Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Alternative history is always a weak argument. Always.

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Republicans in disarray!

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

The lights are all blinking red.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

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

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

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Saturday Evening Open Thread: An Underrated Miracle Drug

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Seriously!

Per NPR, “U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives”:

For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S.

“This is exciting,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse [NIDA], the federal laboratory charged with studying addiction. “This looks real. This looks very, very real.”

National surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already show an unprecedented decline in drug deaths of roughly 10.6 percent. That’s a huge reversal from recent years when fatal overdoses regularly increased by double-digit percentages.

Some researchers believe the data will show an even larger decline in drug deaths when federal surveys are updated to reflect improvements being seen at the state level, especially in the eastern U.S.

“In the states that have the most rapid data collection systems, we’re seeing declines of twenty percent, thirty percent,” said Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, an expert on street drugs at the University of North Carolina.

According to Dasgupta’s analysis, which has sparked discussion among addiction and drug policy experts, the drop in state-level mortality numbers corresponds with similar steep declines in emergency room visits linked to overdoses…

It’s a hard stat to brag about, because every story gets bombarded with comments about ‘spending taxpayer dollars to keep worthless addicts alive’ and ‘it wouldn’t be necessary if not for Demon-crat’s open border policy.’ But fewer dead community members is a good thing. And a lot of those ‘worthless eaters’ have family and friends who are also voters, so there’s got to be ways to point that out, yes?

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Late Night Open Thread: Dark Dank Brandon Strikes Again!

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Be Happy!

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Get calm! (not my relaxant of choice, but neither is alcohol, and we FAFO’d prohibition for that already)

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Late Night Open Thread: Will Nobody Think of the Fentanyl?!?

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The mockery is all over twitter, but Biggs’ ‘outrage’ is an exemplar of the current Repub problem: They’ve gotten so increasingly abstruse with their invocations that it’s become difficult for normal people to follow. Biden seizes all the fentanyl is… supposed to be a bad thing, to the GOP Death Cult?

Horrors to be followed, come the midterms, by statements like Biden cuts child poverty in half! and Under Biden, new infrastructure in every state!

The Base will be duly horrified, but what about the rest of the voting public?

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Fetterman

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Here’s a good writeup of PA Lt. Gov. Fetterman’s effort to legalize marijuana at, of all places, the tech site The Verge.  I’ve been following him for a while, and he’s quite good.  Example:

“I find the Democrats’ platform on it cowardly, and, on the wrong side of history,” he said. “So the Democratic Party is to the right of South Dakota on legal weed, and it’s like, ‘what the hell is wrong with you?’” Fetterman says. “The Democratic Party owes its electoral success in this election to Black and brown communities. And they are disgustingly, disproportionately impacted by weed prohibition more than anybody.”

Apparently, he’s thinking about a run against Toomey in 2022 — that would be a good flip. He’s good on social media, too — authentic, frank, fun, and not just about politics:


Update: Forgot to mention that his wife is also really impressive.

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Respite Open Thread: Trump {Hearts} the 80s

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That low, dishonest decade. Back when his memory and his dick both worked without so much chemical assistance — or at least that’s how the old man remembers it, now…

This rally is, of course, being touted by the usual Horse Race media hacks as “the start of the 2020 campaign.” Because Donny Dollhands isn’t the only one who prefers cheap nostalgia to real work!

(Spoiler for the Youngs, or anyone else who doesn’t remember that far back: Reagan’s people didn’t care about “the drug problem”, either. It just gave them a handy distraction from things like their Iran-Contra criminality.)

To be fair, telling New Hampsters that all bad things come from Massachusetts is *always* a popular political go-to, because New Hampshire residents secretly resent their parasitic relationship with our Commonwealth…

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DACA Fix in the Works?

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I hear Trump is snuffling publicly about the opioid crisis today. “Something-something let’s execute drug dealers like my state visit invitee Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, who also hates Obama, and let’s put a pharma exec in charge of the new war on drugs because MAGA.” Or some such shit. In other news, there might be a DACA fix in the works:

It’ll likely come to naught, but perhaps it’s a promising sign that a) the White House is making proposals even though Trump has been meeping about the Democrats not crawling to him for a deal for a month or so, and b) if the above is an accurate description of the proposed deal, it doesn’t include any renewed attacks on LEGAL immigration.

We’ll see what happens. Open thread!

PS: The stock market is tanking for some reason, but not as badly as it tanked that last time.

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