Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

In after Baud. Damn.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Not all heroes wear capes.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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

One way or another, he’s a liar.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

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  9. 9.

    jl

    The summary of that Ronnie Jackson clip was much more coherent than the exchange in the clip itself.

  10. 10.

    Jeffro

    I think I’m starting to see why GQP officials and Fox News hosts (save Tucker, blessed Tucker) went into panic mode this week about getting folks vaxxed.

    (well, ‘their’ folks, anyway)

    sorry homeboys, you done fucked up but good this time…killing your base and reinforcing to the whole rest of us that you can’t be trusted, not even to save your own voters…

  11. 11.

    Jeffro

    and kilgore trout’s tweet is the perfect rejoinder to Gary Abernathy’s utter BS in the Post today…show us an example, just one person, Gary, one right-winger who calmly thought about it and said, “you know, given the science and all that, I should probably get vaccinated – even if it boosts the economy and Biden’s chances for re-election”

  13. 13.

    lol chikinburd

    I don’t have time right now to elaborate or address inevitable objections, but my only words now, and increasingly, are “Kick them out.”

  14. 14.

    Baud

    The moral of the story is:

    We were into something when, all those years ago, we urged Obama to warn people not to drink bleach.

  16. 16.

    Baud

    Reddit commenter

    Things you may shove down my throat:

    Endotracheal tubes — Yeah, dude!
    Agendas — No fucking way!

  17. 17.

    jl

    @Baud: ” We were into something when, all those years ago, we urged Obama to warn people not to drink bleach. ”

    Forget it, bud, your nanny state  is not the master of ME!!

  18. 18.

    Jeffro

    @Baud: it would have been like “Left Behind”, only in reverse.

    Best not to entertain such thoughts…sigh…

  20. 20.

    jl

    @NotMax: All the GOP immigrant caravan crises go away within 3 months after an election. The debt crises go away after a Republican is elected president. Cruz was just following the data and the science.

  21. 21.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    The party of “personal responsibility” continues to blame others for their failures.

    The party of “fuck your feelings” continues to act like snowflakes

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    “Our problem is with these neoconservatives, the radical right, the religious extremists whose interpretation is very narrow, and who want to destroy everyone who doesn’t agree with them. I see them as betrayers of the fundamental principles of conservatism. A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means.”
      – Barry Goldwater

  23. 23.

    Jeffro

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: “if only the libs had been nicer, I would have followed their recommendations” said no RWNJ, ever

    (choke gasp wheeze) said many RWNJs, while watching Tucker fade to black on their hospital TV

    I’m still trying to think of what, if anything, would work with these people.  Biden going on national TV and going, “If I were a cold-hearted son of a bitch like Mitch McConnell, I’d let all of you idiots die and make 2024 a cakewalk.  But Democrats are different…get. vaccinated.  Even if it means you live to vote against me.”

    Nah, never mind

  24. 24.

    Gin & Tonic

    DougJ just Tweeted a link to this piece, and yes, we love to hate Thiessen, who is a bit overwrought here. But he’s more right than wrong on the substance. As I’ve said, Zelensky is being served a shit sandwich and told to like it. He gets a WH visit in August, when everybody’s on Martha’s  Vineyard and Congress isn’t in session (in contrast with Poroshenko and Yuschenko, who got to address a joint session), and he has to agree to a deal which fucks his country while giving him no tangible benefit.

  26. 26.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, Nature (and evolution) never sleeps… Helen Branswell at STATNews:

    For the first time ever, researchers have reported cases of people carrying or infected with strains of the dangerous fungus Candida auris that were resistant to all classes of antifungal drugs before any treatment, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The agency also reported evidence of some transmission of the strains within health facilities.

    Candida auris, or C. auris, which was first seen in 2009, has been highly resistant to the few available treatment options for several years, leaving people who treat and study fungal diseases concerned about the toll this superbug could take, particularly on severely ill patients. That there are now so-called pan-resistant cases in people who had never been treated with antifungal drugs is particularly unnerving, experts said.

    The CDC reported on five cases, three in Washington, D.C., and two in Texas. In both locations, the cases were clustered within facilities. The facilities were not identified, but the fungus is most commonly diagnosed in very sick people who are in specialized long-term facilities.

    There was no known link between the Washington and Texas cases. The cases were outlined in the CDC’s online journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

    […]

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  27. 27.

    Kay

    At the height of the controversy surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and the revelations that he’s under investigation for sex trafficking, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) bet big on a nationwide joint fundraising tour with her embattled colleague. But new campaign filings show that not only did the gamble not pay off, but that the much-maligned Republicans actually spent four times as much as they raised.
    Since Gaetz and Greene kicked off their joint fundraising committee with a May 7 event at The Villages in central Florida, their campaigns and joint fundraising committee have posted a combined loss of $342,000. And according to recent filings with the Federal Election Commission, that joint fundraising effort, “Put America First,” reported only $59,345.54 in contributions.
    That sort of meager haul would be fine for a dinner or one-time event, but Gaetz and Greene have repeatedly held high-profile events and spent a whopping $287,036.19 to hold them—meaning they’re in the hole by more than $225,000.

  28. 28.

    dm

    I suppose I’ll get in trouble for pointing out that Ronnie Johnson was talking about those Democratic Texas legislators who flew to DC, then a bunch of them tested positive. Were they really all vaccinated?  (Probably they were, thank you, delta. But his remarks are less stupid than it sounds in summary.)

    The fellow in the first video is “a small business owner”, so one wonders what his insurance coverage will be like.

    Vaccine refusal is a pre-existing condition I could get behind.

  29. 29.

    dr. bloor

    Ronny really reminds me of a resident I worked with as an intern who everyone thought was better suited to be the mayor of a small town in the deep south.  Memory like an elephant, authoritarian, Dunning-Krueger Exhibit A.

