Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Not all heroes wear capes.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

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

Democrats are back in array!

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

ha ha ha! Nice try weird people.

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

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

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

I really should read my own blog.

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  1. 1.

    TBone

    In essence, this makes it easy to figure out what they’re up to.  They’re telling us, almost every time!  You just have to be able to see them upside down and backwards.

  4. 4.

    TBone

    @Baud: that’s a reflection from Dark Brandon’s laser focus.  Oops. Deflection. She should just defect and get it over with .

  5. 5.

    lowtechcyclist

    And I’ll bet the cops didn’t drag that Rethug guy down to the police station in handcuffs, even.

    Fuck all these racists.

  6. 6.

    Lavocat

    Hmmmm. I wonder what the difference is between those two people. I’m sure it’s right in front of me, but I just don’t quite see it. IOKIYAR indeed.

  7. 7.

    Melancholy Jaques

    Did Crystal Mason actually do time or was she released while her appeal was pending?

  11. 11.

    Carlo Graziani

    The trouble is that the one traditional consensus that unites the Republican party—officials and knucklehead voters—is that when a Black person votes, that is voter fraud. More Black voting means more voter fraud. It’s a simple syllogism, for which no evidentiary basis is needed, and against which no evidence to the contrary can prevail.

  13. 13.

    SFAW

    @hells littlest angel:

    The poor guy got sentenced to 45 years in prison, right?

    Actually, he was, but had it reduced to zero for “good behavior,” time served, and “being non-woke.” Plus he got an apology from the court.

    Of course, the interesting — but not surprising — thing is that he became a grand poobah in the Rethug hierarchy after his conviction for felony forgery.

  16. 16.

    SFAW

    @Baud: ​
     
    Well, yeah, of course.
    If TFG made good on his “promise” to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, his cult would claim that was a “process crime,” too.

  18. 18.

    Betty

    It’s even more disgusting that a Texas court is letting Ken Paxton off the hook with community service and a fine.  Where is the justice?

  19. 19.

    MattF

    @SFAW: The bullet was only following the order it got from the gun. The finger pulling the trigger will be a holy relic.

  20. 20.

    smith

    @Baud: The Guardian has this:

    After Mason was arrested in 2017, she lost her job at a bank. She was also sent back to federal prison for several months for being arrested while on probation for a federal crime. During that time, she almost lost her home to foreclosure

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @Melancholy Jaques: @Baud:

    I read earlier that she did spend time in prison.  Because she was arrested while she was on parole, she was sent back to prison.

    I believe it was for a period of months for that.  It may have been longer than that, I’m not sure, but she was in prison for this.

    Shameful.

  25. 25.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    It’s more than just the accusations being confessions. The accusations are there to excuse their behavior beyond its own distracting whataboutism. Democrats stuff ballot boxes on false registrations all the time, allegedly, and so shall I. They’ve gone sonfar convincing the stupid among them that it’s happening and it works

    Republicans, having fully normalized toxicity in all its forms with no consequences, have now moved onto criminality.

  26. 26.

    sdhays

    How many state vice chairs are felons still on probation in the Democratic Party. I’m guessing zero since it would be national “news” “demonstrating” that Democrats are “soft on crime”.

  29. 29.

    scav

    Process crime.  Clearly, if they’re in the middle of a process, it’s very likely a criminal one.  I mean, they work at it: they’re not flash in the pan, one and done criminals.  They’re enterprising criminals. 

  31. 31.

    Leto

    I saw that the vice chairman had voted like 9x illegally the other day, but hadn’t seen the news about Mrs Mason. Hopefully it’s expunged from her record. Ofc we all knew it was fucked up, and I’m glad MSNBC reported on it as much they did over the years.

  34. 34.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Rudi666:

    In 2022, she said in a statement that her life “has been upended for what was, at worst, an innocent misunderstanding.”

