Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Petty moves from a petty man.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

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

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Hot air and ill-informed banter

This fight is for everything.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

When I was faster i was always behind.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

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Liberal Redneck – I Swear This Is His Best One Yet

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I am a big fan of the Liberal Redneck, and I swear this is his best rant, ever.

It’s 2.5 minutes long, and then it goes to a commercial for VPN, so you can stop there.  But what a great 2.5 minutes this one is.  So many great lines.  Seriously, at least a dozen that I want to write down and remember.

Chief Oshkosh linked to this in an earlier thread.

Totally open thread.

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  2. 2.

    Alison Rose

    “I don’t hate Lauren Boebert because she’s white trash. I hate her because she’s a piece of shit.”

    AMEN, BROTHER

    Also, the ad only goes to the 4 minute mark, and then he goes back to wondering if we have any genuine white trash in Congress, rather than people who pretend to be for the clout, LOL.

  3. 3.

    Jeffro

    “…if she was out here readin’ stuff, knowin’ facts…shit like that…”

    Trae Crowder’s great!

    I know he’s not everyone’s cup of tea but Brent Terhune is awesome too in his own way.  He had an AMAZING piece re: “Lauren Blowbert” a day or two ago himself

    “I WON THESE TICKETS OFF THE RADIO – I’M NOT GOIN’ NOWHERE!!

    “WHITE TRASH PEOPLE DON’T FINGER-SNAP, THEY…”  lolololol

  6. 6.

    frosty

    Woohoo, Fetterman is honorary trash (gotta watch after the commercial) even though his daddy was rich and he has a Harvard degree. “He’s always wearing a hoodie and cargo shorts, the official early-winter Trash Uniform.”

    My Junior Senator!

    ETA Skip forward to 4:00.

  7. 7.

    gratuitous

    Can Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez be a trash champion? Seems to have the requisite background and experiences and she drew the right conclusions from her struggles to become an elected official (basically, it shouldn’t be this hard to succeed or at least be secure in the Richest Nation in the World).

  8. 8.

    sdhays

    So, has our Lauren finally crossed the threshold where her local Republican Party will support someone to replace her? I hope they continue to double down on her as the representative so voters have no choice but to vote Democrat to rid themselves of her.

  10. 10.

    Ben Cisco

    @sdhays:

    So, has our Lauren finally crossed the threshold where her local Republican Party will support someone to replace her?

    NOPE. Once the knob has been turned to 11 and THEN BROKEN OFF, can’t go back.

  12. 12.

    gene108

    I’m of the same opinion as Trae, and have been for awhile.

    Lauren Boebert could’ve been an inspiring story of someone who beat the odds (single teen mom, daughter of a single teen mom), who got elected to Congress in a competitive district. Unfortunately, she isn’t inspiring, because she’s an asshole.

  14. 14.

    MattF

    And, um, you can get end-to-end encrypted access to the internet tubes with the (free!) Tor browser. Which, in turn, gives you access to various (free!) sources of various stuff. Doesn’t generally work on mobile OSs, you have to use MacOS, Windows, or Linux.

  17. 17.

    patrick II

    Lauren is just dumb, not evil. The shame is dumb now usually a positive attribute in Republican primaries.

  18. 18.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @sdhays: Some “Christian” youth group announced, FRIDAY, that Vape Girl is going to be a featured speaker at their Hitlerjugend Rally in Texas.

  22. 22.

    BlueGuitarist

    @Alison Rose:

    Like that one, and also others mentioned, and also

    “Boebert’s dedicated her life to being wrong out loud, every time she talks she’s like the chatgpt of harmful ignorance”

    and:

    “I cannot stand a ladder-puller”

  23. 23.

    Miss Bianca

    @sdhays:

    So, has our Lauren finally crossed the threshold where her local Republican Party will support someone to replace her? I hope they continue to double down on her as the representative so voters have no choice but to vote Democrat to rid themselves of her.

    She has at least two – possibly three – declared GOP primary candidates to contend with already. So it’s already starting. As a former constituent (we got redistricted, thank God), I just hope what you’re hoping.

