Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

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

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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  1. 1.

    piratedan7

    the thing is, you compare the differences in “policy” between the GOP candidates and you’d wonder how in the hell anyone could actually support these positions that these folks have.

    no belief in any kind of social contract, it’s the embodiment of IGMFY as both a social and foreign and monetary policy.

  3. 3.

    Keith G

    The subtlety of the dialogue in this bit makes it fun. It also reminds me about the observation about the banality of evil.

  4. 4.

    jl

    I would thank Mr. Cole, but I am a loyal BJ blog reader and that would be polite and gratitude shows weakness.

    Hey, how about a Spaceballs version, huh?

    But, thanks.

    Unless this gets out among the Trumpites and it gives him another boost, in which case the results will be on Cole’s head.

  5. 5.

    Emerald

    Imagine how much Trump audio these people had to listen to in order to produce this video.

    One’s mind. It boggles.

    They are heroes.

  6. 6.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    So Trump is just doing Star Wars characters — well that would explain why he has a Wookie perched on his head.

  7. 7.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    That was hilarious! I think it’s funny that no one notices that JEB? said after the Paris attacks that we should only let in Christian refugees, but he’s outraged OUTRAGED I tell you! when Trump says we should keep Muslims out of the country. Like, isn’t that saying what you just said? The whole party is rotten with bigotry to the core.

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    It’s funny, but it’s not nearly as funny as the “Trump as Your Drunk Neighbor” video I linked to twice yesterday.

  12. 12.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Russ: No one ever made political jokes or cartoon prior to this election season. You are right; the world has changed. Heavens to Betsy!

  13. 13.

    p.a.

    Cheney = Jabba? Palpatine? Vader? (More machine than man)
    W = Jar Jar? Or is Jar Jar more a Feith/Libby?

  14. 14.

    The Other Chuck

    @piratedan7:

    It’s the embodiment of IGMFY

    Actually, given much of the Republican base, it’s just FY. FY FY FY FY FY. Cleek’s law yunno.

  17. 17.

    Poopyman

    @piratedan7:

    no belief in any kind of social contract, it’s the embodiment of IGMFY as both a social and foreign and monetary policy.

    But IGM doesn’t really apply to most of his followers. They’re happy enough with FY.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus: Dear Sir, I believe you have an extra E in the word Betsy. :-)

    He may have a point though, when Trump can get this far along and so many people are on board with his hate, some days it does feel like we are so fucked.

  21. 21.

    Loneoak

    @p.a.:

    Jar Jar would be someone like Marc Penn: wrong, obnoxious, wrong, disastrous, wrong, horrible, but still not of the Dark Side.

    Cheney is just obviously Palpatine.

  23. 23.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl: First of all, no, I don’t. (Not as far as the world can see)

    Second, Trump is leading among likely Republican primary voters. How many people vote in primaries? So, 40-45% of people are GOP. Fewer than vote in the primaries. Trump is getting 35% of that group.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus: Just teasing on Betsy/Betsey.

    I don’t actually see how anyone can predict anything this time around. It will be quite illuminating to see how republicans actually VOTE in the first four primaries.

  28. 28.

    Schlemazel

    @piratedan7:
    I work with an ammosexual, a nice enough guy except for the fatal flaw. We were discussing state rehab services for accident victims & he stated flatly the world would be better with no services at all. I told him Dickens wrote books about that world & it is not one civilized people would want to live in. He changed the subject.

  30. 30.

    Roger Moore

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:

    I think it’s funny that no one notices that JEB? said after the Paris attacks that we should only let in Christian refugees, but he’s outraged OUTRAGED I tell you! when Trump says we should keep Muslims out of the country.

    See, but ¿Jeb? was saying we should keep out Muslim refugees from Syria because they’re especially likely to be Daesh plants, while Trump is saying we should keep out all Muslims period because they’re all a bunch of jihadis. They’re both awful suggestions, but it’s hard to claim that Trump’s isn’t worse.

  31. 31.

    Schlemazel

    @amk:
    must have, no more green text. OTOH, I miss comment numbers, they make it easier to find my spot when I come back.
    While I am whining I’d also like next & previous thread buttons and I was just getting used to have the most recent comments field. But I’m just happy the joint is stable

  35. 35.

    bemused

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Thanks for posting that link. It’s perfect. I’ve been thinking from the start of the Trump campaign that he reminds me of all those loud, obnoxious booze hounds that hang out at the bars. Trump does this sober.

  37. 37.

    Schlemazel

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    He acts like he is coked up. I worked with a woman who was snorting & she was loud, cock-sure and hyper. A sweet girl from a prominent MN family who died in the 80s. She burnt out very fast

  39. 39.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @bemused:

    I heard a little bit of audio in the car just now from some interview he had earlier today, and realized that the “drunk neighbor” piece has ruined me forever. I literally cannot hear Trump say anything now without picturing that sloshed in-your-face guy in the patriotic wife-beater and a beer bottle sticking up between his legs. Trying to imagine a Trump inaugural or SOTU speech, and my mind gets all boggly.

