Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

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

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

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Republicans in disarray!

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

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  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    Lester Holt: “The IRS said you can release your taxes despite the audit”
    Trump: “I’m not releasing my taxes because of the audit”

  11. 11.

    Anoniminous

    Clinton was +15 with women going into the debate, I’m going to guess she’ll be +20 at the end. Also she’ll get the 2 to 3% of True Moderates still left.

    ETA: she’s killing him

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    I’m not watching live, but from the Graun’s liveblog it appears that Trump is flailing, and making a mess of things. Is that about right?

  22. 22.

    Mike J

    Patton Oswalt ‏@pattonoswalt 7 minutes ago
    This is Trump in the face of a calm, intelligent woman — shrieking and flailing in thimbledick-compensating panic. #Debates2016

  29. 29.

    Mart

    Could not stand to watch, tried the radio. Blood started spurting out of my eyes. Back to golden oldies on the radio, as I don’t want to die from the stress. Based on wife’s observation, hopefully he is putting a fork in suburban woman; as she just had a word salad of her own – disgusting, obnoxious, rude fuck head, etc.

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    Wow, Trump just can’t stop himself from interrupting, can he?

    And the “he’s not as rich as he claims” really got his goat.

  35. 35.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Corner Stone:

    I was saying this to someone yesterday. A Trump supporter hearing the “charge” that Trump might not pay any taxes thinks “Good! I want to pay no taxes also!”

    They’re all like Trump University students, thinking he’ll show them how to be a rich player like him.

  38. 38.

    Elizabelle

    Lester: The public’s right to know does not outweigh your personal ….

    Trump jumps in.

    Lester is doing well, methinks.

    FFS: Trump will release tax returns when HRC releases emails. Applause. Ridiculous.

  41. 41.

    SFAW

    @dmsilev:

    Roughly 3 million Trump lies.

    So the frequency (well, period I guess) has decrease from 3 min 15 seconds (per Politico) to 3.15 milliseconds? It takes a special kind of candidate to up his game like that.

  42. 42.

    Suzanne

    Is Trump high? All the sniffing leads me to think he snorted some coke before coming out on stage?

    It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

  48. 48.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    He’s furiously tossing out decoy devices to try to avoid the torpedo about him hiding something in his taxes.

  49. 49.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Who is keeping us from rebuilding our roads, airports, bridges Donald? Not Barack Obama, Not Hillary.

  51. 51.

    Elizabelle

    Re not paying taxes: Trump: “that makes me smart.”

    OK. So all us middle class peeps should pay since the Donalds of the world are too smart to pay taxes.

    “There is something he’s hiding.”

  58. 58.

    PsiFighter37

    Trump: “Just words.”

    The dude is going to lose the fuck out of opinion polls on this debate.

  65. 65.

    jayboat

    More sniffling, with a little back-drip…
    The back of his throat is tightening- you can hear the change in his voice.

    I lived through the 80s.

  66. 66.

    Mart

    @Suzanne: Obviously has cancer related sniffles, he won’t last past 2017. This is not speculation, my great great grandfather was a doctor.

  67. 67.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @amygdala: You’re reading Sully? Do you need to see one of those docs who often take the same boards as you did, and whose specialty is combining with yours at many med schools? I’m worried about you.

  68. 68.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @eclare:

    I’ve seen other commenters refer to it (during some of his speeches), but had never really noticed it until tonight. It’s impossible to ignore.

  74. 74.

    different-church-lady

    Going by Sully’s reaction, she’s Alpha-Dogging him something fierce. Wonder what the rest of the country will see.

  76. 76.

    SFAW

    @Suzanne:

    Is Trump high? All the sniffing leads me to think he snorted some coke before coming out on stage?

    It’s probably because his BP is so low. Hopefully-soon-to-be-defrocked “Dr.” Bornstein says it’s 116/70. Which probably means that if he were not overweight — never mind Obese, as he currently is — his BP would probably be about 85/55 or some such.

    Is there ANYTHING about Trump — that COMES from Trump or his minions — that isn’t a lie?

  82. 82.

    amygdala

    @Adam L Silverman: It’s pretty funny, actually. First of all, his heart clearly isn’t in it. Second, he’s having to be positive about Hillary, which he’s not tolerating well.

  88. 88.

    DCrefugee

    He sighed! “Al Gore, please pick up the white courtesy phone nearest you for an important message.”

  90. 90.

    misterpuff

    Hillary just quotes stat that Black dope smokers jailed three times more than white potheads WITHOUT mentioning marijuana or the stupid drug war,

  95. 95.

    amk

    stop and frisk.

    african american community has been let down by politicians.

    rinse, repeat.

    the fucker didn’t prepare, did he?

  97. 97.

    Renie

    I can’t believe trump said “I say nothing” when asked what he would say to AA about why he pushed birtherism.

  102. 102.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @amygdala: One of which was personal for him, so of course he supported it. Things that affect only others, not always good work, torture as policy being an outlier, imo. I’m a tad worried about you…

  106. 106.

    psycholinguist

    i know a 10 year old, he’s great with computers, very, very great…… it’s tough Lester, it’s tough.. (Yes, it is isn’t it Donald)

  110. 110.

    Uncle Jeffy

    @DCrefugee: Lester Holt needed to grow a spine and say “Mr. Trump, the next time you interrupt her I’m switching your mike off until she finishes.” I know, I know – I can dream, can’t I?

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