Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

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  4. 4.

    Punchy

    I find it encouraging that Barr subordy has been in place 10 days and not a peep about Special Counsel for Hunter B and election fooferall and the like.  If the guy was a total Trumpy, he’da hinted (or acted ) on all these things by now.   Tells me the DOJ is in proper shut-it-down-till-Biden mode at this point.

  5. 5.

    Mo Salad

    I am not good at embedding tweets, but Jason went all “Say that to my face”, and AJ Delgado (the mom) tweeted back that Jason is 5 10 on a good day and overweight and she’s met Jake Tapper as well, who is 6 2 – 6 3 and broad shouldered.

  6. 6.

    PsiFighter37

    I wonder if we are hitting a tipping point with media hacks. Tapper has been good the past 4 years, on balance, but even Chuckles was calling Ron Johnson an arsonist to his face today. Methinks the media finally is realizing what authoritarianism means for their line of business…

    Also read that Devin Nunes and Gym Jordan are in line to get the Medal of Freedom. I wonder if Biden can get Congress to pass a law revoking every single handout made under Trump – the honor is worth less than nothing when you look at the POS that he has handed it to over the past 4 years.

  7. 7.

    Patricia Kayden

    The truth’s on tape. For those who’ve joined the effort to subvert the election, you still have a choice: you can either side w/someone who is asking officials in your own party to break the law or you can side with our republic. There is no middle ground. t.co/n5oiWl4hb6— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) January 3, 2021

  8. 8.

    West of the Rockies

    @Punchy:

    I hadn’t thought about Barr’s replacement, but now that you mention it, yes, it’s  surprising and good that things have been quiet.  I hope it stays that way.

  9. 9.

    ThresherK

    @Geoboy: I have said (perhaps here) that it seems Jake Tapper has given up the false equivalence Beltway schtick for a certain time now.

    @Psifighter has beat me to it.

    We’ll see if he keeps this encouraging tack.

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @PsiFighter37:

    Mark Strauss @MarkDStrauss
    Trump might as well give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Stormy Daniels since his main criteria seems to be anyone who sucks his dick.

  11. 11.

    Yutsano

    I’m so old I remember when Jake Tapper actually commented here once. We were less than kind as I recall, but maybe it was a spark. Jake, if you’re lurking, thank you for being better.

  15. 15.

    Bruuuuce

    @PsiFighter37: Asterisks. MLB shamed Roger Maris with one for too many years; everyone who received a medal or an appointment under this Administration should be burdened with one forever.

    Well, that and ostracism, blacklisting, and a complete ban from the airwaves

  18. 18.

    Suzanne

    @Punchy:

    fooferall 

    Is that how you spell that?

    More to the topic: LOLOLOL at Jake Tapper.
    My favorite cutdown I’ve seen in recent weeks, in response to either bigoted comments or batshit crazy comments (or both, I suppose) is, “So THAT’S why your grandchildren don’t call or visit!”.

  19. 19.

    debbie

    i’m generally opposed to someone being surreptitiously taped on a phone call…but not this one, folks!— Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@MonicaLewinsky) January 3, 2021

  24. 24.

    Kent

    @Punchy:I find it encouraging that Barr subordy has been in place 10 days and not a peep about Special Counsel for Hunter B and election fooferall and the like.  If the guy was a total Trumpy, he’da hinted (or acted ) on all these things by now.   Tells me the DOJ is in proper shut-it-down-till-Biden mode at this point.

    It’s pretty hard for an unqualified hack to get much done when his professional staff aren’t going along.  “Yes sir, we are working on it.  We have internal rules and processes that we need to follow.  You aren’t asking us to BREAK THE LAW are you?”

  25. 25.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    @Punchy: Greenwald googles himself and has waded into the comment section on more than one lefty blog. I stopped taking him seriously long before Snowden.

  27. 27.

    Punchy

    Holy shit….I know none of yoose care about Vegas odds on this stuff, but offshore odds for the GA Sen elections have MASSIVELY changed (inverted!) to favor the Dems.  Enormous swing to the Dems.   And this was the site whose odds swings correctly predicted Trump’s FL, NC, Ernst’s surprise, etc.  Not the end-all, but sumpin….

  28. 28.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @PsiFighter37:

    I wonder if we are hitting a tipping point with media hacks. Tapper has been good the past 4 years, on balance, but even Chuckles was calling Ron Johnson an arsonist to his face today. Methinks the media finally is realizing what authoritarianism means for their line of business…

    Like Baud noted below, open, anti-democratic sedition appears to be a redline the MSM has. Also, I think Trump’s pandemic response has also floored many of them

  30. 30.

    central texas

    Jason Miller, Trump2020 Senior Advisor.

    Or as they say in the indictments, “accessory” .

  34. 34.

    dmsilev

    Huh. About that op-Ed from all of the former SecDefs,

    The idea for this statement actually originated from Vice President Cheney. Each of us swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution; that oath does not change according to party designation.t.co/NSsdLkZX9g— William J. Perry (@SecDef19) January 4, 2021

    ‘Dick Cheney is worried about where things are going’ is not really what I’d call a ‘good sign’.

  36. 36.

    The Moar You Know

    I’m so old I remember when Jake Tapper actually commented here once. We were less than kind as I recall, but maybe it was a spark. Jake, if you’re lurking, thank you for being better.

