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Republican Venality

Impeachment Open Thread: Our Failed Republican Party

by Anne Laurie|  December 10, 20196:24 pm| 142 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Republican Venality, All Too Normal, Assholes

A picture is worth a thousand words:

3 liberals from California, 3 from New York, and 1 from Massachusetts.

The Democrats pushing impeachment couldn’t be more out of touch with most Americans if they tried! pic.twitter.com/1cWj0bL5h6

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) December 10, 2019

And its Very Woke enablers…

I made a joke that on the day they impeached Trump, Do Something Twitter would be too busy yelling do something to notice, but I don't think it's a joke now.

— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) December 10, 2019

Can you believe that they got Al Capone on tax evasion? Seriously. Those dummies just don’t understand political strategy

— ???????? ???????????? (@JoshuaGrubbsPhD) December 10, 2019

and Trump's being impeached for, essentially, trying to get the Russians off the hook! The Crowdstrike fever dream is insane nuttery that says all those Russian intelligence officers charged with hacking the DNC were somehow framed. That's what Trump wanted Ukraine to say!

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) December 10, 2019

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Russiagate Open Thread: Another Day, Another ‘Snow’ Storm…

by Anne Laurie|  December 10, 20197:50 am| 64 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Russia, Trump Crime Cartel, All Too Normal

dc braces for blizzard of evidence - walt handelsman

(Walt Handelsman via GoComics.com)

NEW: Democrats expected to unveil articles of impeachment against Trump Tuesday, focusing on abuse of power, obstruction of Congress @rachaelmbade @mikedebonis @eliseviebeck @ToluseO https://t.co/8BZML3Gwr0

— Emily Guskin (@EmGusk) December 10, 2019

Notably, Trump is meeting Russia’s foreign minister tomorrow. https://t.co/I64KHWvCjl

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 10, 2019

Trump/Lavrov meeting in the Oval office will be “closed press” pic.twitter.com/ryOfpou1Rj

— Jérôme Cartillier (@jcartillier) December 10, 2019

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So it appears there will be a mtg with Trump, and once again, the news comes from Moscow. https://t.co/lUyoMaplLo

— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) December 9, 2019

Annual performance review with Trump & Pence at the WH.

Then onto Congress for #MoscowMitch, #LeningradLindsay, and a host of others.

Word is that he'll attend the weekly @GOP Congressional meeting to give the team fresh orders from Putin. https://t.co/kLDTmW5lHl

— dengre (@denngree) December 10, 2019

Here's what Trump may be up to meeting Lavrov in a "closed press" Oval meeting tomorrow, the day after Putin met Zelensky at #NormandySummit to resolve Russia-Ukraine war. It's always been about sanctions, which entails absolving Russia of election attack, rehab'ing pariah Putin. https://t.co/xNc6kcJJCW

— Paula Chertok🗽 (@PaulaChertok) December 10, 2019

I think for Christmas, he's gonna give him Afghanistan ??

Lavrov will drop some small bit of info that POTUS will tweet before the end of the day https://t.co/T4qoM5SS1o

— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) December 9, 2019

Caving to inferior-but-independent-and-ruthless powers is the essence of Mr. ArtoftheDeal. He always caves.

— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) December 10, 2019

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Bad Faith Open Thread: … “But the CHILDRUN!!!”…

by Anne Laurie|  December 8, 20194:49 pm| 124 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Post-racial America, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality

Alternate headline: Conservatives launch war on Christmas. https://t.co/WcukOmB6kn

— Donald G. Carder (@theangrymick) December 6, 2019


The first resort of the modern American “patriot”…

Grant only made Christmas a federal holiday as an overture to Southern Baptists. And this is how they pay it back. https://t.co/2rCF1G421u

— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) December 8, 2019


Per the Washington Post, “‘I feel so bad for the children’: N.C. towns cancel Christmas parades after demands to remove Confederate groups”:

… In a Wednesday night video message, Wake Forest Mayor Vivian Jones announced that the town’s downtown board of directors voted to cancel the Dec. 14 Christmas parade out of concern that “outside agitators” would show up to protest or defend the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, who planned to march in the event.

The decision in Wake Forest, located less than 20 miles outside Raleigh, comes almost a week after another nearby town, Garner, N.C., announced it was canceling its Christmas parade over possible protests of a float sponsored by a local Confederate group, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.

By the end of her video announcement, Jones was fighting tears…

Wake Forest Police Chief Jeff Leonard said in a statement that one group had notified the town of its plans to protest, but that the police department was worried that more agitators would “show up, wreak havoc then leave.” The town had received “credible information” about a “growing number of outside groups” planning to attend to either defend or oppose the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, according to a statement. The town had not received any threats, officials clarified, but Leonard and Jones said they still believed safety could be put at risk.

