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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

He really is that stupid.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Books are my comfort food!

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

This fight is for everything.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

No one could have predicted…

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

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

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

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Open Thread: Ugliest Floriduh Man EVAR!

by Anne Laurie|  November 2, 20197:10 pm| 65 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Trumpery, Clown Shoes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Floriduh Man

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(Jeff Danziger via GoComics.com)
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President Trump officially becomes a Florida Man https://t.co/HmB2KcHDPI

— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) November 1, 2019

New York, New York. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere… Trump can’t.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 2, 2019

There is, ironically, nothing more New York than announcing that when you retire you're going to retire and move to Florida.

One in twelve people born in New York moves to Florida; one in twelve Floridians was born in New York. https://t.co/j70O2gtjP7

— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) October 31, 2019

Trump moving to Florida will probably gain Republicans 3-4 points in New York.

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 1, 2019

Does this have anything to do with the New York Attorney General’s interest in his tax returns? https://t.co/NMR7Xoopn2 via @NYTimes

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) October 31, 2019

New York residents are probably delighted to be rid of him. Manhattan DA Vance, however, may be preparing a special farewell for him? https://t.co/DSJqCyKzpH

— John Dean (@JohnWDean) November 1, 2019

No personal income tax in Florida. Just saying. Much better if you have tax filing concerns.

— Liz Mair (@LizMair) November 1, 2019

People facing criminal or civil liability often relocate to Florida because state law exempts the primary residence from seizure in bankruptcy (without regard to the size or value of the primary residence) BUT — the debtor has to claim the property as the primary residence.

— David M. Russell (@pragmaticNYC) November 2, 2019

Pence is done. Now NY resident Ivanka can be her dad’s running mate pic.twitter.com/9kVtEZcY2t

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 1, 2019

Yet https://t.co/b469KC2OCA

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 1, 2019

I think even the upper tiers of Florida Man are looking at the new arrival and muttering, “There goes the neighbourhood”.

— Tim O'Connor (@timoconnorbl) November 1, 2019

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  1. 1.

    Patricia Kayden

    November 2, 2019 at 7:13 pm

    "You've got to be taught before it's too late / Before you are six or seven or eight / To hate all the people your relatives hate / You've got to be carefully taught"Rodgers & Hammerstein, South Pacific, 1948The more things change…. https://t.co/xGGGjvRUxT— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) November 2, 2019

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    252man

    November 2, 2019 at 7:14 pm

    I was thinking he would spend his final years in Kansas.

  3. 3.

    MattF

    November 2, 2019 at 7:23 pm

    I can finally admit in public that I grew up in Queens

  4. 4.

    Ohio Mom

    November 2, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    I don’t much care where Trump lives, as long as it isn’t the White House for much longer.

    (Yes, I’d like to see him behind bars but dare not get my hopes up. Out of the Presidency will suffice.)

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    RAVEN

    November 2, 2019 at 7:47 pm

    He’ll make a great Gator! GO DAWGS!

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    John Revolta

    November 2, 2019 at 7:50 pm

    He’s at least smart enough to realize that he can never show his ugly orange face in NY anymore anyway, so wothehell.

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    The Dangerman

    November 2, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    Now NY resident Ivanka can be her dad’s running mate.

    Her or Junior.

  8. 8.

    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 8:10 pm

    There is NO LEGAL REASON for this 6-yr-old to be JAILED, crying for her parents, for MONTHS. Her case is pending. ICE could let her out any day if they chose.Her mom‘s waiting in NJ.☎️ Call Dem @GovernorTomWolf & ask why his state’s allowing this: 717-787-2500 https://t.co/chdsASP7LN— Kristin Mink #ImpeachTrump #ImpeachKavanaugh (@KristinMinkDC) November 2, 2019

    Longest child in family detention is MSHS, age 6. She’s been in immigration detention for 128 days. She was a spider for Halloween. Last night she sat in a corner in the Berks babyjail and cried to be reunited with both her mom and dad. #endfamilydetention #freetheBerkskids— Bridget Cambria (@BridgetCambria8) November 1, 2019

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    hells littlest angel

    November 2, 2019 at 8:10 pm

    How nice that he’ll be able to spend his retirement among his own kind, getting high on bath salts, exposing himself in convenience stores, and inserting firearms into his rectum.

  10. 10.

    Mike in NC

    November 2, 2019 at 8:12 pm

    This will make it easier for him to stage those hate rallies in Pensacola and Orlando, plus The Villages!

  11. 11.

    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 8:16 pm

    This is what a hostile takeover looks like. I’m pretty jaded about Seattle politics, but this is legitimately shocking. They’re using all that money to gaslight an entire city. We will probably never fully recover from this level of corporate aggression. pic.twitter.com/IkP4VKmMeC— Brett Hamil (@BrettHamil) November 1, 2019

  12. 12.

