Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

In my day, never was longer.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

No one could have predicted…

Not all heroes wear capes.

This fight is for everything.

The willow is too close to the house.

“But what about the lurkers?”

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

This really is a full service blog.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

You can’t love your country only when you win.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Everybody saw this coming.

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Next week a Democrat will send an email or get a hair-cut and everyone will forget that Trump called fallen soldiers losers and suckers.

So let’s make hay while we can by raising money for Democratic Senate candidates.

Lots of requests recently for Bullock and Greenfield, so let’s do them.

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  2. 2.

    PsiFighter37

    Hoping Bullock can pull it off – Montana feels like one of those states where Cheeto is probably quite a bit less popular than he is in other rural states. I also hope that Montana Dems can beat that jerkoff Gianforte in the governor’s race (again).

  4. 4.

    Miss Bianca

    Since I’m watching “Deadwood” again (an annual tradition), I can’t help but wonder if Steve Bullock is any relation of Seth “Montana” Bullock’s.//

  6. 6.

    Anya

    Kamala Harris was a district attorney of San Francisco at some point, what did she know about the eSalon scandal and when did she found out?

  8. 8.

    Calouste

    Predictably, the shitgibbon is now calling for the dismissal of the Fox reporter who confirmed the story that he called dead vets suckers and losers.

  10. 10.

    Keith P.

    Wasn’t Labor Day supposed to be Mitch McConnell’s cutoff for allowing Senate candidates to cut loose from Trump if the Trump poll numbers didn’t improve?  I’m guessing they’ll all come up with some kind of reason to stick with Trump (like using Gallup for before- and Rasmussen for after-polls), but no way senate candidates run against (or even without supporting) Trump

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Keith P.:

    Wasn’t Labor Day supposed to be Mitch McConnell’s cutoff for allowing Senate candidates to cut loose from Trump if the Trump poll numbers didn’t improve? I’m guessing they’ll all come up with some kind of reason to stick with Trump

    Some kind of reason like the entire Russthuglican party being the Kremlin’s bitches. (Voters too.)

  12. 12.

    jonas

    Anyone know how Doug Jones is doing in AL? Earlier in the summer he and Tuberville were pretty close, but a poll in early August showed that Tuberville has since pulled ahead with a pretty commanding lead. Is this just AL reverting to the mean (= beet red), or is Jones just not getting the support he needs? It was always going to be an uphill battle for Jones to keep that seat, but I do wish it were closer at this point.

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    @jonas:Down by 10 in the latest. But I wonder if Tuberville will get to the Senate and find out it’s a totally different skill set than what he has.

  16. 16.

    PsiFighter37

    @Yutsano: Didn’t stop him from starting a hedge fund and fleecing investors. In the Senate, he will just be doing the fleecing on behalf of whatever big corporations tell him to do.

  17. 17.

    different-church-lady

    Next week a Democrat will send an email or get a hair-cut and everyone media-types and the very-Twitter will forget that Trump called fallen soldiers losers and suckers.

    Soldiers and their families will remember. Vividly.

  18. 18.

    Calouste

    @Yutsano: What, do you think Tuberville can’t read the voting instructions McConnell will send him every day? Because that’s all the skills a GOP Senator needs. Well, that and repeating the latest conspiracy theories off the internet if he is in a committee hearing.

  20. 20.

    cmorenc

    Recall what legendary hardball campaigner Lyndon Johnson said about planting a rumor that his opponent had a fetish for fucking pigs: whether its true or not, i want to make the motherfucker have to deny it (ie thereby reinforcing the image of the story in the public mind).

    That dynamic is much more powerful when the allegation is consistent with what the public already knows about the opponent – trumps quite public trash-talk about john mcCain is coming back to haunt his attempted denials of the atlantic story and ditto trumps dissing of the khan family whose son died in combat

  21. 21.

    Brachiator

    @raven:

    @different-church-lady: Don’t count on it

    People can be reminded. Trump has failed citizens at home, letting them die from the virus. He demonstrates a callous indifference towards those who choose to defend this country, and discounts the sacrifice of those who have given their lives.

    Trump condemns himself.

    The tally keeps growing.

  22. 22.

    RaflW

    Thanks for the link to the all-BJ page. I’ve been feeling itchy about using this moment to mobilize money, since Republicans are looking a tad more vulnerable now than a week ago. I’ve given to a few Dems today!

    I want to bump Raphael Warnock (the BJ actblue is here). It’s a serious worry for me. First two past the post go to the runoff. Current polling has a GOP in the top spot & second spot, with Warnock a very close third (w/in margin of error I’d think), and another Dem fourth. I know open races are hard to get a team approach, but this was going to be a hard — but not at all impossible — seat to flip. Dems splitting the vote and as a result sitting out the runoff would be a foolish tragedy.

  26. 26.

    RaflW

    @Calouste: “shitgibbon is now calling for the dismissal of the Fox reporter who confirmed the story”

    This is part of what I don’t get about our ridiculous press — in particular the bothsides sunk cost morons on TV. Do they think that in a Trump second term* he won’t find ways of nationalizing, shutting down, or having his cronies buy up (at corruptly manipulated discount prices as their licenses are threatened) their networks?

