Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

No one could have predicted…

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

This really is a full service blog.

Everybody saw this coming.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Battle won, war still ongoing.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Reality always wins in the end.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I really should read my own blog.

The revolution will be supervised.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

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

This blog will pay for itself.

It was, in fact, named Jelly.

Every MSM headline appears to be written by DougJ. i hope he’s getting paid.

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

All your base are belong to Tunch.

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Late Night Open Thread: Double-Negged

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Negging (derived from the verb neg, meaning “negative feedback”) is an act of emotional manipulation whereby a person makes a deliberate backhanded compliment or otherwise flirtatious remark to another person to undermine their confidence and increase their need of the manipulator’s approval. The term was coined and prescribed by pickup artists.

So is Trump (unconsciously) negging himself, hoping that his cultists will respond with a torrent of praise in response?

To quote Stein’s Law, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” The GOP Death Cult is truly dangerous, but the longterm survival of either its god-emperor figurehead or the nominal party that elected him (with considerable assistance by malign foreign forces) is not something upon which to waste too much of our precious energy, IMO…

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Madam Vice President Open Thread: But Her Emails Headphones…

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Happy Scandinavian Holidays!

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I was saving this clip for later in the month, but thanks to Rod Dreher the Reichwingers have just discovered it, and their collective hair is so on fire that the replacement Fox Xmas Tree may be danger of incineration.

Also, I want to recommend my favorite wholesome holiday family read-along story, Tove Jansson’s The Fir Tree. The hibernating Moomins are awoken by a disgruntled neighbor, and are alarmed to discover that a mysterious ‘Christmas’ monster is demanding tributes of festive foods, gifts, and a decorated tree…

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Happy Holidays!

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A real holiday present, if we can keep the Repubs from screwing it up, again:


CNN is clearly attempting to cherry-pick ‘frivolous, reckless liberal giveaways’ — e-bike credits! salmon conservation! — but it’s hard to demonize childcare and college completion assistance:

… A majority of the funding is focused on transforming the nation’s social safety net by reducing the cost of child and health care, as well as combating climate change.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the legislation would increase the deficit by $367 billion over the next 10 years. But the White House has worked to make the case that the bill will be fully paid for when accounting for a proposal to enhance tax enforcement, which the CBO excluded.

The bill passed the House in November but faces a tough road in the Senate, where it is expected to undergo some changes. As currently written, the legislation would create universal pre-K, send families an enhanced child tax credit and provide beefed-up subsidies on the Affordable Care Act exchanges…

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Tuesday / Wednesday, Dec. 7-8

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Late Night Open Thread: Megan McArgleBargle, Ever True to Her Class

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If I have to share a bedroom with my spouse and a bathroom with my offspring, is life even worth living? Also: *must* have ample closets!

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GOP Death Cult Open Thread: Mark ‘Renfield’ Meadows May Have Inadvertently Done the Nation A Good Turn

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Meadows’ artless book-tour admissions that TFG knew he was sick (and infectious) well before being ‘suddenly’ hospitalized has given our ‘strain at a gnat, swallow a camel’ Media Village Idiots an excuse to re-examine the fatal timeline:

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