Who Lost the Week?!?!

I Sh¡t You Not... MAGA Embraces The Slogan "Real Men Wear Diapers"
The above Tweet is, I believe, fake. The ones below are not... This is neither satire nor snark... I couldn’t make this shit up... Idiocracy is upon us… Everybody’s got their kink...
by PvtJarHead 170 comments 313 Recs
Zaluzhnyi's Dream About to Come True ... Innovative Technology to Break Stalemate?
In the run up to his eventual removal as the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian military, General Zalushnyi publicly used the word “stalemate” to describe the war with Russia. That did not go over very well with many who support Ukraine. Most...
by Decimus 50 comments 182 Recs
Trump Media auditor accused of massive fraud by SEC
Enough said about who’s defrauding who. Maybe Congress can help them out with an appeal to the Republican chairs /s… The Securities and Exchange Commission accused the auditor of Donald Trump’s social-media company of a “massive fraud” affecting more...
by liberalismiscommonsense 154 comments 366 Recs
Trial Day 11 for Von ClownStickinPants ends with Keep Hope Alive in tears
Von ClownStickinPants delivered pizza yesterday. Today, observers report that there was no eye contact between Trump and Hope Hicks. Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman agreed with Henderson's assessment that Hicks is uniquely positioned to give...
by annieli 27 comments 129 Recs
Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine prepares for Russian offensive near Kharkiv
There is finally a report detailing exactly how Ukraine blew up the Kerch Bridge with a truck bomb. The power of the explosion charge was estimated at about 10 tons of TNT. The detonator was a plastite explosive device triggered by a GPS signal....
by quaoar 26 comments 164 Recs
Cartoon: G.O.P Approved History
This cartoon is by me and R. E. Ryan. Transcript, comments, and a blog post about this cartoon are here, and I’ll also post the transcript in comments. I make a living because of hundreds of supporters pledging low amounts - $1-$3 - and that's just how...
by Barry Deutsch 12 comments 97 Recs
A farcical pro-Trump op-ed shows how both-siderism is killing the New York Times
I am all for a range of opinions. It is easier to defend your position if you know how your opponent plans to attack it. If the New York Times (NYT) wants to publish conservative op-eds (a.k.a. "Guest Essays"), this liberal will read them. However, no...
by TheCriticalMind 211 comments 450 Recs
Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
Late Night Snark: Pedal the Crappy Metal Edition ”Tesla is recalling all Cybertrucks thanks to a faulty accelerator pedal, meaning the list of things that can break a Cyberytruck now includes driving it.” —John Oliver "The Biden administration recently...
by Bill in Portland Maine 57 comments 34 Recs
Forced Birth Cuellar Indicted
“Democratic” Rep, Henry Cuellar (D?-TX 28) has just been indicted by the DoJ on charges related to activities by some American businessmen with ties to Azerbaijan. Cuellar, who remains the only “Democrat” to vote against providing abortion access to...
by MargaretPOA 93 comments 211 Recs
Donald's lawyer drops a big one today
Todd Blanche’s passive-aggressive shot getting back at Trump for not being aggressive enough. He didn’t have to read #Vonshitzinpants aloud, but he did "Vonshitzinpants" is another media history moment. Jake Tapper: Okay, I apologize for this update...
by annieli 286 comments 631 Recs
The Testimony You Would "Hope" For? Maybe Not Completely. May 3 Trump Trial Update
Today's testimony was highlighted by testimony from longtime Trump aide Hope Hicks. In my view, her testimony was a mixed bag for the prosecution. -Proceedings started today with the judge correcting Donald Trump for false statements he made yesterday...
by KeithDB 25 comments 53 Recs
Whenever You Think You Have Seen It All From the GOP
The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a part of Joe Biden's infrastructure package, is a lifeline for families struggling with internet bills. While the media is busy chasing after every hair-brained thought from Donald Trump, the underreported...
by ReasonaBill 18 comments 74 Recs

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday - 'tunas with good taste' and cultivated lab-grown meat
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for...
by annieli 1 comments 0 Recs
Sympathy For The Devil video featuring Trump and Putin
Someone should create a video featuring the Rolling Stone’s song “Sympathy For The Devil” using images of Trump and images of Putin. With small horns barely covered by the Fat Man’s comb over. We should also rebrand Billionaires as Hoarders. Finally,...
by antiRepubliKKKlan 1 comments 1 Recs
A tale, perhaps two.
