Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

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

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

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

People are weird.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

We still have time to mess this up!

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

In my day, never was longer.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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IIIII’mmm Back….

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Been off the grid, deliberately, for the last week.

Nothing happened, right?

I’ve got some saved up fury, but while I was driving in a remote corner of northeastern California, the shuffle function in my music app kicked this out of the depths of my music library:

 

It was a scary time when this first hit the airwaves; it’s scary now.  But maybe we get to look past the individual moment.

In that hope, I can’t say I love everything Jefferson Airplane did, and I’ll pretend most of Starship didn’t happen — but at their best, they were stunning…and this song seems more apposite now than it did then.

We can rage more soon.  For now, a dawn-through-the darkness open thread.

ETA:  By Yutsano’s demand, Tikka — who was royally pissed off to be abandoned to neighbors and petsitters for a week:

And…getting over it (0r not):

 

With that…sweet dreams, y’all.

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Let’s Say You Wanted To Destabilize Half a Dozen Countries All at Once…

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If you wanted to bring down the governments of, at least, 3 of the 5 Five Eyes countries (US, UK, AUS) and several other western (Italy) and western oriented (Ukraine) governments, what has been reported on today would be a good way to do it. You’ve got at least five legitimacy crises being created by this that will at the very least weaken the stability of the governments in each state. I really do wonder what is on the transcripts of the calls between the President and Putin that have been stashed in the National Security Council’s Directorate of Intelligence’s code word access only computer system.

Open thread!

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Impeachment Inquiry Clown Car Open Thread: What Is Preznit ‘Reality Star’ Seeing on His TeeVee?…

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If he can remember as far back as his ‘glory’ days, I’m guessing he’s seeing a bunch of flailing idiots performing so badly that no amount of post-production editing will be able to frame them as mighty gladiators…


Kevin McCarthy is not very bright, and it shows.
 


Used to be, the sheer what-next novelty of the Trump Oval Office Variety Show was good for drawing viewers. Now, there’s more market share in pigbladdering the minions. And what minions they are, folks!

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World’s Dumbest Criminals

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Every now and then you see a story on News of the Weird or something else about a really stupid criminal who shows up to their DUI sentencing drunk or brings an ounce of coke with them to their sentencing for intent to deliver, and you say to yourself, “How fucking stupid is this guy?” Behold, our preznit:

President Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent telephone call to help Attorney General William P. Barr gather information for a Justice Department inquiry that Mr. Trump hopes will discredit the Mueller investigation, according to two American officials with knowledge of the call.

The White House restricted access to the call’s transcript to a small group of the president’s aides, one of the officials said, an unusual decision that is similar to the handling of a July call with the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump. Like that call, the discussion with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia shows the extent to which Mr. Trump sees the attorney general as a critical partner in his goal to show that the Mueller investigation had corrupt and partisan origins, and the extent that Mr. Trump sees the Justice Department inquiry as a potential way to gain leverage over America’s closest allies.

Both Barr and Trump need to be impeached and then put on trial.

*** Update ***

Jesus christ, I literally just posted this and this showed up on my news feed:

Attorney General William P. Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence agencies’ examination of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the matter.

Barr’s personal involvement is likely to stoke further criticism from Democrats pursuing impeachment that he is helping the Trump administration use executive branch powers to augment investigations aimed primarily at the president’s adversaries.

ITMFA

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But I’ll see you in the sky above

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Laika passed on Saturday afternoon. My whole family is pretty broken up about it. As my wife put it “Laika knew things that we didn’t know, she was like a yogi”. Laika was the Will Rogers of dogs, she never met a person she didn’t like. When I think of how quickly she died after we first found out she had a tumor, I know that she must have been putting up a brave face, hiding it from us for a while, because all she wanted was for the people around her to be happy. So we are trying out best not to be too sad, because the last thing she would have wanted was for us to be sad. Laika didn’t have a mean bone in her body, as one of the groomers put it. She wished everyone the best.

I’ve never been too much into the whole “he’s a nice guy” school of politics. Nice guy? I don’t give a shit. Good father? Fuck you. Go home and play with your kids. But Trump is such an incredible asshole that I do hold it against him. I don’t think it’s healthy for us as a country to have someone like that in the White House. That is not reason enough to impeach him, but it is part of why I now think it’s time for him to be removed. I don’t know how great the politics of that are, I don’t know if Pence might have a better chance of winning in 2016 2020 than Trump. But it doesn’t matter to me, anymore. What he did with Ukraine is completely beyond the pale and it’s not isolated. He needs to go.

If you made me guess, I’d say that if there’s a Senate trial, there is almost no chance that more than 2 or 3 Republicans in the Senate would vote for his removal. And I think zero or 1 is most likely. But I don’t know for sure.

First step is the House. Democrats in competitive districts may be hurt by the politics of impeachment so let’s raise some more money for them.

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Chris Collins Took a Deal

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The Buffalo News is reporting that Rep Chris Collins (NY-27), the first Republican MoC to endorse Trump for President and a member of his transition team, is going to plead guilty to some form of insider trading charge this tomorrow afternoon. Collins’ son and his son’s father-in-law are also going to plead.

Collins loudly proclaimed his innocence when he was first charged with insider trading, and he barely beat Nate McMurray in the 2018 election in his R+11 district. We’ll find out what kind of deal he took, but nobody really thought he would run again. This will probably lead to a special election, which might be good news for Democrats, since they have a well-prepared candidate in Nate McMurray.

Also, good point from Margaret Sullivan, former editor of the Buffalo News:

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