Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Han shot first.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The willow is too close to the house.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

I’m only here for the duck photos.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

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

Something seems odd about that, but i have been drinking.

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

We need fewer warriors in public service and more gardeners.

The math demands it!

Call the National Guard if your insurrection lasts more than four hours.

It’s been a really long fucking year.

All this crying. this is why i don’t click on stuff.

This really is a full service blog.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

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

All your base are belong to Tunch.

These guys can go mcfuck themselves.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

… makes me wish i had hoarded more linguine

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Another Day of Ugliness

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

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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Don McGahn Looks Down the Barrel

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

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Whole Lotta “Nothing” Goin’ On

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Back in the (TV) Box

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Fortunately, the GOP is all in favor of enhanced interrogation techniques, so they can hardly claim *this* is torture…

… Pelosi also refused to elaborate on what — if any — charges House Democrats would bring against Trump, notably declining to say whether the president’s Twitter attack on former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony amounted to witness intimidation.

“I haven’t had a lot of time to pay attention to the president’s tweets and the legal implications of them. I just think that was totally wrong and inappropriate and typical of the president,” Pelosi said on CBS’ “Face the Nation“ in an interview that aired Sunday…

“The president of the United States was using the massive powers entrusted to him to try to use tax payer dollars as leverage to get a foreign country to interfere in an election,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.”

“If you don’t use impeachment for this type of offense, then I am not sure what you use it for.”

Murphy’s remarks came after a week in which House investigators — and millions of Americans — heard detailed accounts about the pervasiveness of the campaign to pressure Ukraine into helping the president damage a top political rival, the smearing of reputations along the way and Trump’s direct involvement in the effort…

The slate of hearings this week will kick off Tuesday morning with testimony from Jennifer Williams, a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence, and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a senior official on the National Security Council.

Both Vindman and Williams were on the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky and later expressed alarm about the president asking for “a favor” that included investigating an energy company associated with Biden’s son…

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Afternoon Open Thread: When You’re A True Patriot, They Applaud

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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Watching History in Real Time

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… Whether Americans ultimately come to believe that the President’s alleged misconduct merits the terrible sanction of removal or come to believe the Democratic impeachment attempt is narrowly political and unjustified, this was a clarifying day.
At a time of swirling misinformation, propagandistic pro-Trump news coverage and conspiracy theories, it showed that while facts may be under assault, they can ultimately still emerge in a way that will allow history to render a judgment even if the fractured political climate makes that it impossible in the moment.
Friday piled more testimony on the mountain of evidence suggesting that the US is in the grip of not just the most unorthodox, but the most corrupt presidency of the modern era.

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