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When They’re Whining, You’re Winning

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Elizabeth Warren is on a tear. First, and best, she’s making those fuckers at Facebook defend their recent decision to let politicians lie in ads. Warren’s decision to put up some false advertising on Facebook is smart, and Facebook isn’t taking it well:


Second, fucking Marco, saying a Marco thing in a Marco way:


If you haven’t seen the clip, watch it–there’s nothing crude nor vulgar about it. It’s just smart and funny, in support of a political position that has widespread approval across the country. Never mind that irony died when a Trump lickspittle complains about another politician’s crudeness and vulgarity. A little while later, he’s whining at Trump about the Kurds in Syria.


Marco is the little doggy that’s going to bark all day.

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Shep Smith Out at Fox News

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As you can see by Cavuto and Roberts’ reaction, it was a carefully coordinated and long-planned move:


Speculation is rampant, but apparently Barr met with Rupert Murdoch a couple of days ago. You fill in the blanks.

As with Chris Wallace, I think Smith got a lot of bonus points for his mere existence at a propaganda outlet. And his presence didn’t keep Fox addicts from getting a massive dose of lies from Hannity and the rest of the opinion numbskulls. Still, it’s too bad that there will one less decent guy at that hellhole.

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Kate Wrote a Letter and It Is Good

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Between this and Biden’s call for impeachment, I think his campaign is catching up to the inevitable fact that inevitability alone is not a campaign strategy.

Open thread.

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First they curse, then they press me ’til I hurt

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Two of Rudy 911’s “business associates” have been arrested for campaign finance violations:

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman have been under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan and are expected to appear in federal court in Virginia later on Thursday.

According to the indictment, Parnas, Fruman and other defendants “conspired to circumvent the federal laws against foreign influence by engaging in a scheme to funnel foreign money to candidates for federal and state office so that the defendants could by potential influence with the candidates, campaigns, and the candidates’ governments.”

I’m sure they’ll keep their mouths shut and that will be the end of this.

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Thoughts and Prayers

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Boy, if there was anything else the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee could do. Sadly, he can’t, so I sure hope Baby Jesus is listening.

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Field Notes

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If I were a highly paid New York Times columnist, I’d draw some conclusion from this graffiti on a toilet wall in a Pilot truck stop in Wisconsin. Either it means that even a conservative group like truckers are turning on Trump, or a liberal has overreached with this act of rampant vandalism and will offend those conservative truckers, energizing them to go to the polls.

Also, I have to note that nobody was using the machines in front of the Fox News monitor at a crowded Planet Fitness in central Wisconsin. Perhaps this is a major data point that the state is going to flip for Democrats in 2020? Or, an indicator that the younger people there have lost their moorings and connection with their elders. Perhaps they even order old fashioneds with whiskey instead of brandy, and they cheer for the women’s team at the World Cup rather than wearing a cheesehead and going to Packers games.

Goddam, punditry is hard. Open thread.

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Sondland’s a No Show

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The State Department has directed Gordon Sondland, Ambassador to the EU and enthusiastic user of WhatsApp, not to testify.

Sondland can’t testify because he’s still an employee. If I were him – that is, if I were a person caught red-handed as a lower-echelon conspirator – I would just quit and testify, and then go cooperate with any of the inevitable criminal investigations in hopes that I wouldn’t be wearing a jumpsuit in a minimum security prison. But, apparently, Sondland wants to go down with the ship.

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Sometimes Daddy is Mean

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Trump’s latest lash out is to dump the Kurds and let the Turks invade northern Syria.

Quick, to the batphone:

Another move that helps Putin, advances Trump’s business interests (Trump Towers in Istanbul), and gives everybody else the signal that he’s gonna go ham if he gets impeached.

Update: Looks like Butters is issuing some strongly worded tweets:

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Sunday Show Review

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I’m driving cross country, and Sirius XM plays the audio from CNN, MSNBC and Fox, so I was able to listen to the Sunday shows. I haven’t watched them for years: as I assume most of you agree, they’re pretty damn stupid as well as wired for Republicans. Today, though, with the Trump White House and the GOP Congressional Leadership ducking the shows, it didn’t sound good for Trump. The only Republican stupid enough to go on Meet the Press, RonJon, spun up his deep state theories to a pretty unsympathetic audience in Chuck Todd. I didn’t catch the whole RonJon interview but the clips I heard were brutal, with Johnson sounding like a crank, and Todd jumping down his throat.

CNN overall, and Jake Tapper in particular, are pretty much in open revolt from the hegemony of bothsides. Tapper ended his show with a discussion of how Republicans turned on McCarthy, and used the examples of Margaret Chase Smith, who was out early against McCarthy, and Republican Majority Leader Bob Taft, who kept his mouth shut because he felt McCarthy was good for his Presidential ambitions. Jake noted that Smith’s obit led with her anti-McCarthy position, and Taft dropped dead before he could clean up his reputation. It was pretty fucking brutal and might possibly have convinced a Republican or two if any of them really did care about their reputations.

