Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

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

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

T R E 4 5 O N

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

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

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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BREAKING: The NYTimes courtiers seem to be turning on His Small-Fisted Majesty…

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  1. 1.

    CaseyL

    I wonder how this will affect planning for the other big rallies on the calendar.

    I also think I’m OD’ing on schadenfreude.

  2. 2.

    Kropacetic

    When talking to oneself, I find it best to speak to a mirror, it comes across less anti-social than, say, speaking to an empty room.

  3. 3.

    Raoul

    On my sunset walk this evening (with a bounce in my step, despite the turning of the wheel of the year towards shorter days), one of the things I wondered was, what the campaign will do to manage expectations, and (also, maybe?) drive more people into the next few already announced Covid carnivals?

    I also enjoyed imagining Trump just raging full tilt at his staff all the way back to DC in that big, fancy, lonely airplane. Yeah, he’ll have people around him, but no friends.

    His disappointing kids I suppose were on board? Ah, well, one mustn’t feel sorry for him. I mean, because he’s using up the world’s supply of feeling sorry for himself tonight!

  5. 5.

    Craigie

    A liberal friend said tonight this is so bad, she actually feels sorry for Trump. I may be a liberal, but no way do I have enough empathy for that.

  6. 6.

    piratedan

    whole lotta thoughts here…

    positives – kids and teens trolled the President by reserving tickets to drive up the numbers, which the President’s team crowed about only to have that particular worm turn with the less than awesome attendance in a location that should be in his proverbial wheelhouse. It made them look inept, unprepared and clueless (which they are, strangely enough)

    he gave a speech that totally ignores the headlines that have ruled the last three weeks, nary a word for those who have passed, not a peep regarding BLM and the protests against police violence. He’s unprepared to talk about those subjects, so he simply doesn’t and a nation watches those particular sins of omission.

    the rally was about him, not about his supporters, it was about him. Showing that’s he fit, showing that the press is against him, showing that he’s treated unfairly; before he cleverly equated the slights against him as slights against them, but he’s dropped that now, its full on narcissism.

    hard to say how I feel about those cultists that follow him other than I hope that they don’t infect too many others.

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    @CaseyL:

    Trump will not allow his campaign to start booking his rallies into smaller venues. For him, that would mean loss of face.

    What, if anything, will his campaign come up with to avoid another humiliation inflicted by Operation K-pop?

  9. 9.

    hitchhiker

    It’s such a relief to see him flailing. I think I’m not going to know how scared I was until the day Biden actually takes the oath.

  10. 10.

    Eric U.

    Trump saying he slowed the testing is a major scandal.  I’m trying not to think about it so my head doesn’t explode.

  11. 11.

    scav

    Trump is just going to be so hydrated going forward.  And, no doubt, expecting cheers and applause every time he takes a sip.  The White House waiters are going to be exhausted.  Do they need a raise for all the overtime they’re going to be putting in?

  12. 12.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Eric U.:

    I think I saw that they are converting live events to virtual events.

    Well, except Don Bedsore doesn’t get his emotional charge from virtual events: he needs the crowd to feed off of, right?  So I can’t see him being happy with that.  And since he’s the number-one audience ….

  13. 13.

    Kropacetic

    @scav: Trump is just going to be so hydrated going forward.  And, no doubt, expecting cheers and applause every time he takes a sip.

    Good, looks like he stand to keep those walking muscles in shape, even if it’s going to and from the bathroom.

  14. 14.

    Roger Moore

    @Amir Khalid:

    What, if anything, will his campaign come up with to avoid another humiliation inflicted by Operation K-pop?

    The obvious solution would be to start charging a nominal fee for reserving tickets.

  15. 15.

    TS (the original)

    1. I have no idea why these cities don’t demand advance payment from the trump campaign. Has any other campaign just refused to pay?
    2. MAGA is interesting – 4 years in and they are still trying to make America great again – trump seems to have failed on that one.
  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    @Amir Khalid:

    There’s a company called “Living Dolls” that manufactures life-like sex dolls, including a few male models. They’re expensive as hell, but Parscale has tons of Campaign Cash to spend. So… a few thousand of those, maybe? With mirrors set behind them so it looks like more?

    An audience of sex dolls would be a damnear perfect metaphor for all things Trump.

  18. 18.

    Aleta

    Maybe they’ll wave around a study to say the empty blue seats are a proven way to socially distance or reverse the air flow in a stadium.

    He’s a loser.

