Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

Fight them, without becoming them!

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

This fight is for everything.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

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Biden Live: Reproductive Rights Event Open Thread

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My schedule is all wonky today, so hopefully this will post on schedule if I’m not around to check on it.

 

As we mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Kamala Harris, Jill Biden, Douglas Emhoff, and I are highlighting the stakes of this election and the critical fight ahead against MAGA Republicans’ attacks on reproductive freedom.

 

And I know DeSantis is DeToast, but we can still kick him around for a few more days, right? I thought my Governor had an important take. For those who don’t know, Gov. Polis is a dad, husband, Jewish, and Gay, so he’s pretty savvy when it comes to assholes who try to vilify groups.

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  1. 1.

    TaMara

    It looks like the event has been pushed back by 30 minutes.  I hit publish anyway because I have to take off and did not trust it to post on schedule. Which was lucky this morning because I didn’t realize the video time had already been adjusted for my timezone, and then it would have been 2 hours early.  Hopefully it won’t be pushed back further.

  3. 3.

    jnfr

    Thanks for highlighting this. Abortion is the one issue Republicans won’t be able to evade this year, no matter what. I’m very happy to see Biden-Harris highlighting it.

  4. 4.

    Bill K

    I hate to break it to Gov. Polis, but I don’t think DeSantis’ vilification of gays and trans are what lost him the nomination.

  8. 8.

    Alison Rose

    Really love how vociferous the Biden admin, and most elected Dems in general, have been about abortion rights. The other side wants us to be ashamed of supporting abortion. And we’re saying, shove your shame up your own ass where it belongs.

  9. 9.

    HumboldtBlue

    MSNBC just interviewed a lady in NH who, guys, hear me here, guys… she JUST DOESN’T KNOW WHO SHE WILL VOTE FOR IF IT’S TRUMP V BIDEN. SHE JUST DOESN’T KNOW, GUYS!

    We have the stupidest people on earth.

  11. 11.

    Geminid

    From Middle East Eye Istanbul bureau chief Ragip Soylu:

    BREAKING– Turkish parliament ratifies Sweden’s Nato accession in late night vote.

    This comes after two years of ups and downs.

    I bet that’s a relief for Jeff Flake.

  14. 14.

    dc

    With all due respect to Polis, Republican primary voters support the candidate who does a better and more convincing job of demonizing the people/groups they hate/fear.

  19. 19.

    Jackie

    Someone thinks she’s the MAGA boss:

    Marjorie Taylor Greene: “Not only do we support President Trump, we support his policies, and any Republican that isn’t willing to adapt these policies we are completely eradicating from the party.”

    https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1749843233687896226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1749843233687896226%7Ctwgr%5Eab293a977b4f16495e915494373162785740d9f7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fmarjorie-taylor-greene-trump-2667069031%2F

  20. 20.

    Gretchen

    @Quinerly: I’m reading Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory. He’s an evangelical who traveled the country visiting different churches. He found a lot of splits in churches over politics. It’s a pretty common belief among many of them that God sent Trump and if you reject Trump you’re going against God’s will. Like forcing out pastors who won’t go along with Trump worship.

  21. 21.

    Bobby Thomson

    It’s not that Republicans didn’t agree with what DeSantis was saying.  It’s just that Trump already had that vote sewn up.  Same with Haley.

  23. 23.

    Geminid

    @Baud: I was looking around for Swedish Nato accession news and I ran into a story about Kurds in Sweden. They’re selling Erdogan piñatas.

  24. 24.

    Quinerly

    @Jackie: Trump has now said on a couple of occasions that he has decided on his VP pick and his pick should not come as a surprise. I am truly beginning to think the pick might be MTG.

    Call me crazy…..actually, call THEM both crazy. In Trump’s mind MTG would help him in GA. For months I had thought Flynn. Then a few days ago I got to thinking Stefanik (he referred to her as a “killer”).

    But now I can see him picking MTG. She is somewhat Palinesque and is more attractive than Stefanik. Plus…..Georgia.

  28. 28.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Pondering some camping options for a late May (week before Memorial Day) trip to the Sierras.  Our big worry is mosquitoes which could be brutal at that time of year (or may not really be out yet, depending on weather).

  29. 29.

    HumboldtBlue

    And he’s been interrupted twice. Not sure by whom, but I am guessing something to do with Gaza.

  33. 33.

    Quinerly

    @zhena gogolia:

    I just think Trump will pick a woman. Stefanik just doesn’t have the right look. She’s dumpy. Plus, Harvard educated and in NY. MTG has more of that mama bear quality and not highly educated. More and more, I see her on the Palin spectrum.

    I don’t like attacking another woman’s looks, but these women are ugly inside and out.

  34. 34.

    Jackie

    @Quinerly: MTG will not get him votes in the swing states.

    You honestly think she’s more attractive than Palin???

