Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

No one could have predicted…

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

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

“Squeaker” McCarthy

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

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

I was promised a recession.

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

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

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Friday Evening Open Thread: Prepare for Battle

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Media Village Idiots can’t hardly wait for a Retvrn to GOP ChaosWorld…

The White House is preparing for a potential barrage of Republican-led congressional investigations next year, hiring new staffers and positioning itself to respond to aggressive inquiries if the GOP takes control of one or both chambers of Congress, according to people familiar with the moves.

Senior officials have begun strategizing on how various White House departments, especially the counsel’s office, may be restructured to respond to an onslaught of investigative requests if Democrats lose control of the House or the Senate in November’s midterm elections, as many in both parties expect…

Anita Dunn, a former top Biden adviser who remains close to the president, is returning to the White House in a senior adviser role with a broad portfolio, and she is expected to be involved in part in responding to potential GOP probes, according to four people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel moves. The White House declined to comment on Dunn…

White House officials said Dunn’s job will not be explicitly tied to the potential Republican investigations, but her return ensures the veteran Democratic operative will have a central role in what could emerge as a pitched political and legal battle between Biden and a raucous group of newly powerful House Republicans. Dunn did not respond to a request for comment.

The White House is also bringing on Ian Sams, formerly a spokesman for Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign, where he was known as a hard-hitting and combative advocate — traits for which the White House looked in filling the role. Sams, who will start in the coming weeks, will have a communications role in the counsel’s office focused on responding to congressional investigations, according to the people familiar with the matter. He currently works at the Department of Health and Human Services as a spokesman on covid response…

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  5. 5.

    debbie

    It’s not just Florida anymore.

    DeSantis and Republicans in the Florida Legislature openly admit they didn't bother to examine the consequences of their rash vindictive abuse of power with regards to the Disney decision. These are not people who can be trusted with government. Or pudding even.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 22, 2022

  6. 6.

    Damien

    I’m glad this message is starting to take off.  I for one believe that it’s important to have competing ideas in this country, and would love to have a political party that is devoted to coming up with alternative solutions to problems facing this country.

    That being said, trans people and voting aren’t problems that need solutions, so go ahead and burn the entire Republican Party to the ground, salt the ashes, and let’s move on.

  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    Media Village Idiots can’t hardly wait for a Retvrn to GOP ChaosWorld…

    Tired: Global pandemic, biggest European land war since 1945.
    Wired: Ted Cruz’ Twitters.
    Just shoot me.

  9. 9.

    Geminid

    I agree that it is wise to prepare for the eventuality of a Republican controlled House. They might even end up with a slender Senate majority. But I still think that when the November elections are over Democrats will retain majorities in both houses of Congress.

  11. 11.

    kindness

    The WaPo has been doing a lot of Republicans media job for them setting up the expectations of Democrats to lose.  With all the gerrymandering Republicans have done I do think we’ll lose seats in the House but I am not certain Nancy will lose the Speakership.  I have a hard time normalizing the Republican crazy as being OK with most Americans who aren’t paying attention.

  15. 15.

    Elizabelle

    @Geminid:   That’s what I think, too.

    There WILL be House hearings into the insurrection.  Jamie Raskin is not Michael Avenetti.

    That said, it’s wise for the Biden administration to prepare.  It’s painful to think of the all Benghazi all the time if the fucking GOP takes either house.  It cannot be allowed to happen.

  16. 16.

    Elizabelle

    @kindness:   The WaPost’s new executive editor, Sally Buzbee, selected by Jeff Bezos, is a fucking disaster hire.  Evident very early.

  22. 22.

    Starfish

    @Elizabelle:

    In the lead to the midterms, you’ll see a lot of blame game going on. Progressives will blame centrists and centrists will blame progressives. Reality is history suggests that Biden could do very little to avoid the midterm backlash.
    — Drew Savicki (@DrewSav) April 21, 2022

    I think the autistic dude who likes maps is correct. Midterms are for blaming the president for stuff.

  23. 23.

    Elizabelle

    @Starfish:   Let the next few months play out.  We are going to see some House hearings on the insurrection.  A lot could change.

    A lot of this “wired for Republicans, who are going to win” — where do you think that is coming from?

  24. 24.

    debbie

    I kind of think Madison Cawthorn looks good in that lingerie. I mean yeah he’s a psychopath but he can work a look ? Don’t quote me on this. I may be drunk— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) April 22, 2022

  25. 25.

    Bex

    @Starfish: The blonde in the picture on the right looks like Laura Ingraham.  Isn’t she kind of long in tooth for that kind of party?

