Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The willow is too close to the house.

I was promised a recession.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

You cannot shame the shameless.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

No Justins, No Peace

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

That pie keeps getting more and more forks, reducing anyone’s chance of even a Perot.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson: the bland and smiling face of evil.

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

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  5. 5.

    rivers

    Only 7:54 in the morning and I’ve already cried – over the Michelle Obama video call. What an amazing woman.

  10. 10.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Weird how a central figure from the Democrat Russia hoax is granted access to Navalny in order to harass him, minimize his confinement and disparage his claims.

    https://www.rt.com/russia/519977-butina-prison-visit-navalny/amp/

    The facility housing Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, described by one former convict as “inhumane” and “real hell,” is more like a “scout camp” than a jail. That’s according to Maria Butina, a former prisoner herself.

    Butina, who visited the prison colony near Moscow on Thursday, was found guilty in 2018 of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the US. After almost a year in pre-trial detention, she spent five months in a Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, a minimum-security prison in Florida, before being deported to Moscow. Her visit to see Navalny, accompanied by cameras from RT’s Russian service, has been slammed by his supporters, with the opposition figure himself branding her a “propagandist” and a “parasite.”

    “I even asked him a question: does he understand the difference between a prison and a sanatorium?” Butina wrote on her Telegram channel. “I took a close look at the prison colony. It was almost exemplary, and compared to what I had seen, it was more like a scout camp.”

  12. 12.

    germy

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    This footage of her snarling at him:

    RT “reporter” Maria Butina in a confrontational exchange with @navalny (notable he is off camera He’s lost 17 lbs, suffering leg and back pain). While he describes the prison as tortuous, she is shocked. “This is torture? This is better than some rural Russian hotels.” ? https://t.co/GLa2QGt1qh— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) April 2, 2021

    She looks really angry. I almost expected her to take a swing at him.

  14. 14.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @germy:

    That was a lot of disdainful aggression toward her boy’s political prisoner.

    Sadly, nobody shanked her when she was in jail here.

  16. 16.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Baud:

    Not to mention his respectful avoidance of remarks on Hunter Biden.

  18. 18.

    caphilldcne

    The first legal marriages in the US didn’t happen til 2004. In the Netherlands, yes. The very 1st legal marriage was April 1, 2001. Harris is pretty rockin’ in that video but the timeline in the initial tweet is wrong.

  19. 19.

    germy

    @debbie:

    She was very critical of prison conditions when she spent her own time in a slammer.

    Maria Butina on seeing Alexey @Navalny in prison: He is walking fine, other prisoners say he demands special treatment. She asked Navalny “if he understands the difference between a prison and a resort.” Her conclusion: “Be a man. If you did the crime, do the time.” pic.twitter.com/v8H2ADTesH

    — Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) April 2, 2021

    She became a prisoners' rights advocate on returning to Russia. Of course, she focuses on abuses in American prisons, not Russian ones.

    — Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) April 1, 2021

  20. 20.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @germy:

    As long as he remains useful to the blobby goons with matted back hair, heavy gold chains and grandiose gold mansions, he’ll remain in power.

  21. 21.

    germy

    Meanwhile…

    Watch this space ? “An estimated 4,000 Russian troops have been dispatched to the border with the Ukraine, prompting the U.S. military’s Europe command to raise its watch level of the crisis to the highest possible level.” https://t.co/ubC7RPwp6r

    — Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) April 2, 2021

  25. 25.

    Immanentize

    Using Butina for that interview was genius level trolling of the US.  And look at all of you feeding the troll.

  27. 27.

    mali muso

    If you want even more Michelle Obama excellence and you’ve got a kiddo (or even if not), I’d highly recommend the new Netflix show “Waffles and Mochi”. It’s kind of like Sesame Street meets No Reservations.  Lots of learning about where food comes from along with basic life lessons. And catchy tunes!

  29. 29.

    John S.

    Such an obvious difference between Democrats and Republicans.

    For Michelle Obama, it’s an opportunity to provide inspiration and encouragement to young women.

