Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

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

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

The revolution will be supervised.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

When we show up, we win.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

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

Wait, what?

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Actions That Don’t Stand Up to Daylight

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There’s plenty of stuff a person with no moral code can get away with, as long as the ‘nice people’ around them are willing to look away. But when those actions are exposed in a larger forum, well… let a thousand Watergates bloom...

Meanwhile, there’s been developments in the ongoing public feud between a couple of the more prominent ‘alt-right activists’; Milo Yiannopoulous ‘leaked’ a tape of ‘dapper Nazi’ Richard Spencer reacting to the murder in Charlottesville. [Shock warning: Spencer uses racist, anti-semitic language.]


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  1. 1.

    Splitting Image

    [Shock warning: Spencer uses racist, anti-semetic language.]

    I think you mean “trigger warning”. It’s… not much of a shock really.

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    Cracks me up that Milo released it. He misses being on TV and thinks the liberal shows will have him on now.

  6. 6.

    zhena gogolia

    @PaulRudnickNY
    12h12 hours ago
    More
    Trump has pivoted from sounding like a bigoted, lying blowhard to shrieking like a terrified howler monkey who doesn’t want to wear his little hat. This is what his supporters call “telling it like it is” or “being real.” They’re going to need earplugs

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    The WB (at least who they think is the WB) has already been named on RW twitter, Jim Hoft and I think maybe twitchy. I’m a bit puzzled by the fact that trump and others keep calling for the media to publish the name and they won’t. Would they be liable to a civil suit? I can’t imagine they’re worried about Barr

    Bradley P. Moss Retweeted Steve Herman
    @ RandPaul if any harm befalls the whistleblower, or someone erroneously identified as the whistleblower, we will not soon forget your call to out them and place them in harm’s way.
    Steve Herman @ W7VOA
    “We know the name of the whistleblower,” says @RandPaul.
    “Do your job and print his name,” he tells the media.

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Charles P. Pierce @ CharlesPPierce
    Now we are talking about his imaginary deal with China. “We can’t let our country go back to hell.”
    “This weakling, Anderson Cooper…”

    does anyone know what Anderson Cooper has to do with our trade relationship with China?
    also, too:

    I’ve been to Rupp Arena about 15 times in my life. This building is not full.
    # TrumpRallyLexington
    “I defeated ISIS”
    He’s sailing. Lou Dobbs said that he is the greatest president in the history of our country.
    “We will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions and we will protect you with pre-existing positions. First time I ever said that. I just thought that up.”

    I’m glad he’s talking about health care

  11. 11.

    Jeffro

    Fuck all the RWNJs, the neo-Nazis, the trumpublicans, the white supremacists…but I repeat myself.

    Everything people need to make a decision, whether it’s about the GOP’s/trumpov’s support for the blessed fascist “alt-right”, or the way Putin pulls trumpov’s strings, or the unending dark-money-funded corruption of every GOP official from trumpov to the town dogcatcher, is right out there in the open. Hell, for about 4-5 years now, it has ALL been out in the open.

    Everything. If he weren’t such an incredible narcissistic freak show fuck-up, surrounded by completely inept dolts, we would be a HUGE world of hurt.

  14. 14.

    Mandalay

    @Mary G:

    He misses being on TV and thinks the liberal shows will have him on now.

    I’m fairly confident Bill Maher will have him back on in a heartbeat, just so they can whine together about “liberal snowflakes” being opposed to the public exchange of ideas.

    Actually Maher would probably be happy to have Spencer on as well.

  17. 17.

    different-church-lady

    @Mary G: Since Twiitter seems to have decided as of today that all of my tech is too obsolete to see pictures, I need to ask what is on page 216.

  18. 18.

    JR

    @Searcher: Part of the reason why that term sunk Hillary is that even the phrasing sounds elitist/awkward.

    All she really needed to say is that Trump runs with a bunch of scumbags.

  19. 19.

    different-church-lady

    @zhena gogolia:

    ….a terrified howler monkey who doesn’t want to wear his little hat…

    Well, they’ve said for years people want a president who’s like themselves…

  22. 22.

    cain

    @Sebastian:
    You can bet that is exactly what it will be. It will be something that kind of alludes to it. He hates blacks and the native americans. He’s despicable.

