Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

This really is a full service blog.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

The next time the wall wtreet journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Bark louder, little dog.

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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  2. 2.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Tomorrow the SCOTUS hears arguments in three LGBTQ job discrimination cases that could have a devastating impact and overturn decades of precedent — and potentially undermine much broader anti-sex discrimination protections for straight cisgender people as well. This is a BF-fucking-D.

    Given the current court, things are looking ominous. If you know someone who’s LGBTQ, show them some extra support tomorrow, we could use it.

    A quick summary of what’s at stake and the hate groups behind these cases who want to erase trans people. Teen Vogue focuses on the broader implications for anyone who does not conform to outdated gender stereotypes.

  4. 4.

    Marcopolo

    @Sister Golden Bear: I am open to being surprised but, alas, I think the SC is going to be putting out an awful lot of decisions in 2020 that will upset me and make the lives of folks I know more difficult & less safe. In preparation for those disappointments I will be doing my damnedest each and every day to help elect folks at all levels of government who can lessen or negate the short, medium, and long term impact of those crappy decisions.

    Also, too, good night sleep tight everyone.

  6. 6.

    Anne Laurie

    @Marcopolo: I think the Hoarse is using pants-pooping as a rhetorical device [people predict Trump will do something stupid/antisocial; Trump commits that particular stupid/antisocial act; Repubs defend act as ‘a joke / why do you hate Our Preznit?] . The final pic is just the social-media equivalent of a bronx cheer: He *will* commit the dumbest possible act, and the GOP *will* defend it.

  9. 9.

    Jesse

    The first tweet also comes across as in pretty poor taste, in my opinion. It’s clearly a joke, but I feel it inches up to a certain line that doesn’t really seem on-brand for this blog.

  10. 10.

    SoupCatcher

    “Christ, we can’t get away calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”

    “I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitch deny it.”

  12. 12.

    Mandalay

    @Jesse:

    The first tweet also comes across as in pretty poor taste, in my opinion.

    Yep – the Melania one is way past poor taste for me – just vile and wrong. Take it down.

  13. 13.

    SoupCatcher

    Malone: [talking privately in a church] You said you wanted to get Capone. Do you really wanna get him? You see what I’m saying is, what are you prepared to do?

    Ness: Anything within the law.

    Malone: And *then* what are you prepared to do? If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way. Because they’re not gonna give up the fight, until one of you is dead.

    Ness: I want to get Capone! I don’t know how to do it.

    Malone: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That’s* the *Chicago* way! And that’s how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I’m offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?

    Ness: I have sworn to capture this man with all legal powers at my disposal and I will do so.

    Malone: Well, the Lord hates a coward.

    [jabs Ness with his hand, and Ness shakes it]

    Malone: Do you know what a blood oath is, Mr. Ness?

    Ness: Yes.

    Malone: Good, ’cause you just took one.

  15. 15.

    Dan B

    @Sister Golden Bear: The justices questions tomorrow may say much about the type of ruling they release next June.

    But the laws may mean little by themselves. It’s incredibly difficult to prove anti LGBT discrimination. What it may accomplish is unleashing discrimination and emboldening attacks. Will it be a reign of terror, probably not, but increased attacks in places like Seattle that have a large LGBT population. What were havens may be less so. Youth in rural areas will suffer psychologically as well.

  17. 17.

    cckids

    Well, I must be the outlier then, the Melania post made me laugh out loud. Loosen your garters, people! It’s goofy humor, late at night.

    Thanks for the laugh, AL :)

  21. 21.

    Jay

    The weapons provided were meager and just enough for the battle against ISIS. (The SDF cleared IEDs by purchasing flocks of sheep.) They were not “paid massive amounts of money and equipment” (as Trump said today). Nearly all stabilization funding came from the @coalition.— Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) October 7, 2019

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    To crimes, or to massively crimes? That’s not even a question. Of course we crimes! How many nations can we ask to do the crimes? For more on this, it’s time for A Closer Look.

  23. 23.

    Jay

    Let us be clear: The president has sided with authoritarian leaders of Turkey and Russia over our loyal allies and America’s own interests. His decision is a sickening betrayal both of the Kurds and his oath of office.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 7, 2019

  26. 26.

    Mary G

    More on the migrants who were with Julian Castro:

    If these people — LGBTQ migrants who have been assaulted for who they are in the camps, disabled people, children — do not meet the criteria for “vulnerable populations,” then the "vulnerable" exemptions in “Remain in Mexico” are lip service.— Texas Civil Rights Project (@TXCivilRights) October 7, 2019

    As soon as the reporters left to file their stories, CBP released the asylum seekers back into Mexico, where they face persecution in an open-air encampment where thousands from countries the U.S. has destabilized are forced to survive indefinitely.— Texas Civil Rights Project (@TXCivilRights) October 7, 2019

    This shit just keeps going on and on.

