Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

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

We are aware of all internet traditions.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Consistently wrong since 2002

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

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Repub Venality Open Thread: ‘Grandma Killer’ Professional TradWife Test-Markets Passive Eugenics for Her Right-Wing Employers

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Prominent RW ‘thoughtleader’ Bethany Mandel is married to Washington Examiner Executive Editor Seth Mandel. She has a full-time job raising their four kids, so she doesn’t need a second job (not even in the got-to-keep-my-networking-up-to-date sense), if she becomes too toxic for her usual media outlets to use her services for a few years.

This makes her, like Megan McArdle, the perfect spokesperson for marketing the latest ‘conservative’ arguments in favor of kakistocracy. It doesn’t hurt, IMO, that she’s a sloppy writer and quite possibly a stupid person; her defenders can claim She never meant it like that, and besides, only a horrible person would attack four little kids’ MOMMY!!!…

You think I’m exaggerating? Check out her earlier work:

She’s peddling what she’s paid to peddle, full stop. C.R.E.A.M., especially when I can also hurt innocent people is the whole of their Law; all else is commentary.

They’re BOOOORRRRED! And besides, it’s not as though they, personally, will be required to show up to work in the restaurants (or the overcrowded ICUs… )

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  1. 1.

    Roger Moore

    Just remember, when they say “we need to go back to work” what they really mean is “you need to be forced back to work”. They’ve just moved up in sophistication from overseers with whips.

  4. 4.

    Gin & Tonic

    Up until today I had literally never heard of Seth or Bethany Mandel.

    What an innocent time – can I go back?

  8. 8.

    catclub

    Daugherty quote:

    Realism means acknowledging that “re-opening” is well underway even in states that haven’t authorized as much. The people succeeded in saving the hospital system from the crush. The government failed to stand up a sufficient test and trace system. That’s where we are.

     
    I think the unwritten conclusion is: “So, we’ve decided we’re finished with lockdown, because reasons.”

    The WWII version of this is “Well, we’ve taken back most of Italy and I’m tired, so let’s quit.

  9. 9.

    BruceJ

    The Great Depression had 25% unemployment and millions of people lost their life savings when the banks failed; WWII lead to four years of rationing, and enormous upheavals in the US.

    These people are losing their shit and stomping around with their guns threatening to KILL EVERYONE IF THEY DON’T GET THEIR WAY after EIGHT WEEKS of a Pandemic.  They call US snowflakes!

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @catclub: we’re pretty much going for herd immunity with hope for a medical miracle, as far as I can tell

  12. 12.

    BruceJ

    @catclub: A better analogy is “Well we’re at 800 feet, and the parachute has slowed our descent enormously! Time to take it off!”

  13. 13.

    Brachiator

    Grandma Killer
    Qu’est-ce que c’est
    Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-far better
    Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away oh oh oh
    Granny Killer
    Qu’est-ce que c’est…

  17. 17.

    Brachiator

    @catclub:

    The WWII version of this is “Well, we’ve taken back most of Italy and I’m tired, so let’s quit.

    Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Sometimes the irony, well it writes itself.

  18. 18.

    West of the Rockies

    Do these people hope to socialize after Trump is crushed?  Do they expect to show their self-satisfied faces in public and expect other people to, like, smile and day hello?  They’re cut from the same cloth as the Tennessee guy who bought up all the Purell.

    I keep saying, approximately 40% of our fellow (mostly, but not exclusively white) Americans are repulsive CHUDs.*

     

    *80’s terrible film reference

  19. 19.

    West of the Rockies

    Oh, I see the Georgia father and son murderers were arrested.  How long before obese pig-man Barr steps in to ruin matters?

  20. 20.

    Nicole

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    we’re pretty much going for herd immunity with hope for a medical miracle, as far as I can tell

    Hoped for by a bunch of people who don’t understand how herd immunity works, too.   Ugh.

    I wish the parents of people like this had done a better job pretending to love them when they were children.  We might have all been spared this.

  21. 21.

    Citizen_X

    The good news is, if everything goes really bad and we have to hold some of these people under siege, then they will collapse in a couple of months. Citizens of Leningrad they are not.

