Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

No one could have predicted…

The math demands it!

What fresh hell is this?

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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

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

Good luck with your asparagus.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Infrastructure week. at last.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

It’s been a really long fucking year.

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

The willow is too close to the house.

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Counter-Political Action Plus Civic Action Post & Comment Thread

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Counter-Political Action Plus Civic Action Post & Comment Thread

In my post, Subsole requested a post, really a weekly post, but this one will be weakly as it is post workout, so that people can list in comments the local and state organizations they are part of or know of that are doing counter-political and/or civic action to oppose the Republican attempts to revise state election laws to disenfranchise Americans and, as a result, manipulate election results.

So if you are working with a local or state group or know of one, please list it in the comments. It can be most of us haven’t heard about or something, like Stacey Abrams’ organization in Georgia and Ben Wikler’s work with the Wisconsin Democratic Party, that a lot of us have heard about.

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ETA at 3:35 PM EDT

If you’ve got links to these groups’ websites, please include them in your comments listing them.

Open thread!

Also, current state post workout:

Counter-Political Action Plus Civic Action Post & Comment Thread 1

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Whatever You Do Now, Don’t Turn Around

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I think we know that no matter whether COVID-19 is a massive epidemic, or a nothingburger (in terms of US mortality), the Republicans will politicize it. The trade disruption will, somehow, be Democrats’ fault for opposing TPP, or whatever other stupid reason they cook up. The deaths will be due to Obamacare impinging upon the robust function of the invisible hand.

The reality is that a COVID-19 pandemic will highlight one issue where Democrats can win: our fucked-up healthcare system. Sick people will avoid going to the doctor because they don’t have insurance (or good insurance), and they’ll infect others. Our overcrowded emergency departments, still the first point of contact for the sick working poor who don’t have a family physician, will grind to a standstill under the weight of infection precautions. The for-profit urgent care centers that dot the landscape around here will be relatively useless monuments to the greed of the hospital systems that overbuilt them to capture insurance money.

Every single Democratic candidate has a good healthcare plan that would be better than this. M4A is miles ahead of our common disaster.

And then there’s the incompetence, just the sheer stupidity that would lead the State Department to overrule the CDC. Expect more of this in the days and weeks to come.

We need to stick it to Trump on this one – it’s all on his watch and we need to make him own it before his media machine makes it Obama’s Katrina. We have the plans, and we have the competence. For once, that ought to be appreciated.

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Election Year Open Thread: The Iowa Caucuses

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Caucus Refreshments - Jeff Danziger

(Jeff Danziger via GoComics.com)

This is no way to run a democratic election!

And the glimpses I’m seeing on twitter of ‘mock caucus’ training to bring in The Youngs are… not inspirational:

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Really Absolutely Mundanely 2020, Now

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Parties are over, back to the real-as-we-know-it world…

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: DUMP TRUMP

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It’s the theme of the day! From the Washington Post:

… Protesters in the dark of a snowy New England evening chanted “Dump Trump,” while those marching in the warmth of southern Florida brandished signs reading “Impeach Putin’s Puppet.” In Republican-dominated Kansas, they repeated a mantra: “Country over party.” In Texas, they fretted that despite the House’s vote, Trump will get away with it all.

Organizers said that there were more than 600 protests nationwide — from Hawaii to Maine — with the goal of demonstrating “to our lawmakers that their constituents are behind them to defend the Constitution.”

In many places, the rallies functioned less as a chance to vent about Trump’s Ukraine dealings — the matter for which he faces impeachment — than as an opportunity for collective catharsis over the entire track record of a president disapproved of by slightly more than half the country…

The House hearings are due to start around 9am EST; actual voting is expected “around” 6:30-7:30pm, depending on the Repubs’ performative stamina, or any ‘surprises’ from the Oval Office squatters.

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Friday Night Impeachment Watch: Nancy Pelosi Talks to Steven Colbert

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Good for Madam Speaker, now and forever…

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: New Story (Old Narrative)

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Meanwhile, across the aisle: ‘… Because our lips get tired!’


SRSLY:

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