Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The words do not have to be perfect.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

We still have time to mess this up!

Second rate reporter says what?

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Bark louder, little dog.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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There’s a George R.R. Martin joke in there somewhere, but I don’t know either Game of Thrones or soccer well enough to make it.

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Apart from rich veins of snark (helloooo, newly-declared GOP candidates… ), what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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  5. 5.

    srv

    Already in moderation.

    It really is amazing that the left doesn’t get Donald. He’s such a genius:

    After his splashy announcement Tuesday that he’s running for the Republican presidential nomination, billionaire businessman Donald Trump made another bold declaration: Oprah Winfrey would be a “great” running mate.

    “I think Oprah would be great. I’d love to have Oprah,” Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I think we’d win easily, actually.”

    Would you rather him not run? Someday you will appreciate his sacrifice.

  8. 8.

    Tree With Water

    “Today I signed HB 483 to provide a secure facility for the State of Texas, state agencies and Texas citizens to store gold bullion and other precious metals and precious bodily fluids”.

    The governor forgot to add the “fluids” bit, so I did it for him.

    Abbot is playing in same the ballpark as Jeff Davis did all those blinks of an eye ago, when he began stockpiling arms and munitions in southern armories. One thing is certain: The governor of Texas has never seen the movie Goldfinger.

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    I am becoming convinced that the Donald is really an undercover Democrat . The Republican debates are going to be crazy this time.

  13. 13.

    raven

    Since the hoop won’t be on until 9:10 I’m going to watch the US Women and catch the b-ball bright and early.

  14. 14.

    shell

    It really is amazing that the left doesn’t get Donald. He’s such a genius:

    Now THAT is first class snark!
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    Damn. I could really use a good movie tonight, but the cupboard looks pretty bare.

  20. 20.

    scav

    Reality shows, once scripted, have really begun to infiltrate reality from the other direction. Too many believed all those B&W family shows and movies were of actual ‘Mercan life, organized elections around them and now their convention and debates are going to be pure reality-show gold. Will there be punches thrown? Live snails eaten? Masked men doing body slams? How many adulteries paraded?

  23. 23.

    burnspbesq

    @Gin & Tonic:

    USA – Nigeria is on Fox. Not Fox Sports 1. The Mothership of Evil. Crappy pre-game show on now.

    Apparently B.C. Place, which is a BIG stadium, is sold out.

  28. 28.

    satby

    Just beginning to feel human again after days of rain, high heat and higher humidity… and I don’t have air conditioning. Today was perfect, sunny, low 70s, lower humidity with a nice breeze as a chaser.

    Tomorrow is more rain…sigh. I’m going to have to get a window air unit just so the soap I make cures, the humidity doesn’t let it dry properly. Not sure if that counts as a first world problem, but probably.

  31. 31.

    Tree With Water

    Republicans are all stark raving lunatics:

    “According to The Hill, former aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sidney Blumenthal was giving his deposition before the House Select Committee when Issa attempted to barge into the closed-door session…. Witnesses said that Issa was only allowed to remain in the room for a minute or so before current chairman of the Republicans’ Benghazi investigation, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) led the California congressman from the room”.

    They’re all walking, talking cuckoo clocks.

  37. 37.

    Germy Shoemangler

    Donald Trump once proposed a more left-wing tax policy than Bernie Sanders? Yes! In 1999 Trump proposed a one-time wealth tax of 14.25 percent on all individuals and trusts with a net worth in excess of $10 million. The proceeds would be used to wipe out the national debt, with the savings in interest payments going to shore up Social Security and pay for middle-class tax cuts. (Vox)

  39. 39.

    Roger Moore

    @Baud:

    Don’t know the first thing about snark.

    That’s easy:

    Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again
    The five unmistakable marks
    By which you may know, wheresoever you go,
    The warranted genuine Snarks.

    Let us take them in order. The first is the taste,
    Which is meager and hollow, but crisp:
    Like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist,
    With a flavour of Will-o-the-wisp.

    Its habit of getting up late you’ll agree
    That it carries too far, when I say
    That it frequently breakfasts at five-o’clock tea,
    And dines on the following day.

    The third is its slowness in taking a jest.
    Should you happen to venture on one,
    It will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed:
    And it always looks grave at a pun.

    The fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines,
    Which is constantly carries about,
    And believes that they add to the beauty of scenes–
    A sentiment open to doubt.

