Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Motown is Joe-Town!

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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

This fight is for everything.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

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And finally, Billy Porter did an awesome job with the closer, and it’s nice he threw us Boomers a little treat…

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    This isn’t the most important election of your lifetime, it’s the second most important. 2016 was the most important and we blew it. But this will probably remain the second most important of your life for a very long time.

    QFT.

  2. 2.

    Betty Cracker

    I agree with Weigel and the horseman about the format being faster with less time for bloviating. It’s very telethon-like, but once I got over the weirdness of that, I found it preferable.

    In business these days, there’s a lot of focus on the future — what we’ll keep from the mass experiment in working from home, no business travel, etc., after the pandemic ends. I’d broaden that to politics too — not to mention life in general.

    We’ve reimagined conventions — good. The campaign season is shorter and less frenetic. Good. Some of the shit we were doing was dumb and counterproductive, so let’s stop doing that?

  4. 4.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Charles P. Pierce
    @CharlesPPierce
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    11h
    Doug Jones, with the picture of the four bombing victims for whom he got justice. This is very effective.

    Yep, and the Republicans will be sure to run it as often as they can.

  5. 5.

    Betty Cracker

    Trump has announced that he’s pardoning Susan B. Anthony for a conviction for illegal voting. (Voter fraud!) So, suck it libturds — all women must vote for Trump. He’s been good to you people

    PS: The first sentence is true.

  9. 9.

    Cameron

    @Betty Cracker: “Forget the China flu!  Your president, me, Donald Trump, the greatest president in the history of president, has freed a woman who’s been dead for over 100 years!”

  10. 10.

    Another Scott

    @Immanentize:  Biden’s web page is already set up as one of those “Joint Fundraising Committees” – any excess will go to state parties, etc. Don’t worry about the details – they’ve got you covered.

    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  11. 11.

    Jinchi

    2016 was the most important and we blew it.

    I understand the sentiment, but I whenever I hear that “We blew it” I feel the need to point out that the majority of us voted against Trump the first time around.

    The system failed us.

    For the second time in the last 5 elections.

    Once Biden is in office, we need to make sure that it can’t happen again.

  15. 15.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Immanentize: I was wondering about that– I think I’m maxed out, but that’s still for the primary?

    Actually Citibank just issued me a new credit card number, so I’ll have to reset flipping every monthly bill I have. PITA

  17. 17.

    Ken

    @Betty Cracker: The campaign season is shorter and less frenetic. Good. Some of the shit we were doing was dumb and counterproductive, so let’s stop doing that?

    That would be nice, but a long frenetic campaign season means advertising revenue, so I can’t see this getting any media play.

  25. 25.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @Immanentize: Oh interesting. Once again, Trump proves he doesn’t know how things work. Of course, I didn’t think of that either, but I’m  not president so I don’t have advisors to tell stuff. Except for BJ. Perhaps you all are Baud’s advisors and the rest of us benefit too

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    This isn’t the most important election of your lifetime, it’s the second most important. 2016 was the most important and we blew it. But this will probably remain the second most important of your life for a very long time.

    Glad someone else feels the same way.  I wonder what Hillary Clinton is going to have to say tomorrow.

  27. 27.

    Jinchi

    @Baud: 54%.

    Trump won 2016 because we don’t have a system designed to deal with more than 2 candidates. He only won 46% of the vote. 48% voted for Hillary and 6% hated both candidates.

    He hasn’t exactly expanded his base in the last four years. I don’t think Kanye is going to make the difference for him this year.

    54%-46%. That’s my prediction for 2020.

  28. 28.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Jinchi: Didn’t I read that that smarmy asshole Covington Catholic kid was going to be there? Is that a joke too? Is it bad that I can’t tell any more?

  29. 29.

    Chris Johnson

    @Betty Cracker: That actually got a tweet out of me, which is a rare occurrence.

    “Give him time, bringing back those laws and criminalizing a female vote might be part of his platform for 2020. Then if you’re good, he will personally pardon you for trying.”

  31. 31.

    Jinchi

    @Gin & Tonic: The Covington Catholic kid wasn’t convicted of sexual assault. He’s just an asshole. So perfect for a Trump convention and would probably be the least offensive character in the room.

    I fully expect the war criminal Trump pardoned to have a cameo, along with Joe Arpaio and Roger Stone.

  32. 32.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Daniel Dale @ddale8 · 18m
    Trump said Michelle Obama is the one in “over her head.” He cited the fact that she taped her speech, rather than doing it live, and “she had the wrong deaths.” Obama said “more than 150,000” Americans have died from the coronavirus. It is now more than 170,000.

    I saw last night that’s why there was no mention of KH, the speech was taped before the pick. As somebody said on twitter, if you can bring the virtual house down a week out….

  34. 34.

    WereBear

    Yesterday we shopped to support Biden/Harris and I got a “The Battle for the Soul of the Nation” shirt.

    Because we’re living on disability and unemployment, we haven’t been donating as we usually do. But this has been eagerly anticipated and we threw in extra.

