Everything about this is amazing. And all real Donald quotes.
Smug.
Jordan Klepper as hype man- who knew?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
“woke” is the new caravan.
We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.
Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.
Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.
Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.
With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.
If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.
No one could have predicted…
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
Nothing worth doing is easy.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!
Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!
Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.
The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.
People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.
gogol's wife
It’s funny, but Trump is getting less funny by the minute, I’m afraid.
Dork
I eagerly await the almost certain lawsuit threat from T-Rump on this.
After all, it’s clearly libelous to use one’s own words.
Robin G.
My God, what a time to be alive.
Miss Bianca
Holy shitsnacks, Batman – that is awesome. In a frightening way.
Major Major Major Major
@gogol’s wife: Agreed.
Chyron HR
Is no politician’s legacy safe from Hamiltonization? What’s next, the black “reimagining” of President Obama?!
Major Major Major Major
@Chyron HR: I’d watch that.
Miss Bianca
@Chyron HR: Problem?
bystander
I love the way Klepper plays Miss Merrynote to Black Trump’s Pip the Piper.
OzarkHillbilly
Tooooooo funny.
OzarkHillbilly
@gogol’s wife: All the more reason to laugh at him and his supporters.
Brachiator
Well, that settles that. America, vote Trump!
That was some funny shit.
Unintentionally ironic is the soul man re-imagining of Trump as a Love Man in the Prince/Time Donald Trump (Black Version)
A super strong woman needs a super strong dude
RareSanity
@Miss Bianca:
Found the Archer fan!
Redshift
Another moment of hilarity, via Chris Hayes, Mudcat Saunders says Trump will easily beat Hillary Clinton because “I know less than half a dozen white Democrats in my part of the world who are going to vote for Hillary.”
Weirdly, he makes no attempt to square this with Jim Webb’s failure to sweep the primaries. Or even the primary in his “part of the world.”
Major Major Major Major
@RareSanity: Singular?
Old Dan and Little Anne
Last night’s Daily Show was great. The Trump video was shown soon after Carly’s singing set to a Horror movie trailer along with Lucifer Ted.
SiubhanDuinne
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Major Major Major Major
@Old Dan and Little Anne: Nate Silver had a great tweet. Ted Cruz + Carly Fiorina is an anagram for “Lucifer ran, try Zodiac”
Miss Bianca
@RareSanity: Who’s “Archer” when s/he’s at home?
Ella in New Mexico
Reposted this on my FB page and waiting for the “not likes” reactions from back east.
My husband’s brother and elderly parents are life-long, card carrying “moderate” Republicans-the only ones left in his nuclear family. They have lived in the same rural area outside Gettysburg, PA their whole lives, and the community is ridiculously conservative. But they are pro-Gay (daughter is gay/transgender), and pro-women’s rights/choice, and belong to a generally moderate-liberal church. Yet, they simply will not vote for the Democrat, no matter how bad their candidate is. So they’re supporting Trump.
When gently prodded about his bigotry, his anti-woman attitudes, his fear-mongering about Muslims, his complete lack of details about how he’s going to make America great again–well, we don’t need to worry. He’s just being a showman at his speeches, for effect. He doesn’t mean half that shit, he’s just trying to make a point/ be funny/show the establishment he means business. He’ll tell China what’s what and then figure all the other stuff out when he wins and then he’ll fix things because, well, he says he will.
Besides, Hilary Clinton killed all those people in Benghazi. And Muslim ID cards might be a smart idea anyway…
I don’t know how a family who produced my husband and the rest of his siblings who are Dems (his sister is Democratic Party Chairwoman in her county) came to be the way they are now. Except for the fact that they moved away, had to encounter change and grew in ways staying put does not challenge you to grow.
Otherwise, they’re really nice people. ;-)
Keith G
@Chyron HR: Coming to theaters soon.
FlipYrWhig
@Ella in New Mexico: My wife said her coworkers were discussing the whole trans-bathroom kerfuffle and one of them said, “I’m not saying I support him, but you have to think Donald Trump would figure that whole thing out.” Some people appear to attribute strange wonder-working powers to Donald Trump.
singfoom
@Ella in New Mexico:
Jesus, I’ve gotten this from some members of my family too. It drives me up the wall. I ask “Well, if he doesn’t mean what he says, how the hell can you tell at all what he stands for? Shouldn’t you at least consider the words he uses to build support?”
