Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

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

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

In my day, never was longer.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

When we show up, we win.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

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

The willow is too close to the house.

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

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Giving up is unforgivable.

The lights are all blinking red.

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

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

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Maggie Haberman, of course:

President Trump projected an air of calm on Wednesday after charges against his former campaign chief and a foreign policy aide roiled Washington, insisting to The New York Times that he was not “angry at anybody” and that investigations into his campaign’s links to Russia had not come near him personally.

“I’m not under investigation, as you know,” Mr. Trump said in a brief telephone call to The Times late Wednesday afternoon. Pointing to the indictment of his former campaign chief, Paul Manafort, the president said, “And even if you look at that, there’s not even a mention of Trump in there.”

“It has nothing to do with us,” Mr. Trump said…

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Apart from pointing & mocking, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

My personal ‘And what was your first clue, Sherlock?’ fave-of-the-day…

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  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    I continue to find it mildly startling that any reporter would consider ‘court stenographer for Donald Trump’ to be a position worth aspiring to.

  5. 5.

    Patricia Kayden

    Where is Trump popular? I need to learn more about that planet. Sounds like a horrible place.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    Am not a lawyer, so having some difficulty plotting this on a scale ranging from ‘verging on the arcane’ to ‘BFD.’

    The USS Cole case judge Wednesday found the Marine general in charge of war court defense teams guilty of contempt for refusing to follow the judge’s orders and sentenced him to 21 days confinement and to pay a $1,000 fine.

    Air Force Col. Vance Spath also declared “null and void” a decision by Marine Brig. Gen. John Baker, 50, to release three civilian defense attorneys from the case, and ordered them to appear before him in person at Guantánamo or by video feed next week. Source

  8. 8.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @Patricia Kayden:

    He’s popular at his rallies.

    I live in the second reddest county in Misery, he’s popular here. And so on.

    The Crazification Pockets are, alas, widespread.

  9. 9.

    waspuppet

    “What are President Trump’s flaws?”

    Sanders: “Probably that he has to deal with you guys on a daily basis”

    HAHA I SMILED COS IT’S FUNNY I MADE A JOKE REALLY IT’S A JOKE LAUGH DAMMIT

    Remember when we were supposed to think Barack Obama and the people around him were effete weirdos who didn’t know how to talk to ordinary people? Because I sure as fk do.

  10. 10.

    Gin & Tonic

    @NotMax: What I found interesting is the judge is a colonel, the Marine is a brigadier general, and he sentenced him to confinement anyway. The general is the one who thinks this whole military commission concept is full of shit, if I read accurately.

  12. 12.

    HeleninEire

    WOO HOO. Just had dinner with KAinMA’s friend Gayle. One of the best dinners and talks I’ve ever had. Send your friends to Dublin. Two degrees of separation I can manage. One degree is OK too!!

  16. 16.

    quakerinabasement

    Sessions still has a slender reed he can grasp. He told Franken, “I’m not aware of any of those activities.” This week’s indictment says he quashed the idea of meeting with the Russians. He can plausibly claim he was unaware of any meetings with the Russians because he told the campaign not to meet with them.

    If I say, “Don’t smoke in the barn,” but the barn burns down, it’s not a stretch for me to say, “I don’t know of anyone smoking in the barn.”

  21. 21.

    germy

    “A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF CRAZY”: IS CIVIL WAR BREAKING OUT IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OVER THE EDITORIAL BOARD’S COVERAGE OF MUELLER?

    A series of virulent anti-Mueller editorials has reporters worried about their paper’s credibility.

    source

    One Journal veteran compared the the paper’s recent opinion-page coverage of Mueller to the way it handled the Clinton controversies of the early 90s, telling me: “It’s like living through the Vince Foster years.”

  22. 22.

