Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

What fresh hell is this?

I’m going back to the respite thread.

Historically it is a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

False Scribes! False Scribes!

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Let there be snark.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Reality always wins in the end.

… makes me wish i had hoarded more linguine

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The house always wins.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Good luck with your asparagus.

I did not have this on my fuck 2020 bingo card.

How do you get liars to care about the truth?

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Something seems odd about that, but i have been drinking.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

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Open Thread: The Democratic Response to the SotU

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NPR’s transcription — with notes — here.

Haven’t found a transcription of Rep. Escobar’s speech, but I’ll add a link if you put one in the comments:

NANCY SMASH!

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  3. 3.

    Martin

    We’re going to rue losing Harris as a candidate. Dems are going to have to learn to hit MUCH harder if we expect to win in November. Warren might be up to it. I don’t think anyone else left in the race is.

  4. 4.

    Kattails

    Thanks so much for posting this, will look forward to checking it out tomorrow, must get to bed.  My goal is to get some sort of helpful letter to the ed. about Warren before I have to go to work in the morning. I was sorry to see the discussion about her devolve as Cole’s previous post went on. I very much appreciate the “curated” bits of info that come through here, like Warren’s speech after Iowa, and the Eleven films ad. Always spot on.

  6. 6.

    Amir Khalid

    Another jackal said it turns out that orange makeup is contagious. That’s true, alas, and it doesn’t look any better on her than on him.

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    Because I like reporting on my favourite sportsball team, let me mention that Liverpool FC’s under-23 side, standing in again for the first team, beat League 1 side Shrewsbury Town 1-0 last night in a replay of their FA Cup fourth-round match, thanks to a Shrewsbury defender’s own goal. Unfortunately, I am recovering from a cold and wasn’t up to following a match that kicked off at 03:45 my time.

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Amir Khalid:

    I can’t get the FA Cup at all on my cable system, which vexes me. They used to show at least some of the matches. I always like the inevitable super underdog’s run.

  17. 17.

    Zinsky

    NEWSFLASH FOR CONSERVATIVES – RUSH LIMBAUGH IS NOT A NATIONAL HERO!

    He is a lazy, obese, poorly educated hate-mongering bigot who has never done anything productive or helpful in his idiotic life!  His denigration of black and brown people alone warrants a nation-wide campaign to take him off the public airwaves, never to return.  Hell will be a little more full when this disgusting pervert finally stops sucking oxygen!  The fact that Donald Trump would even invite this talentless blowhard to the SOTU address, demonstrates how stupid he really is!

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    John S.

    @Zinsky: Actually, it shows what his strategy for re-election is.

    Throw copious amounts of red meat to his MAGAt base, fire them up and get them out to vote. He is counting on a fractured and demoralized Democratic base, with a healthy dash of voter suppression to deliver him pretty much the same result he got in 2016. And he’s ok with that.

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    Chris Johnson

    @WaterGirl: Twitter is straight up a conduit for Russian troll farms and propaganda. I thought that was already obvious: I have a hard time picking which is more exploitable, that or Facebook. Honorable mention to Reddit for having downvote mechanics that let Russia explicitly control it at the touch of a button.

  22. 22.

    Chris Johnson

    @John S.: He is counting on people believing that is a thing that can happen.

    If you’ve got 20% maniacs and assholes, and 80% of the country legit hates you, but you are able to convince them through heavy propaganda that they are actually outnumbered and only 48% of the country, and you are able to convince them that over 50% are like the 20% you know you have, then you can outright cheat and throw the election and then claim you won and NOT get strung up like Mussolini.

     

    And this is not okay.

     

    They are not that popular. It is propaganda, and it’s already everywhere, and part of it is falsely claiming the fascist side is so very irresistible and powerful. And that’s bullshit. Malarkey ;)

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @Chris Johnson:

    If you’ve got 20% maniacs and assholes, and 80% of the country legit hates you, but you are able to convince them through heavy propaganda that they are actually outnumbered and only 48% of the country, and you are able to convince them that over 50% are like the 20% you know you have, then you can outright cheat and throw the election and then claim you won and NOT get strung up like Mussolini.

    Interesting theory, and quite depressing.  We have to fight harder than they do.

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