  29. 29.

    janesays

    The only thing that bothers me about the Velveetamort pants-crapping picture is the fact that it’s not real. I really, really, really hoped it was real.

  31. 31.

    Jay

    After that meeting, Facebook quietly changed its policies on “misinformation” in ads, allowing politicians to run ads that have already been debunked by independent, non-partisan fact-checkers. Put another way, Facebook is now okay with running political ads with known lies.— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) October 7, 2019

  32. 32.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @Martin: I’m privileged because I live in California, so I’ll continued to be protected. Unfortunately, half my sisters, brothers and siblings live in places where they won’t be.

    As Dan B points out the more immediate upshot will likely be “unleashing discrimination and emboldening attacks.”

    Longer-term, if the SCOTUS buys into the social conservatives “biological sex” argument (i.e. your sex is determined at birth and can never be changed), that has scary implications for the gender marker on my passport and my Social Security info — trans people in the past have been outed when the Social Security Administration contacted their employers about “mismatches.” There’s a reason why the fundies are pushing is this, and it’s to out trans people, so that they can be identified and targeted for all the other legalized forms of discrimination. It’s quite literally part of their five-point plan to eradicate trans people from public life.

  33. 33.

    WereBear

    @Sister Golden Bear: One of the people on the Kitchen Table Cult podcast is a transperson still recovering from Quiverful. They moved to California partly because of the better atmosphere.

    Even if we build a rural teen relocation program (and maybe we should) there are going to be people who need this kind of protection, everywhere.

  34. 34.

    TS (the original)

    @Jesse: Nothing that humiliates trump is out of line – nothing that proves the 3rd wife wanted him for a green card is out of line. The GOP thinks anything they do is A OK – so why not have a late late post that highlights that.

    I am so sick of democrats having to be the adults in the adulterated mess of this administration. I like to see them ridiculed because that is what is needed.

  35. 35.

    WereBear

    We tried dignified for years. It did not save us. I hate to be the wimp in the action movie who agrees it’s time for blowing things up real good… but I gotta be that wimp.

  38. 38.

    satby

    @cokane: metaphor: a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.
    Last tweet is a metaphor, and sadly a very accurate one as far as the GOP denying what we all see Drumpf doing in so many ways.

  40. 40.

    cokane

    @satby: unfortunately Anne has made a habit of posting misleading tweets or other things on this blog. It’d be fine if there was just some quick line that it’s intended to be satirical or some such. Otherwise, you’re using the blog to mislead folks. As HW is also using his twitter account to do.

    And “it’s not literally true but it’s funny” was a pretty common defense of saying Obama was born in Kenya by right wing idiots, for one example. Moreover, the metaphor doesn’t work. Trump hasn’t shit himself. He’s enriched himself and his family. And shit on the country.

  41. 41.

    satby

    @cokane: ok, so you don’t get it. Fine, but most of us aren’t at all misled. Drumpf does something, the GOP excuse it, the rest of us go WTF. Rinse, repeat. Fairly obvious metaphorical
    picture to illustrate point.

  43. 43.

    Ken

    @cokane: Yeah, and that Mike Luckovich cartoon in the post after this one shows Trump standing in the window of the White House waving a list of all his evil acts. Total fabrication and lie, he never did such a thing.

  44. 44.

    cokane

    @satby: man people who say Drumpf over and over are as tedious as right wingers that said Obozo. You can check the replies on HW’s own tweet to understand that plenty of people believed it was a real image, even people that follow him.

  45. 45.

    cokane

    and hilariously, just now checking his twitter account, HW is tweeting an easily debunked post about Ivanka Trump.

    Again, you guys are tearing up the truth here.

  47. 47.

    cokane

    @AxelFoley: I’m not defending trump. I’m defending the truth. It’s on you if you want to sacrifice your own integrity for the sake of a brief and meaningless “own” of trump

  48. 48.

    cokane

    also “die on that hill”? lol, i’m just pointing out what’s factually accurate here. I’m sorry your desire for some ephemeral social media “victory” overrides your common sense.

    multiple folks have responded to HW pointing out that Ivanka never deleted the tweet he alleges she deleted. He’s issued no correction to that fact. Brazenly lying about easily checkable facts isn’t a character trait of Trump we want to emulate. And we’re certainly not fucking him to hell by doing so.

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