Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let’s finish the job.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

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

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

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

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Consistently wrong since 2002

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

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  6. 6.

    laura

    @WaterGirl: not til now. I’m 20 minutes in. She’s guested on a number of things lately so trying to keep up. Trivia- she has a woozle named Junebug.

  12. 12.

    SFAW

    I just received some Rethuglispam, offering me a chance to sign up for … something.

    What caught my eye was this:
    “Our America First Foundering Wall is reserved for our Party’s most loyal supporters.”

    I do not think it means what they seem to think it means.

    ETA: On the other hand, I can only hope that enough Rethugs get on the boat wall before it founders.

  14. 14.

    SFAW

    @Eolirin:

    Apparently Orrin Hatch just died?

    Erik Loomis at LGM has a nice obit. [For values of “nice” where it means “explains what a terrible, evil, corrupt person and senator Hatch was.”]

  17. 17.

    Another Scott

    @Sure Lurkalot: Fallows noted that too.

    Short thread.

    Essay question for “role of the press” students:

    Let’s look at this NYT Hatch obit, in two crucial grafs.https://t.co/dhzSkDgztG

    Paragraph 1, below:

    How does the word in highlights match the sentences that follow? What are the reasons for choosing that word? Discuss. pic.twitter.com/0FrWPKXmHY— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) April 24, 2022

    But, but, the obit writer/editor was being ironic!!11

    He was horrible, but was a white man with good hair who did what they wanted, so he got a pass from the PTB.

    Grr…,
    Scott.

  22. 22.

    MomSense

    @Another Scott:

    One person’s good hair is another person’s playmobil hair.  It always looked to me like he could just snap it off at the end of the day and click it back on in the morning.

  23. 23.

    Another Scott

    It was a very good discussion.

    I wouldn’t want to be against her in a game of Trivial Pursuit!!

    On the lighter side…

    Was sent this, don’t know where it originated so can’t give the credit to the people who made it. pic.twitter.com/71vhwHHdrd

    — David Hunter (@cyclingmole) April 22, 2022

    I hate it when that happens.

    (via gavmacn)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  26. 26.

    Geminid

    @Another Scott: In other Utah news, Democrats there had a state convention yesterday and they made the unusual move of endorsing independent Evan McMullin in the Senate race against Republican Mike Lee. High profile Democrats like Salt Lake County Mayor Jan Wison and former Representative Ben McAdams sponsored the effort to back McMullin over Democrat Kael Weston, and their resolution passed by 782 to 594 votes. Afterwords Mr. Weston said that there had been a good debate and that “I accept what the delegates have decided to do.”

    The Deseret News report on the convention noted that a Democrat has not won a Utah Senate seat in 50 years.

  31. 31.

    Another Scott

    @Geminid: It’s a heavy lift, that’s for sure.

    I don’t know enough to have an informed opinion.

    McMullin's chance was the open seat in 2018 or the house seat vacated by Chaffetz. He whiffed on it to be a poster.

    It's a vanity campaign to divert McGrath-scale resources to someone who isn't even a Democrat and wouldn't even caucus with us. Prove me wrong.

    — zeddy (@Zeddary) April 24, 2022

    Yeah, that’s a risk. We need to be smart.

    It’s worth watching. Maybe some January 6 indictments will shake things up. We’ll see.

    (via LOLGOP)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  32. 32.

    Another Scott

    The world is complicated, Part MMCXIV…

    Thread (re whether Germany is doing enough, or doing more on the down-low than people believe).

    Matthew has this right. Oil and gas exports are what Russia does in order to get precision engineering and semiconductor imports; if they can't get those, all the money in the world is no good to them https://t.co/bU1LRBRLfR

    — Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) April 24, 2022

    Maybe… But money is fungible and opens lots of doors that are nominally closed.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  33. 33.

    StringOnAStick

    @Another Scott: I know someone who usually votes D but refused to vote for Hillary due to who knows what crap she read online, but she voted for McMullen.  It might work and if it takes a senate seat away from the R’s, that’s a good thing.  Even better if it’s insurrectionist Lee.

