Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

We still have time to mess this up!

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

No Justins, No Peace

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

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

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  3. 3.

    Taylor

    Watching the Al Smith speeches, it looked like Trump got up and shook Hilz’ hand after her speech (off camera). It really struck me then what a child he is. He really doesn’t understand what damage he has done with his little ego trip. Hilz being the pro that she is will laugh and tell a self-deprecating joke and shake his hand, but he’s already roadkill as far as she’s concerned.

    He reminisced fondly about attending the Al Smith dinner with his father when he was young. But he won’t be invited back.

  4. 4.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @Taylor:

    He has no idea how damaged his brand is, his reputation is, his name is. He’s feces, and everyone wants his stink to go away.

  7. 7.

    Aleta

    “He mocks people with disabilities because he’s unable to see their strength.” — Michelle Obama

    (Likewise with all women.)

    eta And men too)

  11. 11.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Taylor: It never happened. His dad was arrested in an anti-Catholic Klan rally when Smith was running for President
    http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2016/10/guess-whos-coming-to-the-al-smith-dinner-106394

    While we can only speculate about what Trump would have said about Smith, we have a pretty good idea of what his father thought of him. The delightful Fred Trump was arrested during a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens in 1927 when he and some hooded gentlemen of his acquaintance wished to make it known that they considered power and privilege to be reserved for Protestants only. It was bad enough that New York had elected a Catholic governor and that Board of Aldermen was filled with Catholics and Jews. But the newspapers were saying that Smith might be nominated for president the following year. And this was too much for the bigots.

    As they did whatever it is that Klansmen do when they gather in solidarity, they also circulated fliers lamenting that “Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language.” The flier was recitation of grievances sounding very much like the sort of thing you will hear on cable programs hosted, sadly, by men named O’Reilly and Hannity, or lines delivered at a Trump rally as a new generation of embattled true Americans fights off another influx of foreigners.

    Smith had an answer for this kind of aggression: Himself. He said his rosaries and marched in the St. Patrick’s Day parade and refused to soften his hard city edges. But he was as much a patriot as his native-born critics. More so, in fact, because he told scowling men and women that their loathing of people like him was a violation of the nation’s ideals. At a hostile venue in Oklahoma in 1928, in a speech that was broadcast around the country on radio, Smith declared that such hatred was un-American.

  13. 13.

    redshirt

    @efgoldman: I don’t want to, but at this point I have to conclude that most everyone on the Right Wing is utterly deluded and no longer has any sense of facts or truth or reality. They live in their bubble and have no idea about anything outside that bubble.

  16. 16.

    hovercraft

    @efgoldman:
    They do, Nicole Wallace said last night during the post game, that she’d spoken to members of the family this week, and they’d expressed concern that if he didn’t win, the damage done by this campaign to their brand, especially overseas. Since so much of their business is selling their name. Given the stories swirling around about falling revenue at their properties, and the new DC hotel not meeting occupancy goals, they are having a reckoning.

  20. 20.

    redshirt

    @KS in MA: One of the worst moves the Sox have ever made. It was insulting too. Embarrass your ace pitcher who publicly says he’ll take a hometown discount. Then the Sox low ball him severely. Forcing awkwardness and confusion and anger. Not well done. I wish Lester well with the Cubs.

  21. 21.

    piratedan

    according to the L.O’D show, the latest AZ Republic poll shows Clinton up 5 in AZ…. wowsers

  22. 22.

    hovercraft

    @efgoldman:
    They have earned every bit of the damage have incurred, especially Ivanka, who has been the beard for the misogyny and sexism of the campaign. She could have pulled a Melania, and voiced her support and then stayed away, she had the perfect excuse to hide from the spectacle that is her fathers campaign, she was pregnant and had two young kids at home, Donald would have bought that.

  25. 25.

    Peale

    Meanwhile, the Philippines seems to have gone from closest ally in the region to China’s new BFF in record time.

  26. 26.

    hovercraft

    @piratedan:
    Two recent polls also show Sheriff Joe Arpaio is down 10 in one poll and 15 in another, so far the only one not hurting yet is Grump McCain.

