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He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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

Bark louder, little dog.

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Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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

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Let’s see if this works… (okay, it comes up in a new tab on my machine, but you can watch the whole show there)…

Don’t know whether Alex Jones will be disappointed or not:

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  1. 1.

    ? Martin

    I’m disappointed. Haven’t been to a good satanic ritual in a while. She could have really brought it. Oh well, the singing and dancing was really good regardless.

  2. 2.

    Yarrow

    She did a good job. It wasn’t my favorite halftime show, which will probably always be Prince, but I enjoyed it. I like Gaga a lot.

  3. 3.

    Roger Moore

    Don’t know whether Alex Jones will be disappointed or not:

    He will claim either:

    A) that was a Sataic ritual

    B) she had to give up her ritual because he revealed her plan.

  7. 7.

    Askew

    It was a fine Super Bowl performance, but she really suffers from not having enough iconic songs to make an interesting half-time show. But anything was going to be a step down after Beyonce’s performance.

  14. 14.

    japa21

    Make sure you see the rest of the 84 commercial. Very powerful and a slap in the face of the Trumpsters.

  18. 18.

    max

    UPDATE: It still says ‘bowel.’

    Well, of course it does – not only do they hate Lady Gaga because she didn’t accept their recent invitation to their basement to watch crap anti-Hillary videos and play ‘Cards against Humanity’ but also football is a communist plot instituted by the libtards and only liked by girls.

    Football hasn’t been good since the days of that vibrating steel whatchamacallit and the plastic players.

    max
    [‘I bet they couldn’t score a date with a juggalo.’]

  19. 19.

    tofubo

    Amazing up until the point she did not call President Bannon’s play toy a fucking racist imbecile on live tv, place in time lost.

  26. 26.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    The look of abject defeat on Bob Kraft’s face is juicy delicious.

    yum!

  29. 29.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    @Askew:

    I’m not a big modern music fan. I knew all five of the songs she sang. I thought she was excellent. Also, Bruno Mars and Coldplay make for pretty good backup singers.

  43. 43.

    Baud

    Trump’s such an ass, I bet he invites the Patriots to the White House anyway. Will claim they won.

  44. 44.

    Morzer

    The Trumpriots are melting down in the heat of a real game.

    I LOVE THIS SUPERB OWL AND I ALWAYS WILL!!!!

    Another Gostkowski bumble!

  47. 47.

    Suzanne

    I am trying to figure out how to copy/paste Richard Spencer’s tweet about how he is rooting for the Patriots because they are America’s whitest team.

    SAD!

  48. 48.

    tofubo

    Why isn’t a penalty applied against the repubs when they touch the kickoff w/in 10 yards? They’ve been doing so since at least 1981…

  50. 50.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    per pool reports, Trump has left his own Super Bowl party

    (A Baywatch movie? somewhere on a laptop in a coffee shop in LA or Brooklyn or Austin or Omaha is a brilliant original screenplay that will never be read other than by the writer’s mom and roommate)

  51. 51.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Suzanne: I just go to a regular Safari page and copy and paste
    Richard ? SpencerVerified account
    ‏@ RichardBSpencer
    Rooting for the Pats!

    1/ Belichick & Brady support Trump
    2/ Three White widereceivers
    3/ Consistently NFL’s whitest team
    4/ ATL is dreadful

  54. 54.

    Roger Moore

    @Yarrow:

    Robert Kraft has never experienced anything like this in the Super Bowl.

    They’ve never been involved in a blowout in the Kraft/Belichick/Brady Super Bowls. They’ve all been within a touchdown, both wins and losses.

  55. 55.

    Chris T.

    This might be a smidge too early to call, but:

    The Patriots win due to the Electoral College. Spicer insists that the popular win for the Falcons was the result of touchdown fraud.

  62. 62.

    Ronnie Pudding

    Anyone want to wager on whether Trump throws the Pats under the bus? “They were the worst.”

    He’s not exactly loyal to his supporters.

