Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

You cannot shame the shameless.

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

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

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  3. 3.

    Betty Cracker

    LMAO at the sneeze picture! One of my dogs has allergies of some sort, and she never sneezes just once — three times minimum.

  4. 4.

    Big R

    @Big R: Er, not to say that Lucky’s a corgi, because I can’t tell unless they’re taking a picture with the Queen. But he looks like he could be.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    I like the little hand resting on the dogs tummy. Hey dad, I’m just here, hangin’ out with my buddy.

  9. 9.

    Jack the Second

    So assuming we get a Blue Senate for Christmas and have a 9-member Supreme Court next year, how long will it be before someone starts denying Supreme Court decisions on the basis that they were decided by an illegitimate Court full of illegitimate Justices appointed by an illegitimate President and confirmed by an illegitimate Senate, products of a stolen election?

    I know people whine about Supreme Court rulings all the time, but I think we could see a whole new level of sedition next year.

  15. 15.

    batgirl

    The invisible Trump voter is coming out of the closet at my library. A middle-aged white man came in yesterday worried that he hadn’t received his voter reg card and that he wouldn’t be able to vote. Never voted before. We looked up his registration (he is registered) and located his polling place. Today I had phone call from a white male “who hasn’t vote in a very long time” asking where the nearest polling place is.

  16. 16.

    Villago Delenda Est

    As to photo number three: everyone has their Melania second/third/fourth thoughts captured on film moment.

  25. 25.

    dogwood

    @Iowa Old Lady:
    Pretty weak sauce for Trump. The Obamas seem to be the only people who intimidate him. The stuff he says on the stump about the president is pretty lame as well.

  29. 29.

    Anoniminous

    Third wave of attacks against Dyn now underway. Somebody is damn serious about finding out to be able to destruct the Web.

  30. 30.

    jl

    @jl: I think there is a pattern, Trump goes easier on politicians who will totally brush him off, call him a joke. The Obamas will do that, though in subtle dignified ways. And Sanders has done that in very blunt ways (including repeated statements of future fact that Trump will not be next president), which probably accounts for light treatment besides fact Trump is trying to cage Sanders votes, and with almost no success. Reid is willing to punch Trump in the face (with facts and arguments) while laughing “watch me punch this clown in the face’.

    One thing Trump cannot stand is being dismissed or ridiculed with little visible bother to the person dismissing or ridiculing him.

    Edit: Trump has of course gone very hard against Obama, but more indirectly. At least I think so. Has Trump ever directly insulted Barack Obama like he has HRC or Warren? Would he do a ‘what a nasty woman’ on him, as in ‘what a dumb blah person’? Maybe I am wrong, but I don’t think Trump has ever gone up against Barack Obama that way.

  32. 32.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Woodrowfan: He’s been thinking about getting a new puppy, thought it might be a bit much with the two he already has, but Cole assured him that three is acceptable (natch) anymore goes into “you are one of those people” territory.

  33. 33.

    catclub

    @dogwood:

    The stuff he says on the stump about the president is pretty lame as well.

    Founder of ISIS is only lame because it is insane. The intent is serious.

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @Anoniminous:

    Good thing we haven’t gone over to internet voting like some futurist idiots keep whining about. Somehow Silicon Valley can only see the cool stuff they want to create while being blind to the problems they’ve already created.

  37. 37.

    msdc

    I know this isn’t exactly an open thread, but I wanted to make a pitch for a House candidate who could use your support.

    A friend recently recommended that I take a look at Christina Hartman, a non-profit consultant and international election observer who’s running in Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional district in southeastern Pennsylvania. The 16th was represented by a Republican for 20 years, but the incumbent is retiring and this is now an open seat in a swing district. Obama narrowly won it in 2008, Clinton is currently leading Trump here, and Hartman is closing in fast on her Trump-supporting opponent. She just needs a little help to get across the finish line.

