Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

The lights are all blinking red.

The revolution will be supervised.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

So many bastards, so little time.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

I really should read my own blog.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

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Hannity’s jealous of the ‘respectable’ TFG-enabler:


Oooh, two-thirds of the way to a NYTimes ‘trend’ story…

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    Open thread?

    Okay, I’m the first to admit when am wrong. Predicted the Macbook Air (M1) would drop to $899.00 for Prime Days. On sale price currently $899.99.

    ;)

  2. 2.

    Keith P.

    Hannity’s just doing performance art.  He knows damn well that Haberman covers Trump more than Biden because a) she lives in the same town as Trump Org, and b) her f’n sources were people in the Trump administration, and she doesn’t have (m)any Biden sources as he’s, you know, from Delaware

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    you gotta understand how dedicated the GOP as an organization is to answering the question “How can we make society worse?”

    Platoons of elected public servants dedicated to proclaiming to the public “You’re not the boss of me!”

  4. 4.

    West of the Rockies

    Aren’t meteorologists supposed to talk about weather or, uh, meteors?  Maybe April and Ivory are going to be the white Diamond and Silk?

  5. 5.

    John Revolta

    Aaannd Tom Cotton sums up the GOP nicely.
    See also: “Hey, that guy’s in a Union and he gets more money than me……….so let’s GET RID OF UNIONS!!!”

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    If you asked 100 random people on the street who Sean Hannity is, you’d get an indisputable majority of blank stares. And a few “Wasn’t he a folk singer or something like that?

    //

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    like you’ve got avocados falling out of your ears

    How many?  How frequently?  And do my ears produce any other vegetables?

    Who wants guacamole?

  11. 11.

    Tony Jay

    The one time ‘Er Indoors and I set foot in the Uppity Colonies of Ameryk back in 2004, we got off the plane in Seattle (though it could have been while transferring at O’Hare) only to be greeted by a massive stacked display of Hannity’s then latest Regnery-published screed with his ill-formed splat of a face smeared across endless covers.

    Almost got back on the plane. Didn’t. That would have been silly. I did point and sneer in the direction of the display, though, and totally got away with it. Take that, Border Cops, this one fought the power and lived to tell the tale!

  12. 12.

    opiejeanne

    @NotMax: Yikes! What a nice neighbor.

    I love that they’ve got the video of him leaving the letter, and him denying that he wrote it.

  15. 15.

    Tony Jay

    @opiejeanne:

    I think the idea was that travellers from Red America would buy enough to build individual book-forts to protect them from the Godless Lieberal Hordes of Blueland.

  17. 17.

    opiejeanne

    @mrmoshpotato: I live near Seattle, but we used to have them in our yard, one tree dropping more than 300 avocados after a cold snap. Oh, the sound they made! You know kids and lemonade stands? My kids had an avocado stand.

  18. 18.

    opiejeanne

    Very weird random quote from New Gingrich that I just found in a word puzzle:

    “A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.”

    Yeah, that right there is the definition of freedom.

  20. 20.

    Morzer

    Just to put my position re: the filibuster on the record, since I know Big Bad Joe (Manchin, you fools!) is waiting with bated breath for this moment:

    I don’t want to destroy the filibuster. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

    See, I can do bipartisanship too!

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    @opiejeanne:

    You know kids and lemonade stands? My kids had an avocado stand. 

    In varying degrees of ripeness, and the kids knew how to price them hopefully. ?

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    @opiejeanne: Ahhh yes, beach volleyball and jerking off the military at every sport with the national anthem was what the War for Independence was all about.

  25. 25.

    montanareddog

    @opiejeanne: 

    “A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.”

    I have a mental picture of that slob, slavering in front of the TV the first time he saw those tall, skinny girls throwing themselves about, and straightening their bikinis after each play.

    He is just gross

  26. 26.

    Morzer

    @mrmoshpotato:

    I renounce my share of lemonade and selflessly confine myself to avocados as the one true path to fully automated luxury Communism.

    To each according to my avocado needs. FOR THE PEOPLE!!!

  28. 28.

    Tony Jay

    @opiejeanne:

    Yes, I was witness to this phenomenon while trying to get served in a busy sports-bar in Ballard. In the end I had to roll a couple of avocados down the other end of the bar to distract the mob and make a space.

    The craft-brew was an eye-opener, though, especially for someone who understood American beer to range from piss poor to poorly filtered piss. This was not that.

