Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Battle won, war still ongoing.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

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

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

In after Baud. Damn.

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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But… y’see… live updates!

… American First Policy Institute, a dark money nonprofit run by Trump administration alumni that pushes his policies, is prepping a response once an indictment is announced, according to Marc Lotter, a spokesman for the organization…

The America First Policy Institute raised over $14 million in 2021 and had $3.8 million in total assets, according to its financial report. The organization doesn’t publicly disclose their donors.

The Manhattan Republican Party is also preparing its own response to Bragg if such an indictment comes to pass, according to Andrea Catsimatidis, the chair of the county committee.

Catsimatidis, daughter of New York billionaire John Catsimatidis, has already ripped Bragg for wanting to “arrest of Donald Trump.”

(Sidebar, per Wikipedia: The New York Times reported in October 2020 that Catsimatidis and his family run the Manhattan Republican Party; his daughter Andrea is the chairwoman, and Catsimatidis, his wife Margo Catsimatidis, and his son John Catsimatidis Jr. are vice-presidents.[53] Between February and July 2020, Catsimatidis contributed $50,000 of the party’s $52,000 of income…)


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  1. 1.

    Dangerman

    Book him, Danno.

    /Thank you, (Jack) Lord

    ETA: Huh. Jack Lord shares my birthday, along with Tiger Woods and LeBron James.

     

  3. 3.

    piratedan

    for the law and order crowd that seems to have an endless appetite for unarmed black men being gunned down at traffic stops, parking lots and fast food drive-ins because they weren’t compliant enough or perhaps too black…yet…. it’s funny how defrauding the American public itself by using campaign funds to pay off porn stars to keep their secrets is somehow now “not illegal enough” to warrant prosecution.  Especially so when Impeachment was the letter of the day during the Clinton years for what was claimed to be a consensual hummer making the officeholder a supposed national security risk.

    with so much crime to choose from, I really don’t have a preference as to which goes first, just as long as one does cross the threshold, I suspect others will follow.

  4. 4.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    Brian Schwartz via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    Allies of Trump’s are crafting oppo

    Not researching oppo, crafting it.

    In other words, they’re planning on making up shit.

    And it’s reported casually, as if that’s normal and the way it’s supposed to be.

  5. 5.

    smike

    I think a few of the loudest barkers may be some who think, “Now just wait a minute, you can get arrested for paying money to make bad news go away? I mean, it’s election related, and that’s what election funds are for, right?”

  6. 6.

    eclare

    I’m really tired of living in interesting times.  My dog is snoring, loudly, next to me, and I am so jealous.

  7. 7.

    Baud

    Anti-trans rhetoric is where the energy of the far-right is at this moment.

    Donald should probably turn himself in in drag to ensure a good turnout.

  9. 9.

    Frankensteinbeck

    a dark money nonprofit run by Trump administration alumni that pushes his policies

    So, a grifting operation.

    Also, please accept my ‘I told you so’ about the difference between the GOP at all levels telling a pollster that Trump is a god and actually caring about him anymore.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    Secretly kind of hoping he returns to Florida only to find Melania has changed all the locks.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    about the difference between the GOP at all levels telling a pollster that Trump is a god and actually caring about him anymore.

     

    So pretty much the same way they feel about Jesus.

  17. 17.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    I get the feeling that the right-wingers want to co-opt the MAGA voters the same way Trump co-opted the Southern Strategy voters – because nobody in the 21st-century GOP has a chance without them. But as long as Trump is still alive and kicking, it isn’t safe for a DeSantis or an Abbott to claim that Trump would have endorsed what they’re doing, because Trump isn’t safely in his grave and still has a megaphone (which is even bigger now that his social-media bans have been lifted) with which to tell the MAGA voters to stick it to the pretenders.

    They want to do to Trump what they did to Martin Luther King, and put words in his mouth to claim he would have supported what they’re doing. And may any gods out there forgive me for making even that comparison between MLK and TFG.

  18. 18.

    p.a.

    The prion disease took root, and the Republican Party decided that 21st century success hinged on them presenting themselves as Dana Carvey’s SNL Church Lady character.  While eventually taking as their leader a degenerate. 🤔

  19. 19.

    Matt McIrvin

    The complaint that they got Trump for his most chickenshit crime is very much of a piece with Trump’s own weird line of complaint about how they got Al Capone for tax evasion.

  20. 20.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    JD Vance couldn’t pick George Soros out of lineup. He probably can’t tell you anything about Soros, except that he’s Jewish and his name riles up the rubes

  21. 21.

    kalakal

    I’m waiting for the “just a process crime” defence.

    Soon to be followed by the classic “perjury trap”

  22. 22.

    Ken

    @kalakal: Soon to be followed by the classic “perjury trap”

    Ah, yes, the classic “You asked my client a question knowing he would lie.”  For some reason it’s taken seriously by people who would instantly reject “You put your goods on the shelf knowing my client would shoplift them.”

  23. 23.

    SFAW

    @NotMax: ​
     

    Shame the name Pussy Galore is already spoken for.

    Considering who played her, it might be worth the copyright violation to refer to TFG that way, and see his head ‘splode when someone tells him.

  24. 24.

    J R in WV

     

    When I read this:

    J.D. Vance

    @JDVance

    Alvin Bragg is bought by George Soros. He allows violent criminals to walk the streets of New York City, but will prosecute the likely Republican nominee (and former president) on a baseless misdemeanor charge. These people are trying to turn America into a third-world country.

    I hate to agree with a shiftless Know-Nothing like J D Vance [ who is a shiftless Appalachian emigre who grew up in Cincinnati IIRC ] but there is a large group attempting to turn America into a Third World nation.

    He’s just wrong about the identity of that group — it’s the Republican aka Christo-Fascist Party… not the liberal Democrats.

  25. 25.

    azlib

    I suspect the arrest and conviction of quite a number of Jan 6 insurrectionists has put a damper on any kind of protest when Trump is arrested.

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