Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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

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

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

“Squeaker” McCarthy

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

This really is a full service blog.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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

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  1. 1.

    Ken

    I can’t offhand remember a Mike Pence news conference, not that it’s something I would have sought out. It’s also probably something TFG wouldn’t have approved of, since someone else would be getting attention.

    Mentioned this in a dead thread below: I managed to schedule my first vaccine today, and it’s for tomorrow morning. I kind of wonder if someone got scared off by the J&J announcement and gave up their slot.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    I’d like to think that, if I were a fascist, I’d be embarrassed by the quality of the political discourse on the American right.

    I guess I’ll never know though.

  4. 4.

    brendancalling

    These people are fucking idiots. It’s equally pathetic, hilarious, and annoying to watch them try to tar Biden and Harris—and fail miserably each time. Just a bunch of goons.

    Re: open thread. Today was day two of coaching middle school track. Our admins are AWOL so the woman I’m coaching with and I are making it up as we go along.

    Bumpiness of this first week aside, the kids—ages 11-13—are great. There’s nothing like spending the afternoon running around with a bunch of kids, and having little interactions with ‘em. I’d take any of my kids on their worst day than a Republican on their best day. They make me slightly leas grumpy.

  5. 5.

    MisterForkbeard

    I guess the assumption is that she should be giving a press conference every day because the ‘border crisis’ is so ‘bad’? Clearly, she’s just AWOL.

    As opposed to “fixing the shit Trump did and things are steadily improving”, which doesn’t require daily updates.

  6. 6.

    Spanky

    @Baud: If you were an Amerkin Fascist, you would have no idea what “quality of political discourse” even means.

  7. 7.

    Ken

    @Spanky: Logically he must have been at press conferences, because he was on the vaccine task force, and I assume he would have said something — but I’m drawing a blank.  I remember a few other things from those conferences. Did he not say anything, or did the news not cover it?

  8. 8.

    Ken

    @MisterForkbeard: As opposed to “fixing the shit Trump did and things are steadily improving”, which doesn’t require daily updates.

    Though it would be funny if the WH began releasing that statement every day, as a parody of the ones about TFG “working very hard all day, attending many meetings and making many phone calls”

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    I read that Post story the other day and made the mistake of continuing on to the comments section. Normally the Post commentariat is relatively sane, but boy howdy the haters and trolls were out in force. Basic theme: ‘How dare she have a hobby while the border remains unfixed!’. Clearly she should have purchased a golf course and spent every weekend there instead.

  11. 11.

    zhena gogolia

    I love Kamala. I am praying for another term of Joe and then two of Kamala, and I should be pretty ancient by then!

  12. 12.

    dmsilev

    @Ken: Remember, you need to activate the 5G chip within 48 hours. Major credit and debit cards accepted. No Bitcoin.

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    Couple of recent items which caught the eye.

    1) The good.

    The Biden administration’s fiscal 2022 defense budget request would eliminate the so-called Overseas Contingency Operations account, a seemingly bottomless box of money that had become emblematic of Washington’s fiscal flimflammery.

    The president intends to discontinue requests for OCO “as a separate funding category, instead funding direct war costs and enduring operations in the DOD base budget, a significant budgetary reform,” according to a fact sheet submitted to appropriators Friday by Shalanda Young, the acting director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.

    This would mark the end of an era. Over the past two decades, off-budget war accounts, whether called “supplementals” or the OCO account, had morphed from a temporary way to budget for fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq into what some called a slush fund for hundreds of billions of dollars — spending that, by law, was not hemmed in by the budget caps that circumscribed most other federal programs. Source

    2) The bad and the ugly.

    Rep. Madison Cawthorn has a new idea for protecting the still-unfinished border wall championed by former President Donald Trump: Turn any part of the wall into a national monument.

    Cawthorn, a first-term Republican who represents far-western North Carolina, even wants to honor Trump with the bill. He’s a calling it “Donument.” Cawthorn introduced the legislation last week. Source

  14. 14.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Ken: Congrats! I got my first shot (Moderna) this morning, and I’m starting to feel it now. Been pretty tired for a couple hours, and my arm is starting to hurt.

    I also managed to schedule my wife for a Friday shot, which I’m inordinately proud of. It’s a great peace-of-mind feeling.

  16. 16.

    dmsilev

    @NotMax: Congressman Treepuncher boasted that he focused his staff on ‘comms’ (meaningless posturing) rather than policy.

    Yeah, we can tell.

  18. 18.

    Ken

    @NotMax: Rep. Madison Cawthorn has a new idea

    First time for everything, as they say.  I see the proposal as further evidence that the Republicans are happiest when they’re out of power, and can devote themselves fully to their performance art.

  20. 20.

    hells littlest angel

    @Ken: Mike Pence gave a news conference EVERY SINGLE DAY  of his vice-presidency, sometimes more than once a day. But every single time, the former guy started tweeting or calling in to Fox News, and Pence’s conferences were little noted and quickly forgotten.

     

    (But they helped to buoy the nation!)

