Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

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

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Second rate reporter says what?

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

We still have time to mess this up!

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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Miss Bianca says:
Secretary Clinton! Madame President-Elect! WOMAN WARRIOR!!

My fellow Americans, I was for her before, but now… *now* I feel like lightning just struck twice. First Obama, now Clinton.

We are not worthy. Oh, wait – yes, we are!


“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution!” — Emma Goldman

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  2. 2.

    Schlemazel Khan

    WOW! I don’t think I have ever posted first here before!

    Good morning y’all

  3. 3.

    JGabriel

    Hey, Stubby Drumpf, remember that Muslim father whose son gave his life for our country? The one who offered to lend you his copy of the US Constitution, since you clearly haven’t read it? The one who reminded you that Arlington Cemetery is filled with people from all faiths and ethnicities, which you wouldn’t know because you have sacrificed nothing and no one?

    This is what long fingers look like.

    Now you’ve got even more to feel insecure about, you feckless dipshit.

  8. 8.

    David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch

    PHILADELPHIA — (NYT) Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, who sacrificed personal ambition for her husband’s political career and then rose to be a globally influential figure, became the first woman to accept a major party’s presidential nomination on Thursday night, a prize that generations of American women have dreamed about for one of their own.

  10. 10.

    amk

    The Daily Edge @TheDailyEdge

    Trump launches narcissistic tweetstorm after Hillary calls him a little man who can be baited with a tweet. #TrumperTantrum
    9:29 AM – 29 Jul 2016

  14. 14.

    Baud

    After the DWS fiasco, the media was salivating about a Dems in Disarray convention, and the Dems rose above it. I still can’t get over how well produced the whole convention was. Amazeballs.

  17. 17.

    Hal

    Given the melt down a conservative friend was having on Facebook I figured her speech went well.

  19. 19.

    J R in WV

    Slept like a baby, which is so unusual for me now that I’m old. I’ve watched two conventions every 4 years, never saw anything like this one, which was like a 4 part symphony over the four days. We didn’t get every speaker by any means, but we got most all the highlights!

    Starting with Michelle, with one of the best speeches from a bunch of really good speakers, even Tim Kaine did well. Couldn’t believe the Rs who made up their minds he was wearing a flag pin from another country!

    Chelsea kept stepping on her applause, could have just stopped talking for a minute so many times and gotten a standing O, but couldn’t bear to be quiet while the arena erupted around her until the end.

    Hillary did what she needed to do, told her story, what she had done, what she wants to do, why we need to do it, how she thinks we can do it, and why it has to be her (and not Trump) !!!

    We’re going to follow the money and see that they pay their fair share! YES! I’m happy to pay my fair share, I just want the folks with serious money to pay THEIR fair share.
    Good morning, Everyone!!! Now I’m gonna back to bed to finish out 8 or 9 hours.

  22. 22.

    Schlemazel Khan

    @amk:
    A friend posted on FB that Drumpfs convention speech has 13000 views & as of this morning Hillarys has 250000 . . . I think it would be wise for the handlers to hide his twitter machine today or he will get ugly(er)

  23. 23.

    Baud

    Booman

    Eight years ago, Michelle Obama got in hot water for saying “For the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country.” Maybe she misspoke. Maybe she unintentionally said something that was true. What’s clear is that eight years later a lot of people who were second class citizens are now feeling included and empowered, and they’re also in a patriotic mood.

    This is why the Democratic convention was feel-good and positive and happy and uplifting. This is not a party or a coalition that is concerned about losing anything anytime soon.

  27. 27.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    I’m watching Morning Joe and Trump’s reaction to the DNC. I’ll sum it up with this: “In your guts, you know he’s nuts”.

  40. 40.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    Joe of the Morning was saying the Republicans should “cut Trump loose”.

  43. 43.

    Jeffro

    @JGabriel: geez even just thinking about that moment again is making my eyes water .

    The Dems are receiving applause all around for running on principles, policies and people with an actual understanding of what this country is all about . She is the right person at the right time

  44. 44.