Every cat guardian knows the drill. You are sitting there peacefully, perhaps eating, reading, scrolling or watching TV. From a distance, the yowling starts then grows louder and louder as your favored feline approaches. Within a few feet of you and...
by EastBroadStream 2 comments 1 Recs
President Joe Biden---Day 1198---Fourth Year---Day 93---Evening Shade---Friday
WELCOME TO THE SHADE YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER RULES IN THE DIARY WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY...
by Nanny Ogg 85 comments 13 Recs
Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
Late Night Snark: Pedal the Crappy Metal Edition ”Tesla is recalling all Cybertrucks thanks to a faulty accelerator pedal, meaning the list of things that can break a Cyberytruck now includes driving it.” —John Oliver "The Biden administration recently...
by Bill in Portland Maine 57 comments 34 Recs
'Family man' Trump's frantic efforts to hide his sordid acts, as recounted by Hope Hicks
“I think I'm the most honest human being, perhaps, that God has ever created." — Donald Trump Or perhaps not! Longtime Donald Trump aide Hope Hicks testified Friday in the former president’s trial for falsifying business records to cover up hush money...
by Christopher Nerney 6 comments 20 Recs
Every Picture Tells a Story
DO YOU WANT TO DESTROY TRUMP’S POLITICAL CAREER ONCE AND FOR ALL? WELL LET ME TELL YOU A THING OR THREE: SIGNING ONLINE PETITIONS DOESN’T DO SQUAT. GIVING A “LIKE” TO SOMEONE ON TWITTER SAYING, “DEMAND THAT THIS EVIL PERSON STOP WHAT HE’S DOING”...
by Yosef 52 1 comments 25 Recs
Daily Kos Elections weekly open thread
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by Daily Kos Elections 7 comments 0 Recs
Forced Pregnancy is a Crime Against Humanity 1998 International Criminal Tribunal
Why haven't the American Medical Association and America’s medical personnel told the state legislators: “Go to hell. We’ll continue to practice medicine just as our Hippocratic Oath to "First do no harm," Good Samaritan Law, federal Emergency Medical...
by BettyP 9 comments 12 Recs
The Testimony You Would "Hope" For? Maybe Not Completely. May 3 Trump Trial Update
Today's testimony was highlighted by testimony from longtime Trump aide Hope Hicks. In my view, her testimony was a mixed bag for the prosecution. -Proceedings started today with the judge correcting Donald Trump for false statements he made yesterday...
by KeithDB 25 comments 53 Recs
Black Kos, Week In Review
The Black Reporter Who Exposed The Military’s Lies About the Atom Bomb — by dopper0189,Black Kos Managing Editor Charles Harold Loeb � (April 2, 1905 – August 21, 1978) � was an American ...
by Black Kos 105 comments 29 Recs
Zaluzhnyi's Dream About to Come True ... Innovative Technology to Break Stalemate?
In the run up to his eventual removal as the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian military, General Zalushnyi publicly used the word “stalemate” to describe the war with Russia. That did not go over very well with many who support Ukraine. Most...
by Decimus 50 comments 182 Recs
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s lawyer introduced into the court record...
by justiceputnam 1 comments 0 Recs
DELUSIONAL TRUMP Now Says That the Case He Claims is All a Rigged, Corrupt, Hoax is 'Going Fine'
As the second week of Donald Trump's election interference (aka hush money) case winds up, Trump is providing a bit of legal analysis for the gathering press outside the courtroom. As usual, Trump's perspective is utterly devoid of anything resembling...
by News Corpse 8 comments 33 Recs
Street Prophets Friday: In a Werelynx's Garden (photo diary)
Greetings and welcome to the lovely land of lycanthropy, the wonderful world of werelynxing, magnifico mundo del Marko! Or, if you prefer, welcome to my little patch of dirt, my usual bit of Friday-...
by Marko the Werelynx 29 comments 15 Recs
HCAD Candidate Melissa Noriega. MAGA caller agrees with this progressive. Billionaires & Taxes.
