Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

You cannot shame the shameless.

In my day, never was longer.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

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

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

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

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

The lights are all blinking red.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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‘Rooting for Injuries’ Open Thread: Bill ‘Ever Lower’ Barr’s Ongoing Self-Exoneration Tour

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Per The Hill, “Trump, Barr feud reaches fever pitch”:

… Barr has been among the most prominent conservatives or former Trump administration officials to publicly criticize their former boss’s behavior and vouch for the strength of the federal indictment against him, undercutting defenses offered up by Trump and his allies.

Barr has called special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment “damning,” dismissed Trump’s defenses as “absurd,” and compared Trump to a “defiant 9-year-old kid.”

In response, Trump has called Barr a “gutless pig,” a “RINO,” meaning Republican in Name Only, and a “coward,” reserving some of his harshest language for the man he once praised as “one of the most respected jurists in the country.”

“So nice to see that Sloppy, Low Energy RINO Bill Barr, gets loudly booed and shouted at everywhere he goes! He is sooo bad for America,” Trump wrote Tuesday on his Truth Social platform.

Barr served as Trump’s attorney general for two years before resigning in December 2020, when he first broke with Trump as the former president pushed claims that the 2020 election was rigged and fraudulent. Barr had declared that the Justice Department he oversaw at the time found no basis to claims of widespread voter fraud that led to Trump’s election loss.

In the past year in particular, Barr has emerged as an outspoken critic of his former boss, testifying before the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol and becoming one of the most outspoken Republicans regarding the seriousness of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago last August to retrieve classified documents from Trump’s time in the White House…

“I think Barr is trying to cleanse himself of his Trump association, which is not likely to work with anyone who paid attention to what he did for Trump as AG,” said Alan Morrison, a law professor at George Washington University. “I also think that he is trying to get Republicans to move away from Trump as the best means of taking the White House in 2024.”…

Pretty much!

… What he’s saying: “He had no right to those documents,” the former Trump administration official told CBS. “The government tried for over a year, quietly and with respect, to get them back, which was essential that they do, and he jerked them around. And he had no legal basis for keeping them.”

– “But beyond that, when he faced his subpoena, he didn’t raise any legal arguments. He engaged in a course of deceitful conduct, according to the indictment. That was a clear crime if those allegations are true, and was outrageous,” added Barr on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”…

Yes, but: “I don’t like the idea of a former president serving time in prison,” he said.…

… Barr said that Trump did some good things as president but that he does not believe Trump should continue to be the Republican standard-bearer.

“He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interests,” Barr said. “This is a perfect example of that.”

Barr, who drifted away from Trump after the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, resigned from Trump’s Cabinet in December 2020 amid disagreements with the president over whether to accept the election results.

Barr also said on CBS News that he believes Trump is vulnerable in the Jan. 6 case…

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  6. 6.

    Matt McIrvin

    “I also think that he is trying to get Republicans to move away from Trump as the best means of taking the White House in 2024.”

    Which is crazy: Trump absolutely is their best means of taking the White House in 2024. I don’t think anyone else could do it, but he can.

  8. 8.

    eclare

    Yeah he’s a criminal who puts his own interests before anyone else’s, and he called me a gutless pig, but I’ll still vote for him.  What a spineless POS.

  9. 9.

    Jerzy Russian

    @eclare:   An obvious follow-up question for Barr is “is there anything Trump can do to make you vote for someone else?”  I don’t see many of the prominent “reporters” asking that.

  10. 10.

    bbleh

    Uh … rooting for injuries?

    Because Barr should be consigned to the lower sub-basements of his fondly-imagined Opus-Dei Hell, I would say that whatever he says should be utterly ignored, EXCEPT that he’s busy tearing down TFG, and it helps to be able to say “even his own Attorney General says …”

    What a despicable meatsack.

  11. 11.

    Parfigliano

    Nothing Barr says or does can redeem his conduct as AG in two GOP Administrations.  I literally hope he drowns in a cess pool.

  13. 13.

    West of the Rockies

    I have to think Barr’s government career is over.  He won’t get appointed to any position of authority.   Oh, he may end up on a board of directors or get a teaching position, but at 73, at least he won’t be able to muck up the DOJ again.