Crickets. It’s truly a frustrating dynamic…..
rikyrah
lips pursed so hard
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Bernie Believers Urge Independent Bid Over DNC Corruption
In light of dishonest party politics, over one-third of voters would support a third-party candidate
By Michael Sainato • 04/27/16 9:00am
In an interview with Politico reporter Glenn Thrush after last week’s New York Primary, a senior Clinton aide reportedly used profane language with regards to Bernie Sanders. Such disrespect has been carried out not only by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, but by the Democratic National Committee itself. Since the beginning of the Democratic Primary, the attitude has seemed to be, “How dare Mr. Sanders challenge Ms. Clinton?” This complete disregard of democracy has manifested over and over again—from the Democratic National Committee’s overt favoritism for Ms. Clinton to rampant reports of voter suppression across the country throughout the primaries.
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A 2015 Gallup poll found 43 percent of Americans identify politically as Independent, and it is likely that the Democratic and Republican primaries only further discourage these voters from affiliating with either party. The presidency will largely be predicated on who can court the most Independent voters, and Ms. Clinton faces an uphill battle. Many disenfranchised Democrats and Independent voters will either write in Mr. Sanders’ name in November, or vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein—who more closely resembles the campaign platform of Mr. Sanders than Ms. Clinton, and who received over 500,000 votes in 2012.
In an interview with Grist in early March, Ms. Stein said, “You can’t really have a revolutionary campaign inside a counter-revolutionary party.” Many of Mr. Sanders’ supporters share this sentiment, and it could cost Democrats the 2016 presidential election, or give rise to a third political party. From the eruption of the Republican Tea Party in the wake of president Barack Obama’s 2008 election, to the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement following the 2008 economic recession, thousands of people who once identified as Republicans and Democrats are flirting with the idea of supporting a third party candidate.
FlipYrWhig
@rikyrah: Ooh, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND votes for Jill Stein! I feel like there’s a set of diehards on the left that uphold one of those “one, two, many” number systems.
NotMax
@Miss Bianca
Surely you jest. Wikipedia page.
Season 7 is back to firing on all cylinders thus far.
Lurves me some Jessica Walter (voice of Mallory). Still miss Woodhouse.
singfoom
@rikyrah: God that’s dumb. I mean, I started out as a Bernfeeler and I get it, but that article is some weak sauce. Griping about the closed primaries in New York is just….whining. You want to change the rules, you get them changed before the contest starts.
MazeDancer
Trump Rap video is so funny and so well done.
But while watching it during the show had some thoughts about Trump may think it’s a compliment. And start playing it at his rallies.
It is not hard to imagine his supporters happily singing along. Plus, it’s got a good beat and is easy to rant to.
Dork
No, they wont. They’ll either not vote, or vote for the Dem. Very few people make the effort to go all the way to the voting location, wait in line, go thru all the bullshit, just to pull the lever for a “protest” vote. They may say they will, but they wont.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Miss Bianca: Hey there (OT alert) did you find All Together Now in the most recent authors post? I saw your question late in the old post thread.
I have election fatigue already. And I don’t have an island.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Ooh. The next day’s comic is excellent, also too. Humpty Trumpty?
Cheers,
Scott.
sherparick
@singfoom: So you think he is lying then? So you are going to vote for a liar and a fraud. How did that turn out with Nixon. Write someone else’s name if you can’t bring yourself to vote for Clinton, but dont’ insult mine and your own intelligence. I need to get more whiskey to last me to November.
nutella
Profane language? No!
At least the un-named Clinton staffer didn’t say Sanders was unqualified. That would really be beyond the pale.
D58826
@Dork:
rikyrah
Wrath of the Conned:
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First, about the Democrats: Their party defines itself as the protector of the poor and the middle class, and especially of nonwhite voters. Does it fall short of fulfilling this mission much of the time? Are its leaders sometimes too close to big-money donors? Of course. Still, if you look at the record of the Obama years, you see real action on behalf of the party’s goals.
