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It depresses me to acknowledge this, but the Republicans’ commitment to blatant and serial lying, and Orwellian “make believe” governing, pose a real threat by overwhelming the public debate and individual’s efforts to stay grounded.  While a bit well-worn (and of uncertain provenance), this quote is fundamentally true: “A lie can travel halfway around...

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  • May 15, 2021

Sorry but having lived a long time is Pinko Commie Europe this morning I was gobsmacked by this piece of news. Mr. Willoughby is among scores of Texans who have reported skyrocketing electric bills as the price of keeping lights on and refrigerators humming shot upward. For customers whose electricity...

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  • February 21, 2021

Not really a heist film, but a brief amusement worth another cinematic treatment of financial markets like Trading Places. If not, here’s a quick recap: a bunch of traders — many amateurs — got together on the online discussion forum Reddit and decided they were going to pump up GameStop’s...

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  • January 28, 2021

Gott im Himmel. WTF? The MyPillow website has an active promo code “QAnon” which gets you a $45 discount. (h/t @weijia for this discovery) MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell visited the White House yesterday to meet w/ Pres Trump (45), armed with notes referencing martial law and election conspiracy theories https://t.co/Nz7jloe1ra...

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  • January 17, 2021

Trump’s staff may have tricked him into thinking he has a line-item veto. Attention-seeking becomes purer for the desperate POTUS*. Trump dithered because he thinks that improves an “unpredictability” brand that shines the turd of incompetence. Trying to make indecisiveness a fashion statement only works when horseshoes are hand grenades. One...

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  • December 28, 2020

WTF, too many people went shopping today, as 200,000+ COVID-19 cases happened. A million people flew and another 5 million drove long distances. x Public health officials: “Avoid crowds, stay home!” 🇺🇸 chasing Black Friday sales: “Hold my beer 🍺 & turkey 🦃 leftovers” ➡️ 201,000 #COVID19 cases yesterday (w/...

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  • November 28, 2020

Oh, look, Donald Trump won Alaska! Three electoral votes and 663,000 square miles of yummy red land! If only land voted. Sigh. x BREAKING: President Trump and Senate Republicans win Alaska, overwhelmingly and by a massive 20 point spread! Put AK in the books for @realDonaldTrump! Congratulations Senator @DanSullivan_AK! Thank you...

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  • November 12, 2020

This is a true virtue-signal as Trump announces he’s now open for more griftable influence money not unlike the cash infusions he received in 2016. This is beyond the skimming that has now shown Trump to have blown through $800 million. x Trump doesn’t have anywhere near that amount in...

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  • September 8, 2020

Chris Wallace found the Trump speech “flat”.  But didn’t you know that Trump was a “saintly feminist”? The GOP would have you believe that “my African-American” thanks that unlike Bill Clinton, Trump is the first Black POTUS.  Woe are the suburbs and Trump is better than Biden, only because Biden is...

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  • August 28, 2020

Trump: “If stupid people aren’t elected, next year, we’re going to have one of the greatest years that we’ve ever had.” Trump will likely flee at the first suggestion that he’s lying again. Bigger/bigly question is whether CNN, MSNBC, or CSpan will cover it live. Live blog below. Date: August...

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  • August 15, 2020

Chad Wolf confesses to committing a crime on national television. One person’s ‘proactive arresting’ is another’s extralegal detention and subsequent rendition. If you get scooped up, we wish you well. DHS Secretary @DHSMcAleenan just said on Fox News that unmarked agents are making “proactive” arrests in #Portland:“If we think you will...

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  • July 22, 2020

There are no real details on how this is executive order is to be enforced, but Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is mandating that you must wear a mask if you are out in public. Amid “an explosion of COVID,” all Kentuckians must wear masks in public starting Friday at 5...

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  • July 9, 2020

Uh … really bad taste, dude. x Here’s video of Scottsdale City Councilman Guy Phillips shouting “I Can't Breathe” before removing his mask at today's Anti-Mask Rally in Arizona: Mocking Eric Garner & George Floyd and many others in this moment is something I feel compelled to expose…pic.twitter.com/4drg23zWUD— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman)...

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  • June 25, 2020

My elderly Mom and I committed election fraud Friday.  I sent in our absentee ballots by mail instead of voting in person with everyone in the city of Louisvlle at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center on June 23rd.  Well, a certain orange baboon in the White House claims that...

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  • June 13, 2020

The “blame antifa” trope is not working out so well for the Trumpists wanting the left to declare People’s War in the streets of the US. Antifa aren’t anywhere to be found, just ask the FBI. All they need to do is dig up Lin Biao and reanimate him. But...

