Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

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

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

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

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL

The words do not have to be perfect.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Our Failed Major Media, (Pretend) Impeachment Edition

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Here we go again…

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Vacation Weekend

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Saturday Morning Open Thread 15

(h/t Siubhan Duinne)

A few easy laughs from the recent plethora of Konservative Klown Kar banana-peel pratfalls:

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CPAC Malign Clown Car Open Thread: Burning Man Resentment

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CPAC Clown Car Open Thread: Burning <del>Man</del> Resentment

(Jeff Danziger via GoComics.com)

CPAC’s always been a grift bazaar — excuse me, celebration of capitalism. But until a couple years ago, it was also a gathering where the old pros could parade their laurels and the young hopefuls could strut their stuff, like a right-wing political ComicCon. Post-Trump, it’s reduced to one of those flea-market-adjacent ‘popular culture shows’ where you can buy signed photos with Scott Baio’s understudy, two of the recurring characters from the Dukes of Hazzard, or Clint Eastwood’s orangutan wrangler…

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Repubs in Disarray! Open Thread (You *Don’t* Hate to See It)

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His members keep this clownshow up, Very Serious People are gonna start questioning #MoscowMitch’s political talents…

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Open Thread: New Hampshire Winnows the Field, Slightly

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I’m sure Bennet is a fine Senator, and may even become president in some less fraught year, assuming we survive this one. And Andrew Yang… meant well. But with a better signal-to-noise ratio, maybe Kamala Harris and/or Cory Booker and/or Julian Castro are still in the race right now. So my sympathy for these guys is limited.

Take a hint, Deval Patrick. Maybe Mike Bloomberg will offer you a cabinet position, if you drop out and endorse him before Super Tuesday.

Hardly worth complaining about Tom ThStheyer, because only the threat of violence or a big on-camera french kiss from Bernie could get him to go away now, and I’m not sure about the first one.

NOT DEAD YET:

Reminder: NH Is for Ratfvckers –

Horse-race touts, of course, are lovin’ it.

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Election Year Open Thread: Cancel Iowa

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I’m sorry, Iowans, you’re lovely people and I’m sure you mean well, but this is not an optimal way to select the leadership for a country as large and diverse as ours. Because the rest of us are tired of finding euphemisms — unpredictable! — for the fact that too many of you are actually insulated from the effects of your choices:

And, no, you’re not responsible for the DNC’s weirder efforts to please all its warring factions, but if we weren’t all fixated on your antiquated caucus system (yes, and NH’s cranky insistence on being FRIST IN THE NATION, forty-nine other states be damned), the DNC would have a much more practical path…

… “I think that people need to idle their engines a little bit,” says Penny Rosfjord, an Iowa Democratic Party district chair. “A caucus was never meant to be smooth; it’s kind of a messy process. It’s not a straightforward, check a box and move on.”…

Of course, it’s never easy to give up a perceived entitlement...

… but once you’ve laid down this burden, we’ll all be happier voters!

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BREAKING: “Lev Parnas Pushes to Share His Info With House Intel”

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Happy New Year’s Eve, political journalists!

Lev Parnas, a former Rudy Giuliani associate charged with financial crimes, is looking to share more material with congressional investigators, according to a letter his lawyer has sent to a federal judge. The letter, filed in court on Monday evening, indicates that the committee first tasked with helming the impeachment inquiry is gathering additional evidence about Trump World.

In the letter, Parnas’ lawyer Joseph Bondy said the Justice Department will share materials with his client on Tuesday that it seized from his home and at his arrest. The materials include documents and the contents of an iPhone. Bondy then asked Judge Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York to allow him to share those materials with the House Intelligence Committee; a court order currently bars him from sharing them with anyone. The Justice Department has said it does not object to him giving the material to Congress…

Trump’s relationship with Ukraine—in particular through his intermediary and personal lawyer Giuliani—is at the center of the impeachment process. Parnas had a front-row seat to much of Giuliani’s Ukraine-related activity.

Federal authorities arrested Parnas and his associate Igor Fruman at Dulles Airport in October and charged them with conspiring to illegally funnel money from a foreign national into an American election. For many months before their arrest, the two worked with Giuliani to investigate allegations about former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, who served for a time on the board of a scandal-dogged Ukrainian energy company…

Parnas and Fruman, both Soviet-born U.S. citizens, made hefty political contributions through an entity they started called Global Energy Partners. And they built connections on Capitol Hill; after then-Rep. Pete Sessions sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling for Yovanovitch’s removal, a PAC the pair supported shelled out a huge sum to boost his re-election bid. Sessions’ name was also batted around within the Trump administration as a potential replacement for Yovanovitch, though any efforts to install him there didn’t get traction.

Parnas and Fruman have both pleaded not guilty. And Parnas indicated he would cooperate with the congressional impeachment inquiry. Because of his close proximity to Giuliani, he may have significant visibility into Giuliani’s actions that other witnesses lack. For instance, a senior Zelensky aide confirmed to The Daily Beast that Parnas was present for a meeting he had with Giuliani where they discussed the U.S.-Ukraine relationship…

Guess we’ll know from the Oval Office Occupant’s tweet-stream — or Giuliani’s — how successful efforts to hide this news from him have been. As if the festivities at Mar-A-Largo weren’t fraught enough already.

Credit for Individual-1’s obsession with appearances, though; Parnas looks exactly like the bumbling minion in a spy caper who inadvertently betrays Mr. Big, doesn’t he?

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