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    @Roger Moore:

    Trump couldn’t fill more than half of BOK Center with free tickets. So I don’t know if his campaign would be keen to start charging a buck for rally attendance.

  26. 26.

    hitchhiker

    The thing about the water is that from now on, he’s going to be called out every single time he uses two hands. That graduation event wasn’t the first time he’s done that, but it hadn’t been a thing until then.

    If he’d ignored the Lincoln Project mocking him over it, he might have been able to keep ignoring it … but he didn’t. He’s made his water-drinking style a campaign issue.

    This is what the whole summer is going to be like now. trump doing something absurd and stupid, getting mocked for it, pushing back, over and over … while the covid crisis and the economic crisis and the civil rights crisis continue to unfold all around us.

    Hope we make it into 2021.

  29. 29.

    patrick II

    I have thought that Trump playing “you can’t always get what you want” was trolling his audience.  Although that seems too clever by half for him.

    Tonight he could have trolled them with “you can’t always not get what you don”t want”.  But you won’t know because we won’t test you.

  32. 32.

    burnspbesq

    Saw a tweet that purported to show the tweeter’s text messages with a member of BOK Center staff, who said the turnstile count was less than 7,000.

    Make of it what you will.

  33. 33.

    spudgun

    Had to share:  I was driving around my new neighborhood this evening because quarantine is making me stir-crazy and also to recce some running routes (I just moved here a short time ago from the SF East Bay) and I drove through a block with several houses on both sides of the street with bunting, American flags and one house with a massive “Trump 2020” banner. I mean, it was like a mini block party – everyone’s garage doors were open, people sitting on lawn chairs in their driveways, open coolers everywhere…it seems they were celebrating the orange shitstain’s rally at home since they couldn’t be there in person.

    I was shaken to the core, truly.

    I knew what I was getting into moving to redneckistan (I had reasons) but I was able, for a while, to kinda pretend it wasn’t there – well, as much as one can when one is surrounded by monster trucks on the road and things like that – but this was a real moment of culture shock for me.

    I can’t afford to move right now, but I am definitely going to save up so I can get my ass back to the East Bay. I don’t care if I have to live in a walk-in closet-sized apartment, I need to get the fck out of here!

  34. 34.

    cain

    Maga people are going to be doubly outraged seeing the snoozer that Trump put on. I suppose all those people are just crises actors too!

  35. 35.

    cain

    @spudgun:

    Good luck! I hope you make it out of there.. on the other hand, after he loses – that neighborhood is going to have a  very big sad. :)

  36. 36.

    topclimber

    @Eric U.: Look, libtard, Trump was making a joke. Lighten up.

    As I understand it, he really didn’t talk about COVID-19 except for this jocular reference. He is trying to keep our spirits up!  Only dreary leftists want him to dwell on unhappy memories like 120K deaths and close to as many non-funerals.

  38. 38.

    spudgun

    @lgerard: I hate to say it, but…they really don’t look like the sharpest tools in the shed, do they?

    And who the fck yawns like that??

  39. 39.

    spudgun

    @cain: Well, that’s a bright spot – I will at least be here to see their boo-hoo, sad-trombone faces…

  41. 41.

    Morzer

    @CaseyL: Funnily enough, a Korean sports team just got fined a record amount for deploying sex dolls to replace spectators…

  42. 42.

    Ruckus

    As shitforbrains has moved deeper into all of his mental defects – and he has them – there will be some that take front and center. His narcissism is one of those, and if he has dementia that will become more apparent. But his narcissism is over whelming, it really always has been. And as he ages and it becomes his totally controlling factor, he is going to get worse. He spent what, 90 minutes basically trying to show that he didn’t screw up his West Point visit. And all his narcissism did was show that he really is unfit to live freely among other humans, let alone even be in the same state as the US president. I wonder if any of the “fans” that were at the rally actually saw and heard him, not some made up picture of him, that lives in his mind, if no where in reality. He is a time bomb of inflamed personality disorders. In a job that has no real boss that can bench him. OK, they could, but that would leave them stranded and they already signed on for the duration as co-conspirators.

    I’m at a loss, and other than just waiting it out, we are going to have to live with this disaster. moscow mitch and all of his cronies are going to destroy us by refusing to do the jobs they took an oath to do because they support this broken shell of a human being because they think they are getting what they want. Disgusting human beings. Making money off the misery and suffering of others. Wonderful world isn’t it?

  43. 43.

    spudgun

    Erm…did anyone notice that Cole posted a link on twitter to a downloadable PDF of Walrus King Bolton’s book??

