Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Everybody saw this coming.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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

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

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Madame Pelosi, Correct As Always

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  2. 2.

    Jeffro

    Wait, I thought tweeting in all caps and also conspiring with a hostile foreign power against my own country was the sign of great leadership? Or something??

  3. 3.

    wjs

    Nancy Pelosi knows more about politics than any Republican alive right now, and even most of the dead ones.

    If you can’t get behind Nancy SMASH! then what the hell is the point of anything anymore?

  4. 4.

    hilts

    Two thumbs up for Pelosi, congratulations to C-SPAN, and fuck Trump and all of his enablers.

  5. 5.

    lamh36

    Trying to focus on more positive news.

    So here you go…

    @AFarray
    This is too cute. Americans can’t wait for baby Sussex. ??????

    Boca Raton seniors throw royal baby shower for Prince Harry, Meghan Markle
    https://t.co/EGYL7ZvHSn

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: Is there any Idris news that might be interesting? I see that Luther is returning in a couple of months. Yay!

    What are you thinking about season 2 of Black Lightning?

    edited

  7. 7.

    ruemara

    I keep wondering if people just forget Republicans hold office too. I mean, the House couldn’t override the presidential veto today thanks to republicans. IDK. It just feels like dems spend more time angry at dems than angry at republicans.

  8. 8.

    jl

    Good thing that Pelosi made sure that the ‘no pivot’ line is believable and demonstrable. Not that the corporate media will recognize it, but candidates telling the truth about it on the campaign trail will be more important.
    Also, the new crop of House Dem membership has been very eager to publicize policy initiatives.
    So, happy coincidence that the two have been working in the same direction.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    @ruemara: I am so sorry to hear about your 2-month job situation. Are you already off work? Double-awful because of your worries about citizenship. Are you able to talk to an attorney to find out whether that is truly a concern? Oh, and I’m sure there’s no problem with the financial side of meeting with an attorney when you are losing 2 months work!!!

  11. 11.

    Kay

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    American voters say 84-9% that the Mueller report should be made public.
    Every listed party, gender, education, age and racial group supports making the report public by wide margins, according to Quinnipiac.

    Of course they do. And they should get it. It belongs to them.

    Where have all the brave fighters for transparency gone? Is it like the deficit hawks? They hibernate when Republicans are in charge?

    We have the right to know. I want to read it. I don’t want the Presidents hack lawyer’s or the Fox News personalities interpretation. That’s not good enough. Release it.

  12. 12.

    trollhattan

    This is our Nana telling us to calm the fvck down. Thanks for the reminder, Nancy!

  17. 17.

    clay

    @Kay:

    Where have all the brave fighters for transparency gone?

    Don’t worry, I’m sure Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald will soon demand… what’s that?

    Oh.

  18. 18.

    ruemara

    @WaterGirl: No, I got another 55 days or so. Things will be things, I suppose. I’m not sure about getting an attorney, I’m dealing with a lot of medical issues at the moment. Long story short, medication caused lupus-like symptoms & medication interaction issues. Spending a lot on both the medical consultations to resolve the why & what to do, plus the alt therapy to relieve the symptoms. Keeping my head down and working on work & the next gig.

  19. 19.

    debbie

    @Kay:

    I just listened to the NYT’s podcast, The Daily, about Mueller’s report, and the reporter’s conclusion is that Mueller’s punting to Barr provides justification for the Dems to keep investigations going. Maybe could this be 11-dimensional chess?

  20. 20.

    Pogonip

    I got a message back from my Rep, and the intern who wrote it is due congrats for incorporating a record number of cliches. Briefly, the Rep is concerned about the rising cost of health care but reassures me that althe American system is the best in the world, and is working on ways to make it even better while preserving our fundamental and cherished freedoms.

    I wrote back asking if one of the fundamental and cherished freedoms is the freedom type 1,diabetics have to die because they can’t afford insulin.

    Keep trying, please. Educate, educate, educate.

  21. 21.

    lamh36

    @WaterGirl: Luthr not until June…ugh.

    I posted a vide the other day of Idris giving a “tutorial” on British Slang…just in time for me to learn for my London trip.

