Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The words do not have to be perfect.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

He really is that stupid.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

The willow is too close to the house.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

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Late Night Farce Open Thread: Another Brilliant Trump Ploy

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At this point, I figure the kids are giving Deadbeat Donnie free reign, so that after the November 8th fiasco they can use his actions to sue for a medical conservatorship.

(Next fun chapter of this Dickensian saga involves Ivanka & Jared tussling expensively with Don Jr. & Eric over who gets the keys and the twitter passwords… with Melania, standing in for Barron, in a supporting role. Key question: Which party gets custody of Mark Halperin?)


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  2. 2.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    Who the hell wants Mark Halperin? He eats his own weight in seaworms and rabbit pellets every day. Even rich people get sick of paying out that kind of money.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    About the only thing not to expect is Trump coming onstage in blackface.

    And it’s decidedly shaky to dismiss that possibility.

  5. 5.

    Jerzy Russian

    Didn’t Bill Clinton have a half brother? Is that gentleman the same as President Obama’s half brother? If so, that could explain a lot.

  6. 6.

    Calouste

    I wonder if Clinton will have one of Trump’s out of wedlock children as a guest. His talk about VDs suggested he wasn’t a consistent condom user.

  10. 10.

    Calouste

    @Jerzy Russian: Just checking Wikipedia, Bill Clinton had a half-brother and a half-sister via his father (that he never knew of), and a half-brother via his mother. Reading about Bill’s dad, the philandering seems to be hereditary.

  12. 12.

    Brachiator

    OT:The Schiaparelli lander — part of the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission — is scheduled to touch down on the Martian surface this morning at 10:48 a.m. EDT

    A bit of a respite from debate fever.

    The buzz that Trump invited Obama’s half brother reinforces my instinct to skip this last piece of farce.

  13. 13.

    hitchhiker

    OT … been listening to Mike Murphy’s Radiofree GOP podcast for a while now. He’s a fairly good talker & it can be amusing to listen to a Republican wring his hands over the current debacle. Mike’s been an outspoken Donald-hater for a long time and loves to say so.

    What I wanted to say, though, is that in all the dozens of shows he’s done since last summer, he’s always had a guest. A white guest. A white male guest. Every single time. And I realized that part of what makes his show feel dull & smug is that I’ve gotten used to other voices in my media, so that’s good, right?

    He’s always sharing old campaign trail stories with these guests, and they’re always talking about even more white guys who were their old friends and clients. It’s like their world is made of white guys, who are the only ones doing anything that matters. I wonder if they could imagine being on the other side of that, listening week after week to pairs of women talk about all the other women they put into the white house or the governor’s mansion, with help from even more women whom they remember fondly.

    I think that Hillary Clinton’s presidency is going to throw a whole lot of stuff into relief that’s been invisible forever.

  15. 15.

    Steeplejack

    @Anne Laurie:

    I figure the kids are giving Deadbeat Donnie free reign rein.

    C’mon, man, you’re a front-pager.

  19. 19.

    hellslittlestangel

    Unless Obama’s half-brother is rumored to have had an affair with Bill Clinton, I fail to see the point of this gambit.

  20. 20.

    Sloane Ranger

    I think inviting the half brother is someone’s bright idea at African American outreach. Look, Obama’s brother’s with me. You should be too. Desperate!

    As for Pat Smith, what are the odds she screams “You lie!” or otherwise disrupts proceedings at some point during the debate? I’m sorry for her loss but her subsequent actions have lost her a lot of sympathy as far as I’m concerned.

  21. 21.

    Sloane Ranger

    I think inviting the half brother is someone’s bright idea at African American outreach. Look, Obama’s brother’s with me. You should be too. Desperate!

    As for Pat Smith, what are the odds she screams “You lie!” or otherwise disrupts proceedings at some point during the debate? I’m sorry for her loss but her subsequent actions have lost her a lot of sympathy as far as I’m concerned.

  23. 23.

    Vhh

    It is obvious now that Hillary should issue an open invite to any woman who was groped by the Donald and have them seated in the front row. Plus anyone who eas ripped off by Trump U. Plus any contractor who was stiffed. I prrdict it will take Donnie less than an hour to backtrack on his provocative invites.

  25. 25.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @hellslittlestangel:

    Unless Obama’s half-brother is rumored to have had an affair with Bill Clinton, I fail to see the point of this gambit.

    Obama’s brother is still pissed off over Ghaddafi’s death.

    Kind of like an inverted Benghazi.

