Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

We still have time to mess this up!

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

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

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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  1. 1.

    ThresherK

    Proud of my Senator, Chris Murphy.

    All the CT delegation have been doing themselves proud during this morass. Hoping that all seven get on Trump’s tantrum Twitter list.

  3. 3.

    Derelict

    On this side, there’s a mountain of evidence that keeps growing. All of it shows directly and indisputably the guilt of the president.

    However, the media MUST continue its mission of fairness and balanceness, so we will report stories as “Evidence shows president guilty, but Republicans note that garden gnomes are part of the Deep State which is causing the entire process to be biased. [follows 2.5 pages examining garden gnome theory with extensive quotes from Republicans repeating garden gnome theory] CONCLUSION: “It is impossible to know whether garden gnomes had any influence on creating the growing mountain of evidence showing the president may be guilty.”

  4. 4.

    Van Buren

    Does anybody think this will sway even 1 GOP Senator or 1% of the populace? He could snarl at us like Colonel Jessup that he ordered the hold and they will still vote to acquit.

    WASF

  6. 6.

    Baud

    The Republican Party and the media remind me of those families that choose to pretend they don’t know that Uncle Donald shouldn’t be left alone with the children. Because to admit the truth would be scandalous.

  7. 7.

    kindness

    I wonder how the right wing talking heads justify their bloviations in their own heads.  They have to know the truth.  I figure they all think they are great Freedom Fighters for The Cause and they are doing their loyal duty by reshaping American’s minds in the image their masters would prefer.  I think that when I am giving them more credit than they deserve.  Most times I think they’ve swilled the KoolAide and are worthless treasonous scum.  If the Senate ends up allowing witness’ we’ll be lucky if Trump (with the help of the bloviators) doesn’t drum up a civil war here.  Trump’s nuts enough.  God knows Putin would tell him he needs to do it.  But the rest.  The Media folk…. I think they are all in.  How do we treat these people when we win?

  8. 8.

    feebog

    I’m wondering what it will take for some fence sitters to fall off.  If it is revealed Saudi Arabia laundered 20 million into Trump’s campaign with his knowledge and encouragement, would that do it?

  10. 10.

    FelonyGovt

    I got into an ill-advised argument on Facebook last night with an evangelical Republican who claimed that Trump is “our Churchill” (!) – “coarse but effective”.

    When I pushed back, I got the usual “what about Clinton and Biden they were corrupt too” and “where’s the due process” and similar crap.  Reading further comments on, they’re contorting themselves into pretzels to rationalize his behavior because of the judges and the aborted bay-beez. Ugh.

  12. 12.

    Lapassionara

    My question is this: how did Public Integrity get documents that the US Congress were unable to obtain? I know they sent a FOIA request, but why was that request honored, when House subpoenas were not honored? Any theories?

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    “My daddy Vladdy said this impeachment sham is Unfair and a TOTAL loser!  Sad!

    My daddy Vladdy also says I’m not Putin’s bitch!  No collision!”

  16. 16.

    Betty Cracker

    As a very wise lady once said, as she stood up to leave an unproductive meeting, “All roads lead to Putin.”

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    A woman has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly hitting a 14-year-old girl with her vehicle over the girl’s perceived ethnicity in Clive, Iowa, according to local authorities.

    Clive Police Department police chief Michael G. Venema announced on Friday that Nicole Marie Poole Franklin, a 42-year-old woman from Des Moine, was arrested on Thursday for running over the teenager as the girl was walking on the sidewalk on her way to school on December 9.

    According to Venema, Franklin left the roadway to hit the girl on the sidewalk, then “left the scene without rendering aid to the girl,” who had suffered “numerous injuries.”

    “During the interview Franklin not only admitted to being the driver of the car that struck this girl, but also that she had done so intentionally,” Venema said in the statement. “Franklin told investigators that she ran the girl over because she was, in her words, ‘a Mexican’.”

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    @kindness:

    I wonder how the right wing talking heads justify their bloviations in their own heads. 

    Really easily when they don’t give a damn about government.

    “It makes liberals sad/mad?  We must be doing something right!  Our audience is starting to support impeachment?  Quick!  The black guy asked for spicy mustard!”

  23. 23.

    germy

    One of my local TV news stations was bought by sinclair a few years ago.  They’re rather predictable in their coverage of #45 and his administration.

