Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

We still have time to mess this up!

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

The willow is too close to the house.

Let’s finish the job.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

Not all heroes wear capes.

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  2. 2.

    James E Powell

    I am all in for the baseball team from my beloved home town of Cleveland.

    The town will be forever stained in history as the place where Republicans nominated Trump.

    They need this to obliterate the bad memories with the good.

  6. 6.

    Gary K

    Yeah, would love to see a Cubs-Cleveland series. Whoever would win, it would end a long drought.

  11. 11.

    Schlemazel

    @Gary K:
    It would be great for those two teams but I think there would be some horrible catastrophe that would prevent the completion of the WS to maintain both teams streaks.

  12. 12.

    Steve in the ATL

    Cleveland is my favorite AL team–they are the only one that the Braves could beat in a World Series, and for that I will always be grateful.

    Now, go Cubbies!

  14. 14.

    Roger Moore

    When I don’t have a personal rooting interest, I generally go for the team that has gone longer without winning. That puts me squarely in favor of a Cleveland/Chicago World Series. About the only time I’d make an exception would be for a case like the Yankees, who have won so many times they could go a few centuries without winning and still have more than their fair share of championships.

  17. 17.

    Roger Moore

    @Schlemazel:

    I think there would be some horrible catastrophe that would prevent the completion of the WS to maintain both teams streaks.

    Nothing dramatic happened to stop the Red Sox, White Sox, or Giants from ending their droughts, so why would you expect it for the Cubs and Indians?

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    Having flashbacks to 1992, when I was a HUUUUGE Braves fan, but worked for the Canadian Consulate General in Atlanta — in an office in CNN Center, which was owned by Ted Turner, who owned the Braves at the time. So there were a lot of divided loyalties.

    Never have been able to persuade Canadians that it wasn’t the Braves who turned the Canadian Maple Leaf flag upside down — it was the United States Marines colour guard. But the Braves have always been blamed, and the (false) legend has long since overtaken the facts.

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    As for this year, well, I’m a Chicago native and Cubs fan, but retain a great affection for Canada, especially the Jays. Still — if it comes down to those two teams in the WS, no question where my loyalties and cheering will be!

  26. 26.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Roger Moore: Mariners, for example, have never been to the WS. They lost the ALCS back in 2001, the year they had the best regular season since…the Tribe, in 1954!

  29. 29.

    redshirt

    C’mon Betty, that’s just un-American. Cubs – Indians Series would be the best.

    Also, what a dog of a Monday night game, as they all seem to be. But, Fantasy demands I watch. :(

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    @efgoldman

    Rarely buy or eat ice cream. However, did find Blue Bunny brand Banana Split flavor quite tasty.

    Rarely seen here, so I do buy Häagen Dazs Rum Raisin when it does show up. Usually sits in the freezer for six months or more before am in the mood for ice cream.

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    @efgoldman: You’re welcome. They subbrand under most major grocery store brands. They apparently have four different mint flavors, but I’ve only ever seen the mint moose tracks as opposed to the other mint varieties. I’ve also had their chocolate moose tracks and the fudge brownie moose tracks and just the moose tracks moose tracks (vanilla ice cream base). All of them are good.

  38. 38.

    burnspbesq

    Did he Ontario provincial court rule in favor of the Indians, allowing them to wear their uniforms?

  45. 45.

    Adam L Silverman

    @SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: I was checking to see if I need to pass on sad news. I’ve found that a lot of her former colleagues – both in academia and in the Canadian government and NATO when she worked for them – do not know she pass away five years ago. She was working with the US Army at the time (I’d known her for years from aikido), living in VA, and the news didn’t get widely disseminated back home.

  48. 48.

    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: I had not been following that. In a civilian court – no, he only faces civilian criminal and/or civil penalties. I’m not an attorney, so you may want to wait for Omnes to turn up and ask him, but my understanding is he could be court martialed. I seriously doubt that would happen though. They didn’t recall GEN Petraeus and court martial him, so I doubt they would do it for this/him.

  51. 51.

    SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Oh, that’s sad. Yeah, probably not something that I can/should poll my Canadian friends on, but on the off-chance one of them mentions her name, at least I’ll know. Was she civilian or in the CF?

  55. 55.

