Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

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

American History and Black History can not be separated.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

So many bastards, so little time.

Fight them, without becoming them!

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

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

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Early Morning Open Thread — Answer: Yes.

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Trump’s like one of those porch lights that sends out a pheromonal signal to moths, only for horrible people instead of nuisance insects.

I’m honestly afraid to speculate on actions that might be too base even for Littlefinger ShitGibbon, because then there will be another tape released of those very actions within 24 hours…

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  1. 1.

    GregB

    We can only rightfully assume that Katrina Pierson will take to the airwaves and refute Marlee Matlin’s allegatipns by stating: Why would Trump waste his beautiful salty bathroom banter on someone who couldn’t hear it.

  5. 5.

    Damien

    I mean, he already raped one wife, who wants to bet me money that’s the only incident?

    What could it possibly be? Video of him beating up his own mom? Making out with Ivanka? Or Eric??

  6. 6.

    seaboogie

    Dinesh D’Souza reinforces his gold standard in D’Ouche-Baggery. Assume that the self-loathing that feeds it is a pit of unmeasurable depth.

  7. 7.

    TS

    I do remember what happened when Rahm Emanuel used the word retarded, the GOP and the media were so disgusted – wonder if it will have the same reaction this time around?

    I didn’t think so – when you are representing the party with the divine right to rule – nothing you say matters.

  8. 8.

    Betty Cracker

    Anyone who missed Michelle Obama’s speech yesterday should do themselves a favor and carve out 25 minutes to watch it today.

  9. 9.

    bemused

    @Betty Cracker:

    Rachel Maddow managed to get producers to let her air it without ads last night. Not sure if it was the entire speech but Michelle was magnificent.

  10. 10.

    Jesse

    Have you guys noticed that every time one of these SOOPER GENIUSES tries to warn us about the terrors of Hillary’s America, they make it sound awesome?

    “…a third term of Barack Obama!”
    “Taco trucks on every corner.”
    “The only thing that matters is consent!”
    “In Hillary’s America, we won’t be able to mock beauty queens for being chubby!”
    “I guess a man can use a woman’s bathroom, but the CEO of Miss Universe can’t barge into a dressing room.”

    Yes. Exactly. This. Yes.

  12. 12.

    Kay

    Charlie CookVerified account
    ‏@CharlieCookDC
    Take a close look at the new Fox News poll released tonight. This race is OVER.

    I follow the older, Right leaning pundits rather than the “new-fangled” data people :)

    I’ll alert you-all when they start saying O-V-E-R. That’s really over.

  14. 14.

    craigie

    @Betty Cracker:
    My wife, a person who is as disinterested in politics as it is possible to be, watched the whole thing this morning at breakfast. And as a result, so did I. We are going to miss this couple.

  15. 15.

    Kay

    Dilbert is throwing in the towel on Trump. He says he wasn’t wrong to guarantee a Trump win- instead it was that no one could anticipate that Trump is a huge jerk and a cretin and people might find that out during a Presidential campaign.

    Anyway, getting to the point of this post, if Clinton wins, it will be because women voted for her in landslide proportions while men (on average) preferred Trump. And that means two things of historic importance.
    1. We will elect the first woman to be President of the United States. That’s good for everyone.
    and…
    2. Everything that goes wrong with the country from this point forward is women’s fault.

    Men had a good run. We invented almost everything, and that’s cool. But we also started all of the wars and committed most of the crimes. It’s a mixed record to be sure. Now it’s time for something different, apparently.
    Hillary Clinton is all yours, ladies. She and her alleged rapist husband are your brand now. Wear them well.

    He’s unhinged but it doesn’t matter because he’s a cartoonist, not President.

  17. 17.

    bemused

    I’m trying to wrap my mind around Trump thinking Marlee Matlin was “retarded”, insulting her voice, etc. while at the same time openly hitting on her. Sick asshole. He’s a serial predator and not only sexually.

  20. 20.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    but the CEO of Miss Universe can’t barge into a dressing room.”

