it would have a substantial deterrent effect.”

    The draft plan was provided to NBC News by the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley, D.-Ore., which says it was leaked by a government whistleblower.

    The draft document and comments to it:
    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5688664-Merkleydocs2.html

  13. 13.

    Balconesfault

    Trump labeling Nancy’s Afghanistan trip a “Public Relations Event” shines a light on how his staff finally managed to get him to visit the troops in Iraq in December.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    Gotta totally disagree with Obama, who called it one of the best movies of the year.

    Just finished watching Annihilation. What a jumble of ponderous pretentious claptrap.

  18. 18.

    montanareddog

    @sukabi:

    yes, turtles need regular watering. It could become an annual pilgrimage Pissin on Mitch.

    Why limit it to micturation? Why not a big job and jazz it up by making it a contest, to appeal to America’s natural competitive instinct? It could be scheduled for the first Sunday in February and called “Super Bowel”.

  20. 20.

    JWR

    @Aleta: From your link…

    One policy that was discussed but not implemented from the draft memo included limiting protections for migrant children who were victims of abuse or neglect.

    God, I hate these “people”. Words fucking fail.

  22. 22.

    wasabi gasp

    @NotMax: Unless you’re making an asparagus joke, then no, all doors must be opened, all rocks turned, beans stirred, onions peeled…

  24. 24.

    Mezz

    I obviously turned off the internet news too early last night. Missed the Buzzfeed article. (WOW.)

    I wonder, though: is this bad?

    through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.
    This revelation is not the first evidence to suggest the president may have attempted to obstruct the FBI and special counsel investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

    That seems bad.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax:
    I hope you’re at least willing to entertain the possibility that Obama saw something in the film that you missed.

  30. 30.

    Keith P.

    @Mezz: Yeah, I’m reading this, too, and thinking “How did I miss this?!??” (I went to bed early). Given the quote from Trump of “Make it happen”, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Cohen has recordings of the arrangement and just hasn’t released them at Mueller’s request.
    PS Don Jr.’s been very quiet lately. Interesting.

  33. 33.

    sukabi

    @Mezz: what that tells me is EVERYONE in drumpfs orbit is running for the exits with knives drawn and are aiming to get the last seats on the Mueller lifeboat.

  34. 34.

    sukabi

    On a lighter more positive note, the freshmen class of congresswomen and men are certainly shaking things up. Like Rep Elaine Luria’s statement up top. Ladies are bringing the heat. ? ? ?

  36. 36.

    JPL

    @Mezz: Trump seems bad, but will it matter. Mitch wants to retain his control and understands that in order to do that, he must kiss the bosses ass.
    He’s afraid of the tweet.

  38. 38.

    Mezz

    @Keith P.: In a purely selfish way, the timing of this is supremely frustrating, as I have a ton of work to do just now, and the siren call of Twitter today will be especially potent, I can already tell. Also, if we could please, more on the Liberty University/poll rigging angle. Seems entertaining.

    In an unselfish way: MORE, FASTER, CRITICAL MASS. I’m pretty imaginative as to the misdeeds a President can do (as a US historian), and my imagined scandal is pretty dire, yet the more evidence and info that trickles out, still nothing in that imagined scandal seems wrong yet.
    And that is fking TERRIFYING.

  39. 39.

    Ladyraxterinok

    @sukabi: Some comments on that thread scolded her as if she were a backward HS student. Total contempt for all dems….and women.

    They (she) was told to shut up and do as T commanded!

  42. 42.

    SFAW

    I expect I will suffer slings and arrows for this, but:

    You jackals talking about pissing on McConnell’s grave are a bunch of feckin’ amateurs. Not in your choice(s) of pre-piss culinary treats, of course. But why are all you kiddies waiting until he’s six feet under? He deserves it right-the-fuck NOW. Every fucking day.

    [Note: I am not suggesting it be limited to pissing on him, by the way.]

  43. 43.

    trnc

    Not every president has the political genius to drive home to . every last voter in America that his most feared political opponent wanted to meet troops in a war zone that he himself had been too frightened to visit

    “When you’re a republican, they let you do it. You can do anything. Be a pussy. You can do anything.”

    Apologies to people (including myself) who don’t like the word pussy being used for anything besides cats and oppressed bands, but I play the hand I’m dealt.

    Obligatory:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaZl12Z5P7g

  45. 45.

    Ken

    @Mezz:

    This revelation is not the first evidence

    There was that time he confessed to obstruction in a TV interview.

    Really, I can’t blame his lawyers for wanting to keep him from testifying to, well, anything.

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    @Mnemosyne: That kind of funny. I read your comment and thought “how did I miss that?” and then searched this thread for wasabi. Ha! Of course I didn’t notice; I have him pied.

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