“We aren’t happy telling kids they can’t attend or participate in this year’s parade, but it’s better than trying to explain to a parent whose child was injured why we chose to proceed despite so many warning signs,” Leonard said. “No matter what side of this issue you are on, our focus is public safety and at this point, the risk of moving forward with the parade simply outweighs any possible reward.”…

Blaming the ‘outside agitators’ — another proud Suthrun tradition, of course.

Fun-fact: the actual All-American Christmas tradition of the Puritans was to spend the day working and then return home to houses with no Christmas tree.

Christmas trees are a European tradition we didn’t import until the mid-1800s. https://t.co/aydUt4EBSK

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 5, 2019


Our proud Puritan forebears actually banned the celebration of Christmas — it was considered ‘pagan’, i.e., Papist (Catholic). Christmas trees became an aspirational holiday accessory when hordes of desperate German refugees started producing tchotchkes cheaply enough for the American middle class to imitate Queen Victoria’s annual tribute to her German husband. (Which, of course, didn’t stop those good, patriotic Heartland Americans from vilifying the Germans as filthy disease-carrying criminals who couldn’t be bothered to learn English or teach their hordes of subnormal offspring decent behavior.)

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Americans during the period around the Civil War were desperate for “unifying” Kinder, Küche, Kirche “traditions” to plaster over the ugly realities of widespread social dissent. (Lots of us remember the sentimental Little Women Christmas scenes, but when you actually read Alcott’s bestselling children’s books, the backgrounds — even in New England — are of war widows desperate to feed their children, wandering ‘tramp’ veterans with PTSD, and 14-year-old orphans turned out to support themselves or starve.) Just in case you thought Fox News was the first to weaponize The War on Xmas.

"It is really a sad day for America. It is, I think, going to hurt people's Christmas experience because this is going to be playing in the background. Instead of Bing Crosby's Christmas album, we're going to have impeachment," Whitaker said.

— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) December 5, 2019

I mean, that’s my only Christmas wish.

— Kerri "I'm tired" Ann (@misskerriann) December 6, 2019

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‘Season of Giving’ Open Thread: Spare A Thought for the Locally-Grown, Artisanal Bigots & Hypocrites

by Anne Laurie|  December 6, 20199:18 pm| 84 Comments

This post is in: Civil Rights, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, All Too Normal, Assholes, Riveted By The Sociological Significance Of It All

At a Pizza Hut. https://t.co/VfbFviFzbf

— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) December 5, 2019


The multinational big-box kleptocrats, with the Oval Office Occupant as their spokesthing, are making it impossible for the traditional regional hatemongers to get the earned media (free publicity) they rely upon to survive!

Take, for instance, newly-minted reparative-justice advocate and unindicted insurance-fraud Republican Darrel Issa:

"Are we better off spending $60,000 a year to put him behind bars or are we better off with him doing community service and going on with his life with the likelihood of him committing a crime in the future being pretty low?” https://t.co/6PSwYON1sk via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 6, 2019


“If the soulless legislative middle managers are gonna keep a stand-up guy like Duncan Hunter from voting with us, just because he’s pled guilty to robbing wounded veterans to pay for his golf fees, cigar bars, and at least five extramarital liaisons with lobbyists and staffers… who’s gonna be left to accuse the Democrats of immorality and lawlessness? (ME!, that’s who)”

… In August, Issa announced that he had launched an exploratory committee to consider a potential bid for Hunter’s seat, which prompted him to withdraw his nomination by Trump for a trade post.

The Union-Tribune noted that unlike other challengers running for Hunter’s seat, Issa has not criticized the embattled Republican congressman.

On Thursday, the House Ethics Committee urged Hunter to “refrain from voting on any question at a meeting of the House or of the Committee of the Whole House,” citing a House rule regarding convicted lawmakers…

Not to mention the sad status of favorite blog chewtoy Little Prince Rand, who can’t get any front-page MSM attention for the kind of puke-funnel performance that used to be worth thousands from his donors / voters…

I know we're all used to it by now but it's still pretty crazy there's no political penalty to be paid for just pretending the facts are completely different from what they are anymore. https://t.co/rhVsNbBofT

— Andrew Egger (@EggerDC) December 4, 2019

How rad is it that a GOP that's spent weeks going absolutely ballistic about the fact that the whistleblower was seemingly in brief contact with Schiff is going to care not one bit that Nunes was in contact with one of Giuliani's hilariously shady goons

— Andrew Egger (@EggerDC) December 4, 2019

https://t.co/KpqT1KyxnP

— Robert Rikard (@rgrikard) December 4, 2019

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Friday Morning Open Thread: Be Prepared

by Anne Laurie|  December 6, 20195:49 am| 236 Comments

This post is in: Impeachment Inquiry, NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Venality

NEW: House Judiciary announces counsels for BOTH the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees will make presentations of evidence on Monday morning — another sign that Mueller related charges will be included in the articles of impeachment

— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) December 5, 2019

Rep. Peter Welch on Trump and Pelosi: "I think he's bewildered by Nancy Pelosi. She's centered, she's grounded, she's truthful and she's focused. He's erratic. He's all over the place. And he doesn't understand that she means what she says." @TheLastWord

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 6, 2019

Sinclair Broadcasting reporter James Rosen, who left Fox News after sexual harassment allegations, asks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if she hates Trump.

