Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

The willow is too close to the house.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

This fight is for everything.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

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

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

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  5. 5.

    Patricia Kayden

    Just came back from watching Wonder Woman. Great movie. Always fun to watch a woman beating down Nazis.

  9. 9.

    MomSense

    @NotMax:

    Oh my! Have we been hoping for the wrong disaster all these years. Everybody grab your colanders and concentrate on sinkholes!

  13. 13.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Actually, the weakest part for me would have been any over the top romance between Wonder Woman and Chris Pines’ character. Glad that didn’t happen. I hate action films with added on forced romances. When the two main characters from Jurassic World stopped amid all that dinosaur chaos to kiss, my eyes nearly rolled out of my head. Ridiculous.

  17. 17.

    Central Planning

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Always fun to watch a woman beating down Nazis.

    I’m not a history pedant, but weren’t Nazis WW2? Sure, Germany was one of the Axis powers in WW1, but I don’t believe they were Nazis, even though they might have been showing some of that nationalism.

    But your point is still well taken – it was great to see a woman doing some serious ass-kicking. All of us (wife and 5 kids (4 boys and a girl)) loved it.

  20. 20.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    As a kid in Ohio I remember the Klan did not want anything to do with Neo-nazps, then again many of those Klansmen were WWII veterans, which have mostly died off.

  21. 21.

    Keith P.

    OK, I’ve officially given up on Trump voters seeing any kind of light. They were interviewing a bunch of supporters in Tangier Island, VA, which is sinking under climate change or something. They need funding for whatnot, but they hope Trump will give it to them LOL.
    Anyway, they asked the guy at the end what he likes about Trump. “The wall. Build the wall. I want a wall around Tangiers.” The guy lives on a fucking island and he wants Trump to build a wall around it.

  23. 23.

    Smiling Mortician

    @NoraLenderbee: I suggested that he delete his account.

    Er, I mean, I would have, if I’d sent him a message from a nonexistent email address and zip code. Which of course I didn’t do.

  24. 24.

    Thoughtful David

    Cognitive Dissonance Example #346,887,341,008
    So, about five months ago a single guy moved into the rental house across the street. White, age 40 to 45. I introduced myself, we’ve chatted occasionally, never about politics. Seems nice enough.
    When we first met, got around to asking him where he worked.
    He doesn’t; he’s on permanent disability. Said he was a fireman, but has arthritis. Said he has been on disability for 15 years.

    Now go back and calculate: that means he’s been on disability since he was roughly 30.

    So, on Saturday I noticed his car is suddenly sporting teabagger license plates. (Here in Virginia we have a Gadsden flag license plate design highly favored by the teabaggers.)

    Let that soak in for a moment.

    One thing I’d really love to do is give these assholes exactly what they want for others, good and hard.

  28. 28.

    Central Planning

    @Patricia Kayden: I hope I didn’t come across as an ass, I wasn’t trying to. History has never been my strong suit, and I truly don’t know the origins of the Nazi party or how far back they could be traced. In fact, wikipedia says the Nazi party was active from 1920-1945, so I suspect there’s a good chance the seeds of Nazi-ism started in WW1 (again, not even close to a history buff here)

  29. 29.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Suzanne: First time I’m hearing that it is Trump’s Birthday. I’ve seen many well wishes for Sasha Obama though as she just celebrated her Sweet 16th. She’s grown up to be such a gorgeous young woman. She and Malia will always be my favorite First Daughters.

  30. 30.

    Doug R

    @Patricia Kayden: It’s still beating up bad Germans. Not really any difference.
    POSSIBLE SPOILER
    “She’s taking all the fire! Let’s go!” She doesn’t do it ALL, she takes the lead and lets them help. So cool.

  33. 33.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Central Planning: Germany led the Central Powers in The Great War (1914-18). The term “Axis” was coined by the non-Cheeto Benito (Mussolini) in 1936 after Italy signed a treaty with Nazi Germany, claiming that European relations would now turn around “the Rome-Berlin Axis” . (Eventually it would be applied to the Tripartite Pact signed by the Japanese as well in September 1940.) /pedant & proud

  35. 35.

    frosty

    @Central Planning:

    Germany was one of the Axis powers in WW1

    Actually … they were the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. Opposed by the Triple Entente: Britain, France, and the Russian Empire.

    /WW history pedant/

    ETA: Curse you Uncle Cosmo! I type too slow.

  36. 36.

    Suzanne

    @NoraLenderbee: I might have said, “Happy birthday—you’re old. Please retire already, and I’ll get you a present. A gold present.”

    And I might have signed it, “Love, Libtard Snowflake Cuck”.

