Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

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

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Come on, man.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

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

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

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Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Chris Cillizza Will NOT Be Out-Jingo’d

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UpChuck Todd spends ten minutes of high-dollar Sunday tv time trying to gotcha Warren, but Chris ‘The Mad Bitcher’ Cillizza goes straight for ‘SHE SAID LONG WORDS WHICH IS ELITIST & PROBABLY UNAMERICAN’…

Chris just wants there to be a nice noisy horse race until the election, when he dearly hopes we will elect whichever Repub daddy eventually gets shoved to the top of the ticket.

Let’s all keep in mind how good it will feel when The Mad Bitcher has a public breakdown as the Democrats celebrate our new president, come November!

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  1. 1.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    QuinnipiacPoll – Black Voters in South Carolina — November 18

    Biden…………….44%
    Wilmer…………..10%
    Warren……………8%
    Booker…………….2%
    Pete…………………0%

    Ben Smith reveals the idiocy and insensitivity of the MSM. You can’t win the nomination if you have anemic support among POC.  And they’re not going to warm up to a socialist clown who says “most drug dealers are Black”

  4. 4.

    montanareddog

    @Anne Laurie: I am just afraid that would violate the Geneva conventions against the use of poisons! weapons of mass distraction.

    FTFY and I will now let myself out.

  11. 11.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @WaterGirl:  altogether 20% said “do not know”.  There were some other candidates who had points, Kamala had 6%, Steyer had 4%, a couple others had 1%. I didn’t include them cuz Kamala has dropped out and I didn’t want to type in all the stragglers.

  13. 13.

    SFAW

    @mrmoshpotato:

    I got an idea. Now here me out – we bomb Iran with Chris Cillizza.

    Interesting idea. But, two things to consider:

    1) As Ozark noted (or hinted at), delivering Cillizza as a payload into/onto Iran might be considered a war crime against that nation

    2) As any engineer knows, you need to test out the “breadboard” before you release to production. Therefore Cillizza should first be dropped — during a practice run (or as many as it takes to work out the features bugs) — onto Mar-a-Loco, from about 20,000 feet.

  14. 14.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I always thought it was a mistake to focus on who has the best programs, when we face a mortal threat in Dump.

    Kamala knew that.  And despite all of her programs, Warren didn’t take off until she started taking a 2X4 to Dump.

    The rebuttal was “you just can’t win an election opposing Dump, you have to excite the base with single payer”.

    This new war has focused the mind.

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    The British ship Norham Castle was 40 miles from Krakatoa at the time of the explosion. The ship’s captain wrote in his log, “So violent are the explosions that the ear-drums of over half my crew have been shattered. My last thoughts are with my dear wife. I am convinced that the Day of Judgement has come.”2

    In general, sounds are caused not by the end of the world but by fluctuations in air pressure. A barometer at the Batavia gasworks (100 miles away from Krakatoa) registered the ensuing spike in pressure at over 2.5 inches of mercury1,2. That converts to over 172 decibels of sound pressure, an unimaginably loud noise. To put that in context, if you were operating a jackhammer you’d be subject to about 100 decibels. The human threshold for pain is near 130 decibels, and if you had the misfortune of standing next to a jet engine, you’d experience a 150 decibel sound. (A 10 decibel increase is perceived by people as sounding roughly twice as loud.) The Krakatoa explosion registered 172 decibels at 100 miles from the source. This is so astonishingly loud, that it’s inching up against the limits of what we mean by “sound.”

    When you hum a note or speak a word, you’re wiggling air molecules back and forth dozens or hundreds of times per second, causing the air pressure to be low in some places and high in other places. The louder the sound, the more intense these wiggles, and the larger the fluctuations in air pressure. But there’s a limit to how loud a sound can get. At some point, the fluctuations in air pressure are so large that the low pressure regions hit zero pressure—a vacuum—and you can’t get any lower than that. This limit happens to be about 194 decibels for a sound in Earth’s atmosphere. Any louder, and the sound is no longer just passing through the air, it’s actually pushing the air along with it, creating a pressurized burst of moving air known as a shock wave.

    Closer to Krakatoa, the sound was well over this limit, producing a blast of high pressure air so powerful that it ruptured the eardrums of sailors 40 miles away. As this sound travelled thousands of miles, reaching Australia and the Indian Ocean, the wiggles in pressure started to die down, sounding more like a distant gunshot. Over 3,000 miles into its journey, the wave of pressure grew too quiet for human ears to hear, but it continued to sweep onward, reverberating for days across the globe. The atmosphere was ringing like a bell, imperceptible to us but detectable by our instruments.

    I have read a number of explanatories of the “sound heard round the world”, this one describes the dynamics of it better than the rest I have read.

  18. 18.

    SFAW

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    The rest of the get-able electorate need something more.

    Well, according to some, only a shouty, finger-wagging, sanctimonious, not-a-Corp-o-Dem-like-Elizabeth-Warren, not-exactly-transparent guy from Brooklyn Vermont can provide that “something more.”

  19. 19.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @SFAW: I’d have been right there with that captain in thinking it was the end of the world.

    @SFAW: Everybody has their own idea of what they “need,” but I wasn’t referring to Wilmer’s Wags. I was thinking of places like the suburbs of STL.

  21. 21.

    SFAW

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Everybody has their own idea of what they “need,” but I wasn’t referring to Wilmer’s Wags. I was thinking of places like the suburbs of STL.

    Didn’t think otherwise, just saw an opportunity to take a cheap shot at Vermont Jesus.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    The rest of the get-able electorate need something more.

    Our dilemma is that the “more” that some of them need is different and often inconsistent with the “more” that the rest of them need.

  28. 28.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: Yeah, there is a sweet spot in every election but I don’t where.what it is at any particular point in time. Obama found it. We have to find it again.

  30. 30.

    SFAW

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    except that bomber that flew over last week.

    I was hoping it was a practice run for dropping Cillizza, but I realized I wouldn’t want to do that to you or the Greater LA area.

  34. 34.

    cleek

    don’t forget that, statistically speaking, essentially nobody knows who Chris Cillizza is, let alone cares what he thinks about anything.

  35. 35.

    mapaghimagsik

    In a sane media environment, Clizzilla would be looking for a new job.

    We’re not in a sane media environment where congresscritters can literally pass around doctored images as proof and no one bats and eye.

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