Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Republicans do not trust women.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

This blog will pay for itself.

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

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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

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

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  2. 2.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    It’s taken the clowns at Fox this long to see and say the obvious? Traitor Greene isn’t the dumbest person in the GQP, but she’s among the bottom 100 or so.

  5. 5.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Keep fucking that chicken Republicans. 

    Arizona House lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a Democrat-backed effort to repeal the 1864 near-total abortion ban….

    Republicans hold a one-seat majority in the House, so flipping two GOP votes would have allowed the chamber to move forward with the repeal bill. Democrats tried moving the motion a second time, but the resulting vote was the same.

  6. 6.

    Dangerman

    Is today the Einstein Zoom? I am forgetful. I blame the medicine. Or, perhaps, the number of procedures. I just had Cardioversion #3 and am scheduled for Heart Ablation #4 in about a month. All but one done at one of the finest Hospitals in SoCal (actually, the World). I’m complicated.

    I want to show up in the Zoom with this as my photo. Possible? Actually kinda looks like me. Although I wouldn’t be caught dead in a tie any longer (well, if I was passed, they can dress me in whatever they want).

  7. 7.

    moops

    With Russia so sunken into Ukraine, there is no near term need for those weapons anywhere else in Europe.  Russian military is so drained and committed that you could defend the rest of Europe with handguns at this point.  There are no advanced tanks left, no advanced jets left, no cruise missiles left, the cupboards are really bare.

     

    If those weapon systems in NATO are destroying Russian assets in Ukraine then they are doing the job they were built for.

  9. 9.

    Old School

    Breaking: The Senate just voted to reject the first article of impeachment against DHS Secretary Mayorkas, declaring it unconstitutional.The vote was 51-48. Lisa Murkowski voted present.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 17, 2024

  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    @Dangerman: Yes, today is the Einstein zoom at 8 pm Eastern time.

    Have you RSVP’d?  If not, please send me email so I can send you the link.

    Someone else with more zoom experience than I have will have to answer about the picture.

  14. 14.

    Tony Jay

    Just goes to show how shrunken and curdled the Republican Party has become that a no-class steroid-case like Margangrene can throw any weight at all around inside it. Just a decade ago she’d have been crushed and flicked aside like any other spoiled nut, but since Obama’s re-election broke the Party they’ve been easy prey for her breed of rabid yelper.

  17. 17.

    Jeffro

    @Baud: right?

    I was going to say, “Please don’t humiliate him, Chuck; he likes it.”

    Reminds me of the old joke…

    Masochist: “hurt me!”

    Sadist: “no”

    Thankyaverramuch, I’ll be here all week…

  20. 20.

    Dangerman

    @WaterGirl: Have you RSVP’d?

    Yuppers.

    ETA: Hmmm, may have to speak to the Doc about the pills. Although, taking one of everything makes it easy on the Pharmacy.

  21. 21.

    Jeffro

    This might have already been brought up, but I’m sure y’all saw that Bill Barr has decided he’s going to “vote for the Republican ticket” after all.  There aren’t enough eyes to roll in the whole wide world.

    (In my book, this technically makes him worse than trump, and I will make a point of letting everyone know that.  If Barr wants to ‘signal’ that GOP voters need to come home and support the blessed ‘ticket’, I’m going to signal that I think such folks are beyond contempt.)

    Knowing all that he knows, having seen everything he has seen, and even having the examples of Cheney and Kinzinger to (pathetically, meekly, begrudgingly) follow, he’s choosing to get behind trump.

  22. 22.

    B1naryS3rf

    Uh oh, Daddy Murdoch’s getting nervous that just enough squishes out there in “Real America” might actually vote against his Orange Pancaked Bad Pony he brought to the derby, or not place any bets at all. Well Rupes, you made that horse lame, now you get to watch it buck, rear, foam at the mouth and fall over.

  23. 23.

    RaflW

    @Jackie: I got a “Join Fox to read this” box over the content. And there ain’t no way I’m joining Fox, even if they managed to get one op-ed contributor to diss Margie.

    eta: In circular fashion, I found this. (Circular in that Liz writes for the Hill as well as for Fox…)

  24. 24.

    SpaceUnit

    @Baud:

    I used to shop at NATO Warehouse.

     

    Then they changed management.  After that you could never find what you were looking for.

  25. 25.

    Eyeroller

    @moops: They’re not being used for their intended purpose; the Europeans won’t send them, because they might need them.

    It reminds me of a long-ago episode of MASH where Hawkeye and Trapper need an incubator to culture bacteria.  They find a quartermaster with three in storage who won’t give them one because if he gave it to them, then “he wouldn’t have it.”  He was not doing anything with any of them. Hawkeye and Trapper try to shame General Mitchell into doing something, unsuccessfully. Finally they find a corrupt colonel who sells them one illegally.

  27. 27.

    Quiltingfool

    So Fox News is saying, “Shut up, Marjorie.  Nobody likes you.”

     I would pay good money to hear Senator Schumer say the same thing – “Shut up Ted.  Nobody likes you.”

    In other news about Republican politicians, it seems that Michigan AG Dana Nessel is going after Lee Chatfield (R), former MI state rep for all sorts of financial shenanigans.  This particular case started when Chatfield’s sister-in-law accused him of repeated sexual assaults over a ten year period.

    I was reading about this over at LGM, and whoo boy, this Chatfield fella is a piece of work.  He began sexually assaulting the sister in law when she was a student at the Christian school, and he was one of her teachers.  She married his brother (she was 18) and stated that Chatfield raped her in a closet on her wedding day.

