Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

I really should read my own blog.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

This chaos was totally avoidable.

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

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

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

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

We still have time to mess this up!

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

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Plaudits from a former colleague:

Meanwhile, Faux News correspondent is required to fake outrage. A campaign rally for democracy, indeed!


If we hadn’t been exposed to so much Ted Cruz already, some might suspect this Cruz fella was a mole inside the GOP…

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  1. 1.

    cain

    The comments on Ted’s twitter feed is ::chefs kiss::  The fucker who left during a snow storm to vacation elsewhere while his constituents suffer – that guy is going to lecture Biden about not going to East Palestine? Spare me the outrage, Ted.

  4. 4.

    Redshift

    If we had a lawsuit to get the Fox-heads’ internal communications now, I bet it would be all “this is such weak-ass shit, do I really have to say it?”

  5. 5.

    Tony Jay

    A campaign rally for democracy

    When your only stated alternative is a wake, then yeah, Uncle Joe brought the celebration instead. Turns out the people being bombed by your Party’s number one foreign ally preferred it.

    Fox is supposed to be messaging for the Republicans, right?

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    “not the solemn set of remarks that we were kind of told to expect based on the existential threats that [Biden] sees. It has almost a campaign rally feel, like if they were having a campaign rally for democracy.”

    What arghlebargle* garbage is this?

    *Willing to entertain different spellings of most of Megan’s name

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    7 hours to Poland, 10 hours by train to Kyiv, another 10 hours on way back to Warsaw that was greeted by 30k people. Your MAGA Savior can’t even go out from the bunker or have his toupee wet in the rain.

    I believe the national reserve of shade has been used up temporarily.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    And what’s wrong with a campaign rally for democracy? What makes it seem partisan to Doocy? Did he see Kyivans carrying BIDEN/HARRIS 2024 signs?

  12. 12.

    piratedan

    c’mon, its Young Master Pete representing Unka Rupe, as far as Faux is concerned, every day that Biden doesn’t resign solemnly and cede the Presidency to Trump is a day that doesn’t meet their “expectations”, after all, they have all THAT evidence that proves otherwise, with that thing and that video and those testimonials from patriotic Americans and everything.

    I do adore the fact that Ted is noting that SOME Capitol Police did indeed move barriers to allow rioters easier access to the Capitol, what Ted never seems to acknowledge is that this IS a problem, not a feature and it’s not as if those folks behaved themselves as tourists upon reaching the doors, but hey its not as if we ever expect Ted to include any context.

  13. 13.

    West of the Rockies

    Remember when Cruz was actually regarded as up-and-coming and having some chance of becoming the Repube nominee for prez?  A-hole shivved himself by cowering before Trump.

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    Sally Jenkins.

    Sally Jenkins is a writer.

    Really good writer.

    “Golf, but louder” is one of LIV’s slogans, but all that apparently refers to is Ian Poulter’s pants by Pixar. Poulter is at least a likable star, more audience-friendly than laconic burnout cases such as Brooks Koepka or that aging inveterate scrounger Mickelson, who apparently would take checks from the slaughter of dolphins to get whole.”

  16. 16.

    Aussie Sheila

    Well I’m no US Campaign consultant, but I’d put a rally for democracy as a campaign theme before a rally to trash the Congress and bashing Capital police, but you do you Doocy. They are effed if they think that Biden’s trip won’t be, rightly, part of his re-election campaign.
    What are they going to say?
    He shouldn’t have gone?
    Who cares about democracy?
    Good luck with that in a general election.

    They are such tools, and stupid ones at that.

  17. 17.

    Irishweaver

    @Amir Khalid: on Morning Joe yesterday (Wednesday), the reporter from Kyviv made the same “ campaign” observation.  It seemed to be designed to diminish the events.

  18. 18.

    Baud

    I ♥️ Hillary.  She’s such a team player.  I’d be a black hole of resentment if I were her.

