Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

People are weird.

This blog will pay for itself.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

The revolution will be supervised.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

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

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

I really should read my own blog.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

He really is that stupid.

Let’s finish the job.

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

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Battle won, war still ongoing.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Repub-on-Repub (Emotional) Violence

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Apparently, a cunning plan was hammered out to let McHenry keep the gavel (and his personal tiny chair) until the next Congress convenes in January — with the understanding that Jim Jordan would be the ‘speaker designee’ once that happened. For some reason, this attempt to placate Jordan by giving him everything he wants did not appeal to the Republicans who have made it very clear that they don’t want Jim Jordan as Speaker!

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Friday Evening Bad Faith Open Thread: RFK Jr. And His Fellow Ratf*ckers

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I drafted the post below last night, planning to run it over the weekend when people had more time to read. RFK Jr isn’t offering West a vice-presidential slot (from what I’ve seen, that’s Tulsi Gabbard’s role in the spoiler-thon). And West almost certainly wouldn’t run in a VP slot, because he’s already got the Green Party’s funding locked in. But we can count on every political grifter not currently incarcerated to make a jump for the gravy train over the next 13 months…

TL, DR: Peter Daou has always been a ‘strong believer‘ in whatever political campaign would pay him enough, but his unsavory habits — like ‘independently’ praising Bernie Sanders while he was negotiating for a job as Sanders’ press agent back in 2016 — have made it impossible for him to get a job with any self-respecting Democratic candidate. Since there’s already a ton of well-connected competitors on the Republican side of the aisle, Dauo is now (IMO) transitioning by serving for Green Party candidate / spoiler Cornel West (after jumping ship from the sinking SS Marianne Williamson). “Peter Daou’s Theory of Election Interference—by Democrats”:

Peter Daou, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, recently announced that he had become the campaign manager for Cornel West, the radical socialist professor and public intellectual, who is seeking the Presidential nomination from the Green Party. It was the culmination of a fascinating arc for Daou, who was a legendary figure in the early liberal blogosphere, where he became known for his criticisms of the Bush Administration before joining John Kerry’s 2004 Presidential campaign. Four years later, he ran Clinton’s digital operation, and became known as one of her most high-profile and vocal online supporters. Then, in 2016, for Clinton’s second Presidential run, Daou ran the platform Shareblue, a partisan news site that attacked mainstream coverage of the race and fanatically defended Clinton. By 2020, he had endorsed Bernie Sanders; he subsequently left the Democratic Party. (Before joining West’s campaign, he briefly ran Marianne Williamson’s.) Daou now says his career as a fanatical Democratic partisan was misguided, and that the entire political system needs to be uprooted; he believes West’s campaign is the best vehicle for such a change…

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Late Night Open Thread: IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH

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… But Jonathan Martin’s well-insulated fellow ‘journalists’ all chortled at his retort!

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Sunday Night Funnies Open Thread (Extremely On-Line Social Media Edition)

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Yes, you *have* heard the name Bari Weiss before, at least if you’ve skimmed the posts sharing my unhealthy compulsion to mock Bari and all her cronies. On the other hand, their ‘ideas’ are so weightless and insubstantial that perhaps they slide off your minds, unregretted.

It’s the end of the weekend, after one chaotic week and facing into another, and mocking the deserving is as much energy as we can spare… (Bonus: Elon Musk’s most mock-worthy ex!) From Kerry Howley at NYMag, “Scenes From the End of the Sexual Revolution”:

The question “Has the Sexual Revolution Failed” contains within itself a number of other questions (failed at what? Failed whom? Why are we talking about this?), precisely none of which were answered Wednesday night at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, where 1,600 plaid-skirted e-girls and be- khakied normies and the aspiring canceled paid as much as $165 a seat to hear a British ideologue, a deft Dimes Square shape-shifter, an ex-Muslim podcaster, and Techno Mechanicus’s mother debate the resolution. You can’t really fault the organizer, even if the organizer was Bari Weiss. It ought to have worked. An ill-defined proposition, half of Red Scare, a random British lady very upset about BDSM, and Grimes? No notes…

The alt-right’s inchoate longing for sexual repression in the absence of religion remains mysterious. Fifty-six percent of the audience, polled beforehand by text at an event featuring four ambitious women and moderated by a queer married media mogul, agreed that the sexual revolution had “failed.” The debate was drawn from Louise Perry’s book, serviceably titled The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, which takes as its presumed reader an extremely credulous liberal raised up in isolation from any information beyond the feminist blogosphere circa 2004 and who needs to be informed, at truly extraordinary length, that men are, on average, physically stronger than women. Women have been pressured to “fuck like men,” a situation that leaves alpha males very happy but all women depressed, abused, vulnerable, and commodified. If there is nothing here that went unsaid by Kay Hymowitz or Christina Hoff Sommers in the dark heyday of the hookup-culture think piece, at least everything sounds better in a British accent.

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Open Thread: Can We Afford to Dump Krysten Sinema?

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I really like Gallego, but (so) I don’t trust my instincts on a competition between him and Sinema. On the positive side, the lady is doing her absolute best to piss off the Democrats who gave her a chance to grift the big-time donors, so…

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Late Night Open Thread: X-Tinguished (Last Weekend’s Musk-diversion)

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It was supposed to earn him a ton of free media this week… and then Jack Smith set everyone talking about some boring political crap that no real Master of the Universe would ever even notice. Tough week, Elon!

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Late Night Open Thread: X’ing Out

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It’s looking more and more like The Great Lord Musk is spiraling into terminal Stop me before I kill again territory, and I hope one or more of his creditors steels themselves to do the deed soon.

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