    No charges are being brought in re sexual assault (no other evidence besides the testimony of the victim).  Damn it.

    She is divorced now, and it seems she and her children had some severe financial struggles, like in being homeless for a period of time.

    The Party of Family Values indeed.  What the hell is wrong with these people?

  30. 30.

    Eyeroller

    @Dangerman: Log in at zoom.us with the account you plan to use.  Click on Profile.  I normally use a desktop or laptop and on those it’s in a menu bar on the left.  Not sure where it would be on a device like a phone or iPad. To change your avatar, click on it. It will let you browse for a photo.

  31. 31.

    RaflW

    @RaflW: “Greene would ‘rather burn down the House, metaphorically speaking, than work towards the greater good.'”

    I’m not at all convinced that its only metaphorically.

  33. 33.

    BellaPea

    I have a very strong suspicion that MTG will try one trick too many and the Repubs will kick her to the curb. All of the white sexist bastards in that party hate women who try to attract too much attention.

  34. 34.

    Quadrillipede

    @Omnes Omnibus: No, but there are many small things that can add up.

    1. Find small things to do.
    2. Do them.
    3. Rinse.
    4. Repeat.
    5. Don’t forget to take regular mental/physical health breaks as needed.
  37. 37.

    Trollhattan

    BBC, which takes a conservative approach to calculating it, released their latest estimate of Russian war dead in Ukraine: 50,000. In a little more than two years they have buried that many soldiers, a number that by definition is an undercount because it’s only verifiable deaths.

    The overall death toll – of more than 50,000 – is eight times higher than the only official public acknowledgement of fatality numbers ever given by Moscow in September 2022.

    The actual number of Russian deaths is likely to be much higher.

    Our analysis does not include the deaths of militia in Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk – in eastern Ukraine. If they were added, the death toll on the Russian side would be even higher.

    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was the “exclusive prerogative of the Ministry of Defence” to provide information on casualties, because of laws covering state secrets and disseminating information during the “special military operation”, the phrase Russia uses for its war in Ukraine.

    Ukraine, meanwhile, rarely comments on the scale of its battlefield fatalities. In February, President Volodymyr Zelensky said 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed – but estimates, based on US intelligence, suggest greater losses.
    bbc.com/news/world-68819853

    US deaths in Vietnam, from all causes (combat, accidental, missing, etc.) across all years: 58,220. Deadliest year was 1968: 16,899 with the period 1965-1971 accounting for most losses.

    Russia’s population is smaller than the US in 1968 (200 million) and Vlad and Co. do not give a whit about expending Russians there, while tossing war opponents into the gulag for “insulting Russian Army.”

    IDK how this ends.

  39. 39.

    Jay

    @moops:

    ruZZia has deployed less than 29% of it’s full time military assets in the War against Ukraine, (manpower, hardware),

    less than 8% if you include Active Reserves.

    As an example, out of 220 t-90M tanks, (ruZZia’s most modern), only 15 have been deployed in the war.

    It took NATO a long time to fill those warehouses.

    That said, we can supply Ukraine with a lot more than much of what NATO has been doing.*

    *some countries have gone above and beyond.

  43. 43.

    TBone

    Your reminder that financial aid to Ukraine has mostly been spent right here in the U.S. making new ammo to replace the old ammo we send them.  It’s economic stimulus 101.

  44. 44.

    RaflW

    @Jackie: Thank you!

    But holy mother of pearl, Liz seems a bit over the top (par for the Fox course, I’m sure). Mikey-J is “attempting to keep his caucus intact as he navigates treacherous issues including funding Ukraine.”

    Oh, no. Being in Ukraine is treacherous. Funding resistance to Russian land grabs is still popular among Americans. Yeah, the Russophile wing of the GOP wants Mikey-J to lose is precious leadership job. But even being deposed as Speaker isn’t freakin’ fatal.

    And Jeffries may well round up enough support to keep him around for more dumb shenanigans

    Also, too, Liz: WTF does this mean? “If President Biden had allowed an all-out aggressive war against Moscow, we would not be at a seeming stalemate.” Huh? You wanted us to go over there with our forces? Really? Moron.

  46. 46.

    Jackie

    I hadn’t heard or read about NJ Rep Payne Jr having a heart attack! This doesn’t sound good… 😟

    Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) “remains unconscious after suffering a heart attack on April 6, indicating that the congressman’s medical condition is substantially more severe than had been initially revealed,” the New Jersey Globe reports.

    “His prognosis is uncertain, and his potential return to Washington is unclear.”

  47. 47.

    piratedan

    @WaterGirl: yes, the original repeal bill was from a GOP Rep who saw that keeping the bill was political harikari, the rest of the GOP called him out for being a poser and not a true believer.

  48. 48.

    Baud

    Via reddit

    Flanked by veterans who served in the Bay of Pigs invasion, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a measure that will lead to the history of communism being taught from kindergarten to the 12th grade in public schools.

  50. 50.

    TBone

    I can’t wait for our team to introduce this into the Congressional Record.

    The document for the first time provides official confirmation and codification of what many in the Moscow elite say has become a hybrid war against the West. Russia is seeking to subvert Western support for Ukraine and disrupt the domestic politics of the United States and European countries, through propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist and extremist policies, according to Kremlin documents previously reported on by The Post. It is also seeking to refashion geopolitics, drawing closer to China, Iran and North Korea in an attempt to shift the current balance of power.

    washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/

    Gift link

    Classified addendum we didn’t know about to public document we knew about provided by European Intelligence.

