Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

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

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

In after Baud. Damn.

Joe Biden can go out like FDR, not by dying in office, but by crushing the fascists.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

White supremacy is terrorism.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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

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

No one could have predicted…

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

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

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  2. 2.

    Hunter Gathers

    I’ve seen that face before. Granted it was Mississippi, circa 1852, but I’ve seen that face before.

  6. 6.

    Gelfling 545

    She looks a bit like Christie did in his first appearance as a Trump supporter. Obviously, I mean her facial expression because she’s very cute & Christie is…..otherwise.

  12. 12.

    LAO

    Seriously, the look of pure terror on that child’s face is a perfect reflection of my own personal horror.

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    That pore chile.

    So thrilled to be with POTUS earlier this year.

    So … NOT thrilled to be with Drumpf yesterday.

    Kids know. They just know.

  14. 14.

    KS in MA

    In the pic lamh36 posted earlier, you can see Trump has her wrist in a death grip. But then, you can see the thug in the background in this one. Ominous! Clearly we need to hunt down and post the whole gallery.

  16. 16.

    lamh36

    Sadly, this is true of ALOT of Trump voters and non-Trump voters on our side who love to police the “tone” of how folks express their disgust about racist like Donald Trump and his “basket of deplorables”

    @jbouie
    Reality of this election is that keeping a white nationalist from power isn’t a priority for most white people, regardless of ideology.

  19. 19.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    Little Miss Flint is a beauty.

    She sure is.

    Doesn’t matter who the GOP floats, there is a LOT of photographic evidence that children and even little babies love Obama and are scared of McCain/Romney/Trump.

    Children and even little babies KNOW.

  21. 21.

    Mnemosyne

    I get ads on this site from Silver Airways, which is a regional Florida/Caribbean airline, and I swear to god the latest ad was, “Escape from Your Deplorables” with fares inside a basket.

    At least the ad was targeted correctly, but I’m surprised they jumped on it so quickly.

  25. 25.

    redshirt

    NR will come and tell us how Little Miss Flint’s favorability numbers are up after the Trump photo, ergo, we should have nominated Sanders.

  26. 26.

    lamh36

    @Adam L Silverman: The way he’s holding her wrist. When a child is being chastised or scolded and the parent grabs their arm, it tends to be at the wrist….he looks like he’s holding her wrist and it looks like she trying to take it away from him, just like a child would if scolded by a parent.

    That coupled with her face makes the pic even more ugh…

  27. 27.

    Mary G

    If you look at the replies to that tweet, there are a couple more examples, one with an eagle and the other with twin babies, that turn out the same way.

  28. 28.

    Adam L Silverman

    @lamh36: That’s his left hand, where is his right hand? You notice how when Ivanka is with him how she hits her mark to stop and stand, quickly sees where her dad is standing, and then adjusts a step to make sure she’s out of reach?

  36. 36.

    lamh36

    @Adam L Silverman: Ugh…right…dude has a problem with hand placement…remember the hands on Ivanka at the convention where he essentially tried to grab her hips. I almost expected him to slap IVanka on the butt….shudders…ugh

  37. 37.

    Major Major Major Major

    I learned a new conspiracy! Apparently Hitlery invaded Libya because the Fed knew that they were about to introduce a new gold backed currency to compete with the dollar. He linked to an RT piece. I said I was surprised Hillary let Sidney Blumenthal live. He agreed and I steered the conversation to Israel. Well, as usual, scratch a goldbug, find an anti-Semite.

    Where does San Francisco find these people?

  39. 39.

    Trentrunner

    @lamh36: If you heard Hillary’s speech tonight, you’d see she isn’t backing down one whit from her calling out Trump’s bigotry.

  41. 41.

    Adam L Silverman

    @lamh36: I think there is a very good reason that Marla Maples moved herself and their infant daughter all the way across the country to California when she separated from and divorced Trump. You don’t do that if you’re comfortable having your daughter’s father near her and seeing her on a regular basis. Its not like she moved to California for work. She didn’t have an acting career. She wasn’t modeling any more and if she was than staying in New York or moving to Miami or London or Paris or Rome would have made more sense.

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Uh, that’s a garbled version of one of Bush’s rationales for invading Iraq — Saddam wanted to switch to the Euro instead of US dollars.