HCAD Candidate Melissa Noriega tells us why she is running. A MAGA caller thought he disagreed with this progressive but agreed on much when broken down. Billionaires pay less taxes than the working class. A MAGA caller thought he disagreed. Watch...
by Egberto Willies 2 comments 0 Recs
Dramatic Hope Hicks Overwhelmed?
CNN 5-3-24 3:07 PM Hope Hicks started tearing up after the direct examination finished and as Donald Trump's attorney Emil Bove took the podium. As soon as Bove began, he asked her, "I want to talk to you about your time at the Trump Organization."...
by 55steelhead 15 comments 15 Recs
Trial Day 11 for Von ClownStickinPants ends with Keep Hope Alive in tears
Von ClownStickinPants delivered pizza yesterday. Today, observers report that there was no eye contact between Trump and Hope Hicks. Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman agreed with Henderson's assessment that Hicks is uniquely positioned to give...
by annieli 27 comments 129 Recs
How Can the Media STILL Not Get Trump Despite his Being Deeply, Perversely and 'Dangerously Unfit?'
I do not understand. Trump has kept himself in front of the cameras for decades his life so well documented. He has never been subtle but has long lived an open purely hedonistic lifestyle which has ensured he would stay in the public spotlight. From...
by DrLou 4 comments 9 Recs
Whenever You Think You Have Seen It All From the GOP
The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a part of Joe Biden's infrastructure package, is a lifeline for families struggling with internet bills. While the media is busy chasing after every hair-brained thought from Donald Trump, the underreported...
by ReasonaBill 18 comments 74 Recs

	Councilman Paul Smith (R-MI), as a video of a 2009 Tea Party rally showed him holding a sign depicting President Obama's head on a spike (plus Nancy Pelosi's head with bullet holes and a noose around Jennifer Granholm's neck)
3%	1 votes
	Joe 'The Plumber' Wurzelbacher, suggesting (at a rally for an Arizona state senator) that placing troops on the Mexican border (ready to shoot) was a way to secure the border
0%	0 votes
	Csanad Szegedi, one of the leaders of Hungary's (overtly anti-Semitic) Jobbik Party, discovering …. he is himself a Jew
6%	2 votes
	Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns (FL-03), whose congressional Planned Parenthood ‘probe’ led to the Susan G. Komen debacle … losing his re-election primary to a political newcomer
6%	2 votes
	A top Scrabble player, thrown out of the US championships after being caught with hidden tiles (remaining nameless only due to being a minor)
0%	0 votes
	Former Ass’t Attorney General Andrew Shirvell (R-MI), found liable for defamation/harassment of a gay man to the tune of $4.5 million … which he’d have avoided by simply apologizing
21%	7 votes
	California assemblyman Brian Nestande (Palm Desert), being the only Republican to vote for a bill that raises corporate taxes to pay for college scholarships …. and less than 24 hours later, having to step down as Republican Caucus Chair
0%	0 votes
	Hank Williams Jr., fired from his NFL gig by likening President Obama to Hitler on Fox; now calling him a ‘Muslim president who hates farming, the military, the U.S. - and we hate him’
12%	4 votes
	LGBT community center volunteer Floyd Lee Corkins, charged with assault w/deadly weapon after shooting a Family Research Council security guard in the arm before being subdued
6%	2 votes
	GOP political activist Greg Peterson, charged with sexually assaulting yet another woman at his Utah cabin, where he hosted events for major Republican figures
3%	1 votes
	Standard Chartered Bank, having to pay $340m to settle claims that it hid details of transactions with Iran totalling $250 billion, in possible contravention of American sanctions
6%	2 votes
	Former Texas state GOP co-chair David Barton, whose book ‘The Jefferson Lies’ – which declared Thomas Jefferson to be a Christanist – saw his publisher cease printing, in response to factual criticism across the political spectrum
15%	5 votes
	Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL), after a federal court ruled his new law limiting early voting days cannot be implemented in several counties due to violating the Voting Rights Act
6%	2 votes
	NFL star Chad (formerly Ochocinco) Johnson, arrested for domestic violence, cut by the Miami Dolphins, had his VH1 reality show canceled, lost an endorsement and whose wife filed for divorce
6%	2 votes
	Multiple choices/other names (please specify in a comment)
9%	3 votes

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