Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

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

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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Spent about 48 hours basically ignoring the news and with twitter mostly turned off while immersed in mmorpg’s. Loaded up the website and saw the AL post on the debate schedule and thought “I am so not ready for that shit” and I think I am going back into a news blackout for another 24 hours.

Oh, and yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the Doha Dash. Seems like only yesterday.

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  1. 1.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    I wonder who’s going to play Trumpster in Hillary’s debate prep. Terry McAuliffe? Al Franken? Ed Rendell? Maybe Barney Frank.

  2. 2.

    Mike J

    Oh, and yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the Doha Dash.

    And Tuesday is the 37th anniversary of WLUP’s Disco Demolition night at Comiskey Park.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    and with twitter mostly turned off

    Who are you and what have you done with John Cole?

    ;)

  4. 4.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    I’m trying to decide if my 12mm lens will be big enough to fit the space shuttle in one frame. I’m taking my 360 degree camera.

  6. 6.

    James E Powell

    Trying to figure out who would need to watch even two debates to make up his/her mind on Clinton v Trump.

    They are going to be danger zones for Clinton just like they were for every Republican candidate. And I’m not saying Clinton is ten times the talent, but rather that the press/media is going to encourage Trump’s wild & lying behavior, and will castigate Clinton is she responds in kind or if she does not respond in kind.

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    John Weiss

    Crap. I’m with you John, except perhaps I’ve more fortitude: I’m not going to listen to the buzz for a month or so. I mean, what’s the point? I know whom I’m going to vote fore; no choice, and I don’t need the grief that the ‘learned class’ is dishing out.

    jw

  9. 9.

    Ruckus

    JC
    Understand about cutting back on the bullshit overload. I’ve pretty much done the same.

    @James E Powell:
    Not that many people will probably watch the debate but because it is going to be a shit show, one way or the other, I doubt that the press will have nearly as much influence as in a normal presidential race. The only way drumpf comes off as anything like a normal human is if he sends in a double who takes no input from him. And as that is not going to happen…..

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    dogwood

    I didn’t pay much attention to the negativity either. Instead looked at some videos of the protests that weren’t discouraging, like Memphis. And a Baton Rouge video of a young white woman carrying a small toddler who approaches a group of AA female protesters and asks if she can give them all hugs, promising them that she wouldn’t raise her son to be a racist.

  11. 11.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Whatever you do, John, don’t go to the Media Matters website, where they’ve got a link to Billdo claiming MLK wouldn’t have supported BLM.

  15. 15.

    Barb2

    Blowing raspberries at Reader Supported News.

    RSN is begging for donations.

    I wonder if their drop in donations is because they came out early and loud for Bernie? Then when Hillary became the first woman ever to secure enough delegate votes for the nomination – this anti Hillary website went even more negative.

    RSN stepped over the line – they became a tool for Bernie and Bernie Bros. They enabled the GOP haters.

    RSN was started by the same guy who started Truth Out. He was kicked out and then established RSN. His monthly pleas for money are really getting shrill.

  18. 18.

    Arclite

    Did the Dallas PD have the right to kill Micah Johnson? Or was blowing him up another extrajudicial killing?

  22. 22.

    Aqualad08

    @Arclite: I think they had a duty to stop him. A call had to be made. I might not have made the same call, but then again, I wasn’t there. I don’t think the decision was made lightly.

  23. 23.

    Arclite

    @John D.: Cole mentioned yesterday he had started playing Riders of Icarus, yet another in a long line of MMOs from Korean company Nexon.

  25. 25.

    Botsplainer, Neoliberal Corporatist Shill

    Let us savor…

    How to write like a True Conservative pundit:

    If Black Lives Matter Isn’t A Racist Hate Group, Then Can Someone Please Explain To Me Why I Keep Insisting They Are

    Ever since Black Lives Matter formed in 2013, its leaders have repeatedly tried to brand it as a peaceful organization. It purports to advocate equal treatment for African Americans, and to pursue this goal by nonviolent means. Well, I’m not so sure, and the reason is simple: if Black Lives Matter is anything but a racist hate group, then someone needs to explain why I keep insisting they are.

    I’m sorry if this question offends people, but if this so-called “movement” isn’t an angry, dangerous mob, then why do I keep saying it is?

    Let’s be real for a second. To believe that Black Lives matter is more than elevated bigotry, you’d have to conveniently ignore that I, on multiple occasions, have called it exactly that, word for word. I’m trying to understand what I’m missing here, but for every self-serving liberal “blog post” claiming that Black Lives Matter is peaceful, there’s another one written by me saying exactly the opposite.

    There’s more sarcastic goodness at the link.

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