Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

In after Baud. Damn.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

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

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

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Possum Queen loses it at today’s briefing and stomps off in a huff:

For those who can’t/won’t watch, Huckabee Sanders responds to a question about Trump’s complicity in creating a tense, divided, violent atmosphere, first by lying (“he was elected by an overwhelming majority”), then by whining about negative coverage, which she claims Trump unfairly receives “dispact the fight” (she mispronounces “despite the fact” this way twice) that he’s the greatest president ever, blah blah blah :::flounce:::.

Meanwhile, her vile boss is back to whipping up hysteria about the Central American “caravan” again today despact the fight that the lies about the caravan directly motivated the terrorist in Pittsburgh to begin his murderous rampage:

If the American people don’t rise up and set brand-new records for Congressional turnover in eight days (plus kick Republicans to the curb in statehouses nationwide), we suck.

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  1. 1.

    jacy

    Good goddam, I hate the fucking exclamation points in his tweets. Stupid motherfucker. Every time I see one of those, I swear my blood pressure spikes.

    And the Possum Queen. Aaarrgghhh. She might be even worse than her hideous father.

    I hate all of them so much that sometimes it leaves no room for any other emotion.

  2. 2.

    MJS

    “.. go through the legal process”? You mean by working here illegally and then marrying a disgusting pustule masquerading as a real estate developer? Or do you mean by being the parents of someone who marries the pustule?

  3. 3.

    Butter Emails!!!

    1. Lie about threat x
    2. Deploy military, rattle saber, issue threats
    3. When x doesn’t happen (because it doesn’t fucking exist) claim victory and take credit
    4. Repeat with same or different x

    To spice things up
    1. Create threat x through your own actions/inaction
    2. Deploy military, rattle saber, issue threats
    3. Walk back/partially correct course to reduce/defuse threat
    4. Declare victory, take credit
    5 Repeat

  4. 4.

    wuzzat

    It finally happened. She’s so far removed from reality that she can’t even say the word “Fact” anymore.

  6. 6.

    geg6

    The Jewish community of Pittsburgh has specifically requested that he stay the hell away from them. Nobody in Pittsburgh wants him here. Nobody.

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    Lady Haw Haw sure is pulling out all the stops trying to deflect any blame coming back on her boss.

  9. 9.

    trollhattan

    The WH pool should have a daily ante in a hat. When a reporter asks a question that makes Possum Queen stomp off, she/he wins the pot while the cameras are still rolling.

  11. 11.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @geg6:
    I’m sure Trump will be his usual asshole self and either come anyway or just say he didn’t want to anyway in a huff

  13. 13.

    kindness

    Trump doesn’t get why it’s taken so long for 2nd Amendment Solutions to start happening. I really do think this is what Trump wants now. With the ensuing chaos, he can do anything.

  15. 15.

    geg6

    @dmsilev:

    You know, I’m not a violent person. But if I ever came upon that disgusting NS Frauenschaft pig IRL, I’d have no choice but to punch her repeatedly in the face. Gawd, I despise her so much.

  16. 16.

    Kay

    President Donald Trump’s job approval rating plunged 4 percentage points last week amid a wave of violence, the latest troubling signal for Republican chances in upcoming midterm elections.

    His low quality employees are probably taking the brunt of this, so they’re rattled. Trump’s a screamer and a horrible boss- he’s probably bellowing obscenities at all of them.

  18. 18.

    geg6

    @trollhattan:

    Apparently, he’s coming himself. When he has been asked specifically not to. There is already a protest being organized by local Jewish organizations, even though I don’t think he’s formally announced exactly when he’s coming.

  19. 19.

    Spanky

    @kindness: What he (and the whole Republican cabal) are really waiting for is a violent response from the left. That’ll provide the fig leaf for FSM knows what.

  22. 22.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Had Goebbels not killed himself first, he would have been captured and hanged for his role in the Third Reich.

    Sanders is his spiritual heir.

  23. 23.

    hueyplong

    @geg6: I’ve been a lot happier since I started to avoid live or recorded instances of SHS speaking. She’s not answering anyone’s questions anyway, so why should I listen?

