Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

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

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

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

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Come on, man.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

We still have time to mess this up!

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  3. 3.

    BBA

    Upon reflection I think the most likely result of the Mueller investigation is indisputable proof that the Russian government colluded with the Sanders campaign. At which point, like the Plame scandal, everyone will be sick of it and nobody will have the desire to pursue it any further.

  9. 9.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    I’m so weary tonight I was trying to figure what kind of subtle reference to the Ottoman Empire and current factional difficulties in the region the title meant. Then I was confused that it was a Cole post.

    Then I saw the picture and it made more sense. Steve looks rather regal. Of course

  10. 10.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Gin & Tonic: I was as annoyed as anyone about how he finished his campaign. I don’t like what he is saying on TeeVee these days. I just don’t think that random attacks on the guy help resolve the divisions in the party. If he is in the news being wrong, have at him. If not, let’s just ignore him.

  14. 14.

    efgoldman

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    If he is in the news being wrong, have at him. If not, let’s just ignore him.

    Easy for us to say, on the 10 thousandth-whatever most popular blog. Tell the turkeys who book the Sunday and evening shows.

  17. 17.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: We don’t need to add to it. David blah blah Koch and some others launch into shit about him at random. It isn’t helpful.

  24. 24.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Mike J: Alexa had it a little higher than that during the election last year, but I couldn’t find where I’d gotten that list so I went with what I linked to instead. (Is that figure from Alexa 85kth TLD or 85kth website?)

    @Omnes Omnibus: Well, this is not one of said things. As you yourself said, if he is in the news being wrong, have at him.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Major Major Major Major: The attacks on Bernie that show up randomly strike me as attempts to divide Dems. They stir up virulent Bernie Bros and keep primary tensions alive. I am starting to see them as trollish.

    ETA: I have never seen the David Koch guy as a good actor.

  27. 27.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Omnes Omnibus: I think a lot of people are just mad still; there are some trollish things a-happenin’ too though.

    @Mike J: The one I linked to says 60,677th site, I picked TLD because it seemed more accurate for this purpose to include wikipedia, google, etc. etc. once instead of once per language and region and etc. etc.

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    @trollhattan:

    Since Omnes apparently has retired, I will fill in. He said last night that he found an ’07 manual 6-speed, same or similar model to what he had before. Owned by a schoolteacher, good maintenance record. Currently in negotiations.

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:

    We’re in Chicago right now and put our names in for the ticket lottery. We did not get them, because we are not lucky when it comes to such things, so we still won’t see it until early September in LA. Sad!

  39. 39.

    GregB

    One of the strangest things about this disastrous Trumpocalypse is how it is reorganizing some of the ideologues in the media.

    There are now some neo cons and Republicans who see through Trump and are standing up to him. Frum, McMullen, Scarborough etc. It has also flung some folks who I used to read into a Trump apologist abyss.

    Moon of Alabama is a madhouse, Zero Hedge a racist cesspit, Raimondo at anti-war is proto-fascist to name a few.

  41. 41.

    Yarrow

    @GregB: It has been kind of fascinating to watch. I’m not really sure what’s going to come out of all of it. Perhaps some kind of realignment. Maybe a new party and new media outlets. I mentioned earlier today that there are hints about Fox having stronger ties to Russia than people suspect. If that’s the case and they get caught in all of this, who knows what might happen. Hannity’s got to be hiding something. He seems paranoid about the Russia stuff.

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    @Steeplejack:
    Hopefully the apocryphal little old lady schoolteacher who nevertheless likes sports sedans. Will guess a 9^3 SS but maybe a 9^5 Aero? Manuals were pretty rare by then.

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne

    @GregB:

    Though I find his phrase to be a little squicky, that’s what Adam means when he says that Russia has achieved “penetration at all levels” — they’re selling their propaganda through multiple outlets that one would think should be contradictory, but aren’t, because they’re united by conscious or subconscious racism.

    Remember our old troll buddy BiP? He was a lefty who totally bought into the Russian propaganda that Russia Today was feeding him through people like Ed Schultz. The right wing is getting the same stuff through their churches, which are broadcasting propaganda through Russian Orthodox sources.

    It’s propaganda all the way down, coming from both sides of the political spectrum at once.

  47. 47.

    GregB

    It would appear they are getting the band back together to mount a unified push back on the exploding Russia story and the imploding Trump Presidency.

    Twitter is the early adopter of much of the bullshit and I just took a swing past crazy town.

    The bots are getting frothy again.

    Also too, Trump visit to France as his collapse quickens seems almost operatic to me. T’s flunkies will use a state visit to the biggest rightwing punchline of a nation, to pump up his gravitas.

    Here is Trump eating brie and foie-gras with the leader of Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey Nation! How strong and leadery!

    Not to mention it is in honor of Bastille Day.

  48. 48.

    Yarrow

    @Mnemosyne: His phrase encompasses more than just media, though. Government officials at all levels, elected and non-elected. Businesses. Probably entertainment and sports too, if we thought about it. Anything they can use to disrupt.

  50. 50.

    ChrisH

    New logic coming out is that because Loretta Lynch gave this Russian lawyer an extension on her Visa because she was in the US to defend a client in court, the meeting with Don Jr. was clearly an Obama collusion conspiracy with Russia to entrap Trump and also an excuse to bug Trump Tower. It’s Alex Jones level conspiracy theories all the way down.

  54. 54.

    NotMax

    So now one of your sidelines is being … (wait for it)

     
     
     

    … an ottoman umpire?

  56. 56.

    Aleta

    @Origuy: A good example of the difference between insanity –repeating what’s never worked and makes no sense and does harm– in Kirill and the ROC; vs people with mental illness, who Kirill wants to persecute.

  57. 57.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Aleta:

    Kirill is a moron. None of the other Orthodox patriarchs are apt to follow – of course, he’ll do damage in North America via his good little lapdogs in ROCOR and OCA.

  60. 60.

    Bruce K

    Wait, is this an open thread?

    I wish I was physiologically compatible with cats, because there are some sweetheart cats who roam my neighborhood and react to me in a friendly way. Sometimes I want to just sit down on the front step of my apartment building and sort of commune with the local felines, because reading the news is doing wonders for my blood pressure (he said sarcastically).

    I mean, I just got out of a Slack fight with someone who was blatantly using logical fallacies to assert that there were no crimes committed – that since Junior isn’t part of the administration, and hasn’t applied for any position that requires disclosure of foreign contacts, no charges are applicable – and then when I shot back that he was crossing up two completely independent issues (prohibition against soliciting or accepting foreign contributions vs. failure to report foreign contacts on a security clearance application), he griped that he weeps for the future of the world.

    I don’t know whether he was simply trolling, or genuinely trying to disrupt arguments against the cheeto junta. At this point, is there even any difference any more?

  62. 62.

    J R in WV

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    If he is in the news being wrong, have at him. If not, let’s just ignore him.

    Omnes, that’s the thing! He IS in the news being wrong, it’s just on an inside page because the front page is full of Russian rumors.

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