Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The revolution will be supervised.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Bark louder, little dog.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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  8. 8.

    seaboogie

    Lemme see if I can do the link-fu from the book of faces on this one…..

    Yep – it worked. Hillary is flawed – we are all flawed – but she is and has been in the trenches most of her life in service to the public.

  13. 13.

    Mnemosyne

    I also have the dilemma of deciding which knitting bag to bring: Obama ’08 or Batgirl? They both have their merits and they’re the same size.

  14. 14.

    RK

    Since The Arizona Republic began publication in 1890, we have never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president. Never. This reflects a deep philosophical appreciation for conservative ideals and Republican principles.

    This year is different.

  15. 15.

    TriassicSands

    @Major Major Major Major:

    The article is bad enough, but the comments are truly pathetic. She had an earpiece. Yeah, an invisible earpiece.

    The amazing thing is that even if any of what those Bozos wrote is true (ahem), none of it made Trump act like a complete buffoon — he did that all on his own.

  17. 17.

    polyorchnid octopunch

    @Major Major Major Major: The source cited in that article is at https://baltimoregazette.com/clinton-received-debate-questions-week-debate/.

    This site had an article up a week or three back about a white police officer killing a black mother in front of her toddler, which was a complete fabrication. I came across it because some of my black friends were sharing it. I went and looked for confirmation, and instead found that it had been confirmed false.

    I can’t look at the article I linked above because apparently the webmasters there are too incompetent (or perhaps unwilling to spend the money on a CA, which would be incontrovertible evidence of who they are) to be able to properly configure a secure web server. I find the possibility that they’re unwilling because it would be very easy to find out who’s behind the site bolstered by the fact that they’re using the Domains by Proxy domain anonymising service, and maybe tried to roll their own and failed.

    Lotta misinformation going around out there. Good idea to check the provenance of everything you see or hear over the next few months; after perusing the site last week I’m pretty sure the article about the black woman shot by police in front of her toddler was done specifically so it could later be pointed to as a hoax to delegitimate the folks that shared it.

    ETA: here’s an actual Baltimore news source’s article on it: http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/the-news-hole/bcpnews-someone-revived-the-baltimore-gazette-to-spread-fake-bullshit-20160923-story.html

  18. 18.

    NobodySpecial

    If Hillary had an earpiece, then she learned it from the C-Plus Augustus. And they can fuck right off. Goose, gander, bitches.

  19. 19.

    amk

    @Major Major Major Major:

    It is being reported that the Intern walked into the headquarters, and went directly into the personal office of Clinton campaign manager Robert Mook. The Intern was spotted wearing a FedEx outfit, but a reporter working with Fox News recognized her and immediately reported what he saw.

    LMAO

  20. 20.

    Aleta

    @seaboogie:

    has been in the trenches most of her life in service to the public

    And even though she has the intelligence and drive and energy and toughness to have made millions, every year for all these years, in business or law or lobbying or medicine or whatever she wanted to do. Instead, she’s chosen public service most of her life. Unimaginable public attacks, but she still continues to channel her ambition into public service. She’s attacked on the left and right for having made money; but no mention of how much she could be making now if she didn’t run. Meanwhile DT campaigns primarily on his success at making money.

    This election is crushingly unfair, but also such a clear cut illustration of the forces at work. I can’t say it well, but I think the election campaign itself is proving her strength as a leader.

  21. 21.

    opiejeanne

    @seaboogie: There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in. I’ve seen that line repeated various times, and Louise Penny used the second half as the title of a book.

    Finally looked up the origin and it seems to be Leonard Cohen.
    Emerson said something a little similar: There is a crack in everything that God has made.

  26. 26.

    Prescott Cactus

    Even beneath those gloves, that young boy has very, very small hands and a pee stain in his undies.

  28. 28.

    Ruckus

    @Prescott Cactus:
    LOL

    ETA Just think how he’ll feel tomorrow when all his school mates find out. That’s the best part. Of course they all probably know he’s an asshole in training.

  30. 30.

    opiejeanne

    @Aleta: Yes, I’m good. Haven’t pooped yet, but I feel pretty good. Thanks for asking, and that’s probably a little more info than you wanted. ;-)

    They didn’t get very far, exactly the same as 8 years ago, so I’m doing another prep for a CT colonography next Monday, in another building on the other side of the freeway. The little they did get a look at had no polyps and a very minor bit of diverticulosis.
    Why they don’t have the durned machine in the same building is beyond me, but the hospital apparently doesn’t own one. Damn, we were spoiled at Kaiser. Everything here seems to be parceled out to various clinics, very little in-house and their computers have only recently started talking to each other. This is Evergreen in the Seattle area, and I’m considering switching to Swedish or UW.

  33. 33.

    robert thompson

    @opiejeanne: I can empathize with you. All these procedures tend to get one down. At 06:00 PST I get to have my pancreas removed. Spleen likely as well. Up late cant sleep.

  37. 37.

    Prescott Cactus

    Donald: Master of Communication

    An ego meant for Pay Per View
    A voice meant for a carnival barkering
    A hairpiece meant for radio
    Hands meant for a Morse code machine
    … …. . –. .- .. -. . -.. .- .-.. — – — ..-. .– . .. –. …. – –..– -.– — ..- -.- -. — .–

  42. 42.

    opiejeanne

    @Prescott Cactus: I could only translate the first two characters of your morse code sentence, but the online auto-translators balked when I asked them for help.

    I just realized that I never have to have another colonoscopy, ever; from now on it will be the CT option, which I prefer. Not sure how they plan to fix anything they find, short of invasive surgery, but I doubt that they will find anything.