    I read summaries of what went down. That makes it a whole lot easier.

  24. 24.

    trollhattan

    @Spanky:
    Her sneering condescension affects me the most. Was it Robert Costa she asked whether she should speak to in simple sentences?

    Name one accomplishment of your whole miserable life, Sarah. One will be fine.

  25. 25.

    lgerard

    @jacy:

    And the Possum Queen. Aaarrgghhh. She might be even worse than her hideous father.

    She’s much worse then her father. He took considerable heat from wingnut bigots because he supported in-state tuition and drivers licenses for immigrants when he was governor, claiming it was his christian duty. She evidently has no such beliefs.

  26. 26.

    geg6

    @Kay:

    Tough shit for them. They could always quit and end the abuse. But they don’t. Why is that, do you suppose? I mean, I understand that Javanka and Qusay and Uday would have a hard time doing that, but why would anyone else stay and put up with his stupid shit but bitch to the press about it on deep background? I’ve had shit jobs in the past myself. I quit them. Why don’t they?

  28. 28.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @MJS: The “caravans” are following the legal process; approach the border, request asylum.

    The problem is that the xenophobes don’t acknowledge this, as those seeking asylum have brown skin, therefore they’re criminal for simply approaching the border.

  32. 32.

    trollhattan

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    Which our newsmedia seem to ignore across the board. I never hear that mentioned.

    “We will present ourselves at the border and ask for asylum.”

    “Get the fuck away, WE’RE FULL!”

  33. 33.

    Spanky

    @Spanky: … a ring of people around the several block area around Tree of Life, arms linked.

    “You shall not pass.”

    That’d be nice.

  34. 34.

    Elizabelle

    Heard a clip on NPR ATC. Lady Hee Haw Haw (good one) aka Possum Queen sounded near tears as she spoke of Trump’s Jewish grandchildren, son in law, and Kushner relatives being Holocaust survivors.

    It was still not convincing. Drop the “how dare you” ‘tude, PQ.

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    @geg6: I must have been asleep the day we defeated ISIS. Why didn’t anybody tell me!?!???

    Forgot to add, what a lying piece of shit.

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    @geg6: I have to wonder… If I saw Trump, Kavenaugh and Mr. Bone Saw in a parking lot, I’d like to think I could control myself, if only because it would be hard to decide who to go after first.

  39. 39.

    Spanky

    @Spanky: … I was thinking that it might be problematic to block Shady & Wilkins, but Teh Google Traffic tells me there are still road blocks. Four-six thousand protesters would fit the bill.

  40. 40.

    Avalune

    Maybe she was having a stroke from the continued effort at alll the lying?

    Or maybe whatever Trump has that causes him to constantly covfefe nearly every time he speaks is contagious.

  42. 42.

    Gravenstone

    @geg6: I wonder if several hundred people blockading his fucking motorcade from leaving the airport would get it through his empty head how unwelcome he is?

  43. 43.

    Mike in NC

    Latest report is that the caravan of hungry mothers and their children will be met at the border by 5000 active duty soldiers. What a sickening publicity stunt.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    Was there a second election in November 2016 where Trump was elected “by an overwhelming majority”? Because nobody told me about that, either.

    Come on Balloon Juice, I come here to be informed!

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    I have noticed before that when I get really angry, my use of the word fuck skyrockets. Never realized before this afternoon that, under the same circumstances, my rate of posting goes sky high.

    I HATE THESE PEOPLE. THEY SICKEN AND DISGUST ME.

  54. 54.

    geg6

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Agreed. I cannot understand why CNN still sends anyone to that White House briefing room. I would simply tell the viewers that, since they are attacked every time they try to ask a question, they simply aren’t sending anyone as a safety measure and will keep checking the pool feed if anything important is said. Which is about as likely as me marrying George Clooney.

  56. 56.

    dmsilev

    @WaterGirl:

    Was there a second election in November 2016 where Trump was elected “by an overwhelming majority”?

    Of course there was. It was the same overwhelming majority which produced record crowds at his inaugural.

