Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

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

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

How stupid are these people?

Republicans do not pay their debts.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Come on, man.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

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  5. 5.

    Shalimar

    In retrospect, Lindsey Graham really looks like an idiot for threatening Kim on Sunday. “If he backs out or cheats…” Kim dodged that bullet by not even having to agree on anything.

  6. 6.

    The Dangerman

    Maybe in a year you’ll be interviewing and I’ll say I made a mistake.

    Yeah, I give it about a year, until one of 2 things happens:

    1) We are all (country, globe, not sure which) totally fucked;

    2) Republican Party is totally fucked.

    Majority of a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Mr. Mueller.

  7. 7.

    TaMara (HFG)

    I can’t even with these people today. I’m just going to bury myself in work and wait for the inevitable fail that always follows the orange cheeto’s “successes”. He won’t manage a full news cycle without fucking it up.

  8. 8.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Ryan Struy @ ryanstruyk
    President Trump says he got North Korea to commit to destroying a major missile testing site but “we didn’t put it in the agreement because we didn’t have time.”

    Simon Maloy @ SimonMaloy
    just sitting here thinking about how one specific president’s every interaction with pretty much any foreign power was likened to the 1938 Munich appeasement

  11. 11.

    Roger Moore

    @schrodingers_cat:

    R voters are enablers of evil at the very least.

    That seems fair. Republicans are people who were willing to vote for incompetent foreign policy to guarantee evil domestic policy.

  12. 12.

    Platonailedit

    Which is more disrespectful to the flag, kneeling or displaying it next to the flag of a brutal dictator who oppresses his people and maintains power through murder? Asking for a friend who plays football.

    pic.twitter.com/NwxMG9Ks0G— Bill Prady (@billprady) June 12, 2018

    lil kim got what he wanted, thanks to magats.

  13. 13.

    MattF

    Putin was a KGB agent. Here’s a little quiz: putting aside any, um, moral reservations… what exactly do Bush, Trump, et. al. think Putin was trained and paid to do? Be specific.

  14. 14.

    Platonailedit

    Let this sink in…Trump's comments in past 72 hours.

    Justin Trudeau: "Dishonest and weak."

    Kim Jong Un: "Talented guy", "He's smart", "Great personality."

    — Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) June 12, 2018

  15. 15.

    jk

    @Roger Moore: @schrodingers_cat:

    The biggest fucking idiots are the electors from our Electoral College who voted for this Frankenstein monster of incompetence, dishonesty, and douchebaggery instead of switching their vote in favor of Hillary Clinton. There should be a special place in Hell reserved for every elector who voted for Trump alongside every Republican member of Congress plus Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, and every Fox News host other than Shep Smith.

  16. 16.

    cain

    Wow, come on even Trump supporters have got to have thought “what is he signing?” They are truly truly the most stupidest people on the planet. I hope to fucking God their children are watching and thinking they are the stupidest people on the planet and run the opposite direction.

    I’ve never seen a President get played on a live stream. It’s historic.

  17. 17.

    Elizabelle

    Good day to stay off the internets.

    Primary elections today in Virginia and South Carolina and Maine and Nevada and North Dakota.

    You know what you must do. I shall happily vote for a challenger to take on Dave Brat, the divinity M.A. and Ayn Rand acolyte who is also an economics professor. Le sigh. A little education can be muy dangerous in service of a wingnut. Brat’s claim to fame is knocking off Eric Cantor, from the right, and, somehow, being someone who can stand in front of a [n expensive private college] classroom as an econ professor but who cannot handle a TV interview.

    Women, get up in this man’s grill.

    WaPost: Dave Weigel: Primary elections: What to watch in South Carolina, Virginia, Nevada, Maine and N.D.

  19. 19.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Platonailedit: someone (jokingly?) said on twitter that MAGAts will be waving North Korean flags soon. Some morning zoo type prankster could pull off a helluva troll by passing them out at his upcoming Sixty Minute Hate (I think it’s in MN) and telling the Mouth Breathers to wave them in a show of support for Himself’s mastery of the globe

    @Just One More Canuck: Lunch was ready?

