Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

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

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Everybody saw this coming.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

The lights are all blinking red.

Books are my comfort food!

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

“woke” is the new caravan.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

You cannot shame the shameless.

This really is a full service blog.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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

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

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

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The title quotes Doonesbury‘s Roland Headley discussing some past GOP courtroom sh*tshow — Oliver North / Iran-Contra, maybe?



Also the NYTimes: “Outside the courthouse, a circuslike atmosphere brings out activists seeking eyeballs.”…

As the experts say: 10/10, no notes:

… “He’s scared s—less,” said John Kelly, his former chief of staff. “This is the way he compensates for that. He gives people the appearance he doesn’t care by doing this. For the first time in his life, it looks like he’s being held accountable. Up until this point in his life, it’s like, I’m not going to pay you; take me to court. He’s never been held accountable before.”…

Trump has wanted to show, according to his advisers, that he is ready to fight — instead of looking downtrodden and glum — as he appeared in court Tuesday. The advisers, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private interactions, have said in the past that few things bother him as much as news accounts of his surly mercurial moods and occasional volcanic temper…

“It’s part public relations and part babysitting,” said Stephanie Grisham, one of Trump’s former White House press secretaries. “He wants people to see the cheering crowds so they don’t think anything is going wrong. It’s also because the staff around him want to keep him busy and wants to have people cheering for him and giving him the ego stroke that he’ll need so they don’t have to deal with him being completely pissed.”

Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: “Sure there’s some legal stuff, but for the majority of the day we did some very positive things.”…

“If you notice, no one on his campaign is saying it was smart to keep the boxes, and what a brilliant thing he did,” one longtime Trump ally said. “They are slashing and burning.”…

Pound the table! Send in the clowns!

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  2. 2.

    RaflW

    Here’s one Republican who isn’t stupid.
    via WaPo reporting on TFG refusing to even consider negotiating with DoJ last year: “Christopher Kise, a former solicitor general of Florida who was paid $3 million upfront to join Trump’s team last year, declined to comment.” (emphasis added)

    Seems at least one the attorneys in that orbit learned a thing or two about the futility of bill collecting Donnie.

  6. 6.

    bbleh

    Seems to me there’s approximately zero mystery about who Trump is, who various groups think he is, and who those groups are, including about how big they are and what they’re willing to do.  It’s all pretty much laid out and pinned on paper like some butterfly collection.

    The big questions now seem to be (1) can the combination of cultists and ratfuckers monkeywrench things in enough states to steal the election for him, (2) can the “no labels” saboteurs mount a sufficiently effective spoiler effort to throw the election to him, and (3) will some external shock (recession, war, whatever) hit Biden hard enough that he’ll lose?  Or, of course, more than one at once.

    I’m still optimistic that the probability of each of these is low enough that even a combination won’t be enough to throw things to Trump, but that can change, especially (3).  Now is most definitely not the time to slack off organizing, volunteering, donating, whatever!

  8. 8.

    Shalimar

    @RaflW: I don’t think Trump was the one who hired Chris Kise.  Kise was pushing Trump to cooperate and return the documents, which is why Trump started ignoring him immediately.   I think someone close to Trump who was tired of his good advice being ignored decided to pay the $3 million to the exceptionally competent Kise to give the same advice, because surely Trump would listen to a prestigious lawyer making that much money he couldn’t get back.  That turned out to be wrong.

  10. 10.

    bbleh

    @HumboldtBlue: I don’t care how much crap has been created with it, the phone camera has gotta be one of the best recent technological innovations

  11. 11.

    Chetan Murthy

    @bbleh: It gave us incontrovertible proof that neither Sasquash, nor UFOs, exist.  Gotta be worth somethin’!

  12. 12.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Ken:

    “he really liked momentos” and “souvenirs”

    Like Ed Gein.

    Well, I’ve laughed enough for the whole night…

  13. 13.

    SpaceUnit

    The dude with the pig head on a stick is making a succinct and profound political statement.

     

    I just have no idea what it is.

