Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

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

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Second rate reporter says what?

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Let’s finish the job.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

In my day, never was longer.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Not all heroes wear capes.

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  2. 2.

    TaMara (HFG)

    I’ve been away from the blog all day. Have we discussed this? Drudge deleted his feed (his account is still active) and Foxnews hasn’t had a tweet since 11/8. Is something going on? That’s all weird, right?

  6. 6.

    FlyingToaster

    @TaMara (HFG): There’s been a lot of speculation (Wikileaks hasn’t tweeted in the same timeframe), but no hard evidence, no GBCW, just … absence.

    I’m happy if they are deciding to keep their mouths shut, for once.

  10. 10.

    gene108

    After Mueller slugs Trunp, I don’t want Trunp to be able to get up again.

    Otherwise the video was cute

  11. 11.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TaMara (HFG): Drudge does this somewhat regularly. Fox News is owning the libs over the “wilding night of the jackbooted leftists and minorities” against Tucker Carlson by not tweeting anything but breaking news.

  13. 13.

    sukabi

    Tom Adam, cute as a cat video, but not nearly satisfying as metaphor for the conclusion of the Mueller / Russia / drumpf dance. I want that cat flattened and dragged out by his neck and thrown in a cage. Not that^ cat, the one in the WH.

  26. 26.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @Mike J:

    Rebecca J. Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    First, the police interacted w/ the protestors as they were leaving & they didn’t arrest anyone.

    They actually saw the person spray-paint the anarchist symbol on the driveway.

    The protestors were walking away slowly. Two walked with canes (yes). No one tried to run.

    If the police had received a frantic 911 call from Mrs. Carlson saying she was terrified, had locked herself in her pantry & people were trying to break into her house, there is no way that the police would have let the protestors go. They would have made arrests.

    Surprise, surprise. Carlson lied.

  36. 36.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @sukabi:

    The thread also mentions the protesters brought along four legal observers and the police report made no mention of damage to the Carlsons’ front door. Mrs. Carlson or somebody called the police, but it wasn’t because the house was being broken into.

  40. 40.

    Platonailedit

    I just want to make sure everyone knows Georgia's Secretary of State race went to a Dec. 4th runoff between John Barrow (D) and Brad Raffensperger (R).

    This is the election to elect Brian Kemp's successor. So it should be obvious how important position is for voting rights.

    — Taniel (@Taniel) November 12, 2018

  43. 43.

    sukabi

    @Adam L Silverman: so do you think it was a heads up meeting for the turtle… “Mitch, we’re looking at falling revenue, well cratering actually and some legal exposure and if we keep promoting your party’s crazy shit ….well, let’s just say you’re on your own. Besides, Mueller is an interesting guy.”

  50. 50.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    Fun fact: there was a girl I knew in HS, who was a year ahead of me, in my chemistry class who was a sort of nasty person at the time. One day, during class, we were working in a group and she misheard my name. She didn’t particularly like me and in an annoyed voice said, “I thought your name was Brian.” When corrected, she said she liked “Brian” better and made a point to call me by that name whenever she could.

    Fast forward two years later at college and we run into each other. I said hi and introduced myself. She remembered me and seemed much nicer. When I introduced myself, I said, about my name, “I can tell you one thing, it’s not ‘Brian'” as a joke. She then actually insisted that’s what my name was! That was so weird.

  57. 57.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: He’s mad at her because she won’t break the law to do things on immigration that he wants done. As bad as she is, every time she or someone else explains to him that they can’t just do whatever he asks them to because of what Federal law actually says, he gets mad at her and thinks she’s not doing it just to spite him. He’s not very bright.

  61. 61.

    Yarrow

    @Adam L Silverman: He’s also a narcissist who’s upset because things aren’t going his way. He’s holed up, first in the hotel in Paris and today in the WH. He needs someone to blame. She’s a good place to start.

  63. 63.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Adam L Silverman:
    You’re right. Which means that Whitless is already having to explain to Trump that no, he can’t arrest Hillary and Obama either. And the Broward County clerks, probably. It didn’t occur to me that he would just hope the next person will say ‘yes’, but that’s how narcissists and 2-year-olds work. Who’s in charge of the DOJ might become an interesting question, since presumably no one else has whatever kept Sessions in the job so long. I still think Sessions chose when he was willing to leave. It was obvious Trump wanted to fire him over a year ago.

