Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

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

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

This fight is for everything.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

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

This really is a full service blog.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

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

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Nobody Said Doing the Right Thing Would Be Easy

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Smile on face, chin held high.

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— Steven T. Dennis (@steventdennis.bsky.social) January 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM

Sometimes, character is what you do when everyone can see you. I know we’re all hurting, still, but if the peaceful transfer of power is important, there’s no ‘unless we really really object to the guy a narrow plurality of our fellow voters chose’ exemption.

I have nothing but respect for Vice President Harris, and for President Biden, for doing what the Constitution requires, regardless of their personal feelings. To quote a philosopher with whom I very seldom agree, Here I stand; I can do no other.

We don’t forget. We don’t, necessarily, forgive. We document every violation and we work to protect the vulnerable, especially among our own communities. It’s not gonna be an easy four years for any of us. Sniping at each other won’t make it easier or faster.

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Life Goes On

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Joe Biden awards Denzel Washington the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) January 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM


 

After my last post, I feel like I should warn Betty Cracker not to read this, from the Washington Post:

Vice President Kamala Harris has called President-elect Donald Trump a threat to American democracy. She has said he is a fascist. She has predicted he would abuse the powers of the presidency. She has warned that he should “never again stand behind the seal of the president of the United States.”

But on Monday, in her constitutional role as president of the Senate, Harris will preside over a joint session of Congress that oversees the counting and certification of the electoral college votes affirming that Trump — despite the alarms she sounded during her 107-day sprint to the November election — will again assume the powers and trappings of the presidency…

The certification carries additional historical importance because it comes just four years — and one presidential election — after a violent mob, infuriated by Trump’s false claims that the election had been stolen by Joe Biden, stormed the U.S. Capitol as then-Vice President Mike Pence presided over the 2020 electoral count. This time, Trump is welcoming the result and Democrats are showing no signs of claiming fraud. Even so, law enforcement officials are planning extensive security arrangements to ensure nothing disrupts the proceeding.

Harris intends to make sure the certification goes smoothly, aides say, partly as a pointed contrast to Trump’s unwillingness to do so four years ago.

Presidential historian Tim Naftali noted that from the first days after Harris’s loss, she and Biden made it clear they would provide “the kind of transition for Donald Trump that Donald Trump refused to provide for them four years ago.” Harris promised in her concession speech to ease the new administration’s transition to power, while Biden hosted Trump — whom he had called an “existential threat” — in a White House meeting that was so cordial it annoyed some of Biden’s fellow Democrats.

“This is, in a sense, a way to meet one of their campaign promises,” said Naftali, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “Their administration came to power to restore dignity and to restore American institutions. And even though they are leaving the Oval Office to the person they replaced, whose chaos they were elected to eliminate, they have one last opportunity to send a message about the importance of traditional norms.”…

The Democratic mantra, for better or worse: We choose to do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

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Friday Morning Open Thread: ‘No One Can Walk Away’

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Whether or not she’s our candidate in 2028, I’m extremely grateful that Kamala Harris is willing to keep doing the hard work. There have been endless complaints that Democrats don’t follow up once their individual elections are decided, for better or worse; well, we’ve got a vibrant communicator who’s Out There right now:

Kamala Harris challenged young people to “stay in the fight” during a speech in Maryland on Tuesday, her first major address since conceding the presidential election to Donald Trump last month.

In her remarks, Harris expressed optimism in a future led by many of the young leaders in the room, praising their “passion” and “resolve” in spite of an electoral setback that threatens many of the causes they care deeply about.

“I ask you to remember that this struggle is not new. It goes back nearly 250 years to Lexington and Concord,” Harris told a group of students, recent graduates, volunteers and apprentices at Prince George’s Community College. “Generation after generation, it has been driven by those who love our country, cherish its ideals and refuse to sit passive while our ideals are under assault.

“This fight now, it continues with you. You are its heirs,” the vice-president said.