  15. 15.

    Tony G

    At least Marjorie Taylor Greene versus Lauren Boebert is good for laughs.  These two jackasses, not so much.

  17. 17.

    Scout211

    “He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interests.”

    Mirror, mirror on the wall . . .

  19. 19.

    Kay

    My (shortsighted) view is Barr being on tv is a net positive for us because all normies will hear is his blustery denunciations of Trump, and Trump IS the GOP.

    Normies aren’t engaging in all this nuance. They are “there’s a Republican on tv who says Trump is a criminal”. That’s good!

    I don’t care that much if Barr is doing it to whitewash his (pathetic) career. I think it works in our favor.

  20. 20.

    piratedan

    @Kay: tend to agree with this, if the MSM continues to force us to listen to GOP mouth-breathers, the least they can do is have someone on who can make the needed points that what Trump has done is a crime, and a completely self-inflicted one.

  22. 22.

    Percysowner

    @Baud: ​
     The French Revolution ended up eating those who started it. Robespierre died on the guillotine after “having been branded a failed dictator by the right and a moderate by the left”. Not saying we will be so lucky as to see this and boy we don’t need all the bloodshed that came with the French Revolution, but the party for “leopards eating faces” often ends up eating the faces of those who put them in power.

  23. 23.

    Geminid

    @HumboldtBlue: Christie will have some choice words for DeSantis, too. I don’t believe Christie can win the nomination, and I’m glad he is in the race.

  24. 24.

    eversor

    @eclare:

    He said he’d do that and other stuff because of liberals over turning the traditional sex, gender, patriarchy, and heirarchy roles that are in The Faith.  Which makes it impossible to live out and passdown The Faith.  And all that stuff is old testament, new testament, and from Jesus as well.  Christianity strikes again!

  27. 27.

    mrmoshpotato

    @kindness:

    Trump absolutely can’t take back the White House.  He lost by over 7 million votes in 2020.   He will lose by even more in 2024.
     

    Let’s make it so!

  29. 29.

    eclare

    @kindness:

    Unfortunately the electoral college comes into play.  Most people thought he had no chance in 2016, I always maintained he had a non-zero chance of winning.

    Don’t get me wrong, I like our chances, and I will do what I can to defeat him.  But I will be nervous.

  30. 30.

    ian

    @Kay: I agree.  No matter how it is spun, the Attorney General (and not the one named Jefferson Beauregard Sessions IV) is on television saying the guy he served under is unfit for office.  The Republicans can’t get Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch or any Democratic office holder this side of Tulsi Gabbard to say anything similar about Biden.

  34. 34.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @eclare: Cornel West (his campaign manager Jill Stein), Bobby Kennedy (Dennis Kucinich) and No Labels (with or without Joe Manchin) will do everything they can to help him

  35. 35.

    Splitting Image

    @eversor:

    He said he’d do that and other stuff because of liberals over turning the traditional sex, gender, patriarchy, and heirarchy roles that are in The Faith. Which makes it impossible to live out and passdown The Faith. And all that stuff is old testament, new testament, and from Jesus as well. Christianity strikes again!

    You’re gonna be shocked at how quickly those shitheels throw Christianity out the window the second it becomes convenient to do so. If Ayn Rand weren’t a woman, they’d have already found themselves a new Messiah.

  36. 36.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Parfigliano: Nothing Barr says or does can redeem his conduct as AG in two GOP Administrations.  I literally hope he drowns in a cess pool.

    I’m more interested that he struggle in the cesspool, thereby eating shit. After that, he’s in the hands of the fates.

  39. 39.

    m.j.

    In the clip Barr says about 30 seconds into it, “Trump has many good qualities.”

    I hit pause and ask to no one, “Name one.”

  40. 40.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @m.j.: At least Hitler was a good dancer and house painter, Dump is neither.

  41. 41.

    Manyakitty

    @Suzanne: the sun deserves better, but it’s a good plan, nevertheless. Literally every word that gutless shitbag says means nothing once he says he’s willing to vote for the traitor again. JFTDC.

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