    The fifth is ambition. It next will be right
    To describe each particular batch:
    Distinguishing those that have feathers, and bite,
    And those that have whiskers, and scratch.

  44. 44.

    Phylllis

    Turns out HRC will be in my neck of the woods tomorrow. I, alas, will be finishing another damn grant application.

  48. 48.

    Misterpuff

    @Mary G: Other than the racism…But republican oppo is like chum to this guy. He will cut the legs out at the knees of Bush, Rubio, Walker, and any other frontrunner. The best thing is that people that don’t listen to the news very hard, well they listen to Trump “The Winnah” and this is what he is saying about his Republican competitors, all the good dirt that the MSM will overlook….Winnah!

  50. 50.

    srv

    It doesn’t get better in NC:

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After a third-grader tearfully recounted how another boy had called him “gay” during gym class, teacher Omar Currie chose to raise the issue during story time by reading his students a fable about a prince who falls in love with another prince, ending with a happily-ever-after royal wedding.

    Except it didn’t end there.

  52. 52.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Completely off-topic: I need a little help from someone who understands Facebook.

    I have an FB friend who has been on an extended European trip. After about the third day of his travels, I decided to stop following him (I did not unfriend him, just asked to stop seeing his posts). He was putting up scores of photos every day along with interminable narrative, and I just didn’t feel like scrolling through all that stuff.

    Well, now he’s back, and I want to start following him again but I can’t figure out how to do that! Any assistance gratefully received and acknowledged!

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @srv:

    That almost made me cry.

    In between cursing, screaming, and kicking things.

    Sometimes I really hate people.

  57. 57.

    Origuy

    Oracle Arena in Oakland is sold out tonight. Yes, the game is in Cleveland. They sold 17,000 tickets at $15 each so that fans could watch the game together on the big screen. The tickets are being scalped.

  59. 59.

    Origuy

    @SiubhanDuinne: Can’t you just search for his name and click Follow? You’ll probably have to make sure it’s the right person, but FB probably remembers the people you used to follow.

  61. 61.

    Mandalay

    Below is the list of Senators who today voted to opppose John McCain’s Senate amendment “To reaffirm the prohibition on torture”. Even Ted Cruz supported it, yet Lindsey Graham opposed it, and little Mario (who missed the vote) said he would not have supported it.

    So there you have it: two people running for President, Lindsey Graham and Mario Rubio, refused to reaffirm the existing prohibition on torture.

    NAYs —21
    Barrasso (R-WY)
    Blunt (R-MO)
    Coats (R-IN)
    Cochran (R-MS)
    Cornyn (R-TX)
    Cotton (R-AR)
    Crapo (R-ID)
    Ernst (R-IA)
    Fischer (R-NE)
    Graham (R-SC)
    Hatch (R-UT)
    Inhofe (R-OK)
    Lankford (R-OK)
    Lee (R-UT)
    McConnell (R-KY)
    Risch (R-ID)
    Roberts (R-KS)
    Sasse (R-NE)
    Scott (R-SC)
    Sessions (R-AL)
    Vitter (R-LA)

    Not Voting – 1
    Rubio (R-FL)

  62. 62.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @SiubhanDuinne: Go to your friends page. Find and hover over the person’s name. It will bring a box of options, one of which is follow. Click on it.

    Fixed.

  63. 63.

    Tommy

    @Origuy: Good for Golden State. I am a Cardinals fan. My mom jokes she put headphones on her belly when I was a fetus to hear Jack Buck call a Cards game. There is that much of a pull for sports. Go Golden State. I so see then filling up an arena when they are playing across the nation.

  64. 64.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Smiling Mortician:
    @Origuy:
    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Aha! I finally figured it out!

    (You go into Settings and open News Feed Preferences and scroll to the name and click on “follow.” Easy, once you know how.)

    I do appreciate your suggestions, though. I tend to be very timid about clicking on things, and it wasn’t quite as intuitive to me as I expect FB thought it would be.

  65. 65.

    Tree With Water

    For the first time since he oozed onto my radar, I have something positive to say about Donald Trump: timing his thunder-in-the-outhouse presidential announcement just two days after Jeb! reflects well on NYC*. He could have waited but he didn’t, and I applaud him for it.

    *”America’s Rome” per J. Lennon

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I had earlier tried that, and didn’t get that option (might be a mobile thing). But, see my #64, I did finally figure it out.

