Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

“woke” is the new caravan.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

People are weird.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Books are my comfort food!

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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  1. 1.

    Jerzy Russian

    Why does this story end with him walking away?

    Along those same lines, why didn’t he get a knee in the groin?

  2. 2.

    TenguPhule

    Barr’s contempt for the rule of law is breathtaking.

    Nancy Pelosi’s restraint would be admirable in other circumstances.

    But not these.

  3. 3.

    chopper

    AG Barr approached Pelosi, shook her hand: “Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?”

    “nope, but i did bring my budget-writing pen.”

  5. 5.

    SFAW

    Oh, those RWMFs are SO hilarious! Some of their greatest hits:
    RWMF: “Did you hear the one about the Democrat lie-beral? He fucking SUCKS!” Crowd: “Har-de-har-har”
    RWMF: “Then there was the time I shot a Democrat lie-beral, because he was talking about injustice” Crowd: “Har-de-har-har”
    RWMF: “Then there was the time I went up to a Democrat lie-beral, said ‘Look! Over there!’ and when he looked, I kicked him in the nuts” Crowd: “Har-de-har-har”

    That’s pretty much their entire repertoire.

    I hope they all fucking die painful deaths (he said, unironically). Then I might say “Har-de-har-har”

  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    The heck is this about? The usual distraction technique? Selling more soybeans?

    President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to protect US computer networks from “foreign adversaries”.

    The president signed an executive order effectively barring US companies from using foreign telecoms believed to pose a security risk to the country. Mr Trump does not name any company specifically in the order. However, analysts suggest it is mainly directed at Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

    A number of countries have raised concerns the company’s products could be used by China for surveillance. The Chinese company – which is the world’s largest maker of telecoms equipment – has denied that its work poses any risks of espionage or sabotage.

    According to a statement from the White House, Mr Trump’s order aims to “protect America from foreign adversaries who are actively and increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology infrastructure and services”.

    It gives the secretary of commerce the power to “prohibit transactions posing an unacceptable risk to the national security”, the statement adds. The move was instantly welcomed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, who said in a statement it was “a significant step toward securing America’s networks”.

  10. 10.

    SFAW

    @trollhattan:

    Trade wars, plus he’s going to get network security help from a bunch of experts in St. Petersburg, graciously offered to him by his master.

  12. 12.

    Martin

    Bad move by Barr. By signaling that handcuffs are the only way Congress can get his attention, he pretty much forces their hand.

  17. 17.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @SFAW:
    I have to be honest. The other day when I was at work I caught a glimpse at a newspaper headline that was about state abortion bills trying to get a challenge to the Supreme Court and all I could think about was how many women this was all going to ultimately kill. That the federal courts were being stacked by Trump and McConnell and will still be fucked when I’m in my 60s. If social security will even still be around, what society will look like.

    My anger started to rise and then I though back to when some old duffer made me count out $5.60 in change using dimes and nickles with a couple of quarters to buy some liquor and a half-gallon of milk. As he walked out, he said “For all you Trump supporters out there”, or something to that effect. It was some stupid rebel call to arms shit.

    In the “present”, all I could think was, “You son of a bitch, you stole my future. You have blood on your hands. People have died because of the choice you made 2.5 years ago. All because you couldn’t stand to share the country with those that looked different than you, couldn’t stand to have a woman as president.”

  20. 20.

    Sab

    @Emma: Nancy Pelosi isn’t Arya the assassin. She is Sansa, who plays by, and understands the rules and conventions and still wins.

  21. 21.

    Percysowner

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: I’m in my 60s and have a 14 month old granddaughter. I really worry about her future. Will she even be allowed to take birth control or will every method a woman controls be declared and abortificant, including finding a way to declare the oldie, but goodie, diaphragm? Why do I even ask?

    @rikyrah: So all it took was Elizabeth Warren having the GUTS to stand up to Fox and now it’s safe for all the Democratic candidates. Good for her and good for Harris in following her lead.

  22. 22.

    hells littlest angel

    Barr laughed; walked away.

    The Attorney General of the United States. What a fucking disgrace.

  24. 24.

