Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Bark louder, little dog.

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

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Come on, man.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Everybody saw this coming.

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

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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The eagle flies on Friday

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Looks like the Senate trial is almost over and that there will be no witnesses called.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and other Republicans signaled that they were regaining confidence that they would be able to cobble together the 51 votes needed to block new witnesses and documents and bring the trial to an acquittal verdict as soon as Friday,

Only one thing matters: voting out as many of these clowns in the Senate as we can. Give here to the Balloon Juice Senate fund which is split between the eventual Democratic nominees in Maine, Iowa, NC, Arizona, Georgia, and Colorado. We’ve only got a few more days of trial so trying to raise as much as I can while the sun shines. I raised the goal to 25K.

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  1. 1.

    Frankensteinbeck

    McConnell has certainly been correct every time he says he has the votes for something.

    (Disclaimer:  I do think it should be extremely easy for McConnell to get an immediate ‘flush this trial and try to forget it’ acquittal vote, and if he can’t it’s proof he’s really not that good at his job.)

  4. 4.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    I have enough faith in Nancy at this point that this is actually making me eager to see how it plays out. She’s already gamed out this outcome, you know she has, and she knows how to play it from her supposedly weaker position so that it blows up spectacularly in McConnell’s evil traitorous turtle face.

  5. 5.

    patrick II

    I guess it would have made no difference in the end, but a big F.U. to Bolton who could have testified earlier in the house hearings but chose not to because…profit?

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @patrick II: one thing I haven’t lost sight of about the lunatic Peter Baker tells me is my new hero: He’s a fucking lunatic

    ETA: and I don’t think he or Parnas are done. Not that anything they say now will help the damage done, trump is completely unleashed and unhinged going into the election. But it’s gonna be ugly all around.

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    It’s sad that when looking at the current BJ posts right now, the least depressing one is about end of life spending.

    our democracy is being murdered in plain sight, on national tv, and I am bereft.

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @WaterGirl: and it wasn’t a Lindbergh or a Patton or a Jack Welch or even a Father Coughlin. It was a third-rate racist game show host, a serial bankrupt trust-fund toddler whose daddy bribed a doctor to lie about bone spurs who told his cultists he was gonna read them a story from Two Corinthians, “that’s the one you like, right?”

    One word in that run-on sentence more important than all the others.

  12. 12.

    Kay

    Baldwin Wallace University Poll (Ohio)
    Democratic candidate: 44.3%
    Donald Trump: 39.4%
    Undecided: 16.3%

    I don’t think it’s a good poll but send it out anyway. Trumpists will sweat if they think they’re down in Ohio. They’ll fall in line and vote for him, “undecided” are those bullshit fake “independents” who are really Republicans, but Trump probably should be more popular here. I don’t think Obama ever looked that bad in Ohio going into 2012. Obama.

  13. 13.

    A Ghost To Most

    As much as I think the football game on Sunday may be a classic, if they vote to acquit, I REFUSE to watch it, given that it will be on Fox. It sounds like a good day to get outside here.

    YMMV.

  14. 14.

    Kay

    Trump can’t be close in Ohio. Democrats can, that’s a great thing for us, but Trump can’t. If he’s close in OH he loses MI and PA.

    He should be popular here. Not widely disliked but sheepishly perhaps backed, eventually, if the choice is between a Demoncrat and him. That’s not good for him.

  19. 19.

    Butch

    I try to be realistic and not indulge in fatalism or unrealistic optimism, yet some part of me hopes that it will be a “careful what you wish for” moment for the GOP.

  21. 21.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: Same.   Unless trump’s  caught f..king a horse, he will be allowed to continue to cheat to win elections.    This is so depressing and I don’t think we’ll ever get our democracy back.

  24. 24.

    Eunicecycle

    I just read a comment on Twitter I thought was interesting. I apologize if someone else already made it here. We all know how Rump is always screaming that Obama spied on him, got Ukraine to interfere in the election, etc. Not true of course, but according to Dersh, wouldn’t this be perfectly fine? Obama thought electing Hillary was in the national interest, so he could do whatever he wanted, as President, right?

  25. 25.

    wenchacha

    I do feel adrift. As I mentioned previously, my mom died in December, at the age of 94. A lifelong Republican, she voted for Hillary in 2016, and loathed the winner. One month later, dad died, at 93.