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    Never mind the lingerie, the main thing about those photos:  how very, very young Cawthorne looks.  And in a party situation, with a lot of young women.

    Is that who the NC 11th district really wants representing them?  Perhaps they have had their fun.

  28. 28.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @debbie: I’m not sure there needs to be a concerted effort in re Mr. Cawthorne as he seems to have a natural proclivity to self own.

  30. 30.

    Elizabelle

    Cawthorn lies so much.  He is unreliable, except as a sensation.  You could have some voter remorse going on.

  31. 31.

    Starfish

    @Elizabelle: I think that is the correct place to focus. Are you sure you want to be paying this child that much money to misrepresent your district in Congress? Does he look like the type of person who is going to help you when your Veterans’ benefits need to be figured out?

  32. 32.

    Poe Larity

    How about liberals, progressives and centrists getting in a room together and hammering out multi-billion $ subsidies for Seasteading?

    We need to get these people out in the ocean and away from US politics.

    We can argue about the best way to monitize a reality stream, or whether the Coast Guard Fireboats should respond to Mad Max on the High Seas later. Freedom Isn’t Free can be read more than one way.

  33. 33.

    Sure Lurkalot

    I need to stop reading the pollsters and pundits doom and gloom, knowing full well that’s pretty much their skill set.

    One thing I see others recommending that I fully endorse is to not give money to opponents of people like MTG in R+45 districts. Marcus Flowers seems like a fine candidate for public office but the way to marginalize the MTGs is to elect more Democrats where they have at least a fighting chance.

  35. 35.

    Another Scott

    @Damien: Yeah, the GQP has always tried to distract people with culture-war themes (flag burning, prayer in schools, unisex bathrooms, scary foreigners with Ebola!, etc.), but they at least pretended to care about the business of government (passing a budget, voting on cabinet and judicial nominees, having a unified foreign policy).  Now, it’s culture wars all the time and who cares about doing the actual job they were elected to do?

    When I was growing up, the young John Bircher I knew was adamant that the rich financiers and the Communists were the enemy.  The idea that a (claimed) billionaire from NYC who wanted nothing more than to be buddy-buddy with the dictators of the DPRK and Russia would be the leader of the Right in America would have made his head explode.

    I like to think that people will remember the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf!, but I worry how long it will take sometimes…

    The battle is never over.  Forward!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  37. 37.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @debbie: True but he reminds me of a compulsive liar I once worked with. The lies start out fairly minor and inconsequential and no one really notices or cares. The liar gets emboldened and there gush out more lies to cover the ones ignored until the liar loses track and the walls come crumbling down. At least they did with that guy!

  38. 38.

    Jay

    If your truck came from the factory with out truck balls,

    And you hung them on,

    Congrats, you did gender reassignment surgery.

  39. 39.

    Starfish

    @Jay: That is gender-affirming surgery. Your truck was male to begin with. It is just more male with the Truck Nutz.

    I am open minded and willing to consider that trucks were female or non-binary though.

  40. 40.

    Geminid

    @Geminid: I am still anxious more or less about Democratic Representives like Sharice Davids (KS-3) and Elaine Luria (VA-2). They both flipped Republican seats in 2018 but face tougher races after redistricting. And veteran Marcy Kaptur has an uphill fight in her now R+3 district in Northeast Ohio. These women are excellent Representatives, though, and I’m hoping their new constituents will recognize that.

  41. 41.

    Geminid

    @Sure Lurkalot: It would probably be best for people to curb their donations to Democrats running in tough districts like the Georgia 14th. But candidates like Flowers are going to win people’s support no matter what. Just like Representative Ocasio-Cortez will outraise almost all other Democrats even though she is in a district safer than Margery Greene’s.

  43. 43.

    Jeffro

    This

    “This ain’t your father’s Republican Party,” Pres. Biden says. “This is a MAGA party now.”

    sure sounds like a big midterm campaign theme to me.  Especially with two (or more!) months of Jan 6th public hearings coming up.

  44. 44.

    dww44

    So, Jeffrey Tobin just asserts that not only  will MTG not be thrown off the ballot, this whole exercise only enables her to raise more money and will make her even stronger in her district.  And David Axelrod agrees. Both also think that this obscure part of the 14th Amendment is antidemocratic and was never meant to be used except against former Confederates.

  45. 45.

    dww44

    @dww44: Personally I disagree. She swore allegiance to the Constitution and then advocated to subvert it.  It wasn’t just her right of free speech she was exercising as both Toobin and Axelrod said her statements were.

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