Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

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

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

All hail the time of the bunny!

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

“They all knew.”

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

You are here: Home / Open Threads / Squishable Open Thread: Dark Brandon Strikes Again

Squishable Open Thread: Dark Brandon Strikes Again

by | 71 Comments

This post is in: 

So I guess this happened today:

 

And once again, the harder the party of “grab ’em by the p***y” tries to make this sound awful, the cooler the President looks.

This is an open thread, ’cause I know you are all being really good about keeping the other post kind. Have at it here!

Reader Interactions

71Comments

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Why we can’t have nice things, part the whateverth

    andrew kaczynski @KFILE. 5h
    Former Democratic Sen. Max Baucus is endorsing Chuck Grassley for re-election, campaign said today.

    Yes that’s the same Max Baucus who as committee chair in the Senate let Grassley hold up the drafting of Obamacare for a year, while Grassley was stumbling around Iowa babbling about death panels and “pulling the plug on grandma”, because he had such a good relationship with his friend the ranking member; and yes that’s the same Grassley who twice voted to acquit trump and is believed to have been at least open to various schemes to overturn the election

    ETA: Not that I think anyone in Iowa not named Grassley will give flying fuck, just a reminder of who, and what, Obama had to deal with

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Putting collegiality over country.

    Have the impression Grassley is toast this time and his purported strategy of winning and then shortly thereafter resigning in order to have his progeny appointed to the seat will never reach fruition.

  16. 16.

    Scout211

    Here in the Socialist Republic of California, the Governor signed many new bills into law in the past week. You can get a lot done and help a lot of people when you have a Democratic supermajority.

    Here are just a few of the new laws that help women:  Link

     

    The governor’s office announced in a press release that Newsom has signed five measures designed to strengthen California’s commitment to advancing the state’s protection of women’s rights and furthering gender equity within the state. One of the bills, SB 1162, requires employers to list salary ranges on all job postings and expands pay data reporting requirements, which proponents say will aid in identifying gender and race-based pay disparities.

    Newsom also signed into law AB1287 by Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda), which eliminates the so-called “pink tax” and prohibits different prices for goods based on what gender they are marketed to. The bill allows only for price differences in goods when there is a noticeable disparity in quality, production, or time necessary to create the product.

    . . .

    Newsom stated, “California has the strongest equal pay laws in the nation, but we’re not letting up on our work to ensure all women in our state are paid their due and treated equally in all spheres of life. These measures bring new transparency to tackle pay gaps, end discriminatory pricing of products based on gender and expand supports for survivors of abuse and assault. I thank the Legislative Women’s Caucus for their leadership and partnership in building a more equitable California for all.”

    He also signed bills to provide protocols and procedures to aid student victims of domestic or sexual abuse, prohibit eviction caused by abuse or violence, and provide free forensic examinations for sexual assault victims. This news comes only shortly after Newson signed 13 bills to expand and develop abortion protection and reproductive health.

  18. 18.

    MazeDancer

    Surprised this hasn’t been posted:

    The woman to whom Herschel Walker sent the abortion money is the mother of one of his kids. She spoke out today.

    Twitter in melt down.

    Imagine the debate will be cancelled.

  20. 20.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @MazeDancer: good god, what a mess. I wonder if Walker ever thought of a political career before trump put the idea in his head?

    I can’t even get snarky about him because he seems like, for whatever reason, a train-wreck of a human being.

  22. 22.

    bbleh

    Gotta say, in that pic with Joe and Dr Jill and DeSantis, the Bidens looked trim and cool, and DeSantis looked like a sweaty slob.  I know it won’t hurt him with the a**hole demographic, but I’d like to think at least some of the country-clubbers are doing a lot of eye-rolling about their candidates these days.

  31. 31.

    danielx

    @Delk: ​
      I had periodontal surgery on Monday, the stitches aren’t out and it doesn’t feel good at all. Two separate sections of stitches, upper jaw and palate, and as experiences go I can’t recommend it.