  44. 44.

    piratedan

    @Aleta: boy do you have it pegged right…

    she’s a woman… so if she’s assertive… she’s bossy
    if she’s serious… well, she needs to smile more
    if she’s intelligent… suddenly she’s a know-it-all
    she’s cited as being prepared… as if that’s a bad thing.

    She’s held accountable for her husband’s transgressions
    She’s held accountable for them being on the ass end of a real estate deal (Whitewater)
    She’s held to a different standard on her e-mails than her predecessors
    Her charitable works are under scrutiny for being accessible to the powerful, who are the same people that every charity lobbies
    Her pay for speaking is under attack yet no one says a fucking thing when her opponent launders his public appearances through his foundation to avoid the taxes

    and she has to deal with the lies and the smears and the insults every damn day and if I was a violent person, it would take a long time to find the bodies of Rushbo, Andrea and Chuckles who have been the ringleaders of enabling this cavalcade of innuendo to persist and succeed. Also too, the NYT would be a pile of charred wires and rubble deposited upon the vehicles of every senior editor and board member of the organization.

    What is strange is that I voted for Obama, I am not entirely on board with all of her positions and ideas, but jaysus fucking Christ (on a Ritz or in a sidecar), at least she has ideas, wants to help people and believes that intelligent government programs and money can help make that happen.

    There are times I really wish upon her enemies, the same amount of vitriol and passionate grudge holding that they’ve infected on her and see how well they handle themselves.

  45. 45.

    robert thompson

    @opiejeanne: You are very kind. I had a Whipple previously. They removed the gall bladder, half the pancreas and about 5 feet of tubing. That worked for awhile. I hope this the last one. Theres not much left to take. Your condition is Crohns or something else.

  46. 46.

    opiejeanne

    @robert thompson:
    Goodness. There really isn’t much left to take of you. I really do hope it goes well and that you recover to regale us with tales of the bad hospital food.

    My condition isn’t Crohns, or did you mean yours is?
    My condition is having had a hysterectomy so there are things missing that would have held other things in the correct positions for the doc. Instead it’s all just a collapsed heap of nonsense, which kind of describes me at times.

  47. 47.

    Prescott Cactus

    @robert thompson: The Whipple [email protected]opiejeanne: It’s a very tough one isn’t it?

    @opiejeanne:

    I could only translate the . .

    Seems English to Morris code, then back to English isn’t smooth. with the translation machine.. Mocked T-rump about “she gained weight comment”.

    I hope all goes well. Tests are never fun and you mostly get plain ol’ negative result, on rare occasion, just a couple of questions. Don’t be afraid to ask questions if you have any unceartanty !

  48. 48.

    opiejeanne

    @Prescott Cactus: I’ve already questioned them a bit, but have more for tomorrow when I pick up my barium cocktail (woohoo!). I want to know what the next step after the CT is, if they find something. Probably surgery, but I want them to tell me that.

    Hmmm. I will try to get a good translation of your Morse code message tomorrow morning when I have time.

  52. 52.

    trnc

    @Major Major Major Major:

    She was even given the questions early!

    I wanted to respond to that idiot that they’ve both essentially had their questions for months, insofar as none of the questions should have come as a surprise to either candidate. And yet, HO still whiffed it. Sadly, his brave posts allowed no responses.

  53. 53.

    Central Planning

    @Mnemosyne: Have you gotten surgery for carpal tunnel yet? I’ve had both hands done. My only regret is waiting so long to do it, thinking that I could “deal with it”

  56. 56.

    ChrisGrrr

    @amk:

    It is being reported

    “Some people say” requires much less work than actual journalism.

    At least there’s nothing at stake that’s more important than ad views and link-clicks.

  58. 58.

    JR in WV

    @seaboogie:

    Great quote… any idea who said it? Cause I won’t send around an anonymous quote. And I like this one enough to send it around, if I knew who said it…

  61. 61.

    JR in WV

    @Death Panel Truck:

    Another information-free post by someone who has not posted anything recently, missing from sentimental-balloon database.

    Why do these nimrods bother? We know who posts here, and can see a post with no information in it for ourselves. And we can see it and understand when a media “superstar” lies about content, much less a blogger amateur.

  62. 62.

    JR in WV

    @robert thompson:

    You won’t see this until you are way past the recovery room, but you know we are all rooting for your successful recovery! Best wishes from B-J. Only sorry I wasn’t up in the wee hours to chat.

  63. 63.

    Bodacious

    OK, I watched the Frontline piece last night. I didn’t find it anti-Hills. I actually thought it gave context to how unique and tough she really is. Trump, OTOH, looked like a tiny but complete dick, which makes sense.

  66. 66.

    Aleta

    @opiejeanne:
    Glad you’re OK!

    I’ve come to think that for myself the venue and management of the facility matter a lot. And the skill of the person who’s doing what is considered a routine procedure by the hospital, but for me has had complications. Though my partner and relatives are much more ‘go with the flow,’ and that works OK for them.

  68. 68.

    Aleta

    @opiejeanne: I didn’t read far enough before commenting about your lifetime guarantee of no more colonoscopies. Do you have to get cleaned out again for Monday? I’ve used these two products instead of Gatorade (which makes me sick also).
    (A lot of the reg flavors at the site are red or orange, but there is a regular lemon-lime one that I’ve used, too.)

    On the site, each type has a handy ingredient list one can print or tablet or send to show your dr’s office. I like the low or no sugar ones at the link, because then I can mix them with any juice I like, or just water. They are made in the US.

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