Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Infrastructure week. at last.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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  2. 2.

    NotMax

    Read somewhere that some of the usual companies which shell out for ad time on the superbowl are holding off this year on the assumption that it isn’t a time to be associated with any message open to interpretation as being amusing.

  20. 20.

    MisterForkbeard

    @HumboldtBlue: Abramson is not entirely reliable. Though enough of this appears to be well backed up that we do know that the meetings happened and the attendees appear to be correct.

    The rest of the inferences… no idea. :/

  22. 22.

    phdesmond

    hier, j’ai parlë

    avec deux veuves.

    même avant l’épidemie

    on souffrait des coups durs.

  23. 23.

    MisterForkbeard

    In other infuriating news, a Trump appointed federal justice has blocked Biden’s “halt deportations for 100 days until we unfuck the complete lack of documentation and process” Executive Order. Because it would cause “immediate and irreparable harm to the State of Texas” if it went through.

    Yeah. We’re going to be dealing with these assholes forever, and the legal argument is complete crap.

    https://www.npr.org/2021/01/26/960948480/federal-judge-blocks-bidens-100-day-deportation-moratorium

  27. 27.

    patrick II

    There is a defensive move in basketball called “pulling the chair”.  It is the play when an offensive player with the ball backs into the defender and the defender resists — but still gets pushed back a little.  Then the offensive player pushes again and the defender pushes back again.  And then the offensive player does it again, but instead of pushing back the defender steps out of the way and lets the offensive player fall on his ass.  That is what I think Antifa did to Trump’s right-wing thugs on Jan 6.  Antifa was supposed to be there and cause a riot and give cover to the assault on congress. But Antifa pulled the chair and all of the preplanned “it was Antifa” bullshit fell on its ass.

  30. 30.

    JWR

    @MisterForkbeard: Yep, more “brilliance” brought to us by indictee Ken Paxton. CBS has this excellent response from the current Justice Department:

    “The federal government has plenary power over the enforcement of federal immigration law and an outgoing administration cannot contract away that power for an incoming administration,” Justice Department lawyers wrote in a filing Sunday.”

  32. 32.

    HumboldtBlue

    @burnspbesq:

    He’s dumber than your dog (if you have one) he’d show up to a crime scene with police tape around his neck offering you a drink to his preliminary hearing.

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    @MisterForkbeard

    Because it would cause “immediate and irreparable harm to the State of Texas” if it went through.

    Failing to grasp the downside to that argument.

    //

  36. 36.

    JWR

    Are Mary G or any other of my SoCal peeps around? Have you heard that KDOC is resurrecting the rotting corpse of Wally George, the “King of Combat TV”? Why? Hell if I know, but I would guess it’s in response to Wally being a logical godfather to T****, who is already sorely missed, (/s), and so-called “popular demand”, KDOC being an Orange County based station.

  37. 37.

    phdesmond

     

    this is actually relevant to the texas situation.

     

    President Joe Biden has named Ashley Tabaddor, a vocal critic of the previous administration’s anti-immigrant and anti-asylum policies and the president of the national immigration judges union, as the top attorney at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency tasked with adjudicating immigration paperwork that has been decimated and politicized over the past four years.

     

    tl;dr the article linked.  reused material, just relevant.

  38. 38.

    Jay

    A Seattle-area hospital emailed donors who had given $10,000 or more to the hospital system about newly available and highly coveted COVID-19 vaccine spots – even as appointments were booked through March for the public.https://t.co/VhjRPUIUHf— Paige Cornwell (@pgcornwell) January 27, 2021

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    @HumboldtBlue

    Related.

    …Pence hasn’t owned an Indiana home for at least the past eight years, during which time he lived in the Indiana governor’s residence in Indianapolis and then at the vice presidential residence on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington. Source

  44. 44.

    JWR

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Boy, are you ever in for a surprise! ;) Wally could be mildly amusing, but after T****, no. Just no! He was sort of a politically conservative Jerry Springer, without the, um, humanity? (Nah, He was an ass before being an ass was “cool”.)

  47. 47.

    Dan B

    @Jay: We were by an Overlake hospital branch this afternoon (picking up our Nissan Leaf which had a 12 volt battery die).  It’s an indication that our Governor is a good and decent man that he got them to stop the big donors but not the ordinary folks who were eligible or could use vaccine that might have been wasted.

  48. 48.

