A few things: First, huge thanks to whoever recommended “Somebody Feed Phil.” Phil probably has the best job in the world, and he knows everybody. On an episode I recently watched, he had lunch in DC with Pete Buttigieg. Another episode from a few years back featured a Zoom call with Norman Lear, then 100 …
Republican Stupidity
Another Afternoon Open Thread: RoeVember Is Coming
Taking away people’s right to make their own bodily decisions isn’t very smart. Rage away…
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A Grotesquerie of the Present Age
The leering degenerate pictured above (the one who is unfortunately still breathing) plans to issue a statement this morning on reproductive rights and women’s bodily autonomy. Here’s the heads up on the Defendant’s wildly overvalued crappy knock-off Twitter site: Notice anything weird about that message, apart from the mindboggling presumptuousness that would inspire an amoral …
Biden-Harris Campaign Creates Rogues’ Gallery of Trump-Humping Billionaires
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Repub Venality / Stupidity Open Thread: Trolls Under the Baltimore Bridge
One of the ugliest features of Trump-MAGA politics is the use of disasters to spread conspiracy theories, invent new culture-war obsessions, and pit one region of the country against another. We're seeing that now with the Baltimore horror. 1/ Link:https://t.co/MluZiKGtYf — Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) March 30, 2024 One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics …
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Deplorati Donny-Brook
I thoroughly enjoyed this CNN account of Republicans rhetorically punching each other in the snot-locker, stomping fellow caucus members’ insteps and kneeing one another in the beans with great force. The donnybrook concerns an upcoming GOP primary in the Virginia 5th between arch-conservatives Bob Good, the incumbent and GOP House Freedom Caucus chief, and challenger …
The Biggest Loser?
This isn’t a prediction, but my gut feeling is Trump is going to lose in November more decisively than generally supposed right now. I also believe his candidacy will have a measurably negative effect on his party’s fortunes, partly because of stuff like this: (Politico) Donald Trump’s bid to oust a Florida Republican who backed …