SaukFish
@saukfish.bsky.social
Puget Sound island dweller. Tired lawyer. Increasingly entropic.
He may as well have just said:
“You know, history teaches us that the path to authoritarianism is littered with the carcasses of those who concluded that the fight was just too hard, and we’ve decided to cast ourselves on the pile now, while the good spaces are still available.”
“You know, history teaches us that the path to authoritarianism is littered with the carcasses of those who concluded that the fight was just too hard, and we’ve decided to cast ourselves on the pile now, while the good spaces are still available.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
He may as well have just said:
“You know, history teaches us that the path to authoritarianism is littered with the carcasses of those who concluded that the fight was just too hard, and we’ve decided to cast ourselves on the pile now, while the good spaces are still available.”
“You know, history teaches us that the path to authoritarianism is littered with the carcasses of those who concluded that the fight was just too hard, and we’ve decided to cast ourselves on the pile now, while the good spaces are still available.”
How can anyone with a shred of integrity or self-respect actually say those words — that standing up to an authoritarian goon “ didn’t work”?
I mean, unless you’re just an abject coward, what other choice is there?
I mean, unless you’re just an abject coward, what other choice is there?
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
How can anyone with a shred of integrity or self-respect actually say those words — that standing up to an authoritarian goon “ didn’t work”?
I mean, unless you’re just an abject coward, what other choice is there?
I mean, unless you’re just an abject coward, what other choice is there?
In 1981, when I first became able to drink beer (legally), the closest thing to a ”craft” beer you could find in our grocery store was Lone Star.
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
In 1981, when I first became able to drink beer (legally), the closest thing to a ”craft” beer you could find in our grocery store was Lone Star.
You may be right, in the sense that today’s white-hot anger will eventually settle into a cold contempt that most of the country will use as fuel to harass these shitty quislings so long as the shitty quislings draw breath.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
You may be right, in the sense that today’s white-hot anger will eventually settle into a cold contempt that most of the country will use as fuel to harass these shitty quislings so long as the shitty quislings draw breath.
The proposition that -- in addition to everything else -- these miserable, quisling Democratic humps will be voting for this is just nauseating.
Tim Kaine's career since 2016 has consisted almost entirely of being forced by Donald Trump to publicly eat shit.
Tim Kaine's career since 2016 has consisted almost entirely of being forced by Donald Trump to publicly eat shit.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The proposition that -- in addition to everything else -- these miserable, quisling Democratic humps will be voting for this is just nauseating.
Tim Kaine's career since 2016 has consisted almost entirely of being forced by Donald Trump to publicly eat shit.
Tim Kaine's career since 2016 has consisted almost entirely of being forced by Donald Trump to publicly eat shit.
On the other hand, I would happily eat several cans of cat food if doing so would persuade the God of Righteous Infarctions to step in here.
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
On the other hand, I would happily eat several cans of cat food if doing so would persuade the God of Righteous Infarctions to step in here.
I have no intention of moving beyond the anger I feel toward these gutless quislings.
We are in a fight for the future of this country and everything our predecessors died for, and these cowardly humps just gave up because they don't have the stomach for it.
Screw them.
We are in a fight for the future of this country and everything our predecessors died for, and these cowardly humps just gave up because they don't have the stomach for it.
Screw them.
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I have no intention of moving beyond the anger I feel toward these gutless quislings.
We are in a fight for the future of this country and everything our predecessors died for, and these cowardly humps just gave up because they don't have the stomach for it.
Screw them.
We are in a fight for the future of this country and everything our predecessors died for, and these cowardly humps just gave up because they don't have the stomach for it.
Screw them.
Oof.
I am every bit as well-informed as you are, which is why it is so frustrating to yet again watch folks like you try to alchemize cowardice into courage. Enjoy that vote in January. I'm sure it will "frame" things very helpfully.
I am every bit as well-informed as you are, which is why it is so frustrating to yet again watch folks like you try to alchemize cowardice into courage. Enjoy that vote in January. I'm sure it will "frame" things very helpfully.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Oof.