    Lately, they’ve been advertising an exclusive interview with Rudy.  I imagine it came from sinclair and has been sent to all the affiliates nationwide.  But here’s the thing:  my local station will be playing it 11:35 Sunday night.

    I wonder if they want to bury poor Rudy.  Fulfill their contractual obligation to air sinclair’s propaganda, but do it at a time when many of their viewers will be asleep.  Because they’re embarrassed by him, and what he does to their cause.

  25. 25.

    Lapassionara

    @OzarkHillbilly: That was one of my theories. Given that I have seen FOIA successfully used this way more than once recently, I think I’ll start donating to public interest groups, for their FOIA fund.

  30. 30.

    germy

    We do not have an effective arsenal in place to protect people from having their brains turned to mush by bad media and misuse of technology. And everybody thinks it's so so clever to shit all over the humanities which is about all we've got for any ethical guidance at all. https://t.co/pJ9i9fOoDb

    — kia (@pocojump) December 21, 2019

  33. 33.

    SFAW

    @feebog:

    I’m wondering what it will take for some fence sitters to fall off.

    Nothing.

     

    I guess MAYBE if the Traitor-in-Chief had Moscow Mitch killed, and then bragged about it, Suzy Collins would furrow her brow, and tease that she “had concerns.” But in the end, they’ll all still vote for him.

  35. 35.

    germy

    Further thoughts:
    1. Likely Trump's missive to Putin was instigated by Lavrov: "The Boss needs reassurance, w/ all this stuff going on in D.C. He needs to hear you're still on the team."
    2. Putin has now done to Trump what Trump wanted to do to Zelensky: "put him in a box." https://t.co/BjgvGsK7xH

    — Rick Petree (@RickPetree) December 22, 2019

  39. 39.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I do believe this clip from Casablanca <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME”>sums it all up</a>

    WHY THE HELL CAN’T I USE HTML MARKUP IN COMMENTS?

  40. 40.

    J R in WV

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    “During the interview Franklin not only admitted to being the driver of the car that struck this girl, but also that she had done so intentionally,” Venema said in the statement. “Franklin told investigators that she ran the girl over because she was, in her words, ‘a Mexican’.”

    Franklin, the driver and self-confessed attempted murderer, is obviously a massively stupid piece of excrement. I hope and expect Ms Franklin to spend a long time in jail for her crimes, and trust she will learn valuable life skills while in stir. Hate-filled Bitch!

    Good that most of these rancid monsters are so stupid they brag about their crimes, which makes it easy to convict them of their hate crimes! Then they all seem so shocked that the police are taking the crime very seriously, and fully intend to put them in prison for a very long time! ! !

  41. 41.

    Mike in NC

    NYT and the other media lapdogs will dispatch an army of reporters to diners throughout the Rust Belt on New Year’s Eve to tell us that impeachment has sent Fat Bastard’s poll numbers skyrocketing.

  42. 42.

    tobie

    I read the story in the Post yesterday about Trump ordering a hold on Ukrainian aid an hour after his phone call with Zelensky. I expected it to be the lead story on cable all day. Nada. Zippo. Instead I saw endless analysis of Buttigieg’s and Warren’s run-in during the debate and spots on devoted Trump voters in places like Blair County, PA. What the phuck is wrong with our media? This story should be the headline all day. It’s a smoking gun.

  46. 46.

    Cheryl Rofer

    About two weeks ago, I had mentally worked out the shape of a post on why it was difficult to talk about Trump’s Russia connections. I now don’t need to do that one.

    I am still cautious about talking about those connections. We don’t know that Putin is directing Trump. We do know that Trump admires Putin greatly and sees nothing wrong with saying that publicly.

  47. 47.

    OzarkHillbilly

    From the announcement of the Golden Duke Awards at TPM: In the Meritorious Achievement in the Crazy category:

    Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R)

    The recently defeated Matt Bevin was perhaps underappreciated for his crazy. He did, after all, admit to sending all nine of his kids to hang out with some neighbors who had chickenpox, rather than vaccinating them. He campaigned while wearing a blazer entirely decorated with Trump’s head. And when he lost the election, he peddled the utterly baseless claim that the results were fraudulent. He eventually conceded but was still smarting about it a month later, when he accused Democrats of “harvesting votes” in “urban communities.”

