This Heather Cox Richardson interview with Angus King is something:
Heading to happy hour at a local place because they have really cheap entrees and Joelle wants a margarita. Talk to you all later.
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Old School
I hear Costa Rica prisons have good margaritas.
Omnes Omnibus
@Old School: I wouldn’t toss Costa Rico into that mix. El Salvador is enough.
Elizabelle
Watching it. In a sane country, The Heritage Foundation would be declared a terrorist group, for all the damage they have designed.
WaterGirl
@Old School: I loved how Van Hollen called them out on their fake margarita bullshit! Guessing they won’t enjoy having been mocked, I would like to be the fly on the wall for the next conversation between the presidents.
Baud
Apparently this was on Fox
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Via The Independent, Adam Silverman’s old “pal” Seb Gorka had this fascist garbage to spew on Newsmax:
Trump’s counterterrorism czar says Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s supporters could be charged with ‘aiding and abetting’
He’s just asking questions! According to Gorka, all of us evil libtards are disobeying the Great Leader and deserve to be punished for defending a man with legal status here who was sent to a concentration camp in a foreign country after being denied due process
ETA: That Newsmax headline is like looking into another universe: “Media Twists Gang Member into “Maryland Father”
billcoop4
Fucking Magyar.
BC
Old School
@Omnes Omnibus: Damn. Messed that up. It was a long day.
Chief Oshkosh
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Now THERE is a motherfucker who needs to self-deport to Mars.
Martin
First (11th now?) they came for Ms. Rachel…
This is in response to a fundraiser she did with Save The Children. She makes videos for toddlers.
Mathguy
King’s mention of Madison’s 47th Federalist Paper had the right label for the shitgibbon: tyrant. What we are experiencing is tyranny. I think people understand the tyrant/ tyranny label better than calling him and his minions fascists.
Jackie
This is effed up:
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I’ve been thinking for a while now with this Garica mess that what started it was Trump watching the movie Sicario, made a fist with his baby hands and said “This is how it’s done” while ignoring the movie was really about how fucked up and pointless the War on Drugs is.
If Trump really wanted to end the drug problem in the US he would put Don Jr into rehab. No demand, no drug gangs.
satby
I would love a margarita right now. Tell Joelle have one for me.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Chief Oshkosh:
He’s loathsome. Has no business in government in any position, at any level
RepubAnon
It’s definitely half past margarita time.
WaterGirl
@Baud: On FOX????
Martin
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: I’m increasing of the view that guys like Garcia were there to fill a plane so they could exfiltrate MS-13 leaders away from US justice and have the story be about regular deportations and not helping a fugitive escape justice.
WaterGirl
@Martin: They are going too far, to the point of ridiculousness. Do they have any idea how they look to normal people?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Martin:
Imagine actually saying that a person who says, “Hey, Palestinian children shouldn’t suffer, that’s really screwed up.” is “antisemitism” and is spouting “Hamas-aligned propaganda.” and that person should be investigated by the US DOJ
Utter madness
WaterGirl
@Mathguy: Tyrant is even better than tyranny.
Everyone has had a boos or someone in their life who was a tyrant.
That makes it personal. Visceral.
satby
@Baud: Jessica is their token voice of reason, she exists as liability defense for Fox. If they get sued they can run clips of her being all factual.
Jackie
@WaterGirl:
Normal people aren’t paying attention. They’re blissfully oblivious for the most part.
FFOTUS and his Deplorables are counting on that.
Jackie
Some happy news: Former Rep. Barbara Lee is projected to win her special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, CA!
Doug R
@WaterGirl:
They’re WEIRD
cmorenc
@Jackie:
If accounts that the dramatic tarriff impact on the reduction of imports at shipping ports and steep dropoff in demand for truck transports of said goods are true, normal people walking while oblivious of Trump’s negative impact on their own quality of life are about to have a rude awakening soon as they visit stores and find goods they are long accustomed to being cheap and plentiful being scarce and expensive.
I also agree with BJers who are recently commenting that labeling Trump a “tyrant” rather than a “fascist” will resonate much more strongly and effectively with normal folk – a fascist is someone from long ago in a history book, a tyrant is someon everyone has experienced personally in their own lives, and will provoke a far more visceral reaction.
cain
@Jackie:
Kind of forced to pay attention because their wallet is screaming bloody murder.
Ohio Mom
I sure hope HCR and King are right that the tide will turn before the summer is over.
Gretchen
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): And Miss Rachel didn’t talk about Palestine on her show, which is for toddlers. She did a fundraiser for children in conflict zones, including Gaza, and wrote sympathetically about Gaza on social media.
She started her show because her son had a speech delay and she didn’t find many resources to help him. She does a lot of speaking slowly, showing how her mouth moves to make a sound. She also does other toddler content like colors and shapes. Real political stuff.
I’ve watched hours and hours of her show because my grandson also has a speech delay, and loves her.
Timill
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Simple it is: if you love America, you insist on due process for all. If you prefer lettres de cachet, you hate America and what it stands for.
Elizabelle
@Gretchen: The “enemies” this ridiculous administration is choosing! Miss Rachel has a following.