  23. 23.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Amir Khalid: speaking of which…

    Amichai Stein @ AmichaiStein1
    #BREAKING: FBI arrested a 27-year-old accused white supremacist who had planned to bomb a synagogue in Colorado over the weekend

    DENVER — Federal authorities in Colorado have arrested a man they accused of plotting to blow up a synagogue in Pueblo, a city two hours south of Denver, according to federal court documents.
    The man, identified as Richard Holzer, 27, used several Facebook accounts to promote violence and show support for the Holocaust, writing in July in a private message, for example, that he was “getting ready to cap people,” the documents said.
    The message included a picture of him aiming a long gun while dressed in clothing displaying white supremacy symbols. He told another Facebook user, “I wish the Holocaust really did happen” and, speaking of Jews, “they need to die.”

    Several Facebook accounts.

  24. 24.

    Sebastian

    @cain:

    He is a racist shitstain but he also uses racist statements as distraction from his scandals (see lynching comment recently).

    February is going to be a doozy.

  25. 25.

    Mnemosyne

    @Sebastian:

    His very first Christmas message as President was basically hahahahahahaha SUCK IT, LIBS!, so I’m usually surprised when he shows any decorum at all, no matter how small.

  26. 26.

    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid:

    Did you mean anti-Semitic?

    Sigh. Thank you…. (Why did auto-correct not catch that, when it still bugs me every time I use ‘bleg’ or ‘grift’?)

  27. 27.

    Sebastian

    @Mnemosyne:

    I really think we should introduce the Rev Wright Index or something. Every pundit and politician who was concerned about Obama and doesn’t comment/make a speech about Trump gets labeled as racist and can’t be on TV anymore.

  28. 28.

    Mary G

    @different-church-lady: Rep. Zeldin’s (R) withering cross-examination:

    Zeldin: Did you know this person?
    Amb. Yovanovitch: Yes
    Zeldin: And how — where did you know this person from?
    Amb. Yovanovitch: She had previously worked at the State Department
    Zeldin: And how do you know that person at the State Department?
    Amb. Yovanovitch: Because she worked at the State Department.

    It was funnier before I typed it all out, but I just imagine Hillary going through 11 hours of these idiots without screaming at them and I admire her even more.

  30. 30.

    Jay

    Good morning. Here is a judge who understands what personhood not distorted by oppressive patriarchal mandates means for people and democracy: In Ruling Against Alabama’s Abortion Ban, Federal Judge Doesn’t Mince Words. Thank you Judge Thompson. t.co/9xjsjJ8L9f— Soraya Chemaly (@schemaly) November 4, 2019

  31. 31.

    Jay

    Let’s all remember all the MSM articles that helped mainstream Richard Spencer because he wears khakis, not a white hood. Also, he’s getting divorced from a Russian woman who works directly for Alexander Dugin, that’s some very germane context. t.co/xNFazLraYR— K. Louise Neufeld (@ninaandtito) November 4, 2019

  32. 32.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Trump was bailing them out. Trying to save his loyal fanbase from their own PR disaster. So that they could keep being his trusty, fanatical overton shifters.

    Or the simpler explanation is that Trump is a white supremacist and he hates saying white supremacy is bad and even when he tries ends up betraying himself.

  34. 34.

    cmorenc

    @Honus:

    Im disgusted that Spencer is a UVA alum. But I’m very proud that Sean Doolittle is.

    Every top university has graduated some vile scumbags.
    Harvard – Jared Kushner – Mark Zuckerberg went there but dropped out (but they gave him an honorary degree in 2017)
    Princeton – Ted Cruz
    Dartmouth – Dinesh D’Souza
    etc.

  35. 35.

    Jacel

    @JR: But the only reason Hillary brought up the “Basket of Deplorables” in that private speech to supporters was to speak at greater length about the other basket of Trump supporters.

    But the “other” basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that “other” basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but — he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

    At the time, and ever since, this part of what Hillary said has rarely been noted.

  36. 36.

    patrick II

    Jean Carroll today filed a suit against @realDonaldTrump, alleging he raped her.

    She says she has proof. I seem to remember there was a coat with some stains that has been hanging in her closet and never worn or washed since that day.

  37. 37.

    Msb

    @ Jacel
    I remember that, too. Thanks for giving the whole quote.

    As to Spencer, how is the tape a reaction to Heather Heyer’s murder? Looked like general racist ranting to me. (Did not listen. Read subtitles.)

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