Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

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

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

Democrats are back in array!

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

Donald Jessica Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

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

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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

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

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Hardly a surprise, but I figured we could all use some unvarnished good news tonight. Thank you, Georgia voters!

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  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    BREAKING: President Joe Biden has secured enough delegates to seal the Democratic presidential nomination, NBC News projects.

    Well, I guess I don’t have to vote then! /S

  5. 5.

    Jackie

    So our votes in WA and Hawaii don’t matter?😭

    j/k And, Uncle Joe beat TIFG for claiming victory! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

  9. 9.

    Parfigliano

    So Michelle Obama isnt getting the nomination?  Limbaugh’s replacements assured me she would.

  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Glad to be a voter in the state that put him over the top. We’ll do it again in November!!

  12. 12.

    KrackenJack

    Haley’s zombie campaign continues siphon off votes. WaPo shows TFG @ 82% vs Dark Brandon @ 95% in Georgia.

  18. 18.

    Ryan

    I’d like to say that Ezra Klein got limped-(whatever), but he apparently had a last moment conversion after the State of the Union!

  19. 19.

    KrackenJack

    @japa21: Good point: 187k vs 320k. I’d have to rely on others for an explanation that doesn’t posit an enthusiasm gap.

  20. 20.

    dmsilev

    I find it somewhere between hilarious and disturbing that “incumbent President running for reelection gets nomination” is deemed a newsworthy event.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    @japa21:

    @KrackenJack:

    My understanding is that turnout in a primary is not predictive of turn out in the general election. It’s one of those things like yard signs or crowd size that seems significant but isn’t.

  22. 22.

    AlaskaReader

    I’m thankful the Biden/Harris Administration is investing in tidal power projects in my state.

    Truly clean, safe and sustainable renewable energy.

    Estimates say we can produce 18 gigawatts, that’s  20 times our own state’s electrical power needs and 27 percent of the nation’s needs too, all through tidal generation.

    I’m really not thankful that my Republican Alaskans in the legislature are trying to designate coal as ‘clean energy’ and proposing the construction of new coal burning power plants in Alaska.   Farrking idiots.

    If we don’t eliminate Republicans from any and all positions of public trust, one way or another, …they’re going to kill us all.

    Nero fiddled while a city burned, ….Republicans fiddle as their own world burns.

  24. 24.

    Another Scott

    Yay!

    Meanwhile, …

    paulrickards
    @[email protected]

    Almost forgot— it’s #BaudDay today: 3/12/24 happy baud day to all those that celebrate!

    [ image – A stack of Hayes modems of various speeds and other peripherals. A Hayes tiller stands next to it, along side an Applesauce, a Disk II floppy drive, and a lone USR Courier modem. ]

    #RetroComputing
    Mar 12, 2024, 18:19 · · IceCubesApp

    HBD!!1

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  26. 26.

    cain

    @Jackie: or in Oregon. It’s always kind of sad when everything is already decided by “Super Tuesday” and there is nothing more to say.

  30. 30.

    trollhattan

    Eleventeenthish-hour/minute/second charge from RFKJr, using One Weird Trick from internet, shakes up Democrat Party extablishment.

    –NYT probably

  32. 32.

    Jackie

    @KrackenJack: @japa21: 

    Most years the incumbent doesn’t face a serious, for real Primary challenger. Because idiots such as RFK jr started the primary as a Dem, plus Marianne and Phillips, there’s a primary.

    But the general populace assumes Biden is already the presumptive candidate and aren’t going to vote in the Democratic primary.

    They’re holding their ammo for Nov.😊

  34. 34.

    Baud

    Just saw this in reddit. Is this real? From the Biden transcript

    The FBI know my house better than I do,” Biden quipped at one point. “I just hope you didn’t find any risqué pictures of my wife in a bathing suit,” the president later joked. “Which you probably did. She’s beautiful.”

  40. 40.

    Jackie

    @Baud: I Hope so! Jill is a gorgeous woman today! I imagine she was even more drop dead gorgeous in her heyday. I can easily see family photos displayed throughout the house with the entire Biden family dressed in beach attire at the beach.😊

  41. 41.

    Jeffro

    cue the HILARREEEZ GONNA SNEAK IN AND GRAB THE NOM!!1! conspiracy theories from the RWNJs in 3, 2, 1…

  44. 44.

    Jeffro

    @japa21:

    @Baud:

    @Jackie:

    for what it’s worth, the Fro family depressed Dem primary voting by 3 in Virginia earlier this month…

    …and increased GOP primary voting by 3 as well.  =)

  45. 45.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jackie: ​
     

    I Hope so! Jill is a gorgeous woman today! I imagine she was even more drop dead gorgeous in her heyday. I can easily see family photos displayed throughout the house with the entire Biden family dressed in beach attire at the beach.😊

    Nonsense! I mean, where would they possibly find a beach in Delaware?? ;-)

    Seriously, she is one very good-looking woman. But Michelle Obama will always be my true heartthrob. :-)

  46. 46.