    Weird how so many truths about Republicans get regurgitated as lies about Democrats. Okay, not weird — infuriating.

  43. 43.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Mnemosyne: here is one of the more credible links he gave.

    ETA: which doesn’t help his case since it directly discredits what he was trying to say, but it’s not the sadaam thing. I mentioned Hillary murdering people to judge whether or not he had misspoken or did in fact believe crazy things.

  45. 45.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    He’s scaring the children. Too many people have their Halloween costume already, I figure.

  50. 50.

    lamh36

    @Adam L Silverman: ugh…right…
    So the little girl could be freaked out cause instead of holding her shoulder, he likely had his hand on her back…and she’s NOT comfortable.

    Damn her parents or whoever staged this photo op…

  53. 53.

    sigaba

    @Emma: Maybe he feels like he’s just ahead enough that he can be hisself.

    Of course if he wins he’s going to have Obama locked up for crimes against white culture Presidenting without a Birth Certificate. Arresting his opposition is his platform.

    But expect the press meh the whole thing, unless they think they can get him to move the story.

  54. 54.

    Jeffro

    Kinda OT (not really as the thread is titled “I’m Dying Here”) but this – from an NYT piece today about Dem efforts to make sure potential Clinton voters don’t drift over to Johnson or Stein

    Another concern for Democrats is that voters appear to have scant knowledge of her biography, political record and policy plans.

    “It’s still shocking to them how little people know about her,” said William M. Daley, a commerce secretary for President Bill Clinton, recalling a conversation with a Democratic strategist who was stunned by a focus group that indicated voters did not know about her longstanding efforts to expand access to health insurance. “It’s a big problem for her.”

    is hysterical. I’m not doubting that Daley and/or the data is correct, that many Ds and independents don’t know a whole lot about Clinton’s views, policies, etc. I’m just kind of, well, sobbing that Americans could be that uninformed about someone with about 50 years in public life, who had an entire week-long convention about her (ok ok, there may have been some Donald-bashing here and there as well), and who has EIGHTY KAJILLION WORDS ON POLICY ON HER WEBSITE.

    Come ON Millenials…it’s on the Intertoobz and everything! Go check it out !!

  59. 59.

    Emma

    @sigaba: Nah. He’s who he is. He only controlled when they have him tranked and between two teleprompters. And I think Hillary’s ads will play all the crazy up.

  60. 60.

    Mary G

    Tom Hilton on No More Mister Nice Blog explains the 2016 news cycle:

    Alex Jones: Clinton eats Christian babies!

    Trump: People are saying Clinton eats Christian babies. I don’t know, people are saying it.

    Press: Clinton campaign dogged by questions about infant cannibalism.

    Lefties: Clinton is part of the neo-liberal infant-eating Establishment.

    Press: Infant cannibalism issue highlights Clinton’s lack of transparency.

    Trump: I could eat a baby on 5th Ave & wouldn’t lose voters. In fact, I’ve done that. I have. I’m being sarcastic obviously. But really, not that sarcastic.

    Pundits: Clinton needs to come clean on the infant cannibalism issue. She needs to release a full list of everything she’s eaten, ever. Or else stop eating. Maybe both.

    AP: A review of Clinton’s email confirms she may have eaten Christian babies.

    Media Critics, to AP: That isn’t how this works. That isn’t how any of this works.

    David Fahrenthold: So far I have confirmed 157 babies eaten by Trump.

    Kurt Eichenwald: Make that 158.

    Trump: Cannibal Hillary claims she doesn’t eat babies. Does anyone believe that?

    Press: Both campaigns are being less than fully transparent.

    AP, 2 weeks later: Never mind

  63. 63.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    I adore that clip. Could watch it again and again.

    Michelle’s “No you DINT!” and Barack’s smug “Hunh yes I did” just make me smile every time.

  65. 65.

    BR

    @Emma:

    It would be great if Clinton ran some long-form ads that are 2-3 minutes long that have extended clips of Trump’s total nonsense — his full on crazy for more than a few seconds. People understand it’s easy to take something out of context, but 30 seconds or 60 seconds of crazy isn’t a smear and people get that.

  66. 66.

    sigaba

    @Emma: I dunno. If Trump had a meltdown at this point, how would anybody know? He’s constantly in meltdown, to the point that the people covering him assume this is all part of his platform and people must really want it.

