Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

The revolution will be supervised.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Books are my comfort food!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Bark louder, little dog.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Republicans do not trust women.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

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

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

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

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Late Night Medical Transparency Open Thread: The Parodist’s Dilemma

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Owen Ellickson is a genius at parodying Trump and his circle. But when Trump is the ‘reality’, how are the rest of us gonna know what’s ‘fake’?

Because, seriously, dude: Dr. Mehmet ‘Testifying to Congress in support of miracle weight loss scams’ Oz?…


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  3. 3.

    Joeff

    HRCs health was option 4 after Benghazi, emails, Foundation. They got lucky w pneumonia. Deplorables is a tar baby so far. But they opened the door on all these and have to be ready for the blowback. They won’t be because they don’t think things through.

  7. 7.

    cckids

    @? Martin:

    I have a strange feeling that 2020 won’t be any better.

    I have a sinking feeling that 2020 will start approximately Nov 9, 2016. Shoot me now.

  8. 8.

    MattF

    Taxes– ‘Nobody’s interested’. Charity– ‘It’s my money, I can do what I want with it’. Health– ‘I have a right to privacy’. Racism– ‘You’re the racist.’ Misogyny, xenophobia– ‘Those words are too big’. Putin– ‘Great man.’ Conspiracy theories– ‘There are questions that need to be looked at’. Hillary Clinton– ‘Disgusting, dishonest, crooked.’

  13. 13.

    seaboogie

    Hillary is taking a couple of days off to recover after campaigning with pnuemonia, Obama gave a barn-burner of a speech on her behalf yesterday, and Trump is going to field the softest of inquiries on his health status with the esteemed Dr. Oz today….let’s see what the press does with this. Should be interesting.

    ETA: I’m in CA, but using yesterday/today for the eastern time zone folks.

  15. 15.

    Aleta

    This show will be horribly boring. Much better show if Trump, standing on stage, has to guess the names of a series of woman from his past who are standing in silhouette off stage answering questions.

    But if has to be the medical show, and it turns out to be a horrible flop, this could be the fatal blow we’ve been waiting for all year.

    Seriously, to turn this into a television show is a degrading moment for the country. Next he’ll be selling Trump Family Dolls on QVC. I’d like to throttle him.

  18. 18.

    ? Martin

    @amk: I wouldn’t be so sure. Consider the math here. Let’s say Trump gets 45% of the vote. What do guys like Ryan and Kasich make of that? The majority of their base was willing to back an outwardly racist, sexist, unconstitutional conman with no real policy ideas.

    How do so-called sane Republicans campaign into the next election? Their voters have just announced to them that they don’t give one solitary shit about conservative ideas or policies. There’s no real interest in limited government, or lower taxes or even social conservatism. None. The only reliable thing that gets Republicans out of bed is beating Hillary Clinton, and there simply aren’t enough of them to do even that. So what do you run on in 2018? In 2020? Dems will run on everything they have, with even greater demographic strength *plus* running against everything that Trump wanted or said. The GOP will not only have lost african americans, but now also latinos (fastest growing demographic group), muslims (growing), and quite possibly women and anyone with a college degree (second fastest growing demographic group). We know from previous experience that voters will make all sorts of excuses about why Trump didn’t win – mostly around ideas of a biased media, vote fraud, and so on. Their base is just as likely to double down on the racist, authoritarian shit as they are cede control back to the Ryan wing of the party.

    If I were a republican strategist I think at this point I’d have to tell them to start a new party, that they have no electoral future outside of the Confederacy, and preserving that stronghold means they’re going to continue to burn any hope to win back other demographic groups. They’re going to have to wait for a schism within the Dem party, grab the more conservative faction of it, and make the most of it. Using CA as a template, I just don’t see any other long term direction for them here.

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    Anne Laurie

    @Time Travelin’: Not sure about The Sitch, but IIRC Snooki was adopted from a Chilean orphanage & therefore ineligible to be VP / President.

    (At the height of the Jersey Shore phenom, her father gave an interview to the NYTimes, and explained that she’d been severely undernourished as an infant, thus her tiny stature. He didn’t quite add ‘and her other limitations’, but then he’s her dad & clearly loves her regardless.)

  20. 20.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    Between working 15 of the last 16 days, cleaning the house, and dealing with Monster’s death, I’m exhausted. I’m supposed to attend a board meeting of the women’s hockey booster club tonight. I just emailed the president that I intend to sleep as long as my body wants to, and if that means I don’t get up in time to make the meeting, I won’t be there.

    I love the staff at the University of Minnesota Small Animal Hospital. Back when I delivered pizza in that area, they were the only ones on the St. Paul campus who were good tippers. I switched to taking all of my cats there after they handled Eddie’s cancer so well after my local vet had completely botched the diagnosis. They’re a lot more expensive, but I trust them.

