Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

He really is that stupid.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

So many bastards, so little time.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

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

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Found liable for massive fraud, is required to post a massive bond, gets a break, then files a *fraudulent* bond!

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Saturday Night Open Thread: Mocking TFG Is Practically A Civic Duty

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With friends like these…

When it comes to their vehicles of metaphor, the MAGAts love a bandwagon almost as much as they love a tank. They want to believe that TFG is a manly man’s man, one not afraid to grab p*ssy an opportunity whenever it appears. If he looks like a dumb fat old luzer whose only gifts were being born to a rich racist and having a bigly foreign sponsor… they’ll start looking around for a newer, fresher, more consistently Reicht-wing godling to support.

(And Murphy the Trickster God knows, there is never a shortage of such.)

Also, TFG hates being mocked. He is never so mockable as when he’s tantruming about ‘his enemies’ attacking him. With any luck, all these tantrums are doing terrible things to his blood pressure…

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Dem Fundraising Open Thread: Dogs Are Good!

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Not intended as a counter-argument to TaMara’s post, but the dogs would probably argue it was…

Another fundraising spokesdog:

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Late Night Open Thread: Anniversary for A Social-Media Chewtoy

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Give America’s Butter Goblin due credit, he is not gonna give up on his fantasies of American totalitarians attacking poor, persecuted President Putin….

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Our Shamelessly Failed Media

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Just a little amuse-bouche, a friendly beat-sweetener for #NerdProm weekend! (Or maybe a subtle shiv from the reporters who didn’t get invited to the WHCA dinner, rich in easy clip lines for the haterz):

… Some of those covering the most powerful office on the planet say that the storylines, while important, and substantive, can lack flair or be hard to get viewer attention. There is industry-wide acknowledgment that viewership is down. Television outlets have been quick to turn their attention to other stories and bolster other units. There is a sense that the main saga of American politics is taking place outside the confines of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and that the journalists covering it — Donald Trump and the future of democracy — may reap the career rewards.

The Obama press room launched a whole cohort of journalists into media stardom. The Trump press room launched another. The Biden press room?

“I can’t think of any [stars],” said a well-known television news executive. “I don’t really watch the briefings.”

The dulling down of the White House beat is not due to a lack of reportorial talent in the room. Nor has it meant that the work being done hasn’t been important: major stories are being broken regularly on everything from the Covid fight, to the war in Ukraine, to inflation, immigration and legislative battles over the social safety net. Rather, what is happening is the fulfillment of a central Biden promise. Running for office against Donald Trump — the most theatrical, attention-seeking, Beltway-panic-inducing president in living memory — he pledged to make Washington news boring again.

And, well, mission accomplished sir…

How *dare* he! Doesn’t he know who we are?!?

Gone are the Tweets that sent newsrooms scrambling. So long to the five alarm Friday news dumps that had editors frantically rearranging weekend plans. Bye-bye to the massive TV budgets for White House specials and the firehose of publishing deals for books about the administration. NPD BookScan, which tracks book sales in the U.S., said that prominent books about Trump released in his first two years of office outsold Biden books during his first year and a half by, what an official there said was, “essentially 10:1.” A newly released biography about Jill Biden, by two well-respected Associated Press journalists, sold just 250 units in its first week, according to the company.

For the vast majority of Americans, and even plenty of people in Washington, it’s all been a relief — the minute-by-minute churn of presidential politics is no longer so omnipresent and existential in their lives.

“It’s not such a bad thing that there’s a new sense of sobriety in the White House briefing room,” said Eric Schultz, a former deputy press secretary under Obama. “The histrionics probably got out of control. It is serious business… It’s probably good for democracy for this to be less personality based and more about the work.”…

Haberman weeps! (No, srsly…)

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Scheduling

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No doubt WaterGirl will have a post up for this, but you may want to set aside some time now:

…Biden is to address Americans from the White House Roosevelt Room at 9.45 a.m. (1345 GMT) and a source familiar with the planning said he is “expected to provide an update on our efforts to support Ukraine and the assistance we are providing.”

The new arms package was likely to be roughly the same size as an $800 million one announced last week but details were still being worked out, another U.S. official told Reuters earlier…

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Late Night Open Thread: Today’s GOP, Dumber & Dumberer

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JD’s sugar daddy Thiel must’ve finally written a sufficiently generous check:

… Though Trump’s press shop had already written up an endorsement of Vance, a source close to Mandel’s campaign said Thursday that it threw up a last-minute obstacle for the former president to consider: an internal Republican poll conducted by Mandel’s campaign showing that, with Trump’s endorsement, its candidate would be in front with 33 percent of the vote, followed by Matt Dolan and Mike Gibbons tied at 15 percent, with Vance and Timken both at 9 percent.

The poll showed that, even with Trump’s endorsement, Vance would rise to 15 percent support but was still in a three-way tie for second, with Mandel marginally in the lead at 19 percent — a sign that Trump’s endorsement had weight but was not determinative…

Trump has been concerned with Vance, who criticized the former president bitterly in 2016. Vance is also running in about third or fourth place in recent public polling and has barely cracked double digits — a major worry for Trump, who doesn’t want to waste his endorsement, the sources said.

Dolan is the only candidate who is running on a platform that does not seem to be courting the support of the former president. That has bothered Trump immensely and has pushed him to want to pick a winner to ensure that a non-Trump acolyte doesn’t win a state that he won handily in 2020 and 2016…

After NBC News reported that Trump planned to endorse Vance, a slate of GOP officials in Ohio penned a letter to Trump urging him to “not endorse anyone in this race.” Local party officials listed why they thought Trump should hold back on formally endorsing Vance, citing among other things the candidate’s remarks about Trump in 2016…

TFG doesn’t really care about helping his ‘friends’ (temporary allies); he’s all about punishing his (perceived) enemies. And money trumps every other consideration, so…

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Ukraine (So Far) Winning Open Thread: Vulgar Japes

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