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rikyrah
Good Morning ?, Everyone ?
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning, rikyrah.
HRA
I cannot see the humor or the intent in bringing up the assassination of President Kennedy in any way at all.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
Wheeeeeeee!
JPL
Make America great again.. Luckovich link
@HRA: I agree
?BillinGlendaleCA
@HRA: The humor in that one was lost on me as well.
Aleta
I’ve moved on from my obsessive trumpulsion disorder and am wondering how I will handle the post trump stress disorder.
?BillinGlendaleCA
My wife bought some peaches and wants me to eat them, I grew up with a peach tree and I’m spoiled; these peaches suck.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m movin’ to the country, I’m gonna eat me a lot of peaches
I’m movin’ to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches
I’m movin’ to the country, I’m gonna eat a lot of peaches
Peaches come from a can
They were put there by a man
In a factory downtown
If I had my little way
I’d eat peaches every day
Sun soakin’ bulges in the shade
bystander
Missed a few threads and feeling lazy. Has the supposed Preet Bharara investigation of Clinton Foundation actually begun or are rw media outlets pipedreaming? Because I’m really not ready to hear every b/s supposed piece of evidence of unbridled cookery served up in argle bargle dressing.
Aleta
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Seems I almost never eat a peach any more without trepidation of that double cross.
Taylor
@HRA: It’s associating Trump’s (“sarcastic”) call for political assassination with an assassination that the nation still grieves over.
Also the tacky billboard and grafitti are emblematic of Trump’s defacement of our political discourse.
It is not meant to be funny.
Iowa Old Lady
I see Reince Priebus is urging people not to believe the “garbage” they read about Trump. Since most of what I read about him is quotes of his own words, I agree there’s garbage but I don’t see how I’m supposed to disbelieve it.
Amir Khalid
I found this lovely bit of Trump fan fiction in a Google search. Here is the writer’s Wikipedia entry.
In better news, the 2016/17 season of the English Premier League begins today.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@HRA: Why did you suppose it was meant to be humorous? The JFK assassination was preceded by accusations from extreme right wingers in Dallas that Kennedy was a traitor that needed to be dealt with. Oswald did not spring from a vacuum. This has been discussed this week. Looks to me as if Ohman is just explicitly drawing the parallel between fall of 63 and the fall of 16.
Funny, no. On point, yes.
MattF
@bystander: @Taylor: @Iowa Old Lady: Lotta RW wishful thinking out there.
In the meantime, gonna have dinner this evening with an old friend, try out that new restaurant across the street.
Aleta
really love your peaches
Want to shake your tree
Just One More Canuck
@Iowa Old Lady: He was misquoted. What he actually said was, “Don’t believe the garbage other people say about Trump. Believe the garbage I say about Trump.”
Unless he was being sarcastic
Aleta
can’t help myself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5njDmUMhfa0
Keith P.
It’s a little early in the morning to see Donald Trump in a speedo, even if it is just in cartoon form.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@bystander: I’ll believe it when a credible news organization reports it. I thought Bharara was getting close to the end of his term, and was trying to close out de Blasio and Cuomo, but I have to admit that I don’t really follow the scandals d’ jour.
Raven
1.28 billion minutes of Olympic coverage by NBC and still the whining.
Baud
@bystander: During the primary, there was a “leak” that Terry McAuliffe was being investigated. Haven’t heard about it since.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Raven: Who’s whining? Although that should be 1.27 billion minutes of human interest stories, jingoism, and puffery from NBC about the Olympics, and 3 hours coverage of the Olympic games. I’m sure it’s Fuck LBJ’s fault.
Cat48
@bystander:
They are using “may” today, as in, Clinton Foundation FBI Probes MAY Be Ocurring in Three Cities. The press won’t run the stories unless the FBI acknowledges an investigation is Ocurring. The FBI won’t say an investigation is Ocurring yet. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. Really though, who knows?.
PsiFighter37
Off to St. Louis for the weekend. Frankly had I known I would have this exam to prep for, I would’ve stayed home. Oh well.
Raven
@Comrade Scrutinizer: Yea dumbass, the show every minute of every fuckin event but whiners gonna whine. I wish they would make you watch.
satby
@Taylor: I had to check to see if someone got this before I commented, but you nailed it.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning sunshine?
WereBear
Oh, the Republicans running around, telling people to pay no attention to the man in front of the curtain.
ThresherK (GPad)
@satby: I got ‘”harrowing” out of it, myself.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Raven: Love you too, raven :). OT question for you. Is Joe Fail’s daughter still blogging? I used to check in every now and again to see how things were going, but I lost the link about two computer crashes ago.
satby
@ThresherK (GPad): agreed. Drumpf would incite the violence, disclaim any involvement, and still try to capitalize on the result. That is harrowing when you consider what a soulless creature he is.
