Like The Dog He His

That's great, Steve - now do Flint.

BTW - the transcripts of the sworn testimony of more than a couple of immigrant detainees (aka: brown people being held in our concentration camps) very explicitly state that the sinks they referred to were not functional.

As AOC put it - "Apparently some of our members didn't finish the reading assignment."

In my own estimation, it just means Steve King lied. 

But then, Steve King is a White Nationalist Republican Asshole, so pointing out that he's a liar is redundant. Shit - pretty much that whole sentence is redundant.

Sorry about that.

Today's Tweet

Winner

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— MariaC🐾 (@ArgentinaMama) September 5, 2019

New To Me

The Armageddon Update with Christopher Titus

(try to look past the obvious semi-racist glitches)

You May Ask Yourself

...why does it seem like the "conservative movement" is chock full of grifters?

And your answer may well be, "Because conservatives have made it inevitable - and that's been the point all along."

WaPo:

In 2016, an Arizona man called prosecutors in Riverside, Calif., to report that he’d been ripped off. Two men in the Southern California town who claimed to be running a hedge fund had taken $75,000 from him, he said, and then promptly lost it all. The tipster later killed himself.

But his claim helped spark a three-year investigation that has now resulted in a felony charge against both men — one of whom, Jacob Wohl, has since become a headline-generating conservative activist and conspiracy theorist.

Wohl, 21, appeared in court on Wednesday and now faces arraignment in October for one count of illegally selling a security, as first reported by the Daily Beast. He didn’t immediately return a message late Wednesday.

The criminal case is the latest turn in a whiplash career that has seen Wohl transform from a stock-trading wunderkind (later banned from an industry group) to a President Trump-backing Twitter figure (later booted off the platform) to the activist behind botched attempts to smear former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) with fabricated sexual assault claims.
The GOP abandoned all sense of honor quite a while back, and now it's filled with the kind of crooks who always gravitate to the sources of power and money, looking for the opportunity to siphon off some ready cash and live it up at someone else's expense.

But they put the ends before the means - policy over process - party over country.

Their actions over the last 30-40 years show they've lost the thread of democracy, and it has to be plain that it's not simply due to happenstance, but deliberate and by design. Their project is to dismantle our little experiment in self-government in order to replace it with plutocracy.

The more shitty shady characters we see associated with government, the more disgusting the whole thing seems, the more we turn away, the more we leave the work and the decisions to people who just get more vile and repulsive - it's a self-perpetuating cycle and it gets worse and worse until enough of us are frustrated enough to go along with some polished grifter who suggests we just chuck it all and start over.

That's when they call a Constitutional Convention, and rewrite the rules in a way that tailors the thing to the Daddy Staters' dreams of conquest and dominance.

They don't want to take us back to the 1950s. They intend to take us back to the 1750s.

Irredeemable

45*'s never going to admit to telling an outright lie, but It has to clear by now that he's not even capable of admitting anything he does could be either a straight up mistake on his part, or that it's reasonable for people to see some of the weird shit he does - which is almost always followed by a double-down - and conclude he's a bit touched in the head.

(Here's all of Charlie's piece - from behind Esquire's paywall)

Donald Trump's Hurricane Dorian Map Appears to Be Doctored With a Sharpie to Include Alabama

This is just insane.

By Charles P Pierce - Sep 4, 2019

This is beyond belief. Even by this guy's standards for cheap lying, this is off the charts, across the floor, down the storm drain, into the river, and long gone off up the gulfstream.

Remember the other day when the president* said that Hurricane Dorian posed a threat to Alabama, and then the National Weather Service told all the people in Alabama to relax because the president* didn't know what he was talking about, so they all shouldn't run off to the Piggly Wiggly to buy 250 loaves of bread? Whereupon, the president* expressed his annoyance at his own National Weather Service for its role in helping him look foolish? Again. (Maybe it was just their turn.) This resulted in a couple of days of social-media snark directed at the president*s Very Great Brain.

Cut to Wednesday morning in the Oval Office. From NBC News:
The map Trump displayed was the same as a model produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week showing the hurricane's projected path cutting through central Florida— with one key difference. Where the original projection ended, a smaller, black circle that appeared to be drawn in sharpie was produced to include Alabama in the model.

Sharpie? He either doctored—or had doctored—the map with a freaking Sharpie? I wonder if he did it himself or contracted out the work to the Department Of Embarrassingly Clumsy Fakes, led by Secretary Of Embarrasingly Clumsy Fakes Epstein's Mother.
"I know that Alabama was in the original forecast," Trump told reporters later on Wednesday. "We have a better map... in all cases Alabama was hit... they gave it a 95% chance." Asked about the discrepancies with the original map, Trump said: "I don't know. I don't know."

A Sharpie.

This is just insane.

It's also possibly a federal crime.

Completely insane.

And in the mean time, Republicans all over the place are so busy trying to save their own asses, that it's plain to see that they don't give one empty fuck about the rest of us.

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Today's Tweet

It always comes back around, and the rubes just never get that.

I like when ppl
who think the 50s
were the good old days
call you a communist
for endorsing economic policies
Eisenhower used
to make the 50s
the good old days

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) September 4, 2019

Take Care Of Her

She's the only one we've got.

Please Clap

Mike Pence had a coupla bad Jeb Bush moments speaking to folks in Europe.

Vox:

Two cringeworthy, viral video clips from Vice President Mike Pence’s recent trip to Europe illustrate how unpopular the Trump administration has become with the United States’ European allies.

During a speech at a conference in Poland about Middle East policy last Thursday, Pence called on America’s allies to follow the Trump administration in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.

“The time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, and join with us as we bring the economic and diplomatic pressure necessary to give the Iranian people, the region, and the world the peace, security, and freedom they deserve,” Pence said.

He paused, expecting his audience to applaud. Instead, he was met with total silence. Visibly surprised by the reception, the VP took a deep breath and shook his head before proceeding with his speech.

OMG -- Pence was visibly shook in Poland when he received absolutely no reaction to what was clearly supposed to be an applause line about how "the time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal." pic.twitter.com/biRxARZkcM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 16, 2019

This is just brutal pic.twitter.com/NzLgWuLcwP

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 16, 2019

You know you've screwed the pooch when your friends won't even give you a little round of polite pity applause.

"Whoof - tough crowd".

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— Jeremy (@PBAndAwesome) February 17, 2019

 

All That Macho Bullshit

George Carlin - The Male Disease