Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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

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

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

I was promised a recession.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Second rate reporter says what?

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

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

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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

All your base are belong to Tunch.

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… It’s a death cult with an outsized media platform. It’s monsters, and morons, and moronic monsters.

Some commentor recently took objection to the phrase ‘rooting for injuries’, but really — what else can we say?

Hoping there are no fatalities among innocent bystanders when the inevitable shootout starts?

Reminder: Kevin McCarthy publicly ‘joked’ about hitting Speaker Pelosi with her own gavel:


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  3. 3.

    VOR

    McConnell has a policy: obstruction for the sake of obstruction. Preventing the government from functioning in order to make the Dems look weak.

  4. 4.

    oatler

    “It’s the Dems who are in disarray! The Dems will always be in disarray! Now, coming up after the break I’ll be speaking with Congressman Louis Gohmert to explain why Dems are in disarray.”
    -Chuck Todd this Sunday

    I wish this was over the top

  5. 5.

    Fair Economist

    Not much in the news, but big crypto crash today, still ongoing. Bitcoin down 14% in one day (oops, just dropped another 2% as I was writing this).

    Probably you don’t hear about it because crypto news comes from crypto boosters and they’re not boosting *this*.

    Edit: holy cow, another 2% during the edit window.

    Edit: now down 24%! Holy cow, this is exciting!

    Edit: and now back to down 17%.

    Store of wealth my ass.

  13. 13.

    Chetan Murthy

    @burnspbesq: I’m partial to “moral imbeciles”

    Moral Imbeciles are defined as “Persons who from an early age display some permanent mental defect coupled with strong vicious or criminal propensities on which punishment has had little or no deterrent effect.”

  14. 14.

    Mike E

    Ordered my calendar, yay. That’s it for me these days…I just can’t even with any of this stupid bullshit.

  17. 17.

    Ruckus

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Sure there’s a bottom. The problem is that there are certain members of the US congress that are digging holes all around them, like they are trying for the center of the earth. And as long as they continue to only dig under their own feet and those of their fellow traitor members it might be OK, but then they aren’t the sharpest tools in the box and one might need to be concerned that they are digging to bring down the entire mess.

  19. 19.

    burnspbesq

    I am always tempted to ask crypto freaks, “when (not if) all your stuff goes in the shitter, which central bank are you counting on to bail out your dumb ass?”

  20. 20.

    phdesmond

    ran across this:
    LEGAL
    Black Georgia Election Workers Suing Far-Right Conspiracy Website For Dragging Them Into Trump’s Election Fraud Circus

    i had heard about it earlier on msnbc.

  22. 22.

    featheredsprite

    Mace: “All I can say about Marjorie Taylor Greene is bless her fucking heart.”

    Don’t you just love southern cussing!

  24. 24.

    Ken

    @Fair Economist: “Store of wealth” was a fair dig when they were claiming crypto was a currency. Now that the IRS has announced “fine, we’ll tax it like currency transactions”, crypto is — well, it’s not clear what they’re now claiming, but definitely non-taxable.

    (The funny part has been watching as it dawns on some crypto enthusiasts that “the blockchain is a publicly readable record of all transactions” means the IRS can also read it.)

  25. 25.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Ken: Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism [who, I think, has gone bonkers since Trump] coined the term “prosecution futures”.  Love it.

  27. 27.

    mrmoshpotato

    New – Tensions in GOP: McCarthy tells Mace and Greene to “stop it” Greene emerges and says she and Trump back primary to Mace. Mace: “All I can say about Marjorie Taylor Greene is bless her fucking heart.” And fears infighting hurts ‘22 chances w/@mzanona

    Wait.  Does Kevin McCarthy not like having a party of idiots and assholes?

    Shit.  Why did we Democrats do that to the Rethuglican party overnight?  Shame on us!

  28. 28.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Fair Economist:

    Not much in the news, but big crypto crash today, still ongoing. Bitcoin down 14% in one day (oops, just dropped another 2% as I was writing this). 

    But but I saw Matt Damon hawking this shit in online ads AND on TV tonight! (Seriously – during the Oregon-Utah game.)

  32. 32.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Rina99:

    For those following the saga, they apparently caught Ethan Crumbly’s parents. 

    Congrats to them on the additional charges that’ll be filed!  Oh, also, LOL!

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    @Gloomyjim:

    Turtle’s wife would whack him with a rolled-up newspaper, along with a terse, “Is you taking notes of a criminal conspiracy?”

  35. 35.

    Edmund Dantes

    I just find it funny that no matter what happens McCarthy will never be Speaker. If they do somehow end up winning, he’s going to be shocked by how many “friends” start gunning for “his” spot. Being Minority leader in the House sucks. Very little power, not a lot you can do to gum up the works like in the senate. All you get to do is herd the cats of your caucus.

    McCarthy is dumb enough to think he got minority leader due to his superior political skills and intellect. When the reality is he got it by default. The same won’t be true of Speaker. It takes a different set of skills to keep everyone in line and happy enough to keep you in place.

    I’ll always give Nancy credit for how masterful she has done in that role. She understands and gets all the levers and machinations needed to balance it all out. McCarthy has no clue.

  37. 37.

    ThresherK

    @Fair Economist: Heeehee, Bitcoin!

    I’m too tired to search for the Futurama clip we’re both thinking of. Just pretend I did find & post it and that a good laugh was had by all.