    @Yutsano:  We were really not very nice to him, but I was holding a particular grudge about his bullshit “Obama’s secretly smoking and therefore can’t be trusted!” piece and felt I should get it off my chest.

    I think Jake now has a proper perspective on what “bad behavior” by a president looks like no (PROTIP IT IS NOT SNEAKING SMOKES), so I’ll refrain from dick-punching him if he ever comes back here.

  37. 37.

    Mike in NC

    Fat Bastard has cheapened every award he ever handed out. Joe Biden should retire several of them.

  41. 41.

    Brachiator

    @dmsilev:

    ‘Dick Cheney is worried about where things are going’ is not really what I’d call a ‘good sign’.

    Dick Cheney, a man who has no heart, vs Donald Trump, a man who has no soul.

  44. 44.

    waratah

    The Ladies on MSNBC  and Ali Veshi that have been interviewing medical workers on COVID-19 and the people on long lines for food are very upset too. The low level Republicans that have been brave enough to turn up on their shows are demolished. They expected the usual reception and were glad when the time was up

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    @dmsilev:

    ‘Dick Cheney is worried about where things are going’ is not really what I’d call a ‘good sign’.

    I laughed out loud.  Not at the sentiment but at the wonderful phrasing.

  48. 48.

    Kattails

    @dmsilev: CHENEY??? If my gob gets any more smacked over the next couple of days, Imma gonna need an ice pack and bandages.

    Tapper’s been pretty impressive lately.

    I’ve been calling my (Dem) congresswomen to let them know how I feel about letting sedition slide this time around.  I want it clear that I support maximum penalties for the garbage that is going down.  Unfortunately they are Nice Ladies and don’t quite have the ovaries of, say, Katie Porter.

  49. 49.

    Hoodie

    @PsiFighter37:  The red line is that Trump’s obvious clinical psychopathy is finally sinking in, i.e., it’s not just performance art.  The context of the tape is as important as the substance.  He’s spending an hour doing this as 3000 people are dying each day and vaccine rollout stalls, neither of which even registers in his consciousness.   I’m getting a sense that even Republicans are getting scared about what Trump (and his more whacked out supporters) would be willing to do to get what he wants, e.g., try to impose martial law and, most importantly to them,  encourage his supporters to conduct violent attacks on pols and media types.

  51. 51.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Barbara:

    His pandemic response has floored me.  He doesn’t care.  I mean, more than 10,000 people a week are dying and he, literally, doesn’t care at all.

    I know. He doesn’t care and he never did. All he gives a shit about is keeping the powers of his office.

    And then all of the morons trying to whitewash this clown: “It’s all China’s fault! Fake virus! Plandemic! It’s just the flu! 99% survival rate! Open up!” and on and on. It’s maddening and I’m so sick of people who will defend this asshole no matter what the fuck he does.

    I still think back to that 2019 WH Dinner where he invited college athletes and he fed them fast food slop because he was too much of a cheapskate to properly cater it after the shutdown. And his dumbass supporters defended it by saying Trump understood college age kids love fast food and that critics were elitists. I know in the grand scheme of things this is minor, but it still pisses me off that these pathetic cretins couldn’t just admit Trump fucked it up

  61. 61.

    Citizen Alan

    And I’m in Twitter time-out. I don’t even know specifically what for, as I’ve called  lot of perfect strangers “treasonous swine” over the last hour or so.

  64. 64.

    Starfish

    @Amir Khalid: Someone that I followed on Twitter was always going on about how smart Glenn Greenwald and Freddie de Boer are and how they are wrongfully persecuted by people trying to cancel them. I unfollowed him.

  65. 65.

    RSA

    @Amir Khalid: I think it was justified. For me, I don’t follow either deBoer or Greenwald nowadays, and their views may not have much in common, but good God were they long-winded, self-important bores.

    (I will be judgmental, having similar flaws. :-)

  67. 67.

    gwangung

    @RSA: Yeah….poor fit for this blog. The best you an say about them is that the blog is not kind to people who take themselves too seriously. Pompous and self-important are not survival traits here.

  71. 71.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Delk:

    Miller ran Jack Ryan’s campaign against Obama. Four years later Obama was President.

    I did not know that. The first part, I mean. The second part, I remember. /sigh/

    any word on the plan to do some kind of book club on BO’s memoir?

  76. 76.

    Bill Arnold

    @Obvious Russian Troll:

    Greenwald googles himself and has waded into the comment section on more than one lefty blog.

    Sometimes people mention his name just for the sport of it.
    You have to do it early in a thread though; this site is indexed by google a lot and sometimes the late parts of an old thread don’t get indexed. (Probably should get John Cole to request an index every few months; google supports this I’ve read.)

  79. 79.

    Bill Arnold

    @Baud:

    Is that what the kids call it these days?

    A lot of people do, including reporters. This is one reason why I always including the byline for linked news pieces. (Another is simple politeness. I know there are tools for determining linkage, but this makes it easier.)

  81. 81.

    Bill Arnold

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    I’m inclined to think that was just somebody posing as Jake Tapper tbh

    We’ve also had some high profile commenters here using nyms. (If your mind ids people by their writing style and/or hints, please don’t dox them unless they’re super-deserving of it.)

  83. 83.

    Bill Arnold

    @NotMax:

    There’s even a name for the practice.
    I try to do the opposite, and make sure text written by me and associated with my name (which is common) is not found in the first 10 or 20 pages of google search results for a simple quoted name search.

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