Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

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

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

I really should read my own blog.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

The lights are all blinking red.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

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First, a very useful Chrome script:

When beloved celebrities of color die, there’s a particular way that the media likes to remember them that lauds the deceased’s legacy of somehow having “transcended” their race.

In the days following both Prince and Muhammad Ali‘s deaths, both men were remembered for the ways in which they “defied conventional notions of race” and made it so that their color and religion were nearly invisible. For the record, Prince was unabashedly proud of his blackness and Ali was widely known for the ways in which his blackness deeply informed his personal and social politics.

Still, though, for many celebrities of color (both living and dead) positive media coverage often goes hand in hand with the intentional downplaying or erasure of their race.

With that depressing fact in mind, Los Angeles Times editor Dexter Thomas built Un-Transcender, a handy little Chrome extension that will scan through any articles you bring up in the browser and replace the words “transcended race” with “was retroactively deemed safe by white people.”

I know everyone says they laugh our loud when they see stuff like this, but I actually hurt my self with a deep belly laugh when I saw this.

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Second, I love movies and television in general, so I found this very interesting.

It’s also taking over video games. If you want a great channel on youtube to follow regarding movies, I would recommend Every Frame is a Painting. Here is a sample. He’s great.

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Speaking of video games, I just finished the final expansion and end of the series for the Witcher, Witcher 3, Blood and Wine. I loved everything about this game, from the play style, to the story line, to even the dreaded cinematic cut scenes. It’s just a beautiful game.

Witcher-3-screenshot-6

I easily put this game up there with the original Deus Ex, Knights of the Old Republic, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, and the Baldur’s Gate series.

As to games I am following closely for their release, I have pre-purchased the Technomancer (because it was on sale and I knew I was going to buy it and I have 2 adult men, myself, three dogs, and a cat to feed and someone is always getting sick or injured every payday), Seven: The Days Long Gone, Cyberpunk 2077 from the guys who made the Witcher seriers, the new Deus Ex, the second Divinity: Original Sin, and finally, this joyous news:

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YES!

That’s it for me for a couple hours. I’ll be back after Hitler is crowned ruler of Mordor and watch alleged progressives lose the fucking plot in real time on tv and twitter.

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  1. 1.

    JustRuss

    I’ve been enjoying Witcher 2. 3 will have to wait until I get a new computer…and a job.

  2. 2.

    PatrickG

    I’ll be back after Hitler is crowned ruler of Mordor and watch alleged progressives lose the fucking plot in real time on tv and twitter.

    I want you to hold me. As in, hold me back from looking at Facebook, because my gawd.

    ETA: Fix that poorly closed blockquote, John. :)

  4. 4.

    aimai

    I love the instant translator for “transcended race.” My grandfather, who was accused in his day of many things and deeply hated used to say to me (paraphrasing because its a long time ago) “Now I’m a pariah but if I live long enough I will become an eccentric, and then an icon.” That was pretty much true.

  6. 6.

    joel hanes

    Guy Fieri’s food shows could be pretty good if Guy Fieri were not in them.
    He has on all these cooks who make amazing things, and then completely prevents them from talking or usefully demonstrating.

  8. 8.

    Cacti

    From the article on the un-transcender:

    “Note that this doesn’t work very well on coverage of white people because white people tend to not have to ‘transcend race,’” Thomas pointed out. “For whatever reason.”

    Yep. A real mystery. ;-)

  9. 9.

    Juju

    I can’t stand Guy Fieri and his hair that looks like a toilet bowl brush. His cooking game shows are stupid, and although I like the information on his eating show, I can’t stand him and I don’t want to watch him eat. Also not too crazy about Alton Brown and his idiot cooking game show. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

  10. 10.

    quakerinabasement

    When someone tells the truth in a way that is both simple and surprising, it’s hard not to laugh.

  11. 11.

    pharniel

    @JustRuss: I know your feel bro, got laid off recently and I’m holding off buying any new games.

    As for V:tM 4th edition – Onyx Path was working on it and had some really fucking crazy awesome ideas then Paradox purchased the remaining White Wolf properties and the corporate name from CCP (the makers of Eve Online) back in October or so and a few things happened.
    1) They let Onyx Path make real second editions of the New World of Darkness games and renamed it to the Chronicles of Darkness.
    2) Killed the Onyx Path open dev 4th edition games and resurrected White Wolf as a company/studio. They’re first job is to produce a new Vampire game. They plan on releasing 4th Edition (updated for the 2010’s) with the video game.