    For Matt Gaetz, it’s an opportunity to sample the merchandise.

  30. 30.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Ivanka Trump’s flagship policy program slammed by government auditors

    The Government Accountability Office has issued a damning report about the implementation of legislation supporting Ivanka Trump’s signature women’s empowerment initiative, from her time as an adviser to her father, President Donald Trump.

    As Ivanka Trump traveled the world talking up the whole-of-government Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, deep problems were developing in roll out of the bipartisan Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act of 2018 at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
    …………………………
    One of the 10 agencies involved was the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is mandated to allocate $265 million a year for support to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises under the WEEE Act. Half of the money is required to go to women, half to the very poor (some overlap between the two groups is expected).

    While Trump touted W-GDP as a cohesive program “enabling us to rigorously track the execution and the efficacy of the money that we are spending,” the GAO’s 14-month audit demonstrates that, at least at USAID, the opposite was happening.

    While USAID launched at least 19 new women’s empowerment programs in 2019 alone, there were extensive failures in both the targeting of the money, and the measurement of its impact.

    USAID was unable to say what proportion of funds went to the very poor, and women-owned and managed businesses. Shockingly, the agency couldn’t even define what actually constitutes a business owned and run by women, the GAO concluded.

    I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

  35. 35.

    Anne Laurie

    Some people say that a 37-year-old who married a 19-year-old is bound to be a little touchy about ephebophilia jokes…

  43. 43.

    rikyrah

    Explain it Black Jesus ????

     

     

     

    Texas GOP congressional candidate Sery Kim on Chinese immigrants: “I don't want them here at all. I can say that because I’m Korean.They steal our intellectual property, they give us coronavirus, they don’t hold themselves accountable.” pic.twitter.com/sOewjgfSDY— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) April 3, 2021

  44. 44.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: Hmmm… I think the jury is still out on whether she is a woman or an AI generated hologram.

  47. 47.

    germy

    Essay from a teacher:

    The last four years, and the last year in particular, have reduced my circle of trust considerably. I get the feeling this is not an uncommon thing.

    Trump’s ascendancy was bad enough. Conservatives I’ve long disagreed with but respected showed me that deep down they were indifferent (at best) to fascism as long as it delivered what they wanted. It’s made me question my trust in them, and even my trust in my own ability to see people for who they are. I at least thought (naively) back in 2016 that Trump’s behavior once he took power might alienate them, but they gleefully doubled down. All of the lawbreaking, racism, family separations, and hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths from COVID only strengthened their ardor. The naked attempt to overthrow democracy on January 6th and the weeks leading up to the insurrection was met with silence (at best) or obfuscations and what-aboutism.

    Despite all of that, COVID has eroded my trust in others far more. Every day I have commuted by train I have had to ride with people nose-hanging, chin-strapping, or outright refusing to wear masks. Every scroll through social media shows all the trips and visits and parties made with complete disinterest for the well-being of others. So many conversations reveal a lack of concern with the virus or even denial of its potency. Multiple people have told me of friends dying after contracting COVID, then sharply telling me “but that’s NOT what killed them!” Others refuse to get vaccinated.

  48. 48.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jeffery:

    The Harris video made me cry.

    Me too.  How much that must have meant to so many people who had been excluded up until then from something as simple and fundamental as marriage, that all of us hetero people have always taken for granted.

    And now we have a President who supports trans rights, and recognized the Trans Day of Visibility this week.  We’re moving in the right direction again.

  49. 49.

    Ken

    @rikyrah: Sery Kim on Chinese immigrants: “I don’t want them here at all. I can say that because I’m Korean.

    Dude, the anti-Chinese mob’s not going to get to you and yell “This one’s OK, he’s Korean”.

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Ken:

    Oh. I didn’t know about Greenwald.  Do I want to google it? 

    No clue, but ask yourself if your weekend is going pretty well so far.

  52. 52.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Ken: “It’s cool.  I can totally be racist towards Chinese people because I’m Asian too.  And if you disagree, it’s because you’re racist!”

