Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

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

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

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

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

A consequence of cucumbers

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

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Maybe a little levity is in order after a very long day?

Jared Moskowitz is very good at this.

This made me laugh.

This made me cheer.

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  2. 2.

    Alison Rose

    Nice round-up, WG!

    Copying myself from a couple flights downstairs:

    Oh, good Lord:

    Nikki Haley was outvoted in Nevada’s Republican presidential primary by a “None of These Candidates” option on the ballot on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, an embarrassment in a contest in which she faced no direct competition.

    The primary, which awards no delegates, had seemed like a foregone conclusion, as former President Donald J. Trump chose not to take part. On Thursday, he will instead participate in party-run caucuses where all of the state’s 26 delegates will be awarded, a choice by Nevada Republicans that complicated the process and rendered the primary basically irrelevant.

    Ms. Haley skipped campaigning in Nevada entirely, choosing instead to spend her time in South Carolina, her home state and where the next primary will take place, after Mr. Trump easily won the first two nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. Ms. Haley is expected to hold a rally in California, a Super Tuesday state, on Wednesday.

    Supporters of Mr. Trump in Nevada, including Gov. Joe Lombardo, had advocated selecting “None of These Candidates” on the primary ballot as a protest vote against Ms. Haley. Republicans can then vote for Mr. Trump in the caucuses two days later, where he is essentially running unopposed after Ms. Haley, his last major rival standing, chose not to compete.

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    Niki Haley just lost, by a 2:1 margin, the Nevada primary, losing to ‘none of the above’.

    (The state GOP is holding both a primary and a caucus, with only the latter awarding delegates, and you have to run in one or the other)

  4. 4.

    karen marie

    I don’t have cable, so don’t see “normie” news. Are they saying anything about what the GOP is doing?

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    @Alison Rose: Joe Biden, by contrast, is winning something like 90% of the D vote. Apparently Dean Philips didn’t bother or wasn’t able to qualify for the ballot, so again he can’t even beat Marianne Williamson.

  7. 7.

    Chetan Murthy

    @dmsilev: I fail to understand why they would have both a primary and a caucus, when only the latter awards delegates.  What’s the primary for?  Uh …. bragging rights?  bribery oppties?  I don’t get it.  Ah, well.

  8. 8.

    karen marie

    @dmsilev: I don’t understand why, if candidates can only pick one, voters can participate in both. And why would Haley choose the one that does not apportion delegates?

    Weird.

  10. 10.

    TaMara

    @Yutsano: I’m kinda loving that plaids are in these days for men.

    We have a news anchor that goes to thrift stores and finds the most outrageous ones to wear. A little levity. How are you feeling?

  11. 11.

    dmsilev

    From what I remember reading, the primary is held by default, run by the state and has a bunch of other races on the ballot. You know, normal. But, for some reason which I don’t care enough about to go look up, Trump got a bug in his ass about it and got his lackeys to add a requirement that any participant in the primary was ineligible to take part in the caucus. So, the primary became a beauty contest, and Haley entered it in hopes of being able to claim a moral victory of sorts.

    Which didn’t work out for her.

  12. 12.

    TaMara

    So much winning today…I don’t know how the GOP stands it. Bye-bye Ronna

    I know there are still a lot of hurdles (I’m looking at you Supremes) but I’m going to enjoy today

    And I honestly can’t wait to see how much mud the Corrupt Supremes will have to roll in to keep demented don on the ballot in Colorado. Because there is no way they’d rule otherwise – cowards

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    I’m also having fun with Valdiva picking on Dean Phillips on The Artist Formerly Known as Twitter.

  19. 19.

    dmsilev

    Ok, did a bit of reading; this Post article on tonight’s results summarizes how we got the weird setup. NV used to be a caucus state, but a few years ago the Dems pushed through a state law changing it to primaries. The GOP said ‘you’re not the boss of me’ and stuck with their caucuses, including a rule that candidates who entered the primary were barred from the caucuses. However, Haley and the other candidates balked at entering the caucuses because there was a hefty fee paid to the state Party which (surprise!) is deep in cahoots with Trump. So, rather than effectively funnel money straight towards Trump, they chose the beauty contest instead.

  21. 21.

    Alice

    @dmsilev: No, today’s primary was only for president, no other offices. The Republicans are having both a primary and a caucus because 1) the move to a primary was enacted by the Democratic-run legislature and they hates that, they really really hates that, 2) they want voting to be as difficult as possible so the wrong sort of people (California transplants) have no say, and 3) they are all bug-eyed nuts.

  22. 22.