    They held a couple big larps and then have been on radio silence. Some of their marketing is…..very EdgeLord 90’s. The ‘lead storyteller’ is a One True Wayer in regards to roll-playing games. I have hopes for the vidja game though.

  12. 12.

    Benw

    @Baud, for the millionth time, eating two dozen Krispy Kremes in one sitting is not “transcendental”!

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    He would bring the rope……
    You know that.
    Even pick out the tree for them ???

    …………………………….

    Sen. Tim Scott Calls Trump’s Judge Comments ‘Racially Toxic,’ Not Racist
    JUNE 7, 2016, 1:49 PM EDT

    While Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) was deeply troubled by Donald Trump’s attacks against U.S. District Gonzalo Curiel — who Trump has repeatedly dismissed as “Mexican” and biased against him — Scott plans to continue supporting Trump and says the GOP’s presidential nominee has not crossed a line that would cause him to revoke his endorsement.

    “His comments were certainly racially toxic. I don’t know the intent of his heart so I’m not going to call them racist comments but certainly they are racially toxic,” Scott told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday. “The fact of the matter is we have to find a way to unite this country around one goal, one mission with everyone in the same boat.”

    Scott signaled there was a line that Trump could cross where he would revoke his endorsement, but “we’re not there yet.”

  14. 14.

    Adam L Silverman

    It is always amazing to see the way Ali gets referred to given that he was, before he abandoned the Nation of Islam and embraced Sufism, a Black militant and nationalist. Always amazing that white Americans that were freaked out by busing were willing to embrace him despite his deeply held convictions and beliefs.

  15. 15.

    Hal

    I think it was a comment on a NY Times story recently where the commenter criticized Obama for not completed Martin Luther King’s quest to make America a color blind society.

    I just ignored the comment and moved on because there really is nothing to say when your that clueless.

  17. 17.

    Hal

    @joel hanes: It drives me insane when he sticks his fingers in something to taste on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. I realize that’s (hopefully) a sample just for the show, but yuck.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    @rikyrah:
    I wonder what the distinction is between “racially toxic” and “racist”. Is there any chance Senator Scott can enlighten us?

  19. 19.

    Iowa Old Lady

    We have reached the moment when you can just ignore all the preposterous predictions and wait for a few hours when they will be proven wrong. Thank god.

  20. 20.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    Whenever I see Fieri on the tube, I have to choke down the urge to destroy my TV in a fit of rage.

    He irritates me.

  21. 21.

    Gian

    @Adam L Silverman:
    See Alabama versus USC football in the late 60s.
    winning goes a long way.

    I think HBO ran a documentary of sorts about it. plenty of the USC players were 1) greeted as liberators by the locals and 2) some carried guns.

    there’s a reason besides Viet Nam that our politics are obsessed with the 1960s so 50 years later.

  22. 22.

    bmoak

    There was actually a Saturday morning cartoon starring Ali (he provided his own voice) as a globetrotting adventurer in the late 70s that I vaguely remember when I was little. I guess he was past the controversial part of his career by then.

  23. 23.

    aimai

    @Amir Khalid: A thing can be racially toxic, but its going to far to ascribe racism to the actual person doing the racially toxic thing. Because calling someone a racist is the same as saying they are really not nice. And we can’t say that prominent Republicans or the Republican nominee are not nice people. Because we just can’t.

  25. 25.

    K488

    Re video games, my son (K503) just showed me a recent extension to Fallout 4 (I think I have this right), Far Harbor, which uses the island where my mom lives (she’s 93!) as its basis. Very, very weird to see familiar territory, even buildings, ravaged by war and inhabited by zombies. There’s a scene at an out-door restaurant that is based on a place we walk down to on a regular basis when visiting my mom. K503 and I were all “WTF? That’s Beal’s!” Talk about uncanny!

  26. 26.

    AkaDad

    I’m looking forward to putting at least 200 hours into The Witcher 3. I’m also looking forward to playing Fallout 4 and Dark Souls 2 & 3. There’s also rumors about a new Red Dead Redemption coming evetually.

  27. 27.

    smith

    I see Trump finally did cross the line for Mark Kirk — he withdrew his endorsement. Nice try, Mark. I’m still voting for Duckworth,

  29. 29.

    jake the antisoshul soshulist

    I remember the first time I noticed lens flare. My first thought was how did they miss that screw up. Surely, they didn’t mean to leave that in. Now, I hardly notice it. Was Easy Rider the first intentional use? That is the earliest I can remember.

