Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

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

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

T R E 4 5 O N

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

“But what about the lurkers?”

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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  3. 3.

    Mai Naem mobile

    Saw a meme on Twitter with a typical ammosexual with a huge customized machine gun with a title –  Quick! Guess the size of his tool.

  4. 4.

    Joe Falco

    1/6 has really laid out what we knew all along: given a chance and with the right motivation (Dear Leader giving them the green light), these would-be brown shirts will turn into brown shirts. I can only hope that we have enough time to beat them back before it’s too late.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    Phew. That took longer than it should have. Mom’s headset which she uses for Skype and Zoom stopped working (after 8+ years, no big surprise). While we were on the telephone, used TeamViewer so I could access her computer from here and took her on a shopping tour on Amazon for a new one, as she’s the free additional person on my Prime account. Just to be on the safe side, ended up going with a brand name (Logitech). That it was $15 off list price for a basic model didn’t hurt, either

  6. 6.

    RaflW

    I really don’t want to know what that dour, self-absorbed guy is up to. He’s a pathetic little wanker. The less said about him the better.

    Republicans with current power are of course doing ongoing damage. Kemp, but also the legislature and governor of Arkansas. The GOP is really walling in only white, straight, Christianist men as ‘citizens’ eligible for societal benefit and basics like the vote.

    Which means the 70% plus of the US that isn’t that combo-platter need to really step up the solidarity and kick those MFers to the curb.

  12. 12.

    Benw

    You can build your kingdom in my heart if you want

    I don’t have the keys but you can knock down the door

  17. 17.

    Kent

    So we can’t give water and food to voters waiting in line to vote in Georgia?

    What if we give them AR-15s and ammo instead?  Certainly that should be protected by the 2nd Amendment in Georgia.  Doncha’ think?  Then they can stand their ground against any pesky GOP elections officials who want to fuck with their right to vote.

  18. 18.

    JoyceH

    I have a suggestion for those in open carry states. Whenever one of these gun-toting jackasses enters a store you’re in, just leave. Everybody leave. If these businesses start losing money, the Chamber of Commerce is going to start lobbying for repeal of open carry. Oh – and also call the police on these guys. There’s a man with a gun in the Starbucks, behaving in a threatening manner. Hey, taking your AK along to get a caramel macchiato IS threatening. Maybe the police won’t arrest them, but let’s at least inconvenience them. Swanking around heavily armed is fun for them – we need to make it non-fun. If they’re shunned like they have cooties and have to keep being questioned by the police, they might at least start leaving their armory at home.

  19. 19.

    SectionH

    @Chris T.: Thank you for that one. Not only for pointing it out but reminding me of 

    “… the silver horses of the Moon
    they neigh and champ their silver bits
    but their Master’s gone and drowned his wits
    and the sun will be rising soon… “

  20. 20.

    Mallard Filmore

    @Kent: 

    So we can’t give water and food to voters waiting in line to vote in Georgia?

    I wonder what would happen if someone simply dropped a 36 pack of water bottles every few yards. Let the people in line pick the water up themselves. Maybe the charge would be littering?

  23. 23.

    Mary G

    @NotMax: I gave my mom my first computer and the epic phone calls trying to diagnose a problem sight unseen were a nightmare.

  24. 24.

    topclimber

    @Mallard Filmore: Denying thirsty voters help from others is just more of the same for the GOP. The ICE corps sure made it tough on humanitarian efforts to get water to refugees.

     

     

  25. 25.

    piratedan

    @Mallard Filmore: considering the enthusiasm exhibited by the Georgia State Police in arresting a politician for having the temerity to knock on the door while a racist voting law was being enacted… I suspected not only you would get tasered but so would everyone else around you before you were tossed in jail.  Side trips to fast food joints are reserved for mass murderers of colored folks… regardless of the color of the victims.

  26. 26.

    JWR

    Aaaand, another mass shooting. This time in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Again, few details, but there are 2 dead. So far. Ugh!

  27. 27.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Definitely, totally not cancel culture.

