Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

How stupid are these people?

The lights are all blinking red.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Republicans do not trust women.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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

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

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

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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Today’s Predictable FusterCluck: But Bernie Is *Consistent*!

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Yes, he is… but that’s only a virtue when one is consistently correct.

The Washington Examiner is a right-wing propaganda sheet, but it’s a professional operation. So when it came time to start roughing up St. Sanders, they didn’t go for the low-hanging ‘he’s a commie’ fruit, they dug up some indefensible-to-good-progressives oppo:

Because I’m in a bad mood, I’ll argue that watching George Wallace’s ‘success’ in the early 1970s actually gave Sanders his inspiration — white working-class (straight, male) resentment, but from the left. Vote for me, if you agree that ‘those people’ are stealing what should be *your* working-class benefits! Let us dream of returning to the golden age where one might be a wage slave, but at least there was the satisfaction of knowing the browns and the women would never be permitted to enter *our* unions!

Sure, Sanders is no more racist than any other white male 1970s politician who fled New York City for the bucolic white hamlets of Verment, but that’s still… pretty racist, by today’s standards. And if he’s embedded his arguments in a ‘sensitive to bigots’ feelings’ model that got him a toehold in Vermont politics back then, shame on the Cosplay Socialists who currently find it appealing.

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Election Year Open Thread: The Iowa Caucuses

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This is no way to run a democratic election!

And the glimpses I’m seeing on twitter of ‘mock caucus’ training to bring in The Youngs are… not inspirational:

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Respite Thread – Beautiful Things

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Like NotMax, about this time of day I start winding down and can’t continue to deal with the din. The days of the impeachment hearing have been particularly difficult – so much lying, so much bad faith. The lying wouldn’t be so bad if it were an artful, consistent lie. But it’s just throwing stuff at the wall. It’s not clear they even care if it sticks.

I have one friend who goes on Twitter a couple of times a day and just retweets beautiful things and cute animals. Here are a few:

https://twitter.com/DrMattDavies/status/1222744512621006850

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Today’s GOP Star Disgrace: Rand Paul

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The name of the guy Rand Paul would like to believe is the whistleblower is now all over the web, so he’s achieved his goal — and it’s not as though Rand Paul needed to worry about his reputation; this is the kind of petty self-aggrandizing bullshit that’s his trademark. I don’t even think that Rand is explicitly paid by Putin, or blackmailed by the GRU. He just likes being the center of attention, and the only way he’s capable of achieving that is by being a dick.

I’d like to believe that Chief Justice Roberts would care enough about his own not inconsiderable self-esteem to bring the full force of his powers down on Paul, but I’d also like to believe that my favorite potato chips are health food, and that ain’t happening either.

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Tepid Words You’ve Swallowed, Turns Out They’re All Borrowed

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Guess who, no fair peeking:

If the claims about Giuliani were not preposterous enough, senators were also forced to endure Kenneth Starr’s self-righteous and hypocritical warnings regarding “the culture of impeachment.” Starr had, after all, once run a four-year investigation into obscure land deals, suicide conspiracy theories and intimate sexual details involving President Bill Clinton. Starr would later claim that Clinton’s abuse of power was the “capstone” of his impeachment case, but that did not stop the former independent counsel from mournfully warning senators Monday that “the commission of a crime is by no means sufficient to warrant the removal of our duly elected president.”

If it is true that Trump killed irony years ago, Starr’s opening statement single-handedly exhumed irony’s corpse from its tomb, dragged it across the Senate floor and demolished all obstacles in its path before finally scattering the bones back into the grave, one by one. As Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes said, “Does Ken Starr know he’s Ken Starr?” That embarrassing performance seemed only to confirm Trump’s previous assessment of the former Clinton prosecutor as a “lunatic” and a “disaster.”

I’ll give you a hint. He’s a former four-term Member of Congress from Florida whose third wife apparently has a fetish for being interrupted constantly by preening assholes. He also voted to impeach Clinton.

It’s actually a pretty good column. With so many blind pigs finding ears of corn lately, I’m beginning to confuse the opinion section with the farm section.

Open thread.

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The eagle flies on Friday

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Looks like the Senate trial is almost over and that there will be no witnesses called.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and other Republicans signaled that they were regaining confidence that they would be able to cobble together the 51 votes needed to block new witnesses and documents and bring the trial to an acquittal verdict as soon as Friday,

Only one thing matters: voting out as many of these clowns in the Senate as we can. Give here to the Balloon Juice Senate fund which is split between the eventual Democratic nominees in Maine, Iowa, NC, Arizona, Georgia, and Colorado. We’ve only got a few more days of trial so trying to raise as much as I can while the sun shines. I raised the goal to 25K.

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