    Yarrow

    @Mike J: Ah, Twitter. Not going to go well for them. Re: the tech hearings, I posted this downstairs but it’s worth a re-post.
    DiFi wasn’t too happy with the corporate counsels the tech companies sent. Click through here to see the whole transcript (it’s an image, so I can’t copy it):

    Dang. Here’s what Dianne Feinstein just said to Facebook, Google, and Twitter right now at the #techhearings pic.twitter.com/QXbbjrX46O— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 1, 2017

    Mediate has a summary of it, but the whole thing (in image above) is better.

    “I’ve been very proud… to represent this tech community from California. But I must say, I don’t think you get it. I think the fact that you’re general counsels, you defend your company, that what we’re talking about is a cataclysmic change––what we’re talking about is the beginning of cyber-warfare… I went home last night with profound disappointment. I asked specific questions. I got vague answers. And that just won’t do. You have a huge problem on your hands… You bear this responsibility. You’ve created these platforms. And now they are being misused. And you have to be the ones to do something about it, or we will.”

    There’s also video at the Mediaite link.

  23. 23.

    kindness

    While Sessions certainly would deserve hanging….as a good liberal I’d give him exile. Just so long as I didn’t see that evil leprecaun ever again.

  30. 30.

    burnspbesq

    @NotMax:

    Huge fucking deal. It is now effectively impossible for any of these defendants to get a fair trial, after the prosecution eavesdropped on privileged conversations between defendants and their lawyers. The defense lawyers are absolutely doing the right thing by refusing to continue to participate.

  31. 31.

    TenguPhule

    Trump calls the New York Times to say 1) he’s not angry 2) he’s very popular 3) he goes to work early and stays late

    Three easily rebuked lies in one sentence.

    Gonna need a bigger pike.

  33. 33.

    MisterForkbeard

    @germy: Wow, what ISN’T the fault of a democrat? Who knew? And who knew that the Republican’s ceaseless lying, obfuscation and propaganda had nothing to do with Trump’s rise?

  34. 34.

    TenguPhule

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Where is Trump popular? I need to learn more about that planet. Sounds like a horrible place.

    Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, Florida.

    All places ripe for invasion to spread democracy among them.

  38. 38.

    TenguPhule

    @Baud:

    We’ll see if anyone notices one cares, or if they move the goal posts yet again.

    They’ve had the goalposts on wheels since at least 1992.

  40. 40.

    Elizabelle

    CNN’s roadblock coverage of TERROR IN NEW YORK is nerving me out, since we have elections next week. It’s Ebola all over again.

    Although: 6 days to Election Day, and people could tune out. Or Mueller Thursday, Friday, another Mueller Monday.

    But fuckin’ CNN, the most trusted name in news. They never fucking learn.

  41. 41.

    TenguPhule

    @kindness:

    Just so long as I didn’t see that evil leprecaun ever again.

    What, and allow him to plot against us overseas? I’d agree to exile only if the regime we sent him to is good about disposing of him for us.

  42. 42.

    debbie

    @germy:

    This can all be explained: Paul Gigot is still the editorial page editor. He went from a “reasonable” moderate to extremist wingnut about 8 or 9 years ago, for a reason I just can’t discern. It’s beyond his time to retire.

  43. 43.

    Major Major Major Major

    @burnspbesq: It’s funny, in my peer group it’s very fashionable to start every compliment paid to Feinstein (or Pelosi or Hillary or hmm there’s a pattern here) with “I don’t even like [blank], but…”

    So I always have to do a double-take when there’s just a straightforward nice thing said.

  44. 44.

    TenguPhule

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Except Florida. Exactly the sort of place you don’t want to fight a counterinsurgency campaign.

    Nothing that carpet bombing and the tides can’t solve. We must destroy the state to save us.

  47. 47.

    burnspbesq

    @NotMax:

    It also struck me that the judge seriously overstepped his purview.

    Good call. He totally did. He seems to have not yet realized that he’s been played, and is now running a kangaroo court.

  48. 48.

    MomSense

    We are having a birthday dinner for my youngest and his brothers made a surprise visit. im so happy when we are all together.