  55. 55.

    John S.

    @Ken: It just goes to show you how warped their perception is. A Korean person should know better than to draw equivalence between being Chinese and Korean.

    Thats like saying it’s ok for a person from England to slag on someone from Germany… because they’re British.

  57. 57.

    Baud

    @John S.:

    Thats like saying it’s ok for a person from England to slag on someone from Germany… because they’re British.

    They do that all the time!

  61. 61.

    Ken

    @Baud: In fairness, the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is German, and by British law the throne is reserved to descendants of Sophia of Hannover. So criticizing the Germans is practically like criticizing other Britons.

  64. 64.

    Amir Khalid

    @germy:
    In my experience, Asians can also be shockingly racist toward black people. African students started coming to Malaysia for higher education around the turn of the millennium, attracted by the private universities that charged a relatively low tuition and the low cost of living here. And they complained a lot about how Malaysians treated them.​

  65. 65.

    WereBear

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: omg when did I start looking like my mother???

     
    When I used her strategy to hide the gray and went blonde :)

    Now, pandemically, I’m going to give it up because Mr WereBear loved my chestnut locks and I can highlight it myself.

    But what’s seen can’t be unseen…

  66. 66.

    ThresherK

    @rikyrah: Never heard of this person before, but they really, really sound like a TX GOPer. (Chinese/Korean history in the last century is a subject of its own but she has quite a take.)

    I wonder if this Korean-American thinks she’ll be spared by American bigots because she’s one of the “good ones”.

  68. 68.

    mrmoshpotato

    @mali muso:

    I’m not sure who is enjoying it more…me or my 4 year old. lol 

    Storybots TA-DAHAAA!!!  (Bang is a really (cough!) laid-back dude.)

  70. 70.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @WereBear: 

    So long as he never remarks on how you’re starting to resemble her – that is the uncrossable line, and even a lunkhead like me knows that.

  71. 71.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:@MagdaInBlack: I see my mother every time I look in the mirror. Weird and comforting at the same time.​

    When I was referred to cardiology a few years back I chose to see the guy who’d taken care of my father for 20 years. Hadn’t seen him since Dad’s viewing 15 years before. When I walked in he was standing behind the reception counter reading a chart & when he looked up he said, You look exactly like your father.

    Well, I do, a little. More than a little. But the curious thing is that from about 15 through my late 40s I resembled the males in my mother’s family, which isn’t even from the same part of Italy. One cousin looked so much like me that when one of my HS friends met him it freaked him out.​ Go figger.

  72. 72.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @germy:

    I was not surprised.  For twelve years I’ve been here, hearing people say Republicans start caring when it affects them, and that the leaders are deceiving the rubes into voting against their interests.  No.  It has been a hate cult and a suicide pact for decades.  If a Republican voter is nice to you, it’s a mask because they haven’t labeled you Other.  Trump and COVID only made you see it.

    @germy:

    This.  The atrocities of bigotry between Asian ethnicities in the last century make anything in the West pale in comparison.  And yes, that was a damned high bar to clear.

  73. 73.

    gene108

    @ThresherK:

    I doubt she thinks the average violent racist in America can tell the difference between Korean and Chinese people.

    It still doesn’t mean she can’t have her ethnic or nationalist based grudges.

  76. 76.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Glenn is just asking questions is all. He never seems to find any white supremacy in existence.

    Glenn Greenwald

    @ggreenwald

    Replying to
    @ggreenwald

    One of the 87 times I’ve trended in the last 6 weeks as a villain is because I asked whether there was evidence for
    @DrIbram
    ‘s decree that it is “white supremacy” driving anti-Asian violence (there isn’t). This is all I said:

    Quote Tweet

    Glenn Greenwald

    @ggreenwald

    · Mar 17

    Has anyone provided an iota of evidence that what is driving this horrific surge of anti-Asian violence is “white supremacist domestic terror”? That would require data showing who is primarily perpetrating the violence and with what motive. Where is that? twitter.com/DrIbram/status…
    Show this thread

    9:19 AM · Apr 3, 2021·Twitter Web App

  77. 77.

