Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Let there be snark.

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

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Come on, man.

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

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

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

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    I am really looking forward to hear what Nikki Haley has to say in her SOTU response.
    /said no one ever

  3. 3.

    Rathskeller

    I thoroughly enjoyed that speech. I cannot believe that America, with all its flaws, elected such a great president twice.

  14. 14.

    Anya

    Would Nikki Haley surpass “plastic bread bags”? Anything less will be a disappointment. Maybe she should enter like Jindal and hydrate like Rubio and end with a pitiful personal anecdote. But I bet she’ll endorse Trump’s wall.

  17. 17.

    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: It was in the opening list of objectives and phrased as “reduce the number of children killed by gun violence”.

  21. 21.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Christ knows Tweety has done and said some stupid shit, but watching him bait Steve Schmidt with the mockery of neocon war-mongers is great fun

  23. 23.

    Davis X. Machina

    Did you count the references to the public option?

    Zero.

    You won’t catch me voting for him again.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    Okay, Nikki Haley is flat out lying, and in a singsong voice. Back to Father Brown (shudder) for me.

  28. 28.

    PsiFighter37

    Someone needs to Paul Ryan no one will vote for him for president if all they remember is him never clapping and smirking like a turd every year in early January.

    As mentioned in last thread – speech was okay; I wish they had brought Jon Favreau in to do one last great one for PBO.

    Turned the teevee off so I don’t kill my brain cells listening to Nikki Haley. Wonder whose great idea on the GOP side it was to put her on for a response.

  29. 29.

    Anya

    How heartless can you get when you can’t even react positively to a call to reduce gun violence for our children. I still can’t get over Paul Ryan’s smug face when POTUS said that.

  34. 34.

    Eric U.

    I tried to order some snow tires from tire rack. I’ve been happy with them in the past, and extremely unhappy with the locals. They apparently signed up for “verified by visa” and the site had a popup that wanted my date of birth and last 4 of my social. Haha, and no. I didn’t think that fraud was really so bad that the credit card companies needed to do this, but the end result may be that I don’t buy online.

  35. 35.

    Corner Stone

    @Anya:

    I honestly can’t stand Van Jones. He’s so weak.

    Didn’t he used to have a position in the WH? What happened to that?

  40. 40.

    danielx

    @geg6:

    You can’t hold the clenched-teeth thing against her; I’m told there are denizens of the Main Line who actually take elocution classes to learn how to talk that way.

  41. 41.

    JPL

    @Eric U.: Earlier today folks were talking about ads on this site.. some were sexy, some had to do with fashion, mine had to do with tires. Good luck next time you sign on cuz you will be greeted with tires, also.

  42. 42.

    donnah

    Nikki Haley talks like a ventriloquist. And her wide eyes are fucking scary. And how does a child of immigrants dare to talk of closing borders?

    Geeze, she is the face of the insanity of the Republican party. It’s fake, it’s angry, and it’s hateful.

  43. 43.

    Steeplejack

    Oh, fuck, she can’t even say that those people were gunned down in her state last year. Apparently a tragedy just “happened.”

  47. 47.

    NotMax

    She did actually call Dylann Roof a “domestic terrorist.”

    Say bye-bye to her Republican bona fides.

  52. 52.

    JPL

    @MomSense: nice.. your mom obviously has clear eyes and a full heart.

    Gosh I’m going to miss Obama. I hope that he does go across country talking about gerrymandering and the wealthy buying local elections.

  54. 54.

    Adam L Silverman

    @JPL: I get fashion and Asian brides when on the site with my laptop. Considering that I don’t do any real browsing that isn’t work research related on this laptop and clean my cache religiously, I’m really not sure what the ad generator is trying say about me.

  56. 56.

    Zinsky

    Don’t go over and watch this Nikki Haley pile of puke and her hideous, twisted version of America…

  58. 58.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    Of course Nikki doesn’t mention the race of the victims and the killer in the church shooting. Also I think Nikki is talking about the Donald.

  60. 60.

    slag

    Too fire and brimstone in the middle but good beginning and ending. All in all: a 7.5 from the judge in the cheap seats.

  61. 61.

    Baud

    @amk:

    Have you seen what Obama’s done to the people who give a response to his speech? No, thank you.

    After I’m elected, all of my SOTU’s will be delivered via social media.

  62. 62.

    MomSense

    @JPL:

    I think he is going to have an amazing post presidency. At least that’s what I tell myself when I get sad that this is his last year in the White House.

  63. 63.

