Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Consistently wrong since 2002

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Petty moves from a petty man.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

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A term I never wanted to need…

Silver-plate (tinfoil?) lining, for once the mantra BOTH SIDES seems to be true: The milky-pale anarcho-kiddies and wannabe-antifa are working in concert dissonance with the bent cops, Threepers, and grab-bag white supremacists to destroy minority communities in the name of FREEEDUMB!!!

Speaking of which:

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  1. 1.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I think at this point, they could fill up one of the Sunday hours tomorrow with twitter videos of black people asking white people to stop busting shit up

  2. 2.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    another Houle tweet:

    Dana Houle @DanaHoule  ·2h

    Looting in Chicago at Sak’s, Nieman Marcus, & NBC Tower. Haven’t seen footage yet, but my guess is it’s a lot of white kids from the exurbs who wouldn’t have showed up to a protest on Pulaski at the Stevenson Expressway (where Jason Van Dyke murdered Laquan McDonald)

  5. 5.

    HumboldtBlue

    One thing the protests drove home was I miss my people.

    I spend a lot of time alone but I also — I used to — spend a lot of time with my friends.

    I need some dress up with the girls and a water-gun fight in the yard.

    That’s what we’d be doing now. I ain’t been called the coolest uncle in the world and king of the river in quite a while.

  6. 6.

    Served

    I have seen a lot of focus on looting and rioting and protestors here, but the nationwide campaign of violence by police today should have everyone terrified.

    They are operating as unaccountable militias in our cities, at war with citizens.

  7. 7.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    ABC NEWS/Washington Post Poll* — May 25th thur 28th — (Link)

    Who will you vote for president?

    Biden………………53%
    Dump……………..43%

    Biden leads Trump 53 percent to 43 percent among registered voters nationally. That 10 percentage-point margin compares with what was a virtual dead heat between the two candidates two months ago, when Biden was at 49 percent and Trump 47 percent. Among all adults, Biden’s margin widens to 13 points (53 percent to 40 percent).

    * pollster rated A+ by 538

  9. 9.

    Matt McIrvin

    I know white people, and I still predict Trump’s numbers to be *way* up once the polling periods get mostly past the 29th-30th or so.

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Matt McIrvin: Well then, maybe tens of millions of you motherfuckers should throw your hands up and go, “Hillary’s Dump’s gonna win.  I don’t have to vote!”

  17. 17.

    senyordave

    With six emergency vehicles in our cul de sac for the last hour couldn’t sleep.  Disheartening to see the pictures and read the stories.  I always thought the antifa shit was pretty much fictional crap from the right but I guess “outside agitators” does apply in part this time.

    I think this would be a good time for Joe Biden to begin to be more visible.  Both in person and in ads, and I hope to hell that his team is working 24/7 strategizing.  It may be cynical but is is also reality, because you know trump will turn the protests themselves into a whine about how white people are being oppressed.

  18. 18.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    He issued this statement at about midnight

    NEW

    @JoeBiden stmt: “We are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us. We are a nation enraged, but we cannot allow our rage to consume us. We are a nation exhausted, but we will not allow our exhaustion to defeat us.”

    He also spent a half hour on the phone with the Floyd family, which is making news, in the shadow on the disturbances

  20. 20.

    oclib

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:

    I actually participated in that poll a couple of days ago….first time ever on a poll.  I found myself getting somewhat irate with the guy on the other end when he kept asking if my answer was “strongly” or “likely” or something else I don’t remember (I’m really into brevity).  At the end, he asked me for my zip code which I had no problem with…..oh, and also asked about my governor’s response….

  22. 22.

    Martin

    @bluehill: I think political scientists would say that it normally would favor a ‘law and order’ platform, but I think that only applies when you can campaign to the right of the incumbent. Trump can hardly save us from the riots that happened under his watch.

    So I think in this case it’ll depend on how Trump responds, which I think we can be pretty confident will make it worse, not better.