  40. 40.

    catclub

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Juan Cole pointed out that there is a long US tradition of excluding other people based on race and religion. It really did not end until about 1965.

    Now that I know that, the chorus from all sides that such behavior is un-American is getting tiresome. It may be wrong and vile, but it is distinctly what we have done in the past.

    When the US is appalled that other nations might dare to threaten to use nuclear weapons… there is some history there.

  44. 44.

    catclub

    Also, existential threats. Daesh is not one. The closest one that comes to mind is … global warming. But if Democrats called it one they would not be taken seriously. Funny how that 1% doctrine (Cheney saying that he had to respond to any threat even if there was only a 1% chance of it being real) does not apply if oil companies might be harmed.

  50. 50.

    imonlylurkening: The Sequel

    My roommate rescued two kittens last night. 3 month old boys. I’d forgotten how tiny their little heads are. The active gray explorer is Mouse, which is just wrong. We’ve been calling him Space Mouse. The quiet, shy, won’t-make-eye-contact-people-are-BIG! black one is named Curly, because his tail does a weird curl thing. (I think he should be Corkscrew, personally, but whatever.) My roommate has also discussed fostering chickens, so look out Betty Cracker!

  55. 55.

    Felanius Kootea

    Can’t laugh anymore at anything to do with Trump. Now that Trump is trying to mainstream open declarations of bigotry and succeeding in some parts of the country, what do people think his supporters will do when he finally loses (in a general election – I’m assuming he wins the Republican primary)? There are a lot of emboldened, racist people who aren’t just going to quietly slither away because Trump gets defeated. What’s the plan for dealing with them? When people are this vocal and in-your-face about voting for people and things that hurt them as long as they hurt the others they hate even more, Hillary saying “Okay, now the election is over, let’s all try to get along and play nice” might not be enough. Wonderful as the first amendment is, I’m starting to see why some European countries have strict hate speech laws. In Nigeria, I devoured books by James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison and Richard Wright (Black Boy was required reading in my secondary school) before moving to the US. I understood on an intellectual level that the US has a complex history when it comes race. But I really didn’t get it. I didn’t feel the fear I feel now. It’s not a good feeling.

  60. 60.

    Schlemazel

    @efgoldman:
    When the men on the chessboard
    Get up and tell you where to go
    And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
    And your mind is moving low
    . . .
    When logic and proportion
    Have fallen sloppy dead
    And the White Knight is talking backwards
    And the Red Queen’s off with her head
    Remember what the dormouse said
    Feed your head
    Feed your head

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    The Dumpster wins & it will be time to start hitting the pharmas hard.

  61. 61.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Felanius Kootea: It’s always been here, and it colors (if you’ll pardon the expression) nearly every aspect of what is wrong with this country. 2nd Amendment worship is rooted in the slaver’s need to keep the property under control, for example. Our idiotic drug laws have a lot to do with racial animus.

    It’s an intractable problem, to be sure. We can only chip away at it, and constant vigilance is needed to prevent sliding back, as we’ve done over the past 35 years.

  62. 62.

    imonlylurkening: The Sequel

    @PurpleGirl: She says not. We already have 4 cats! We’ll see. Curly is funny-looking. I’m not sure how adoptable he will be.

  63. 63.

    Mandalay

    Guess which GOP presidential candidate told this story…..

    And so my dad flew up to see me, and the two of us, we left our rings and our watches and our wallets and everything, because we were driving to a crack house to try to get my sister out. And, you know, we didn’t know if we’d be robbed or shot or what — what we were going to experience.

    And we pulled her out. We went to a Denny’s and spent about four hours trying to talk to her, saying, Miriam, what are you doing? And she was just angry. She wouldn’t change.

    And you can’t — with an addict, you can’t make them change if they’re unwilling to get treatment, if they’re unwilling to walk a different path.

    via Digby

  64. 64.

    Roger Moore

    @catclub:

    Funny how that 1% doctrine (Cheney saying that he had to respond to any threat even if there was only a 1% chance of it being real) does not apply if oil companies might be harmed.

    Look at the asymmetry. If there’s a 1% that we need to start a war, we have to start it on that tiny chance. If there’s a 1% chance we don’t have to worry about global warming, the science isn’t settled and we can keep on pumping out CO2 like there’s no tomorrow. The basic rule is that the Republicans will seize on any evidence- even transparently manufactured evidence- in favor of their viewpoint as conclusive.

  67. 67.

    sparrow

    @Keith G: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
    ― Hannah Arendt

  68. 68.

    Schlemazel

    @Felanius Kootea:
    The GOP is hoping for a split convention & while that is best in the short run the wingnuts are going to escalate the insanity when tRump goes in with a plurality of delegates but is denied the nomination. He can run as a 3rd (it would be great for the election) but the bitter, seething hatred will not be focused just on the GOP. They will get the first wave but the nation, the POTUS and Democrats will be attacked, seriously. The Dumpster will set this nation on fire. OK City and the Atlanta Olympic bombings will be looked back on as tame I am afraid. It would be better now for tRump to be the nom but the GOP ALWAYS puts party over nation & they are honestly stupid enough to either not see this coming or believe that can personally avoid the worst of it while the nation bleeds.