    Damn, I’ve become my mom.

  49. 49.

    TenguPhule

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):

    Consider: American cheese deep dish, seasoned liberally with oregano and topped with pineapple and strawberry.

    Otherwise known as a crime against humanity, or Japan’s Thursday night special.

    /Yes, there was a place in Tokyo that did exactly that and worse.

  55. 55.

    Mnemosyne

    @debbie:

    He went from a “reasonable” moderate to extremist wingnut about 8 or 9 years ago, for a reason I just can’t discern.

    Oh, I’m pretty sure I can discern what caused him to flip out based on that timeline.

  59. 59.

    hueyplong

    @Corner Stone: Thanks for posting the link to the Vanity Fair article in that other thread. The easiest cheer-up for me in these dark times is an account of Trump whining or blaming teammates for a potential loss.

  65. 65.

    TenguPhule

    @NotMax:

    Candy corn and peas are for guacamole.

    And guacamole is a lovely diet food.

    You look at it and then find something else to eat.

  66. 66.

    lamh36

    University of Hartford student arrested after allegedly poisoning freshman roommate

    A University of Hartford freshman was arrested this weekend after she allegedly admitted to a series of disturbing acts against her roommate in a confession that was posted to a social media account under her name.

    On Saturday, police took 18-year-old Brianna Brochu into custody on charges of third-degree criminal mischief and second-degree breach of peace, MassLive reports. The arrest comes after an Instagram post was found on her account saying that she spent the past month and a half secretly abusing her roommate. In the post, the freshman allegedly admitted to “putting moldy clam dip in her (roommate’s) lotions, rubbing used tampons on her backpack and putting her toothbrush places where the sun don’t shine.” At one point in the post, her roommate is referred to as “Jamaican Barbie.”

    “I can finally say goodbye to Jamaican Barbie”

    Brochu’s roommate, Jazzy Rowe, posted a video to Facebook in which she said that she’s constantly been sick throughout the school year. She said that her illness began with throat pain that she thought was a cold. After three weeks, the pain was so fierce that she couldn’t speak. Finally, Rowe moved out, and moments after she left her old room, she claims that two resident assistants came up to her and showed her the Brochu’s Instagram post.

    University of Hartford President Greg Woodward issued a statement saying that he has met with Rowe and been in communication with her family. He also said “racism and hatred will not be tolerated on the campus.” Woodward later wrote in a statement that Brochu is no longer a student at the university.

    I am soo mad at this…if everyone dare say that racism will die when the ole foagies of the past finally die off…I just have to read this and roll my damn eyes!

  71. 71.

    TenguPhule

    @Citizen Alan:

    HER OWN FUCKING FATHER ENDORSED “BIBLICAL SLAVERY” JUST 2 YEARS AGO!!!!!! JESUS! (/ tries to get heart rate back under control)

    But it would be rude to confront them with their own bad behavior, don’tcha know?

  73. 73.

    Major Major Major Major

    @TenguPhule: Also, for those of us who aren’t insane and do like guacamole, it’s still a very diet-friendly food since it’s low-carb, high in fiber, nutritious, and filling.

    ETA unless you’re on some sort of low-fat diet, to which I ask, why?

  75. 75.

    TenguPhule

    @Baud:

    Biblical Slavery was the Democrats’ fault.

    Everyone knows Hillary was the original snake on the tree.

    Naked, to booty.

  76. 76.

    Bobby Thomson

    @Patricia Kayden

    : “I think it is disgusting and absurd to suggest that anyone inside of this building would support slavery,” Sanders claimed.

    I can’t help but notice she never denied it.

  77. 77.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    Holy crap! I’m white and I wouldn’t want to risk being her roommate. Who knows what creepy shit she’d decide to do if I left dishes in the sink or hogged the bathroom too long?

  79. 79.

    Corner Stone

    @dmsilev:

    I continue to find it mildly startling that any reporter would consider ‘court stenographer for Donald Trump’ to be a position worth aspiring to.