  19. 19.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    Side note: my parents, retired here in Greece, used to like to watch the NewsHour to keep up with the world, back when they were in the US and they could watch it at six o’clock in the evening. Now, however, there’s the slight issue that although they can get rebroadcasts on YouTube on their TV, it’s yesterday’s news (given that 6pm on the East Coast is 1am in Athens). They’ve started watching Morning Joe in the evenings, because it’s a little more up-to-date, but they’re not really all that thrilled with it.

    Can the jackaltariat recommend a US morning news program that’s (a) better than Morning Joe and (b) available to stream in Europe on something like YouTube?

  21. 21.

    Van Buren

    When my FOX addicted mom was repeating the critism of Biden not going to Ohio, I said, “You know if he went, they’d all be complaining about his presence diverting resources from the cleanup operation, right?”. She had nothing to say.

  24. 24.

    Geminid

    @Van Buren: The problem I have with a prospective visit to E. Palestine by the President is that it would affirm the exaggerated importance this event has been given by administration’s opponents.

    It was a serious incident for sure, but it was not “another Chernobyl,” and the water supply for the entire Ohio River basin was not put at risk, as bad faith critics have persuaded their more credulous auditors. I think visits by EPA Secretary Regan and by DOT Secretary Buttegieg today give this problem the attention it merits.

    The train wreck was a big sensation on the internet, hyped by administration critics left and right. The story spread far and wide; I even ran into it on the Twitter account of an Iranian defense analyst. He interrupted his discussion of the F-35 fighter’s stealth prowess versus Iran’s low-band radar capability to retweet a provocative story about the train wreck.

    The story’s author happened to be a leading US anti-vaxxer, better known for his “documentary” about the sudden deaths of vaccine recipients.

  25. 25.

    geg6

    Well, just had an interesting story on the local CBS station regarding Cheetolini’s visit to East Palestine.  The clip of the speech was only about 10 seconds of him criticizing and blaming Biden.  Then they fact checked with how it was his administration that ended two Obama era safety rules for trains that he ended.  Basically, they were saying that if anyone is to blame, it’s Cheetolini.

  26. 26.

    Honus

    @geg6: but you miss the point.  Biden should have corrected TFG’s gutting of rail safety by now.  It’s not like he had anything else to do.

    Also, they keep saying “campaign rally for democracy” like that’s a bad thing.

  29. 29.

    Anne Laurie

    @Geminid: It was a serious incident for sure, but it was not “another Chernobyl,” and the water supply for the entire Ohio River basin was not put at risk, as bad faith critics have persuaded their more credulous auditors. I think visits by EPA Secretary Regan and by DOT Secretary Buttegieg today give this problem the attention it merits.

    Truth.  I hate to be that person, but ‘industrial accident in Ohio‘ is a little like ‘subway incident in NYC’ — if the latest one isn’t messy enough for the media, there will be another one along shortly.

    And I say this as someone who bought, and lives in, a house located on *two* listed Superfund sites.  As a civil engineer of our acquaintance told us, what that means is we have a list of the chemicals contaminating our ground water… and a clause in our FEMA mortgage that we’re not allowed to dig a well.  (Our tap water, which is certified pure is drawn from a reservoir in the next town over.)

  30. 30.

    Biff Baxter

    @Amir Khalid: I don’t know what Mika’s purpose on the show is other than to be the Helen Lovejoy of morning cable TV.

    “Won’t someone think of the children”

  31. 31.

    Betty Cracker

    @HumboldtBlue: LOL! Respect to Sally!

    @geg6: Was just scanning the headlines and found them surprisingly accurate. Not just one outlet — several in the Memeorandum roundup of coverage:

    Donald Trump, who rolled back rail safety regulations and slashed environmental protections, donates Trump-branded water to East Palestine residents

    Trump, Who Deregulated the Railroad Industry, Lies to the People of Ohio in His Visit

    Trump’s environmental rollbacks in focus on visit to Ohio toxic train site

    White House blames Trump administration and Republicans over East Palestine, Ohio spill

  32. 32.