    ? Martin

    Compared to every response I can recall, that was actually decent. I don’t think she was damaged by that, and while it was the usual ‘GOP is great’ stuff, it wasn’t completely out in the weeds.

    I don’t think she’ll be getting a VP call from Trump, though.

  64. 64.

    Eric U.

    @JPL: I am running the disconnect plugin, so they will not serve me context sensitive ads so easily. OTOH, it will not surprise me to get tire ads at work tomorrow, which is actually rather scary.

    @donnah: “child of immigrants calling for closed borders” fits right in with the “FYIGM” republican ideal. It’s a feature, not a bug

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Central Planning: I think this is coached compensation issue. I’ve seen her where when she talks or makes facial gestures she doesn’t have bilateral symmetry. So if you clench your jaw as a remedy, this is what happens.

  72. 72.

    Ahasuerus

    @Eric U.: Strange as it may seem, Verified By Visa is actually legit – it’s a verification service Visa uses to combat fraud. You can probably find a link to it somewhere on your credit card issuer’s website.

    I had pretty much the same reaction you did the first time I saw it, but I did a little research and discovered I was perhaps being a bit too paranoid. Don’t feel bad, it happens.

  77. 77.

    Suzanne

    She’s talking about the Charleston shooting, and won’t say a word about how the victims were murdered for being black. Or that the perpetrator was white.

    FUCK YOU, YOU LIAR.

  79. 79.

    MomSense

    Finally Lawrence O’Donnell is bringing up the lies, misinformation, and hostility that the President has had to face.

  80. 80.

    Adam L Silverman

    @JPL: It is what it is. I do sometimes get ads for Russian brides too. I wonder if the ad service knows I’m single.

  82. 82.

    Steeplejack

    @Suzanne:

    I appreciate nice-looking teeth as much as anyone, but I really do not get the glow-in-the-dark, refrigerator-white look. Doesn’t anyone go for a slight off white or, uh, bone color?

  86. 86.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I sometimes get ads for Russian brides. I know that while legally I could marry another woman, I suspect that neither my husband nor the prospective bride would be very open-minded about it.

  87. 87.

    jnfr

    Haley was fairly innocuous. Took some shots at Obama, so we know she’s a Republican, but otherwise did not embarrass herself a la Jindal or Rubio.

  89. 89.

    Corner Stone

    @Steeplejack:

    I appreciate nice-looking teeth as much as anyone, but I really do not get the glow-in-the-dark, refrigerator-white look.

    Actually, I am more and more remembering the stories of ancient Chinese royalty painting their teeth black to fit in fashion-wise.
    IOW, the obsession with perfect white teeth has gone way beyond creepy. It’s just weird.

  90. 90.

    Suzanne

    @Gin & Tonic: I just finished watching Nikki. I’ll never get those ten minutes of my life back.

    @MomSense: Yeah, I know. What a fucking liar.

    @Steeplejack: SERIOUSLY. Put down the whitestrips, people. I got my teeth whitened after I had adult braces and they left stains on my teeth, but they aren’t THAT white. Good Lord.

  99. 99.

    lamh36

    Mark my words…much like Jindal…you won’t be hearing anything outside of this SOTU address from Nikki Haley…I don’t believe da hype

  101. 101.

    jl

    Speakers, solar panel lease come on, cheap mortgages, and some weirdo blog trying to sell pet pic gear and trinkets.

    Edit: now some war gamer crap.

  105. 105.

    lamh36

    @UncommonNasa 17m17 minutes ago
    Nikki Haley turned the murder of 9 honest black people by 1 white man into an indictment on legal protests by majority black crowds. Smh.

  108. 108.

    RaflW

    @Reince
    Great job @nikkihaley ! Fantastic balance and substance. Our party is the new, young and diverse party.

    And those young people will be just tickled pink to read this not-at-all delusional or condescending Tweet! That Reince, he just has his finger right on the pulse of those rascally youth voters :)

  109. 109.

    danielx

    @lamh36:

    I’ve heard quite a bit (more than I care for) from and about Bobby Jindal, mostly about how he’s leaving his state even more of a smoking chemical waste dump than it was when he started his governorship.

  112. 112.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    @schrodinger’s cat: I want somebody to ask Jindal and Haley if they think their parents are going to hell since their parents haven’t converted and they’re both evangelicals. Hindus,btw, have the lowest rate of conversion to other religions, of all mainstream religions so Jindal converting is unusual.

  114. 114.

    David Koch

    @Reince
    Great job @nikkihaley ! Fantastic balance and substance. Our party is the new, young and diverse party.

    ahahahahahhahahahahahahah

    Tell it to Trump.