    The horror….

    The Best Scandal Local Venue had this doozy that I’d missed:

    Three Indiana judges’ drunken brawl-turned-shootout

    Not one, not two, but three extremely wasted Indiana county judges got into a nasty fight with strangers in a White Castle parking lot in Indianapolis after the three of them unsuccessfully attempted to enter a strip club. There’s a lot going on in this story, but the long and short of it is this: After hours of heavy drinking, Judges Andrew Adams, Bradley B. Jacobs and Sabrina R. Bell got into a verbal, then physical altercation with two men, Adams and Jacobs were both shot in the melee (they survived their injuries), and now all three of the judges have been temporarily suspended by the Indiana Supreme Court.

  48. 48.

    Yarrow

    @Villago Delenda Est:  In the comment box did you click over to the Text tab (above the link and blockquote buttons and all that on the right side)? If you do that you should be able to do HTML markup. It’s an annoying extra step and I forget it half the time.

  50. 50.

    Yarrow

    @ThresherK:  Use the Text tab (upper right side of comment box) and you can use HTML markup. Annoying extra step. Also, an explanation of what those tabs are that’s somewhere near the comment box would help. “Visual” and “Text” don’t mean much if you don’t already know what they mean.

  52. 52.

    trnc

    @FelonyGovt: When I pushed back, I got the usual “what about Clinton and Biden they were corrupt too” and “where’s the due process” and similar crap.

    Yet I suspect he has no answer as to why neither Clinton nor Biden have been indicted or even appear to be targets of an investigation by the DOJ.

  53. 53.

    Yarrow

    @Villago Delenda Est:  Just FYI, the site still has some bugs and half the time only the Text option is available. For me when that happens no tabs (Visual/Text) appear and you just get the Text box. I’ve told WaterGirl that’s my preferred style but it’s not going to stay that way.

  55. 55.

    Jay

    @tobie:

    there’s no such thing as a smocking gun,…..

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    look, it’s pretty simple, other than a few good names, quite simply, Broadcast Journalism, is not serious anymore, it’s infotainment to keep people dumb and buying crap, they don’t need and can’t afford.

  56. 56.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jay: Filler in between ads for drugs we should all be asking our doctors about.

    ‘Ask your doctor if Lugaboogachooga is right for you.” (How is this shit even legal?  Yes, I know…)

  58. 58.

    Jay

    @FelonyGovt:

    when they go “whattabout??????”,

    I go Soviet Propaganda.

    ”What abboutism” is a Soviet Propaganda technique. It was designed during the 1930’s to deflect attention from Stalin’s mass murders by pointing out the past and current events in the US and the West.

    So why are you using Soviet propaganda and disinformation techniques to avoid and deflect from talking about Doltus’s crimes?

    Are you a Communist?

    Are you KGB?

    Are you a Russian?

  59. 59.

    Yarrow

    @mrmoshpotato:

    ‘Ask your doctor if Lugaboogachooga is right for you.” (How is this shit even legal?  Yes, I know…)

    It really is crazy. I mean, you don’t even know what the drug is for half the time. Why should you ask for it? Something is so wrong with our society that these ads are allowed.

  60. 60.

    Baud

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “I love only having to flush once.”

  62. 62.

    FelonyGovt

    @Jay: Good idea.

    I was going to ask what she would have thought if Obama (who she characterized as a “sociopath”)  had done or said some of the things Trump did. But I realized that was also a form of what-aboutism.

  65. 65.

    zhena gogolia

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    We don’t know because unlike any other president in modern times, he has kept his communications with a major adversary secret from the public and from apparently everyone else. That’s enough evidence for me that their conversations are not innocent.

  66. 66.

    Yarrow

    @Steeplejack (phone):  I find the words “Visual” and “Text” not very intuitive. If you don’t know what they are/do you have no idea what to do what to do with them or how to do what you want with HTML. I mentioned to WaterGirl in the latest Site Issues thread that maybe there should be a line about what they’re for somewhere near the comment box. And/or naming them so they are more easily understood for newer visitors.

  67. 67.

    Jay

    @FelonyGovt:

    keep ‘em pinned on the specific subject, and call them commies and traitors when they try to deflect, distract and r-u-n-n-o-f-t,

    they either have to defend the indefensible, admit it, or bail.

