Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

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

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

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Pets by request – realbtl – Changes

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All my life I’ve medium to large dogs including a genetic freak #125 German Shorthair Pointer.

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On The Road - realbtl - Changes 1
  1. Picture 1 is my last 2, Sioux and Jada.  Sioux was about 6 when I rescued her and had never bonded with anyone.  A 500 ,mi overnight back home attached her to me big time.  Jada was a wanna be show dog who didn’t like people but liked Sioux and me.
  2. When I had to get my son to load Jada in the car for her last ride I decided at 73 big dogs were a thing of the past so I looked for a couple of months and found a rather fiesty Pom mix, pound name Pipsqueak.  After about 10 min I decided this did not reflect who he is so I renamed him Bear.  It’s nice having a 12 pounder to scoop up.  He’s good down to about 0º and loves his walks winter of summer.

Republican Politics Open Thread: Who Goes Nazi, Sen. Vance?

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Republican Politics Open Thread: Who Goes Nazi, Sen. Vance?

(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com)

The above tweet seemed so pat that I had to go check the source. Sure enough, back in 1941, when too many Americans were complaining that The Europeans have no claims on American assistance, and besides, are we sure Hitler doesn’t have the right idea about dealing with Those People?, Dorothy Parker Thompson wrote about the people who would be just as happy to wear a swastika armband. Who Goes Nazi? :

… The saturnine man over there talking with a lovely French emigree is already a Nazi. Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity. His brilliant gifts won for him successively government positions, partnership in a prominent law firm, and eventually a highly paid job as a Wall Street adviser. He has always moved among important people and always been socially on the periphery. His colleagues have admired his brains and exploited them, but they have seldom invited him—or his wife—to dinner.

He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him—he despises, for instance, Mr. B—because he knows that what he has had to achieve by relentless work men like B have won by knowing the right people. But his contempt is inextricably mingled with envy. Even more than he hates the class into which he has insecurely risen, does he hate the people from whom he came. He hates his mother and his father for being his parents. He loathes everything that reminds him of his origins and his humiliations. He is bitterly anti-Semitic because the social insecurity of the Jews reminds him of his own psychological insecurity.

Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known. He has an ambition, bitter and burning. It is to rise to such an eminence that no one can ever again humiliate him. Not to rule but to be the secret ruler, pulling the strings of puppets created by his brains. Already some of them are talking his language—though they have never met him.

There he sits: he talks awkwardly rather than glibly; he is courteous. He commands a distant and cold respect. But he is a very dangerous man. Were he primitive and brutal he would be a criminal—a murderer. But he is subtle and cruel. He would rise high in a Nazi regime…

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War for Ukraine Day 875: 95 Ukrainian POWs Are Returning Home From Russian Captivity!

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Quick housekeeping note: Nothing significant to report in regard to Rosie. She’s still doing very well in her week off between treatments. Thank you all for the good thoughts, kind words, prayers, and donations.

Nice to have some good news to start off with for a change.

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier this evening. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

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I May Quit My Day Job and Just Watch This All Day (oh and Loose Cannon Given Notice of the Jack Smith Appeal)

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I may just quit my day job and watch this over and over and over.

Happy to see this.

Can we maybe not talk about you know what in this thread?

(Mostly) Open Thread

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Donald Trump Is a Low-Life Piece of Shit Who Has No Business Operating a Power Toy, Let Alone Being President of the United States

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I’m not even going to link to the media outlet that posted this article.

Nor am I going to post the photograph.

Anyone who isn’t working their behind off to get Biden elected either needs to wake up or get their priorities straight.

Let’s set an example for folks who may not have figure out how to help yet.

What is everyone here doing?  (I know you guys are donating through Balloon Juice, and we are making a difference there.)

Open thread.

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Nomination Updates

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This is a Texas Mickey. Have your Canadian friends explain it.

Jaime Harrison announced that Democratic nomination vote will be complete by August 5 due to this:

In June, Ohio passed a bill to move its deadline from Aug. 7 to Sept. 1. But because that law technically does not take effect until Sept. 1, the DNC said they are keeping their timeline of a pre-convention virtual roll call in place due to concern of litigation. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose suggested earlier this month that Sept. 1 deadline to certify a candidate would stand.

In other nomination news, Adam Schiff has formally called for Biden to drop out, after a poll showing 2/3 of Democrats want Biden to quit was released.

57% of American adults say that Trump should withdraw from the race and allow the GOP to name a replacement. Meanwhile, 73% of Republicans say that Trump should remain in the race.

In stark contrast, only 35% of Democrats say that Biden should remain in the race.

Moreover, nearly half of Democrats are not very or not at all confident that Biden has the mental capability to serve as president, up from a third in a February poll. 27% of Democrats are extremely or very confident in his ability to be an effective president, down from 40% in the February poll.

I was listening to the Citycast Denver podcast and Rep Diana DeGette (CO-1), who has Pat Schroeder’s old seat in Congress, said that Biden is in until he’s out, and pivoted to talking about how Biden can beat Trump.  Obviously that garnered no headlines.

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Trump and Vance, MD

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Here’s some wisdom from Dr. Trump, shared with fellow scientist RFK Jr:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s son, Bobby Kennedy III, posted a video of a phone call between Kennedy and former President Donald Trump in which the former president appeared to endorse false theories about the safety of vaccines. […]

In the video, Trump can be heard discussing the amount of doses of vaccines that are scheduled for children, and suggested that after taking a high volume of vaccines, “you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically.”

“When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is, like, 38 different vaccines and it looks like it’s been for a horse. Not a, you know, 10-pound or 20-pound baby,” Trump says on the call. “And then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically. I’ve seen it too many times.”

Trump also appeared to express some skepticism toward public health professionals who accurately state the recommended immunization schedule for children is safe and effective, saying, “And then you hear it doesn’t have an impact, right?”

Here’s how Politico laundered reported the story:

Former President Donald Trump likely wouldn’t try to scale back on recommended childhood vaccines in a potential second term despite a leaked video of him Tuesday suggesting otherwise, a former Trump official says, Chelsea and Lauren report.

Could these fuckers be any more in the tank for Trump?  Real, honest reporting would state that nobody knows what Trump would do because he’s the human embodiment of chaos in an ill-fitting suit and a bad comb-over.

Dr. Vance is also on the prowl for pregnant women’s medical records:

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Donald Trump’s pick for vice presidential nominee, pressured federal regulators last June to kill a privacy rule that prevents police from accessing the medical records of people seeking reproductive services, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. The rule was designed to prevent state and local police in anti-abortion states from using private records to hunt down and prosecute people who cross state lines in search of abortion services.

Only 28 Members of Congress signed a letter to the HHS secretary demanding access to uterine records.  You’d think there would be more, but even a cracked pot is right a few times a year.

Here’s the thing about ambitious, creepy ass kissers like Vance:  they are all in on whatever will get them ahead.  Vance said Trump was America’s Hitler in 2016-2017, when he was one of the lost boys in never-Trumper Neverland, but then he decided that being MAGA was better for his career, so now he’s an ultra-supreme-MAGA member of the Paw Women’s Uteri Patrol.

(The second piece is via Josh Marshall [paywall])

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