  63. 63.

    Tokyokie

    Instead of “BOWEL LI,” I think Jones meant to write, “Bao Li,” who’s a prominent Chinese gastroenterologist. Darn that spell-check!

  64. 64.

    gene108

    @Roger Moore:

    Largest Pats win was against the Seahawks by four. All three other wins were by three. Two losses to Giants were by three (I think).

    They did come back from 10 down in the 4th quarter against the Seahawks.

  65. 65.

    PaulW

    Patriots miss the extra point doinking it off the goalpost.

    BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAHAHAHAHAAHEHAHAHAHA

    I’m not a Falcons fan, but to hell with the Patriots.

  67. 67.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Isaac ‏@ isaacccccccccc 2h2 hours ago
    More
    Hillary Clinton should have used some of her leftover campaign cash to buy 30 seconds where she just says “Still worried about my emails?”

    @SiubhanDuinne: would I lie to you?

    Chris JansingVerified account
    ‏@ ChrisJansing
    Report from Trump Int’l Golf Course that President Trump is leaving the Super Bowl party with his team trailing.Reince Priebus is w/ him.

    Reince PRiebus trailing behind…. Renfield. Wormtongue. Reince.

  71. 71.

    Suzanne

    It’s hard not to see this as a proxy for Trump v. John Lewis, and Sane America v. sTrumpets.

  73. 73.

    donnah

    The announcers sure do like the Patriots. You’d never know the Falcons were playing, much less leading.

  75. 75.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    and for anyone not on twitter, you’re missing shots of the saddest Super Bowl party outside of New England.

    I wonder if Melania and Tiffany have bonded, and are plotting to bring this whole thing down just to spite Ivanka.

  76. 76.

    Morzer

    I am sure it’s just a wicked rumor that Trump bet Putin Alaska that the Trumpriots would win.

  79. 79.

    Mary G

    Most of my twitter feeds have stopped talking about the SB and are on to today’s NYT article “Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles”

    Gobsmacking to the max:

    Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit.

    and

    Mr. Priebus bristles at the perception that he occupies a diminished perch in the West Wing pecking order compared with previous chiefs. But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.

    The rats are coming off the sinking ship in droves!

  84. 84.

    Karen

    @tofubo:

    What would be the point of that? People would tune her out. She made a subtle point when she did “Born this Way.”

  86. 86.

    Another Scott

    @efgoldman: I did too! Worst Christmas present Ever!!!111

    There should have been a class-action lawsuit against whoever came up with that stupid thing!11

    :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  87. 87.

    tofubo

    I left AT@T and qent to Cingular and got absorbed by the borg yet again, did a NOT RECOMMENDED SWAP TO SPRINT, then be on T-goingMobile ever since, that was a good commerc

  89. 89.

    amk

    know jacksquat about murkan ‘football’, but rooting for the team the trumpanzees are rooting against.

  90. 90.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Timurid: As awful as Nawaz Shareef and Modi may be, they have better sense and more political savvy than the current head of this country.

    ETA: That statement probably applies almost any country in the world.

  95. 95.

    efgoldman

    @Mary G:

    Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed

    What.
    The.
    Ever.
    Loving.
    Fuck!

    How the fuck did the asshole run his businesses?

    [Yeah, I know: Really badly.]

  97. 97.

    Morzer

    @Beth in VA:

    Richard ? SpencerVerified account
    ‏@RichardBSpencer

    I literally think I could choreograph a dance number better than Lady Gaga’s tasteless, trashy clusterfuck.

    In case you hoped his musical criticism was any better.

  101. 101.

    Chet Murthy

    @tofubo: Google Fi, mang. Google Fi. I was on Tmo for >10yr, switched a few months ago. Love it. Cheaper (half the price), and better cell signal. B/c …. they buy from Sprint -and- Tmo, so you get the UNION of the two networks! And wifi calling works flawlessly.

  102. 102.

