Joe Kennedy III doesn’t have the accent (like most well-off east coast kids he was socialized out of all his regionalisms) so he’s missing the only charming thing about any Kennedy politician. Read more

The inhuman stupidity of the national conversation requires a conscious effort to shut off rational thought—to note that the speech contained the words “reach across the aisle” and so it represented a serious attempt at that, from a man whose entire political success is based on his freewheeling willingness to take… Read more

I truly don’t think we’re capable of recovering any sort of “serious” or “adult” politics. We’re too far gone. The braying monkey standing ovations for meaningless, ill-delivered bromides are just a prelude to the idiotic pre-cooked “analyses.” We’re doomed. Read more

Our entire language of politics is just fundamentally and possibly irreversibly childish and idiotic. That’s my takeaway. Send me to the spin room. Read more

Wow very odd bit in the embargoed speech where Trump takes credit for the U.S.S. Discovery returning home from the Mirror Universe. Wonder how GOP will spin that one. Read more

This will never end. He is going so fucking slow. Read more

Family reunification was originally introduced into our immigration laws by conservatives who hoped it’d lead to like Germans and Swedes bringing all their families here. Read more

Boy the Stephen Miller portion is a bit jarring after the list of platitudes earlier. Read more

The way to escape the very obvious set-up of Trump explicitly demanding “please stand” when introducing the grieving black family he’s using as a race-baiting prop in a race-baiting anti-immigration campaign is not to show up to this bad speech in the first place. Read more

I mean it’s not really worth it to respond to anything specific in this incoherent speech but “reforming prisons” is not a goal related to helping people released from prison find work. Read more

What is even the conservative “theory” for why drug prices are higher here than in the United States? I mean assuming they think that’s a bad thing. I assumed they thought that was a good thing? Read more

Boy, the inevitable recession is going to be a wild ride Read more

There a bit in there about making it easier for administrations to fire civil servants, right Read more

The thing with Trump and his team openly crowing about their judges, and Gorsuch in particular, is that it totally makes it explicit that the selection of judges and justices is purely partisan, that Gorsuch is the equivalent of a tax cut, only much more permanent. The fig leaf of judicial impartiality and… Read more

It’s very funny that Trump and the GOP still do the cop-humping thing while literally carrying out a political purge of federal law enforcement. Read more

This is boring. Read more

The funny thing about bragging about how everyone will love the tax cut when they do their taxes next year or check their paystub next month is that most people who aren’t either super-rich or moderately well-off in a blue state and possibly facing a tax hike next year won’t really notice anything. Barack Obama and… Read more

Steve Scalise is a white nationalist and probably the next Speaker of the House. Read more

My baby has a little TV-shaped toy fish tank that hangs inside his crib and plays music and lights up when you hit a button and lately he has discovered how to hit that button and now when we put him to bed he spends 30-45 minutes just whacking that button over and over again, which, for a while, we were worried… Read more