Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The willow is too close to the house.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

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

No Justins, No Peace

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Republicans don’t trust women.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

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

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

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

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Speaking of embarrassing photos, I think the correct verb structure here would be ‘was thrown on a grenade’…

Also:

And finally… Oh, *that* threat of violence! Y’see, I make so many…

Mr. Pierce, who watched some of Whitey Bulger’s boys testify, back in the day — “Marjorie Taylor Greene Was the Most Non-Credible Person I’ve Seen on a Witness Stand in Decades”:

… The whole thing is a long shot, but it’s one worth taking if it gives pause to any of the up-and-coming crazies who likely will be arriving in Washington next January. Of course, the only thing the administrative court can do is recommend actions to the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, who’s been a piñata ever since he refused to go along with the former president* two years ago, and who’s running for re-election at the moment…

Greene was pretty plainly dealing throughout in barefaced non-facts. She was an objectively terrible witness on her own behalf, probably the most obviously non-credible person I’ve seen on a witness stand since I saw a Massachusetts bagman claim a senator who’d been paying him off for decades actually was extorting him. But it’s almost impossible to imagine this challenge actually succeeding. The poor, old 14th Amendment has taken a brutal beating over the past half-century. Section 3, the part the challenge is based on, has been locked in a steamer trunk in the attic since the last real Confederate died. The 14th was an appeal for the country to change, if it had the guts to do so. It didn’t. And the result is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia.

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  1. 1.

    sab

    What a snake Elise Stefanik seems to be. Does she realky think her party would ever have a woman speaker? Slimy creepy deceitful Speaker yes. Woman speaker no.

  2. 2.

    Martin

    This whole GOP in disarray thing would be entertaining if it wasn’t so utterly terrifying. May is going to be a hell of a month if we’re just starting in with the leaking before the public hearings.

  3. 3.

    West of the Rockies

    Cawthorne is looking more hypocritical and ridiculous by the hour.  And MTG’s arrogance is matched only by her stupidity.

  4. 4.

    Joey Maloney

    For those who had questions in the auction preview thread yesterday, answers have been posted there, with apologies for the delay, only it was after midnight my local time.

  5. 5.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Can you imagine the firestorm in the MSM if a Dem (high profile or not) was registered to vote in three states

  7. 7.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @Mallard Filmore: ​
      It doesn’t matter if it’s bad, this is politics. The MSM launched a weeks long firestorm over Nancy Pelosi eating ice cream. They launched a firestorm over Obama putting mustard on his cheeseburger (the ultimate nothingbuger). Obama came withing an inch of impeachment over a tan suit.

    For goodness sakes, if Katie Porter was registered in three states she be ripped to shreds.

  8. 8.

    sukabi

    @Mallard Filmore: the North Carolina address he used was a trailer that his wife spent a week at for a vacation…he was never there, they don’t own or rent the property.

     

    Plus, to vote in an area you have to actually be a resident, something he and his wife never were at that address in NC.

  9. 9.

    kalakal

    @Mallard Filmore: Also lets not forget he spent a lot of time ranting about voter fraud in order to promote measures making it harder for the wrong sort of people to vote. He even gave the keynote address at the Conservative Partnership Institute’s Election Integrity Summit in February. “What you’re doing is investing in the future of our country and making sure only legal votes count,”

  10. 10.

    prostratedragon

    MTV’s gulp at the end,  when she can’t fully reboot the smirk,  is priceless.

  11. 11.

    Geminid

    Joe Biden on Earth Day, retweeted by Ragnarok Lobster:

        Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we’re going to plant 1.2 billion trees across the country to begin the vital work of reforesting America. It makes sense and also makes a big difference in our cities and on our city streets.

    I wonder if Americorps will be involved. That organization would make a good platform for a new Climate Corps. I’d forgotten about them until a couple of years ago, when I stopped at a coffee shop in Vicksburg. While on my way out there were four young people, 3 white and one Black, coming in. They looked cheerful and had on Americorps windbreakers.

    I hope everyone had a happy Earth Day.

  13. 13.

    germy

    Madison Cawthorn pulled over by police AGAIN. Cop has to confiscate his driver’s license because, get this, it’s invalid. Officer then has Cawthorn switch places with his passenger, so she can drive instead. pic.twitter.com/fv94BQRvOT

    — Mike Sington (@MikeSington) April 21, 2022

    His passenger had to adjust her clothing when she climbed out so I think I know why young Mad was swerving.

