Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

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

Trump should be leading, not lying.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

“woke” is the new caravan.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

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  1. 1.

    Peale

    And as his parting shot, he had BJ taken down for an hour. He knows who really took him down!

  3. 3.

    gratuitous

    I read the release from Fox announcing the resignation. No reason is given for Ailes’ sudden departure. Did he get a better offer? Health problems? Wants to spend more time with his family? Strange!

    You’d think someone who had been with the company since Day One would get a little more hoop-de-do when he left. At least tell Fox’s loyal viewers why the top man is leaving. Sad.

  5. 5.

    Eric U.

    @gratuitous: I assume they thought everyone but their own viewers knew why he resigned. I don’t think they were hiding the fact they were cooperating with the lawyers of the women suing over sexual harassment.

    The story yesterday that he was asked to resign probably was assumed to cover things

  6. 6.

    c u n d gulag

    Bullshit Mountain seems to have become a volcano!
    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I hope that as he left his petty bullshit empire built on lies, deceit, and propaganda, that he turned and looked back once more at what he used to rule like a sex-obsessed Authoritarian tyrant..

    And that the automatic doors crushed his dick and balls as they closed!!!!

  7. 7.

    Ridnik Chrome

    with his wife Jerry Hall

    Not the same one who used to be married to Mick Jagger?

    Also, good riddance to Ailes.

    ETA: Is anyone else seeing the Papa John’s ad with the little green ghost from “Ghostbusters”? “One pizza with extra slime, please.”

  8. 8.

    hellslittlestangel

    To the women he victimized over the years I’d like to offer a word of condolence:
    Ka-fucking-ching!

  12. 12.

    dr. luba

    Obama is trying to kill Republicans again. He has just encouraged everyone to stay well hydrated in the record heat……..

  13. 13.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    Dis any BJrs read Roger Ailes blogspot(not this Roger Ailes)? His commentary is funny and snarky.He last posted in 2015. I was just wondering if anybody has seen him post anywhere. I hope he’s okay.

  15. 15.

    Ridnik Chrome

    @inventor: I dunno. Going from young Bryan Ferry to middle-aged Jagger to geriatric Rupert Murdoch seems kind of the opposite of illustrious, if you ask me…

  18. 18.

    hovercraft

    @gratuitous:
    They are fair and balancing their viewers need to know what a scumbag he is. You know that women who complain about sexual harassment, are just complaining because real men are not politically correct and don’t know how to take a compliment. Roger has been a conservative hero for so long, and he’s been brought down by their own employees, so it’s hard to argue that he was brought down by the liberal. So best not to discuss why he’s leaving.

  21. 21.

    EconWatcher

    Sorry, Rupert, but boinking the ex-wife does not make you as cool as Mick Jagger. Nice try, though.

  22. 22.

    Schlemazel Khan

    @Mai.naem.mobile:
    Towards the end of his blogging he said he was getting bored, it was taking too much time. I don’t recall him saying he was having any particular problem. I kept hoping he would return but it would be nice to know he is doing OK.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @rikyrah:

    And a non-compete clause.

    I kind of like that part. Because otherwise, every channel, station, and network would be elbowing each other in the ribs to sign him up, right?

  28. 28.

    Cacti

    The NBA is moving the 2016-2017 All Star game from Charlotte, NC because of the bathroom bill.

  30. 30.

    NonyNony

    @SiubhanDuinne: Have you seen how much money he made for Fox? Without a non compete I’d bet he’d be at the head of CNN or MSNBC within months building a new Fox News for them. Even with the harassment issues.

  33. 33.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    I wonder how common it is for someone as public and powerful as Ailes to be a serial harrasser.

  34. 34.

    catclub

    @scav: This is one of the best parts. Remember the reports that they wanted to postpone all this until August 1 so there would not be things disturbing the RNC? Good times two days ago.

    I wonder if we will get a look at the newer post nup.

  35. 35.

    catclub

    @SiubhanDuinne: I think they would be happy to get him if he could do for their viewership what he did for FOX.
    [without the vile politics or sexual harassment, which might be tougher.]

  37. 37.

    Aleta

    CNN: For the talent portion of tonight’s pageant, Donald is expected to perform a ventriloquy interpretation of the Hawaii Five O theme song while Ivanka does her rifle twirling routine and wears a cowboy hat.

  38. 38.

    Peale

    @NonyNony: Yep. I mean CNN just hired Weenerdoodledogski from the Trump Campaign with an NDA and a history of uddder incompetence to comment on the campaign. Why not hire a guy who will expose you to lawsuits? I mean its only your blonde staffers who’ll have to suffer, females to boot. Not the real reporters.

  41. 41.

    Greg

    Conservative logic primer 101.
    Rule 1) Sexual harrassment is not real. It was invented by ball chomping femi-Nazis. All cases of harrassment are designed to attack the benevelont patriarchy and need to be dismissed outright.

    Rule 2) Ignore rule 1 in the event Bill Clinton is accused of harrassment.

  44. 44.

    Trollhattan

    Nice, France got shoved right off the front pages and there’s a story worth telling–motorcyclist who climbed into the cab window and tried to punch out the driver while he was in the act of mowing people down. Driver hit him with his jammed gun and knocked him away. Luckily he lived, somehow. French now feel the driver had support from several folks in custody.

  48. 48.

    Dmbeaster

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    kind of like that part. Because otherwise, every channel, station, and network would be elbowing each other in the ribs to sign him up, right?

    CNN

  52. 52.

    Trollhattan

    @lollipopguild:
    Here’s hoping an army of angry blondes remove every ill-gotten shekel from his bloated hide.

    “Roger, see you in court, sweetie.”

  53. 53.

    slag

    A nice article about the rise of the neoconartist in America ends quite appropriately:

    What’s happening to this country has happened before, in other nations, in other anxious, violent times when all the old certainties peeled away and maniacs took the wheel. It’s what happens when weaponised insincerity is applied to structured ignorance. Donald Trump is the Gordon Gekko of the attention economy, but even he is no longer in control. This culture war is being run in bad faith by bad actors who are running way off-script, and it’s barely begun, and there are going to be a lot of refugees.

    ‘Weaponized insincerity applied to structured ignorance’ should be Fox’s new slogan.

  57. 57.

    burnspbesq

    @Ridnik Chrome:

    Not the same one who used to be married to Mick Jagger?

    Some enterprising reporter should ask her to compare and comtrast … Or maybe not.

    BTW, Mick’s current 20-something girlfriend is in the family way. The child will be his eighth, IIRC, by at least three differemt women.

  60. 60.

    Keith P.

    He can eat shit. And then shit out the shit he just ate, then eat that shit, which contains the shit that he just ate.

  63. 63.

    tybee

    @Amir Khalid:

    many moons ago, right after the stones released the album, they were on tour and, IIRC, were in tennessee.
    the police said they could not play that song and if they did, they’d be arrested.
    guess what the first song that night was?

  68. 68.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    @lgerard:

    Would it be sexist to say that I bet she’s a fun drunk? Maybe let’s loose a little and spins some good tales?

  71. 71.

    Botsplainer, Neoliberal Corporatist Shill

    Ailes is out, Failgunner nearly endorsed Clinton and John Bolton is squalling about Trump’s NATO remarks.

    We has peak wingnut yet?

  73. 73.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    I should send my resume and college grades from the University of Florida (Journalism major) to Fox Not-News and see if they’ll hire me.

    Sure, I only got a 2.86 GPA in Journalism and a B in Ethics, but I aced the Photography class.

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