    This is all the normal course of things, I know. But as I see the end of the era of my folks, it horrified me that we are watching the end of our nation’s experiment with democracy. I know it bothered my folks.

  26. 26.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud:

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

    Yup. Shoulders to the wheel, credit cards to the Act Blue, fingers to the phones, et cetera. It is just so fucking depressing

  27. 27.

    Chyron HR

    Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and other Republicans signaled that they were regaining confidence that they would be able to cobble together the 51 votes needed to hide all the evidence.

    I mean, good for them, but if you go around bragging about your cover-up, is it really a cover-up?

  28. 28.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @JPL:

    he will be allowed to continue to cheat to win elections. This is so depressing and I don’t think we’ll ever get our democracy back.

    Always remember that if Republicans could have stopped Doug Jones from getting elected, they would have done anything within their power to accomplish it.  Elections still very much matter.

  29. 29.

    Shalimar

    @JPL: That’s not going to do it either.  Carl Paladino informs me that horse-fucking is very popular with Republicans.

  33. 33.

    Jamie

    We always knew the fix was in, but this still feels dispiriting. However, more stuff is gonna leak, Bolton’s going to talk, dog knows what’s gonna come out from Parnas et. al., the House will continue to investigate, and I’m gonna guess that voters aren’t going to give a shit about whatever limpdick, convoluted rationales their Senators give for shutting this thing down–voters will see this for the naked, craven play it is.

    That’s what I tell myself during my more positive moments, anyway.

  35. 35.

    Barbara

    @Jamie: And Limpdick is going to continue looking worse and worse and he tries to ramp up his schedule for another campaign.

    I already made a generous Act Blue contribution for the winnable Senate seats, but I might start helping individual campaigns now, especially Mark Kelly’s.

  38. 38.

    West of the Rockies

    I’m not depressed.  The bad material will come out.  He was never going to be removed from office–we knew that.  Kvetch and vent.  Don’t give up.  GOTV.

  40. 40.

    Jamie

    @Barbara: True. His cognitive state is, uh, really something at this point, and not going to improve. My guess is that when he sees no poll bounce after the trial and more bad shit keeps coming out, and it becomes evident that, even post-impeachment this stuff is not going away, it’s gonna get a whole lot uglier.

  42. 42.

    Another Scott

    @zhena gogolia: “But, but, Uncle Joe did it first.  Donnie is just playing catch-up….”

    There is no argument that can be won using logic when logic isn’t part of the rules.  It’s a category error to think otherwise.

    I don’t know the solution for disingenuous statements like the ones the Teabaggers in the Senate and their hangers-on are using.

    The ultimate solution is to vote them out of office.  Everything else comes later.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  43. 43.

    MisterForkbeard

    @WaterGirl: This is what bugs me. We have the President’s former NSA saying Trump is lying about this.

    The Republican Party is so insulated, so determined to protect Trump at all costs that they’re going to… declare that no one can use the NSA’s book as evidence, and then refuse to call him to testify.

    And then you have jokers like Chris Cilliza carping about how both parties are just talking past each other and they’re just as bad.

  45. 45.

    TomatoQueen

    @H.E.Wolf: Among the hymns that keep me going, this is the main one, altho’ Bob’s version is more of a kick up the backside as and when needed.  Also, just to remind us that this long road is the one worth walking: https://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5PUuaSbtG0

    Hand on the plow, eyes on the prize.

    here on the gov’t laptop I can google yootoob links but I can’t test them as security will kick me out, so I hope that’s Sweet Honey in the Rock ripping the doors off Jacob’s Ladder. If not, slap me silly.

  46. 46.

    Bruce K

    @Baud: I’ll go one farther. If the United States as a functional democracy and republic is to survive, the Republican Party as a political institution must be destroyed.

  47. 47.

    MisterForkbeard

    I do think that barring witnesses and so on will rebound badly on the Republicans. But it’s kind of like having an addict in the family – the united states keeps offering these guys chances to clean up their act and do the right thing, applauds wildly for some kind of token reformation, and then sits in denial while they continue to rob you blind.

    Eventually, you have to throw them out and let them realize they need to fix themselves. It can’t be Democrats trying to ‘help’ the Republicans into not ruining themselves or the country. It’s just not sustainable.

