Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

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Huckleberry Hounded Out

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Sen. Lindsey Graham is smart enough to take his Christmas vacation early, it seems.

Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is dropping out of the presidential race.

“While we have run a campaign that has made a real difference, I have concluded this is not my time,” he said in a statement Monday

Graham, who first told CNN of his decision in an interview, faced the deadline Monday to be removed from the ballot in his home state of South Carolina. Graham has been mired at the bottom of polls – both nationally and in his home state – and could have faced an embarrassing showing in the state’s February primary.

The hawkish South Carolina senator had been the Republican field’s most vociferous early critic of Donald Trump.

Which is true, and being the “Hey guys, Trump is goddamn crazy on immigration and Muslims but let’s send tens of thousands of US troops into Syria” candidate got him a whopping 0% at the polls and seriously threatening to break the crucial 1% mark.

I’m thinking since we’re in effectively in election news dump mode until January, we’re going to see a few folks drop out over the next week or two anyway.

Time to catch up on your Netflix queue, man.

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  1. 1.

    BubbaDave

    I think your honor has been impugned by Dougs! attempt to bigfoot you on the same subject, and the only way to settle this is a machete fight on pay-per-view.

    (Come to think of it, that would be a great way to determine the next Republican to withdraw from the race, as well….)

  2. 2.

    Germy

    @BubbaDave:

    the only way to settle this is a machete fight on pay-per-view.

    Socks filled with wet cat food. No machetes.

    And Steve Harvey can officiate.

  3. 3.

    Doug!

    Whoops, didn’t mean to bigfoot you. I wrote mine half an hour ago but couldn’t get it publish! Sorry!

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    I’m thinking since we’re in effectively in election news dump mode until January, we’re going to see a few folks drop out over the next week or two anyway.

    I kinda hope not at this point since a less fractured field might allow one of the anti-Trump candidates to gain sufficient steam to pose a serious challenge to Trump for the nomination. At this point, I’m rooting for Trump to complete his destruction of the party.

    @Germy: I like the idea of a wet-cat-food-in-socks duel. Next time someone impugns my honor, I will challenge him or her to tube socks at dawn and direct my seconds to lay in a supply of Kozy Kitten!

  6. 6.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Betty Cracker: As bad as Trump seems to be for the Republicans, his being the frontrunner does more damage to the whole country and its people the longer it goes on. He’s effectively encouraging white-supremacist violence just by being there, and even if he loses, his movement could be the constituency for a fascist coup attempt down the line.

    So I want him out. Even if it marginally increases the chance of a Republican win in 2016.

  15. 15.

    Montarvillois

    Nothing more was expected from Graham than to inject pro-war propaganda onto the debate stage on behalf of the military-indusrial complex. Mission accomplished, I suppose.

  16. 16.

    debbie

    I was running errands when I heard the news. According to NPR, Graham said his campaign had succeeded at steering the debates in the right direction. (Toward the cliff’s edge?)

  17. 17.

    Ken

    @Mr. Prosser: Yeah, I was wondering about that. When you’re not even invited to the big table, and your numbers are below the poll’s margin of error, just what difference do you think you might be making?

  18. 18.

    The Other Chuck

    And the rest of the nation responds: “Wait, he was running?”

    Actually, despite being basically the Senator from Lockheed Martin, he seemed the least insane passenger in the clown car. Bit of a shame to see him go, but it’s not like he had a chance.

  23. 23.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @Bobby Thomson: Actually…. *coughcough*

    There were rumors that Burr had taken target practice for as much as three months before he challenged Hamilton.

  28. 28.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @BruceFromOhio: What’s clear is that the typical Republican primary voter wants the insane-est passenger in the clown car. That’s one thing JEB? and the other mainstream candidates failed to grasp. The nut jobs are the only guys with rising poll numbers. After 7 years of a Ni-CLANG in the White House, the Republican base wants someone who will throw them red meat. It’s Trump and Cruz that are doing that. The rest of the candidates won’t because they know that’s a recipe for disaster for the party in the medium/long run. Tump doesn’t give a crap because he’s just moonlighting, and Cruz doesn’t give a crap because he’s the biggest asshole in Congress and only cares about his own agenda, not the long term good of the party.

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