  14. 14.

    germy

    A republican leaked this photo.

    JUST IN: New photos obtained by @politico appear to show Madison Cawthorn wearing women’s lingerie. Cawthorn recently accused fellow Republicans of attending cocaine orgies. pic.twitter.com/YNKB0qyivd— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) April 22, 2022

    Payback for his coke&orgy accusations. I love when republicans ratfuck each other.

  15. 15.

    germy

    A clip of this 2019 video was just played in court testimony. “Ms. Greene that’s you, right?”

    “That’s me.”

    “What year is that?”

    The judge steps in, saying “you’re pushing the envelope” with bringing up older incidents. #gapol https://t.co/rw5niLILg0

    — Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) April 22, 2022

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @germy: Congrats again to the NC-11 idiots who voted for this assclown.  To think that they could’ve had a retired Air Force colonel representing them…

  17. 17.

    Geminid

    The trumpheads are gathering at the Delaware County (Ohio) Fairgrounds. A reporter from WBNS TV interviewed Jonathan Riches of Tampa, Florida who had driven 17 hours to get there early. This will be his 46th trump rally. Riches has gotten three pictures of himself with trump and hopes to get a fourth.

    The last few trump rallies have gotten relatively little attention, but this one could be different. Trump’s endorsement of phoney J.D. Vance appalled many Ohio Republicans, and this will be a test of trump’s salesmanship. And I think that trump won’t ignore the recent news about January 6, but instead will come out swinging.

  18. 18.

    Joey Maloney

    @germy: His passenger had to adjust her clothing

    Button her pinafore? Snap up her onesie? Did she get lint on her lollipop?

  20. 20.

    cmorenc

    @mrmoshpotato:

    @germy: Congrats again to the NC-11 idiots who voted for this assclown.  To think that they could’ve had a retired Air Force colonel representing them…

    NC-11 is comprised primarily of a large area of mountain & foothill communities whose demographics and geography are very similar to MTG’s northern Ga. district, coupled with a portion of the blue-voting Asheville area.  Asheville was deliberately split in the last redistricting into two pieces to assure that the Asheville area couldn’t supply enough votes to tip a congressional election to even so much as a blue-dog democrat such as Heath Schuler, who represented the 11th from 2007-2013.

  21. 21.

    Kay

    @Geminid:

    I wish they would stop saying Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. It’s not the name of the law and it says nothing about what’s in the law. There’s no reason to give the Republican Party a plug every time they mention this law. If they were going to get some credit for “bipartisan” they surely would have by now, since they’ve repeated it a million times.

    The name is “infrastructure investment and jobs act” which is much more descriptive. There’s no rule they have to reflexively credit Republicans. It’s worse than the real name of the law.

  22. 22.

    Geminid

     

     

    @Kay: I usually say Infrastructure bill myself. I don’t know why the President called it the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, but he did. The goal of planting 1.2 billion trees is still a good one no matter what you call the bill that funds it.

  25. 25.

    debbie

    @sab:

    Stefanik, in her snakiness, is the epitome of the GOP. I hope it’s not long before they all destroy each other.

  26. 26.

    zhena gogolia

    OT, I dreamed that LePen won by 98.4%, Putinesque margins.

    Think I’ll go back to sleep.

    ETA: Oh, and, I hate Elise Stefanik. I watched the first impeachment so I’ve had her number for quite a while.

  27. 27.

    debbie

    Just a casual reminder that in 1861, 11 Senators and 3 Representatives were expelled from Congress for failing to recognize Lincoln’s election and supporting insurrection.
    — Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) April 22, 2022

  28. 28.

    Kay

    @Geminid:

    It’s a decision they made and they all use it constantly. This is the White House web site:

    Congress pass­ed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act)

    They’re now campaigning for Democrats for the midterms. Perhaps we could drop the plug for Republicans at our campaign events and use the real name of the law, which is a better name anyway?

  30. 30.

    Kay

    @zhena gogolia:

    So I’m told. Hasn’t worked its magic for so far in this administration but it seems to be an article of faith with them so I assume they’ll stick with it.

  31. 31.

    zhena gogolia

    @Kay: Inflation and gas prices and Covid have more to do with this administration’s problems than any words.

  32. 32.

    Geminid

    @Kay: “Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” is how Marcy Kaptur’s website titled the bill when it passed. But the term isn’t used so much in news coverage. Usually the act is called “the Infrastructure law” or “infrastructure bill.”