  67. 67.

    BlueDWarrior

    @Jeffro: The biggest problem in this regard is just that: the fact she has been in front of a camera for so long means that people feel they know her even if they can’t actually answer a question about who she is or what she plans to do.

  70. 70.

    CZanne

    @Keith P.: And I still call bullshit on that 236 number. I think the 267 is closer to truth, but still a low-ball. If DTs was 6’2″ when he went before the draft board, he’s probably closer to 5’11 – 6′ now (because Gravity is a harsh mistress and steals about .25″ of height per decade). Mr. Me is now 6’2″, down from 6’3″ and I knew him when he was running 230-240. I made cargo pants for him at that weight. I’ve made him cargos at 250 and 260, too, and collared shirts. I don’t have to fit around turkey waddles or triple chins. DTs wears his casual pants high, and that masks a lot of cheesecake sinning. My guess, just eyeballing with a clothier’s eye, is a 50-52″ waist on a 32 inch inseam and a 19-20″ neck. His tailor, who sucks more than I can say, does pad out his shoulders, and is good at that — they only show when light is hitting from just the right angle — but when you look at the guy in profile, he’s thicker front to back than he appears side to side from the front. He’s carrying a hell of a lot of torso weight.

  71. 71.

    Kropadope

    @Jeffro:

    I’m not doubting that Daley and/or the data is correct, that many Ds and independents don’t know a whole lot about Clinton’s views, policies, etc. I’m just kind of, well, sobbing that Americans could be that uninformed about someone with about 50 years in public life, who had an entire week-long convention about her (ok ok, there may have been some Donald-bashing here and there as well), and who has EIGHTY KAJILLION WORDS ON POLICY ON HER WEBSITE.

    No wonder this is the case, what with the media amplifying every lie the Republican noise machine puts out about her and Democrats generally and being unwilling to focus on anything of substance in general.

  76. 76.

    btom89

    I wanted to thank the commenters from this morning’s post (by Betty Cracker) for leaving great reviews on my kindle book listing this morning! Thanks again in case you see this here. Thanks, Miss Bianca, (and yes they’re watercolors), Iowa Old Lady, and eclare. I did have to tweak the colors for some of the images on my ipad and reduce the resolution so the final product wasn’t too large.

    The great thing about watercolors is that you can just play with the water and pigment and still get a great artistic result. I learned a neat watercolor trick for creating snow years ago. You cover a sheet of paper (thick and absorbent like watercolor paper) with a watercolor wash with the pigment of your choice across it. Wait for it to dry a bit, then sprinkle salt across it. The reaction the salt will have with the wash will cause salt crystals to form on the paper and affect the way the pigment dries on the paper. You get a snowflake effect on the paper. It depends on how wet the paper is, the wetter the paper, the more pronounced the snowflake effect is. Too dry, the snowflakes don’t really bloom on the paper. It’s a really fun and breathtaking effect. I think you should be able to find youtube videos showing this trick.

  77. 77.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    From something I read earlier today — sorry, cannot remember where or I would provide a link — Tiffany saw her dad a couple of times a year in NYC for an afternoon meeting and dinner, and maybe another two weeks at Mar-a-Lago.

    My memory of her RNC speech about him is that it was pretty generalized. I don’t remember any nice humanizing anecdotes from her (or for that matter, from Uday, Qusay, or Goneril).

  79. 79.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Just a huge guy. I’m 6’4 and 190 and I’m a scarecrow so there’s no way he’s 6’2″ and 230.

    I need to avoid you; you’ll not notice me down here, I’ll end up getting stepped on!

  81. 81.

    Keith P.

    @CZanne: Yep, I also don’t think 236 is a realistic weight. 6’2 is pretty tall (I’ve had a friend who was under 6′ and hit 300 without looking morbid, with the swollen cheeks and hands), and Trump has pretty wide hips (in the volleyball video, he even seems to have a FUPA, and he was a bit slimmer back then). And I don’t buy him having normal triglycerides for a second. Not with that neck waddle and a diet of KFC, McD’s and taco bowls.
    That being said, I can say I have a BMI of 20.8 and cholesterol in the 120s (consistently, I get tested monthly), but I’m extremely unhealthy. It will be kind of embarrassing if Trump outlives me.

