Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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

Books are my comfort food!

Everybody saw this coming.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

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

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

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Yo, y’all.

I just made my ritual debate night donations.  Tonight it was small $ to Hillary, Maggie Hassan, and the Balloon Juice Act Blue fund.

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If any of you share my superstition (donations when you’re nervous, pissed off at something, or what have you, have more impact than any others), I offer you the house widget below, shamelessly lifted from a DougJ post:

As Doug says, let’s take the House and Senate too.

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Image: Martinus van Reymerswaele, The Banker and his Wife, before 1550.

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  2. 2.

    Schlemazel

    I have seen some stories that Ailes the Hut has left Trump. Like this one

    I tried posting a link to a story about what Chris Wallace was going to do tonight to save down ballot wingnuts but they removed the story. It was very nicely written and a shame I can’t share it

  3. 3.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    I’m sure as Hell not playing any Trump drinking games, as I’d probably wind up in the ICU going through the worst detox evar.

  5. 5.

    aimai

    Love the painting, Tom. I, too, donate money when I’m sad/angry/enraged/sickened. So I’ve actually maxed out for HRC twice this cycle. I never thought I’d give that much money again after Obama but I’m all in for Hillary. Damn the torpedos and full speed ahead. but you are right to remind me about Maggie Hassan. I’ll throw some more money her way. My daughter is working for HRC in NH every weekend and they are running a co-ordinated campaign with Hassan and door knocking for Hillary is also door knocking for Hassan. Hopefully they will pull each other across the finish line.

  7. 7.

    Mali muso

    Don’t forget about Luann Bennett here in VA-10. She actually has a competitive chance against Frank Wolff’s replacement Barbara Comstock. After eons of watching this seat be red with no hope of turning it blue, I am excited we are within striking distance.

  8. 8.

    Jeffro

    Perfect anti-Trump, anti-“rigged” ad:

    John Kerry and Al Gore yukking it up, turn to camera…”oh hey, remember us?”

    (goes on to explain how democracy and elections work in America, how they’re impossible to ‘rig’, and how complaining about losing is kind of unprecedented in our history)

    Kerry rattles off a few notable losers…”and Al even though you actually got the most votes 2000, you still helped bring the country back together, didn’t you?”

    Gore: “Why yes John – I seem to remember you did the same in 2004 even though just a few votes in one state would have made you president”

    in unison: “So let’s quit babbling nonsense, elect a president, and then get to work moving the country forward.”

    Kerry: “Because anything else, well, that would…”

    Gore: “just be a sore loser,man”

  11. 11.

    Schlemazel

    I know he has his problems but this 7 minutes from Kieth Olbermann recounts a personal story about the vast right wing conspiracy against the Clintons. He explains who introduced him to it & explained who the players were. You will be surprised by the size of the group but not the names or the fact that they are all tied to Trump.

  12. 12.

    Chyron HR

    Tom, we need 45 more contributions in Levenson to meet our pre-debate fundraising goals. Since you are one of our most important partners, click below to automatically make a contribution with your saved information:

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  13. 13.

    piratedan

    man… if the GOP has both houses, the majority of governorships, then exactly WHO is rigging elections? Are you saying Mike that there’s no reason for any Democrat to be elected anywhere?

  14. 14.

    PsiFighter37

    @piratedan: That shithead is only on the ticket because he would’ve lost his re-election race in Indiana. I bet Fox News has a nice gig lined up for him, though (or Trump will put him on his new TV network).

  17. 17.

    PsiFighter37

    Apparently AA early voter turnout in Georgia is way up over 2012. That’s a good start, but need college-educated white folks to push us over the top in GA.

  20. 20.

    burnspbesq

    Fingers crossed: all three of my down-ballot contributees (Roy Cooper, NC-GOV; Doug Applegate, CA-49; Josh Gottheimer, NJ-05) are doing better than expected.

  22. 22.

    japa21

    Not watching debate. Have to watch the Cubbies become hitless wonders for another night. Although not a Cubs fan myself, my wife has been a long suffering one and it is almost painful watching her as they fall apart. Hopefully they can turn it around.

  23. 23.

    Kay

    Strategy of Trump’s debate guest list now clear: “Head fake” directed at panicked Republicans, not Hillary

    Imagine how crazy it is in the Trump strategy room. I don’t even know what this means.

  25. 25.

    burnspbesq

    @F:

    The idea behind sending Tebow to arizona was to throw him in the deep end and find out ASAP whether he was a prospect or a suspect. I’d say it’s working nicely.

  27. 27.

    Kay

    I am not my father’s surrogate I am his daughter. He is very much his own man. @IvankaTrump

    Starting to dawn on Ivanka, this may not end well for the Trump brand. “I barely know the guy!”

  33. 33.

    Peale

    I hope for the next cycle of debate we just lose the guests. Hell. Lose the audience. but the guests have got to go.

  35. 35.

    Corner Stone

    @Kay: “What, that speech I gave at the RNC? That was marketing for my clothes line. Not really even sure what happened after I left. As a business person I try to stay apolitical.”