  35. 35.

    germy

    @Jinchi:  And he got a nice settlement for being an asshole!

    Is this a great country or what?  He lived every young (and old) wingnut’s dream.

  36. 36.

    mrmoshpotato

    BernieSanders: “To the millions of people who supported my campaign this year and in 2016 … If Donald Trump is reelected, all the progress we’ve made will be in jeopardy. At its most basic, this election is about preserving our democracy.”

    All the progress we’ve made?  Has Pouty Asshole not been paying attention to the past 4 years?

    Bernie gets four years, 175,000 dead, an historic recession, and marauding white supremacy to "grasp Trumpism," but let's all still shit on the woman who nailed it in 2016. https://t.co/0Isvi1J5xi— Hillary Warned Us (@HillaryWarnedUs) August 18, 2020

  37. 37.

    sdhays

    @Jinchi: Someone said last night that he won $275m from CNN. That can’t possibly be true, can it? I knew that CNN settled, but the initial reporting was that they payed a nuisance settlement to make him go away (at least that’s what I recall).

  40. 40.

    Aleta

    @Jinchi:   It’s late now, but I’ve  wanted to read a collection of responses to “What do you wish you’d done differently in 2016?”  asked of all kinds of people.   Sanders.   RVATs  (Miles Taylor and also the ‘regular people’ in those vids).   Bloomberg, other Dem candidates in 2020 and ’16 .    Anyone here at BJ.  (And responses from people we know.)   Romney, George Conway.  Michael Cohen, T’s generals.  (Even if only to say “Gen X never responded to repeated attempts,”  put that in.)  Bloggers.  Lawyers.  Journalists of course.

  41. 41.

    Gin & Tonic

    @sdhays: CNN settled the suit, but the monetary amount was never disclosed. Unless you’re the kid or CNN legal, you’ll never know.

  42. 42.

    Betty Cracker

    @mrmoshpotato: I hope we’ve heard the last high-profile national speech from Senator Sanders. But he said exactly what Biden needed him to say. Good for him.

  44. 44.

    mrmoshpotato

    the entire political press doing shit tier mst3k during the DNC is kind of a bad look when you are a normal person who is able to recognize that yes, there are actually stakes to this election

    Right, because no other election has had anything at stake.

    1864, 1944, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 are on line 1 to say “Fuck you!”

    I’m sure this is just the first wave, so keep your phone nearby.

  46. 46.

    Bruuuuce

    @Jinchi: There are two ways to fix the issues with the EC. One is a Constitutional amendment — and that process isn’t happening any time soon, given the levels of assent an amendment requires (or worse, a Constitutional convention). The other is The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), where states commit their electors to the winner of the national popular vote. We’re well on the way, but are going to need some states that are now red to pass it before it goes into effect, which makes all those downballot elections even more important.

  48. 48.

    Ohio Mom

    Because he’s local, the Cincinnati Enquirer periodically has updates on Covington Kid. I don’t remember the details (and the Enquirer has an iron paywall that makes googling near impossible), but Covington Kid’s various lawsuits continue on.

    The settlements are always secret so who knows? I always assume someone else is paying his lawyers so he is probably making some money.

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Betty Cracker:

    Trump has announced that he’s pardoning Susan B. Anthony for a conviction for illegal voting. (Voter fraud!) So, suck it libturds — all women must vote for Trump. He’s been good to you people

    PS: The first sentence is true.

    Only because Robert E. Lee was never charged, tried and convicted. ?

    I wonder which Mensa member thought up this one.

    Anyway, Dump is still a Soviet shitpile mobster conman who continues to destroy the United States government.

  51. 51.

    Bruuuuce

    In other electoral news, the Senate Intelligence Committee has released its final report on Russian interference in 2016’s election. As expected, they found no evidence of collusion between Putin’s Poodle’s campaign and Russia, though they do fess up to acknowledging that Russia did interfere. Not that they have any plans to do anything about it, their Glorious Leader and his right-hand accomplice, Moscow Mitch, being up for votes this year. But they’re greatly concerned about what happened.

  52. 52.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Betty Cracker: I muted my computer during his speech.  He can now fuck off to the forest and take up knitting even if it’s 4 years and 170,000 deaths too late.

  53. 53.

    Martin

    I thought Michelle illustrated a very effective way to attack Trump – that Kamala should embrace.

    Trump believes that anything that draws attention to him is good – that’s why he would leak details of his own affairs to the NY tabloids – him being the front story is a form of power. That his affair is highlighted means he’s important enough to earn that. So attacks on him that reinforce his power – which is why ‘own the libs’ works for him, kind of play into his way of thinking. Being ‘evil’ is still a form of power. Kim Jong Un is a winner because look at his authority inside NK (nevermind that it makes NK look like the worst backwater nation on earth).

    Anyway, Michelle didn’t feed into that. She made Trump very, very small – some branch manager, not up to the job. A Michael Scott/David Brent.  They’re a dime a dozen and you just replace them without any fanfare. She didn’t point to his policies as the problem, the problem was just that he’s a small man in a big job, and of course that happens. No big, just replace him.