    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 8:18 pm

    in a shocking turn of events, the exact fucking thing the native people of the region said would happen if the pipeline was built just fucking happened https://t.co/SQW5jvhu7t— Sam (@halaljew) October 31, 2019

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    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 8:20 pm

    .@ewarren just released her plan to fund Medicare for All. It is, I think, the greatest piece of public policy jiu-jitsu that I have ever seen. But more importantly, it is a landmark moment in our multigenerational struggle for health care justice. https://t.co/6hmAXmIMw3— Ady Barkan?? (@AdyBarkan) November 1, 2019

  14. 14.

    zhena gogolia

    November 2, 2019 at 8:20 pm

    Slightly OT but Trump-related, great Asha Rangappa thread:

    https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1190766025953939456

    I’m hoping Adam hasn’t left us. I want both baud and Adam.

  15. 15.

    Nicole

    November 2, 2019 at 8:20 pm

    He’s not going to live in Florida. He’s going to live in NYC but claim Florida. As least, that’s what I suspect he’s going to try to do. I don’t know how aggressively NYC will go after him if he spends 183+ nights here in the Big Apple. If Cy Vance has anything to say about it, probably not very aggressively.

  16. 16.

    Dan B

    November 2, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    @Jay: There are some good candidates, progressive and competent, who are getting megabuck support from Amazon. I’m not fond of our Socialist’s approach to our corporate overlords. I don’t believe it’s effective to demonize them. They bite back and stymie good policy. It appears that some of the candidates who got Amazon bucks will lose because of the ridiculous amount of money. It has tarnished their integrity.

  17. 17.

    Bill Arnold

    November 2, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    Prolly an arrangement with Ron DeSantis – no extradition to New York in return for not releasing embarrassing details about election fraud in certain recent statewide elections. Secession an option if necessary. Russians involved?
    :-)

  18. 18.

    Bruce Luett

    November 2, 2019 at 8:40 pm

    @Jay: All anyone has to do is surf towards The Stranger voting guide. The Stranger has been very influential. They interview the candidates. and they base their pick on that basis. They’ve been doing it for a long time. Sometimes I don’t take their advice, but not very often. If you want, they have a cheat sheet all set up

  19. 19.

    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 8:41 pm

    Coincidence?“Sweeping changes to Ukraine’s top law enforcement agency ordered by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy are set to derail a series of long-running criminal investigations, including two related to…Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort”https://t.co/mdi5MzX4On— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) November 2, 2019

  20. 20.

    Gravenstone

    November 2, 2019 at 8:43 pm

    @RAVEN: He’ll give a gator indigestion.

  21. 21.

    Raven

    November 2, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    @Gravenstone: So did we!

  22. 22.

    hells littlest angel

    November 2, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    Am I dumb, or does the Danziger cartoon make no sense?

  23. 23.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 2, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    @hells littlest angel: not just you

    @zhena gogolia: I noticed he hasn’t been posting lately

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    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    “Ultimate penalty.”2629 people currently on death row2300 juveniles serving life w/o parole50000 serving life w/o parole total3200+ people serving life w/o parole for nonviolent crimeImpeachment, on the other hand, is the loss of the privilege of being in public office. https://t.co/l2UNNhRaI5— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) November 3, 2019

  25. 25.

    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 9:02 pm

    You know, one thing the 302 documents published by @BuzzFeedNews @JasonLeopold really bring home is just what a complete snow job William Barr did on the American people with his 4 page memo. 27 days from the date it was published until the redacted report- so much swept away.— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) November 2, 2019

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    chris

    November 2, 2019 at 9:02 pm

    Words to live by.

  27. 27.

    Raven

    November 2, 2019 at 9:06 pm

    I just can’t do it’: Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle declines White House invite

  28. 28.

    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 9:10 pm

    White supremacists gathered around civil rights martyr Emmett Till's memorial today with a Mississippi Flag & a League of the South flag to film a racist propaganda video. The Emmett Till Interpretive Center's security cams at the now-bulletproof monument caught them. 1/ pic.twitter.com/hDIAUUi52D— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) November 3, 2019

    Shortly after, members of the white supremacist org disperse & scurry to their cars after apparently setting off a security alarm at the newly-replaced Emmett Till memorial, now bulletproof, after being shot up repeatedly. (Warning: loud video). Story + more footage coming. 2/ pic.twitter.com/LxjGPjhkM8— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) November 3, 2019

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    debbie

    November 2, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    @Jay:

    Despicable subhumans.

  30. 30.

    debbie

    November 2, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    @Raven:

    Exactly:

    He added: “People say you should go because it’s about respecting the office of the president. And I think over the course of his time in office he’s done a lot of things that maybe don’t respect the office.”

