Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

You cannot shame the shameless.

I really should read my own blog.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

This fight is for everything.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

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

No one could have predicted…

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

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Death Cultists After Dark Open Thread: CPAC-Texas

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Yeah, the last of these superspreader conservapaloozas wasn’t even five months ago, but Texas was not gonna stand down against the flexing from that other massive Reliably Red [so far] Redoubt.

Problem is, CPAC used to be the annual trade exhibition where promising young GOP contenders could show off their talents, while novelty acts and tshirt&trinket dealers peddled their wares. These days, everyone can watch the exact same acts on Fox News — or CNN — any hour of the day or night. It’s gone stale. Sad!

Hey, remember this dude?

Sidebar — since this *is* Balloon Juice After Dark…


Never mind the content, look at that photo and tell me MTG doesn’t intend to get into Gaetz’s pants. Sure, the media claims he’s only interested in high school girls, but that’s just because he’s never met a really experienced Crossfit trainer who likes ’em big & stupid…

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  1. 1.

    MagdaInBlack

    I admit that I’ve been sort of following this insanity. Thank you for the post

    Eta: AOC had a good response to the Colorado bobble head, if you can find the tweet.

  2. 2.

    billcinsd

    If they had paid attention when Trump got impeached (just one of the times, even) they would know it takes 67 votes in the Senate to remove the President via impeachment

  3. 3.

    ian

    Well at least they figured out that Trump can’t just be magically reinstated, but I would sure love to hear they reasoning why they think the CBC is going to suddenly flip over to Republican and then vote for Donald Trump for Speaker, and why they then will get 67 votes for two separate impeachments.

    So Kudos, I guess, for trying.

  4. 4.

    ian

    Also where is the legal rationale for “rendering all acts of said imposters, while in office, null and void and no effect?”

  5. 5.

    MagdaInBlack

    @ian: There is no “reasoning” involved, in any of this. They live in an entirely different reality tunnel.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    But- but- according to Pillow Guy, the Supreme Court will anoint Dolt 45 in August. When they’re not in session.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    They’re galactic size assholes.

    efgoldman ’em.

    “Lookee here, Lurlene. I got the last Trump as Rambo black velvet painting! The little’uns can live on peanut butter for another month.”

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    Boebert: We’re here to tell government we don’t want your benefits. We don’t want your welfare…

    Well, Gun Humper, ever Rethuglican needs to hand back the PPP loans.

  10. 10.

    MagdaInBlack

    @NotMax:  I’ve watched a bit of Mr. Lindell  ( on Steve Bannons show ) and can’t decide if he’s that damaged from the drug use, or still using them. I tend towards the latter.

  12. 12.

    Steeplejack

    Re the video in the Aaron Rupar tweet:

    If you don’t recognize the guy speaking, that’s Alex Berenson, the most famous covid vax truther in america, addressing the conservative movement’s premier activist conference.
    https://t.co/VBJFMQKci7

    — Allahpundit (@allahpundit) July 10, 2021

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    @ian:

    “rendering all acts of said imposters, while in office, null and void and no effect”

    Haha, “imposters”

    Just call them posers, you assclowns!

    Fuck this shitpile of GOP loser children.

  15. 15.

    Debbie(Aussie)

    Sorry to interrupt the stupid with something serious. I was wondering if in jackal may have had rTMS ( repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation), a treatment for severe depression.

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Steeplejack: Can we call them “bullshit artists” instead of “truthers?”  No truth in the shit they’re peddling.

    (I know you’re quoting.)

  22. 22.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    they misspelled “days” they meant to print “daze”

  28. 28.

    opiejeanne

    @Debbie(Aussie): This is the first I’ve heard of it, but they treated me Zoloft so I’m no help.

    Is this being suggested for family or a friend? Can you talk to someone at the clinic who may have had this treatment?

  30. 30.

    lgerard

    Is this a thing now?

    It is the second incident in the last week

    DENVER – Police feared a “Las Vegas style shooting” during the All-Star Game in Denver after receiving a tip from a maid working at a hotel not far from Coors Field, who discovered more than a dozen weapons and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition inside one of the rooms Friday night.

    Multiple informed law enforcement sources connected with the investigation told Denver7’s Liz Gelardi and Denver7 chief investigative reporter Tony Kovaleski that they found the weapons inside a room on the eighth floor of the Maven Hotel as All-Star Game celebrations got underway.

  31. 31.

    Mary G

    No space is safe for TFG these days:

    Not the reception you would expect for Donald Trump at a UFC event. There were some cheers scattered about the crowd and a few audible “USA, USA” chants, but that’s a lot of boos for the historically right-leaning fan base. pic.twitter.com/blNZPOuyoF— Travis Akers (@travisakers) July 11, 2021

  32. 32.

    James E Powell

    @MagdaInBlack:

    A good response would be to run the video of her saying that and then list the money she’s received from the government. She’s a clown. It reminds me of Palin’s “thanks, but no thanks” lie that was such an applause line.