  88. 88.

    hovercraft

    @lamh36:
    Someone needs to go check up on Baron, he needs to be interviewed away from his family members. What the fuck is wrong with this family? It’s bad enough they all lie as easily as they breath, and now I find out that they all see each other in sexual terms. Uday or Qusay or maybe both have commented on Ursula’s hottness, and now this. Ewwww!

  92. 92.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Glennis:

    And didn’t he mark up her letters or school papers or something? Can’t be arsed to go back and find the transcript of her RNC speech, but there was something like that, I think.

  94. 94.

    Adam L Silverman

    @CZanne: I’m 5’11 and my weight has been stable between 265 and 268 for the past five plus years. Over the past two years, because of my schedule flexibility, I have added significant amounts of muscle on top of what I already have and that weight has remained stable within that four to five lbs swing between 265 to 268. If he weights 236 I’m a monkey’s uncle!

    ETA: I have a 52 inch chest circumference. 18 inch neck. 18 inch circumference to my upper arms, 38 inch waist. 30 inch inseam. Can’t remember the circumference of my thighs, but I can squat over 300 lbs, so…

  96. 96.

    Epicurus

    Pretty sure he’s not going to get her vote. In some places, that sort of behavior would be considered child abuse.

  100. 100.

    Kropadope

    @JMG: If people turn to a professional organization expecting to be informed and that organization lies to them, how can we expect the people to sort out that sort of misinformation having lacked a previous foundation of accurate information. Most other businesses we hold accountable for selling a faulty product, why not the media?

  101. 101.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @shomi:

    I know, I know, I know I shouldn’t FTT, but I must ask, after two or three days of this from you: exactly what is your unhealthy obsession with Al Gore?

    Here’s a clue: no Democratic voters in 2016 are thinking about Al Gore.

  106. 106.

    Patricia Kayden

    @geg6: I guess he’ll have to use the “N” word spelled out in 60 point font to get banned. So many here find him funny at times for some reason. Oh well.

  110. 110.

    Adam L Silverman

    @redshirt: My folks had a mixed marriage. My dad was a grizzly bear. It was the love that dared not speak its name, but did involve lots of pickanick baskets!

  112. 112.

    slag

    We joke about this, and it is funny in some ways, but I know plenty of minority kids who are mortally fearful of a Trump presidency. In that sense, it’s hard to laugh.

  113. 113.

    Kropadope

    @SiubhanDuinne: I was thinking shomi was referring to how Al Gore’s campaign was obliterated by the media while it simultaneously propped up George Bush. Now Clinton is getting the same treatment.

  115. 115.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Jeffro: Exactly. She’s been in the national spotlight for decades now and her background was heavily covered during the DNC. Plus, we can go to her website to learn details of her proposed policies.

    Secretary Clinton will just have to find a way to introduce herself over and over again before November through ads, press conferences, the debates, etc. Sigh.

  116. 116.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    @redshirt:
    And Shomi will bray about how we’re all pissing ourselves for somehow not sufficiently believing in Hillary. We need better trolls.

  117. 117.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh36:

    God save that poor Baron kid…smh

    Doesn’t it seem a little bit strange that he named his kid the same name that he used as a fake PR spokesman? (I think it was “Barron Miller” or something, but Barron anyhow.)

  122. 122.

    sukabi

    Drumpf is going all in with the “election fraud” Washinghton eliteS, and main stream media working to throw the election for Hillary. Just saw a call to action commercial “trump supporters if you agree that the Washington elite and mainstream media is throwing the election call xcxcc.”

  123. 123.

    CZanne

    @Major Major Major Major: the thing about that that gets me is that a lot of the male talking heads are actually in the claimed height-weight range, and they’re not calling bullshit. (Okay, yeah, it’s a stupid story, but if The Hair That Ate Cincinnati is willing to lie about *this*, what else is there?)

    Are you Spider Robinson in disguise?

  124. 124.

    tobie

    @lamh36:

    @JoshuaGreen 2m2 minutes ago
    Trump’s suggesting this language from Clinton’s chief strategist Mark Penn was identical to his own “birther” stuff

    CNN is now breathlessly reporting that the Trump campaign has put out a statement saying that Pres. Obama was born in the US. In the space of three hours tonight he gets to feed his rabid base with the Washington Post interview in which he refuses to renege on his birther claims and then to earn the approval of the press corps with a written statement of the campaign saying he accepts Obama’s a natural born citizen.

