Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Republicans do not trust women.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

When we show up, we win.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

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Open Thread: The Grift Dream Will Never Die!

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It says something about the sheer inanity of this year’s Repub field that Little Prince Rand can’t even get point-and-mock traction with stuff like this. Not to mention (via) Audit the Ted, because “the Ted Crus” receives funds from “the Goldmaine Sox”:

“I even like his hair!”

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  1. 1.

    Felonius Monk

    And just how does Little Rand-y plan to defeat socialism with just $3500 at most? Sounds more like he’s beggin’ for beer money.

  4. 4.

    Linda Featheringill

    But, but, but . . . pooling all our resources together to accomplish something is one of the defining characteristics of socialism.

    ETA: Edited to correct grammar. Sigh.

  9. 9.

    Felonius Monk

    @redshirt:

    There is no meaning than what we give meaning.

    Truth is what you make it.

    Morality is a play.

    Vote NIHILISM BAUD!

    Fixed it 4 U.

  14. 14.

    BruceFromOhio

    If everyone contributes a small amount of their income, we can pool all the resources together to defeat socialism

    Now this is elegant sarcasm. We could all learn from this.

  16. 16.

    jl

    Was that horrible cartoon made with the xtranormal movie maker?
    Worst I have ever seen. I guess putting out slop like that is very inspiring to potential contributors.

    BTW: My favorite statistical xtranormal cartoon.

    Biologist talks to statistician
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1fyhVOjr4

    Edit: No offense to biologists. I suppose…. the conversation sounds pretty much the same whatever hooligan applied researcher comes knocking on the high poo-bah statistician’s door.

  17. 17.

    BruceFromOhio

    The landlords twit feed is like listening to the guy on the park bench muttering to himself. You can’t tell for sure from a distance if he’s on a conference call with his bluetooth earbud, or just bonkertastic.

    Or both.

  19. 19.

    ThresherK

    Does the transaction cost of processing a very, very small donation actually cost more than it returns below a certain amount?

    If so, put me in for half that amount. Four times a day, for a month.

  20. 20.

    Gvg

    Capitalism is pooling resources also. Then investing. Inferior definitions and black white thinking.
    Some things have a history of working better done by capitalism or free enterprise. Other things have a history of being better done by government or some other social collectivism, like a judicial system. Pay attention to usual results. Also decide what desirable result is. Name calling is too simple minded. Oh well

  22. 22.

    Felonius Monk

    @Gvg:

    Name calling is too simple minded.

    But it’s Rand Paul. How much more simple minded can he get?

  23. 23.

    jl

    @NotMax:

    Thanks. I’ll put that on something.

    What is ‘If you grift the con long enough, then the con starts to grift you”

    that would be a good saying for the GOP. And if they win in November, for the US as well.

  25. 25.

    Mnemosyne

    My fellow Hamimaniacs, I saw something today that I’m not allowed to talk about outside of work. Suffice to say, you WILL want to see “Moana” when it comes out in November. Trust me on this.

  28. 28.

    TG Chicago

    Speaking of candidates no longer able to get point-and-mock traction: the brain surgeon is distancing himself from his top grifter:

    Ben Carson said his top outside adviser and longtime friend Armstrong Williams is dishonest – a failing he also attributed to political opponents and the media that has covered his campaign.

    “Armstrong is not necessarily the epitome of truth,” Mr. Carson said during a breakfast with reporters hosted by Bloomberg. “He doesn’t speak all things that are correct. He often speaks without thinking. He has no official capacity in the campaign whatsoever. His influence has been vastly overrated.”

    He doesn’t speak all things that are correct. New motto for the Carson campaign?

  29. 29.

    schrodinger's cat

    Palate Cleanser from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (Match Made in Heaven) : Tujh me Rab Dikhta Hai ( I see the divine in you). In the best Hindi movie tradition and I am not being ironic, preaches unity of all religions without being preachy and pokes gentle fun at the song and dance numbers that are typical of Hindi movies.

    About the song : Sikh couple ( Shahrukh Khan and Anoushka Sharma) go to a Hindu temple, a Catholic Church and Muslim Darga (tomb of a Sufi saint). Shahrukh is the dorky husband, who Anoushka wishes was more hip (Shahrukh in the distressed jeans) like the heroes of Hindi movies which she adores. Its very meta. I haven’t seen the movie but like the song.

