Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

The words do not have to be perfect.

I really should read my own blog.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Come on, man.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Not all heroes wear capes.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The next time the wall wtreet journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Second rate reporter says what?

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

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Hey, if you’re a Republican PAC and you sent money to one of the traitors who voted not to certify the election, the list of companies that won’t give you a fucking dime is getting longer every minute.  Different companies are taking different approaches — some are just suspending all donations for a while, while others are targeting PACs that gave to traitors.  MasterCard, which isn’t on the list in the piece linked here, won’t be giving any money to those PACs either (Jud Leglum has an internal memo to that effect.)

To be clear, both American Express and MasterCard have stopped giving money, but they’re still processing payments.  It would be very damn interesting if they stopped processing transactions for WinRed, the Republican equivalent of ActBlue, until WinRed said they wouldn’t support these traitors.  I’m gonna guess that’s not coming, but who knows?

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  1. 1.

    sab

    Everbody is bigfooting everybody with both feet. LOL

    ETA and I have never been first. Good morning rikyrah!

  2. 2.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Oh please make it happen because the arguments about how credit card transactions are sacred part of our democracy would be worth the laugh.

  3. 3.

    West of the Rockies

    Please forgive me for going OT right away, but the report is out that Trump is declaring Cuba a state sponsor of terror, thereby somehow hamstringing Biden.  Why can’t Joe just goddamnit UNDECLARE Cuba on 1/21. What, does Trump have a 5 star no-takebacks card or something?

  4. 4.

    Another Scott

    There have to be consequences, or these things (and worse) will keep happening.  Too many politicians and MotU only understand accumulating money, and if withholding it is what it takes to get them to change their behavior, then good.

    Moscow Mitch (from memory): “The three most important things in politics are: Money, money, money.”

    Cut off their funding.  Everyone.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  7. 7.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @West of the Rockies: That is what Joe will do.

    This, and the declaration on Yemen, and a bunch of other things, are the foreign policy equivalent of stealing all the W’s off keyboards (which reportedly never happened). However, they will waste time and resources to correct.

    Just setting a few fires on the way out the door.

    ETA: The Yemen declaration in particular will lead to more starvation and damage to children there, and probably the Cuba declaration will do some damage too, but that’s in line with Trump administration practices. A bunch of horrible people.

  11. 11.

    patrick II

     

    Yesterday I read in the Washington Post that some Republican members of congress refused to wear masks when they were hiding with other members for several hours during the Capitol attack.

    So, today I read:

    From MSN.com

    Dem Congresswoman Tests Positive for Covid-19; Blames Republicans Who Wouldn’t Wear Masks During Capitol Lockdown
    Ken Meyer 31 mins ago

    Dem Congresswoman Tests Positive for Covid-19; Blames Republicans Who Wouldn’t Wear Masks During Capitol Lockdown
    Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) announced that she has tested positive for the coronavirus, and she believes she contracted it as a result of her Republican colleagues refusing to wear masks while the U.S. Capitol was under siege last week.

    Among those refusing to wear masks were Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Michael Cloud (Tex.), Markwayne Mullin (Okla.) and Scott Perry (Pa.).
    I am so angry about this, even in the context of everything else that has happened this week. Nonchalant in their arrogance as possible murderers — they got their rights.

  12. 12.

    DK

    Aside from calling Reps and Senators, I wonder if a related call-in campaign raising awareness of all donors to the seditious faction in Congress on this site would help.  Probably not much you can do to get something like Koch brothers’ companies to back off but considering the companies that have already announced a pause or a total cut-off, I think a lot of other companies could and would be pressured into doing the right thing.  Maybe Tim F. can add that as an additional action item to his posts?

    He’s right that calling a rep or senator from outside your district/state won’t make much of a difference.  But perhaps calling their donors is the way to get their attention.

  15. 15.

    randy khan

    @West of the Rockies:

    This plus the Taiwan thing are really unbelievable from a foreign policy perspective – no government takes such substantial steps during a transition to the new leadership.  It really is pretty much unprecedented, and entirely intended to create problems for the Biden Administration.

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @sab:

    Everbody is bigfooting everybody with both feet. LOL 

    Shouldn’t that be “bigfeeting” then?

    I, and autoincorrect, will see ourselves out. (Bigfeeting, not buggering, autoincorrect!)

  18. 18.

    Kelly

    @Cheryl Rofer: I have no idea if it’s practical but seems to me one gigantic, encyclopedic reversal of Trump’s executive actions or a one day avalanche of individual reversals would be a one day news story. Then Biden gets on with his positive agenda. Same for the Congressional reversal procedure.

  20. 20.

    Benw

    @sab: John Roberts nobly lifted his chin to the sky and declared that unlimited $$$ in politics is no longer corrupting and that racism no longer exists in America, and boy howdy was he right!

  21. 21.

    sab

    @VeniceRiley: They actually giggled as they turned down masks.

    I am going to have a long time getting over my anger.

    On the other hand, the across the street Trumper who had the maskless halloween party took down her Trump flag Wednesday night. Apparently attacking and trashing the capitol and killing cops was a bridge too far.

  29. 29.

    sab

    @Kelly: Merriam Webster says either is okay.

    I am more interested in getting shoop accepted as singular for sheep.

    ETA: oops. Hadn’t realized I started this.

  30. 30.

    Ken

    @sab: On the other hand, the across the street Trumper who had the maskless halloween party took down her Trump flag Wednesday night. Apparently attacking and trashing the capitol and killing cops was a bridge too far.

