Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

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

Let’s finish the job.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

The willow is too close to the house.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Battle won, war still ongoing.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

… among the most cringeworthy communications in the history of the alphabet!

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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  1. 1.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    Stupid lurkers coming in here and taking books that rightfully belong to valued commenters. This wouldn’t happen under Trump! We need to build a wall.

    ETA: Crooked Hillary!

  4. 4.

    Jeffro

    Since this is an open thread…just thought I’d share a quick laff: my dad’s still crowing about Huma this and Brazile that…”100% certain that there will be a criminal investigation (of HRC) either before or after the election…” yadda yadda yadda.

    So I asked him, “Let’s assume y’all get your scalp…and Kaine takes office. What are you going to do with yourselves for 8 years while a squeaky-clean, more-liberal-than-hills guy builds on Obama’s achievements and expands the Obama coalition? Ask to see his birth certificate??”

    No response.

  5. 5.

    Elizabelle

    @Jeffro: My sympathies with having to deal with your parents on the political front.

    Great comment. Let us know when he comes up with a rejoinder.

  6. 6.

    Mary G

    @Jeffro: Yeah, but this causes a problem with the 25th Amendment. When the VP post is open,the president nominates a replacement who has to be approved by a majority of both houses of Congress. If Republicans control either house, they’ll vote no, even if Lincoln returned in a time machine. Then if Kaine should meet with an accident, meet the new boss, President Paul Ryan. Even typing that phrase gives me the heeby-jeebies.

  9. 9.

    PsiFighter37

    Polls have Blunt with a slight lead and Bayh tied in IN.

    GOTV…we have to take the Senate. Then fuck the filibuster and that stupid blue-slip tradition.

  11. 11.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @TaMara (HFG): can I sit at your table? Even though I’m a big fan of spooky/supernatural stuff, think it’s great that young kids have a good time, but…. meh

  12. 12.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    Deciding to a break from politics earlier today, I redid my phone.

    Twitter
    Facebook

    The phone is a Google Nexus 5 running CyanogenMod 13, the latest Nova Launcher beta, and the Lone Elite theme.

    And yeah, I’m still a gun enthusiast despite not owning any right now and voting for Hillary. :)

  13. 13.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I love kids, I love costumes, but I stress about having enough candy, how to wrangle the dogs (if it was just Bixby, I think we would be ok, but Bailey is our wildcard this year)…and all the hype around it, I feel like the Grinch for not being all excited or decorating with cobwebs and ghouls.

  16. 16.

    ProudGradofCatLadyAcademy

    Thank you for all the tips and comments on the last open thread! I will look for the Da Bird. I was hoping for something that kept her occupied while I was in office/not at home/not available to play. It breaks me the way she comes in on my Work at home days(soon to be permanent) and whines at me to play. She has a vet visit scheduled.
    I scoop her litterbox twice a day, was told by cat owning colleagues/friends that playing with for 40 minutes a day was really excessive and a bad habit because I “trained” her not to play by herself. Same friends said scooping the litterbox twice a day was also a tad bit much. But, I like it clean and not smelly and it takes two minutes. I change it out with a bleach wipe out twice a month. Is that too much also?

    Because you all have been so helpful, here’s a picture for you all! I don’t know how to embed so here’s a link:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_kJ_KEBJI_zdHEzeGRzeTJldHp3dU9yTWpsT3lMeDFFRzM4/view?usp=sharing

    The running joke is that I am a spinster cat lady, so she is sitting on what I call my antique shabby Lady Haversham chair in front of my antique grandfather clock with my spinster readers and knitting resting in my tea cup on top of the totally spinsterish tea cart. As my colleague said, “you really are a spinster cat lady aren’t you? ”

    I am, I really am!

  17. 17.

    FlipYrWhig

    @TaMara (HFG): I hate Halloween too. Or, more to the point, I tolerate kid Halloween, though I don’t remember liking it when I _was_ a kid, and find adult Halloween to be about the stupidest nonsense possible.

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    @TaMara (HFG):

    I don’t hate Halloween, but over the years I’ve gotten out of the habit. Don’t have kids and have rarely lived in neighborhoods with lots of kids. I was just sitting and reading on my tablet and thought about if/when I should sequester myself for a bit—leave the front lights off and retire to the back bedroom for a while. This is my fifth Halloween in this apartment, and I think I’ve only had one or two knocks in all that time.

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    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @TaMara (HFG): Mr. Q is en route to a trade show, and I’m hiding because I can’t wrangle Layla Q and hand out candy at the same time. Plus we’re in a new temporary neighborhood and she’s pouting about his departure. And I actually like Halloween usually.

  24. 24.

    Phylllis

    Got an email today that my application for tickets for the 2017 ‘Drive, Chip & Putt’ contest for kids the Sunday prior to the start of The Masters. Snapped them up, as it may be our only chance to get on the course. Plus the kids have been a lot of fun to watch the last couple of years.

  31. 31.

    D58826

    @Mary G: I made the same point in a thread yesterday. Response from some was I was having a pipe dream. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks this could happen. Now it is more likely that I will be able to use my ticket on RMS Titanic’s return trip to Liverpool but stranger things have happened and the GOP is completely unhinged.

    And the next pundit/VSP who says Comey isn’t trying to influence the election and will start a second amendment solution fund to put this person out of our misery. Comey is an old Washington pro. He knew exactly what the reaction would be. He could have put out a two word stmt -‘Clinton Emails’ and the medal and the GOP would have gone after it like a cat on 100 proof catnip. 11 days is just long enough to destroy Hillary’s campaign but not so long as you would expected to have real information to share.

    And one more thing that Comey will not want to talk about because of the election and all:

    A Group of Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank

    No smoking gun according to the article but what are the terms used when it’s Hillary – optic/raises question/casts shadows/where there is smoke/etc etc etc.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html

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