Aleta
Last night I was standing on a dock, and the soul dog barked twice at the water. Maybe at a reflection or a rock out of place, no clue. Dog across the cove barked back, twice. Soul dog answered, three barks. Dog across the cove answers, three barks. Back and forth, apparently an interesting conversation. Finally some real dogs across the road began to join in, and I had to insist that he leave his echo before everyone’s barks began ricocheting out of control.
satby
@Aleta: they do talk to each other. My dogs used to occasionally have the same kinds of conversation with their coyote cousins across the field.
gene108
@Taylor:
I would not have gotten the ‘toon, without your explanation.
And for every successful Presidential assassination, there have several failed ones, from Teddy Roosevelt, in 1912, FDR in 1933, to Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan to 2011 White House shooting, where the gunman’s bullets hit the bulletproof windows of the residence quarters to the knife wielding White House fence jumper of 2014.
Edit: Presidential assassination attempts are not an uncommon occurrence.
germy
another secret service editorial cartoon.
WereBear
@satby: And my cats convey rather complicated information to each other with subtle body language.
It makes complete sense to me. Where did ours come from, otherwise?
germy
@satby: My wife makes a certain sound at our cat. Sort of an “aww” sound. This morning the cat walks into our room and makes the exact same sound. Uncanny…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@gene108: You left out an almost attempted assassination of President-elect Kennedy and the attempted assassination of President Truman at Blair House.
germy
@?BillinGlendaleCA: And the guy who threw his shoe at “W”
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
For the first time in years, I’ve been able to go to a farmer’s market. The peaches they sell are the best I’ve ever had. I’ll never go store-bought again.
Kenneth Kohl
@HRA: It probably wasn’t meant to be funny…
debbie
@Iowa Old Lady:
Since so many GOP politicians are disavowing Trump, I wonder if Reince’s continuing and vocal support of Trump will mean the end of his career at the RNC after the election.
gene108
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It was not a comprehensive list. I did not know about the assassination attempts you mentioned.
Going back a bit there was a failed assassination attempt of President-elect Lincoln as he was making his way to his first inauguration, in 1861.
And more recently there was also the gunman, in the 1990’s, who sprayed bullets at the White House, leading to the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Ave being closed to automobile traffic for a few years.
germy
@debbie: We go to our farmer’s market twice a week. It’s great to buy direct from the grower. Lettuce, tomatoes, onions and everything else has more flavor than the supermarket stuff. And live music. Also, the League of Women Voters always has a table, answering questions and registering folks.
hovercraft
@Baud:
The indictment is being hidden in the vault that houses the ‘whitey tape’, they will both be this years October surprise. When the voters see them, they will realize that Michelle is the real racist, and Hillary is corrupt.
germy
@Aleta:
Remember the “twilight bark” from the 101 Dalmatians cartoon?
debbie
@germy:
I mostly started going because I wanted real tomatoes, but OMG, the peaches and cherries that actually last and taste good for a week! I’m hoping the weight drops off in the fall.
germy
@debbie: Some people have a table set up where they answer questions. If something is growing in your yard and you’re not sure what it is, you can bring a sample and they’ll identify it for you.
Dogs are allowed (leashed) and it’s fun seeing all the different breeds walking around, from the tiniest to the biggest.
hovercraft
@debbie:
Katy Tur reports that going forward he will have a ‘senior’ advisor ( e.g. Manafort or Prius) with him at all of his rallies and when he travels, as a ‘chaperone’. They will attempt to keep him on message and away from controversy.
SAD !
Barb2
Panic time for Trump – his version of get out the vote different than the Democrats get out the vote. A real get out the vote effort costs millions – so he claims he has won key states. Any other outcome means the Dems are cheating. He is bats*it crazy. Or just a con artist.
Then the the right wing nut jobs continue to make up stuff about Clinton? Her health – damn she keeps on campaigning like the energizer bunny – she keeps going. (That’s the Clinton Derangement Syndrome – and phoney medical experts making diagnosis of a new aliment every day.) Rawstory.com and memorandum.Com have two or three different stories. I don’t bother to read the trash.
Trump is off on another rant – this time racist. Claiming if he doesn’t win X state then that’s proof of vote rigging. Is he encouraging harassment of black voters – who he claims will be voting several times?
Nice touch – Trumps photo makes him look manic. Photographers are catching something – freezing that manic moment as Trump goes off the rails yet again.
Does Trump seem even more manic than usual?
The cartoonists seem to be picking up on a theme. Headlines seem to suggest something is flipping.
germy
@hovercraft: How do they expect to control him? Short of jumping onstage and covering his mouth mid-speech?
