Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

He really is that stupid.

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

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Let me file that under fuck it.

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

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

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

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

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

So many bastards, so little time.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

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The Devil Went Down To Georgia

by Maxim

The devil went down to Georgia
He was looking for some votes to steal
He was in a bind ’cause he was way behind
He was lookin’ to make a deal
When he heard Brad Raffensperger
Was counting votes the way that he ought
He made a perfect phone call
And said “Boy, let me tell you what …
I guess you didn’t know it, but I’m the winner fair and true
And if you find some votes (14,000 ought to do)
Then we can get me crowned again,
The way I ought to be,
And I won’t have to badger you to be a friend to me.”
But Brad had his recorder on
And Georgia said “No way,”
Now one peachy indictment’s
Headed bigly DT’s way.

Open thread!

Reader Interactions

173Comments

  2. 2.

    dmsilev

    Well, someone isn’t getting a Mar-a-Lago themed Christmas card this year

    Following his testimony to the grand jury, former GOP lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan said he thinks it’s time for the Republicans to “pivot” away from Donald Trump to win.

    “Donald Trump was the worst candidate ever in the history of the party, even worse than Herschel Walker, and now we’re going to have to pivot from there. We want to win an election in 2024, it’s going to have to be somebody other than Donald Trump if we do it.”

    “As long as we make this about the three-ring circus called Donald Trump, we’re going to lose every time. And you don’t have to go any further than Georgia to see that play out.”

    (WaPo liveblog)

  4. 4.

    Jerzy Russian

    Charlie Daniels was kind of a DeSantis when he was alive, and probably still is a DeSantis now that he is dead.  Nonetheless,  I have always loved that song.   However, I love Maxim’s version 100 times more.  Pure genius!

  5. 5.

    Sparkedcat

    A Televised Trump trial in Georgia would put Judge Ito and company in the rearview mirror.

  9. 9.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @WaterGirl: I agree. I could at least see myself having a normal human conversation with Herschel Walker

    Perhaps about vampires…

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    Okay, I’m gonna take one for the team.  I am going to go shower, which means they will surely announce the indictment in about 90 seconds.  You can thank me later!

  14. 14.

    Scout211

    And in the documents case:

    Trump Has No ‘Law or Precedent’ for Building Secure Facility to See Classified Evidence, Jack Smith Says

    [court filing at the link]

    Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors asked a federal judge on Monday to reject Donald Trump‘s request to build a secure facility for viewing classified evidence at an undisclosed location — likely inside his private clubs at Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster.
     
    “Creating a secure location in Trump’s residence — which is also a social club — so he can discuss classified information would be unnecessary and unjustified accommodation that deviates from the normal course of cases involving classified discovery,” prosecutor Jay Bratt wrote in response to the recent request from Trump as he prepares for his criminal trial in Fort Pierce, Fla.

  15. 15.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @bbleh: I think we call it bad luck. It’s like the phenomenon where my texts don’t get answered while I’m already out, but pulling into my neighborhood. Now I gotta decide whether to go out again.

  18. 18.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Baud: Knowing nothing about the process, I’d guess they have to go count by count for each charge for each defendant. So I’ll try not to look at the clock for… let’s say half an hour.

    Who am I kidding? (Refresh, refresh, refresh)

  21. 21.

    bbleh

    @Baud: or maybe it’s subject to the jury-room-at-4pm-on-Friday effect.

    “Jeez, okay already! Yes on 1, 2, 3, and 5, no on 4 and 6, okay? Deal? Everybody agree? Can we all go home now?”

  28. 28.

    Hoodie

    @bbleh: From what I’ve read, they only need a majority to indict.  However, wonder if they can do a straw vote or, if a formal vote is close, they can withdraw the count.  Seems to me the DA would still have discretion to drop certain counts for tactical reasons even if approved by the grand jury.

  32. 32.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @WaterGirl: “Herschel,” I believe.

    @dmsilev: Maybe they’re trying to decide what particular type of take-out to order for dinner?

    If they have the priorities right, that’s absolutely what they’re doing.

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    GJ is voting right now. I’ve been looking forward to seeing Hillary on Rachel’s 9:00 pm program, but now I think she may be overtaken (at least somewhat) by events.

  44. 44.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @dmsilev:

    Maybe they’re trying to decide what particular type of take-out to order for dinner?

    Lasagna, or tire irons and anthrax?

