Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

T R E 4 5 O N

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Peak wingnut was a lie.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, man.

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Everybody saw this coming.

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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  4. 4.

    Mike J

    Twelve foot seas for the Finn race today, so of course NBC shows the windsurfers on a sheltered, pretty flat course. The American Finn sailor split from the fleet and worked his way up to 4th before a header made his side of the course untenable. Live by the shift, die by the shift.

  5. 5.

    pseudonymous in nc

    You can live stream the women’s all-around final here.

    …if you pay for cable TV. (Cord-cutters, look in the usual NBC-disapproved places.)

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    @srv:

    True story: Texas is the only state where Latino voters were under the same Jim Crow voter suppression restrictions as Black voters were.

  8. 8.

    OzarkHillbilly

    On the morning thread today somebody (I forget who) commented that Trump was saying Obama created ISIS. I replied that Trump was just using standard political rhetoric to blame Obama for ISIS’s gains thru Obama’s “feckless” ME policies.

    I was wrong. Trump is saying that Obama actually created ISIS. My apologies to that person. I should know by now that no matter how stupid a thing may sound, if it comes out of Trump’s mouth one can be certain that he wants you to believe it actually is true.

  9. 9.

    rikyrah

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I was wrong. Trump is saying that Obama actually created ISIS. My apologies to that person. I should know by now that no matter how stupid a thing may sound, if it comes out of Trump’s mouth one can be certain that he wants you to believe it actually is true.

    That pivot’s coming anyday now.

  11. 11.

    The Ancient Randonnuer

    Guess who:

    “First, I’d get out of Iraq right now,” Trump said to British GQ in a 2008 interview. “And by the way, I am the greatest hawk who ever lived, a far greater hawk even than Bush. I am the most militant military human being who ever lived. I’d rebuild our military arsenal, and make sure we had the finest weapons in the world. Because countries such as Russia have no respect for us, they laugh at us. Look at what happened in Georgia, a place we were supposed to be protecting.”

    And by the way, I have the greatest legs, far greater legs even than Garbo. I have the greatest leg of any human being who ever lived.

  12. 12.

    Chyron HR

    @srv:

    You mean “God-Emperor Trump” might not lose Texas after all? This calls for a celebration! Crack open a box of Trump Wine and throw a Trump Steak on the grill!

  13. 13.

    Waldo

    @rikyrah:

    That pivot’s coming anyday now.

    Trump is great at pivoting. The trick is when you get to sane, you’re supposed to stop pivoting.

  16. 16.

    Peale

    @efgoldman: Bah. Michelle Pfeiffer singing “Making Whopee” on the piano – actually was inspired by Trump’s many late night croons at the Atlantic City Marina.

  17. 17.

    raven

    I don’t know if you can access this special NYT report or not but it’s worth a try

    FRACTURED LANDS: HOW THE ARAB WORLD CAME APART

    After 16 months of traveling in the Middle East, I find it impossible to predict what might happen next, let alone sum up what it all means. In most every place Paolo Pellegrin and I went, the situation today looks worse than it did when we set out: The repression of the Sisi regime in Egypt has deepened; the war in Syria has taken tens of thousands more lives; to add to its other problems, Libya is now hurtling toward insolvency. If there is one bright spot on the map, it is the apparently solid and committed international coalition that is now working toward the final destruction of ISIS.

    That said, I am reminded of something Majd Ibrahim told me: “ISIS isn’t just an organization, it’s an idea.” It is also a kind of tribe, of course, and if this incarnation is destroyed, the conditions that created ISIS will remain in the form of a generation of disaffected and futureless young men, like Wakaz Hassan, who find purpose and power and belonging by picking up a gun. In short, nothing gets better anytime soon.

  18. 18.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @OzarkHillbilly: @rikyrah: The Guardian’s lead paragraph on this:

    Donald Trump refused to back down from his false claim that Barack Obama was “the founder of Isis” on Thursday

    That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do journalism.

  19. 19.

    bystander

    @OzarkHillbilly: Michael Hayden was on saying that. Nobody bothered to ask why Hayden actually helped create the mess in the ME.

    On top of the scandahlllll that a wealthy Clinton Foundation donor asked to meet an American ambassador, the program was a pip. No one seemed to recall that he didn’t get to meet the ambassador because it was too important to start the “pay for play” smear.

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    Mnemosyne

    @bystander:

    We should all know by now that Hillary Clinton obviously told the guy to ask that, because she’s personally responsible for every conversation at the Foundation despite deliberately setting it up with a wall between herself and its donors. Don’t you know how this conspiracy works?!

  23. 23.

    Peale

    @raven: So the next time there is a massive prison break to provide soldiers for a radical group we can expect the Iraqi army to fall apart and flee, leaving their weapons and piles of cash for the radicals?

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    slag

    @Iowa Old Lady: If they really ran that, that’s hilarious. I’d love to see further chyron fact-checks:

    “Trump calls Hillary a ‘she-wolf straight outta Transylvania’ (She’s Not)”
    “Trump calls Elizabeth Warren a ‘deadly amphibian fungus decimating the forests of South America’ (She’s Not)”

    So many opportunities!

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    slag

    @Iowa Old Lady: Haha! That only brings up further questions. Did CNN actually fact-check this? Like, did they look at Obama’s LinkedIn profile just to make sure he doesn’t list “Founder, ISIS” on there? Inquiring minds!

    Seriously, though, the Donald has really boxed the news media in on this and so many other things. They really don’t know what to do with him, and it’s hard to blame them sometimes. In this case, the chyron was probably their best option. Another option is for them to stop putting his winged monkeys on their payroll, but then, the winged monkey population would lack representation.

  31. 31.

    Jack the Second

    @slag: That would infringe on their first amendment rights to be a paid on-screen personality on CNN.

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