    Adam L Silverman

    @rikyrah: She is not wrong. But the point of a movie and TV industry boycott is to create the pressure on other powerful interests in Georgia, specifically economically powerful ones, that will then threaten the power of the men who passed the legislation and signed it into law.

  30. 30.

    Bill Arnold

    @trollhattan:
    Adam’s Canada answer is interesting. The usual cynical answer is that the Huawei equipment doesn’t have backdoors that the NSA knows about. Also see Pair of Cisco Bugs, One Unpatched, Affect Millions of Devices (Tara Seals, May 13, 2019)
    Or some combination – China is an adversary as anyone who looks at network traffic/IDS logs can tell you, and the NSA feels emasculated without its repertoire of backdoor techniques.. (I tried to just barely avoid the pun there, not entirely successfully.)

  32. 32.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Pennsylvania Poll – Quinnipiac — May 14 (link)

    Uncle Joe………39%
    Wilmer…………..13%
    Kamala……………8%
    Warren……………8%
    Pete………………..6%
    Booker…………….5%
    Beto………………..2%

    Handsome Joe beats Wilmer 24% to 23% in the “very liberal” segment; 46% to 17% in the “somewhat liberal” segment; 44% to 9% in the “moderate” segment; and 44% to 11% among women.

  33. 33.

    VeniceRiley

    @Adam L Silverman:

    She is not wrong. But the point of a movie and TV industry boycott is to create the pressure on other powerful interests in Georgia, specifically economically powerful ones, that will then threaten the power of the men who passed the legislation and signed it into law.

    It’s also, as I have pointed out elsewhere, irresponsible to ask your female cast and crew to live in Gilead for months on end. No film tax credit is worth the risk to their lives, livelihoods, and freedoms.

  40. 40.

    Adam L Silverman

    @VeniceRiley: Exactly. I’m not sure its safe to vacation there or travel on business. And I say that as a proud Emory grad who loves Atlanta, except for the traffic.

  42. 42.

    Steve in the ATL

    Greetings from the Saudia lounge at the Cairo airport, awaiting our 2 am flight to Paris (it’s after midnight here) Heading home after 9 days in Africa. Highly recommend Egypt to one and all. Except people who get super annoyed by nonstop hassling by cab drivers, carriage drivers, random hangers on, children, old women selling loosies, and so on and so forth. We had such a great time we may come back next year. Also, a shot of Jameson costs $25, so don’t bring your Irish wife.

    I assume you guys fixed the government while I’ve been gone?

    Steve in the CAI

  43. 43.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Why does this story end with him walking away?

    Because Nancy dots her is and crosses her ts and she does not strike at a king until she knows she will kill him.

  44. 44.

    Bill Arnold

    @Adam L Silverman:
    (from the linked article) Interesting, a Five Eyes thing?

    This decision has now placed Canada in the uncomfortable position of being a minority among its partners in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing community. While Britain has not yet formally banned Huawei, Britain’s main telecom company – BT Group PLC – has announced they will not use Huawei 5G equipment.

  46. 46.

    Origuy

    The World Games, which are a part of the Olympic movement for sports not in the regular Olympics, is going to be in Birmingham, Alabama in 2021. That would bring a lot of attention, and normally a lot of tourists, to the host city. I know that most of the legislators who voted for the anti-choice bill are from rural districts, but I wonder if the Governor and the rest of the state have considered the impact this will have.

  48. 48.

    germy

    This exchange:

    “You’ll have to ask Russia,” is a pretty incredible response from a Senior @StateDept official about the Trump Administration’s views on #Russia’s nuclear capabilities.⁰⁰The Senate Foreign Relations Committee needs answers so we can make informed policy decisions. pic.twitter.com/yt3pfmBzDl— Senator Bob Menendez (@SenatorMenendez) May 15, 2019

  51. 51.

    Ladyraxterinok

    @Adam L Silverman: Boycot CNN and coca cola with explicit emails/ letters saying why.

    And boycot every entertainer who plays in GA

    And pro games–football, golf. And players who go there to compete

  52. 52.