    Every time I look at her I think of a Trashy Barbie (TM)

  36. 36.

    Quinerly

    @Jackie: oh…I thought Palin was a very good looking woman. And I will admit I thought Crazy Eyes Bachmann was a beauty.

    MTG is very trashy looking….but I think she’s got the qualities that Trump likes. Plus, she will totally defer to him.

  37. 37.

    scav

    Speaking of God and his endorsements and revealed commands: The Lord told us to’: US pastor says he stole $1m from Christians to remodel home

    In a video statement about the charges, Eli admitted that the couple had squandered $1.3m that was raised through cryptocurrency.
    “The charges are that me and Kaitlyn pocketed $1.3m,” Regalado said in the video published to INDXcoin’s website on Friday. “I just wanted to come out and say those charges are true.”
    Regalado added: “A few hundred thousand dollars went to a home remodel the Lord told us to do.
    “We took God at his word and sold a cryptocurrency with no clear exit.”
    Regalado added that the couple still believes that God will “work a miracle in the financial sector”.

  39. 39.

    JPL

    @Quinerly: There is one reason I think you are right, he hired a makeup artist for Sarah Sanders and so far Elise Stefanik appears to be doing her own makeup.

  40. 40.

    jonas

    @HumboldtBlue:We have the stupidest people on earth.

    Yep. To paraphrase Cole, these are literally people who have to think it over a bit if offered a plate of Italian food vs. a pile of tire rims laced with anthrax.

  42. 42.

    jonas

    @Quinerly: Ironically, Trump did carry a number of (quite rural, rightwing) upstate districts, like Stefanik’s, but got absolutely shellacked in NYC itself. Where he’s, you know, actually from.

  43. 43.

    JPL

    Although Biden’s event was excellent, I fear that the news will dwell on the protesters.    ug

    saw this on Mastodon

    About a dozen interruptions by different protesters to Biden’s speech so far. I think this is a record number at an appearance by this president.

  44. 44.

    jonas

    @scav: Wait, this guy was running some kind of “Christian” crypto fund? I’ve heard of affinity fraud, but is the affinity here religion or mouth-breathing idiocy?

  45. 45.

    Quinerly

    @Gretchen:

    I am not as up to speed on the evolution of Evangelicals during Trump as I probably should be. I know a lot of them think he is “God Given.” I guess I have found that so disgusting that I didn’t think I needed to know much more. I’m pretty much a Happy Heathen/Atheist.

    I’m kinda sorry I have lost contact with Frank Schaeffer. Plus, I haven’t seen him on MSNBC in quite awhile. We have a mutual friend in St. Louis. The mutual friend and he were childhood friends. Somehow they kept in touch for 50- 60 years and when he would be in St. Louis speaking, promoting his books, she would host him at her home. This was back during Bush and Obama. One of the last times I saw him socially and spoke with him at length was when he was promoting his book, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back. This was right after Obama was elected.

    I’m on my phone, so hunting and pecking on tiny keyboard. Can’t do a long post on Frank. I think most are familiar with him and his father (Francis Schaeffer….Moral Majority). Wikipedia is pretty good on them. I think I’ll touch base with our friend, Lydia, and find out if she knows why Frank isn’t out and about weighing in on today’s Evangelicals.

  46. 46.

    Geminid

    @Quinerly: I think Alabama Senator Katie Britt is a potential VP pick. Britt worked as Senator Richard Shelby’s Chief of Staff before she ran for Shelby’s seat, so she evidently knows how to subordinate herself to a powerful man.

  50. 50.

    Quinerly

    @Geminid: possibly.

    I know we can’t believe a thing Trump says….I’m just a little hung up on his saying that his pick won’t be a surprise. I take that as being someone in the public eye. One of his screeching women who is defending him in print and on Fox.

  52. 52.

    evodevo

    @jonas: ​
    Why not both?  Seriously, talibangelicals are set up for a grifter…if you have the lingo down, and all the right phrases and Jesus-talk, they will fall for anything.  Critical thinking is not one of their strong points…its lack is baked into their life choices.

  53. 53.

    Matt McIrvin

    Well, it looks like the vote to build a new building for the regional voc-tech school is going to lose, because the more bougie people in the towns other than ours (where the school is) didn’t want to spend the money. The proposal was really expensive but it’s going to cost about 2/3 as much just to bring the existing place barely up to code, so the whole thing seems penny-wise and pound-foolish. But all the right-wing local papers said to vote no.

  55. 55.

    Paul in KY

    @scav: ‘The Lord told us to steal this money’. They must really have a flock of particularly stupid sheeple if they think that will fly.

  56. 56.

    Paul in KY

    @JPL: Sarah ‘Suckabee’ Sanders needs 2 makeup artists. The extra one for when the other is in therapy.  “The horror…the horror!”

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