  33. 33.

    kindness

    @Scout211:  That’s the People’s Republic of California.  And if the Supreme Court keeps throwing the Opus Dei slop at us it may end up being Washington/Oregon/California Democratic Republic.  Let the State of Jefferson supporters move to northern Idaho if that’s what they want to live like.

  36. 36.

    jonas

    So what is it? Biden is a foul-mouthed mofo who tells it like it is and doesn’t care who gets the vapors from it? Or a doddering Alzheimers patient who doesn’t know what time it is or what country he’s in? It’s kind of hard to be both.

  38. 38.

    jonas

    @kindness: No matter how many guns they stockpile or how many trans kids they shit on, it’s still not going to make more water for their cows. *Sad trombone

  40. 40.

    C Stars

    @danielx: Ouch. Hope everything mends up well.

     

    @Delk: You too.

     

    I managed to stay off Twitter and the Washington Post website for all of today and feel much better for it. I prefer to get my news filtered through the jackaltariat (that’s a word here right?)

  41. 41.

    Delk

    @danielx: ugh, I hope you get them out soon. I had two incisions. One on my chest and one under my chin. The one under my chin was driving me crazy. It kept rubbing on my shirt collar when I turned my head.

  42. 42.

    Martin

    @jonas: Ah, part of the authoritarian playbook.

    #8: Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak“. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

  47. 47.

    phdesmond

    as long as this thread is squishable, i wanted to submit a nomination for the “rotating tags” bin on our front page.  thinking of this.  soliciting comments.

    We fly many flags

    at the House of Rotating Tags.

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @stinger: Yup

    ETA: Not that I think anyone in Iowa not named Grassley will give flying fuck, just a reminder of who, and what, Obama had to deal with

  49. 49.

    stinger

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: And yet another indicator of just how politically adept Obama was: Send this nominal “Democrat” to China and get him out of the Senate, and let the Dem governor of Montana appoint a Dem to replace him.

  50. 50.

    Ruckus

    @MazeDancer:

    Do you think Walker is smart enough to cancel?

    Or do you think his staff could even talk him into it?

    Cause I’m not seeing it. And I doubt that this will change a lot of conservative minds. Their racism might, but this?

  53. 53.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Ruckus: Some marginal Rs might be persuaded to stay home, or vote libertarian, or write-in somebody, or even give a second look to the calm and measured pastor of Ebeneezer Baptist

  54. 54.

    trollhattan

    Can I get an “oh fuck”? I knew I could.

    Stockton Police have now linked seven shootings — six fatal — to a possible California serial killer who remains at large.

    Officials confirmed that the string of seemingly random homicides began in April of last year — more than a year earlier than previously believed — and they warned there could be additional victims.

    Police have drawn connections to all seven shootings by using ballistics evidence and checking that against a statewide database, as well as surveillance video footage from some of the crime scenes.

    “So, as the investigation continues, there’s definitely a possibility that there could be more,” Stockton Police Public Information Officer Joe Silva told NPR.

    East Area Rapist vibe.

  57. 57.

    James E Powell

    @danielx:

    I’m in a similar situation. Two implants installed on the upper left. Mac n Cheese for dinner, probably for lunch tomorrow too,

  60. 60.

    lollipopguild

    @Martin:While president trump was the most powerful person on the planet but he constantly cried and complained  how everyone was picking on him.

  64. 64.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    all I can think about Melanie’s shoes is, weren’t they terribly uncomfortable? I mean, she changed into a Homer Simpson mumu on the flight to Florida on Inauguration Day

  67. 67.

    brantl

    @Ruckus: In all likelihood, it hasn’t changed him all that much either, no personality differences, just dumber. He wasn’t much of a human being before football.

  70. 70.

    Paul in KY

    @stinger: They might think it was some kind of farm depreciation term:  “Yeah, I took the max baucus this year.  Reduced my taxes by $4,000.”

Comments are closed.