    Arkansas Gov Signs “Religious Freedom” Bill Allowing Doctors To Refuse To Treat LGBT Patients Because Jesus

    Least you think this is hypothetical, trans man Robert Eads, whose life and death was the subject of the award-winning documentary Southern Comfort (2001), died in 1999 in Georgia after twenty doctors refused to treat him for ovarian cancer. In 1995 in DC, paramedics/ER staff let trans woman Tyra Hunter bleed to death after a car accident she should’ve survived. None of the paramedics, who mocked her with slurs as she was bleeding out on the pavement, were ever disciplined.

    Healthcare workers refusing to treat trans patients, or giving them at best substandard care, is still a huge issue to this very day.

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    JWR

    @piratedan: Did you notice the picture on the wall behind Kemp as he signed that voter suppression law? It’s a portrait of an antebellum era plantation. So very fitting for that crowd of (white) men.

  29. 29.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Also, too.

    Tennessee bill would ban books that mention LGBTQ people from public schools.

    H.B. 800 would ensure “public charter schools shall not locally adopt or use in the public schools of this state, textbooks and instructional materials or supplemental instructional materials that promote, normalize, support, or address lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transgender issues or lifestyle,” according to the text of the proposed law.

    This is the sort of thing I mean when I say they’re trying to eradicate us from public life.

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    Hungry Joe

    People who brag about their bravery aren’t usually very convincing, but I can make a good case for my strut and swagger: I frequently go to the grocery store unarmed. Not a weapon on me.

    Well, okay, I don’t go anywhere without my nunchucks. But aside from that …

  34. 34.

    JWR

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    Hutchinson opposed the measure at that time but said in a statement announcing the bill signing that changes in the proposal would “ensure that the exercise of the right of conscience is limited to ‘conscience-based objections to a particular health care service.’”

    So, what’s the difference there? Do they have little notepads containing all the particular services these “right of conscience” fetishists might object to? F*ck them! And while I’m sure there are providers who think this way, this is a purely political act, towards a purely political end. Again, f*ck them.

  35. 35.

    sab

    @Sister Golden Bear: NPR’s 1A did a program on the trans athlete issue on Monday (this Monday or last, I can’t remember.)

    Fortunately, although 35 bills are pending, not a single Rpublican could show up to defend their position. So all we got was facts instead of lying, disruptive  talking points. One of the guests was a trans activist. The other was a reporter on trans issues.

    I certainly revised/changed/rethought some of my well-intentioned but mis-informed opinions. Science does that, sometimes.

    If you have heard the show or ever get around to listening, I would be curious to know your reaction.

  36. 36.

    Amir Khalid

    @AnotherBruce:
    I’m confident that within the next couple of years, Donald Trump will once again be living in a big house provided by the Government. It’s just a question of which Government’s big house: Georgia’s, New York’s, or the United States’.

  37. 37.

    Amir Khalid

    The photos in that first tweet? No army lets its soldiers carry weapons around like that. It’s sloppy, it’s careless, and it endangers you and the people around you. Someone could snatch that rifle from you before you realise it and shoot up the whole grocery store.

  38. 38.

    sab

    @Amir Khalid: Hopefully yes.

    Markos at Daily Kos reposted a thing about Lincoln Project financials. He thinks they are real and effective.

    I think, in USA, not parliamentary, that two parties are essential and we need to purge whateverthefuck is Trumpism. So go Lincoln Project.

  39. 39.

    joel hanes

    @SectionH:

    One of the riddles between Bilbo and Gollum:

    Thirty white horses on a red hill.

    First they stamp, then they champ, then they stand stil.

  41. 41.

    JWR

    A few more details about tonight’s (regularly scheduled?) mass shooting in Virginia:

    (CNN) – Two people are dead and at least eight have been injured after multiple shootings near the oceanfront in Virginia Beach, Virginia, police said Saturday.

    Police discovered at least eight shooting victims at “the original crime scene” near 20th Street and Atlantic Avenue when they arrived shortly after 11 p.m. Friday night, Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate told a press briefing.

    While police were investigating the first crime scene, shots were fired about a block away near 20th Street and Pacific Avenue, resulting in “an individual being confronted by a uniform Virginia Beach police officer,” Neudigate said. The officer shot and killed the person in what the chief described as a “police intervention shooting.”

  44. 44.

