Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

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

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Everybody saw this coming.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

When we show up, we win.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

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

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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FAFO: Stevie Two Shirts Edition

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This just dropped:

CNN — 

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Steve Bannon to report to prison by July 1, giving the former Donald Trump adviser a short window to get a higher court’s intervention.

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Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress in 2022 … The federal judge presiding over the case, Carl Nichols, had initially paused the sentence while Bannon appealed the conviction.

Last month, however, a DC Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously rejected several challenges Bannon made to the case, and prosecutors immediately asked Nichols to send Bannon to prison to begin serving his sentence…

The judge, who was appointed by Trump, said that he concluded that he had the authority to lift the hold on Bannon’s sentence, even as an appeal of conviction will continue.

Bannon, predictably, confirming his status as “an idiot, full of sound and fury,” is publicly unbowed:

“There’s nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up. There’s not a prison built or a jail built that will ever shut me up,” he told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Washington.

We shall see, unkempt Stevie. We shall see.

The thread is open. Let your schadenfreude freak flags fly.

Image: Alessandro Magnano, Interrogations in Jail, between ~1710 and ~1720

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Swatting Down the Sock Puppets

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In return for Democrats’ essential aid in pulling his nuts speakership out of the fire, Pastor Mike leads a posse to promote GOP ‘but ILLEGALS’ calumny:

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Big Normie Energy

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Interesting TPM post from Josh Marshall… (remember, sharing is caring!) — Big Normie Energy:

… Earlier this year a lot of people were operating on the assumption that the Democratic policy agenda is more popular with Americans and that President Biden is unpopular and old, both literally and metaphorically. So basically any other Democrat under 60 who’s got a little electoral success under their belt would be on course to defeating Trump, or at least doing substantially better than Biden.

That assumption was always highly questionable. Indeed polls provided consistent evidence that it was not the case. Polls aren’t everything of course. But it’s polls — Biden’s lackluster polls — that provide the premise of the whole conversation. So it’s not like we can easily dismiss them. But it’s not only the practical difficulty of swapping Biden out for someone else or giving up the incumbency which historically is the single greatest advantage to being elected president. There are important attributes of Biden himself.

It’s certainly not the only one, but the AP highlights a key one. Quite simply, Democrats are far more angry and frightened about a Trump presidency than Republicans are about another Biden one. 6 in 10 Democrats say they’d be “fearful” or “angry” about another Trump presidency whereas only 4 in 10 Republicans say the same about Biden…

This gets to one of the guy’s underlying strengths. He’s just not demonizable in the way Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or a lot of other Democrats have been. Is that because he’s a white man? That’s definitely part of it. But it’s not all of it. One of his advantages is precisely that he is old. He’s been doing this for half a century. People know who he is. Joe Biden is just the apotheosis of Normie-dom. He’s also always been essentially a median Democrat. He’ll be pretty much where the center of gravity of his party is. And the center of gravity of the Democratic party is in a substantially more social-democratic place than it was a generation ago. And because of that so is he.

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More chaos in the House

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As of thirty minutes ago, the Daily Beast reports:

On Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed a motion to formally boot Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the office, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The fundamental problem in the House is the GOP is nuts and can’t coordinate its way out of a wet paper bag. More formally, the confidence coalition in the House is extremely different than the supply coalition if we think of the House currently running as a minority government. The confidence coalition is the formal House majority of Republicans while the supply coalition is almost all Democrats and about half of the confidence coalition. This is somewhat expected as anything that passes the House with a chance of becoming law needs to be acceptable to both Senator Schumer and President Biden who are both very attuned to internal Democratic Party dynamics.

The big question is do the Democrats offer to protect Johnson for a price — likely immediate consideration of the Ukraine funding package on Monday morning?  Or do they let him swing as they are not part of the Republican confidence coalition.

 

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Republicans Chip Roy, Andy Biggs, Tom Finnany, Clay Higgins, Eric Burlison, Thomas Massie, Matt Rosendale, Warren Davidson, Marge Greene Publicly Support Putin Kidnapping Ukrainian Children

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Wow.  Speechless.  Furious.

@TristanSnell
The House just voted to condemn Putin’s kidnapping of Ukrainian children.

9 Republicans voted against the resolution.

Chip Roy
Andy Biggs
Tom Tiffany
Clay Higgins
Eric Burlison
Thomas Massie
Matt Rosendale
Warren Davidson
Marjorie Taylor Greene

Remember in November.

I wonder what fake moral stance they are using to explain this vote.

Totally open thread.

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Pastor Mike & His God-Emperor – STOCKPILE

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Speaker Johnson Is Plotting to Get Trump’s Agenda Passed in 2025
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/speaker-johnsons-plot-to-get-trumps-agenda-passed-in-2025.html

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Politico, “Trump’s private demand to Johnson: Help overturn my conviction”:

… [Trump] has been obsessed in recent weeks with harnessing the powers of Congress to fight on his own behalf and go to war against the Democrats he accuses of “weaponizing” the justice system against him.

It’s a campaign he orchestrated in the days after his May 31 conviction on 34 felony counts in New York, starting with a phone call to the man he wanted to lead it: Speaker Mike Johnson.

Trump was still angry when he made the call, according to those who have heard accounts of it from Johnson, dropping frequent F-bombs as he spoke with the soft-spoken and pious GOP leader.

“We have to overturn this,” Trump insisted…

The speaker didn’t really need to be convinced, one person familiar with the conversation said: Johnson, a former attorney himself, already believed the House had a role to play in addressing Trump’s predicament. The two have since spoken on the subject multiple times.

But sympathy can only go so far. With a slim majority and skittish swing-district members, Johnson is already finding it difficult to deliver for Trump.

Republicans have all but abandoned their effort to impeach President Joe Biden, as Trump wants. Wednesday’s contempt vote against Attorney General Merrick Garland squeaked by only after an intense whipping effort. And now a series of proposals targeting what Republicans call “rogue prosecutors” (i.e., those investigating Trump) appear to have a wobbly future.


https://newrepublic.com/article/182728/top-goper-accidentally-wrecks-trumps-biggest-lie-jack-smith

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