  30. 30.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @dm:
    I suppose I’ll get in trouble for pointing out that Ronnie Johnson was talking about those Democratic Texas legislators who flew to DC, then a bunch of them tested positive. Were they really all vaccinated?  

    “in trouble” with whom?

    looks to me like he started talking about “Democrats” in general, meaning in Congress, I suppose, and the narrowed in on the TX delegation, and I’ve heard from the first story, which I believe was about a Harris aide a couple of days ago, that they all said they were fully vaxxed.

    I think Doctor Feelgood made himself feel good once, or a couple of hundred times, too often, and he’s addled his own pate with happy pills and gin

  32. 32.

    Jeffro

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:I think Doctor Feelgood made himself feel good once, or a couple of hundred times, too often, and he’s addled his own pate with happy pills and gin

    I do wonder if we’ll ever find out what the modern GQP is hopped up on (besides hate, self-loathing, etc).  Steroids?  Adderall?  Who knows?

    We should just wait to see what they accuse Biden of being on, and then we’ll know.

  33. 33.

    Kay

    @Lapassionara:

    In fact, the big winner from the Gaetz and Greene barnstorming appears to be Gaetz’s PR firm.The Logan Circle Group, which the campaign hired in early April, made off with more than a million dollars in the second quarter of 2021. While the majority of that money came from Gaetz—$825,000 over the course of one month—the firm nudged past the million-dollar mark with the $250,000 it received from Put America First. Those payments, nearly 90 percent of the committee’s total budget, were for “event production and management,” according to FEC filings.

    Just amazing. He raises money then launders it thru his PR firm.

    The Logan Circle Group has 3 employees.

  34. 34.

    smith

    @Kay:  And the planned TFG-Bill O’Reilly concert series isn’t selling tickets, and TFG is reduced to holding his rallies in county fairgrounds. Could it be the magic is gone?

  35. 35.

    Another Scott

    The Democratic Primary in the Shontel Brown race in Ohio is in 12 days (Tuesday August 3).

    Akron BeaconJournal (from 7/14):

    Low primary turnout expected

    Turnout is expected to be low in the Aug. 3 primary in an odd-numbered year. Congressional primaries are typically held in May in even-numbered years. But Gov. Mike DeWine decided on a special summer primary after former Rep. Marcia Fudge vacated her seat mid-term to become U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

    Internal polling by both leading campaigns gives a shrinking lead to Turner. The numbers in each poll indicate that no candidate can expect a majority of the votes — and there remain enough undecided voters to tip the election for Turner or Brown.

    ActBlue – Shontel Brown for Congress has a smiling picture of her and Uncle Joe.

    Donated (again). Here’s hoping she does well.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  36. 36.

    Lapassionara

    @Kay: it’s a grift, all the way down. The Republicans know how to raise and spend money, that’s for sure.

  37. 37.

    CaseyL

    @Lapassionara:  

    That’s honestly all they care about, how to get as much money as possible from as many sources as possible, into their own pockets.

    They especially love diverting public funds to themselves and their cronies.  They see the US taxpayer as a sheep to be fleeced regularly.  That’s why ending Social Security is an ongoing wet dream for them: trillions of dollars, just waiting to be stolen.

  38. 38.

    Kay

    @smith:

    Look how little they pay Roger Stone:

    A few days before The New York Times broke news of the investigation into Gaetz, the Florida congressman paid Stone $5,000 for “strategic consulting.” And according to the new filing, Gaetz paid Stone another $5,000 three days after the news broke. The report discloses a second fee in late April after a series of reports about Gaetz’s connections to people involved in the alleged sex ring, including Venmo payments to his former wingman-turned-convicted sex trafficker.The third payment to Stone, on May 26, came on the heels of Greenberg’s cooperation deal.

    They paid Stone 15,000 out of the million they spent in the 2nd quarter. You can hire Roger Stone for 5000 dollars up front? That’s just….not that much.

  40. 40.

    Bill Arnold

    @Kay:

    They paid Stone 15,000 out of the million they spent in the 2nd quarter. You can hire Roger Stone for 5000 dollars up front?

    That’s not even wise, on their part. I deeply despise Mr. Roger Stone , but he still has some old-school ratfucking talent and skills, and $5000 could easily be perceived as an insult (unless it was the asking price).

  41. 41.

    Danielx

    Clearly this was the end game: a plague that is only affecting Republicans. Why isn’t the media asking questions? Where’s the outrage?

    Other than fuck those guys, I got nothin’.

  44. 44.

    Ohio Mom

    Maybe the money to Stone was more of a down payment or a retainer fee? Maybe they don’t need any of his services yet, they are reserving their place in line?

    Because it is a weirdly small amount.

  45. 45.

    The Moar You Know

    Alabama GOP Gov Kay Ivey: “It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down…. I’ve done all I know how to do.”

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:  Just to be super clear:   She’s blaming black folks.  Who are not getting vaccinated at anywhere near the rates any of us would like to see.  But she’s not blaming MAGATs or Fox or Republicans.   She’s blaming black people and everyone in Alabama knows that.

  49. 49.

    Ruckus

    @Bill Arnold:

    I thought it was $15000 total, 3 payments of $5000.

    Still cheap, maybe that’s how much they had to pay him to even get him to talk to them.

  50. 50.

    Yutsano

    @Another Scott: ​

    AFAIK, bank transfers over $10k still have to be reported, so lots of $5k transfers in a short amount of time should raise eyebrows…

    They do. And although multiple transfers of $5K aren’t reported, bank managers are trained to notice interesting patterns like that. It’s a method of hiding income that I have seen before.

  51. 51.

    apocalipstick

    It brings a tear to the eye to be in the presence of reasoning so circular.

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