  20. 20.

    GregB

    In less than two years America has rhetorically turned Western allies into untrustworthy and dangerous enemies and has embraced almost every dictatorial and tyrannical regime on the planet.

    Well played Satan. Well played.

  21. 21.

    Platonailedit

    bbc

    North Koreans switching on the news are not seeing any reports on the historic meeting between leader Kim Jong-un and President Trump.

    State broadcaster Korea Central Television mentions the Supreme Leader’s trip to Singapore but nothing of the summit.

    Traitorous thug would have killed to have such a keep the people ignorant policy.

  23. 23.

    Betty Cracker

    @rp: Still, it’s impressive that he can tweet at all, what with that savage beat-down Maxine Waters administered.

  24. 24.

    celticdragonchick

    Trump says he trusts Kim Jong Un. And if he’s wrong? “I may be wrong, I mean I may stand before you in six months and say, ‘Hey I was wrong,'” said Trump, before adding, “I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that, but I’ll find some kind of an excuse.”

    Amazing.

  26. 26.

    Betty Cracker

    @R-Jud: The vanguard of the invasion could be disguised as snowbirds this fall, deploying to Florida to form the southern half of a pincer formation. When the main invasion force lands from the north, they’ll be greeted as liberators.

  29. 29.

    Roger Moore

    @jk:

    The biggest fucking idiots are the electors from our Electoral College who voted for this Frankenstein monster of incompetence, dishonesty, and douchebaggery instead of switching their vote in favor of Hillary Clinton.

    They’re the second biggest. The biggest are the ones who were pledged to Hillary but voted for somebody else instead as an insane protest.

  31. 31.

    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    There’s a fire truck in the Caps Stanley Cup parade that is emblazoned with “Ovechkin for President”. To which I say, we already have a Russian as President…. I’ll see myself out.

  32. 32.

    Ella in New Mexico

    I still keep hoping this is history repeating itself. Remember how Nixon opened up relations with China and got concessions in an antiballistic missile treaty with the Soviet Union-before being impeached and having to resign?

    Shit, looking back over Nixon’s list of accomplishments I now understand why my then moderate Republican family lamented his having to step down with “He’s done some really good things. This Watergate thing–all politicians do this kind of stuff.”.

  33. 33.

    Tim C.

    @Betty Cracker: God’s truth. Seriously… I’ve been to B.C. enough times to know it’s not perfect up there, but they are civilized in a way red America simply isn’t.

  34. 34.

    dww44

    @Roger Moore: Thanks to the both of you;they are idiots. I receive the NYT opinion daily email newsletter curated by David Leonhardt, a somewhat moderate progressive. In today’s edition there is this:

    Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on voting rights was another “Merrick Garland decision”— that is, a decision effectively made by the Senate’s refusal to let President Barack Obama fill a Supreme Court vacancy.
    Obama nominated Garland, a widely respected, moderate judge, in 2016, and the Senate ignored the nomination. In Garland’s place, President Trump later nominated, and the Senate confirmed, the deeply conservative Neil Gorsuch. In yesterday’s case — on Ohio’s aggressive purging of its voter-registration rolls — Gorsuch provided the swing vote supporting Ohio’s policy.
    There are going to be many more Merrick Garland decisions over the years, and each one is an injustice. They reward the Republican Party for its radical tactics. Yes, both parties deserve some blame for creating today’s extreme partisanship, but the Republican Party’s behavior has been significantly worse.

    As I’m so tired of hearing and reading the”both sides are to blame” meme that I’d love it if someone did an actual scientific proof of it. To me it’s similar to being a victim of sustained verbal and/or physical abuse who finally pushes back and gets punished by the courts for doing so.

  35. 35.

