Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

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

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

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

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

Not all heroes wear capes.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

This really is a full service blog.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

The revolution will be supervised.

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  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    I love the “If you’re vaxxed, come see me live.”

    Autocorrect changed that to vexed 3 times.  Autocorrect is correct about one thing, I am feeling vexed.

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    @Benw: Then you have come to the right place!  :-)

    edit:  I am beginning to think of the Liberal Redneck as Jen Psaki’s anger translator.

    They have pretty much the same message these days, but his is a bit more colorful.

  6. 6.

    Quiltingfool

    Man, it’s hard to pick the best Trae.  This one is really good, and when I watched it I immediately thought of Kay – she makes a solid point that parents WANT their children to be safe at school, and they expect schools to do that.  When I taught, I accepted the responsibility to keep children safe – I was there to do that duty because the parents were not at the school.  I don’t know if I have the Latin phrase right, but I think it is “in loco parentis” (? – lawyers and students of Latin, please correct me if this is wrong or stupid) meaning the teachers are there to perform the duty of parents in protecting the child.

  7. 7.

    dnfree

    @Quiltingfool: ​
      When I was in college, “in loco parentis” meant that girls had to be locked in the dorm by 10:30 on weeknights and only slightly later on weekends, and that bedcheck was taken every night at the appointed time to make sure every girl was accounted for–because that’s what parents do. Boys, on the other hand, could go out for pizza, or even order one delivered, because parents don’t care what they do.

  8. 8.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl: Good video. I am pissed at Google search results. I couldn’t find the clip of Psaki talking about McConnell, so I googled her. The top videos they offer me are Fox and two other outlets with headlines criticizing her.

  9. 9.

    Rusty

    “if you slack jawed, broke brain, backward ass, hate filled lunatics have your way.  How’s that for name calling you dipshits.”  Are there awards for such good lines?

  16. 16.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl: I guess. I haven’t seen the clip, just a headline somewhere and couldn’t remember where so I couldn’t find it. Thanks.

  19. 19.

    Jeffro

    He does nail their little hurt fee-fees, doesn’t he?

    I love how he (in the role of wacko antimask/vax parent) read the dictionary definition of ‘terrorist’ and then was like, “whut? whut?”  LOL

  21. 21.

    Brendan in NC

    Last week he referred to Manchin and Sinema as Papaw Black Lung and The Purple Haired Puppet….

  25. 25.

    Dan B

    I love the fact that he posts these from his car now that it’s too hot to sit in the backyard.  Makes me suspect his wife won’t let him do these rants in the house.  Gotta giggle that she laid down the law

    He definitely is not a ‘man is the master of the house’ kinda guy.  I love the subtle message he’s not necessarily the ‘civilized’ partner.

  27. 27.

    Lyrebird

    @WaterGirl: ​
     

    Autocorrect is correct about one thing, I am feeling vexed.

    Autocorrect is very vexatious!

    Thanks for putting something to feel positive about up for the fresh thread! Lots to digest today.

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    There is a big conversation on NextDoor in my neighborhood today.

    There was a shooting.  Apparently shot by “those people”.

    Does this sound like a liberal to you?

    As a “liberal”, I’ve gone round and round with myself and with other “liberals” about Section 8. I think it’s wonderful, in theory. But what you get, all too often, is a woman who moves in with her children, and then her boyfriend the Gang Banger moves in illegally and proceeds to deal drugs and God knows what else, while the children look on. The rules of Section 8 are such that it’s almost impossible to get rid of these folks, as long as they pay their extremely minimal rent, unless you have extensive documentation of their criminal activity. They expect you to take photos of these guys dealing drugs, etc. I’ve had my life threatened three times in this town by such characters, and it causes me to reassess my liberalness a bit.

  39. 39.

    MagdaInBlack

    Trae and Smart Mark do an ” Evening Skews” on Tuesday nights. I catch it on youtube and I am very fond of the Daily Dumbass award.

     

    ( and I’m in moderation. Must have typed my email wrong)

  44. 44.

    Another Scott

    RollCall:

    The debate over climate-related provisions in the Democrats’ budget reconciliation package sharpened Thursday as several left-leaning senators, joined by environmental activist groups, urged more moderate lawmakers to include aggressive steps to avert catastrophic climate change in the legislation.

    They noted that President Joe Biden will have a tough time making the case for international climate action at the upcoming summit in Glasgow if he can’t even unify his own party behind his agenda.

    “We must act in Congress before Joe Biden goes to meet with the rest of the world,” Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., said at a Thursday news conference across from the U.S. Capitol. “President Biden must be able to put a deal on the table that reflects what we then expect from the rest of the world so that we begin a downward trajectory in terms of the greenhouse gases that are going up into the atmosphere.”

    As negotiations continue over the size and scope of the budget reconciliation package, any significant drop in its $3.5 trillion overall number will require trimming parts of the package, and those at Thursday’s event made clear they will fight any effort to put climate provisions on the chopping block.

    “It is possible to find middle ground in many areas of politics,” Markey said. “I know because I have done it, but we cannot compromise on science. There isn’t a middle ground between a livable and unlivable world. We cannot pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill without the reconciliation package. We cannot slash climate funding in this package.”

    […]

    It’s good that they’re keeping the pressure on, and not letting S&M hold all of the limelight.