    Jeffro

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: it would be the principled thing to do, which is why they won’t do it.

    In the back of my mind I am a little concerned about what he will tell his supporters between now and November , especially when it becomes clear he cannot win . But I’m going to work through that, stay positive, and not let reacting to trump be my main/motivating thought

  45. 45.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    That “This is My Fight Song” song is a fucking earworm.

    I guess it’s fine to pat ourselves on the back for a great convention today, but after today we need to fight like hell to get Sec. Clinton elected in November.

  46. 46.

    PsiFighter37

    In a normal world, there would be a huge bounce out of this convention. We shall see…

  47. 47.

    Mustang Bobby

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, so that’s the name of that song, huh? I’ve heard it a lot in background and even in some commercials but never knew the name of it.

    That’s what I get for not listening to Top 40 radio since 1982, I guess.

  48. 48.

    Applejinx

    Finally catching up… ;)

    It’s like an active, shooting war against being a neo-whateveritis asshole hypocritical soulless monster. With a WWII plucky loveable interracial interfaith cast on the side of the good guys, and casting call’s open, all hands on deck. It’s goddamn IRRESISTIBLE.

    And it’s not even fake. I think people wouldn’t be crossing these streams if they didn’t ‘get it’. We are actually going to go ‘america fuck yeah!’ against all Bernie Sanders’ pet demons, and a bunch of other problems he didn’t prioritize. The Clinton administration are going to be able to crossbreed radically progressive AND jingoistic ‘U! S! A!’ shouting, and get away with it. I wouldn’t have believed that possible but I’m seeing it, and I think it’s going to work.

    Bernie’s now mainstream, and not particularly effective compared to what the Democrats are fixing to do. I completely understand how sad he is. He’s Al Shepard to John Glenn. Turns out the first suborbital space flight was cool but people went bonkers over the first orbital space shot, and there was nothing Shepard could do about it other than let the BIG hero sweep everybody up in his wake, inclusively.

    It’s now up to Clinton to be inclusive and allow Bernie to follow along in his own revolution. Consider that reality if you’re mad at Bernie for looking cranky. His only hope for being ‘the leader’ again would be if she failed, sold out, went back on what’s being promised. I see his sourness as evidence he’s convinced she won’t do any such thing. It must be very obvious to an insider like himself.

    Bernie is now Hillary’s pet sparrow, bear that in mind if you’re mad about him looking sour. The only hope he’d have for fame and relevance is if Hillary did NOT do his whole platform 1000 times harder and better. I think he’s lost all control of it and it’s now mainstream Democrat and in their name, not his. And crossbred with patriotism GOP-style.

    ‘tax and spend’ WILL WORK. I don’t think there’s ever, ever been such fertile ground for doing it. It will also reboot the economy (like, properly, not pretend) and that will make the rich richer. It’s basic Mark Blyth anti-austerity theory: pump your GDP, and only trim deficits when you’re in surplus. It worked for Bill and will work for Hillary. It is as much a political act as an economic one because austerity is based on poorbashing and the punishing of anyone not rich, to motivate them (which is pants-on-head retarded ™ Yahtzee)

    This could be really, really big.

  49. 49.

    NorthLeft12

    I did not watch the convention last night, but am/will be catching up on the highlights throughout today.
    It’s funny how things work out, but Pres. Obama was the exactly right person to lead the US in 2008, and now I think Ms. Clinton is the exactly right person to take over and lead the US for the next eight years. Funny how that works out.

    Kudos to Hillary for sticking to it after what was a bitter defeat back then. The lady has guts and vision. She will make a very fine President.

  50. 50.

    MattF

    Dems have learned a new trick– move leftwards and attract Republicans. Not bad for an old dog.

  52. 52.

    debbie

    @JGabriel:

    The one who reminded you that Arlington Cemetery is filled with people from all faiths and ethnicities

    Speaking of Arlington, they still haven’t pulled that NRA ad with the Benghazi soldier strolling the rows and bad-mouthing Hillary. I thought photographing cemeteries was illegal.

