Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Come on, man.

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

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

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

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

“woke” is the new caravan.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

We won’t go back.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

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

When the time comes to make an endorsement, the pain of NYT editors will be palpable as they reluctantly whisper “Biden.”

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Not only did Biden crush the State of the Union speech last night, but I’m sure it crushed the pathetic souls on the right, or at least whatever they have left of what was once a soul.

But my real crush is on Jared Moskowitz.  If he is not the one behind all of his fun posts, I don’t want to know.

This short clip made my afternoon.  Which is good, because just moments before seeing this I had come to the realization that there won’t be any big news from the Jack Smith court cases for a very long time, at least nothing of the good variety, which was not a happy thought.

I may just watch this again.

Totally open thread.

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  3. 3.

    zhena gogolia

    @Baud: Me either! TV always used to go dark when it appeared. (I only watch things on my laptop now, so I don’t have this problem.)

  4. 4.

    Kofuu

    Maybe they should be the ones who are doing State of the Union responses for years to come?

  5. 5.

    dmsilev

    I dunno, watching an endless series of “rising stars” self-sacrifice to the volcano gods is kind of amusing.

  7. 7.

    Will

    The Sydney tweet of Biden’s MTG face was a banger. Guess someone told him he was being too funny.

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    I just got a flyer in the mail – so and so for County Coroner.  Female.  Democrat.

    And oh my god, the image on the 4-color flyer was a appalling.  The image was circular, and it was the female candidate for coroner, leaning her head on the big chest of her much bigger husband.  Like a nice little lady.  I don’t know who she is or if she would make a good coroner, but that just screamed “little lady with her big protective husband” to me, not CORONER.

    Do these people not have any sense?  I sure as hell hope that’s not the best we can do.

  10. 10.

    glc

    I just caught a glimpse of a post about Boeing, but it seems to have crashed.

    In other news, while Trump has posted one bond, he has not yet posted … the James bond.

  11. 11.

    dmsilev

    Also, Alexandra Petri gave her response speech as well:

    Fellow MOMS, if you are like me, you lie awake at 2 a.m., wondering how you can BE in three places at once: this KITCHEN, the Senate and the opening monologue of a Purge movie. But you see, we CAN do it, by WHISPERING slowly with an intensity usually reserved for WASP moms trying to prevent their daughters from making a SCENE in the J. Crew fitting rooms. (We’re not LEAVING yet PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER.) I am delivering these remarks in a WAY that makes you think this isn’t ACTUALLY my kitchen and I’m not SUPPOSED to BE here, but no one has dared REMOVE me because I am SPEAKING in a TONE that makes the PROSPECT of interrupting me TOO FRIGHTENING!

    I REPRESENT the state of ALABAMA in the SENATE, and you might have heard some SCARY things about in vitro fertilization, but I’m PROUD to tell you with a TWINKLE in my EYE that it is STILL LEGAL despite the BEST EFFORTS of my colleagues to TAKE IT FROM YOU. SOON, it will be the ONLY thing we MOMS can do with our BODIES that IS definitely LEGAL! Here is a SMILE! I am in a KITCHEN. “WE want to help LOVING MOMS AND DADS bring PRECIOUS LIFE into this world.” I have not stopped SMILING. This isn’t CHILLING! It’s FOLKSY! I am bringing WARMTH and also VERGE OF TEARS energy.

  12. 12.

    HumboldtBlue

    In other hilarious and good news, I posted this downstairs.

    Trump is getting to ready to steal every fucking dollar donated to the RNC, and it couldn’t happen to a shittier group of people,

    Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law, thanks him for putting her in charge of the Republican Party: I want to say thank you to Donald J. Trump. He called me about this position

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    @Will:

    The Sydney tweet of Biden’s MTG face was a banger. Guess someone told him he was being too funny.

    I know what all those words are, but I am totally lost.