    Jay

    @Adam L Silverman:

    – Meng Wanzhou extradition case,
    – Chinese lawsuits due to the Harper trade deal with China,
    – Chinese economic retaliation,

    Telus and ABC already use Huawei telecom equiptment and deny there is a security risk.

  53. 53.

    tobie

    @Percysowner: Part of me wants all the Democratic candidates to go on FOX and make the case for the impeachment of Trump. It will be the first time any FOX news watcher is exposed to the truth about the Mueller report. I mean that. It may be the only way to break the right-wing news bubble.

  54. 54.

    TenguPhule

    @tobie:

    Part of me wants all the Democratic candidates to go on FOX and make the case for the impeachment of Trump.

    Fox would experience technical difficulties where all Democrats saying Trump would be edited to say Hillary instead.

  55. 55.

    SFAW

    @Steve in the ATL:

    I assume you guys fixed the government while I’ve been gone?

    Well, we did — but it got hosed during the site redesign.

    I blame Bill Clinton Obama Hitlary Cole

  58. 58.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    Oh, no! I hadn’t heard that, and it is a really sucky disease from all I understand. I am so sorry to learn that.

    I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that for the first several years I worked for the Canadian Consulate General in Atlanta, our offices were in CNN Center, and Ted Turner lived in the penthouse in CNN South Tower, on the same elevator bank as our offices. So it wasn’t at all unusual to see him during the course of the day. We had occasional glimpses of Jane Fonda as she moved in with him. I remember one February 14th when I was waiting in line at the convenience store in the building and found myself immediately behind Ted. He had evidently remembered, almost too late, that it was Valentine’s Day and he needed to buy Jane a card and a gift. Hilarious to wait patiently while he paid for the Whitman’s Sampler or whatever and then stood at the counter writing a greeting. I don’t in any way claim to have known him, but he was kind of a fixture at that time and place.

  59. 59.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Ladyraxterinok:

    Boycot CNN and coca cola with explicit emails/ letters saying why.

    I hate to recommend FedEx, even by default, but UPS is HQ’d here too.

    Also Chick-Fil-A, but we’re already boycotting them, right?

  63. 63.

    Aleta

    @Jay: Not up to date, but my understanding was that Huawei is not involved in software for 5G (hardware only); and that at least one of the big Canadian telecom cos doing 5G tests is not working with Huawei. Maybe with Nokia instead? Last summer Ontario papers said that the big co.s that are partnered with Huawei also have other options. Still true?

  65. 65.

    Mary Ellen Sandahl

    @TenguPhule: Realistically speaking, what do you think she should have said and/or done, in that time and place? Hope the thread’s not too dead for you to notice this and reply – I’m definitely curious to know.

  66. 66.

    TenguPhule

    @Mary Ellen Sandahl:

    Realistically speaking, what do you think she should have said and/or done, in that time and place?

    “Mr. Barr, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.”

  68. 68.

    J R in WV

    @Amir Khalid:

    Well, Yes, but you don’t have to have powers of arrest to inform a miscreant that anything they say can be used against them when they arrive in the appropriate court of law.

  69. 69.

    Redshift

    @tobie:

    Part of me wants all the Democratic candidates to go on FOX and make the case for the impeachment of Trump. It will be the first time any FOX news watcher is exposed to the truth about the Mueller report. I mean that. It may be the only way to break the right-wing news bubble.

    No, it won’t. They’ve been told for weeks that Mueller exonerated Trump, for months that the entire investigation was an effort by Democrats who refuse to accept the results of Trump’s election to unlawfully remove him, and for years that liberals lie and cheat about everything. A Democrat airing on Fox to explain the case for impeachment would just confirm all of those to them.

    Facts don’t have a magical power to cancel out bullshit.

  70. 70.

    SFAW

    @J R in WV:

    Well, Yes, but you don’t have to have powers of arrest to inform a miscreant that anything they say can be used against them when they arrive in the appropriate court of law.

    Plus, Speaker Pelosi would want to get one in before the “Court” rules that the arrested need not be Mirandized, if the arresting officer(s) has/have religious objections to doing so, or a “reasonable belief” that the prisoner is guilty.

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