Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Second rate reporter says what?

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

… gradually, and then suddenly.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Books are my comfort food!

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Giving up is unforgivable.

The willow is too close to the house.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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Repub tears, they are delicious!

The other Repubs are nervous, because TFG’s usual mob-boss tactics aren’t working on the DoJ or the FBI…

Dum da dum dum…

Bonus: Conway is no Alexandra Petri, but he’s certainly got TFG’s tone down:

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  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    Dump refused, saying the records are “mine,” “not theirs.”

    This man-baby criminal is their orange god?  You 62-74 million white trash morons.

  6. 6.

    Edmund Dantes

    Glad to see we’ve entered the “of course I did it and if it wasn’t for those meddling NARA kids I’d have gotten away with it” stage of the caper.

  7. 7.

    Frank Wilhoit

    @mrmoshpotato: There is a familiar quote from Mencken, the formulation of which is uncharacteristically awkward, but which basically says that people vote for candidates(*) with whom they identify.

    (*) I would have said, parties

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    The other Repubs are nervous, because TFG’s usual mob-boss tactics aren’t working on the DoJ or the FBI…

    Awww…mobster manbaby can’t fire DoJ officials anymore.  (Still hilarious that Confederate Elf Sessions wasn’t corrupt enough for the Soviet shitpile mobster manbaby.)

    Have they tried crying harder?

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Edmund Dantes:

    Glad to see we’ve entered the “of course I did it and if it wasn’t for those meddling NARA kids I’d have gotten away with it” stage of the caper. 

    That’s a slap in the face to Scooby Doo villains!

  16. 16.

    Baud

    The only people Trump has intimidated were Republicans.  Dems, especially Pelosi, were pretty strong in standing up to him when he was in office.

  19. 19.

    RSA

    Tucker Carlson:

    Maybe for the first time in his life, Donald Trump seems sincerely interested in lowering the temperature, not only for his own stake, but for the country’s… This could get very bad, very fast.

    Funny, with the January 6 hearings due to resume in September, Carlson implies that Trump was not sincerely interested in lowering the temperature on that day.

  20. 20.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    All the idiots defending him have gone silent. They were sooooo sure this was a political winner for them.

    Anyone with 2 brain cells knew this was something BIG. They don’t send in 30 agents, an armored truck, and a national security team for a weather map.

    Now, a humiliated Laura Ingraham wants to break-up and start seeing other Nazis.

    Laura Ingraham usually a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, said a conflict-weary nation might be ready to move on from the former president.

    And she indicated it could be time to start looking for someone who has Trump’s politics, but not the baggage, should he decide to run again in 2024.

    “The country, I think, is so exhausted,” she told podcaster Lisa Boothe, per The Hill. “They’re exhausted by the battle, the constant battle, that they may believe that, well, maybe it’s time to turn the page if we can get someone who has all Trump’s policies, who’s not Trump.”

  25. 25.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Edmund Dantes:

    Reminds me of Jessup from A Few Good Men.

    Federal prosecutor: “Did you take classified state nuclear secrets to your bedbug infested club in Florida?”

    TFG: “You’re god damn right I did!”

  26. 26.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @Baud: ​
      Yup. Even Manchin voted to “impeach the mother fucker” twice

  31. 31.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Well, by itself no, but she’s really only ever been in-house legal counsel for that parking garage company and has some litigation experience, but is no expert in criminal law/trial procedures as far as I can tell, which is controlling here; IOW, she’s way out of her depth

  34. 34.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

     I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I’m smart and I want respect! ~ Eric Trump

  37. 37.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @RSA:

    Tucker Carlson:

    Maybe for the first time in his life, Donald Trump seems sincerely interested in lowering the temperature, not only for his own stake, but for the country’s… This could get very bad, very fast.

    I can’t speak for anyone else, but this does not strike me as a particularly robust endorsement of TFG on Tuckum’s side.

  40. 40.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @Baud: ​
      I severed all my ties to the IRA after “The Crying Game” came out.

  47. 47.

    RSA

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yes!  That struck me too. “Maybe for the first time in his life, Donald Trump seems…[to have a decent impulse, even if it’s a fake one.]” Carlson isn’t usually so honest.

  49. 49.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Baud:

    To be fair, that parking garage also committed treason against America.

    A $75/day parking fee?

  55. 55.

    Spanky

    @bbleh:

     in fairness, an awful lot of political journalists are Democrats.

    An “aweful lot”? I think not.

    ETA – Although I will agree that political journalists are an aweful lot.

  59. 59.

    Van Buren

    Wife’s car was totaled in July. Was finally able to go shopping for a replacement today. The three headed monster of limited availability, increased prices, and skyrocketing interest rate put my new pacemaker to the test. Everything was all said and done, and my younger son, who is on the spectrum, and who came along just so he could drive my car home while I drove home the new one, promptly backed into a brand effing new, still in shrink wrap car. The whole sales and service staff came out to see. I told him I would take care of it and sent him home, and the dealer said if I pay a grand, they’ll forget about it. I thought there at least 1500 in damages that I was looking at, so I jumped on the deal, shook hands all around, and drove home myself.

    Just keep saying to myself, it’s only $ and nobody got hurt. Actually thrilled that he did not melt down in public. Totally worth it.

  65. 65.

    Van Buren

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Tomorrow is the calm before the storm, as on Thursday I am having a liver biopsy.  It’s either going to be unpleasant news or horrific news. Tiny possibility of NBD news. Trying to ducks in a row without alerting/alarming my wife unless necessary.