  45. 45.

    Sure Lurkalot

    Geoff Duncan said he thinks it’s time for the Republicans to “pivot” away from Donald Trump to win.

    Especially since if for some inconceivable reason, Trump doesn’t garner the Republican nomination, he will “pivot” away from the Republican Party and set it on fire. A human can dream!

  53. 53.

    Wyatt Salmanca

    @Baud:

    The country of Georgia gets a lot of nice songs for free.

    They certainly do, although New York also has some nice tunes as well.

    If Trump is ever convicted in any of these cases, we need to have a massive celebratory music thread.

  55. 55.

    JPL

    fyi

    Could be!

    Who knows?

    There’s something’ due any day;

    I will know right away

    Soon as it shows

    It may come cannonballin’

    Down through the sky

    Gleam in its eye

    Bright as a rose!

    Who knows?

  58. 58.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl: Yes, it’s great! I complimented it down on the other thread. (I have to admit, I didn’t know the song and had to go look at it.)

  62. 62.

    hilts

    @SiubhanDuinne:

     I’ve been looking forward to seeing Hillary on Rachel’s 9:00 pm program

    Speaking of MSNBC, Chris Hayes gets more nights off than Johnny Carson did during his prime hosting the Tonight Show.

  70. 70.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Misterpuff:

    Oh Atlanta is good but I prefer to think of the Trumpster as The Fat Man in the Bathtub with The Blues.

    You have a valid point, I simply opted for Oh Atlanta because of the Georgia connection.

  78. 78.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Baud: Mmmmm. The platonic ideal of a ham sandwich.

    Better than most ham sandwiches…

    Eta: Classic example why I hate autocorrect. It changed “better” to “benter.”

    ‘N’ and ‘T’ are nowhere near each other and I’m pretty sure that isn’t a word.

  80. 80.

    Jackie

    @Baud: I was so sure it’d be Indictment Tue, I thought Ah Ha! I’ll cook taco meat tonight and be set for Indictment Taco Tues. Now I’m racing to finish getting the meat cooked with the TV volume UP.

    That’ll teach me to believe all the political media pundits.

  90. 90.

    Kayla Rudbek

    I’m trying to decide whether I should start making a cake or not. Part of me wants to make muffins instead so Mr. Rudbek can bring them to the bike ride tomorrow.

  92. 92.

    WaterGirl

    @LAO: What I liked about all the legal indictments and from the Judge earlier this week is that it was “Defendant”, with Trump having lost the right to a name.  His name is now Defendant.

    Scratch that, I didn’t just like it, I loved it.

  93. 93.

    Maxim

    What was that link for watching MSNBC live? I can’t remember which thread it was in, sorry.

  98. 98.

    wjca

    @Wyatt Salmanca: When we have that celebratory music thread, we definitely ought to start with “Marching Thru Georgia”:

    Hurrah! Hurrah!  We bring the jubilee!

    Hurrah! Hurrah!  The case that makes men free.

    That’s the way we’ll sing it from Atlanta to the sea

    While we are marching thru Georgia.

  106. 106.

    Ken

    This is interesting. I’m starting to see why some people get all obsessive when waiting for a new Pope to be elected.

    Also, the discussion has validated something I’ve always thought about Platonic ideals; viz., that it’s all very well to say “the ideal ham sandwich”, but everyone immediately translates that into something fairly concrete in their mind, and it the ideal breaks down in a fight over mustard or mayo.

  110. 110.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @LAO: ​
      No, you want to humanize your client at every opportunity while the prosecution does not.

  112. 112.

    Alison Rose

    Ché Alexander, the clerk of the Fulton County Superior Court, has sat down at the “criminal docket” desk of the clerk’s office.

    The clerk, Ché Alexander, has been spotted on the fifth floor, signaling an indictment could arrive shortly.

    ETA this is from the NYT live blog, the second line came first.

  113. 113.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Omnes Omnibus: Obviously, that would be a jambon beurre.

    Wait, the French serve ham with butter and I’m just finding out now? What a fool I was for taking Spanish…

  115. 115.

    Jay

    @WaterGirl:

    Heresy.

    My apple, fresh ground cinnamon/crumble muffins are nothing at all like my apple, fresh ground cinnamon/crumble coffee cake.

  117. 117.

    bbleh

    Ruh-roh, NYT reporting that clerks are positioning and judge has taken his seat.