  65. 65.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: Pretty much. And despite seeing Putin, he had a very rough weekend. He’ll have a major outburst in the next day or so.

  66. 66.

    Bill Arnold

    @TaMara (HFG):
    David Wallace-Wells (NYMag) is good. This sequence is art:
    In California, Climate Change Has Turned Rainy Season Into Fire Season (Nov 12, 2018)

    November always marked the beginning of rainy season in California. Now it is fire season.

    In the California of that future, every season would be fire season. In fact, that is already how climate scientists and firefighters are now describing the state’s wildfire season: year-round.

    Against that possible future, the simple inversion of November from rainy season to fire season is a powerful poetic reversal — and a sort of map for how all of us will wake up to climate horrors in the decades ahead.

    A reminder of what’s important.

  68. 68.

    Cheryl Rofer

  70. 70.

    Adam L Silverman

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: I am very close friends and a former teammate with someone who has both served with and known Kelly for years. He knows both Kelly and his wife. Despite his very raw feeling about Kelly and what Kelly has been doing since he became DHS secretary, he finds the idea of an affair improbable and implausible.

  73. 73.

    opiejeanne

    @TaMara (HFG): 44 dead in California fires, last time I looked. Two in Malibu the rest in the fire that destroyed Paradise. There have been terrible fires in California that killed people, but not like this. The worst I can remember is one in San Diego County near Julian. People in a remote area relied on a phone tree and no one called them, and they were trapped in their homes.

    Mr opiejeanne’s brother lived in the canyon in Paradise when he was going to Chico state, and we visited him once. Nice place, lots of retired people there. The parents of an ex-bf from HS lived there but they’re gone now, I think.

  74. 74.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Adam L Silverman:
    I meant how well your friend knows Kelly. I was also trying to make some philosophical point about never truly knowing other people and what they’re capable of. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

  75. 75.

    trollhattan

    @Bill Arnold:
    Read today it’s been something like 210 days since last rain in the Camp Fire region.

    Watch for floods in four months. It’s how we roll.

  76. 76.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Adam L Silverman:
    I’m thinking about the future. Nobody is going to be able to give Trump what he wants. There’s going to be increasing chaos and paralysis at the top levels. Sessions was the dike holding back that flood at DoJ.

    (And I would rather have that paralysis than the evil orders Sessions was competent enough to give.)

  77. 77.

    trollhattan

    @opiejeanne:
    Based on your post I just checked and it’s true, the official Camp Fire death toll is 42, up from 29 an hour ago. Horrible, unthinkable.

  81. 81.

    sukabi

    @Adam L Silverman: if your friend is disturbed by Kelly’s actions in this administration, that’s a pretty good indicator that Kelly is pretty good at showing bits of himself and keeping larger parts hidden from friends that wouldn’t approve.

  83. 83.

    Ken

    @Adam L Silverman:

    And despite seeing Putin, he had a very rough weekend.

    Despite, or because? For example, Putin may have said something like “The Magnitsky Act is still US law, and the Democratic House will never repeal it. You are worse than useless. I have ordered my people to cooperate with Mr. Mueller and, should you still be in office in two years, will release the kompromat photos during the 2020 election season.”

  86. 86.

    Corner Stone

    @Yarrow: It’s kind of like saying, “He was always a nice, polite young man.” About the guy who shot up the local coffee shop.

  91. 91.

    Ruckus

    @dmsilev:
    Well considering the top asshole, there is only one way to go. Down.
    Finding out how far down it can go before something breaks or it all blows up in a blaze of something is going to be interesting. To say the least.
    Old saw of course applies, “May you live in interesting times.” Take it ironically of course, that’s the way it has been used for a long time.

  96. 96.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Cheryl Rofer: Barrack seems to really like to talk to reporters

    and, as ever, can you imagine if a Dem had Jeffrey fucking Epstein in a kitchen cabinet?