    This is exactly the type of district we need to win if we’re going to retake the House. Knocking on some doors could make a real difference here, so Philly area folks, maybe think about canvassing the burbs or taking a day trip out to Amish country if you can. (I actually canvassed this district in 2008 and loved it.) For those of us who don’t live there, I hope you’ll think about sending Christina Hartman a contribution or possibly even adding her to the BJ ActBlue page. Small donations can make a huge difference in these races. Thank you!

  39. 39.

    catclub

    @batgirl: I am still concerned that these people will show up to vote without having registered, and demand to vote, because they are white and were born here, so they have a right to vote. Guns mixed in would help, too.

    I hope that is not a big harmful deal on election day.

  40. 40.

    Hillary Rettig

    @jeffreyw: I laughed despite myself.

    I’m having a shitty day, all kinds of stuff going wrong. I’ve pretty much had it with MailChimp and their “here, please accept this cute, hipster monkey in lieu of actual tech support” shtick.

  41. 41.

    catclub

    @Mnemosyne: yep.

    you can have reliable voting on the internet, or you can have anonymous voting, but you cannot have both at the same time.

  42. 42.

    msdc

    @jl: I mean, other than claiming he isn’t American and his presidency is illegitimate and all.

    I think dogwood has it right – Trump doesn’t go hard after Obama because he’s scared shitless after the pantsing Obama gave him in 2011.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    Well hellooo, Kansas GOP. Nice gig you’ve got going there–job’s so easy you can let your freak flags fly.

    The No. 3 Republican in the Kansas House called Adolf Hitler’s words “profound” in a Thursday Facebook post that she said was meant to criticize Planned Parenthood.

    “Great quote from Hitler in the video,” Rep. Peggy Mast wrote in the post on her private page, which was accessed by the Wichita Eagle. “Please listen to it closely. His words are profound! Let’s start using discernment.”

    Though Mast’s initial post did not include a link to any video, the Eagle reported that she later shared a link to an article from Christian blog JulieRoys.com that included video of anti-abortion activist Gianna Jessen testifying against Planned Parenthood at a congressional hearing. Jessen compared the healthcare provider’s techniques for getting its message out to those of the Nazi leader, saying they both used propaganda to falsely sway people to their side.

    “The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan,” the Hitler quote reads.

  44. 44.

    jl

    @msdc: Of course. But I am looking for the type of gross personal insults and intimidation tactics Trump threw against his GOP primary opponents and at Warren and HRC. I would like an example of that against Barack Obama.

    Maybe he has done that, but I didn’t bother to notice.

  45. 45.

    batgirl

    @catclub: Neither person seemed very knowledgeable about the process. I had to stress to the person on the phone that he needed to go to his specific polling place. Given that he hasn’t voted in a “very long time” he may not be registered. I do think that there will be an increased turnout of non-college educated white men who haven’t voted before. It won’t be enough though.

    But, yah, I don’t think it will be pretty at the polls on election day for a variety of reasons. I told both men that they could early vote starting Monday. Neither was interested.

  46. 46.

    Miss Bianca

    @trollhattan: Well, great…guess she’s reading Volker Ullrich as well, since that quote is prominent in his new Hitler biography.

    Note to Peggy Mast: Yo, bitch – Hitler was also a master of PROJECTION – always accusing Jews and other “undesirables” of committing the atrocities the Nazis were committing. Something *your* side also seems to be masters of.

  47. 47.

    The Moar You Know

    So assuming we get a Blue Senate for Christmas and have a 9-member Supreme Court next year, how long will it be before someone starts denying Supreme Court decisions on the basis that they were decided by an illegitimate Court full of illegitimate Justices appointed by an illegitimate President and confirmed by an illegitimate Senate, products of a stolen election?

    @Jack the Second: Think that’s already a thing. If not, certainly one minute after Hillary’s inauguration.

  50. 50.

    jl

    @msdc: But, maybe we actually agree. The pantsing Obama gave Trump over the birther nonsense was done too nonchalantly, Very clear Obama didn’t give a shit. That is what Trump cannot stand. If Trump threw gross personal insult and intimidation BS against Barack Obama and he laughed it off, that would be unbearable for Trump. And Michelle Obama would surely do the same as Barack, which would be double dog unbearable, from a woman.

