Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Come on, man.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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Later that evening…

And that was *still* only the second most embarrassing GOP performance of the day!

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  1. 1.

    Benno

    Thanks to everybody who sent their good thoughts my way yesterday. I have arrived in Karachi, and while there was nothing to be done about my having to come, being able to say it out loud here helped a lot.

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    the fact that the Eddie Gallagher case, much less the pardon, weren’t more of a national scandal is kind of terrifying.

  4. 4.

    Comrade Colette

    @Benw: Bilbo! Good to see you, even if you must feel like a teaspoon of butter spread over 144 loaves of bread.

    @Benno: All the best to your mom and to you. I hope the treatment goes well and that you are not missing your family nearly as long as you feared. Are you going to be in a relatively safe area?

  5. 5.

    Ken

    I have to disagree with one thing in zeddy’s tweet. There’s no way TFG is an AARP member. They charge dues.

  6. 6.

    The Moar You Know

    If I were in charge boxing would be banned immediately.  Fucking barbarism.  A sport where the goal is to inflict serious head injuries on your opponent is not a sport, just a waste of human potential.

  8. 8.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    Time magazine owes its readers an apology for selecting Rudy Giuliani as its 2001 Person of the Year.

    Any discussion of Giuliani’s tenure as mayor must include a reference to this story. The public needs to know the full scope of Giuliani’s arrogance and stupidity:

    A detailed 1998 New York Police Department analysis opposed the city’s plans to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center but then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s administration overrode the objections, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

    “Seven World Trade Center is a poor choice for the site of a crucial command center for the top leadership of the City of New York,” the Times quoted a panel of police experts aided by the Secret Service as having concluded in a confidential Police Department memorandum which has not been previously disclosed.

    The longest of the analysis’ nine sections, headed “Explosives,” describes a blast analysis of the likely impact of various types of bombs, and concluded that the largest of truck bombs would have led to the building’s collapse, the Times report said.

    The command center was destroyed during the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center that also destroyed the twin towers in the seven-building complex.

     

    h/t https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newyork-security-giuliani/nypd-analysis-opposed-wtc-command-center-site-paper-idUSB21557420080126

     

     

     

  9. 9.

    Rocks

    “…he’d (Giuliani) been dumb enough to put his bunker, against all expert advice, in the only building Al Qaeda had attacked before.”  Never forget why he put the command and control bunker in the World Trade Center, after it had already been attacked once by Al Qaeda.  He put it there because it was close to City Hall, and thus a convenient place for porking his various assignations.  NYC lost emergency  command and controls the instant the first plane hit thanks to Giuliani’s dick.

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

    Two days before the recall election, leading candidate Larry Elder appeared with an actress who says Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife tried to suppress her rape claims against disgraced director Harvey Weinstein.

    The Democratic governor and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom responded that the charge was false.

    Elder held a Los Angeles press conference with actress and activist Rose McGowan, who said Siebel Newsom contacted her in 2017 on behalf of David Boies, a lawyer for Weinstein, the director McGowan says raped her.

    McGowan said the contact occurred six months before a New York Times story she said she set up detailed how Weinstein had settled with multiple women, including McGowan, who accused him of assault.

    “She wanted to meet me, she reached out to me,” McGowan told libertarian YouTuber Dave Rubin in a video posted Thursday. “This woman I don’t know, some blonde lady with the last name of Newsom, cold calls me and is like ‘Davis Boies wants to know what it would take to make you happy.’”

    Through a spokesperson, Siebel Newsom denied that her motivation had anything to do with helping Weinstein.

    “What is being alleged is a complete fabrication,” said Newsom campaign spokesman Nathan Click. “It’s disappointing but not surprising to see political opponents launch these false attacks just days before the election. Their limited correspondence has been strictly as fellow survivors of sexual assault and in Jennifer’s former capacity leading the Representation Project, an organization that fights limiting gender stereotypes.”

    Siebel Newsom is a documentary filmmaker who herself accused Weinstein of “aggressive advances” in the wake of the 2017 New York Times story.
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article254191813.html#storylink=cpy

    Wednesday can’t arrive soon enough.

  12. 12.

    The Oracle of Solace

    It’s a gross indictment of the national character that two out of five Americans will follow these people into fire, into darkness, into death, in order to avoid having to treat non-whites, non-men, and non-Christians as equals.

  15. 15.

    jl

    I guess I am a bad person, but laughed hysterically at this stuff.

    Why is Rudy babbling about Prince Andrew at a 9/11 event. If Rudy and Andy went out on a date together, that is there business not mine. Hope that they had a good time.

    Saw a clip of Holyfield training. I don’t know whether he was doing some training drill that I didn’t understand, but wow, did he seem slllooooowww, even for his age, at least compared to some older martial arts people I’ve seen. Maybe cumulative damage from boxing made him slow even for late 50 something. Glad that the CA boxing commission nixed the fight in my state.

  22. 22.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So the Right now in love with The Great Marshall, so deep down they were all just commies and do embarrassed to admit it.

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: what ever it Rudy’s head in tilt mode. I guess that’s the other side of the GOP being shrinking party of old white men, a lot of them brains are starting to fail.

  24. 24.

    ian

    @dmsilev:

     

     

    @trollhattan:

    Maybe the monkey suit is a bad idea when trying to egg a black politician???  Not sure why you guys aren’t seeing that, but I would not go there, and would not want to associate with someone who would.

  25. 25.

    Chetan Murthy

    @ian: I have to admit, at first I thought “what’s the big deal about a gorilla suit” but then, well, I realized “the purpose is just as well served by a clown suit”.  Indeed, I can’t see any good reason to choose gorilla/monkey over clown.

  26. 26.

    JWR

    @Chetan Murthy: 

    Indeed, I can’t see any good reason to choose gorilla/monkey over clown.

    Not denying the possibility of racism behind the choice of a $30-$40 mask, but that could’ve been the only one available? I dunno. You’d have to talk to the person inside.

  27. 27.

    gvg

    @JWR: I don’t know of anyone who has ever dressed as a clown, gorilla’s on the other hand, are usually asked for. Racism may play into it, but their are a lot of other reasons possible.

    I am aware of the nasty racism themes, but I still don’t think of it unless someone reminds me. I think of the pink panther movies and the gorillas driving sports cars around lost first.

  29. 29.

    JWR

    @gvg: Totally agree with you. When I was a young’un, I really wanted a full head gorilla mask because a) their human size, and b) they’re funny as he** when worn to church youth group gatherings.

  30. 30.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    zeddy via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    Human beings, of sound mind and body, paid fifty bucks to hear Donald Trump give 109 seconds of live commentary as a fellow AARP member was mauled by a notorious Roid user on 9/11.

    I’m pretty sure that paying $50 to hear Donald Trump speak for any length of time is definitive evidence that they are not of sound mind.

    The best that can be said of their purchase is that they only had to listen to him for 109 seconds, instead of 109 minutes.

  31. 31.

    mr perfect

    Yeah, but you all are missing the big news that would be fit to print on the front page of the National Enquirer and the New York Times (same thing):  Has Rachel Campos Duffy volunteered to replace Sara Huckabee Sanders in taking one for the team?

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