    Next thing you know, the peasants will be complaining about the droit de seigneur.

  21. 21.

    Kay

    As far as I’m concerned it’s now clear anyone who spent any time with Trump knew this, and no one said anything over decades.

    It’s exactly like the Ailes situation. Decades that went on, and in a “newsroom”.

    But did the future Republican nominee go too far in dealing with the female celebrities? At least one former contestant thinks so.
    “Watching him in the boardroom making sexual comments to Marlee Matlin, to all of the women on the Apprentice, it was obvious that that’s just a part of who he is,” says 2011 contestant Richard Hatch. “It was obvious and it was grotesque. It was blatant and it was frequent. He did it with Lisa Rinna; He did it with Marlee Matlin. He did it with whomever happened to be there at the time.”

  23. 23.

    Kay

    @David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:

    I’m kind of okay with them not calling it. It really does drive down turnout and that impacts elections. I think it’s improper for them to call it and drive down turnout. I feel like I saw it happen with Strickland in 2010. They buried him in September and that dispirited our voters and ensured it was bad.

  24. 24.

    MattF

    @Kay: Worse, Trump was asked, repeatedly, to allow oppo research within his own campaign in order to anticipate possible attacks. He forbade it.

    So, one must assume that the set ‘anyone who spent any time with Trump’ includes Trump himself..

  25. 25.

    Bruce K

    Dinesh D’Souza is the convicted criminal, isn’t he? I keep getting him and Fareed Zakaria mixed up for some reason.

    I swear, at this point, the wingnuts are deliberately, aggressively Not Getting It…

  26. 26.

    bemused

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Ha! Still I have no doubt he would still insult her even if she hadn’t turned him down or he managed to get her alone to assault her. At this point, I’m thinking that the accusation of him raping a 13 year old could be all too true. I don’t think anyone can confidently say that Trump has some lines he wouldn’t cross anymore other than his campaign staff.

  29. 29.

    JGabriel

    @Kay:

    He’s unhinged but it doesn’t matter because he’s a cartoonist, not President.

    Scott Adams makes me feel kind of embarrassed for ever liking Dilbert. And a little slimy about it too, like getting ankle-bitten by a newt.

  30. 30.

    Boussinesque

    @Kay: my first encounter with Adams’ douchebaggery was years ago, when I learned he was a proponent of Intelligent Design, and I remember being kind of surprised and disappointed–Dilbert originally seemed like a fairly sympathetic character. Once one of my friends told me that the stand-in character for the author was actually Dogbert, it all made a lot more sense. If there was a way to harness arrogance as a power source, you could probably run an entire metropolitan area off of Adams.

  31. 31.

    Kay

    @MattF:

    But why were they taking orders from him? They all have an interest in the race. This “Trump refused” stuff assumes everyone in the GOP is taking orders from Trump.

    They were afraid of him. They’re still afraid of him. Donald Trump hasn’t “destroyed” any of his enemies. The only people he’s “destroyed” are little people- the small businesses he stiffed because they were too weak to fight him. They were afraid of a giant fraud. Their base would have rallied around any GOP-er. The best evidence for this is Trump himself. They would have forgotten all about Trump and happily voted for any anti-Clinton candidate they put up.

  33. 33.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Last month Vanity Fair reposted a profile I wrote in 1994, when the then first lady was working on healthcare reform. The article quoted a powerful Capitol Hill insider who compared Mrs Clinton’s performance with that of her husband, the president. “I’ve seen them both make presentations, with dozens of senators at the table, and she’s better than he is,” he said. “And these guys know it. They’ve sat in rooms with her, and they’ve sat in rooms with him. He’s good – he’s very good. She’s just fucking perfect.”

  34. 34.

    Mustang Bobby

    I posted the link to Michelle Obama’s speech on BBWW last night and then watched it again on Rachel and again this morning. This may be the point where, as they say, church is finally out.

    I’ve getting ready to take the weekend off and not think about any of this for a couple of days. I’m taking the Pontiac up to Lakeland, Florida, for the annual Lake Mirror Classic Auto Festival. If you’re in the neighborhood (*cough Betty Cracker cough*), stop by and say hi.

