Steve Ohmert

and if you were to ask if he was taking a page from the book of the Speaker of the House, he'd probably say "Mike who?"

Republican promises are proven to be less than worthless. Hold the line.

You can't negotiate with a ticking time bomb. You can only defuse it.

Some guy named Otto Penn

When Life gives you lemons -- make blueberry muffins!

I don’t understand how, since the funds are appropriated and authorized to begin with, the president has any say over it to begin with? Just do it.

This is the new anti-rally ordinance production facility.

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If we had national health insurance, and thus national actuarial data, wouldn't the natural order of the economy that R's so often extole be served by a common resource cost? Or maybe I just don't understand economics.

Fuckers that thought they could steamroll democracy by plying the "stupid masses" have made a grave mistake.
You either are going to get:
- Hold my beer while I show you how we deal with fascists.
- You will be prosecuted for violating state laws.
- Civil suits for all the pain and suffering.

Just when you thought that it couldn't get worse. But there is a strategy that says "after the destruction"... Of course, that doesn't avoid the destruction. Buckle up.

It was too late when the BBB canceled the extension. I know you are not among them, but what are your conversations with those D's that voted to let the BBB strip this in the first place?

"We are going to get our democracy back. I want to see that happen in my lifetime!" -- Heather Cox Richardson

I share this sentiment.

I see this come up a lot lately. I'm not shocked to learn I am not the first to use this phrase. I didn't know FDR had used it as part of his New Deal address at the time I wrote this. I am proud to repeat it. History rhymes.

Let's use the term "rapid responders" to describe citizen interception more often. It is (a) accurate (b) more "official sounding" (c) enough of a change in terminology to cause MAGA apologists to think about it second, which is longer than they ever have before.

Yeah, you know — the America first inhabited by the Roman Empire. This is why the Caesar salad was invented in Mexico City.

The GOP doesn’t believe an entity below a certain net worth is even a person.

I don’t know what her game is this time, exactly, but I do know she is an expert political meteorologist in that she always follows which way the wind blows. I’m encouraged this could mean a fair wind may be blowing soon.

Pointing out that money is the root of all evil hasn’t done anything to stop it. Rather it engenders a certain fatalism that this just the way things are.
That narrative is wrong.

The ignorance index would always be high.

Lies , damn lies, and administration numbers

So Mike, what is your opinion of objective reality?

If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.

I've been shocked and disappointed for some time at how true it is that elections can be swayed by dollars and lies more than policy discussion and facts. I think this is why the R's feel invulnerable despite whatever they do. Let's redouble our efforts to change that.

Has anyone else noticed that ChatGPT seems to have become downright insolent lately?

You should copyright that logo. It’s too close to the truth not to get stolen.

Yeah, that “industry” used to be called a functional Congress representing the will of the people through laws and oversight. The same institution could in principle reverse those protections to fit your wishes instead, but you guys prefer tearing it down like it is part of the East Wing.

Is this a silver alert? Or an orange one?

Meaning of course, that in such an (unconstitutional) third term, the Constitution would be even more constricted. Like literally out of existence instead of just virtually as it is now.

Any 6th grader that reads the Constitution can articulate it better than these right-wing nuts with law degrees

Although it's true that an "Enemy of Everything" is technically the enemy of my enemy, it should probably be an exclusion to the pithy cliché about allies of convenience.