  48. 48.

    Kent

    @Eunicecycle:I just read a comment on Twitter I thought was interesting. I apologize if someone else already made it here. We all know how Rump is always screaming that Obama spied on him, got Ukraine to interfere in the election, etc. Not true of course, but according to Dersh, wouldn’t this be perfectly fine? Obama thought electing Hillary was in the national interest, so he could do whatever he wanted, as President, right?

    The Democrats are criminally stupid if they don’t ask this question during the Q&A today.

    “Based on your theory of Presidential Power, it would have been perfectly acceptable for President Obama to use the FBI to spy on the Trump Campaign in 2016 and use the government to manufacture dirt on Trump if he believed it would have been in the national interest to elect Hillary Clinton?”

  51. 51.

    Kent

    @Parfigliano:Think Manchin will be vote 51

    Manchin has no excuse.  Next time he will be up for election is 2024.  We will be in the middle of the NEXT presidential campaign at that point and Trump will not be on the ballot.  This impeachment stuff will be old and forgotten history by then.

  54. 54.

    catclub

    @patrick II: I guess it would have made no difference in the end, but a big F.U. to Bolton who could have testified earlier in the house hearings but chose not to because…profit?

     

    Bolton could go on 60Minutes anytime he wants and spill all the damaging info he has. But no.

  55. 55.

    Leto

    @MisterForkbeard:

     

    And then you have jokers like Chris Cilliza carping about how both parties are just talking past each other and they’re just as bad.

    He needs to find a deep, deep well to find himself at the bottom of, with no Lassie around.

  56. 56.

    West of the Rockies

    @wenchacha:

    I remember feeling adrift, too, after my parents passed on (two days to the minute apart from each other).  It takes a while to heal.  Talking to siblings and good friends helps.  If you will allow unsolicited advice, try to find happiness and live the life your parents would have wished for you.  That is one way to honor them.

  57. 57.

    MisterForkbeard

    @NotMax: Well, sort of. Lately they talk about how they learned they need to be more inclusive, or at least to emphasize how inclusive and awesome they actually are.

    And then they turn right around and dial the asshole up to 11. I think it’s pretty clear their base just enjoys the fact that they’re telling off Democrats, regardless of what Democrats are actually doing.

  58. 58.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Zzyzx: Inasmuch as Republicans are douches who have placed party firmly above country, this drama was going to play out with Trump’s acquittal.  Impeachment is only for Democratic Presidents covering up affairs, apparently.

  62. 62.

    Another Scott

    In lighter (?) news, RollCall:

    Heard on the Hill
    Anonymous staffer meme accounts are taking over Capitol Hill
    Anxious, bored, disgruntled? There’s a meme for that

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  63. 63.

    MJS

    @Kent: Too late. Dershowitz is already saying he didn’t say what he clearly said. That’s how this game is played. Republican side says/does something outrageous. Democratic side points it out, Republicans say, “Never happened”, media says, “Who’s to say?”

  64. 64.

    Leto

    @MJS: I thought that that was just ingenious; gaslighting at it’s finest. Of course you didn’t hear what he clearly said. It’s just gibberish. Kay has been forever correct: we need better “elites”. They infect our entire system and they’re just subpar. Actually subpar would be an improvement, a higher bar than where they are now.

  65. 65.

    catclub

    @Parfigliano: Think Manchin will be vote 51

    I don’t see that. Maybe he will be 54. Refuse to convict because there was not enough evidence presented!

    Likewise, Romney can refuse to convict over lack of evidence.  I think there is no benefit to Romney of voting to convict without ‘sufficient’ evidence.

  66. 66.

    AnonPhenom

    @Bruce K:

    It will be them or the Dems.

    AnonPhenom November 26, 2019 at 4:49 pm

    This will either end with the collapse of the Republican Party into a political rump for fools and bigots, or the evaporation of the Democratic Party as it becomes apparent it is incapable of countering the corruption that it faces.

    One or the other.

    No way they both survive this.

  67. 67.

    Bruce K

    @AnonPhenom: Like I said, if the GOP lives, America dies. Maybe something will exist that claims to be America, but the nation born out of the American Revolution will be gone.

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