  53. 53.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Awwwwwww….. poor rightwingkillallthedarkpeoplewarmongeringnutjobs have a new source of butt hurt:

    Fans of American Sniper, the Oscar-nominated film in which Bradley Cooper played the highly decorated Navy Seal Chris Kyle, have expressed their unhappiness at the actor’s apparent support for the Democratic party.

    Cooper was spotted by TV cameras in the crowd listening to speeches on Wednesday evening, leading to upset on social media from those who sensed themselves out of sync with Cooper’s political sympathies.

    Poor babies.

  54. 54.

    Betty Cracker

    @Applejinx: As we all know, nothing will come of our progressive platform without down-ticket success. That’s got to be the message from everyone who influences Democratic voters for the next 100 days.

  56. 56.

    Splitting Image

    @Baud:

    What’s clear is that eight years later a lot of people who were second class citizens are now feeling included and empowered, and they’re also in a patriotic mood.

    I’ll drink to that.

  59. 59.

    Shalimar

    Looking at Trump’s series of tweets after Clinton’s acceptance speech, they are all written by someone on the staff. None of them have his distinctive pattern of speaking.

  61. 61.

    Baud

    @Splitting Image: Right. No more excuses. At the beginning, people were worried about what type of campaign Hillary would run. Well, she’s running about as good as a campaign as we could have hoped for. So it’s put up or shut up time.

  62. 62.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @debbie:

    I thought photographing cemeteries was illegal.

    News to me. I’ve been photographing cemeteries all my life, including National cemeteries. Erik Loomis at LGM has been doing a Erik Visits an American Grave, series with a pic of the graves of various luminaries from history, both well known and little known. (interesting stuff)

  65. 65.

    Applejinx

    @Betty Cracker: Yes. Absolutely. I am just over the moon that (unless I missed something?) Clinton is ready to actively, brazenly run with the ‘class warfare’ tax and spend thing that WILL WORK and is the only thing that will work.

    I totally trust her to also do the justice-aligned things Bernie was weak on. All my black friends have been uniformly and patiently pro-Hillary, from long before this point.

    But I’m starting to really believe we are ALSO going to bail Main Street and cause our GDP to explode. Nothing less will do. neo-style capitalism is failing hard: it’s all a stocks bubble, bonds are in the shitter, nobody is investing capital because there’s nothing to invest capital IN, other than ‘financial instruments’ which are another bubble of toxic swamp gas.

    Unless I miss my guess, Hillary is boldly going for the ONLY solution to it all, and It. Will. Work.

    Again, worked for Bill. This is not hypothetical, and the ground is way more fertile this time around. It’ll be AMAZING.

  67. 67.

    Shalimar

    @OzarkHillbilly: I have totally forgotten the details, but iirc there was a huge controversy about Republicans using Arlington in a campaign ad after 9/11. Apparently, there is some kind of policy against it.

  68. 68.

    debbie

    @Mustang Bobby:

    The song was fine the first gazillion times I heard it.

    You don’t need to listen to pop stations to have heard it too often. It is everywhere.

  73. 73.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    Dunno if this has already been mentioned (you folks talk too much for me to keep up ;-), but Noam Chomsky was a coauthor with David Halle of a great piece in June on Lesser Evil Voting that needs to be shared.

    The broader lesson to be drawn is not to shy away from confronting the dominance of the political system under the management of the two major parties. Rather, challenges to it need to be issued with a full awareness of their possible consequences. This includes the recognition that far right victories not only impose terrible suffering on the most vulnerable segments of society but also function as a powerful weapon in the hands of the establishment center, which, now in opposition can posture as the “reasonable” alternative. A Trump presidency, should it materialize, will undermine the burgeoning movement centered around the Sanders campaign, particularly if it is perceived as having minimized the dangers posed by the far right.