Above all, you have the Affordable Care Act, which has given about 20 million Americans health insurance, with the gains biggest for the poor, minorities and low-wage workers. That’s what you call delivering for the base — and it’s surely one reason nonwhite voters have overwhelmingly favored Mrs. Clinton over a challenger who sometimes seemed to dismiss that achievement.
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Things are very different among Republicans. Their party has historically won elections by appealing to racial enmity and cultural anxiety, but its actual policy agenda is dedicated to serving the interests of the 1 percent, above all through tax cuts for the rich — which even Republican voters don’t support, while they truly loathe elite ideas like privatizing Social Security and Medicare.
What Donald Trump has been doing is telling the base that it can order à la carte. He has, in effect, been telling aggrieved white men that they can feed their anger without being forced to swallow supply-side economics, too. Yes, his actual policy proposals still involve huge tax cuts for the rich, but his supporters don’t know that….Establishment Republicans have tried to counter his appeal by shouting, with growing hysteria, that he isn’t a true conservative. And they’re right, at least as they define conservatism. But their own voters don’t care.
trollhattan
@Dork:
I’ll translate “many” as “at least three, possibly more” and leave it at that. Ponies for everybody!
Major Major Major Major
I totally just donated to get my Woman Card
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@rikyrah:
This is why I’m convinced that in a Trump/Sanders matchup, Sanders would lose 48 states. Sanders would be running on raising your taxes to expand the government’s role in your life and uprooting large sectors of the economy in ways not seen in 70 years, and Trump would simply promise to prevent having the country being given away (to *those people*) and making it “strong” again by bullying everyone and everything. Trump is a buffoon and a fraud, but he’s been very successful at marketing to people who want to believe in fraudulent things.
starscream
OT, but good lord, the BernieBros on Kevin Drum’s blog are much worse than the ones here.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@starscream:
Is this the article Drum posted about why he never felt the Bern?
rikyrah
You need a Toyota? – Tariq the Jihadist – will hook you up.
You can’t write this stuff.
If you tried writing it in fiction, people wouldn’t believe you.
Like Al Qaeda having an HR Dept with expense reports
And the Somali Pirates having a spokesman.
TRUTH.IS.STRANGER.THAN.FICTION.
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Islamic State turns to selling fish, cars to offset oil losses: report
Thu Apr 28, 2016 5:25pm
Islamic State earns millions of dollars a month running car dealerships and fish farms in Iraq, making up for lower oil income after its battlefield losses, Iraqi judicial authorities said on Thursday.
Security experts once estimated the ultra-radical Islamist group’s annual income at $2.9 billion, much of it coming from oil and gas installations in Iraq and Syria.
starscream
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: yup.
starscream
@rikyrah: I think this is why Obama is ramping up his efforts in Syria. He sees ISIS on the run and wants al-Baghdadi dead by the time he hands the keys over to Hillary.
RoonieRoo
That was awesome! Thanks for posting it.
scav
@D58826: Pshaw. As though the meanings of words actually mattered anymore. Independents are disenfranchised if their preferences are not reflected in the internal Democratic selection of a candidate. They’re in fact the most disenfranchised people in the world as they’re not catered to in the choice of a Republican party candidate, a Green Party candidate, a Libertarian Party candidate or a Monster Raving Loony party candidate. People are eating food at the other table that the Independents didn’t order!. Oppression like unto that suffered by devout evangelicals witnessing LGBT people that are happily coupled and public recognized as such!
rikyrah
Because, this is who they are.
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Jim DeMint: Voter ID Helps Elect ‘More Conservative Candidates’
SUBMITTED BY Miranda Blue on Thursday, 4/28/2016 10:45 am
Jim DeMint, the former South Carolina senator and Tea Party firebrand who is now the president of the Heritage Foundation, became the latest in a string of conservatives to admit that restrictive voting laws such as voter ID requirements are an attempt to help Republicans win elections, telling a St. Louis radio host yesterday that voter ID laws help elect “more conservative candidates.”
