Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

We still have time to mess this up!

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Celebrate the fucking wins.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

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

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

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

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The Dunning-Kruger effect, it’s not just the old man’s problem:

… “Nepotism is kind of a factor of life,” Trump told Forbes in an interview that took place in February.

Eric Trump said that he and his siblings “might be here because of nepotism” but would not have sustained that status if they “weren’t competent.”…

“You know the one thing, Don, Ivanka and I never let him down really in any factor of life,” he said. “And I think it’s one of the reasons that we’re as innately close as we are.”

Eric Trump said that eight years ago, he and his brother “would have been too big of question marks” for their father to do “the presidential thing” and turn over the family company.

“I think hopefully we earned our stripes,” he said. “And I think that’s ultimately why we’re in the seat we’re in.”

Dude, if you and Uday had never disappointed Daddy Dearest, he wouldn’t be leaning so hard on his Fortunate Son-in-Law. Who seems to be somewhat smarter than you two — not a high bar — but not smart enough that he isn’t showing his… exaggerated estimate of his own abilities, a mere two months into what he seemingly hoped would be a Kushner Regency.

How much does Steve ‘Alt-Reich’ Bannon love the way busy little Jared has made himself a target for every other aspiring thug in the Trump Oval Office Crime Cartel?

Remember, with Repubs, it’s always projection…

THANKS SO MUCH FOR GIVING THESE GONIFFS THEIR CHANCE, REPUBLICANS!

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  4. 4.

    Villago Delenda Est

    You remember how 55 Central Park West was “Spook Central” in Ghostbusters?

    The Trump White House is Dunning-Kruger Central.

  5. 5.

    Chet Murthy

    OT, but it’s an open thread, so: I read about the UK-EU-Spain-Gibraltar situation, and I feel like there’s something being hidden in plain sight. Or more exactly, one of two things:

    Either (1) Spain is insisting that they want Gibraltar back and the EU is going along with that (which is NUTS)

    or (2) Spain is insisting (with EU backing) that they get a veto on any “soft Brexit deal”, and are trying to get Gibraltar back, using that as a stick.

    I don’t get why nobody in the UK press (not even the Guardian) makes it clear which of these two stories is the real one. B/c if it’s #2, FFS, it’s only NATURAL for Spain to do it. I mean, the UK wants something special? Hey, there’s a price for that. And if the UK doesn’t wanna pay it, there’s always the WTO rules.

    From what I read, it sure looks like #2. Are -all- UK journos so in-the-tank for the UK, that they can’t report this basic issue properly? Even the Guardian?

    I really don’t get it. Does anybody have any enlightenment to offer?

  6. 6.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    He graduated with a degree in finance and management, with honors, from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.[3]

    really? factor of life (twice), innately close, too big of question marks? He’s the Steve Doocey of the Morning Zoo Croo that makes up the elder batch.

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Couple folks thought it looked purty.

    I was, and continue to be, one of them. I still think it would look supercool enlarged, printed on good paper, and framed. I’d buy one.

    But holy crap, there are some truly strange, if not downright bizarre, category names.

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    not that I think it will make a difference, but..

    Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied the structure and language used by several authors and failed to cite source material in his book and an academic article, according to documents provided to POLITICO.
    The documents show that several passages from the tenth chapter of his 2006 book, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” read nearly verbatim to a 1984 article in the Indiana Law Journal. In several other instances in that book and an academic article published in 2000, Gorsuch borrowed from the ideas, quotes and structures of scholarly and legal works without citing them.

    Lawyers? Big deal?

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Of all the Trumps, even including Donald, the one whose face creeps me out the most is Eric. Something about the eyes, and that weird smile-like thing he does with his mouth, convey a kind of sly, stupid cunning. The dull slicked-back hair just adds to the impression. Creepy.

  13. 13.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    Hmm. The factors of life, the universe and everything are 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21 and 42. Not sure what that has to do with young Uday* believing he’s not a disappointment, though.

    *Or Qusay. Whatever.

  15. 15.

    Kropadope

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Of all the Trumps, even including Donald, the one whose face creeps me out the most is Eric. Something about the eyes, and that weird smile-like thing he does with his mouth, convey a kind of sly, stupid cunning. The dull slicked-back hair just adds to the impression.

    I just tend to think “gross” and leave it at that.

    @MobiusKlein:

    That man is a Slytherin reject, if I may say so.