  51. 51.

    Cacti

    From an enemy publication, but an interesting read in National Review about the abuse heaped on David French and his family by the alt-right, for opposing Donald Trump:

    I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old daughter’s face in a gas chamber. It was the evening of September 17, 2015. I had just posted a short item to the Corner calling out notorious Trump ally Ann Coulter for aping the white-nationalist language and rhetoric of the so-called alt-right. Within minutes, the tweets came flooding in. My youngest daughter is African American, adopted from Ethiopia, and in alt-right circles that’s an unforgivable sin. It’s called “race-cucking” or “raising the enemy.”

    I saw images of my daughter’s face in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her. I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a “niglet” and a “dindu.” The alt-right unleashed on my wife, Nancy, claiming that she had slept with black men while I was deployed to Iraq, and that I loved to watch while she had sex with “black bucks.” People sent her pornographic images of black men having sex with white women, with someone photoshopped to look like me, watching.

  53. 53.

    The Golux

    @Jack the Second:

    …and have a 9-member Supreme Court next year…

    Aiming too low. After the election, we need to make the hashtags #scotusgoestoeleven and #packthecourt go viral.

  54. 54.

    jl

    @hueyplong: Trump could do an inspirational ad on ‘winning on the nuclear’ (When I look at my beautiful daughter, I am SO relieved that Donal Trump will give us heavier nuclear warheads, with gold Trump emblems -father gets choked up right here-, than the Russians. She is safe now) or ‘wall of taco trucks’ (I will be able to take my three wonderful kids for a cheap healthful snack that keeps us safe) issues.

  56. 56.

    trollhattan

    @hueyplong:
    In over a year of Trump running I have yet to see a personal testimonial from a typical American about some kindness he offered (with or without cameras rolling) or an anecdote about how he made their life better. Uday and Qusay aflutter about the “Great gun dad gave me for Christmas” don’t count.

    It seems like thousands have had positive interactions with Hillary. But there was that guy she killed, so….

  57. 57.

    jl

    @trollhattan: Something like ‘Trump paid me a dime on the dollar for the contracting job before he sicced his lawyers on me. Wife and I could afford a baby sitter for our anniversary dinner and a weekend vacay on that cash ” Then the dude breaks down sobbing.

    Trump campaign probably saving blockbusters like that for the last week of the campaign.

  58. 58.

    eclare

    @trollhattan: Exactly. One of his kids, maybe Ivanka, talked about how he would read in the paper about people having a hard time and meet with them and help them out. I would like ONE of these people to admit that Trump did that. Hell, his own family sounds like they don’t know him, whereas Chelsea’s introduction of Hillary was filled with anecdotes, not to mention all of the ordinary people at the convention who spoke about how she was kind to them/helped them.

  59. 59.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    this is what broke twitter, from Newt Gingrich’s idea of an intellectual

    Dinesh D’SouzaVerified account
    ‏@ DineshDSouza
    Obama’s dad dumped him at birth & his mom got rid of him at age 10–did they know something we didn’t when we signed up for this guy?

  60. 60.

    Peale

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yep. Another reason to vote for her. The adulterer (gee I didn’t know that having sex with a woman who I intended to marry while I was still married to my wife is frowned upon by the Christian Faith I wish to use to beat heathens over the head with) will be unhappy for at least another 4 years. Every day of his life for four years, we can make him unhappy.

  61. 61.

    scav

    OT Detail. Someone on The News Quiz just described Trump as “an amateur taxidermists’ first attempt at an orangutan” — with the contribution of “with a smaller monkey’s paws”. (Earlier he’d been a shaved St. Bernard’s dog put in a suit.)

  62. 62.

    hueyplong

    In terms of a level of governmental knowledge north of — or even level with — Sesame Street, every single person here, even the trolls, is more qualified to be president than is Trump.