    EDIT: Missed it by that much, thanks a lot Adam

  27. 27.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @redshirt:

    Their brains broke when Obama was re-elected. True story. Remember Karl Rove needing to be guided by Megyn Kelly to the Fox election night data room to hear the truth? That’s when their cognitive dissonance cleaved their world into upside down inside out opposite world they retreated into, never to return.

  28. 28.

    Anoniminous

    @piratedan:

    Clinton tops Trump in Arizona, 39 percent to 34 percent. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson garners 6 percent support, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein registers at 1 percent. Twenty-one percent, however, are undecided.

    21% Undecided this close to election day in rock solid GOP Ari-effing-zona is one more bizarre data point in the Most Bizarre Election in US history.

  31. 31.

    hovercraft

    @Peale:
    Our closest allies were probably thinking that would happen with us, but now are starting to breath again. But no one will relax until the election is called at 9.30pm on November 8th.

  33. 33.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    A colleague today was saying that he thought Trump was getting richer by running for President, I’ve been surprised how a lot of people haven’t seen stories like this one, and this one.

    For the click phobic, the first article says that his new hotel in DC can’t book rooms and the second says that his children are naming new ventures “Scion” hotels instead of Trump because the Trump name is toxic.

    Mark Cuban ✔ @mcuban
    Every single @realDonaldTrump hotel and golf course is toast. Done. Over. Bernie Madoff now has a better brand.

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    @piratedan

    Will posit again that having marijuana legalization on the ballot will drive up turnout, and that cannot but help HRC.

    @Anoniminous

    Did not look at the full data, but if McMullin was not included in the question (whether he’s actually on the ballot there or not), a goodly part of that 21% number might reflect Mormons who saw undecided as the only response applicable to them.

  35. 35.

    Eric U.

    someone did an analysis of “bigly,” and Trump’s actually saying “big league.” Not that it really matters. It reminds me of Bush saying “gooder service.” He was actually saying “good or service.” That kinda makes me sad, because Bush was actually talking about a policy question, which Trump just can’t manage.

  36. 36.

    Taylor

    @Adam L Silverman: Al Smith ran in 1928. Trump would have been born 20 years later, around the time that Al Smith died. Another 20 years for him to attend the dinner in Al Smith’s memory with his real estate millionaire father. A lot can be forgotten in 30-40 years.

  37. 37.

    Anoniminous

    @NotMax:

    That caused me to go look.

    McMullin is on the ballot in Arizona. According to this his name wasn’t in the poll … which is … well … bad polling practice.

  38. 38.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Eric U.: I’ve heard it as big league the whole time. It’s a fairly common thing for a guy like that to say, it didn’t make sense that he’d say “bigly”. Big time, big league, the best.

  42. 42.

    Peale

    @Anoniminous: I don’t know. He is an official write in candidate but isn’t on the ballot. There are 20 total candidates. I think one might need to pull all of them.

  44. 44.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Eric U.: I wasn’t sure if people were just taunting him by talking about “bigly” to begin with, seemed weird that anyone would think he was actually saying that. Taunting was fine with me, to be clear.

    I must have missed gooder service and get nothing Googling it. Did Palin not actually say also too?

  46. 46.

    The Pale Scot

    @the Conster, la Citoyenne: Karl knew the fix was in, except his fixers got fixed.

    Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?

    Rove was supremely confident that the numbers coming in from Ohio throughout the night that favored President Obama weren’t indicative of who would win Ohio when all the votes were ultimately tabulated by the state’s computers. With a quarter of the vote still out there, Rove was anticipating a shift to the Right just after 11 pm, which, coincidentally, is exactly what happened in 2004.

  49. 49.

    Ian

    @Peale:
    I would not be surprised if the military launched a coup soon. I am surprised that some family member of an extrajudicial killing hasn’t launched an attempt on Duterte.

  52. 52.

    Anoniminous

    @Peale:

    Checked the official site (which is what I should have done in the first place) and – bust my britches – McMullin isn’t on the ballot. Good catch! Thanks

  57. 57.

    piratedan

    and Hugh Hewitt is on talking about how desperate the Dems appear to be. When this election is over, can we please retire these fucking GOP talking heads or perhaps get them enrolled to seek some fucking counseling.

  64. 64.

    Amir Khalid

    @Peale:
    We all used to think Joseph “Erap” Estrada was a loose cannon. Duterte’s acting like a Goddamn Sonny Corleone.

