Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Republicans in disarray!

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

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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Mueller Statement at 11 AM ET

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I am trying to keep my expectations down.

The floor is open for your speculations.

 

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North Korea’s 70th Anniversary Parade

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Is just about to start. I’m not going to try to embed the video because there are several possible channels, and some probably won’t work. Or they may put the parade on delay, as they did last year. I’ll post information as I get it and embed if I can. IIRC, the state channel doesn’t embed, but I could be wrong about that.

The big questions are how many missiles will be in the parade, and will any of them be new.

Meanwhile, for informed commentary, follow these folks on Twitter:

Also

Hashtag is #JucheFest2018.

The police have cleared the route.

 

Update: Looks like they kept it to themselves.

A number of the Twitter follows I gave in the opening post are very sharp analysts of the photos of the missiles. Sometimes North Korea uses mockups in the parade. We don’t know what that says about the production status of the missiles – they may want to use mockups for other reasons, like not damaging the streets. North Korea doesn’t like it when the analysts point out the mockups.

There were several network news people in Pyongyang. They were taken away before the parade began, perhaps to meet Kim Jong Un.

I’ll write a post tomorrow. Going to bed in a little bit.

 

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Primaries Thread

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West by god Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, and Indiana are holding primaries today.

West by god Virginia – Congressional and state legislature

Ohio – Congressional, governor, attorney general, and state legislature

North Carolina – Congressional and state legislature

Indiana – Congressional and state legislature

Yes I know the links are to the very unfavorite New York Times. I like their election coverage when they don’t use those damn needles. Sue me.

Looks like Blankenship and Kucenich are doing badly. How are things in your district?

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