Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Fight them, without becoming them!

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

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

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

This fight is for everything.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Second rate reporter says what?

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

The revolution will be supervised.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

When I was faster i was always behind.

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Nate Silver is arguing on Twitter that the current Republican primary and the probably Trump nomination is the GOP party elite’s 997th worse case. He offers the 998th (Watergate Part Deux) and 999th(Aliens)…

what is the 1000th worse case scenario for the Republican elites?

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  7. 7.

    C Nelson Reilly

    Michelle Bachman and Kay Bailey Hutchinson announce that they’re a couple and are opening a gay wedding cupcake store

  13. 13.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    somebody finds Willard a way to take the nomination away from Trump and Trump goes all Scourge of God on the Republicans, burning their villages and monasteries from the White House to the USSC to the Senate to the House

  14. 14.

    ruemara

    Legally, is there any way we can cull them? Humanely, of course, but to benefit the world, shouldn’t we take steps to prevent this zombie virus from spreading? I, personally, think no one would deny there was a clear & present threat to all life on earth.

  15. 15.

    Sam Dobermann

    Incredibly big crowds in every city and town demanding that President Obama serve an additional term.

  16. 16.

    Citizen Alan

    The absolute worst case disaster scenario for the GOP is that scientists announce that they have discovered a vaccine against sociopathy so that within a generation, “lack of empathy” is eradicated from the American gene pool. The party would cease to exist.

  19. 19.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    The NY Times tape is released and shows Trump talking about how his run is just an “Around the World in 80 Days”-type bet with Bill Clinton that got out of hand. He’s really a big Hillary fan and is going to tell all the Teabaggers and GOP insiders how stupid they are after he accepts the nomination.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  20. 20.

    sigaba

    After meditating upon a strange golden necklace pendant, Rubio opens his eyes to discover himself in an alternate reality where Hitler won World War II. (Unclear if it’s a parallel universe or if the American victory in World War II was actually just an illusion/mass delusion.)

  23. 23.

    superpredators4hillary

    If your answer runs more than a handful of syllables and grunts, you lose.

  24. 24.

    Percysowner

    After winning the nomination Trump tells his supporters to send a message to the GOP, which didn’t treat him “fairly” and NOT vote for them for Congress and the Senate. Don’t vote for Democrats, just don’t support the Republicans.

  25. 25.

    Peale

    FBI unlocks iPhone. Turns out last message was to Reince Priebus promising to do whatever it takes to call attention to the injustice of taxing job creators.

  26. 26.

    mclaren

    Rubio opens the ark of the covenant and his face melts, while blasts of energy go out to impale and disintegrate every member of the Republican party. Bernie and Hillary remain unaffected because they’ve closed their eyes while tied to a pole.

  27. 27.

    eemom

    Can Nate Silver please STFU? He’s has-been-ier than John McCain at this point. kthxbai.

  28. 28.

    The Dangerman

    Did anyone else think it odd when Trump referred to the “3rd plane”? 1000 could be a Republican candidate that forgot a plane hit the Pentagon. I so wanted Kelly to ask Trump a follow up on how many planes on 9/11.

  29. 29.

    beltane

    Obama becomes Secretary General of the UN, implementing the New World Order on day one.

  31. 31.

    Groucho48

    Turns out there were no classified documents on Clinton’s server but a bunch turned up on the server of the Benghazi Commission and all the top Republicans on it are charged with leaking classified information to the Republican candidates, who are also charged.

    Dems get the Presidency, a supermajority Senate and a majority House. Meanwhile, the Scalia tapes emerge and both Alito and Thomas resign in disgrace after being filmed doing hookers and blow in chambers.

  34. 34.

    Mike J

    @chopper: Was looking for you. If you see Casey, OpieJean et al around, remind them to go to the King County Democrats web site and pre-register for the caucus. kcdems.org

  35. 35.

    Matt McIrvin

    Just like today, only Hillary Clinton is near the end of her second term and Barack Obama is running now.

  37. 37.

    Petorado

    Nate Silver is arguing on Twitter that the current Republican primary and the probably Trump nomination is the GOP party elite’s 997th worse case … “and I don’t even want to think about No. 1000.”

    Why are people acting like what’s bad for the GOP party elite is a bad thing for the rest of all other living things. There’s no legitimate argument that the world wasn’t better off after the GOP elite had bummer 2008 and 2012 elections.

  39. 39.

    mclaren

    Someone finally figures out that by rearranging the hellraiser cube they can close up the wall and force the Republican candidates to return to their hell dimension.

  42. 42.

    Petorado

    @shomi: Written by “Bobby” Jindal. The WSJ is the Onion with more viciousness and no sense of humor or irony.

  43. 43.

    celticdragonchick

    Can Nate Silver please STFU? He’s has-been-ier than John McCain at this point. kthxbai.

    Nothing like self righteous yet meaningless snark to give you that vaguely unsatisfied feeling.

  46. 46.

    hkedi

    New candidate for #1000:

    Jane Fonda is raptured on live TV while talking with Ellen Degeneres. She returns 3 days later on a column of light in NY times square with the message that her divine blackness is completely fed up, and the smiting will start in 3.. 2… 1….