  65. 65.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @piratedan:

    It’s amazing how Hugh Hewitt has a job on TV. He’s exhibit A of how mediocre white males benefit from white supremacy, because there’s no other reason he exists.

  67. 67.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Ian: The military is, I’m sure, unhappy. The Filipino military’s personnel come here for training and education. We partner with them on exercises. We’ve been rotating Marines, Conventional Army, and Army Special Forces into the Philippines for 117 years to assist with the Moro-Filipino dispute. And by assist I mean sometimes fight and sometimes advise and sometimes mediate.

    Given Duterte’s ideology and rhetoric, as well as its interesting for a mayor to be able to finance a campaign to jump from mayor to president, my guess is if you could track back Duterte’s funding you’d find it comes from the same place as the ultra-Nationalist, neo-Fascist parties in Europe: Putin.

  74. 74.

    Punchy

    @Bill E Pilgrim: He is going to be much richer. He’s going to put his entire campaign war chest straight into his bank account (or charity) and dare the Clinton Federalies to charge him so he can claim political persecution.

  75. 75.

    Adam L Silverman

    @hovercraft: The Mercer’s made $5 million off of Trump’s campaign in the past month or so. They’ve donated $2 million and billed and been paid $5 million for work done by their data analytics company.
    https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/789280565589454849
    Follow

    Rebecca BallhausVerified account
    ‏@rebeccaballhaus Rebecca Ballhaus Retweeted Teddy Schleifer

    Meanwhile, the Mercers’ company has been paid way more than that by the Trump campaign — $5 million in September alone.Rebecca Ballhaus added,

    https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/789245157136699392

    Follow

    Rebecca BallhausVerified account
    ‏@rebeccaballhaus
    Also huge jump in spending from Trump camp on Cambridge Analytica, firm partly owned by top Trump donor. $5M in Sept, up from $250K in Aug.

  78. 78.

    Adam L Silverman

    @redshirt: Putin declared we were in a Cold War about a year or so ago. Almost no one here, as in the US, seems to have noticed.

  79. 79.

    Peale

    @Adam L Silverman: he doesn’t really need funding. He was a national figure before. He’s also more closely tied into the Marcos side of the the oligarchy tree than he lets on. The fact that he pretended to run against the do nothing patronage system was a lie. He’s basically purging the friends and family of those aligned to the Aquino side of the oligarchy and replacing them with his own side, using “narcotics” as an excuse to to build up the forces that he’ll eventually turn on the political opposition. He’ll get away with it as long as he continues to target the poor.

    I’m not certain what the response should be. The country does need investment. he does get things built, which has given him a certain level of “honesty” points in a country where a lot of the money to build things (especially things to help the poor) kind of disappears rather quickly and no one knows where it went and why nothing got built.

  82. 82.

    dww44

    @piratedan: At the very least, retire them from MSNBC so I can watch it again. But, no, we liberals aren’t allowed to have our own cable outlet. I’ve long thought that the country would be in a better place if liberals dominated the broadcast and cable news outlets.

  83. 83.

    Another Scott

    @Peale: Duterte’s about-face for the Philippines does seem to be startlingly fast and unexpected. Last year there was talk about the US Navy making big investments in Subic Bay again China must be pleased, and Putin as well, but I have to think that there is a huge domestic component to this that we in the US haven’t heard about yet.

    Does he have the power to do this shift toward China on his own, or does the Parliament have a say?

    It seems to be another illustration that things can change very quickly in international affairs and we need a competent executive and State Department (and a federal government with an actual sensible budget which funds things…) going forward.

    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  85. 85.

    Peale

    @Another Scott: yep. I really don’t know what to expect next. He’s off to Japan next. We’ll see how committed he is to insulting countries that have invaded his country in the past. i don’t think he’s playing a game where he’s decided that he’ll make out better if he plays one power off the other. There’s nothing about him that says “shrewd”.

  88. 88.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Mary G: Joe son-of-Jack Buck screams out nepotism in sports announcing the way Chris son-of-Mike Wallace screams out nepotism in boardcast urinalism, or Bill son-of-Irving Kristol in brainless RWNJ punditry, or Franklin son-of-Billy Graham in Talibangelical fundanaziism, or…

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