Talk radio host Jamie Allman asked DeMint about Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s move to restore the voting rights of people in the state who had served time for felonies, a draconian restriction that disproportionately affected African-Americans by design. DeMint responded that McAuliffe’s action was “awfully suspicious” and tied it to what he claimed was a Democratic plan to get votes from “illegals” and through “voter fraud.”
“Well, it’s awfully suspicious coming into a big election in a state where it’s actually pretty close,” he said. “I mean, states can decide who votes, but the governor themselves without legislative action, that seems over the top to me. I haven’t seen an complete analysis here, but the left is trying to draw votes from illegals, from voter fraud, a lot of different things, so this kind of fits right in to trying to find another group that they can basically count on to vote their way.”
“So it’s really a bigger issue,” he added, “and that’s why the left fights voter ID or any kind of picture ID to know that it is actually a registered voter who’s voting. And so it’s something we’re working on all over the country, because in the states where they do have voter ID laws you’ve seen, actually, elections begin to change towards more conservative candidates.”
MattF
@Redshift: Well, back in the ’50’s my dad was sure that Stevenson was going to beat Eisenhower– via, basically, the same reasoning.
Mike in NC
This will be our last night at Lake Tahoe, and all of us wish we could live in this mountain paradise full time. We’ve visited Reno, Carson City, Virginia City, Truckee, and several smaller smaller places around the lake. The people are wonderful and the scenery is gorgeous. Returning to reality will be painful!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@starscream:
The bros are getting a lot of pushback though. I think reality has elbowed its way into the Berniebubble.
Miss Bianca
@NotMax: Thanks. And don’t call me…well, you know the drill.
Seriously, I’m usually about 20 years behind the pop culture curve at any given time, so under ordinary circumstances this would have taken me another 10 years to discover on my own.
Miss Bianca
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): No, I didn’t – will look for it. Are you OK? You mentioned some ill health…got a little worried.
Brachiator
@Ella in New Mexico:
Yep, Trump is a bad, bad man. How dare he be a bigot and say anti-woman things.
But people are willing to vote for him because they believe that he says what he means, and that he cares for America. His talk about “putting America first” may scare some people, but it exhilarates others.
I was listening to some of the people who were waiting to see him in Costa Mesa yesterday. This included people from Latinos for Trump, and Black Christian Women for Trump.
A woman from Venezuela said that Sanders sounded like Chavez. She is an American citizen who came to the US 13 years again and waited 8 years to be able to become a citizen. She asked why the Democrats believe that immigration laws can be flouted. Aren’t the rules supposed to be the rules.
Another woman mentioned that her 72 year old grandfather had never voted before in his entire life. But now he supports Trump because he is not a regular politician.
Another person waiting believes in Trump because he is fighting both the Republicans and the Democrats.
It comes down to the idea that these people trust Trump, warts and all, to act in their best interest. They don’t trust Hillary and believe that Sanders is just a socialist crank who would ruin the country.
Yutsano
@singfoom: The big tell: I saw none of this whining about Florida, which is also closed. Seems like things only mattering to white people for $2000 Alex.
singfoom
@sherparick:
I think you need to read my comment again. I was talking about speaking to a family member and not talking about voting for Trump. I’d never do that so I think you missed something.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: I’m glad you liked it. I read Wiley everyday, and it’s always worth it.
gene108
@MazeDancer:
His supporters do not strike me as the type, who enjoy the hippity-hop urban music.
If you could do a country/western or classic 1970’s rock era cover, you will have people singing along.
Brachiator
@rikyrah:
This lays out their dissatisfactions pretty clearly.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Miss Bianca: I’m hanging in; chronic stuff can be a rollercoaster, but generally the ride ends without a wreck. Thanks for asking.
Mustang Bobby has written a number of plays, so you’ll have some choices. And if your company does one and can bring the playwright to town, do so. He’s a fascinating and charming man in 3D, as I learned when I got to have lunch and coffee with him on 2 of his trips to OH. I’m now hoping another author’s schedule can accommodate a coffee date when he’s in the neighborhood. Mr. Minkle, do you have your calendar handy?
delk
@NotMax: Did you see Bob’s Burgers Sunday?