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  • June 6, 2020

On the one hand, this is a bizarre, inexplicable story.  On the other hand, it is probably the most revealing story about the failure and obsequiousness of the White House press. In short, looking to fuel their fantasy propaganda that the Covid pandemic is over, White House aides at Trump’s Rose...

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  • June 5, 2020

Another rally to resist sheltering by threatening a virus with firearms… this time in North Carolina. Fortunately there were only eleven of them. So much weirder with the fake weapons, making security theater less threatening. x The inert AT-4 is sad, but the guy taking a selfie with wooden .50 cal...

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  • May 10, 2020

Another job well done. Uh, medium rare. Er, baking in the sun like maggoty roadkill. The New York Times:  Trump administration officials are telling members of the coronavirus task force that the White House plans to wind down the operation and it’s not clear whether any other group might replace it....

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  • May 5, 2020

Because surviving the pandemic is worth commemorating with yet another Trump souvenir. More troubling are the MAGA and KAG hats available at this “White House gift shop”, and like most Trump things it’s a for-profit operation not connected to the actual White House. x OMFG, the White House Gift Shop is selling commemorative...

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  • April 29, 2020

The Louisville Courier-Journal editorial board called it a “procoronavirus” protest rally that occured yesterday in Frankfort.  Joseph Gerth just called them “idiots.”  I think both are correct, and it was an “idiotic procoronavirus” rally.   Approximately 100 of the worst in humanity showed up to chant and try to disrupt Kentucky...

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  • April 16, 2020

Trump’s Al Haig moment came yesterday. Wound-up tight, he was. Sometimes we don’t know WTF he’s saying, like “the Democrats were ‘artificially stopped’ by COVID-19”, but yesterday the unhingery got real. Hard for networks to stop broadcasting his lies when he’s so damned self-destructive. Here's video of @PaulaReidCBS grilling Trump on what...

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  • April 14, 2020

Today’s Trump presser had a couple of lies today, which seems normal as he’s become rehearsed with his excuses and his usual projection. However he’s continuing to attack the WHO to draw blame from his 70 days of delay and denial, leading to the February and March COVID-19 spread in...

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  • April 9, 2020

For some reason I wasn’t watching this live. I mean, on a good day, choosing between watching a NASCAR race or a Trump speech is like deciding whether to eat a Denny’s Grand Slam Breakfast out of a roadhouse urinal or my own liver with a Taco Bell spork. But...

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  • February 17, 2020

The first blush of commentary after the New Hampshire debates looks relatively conventional, even as small movements up and down in polling have occurred. MSM is far too obsessed with the media framing of socialism, despite a Chris Matthews rant about Fidel Castro. Four days before the New Hampshire primary,...

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  • February 8, 2020

Aside from a RWNJ conspiracy theory now being spread, the complexity of running a caucus system with new software app and staffed by volunteers has waylaid the Iowa caucus results temporarily. x Voters: watch how Dem candidates respond to this temporary and small crisis. It will tell us a lot about...

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  • February 4, 2020

When Mike Pompeo instructed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly to point Ukraine out on a blank map, we all had some version of the same thought: Why doesn’t he ask his boss? Well, George Conway, full-time Trump gadfly and part-time husband to Barbie Riefenstahl, pointed out in a recent Twitter...

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  • January 28, 2020

I am not a Biden fan by any stretch of the imagination. He falls ahead of Tulsi Gabbard in terms of who I would vote for in a primary, but that’s about it. But I can’t help feel sorry for the guy. It feels like his natural allies have knives...

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  • November 12, 2019

They want to talk about issues on which Trump is merely an idiot instead of a dangerously ill-informed über-moron. It’s not fair! The Guardian: Macron whisked the US president away for an impromptu meal for two on an oceanfront terrace at the Hotel du Palais. Trump initially appeared frosty but later...

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  • August 25, 2019

They want to talk about issues on which Trump is merely an idiot instead of a dangerously ill-informed über-moron. It’s not fair! The Guardian: Macron whisked the US president away for an impromptu meal for two on an oceanfront terrace at the Hotel du Palais. Trump initially appeared frosty but later...

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  • August 25, 2019

WTF is this, Kodos? x Highest Condolences! Thank you V.P. https://t.co/abydDSlDBw — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2019 Highest condolences from the Supreme Regent of Altair IV to the symbiotic podmates of the fallen Earthli … er, brave American soldiers! He is so, so, so, so, so, so, sooooooo fucking bad...

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  • August 24, 2019

Let’s see.  We have a madman in the White House who encourages violence and death and practices both with his policies, but the NYT takes the time to write about Joe Biden’s gaffes.  For fucking real?   Some of his advisers said in interviews that they were privately nervous that his...