    A more general conclusion to be derived from this recognition is that this sort of cost/benefit strategic accounting is fundamental to any politics which is serious about radical change. Those on the left who ignore it, or dismiss it as irrelevant are engaging in political fantasy and are an obstacle to, rather than ally of, the movement which now seems to be materializing.

    Read the whole thing.

    It’s not an exhaustive list (it’s too short to be) but it makes a strong case. It’s good ammo to use in your battles with your Bernie or Bust friends.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  74. 74.

    raven

    Less than a mile from the heart of downtown Atlanta, a hidden treasure, a secret sanctuary, welcomes you. This garden cemetery, founded in 1850, is the final resting place of many of Atlanta’s settlers, builders, and most noted citizens like Bobby Jones, Margaret Mitchell, and Maynard Jackson. It is also a showplace of sculpture and architecture, and a botanical preserve with ancient oaks and magnolias. Here in this peaceful place the full scope of the city’s rich and fascinating history unfolds before you.

  81. 81.

    Gin & Tonic

    @liberal:

    I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

  83. 83.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Shalimar: Sounds to me like there is an unwritten agreement to not use National cemeteries for political purposes seeing as there are men and women of ALL political stripes buried there. And for good reason. Propping up a campaign on the backs of the fallen is just unseemly. But a law against photography? Every family in America with a brother/sister/father/mother/etc buried in one would be paying fines/doing jail time. I just don’t see it. (Ken Burns would be doing life w/o parole for “The Civil War”)

  86. 86.

    Hoodie

    @OzarkHillbilly: This is the face of privilege in America today. It’s fascinating about how many Repubs/Cons view everything through the prism of an entitlement to having their emotional needs met, i.e., Bradley Cooper has to satisfy some imaginary character in their narrative. I was watching Hillary’s speech on MSNBC last night, and couldn’t help but laugh when Nicole Wallace expressed her disappointment that the speech made a strong bow to progressivism and didn’t cater to her type of country club Republicanism, seeing how they have been displaced by Trump in the GOP and need a home. This was, after all, the Democratic convention, right?

  87. 87.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: When we buried my buddy in Arlington I took some pictures and, believe me, if it had been illegal the Arlington folks would have let me know.

  89. 89.

    Shalimar

    @OzarkHillbilly: It is a violation of VA policy, but I don’t see any actual means they have of enforcing policy other than unwritten cultural agreement that it is beyond the pale. Since when has the NRA ever cared about violating cultural traditions?

  92. 92.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Photography is permitted within the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery. Public use of a tripod or lights is not permitted without permission from the Office of Public Affairs. News photographers and videographers need to make arrangements with the

    Office of Public Affairs
    (877) 907-8585

    We ask media and cemetery visitors/tourists seeking to photograph those visiting gravesites to respect the solemnity of Arlington National Cemetery by refraining from taking pictures or filming someone who is visibly mourning and asking for permission to film or photograph those visiting a gravesite. Many are very open to talking with media and cemetery visitors about their loved ones and want to see their loved ones honored and remembered.

  93. 93.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: The next thing is that I’ll get told it wasn’t legal to mix my dad’s ashes with his beloved black lab and bury the in the National Cemetery in Phoenix.

  94. 94.

    Baud

    @Mustang Bobby: Remember when the GOP wore purple bandaids at their convention to mock an injured soldier and no one cared.

    Ask me again how Trump became their nominee.

  95. 95.

    Anya

    @Mustang Bobby: I checked online yesterday to see what they were saying about Obama, Kaine and Biden’s speeches. I felt they were avoiding to say anything negative for fear of being booed by the Dems standing behind them. So they said mildly positive things. But today, I am assuming their hatred of Hillary will be stronger. I watched two or three segments and I realized how much I dislike that whole crew.

  98. 98.

    Shalimar

    @Anya: When Willie Geist isn’t even among the 3 biggest assholes on the set, your cast might have issues with likability. I still remember when Willie was a neophyte learning how to be a smarmy fratboy from Tucker Carlson.