    MAGA Habs is counting that phat cash from selling an “insider’s account” of the Rise and Fall of Donald Trump.

  80. 80.

    TS

    @Elizabelle:

    CNN’s roadblock coverage of TERROR IN NEW YORK is nerving me out, since we have elections next week. It’s Ebola all over again.

    And they will NEVER learn – this is exactly what terrorist organizations want – media coverage – top of the news – scare the US population into imploding. They don’t have to destroy the US – CNN will do it for them.

  82. 82.

    hueyplong

    It’s difficult to imagine a phrase less supportive of Haberman’s tattered credibility than “President Trump projected an air of calm.” Whenthafuck has that ever been a true statement?

  83. 83.

    ThresherK

    @lamh36: This place is four miles from me. I’d like to say “I can’t imagine this (ETA being done by some white student who is then stupid enough to post it on social media)”, but…I easily can.

    I would enjoy adding local knowledge for the Juicers who live farther away from UHfd than I. But I really don’t have much to put on this.

  87. 87.

    LurkerNoLonger

    Since everything is the opposite of what Trump says, it’s easy to decipher the true meaning behind this quote:

    “I’m not under investigation, as you know,” Mr. Trump said in a brief telephone call to The Times late Wednesday afternoon. Pointing to the indictment of his former campaign chief, Paul Manafort, the president said, “And even if you look at that, there’s not even a mention of Trump in there. It has nothing to do with us,” Mr. Trump said…

    He is under investigation and it has everything to do with them.

  90. 90.

    Study pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    @lamh36: Dammit! I can’t think of a movie I’ve seen with him in it that wasn’t better for his presence.

    As The Wife said, is Tom Hanks going to be the next one outed for pulling this crap?

  91. 91.

    chopper

    .@PeterAlexander: “What are President Trump’s flaws?”

    Sanders: “Probably that he has to deal with you guys on a daily basis”

    to be fair, that is pretty funny. apparently even jethrene can throw at least some shade. I mean, I know it’s all a farce, as does the WH press corps, but what kind of stupid question is that to ask? I guess when you know that the answer is going to be either a deflection or a bold-faced lie, may as well just start going stream-of-conscious.

  94. 94.

    Amaranthine RBG

    @ThresherK:
    Opened in 41, long restoration in the 80s. Mural are original, I believe.

    Theater itself is restored, too and they kept the red velvet seats without cupholders: http://www.cityviewphotography.com/

    Sorry, I couldn’t link directly to picture. Just scroll down a page and look for the red velvet seats.

  97. 97.

    japa21

    @chopper: The question was in response to Sanders’ statement yesterday that all leaders have flaws. The mistake the reporter made was equating Trump with being a leader.

  98. 98.

    Yarrow

    This sounds interesting.

    It’s been nearly a year since we elected Donald Trump to our highest political office — and it still sort of seems like a bad dream. But it’s unfortunately all too real: every day Trump manages to sink below himself and continues to push his sexist, racist, radically conservative agenda. It would be easy to become completely discouraged by modern politics, but luckily there are individuals who are doing all they can to resist him and his policies. “She’s the Ticket,” Topic’s upcoming documentary web series, follows five of those people, all of whom are women running for political office.

    “In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, the women’s political group EMILY’s List were astonished and deluged when they noticed more and more women were asking for information about how to run for office,” a press release for “She’s the Ticket” details. Between 2015 and 2016, 920 women came to Emily’s List to inquire about being a first-time candidate. In the months since then, that ripple grew to a groundswell with more than 16,000 women having reached out as of July to see how they can run. What we’re seeing is a movement.”

    In six 10-minute episodes, “She’s the Ticket” will explore this movement through the eyes of five women running for office: Stacey Abrams, Laura Moser, Jennifer Carroll Foy, Christine Lui Chen, and Crystal Murillo. Abrams is campaigning to become the next governor of Georgia, while Texas-based Moser is challenging a Republican incumbent in the hopes of representing her district in Congress. Carroll Foy is running for Virginia’s House of Delegates and Chen is making a bid for New Jersey’s state senate. Murillo, meanwhile, is running for city council in her hometown, Aurora, Colorado.