  51. 51.

    Trollhattan

    How can I miss you when you won’t go away? Editor’s note: California fast food minimum wage raised to $20 on April 1.

    Popular American chain Cracker Barrel locked the doors this week to its single Sacramento site after roughly six years of business. The site at 1000 Howe Ave., which once dripped with Southern country flair, is now bare and boarded following a Monday closure. A large sign that reads “This location is now closed” is fixed to the building.

    A site in Santa Maria has also closed. “We’re deeply saddened to announce (the Sacramento) location has closed,” Cracker Barrel wrote in a farewell statement to its customers. “To our Sacramento community — we’ve been honored to welcome guests into a home-away-from-home at our store, and we’ve valued the opportunity to be part of so many special occasions for our guests and community,” the Tennessee-based restaurant chain added. The site opened in the summer of 2018 with fanfare.

    In an emailed statement on Wednesday morning, Cracker Barrel was tight-lipped about the reason behind the closure but hinted at performance issues.

    “As a standard course of business, we continually evaluate the performance of our stores, using various criteria to ensure we are meeting the needs of our guests and our business,” the chain said. “The decision to close a store is never one we take lightly, and our focus right now is on assisting our impacted employees during this transition.” The company said it offers employees transfers to other locations, severance packages and additional assistance.

    “We extend our sincere thanks to our employees who worked so hard to keep our fireplace glowing and to the guests who have dined with us, celebrated with us, and made us part of their community,” the chain said.

    sacbee.com/news/local/article287763940.html#storylink=cpy

    I’m utterly baffled. And now I have to find a new place not to eat, golldurn it.

  52. 52.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jackie:

    I’m also getting the ‘join Fox News for access to this content’ box.

    Maybe if one goes there from Raw Story?

  54. 54.

    RaflW

    @RaflW: Sweet jebus, I can feel myself becoming momentarily more stupid just reading her drivel. “…travel even further down the road towards erratic and unreliable green energy while our bounteous and inexpensive domestic oil and gas resources go to waste.”

    Oil left in the ground (though we are producing as much hydrocarbons as we ever have, but facts, what are they?) has “gone to waste”? Does g-d delete it from the underground reservoirs in his 6,000 year old creation if we don’t burn it as fast as possible? That would be an interesting punishment by a mercurial and punishing sky-daddy who hates you, Liz.

    I feel unclean having read such shit.

  55. 55.

    Trollhattan

    @Baud: Like Ron Desantis could distinguish between the Republican Party Platform and The Communist Manifesto. [In the teacher’s guide, “woke” and “kulak” are synonyms.]

  56. 56.

    Betty Cracker

    @Jackie: It was also riddled with outrageous lies about Democrats. Peek is right when she says Moscow Marge is a moron who’s damaging the party. She’s wrong about everything else. I hope they both fall into open manholes.

  58. 58.

    Trollhattan

    @RaflW: Fun fact: God (praise be unto him) keeps the engine idling on the Heavenly Suburban and so is consuming precious hydrocarbons 24/365.25.

    We have to pump harder (heh) just to keep the tank topped up.

  59. 59.

    MattF

    So far, the Senate has had nine roll call votes on the Mayorkas impeachment, each time Rs defeated by 51-49 votes. Article one has been deemed unconstitutional, Article two not yet.

  60. 60.

    Jackie

    TIFG is always on the take; this time from “his own party”:

    “Donald Trump’s campaign has found a new way to press for badly needed cash,” Politico reports.

    “In a letter received by Republican digital vendors this week, the Trump campaign is asking for down-ballot candidates who use his name, image and likeness in fundraising appeals to give at least 5 percent of the proceeds to the campaign.”
    They add: “Any split that is higher than 5% will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump’s campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations.”

    So, if TIFG endorses anyone, they basically have to pay for that dubious “honor.”🙄

  63. 63.

    HumboldtBlue

    @SpaceUnit:

    Yes they do.

    RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany —  

    Due to growing NATO requirements, the former Husterhöhe barracks located in Pirmasens, Germany, is being converted into a strategic warehouse late 2023 by the U.S. Air Force, which will store Deployable Airbase System – Facilities, Equipment, and Vehicles (DABS/FEV), or portable bases.

  66. 66.

    Baud

    @MattF:

    Schumer has moved to adjourn the impeachment trial sine die.

     
    Oh Lord, Trump is going to make his attorneys file motions to dismiss sine die in all his cases now.

  68. 68.

    RaflW

    @TBone: It is still somehow astonishing to me that a noisy and reckless minority of the House GOP has utterly silenced what was a pretty clear anti-Russia and pro-projecting-America’s-power worldview in the Republican Party.

    One doesn’t imagine that House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R–OK-04 … home of Fort Sill) is a shrinking violet. But he and many others have let MTG run roughshod over them. A shitshow of weak men who pretend to be strong.

  69. 69.

    gene108

    @Jeffro:

    Knowing all that he knows, having seen everything he has seen, and even having the examples of Cheney and Kinzinger to (pathetically, meekly, begrudgingly) follow, he’s choosing to get behind trump.

    1. Not surprised. Barr showed how much of a coward he was in 2020. Assface knew about the coup. Quietly quit and kept his mouth shut.