    Betty Cracker

    Woke up yesterday with an awful cold. I worried that covid had finally caught up with me after I’d dodged the virus for nearly three years, but so far, I’ve tested negative. So I think it’s just a regular old crappy cold. Do I need to test again? I think with all the symptoms (hacking, sneezing, achiness, etc.) the test would have caught it if it were covid, but I do have extra tests.

  36. 36.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @Betty Cracker: I have the same thing.  Called my Doc and she said she got 15 other calls asking for meds.  She didn’t want to give me antibiotics but prescribed cough suppressant which made a big difference.  That plus Benadryl for the sinus and Tylenol for the fatigue.

  39. 39.

    Jay

    @Betty Cracker:

    test again after 3 days. It was noted that the home tests were often missing Covid during the first few days of symptoms, and quite often missing Covid entirely for the aysymptomatic.

  40. 40.

    satby

    @Betty Cracker: I hope they got new water bottles relabeled, because the Trump Ice bottled water was discontinued in 2010. Though wikipedia says he still has Mountain Ice water relabeled for his properties, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was “donating” old stock. He’s that kind of a guy.

  44. 44.

    Geminid

    @satby: I figure he’ll take a charitable deduction on the water, at an inflated value.

    He can’t inflate the value of the McDonald’s food though. Now I wish a reporter had shouted questions at him at the McDonald’s:

    “Mr. Trump! How would you rate these burgers for aerodynamics? What about adhesion?”

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    @Honus: ​
     

    Biden should have corrected TFG’s gutting of rail safety by now. It’s not like he had anything else to do.

    Well, as the saying goes, he’s “worse than [GWB/Trump], he sold us out!”

  47. 47.

    SFAW

    Because I don’t want to damage my few remaining, functioning brain cells, I decided not to listen to Douchey. It seems like I made the right choice.

  49. 49.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @SFAW: If the power hadn’t come back this morning, I might have gone out looking for a newspaper.

    I just got email from the library, which is next door to us. Their power is still out. Because my building houses some vulnerable people, we’re a priority for power restore. But then, libraries are high on the restore list too

  50. 50.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    Also, this building has two restaurants in it. We often carry out dinner from one or the other. I can’t imagine what it would have been like in there at 6pm when the power went off

  51. 51.

    SFAW

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    But then, libraries are high on the restore list too

    So you’re not in Florida or Texas, I guess?

    Anyway, glad you have power restored. I’m hoping I don’t have to get our backup generator fired up, but they’re not predicting super-bad conditions here in Central MA.

  52. 52.

    cmorenc

    The snide way Doocey says the word “democracy” near the end of the clip is an indication of Fox’s contempt for democracy – characterizing the speech as a “campaign rally for…” is more an indication of Fox’s contempt for Biden.

  56. 56.

    Denali5

    I just can’t believe TFG chose to go to East Palestine after he overturned the Obama’s safety regulations on trains. Are people that unaware?

  57. 57.

    Matt McIrvin

    They’re thinking this is Biden’s Katrina, like all the Obama’s Katrinas before it. It doesn’t matter what the history is.

  59. 59.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Betty Cracker: See?  This proves masks did nothing! /sarcasm

    Ugh, sorry to hear that.  I felt really run down on Monday and tested for Covid (negative) just to be safe.  Fortunately, I felt better the next day.  Get well soon.

  61. 61.

    evodevo

    @Betty Cracker: If it’s the same as the one I caught just after Xmas, you have 3-4 weeks of feeling crappy and snotty to look forward to…my neighbor’s father has it too, and tested neg for everything.  Just an old-fashioned bad cold going around, I guess. And we can’t even blame the grandkids or flying on an airline, ’cause we didn’t go anywhere except the grocery and didn’t have any visitors.

  62. 62.

    gvg

    @Betty Cracker: It’s pollen season in north Florida. For me it’s normal to get some cold like symptoms at this time of year. It was an issue all through hi COVID.  Everyone mentioned it, how would we tell?  Allergies are the norm here.

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