Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

The willow is too close to the house.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

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

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Everybody saw this coming.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

This really is a full service blog.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Republicans do not trust women.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

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Eventually, even the media stenographers start to lose patience:


And just think how the military professionals tasked with implementing this crass kabuki feel…

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  3. 3.

    lollipopguild

    We have a president who has created his own alternate reality and then lives in it. Aided and abetted by Fox et al.

  4. 4.

    Bluehill

    I keep thinking it can’t get crazier, but I should have learned not under estimate trump. This weekend should be a white knuckle thrill ride.

  5. 5.

    Mnemosyne

    “Throwing rocks” is a dog whistle to equate these refugees with Palestinian protesters who throw rocks at Israeli soldiers and get gunned down for it.

    Central Americans=Palestinans=Islamist terrorists to Trump and Miller. The rest of the world ia all just one giant undifferentiated mass of scary brown people jibber-jabbering in an unknown language to them.

  7. 7.

    SFAW

    I am consoled by the knowledge that Speaker Ryan and Leader McConnell will act as the “adults in the room,” and rein in the worst excesses of their President, because they are “taking the long view.”

    ETA: Forgot to mention: I dropped a shitload of acid, plus some pineal gland extract from adolescent iguana, a short time ago. I’m wondering if they’ve had any effect on my ability to reason.

  8. 8.

    jl

    @sigaba: At least we don’t have any ‘History’ bothering us anymore. That stinking history has been a big pain in the ass for all sorts of people for a long time. People got killed.

    @Mnemosyne: Same thoughts went through my head when I first heard it. Absolutely vile. I have to hope this sick garbage backfires on them bigtime and we have House and Senate next January.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    Waiting for him to show up, dripping with gold braid, to “take command” astride Mare Horse One.

    (Goes without saying a white, white, white horse. And a filly, as there can be only one First Stallion, don’tcha know.)

  10. 10.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Mnemosyne: With a dash of Mariel Boatlift in there too. That’s where he gets the idea that someone has seeded the crowd of refugees with hardened criminals.

  11. 11.

    Ruckus

    @SFAW:
    The “long view?”
    Have their noses grown that much?

    BTW I just got an email from Capital Weekly, and a bit of investigation shows that it’s a fake survey. From what I could see this is a “newspaper” in Sacramento, but I’d bet it’s a scam from every thing I could see in a short time. All my antennae are up and alert, just by what I’ve read so far about this.
    Anyone have any other info?

  12. 12.

    jl

    @SFAW: ” shitload of acid, plus some pineal gland extract from adolescent iguana, a short time ago. ”

    These days that could be just usual affect of the latest news out of the GOP on the average normal adult. So, regardless of your current state, need to double check. Did you listen to evening news, look at internet or read a a paper earlier today?

    Edit: how much do you weigh? Minutes of GOP news per pound of bodyweight can have a big effect.

  13. 13.

    Platonailedit

    George Lakoff

    Trump counts on reporters to chase his lies and distractions like dogs chase balls. Too often, they meet his expectations.
    Trump’s “big lie” strategy is designed to exploit journalistic convention by providing rapid-fire “news” events for reporters to chase. Trump spews falsehoods in a blitzkrieg fashion, but the lies are only part of the game. What reporters continue to miss is the strategy behind the big lies: to divert attention from big truths. The technique is simple: create controversy and confusion around politically-charged topics to stoke his conservative base and distract from stories that harm Trump.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    @Ruckus

    Might think seriously about reporting it to your state Attorney General’s office. Also to whatever state and/or county entity deals with internet regulation.

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    @NotMax: He hates animals, so it’d be a Trumpian version of the Popemobile rather than a horse. But yes, lots of gold-colored ornamentation would be involved.

  18. 18.

    Barb 2

    When the time comes – how about dumping Trump in a dog cage until his trial?

    We the people need to have an ending – as in he does not live happily ever after. Do the crime you go to jail. Follow the money trail – oh wait – that has been done. Contacts and links to the Russians and to Putin – the long history and business records – that has and is being researched.

    Trump in a dog cage – picture it. Children endured the dog cages.

    Shall we take bets? Will Trump walk away from his latest bankruptcy?

