REPUBS IN DISARRAY!@DougJBalloon https://t.co/ZOlh1bCaIt
— Cheryl Rofer (@CherylRofer) December 1, 2021
… It’s a death cult with an outsized media platform. It’s monsters, and morons, and moronic monsters.
Some commentor recently took objection to the phrase ‘rooting for injuries’, but really — what else can we say?
Hoping there are no fatalities among innocent bystanders when the inevitable shootout starts?
Reminder: Kevin McCarthy publicly ‘joked’ about hitting Speaker Pelosi with her own gavel:
New – Tensions in GOP:
McCarthy tells Mace and Greene to “stop it”
Greene emerges and says she and Trump back primary to Mace.
Mace: “All I can say about Marjorie Taylor Greene is bless her fucking heart.”
And fears infighting hurts ‘22 chances w/@mzanona https://t.co/nJ9pbRGln2— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 1, 2021
"Yeah, I do," Rep. Fred Upton said when asked whether he thought the most recent eruption over Boebert and Greene hurts their chances at taking back the majority. "It's uncalled for."
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 1, 2021
True freedom is knowing that whenever you punch you can be confident you're punching up. pic.twitter.com/dpPrfLfLHK
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) November 30, 2021
Views differ…
There are obviously worse things about these videos, but I can't get over how breathlessly excited she gets before delivering the "punchline"—like, she just *knows* this story is going to kill in the room. (And she's right!) https://t.co/hG47zJLGoI
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) November 30, 2021
What’s noteworthy is not the speaker but the audience. The applause, the laughing out loud, the person who hoots. There not even that low “oooooh” that you hear when an audience thinks a comedian went too far. https://t.co/q0bBLT61Fb
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) December 1, 2021
It's useful to remember that the Omar-Boebert friction is occurring after Greene and Gosar faced sanctions for embracing political violence. https://t.co/nWBjAI4fJg
— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 1, 2021
For once, she's absolutely right. https://t.co/kCi9HIwHwm
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) December 1, 2021
Chetan Murthy
And I read recently that Yertle decided the GrOPers would have no policy program for the 2022 midterms: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/mcconnell-republicans-dont-need-an-agenda-for-the-midterms.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/03/politics/mcconnell-gop-2022/index.html
HumboldtBlue
There is no bottom.
VOR
McConnell has a policy: obstruction for the sake of obstruction. Preventing the government from functioning in order to make the Dems look weak.
oatler
“It’s the Dems who are in disarray! The Dems will always be in disarray! Now, coming up after the break I’ll be speaking with Congressman Louis Gohmert to explain why Dems are in disarray.”
-Chuck Todd this Sunday
I wish this was over the top
Fair Economist
Not much in the news, but big crypto crash today, still ongoing. Bitcoin down 14% in one day (oops, just dropped another 2% as I was writing this).
Probably you don’t hear about it because crypto news comes from crypto boosters and they’re not boosting *this*.
Edit: holy cow, another 2% during the edit window.
Edit: now down 24%! Holy cow, this is exciting!
Edit: and now back to down 17%.
Store of wealth my ass.
phdesmond
@HumboldtBlue:
and to think it may be turtles all the way down …
Jim Appleton
@oatler:
I’m riveted. //
Chetan Murthy
@Fair Economist:
Buy The Dip!
NotMax
Republican party = cheerleaders for death.
burnspbesq
What, no monstrous morons?
Wag
@Fair Economist: Rooting for
injuries. bankruptciesoatler
@Jim Appleton:
Almost as bad, he’s got Mike Braun scheduled.
Chetan Murthy
@burnspbesq: I’m partial to “moral imbeciles”
Mike E
Ordered my calendar, yay. That’s it for me these days…I just can’t even with any of this stupid bullshit.
Fair Economist
@Chetan Murthy:
Trending on Twitter right now! (not kidding)
West of the Rockies
When Steve Inskeep is noting the GOP lunacy, you know it’s pretty bad.