  45. 45.

    Ruckus

    @spudgun:

    Yeah, I live in the socal version. It looks like there are more jacked up 4×4 trucks that have never seen dirt than anywhere else on earth. People with a 30-40K truck with another 10-20K in mods that make it basically a horrible off roader. One I’ve seen is so jacked up that the bottom of the body/frame is at the top of the oversized tires. Doesn’t need wheel wells. The center of gravity must be 5 feet off the ground. Or more.

    It’s a great country isn’t it?

  46. 46.

    mrmoshpotato

    I feel so sorry for @sarahcpr right now. It’s so much.

    She could make that 3-hour special just from tonight’s shitshow!

    -Imitate the Soviet shitpile mobster manbaby

    -Say why it’s total bullshit

    -Repeat

    LGF’s Charles Johnson, and Hal Sparks were doing the Lord’s work tonight.

  48. 48.

    spudgun

    @Ruckus: And they always manage to park really close next to me at the Safeway…all. the. damn. time. I understand a little bit since I am now surrounded by lots and lots of farmland, but I KNOW that most of the dudes (and it always seems to be dudes!) driving them don’t do ANY kind of work that requires such a vehicle.

    *sigh* I sure miss my Democratic rep., DeSaulnier…now I have Tom McClintock, who is loop-de-loop crayzee.

    Well, at least we have mail-in ballots, right?  :-D

  49. 49.

    JaySinWA

    @CaseyL: Brad may bill for the premium “living doll” but he will probably get the cheap inflatable ones. I first thought faceless mannequins, maybe for rent, but inflatable dolls would be more their style.

    I seem to recall a business for filling stadiums with people props for movie making, maybe they have an inflatable crowd for rent for low budget types.

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Calouste: Is there footage of the shitgibbon saluting 600 times? I assume that was a lie.

    “My hands are so tiny and baby-like, but so heavy!”

  51. 51.

    Ruckus

    @spudgun:

    Ain’t no farmland anywhere near me. If you want to take a drive you can go out to the desert. Of course most of that is closed to vehicles.  I like that people purchase a vehicle which they modify, which causes it to get less fuel milage, so that it looks like an off roader, most of which never seem to see any dirt under their wheels.

    Did see something one doesn’t see often, even around here and that is a late 70s Ford Ranchero. With a side exhaust pipe that turned up and stuck out about 6 inches from the body, the pipe was between the door and the rear tire. Strangest piece of crap I think I’ve seen in a very long time.

  53. 53.

    Amir Khalid

    CNN tells me that Trump wants a law against burning the US national flag. It was my understanding that burning the flag has long been held by the courts to be constitutionally protected free speech. Any thoughts from American jackals?

  55. 55.

    JWR

    So how long before Trump’s tossing an empty glass routine becomes his “cool” move, which is just like Obama dropping the mic at the WHCD?

    Granted, Obama had just delivered a brilliant, witty speech, while all Trump had to do was successfully drink a glass of water, but they’re practically the same, right?

  56. 56.

    Cermet

    @Amir Khalid: Where is the logic in out lawing burning the flag? That is, by law, if the US flag touches the ground or is in any way defiled, one way it can be disposed of is by …wait for  it … burning it! By definition, a protester using the flag in any discraceful manner is defiling it so burning it isn’t just legal but the proper thing to do! LOL

  58. 58.

    cs

    Random thought because I can’t sleep: Biden needs to invite BTS to play his inauguration if he wins. A big thanks to the kpop stans who’ve already accomplished so much this year, and will probably do much more.

  61. 61.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @rikyrah: The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that laws against burning the flag were unconstitutional.   The Republicans in 1992 wanted to propose an amendment to make burning the flag illegal(I’m not sure how that would works since(as noted above) the proper way to dispose of the US flag is to burn it).

  63. 63.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Updating the number after sending additional photos…a campaign event planning director tells me the outdoor setup (minus USSS and policing costs) would be $550-$600k for staging, audio, video, LED walls, and cost of labor.

    Except this is Trump and Trumps never pay their debts.

  64. 64.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @piratedan: hard to say how I feel about those cultists that follow him other than I hope that they don’t infect too many others.

    That rally is really drink the poison coolaid to show you the great man you are a true believer moment.  That’s what makes it striking the number of people there who were keeping their distance.

  65. 65.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Amir Khalid: CNN tells me that Trump wants a law against burning the US national flag. It was my understanding that burning the flag has long been held by the courts to be constitutionally protected free speech. Any thoughts from American jackals?