    Or, clearing some space for the arrival of her 20×40 foot “Patriots for Trump – Reverse the Steal” billboard.  1800 kW of genuine incandescent-light power, with looped 120 dB soundtrack of Trump’s greatest speeches.

  35. 35.

    MisterForkbeard

    @NotMax: You joke, but I’m already seeing this in various places on the internet.

    A few weeks ago it was about election fraud (sigh) but now it’s about saying Cruz, Hawley and Trump were following the nazi propaganda playbook.

  37. 37.

    sdhays

    @randy khan: The Taiwan change might be accidentally a good thing. Biden can accept the change without having been the one to make it. The PRC will be pissed, but did they think that there would be no consequences for their actions in Hong Kong and Xinjiang?

  41. 41.

    karen marie

    @patrick II:   I guess it’s a good thing we never see Andy Biggs in his district, because Mesa has a mandatory mask rule for all businesses — their employees and customers.

    I thought it was terrible when I lived in David Schweikert’s district.  Biggs is worse, but Schweikert is making a play to keep up – he’s part of the House sedition caucus with Biggs.

  42. 42.

    Leto

    Just getting a chance to look at the site today, but I saw this on the WaPo and didn’t know if it was already covered:
    Up to 15,000 National Guard members could be deployed in D.C. during inauguration

    Up to 15,000 National Guard members could be deployed in Washington during the presidential inauguration, senior defense officials said Monday, part of a rapidly expanding response following a deadly insurrection at the Capitol last week.

    Army Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, said in a call with reporters that about 6,000 guardsmen from six states already are in the nation’s capital, and that the military response will expand to about 10,000 by the weekend.

    Hokanson said the numbers will be determined by the requirements that federal agencies have for support. The National Guard will bring their weapons to Washington and carry them based on discussions with the FBI, police and other agencies.

    Over the weekend I had mentioned that my former boss will deploy to support this effort, and also raven had wondered whether we were going to have enough people there.

  44. 44.

    J R in WV

    There is a “Trump” flag nearby on the road out of our neighborhood.

    At first it was upside-down, and I thought perhaps they were showing that they were against Trump, but then the finally got it “right”… It’s on an older single-wide trailer, so they aren’t as successful as the typical Trump supporter.

    Trucks being rebuilt with older not-bent body components, etc. Used to know the folks living there, but our acquaintances moved away some time back…

  46. 46.

    sdhays

    According to the Washington Post, Biden “hopes” that the Senate can work on enacting his agenda and trying the Traitor in Chief at the same time, maybe on a every-other-day basis. So Biden is not pressuring anyone to put off the Senate trial, and I think that makes it much more likely that we won’t be waiting 100 days for the trial to start.

  50. 50.

    sab

    @jeffreyw: I am already doing that with these neighbors. The halloween party lady has been there 15 years amd I barely know her. Her immediate next door neighbors have been casual friends since I moved in twenty years ago. I used to chat with them a lot. Now I just say hello if cornered and otherwise avoid them.

    Trump with his immigration and race policies put members of my immediate family at risk and these neighbors know that. Hard to move past that.

  52. 52.

    LuciaMia

    An individual Hobbit would have the name Proudfoot. The clan would be called Proudfeet. (At least according to that guy at Bilbo’s birthday party.)

  56. 56.

    Gravenstone

    @West of the Rockies: The “argument” will be that when Biden rescinds the declaration, it will prove Democrats love terrorists and all that sort of bullshit. It would work with their base, aside from the fact they’ve already been indoctrinated to that belief from decades of hate radio/TV.

  57. 57.

    Just Chuck

    @Gravenstone: I don’t think Biden is inclined to care what the frothing imbecilic nazis think about him.  It’s not like he’ll ever gain their approval.

  58. 58.

    Gravenstone

    @Just Chuck: I never said it was a good, or even valid argument. Just that it will be their game plan. In other words, the same one they’ve been using since at least Clinton.

  60. 60.

    Elizabelle

    @DK:   Love it.  A response tweet from “Note Taking Lawyer” re Hallmark requesting $$$ back from Josh Hawley and Roger Marshall:

    roses are red

    violets are blue

    sedition is bad

    we can’t support you

  62. 62.

    Topclimber

    @randy khan: He is burnishing his neocon cred while staying far enough away from Trump’s sedition to maybe be a respectable GOP option in 2024. He does have the arrogant  asshole schtick going for him.

  63. 63.

    cain

    @Leto:

    They need to also be ready to deploy to state capitols. They are going to hit the states as well – not just D.C. I’m not sure how it’s going to go down though – but it might be a blood bath.

  64. 64.

    cain

    @germy:

    I think they are damn scared of the govt – they know that the FBI is going to be going after them. Lawyers at all these corporations are probably sounding the alarm. Nobody wants to get into the cross hairs of the intelligence forces.

  65. 65.

    Ken

    @DK: At this rate the Republicans will have to turn to GoFundMe, competing with people needing healthcare.

    They already run lots of e-mail appeals, but I assume most of those are scams. Especially the ones run by Trump – you’d think more Republicans would want to punish him for siphoning off funds ostensibly raised for elections.

  66. 66.

    Just Chuck

    @Ken: I suspect GoFundMe would tell them to GoFuckThemselves in short order.  Nope, back to email lists it is.

  67. 67.

    Zelma

    @DK:

    I’m glad Hallmark is asking for its money back.  I’d be out of luck greeting card-wise as I try not to buy American Greetings (Koch) and go out of my way to buy Hallmark.

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