    Female version of the same song set in a gurudwara (Golden temple of Amritsar)

  30. 30.

    PJ

    @Gvg: The significant distinction being that capitalism, after taking resources from owners and workers, aggregates profits for the benefit of owners (or, nowadays, just upper tier management and a select group of investors who are gutting the company to the detriment of shareholders), while socialism aggregates the benefits from joint action and investment and distributes them to everyone.

    This is not to say that private enterprise and public enterprise do not each have fields which they are better suited to manage.

  31. 31.

    hnortman

    @Mnemosyne: Oh honey, I listen to it twice a day sometimes. Already got one trip lined up to see it and working on a second (I live in Texas).

  34. 34.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    @NotMax: Please consider fixing the insufferable Jekkies first (fans of the musical Jekyll and Hyde). Then we can talk about Hamimaniacs.

  35. 35.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    these people…

    daveweigel ‏@ daveweigel 21m21 minutes ago
    Cruz megadonors say they’ll donate $1.5 million to charity if Trump debates him. If not, LOL charities, I guess

    ETA: also, too
    Simon Maloy ‏@ SimonMaloy 1h1 hour ago
    Trump pulled the same bullshit trying to get Obama to release his birth certificate

  42. 42.

    redshirt

    @Mnemosyne: It’s the only musical I know. And I love it, so I suppose there’s plenty of other musicals I would also love, but let me tell you now: I’m too busy for any new musicals.

    “When I get so old and wrinkly I look like David Brinkley”

  43. 43.

    Felonius Monk

    @Mnemosyne:

    and I’ve listened to ‘Hamilton’ three times this week …

    Some say you can go blind doing that, but only 3 times a week could just lead to glasses.

  45. 45.

    PaulW

    I can play this game.

    Can I get another 100 donors from Twitter tonight? We must defeat Egalitarianism. Contribute $350, $110, or just $20,000!!

    That should do it.

  46. 46.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I don’t pretend to understand right-wingers, but this seems to be something they think will intimidate Trump and/or make them look…. tough? smart? generous? to their own base?

    ‏@ CarlyFiorina
    Upping the ante, I’m free tomorrow at 8pm, @ realDonaldTrump. My campaign will give $2mm to veterans’ cause to debate at Drake U. (2/2)

    Or course, I do think Fiorina is unhinged

  48. 48.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Rand Paul: vile parasite, from an entire family of parasites.

    Wipe them out. All of them.

  49. 49.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Remember when Cole and Griftwald said Baby Doc would formidable candidate for 2016 and we discounted & mocked him at our peril?

    Good Times.

  50. 50.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: I can’t believe this was all the way back in 2013, I remember it so clearly

    So I predict the hard right is going to take over the party in 2016, and the nomination is going to go to…Rand Paul.”
    “You watch,” Matthews said. “This is what I do for a living.”

    That last part is what makes it memorable (though in fairness, in context, I guess he was almost half right).

  51. 51.

    FlipYrWhig

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: I have to say, I’ve never liked any Paul even slightly, but I find his complete failure this time around utterly inexplicable. You can’t tell me he sucks any more than Carson or Rubio, and yet those guys are beating him handily.

  52. 52.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @FlipYrWhig: It’d be interesting to see how his numbers compare to his old man’s. Seems to be some appeal among the yoot’s for quirky, unelectable old coots. Like voting for Dumbledore or your funky professor or cool grandpa. When I was youthful the closest thing we had to a quirky grandpa on the ballot was the, if memory serves, somewhat patrician Lloyd Bentsen.

  53. 53.

    David *Rafael* Koch

    Any one ever see the cult classic “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”?

    Well a Killer Tomato attacked Trump tonight (video)

  54. 54.

    David *Rafael* Koch

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about Rudy Giuliani. We just had a little joust off camera, I’m always told don’t waste it off camera. I believe he’s not only running, I think he’s going to win this whole thing come around the next election, the way things look right now. July 12, 2006

    Matthews gets paid well for being consistently wrong.

  57. 57.

    priscianus jr

    @jl: “Was that horrible cartoon made with the xtranormal movie maker?
    Worst I have ever seen. I guess putting out slop like that is very inspiring to potential contributors.”

    I wouldn’t vote for Rand Paul if you paid me, but I like the cartoon very much. Perhaps you don’t get it.

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