Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

A consequence of cucumbers

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

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

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

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

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

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

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

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Not all heroes wear capes.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

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This Is Not Normal

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Any Republican not calling out Trump at this point is a traitor:

President Trump has invited the leaders of Michigan’s Republican-controlled state legislature to meet him in Washington on Friday, according to a person familiar with those plans, as the president and his allies continue an extraordinary campaign to overturn the results of an election he lost.

Trump’s campaign has suffered defeats in courtrooms across the country in its efforts to allege irregularities with the ballot-counting process, and has failed to muster any evidence of the widespread fraud that the president continues to claim tainted the 2020 election.

Trump lost Michigan by a wide margin: At present, he trails President-Elect Joe Biden in the state by 157,000 votes. Earlier this week, the state’s Republican Senate majority leader said an effort to have legislators throw out election results was “not going to happen.”

Remember when Republicans lost their shit about Clinton talking to the Attorney General?

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  2. 2.

    Elizabelle

    Terry Gross interviewed President Obama today.  She brought up the Republicans and their horrible behavior, with many questions.

    Obama was very even-tempered, but he called them out too, albeit in a way that will not alert the mouth-breathers.  He pretty much said that Trump was Trump, but the complicity (not his word) of the Republicans surprised him.

  3. 3.

    debbie

    Biden said Trump’s inviting Michigan officials to the White House to discuss election results in a state that Biden won is “irresponsible” and “outrageous.”

    “What the president is doing now is really, it’s going to be another incident where he will go down in history as being one of the most irresponsible presidents in American history,” Biden said. “It’s not even within the norm at all. There’s questions about whether it’s even legal.”

    “We’ve won Michigan,” Biden said. “It’s going to be certified.”

    Biden said he couldn’t speak about Trump’s motivation.

    “It’s hard to fathom how this man thinks,” Biden said. “It’s just outrageous what he’s doing.”

    Will there be Big Macs?

  4. 4.

    bbleh

    Any Republican not calling out Trump at this point is a traitor:

    No no NO.  Didn’t you get the memo?  Only Republicans are allowed to use the word “traitor,” because Republicans are the True Heartland Americans™.  This is why they stick little American flags on everything and act like they own it, and why they carry little copies of the Constitution in their pockets that they’ve never read.

    And besides, bothsides something something, and what about the tan suit?

  5. 5.

    bbleh

    @debbie: Lol, I was actually wondering who was gonna pay for the plane flights.  And as for the Hatch Act implications of using the White House, well, I guess we’re kinda past that at this point.

  6. 6.

    scav

    There’s also this. Trump administration in ‘staggering’ isolation at UN on health issues

    In one vote this week, the US was entirely alone in backing its own amendment to a seemingly uncontroversial resolution about efforts to treat medical complications from childbirth. It called for the removal of references to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Population Fund.

    No other nation agreed, with 153 voting against the amendment and 11 abstaining.
    A UN diplomat said the spectacle of a western ally and a superpower so totally isolated was “staggering”.
    “It’s amazing that they decided they want to put their isolation on record, on full display, like that,” the diplomat said.

    Our “only consistent allies were Russia, Belarus, Syria, Qatar and the Pacific island states of Nauru and Palau” in similar failed votes.

  11. 11.

    ant

    I tried to explain this to my nonpolitical husband two weeks ago.

    I put it in simple terms that I could get out fast before he changed the subject. Something like:

    Republicans are not excepting the results of the election. They may have the power to not do so, if they don’t there will come a day in the near future when they do. America with elections that don’t matter is a new chapter for this country, and this is kind of a big thing.

     

    He immediately changed the subject, and had no thoughts on the matter what-so-ever.

     

    Life goes on I guess.

  12. 12.

    Johnny Gentle (famous crooner)

    Remember when Republicans lost their shit about Clinton talking to the Attorney General?

    There’s no point accusing them of hypocrisy. For republicans it’s never been about “if we cross this line, it means Democrats will be able to do it too.” That’s because they are fascists. Their belief in governance is simply “we can always do this, you never can.” So, it’s not that “a president” talked to the Attorney General, it’s that a Democrat did it.

    To them, Democrats are sub-humans and Democratic presidents are automatically illegitimate.  You can overturn an election because Democrats should never be allowed to vote. The fantasies about autocratic rule and gunning down Democrats isn’t some fringe thing, it’s their core belief at heart.

    I really don’t see how this ever walks itself back. Once you realize that you can disenfranchise people, destroy their rights, de-humanize them and manipulate political power to remove them from the process, why would you ever stop? Especially when your view becomes the view of the republican party? I honestly wonder if in another decade or so, OANN will be the Hutu Power of America and outright eliminationist rhetoric and violence won’t be the norm.

  13. 13.

    Keith P.

    Million dollar question – what does Trump plan on offering the Michigan legislators to trash the will of the people?  I’m already pretty sure he’d outright offer a SCOTUS seat to any judge willing to throw a major case his way, so what can he offer state legislators, other than – dare I say – a cabinet post?

  14. 14.

    Splitting Image

    RICH: I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence.

    CROMWELL: You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very important to you. (from A Man For All Seasons)

    I need to watch that movie again sometime soon. A dozen great performances, gorgeous costumes, and as timely as ever.