    WereBear

    @rp: Help me Rhonda, I just saw a tweet from Steve Schmidt, who talked McCain into Palin… and I AGREED with it.

    This is a bad trip, maaaaan.

  37. 37.

    different-church-lady

    There’s a cry for help in Cole’s Twitter feed. See if you can spot it.

  38. 38.

    germy

    She might make a fine president someday:

    1/ #TinaSmith is the current sitting Senator for the state of Minnesota. She replaced Al Franken, so, she's only been there for about 5 months. A lot of people who aren't from Minnesota don't know who she is. But, everyone in Minnesota does. She's a lifelong Democrat.— Ms. Knitty Lee ?❄ (@MsKnittyLee) June 1, 2018

    Interesting thread full of her accomplishments and experience.

  39. 39.

    BC in Illinois

    Russia is sometimes described as a nation with a medium-sized economy (an economy about the size of Italy or Spain) – but with nukes.

    North Korea is an abyss – with nukes.

    Trump said that he was honored to meet with the ruler of North Korea. He was impressed that the North Korean people are “hard working, industrious. They are full of fervor for their leader. . . [Kim] is going to be happy. His country does love him. You see the fervor; they have a great fervor. . .”

    But the North Korean “industriousness” does not show up on camera. Not at night. Here is a NASA picture of the void that is North Korea, between South Korea and China.

    Here is a National Geographic video, that is even more striking.

    If you didn’t know that North Korea was there, you could totally miss the “energy bankrupt country” at night.
    How can such a nation exist and survive?
    By putting all the resources to the military and the dynastic rule of the Kim family.

    And then – in pouring praise on Kim and his fervent people – Trump says: “. . . I think that if you look at South Korea someday, maybe in the not too distant future, it will be something like that.”

  40. 40.

    different-church-lady

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    President Trump says he got North Korea to commit to destroying a major missile testing site but “we didn’t put it in the agreement because we didn’t have time.”

    You’re the president of the United States: MAKE SOME GODDAMNED TIME.

  41. 41.

    Spanky

    @R-Jud: “The Case for Invading America”? Well you gotta admit, they would be greeted as liberators, and with flowers. For the most part.

  42. 42.

    MomSense

    @celticdragonchick:

    WTactualF. He is openly saying that if he is proved wrong he will make an excuse. He says that shit out loud because he knows he won’t be held accountable. I’m so fucking furious I don’t know what to do.

  43. 43.

    jk

    @Tilda Swintons Bald Cap:

    Fuck the goddamn, motherfucking Washington Capitals for posing with Jared and Ivanka alongside the Stanley Cup. Those players are assholes for normalizing Trump family criminal scum.

  48. 48.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @Elizabelle:

    Dave Brat, the divinity M.A. and Ayn Rand acolyte

    This smug little fucker being voted out would make me so very happy. I just worry that after Cantor and Brat, what does my old Virginny Home have waiting in the wings to take his place? The Devil You Know…

  50. 50.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @germy: very interesting– I’m surprised Richard Painter’s partisan carpetbaggery hasn’t generated more pushback, but people do like their TeeVee friends who shout things.

  51. 51.

    jk

    @Roger Moore:

    Yeah, you can add those electors to the mix. If we survive the next 3 – 7 years, I hope history won’t forget the asshole electors who ratified the criminal stupidity of Trump voters.

  57. 57.

    NorthLeft12

    It is getting a little tiring listening to Trump, the Republicans, and their idiot base continue to complain about how little the other NATO countries spend on Defence. Trump drags out how much of your GDP that the US spends on the military, as if that is supposed to shame us to spend more.
    The bottom line is that you guys [apparently] want to spend that ridiculous amount of money on your military. Frankly, the rest of us don’t see the value in that and I never agreed with my government committing to upping the amount spent to 2% of our GDP. I understand why they did it, but it really is not important to us beyond supporting our NATO allies.

