Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Second rate reporter says what?

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

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

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

Books are my comfort food!

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

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

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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They Never Fucking Plan For Anything

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I mean, of course the RNC is being cancelled. Everyone without an (R) behind their name knew it was going to be cancelled. The Democrats decided this MONTHS ago, and thus will be able to hold a good, strong, virtual convention with lots of programming and as much pageantry as is possible in such a setting, and the Republicans will basically have an unscripted zoom meeting and some fucker will Leni Riefenstahl up a zoom meeting for Cheeto Benito.

It’s the same with the coronavirus stimulus. The Democrats passed a bill in the house two fucking months ago, because it was obvious where we would be today (although, it was not entirely obvious that Republicans and Trump would botch this so bad). The Republican caucus in the Senate still does not know what the fuck they are going to do.

It’s literally the same with everything they do. They are reactionaries, and Cleek’s Law is as accurate as the crazification factor. They just want what they want when they want it and then when things go to shit say no one could have predicted and find a way to make things worse or just lie that things aren’t bad.

It’s who they are. It’s what they do.

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  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    No lie told.
    They really thought that forcing open those states was just going to beat down the virus.
    And, show all those blue state crybabies.
    That’s what they thought.?

  2. 2.

    Frankensteinbeck

    McConnell’s reputation for genius strategy is thoroughly undeserved.  He’s a world class asshole who’s good at obstruction because he is such a piece of shit he gleefully does things that are so obviously Wrong no one else would consider them.  He didn’t want to do a stimulus because he hates helping people and hates giving Democrats anything, and he’s watching the polls and now his balls are in a vice, but he still absofuckinglutely hates helping people or cooperating with Democrats, so he’s flailing.

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

    Some guy who the Republicans have basically disowned and/or forgot about.

  4. 4.

    CaseyL

    I still think the GOP may all be enemy agents.  It’s hard to believe they could be *this* clueless; it has to be deliberate.

  5. 5.

    azlib

    This was all too predictable. What is amazing me is McConnel’s negotiating position is a lot worse now than it was 2 months ago. The Dems are in a win-win situation politically. They do not have to give many concessions with the pandemic raging on worse than it was then.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    @rikyrah: “The virus will just go away with the heat, or the cold, or Dear Leader calling it a total loser on Twitter.”

    ?

  7. 7.

    Keith P.

    They’ll probably still be able to get Scott Baio to do a guest appearance.   I bet they can throw together some commemorative Zoom backgrounds for the occasion as well.

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    Bernie-voting friend in Michigan just texted me.

    I mean trump sucks but the bigger concern is that Ruth is gonna croak any minute now and Clarence is gonna retire

    If the Supreme Court is full of trump cronies we fucked for the next 20-40 years

    I wanna reach through my phone!

  10. 10.

    Eljai

    …and the Republicans will basically have an unscripted zoom meeting and some fucker will Leni Riefenstahl up a zoom meeting for Cheeto Benito.

    The first hour will just be pasty white people saying “is this thing on?” with the sound of toilets flushing in the background.

  11. 11.

    West of the Rockies

    @Keith P.: 

    Scott Baio… Good heavens, I forgot about him. Throw in Victoria Jackson, Nugent, Malkin, Milo, Palin, Dennis Miller… Yesterday’s wingnuts have fallen on hard times and faded from media attention.

  12. 12.

    ballerat

    @rikyrah:  I honestly think they thought the virus would kill mostly notwhite people, especially in blue states and especially especially in big cities.

    Which they are still OK about. It’s just that recently it’s hurting more of the people that weren’t supposed to be hurt.

  14. 14.

    FlyingToaster

    @Keith P.: 

    I bet they can throw together some commemorative Zoom backgrounds for the occasion as well.

    I can hardly wait for RateMyRoom to get ahold of these…

  17. 17.

    Roger Moore

    Didn’t their parents ever tell them, “When you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”?  I don’t think my parents ever used those exact words, but they sure as hell made that exact point.

  25. 25.

    John S.

    Wow.

    i just saw the Trump ad with the bad guy kicking down grandma’s door because Joe Biden will defund the police. Coming from an incumbent, it reeks of desperation and flop sweat.

    Just, wow.

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    @NotMax
    Amended.

    Wait until they up the ante to zombie Willie Horton, wearing a ragged, stained “Vote for Joe” T-shirt, slurping granny’s brains.

    //

  29. 29.

    JoyceH

    I do wish that some mayor or governor would arrest some of these paramilitary goons and find out who they are. If the feds aren’t coordinating with the locals, the locals have no idea really whether those guys are federal or some right wing militia. Assuming they’re feds (or contractor mercenaries, another strong possibility), get their names and do some background checks on them. I’ll bet you’d find social media posts from them that would curl your nose hair.

  30. 30.

    frosty

    @HumboldtBlue: Yes!! More Bolivian zampona (pan flute) music!! Have you heard any with the baritone or bass? The low pipes come down to the player’s knees.

  32. 32.

    frosty

    @JoyceH: They’re coming to Albuquerque because the wingnut County sheriff invited them over the governor’s and mayor’s objections. Can the city arrest them? Dunno.

  36. 36.

    patrick II

    Their distaste for planning (too much effort) is why they love macroeconomic libertarian free-market theory — no plans necessary, the free market will make everything turn out ok, just get out of the way. No thinking necessary.

  37. 37.

    BeautifulPlumage

    Speaking of the fed mercenaries, they have arrived in Seattle. Anyone else going to the rally at Green Lake on Sat?

  39. 39.