    2. Why can’t these 70+ year old fucks retire and not plague us anymore? I doubt he’s hurting for money.

  70. 70.

    Greg T

    @SpaceUnit: Not actually under the control of NATO itself, no. But the US has tons of equipment sitting in warehouses in Europe. They are called “pre-positioned stocks”.

  71. 71.

    Jay

    @lowtechcyclist:

    ruZZian soldiers and equipment identify themselves* with white painted capital Z markings to avoid friendly fire. The capital Z can be inside a square, a triangle, a circle or paired with other markings to identify the Brigade that the unit belongs to.

    *both sides use similar equipment, body armor and uniforms, although for the Ukrainians, Western uniforms and body armor are becoming more common. Both sides also identify themselves with survey tape and other tapes as armbands and on helmets. Blue and Yellow for Ukraine, Red and White for ruZZians. Ukraine also identifies ruZZian POW’s with blue bags, so they don’t get shot by Ukrainians as they are escorted out of the combat zones.

  72. 72.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Trollhattan:

    What would be genius would be charging downballot candidates 10% for not using his image.

    “How much do you charge for not mentioning his name in casual conversation?”

    “You couldn’t afford it.”

  73. 73.

    RaflW

    @Jackie: Ahh, yes. Trump introduces multi level marketing commission scams to the GOP fundraising environment. Delicious.

    Good luck, all you congressional knoobs who fell at his feet. He’ll walk all over you to make a buck.

  74. 74.

    Jackie

    @Betty Cracker: Yah, I ff’d through the usual Faux BS lies and false talking points and focused on her dissing Marge. MTG’s feelers will be hurt – more so because the editorial was pro GQP – OTHER THAN burning MTG. It seemed bitchier crueler that way.

  76. 76.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jay:

    ruZZian soldiers and equipment identify themselves* with white painted capital Z markings

    Yes, I know Russian soldiers identify themselves thusly.  Calling them ‘ruZZian’ on account of that seems like third-grade shit regardless.

  77. 77.

    Jeffro

    That’s it – Mayorkas fake impeachment is now done, dead, over, one for the history books!

    Way to go, GOP!

  81. 81.

    Jay

    @Greg T:

    Each NATO country, has it’s own set of storage facilities and warehouses. When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was a major downsizing of NATO militaries, so tons of hardware went into storage. Some stuff can be stored in the open, some stuff can’t.

  82. 82.

    Jeffro

    @gene108: Why can’t these 70+ year old fucks retire and not plague us anymore? I doubt he’s hurting for money.

    That, but also…why can’t the actuarial tables kick in with the GOP’s viler clods like Barr?  The guy is 73, incredibly overweight, and clearly has a desire to burn in hell.  No wait, that’s my desire that he burn in hell, whatever.  See also: Gingrich

  84. 84.

    gene108

    @Trollhattan:

    US deaths in Vietnam, from all causes (combat, accidental, missing, etc.) across all years: 58,220. Deadliest year was 1968: 16,899 with the period 1965-1971 accounting for most losses.

    Russia’s population is smaller than the US in 1968 (200 million) and Vlad and Co. do not give a whit about expending Russians there, while tossing war opponents into the gulag for “insulting Russian Army.”

    Doesnt matter.

    Ukraine’s population is 38 million. Russia’s population is 144 million.

    That’s the advantage Russia has.

  85. 85.

    Jackie

    I never root for poor losers, but I’m making an exception for Kevin😂

    “A political group with ties to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy is going on air against some of the Republicans who ousted him from leadership,” Politico reports.

    “The American Prosperity Alliance, a nonprofit which does not have to disclose its donors, is running an immigration-focused TV ad in several districts, including those held by Reps. Bob Good (R-VA), Eli Crane (R-AZ) and Nancy Mace (R-SC), where members deposed McCarthy last year.”

  86. 86.

    Leto

    @RaflW: remember when the RNC was using his image/likeness near the end of 2021, and Trumpov pitched a fit and demanded tribute? Now that he has control of the entire apparatus, the grift is simply expanding. Demanding tribute, kick backs, and not giving a fuck about any of them. Can only hope this helps cripple them for the fall.

  87. 87.

    Jay

    @lowtechcyclist:

    there are much worse things I can call them.

    olexander scherba🇺🇦

    @olex_scherba
    5h

    On this day 10 years ago, after 🇷🇺 special-ops groups invaded Donbas, they seized the town of Horlivka. Local MP Volodymyr Rybak got arrested for hanging 🇺🇦 flag. They tortured him, slit his stomach & pushed into a river. Never forget. His son is soldier now.

  88. 88.

    sab

    @gene108: Barr is not a coward. He is a determined christian nationalist and Federalist Society activist who has shamelessly done everything he can do to advance his/their agenda and pack the courts with their anti-democratic pro-right wing Catholic judges. (Yes I know not all Catholics are RWNJ. I am old enough to have admired John XXIII and Vatican II.)

  91. 91.

    Cacti

    @Jeffro: Alleged moderate Chris Sununu will also be supporting the candidate that he said led an insurrection against the U.S. government.

    Spoiler:  There’s no such thing as a moderate in a fascist party.

  92. 92.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jay:

    there are much worse things I can call them.

    So you’re cosplaying by using capitalization in the middle of words and pretending that you’re doing something to Russia, rather than just being annoying here.

  93. 93.