    MomSense

    @efgoldman:

    Whenever you hear people say run government like a business, be afraid. be very afraid. W was famously the first “CEO President”. That worked out grrreat.

    Lifelong Pats fan rooting for the Falcons.

  103. 103.

    danielx

    If Pats win, there are four possible explanations:

    a) vaporous hominid in the sky is on their side
    b) the devil is on their side
    c) both a and b
    d) they deserve it
    e) both c and d

    Naaaaahhh…..overthinking this. B.

  104. 104.

    Morzer

    @efgoldman:

    *cough* Went bankrupt running a cas.ino *cough*

    I guess his business degree from Trump University didn’t include that “Read the documents before you sign them” thing.

  108. 108.

    tofubo

    @Karen:

    Don’t want or need subtle, in your (his actually) fucking face.

    Think Colbert. The ONLY person, to HIS FACE, called out the shrub. #washingtonpresscirclejerk

  112. 112.

    tobie

    @efgoldman: Some of the little touches in the article, like the fact that he was more concerned about the drapes in the Oval Office than the orders he was signing, were particularly telling. The man is an idiot. He doesn’t read, study issues. He’s a “dress-up” President, with either Bannon, Reince-and-Repeat, or Paul Ryan pulling the strings.

  113. 113.

    Suzanne

    @Morzer: He is welcome to try. He could have a whole chorus line of Nazis.

    I have noticed that it always seems to be women that provoke the “that sucks and I could do SO MUCH BETTER reaction” from dudes. Take from that what you will.

  117. 117.

    Another Scott

    @Betty: They know who their customers are.

    You’ve seen the guys with their beat-up pickup trucks who are at the home improvement warehouses like 84 at all hours of the day and night, right? ;-)

    Plus, it’s the right thing, too.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  118. 118.

    hilts

    @Mary G:

    At this rate, they’ll be several kiss and tell books from WH staffers hitting bookstores before the midterm elections.

  119. 119.

    Morzer

    @Suzanne:

    Why is it that the representatives of the master race always seem to be pudgy, pig-faced morons? Sometimes I really do suspect that they might not be superior at all!

  120. 120.

    tofubo

    @Karen:

    Don’t want or need subtle, in your (his actually) fucking face.

    Think Colbert. The ONLY person, to HIS FACE, called out the shrub. #washingtonpresscirclejerk@Chet Murthy:

    Sprint cauffed up a $1800 bill on me AFTER I paid in full to close the account. Fuck them with a Trump Tie wrapped brass brick.

  124. 124.

    Suzanne

    @Morzer: You too have noticed that the Nazis among us are unattractive? (Often also no great shakes in the intellect department.)

    We had a cadre of white supremacists at my high school. Every one of them was some combination of overweight, zitty, smelly, poorly dressed, and stupid.

  127. 127.

    Morzer

    @Suzanne:

    I mean, they keep insisting that they are tall, blonde, muscular Aryan warriors, but somehow those particular specimens never seem to be around.

  129. 129.

    Another Scott

    @efgoldman: But Donnie made everyone sign NDAs that they would never say anything bad about him or his businesses or his children or any of his heirs or his successors and heirs until the end of time, amen.

    Or at least that’s what we’ve been told.

    Presumably they could just do a reverse Clifford Irving to get around that, but Donnie’s “best people” don’t seem to be very clever.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  130. 130.

    Suzanne

    @efgoldman: One dude literally wore the same Nine Inch Nails shirt Every. Single. Day. I don’t know if/when it ever got washed. I hope he changed his underwear more frequently.

  131. 131.

    MomSense

    @Mike in NC:

    I know all about his HBS days. Anyway he also said he was going to be a CEO President. Problem is all his previous businesses were failures.

  134. 134.

    scav

    But note also that they of NE seemingly couldn’t get their act together until the Orange Twit stomped out of his superbowl party in the offical Huffmobile. I mean, that could very well be all we need to get the national back in the game, him leaving . . .

  139. 139.

    Suzanne

    That didn’t look like the ball crossed the line. I am skeptical. It looked like the ball never crossed the line to me.

