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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

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

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

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At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Everybody saw this coming.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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Cold Grey Dawn Schadenfreude Open Thread: Gone, DeSantis

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Could not have happened to two* more deserving dudes!


(*Two and a half, I guess, if we’re including David Sacks.)


Dark, Brandon!

2/ him. But the issue is what matters to him. This is a way way WAY online minded campaign. And really lives within the keyboard warrior world of the right. What are the issues a winning GOP presidential campaign is going to run on? Border, Inflation, weakness abroad, etc.

3/ They hit on the border a bit at the end, sort of realizing they’d all but ignored it. But almost the whole thing was fluffing Musk for buying Twitter, the freedom fighters who were left back on Twitter, the mainstream media, and then at the end DEI and “gender ideology.”

4/ This is super niche stuff that most of the country doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. I noted that just a short time ago Sacks said DeSantis would be like a “cool headed ruthless assassin” turning back to the woke mob. To most people that sounds kinda nuts.

5/ Something that comes off 4Chan and weird mass slaughter chic. Anyway, DeSantis did get his stride. But again, this is almost all within the conversation of the Twitter far right. That’s not where the country is.

Well, at least there’s still traditional political media…

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39Comments

  1. 1.

    Andrew Abshier

    Now this is the pile-on action I visit this blog for!  Couldn’t have happened to two nicer guys.  Nothing but love, Ron, nothing but love.  </snark>

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    I am disappoint. The GOP needs a presidential candidate who can take the fight to TFG and win, to escape the one-man party trap it is falling into. But all we’ve seen so far is the same ilk of hapless mooks we saw in 2016.

  5. 5.

    JPL

    When the grab by the pussy tape released, everyone though trump was done.   Then trump managed to unleash pure hatred in the country.   DeSantis is worse.   He platform includes ridding us of the gays and science.

  6. 6.

    Tony Jay

    Even that Twitter Spaces announcement page is a disaster. RoDs looks (as always) like a guy who just stood up and took an unplanned shit in his pants, while Musky Zorg looks (as always) like the unloved  bastard son of a minor Centauri aristocrat on his way back to the Homeworld to explain his latest failure.

    They can’t even pay people to make them look good.

  8. 8.

    Anne Laurie

    @john (not mccain): The Tucker Show is supposed to go on twitter, isn’t it?

    Rude people are snarking about how much Tucker is not enjoying that prospect, right at this point in time.  Especially since Fox News repossessed the studio they’d built for him at his Maine retreat, so he’ll have to spend his own fishfinger funds on a new one.  Bets are being taken on whether Carlson will actually announce he’s withdrawing, or just extend his ‘preparations’ until some other sugar daddy makes him the right offer…

  9. 9.

    lowtechcyclist

    Yep, couldn’t have happened to two more deserving guys.​
    .​
     

    ETA: Make that three – I hadn’t heard this bit of Tucker news.

  10. 10.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    So, I put in a request for 2 days of vacation just before the new moon next month(the 15th and 16th), these days were approved.  I got my work schedule for that week…off Monday and Tuesday(the 12th and 13th), then work one shift on Wednesday and then my two days of vacation.  Guess who will be taking a personal day for Flag Day?

  12. 12.

    Princess

    I assume DiSaster genuinely wants to be president. But if I just read these tweets, especially Josh Marshall‘s observation that all this is directed at a relatively small on line tranche of fanatics, I’d figure that the point was simply a massive grift disguised as a campaign.

  13. 13.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Anne Laurie: Lots of fun tidbits in that Guardian article. I’m imagining Fox taking everything out including the light bulbs and the TP from the bathroom.

    It says Tucker is personally working with the crew to rebuild the studio and describes a photo of him in a plaid shirt and… carrying an ax? Is that for pounding nails? Cutting electrical wire? Splitting the bagels at the snack table?

    Color me skeptical that Tucker has any idea what to do with an ax. Or a plaid shirt for that matter.

  16. 16.

    RSA

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: It says Tucker is personally working with the crew to rebuild the studio and describes a photo of him in a plaid shirt and… carrying an ax?

    Tucker is in a pair of Crocs, with no (or pink) socks. I don’t think he’s “working with” the crew on rebuilding anything.

  17. 17.