    Do they really not get that this is for all the marbles?

    *second meaning for life, and passed down to Ivanka

  28. 28.

    Sloane Ranger

    People like Wolf Blitzer will still be decrying shrillness and discourtesy when the black uniformed thugs come to drag him out of the studio into a re-education camp.

  29. 29.

    RaflW

    @Yutsano: Unfortunately for Doug Jones and 2020, Alabama will require a long-term investment in registering and mobilizing Black voters. But that’s also the good news longer term.

    White Alabamans, will likely me more conservative than the median American for the foreseeable future. But the state is only 65% white, so if the POC vote can be protected & motivated in a post-SCOTUS Voting Rights shitscape, I think it would only take a small percent allied white vote (there are urban and more-liberal whites in AL, just not nearly enough) to move AL politics a fair bit.

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    @raven:

    You don’t have to convince me. Convincing these mouth breathing assholes is a whole different thing.

    I suggest that people post Trump’s deficiencies on Twitter and Facebook. Use it in replies to Trump supporter friends.

    We’ve got 2 months to go. There is not much point in whining about the media cycle.

  31. 31.

    Calouste

    @RaflW: Yep, they just keep pushing and pushing the boundaries. Forcing TikTok to sell is where we’re currently at, but that will keep moving. Once they got enough people on board that they can take out a Chinese company under the excuse of national security, they’ll move on to other foreign companies, and the American companies.
    It’s not like the Nazis started by invading France and sending Jews to the gas chambers. They started by sending troops into the demilitarized zone between Germany and France and by sacking Jewish professors.

  32. 32.

    egorelick

    “You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel” Matthew 23:24.  I thought of our media jackals as soon as I read this just now.

  34. 34.

    Brachiator

    @RaflW:

    Do they really not get that this is for all the marbles?

    No, they don’t get it. The press is part of the Establishment. And their cynicism blinds them. They foolishly believe that they will always be essential to the plans and schemes of the political class.

    They will be totally surprised when the goons come for them.

  36. 36.

    RaflW

    I don’t understand how anyone can come away from all this thinking Trump is ‘strong.’ Right or wrong (the latter, but anyway) he has the authority to shut down Stars and Stripes. He made the call. The Pentagon got to work on it.

    And then people got mad at him for it, and he reversed the decision in no time flat. And he’s done similar things countless times! He’s the most flabby and weak of leaders. He’s completely sway-able by changing sentiment.

    I shouldn’t be surprised this far in by how 60,000,000 Americans swallow his performative nasty guy schtick and see it as strength, when he’s a complete chinless fraud (not to mention that he cannot, ever, stand up to Putin).

  37. 37.

    Kent

    @Yutsano:Down by 10 in the latest. But I wonder if Tuberville will get to the Senate and find out it’s a totally different skill set than what he has.

    No, he as the exact right skill set.  Good ole boy goober used to sucking up to rich white southern alumni and “boosters” is exactly the same skill set as a GOP senator sucking up to rich business lobbyists.

    You didn’t think that GOP senators go into the Senate to actually LEGISLATE did you?

  39. 39.

    Brachiator

    Trump doubles down on his “White is Right” election strategy

    President Trump is ordering federal agencies to stop funding training on topics including “critical race theory” and “white privilege” with taxpayer dollars, according to a memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought that was released on Friday.

    Why everybody knows that racism in America disappeared after 1776, 1860, 1865, 1900, 1964, 2008, last week. To suggest otherwise is unpatriotic.

    “It has come to the President’s attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date ‘training’ government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda,” Vought wrote in a letter to the heads of executive departments and agencies.

  40. 40.

    Roger Moore

    @RaflW:

    Do they think that in a Trump second term* he won’t find ways of nationalizing, shutting down, or having his cronies buy up (at corruptly manipulated discount prices as their licenses are threatened) their networks?

    They think about it all the time.  The problem is it’s an asymmetric threat.  There’s a serious down side to being Trump’s enemy if he wins, but there’s no equivalent down side to being Biden’s enemy.  So they suck up to Trump.

  41. 41.

    A Ghost to Most

    Don’t send $$ to Hickenlooper:

    There’s new polling out today which suggests that Gardner isn’t just toast: The toast is on fire, the fire has turned the toast to charred carbon, and the remains of the toast have been shot into the sun and reduced to their component atoms.

    Warning: The Bulwark

  42. 42.

    Yutsano

    @RaflW: Either Warnock or Lieberman need to drop before much longer. Otherwise the two Republicans are going to make it. And I don’t know if there’s any leverage for Lieberman to give up the race. Or if Loeffler can get any more damage to fall back before Election Day.

  43. 43.

    Another Scott

    @A Ghost to Most: OTOH, sensible candidates can and do help other sensible state and local candidates.  If one can afford it, and likes him and his policies, then donating to him isn’t wasting money.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  44. 44.

