Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

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

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

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Petty moves from a petty man.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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Owen Ellickson is an evil genius, and if you have a taste for nasty political humor you should most definitely be reading him on the regular. Just not at work, or around people with delicate sensibilities…

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  2. 2.

    C.S.

    Ellickson is a stone genius, and he’s writing the great American comic political novel right in front of our eyes. This campaign is a horrendous clusterfk and shtshow but I bet that years from now I’ll still go back to Ellickson’s collected tweets the same way I re-read Fear & Loathing On The Campaign Trail.

  4. 4.

    patrick II

    Trump called Hillary a bigot against black people because her policies are not working and black people continue to be poor and uneducated — therefore she’s a bigot. Except that Hillary isn’t president yet, Barack Obama is. Evidently Barack is the one who is a bigot against black people. Must be tough to look in the mirror or sit down to dinner with his family.

  9. 9.

    Ruckus

    @patrick II:
    A sore on his hand is the major health issue that concerns you? Not that he is a deranged racist lunatic? Not that has the stamina of an never watered house plant? Not that mental health care professionals will study this election season for decades trying to decide if he fits into 5 or 10 diseased categories, any one of which should have gotten him committed?

  10. 10.

    cokane

    i must be alone in feeling that shtick gets old pretty fast. was introduced to them here i think, laughed at one or two of the first i saw, but ? they’re just kind of hacky now

  11. 11.

    Karen marie

    @patrick II: Trump’s letter from his doctor did say his medical exam showed only “positive results.” Which STD does he have? AOT,K. That would explain any sores.

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    Anne Laurie

    @hellslittlestangel: Olivia Nuzzi, in the Daily Beast:4Chan’s Pepe the Frog, Alt-Right Symbol

    … Normies are basics—agreeable, mainstream members of society who have no knowingly abhorrent political views or unsavory hobbies. They are Katy Perry, and when they latch onto a meme, the meme dies the way your favorite band dies when it sells out and licenses a song to Chevrolet. When mainstream culture gets in on the joke, in other words, the joke is ruined forever.

    The campaign to reclaim Pepe from normies was an effort to prevent this sort of death, but it also had the effect of desensitizing swaths of the Internet to racist, but mostly anti-Semitic, ideas supported by the so-called alt-right movement….

    (Also possibly NSFW.)

    Ryan is just boring old Paul Ryan, aka The Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver, whose GOP “leadership” is not being made any easier by Deadbeat Donnie.

  15. 15.

    Cermet

    In Greifwald, Germany and glad I can’t speak the language (unlike my daughter) so I don’t have to deal with the tTrump issue. She, hoever, has had to deal with it a lot.

  18. 18.

    satby

    I’m in Michigan, technically I speak the language though not the local redneck dialect, and Trump isn’t coming up here either. My hard-core Republican neighbors are too embarrassed to put up yard signs, and that includes the guy with the flag of treason flying occasionally.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    Been on this spinning ball a long time yet can barely make head or tail of those tweets, much less detect a whiff of humor in them.

  20. 20.

    satby

    @NotMax: I get them. Some are funnier than others for sure. I’m just not the kind of person who can even try to imagine what a conversation between any of those jokers would be like, much less put a funny twist on it. But I appreciate the effort, because ridicule is one of the best weapons against them.

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    Patricia Kayden

    @patrick II: lol! Poor Trump. Someone should teach him that projection doesn’t work unless it’s plausible. No one believes that Democrats “are the real racists” when there is so much evidence that Republicans are strongly anti-Black (just look at how hard they’re trying to stop us from voting).

  22. 22.

    patrick II

    @Ruckus:

    A sore on the hand could mean leprosy, and that his health is too poor to be president. I am not a doctor but I watched Rudy Guliani on TV last night.

  25. 25.

    HRA

    There are racist Democrats. Those of us who have grown up in 90+% Democrat communities found in Blue NYS know it is true. Now in social media the 2nd and 3rd generation of the original racist Democrats have joined the Republican party and boldly show their racism.

    I could write a lot more of what I saw happen to my Black schoolmates in this community. I am seriously thinking of writing a book about it.

  27. 27.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @BR: meh, could just be a bruise – he’s 70 and likely the doc has him on aspirin which makes you bruise easily.

  28. 28.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Anne Laurie: ROFL journalists turn on their computers and discover there is this 4/chan thing…

    “On May 16, Ben White, a reporter for Politico, tweeted a drawing of Pepe and asked, “What/who is this character and why do I see it associated with Trumpsters/Alt-Right types all the time?”

    #FrogTwitter descended on White’s mentions, with predictable results. @DonaldjBismarck, a self-described “Nationalist,” replied with a meme of Hillary Clinton, squinting at a computer screen and asking, “WHO THE HELL IS PEPE?”

    “Turns out asking about Pepe was a bad idea,” White tweeted, in conclusion.”

    Google, how does it work?

  29. 29.

    HeartlandLiberal

    @Mnemosyne: Proof positive that Trump is of the Lizard People, his fake human skin has ruptured there. This is significant, important news, that should be shared with all Americans. Especially those who believe in the Lizard People conspiracy. I.e., most of Trump’s voters.

  30. 30.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Oh this get better

    From Ann linke
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/26/how-pepe-the-frog-became-a-nazi-trump-supporter-and-alt-right-symbol.html

    “Most memes are ephemeral by nature, but Pepe is not,” @JaredTSwift told me. “He’s a reflection of our souls, to most of us. It’s disgusting to see people (‘normies,’ if you will) use him so trivially. He belongs to us. And we’ll make him toxic if we have to.”

    Nothing says “expressing my soul” like hijacking someone elses art. But, Jared here lives on the internets.

    “In a sense, we’ve managed to push white nationalism into a very mainstream position,” he said. “Trump’s online support has been crucial to his success, I believe, and the fact is that his biggest and most devoted online supporters are white nationalists. Now, we’ve pushed the Overton window. People have adopted our rhetoric, sometimes without even realizing it. We’re setting up for a massive cultural shift.”

    So basically Trump is a 4/chan troll on a massive scale? And here I was thinking Russians.

  32. 32.

    shomi

    Seems Drumpf changed once he started getting security briefings. I think that is when he realized that he’s in way over his head.

  33. 33.

    C.S.

    @NotMax: You kinda have to start at the beginning, or near. He’s built up an internal system that’s remarkably consistent and which is sometimes necessary to decipher the humor.

  34. 34.

    SFAW

    Seems Drumpf changed once he started getting security briefings. I think that is when he realized that he’s in way over his head.

    He was just confused, because he kept expecting Eli Manning to show up with the “football.”

  37. 37.

    nutella

    Ugh moderated for naked link. And edit doesn’t work.

    Repeat without naked link:

    If you want to read all of these tweets from Owen Ellickson, go to Storify for links to two long strings of Owen’s tweets. Be warned though, that there are more than a thousand of them!

  38. 38.

    daves09

    @nutella: Reread one of the storify links this morning. It’s why I like the snark on Wonkette-some fails but a lot of laugh out louds.

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