Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

This blog will pay for itself.

I did not have this on my fuck 2024 bingo card.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

I really should read my own blog.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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Early Morning Open Thread: Medical Theatre for Morons

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  1. 1.

    Botsplainer

    The polling shouldn’t be anything this close. If we had an elite national press that did its job, we’d be looking at 1964 levels. Instead, the thumbs on the scales combined with a 30 year propaganda exercise trashing a really virtuous woman have put us in some real danger.

    So what’s even worse than the notion of any aspect of a Trump presidency (which would in and of itself be an unparalleled disaster) would be the specter of the backup plan – the presidency of his successor, that God-humping mediocrity Mike Pence.

    On an anecdotal level, a few Trumpists work as support staff for other lawyers in my office, and I’m acquainted with others who are lower middle class white people. To a one, they won’t care about any revelation about Trump. To them (and they won’t overtly say it) but listening to everything they ever talk about, the thing is purely about sticking it to “them n*****s and the s***s and the gays and the Jews”. Pure racial and cultural animus on behalf of those older lizard brain notions of white supremacy. Oh, they’ll deny it, but I see the bright light in their eyes on this stuff.

    I count my mother among those with the grand vision of “saving younger white people from their own naïveté by reinstalling the older superior culture for their benefit, and they might get mad now but they’ll appreciate what we’re doing for them later when they come to understand what ‘those people’ are all about”.

  2. 2.

    James E Powell

    To a one, they won’t care about any revelation about Trump. To them (and they won’t overtly say it) but listening to everything they ever talk about, the thing is purely about sticking it to “them n*****s and the s***s and the gays and the Jews”. Pure racial and cultural animus on behalf of those older lizard brain notions of white supremacy.

    It’s like a variation of Cleek’s Law – Vote for the candidate who drives your liberal brother in law crazy.

  4. 4.

    hellslittlestangel

    “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” Bornstein said. He added, “I’ll write you scripts for Valium, Adderal and barbiturates, but don’t take them all to the same pharmacy, okay?”

  5. 5.

    Botsplainer

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    No, it’s who they’ve always been.

    Yup. Despite the furious denials over the past several decades, it is.

    Those white mobs inside and outside those lunch counters (some holding axe handles and baseball bats) were frequently the beloved parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, coaches, teachers, pastors and mentors of the current batch of wingnuts. At best, a lot of them stood by and went “tsk tsk, how unseemly” about the violence while taking the cowards way.

  7. 7.

    SectionH

    @Botsplainer: I survived too many years in Kentucky. There are some wonderful people there. But the Ville, and Lexington – and don’t you dare tell me Left-ington –

    But you’re not wrong about the race stuff. I actually got a bit woke many years ago when I worked for Housing Services in Lex. That’s when I learned you can’t ignore race. You have to accept the obvious facts that people aren’t treated the same on the outside trying to deal with housing shit, and inside too. There was cooperation, and often good will, but there was no getting away from if you were white or if you were black.

    ETA: and to be clear, my first boss was a black woman, and the ExD of HS was a black man. I got hired away by an ExD who was a white woman.

  9. 9.

    Cat48

    9% sounds dehydrated. Time to push fluids. I hope Hills is ready to go tonight, but takes it easy for the next few days out on the trail.

  10. 10.

    Waldo

    I imagine for the average Trump voter, his crappy diet and apparent lack of exercise are selling points. He’s just as unhealthy as we are! In a race vs. Hillary, these people would gladly vote for frickin’ Mayor McCheese. Well, if he weren’t a political insider.

  14. 14.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So I am following this correctly, Trump wheels out a quack, someone dares call aforesaid quack a quack and that’s a win for the Donald, according to the press? This is sounding more and more like big time wrestling.

  16. 16.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    If Trump has early Alzheimer’s it all make sense now, why he thinks it’s 1980, the weird rants, why no medical records, why suddenly they are trying to claim his family will be some kind of co-presidents.

  17. 17.

    shomi

    @Botsplainer: Also don’t forget about Al Gore.

    Seriously, even if I smoked a bunch of crack and took a bunch of meth at the same time I couldn’t come up with the comedic gold I read from people like you daily around here.