  100. 100.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Hoodie:

    This is the face of privilege in America today. It’s fascinating about how many Repubs/Cons view everything through the prism of an entitlement to having their emotional needs met, i.e., Bradley Cooper has to satisfy some imaginary character in their narrative.

    Certain progressives too.

  101. 101.

    Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap

    Hillary did a great job. The TV talkers are all morons. BTW, how did the citizens arrest pan out.

  102. 102.

    JPL

    @raven: There is an annual Halloween tour at the cemetery, that is suppose to be spectacular according to my sons.

  103. 103.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: While looking at a map I noticed just a few miles away from me, down an all but empty gravel road just like so many other Washington County gravel roads, I noted the designation for a cemetery near an intersection. I always visit cemeteries where ever I find them and resolved to visit this one too. So I’m driving down the road, get to the intersection and… no cemetery. I turn around and drive back. Still no cemetery.

    Hmmmm…. Many times in my wanderings I have stumbled across a cemetery that isn’t on the map, but never have I seen one on a map that wasn’t there on the land. So I drove by the location again only this time I noticed what had appeared from the road to be nothing but a pile of trash had a grey granite marker on it. I got out and walked up to a pile of old brittle plastic flowers and faded flags and read the inscription:

    “Here lies an unknown Civil War soldier”

    Not even noting Union or Confederate.

  106. 106.

    Mali muso

    What a night! This pregnant lady is normally in bed by 8, but I couldn’t miss sharing this historic event with my unborn baby girl. Sitting in bed watching from my iPad, she was kicking and dancing up a storm! The audio was near my belly, so I’m gonna say she likes the sound of her future President’s voice.

    So proud to be a Democrat!

  110. 110.

    Anya

    @Baud: Exactly. I expect a lot of praise for Obama to tell us how much Hillary sucks in comparison. The same way all the Rs were praising Bill Clinton. They are so transparent.

    @Shalimar: I remember a segment he did in 08 where he went to West Village and interviewed people on the street to show how intolerant liberals were of conservatives. Basically, bunch of liberals on the street saying Sarah Palin sucks was similar to righwing nut jobs being hateful and racist towards Obama and Michelle.

  112. 112.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Baud: Yeah, who ever ran it should get lots of kudos for a job well done. She probably has a great future.

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (What do you mean “we too often eat our own”??)

  114. 114.

    gogol's wife

    @Baud:

    I’m sorry, but a bunch of cute Irish guys are ahead of you in line: Kaine, Murphy, Ryan — and Brown, although I don’t know if he’s Irish.

    And I wish I could vote for Rev. Barber!

  116. 116.

    gogol's wife

    @Applejinx:

    “It’s like an active, shooting war against being a neo-whateveritis asshole hypocritical soulless monster. With a WWII plucky loveable interracial interfaith cast on the side of the good guys, and casting call’s open, all hands on deck. It’s goddamn IRRESISTIBLE.”

    Ha ha, so true.

  118. 118.

    raven

    @p.a.: Except at the Wall.

    “REQUEST A NAME RUBBING

    If you are interested in receiving a rubbing of a name on The Wall, please fill out our form below. One of the VVMF’s incredible volunteers will go to The Wall, do the rubbing, and send it to you at the address you list. This service is provided free of charge thanks to the many supporters of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

    Please allow 30 days for the rubbing to be received.”

  119. 119.

    p.a.

    @raven: remember conervatives’ critique of the VVWM as an unAmerican disgrace and insult to the troops? To paraphrase TV Hawkeye, it’s their wrongness that’s so right about them.

  120. 120.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: I know it as “Ride with the Devil” and own the DVD. The author, Daniel Woodrell, is a favorite of mine. He is an Ozarker as well but he lives in the SW corner of Misery, I believe Stone or Taney Co. He also wrote “Winter’s Bone”.

    Yeah, those guys were some kind of fucked up.