    99.9% of the time, they throw over the table and r-u-n-n-o-f-t.

  69. 69.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    We don’t know that Putin is directing Trump.

    Michael McFaul was on I think the Hayes program the other night, and pointed out the weird specificity of some of the things trump says that reflect the Putin party-line. The one that stands out to me is his (occasional) fixation with Montenegro. I doubt that if you told trump right now that he should hold his next Sixty Minute Hate in Montenegro, WI, he’s be all for it. But at one point he knew enough about Montenegro to say it could be the birthplace of WW-3, and it’s not so clear now that the moment when he shoved the Montenegrin (?) PM wasn’t just random rudeness.

    (My god, Alex Witt is awful. How does she have a job at MSNBC?)

  71. 71.

    Yarrow

    @Steeplejack (phone):  Yep. If you go back to the most recent Site Issues thread you can see my questions and WaterGirl’s answers. I don’t get the Pop Up box at all. It’s only available when someone clicks Reply to a comment. Otherwise we use the regular comment box. And if we want to reply to more than one person we have to use that box. And once the comment pop up is closed we can’t re-open it that I can find.

    All that means to me that the comment box at the bottom of the page is the real, actual way to comment and the pop up comment box is some kludge added on top that’s only available for one subset of commenting actions. I’m not a fan of it but at least you can close it make it go away.

  72. 72.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Yarrow: Movie previews are the same way.  I saw two commercials during SNL last night that gave no plot outline or actors in the movies.

    But seeing a movie won’t have serious side effects – unless they’re the movies in Demons or Cigarette Burns.

  74. 74.

    Yarrow

    @mrmoshpotato:  Well that’s better than movie previews that give away the entire plot or show the best jokes or action sequences. Why bother seeing the movie after that?

  77. 77.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Yarrow: True, but why bother seeing a movie you know nothing about?

    You wouldn’t rent a DVD whose case didn’t say a damn thing about the plot or actors.

    Seven – wtf is that about from the title?

     

    ETA – plotless, no actors mentioned Siskel and Ebert would’ve been something to see

  79. 79.

    Jay

    @Yarrow:

    Ilsa, She Wolf of the Nazis, trial ballooned that idea,

    The the White Supremacy House adopted it as a tactic, tells you everything you need to know, about how dumb and compromised their supporters are,……

  80. 80.

    Yarrow

    @mrmoshpotato:  Yeah, there’s definitely a balance to strike. Reviews can help too, so long as they’re not too spoiler-filled. I know I’ve clicked off some previews halfway through because I felt like I was getting the whole plot, so that’s no good.

    @mrmoshpotato:
    Yep. 1984 is here, at least for Republicans. Sadly, for half the media too.

  81. 81.

    Jay

    @mrmoshpotato:

    from the title “Seven”, the plot is pretty simple to deduce,

    it’s either the movie where the pitch of Elmo’s voice finally causes The Count to snap, going on a muder spree down the street,…….

    or it’s the porn movie the Dwarves did to make ends meet, after Walt cancelled any follow on roles after Snow White, because Walt was a Dwarfist.

  82. 82.

    ola azul

    @Baud:

    Yes, would be scandalous, but think that ain’t really the point. The point, imo, is if the truth were ever admitted openly and directly, that’d mean sumpin fucking well hadda be done about it. Never admit the truth, you get to keep both-sidesing the living fuck outta treason and yer church of the savvy horse-race-tout cred remains intact. And assholes won’t target you n say mean shit about how shrill you is.

  83. 83.

    Jay

    Big news Friday, memory holed by Saturday, so I’m just gonna mention it again,….

    BREAKING: A Trump advisor told the WI GOP that “Traditionally it’s always been Republicans suppressing votes in places”—& "It’s going to be a much bigger program, a much more aggressive program, a much better-funded program" in 2020. Give to fight back: https://t.co/wRSt7EtOgD pic.twitter.com/Zr19EgEG9S— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) December 20, 2019

  84. 84.

    VOR

    @tobie: Because everybody (in the media) knows. They know Trump is a liar. They know his administration is full of liars. They know Trump is The Seven Deadly Sins incarnate. Yawn.

