Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

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

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

This chaos was totally avoidable.

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

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

“woke” is the new caravan.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Another Day of Ugliness

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I haven’t been able to watch all the way through this, but from what I have it’s a good, if crowded, recap:

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Regrets, I Have a Few: Trump’s Young Black Leadership Conference

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I made a snarky response on twitter, forgetting what Trump supporters are like. Now I’m in a whirlwind of approval and equal nastiness.

But honestly? Can anyone blame me for thinking it would be another “Hispanics for Trump” and “Blacks for Trump” signs being held up by a sea of white faces?

News reports say there were 200 attendees – black, white and orange. There is a real lack of photos of the audience. Just the front two rows.

 (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Anyway…I’m about ready to delete my tweet because I’m over the interaction. LOL, I prefer my tweets unread.

What are your thoughts on this rally?

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Things moving faster

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Things are moving fast. If DNI(acting) allows for testimony, the law is followed. If DNI(Acting) claims privilege, there is another article of impeachment to write up.

Open thread….

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Late Night Open Thread: New Winner in the All-time ‘Worst 9/11 Take EVAR’ Sweeps

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And I, for one, sincerely hope this remains the worst take!

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Election 2020 Open Thread: Be Careful What You Wish For, Climate Debate Edition

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Every interested party will watch their candidate, and only their candidate; every campaign (plus the RNC and all its dark-money donors) will assign intern(s) to watch all the other candidates’ interviews, looking for soundbites to take out of context. Joy.

… Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls will appear in New York at back-to-back town halls on Wednesday, September 4, taking audience questions about their climate plans as scientists sound the alarm about global warming.

Along with the candidates, the network also announced the CNN journalists and the approximate appearance times for the presidential hopefuls during the seven-hour, live event…

CNN previously announced that Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir will join in the questioning throughout the evening.

A CNN poll conducted in late April showed that 96% of Democrats favored taking aggressive action to slow the effects of climate change. And Democratic activists in recent weeks have sought to elevate the issue, urging candidates to make climate change a priority…

Or then again, one or more candidates will provide answers so stunning in their brilliance that all existing rankings will be overturned, and the Sunshine Movement will focus their attention on getting that candidate elected. (Now *you* tell one.)

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Late-Night Mobius Nest of Vipers: Jeffrey Epstein, Keyser Söze

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Since life is not as neatly plotted as a movie, we can be (reasonably) sure that Jeffrey Epstein actually existed, even if almost every detail of his adult life seems to be open to (mis)interpretation. Whether any of those details will be believable to future historians — assuming there are such — may depend on the survival of the term ‘Rashomon effect’…

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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: The Repub Revanchists

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No matter how grotesquely sexist / racist / classist the GOP as a whole devolves, Rep. ‘Pigmuck’ King will strive to be that little bit worse. From the Des Moines Register – “U.S. Rep. Steve King: If not for rape and incest, ‘would there be any population left?'” —

U.S. Rep. Steve King told the Westside Conservative Club on Wednesday that humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest.

“What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?” he said at the event in Urbandale, Iowa…

The Kiron Republican was defending his position of not allowing exceptions for rape and incest in the anti-abortion legislation he tried to pass in Congress. Republican leadership had prevented the bills he sponsored on banning abortions from advancing through the House, despite GOP support for the measures, King said…

He actually said that, in front of the cameras — there’s video. Of course the whole forced-birth ‘But what if that aborted baby would’ve been the next Einstein?’ trope has been in use for at least the last forty years, but count on Rep. Pigmuck to bring his own personal touch. And he’s not sorry, either; he insists the outcry that’s greeted his flapmouth bigotry is nothing but a plot by his enemies…

… In the hours after his remarks to the breakfast meeting, condemnation of his comments poured in from Democrats, including those running for president, as well as some Republicans…

“People think it was an organic media feeding frenzy, but no, it was orchestrated from the beginning,” he said Wednesday. “They had told me, ‘Heads up before Christmas: They’re going to try to drive you out of office and get you to resign.’ Within 24 hours, you had people saying, ‘Resign, resign, resign.’ Why? Because the New York Times misquoted me?”

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