    AlaskaReader

     

    What’s the one word that describes a construction put in place to enforce both,

    uniform resistance to diversity and individuality,

    …and at the same time to effectuate there be no deviation from groupthink ?

  49. 49.

    Matt McIrvin

    @KrackenJack: Trump had significant opposition in Nikki Haley; Biden did not–Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson were jokes. Turnout is usually quite low for an incumbent President running in an essentially uncontested primary.

  51. 51.

    hueyplong

    Biden captures delegates sufficient to be nominated, but shadows of concerns over a possible brokered convention linger.

    –NYT

  52. 52.

    Jeffro

    @hueyplong: Biden appears to have sewn up the Democratic nomination.  But in this K Street coffee shop, hedge fund lobbyists aren’t so sure that Hillary isn’t just waiting to pounce

    -also NYT

  53. 53.

    Jackie

    @Matt McIrvin: You left out RFK jr. He initially entered the race as THE Democrat who could challenge Biden. He was taken seriously for a 0.001 split second!

  54. 54.

    Scout211

    Wow! Elections matter. And balloon-juice fundraising was there to help!

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will consider overturning its own ruling limiting the use of absentee ballot drop boxes, the justices said Tuesday.

    The court ruled in July 2022 that absentee drop boxes may be used only in election offices and no one other than the voter can return a ballot in person.

    Conservative justices controlled the court at the time, but Janet Protasiewicz’s election victory in April 2023 flipped the court to liberal control, setting the stage for flipping the ruling. Priorities USA, a progressive voter mobilization group, asked the court last month to reconsider the ruling.

  59. 59.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Jackie: I don’t think he was on the primary ballot where I voted. In Massachusetts Biden’s primary rival was the “No Preference” protest vote, which I guess you could interpret as general-election trouble (as if Biden would have any trouble carrying MA in November), but Biden’s actual opponents ran well behind that.

  60. 60.

    sdhays

    This is funny:

    As Donald Trump reverses his position on potentially banning TikTok ahead of an expected House vote this week on legislation that could lead to it being blocked in the U.S., the former president has been rebuilding his relationship with a GOP megadonor who reportedly has a major financial stake in the popular social media platform.
    Trump met with the donor, hedge fund manager Jeff Yass, earlier this month at a Club for Growth donor retreat in Palm Beach, Florida, on March 1.

    It’s one thing sell out the country to (white) Russia, but China? I wonder how his cultists in the House will react to this.

    Also, hilarious how transparently cash-strapped he is that he’s assembling his “platform” based on whatever the last donor told him to do. The pledge to cut Social Security and Medicare is the same thing. He might as well have a “US for Sale to first bidder” sign hanging around his neck.

  61. 61.

    RevRick

    We are here. There’s no use fretting about what it may mean or not mean about tomorrow.
    The Biden-Harris campaign will carpet bomb Trump in the swing states. Just like Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee carpet bombed Jim Jordan and his fellow clowns today.
    Breathe folks!

  62. 62.

    Ruckus

    @AlaskaReader:

    they’re going to kill us all.

    That is (and has been) their goal for some time.

    When you can’t win on the merits (because you don’t have any), you can’t win with the money (because if you did have enough you wouldn’t have given any to the other side), because while you can be brought for $5 and a small box of chocolates – not everyone else can be, the only thing left is crying in your drink of choice.

    Their case is that everyone HAS to follow their lack of any leadership whatsoever. SFB is in this only to save his own ass, rethuglicans are in this because they absolutely do not believe in democracy and think that they and only they should be in charge so that this country can revert back to Puritan times (except them of course!)

  63. 63.

    Another Scott

    Aaron Fritschner
    @Fritschner

    In a few days we will still be fighting it out in the House but the Honorable Congressman Buck will be just Ken

    8:59 PM · Mar 12, 2024

    [ chef’s-kiss ]

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  65. 65.

    Ruckus

    @sdhays:

    He might as well have a “US for Sale to first bidder” sign hanging around his neck.

    I thought he does.

    Maybe I’m remembering the Dumbass Dipshit sign with the hand and first finger pointing up to his head that he’s worn since day one.

  66. 66.

    AlaskaReader

    @Ruckus:   It’s not enough to win the Presidential race, and gain control of both the Senate and the House, we will need to also expand the Supreme Court so as to marginalize the Republican embeds there too.

