Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

“But what about the lurkers?”

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The revolution will be supervised.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

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

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Let there be snark.

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

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

In my day, never was longer.

This fight is for everything.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

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Late Night Open Thread: Andrew Yang, Child of the 80s

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The GI Joe cartoon series…

Top Gun…

Thelma & Louise…

Gleefully positioning oneself as ‘a huge fucking fraud’ — also very 80s!

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  6. 6.

    Alison Rose

    It’s raining here in northern California. Now if it could just do this every day for……………I’ll say four years straight, we might be okay.

  9. 9.

    West of the Rockies

    Obvious observation here, but Yang’s “not left, not right” crap is BS both-sider schtick:  Both sides suck, so I, self-made man of the people guy, will chart my own way forward…  It rarely works.

    The stakes are too high now, Andrew.  Pick a damn lane.

  10. 10.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Alison Rose:

    every time a rich man

    Li’l Andy’s not actually that rich.  Certainly without his grifting, he can’t afford his fancy digs (apt in NYC, house upstate) nor his jet-setting lifestyle.  the man needs a grift just to get by.  I mean, it’s not like he can to back to, y’know, work.

  13. 13.

    dopey-o

    Andrew Yang could do a lot of good as a hard-working Democrat who supports the party’s  goals and negotiates in good faith with both ends of the Democratic spectrum.

    instead, he is actively subverting the party that has a long historical record of improving Americans’ lives. Sinema started as a Green with the goal of destroying the Democratic Party. What do we call the party that positions itself in the center, but with the same goal?

    I am not saying that Yang’s goal is to destroy the Democrats, but it is obvious that “Look at me! Look at me!” behavior may have unintended consequences.

  16. 16.

    Ruckus

    @West of the Rockies:

    The stakes are too high now, Andrew.  Pick a damn lane.

    He did. The dumb ass lane.

    At least he removed the very last doubt, I think there was one person left that didn’t actually know.

  17. 17.

    Tony Jay

    So Yang’s jumping straight to the ‘invade Persia without cavalry or sufficient water’ phase of the Great Man Handbook?

    I guess the Triumvirate will have to look elsewhere for its wackiest member.

  20. 20.

    Brachiator

    @Major Major Major Major:

    he was never popular enough for this to have consequences, intended or not.

    Well said. Totally agree. I think he could actually be good for the Democratic Party if he didn’t have such a talent for stumbling into the inconsequential. I think he tries, but always falls short.

  21. 21.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Ruckus: ​
     

    @Jerzy Russian:

    You stole my line!

    Can’t steal what’s been in the public domain for practically forever now. :-)

  22. 22.

    Tony Jay

    OT – Example 36645#9 Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot in the annals of gullible/complicit Media and how they let themselves be exploited by turds in suits.

    Over in the UK the recent murder of Conservative MP David Amess at a constituency surgery has given Johnson’s Government and some of its Labour allies cover for pushing some unrelated and really dubious authoritarian crap to the front of the Must Do Something queue, including – it turns out – moves to have questions about their expenses and living arrangements exempt from Freedom of Information requests.

    Some of the MPs in the article (basically the ones who put their names to their quotes) are talking about having some personal information removed from publicly available documents and websites because of threats, which is fair enough and doesn’t actually require any changes to FOI rules, it’s just unfortunate that right-wing media has fostered an environment where they feel they and their families are at risk if their addresses are freely available.

    But the ‘Labour and Tory MPs’ who insist on only being quoted anonymously want more than that. They want information about their expenses hidden, meaning not just how much they claim and what they claim for, but also who they take donations from, what do they do to ‘earn’ this money, what trips are they invited on and which hotels are they put up in by their donors, on the grounds that, if people are made aware of this, it might make them angry and thus (look at the dead MP!!) put them at risk. One Tory MP even whines that their addresses should be kept secret because nasty people sent drones over her house and publicised the pictures, which (forgive me if this is cynical, but ‘Tory MP’) sounds to me less like “They were telling terrorists where I live!” and more like “They were telling potential voters in my quite poor constituency that I don’t actually live in the small, terraced house I have down as my main residence, but in fact have a large country estate miles away from them and their problems”.

    The changes the Parliamentary Watchdog has imposed are only temporary, so far, but if this isn’t stopped ASAP (it won’t be) then David Amess’ death is going to end up putting yet another layer of corrupt privilege between the secrets of bought and paid for Princes of Parliament and the proles they rely on for votes.

  24. 24.

    Geminid

    From @Ragnarok Lobster, October 19, 2021:

           People who are ready to give up and let the Republicans take over because Biden hasn’t solved everything in nine months are the most unserious people in politics.

    And furthermore,

          You will discover that most of the people who are ready to throw in the towel are privileged people who don’t really care about the oppressed disenfranchised people they keep using as props whenever they bash Democrats.

  29. 29.

    Geminid

    @Baud: I’ve learned a lot from the sarcastic Mr. Lobster. For one thing, his retweets introduced me to interesting people like @Sasha Beauloux, @Mangy Jay (Magdi Semrau), and @Xeni (Jardin). And as I’ve said before, I really like Lobster’s earthy humor:

    That Lord Sugar’s a salty bitch I’m tellin’ ya.

  31. 31.

    RedDirtGirl

    @Geminid:  He blocked me ages ago in what people here assured me was simply a general purge of unknown followers, although the sting lingers ?.

  32. 32.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @West of the Rockies: The stakes are too high now, Andrew. Pick a damn lane.

    Exactly, like war, governance is a team sport. It also begs the question what policies doe Andrew want, besides “look at my Yang”.

  34. 34.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Tony Jay: The reaction to  murder of MP on the internet was quite interesting; groups of synchronized posting saying “this is much to serious of matter for making jokes about” .There was a real AstroTurf feel to it,  like the C list actors the DeVoss family hires to be anti-mask protestors (none of them were doing the usual rambling people do trying to process a shocking event do, just the “no jokes” message over and over again)

  35. 35.

    Geminid

    @RedDirtGirl: That’s too bad. I am only a passive reader of Twitter, so I can’t be blocked. And when Twitter recently tightened up it’s rules, I declined to join just to follow more leads. I was jumping down too many rabbit holes anyway.

    @Sasha Beauloux seems to purge her following every day. She’s very critical of lefties, so I imagine she gets a lot of hostile tweets. There is a very weird guy who is Twitter-stalking her, claiming that she is not really a Black woman. Instead, the stalker says, she is really a sock puppet for a white male lawyer, who happens to be Jewish. I am guessing this stems from Beauloux’s vociferous criticism of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, who is a hero to many.

  37. 37.

    Tony Jay

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Yup, and no mention AT ALL of the Sainted Mr Amess’ Godbothering homophobia, his desire to ban all abortion and his Brextremism. We saw a concerted effort across all media platforms to eulogise this Good Tory whose murder was an Attack on Democracy and in whose name ‘Something’ simply Must be Done!

    Good people don’t vote in lockstep with the Austerity agenda, and they specifically don’t vote to cut crisis funds for the poorest in society during a pandemic. Tories do, though.

  38. 38.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Tony Jay: Yup, and no mention AT ALL of the Sainted Mr Amess’ Godbothering homophobia, his desire to ban all abortion and his Brextremism.

    Doesn’t surprise me in the lest to learn the victim was a conservative ahole the way reverence was been demanded. The whole “it’s the victim fault, unless the victim is real people (white, male, rich, converservative)”. Also, I have never heard anyone from England talk about their MP with anything but utter contempt, except for this guy who was killed.

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