Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

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

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

We will not go back.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

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

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Someday, Things’ll Get Brighter

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Meanwhile, on the campaign trail…

I hereby propose this little dude as a replacement for Chuck Todd:


Much better visuals, and quite as good a grasp on American politics!

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  7. 7.

    Baud

    For some reason, WaPo labels this a “technology” article.

    As Trump warns of leftist violence, a dangerous threat emerges from the right-wing boogaloo movement

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    Anyone else read the thread title like this?

    Thursday Morning Open Thread: Someday, Things’ll Get Brighter (When The Sweet Meteor of Death Hits Us)

  13. 13.

    Elizabelle

    @prostratedragon:  103.  Had been married for 57 of them.  RIP.  Will listen to some of those songs with my coffee.

    Guess it should be tea but … coffee.

  16. 16.

    Baud

    Grain of salt and all that, but if true, I’m not sure the reporters thought this through.

    The Unhappy Liberals Inside Trump’s Favorite Network

     

    One America News employees say a majority of the reporters at its San Diego headquarters are liberals—and they’re chafing at their own network’s coverage of national protests and the coronavirus.

    …….

    But according to four current OAN employees, including three anchors, and two former OAN producers, most of the journalists they know at the network’s headquarters consider themselves liberal. For some, taking a job at the national network was a way to leapfrog small regional broadcast jobs—a Faustian bargain they say leads to high turnover in the newsroom.

  17. 17.

    mrmoshpotato

    So Joe Biden gives a powerful speech, and Chuck Todd gives us his thoughts about TELEPROMPTERS. No, really.

    Why is Chuck Todd?  Can anyone tell me?

    (Yes, that is the full question.)

  22. 22.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Hard to read something like this,

    The Oregon Health Authority said 236 cases associated with the Lighthouse United Pentecostal Church in Island City represented the state’s largest single outbreak. (Five people have been hospitalized.)

    The church has held at least two services in the past two months with more than 100 people present, The Observer of La Grande reported after watching Facebook videos of the church’s services. “Participants were close enough to rub shoulders and no one was wearing face coverings,” The Observer reported.

    and conclude anything other than “God hates America.” Unless of course, it’s only Pentecostals he hates.

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Baud: ?Gimme fuel, gimme fossils, wreck the planet, so colossal ?

    Why does His Holiness want us to stop investing in our arms?  A well-rounded fitness regimen is good for body, mind and soul!

  26. 26.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    I’m getting all my devices charged up for tonight’s adventure with Madame to Joshua Tree.  I got a remote triggering thingie from Amazon that’s description said that it can shoot lightning with it’s internal sensors, it’s the older model without the internal sensors, it’s going back.

  29. 29.

    Betty Cracker

    Todd’s nitpicking about the teleprompter aside, he’s right about the Biden team’s focus on competence in swing states, and I think it’s a perfect message for this moment. People are sick and tired of the clown show. They’re ready to change the channel.

  34. 34.

    TS (the original)

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Why is Chuck Todd?

    Because in Australia Chuck is what you do after a drunken night out and Todd is a river in Alice Springs that is dry 99% of the time.

  36. 36.

    Kay

    @Betty Cracker:

    He’s also right about Biden speaking to the room rather than the camera but it makes me like Biden. They’re sitting in front of him so he looks at them and speaks to them. It’s respectful of the people who came out to see him. It’s what all speakers should do.

    Put him outside! Hold the events outside, mask everyone, and then Biden can get out from behind the podium – which he so wants to do :)

  37. 37.

    Gin & Tonic

    Irony is dead and buried.

    All citizens in a democracy deserve to be treated equally and fairly under the law. The justice system should not be used for the purpose of settling political scores.— U.S. Embassy Kyiv (@USEmbassyKyiv) June 18, 2020

  41. 41.

    Baud

    Likely decision day in DACA.  I’m not counting in another surprise. Hopefully, political forces are such that the Republicans will be forced to cave.

  43. 43.

