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A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

This really is a full service blog.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Bark louder, little dog.

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

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

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

Nothing worth doing is easy.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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Late Night Open Thread: The Universal Search for A ‘Deserving’ Victim

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The Ukrainians are all Nazis, or — even worse! — Jews. There’s no such thing as ‘Ukrainians’, only traitorous denizens of a failed Russian province. And besides, they attacked us first. Have you heard about their AmeriKKKan-sponsored biolabs?

Truly, the Russians have learned much from the GOP. Or was it the other way around?

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  2. 2.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    Anne Laurie @ Top:

    Truly, the Russians have learned much from the GOP. Or was it the other way around?

    Both. Two-way street.

  3. 3.

    Tony Jay

    The kind of failed organisms that are too cowardly to Cosplay as Imperial Terran Starfleet officers and instead mill around outside the convention centre sharing hot gifs of Vulcan slave girls while shouting “you’re doing it wrong!” at people in homemade Klingon outfits.

    Yeah, I went there.

  5. 5.

    matt

    One morning Gregor Samsa woke up in his bed, and he had been transformed into a 21st century human named Jack Posobiec.

  7. 7.

    Calouste

    The good news is that World War III won’t start any time soon. The bad news it’s because World War II hasn’t officially finished yet:

    Japan has criticised Russia’s decision to withdraw from bilateral peace treaty talksto formally end World War Two hostilities between Moscow and Tokyo.

    Russia and Japan have still not formally ended hostilities because of the standoff over the islands located off Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido. They are known in Russia as the Southern Kurils and in Japan as the Northern Territories.

    Moscow’s decision to withdraw from the talks come in retaliation to sanctions imposed by Tokyo over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

     

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    the need to cycle through lie after lie after lie until you find one that sticks, all to avoid saying “I think the strong have an inherent right to take from the weak” is the surest mark of a coward too afraid to pronounce himself a proud fascist

    Shut up libtard, Saddam 9/11’ed us!
    Shut up libtard, George W Bush is a wartime president!
    Shut up libtard, why do you hate the troops?!!!!!!

  14. 14.

    JWR

    Meanwhile, here in America, this is all over local L.A. news: Some idiot TeslaBro rented, rented, one of Elon’s cars to do this: Echo Park Tesla jump crash goes viral

    And here’s an interview with one of the TikTok ‘influencers’ who filmed the jump. This might be the street where I bought a few 45 gallon aquariums from a guy who lived up there, and the only way I could get my 1970 Toyota Corona up the hill was in reverse. (Hey, the roadway was wet, and my tires worn.) Also, I don’t think this is actually the steepest street in L.A. That honor goes to Eldred Street, on the border of Highland Park and Mt. Washington, where some of my relatives lived.

  15. 15.

    Sebastian

    @JWR:

    Yes, the Teslabros are just the distilled pure Silicon Valley techbro culture. The whole thing.

    The bullshit, the lies, the megalomania of nincompoops. They all with the appeal of spilled cold lactoderm.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    @mrmoshpotato

    Still savoring an emotional upswing from bringing home the new vehicle on Monday. Sippin’ some delish Kirkland French vodka in celebration as we speak.

    (Steer well clear of the Kirkland American vodka. Remember the facehugger blood in Alien? That stuff would be smooth in comparison.)

  17. 17.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    @matt: ​

    One morning Gregor Samsa woke up in his bed, and he had been transformed into a 21st century human named Jack Posobiec.

    AS he gazed upon his new visage in the mirror, Gregor could be heard to softly moan, “Oh, Lord, what have I done to deserve this? Could you not have turned me into a cockroach instead?”

  18. 18.

    Winston

    Louisville collects all the pee in the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pa., 387 miles away, including the exceptional processed sewage from Cincinnati, Oh. Of course it is distilled but the pheromones remain. So the distilleries in Louisville are great.

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    It’s late. I’m tired. Some random thoughts

    Truly, the Russians have learned much from the GOP. Or was it the other way around?

    The Trump/GOP/Putin bag of tricks looks more feeble than ever as the Russian military commits savage attacks on Ukraine. Nobody sane believes the the nonsense Putin is peddling, and yet Fox News and the other useful idiots still have not fully disengaged from their handlers.

    Has anyone recently asked Trump if he still thinks Putin is a smart guy?

    Trump’s base should realize that they have been played for fools. But they seem incapable of introspection, and all the resentment and anger they have built up is festering, still waiting for release.

    Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has been more deeply subverted by Putin than anyone is willing to publicly acknowledge.

    Some pundits seem to be weirdly rooting for China to come to Russia’s rescue.

    Ted Cruz is a very strange man.