SFAW
@debbie:
I heard he was “retiring undefeated” after this election anyway.
But the most interesting rumor I may have heard was the one that has DWS being his successor.
germy
He tells his audience to “hang around at the polls and keep your eyes on things.”
But from what I understand, you’re not allowed to loiter at polling places? Unless you’re an official poll watcher… otherwise, isn’t it just intimidation, standing around and staring angrily at voters?
ThresherK
@gene108: Strictly from memory: Didn’t some AWM (angry white man) fly a small Piper Cub-sized airplane into the White House when Clinton was president? He wasn’t there at the time, but it was part of Angry White Man stuff and not taken like a very serious threat in the press.
(I’m too lazy on this hot a Saturday to Yahoogle it.)
SFAW
@hovercraft:
… or Lewandowski
raven
@Comrade Scrutinizer: She moved to Australia and I think she’s taking a break on the blog. She’s under Thompson on her FB. I’ll say hey.
I checked her blog and the last entry was 2009
http://katherinemeta.blogspot.com/
debbie
@hovercraft:
Will the chaperone whisper commands from offstage or stand behind Trump and just pull the string out of Trump’s back?
@Barb2:
Even if he’s not suggesting harassing voters, you know that’s how his people will interpret Trump’s statement.
germy
@ThresherK: I don’t remember that but it’s entirely possible. It wouldn’t have gotten the coverage it would get today.
satby
@WereBear: Science is really just getting started on understanding animal communication. I love reading about that stuff.
hovercraft
@germy:
Maybe they’ll have a mickey slipped into his drink? Hypnosis ? Maybe give him a an earpiece and whisper into his ear, every time he goes off script? Even in the report Katy said they are desperate, they are trying, but the only person he listens consistently is himself.
Wapiti
@germy:
Maybe they could use a shock collar? Would the Secret Service have to react to someone shocking the candidate if the candidate put on the collar?
WereBear
Well-adjusted people are all different. Narcissists are all alike.
Control Trump? Who are they kidding?!?!?!
His own father shipped him off to military school. He’s burned through multiple wives. He doesn’t seem to have friends, merely employees. (Children are extensions of a narcissist’s ego, and are favored, or not, accordingly.) And while he’s not as rich as he claims, he has the undeniable ability to spend money, from somewhere.
They do what they want. They can easily become dangerous if an “ego wound” is involved.
I just ran across a reminder of the Christopher Longo case; I think a movie is coming out? He was a Jehovah’s Witness, a seemingly normal person who married his high school sweetheart, had three children, rose in a corporate job and started a business.
But when things went sour, he stole, forged checks, and eventually murdered his family to attempt starting life over in Mexico. I mean, he could have just run away and created a new identity, but he did not and could not do that: because then his wife and children would not think well of him.
Narcissists. Rather more scary than sociopaths from some angles.
hovercraft
@debbie:
Thats why he is asking for Sheriffs and police to monitor certain ‘areas’ in PA where they are know to allow people to vote again and again and again. And it just so happens that those ares are heavily populated by minorities, and that is also the last place the New Black Panther operatives were spotted, intimidating voters on the way to the voting booth.
WereBear
@satby: Yes, look at how easily great apes, when given modes of communication, take to them.
bystander
@Comrade Scrutinizer: @Baud:
Thanks for the reality check. Putting the Xanax bottle back in the medicine cabinet.
ThresherK
@germy: Here it is (I’ve had some caffeine).
The pilot is described as “apolitical and suicidal”, and was killed on impact. I take back what I said about him.
Baud
@hovercraft:
@debbie:
Cyrano de Manafort.
Cat48
I don’t think Trump knows what to do first. He has asked the RNC to open a campaign office for him in every state. RNC thinks it’s ridiculous & too expensive. I think it’s hysterical. The man has no idea how to run a campaign.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Cat48:
Nor will he listen to those that do.
Trump’s biggest problem is that he thinks he is ALWAYS the smartest guy in the room. That, however is rarely if ever the case.
Luthe
@germy: Giant hook to pull him off the stage if he goes off message.
Baud
@Luthe: A Gong Show type gong would be awesome.
MattF
@hovercraft: And how will that work? Turn off his mic? Spring the trap door under the podium?
satby
I don’t know if this link will work because FB, but this is hysterical.
germy
@hovercraft:
Didn’t “W” have that during one of his presidential debates?
germy
@Luthe:
His rallies are already vaudeville, so why not?
WereBear
@satby: Thanks, I have been wanting to track down Stonekettle Station on Facebook, I hear it is great.
But, in typical Facebook fashion, it constantly gets in the way of what I want to do until I give up.
WereBear
Naw, the way to do this is they hire a Trump look-a-like who will stick to the script.
