Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Let there be snark.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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Order ALL The Popcorn: A Real President Speaks

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I, for one, welcome the calm voice of reason to help soothe a hurting nation.

The fact that it’s gonna make someone’s head explode, well that’s just extra butter on my popcorn. (Okay, LOTS of someones)

Tune in. 5 pm eastern, Obama.org

And yes, I know I just stomped on everyone, but it seems to be a theme this week. My apologies to everyone I squished with my bigfoot, but this seemed like a day brightener and we need every one we can get these days.

Open thread

ETA: Okay everyone, I have the livestream set up for 4:50 pm EDT. It is a youtube link.

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    And yes, I know I just stomped on everyone, but it seems to be a theme this week.

    It’s Bigfoots all the way down!

  2. 2.

    cain

    Thank you, Obama – for providing a voice of calm, compassion, and reason. We’ve been bereft of your leadership for too long already.

    Without having to be president I’m hoping we don’t have things like beer summit – some real conversations around police and prison reform.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    And thank you for the link. I know what I’ll be doing in 4 hours and 47 minutes.

  7. 7.

    eric

    I wonder if the current president will do one?  admittedly, the time difference in moscow makes it more challenging.

  9. 9.

    Joy in FL

    I have a meeting at 5 that I can’t really move : (
    I assume the talk will be available after it’s live. I really want to hear and see it.
    Thanks for the info.

  12. 12.

    laura

    Stomping at the Savoy should be a rotating tag this week. Each and every stomp has been worth it!

  17. 17.

    Jeffro

    As I mentioned several (dozen) threads earlier this morning, Uncle Joe and President Obama can keep this up all summer, GOP.  Twice a week like clockwork.  How well will that work with voters exhausted by The Abuser, do you think?

    PRETTY DAMN WELL.

    Meanwhile, the president*s campaign is trying to argue that it wasn’t really ‘tear gas’ tear gas, you know, it was just gas.  That produces tears.

    How about one more article of impeachment just before the 4th, Congress?  Take your pick of options and really twist the knife on these enabling scumbags.

  18. 18.

    Feathers

    What I love is that being at 5pm, there will be time for Herr Scheissegibbon to have a tantrum, covered in comparison with Mr. Cool’s coolness.

    I’m guessing they will also have a set of real demands for moving forward, that all the Dem candidates for downticket offices can adopt. One other good thing about the protests happening now is that there is probably still time to get on the ballot for local races in the fall.

    Let’s get the wave sweeping all the way to the ocean floor.

  21. 21.

    Leto

    @Feathers: also gives the news networks plenty of time put together a highlight reel of an actual president addressing the nation.

  22. 22.

    Salty Sam

    @Kelly: A Washington DC local news reporter with one of the “smoke” cartridges fired to clear the park for Trump’s church photo op. TLDR not smoke

    Stupid Libtards.  They probably mislabeled “magazines” as “clips” too, so you can disregard whatever they say…

  27. 27.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    I predict Trump will stage some event at the same time. They’re frantically thinking up ideas right now. Maybe he can drive a tank, since that worked out well for Dukakis.

  28. 28.

    MattF

    Looks like Dems have figured out that steadily increasing pressure is the way forward.

  30. 30.

    Ohio Mom

    I can’t wait to see and hear Obama, thanks for the heads up.

    It was a well-established norm and custom that previous presidents laid low during whoever was the current president’s term — yet another norm Trump has upended. I’m glad GW went first, I think it is one of those only Nixon could go to China things.

    Now how this shakes out when we are back to normal presidents…well, I think rhe current group of exes will behave, and hopefully Trump wil either be incarcerated or in hiding somewhere that we do not have an extradition agreement with.

  32. 32.

    cmorenc

    @The Moar You Know:

    Good.  I hope Trump’s head fucking explodes.

    During the 2016 post-election transition, Trump noisily stomped around as if he was already in charge, kicking dust in Obama’s face as he went.   Now Obama gets a chance to cast serious shade at Trump, simply by demonstrating what a mature, serious, responsible President would do in this situation.

  33. 33.

    cmorenc

    @The Moar You Know:

    Good.  I hope Trump’s head fucking explodes.

    During the 2016 post-election transition, Trump noisily stomped around as if he was already in charge, kicking dust in Obama’s face as he went.   Now Obama gets a chance to cast serious shade at Trump, simply by demonstrating what a mature, serious, responsible, well-informed President would do in this situation.

  34. 34.

    Central Planning

    The other day my employer had an internal meeting with members of the executive team, as well as Bryan Stevenson from the Equal Justice Initiative and Darren Walker from the Ford Foundation.

    The session was AWESOME. I could listen to Bryan and Darren all day. They had great insight into police culture and the need to change it (like Camden (as others have mentioned)), the history of racism and white supremacy, and thoughts on moving forward. I watched the replay it was so good, and it was even better the second time around.

    My company also announced we’re giving millions of dollars to the Equal Justice Initiative, Black Lives Matter, the NAACP, and 2 other organizations I don’t remember. It’s great that there’s some action instead of platitudes and meaningless recitations of “support”.

  37. 37.

    MelissaM

    @Jeffro: To quote an old Army story from my brother: “Gas! Gas! Gas comin’ out of your ass!” Story goes they were training for gas and had to put on the masks and head up the hill when gas was yelled. After a bit, some wiseacre (probably my brother, but that’s not how he tells it, but then, it was told to family) yelled back at the sgt or whomever. When no one would fess up to having yelled it, he chose a section from which it came to head up the hill, with gas without masks.

    Trump has gas comin out of his ass. Which is also his mouth.

  39. 39.

    TriassicSands

    It is (long past) time for the four living ex-presidents to unite, publicly condemn Trump, and call for his defeat. It is wrong for them to treat Trump as though he were a normal president, performing normal duties in a normal way. He’s a fascist who threatens the future of this country and he needs to be stopped. All four need to do much more.

  41. 41.

    JPL

    Aides to former President Obama tell
    @JoshNBCNews
    that in his virtual town hall tonight, Obama will draw an implicit contrast between Trump’s handling of the policing crisis and the policies Obama advocated as president to increase trust between police and communities of color.

    https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett

  45. 45.

    Kelly

    @Salty Sam:Remember it’s only Tear Gas if it comes from the Tear region of France. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling human rights violation.

  54. 54.

    Geminid

    I’m  glad Eric Holder will be there. I wouldn’t  mind seeing him take another turn as Attorney General. Whoever the A.G. is, I hope he or she brings back a lot of the Obama US District Attorneys, like Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance. They  could hit the ground running.

  59. 59.

    Chetan Murthy

    I’m glad Our President Obama will be speaking.  And his words and presence and guidance are sorely needed.  At the same time, I’m sad, because he shouldn’t have to do this, and he -is- putting himself and his family at risk by doing this.  I can only imagine what Our First Lady Michelle Obama is feeling right now, and just writing this is making me clench up a little.

    If the situation weren’t so awful, he wouldn’t have to be risking his safety doing this.

     

    I just hope the FSM is looking out for him and his family.

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