Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Everybody saw this coming.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

This blog will pay for itself.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

The revolution will be supervised.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

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

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Militantly superior in their own minds…

Consistently wrong since 2002

‘Forty-two’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

Good luck with your asparagus.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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Saturday Evening Open Thread: There’s Just Not Enough Time To Call Out *Every* GOP Jagoff

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Senator Cornpone Leghorn has surely earned himself some spotlight, though…

Senator Kennedy recently disgraced himself while attacking Saule Omarova, President Biden’s choice for next head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — but at least there’s an argument, however weak, about Omarova’s ideas…

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Our Failed Major Media Open Thread: Cuomo Bros Edition

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But abuse is what power is *for*, cry the Media Village Idiots!


[N.B.: Yes, Clyde is Maggie’s old man, if you wonder where she got her sense of ethics.]

New Yorker‘s famous interviewer shows why he is both applauded and feared:

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Speaking of Labor News

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An interesting development:

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., are going to get a second shot at unionizing, after a National Labor Relations Board official called for a revote after finding that the e-commerce giant improperly interfered in the first election.

It’s a major victory for the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which was vanquished in the first vote at the warehouse last spring, with workers rejecting unionization by more than 2 to 1. That union and others have been working to crack Amazon, now the United States’ second-largest private employer, which employs nearly 1 million workers at its domestic warehouses.

Getting a second chance at organizing Bessemer workers is “a big deal” for the union, said Rebecca Givan, a labor studies professor at Rutgers University.

“It confirms what workers have been saying,” Givan said, “that Amazon went too far.”

I hope they vote to unionize.

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Open Thread: The GOP, Party of Senescent Middle Schoolers

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Jennifer Rubin, for the Washington Post, “Republicans define themselves by misogyny and violence”:

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, Never Trumpers (now largely ex-Republicans) warned that he would corrupt the party in every way imaginable. His misogyny would morph in the party’s toxic masculinity and degradation of women, they cautioned. His infatuation with brutality and violence (boasting he would kill terrorists’ families, exhorting his supporters to slug protesters) would metastasize to the party as a whole. Boy, did those predictions pan out…

Threats and portrayals of violence against women have turned into a badge of honor for a party in which traditional notions about gender (back to the 1950s!) have become a key predictor of Republican support. Casting men (even a Supreme Court nominee) as victims of aggressive, “nasty” or unhinged women accusing them of wrongdoing has become standard fare in the Trump party…

Toxic masculinity now increasingly manifests in an infatuation with violence against both men and women. “From congressional offices to community meeting rooms, threats of violence are becoming commonplace among a significant segment of the Republican Party,” the New York Times reported this month. “Ten months after rioters attacked the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, and after four years of a president who often spoke in violent terms about his adversaries, right-wing Republicans are talking more openly and frequently about the use of force as justifiable in opposition to those who dislodged him from power.”…

We saw on Jan. 6 how MAGA fanatics took calls to “stop the steal” literally, launching a violent assault on the electoral vote-counting process. In short, if anyone thinks casual, incessant talk of violence and overt misogyny will not impact the rabid Trump base, think again. (Recall that in the wake of Trump mocking the “Asian flu” or “China flu,” we saw a spate of violent attacks on Asian Americans.) As Jones says, “Today, for an alarming number of white conservative Christians, the mark of Christian faithfulness is not a love that inspires them to lay down their lives for their friends, but a defensiveness that lures them to take the lives of their fellow citizens.”…

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Dopesick

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I’ve been watching it, and man is it just a grueling slog. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a brilliant show, but having lived through this and having it being centered in a region that is identical to my own, it’s just hard.

I can’t believe the Sacklers got away with it. But then again, I can.

And it is still ongoing and shitloads of people died last year and no one is doing anything about it.

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Late Night Open Thread: Three-Act Narrative

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Bring Me the Mottled Head of Steve Bannon

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Steve Bannon has done what no other human being in the entire world has been able to do, which is to shit on and try to ruin not only my real world, with actions you are all aware of, but my fantasy world in online gaming, as he earned some of his early fortune running World of Warcraft gold farming operations. If you want to do a deep dive into it just google Steve Bannon world of warcraft and enjoy.

At any rate, this pied piper of douchebaggery has already escaped justice once, so it is with much satisfaction to see that a grand jury has indicted the fucking asshole once again:

Stephen K. Bannon, a onetime senior aide to former President Donald J. Trump, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress, after his refusal to provide information to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

He’s being allowed to turn himself in and not hunted down and perp walked because, you know, he’s white, but once he surrenders on Monday his passport should be taken, he should be put on home monitoring or jailed, and stake a hefty hefty bail because he is absolutely a flight risk.

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