  116. 116.

    bago

    @Adam L Silverman: They’re called tracking cookies, son. Each domain you access that wants to write to a cookie can, which means you get a Hanzel und Gretyl situation.

    Follow the breadcrumbs.

  119. 119.

    NotMax

    A first, tech-wise.

    So what does it mean to “meet people where they are?” First, it means recognizing the massive shift in the American media diet toward on-demand video. For the first time, this year SOTU will be available to stream on-demand on Amazon Video, in addition to on wh.gov/sotu and our YouTube channel. And beginning Wednesday through the end of the week, Amazon will make the speech available across all devices for Americans to watch the State of the Union in the same way we’re used to consuming video content in 2016. So, for those who’ve cut the cord from cable and network TV: Whether you use a smart TV, web browser, mobile device, or tablet there’s a way for you to watch the President’s speech as it happens and on-demand. Source

  120. 120.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    @Mnemosyne: “Why don’t the three of us get married?”

    “Why, that’s bigamy!”

    “That’s big of all of us!”

    (I am at the amusing myself portion of the day.)

  121. 121.

    trollhattan

    Haley had flawless subject-verb agreement. Water chug count: 0. Huzzahs for your new Republican star.

    Those eyes though, Children of the Damned territory.

  122. 122.

    RaflW

    @Adam L Silverman: I just read something like that utter crapola from Reince and I think:
    1. He can’t possibly be that deluded himself to believe it, can he?
    2. If so, how can he believe that anyone who hangs out on Twitter won’t just think this tweet is pathetic/insane/worthy of heaps of mockery?
    3.OK, then, is this tweet is somehow meant to reassure Reince’s donor class? Is that it? Are old rich morons on Twitter?

    It’s a mystery to me.

  124. 124.

    Adam L Silverman

    @bago: I’m aware of what causes it. But if looking at news websites, research reports, and things like that get me these ads, it makes me wonder what the algorithm is.

  126. 126.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @RaflW: and we must not know the whole story of how godawful Michael Steele must have been to not only lose that job, but to lose it to that adenoidal talking thumb

  127. 127.

    Adam L Silverman

    @RaflW: I think that he most likely doesn’t do his own tweets. I’m sure there’s an intern for that. And I’m pretty sure that tweet is meant for the DC news media and those that cover and report and comment on politics. Its just working the refs.

  129. 129.

    Mike J

    @bago: And Forbes, which uses anti-adblocking on their web site, has been serving malware along with their ads.

    People should never forget that they are the product being sold.

  134. 134.

    NotMax

    Strange bedfellows, chapter the 77,197,811th. (Caveat: Politco link.)

    Rand Paul’s sputtering presidential campaign has lost a top staffer: policy aide Elise Jordan.

    Jordan, a former Bush White House and State Department aide who had been advising Paul on foreign policy, has left the campaign to take a job at NBC News and MSNBC as a political analyst. Source

  136. 136.

    MomSense

    @Steeplejack:

    I saw some vacationers with glow in the dark teeth at a local restaurant over the summer. Teeth whitening and blueberry pie with wild blueberries creates a shocking result.

  137. 137.

    Adam L Silverman

    Ya’ll have a good night. I’m gonna rack out and rub doggie bellies before the four foots eat me.

  142. 142.

    David Koch

    @NotMax: oh christ. she’s a real wingnut and lightweight. Chris Hayes used to have her on all the time cuz she was married to Michael Hastings and she was insipid.

  144. 144.

    patroclus

    Very good speech! CNN’s says that it got the most positive reaction of all of his SOTU’s’! Instead of a laundry list, he spoke from the heart with only subtle jabs against the bigots (er, Republicans). I’m feeling the Bern and I’m almost ready for Hillary. But not yet, I’m gonna enjoy having Obama work for me for a little over one more year!

  145. 145.

    Irony Abounds

    Steve Schmidt seems to be angling to get back into working for Republicans. His normal decent (for a Republican) take on matters got lost and he is sliding back into the wingnut jungle.

  146. 146.

    patroclus

    Even Frank Luntz’s focus group liked it! And most are blaming Congress for the problems in D.C.

  149. 149.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Chris Matthews chuckles (pretty much at Schmidt) when Schmidt starts saying that Barack Obama is to blame for Republican anger (to be fair, he did start to say that they’re angry at their perception of Obama, then I turned it off)

  151. 151.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    Meet the Bundy’s webmaster at the Refuge. OPB:

    Fry didn’t say when he arrived, but he’s set up shop in a building the militants want to turn into a media center, according to Finicum. Fry said he knows “a little bit” about computers.

