Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Bark louder, little dog.

You cannot shame the shameless.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

So many bastards, so little time.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

He really is that stupid.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

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

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

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Friday Morning Open Thread: Trench Warfare

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This is my local news station, but I sincerely doubt I’ll be watching the debate tonight. The only people looking forward to it are those who think politics is a less glittery form of professional wrestling, and I’m sure that any “news” will reach me second-hand via social media in record time.

I suspect Buttigieg took most of those ‘new’ votes away from Sanders, who has been widely regarded as the inevitable winner, because the Live Free or Die state is bottom-heavy with anarcho-libertarians and ‘Peoples Republic of Massachusetts” self-styled refugees. Also, the state takes great pride in being Not Iowa, because fvck those rubes, with their dumb-arse ‘caucus’ routine, stealing NH’s media-tourist dollars during the slow season. But now that Iowa has proven itself publicly incapable of picking a winner — and Buttigieg has moved to top position as the choice to piss off the actual Democrats, among NH’s not-inconsiderable crossover Repub/’independent’ primary voters — well, he’s not my first choice but more power to him, regardless.

Excellent suggestion for the debate, which almost certainly won’t happen:

Also, ongoing irritation with the entire political horse-race media: Pete won, or maybe Bernie, but Joe definitely lost. What else is there to say?…

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Novel Coronavirus Update – Thursday / Friday

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“Silver lining” (if true) — pangolins are teetering on the edge of extinction due to ‘wild food market’ hunting; taking them off the menu would be really helpful.

And, just a reminder, people in glass houses…

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Late Night Open Thread: Cosplay Socialist Extinction Burst

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… When Bernie Sanders’ campaign was preparing for a potential win in the first 2020 contest Monday, his aides and allies envisioned him giving a primetime victory speech, raising millions of dollars from small-dollar donors amid their ecstatic high, and savoring proving so many elites wrong at a party at the Holiday Inn.

Instead, Sanders and his senior aides found themselves working to reassure demoralized and shaken staffers and volunteers on Tuesday.

In a last-minute all-staff call around noon, Sanders’ campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, told aides that the Iowa Democratic Party had been incompetent and the delayed results were frustrating. But, he said, it was critical to appreciate what had just happened despite receiving the most negative news coverage of any 2020 campaign…

This was not what the Sanders campaign had expected to happen, to put it mildly. Excitement had been building among his team and its allies for days leading up to the Iowa caucuses. While campaigning throughout the state, Sanders himself appeared in a good mood, smiling and cracking more jokes than usual. He said his wife, Jane, would make a great first lady; Rep. Ilhan Omar, a top surrogate, said at events that they were going to send Sanders to the White House.

Then on Monday, hundreds of Sanders’ supporters — his Iowa precinct whips and captains; Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Mark Pocan; members of the Sunrise Movement, a group of young climate change activists; campaign co-chair Rep. Ro Khanna — packed into a hotel next to the airport for what felt like it could be an historic night. The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd milled around, along with reporters from around the world…

In the wee hours of the morning Tuesday, Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ senior adviser, lashed out at Iowa Democratic Party leader Troy Price in a call with the 2020 presidential campaigns, saying “the whole process has been a fraud for 100 years.” He told POLITICO that “there is no doubt” that Nevada, which had been planning until Tuesday to use the same app that failed in Iowa, should “disregard” it. On the flight to New Hampshire, Sanders said he was “disappointed” that Iowa Democrats couldn’t release timely results…

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Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Blowhard Discovers What ‘Petard’ Means…

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… The statement cites an instance in October 2019 when Gaetz and other Republicans entered the closed-door deposition of Pentagon official Laura Cooper during the impeachment proceedings against Trump. After demanding that Democrats hold open hearings, Gaetz and his colleagues remained in the meeting room for hours, eventually ordering pizza.

Gaetz also attempted to sit in on the deposition of former National Security Council member Fiona Hill in October 2019 but was asked to leave because he did not belong to the committee in charge of receiving Hill’s testimony.

In the complaint, a copy of which was sent to Newsweek by the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, Gaetz’s acts were described as “improper, unprofessional and unethical and were meant only to feed Gaetz’s unjustifiable large ego and penchant for grandstanding.”

“Impeachment proceedings are a legal process leading to a trial, and therefore covered by the Florida bar’s rules of conduct,” wrote Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chair Steve Simeonidis in the statement. “But Republican Attorney General Bill Barr isn’t going to hold a member of his own party responsible. So we must appeal to our state’s institutions to restrain this rogue lawyer who has obstructed the impeachment process twice, and generally treats the powers of his elected office like a personal plaything.”…

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Tyrant Avoid My Sight

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Look, if nobody else is going to post, I’m going to give you the Handel aria for the Trump era. Giulio Cesare is a great opera by Handel, usually performed in Italian because back in the day all opera was performed in Italian, even though Handel was a Brit (obvs). This performance , by Dame Janet Baker as Caesar (because castrati performed the leading roles in baroque opera, due to the patriarchy, but since the last castrati died around the turn of the 20th century, we get a mezzo-soprano, seems fitting for our era), in English, is really good. Sir Charles MacKerras conducts, vigorously, as is appropriate for this aria.

Tyrant avoid my sight

Monster compact of spite

Who rules by fear and force

Open thread.

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Election Year Open Thread: Bleeding Iowa

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Final nail in Iowa’s coffin, IMO:

Not that the IDP needed any more ‘help’…

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