Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

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

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

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

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

When we show up, we win.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Let me file that under fuck it.

I really should read my own blog.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

“But what about the lurkers?”

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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  2. 2.

    Dadadadadadada

    Mildly OT: I respect the righteous indignation that led so many of you to cancel your NYT subscriptions. If the Gray Lady follows through on her promise to cover Trump as he should be covered, will you renew? I hope you will. It sends a good message. Market forces and all that.

  3. 3.

    germy

    @bemused:

    I just imagined Trump addressing the UN General Assembly. I have to stop doing this to myself but how?!

    I still can’t wrap my head around the idea of John Bolton as an ambassador.

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    @hovercraft:
    At least General Sissi had the sense to make it a private meeting. As we saw from his visit to Mexico, Trump is the opposite of a diplomat.

  11. 11.

    BR

    @JPL:

    What’s amazing in that story is he found a *second* instance of Trump buying a painting of himself with his charity foundation’s money.

  12. 12.

    Pogonip

    @bemused: I’m enjoying it. “Welcome to our huge country, and please consider making memories with a night or ten in the beautiful Hotel Trump. Or you can rent the Lincoln Bedroom and sleep where one of our great presidents, a president almost as great as I, slept!
    “Now then. We’re tired of you scofflaws parking anywhere and everywhere, and we need the revenue, so effective immediately, your diplomatic immunity is revoked…”

  14. 14.

    Waldo

    @Dadadadadadada:

    If the Gray Lady follows through on her promise to cover Trump as he should be covered, will you renew?

    Too late. I’m building a paywall and making them pay for it.

  16. 16.

    Elizabelle

    International policy as a tool for promoting social justice and economic stability. Overarching ideals and what drives foreign policy.

    Trump would be such a fucking disaster, and Hillary no doubt will be Obama Admin 3.

    Lot of talk about climate change, refugees, and economic fairness.

  18. 18.

    Elizabelle

    He brings up the original sin, slavery, without ever using the word. Talks about all the benefits democracy has brought. Although not unique to America.

  19. 19.

    scav

    @Dadadadadadada: The issue is really more chronic than Trump at the NYT. Re-upping immediately when they go after Trump due to monetary loss and readership criticism means they’re just following the same print-whatever-pays-best logic, only we’re the warping force at this exact instant. As soon as they find a higher bidder, they’ll chase that. I’m with Betty, it’s got to be an across the board sustained respect for journalism and facts that needs to be regained. Granted, those are ideals and we live in the sub-lunar world so there will be compromises, but Trump was just the straw, the dislike and disrespect for the paper (and their string of public editors) goes all the way back to GWB at least.

  20. 20.

    hovercraft

    OT This is interesting and depressing.
    From Harvard Business Review

    In mixed-sex conversations, men were responsible for all but one of the 48 interruptions they overheard.

    These findings have been replicated in more recent research. In a 2014 study conducted by linguist Adrienne Hancock of George Washington University, 40 people (men and women) were recruited to engage in two short conversations, one with a man and one with a woman. The results? Women were interrupted significantly more often than men. If a man’s conversational partner was female, he interrupted her, on average, 2.1 times over the course of a three-minute dialogue; if his counterpart was male, however, that number was 1.8 times. Women, too, were less likely to interrupt men than women. They interrupted an average of 2.9 times if their partner was female and just once, on average, if their partner was male.

    Such differences in the treatment of men and women are often rooted in unconscious biases that all of us fall prey to. Unconscious bias is rooted in our perceptions of others, which can harden into stereotypes and prejudice over time. Bias becomes the lens through which we process information and make decisions. We generally think of skin color, gender, nationality, and age when we consider bias, but unconscious prejudice can affect how we view many other characteristics, including aspects of people’s appearance (height and weight) and personality (introversion and extroversion).

    In one well-documented experiment, described in Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In, Harvard MBA students evaluated the same case study of a successful entrepreneur. Half the class read a version in which the entrepreneur was male; the other half read a version in which the entrepreneur was female. The students who read about the male entrepreneur identified him as having positive traits, such as leadership and direction, while students who read about the female entrepreneur characterized her as being bossy and overly direct. The responses reflected the students’ hidden biases about how male and female leaders should act.

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    Elizabelle

    I hope you all heard that speech, or will see it later. It was comprehensive, unflinching, and honest.

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Elizabelle:

    He is the best at laying out points, one by one, and then in his peroration pulling them all together. He also combines principles with the personal better than anyone I can think of.

    I’m really going to miss him.

  26. 26.

    Dadadadadadada

    @dmsilev: Give that commener a prize, because I lol’d.
    Also, I would not be one bit surprised if Trump actually used that line of defense. What a time to be alive!

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    maya

    Like Rick Roll, the NYT ain’t never gonna change. Trust me. I’m a born and raised New Yawkaw from a totally Republican family. The NYT was always the go to newspaper of choice, except my mother liked the Herald Tribune, also Republican, but lighter reading.
    Why do any of you think it’s going to be different?

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