  15. 15.

    karen marie

    Lawfare has been doing a bang up job discussing the intricacies of the Trump trials. They discuss what’s happened with little to no speculation about outcomes but, instead, explain the process. A shame the news media has no time for this kind of information within a 24/7 news cycle.

    After seeing all the laughter about Britt’s rebuttal, I watched it. Whoever gave it a green light is on crack.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    @dmsilev:  We have the best people.

    JOE BIDEN is DITHERING and DIMINISHED! I am striking a CLEAR contrast by delivering my RESPONSE at a speed at which I cannot speak NORMALLY but must ENUNCIATE each WORD with the intensity of someone reading a PRAGER U text aloud at an OPEN CALL AUDITION. Usually WORDS delivered in this TONE are delivered at a VOLUME that makes them impossible to HEAR, and you have to GUESS them from the expression on the SLOWLY FALLING face of the customer service EMPLOYEE at whom they are DIRECTED!

    NO you CANNOT access the fridge right now SWEETIE! I am GRAPHICALLY RECOUNTING A HORRIFIC ACCOUNT OF SEXUAL ASSAULT in a HUSHED WHISPER to spread FEAR about IMMIGRATION, which will hopefully prove that I am more REAGANESQUE yet also more MATERNAL than JOE BIDEN, a set of COMBINED characteristics I GUESS some FOCUS GROUP was looking FOR. Y’ALL!

  18. 18.

    currawong

    Just been and bought the bread and a croissant from Ket Baker.

    It’s a beautiful clear morning here but it’s going to be a stinker this afternoon, 41 degrees (centrigrade! 105 F)

  19. 19.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @HumboldtBlue:

    I hate money in politics circa 2024.  Having said that, having grown up with Reps always pulling in gobs more money than Dems, it’s hysterical to see that’s now the opposite.

    And that any money the GQP does pull in, it’ll go to the grifter.

    The billionaires unleashed the stooopid, can’t control it, and now have to pay for it figuratively and literally.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @Doc Sardonic: It just worked for me.  But unless you want to watch her say the words in a video clip, which I do not, there’s nothing else that’s really there, so you aren’t missing anything.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    So I guess the judge is allowing E. Jean Carroll to oppose the bond, and she has until Monday to do it.  If he’s got the bond, what is there to oppose?

    Does anyone know?

  24. 24.

    SuzieC

    Katie Britt’s “steeped in blood” imagery–is that a fundie thing?  I don’t speak fundie.

  25. 25.

    Doc Sardonic

    Could possibly be my browser, now that I think about it, I have it locked down fairly tight. However, other shitter links that are not in quotation boxes have been working.

     

    ETA: Yep, it’s my browser, no links are working now

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    @Will: Okay, now I know who Sydney is, at least!  thank you

    I think that tweet from Jared M. was in bad taste, so I’m not surprised he took it down.

  29. 29.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @glc: I just caught a glimpse of a post about Boeing, but it seems to have crashed.

    The post or the plane? Needed to ask.

  30. 30.

    Scout211

    @WaterGirl: Did you post the filing from Jack Smith in the documents case from yesterday? I missed that post if you did.  Another hearing next week, I guess.

    What makes the Florida immunity claim even more outlandish is that Trump is charged there with conduct that allegedly happened after he left office, as opposed to the election interference case that stems from things he allegedly did when he was actually president. Smith points out in his Thursday filing that the Florida indictment “does not charge Trump for any acts that he undertook as President, let alone an official presidential act.” Rather, the special counsel explains that the Florida indictment alleges

    that even though Trump lost the authority to possess documents containing national defense information after his term as President ended, he nonetheless willfully retained such documents after his Presidency, including by conspiring with others to conceal his ongoing, unlawful possession from his own attorneys, federal investigators, and the grand jury.

    Mindful that another pretrial immunity appeal could further delay the Florida case as it has the Washington case, Smith urged U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to “deny the dismissal motion and certify Trump’s immunity claim as frivolous so that he cannot use this meritless argument — disconnected from the actual charges — as the basis for an interlocutory appeal aimed at delaying trial.”