    “I’m just here to document what’s going on (at the compound),” Fry said.

    Fry’s Google+ account shows the Ohio man regularly posts anti-Semitic, homophobic, and pro-Nazi propaganda on social media.

    Fry also posts in support of ISIS.

    “ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS FOR ISIS TO NUKE ISRAELHELL!” he wrote on the site Nov. 30.

    When asked to explain his feelings about Israel and ISIS, Fry spoke at length of government conspiracies, plots against multiple countries, Sept. 11, court records, computer viruses on Japanese computers, Fukushima and a Jewish conspiracy against the free world that involves causing nuclear meltdowns.

    “One week before Fukushima happened, an Israeli security team installing security equipment was there at Fukushima,” Fry said.

    He went on to tell OPB that he got the government computers running using flash drives with Linux on them.

    Because of course he did.

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  154. 154.

    Glidwrith

    @Adam L Silverman: I get the same ads but for Russian brides. Being female and hetero, I really don’t know what that says about me.

    Also get the occasional male underwear ad.

  155. 155.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Glidwrith: one of the “Russian bride” ads I got a while back included the line “We don’t want young men, we want YOU!”

    It hurt, because it was true.

  157. 157.

    mclaren

    @Adam L Silverman:

    My favorite google adsense screwup occurred when I was searching the internet for arcane info on werewolves and an ad popped up that said “Increase your income — become a werewolf today!”

  159. 159.

    Jacel

    @Suzanne: Haley’s convoluted description of the shooting (describing a person coming into the church who did not look like them, but being welcomed to sit with them, and then he killed them) sounded like she was trying position this massacre as an example of why we shouldn’t let Syrian refugees into the USA.

  165. 165.

    The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...

    @mclaren: That has got to be one of the unintentionally funniest bits I have ever seen in my whole life…

    The jokes… they write themselves…

  167. 167.

    Anne Laurie

    @Adam L Silverman: I have a suspicion that if the ad generator can’t “read” your browsing history for clues, it throws up the lowest-cost, highest-reward generic ads — softcore pr0n and shoes. Men just might click on the first, and women on the second. (“Shoes” used to be a taboo word on FYWP.)

  168. 168.

    Anne Laurie

    @RaflW:

    OK, then, is this tweet is somehow meant to reassure Reince’s donor class? Is that it? Are old rich morons on Twitter?

    Old rich morons have junior interns to read the Twitter for them, so they don’t miss out on what’s important (to them). Some old rich morons — like for instance Donald Trump — keep a pack of junior interns to ‘transcribe’ tweets for them. And a few old rich morons — such as Rupert Murdoch — actually seem to compose/type out their own tweets (or so it’s assumed from the verified Rupe-stream’s high ratio of typos to comprehension)…

  169. 169.

    Anne Laurie

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Jindal is Catholic not evangelical,

    As I understand it, he’s a “Charismatic Catholic”, which is a 70s-era crossover thing where the rightward-leaning cradle Catholics who didn’t like Vatican II got together with the capital-E Protestant Evangelicals who didn’t like their various ministries experimenting with happy-clappy stuff about hippy Jesus and tolerance for sinners. Over the past 40 years, the mingling has managed to combine the worst features of both the Protestant write-your-own-theology and the Catholic top-down-hierarchy structures — a lot of the really weird cult groups you read about in the crime news, stuff where “church leaders” go past minor embezzlement into human trafficking and international pyramid schemes, seem to have come from these toxic roots.

  170. 170.

    PurpleGirl

    @danielx: You mean Locust Valley Lockjaw. It’s how the upper crust speaks without moving their mouths or teeth. Comes naturally to some people, has to be learned by others.

    ETA: Also called Long Island Lockjaw or Larchmont Lockjaw.

  171. 171.

    bago

    @Anne Laurie: More or less. The ad engine looks at the inventory of purchased flights of ads and attempts to serve from the tranches of inventory that most closely match the targeting data provided. If nothing can be found, it will serve from the default/house tranche.

  173. 173.

    AxelFoley

    @JPL: I get fashion and Asian brides when on the site with my laptop. Considering that I don’t do any real browsing that isn’t work research related on this laptop and clean my cache religiously, I’m really not sure what the ad generator is trying say about me.

    At least I’m not the only one. ;)

  174. 174.

    Matt McIrvin

    @srv:

    Trump is going to have a lot of trouble finding an appropirate VP. Discuss.

    Trouble? Ann Coulter’s right there.

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