    Albatrossity

    Wow. I read the article at that FoxNews link, and the number of outright lies in that thing is staggering. Hillary spied on the Trump campaign using FISA, the Bidens enriched themselves immensely because Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, etc. So yeah, they finally are telling the cultists that MTG is a moron, but it has to be spoon-fed to them with the lies as sweetener…

  97. 97.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jay:

    fuck off Vatnick.

    Have some pie.

    Boy howdy, it sure doesn’t take much to get under your skin, does it?

    Also, it’s ‘Vatnik’ (no C) and per Wikipedia, it’s ‘RuZZia’ with an initial cap, not lower case.

    If you’re going to throw this horseshit around, at least do it correctly.

  98. 98.

    brantl

    @Jeffro:

    “Knowing all that he knows, having seen everything he has seen, and even having the examples of Cheney and Kinzinger to (pathetically, meekly, begrudgingly) follow, he’s choosing to get behind The Rump.”

    Fixed it for you.

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    @Sister Golden Bear: What wasn’t clear in the original comment I replied to was that they had already flipped one seat.  So we are all correct.

    The were referring to flipping 2 seats overall, which would be flipping one more seat since they had – unbeknownst to me– already flipped one.

    I thought they were saying that had to flip 2 seats to get from 30-30 to a majority 31-29, which was not the case.

  101. 101.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @Old School: Fuck those 48. There is no reason for any of them to vote for impeachment, and they know it. And fuck the MSM, who I’m sure will treat this as just another he-said-she-said disagreement rather than the historic and complete abdication of their responsibilities.

  102. 102.

    Timill

    @WaterGirl: Article 1 was dismissed 51-48-1 and article 2 similarly 51-49.

    This means no R voted in favor of dismissal, so they can’t move to reconsider the dismissal, so it’s really dead.

  105. 105.

    Mike in NC

    @SpaceUnit:  Well, in the late 1980s the Navy sent me to Scotland for a couple of weeks. We were at a large NATO ammunition storage facility which sort of counted as a warehouse. There probably are others now that NATO has expanded so much since then.

  108. 108.

    jonas

    @Trollhattan: It’s even less when you consider that a substantial chunk of that population isn’t ethnic Russians, but Central Asians, Caucasian, and Siberian peoples, who make up a disproportionate number of the conscripts serving in the Russian military. It *is* a little like Vietnam in the sense that the country is forcing its minority underclasses to do most of the fighting.

  113. 113.

    rikyrah

    Jannifer Gao 🌶 (@Jani__Gee) posted at 9:42 PM on Tue, Apr 16, 2024:
    I was at this event talking for Black Maternal Health Week and this amazing law professor and author from Georgetown started talking about how raping Black women became a pillar of the American economy because it was a “free” way to expand your wealth during slavery and…

    Jannifer Gao 🌶 (@Jani__Gee) posted at 9:43 PM on Tue, Apr 16, 2024:
    … how a lot of documents about how it affected the descendants of the rape victims are being erased and how 8-year olds were jumping off of roofs to commit suicide rather than be the living proof of their families pain and…

    Jannifer Gao 🌶 (@Jani__Gee) posted at 9:44 PM on Tue, Apr 16, 2024:
    … how much strength it took to raise and love and instill pride in a baby that was the product of your rape and how much strength it took to feel pride and self love being a product of such evilness and violence and pain…

     

    Jannifer Gao 🌶 (@Jani__Gee) posted at 9:49 PM on Tue, Apr 16, 2024:
    … and I thought of the topics on this app over the last few days and got so frustrated bc we just aren’t far enough removed from the terror we have had to face to be tearing each other down and stripping each other of identity when we only recently obtained the luxury of choice
    (x.com/Jani__Gee/status/1780428272502776164?t=BDmFUzKupxWu2-t5A6Vt6g&s=03)

  115. 115.

    jonas

    @Albatrossity:  Hillary spied on the Trump campaign using FISA,

    From the “every accusation a confession” file, I forgot where I saw it, but there was some reporting back in 2020 or 21 that claimed that the Trump WH in fact requested NSA “unmaskings” of domestic surveillance targets something like 10x more than the Obama WH had. Never saw much follow-up on that, but it seemed like a *huge* story potentially that never went anywhere. Probably because not long afterwards, Trump was caught stealing hoardes of classified documents or something…

  116. 116.

    TBone

    @RaflW: the worldview and plans laid bare by the new classified Russian document outlined in that WaPo article makes it more than crystal clear just how utterly, criminally insane (or just plain bought and paid for) anyone who still supports Rump is.  The detail laid bare for all to see in that article is still shocking in its breadth.  Even though we’ve known it generally, we now have specifics in writing.  I urge everyone to read it for themselves (I think I posted it here on BJ four times today in an effort to spread the word far and wide).  Pooty recruits his craziest evil genius think tank people to submit plans, and they do not disappoint him.

  117. 117.

    Old School

    @Chief Oshkosh:

    Fuck those 48. There is no reason for any of them to vote for impeachment, and they know it.

    Just to clarify, that wasn’t 48 votes for conviction.  There wasn’t a trial.  The proceedings were dismissed as unconstitutional.

  118. 118.

    Harrison Wesley

    @Jackie: A nonprofit that doesn’t have to disclose its donors – I never worked for one like that.  I’m not sure allowing such entities is a good thing.

  119. 119.

    Jackie

    @gene108: Barr voting for TIFG; I hope this means he KNOWS TIFG’s gonna lose biggly in the state he votes in, so his vote means nada. OR he lives in a Blue state and his vote, again won’t matter.

    Butt, Barr’s still an asshole, regardless.