  98. 98.

    piratedan

    lets just say, as speculation…. that Mueller is awaiting the majority of the shoes to finish dropping in this election and then, we begin to see the indictments start to fall… lets say that he starts with the ratfuckers, Corsi and Stone and locks them up on perjury to start with and squeezes them. He also has Trump Jr and DJT himself on perjury, but lets say he back burners the Liar In Chief and puts the manacles on the son… what could the ratfuckers give up that matters the most to all of us? I’m guessing the coordination of the Russians with the Trump campaign and perhaps even the GOP itself in money, logistics and strategy in applying that cash and misinformation to where it would do the most good. The ratfuckers would have to be the tools to implement that strategy, as such, they would need to have something to do and a purpose to achieve it.

    If this is where the screws are being turned, how much sense does it make for the powers that be that coordinated all of the dissemination of that information to be shitting bricks?

    I think very….

    Which I believe has something to do with why Rupert Baby and The Turtle are meeting because they have to come up with a game plan to spin this shit away from themselves and provide some cover for the continuing GOP obstruction and having to cook up another distraction that safely shifts the spotlight away from themselves as they attempt to perform additional damage control…..

    at least I think that’s a semi-plausible possibility… ymmv

  99. 99.

    sukabi

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: And what exactly would Epstein’s role be? Making sure the kids snatched at the border disappear into the shadows?

    Was already having bad thoughts about what’s happening with the kids we “taken custody of”. throwing Epstein into the mix I can’t even.

  100. 100.

    Ruckus

    My question to the hive is – How far does this have to go before some minimum level of sanity strikes the republican party?
    Nixon was on safe ground right up until he wasn’t.

  101. 101.

    Emma

    @Ruckus: I don’t think they can regain their sanity. That ship is turning the Cape of Good Hope and getting hit by a typhoon. I think there’s going to be a realignment in American politics. I just wish I could trust it would be for good.

  102. 102.

    Platonailedit

    @Ruckus:

    Given that his so called party has accepted and normalized all what the totus thug has done so far – I can’t recall one thing where gop has opposed him – there is no end game to be expected from the gop corrupt critters.

  103. 103.

    sukabi

    @Ruckus: I don’t think the entire republican party was as utterly corrupted during Nixon as it’s become in the last decade, so I think it’s going to be much harder to set things right.

  104. 104.

    Ruckus

    @Emma:
    I feel the same way but there are a lot of bodies and it only takes a few to start the ball rolling. Of course the republicans seem to be a lot more cohesive group of sadistic bastards now than they did 44 yrs ago. And a lot of them were sadistic bastards then.
    Time will tell.
    ETA As all of you who have answered can see I agree with your takes.

  105. 105.

    Omnes Omnibus

    I can’t deal with the movie “Ordinary People” at this time of night. I also cannot turn it off.

  106. 106.

    gene108

    @Ruckus:

    My question to the hive is – How far does this have to go before some minimum level of sanity strikes the republican party?

    Lose elections from President to dog catcher for at least a decade.

  107. 107.

    Ruckus

    @gene108:
    Well a lot of them got jail time after Nixon. 48 got convicted after Nixon for all their bullshit. Didn’t seem to be much of a hinderance to the party then. Maybe if some members of congress get charged and convicted/confess, but I doubt it. I think it’s going to have to be bigger and worse, enough to end the republican party before it has a major effect. I don’t think sanity is possible.
    BTW how are you doing? Better every day I hope.

  108. 108.

    Mnemosyne

    @Yarrow:

    John Kelly is not going to let them disrespect his side piece like that. He’s going to resign in protest if she goes — watch and see.

  109. 109.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    If there was one thing I thought I knew about my older brother, it was that he would never cheat on his wife.

    And then he did. When their youngest child was less than a year old, no less. I suppose I should give him points for not starting the affair while she was pregnant.

    You never know what people will do given the right (or wrong) circumstances, particularly when sex is involved.

  110. 110.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Also, when a person starts acting uncharacteristically in one area, it’s very common for them to start acting differently in other areas of their life as well. It’s uncommon for people to be able to successfully compartmentalize their lives. A change in one area can lead to a change in other areas as a ripple effect.

  112. 112.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Mnemosyne:We shall soon see. KN lied in a Senate testimony, put into practice her mentor’s brutal policy of separating children from their parents and it was still not enough for T. Who is going to be her replacement?

  113. 113.

    opiejeanne

    @trollhattan: They found 13 bodies between the time the headline of 39 was posted and when I clicked on the article.

    They rolled out a mobile DNA lab to identify victims burned to bones and shards of bones.

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