  15. 15.

    J R in WV

    @Johnny Gentle (famous crooner):

    The fantasies about autocratic rule and gunning down Democrats isn’t some fringe thing, it’s their core belief at heart.

    Could be… but if they start on the gunning down parts, they will quickly discover that many, many Democrats are ex-military, grew up in hunting households, or are otherwise no willing to go quietly into that bad night.

    Many of us will shoot back, and I’ll bet my accuracy is better than most.

  16. 16.

    bbleh

    @Keith P.: He’ll offer them whatever they want.  But he certainly won’t deliver if he doesn’t somehow manage to hang on to the office, and he probably wouldn’t anyway.

    One assumes that, even though they’re state legislators, they’re still smart enough to know that (if not, FSM help the Sovereign State of Michigan), and so about all they’ll be looking for are the photos (which they should have the brains to get up-front) and the bragging rights, which one assumes will serve them well with the local Cultists in their next election

    One also assumes that either the Trump people paid for their flights upfront or they’re using campaign funds, and that their lawyers have advised them that they probably won’t be charged as accessories to violation of the Hatch Act.

  18. 18.

    kindness

    I’m wondering when the crazy right wingers are going to burn down the Halls of Congress for their own Reichstag fire.

  20. 20.

    VOR

    I used to think conservatives wanted to go back before the New Deal. More and more, I’m thinking they want to go back before the Enlightenment. Feudalism with King Donald.

  21. 21.

    bbleh

    @J R in WV: It has surprised me how many Dem friends who never fired a round in their lives have mentioned to me unprompted that they are buying weapons.  And they’re taking it seriously — doing safety/handling courses and everything.

    You know how the pollsters under-weighted the “WWC” vote in 2016, and the paranoid/”Q” vote in 2020? I’m starting to see some subpopulations that I’ll bet they’re gonna under-weight the next time around …

  23. 23.

    Mai Naem mobile

    We could look up what the GOP said about Bill Clinton running into Loretta Lynch at an airport and spending a few minutes talking to her. I am betting even Mittens won’t say anything as critical. Forget these people.

  25. 25.

    Yarrow

    @Elizabelle:

    He pretty much said that Trump was Trump, but the complicity (not his word) of the Republicans surprised him.

    I find this disappointing. He had to deal with them for eight years. He should know who they are. Maybe there’s some strategy in him saying this but at this point the gloves need to be off. Call them traitors to the country.

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    @Yarrow:  I will put up the transcript when it’s posted.  Maybe tomorrow.   Obama definitely spoke of the GOP’s obstruction during his presidency; he had no illusions there.

  28. 28.

    Pharniel

    @bbleh: I’ve gotten mine in for servicing and made sure the ammo’s fresh.

    I suspect the MI GOP heads, who have been consistent that “Trump Lost, get Over IT”  – not because they are moral, but because they don’t have the votes – are going to show up, extract payments up front to their own PACs, walk out and go “We talked about what the Feds can do for hard hit Michigan” take the money and then go home.

    @Mary G: Plan B is what got them called in. They were planning on gunning down LEOs & Republicans as ‘acceptable losses’ and that’s when they got popped.

    Let it not be said that the MI GOP doesn’t understand the nature of crazy they are stoking and will crush it if it is ever an actual threat to them.

  29. 29.

    Keith P.

    @bbleh: Apparently, they’re heading over to Trump to beg for COVID funds, so that’s their opening.  All in the interest of public health.

  30. 30.

    Bokonon

    The fact that they are finding no fraud won’t end things.  Earlier today, I overheard two people listening to some right-wing podcast where a woman was droning about how “experts” and “people all over the world” were doing a deep dive into the numbers to show the election was stolen with “massive fraud” by Biden. The fact that these intrepid lawyers and investigators haven’t found any actual fraud in real investigations and recounts won’t convince the Trump people of anything other than how MASSIVE and DEVIOUS it all was.

    They aren’t backing down.

  31. 31.

    Uncle Omar

    Totally off topic…A question for Mr. Silverman.  Are there any whisperings in the intelligence community of which you are aware that “Q” is a Russian intelligence operation?  From the results it certainly smells like one from this corner of Colorado.

  33. 33.

    bbleh

    @Keith P.: @WaterGirl: Lol, presumably it’s enough to justify their use of public funds for travel, since it’s state government business, yessir.

    Given their past public statements and the level of media attention, I’m guessing little will come of it (being at the WH, they might get COVID, but whatever), so I assume by now it’s just another bit in The Big Trump Circus.  But they’ll get their photos and their street cred with the Crazies, so win-win.

  34. 34.

    WaterGirl

    @bbleh: Knowing Trump, even if they already told him “no dice” he wanted them to come anyway to stir some more shit and add uncertainty.

    I hope these guys get smeared with the Trump shit and can’t get it off no matter how hard they try.

  35. 35.

    J R in WV

    @Pharniel:

    I’ve gotten mine in for servicing and made sure the ammo’s fresh.

    If you can’t disassemble, clean, and lube your weapons, you shouldn’t be shooting them. And ammo doesn’t need to be fresh.

    ETA: Youtube has video of most common OTC firearms being broken down, cleaned, lubricated and reassembled.

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