  22. 22.

    Elizabelle

    @rikyrah:

    Folks lit that heifer up

    Love it.  She is going to be especially scrutinized going forward, and she brought this on herself.

  24. 24.

    Barbara

    In what way is she sacrificing her kids’ teachers by staying home?  My pediatrician has been open, trying to do telemedicine, but available for appointments. They take everybody’s temperature and whisk you back to a room quickly. Everybody is wearing face masks. Sure, their volume is down, but even when other health professionals reopen they are going to be a lot more cautious. I don’t Mandel is a murderer, just a dull wited narcissist like Trump.

  25. 25.

    Raoul

    She has now changed her bio to say that she is, in fact, a neo-nazi.

    Perhaps we should let her husband’s paper’s advertisers know that they’re one degree of separation from that extreme anti-semitism.

    I’m sure since she also says the granny-killer part that she’ll say “oh I’m joking” but no one should ever joke that they’ve joined that group. Neo-nazism is a real thing. And never, ever funny.

  28. 28.

    different-church-lady

    And to think there was a time when people thought letting everyone have a voice on the internet was a good thing.

  32. 32.

    ThresherK

    @Gin & Tonic: Does anyone else wish for them to Struggle Together over neo-Nazi and Nazi like the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Front?

  34. 34.

    Brachiator

    @Barbara:

     I don’t [think] Mandel is a murderer, just a dull wited narcissist like Trump.

    She is murder adjacent.

  36. 36.

    Jeffro

    @Raoul: this is exactly right – each and every time they throw insane shit out there, we should rally and hit the advertisers.  I’m being completely serious.  It seems to be the only thing that they understand, and it works.

    Just ask Bill O! ;)

  37. 37.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @NotMax: as did the Borgia pope, as I recall

    as does trump, if the rumors about that Tiffany’s security guard are true

    I’m not saying they are, I have no idea, but many people, many bigly knowledgeable people they’ve taken a strong look at those stories, and it’s very interesting, very interesting, what they’re saying, people who would know

  38. 38.

    Another Scott

    @Jeffro: Yes, as long as they keep making money from this crap, they’ll keep doing it.  Boycott their advertisers, use an ad blocker if you have to visit their sites, make noise.  Don’t let them keep making money on this stuff with no consequences.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  39. 39.

    Jeffro

    @Another Scott: And don’t quietly boycott them – let them know why you’re boycotting, and let your friends and family and social media contacts know, too.

  42. 42.

    mrmoshpotato

    Yes, Soledad, but a bit of a bullshit artist?  This trash only works with bullshit.

    Watercolors?  No.  Painting with bullshit.

    Clay?  Nope!  Bullshit sculptures!

    Photography?  Of bulls taking shits!

  43. 43.

    Anne Laurie

    @rikyrah:  Mandel:  I am *not* a heifer!  I have four kids! FOUR!

    Call her a behayma, and see if she knows enough Yiddish to resent *that* implication.

  44. 44.

    Anne Laurie

    @West of the Rockies: Do these people hope to socialize after Trump is crushed? Do they expect to show their self-satisfied faces in public and expect other people to, like, smile and day hello? They’re cut from the same cloth as the Tennessee guy who bought up all the Purell.

    They’ll still have each other to socialize with… and they never cared about the rest of us anyway.  Except as serfs, or meatsack robotniks.

  45. 45.

    Another Scott

    Speaking of professionals, a couple of threads via Popehat (sparked by Flynn and Barr’s DOJ today):

    Here’s a story for you. I had a client and I gave him bad advice I mean I screwed up and so when I realized this my client had already plead guilty because of my bad advice – so I called the AUSA and was like hey my bad can you agree to let him withdraw his guilty plea.

    — MirriamRichardMarxStillRulesSeddiq ?? (@mirriam71) May 7, 2020

    Speaking of prosecutorial power, I was thinking today of the time I was asked to decide whether a guy would die in prison or not./1

    — LightOfDayHat (@Popehat) May 7, 2020

    Prosecutors have tremendous power in our system. Too few seem to take that power as seriously as they should.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  46. 46.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman
    “When Nelson Mandela came to America after years of political persecution he was treated like a rock star by Americans,” one of President Trump’s chief pollsters told The Daily Beast. “General Flynn is our rock star. A big difference is that he was persecuted in America.”