  57. 57.

    pk

    He’s gone down by 4 points in the polls. I’m not sure what it’ll take for 40% of the people to stop supporting him. Does he have to personally come to their house to rape their wives, kick their dogs, sell their children, personally perform an abortion.What will it take? I’m at a loss.

  59. 59.

    Mary G

    This kind of thing is what’s making her so cranky:

    New @HarvardIOP poll: 40% of 18-29s say they will "definitely" vote, the highest Fall midterm % ever, as is the 36% figure for 18-24s. Small sample size but there's a strong correlation between Census reported turnout & the Harvard "definitely" figure. https://t.co/MJv8EEpPHD— Geoffrey Skelley-ton?? (@geoffreyvs) October 29, 2018

  60. 60.

    Avalune

    @Mike in NC: This is pretty infuriating. I haven’t been keeping up with news that much lately but I saw enough to see him emphasize that these were real troops not weekend warriors and a bunch of talking heads acting like we were under attack by tactical babies.

    I would LOVE to see the media stop going to the BS briefings but I sincerely doubt that will happen.

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    @Spanky: We watched The West Wing, we know about this stuff.

    Apropos of nothing, I always think that people who write stories about the political players in this administration should have to put the name of the corresponding West Wing character in parenthesis. It would make it so much easier to keep track of the shifting players.

    Or maybe this? “The role of Josh, this week, is being played by X, who, by the way, isn’t fit to clean Josh’s toilet.”

  62. 62.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mike in NC:

    I sure hope the Army commanders are running some extra “How Not To Commit A War Crime” seminars for the next couple of months.

    It’s almost too ironic that, if the current estimate holds, the refugees will be arriving and begging for shelter right around Christmas. No room at the inn, indeed.

  63. 63.

    Chyron HR

    @WaterGirl:

    Was there a second election in November 2016 where Trump was elected “by an overwhelming majority”?

    He may have lost the grubby peasant vote in November, but he won the huge bigly electoral college vote in December (by the largest margin in history).

  64. 64.

    maryQ

    She is frighteningly good at her job. By “her job” I don’t mean fulfilling the constitutionally mandated obligation to transparency of the executive branch. I mean defending the autocratic regime and shielding it from any accountability. She seems to know exactly what to say to avoid answering a question. And she can deadpan a lie like no one.

    It’s like Satan conjured her up just for this role.

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    @geg6:

    Which is about as likely as me marrying George Clooney.

    You wouldn’t marry George Clooney?

    Perhaps you should have said “Which is about as likely as George Clooney marrying me.”

  66. 66.

    Mnemosyne

    @Avalune:

    According to the various veterans and active duty folks we have commenting and lurking here, it’s actually better to have active-duty troops go there. They’re better disciplined and will be more likely to hold their fire even if things get a little chaotic. So I guess that’s a small mercy?

  67. 67.

    Captain C

    @pk: At least 27% would not only still support him, their enthusiasm would increase if he did this to them.

  69. 69.

    Jay

    @Avalune:

    ” This is pretty infuriating. I haven’t been keeping up with news that much lately but I saw enough to see him emphasize that these were real troops not weekend warriors and a bunch of talking heads acting like we were under attack by tactical babies.”

    It’s going to be unarmed Military and National Guard filling support roles, because that’s what the law allows,

    And it’s going to be up to the Governors, ( who won’t get Federal Funds to cover their National Guard deployments, just like last time), and up to the Pentagon, both with what they can spare and what the Border Patrol can use. Last time it was clerical staff.

    The Insane Clown POSus is just gaslighting again.

  71. 71.

    A Ghost To Most

    I watched with the sound off.
    Her face sure turns nasty when she’s having to defend fascism.

  72. 72.

    Tenar Arha

    @Elizabelle: I utterly despise the Kushners for being complicit in endangering American Jewish people. But it’s also terrible to hear ones fellow Jewish people used as tokens & shields for anti-semites.

  73. 73.

    C Stars

    @Mike in NC: I keep wondering what would happen if a ton of activists went down there to minister to them with food, medical aid, etc. Would be an interesting contrast.

  74. 74.

    Avalune

    @Mnemosyne: That is a good point.

    @Jay: Both my guys are military! I’m just wound up by the rhetoric here – this is the kind of talk that gives us pipe bombs in the mail box.