  31. 31.

    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    Gender reveals have killed more people than antifa— Siobhan O'Leary (@SiobhanFTB) October 30, 2019

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    chris

    November 2, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    Maybe the shitgibbon is just planning ahead? When the Jesus States secede from the socialist hellhole of the USA he’ll be a shoo-in for Supreme Leader.

    ETA: Cynical take brought on by this article:
    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/31/regime-cleavage-229895

  33. 33.

    Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.

    November 2, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    I’ve heard this has more to do with the bankruptcy laws in Florida than the tax rate. Just sayin’.

  34. 34.

    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 9:27 pm

    The Trump administration is creating a center that will give immigration agents access to information from U.S. intelligence agencies. Migrants and others denied entry will be unable to see the evidence against them because it is classified. https://t.co/14WmJ5MMxr— ProPublica (@propublica) November 1, 2019

  35. 35.

    Jay

    November 2, 2019 at 9:32 pm

    For instance that's how wealthy the top billionaires would be today if the 6% wealth tax had been in place since 1982https://t.co/z8iPupRmsl pic.twitter.com/LuC6npb7qp— Gabriel Zucman (@gabriel_zucman) November 1, 2019

  36. 36.

    J R in WV

    November 2, 2019 at 9:33 pm

    Regarding the cartoon, the FLA Manatees see the Daily Manatee front page with Trump moving into their state, and need to register to vote! I just don’t see what’s not to get about that simple obvious take. Even the underwater mammals will vote against Trump.

    Regarding the Civil Rights Memorial, racists never give up their hate, it’s all they have. No brains or education, no courage, no common sense, just full of irrational hate based upon race, or religion, or community background, or wild nonsense that doesn’t even make a coherent argument….

  37. 37.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 2, 2019 at 9:43 pm

    Fredo wrote a book

    The younger Trump defends his father throughout the book, including pushing back a number of times on charges that the president is racist. He said when he was a kid, Michael Jackson lived in Trump Tower and came over to play video games with him and Eric.
    “Oh, and by the way, given all the things my father has been called, particularly a ‘racist,’ it sure sounds odd that he’d let his son vacation with a black man or hang out with Michael Jackson, doesn’t it? If he’s a racist, he’s sure not very good at it.”

  38. 38.

    debbie

    November 2, 2019 at 9:47 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Contrast that with being cited by the DOJ in the 1970s for housing discrimination. //

  39. 39.

    Martin

    November 2, 2019 at 9:47 pm

    @Nicole: He’ll live in FL. Trump Tower is too exposed to the public, and our opinion of him. His private Del Boca Vista is filled with adoring fans.

  40. 40.

    eclare

    November 2, 2019 at 10:04 pm

    @Martin: And it is easier to seclude him from protesters there.

  41. 41.

    Just One More Canuck

    November 2, 2019 at 10:05 pm

    @Ohio Mom: Florence Alabama seems like a good place for him

  42. 42.

    Ohio Mom

    November 2, 2019 at 10:06 pm

    So if Trump retires to his resort in Florida, and whiles away his days playing golf, are we taxpayers still going to be paying for Secret Service golf cart rentals and other fees that will go into Trump’s pockets?

  43. 43.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 2, 2019 at 10:15 pm

    @Ohio Mom: god, I hadn’t even thought of that

  44. 44.

    Jeffro

    November 2, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    Exciting times! Twitler is now claiming that Adam Schiff is going to ‘change’ the transcripts. Not sure whether he means of Twitler’s phone call(s), or of witnesses’ depositions, or what. But that’s now the new line of defense for this most innocent man.

  45. 45.

    Jeffro

    November 2, 2019 at 10:17 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: an idiot son defending a corrupt father is SO on-brand for a trumpov…

  46. 46.

    chris

    November 2, 2019 at 10:18 pm

    @Jeffro: Just means he’s going to put out his own “perfect” transcripts. It’s always projection.

  47. 47.

    Jeffro

    November 2, 2019 at 10:22 pm

    @J R in WV: I agree with all of that, especially ‘wild nonsense’.

    It is hard to fathom the mind that takes offense at a memorial to a person who was beaten and killed. What exactly are they gathering there to protest/get wound up about/use as their inspiration? “This here memorial…to a person who was beaten and killed just because of who he was…grrrrrr!”

    Actually, I understand it just fine: monuments – or even just historical markers – to murdered black people undermine the concept of white supremacy in a big way. Perhaps instead of just a security camera and alarm, the marker needs a minefield around it or something. Mines that are only activated by low IQs, perhaps?