    JWR

    Probably already mentioned, but good!

    … While most of those charged so far have faced solely misdemeanors, dozens have faced more serious felony charges, like obstruction of Congress, interfering with police during civil disorder or carrying a dangerous weapon into the Capitol.

    Sherwin said he expects some defendants to soon face a particularly serious charge: sedition.

    “We are closely looking at evidence related to the sedition charges. … You’re talking 20-year felonies,” Sherwin said, referring to the maximum sentence under the statute. “Yes, we are working on those cases and I think the result will bear fruit very soon. …That’s what we’re trying to build towards.” … (Politico)

  50. 50.

    Dan B

    @NotMax: What about Pete and Chasten’s house.  They should be in DC now, and imagine the Pence’s trying to relax with the thought of so much so#@my and ho! man on man ?.

  52. 52.

    Debbie (Aussie)

    @patrick II:

    I would hope that the people who occasionally claim the banner of AntiFa would be that smart. I’m guessing, that collectively,once the 27% are removed IQ should be reasonably high ?

  53. 53.

    Debbie (Aussie)

    @Jay: Gee wiz, look what happens when you healthcare decided by those who make money(profits), not by requirement. I know I’m speaking to the converted.

  54. 54.

    Debbie (Aussie)

    @sab: Oh from what I’ve read there’s a pack of them in the house and the senate.  Edited to add: We have those too.

  56. 56.

    Shalimar

    @NotMax: There is just no way that is true.  Pence is renting a home from someone.  This is just a cover story so all those who want to kill him won’t know his address.

  57. 57.

    Amir Khalid

    @HumboldtBlue:

    During the transition, did Mother not even think to look for a rental house? Or did she fear that Trump would find her lack of faith … disturbing?

  58. 58.

    Mary G

    @JWR: There are still plenty racist Trump fans and KDOC has been to the right of Ted Cruz for as long as I can remember. It’s been a few years since I cut the cable, but I’m sure that they carry Newsmax, OAN, and every channel like that they can find. I’m just amazed that Wally George is still alive.

  59. 59.

    Debbie (Aussie)

    @sab: we have yards or gardens. In our parliament. Some of them as stupid as you have and also deeply into the conspiracy theories.

    SIGH!

  60. 60.

    Jay

    @Debbie (Aussie):

    @patrick II:

    almost as soon as the “Stop the Steal” events were being planned, ( all the events, not just the Capital),

    people who monitor the Nazi’s social media, ( all the Nazi’s, III% included), put word out that they, ( the assorted Nazis) were coming explicitly to murder people en mass.

    The “Community” that people call Antifa, decided that after years of Cops coddling Nazis, Courts excusing Nazis, while brutalizing every social justice protest,

    “Fuck it, let the Cops deal with it and let them find out who their supposed friends really are.”

    Word went out hard to not counterprotest.

  63. 63.

    Jay

    The WalkAway campaign, also styled #WalkAway, is a social-media campaign that was launched ahead of the United States 2018 mid-term elections by Brandon Straka, a hairstylist from New York City.[2] The campaign encourages liberals to leave the Democratic Party.[2][3]

    The FBI arrested an Omaha man for his actions during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

    Brandon Straka, 44, was arrested Monday by agents from the FBI Omaha Field Office, according to a report from the FBI.

    https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.ketv.com/amp/article/fbi-agents-arrest-omaha-man-for-actions-during-us-capitol-attack/35311895

  66. 66.

    Jay

    @NotMax:

    yurp,

    not a lot of the stories about him mention however, that he founded and ran the “WalkAway” disinfo op that was heavily backed by Russian disinfo.

  70. 70.

    satby

    @NotMax: Not for them. Besides, my “I support Trans Visibility” sign out front will be an issue. Seriously, what kind of inept boobs would not have arranged a place to live after the election was lost if they didn’t have one to go back to?

  71. 71.

    Jay

    @sab:

    it’s a mix.

    grift get’s you $15/ hr if you are crap at it, $30k a month if you are a good fringer, but never hit mainstream.

    Belief, ‘cause man, their “beliefs” are a mish mash of every Conspiracy Theory ever, every weird aspect of religion, pseudo science, etc.

    Notoriety, they can go from an Incel living in their Momma’s basement asking her to buy more Cheetos, to somebody “almost famous”.

  73. 73.