  30. 30.

    Morzer

    @Tony Jay:

    I had to roll a couple of avocados down the other end of the bar to distract the mob

    So that’s what happened at the Battle of Bowling Green!

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    In Malaysia, we don’t get to be stupid with guns, so we use what we do have. This guy in Penang was videoed giving, or at least offering, alcohol to his five-month-old baby. He’s now sitting in a police lockup while they investigate.

  36. 36.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Maga Haberman is a paid commentator on CNN. She only goes on air to talk about Dump. She’s his publicity agent.

  37. 37.

    mrmoshpotato

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Ahh yes.  Just be explicit about it, MAGA Trumptrasherman.

  38. 38.

    Quinerly

    Stumbled on this. Explains a lot about two friends who became RWNJs (she had been a social worker and then legal aid atty, he conservative Catholic, first generation Irish born here). Final straw for me re our friendship was their reactions when Obama was elected and Ted Kennedy died. Long story short, I spent a lot of time on Sunday evenings at their home during the Clinton and Bush Adms (I actually introduced them in ’93 and they became a couple, never married each other, both Catholic, both divorced). Their Sun night ritual was watching Braveheart. I would slip out when it started. I always thought Fox News brainwashed my friend, Jeanne. Now I’m thinking this loathsome movie had a hand in it. I suspect they were Cruz supporters initially but are now Trump worshippers.

    thedailybeast.com/bravehearts-warped-history-has-been-suckering-evangelicals-for-a-quarter-century

  39. 39.

    ian

    I’m not sure how I feel about the McCloskey gun case thing.  The judge had to know that simply ordering the destruction of 1 firearm for a go-fund-me celebrity was pointless, though perhaps MO law did not give the judge other alternatives (IANAL but that sounds exactly like MO to me).

    Imagine if someone was involved in a near fatal DUI, and the punishment was they had to simply sell their current car.  If half the nation thought that DUI made great television, how long before that individual gets new keys and a fifth?

  40. 40.

    Geminid

    When Democrats took over the Virginia General Assembly in 2019, the prospect of gun safety legislation brought over ten thousand armed protesters to Richmond on “Lobby Day” in January 2020. The General Assembly went ahead and passed six gun safety measures. Nothing earthshaking: near-universal background checks for firearms purchases, a “red flag” law, criminal penalties for having unsecured firearms in a house with minors, mandatory reporting of stolen firearms, etc. When these laws went into effect that July, I did not read or hear of any protests.

    These laws polled at 75%-80% approval* before the legislature met. One proposed measure, a ban on assault type weapons, polled something like 55-45% in favor. That one was punted to the State Crime Commission for study. Assuming Democrats win the Governor’s race and hold the General Assembly this fall, I expect the assault weapons ban will be brought up in next year’s session.

    *Wason Center poll of registered Virginia voters, published December, 2019. The poll also included ideological self-identification, and it is apparent from these numbers that approval of these gun safety measures reached well into the conservative side of the spectrum.

  42. 42.

    satby

    @opiejeanne: Strange but true: most people deny it when they’re caught on tape. A large part of the job for a private dick (a job I had back in the 90s) is filming people breaking laws or committing fraud, and then also having to testify to the provenance of the video and verify that the person on it is the accused.

  43. 43.

    debbie

    @Morzer:

    “We intend to drown the filibuster in the bathtub, just like the Republicans are proceeding on democracy.”

  44. 44.

    Kay

    WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick B. Garland backed away on Tuesday from doing a broad review of Justice Department politicization during the Trump administration, noting that the department’s independent inspector general was already investigating related issues, including aggressive leak hunts and attempts to overturn the election.

    The inspector General. The people who issue reports that no one reads.
    There are probably forty 15 and 16 year olds imprisoned in this county for violating probation on what were misdemeanor offenses if committed by an adult and yet for some reason no one is capable of holding any white collar criminal anywhere accountable for anything.

  45. 45.

    Kay

    I just want to note the ridiculous circular reasoning Garland is using here- investigations and prosecutions of people in the other political party are “politicizing” justice.

    In order not to politicize he has to view it through a political lens. It doesn’t make sense on its own terms, let alone have anything to do with “justice”. It’s poor reasoning. It’s also exactly the same error Comey made.

    Just. Do. The. Job. Stop trying to control how the job is perceived. It won’t work anyway and maybe more importantly that’s not his job.

  46. 46.