Ruckus
@HumboldtBlue:
Sure there’s a bottom. The problem is that there are certain members of the US congress that are digging holes all around them, like they are trying for the center of the earth. And as long as they continue to only dig under their own feet and those of their fellow traitor members it might be OK, but then they aren’t the sharpest tools in the box and one might need to be concerned that they are digging to bring down the entire mess.
Chetan Murthy
@Fair Economist: I know, it’s why I made the joke. It’s all so depressing.
burnspbesq
I am always tempted to ask crypto freaks, “when (not if) all your stuff goes in the shitter, which central bank are you counting on to bail out your dumb ass?”
phdesmond
ran across this:
LEGAL
Black Georgia Election Workers Suing Far-Right Conspiracy Website For Dragging Them Into Trump’s Election Fraud Circus
i had heard about it earlier on msnbc.
NotMax
@burnspbesq
Ponzi Savings & Loan.
//
featheredsprite
Mace: “All I can say about Marjorie Taylor Greene is bless her fucking heart.”
Don’t you just love southern cussing!
Craig
Steve Inskeep is so fucking useless.
Ken
@Fair Economist: “Store of wealth” was a fair dig when they were claiming crypto was a currency. Now that the IRS has announced “fine, we’ll tax it like currency transactions”, crypto is — well, it’s not clear what they’re now claiming, but definitely non-taxable.
(The funny part has been watching as it dawns on some crypto enthusiasts that “the blockchain is a publicly readable record of all transactions” means the IRS can also read it.)
Chetan Murthy
@Ken: Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism [who, I think, has gone bonkers since Trump] coined the term “prosecution futures”. Love it.
Rina99
For those following the saga, they apparently caught Ethan Crumbly’s parents.
https://twitter.com/nonilex/status/1467021297133756421?t=bXCAf1F1KzlCcYb12dP0Ug&s=19
mrmoshpotato
Wait. Does Kevin McCarthy not like having a party of idiots and assholes?
Shit. Why did we Democrats do that to the Rethuglican party overnight? Shame on us!
mrmoshpotato
@Fair Economist:
But but I saw Matt Damon hawking this shit in online ads AND on TV tonight! (Seriously – during the Oregon-Utah game.)
Gloomyjim
@Chetan Murthy:
To be fair, McConnell is intelligent enough not to commit criminal enterprise to text.
trollhattan
I give my late, very late Friday {chef’s kiss} award to
“Your out of your league.”
John Revolta
@Rina99: Well……………..that’s the way the kooky Crumbleys’ cookie crumbles.
mrmoshpotato
@Rina99:
Congrats to them on the additional charges that’ll be filed! Oh, also, LOL!
trollhattan
@Gloomyjim:
Turtle’s wife would whack him with a rolled-up newspaper, along with a terse, “Is you taking notes of a criminal conspiracy?”
trollhattan
@mrmoshpotato:
“Chances of bail, your honor?”
“Mwa-ha-ha-ha!”
Can you say ‘flight risk?’ I thought you could!”
Edmund Dantes
I just find it funny that no matter what happens McCarthy will never be Speaker. If they do somehow end up winning, he’s going to be shocked by how many “friends” start gunning for “his” spot. Being Minority leader in the House sucks. Very little power, not a lot you can do to gum up the works like in the senate. All you get to do is herd the cats of your caucus.
McCarthy is dumb enough to think he got minority leader due to his superior political skills and intellect. When the reality is he got it by default. The same won’t be true of Speaker. It takes a different set of skills to keep everyone in line and happy enough to keep you in place.
I’ll always give Nancy credit for how masterful she has done in that role. She understands and gets all the levers and machinations needed to balance it all out. McCarthy has no clue.
Amir Khalid
Today is the anniversary of Bianca’s passing. I haz a sad.
ThresherK
@Fair Economist: Heeehee, Bitcoin!
I’m too tired to search for the Futurama clip we’re both thinking of. Just pretend I did find & post it and that a good laugh was had by all.