  58. 58.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Cheryl Rofer: and he’s supposed to be one of their powerhouse intellects

    the whole meme of whataboutism wrt Iran, and to a lesser extent Cuba, rocketing around twitter– trump defenders using it to try to disarm critics, nevertrumpers using it to proclaim their marvelously consistent little minds– is amazing. The Marshall Plan and the Versailles Treaty were both post-world war international agreements intending to reestablish order in Europe after a war Germany lost, so they are exactly alike.

  60. 60.

    germy

    @Cheryl Rofer: Cotton has every intention of being president someday.

    He’s young. He’ll keep trying.

    He doesn’t seem to “work or play well” with others, so maybe more than a few of his colleagues will toss rakes in his path.

  61. 61.

    Mandalay

    I will say this for Trump: he’s brilliant at trolling:

    The former real estate tycoon said after a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he could imagine condominium developments on the hermit kingdom’s shoreline.

    “They have great beaches. You see that whenever they’re exploding their cannons into the ocean. I said boy look at that, wouldn’t that make a great condo,” he said at a news conference after the summit in Singapore on Tuesday.

    “And I said instead of doing that you could have the best hotels in the world right there. Think of it from a real estate perspective. You have South Korea, you have China and they own the land in the middle. How bad is that, right? It’s great.”

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-news-trump-korea-condos-20180612-story.html

  63. 63.

    NorthLeft12

    @BC in Illinois: I am sure that South Koreans will unanimously hope that they do not end up like North Korea……ever.

    What exactly is Deadbeat Donald thinking when he says these ignorant and stupid comments?

    Perhaps I misused the word “thinking”?

  65. 65.

    rikyrah

    @Elizabelle: I started my day by voting in the Democratic primary in VA-10. Hoping we can get rid of Comstock this fall.

    The primary usually this late?

  68. 68.

    germy

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I’m surprised Richard Painter’s partisan carpetbaggery hasn’t generated more pushback,

    I don’t know much about him. Are people taking him seriously?
    Does he have a chance, or does he just want to sell a book or something?

  69. 69.

    rikyrah

    To summarize, North Korea got Trump to:
    – Give them their desired world stage
    – Avoid any discussion on human rights
    – End military exercises with South Korea
    – Hint at ending U.S. Forces Korea
    – Attack NATO and allies as cheap

    In return, “dealmaker” Trump got nothing.

    — Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) June 12, 2018

  70. 70.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @germy: Cotton gives off a “That Boy Ain’t Right” vibe that makes Rick Santorum seem normal. Somewhere in one of his childhood homes, in the back of a crawlspace or buried in the backyard, is a large collection of dolls’ heads, and I’d bet a tidy sum of money that when he was in middle school, a large number of small pets went missing in whatever town he lived in.

  71. 71.

    gene108

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    someone (jokingly?) said on twitter that MAGAts will be waving North Korean flags soon. Some morning zoo type prankster could pull off a helluva troll by passing them out at his upcoming Sixty Minute Hate (I think it’s in MN) and telling the Mouth Breathers to wave them in a show of support for Himself’s mastery of the globe

    Someone did something similar at a recent CPAC (I think) conference with Russian flags.

  73. 73.

    Joe Falco

    @Cheryl Rofer: and this is the same Tom Cotton that sent his letter to Iran to humiliate Obama and spike any treaty talks.

    Fvck him. That traitorous sleazeball should be thrown out of this country on his ear.

  77. 77.

    Frankensteinbeck

    I would like to point out that there is a long, long distance between Trump saying he’s ending exercises in Korea and actually ending them. Remember those times he said he was moving military towards Korea in response to their missiles? Remember how it turned out to be flat-out lies? Talking big and not following through is Trump’s MO. It combines beautifully with another of his major traditions, saying whatever pops into his head, whether or not it’s true.

    Trump has a history of not liking our being in South Korea. That doesn’t mean he’ll do anything about it. The man is lazy and terrified of push back. He can’t just sneak abandoning South Korea past his generals.