  30. 30.

    joel hanes

    @AkaDad:

    I’m also looking forward to playing Fallout 4

    Better reserve a couple months in which your productivity in all other areas falls to a new low.
    Most addictive game I’ve ever played.
    Sit down to accomplish “just this one objective” and look up from the screen to realize that ten hours have passed.

  34. 34.

    PatrickG

    @Baud:

    Probably why you got so few votes, Baud. You have to be — literally — one of the people.

  36. 36.

    MomSense

    @debbie:

    I predict a sizable undervote this election. I can see a lot of Repubkicans showing up to vote local and House/Senate elections and either skipping or writing in someone for president.

  38. 38.

    ? Martin

    Just voted for our next president. Nice turnout by Dems. A friend of mine who is the local Dem organizer was there and said that Dem turnout was quite good, NPP turnout was quite good for Dems – lots of mail-in American Independent ballots being surrendered in favor of an in-person vote. GOP turnout quite low.

    California may be the least receptive state to Trump. He’s going to get annihilated here.

    And I started a new voting convention- no DA incumbents until this shit gets fixed. No exceptions.

  39. 39.

    MomSense

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    O/T but I think some of us could use a music thread one of these days. I haven’t had enough music in my life lately and found myself singing Billy Joel today. Something must be done about this!

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    @Baud:

    You and I are sympatico when it comes to voting. Vote every damned time. No exceptions. Hold your nose if you must but VOTE.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @MomSense: It’s funny but the shunning of caligula sort of took the wind out of the late night music threads.

  42. 42.

    Baud

    @? Martin:

    California may be the least receptive state to Trump. He’s going to get annihilated here.

    But that’s the exact opposite of putting California in play. I don’t know who to believe anymore.

  44. 44.

    ? Martin

    @joel hanes: I’m on my 2nd play through, this time on survival mode. 10x better game in survival. Much harder, more immersive. Slower progression though due to increased care and infrastructure building. I’m about to head to Far Harbor for the first time now.

    I played the original Fallout a million years ago. I’m really enjoying this.

  47. 47.

    Mike J

    @Baud:

    People are saying turnout is high in Cali. Shouldn’t that help Bernie win the state?

    One of his delegates got busted selling acid to a cop, so probably.

  51. 51.

    Gravenstone

    Had a friend on FB link approvingly to a Moonie Times article about Hillary Clinton wearing a designer jacket to give a speech income inequality. I chided her for her choice of sources and she launched into a diatribe of Republican projection that included calling her a narcissist. I jumped on that and told her she was confusing Hillary with Hair Furor, who is the actual narcissist. Her response was rather telling – “Ugh, I’m debating candidates with you.”

    The man is truly an embarrassment for the Republicans outside of his knuckle dragging base.

  53. 53.

    PatrickG

    @debbie:

    I’m 36 and have missed one vote in my voting-eligible life, from when I was stupid enough to think US Consulates let you just walk in and cast ballots in state-level elections.

    The system was rigged! I’m still a bit embarrassed at my naïveté.

  54. 54.

    AkaDad

    @joel hanes:

    Lol, that sounds like many of my gaming sessions.

    When it comes to video games, I have OCD. I have to collect everything, do all the side quests, and explore every inch of the map. One of my settlements will probably have a bar called BJ’s.

  55. 55.

    ? Martin

    @Baud: It’s not as high as 2008 from what I’ve read. Given the calls this morning from the Sanders campaign for volunteers, I think they’re down. This week is finals for the UCs and graduation for many high schools. Bad week for an election for Sanders.

    My son switched his vote from Sanders to Clinton in the last week or two. He thinks a number of his friends are doing the same. I think they realized that Trump needed to be stopped at all costs, and Sanders wasn’t the answer there.

  59. 59.

    ? Martin

    @AkaDad:

    When it comes to video games, I have OCD. I have to collect everything, do all the side quests, and explore every inch of the map.

    [nods]

  61. 61.

    Mike J

    BTW, just how stupid is Chuck Todd? He was just on tv saying it was bad of AP to declare Hillary the winner because we all knew how it would play out six weeks ago but didn’t say anything.