    PsiFighter37

    @Baud: I wouldn’t be surprised if Roberts figures out a way to skirt the issue, remand it without anything happening, and prays that it all goes away when Biden wins.

  48. 48.

    Sab

    OT: We are getting my Honda back from the shop three week after its accident. (I was not the driver.)  Others in my family apparently drive badly. 4th Honda to be in an accident with us,  and every one was repairable. Those cars are little tanks. My late mother even hit a train with my Civic, and it was fixable.

    And my husband wonders why I backseat drive.

  49. 49.

    Kathleen

    @Baud: My massage therapist had s client who worked for Fox News and he told my therapist the same thing. Most of the Fox people are liberal.

  50. 50.

    Spanky

    Leave little Chuckie Todd alone! It’s not his fault he’s a neutered lickspittle eager and willing to do his masters’ bidding. He’s only the face of the problem. It is disturbing, though, that his owners think it’s a compelling face.

  52. 52.

    prostratedragon

    @debbie:
    I didn’t know my folks knew the song until we watched Dr. Strangelove together. They said it captured the times. Dad was in a hurt locker unit. He made to within 9 years of his 100th this year. Mom made it to 95.

  53. 53.

    Geminid

    A report in today’s Politico Playbook details National Republican Campaign purchases of TV time intended to defeat Democratic freshman House candidates. Among other purchases: $600,000 in Richmond Va. directed at Abigail Spanberger, $900,000 in Albuquerque and El Paso Tx. targeting Xochitl Torres-Small, and over $4 million in Iowa targeting Abby Finkenaer, Cindy Axne, and the seat now held by David Loebsack. Torres-Small is probably the most vulnerable.

  54. 54.

    Kathleen

    1. @Baud: My massage therapist had s client who worked for Fox News and he told my therapist the same thing. Most of the Fox people are liberal.
  55. 55.

    Kay

    Daniel Dale
    @ddale8
    ·7h
    Here’s what Trump told Sinclair of his meeting with the families of Black people killed by police: “Parents of — of young men and women who were, in some cases accidentally and other cases — who knows about accidents, right?”

    Such a mean-spirited asshole. “Accidents”. No one should ever, ever buy announcements that he’s changed or learned anything. He hears no one and learns nothing.

  59. 59.

    rikyrah

    @Kay:

    After all this time, I blame the families for submitting themselves to this bullshyt ?

    They know who the phuck this orange demon is.

    Pretending otherwise..wasted your time and allowed yourself to be a phucking prop for his campaign.

  61. 61.

    Kay

    @Kathleen:

    It’s typical Politico would approach it as a “liberal versus conservative” question, but is it really about that? The OAN reporters were interrogated on their political views. They’re given a list of topics they can’t cover negatively – the aren’t permitted to do negative coverage of Tesla because the OAN owner is invested in that company.

    They don’t have to be “liberal” to reject OAN. They could just be ethical.

  62. 62.

    rikyrah

    @Baud:

    Feel about them the same way I feel about non-White employees at Fox News.

     

    You knew who they were when you took the job. So, shut up and don’t whine.??

  64. 64.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    Considering Chuck Todd never finished college I am amazed at the fact that he apparently has never had difficulty getting hired as a supposed journalist.  Apparently working on a couple of political campaigns in college qualifies one for this “From 1992 until March 12, 2007, Todd worked for National Journal’s The Hotline, where he was editor-in-chief for six years, Tim Russert brought Todd to NBC from The Hotline in March 2007.[7] He became NBC News political director at that time.”

    But we wouldn’t want him to be “Over-prepared” now would we.

  67. 67.

    gene108

    @Baud:

    George W. Bush’s presidency has been deemed very liberal, by true conservatives, which is why it failed.

  68. 68.

    Baud

    Based on my own personal bubble of information, Bolton isn’t really getting away with his refusal to testify when he could have made a difference, or with his attempt to criticize the House on impeachment strategy.  Hopefully, he and Trump are each other’s anchors, and they sink together.

  70. 70.

    Baud

    Some poor soul on Reddit tried to say people who support the protests should vote, and that triggered the “voting is useless,” “both sides are the same” trolls.