  19. 19.

    SFAW

    @jl:

    Did you listen to evening news, look at internet or read a a paper earlier today?

    Only Fox, because everything else is Fake.

    I hope I live long enough to see Fox shut down, Rupert Murdoch and his spawn imprisoned for life, and Mitch McConnell executed for Treason. And Roger Ailes resurrected via zombification, and then immediately killed in the most gruesome way possible.

    And that is NOT the drugs/booze talking.

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    @Barb 2:

    When the time comes – how about dumping Trump in a dog cage until his trial?

    Only if Mittens gets to put the cage on the roof of the station wagon when he takes Tagg, Grift, Schmuck, and Ronna on a cross-country trip. Maybe have Rafalca pull the station wagon.

  21. 21.

    Platonailedit

    @Barb 2:

    The traitorous thug’s election, his abuse of presidential powers, and the 24×7 corruption at all levels has exposed how hollowed out the checks & balances myth is.

  22. 22.

    Ruckus

    @NotMax:
    Already contacted the county registrar of voters but of course they are closed. But it’s on record and I’ll call tomorrow if I haven’t received any info. If necessary I will take it farther.
    But it smells like a ratfuck.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    @Platonailedit

    Checks and balances, though imperfect, works when all place stock in the oath of office. When one party – unilaterally – absolves itself of and effectively renounces any and all duty and responsibility thereunder, without immediate and dogged consequence, then things fall apart, the center cannot hold.

  25. 25.

    Wapiti

    Looking at that list of units – lot of engineers, including horizontal construction (dozers/graders/scrapers). A lot of that could be used for constructing tent cities.* Some of that seems to be rear echelon stuff that might not have deployed recently and so might be available without impacting other missions too badly.

    I’m not sure how much the organizations have changed, but a couple of units I recognize from nation-building missions out of Panama 20 years ago.

    * Tent cities aren’t free. The tents come from somewhere. I wonder who’s paying or if they’ve even figured that out.

  27. 27.

    Redshift

    @lollipopguild:

    We have a president who has created his own alternate reality and then lives in it. Aided and abetted by Fox et al.

    I’d reverse that. I don’t think he’s creative enough to come up with this stuff; Fox creates it, Trump mostly amplifies it and closes the loop. Here’s been happy to live in that reality and apply his own horrible talents to it.

  36. 36.

    Woodrow/Asim

    @sukabi: You’d need more that raw troops; at a bare minimum the Army Core of Engineers would have to be involved, and I’ve not heard they’re moving south en masse.

    And even with their talents, building his Dream Wall would be a massive undertaking.

  37. 37.

    dimmsdale

    So was Jonathan Karl the dutiful, worshipful stenographer who asked our favorite bag of dung the leading questions about Soros backing the ‘caravan’? Just trying to update my list of ‘top ten media figures aka ‘reporters’ who helped kill American democracy.’

  40. 40.

    BroD

    Odd that Trump hasn’t taken Whitey Bulger’s death as an opportunity to point out what a HUUUGE mistake we made in allowing the immigration of Irish and Italians.

  41. 41.

    Cathie from Canada

    Right after the election, the Pentagon will announce that the troops aren’t needed after all because the caravan has turned around/gone home/collapsed or something, because of Trumps strong leadership blah blah blah…And I will remember Emily Litella “Never Mind”!

  42. 42.

    sukabi

    @Woodrow/Asim: yeah, but this is trump we’re talking about. Planning things that actually work isn’t in his dna. He probably thinks that if you send the military down there he can have them start on the wall as “busy work” while they’re just waiting.

  43. 43.

    Hob

    @Platonailedit:

    The technique is simple: create controversy and confusion around politically-charged topics to stoke his conservative base and distract from stories that harm Trump.

    Here’s my problem with statements like Lakoff’s. They presume that if a topic is “politically charged,” then when people react to it, that’s just a distraction. So, leaving aside the question of what “politics” is supposed to consist of if it doesn’t include discussing “politically charged” things… what on earth would a “story that harms Trump” be, that wouldn’t also be “politically charged”? Trump is supposed to be harmed by something uncontroversial?

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