  68. 68.

    Ken

    At least one lawyer on the Trump legal team … has called up a reporter covering the story for any insight into how the Justice Department might next proceed.

    I assume this means he’s run out of real lawyers who will work for him, and has turned to his relatives; specifically that notorious crowd-sourcer of everything from COVID science to Middle East peace, Jared.

  70. 70.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    From trump’s lawyer’s website

    Alina is licensed to practice in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, and the United States District Court for the Districts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

    Alina has served as lead counsel for numerous newsworthy cases, ….and, most recently, Trump vs. Mary Trump, The New York Times Company, et al. filed in September 2021. In addition to her work in practice, she is a firm believer in continuing education as is evidenced by her post J.D. education at Harvard in Negotiations earning a top grade in the class and completing the Harvard Business School Executive program in Leading Professional Service Firms.

    Funny to me that he apparently found her for his grudge match against his niece. Also she doesn’t mention her own education except to drop that Harvard credential in there. With the licensing she lists, can she represent him in Federal court? I think I heard somebody on MSNBC say if charges are filed, it will be by the US Atty in Miami? But I guess you don’t need to be licensed to go on TeeVee.

  73. 73.

    Poe Larity

    @Ken: I’d suggest to TFG that he open a Law School, but I’m afraid he’d actually get rich off it.

    But it would end up with a lot of “lawyers” in jail, so there’s that.

  84. 84.

    HumboldtBlue

    @cain:

    He’s got no charisma, no charm, and actually gives off the air of the wannabe autocrat authoritarian. Trump came with the past of being a known public figure who knew how to play the conman. He knows a mark, and has the showman’s act coupled with populist hate to draw the folks who want that hate to be front and center, to rallies.

  85. 85.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Baud: ​
     

    The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life, So Far

    Won’t say FTFY, because who knows. But that sure better be the case, because while this is a good start, it’s just a start.

    If we elect a few more Dem Senators this fall and hold the House, we can build on that. Time to go save the world.

  86. 86.

    matt

    Oh, he just admitted he was hiding classified documents from the President. That’s pretty nice.

  87. 87.

    HumboldtBlue

    The Phillies have mashed five homers for nine RBIs and the Reds have brought in a position player to get the final two outs of the top of the 9th inning.

    Which, to his credit, he did.

  88. 88.

    Ken

    @matt: I’m not surprised he goes through lawyers so fast. I’d guess half of them quit while screaming “Did I not tell you to keep your mouth shut”, and the other half have a stroke before they can make that call.

  89. 89.

    lgerard

    @HumboldtBlue:

    obsessed with the kids who made the finals of the USA Mullet Championships and their absolutely fucked up names

    Cannot believe there is no woman’s division
    Major oversight!

  90. 90.

    Honus

    @Frank Wilhoit: here it is in all its awkward glory:

    “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

  94. 94.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @The Thin Black Duke:

    Sure he will. He hates the same people they do.

    No, I think there’s more to it than that.  Yes, the hate is the foundation of Republican voting, but Trump could let his asshole flag fly in a way no other Republican can.  Ted Cruz is just as bigoted as Trump, but wouldn’t think to get up on stage and do a shaky mime mocking Parkinson’s Disease.  He’s not bragging about how many women he’s sexually assaulted, either.  Disgustis is delivering the hate, but he is a pale reflection of Trump’s angry, ranting, dumb-as-shit, asshole Your Racist Uncle impression that validates his voters so hard.

  95. 95.

    HumboldtBlue

    @James E Powell:

    The political media isn’t a Trump supporter. Trump connected with these people in a way no other Republican could or will. Hell, they are going to fucking jail for him for participating in a seditionist act that he led, encouraged and watched on TV.

    DeSantis may be a flaming asshole, and in today’s GOP that’s the only way to get ahead, but I just don’t see his ugly, non-charming, non-slick, non-charisma ass getting anyone to turn out to a Kansas farm field on a rainy November night.

  96. 96.

    eversor

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Cruz had the Christian vote until Falwell turned on him and pushed for Trump along with all the Trad Caths joining in.  Trace conservatism, republicanism, Trumpism, and you always end back at the same place, in the Church.  So again, unless we can tackle the Church all other political efforts are pointless.

    Our problems have always come out of the pews.  We can have Christianity or we can have our rights, we cannot have both.

  99. 99.

    catclub

    @HumboldtBlue: ​
     but I just don’t see his ugly, non-charming, non-slick, non-charisma ass getting anyone to turn out to a Kansas farm field on a rainy November night.

    I think you missed the key one Trump has that Desantis does not.
    Looks like billionaire to the rubes. The Apprentice etc did an amazing disservice to the country.

  101. 101.

    catclub

    @The Moar You Know: ​
      That is also getting it backwards. The GOP has no policies, and was willing to skip its party platform when Trump was running. Their platform was whatever Trump wants.

  103. 103.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @eversor: A very warped version of “Christianity” is the problem.  If people followed the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, things would be much better.  But as Gandhi noted long ago, that’s very often not the case.

  105. 105.

    Calouste

    So why did dimwit Donnie have his passports in Florida while he himself was in New Jersey for the summer? Seems rather inconvenient in case he needed one. Or does he have another set in New Jersey?

  107. 107.

    J R in WV

    @livewyre: eversore is the only person I have pled on both my laptop AND my Tablet!

    I’m not sure why it hasn’t been banned already for violent raving.

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