    Adam L Silverman

    @SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: She was a civilian. PhD in Anthropology. She was my counterpart at FT Lee in VA. Because I’d known her for 20 years before we became professional colleagues, my higher HQ called me when they got the news from the folks at FT Lee and I spent the next two days calling everyone I could in aikido and then the few contacts I had (a couple of Canadian generals I knew from coalition work) within the MOD. Eventually the guy she stipulated to execute her estate got ahold of me and I was off the hook. But that was the second time I had to call every mid level to senior black belt in my aikido organization and tell them someone had died. I was okay till I got Sensei and his wife on the phone. She didn’t make it through my first sentence and then I just finally broke down and started crying at my desk. Miserable business all around. Every so often I’ll be at an academic conference and bump into someone and they haven’t heard and I tell them. Or I’m on an assignment and working with a Canadian senior officer and have to tell them as well.

  56. 56.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): It didn’t. GEN Petraeus was allowed to plead down the charges. He had to surrender/not contest being stripped of his clearances and I think there was a fine. I think SecDef put the Judge Advocate on notice more about the adultery and fraternization stuff, which the civilian courts won’t touch, but is a UCMJ violation.

  57. 57.

    SFAW

    @efgoldman:

    to root for Theo’s team or Tito’s team.

    Tito? Since when? I mean, I call him that (sometimes) because I’m an annoying asshole, but is that what Sox fans called him too? (Wiki apparently says yes?)

    But I remember the real Tito when he played for the Indians, had his card, things like that. Not that I’m old or anything.

  58. 58.

    Petgoat

    The owner of the Cubs is a huge Trump supporter, right? I don’t care how long it’s been, I hope they lose.

  59. 59.

    JR in WV

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Hard to beat Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey, just ahead of Cherry Garcia! Wife was complaining that I finished off the Chunky Monkey the other night at 2 am, which I did. But someone has to have the last scoop. So I did.

  61. 61.

    ellie

    Dodgers all the way! But I like the idea of the Cubs finally winning after all these years. But I don’t want them to win on the back of my most favorite team ever. I am just going to see what happens.

  62. 62.

    JR in WV

    @Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant):

    Hang in there. It will get better. They’re really a lot better about that work than in even the recent past. Friend had serious surgery on her neck a few years ago down in the Raleigh area, total success.

    Hoping for the best outcome for you!

  63. 63.

    JR in WV

    @Petgoat:

    Whoa, I knew the family was conservative, but didn’t know they were still holding Trump up as worth leadership of the nation.

    A shame! I’m used to rooting against a team, now I know which one.

  65. 65.

    SFAW

    @efgoldman:
    Gus Triandos! I haven’t heard that name in something like 50 years.

    Bob Nichols and Ray May, I remember them doing Bert and Harry Piels.
    To be more serious: I didn’t realize Nichols and May did commercials. I was/am a little young to have heard them in their heyday, but their stuff was pretty funny. (Bob and Ray’s was, too, of course, but in a different way. Of course, we won’t talk about Chris Elliott.)

  67. 67.

    M. Bouffant

    @Petgoat: Good point. Curse of the Ricketts!

    Also:

    Whenever the Dodgers roll into the Chicago to play the Cubs (or the White Sox, sometimes), they have typically stayed at the Trump International Hotel and Tower. However, when the Boys in Blue visited the Cubs back in May, there was one team member to who decided to find his own accommodations.

    “I didn’t stay there,” first baseman Adrian Gonzalez told the Inland Valley Bulletin. “I had my reasons.”

    Go Dodgers!!

  68. 68.

    -ly Ballou

    @SFAW:

    Bob Nichols and Ray May, I remember them doing Bert and Harry Piels.

    Sound like a couple of fine fellows. I’ll have to check them out.

    Cleveland wins again. Jays are in an awfully big hole now.

  69. 69.

    burnspbesq

    Y’all are conflating two great comedy teams: Bob (Elliott) and Ray (Goulding) and Mike Nichols and Elaine May.

  70. 70.

    mere mortal

    Unless and until the Cubs invite Bartman to throw an opening pitch in front of a wildly cheering home crowd, I hope they keep losing for another hundred years.

    I’ll call it the curse of the scapegoat.

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