  34. 34.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    It was a very good discussion.

    I wouldn’t want to be against her in a game of Trivial Pursuit!!

    Indeed! I enjoyed that discussion and plan to listen again, maybe today. Wheeler is so deep in the weeds, she can be a bit hard to follow, but her powers of retention and skill at connection are remarkable

  35. 35.

    Yutsano

    @Another Scott: ​ This one will be…weird.The main reason why I say that is because McMullen might just have a shot.With the Democrats basically bowing out, there is a pool of votes he now has. I have to research how popular Lee is, although I did hear something about him not being all that popular in Utah right now. It might be worth looking at anyway.​

  36. 36.

    CaseyL

    @StringOnAStick: It might not actually take a seat away from the Rs, if McMullin is elected and opts to caucus with them (he’s running as an “Independent”). But, as has been noted, an actual Democrat can’t be elected statewide in Utah, so the best we can hope for is to get Lee’s traitorous ass out of there.

  37. 37.

    Geminid

    @Another Scott:  Just hours after the Utah convention, @Zeddary is positing that McMullin is going to soak up McGrath-level resources. I don’t see it myself. Utah Democrats are only talking about putting their own votes and work behind McMullin. That’s a rational decision.

    I think that as an independent McMullin will have slim pickings among national Democrats this cycle. Maybe some rich independent Third Way-types will put their money where there mouth is. Anti-trump Republicans might too. But there will be eight or nine real Democrats trying to hold or flip Senate seats in battleground states and I don’t think there will be a lot of Democratic money left over for McMullin to poach.

  39. 39.

    wetzel

    Holy cow, Dr. Wheeler took Josh Marshall and Josh Kovinsky at TalkingPointsMemo to the woodshed the other day. I think she is challenging them to up their game on the Durham story and Jan 6 in general.

    The activities of Durham the prosecutor is a case study in maladministration of justice, partison inspired prosecution, and it is completely missing from mainstream coverage, what a fiasco it is. To see the coverage at EmptyWheel compared to the rest, it is a wonder we are not fascist yet.

    TPM is a small outfit too, but EmptyWheel is out-researching them and out-writing them on Jan 6 and all things related to the coup investigation and the remaining tendrils of Russiagate.

  40. 40.

    eachother

    Ben Wittes was the instigator of projecting the Ukraine flag onto a russian embassy last week. The projection was a moving overlay on top of a russian flag projection. The poopies tried to wash out the Ukraine flag with a moving white light spotlight.
    Ben surprised me with that one!

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    @Yutsano:

    Maybe I’m naive, but to me a real “curb stomping” would have been with Macron getting more than 70 percent. Being plus-17 over an out-and-out fascist is far too close for my taste. Yeah, I realize (or so I’ve been told) that Macron is an asshole etc etc, and is disliked by a fair number of voters, but still ..

     

    ETA: Oh, and I think the French for it is something like “urb-kay omping-stay.” Oh, wait, that’s Latin. Sorry.

  47. 47.

    Diceros bicorni

    I asked my Frenchman but he had nothing to offer. Elle a pris une bonne fessée peut-être

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    @wetzel:

    Holy cow, Dr. Wheeler took Josh Marshall and Josh Kovinsky at TalkingPointsMemo to the woodshed the other day. I think she is challenging them to up their game on the Durham story and Jan 6 in general.

    Do you have a link?

  49. 49.

    Diceros bicornis

    @SFAW: :D  we don’t have a damn nazi President that’s good enough for me. Not a huge fan of macron but he’s doing the job.

  50. 50.

    trollhattan

    Le Pen begins her quest for joining the US Republicans with qualifying “this loss isn’t really a loss because it’s a win” speech.

    Result is still a victory, Le Pen tells supporters

    The far-right leader is addressing supporters chanting her name.
    She says the result – a projected loss – is still a victory for her party.
    She respects the verdict of the ballot box, she says.
    Le Pen added that she would continue her fight in French politics – the far-right candidate had said previously she might leave politics if she lost.

    Oklahoma has a senate seat opening up and if she can talk half-English she’ll fit right in.

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