    Like I said, I just call it the Infrastructure bill. I like to post items about tree planting, the reinvigorated Superfund, “transformative” AMTRAK investments, weatherization of low income people’s housing, electric school buses, etc. because I still see people disparaging this act as a mere “roads bill” when it is much more than that.

  34. 34.

    Kay

    @zhena gogolia:

    That’s the theory, I guess. Events that no one can control or influence will determine the outcome but if that’s the theory why bother campaigning at all?

    They’re politicians – advocates. Words are the tools of the trade.

  35. 35.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    @mrmoshpotato:

    But Little Maddie does such a great job of doing things that can be touted as “libruls pwn3d”….

  37. 37.

    Kay

    This is great. I know teenagers aren’t going to all sign up at the Brooklyn Public Library but I think it’s important librarians make it crystal clear they oppose book bannings, and it is getting media coverage.
    Book bans are unpopular, too.

    Goodable
    @Goodable
    · 23h
    The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
    Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they live.
    The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as “always available.”

  38. 38.

    Geminid

    @Geminid: It’s unclear whether Governor Mike Dewine will be able to make it to the trump rally. He pointed out that he has a longstanding commitment to attend celebrations kicking off the 200th anniversary of Ulysses Grant’s birth, in New Richmond, Ohio. Primary rival Jim Renacci loudly says that he will attend trump’s rally.

    If I were DeWine I would linger at Grant’s birthplace down near the Ohio River, and contemplate the legacy of a great American president. I might read Grant’s great Autobigraphy, or the letter he wrote in 1861 where he said:

    There are but two parties now, traitors and patriots. And I want to be ranked hereafter among the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

  39. 39.

    Kay

    @Geminid:

    He’s afraid to go. They’ll boo him and he’ll have to kiss Trump’s ass and it will be humiliating and embarrassing. Not that he might not do it! His whole career has been one long abandoning of his “principles”. I think the difference now is his administration and the Ohio leg are crazy-corrupt. DeWine was never corrupt. Now he is.

  40. 40.

    sab

    @Geminid: Different political race, but Ohioans need to be reminded that JD Vance actually lives in San Francisco.

    Bought my husband the annotated version of Grant’s memoirs. He chuckled as he was reading it last night. Do not know what that was about.

  41. 41.

    sab

    @Kay: Caitriona Balfe the Outlander lady just reposted about Brooklyn library. She is Irish and lives in Scotland and she even noticed.

  42. 42.

    Kay

    @sab:

    They’ll be an anti- JD Vance protest outside the rally, and probably inside the rally too. The Tea Party.

    Have to hand it to the Tea Party. They’re right about Vance- he’s a fraud. The MAGAS will of course follow Dear Leader.

  43. 43.

    dave319

    @Kay: well, that would be those Bill Clinton era gerontocrats in the party leadership who still party like it’s 1993.. to them, Newt Gingrich never happened; Bush v Gore never happened; the Iraq war never happened; the 2008 crash never happened; and Barack Obama was the ultimate reaffirmation of Bill Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Council.

  44. 44.

    Kay

    @sab:

    One of my (non political) sisters linked it on the sisters group text. Librarians will win this. Americans have never supported book bans. Republicans tried them in the 1990’s and it was a big flop.

  45. 45.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    @sab:

    I always get her confused with the woman who plays Dementia (or whatever the hell her name is) on Poldark.

  46. 46.

    Geminid

    @sab: Grant had a dry sense of humor, and he liked to poke fun at people’s pretensions including his own.

    When Grant took a world tour after his second term was up, he visited Venice. It would be a nice city, he remarked, if they would only drain it. Critics like to quote this as proof  that Grant was a dull philistine, but I think he was just having fun.

  47. 47.

    Kay

    @dave319:

    I don’t delve into the whole history. It is what it is. I’m not a political scientist. It just grates on me to hear every Democrat touting the “bipartisan infrastruture law” over and over as if the defining feature of the thing is a handful of Republicans voted for it. I could see it being part of a speech in a swing or Trump district for a House candidate – whatever they need they should try- but to make it the most prominent part of the pitch?  It’s not even descriptive of the contents.

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    @Joey Maloney: No apologies from you, please!  I put the Auction PREVIEW up at a time i thought it could reach the most people in advance of the auction.  I didn’t stop to think about the time zone issue in terms of answering questions.

  50. 50.

