Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

You cannot shame the shameless.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

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

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

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

T R E 4 5 O N

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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The people she knows best are Republicans. Even the ones who can read would rather not risk muddying their propaganda skillsets. Fox News and the Oval Office Occcupant’s twitter feed tell them all they need to know to succeed in grinding through their daily routines.

Every so often, the Republican Party reaches a new nadir, where they can’t even scrape up a conventionally good-looking figurehead to spin the propaganda on television. Now it’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who looks entirely too much like her old man (nepotism, of course, being her only qualification). Last time the GOP was about to get stomped, it was the Albino Amphibian who led the charge:

Gotta hand it to Newt: He’s an inspiration to every soulless grifter in American politics.

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  3. 3.

    Jeffro

    We are, as Neil Postman aptly put it, ‘Amusing Ourselves To Death’

     

    kill your tv, and Facebook too while you’re at it

  4. 4.

    Mike in NC

    Gingrich apparently still has several post office boxes in a building on Massachusetts Avenue, from which his scam operations fleece the rubes.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    @Jeffro

    If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.”
      – Albert Einstein

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    @Jay:

    Dude did a fabulous job making no sense whatsoever there. I hope “Daily Wire” are getting their money’s worth.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    President Trump “reads more than anybody I know,”

    I half suspect she was trying to bait twitter into making a lot of jokes about literacy levels in Arkansas to send out a fund-raising email

  12. 12.

    Chyron HR

    Missing our goal will make a hash of our plans to defend the President and take back the Majority.

    Steve Scalise just agreed to make sure any contribution you make is matched by 500%.

    If you need the money so bad, why doesn’t Scalise just give it to you without any conditions?

  13. 13.

    Duane

    A fair amount of people will vote for someone like Sanders because they want chaos. They like a liar. If things go to hell it makes them feel better about their shabby existence.

  14. 14.

    RSA

    From Dave Levinthal’s screen capture:

    We need 1984 more matched contributions to hit our goal. We are close to victory.

    Newt was really, really, really trolling his marks.

  15. 15.

    Jay

    Omg have you no sense???!! She @AlexandraChalup corrected this misinformation many times cause the Politico/Vogel piece completely made a hitpiece. This is so wrong on so many levels and you’re doubling down, putting her at risk again after she was already in danger!!— – (@nowisthetim) November 24, 2019

  16. 16.

    Elizabelle

    @Jeffro:   Kill Fox News and the rightwing wurlitzer.

    But yes, amusing ourselves to death, for sure.  Reading a bio of Edward R. Murrow, and he was deeply concerned about that.  In the 1950s.  He could see the misuse of television and its profit-driven decisions.

  17. 17.

    James E Powell

    @Jay:

    This campaign cycle is going to be characterized by the most aggressive and poisonous attacks on truth of all time. Everything we’ve seen to date has been but a prelude. The press/media, led by CNN and the NYT, put Trump in the White House. They intend to keep him there.

  18. 18.

    zhena gogolia

    "[T]he Court holds only that [McGahn] (and other senior presidential advisors) do not have absolute immunity from compelled congressional process in the context of this particular subpoena dispute," Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote. https://t.co/Ec953iaS2j— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 25, 2019

  19. 19.

    zhena gogolia

    Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's ruling: "Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings … This means that they do not have subjects, bound by loyalty or blood, whose destiny they are entitled to control."— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 26, 2019

  20. 20.

    tomtofa

    If Sarah is serious about her media career she needs to do a stint on Dancing with the Stars to establish her credentials.

  22. 22.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Elizabelle: Newton Minnow, 1961:

    But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you–and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

    You will see a procession of game shows, violence, audience-participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western badmen, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence and cartoons. And, endlessly, commercials–many screaming, cajoling and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you will see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, try it.

  26. 26.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    @Comrade Scrutinizer: Good quote. I don’t know how Minow had escaped my notice before, particularly since I’m almost certain I was already familiar with the Television and the Public Interest speech. I think Fred Rogers’ testimony before Congress may have overshadowed Minow’s speech in my memory (though Rogers’ testimony came several years later).

     

    In any case, half the reason I’m posting is because Minow also has the following quote:

    After 35 years, I have finished a comprehensive study of European comparative law. In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited, except that which is permitted. In France, under the law, everything is permitted, except that which is prohibited. In the Soviet Union, under the law, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted. And in Italy, under the law, everything is permitted, especially that which is prohibited.

    I lol’d.

  27. 27.

    BruceFromOhio

    “I don’t like being called a liar.”

    Too late. You had every chance to. Stop. Lying.

     

    You chose not to. Now you get to live with that choice, just like the rest of us.

  29. 29.

    MisterForkbeard

    @zhena gogolia: It’s really important! But there’s two big caveats:

    1. Trump can appeal to the Supremes
    2. They have to show up, but they can still claim executive privilege if they want.
  33. 33.

    dmsilev

    Washington Post continues its drive to obsolete The Onion:

    Jared Kushner’s new assignment: Overseeing the construction of Trump’s border wall

    What could possibly go right?

  36. 36.

    Duane

    @MisterForkbeard: Good to see Judge Jackson call absolute immunity fiction. Hiding behind the Presidency needs to end. Too easily abused by scoundrels and crooks as Trumpov has shown us.

  38. 38.

    JaySinWA

    @JaySinWA: Okay, true, although there are some caveats,  Wikipedia asserts he applied and was accepted to OSS, but the acceptance was sent to the wrong place. Was originally classified as 3-A exempt for family later reclassified as 1-A, but his studio intervened with the Selective Service process. Not quite a draft dodger, but not willing to break his contract. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne

  39. 39.

    James E Powell

    @zhena gogolia:

     

    I’m probably interested as you, but the district court orders are meaningless. I fully expect the supreme court to take the cases up and hold them till they no longer matter.

    What do you think will happen?

  42. 42.

    JaySinWA

    @zhena gogolia: This doesn’t strike me as the kind of thing the Supremes will sit on. If they do, then we are worse shape than I thought, but saying that there is absolute immunity from even showing up for a subpoena would blow a hole in court powers that I can’t see them do.

  43. 43.

    jk

    @Elizabelle:

     

    Is that the book written by A.M. Sperber?

     

    One of my favorite Murrow quotes:

     

    This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it’s nothing but wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful.

     

    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow

  45. 45.

    Jay

    Just as I expected, Kentucky Republicans are now plotting to strip Democratic Gov.-elect Andy Beshear of certain executive powers after he defeated GOP Gov. Matt Bevin this month. Republicans simply refuse to respect Dems' legitimacy to govern https://t.co/gQlGY8GCmb— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) November 25, 2019

  48. 48.

    Splitting Image

    President Trump “reads more than anybody I know”.

     

    To be fair, Fox News does have a chryon running across the screen, and there’s no way to prove that Trump isn’t reading it as he watches for hours at a time.

  49. 49.

    Jay Noble

    Whenever the right trots out John Wayne, I always like to point out “never served”, bigot toward blacks, sympathetic to Native Americans and would be on the Mexican side of the Wall.

  51. 51.

    Jay

    This is stunning stuff. TESLA tried to have a whistleblower SWATTED, arrested & placed on a mental health hold in retaliation for him going to journalists with safety violations. Bravo to this police officer for documenting the entire interaction in writing https://t.co/OOsBdBRN6s— Ali Winston (@awinston) November 23, 2019

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