Pelosi responds: “Don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that.” pic.twitter.com/PvcjsBP5X2

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 5, 2019

BEHIND THE CURTAIN: @SpeakerPelosi never wanted to impeach Trump, well aware it wouldn't resonate w/swing voters. But now she's become the face of his attempted ouster — the last thing in the world she really wants to talk about.

Me & @mikedebonis
https://t.co/eAGMidFYHm

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) December 6, 2019

As House Democrats geared up for their first impeachment hearing last month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi huddled in her office with her leadership team, downplaying expectations.

Don’t expect these hearings to trigger a massive shift in public support toward ousting President Trump, Pelosi (D-Calif.) told her colleagues the night before the hearing, according to Democrats familiar with her warning who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the encounter frankly.

Those words of caution — delivered as House Intelligence Committee members prepared in the Capitol basement for the next day’s hearing — reflected the innate skepticism that has influenced her every move as she has guided her Democratic majority through a tumultuous moment in the nation’s history…

But with a five-minute nationally televised address Thursday morning, she has become the ­reluctant face of the impeachment effort, donning a role she never wanted at a time when she’d rather be talking about anything else.

“I’m really sorry the president made this necessary by his complete disregard for the vision of our founders,” she told reporters Thursday. “An impeachment is not a pleasant experience. It can be divisive. We don’t take any glee in this at all. It’s heartbreaking. But the president gave us no choice.”.…

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA officer who was among the “national security freshmen” who pushed Pelosi toward supporting an impeachment inquiry, praised her handling of the process. From the beginning, she said, she asked Pelosi to ensure that the investigation was done in a strategic, efficient and serious manner, and she said Pelosi has followed through.

“I really can’t stand anything that celebrates this moment we’re in, because if you’re from a place like Michigan — swing state, you know, where your neighbors have different political views than you do — that tension is seeping into our everyday lives and no one’s happy about it,” she said. “I think she has set an important tone.”

Slotkin added that Pelosi has kept the moderate freshmen at the top of her priority list, making sure their bills are passing the House and tending closely to their political needs. Slotkin pointed to one of her top priorities — allowing patients to have immediate access to prescription drug prices from their doctors’ offices. The House passed the bill Oct. 29, two days before the House formalized its impeachment probe…

When the dust settles, there will still be legislation that needs to be made. Pelosi may or (Trickster forbid) may not be around to keep shepherding the Democratic cats, but she’s doing her best to make sure that the rules will not be forgotten and that somebody will be there to implement them.

Half of the Republicans are arguing that the Democrats have been desperately wanting to impeach Trump since Day 1, the other half are digging up quotes from Nadler and Pelosi before the Ukraine scandal saying they didn't want to impeach unless absolutely imperative.

— Jesse Lee (@JesseCharlesLee) December 4, 2019

I realize that nothing matters and the argument is specious anyway, but if Democrats simply hated Trump and wanted to impeach him above all else, they could have kicked off this Congress in January by taking up Al Green’s impeachment resolutions.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 5, 2019

We can hope Pelosi gets some credit in the history books, because she sure won’t get any from her very-woke “allies”…

Funny how the loudest Impeachment Now You Cowards!!! – voices have pivoted to the exact points that impeachment skeptics always raised (it’s going to end w McConnell’s show in the Senate) as soon as Dems did what they had been whining for & started the impeachment process ?? https://t.co/THN6TU6FYm

— Regina ?????? (@regwag2003) December 5, 2019

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: No Stopping, No Going Back

by Anne Laurie|  December 5, 20194:49 am| 122 Comments

This post is in: Impeachment Inquiry, NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Venality

gop will say anything for trump - tom toles

(Tom Toles via GoComics.com)

From the Washington Post:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff left little doubt with fellow Democrats Wednesday that they plan to move swiftly to impeach President Trump as soon as this month.

According to multiple Democratic lawmakers who attended a closed-door Capitol meeting, Pelosi announced no firm decision or timeline in moving toward a vote on Trump’s impeachment. But, a day after Schiff delivered a 300-page report detailing charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress against Trump, she made clear what lies ahead in the House.

“Are you ready?” Pelosi (D-Calif.) asked her colleagues, after describing grave constitutional circumstances posed by Trump’s alleged wrongdoing surrounding his dealings with Ukraine and his subsequent decision to stonewall the House investigation into it.

The caucus, according to multiple members, erupted with shouts of approval.

“We’re moving forward,” said one member, summarizing the thrust of Pelosi’s remarks and speaking on condition of anonymity to candidly describe a private meeting. “We’ve got a job to do whether people want to testify or not.”