  25. 25.

    cain

    @sdhays: ​

    I hope they are dumb enough not to. That gal is a fighter and she’ll fight dirty against her own party. She might be scared now – but I’m sure there is a trove of foreign money ready for her to spend.

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    @tobie:

    I watched the first half of Meet the Press this morning. Kristen Welker said they had invited Biden to do an interview, but she didn’t say anything about a response.

  33. 33.

    tobie

    I didn’t watch but my husband told me that in the build up to the interview today NBC said they had invited Biden and he declined. If that’s true, and I don’t know if it is, it’s harder to complain about the softball interview with Trump. The mood in the country feels like 2010 or 2014 right now…just general malaise. Food prices are so high that I myself get sticker shock whenever I check out at the grocery store. Add in the rise in the price of rent and utilities and you know why Americans are feeling really burdened.

  35. 35.

    Geminid

    @sdhays: Colorado Republicans probably started thinking about replacing Boebert after the midterms, when she carred what should be a safe seat by less than a thousand votes. This incident will make them think harder. An ambitious Republican office holder in the 3rd CD could get money for a challenge from out of state, because control of Congress is up in the air and Republicans need that seat.

    Colorado Republicans would pony up too. Aside from the question of electability, Boebert is an embarrasment.

  40. 40.

    wjca

    @Miss Bianca: She has at least two – possibly three – declared GOP primary candidates to contend with already. So it’s already starting.

    If she can get enough opponents running, she can do a Trump and win her primary with merely a plurality.

  41. 41.

    BlueGuitarist

    Shana Tova to all who celebrate!
    Hoping for a successful March Against Fossil Fuels to the UN today, that doesn’t turn into a superspreader event.
     
    Today is also Constitution Day (for the September 17, 1787 signing of the Constitution by most of the participants in the Constitutional Convention.
    So I wanted to share some wisdom, and other statements, from the founding fathers.
     
    Constitutional Convention Notes:
    An argument for electing the president by direct popular vote
    “The legislature will continually seek to aggrandize and perpetuate themselves….
    It is necessary then that the Executive should be the guardian of the people, even of the lower classes, against legislative tyranny, against the great and the wealthy who…will necessarily compose the legislative body.
    Wealth tends to corrupt the mind and to nourish its love of power, and to stimulate it to oppression. History proves this to be the spirit of the opulent….
    The Executive therefore ought to be so constituted as to be the great protector of the Mass of the people….
    If he is to be the Guardian of the people let him be appointed by the people [i.e., directly elected by the people].”
    Gouverneur Morris, July 19, 1787.

  42. 42.

    lowtechcyclist

    Had a pleasant bike ride this morning, 20 miles or so in northern Calvert and southern Anne Arundel counties. Looks like I didn’t miss much. 🙂

  43. 43.

    BlueGuitarist

    Constitutional Convention Notes 2

    On Leadership and Age

    “Experience had shown…that both a capacity and inclination for public service existed in very advanced stages….[for] instance [a leader] of Venice who was elected after he was 80 years of age.”

    James Wilson, July 24, 1787

  46. 46.

    cain

    Man, that Ken Paxton thing is going to be nuts going forward. Ken’s gonna go apeshit against his adversaries and there is going to be multiple investigations and consequences. I think we can expect Texas to go even more hard rightas Ken drives out all the moderates out of the party or puts them even in jail.

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack

    @tobie:

    [. . .] NBC said they had invited Biden and he declined. If that’s true, and I don’t know if it is, it’s harder to complain about the softball interview with Trump.

    Trump’s whole campaign strategy—and stay-out-of-jail strategy—is to milk controversy and free media coverage to stoke his base and keep the bucks rolling in. And he’s got all day every day to do it—except for court appearances, of course. Joe Biden has an actual day job and may not feel that he needs to drop everything to quickly appear on some chat show just because Trump did.

    Also, at least on Meet the Press today, when Welker said they had invited Biden to do an interview (without saying anything about an answer) I took the context to be that they were being “fair” in giving Biden the same opportunity they gave Trump. A nothingburger.

  49. 49.

    Geminid

    @JPL: I don’t see how Boebert could have built up much of a personal following. There may be allegience to her politics, but that can be transferred to another radical conservative with more going on upstairs.

