Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

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

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Come on, man.

No one could have predicted…

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Everybody saw this coming.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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

T R E 4 5 O N

People are complicated. Love is not.

We still have time to mess this up!

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

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I don’t see Anne Laurie in the back room, so I’ll put up this squishable open thread, as Betty likes to call them.

I just listened to Charlie Crist’s speech from election night, and it really was good.  It’s hearting to hear him, and President Biden and others, describing the stakes in black and white.  Who was the young kid to Crist’s left?  Grandson?  He looks like a character.

I am heading to bed, so here’s your open thread.  Use it for music or dancing or whatever you like.

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  7. 7.

    jonas

    @phdesmond: ​
    Gosh, I’m shocked. I heard he was a doddering old fool confined to a hover-round who could barely string two words together.

    I will disagree with POTUS on one thing: MAGA isn’t “semi-fascism”. It’s full-bore fascism. Watch Triumph of the Will. Watch newsreels of Mussolini and his blackshirts and then watch a Trump rally or even just a segment of Tucker Carlson. Fascism isn’t a set of policies or even a coherent ideology. It’s a mood, or spectacle. It’s an incoherent array of grievances and resentments that the demagogue dramatically evokes and then directs towards a set of enemies and opponents that only he alone can defeat if only he is given the absolute power to sweep aside any opposition. That’s MAGA. And it’s straight-up fascism. It’s only a matter of time before Republican rallies are accompanied by goose-stepping parades of armed paramilitary squads.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @jonas:   Let’s not complain.  Everyone heard him use fascism and MAGA together; the semi will be forgotten.  Like Joe said to the reporter, “You know what I mean.”

  13. 13.

    Leto

    Jeff [email protected]

    If you’re wondering what led to the sudden shift in the official White House Twitter account’s posting strategy:

    8:17 PM · Aug 25, 2022·Twitter Web App

    Megan Coyne, the voice of New Jersey, is headed to the White House
    Livingston native leaves post as governor’s social media director to join Biden administration

    By David Wildstein, August 02 2022 3:06 pm

    Just five years after interning on Phil Murphy’s 2017 gubernatorial campaign, Livingston native Megan Coyne is on her way to the White House.

    Coyne, one of the architects of New Jersey’s hugely successful Twitter account with an attitude departed last week as Murphy’s social media director to join the Biden administration.

    “It’s an absolute dream come true to be joining the Office of Digital Strategy as Deputy Director of Platforms,” Coyne said on Twitter on Monday. “So excited for the journey ahead.”

    Coyne and her boss at the time, Pearl Gabel, brought life and a quintessential New Jersey manner to a once dull state-run Twitter account that began to take off in 2019.

    “Who lets New Jersey have a Twitter?” tweeted someone with 88 followers.

    The reply – “Your mom” – had nearly a half-million likes and 85,000 retweets.

  17. 17.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @Leto: is the writer  the same David Wildstein of Bridgegate fame? I imagine David Wildstein isn’t a super uncommon name but two David Wildsteins in NJ political writing/politics seems a tad unusual.

  22. 22.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: yes! Her next tweet links to a Wikipedia about “scarf clouds”. The sun has to hit just right for the colors, the formation doesn’t last long, and the often indicate bad weather.

  24. 24.

    Cameron

    @Mai Naem mobile: Dunno if they’re the same guy, but I know the Bridgegate dude and happen to like him. He’s actually a good guy and pretty interesting, too. Anybody can screw up.

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