    Ken

    @gene108: I don’t really look like anyone in family.

    Insert usual punchline about the milkman.

    My favorite joke along those lines is the unveiling of a new computer that can supposedly answer any question. A guy steps up and asks “Where is my father right now?” The computer responds YOUR FATHER IS FISHING IN CANADA.  The guy says, “Wrong, my father died six years ago.” The computer responds YOUR MOTHER'S HUSBAND DIED SIX YEARS AGO. YOUR FATHER IS FISHING IN CANADA.

  79. 79.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @gene108: My brothers and I look like the same person at different ages. I’m sure my youngest brother looks at his 2 older siblings and says, “Oh God, please no.”

  80. 80.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Ken:

    “When you give your parents a 23&Me kit for a Christmas gift and your mom runs from the room in tears….”

  81. 81.

    rikyrah

    Don’t negotiate in bad faith. Don’t even bother with the GOP. If they had wanted to pass an actual Infrastructure Plan, they could have when they had the WH and both Houses of Congress. They didn’t, because they never wanted to. ……………………………………………………………….

     

    Here’s how Biden’s infrastructure plan could get passed through Congress

    The three scenarios for how Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan could become law, explained.

    By Ella [email protected] Apr 2, 2021, 12:30pm EDT https://www.vox.com/22361959/biden-infrastructure-jobs-plan-congress

     

    With the first part of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan officially released, Congress has a massive priority set for the rest of the summer. The three scenarios to pass Biden’s infrastructure plan, explained At the top, it’s worth noting that it’s still very early, and a lot could — and probably will — change between now and when Biden’s plan is officially introduced in the US House as a bill. Then, there will be rounds of negotiations between the House and Senate to get to a final product.

     

    But until we know more, here are the rough scenarios for how Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bills could become law.

     

    Scenario 1 Democrats lump everything together in one budget reconciliation bill.

     

    Budget reconciliation, an arcane procedural tool in the Senate, allows the majority party to bypass the 60-vote threshold of the Senate filibuster and pass certain kinds of bills on a simple majority. As the name suggests, budget reconciliation can only be used for things that impact the federal budget. As Vox’s Dylan Scott has previously explained, each budget resolution is able to set up three bills, though they are typically lumped together in one large package, meaning lawmakers usually have one chance to use budget reconciliation every fiscal year: The budget resolution can, in theory, set up three separate reconciliation bills: one for taxes, one for spending, and one for the federal debt limit. However, in practice, most reconciliation bills have combined taxes and spending into a single piece of legislation. That’s the reason that, historically, the Senate has usually been limited to passing only one budget reconciliation bill in a given fiscal year.

  82. 82.

    Kay

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Independent journalist joins ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ with his reaction and analysis of potential crimes by Biden family

    Greenwald spent 2 months in the run up to the election doing nothing BUT speculating on Hunter Biden’s crimes and Hunter Biden is a private citizen- a different person than Joe Biden – which is why Greenwald had to broaden his fake prosecutorial probe to include speculation/accusations re: the whole “Biden family”.

  88. 88.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @WereBear:

    I once made the error of countering a request that I perceived as “high maintenance” as “that sounds kinda like something your mom would have wanted”.

    Never again….

  89. 89.

    OzarkHillbilly

    A good interview/profile:
    Minnie Driver: ‘I did not have the appetite to be a big movie star’

    We are talking over video chat, Driver from her family home in London, to which she has temporarily decamped after decades away in Los Angeles. She apologises for how nice she looks, the sort of apology that can only be made after a year in lockdown. “I’m only dolled up like this because I just did the photoshoot,” she explains. “And my fucking phone, the facial recognition thing wouldn’t recognise me. It was like, ‘Where’s the hag who usually opens the phone? Who’s this person?’ I often feel insulted by my own phone, but that was legendary.”

