My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
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Fully caffeinated with 2X the sugar, unabashedly liberal. An OG, award-winning blogger (Americans United’s First Freedom First). You can find me on the web at MockPaperScissors.com and sometimes at crooksandliars.com. * Social Media Cult Failure ‘06
Money Cannot Buy Me, Love* Scissorhead Bluegal posted this... ...and I saw something behind the paywall at Taegan Goddard’s joint: In Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, Rep. Haley Stevens benefited from an 11-to-1 spending advantage over Abdul El-Sayed, fueled largely by outside groups aligned…
Money Cannot Buy Me, Love*
Scissorhead Bluegal posted this... ...and I saw something behind the paywall at Taegan Goddard’s joint: In Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, Rep. Haley Stevens benefited from an 11-to-1 spending advantage over Abdul El-Sayed, fueled largely by outside groups aligned with AIPAC. Yet all that money could not save her. Just gonna spitball here that AIPAC is probably going to shower incumbent Senator Mike Rogers with Ameros…
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Area Mob-esque Lawyer Mostly Confirmed Vulgarmort’s mob-esque personal lawyer and acting AG Todd Blanche is very close to being confirmed, as Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie!) morning email thingie informs us: CARTE BLANCHE: Acting AG Todd Blanche is just one vote shy of confirmation…
Area Mob-esque Lawyer Mostly Confirmed
Vulgarmort’s mob-esque personal lawyer and acting AG Todd Blanche is very close to being confirmed, as Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie!) morning email thingie informs us: CARTE BLANCHE: Acting AG Todd Blanche is just one vote shy of confirmation after Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) announced his support for Blanche to take up the post formally, POLITICO’s Chris Marquette reports…
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Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day I think this should be the tagline on every Democratic ad for the remainder of the 2026 Pie Fight: Okay, Democrats add this to your sound bite collection: And maybe this: Man, they are just giving us ammo: Shorter: Money for Bidness, Not For People!!1!
Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day
I think this should be the tagline on every Democratic ad for the remainder of the 2026 Pie Fight: Okay, Democrats add this to your sound bite collection: And maybe this: Man, they are just giving us ammo: Shorter: Money for Bidness, Not For People!!1!
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RIP, Zombie Rotten McDonald The imitable Scissorhead Zombie Rotten McDonald has gone to spitball in the great beyond. His last comment here was in June, a simple #ETTD. ZRM is/was one of the original Scissorheads - I just checked the archive and he has 243 pages of comments —there’s 15 to a page—…
RIP, Zombie Rotten McDonald
The imitable Scissorhead Zombie Rotten McDonald has gone to spitball in the great beyond. His last comment here was in June, a simple #ETTD. ZRM is/was one of the original Scissorheads - I just checked the archive and he has 243 pages of comments —there’s 15 to a page— just since we left the old thunderbolt grease slapper self-hosted server, and there’s probably even MORE way back.
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Kinda like a House Flippers show for gold diggers?
Amazon Is Reportedly Doubling Down on Melania Trump With a New Docuseries
First Lady Melania Trump will be the subject of a new Amazon Prime docuseries, senior adviser Marc Beckman announced Tuesday, following Amazon MGM Studios' documentary film Melania, released earlier t...
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End of Discussion: Resign, Miller Rep Miller, you are not winning when you man'splain Well technically it wasn’t kiddie porn of my daughter because... Get this freak out of Congress NOW. End of discussion.
End of Discussion: Resign, Miller
Rep Miller, you are not winning when you man'splain Well technically it wasn’t kiddie porn of my daughter because... Get this freak out of Congress NOW. End of discussion.
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Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
They’re gonna need Mitch's vote to get Blanche over the finish line...
Told you Sens Murkowski and Collins would play good cop / bad cop: www.notus.org/congress/tod...
Todd Blanche's Nomination Is In Jeopardy After Sen. Collins Says She'll Vote No
The acting attorney general needs to secure one more vote from either of two Republican holdouts: Cassidy or Murkowski.
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Tengrain@tengrain.bsky.social · 23h agoWhen it gets to the floor of the senate, let’s see if Collins and Murkowski do their good cop/bad cop act. It’s Collin’s turn to be good cop, methinks.