  121. 121.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @RaflW: The lesson of the Obama-Trump-Biden Years: Republicans decided that they love White Supremacy more than they hate foreign adversaries.  When Russia became a White Supremacist Christian Ethno-State, (who hated Hillary) it was unavoidable that the GOP would end up siding with Russia.  Or an alternate phrasing: as soon as Putin decided to meddle in our elections to help Trump (and stop Hillary), Republicans were guaranteed to be all-in for Russia.

  123. 123.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: I suspect it’s because Barr thinks votes don’t matter.

    Voting is for little people.  This is a public bow to Trump, from one piece of shit to another.

    Barr has absolutely no credibility.  Perhaps this is just a hedge by Barr in the hopes of Barr saying out of prison if Trump is elected?

  128. 128.

    Sid

    If European NATO countries were to send weapons to Ukraine, would the United States be able to replenish those stockpiles as a matter of the collective security agreement? In other words, would the Biden administration be able to do an end-around the House?

  129. 129.

    TBone

    @Jeffro: well we’ve known about this “war” on the West in general, but the new classified document referred to was only just written in 2023.  The details are bone chilling.

    Using much tougher and blunter language than the public foreign policy document, the secret addendum, dated April 11, 2023, claims that the United States is leading a coalition of “unfriendly countries” aimed at weakening Russia because Moscow is “a threat to Western global hegemony.” The document says the outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine will “to a great degree determine the outlines of the future world order,” a clear indication that Moscow sees the result of its invasion as inextricably bound with its ability — and that of other authoritarian nations — to impose its will globally.

  130. 130.

    Old School

    @WaterGirl:

    @rikyrah: I don’t understand what this means:

    Have several seats no longer Governor Larry Hogan.

    ???

    I read it as:

    You can take a seat, or several seats, No-Longer-Governor Larry Hogan.

  134. 134.

    Jackie

    Meghan McCain still doesn’t like Kari Lake. This in regards to Lake telling her supporters to strap on a Glock:

    McCain had a scathing response in a Wednesday tweet, posting, “This is so irresponsible and dangerous of Kari Lake to say – but what else is new.”

    The conservative activist and former co-host of ABC’s “The View” added, “She tries cosplay as some badass – but she’s just an ex Obama supporter with Vaseline slathered all over her camera doing a s—-y off the strip lounge singer imitation of Kelly Ann Conway.”

    rawstory.com/strap-on-a-glock-meghan-mccain-slams-kari-lake-in-latest-round-of/

    OOOH SNAP!🫰

  135. 135.

    Steeplejack

    For those lauding Liz Peek for her “takedown” of Marjorie Taylor Greene, please note that this doesn’t represent some outbreak of sanity at Fox News. Peek is still writing from Crazytown, just a different neighborhood. Some snipppets from the article:

    To be sure, not all Republicans approve of spending billions more to arm Ukraine, especially since our own border remains wide open; many in the GOP wanted Johnson to demand border enforcement in exchange for support of Kyiv. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world (which is perhaps why Hunter Biden was so richly employed there), and it’s not clear that America’s billions sent to fight Vladimir Putin have all been spent towards that end. There is almost certainly inadequate oversight, as I wrote early in the war.

    If President Biden had allowed an all-out aggressive war against Moscow, we would not be at a seeming stalemate. Because he dithered, Ukraine is now losing ground and urgently needs weapons and ammunition. This can be remedied; we need to provide the funding and push the White House to outline the path to victory.

    If Biden wins four more years in the Oval Office, we will be forced to travel even further down the road towards erratic and unreliable green energy while our bounteous and inexpensive domestic oil and gas resources go to waste.

    Democrats will push to empower unions, trampling the rights of those who choose not to join, and may attempt to pack the Supreme Court in order to ramrod through measures like widespread student loan forgiveness and “clean” energy mandates, which the court in its wisdom has prevented.

    The future of the U.S. is on the line. Former President Donald Trump, who very much wants to kick Biden out of office, knows how dangerous the tumult in the House can be. He recently met with Mike Johnson in Florida and gave him an important and well-deserved vote of confidence. “I stand with the speaker,” Trump declared; he also said he thinks Johnson is “doing a very good job—he’s doing about as good as you’re going to do.”

    My message for MTG? Borrowing from Hillary Clinton: get over yourself. The mission today is to elect Donald Trump.

  138. 138.

    Baud

    @Steeplejack:

    If Biden wins four more years in the Oval Office, we will be forced to travel even further down the road towards erratic and unreliable green energy

     
    True if you remove the adjectives.

    Democrats will push to empower unions,

    True.

    The future of the U.S. is on the line.

    True.

  139. 139.

    Ruckus

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    Putin knew SFB and I believe he figured that if he stroked SFB’s ego, even the slightest bit, he could make a lot of headway against the US.

    So he gave him attention and praise – fed his ego, and that being all that one needs to do to get SFB on one’s side – he got what he needed.

  140. 140.

    japa21

    @Steeplejack:  Right on one count.  The administration did hold back a lot on what it was sending Kyiv and it has impacted the current situation.

    Other than that, total drivel.

  141. 141.

    Jay

    @Sid:

    they should be able to replace some equipment, but they won’t.

    NATO Countries other than the US, have sent 886 tanks to Ukraine, upgraded T-64s, upgraded T-72’s, PT-91’s, Leopard I’s, Leopard I I’s, Challengers and AMX-10RC tank destroyers.