    Like Trump, he never met a murderous dictator he didn’t like.

  27. 27.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    Recycling a comment from an earlier thread:
    Once again, Trump smuggles furriners into the country rather than look for an American to do the work,* but this time it’s a MUSLIN FURRINER.

    * Much like his marriages.

  29. 29.

    kd bart

    Next up, Frank Pentangeli’s brother from Sicily. Won’t work. Hillary’s tougher than Frankie Five Angels.

  30. 30.

    bjacques

    @kd bart: Ha! Late night TV was showing Godfather II last night, so I saw that bit.

    @EBT: I remember that about Something Awful. Damn.

  31. 31.

    Joyce H

    @Sloane Ranger:

    think inviting the half brother is someone’s bright idea at African American outreach. Look, Obama’s brother’s with me. You should be too. Desperate!

    I think it’s supposed to be one of his ‘gotchas’ because Obama is estranged from his half-brother. But it will blow up in his face because this clown-car of deplorables never ever vets anyone. Turns out that Malik Obama is a Hamas supporter and was photographed a few years back wearing a Hamas scarf with the slogan “Jerusalem is ours!” and “We are coming!” The wingnut media tried to use that photo against Obama a few years back. Now the fellow is firmly in Trump’s camp.

    Does Trump have any Jewish supporters left? If so, I doubt that he will by this time tomorrow.

  32. 32.

    Just One More Canuck

    Hillary wouldn’t invite him, but it would be hilarious to see Judge Curiel there

  33. 33.

    Zinsky

    Everyone has a wackadoodle relative in their background that they ain’t proud of – Malik must be Obama’s albatross. This is also kind of a sneaky odd way of keeping the birther thing alive because he is a negro, he is from Kenya and, you know, he is Barack Obama’s half-brother. I’m sure many of Trump’s low-information, poorly educated voters will make that connection. In any case, this is just such a low-life move that you just wonder how low this narcissistic bastard can go?

  34. 34.

    Dmbeaster

    The half brother schtick is pure Breitbart inspired nonsense, with no resonance other than with those people. Trump is now more insulated from reality than the bubble boy.

  35. 35.

    Sloane Ranger

    EBT
    Joyce H

    I did not know these things. Thanks for the info.

    Joyce H – What are the chances of the mainstream media talking about the brother’s Hamas love?

  36. 36.

    Jeffro

    @hellslittlestangel:

    Unless Obama’s half-brother is rumored to have had an affair with Bill Clinton, I fail to see the point of this gambit.

    don’t put it past Alex Jones at this point…

    Seriously, I haven’t been on Twitter yet, is there a #TrumpDebateStunts hashtag yet?

  38. 38.

    Another Scott

    In the last debate, the C-Span cameras cut to Trump’s kids (and The Women a couple of times, I think). Audience reaction shots should be verboten, but I’m not optimistic.

    Supposedly Hillary is going to play it safe tonight. I don’t think she should. Yeah, she should continue to show that she’s sane and likable and not a monster, but she should continue to show that Donnie is insane and a danger to all of humanity (as are all of his enablers). If that means standing back and shimmying, that’s fine, but if she needs to twist the knife, she should do that too.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  39. 39.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Viva BrisVegas:

    Obama’s brother is still pissed off over Ghaddafi’s death.

    Kind of like an inverted Benghazi.

    Like Trump, he never met a murderous dictator he didn’t like. .

    So Trump’s going to argue that Hillary is awful because she had a dictator who was a Russian tool and who attacked the US repeatedly toppled. All she has to do is say “view it as payback for Lockerbie, Donald”

  40. 40.

    Exit 135

    @Another Scott: Strange trump dynamic, again. trump had his adult kids front and center. Alone without their wives and Jared Kushner, who is a world class spoiled prick & new president of trump TV, LLC.

    What I want to know is when the adult kids will mention their mom, Ivana. It’s always about daddy, daddy. Strange. trump must have a clause in their inheritance & trust funds. Mention mom and you are on the street.

  42. 42.

    daves09

    I’d heard that Trump’s debate prep. consisted of exhuming Vince Foster and bringing him to the debate-but maybe I heard wrong.

  43. 43.

    EBT

    @Sloane Ranger: his posts on the nature and purpose of the Marines that guard embassies that he made less than a month before his death were very enlightening as well.

  44. 44.

    tkrr

    When Frank Luntz, the king of GOP messaging and Saul Alinsky’s evil offspring, burns you like that, you are truly screwed.

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