Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Republicans in disarray!

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

The words do not have to be perfect.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

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

The willow is too close to the house.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

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It’s Up To Us Now, As it Always Was: First Stop, Montana Pt. 2

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THIS IS AN OPEN THREAD.

As you saw in It’s Up To Us Now, As it Always Was: First Stop, Montana we’re trying to get to $45,000 in the thermometer for Four Directions Montana, where the Native vote is more than the margin of victory in past elections.

Another $3,000 will get us to We met our $80,000 goal!

Luckily, we have a new $1,000 Angel match!   Matching up to $25 per person and matching resets with a new angel match.  In order to be matched, add your donation amount in the comments.

Reminder: Four Directions Quilt Raffle is still ongoing.  Raffle tickets $25 each – donate through the thermometer, and send email to WaterGirl for the raffle tickets.  Here’s the quilt, in case you missed the earlier posts.

Quilt Raffle for Four Directions Montana – Let's Keep This Senate Seat

If you want raffle tickets with these donations that are being matched in the thread, please send me an email message, thanks!

When we hit $45,000 in the thermometer, that will be $80,000 for the Native vote in Montana. $45k in the thermometer, a $5k Angel check, plus the $30k external match that we met before Thanksgiving.

We did it!  BJ peeps are amazing!  Well done, everyone!

$80k will go a long way in Montana!

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JFC, I Can’t Even Anymore

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That was just the tip of the idiocy I heard while running errands today.

Feel free to post other fun comments you’ve heard from the exit interviews. I’ll try and find video of the woman screaming “Trump” over and over and over.

I need chocolate.

This is an open thread

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Amy Coney Barrett: Tone Police

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Finally got around to reading that unanimous SCOTUS opinion on the Colorado ballot, and hoo boy. I’m not a lawyer, so I’ll leave the legal analysis to qualified people, but tone is something I do understand. And folks, what we have here is a tone cop with a newly minted badge who is instructing us and her colleagues in a loud, booming voice.

I’ve had nothing but contempt for Justice Amy Coney Barrett ever since she trampled with unseemly haste over Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s freshly dug grave to snatch a lifetime SCOTUS sinecure from the Defendant’s dainty orange mitts. Everything about Barrett’s ascension was and is nauseating, including McConnell’s corrupt machinations to push the appointment through a week before voters bounced the Defendant out of office, Barrett’s bland-faced lies during the confirmation process, her supporters’ cynical cooption of motherhood to cloak the nominee’s religious zealotry, the repulsive celebratory super-spreader event, etc., etc., etc.

Barrett’s behavior in the role has been about as bad as we suspected it would be, from bolstering the Fed-Soc Bloc to impose theocratic and plutocratic rule on an allegedly secular and democratic country to public mewling in search of unearned respect and deference. Basically, Barrett is a turd like Alito with the abrasive edges sanded down and festooned with tasteful jewelry. Plus a reasonable expectation of two more decades ahead to immiserate Americans in the name of Jesus and money.

All that and more I expected. But now she’s appointed herself hall monitor, presumptuously telling Americans what they are required to conclude about the opinion:

“All nine Justices agree on the outcome of this case,” Barrett wrote. “That is the message Americans should take home.”

In other words, don’t worry your pretty little heads about the fine print, even if it leverages congressional dysfunction to shield Trump from any conceivable electoral consequences for the coup attempt, and even as the same court’s decision to slow-walk the immunity case will effectively exempt him from timely criminal liability.

Barrett also had the nerve to admonish Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson to watch their tone:

“In my judgment, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency,” Barrett wrote. “The Court has settled a politically charged issue in the volatile season of a Presidential election. Particularly in this circumstance, writings on the Court should turn the national temperature down, not up.”

Shrill. She means the liberal justices were being shrill about their disagreement with the corrupt majority’s overreach in the opinion. It’s grotesque enough that we’re expected to pretend this preening fraud has shreds of integrity and legitimacy she definitely doesn’t possess. Now she wants to be the tone police too. It’s too much. Fuck her and the high horse she rode in on.

