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They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

Infrastructure week. at last.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

This blog will pay for itself.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Let there be snark.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The revolution will be supervised.

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Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Bluegrass Schadenfreude

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  1. 1.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    Dump won Kentucky by 30 pts.

    They had a GIANT structural advantage going into this race and they choked.

    Total losers.

    Sad!

  2. 2.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    Total votes 2015 Kentucky race: 937,994

    Total votes 2019 Kentucky race: 1,414,196

    So much winning.

  3. 3.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    Mississippi Governor’s Race:

    2007: gop +16 pts.
    2011: gop +22 pts.
    2015: gop +34 pts.
    2019: gop .+6 pts.

    A 28 point reversal

  4. 4.

    Patricia Kayden

    Poor Republicans. Unless they can suppress minority votes, they can’t win. I’m so happy for Virginia. They can now get gun control legislation passed.

  5. 5.

    Tony Jay

    @David ??Booooooo?? Koch:

    I’m just waiting for President Negativity to squeeze out a few tweets blaming Kentucky’s “lazy” voters for making him look bad. I mean, it couldn’t possibly be that his own misrule has turned out huge opposition among the new/infrequent voter slice of the electorate, could it? Nah. It must be the Republican majority (who love him, of course) not listening to his wise words and sitting this one out because, hey, the GOP lose in Kentucky when the country is doing so great? Like that’s gonna happen.

    Next November should be fun.

  6. 6.

    susanna

    The DNC might think of using the last two words of trump’s speech, “….for me,” over and over, until it sinks into their pathetic patooties that he’s not into them or America.

    Interesting that at least one Ky voter was impressed and possibly swayed by the attention he got from near and far(CA) by Dems. So we folks out here have work to do. And there’s lots of us. Time to get involved and MAKE 2020 flip happen.

  7. 7.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    In Virginia, Democrats are currently leading in 56 House of Delegate races. If that holds, then republicans will have lost 22 mother fucking seats over the last two years.

  9. 9.

    Gin & Tonic

    Luckily my body still thinks it’s in Germany, so getting up now isn’t much of a bother.

  10. 10.

    opiejeanne

    These returns are making me happy tonight. I just hope WA gives us some good news when they finish counting the votes, because right now this blue state is making me nervous.

  14. 14.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    The Kentucky Senate President has darkly intoned some theory that the election will be contested into the legislature, where both houses are under GOP control. He’s a scion of Clay County, one of the poorest counties in the country, where a few well connected elites sit atop a heap of corruption, poverty, drugs and violence – and his family has been at the top of that heap for generations.

    I’ve known him since law school, and counted him as a friend. Here’s what I’ve said to him, directly and in elaboration, clearly and publicly burning a 30-plus year acquaintance:

    Such an attempted action should be met with contempt, hatred and righteous civic violence directed and aimed at the perpetrators. As I posted to Robert Stivers last night, I had this to say:

    “Contested election”??

    You and I go a long way back, Robert, but that’s the stupid talk of a power-crazed freak from a corrupt, economically moribund, violent county run into the ground by generations of corrupt, craven, thieving ruling clans. As I understand, your family figures prominently as one of those central ruling clans – and while you may think of yourselves as Mayberry Macchiavellis, a whole slew of us are sick of your shit.

    Keep your grasping hands out of my pockets – learn to drawl “thank you” to the taxpayers of Louisville, Lexington and NKY on occasion, and ask what you can do to help us painlessly help your constituents (not that you really care, given your actions), even if that includes gaming.

    And please keep your deranged religious nonsense to yourself.

    I’m so disgusted, and will likely lose some other friends over it, but fuck them if they can’t see why I’m so pissed off.

  15. 15.

    hells littlest angel

    If Trump had any class at all, he’d thank Bevin for giving him something besides impeachment to constantly whine about.

  17. 17.

    Sab

    I have been voting since 1972 and this has never happened before. Everyone and everything I voted for won. Every last one of them. Wow.

  18. 18.

    JWR

    A blast from the (not so distant) past:

    If House D’s refuse to release full transcript of Volker testimony as requested by Congressman Jordan, it will be an abuse of power.— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 9, 2019

    via LGM

    eta Ewwyyuck! Lindsey’s Twitter uses a photo of him with Bent Kavanaugh for the bio shot.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    Can’t quite decide which of two options will end up playing out.

    1) Matt Bevin named ambassador to Ukraine, or

    2) Announcement of a mid-season replacement globe-trotting show: Matt Bevin, CSI (Conspiracy Server Investigator)

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Sab: I once voted for a dead guy. And the dead guy won. John Ashcroft was the LOOOOOOOSER.

    @JWR: Would that be the same Lindsey Graham who decided he won’t read any of the transcripts, and dismissed Sondland’s reversal, saying, “I’ve written the whole process off … I think this is a bunch of B.S.” ?

