Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

So many bastards, so little time.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

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

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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  3. 3.

    Dagaetch

    Wow, my night just got better. There’s someone the world is indisputably better off without.

  10. 10.

    Another Scott

    @dr. luba: Supposedly she had COVID-19 a few months ago, and he (her husband) didn’t get it then.  (via nycsouthpaw)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  18. 18.

    Bruuuuce

    @dr. luba: I hope Kamala has some good reply, like a hazmat suit (a la the one that GOP Senator threatened to wear so he could vote in Amy Covid Barrett). The plexiglass was clearly the latest ploy in the “Dems are cowards” lie.

  19. 19.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Delk:  Ack, no, for that person’s sake. I hope he gets a nurse with all the empathy and concern he has demonstrated. There are sociopaths even in that noble occupation.

  20. 20.

    Bruuuuce

    If Miller were to suffer greatly, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving piece of garbage,

  23. 23.

    TaMara (HFG)

  24. 24.

    Pete Mack

    The weak-ass standup comedy jokes–they write themselves.

    “I mean, I always knew Trump was a poisonous blowhard, but …”

    Or

    ” I knew the Trump White House was a toxic workplace,  but…”

    Talk about an over-determined denouement for a historically bad Presidency.

  26. 26.

    Jeffro

    I’ll take “who did you want to come down with Covid even more than trumpov for  $600, Alex“

  27. 27.

    matt

    I don’t even like the song ‘Another One Bites The Dust’ but this made me think of it for some reason.

  30. 30.

    TaMara (HFG)

    They have got to cancel the debate and Pence has got to stop traveling around exposing god-knows who to his (possibly) infectious ass.

  31. 31.

    jimmy higgins

    Me, I don’t believe in karma, but it can be kinda entertaining to watch it in action.

  33. 33.

    jl

    @TaMara (HFG): Almost 7 months of Taiwan.

    Maybe start measuring GOP outbreaks in ‘Taiwans’?

    I saw a list of countries that had fewer cases than WH over last week, probably on this blog someplace.

  35. 35.

    Steeplejack

    But really Stephen should take it easy. At 814 years old with numerous allergies to sunlight, garlic and silver, he is in several high-risk categories for the disease.

    — Zeddy (@Zeddary) October 6, 2020

  36. 36.

    dmsilev

    @TaMara (HFG): Pence and his team have been arguing that he doesn’t need any sort of namby-pamby “protective Plexiglas shield” or any of that stuff. It’s like mask wearing: they actively resist taking even the straightforward protective measures that the rest of us have been living with for the past 8 months. It communicates, loud and clear, that they don’t care. Never have, never will.

  38. 38.

    Ken

    @Delk: “Time for another icewater enema!  Doctor Punmanjothy said you need one every two hours!  And in half an hour you’ll have your first EST session, according to these orders from Doctor Mbwele.”

  39. 39.

    Wapiti

    @TaMara (HFG): So.. has Miller’s wife, Pence’s spox, been in contact with Miller while he’s quarantined? These dribs of info from the WH and press hide as much as they tell.

  40. 40.

    PsiFighter37

    Apparently news of Cal Cunningham having an affair just came out. Fuck us. I hope that he wins and resigns immediately once taking office so that Cooper can appoint a replacement.

  44. 44.

    sanjeevs

    “Those two cases should not have been declined,” John Bash, the departing U.S. attorney in western Texas, wrote to his staff immediately after the call. Mr. Rosenstein “instructed that, per the A.G.’s policy, we should NOT be categorically declining immigration prosecutions of adults in family units because of the age of a child.”

    Wonder is this why Bash resigned yesterday

  45. 45.

    Tony Jay

    At the rate these slapnuts are going down I think we must have reached that part of the story where the vampires have scratched on the windows of all the easy targets and now feel confident enough to start knock-knocking on everybody’s front door.

  47. 47.

    ant

    the trail of infections all lead back to the whitehouse.

     

    he didn’t make testing/slowing the spread a priority.

     

    his actions at the debate (not getting tested/family not masked) demonstrate this.

    All the cases at the whitehouse demonstrate this.

    All the cases in the US demonstrate this.

     

    Republicans shouldn’t act like it doesn’t matter, cause it does.

  48. 48.

    Ken

    @Gin & Tonic: Why is an extra-marital affair disqualifying?

