Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We won’t go back.

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

President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

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

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

He really is that stupid.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

So many bastards, so little time.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Repubs Prepping for Tonight’s SotU

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I vote the Secret Service have a super-soaker on hand for ‘Just Us’ Alito, assuming he shows up…



Reminder: Last year’s Photo of the Event…

Lots of other Repubs want in on the clown coverage, but it’s a tough gig…

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  3. 3.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Speaking of Republicans being assholes, but I repeat myself, they’re using through the looking glass claims of sex and religious discrimination yet again to attack trans people.

    Voldemort Sues VA Schools Over Pro-Trans Policies

    A right-wing legal group led by Stephen Miller, a former advisor to Donald Trump when he was president, is challenging Fairfax County Public Schools over its policies supporting transgender students.

    America First Legal filed a complaint against the Fairfax County School Board on Monday (March 4) arguing that the school system is discriminating on the basis of sex and religion by letting students use the names, pronouns and bathrooms that match their gender identity.

    Texas Students Petition SCOTUS To Allow Drag Show

    An LGBTQ student group asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday for emergency intervention so it can conduct an annual charity drag show against the wishes of the university’s Christian president. Two lower courts denied Spectrum WT’s request to block West Texas A&M University’s ban on the performance. The group urged the justices to act where the lower courts had not, arguing the court had a responsibility to uphold free speech.

    Spectrum WT said the show would be anything but risqué, avoiding profane music and other “lewd” conduct. Minors were allowed to attend only if accompanied by a parent. The university’s president Walter Wendler banned the event, claiming it discriminated against women. Wendler said the university would not host the event because drag shows stereotype women in a derisive, divisive and demoralizing manner.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    Rep. Lauren Boebert told me: “I don’t even promise my pastor I’m going to hold back in church.

    Who does she give handjobs to at church?

    And MTG says: “Decorum broke a long time ago.”

    We’ve noticed, Marge.  We’ve noticed.

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    @SpaceUnit:

    Yeah, it’s gonna be a shitshow. 

    Enjoy!  What’s the over/under on how long the official livestream will start before Biden’s speech actually starts?

  11. 11.

    Scout211

    I was wondering why Pastor Speaker Johnson announced to all the media that he pleaded with his caucus to maintain decorum.

    Did he think that saying it publicly would have an effect on them?

    Did he think that he wouldn’t be blamed for their bad behavior?

    Is he an idiot?

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Scout211:

    I was wondering why Pastor Speaker Johnson announced to all the media that he pleaded with his caucus to maintain decorum.

    Did he think that saying it publicly would have an effect on them?

    Did he think that he wouldn’t be blamed for their bad behavior?

    Is he an idiot?

    Yes, yes, and definitely YES!

  19. 19.

    Scout211

    @mrmoshpotato: You are correct.  Alito didn’t shout, but did openly object to Obama words. NBC News 2010

    Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito didn’t like hearing President Barack Obama publicly criticize the high court’s ruling removing corporate campaign spending limits — and he didn’t try to hide it.

    Alito made a dismissive face, shook his head repeatedly and appeared to mouth the words “not true” or possibly “simply not true” when Obama assailed the decision Wednesday night in his State of the Union address.

  22. 22.

    Freemark

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: That was Rep Joe Wilson. Alito mouthed the words ‘not true’ to something else dealing with Citizens United.

    Never mind. I see I was well beaten to it.

  23. 23.

    West of the Rockies

    Boebert and Greene look like such braying jackass mean girls.  They remind me of every miserable, vain high school female social bully ever.

  25. 25.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    Lauren Boebert told me: “I don’t even promise my pastor I’m going to hold back in church.

    She jerks people off everwhere

  26. 26.

    zhena gogolia

    @mrmoshpotato: No, he didn’t yell “You lie.” He shook his head and mouthed, “Not true,” or some shit like that.

    ETA: Sorry, never try to beat the clock around here.

  27. 27.

    hrprogressive

    This entire speech could be distilled to be about 10 minutes.

    On the positive:
    In 4 years, have fought back the pandemic to make it less disastrous and allow most people to live more normal lives, saved the economy from a disastrous recession, have stood next to Ukraine against Putin’s genocidal ambitions, forgiven billions in student loan debt, passed massive infrastructure improvements, and so forth. We can and will restore your reproductive rights, strengthen voting rights, labor rights, and look to stop Putin in Ukraine for good, but only if you reelect me and give me a full Democratic House and Senate.

    On the negative:
    If you vote for the Republican Party, you’re voting for the end of the American Experiment, the end of your rights, the persecution and subjugation of your friends and family, and the start of American Fascism. It’s pure and simple. If you vote for them, you lose everything. If you vote for me, I promise I will do everything I can to protect all of it, for Freedom must prevail over Fascism in 2024, just like it did in 1945.

    That’s it.

    That’s the entire speech.

  28. 28.

    Gvg

    @Scout211: is he getting sick of trying to heard malicious clowns? What happens if he quits and walks out singing what a wonderful feeling?
    The job is not what he probably hoped.

     

    off topic I finally caught Covid and aside from how I feel, I can’t go on a whole family trip with my parents and sister such as we haven’t done since she and I were kids…after I was isolated from them for Christmas because they ALL caught Covid but I didn’t.

  34. 34.

    bbleh

    I will watch to see how Joe “He Who Knows Far More About Politics Than You Do” handles the kids.  He knows what’s coming after last year and after what’s happened since then, and he’s already shown he can handle it.  Seems to me that it’s more a question of degree and interpretation: stalemate? beat-back? slam-dunk? And how do the media fit it into the narrative they surely already have written?