Pelosi then turned the room over to Schiff (D-Calif.), who received a standing ovation before saying a word, the members said.

Schiff proceeded to run through the major findings of the report, add context to some of the key events the inquiry has uncovered, and explained to colleagues why, among other things, he did not wait for additional witnesses — such as former national security adviser John R. Bolton, who met with Trump to discuss Ukraine policy — before issuing his report…

In a separate closed-door meeting elsewhere in the Capitol basement, Vice President Pence rallied Republicans against impeachment — encouraging the GOP rank-and-file to “turn up the heat” on House Democrats and accuse them of focusing on impeachment instead of solving the nation’s problems.

Pence praised Republicans for sticking together and defending the president, telling them he and Trump were proud of their work standing up for the president. He also criticized Pelosi and House Democrats for what he called shameful behavior — not just the impeachment proceedings against Trump but also claiming Democrats had turned a blind eye to other issues that affect people’s everyday lives…

Julia Ioffe responds to Tucker Carlson’s question “Why is Putin so bad?” pic.twitter.com/NpeZyp02CT

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) December 4, 2019

cold warrior putin has gop on ice - matt davies

(Matt Davies via GoComics.com)

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Another Day of Ugliness

by Anne Laurie|  December 4, 20196:29 am| 137 Comments

This post is in: Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Trumpery, All Too Normal, Let A Thousand Watergates Bloom, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Nobody could have predicted

The projection. And the abject fear. https://t.co/UOoLn5tLjt

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 4, 2019

I’m still like 40% convinced that if Pelosi held a press conference to announce her view that Trump is too stupid to have demanded that Ukraine investigate Biden in exchange for aid, he’d just blurt out a confession.

— Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz) December 2, 2019

Schiff says “it’s deeply concerning” that there may have been members of Congress “complicit” in Trump seeking dirt on political foes – responding to phone logs uncovered Nunes interactions

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 3, 2019

For those who've questioned impeaching now while evidence is still unfolding, Schiff has a response: "This repeated & pervasive threat to our democratic electoral process added urgency to our work." Trump is cheating to win in 2020. Schiff felt the country couldn't afford to wait

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) December 3, 2019

As Democrats prepare to draft articles of impeachment, "you could wind up with 3 or 4 articles," sources tell NBC News:

•One to two on abuse of power
•One on broader contempt/obstruction of Congress
•One related to the Mueller report and obstructionhttps://t.co/S86Qqnw2qo

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 3, 2019

I haven’t been able to watch all the way through this, but from what I have it’s a good, if crowded, recap:

My friend Jack Bryan with @ActMeasuresDoc has done a great service and condensed the impeachment hearings so far into an easy to digest 60 minutes. https://t.co/V6mzfyTHon

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) December 1, 2019

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Sunday Pharisees Open Thread: The New Failson Falkirk Center

by Anne Laurie|  December 1, 20197:15 pm| 106 Comments

This post is in: Grifters Gonna Grift, Open Threads, Religion, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Assholes, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To

Jerry Falwell Jr. and Charlie Kirk had to come up with a name for their new think tank, so they just mashed up their two names and called it the Falkirk Center. https://t.co/dFVxfPaJ26

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 30, 2019

Jerry Jr. (last seen defending himself against charges of real estate fraud, self-dealing, misappropriation of funds from the university he inherited, and nightclubbing in Miami Beach) has gotten together with Charlie Kirk (founder of TP-USA, last seen bulk-buying failson Trump Jr’s ‘best seller’) have a new grift, per the Washington Examiner:

Growing concerns in conservative circles that liberals are trying to convert young Christians into socialists by distorting the Bible and U.S. Constitution have prompted Virginia’s Liberty University to form a new center to push back on the media, academics, and Democratic politicians.

The new think tank, announced Saturday in Lynchburg and previewed to Secrets, was co-founded by two key leaders in the Christian youth movement, Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr. and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

The Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty, a combination of their names, will “play offense” against efforts by liberals to water down Judeo-Christian values in the Bible and Constitution in their bid to build support for big government, said Kirk.

“The fastest-growing religion in America is atheism and secularism and with that is the rise of leftism and statism and, as people veer away from the church and veer away from the Judeo Christian values that built our country, people are more likely to embrace statism,” he said in an interview…

It will operate under a 501(c)(3) charter and is owned by Liberty.

The plan to go on offense is similar to how President Trump operates, and it’s no coincidence that both Falwell and Kirk are leading defenders of the president.

Kirk, who stressed that it was an “honor” to work with Falwell in the bid to “organize an army of believers in faith and liberty,” said he expects to be attacked as he and Liberty’s president have for their support for Trump…

“If you want to be loved today as a political conservative, go against the president. You’ll get the best press you could ever possibly imagine. But if you want to stand for what’s right, if you want to stand for truth, defend our country, then you have to stand behind this president,” said Kirk, who has been accompanying Donald Trump Jr. during his book tour to colleges and universities to promote Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.