    Jackie

    Posted earlier, but again, seeing Jamie Raskin on TV tonight… seeing his familiar frazzled hairstyle once again, made my ♥️ so happy!

  23. 23.

    Shalimar

    Fingers crossed the Supreme Court gets the traitor thing right on Thursday.  No guarantee they have the guts to rule against him.

  24. 24.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    after Mr. Trump easily won the first two nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

    Barely getting 50% in a primary for an incumbent is now considered “easily” winning if you are a repug.

  27. 27.

    Jackie

    @Chetan Murthy:

    chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, Michael Whatley, as her replacement, according to several people familiar with the discussions,”

    Left out: ELECTION DENIER 

  28. 28.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Jackie: I left it out of the quote (b/c didn’t think it was relevant) but it’s in the article.  And ….. would TFG choose somebody who wasn’t an election denier?  *grin

  30. 30.

    Chetan Murthy

    @sukabi: if Lindell got the job I gotta believe he’d be imagining how much of that money he could stuff in his pillows up his nose.

  31. 31.

    Chris T.

    @Gretchen: Correct, state law requires a primary. Republicans, being such champions of Lawn Order, are … disobeying this law.

    In any case, a Party always gets to set its own rules for how it does its nominations and runs its primaries, so with T***p as de facto Party Head, and his obsession with rigging things, they rigged things so that the loser would automatically win. A normal Party sets its rules within the state’s laws, but, well.

  32. 32.

    RaflW

    I hope the Senate passing this conservative border deal at least works as a petard for the GOP House.

    Because a bunch of Dem senators are going to get blowback from angry Dreamers even though the bill has (reportedly) no chance to become law.

    I don’t like that Biden gave up so much in terms of Democratic immigration priorities to try to a) get Ukraine money and b) get an immigration bill passed (before everyone knew the House clown caucus was totally gonna sabotage it).

    Politics is hard and sucky. I still respect Joe,.plan to vote for him, and know the Republicans are the real problem. But the Senate bill is too harsh, and isn’t good precedent for passing something useful next term (if we can).

  33. 33.

    Tony Jay

    How long before Stinky Pants’ campaign vultures stumble upon the sales message that Trump Mark#2 would be a lot milder and less offensive than 2016-20 because now he’s completed his hostile takeover of the GOP and no longer has to tailor his policies bid offer to keep the Party elite shareholders happy?

    The News Media would eat that up like dim-sum with chilli sauce.

  34. 34.

    Gvg

    @RaflW: I think it may have been obvious this was going to fall through, but even if it wasn’t, leaving something out is not the same as never getting it later or in a separate law. Right now we can’t help the dreamers because of republicans in Congress. They are already illegal. It doesn’t change things for them. The problem is voters. Too many are becoming even more illogical and mean about immigration.

    We have got to get Trump gone and shut up  all according to the law.

    I worry that climate change disruptions are going to increase anti foreigner sentiment even among Democrats for the next decade at least. People have to relearn history the hard way sometimes. Anyway I have heard milder anti immigration opinions from lifelong democrats, so I worry. Biden was not the negotiator on this, democrats in Congress were. They do have a better close up view of what’s going on with Republicans than we do.

  35. 35.

    EarthWindFire

    Jasmine Crockett is my favorite…”you know why no one wants to talk to you behind closed doors ? Cause y’all lie.” She stole my heart with that.

  36. 36.

    Gvg

    @Tony Jay: his cultists wouldn’t. They want revenge that says it’s revenge to your face. They would be bored by a promise to be milder, and stop giving money. The fact that it would be tactically smarter to pretend to be nicer no longer restrains them. They come from a TV plot world, not reality. Morons are running the party.

  37. 37.

    Another Scott

    @RaflW: Don’t the onerous provisions of the border bill only last for 3 years?  I thought I saw that in my quick skim of the text.

    We saw the GQP’s idea of a border bill – HR2.  It’s better for Democrats to have a strong hand on a compromise bill with a Democratic administration and short time periods to cite as progress for November (and make the monsters vote for it or suffer the consequences).  It can be fixed in the next Congress

    Progress is always incremental.

    My $0.02.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  38. 38.

    Uncle Cosmo

    Good a place as any to drop this wellknown bon mot from Voltaire:

    I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.

  39. 39.

    Tony Jay

    @Gvg:

    They’d get off on the conspiratorial glee of knowing he was lying about it.

    Tricking the ‘Liberal Media’. Hot sauce!

  41. 41.

    Torrey

    @Alison Rose: ​
     
    I like the way Lindell caught himself saying “fix” and changed it to “secure: “Then I’d have all the tools I need to fi–secure these elections.”

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