The real Trump will be back in his hotel suite, hooked into one of those virtual reality headsets, where he is winning!
That’s how to solve a problem like The Donald.
Schlemazel
@?BillinGlendaleCA: :Drumpf’s biggest problem is that he thinks he is ALWAYS the smartest guy in the room. That, however is
rarely if everNEVER the case.”FTFY
Rumor has it that junior wants to run for mayor of NYC. My guess is that daddy dearest is screwing juniors pooch for him.
satby
@WereBear: That’s probably the blueprint. If it isn’t, don’t be giving them ideas.
Ultraviolet Thunder
News Flash: Scientists have determined that Stone Age people threw rocks to kill animals. But not without generating this gold plated wonder of a sentence:
Hell, Dizzy Dean could have told them that.
It’s a short article and worth reading.
Mike J
Leicester just lost to a newly promoted team that doesn’t have a manager. Do we have a new Cinderella?
And in their honor, here’s the single from the album London 0 Hull 4
Humdog
Did I miss a discussion of Charlie Pierce calling out our very own Betty Cracker on Friday? He did not want the Sully Award.
Schlemazel
@WereBear:
How do you solve a problem like the donald?
How do you shut his mouth and pin it down?
How do you stop a turd as mean as Orange Don?
A flibbing-a-jittery! A willful shit storm! A clown!
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell him
Many a thing he cannot understand
But how do you make him stay
And listen to all you say
How do you keep his scat under the sand
Oh, how do you solve a problem like the donald?
With no apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein as I was only joking!
Baud
@Humdog:. Haha. Got a link?
I’m with Betty.
Thoughtful David
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
Political cartoons aren’t necessarily intended to be humorous. They may be but don’t have to be, and through history they have not always been.
Peale
@Schlemazel: yep. We got a look at the family during the convention and found the whole clan wanting.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: She has chickens that’ll peck your eyes out, what does Mr. Pierce have?
WereBear
@Schlemazel: LOL! Good one.
I have stopped calling him a clown because that is an insult to clowns.
Humdog
Let’s Tyra link . Never tried to link before.
Jeffro
@Amir Khalid: come on you Spurs !!!
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: A fainting couch, apparently.
Baud
@Humdog: one two many http’s in the beginning.
Lame response. Betty got his number.
Elmo
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I feel your pain. We had a nectarine tree in the backyard until I was 11. I’m almost 50 years old and haven’t truly enjoyed a nectarine since.
I’m trying to grow one now, in Southern MD. The books all say it’s possible – the local farmers who grow peaches all say give it up, they’re too persnickety. Dammit.
Agrippa
I do not know what Trump – a bitter and vindictive old white man – is going to do. But, I do think that he will get worse as time goes on and the pressure builds. The decompensation may get more serious.
Johnnybuck
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Hurt fee-fees apparently.
pamelabrown53
@Baud: #93
Baud, could you point me to the post where Pierce replies to Betty? Thanks.
Humdog
@Baud: was he calling Betty Ms. littlefeather? I don’t understand the name unless it has to do with Betty’s chickens. I liked that he noted and linked to criticism of his position, but he did not attempt to answer it. Lame indeed.
Schlemazel
@WereBear:
Agreed but clown fits (and not just because Dick & Oscar put it there)
He is an evil clown though, like John Wayne Gacy
Baud
@Humdog: Yep. Apparently, “Kissinger bad” is a sophisticated as response as he can muster.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Pierce responded to Betty? If anybody’s got a link I’d like to see that. In other Firebagger news (I wouldn’t normally put Pierce in that category, but every once in a while…. oy) Thomas Frank has declared that Trump’s implosion means the end of HRC’s progressive feint. I’m almost curious to slog through it to see if his Precious Self makes any mention that the Senate is still just about a 50/50 proposition–fucking Portman? Seriously, Ohio?– and the House a considerable longshot.
Baud
@pamelabrown53:
Here.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That does seem to be the totality of his response, though I thought the statement to be read by Miss Littlefeather was a nice touch.
Schlemazel
@Humdog:
Marlon Brando sent a native American, Sashen(?) Littlefeather up to refuse his Academy Award & highlight the plight of Native Americans.
I read this as him poking fun back more than butthurt. YMMV
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Baud:
Pierce has been calling Kissinger a war criminal as long as I’ve been reading him. He feels really strongly about that apparently. But voting for Johnson over that? I don’t agree.
ThresherK
@Agrippa: “Decompensation”? He already has a history of not paying his contractors what he’s obligated.
Is this an autocorrect from “overcompensation” (re his tiny hands)?