    AP released their story when they did because that was when they had a hard count of delegates that put Clinton over the top. If they had had quotes from enough delegates to put her over the top last week, they would have run the story last week. Nothing nefarious in the timing, it was when people confirmed for whom they were voting.

    And unrelated, this is the first song that pops up in itunes if I type in “vote”. So let us all be devoted to the art of moving butts

  65. 65.

    humboldtblue

    @Gian:

    It was in ’66 that an ball lack Texas Western (led by Don Haskins) team defeated Adolph Rupp’s all-white Kentucky team (point guard — Pat Riley) to win the NCAA title.

    USC beating Alabama in 1970 with Sam Cunningham, Clarence Davis and QB Jimmy Jones (all black men, the first all-black backfield in D-1 college football) was the fuel that Bear Bryant needed to convince his deeply racist Jim Crow supporters that they needed black players. Bryant brought Cunningham into the locker room following the game and lectured his players and proclaimed that Cunningham was the standard they needed to meet, he wanted them to see what a real football player looked like.

    The 60s were the era of the emergent and dominant black baseball player as well, just look at the names — Mays, McCovey, Brock, Allen, Aaron, Jackson, Frank Robinson, Gibson.

    That extended to the women as well, Wilma Rudolph, Althea Gibson and Willye White.

    Given the chance to perform on the biggest stage against the best competition black men and women not only proved their worth they played a key role in destroying the nastiest and most vicious stereotypes and it was crowned by Ali’s braggadocio and skill as well as the most iconic image in Olympic history when Tommy Smith and John Carlos showed their pride.

  67. 67.

    Gravenstone

    @Gravenstone: Good lord, the absence of one little fucking word totally changes the entire intent of my post. *sigh*

    “Ugh, I’m not debating candidates with you”

  68. 68.

    MazeDancer

    POTUS has left the White House for destination unknown. But he’s booked for NY tomorrow.

    AP did the world a favor by using 9 months of following the Super Delegates to release the sure thing of math upon the world last night.

    Hillary releases this stunning ad early.

    History being made tonight. Will POTUS be there?

    Watch that ad. I sobbed through the whole thing. (And I have written a whole lotta commercials in my life, so not really an an easy mark.) I remember the 72 years of torture and fight it took for US women to get suffrage every time I vote.

    Think that tens of millions will continue to feel the undeniable, life-changing impact of a woman being so close to being President. And we will not be moved.

    Bernie won’t fight that.

  70. 70.

    Gravenstone

    @? Martin:

    This week is finals for the UCs and graduation for many high schools. Bad week for an election for Sanders.

    More evidence that the system is rigged, man!

  71. 71.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    It’s something that I don’t think I’ll ever understand, but most people who are racist make exceptions while never questioning the underlying belief. When we first started staying at a hotel in Naples during my brother’s terminal illness, my mom was really uncomfortable that most of the staff was black, but by the time we left, she had particular staffers that she would stop and talk to. She even sought one of them out the day my brother died because they had talked several times about his ongoing illness.

    And yet those many positive interactions and acquaintenceships will never undermine her basic beliefs about black people. I. Just. Don’t. Get. It.

  74. 74.

    MaryRC

    I love the Every Frame a Painting guy; he always shows me a fresh way to look at movies.

  77. 77.

    Hal

    Oh glob please just make this the end of the primaries. That’s all I want for Christmas.

  78. 78.

    dmsilev

    @AkaDad: Dragon Age: Inquisition sucked a few months out of my life. The worst was this one pathetic side quest where the librarian at your stronghold asked you to track down a bunch of missing books. I’m the Inquisitor, the one they call the Herald of Andraste, I have walked the Fade, traveled through time, and faced down a being who fancies himself a living god. And you want me to retrieve some overdue library books? Twitch. Twitch. Right, I’m on it.

    Sigh. RPG OCD is a terrible thing.

  81. 81.

    Darkrose

    Final Fantasy XIV Patch 3.3 dropped at 3 am. I’ve played a lot of video games, and I have to say that it’s hands-down the best-looking game I’ve ever played. I’m behind, so I’d just gotten to the 3.0 expansion final boss fight and I had to take a moment just to hang in the air on my flying chicken and drink in the amazing visuals.

    I’m away from the gaming rig for a couple of days, though. My wife found a good deal on a hotel in Morro Bay, so we drove down 5 for a bit of R&R and temps below 90. Always weird seeing the billboards blaming Obama, Pelosi and Brown for the California drought. Also, pro tip: don’t put your medicinal chocolate in your bag that’s going in the trunk if you’re driving in the summer.