    Idris Elba Teaches You British Slang | Vanity Fair https://youtu.be/8tbs8tFTHpE via @YouTube

    As for Black Lightning, I hate to say it, I don’t watch it

  22. 22.

    Jay

    @debbie:

    “ Barr provides justification for the Dems to keep investigations going. Maybe could this be 11-dimensional chess?”

    Ignorant Pundit Punditing.

    The House Commitees are investigating, were always planning on continuing to investigate,

    Media coverage of politics in the US is excretable.

  23. 23.

    Ohio Mom

    This is off-topic and I know I am behind the times but I recently joined Facebook because I wanted to be part of a disability forum.

    I don’t quite understand how Facebook works and I keep ending up on a thread that is a mishmash of advertisements and posts by people I know, including my husband’s cousin, who appears to be a frequent poster.

    Today she announced the Mueller report cleared Trump and I was sick to my stomach. That is something I could live without knowing about her. I could live without knowing which ones of my acquaintances are Bernie fans as well.

    The forum I joined for isn’t very informative or helpful so I will be exiting Facebook as soon as I can figure out how. The whole experience has been an education.

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    @ruemara: Well shit, that doesn’t sound like any fun at all. I’m sorry, ruemara, seems like things should get to be easy for a little while, at least. sigh.

  29. 29.

    C Stars

    @Ohio Mom: Ugh, facebook. Went back there recently after taking a four month long break, and it was just as horrible as it always was. Does the one unexpected sweet photo of a friend’s new baby (the friend I never thought would have a baby) make it all worth it? I don’t know. Sometimes?

    Also, I don’t really understand how it works either. Part advertising, part surveillance, part oversharing, and one small part genuine social interaction, all mashed into one messy feed. FB has secret evil algorithms to determine what you see and when/where you see it.

  31. 31.

    Jay

    “So, for those of you keeping track at home, Shanahan has thrown away a high-paying job at Boeing to come work at the Defense Department. His job is to pilfer funds meant for military readiness to pay for Trump’s stupid Fuck You Mexico Wall. He’s forced to go before Congress and acknowledge that the reallocation hurts military spending. While he’s there, Democrats hand him a letter that says, “If you go nuclear, so will we. And our button’s bigger.” The president is turning the Defense Department into a political football and sending him out to be ritually humiliated. And, oh by the way, he’s never getting to be Secretary of Defense.

    We might feel sorry for Pat Shanahn if he weren’t an arms lobbyist who willingly signed on to the most corrupt administration since the Teapot Dome scandal. Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

    YOU FEELIN’ ITCHY YET, PAT?”

    https://www.wonkette.com/acting-defense-secretary-admits-wall-wont-keep-us-safe-but-the-old-man-wants-it-so

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: Okay, so I just learned all about british slang. What’s up with this new show of his on netflix?

    With the superhero stuff, I would have thought Black Lightning was right up your alley. Never liked it or started out okay and you ditched it?

  35. 35.

    Jay

    @C Stars:

    The Book of Faces is actually pretty simple.

    Under the guise of social interaction, it learns “everything” about you, bundles that information to anyone willing to pay for it. Banks, Advertisers, Russian Intelligence, Identity Theft Scammers.

    It then sells those same people access to your social media networks, so that they can “influence” you, to buy their product, vote the way they want you to, feed your anger and hate, radicalize you on line.

    It’s 1984’s Ministry, but with only digital buckets of digital rats.

  36. 36.

    trollhattan

    WaPo columnist Catherine Rampell takes Stephen Moore to the woodshed, unleases wood.

    President Trump reportedly chose Stephen Moore for one of the vacancies at the Federal Reserve Board after reading a Wall Street Journal op-ed Moore wrote attacking the Fed. The piece, co-authored with Louis Woodhill, made two central claims: (1) we’re experiencing deflation, and (2) the way to address it is to follow a rule adopted by Paul Volcker in the 1980s.

    Slight problem though: Both of those claims are flat-out false. There is no deflation, and Volcker never created the imaginary “rule” Moore is now attributing to him. I know, because I asked Volcker — as Moore once suggested I do.

    Deflation, for those unfamiliar, means prices are falling. There are three major measures of price changes: the consumer price index, the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, and the “core” PCE price index (which excludes energy and food, which can be volatile). All three show modest but positive year-over-year price increases.

