Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Innocent people do not delay justice.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

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

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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  1. 1.

    Mary G

    I notice those Pro-Trump “protesters” don’t have many home-made signs. The one in front is holding up a yard sign. Lazy and sad!

  2. 2.

    ? Martin

    You notice none of the signs at the pro-Trump rally is handmade? Shades of his announcement to run.

  5. 5.

    Mnemosyne

    I suspect that the people who think Trump is going to be irate at Bannon getting so much attention are absolutely correct. There is NOTHING a narcissist hates more than being forced to share the spotlight.

    Someone said elsewhere that Bannon likes to compare himself to Thomas Cromwell, but he probably should have waited for Hillary Mantel to finish the trilogy since he doesn’t seem to realize how that story ended for Cromwell …

  21. 21.

    Keith P.

    Massive pro-Trump demonstration of at least a dozen people

    Every man there had an erection, and every woman was ovulating left and right.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Pay attention in class, minimize reading, pay for papers. In-class tests could be a problem.

    Or maybe he (or his father) took “buying a degree” to the logical conclusion.

  28. 28.

    Darkrose

    Another piece in the NYT about Mar-a-lago:

    Yet here, in the cosseted confines of Mar-a-Lago, those concerns seemed a million miles away. The guests had gathered for the 60th annual Red Cross ball, a staple of the Palm Beach social calendar, which this year carried the theme “From Vienna to Versailles.”

    In keeping with the Hapsburg and Bourbon motif, the male staff members wore powdered wigs and breeches; the women were costumed in flouncy gowns and ash-blonde beehive wigs in the style of Marie Antoinette, the queen guillotined in the French Revolution.

  29. 29.

    J Michael Neal

    I just watched the first episode of The OA, and it’s not like anything I’ve seen before. For one thing, the opening credits come an hour into the episode. I am very, very intrigued to see where this series is going.

  31. 31.

    J R in WV

    Banning slipped The Donald an Executive Order putting Banning in charge of the National Security Council – The Donald didn’t know what he was signing, because he doesn’t read anything, even these 1 or 2 page Executive Orders he’s been signing. And The Donald was pissed, but didn’t fire Banning, even after Banning screwed him publicly.

    If The Donald can’t even read a 2 page, large print doc, who’s to say when we start a war with China, because Banning wants to destroy the current civilization?

    We are SO fucked.

  32. 32.

    Aleta

    @J R in WV: And if he won’t fire Banning for something like that … another bad sign. Though maybe this leak is sign of the effort to get him out.

  34. 34.

    Ian

    but can you imagine the shitstorm McConnell/Ryan would rain down if this was reported about Obama?

    They have become about as venal and corrupt as humanely possible. Filibustering/delaying nominees? That’s apparently the most awful ever that the Democratic party just started for no reason two months ago. Signing executive orders? No problem here, we haven’t ever said or done anything about EOs we don’t agree with. Military raid gone wrong resulting in a American civilian dead? No need to have a years long committee on every single facet of it.

    The rules are one sided.

  35. 35.

    Aleta

    From 2000 to 2006 organized civilian populations successfully employed nonviolent methods in cluding boycotts, strikes, protests, and organized noncooperation to challenge entrenched power and exact political concessions in Serbia (2000), Madagascar (2002), Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004–05), Lebanon (2005), and Nepal (2006).

    Why Civil Resistance Works The Strategic Logic of
    Nonviolent Conflict    , Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth
    (downloadable)
    http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isec.2008.33.1.7

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    He is 70 now. Maybe he has trouble concentrating in specific areas, like reading.

    Trying to explain it doesn’t make me feel better. Ugh.

    Bedtime for me. Flying back to D.C. tomorrow (Monday).

  38. 38.

    Anne Laurie

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    One wonders how he managed to get though college. Hired someone to read everything to him?

    If Trump’s ADHD — which, as a sufferer myself, I suspect — he’ll have developed coping skills. Getting bullet points, having other people take notes for him, promoting ‘study groups’ where he could absorb things from discussions. Paying to have papers written for him, and probably paying (having his dad pay) administrators to prescribe ‘gut’ courses or recommend profs (teaching assistants) who’d be susceptible to pressure.

    And he obviously can read, just not very fluently or easily. It was a lot easier for me to push myself to plod through blocks of boring informational text when I was 20 than it is now that I’m 60, which is true of many people, even high-IQ people who don’t have ADD. Trump’s 70, and he’s never been anything but lazy; his old man might’ve been able to intimidate young Donald into exerting himself, but obviously Ivanka & Jared have no such power over him.

  39. 39.

    opiejeanne

    @Darkrose: I’ve been to Versailles, I know why there was a revolution.

    The day that I was there every American around me gasped and said the same thing when they entered the second room, and that was just a tiny prelude of what was to come.

    These fools really have no idea about the rest of the world, do they?

  42. 42.

    opiejeanne

    @Steeplejack (phone): If Trump has had a minor stroke, one that you might not noticed the outward signs of, he may have trouble with his eyes tracking and reading becomes difficult. We have no idea what his health is.

    My dad had that problem after a major stroke and he loved reading so it was a terrible result. A year later you couldn’t tell that Dad had had a major stroke, unless you watched his left hand very closely and that was only because he didn’t complete his therapy, but the ease of reading never came back.

    This is not to excuse Trump at all. He hasn’t given us a health report worth spit which is just one more straw on the camel’s back.

  43. 43.

    PIGL

    @amk: at least one writes “i hang my head in shame”. As well she might, at least she seems to recognize it. This raises the question what exactly did all these people imagine they were voting for?

  44. 44.

    Gvg

    @PIGL: they may have imagined they were voting for anything. I noticed during the campaign that his supporters projected all kinds of policies and results on to him, in which one persons opinions of him were opposite of the next persons. Often they said he would do things that were contradicted by Trumps own speeches. i think all political campaigns have some of it, just not this extent. I have seen it a little for Obama and Hillary but with Trump supporters it was raving loonie bin.
    They also seemed to believe he could do whatever he said without regard to the actual powers and limits to the President nor taking into account Congress. Reality like how economies really work was not even asked about. There is a large group who seem to think the only reason they didn’t already have their desired outcome is that previous Presidents and Congress had declined to do something. It’s like they didn’t realize our polititian’s didn’t have magical powers and were being spiteful to deny these people a great life. Gah…

  45. 45.

    PIGL

    @Gvg: thanks for this thoughtful response.I’m sorry I had fallen back asleep again by the time you wrote it and now I have to go to work.

    I hope you have a good week, all things considered.

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