Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

đŸŽ¶ Those boots were made for mockin’ đŸŽ”

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Cole, when it comes to calico cats, restraint is overrated.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Joe Biden can go out like FDR, not by dying in office, but by crushing the fascists.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

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

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

Let there be snark.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

Democrats are back in array!

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

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Saturday Evening Open Thread: Schadenfreude – Cheesy, Yet Delicious!

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Puck‘s Tara Palmeri is a jourmalistic botfly, and therefore a leading indicator that her ilk will find it more fun to harass #DonOld than to do the work of researching the Harris campaign [gift link]:

Two weeks ago, Donald Trump was riding high, envisioning a landslide victory against Joe Biden after beating an assassination attempt, briefly proclaiming himself to be a new man, and enjoying a drama-free convention that felt like an early victory party. Days later, of course, Biden euthanized his campaign, elevating his vice president as his presumptive replacement and definitively resetting the table. Trump, who is now at parity in the polls with Kamala Harris, has responded with his own stages of grief: complaining at the unfairness of a new challenger; befuddled by the inability of his campaign to land a punch against Harris; furious at the suggestion, proffered by his own team, that her gains were inevitable; and annoyed at having to clean up J.D. Vance’s messes.

Predictably, the campaign’s loss of elevation has all manner of Trump courtiers and advisors blaming each other for the past week’s various fuckups and distractions—including at least one major unforced error by the principal, himself. “It’s just two weeks, and I’m like, what the hell is going on,” one stunned Mar-a-Lago denizen told me.

In many ways, their frustration is understandable. For months now, Trump’s campaign has been lauded for its eerie proficiency under the co-management of political professionals Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita. And yet, in recent days, Wiles has faced an unusual degree of criticism in Trumpworld, after she quickly jumped on the Vance train and was charged with vetting him. LaCivita, for his part, is getting lashed for publicly gloating about Trump’s ostensible path to 320 electoral college votes. Some detractors blame both Wiles and LaCivita for not having a backup plan for Harris (a source familiar countered that they were “exceptionally ready”); others are frustrated over the statement Wiles and LaCivita issued celebrating the resignation of Paul Dans, the director of Project 2025, after Democrats made it politically toxic. “They danced on the grave after Dans resigned,” said one Washington insider. “It was a ‘Let this be a warning to anyone who claims to have the president’s ear,’ but with a knife.”

Naturally, there’s an emerging consensus that this insider squabbling, reminiscent of an earlier chaotic era, is distracting from the race. In one pointed example, twenty sources took the time to blame Kellyanne Conway for leaking negative stories about J.D. Vance to The Bulwark’s Marc Caputo. “A lot of people are very frustrated. There are cracks within the ranks and team, why are the consultants knifing Kellyanne in the Bulwark?” said another Trump ally. “They should be focusing on Kamala.”…

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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Trump’s Wheels Are Falling Off

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Cash rules everything around him… Dolla, dolla, y’all, get the money…

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Late Night Open Thread: Getting Vanced

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Late Night Open Thread: Getting Vanced

(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com)

 

am now somewhat convinced they’re gonna drop vance off on the curb like a
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— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) Jul 30, 2024 at 5:11 PM

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Late Night Open Thread: But Can A CyberTruck Serve Briefly As A *BBQ Grill*?

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Lol. The "Cybertruck will act as a boat" but, if you drive your brand new Cybertruck with 26 miles on it in a tiny bit of water, not even reaching the cabin, your insurance company may total the car as not worth the cost of repairing your $100k dumpster on wheels.
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— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) Jun 24, 2024 at 1:20 PM


(Another commentor added “Maybe he meant it will act as a boat in that the best two days with it are the day you get it and the day you get rid of it”)

Albert Burneko, at Defector — “I Would Like To Put Lunchmeat On The Cybertruck”:

I saw my first Tesla Cybertruck in person a couple weeks ago. I’d driven my family into an outer satellite town of D.C., well outside our normal circuits, and there it was, around the corner from us in a parking garage. It looked dumpy and top-heavy and cheap. You could spot its poor assembly at a distance: the weird uneven gaps between panels, the way light angled off the front and rear doors differently because they were misaligned and not even uniformly finished. While I was walking toward it, a whole other person happened by, spotted it, and erupted into giggles.

