Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

This fight is for everything.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

… gradually, and then suddenly.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

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Black Guys Got It Easy

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Limbaugh:

On the June 2 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, while discussing Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy, Rush Limbaugh asserted that the Democratic Party was “go[ing] with a veritable rookie whose only chance of winning is that he’s black.” As Media Matters for America noted, Limbaugh said on his May 21 broadcast that “Barack Obama is an affirmative action candidate” and asserted during his May 14 broadcast that “[i]f Barack Obama were Caucasian, they would have taken this guy out on the basis of pure ignorance long ago.”

Finally! I am so relieved to see that finally someone in the media is speaking “truth to power” (blech I hate that phrase, even sarcastically) for the poor, under-privileged Geraldine Ferraro sect.

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The Supers Are Calling It

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It’s 5:44 ET, and Obama only needs 16 12 6 more delegates.

Also, I have to link this “statement” from Detroit Pistons general manager Joe Dumars.

Yes, Boston has won four games and Detroit only two. But it’s hard to imagine a more arbitrary and undemocratic way to determine this series’s outcome than “games won.” It is, after all, a bedrock value of the game of basketball that all points must be counted. But how can that be the case when every point beyond the winning point is ignored? There are literally dozens of layups, jumpers, free throws, and (yes, even) dunks that our opponents want to say don’t count for anything at all. We call on the NBA to do the right thing and fully count all of the baskets that were made throughout the course of this series. Once you abandon the artificial four-games-to-two framework that the media has tried to impose on the series, a very different picture emerges, with the Celtics leading by a mere 549 points to 539. Yes that’s right, the margin between the two teams is less than one percent—a tie, for all intents and purposes.

Hilarious. Via Sullivan.

Update: Just a thought, and I may be overthinking this – or it might just be plain stupid. Here’s my theory: Obama will have almost enough superdelegates by the time the polls close to clinch the nomination. Almost, but not quite. Then, after the polls close, Obama will win the nomination based on delegates he gains from the actual primaries. Then, no one can claim the superdelegates decided the race.

Update II (10 second later): Paragraphs like the one above is why I am paid to do work in education, and not to be anything close to a serious political analyst. Just so you know…

I’m patiently waiting for NBC and CNN to call it for Gore.

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Update III: CNN’s John Roberts just agreed with my scenario re: Superdelegates not taking Obama over the top and, instead, letting the other delegates do it. I now feel vindicated. Either that, or John Roberts is plagiarizing Balloon-Juice.

Update IV (8:07 ET): 5 to go.

Update V: If anyone wants to give a couple hundred bucks to the Obama presidential campaign on my behalf, I would appreciate it. One of my biggest disappointments is that I cannot donate. And by that, I mean you give the money, and think of me when you do it. I’m on a visa, and I am not about to break the law. On this anyway.

We’re down to 4 delegates now.

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Reconciliation

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Dear Big Tent Democrat and Larry Johnson’s fringe commentariat,

From my heart to yours.

I’m sick to death of people acting like the election is a validation of their own ego. A Democrat is going to win this year one way or the other. If that isn’t enough then fine, take your ball and go home.

Open thread.

***Update***

By the way, Hillary will concede the race tonight, or if not tonight then very soon. She doesn’t want to blow up the party by throwing a massive fit at the convention. At the same time she can’t telegraph that she’s giving up or nobody will give her any more money or show up to vote for her today. The campaign has gone leaky (internal divisions that date to the Penn era must be through the roof right now) so the press already knows the game plan, but due to point 2 the campaign has to go through the motions of denying them. It’s all over but the noise.

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Dept. Of Not Getting It

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Adding to Michael’s post from just a moment ago about the Clinton concession/non-concession for tonight, there are some remarks in the comments:

It seems clear to me that Team Clinton is having message control issues this AM.

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What we are seeing here is Clinton camp infighting, I do believe.

Some days, it is almost like many of you have completely and totally forgotten the Clinton modus operandi, and never lived through the 90’s or this campaign. What we are seeing is what the Clinton family does best- create confusion while they figure out what the best deal is for them. Trust me- as a Republican during the 90’s, it was maddening (particularly when you factor in the fact that the GOP was not exactly chock full of honest brokers).

There are several things at play here. First, the reality that Clinton is not going to win the nomination. Second, the reality that this signals the end of Clinton dominance of the Democratic party (though anyone who thinks they are now irrelevant is both wrong and stupid). Third, the notion that the Clintons do not want to cede control. Fourth, the fact that the only real political power the Clinton family has left (Bill remains a popular ex-President, Hillary is a junior senator from New York) is the support of their voting bloc, who have remained quite loyal to them. Finally, the desire to do as well as they can in the elections today to shore up their last bargaining chip.

The Clintons know they will not win the nomination, so they are now not so quietly sending a clear message- we still matter.
They know they do not have the nomination for now, but you need them more than they need you, and, well, things can happen. And, quite frankly, it would be stupid to push the Clintons. Although I get tired of the notion that Hillary is a bomb that needs to be defused (something Hilzoy discussed a few days ago), the Clintons are going to be a major asset to the Obama election efforts, and there really is no need to push them. Don’t be fooled by what is going on today, but there is no need to antagonize them.

While morons in the blogosphere will claim it is up to Obama to unite the party, the person who is really going to have to do much of the leg work uniting the party is Hillary- they know that, and they are letting us know it. Once again, Rahm Emanuel:

“The way the loser loses,” said Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, who is close to both candidates but has made no endorsement, “will determine whether the winner wins in November.”

Don’t get too worked up about what Clinton does the next few days, just give them and their voters some space and time.

*** Update ***

Chuck Todd just made an interesting point- notice how team Clinton is managing to make tonight about her, when really, tonight should be about Obama, the nominee.

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