  79. 79.

    Platonailedit

    Wonder how the wingnuts blog swamp is spinning as this as a win for the narcissistic oaf of a loser. Anyone care to venture out there and report back?

  80. 80.

    trollhattan

    @rikyrah:
    Was never a Jim Carrey the actor fan but surely am a Jim Carrey fan now. His paintings aren’t mere caricatures, they have real bite.

  81. 81.

    Kay

    “His country does love him. His people, you see the fervor. They have a great fervor.”

    That’s why Trump loves and envies authoritarians- he would LOVE those propaganda events. I get kind of a kick out of it, because it’s a vulnerability. The Trumps DEMAND to be loved. Not just in power. Loved.

    It’s true of Ivanka too. IMO it makes her worse than the boys, who are just garden variety unapologetic assholes. She not only thinks she’s entitled to nepotism jobs and wealth and power, she thinks she’s entitled to adoration. By you. You must love her.

    It literally makes me recoil, the imposition of that demanding neediness by these coddled, pampered, privileged people. They DEMAND. Every day.

  84. 84.

    MattF

    @jk: Ancient Chinese proverb says: ‘Anyone quoting an ancient Chinese proverb is an asshole’.

  85. 85.

    Amir Khalid

    So Singapore will be remembered as the venue of this American fiasco. It turns out that my country has dodged a bullet here: until KJU dragged his family shit onto our soil by having his brother whacked at KLIA, Malaysia was one of North Korea’s few friends, and might have even been chosen as the venue for this “summit”. There is a long-standing over-the-Causeway sibling rivalry, and this is one of the few times we get to say to Singapore, “Sucks to be you.”

  86. 86.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Frankensteinbeck: I think those lies you mention are what passes for strategy in Trump’s brain. Trump makes up some controversy using threats – a trade war, no military exercises with our Asian allies, we’re going to nuke North Korea, then gets into a screaming match, looks for someone to offer some kind olive branch and then Trump uses that as an excuse to proclaim himself winner and a peace maker.

  87. 87.

    Spinoza Is My Co-Pilot

    @jk:

    Fuck the goddamn, motherfucking Washington Capitals for posing with Jared and Ivanka alongside the Stanley Cup. Those players are assholes for normalizing Trump family criminal scum.

    NHL players are all rich white guys, of course most of them are assholes who love Trump being president (even the non-American ones). Why would you expect anything else?

  88. 88.

    Humdog

    @Kay: They are no different than their voters, Kay. They demand the “right” to be as deplorable as they wish but not be properly deplored, instead loved for it. “I am an utter ass, proud to show no redeeming qualities, love me!”

  89. 89.

    Humdog

    @Humdog: Even more: I am a liar, believe me! I behave disrespectfully, wah, they don’t respect me. I support foreign interference in our government and elections, because I am the true patriot.
    Opposite Day, every day.

  90. 90.

    James Powell

    @cain:

    Wow, come on even Trump supporters have got to have thought “what is he signing?”

    Nope. Not a chance. Cleek’s Law. If liberals are outraged, they view it as a great success.

  91. 91.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:
    Yes, that’s the domestic abuser’s strategy. It requires the other person to be desperate, either because you have enormous power over them, or the situation is unimportant enough they just want to get rid of you. Those situations define most of Trump’s life, particularly as a big real estate developer shafting small contractors.

    It doesn’t work in international politics. Strong as the US is, we aren’t that strong.

  92. 92.

    jk

    @Kay:

    It’s true of Ivanka too. IMO it makes her worse than the boys, who are just garden variety unapologetic assholes. She not only thinks she’s entitled to nepotism jobs and wealth and power, she thinks she’s entitled to adoration. By you. You must love her.

    Ivanka has less humanity than Siri.

  94. 94.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @jk:

    “But why are Trump WH aides giving our proverbs to China, increasing our proverb deficit?”