  36. 36.

    Kay

    @MattF:

    Has Donald Trump “destroyed” John Kasich? No. He hasn’t touched him at all. He travels around Ohio and whines that Kasich agreed to back him. He’s a fraud. His threats are as fraudulent as everything else about him.

    The entire GOP was backed into a corner by a clown. The “tough guy” bullshit is as much an act as everything else. Trump (or his team) haven’t turned up a single new revelation on any of his political enemies, not in the primary and not in the general. He watches tv and lies about whatever the scandal of the day is. That’s the extent of his awesome scary power.

  37. 37.

    TS

    So the d!ck is now comparing the US election to brexit – when will he stop thinking the racist sexist abuser can win

  38. 38.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @bemused:

    Still I have no doubt he would still insult her even if she hadn’t turned him down

    Oh for certain sure. Before she turned him down she was smart, funny, and oh so BEYOOOOTIFUL! Afterwards she was obviously retarded because what woman in her right mind could resist his manly manliness? And if she had accepted his advances?

    She would just be another slut.

    As to the 13 yr old, well we are talking about someone who lusts after 10 yr olds.

  40. 40.

    Kay

    @JGabriel:

    I think he’s a bit of a charlatan. He has a whole profitable side business in “success!” advice. One of those people. That’s what his books are about- how anyone can strike it rich whether they are talented or not with woo-woo “principles”.

    Like prosperity preacher but without religion.

  41. 41.

    TS

    @David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:

    1. He spends all cycle insisting GOP will do well and Dems Я doomed (data and fundamentals be damned).

    2. a few weeks before election admits Dems will win, insists he saw it coming all along..

    Morning Ho does exactly the same “Remember last week – i told you this would happen” – sometime someone will SHOW what he said last week

  43. 43.

    Schlemazel

    @JGabriel:
    I still get the occasional laugh out of Dilbert but I refuse to read anything else he says. I stop maybe 10 years ago when it became obvious he either was being a contrarian troll or the biggest asshole on the Internet. The blips of him I read here convince me it is the latter & I was not wrong to ignore the guy. Too many artists and entertainers fall into this mold, their work is enjoyable but it is best not to know anything about the person behind the work,

  44. 44.

    bemused

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Yes and lusts after his own daughter. I really don’t like questions popping into my mind about how inappropriate he has been with Ivana as she grew up but can’t help but go there. The guy doesn’t seem to have had any brakes on, ever.

    How’s the recovery going?

  45. 45.

    Kay

    @TS:

    I used to listen to the show because it’s an accurate reflection of the “conventional wisdom”. If you hear it there that means it has become “true” in that world. It’s useful in that way.

    I’m oddly pleased that Mika missed the personal branding opportunities offered by being anti-Trump based on his treatment of women. She’s all about her brand and she stuck with him too long, like a bad investment. Dumb mistake on her part.

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    @seaboogie:

    Dinesh D’Souza reinforces his gold standard in D’Ouche-Baggery. Assume that the self-loathing that feeds it is a pit of unmeasurable depth.

    I keep hoping that his intestine will have the same self-awareness as that of Grunthos the Flatulent. But “self-awareness” and “wingnut” are kind of like matter and anti-matter (at least in science fiction).

  48. 48.

    Waldo

    @Kay: I don’t think many on the right were/are afraid of Trump. They fear the angry mob behind him — not just because the mob could turn on them, but because they need the support of the mob themselves. Sad.

  50. 50.

    TS

    @Kay:

    I’m oddly pleased that Mika missed the personal branding opportunities offered by being anti-Trump based on his treatment of women. She’s all about her brand and she stuck with him too long, like a bad investment. Dumb mistake on her part.

    She sure stayed with her man rather than accept what a disaster Trump is with women. She was an utter mixed bag of confusion talking about women who have been abused yesterday.

    Interesting to note she is not on the show today after Michelle Obama went so so high yesterday.

