Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

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

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

People are weird.

No one could have predicted…

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

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

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

This fight is for everything.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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Late Night Open Thread: Pour One Out for Bill Weld

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For all our hand-wringing about Democratic infighting (and ‘independents’ trying to ratfvck us in service to their cult leader)… Don’t forget that ‘GOP unity’ is a result of every Republican unable to stomach the criminality of Donald Trump’s administration leaving or being driven out of the party.

It’s easy to be unified as ‘a team of horses under one driver, one whip.’

Give the old warhorse credit for getting out there, just as a protest against the vandals.

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Decline & Fall Open Thread: If A Nazi Screams on the National Mall…

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… and can’t get the attention they so desperately demand…

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Jackaltariat Bleg: WTF Ireland?

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So, another election has taken place in the last day or so: Ireland’s.

The big news is that Sinn Fein has kicked ass.

Via the Irish Times:

Sinn Féin candidates all over the country won huge victories, with many elected on the first count with huge surpluses, catapulting the party into the front rank of Irish politics and making it a contender for government. Fine Gael seems certain to suffer losses, while Fianna Fáil looks set to be the largest party in the new Dáil, analysts were projecting last night.

Jackaltariat Bleg: WTF Ireland?

Given that no party will have a majority, or anything close to it, all kinds of maneuvers–and fuckery–remain on the table.  See, e.g., this problem facing the Sinn Fein leadership:

The election has brought the party to a position of unprecedented power in the Republic. Mary Lou McDonald must now decide what she wants to do with that newfound power. She says she wants to go into government; it remains to be seen how earnestly she wishes to pursue that objective.

Sinn Féin wants power to advance its agenda of economic reform and Irish unity. But it will be acutely conscious of the experience of the Labour Party, the beneficiary of past surges in support – also among voters seeking a change – which entered government with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil and suffered decimation at the subsequent elections.

I know f**k all about Irish politics and even less about its electoral system, which clearly has its amusements. As in, it seems, as if I’m reading this right, that Sinn Fein will gain fewer seats than it could have because of the way they built their election list. Via the BBC:

Sinn Féin ran 42 candidates across the 39 multi-seat constituencies, about half that of both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, which will have a knock-on effect on the number of seats it can secure in the 160-seat Dáil (Irish parliament) where 80 seats are needed for a majority.

So here’s the bleg: I’m sure that in the commentariat there are many who know the territory, and at least some who have been avidly following the day’s events.  Beyond my prediction that Boris Johnson and his immediate predecessors at No. 10 will be remembered as the catalysts for a united Ireland, what the hell’s going on?

Over to y’all…

Image: William Hogarth, The Humours of an Election III: the Polling, 1754-5.*

*Yeah. I know I’m using an English artist on the occasion of an Irish election–but Hogarth rocks. An equal opportunity satirist.

 

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Repub Venality Open Thread: The Night Caligula’s Horse Delivered the State of the Union Speech

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Of course it was a load of manure — that’s the best the beast is capable of producing. More shame on the gutless GOP sacks in suits who, to protect their own sinecures, not only voted the horse as their leader, but insisted it was the finest orator and firmest patriot since Tailgunner Joe McCarthy dined alone (with his DTs).

Commentary, at this point, would be superfluous… El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago delivered his State of the Union address, one of the few constitutional responsibilities of his office that he hasn’t ignored. Which is not to say he hasn’t degraded it, too. On Tuesday night, he turned it into a cheesy spectacle that belonged in, say, a casino sinking into bankruptcy in Atlantic City.

He bestowed the Presidential Medal Of Freedom on Rush Limbaugh, hanging it on that rancid bag of old sins, right there in the House chamber. He arranged a surprise family reunion for a soldier home from deployment, right there in the House chamber. He told an African-American schoolgirl that he, personally, was going to see to it that she can go to a good school. He congratulated another child on not having been aborted, and promised that he, personally, would see to it that nobody was. These Dear-Leader-Grants-a-Wish moments are straight out of a dog-eared playbook used by various members of the Kim family in North Korea. Weaponized sentimentality is a powerful tool in authoritarian hands.

The speech itself was the usual farrago of lies and bigotry…

This is a lying, criminal president*, aided and abetted by a political party that lost its mind long before it lost its way, and that now swallows poisonous pablumlike this:

If forcing American taxpayers to provide unlimited free health care to illegal aliens sounds fair to you, then stand with the radical left. But if you believe that we should defend American patients and American seniors, then stand with me and pass legislation to prohibit free government health care for illegal aliens.

It’s morning in American carnage.

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Election Year Open Thread: Elizabeth Warren in the Arena

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Finish the old proverb for me: For a woman to succeed, she must work twice as hard to do half as well…


(Shout-out to Senator Jeanne Shaheen! Who is another gifted politician who’s shattered glass ceilings in New Hampshire… and also a woman who defeated Scott Brown.)

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What Do Betty Cracker, Steeplejack, OzarkHillbilly and satby All Have in Common?

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What do Betty Cracker, Steeplejack, OzarkHillbilly and Satby all have in common?

You get three guesses! You get 15 minutes to make your guesses. (15 minutes from the first guess.)

If you win, you get a hearty handshake and a pat on the back – the coveted prize for callers to WLS radio as I was going up.

Bonus question for the pedants among us: If it’s in a title is it more correct to include satby in upper case (because it’s in the title) or lower case out of respect for her nym?

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Two Weird Challenges to Our Current Elections

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Two weird things that I see more and more, perhaps because I spend so much time scanning toxic social media sites like twitter and facebook, are people needing to look for slights to encourage the to vote for their preferred candidate and everyone being a fucking pundit and needing to factor electability into their choice. As always, I am guilty of both to some degree, but I seem to see it more and more.

I mean, I guess whatever motivates you, but I am supporting Warren because she best represents what I think we need to do going forward, has what it takes to get it done, and does a good job explaining HOW she will get it done. I don’t care if the polling says she is less likely to win than someone else, I don’t give a fuck if Trump calls her pocohontas or another campaign did something obnoxious. I think she has the best ideas, so that is who I am going to vote for in the primary if she is still around.

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