All the failsons gotta hang together, it’s both natural affinity and a defense against their (many, legitimate) enemies.

The Falkirk Center's mission, according to Charlie Kirk, is to find out whether Jesus was a socialist. pic.twitter.com/xhHV1LWPC6

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 30, 2019

That Jesus dude notoriously condemned religious profiteering, promoted multiculturalism and sharing material goods across the community, and gave away free food and healthcare. (Also, He preferred hanging with his group of fellow believers to getting an honest job, and when one of the overworked women of the movement asked for a little help in the kitchen, slanged her off for not properly valuing the worth of intellectual labor.) So: Signs point to YES!

Falkirk “will operate under a 501(c)(3) charter and is owned by Liberty.” So Charlie Kirk will keep running fake charities to hide political activity. And Trump’s IRS ensures wealthy Evangelical donors take 100% tax write-offs. #nonprofits https://t.co/yvBiFMMNXP https://t.co/sBaytQrGWH

— Nancy Levine ?? (@nancylevine) November 30, 2019

@JerryFalwellJr and @charliekirk11 should do like Trump's buddies Lev and Igor and call it Fraud Guaranteed

— Birmingham Weekly (@BhamWeekly) December 1, 2019

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Things Fall Apart (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  December 1, 201910:18 am| 284 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality

Iowa is a foreign country to me, and I don’t really understand the Democratic primary electorate very well, so I’m asking, can this sort of thing work? Are there boiling pools of resentment against hogwash that can be tapped to motivate pro-Biden caucus-goers?

Fired up and ready to go for the #NoMalarkey barnstorm! pic.twitter.com/4lpU7waqzh

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 30, 2019

Here’s a person who understands the Democratic electorate even less than I do:

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The state of the Democratic field reflects the weaknesses of the individual candidates, but it also reflects the heterogenous nature of the Democratic coalition, whose electorate has many more demographic divisions than the mostly white and middle-class and aging G.O.P., and therefore occasionally resembles the 19th-century Hapsburg empire in the challenge it poses to aspiring leaders.

Douthat’s take is wrong in that he attributes all divisions within the Democratic Party to identity politics while glossing over the male-dominated, enthno-nationalist bent of Republicans, who are the current champions of the most salient example of identity politics in America since forever. But he’s correct to describe Democrats as “heterogenous,” just not entirely for the reasons he thinks.

In comments in a recent morning thread, I argued that the GOP’s open embrace of demagoguery in service of oligarchy (mirroring Putin’s strategy) has resulted in an untenable situation. Only one of the two parties in a two-party system is interested in civil rights or sound governance. Good-faith policy debates about the size of government, taxation, human rights, etc., only take place in one party.

There’s your heterogeneity. And yes, it may pose a “branding” challenge when only one party feels an obligation to represent all Americans. I don’t know how we address that, but my feeling is either the Republican Party gets utterly obliterated and rises from the ashes (perhaps with some milquetoast nonentity like Marco Rubio bleating platitudes at its head) or everything simply falls apart.

Douthat again:

But for the kind of American who is mostly with the Democrats on economics but wary of progressivism’s zest for culture war, Sanders’s socialism might be strangely reassuring — as a signal of what he actually cares about, and what battles he might eschew for the sake of his anti-plutocratic goals. (At the very least he’s no more radical on an issue like abortion than a studied moderate like Mayor Pete.)

This is why, despite technically preferring a moderate like Biden or Amy Klobuchar, I keep coming back to the conservative’s case for Bernie — which rests on the perhaps-wrong but still attractive supposition that he’s the liberal most likely to spend all his time trying to tax the rich and leave cultural conservatives alone.

Douthat isn’t the only person who suspects Sanders doesn’t really give a shit about anything but economics, which has been and remains a huge obstacle to Sanders winning the Democratic Party nomination. Douthat either underestimates the opposition to Sanders’ democratic socialist approach from moderate Dems and/or — even more stupidly — believes a Sanders candidacy would peel off enough Rust Belt whites who voted for Trump to make up for the loss of those moderate Dems and other constituencies within the party (women, people of color) that would recoil from a Sanders candidacy. With the nuances shaded another way, the same might be true of Biden or anyone else.

IMO, the bottom line is this: Republicans broke the two-party system. We can’t fix it for them. Indeed, we’re struggling to keep the country afloat long enough for the Republican fever dream to break and the GOP or some other organization to rise, fill the vacuum and restore the two-party system. I’m not optimistic that will happen. The course of least resistance is this: things fall apart.