    The US sent 31 M1A1 Abrams, (not the upgraded M1A2), out of the 3700 M1A1’s and M1A2’s in storage.

    Some of the European NATO Countries that sent tanks and F-16’s didn’t even have tanks and F-16’s, they worked out deals to buy them and upgrade them from other European NATO Countries.

  142. 142.

    Lyrebird

    @Dangerman: Hi, were you considering a VitaMix etc?  Don’t know whether you saw my reply, but if so, I apologize that the website no longer offers many recipes w/o some kind of subscription.  The notion of a smoothie with cottage cheese in it doesn’t work for me, but for people who can digest milk products & need a balanced meal drink, interesting…

    Best wishes with everything!

  144. 144.

    Trollhattan

    @Steeplejack: I’d love this nitwit to go with me down to the border–TJ, Mexicali, Campo, she can name the place–then demonstrate for me and the cameras how “open” it truly is. WTF is with these people and their lizard brains?

    No lizards harmed in the filming of this metaphor.

  146. 146.

    Ruckus

    @Dangerman:

    I want to leave this world the same way I came in. Sure, I won’t be crying, screaming or crapping all over the place but buried in the nude sounds just crude enough – and as a bonus NO TIE!

    BTW I’ve heard that is not a bad likeness of you…….

  148. 148.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jackie:

    Barr voting for TIFG; I hope this means he KNOWS TIFG’s gonna lose biggly in the state he votes in, so his vote means nada. OR he lives in a Blue state and his vote, again won’t matter.

    But the example’s still important.  Barr’s saying that Dump trying to overthrow the government and turn us into an autocracy matters less than the other guy being a…[shudder]…Democrat.

    Wavering GOP voters in tossup states will hear that message.

  149. 149.

    Trollhattan

    @Jay: IIUC the big shortages are artillery shells, SAM missiles, antitank weapons. Maybe even rifle ammo.

    Tanks get blowed up too, but not at the rate of Russia’s.

  152. 152.

    Steeplejack

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Nitter link so people can read the whole thread. Contains comedy gold.

    @ChicksRule: “Okay, mushroom dick, mushroom dick, spray tan, diaper meme . . . hold on, this one’s really good.”

  156. 156.

    Subsole

    @lowtechcyclist:

    The Russians paint the letter Z on their vehicles as a visual identified to prevent friendly fire.

    This is pretty important, because both sides are using variations of the same equipment (e.g. T-72 tanks).

  157. 157.

    Ruckus

    @Trollhattan:

    When I worked in pro sports full time I traveled 8-9 months a year almost every week for events and stayed in hotels and ate in restaurants far, far more than I did at home. I avoided Cracker Barrel as much as possible but there were places that it was about the best restaurant in town. (And yes, that does not say a lot about those towns!) I haven’t eaten been in one since I left that job, almost 20 yrs ago. And I’m a better person for it.

  158. 158.

    sab

    @Trollhattan: Whole power station supporting a major city blowed up because Russians had 5 more missiles to attack than Ukraine had to defend.

    I am deeply ashamed to be American, since we cannot keep our word anymore.

    Patriotism used to stop at the border. Now that is where partisanship becomes incandescent.

  160. 160.

    Baud

    @sab:

    Dems supported Bush in the polling immediately after 9/11, and the Republicans thought to themselves, “suckers.”

  161. 161.

    Prometheus Shrugged

    @Trollhattan: Wasn’t there a Michelin starred restaurant in that same strip mall with the The Cracker Barrel,  or at least close by (can’t remember the name now–I grew up there but haven’t been back since ~2019–I want to say “The Kitchen”)?  I thought that was genius juxtaposition–fine dining, sandwiched between Cracker Barrel and Denny’s. It was guaranteed to earn a Michelin star by sheer comparison.

  162. 162.

    wjca

    @TBone: financial aid to Ukraine has mostly been spent right here in the U.S. making new ammo to replace the old ammo we send them.  It’s economic stimulus 101.

    Which may contribute to Republican opposition.  Why give Biden a “win” by (further) improving the economy?

  163. 163.

    Jay

    @Trollhattan:

    Tanks are dominantly used in Ukraine by the Ukrainian’s as indirect fire, artillery. Ukraine is also running out of artillery barrels, and those take a long time to make

    All the rest of NATO had less than 1/3rd  the number of modern tanks in active service, and modern and older models in storage, than the US has of M1A1’s and M1A2’s in storage, and the US only decided to send those few tanks after everybody else had already sent tanks.

    The US has 480 Patriot systems in service, 826 in storage, and sent 1, Germany had 11, and they sent 2, with one more on the way.

  164. 164.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Jeffro:

    What that shows is that Barr has a problem with doing the right thing, instead preferring to do the wrong thing because of party loyalty. That is absolute proof of how unfit he is for any public office. Someone who is easily influenced by ‘feelings’ should never be put into a position of power.

    If you can’t do the right thing no matter the issue then you are unfit for any purpose.

  165. 165.

    Geminid

    @WaterGirl: I thought the crack about Larry Hogan taking several seats was a way of saying he has a big butt. And Hogan is a wide guy.

    I can’t say I approve of this type of message, but it’s still kind of funny.

  167. 167.

    Jay

    @wjca:

    a large number of those arms factories are n Red States Red Districts with Red* Senators and Reps.

    Red* Senators and Reps are not shy about taking credit for stuff they voted against.

    *Red as in ruZZian.

  168. 168.