  122. 122.

    raven

    @ed_finnerty: Duh, Shout at the Devil was Lee Marvin

    Just prior to World War One the hard drinking sharpshooting, Irish American Colonel Flynn O’Flynn, uses British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith to help poach ivory from German controlled territory in East Africa, putting them at odds with Herman Fleischer, the local German Provincial Commander. When Sebastian is infected with malaria he is nursed back to health by Flynn’s daughter Rosa, they fall in love and marry. Not long after Britain declares war on Germany and they are drawn into the conflict, ultimately making a daring attack on the German armored cruiser SMS Blücher as it undergoes repairs in a local estuary.

  125. 125.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: I loved the scene where they captured the Union mail and had Tobey Maguire read some of the letters. When the mother/author wrote about not being able to understand slavery they just looked at each other. . .

  126. 126.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Heh, Florida police strike again:

    Daniel Rushing probably won’t be eating Krispy Kreme doughnuts in his car any more.

    The 64-year-old was arrested on drug charges when Orlando police officers spotted four tiny flakes of glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine, The Orlando Sentinel reports.

    Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins wrote in an arrest report that during a traffic stop on 11 December she noticed the flakes on the floorboard. Two roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance and Rushing was arrested. But a state crime laboratory test cleared him several weeks later.

    “It was incredible,” Rushing said. “It feels scary when you haven’t done anything wrong and get arrested … It’s just a terrible feeling.”

    Something tells me the poor guy is white. Just a feeling I have.

  127. 127.

    Betty Cracker

    @OzarkHillbilly: I’ve never read “Winter’s Bone,” but the movie was awesome. I remember thinking “this Jennifer Lawrence person has talent!”

  130. 130.

    raven

    @Betty Cracker: Did you read about the dude in Georgia who won three million in the lottery and invested it in meth!!!

    “A Georgia man, who won $3 million playing the scratch-off lottery, funded a crystal meth ring with a portion of his winnings, according to authorities.

    Ronnie Music, Jr., 45, of Waycross, Ga., used money from his 2015 lottery prize to purchase methamphetamine with the intent resell it, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia said in a statement Tuesday.

    “Music decided to test his luck by sinking millions of dollars of lottery winnings into the purchase and sale of crystal meth,” United States Attorney Ed Tarver said in a statement. “As a result of his unsound investment strategy, Music now faces decades in a federal prison.”

  132. 132.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Betty Cracker: The book is well worth the read. He captures the hills and hollers and the inhabitants perfectly. We can be some toothless recalcitrant sonsabitches. Same here about Jennifer Lawrence. I’ve liked most everything she’s done (haven’t seen them all) and thought she was absolutely genius in “Silver Linings Playbook” (and Cooper was right there with her). Got to see “Joy” next.

  133. 133.

    D58826

    @JGabriel: And true to form Ann Coulter tweeted her usual bile about this gold star father. I tear up every time I think of his speech, and I normally have well plugged tear ducts.

  134. 134.

    gene108

    @Baud:

    After the DWS fiasco, the media was salivating about a Dems in Disarray convention, and the Dems rose above it. I still can’t get over how well produced the whole convention was. Amazeballs.

    It helps, when the best and brightest in entertainment business are on your side.

    Getting Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz, and Katy Perry to fill time between speakers was just par for the course at this convention.

  135. 135.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Betty Cracker:

    “It feels scary when you haven’t done anything wrong and get arrested … It’s just a terrible feeling.”

    It was this line that gave it away. I can’t imagine a black man who thinks this is terribly note worthy. Of course, having been on the wrong side of such encounters a time or 2, I could say the same.

  137. 137.

    danielx

    For all that has been written and said about Hillary Clinton, the most outstanding thing about her is that she’s still standing (yes, I know about the Elton John song). She’s taken everything that has been thrown at her and she keeps coming on, doing her job through thick and then, doing it well. and maintaining a graceful persona throughout.

  139. 139.

    MattF

    @D58826: She’s really gone odious. There was a period a few years ago when, for reasons never explained, her jaws were wired shut. I’m guessing it was a punch in the mouth.