    J.K. Rowling addresses this topic directly.

    You’ve got to get the letter before you put on the hat

    Those muggles would never be let into Hogwarts.

  20. 20.

    joel hanes

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Eric

    Clearly Slytherin and a Death Eater

    ETA or what the half-twisted bottle said in 14 supra.
    Gotta shift fast to ride with you guys

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Eric Trump said that he and his siblings “might be here because of nepotism” but would not have sustained that status if they “weren’t competent.”

    Sustained that status?! They’ve only been around a couple of months. And have done what, exactly? Was Eric the one who went to Uruguay?

    A really bad mailroom guy can last 10 weeks if he stays invisible.

  28. 28.

    Spider-Dan

    “You know the one thing, Don, Ivanka and I never let him down really in any factor of life,” he said.

    “Tiffany, on the other hand, fucks up all the time.”

  29. 29.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    Misuse of the word “innately” too.

    It can’t be “innate” if it’s because you’ve done such a heckuva job, dumbass.

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    Went in to get our taxes done and discovered that, not only does it look like we’re going to get a decent-sized refund (I have one more piece of paperwork to send in), but our accountant made a mistake on our 2015 return and we’re going to get even more money back.

    Stickin’ it to the man this year!

  36. 36.

    polyorchnid octopunch

    @Chet Murthy: It’s pretty much like this. Gibraltar comes up in the context of Brexit, probably because people in Gibraltar are worried about what it will mean to their daily lives; while they may pay taxes and receive government benefits to and from London, their actual groceries come from somewhere a little closer to hand. An assurance was made that everything would be fine vis-a-vis trade with Spain (that would be the aforementioned closer to hand). Spain said, “hold on a second, you can’t speak for us on this”, and that’s when the usual shit funnels saw their opportunity to distract people with the whoops and the hollers and the sabres shaking in their scabbards, all of which got dutifully reported by the Murdoch press, so as to mainstream it into discussion on the mainstream press.

    They’re hoping that the rubes get all worked up so they don’t notice that the money flow accelerating upwards after brexit terms get settled as the shit flow comes to resemble a California spillway.

    It works the same in every country.

  37. 37.

    hellslittlestangel

    Never disappointed their dad. Don, Eric and even Ivanka can cheat a contractor or grab a pussy like they were to the manner born.

  38. 38.

    Chet Murthy

    @polyorchnid octopunch: Teh funny. Oh teh funny. If I read you correctly, yeah, various UK media are skipping right over “the EU and EU states have a right to decide what sweet deal to offer the UK, and to decide that pretty much amongst themselves without UK input”, to “oh, this bad deal the EU’s gonna offer us (on Gibraltar), that’s tantamount to war!!!!”

    FFS. And yeah, i can see how this is really useful to distract the rubes, and hadn’t thought of that.. Makes perfect sense now. Though I still wonder why the Guardian hasn’t exposed this part of the story. (Maybe naive me,) I’d have thought the Guardian would at be somewhat reality-based.

  41. 41.

    AMinNC

    @Major Major Major Major:Clearly, Lord Voldemort has taken up residence on the back of Eric’s head. Only, rather than wearing a turban to hide him, a la Professor Quirrel, Eric has adopted the ‘Pat Riley’ to do the job.

  42. 42.

    liberalandlovingit!

    ‘Innately close’ WTF does that even mean? my pocket Oxford says ‘inbreeding’. HA!
    must’a meant ‘inanely close’–silly nonsense, empty, void.
    (Anyone else here notice the ‘Innsmouth Look’ to them? The youngest daughter resembles a goldfish.)

    Typical. Don the Con’s School of Thought–using words they have no awareness of, and thinking we’re all blinded by their brilliance, when in fact, we’re mostly baffled by their bullshit.

  43. 43.

    J R in WV

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Major^4, that’s quite a graphic, and the code is also interesting.

    Question, how come there are points on the radius with no post label, which yet have graph links to other posts, sometimes multiple links to multiple posts??

    Dropped names? no clue, myself, actually. Great graph, tho~!!!

  45. 45.

    Tehanu

    @psychobroad:

    Nope. “To the manor” came later; the original is Shakespeare (Hamlet, 1602):

    HORATIO: Is it a custom?
    HAMLET: Ay, marry, is’t:
    But to my mind, though I am native here
    And to the manner born, it is a custom
    More honour’d in the breach than the observance.

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