  18. 18.

    bluefish

    I wish HRC and her surrogates would really, really start calling out Trump on his sniveling cowardice in repeatedly failing to provide standard info in a timely manner. That ship appears to have sailed in that, so far, he’s getting away with his routine, but wouldn’t hurt to ask, “How can you seek to lead the USA when you appear to be so afraid on any number of fronts? Do you not trust the judgement and essential fairness of the American people?” I.e, folks typically hide out of fear. And he is afraid. Call him cowardly to his face, repeatedly.

    By a similar token, those reporters who have had the courage to pursue their jobs properly, assiduously, need to be praised to the high heavens. It’s been years and years since “Newsweek” appeared to be relevant in any way, shape or form. Kudos to Kurt Eichenwald — and to David Farenthold at WaPo.

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    Stan

    @Botsplainer: Most of the Trump supporters I know are lawyers or doctors. Racist as hell even though they’d never admit it and a few of them honestly don’t see their own bigotry. Most white people don’t.

  21. 21.

    James E Powell

    a few of them honestly don’t see their own bigotry. Most white people don’t.

    And those who do tend to be quite proud of it.

  22. 22.

    bluefish

    @Stan: This is unfortunately the case in my very small circle of friends. It’s shocking to me to see some of my old hippie friends, many of them reasonably successful professional artists, engage in blatantly racist talk and jokes. When called on it, they demure and pretend we’re all just riffing on SNL. Most of them are no longer pals. And some of them have so many personal issues gnawing at them that they just can’t get out from under and blaming works. They will insist they’re not racist while calling folks all manner of names and doing lame improvs on stereotypes. Then, of course, they want you to borrow their old Bob Dylan biographies. It’s beyond strange but denial is a powerful force.

  23. 23.

    SFAW

    It was interesting how he’s gotten taller — most web pages I’ve seen have him at 6’2″, not 6’3″. And since 70-year-olds usually don’t get taller (saying that as a 60-year-old who’s gotten shorter, apparently), I’m wondering if Dr. Feelgood goosed certain numbers (height up, weight down) so that he falls into “Overweight,” not “Obese.” And a BP of 116/70, with that much fat on him? Right.

    Not that I should dare question the honesty of any physician who declares Trump “the most healthiest candidate EVAH” with a straight face, so to speak. I mean, why would he lie? It’s not like Trump has anything to gain from being made to appear better than he actually is. (Plus, the MSM might get upset that Bornstein is horning in on their action.)

  27. 27.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    God love Owen Ellickson. We need all the laughs we can get.

    Sam Wang applies a gentle smack upside the head to his readers:

    It is good for a cheap laugh to flay the media for its obsession with horserace. This week’s ongoing ruckus with Phlegm-ghazi confirms that reporters cannot get out of their mental rut of some older storyline. In this case, the storyline is “Clinton is secretive.” Let us pause for a moment. She was concealing her pneumonia because the press would make a big deal out of it. And, wait for it…the press made a big deal out of it.

    You, Dear Reader, are complicit in this. I notice that more of you click Presidential links than on the nifty Competitive Congressional District Finder. You like the Presidential horserace. My reason for generating the best prediction I can is to reduce the noise of campaign news. I thought it would clear mental space for thinking about policies, or downticket issues.

    Clinton’s not in any real danger of losing (yet). Where people should be directing their energy right now (and, frankly, every election) is Congress and state houses. That’s where the real problem is.

    Oh, and this is probably my favorite comment ever:

    Scott // Sep 14, 2016 at 8:48 am

    Thoughts?
    http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/13/why-impossible-predict-this-election/Y7B4N39FqasHzuiO81sWEO/story.html

    Sam Wang // Sep 14, 2016 at 9:52 am

    Isn’t it great that a famous scholar can opine on a quantitative issue without quantitative evidence and get published in a news outlet? I believe that more or less defines the concept of an academic pundit.

  28. 28.

    TriassicSands

    @SFAW:

    I’ve never seen Trump’s height listed as 6’3″. If he weighs 236 pounds and is 6’2″ tall, then he is obese, not overweight. If he is 6’3″ tall and weighs 241 pounds, he’s still obese. Unfortunately, apart from forcing him to have his height and weight checked in public on scales verified independently as accurate, we’ll never know the truth.

    Given that his brain is 99% fat, his actual height and weight don’t really matter.

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