Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

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

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

The revolution will be supervised.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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

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

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Motown is Joe-Town!

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

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MLK Day Monday Evening Open Thread: What Are the ‘Democratic’ Candidates Up To?

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(TBF, RFK Jr claims his father & uncle didn’t really want the FBI to do those terrible things, they were just setting things up to give them an excuse to break the agency during a second term… )

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    In the interests of completion, shouldn’t we also learn what Marianne Williamson is up to today?

    Just kidding. Even by Democratic vanity candidate standards, nobody cares.

  2. 2.

    Manyakitty

    Ugh. More failsons. The sheer volume of people with more money than sense says everything about our tax code.

  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    Shouldn’t Dean Philips be in Iowa railing against The Democratic Establishment and their suppression of Iowans’ God-given right to have personal conversations with each and every Presidential candidate?  Or is it too cold there for him? Or maybe he just doesn’t like deep-fried corn.

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    @Baud: Judging by the caliber of the other people in the conversation, I’m going to go with “villain in the Friday the 13th movies”.

  10. 10.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @dmsilev: Sad, really. If Marianne Williamson had come to my attention as anything other than a Presidential candidate, I might have been interested in what she had to say.

  15. 15.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Percysowner: Biden’s at the center, you wingnut maniac (Manchin). I’ll miss your vote but I won’t miss your corruption or phony posturing.

  18. 18.

    smith

    @Percysowner: How is it that Manchin hasn’t yet woken up to the fact that he’s a lame duck? And that his nonexistent national popularity means that a No Labels campaign, especially at this late date, is no threat to Biden?

  19. 19.

    David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch

    Pentagon issues official statement denying Taylor Swift is part of the deep state.

    “As for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off,” [Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singhshe] said, a tongue-in-cheek reference to one of the pop star’s hits.

    “But that does highlight that we still need Congress to approve our supplemental budget request as Swift-ly as possible so we can be out of the woods with potential fiscal concerns,” she continued, adding more references to Swift hits.

    Atomic Blonde

  23. 23.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @LiminalOwl: I love listening about matters of spirituality. I learn and adapt good ideas to my own spiritual thinking.

    I’m not familiar with her commercial product, but what you describe sounds too mundane, like prosperity gospel for agnostics.

    If that’s the case, I was wrong. Her best face is the face that’s running for President. Poor lost soul.

  24. 24.

    bbleh

    @Percysowner: @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: @dmsilev: @smith: as a Manchin constituent 🙄 I’m with dmsilev: it’s just a brand-maintenance reflex by someone, ah, not as skilled as others at such things.  I’m glad to see the media aren’t bothering with it, although of course his timing probably couldn’t be worse.

    Speaking of which, the MSM websites look like a puppy on meth chasing its own tail.  OMGIOWA CAUCUSES OMGOMGCOLD AND SNOW TRUMPOMG would you PLEEEEASE click on at least ONE of our frantically hyperventilating and constantly updated articles PLEEEEEEASE?!?

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    BethanyAnne

    One of my friends got deeply into Marianne Williamson and “A Course in Miracles” in the 90s. It was insufferable nonsense. We drifted apart. I couldn’t deal with the silliness of “if you believe it, it will happen.” I watched him believe it. I watched it not happen. She’s always been selling a con.

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    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @mrmoshpotato: As I said a little further down, I’m not familiar with our typical commercial output.

    I practice spirituality for its benefits to my emotional stability. If you’re promising material benefit from spiritual practice, you’re a grifter and/or cuckoo crazypants.

    I said I might have considered what she had to say. Given what I’ve gleaned from this thread, it seems I wouldn’t have found much of it very edifying.

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    @bbleh: Yeah, it breaks the margins on phones.  So I only know about it if someone tells me.

    Steep often texts me about margin breaks so I can fix the right away.  But only if he’s reading the thread, of course!

  43. 43.

    Lyrebird

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Fwiw the main Williamson bit I have appreciated is what got circulated falsely (not by her) as a quote from Nelson Mandela:

    Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

     

    I’ve never been interested in the rest, but someone forwarded me that & I appreciated it.

  50. 50.

    Jinchi

    RFK Jr claims his father & uncle didn’t really want the FBI to do those terrible things, they were just setting things up to give them an excuse to break the agency during a second term…

    Considering RFK Jr. was 9 when his uncle’s presidency ended, I’m not sure he exactly had inside information the MLK/FBI controversy. But if he’s arguing that his Dad and Uncle were setting the whole thing up as a gotcha to take down the FBI, that sounds worse to me.

    Sort of like Trump using Betsy Devos to “prove” public education is a failure and Louis Dejoy to show that the Post Office is incapable of delivering the mail.

  51. 51.

    Dmbeaster

    There is probably one correct idea here.  RFK and JFK were fearful about Hoover blackmail, so let him do what he wanted re MLK.

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