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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Don McGahn Looks Down the Barrel

by Anne Laurie|  November 26, 201911:09 am| 46 Comments

This post is in: Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Trumpery, Let A Thousand Watergates Bloom

BREAKING: Federal judge rules Don McGahn must comply with House subpoena, but can assert legal privileges during his testimony when appropriate. https://t.co/Be0EF7cJES

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 25, 2019

JUDGE JACKSON on Trump blocking McGahn from testifying: “the President does not have the power to excuse him or her from taking an action that the law requires. Fifty years of say so within the Executive branch does not change that fundamental truth.” pic.twitter.com/OpdBwNBadE

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) November 25, 2019

Shorter McGahn ruling:

If you want to give Congress the finger, you have to show up in person to do it. https://t.co/CYWVfm8pNy

— Mieke Eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) November 26, 2019

You can expect McGahn to appeal, which would likely drag this out until after an impeachment trial in the Senate. https://t.co/55bI2bZVCZ

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) November 25, 2019

"Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings.” https://t.co/Be0EF7cJES

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 25, 2019

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Schiff: “The witnesses who have defied Congress at the behest of the president will have to decide whether their duty is to the country, or to a president who believes that he is above the law.” pic.twitter.com/O60p4P98Zv

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 26, 2019

Supreme Court to decide if they are tainted by Trump for the rest of their lives.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 25, 2019

Apparent monarchist Alan Dershowitz: "Of course the President's not the king. The President's far more powerful than the king. The President has the power that kings have never had" pic.twitter.com/qOUy2tSFee

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) November 26, 2019

The White House should convert the old pool below the press room into an Oval Bunker.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 25, 2019

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Repub ‘Traditions’ Open Thread: Feelers… Nothing More Than Feelers…

by Anne Laurie|  November 25, 20196:42 pm| 53 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Grifters Gonna Grift, Open Threads, Republican Venality

Warm profile in the Times. Get her on the Emmys. Maybe she can guest on Sesame Street. We cannot rest until all of the people who lied to us, daily, in the name of advancing the agenda of a lunatic racist bonehead have been fully rehabilitated! https://t.co/NawCZSXDzK

— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) November 25, 2019

This is probably true. https://t.co/MCPr2azL32

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 25, 2019

Sarah Sanders must not know many people then https://t.co/g4fS2LS4VZ

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) November 25, 2019


The people she knows best are Republicans. Even the ones who can read would rather not risk muddying their propaganda skillsets. Fox News and the Oval Office Occcupant’s twitter feed tell them all they need to know to succeed in grinding through their daily routines.

This is real. Americans love to laugh at idiots. They worship fame. And to elevate dumbasses because it makes them feel superior, or at least equal. This is a dangerous combination. Trump wasn't quite the first, but he's opened the floodgates.

— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) November 25, 2019

Every so often, the Republican Party reaches a new nadir, where they can’t even scrape up a conventionally good-looking figurehead to spin the propaganda on television. Now it’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who looks entirely too much like her old man (nepotism, of course, being her only qualification). Last time the GOP was about to get stomped, it was the Albino Amphibian who led the charge:

Also likely devastated: the dozens of creditors to whom @newtgingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign still owes a collective $4.63 million. pic.twitter.com/qGDJ6lYVQH

— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) November 25, 2019

Gotta hand it to Newt: He’s an inspiration to every soulless grifter in American politics.

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Russiagate Open Thread: Twelve Monkeys Spies

by Anne Laurie|  November 25, 201911:30 am| 111 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Russia, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Just Shut the Fuck Up, Our Failed Media Experiment

Twelve Russian military officers have been indicted for breaking into the Democratic Party's computers, stealing compromising information and selectively releasing it to undermine candidates https://t.co/I8toBG9Vcf

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 25, 2019

There was a lot of testimony during this past week’s impeachment inquiry about foreign interference in our 2016 election, including the president’s assertion that Ukraine was involved. But the president’s own intelligence agencies say it was the Russians who “hacked” the 2016 elections. Special counsel Robert Mueller spelled it out in his report.

Now the Justice Department has at least two open cases against Russian citizens for interfering with our presidential and congressional races, we decided to take a closer look at one of them – the case against 12 Russian military officers accused of breaking into the Democratic Party’s computers, stealing compromising information, and selectively releasing it to undermine Democratic candidates. There’s no evidence of similar operations against Republicans in 2016. With the 2020 election approaching, the story of “The Russian Hack.”

Robert Anderson: The Russians never left. I can guarantee you in 2016 after this all hit the news, they never left. They didn’t stop doing what they’re doing.

Bill Whitaker: This wasn’t just a one-time thing?

Robert Anderson: No way. Russia doesn’t do it that way.

Robert Anderson should know. He spent 21 years inside the cloak and dagger world of spies and hackers overseeing the FBI’s counterintelligence and cyber Divisions and tracking Moscow’s spy agencies, an alphabet of artifice, the FSB, SVR, and, especially, the GRU.