  99. 99.

    debbie

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Should we be worried that his mispronunciation of diversity (“diversery”) might signal a TIA? That was ridiculous. It took him 4 tries to get it right.

  103. 103.

    Amaranthine RBG

    @debbie:

    I believe that started when Hepburn said in an interview that she was “just and old tree” or something and Walter’s followed up with “what kind of tree?”

  106. 106.

    FlipYrWhig

    @debbie: I’m telling you, he can read but not that well, and he almost never understands what he’s reading _while_ he’s reading it, and it’s been a problem for a long time (compounded by bad vision and vanity), and he’s been faking it by having someone else explain to him what he is about to say or has just said, and that’s why he tries to have Ivanka in every meeting, because he trusts that she won’t lie to him.

  107. 107.

    Yarrow

    @FlipYrWhig:

    he tries to have Ivanka in every meeting, because he trusts that she won’t lie to him.

    If he throws Jared under the bus, as was rumored earlier today, things might get a little awkward.

  113. 113.

    JMG

    If Haberman begged off this assignment, her career at the Times would be over. Its political coverage is deeply corrupt and stupid — too bad for the others doing good work there. BUT, I will say this. He only calls Haberman (and to a lesser extent, Robert Costa at the Post) when he’s very, very depressed. So while the story might be insane bullshit, it’s a real tell.

  116. 116.

    different-church-lady

    @Mike J: But hey, you know, Twitter is just what you make of it. Neither good nor bad. Just a tool.

    Or so I’m told over and over and over again.

  118. 118.

    MomSense

    @schrodingers_cat:

    It spread to her pelvis so no surgical option. She’s undergoing radiation therapy now. It’s so sad. I’m hoping to spend some time with her next week. I’ve been spending so much time with my dad I haven’t had as much time with her lately.

    Fuck fucking cancer.

  120. 120.

    different-church-lady

    @Yarrow:

    I asked specific questions. I got vague answers.

    What the hell is vague about “Anything that gives us insane market capitalization is okay by us”?

  123. 123.

    Wapiti

    @Yarrow: Trump leaves Friday for his Asia trip. I expect some juicy news to drop once Air Force One is wheels up.

    Personal admission: I get nervous when Trump leaves the country. If Russia launched their arsenal at us while Air Force One was on the tarmac in Asia, would Trump care enough to respond?

  124. 124.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Wapiti:

    If Russia launched their arsenal at us while Air Force One was on the tarmac in Asia, would Trump care enough to respond?

    Why would Russia do that?

  125. 125.

    Steeplejack

    @debbie:

    [Gigot] went from a “reasonable” moderate to extremist wingnut about 8 or 9 years ago, for a reason I just can’t discern.

    I’m sure it had nothing to do with Rupert Murdoch buying The Wall Street Journal in 2007.

  128. 128.

    TenguPhule

    @Wapiti:

    If Russia launched their arsenal at us while Air Force One was on the tarmac in Asia, would Trump care enough to respond?

    Presumably they’d target him first.

  132. 132.

    randy khan

    @Baud:

    I keep hearing people – people I generally respect – saying that the Dems don’t have a positive platform. It drives me crazy. (I also point out that the Contract for on America wasn’t unveiled until some time in 1994.)

  133. 133.

    lamh36

    @ThresherK: what I am reading from people who have followed it closely and social media folk who have spoken to folks close on the incident…apparently the school made the Jazzy (the young lady who was victimized) sign a gag order and threatened to expel HER if she talked about it!!! It wasn’t until social media picked it up that the school then HAD to do something and couldn’t just let it be swept under the rug.

