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The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

This fight is for everything.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

This really is a full service blog.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republicans in disarray!

He really is that stupid.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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  1. 1.

    Redshift

    I flipped through Twitter a little while ago, and saw people who had tut-tutted about the chant at the World Series game saying “See! This means we were right about how bad that was!”

    Nope. Yes, Sanders could have made it clear this is bothsiderist bullshit by shutting it down, which would have been a great service, but it’s still not a sign of “normalizing” calls to lock up political opponents. We have a president* who literally has only not been indicted because the Justice Department says he can’t be.

  2. 2.

    jl

    [Trump] added that it is “#1 in the country for going down.”

    I dunno, going down, done correctly, ranks very high all over California, my friends tell me. I do remember a period of time in Los Angeles (Los Feliz, to be specific) going down was a very memorable #1, along with some other #1 items.

    Edit: but at least Trump gives SF a number 1 in something. Good to know.

  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Redshift: And also, how many Nationals fans chanting “Lock him up!” were being egged on by a Presidential candidate? Hell – Dump’s first national security advisor* was leading a “Lock her up!” chant at the RNC.

    *Flynn’s currently awaiting sentencing – fuck ’em!

  4. 4.

    jl

    Trump also nonsensically ragged on California for the recent fires, and our water. He’s still fixated on Finnish forest raking, which he says we don’t do, but is magic and we are stupid for not doing it. I heard a news report that the recent fires were mostly shrubland and chaparral. Note sure what burned most, shrubland or forests in the Kincaide fire, since there is a lot of both up around there. But, I see no reason to doubt the news report. Raking manzanita litter will be a real chore. But might pay for itself if we can get people hooked on manzanita tea, which is very good.

    I heard on the news that Trump wants California to ‘stop’ the Sacramento river from going into the sea, whatever that is supposed to mean. Feds would need to spring some big bucks that that, though. Seems like a big job. Maybe Trump will talk about funding it during the next infrastructure week.

    Idiot pres.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    @jl:

    I heard on the news that Trump wants California to ‘stop’ the Sacramento river from going into the sea

    “All rivers are total losers for flowing into big water, ocean water!”

  7. 7.

    jl

    @mrmoshpotato: Clearly, it’s the crazy radical commie Democrats’ fault that half the country is so enraged at the stupid criminal behavior of a stupid criminal president that they want him impeached, convicted and removed from office, and they start spontaneously chanting ‘Lock him up!’ whenever they sense any excuse at all to do so.

    Edit: Fox and Friends probably has secret video of Bernie agitating the crowd at the martial arts match to shout ‘Lock him up!’. And the world series game. It was outside agitators!

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    @jl: Yeah! Totally not the fault of the the stupid criminal behavior of a stupid criminal president.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    @jl:

    Edit: Fox and Friends probably has secret video of Bernie agitating the crowd at the martial arts match to shout ‘Lock him up!’. And the world series game. It was outside agitators!

    “See?! Liberal fascism! And we’re not total dumbasses for using an oximoron! You’re all morons!”

  10. 10.

    JWR

    @jl:

    I heard on the news that Trump wants California to ‘stop’ the Sacramento river from going into the sea, whatever that is supposed to mean.

    Far as I remember, that particular complaint arose from maintaining the salinity of the water in the delta, which would in turn maintain habitat for the CA Smelt. And who would do that other than an environmentalist whackjob? Hannity was pushing hard on that issue during the 2016 campaign, saying it was all for the farmers.

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    @JWR: Farmers want more water from the Delta for their almonds, salinity be damned. Those channels are the “lanes” Twitler is nattering on about.

  12. 12.

    Martin

    @jl: I’m assuming that’s in reference to the Delta Tunnels. It’s still a pretty fucking stupid statement.

    For those who don’t know, part of CAs large agricultural footprint is our fisheries. That’s about 100K jobs there, and there’s a pull and push between water use for fisheries and agriculture. The Delta is especially tricky because in summer/fall seawater would flow inland and then in the spring snowmelt would push it back with freshwater. The ecosystem kind of relies on that back and forth. Further complicating the situation is that most of the delta is below sea level.

  13. 13.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    Bill Bennett looks like he just wants to see the Ring one more time before he goes West.

  14. 14.

    JWR

    @Mary G: Yep. I remember Hannity holding up a Smelt and saying to the farmers gathered about that “This! This little guppy is why you can’t have nice things!”, or something to that effect.

  18. 18.

    Gin & Tonic

    After a week of gloom, it is a bright and sunny morning in Munich. Which of course coincides with my flight out. Oh well.

  24. 24.

    Matt McIrvin

    @mrmoshpotato: Obama failed to stop rude people from chanting “lock him up”, AND he failed to lock up Trump when he had the chance, so really it’s a double failure.

  25. 25.

    oldster

    Why aren’t people booing Drump on Twitter?

    From that NYT article, I got the idea that whatever people tweet to his @-handle shows up on his feed.

    So why isn’t everyone just pounding him with 248-chatacters worth of “boo” and “boo you loser” all day?

  26. 26.

    joel hanes

    Trump wants California to ‘stop’ the Sacramento river from going into the sea, whatever that is supposed to mean.

    There’s a big Shasta dam on the upper Sacramento. Republican big-money agricultural landowners in the Westlands water district in the southern Central Valley lust for more water to further raise the value of the land that they bought cheaply when it wasn’t irrigated, and the Trump admin is pandering to them by pushing to raise the Shasta dam higher. All previous administrations, Democratic and Republican, have looked at the project and said “Nope. Not gonna use tax dollars for an environmentally-destructive project just to further enrich private landowners” — so of course the Trumpies are all in. Environmental groups and the CA government are resisting, but the project is slowly moving forward. It will make the level of the Lake Shasta reservoir even more variable than it already is, reduce summer streamflow in the lower Sacramento, facilitate saltwater intrusion into the delta, and drown the lower McCloud River, one of California’s nicest remaining fishing streams.

    Devotees of gasoline-powered recreation on Lake Shasta are said to be in favor.

  27. 27.

    Just Chuck

    @oldster: They show up as replies to his tweets, and there are many replies to them a lot stronger than “boo”. He doesn’t read them: his staff prints out the most sycophantic replies and he only reads those.

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