Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

When I was faster i was always behind.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Come on, man.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

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

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

“woke” is the new caravan.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

In after Baud. Damn.

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Pre-Debate Open Thread

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NBC wants your eyeballs — they’ve got a raft of sites linked here, including their YouTube channel, which is the one I’ll have open.

The Guardian‘s invaluable liveblog here.

NBC’s virtual-reality thingamabog is here.

PBS Newshour livstream will be here.

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  2. 2.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Simon Maloy ‏@ SimonMaloy 4m4 minutes ago
    “she needs to attack, but not in an emotional way,” says Heilleman (sp)

    Yes. Hillary Clinton must control her famously emotional nature. One might even say she’s given to hysterics.

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    Botsplainer

    Hey, whoever isn’t blocked from Chuck Todd or Halperin – hammer their Twitter timelines with Farenthold links.

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    Trentrunner

    I have this weird quirk where I get nervous before HRC debates/testimony.

    And then I watch her for 5-10 minutes, and she’s so fucking articulate and prepared and intelligent that I relax and wonder what I was so worried about.

    Hoping this night goes as usual for me…

    Prediction: Trump’s split-screen reactions to HRC will be a big deal tomorrow.

  7. 7.

    Mustang Bobby

    if you’d rather do something else, “The Revenant” is showing on HBO2 at 9:00 p.m. ET. That’s the one where Leonardo DiCaprio almost gets eaten by a bear.

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    Mike J

    Greg Sargent Verified account @ThePlumLineGS
    Anyone who judges Trump against “low expectations” is making an active *choice* that helps him politically:

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    Old Dan and Little Anne

    It seems like yesterday I watched the first Obama-mittens debate. That did not go well. Tonight will. Hillary is going to crush drumph. She’s been waiting for this. For years. @Baud: Thanks from a long time lurker and once in a blue moon poster.

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    hovercraft

    On the Guardian liveblog they have a picture of Rudy Guliani literally kissing Miriam Adelson’s ring.

  15. 15.

    dr. luba

    Hot bubble bath and a good book (Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories). And sleep. That’s it for me. I can catch the highlights tomorrow……..

  17. 17.

    AkaDad

    I need to watch the debate to help me decide.

    On one hand, Trump is a race baiting, wife raping, immigrant hating, Putin fellating, fat shaming, business failing, demogoguing, draft dodging, flip flopping, handicap mocking, violence inciting, ally fighting, climate change denying, pathologically lying, insult sending, diplomacy ending, small business screwing, KKK wooing, Muslim banning, university scamming, NATO leaving, daughter skeeving, fascistic, sexist, egomaniacal, grade A douchebag.

    On the other hand, Clinton used TWO EMAIL SERVERS! TWO!!

    This is such a tough call.

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    Iowa Old Lady

    @Botsplainer: You remind me of Murphy Brown on the old TV show. She was a reporter who’d been banned from the WH because she let her disdain of GHWBush get the better of her. Then she was sorry. :-) For being banned, not for what she did or said.

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    NorthLeft12

    I have a lot of confidence in Hillary. She is smart, tough, funny, decisive, and driven. She’ll make an excellent President. I hope she gets the chance to communicate her ideas to the American public. Whether they hear her or not is not in her control.
    Good luck!

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    japa21

    Judging Trump the winner based upon low expectations is like saying Little Sisters of the Poor actually beat Alabama because they only lost by 700 instead of 800.

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    Origuy

    I’m on a flight from Chicago to San Jose so I’ll miss the whole thing. I sprung for the $8 wifi so the I could follow the BJ commentary. Don’t let me down.

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    SFAW

    @Joyce Harmon:

    Why does he keep sniffing?

    Might be obesity-related.

    Oh, I forgot, his “doctor” says he’s merely overweight, because Trump “weighs” 230 lb.

    If Trump weighs 230, then I’m as thin as Abebe Bikila.

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