  75. 75.

    trollhattan

    At least we have this. “By their works shall ye know them.”

    Four hours after the Saturday mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 people, two Muslim non-profit groups launched a crowdfunding campaign for the victim’s families.

    By Sunday morning, the campaign started by CelebrateMercy and MPowerChange had gone viral, raising more than $100,000 in about 30 hours—with an average of $2,000 pouring in every hour.

    “When we first saw the footage and the story on TV from the synagogue, it was sickening to see an atrocity happen in a place like a synagogue or a church or a mosque, you know, places that are sacred places of worship,” Subhan Vahora, program manager of Cincinnati-based CelebrateMercy, told The Daily Beast on Monday.

    “With the rise of Islamophobia and anti-muslim rhetoric, this could very well have been a mosque. We knew we had to help in any way we can and began reaching out to the local community,” he added.

    As of Monday afternoon, the campaign launched on a Muslim crowdsourcing site, LaunchGood, raised more than $127,056 by almost 3,000 donors.

  77. 77.

    The Moar You Know

    Someone give me one good reason why any news outlet is still sending people to cover any press events this White House does.

  78. 78.

    A Ghost To Most

    Satan didn’t conjure up the Possom Queen; it took a huge grifter talibangelical to create this evil piece of shit.

  81. 81.

    Jay

    @Avalune:

    The Insane Clown POSus could say he’s sending Terminator’s to the border, or the Waffen SS Totenkomph Division, or flying rainbow farting Unicorns and the MSM would report:

    “The President said,……”

    Doesn’t make the bullshit real, and the puke funnel will swew again tomorrow,

    We went through all this last April,……..

    He’s desperatly replaying his “greatest hits” with the Deplorables.

  82. 82.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Spanky: That is what I was thinking. Why are the press not screaming about this? What he is doing violates Posse Comitatus. Simple.

  83. 83.

    oatler.

    I think he might be ready for Fox News:
    Chuck Todd
    ‏Verified account

    @chucktodd
    9h9 hours ago
    More
    If you actually believe media is the problem then the last thing one should do is respond with your own hate and anger… Try leading; try setting an example; Try living by the mantra “two wrongs don’t make a right.” But then that would mean cutting back on stoking the division.

  86. 86.

    FlipYrWhig

    @A Ghost To Most:

    Her face sure turns nasty when she’s having to defend fascism.

    Or, to put it another way, her face is always nasty because she’s eagerly defending fascism.

  88. 88.

    catclub

    @Kay:

    President Donald Trump’s job approval rating plunged 4 percentage points last week amid a wave of violence,

    I would suggest not to discount the effect of a falling Stock market. Plenty of people say things like; ‘The stock market’s doing well, so I guess he is ok.”

  89. 89.

    Sister Golden Bear

    In today’s war-on-trans news the Talibaptists efforts at trans erasure continues…. Not all government websites — yet — but two extremely important ones:

    The official websites of the United States Health Department and the Office of Civil Rights have removed all language applying to Transgender identities as the effort to delegitimize between 1.4 million and 1.6 million Transgender Americans across the nation continues.

    https://medium.com/@Phaylen/all-references-to-transgender-americans-scrubbed-from-government-websites-45a455259e4c?fbclid=IwAR1wDCUvHVEUpq4-Df-xRd206JgVHCdiNqooS_uzL5bFm_BJsRV5HYd6kaY

    It’s happening folks.

    It is heartening to see some resistance, such as the huge “Trans people deserve to live” banner unfurled at last night’s World Series game — even if TV didn’t deem to show it.

    https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2018/10/28/18036294/world-series-game-5-dodger-stadium-banner-trans-people-deserve-to-live

    #WontBeErased #StillFuckingHere

    #GrabThemByTheBallot

  90. 90.

    Mandalay

    @maryQ:

    She is frighteningly good at her job.

    This. Sanders is dim, incredibly dishonest, disingenuous, condescending, nasty and rude, but from Trump’s perspective she is doing a great job. She’s 50% rabid pit bull, 50% honey badger, and 100% loyal.

