Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

One way or another, he’s a liar.

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

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

Not all heroes wear capes.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

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

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

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Late Night Open Thread: Tragic The Gathering, Returning to Its Natural State

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‘Tragic: the Gathering’ was TBogg’s name for CPAC, back when Erick Son of Erick was promoting it for a bunch of grifters, wanna-bes, and young interns networking(ifyouknowwhatImean) with each other, and the ‘mainstream’ media mostly showed up to mock them.


NewsMax reporter:

It’s *always* projection…

Happy anniversary, y’all!

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  3. 3.

    Mike in NC

    I, for one, would be happy to declare dead Andrew Breitbart a bigger piece of shit than live Matt Shlapp.

  5. 5.

    Elizabelle

    I still remember the thread when the news of Andrew Breitbart’s demise reached us.

    Fun times.

  6. 6.

    Ken

    @Amir Khalid: It reminded me of RMONEY. Except that was a photoshop job, and this is reality, or at least whatever passes for it when within 100 meters of CPAC.

  7. 7.

    different-church-lady

    Scott Perry on Democrats: “They’ve got to be put on notice. They’ve got to be quaking in fear. They’ve got to be losing weight because they are not eating because they’re worried they’re going to end up going to jail.”

    Pronoun trouble.

  11. 11.

    piratedan

    all they need at CPAC to make it complete would be an on camera takedown of an attendee with a large caliber automatic rifle screaming about how DeSantis sent them to do “God’s work”

  14. 14.

    sdhays

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Thanks, CNN. After reading the article, I have literally no idea what they’re talking about.

    What are the crime issues that have Congress’ panties tied up in knots? What actions has the DC City Council taken or not taken to cause Congress to feel the need to take time away from doing fuck-all about national problems and focus on meddling in city problems? What is “controversial” about…whatever it is? CNN can’t tell you!

  15. 15.

    strange visitor (from another planet)

    this breaking news just in: andrew breitbart is still dead.

  16. 16.

    sdhays

    Did anyone else read the Jason Miller…wet fart(?)…and think, “Hey, now, Jason. Your boss probably doesn’t want you poo-pooing fundraising dinners at hotels in Palm Beach.”? I would think that would hit a little close to home (literally).

  18. 18.

    HumboldtBlue

    I just did a search for TBogg on Breitbart’s death, and it was during his time at FDL and those words no longer exist from what I found.

    Here’s a BJ thread authored by DougJ.

    And here’s a link authored by Zandar with 567 comments.

    And one from ABL

    And here is John Cole being quoted by The Week, and he was in high dudgeon!

    Insulting the dead is just classless: “I don’t see any purpose in getting my jollies trashing” Breitbart, says John Cole at Balloon Juice. I certainly didn’t agree with him politically, but at a time like this, I’m just “really sad for his family.” It’s true that “Breitbart himself didn’t feel constrained by any similar notions of restraint or respect for others,” but we should all try to be better than that, and exhibit a “basic level of decency….”

  22. 22.

    Splitting Image

    It’s times like these I wish I were a Greek goddess. I could inscribe a golden apple with the words “for the most conservative” and throw it into the middle of this den of vipers. Then we’d only have to deal with the last man standing.

  26. 26.

    Benw

    I do need to ease up on the scale, but I’m not sure the Scott Perry weight loss for Democrats program sounds super healthy

  27. 27.

    Shalimar

    @Jay: If you had made me guess at the time, there is no way I would predict that walking pre-existing condition Steve Bannon would be the one from that evil pair who was still alive in 2023.

  28. 28.

    sdhays

    @Benw: We should probably interpret it as a cry for help. “I’m losing bone density because I can’t eat because I’m so scared!!! Please, someone help me!”

  29. 29.

    West of the Rockies

    Jordan and that ubiquitous, stupid yellow tie and rolled up sleeves… he clearly thinks he appears studly.  It’s like Trump and the fucking 12-foot red tie.  Boring cosplay catastrophes.

    I would love for their ugly mugs to be Super Glued to each other for life.

  32. 32.