    To start, it’s a good line of attack, because it doesn’t speak to policy, so it should work pretty well with non-partisans, who generally support some mix of left and right policies (or their perception of them). It just avoids all of that. Additionally, it’s probably very effective against a broad range of white men, and resonates with women. It’s basically an extension of ‘bless me with the confidence of a mediocre white man’, and I’ve yet to meet a woman that disagrees with the blessing. But really, it goes right to the heart of Trump’s psychosis. He is desperate to be anything other than a failure – pathologically so. That’s why this election is dangerous. But I agree with the approach of the Lincoln Project. They’ve identified Trumps weakness, and they attack it directly, and I think Harris should do that as well. A black woman indirectly calling Trump a loser will consume him. The less angry she is, the better.

  54. 54.

    Aleta

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:   Thanks.  That’s maddening.

    One could go through that line by line and point out errors, prejudices, effects of the spread of his assumptions, whatever;  and online publish it for him.

    “It is not enough that Hillary Clinton might be our first woman president” 

    No one on her side ever suggested that, certainly not HRC.

    Last night NPR  was our only TV channel with coverage (we don’t have cable, but ??).  So we switched to online.   But the first part on NPR was much more commentary, rather than  making the convention available to watch.  After two “Hillary lost because” explanations that ignored the actual reasons, I was spitting too much on the furniture and had to walk out.

  57. 57.

    Aleta

    @Ohio Mom:  When I’ve  googled (simply)  ‘Washington Post’  under News, lately “Post settles with what’s-his-name” (story by faux)  comes up twice in the first 7-8 results.

  58. 58.

    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax:

    Wouldn’t be in the least surprised to read or hear the Rs have been beating the bushes to find a Dolt 45 supporter also named George Floyd to speak. 

    They’re probably looking through the white pages.  And, no, I’m not joking.  They’re probably looking for a Klansman (and are bummed they can’t bring George Wallace back from Hell).

  59. 59.

    Aleta

    @Betty Cracker:   what?  Should we prepare ourselves for a sincere Newsweek opinion piece on significant questions surrounding women’s right to vote?  Informing us that “scholars can, and do, disagree on this point.”

  60. 60.

    Ohio Mom

    Aleta: The Washington Post is just one of Covington Kid’s lawsuits.

    IIRC, his name is Nick Sandman.

  62. 62.

    Aleta

    @Ohio Mom: I wasn’t clear, but I meant I’m annoyed that Fx  continues to  float that settlement story, which is old,  to the top of the results to imply his vindication.

  63. 63.

    sdhays

    @Aleta: I stopped listening to NPR about 10 years ago because their political coverage was just so terrible. It made me sad because I have nice memories of listening to it in the morning when I was a kid and I generally like their non-political reporting.

    But fuck those morons in the political desk.

  64. 64.

    Miss Bianca

    @Aleta: I did just about every damn thing I could think of during 2016 to help get HRC and other Dems elected. I caucused, I donated, I joined the central committee of my county’s Democratic Party, I phone banked, I was a delegate to my county and my state’s conventions.

    There isn’t a damn thing I would go back and do differently. Except for “indulging the fantasy that my country would elect a strong, accomplished, brilliant Democratic candidate who happened to be female over a weak, feckless, stupid, ignorant Republican candidate who happened to be male.”

  65. 65.

    errg

    @Aleta:

    We watched it on C-SPAN youtube, which had no commentary at all, and played it all the way through until the end , including the great Billy Porter / Stephen Stills version of For What It’s Worth…

  66. 66.

    taumaturgo

    Finally, a GOP loser and extremists, approved by the DNC, get to define what a “good” democrat is by trashing the one rising star in the party. Tone-deaf unity message or just plain contempt?
    “People on the extreme, whether they’re on the left or on the right, they get outsized publicity that tends to define their party,” Kasich told BuzzFeed News. “You know, I listen to people all the time make these statements, and because AOC gets outsized publicity doesn’t mean she represents the Democratic Party.”

  67. 67.

    Sasha

    This isn’t the most important election of your lifetime, it’s the second most important. 2016 was the most important and we blew it. But this will probably remain the second most important of your life for a very long time.

    Most important election in my lifetime was the 2000 election. We blew it. Second most important was 2016. We blew that also. Not looking to make three out of three.

  71. 71.

    taumaturgo

    @Miss Bianca:  Not today but I notice it comes from those who despise having an open discussion and only seek validation of their beliefs no matter how misguided. When you think about it, not so different from the tribal behavior of the MAGA types.

  73. 73.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @Betty Cracker: I’m not a big Bernie fan (that’s my husband) – I like his policies and we owe him for moving the entire party to the Left, but he annoys me with his shouting and his pointing. BUT, I fell in love with his giving his speech in front of his woodpile, instead of his kitchen or bookshelf like everyone else these days.

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