    Another Scott

    @Yutsano: The Georgia NAACP asked Lieberman to drop out on August 7.

    Kilgore at NYMag – https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/georgia-naacp-head-asks-matt-lieberman-to-drop-senate-bid.html

    A Democratic Senate candidate in Georgia wrote and self-published a deeply bizarre novel in 2018, featuring a main character who believes that for most of his life he owned an imaginary slave who could communicate with plants and animals …

    The main character, an elderly white southern man named Benno, regularly deploys the N-word and says some members of the Ku Klux Klan were “basically good people.” The 213-page novel, in which the racist main character tells the story of his life to a narrator with a biography similar to Lieberman’s, ultimately suggests Lucius functioned as a sort of pet for Benno.

    (Emphasis added.)

    What is wrong with people???!!!

    Grr…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  46. 46.

    Yutsano

    Related: the internals must be terrible. Apparently the “plan” is to blitz the airwaves right before the election. This seems…unwise. I wonder if they’re going to pull out for all of September now. The reservation schedule they have right now is weird.

  47. 47.

    StringOnAStick

    @randy: Me too, Romanoff was the better choice but people went for Hick because he’s familiar I guess.  I hope to see Romanoff still in politics next cycle.  Of all the D’s I’ll be voting for, he’s the one I am most meh about but I would vote for a potted plant to defeat Gardner so Hick it is!

  51. 51.

    West of the Cascades

    @Yutsano: Related: the internals must be terrible. Apparently the “plan” is to blitz the airwaves right before the election. This seems…unwise.

    Particularly in a state that will be about 80% vote-by-mail, starting on October 7th (first day counties can mail ballots out, also day early in-person voting begins).

  55. 55.

    JoyceH

    My dilemma. CBS Austen reports “multiple boats are in distress and sinking on Lake Travis for the Trump Boat Parade.” So — am I a bad person if I laughed?

  59. 59.

    JoyceH

    I just hope the sinking boats are parade participants, I guess. Last one of these things that made the news, the parade wasn’t following wake rules and wound up swamping a boat that had nothing to do with the parade and was just out for a day on the water.

  60. 60.

    MomSense

    I have a million and one chores to do but decided to do nothing and watch movies instead.  I finally moved outside and now the squirrels are throwing acorns at me.

  63. 63.

    JoyceH

    @MomSense: I too have an impressive to do list. And I’m sitting outside sniffing the asphalt and watching my new driveway “cure”.  The new driveway replaces a vintage 1989 gravel drive and is something I’ve wanted for a long time.

  65. 65.

    MomSense

    @JoyceH:

    I hope a watched driveway is not like a watched pot.

    I’m going to try not feeling guilty about it and just enjoy taking a break.

    Congrats on the driveway.

  69. 69.

    LuciaMia

     but I hope Trump is able to save the Stars and Stripes from the Pentagon.

    If the Atlantic story hadn’t broke, I don’t think Trump would have cared less about this.

  71. 71.

    J R in WV

    @MomSense:

    I finally moved outside and now the squirrels are throwing acorns at me.

    It’s like you slipped into a cartoon world, squirrels throwing acorns at people and dogs are a trope of cartoon squirrels.

    Wish we had video!!! How is their aim?

  74. 74.

    MomSense

    @J R in WV:

    Fortunately my head is under the umbrella!  Every now and then they hit the metal frame of the chair I’m sitting on and it’s really loud.  There are acorns all around me.

  76. 76.

    divF

    @JoyceH:

    sitting outside sniffing the asphalt

    When I was a child and lived in an area where mosquito abatement was a serious issue, the DDT truck would regularly come through the neighborhood spraying and all the children would run through the clouds of DDT enjoying the odor of exotic hydrocarbons.

    I have since realized this was not necessarily the best move.

    ETA: not so much an issue for you – it’s the chlorination in DDT that makes it a real problem.

  85. 85.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @JoyceH: I was just reading tweets about boats sinking or on fire. What caused that?

    Btw, loons on twitter are sure terrorists were involved. Antifa submarines no doubt

    ETA: In my excitement, I just spilled a glass of chardonnay on my keyboard. That can’t be good

  88. 88.

    dmsilev

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: 

    Btw, loons on twitter are sure terrorists were involved. Antifa submarines no doubt

    Can we start a rumor that some of the alleged Trump,supporters are actually antifa agents? A good old fashioned circular firing squad would be great fun to watch.

  96. 96.

    RaflW

    @Yutsano: Warnock was polling ahead of Lieberspawn from what I recall. Hardly a Kennedy level dynasty, but I don’t expect Matthew to learn a damn thing from Markey spanking that scion.

  102. 102.

    J R in WV

    @MomSense:

    Fortunately my head is under the umbrella! Every now and then they hit the metal frame of the chair I’m sitting on and it’s really loud. There are acorns all around me.

    More hilarity !!! I love squirrels, we have a ton of them around the house in the woods. Hickory trees, they love hickory nuts!

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