  51. 51.

    NorthLeft12

    @OzarkHillbilly: I have maintained for awhile that the Repubs recognized how intelligent, ambitious, and dangerous [to them] that Hillary Clinton was back in the nineties and that this non-stop smear campaign against her was motivated by that. Bill Clinton was always a secondary target as he was already in and they could not do much [impeachment- what a joke] to stop him.

    Every insane conspiracy theory and lunatic scandal painted her as the villain. It is utterly perfect that everything is blowing up in their faces and that everything they feared about her is coming true.
    Ahhhhhhh schadenfreude!

  52. 52.

    NorthLeft12

    Oh, BTW, that Dinesh D’Souza fella is a real piece of work. About when can we expect him to fade into a well deserved obscurity?
    It’s guys like him that give ex-convicts a bad name.

  53. 53.

    NorthLeft12

    @Kay:

    He’s unhinged but it doesn’t matter because he’s a cartoonist, not President.

    Regarding Scott Adams; as a side benefit of Deadbeat Donald’s campaign, all the ignorant bigots are outing themselves. While it is disturbing to see how many there are and who they are, it does help moving forward to know exactly what these individuals think of democracy, society, etc.

    I think if they ventured an opinion regarding any issue of the day, I would weigh it on the basis of “Oh yeah, he was a Trump supporter.”

  54. 54.

    NorthLeft12

    @Kay:

    “It was obvious and it was grotesque. It was blatant and it was frequent. He did it with Lisa Rinna; He did it with Marlee Matlin. He did it with whomever happened to be there at the time.”

    My wife and I had a long discussion about sexual assault, and we agreed that part of Trump’s schtick was that if women did not forcefully react to his predations that he thought that they were implying consent. Yes, we both know that is after the fact, and it is also warped and sick, but I really believe that is how Deadbeat Donald and other men of his ilk think. This is that alpha/macho male bullshit that you are supposed to aggressively pursue the woman and “sweep her off her feet”. Yeah, it is stupid and ancient thinking but I think there are more than a few examples in popular culture about this.

  55. 55.

    Gindy51

    @bemused: Was talking with a psychiatrist pal of mine yesterday and he came up with a really sicko reason Trump is so into his own daughter. Get your barf bags ready…
    He said he truly believes no one else on earth is as worthy to be his partner than Ivanka. Why? Because no one else on earth is so like Donald and of the opposite sex. He truly wants to mate with her because she is him. He substitutes other blond females for his daughter.
    Excuse me while I hurl up breakfast.

  56. 56.

    Bart

    @Kay: No this race isn’t over. Now is the time to destroy the Republican party. Tie them to Trump at every opportunity, and get Dems elected everywhere. Conquer both Senate and House.

  57. 57.

    different-church-lady

    @bemused:

    ’m trying to wrap my mind around Trump thinking Marlee Matlin was “retarded”, insulting her voice, etc. while at the same time openly hitting on her

    Pretty easy, really: she doesn’t become retarded in his eyes until after she rejects him.

  58. 58.

    sherparick

    @TS: Right, IOKIYR, since if you are member of the Randian elite, you can treat the employees like the cattle/losers that they are.

    Dartmouth University has a lot to answer for between Ann Coulter, D’nesh D’souza, and assorted other trolls it has sent into the world these last 40 years.

  59. 59.

    SFAW

    @NorthLeft12:

    Oh, BTW, that Dinesh D’Souza fella is a real piece of work. About when can we expect him to fade into a well deserved obscurity?

    About the same time that the Rethuglican Party stops acting like treasonous assholes. And I have no idea what the over/under for that date is, but I’m guessing no one picks the “over.”

  60. 60.

    Cermet

    @Bart: But the guy Jerry … or is it spelled Gerrymander or some thing makes that clean sweep pretty much impossible; for now.

  61. 61.

    bemused

    @Gindy51:

    Eew…runs screaming.

    It’s no wonder his kids are so messed up. Now it will be the grandkids and his son Baron that will learn the Trump family values.