    That’s exactly what Trump wants from her, and nothing more, and anyone expecting anything different needs to adjust their expectations. Ignoring her really isn’t that hard to do.

  91. 91.

    catclub

    @maryQ:

    I don’t mean fulfilling the constitutionally mandated obligation to transparency of the executive branch.

    Is that a thing? Like televised state of the union addresses mandated?

  92. 92.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Had Goebbels not killed himself first, he would have been captured and hanged for his role in the Third Reich.

    Reading about Goebbels is instructive; Goebbels was the intellectual of the group and started out sneering at the idiot racism, but eventually got caught up in the Nazi leadership’s dick wagging contest over who could be biggest Anti-Semite and ended up the king of the Jew bashing jerks. Like I said, the truly disgusting part of this all is they don’t really believe it, it’s just a role playing game to them.

  94. 94.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @maryQ: She is the child of Huckabee and a god botheror herself. Of course she can spew lies and sound like she believes them.

  95. 95.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    Actually, I have a vague memory of an episode about Bartlet’s son-in-law who was, I think, running for Congress, and Jed either refused to endorse him or gave him the most lukewarm possible support or something.

    The scenario is a bit different, but the Bartlet SIL was an exquisite asshole, so they got that casting right.

  96. 96.

    catclub

    @Sister Golden Bear: so there was a moment when something happened, the umpire called timeout really emphatically, but they refused to either comment or show it. I guess that was it. scary sign is scary

  98. 98.

    A Ghost To Most

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    You are not alone.

    Lunatic fringe
    I know you’re out there
    You’re in hiding
    And you hold your meetings
    I can hear you coming
    I know what you’re after
    We’re wise to you this time (wise to you this time)
    We won’t let you kill the laughter

  100. 100.

    Duane

    @Mike in NC: 5200 troops in addition to the 2000 national guard personnel. The border isn’t a war zone.Possum Queen stood there and lied about the election results. Doesn’t even flinch. This administration is out of control. We have to get them out of power, and I’m open-minded on how.

  101. 101.

    Mandalay

    @Spanky:

    the stock market continues its march toward pre-Trump levels

    I don’t know whether there is any data to show it, but I think that the stock market is one of the most important factors in gaining and losing voters. For those with skin in the game, the balance in their 401k may be far more important than Trump’s policies and personality.

    Some of those who love Trump will drop him like a hot potato if the market tanks, and Democrats who profess to loathe Trump will still vote for him if the market does well. Money talks.

  102. 102.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @schrodingers_cat: Look at this way – the next time one of them claims “but I am black friends! I can’t be racists” then the reply is “I see so you only pretend to be one because because you are getting your rocks off abusing others. I will keep that in mind you hold hurting other people is good if the person doing it enjoys it”

  105. 105.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @DCrefugee:

    My younger sister came up with some memorable Spoonerisms when she was a little girl. A few examples:

    “I’ve got an i-good-ea!”

    “You can sayfte it with a pinny-pin!”

    “My Aunt Elinor dyed her head rare!”

    I shall have to share “despact the fight” with her.

  106. 106.

    catclub

    @Mandalay: also the unemployment rate. I would expect Trump popularity to crater if unemployment started going up and the stock market going down. Given his popularity under the opposite conditions is modest at best.

    Obama getting re-elected with high unemployment was kind of amazing.

  108. 108.

    TriassicSands

    @WaterGirl:

    Yes, there was a second election. It took place in the brain of Donald Trump where he won 99.99999% of the vote (once all the illegal votes were discounted). Following that historic victory he won the Nobel Peace Prize for identifying the real threat to the planet — brown people, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for demonstrating that climate change is a hoax, The Nobel Prize in Medicine for repealing Obamacare, and the Noble Prize in Economics for providing the largest tax cut in history which resulted in an economic boom unprecedented in the annals of the modern world. As if that weren’t enough, he then won the Nobel Prize in Literature for a body of Tweets that surpasses the work of Tolstoy, Mann, Steinbeck, and Hemingway — combined. And the winning just keeps on keeping on.

  109. 109.

    Emerald

    @catclub: If Democrats take Congress the tRumpers will blame it all on them, and the media will go along with it without blinking.