    Redshift

    @Ken:

    It reminded me of RMONEY. Except that was a photoshop job, and this is reality, or at least whatever passes for it when within 100 meters of CPAC.

    Nah, if you read the thread, the guy who posted it admits it’s a joke.

  34. 34.

    espierce

    Andrew Breitbart: still dead and I’m pretty sure his expiration occurred when TBogg had his own place.

  41. 41.

    Frankensteinbeck

    And you built this, Bill.  You said “Fuck the truth, grinding the weak and Other into the dirt is more important.”  You said it with long words to fellow rich white men, but you pushed that for decades.  Congratulations, you convinced a whole bunch of people that hate was more important than reality, and this is what happens:  Rage addicts and ignoramuses who don’t care about being smart because, after all… fuck the truth.

  45. 45.

    frosty

    @HumboldtBlue: ​
     There’s three of them still around that I recognize: D-C-L, Ruckus, and Elizabelle.

    Off to bed, much too late. Flying into Detroit tomorrow with a forecast of 7″ of snow. Via Southwest. Wish me luck!

  48. 48.

    Anne Laurie

    @piratedan: all they need at CPAC to make it complete would be an on camera takedown of an attendee with a large caliber automatic rifle screaming about how DeSantis sent them to do “God’s work”

    Don’t get your hopes up; there’s a very strict security ban on weapons at the CPAC site, and has been for as far back as I can remember.

    Republicans — if it weren’t for hypocrisy, they’d have no ethics at all.

  49. 49.

    opiejeanne

    @Urza: When Bill Kristol endorsed Hillary and predicted that she would win, I took that as an omen.

    Of course, the approaching chaos was evident with the Cubs winning the World Series.

  51. 51.

    lowtechcyclist

    Bolsonaro speaking at CPAC on Saturday

    What, they couldn’t get Orban this year?

  52. 52.

    Barney

    What is the “MΔTT GΔΣTZ’ Contingency Plan” (@kristaleyespy) Twitter account? I’d assume a spoof of Matt Gaetz, but it restricts who can view it, which is not very useful for a spoof account. Has this picture been put anywhere else?

  54. 54.

    HeartlandLiberal

    Tried to see the first Tweet quoted in post; got this: “You’re unable to view this Tweet because this account owner limits who can view their Tweets“

  55. 55.

    Betty

    Not sure when my Rep, Scott Perry, went that far bonkers, but wow! Nice to see hom express himself so clearly.

  59. 59.

    NotMax

    @satby

    Not quite fair. Mr. White’s posts fairly quickly degenerated into nothing more than a brief blurb promoting a link to his own webby place.

  60. 60.

    satby

    @NotMax: true, but he got a lot of shit about his race too, or so I’ve heard. Mostly all of the harassment to all of them was in email, IIRC, and vile. Not all lurkers were warm fuzzy kindly folks.

  61. 61.

    satby

    @lowtechcyclist: some changed their names, more (well, me anyway) were spent by earlier, longer threads on the topic.

    “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure” Clarence Darrow, but misattributed to Mark Twain

  65. 65.

    Another Scott

    @Urza: @Frankensteinbeck:

    Bloody Bill was (until very recently) on the board of the Manhattan Institute, home of the monster Christopher Rufo.

    Bloody Bill is not on our side.

    But I just checked, and he’s no longer listed on the MI board. Interesting. So maybe he’s slowly learning (or maybe they kicked him out)??

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  66. 66.

    MisterDancer

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): No idea why Elon James White left here, but it might be related to the fact that his name is mud in a lot of circles these days; indeed, he left Twitter long before the current debacle w/Musk.

    To sum up, he indirectly insulted a lot of Black Women activists and had people who worked for him calling him out publicly for underpaying them. I can’t find a lot of direct links but I recall me pulling away from his work after some tales; I think even Imani Gandy called him out.

  72. 72.

    Mike G

    @Another Scott:  You have to wonder exactly when Bloody Bill realized the leopards were eating his face and “It’s not a problem until it’s MY problem” took effect. He was happy to consort with fascists when he was helping choose the targets of the cruelty and oppression.​

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