Among other things, this notion is going to be rough on Nick Ayers’ wife from now on, assuming they haven’t already gone the whole Mike and Mother route. “The throes of passion” and “my husband looks like Donald Trump” are the sexual equivalent of oil and water.

Democrats are waking up even in Ohio, but the Republican machine there is powerful. Although mostly powered by white rage and racism, the GOP also owes much of its strength to Protestant and Catholic anti-choice fanatics, who are weirdly well-organized in the state: so this moment of payback was inevitable.

I hope they both lose too, but I hope Tucker loses first, and way harder.

This is madness. I don’t respect it. I am judging it. Of course, I pity this woman with all my heart, and I’m so sorry about the baby. But really.

The red states are going redder. They’ve embraced the reality that being “Republican” is about three things, and three things only: being white, howling sentimental Christian bullshit about wee Unborn Babies (although high-fiving and jabbering with glee about the desolate wails of the children of the border), and…

The bubonic plague wiped out between 30 and 60% of the population of Europe alone in the 14th century. Globally, it is estimated that the plague reduced the total population of the world from around 450 million to 350 million.

This is Art Pope territory. When your whole state is owned and managed by Charles Koch Lite, a Bond villain knockoff, this is what you get.

Trump whips people into a letter-bomb-mailing, Kroger-shopper-killing,synagogue-massacre frenzy,and the entire apparatus of the right goes into overdrive with indignant declarations that it’s not his fault, “the Left”started it it, what about Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her disappointment about dinner, both sides,…

In the roughly three decade period between 1914, and 1945, 120 million human beings were killed in war: just in war alone. Not counting the death toll to hunger and enslavement and random genocides.

The Murdoch princelings, James and Lachlan, hated Ailes and wanted him out: they’d been looking for an excuse to get rid of him for years. Megyn merely provided them with a cover story—-one the network would have ignored without shame or apology if the suits had even remotely wanted Ailes to stay.

Fox has already said they don’t want her back. She’s burned a bridge or two, it seems.

The entire Republican apparatus is taking advantage of this to say, basically, “You Democrats shut up, stop exercising your First Amendment rights, back down from the political process, cease to criticize us, and go away, and we’ll tell you to stop shooting yourselves, beating yourselves up, and sending yourselves…

It takes time to achieve all this.

Maybe he could go on NBC/Comcast’s Today Show with Megyn Kelly or Peter Alexander or someone, and explain his side and the glorious cause of whiteness. NBC, the home network of Donald Trump, seems to be quite high on this kind of guy these days.

I don’t know why I keep being surprised that so many tech billionaires are not merely conservative, but out and out scary damn white supremacist fascist (a la Robert Mercer and Peter Thiel): maybe I expect advanced technology to be incompatible with sadistic, feudal, racist reaction, in which case, dumb me, because…

People who vote to slash Social Security and shred voting rights because somebody was mean to Mitch O’Connell were never going to do the right thing. Because you’ll notice, those people never declare they’re going to vote for the Democrats because of the shit Donald’s crowds scream (or while we’re at it, the shit…

This bumpkin’s status as a good Catholic male is not irrelevant.

I know this is a minority opinion, but I think this is bullshit from the word Go.

Of course there were. And are. The Republicans have spent years seriously cultivating their relationship with law enforcement.

They’re getting scarier and more unhinged though. The one in Topeka yesterday was deeply weird and ugly: the Fascism 101 stuff is getting more, not less incendiary, and of course the whole Republican apparatus seems to be all in with the spitting venom and the threats and the George Soros dog whistles.