  110. 110.

    Aleta

    Ivankush are leaking important news: they are the heroes who convinced the prez to say anti-semitism is bad. Somehow they forgot to mention hostility to immigrants is bad too. Strange, since immigration is part of both familes’ histories. So easy to add those two or three words to the Trumps’ anti-semitism statements. Instead they’re using ‘anti-semitism’ to deflect responsibility. Unbelievably corrupt.

  111. 111.

    J R in WV

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    I think and hope that all the jackals are with you and your sisters and brothers. No one should be surprised that Fox sports didn’t show your banner, it is Faux, after all. Full of hate.

  112. 112.

    Lapassionara

    @Villago Delenda Est: Yes! Thank you for the reminder. This is the legal way to request asylum. That Trump misleads us on this is no reason for us to be mislead.

    I read today that the number of people is probably around 3500, and that Mexico will likely grant most of them asylum before they reach the US.

  113. 113.

    Bill Arnold

    Did anyone else notice this surreal realDonaldTrump tweet sequence today, that looks like it was composed in an alien mind and translated into human? (It reminds me stylistically of a tweet sequence from July 2018. [0])

    The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!
    There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame…
    ….of Anger and Outrage and we will then be able to bring all sides together in Peace and Harmony. Fake News Must End!

    (1, 2, 3)

    Upset that you’re losing control of the narrative threads(/news cycles)?
    (The blatant lie over the weekend about the NY Stock Exchanges reopening on 2001/09/12 was particulary offensive, and stupid; I see some people in the press making space to complain about it.)

    [0]

    Heading to Helsinki, Finland – looking forward to meeting with President Putin tomorrow. Unfortunately, no matter how well I do at the Summit, if I was given the great city of Moscow as retribution for all of the sins and evils committed by Russia…
    …over the years, I would return to criticism that it wasn’t good enough – that I should have gotten Saint Petersburg in addition! Much of our news media is indeed the enemy of the people and all the Dems…
    …know how to do is resist and obstruct! This is why there is such hatred and dissension in our country – but at some point, it will heal!

    (here)

  116. 116.

    Ruckus

    @geg6:
    Those shit jobs – two things.
    First, they might actually be the first real, actual jobs they’ve had.
    Second, how do you expect them to have a second civil war if they aren’t willing to put up with some shit.

  117. 117.

    mozzerb

    @Aleta:

    Ivankush are leaking important news: they are the heroes who convinced the prez to say anti-semitism is bad

    That’s heroism? A US President really shouldn’t need convincing to say anti-Semitism is bad.

  118. 118.

    Ruckus

    @trollhattan:
    Better WH press pool. Names in a hat, who ever gets picked is the only person to have to show up. That person’s name doesn’t go in the hat again till every one has had their day. All the bullshit that’s not fit to cover. One person ought to do.

  120. 120.

    BroD

    And then there’s this:

    SANDERS: I don’t think it’s specific to a generalization of a full outlet. At times there are individuals that is the president would be referencing

    WTF?!

  122. 122.

    Ruckus

    @Litlebritdifrnt:
    Posse Comitatus means that the military can not be used for domestic law enforcement. Protecting against people outside the country is what the military is for. The real question isn’t posse comiatus, but why in the hell would anyone think that a couple thousand people with no weapons asking for asylum is a military threat to the country.

  124. 124.

    jc

    Trump will never be the nation’s moral unifier or healer, he’s too busy disrupting and breaking things. External events are either an obstruction to his acquisitiveness or a smokescreen to conceal it.

  126. 126.

    Procopius

    @Villago Delenda Est: Your point is excellent, but I wish more people would point out that the “caravan” is still more than 900 miles away and moving at less than 20 miles a day and that people are leaving it because it’s really, really hard. Most Americans have no conception of how hard it is to walk 20 miles in a day, day after day. That used to be an annual test requirement for the Marines. A company had to march 50 miles in two days. Lots of those healthy, young men who were in top physical condition, dropped out. I still don’t know how Stonewall Jackson’s armies managed it. The point I’m trying to make is that treating the “caravan” as a threat is ludicrous, and should be treated with scorn and jeers, not responded to with reason, as if it was an argument in good faith.

