Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

I really should read my own blog.

The willow is too close to the house.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Not all heroes wear capes.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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Open Thread: Now It’s Gotten VSP-Serious

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The Dow gained it back, to close “flat”. But who else remembers the Doonesbury cartoon during the Watergate trial, where CEO Slackmeyer announces, “When the Dow drops below [x], it’s time to get the nooses”?

… The Washington Post spoke with experts who believe that emails show Trump Jr. having probably “crossed the line on conspiracy to commit election fraud or conspiracy to obtain information from a foreign adversary.”

That last part alone is illegal, Noble explained.

“Anyone soliciting a foreign contribution is violating the law,” he said — and that includes opposition research, such as what was embraced by Trump Jr. One legal bar is whether someone provides “substantial assistance” to obtaining something of value from a foreign national. “Given the emails,” Noble said, “I think that’s substantial assistance.”…

“Had he been running the Trump businesses and not been involved in the campaign. Not been traveling on behalf of the campaign. Not been speaking out for his father,” Noble said, “they might have an argument” that Trump Jr. wasn’t acting on behalf of the campaign. Trump Jr. didn’t need an official campaign title to be part of the campaign — and, besides, Noble said, he had one. Son.

(As for traveling for the campaign: Federal records show that Trump Jr. was reimbursed for nearly $30,000 in travel expenses by the Trump campaign.)

Trump Jr. was part of the campaign. Trump Jr. set up a meeting with other campaign representatives to receive what he thought was material impugning an opponent that, he was told, came directly from the Russian government. (In fact, he was told that it was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump,” something that President Trump has long denied existed. Trump Jr. doesn’t appear to have balked at that description.) In other words, it’s no longer possible to deny that the campaign sought to collude with the Russian government in its meddling efforts…

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Another Russiagate Open Thread: Projection That IMAX Can Only Envy

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If there’s anything a smart Russian lawyer would understand, it’s how to manipulate the half-witted offspring of a couple of crooked ‘developers’ working for a paranoid oligarch…

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Monday Evening Open Thread: GOP Leaders Have “Other Priorities”

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Apart from keeping in mind that half our nation’s “leadership” cares more about their current perqs than the future of the godsdamned country, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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Late Night “It’s Always Projection” Thread: You May Not Believe “The Tape” Exists, But Trump’s Closest Associates Certainly Do

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… And that’s why they were so desperate, so certain, that the Clinton campaign must be hiding some deeply embarrassing / criminal evidence.

EVERYBODY DOES IT has always been the go-to defense for the Trump crime cartel, not to mention the Republican Party.

The Editor in Chief of Lawfare:

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And now, this…

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Even the amoral, power-hungry, scheming knobs in the Republican Party who have overlooked President Cray-Cray’s corruption, incompetence and allegiance to Putin balked at Trump’s insane suggestion this morning that the U.S. should partner with the Russian foxes to guard the electoral hen house. So now, this:

I just don’t know what to say. Open thread?

ETA: Forgot about this from earlier today:

Awkward! If Trump’s cabinet members, family and associates weren’t utter scumbags, I’d pity them. To paraphrase Robin Williams from “Birdcage,” working with a lunatic like Trump must be like riding a psychotic horse toward a burning barn.

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Rashamon, Rash o’ Liars

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(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com)
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We’ve survived worse, but yesterday sure felt like a low point in American history. Of course I knew Republican corporatists would be happy to sell the country to anyone who offered, but I figured at least they’d set a higher price. Guess they read the ‘thirty pieces of silver’ story from that holy book they all claim to revere, and figured it would be disrespectful to their role model to ask for more…

Apart from mourning / #Resisting, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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Trump Capitulates

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I don’t know how else to interpret this outcome of the Trump-Putin meeting. Via WaPo:

HAMBURG — President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed brokering “commitments of noninterference” in the U.S. political system during a lengthy face-to-face meeting in Germany, the first in-person encounter between the two leaders about Russia’s alleged role in the 2016 election.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who attended the two-hour-and-fifteen-minute meeting, said it did not focus on the United States moving to punish Russia for the allegations that it hacked and leaked information that would help Trump win the election. Instead, Tillerson said the two leaders discussed “how do we move forward” regarding the election-hacking issue.

He said the White House was not “dismissing the issue” but wanted to focus on “how do we secure a commitment” that there will not be interference in the future.

Trump is just carrying on a long tradition. Remember when Abraham Lincoln contacted Jefferson Davis to discuss brokering commitments of non-firing on Ft. Sumter? Or when FDR and Emperor Hirohito put that unpleasantness at Pearl Harbor behind them and agreed to move on? Or, more recently, when President Obama called Osama bin Laden and asked how to secure a commitment that there would be no more terrorist attacks?

This is outrageous. It’s insulting. It’s cowardly. Any Republican who goes along with this “let bygones be bygones” strategy is a fucking traitor, pure and simple. And my guess is it will be every last one of the craven worms: After they finish furrowing their brows and expressing “concern,” they’ll go back to sniffing around after tax cuts while Putin consolidates control of our government.

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