with driftglass and Blue Gal
"...Jeb Bush Republicans looking for a place to land."
Continuing the theme of making your bed and then setting fire to it.
Don't get fooled again.
Feb 10, 2018
Today's Podcast
"...Jeb Bush Republicans looking for a place to land."
Continuing the theme of making your bed and then setting fire to it.
Don't get fooled again.
Today's Tweet
But I think I might be ready for the 6th parade. Do you think they'll still be doing it?
"I have to do my hair that day..." pic.twitter.com/9er6IosRIX— Hydrump (@Hydrump) February 9, 2018
Feb 9, 2018
Today's Quote
If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it?
If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you provide to show the importance of logic?
--Sam Harris
A Little Reminder
The guy in the oval office knew he didn't have any real shot at it; he knows he didn't earn it; and he knows he shouldn't be there.
Politicus:
Being that Trump won the election by less than 90,000 votes in three states, it wouldn’t take much Russian meddling in a few states to change the outcome of the presidential election. Until the truth is known about the Trump/Russia relationship, and Russia’s role in the 2016 election, Trump will occupy the White House under a cloud of illegitimacy.
Today's Tweet
Don't wanna get all Frankenstein Villager-ey on this, but Jesus you guys. Have we retired the whole "Cautionary Tale" thing?
And under this particular administration? What the fuck, fellas.
A Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted https://t.co/sZwqhIvovV Every science fiction and horror writer on the planet just collectively headdesked themselves into a concussion.— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) February 7, 2018
Feb 8, 2018
Samantha Bee
Let's talk Nuclear Family!
Now let's get into why everything I grew up with is a whole big pile of racist shit - and that's always a little scary, but always always always something we have to face up to, because we don't get anywhere if we stop learning new things.
Today's Tweet
In his defense, this is a recording from a time well before Mr Pence became Senior White House Fluffer.
And besides, everybody (ie: every Republican) gets a Perpetual-Motion Mulligan, because apparently, all those "immutable religious tenets" are situational now. So you can bend them and shape them and pound them into any configuration necessary, in order to smash-fit them around any given political circumstance.
WATCH: "Is adultery no longer a big deal in Indiana and in America? I for one believe the 7th commandment is STILL a big deal. It's the most important promise you'll ever make. And holding people accountable to those promises...what could possibly be a BIGGER deal?" Mike Pence pic.twitter.com/tixVisZvaP— Scott Dworkin (@funder) February 8, 2018
These people have no soul and no honor.
This Is It
I don't like it, but here it is.
Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes in The Atlantic:
A few days after the Democratic electoral sweep this past November in Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere, The Washington Post asked a random Virginia man to explain his vote. The man, a marketing executive named Toren Beasley, replied that his calculus was simply to refuse to calculate. “It could have been Dr. Seuss or the Berenstain Bears on the ballot and I would have voted for them if they were a Democrat,” he said. “I might do more analyses in other years. But in this case, no. No one else gets any consideration because what’s going on with the Republicans—I’m talking about Trump and his cast of characters—is stupid, stupid, stupid. I can’t say stupid enough times.”
This, then, is the article we thought we would never write: a frank statement that a certain form of partisanship is now a moral necessity. The Republican Party, as an institution, has become a danger to the rule of law and the integrity of our democracy. The problem is not just Donald Trump; it’s the larger political apparatus that made a conscious decision to enable him. In a two-party system, nonpartisanship works only if both parties are consistent democratic actors. If one of them is not predictably so, the space for nonpartisans evaporates. We’re thus driven to believe that the best hope of defending the country from Trump’s Republican enablers, and of saving the Republican Party from itself, is to do as Toren Beasley did: vote mindlessly and mechanically against Republicans at every opportunity, until the party either rights itself or implodes (very preferably the former).
Two things up at the front:
People doing things mindlessly is a big reason we're in this jam to begin with. But it seems that's how the Republican brain works now, and so maybe these two guys figure, "if that's what got us here, that's what gets outa here" (?)
Second, it's important to remind these guys (guys like Rauch and Wittes) that maybe if they hadn't been sitting on their hands for the last 30 years, we wouldn't be quite so deep in the shit now.
On we go:
One more nonreason for our stance: that we are horrified by the president. To be sure, we are horrified by much that Trump has said and done. But many members of his party are likewise horrified. Republicans such as Senators John McCain and Bob Corker and Jeff Flake and Ben Sasse, as well as former Governors Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, have spoken out and conducted themselves with integrity.
"...conducted themselves with integrity." Except that those first 4 guys have voted to fuck over millions of us, practically at every opportunity. Every one of them is All In on the policies - they just don't like 45*'s Trailer Trash Approach. An approach, btw, the Right Wing Dis-InfoTainment Complex has been pimping for those same 30 years.