    Moore and Woodhill explain this away by saying that in fact we shouldn’t be looking at overall price changes — instead we should be looking at just a small subset of prices, specifically commodities. Commodities refer to goods that are interchangeable with one another, such as metals, oil, soybeans, wheat, etc.

    Moore historically has had trouble distinguishing whether price changes in commodities are driven by monetary policy (that is, the Fed allowing too much or too little money to slosh around) or market-specific shocks. For instance, when I’ve appeared with him on CNN before, he has cited as evidence of “deflation” the fact that U.S. soybean prices have fallen. And hey, soybean prices are down! But as everyone in America except apparently Moore is aware, soybean prices have fallen primarily because China stopped buying U.S. soybeans in retaliation for Trump’s trade war, not because of changes in the money supply.

    Nonetheless, Moore claimed in this op-ed, as well as in that CNN appearance, that his confused understanding of inflation and Fed policy was endorsed by none other than the godfather of sound Fed policy: former Fed chairman Paul Volcker.

    [other stuff, now the good part]

    When I first, shall we say, expressed skepticism about Moore’s claim in that CNN debate, he suggested I get things from the horse’s mouth.

    MOORE: Do you know what the Volcker Rule was? You know how he killed inflation? He followed commodity prices. Every time commodity prices went up, he — he raised interest rates, and every time —

    RAMPELL: That’s not what the Volcker Rule is.

    MOORE: Yes, it was. That’s what he did, and that’s how we conquered inflation, and that’s why —

    RAMPELL: Google the Volcker Rule, people. That’s not what the Volcker Rule is.

    MOORE: Yes, it was. Ask him. Ask him.

    So I figured, why not ask Volcker? I sent an inquiry through his book publicist, who passed it along to Volcker’s assistant. The assistant replied: “I showed this to Mr. Volcker and he says that he does not remember ever establishing a commodity-price rule.”

    There you have it. Trump has nominated to the world’s most powerful central bank a guy who has trouble telling whether prices are going up or down, and struggles to remember how the most famous Fed chair in history successfully stamped out inflation. But hey, Republican senators still seem keen on him because “the establishment” keeps pointing out how inept he is.

    This guy can’t be allowed anywhere near the joint.

  37. 37.

    ruemara

    @WaterGirl: I like Black Lightning. It’s pretty innovative in story style and music choices.

    @WaterGirl: Boy, I hope so. I hit 50 this year. I’d like 50 onward to be the complete opposite financially, mentally, emotionally & romantically of my entire fucking life so far.

  38. 38.

    hells littlest angel

    @trollhattan: This guy can’t be allowed anywhere near the joint.

    And so, of course, he will be. One more victory for President Putin.

  39. 39.

    lamh36

    @WaterGirl: Never got into it and now just don’t have the time.

    As for Idris Netflix show, I’ll admit, I’ve got a Netflix account but my mom uses it more than I do…I rarely watch stuff on it.

    I have to actually plan to watch rather than randomly watch. Maybe once I get rid of my cable I will start watching it more?

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    @ruemara: Yeah, I like that they kind of do their own thing and don’t try to fit some mold.

    We’ll work on your post 50 dreams/plans/goals. :-)

  41. 41.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Ohio Mom:

    Today she announced the Mueller report cleared Trump and I was sick to my stomach. That is something I could live without knowing about her.

    That’s why I quit Facebook after trump was “elected”. I lost so much respect for so many people.

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Kay:
    1974 – The entire Washington and national political press corps, their editors, and their publishers: we are willing to go to jail to expose the information the Nixon Administration is trying to hide from the American people and Congress.

    2019 – The majority of the Washington and national political press corps, their editors, and their publishers: it is time to move on rather than expose the information that the Trump administration is trying to hide from the American people and Congress.

  44. 44.

    Ohio Mom

    @C Stars: Facebook is spooky. Ohio Dad is in the market for a new car and I did some googling on his behalf —and just like that! Car ads.

    I also have Bernie ads, Amy Klobuchar ads ugh and ugh). Ads from the futniture consignment store I bought a lampshade at TWO years ago.

    I feel like I’m being followed.