  143. 143.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @MattF: I thought it was to shut her up. (yes I know, could be taken as a misogynistic comment, but if she were a man it would be just as deserving)

  144. 144.

    SFAW

    @liberal:

    He died for an illegal war of aggression.

    AUMF?

    You never get tired of being an asshole, do you? Maybe you should offer your services to Deadbeat Donnie, he probably needs someone to stand in for him, when he’s all assholed-out for the day.

    Have to start referring to you as Kagemusha, the Shadow Asshole.

  145. 145.

    Anne Laurie

    @MattF:

    She’s really gone odious.

    She’s desperate. Breitbart’s Milo Y-whatever has taken over her Bold Contrarian slot on the college Young Repubs circuit, because he’s younger & edgier & has 40-odd interns to keep his social media profile up-to-the-second. If Coulter can’t gin up a bunch of Oberlin students or Oakland anarchists to throw a media-catching hissyfit at her, she’ll be reduced to doing dinner theatre at Mar-a-Largo.

  146. 146.

    Anne Laurie

    @SFAW:

    Have to start referring to you as Kagemusha, the Shadow Asshole.

    The Japanese word for stupid is aho, pronounced Ah-hoe.

    “It’s not what you think, I’m just saying you’re not very bright.”

  148. 148.

    Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap

    This is an actual headline I saw this morning. I will not provide a link to the site but click bait etc.

    How Trump Won The Convention Battle

  149. 149.

    D58826

    @liberal: He died for his country.. period full stop. The politics of the war were above his pay grade. He answered the call of his ‘adopted’ country by joining the Volunteer army and in Lincoln’s words gave the last full measure of devotion to it. He didn’t have to join the army. He could have just gone about his business as a civilian. Or if there had been a draft he could have hidden in Indiana (dan Quale) , Texas (W), Georgia (Newt), Wyoming (Darth Vader Chaney) and a long and disgusting list of people willing to invest other peoples children in war.

    It is hard to forget his father’s dignity when in a quiet voice ripped ‘old little hands’ several new ones.

    So I will do something here that I normally resist on the blog because I think adult engagement is better than childish invective but in this case GO TO H*****LL

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    geg6

    @David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:

    Okay, I’m as verklempt at that this morning as I was when it hit me that Hilz killed it (no, she’s no Obama but she killed it in her own way) and that the DNC has now re-claimed the mantle of the meaning of America. The party of optimism and can-do. This convention was a home run in every way, including making her enemies on both the right and left looking like the assholes they are. Somewhere, Will Rogers is wondering if he was wrong all along…Nah, he wasn’t, but the whole production was amazeballs.

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    Soylent Green

    If we don’t retake the Congress, none of these progressive initiatives will have legs. If we don’t reverse the age-old trend of Dems not voting in midterms, everything will revert in 2018 to full-court GOP obstructionism. It’s great that we are in the pole position to keep the White House, but so much more is needed to end the stalemate. We need to fracture that insane political party into little pieces. Maybe in time they will come back together like the terminator in T2, but not until we can get some real progress made. The enemy is not just Trump, it’s the ability of the other party to keep gumming up the works for years to come. GOTFV!

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    ruemara

    Every time I read our resident Bernie proselytize, I react with the same fascination I reserve for my roomie, who believes everything cooks best at high.

    I rather detest Fight Song but I do think Hilz and the DNC killed it. I care more and reacted more to the people who spoke who didn’t hold office. That’s what this is all about. Can’t wait to volunteer for the local Dems table.

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    J R in WV

    @liberal:

    The illegal war of aggression can only be blamed on the Commander-in-Chief George Walker Bush. The individual soldiers sent to Iraq went there on behalf of their oath of service to the constitution of the United States of America. I still remember taking the oath in March, 1969.

    So Captain Khan died in service to the constitution of the US, and also too, screw you, you despicable and ignorant ratfuquer.

  159. 159.

    Miss Bianca

    @JGabriel: Oh, what is wrong with me this morning…you made me laugh, but looking at that photo made me cry – and I haven’t even listened to his speech yet. I know I’ll be in a puddle of tears.

