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This Makes Me Ridiculously Happy

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Speaking of ridiculous…

Watching that 45 seconds of video was a great antidote to all the stress of what’s going on.

And this is the icing on the cake – 4.5 years for this fucker to think about what he did

Totally open thread.

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  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    Takes up smoking.
    Lights one up.
    Stubs out Marlboro on MTG’s copy of “Mein Kampf” in the original Piglatin.
    And that’s a Wednesday wrap.

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    I also enjoyed this from (not the real) Jack Smith who retweeted the top tweet with this comment:

    Howler monkey bangs gavel in Congress.

    Does dog love us this much?  Yes he does.

  7. 7.

    Sure Lurkalot

    She’s so fucking high on her own supply that she thinks her presence commands deference and respect.

    Wrong as usual, Marge.

  8. 8.

    Jackie

    WaterGirl, in the MTG Tweet replies there’s an image of her you need to capture!😂 It’s labeled *sensitive* but only if you’re Margie.

  10. 10.

    Burnspbesq

    Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy, gets sentenced tomorrow. Hoping Judge Mehta gives him what he deserves.

  11. 11.

    piratedan

    @Sure Lurkalot: well the position does/should…. but coupled with her behavior and statements (and likely involvement with J6) she personally doesn’t warrant that respect.

    I do expect the media to flood us with takes on the Dems disrespect for the office and the norms not being observed because that’s how they roll.

  12. 12.

    RaflW

    Rhonda Santis’ campaign launch just crashed Twitter Spaces. Murphy the trickster loves some fun times.

    Ben Collins @oneunderscore__
    Fewer than 500,000 people are trying to listen to this Ron DeSantis campaign launch on Twitter spaces and it is crashing everyone’s phones. Imagine what would happen if a large amount of people actually showed up.

    Ben Goggin @BenjaminGoggin
    Imagine being Ron DeSantis right now… there’s no way an in-person campaign announcement could go this poorly

  14. 14.

    CaseyL

    @RaflW: Half a million people to watch a campaign announcement sounds like a pretty good-sized audience to me.  How many were they expecting to tune in?

  15. 15.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @RaflW: Ron DeSantis right now… there’s no way an in-person campaign announcement could go this poorly

    Counterfactual Rhonda Sandtits: Hold my beer.

  16. 16.

    RaflW

    @CaseyL: IDK. But don’t major stars and influencers use Musk’s Spaces platform? Shouldn’t it be robust enough to just stream info to people’s devices?

    eta: Musk is also attending the space that is crashing!

    Ha ha ha, la de freaking HA!

  19. 19.

    Another Scott

    @CaseyL: I assume 20% are press people (mostly unpaid interns hoping for their big break), 79.999% are bots attached to Ronda’s campaign.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  22. 22.

    Zzyzx

    So what happens when you fire all of the devs and try to roll out new features? Who could have predicted this?

  23. 23.

    BlueGuitarist

    @RaflW:

    When DeSadeness’s announcement crashed, Biden posted

    ”This link works” for link to his donation page

    political wire labels it “troll of the year”

  24. 24.

    West of the Rockies

    So rich, a call for decorum, coming from the jack ass who brayed on and on during President Biden’s SOTU address.

  25. 25.

    Mo MacArbie

    @RaflW: Well, don’t that just wax yer bees.

    No, I don’t know what that means either. It’s fun to say though.

  26. 26.

    Math Guy

    Thank you for posting that. I do need to try to laugh a little more these days.

  28. 28.

    RaflW

    Biden campaign did a tweet about 16 minutes ago with a link to their Act Blue:

    “This link works”

    Someone very snappy on that social media account today!

    .

    eta:  @BlueGuitarist got there first :)

  29. 29.

    Tony Jay

    @Sure Lurkalot:

    But she ‘won’, and she’s got a gavel, so that means those limp-twisted, rule-following, bourgeois Democrats have to give her respect and deference.

    Thing is, Marge, you MAGOP morons are using the old rule book, from the old game that people enjoyed for a long time until your friends ruined it by cheating constantly. Those guys and girls laughing at you? They’ve got the new and updated version, the one with whole pages explaining how to asskick trolls, throatpunch orcs, and even rip the guts out of that disgusting sub-species of Mickey Rourke-skin wearing ogre that can be heard howling and growling around the Capitol after the three bottles for $5 singles-bars have shut for the night.

    They got your number, and they don’t even need a 20 sided dice to roll it.

  30. 30.

    JPL

    @mrmoshpotato: omg She was suppose to run in my district, and the repubs recognized that would be a wipeout.   They carved out a prettty little area where she can’t lose.   Since then my district was redrawn but we can win it back.

  36. 36.

    mrmoshpotato

    UPDATE: Richard Barnett, the nitwit who ransacked Nancy Pelosi’s office during J6, has been sentenced to 54 months in prison.

    Fucked around, now finding out.  And he can go fuck himself!

    Same asshole who threw a tantrum over Zoom during one of his court appearances because he didn’t like being in jail.