  32. 32.

    trnc

    @Kofuu: Maybe they should be the ones who are doing State of the Union responses for years to come?

    Yeah, it does look like a bit of a self own, which is unusual for him.

  34. 34.

    Doc Sardonic

    @WaterGirl: Yes, 90% of the time I can see anything that front pagers embed, it may be that the instance of twitter that Humboldt Blue linked is on one of the programs I use blocklist

  37. 37.

    Princess

    When the opposing side is the one promoting clips of your SOTU rebuttal, you know it didn’t land the way you’d hope.

    Trump’s TS feed loved it though and so did Steven Miller, which I guess tells us who is writing Trump’s TS posts.

    They’ll talk a lot about a woman VP but in the end I don’t think they’ll go for it. An MTG type is too likely to upstage Trump and they don’t respect a Britt type any more than we do.

  38. 38.

    Sure Lurkalot

    So, the Republicans are going with American Carnage redux, per the directive from the Orange Man on high. Hope he bankrupts that bankrupt party beyond repair.

  39. 39.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Sure Lurkalot: American carnage was a threat, not a warning. These are the intellectual (pfft) inheritors of the Confederacy and they are willing to have their children murder us.

    What? You thought they’d do it themselves?

  40. 40.

    randy khan

    I suspect the Moskowitz post with the puppies is all I need to see of the rebuttal.  I have heard it compared to a performance by a losing semifinalist in a high school speech contest, but having actually judged a number of high school speech contests I can say that the semifinalists all would.HAVE.delivered. the.SPEECH.much.BETTER.

  43. 43.

    SiubhanDuinne

    He is speaking right now in Wallingford, PA, and getting a rapturous reception! And unlike last night, he’s calling out TIFG and MTG by name.

    NMFTG Brandon. I’m loving him.

  46. 46.

    Miss Bianca

    Finally got around to sitting down and watching the SOTU address and all I got to say is this:

    God DAMN. That was one hell of a speech.

    Bring it, Joe!

  48. 48.

    Jackie

    WaterGirl, when I heard Britt speaking with tears in her voice all wispy…

    Remember Tiffany Smiley, the MAGA candidate trying to win Patty Murray’s seat in WA? “My husband… sob sob”

    I got the same creepy cringy shivers down my spine 🤮

  50. 50.

    Miss Bianca

    @Jackie: I only heard a few minutes of Britt speaking, but I couldn’t help thinking it was like a hilariously horrifying lumpy blend of Tammy Faye Bakker and Joey Heatherton.

  52. 52.

    Roberto el oso

    I just hope her kids didn’t have too rough of a time at school today ….. “your mom’s really weird ….”

    Poor Benway and Ridgenet.

  53. 53.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Miss Bianca:

    God DAMN. That was one hell of a speech.

    Wasn’t it ever?! TIFG’s gonna have to retire the “Sleepy Joe” epithet.

    Of course now the RWNM are all critical of Joe’s high energy and calling him “manic” and “over-caffeinated.” Can’t win for losin’ with some folks.

  54. 54.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jackie:

    when I heard Britt speaking with tears in her voice all wispy… 

    This description almost makes me want to listen to a few seconds of that ridiculousness.

  55. 55.

    Scout211

    Okay, I admit I laughed about this,  but on the top of the HuffPost front page is a story about No Labels voting to promote a candidate for president.

    TURD PARTY:  “CENTRIST” GROUP TO FIELD ‘24 RACE PREZ SPOILER

    And the graphic accompanying the article is a giant 💩

    But seriously? Is Nancy running out of money? WTF are they doing besides grifting?  Don’t answer that.  🙄💩

  61. 61.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Roberto el oso:

    I just hope her kids didn’t have too rough of a time at school today ….. “your mom’s really weird ….”