    Typical Trump not understanding shit; the courts have upheald flag burning for decades. If the actual US flag laws were enforceable a lot Trump’s own fan bois would be in trouble with the disgusting way they treat the flag.  Not to mention, who on the Left burns a flag these days? We are the real Americans, not those wannabe Nazis.

  66. 66.

    Jeffro

    @Ruckus: well said!

    I suggest we all just let fly today.  Let it all out like the horrified citizens of an abused country that we’ve been these past four years.

    I for one am THRILLED that the slow humiliation of Donald J(im Jones) trumpov is underway.  Get the tar and feathers ready, America.

  68. 68.

    JPL

    @DAVID ANDERSON: Well he did manage to have 6200 out of the hundred thousand they were expecting.

    His next rally he’s going to do a rendition on how great this one was.

  70. 70.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Cermet: One detail there is a myth: The US Flag Code says the flag shouldn’t touch the ground, but it doesn’t say that touching the ground defiles it such that it can’t be used again. (I believed that myself for many years, and when I was a kid, our next-door neighbors actually burned a flag because it had momentarily touched the ground. But it’s not in there.)

    The rule about disposal is for flags that are too worn-out or dirty to use any more.

    Also, it’s worth mentioning that the whole US Flag Code is non-binding; like the Pirate Code, it’s more like guidelines.

  71. 71.

    Ken

    @JPL: His next rally he’s going to do a rendition on how great this one was.

    Yeah, I can easily see him getting into a recursive pity-fest and wasting half the time at each rally with lies about how great the last one was.

  73. 73.

    Ken

    @spudgun: And who the fck yawns like that??

    He’s probably one of the ones who slept two nights on the concrete outside the arena to make sure he’d get a spot.

  75. 75.

    Kristine

    @JWR:

    So how long before Trump’s tossing an empty glass routine becomes his “cool” move, which is just like Obama dropping the mic at the WHCD?

    Did the glass break is what I want to know. Smashing a glass after drinking is so…Russian.

  76. 76.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    My heartfelt thanks to the TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans who fucked up the attendance figures at Trump’s stupid rally.

    This song is for them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afam2nIae4o

    Its title best sums up my feelings towards these wonderful young folks.

    Between now and Election Day, I look forward to people finding different ways to ridicule, humiliate, and embarrass this pathetic excuse for a President.

  78. 78.

    Another Scott

    @Amir Khalid:

    I have always admired Stevens' dissent in the flag burning case because he says, in effect, it's abhorrent and I didn't fight the war for this, I can't vote for it but it's nothing to do with the law.

    — Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) June 21, 2020

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  82. 82.

    Ksmiami

    @Jeffro: every Republican Senator or Congress shithead that went along with this Shambolic infantile Authoritarian fraud needs to be defeated, destroyed and disappeared forever. I can never forgive their failings as Americans and as human beings. You may not know this yet but they’ve doomed us to a  very grim future.

  83. 83.

    WaterGirl

    @rikyrah: That was linked here a couple of times yesterday, but it was a shorter video and I kept wondering what was specifically being decided on at the meeting and what the outcome was.

    So if anyone watched it yesterday, it’s worth watching this one again.

    I googled, and at the end of the meeting, the board voted UNANIMOUSLY in favor the of the name change.

    I love this man.  So smart, such a compelling speaker, and he knows 100x more history than I do.

  84. 84.

    Ruckus

    @hitchhiker:

    If he’s focused on his crowds and “campaigning” maybe he won’t have time and hate for screwing all but the rabid supporters who think life is so good they can assemble without worrying about a pandemic that he has also failed at doing anything about. Also if he keeps doing this and a bunch of his supporters die off, won’t his chances become even smaller? Of course there will be innocent people killed by his malfeasance as a human.

  85. 85.

    Anonymous At Work

    Word of Advice to City/County/State Officials:

    When dealing with the Trump campaign coming to visit, I have one word for you: Escrow

  86. 86.

    Ruckus

    @JPL:

    Did you see the video of him getting off the helicopter at the WH? That is a beaten caricature of a human being. He knows he got his ass kicked and I’d bet he knows that he is going to lose. There is nothing he’s capable of to save this now. Not trying to get cocky but the kids done good, setting him up for obvious failure that he is too stupid to figure out how to fix. He’ll never cede the low road and that is what is required to even attempt to fix this, and he’s not even close to decent enough to pull that off.

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