  45. 45.

    ruemara

    @Ohio Mom: You are. It’s the biggest open secret of all the internet. You are spying on you with the help of bots and trackers.

  50. 50.

    lamh36

    I’ve mostly been ambivalent on Biden running. If ya paying attention ya already know who my candidate is

    But this answer on Anita Hill…from Joe.This ain’t it Joe…this ain’t it at all.

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    He says to this day he regrets that he couldn’t give her the hearing she deserved – a hearing where she was respected and a hearing where the tone of the questioning wasn’t insulting and the fact that she stood up was recognized as taking a lot of courage.

    As if he was just a bystander on the committee…

  52. 52.

    Ohio Mom

    @Jay: I saw your comment after I responded to C Stars. I realize I am the very last person in the world to finally open a Facebook account and fully comprehend how awful it is.

  56. 56.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: Or once you finish school! I will watch Idris on his new show for you this week and report back.

    You know, I never watched The Wire so I never got to see him when he was younger.

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: The worst is what he said most recently about Anita Hill. I can’t recall his exact words, so I won’t try to quote him. Ugh, Joe.

  58. 58.

    kindness

    I remember when a ‘certain segment’ of liberals were against Nancy being House Speaker again. What ever happened to those guys (& gals)?

  60. 60.

    rk

    I’ve been watching something on youtube called “three blokes in a pub” where three guys discuss in great detail how exactly Brexit is going to affect the UK. To say I’m horrified is an understatement. It reminds me so much of the US. Basically the leavers were completely lied to (their fault for believing the con artists). Now the con artists are in charge led by Theresa May who is more stupid than Trump and equally clueless. In reality it was a choice between “do you want to kill yourself and your kids” or do you want to remain in the EU? They chose death. It may not be a literal death (though for many it will be), but that country basically voted for suicide if it goes through with Brexit. I don’t see how they can avoid massive unemployment, disruption and a depression like economic state. And they’ll take Ireland and Scotland down with them. Unbelievable! Just listening to them made my almost hyperventilate.
    Reminds me of repeal and replace of ACA. There was never going to be a replace with something better. It was all about obtaining power and destruction.

  61. 61.

    Nicole

    @WaterGirl:

    You know, I never watched The Wire so I never got to see him when he was younger.

    Well, lucky for you, watching The Wire is still possible. I didn’t see it until it had been off the air for years, and then binged all 5 seasons in a matter of weeks. Very entertaining. Season 4, which centers itself in the public school system, was probably my favorite, but I liked all of the seasons (the final one maybe a bit less than the others).

    And yeah, Idris Elba is excellent in it.

  62. 62.

    Nicole

    @kindness:

    I remember when a ‘certain segment’ of liberals were against Nancy being House Speaker again. What ever happened to those guys (& gals)?

    A (liberal) friend of mine was one of those. We got into it on FB one night and she spouted every talking point I’m sure she heard on NPR. It has taken a great deal of control on my part not to remind her and ask what she thinks these days. But I figure Nancy would say to me, “Look, who ended up with the gavel? Let it go; there’s work to do.” ;)

  64. 64.

    SFAW

    @kindness:

    I remember when a ‘certain segment’ of liberals were against Nancy being House Speaker again. What ever happened to those guys (& gals)?

    And, as if by magic, I got a “Democracy for America” fundraising e-mail today, wherein they explained that the Demon-rat Party is actually THE greatest threat to America, babbies, and puppies. Kittens, too. And how did they make their case? By talking about AOC, who slew the evil Pelosi-sycophant whatsisname, and how Ayanna Presley beat the dreaded Mike Capuano (whom they did not try to paint as a conservative), and how Hakeem Jeffries is a Pelosi suck-up and therefore not liberal enough. In short, Speaker Dragon Lady is preventing America from enacting liberal policies, and so therefore I should give them money to fight her eviltude.

    Of course, the finale was given to extolling the virtues of noted LIBERAL … I know you’re all going to be shocked, SHOCKED! … Seth Moulton. Well, they didn’t exactly call him a liberal, but he was against Pelosi, and that’s good enough for them.

    I replied, suggesting that they read TBogg’s “Mumia sweatshirt” classic, particularly the last line.

    Fucking morons. It’s amazing we ever win anything, with “supporters” like that.

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