    As someone else pointed out, Boebert’s best hope may be multiple challengers. Unless one can get separation from the others, she might still win a primary with a plurality. I expect the money men will try to pick the most promising challenger and drop a lot of money into their campaign.

  50. 50.

    cain

    @tobie:

    I make a decent amount of money but even to me I feel like I’m struggling. A trip to the grocery store is at least 60-70 dollars for moderate things. Forget about going out and enjoying a dinner – that’s about 80 dollars or so. 80 dollars used to be what I would spend if I wanted a fancy dinner for two. Now it’s basically going to a run of a mill restaurant.

    I get why –  and I’ll be fine. But someone making 50-60k? I’m not sure how they can eat and pay rent or if you’re on a fixed income?

    It’s grim times and we need to figure this out. Unfortunately, we have no partners in this endeavor.

    Our people are dumb as fuck because they’ll just vote one part in and then if nothing happens vote the other party in and not realizing that one party is the continual cause of problems – but fed up people just want to punish.

  51. 51.

    Jackie

    @moonbat: Speaking of Fetterman…

    “Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) quietly has directed the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms to no longer enforce the chamber’s informal dress code for its members,” Axios reports.

    “The new directive will allow Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who tends to favor gym shorts and hoodies over the business attire traditionally required in the chamber, to linger on the Senate floor before and after votes.”

    Also, how can the Senate dress code forbid Fetterman’s natural attire on the Floor, yet look the other way with some of the concoctions Sinema dresses up in?

  52. 52.

    cain

    @Steeplejack:

    Also, at least on Meet the Press today, when Welker said they had invited Biden to do an interview (without saying anything about an answer) I took the context to be that they were being “fair” in giving Biden the same opportunity they gave Trump. A nothingburger.

    it’s a false equivalency – the president is fucking busy. this guy is busy too, avoiding lawsuits and also stroking resentment. It’s the stroking of resentment these media types need to be wary of. I mean, if _they_ did something that resentment is going to turn on them. Look at Romney paying 2k a day for private security? That should give them pause.

  53. 53.

    Subsole

    @Ben Cisco:

    Not to be all “well, ackshually…”

    But, well, actually you can go back. It just takes appropriately-sized channel locks and the ability to tune out background noise.

  54. 54.

    Betty Cracker

    Regarding Boebert, in her case, Florida exported one of our nuts to cause problems in a different state instead of being the destination spot for deranged right-wing nuts from the other 49.

  55. 55.

    Subsole

    @gene108:

    You see it over and over on the conservative side: they could have genuinely done something with their lives, but elected to waste their days (and everyone else’s) tormenting people.

  57. 57.

    jonas

    @Steeplejack: I can’t recall right now, but how many *sitting* presidents have ever done MTP? Usually, if a president is going to do a one-on-one sit-down with a journalist, it’s some prime-time special with the interview being conducted in the WH, POTUS’s schedule permitting.

  60. 60.

    cain

    I read the ad and I had a big WTF. PIA??? JFC..

    Private Internet Access at one time was a decent company and then it went completely off the rails. The guy who bought it is from Korean loyalty and a right wing motherfucker. He took over one our community spaces an irc server and managed to make all of us unsafe and we had to move from that to libera.chat irc.

    I was friends with one of the VPs that worked there and got a front row seat to the craziness.

    Do not and I repeat DO NOT give PIA any business.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-been-taken-over-by-the-crown-prince-of-korea/

    Christel was the friend of mine. They all got pwned by that motherfucker, Andrew Lee.

    ETA – https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-korea-crown-prince-takeover

    Before twitter there was this. But this was a community space. Centralized. This is also why I’m so pro-mastodon. De-centralized community space is the only way to fight off people like Andrew Lee and Elon Musk.

  61. 61.

    Scout211

    @Jackie: Waiting for the news Boebert is an unwed pregnant grandma, OR the grandma who had a secret abortion (more likely, IMO)

    Option #1 would have to be changed to “out of wedlock” pregnant Grandma.  She’s still married to Grandpa.

    The boyfriend has been divorced for years, though.

    Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert appears to be on track to have her divorce finalized next month, ushering in a new chapter for the conservative Republican who is never far from the headlines in Washington.

