Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The willow is too close to the house.

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

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickle?”

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Republicans in disarray!

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

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After (Very) Dark Open Thread: Memorializing Prizgovhin

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Apologies (trigger warning) in advance; we all have our niches. Adam is an expert on such topics, whereas I bricolage bits off the internet…


Shoddy, badly done foreshadowing:

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  1. 1.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Forest fires suck… The Smith River Fire is clogging our area with heavy smoke and Crescent City had their power cut off because the feed lines run through the burn area. Crescent City is getting power fed to them via generators at the power company but it is limited. The moon is blood red, there’s lots of lightning tonight (great, maybe more fires!) and just a smattering of rain is grazing us.

    Good morning!

    ETA: Just for Steve and just this time… 👍

    Frist!

  2. 2.

    Shalimar

    I am sure Prigozhin was paranoid and taking precautions against being murdered given Putin’s history.  I am not sure he foresaw the danger of flying given that all of the other suspicious Russian deaths were defenestrations, poisonings, and physically impossible “suicides”.

  3. 3.

    patrick II

    I’d fly far far away, maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir.

    It sounds like the honeymoon suite.

  4. 4.

    Tony Jay

    Poor, weak Putin. Too weak to control the monster he created, too weak to put him on trial for treason, to weak to leave him alive, too weak to take credit for having him wacked, too weak to guarantee the wacking won’t trigger an even more dangerous coup attempt. Maybe he needs more iron in his diet.

    As usual this reminds me of one of those Star Trek episodes showing how the Mirror Universe Terran Empire operates. By the end of the episode so many characters have been backstabbed, betrayed, sacrificed, killed in single combat or just plain old phasered into atoms that you’re left wondering how anything there is supposed to function when 99% of vital positions are filled by whoever happened to be closest to the chair when the previous occupant fucked up.

  6. 6.

    Ian R

    One advantage the “woke” US military has over the Russian military is that its institutions and chain of command are strong enough to avoid reliance on external private mercenaries

    Tuberville is trying to change that.

  8. 8.

    gkoutnik

    Thanks for the shout-out to Warren Zevon.  I just found, and played, “Roland…”  What interesting music we’d have if Warren were still with us!

    I remember a few work colleagues coming over to my house in the evening to listen to that album, which was the style at the time.

  9. 9.

    bookworm1398

    “One advantage the “woke” US military has over the Russian military is that its institutions and chain of command are strong enough to avoid reliance on external private mercenaries.”

    instead they rely on mercenaries because they don’t have enough people. Or maybe for some other reason, they certainly use a lot of them

  12. 12.

    Another Scott

    I heard a bit of a Q&A with Fiona Hill yesterday on NPR ATC. She noted that Wagner shot down a military plane during the brief putsch attempt, killing around a dozen. So it wasn’t a surprise that Prigo died the same way, almost exactly 2 months later.

    Makes sense.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  13. 13.

    p.a.

    • Have to agree w Atrios on this, although his context is the US’s “Masters of the Universe”.  I assume Prigozhin has had enough scratch to buy his own island somewhere and enjoy what life he had left until the day Vlad woke up in a bad mood and decided to take him out.  Hanging around just made it easier for Putin.
  14. 14.

    JAFD

    Good morning*, fellow jackals and gentlebeings !

    Have a great weekend !

    *if you’re sufficiently East of Greenwich that it’s afternoon or evening already, enjoy that part of your day !

  15. 15.

    Suzanne

    I was musing on whether or not it’s could be considered a defenestration if 1) it’s an airplane window, and 2) the rest of the airplane also falls. Maybe “explosive defenestration “.

  21. 21.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @p.a.: How would buying an island somewhere bring him safety? Ukraine could drop in and arrest him.  NATO/INTERPOL/Jack Smith could do the same.   And of course Russia could drop in and break him up.

    You can’t expect a set of rules to save you when you don’t play by any rules.

  22. 22.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @p.a.:

    Hanging around just made it easier for Putin.

    Almost all Putin’s assassinations are in Russia, and the ones that aren’t are not well defended people.  I figure Prigo, with loyal guards on his own land outside Russia, would have been reliably safe.  Rumors of Putin’s omnipotence are greatly exaggerated.  Prigo made himself an easy target here.

  24. 24.

    Ken

    @Shalimar:  the other suspicious Russian deaths were defenestrations, poisonings, and physically impossible “suicides”.

    There’s still a chance that the Russian investigation will determine the explosion and crash was suicide. They’ll claim Prigozhin brought the bomb on the plane, and point to the original Airport movie as precedent.

    (I almost wish they would; the reactions in the US media and congress would definitely let us know who’s on Putin’s payroll.)

  26. 26.

    Spanky

    @Ken:

    They’ll claim Prigozhin brought the bomb on the plane, and point to the original Airport movie as precedent.

    Can they claim precedent if no one in living memory has seen the movie?

  29. 29.

    Betty

    @Shalimar: This is very close to the scenario in a John LeCarre novel, “Our Kind of Traitor” where the betraying  oligarch’s plane was blown up. I guess Prigozhin didn’t read that one.

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    He just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say. Whether you agreed or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I am actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that.

    Wow. That forcefemmed calvinist tweet is genius! (For those who may not recognise it, it’s word-for-word what TFG said about RBG, except for the pronouns.) Just brilliant.

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