  39. 39.

    frosty

    @Central Planning:

    I suspect there’s a good chance the seeds of Nazi-ism started in WW1

    I’ll go out on a limb and say the NSDAP (Nazi) party didn’t exist during WWI. One of the things that drove them to power was the alt-fact that the Jews had stabbed Germany in the back on the home front and caused the defeat because they totally could have won, you know.

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    Uncle Cosmo

    @Thoughtful David: Cognitive dissonance, my arse. Your neighbor deserves every penny that he sucks out of the gummint that you pay taxes to support, owing to (unless I very badly miss my guess) the melanin deficiency in his epidermis. /down snarkel

  42. 42.

    Suzanne

    @Patricia Kayden: Sasha is turning into such a lovely young woman. My girls really enjoyed seeing the pictures of her at her party. She and Malia are just awesome.

  45. 45.

    LesGS

    @Patricia Kayden: I haven’t seen the movie yet, so I don’t know if this is a theme in it, but WW I is a better example of a senseless war than WW II. Sort of dick-waving by various imperial European powers. There were even dysfunctional family issues tied up in it, given the rulers of England, Germany, and Russia were all closely related to one another. :/

  47. 47.

    dmsilev

    @Central Planning:

    so I suspect there’s a good chance the seeds of Nazi-ism started in WW1 (again, not even close to a history buff here)

    The seeds of Nazism were started by Germany’s defeat in WWI. A big part of it was something known as the “dolchstoßlegende”, the stabbed-in-the-back-myth. This was the belief that Germany would have won the war, but was stabbed in the back by a bunch of Evil People.

  49. 49.

    dmsilev

    @LesGS: To the movie’s credit, that was a theme. Without giving away the plot twists, the problem was the warmongers, who were present on both sides.

    (wow, sometimes “both sides do it” does actually apply….)

  55. 55.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?

    @Suzanne:

    Dear Lord Shortfingers,

    I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday!

    P.S. Comey would make a better President then you.

    Fuck off

    That was my birthday message to the Loser in Chief

  58. 58.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Patricia Kayden: It’s always fun to watch anyone beating up Nazis…women, archaeologists, jaded heartbroken night club owners, GIs…the list goes on.

  61. 61.

    D58826

    We seem to have reached peak Clinton derangement syndrome. Our esteemed host is arguing on twitter with some guy over the fact that prison labor was used in the Arkansas governor’s mansion in the 1970s and that proves the Clinton’s are worse than Hitler/Stalin/Mao/PolPot and Castro combined.

  62. 62.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Thoughtful David: one of the Trump supporters the local NPR affiliate interviewed at the inauguration was a 100 percent disabled veteran (he stated himself on air that he was on 100 percent disability)…who rode his motorcycle all the way from Oklahoma to be there. How can a guy capable of riding a motorcycle that far be 100% disabled? I mean I don’t begrudge him veterans benefits but he’s obviously reasonably OK physically. And I’m sure he’d tell us all about how everyone else is scamming the system.

  63. 63.

    rikyrah

    Holly Mosher‏ @FilmsForChange

    “No open primaries for Democratic Party equals voter suppression and racism with young independent voters” @NomikiKonst #PPLSummit

  65. 65.

    efgoldman

    @satby:

    Some people aren’t even humans.

    Trumplethinskin deserves exactly as much respect as he shows to the American people.
    Also he’ll never read the damned things because he can’t. It’s a way (they hope) to put more donors on the lists.

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Disabilities can take all shapes and forms. A 100% disability means that the person is unable to hold down a full time job due to the disability. A head injury that affected the guy’s memory but left him physically strong is one possibility.

  68. 68.

    rikyrah

    Adam Khan‏ @Khanoisseur

    Adam Khan Retweeted Mehdi Hasan

    So a string of business deals Trump, Kushner were pushing in Qatar fell apart and apparently contributed to their hostility to Qatar…

  69. 69.

    Brachiator

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Just came back from watching Wonder Woman. Great movie. Always fun to watch a woman beating down Nazis

    World War One. The Hub. Baby proto-Nazis, at best.

    .When the two main characters from Jurassic World stopped amid all that dinosaur chaos to kiss, my eyes nearly rolled out of my head. Ridiculous.

    Wait. The killer dinosaurs kissed in Jurassic World? Actually, yeah, I know what you mean. I liked the relationship between Sam Neil and Laura Dern far more than the duo in the latest film. There was no particular reason to go for the safe and conventional romance, especially since it is not what people came to see.

  74. 74.

    rikyrah

    Sen Dianne Feinstein‏Verified account @SenFeinstein

    (1/3) I was on @CNNSOTU to talk about Comey and Trump. The Judiciary Committee must be more active on obstruction of justice issues.
    …
    (2/3) This falls squarely in the Judiciary Committee’s jurisdiction. Time to use our authority to get to the bottom of this.
    …
    (3/3) Attorney General Sessions should appear in public before the Judiciary Committee, the oversight committee for the Justice Department.

