Golly, we finally get peace talks in Afghanistan and it looks like we may be ending our $45 billion a year boondoggle over there after almost 20 years, but then the peace talks are sabotaged by this perfectly timed story with shady sourcing — a story which just so happens to be perfectly crafted to predispose…

We’re about to witness a bar holocaust. Bars have become a horribly unreliable business model. At least 75% will disappear in the next few years. What bank would loan money to a bar owner in a COVID world? None.

I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but it’s silly to casually wave off any role the protests played in spreading the virus. Big cities in Texas are arguably the worst virus hotspots in the country now. 60,000 people attended the protest march in Houston on June 2nd. Do a google image search for that march, and you’ll see…

My only beef with Friends is it’s gratingly unfunny and dumb. I don’t expect 100% wokeness from a 1990s show and wouldn’t bemoan the lack of it if the show was any good, but it’s not. It stinks.

Friends just straight up sucks. I always disliked the show but I had forgotten just how bad it is until a few months ago when I had to sit through a Friends wedding episode waiting for my car to get a state inspection. I tried my best to ignore it but it was so aggressively unfunny and stupid and loud and brassy.…

I think the Democratic Party should regard my comparison to voting for Joe Biden with scrubbing out a toilet with the utmost horror

Space Karen would like to talk to the manager of Earth.

The notion of Bernie being a kooky Trotskyite is largely a product of the infuriating myth of Barack Obama being the pinnacle of heroic progressivism. The Left was foolish not to draw ideological distinctions between itself and Obama during his presidency. Failure to do so created this confusion of a mediocre…

I might say Bloomberg is a real-life Montgomery Burns, but that would be unfair to Monty, who is actually a more sympathetic character than Bloomberg.

I propose gladiatorial combats between pedophile Scout leaders and pedophile Catholic priests.

Who knew “Sorry, but we really can’t, and you should already know that” would be such an effective message.

I am Karen, hear me roar!

Klob will make a good Vice President for somebody. She’ll snag lots of disaffected older female Hillary voters. Also the Karen vote. But I repeat myself.

So your take is the disaster in Iowa was all just innocent bumbling, and anyone who detects active malice is a conspiracy nut who is hurting party unity? If I wanted that sort of centrist pablum I could get it at CNN or MSNBC.

You omitted Chris Schwartz’s story. He’s a Black Hawk county supervisor who went public with the story of the state party’s flagrant tampering with his county’s results. He was on Democracy Now this morning, and has been actively tweeting. It’s difficult to listen to Schwartz’s account of events and not detect an…

I take it you weren’t hanging out at Firedoglake or Daily Kos or Glenn Greenwald’s blog back in Obama’s early days in Washington, because you have a very dim memory of how Obama marketed himself to progressives in those days. It wasn’t just pretty speeches. Obama was a bait-and-switch scam artist.

It’s a revisionist myth that 2006-early 2008 Obama never professed any progressive policy preferences, and that left-leaning voters just projected them onto him. He did profess a lot of progressive/populist ideas, he simply abandoned them later. And no, I never thought Obama was progressive in 2006-2008 because he had…

Is that really how you remember Obama’s foreign policy? You have a hilariously edited version of it that omits all the bad stuff and broken promises, and there was lots of that.

Obama didn’t try very hard at all. As soon as he bested Hillary in the 2008 Democratic primary he immediately started running away from his earlier progressive incarnation. He never stopped running. It’s almost as if he was a sleazy opportunist who never really meant any of that progressive shtick he peddled on his…

You undercut your case when you bring up Kamala Harris. There are good arguments against Iowa going first, but Kamala Harris is not one of them. She was only a hot topic for a little while because she conformed to media notions of what a frontrunner should look like, which only shows how out of touch the media are.…