Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

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

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

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Not Sure Which I Love More

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I am really not sure which I love more.

This:  (more of the same at the twitter link)

 

Or this from Emptywheel:  (much more at emptywheel)

Not Sure Which I Love More
SECRET. National Security Information. Unauthorized Disclosure Subject to Criminal Sanctions. National Security Information. Unauthorized Disclosure Subject to Criminal Sanctions. SECRET. CONFIDENTIAL. CLASSIFIED COVER SHEETS.

In the far-away land of Mar-A-Lago
sits a once-vaunted leader, now brought very low.
His voice, once ubiquitous, lordly, and loud
has become but a whimper, no longer so proud.
The cameras have vanished, the crowds have all shrunk,
as he scrambles for donors, this fallen-down punk.

And then come his lawyers, with news of a guest,
A visit un-looked for, unwelcome, unblessed.

“That Bratt-I-Am, that Bratt-I-Am,
I do not like that Bratt-I-Am.”

“You must return those stolen docs.
You must return them, yes, every box.”

“I do not have a box of docs,
and they are mine, you lying fox.”

But then they came and then they found
docs aplenty, all around . . .

One doc, two docs
red docs, blue docs
Docs TOPSECRET/SCI
Docs with pictures from on high
Docs with covers, docs with stamps,
Docs in files marked “terror camps”
Docs from spies and docs from techs
Docs ’bout planes on navy decks
Docs on armies, docs on friends
Docs on missiles, docs on end!

Pretty sure it was Ozark who linked to emptywheel, but the other one was a link from yesterday and I have no idea who posted that one.

 

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60Comments

  1. 1.

    Steeplejack

    @WaterGirl:

    Media now reporting that Biden will speak at 8:00 EDT. Does that affect your Zoom call?

  2. 2.

    Percysowner

    Just on MSNBC Newt Gingrich is being called to testify before the Jan 6 committee. I know I haven’t been good enough to actually see old Newt perp walked for sedition, but a girl can dream.

  3. 3.

    Steeplejack

    Kaite Phang, subbing for Ari Melber, just said that the January 6 committee has announced that they want to talk to Newt Gingrich.

  9. 9.

    zhena gogolia

    “You have knowledge and information directly related to our investigation. Information obtained by the Select Committee suggests that you provided detailed directives about the television advertisements that perpetuated false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, that you sought ways to expand the reach of this messaging, and that you were likely in direct conversations with President Trump about these efforts,” the committee wrote in its letter to Gingrich.

    According to the panel, Gingrich was in touch with Trump advisers and provided line edits to advertisements run by the campaign following Trump’s loss.

    the hill

  10. 10.

    Urza

    @Percysowner: How exactly was he involved?  I mean the whole 90s was practically seditious for him, but more recently I can’t recall him actually being named as playing a part

    Edit:  I see Zhena Gogolia got it.

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack

    @Baud:

    Gingrich last seen on Twitter (within the last week) sitting in the car while Callista limped into Starbucks to pick up their order.

  12. 12.

    gene108

    Stupid Joe Biden’s motorcade is going through Philly RIGHT NOW and traffic’s stopped in the direction I’m going.

    His speech better rock, he has no idea how much time I’m forced to sit in traffic!

    I just want to get home.

    I’m also low on gas!!!

  15. 15.

    Martin

    @zhena gogolia: Gingrich was advising Trump on advertising which promoted the big lie and asked voters to pressure state legislatures to decertify.

    That could be interpreted as an effort to interfere in a federal election which is a felony – 5 years.

  16. 16.

    Cameron

    Newt Gingrich, the pride of Hummelstown, PA?  Wow.  Kinda like Christopher Lee rising again in one of those Hammer Films.

  25. 25.

    Elizabelle

    @gene108: Hey.  Count your blessings.  We used to get stuck in traffic for … Dan Quayle.  Who now turns out to be a Republican high water mark.  Who saw that coming??

  27. 27.

    dmsilev

    @Steeplejack:

    Media now reporting that Biden will speak at 8:00 EDT.

    Not very west-coast friendly, sadly. I’ll have to miss the live broadcast; some errands to run right after leaving work.

  28. 28.

    Steeplejack

    This might be the evening for a couple of gin-and-tonics to accompany the political spectacle. Underreported supply-chain issue has been the dearth of Schweppes and Fever Tree tonic, and yesterday I found a scrawny six-pack of Schweppes (in 7½-ounce cans—weird size) at Harris Teeter.

  32. 32.

    Layer8Problem

    @Baud:  Limping?  Leg injury?  Boot?  I’m surprised Mr. Romance didn’t just push her out at a stop light and drive away.

  33. 33.

    dmsilev

    @Steeplejack: Yeah, that’s the more typical scheduling. Wonder why this one was pushed forward an hour. Oh well; I’ll read about it and probably watch it on YouTube later this evening.

  36. 36.

    Carlo Graziani

    Can I just say, Dr Seuss was one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the English language, and every one of his works justifies itself as a story, as imagery, and as verbal music. I’m very sorry, but as much as I subscribe to the sentiment, Emptywheel’s Seuss mixtape up there doesn’t capture the master’s spirit for me. Call me Mr Grinch.

  39. 39.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Baud: some of the replies to the tweet, you have a gmta there.

    She knew who he was when she married him.

    She knew who he was when she committed adultery with him.

    She’s lucky it’s just a foot injury – if it was cancer, he woulda left her at the Starbucks

  52. 52.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Carlo Graziani: All over. Kramatorsk, Lysychansk, Bakhmut, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv. The last one is Kharkiv.

    A lot of families aren’t there, so there’s some combination of moving kids around and some on-line. Obviously there are now capacity issues where the IDP’s have gone: Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil.

  55. 55.

    dm

    The pod-bros just mentioned that TFG’s lawyers (responding to the Justice Department’s Special Master response) said that the Special Master will have to have a Top Secret clearance.

    So, I guess the “I declassified them” didn’t stick to the wall (of course they haven’t claimed he did so in any court filing, anyway).

  58. 58.

    Ken

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Back when he was Speaker, he often spoke approvingly of the efficiencies of the Chinese government. Then he left office under a cloud, and a number of people unkindly noted that in China, he would have been shot and his family billed for the bullet.

    Not really going anywhere with this, it just seemed funny at the time

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