    It really is like opera or kabuki: we know the story; we’re just here to see how they stylize it.

  35. 35.

    japa21

    I’m anxiously awaiting all the after speech analysis by our betters in the media. I’m pretty sure they have already been written and describe how the SOTU was bad for Biden.

  37. 37.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @West of the Rockies:

    When this photo first surfaced last year, someone quickly created a meme showing it next to a pair of poo-flinging howler monkeys. And honestly, if it hadn’t been for Our Little Margie’s tight red dres, it was difficult to tell the difference.

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Delk: On my way to check it out.

    ETA: Rivals Night of the Hunter for my favorite of the new stuff.  Depends on the mood, I guess.

  41. 41.

    karen marie

    @SpaceUnit: I’m watching the CSPAN livestream on youtube. No extraneous chatter, only what’s necessary to point out different parties entering the House chamber and to explain the program. I recommend it.

  42. 42.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @hrprogressive:

    After such a long time, nearly everybody thinks Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” during one of Obama’s SOTU addresses, but in fact it was a special address to a joint session of Congress on health care, during the run up to passage of the ACA. My memory says September or October 2009, but I guess it could have been early 2010.

    Not that the precise date matters a particle after all this time.

  44. 44.

    Jackie

    @Baud: I expect Biden to say something along the lines of “all hands up where I can see them!” before starting his speech, while looking pointedly at Boebert.

  46. 46.

    Jackie

    Guess who’s attending the SOTU tonight!

    “Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) will make a surprise appearance at the Capitol Thursday for President Biden’s State of the Union address, roughly three months after he was expelled from the House in a historic, bipartisan vote,” The Hill reports.

    “Despite being expelled in December, Santos retains privileges to access the House floor. It is unclear if he will sit on the floor or in the public gallery.”

    Maybe he’ll sit next to Boebert 😉

  50. 50.

    Jeffro

    @Gvg: I’m sorry – that is a bummer.  Here’s hoping it is mild and passes quickly!

    I can relate a bit: Mrs. Fro caught Covid during our family’s new year’s trip, and now as we’re about to head home from a ski trip, I surely have a respiratory thing going on.  We are talking (as a family) about the need for us to get back to Covid-era vigilance when traveling…hand sanitizer, even fewer meals out, etc etc.

    Everybody stay safe out there. ❤️

  52. 52.

    hrprogressive

    @SiubhanDuinne: ​
     

    Damn, I remember watching that live, so I just assumed my memory was correct.

    It was unfortunately somewhere between 12-14 years ago sooooo.

  53. 53.

    Jeffro

    @Jackie: I really, really don’t like him being there.  A known lunatic with nothing to lose by acting out?  Not good.

  57. 57.

    Martin

    I think all meetings should work like the SoTU. They call the meeting to order, and then I get to leave my house to attend. Let them all sit with their thoughts waiting for me to arrive.

  59. 59.

    Jackie

    Holy crap! I just got a “missed call” from Russia – or that’s what my phone tells me. No VM, so I can’t verify the accent🤷🏼‍♀️

  61. 61.

    Leto

    Apparently Alito hasn’t been back to any SOTU address since he was caught being a shitheel on camera (mouthing “not true”).

    Edit: also doesn’t look like Parking Lot Clarence is there. Maybe he and Ginni are out cruising the parking lots.

  64. 64.

    Jackie

    @Jeffro: He won’t be there to troll Biden; more likely to make his former GQP buddies who ousted him uncomfortable.

  65. 65.

    Omnes Omnibus

    You know who looks old and decrepit as fuck?  Lindsey Graham, that’s who.

  66. 66.

    bbleh

    Lol on C-Span, Manchin & Romney (the has-been caucus) and Graham & Collins (the sellout caucus).

    My how things do reveal themselves …

  71. 71.

    CaseyL

    @HumboldtBlue: I want to know the story behind that video.  I can see training cats to do some of it – but those multi-foot multi-ball passes are something else!

    Currently have CPAN on in another tab.

  76. 76.

    marklar

    I’d love for Joe to work in acknowledgement of  Jill by naming her, and then state that he’d never get her name wrong.  That would truly trigger TFG.

  81. 81.

    WaterGirl

    Hey everybody, I am about to draw the winning tickets for the raffle.

    Can 10 different people who didn’t buy raffle tickets give me a unique number between 500 and 680, inclusive?

  98. 98.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Rep. Lauren Boebert told me: “I don’t even promise my pastor I’m going to hold back in church.

    Perhaps one of the few women who the word “slut” fits.

  107. 107.

    hrprogressive

    Okay, Joe leading with 1941 and Hitler on the march is not the route I thought he would take.

  109. 109.

    WaterGirl

    Thanks everybody.   We have winners!

    Winner of the quilt:  Andrew (winning number from baud)

    2nd prize:  Kathy  (winning numbers supplied by baud & Josie) you both picked numbers held by the same person

    3rd prize: Emily B  (winning number from TS)

    4th prize: embryos  (winning number from CaseyL)

  110. 110.

    Leto

    Swedish minister not in his nations traditional chef’s hat, smock, and wooden spoon is very disappointing.

  117. 117.

    Steve in the ATL

    @SiubhanDuinne: was referring to the cartoon where a dog using a computer says “on the internet, no one knows you’re a dog!”

    But thanks for undoing years of therapy by reminding me of the time you peed on my shoes and, what really gave me PTSD, the fact that I was in Chili’s….

  118. 118.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Katie Britt’s been on for <30 seconds, and I’m already getting deep Stepford Handmaid vibes.

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