    Betty

    @Kay: It seems to be one of the dreams that Biden won’t give up. I was a bit encouraged by his statement that this is not your father’s Republican Party. Hope that indicates a new direction.

  52. 52.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Nothing you could say about McCarthy rivals the incandescent rage of MAGA world over his betrayal of the Maximum Leader.

    I can not help but suspect the Democrats egged Setfak into pulling this stunt right when the GOP primaries get going. So yes, Trump’s toxic fan bois are going to be pulling themselves out of their recliners to vote because the Primaries have now become a referendum on McCarthy. We will get to see how many easily reelected Republican incumbents lose their nominations to Q-anon nut jobs who will just make the GOP House more unmanageable if they get elected.

    Since Setfak sucks at backstabbing he going down too so the Democrats get a two for one on this deal. Quite the pay off on few comments.

    What, did I suggest the Democrats are professional politicians, well back to the doomporning. We can’t have that.

  53. 53.

    kindness

    I haven’t lived in NY since the late 70s but most my family still lives there so I kind of pay attention.  I know upstate NY is very conservative, but I find Stefanik particularly repulsive.  If she thinks she’s the one who will take Kevin’s job she’s also an idiot (which I didn’t figure as she’s an Ivy leaguer).  If Republican’s take the House, the speakership will go to one of the truly despicable Trumpers like Jim Jordan.

  54. 54.

    opiejeanne

    @Geminid: You do know that Mark Twain wrote Grant’s autobiography, right? Grant was broke and Samuel Clemens helped him out in this way so that he wouldn’t die destitute.

  58. 58.

    Another Scott

    Speaking of death cults…

    WTOP:

    The man police believe randomly shot four people in Northwest D.C. Friday afternoon has been found dead, and police say he had “sniper-type setup” in an apartment.

    D.C. police Chief Robert Contee said police believe the man killed himself as officers were entering the fifth-floor apartment where he was staying. Contee did not identify him and said police were waiting to inform the next of kin.

    However, earlier Friday, D.C. police identified Raymond Spencer, 23, of Fairfax, Virginia, as a person of interest who been “linked to social media postings” that emerged as part of the investigation, Assistant Police Chief Stuart Emerman said. Contee said they are no longer looking for Spencer.

    Among the items police found in the apartment were several firearms, including long guns, multiple rounds of ammunition and handguns. Contee also confirmed the presence of a tripod.

    “This was a sniper-type setup,” Contee said, adding that police believe there are no other people involved. “Obviously, his intent was to kill and hurt members of our community,” and this person was just “shooting randomly at anyone who was out there.”

    Contee said that the gunman was shooting from north to south, and fired multiple rounds — “definitely in excess of 20 rounds.”

    […]

    Preliminary findings show that the weapons found in the apartment may have been obtained legally; police still do not yet know whether the video circulating on the shooting was livestreamed or whether it was recorded and posted.

    Police are also in the process of authenticating the video — meaning that they haven’t determined whether it was from Friday’s shooting or if it’s even from a separate shooting within the U.S.

    The four victims were a 54-year-old man who is a retired police officer, a woman in her 30s, a woman in her mid-60s who was grazed by a bullet, and a 12-year-old girl who was shot in the arm. Assistant Police Chief Stuart Emerman said at a news conference earlier Friday evening that they were stable. The two adults had critical injuries and the girl had minor injuries.

    Emerman identified the fourth victim as Patricia Termini, who was grazed on her shoulder. She was treated at the scene and did not go to the hospital.

    DCist.com:

    Police responded to the shooting with dozens of cop cars, armored vehicles, ambulances and dozens of officers, some in tactical gear. The Secret Service, U.S. Park Police, UDC Police, the FBI, the ATF, and other agencies also responded to the scene. Police said they sent so many officers because of the “fluid nature” of the event and the sheer number of calls they received. They also needed to search multiple large buildings in the area.

    It’s unclear why the manhunt and lockdown took nearly six hours – the gunman was found in the apartment where the shooting and the video originated. MPD’s press office said they did not have details of the timeline or police movements yet.

    Hmm…

    It has been an active night for police in the District. Another shooting with three victims took place in Brightwood, in addition to another shooting in Takoma and someone attempting self-immolation at the Supreme Court.

    :-(

    The apartment is near the Howard University Law School, just off Connecticut Ave., maybe 5 miles from the Capitol.

    Grr…,
    Scott.

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