Still a lot of stupid questions, especially the “gotcha” one asking Senators whether they would vote for conviction knowing what they know today. Warren’s answer – the only smart one to that dumb question as far as I’m concerned – was a simple “Yes”. Booker and Klobuchar hemmed, hawed and hedged, ultimately wanting to say “yes” but not wanting to sound like they’re pre-judging Trump. Look, the guy has been trumpeting his guilt all over town – holding back when he’s letting fly looks weak.

I also listened to some of Chris Wallace, who’s the perfect example of how desperate people are for a Fox Newser to be somewhat reasonable that they latch on to the tiniest bit of journalistic practice like he’s the next Murrow. Wallace spent a bunch of time on the Schiff nonsense, but I admit I didn’t listen to the whole thing to avoid a traffic accident.

Overall, I guess I’m surprised that the overall tone and tenor of the shows was very negative for Trump, that (by their standards) they focused on the main issues of his criminality without getting sidetracked too far, and that there were very few hacks who would step up to defend Trump.

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Noon Open Thread

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I thought this Post explainer was a good round up of the whole Ukraine mess for non-addicts, including Sondland’s role. It might shock you to know that a guy who gave a million bucks to Trump’s inaguration is an asshole:

In Brussels, Sondland garnered a reputation for his truculent manner and fondness for the trappings of privilege. He peppered closed-door negotiations with four-letter words. He carried a wireless buzzer into meetings at the U.S. Mission that enabled him to silently summon support staff to refill his teacup.

Sondland seemed to chafe at the constraints of his assignment. He traveled for meetings in Israel, Romania and other countries with little or no coordination with other officials. He acquired a reputation for being indiscreet, and was chastised for using his personal phone for state business, officials said.

Clearly, the pressures of being male, upper-class, white and rich were tough for Sondland. Even so, he’s not fucking crazy: he’s testifying on Tuesday. The bottom line is none of these more minor players are going to jail for Trump, and that’s bad news.

This also looks like a pretty good resource for those who don’t want to ingest every single morsel of impleachment news: impeachment.fyi.

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Let’s Check In With the Deliberative Body of Cooling Saucers

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This one makes me go hmmm. Is “I’m a credulous oaf” a way to pivot towards impeachment after you stuck up for Trump 24 hours ago? Perhaps someone who makes an old fashioned with brandy instead of whiskey could give me a little more insight on this dolt’s strategy in the comments:


You can always safely take the under with Marco, who’s looking like a human sweat drop in the video below:

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida tells reporters he thinks Trump was just kidding when he publicly asked China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.

“I don’t think it’s a real request,” Rubio told reporters on Friday. “I think he did it to get you guys. I think he did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it.”


Yes, Marco, we know that Daddy is always joking when he calls Mommy bad names, and she’s only wearing big sunglasses today because her eyes are sometimes sensitive to sunlight.

And, oh yeah, Mitt thinks Trump has been very, very naughty and might well not get a second slice of cake after dinner, or something. Not to piss on him too much – it’s a good statement – but he has a history of big talk and no action.

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The Dim Possibility of Showing Some Restraint

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Man, I hate to give Brooks any attention, but this is about perfect:


In case you haven’t been following along, Brooks did what he usually does when everything is bleak, it’s the middle of the night, he’s all alone and the dummies might be right: he masturbates onto the page, rolls over and goes to bed.

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Schiff’s Memo

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Last night, Schiff, Engel and Cummings released a letter with attachments documenting some of the more damning details of Trump’s attempt to extort the President of Ukraine into announcing that he was investigating the Bidens, in return for release of military aid. Here’s a story that covers the high points, with the letter itself embedded at the end. The letter comes after a closed-door deposition of Special Envoy Kurt Volker, who is one of the bad actors who flipped on Trump because he doesn’t want to go down in flames. I’ll leave the sophisticated analysis to Cheryl and Adam, but suffice it to say: texts bad, Trump’s fucked.

So, anybody with minimal reading comprehension can understand that Trump committed a bunch of illegal acts that make him a danger to the country. Yet the Republicans in the House and Senate, with one minor exception I could find (Sasse) haven’t said a god damned thing. Yesterday, Gym Jordan left the committee meeting saying that Volker added nothing new (not linking to Fox News, sorry). In fact, Senator Ron Johnson defended Trump’s request to the Chinese.

What the hell is it going to take for these assholes to turn on Trump? This piece in the Post details how right wing media will shit on any of them who flip, but My God at some point a few of them will have at least a speck of courage, won’t they?

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Self Impeaching

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Trump just word sharted all over the White House lawn, telling China to investigate the Bidens and admitting he asked Ukraine to do the same. Not the smartest politics:

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