I'm certainly not the first to point any of this out (see: driftglass and Blue Gal), but we have to keep repeating it until it starts to sink in - what these guys are trying to do is to build lifeboats. They're already rebranding the shitty monster they've allowed the GOP to become by calling it "Trumpism". They intend to set fire to it and escape, watching it sink, as they sidle up to the rest of us and pretend they had nothing to do with any of it.
AKA: The arsonist wants credit for his courageous efforts in fighting the fire.
And get this:
Abandoning an entire party means abandoning many brave and honorable people. We would not do that based simply on rot at the top.
Uhh - fellas, that "rot" didn't get to the top without a shitload of support from the bottom, and the bottom doesn't support the Rot-At-The-Top without a shitload of support and direction coming from The Rot At The Top.
Then this (which goes to the very heart of the problem):
Future generations of scholars will scrutinize the many weird ways that Trump has twisted the GOP.
Trump hasn't twisted anything. A twisted GOP made Trump not just possible or probable - but inevitable.
But since even a blind hog roots up an acorn once in a while, these guys are making one thing very clear - we still have a decent chance to start putting things right.
Two things up at the front:
People doing things mindlessly is a big reason we're in this jam to begin with. But it seems that's how the Republican brain works now, and so maybe these two guys figure, "if that's what got us here, that's what gets outa here" (?)
Second, it's important to remind these guys (guys like Rauch and Wittes) that maybe if they hadn't been sitting on their hands for the last 30 years, we wouldn't be quite so deep in the shit now.
On we go:
One more nonreason for our stance: that we are horrified by the president. To be sure, we are horrified by much that Trump has said and done. But many members of his party are likewise horrified. Republicans such as Senators John McCain and Bob Corker and Jeff Flake and Ben Sasse, as well as former Governors Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, have spoken out and conducted themselves with integrity.
"...conducted themselves with integrity." Except that those first 4 guys have voted to fuck over millions of us, practically at every opportunity. Every one of them is All In on the policies - they just don't like 45*'s Trailer Trash Approach. An approach, btw, the Right Wing Dis-InfoTainment Complex has been pimping for those same 30 years.
I'm certainly not the first to point any of this out (see: driftglass and Blue Gal), but we have to keep repeating it until it starts to sink in - what these guys are trying to do is to build lifeboats. They're already rebranding the shitty monster they've allowed the GOP to become by calling it "Trumpism". They intend to set fire to it and escape, watching it sink, as they sidle up to the rest of us and pretend they had nothing to do with any of it.
AKA: The arsonist wants credit for his courageous efforts in fighting the fire.
And get this:
Abandoning an entire party means abandoning many brave and honorable people. We would not do that based simply on rot at the top.
Uhh - fellas, that "rot" didn't get to the top without a shitload of support from the bottom, and the bottom doesn't support the Rot-At-The-Top without a shitload of support and direction coming from The Rot At The Top.
Then this (which goes to the very heart of the problem):
Future generations of scholars will scrutinize the many weird ways that Trump has twisted the GOP.
No.
Ah, hell no.
And No fuckin' way.
Trump hasn't twisted anything. A twisted GOP made Trump not just possible or probable - but inevitable.
But since even a blind hog roots up an acorn once in a while, these guys are making one thing very clear - we still have a decent chance to start putting things right.
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| SHOW UP OR SHUT UP |
Feb 7, 2018
Today's Tweet
I'm certainly not crazy about adding to the orbital junk heap, but this is pretty cool.
View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, there is a car in orbit around Earth. pic.twitter.com/QljN2VnL1O— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2018
Feb 6, 2018
Just Like Black Jesus
So maybe he wasn't really walking on water. Eyewitness accounts can be pretty iffy.
Today's Tweet
More hostages for the GOP.
I wonder if a Debt Ceiling deal might hinge on Dems being willing to fuck over a whole lot more people:
- Community Health Centers
- DACA
- Social Security
- Medicare
- Medicaid
124 days ago, Congress let funding for community health centers lapse.— Vox (@voxdotcom) February 4, 2018
And that has quietly created a new health care crisis for 26 million Americans. https://t.co/gw4t6UWmTR pic.twitter.com/ijeQ3CJFqq
These guys.
Y'know what we call somebody who's always looking to make people live at the broken end of the bottle - all the time; every day?
We call them assholes.
We call them terrorists.
And right now, right here in USAmerica Inc, we call them Republicans.
Feb 5, 2018
Today's Tweet
Well - a coupla days ago anyway.
Twitter is stunned at just how gigantic a fake Paul Ryan is.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 3, 2018
Silly Twitter.
Science, Bitches
This was a real 'holy fuck' moment for me.
Of course, I also get a moment of 'holy fuck I'm ignorant' because I have a kid (almost 40 years younger than I am) who knows all about this shit - and gets a wry smile on his face whenever I bring it up.
Feb 3, 2018
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