But, yeah, this Mr. Potter’s not gonna turn in to George Bailey.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Humdog: It’s a reference to Brando declining the Oscar for The Godfather, he sent a young woman to read his statement(I think there was a question as to whether she was actually Native American).
bemused
@Aleta:
When we hear wolves howling, yipping at each other in the night, our dogs stay very, very quiet.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
a lot of this is the negative version of what Jeffry Goldberg, no liberal or peacenik, calls the Carly Simon Fallacy, we’re so vain that we think every event in the world is the result of US action or lack thereof. People like McCain think every bad thing in the world is because we didn’t sent troops to fix it, Pierce and our own “liberal” think every bad thing that happens is because of US interference. “Liberal” once explained that HRC caused all that nefarious business in Honduras by making phone calls.
that said: It makes no sense to me to be either courting HK’s endorsement or trumpeting his friendship. How many nonagenarian Nixon fans are on the fence, waiting to be swayed into HRC’s camp? I don’t like Colin Powell, but his endorsement could, I suspect, actually make a difference.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
In the real world
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ultraviolet Thunder: It must be nice to be able to be so pure, on the other hand some of us live in the real world.
(As I’ve noted before, I used to work for Satan.)
TS
@Baud:
Doing the GOP’s work for them. Appears to be blaming Hillary Clinton for everything done by any person she met over the years of her political career.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
My understanding is that Clinton is “courting” every living foreign policy big shot to give the accurate statement that Trump is unfit to lead. Trump is the clear and present danger to this country, not some old FP has-beens.
O. Felix Culpa
Words are losing their meaning:
Humdog
But, JimFL, Pierce said he would turn on HRC if she did not repudiate any endorsement from Kissinger. There is no report that Hillary is courting one, but if one comes, I’d say she should just ignore it. Pierce wants her to start a new fight now if HK recognizes there is only one sane choice this November. Absurd!
geg6
@Humdog:
Littlefeather is the name of the Native American woman who Brando sent to give the finger, basically, when he won his Oscar, an infamous protest at the time.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Iowa Old Lady:
Andy Borowitz to the rescue:Trump Blasts Media for Reporting Things He Says
In this case the title is so accurate.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@raven: Thanks Raven!
D58826
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Beat me to it.
The world has been spinning out history for a lot longer than there have been American Presidents to provide ‘leadership’, ‘decisive action’ or ‘resolve’
We just can’t seem to get our head around the fact that the other side/sides have a vote and they will react to American action or inaction. Maybe Obama should/could have done something differently in Syria in 2013 but that doesn’t mean that the outcome in 2016 would have been any better. It could just as easily created a worse outcome. Unfortunately we can’t run double blind experiments in foreign policy.
oldgold
Pierce is overrated.
Yes, he occasionally pens a pithy sentence, but the substance of what he writes is ho-hum.
Pierce has been exposed as not ready for prime time during his recent television appearances.
Peale
@Baud: yep. Although a bunch of commentators at a site more truly progressive than this one are convinced that she’s already moved to the right and triangulated everything away.
Baud
@D58826: I’m still not sure what we did in Syria except get them to give up their chemical weapons. I know we’re doing stuff now due to ISIS, but the chief attack on Obama’s policy has been from the right in that he should have been more aggressive.
pamelabrown53
@Baud:
Thanks for making the effort. Much appreciated.
Peale
@Humdog: well we have to make certain every election is a reevaluation of Vietnam. Boomers and Silents wouldn’t have any political reference points otherwise.
Baud
@Peale: She will certainly be more “to the right” than progressives will like, just like Obama was. But she hasn’t “moved” to the right at all.
Baud
@Peale: Hopefully we can get through the election intact, but afterwards, we have a tea party of the left problem we’ll have to deal with.
ThresherK
@Baud: So, she’s told these R’s who’ve jumped off a burning garbage scow and onto her bandwagon, “Don’t pretend you’ve been leading it?” Good for her.
I’ve always wondered what goes through the mind of someone who buys a team jersey at the Super Bowl when there’s five minutes left in a thoroughly decided game. Going forward, I hope we get the chance to find out.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: you’d think the fact that Evan Bayh is one of the big reasons Dems might, still just “might”, retake the Senate would give people some perspective on how widespread the great populist movement of 2016 actually is. But nooo-oooo-oooo.
Because I too am an old who thinks my forty year old pop culture references are still with it.
Kathleen
@Aleta: I responded to late on previous thread where you commented on Hard Day’s Night. Great movie and great album. I saw movie 3 times in the theater (back in the old days when dinosaurs held our TV’s “rabbit ears”.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: There are a lot of small, mostly white Bernie states where the Dems are weak and you would think would be prime pickings for a populist left. That’s where I’d like to see them prove themselves.
Kathleen
@Cat48: The always reliable, far and balanced NPR reported on the obligatory “concerns about” this morning on Weekend Edition.