  91. 91.

    MomSense

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Bluegal from The professional left podcast discussed booktube and suggested some people she follows so I’ve been listening to a lot of booktube discussions and I really enjoy them.

  92. 92.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @OzarkHillbilly: Wait, really? He decided that cover story wasn’t working for him and fired her? Or he hadn’t paid her so she quit the acting gig?

  93. 93.

    jeffreyw

    Grumble.  We were watching Captain Marleau on Prime and enjoying it.  We were up to ep. 6 and tuned in last night to find that it was now available only with a MHz Choice subscription.  There are too many episodes left to finish the 2 seasons in the week long free trial offer.  Bastards

  95. 95.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @MomSense:

    Now he’s retweeting Byron York’s predictable objection to journalistic and corporate opposition to voter suppression and support of passage of HR1…

    Glenn Greenwald Retweeted

    Byron York

    @ByronYork

    Incredible that CBS News would publish pure political advocacy. This article advocates donor boycotts of specific political figures, spreads political propaganda, and urges passage of a specific bill (HR1). From a news division. Incredible.

    Quote Tweet

    CBS News

    @CBSNews

    · 11h

    3 ways companies can help fight Georgia’s restrictive new voting law https://cbsn.ws/3dyF2E8

    7:20 AM · Apr 3, 2021·Twitter Web App

  96. 96.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: It was just a single sentence in an article, no explanations. I didn’t even take much note of it except to think, “Who in their right mind would say, ‘Yes.’?”

  103. 103.

    raven

    The moron Brian Kemp is having a presser at noon to whine about the “radical mob” that moved the All Star game!

  104. 104.

    Kay

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    I think there’s genuine anguish in the more sophisticated Trumpist circles that Trump never even attempted an infrastructure plan. A less lazy President, one who even hired competent people, would have seen it as a no-brainer and made it a condition of signing the tax cuts for the wealthy.  Trump had all the leverage in the world with those tax cuts and he squandered it.

    It’s killing them that Biden is doing it.

  107. 107.

    Mai Naem mobile

    People talk about Barack Obama and the American Dream. I think Michelle Obama is the better description of the American Dream. She really came from humble beginnings. Barack was quite a few rungs above Michelle on the ladder. He’s a guy, his parents and grandparents were both well educated and, forget college, he went to one of the best high schools in the country. Not saying things were easy for Barack but Michele had  to overcome more obstacles.

  109. 109.

    NotMax

    @jeffreyw

    Only the first season was free with Prime, and that only for the month of March.

    If you scroll down (sometimes way down) the listings within Prime you’ll eventually find a category for “Shows To Sample This Month.” Always a mixed bag and always only included free for just the month, however some hidden nuggets do pop up on occasion. Have gotten into the habit of seeking out that category on the 2nd or 3rd of each month, as it sometimes doesn’t appear right away on the 1st.

  111. 111.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Greenwald has taken a sharp turn into right-wingville the last few years. He’s even gone partially neo-reactionary, using the “Cathedral” aspect of Neo-RX ideology to describe social media platforms banning literal Nazis on Twitter. He’s basically a white supremacist now he’s such a contrarian

  113. 113.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: Yep, nothing more radical than a bunch of Billionaire pro sports team owners. Next thing you know they’re gonna storm the GA state capitol with a bunch of double breasted pinstripe lobbyists with wads of cash. The horror.

  116. 116.

    MomSense

    @Baud:

    Did he come out of left wing circles though?  He was a libertarian who was affiliated with a Koch think tank. He wrote about giving George W’s Iraq war the benefit of the doubt which he later vehemently denied even when people presented him with his own words in his own damn book.  He later changed his mind about the Iraq War when the W admin could no longer hide it had gone to shit. He fooled a lot of people into thinking he came out of left wing circles by bludgeoning anyone who dared bring up his actual record.
    I always considered him an opportunist/ratfucker.

  117. 117.