    Bill Kristol said that, when did he developed a sense of humor? lol

  96. 96.

    Elizabelle

    @schrodingers_cat: Yeah, I thought there were some very late in the year primaries.

    Here’s someone who put himself above party, on our side, in South Carolina: per the WaPost:

    There’s less drama than tragedy in the 5th Congressional District, which Democrats nearly won in a 2017 special election — before it was revealed that Archie Parnell, the party’s surprisingly adroit candidate, had once assaulted an ex-wife. Democrats urged him to quit, but Parnell released a statement asking for forgiveness and remained on the ballot. Whether or not Parnell wins, Democrats have effectively conceded the seat.

    What a dipshit. In this year of GOP on the ropes and #metoo, Parnell should have gotten his assaulting ass out of the way. Not the year for that, although wouldn’t it be marvelous if he has a surprise win this November?

    Parnell is a white attorney.

    Per Mother Jones:

    For the past year, Archie Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs managing director and former tax attorney for ExxonMobil, has been among the candidates the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee viewed as contenders to fulfill their dreams of a Blue Wave in the 2018 midterms. But last month, divorce records surfaced that show Parnell abused his ex-wife—a revelation that may cost Democrats the race.

    Parnell, who is running for a House seat in South Carolina’s 5th District, has admitted to physically abusing his former wife in 1973, using a tire iron to break into an apartment where her friends were trying to protect her. He then struck her several times and beat her again later that evening. She sought a divorce and a restraining order against him.

    Most of Parnell’s staff quit after they learned of the abuse, including campaign manager Yates Baroody. Trav Robertson, chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, called on Parnell to drop out of the race, saying “his actions, though long ago, directly contradict the values of the Democratic Party.” The DCCC also withdrew its support—a representative called Parnell’s abuses “inexcusable and deeply disturbing.”

    But in a Facebook video posted to his campaign page June 6, Parnell resisted: “After much prayer and thought, I have concluded I should stay in this race.” He sought help after his violent outburst, he argued, and his marriage to his current wife gave him a second chance. “If I withdraw,” he said, “I would be telling anyone who makes a terrible mistake that that one terrible mistake will define them for the rest of their lives.”

    …. If Parnell does prevail in the primary, he’ll face off against Rep. Ralph Norman, the Republican incumbent who defeated him a year ago. Norman is perhaps best known for pulling out a loaded .38-caliber handgun at a Rock Hill diner to demonstrate that “guns don’t shoot people; people shoot guns”—he then set the gun down on a table and continued his “coffee with the constituents” meeting. Afterward, he said, “I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords,” referring to the Tucson congresswoman who was shot in the head during a meeting with constituents at a supermarket parking lot.

    You know, I seriously believe in second chances, but look at how it played out in the Parnell case. He hid it, got broadsided during campaign, and a lot of his staff quit in protest.

    I do believe that people can grow and change, and Mr. Parnell would have the moral ground if he was honest and forthcoming from the outset about how badly he behaved when he was younger, and how he regrets it and wants to do better for vulnerable women.

    Mostly, stories like this one make me glad I don’t live in South Carolina, beautiful as the Palmetto State is.

  97. 97.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Frankensteinbeck

    : It doesn’t work in international politics. Strong as the US is, we aren’t that strong.

    Heck, that doesn’t work even at a local rotary club meeting. For one thing it’s easily predictable so anyone whose as strong as the Narcissist can just tell the Narcissist to go pound stand and laugh at the Narcissist when they go on repeat loop on their rage ritual (which seems like what Tredeau was doing) or use the peace offering to manipulate the Narcissist like what Kim did.

  98. 98.

    chopper

    @jk:

    “ancient chinese proverb”, “line from a fortune cookie”, what’s the difference anyways.

  99. 99.

    MattF

    @Elizabelle: Sounds like Parnell already has a half-dozen strikes against him. More than strictly necessary to be out of the inning and out of the game.