    None of us who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 stormed the Capitol building, or even tried.

    Fuck ’em!

  37. 37.

    Geminid

    Washington Post Capitol Hill correspondent Marianna Sotomayor reported 4 hours ago that the entire Democratic caucus has signed on to the discharge petition for Rep. DeSaulnier’s bill. Caucus Whip Catherine Clark said that it shows that House Democrats are united.

    The discharge petition does not seem that likely a solution to the debt ceiling impasse, but Democrats are still pressing it forward.

  39. 39.

    RSA

    Holy shit. Democrats just burst out laughing at Marjorie Taylor Greene

    And it sounded pretty spontaneous!  For some reason I didn’t realize that members of Congress probably have the same view of MTG as ordinary people.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    @Tony Jay: Marge is so dumb that when they laughed at her the first 3 or 4 times… she thought that maybe with one more gavel – this time she means it! – she will get the respect she will never deserve.

    She’s an embarrassment.

  41. 41.

    RaflW

    It just gets better and better.

    Jon Favreau @jonfavs
    So Ron DeSantis chose a glitchy audio-only format with an audience 1/20th the size of a Fox primetime show to just….read his stump speech?

    Replying to Jon:

    David Corn @DavidCornDC
    Well, his screechy voice is his strongest asset, right?

    Dunno what the total Spaces audience is now, but after the re-launch, it was holding at about 100K listeners for a while. He probably would have reached a couple mil on Fox primetime so Jon’s point stands that his political & comms instincts (ie sucking up to Musk) are — of course — poor.

  42. 42.

    karen marie

    I can’t find anything about MTG’s stint today as speaker pro tempore.  She’s apparently gotten to do it, I think, two other times previously.

    Here’s something to make you gag.

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) placed a winning $100,000 bid Tuesday for a lip balm stick used by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who also promised a visit with the winner’s donors and supporters.

     

    Absolutely foul.

  44. 44.

    C Stars

    At this point incompetence is a part of the GOP brand, right? Like if an event didn’t go horribly off the rails the mouthbreathers would probably find it untrustworthy and elitist.

     

    Open thread? I had been doing a great job of staying away from news and politics lately by taking up exercising: hiking and/or an exercise class every day. Now I have peroneal tendinitis. Bah.

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    @RSA: The Dems were pretty raucous at the 1-15 votes for The Squeaker, as I recall.  Or was that pushback at the State of the Union.  I don’t remember for sure, but these are not our father’s Democrats.

    (apostrophe after S?)

  51. 51.

    mrmoshpotato

    @karen marie:

    She’s jonesing for the speakership. I’m a little surprised McCarthy allowed her the gavel. 

    Where is Joe Kevin btw?

  52. 52.

    prostratedragon

    How wonderfully spontaneous!  I  busted a guffaw right with them, so I guess they’re representing me.

    As for Barnett, I hope he doesn’t already have a lot of time served. For him to be that much a goof at his age suggests things take a while to sink in.

  57. 57.

    Steve in the ATL

    @mrmoshpotato: ok clearly your account was hacked. You have never posted three times in a row—or even two times—without using the word “shitstain”

  60. 60.

    Princess

    Imagine trusting all your political hopes dreams and aspirations on something run by Elon Musk. Imagine. They touted the “millions” who would tune in. It crashed with a piddly 250k viewers.

  64. 64.

    mrmoshpotato

    @WaterGirl:

    Marge is so dumb that when they laughed at her the first 3 or 4 times… she thought that maybe with one more gavel – this time she means it! – she will get the respect she will never deserve. 

    Marge, you’re not our real mom!

  65. 65.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Baud: I had no idea what to expect going into the link. Just delightful.

    @karen marie: I heard every Republican’s “I have a friend” had announced but not the mic incident .

    I’ll consider the current state of the Republican primary an auspicious omen.

  66. 66.

    Tony Jay

    @WaterGirl:

    That’s the thing with these Kewl Rool-Braykin Edgegods of the MAGOP, give them a single tremulous droplet of actual institutional authority and they morph straight into Keith Poindexter, Hall-Monitor Emeritus. The second Marge got hold of that gavel she instantly became a six year old in a too-big blazer and lots of lipstick playacting as “Mommy in one of her meetings”. 

    They can’t help it. They’re very immature people with no earthly idea of how adults act other than what they’ve seen Democrats doing, which is why they’re terribly bad at it. 

  68. 68.

    Ohio Mom

    That outburst of discourteous laughter at MGT is karma in real time. I enjoyed every moment of it, watched it several times in order to savor it.

    @Another Scott: Eternally levelheaded Scott, you are right, no need for any of us to panic that Desantis has that many fans. Please know that your comments have calmed me many times.

    @BlueGuitarist: Obviously, Biden does not monitor or maintain his twitter feed but whoever does, has captured his voice. I can see in my mind’s eye, Biden announcing “This link works” with a big grin and a twinkle in his eyes, thoroughly relishing the opening given him.

  78. 78.

