Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

When I was faster i was always behind.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

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

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Books are my comfort food!

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Come on, man.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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“Present”?!? Pigmuck King’s a godsdamned gift!

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  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Not allowed to edit my own damned comment, but I retract it. Read Zeddy too quickly and carelessly. That’ll larn me (well, it should, but it probably won’t).

  13. 13.

    Adam L Silverman

    There are two Jewish Republican members of Congress. One of them, that noted genius Lee Zeldin, just voted against a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred and bigotry.

  18. 18.

    PaulWartenberg

    When the Democrats expanded the resolution to condemn all hate speech covering anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim rage, they caught the Republicans off-guard. This turned from “punishing a rookie Muslim Congresswoman for her anti-AIPAC stance” into a “watch Republicans refuse to stand against Hate Speech” min-scandal.

    By the way, have they sentenced Manafort yet?

  21. 21.

    Jay

    It’s only a ReThuglican self own if the MSM picks it up and beats it as hard as Butter Emailz,

    which they won’t.

    For ReThuglican voters, overt racism is a feature, not a bug.

  22. 22.

    lamh36

    @A Ghost To Most: that’s the most PC thing to say. I have my own words for those two ladies, but I won’t share them in mixed company.

    I’ll just say they def represent one of my granny’s fav phrase: “all my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk” and leave it at that

  23. 23.

    PaulWartenberg

    @lamh36:

    Considering trump just froze military pay boosts during HIS Shutdown, taking more money from the troops sounds like a GREAT IDEA (/sarcasm).

    Seriously, trump is pissing on our nation’s military anymore. At some point they are just going to walk off their stations in protest, a mutiny on a scale this world hasn’t seen since the Spithead uprising for the 1797 British Navy.

  24. 24.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @lamh36: The III%’ers. and the militias plus the blue-line-in the flag nuts would freak. Sean Hannity would look like he is on the last stages of Ebola, with blood coming out is every orifice. I would pay to hear Michael Savage or Alex Jones.

  25. 25.

    oatler.

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend is my enemy isxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    NORMAN COORDINATE

  26. 26.

    randy khan

    Nice bit of jujitsu by Speaker Pelosi to get 23 Republicans to vote against it.

  27. 27.

    PaulWartenberg

    @B.B.A.:

    You can support Israel as a nation with a right to exist, and you can support Muslim nations co-existing peacefully with themselves and other nations including Israel. it’s called the “Let’s Stop Killing Each Other” Doctrine.

  29. 29.

    PaulWartenberg

    @A Ghost To Most:

    that King voted “Present” shows an incredible amount of self-awareness on his part of the trap the GOP was walking into.

    The 23 who voted NO out of a knee-jerk anti-Dem mindset or sociopathic world-view have got a lot of explaining to do.

  30. 30.

    The Midnight Lurker

    Judge Ellis says that Manafort’s sentencing recommendation was ‘excessive’. WTF?

    Ellis also said that Manafort “lived an otherwise blameless life,” and he was a “good friend and generous person to others.” What horseshit!

  31. 31.

    lamh36

    @ShimonPro
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    Judge TS Ellis before giving Manafort his sentence noted he “lived an otherwise blameless life,” was a good friend and generous person to others. That doesn’t erase his crimes however Ellis said.

    5:45 PM – 7 Mar 2019

    SIGH….

  33. 33.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @The Midnight Lurker: Judge Ellis says that Manafort’s sentencing recommendation was ‘excessive’. WTF?

    Ellis also said that Manafort “lived an otherwise blameless life,” and he was a “good friend and generous person to others.” What horseshit!

    I’m guessing there’s a well-worn copy of The Fountainhead or That Other One She Wrote on the judge’s shelves

  34. 34.

    JaySinWA

    Okay who is Zeddy referring to with the

    the charged criminal defendant who endorsed extrajudicial killings,

    Is he conflating Congressman Duncan with Duncan Hunter? Or have I missed something?

  37. 37.

    The Midnight Lurker

    ‘Faith and prayer’ got Manafort through this difficult time, and he also said “Humiliated and shamed would be a gross understatement.”

    According to court observers, Manafort showed little or no remorse for his crimes as he spoke for about four minutes..

    Can we please hang this fucker, Judge?

  39. 39.

    geg6

    He didn’t get shit. That fucking piece of shit only gave him four fucking years. That fucking judge said he had lived an otherwise blameless life. Mother fucking fascist judge.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @VeniceRiley: multiple audible gasps of incredulity from the MSNBC panel (I’m listening not watching so I can’t say who exactly)

  43. 43.

    The Midnight Lurker

    Forty-seven months sounds a lot more impressive than 3.9 years. I guess.

    That’s all you get for selling out your country.

    Fuck this judge and fuck Manafort.

  45. 45.

    CarolDuhart2

    Another sentencing next week, plus his state charges as well. This isn’t over.

  46. 46.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud: It’s not like Manfort smoked weed.

    I imagine the judge’s sentencing history is going to get a lot of scrutiny, and he may not like that.

  48. 48.

    Bobby Thomson

    The bar for removing Article III judges is and should be almost insurmountable.