    Even during the campaign, things were reported which should have killed a normal candidate. Admitted in court he cheated people, paid a $25M fine. “Grab them by the pussy”. On and on.

    In many ways, Trump is the Gish Gallop of scandals. Hillary had ONE scandal, emails, so the media could focus on it. Trump had a new scandal practically every day. Still does. No time to dig into scandal #586, here comes scandals #587-590 and we have to clear time to cover them. And to be even-handed, we’ll spend the same amount of time on Hillary’s emails that we do on all of Trump’s scandals.

  85. 85.

    debbie

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Trump will throw this country under the bus at a second’s notice if he feels it will help his standing with Putin. Wasn’t it a couple weeks ago when Soviet athletes were banned for four years for doping, and Trump’s response was to say it wasn’t fair and that “we” (American athletes) were probably doing it too.

    I’m no expert, but I find it entirely creditable that Putin is directing Trump. Whether or not he has damaging information, Putin is directing Trump. It’s not admiration; it’s subjugation.

  86. 86.

    jimmiraybob

    “I wonder how the right wing talking heads justify their bloviations in their own heads.”

    Right wing talking heads with a loyalty to the Constitution and a conscience can now be found on MSNBC & CNN bloviating against Comrade Putin’s Pet Puppet.

  89. 89.

    jimmiraybob

    @debbie: “Trump will throw this country under the bus at a second’s notice if he feels….”

    He has been throwing the country under the bus since January 20, 2017.

  90. 90.

    Jay

    "It is more probable than not that Rep. Shea is likely to plan, direct, and engage in additional future conflicts that could carry with them significant risk of bloodshed and loss of life." – Investigative Report on Rep. Matt Shea— Kevin Kim (@NewsWithKevin) December 19, 2019

  91. 91.

    Yarrow

    @VOR:

    In many ways, Trump is the Gish Gallop of scandals. Hillary had ONE scandal, emails, so the media could focus on it. Trump had a new scandal practically every day. Still does. No time to dig into scandal #586, here comes scandal #587-590.

    The thing is, most of these scandals are related. Russia, Russian mob, etc. It’s not like laundering Russian money through real estate in south Florida is separate from cutting off aid to Ukraine or trafficking underage girls from eastern Europe. They’re part of the same thing. It’s global organized crime and Trump is a useful asset for the head guy.

    I feel like our media has chosen to be the blind people trying to describe the elephant. One describes the tail and claims the elephant is all tail. One describes the leg and claims the elephant is like a tree trunk. Etc. They’re not wrong individually but they aren’t correct about describing the elephant as a whole. We need our media to look at and explain the whole elephant (Russian organized crime has infiltrated our government and other institutions like media, etc.) Also, I’d like a pony.

  93. 93.

    Jay

    @Yarrow:

    the “Media’s job”, aside from getting you to buy stuff, is to hide the elephant in the room.

    Epstein, Trump, Prince Andrew, MIT Labs, Dershowitz, Yale, Harvard, the Supreme Court,

    There is a 7 degrees of Kevin Baconry going on, in which all major criminality and scandals, are all connected, through the same social, economic and celebrity circles,

    that was created and enabled by ignoring White Collar crime,……

    the New Meritocracy running the US is as crooked AF,…..

  100. 100.

    Jay

    So, there is a “Conservatives in Disarray” story the MSM is ignoring as best as they can, or when they have to cover it, they play dumb.

    It’s the Groyper Wars. The various flavours of Nazi have dug themselves in deeply into the Youth Wing of the GrOPers, some of the “Intellectual” groups or brain trusts, the “activists” and media,…..

    And they are attacking other GrOPers for not being Nazi enough,

    Soon Conservatives are going to need safe spaces from each other. https://t.co/pkqcqbX8D9— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) December 21, 2019

  102. 102.

    West of the Rockies

    I’m feeling politically cynical today.  I know that, like, new shit has come to light, man, but…  It.  Won’t.  Matter.

    His cult followers will be unmoved.  We Dems will say, “See, we told you!”

    Maybe the remaining 19 undecideds will join our side.

    Trump could feast on a newborn, and his supporters would request the wishbone and take a selfie.

  105. 105.

    bucachon

    If the docs just released via FOIA that shows there was no reason legally to withhold them from Congress and thus is evidence of the second act of impeachment-obstruction.

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