    Poor Benway and Ridgenet.

    Your mom ok? She sounded like she was gonna burst into tears last night? Oh, wait, that was just a bullshit performance.

  67. 67.

    Baud

    Via a reddit commenter

    MTG = Empty – G

    I’m upset I didn’t think of that a long time ago.

  69. 69.

    Jackie

    Good, good!

    Following the State of the Union Address, Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY) sent a blistering letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), faulting his failure to hold Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to account for her violation of House rules in the chamber the previous night.

    snip

    “As you know, official resources of the House — including the House Chamber — may not be used for campaign political purposes,” wrote Morelle. “However, as noted extensively in public reporting, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wore a hat with a political campaign slogan during the address. Appallingly, according to Ms. Greene herself, she was approached by the Sergeant at Arms who asked her to take the hat off because it violated the rules of decorum. She refused.”

    Greene allegedly told the Sergeant at Arms, “You can haul me out of here. Go ahead and try it, but I’m not going to take this hat off.”

    “Her refusal to remove the hat was juvenile and showed immense disrespect — not just to the President himself, but to the office of the presidency and the House as an institution,” Morelle’s letter continued. “That her impertinence extended to a nonpartisan House officer simply trying to perform their duties and maintain order is beyond the pale.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-letter-mtg-break-rules/

    Let’s see if Johnson actually has the balls to respond. I somehow doubt it, but if he doesn’t, he really hasn’t any power, and MTG will have his balls in her grasp and take full advantage of it.

  70. 70.

    Parfigliano

    @Jackie: Britt’s speech was delivered in a language called little girl fundie voice.  It freaks normal people out.  Catnip to god godbotherer’s.

  71. 71.

    Baud

    @Jackie:

    He’ll respond by giving her a good talking to in private, which won’t even happen but they’ll say it did.

  77. 77.

    schrodingers_cat

    Has any BJer watched Hulu series, “The Looming Tower”? I am more than half way through it. Its about the lead up to 9/11. How the CIA kept vital intelligence from the FBI. Its from the FBI POV

    It starts in the Clinton era from the Embassy bombings.

  78. 78.

    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax:

    If he announced a universal cure for cancer they’d lambast him for throwing so many oncologists out into the street. 

    LMAO!  It’s hilarious because it’s true.

  80. 80.

    FelonyGovt

    @mrmoshpotato: This description almost makes me want to listen to a few seconds of that ridiculousness.

     
    OMG you should. It’s comedy gold. Reading about it sounds like people are exaggerating, but they’re not.

    I’m loving the combination of hard hitting SOTU address and mockery of the response. I think mockery – and TIFG is such an easy target- will help us, not just get under their skin.

  83. 83.

    Jackie

    @Miss Bianca: I do too! And, hear Biden holler “don’t let the door hit you where the good lord split you!”

    I can so hear him saying that – with that mischievous grin on his face! Then make the sign of the cross in penitence 😁

  84. 84.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jackie:

    Fulfill your civic duty as a jurist at your peril – if the defendant is a former president mobster shitstain. 

    Fixed.  I doubt Carter, Clinton, Cheney, or Obama would pull this intimidation crap.

  88. 88.

    Geminid

    I was listening to WSB (Atlanta’s clear channel radio station) and the show host talked about the Georgia Republican Lincoln Day Dinner. It’s tomorrow evening and he will moderate some panel discussion beforehand.

    What got my attention was him telling listeners that they could still get tickets. I think the event would be sold out already if Georgia Republicans were very enthusiastic.

  94. 94.

    karen marie

    @WaterGirl: No, I linked to their youtube page because it’s all good. They do a livestream on Thursday afternoons. I wait till Fridays usually to listen to that.

  95. 95.

    karen marie

    @Roberto el oso: How clueless have you got to be to put targets on your kids’ backs on national TV? “America’s mom.”  She uses her kids as props.  I hope they have people around them to get them through living with their nightmare mother.

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