  47. 47.

    RepubAnon

    Donald Trump reminds everyone of their pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee…

  49. 49.

    piratedan

    scenario 1000:

    archaeologists determine that Jesus was a homosexual black guy who still liked to sleep with prostitutes to maintain a reputation with the straights

  53. 53.

    mclaren

    Up at Lawyers, Guns and Money Paul Campos asks: “Would Trump as president be significantly worse than Cruz or Rubio?”

    a Trump presidency presents two huge risks:

    (1) The social costs incurred by putting someone who campaigns as an open racist in the White House. I don’t know whether or to what extent Trump is “really” racist, but that is basically irrelevant to calculating those costs. Air raid siren racism is worse than dog whistle racism, for the same reason that open corruption is worse than the covert kind. It’s actually an important social advance that, relative to a a couple of three decades ago, covert racists now feel the need to disguise their racism, because when they don’t feel that way racism becomes more socially acceptable, just as when open bribery becomes a feature of public life its very openness makes it more socially acceptable, and therefore more common than it would otherwise be.

    (2) Trump is not merely a narcissistic megalomaniac of an extreme kind: he’s a narcissistic megalomaniac who isn’t constrained by any political institutions, as even an “anti-establishment” conventional presidential candidate like Cruz or Sanders would be. He’s a true political outsider, and as such he’s much more unpredictable. Institutional socialization, and the constraints it builds up, are real. Trump presents a non-trivial risk of being the sort of politician who would actually do the sorts of things that conspiracy nuts of the Alex Jones type are always fantasizing normal politicians are about to do: declare martial law, suspend elections, seize major media outlets etc. Trump really might turn into an American version of Vladamir Putin or perhaps Juan Peron.

  54. 54.

    Cpl. Cam

    @dmsilev: They would have their base convinced he was the anti-Christ so fast your head would spin. In fact I’m guessing he ends up crucified again if he ever comes back.

  55. 55.

    Redshift

    @sigaba:

    After meditating upon a strange golden necklace pendant, Rubio opens his eyes to discover himself in an alternate reality where Hitler won World War II. (Unclear if it’s a parallel universe or if the American victory in World War II was actually just an illusion/mass delusion.)

    And Donald Trump is vice-Fuhrer in charge of the former United States.

  58. 58.

    Tripod

    Yahoo news lede: GOP candidates pledge to vote for man they call liar, con-man and fraud

    Rubio, Cruz and Kasich also willing to suck his tiny, tiny finger for the VP slot.

  66. 66.

    eric

    The first several comments on this thread are so full of win I nearly cried from laughing. Jeebus..

  69. 69.

    MikefromArlington

    Come to find out Obama is actually Jesus and the Democratic Party wins the Christian vote by 99%.

  73. 73.

    gogiggs

    It involves tumbrels and guillotines and it’s probably the best scenario for the rest of us.

  74. 74.

    Bruce K

    I submit for Worst-Case Scenario 1000:

    President Obama announces that an extinction-level-event asteroid has been spotted heading towards Earth, but between NASA and the private launch enterprises, there’s a plan to deflect it safely, and all Congress needs to do is stay the hell out of the way and the Earth will be saved.

  78. 78.

    SFAW

    A) Baud! wins
    B) Trump rips off his mask and reveals that he’s actually Nancy Pelosi
    C) Scalia resurrects and says that God told him that the Repubs are the collective anti-Christ
    D) The Kochs and Rupert Murdoch commit suicide together. While wearing wetsuits, etc.
    E) China buys the entire US, then lines up the Rethugs against the wall, for “Crimes against Humanity”
    F) Bill Kristol actually gets something right

    OK, that last one is a little far-fetched

  79. 79.

    John PM

    Teddy Roosevelt is resurrected and recreates the charge up San Juan Hill at the Republican National Convention.

  80. 80.

    Shantanu Saha

    After Hillary Clinton is elected to office, John Roberts and Samuel Alito are found dead in the same bed. It is determined to be a murder-suicide, resulting from a love affair gone bad.

  81. 81.

    moops

    The most likely outcome is one that most of you are not going to like.

    Trump will run and lose to Clinton, by a larger margin than the usual 48-52 deal. Probably a 40-60 loss, which in US politics is being crushed. The billionaires will spend much more on other races and keep the other branches in their control. The pundits and establishment GOP will cluck “told you so, stupid base”. They will not grow or change their views and the next primaries will try and find their new G W Bush to run against Clinton in 2020 and likely retake the White House. The 2020 GOP candidate will have a traditional skill in dog whistle racism that is deniable and left unreported in the MSM and they will finally make inroads with minorities since the overt racists will be told to shut their dam mouths (sort of like how all the Democrat bloggers treat Naderites).

    I would rank this outcome as the most likely and I’m surprised it just doesn’t get mentioned.

    If Trump is the nominee, the party is going to throw the presidential race to save the party. Party *always* comes before country, and it is the only way they are getting rid of this loose cannon now.

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