Robert Anderson: The GRU is military intelligence. So when we look at the attacks that happened during our presidential races in 2016 you had military organizations inside of Russia attacking our infrastructure…

These are the hacker-soldiers from GRU unit 26165 who, according to the Justice Department, were responsible for “breaking and entering” into the Democratic Party’s computers remotely, from Moscow. Their names, ranks and faces are now on the FBI’s most wanted list for stealing, among other things, the Democrats’ strategic plans, detailed targeting data, and internal polling. GRU Colonel Aleksandr Osadchuk commanded a separate unit, 74455. One of his officers was in charge of spreading the stolen material to political operatives, bloggers and the media. Another hacked state election boards.

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Bill Whitaker: It wasn’t some 400-pound guy in his parent’s basement?

Robert Anderson: No. This was a well-choreographed military operation with units that not only were set up specifically to hack in to obtain information, but other units that were used for psychological warfare were weaponizing that. This is not an operation that was just put together haphazardly…

Bill Whitaker: Do you ever expect to get the 12 Russian officials to trial?

John Demers: I would be surprised. But the purpose of the indictment isn’t just that, although that’s certainly one of the purposes. The purpose of this kind of indictment is even to educate the public.

For a legal document, the 29-page indictment is a page-turner. It details how U.S. intelligence agencies tracked each defendant’s actions, sometimes by the keystroke, revealing the fictitious names and phony emails used to infiltrate the Democrats’ computers, and tracing the stolen data on its circuitous route from Washington, D.C. to Moscow…

Much more, including video clips, at the link.

Trump's obsession with the Crowdstrike fever dream has the effect of directly undercutting the open federal case, brought by Trump's own justice department, against these 12 Russian spies, all of whom are considered fugitives. https://t.co/d3ofdkiRAB

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) November 25, 2019

Journalist defends reporting that used Russian-hacked documents https://t.co/Rng7cnxZFj

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 25, 2019


Star turn for Politico comer!

Marc Caputo: This is a state where elections are decided by a percentage point or so. A coin toss. Add the Russians onto that and you’re looking at a real problem.

Marc Caputo has covered Florida politics for 20 years. The senior writer for Politico was one of the reporters who received and wrote about the hacked documents.

Bill Whitaker: Not a lot of people know that the Russians interfered in five congressional races here in Florida. When did you first get wind of it?

Marc Caputo: Well, I’d been paying attention, like the rest of the press corps, that Russia had been hacking and Russia had been trying to interfere in our election system. And then out of the blue I got contacted by this blogger, Hello Florida…

Bill Whitaker: You played a role in disseminating this stolen information.

Marc Caputo: I have a role to play as a reporter covering campaigns. And sometimes that information comes to us from a variety of sources. And in this case, it came to us from a source right at the edge of being unusable. But ultimately we decided, “Well, this tells a legitimate story about how these campaigns view their own candidates.” And voters have a right to that information.

Robert Anderson: This operation was a huge success…

Reporters ask their subjects to own their mistakes all the timeI’m glad they hold the powerful accountable for their errors.But there probably would be a lot less cynicism towards the press in our country if they, as a group and individuals, turned their scrutinizing gaze inward https://t.co/p69CFAsaDE

— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) November 25, 2019

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Late Night Open Thread: Clowns for the Clown Car God

by Anne Laurie|  November 25, 20192:45 am| 12 Comments

This post is in: Military, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Trumpery, Assholes, Clown car, Decline and Fall, I'm Too Big To Cry/Hurts Too Much To Laugh

Incredibly cursed and also substantially less unrealistic than you would hope https://t.co/1teA7YAPxI

— The Mall Krampus (@cakotz) November 25, 2019

I mean, Priebus is out there too while we’re at it pic.twitter.com/F0DBlMxwLK

— Cargoshortasaurus (@leptopterygius) November 24, 2019

I *think* we can still joke about this, because Spicer doesn’t “look great on TV”, and Priebus hasn’t shown sufficient doglike loyalty to the Oval Office Occupant. As long as Pete Hegseth doesn’t want to give up his Fox News duties…

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Write Your Own Jokes / Jabs

by Anne Laurie|  November 23, 20196:06 am| 188 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Trumpery

Trump opens up Camp David as an "adult playground" to woo GOP lawmakers during impeachment https://t.co/zNtOVyXSdz

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 23, 2019

Starter: Just be grateful you’re not on the cleanup crew…

President Trump, partial to gold and marble elegance, never took a shine to rustic Camp David. So acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney pitched to him an unusual idea at the start of the House impeachment inquiry: Use the secluded mountainous presidential retreat to woo House Republicans.

Since then, Mulvaney and top White House officials have hosted weekend getaways for Republicans at the historic lodge, seeking to butter up Republicans before the big impeachment vote. The casual itinerary includes making s’mores over the campfire, going hiking, shooting clay pigeons and schmoozing with Trump officials, some of whom stay overnight with lawmakers.

