Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

I really should read my own blog.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

This blog will pay for itself.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

This fight is for everything.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

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

T R E 4 5 O N

Everybody saw this coming.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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Donald Trump really has encouraged all the worst Republicans of the past forty years to crawl back from under their rocks into the media spotlight, hasn’t he?

And they’re garnering new fans, too…


(Linked video obviously NSFW)

Notice, unfortunately, there’ more than a few young bros among the AARP Trumplodytes. And of course some folks have brought their kids, just like their granpas would’ve brought them to a public lynching…

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  4. 4.

    gene108

    The WH releasing money to Iran for the release of prisoners will be the big story pushed by the media this week.

    I know the money Iran got was their money, from the sale of oil and gas that was frozen due to the embargo, but I doubt the media will bother with such pesky details and go straight to wondering, if Team Obama violated U.S, policy of not paying ransoms.

    I mean, how long can we expect to the media to report about how terrible Trump is?

    They have to be “fair and balanced”. I bet we’ll see some more late breaking revelations about Hillary’s email server soon.

  8. 8.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    Trump might have ADD but I think he’s got some other medical condition(s)as well. Dementia? Narcissism? The guy is unfit for the presidency.

  9. 9.

    BR

    With all the other nonsense that happened today, I can see that the NYPD commissioner trashing Trump didn’t get play, but it’s big, and it could drag Trump into a bad story. He said Trump probably has never taken a punch in his life, and trashed the way Trump has been acting and talking — here’s the video of the Bratton interview.

  13. 13.

    Redshift

    @gene108:

    I know the money Iran got was their money, from the sale of oil and gas that was frozen due to the embargo

    Actually, in this case it was money Iran had already paid for an arms sale that was cancelled after the revolution. They recently got a judgment that the current government was entitled to it.

  14. 14.

    Petorado

    Speaking of “back in the day” personalities:

    Actor Clint Eastwood has backed Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the upcoming presidential election and bemoaned the current ‘p***y generation’ of political correctness … the actor-director hailed Trump as a foe of political correctness and ‘the kiss-ass generation.’

    The irony of the “politically incorrect” crowd is that political incorrectness is the politically correct term for “I want to be as big an a**hole as I possibly can be yet suffer no public repercussions for it.” Yes the 1st Amendment allows you to say obnoxious things, but it provides no immunity from the rest of us viewing the offender as a complete loser.

  15. 15.

    danielx

    @redshirt:

    We’ve reached that time of the night when everyone on the East Coast realizes everyone on the West Coast is soft.

    Dude – I’m two time zones west of and 8500 feet higher than my usual environment. It’s done wonders for me; not soft, but maybe more along the lines of “this is sensible, why isn’t it like this everywhere?” Aside from clean air and totally awesome views, that is.

  17. 17.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @gene108: Actually, it was $400 million the Iranians had paid for US military hardware that had never been delivered due to the Revolution. The US paid back the principle and $1 billion in interest…considerably less than the $7-8 billion the Iranians thought was due them.

  19. 19.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @efgoldman: North should have been stripped of his pension and benefits for his actions, but Reagan personally intervened so that North could receive them.

  21. 21.

    redshirt

    @Villago Delenda Est: I literally had a chance to rent the ex-Iranian Embassy in 1993. It was only $5,000 a month. I got the full tour – it was amazing. I tried to organize some 16 people to get in on it, but failed. I was close though, damn it.

  27. 27.

    different-church-lady

    “Fuck you, Hillary!” “Kill her!” “Hillary’s a whore!” “Hang the bitch!”

    But enough about the Daily Kos rec list…

  30. 30.

    different-church-lady

    @redshirt:

    We’ve reached that time of the night when everyone on the East Coast realizes everyone on the West Coast is soft.

    They have to get up early because all their road games take place at four in the afternoon.

  31. 31.

    Brachiator

    @Petorado:

    Yes the 1st Amendment allows you to say obnoxious things, but it provides no immunity from the rest of us viewing the offender as a complete loser.

    Not really a First Amendment issue, which is about government interference with speech.

    It’s more a social courtesy issue. People like Eastwood and his friends could freely say vile things about various groups and women because there were usually too few (if any) members of those groups around to effectively counter the bullshit.

    I wonder how the studio releasing his upcoming movie “Sully” feels about Eastwood’s frankness?

  35. 35.

    Brachiator

    @redshirt:

    What? The fact that if CA is 6th, what does that make the East Coast? What’s the GDP of NY?

    GDP of CA about twice that of NY. GDP of CA exceeds that of Canada, Russia or Australia.

  42. 42.

    MomSense

    We went to a farm and the kid and dog ran all around with the farmer’s dogs and kids. We came home, ate dinner and then the dog and kid fell asleep together on the dog bed next to the fan. I couldn’t wake them up to go to bed so I covered them with a blankie. I keep checking on them and they are just totally zonked out. They look very sweet curled up together so I guess I’ll just give up trying to get them to go to bed.

  43. 43.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    Well, that was festive. I ended up having to disconnect my data drive, but got the update to install.

  44. 44.

    magurakurin

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Population is less as well.CA has 40 million NY 20 million. NY, PA and NJ is 40 million and combined GDP surpasses California. And the pizza….way, way better.

  48. 48.

    Peter

    So, Trump campaign claims that in July they raised $82 Million, mostly from small donors.

    Does anyone actually believe this? I don’t doubt that they did better than their sad May and June figures but this campaign has repeatedly lied in these fundraiser claims.

  49. 49.

    Barb2

    @Peter:

    No! Small donations are the easiest way to slip in huge donations from illegal sources – like Russia. Small donations are harder to trace. Cannon fire blog has a blog post about small donations.

    Suddenly team Trump figures out email fund drive – with most of email pleas for funds hitting the trash? Good pr to send funding pleas to high profile European addresses. See he is doing something.

    Lying liars.

  50. 50.

    NorthLeft12

    @different-church-lady: No, Canada [+36M]would be second…..only behind California [+38M].

    I suggested that if we absorbed the states into Canada, we would add about thirty new provinces. No need for separate Dakotas and Carolinas. Ditto for the Virginia situation too. Collect some of the New England states together [RI/Mass/Conn and Vermont/NH/ Maine] and the Rebel alliance too [Miss/Ala/La./Ark.]. Jam Wash. and Oregon together, and then Mont./Wyoming/Idaho. Alaska gets to be a part of the The North with Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut. Nevada and Arizona would be a nice fit, and Texas gets enlarged by adding NM and Oklahoma [that would be funny]. Finally NJ/MD/Delaware and DC are the final province.
    For all that you will get single payer health care, and a political system that would really reflect the splintered consensus you currently have. Minority governments forever!
    BTW, our Senators are old, powerless, and appointed, so another win there.

  51. 51.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @different-church-lady: Sorry, no: Second (36,048,521) only to Kali (38,332,521). with Texas (26,448,193) 9.5M back at 3.

    But why you’d admit then as a single state with a larger land area than the other 50 combined is beyond me. Chip off BC & Nova Scotia first & let the rest come tumbling down gradually…

    ETA: I see NorthLeft12 got there a half hour ahead of me, dagnabit…

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