    JWR

    From the AP:

    Cleta Mitchell, a longtime Republican lawyer and advocate for conservative causes, was among the Trump advisers on a January phone call in which Trump asked Georgia election officials to “find” enough votes to declare him, and not Democrat Joe Biden, the winner of the battleground state.

    Now Mitchell has taken the helm of two separate efforts to push for tighter state voting laws and to fight Democratic efforts to expand access to the ballot at the federal level. She is also advising state lawmakers crafting the voting restriction proposals. And, she said Friday, she is in regular contact with Trump.

    […]

    “The left is trying to dismantle 100 years of advancement in election administration,” Mitchell said, expressing bafflement at Democrats’ charges that Republicans are trying to suppress votes. “We’re watching two different movies right now.”

    “100 years of advancement in election administration” is a weird way to talk about Jim Crow.

  46. 46.

    JWR

    Also, from the AP’s “what’s the matter with Kansas” department:

    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — One of the Kansas Legislature’s most powerful lawmakers was charged Friday with driving under the influence and a felony offense for trying to elude law enforcement while speeding the wrong way on highways in Topeka.

    Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop faces five criminal charges, including the felony count, the misdemeanor DUI count and a misdemeanor count of reckless driving. The Wichita Republican turned himself in at the local jail Friday evening, and his bond has been set at $5,000.

  48. 48.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @JWR:

    I had the misfortune to interact with her 20 years ago. She’s all ambition, zero smarts.

    In a duel of wits with a bag of hammers, her most likely outcome would be a draw.

  49. 49.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Mary G:  I had the pleasure of watching some of Eric and Lara on their whinefest youtube channel rehashing all their grievances. Those folks are so desperate to stay relevant its pathetic.

  51. 51.

    evodevo

    @JWR: ​
      Yeah…THAT will work out, I’m sure…just like it did when they passed Prohibition, and everyone was under the impression that it DIDN’T outlaw beer and wine lol…sorry, suckers….rude awakening ensued…

  52. 52.

    evodevo

    @Amir Khalid: ​
      On top of that, you could shoot every one of those idiots in the back before they could get their weapon deployed…what a bunch of cosplaying wankers

  53. 53.

    schrodingers_cat

    Guess who wants the ? ? back on Twitter? Hint: He too leads a cult of personality.

  54. 54.

    bjacques

    @JWR: speaking of her, if she really pleads as a defense her claims were too nutty to be taken seriously, couldn’t the judge say the same for her defense and summarily rule for the plaintiff?

  57. 57.

    Wapiti

    @Kent: I think this is ripe for a claim of sincerely held religious belief, since the big guy himself said that not giving water to the thirsty was like not helping him. Not giving water to the thirsty was a ticket to damnation. Pass out water, get arrested, and take it to the Supremes.

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    RaflW

    @Mallard Filmore: The police don’t really even need a pretext. “You resisted arrest with that glance, buddy.

    @Wapiti: That’s (very roughly) the defense used for the Water Protecter who was up on felony charges in Arizona for bringing water out in the desert. It worked.

  61. 61.

    SFAW

    @RaflW:

    That’s (very roughly) the defense used for the Water Protecter who was up on felony charges in Arizona for bringing water out in the desert. It worked.

    I’d like to see someone try to refuse medical treatment of/to RWMFs because of the doctor/nurse having sincerely-held religious beliefs that RWMFs are not unlike the Antichrist. Hell, I have that belief, and I’m not very religious, so I expect devout Christians (as opposed to “Christians” or Christianists) would be even more against servicing Satan and his followers.

  62. 62.

    The Fat White Duchess

    @JoyceH: I really like this idea.
    However, I’m not sure it’s practical in Massachusetts. Or am I just unable to recognize guns when I see them?

  65. 65.

    Art

    Given the price of some of the gear they carry, >$800 for the AR, handgun >$400, I’m surprised people haven’t simply taken to robbing the fools. Catch them in an alley, hold a .38 to their head and tell them to strip. stuff it all into trash bag and step off. Figure close to $2K a head for a few minutes work.

    Either keep it or sell it for fifty cents on the dollar out of a trunk at a gun show.

    Just wondering why this hasn’t happened … AFAIK.

    Please don’t take this as a suggestion. I would never advocate any illegal activity. No matter how individually and morally gratifying that activity may be.

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