  62. 62.

    Joel

    @Kay: He must be saying that even using a favorable right-leaning demo model, the poll still has Clinton +8.

    I just wish it were Clinton +20 or Clinton +30. Scary to think of how many absolutely debased people I’m cohabiting with in this country.

  63. 63.

    Matt McIrvin

    @NorthLeft12: Scott Adams has actually been saying equally horrible things for years; he has an intense misogyny that he often expresses in violent terms. It just got more niche interest.

  64. 64.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Waldo: And the Jim Webb/Thomas Frank wing of the Democratic Party thinks we should be trying to appeal to that mob, too.

  65. 65.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Trump doesn’t like the woman, but he has to bang her anyway, good lord. Talk about turning yourself into a self propelled penis.

  66. 66.

    Keith P.

    Question of the year: Does Trump corrupt everyone, or did he just gather to himself all the people on the right who were already corrupt?

    This is not a particularly interesting question. The answer is the latter, particularly when discussing someone like D’Souza. He was corrupt from the start, as his self-created job is to create bomb-throwing “documentaries” aimed at true believers every election cycle. There’s no deep thinking or progressing conservatism beyond trying be visible during fundraising periods.

  67. 67.

    Applejinx

    @NorthLeft12:

    My wife and I had a long discussion about sexual assault, and we agreed that part of Trump’s schtick was that if women did not forcefully react to his predations that he thought that they were implying consent.

    Then you fucked up, because the problem here is that consent is not a concept to the Donald.

    It would mean a woman could have an opinion, a distinct point of view other than his own. This man doesn’t think in terms of consent. He thinks in terms of doing stuff or not doing stuff, and what manipulations he can do with reality to get his stuff on. The concept of other self-aware minds, much less whether they’re entitled to some sort of deference, is not strong with the Donald.

    As for Ivanka, he made her and named her the diminutive form of his wife and had her between what, 11 and 15? local in New York? It’s not really very complicated what he wanted.

  70. 70.

    NorthLeft12

    @Applejinx: No, I think he was pretty clear in the “hot mike” comments that “they let you do this” is his concept of consent. I am not defending the guy, but trying to understand him and others like him. Unfortunately, this criminal behavior will not be changed until they are called out on it immediately and loudly and then suffer the consequences that they deserve.
    I am sure they will complain about “political correctness” all the way through their trial.

  71. 71.

    ruemara

    @Gindy51: This is probably quite accurate. In fact, her perfection comes from also being made from him. He’s a narcissist. Who is more worthy than an extension of himself?

  72. 72.

    Geeno

    @Gindy51: Oh, there’s a LOT of other things going on there, too. Remember, his mother was blond, and he married Ivana before Ivanka was around. I think there’s also a bit of the Egyptian pharaoh thing going on – they were always inbreeding, because only royalty is good enough for royal blood – as well.
    I’ll bet Marla knew about the Ivanka situation. That’s why Tiffany grew up on the other coast.

    The brain bleach is only $1.99 a gallon over at the counter.

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    @Kay:

    Hillary Clinton is all yours, ladies. She and her alleged rapist husband are your brand now. Wear them well.

    Wow. What an arrogant, whiny, pissy, condescending, passive-agressive asshole.

  74. 74.

    WaterGirl

    @WaterGirl: Just to be clear, the block quote above isn’t Kay speaking, it’s Scott Adams, with the Scott Adams words being quoted by Kay. And not in a good way.

  75. 75.

    JR in WV

    And D’Souza:

    I guess it is now fine for men to use women’s bathrooms but not for the CEO of Miss Universe to walk into a woman’s dressing room

    These two sorts of events are not logically connected in any way; IF the CEO of Miss Universe was female it would be fine for her to walk into a woman’s dressing room. Which has nothing to do with bathrooms. What about gender does D’Souza understand? Nada. Zilch, nothing. How stupid….

    What did D’Souza major in at that college he went to? Not Logic for sure. What a dirtbag. I welcomed so many quality people from S Asia to the US, but there was one guy…

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