?BillinGlendaleCA
OT: Looked at my work schedule earlier this evening, got the coveted closing shift that ends at 12am(or a bit later) on Tuesday AND a 9am start on Wednesday. I’m one lucky ducky.
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
After all of one day. Pa and Ma Crumbly seem about as expert about going on the lam as they are about gun safety and parenting.
sab
@Amir Khalid: I am so sorry.
JoyceH
@Amir Khalid: Does anyone else think these parents are going to become Second Amendment martyrs to the right?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JoyceH: Not if they’re just in the slammer, and the right wing would view them as losers then. If they’re dead, maybe.
Martin
@Amir Khalid: We’ll see if this becomes anything of a trend, but I’d like to see all parents whose kids got unsecured guns to be charged.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: Ain’t that the truth!
Debbie (Aussie)
@Amir Khalid: I’m sorry Amir. I hope your sad will gently leave as you remember the good times.
Martin
@JoyceH: I don’t think so. The optics here are really tricky for them. This couple could become a catalyst for what’s wrong with gun licensure. In Rittenhouse’s case, you could at least try and argue that the people Rittenhouse shot deserved it, but you can’t do that here. This doesn’t play into their tropes.
No name
@Amir Khalid: So sorry. We light a candle on Saturday evenings for all our beloved pets who have left us and we will remember Bianca tonight as well.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Milky Way, southern end of Lockwood Valley
Downtown LA from above Glendale(the Orange Place is in the foreground).
Debbie (Aussie)
From this distance it looks like you have groups of different terrorists. The religious, the fascist/nazis, the militias and they are all white supremacists. Easier to call them the American Taliban I guess. They have a lot more in common with the Taliban than they do with USA democracy, that’s for sure.
And we are following in your footsteps on the right side of politics.
sigh!
?BillinGlendaleCA
Downtown LA from above Glendale.
Amir Khalid
@No name:
Thank you for remembering her.
opiejeanne
@Amir Khalid: I’m so sorry that you lost her last year.
ThresherK
@Amir Khalid: Condolences from our homes to yours.
opiejeanne
@Amir Khalid: I was laughing when I read about how they were caught. Geez, they didn’t even leave the state, and then they parked their car in the neighborhood where they were hiding. If they were trying to disappear, they are idiots. If not, then what the heck were they trying to do?
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I see it, waaaay over there.
Chetan Murthy
@opiejeanne: maybe escape to CA? But then they were stuck with “how do we cross the river?”
https://twitter.com/nonilex/status/1467009961968521222
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: The orange apron place is in the foreground.
JoyceH
@opiejeanne: The car was right in front of the building they were in! Do these people never watch television? And sounds like someone let them into the building, so they must have known someone there, and that person will probably wind up charged too.
Doesn’t it seem like life is just getting weirder? We’ve had plenty of school shootings, but this is the first time the parents on the shooter went on the lam.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
Some people have special talents.
Their’s are being stupid and evil.
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
Hide in plain sight.
Works OK with blind searchers. Not so well with those with actual vision.
SectionH
@Amir Khalid: Oh.That hurts like it was yesterday. Your sweet girl… Shedding tears for you, for her.
But you should laugh because I was completely fooled by “Bianca” for years on BJ – and I did imagine her trying to be inconspicuous.
But black cats do rule.
Amir Khalid
Giving firearms to minor children seems to be a thing. There’s a company called Crickett Arms that makes a line of bolt-action rifles for children, with plastic bodies in bright kid-friendly colours. They got flak for the “My first rifle” photo gallery on their website, which they had to take down, but they’re still selling the obscene things. I suppose giving your 15-year-old a 9mm Sig Sauer for Christmas is the logical extension of that.
JoyceH
Different subject, but just heard on the news that one of the new Omicron cases in the US is in someone who is both vaccinated and boosted. Mild case, they said, but still. Shit.
sukabi
@Chetan Murthy: Have to actually implement punishment for an effect to take place. These moral imbeciles have skated through life consequence free.