Chris Parnell played Bob’s childhood friend.
Miss Bianca
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I would love to have Mustang Bobby come up to CO, we’d have a grand old time talking academic theater shop, I am sure!
Glad things are looking up – yeah, chronic pain/conditions can be a b*tch and a half.
sherparick
@rikyrah: The stupid, it burns, it burns. If you want to see disrespect and hatred, go back into the archives and look at what the Obama and Clinton campaigns were saying about each other 8 years ago.
Regarding all these flippant “start a 3rd party” comments, this infiltration of consumerism into politics, all I can point out is that there are already plenty of “3rd Parties” The Green Party of Ms. Stein has been around now for 30 years, and they have not been able to elect a single congressman/women and I would like to see if they have ever elected a state legislature. There is also the “Socialist Workers Party,” Lyndon Larouche’s “Labor Party” and of course the “Libertarian Party.” I wish the Salon journalists and there like would all “google” the “12th Amendment of the Constitution” and see the actual nuts and bolts of how a U.S. President gets elected. Its is not a pretty picture for “3rd parties” and the rules are certainly not fair or “democratic.” http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-xii
The fact is Hillary will govern and appoint to the left of Obama, in part because Sanderistas and outside protest groups will both enable her to as well as forcing her to do so, as they have with all progressive, liberal Presidents from Lincoln, through TR, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Harry Truman, JFK, LBJ, and Obama. I left out Bill Clinton’s Presidency because outside groups and liberals did not push back, even as Gingrich and the Conservative Movement plotted to repeal 100 years of Government reform. Hillary will govern from the Left. “Even the “liberal” New Republic has moved left.:
https://newrepublic.com/article/133170/hillary-will-govern-like-bernie-people-think
D58826
@rikyrah: Let’s get real. If the shoe was on the other foot and Hillary had the support of the ‘disenfranchised’ independents, the Bernie Bros would have pitchforks at the doors of the polling places to keep the non-democrats out. Bernie knew the rules of the game when he threw his hat in the ring. If his disappointed supporters did not, then maybe they should brush up on Civics 101 before the next election to learn how the game is played. The much maligned 6 month limit in New York has been on the books since 1911.
And insofar as political corruption, maybe Bernie is made of better stuff than the rest of us and routinely walks on water but his administration will be staffed with the same feet of clay mortals as every other administration.
trollhattan
@Mike in NC: 99 miles from my door to South Lake Tahoe, which can take 2 hours or 6, depending. It’s another universe up there, to be sure. Mark Twain spends time there in Roughing It.
D58826
@singfoom: and by getting involved in the process at the state and local levels. The primary rules are set by state law and the parties not the federal government.
NotMax
@delk
Nope.
Nothing shall shake my conviction the look of Cyril Figgis was modeled after Keith Olbermann.
catclub
@FlipYrWhig:
My response to this (and probably yours) is: “No, you don’t. He’s a fucking idiot who is rich.”
Aimai
@Ella in New Mexico: wasnt that always Rush Limbaugh’s line? That he was only exaggerating for effect? I wonder if they are basically fox and rush brainwashed snd the cognitive dissonance has just gotten too much for them?
Ella in New Mexico
@Aimai: I’d estimate 80-80% of his parent’s political news info comes from Fox, the rest from the local paper with USA today thrown in on occasion. And of course the echo chamber of their friends and extended family. They unplugged their internet years ago Because it was “too confusing”.
Patricia Kayden
@Redshift: Who the hell is Mudcat Saunders? And why does his opinion mean anything to anyone? I heard Hayes mention him last night and was wondering why I or anyone else should care about Mudcat’s (whoever the hell he is) opinion on the elections.
Sure Trump could win — if Democrats sit at home in November for some dumb reason. But given his unpopularity among most demographic groups in the electorate, his win is unlikely.
That video featuring Black Donald Trump is hilarious! That last line is priceless. Trump is so easy to mock.
AnotherBruce
@Chyron HR: When are we gonna get a “I want to make passionate love to this comment button?”