  82. 82.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Benw:

    eating two dozen Krispy Kremes in one sitting is not “transcendental”!

    Have you tried it?

  85. 85.

    Chyron HR

    Sounds like YOU GUYS are itchin’ to get tied to the tracks in front of a freight train to FLAVORTOWN, baby!

  86. 86.

    Raven

    Stuck in the bar in the Stone Mountain Marriot because the room cable doesn’t have the soccer!

  87. 87.

    MomSense

    @MazeDancer:

    A little over a month ago all my boys were home and I overheard my two oldest talking about how psyched they are to vote for the first woman president. It was a really satisfying moment for me. This is a BFD!

  88. 88.

    JPL

    The President is attending Cassandra Butts funeral tonight according to the NYTimes twitter feed. I hope Tim Cotton rots in hell for holding up her nomination. Oh, Cruz can join him.

  89. 89.

    Darkrose

    @dmsilev: In FFXIV, I’m the Warrior of Light, blessed by the Mother Crystal, master of two DPS and one healing magic classes, slayer of multiple gods and close to becoming a god myself.

    And people are still asking me to deliver letters to some guy across town because they can’t be arsed.

  90. 90.

    Randy P

    @jake the antisoshul soshulist:

    Was Easy Rider the first intentional use [of lens flare]?

    I was watching the geeky extras on some Kurosawa movie, and a famous American director (Altman, I think) was going all fan-boy about Kurosawa. He talked about the moment when the camera suddenly pointed directly at the sun, nobody had ever done that before, he couldn’t get over it, etc., etc.

    I think that lens flare moment was from Rashomon (1950), but I can’t swear to it. Might also have been Seven Samurai (1954). Or I might have completely hallucinated both the Kurosawa lens flare and Altman’s talking about it.

    Memory is a funny thing. I could swear I have first-hand memory of some of the famous TV moments which, I am now told by sites such as Snopes, never happened.

  95. 95.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @Baud:

    She’s got a good production team.

    She’s got a lot of the Obama ’08 and ’12 digital/media team either as advisors or officially on board. That’s made a difference from the ’08 campaign, and a welcome one.

  99. 99.

    Randy P

    @AkaDad:

    When it comes to video games, I have OCD. I have to collect everything, do all the side quests, and explore every inch of the map.

    I’m that way with many things too, though I’m not currently playing a lot of games.

    Does anyone remember an XKCD from a few years back that extended for what seemed like literally miles beyond the visible page to left and right (and possibly up and down as well)? If so, any idea how to track it down? I wasted probably an hour exploring that thing, and I’m still itching to explore the rest of it. If it is in fact finite. I wouldn’t put it past Munroe to have somehow created an infinite JPG.

  101. 101.

    Randy P

    @Mike J: Thanks. Well, I guess I know what I’m doing Saturday :-)

    How did you track that down so quickly?

  104. 104.

    AkaDad

    @dmsilev:
    @Darkrose:

    Yup, fetch quests are the worst, but those books and letters are clearly integral to the game’s lore.

    Not only did Skyrim have mostly fetch quests, but when you entered an area you had a loading screen. Enter a building, loading screen. Exit a building, loading screen. I spent half the game in loading screens and menus.

  105. 105.

    dmsilev

    @AkaDad: Well, for that particular DA:I quest, there wasn’t any lore. You had to retrieve n copies of the same book (where n was a few dozen), the book was a trashy novel written by one of the NPCs (who knew that a cynical dwarven rogue had a sideline business writing bodice-rippers?), and you couldn’t read the thing even if you wanted to.

  107. 107.

    Mike J

    SecuriTay ‏@SwiftOnSecurity 11 minutes ago
    I’ve heard Linux On The Desktop is going to be Bernie’s VP.

  108. 108.

    PatrickG

    With 0.4% in, Clinton up 57.2-42.8. No, I am not an obsessively refreshing results crank.

    (The refreshing is even more obsessive given that the page auto-refreshes every thirty seconds. I am ashamed.)

  109. 109.

    Mike J

    Trump, Sanders, Clinton, all scheduled to go on at 10PM PDT.

    Who will go on first? Will nets cut away from one to another? Will people hang back intentionally to do the cutting rather than being cut?