It was a bright, blazing hot afternoon. I did not touch the Cybertruck, but I did find myself wondering how hot its amazingly shabby-looking stainless steel body panels might be just then, or later on, when its owner took it home. I thought of the stainless steel propane grill my father-in-law used to have, and how just lifting the lid of that grill on a sunny day could blister your fingers. The thought came to me all at once, whole and fully crystallized, that I would like to slap a big ol’ slice of bologna onto that Cybertruck.

I did not think about this further, because it’s an insane thought to have. But a few days later, driving my kids home from a soccer game on another broiling sunny afternoon, we spotted another Cybertruck headed down our street, less than a mile from our house. It looked like shit. It looked far worse than the one in the relatively dim parking garage. The bright sunlight did those ugly brushed panels no favors: You could pick out, even headed the opposite way at 35 miles per hour, all the very many places where the light glanced off it irregularly, absorbed or refracted unevenly by a zillion oily fingerprints. It looked water-stained. It looked like a toaster for a divorced giant. Once again I found myself consumed by the idea of plopping a nice pink slice of mortadella on that sucker.

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Saturday Evening Open Thread: Nobody’s Looking Forward to the RNC Convention

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Per the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal, “RNC business lower than anticipated for many downtown bars, restaurants and venues”:

Mere weeks away from the Republican National Convention, few bars and restaurants near Fiserv Forum and elsewhere downtown are reporting bookings for private events during the four-day convention, a major letdown for business owners who had been promised or expected big business.

The Pabst Theater Group does not have any bookings at four of its venues, including the Riverside Theater and Pabst Theater. Upscale downtown restaurants, such as Amilinda and Lupi and Iris, have few to no bookings or reservations for the four days of the RNC. And many bars and restaurants on North King Drive don’t have any bookings for private events, including Who’s On Third, Oak Barrel, Third Street Tavern, LP and Old German Beer Hall.

“It’s disappointing for us but I am, as always, more concerned about the city overall,” said Gary Witt, CEO of the Pabst Theater Group. “After all that spiking the football that was done after getting the RNC, you’re going to see that a lot of restaurants and bars and coffee shops are going to be impacted negatively.”

The lack of bookings this close to the convention is disappointing for owners of bars, restaurants and event venues, some of whom signed contracts with the nonpartisan MKE 2024 Host Committee to hold their venues for convention-related bookings. The Republican National Convention, set to take place July 15-18 at Fiserv Forum, has been sold by its backers as a major economic driver that will bring big economic impact to surrounding businesses and the region…

“When a candidate calls our city horrible, it doesn’t help us any. It makes me not want to host someone who is going to act like that,” [fine-dining restaurant owner Adam] Siegel said, referring to comments made by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “We have an amazing city here and I just wanted to showcase it.”

Even worse, Siegel said, RNC parties that have inquired about the space in recent weeks have asked him to lower his price point for bookings.

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Onward

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Dank Dawn Open Thread: RFK Jr. Is Burning Through His Resources

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Per Politico, “RFK Jr. keeps burning through cash”:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s longshot presidential campaign spent two and a half times more than it raised in May, the latest sign of the independent candidate’s cash crunch at a pivotal moment in the race.

His campaign reported just $6.4 million cash on hand at the end of the month, down from $10 million the previous month. That total — and the likelihood that he will not qualify for the first presidential debate next week — represents a major challenge for Kennedy as he continues to work to gain ballot access across the country.

The latest numbers highlight how Kennedy has failed to expand his fundraising base as the general election looms. His running mate, lawyer Nicole Shanahan, could be the campaign’s biggest financial lifeline. But while she has heavily supported the campaign previously, she didn’t put more money in last month.

The $2.5 million Kennedy’s campaign reported raising in May was down from what Kennedy received from donors the previous month, even excluding the $8 million Shanahan put in then. And it was the campaign’s second consecutive month with less than $900,000 in contributions from donors giving less than $200 — a sign that grassroots fundraising, which once seemed like somewhat of a strength of Kennedy’s — has not taken off.

The campaign also reported spending $6.3 million, while netting $1.4 million in new debt — all owed to Gavin de Becker and Associates, a security firm whose principal, De Becker, also has a financial relationship with a Kennedy-backing super PAC…

Shanahan (if you believe the nastier stories about how she acquired her billions) may be a grifter, but she’s not an idiot. She gave RatF*cker Jr a nice (desperately needed) chunk of change to get the VP slot, but I guess he or his fans aren’t doing enough to draw attention to her very serious CAUSES, so… she, at least, understands the ‘sunk cost fallacy’.

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