  38. 38.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    OT: Looked at my work schedule earlier this evening, got the coveted closing shift that ends at 12am(or a bit later) on Tuesday AND a 9am start on Wednesday.  I’m one lucky ducky.

  46. 46.

    Martin

    @JoyceH: I don’t think so. The optics here are really tricky for them. This couple could become a catalyst for what’s wrong with gun licensure. In Rittenhouse’s case, you could at least try and argue that the people Rittenhouse shot deserved it, but you can’t do that here. This doesn’t play into their tropes.

  49. 49.

    Debbie (Aussie)

    From this distance it looks like you have groups of different terrorists. The religious, the fascist/nazis, the militias and they are all white supremacists. Easier to call them the American Taliban I guess. They have a lot more in common with the Taliban than they do with USA democracy, that’s for sure.

    And we are following in your footsteps on the right side of politics.

    sigh!

  54. 54.

    opiejeanne

    @Amir Khalid: I was laughing when I read about how they were caught. Geez, they didn’t even leave the state, and then they parked their car in the neighborhood where they were hiding. If they were trying to disappear, they are idiots. If not, then what the heck were they trying to do?

  58. 58.

    JoyceH

    @opiejeanne: The car was right in front of the building they were in! Do these people never watch television? And sounds like someone let them into the building, so they must have known someone there, and that person will probably wind up charged too.

    Doesn’t it seem like life is just getting weirder? We’ve had plenty of school shootings, but this is the first time the parents on the shooter went on the lam.

  61. 61.

    SectionH

    @Amir Khalid: Oh.That hurts like it was yesterday. Your sweet girl… Shedding tears for you, for her.

    But you should laugh because I was completely fooled by “Bianca” for years on BJ – and I did imagine her trying to be inconspicuous.

    But black cats do rule.

  62. 62.

    Amir Khalid

    Giving firearms to minor children seems to be a thing. There’s a company called Crickett Arms that makes a line of bolt-action rifles for children, with plastic bodies in bright kid-friendly colours. They got flak for the “My first rifle” photo gallery on their website, which they had to take down, but they’re still selling the obscene things. I suppose giving your 15-year-old a 9mm Sig Sauer for Christmas is the logical extension of that.

  63. 63.

    JoyceH

    Different subject, but just heard on the news that one of the new Omicron cases in the US is in someone who is both vaccinated and boosted. Mild case, they said, but still. Shit.

  65. 65.

    Procopius

    The way negotiation works is, first you come to a preliminary agreement. It’s not going to be perfect and it’s not going to have everything both parties want, but it’s an agreement, a basis for continuing negotiations. The way both Trump and Biden have handled this, we had something valuable and we not only threw it away, we ruined the basis for further progress. The Iranians (and the Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans) now see that the United States cannot be trusted. There is no point to making concessions, since the Americans will simply come back and demand more without keeping to their side of the agreement. And in this case the Israelis are very much to blame, as are they and the Gulf States in Syria.

  69. 69.

    Starfish

    @Amir Khalid: There are a lot of Southern kids who do get a first rifle for Christmas. I would imagine that a bolt action rifle shoots fairly slowly and is not too hard to aim. People are out of their damn minds giving kids hand guns. Some of them are stupid enough to give their kids weapons before kids are old enough to realize death is permanent.

  70. 70.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Starfish:

    I would imagine that a bolt action rifle shoots fairly slowly and is not too hard to aim.

    In my experience, bolt action rifles can hold one bullet at a time and of course have to be reloaded after each shot.

  72. 72.

    Joey Maloney

    @Amir Khalid: Back in the dark ages when the NRA really was a gun safety org for sportsmen, you could buy a .22 rifle by mail order for the budding young hunter in the family. They were advertised on the inside back cover of comic books.

  78. 78.

    deekaa6

    Lets note that Lee Zeldin, fascist congressman from Long Island who is running for Governor of New York is sitting to Boebert’s left and yucking it up while she pukes out hate in the Staten Island video. She was there at his invite. He should be asked about this by every reporter in NY every time he shows his empty fucking head.

  79. 79.

    evodevo

    @Chetan Murthy: I know, right?  that whole website turned into a Hillary hate center, totally ignoring ALL the insane stuff Trumpy and the GOPers were doing….I quit going there in 2017 because of it.  Haven’t been back since.  Just recently got a fund-raising email from Yves – no thanks.  they lost me years ago…

  80. 80.

    Betty

    I am intrigued by the comment of the R Congressman which talks about undermining their efforts. Do we know what “their efforts” entail other than gaining absolute power?

  82. 82.

    Starfish

    @evodevo: Oh, yeah. That was it. That was why I abandoned it. I was there for thoughtful financial takes not unhinged politics. I guess they were unaware of who their audience was.

  85. 85.

    J R in WV

    @mrmoshpotato: ​
     

    In my experience, bolt action rifles can hold one bullet at a time and of course have to be reloaded after each shot.

    That is true of some of them, but most have a small clip/magazine which holds 5 to 10 rounds. So you can slowly work your way through at least a few rounds before you need to reload.

    The .22 rifle I learned with at Grandma’s farm had such a 5 round clip, but it was a very old gun, and the clip wasn’t tight, so we used it as a single shot, as it would jam up frequently if you tried to use the clip as it was intended.

    Deer rifles almost all have a clip for 3, 4 or 5 rounds.

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