    Quadrillipede

    @gene108: Ukraine’s population is 38 million. Russia’s population is 144 million.

    I took a five-minute break to do some research, and if Wikipedia is to be believed, in 1970 the population of the US was around 203,212,000 and Vietnam’s was 44,928,000. Which gave the US a larger population delta than Russia currently enjoys. Which may not mean anything, but seems pertinent to the discussion…

  169. 169.

    hueyplong

    Kind of surprising that anyone might contemplate the possibility of Bill Barr acting in good faith about anything, such that it would be possible to be “disappointed” by some statement he makes.

    “Shitbird Declares for Trump” is hardly a news story.

  174. 174.

    wjca

    @gene108: Ukraine’s population is 38 million. Russia’s population is 144 million.

    That’s the advantage Russia has.

    Might be more teling to compare men of military age.  (Subtracting out the tens of thousands of them who exited Russia to escape the draft.)

  176. 176.

    Trollhattan

    @Prometheus Shrugged:

    Good memory. The Kitchen lives! Moved to new quarters on Broadway south of downtown, across from the scenic Historic Sacramento Cemetery.

    Dine with a Crocker.

  177. 177.

    Jay

    @wjca:

    That one would be a hard one to do.

    Ukraine takes volunteers of almost any age based on fitness levels, and conscripts on age, (27-35). Ukraine wants their young to have families. Ukraine has no draft for reservists/conscripts who have aged out, (over 35)

    ruZZia takes any volunteer willing to sign a contract, empresses foreign workers, runs bait and switch ops on foreign workers, and conscription is 18- 57. If you were once in the Soviet/ruZZan military and are 57 or younger, you can be drafted, despite having already served your conscription service.

    It’s apples to oranges.

  178. 178.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @moops: Russian military is so drained and committed that you could defend the rest of Europe with handguns at this point.  ​

    Defend?? DEFEND???? Pan Bóg, the Polish Army is all but sending balloons on the prevailing eastward winds to drop buckets of leaflets in Red Square reading

    пожалуйста, пересекайте мои границы!

    (pleeeez cross our border) – they crave another crack at the Rooskies & are supremely confident (in classic cocksure Polish fashion) their armor would be rolling down Tverskaya Ulitsa in four days’ time (taking an extra day to string up Lukashenko from a convenient lamppost on their way through Minsk)…

  181. 181.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @TBone: ​I did a guy-in-the-street interview once with IIRC the local Faux Noise outlet asking if I supported foreign aid. Of course, I snapped – don’t you realize all those dollars are spent right here in the USA?

  182. 182.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Cacti: Spoiler: There’s no such thing as a moderate in a fascist party.

    Or a socialist in National Socialism. Cf. Strasser, Gregor, who left the NSDAP in March 1933 and was murdered during the Night of the Long Knives 15 months later.

  184. 184.

    Miss Bianca

    Well, whoever wrote that “Moscow Marge is a idiot” OP-ed for Fox is too big a lying sack of shit and a idiot in her own right for me to take any pleasure in it, even counting any obligatory Schadenfreude over Repub on Repub violence into the mix.

  186. 186.

    TBone

    @wjca: of course, they shoot us ALL in the foot at every opportunity just to be complete assholes at all times.  Jerome Powell up next…

  188. 188.

    karen marie

    I am screaming with laughter that Fox News is going after Empty Green.  If you scroll down in the story, they have posted one of the worst photos of her I have ever seen.  You can see the texture on her neck, her face looks bloated, and, boy, does she look unhappy!

    To be sure, not all Republicans approve of spending billions more to arm Ukraine, especially since our own border remains wide open; many in the GOP wanted Johnson to demand border enforcement in exchange for support of Kyiv.

    Is Liz Peek – the author of this opinion – is apparently unaware that there was a bipartisan immigration bill back in February 2024 but “Republicans in both the House and Senate yielded to objections from their all-but-certain presidential nominee, former president Trump.”

    February – for Fox viewers – is so long ago that it may as well not have existed.

  190. 190.

    Ruckus

    @Jay:

    Might there be some concern that if we supply massive amounts of military equipment that we might be considered effectively fighting Russia?

    1. And did you expect shitforbrains to want to support a country fighting Russia?

    2. I’m not saying we shouldn’t, I’m saying that there is more to think about in a worldly sense, all things considered, than a quick decision to go all in might affect.

  191. 191.

    Bokonon

    @RaflW: One doesn’t imagine that House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R–OK-04 … home of Fort Sill) is a shrinking violet. But he and many others have let MTG run roughshod over them. A shitshow of weak men who pretend to be strong.

    The pro-Russian stuff came from many directions, but the chief source of mainstreaming it was Fox News.

    Tucker Carlson spent some of his broadcasts openly parroting the Kremlin’s messaging. With an eager audience of millions, who then carried it to millions more.

  192. 192.

    Bokonon

    @Miss Bianca: Well, whoever wrote that “Moscow Marge is a idiot” OP-ed for Fox is too big a lying sack of shit and a idiot in her own right for me to take any pleasure in it, even counting any obligatory Schadenfreude over Repub on Repub violence into the mix.

    You have to go through a whole lot of effort and establish your conservative credentials and hatred of the Democrats in an undeniable way … before you can level any criticism on the GOP or its members.  First principles, after all.

  194. 194.

    whatsleft

    @Baud: An excellent opportunity to teach my 2nd grade students how the things the leaders say is so different than what they do, and they should pay attention to what leaders do instead of what they say 😉

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