  23. 23.

    Redshift

    @Spanky:

    Ooooh, now there’s a question. If Mike Pence held a press conference, would anyone notice? 

    I’m pretty sure he held some, but he’s so dull I can’t remember anything more about them.

  25. 25.

    craigie

    Fox should just get straight to the point and every day report that “The President and the Vice President are still Democrats! Film at 11!”

  28. 28.

    germy

    A revealing little part of Boehner's book I haven't seen in reviews is that he claims, twice, that Obamacare is mostly gone. "Today, there’s not much left of Obamacare," and "there really isn't much of Obamacare left." Reads like unsuccessful self-hypnosis.

    — Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 13, 2021

  29. 29.

    Raoul Paste

    @NotMax:   First it was the “Trumpcine” and now it’s the  “Donument”

    He’s determined to get his name on something    You’ll probably be able to see his tombstone from space

  30. 30.

    MisterForkbeard

    @germy: I’ve seen this elsewhere on the right, too. I think it’s their way of convincing themselves that they really did succeed during the Trump years.

  31. 31.

    germy

    Dr. Robert Redfield, former Trump CDC head, to serve as a strategic health and safety advisor to Big Ass Fans, the manufacturing company says. Redfield will provide solutions for poor indoor air quality and airborne pathogen transmission per company.

    — Kristen Holmes (@KristenhCNN) April 12, 2021

    He’ll lend a degree of gravitas to the endeavor.

  34. 34.

    dmsilev

    @Raoul Paste: With the sort of cameras even commercial satellites have these days, that’s not saying much. A sheet of plywood sitting on the ground with TFG’s name spray-painted on it would (a) be visible from space and (b) be a suitable grave marker for him.

  37. 37.

    bluehill

    @germy: Well he’s definitely a Big Ass. Come to think of it there are a lot of other Trump staffers that could work there.

  38. 38.

    L85NJGT

    FOX should be more creative in their fictions. It’s not like the tater-tots are going to get woke if they go full on tabloid.

  39. 39.

    randy khan

    I did a quick search and it appears that Mike Pence did appear at press conferences, mostly in his largely ceremonial role with the Coronavirus Task Force, and so far as I can tell, never by himself.

    However, that search also turned up the news that “super lawyer Lin Wood” released the transcript of an interview with a big-time whistleblower, “with many hair-raising allegations about former Vice President Mike Pence, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and former Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein.”  Since I was afraid I couldn’t handle the truth, I did not click the link.

  42. 42.

    debbie

    @randy khan:

    I’ve seen tweets that Wood claims he’s responsible for ordering Pence’s hanging.  ??‍♀️

    I’m thinking prion disease is the issue with these idiots.

  43. 43.

    Roger Moore

    @Raoul Paste:

    You’ll probably be able to see his tombstone from space

    If you mean naked eye visible, I sincerely doubt it.  To see a tombstone from ISS, it would have to be almost as big as the pyramids of Giza.  Trump may be grandiose enough to want such a thing, but there’s no way he could afford it.

  44. 44.

    RandomMonster

    @Ken: Though it would be funny if the WH began releasing that statement every day, as a parody of the ones about TFG “working very hard all day, attending many meetings and making many phone calls”

    Great idea! The WH should release that statement every day for Major as he progresses with his new dog training.

  46. 46.

    L85NJGT

    @randy khan:

    The sitcom version would have a slow camera pullback, revealing three reporters. One lost in a phone game, one cleaning his/her shoes, and one sleeping.

  51. 51.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Roger Moore:

    If you mean naked eye visible, I sincerely doubt it.  To see a tombstone from ISS, it would have to be almost as big as the pyramids of Giza.  Trump may be grandiose enough to want such a thing, but there’s no way he could afford it.

    As for the line of people waiting to piss on it, that’s a different story.

  53. 53.

    Just One More Canuck

    @sab: I’m sure you’re right

    Maybe Chelsea will announce a run, just to make heads explode

  55. 55.

    Ken

    @Roger Moore: To see a tombstone from ISS, it would have to be almost as big as the pyramids of Giza.  Trump may be grandiose enough to want such a thing, but there’s no way he could afford it.

    You forget the grateful citizens of the nation, who will want to put up the largest possible pile of rock, if only to make sure the bastard never crawls out from under it.

  58. 58.

    Mo Salad

    Got Pfizer 2 literally Pfive minutes ago. Waiting out my 15 in the concourse at Pford Pfield.

  59. 59.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Ken: Never saw that episode of South Park.  And I just made up the line and attributed it to Ralph.

  64. 64.

    Mo Salad

    @mrmoshpotato: Take 1: If I was, I wouldn’t find it here.

    Take 2: Yes. But Liverpool and Real Madrid in tomorrow afternoon. But for the next 20 hours, I am enjoying a day where Liverpool are still in the Champion’s League and Bayern Munich and Barcelona are not.

  65. 65.

    RandomMonster

    @Mo Salad: Same, just 9 hours ahead of you.  So far I have a fairly boring local soreness around the injection. Don’t want to jinx it, but so far so good.