  75. 75.

    rikyrah

    Armando‏ @armandodkos

    suspect that what Bernie delegates on Dem “Unity” Commission are angling for is all open primaries and in states that don’t, open caucuses/1
    …
    This is a serious threat to POC in the Democratic Party if true. Wth is @TomPerez up to? Is he going along with this bs? /2
    …
    We need transparency on this now. What’s the story on this @TomPerez ? We have a right to know. /3
    …
    It’s the most important power the DNC has and we have no idea what you are up to @TomPerez ! Tell us what’s going on! Now! /4

  76. 76.

    ET

    This is good. For Great Britain. Not only do they not have to put up with him but they don’t have to worry about an international incident when he fails the protocol test when meeting the queen. I can just see him shoving her to the side for some perceived slight or some other boorish behavior.

  78. 78.

    rikyrah

    What Do We Make of Trump’s Strange Behavior?

    by BooMan
    Sun Jun 11th, 2017 at 09:18:27 AM EST

    I read a lot so sometimes I’ll forget where I saw something. The other day I noticed someone make the observation that one reason it’s hard to get good electoral reform is that the winners of elections are always fairly satisfied with the outcome regardless of any abnormalities or problems that may have occurred. And I suppose, in a case like Donald Trump’s, there may be an element of worry that acknowledging any flaws in the presidential election could damage his legitimacy and undercut the magnitude of his accomplishment. He’s obviously sensitive about the subject as we all witnessed when he went to ridiculous lengths to lie about the size of his inaugural crowds. His repeated insistence that Russian interference is a hoax or fake news designed by Democrats to make excuses for their loss is another indication.

    What I’m saying here is that some of Trump’s stunning lack of interest in getting to the bottom of the Russia question could theoretically be chalked up to psychological and political factors that would influence any winning candidate and party.

    I try to keep this in mind as a sort of innocent explanation because the overall impression is far less understandable. I think we’re all familiar with the plot device in which a spouse comes under suspicion in the death of their loved one because they aren’t showing a normal or appropriate level of emotion. If we used that analogy in this case, Trump would be the husband who didn’t call 911 when he found his lifeless wife lying on the floor. He’d be the one who tried to stop others from calling the cops. He’d be the one who denied that she’d been murdered at all, hired one of the prime suspects to work for him, and tried to use his influence with the mayor to shut down the investigation. He’d say strangely positive things about the prime suspects and have some exculpatory story about a 400 lb. intruder that no one has ever seen. His lawyer would have extensive ties to people who had a motive to kill his wife. His son-in-law would have met privately with them and tried to conceal that fact. And when interviewed by investigators, he never once would express the slightest concern that his wife was dead or any interest in seeing her killers brought to justice.

    A crime has been committed against our country, but Trump was the beneficiary of that crime and is pleased with the outcome. He has no remorse about it. He doesn’t want it investigated.

    So, what are the chances that this can all be explained as normal? Is it really different from how any candidate would feel if their election was called into question?

    Everything Trump does arouses more suspicion. He doesn’t make the slightest effort to look innocent. There’s no right way to act when your wife is murdered, and sometimes people will act in abnormal ways that make them look guilty even when they are not. They might even say, “I’m so glad that she’s dead and that I just bought this giant life insurance policy. I’m rich!!”

    Anything can happen.

    That we have a President Trump is proof that anything can happen.

  79. 79.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud: well, he is blaming a a long term and active Democrat for something Wilmer and his cultists are doing, so….

  84. 84.

    rikyrah

    Armando‏ @armandodkos

    Armando Retweeted Jeet Heer

    I really do think we’re owed an explanation why Macron’s landslide win doesn’t have the Deeper Meaning of Corbyn’s close loss.

  89. 89.

    efgoldman

    @Baud:

    How much does Tom Perez have to answer for?

    Global warming
    Vesuvius destroys Pompeii
    Hurricane Katrina
    The great flood
    Stalin
    Hitler
    The dust bowl
    The great depression
    James Dean’s death
    Mantovani

    More that I can’t remember right now

  90. 90.

    NoraLenderbee

    Thanks for all the suggestions for birthday greetings. I would never, ever tell the Orange Asswipe that the whole world is laughing at him.

  91. 91.

    Corner Stone

    @Baud: Nope. Someone tell me how we’re going to twist the Trump loser stink over every CD race in 2018.

  92. 92.