    According to the court docket, Boebert and Jayson Boebert have a non-contested hearing scheduled for October 10. After nearly two decades of marriage, the congresswoman filed for separation in May.

  63. 63.

    JPL

    @Steeplejack:  IMO Fair would have been to ask those republicans who are running against trump in the primarty.   I’m sure some would accept.   As far as I know trump is still a candidate for the republican primary.

  64. 64.

    cain

    @piratedan: Pehaps we can spin it that when it comes to satisfaction only Democratic will do. From healthcare, to jobs, to well.. THAT – Democrats deliver.

  65. 65.

    Snarki, child of Loki

    Woohoo, Fetterman is honorary trash (gotta watch after the commercial) even though his daddy was rich and he has a Harvard degree. “He’s always wearing a hoodie and cargo shorts, the official early-winter Trash Uniform.”

    My Junior Senator!

    Just imagine how awesome Fetterman will be when he grows up!

  66. 66.

    Jackie

    @Scout211: Oh! In that case her christian soon-to-be ex will graciously accept the fetus as his to spare poor Lauren public shame….    As IF!😂😂

  69. 69.

    FelonyGovt

    That was great! (Even though it was obviously recorded before the “groping” stuff came out- icing on the cake) And was I the only one to notice that Trae Crowder is kind of hot?

  75. 75.

    JoyceH

    @Alison Rose: I’m impressed by how he can rattle off his latest offering so effortlessly while looking right into the camera. Do you suppose he’s got a teleprompter built into the windshield?

    As for Boebert, my instinct tells me this is a career ender for her. Probably wouldn’t be if she was a guy, but the double standard lives on. Add that to the scuffles on the House floor with the other trash Queen Empty Gee and the Money might be deciding it’s just not a good look for them.

  79. 79.

    Yarrow

    @tobie:

    I didn’t watch but my husband told me that in the build up to the interview today NBC said they had invited Biden and he declined. If that’s true, and I don’t know if it is, it’s harder to complain about the softball interview with Trump.

    WHY? This makes no sense. Biden agreeing to or declining an interview with the newest media shill has nothing to do with how said media shill conducts her interviews. No reporter should do softball interviews with presidential candidates or the current president. That this is even a point of discussion is pathetic.

    Also, this is a complete nothingburger. No one will care if Biden appeared on MTP with the new host. Why should Biden agree to an interview with her just because TFG did? That’s a really dumb both side argument. Biden will do what’s best for him and his campaign and having an interview with her at this time is not.

  80. 80.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: Why is he giddy about that?  Seems like Trump is trying to take the fall for the rest – maybe that’ Trump’s attempt to keep them from flipping on him?

  81. 81.

    JoyceH

    @WaterGirl: It sounds like Ellis has already flipped, the way she’s bashing Trump.

    And I saw a legal pundit the other day say that this early trial for Cheseboro and Powell could be a benefit for the prosecutors. Since it’s a RICO case, the prosecution will present the entire case, so yes, it gives Trump’s defense a preview, but they already know most of the details. And because only Cheseboro and Powell are actually on trial, their lawyers are only going to present a defense to the parts of the case that deal with their clients – so the rest of the case will be out there in public, televised, without a defense being presented.

  82. 82.

    bbleh

    @Jackie: Mentioned this on an earlier thread, and my first reaction on seeing the story (CNN lead) was to channel a Trump lawyer screaming “what the FLYING FK did he just say?!?”

    Isn’t this an admission of (1) intent and (2) having been repeatedly informed ahead of time that it would be illegal?

    Is it really a defense to say “yeah, I listened to my fellow Made Men who said ‘sure, whack him, it’s cool,’ and not to those lawyer jerks who said ‘no no, you can’t do that'”?

    @WaterGirl: well but they went along with it, no?  Isn’t that just an attempt at setting up a Nuremberg Defense.  “I gave ze orderss und zey followed zem.”  Didn’t work last time …

    Lawyers?

  83. 83.

