Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

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

Nothing worth doing is easy.

“woke” is the new caravan.

No one could have predicted…

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

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

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

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

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

You cannot shame the shameless.

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

Second rate reporter says what?

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

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

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

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

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Books are my comfort food!

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    It’s nuts that anyone gives a damn about the Dark Brandon meme. It hurts no one. The only thing it does is motivate us and give us hope….

    Oh.

  6. 6.

    LeftCoastYankee

    Holding my breath waiting for the apology for the “gerontocracy” being out of touch, when in fact taking the long view, having patience, putting in the work and minimizing drama is actually how sh*t gets done.

    Plus, it’s in the IRA that there will be free laser beam eye surgery for every over 75 who is a badass.   It’s in the back somewhere….

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    OMGLOL I totally love the photo of ol’ handsome Joe laughing at Dark Brandon!! Have saved.

  9. 9.

    Layer8Problem

    More Republicans in Disarray: Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Vos has decided that former state Supreme Court justice and nut Michael Gableman, charged with investigating Wisconsin’s 2020 election, has outlived his usefulness to the state GOP. What pushed Vos? Gableman with Trump endorsed Vos’ primary opponent as well as accused Vos on a Steve Bannon podcast of having “a role in stealing the 2020 election.”

  12. 12.

    Ken

    I’d suggest adopting that famous Conan (barbarian, not O’Brien) saying for Dark Brandon, but it doesn’t sound as good when updated to “Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the whining of the media.”

  15. 15.

    RSA

    Kaitlyn Tiffany:

    To comprehend why people are doing this, one must understand that liberals who spend too much time online have for the past several years been locked in a psychosexual showdown with Trump supporters who also spend too much time online.

    The “psychosexual” part is bizarre, but she’s not too far off about the big picture.

  16. 16.

    Layer8Problem

    @Omnes Omnibus:  “Fractally crazy” is an inspired way of putting it.

    “We have to go deeper.”  “No, man, no we don’t, it’s batshit all the way down!”

  19. 19.

    DarkSiubhan

    Testing out the new nym which will put me in moderation. Not sure when I’ll use it, but thanks to LeftCoastYankee, I think it’s a good idea to be prepared.

  21. 21.

    Jay

    Back in January, when I was working, Kim (a co worker) bitched that Dark Brandon, ( aka President of the United States, Joe Biden, ( sorry to out your secret identity, Sir)) wasn’t getting anything done.

    Like me, Kim is an “old leftie”, with lots of bitter experience with The Establishment, but our media consumption is quite different. He consumes a lot of “click bait, hot takes”, where, well, I am here, and prefer Upton Sinclair deep dives into the Sausage Factory, ( you won’t believe what they put in that stuff,😂)

    I pointed him to a list of everything Dark Brandon got done via Legislation and EO’s in his first 10 months, with only 50,

    and Kim was like “holy fuck!!!!!!”. Turns out all the FTMSM negging drove all memory of Dark Brandon’s crime fighting out of his memory. Then we had a nice chat about “The Media”, and Kim told me some “horror stories” from when he ran a SRO*, for DERA**.

    *Single Resident Occupancy, ( AKA Welfare Hotel in the Downtown East Side).

    **Downtown Eastside Residents Association.

    Changed his mind on Dark Brandon, The Hero For Our Times.

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    Just read that Rushdie was airlifted to UPMC Hamot in Erie, PA, and that’s where he got surgery and is ventilated. My former firm designed the new (opened during Covid) tower at that hospital.

    Of all the people who I thought would end up in that hospital, Salman Rushdie was not on that list.

  25. 25.

    Edmund Dantes

    @LeftCoastYankee: except we know pressure worked in several parts to get them moving on things. God I hate this simplistic stuff.

    it wasn’t just one thing that moved the needle.

  28. 28.

    Layer8Problem

    @Jay:  I respect bats like nobody’s business, they do great work, but I leave their poop to the professionals.

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    Open Thread? Whew.

    New front door installed this afternoon at the domicile, with the help of a friend who is also, shall we say, of a certain age. Solid core — that sucker is heavy!

    Old door was hollow core of the type meant for interior use (already in place for some years before I moved in 39 years ago) and was deteriorating, termite chewed and falling to pieces; totally Methusalated.

  32. 32.

    lurker

    @LeftCoastYankee: pretty sure that was in the footnotes … it’s always in the footnotes … there is a little known footnote in the constitution which says government of by and for the lawyers … (that is shamelessly stolen from multiple sources)

  33. 33.

    stinger

    @Jay:

    a list of everything Dark Brandon got done via Legislation and EO’s

    I could use a list like that! Updated occasionally. Maybe linked in the sidebar under “Featuring” along with the J6 hearings, Ukraine, kindness, etc.

    ETA: Commenters here have provided short lists from time to time, but I can never find them again and would really like a cumulative one.

  37. 37.

    cain

    For me, at last instead of attacking Democratic politicians they are attacking us, the Democratic political aware class. I love it because they finally give me a platform to tell them to go fuck themselves. They know that the dark brandon stuff is coming from us, not from the politicians.

    Perhaps we should give them a nickname too. Squawking chickens.

  38. 38.

    Bobby Thomson

    The criticism has big “you should dress your age” energy.

    People are doing that and redefining age.

  39. 39.

    Bobby Thomson

    @cain: They know that the dark brandon stuff is coming from us, not from the politicians.

     

    There are some out there who seriously don’t know that.

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    @stinger

    Heh. Not much to see — it’s a plain door without any sort of decoration.

    Needs to be painted still (all sorts of surface scuffs and smudges on the selections at the big box store). That’ll come soon, right now I’m out of energy to do anything the least bit strenuous.

  44. 44.

    LeftCoastYankee

    @Edmund Dantes:

    I totally agree with pressure being a major factor, and it should ALWAYS be put on politicians since they work for us.

    That said, age isn’t what slowed the process, but I do think experience in negotiating helped the in-party drama queens/kings to come to realize where they needed to be.

    And don’t assume one comment is the whole of someone’s view.  Kind of simplistic, no?

  53. 53.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jay: ​
     

    To the tune of “I Feel Pretty”:

    I smell bat shit, oh yes bat shit
    it’s not rat shit, it’s bat shit for sure,
    it’s not cat shit, and it certainly isn’t horse manure

    I wish I could claim authorship, but I heard it from a fellow caver nearly 50 years ago.

  54. 54.

    wenchacha

    @Suzanne: I was born at that hospital!

    My sister happened to be at Chautauqua on Tuesday, doing hospitality at the Lutheran House. There have been lectures all week about how the US provides a safe space for writers in exile. Her event wasn’t at the main amphitheater, but there was not a lot of visible security.

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