Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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

When we show up, we win.

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

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

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

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

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Late Late Night Open Thread: CPAC, Proceeded By the Usual Flourish (of Sad Trombones)

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Matt Schlapp’s annual high-dollar, big-media griftfest found themselves a new ‘We’re not racists, we have our Black speakers too!!!1!’ performer, someone even more traditionalist than Diamond & Silk. Maybe a little too traditionalist, as it turned out. Per USA Today:

An upcoming conservative political conference – featuring an appearance by ex-President Donald Trump – pulled one its panelists Monday over anti-Semitic tweets…

The speaker in question is identified as Young Pharaoh, a hip-hop artist and online commentator who has dabbled in conspiracy theories.

CPAC acted after Media Matters for America, a research organization that tracks conservative outlets, reported that, among other things, Young Pharaoh “has told followers that Judaism is a ‘complete lie’ and ‘made up for political gain,'” and that “Jewish people are ‘thieving fake Jews.'”

Young Pharaoh responded by calling the move to remove him “censorship at its best.” …

Young Pharaoh had been scheduled to be one of six people on a panel entitled “Please Check the Number and Dial Again: Doubt, Dysfunction, and the Price of Missed Opportunities,” according to the CPAC website.

The website, which has since removed Young Pharaoh’s name and picture, described him as a “Philosopher, Scholar, Musician.”

The panel itself is still scheduled for Sunday, the last day of the four-day conference to be held in Orlando, Fla…

The philosophy in question does not seem to have been invented solely by Mr. Y-P, if I understand Damon Young’s The Root article correctly. It took me just seconds to find that link, but then, I haven’t firewalled my browser against dangerously seditious sites like The Root.

ETA: Twitter beef ON –

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  1. 1.

    West of the Rockies

    Every year this dreary conference gets so much attention.  There is probably something similar for liberals, but I can’t name it.  And it certainly does not receive as much attention as this collection of vile pinheads.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    Can’t we use the digital real estate to report on and discuss something less repugnant? Like bleeding hemorrhoids?

    ;)

  6. 6.

    Mary G

    Why conservatives can’t or won’t find information readily available on the internet is a mystery to me. Is the value of ignorance so necessary for their marks that they take it up themselves? I know Matt Schlapp would score worse than a shriveled turnip on an IQ test, but really?

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    @SiubhanDuinne:I just wanted to confirm a suspicion. I know of Mrs Schlapp only as the Republican who thought comparing Joe Biden to Mr Rogers would make a brilliant putdown.

  8. 8.

    West of the Rockies

    I think Schlapp and Matt Gaetz look related.  They both have enormous heads and disagreeable mouths.

  10. 10.

    Ruckus

    @Mary G:

    They’ve never looked at anything but conservative bullshit on the internet. OK porn also. So no actual information, only lies and bullshit. All those conservative politicians are marks themselves, just like the people that vote for them. The political jobs that they don’t actually do are not the con, getting them to run interference so that the real con, which is stealing everything not nailed down, can proceed unabated is the real con.

  11. 11.

    HumboldtBlue

    I just spent 40 minutes perusing titles on Netflix and reading blurbs.

    And then I just closed it down.

    My cat got high on catnip, however,

    So there’s that.

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    @HumboldtBlue

    What type of stuff were you looking for?

    Netflix new offerings have been more or less a desert for me the last couple of months. Nothing currently in the queue, as opposed to maybe two dozen things on Prime currently backed up for whenever the mood strikes.

  14. 14.

    HumboldtBlue

    What type of stuff were you looking for?

    Not even sure, I watched and enjoyed the one season of Traitors, and it ties in with my daily consumption of some form of military/political history, but nothing caught the fancy.

  15. 15.

    Citizen Alan

    Any news on whether Grindr and Pornhub usage has surged in and around the CPAC host city? That’s usually the case, isn’t it?

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    This just in: General Francisco Franco, still dead. And canceled. From BBC News:

    The last statue of General Francisco Franco on Spanish soil has been removed, after the tiny enclave of Melilla voted to take down its monument to the fascist dictator.

    Workers destroyed the brink plinth and carried away the statue, which had stood at the gates of the city on the north-west coast of Africa.

  21. 21.

    J R in WV

    /@Brachiator:

    Isn’t that sweet of the Spanish people, to destroy their history  of Fascism like that? A recurring plague on humanity, like a virus~!~

    Has anyone looked for a virus causing fascism mentality in primates? How would you do that?

    It would explain a lot about odd historic events…

    ETA:

    And there could be a cure!

  22. 22.

    Geminid

    @Brachiator: Mellila is one of the last remnants of Spain’s North African colony. The revolt of the Spanish colonial army in 1936 was a key moment in the Spanish Civil War. German aircraft were able to shuttle General Franco and several thousand troops from an airfield near Mellila to the Spanish mainland, where after over two years of bloody, ruthless combat and massacre, Franco prevailed..                                                                     Later, after the fall of France, Hitler met with Franco near the French-Spanish border and tried to get Franco to return the favor by entering the war against Britain.  But Franco shrewdly rebuffed Hitler.

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    trnc

    @Low Key Swagger: ​
     

    Have you seen Halt and Catch Fire?

    We enjoyed that. I was afraid it was getting a bit soap opera-ish in the 3rd season, like so many hour long dramas do, but it worked it’s way out.

  26. 26.

    Low Key Swagger

    @trnc: Me too, but stuck with it.  As a non techie person, I was fascinated by the evolving technology and it answered so many of my questions.  I realize it’s fictitious, but still very informative.

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