    He’s playing the press and they like it. Sick.

  125. 125.

    Kropadope

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’m bad with names, so I was just taking the individual comment within the context of the thread. If there’s some sort of grudge in play here I was unaware and will, thus, refrain from commenting about it.

  127. 127.

    Patricia Kayden

    @lamh36: Trump doesn’t get away with blaming his racism on someone else though. Penn was a douche for bringing it up but Trump is the one who ran with it and pumped it up. It appears he just can’t let it go. That Negro just doesn’t deserve to be in the White House just like Blacks didn’t deserve to be in Trump rentals.

  128. 128.

    seaboogie

    @Mnemosyne:

    I get ads on this site from Silver Airways, which is a regional Florida/Caribbean airline, and I swear to god the latest ad was, “Escape from Your Deplorables” with fares inside a basket.

    They should offer a full can of soda and extra peanuts/pretzels to everyone sporting an “I Voted Today” sticker on Nov. 8.

  135. 135.

    J R in WV

    That little girl has more native intelligence than Andrea Mitchell, more than 40% of the voting adult population appears to have. She just knows evil when it approaches her. She needs to be interviewed about how she felt as Satan got nearer and nearer to her.

    What a monster he is to keep on trying to get close to that little girl.

  136. 136.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Gravenstone: Its regional. I’ve heard both. I may also resemble both. Or, I might just be a Susquatch-Jewish-American. Its impossible to know on the Internet.

  137. 137.

    hovercraft

    @Patricia Kayden: @redshirt:
    I know, it feels like a lifetime ago when he was all the rage, but I guess I never payed attention to his age at that time. I guess 33 years young is not that old for a chimp? VH1 should feature him on an episode of Where Are They Now.

  140. 140.

    justawriter

    Did anyone else have the impression in the second photo she was going to start shouting “STRANGER DANGER!!!!!!” any second now?

  143. 143.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Uncle Cosmo: Do you know Cole’s troll rules? He only bans for flat-out racism, sexism, etc., and doxxing. Dont drop the n or c word don’t out someone and you get to stay. The other FPer tend to abide by Cole’s rules. Adam is a bit more aggressive.

  146. 146.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @amk: Where would you draw the lines? How do you choose who is a troll as opposed to a person who feels strongly about an issue. Or someone who disagrees with you?

  150. 150.

    frosty

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I need to avoid you; you’ll not notice me down here, I’ll end up getting stepped on!

    I’m with you. Adam’s 5’11” and 265? Sheesh, is everybody here huge? I’m 5’4″ 145 and I feel overweight. ‘Course I didn’t break 100 til after high school. That’s what 3 years of track and cross country will do.

  153. 153.

    Kropadope

    @Omnes Omnibus: If that’s true, amk can lick my sweaty nutsack, A. B, the impulse to ban is an authoritarian impulse. And C, people who aren’t ordinarily trolls may engage in trollish behavior under the right circumstances.

  154. 154.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: If I had FP privileges, I would be lighter with the hammer than you have been. I am not judging. Just offering my opinion. I like the fact that Cole let’s virtually anyone say virtually anything. Others may differ.

  155. 155.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’ve done exactly two. One of whom spent about two months trying to sneak back in. That one was for going over the line in regard to transgender people. The other one, BIP, was engaging in personal attacks and when repeatedly asked to stop doing so he simply doubled down. This isn’t a willy nilly sort of thing. I know exactly what Cole’s rules are – I emailed him and asked him to delineate them for me – and other than the two I’ve done, nothing else has gotten close no matter how annoying.

  161. 161.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: No worries, just the two. Though as I wrote that first one had to be redone about a dozen times as he or she kept trying to sneak back in.

    I understand your concerns and largely agree with them, but I’ve been not just a front pager, but someone specifically tasked with helping to run the previous site I wrote at. The site owner basically allows the comments to be a free fire zone, unless a comment specifically irks him. The result is, especially after he linked the site to Facebook and Twitter and set it up so that people could comment through those platforms, that the comments tend towards stormfront territory.

  165. 165.

    PIGL

    @geg6: totally with you. Not even any amusement value with this boring malevolent fucktard. I don’t understand why our Fearless Leader spares the mighty ban hammer.

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