Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Republicans do not trust women.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

No one could have predicted…

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

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

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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 Craven@jeffbcraven

    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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