    Ellis fucking sucks though. What a dipshit. Reagan appointees, amirite?

  51. 51.

    MJS

    Frankly, I wouldn’t have been surprised by time served and parole. This judge has been looking for any opportunity to help Manafort. Also, aren’t there other charges he can be retried on?

  52. 52.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Ellis also said that Manafort “lived an otherwise blameless life,” and he was a “good friend and generous person to others.” What horseshit!

    Horseshit indeed! Especially when you consider that he foisted VP Mike Pence on us.

  53. 53.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud: Thank you for watching, America, I’m Sean Hannity, stay tuned for Gout, Wheezing and Influence Peddling, with our own Paul Manafort! Next on Fox!

  54. 54.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    even fucking Nixon gets it!

    Richard M. Nixon @ dick_nixon
    My God, Martha Stewart got a year for trading on a golf course stock tip …

  56. 56.

    Gin & Tonic

    @CarolDuhart2: Sentencing next week is two charges of illegal lobbying with (supposedly) a 5-year min. Betcha he gets that as concurrent.

    I’m going to have a drink and try to forget this bullshit.

  58. 58.

    A Ghost To Most

    @geg6:
    That sucks, but given the judge’s attitude towards the prosecution, perhaps not surprising

    Next week should be better.

  60. 60.

    lamh36

    @cmclymer
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    Crystal Mason, a Black woman in Texas, just started serving a sentence of five years for casting an illegal ballot because she didn’t know her felony made her ineligible.

    Paul Manafort will finish his sentence before Crystal Mason.

    Watch whiteness work.

  62. 62.

    lamh36

    That fuq’n Judge Ellis smh…passing the damn buck to DC…so if DC does less…then Ellis like …what “oh well”…smh

    FUCKERS!

  63. 63.

    dr. luba

    @geg6:

    That fucking judge said he had lived an otherwise blameless life.

    Which is why his daughters admire him so (/sarc):

    In a series of texts reviewed by Business Insider that appear to have been sent by Andrea to her sister, Jessica, in March 2015, Andrea said their father had “no moral or legal compass.”

    “Don’t fool yourself,” Andrea wrote to her sister, according to the texts. “That money we have is blood money.”

    “You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly,” she continued, according to the reviewed texts. “As a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine. Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered.”

  64. 64.

    jl

    @lamh36: From what I’ve read so far, benefits and pay for the actual troops seem to be main target, which is sick. I read an article recently that the Trumpsters and brass were eyeing construction and maintenance funds for housing as a source of funds. Housing for the troops is already starved, and because of that, substandard.

    Disgusting source of funds for a disgusting campaign stunt, that even Trump had the sense to understand was a stupid idea when it was first suggested to him by a couple of his flunkies as a way to get some cheers out of his rally crowds.

  65. 65.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    PresidentialHarassHat @ Popehat
    47 months for Manafort before Judge Ellis. That’s about 40% of what I guessed, 120 months. It’s a very substantial departure (although almost certainly a legal sentence) from the guidelines of 19-24 years.
    /2 A departure from 19 years to under 4 years is very dramatic. It’s the kind of departure defense lawyers dream of. It’s the kind of departure that’s FAR more likely to be enjoyed by the sort of person who commits crimes with banks and wires than drugs or guns.
    /3 It’s pretty surprisingly lenient (though, in context, longer than average for white collar crime). Judge Jackson comes next. She can sentence up to 10, and can make it concurrent or consecutive. This changes my assessment of what she’ll do. I suspect she’ll max him. /end

    “almost certainly legal” is an interesting caveat but almost certainly academic
    (italics mine)

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    He comes up before Amy Jacksonville Bergman Nextel week. Let’s hope she’s a little more attuned to reality (although given the oh-so-delicate taps on the wrist she’s given Roger Stone recently, I’m not particularly sanguine).

    ETA: JFC, AutoCorrect! Not even going to try to change that mess.

  68. 68.

    Roger Moore

    @PaulWartenberg:

    At some point they are just going to walk off their stations in protest, a mutiny on a scale this world hasn’t seen since the Spithead uprising for the 1797 British Navy.

    I think some of the mutinies during WWI- what John Keegan described as military strikes- would classify as substantially larger.

  70. 70.

    MisterForkbeard

    @lamh36: “Look, other than the decades-spanning criminal escapades we just convicted him on and that he lied about repeatedly, he’s lived a blameless and upstanding life!”

    What does it take to get a rich white guy the prison term he actually deserves? Yeesh.

  74. 74.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @geg6:

    I want to kill someone right now.

    Don’t even bother trying. Your amazing, awesome niece would probably just save his life or something.

  75. 75.

    J R in WV

    Judge Ellis is a despicable old white bigot Republican man who should be impeached and lose his pension for this shit.

    Try living on Social Security in your current neighborhood, jackass!

    Although in our current reality he would be hired by Faux News as a consultant for the big bucks in return for his good job helping the Fascist Party out of a tight spot!

    Grrrrr!!!

  77. 77.

    Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.

    So, let’s call these 24 the Hate Caucus, and shame anyone who associates with them.

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