Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

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

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

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

So very ready.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

How stupid are these people?

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

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

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

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Pre-Dawn Comic Relief Open Thread: Sebstian Gorka, Gilbert & Sullivan Character Set Adrift in A Star Wars Century

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    Patricia Kayden

    Stephen Miller is still in the House so the White Supremacist contingent is still well represented.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    Not so funny: White House ‘pressuring’ intelligence officials to find Iran in violation of nuclear deal

    US intelligence officials are under pressure from the White House to produce a justification to declare Iran in violation of a 2015 nuclear agreement, in an echo of the politicisation of intelligence that led up to the Iraq invasion, according to former officials and analysts. The collapse of the 2015 deal between Tehran, the US and five other countries – by which Iran has significantly curbed its nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief – would trigger a new crisis over nuclear proliferation at a time when the US is in a tense standoff with North Korea.

    Intelligence analysts, chastened by the experience of the 2003 Iraq war, launched by the Bush administration on the basis of phoney evidence of weapons of mass destruction, are said to be resisting the pressure to come up with evidence of Iranian violations. “Anecdotally, I have heard this from members of the intelligence community – that they feel like they have come under pressure,” said Ned Price, a former CIA analyst who also served as a national security council spokesman and special assistant to Barack Obama. “They told me there was a sense of revulsion. There was a sense of déjà vu. There was a sense of ‘we’ve seen this movie before’.” However, Donald Trump has said he expects to declare Iran non-compliant by mid-October, the next time he is required by Congress to sign a three-monthly certification of the nuclear deal (known as the Joint Comprehensive Programme of Action, or JCPOA). And the administration is pursuing another avenue that could trigger the collapse of the deal.

    David Cohen, a former deputy director of the CIA, said it was “disconcerting” that Trump appeared to have come to a conclusion about Iran before finding the intelligence to back it up. “It stands the intelligence process on its head,” Cohen told CNN. “If our intelligence is degraded because it is politicised in the way that it looks like the president wants to do here, that undermines the utility of that intelligence all across the board.”

    In another move reminiscent of the Iraq debacle, the US administration is putting pressure on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to be more aggressive in its demands to investigate military sites in Iran, just as George W Bush’s team pushed for ever more intrusive inspections of Saddam Hussein’s military bases and palaces.

    ….

    Unlike the case of Iraq and the Bush administration, where there were deep divisions in the US intelligence community over the evidence for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, there is now a general consensus among US intelligence and foreign intelligence agencies, the state department, the IAEA and the other five countries that signed the JCPOA, as well as the European Union, that there is no significant evidence that Iran has violated its obligations under the deal. Tehran scaled down its nuclear infrastructure and its nuclear fuel stockpiles soon after the deal was signed in Vienna.

    However, Trump, who denigrated the agreement throughout his election campaign, has appeared determined to torpedo it.

    On 17 July, the latest deadline for presidential certification of the JCPOA deal required by Congress, the announcement was postponed for several hours, while Trump’s senior national security officials dissuaded the president from a last-minute threat not to sign.

    “If it was up to me, I would have had them noncompliant 180 days ago,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal on 25 July. He hinted it was his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who had persuaded him to certify the agreement.

    His obsession with all things Obama continues.

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    Matt McIrvin

    @OzarkHillbilly: Elsewhere, I just expressed concern that Mattis was an Iran hawk and was informed that makes him “just like the Democrats”. There seems to be a strange idea going around that Hillary Clinton was itching to tear up Obama and Kerry’s Iran deal and go to war, and I don’t understand where it came from. Maybe people confusing Iran with Syria?

    …never mind, dude describes Obama’s deal itself as “antagonistic and could easily lead to war”. Not sure what he thought the alternative was.

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    msdc

    @Matt McIrvin: The “Hillary is a hawk” narrative was so firmly baked in for that particular segment of the left that they have to either ignore the fact that Clinton negotiated the sanctions which made the Iran deal possible, or pretend the deal itself was an act of aggression, or both at once. The far left is just as disconnected from reality as the far right.

    And why not? They’re getting their news from the same sources.

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    NorthLeft12

    Back in my days of playing Fantasy Football, there was always one guy in the league who was constantly replacing his players with pick ups from the free agent pool [we called it the garbage pile]. Inevitably, this guy ended up in last place because he never solved the main problem with his team…..his own stupidity and piss poor judgement.

    Deadbeat Donald is that guy.

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    ET

    The left thinks we “won” something? While I am glad the Nazi 2.0 is out of the White House I consider it a Good Thing for the country but not so much a “win” because Trump being out of the White House would be The Win.

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    NorthLeft12

    After thinking about this for a few minutes this makes a lot of sense. That was probably the last scene Gorka saw……all powerful leader of the stormtroopers kills old hairy hippie. Happy ending!

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    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    The buffoon really thinks he’s on the side of the rebels? What a knucklehead. He pissed off Vader in reel two, Vader scrunched his gloved fist, and left Gorka tatas up like a bug in the dust.

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    Captain C

    @OzarkHillbilly: The difference, of course, being that Darth Cheney and the Fortunate Son hadn’t declared the IC their mortal enemy before they started pushing for favors.

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