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We still have time to mess this up!

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Everybody saw this coming.

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I was promised a recession.

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Seeing as Cole is already twitter cheering the Pens-Sharks, I am stuck putting up the open thread for the game that either makes it a best of 5 or heavily tilts the ice to the Pens.

Unrelated Sports Update 1:

This is some amazing trolling by the PGA:

Bravo Zulu

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  3. 3.

    glory b

    Pittsburgher but not a hockey fan.

    However, I see that Nate Silver says the numbers favor the Pens.

    Go Pens!

  7. 7.

    ? Martin

    Trump too toxic for Cadillac’s 45-64 year old upper-middle class white male demographic, apparently. When Republicans are losing old, rich white males, they’re pretty fucked.

  10. 10.

    khead

    @? Martin:

    Yeah, that was my first thought too – but I think I saw a story recently that said Trump’s demo is a little bit less well-off than what you describe. Still kind of a ‘wow’ moment though.

  12. 12.

    hellslittlestangel

    Trolling? What the PGA has done hurts Trump financially, politically and psychologically. A troll couldn’t do this much damage in its wildest dreams!

    And this is just getting started. The hits will keep on coming, and in the end Trump will be lucky to get 30% of the popular vote.

  13. 13.

    hellslittlestangel

    ABout goddamned time.

    Well, yes. This is exactly the right time for the shit to hit the fan. I was actually worried about the Trump “University” story coming out before the primary was decided, when Republicans still had a chance to leap out of their runaway clown car. There’s nothing the fuckers can do now except pray for a painless death.

  14. 14.

    John Revolta

    the TV golf demo isn’t the Talking Yam’s political demo.

    Not by choice maybe, but they’re stuck with him anyway.

    And I’m not sure that’s even true. Who watches TV golf? The 1%ers? I don’t have cable, but what are the ads like? Are they pushing Porsches, or Bud Light?

  15. 15.

    Warren Terra

    The context for the move of that golf tournament:

    Apparently it’s been held at the same course for more than 60 years. Trump bought the golf course in 2012, and the contract to hold the tournament at the site had most of a decade left to go. But: the contract was contingent on the tournament having sponsorship, and the longtime lead sponsor (Cadillac) announced they were pulling their sponsorship, possibly because they didn’t want the association with Trump. And no other deep-pocketed sponsor could be found willing to publicly associate with Trump. Hence: the tournament moved. Because even those wanting to market to fans of a sport essentially defined by aspirational entitled White assholes find association with Trump problematic.

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    I’m still holding on to my dream that Trump implodes like Jack Ryan, and when the Republican candidate comes out on stage in Cincinnati, it’s the only possible choice when there are no choices left and you need a placeholder to prop up your end of the ballot:

    Alan Keyes.

    (Apparently, that was W’s bonding moment with Obama when Obama became a senator in 2004: he said, Senator Obama, we have something in common — we both debated Alan Keyes.)

  17. 17.

    Jeffro

    Due to my lifelong ability to root for teams and thus absolutely destroy any possibility of them winning, a friend (fan of all Pittsburgh sports teams) is paying me $5 to root for the San Jose Sharks.

    So….GO SHARKS!!!

  18. 18.

    Jeffro

    @hellslittlestangel:

    before the primary was decided, when Republicans still had a chance to leap out of their runaway clown car.

    It is amazing in retrospect how utterly craven the “deep bench” had to be, every one of them, to not stand up to this insecure blowhard and knock him right off the stage with Trump U, his insults towards vets and immigrants, his sheer lack of knowledge about anything but his own greed.

    Even more amazing to see how many of these bootlickers have fallen into line once he was the presumptive nominee. I mean, Rubio, Christie, and Graham especially. McCain too (even though he wasn’t on the ‘bench’ this go-round) – how can he live with himself after Trump’s earlier disgusting comments about POWs?

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Have you ever heard Diane Ford’s routine about having ancestors from Scandinavia? This story cleaned it up a bit:

    That continuous shift between genteel appearance and deadpan sotto voce reality is one of the things that has always informed her act, from the moment she first came out onstage to tell us in her no-nonsense manner that she’s from Minnesota and that her Scandinavian forebears fought through dark weather, icy seas and vast, hostile distances, “Only to wind up in a place just as goddamned miserable as the one they left. “

    I distinctly remember that punchline being the much less family-friendly just as fucking miserable as the one they left.

  33. 33.

    Miss Bianca

    @Omnes Omnibus: Is it not? I was thinking something very similar – about northern Michigan, I hasten to add.

    May I ask a stupid Wisconsin question? – I know there’s a town there called Fish Creek – what part of the state is it in? Is it on the water?

    @Mnemosyne: I blew by it, ma’am – I’ll have to check it out!

  34. 34.

    khead

    @efgoldman:

    Investments too. And drugs.

    Also, I was trying to say that the 45-64 year old white folks who support Trump maybe aren’t quite as “rich” as the PGA demo Martin described. More like small business owners who may play golf – and have still done well – but not exactly loaded according to the article. Cadillacs and Lincolns, but definitely not Porsche drivers (unless it’s being leased by the business, of course). Sorry if I wasn’t clear there earlier.

  38. 38.

    Miss Bianca

    @Omnes Omnibus: Ah. I’ve heard of Door County. Supposed to be quite pretty, I believe. (Please don’t roll your eyes too hard – I really know so little about WI!)

    It just swam into my memory that my father’s family owned a house there way, way back in the day (30s-40s).

  41. 41.

    Miss Bianca

    @Omnes Omnibus: that makes more sense to me than you know. Now I know how my Dad ended up buying a house on the coast of Maine.

    How I’d love to see the town! I may have to make a Wisconsin trip sooner rather than later,

  44. 44.

    Luthe

    @Mnemosyne: Jack Ryan is my all time favorite political story, if for no other reason than I can explain to people how Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager is the reason Barack Obama is president. Also too, the Crazification Factor.

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