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    @OzarkHillbilly

    Graham taking his cue from that harpy Barbara Bush’s “So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” comment about talk of casualties in Iraq.

  23. 23.

    Tony Jay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    They didn’t follow his great and unmatched wisdom.

    Iz ur Republikanz lernin?

    Learning to keep their thick as Dad’s gravy heads down, maybe. Then again, the last time the North American heartland faced a blue wave this big a meteor the size of Manhattan had just landed in the Caribbean Sea.

    There’s a “Even those dinosaurs heard that” joke there somewhere.

  24. 24.

    Ian R

    @Sab: Me too, but here in deep blue New Haven, we had all of one theoretically-contested election. (“Theoretically”, because the candidate who lost for mayor tonight lost again against the same person who beat her in the Democratic primary.)

    The other two positions, it was just a question of how many people would vote for the same candidate on the Working Family Party line, rather than the Democratic Party line.

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    If trump had any class he’d kill himself.

    Good idea, but I can envision two potential problems with that:
    1) As with everything he does, he’d probably fuck that up as well
    2) What would the Secret Service’s position be on that? “Use lethal force on anyone threatening the life of the preznit”? So does that mean they shoot him in order to save him?

  28. 28.

    Another Scott

    @Tony Jay: You rang?:

    Donald J. Trump Verified account @realDonaldTrump

    Based on the Kentucky results, Mitch McConnell @senatemajldr will win BIG in Kentucky next year!

    4:51 AM – 6 Nov 2019

    Yeah, that follows.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  29. 29.

    ET

    I wonder how many of those people that turned up to see tRump in Lexington were actually Kentucky voters? I don’t know if the story I was reading finterviewed one of the few tRump zombies not from Kentucky, or of that person was one of many.

  30. 30.

    Aleta

    (Nov. 5, Courier Journal) A federal judge has dismissed presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren from a libel suit filed by 10 Covington Catholic High School students. 

    The students, identified only as the “Covington Boys” in court records, filed suit in August alleging they were defamed by a dozen public figures ….
    …
    A day after the incident, Warren tweeted that Phillips “endured hateful taunts with dignity and strength, then urged us all to do better.”
    …
    The students sued the Massachusetts congresswoman and 11 other public figures who criticized the students, including New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, actress Kathy Griffin, activist Shaun King and U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland.

    U.S. District Court Judge William Bertelsman ruled Tuesday that Warren acted within the scope of her employment when she tweeted and is therefore protected by sovereign immunity. 

    “The Court concludes that the challenged statements by defendants Warren and Haaland — whether one agrees with them or finds them objectionable — are communications intended to convey the politicians’ views on matters of public interest to their constituents,” Bertelsman wrote. 

  32. 32.

    Aleta

    @Aleta:
    In case we missed it, Oct. 28 in the Post:

    A federal judge reinstated part of a lawsuit against The Washington Post filed by the family of a Kentucky teenager that alleged the newspaper libeled the teen in its coverage of his encounter with a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial earlier this year.

    Judge William O. Bertelsman, who rejected the suit in July on First Amendment grounds, said Monday he would allow it to go forward, but narrowed its scope from 33 published statements to three.

    Bertelsman had thrown out the Sandmanns’ claims three months ago, ruling that none of the 33 statements they’d sued over were defamatory and that the majority constituted protected opinion.

    “The court accepts Sandmann’s statement that, when he was standing motionless in the confrontation with Phillips, his intent was to calm the situation and not impede or block anyone,” the judge wrote in July.

    “However, Phillips did not see it that way. He concluded that he was being ‘blocked’ and not allowed to ‘retreat.’ He passed these conclusions on to The Post. They may have been erroneous, but . . . they are opinion protected by the First Amendment. And The Post is not liable for publishing these opinions.”

    But the judge reconsidered on Monday, saying he would permit discovery to proceed on three statements contained in Post articles, specifically that Sandmann had “blocked” Phillips as he ascended the memorial’s stairs and “would not allow him to retreat.”

    Bertelsman didn’t explain why he reconsidered and found these statements to be potentially defamatory now.

    “Suffice to say that the Court has given this matter careful review and concludes that ‘justice requires’ that discovery be had regarding these statements and their context,” he wrote in his five-page order.

    The Sandmanns’ original legal complaint cast The Post’s coverage of the incident in political terms. It claimed that The Post “ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump …
    …

  35. 35.

    J R in WV

    3 years ago on election night I went to bed early, unusual for me on an election night, and after drinking more whiskey than usual too. Last night I was exhausted after getting to the hospital at 5:45 am for an MRI on my right knee, which showed that most of my knee cartilage is gone and what remains is bits & pieces in the wrong places, so into bed early again.

    But I knew that it was very likely that KY was going to elect a Democrat, and that VA would have a Democratically controlled legislature, so all different.

    Slept really well, too, even with letting puppies in and out. Getting up at 3 or 4 am isn’t a big deal when you fall right back to sleep.

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