Procopius
The way negotiation works is, first you come to a preliminary agreement. It’s not going to be perfect and it’s not going to have everything both parties want, but it’s an agreement, a basis for continuing negotiations. The way both Trump and Biden have handled this, we had something valuable and we not only threw it away, we ruined the basis for further progress. The Iranians (and the Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans) now see that the United States cannot be trusted. There is no point to making concessions, since the Americans will simply come back and demand more without keeping to their side of the agreement. And in this case the Israelis are very much to blame, as are they and the Gulf States in Syria.
sab
@Procopius: What ” this” are you talking about?
Starfish
@Chetan Murthy: Gone bonkers in a good or bad way? I quit following when the website turned into snarling Libertarian nonsense.
sab
@trollhattan: Somebody used that same bad spelling to snark at Stuart Stevens, and Stevens retweeted it and kept it up as a pinned tweet for about a year.
Starfish
@Amir Khalid: There are a lot of Southern kids who do get a first rifle for Christmas. I would imagine that a bolt action rifle shoots fairly slowly and is not too hard to aim. People are out of their damn minds giving kids hand guns. Some of them are stupid enough to give their kids weapons before kids are old enough to realize death is permanent.
mrmoshpotato
@Starfish:
In my experience, bolt action rifles can hold one bullet at a time and of course have to be reloaded after each shot.
satby
@Amir Khalid: A year already! It seems more recent. Condolences Amir, the hole in your heart can heal but it always leaves a scar. ?
Joey Maloney
@Amir Khalid: Back in the dark ages when the NRA really was a gun safety org for sportsmen, you could buy a .22 rifle by mail order for the budding young hunter in the family. They were advertised on the inside back cover of comic books.
WereBear
@Amir Khalid: Actually, it is. Gun religion is a thing in the US now.
thalarctosMaritimus
@Amir Khalid: I’m sorry, Amir. You and she gave each other good lives, and I hope your memories can give you solace.
WereBear
@Amir Khalid: Of course! I am sad with you.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Amir Khalid:
Condolences to you. Let her memory be a blessing. And may you be rewarded with another companion when you are ready.
Argiope
@WereBear: for the people who thought snake handling was too tame?
deekaa6
Lets note that Lee Zeldin, fascist congressman from Long Island who is running for Governor of New York is sitting to Boebert’s left and yucking it up while she pukes out hate in the Staten Island video. She was there at his invite. He should be asked about this by every reporter in NY every time he shows his empty fucking head.
evodevo
@Chetan Murthy: I know, right? that whole website turned into a Hillary hate center, totally ignoring ALL the insane stuff Trumpy and the GOPers were doing….I quit going there in 2017 because of it. Haven’t been back since. Just recently got a fund-raising email from Yves – no thanks. they lost me years ago…
Betty
I am intrigued by the comment of the R Congressman which talks about undermining their efforts. Do we know what “their efforts” entail other than gaining absolute power?
LiminalOwl
@Amir Khalid: I’m so sorry. Losing a beloved creature is so hard. May the good wishes from others here help to ease the sadness.
Starfish
@evodevo: Oh, yeah. That was it. That was why I abandoned it. I was there for thoughtful financial takes not unhinged politics. I guess they were unaware of who their audience was.
SFAW
@John Revolta:
Somewhere in Hawaii, NotMax is saying to himself “Dammit!”
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
Amir, I wish I could say something to ease the pain, but I know how hard it is for you.
J R in WV
@mrmoshpotato:
That is true of some of them, but most have a small clip/magazine which holds 5 to 10 rounds. So you can slowly work your way through at least a few rounds before you need to reload.
The .22 rifle I learned with at Grandma’s farm had such a 5 round clip, but it was a very old gun, and the clip wasn’t tight, so we used it as a single shot, as it would jam up frequently if you tried to use the clip as it was intended.
Deer rifles almost all have a clip for 3, 4 or 5 rounds.