    Roger Moore

    @RaflW:

    Imagine being Ron DeSantis right now… there’s no way an in-person campaign announcement could go this poorly

    Rudy Giuliani at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

  80. 80.

    Jackie

    @WaterGirl: There’s a meme in the comments of the MTG tweet you posted that’s worth viewing. It’s marked sensitive so you have to click “view” to open. It made me lol.

  81. 81.

    Geminid

    @Baud: Not sure if it’s noteworthy, but according to Ron Filipkowski, DeSantis said he’s “been preparing for this primary all my life.” Kind of a left-handed compliment.

  88. 88.

    Captain C

    @RaflW:

    eta: Musk is also attending the space that is crashing!

    And he’s probably already fired all the Spaces people he could possibly fire without making it completely kaput.  Didn’t he get rid of a bunch of servers, too?

  91. 91.

    Maxim

    The laughter felt rehearsed to me (especially how loud it was and how long it went on), but either way she deserved it. And her voice — good grief. Like a bad SNL impression of a whiny baby.

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: I’m not seeing anything marked Sensitive. ??

    But I found this gem.

  101. 101.

    karen marie

    @Jackie:   I didn’t bother because something else I had followed a twitter link to that had a “restricted for content” or some such demanded I log in.

    I hate that place and try to click through as infrequently as I can anyway.

  102. 102.

    Craig

    @WaterGirl: OT. sometime last week people were talking about work from home and you posted an app that helps track your time on projects. I’m starting a new project soon and would love to check out that app. Can’t find the post if you wouldn’t mind reposting the link.

  103. 103.

    Roger Moore

    @Jackie:

    Makes me wonder if Mrs McCarthy approves of Kevin and Margie’s closeness.

    I would guess anything that lets her spend more time away from her husband is fine in her book.

  104. 104.

    WaterGirl

    @kalakal: She’s so dumb, she thinks she gets more power by banging harder.

    She never watched Nancy SMASH who didn’t need to prove she was the big dog, she would most often lightly tap the gavel and got everyone’s attention.

  105. 105.

    Ken

    @Geminid: DeSantis said he’s “been preparing for this primary all my life.”

    Well, it’s a cinch he’s not been serving as governor.

  106. 106.

    WaterGirl

    How immature would it be to have a How Dumb Is Marge thread?  It’s probably beneath me, but it is fun to think about.

  107. 107.

    Geminid

    @Maxim: What may have triggered the laughter was how Greene admonished members to observe “decorum of the House. She left out a “the” in front of decorum, so it sounded like she said “de corum of the House.”

    And Greene might actually think that decorum is two words, like how she confused gazpacho with Gestapo.

  109. 109.

    Jackie

    @WaterGirl: Ironically the how dumb is MTG was a meme I was trying to direct you to in the Twitter comments. She’s holding a sign which says something like “I’m so stupid I don’t know how stupid I am.” I had to click a view box to open it – it was marked sensitive content.

  110. 110.

    Connor

    @WaterGirl:

    side note: that did not go over well with my mom.

    When I was 9 or 10 my mother, who had been drinking, called me a “son of a bitch.” I immediately replied “Mother! Don’t talk about yourself that way!”

    What happened next was momentarily painful, but oh so worth it…

  115. 115.

    Maxim

    @Geminid: I keep thinking that she’s not as dumb as she acts, that it’s all a very cynical shtick to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Not that it matters; her deeds are reprehensible regardless.

  116. 116.

    Roger Moore

    @Connor: ​
     
    There is a similar story about Esther Edwards Burr, daughter of famed preacher Jonathan Edwards and mother of Aaron Burr. Supposedly, her father once called her “child of the devil” for waking up late, and she just responded, “Good morning, father“. Yes, it is unwise to criticize your children’s parentage.

  117. 117.

    PaulB

    @WaterGirl:  I assume this is the tweet that Jackie was referring to. It’s an image of Marge holding a (photoshopped) sign that says, “The tragic thing is I’ll never be smart enough to realize how stupid I am.”

  118. 118.

    Bill Arnold

    @Jackie:

    I wonder how many were Dems attempting and succeeding in crashing the site

    The internal Twitter postmortem/toot cause analysis on this will be amusing.

  123. 123.

    zhena gogolia

    I love it when she’s in a hearing and she’s wearing “smart glasses,” and she keeps taking them on and off. She thinks she looks like an intellectual.

  127. 127.

    mrmoshpotato

    @zhena gogolia:

    I love it when she’s in a hearing and she’s wearing “smart glasses,” and she keeps taking them on and off. She thinks she looks like an intellectual. 

    Haha!  Burn!

  132. 132.

    Geminid

    @Maxim: Personally, I would not neccesarily say that Greene is stupid. But college degree or no, she’s definitely uneducated.

    Greene lucked out when she entered politics. She started running in the suburban Atlanta 6th(?) CD, where she would have faced Lucy McBath. Local Republicans wanted Karen Handel though, and Greene was steered to the 14th CD, whose Republican Congressman was retiring. Bordering Alabama on the west and Tennessee on the north, the 14th is probably Georgia’s safest Republican district.

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