    Good lord, man, he’s not running for President!  The Senate still has some standards.  Probably.

  49. 49.

    Kattails

    Why is it that every time I think of Pence, I visualize him with glowing red eyes?

    FFS Harris MUST answer this effectively, by whatever means necessary.  And fuck the debate officials who are allowing Pence his way in this.

  50. 50.

    piratedan

    @PsiFighter37:  this was reported two days ago, and it’s been seen to be flirting not even getting into the sexting range. Cunningham has already apologized publicly….

     

    Easy to see how this may have dropped off your radar, considering the speed at which events are moving these days…

  52. 52.

    PsiFighter37

    @piratedan: No, now there is news of an affair with a different woman.

    re: why does it matter? This should be obvious. I know the GOP has no standards, but it sucks that we have to grin and bear it given the stakes are so high. But he may have lost himself the election now.

  53. 53.

    Ken

    @sanjeevs: Wonder is this why Bash resigned yesterday

    According to one report I saw, he was working on the  “unmasking” smear campaign and was examining the intelligence community’s reports on US citizens who were Russian assets.  I thought it might be linked to that.

  55. 55.

    Raoul Paste

    Trump’s nixing of the stimulus  brought to mind the lyrics “if I’m gonna go down, you’re gonna come with me “

    Who knew he was in Elvis Costello fair?

  56. 56.

    The Moar You Know

    Apparently news of Cal Cunningham having an affair just came out. Fuck us. I hope that he wins and resigns immediately once taking office so that Cooper can appoint a replacement.

    @PsiFighter37: that news has been out for a few days, and I see ZERO reason for him to resign if he wins. This is between him and his wife.

    Dems already hold their representatives to a far higher standard of behavior than Republicans do. I see no reason to rid the party of people who prove they can win elections because of actions in their personal lives that have nothing to do with politics or their jobs.

     

    shorter: Dems need to stop unilaterally disarming

  58. 58.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Ken: If it were CA, I’d say “so what”.  But it’s NC.  I wanna say “but evangelicals cheat all the time”.  But we all know that they’re all fuckin’ hypocrites and *will* hold it against Cunningham.  If he can manage to get himself forgiven by the Lord (however they do it over there in those ungoverned tribal areas) that’d be great.

    But I can see the sense in a replacement.

    OTOH, hell, maybe it’d put some spine into him, knowing that he’d better act to ensure that *every* *Dem* *voter* can and will vote next time.  No fuckin’ voter suppression, it’s his neck on the line.

  59. 59.

    mdblanche

    @Ken: Clearly you don’t know what kind of people they have in the Senate. He might go up in their estimation.

  61. 61.

    Dagaetch

    re Cunningham, there’s new information:

    Previously undisclosed text messages obtained by The Associated Press and additional interviews show that the relationship extended beyond suggestive texts to an intimate encounter as recently as July.
    …
    The newly obtained texts provide both a more specific timeline about their relationship, which shows it was recent, as well as details that describe intimate encounters — not simply a digital exchange.

  63. 63.

    PJ

    @PsiFighter37: that news broke on Friday, which is three years ago in 2020 time.  It’s already been forgotten.

    Also, anyone who advocates Democrats resigning over their sex (or in this case, kissing) lives can go fuck themselves.

  64. 64.

    Another Scott

    @PJ: Plus, one should ask who got access to his private communications and what is their agenda.

    Cui bono?

    Does his affair mean that he can’t do the job better than Tillis?  I don’t think so.

    I agree with no-more-unilateral-armament.  We can’t lose sight of the fact that he or Tillis will be Senator.  Nobody else will win the election.

    He’s explained himself.  Move on.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  65. 65.

    Paul W.

    Cal needs to win because Tom Thillis is out there passing bills and approving judges that are killing people. And his personal affairs have nothing to do with the importance of his vote.

  68. 68.

    ballerat

    @Chetan Murthy: No no no.

    Stop playing by 2015 rules.

    The president can commit adultery with a porn star and illegally pay her hush money. Not the first nor last time either. Not a problem to N.C. religious voters who voted for Trump.

    Why should we unilaterally hold someone on our side to a higher standard? They never do. Let them decide.

    Do not make their moral relativist bullshit easier for them. Let the North Carolina evangelicals own their hypocritical relativist morality.

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