    COP26 starts on October 31. Biden’s hand would certainly be strengthened there if he had a final bill to show the world by then.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  46. 46.

    Baud

    @Another Scott:

    I get concerned about lines in the sand, especially when it comes from a place if principle rather than posturing. I don’t think Markey does that there, but he walks real close.

  47. 47.

    Jim Appleton

    This is from a couple threads below.

    Recent news that the Zodiac killer has been identified as someone named Poste.

    I was in second grade in north Berkeley, CA when Zodiac was active.

    It scared me to pieces, partly because he said he would target school buses. It didn’t matter that I didn’t use a school bus, just that I might.

    The terror inflicted by this person and the media environment around was just unbelievable.

    When would he strike next? How many innocent interactions would turn sinister?

    I’ve felt existential threat since then, but not to the same horrifying depth.

  51. 51.

    zhena gogolia

    @Another Scott: Thanks, I don’t think so.

    But the headline was something about her “RIPPING” McConnell or “DESTROYING” McConnell. I didn’t see the video, but none of the ones that have been linked here fit that description. I suppose the description is wrong.

  52. 52.

    MomSense

    Holy shit my dad just sent me a scan of the best document.  Over the weekend we had to stop working in the garden because of rain so we started going through our ancestor’s record books looking for militia related documents.  We found his commission dated Oct 3 1799, and a number of other things.  Today my dad found a ledger from May 1821 containing a list of offenses and fines pursuant to a hearing where they were found guilty.  There were issues with their flints, muskets, appearance, late to muster, etc.  Hard evidence of the well regulated part of the militia.

    Does anyone here know who might find these useful?  We can prove chain of custody.  The originals can be inspected.  There are so many more volumes of related militia documents including during the entire war of 1812 which was happening in the harbor across the street (then their field).

  55. 55.

    Jim Appleton

    @WaterGirl: Yeah, I know and have no idea.  Just the rekindling of old trauma.

    Once, five years later, about age eleven I thought I met the guy.  Likely just a perv.  My flight reflex may or may not have saved me, but was primed by expectation.

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    @Just Chuck: I occasionally read it, perhaps in the same way someone might read something on a conservative site – to see how the other side thinks.

    This is a college town and all of my friends are liberal – I had no idea there were so many Karens around here until I signed up.

    This town is not nearly as liberal as I thought it was.

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    @Jim Appleton: I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to overlook the point of your comment, which was talking about the impact the Zodiac killer had on you.

    I’m glad you got out of that scary situation safely when you were 11.

  61. 61.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, …

    Huge news that Ireland is joining the multilateral corporate tax agreement. Estonia too. Another diplomatic breakthrough for the Biden Admin and @USTreasury – building momentum toward an agreement that would effectively shut down corporate tax havens globally. https://t.co/vunDAFK6nK

    — Seth Hanlon (@SethHanlon) October 7, 2021

    Something something both parties are the same something something…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  62. 62.

    scav

    @WaterGirl: There are a lot of NIMBY liberals — they love the emotional hit / social cachet of the liberal brand, but they don’t want to fork over any cold hard cash or, heaven forfend, have any of those people in their actual environs.

  63. 63.

    JWR

    Fire his a$$ already!

    LA Sheriff Villanueva says that he will not enforce a vaccine mandate, saying employees are willing to get fired over it. “I don’t want to be in a position to lose 5, 10% of my workforce overnight on a vaccine mandate.” pic.twitter.com/9DNJTeJUoY
    — Alene Tchekmedyian (@AleneTchek) October 7, 2021

  68. 68.

    Dan B

    @WaterGirl: TRae may have an understanding with his wife that he might be “a woke dude” he’s still got a heap of bubba and needs her to help him stay on a polite (?) and reasonably presentable path, like not taping his righteous shouty posts in the house where they could stress the pets and children.

    BTW I love Trae and his hint / dollop of Bubba makes him al the more wonderful.  Bubba redefined.  Bubba more fun, less dumb!

  70. 70.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    @WaterGirl: This guy was never a liberal and didn’t rethink jack. Bet he writes about being a former member of the democrat party too.

  72. 72.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    @WaterGirl: I adore Trae. He’s a younger version of my dad with a southern accent and more cursing. Your choice was great but for my money, the best Trae Crowder video of the Covid era is Ivermectin

  74. 74.

    Geminid

    @JWR: Being an elected official, L.A. County Sheriff Villanueva can’t be fired. He can be knocked out in a primary next year, though, like he knocked out his predecessor in 2018. There are a couple good candidates who will try.

  77. 77.

    Barbara

    @Geminid: ​
    1. He can be subjected to a court order.
    2. His payroll can be withheld pending verification of vaccine status.​​​​

  80. 80.

    Burnspbesq

    FT: USA 2-0 Jamaica. Both goals from 18-year-old FC Dallas forward Ricardo Pepi, who is quickly pricing himself out of MLS.

  82. 82.

    Spinoza Is My Co-pilot

    @Rusty: That was my favoritest part, too. Love Trae Crowder, he swears like I do, and the juxtaposition of his deep South drawl with his messages (and proper use of $20 words like “ancillary”) is rare and astonishing, like hearing a Nashville country-pop song with leftist lyrics (can’t say I’m aware of any such song, though).

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