It's Party Time in Wisconsin!
Yesterday in a 4-3 decision, the Republican Justices who dominate the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided that punishing a Democratic governor who, like all Democrats, they deem illegitimate, was more...
View ArticleTexas Deathpublican Cult Convention: It's Your Party, Die If You Want To
via Texas Tribune The Texas Deathpublican Cult is moving forward with plans for its July convention.As the coronavirus pandemic engulfs Texas’metropolitan areas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has left...
View ArticleMad Dog off leash. Who pays this guy a visit?
I have no clue what to say about this but this is the biggest dogwhistle yet.Anyone of us would be kicked off this site for saying such a thing. Those Proud Boys and RWNJ’s are listening. This is...
View ArticleA Terrorist Act Did Not Kill 284,528 Americans
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]Naturally at the time of Executive transition there is a general air of evaluation of government policies, today defense by Oona Hathaway at the Washington Post, a...
View ArticleMarjorie Taylor Greene doubles down
(Update: original title used the word “crazy,” but as was pointed out in the comments, that word is often used to denigrate people with mental illness, so I removed it. Also, once I thought about it, I...
View ArticleUPDATEDx8!! The MTG story gets darker the more you look. McCarthy useless....
Note: House vote on Greene expected at 4:00pm. Eastern — UPDATE: she’s been voted off the committees. See latest updates below.Just when you think MTG couldn’t get any worse, David Corn at Mother Jones...
View ArticleAbbott Lifts All Covid Restrictions in Texas
xWe don't even have a full death toll yet of Texans who froze to death without power two weeks ago and the Governor is out here cheering the next mass casualty event https://t.co/Drg6C8jDJa— Kelsey D....
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Lin Wood Loses Race for SC GOP Chair. Claims the Election Was Rigged. And...
Long-time Atlanta lawyer, leading conspiracy theorist, and prominent ‘Trump won’ election-denier, Lin Wood, ran for the Chair of the South Carolina Republican Party. In a four-way race, he was drubbed...
View ArticleGod Hates Abortion?
In a separate diary (When Pro-Lifers Kill Their Children, Legally) Art4D8 included this parenthetic:And, by the way, if God “hates” abortion so much then why does God cause so many of them? Because...
View ArticleShould Texas Execute A Girl or Woman for Having an Abortion?
Two decades into the twenty-first century, almost 250 years after the United States was founded on Enlightenment principles of reason and the separation of church and state, there is actually a serious...
View ArticleThe Wild, Weird World of Social Media
Someone posted a picture on Facebook, of Obelix, punching Vladimir Putin. Obelix, if you don’t know, is one of the main characters in the popular French comic Asterix the Gaul. He and his buddy,...
View ArticleA truly Schizophrenic Poll The public agrees with Democrats yet still blames...
abcnews.go.com/…From the article:As politicians spar over who's to blame for recent increases in gas prices, a large majority of Americans say oil companies and Russian President Vladimir Putin are...
View ArticleWhy are We Going Unhinged?
“If the Democratic Party—the only party that still supports democratic values and at least tries to solve problems—can muster the discipline and the will, it can run in 2022 and 2024 on ending the...
View ArticleWhere the real mental health issues seem to reside
You don't buy a shiny muscle car that can go 120 in seconds to only park it and stare at it or only go 30 everywhere. You really want to feel that acceleration every now and then. You want to hear and...
View ArticleAnd this is freedom? Are they completely insane? Time to lock THEM up.
Let me count the ways. The Ohio bill I heard about has just send rage through me. All of these people killing people including children. 5 months before an election, there is already questions...
View ArticleTertiary Syphilis - an example.
“There is literally no one more likely to move mountains than your megalomaniac syphilitic.”I thought I was numbed to trumpian shocks. Honestly, who thought he could go any lower? He now accuses...
View ArticleScott Adams, creator of Dilbert, says kill your own son if he's a danger to...
Way back in the day, I read the funnies, and I suppose I enjoyed Dilbert as much as the next person, especially as I was just getting into corporate culture. But I stopped reading about twenty years...
View ArticleSig Sauer about to unleash pure terror upon American streets
This is just beyond insane. The psychopaths who run the gun manufacturer Sig Sauer are about to release the MCX-SPEAR, which is the civilian version of the US Army’s new NGSW-R (Next Generation Squad...
View ArticleA NEW RESOLUTION FROM GEORGIA
Georgia Abortion Law Says a Fetus Is Tax DeductibleThe state’s “fetal personhood” provision now includes a $3,000 tax exemption starting at around six weeks of pregnancy.**THE GEORGIA REPUBLICAN...
View ArticleHow is this not a crime? Abduction.
Abbott and DeSantis, highjacking immigrants and sending them to destinations they would never have ended up under ordinary circumstances- Martha’s Vineyard? Kamala Harris’s residence? They are using...
View ArticleRussia's mobilization is effectively human sacrifice to pay for Putin's hubris
A report in The New York Times is horrifying:Russia’s Draft Sends Barely Trained Men to War in Ukraine.Newly mobilized recruits are already at the front in Ukraine, a growing chorus of reports says,...
View Article"What happens to a political party when it becomes unhinged from objective...
Tom Sullivan has a good piece up at https://digbysblog.net/ . He is recounting Robert Draper’s accounts of millions of people so thoroughly sure of their knowledge. In an account of one woman he...
View ArticleHow can you Make America Great again with anger and violence?
The GOP has truly become a Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde. They want America Great Again and I think they are trying to evoke the the time where people were all nice. People were all the same. People all...
View ArticleHalloween may be early...lets laugh over the antics of the out of control...
Today, I read about a really interesting situation that has developed on the right. We need it was going to be circus, but I admit, I thought it might at least be a little while. But, it appears,...