  102. 102.

    Elizabelle

    @MattF: I could not vote for him, even if I liked his political ideas. He is too slippery. Although, Goldman Sachs and Exxon Mobil taxes kinda tells you that already.

    Character is important.

  103. 103.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Frankensteinbeck: One thing MAGA Rs forget is that countries are not people and carry grudges forever.
    What the arsonist President is doing in the arena of international relationships is burning all the goodwill accumulated in the last hundred or so years.
    Pulling out of deals, denigrating allies etc is eroding our reputation, something that cannot be undone so easily.

  104. 104.

    ruemara

    @cain: considering the last Trump supporter I know was posting pictures of the summit & proclaiming MAGA on my Instagram feed, they’re completely swept up in his historic greatness.

    So, fuck them. Remember to use them as human shields. And I finally blocked her. I can’t keep giving sociopaths a stupid pass when they’ve never shown an inkling of desire to not be stupid.

  105. 105.

    gvg

    I am actually brooding on after Trump. America has mostly kept it’s word in diplomacy and it’s been very valuable to us in a way that isn’t really viable until it’s gone. We are going to have to reaffirm our treaties and expect to be on probation with others for awhile after. I accepted that angrily but it’s just truth. However what about whatever Trump promises? I can’t even tell what he is promising, he usually promises both sides of everything if you wait 5 minutes, and I know everything he promises will not be in our best interests (yes both or all versions of his promises on any issue are all bad the way he does it). I don’t know that we can keep his promises if we can’t figure them out.

    I thought he was a corrupt but otherwise useful idiot until he started saying Russia should be on the G7 and that Canada and Europe are our enemies. Now I am wondering if he is an actual Russian agent or an agent of the devil. It is a whole other level of shock to me. Also my 77 year old dad’s way of handling this is making bad jokes about it, the same ones over and over so that’s not helping.

  106. 106.

    Mnemosyne

    Remember, kids, if we look at past performance and predict failure based on every other action Trump’s ever taken, that means that we’re “rooting” for him to fail. This is because Republicans and conservatives learned nothing from the Iraq fiasco, not even the difference between predicting an outcome and rooting for that outcome.

  107. 107.

    The Dangerman

    @BC in Illinois:

    …you could totally miss the “energy bankrupt country” at night.

    Perfect place for a Trump Casino. I assume the US will block grant funds for an energy source before they break ground.

  108. 108.

    Jeffro

    @mali muso:

    I started my day by voting in the Democratic primary in VA-10. Hoping we can get rid of Comstock this fall.

    From your neighboring, very blue, district – happy to help with that!

  110. 110.

    MattF

    @gvg: There are gradations of culpability and blame– my guess is that Trump is somewhere between ‘fellow traveller’ and ‘active conspirator’. Well past ‘victim of blackmail’, in any event. Thing is, he seems to love and trust the bloodiest dictators, and that’s not just a teensy little quirk.

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    Ohio Mom

    Oh god, I watched that fake movie trailer. Leni Riefenstahl’s spirit lives on.

    Though I suppose if we are very, very, lucky, it will join the Parthenon of campy kitsch, next to Reefer Madness.

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    Mandalay

    It’s a bit disquieting to know that Trump can’t even use the word “nuclear” in a sentence correctly:

    I had an uncle who was a great professor for, I believe, 40 years at MIT. And I used to discuss nuclear with him all the time. He was a great expert. He was a great, brilliant genius. Dr. John Trump at MIT. I think he was there 40 years, I was told. In fact, the head of MIT sent me a book on my uncle. But we used to talk about nuclear.

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    zhena gogolia

    My solution is clear: I just watched an 8-minute video of cats meowing. But — in the comments, people are wondering who the 6 idiots are who voted thumbs down on the video. Immediately someone says, “The same people who voted for Trump.” YOU CAN’T GET AWAY FROM IT NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY

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    jk

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: @chopper:

    ivanka is every bit as dumb and heartless as her dad. She simply has a better grasp of grammar, so some media village idiots believe she’s a more decent person.

