Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How stupid are these people?

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

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

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

Republicans do not trust women.

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

No one could have predicted…

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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Novel Coronavirus Update – Friday / Saturday

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NH Debate Open Thread: Early Reviews

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Despite the Blogmaster’s fears, it seems like Buttigieg is getting pretty good reviews. In fact, at this moment in time, it seems like all the best people (my faves) did well, and the spoilers and also-rans… did themselves no favors.

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Important Metrics To Get Us Through the Weekend

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Given this afternoon’s and evening’s Executive Branch reassignments and terminations, we’re going to need these to get through the weekend.

I believe we’re somewhere in the elevated range on the advisory system.

Important Metrics To Get Us Through the Weekend

We’ll have to wait to Monday to see if Senator Collins makes it all the way to sternly worded letter. So stay tuned.

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Friday Evening Open Thread: Nancy Pelosi Is Not Here for This Crap

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A notably animated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) decried President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Thursday, calling it a “manifesto of mistruths” and a “reality show” using the House of Representatives as a backdrop…

She added that she felt “liberated” after shredding the document, that as soon as he was about one-third of the way through the speech she knew that she had to do something to show the American people that the address was full of falsehoods.

She said that the President himself “looked to me like he was a little sedated,” an impression she said she had last time he delivered the State of the Union too.

In another tense moment on Tuesday before Trump started speaking, he turned his back on Pelosi’s outstretched hand, refusing to shake it. Pelosi was unmoved. “That meant nothing to me,” she told reporters….

Her voice rising, Pelosi said that it is an “absolute imperative” that America have a new President next year, one who does not “denigrate our values,” is not “disloyal to the Constitution” and does not “degrade the environment.”

“He has shredded the truths in his speech, he has shredded the Constitution with his conduct,” she thundered. “I shredded his state of his mind address.”

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Were I a Gambling Man

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Were I a gambling man, and I am not, but were I am gambling man, I would, RIGHT NOW, put my money on Buttigieg/(Harris/Castro/Booker) as the nominees.

I know Biden thinks South Carolina is going to save him, but I think Buttigieg is going to pick up a lot of votes. People I know who are not interested in politics usually keep asking me what I think about him. I really think a lot of people who would have gone for Klobuchar, Biden, Delaney, Moulton, the entire lump of centrist blah democrats, are going to go to Buttigieg. I know I am in a rare bubble of lefties, but outside of that bubble, there are a lot of people who think that the son of teachers who went to a good school and served in the military and seems polite and well-mannered and who worked for a fancy consulting firm is a pretty a-ok thing for their kid to aspire to and not bad qualities to have in a President.

I still don’t think Bernie is going to win, because while his support is deep, it is narrow. Yes, a lot of people will vote for him, but I fail to see how he expands his base beyond what it is already. He’s just not the kind of candidate where people who were pro-Harris or pro-Castro are going to say “OK, they are out- guess I will go with Bernie.” In fact, if anything, I see Bernie losing more votes to Warren as the race goes on, but neither of them overtaking the moderate wing.

Who knows, I may be wrong. As has been stated repeatedly to the point of almost parody, I am going to vote for any of them over Trump, and I am personally biased towards Warren. But that is what I am feeling today. And as you all know, that may change next week.

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I have been reliably informed that I completely overlooked the fact that Buttigieg polls HORRIBLY with minorities. Which he does. That’s why I mentioned Biden and South Carolina, where the actually Democratic base lives. But a lot can change between now and then. Which is why this was not an endorsement of the aforementioned ticket, but a bet. I believe I also noted that I am not a gambling man, so I’m not even putting money on it.

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