  128. 128.

    Procopius

    @Gravenstone: It’s gonna take the “caravan” a couple more months to get close to the border, so he’s got time to redeploy troops from Chad and Niger and Djibouti and Somalia and Liberia and Congo (or whatever it’s called now) and Central African Republic. Plenty of other countries we could pull troops from to make the 5,000.

  129. 129.

    Ruckus

    @Avalune:

    Maybe she was having a stroke from the continued effort at alll the lying?

    It’s no effort for her to lie, none at all. That’s what she was raised to do. Lying is the family business.
    And if it was true that she’s having a stroke from all the effort, she’d have been dead for some time.

  130. 130.

    Ruckus

    @catclub:

    Obama getting re-elected with high unemployment was kind of amazing.

    Really? Look at what he’d accomplished by then. Look at his opposition. Look at who was in power when the recession started. Now if you look at 2004 and people thinking Jr wouldn’t win another term…… We were in a war. Sure it was a bullshit war, started by a drunk bullshitter but it’s very rare when a leader loses in the middle of a war. Which is partially why I think it was started in the first place.

  131. 131.

    Mnemosyne

    @Ruckus:

    If Dolt45 really thinks that Mexico will be A-OK with the US massing armed troops on the border, he’s going to have another think coming up real fast.

  132. 132.

    Ruckus

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    Sorry. I’ve not long ago gotten off of 6 trains and 2 buses, which takes about 4-4 1/2 hrs. On said buses and trains, I’m a rather pale, small minority, surrounded by a bunch of brown and black people just going about their day, being normal human beings. IOW scary as all fuck to racist assholes. Me on the other had a couple of good conversations with some of the aforementioned humans of the not so pale skin. All in all, not a bad day.

  133. 133.

    Ruckus

    @Mnemosyne:
    You of all people should know, he doesn’t think, he just reacts. And he’s always wrong so this should go really, really swell.
    And Mexico isn’t going to start a war, they are far smarter than that. shitgibbon on the other hand, is exactly that stupid.

  134. 134.

    Ruckus

    @Procopius:
    My half day long train/bus trip today was to the VA hospital for an appointment. On one of the bus rides I talked to a young gentleman who had joined the Marines but had some health issues and was telling me of all the jogging, running, marching they had to do. I had to laugh because I went to navy boot camp in San Diego, next to the Marine Corp Recruit Depot. We’d get up in the morning and walk out the back door and there were the Marines, double timing over broken ground, carrying an M1 Garand rife (weighs 9 1/2 lb) at the ready, with a full pack. We were 2 maybe 2 1/2 miles from their barracks, just getting up, they had dressed, eaten, straightened up their barracks, and double timed that distance well before we’d brushed our teeth.

  135. 135.

    Procopius

    @Emerald: Yes. That’s why Mitch McConnel said that cutting (“reforming”) Social Security and Medicare was impossible when a single party had control of both Houses, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court. Only if the Democrats had control of the House could they succeed, because otherwise they would be blamed. If the Democrats had a majority in the House of Representatives then they could be blamed and the Republicans would proceed. I was amazed that he explained it so brazenly. Of course the press is complicit and the Democrats will be, too. That’s what the Red to Blue Program is about.

  136. 136.

    Terry chay

    @pk: economic crash. He has historically low numbers given the economy, so the reason his support hasn’t collapsed is because obama’s Economy hasn’t collapsed (yet)

  137. 137.

    Terry chay

    @Emerald: they would blame the democrats even if they don’t win or the crash occurs before. These fuckers blame Obama for the crash that occurred a full year before he took office. They blame him for 9/11 which occurred before he was even in politics.

    Who cares what these losers say?

  138. 138.

    Harry Hamid

    I have a temper at times, and I know what “I need to get out of here because I’m about to lose my temper” looks and sounds like.

    It looks and sounds like that.

  139. 139.

    hitchhiker

    @Harry Hamid:

    Yep. She lost it when Acosta publicly baited her to have the guts to name names as to who is the Enemy of the People. Only her boss is permitted to be that rude!

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