Get Jake Tapper On The Horn, STAT!!1! The Orange 🤡 is bonkers and is waging a war with Iran (and reality): “Jeanine Pirro made a mistake. It was vandalism. I just told you we did, I think, 78. One of the things was to reflecting pool, hasn’t worked since 1922, because it always leaked. It always…
Get Jake Tapper On The Horn, STAT!!1!
The Orange 🤡 is bonkers and is waging a war with Iran (and reality): “Jeanine Pirro made a mistake. It was vandalism. I just told you we did, I think, 78. One of the things was to reflecting pool, hasn’t worked since 1922, because it always leaked. It always leaked from 1922. You know, it's the largest longest pool ever, all that.
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Midday Palate Cleanser I want 100 more of them!
Midday Palate Cleanser
I want 100 more of them!
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The underlying laws of the universe used to maximize entropy. They now maximize chutzpahriffic irony for reasons physicists do not currently understand.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayDr Oz: "This is corruption on the underlying system ... when everyone is doing it, that's a real pathology. Bc if you're not part of the corrupt system, you're a fool. When I'm lying to you & you know I'm lying & I know that you know that I'm lying, & on & on & on, that's how countries collapse."
Gee, but there’s no difference between the two parties.
DAPPER DON DHARSHI@dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump being President didn’t make America the way it is. America being the way it is, made Trump President.
Somebody check his testosterone level. I think it’s in the negative 20s
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Makes you wonder if he would have voted to confirm Blanche if he were running against Talarico.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃
Looks like the inside of a hoarder's broken RV in the woods at this point.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · yesterdayScoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost
The news reports that Iran cyber-attacked 7 states water systems. But the only states named are Minnesota and Michigan. Does anyone know what the other 5 states are? Just curious, and wondering why the other 5 are not named?
“Ken Paxton’s defense attorney just endorsed me. At this point I’m just waiting on Paxton’s family dog to come over to my side.” — James Talarico
Breaking: For the 10,286th time the sniveling Republican cowards we knew would fold, folded. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
Trump Live Updates: Senate Committee Advances Blanche Nomination as Attorney General
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Gums Claims Paramount-WBD Lawsuit Is About Cable Channel No One Watches “I hold some views that would be called conservative and others that would be called liberal, just like most Americans,” he shared. “And when it comes to our news operations, I do not aspire to lead these companies to bend…
Gums Claims Paramount-WBD Lawsuit Is About Cable Channel No One Watches
“I hold some views that would be called conservative and others that would be called liberal, just like most Americans,” he shared. “And when it comes to our news operations, I do not aspire to lead these companies to bend their newsrooms to my views.” “That’s why I hired Saltpeter-in-human form, Bari Weiss,” Gums did not add, but should have.
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Dear Leader Berates Ungrateful CEO Uh... isn’t this something commie dictators do? (No link for obvious reason) "Mike Wirth, Chairman and CEO of Chevron, just gave, in an interview with the fabulous Maria Bartiromo, all of the reasons that his company is doing so well. The only thing he…
Dear Leader Berates Ungrateful CEO
Uh... isn’t this something commie dictators do? (No link for obvious reason) "Mike Wirth, Chairman and CEO of Chevron, just gave, in an interview with the fabulous Maria Bartiromo, all of the reasons that his company is doing so well. The only thing he conveniently forgot to mention is that, without the genius, foresight, strength, and stability, of the TRUMP…
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Pump-and-Dump Question: why is the Secretary of the Treasury promoting Cadet Bone Spurs Great Adventure: Iran? Answer: Any questions?
Pump-and-Dump
Question: why is the Secretary of the Treasury promoting Cadet Bone Spurs Great Adventure: Iran? Answer: Any questions?
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Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day His brain is swiss cheese.
Here’s Some Stupid To Start Your Day
His brain is swiss cheese.
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Bedside Reading, Cont. I bet everyone in Possum Hollar has a copy.
Bedside Reading, Cont.
I bet everyone in Possum Hollar has a copy.
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Hedda Lettuce? We should start a betting pool on how long Judge Winebox remains DC’s US Attorney: "The president is weighing whether to fire Jeanine Pirro over her decision to drop charges against a former Olympian who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, CNN…
Hedda Lettuce?
We should start a betting pool on how long Judge Winebox remains DC’s US Attorney: "The president is weighing whether to fire Jeanine Pirro over her decision to drop charges against a former Olympian who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, CNN reported. “Frankly, I think she choked, because the judge was really vicious,” Trump told reporters this afternoon.
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