Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

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

The lights are all blinking red.

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

Giving up is unforgivable.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

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

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

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

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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… The show, “Stronger Together,” features Chelsea Clinton as a special guest and Billy Crystal as host, appearing alongside familiar faces including Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway, Josh Groban, Angela Bassett, Neil Patrick Harris, Helen Mirren, Sienna Miller, Bernadette Peters, Cynthia Erivo, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Sarah Jones, Andrea McArdle and Ayodele Casel. Organizers of the evening promise new duets and collaborations…

The event is set for Oct. 17 at the St. James Theater, the Jujamcyn-owned venue currently occupied by “Something Rotten!,” which is dark on Monday nights. Tickets are on sale on the Hillary Clinton website.

And on the other side…

(What — that’s not supposed to be a joke?)

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  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    Does anyone here speak Stupid? If so, how about an English translation of that second tweet?

  4. 4.

    debit

    If only his microphone had worked someone would have heard his pleas to call Sean Hannity. And then, why, then everything would have been as right as rain!

  6. 6.

    scav

    Sorry, I’m on different quotes (he’s also threatening lawsuits I think)

    Mr. Trump declined to comment on the documents. Instead, the campaign released a statement that neither challenged nor confirmed the $916 million loss.

    “Mr. Trump is a highly-skilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required,” the statement said. “That being said, Mr. Trump has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes.”

    The statement continued: “Mr. Trump knows the tax code far better than anyone who has ever run for President and he is the only one that knows how to fix it.”

    NYT in an unexpected fit

  7. 7.

    Baud

    NYT has Trump’s 1995 tax return

    At a rally, Trump just insinuated that Hillary cheated on Bill.

    October is going to be ugly.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jerzy Russian: When the BLM protestors got on stage during BS’s speech at…. Net roots?

    Helen Mirren,

    IF you can’t listen to Dame Helen when deciding who to vote for, you’re hopeless.

  13. 13.

    scav

    @Baud: Oh it is going to be fun, secret envelopes arriving on desks with three pages, typed out of alignment numbers, hoo boy. We’re talking movieland. And a peek into what’s legal for those that have.

  14. 14.

    gogol's wife

    @scav:

    See? And you guys were all cancelling your subscriptions. This is amazing.

    Of course, I’m so jaded now, I’m afraid it won’t do any good.

    I love that he’s threatening to sue. Don’t run for president then, moran.

  15. 15.

    redshirt

    @Baud: Bring it. Let’s finish this thing.

    I am sure of this: There is no surprise info coming out about Hillary; there’s plenty left to come out about Trump.

    And we’ve got the big guns on our side. All Trump has on his side is Russia.

  16. 16.

    scav

    @gogol’s wife: To be honest, I’d still have canceled mine if I had one (I’m piggy-backing). I really don’t like the attitude of their public editor. The fact that they have followed one story that landed on their desk because it was too big to miss out on does not excuse their general approach to journalism. This is not a signal of their reform.

  20. 20.

    gogol's wife

    @scav: @Baud:

    I can’t stand the public editor. That’s why I write to her and Baquet to complain about her, and I post comments on their articles. But I’m not at the point of giving up on them — yet.

    Although they once again failed to deliver my Saturday paper, with my favorite puzzle of the week.

  21. 21.

    JPL

    @scav: Does his tax plan include closing loopholes that allow for this type of gaming the system? I don’t think so.. .
    Trump’s new slogan should be, I’m one of the 47 percent and that makes me smart.

  23. 23.

    Renie

    category 5 tweetstorm on the horizon cuz nytimes got hold of tax returns sent to them with return address trump tower nyc

  25. 25.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Baud: “Ugly” may be the month’s biggest understatement.

    @Renie: I especially liked the return address… It’s past sundown so perhaps Ivanka can snatch his phone away.

  27. 27.

    JPL

    Hillary should say we’re going to close tax loopholes, because there is no way that Trump should be included in Mitt’s forty seven percent who don’t pay taxes.

  29. 29.

    RaflW

    The NYT got Trump’s 1995 tax return, or at least a juicy part of it. A Trump lawyer says they are going to sue the Times. Which would be great, because then we can have daily coverage of how the lawsuit over Trump’s taxes is going. And once we’re talking about Trump’s taxes, we’re talking about how he most likely doesn’t pay any federal income tax. Zippo. Nada. Because he’s ‘smart’.

  31. 31.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @eclare: Even with Mitnick’s sorta kinda corroboration? I know he’s 80+

    @eclare:

    Just the whole spin that Trump knows the code better than anyone.

    Oh, the spin – that makes total sense. He doesn’t know dick, and Ivana had all the questions, according to the preparer from that marriage, who may have been different(?).

  32. 32.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I’m wondering what pre-emptive mind fuck the Clinton team is planning for the next debate

  34. 34.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    There was a link to a 2009 BJ thread earlier… I was mostly a lurker then, myself. I saw Beltane posting in the thread. Does anyone know, is he/she still with us?

  38. 38.

    different-church-lady

    Better still, if the losses are big enough, they can cancel out taxable income earned in other years. Under I.R.S. rules in 1995, net operating losses could be used to wipe out taxable income earned in the three years before and the 15 years after the loss. (The effect of net operating losses on state income taxes varies, depending on each state’s tax regime.)

    In the meantime, I’ll be struggling to come up with the two grand I’m probably going to have to dish out shortly on modest income.

    Yes, it is entirely possible there will be some interesting questions from Average Americans on this topic during the town hall debates.

  41. 41.

    scav

    @eclare: When you get to the bottom, there are some serious jabs about Trump not knowing the details of most of it, it was some Mr. Mitnick who also worked for Trump’s dad. Lots of little jabs and rakes for his Orangeship to beat his head with.

  45. 45.

    Jerzy Russian

    @RaflW: Can the Times be sued here? Someone obtained the document, sent it to the Times, and the Times published it. Would this situation be similar to the cases where a newspaper published leaked classified documents? The leaker is at fault, not the paper.

  53. 53.

    Jerzy Russian

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    The Times cannot be sued here.

    Thanks, I thought so. Given the facts in the case, I will look forward to Mr. Trump’s lawsuit on this matter, probably as early as Monday.

  58. 58.

    SFAW

    @hovercraft:

    I thought that she killed Vince Foster to cover up their affair.

    Which is interesting because she’s also a lesbian. The Rethugs have never figured out how to make that combination of “facts” seem plausible.

  61. 61.

    trollhattan

    @RaflW:
    Oh boy, please Trumpsters, sue “The Times” because then in discovery the defendants will ask for tax returns. Hilarity follows.

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