Lurker Extraordinaire
@Baud: The Presidents of the United States of America. How fitting! One of my favorite bands.
Jeffro
@Baud: Loved the two “you get nothing” articles Baud, thanks! Good for HRC – no need to swing right, she’s winning handily just the way she is! (also liked how the one article noted coal miners would be better paid as solar techs, how that ties to quality education, and so on)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Peale: Paintin’ with a mighty broad brush there Picaso. I’m a boomer and was barely a teen when we left Vietnam.
germy
After someone made a blowjob joke on a Hillary thread, the hilarious Kate Powers wrote the following:
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: The Greens only run for President.
Kathleen
@debbie: That may be Reince is wishing for. With a golden parachute of course, because absolute failure deserves to be handsomely rewarded.
D58826
@Baud: If Obama had parted the Red Sea for Mosses, the RWNJ would complain about the poor fish that died as a result. (sigh)
Jeffro
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): In other words, “Let me be ‘Me’ when I’m with my people, and quit turning off the rest of the country by accurately reporting it!!”
Kind of like Mitt and his “47%” remarks…
I’ll say this for our side and its leaders (and K-Thug has already noted this, in comparing the two parties’ fortunes): at least our party largely stands for its stated principles, and largely delivers (or at least visibly tries to deliver) for its constituents. You know, the way politicians/parties are supposed to?
Once they quit servicing the 1%, I’m sure the GOPbwa-hah-hah…I’m sorry, I just couldn’t finish that sentence…
Johnnybuck
@Humdog:
This. I’d say that most Americans think HK is a respected elder statesman of foreign policy. It doesn’t make them right of course, just ignorant. No reason to make a big hairy deal about it to assuage the feelings of the precious.
Charlie should just go back to sports, he seems to be fighting above his weight when it comes to politics.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@D58826:
Wait, he didn’t part the Red Sea; obviously another Obummer failure. SAD!
oldgold
@Johnnybuck:
Jim
There was an attempted assignation of Andrew Jackson that was thwarted by wait for it… Davy Crockett. Yes really. Also the gun didn’t fire.
germy
@D58826:
And liberals would complain he unfairly favored Israel?
[ducks]
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Luthe: The only time Trump says anything semi-coherent these days is when he’s using a teleprompter. If he has events going forward that aren’t scripted with a teleprompter, he’s going to say stupid, inflammatory, and dangerous things. And he’ll get even more free publicity about it.
He can’t use a teleprompter during a debate, so some reason will be constructed so that he won’t debate Hillary.
Cheers,
Scott.
The Sheriff's A Ni-
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Its the same sad story as always, the Ohio Dems can’t fundraise to save their own bacon while the Ohio GOP is doing the Scrooge McDuck backstroke. Portman’s been killing Strickland over the airwaves. Ted’s only chance at this point is Clinton’s coattails and the Short Fingered Vulgarian boat anchor.
Kathleen
@TS: Hillary and Obama are always ruffling his delicate Dudebro sensitivities.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: My theory(and Josh Marshal’s) is that he’ll refuse to debate unless Gov. Johnson and Dr. Stein are included. That’ll be a non-starter for HRC, so no debates.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@The Sheriff’s A Ni-: IRC, didn’t the Ohio Teamsters endorse Portman? I can’t even begin to imagine the logic there
Kathleen
@oldgold: I think BJ has writers and analysts/thinkers who are better than Pierce. Also, too BJ commenteriat.
JPL
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: The media is already being unfair to him, so why bother debating.
I love that babysitters will now accompany him on debates. Hopefully Sen. Warren tweets about this development soon.
The Sheriff's A Ni-
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’d love to pick Kay’s brain on what happened there. Good grief.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
LOL at the Luckovich cartoon. He’s the best, hands down. Got me through a few of those Bush years – I had one of his cartoons over my work desk for years, just in case any conservative co-workers felt inclined to share their opinions with me.
For that idiot phoney baloney pearl clutching WarriorWoman cosplaying BoBer who commented on Betty’s Sully award post the other day about Clinton electronically stealing the election:
Psychiatrists will some day study the effect of Bernie Sanders on creating mass delusion in a certain subset of weak minded suggestive white people.
Peale
@The Sheriff’s A Ni-: per Kay, Strickland has been doing a poor job mobilizing actual Democratic Party voters because he’s too focused on appealing to rural voters who he imagines fit better in the party. Or he can’t imagine a party that’s not bout reclaiming those votes. So he’s running Jim Web’s presidential campaign.
debbie
@Baud:
“Deal with”?
Baud
@debbie: Somethings gotta give. We are a reality based community.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Humdog: Charlie’s a great writer, but he has a blind spot when it comes to how politics actually works sometimes. That’s fine – great writers often need to distill a topic and reduce shades of grey. But it doesn’t mean that their take on a topic is the best reflection of reality.