  38. 38.

    Peale

    @Kay: so he needs to first pretend that he’s debating Hillary, but instead debate his own party. That’s really impressive three weeks before the end.

  39. 39.

    Aleta

    Putting in a plug for any small token of support for Emily Cain, against Rep Bruce Polaquin. Big money is pouring in from out of state for him; she has a decent chance right now and a lot of committed supporters, but less money.

    For the last 40 years the northern 2nd district in ME has elected (first 20 years) a relatively independent moderate Repub. to the House of Reps, and then (most recent 20 years) a Democrat to the House.

    The seat was lost to Repub. Polaquin just 2 years ago only because Dem Michaud stepped down to run against Le Page. (Who sleazed him, after which Michaud publicly came out, and then lost due to a 3 party race.)

    Polequin is a former investment banker who wants to further deregulate banks, among other junk positions and actions. Cain has a long record of service and strong progressive work and has held local and state elected offices, incl Maine House and Maine Senate.

    It would be SO great if she could remove Polaquin from Congress. He has “disagreed with Trump’s language” but not broken with him, and his out of state money has produced ads with blatant lies about her.

  41. 41.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Brian Willaims “vows a campaign to bring facts back when this is all over”

    As I’ve said before, he’s as incoherent as Trump or Palin, just more confident, but that’s one somebody on that set should call him out on

    Back to baseball

  42. 42.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    If I can see the Jays lose the ALCS, Lackey shit he bed, and Hillary do her thing against drumph all in one night? Holy fuck! What a hat trick! Go Hillary! I’ve watched each televised debate beginning with the 16+ clown parade this summer. Tonight gloating. Tomorrow rehab.

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    @Peale

    Audience ought to be limited to students, faculty and administration of the campus where it is being held, and also those alumni/alumnae who kicked in funds to defray the costs.

  46. 46.

    hovercraft

    To continue my Tweety bashing, he is the only pundit who keeps spouting about how Trump can right the ship and still win. Chuck Todd says there is no way, the best he can do is to prevent the bottom from falling out, and taking the entire republican party with him. Gene Robinson says no shot, Nicole Wallace, Steve Schmidt, all say stick a fork in him. Wallace is happy though that there is a new frontrunner for 2020, Marco Rubio! Mike Pence was interviewed by Brian Williams, and hedged about the Russian interference and hacking, so now that he’s put himself firmly on the side of Trump and Putin, and Rubio has come out on the side of Ronald Reagan, he won the week, not either of the two people who will be on stage tonight. Oh my, who knew it would be so easy for Little Marco to leap right back to the head of the pack after he flamed out so spectacularly.

    EDIT: to fix typo, not saying there aren’t more but fixed glaring one.

  49. 49.

    Corner Stone

    I love this skewering of fucking Mark Halperin’s idiot ass:

    Simon Maloy Verified account
    ‏@SimonMaloy

    most key ppl in race now in order
    1 Jonah Peretti
    2 Obama brother
    3 source I’m greasing
    4 David Gergen
    5 Larry King
    6 the discourse
    7 K Bone

    ETA, Come to think of it, “skewering”, “fucking” and “ass” in the same sentence may not be the best construction.

  50. 50.

    Kay

    @Corner Stone:

    It’s too late. That name has an entirely different meaning. Melania’s the real victim here. I saw her Twitter. It’s all photos of her shoes and pictures of NYC taken from windows. She was just fine until dumbo decided to run for President.

  52. 52.

    hovercraft

    @Kay:
    Nicole Wallace says that she’s spoken to members of the family, and they are aware that Trump is probably not going to win. They are now becoming very concerned about the fallout from the campaign, it is hurting their brand, especially internationally where they were making tons of money selling their name. Poor, poor, poor babies. SAD!

  54. 54.

    Kay

    @hovercraft:

    To continue my Tweety bashing, he is the only pundit who keeps spouting about how Trump can right the ship and still win.

    He’s unwatchable.

    I saw some of Chris Hayes earlier. He has a nice way about him. He’s able to correct the Trump people in a friendly way that seems to disarm them, knock them off balance.

  59. 59.

    FlipYrWhig

    @hovercraft: My wife said she was clearance shopping — which she doesn’t even like to do; I quite enjoy it myself — and saw a dress she thought might be worth checking out. Then she saw the label: “Ivanka Trump.” Ew! Get thee behind me! I wonder how dusty it’ll get over the next few months of decent human beings having the same reaction.

  61. 61.

    Kay

    @hovercraft:

    They’re all bad business people then. How in the hell did they think it would go if he lost? He’s been insulting huge groups of people for a year. Tens of millions of people. It’s not like they sell something obscure or abstract or unique. They sell dresses and shoes and water and hotel rooms. There are lots of those. They had this little tiny distinction based on their name and they blew it. There are hundreds of brands of mid-priced women’s shoes. Thousands of dresses just like hers. Too many to count.

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