    It a fairly simple process to change roommates…so somebody at the school dropped the fuq’n ball at some point and this young lady could have been poisoned to death…then of course it’d be the dead Black girl’s word vs the white girl…and we all probably know how those types of situations turn out for the Black person!

  134. 134.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Mnemosyne: The person I keep hearing “good guy” comments about is, of all people, Keanu Reeves. Everyone who’s worked with him seems to really like him. He shows up on time, makes no unreasonable demands, has a good work ethic, is kind and generous to his co-workers. It’s probably kept him working through times when he had a string of flops.

  137. 137.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Wapiti: Honestly, if the Russians nuked us, I’d prefer it if we didn’t retaliate. Go down letting half the world live.

    But the calculus of deterrence is such that you can’t express that thought and be President, or anywhere in the chain of command.

  138. 138.

    Czanne

    Am I the only person who reads Maggie in Mean Girl voice? Because if read with a sarcastic, eye-rolling voice (and the one time I’ve ever heard her in an extended interview, she sounded flatly exasperated, so that’s how I always read her) she’s not at all flattering. She’s always 100% plausibly deniable, but she’s doing what’s called “Grey Rock” in Narcissist Survivor circles: be as flat, boring and non-reactive as a small, grey rock. That’s how she keeps getting these calls.

  139. 139.

    ByRookorbyCrook

    @Mnemosyne:

    No, because Tom Hanks is widely (and genuinely) known to be a good guy. Spacey was widely known to be an asshole IRL, though not necessarily the kind of asshole who molests a 14-year-old.

    He was known to favor younger men. Seth McFarlane had a bit in Family Guy with baby Stewie crawling across a lobby floor screaming, “Help I’ve just escaped from Kevin Spacey’s basement!” Theater folk have been leery of him for a while.

  142. 142.

    Emma

    I don’t understand the shock people feel upon finding out a movie star or a musician or an artist of any kind is less than an upright, moral, nice guy/gal. It’s not as if we haven’t had multiple historical examples showing talent is not character! The problem is the environment that allows them to run out of control for years. Until the powerful moneymakers get stomped on, there will be other Spaceys.

  143. 143.

    Feathers

    @Matt McIrvin: I worked on a Boston area film set or two 20 or so years ago, and the folks I worked with were ride or die for Mel Gibson. Apparently, when sober he looks after the folks in recovery, hires (hired?) them and created a safe working environment for them. It really doesn’t surprise me that he keeps getting second chances.

  146. 146.

    Festhers

    @Feathers: just to add: I think it was John Rogers who offered the advice to be extra good to all the baby writers because some of them will become showrunners and be able to offer you consulting gigs when your own career is on the downswing. I think of that every time I hear Mel Gibson has a new gig.

  147. 147.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    apparently the school made the Jazzy (the young lady who was victimized) sign a gag order and threatened to expel HER if she talked about it!!! It wasn’t until social media picked it up that the school then HAD to do something and couldn’t just let it be swept under the rug.

    Honestly, that’s almost worse than what the roommate was doing. The school finds out that one roommate is poisoning the other and their reaction is to punish the victim? Yeah, I’d sure feel safe letting my kids go there.

  150. 150.

    SgrAstar

    @lamh36: me too. It’s unspeakably vile. I’d like to believe that these cretins are dying off and carrying their toxic, stupid views with them, but this pathetic person is only 18. UGH.

  151. 151.

    Amir Khalid

    @Yarrow:
    Trump is coming to my side of the planet. It’s not going to be pretty. He’s certain to embarrass his country — your country again. Why didn’t you people hide his passport?

  154. 154.

    rikyrah

    Rachel M says that the #2 lawyer in the Marines has been put in prison at Guantanamo Bay.

    Because, he doesn’t believe that one of the prisoners is getting fair representation and stood up to correct it.

  156. 156.

    Corner Stone

    @rikyrah: That whole thing is garbage. If one of the civilian attorneys for the Gitmo defense refuses to return, and forcibly refuses to do so, what then?

