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You hate to see it…

by Betty Cracker| November 24, 20199:55 am| 195 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Politics, Assholes, Bitter Despair is the New Black, Decline and Fall, The Republican Crime Syndicate, WTF?

In several ways, this clip of former NSC official Fiona Hill being questioned by House GOP Counsel Stephen Castor is the perfect microcosm of our national political moment: Castor opens by trying to get Hill to deny that she was upset with Bolton and “the way things were going.” Hill gives a forthright account of …

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“Impeach the Motherfucker”

by Betty Cracker| April 18, 201911:53 am| 331 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, General Stupidity

You can read the redacted Mueller report for yourself here. I am not a lawyer, but here’s what seems to be the nut graf(s), from Part II of the report, page 220 of 448: Barr’s disgraceful tap dance this morning was an attempt to distract us from the fact that he substituted his own judgement …

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Trump Crime Cartel Open Thread: The Cost of Obtaining Justice

by Anne Laurie| June 1, 201810:32 am| 190 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Dolt 45, Election 2016, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Russiagate

The price tag for Robert Mueller's investigation is about $17 million–and counting. https://t.co/Zgz6xXQbOa — Carrie Johnson (@johnson_carrie) May 31, 2018 and for that we've gotten 22 indictments, sanctions against a Russian oligarch also implicated in attacks on US troops, 5 felony pleas including against an ex 3-star general with frightening foreign allegiances, & a sprawling …

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Open Thread: Speaking of Media Village Idiocies…

by Anne Laurie| August 25, 20196:27 pm| 203 Comments

This post is in: Election Year, I Can No Longer Rationally Discuss The Sanders Campaign, Open Threads, Assholes, Bring on the Brawndo!, DC Press Corpse

NEW from San Francisco: I was surprised how much concern I heard about the prospect of a contested convention at the DNC Summer Meeting so I wrote about it. https://t.co/YCBlymqPGe — Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) August 25, 2019 Bernie-sympathetic media figure speaks to Sanders supporters, hears what he wants to hear… Longtime DNC member Jim Zogby: …

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You’re Not Dying You Just Feel Like It (although technically we are ALL dying)

by John Cole| February 4, 20193:17 pm| 183 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

Day 2 or 3 of strep- when do you start counting, when you start the antibiotics? At any rate, I still feel like hammered shit and now the temperature is 60 degrees outside and my sinuses have gone kablooey. Forced myself to eat a banana and have been drinking lots of fluids and sleeping constantly. …

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SC Hearings Live Feed

by TaMara (HFG)| September 6, 201812:15 pm| 148 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Assholes

HARRIS LEAHY BOOKER DURBIN Here’s a live feed: Sen Patrick Leahy to Judge Brett Kavanaugh, "Sir, I was born at night, but not last night." This hearing has gone off the rails. — Rodrick Gonzalez (@B_RODcastLive) September 6, 2018 Brett Kavanaugh watching Senator Kamala Harris slowly remove each of her earrings and place them on …

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Open Thread: Yes, Kill the NerdProm

by Anne Laurie| May 1, 201810:03 am| 156 Comments

This post is in: Enhanced Protest Techniques, Excellent Links, Open Threads, DC Press Corpse, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Our Awesome Meritocracy

This: “I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful. She burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.” is not, in any way, shape or form, a joke about someone's "looks." — Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) April …

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General Morning Outrage

by TaMara (HFG)| September 25, 201810:26 am| 271 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Assholes

@mkegop You can delete, but you can't hide. pic.twitter.com/24Qp5tE0Ml — Miss T (@TaMarasKitchen) September 25, 2018 I hate these people. If you’re on Twitter, feel free to go express your outrage. (If that tweet disappears, I have a screenshot) UPDATE: I’ve added my tweet with the screenshot My morning started on a frustrating note. At …

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie| October 22, 20195:06 am| 257 Comments

This post is in: Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Repubs in Disarray!, Trumpery, Decline and Fall, Let A Thousand Watergates Bloom

Nicolle Wallace said that Trump has been informed by associates that he will be impeached. pic.twitter.com/lDw8zFb5cB — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 21, 2019 Throwback Tuesday: At a press conference in Chicago, Spiro Agnew denounces the Washington Post for their coverage of Watergate. When asked if he's bothered by the problems that have arisen from …

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The Most Terrifying Technology

by John Cole| September 11, 20199:18 pm| 128 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Science & Technology

One of the problems with the Trump administration is that they are doing so many retrograde, horrible, awful things, that you can’t even keep up with chronicling them, let alone fighting them all. You have to pick your battles, and even then, the deck is so stacked against you that victories are few and far …

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Three Cheers For WSAZ

by John Cole| April 24, 20191:04 pm| 168 Comments

This post is in: Religious Nuts 2

WSAZ, the NBC affiliate for Huntington-Charleston, WV, had some guests on promoting the Queens Slay Cancer Drag Show at Marshall University, an event to raise money for cancer. Predictably, the Family Policy Council of West Virginia, affiliates of Focus on the Family, lost their shit. Hats off to WSAZ’s Tim Irr for this public response: …

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A larger, better electorate

by Betty Cracker| November 19, 20183:23 pm| 223 Comments

This post is in: Election 2018, Politics, Post-racial America, Proud to Be A Democrat, General Stupidity

I had to visit a government agency today to take care of some paperwork. The experience was as awful as I expected, which might be one reason it’s so easy to convince people that government agencies are hubs of incompetence devoted to inconveniencing citizens while extracting hard-earned dollars from their wallets. Don’t @ me, bro …

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Fuck the Tone Police

by Betty Cracker| June 25, 201811:07 am| 271 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Assholes, General Stupidity

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a corrupt Trumpster, tried to attend a screening of the Mr. Rogers documentary in downtown Tampa this weekend and was jeered out of the theater: Pam Bondi attempted to attend a screening of the Mister Rogers documentary a day after announcing her plan to end protections for health care consumers …

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Repub Venality Open Thread: ‘Normalizing’ the Monstrous

by Anne Laurie| May 12, 20187:16 pm| 184 Comments

This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Assholes, Decline and Fall, I Smell a Pulitzer!

How our Discourse becomes “Coarsened” — as illustrated in tweets: NEW: At yesterday’s meeting of the White House comms team, a visibly upset and furious Sarah Sanders told the group: “I am sure this conversation is going to leak, too. And that’s just disgusting." Here's what happened next, per 5 sources in the room: https://t.co/RWVqgtXqpL …

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LOL! Nothing Matters (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker| June 21, 20182:25 pm| 448 Comments

This post is in: Immigration, Open Threads, Assholes, General Stupidity

In the thread below, on the topic of Miller and Nielsen getting jeered at MEXICAN restaurants, one of y’all speculated that their choice of cuisine was deliberate trolling. I’ll admit I didn’t find that very convincing until I saw this: This is very odd. https://t.co/OjzGzlntuf — Philip Bump (@pbump) June 21, 2018 Yeah, it’s a …

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