    How on earth can people watching Trump, and realizing they know more than he does, vote for him?

    Can tribalism and shared hate be that overwhelming?

  63. 63.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Peale: we can put Curt Schilling– how many fastballs did he take to the noggin?– in that same category.

    Matthew Yglesias ‏ mattyglesias 7m7 minutes ago Washington, DC
    This is why, incidentally.

    Carly Carioli @ carlycarioli
    So @ gehrig38 just demanded jaketapper answer why Jews vote Democratic.

  65. 65.

    Timurid

    @Cacti:

    Fuck David French.

    When some Klansmen throw a molotov cocktail through a random stranger’s window, it’s a crime.

    When the Klansmen firebomb the house of the person who had sold them the gasoline for their arson spree because they were peeved it was only 87 octane instead of 93… that’s karma.

  66. 66.

    hovercraft

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    He can whine all he wants, but the nation puts his approval rating at 53 to 58 depending on the day, doesn’t feel like buyers remorse, in fact many of us would keep him if we could. So this felon should STFU !!!

  68. 68.

    Mnemosyne

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Christ, what an asshole. Now child abandonment victims are responsible for what their parents did to them.

    Why do I have a feeling there was a whole lot of if you weren’t such a bad kid, I wouldn’t have to beat you all the time talk growing up in the D’Souza household?

  69. 69.

    Peale

    @Mnemosyne: Well, his Mom probably still reminds him that she wanted him to be a doctor. Yeah, he went to Dartmouth, but that probably wasn’t an Ivy League school she heard of. And he’s still not a doctor.

  73. 73.

    Mary G

    @Cacti: That column was so striking. His wife also has a column today in Wapo – What it’s like to experience the 2016 election as both a conservative and a sex abuse survivor:

    When the Trump videotapes broke, I watched the news and Twitter feeds of prominent evangelicals to see justice be done. But what I saw was all-too-familiar and yet somehow still shocking. “This is how men talk,” one said. “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone,” another said another — who used to “focus on the family” and had never uttered that phrase to refer to any Democrat who ever walked the face of the earth.

    It’s hard to describe the effect 2016 has had on sexual abuse survivors. I believed the men in my party when they shrugged off the constant liberal accusations of being anti-woman.

    But Pope John Paul II’s words ring true: “Christ … assigns the dignity of every woman as a task to every man.” If that’s right, the men in my party, in my church, in my life have failed; they ask me to participate in overlooking the offense.

    Trump has inflicted some fatal wounds on the right. Some of these people aren’t going to forgive and forget.

  74. 74.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Cacti: Cripes. Finally some of them are getting it. That they’ve created a monster, and they have no control. I hope some of them learn from this.

  75. 75.

    Amir Khalid

    @Iowa Old Lady:
    That’s going to hurt him a lot more than it hurts her. Did no one tell him, Michelle Obama is one of the most popular people in America?

  76. 76.

    hovercraft

    @hueyplong:
    I would vote for @srv over Trump, it shows some wit and intelligence on occasion, but I draw the line at the @shomi thing or whatever it’s calling itself today.
    Tribalism overrides common sense, that’s how people can stand up and say family values are the most important thing to them today, and that Bill’s cheating is why they hate him, and then turn around and support Rudy and Trump, who flagrantly cheated on their multiple wives.

  77. 77.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    looks like Jan Brewer is Jan Brewering

    ‏@ chrislhayes
    Jan Brewer says she’s not worried Latino voters in AZ will boost Clinton: “Nah…They don’t get out and vote.’’

    ETA: more Hayes
    In sport, you’d call that “bulletin board material”

  79. 79.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @hovercraft: Hell, Ghouliani’s second wife (Donna Hanover) found out he was separating from her from a press conference. Yeah, those are “family values” that even the Borgias would find unseemly.

  83. 83.

    SiubhanDuinne, etc. (Blame Omnes)

    @trollhattan:

    Wow. What a great story, beautifully told. I am so proud to support Hillary. This is just one of many reasons.

