Today's Cheap Shots

I check in with Bill Maher every once in a while - and pretty much every time, I'm reminded why it was a good decision to drop cable.

• This was the first time a Dem got re-elected NJ Gov in 45 years
• This was the first time since Reagan that the party in the White House didn't lose both VA & NJ in their 1st term
• Democrats picked up a seat in Ohio
• Democrats won pretty big in Georgia - again
• Democrats won at the county level in a lot of places, including Virginia
• A Democrat won NYC Mayor
• and and and

Politics is a brick fight, dressed up and pretending to be a covered dish supper at church.

And there's no doubt the Dems got their nose bloodied, but this knee-jerk doom-n-gloom is the standard formulaic junk that the Press Poodles barf up on a regular basis. It's disingenuous and intellectually lazy. But it sells lotsa dick pills and tactical flashlights, so hey - it's all about the eyeballs, right?

The bean-counters are driving this bus, and they don't care if it's true or not - they're busy worrying about the analytics.

Today's Daddy State Fuckery

Money quote:

Democrats are "the party of choice" - we can choose not to completely fuck ourselves over this.

Bill Maher:

I Am Q

Bill Maher:

Last Nite's Bill

Katie Porter is one of the best things that's happened for the Dems in a very long time.

"If Democrats ever adopt a motto - and I really hope we don't - but if we do, it'll probably be something like: SOLVING YESTERDAY'S PROBLEMS TOMORROW - MAYBE".

New rules is pretty dumb tho - worth skipping.

New Rule

Bill Maher gets one right - the Daddy State is what these assholes are all about.

An Editorial

Bill Maher from a coupla weeks ago.

New Rule

Diversity gives us strength, but only unity gets us power.

Bill Maher, New Rule 02-15-19:

Podcast

The Professional Left with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 479

• Governing Magazine
• Story-telling
• Celebrity Blogger Feud

Do the merch

And BTW - looks like even Bill Maher is catching up with Driftglass and Blue Gal:

Today's Tweet

"...brain like a full voicemail box - you can call, but you can't leave a message."

If there was a nutrition label on Trump's ass it would say 35% Fat 65%
Narcissistic Personality Disorder. pic.twitter.com/Ca9y8ro81v

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) September 22, 2018

More Sane People Have To Vote

New Rule - Bill Maher, last night:

...and tell your conservative friends that climate scientists are working with the Clintons to put chemicals into the air ducts at polling places that turn everyone who votes gay.

New Rule - Bill Maher

"The man is an after school special waiting to happen."

Badboy Behavior

"...by my calculation, seeing Bill O'Reilly's dick is 21,000 times worse than radiation poisoning."

Bill Maher

The monologue

A New Term

Black Track

BTW - listen for the part where Nicole Wallace wants a Gitmo big enough to hold 2 billion people.  Really, Nicole?  You wanna grab all of our "enemies" and cram them into concentration camps? Then what do we do with 'em?

Maybe she got herself into a blind corner, but usually, when that happens, what you blurt - the things that just seem to fall outa your mouth - those are generally your true thoughts.  Wallace comes off as "one of the reasonable ones", but I ain't buyin' that shit now.  Not after that.

Both Sides

The centrist meme starts with a perfectly reasonable assumption that there're at least two sides of the story; that we need to be sure we're addressing questions from as wide a perspective as possible. All well and good, but it starts to fall apart when you take that next step and assume that ALL issues MUST have at least two sides (they don't), and that both points of view are ALWAYS valid (they aren't).

While Centrism has its uses, as a political philosophy, it's just intellectually lazy. It's a product of our need not to feel embarrassed because we supported the wrong candidates and causes; or because we aren't willing to do the work required of every good citizen in a democracy; or that we were just following a fashionable trend; or whatever.

To take just a piece of the argument, here's Bill Maher exposing the lie of "both sides do it".