  14. 14.

    sdhays

    Trump has wanted to show, according to his advisers, that he is ready to fight — instead of looking downtrodden and glum — as he appeared in court Tuesday. The advisers, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private interactions, have said in the past that few things bother him as much as news accounts of his surly mercurial moods and occasional volcanic temper…

    For some reason, this just makes me thinks of Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me”:

    You may think that you’re a playerBut you’re completely lost

    How much of his swagger is he going to lose over the course of the next year and a half? And since that’s basically his entire persona… Clear-eyed Republicans should be worried about an implosion. They can fundraise off calling Biden a wannabe dictator all they want, but Trump’s loser stench is going to continue to ripen.

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    @bbleh:

    Indeed.

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    If you haven’t seen it, Mindhunter on Netflix is very good. It’s the story of the development of the FBI’s profiling process for serial killers.

    Elsewhere, on Twitter I saw Carlos Santana trending and immediately thought the worst. Instead, it was young baseball player Carlos Santana hitting a home run.

    Whew.

  16. 16.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @HumboldtBlue: If you haven’t seen it, Mindhunter on Netflix is very good. It’s the story of the development of the FBI’s profiling process for serial killers.

    I’ll check it out. I’ve never taken much interest in crime, but processes? That’s where the real fun’s at.

    To those who think I’m kidding, I’m not.

  19. 19.

    Ken

    @sdhays: There’s something profoundly self-defeating, and more profoundly stupid, about the advisers telling the press “He really hates it when the press reports on his bad moods”.

    That is, unless they’re riffing on the Fawlty Towers episode “The Germans”, and Basil’s absolutely-hilarious-in-context lines “Don’t mention the war. I mentioned it, but I think I got away with it.”

  21. 21.

    p.a.

    I really like watches.  That Omega I grabbed from the jewelry store was just “mishandling documents inventory.”

  22. 22.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @sdhays:

    How much of his swagger is he going to lose over the course of the next year and a half? And since that’s basically his entire persona…

    How many cultists will begin drifting away once as he as the loser stink gets worse and worse….

  23. 23.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    A bit OP, but I see where the Southern Baptists are refusing some churches re-admission as they want to keep women pastors.

    The Southern Baptists, forever on the wrong side of history since 1854. And the GOP on the wrong side since 1912.

    No, that’s not OP, is it?

  24. 24.

    Bill

    @HumboldtBlue: ​
    @HumboldtBlue: ​
     

    Elsewhere, on Twitter I saw Carlos Santana trending and immediately thought the worst. Instead, it was young baseball player Carlos Santana hitting a home run.

    He may be younger than the musician, but in baseball terms, at 37 years old, Santana is a veteran getting close to retirement.

  25. 25.

    OB-118

    @SpaceUnit: The “succinct and profound political statement” will be pronounced from the heavens when pigs engage in aeronautical maneuvers of a non-ballistic nature and without the assistance or prodding of pointy sticks.

  26. 26.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Bill:

    Got him mixed up with another player.

    Carlos the musician remains alive, however, and that’s good.

  27. 27.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    By the way, what the hell was going on with the pig’s head? I thought at once of TFG!.

  32. 32.

    karen marie

    “If you notice, no one on his campaign is saying it was smart to keep the boxes, and what a brilliant thing he did,” one longtime Trump ally said. “They are slashing and burning.”…

    This made me laugh out loud.

    Icing on the cake.

    I see no evidence he’s even got a campaign manager. He’s running it like it’s The Apprentice.

  33. 33.

    columbusqueen

    I guess Trump never realized his pitch would attract the lower class deplorables of our country?

  35. 35.

    Chris T.

    Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: “Sure there’s some legal stuff, but for the majority of the day we did some very positive things.”

    “Sure, everyone died horribly from the poison in it, but the cake was so tasty!”

  36. 36.

    Chris

    Trump was more upset that Capitol mob looked ‘low class’ than about violent attacks, reporters say

    Yeah, you could use a tuck here and there yourself, brother…

  37. 37.

    Quicksand

    Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: “Sure there’s some legal stuff, but for the majority of the day we did some very positive things.”…

    Mrs. Lincoln nods sagely

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