Open thread.

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Speaking of Super Tuesday

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My first laugh of the day.

It’s Super Tuesday.

If you’re standing in line today to vote for a twice impeached adjudicated rapist with 91 felony charges who owes over $600 million in civil verdicts…

…dreaming about a wall he never built

…longing for his infrastructure plan that’s still two weeks out

…wishing for a health care plan that doesn’t exist

…craving tax cuts you never benefited from

…wanting the kind of leadership that got him mocked by his own staff and world leaders everywhere

Take a sincere moment to ask yourself.

What the hell is wrong with you?

Can’t wait to see Dean Phillips pull in that 12% of the vote today!

Can we make this a point and laugh post?  (Just a thought.)

Totally open thread.

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Sooooper Tuesday

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For some reason [glares in general direction of EM], the bulk of the tweets I’m seeing right now are MAGAts imploring each other to vote early & often. Of course, their guy has a serious (if doomed) challenger — CRUSH NIKKI HALEY FAITHLESS BROWN BEYOTCH is a common subtext. Even the most frantic doomers have trouble proposing Dean Phillips as a potential threat to Our Guy in the Oval Office.

All the details spelled out, for those who want to start marking their cards:


Associated Press writers gettin’ snarky, or maybe punchdrunk:

… ARE WE THERE YET?
As of Super Tuesday, there will be 132 days until the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, 167 days until the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and 245 until the November general election.

“For entertainment purposes only”, as the betting sites always say:

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War for Ukraine Day 740: Russia Goes Off the Looking Glass as It Debuts Its New Map of Europe & Go

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Painting by NEIVANMADE. It has a black border. There are grey buildings with black windows along the left side. The center is a yellowy-grey, perhaps Ukrainian wheat fields. There is a black shadow figure striding through it. The figure's legs and feet are all that is visible of it. On the right side are red Zs, which symbolize Putin's/Russia's "Z" war/special military operation in Ukraine. The sky above the buildings is light grey. "GENOCIDE IS GOING BUT WHO EVEN CARES?" is painted in black in the upper left hand corner.

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It was very long day today, so I’m going to keep this as brief as possible.

Ten years ago today:

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

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You Told A Lie

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You Told A Lie

A couple of Trumpworld items:

First, though it was eclipsed by the Supreme Court ruling this morning, Allen Weisselberg, Trump’s wartime CFO, pled guilty to perjury this morning and got a five-month sentence.  I assume his lips had to be surgically removed from Trump’s anus before he could plead, because you gotta be a brown-noser supreme to go to jail over something this stupid:

But a key moment of his testimony came when Weisselberg insisted he did not notice a discrepancy on Trump’s financial statements: that Trump’s triplex apartment was listed as being 30,000 sq ft when in reality, it is closer to 11,000 sq ft.

“It was de minimus, in my mind,” he said at the time.

Forbes magazine disputed the claim he made on the stand, saying it had emails and notes that proved Weisselberg had actively tried to convince the magazine for years that the triplex was bigger than it actually was, denying what was listed on real-estate documents. Weisselberg abruptly ended his testimony after Forbes published an article accusing him of lying on the stand.

Of all the things to go to jail for lying about.

Second, there’s a lot of talk about Trump’s slide into dementia.  I want to believe, but does anyone have a link to a clear example of him short-circuiting for more than a couple of seconds?  For example, Jeff Tiedrich posted this six second clip, where Trump definitely loses it at the end.  But did he recover?  I don’t know because the clip was chopped.  I definitely think one of the keys to winning the election is more video evidence that Trump is losing it.  An interview with a psychiatrist who says Trump’s “phonemic paraphasias” is a sign of his worsening dementia is find for nerds and eggheads like the readers of this blog, but what might move the needle with the casual voter is a greatest hits reel of Trump’s brain turning into cheerios.  Does anyone have that?

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