    Yeah, that’s the thing. There was absolutely no reason to put her back behind bars. AFAIK there was no indication that she was or would become either violent or a flight risk. And they didn’t give her a scrap of the benefit of the doubt — didn’t (again, AFAIK) seek clarity from the parole officer who gave her misleading information in the first place. I was incandescent about this whole story when it first broke years ago, and I’m furious now that it’s taken so long to clear her name. Grrrrr.

  36. 36.

    Leto

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    like what’s the restitution for this? We also talk about how it’s going to take an equally long time to unfuck it as it took to do it. 250+ years to undue this? I just…

  37. 37.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Leto: like what’s the restitution for this?

    I’m not sure restitution flows down power dynamics, only across and up.

  39. 39.

    cain

    A person of authority should get extra hard sentence since he was in a trusted position and for him to be voting illegally. I mean he definitely should be convicted and his jail sentence should be at least 5 years.

     

    Also, this is kind of interesting on the Gaza front. I did not know that the PA had a program that pays people if they get hurt or killed while attacking Israelis.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/29/us-says-palestinians-are-close-to-changing-pay-for-slay-program-00149734

  40. 40.

    JoyceH

    The accusations aren’t just confessions, they’re prior justification for future crimes. In the last several election cycles, with all the big name Republicans making public statements about all the dead people voting in Democratic districts, you wind up with these drunk on the Koolaid small fry who wind up voting on behalf of their dead wife or mother because “THEY do it” so it was up to them to even the odds.

  41. 41.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @JoyceH: you wind up with these drunk on the Koolaid small fry who wind up voting on behalf of their dead wife or mother because “THEY do it” so it was up to them to even the odds.

    Make sure to change into a new fake mustache between voting as your wife then mother…

  43. 43.

    SiubhanDuinne

    O/T, just saw that Louis Gossett Jr has died at 87. What a really great actor he was. Don’t know much about his personal life, but he always seemed like a person I would like to know. RIP, and condolences to his loved ones and legions of admirers

  44. 44.

    wjca

    @SiubhanDuinne: There was absolutely no reason to put her back behind bars.

    Actually, there was.  If you get convicted of another crime while on parole, you go back to jail.  Period.

    You may think that’s a terrible law.  (I don’t necessarily disagree.  At least in some cases.)  If so, work to get it changed.  But don’t fault the people who are merely following the kaw.

  45. 45.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @Rudi666:

    @Baud:

    @Parfigliano:

    @WaterGirl:

    Appreciate everyone doing my research for me.

    I was curious because I felt she might be entitled to some compensation, but probably not in a place like Texas.

    Her story should be a short educational ad about Republicans’ claims of voter fraud.

  47. 47.

    Ms. Deranged in AZ

    @Melancholy Jaques:

    @wjca:   Yes, there is discretion on the part of the parole officer.  He or she could have held off on violating her parole but once she was convicted on the voting charge, especially if it was a felony, then they would have to file the violation.  However, the parole officer could have recommended to the court NOT to send her back to prison, so he/she had some discretion left to them in their recommendation.  I don’t know if the judge has any room to maneuver though.  It depends on the jurisdiction I think.

  48. 48.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Carlo Graziani:

    This.  It’s not even projection, though they occasionally use it to justify their cheating.

    When they see a black person vote, they know in their heart that must be cheating.  After that they only need to imagine a justification.

  50. 50.

    Downpuppy

    @sdhays: The voting charges are from 2008 to 2010, which seems like before he was Vice Chairman.
    It also seems weird to be convicting him now for voting 14-16 years ago.
    Seems weird pretty much sums up this story.

  51. 51.

    Downpuppy

    @sdhays: The voting was in 2008-2010, which is probably before he got the Vice Chairman job, and definitely way before other voting crimes that are being prosecuted in 2024.
    Georgia is strange.

  52. 52.

    neldob

    “After Mason was arrested in 2017, she lost her job at a bank. She was also sent back to federal prison for several months for being arrested while on probation for a federal crime. During that time, she almost lost her home to foreclosure.” The Guardian

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