  110. 110.

    rikyrah

    BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

    From Luvvie:

    We Gotta Talk About Uncle Bernie’s Struggle Hair

    Awesomely Luvvie — June 7, 2016

    Listen. Folks keep talking about issues and stances and policy, ignoring the real important thing about this whole election. When are we going to have a real conversation about Bernie Sanders’ struggle hair? When are we going to get down to the nitty gritty and get to the heart of the matter of why that man refuses to get a good brush, some anti-frizz spray, holding gel? We are outchea hustling backwards, because we don’t want to confront what matters.

    Uncle Bernie takes to these streets with bedhead, as if he ain’t got access to a haircut to lay his strands down better and some pomade and I do not understand. And it does add to his “Get off my lawn” disposition. I like Bernie, though. The cantankerous in me appreciates the cantankerous in him. Real recognize real but this hair of his just makes me cackle. He always looks like he just got really shocking news and had to run out his house real quick.

  111. 111.

    joel hanes

    @? Martin:

    10x better game in survival.

    You are Hard Core (and this from someone who mostly doesn’t wear power armor except for the load-carrying power)

  113. 113.

    Mike J

    @dmsilev: Actually, good question. Trump and Clinton must be going on 10pm EDT, but I read over the weekend Bernie was scheduled for 1am EDT,.

  114. 114.

    dmsilev

    @Mike J: That makes more sense. WTF is Trump going to talk about? I mean, other than that mean Mexican-descent judge who isn’t being fair to him, but of course he’s totally not racist?

  115. 115.

    Mike J

    Anybody notice Trump has same multi flag backdrop that Clinton used in the speech in which she took off the bark?

  118. 118.

    AkaDad

    @dmsilev:

    I was being snarky about the lore. Many times fetch quests are a complete waste of time and yet, we still do them.

  119. 119.

    dmsilev

    Anyway, there’s only 3% of NJ in, but so far Clinton is cruising (up 20 points).

  120. 120.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @dmsilev: I think this is his “counterpunch” to her speech about him last week. My guess is he’ll insult her but who knows? Maybe he’ll talk foreign policy. Or sell steaks.

  121. 121.

    Gravenstone

    @dmsilev:

    And you want me to retrieve some overdue library books?

    So you really appreciated the minor quest in Fallout 4 that asks you to return an overdue library book, after a nuclear apocalypse?

  122. 122.

    Run, Lillian!

    @PatrickG:

    I’m on Benchmarks twitter feed. They obsessively report every detail so I don’t have to worry that I am missing anything. It makes me feel like less of a refresh nut.

  123. 123.

    dmsilev

    @Iowa Old Lady: Or, more likely, push Trump University (sic).

    Anyone know of live streams of Clinton’s event? Not particularly curious about watching ferret-head live.

  124. 124.

    Darkrose

    @AkaDad: I did get a side quest in FFXIV recently where the exclamation point guy realized who I was and apologized profusely for sending me on a menial errand.

  129. 129.

    Mike J

    @redshirt: Galaga was sooooo much better. When I was 13, Melanie, the really really super cute 16 year old down the street worked at the arced and she would load the machine up with free games because I was like her little brother. Which I understood, but it still sucked, but I got free video games. It was a very confusing time.

  130. 130.

    Elie

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    I hear you but I have no problem with this demented, low life person doing what he always does: the lowest, meanest, most repulsive action he can take. Its a testament to how she has rung his bell that he is still struggling and staggering around the ring to “pay her back”. But that is who and what he is. He won’t ultimately step on anything except a banana peel, slipping into the grave of history. Loser today, loser tomorrow and loser forever. Donnie, the ultimate LOSER Trump…

  133. 133.

    redshirt

    @Mike J: I’ve played Galaga. It’s no Asteroids. Dude, inertia. Dude, so many buttons. HYPERSPACE!!!! (which I never used of course)

    I am seriously an Asteroids champ and challenge any BJer to best me.

  136. 136.

    dmsilev

    NJ called for Clinton, and she leads in early returns from NM and SD. Looks like there isn’t any sort of last minute Sanders Surge.

  137. 137.

    AkaDad

    In the first five minutes of Dark Souls you encounter this behemoth boss. I tried at least 10 times to beat it with a broken sword. I knew the game was supposed to be hard, but that was rediculous.

    Come to find out, that’s not what you’re supposed to do. To this day, I’m still embarrassed about it.

  138. 138.

    Elie

    Now Trump is using Bernie’s terms: a rigged system, etc.

    One loser to another….