Cheers,
Scott.
germy
@debbie: Villago Delenda Est!
satby
@debbie: We, the sanity based, can’t let them take over the way the Teabaggers on the right have done to the Rs.
germy
when I vote this November, will there be a gaggle of angry white men wearing MakeAmericaGreatAgain caps glaring at me the whole time? Will they demand to see my papers?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: I’m a huge Pierce fan, I like his baroque insults and and as an atheist I like having a liberal who is actually conversant with religion and scripture etc (See also, the unfortunately Bernie-locked John Fuglesang), but he does buy too easily into the Cult of the Presidency-fueled hysterics about Obama, and to forget that not just Congress but voters actually play a role in our politics– Blue Dogs (2009-10) and Republicans (2011- now) don’t have power because Obama wants to compromise with them, they have power because people voted for them.
WereBear
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Aaaaand the Onion goes out of business.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@WereBear:
Has anyone ever seen Trump and Andy Kaufman* in the same place? Because I swear to Bob this looks more and more like an elaborate put-on.
* I know.
Britlaw
@Iowa Old Lady:
I’ve always thought Reince Priebus sounded more like a line from a proctologist’s instruction manual than an actual name.
MaryRC
@Amir Khalid: Oh Conrad, bless his heart. I read Conrad’s article when it was first published at the end of July and even then we knew that his complacent assumption that
was utter BS. The ensuing 3 weeks have just confirmed this over and over.
The sad thing about Conrad is that despite his fawning over Trump, Trump would despise him if he even knew who he was. Conrad Black has lost his newspaper empire, his fortune and his influence and to Trump, he’s just a looooooser.
schrodinger's cat
Has Trump lost all his marbles? I am not his target audience but he is sounding increasingly crazy to me.
J R in WV
@HRA:
Not so much humour as equating Donald Trump and Lee Harvey Oswald (or whomever was on the grass knoll) – following his recent second amendment remarks about Ms Clinton.
Are you not aware of political cartoons? They run on what are called editorial pages, or on political blogs now-a-days. Like this one?
trollhattan
@Britlaw:
It’s the answer to “What do you do with a dirty Priebus? “
gene108
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
The Phily suburbs (I assume that’s what is meant by “collar counties”, as I’ve never heard the term before) leaned Republican, until the last 10 years or so.
They are the folks that kept electing Arlen Specter to the Senate.
The Southern Fundie takeover of the Republican Party has swung the ‘burbs towards the Democrats.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@gene108:
Trump’s only ‘good’ purpose this cycle has been to distill out the white nationalists, uneducated gomers, bubble dwelling Alex Jones conspiracy theorists and the clinically insane (lots of overlaps in those groups) from the David Brooks wing of the GOP. None of the Republican leaners in the suburbs could ever imagine anyone at these Trump rallies at their backyard parties. Trump’s floor is 27% as we know, but his ceiling is about 40% I think.
debbie
@ baud et al.:
You know, there are more choices than the two extremes you’re pointing to. You sound as if you’re pushing for Party Purity over Big Tent Diversity. I hear “dealing with,” and I think, what’s next, a Dem version of the Hastert Rule? A Party Purge?
Are the Bernie supporters annoying? Of course, but so are small children on long car rides. You don’t toss them out the back window, and you shouldn’t either for Sanders’ supporters. I think overall they have been a positive force. Clinton’s now less pro-business and -bank, and she’s stopped talking about only working on issues she can get passed. Now she strives and reaches for better for everyone (just like Obama). That’s the whole point of “Working Together” and of the Dem convention which was clearly more positive and empowering than anything seen in Cleveland. None of this would have happened without Sanders.
The more strident bros will move elsewhere without your assistance, but please don’t discourage anyone from being a part of the party. Let them deal with themselves as they determine what it is they really want.
Baud
@debbie: I’m not trying to kick anyone out who wants to be part of the coalition. But just like we tell Dems not to chase centrists because no one wants Republican lite, I don’t want to see Dems chasing the small minority of progressives who won’t accept progressive lite. My initial comment was in response to something Thomas Frank apparently said, and he seems like one of those people who are beyond our reach. We’ll have to find our votes elsewhere.
Kay
I feel like we deserve a dramatic exit from Trump after coddling his ego so long- something definitive- a big hissy fit where he storms off the stage- “fuck you, I hate you all, losers!”
This isn’t definitive enough for me. It’s the least he could do.
Baud
@Kay:
Say what you will about Trump, he’s no John Cole.
LosGatosCA
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
David Brooks wing of the GOP?
