Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

T R E 4 5 O N

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    I called my sons and told them to put on CSPAN because this is what conventions are suppose to be about. The platform and fighting for rights, not platforms of hate.

  5. 5.

    amk

    bbc sez big dawg wasn’t showing his speech to anyone including his wife’s campaign. He better be that good then.

  6. 6.

    BR

    That image of Clinton is actually powerful — it reinforces her positive image in many ways. The quiet fighter message is really a powerful way of reminding us that she isn’t a talker but a fighter. I feel like a lot of the speakers haven’t been directly reinforcing that but rather trying to undo decades of impressions sold to us about her, and it’s not an easy task (and only Michelle Obama has really done it effectively so far for me).

  8. 8.

    PsiFighter37

    Albright is the first person I’ve heard make the Russia accusation directly at the DNC.

  9. 9.

    patroclus

    I heard that Julian Assange has access to all of Baud’s e-mails from the last 20 years and is just waiting to dump them onto Wikileaks at the appropriate time.

  14. 14.

    Adam L Silverman

    @amk: He probably hadn’t finished writing it yet. He’s still working on the third hour’s worth of remarks!

  15. 15.

    Schlemazel Khan

    The big dawg always brings it (well, lets skip that keynote at the DNC that introduced him to the nation). I particularly remember how devastating he was 8 years ago in support of BHO.

  19. 19.

    Truegster

    Big Dog always brings it. I think he’s going to try and bring in the hillbilly/trump vote, my guess.

  21. 21.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    Is Hillary left-handed? She’s depicted in the poster lefty.

    Yes, I am, and I know Bill was and Barack.is.

  25. 25.

    Adam L Silverman

    @amk: He may have just figured out how to unlock the pay per view and the pay as you go bar/fridge?

  27. 27.

    singfoom

    @lamh36: Well, as long they were well fed. That totally obviates the whole human being owned by another human being like property.

    What in the ever loving fuck.

  28. 28.

    PhoenixRising

    Big Dog is telling the story of how I met the Mrs. No, really. I got caught trying to meet with my adviser the second time that day. 24 years on Sept. 1.

    I just like these people.

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    LOL. I was in the Omni in Atlanta 1988 when he said “And in conclusion….” and the room erupted in applause.

    (Not long afterwards, he was on the Tonight Show. Johnny Carson observed “That wasn’t exactly your finest hour.” Bill responded, without missing a beat, “Heck, it wasn’t even my finest two hours.” For all his peccadillos in the years since, I’ve always loved him for that.)

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    @PhoenixRising: The NY Post will cover this on tomorrow’s front page with: Confessions of a Presidential Stalker! How Bill Stalked Hillary Until She Agreed to Go Out With Him!. And, I wish I was just being facetious, but I think there’s a possibility they’d go that route.

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    So far, I really like the way Bill is weaving together his growing love for Hillary with her smarts and her activism. It’s working for me. Let’s see where it goes (and, of course, for how long).

  38. 38.

    Citizen Scientist

    So, has anyone heard anything about “200 Bernie delegates being stripped of their convention credentials for the rest of the week for no reason”? Apparently this is an actual thing that happened according to my Facebook feed, since someone’s friend who’s at the dnc told them it happened. Dear FSM make educated people just stop the nonsense.

  47. 47.

    Rand Careaga

    Folks, if someone had done that image of the flag, the sword and the armor around candidate Trump, everyone here would rightly deride it as the cheesiest kind of campaign kitsch. We’re trying to elect a president to deal with real-world issues, not a heroine out of legend who will slay dragons and vanquish evil sorcerers. I want to see Clinton elected as much as anyone on this thread, but this kind of gimcrack imagery cheapens the contest and raises silly expectations among the weak-minded.

  48. 48.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    I just want Bill to give a nice decent 20 minute speech so he doesn’t overdo it like always and keep it simple.

    …

    Whadda ya mean, he’s going into every detail of the first date he and Hillary took to see the Aristocats?!?!?! /headdesk

  51. 51.

    trnc

    @singfoom: Why do you refuse to see that besides getting fat on the government teat, they got a free trip to one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions.

  57. 57.

    Elie

    Obviously, the quality and power of Bill’s testament to Hillary seems to have been lost on the current commenters. Sad

    This to me, was the deepest public (yet private) attestation of love that the big dawg could have ever given his wife and partner of many years. It was an amazing tribute and the power of it just blew me away. If I were Hillary, I would still be just crying with joy and humility of what it means to be respected and loved that way… He saw her soul and shared its essence with us so that we could better understand what she brings to us… and how important it is and how he knows — he knows what it takes her to give it… I know he has been so — incredibly obtuse at times. But this night, he showed how much not only 1) how much he loved her — way beyond selflessness but 2) he shared her most private self with us to let us see the woman he loves and deeply respects.

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    scott alloway

    @lamh36: Really sad commentary. At long last sir, have you no sense of decency. Yes, I know it was said before nut needs repeating.

  64. 64.

    PurpleGirl

    I love the poster. I get two impressions from it — Joan of Arc and Queen Elizabeth I. Two women who broke ceilings of a sort in their own times and places. Yay Hillary.

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