    Morzer

    @Kay: The more I see of  Merrick “let’s not scare the horses” Garland, the more I conclude that he would have been distinctly unimpressive on SCOTUS.

  47. 47.

    Kay

    @Morzer:

    He may have been great on SCOTUS. It’s a wholly different job. He’s not a judge. He’s supposed to be a prosecutor now.

    He understands that by continuing to insist the DOJ can’t investigate anyone in the Party out of power because that’s “politicizing” he is conceding that the DOJ is now wholly politicized, right? His approach is political. He’s avoiding doing the job due to concerns about appearing political. So we have two wholly political approaches- Republicans investigate and prosecute their political opponents and Democrats don’t investigate and prosecute their political opponents. Both of these approaches are wrong and both are wholly political.

    I really can make it easier for him. He can avoid years and years of Comey-like anguish. Just do the job and let the chips fall. He, Merrick Garland, is actually not solely responsible for how “justice” is perceived. That’s not, in fact, his job.

  48. 48.

    Morzer

    @Kay: I suspect we’d have seen the same rigmarole about politicizing SCOTUS decisions from moderate Grandpa Merrick. Once the Unreality Brain Worm has burrowed in, it’s there forever.

  49. 49.

    Kay

    @Morzer:

    Have the Trumpster rioters figured out yet that the only people who are going to be prosecuted for this are the low level foot soldiers? In other words, “them”?

    They’re the fucking stooges of the GOP. They’re sitting in jail while the top-tier planners are safe as houses. Most of them will be carrying felonies for the rest of their lives while Roger Stone plans the next insurrection.

  50. 50.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @NotMax: Politically, the State of MD is a foreshortened deep blue combination wrench[1], with the open end jammed around DC (Monkey[2] & PG Counties) and a closed end at Baltimore, that “rusts out” to purple & then deep red the farther away you get. Even with the influx of DC commuters, Frederick (home of Barbara Fritchie [3] and Fort Detrick) is getting toward the bloodier side of the rust. Likely this mook was downwind of the Fort when they were venting the psychoactive waste gas…

    [1] “Combination spanner” to Tony Jay, Sloane Ranger, Robert Sneddon & others of the UK-ilk amongst us.

    [2] Officially “Montgomery” but we Baltimorons love to tweak the rich-bitches’ nose.

    [3] The lame poem about whom by John Greenleaf Whittier served as inspiration for one of the most awesome shaggy-dog-story punch lines in precorded hystery. Details available upon request…

  52. 52.

    Another Scott

    @Kay: Meh.

    He’s been on the job all of 3 months.  Having the IG do the initial investigation is not a horrible thing.

    Garland’s statement:

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Monday, June 14, 2021
    Statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland

    U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today made the following statement:

    “As I stated during my confirmation hearing, political or other improper considerations must play no role in any investigative or prosecutorial decisions. These principles that have long been held as sacrosanct by the DOJ career workforce will be vigorously guarded on my watch, and any failure to live up to them will be met with strict accountability. There are important questions that must be resolved in connection with an effort by the department to obtain records related to Members of Congress and Congressional staff. I have accordingly directed that the matter be referred to the Inspector General and have full confidence that he will conduct a thorough and independent investigation. If at any time as the investigation proceeds action related to the matter in question is warranted, I will not hesitate to move swiftly.

    “In addition, and while that review is pending, I have instructed the Deputy Attorney General, who is already working on surfacing potentially problematic matters deserving high level review, to evaluate and strengthen the department’s existing policies and procedures for obtaining records of the Legislative branch. Consistent with our commitment to the rule of law, we must ensure that full weight is accorded to separation-of-powers concerns moving forward.”

    There’s nothing wrong with his approach here.

    The last thing that he, or the Administration, needs is a rushed sloppy investigation out of his office that is spun as if he’s doing a witch-hunt.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  53. 53.

    J R in WV

    In my book, we need to know who funded the buses for the “patriotic insurrectionists” traveling to DC for their riotous insurrection, who paid for the hotel rooms, who invited them to overturn our democracy, who prevented NG troops from saving our Capitol…etc. in order to indict and try them for their sedition and insurrection. Then V long prison sentences.

    I don’t need to know their voter’s registration party line ID, just if they helped the insurrection in any way, or interfered in the defense of the capitol in any way. Leaders from the top (TFG) down thru Roger Stone all the way to the drivers of those buses, if they knew what they were doing.

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