    Jay Noble

    @ET: Let’s see . . . The Queen just impetuously says “Here Donald, let me just go ahead and Knight you. Kneel. Oh dear. I do hope that blood stain on the carpet comes out. You Americans do have a way to replace him don’t you?”

    Oh and the Queen is probably packing and knows how to use her weapon.

    Oh matbe she can she sic the Corgi’s on him?

  94. 94.

    Corner Stone

    @Baud: Ok, fine. And beyond the Unity Tour motherfucking debacle. Anything else?
    If we’re so smug to say Trump can’t hide behind being “new” to the job any longer, I somehow don’t feel too confident about saying a very accomplished pol needs more time to sprout his fucking wings.

  96. 96.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Baud: The policy should be simple: The official position of the DNC is that a Democratic candidate will compete in every election, at every level. The strategy should be equally simple:
    To achieve the strategic objective of running a Democratic candidate in every election at every level the DNC will work with its state and local affiliates to:
    1) Identify one or more candidates that are appropriate, as in a good fit, for the position to be contested and the electorate/district among whom the election will be contested.
    2) Whenever possible, as in it will not cause a mismatch of candidate and district, candidates should come from the key and core constituencies within the Democratic Party.
    3) Identify appropriate monetary and staff resources to support these candidates.
    4) Provide the appropriate monetary and staff resources to support these candidates.

    That is it.

  97. 97.

    Corner Stone

    @Baud: Ok, ok. Let’s regroup after AHCA is passed and Dodd-Frank repeal is signed. Maybe June of 2018 or so?

  100. 100.

    Baud

    @Corner Stone: So Tom Perez is responsible for what the GOP does? You are doing the same thing that the Bros did during the DNC race and elevating the position of DNC chair to some sort of demigod status.

  101. 101.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Baud: The nutcases freaking out on social media or who show up to county and state party committee meetings and don’t understand the rules are unable to understand, as well as unwilling, that having a party means having an establishment. Even if significant portions of recruiting appropriate candidates is pushed down to the state and county levels. These folks can’t seem to get it through there heads that young and independent isn’t just another way of saying registered Democrat. They are uninterested in actually helping. They are interested in having their every whim catered to.

  104. 104.

    rikyrah

    LOLGOP‏ @LOLGOP

    LOLGOP Retweeted Families USA

    My guess? Hide the bill. Doom the sick. Uninsure tens of millions.

    Then watch as their tax breaks for billionaires help buy them reelection

  105. 105.

    Corner Stone

    @Baud: Stop yanking my chain, friend. We know what Trump and the GOP are about. We knew before the election and we sure as fuck know 3 months into Tom Perez’s tenure.
    He’s not a God. But for God’s fucking sake we can’t wait any longer to get a unified message out there. And no, I am not saying we don’t “have” a message. I am saying we need to start shoving it down people’s throats in soundbyte form. And that sure as fuck is the job of the DNC Chairman. Raise money and get vocal about the party.
    TP doesn’t pick all the candidates but that job is about two fucking things. Money and messaging.

  109. 109.

    sukabi

    @D58826: Hmmmm, I’m of the opinion that using foreign labor at slave wages and in sweatshop conditions to personally enrich yourself would put yourself right up there with the worst of the worst. Being prison labor is part of the whole “If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime” bargain criminals make.

  110. 110.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Patricia Kayden: .

    Always fun to watch a woman beating down Nazis.

    Oh god,….WWI Nazis invading a Greek Island, I mean Greece was a neutral in WWI and Germany like it that way and were the frap is the British Royal Navy, with that whole Gallopolii thing going on at the same time, you know? Is there any end of the Derp of Hollywood? I suppose I might be petulant, I suppose I might know to much about history (which is apparently a guy thing now) but saying it’s okay screw the facts if it sounds cool is why we have a comically inept con man as president.

    Anyway, let Lindy and the Great War team tell it as it really happened

    https://youtu.be/qaeTv0GzjIc

    So there.

  111. 111.

    Peale

    @Jay Noble: offer him a lordship. We haven’t gone so far down the rabbit hole that serving in the House of Lords with a foreign title granted by a monarch would be passed over as unrepublican?

  113. 113.

    Wilson Heath

    @Suzanne:

    I signed Lord Dampnut’s birthday card. I absolutely, positively do not encourage anyone else to do the same.

    I happened to hear from a friend that they will take your birthday greetings even if the email address is from a non-US domain. No mischief to be had in that, though. No sir ee Bob.

  114. 114.

    pappenheimer

    Amazons of the Black Sea, besides being a great title for a cheesy movie, might be pretty close to right – the Sarmatians, who did bury women with weapons and battle armor, occupied an area to the north of the Black Sea.They were known to the Ancient Greeks but weren’t Greek. Check your Herodotus.

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