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You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

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

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

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

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

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Small potatoes, and few in the hill. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving Rethuglican:

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  12. 12.

    TriassicSands

    We may have discovered the bottom of the barrel — Stephen Moore. The Senate Republicans have confirmed all manner of worthless incompetents to important positions without blinking an eye. But Moore was too worthless even for them. Will the Emperor of Idiocy try to find a position for Moore that doesn’t require Senate confirmation — stay tuned.

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    Joni Ernst may commence pig-cutting refresher in 3…2…1

    Knew that could come in handy.

  16. 16.

    Major Major Major Major

    @rikyrah:

    What’s the incentive for the party to nominate Sanders in a contested convention? He personally helped strip the supers he would now need of their power. He has trashed party activists and leaders.

    a general sense that the winner should be the person who receives the most votes? I think they’d probably nominate him with a plurality.

  18. 18.

    danielx

    @rikyrah:

    Glenn Greenwald just concluded his first in-studio appearance with Tucker by earnestly endorsing the agenda of Trump fixer Bill Barr. Beyond parody.

    Wonder what Greenwald’s hourly rate is for his professional asshole routine? There’s a not-so-fine line between being a contrarian and being an utter asshole, and Glenn pole vaulted to the bad.

  23. 23.

    danielx

    @TriassicSands:

    Well, we are talking about the Federal Reserve, which means we’re talking about serious money and the management thereof. Republican senators have pretty much proved they don’t give a fiddler’s fuck about personal or official misbehavior as long as the person misbehaving furthers their policy goals. But putting an economic idiot like Moore within whistling distance of Fed policy-making? That could conceivably impact senatorial fortunes, political and otherwise, and they’re not putting up with that shit. If anyone knows upon which side his or her personal bread is buttered, it’s a U.S. senator.

  27. 27.

    Mike in NC

    Watching “Active Measures” on Netfilx about Russian interference in 2016 election.

  37. 37.

    frosty

    @rikyrah: Thank you for diving into the Twitterverse and bringing back these nuggets. I have neither the time nor inclination to do so, but I wanted to let you know I appreciate both your contributions and your comments. You’re one of my favorites.

  38. 38.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Major Major Major Major: I’m just pointing out how it’s worked historically, sometimes a person that wasn’t even running gets the nomination. It’s pretty much a moot point since the number of candidates will collapse after Iowa, further more after New Hampshire and we’ll probably be left with no more than 4 candidates after Super Tuesday.

  39. 39.

    Raoul

    @danielx: I suspect that plenty of big dollar donors, during call time the last couple weeks, were not having it with Herman 9-9-9 Cain (remember that, it was what, 6 months ago? No, wait, Cain withdrew April 22nd) and Stephen Moore.

    Trump can be an authoritarian, as long as the stock and bond markets work to the favor of the 1% and the C-Suites. Which says plenty about the moral vacuum of corporate leaders. And how GOP Senators get their bread buttered.

  41. 41.

    Divf

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: @Major Major Major Major:
    A brokered convention is different from an election. In the latter case there is only one round of balloting and we have to live with plurality victors. At the convention the delegates keep voting until someone gets a majority. So no one gets “cheated”.

  42. 42.

    plato

    Cons are getting shellacked across the pond losing nearly 1/3rd of their seats when compared to labour’s 10% loss of councillors.

    And the night is still young with 60% results yet to come in. Libdems and indies are the biggest gainers so far.

  47. 47.

    plato

    Spot the rw spin from this limey ‘polling expert’.

    Professor Sir John Curtice

    Polling expert

    It looks as though the key message from the voters to the Conservatives and Labour is “a plague on both of your houses”, as both of them find themselves losing both votes and seats on an extensive basis.

    Even though the Labour Party is defending a relatively poor result in 2015, the party is not doing even as well as it did then.

    So far the party has made a net loss of nearly 80 seats, while its vote is down on average by one point compared with 2015 in a collection of wards where the BBC has been collecting the detailed results, and by seven points as compared with last year’s local election results.

    The party lost control of Bolsover, Wirral, and Hartlepool… with only the capture of Trafford in compensation.

    Meanwhile, although the results for the Conservatives so far are perhaps not as bad as they might have feared, their vote is down on average by six points compared with 2015.

    As a result, the party is now also suffering net loss of nearly 300 seats, though the party seems unlikely – on the figures so far – to suffer the very heavy losses that some anticipated.

    The Conservatives are also down by six points on average as compared with last year’s local election results.

    Labour’s loss of 75 seats is somehow bigger than the 5 times loss of 360 seats for the cons. What a gaslighting asshole.

  50. 50.

    Aleta

    If only we had a parliamentary broadcasting system, we could have a vote of no confidence and dissolve CNN.

  55. 55.

    Anne Laurie

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    It’s been known to happen, remember Father Drinan?

    When Drinan failed to adhere to strict Papal doctrine (in favor of violent right-wing authoritarians, such as Nixon’s Repubs), The Church decreed that members of the clergy could no longer run for or hold political office. That might’ve changed in the past 40 years… but given the Vatican’s record during that period, I doubt it!

    ETA: Non-Catholic clergy, of course, are not affected by this dictat; don’t know of any serving in Congress right at this moment, but it’s not a statistic I pay much attention to, either.

  58. 58.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @Omnes Omnibus: Unfortunately, while estrogen changes your body hair — from coarse to fine and less of it — it doesn’t affect facial hair.

    So 290 hours, and counting of facial electrolysis to rid myself of the stubborn little fuckers. And yes, it hurts. A lot. The only upside of my chronic pinched nerve pain is that I’ve developed a ridiculously high tolerance. And it still hurts. A lot.

  60. 60.

    Origuy

    The source I found said that there are currently 8 ordained Protestant ministers serving in the House. I couldn’t find a list of who they are.

  67. 67.

    Dan B

    @Sister Golden Bear: In the 70’s I had a number of friends who were, in reflection, probably trans. But they were either calling themselves transvestites or bull dykes. It’s amazing how the awareness has changed. I’ve had a half dozen friends and acquaintances for 20 years now. They seem very content (there’s a better word but it’s bedtime) and don’t have the edginess that the drag queens and dykes in the 70’s exhibited. Progress!
    Now for some resistance to the new HHS rule to allow denial of care to LGBT and reproductive rights.

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