Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

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

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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Law of Conservation of Useless White Male Candidates

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Eric Swalwell (who?) ended his Presidential campaign today because he had no hope of winning and, probably, this:

As Swalwell prepares to seek another term in Congress, he said that he would not “take anything for granted.” Indeed, he already has a challenger in his liberal-leaning district: Democrat Aisha Wahab, a city councilwoman in Hayward.

Never fear, we’re still way long on candidates, because Tom Steyer (again, who?) is poised to enter the race. Unfortunately, since he’s a “billionaire activist”, no mere primary challenge is going to scare him off.

It is so god damned telling that the only person to quit the race so far this year probably did it because he was facing an electoral consequence.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    Swalwell wouldn’t be a bad replacement Senator for President Kamala Harris. Just sayin’.

  2. 2.

    Ohio Mom

    I think I vaguely remember Salwell having a few cute lines in the debate. Maybe one of them was about Biden and passing the torch?

    Unless I have him mixed up with someone else.

    He gets credit for leading the way in dropping out. Here’s hoping many others follow his example, and soon.

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    @Ohio Mom: Yes, he was the ‘passing the torch’ guy. And that’s basically the only thing I know about his now-defunct campaign.

  5. 5.

    TenguPhule

    Treasury could breach debt ceiling in first half of September, much sooner than previously thought

    The Treasury Department has brought in far less tax revenue than was projected, The Bipartisan Policy Center said Monday.

    GEE I WONDER WHY? /SSS

  6. 6.

    TenguPhule

    Trump says he will hold another military celebration next Fourth of July

    Another Holiday, defiled forever.

  7. 7.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @TenguPhule:
    “The Treasury Department has announced plans to revoke the Bipartisan Policy Center’s special tax status.”

  11. 11.

    Baud

    Swalwell was actually good on guns, unlike some candidates who are good on nothing.

    is so god damned telling that the only person to quit the race so far this year probably did it because he was facing an electoral consequence

    I’m not sure what’s so telling about this. Makes perfect sense for someone who has no shot at the nomination.

  14. 14.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @Baud:
    Because the local Democratic parties (county level) are mostly corrupt conservadems imo. We lost the state house and state Senate seat for our district to fucking Republicans, albeit by fairly narrow margins. In 2016, Hillary only carried the county, which is in Ryan’s district, by about a percent or less. The Youngstown Water Bill of Rights, an anti-fracking plebiscite, is always voted down and every major Dem official campaigns agianst it

    The city and county’s population is shrinking and we just lost a GM plant. Things aren’t looking too good.

  18. 18.

    FelonyGovt

    Steyer pisses me off. He could be using his considerable resources to help Democratic candidates around the country, instead of on this vanity campaign he’s been waging. Another overprivileged white man who thinks the country needs him.

  23. 23.

    TenguPhule

    @Baud:

    States aren’t going to elevate someone to Senator because of national attention.

    Senator Cheney would like you to hold her beer.

  24. 24.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @Baud:
    Yup. I’m still a loyal Dem voter in every election because the Goopers are always worse. The empty R suit who vowed to “work with everyone” (implying bipartisanship and being moderate) who won District 33, Micheal Rulli, voted for the heartbeat bill.

    I’m not sure if 66, 731 to 60, 575 is “narrow” or not but the seat was held by a Dem since 2014. Dude shouldn’t take his seat for granted by voting in lockstep with the rest of the party

  26. 26.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @Baud:
    Oh don’t worry some of them landed on their feet at other plants, one in Tennessee if I’m not mistaken. The thousands at GM Lordstown who all thought Trump was going to save them will probably still vote for him

    Related, why did Xi agree to buy American soybeans again? The conventional wisdom around here was that China was never going to buy US soybeans again. I mean, goddamn it, the farmers were actually starting to get pissed at Trump and he goes and makes everything all right again!

  32. 32.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @Baud:
    I realize that, but Trump can’t be trusted! Xi should know that by now. He can’t be effectively manipulated because he’s too erratic. Watch Trump either go back on whatever deal he made with Xi or yet another hair gets up Trump’s ass about China.

    Lucy and the fucking football. And they say Trump’s the stupid one!

  34. 34.

    TenguPhule

    Wealthy political financier and accused child molester Jeff Epstein contributed directly to Democratic Rep. Stacey Plaskett’s last two campaigns for Congress.

    The U.S. Virgin Islands lawmaker has decided she will be keeping the cash, even after his arrest in New York, at least for now.

    Well that didn’t take long at all.

    /Cue BOTH SIDES

  36. 36.

    TenguPhule

    @Baud:

    If Tulsi goes too, it might be Trump’s best deal ever.

    Where are you going to scrape up 2 reliable blue Senate Seats from? Floriduh?

  39. 39.

    Yutsano

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I’m good with this.
    @Martin: I’m actually good with this too.

    Personally, I’m leaning a bit more towards either Lieu or Schiff, but honestly there are so many good Democrats in California that could fulfill that role.

  42. 42.

    Martin

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: The challenge with running in CA is the state is so damn big that pretty much only chairs/ranking members from the house have any name recognition here outside of their district. There’s a ton of Dem house members from Norcal but how many do we know? The ones on TV…

    The only reason anyone even offered up Swalwell is that he has national visibility. His positions are really no different from 40 other CA House Dems.

  43. 43.

    jk

    I respect Swalwell for raising Biden’s age during the debate because he and Bernie are clearly too fucking old to be President. If Biden gets the nomination, he’ll die a death from a thousand cuts due to all of his goddamn gaffes. Fuck Uncle Joe.

  44. 44.

    janesays

    @TenguPhule: She’s an At-Large delegate representing the U.S. Virgin Islands, which means she gets to hang out and participate in debates, but not actually cast any meaningful votes.

  45. 45.

    TenguPhule

    @janesays:

    She’s an At-Large delegate representing the U.S. Virgin Islands, which means she gets to hang out and participate in debates, but not actually cast any meaningful votes.

    Our media doesn’t do fine nuance.

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