  148. 148.

    Baud

    I don’t care for either team, but I was hoping to make the haters sad.

    I’ll be happy for Goldman.

  152. 152.

    Suzanne

    @efgoldman: Oh, lord no. I let him know how repugnant I found him and his friends. If I remembered his last name, I would look him up and see how many teeth he has left. I’m sure he’s gotten his fair share of Nazi punches.

  153. 153.

    Chet Murthy

    OT Question: uh …. maybe it’s been discussed to death already, but could somebody point me to something to help me understand why Wilmer is held in such low regard around here? I mean, I understand that (uh) diehard Wilmer-bros/bots have a lot to answer for (hooboy do they) but my understanding was that he’d done a creditable job of supporting Hillary from the convention on, and hasn’t displayed any more signs of blacksliding than yer average long-time Dem pol? I mean, he’s not as bad as Feinstein, I thought?

    Am I missing something? Asking seriously.

  156. 156.

    Morzer

    If Atlanta does end up losing this thing, someone needs to ask Matt Ryan what part of throw the football away he needs to review. He’s taken several sacks that were absolutely idiotic.

  162. 162.

    Morzer

    @Mike J:

    Eh, that’s sorta true, but Ryan has lost them field position by taking unnecessary sacks at the worst possible time on several drives. You expect to have one bad drive defensively against any good team, but Ryan has screwed up pretty egregiously multiple times, which isn’t what you expect from a quality QB.

  170. 170.

    Smiling Mortician

    @Mary G: Holy hell. The last sentence is quite a punchline: Trump’s father’s middle name was “Christ”? Are you fucking kidding me?

  171. 171.

    Chet Murthy

    @efgoldman: Is this -pre-convention-, -pre-election-, or post-election? Just wanna be sure of what’s goin’ on.

    Full disclosure: I made $100 betting a guy that he’d endorse her before the convention.

  174. 174.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @Chet Murthy: He stayed in the primary long after it was unrealistic to do so, which weakened potential support for HRC. His requests that Bbros support HRC was unenthusiastic. And he’s a bombastic, condescending fool who was never a Dem but joined just to run for in 2016. Plus his campaign had ties to Russia too. But that’s just my take.

  180. 180.

    Morzer

    And the Falcons collapse and throw it all away. Oh well.

    Also, why are we playing another round of Democratic civil war? What can anyone gain from this singularly stupid round of conspiracy theories and allegations based on nothing? Except Trump, of course.

    Just remember: Democrats need Clinton voters and Bernie voters to have a hope of winning. So use your brains for a change and stop fighting each other. 2016 is done, finished, fucked. Don’t make it so that 2018 and 2020 turn out the same way by stupidly fighting each other rather than the real enemy.

  182. 182.

    Zinsky

    Lady Gaga killed it and made it patriotic at the same time! I loved how she snuck in a few measures of “This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie — the man who wrote “this machine kills fascists” on his guitar. It’s too bad he isn’t alive today.

    Oh yeah, Lady Gaga SHOULD have committed a satanic ritual by deboweling Alex Jones on the 50 yard line with an ice auger…

  185. 185.

    Aleta

    Just read that Trump didn’t know he was putting Bannon on the NSF when he signed the order that authorized it. (in the NYT, in the same article that says they can’t figure out how to turn on the lights in the cabinet room.)

  189. 189.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @The Thin Black Duke: True – for opposite reasons. We all know the Toddler in Chief didn’t want people to know how much money he doesn’t have (not to mention how much he owes to shady Russians) and Wilmer “man of the people” (with 3 houses, including 1 on Lake Champlain) doesn’t want people to know how much money he does have.

  193. 193.

    momus

    Having heard too many conservative friends remark this morning on how surprisingly apolitical Lady Gaga’s show was, I didn’t have the heart to mention that Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land” in response to “God Bless America” and that “I was Born this Way” has certain political connotations. Maybe Wednesday.

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