Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Republicans in disarray!

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

This fight is for everything.

Let’s finish the job.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

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This is really funny. For those at work: there are f-bombs in it (in English). Open thread.

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  5. 5.

    zhena gogolia

    @henrythefifth:

    Nah, he doesn’t bother with smallfry. It’s not quite Stalin-era. Yet.

    Какой великий могучий народ русские

    I especially love the last guy — his expression when he sees it is inimitably Russian.

  7. 7.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @zhena gogolia: It’s the “yet” that worries me. There’s now public record against these people. A potential enemies list.

    For the record, such things worry me here too.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    Calls to mind the old joke about complaints that stamps with Stalin’s portrait on them wouldn’t stick to envelopes.

    After extensive investigation, postal service inspectors determined the crux of the problem: people were spitting on the wrong side of the stamps.

  11. 11.

    JanieM

    WTF. Guy did that to me I’d be tempted to push him out a window. I know I’m old-fashioned, but filming and voice recording me without my consent, then sending the video out to go viral, is BS. Not funny when the government does it, not funny when some idiot does it. Even if it’s not Russia.

  18. 18.

    Kylroy

    @satby: They were in a quasi-public space with a discrete but undisguised camera in the corner (based on the setup in the intro).  Not that reason has any place in Russian law, but I think this would probably hold up in Western law.

  20. 20.

    The Moar You Know

    Does it concern anyone else that it might not be safe in Russia to film those reactions? Or am I just paranoid?

    @TaMara (HFG):  That was my very first thought.  And some others have mentioned they think these people are safe because they are “small fry”, not important enough.

    Even a cursory examination of who Putin’s intel people have had snuffed in Moscow over the last decade should disabuse anyone of that idea, that someone is not important enough to get a free tour of the outside of their high-rise, courtesy of state intelligence services.

    This “prankster” is an asshole whose prank is going to get people killed

     

    ETA:  shit, I wouldn’t feel safe if someone did that here, with a giant pic of Orange Caesar.  These guys didn’t get to where they are today by ignoring slights.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @schrodingers_cat:

    A huge binder. With all my various immigration applications, extensions, address changes and the like.

    Let’s hope that’s all it is.  Trump is making us all paranoid.  Though it’s not paranoid if they are out to get you.

  27. 27.

    ziggy

    But they didn’t touch it! In the US, if that was Trump, the portrait would be completely defaced by the end of one day (if it was even left in place!). Someone would surely take orange paint to it.

  28. 28.

    frosty

    @schrodingers_cat: This is naive of me but does it get deleted destroyed or returned to the immigrant once he or she is naturalized as a citizen?

  30. 30.

    Amir Khalid

    @frosty:

    With the current administration and its eagerness to revoke naturalisations for the slightest reason? If deleting such files was ever SOP, I’m sure it isn’t now.

  33. 33.

    Ruckus

    @NotMax:

    If Russians have learned nothing else it’s how to hate most/all of their leaders. Only one Russian that I’ve known didn’t despise whichever leader had been in charge when they left and he was talking to another Russian at the time and that guy gave him hell for it. They know any election is rigged and that any leader gets wealthy beyond all reason, in a country where that’s not supposed to happen.

    I wonder if anyone getting on the elevator didn’t swear, openly or under their breath at that picture? Old women in Russia know fuck as well as anyone here. In my experience, fuck is the one word known around the world and used just like we do here.

  34. 34.

    Ruckus

    @ziggy:

    In Russia it’s easy enough to have a heart attack while being thrown jumping out a 5th floor window that doesn’t open. And it happens. There are people who enforce the respect that the leader is to be shown at all times. One can drown in the shower, eat rat poison while being held down, so many ways to enforce the admiration for the leader….

  35. 35.

    Ruckus

    @JanieM:

    How would you know who did it? Was it a prank or was it official? In a country where retribution is normal, one never knows. And even if it wasn’t a common occurrence, the people think it is. I’d bet every person getting on that elevator thought that if they defaced that in any way, they could die. And would they know, even if they saw the guy put it up, was it a prank or was it not? We don’t live in that country but dipshit thinks we should.

  36. 36.

    J R in WV

    @schrodingers_cat:

    USCIS, which is a part of the DHS has a doorstop on me and every immigrant. I saw it with my own eyes when I applied for naturalization.

    What does “doorstop” mean in this context? I’ve never heard the term used other than to mean part of a doorway.

  42. 42.

    SWMBO

    @frosty: Except the records for a DD14 (?) of one George W Bush. His file lost a lot of records that can never be recovered.  Strange, innit?

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