    We need to go further and remove every single Republican from any and all levels of our government.

    Some say that’s asking too much.

    I say it’s asking too much too allow any Republican to hold a position of public trust.

  67. 67.

    Yutsano

    @AlaskaReader: we will need to also expand the Supreme Court so as to marginalize the Republican embeds there too.

    13 circuits. 13 judges. It’s really just reducing the workload on the justices who have to contend with more than one circuit.

  69. 69.

    AlaskaReader

    @Yutsano: At the least, …I just wish prospective Democratic nominees from the top on down  would start truly relating the importance and necessity of accomplishing that goal, and begin seriously campaigning on accomplishing that goal for all the reasons it’s vital to reverse the Republican ratf*cking being done by this Court.

    The Robert’s Court ain’t done with us,

    …and especially if we just continue to allow them have their way.

  70. 70.

    RaflW

    Looks like non-candidate Haley will get about 21-22% of the vote in Washington state. I’m sure vote by mail is part of that, since she just suspended last week, but it still shows weakness for Donnie.

  71. 71.

    wjca

    @AlaskaReader: we will need to also expand the Supreme Court so as to marginalize the Republican embeds there too.

    As a simple matter of tactics, it may be wise to not get too explicit about any intentions in this direction.  At least until after January 20, when the election is past and it’s too late for the Court’s partisan hacks to intervene.

  72. 72.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Sinclair radio nooz at the top of the hour reports that “Republicans were happy to have Hur testify because they of President Biden’s perceived memory issues… blahblahblah”. Nothing about Hur and the Republicans faceplanting on this, nope. Nothing about how it came out. Nope. Just that they “were” happy to have the chance to do this.

    Fucking worthless Sinclair radio. You come away dumber after listening to them.

  73. 73.

    AlaskaReader

    @wjca: Repair needed for the dysfunction is no secret.

    At least for anyone that has paid the least bit of attention to the issue.

    Those hacks you speak of are already working against us, you don’t gain ground by letting them predetermine the public facing narrative.

  74. 74.

    AlaskaReader

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Yes, Sinclair and Gray TV both are dangerous nodes of the insurrection in this country.

    It’s no surprise they’re carrying water for the Republican subversive embeds in our government.

  75. 75.

    wjca

    @AlaskaReader: Those hacks you speak of are already working against us, you don’t gain ground by letting them predetermine the public facing narrative.

    But saying explicitly that you plan, if elected, to expand the Court and neuter them?  That tends to remove their sense of immunity, and motivate them to even more extreme/frantic efforts to avoid that.

    Granted, they are working against what we want.  But at the moment, they can assume that they can largely just wait out any temporary electoral losses, and continue legislating from the bench to get what they want.  Don’t want to disabuse them, until it’s too late.

  76. 76.

    Jackie

    Sadly, WA won the short straw to give TIFG the votes to call him the presumptive MAGA candidate.

    Happily, it took him several hours AFTER Joe won the right to be called the presumptive Democratic nominee!!! That’s got to be galling for TIFG 😂

  77. 77.

    AlaskaReader

    @wjca: That’s a matter where we differ. Right now the danger of inaction regarding the Court isn’t forefront in the public mind.

    I believe the public, once made aware of the explicit threat, will back the expansion and commit votes to seeing it happen.

    Continue as we have, and this Court will bury us

    The Court is not waiting to counter some future move we might take, they’re attacking us along all fronts now.

  78. 78.

    wjca

    @AlaskaReader: I believe the public, once made aware of the explicit threat, will back the expansion and commit votes to seeing it happen.

    I, in contrast, think we will do better to focus on specific decisions (e.g. Dobbs) to turn out the votes.  Voters can relate to that far better than to abstractions about the Court and its members — who, after all, aren’t explicitly on the ballot they are looking at.

    It doesn’t really matter whether they are aware of plans to expand the Court, or if they assume the President will have a magic wand (like the one he uses to control the economy) to restore Roe.  As long as they show up and vote.

    EDT  I  do agree that the public will support the action when it comes.  All I’m saying is that it doesn’t need to happen now.

  79. 79.

    AlaskaReader

    @wjca: Well, we found out that if you give em an inch,

    …they’ll take the Supreme Court.

    Waiting on the issues has played right into their hands every time.

    That we aren’t out in front of the narrative is to our detriment. Every time.

  80. 80.

    ColoradoGuy

    Rather than being explicit about any changes to the Supremes, point out how they’ve been captured by hard-core theocrats, and ask, “Do you want the USA to become like Iran?” which is not a theoretical question with this gang. And hammer on Clarence Thomas’ blatant corruption and what the Seven Mountains theocracy means for the USA.

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