During dinners, Trump has called in to compliment members personally…

The Camp David excursions are one prong of a broad White House charm offensive, meant to hold House and Senate Republicans in line through a House impeachment vote and a trial in the Senate that appears all but inevitable.

Never shy to feud with his own party, Trump has for weeks refrained from full-throated attacks against Republicans who have been even remotely critical of the conduct now under scrutiny by the House: The president’s attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee.

The White House has made sure that a small clutch of Republican lawmakers have accompanied Trump to a trio of recent sporting events, whether at the Ultimate Fighting Championship in New York, the World Series in Washington or at the football game in Tuscaloosa, Ala., between the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University

In recent weeks, the White House has also invited a group of GOP senators every Thursday to have lunch with the president, where the mealtime conversation rarely centers on impeachment but inevitably veers toward it, according to participants. Trump’s message to the senators echoes what he has said publicly against charges that he abused the powers of his office, and Republicans who’ve attended say they feel no overt pressure from the president to stay on his side…

At the Nov. 9 football game in Alabama, Rep. Robert B. Aderholt (R-Ala.) said he listened as Trump spoke — again — about impeachment, expressing surprise while chatting with lawmakers in a luxury box at Bryant-Denny Stadium that Democrats were even moving forward with proceedings.

Trump, again, implored the Alabama and Louisiana Republicans in attendance to read the memorandum of the call with Zelensky. He also stressed that he is pleased Republicans have been united behind him so far.

“He had more impeachment on his mind,” Aderholt recalled, “than anything else.”

Your strategy is working, Comrades Pelosi and Schiff!

CNN is running a one-hour @jaketapper special on Trump’s incessant lying. I think that is cool. All the President’s Lies, Sunday at 9 PM Eastern. pic.twitter.com/k5dz4yMxw1

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 22, 2019

2019, in one tweet:

so my puppy got spayed and then she had a foot injury the day she got her cone off, so she’s been in the cone for like almost 3 weeks. we finally took it off and turns out… she loves the cone. it is her best friend. she put it back on herself. i’m- pic.twitter.com/dcP9ULm6OA

— dream ghoul (@TheDreamGhoul) November 22, 2019

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Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Impeachment Recap Open Thread: Sondland’s Testimony

by Anne Laurie|  November 21, 20193:25 am| 56 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Impeachment Hearings, Impeachment Inquiry, Republican Venality, Trumpery, Let A Thousand Watergates Bloom

https://www.gocomics.com/jeffdanziger?ct=v&cti=181176

So, to recap today

* President’s ambassador says there was indeed a quid pro quo

* Ukrainians did know/inquire about the hold of aid in late July

* OMB rep said hold was at Trump’s direction

* Trump has declared complete exoneration.

— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 20, 2019

Sondland statement:
“members of this Committee have frequently framed these complicated issues in the form of a simple question: Was there a quid pro quo? As I testified previously, with regard to the requested White House call and White House meeting, the answer is yes.”

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 20, 2019

The republicans requested these televised public hearings https://t.co/vdtRX5tpOK

— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) November 20, 2019

“Be careful what you wish for” is a real thing. https://t.co/OiEcsQzoFN

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 21, 2019

The top of tomorrow’s New York Times front page. pic.twitter.com/5LhbHW1Hex

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 21, 2019

The good news for Republicans is the only ones they need to convince are themselves so it doesn’t matter that their case makes no sense https://t.co/qtNXM80L7r

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 20, 2019

In Memoriam: The GOP’s “No Quid Pro Quo” Defense pic.twitter.com/g28PL9N0C5

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 20, 2019

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Reminder: Gordon Sondland gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration & was rewarded with a high-profile ambassadorship.

Sondland knows a quid pro quo when he sees one. #ImpeachmentHearings

— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) November 20, 2019

.@KirstenPowers just made a very good point. Sondland getting chosen (by Trump) precisely because he doesn’t know a lot about the region or diplomacy and he really, really wanted to please Trump. Easy to push around.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 21, 2019

Still amazed to see Republicans treating the appointees of a Republican president with such molten hostility.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 21, 2019

https://www.gocomics.com/marshallramsey?ct=v&cti=181176

It’s amusing, in an apocalyptic sort of way, that people are still asking “what will the Republicans’ defense be to this,” when the defense is and always has been “fuck you.”

— IWantNothingHat (@Popehat) November 20, 2019

so the spin tonight is just to pretend that sondland’s testimony was the opposite of what it was https://t.co/hZh2lFTPoA

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) November 20, 2019

Defense lawyers: Okay, whatever mistakes you’ve made in the past, you can always stop making it worse. It always makes sense to shut up even if you’ve talked before, to let us get a handle on the situation and strategize.

Clients:https://t.co/NIHC92hLw1

— IWantNothingHat (@Popehat) November 20, 2019

free idea: a constitutionally protected profession whose role it is to make things, even complex political ones, more digestible for people to understand https://t.co/ctucO8bEI3

— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) November 20, 2019

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