  23. 23.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @NotMax:

    Hey, 538 is pretty good when it comes to polling. The trouble comes when they try to do deeper political analyses, like that BS “Dems don’t care about MeToo wrt Tara Reade” piece I linked to from there a while back.

    They were right when it came to the 2016 results, giving Trump a much better chance than other pollsters/aggregators were. Sam Wang was talked about all the time in 2015-2016. Now, nobody mentions him anymore

  24. 24.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Martin:

    Yeah, plus Nixon was more competent than Trump, could at least fake empathy, and wasn’t dealing w/ the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish Flu

  26. 26.

    Martin

    Black dude in Vegas walking down the street with a shotgun daring police to stand on his neck.

    I don’t think this is going to wind down any time soon.

  30. 30.

    Mike G

    @JWR:

     

    “He didn’t give me an opportunity to even speak,” Floyd said. “It was hard. I was trying to talk to him, but he just kept, like, pushing me off, like ‘I don’t want to hear what you’re talking about.’

    Trump can’t pretend to care about anyone but himself, even for a couple of minutes in a condolence call.

  31. 31.

    James E Powell

    @Matt McIrvin:

    That’s certainly possible. But if it becomes widely accepted that he is going to lose – if Biden’s lead in the key states is still there on Labor Day – Trump’s support will collapse and the press/media will stop working so hard to prop him up.

  32. 32.

    opiejeanne

    I haven’t looked for it, but did a bunch of MAGAts show up in DC at the protest on Saturday?

  33. 33.

    Rob

    @opiejeanne: As far as I know, no. I live in the area, did a quick check of non-F*x tv news websites, didn’t see that mentioned at all. On the other hand, there was looting in the city.

  34. 34.

    Chris Johnson

    @Served: Funny, I see a lot of people with familiar nyms understanding perfectly well that this is driven by police violence and alt-right provocateurs, something that’s sharply escalated. An unwelcome development, but utterly unsurprising.

    I suspect SOMEBODY has figured out that riots with a lot of yelling are just as good super-spreader coronavirus events as choir practices, and if you send in undercover cops to destroy what hospitals and facilities they have… this is war and it’s being waged HARDCORE. Some of this is very intentional warfare.

    I think a lot of people around here do understand what’s going on. It’s a pretty informed crowd, when you leave out the masses of unfamiliar nyms here stirring shit up, which also seems to be a tradition at certain orchestrated times.

  36. 36.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    @LaenCleardale: Somewhat, “snerk” as that’s the National Headquarters of that white supremacist organization, the Daughters of the Confederacy, who funded the majority of Confederate monuments across this country in an attempt to assert white authority and rewrite history.  And I’d be fine with that as someone born Richmond, VA, BUT the headquarters is right next to the VA Museum of Fine Arts and the VA Museum of History and Culture.  Fortunately, the fire didn’t spread to those institutions.  Graffiti yes, Fire no.

  39. 39.

    Elizabelle

    @Cheryl from Maryland:   I was taking photos, yesterday late afternoon and dusk, of many of the statues on Monument Avenue in Richmond, plus Kehinde Wiley’s fabulous new monumental statue, and the VMFA grounds.  Was trying to put together an OTR, or a post on the problem of memorializing the wrong kind of history.

    The Jefferson Davis monument just repels.  And it’s the biggest one out there.  Need to bring a real camera to deal with it — the wording along its top — the grateful people of the South stuff.  Gah.

    The JEB Stuart and Robert E. Lee bases were covered with grafitti overnight.  In my photos, you can see that someone threw some pink paint on the Lee statue earlier — it was still there.  Kind of funny — two guys were there practicing putting, and that has to be one of the best uses for that prime space of green grass around Master Robert.

    As you know, the Daughters of the Confederacy building face is pretty much marble (or looks like it).  Will head over and get some fresh photos today, if it’s possible.  I did not photograph the front of the building last night; was walking along behind it.

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