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 2, 2019 at 10:22 pm

    trump went to an MMA match (or whatever they call them) at Madison Square Garden tonight

    Mitch Horowitz @ MitchHorowitz
    That sound you hear is realDonaldTrump getting booed at #UFC244

  49. 49.

    Jeffro

    November 2, 2019 at 10:25 pm

    @chris: The projection would be him ”editing” the transcripts to make an opponent look bad/criminal. That’s why his lizard brain is all spun up about it and has seized on it as something to put out to his cult. It’s literally the first thing that sprung into his mind.

    He’s already tried to make this into the ‘perfect’ call. It didn’t work. That’s why he’s still (STILL!) trying to throw off chaff and ask where the whistleblower is, etc etc. IT DOESN’T MATTER, trumpov, YOU CONFIRMED THE WHISTLEBLOWER’S ACCOUNT 10x OVER ALREADY!

  50. 50.

    MagdaInBlack

    November 2, 2019 at 10:45 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    It does my heart good to see/ hear that.

  51. 51.

    tomtofa

    November 2, 2019 at 10:47 pm

    UFC is real fighting; guess they have a different class of fans from the Pro Wrestling groups.

  52. 52.

    Kattails

    November 2, 2019 at 10:59 pm

    @zhena gogolia: WTF happened? It’s a rare day when I don’t go through the threads on here, but it seems something blew up badly in a short bit of space. I’ve seen a couple other commenters asking the same thing & not seeing any answers. I deeply appreciate all the front pagers. Cheryl and Adam have very specific insights that just can’t be found anywhere else; even though they sometimes disagree, the back and forth in itself is instructive. We can’t afford to lose anybody.
    Dammit.
    F*cking Mercury f*cking retrograde (walks off muttering)(TaMara warned us mutter mutter)

  53. 53.

    NotMax

    November 2, 2019 at 11:04 pm

    @Martin

    There’s already a Boca Raton in Florida. Maybe we can get up enough signatures to rename the immediate area where Dolt 45 settles Culo Raton.

    :)

  54. 54.

    Uncle Cosmo

    November 2, 2019 at 11:07 pm

    @Jeffro: Projection: “Accusation is confession.” Orangecandyass (or more likely one of his evil minions who’s reasonably competent, like Stephern “Reinhard Heydrich Mini-Me” Miller or Bill “Disbar Me” Barr) will order some neofascist tech weenie to alter the tapes & destroy the originals.

  55. 55.

    Jeffro

    November 2, 2019 at 11:18 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: He’ll try...

  56. 56.

    Ben Cisco

    November 2, 2019 at 11:32 pm

    @Just One More Canuck: Screw that – there’s enough idiots in my state. Florida can keep him.

  57. 57.

    gammyjill

    November 2, 2019 at 11:35 pm

    @Nicole: It’s actually the state of Florida that verifies the claims residency. I have several friends and know others who changed their registries from Illinois to Florida. And somehow they need to prove to Florida officials that they are indeed living in their Florida homes.

    Fun comes in with couples who claim Florida residency and only one of them actually wants to live there…

  58. 58.

    Jinchi

    November 2, 2019 at 11:39 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    I’d like to see him behind bars but dare not get my hopes up.

    Personally, I’m extremely optimistic on this point. But I’m not heartless. I’d happily allow his entire family to live with him.

  59. 59.

    Steeplejack

    November 2, 2019 at 11:41 pm

    @J R in WV:

    I just don’t see what’s not to get about that simple obvious take.

    Yeah. It’s just not funny.

  60. 60.

    Ben Cisco

    November 2, 2019 at 11:49 pm

    @Steeplejack: Hey Steep, got a tune for you: https://youtu.be/TlWEcT67Z8cn

  61. 61.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2019 at 12:14 am

    @Ben Cisco:

    All right! Good stuff. Thanks for that.

    ETA: All I’ve got right now—Joe Sample, “Night Flight.”

  62. 62.

    Ben Cisco

    November 3, 2019 at 12:38 am

    @Steeplejack: And thank you! Sample is always good.

  63. 63.

    J R in WV

    November 3, 2019 at 1:50 am

    @Steeplejack:

    @J R in WV:

    I just don’t see what’s not to get about that simple obvious take.

    Yeah. It’s just not funny.

    Yet I laughed out loud, and then later as we ate dinner, Wife laughed out loud at tit again. Maybe you have to have lived in FLA, and know about the Manatee population?!….

  64. 64.

    Zinsky

    November 3, 2019 at 6:43 am

    In my 60+ years on this Earth, some of the dumbest, most vulgar people I have met were Floridians. Trump will fit right in!

  65. 65.

    Steeplejack

    November 3, 2019 at 11:01 am

    @Ben Cisco:

    This just in from a like-minded friend: Eddie Harris, “Listen Here.”

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