  71. 71.

    Kathleen

    • @Kay: I’m so cynical about most people in broadcast media I could never factor in concept of “ethics” when it comes to their behavior. But they might be and they also might be liberal. Anecdotal data suggest Fox could actually employ liberals.
  73. 73.

    germy

    I saw a stand up comedian a few days ago on the CW network.  Marina Franklin.

    I’d never heard of her before, but she was great.  Funny and wise. They gave her almost an hour.  (It was taped back in December or January

  78. 78.

    Soprano2

    One of my servers at the pub was wrongly arrested as a murder suspect on Tuesday night. She was on her way home from work and stopped at a local convenience store to get gas. She said she saw a bunch of flashing lights down the street at an apartment complex and just figured something bad had happened there. She was getting ready to start her SUV when someone hollered at her “Stick your hands out of the car and don’t move!”. She said she had no idea what was going on. They yelled it again, and she looked out of the vehicle to see four police officers with guns pointed at her! Evidently there had been a murder and murder/suicide at the apartment complex, and she and her SUV “fit the description” of the suspect they were looking for. She told them she had a handgun in her purse (totally legal in this state to have a concealed weapon without any permit or training, BTW). That’s when they got really nervous. She said they handcuffed her really  tight, and when she complained the cop said he could put his finger in them so they were OK. (Last night she said the backs of her hands still really hurt, I told her to go see a doctor today if they still hurt like that.) It took until 6 a.m. for them to figure out she wasn’t the person they were looking for. They wouldn’t let her call her kids, who she had texted she was on her way home from work before she got arrested! Yesterday afternoon she went to get her vehicle and all her stuff back, and they said it “wasn’t ready” and if she wanted to pay for the tow and all the storage she could have it now, but otherwise she would have to wait. I gave her the name of an attorney I know and told her to call them so they could help her and get the cops to quit dicking around with her. I understand why they arrested her, it’s the dickishness I don’t understand. And then they wonder why people are angry at them. Sheesh!  I told her I’m just glad she’s still alive, and she’s white!

  79. 79.

    artem1s

    @Baud:

    The Supreme Court’s Title VII ruling might shatter the conservative coalition

    don’t worry they will still have ‘religious exceptions’ to discriminate against whores and harlots.  Until the Supremes quit monkeying around with women’s reproductive rights, the Talibangelicals will never leave us.

  80. 80.

    germy

    @Soprano2:  The comedian Jay Pharoah was handcuffed, held at gunpoint and had his neck knelt on because he “fit the description” of someone else.

    He says he’s lucky to be alive.  One wrong move and they would have killed him.

    When they realized their error, they let him go.

  82. 82.

    Kay

    ‘Banking While Black’: How Cashing a Check Can Be a Minefield
    Black customers risk being racially profiled on everyday visits to bank branches. Under federal laws, there is little recourse as long as the banks ultimately complete their transactions.

    I feel like these stories are really important. Interactions with police are obviously the most dangerous, but an interaction with police is a (relatively) rare event. Banking, real estate, retail, health care treatment disparities- those are every day, for everyone who is black.

  86. 86.

    Elizabelle

    @Baud:  For giggles, try suggesting that “defund the police” is not the most informative slogan out there.  I watched this happening on a social media thread overnight, and all I could think was “Portlandia as documentary.”

    “Edit with self crit.”  Some (white and young) bimbeau felt this was so useful, she suggested it twice in a row.

    Self crit — urban dictionary: Term used to describe the act of reevaluating your own political ideologies and biases. Ironically, most often used by leftists asserting that someone’s opinions are invalid because they did not arrive at the “correct” conclusion.

  87. 87.

    WereBear

    @Soprano2: I understand why they arrested her, it’s the dickishness I don’t understand.

     
    It’s at the point where one has to have an attorney involved to have a shred of fair treatment.

    We had a trooper car hit US out of nowhere because he was already going 20 miles over the speed limit with no siren, and I had no line of sight until I made the turn and it was too late.