    Thank you so much for sharing that video.

  86. 86.

    Mnemosyne

    @Peale:

    Yep, my Indian-American high school friend’s parents were highly disappointed that she’s merely a PhD, not an MD.

    From a different ethnic group, one of the funnier jokes they pulled off on “Big Bang Theory” was that Howard thinks his smothering Jewish mother is upset that he’s getting married until she bellows from the other room, “Is that my future daughter-in-law, the doctor?“

  89. 89.

    hovercraft

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    He’s a nasty piece of work and always has been. Just as he reacted like the ass he is last night, this campaign has exposed to the media what we in the Tri-state area have always know, he is scum. Every time I hear them lament about how he has changed, I want to jump through the screen and slap them.

  90. 90.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Cacti: I would feel sorry for French if he had a record of speaking up against Rightwingers when they were harassing Progressives and Liberals instead of only speaking up when the ire and hatred was targeted against him and his family.

  91. 91.

    Mary G

    Humanity for Hillary, group that did the flash #pantsuitpower dance, has another video out. They play a speech for a bunch of millennials who all love it. Then they reveal that it’s Hillary at her college commencement. Another great ad.

  92. 92.

    Frank Wilhoit

    @Jack the Second: As long as we are making predictions, while the kind of nullification that you describe will be in the mix somewhere, I think the big trend over the next four years will be an accelerated differentiation between “Red state” and “Blue state” models of governance. In the “Red” states, we will see more punitive legislation and budgets aimed at hollowing out the cities, crippling the institutions of higher learning, and reducing the independence of the state-level judiciary. There may also be a new crop of Trump-ite, candidly authoritarian gubernatorial candidates.

  94. 94.

    hovercraft

    @Mary G:
    It’s funny I was just listening to Chuckles and his friends say that he was more on message and if only he can continue what he did today, he can help stabilize himself and may help save the senate. He showed clips of Bob Dole from ’96 and implied that Trump was behaving like him, based on his travel schedule this month.
    I call bullshit.
    Now John Heillmann is bringing us back to reality, says Trump took a swipe at Michelle which is a big no no, says GOP senators are cutting and running. Says if Trump doesn’t concede he will go down ih history even worse than he is now, next to Joseph McCarthy. Donnie Deutch (sic), calls him vile, and says he should just go away.

  96. 96.

    Kay

    Corgis are cute. I don’t love dogs the way you all do, but I will care for them if they’re dropped off :)

    My son and his wife have a Corgi. He stays here when they travel for vacations or work. The dog followed me around for the whole first day the first time he visited and he was good company. It’s comical how bossy and officious they are- so short yet so full of themselves.

  97. 97.

    hovercraft

    @trollhattan:
    I love that video, I posted it downstairs, she has done some great real people with real stories about what she’s been doing for the last 30 years ads.

  98. 98.

    Mnemosyne

    @Patricia Kayden:

    I feel sorry for them the way I would feel sorry for a drunk driver who slammed into a tree and put themselves in the hospital: it’s a hard way to learn a lesson, but one hopes that the lesson will be learned and they won’t go back into denial once they feel better.

  99. 99.

    debbie

    I hope those few people here with a fondness for the musical Hamilton know that the PBS special, “Hamilton’s America” is on tonight (at least in my area) from 9:00 to 10:30pm.

  100. 100.

    Peale

    @hovercraft: I think by “stabilize” they mean “just disappear.” If he makes no public appearances between now the November 7, people will start to forget that he is running and that can only help.

  102. 102.

    SiubhanDuinne, etc. (Blame Omnes)

    @debbie:

    those few people here with a fondness for the musical Hamilton

    Quite possibly the drollest thing I’ve seen on the Intertoobz all week.

  104. 104.

    debit

    Re: Walter. He’s good except for a case of kennel cough. I have no idea where he picked it up, and it seems slight right now, but given his age and history I took him to the vet just in case. He’s on cough suppressant and Doxycycline, with orders to keep him quiet and his food soupy. You better believe I’m following orders; when I adopted Ellie she had kennel cough that turned into pneumonia and we almost lost her.