View ArticleRoss Douthat shows he does know what the GOP base wants - and reveals his own...
NY Times house conservative and man obsessed with decadence, Ross Douthat has offered in his latest screed on April 1 advice on how Republicans can use the indictment of Trump to move on away from him....
View ArticleAnother mass shooting, Republicans again explain nothing can be done - while...
If you haven’t been following the news about the mass shooting at a mall in Texas (I’d say latest shooting — but risk not keeping up with events), there’s already a wikipedia entry for it. The entry...
View ArticleBelieving That Magas Are What They Are
It is sometimes difficult for me to believe that any one at all could really be a Maga or even defend or support a Maga. Yet we know that about a third of the USA population are Magas, maybe more, even...
View ArticleAmerica's Gun Violence: Thoughts and Prayers
ForewordAmerica's uniquely nightmarish pariah status, as a 'guns and profit over people' state, is ironclad, irreversible and insane.Mockery-laden 'thoughts and prayers' default responses to daily mass...
View ArticleIt's the guns, stupid...
...to paraphrase an old democratic meme. And speaking of democratic messaging, this is something we have GOT TO GET RIGHT, finally. Which is not to say Democrats haven’t tried, but which is to say, not...
View ArticleTrump plans to use classified information for his defense
Trump’s attorneys filed something yesterday that they call “PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CIPA § 5 NOTICE AND OBJECTION TO UNAUTHORIZED DELETIONS OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION”.Trump thinks this is the “smoking gun”...
View ArticleI truly believe all those Trump lovers who cheered should be drug or mental...
They were cheering, crying with adoring love, and it was bizarre. If that is unity, Lord have mercy on their perception of unity.He was divisive. He was rambling over an hour and half of sheer...
View ArticleSomething No One Seems To Have Noticed
It happened again.No one seems to have noticed it. Perhaps, because it has become so common, that we don’t pay attention anymore. But, it happened again.On July 13, 2024, a young man with some...
View ArticleWar is a terrible thing. Humanity cannot afford it.
I began researching an article about the long-term impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when I was repeatedly and horribly side-tracked. What I found has changed the way I think. Permanently.I...
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Did I miss this on DK? This is the craziest thing 45 has said yet. Beats the...
I have not heard this on the media or most anywhere and saw this and said, “OK, he is truly insane”.Trump claims Barack Obama is going to vote for him. This man lives in some reality we are not...
View ArticleKamala Harris gets a nine point swing among Independents The Polling is...
www.msn.com/…What the hell is going on. First we hear its razor thin and the swing state “blue wall” is cracking String of bad polls. Than all of a sudden: Harris has 85% of the African American Vote,...
View ArticleCalling Trump Stupid Is A Compliment
Stupid is as stupid does.Groucho Marx said: "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot. But don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."Even more to the point, Groucho said: "Politics is the...
View ArticleGather Your Sanity "Nuts," It's Going To Be a Long Winter...
A few days post-election, I was still feeling numb.The thing we had hoped for was nowhere in sight, instead, every bit of survival gear was being thrown in the shredder.I was irritable leading up to...
View ArticlePresident Musk... Can you hear Trump throwing Ketchup? Congresscritters...
Say it often and say it loud...Trump is not president….Musk is. They are already saying it on the congress floor. Trump...bow your knee….YOU ARE NOT the leader of the Republican Party, You are not...
View ArticleTell Me About the Look in His Eye
By David Glenn CoxI just don’t know sometimes, it’s so difficult to just play along. Gee whizz, what a shocker! The King is disrespectful. Is that really news at this point? Are you surprised the King...
View ArticleThursday GNR: The Insanity is the Point
It’s a Bad News, Good News day—week, month, year…Minions of The Man Who Would Be Dictator have gone right off the deep end, pretending that he can override bills and appropriations passed by Congress...
View ArticleBrace for impact: the Lunatic speaks tonight
I am amused in black humor kind of way, looking at people in the press attempting to guess what will be in Trump's speech tonight. They keep trying to raise semi-normal expectations, bring up things...
View ArticleTrump Tries to Void Biden Pardons
President Trump said early Monday that he was voiding all the last-minute pardons former President Joe Biden made using an auto-pen.Trump claims Biden was mentally incompetent and had no idea that...
View ArticlePaul Krugman - some recent highlights
Paul Krugman is now posting stuff on a nearly daily basis on Substack, and well worth following. Here’s a few of them I found particularly of interest:The Clean Little Secret of Social Security -It’s a...
View ArticleCanada’s Obstreperous Southern Neighbor
During the bicentennial of the War of 1812, Postmedia News published the article from which I quote the following excerpts:“War of 1812: Canadian identity developed in the crucible of combat.The...
View Article"We will be having a price increase of about 20% due to tariffs"
Got this message today appended to a quote from a supplier of high-end pressure systems:Please note that this quote is only good until Monday. We will be having a price increase of about 20% next week...
View ArticleThe Independent: Fund managers worried Trump "might be insane." (Let's talk...
Nothing more to add, really; I just saw that headline via Tiedrich and found it notable that someone’s willing to put the obvious into a headline.Of course it’s been plain as day for years that Donald...
View ArticleTrump's latest article on tariffs starts off with the definition of insanity
These are the first words of Trump's article: The State of Play: Why Trump's Tariffs are Necessary:"It's cliché, yet true --- the definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and expecting a...
View ArticleHave you seen the Covid.gov website?
www.whitehouse.gov/…This shit is getting crazy. I mean off the hook crazy. We might not make it to the new year.
View ArticleHoly Snot Batman! The lunacy is high with the Trump!
UPDATE: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 · 12:42:32 AM +00:00·PadreMellyrnWow thanks for all the Recs. It’s been some time since I het the ‘Big time”UPDATE: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 · 6:34:16 PM...
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