Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

I really should read my own blog.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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

Let me file that under fuck it.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

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

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

We will not go back.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

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  8. 8.

    Another Scott

    [ snort! ]

    Meanwhile, … WFTV.com:

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Eleven candidates, mostly incumbents, won legislative races Friday as they did not draw opponents before a qualifying deadline, while the Florida Democratic Party hit a goal of having candidates vie for every seat up for election.

    Two Democrats—former House members Carlos Guillermo Smith of Orlando and Mack Bernard of West Palm Beach—locked up Senate seats, while nine incumbent House members won additional two-year terms.

    Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried touted the party fielding a candidate in every race, after Republicans have controlled the House and Senate since the 1990s.

    “It’s a record-breaking accomplishment for the Florida Democratic Party and a stark contrast to the party we inherited after 2022 — a party Republicans declared ‘dead’ just one year ago,” Fried said in a prepared statement. “Now, we have the momentum.”

    […]

    Something something showing up is 80% of life.

    Good, good.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    All of Trump’s black friends in the photo look so happy and eager to please, don’t they?

    Trump, however, thinks a smile is something you do with your mouth.  He is a sociopath, no genuine emotions, just playing a part.

    Unless greed can be considered an emotion?

  14. 14.

    Scout211

    Trump has so many more black supporters than Biden, just ask Kellyanne Conway.

    It appears crowdflation and alternative facts are once again tools in Trumpworld’s arsenal.

    Kellyanne Conway tried to draw some distinction between Donald Trump and Joe Biden during an appearance on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures, noting that Trump was making outreaches to Black voters.

    You got Donald Trump in Detroit talking to 8,000 people at a Black church,” she told Bartiromo.

    However, what Conway failed to note was that Trump did not speak to 8,000 people nor was the majority of the crowd Black when Trump spoke at 180 Church in Detroit on Saturday.

    A Reuters report noted that the crowd was a diverse mixture of white and Black attendees and “numbered in the hundreds, not thousands, and some attendees said they had just happened upon the scene by chance.” The report also said that the event was not at capacity once it started.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    @Scout211:

    The report also said that the event was not at capacity once it started.

    hmm.  The place was full until Trump arrived, and then people left?  No surprise there!

  19. 19.

    Steve in the ATL

    @WaterGirl: fair point!  There’s also this

    ETA: this album was a favorite of my late stepfather’s, which was ironic because the actual genius with a couple of degrees from Yale was not normally a country music fan.   Maybe because this was outlaw country rather than the corn pone pablum Nashville was puking up at the time?

  23. 23.

    Jackie

    @stinger: I noticed this past week his combover has really thinned out. That’s what happens when you become a felon X 34!

  24. 24.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    “Blacks for Dump” will hold their convention at a phone booth in Milwaukee

  25. 25.

    Steve in the ATL

    @WaterGirl: thank you for not thinking that I look like Willie!  I should probably grow a mustache that would silence a saloon crowd when I stepped through the swinging doors.  Might help with my negotiations!

    One of my college roommates, with 16 years of private school education plus a law degree, named his daughter after Jessi Colter, the lone woman on that album and Waylon Jennings’ then wife.  Decades later; she and my daughter ended up being sorority sisters!

  27. 27.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    A separate Survation poll for Best for Britain, published by The Sunday Times, predicted the Tories would win just 72 seats in the next parliament, compared with 456 for Labour.
    ***

    The Savanta poll, which was carried out from 12-14 June and involved 2,045 adults aged 18 and over, also showed Labour up two points on 46% of the vote.
    ***

    “There’s a real sense that things could still get worse for the Conservatives, and with postal votes about to drop through millions of letterboxes, time is already close to running out for Rishi Sunak.”

    Tick-tock!⏰

  29. 29.

    Another Scott

    I don’t know how I missed this, but it’s been out a few months. Looks like a fascinating read.

    Dan Davies – The Unaccountability Machine:

    When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.