  105. 105.

    Gravenstone

    @eclare: I would like ONE of these people to admit that Trump did that.

    Probably had to sign legally binding NDAs, don’tchano?

  107. 107.

    Mary G

    @debbie: Ooh, thanks. I had forgotten all about that. Now I have it cued up in a tab to stream, hopefully at 6 p.m. our time.

  108. 108.

    Mnemosyne

    @SiubhanDuinne, etc. (Blame Omnes):

    There was an amusing tweet sent to LMM from someone who went to the show and said that when Burr got to his climactic line of “I’m the damn fool who shot him!” in the opening number, the audience member next to her gasped, like it was a huge surprise to her.

    I get to go to an open house at the Pantages Theatre tomorrow to check out what our seats will be for the next season (which includes the LA run of Hamilton next fall). I’m hoping I chose well, but you can never tell from those online maps.

  109. 109.

    Mnemosyne

    @debit:

    Poor guy. Sounds like he needs to lay next to a nice roaring fire and dream of all the squirrels he wants to catch.

  111. 111.

    Monala

    @eclare: I started scanning past the political posts of the RWNJs in my FB feed, but sometimes I catch the headlines. It seems that there are some who are trying to tell themselves that Trump is really a good guy. Headlines read that he housed Jennifer Hudson free of charge in one of his hotels in the days after her family was murdered, and he sent one of his own private planes to rescue stranded Marines from somewhere.

    Since I’m trying to manage my blood pressure, I’ve stopped reading such posts. I have not idea if any of that is true.

  113. 113.

    Aleta

    @debit: Btw, thanks so much for your and others’ support the other day on the LA cat adoption. Eventually I wrote via AL to see what had been decided, and heard back that homes have been found for all.

  115. 115.

    SiubhanDuinne, etc. (Blame Omnes)

    @Big R:

    Er, not to say that Lucky’s a corgi, because I can’t tell unless they’re taking a picture with the Queen. But he looks like he could be.

    Earlier this year, I think around the time of her 90th birthday, the Queen announced that she would no longer be acquiring any new dogs. She is old enough that she didn’t want her dogs to outlive her, or leave them to others to cope with. A week or two ago, one of her two elderly corgis died, so she is now down to one corgi and two dorgis (dachshund-corgi mix). She’s had dogs non-stop since she was a little girl. Makes me sad to think that (a) she may end up dogless, or (b) outliving all her dogs might hasten her own demise.

  117. 117.

    Cacti

    @Patricia Kayden:

    I would feel sorry for French if he had a record of speaking up against Rightwingers when they were harassing Progressives and Liberals instead of only speaking up when the ire and hatred was targeted against him and his family.

    Understood. I just hope this becomes a teachable moment for French and those like him. When you fan the flames of resentment and hatred, it may be your house that gets burned up next.

    I’d never heard the terms “race cucking” or “raising the enemy”. “Deplorable” is about the nicest thing you could call the alt-right.

  118. 118.

    SiubhanDuinne, etc. (Blame Omnes)

    @Mnemosyne:

    That’s a really nice idea. Don’t know about William/Catherine/Harry (or any of the other grandchildren), but I know Princess Anne raises dorgis, so maybe she could provide a long-term emergency loaner dog.

    (Lightly edited.)

  119. 119.

    Gvg

    @Cacti: this summer here on Ballon Juice we laughed at a story of a conservative deployed to Iraq who forbade his wife to go online or talk with any men. Turns out it was this guy and it was because both he and his wife are reporters who are anti Trump. They have been getting death threats and worse…..well. Reading that story, now I am not sure we should be so hard on the media for being slow to report strongly on Trump. Lots or reporters are dealing with really serious floods of hate.
    We need stronger laws against threats over the Internet and law enforcement resources to catch effectively. I don’t have clear ideas yet how to do that without tyranny, but we have to figure it out.

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