I am every bit as well-informed as you are, which is why it is so frustrating to yet again watch folks like you try to alchemize cowardice into courage. Enjoy that vote in January. I'm sure it will "frame" things very helpfully.
I am every bit as well-informed as you are, which is why it is so frustrating to yet again watch folks like you try to alchemize cowardice into courage. Enjoy that vote in January. I'm sure it will "frame" things very helpfully.
So nice that she's taking the time to congratulate them on their big win. Like the loser heading over on crutches to the winning team's locker room after the game to shake hands.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So nice that she's taking the time to congratulate them on their big win. Like the loser heading over on crutches to the winning team's locker room after the game to shake hands.
It is precisely nothing. The American people have the memory of goldfish, and the only thing that will be remembered in a week, or a year, or five years, is that when the pressure rose, the Ds lost their nerve. This will produce neither substantive or political progress - just the memory of failure.
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It is precisely nothing. The American people have the memory of goldfish, and the only thing that will be remembered in a week, or a year, or five years, is that when the pressure rose, the Ds lost their nerve. This will produce neither substantive or political progress - just the memory of failure.
They “framed” the issues.
That’s nice.
That’s nice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
They “framed” the issues.
That’s nice.
That’s nice.
If you’re familiar with Armando Iannucci’s movie “In The Loop,” the phrase “useless as a marzipan dildo” comes to mind.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
If you’re familiar with Armando Iannucci’s movie “In The Loop,” the phrase “useless as a marzipan dildo” comes to mind.
You gigantic fucking incompetent coward.
Why, in this moment when American democracy is teetering and needs courageous leadership, are we cursed with . . . you?
Why, in this moment when American democracy is teetering and needs courageous leadership, are we cursed with . . . you?
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
You gigantic fucking incompetent coward.
Why, in this moment when American democracy is teetering and needs courageous leadership, are we cursed with . . . you?
Why, in this moment when American democracy is teetering and needs courageous leadership, are we cursed with . . . you?
I'm already eating ribeyes and overhydrating, just waiting for go time.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I'm already eating ribeyes and overhydrating, just waiting for go time.
That piece of shit's a wannabe Waffen SS goon roaming the streets of Chicago. When this is all said and done, justice will catch up to that fuck, and it will catch up to him hard.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
That piece of shit's a wannabe Waffen SS goon roaming the streets of Chicago. When this is all said and done, justice will catch up to that fuck, and it will catch up to him hard.
I once had a certain regard for Barron, but his publicity-seeking Trump sycophancy ought to be an embarrassment to him and to the Church.
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I once had a certain regard for Barron, but his publicity-seeking Trump sycophancy ought to be an embarrassment to him and to the Church.
SCOTUS’s misuse use of the shadow docket has effectively emasculated the federal trial courts by converting them into a set of mildly annoying ticketing booths through which the government has to pass before getting the (typically unexplained) relief it wants at SCOTUS.
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
SCOTUS’s misuse use of the shadow docket has effectively emasculated the federal trial courts by converting them into a set of mildly annoying ticketing booths through which the government has to pass before getting the (typically unexplained) relief it wants at SCOTUS.
A metaphor for his relationship to the country.
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A metaphor for his relationship to the country.
She is absolutely lining the administration up for a PI that should be an absolute ass-kicker.
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
She is absolutely lining the administration up for a PI that should be an absolute ass-kicker.
He suffered from the inexplicable presumption — one not indulged by the Founders themselves — that those wielding executive power would do so honestly and in (by his lights) the best interests of the country.
We’re now living with his and his generation’s catastrophic mistake.
We’re now living with his and his generation’s catastrophic mistake.
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
He suffered from the inexplicable presumption — one not indulged by the Founders themselves — that those wielding executive power would do so honestly and in (by his lights) the best interests of the country.
We’re now living with his and his generation’s catastrophic mistake.
We’re now living with his and his generation’s catastrophic mistake.