Since the November election, Harris has maintained a relatively low profile. Next month, the vice-president, in her ceremonial role as president of the Senate, will certify Trump’s victory and participate in the transfer of power. What she has planned next is unclear – but her punchy, optimistic speech made clear she had no plans to remain on the sidelines…

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Monday Evening Open Thread: What We Could’ve Had

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Love this 100th birthday post by VP Harris for Shirley Chisholm. Kamala knows she is walking in Shirley’s footsteps! ????

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— ?? @FlyWithKamala | WHATEVER KAMALA WANTS 202X! (@flywithkamala.bsky.social) November 30, 2024 at 4:26 PM

Shirley Chisholm was one of my earliest political idols, and yes I am still bitter at the way she was treated by her fellow ‘establishment’ Democrats in 1972, and I guess now I can be bitter about the way Kamala Harris is being treated by all too many of our Very Serious Democratic Insiders. (Case in point: CNN’s Ronald Brownstein, at the Atlantic, just gave four Harris campaign surrogates who should’ve known better ten thousand chances to blame everyone but themselves [gift link].

Politico does its best to scare the horses in this pre-Thanksgiving story, but I’m actually looking forward to seeing what Madam Kamala does next… “Harris is telling her advisers and allies to keep her political options open”:

Kamala Harris has been lying low since her defeat in the presidential race, unwinding with family and senior aides in Hawaii before heading back to the nation’s capital.

But privately, the vice president has been instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open — whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to run for governor in her home state of California in two years. As Harris has repeated in phone calls, “I am staying in the fight.”

She is expected to explore those and other possible paths forward with family members over the winter holiday season, according to five people in the Harris inner circle, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. Her deliberations follow an extraordinary four months in which Harris went from President Joe Biden’s running mate to the top of the ticket, reenergizing Democrats before ultimately crashing on election night.

“She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,” said one former Harris campaign aide. “The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.”

Most immediately, Harris and her advisers are working to define how and when she will speak out against Donald Trump and reassert her own role in the Democratic Party. Closing out her term as vice president, she’s set to preside over certifying the November election she lost to Trump, and then appear at the once-and-future president’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

“There will be a desire to hear her voice, and there won’t be a vacuum for long,” a person close to Harris said…

I insist that we re-use VP's FREEDOM rhetoric because that's what this country was supposed to be founded on

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— Tony Moonbeam Returns (@moonbeamii.bsky.social) November 29, 2024 at 11:47 AM

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Now We Cultivate Our Own Gardens

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(Clay Bennett via GoComics.com)

For the sake of karma, I have striven to understand the arguments of a great many of my fellow Americans who have proven, again, that they neither want nor deserve our grace. Perhaps a day will come when I return to that philosophy. But for the moment: Let Sekhmet, Goddess of Consequences, give every Trump voter (be they ignorant, deluded, evil, or all three) exactly what they have demanded — good and hard.


I know how lucky I am to be able to choose to live in Massachusetts, and I love this message from my senior Senator:

I will not ask you to look for silver linings.

I will not ask you to feel anything but grief right now. The consequences of this election will be real and devastating.

But I’m reminding myself that on the road ahead, there will still be opportunities to fight back.

I can’t tell you we will win all of those fights. I can’t tell you we will win most or even any of them. But when we arrive at each of those moments, we will face a choice: to give up, or to press forward.

We can’t control everything that comes next. But we can control how we respond.

The far right wants us to feel powerless. Extremists are counting on apathy, cynicism, heartbreak, or all the above to be their rocketfuel. They are counting on us to point fingers at each other and lose trust in our ability to ever, ever make change.

I absolutely refuse to give them the satisfaction. Feeling powerless is the first step toward becoming powerless. By staying united, by refusing to surrender, we give ourselves a fighting chance.

We will continue to fight for each other.

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Kamala Harris’ Concession Speech

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Vote Counting

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Good sign for our side:

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