Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

In after Baud. Damn.

The lights are all blinking red.

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

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Books are my comfort food!

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

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

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

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Late Night Open Thread: From the FAFO Files

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Late Night Open Thread: From the FAFO Files

(Matt Davies via Gocomics.com)

Remember JOKeefe-III whining all over social media last week that he was ‘not suicidal’ but might ‘be forced to disappear’? Well, looks like he hoped to preempt discussion of his latest fvckup:


From the local GoErie newsite (which includes a detailed report on the whole disgraceful episode):

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Tuesday Late Night Open Thread

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Maybe a little levity is in order after a very long day?

Jared Moskowitz is very good at this.

This made me laugh.

This made me cheer.

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War for Ukraine Day 713: Republican Dysfunction, Intransigence, & Bad Faith Have Placed Ukraine in a Hard Place

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Three quick housekeeping notes: 1) I have gotten ahold of both PatrickG and Larime, thanks for those trying to ensure I made contact. 2) Larime is back up and running as an artist after the loss they suffered back at the end of 2023. They’re currently looking for commissions, which is why I wanted to make contact. I’m going to have the Dog Lanterns’ portraits done, as well as those of their illustrious predecessors. I’ll post pictures once Larime gets everything done. If you’re looking for pet portraits, they’re looking for commissions! 3) I’m going to do tonight’s post a bit differently. No location by location run down. I’m going to start with President Zelenskyy’s address, then after the jump switch into how the GOP House majority caucus’s and the GOP Senate minority caucus’s dysfunction, intransigence, bad faith, and complete subservience to Trump is causing very negative second, third, and fourth order effects for the United States among allies, partners, competitors, hostile foreign actors, and non-state adversaries. Then, of course, we’ll finish with Patron!

When I was walking the Dog Lanterns this evening someone was walking their golden retriever and a JRT puppy and I had to resist the temptation to ask if they – the human and the two dogs – had heard the good news of Patron the Sapper Dog from Chernihiv.

Before we get started on that I do want to note that Russia bombarded civilian targets in Kharkiv again today:

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

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Tuesday Night Open Thread

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I have a pizza in the oven so I thought I would start writing this to keep me from opening the oven like a savage and checking. At any rate, it’s nice to see that for once the Republicans seems to be getting credit/blamed for the fecal art that is their behavior on Capitol Hill, and it saddens me to see the RNC in such a mess. Certainly Glenn Greenwald will be publishing their emails soon.

In other news I have quickly adopted the Arizona habit of acting like anything below 60 degrees is freezing, and all my joints hurt because of the rain storm. Had some crazy winds for a bit, too.

That’s it for me tonight. Tired.

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Open Thread: You May Ask Yourself — How Did We Get Here?…

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Once in a lifetime. Don’t agree with every one of Mr. Nichols’ comments (frankly, I doubt Nichols does), but yeah:

… We’ve had some odd elections in American history; in 1976, for example, an obscure former Georgia governor ran against a sitting president whom no one had actually elected. (The vice president was also an unelected appointee.) In 2000, the son of a former senator and the son of a president ran against each other. But in 2024, we are heading into a rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden that promises to be weirder than any presidential election we’ve ever experienced. Let’s review where things stand.

On the Democratic side, Biden is facing a reversal of the laws of political gravity, mostly because so many American voters are now ruled by vibes and feelings rather than facts. By any standard, Biden’s first term is perhaps as consequential and successful as Ronald Reagan’s first four years. With achievements including holding together a NATO coalition in the face of genocidal Russian aggression and an economic soft landing almost no one thought possible, Biden should be running far ahead of any Republican challenger—and light years beyond Trump.

And yet, Biden is not only struggling with Trump; he’d likely lose to almost any other Republican nominee. Why? Well, he’s old, apparently. (Unlike, say, 77-year-old Trump, or 76-year-old Joe Manchin.) And people are still mad about the economy, which continues to torment them with its low inflation, low unemployment, declining mortgage rates, and high growth. As my friend Jonathan V. Last notes, this is a “mass economic delusion,” and there’s not much Biden can do about it…

More to the point, barring an unforeseeable event, the 2024 election is set: Biden is going to face Trump again. In yet another sign of the public’s lack of seriousness, most Americans claim not to want this rematch, but it’s time to stop wringing our hands over those objections. (We also need to stop talking about third parties; the 2024 election, like every presidential election, will be binary.) American voters engage in this whining and complaining in every election cycle, a ritual in which many citizens—after refusing to pay attention to politics and staying away from primaries and off-year elections—demand to know who keeps saddling them with such poor electoral options. Americans ask this with clockwork regularity, despite the abundant presence of mirrors in their homes…

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HA HA HA

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The Mayorkas impeachment vote just failed because four turncoat RINOS joined with the Democrats to vote “no”.  The traitor list follows:

Reps. Blake D. Moore (Utah), Mike Gallagher (Wis.), Tom McClintock (Calif.) and Ken Buck (Colo.)

I was pretty sure they’d get this done if they were going to bring it to the floor for a vote, but Rev. Johnson is no Nancy Pelosi when it comes to counting votes, so, again, hahahahahaha.

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Meanwhile, in Nevada…

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Per NPR — “Here’s what you need to know about today’s Nevada presidential primary”:

Democratic and Republican voters in Nevada head to the polls today for the “first-in-the-West” primary election.

Nevada is one of six swing states that will get outsized attention in the general election and is the first swing state to vote early, making it a testing ground for the candidates, even if the races aren’t that competitive on paper.

Democrats and Republicans are racing to close the margins in November. In 2020, President Biden won the state by less than 3% of the vote. Now, Democrats on the ground plan to use the results to gauge how to focus their efforts to court voters…

It’s going to be a different process Tuesday than it has in the past due to changes made 2021.

That’s when the state implemented several new election laws that implemented all-mail voting, expanded voter registration and moved the presidential contests from party-run caucuses to state-run primaries.

On Tuesday, both Republicans and Democrats will vote in the primary, as is state law.

But Republicans will have another opportunity to vote later this week — because the Nevada Republican Party, who wanted to do a caucus, like they did before, pushed back against the 2021 laws. In order to “protest” the state-run primary, the party will be hosting their own caucus on Thursday. Per the rules, candidates participating in the caucus cannot also have their name on the ballot of the primary.

As a result, former President Donald Trump will only be an option in the Thursday caucus and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley will only be an option to primary voters. Still, no law prohibits registered Republican voters from participating in both contests.

And there is an additional catch: Only the caucus awards delegates, which makes Trump the de facto winner — as the only viable candidate — before any votes are even cast.

The messaging from the state Republican Party runs counter to efforts from the Republican National Committee, which is instead urging Republicans to vote early in 2024…

Republicans in Disarray!

Meanwhile, among the sane people…

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