  69. 69.

    rikyrah

    a comment from the transracial adoption article posted earlier (h/t TOD)

    One of several honest commenters on the transracial article link ….

    ammcrae39p · 2 days ago
    I’m the white adoptive mother of a 41 yr. old Black-Vietnamese son who came to us when he was 9 mos. old. Three and a half years ago I found the son I had relinquished for adoption when he was 3 wks. old. I want to speak here to the issue of the transracial adoptee, not to speak for my son and others but to offer my perspective, developed over four decades, three of them in the South

    . Both of these men have taught me more about adoption and its effects in the last few years than the rest of my life put together, and the lessons have not been easy or comfortable. I admit that I was 90% wrong in adopting a foreign-born, mixed-race child. I’m guessing at the percentage, and I am not sorry that I had the chance to love this person and almost certainly give him a better chance at life than he would have had in the chaos that was the Vietnam he was born into. So that’s a definite plus. But when I consider what he lost–family, language, culture, sense of belonging–I feel guilty for taking all that from him. And what did he get? A family that never understood him. I knew absolutely nothing about the long-term consequences of adoption. If I had, I would never have relinquished my first son.

    We ended up living in the southern U.S., where he had to try to fit in with two alien cultures. To his whites classmates, he was a black kid. To his black friends, he was something different, someone who “talked white,” until he learned not to. He made the decision to join the black community, where he felt most comfortable, and I am glad he’s found friends and family who look like him.

    I was one of three white people who attended one of his weddings, and I felt not unwelcome, far from it, but definitely alien. That’s how my son felt every day of his life growing up in my home. When we adopted, I was aware that many Black social workers opposed transracial adoption. I thought they were being racist. I wanted an integrated America, and I thought mixing up skin colors within families was a way to achieve that. I was wrong.

    I confess I did very little to introduce my son to Black culture. His first years were spent in a multi-ethnic neighborhood in Canada, and perhaps if we had stayed there, things would have gone differently. But he grew to manhood in the American South, and that meant trouble. For so long I held my son completely responsible for that trouble. Now that I know what lay behind his behavior, I am ashamed at how I responded to him. I have liberal views and consider myself a progressive, but I’m no radical activist. I simply wanted to live my beliefs as authentically as possible, and that meant loving a Black child as my own. I believed love was the answer, the only one needed. I was wrong. Love is a great deal, essential, but it can’t do everything, and it is white arrogance that believes it can.

    In years past, I used to see multiracial families (obviously from adoption) and identify with them. “There’s another family like mine. How nice,” I’d think. Now I see adoptive families, transracial or not, and I see the loss, the heartache, the denial and struggle for normalcy, the good intentions, and the often disastrous outcomes. I love my son. I wish him only the best. But I know that I was never the one who could ensure that he would achieve HIS best. Oh, but there’s are lots of happy families and successful adoptions, you say? True. Most people, most of the time, will gravitate toward happiness like a plant toward the light. The adoptee has to lean farther, reach higher to reach the sun. His energy goes into distorting himself in order to get what he needs. He may produce a blossom, but it’s likely to be paler and smaller than had he been planted in his native soil.

    http://www.thelostdaughters.com/2015/06/transracial-lives-matter-rachel-dolezal.html?m=1

  72. 72.

    Gvg

    @rikyrah: Sigh. I was a foster mom until cancer made me take a time out. we almost adopted a biracial child until the state put him back with his white mother. I think they made a mistake. the family situation was not stable enough and last I heard….well things weren’t going well. he was never being raised black. The Vietnamese child you gave as an example wouldn’t have been either and would have been treated badly if not adopted too. the state is reluctant to remove children even when the conditions aren’t good. part of the problem is there just aren’t enough foster homes nor adoptive homes. adoption across racial lines is better than no real home at all and that happens a lot.
    Case workers are well aware of the statistics and feelings of loss of identity. they teach that we should try to make connections to help the children. that’s not always actually followed through on but it is pushed. if there were actually an excess of homes for non infants especially those with complicating issues, then case workers would place more kids. as it is I think more kids of all colors should not be left in bio homes but then what? Noticing the problems with cross ethnic adoptions is a kind of purity pony demand. I actually think identity issues when they grow up are minor compared to the problems they escape. of course the horrific cases I get told about stick in my mind more than the more ordinary ones but they are cases that happened right here. there are problems for kids not adopted. limiting the options is a bad idea. Now encouraging more POC to foster and adopt would help. it’s easier said than accomplished but that is the only useful help I know of.

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