    NotMax

    @satby

    “Hope you folks don’t mind my blasting Blue Oyster Cult from 3 to 5 a.m. It’s a sacred practice of my religion.”

    :)

  74. 74.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Former OMB director to set up Pro-Trump think tanks

    ***

    The Center for American Restoration and an advocacy arm, America Restoration Action, will try to keep cultural issues that animated Trump’s presidency on the public agenda, according to people familiar with the matter.

    How can this be, I was repeatedly told Dump was elected because of economic anxiety, not white racial/gender grievance.

  76. 76.

    lowtechcyclist

    @satby:

    Seriously, what kind of inept boobs would not have arranged a place to live after the election was lost if they didn’t have one to go back to?

    Dafuq?!  I mean, they had two and a half months between losing the election and being kicked out of the VP residence.  Maybe Pence had official duties and stuff (like trying to avoid being lynched by his boss’ supporters), but you’d think Mother could have at least managed to rent them a house or something in that time.

  77. 77.

    Geminid

    @NotMax: A 2019 article in Forbes Magazine pegged Mike Pence’s net worth at $1,000,000- basically the value of $85,000 in annual pensions from employment as a Congressman and then Vice President. Pence is probably trying to line up some private sector job before he buys a house. He may have assumed he would still be Vice President until 2024. Now he needs a job, or at least a book advance. I doubt if publishers will bid too hard on his memoirs, though.

    When I heard on Election Day the Biden and Trump were each doing one or two radio interviews, but Pence was doing nine, I thought, yeah, he’s running in 2024. Whatever chances he had are now down the drain. He may find that hard to accept. Lincoln observed that once the worm of Presidential ambition begins to gnaw, it “gnaws deep.”

  82. 82.

    Geminid

    @NotMax: If the Quayles are still in publishing, they could help him out. Forty years ago they would have paid Pence good money to do some nominal editing and write an opinion column. Now they could pay him a little money to write a column.

  85. 85.

    patrick II

    Pence is a strange man, even by Hoosier Evangelical standards, and he has not done much to recommend him. But I will give him this, on the day of the most important duty of his life, in the face of huge pressure from Trump personally and Trump’s armed thugs at a remove, Pence stood up. Really stood up. He held the Senate session together as long as he could at great personal risk, and then resumed it as quickly as he could immediately after the insurrections were removed and finished counting the votes — with honesty. One version (of many) going around has Pence being the person releasing the National Guard that night — and we are pretty sure it wasn’t the president.  And I certainly think he was the functioning president during the last two weeks of the administration, an unstated invocation of the 25th amendment.

    Weird duck that he is, I give him points for not being either too cowardly or too much of a seditionist, unlike too many in his party, to do his duty under difficult circumstances.

    Not that I would vote for him in a million years.

  86. 86.

    stinger

    @patrick II: This, every word. I never imagined I would ever have anything nice to say about Pence, but he stood up during one of the most critical moments in our nation’s history. Now he should go home and rest on that laurel.

  87. 87.

    J R in WV

    @Jay:

    Yesterday the @nytimes published a piece featuring interviews with, and glossy photoshoots of, multiple neo-Nazis. E.g. below is neo-Nazi Martin Sellner, who had direct ties to the Christchurch shooter. At what point can we call this journalistic malpractice?

    I’ve said this here before — The NY Times has been and is a fervent supporter of Nazi and Fascist politicians and governments since at least 1922. So 98 years now and counting, at least. I’m not going to provide a dozen links, that would put me into moderation, but here’s an early good one!  This one is a modern review of the original Times piece from 1922.

    And here’s one from 1937, just months before Hitler lit the world on fire! They just love his alpine getaway home! Could be right out of the current NY Times Sunday Magazine!

    This one is the NYTimes site, and needs a subscription to read the whole article, but you can certainly get to admiring drift of the piece without paying to get inside.

    So no one should be surprised at the Times and their opinions about fascists, ever. They loves them some authoritarian leadership, someone has to tell the lumpen-herrenfolk what to think!

  89. 89.

    J R in WV

    @patrick II:

    …

    Weird duck that he is, I give him points for not being either too cowardly or too much of a seditionist, unlike too many in his party, to do his duty under difficult circumstances.

    Not that I would vote for him in a million years.

    Me too. He did his duty in the face of a lot of opposition, much to my amazement.

    @stinger:

    Now he should go home and rest on that laurel!

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