    Kellyan Conway is a pollster. Just sayin’.

  47. 47.

    J R in WV

    @Wolf:

    1+ Vietnam Units of death and counting.

    I’m expecting now that we’ll be around a WW II Unit of Death by election day. Obvously Trump’s minions will attempt to keep that number out of the media. County boards of health will be taken over by the corpse police!

    No one will be counted as dead by Coronavirus-19 unless approved by President Trump personally!!!

  48. 48.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    It’s amazing Madel doesn’t get her and her family are just an accidental brush with a stranger away from a visit from Mss Corona. It’s amazing they think their whiteness and wealth is going to project them over three years.

  49. 49.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Barbara: In what way is she sacrificing her kids’ teachers by staying home?

    Mandel homeschools her kids so they don’t get Libertard virus. She is just lying.

  50. 50.

    SFAW

    @catclub:

    I think the unwritten conclusion is: “So, we’ve decided we’re finished with lockdown, because reasons.”

    Except for not having any idea what he meant by “the government failed to stand up a sufficient test and trace system” — I think he meant to write “set up” — I read Daugherty as saying “the citizenry did its part, the fed had seven weeks, why TF didn’t they set it up?”

    Of course, I’ll be dipped in shit before I go read a NatRev “thought leader,” so maybe my take is worng.

  52. 52.

    Another Scott

    @SFAW: “Stand-up capability” is DoD jargon for things like (usually quickly) deploying the infrastructure needed to do an important job.  Picture it as something like dropping a building-in-a-box somewhere and getting the building rapidly assembled to be a hospital, or something.  They have “stand-up capability” to get a hospital there and operating quickly.

    Here, the government didn’t stand-up the capability for rapid testing, tracing, PPE, and on and on.

    HTH.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  53. 53.

    rikyrah

    So Trump doesn’t need to pardon Flynn; Barr dropped the charge to which Flynn had pled guilty. This is a foretaste of what a second Trump term would be like—the entire executive branch weaponized to help Trump’s friends, punish his enemies, and undermine the rule of law.— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 7, 2020

  54. 54.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @rikyrah:

    he entire executive branch weaponized to help Trump’s friends, punish his enemies, and undermine the rule of law.

    as opposed to 90% of it weaponized like that, Bill?

    Though, god help me, he’s doing more than a lot of people who could and should be speaking up

  57. 57.

    lumpkin

    Wasn’t she outraged about not doing enough about Ebola? And now she’s outraged about doing too much about covid. This is just someone who likes to be outraged. She jumped off one bandwagon and onto another one going the opposite direction. Why does anyone pay attention to someone like this?

  58. 58.

    NetheadJay

    I’ve been familiar with B. Mandel’s awfulness for quite a while. So when I saw her trending earlier I just went Noooooope, not today Satan! Glad to see here that she got  deservedly piled on.

  59. 59.

    lumpkin

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:Kellyan Conway is a pollster. Just sayin’.

    Kellyanne Conway is the best troll I have ever seen. She’s the only person in the entire trump retinue who is good at anything.

  63. 63.

    Anne Laurie

    @lumpkin: Kellyanne Conway is the best troll I have ever seen. She’s the only person in the entire trump retinue who is good at anything.

    Never forget: Unlike all the #failsons and legacy daughters now cluttering the White House, Conway is genuinely self-made.  Her single mother was an Atlantic City casino worker, which I strongly suspect is how she learned to deal with guys like Trump & his dipshit entourage.

    She’s out there working, every damned day.  Working for chaotic evil, of course… but working.

  65. 65.

    evodevo

    @lumpkin: You misunderstand…the Ebola outbreak was dealt with by a….black guy…who, of course, was to blame for it decimating our country….The Covid thing is being dealt with by the whitest, most competent President ever, so there….

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