  161. 161.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: I confess to having a crush on Goolsby. I have liked him every time I’ve seen him on TV, but those spots were perfect. I’m not saying Idris Elba has to move over, but Goolsby is so likable and his timing is perfect.

  162. 162.

    Miss Bianca

    @Betty Cracker: They got Kareem? And delivering that sick burn? Holy cow, I think I’m going to have to go back and watch the whole damn convention!!

  163. 163.

    Mike E

    @Applejinx: Al Shepard overcame Ménière’s disease and landed on the Moon, thus restoring faith in NASA after the near program-ending disaster of Apollo 13…yer analogy needs some work

  164. 164.

    Bill

    Last night Secretary Clinton gave us a clear vision of what her Democratic party looks like. Above all inclusive. Plenty of room for people of all colors, faiths, genders, and sexual orientation. Even room for conservatives. Strongly progressive on domestic issues. Serious and strong on national defense.

    She reminded us that while America isn’t perfect, it is already great. But that we all can – and should – work to make it greater.

    I was truly inspired. (Something I didn’t expect.)

  166. 166.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @liberal: He died for your right to have gastrointestinal inversion surgery, so you could talk through your ass & blast shit out of your mouth. Enjoy, fuckhead.

  168. 168.

    WhatevsTrevs

    @debbie:
    You do need to mention you haven’t listened to Top 40 radio at all in over 30 years to burnish your hipster credentials though. That includes never admitting that you’ve heard one of *those* songs before.

  169. 169.

    Seanly

    @debbie:
    Not illegal for private photography. It’s very bad form to use the dead for a political ad.
    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/busted-veterans-affairs-office-calls-out-nra-for-anti-clinton-ad-using-national-cemetery/

    RE: Hillary’s speech – I thought it was good, but not the barn-burners like some of the other ones. She hit many of the right notes – outreach to the more-rational Bernie fans, outreach to Democrats & like minded people, and antagonizing her psychopathic opponent.

  171. 171.

    Miss Bianca

    Thanks for the shoutout, AL, btw! Am flattered!

    I have been thinking about what Cole said the other day about Obama – that Obama made him want to be a better man, a better person. Listening to Hillary Clinton last night gave me something of that same feeling.

    I am thinking about all the times I backed down, didn’t rise to a challenge, was thin-skinned or small-minded or faint-hearted enough to let insults get to me, misunderstandings and set-backs drag me down. In short, when I let circumstances make me afraid or reactive.

    I look at Hillary Clinton and I see a woman who has NEVER backed down or buckled under the weight of history, events, circumstances that would break most of us.

    Receiving the applause and cheers of a great crowd of people, and the NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

    I am not going to be ashamed of what I haven’t managed to accomplish. But I am going to be looking at HRC for every day of my life for these next few years and saying, “damn. Look at what SHE’S doing. What’s *your* excuse?”

    That is all. Thank you.

  172. 172.

    Feebog

    The current gap in women voters is around 24%. I wonder how much higher this convention and HRC’s speech may have pushed it. Speaking as an old guy, I just don’t think a lot of men appreciate what this means to middle aged and above women. Every woman who has been passed over for a promotion, even though she was better qualified. Every woman who has worked for less pay then their male counterparts. Every woman who has to put up with casual sexism from lunkheads. Every mother who has hopes and dreams for their daughters. Every woman who has waited on tables and been stiffed on the tip because women don’t need as much as men. And on into infinity.

  173. 173.

    Gemina13

    A friend whose older son is in the Navy admitted that Khizr Khan’s speech brought him to tears. Every parent of a soldier knows the risk, and none want to trade that Blue Star for Gold.

    So we were all gleeful for him when Mr. Khan held up his pocket Constitution and not only pwned the Apricot Fluff Disaster for not reading it, but informed him, “You have sacrificed nothing.”

    The rat bastid hasn’t dared retort yet. Nor has that slimy son of his.

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