Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

T R E 4 5 O N

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Let there be snark.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

No one could have predicted…

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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

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  1. 1.

    mrmoshpotato

    Fucker Carlson as a CIA agent?

    Fire all of the writers for being slapdicks high on their own farts.

  5. 5.

    MobiusKlein

    I find myself wishing the CIA did take him. At least it would be officially criminal for him to speak

  7. 7.

    Bnut

    I’m clever. Or at least I think I am. But Twitter comments blow me away. I realize they are curated or whatever word I don’t know, but damn, that’s a fine piece of writing about GG. The Burroughs bit is great.

  8. 8.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    I once saw the editor and chief of Times say research showed that only 12% of subscribers read a portion of the editorial/op-ed page.

    “a portion” which could mean they read the letters to the editor or the editorial or a specific columnist or an occasional guest opinion piece.

    Of course when you do this type of polling people are going to lie because they want to seem more engaged then someone who in reality only reads the crosswords and style section.

    So basically anyone who appears on the editorial pages are rarely ever read. Myself, I wouldn’t even know this person but blogs get a kick outta roasting the dufus.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Keith P.:

    Maybe it was the Culinary Institute of America that rejected Tucker 

    And they’re still confused about why he kept calling himself an “agent.”

  11. 11.

    Sloane Ranger

    To be fair, not all rich, well connected people in journalism are useless. Anderson Cooper seems competent enough and is very defensive about his Vanderbilt connection. When he was coming up, he seems to have taken on rough assignments to show he wasn’t just some dilettante.

  13. 13.

    satby

    The Horseshoe Theory of politics is an update of Eric Hoffer’s True Believer, who first pointed out that fanatics of the left and right politically (and religious fanatics as well) shared the same attraction to authoritarianism.

  14. 14.

    satby

    So is it just that this site is borderline unusable with all the reloads that has decimated overnight comments? Or is something else going on? Used to be more action overnight. Or more insomniacs.

  16. 16.

    Hilbertsubspace

    Weiss is German for white, because the writers for this reality shit show we live in just love that kind of thing.

  17. 17.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @JWR: ​
      He’s wrong. There was nothing slow about it. They caved-in quickly.

  20. 20.

    satby

    @Gin & Tonic: Safe travels!  I was supposed to be in London right now, but it didn’t work out. Next year for sure.

    Positively moribund here. Guess I’ll finish my coffee and go back to bed ?

  24. 24.

    sab

    The senior flu shot really knocked me for a loop. I haven’t slept that well in years. Went to bed for a brief nap and woke up twelve hours later. And my arm isn’t even sore.

    ETA But today is the day we take pitbull in to have oncologist look at her mast cell tumor.

  25. 25.

    satby

    @sab:  Good luck.
    Even if the long term prognosis isn’t great, she may have months left to enjoy and be spoiled. Which is sometimes a better choice than pursuing painful treatments that won’t dramatically change the outcome. That’s what I did with both Hershey and Bubba, who just went two weeks ago. Lots of spoils, snuggles, and vanilla ice cream and treats, plus palliative care.

  26. 26.

    sab

    @satby: Thank you. I am so sorry to hear about you losing your dog

    ETA How did you know that we take her out for vanilla ice cream? It’s her favorite treat.

  32. 32.

    JWR

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:

    He’s wrong. … They caved-in quickly.

    Agree with that. What did Schiff say about McCarthy… “it took him all of 30 seconds” to cave? (Go Schiff!)

    Also, I don’t know who wrote that bit at Youtube, but it waren’t the LSSC crew. I think they upload full length clips the following day. ETA w/ a full Late Show header.

  33. 33.

    Geminid

    Speaking of the political horseshoe, @LizBurgh reported that Charles Dunlop, head of Amby Genetics, donated $500,000 to the “progressive” Justice Democrats SuperPAC last year. Before 2018, Dunlop’s mainly donated to hard-right California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher. Since Rohrabacher lost Dunlop has donated to Tulsi Gabbard, Nina Turner, and Justice Democrats.

    Liz Burgh researches FEC filings and focuses some on Justice Democrats and the candidates they sponsor.

  34. 34.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Gallop latest poll showed a 4% drop in those identifying as a Republicans. More evidence that all this frantic gerrymandering and MAGA appeasement from the GOP is because the GOP knows it’s in big trouble and getting desperate. Sort of ironically self defeating too, my sense is a lot of conservatives are getting turned off from the GOP because of all the anti-science and racism, and the people the GOP are choosing to placate are brain dead fan bois who only vote when they see their idles name is on the ticket. Maybe the entire party can their last name to Trump.

  35. 35.

    Chris T.

    @satby:

    So is it just that this site is borderline unusable with all the reloads that has decimated overnight comments?

    I’m not having any automatic reloading happen, just the usual problem where the comment box doesn’t work and requires manual reload.

  36. 36.

    superdestroyer

    A few years ago, there was a website that no longer exist that analyzed the backgrounds of NY Times writers.  Most of them were the children of the rich who were being supported by their families while living in NYC.  The most common exception to the rich kid track were the crime/police beat reporters.  That is where a middle class kid could get into the NY Times.

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