    If we haven’t gotten an attorney, we would have gotten the blame.

  88. 88.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @WereBear: My knowledge of Christianity is limited to Catholicism and Southern Baptist and I know more about them than I want to. I will remain blissfully ignorant of most things Pentecostal.

  90. 90.

    Sab

    @Kay: My stepson knocked the side mirror off the neighbor’s car. We reimbursed him with a check. The bank fimgerprinted him when he went to cash the check! Talk about adding insult to injury. He never said a word. We only found out when we got the cancelled check back.

  92. 92.

    germy

    @WereBear:  Here’s something I see all the time, because we live near an intersection with a traffic light:

    Police car stops at the red light, then officer decides he doesn’t want to wait.  Puts on flashing lights (no siren), goes through red light and then turns the flashing lights off again.

    No police emergency, just doesn’t feel like waiting.

  93. 93.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Joe Falco: That and you don’t have to bring extra beer for the one because they always bring their own and the other you do have to because they can’t be seen buying beer in town.

  94. 94.

    Soprano2

    @germy: Twice I’ve seen a police car run a stop sign near my workplace. No lights or sirens, just ran the stop sign. They seem to believe the law doesn’t apply to them.

  96. 96.

    Jeffro

    Off to go donate blood, BJers – hopefully 3rd time’s the charm this cycle!

    (1st time: too dehydrated/too much coffee/not enough breakfast, so everything just stopped flowing mid-donation(!)  Grrr….   2nd time: got bit by a tick the day before I was to donate, so I waited a few weeks to see if any Lyme disease symptoms developed.)

    Have a great morning!

  98. 98.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @Baud:

    I listened to Pod Save the World  yesterday and two guys on there couldn’t think of that group’s name and finally decided it was Bug-a-boo. I laughed every time they said it.

  99. 99.

    Aleta

    By Michele L. Norris, in the Post

    For a period of time in the late 1940s and early 1950s, my grandmother, Ione Brown, was part of an army of women who worked as traveling Aunt Jemimas, visiting small-town fairs and rotary-club breakfasts to conduct pancake-making demonstrations at a time when the notion of ready-mix convenience cooking was new. …
    …
    I never knew about my grandmother’s work until long after she died. … It was one of those things my family never really talked about. I learned about it while researching a family memoir called “The Grace of Silence.” I learned that she made good money and covered a region including Iowa, the Dakotas, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. She was often treated like a celebrity in small towns, but could not stay in local hotels. She kept an eye out for houses that had a small sign in the window that said “TOURIST,” a code for homes that provided lodging and meals to black people.

    This is a complicated legacy for my family. Ione was a civic leader in Minneapolis, founder of a senior center that is still thriving today on 38th Street, a few blocks from where George Floyd was killed last month. As a family, we are offended by the caricature that Aunt Jemima represents, but deeply proud of the way my grandmother used the stage that was available to lift herself up. You see, in those days Aunt Jemima didn’t look like the lady you see on the box today. She was a slave woman, and Ione was expected to act and talk like a slave woman, using the kind of broken patois that blighted the full-page ads in magazines like Women’s Day and Life.

    But the women who represented the brand often refused to follow that script. They wore the costume because the company refused to let them show up in a smart suit, but in many cases, they dropped the broken English. My grandmother sang gospel songs so people would know she was a woman of God, and she focused on children because she knew that many of those little white boys and girls had never seen a black woman before. She must have blown their minds when she served pancakes, reciting Bible verses and poetry from heart in the crisp diction I remember from childhood, when she would fuss at me and my cousins for droppin’ the letter “g” from the end of our words.

    I peered into my grandmother’s history with dread and trepidation. I emerged with a deep well of respect for how she and women with names like Rosa, Joburness, Edith and Aylene flipped the stereotype on its head to show America what black elegance sounded like, even while wearing a headscarf and an apron.