  159. 159.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @lamh36: Going by the screaming defensiveness of the twitter replies I would say that one struck a nerve. It never ceases to amaze me how the conservatards don’t get that screaming out person attacks against some one asks a question they don’t like is basically a confession that the other person’s point is true.

  160. 160.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @rikyrah: So suddenly the Indians and the Chines are the Other. I thought the Chines were the favored minority because they work hard and don’t talk back to whites.

  161. 161.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Anne,

    You should just refer to her as “Trump’s spokesperson, Maggie Haberman” or “Trump surrogate, Maggie Haberman”

    Shocking how she’s not “tired” and outraged at Drumpf’s “lies” and “sanctimony”

  163. 163.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @NotMax:

    Spath is a cocksucker who is trying to whitewash the fetid puddle of bubbling shit that these “commissions” are. Somebody needs to bar complaint his bitch ass.

  166. 166.

    rikyrah

    I’m going to say this again..

    THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO KILL AMERICAN CITIZENS!!!

    Y’ALL!!!

    The US COMFORT – that huge floating hospital…

    UNTIL LAST WEEK- the boat WAS NOT IN PORT.

    Let me repeat that.

    THE BOOK WAS NOT IN PORT!!!

    DA EVERLOVING PHUCK?!?!?!

  169. 169.

    schrodingers_cat

    @rikyrah: What is so scary about cricket? I have never been to Edison, although I do have a cousin in NJ. From what I understand Edison in NJ is like Jackson Heights in NYC. So that poster is about ten years too late, scare mongering about evil cricket playing people.

  171. 171.

    Lyrebird

    @dmsilev: In all fairness, reporters like Haberman and Cilizza may well find it startling that anyone would choose to be a physicist.

    –posted to bring a smile, not to say you’re like them.

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    zhena gogolia

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Cricket is scary when you’re trying to watch Inspector Morse or Downton Abbey or Grantchester and you’re expected to sit through an interminable cricket scene without understanding the rules.

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    Lyrebird

    @Patricia Kayden: Totally fair question. I can’t find the news item now, but the Frederick Douglass Family Initiative folks had a pretty awesome response, I hope some of this resurgence of white supremacists brings an even bigger resurgence of interest in their work. Many of Robert E Lee’s own descendants have also had clear and admirable responses to this maladministration.

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    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid:

    Why didn’t you people hide his passport?

    I’m not sure Trump has a passport. When was he last outside of the country, since he started campaigning? I assume the TSA doesn’t get to barricade Air Force One…

    (Maybe Duerte will be so nice to him, Trump’ll decide to stay in the Philippines. There would be a weird, tragic symmetry to that beleagured nation being the first victim of Gilded Age American expansionism, and the refuge of — hopefully — the last GOP president elected to enforce the second Gilded Age.)

  182. 182.

    Anne Laurie

    @schrodingers_cat:

    I love cricket and baseball’s OK too.

    An expat friend once told me, “You have to remember — cricket was invented in little hamlets where there just wasn’t much to do on the weekends. And every villager hated everyone in all the other hamlets, so day-long games where the participants got to work out their aggression with pads and bats instead of edged weapons were a net social good.”

    Thinking about how baseball took off, it really wasn’t much different, except as the sport took off the ‘little hamlets’ were American cities pitted against each other for media/business supremacy…

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    NorthLeft12

    @germy: Lets see if I have this straight. According to the WSJ and RWNJs in general, President Bill Clinton’s behavior in office justified impeachment, yet Deadbeat Donald’s known behavior still warranted the WSJ’s support for election to the Presidency.
    Don’t these people have an ounce of integrity left? Or at least a microgram of self awareness? I am sure they would be able to defend these positions without cracking a smile.

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    Peale

    @rikyrah: yep. I am a bit concerned that our side is being played a little too. Too late, though. If the Russians had managed to get, say, Rand Paul elected I might do some kind of “well, he sucks, but in a more normal GOP way”. But they put this monstrosity into power so counter protest away.

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