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  • August 13, 2019

I’d love to believe in a world where I’m not a champion high jumper because Canadian spies sneak into my bedroom at night and surreptitiously force-feed me McDonald’s hot apple pies through a beer bong. But, sadly, I live in consensus reality, so no. But Donald Trump doesn’t have any...

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  • July 24, 2019

I have to admit that I had a seriously “WTF?” reaction to the announced lineup for the two night Democratic Presidential Debate on June 26/27th.  But on further reflection, I’m betting that the candidates selected for the first night debate may be relieved.  My thoughts were crystalized for me during...

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  • June 14, 2019

Something’s happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear   For what it’s worth   Buffalo Springfield Sweet Jesus, doesn’t 30 months just fly by when you’re having fun? It seems like only yesterday, and not about 28 months ago, when the networks stopped covering the egocentric, self centered, oral masturbation that comprised the...

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  • March 2, 2019

I could post the entire transcript of Donald Trump’s Rose Garden address, but what’s the point? It all boils down to this: “We’re ending the government shutdown, blah blah blah, lie lie lie, I’m a huge fucking loser.” And if that’s too detailed for you, basically he got up to the...

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  • January 25, 2019

It is bad when Mr. Bothsiderist Chuck Todd is spilling the beans on what Trump and Republicans are up to with the government shutdown and tonight’s Trump broadcast.  No transcript on this, but Todd brought this up on his show and All In With Chris Hayes: Trump has no serious plan...

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  • January 9, 2019

Rabbit, rabbit. x pic.twitter.com/saWqPGOfKU — Norristache (@norristache) January 1, 2019 x Walls and wheels! Brilliant. Profound. I really wish we could laugh at what a fucking moron you are instead of it being so disastrously detrimental. Such a genuine tragedy. Anyway, eat shit you unfathomable fuckhead. Tonight, I’ll be toasting...

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  • January 1, 2019

Susie Madrak of Crook and Liars has a great piece up about the BS that Jeff Zucker is spewing.  According to Zucker, he is not interested in hiring Trump officials that he thinks are liars.  He wants to hire “independent-minded” people like Nikki Haley. Let that sink in for a...

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  • November 3, 2018

I’m a Democrat, so I am prone to panic.  Yeah, redundant.  But I have been depressed lately because of multiple things going on in my personal life (health issue of a loved one for starters).  Therefore, here I am asking for some good news or lies from my Daily Kossacks...

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  • October 12, 2018

Democratic Senators must wait until they have all viewed it than rush to the mics en masse to “characterize” it.  Who died and left Yurtle master of the known universe???? It doesn’t contain the location and dispositions of our ICBMs for Christ’s sake…. NBC News “WASHINGTON — The much-awaited FBI’s...

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  • October 4, 2018

I only got to read about Chrisinte Blasey Ford’s testimony today while I was at eating lunch, but I got to listen to parts of Kavanaugh’s testimony on the drive home after 4 P.M. on NPR.  And even the NPR reporters and commentators were stunned by Kavanuagh’s belligerence.  If I...

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  • September 28, 2018

Read this over at Huffington Post today: Advocates for Alaska Natives, who were crucial to Murkowski’s re-election in 2010, tell HuffPost they’ve been flooding her office all week and urging her to oppose Kavanaugh. Lots of issues facing native Alaskans, but I was like “WTF?” on this one: The most...

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  • September 9, 2018

From Crooks and Liars, Jeet Heer of The New Republic rips into the political establishment which McCain was a party to that HELPED produce Trump.  There is a link to Heer’s Tweets on McCain’s funeral.  Now, fair warning, Obama gets criticsm too. WTF?  How can Obama be responsible for Trump...

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  • September 4, 2018

Oh. My. God. At this point, if Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a single shred of self respect left in her unwelcome in public restaurants body, there is only one thing left for her to do. She must follow the example set by Detroit Lions football fans several years ago. When...

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  • July 18, 2018

“Foreclosure King” and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had some deeply dumb — but lap-dog loyal — things to say about President Trump’s NFL comments on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.  His brief comments on this subject were so wrong, so facile and so destructive that they deserve special attention.   RADDATZ: And...

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  • September 25, 2017

Hehehehahahahehe… 5555555555555555… LOLZ… 呵呵呵呵呵… хихихихихихи… mwahahamwahahamwahahamwahahamwahaha… 크크크크크크크크크크크크… HAHAHAHAHAHAHA… 笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑… bwahahahabhahaha… חָה־חָה־חָה… mort de rire — حقا، لا أستطيع … Uh, yeah. Welcome to 2003 again. Byline says Michael Gordon instead of Judith Martin. Oh gee, big deal folks: “…establish a new military base in Anbar Province, Iraq, and to send...

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  • June 10, 2015