First they came for Big Bird, and I did nothing. Then they came for Miss Rachel …
Jackie
@cain: Ahhhh, but FFOTUS is claiming egg prices are suddenly too low!
When normal people start rebelling, then we’ll see. I haven’t noticed any headlines about normal people rebelling as of now. I do see FFOTUS’ ratings going down, but no real red sirens screaming. My normie relatives are mostly silently bellyaching, but not actively complaining.
Chief Oshkosh
Another huge nail in the coffin of the good old USA. DOGE may have frozen ALL payments of NIH research grants. ALL, not just to Harvard, Columbia, Brown, etc.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sic-doge-transit
Not everything is in focus yet, but sources in addition to Josh are saying it’s happening.
They Call Me Noni
@Elizabelle: Has anyone checked in on Elmo?
They Call Me Noni
@Gretchen: My great granddaughter is a big fan too. Here in this house Miss Rachel and Bluey rock!
Jackie
Heh. Per RawStory:
“’Complete meltdown’: Top Pentagon staffers fired as ‘chaos’ engulfs Hegseth’s inner circle.”
Scout211
Nuff said.
Elizabelle
@They Call Me Noni: Elmo is in the resistance. And Pikachu is marching.
bbleh
Lol apparently now the Righteous Smackdown of Ee-leetist Harvard was … a mistake?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html
And the REAL problem is that Harvard isn’t calling the right people to make it okay.
Trump Administration Backs Down In Harvard Fight
MagdaInBlack
@bbleh: jfc
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Baud: It occurs to me that in 2019 Mr. Garcia defeated this regime’s first term. Is it not probable that this entire sadistic cosplay experience has been laid at Mr. Garcia’s door simply because this president pathologically needs to “win?”
Jay
Has Xi called yet?
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Somebody should ask Mr. Gorka who it is destroying America’s economy right now. Hint: it is not any liberal or progressive. Actions speak louder than words, Mr. Gorka. This regime’s actions display an obvious contempt and outright hatred for our country and all of us. Quite frankly, this regime’s actions against farmers and Medicaid reveal a deep seated loathing against its own voters.
Martin
@bbleh: So, Harvards response was almost certainly not just thrown together in a few hours. Even if things played out as the administration claims, it looks like Harvard was already rejecting whatever requests were coming out of that task force.
MagdaInBlack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Newsmax is always the “Upside-Down.”
Yes, I watch some of that slop too.
NotMax
No 7-11 nearby that sells ’em in cans?
:)
(For the record, tequila is the one type of hooch i cannot abide.)
bbleh
@Martin: I certainly haven’t seen anything to suggest that letter, though surprisingly extreme, was some kind of bolt from the blue. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the people who drafted it, and the senior people who signed it, were following what they thought were the Orders Of The Day.
And yeah, letter or no, what they’re demanding in general from Harvard — and others — is unacceptable. That they’re holding the 75-plus-year scientific research partnership between the federal government and US universities hostage to their childish and bigoted demands is both insulting to academic inquiry and deeply detrimental to the country’s welfare.
Buncha stupid bigoted goons. Like their supporters.
frosty
Mi tambien. A bad experience in college. A year later someone gave me a shot and I tossed it within minutes. Never again.
Mai Naem mobile
@NotMax: has Anne Laurie posted recently? I hope she’s okay and just taking time off to recover from her respiratory stuff.
cain
@Scout211:
You voted in a Fox News host to run your military. 🙄
NotMax
@Mai Naem mobile
Me no know.
coin operated
@bbleh:
That deserved to be repeated!!!
Ruckus
@Ohio Mom:
Most humans have a breaking point.
Losing your country to a pompous arrogant jackass (even one elected to the highest office) is not in the makeup of this country. We supposedly have road blocks in place to stop this. But Angus King has really hit the nail on the head, that we are not that far away from it happening or at least having it screw this country right into the ground.
We have to demand to and from our congress critters that we are falling into deep, deep shit and it is going to take a lot to pull us out of the free fall that ends in that pile that none of us want to end up in.
On my part, I worked and paid into SS for basically almost 60 years so that I’d have a decent amount every month. And I do. But if they destroy Social Security (and everything else) ALL OF US will be in deeper than most can imagine. A country is no longer just a place where someone lives. It is where food is grown, it is where wages are earned, it is where old farts retire, it is where children are educated so that the workforce can continue to exist and food can be grown and paid for and on and on and on and on. And on.
A society exists because we all work towards the future, making it work, making it better, not towards destroying it. Which is what shitforbrains is doing. He has always wanted more than he has, more than he has ever come close to earning, but his skills to be a normal human are non existent. And his “friends” want it all, control, money, prestige, power – everything. And in a democracy that is the largest and worst kind of thievery that exists.
Ramona
@bbleh: Ahahahahahaha! Are we sure this is NYT and not The Onion?
Ramona
@frosty: my stomach turns just seeing the t-word! Ugh!
frosty
@Ramona: It took me awhile before I could smell a lemon without feeling queasy!
Ramalama
@cmorenc: a complete tyrant. Yes, I agree.
brantl
@Omnes Omnibus: Costa Rico?