    Jackie

    @WaterGirl: He confessed that he ignored his “real lawyers” and admitted he knew he’d lost the election – something he’s denied knowing since Nov ‘20, when he decided to claim the election was stolen.

    edited to add:

    “Donald Trump said he dismissed the views of his own lawyers in continuing to challenge his 2020 defeat because he did not respect them, saying in an interview aired on Sunday that he had made up his own mind that the election had been ‘rigged’ – a false claim that he continues to make,” Reuters reports.

  84. 84.

    WaterGirl

    @JoyceH:

    And because only Cheseboro and Powell are actually on trial, their lawyers are only going to present a defense to the parts of the case that deal with their clients – so the rest of the case will be out there in public, televised, without a defense being presented.

    Oh, interesting!

  85. 85.

    Bill Arnold

    @cain:
    This is interesting, for those who use VPNs. At lot of these are owned by arguably (or actually) shady holding companies.
    VPN Relationship Map
    Note: the image won’t load in my browser larded up with blockers. (Brave + privacy badger + uBlock Origin worked.)

    Brave (desktop) has a Tor private window mode which at least makes one’s IP address report as a Tor exit node. OK for some casual light sort-of-anonymity but should not be trusted.

    When I care about anonymity, I use a dedicated browser using Tor (including DNS) (Tor Browser is best) over a VPN. (Maybe plus another proxy; not saying.)

  87. 87.

    Miss Bianca

    @Geminid: Boebert has a personal following. Just trust me on this one. Now mind, I don’t know how much of it is going to peel off after this stunt. I still can’t get any confirmation on whether or not she actually showed up to that coffee shop gig she was expected at in my hometown the other day – I’ve heard at least one rumor that it was cancelled. We’ll see!

  89. 89.

    Tehanu

    On James Fallows’ X-Twitter feed, a comment:

    Art Martin: “Turns out that Lauren Boebert thought she was elected to the sexual Congress.”

  90. 90.

    prostratedragon

    I know the blog has discussed Leonard Leo’s court fixing, but this nasty detail needs highlighting. Hat tip to
    Sherrilyn Ifill; original article here:

    As APR reported on July 27, Alabama lawmakers working in conjunction with state Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office and Washington D.C. lawyers had “intelligence” that Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh — who voted with the majority in Milligan just weeks ago to order the new maps under the statutory language — is open to rehearing the case as a constitutional challenge to the validity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

  92. 92.

    Jackie

    Sounds like a veiled threat to me! Michael Cohen would say so, l’m guessing…

    “Donald Trump said he hoped Mark Meadows — his final White House chief of staff and a co-defendant in a sweeping racketeering indictment in Georgia stemming from efforts to thwart the 2020 election — was still ‘loyal’ to him,” the New York Times reports.

    “Mr. Trump made his comment during a lengthy interview with Kristen Welker, the new moderator of NBC’s ‘Meet The Press,’ broadcast on Sunday morning. Mr. Trump has been warned by the federal judge in a case also stemming from his efforts to stay in office, brought against him by the special counsel Jack Smith, to avoid saying anything that might affect the testimony of witnesses. His comment about Mr. Meadows could attract new interest.”

  94. 94.

    Geminid

    @Miss Bianca: I can see why there would be more challengers this time. Senator Coram did not come close in last year’s primary, but that was when Boebert was expected to win easily in November. I’ve observed that a lot of Republicans want to win elections, and I expect 3rd CD Republicans are no different.

  95. 95.

    jackmac

    Liberal Redneck is a national treasure.

    “I’m of the Whiskey Tango persuasion and as such I know a trash monster when I see one.”

    Priceless.

  97. 97.

    bbleh

    @StringOnAStick: also generous mouth, sense of humor, obvious intelligence, unforced low-key masculine affect …

    OTOH can’t tell what kind of car he drives, and that of course is pretty much the whole ball-game.

  99. 99.

    Jackie

    Probably dead thread, but there’s not another open thread this will fit:

    Hey, CBS: You just ran a headline about how your new poll showed voters are “concerned” about President Biden’s age, but you failed to mention to readers is, in that SAME poll, a record *65%* of young voters said they will vote for Biden in 2024—more than any other age group.

    https://twitter.com/Victorshi2020/status/1703448447628542136

    The yoots are alright 👍🏻

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