    NotMax

    “In what industry insiders have declared ‘a bold move,’ Carlson’s new set to feature him and guests sitting cross-legged on the floor, atop varying sized stacks My Pillows.”
    //

  18. 18.

    raven

    @NotMax: Like “Saving Private Ryan,” “Days of Glory” ends with a visit to a military cemetery years later. We learn that, as the decolonization of Africa began (Algeria won its independence in 1962), the French government froze pensions for all former Empire veterans, and benefits for the wounded, at 1959 levels. It was not until 2006, after President Jacques Chirac saw “Days of Glory,” that the pensions were fully restored.

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    @raven

    It’s a known thing that they so petty they ripped out the wall phones from offices and shipped them to France.

  22. 22.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @NotMax: It wasn’t an accident that the soldiers raiding the Wakandan facility in Wakanda Forever were French.

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    (Plucked from dim memory.)

    Groucho: “You call this a barn? This looks like a stable.”

    Chico : “If you look at it, it’s a barn. If you smell it, it’s a stable.”

    Groucho : “Well, let’s just look at it. “

  24. 24.

    Professor Bigfoot

    @Tony Jay: Man, how did you manage to reference both “The Fifth Element” AND “Babylon 5” in the same *well constructed* comment??

    <bows low>

  25. 25.

    Kay

    It sounds like it was a mess but it really seals the deal on what Twitter is – Twitter is Right wing media. He’s an incompetent version of Rupert Murdoch.

  26. 26.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @Amir Khalid: How could they all have gone hapless at the same time? Like Cole in the post below, I don’t get it, but it seems to have happened.

    Re the technical failure’s effect on the DeSantis campaign, I cringe saying this but it reminds me a little of healthcare.gov’s failure when the ACA became effective. That did damage the program’s reputation, much to our despair.

  27. 27.

    There go two miscreants

    Now I want another Dark Brandon tee with “This link works” added below the picture!

  29. 29.

    Tony Jay

    @Professor Bigfoot:

    All of my references are Sci-Fi or Fantasy based, with a smidgeon of terrible British light-entertainment from the ’70s. I am an unrepentant and unapologetic geek.

    Musk = Shitty billionaire boss under the control of an ancient and terrible evil + check out that forehead/hair combo!

    He looks like John Voight and Shelley Duvall used a skinned eggplant as a surrogate womb.

  30. 30.

    azlib

    Sounds like the Twitter Space software was not even beta quality. And Musk’s lame comment about “breaking the Internet” is just laughable and shows his technical ignorance about how networking software actually works.

  32. 32.

    Shalimar

    @Kay: Read the fine print.  Musk has an exceptional advertising executive to run Twitter now.  Which will be great for their ad sales.  Musk will continue to fuck up the technical side himself

    Edit: And by “great”, I mean they probably would have made a profit before he added an additional billion a year in debt payments.  There is no way out of the hole now.

  34. 34.

    Aardvark Cheeselog

    I just kind of scanned that to drop by and say, sweet schadenfreude if that’s your thing, but please spare a thought for us Florida Ds who are left asking “How the fuck is it that we keep losing to these clowns?”

  35. 35.

    Ruckus

    @Amir Khalid:

    The Gory Old Poop party is on it’s death bed because it chose as it’s last leader, a humanoid example of their worst, and now they are attempting to dig themselves in even deeper, with death santa. I am very hard pressed to think of a worse pick of candidates than the current front whatever the hell they are, other than 2 of the worst examples of what not to attempt to be while attempting to be possibly considered somewhere near human like. And other creatures, also attempting to be human, think they are great. We are in a very shitty experiment to find the worst humans on the planet. We have vlad – he may be the worst – but there is competition, and now we are having to deal with the horror show version of the gang that can’t find their gun so they can’t shoot straight at all, so they are showing their dicks, thinking/hoping that might impress someone. It doesn’t.

  36. 36.

    Ruckus

    @Princess:

    I’m thinking that we really shouldn’t give any of the normal suspects in this extremely crappy horror life drama much actual human credit. Because every time someone does, they seem to work at trying to prove that credit wrong. Of course we must also consider that they keep screwing themselves so maybe we should just watch and laugh. Because that seems to make them try harder to screw the whatever it is that they are trying to screw. Themselves I think but that may just be the incompetency showing after they shine all the bright lights on it.

  37. 37.

    JaneE

    Sacks said DeSantis would be like a “cool headed ruthless assassin” turning back to the woke mob

    That phrase may be like catnip to the MAGA crowd, but it sound more like a psycho mass murderer to normal folk.  The right wing has already spawned too many of those for most people.

  38. 38.

    fancycwabs

    Talking heads talk about inflation and security being the winning issues for Republicans, but the common clay of the new west I work with eat this culture war shit up.

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