    The entire Trump family is a rogue’s gallery of assholes and con artists and I look forward to that day when we can sweep these swine into the great trash receptacle of history.

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    vhh

    @Mandalay: I went to MIT, and majored in electrical engineering (in which I hold a PhD). Prof. John Trump was a professor of electrical engineering, and a well known expert in high voltage technology. He was not a nuclear physicist or engineer. While electrical engineering curricula nowadays often comprise some nuclear physics, it is unlikely that a high voltage engineer who developed his career in the 1920s and 30s would hold forth as an expert on nuclear physics or engineering.

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    Gex

    @Spanky: Ah that’s not entirely correct though. Lee Atwater explained it all to us. It will break some white eggs. But those white eggs are okay with it because it will try to break ALL the brown eggs.

    What sucks for us is that they then turn around and point at the broken white eggs and demand nonstop fluff pieces about the empathy they deserve for enduring the plight they chose for themselves.

  118. 118.

    vhh

    @Mandalay: From Wikipedia article on Prof. John Trump: “The National Academy of Engineering described Trump as “a pioneer in the scientific, engineering and medical applications of high voltage machinery”. James Melcher, Trump’s lab director, is quoted as saying: “John, over a period of three decades, would be approached by people of all sorts because he could make megavolt beams of ions and electrons – death rays. … What did he do with it? Cancer research, sterilizing sludge out in Deer Island [a waste disposal facility], all sorts of wondrous things. He didn’t touch the weapons stuff.”

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    jk

    @Mandalay:

    The same Trump who offered trenchant insight about the cyber and reassured us of his miraculous “touch and feel”. Every time Trump opens his mouth he epitomizes the expression “stone cold stupid”.

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    burnspbesq

    @Elizabelle:

    All true. But if he’s the Democratic nominee, you vote for him—and start working on the 2020 primary the day after the general.

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    cain

    @ruemara:

    So, fuck them. Remember to use them as human shields. And I finally blocked her. I can’t keep giving sociopaths a stupid pass when they’ve never shown an inkling of desire to not be stupid.

    Word. It will always be calvinball. Eveyrthing that was said is the past and it doesn’t matter. Only today counts. Today is always a win. Cleek’s law as James mentioned above always holds true. As long as liberals suffer it’s good.

    We need to come up with our own conservative thinktank and try to bankrupt these assholes. Then mock them when we take their money, while posting pictures of crying liberals. We gotta make it work for us somehow.

    (that’s just the frustration talking, I would never advocate for such a thing)

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    MCA1

    @Betty Cracker: As long as they bring maple cream sandwich cookies to hand out to us as we line the streets. Or rye.

    I admit to spending about an hour online yesterday researching international admittance procedures to various Canadian universities on behalf of my 13-year-old. I’m hoping to trebuchet her up there with a plan to find some nice boy named Stewart or Alistair or something. Also planning on sending the boys to any university they can get into in Scandinavia. Gotta get my genes off this sinking ship somehow.

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    TenguPhule

    @Lee:

    Bush said the same thing about Putin. How did that work out for us?

    The Republicans and NRA got their Russian funding, didn’t they?

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    TenguPhule

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Remember those times he said he was moving military towards Korea in response to their missiles? Remember how it turned out to be flat-out lies?

    He sent an aircraft carrier and gave away that two nuclear subs were also sent.

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    TenguPhule

    @Mnemosyne:

    This is because Republicans and conservatives learned nothing from the Iraq fiasco

    They learned that blaming Democrats for everything works.

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    J R in WV

    @mr_gravity:

    “They have great beaches. You see that whenever they’re exploding their cannons into the ocean.

    I thought this disclosed a fevered brain, perhaps bird flu on the brain. Because you know the NK army isn’t exploding any cannons, they would be getting shot for that action!

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