    “I’ve been told the convoy is mobile,” Judge McBurney says, indicating that an indictment is on its way to his desk.

    (ETA: dang, scooped again!)

  120. 120.

    Eolirin

    @Ken: Platonic ideals are supposed to be unknowable though. There’s no way to conceive of the ideal ham sandwich. Any such conception would itself be a pale reflection of the true ideal.

  124. 124.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Movement in the courthouse!

    This has been the latest update in the NY Times current story, now about 35 minutes old.

    I’m in the fifth-floor clerk’s office in the Fulton County courthouse. That’s where we may get the first sign that an indictment has been approved by grand jurors and is on its way to the judge. According to the clerk, Ché Alexander, if an indictment is approved, someone will bring it up to this office and alert the clerk, and they will then walk it together up to the eighth-floor courtroom and deliver it to the judge.

    These just got added

    Judge Robert C.I. McBurney is back in court, has taken his seat and is waiting. “Did anyone leave early? Everyone stayed? I was tempted.”

    The clerk, Ché Alexander, has been spotted on the fifth floor, signaling an indictment could arrive shortly.

    Ché Alexander, the clerk of the Fulton County Superior Court, has sat down at the “criminal docket” desk of the clerk’s office.

  125. 125.

    Spanky

    Y’all better keep up the play by play. This is the only “news” outlet I’ve got atm.

  127. 127.

    scav

    If they complain about the indictment of ham sandwiches, well then what could one possibly say about the party that nominates them?

    repeatedly.

  128. 128.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Baud:

    Yes, this is exactly what Ohio needs, not the redistricting process designed to fail that was completely ignored by the state GOP

    Man, I’d really like to be able to sign this petition

  131. 131.

    smith

    From Wapo:

    At 8:45 p.m., Judge Robert McBurney took the bench. We are waiting for the expected indictments.

  134. 134.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Ken: ​
      How about the Ur-ham sandwich? Also, the jambon beurre. It might not be the tastiest, but it is as close to the essential essence of a ham sandwich as one can get. Plus, it is pretty tasty.

  138. 138.

    Jeffro

    @Baud: Have you heard Jason Isbell’s album of Georgia-related cover songs?  He did it as a thank-you for GA winning the Warnock and Issoff elections.

  139. 139.

    bbleh

    I just hope whoever is delivering the actual paper to the clerk and then the judge is using back stairs or something.  Otherwise, s/he will disappear in a huge dogpile of reporters and will never be seen again.

  141. 141.

    Manyakitty

    Would be so sweet to see Hillary Clinton give color commentary on this Willismas evening.

  146. 146.

    bbleh

    NYT: “A sheriff’s deputy just walked up to the clerk’s office with a large stack of papers.”

  151. 151.

    Anoniminous

    @Eolirin: ​
     
    But we can only know an instantiation of ham sandwich, what Heidegger would call the Ready-at-Hand, because of the timeless, absolute, unchangeable Idea of a ham sandwich.

  154. 154.

    bbleh

    “On top of the large stack of papers that was brought to the clerk’s office and then into the courtroom was one that said, in part, “Certification that grand jury indictments returned.”

    Ok I’ll stop now

  159. 159.

    Ken

    @Omnes Omnibus: Also, the jambon beurre. It might not be the tastiest, but it is as close to the essential essence of a ham sandwich as one can get.

    Oh really. I didn’t see anything about Wonder Bread, Singles, or Miracle Whip in the descriptions I found.

  162. 162.

    brantl

    @WaterGirl:  Speaking of Fat Ladies singing, whatever happened last year w all the anti-voting bills the Repukes were trying to passed, nationwide?

  163. 163.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    Ted Cruz said on hannity that Biden should be indicted and sent to jail.  So there!

  171. 171.

    sab

    @Baud: Ohio election reform. What is the point? Our last  redistricting effort won by 75% and all our elected officials ( governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state legislature and supreme court) fucking ignored it and did their own thing.

  172. 172.

    LiminalOwl

    @WaterGirl: I love the song, but am late as usual so you might not see this. (I confess to a love for the original, too, despite absence of love for Charlie Daniels himself.)

  173. 173.

    LiminalOwl

    @Jay: Qu’ils mangeant des brioches.  “Cake” is a mistranslation, perhaps because “brioche” was so elitist that Americans weren’t expected to have the word in their vocabulary?

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