  66. 66.

    TruthOfAngels

    @dmsilev: No Bitcoin? This isn’t on. This will not do! I mean, it’s one thing to have 5G in my bloodstream, it’s dead good to get quality 4K video merely by dancing around the room and randomly waving my hands, and it’s free.

    But no Bitcoin? You want me not to commit my finances to the dodgiest currency ever invented?

    (Fuck off, the Hungarian pengo. All you managed was a trillion dollar note. You suck.)

  71. 71.

    NotMax

    @mrmoshpotato

    Shows up more slowly than the express soreness.

    ;)

    (Hunt and pecked with sinister hand as using the fingers of the yesterday-injected arm for typing is twinge inducing today.)

  72. 72.

    Spanky

    @RandomMonster: I noticed this morning that my Moderna #2 site was still bruised from my Saturday injection. It bled at the time, and the nurse was complaining about the retractable needle. I didn’t notice the stick any more than usual, either.

  74. 74.

    Jay

    Moderna first jab last Friday.

    Sore with in hours of the injection. Really sore on Saturday. Mildly sore on Sunday. No temp, no other reactions other than relief.

  75. 75.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Where is DB Cooper!

    It’s been 50 years since his last press conference!

  77. 77.

    Mo Salad

    @VeniceRiley: While I am barred from cheering for Citeh by the blood oath I swore when they pried Raheem Sterling from LFC, it would be fun to see three English teams in the final four again like what was normal for the 2005 to 2010 time frame. A LFC Chelsea semi-final would be so Old School.

    And a small part of me is fascinated with Citeh’s potential quad. They could add a Uefa super cup, a Community Shield, and a World Club  Cup and end up holding 7 trophies at the same time. We are going To end up with two Manchester Derbies before the season even starts in August.​

  78. 78.

    Jeffro

    I’m confused (and I know others above have made many of the same points):

    1. Do VPs usually go to, and stick to, the geographic locales of whatever fusterclucks they’ve been assigned?
    2. Is there video of a Mike Pence news conference about anything during trumpov’s 4 long years (other than him sitting at a cabinet meeting praising the orange menace)
    3. In this era of remote work…why would VP Harris need to go to and stay at the blessed border?
    4. Who made Fox News the timekeeper of VP Harris’ comings and goings?
    5. Why does Nikki Haley keep pretending she’s not the same/usual GQP creep with nothing to offer except soundbites and tweets, except in skirts?
  79. 79.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    He denied it very strongly…

    Manu Raju@mkraju
    Marco Rubio told me “I don’t know anything about the case” when asked if he stands by fellow FL Republican, Matt Gaetz “I’ve read about it, but I’ve read what people report, I’ve read what he’s denied. How can anybody opine on something they don’t know anything about firsthand?”

  80. 80.

    Jeffro

    @dmsilev:Clearly she should have purchased a golf course and spent every weekend there instead.

    Clearly you mean, “she should have straw-purchased a golf course with Russian money, and then played there 3x/week instead”

  81. 81.

    Jeffro

    @Raoul Paste:{trumpov}’s determined to get his name on something    You’ll probably be able to see his tombstone from space

    I just need it to be big enough that I can hit it with, um, liquid from a distance of about five feet.

  82. 82.

    Jeffro

    @rikyrah: a whole lot of not lying here…

    The Republican Party is the anti-government party. It has been for decades. During the Trump era, however, the party crossed a moral threshold many GOP voters would not. The Republicans became the party of treason. It literally acquitted the former president’s attempt to overthrow the United States government. At the same time, a vast majority of Americans, all living under the smog of the covid pandemic, realize government action was the only way out of the emergency. They couldn’t turn to the Republicans a) because the former president was most responsible for allowing the emergency to become the worst among rich counties and b) because they were the party of anti-government before they became the party of treason.

    The Republicans turned their backs on the whole of the country when the whole of the country most needed the government to take action.

  84. 84.

    NotMax

    @Ken

    “As I never had the opportunity to meet Hitler firsthand, I have no opinion about him one way or the other.”

    //

  86. 86.

    smedley the uncertain

    @NotMax: jabbed my sinister shoulder both times.  Moderna  Jabbed and plus two weeks.  Still tentative about mixing and mingling.

  88. 88.

    Chris T.

    @NotMax:

    2) The bad and the ugly.

    Rep. Madison Cawthorn has a new idea for protecting the still-unfinished border wall championed by former President Donald Trump: Turn any part of the wall into a national monument.

    Cawthorn, a first-term Republican who represents far-western North Carolina, even wants to honor Trump with the bill. He’s a calling it “Donument.” Cawthorn introduced the legislation last week. Source

    We could turn bad-and-ugly into a lesson: take down all but one piece of wall and call it the Donument to Stupidity.

  90. 90.

    Ruckus

    @Ken:

    We could drown him in piss, would work well and after it dried up wouldn’t even smell. That pile of rock would be there forever.

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