    Management cybernetics was Beer’s science of applying self-regulation in organisational settings, but it was largely ignored – with the result being the political and economic crises that that we see today. With his signature blend of cynicism and journalistic rigour, Davies looks at what’s gone wrong, and what might have been, had the world listened to Stafford Beer when it had the chance.

    [ Insert obvious example of the Challenger disaster, but he understandably doesn’t cover it. ]

    I snagged a copy for my phone.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  32. 32.

    smith

    One aspect of the Felon’s misrepresentations that I think reflects his growing dementia is his trying to claim accomplishments that actually belong to Biden. See this, for instance, from his Detroit visit. This is of course a brazen lie, easily fact-checked (though his cult members won’t bother).

    It’s similar to his claiming a week or so back that he had negotiated a cap on insulin prices, when that was actually done by the Biden administration.  As we know, he lies about everything, so none of this is unexpected,  but it’s telling what it is he lies about.

  35. 35.

    bbleh

    They can win only if we let them.

    “Do not give in to fear! Stand to your posts! FIGHT!”

  36. 36.

    Nukular Biskits

    @Jackie:

    I was a Waylon fan probably because of my father.  My dad was pissed at Willie Nelson due to the rumors that Willie was who had set Waylon up for the cocaine bust in 1997. Dad refused to listen to Willie after that.

  37. 37.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @Baud:

    Fredo Cervantes @FredoCervantes
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    3m
    BREAKING: Mookie Betts has fractured his hand and will be out for some time. No surgery is needed. A huge blow for the #Dodgers

  42. 42.

    Another Scott

    @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:  @Baud:

    I was just thinking yesterday how great baseball players can suddenly end up having all kinds of problems because of a freak injury.  (The one I was thinking of was Nomar getting hit in the wrist while batting.)

    Mookie is a franchise talent.  Here’s hoping he recovers completely.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  44. 44.

    japa21

    @Baud: Heck, they’re this close to missing out on the bye in the playoffs.  And once the Brewers start playing well, they’ll zoom right by the Dodgers.

  50. 50.

    Tony Jay

    I may be wrong, but I don’t see this remake of The Boys From Brazil doing much business with its target audience.

  51. 51.

    Starfish

    @eclare: A lot of the comments people are making in this weird thread make absolutely no sense to me either. Here is a story about Biden ripping into this absolutely corrupt Supreme Court

    Biden predicted that the “next president is likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees,” and if Trump is elected, “he’s going to appoint two more [justices] flying flags upside down,” according to pooled reporters in the room. That’s a reference to Justice Samuel Alito, who has drawn backlash for two controversial flags flown at his homes.

  60. 60.

    RaflW

    That picture was startlingly disturbing. For a second, I thought: Oh, that’s the plan with AI. Five bot Thomas’s to just wreck everything on SCOTUS.

  61. 61.

    Ken

    I wonder if the image is riffing on images the Trump campaign and allies have been releasing, which also allegedly show large crowds of Black supporters. Except when you look closely, you see people with seven fingers or three arms, or palm trees in the background of what’s allegedly the Bronx — so computer-generated images.

  62. 62.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Ken:
     

    palm trees in the background of what’s allegedly the Bronx

    Global warming denier!!!

  63. 63.

    Jackie

    @Leto:

    Haggard says he snapped out of it when he realized that he had been on his houseboat naked with some good-looking woman for five days and had yet to have sex with her, though that was what they were both there for.

    Did Meryl ever put those words to music?😂

  65. 65.

    Steve in the ATL

     

    @Jackie:
     

    he realized that he had been on his houseboat naked with some good-looking woman for five days and had yet to have sex with her

    If I had a nickel for every time…ok, not really.

  67. 67.

    SFAW

    @Baud: ​
     

    The Phillies will probably win it all by acclimation the way they’re going.

    The “Grimace Era” Mets might end up doing something about that.

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