  69. 69.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @catclub:

    There are a lot of bad things we used to do that officially ended around 1965 but we sill have problems with today. Are we not supposed to denounce racial discrimination because we did it for a really long time and only passed effective laws against it in 1964?

    Sorry, but it’s a silly argument to me. It’s like, Well, slavery was written into our constitution, so we can’t speak up if someone proposes bringing it back,

  71. 71.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Apparently according to twitter Trump just announced in New Hampshire that anyone who kills a police officer automatically gets the death penalty. How can someone running for POTUS not know how the country actually works?

  72. 72.

    Corner Stone

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    anyone who kills a police officer automatically gets the death penalty. How can someone running for POTUS not know how the country actually works?

    The only thing his potential voters will hear is, “Black Lives Matter”.

  73. 73.

    Patricia Kayden

    It’s kind of strange how the media is so obsessed with Trump that no other candidate is really getting any coverage, especially any on the Democratic side. But since Trump is so divisive and destructive, this may be a great thing for our side.

  75. 75.

    Calouste

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Carson is running for Potus and he doesn’t know how most things in the world work.

    Trump is a fascist, he doesn’t care about laws and things like that. The Leader says things, they get done.

  77. 77.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    MN-AZ game pretty good so far. I will be peeling off at 10:00 for Elementary. It’s appointment television this season.

  87. 87.

    raven

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
    Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
    Plucked her eyebrows on the way
    Shaved her legs and then he was a she
    She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
    Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.

    Read more: Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side Lyrics | MetroLyrics

  89. 89.

    catclub

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): I didn’t say we could not talk about it. I said it was not helpful to pretend it had never happened before, and was completely unlike us.

    Likewise, I think it would be more useful to say that we have done badly on race for centuries and we still need to work on it, and that curing that racism will be hard, than to say that racism is completely un-American.

  90. 90.

    The Other Chuck

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    How can someone running for POTUS not know how the country actually works?

    It’s not that he doesn’t know, it’s that he doesn’t care, and he’s pandering to supporters who fall into both categories.

  92. 92.

    Mandalay

    @Roger Moore:

    If there’s a 1% chance we don’t have to worry about global warming, the science isn’t settled and we can keep on pumping out CO2 like there’s no tomorrow.

    Sadly,you are correct. Miami Beach is spending $300 million on pumps right now to mitigate flooding as the sea level rises. What sea level rise? The one that the University of Miami has shown increased 3.7″ between 1996 and 2014 just east of Miami.

    And why not build protective walls instead of buying pumps? Because they would be useless; South Florida is built on porous limestone. With an increase in sea level sea water will come up through the ground (with or without the walls), and some wells here are already containing salt water. And the streets here sometimes get flooded by water coming up through the drains, even when it’s not raining, during high tides.

    And all our fuckwit senator who is running for president can say about the situation is: “Man, I’m not a scientist”. Fuck the Republicans; their clueless stance on climate change really does present a dangerous threat to the country.

  93. 93.

    raven

    @redshirt:

    They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps
    And died being treated at Mt. Sinal
    And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill
    Some wired doctor prescribed for stress

    .

  94. 94.

    PurpleGirl

    @imonlylurkening: The Sequel: Where are you? A rescue could possibly help you find homes for the kittens. The rescue I support in northeast CT will take kittens from people who can’t care for the kittens/cats and find them homes.

    (In fact this weekend Cassie is taking in 16 little ones from a northern Alabama rescue whose founder she knows. If left in Alabama the kittens probably would be killed but sending them north means they’ll find homes. A few of them already have homes lined up. You never know what other people will find adorable and want to adopt.)

  95. 95.

    Peale

    @Litlebritdifrnt: that’s was the law in NYS from 1994-2007. Well I guess there might have been some discretion ion the charge.

    When Donald took out the ad demanding that the Central Park 5 be executed, there was no death penalty in New York State and the kids were minors.

  96. 96.

    redshirt

    @raven: That’s it.

    Remember Spy Magazine? It was like 50% Trump related content, if I recall correctly.

    I hold in my hands somehow as I type a Spy Books publication from 1988 called “Separated at Birth”, which has Donald Trump compared to Elvis Presley. It’s the snarls.

    George Schultz…. and the Cowardly Lion? YES!

  98. 98.

    p.a.

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    I will be peeling off at 10:00 for Elementary. It’s appointment television this season.

    Nice to see writers giving characters progressive views on gun control, drug laws etc. with no waffling.

  99. 99.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @The Other Chuck: There was some questioning and criticism of what JEB said about Syrian refugees (and it wasn’t just him, Failgunner Ted Cruz said the same thing), but there wasn’t outrage within the GOP over what he said. When Trump says something similar all the other candidates repudiate it.

    @Roger Moore: I agree there’s a degree of difference but it’s basically the same sentiment applied to a larger group of people in Trump’s case. So why is JEB so Fauxtraged over what Trump is saying? Probably because what Trump is saying would keep the Saudis out and a large portion of the Bush family fortune is intertwined with the fortunes of Saudi princes. It’s all about the money.

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