    JoyceH

    I read in the news that the Portland dads who are showing up at the protests with leafblowers to blow the tear gas back at the feds call themselves Dadtifa.

  41. 41.

    Poe Larity

    You are giving them way too much credit. You always need to assume the worst.

    Put another way, what does Trump know about JAX that we don’t know?

  44. 44.

    oatler.

    “not naturally wicked but, on the contrary, as guileless as any man that ever lived. His great simplicity, however, together with his cowardice, made him the slave of his companions, and it was through them that he at first, out of ignorance, missed the better life and then was led on into lustful and cruel habits, which soon became second nature.”

  45. 45.

    SectionH

    @Frankensteinbeck: Some of us Kentuckians (Le Comte) and ex-inmates (me, for one) have told all y’all on BJ about Mitch repeatedly. In serious detail. tl;dr -He’s a fucking evil sob. There’s nothing else. Just his power, and pain to everyone else.

  46. 46.

    ColoradoGuy

    I’m convinced this level of fucked-upness is not an accident. I mean, really, the CDC wasted SEVEN WEEKS on a failed test, when every single day of pointless delay added a huge number of casualties? Surely SOMEBODY at the CDC understood the concept of exponential growth!?

    And the absurd and tragic absence of PPE, which killed hundreds of healthcare workers, and the criminal Mafia-like seizures of same, disappearing into secret warehouses? And the advice from the same CDC telling the public NOT to wear masks, while everyone in Asia wears them in flu season as a matter of common courtesy?

    After a while, this cascade of failure, with deadly consequences for 140,000 Americans, looks less and less like a long series of accidents and incompetence than something much darker. Just think of the difference if Trump had simply been playing golf and running his usual little scams the last six months; at least 100,000 Americans would still be alive now.

    No, he had to ridicule the entire concept of a worldwide pandemic, and stay on that message for month after month. Looking back, his message discipline was pretty impressive, considering his declining cognitive skills. But that really was the unifying theme of last several months from this administration … nothing to worry about, ignore the media, and if you’re a Real Man, don’t wear that sissy mask. That’s the unifying message, and to give Trump credit, he’s really stuck with it, along with the GOP propaganda machine.

    Who benefits from what amounts to slow national suicide? Not anyone in this country. So … we must look abroad, at adversaries who benefit from weakening the USA. Guess what, one of those adversaries has been loaning the money-losing Trump organization billions of dollars, using Deutsch Bank as a pass-through. And surprise surprise, that same adversary has actually been paying $100,000 death bounties in Afghanistan.

  47. 47.

    Chetan Murthy

    @ColoradoGuy: I also want to believe it’s malice.  But then I remember that basically nowhere in the country, have governors organized testing to use universities, research labs, startups, in a manner like Germany did.  Instead, everywhere governors have relied on commercial testing labs, and when they fall short, on ….. nothing.  There’s a rot in our country, that is far deeper even than Kaiser Pilzkopf, far deeper than the GrOPers.  It’s a rot of incompetence and failing “meritocrats” who can’t be bothered to even shamelessly plagiarize from other successful Western countries.

    I sure don’t have any good answers to this, but I kind of believe it’ll start with fixing our education systems to generate more well-educated people from humble origins: people who know why government and society need to work well, b/c they’ve seen what happens when it doesn’t.

  48. 48.

    Joey Maloney

    Betcha the GOP screw up the security settings for their Zoom meetings and get attacked by dick storms and whatnot.

  49. 49.

    SectionH

    @Chetan Murthy: I come from a long line of teachers, and yeah.  I’m sorry – I so would like to think one of the COVID miniscule silver linings would be that people realize how important schools really are. But I doubt that. Maybe we can get their fucking attention about school issues for a bit when lots of school systems shut down. There’s a great trade-off…

    P.S – it’s malice. Added onto a heaping wtaf.

  51. 51.

    Chetan Murthy

    @SectionH: Self-interested indifference is a form of malice, as we’ve learned when it comes to structural racism.[1]  Indeed, the …. indifference of GrOPer officials to what they’re about to inflict on teachers and other school personnel is sickening.  It speaks volumes about their priorities.

     

    [1] and so much less messy than noisy, sticky, hard-to-deny active malice.

  55. 55.

    Dan B

    A prof from Yale who’s written ‘How Fascism Works’ says that Trump and Bolsonaro and Putin etc. can’t  deal with the pandemic because their only understanding is of friend / loyalist vs.  enemy / other.  The real world throws them for a loop.

  57. 57.

    Dan B

    @ballerat: The Yale prof who wrote the How Fascism Works book says it’s easy to do fascism since all it takes is extreme vetting of loyalists and endless blaming of enemies.

     

    Democracy is much more difficult since it requires working together to confront challenges and to maintain clear shared vision, plus the strategy and tactics to achieve the goals.

  61. 61.

    Brachiator

    I mean, of course the RNC is being cancelled. Everyone without an (R) behind their name knew it was going to be cancelled.

    Trump loyalists thought the Orange Menace was tough because he was going to have the convention anyway. And now he is tough for shutting it down.

  62. 62.

    Ken

    @frosty: Can the city arrest them? Dunno.

    If you mean can they find a reason to arrest them, sure. Jaywalking, broken tail lights, loitering… Just use the laws that are normally used to harass THOSE people.

    If you mean will the cops arrest them, or will the stormtroopers resist successfully, I’m also back to dunno.

  64. 64.

    Rugosa

    @frosty: 
    Frosty and joyceH – I just had a chilling image of clashes between the goons and local police if that were to happen. What chaos is Trump sending us into? I can’t believe this maniac can’t be stopped before November (effectively January) but the Senate will support him to the end.

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