    Quaker Oats, on the other hand, earned my ire on several fronts. Aunt Jemima was based on the idea that you could have a servant in your kitchen, smiling from the box, easing your burden, and it has been that way since the brand was first created back in 1889. Quaker Oats ignored boycotts and petitions and instead engaged in a tortured series of makeovers that amount to a process of attempted de-mammification.

    …

  100. 100.

    gene108

    @Sab:

    Fingerprinting is standard practice at most banks, if you cash a check, but do not have an account at the bank.

  103. 103.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Baud: IMO he doesn’t go far enough. Even a 60-40 landslide with 400+ EVs will leave something like 50 million Trump voters seething with resentment & plotting revenge – which they’ll get once the sane people get tired of standing with shotguns 24/7/365 over the flat rocks they’ve skedaddled under. And the sane people always get tired of standing guard; there’s so many other things they’d rather be doing. And the Trumpisti only have to win once behind a clever enough demagogue, and finis democritae americansis (or whatever the actual Latin is, you know what I mean).

    What the US – fuck, what the world – needs is a victory so epic it represents a shift in the culture. Openly advocating for fascism (crypto-, crapto-, full-frontal) needs to become a shunning offense for the vast majority of USAns. Its proponents don’t get taken seriously, don’t get a hearing in the common culture except for pointing & mocking. By common agreement it must become (as for our forbears for a generation post-1945) an unacceptable ideology, antidemocratic and antihuman.

    And the only way we’re going to get that is to back-burner policies & programs in favor of putting together the largest no-to-fascism coalition possible.  Biden is the one guy that can coalesce around, which is precisely why he is the necessary candidate today & has been from the git-go. All the purity-ponies here & elsewhere need to stop whimpering over their lost sweetiepies, suck it up, get behind him 110%, and build that earthquake.

  107. 107.

    Soprano2

    FUCK ALL, THE SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DACA! How did that even happen? Wow, the MAGAs are going to be mad…..

  108. 108.

    J R in WV

    @Baud:

    But according to four current OAN employees, including three anchors, and two former OAN producers, most of the journalists they know at the network’s headquarters consider themselves liberal. For some, taking a job at the national network was a way to leapfrog small regional broadcast jobs—a Faustian bargain they say leads to high turnover in the newsroom.

    Sounds like an ethics-free zone if you ask me. Only liberals with no — as in zero — ethics would work for a fascist news group!

  109. 109.

    Origuy

    @Baud: a Faustian bargain they say leads to high turnover in the newsroom

     
    Mephistopheles gave a better deal.

  111. 111.

    Ruckus

    Anne, wanna bet a better grasp of political reality than chuckles?

    I’d bet chuckles would be a rabid shitforbrains supporter if only he wouldn’t say the quiet parts out loud. But because he does say all of the parts out loud, chuckles is reserved in his approval. Hasn’t and won’t go over all the way to the dark side, but is in awe of the sales pitch that shitforbrains has made to all the rabid right.

  112. 112.

    Just Chuck

    That little rodent is far too cute to be a Chuck Todd replacement.  And I hate that I share a name with that festering pile of feces.  How about a picture of a festering pile of feces?

  113. 113.

    Dmbeaster

    @Sab: I am assuming that the check recipient cashed the check at your bank, and had no checking account.  Fingerprinting is common in that scenario as its a rampant bank fraud scenario.

  114. 114.

    J R in WV

    @prostratedragon:

    And now this, which the community surely will be watching:


    Black man killed in shootout with California deputies days after half brother found hanged from tree

    Although they have a story all ready to explain this, I’m sure the police will understand why there is some skepticism.

    At first I was willing to accept that it wasn’t impossible the “hanging” was a suicide, although it appears that most people regard that final act as quite private.

    But with a convoy of unmarked cops basically running this second connected guy down and shooting him, now it is impossible that the hanging was anything but a modern lynching. And everyone in the convoy to successfully attempt to bust and kill this guy is probably connected to that lynching as well.

    And wasn’t a second black man found hanged in the same neighborhood as well?  Sounds really bad to me. And NO ONE in law enforcement cares is the worst, in fact they appear to be the criminals here. As so often lately~!!~

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