That’s exceedingly small space consisting of David Brooks and Paul Gigot. He’s the fig leaf the establishment Republicans use to hide the robber baron wing (1%) and the Republican base (now the Trump Base, formerly the Tea Party, aka the Buchananites, Birchers, Affirmative Action for mediocre white people league, the CCC, the KKK, etc).
Kay
@Baud:
He’s supposed to be such a good entertainer- I want a show. Where did Melania go, BTW? They’re not even planning on finishing this performance?
Baud
@Kay: Apparently, he’s in the swing state of Connecticut tonight.
Kay
@Baud:
Yesterday he said he wanted to go home. No, sir. His fans paid 90 million dollars. Show’s not over yet.
EBT
@Baud: I too love songs about vulva.
Kay
@Baud:
No more CT or NYC. North Dakota gets a visit. He should have to spend 4 consecutive days in Erie, PA. Or West Virginia, with “the miners”! Melania and Ivanka can take a mine tour. On a mule.
Baud
@Kay: Don’t worry. Plenty more grifting left in that old man.
Baud
@Kay: Maybe he can tour the creation museum with Pence. Shore up his religious right voters.
HRA
@J R in WV:
I seldom get to see political cartoons (Tom Toles) since I opted for the Sunday paper of our one and only major newspaper.
I did write humor or intent in my remark knowing others will have a different outlook on this usage of a cartoon for sarcasm. In this Trump driven atmosphere that especially occurred last week where he was nudging violence from one of his followers against HRC, I cannot agree with showing any part of the association with JFK’s assassination.
debbie
@Kay:
No. He needs to be thoroughly trounced in November. Nothing else will keep him or those like him from trying this stunt again.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Baud: Yeah, they can check out the Ark also too, even though “I can guarantee you it will not float”.
Grifters gotta gift.
Cheers,
Scott.
Glidwrith
@HRA: Ummm, why wouldn’t you associate Deadbeat’s remark with JFK’s assassination? There are an awful lot of parallels between then and now. Pointing that out might help prevent a repeat of history.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: In two weeks, he’ll be in the swing state of Oregon. Ron Wyden actually sent me a fund raising email on this, saying that Drumpf thinks he’s competitive in Oregon! Based on what? Internal polling? That he doesn’t do? The fact that he won the GOP primary in a blue state? Oh, sure, over in Grant County, far to the east of the Cascades, I’m sure the Donald is YOOOGE. Multnomah? Washington? Clackamas? Marion? Lane? The counties with all the votes? Not likely…
HRA
@Glidwrith:
I totally agree!
Baud
@debbie: Agree.
@Villago Delenda Est: I’ve heard fears that there are enough Stein voters in Oregon to make Oregon competitive for Donald. Don’t know if that’s based on anything real.
hugely
@EBT: i just love vulva – thanks
daves09
@Aleta: My nectarine tree is full and ripe this week-nectarine cobbler, nectarine ice cream, nectarine everything for a few weeks.
Glidwrith
@Villago Delenda Est: He’s going for the bigot vote, pure and simple. If he shows up in Southern Oregon, that will confirm it. I grew up there – you could scoop the place up and drop it into Kentucky and never know the difference.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: The Pacific Greens (the Oregon version of the Greens) are desperate to make the cutoff to be a recognized “major” political party. You have to maintain a 1% of the cast votes level to be recognized at all, and you must have at least 5% of the registered voters align with your party via registration to be “major”. A “major” party gets to have primaries.
Villago Delenda Est
@Glidwrith: I hear you. Jackson or Josephine? Or Douglas?
Glidwrith
@Villago Delenda Est: Jackson. Ironically, Ashland is in the same valley – rather crunchy due to the college located there. The locals hate them, never recognizing the revenue stream it represents.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@LosGatosCA:
Look what happened in Cal – when Brown pealed the corprate conservatives away from the GOP that was it for the Republicans. Without the money paying for the media fear stroking the wingnuts wander off to worry about Alien butt probes or what ever they do normally.
sneezy
@germy:
I’d go with a shock collar.
J R in WV
@Kathleen:
I would like to think I can think, after all that was my career, thinking about the real world problems of tracking information and how to use a computer to make that better.
I don’t know it that makes me wise, tho…
sukabi
@HRA: that was a call out to drumpf, who has “suggested” several times that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in Kennedy’s assassination.
daves09
@Kay: Wait for it-by the end of next year she will be another x Mrs. Trump. She’s been exposed, she’s a loser.
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m a boomer who is several yrs older than you and I resent that bigoted remark about the same as you do. No large group of humans is monolithic. We just aren’t.
Aleta
@Kathleen: It really was a great movie, wasn’t it. I watched it again a few years ago and was impressed. It was my 1st, and my only album for many years; I listened to it every day for over a year. I think I was mesmerized by the chords.
sukabi
@germy: regular thorazine injections.