  21. 21.

    Tony Jay

    @Brachiator:

    Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has been more deeply subverted by Putin than anyone is willing to publicly acknowledge.

    I am. I totally am. Bought and paid for traitors to the core. Oh, you mean important people with massive megaphones? No, not them.

    Hardly surprising, though. I mean, what’s the alternative? Admit that they’ve spent decades looking the other way while a series of autocratic petrostates hollowed out our democracy and promoted Blackshirt ethnonationalism? Cop to systematically smearing the honest, ethically genuine alternative so they could report on the hilarious misadventures of a morally repugnant puppet? Do their actual jobs?

    They’d do anything for headlines,  but they won’t do that!

  23. 23.

    Martin

    Jewish Nazis are of course the worst. They aren’t just evil, they’re greedy with the evil and won’t share.

  25. 25.

    burnspbesq

    @Sebastian:

    The bullshit, the lies, the megalomania of nincompoops.

    You forgot about the culture of aggressive non-compliance with every applicable Federal law, that starts in the C-suite.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Tony Jay: The kind of failed organisms that are too cowardly to Cosplay as Imperial Terran Starfleet officers and instead mill around outside the convention centre sharing hot gifs of Vulcan slave girls while shouting “you’re doing it wrong!” at people in homemade Klingon outfits.

    Yes, but more like a Viking White Boi Power Fantasy. After all Putin supposed to be a big fan of Conan himself – Arnold.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Brachiator: Has anyone recently asked Trump if he still thinks Putin is a smart guy?

    They did and Trump started babbling about 44 year old jets.  I think. Trump did say words.

  30. 30.

    dave319

    @Lacuna Synecdoche: “Lock them up!” has never been so obvious a solution. Nation of laws, pah. Nation of timid expedience. Where’s the thundering Democratic denunciation of these blatant agents of a hostile foreign pow…right. Don’t pass the consultant class focus group. The Cohen Brothers would have a field day, should they ever be invited…

  31. 31.

    Tony Jay

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Terrans wear snazzy uniforms, carry cool-ass daggers, advance through backstabbing rather than ability, torture people who piss them off and have no truck with the Woke nonsense of those pansy-assed Federation snowflakes.

    Plus, slave girls and exposed midriffs. What’s not for a frustrated little Incel to love?

    @Ken:

      Orion slave girls.

    Nuh uh. get with the canon, Libtard! In the Mirror Universe everybody is under the heel of Terran supremacy, including those pointy eared T’Pol lookalikes with their push-up bras and wiggling little…  Mmmommmmmm! Get out! I told you to knock, didn’t I? 

  32. 32.

    jonas

    @JWR: I actually used to live near that street years ago for a short time and used to take it to the Echo Park Trader Joes nearby around the corner at the bottom. It’s pretty crazy, but I had no idea people did stupid fucking stunts like this on it.

  33. 33.

    Chief Oshkosh

    A very worrisome aspect of this is that there are A LOT of regular old normal people in the USSR, China, and other non-European, non-US regions who absolutely, positively, and aggressively believe Putin’s flavor-of-the-day bullshit. I work with several folks in these countries, and while none of them ascribe to the BS, they are now having constant fights with their families that are exactly like what many of us run into with our Trumpy relatives over here. The parallels are striking and sobering to me.

  34. 34.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Tony Jay: So many tribes of incel white supremacists.

    Spartan Bois – who think the movie 300 is an historical documentary.  Ancient Greek historians have a bit of a contest over which of them can troll these guys the hardest.

    Knights Templars Bois. That way they can claim to be Christians without any of that Libertard love thy neighbor stuff.

    Viking Bois – or what happens when you listen too much heavy metal and play to many fantasy role playing games. (a bit like these guys)

    Why they were even showing videos of Russian Neo-Confederates. As in Confederates, American Civil War.

  36. 36.

    different-church-lady

    Truly, the Russians have learned much from the GOP. Or was it the other way around?

    Neither. I’m more and more convinced the Russians tell the GOP what to say, but the GOP actually learns nothing from it.

  37. 37.

    Tony Jay

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    You’d almost think (now, now, hear me out) you’d almost think that these boys should work harder to condense their range of interests down to the very basics; slavery, swords and swarthy types.

    Or even just read all the Gor novels and handbang themselves silly. Say what you will, but at least it’s an ethos.

  38. 38.

    ...now I try to be amused

    Truly, the Russians have learned much from the GOP. Or was it the other way around?

    I’d say both, but the Russians were the earlier innovators of ratfucking. The tsarist secret police (Okhrana)  used agents provocateurs to discredit their political enemies, and they wrote the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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