    That I like them so much is one of the reasons why my favorite character in Becoming Phoebe goes to vet school there. I’m considering writing them a thank you, and including a copy with instructions that it should go to anyone there who wants to read it. Is that appropriate?

  21. 21.

    piratedan

    @? Martin: Martin, sadly, I don’t think it matters a tinkers damn… why?

    Because Paulie and Mitchie decided to ride the tiger and give their constituency the red meat that they’ve wanted. The Republican Id is large and in charge. Nothing is off the table… feeling anger to the Other, welcome to our big tent. In here, everyone outside the tent is an Other, be it a religion, a race, a gender, a sexual orientation, feel free to hate who you want, we’re not judgemental about things like that as long as you hate with us, it’s all good. Heck, they’re open to semantics as well, hate Planned Parenthood… c’mon in!!! Feel that its you’re Gawd Given Right to own a bazooka? there’s drinks waiting for you at the bar.

    The GOP has essentially embraced becoming the raiders of Rock Ridge, and DT is their current Hedley Lamarr

    Everything else is apparently secondary….

  23. 23.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @piratedan: Agreed. They’ll do another autopsy after Trump loses and it’ll say the same thing have the same fate as the one in 2012; in other words, nothing will change.

  24. 24.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Anne Laurie: Oh, AL; you’re using those silly Constitutional rules, if Trump wins, we get Trump rules*.

    *Remember, he’s already said that the “Best Lawyers” have told him that you don’t need to change the Constitution to eliminate birthright citizenship.

  28. 28.

    Ian

    Is there a way for the blogmasteres to remove the links on the tweet quotes? The blog has so many ads I lag, and then when I scroll down the screen I get sucked into tweets because I touch the page. Then I lag more. I think a simple link to the tweet rather than the full caption would be sufficient/

  29. 29.

    Ian

    @amk:
    What leads you to believe this? The people with brains said the same thing to their rethuglican masters after the crushing of 2012, and how did they respond?

  30. 30.

    gene108

    @? Martin:

    voters will make all sorts of excuses about why Trump didn’t win – m

    There is only ONE EXCUSE: Republicans failed to nominate a True Conservative.

    This has been the diagnosis for every loss, since 1992.

    Bush, Sr was not conservative enough thus he lost in 1992 and that begat Gingrich.

    In 2008, Republicans lost because Bush, Jr and his liberal policies ruined the Party and that begat the Tea Party.

    In 2012, Romney lost because he was really a closet liberal mouthing platitudes to appease the base and that begat Trump.

    When your whole philosophy is bullshit – tax cuts lower deficits / raise government revenues, for example – and you cannot admit you are wrong, the only path forward is to double down on the B.S.

  31. 31.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @gene108: Problem is they can’t get elected that way. The traditional GOP values don’t capture enough votes. The white nationalists don’t make up a sufficiently large electorate, and the longterm demographics make the trend worse. I think the Goldwater comparison may be the better one, unless they attempt the Fascist / Nazi model.

  32. 32.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    So I was watching the local news here in LA, and they were talking about Trump’s plan for child care. So it’s a deduction for child care based on the average cost in the state. Deductions really don’t help much with the folk that really need help in paying for child care. His paid maternity leave plan basically pays unemployment for 6 weeks after the birth of the child, so does that mean that Congress will fund unemployment benefits? I remain unconvinced.

  34. 34.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @? Martin:
    I can’t see how the base does anything but get even more pissed, become even more eager for openly white supremacist rhetoric. Especially the primary voters. For the party it’s best to offer them only dog whistle options, but every 2020 GOP candidate will know whoever is most openly racist gets the nomination.

  37. 37.

    PPCLI

    @MattF: And let’s not forget: Q: “Do you reach out to and encourage the prejudices of supporters who are deplorable?” A: “I’m not going to engage in the kind of name calling that Crooked Hillary, Lyin’ Ted, Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb, Goofy Elizabeth Warren (you know – Pocahontas), Crazy Bernie, Crazy Megyn and Dopey Bill Kristol do.”

  39. 39.

    SenyorDave

    @piratedan: The GOP has essentially embraced becoming the raiders of Rock Ridge, and DT is their current Hedley Lamarr

    And the GOP voters are, you know… morons

  41. 41.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    On the list of reasons

    5) the records will show Trump as an old man and they are terrified it will break the alpha male plus image he’s built with his supporters and is very likely the only reason they are voting for him.

  42. 42.

    JGabriel

    Josh Barro @ Top (via Twitter):

    Fascinating how un-eager the Trump campaign is to have a health conversation. … Maybe there’s something Trump doesn’t want out.

    Maybe Trump lost his own private Vietnam War against STDs in the 70s or 80s, and is suffering from third stage syphilitic dementia.

  45. 45.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @JGabriel: “Maybe he did get a Purple Heart on that battlefield.”

    A spotted dick, more likely. And not the culinary virgin, uh, version..

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