  139. 139.

    Elie

    Oh now I get it — he is using his address to respond to Hillary’s foreign policy kick ass.

  140. 140.

    Joel

    I cannot believe you missed the opportunity to post the relevant Strongbad email.

    “Everyone knows that putting web in front of words automatically makes them crappier”.

  141. 141.

    Run, Lillian!

    For anyone watching the Trump spectacle, I admire your fortitude. I tuned in for 3 seconds and noped the fuck out.

  142. 142.

    Ramping Up

    Beating Clinton…will make the GOP strong and victory….reaching out to Bernie supporters…welcomed with open arms….great speech so far….reaching out to Bernie supporters on trade, will be taken care of…money and jobs! All the right notes! No more Judge Curiel nonsense!

  143. 143.

    dmsilev

    @Elie: According to the NYT, “Trump says he will give a major speech on “probably Monday of next week” about “all the things” that have happened with the Clintons.” Take that for whatever it’s worth.

  145. 145.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH

    Talking Points Memo Verified account ‏@TPM

    Trump-endorsed Rep. Renee Ellmers loses GOP primary in North Carolina

    The only member of Congress explicitly endorsed by Trump just became the 1st GOPer to lose her seat

  146. 146.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Benchmark Politics ‏@benchmarkpol 26s26 seconds ago

    We are ready to make a final margin call in New Jersey – Clinton 64% – Sanders 36%, EXACTLY on our Benchmarks.

    9 retweets 17 likes

    BOOOOOOOOM!

  147. 147.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Benchmark Politics ‏@benchmarkpol 6m6 minutes ago

    Many suspected early AP reporting may have favored Sanders in today’s contests.. That is clearly not the case.

    54 retweets 96 likes

  148. 148.

    Ramping Up

    THE FLAMETHROWER IS TURNED ON!

    Hitting Clintons on corruption, private server, major speech next week!

  149. 149.

    Ramping Up

    Yes…yes..YES!! Trump burning Hillary the fvck up! Slap her hard Donald. Boom zoom to the moon!

  151. 151.

    Joel

    @Mike J: My guess is that they’re extrapolating from the Newark County results, which have largely not been tallied.

  152. 152.

    Elie

    @dmsilev:

    He seems to be leading into it right now… on CNN

    They will be ready for him….whenever — (you can tell she really got under his skin)

  154. 154.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @Elie: That was a typical Trump hot air speech. We are only going to have great trade deals!

    A middle school kid running for class president would be embarrassed by that speech.

  155. 155.

    redshirt

    Any chance a Front Pager puts up a Clinton Primary thread?

    Probably shouldn’t expect it suppose, or at least not till 3 AM or so.

  157. 157.

    Jeff Spender

    I honestly am not so impressed with Trump’s speech. It’s a little too late in terms of responding to Clinton, and it’s a little too early in terms of the night.

  158. 158.

    PatrickG

    @Run, Lillian!:

    He rickrolled America: “To all that voted for me, I will never let you down. I’m never gonna let you down. Never gonna let you down”.

    That’s about as far as I got before my partner threatened to bludgeon me with the TV remote.

  161. 161.

    Joel

    In other fun news, it seems like fewer than 400 people voted in the North Dakota caucuses today.

  162. 162.

    Mike J

    (((Harry Enten))) ‏@ForecasterEnten 1 minute ago
    Sanders is winning North Dakota. Clinton in South Dakota. The demographics are quite similar. The former is a caucus. Latter is a primary.

  165. 165.

    Ramping Up

    What a powerful speech. Trump proved he can be a real politician tonight.

  166. 166.

    hovercraft

    Right now the only state Sanders is leading is North Dakota, which just happens to be the only caucus.

  167. 167.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Every time Nicole Wallace talks she only makes herself look idiotic.

  168. 168.

    NotMax

    @Ramping Up

    Hugh effin’ Hewitt, just now, about whatever it was Trump was reading: “underwhelming” “pedestrian” “weak” “error.”

    What a maroon.

  169. 169.

    AkaDad

    @NotMax:

    No Man’s Sky is interesting. You could play it every day for the rest of your life and still not come close to exploring every planet.

    I’ve never heard about Astroneer, so I’ll have to check it out.

  170. 170.

    John W.

    John,

    I’ve been amused by SF lense flares for years. As I recall, the first ones I remember were way back, In Kubrick’s epic, Space Odyssey.
    jw

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