    Baud

    @MomSense:

    I first heard about him from progressives who were attracted to him when he came out against Bush.  I don’t know his whole background, but that’s what I attribute to his original popularity.

  119. 119.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @jeffreyw: Looks like it’s a French series?

    I have a VPN that I can set to make it look like I’m from different countries. I can get French TV to think I’m in France, but the last time I tried to track down some show, I had to go through an extra subscription step that required a French mailing address, so that was the end of that.

    I found “Capitaine Marleau” at TV5Monde Etats-Unis (US). They say their channel is available through some US cable subscribers.

  121. 121.

    The Dark Avenger

    I can see the Spudlite, Luke, and his mom missing little Russ, but that’s about it.

  123. 123.

    WaterGirl

    @rikyrah:

    Texas GOP congressional candidate Sery Kim on Chinese immigrants: “I don’t want them here at all. I can say that because I’m Korean. I can say that because I’m a racist pig.  Vote for me.

    Fixed that for you.

  124. 124.

    Anonymous

    @Ken: 

    I wish my wife looked more like my mother. Unfortunately she is a ringer for my Mother-in-law… go figure!

  126. 126.

    MomSense

    @Baud:

    He went to great lengths to erase his past opinions, actions and connections so he would be appealing to left wing circles.

  130. 130.

    J R in WV

    @MomSense:

    I read a few pieces he [GG] wrote back when he was  first on the web, poorly written enough that it was a lot of work figuring out what he intended to say. Soon gave up on him completely, a Russian tool when not being a Republican tool.

    ETA: Don’t recall where I read his stupid junk at first, as I say, long ago… More despicable as he ages, though. Or as I age…

  131. 131.

    sdhays

    @J R in WV: I first encountered him on Salon.com, and my experience was similar to yours – poorly written, extremely long screeds with several poorly written, extremely long updates for each post. I gave up paying him any attention pretty quickly.

  134. 134.

    Brachiator

    @J R in WV:

    I read a few pieces he [GG] wrote back when he was first on the web, poorly written enough that it was a lot of work figuring out what he intended to say. Soon gave up on him completely

    Same here. I would occasionally come across comments here in Balloon Juice Land saying good things about GG, but I never saw a good reason for the admiration.

  136. 136.

    gwangung

    @ThresherK:I wonder if this Korean-American thinks she’ll be spared by American bigots because she’s one of the “good ones”.

    Well, she’s been getting this pass all along (model minority and all), so….yeah.

  139. 139.

    StringOnAStick

    @J R in WV: Spleenwald was at Salon when he opposed W, that’s where he picked up a lefty following.  The only person I knew who was still into him  was the anarchist ex-friend who tried to convince me to join him in becoming a mens rights advocate, a guy I guarantee you voted for the orange clown because it would enhance the contradictions.  Ugh.  I never regret ending that friendship.

  141. 141.

    lowtechcyclist

    @OzarkHillbilly: 

    “Christ has called me” Former Sec. of State Pompeo

    Don’t get your hopes up like I did.

    Nah, I know the difference between “Christ has called me” and “Christ has called me home.“

  143. 143.

    Kay

    @MomSense:

    Years ago, I wrote something here about the financials that were released re: an entity he controlled, a non profit or something. Anyway, my comments were critical and at that time he had a woman working for or with him and she posted and we had an argument, in the comments, for like the next 12 hours :)

  144. 144.

    Kay

    Mona Holland, a lawyer who partnered with Greenwald

    I think this is her, although I believe it was just first names, so maybe not. Maybe another Mona.

  148. 148.

    Steeplejack

    @jeffreyw:

    I like JustWatch because it seems to show all the available options and distinguishes among streaming for “free” (with a subscription), renting and buying. If you really, really need something . . .

  149. 149.

    germy

    @Kay:

    I have a theory.

    Imani Gandy used to be a front pager here.  She was before my time, but from what I’ve read here she was driven out by some commenters who attacked her constantly.

    I have also read that GG used to appear here in the comments.

    My theory is GG was the one who launched the campaign against Imani, and drove her out.

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