  33. 33.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @Mary G: at least they didn’t chant “LOCK HIM UP!” like they did at the World Series.

     

    Good times

  34. 34.

    Mary G

    The organizers of the MTG/Big Blockhead Doofapalooza rented the hall in Orange County without saying exactly what it would be used for, and the manager, Javad Mirtavoosi, cancelled the contract the minute he heard their names. The times, they are a changing. If they hadn’t scheduled it for a Sunday, they probably could’ve gotten a megachurch to take them in, but the stupid goes all the way down.

  35. 35.

    Baud

    hired a gay mercenary to teach them how to build and use the bathroom properly.

    Which way should the toilet paper hang — over or under?

  39. 39.

    Geminid

    @Mary G: Matt Gaetz is now too toxic to associate with for many Republican politicians. When it was announced that he would speak at a rally in northern Ohio a few weeks ago, most of the candidates for next year’s Senate nomination cancelled. Only shameless weasel Josh Mandel appeared.

    One purpose of the event was to promote trump flunky Max Miller’s primary challenge to the current Republican congressman, who was one of the ten Republicans to vote for impeachment in January. Gaetz devoted his speech to trashing incumbent Anthony Gonzales. But Gonzalez got his licks in first. That afternoon, he tweeted:

          Ending child trafficking remains one of my top legislative priorities in Congress.

    Anyone engaging in these heinous acts must be held to account and taken off the streets.

  40. 40.

    yellowdog

    1. @billcinsd: It takes 2/3 of those present. After 2022 the majority of states will be in GQP hands. Tell me you don’t think that any Democrat senator setting foot in a GQP controlled state could/would be ‘detained’ for some made up reason so they can not be present to vote against impeachmening Biden and Harris.
  41. 41.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @ian: Heck, I’d like to know what they think is in step #1. What horrors do they believe need to be revealed? Forget about Nancy Pelosi melting, I’d like to know about the “pull back the curtain part”.

    In other words, the first problem in the 7-step master plan is the first clause of the first sentence of the first step.

  42. 42.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @James E Powell: A good response would be to run the video of her saying that and then list the money she’s received from the government. She’s a clown. It reminds me of Palin’s “thanks, but no thanks” lie that was such an applause line.

    Reminds me of their pseudointellectual glibertarian ur-heroine Ayn Rand, who lived on every cent she could cadge from Social Security while trashing the “gummint.” The bedrock attitude seems to be If you libtards are stupid enough to offer me money for nothing, I’m smart enough to take all of it and shit all over you in return.

  43. 43.

    Another Scott

    @Uncle Cosmo: Made me look.

    As usual, she found a way to deceive herself to maintain her “pure” philosophy, and also argued (earlier) that it was a duty.  Snopes:

    McConnell: Tell me about your first meeting with Ayn Rand and how these matters developed.

    Pryor: I had read enough to know that she despised government interference, and that she felt that people should and could live independently. She was coming to a point in her life where she was going to receive the very thing she didn’t like, which was Medicare and Social Security.

    I remember telling her that this was going to be difficult. For me to do my job, she had to recognize that there were exceptions to her theory. So that started our politial discussions. From there on – with gusto – we argued all the time the initial argument was on greed. She had to see that there was such a thing as greed in this world. Doctors could cost an awful lot more money than books earn, and she could be totally wiped out by medical bills if she didn’t watch it. Since she had worked her entire life and had paid into Social Security, she had a right to it. She didn’t feel that an individual should take help.

    McConnell: And did she agree with you about Medicare and Social Security?

    Pryor: After several meetings and arguments, she gave me her power of attorney to deal with all matters having to do with health and Social Security. Whether she agreed or not is not the issue, she saw the necessity for both her and Frank. She was never involved other than to sign the power of attorney; I did the rest.

    [Snopes:] Point acknowledged. Yet the accusation of hypocrisy rests on an assumption that nowhere in Rand’s vast oeuvre had she ever made a case for accepting money from the government. However, she did, in fact, make such a case in a 1966 essay, “The Question of Scholarships.”

    It is morally defensible for those who decry publicly-funded scholarships, Social Security benefits, and unemployment insurance to turn around and accept them, Rand argued, because the government had taken money from them by force (via taxes). There’s only one catch: the recipient must regard the receipt of said benefits as restitution, not a social entitlement.

    “Those who advocate public scholarships [or Social Security benefits] have no right to them; those who oppose them have,” Rand wrote. In fact, she seemed to see it as something approaching the duty of those opposed to the redistribution of wealth to accept such payments:

    Checkmate, Looter!!1

    Hehe.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  45. 45.

    JML

    That 7 point plan to “restore” DJT as president is one of the most amazing piece of self-delusion I think I’ve ever seen in my life. What makes it scary is the last 4 steps are actually a process that could be executed (in theory; the people who would have to move this on the Hill neither have the skill nor the votes to make it happen). The first three steps are the result of living in a bubble of right-wing nutjobbery where the propaganda gifting machines run wild.

    I’d laugh harder if so many people weren’t fervently committed to this belief that all of it is true and real…

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