Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    My RNC review: Hannibal Lecter’s dinner party was visually sumptuous!

    I am supposed to be writing about the Republican National Convention, but I’d like to submit this review instead; the content is essentially the same.

    What a grand party! A delicious five-course meal! Dr. Hannibal Lecter surged from triumph to triumph.

    With his showman’s flair, Dr. Lecter really crafted a striking contrast to the other party, where he reports that things are going very badly. He made a wonderful dish with fava beans and a nice chianti. Weird that the census in this neighborhood seems to have stopped for some reason, but I’m sure it had nothing to do with Dr. Lecter.

    It is not my job to say whether what was happening should have been happening, or if there was anything in the feast to be concerned about, so I am here to tell you that everything Hannibal Lecter served looked AMAZING. This is the kind of uplifting meal that this nation has long been waiting for, and it was a sumptuous repast in every way, a striking contrast to the other dinners I’ve sat through, full of empty chairs, where people said in ominous tones that they were losing loved ones and didn’t know when the carnage would stop.

    (a reaction, I think, to her coworker Hugh Hewitt penning two consecutive ‘the RNC is a triumph’ columns)

  4. 4.

    TaMara (HFG)

    I’m tuning out tonight. Don’t even want to know what horrible things will be said about what’s going on in WI and sports by the GOP criminal cartel. Burn them to the ground Nov 3.

  5. 5.

    Jeffro

    Tucker Carlson is already out there excusing the Kenosha shooter. What’s a poor paranoid trumpov-radicalized young brownshirt to do, except shoot his fellow Americans?

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    Starting with a montage: breathy mail voice, Aaron Copland-esque music.

    Okay, let’s do this. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA tonight.

  8. 8.

    Steeplejack

    Invocation by Rabbi Aryeh Spero, Conference of Jewish Affairs.

    He’s not praying in Jesus’ name! What gives?

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    Heard from Mom (who will be voting Biden regardless) that unlike yesterday she will deliberately be avoiding subjecting herself to tonight because Pence.

  11. 11.

    Darkrose

    Giants/Dodgers, Brewers/Reds, and Mariners/Padres games are all postponed, in addition to the WNBA and NBA games in protest of police brutality and systemic racism.

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    I’m almost done with a baby sweater I’m calling little liberal snowflake. It’s very cute.

  14. 14.

    Mary G

    I don’t know if anyone has posted this here before, but this picture of the two parties’ roll calls side-by-side says pretty much everything.

    2020 Roll Call: Democrats vs. Republicans pic.twitter.com/as6VwgypBl
    — The Recount (@therecount) August 24, 2020

    I didn’t even read much of the recap of last night’s shitshow, just can’t do it.

    Everyone in the path of Laura, good luck.

  16. 16.

    Kay

    Michael C. Bender
    @MichaelCBender
    · 1h
    Two women at last night’s naturalization ceremony said they were never told they would be showcased at a political convention, and no one sought their consent

    Absolute scumbags. People exist only to the extent that they serve the Trumps.

    Can we have all the pundits who crooned about how wonderful this was issue an apology? The Trumps should pay them. They should be ordered to pay them for the event. They’re all deadbeats and they won’t pay so just go straight to seizing it.

  17. 17.

    MomSense

    First up, SD Governor.  Founding principles under attack!

    Quoting Madison on tyranny.  Drink!

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    I’m noticing the 80 background flags are very wrinkly, as someone mentioned earlier today. Supposedly wouldn’t pass protocol.

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    I am having a day in which I am terrified that Trump is going to win.

    god help me. I can’t take any more of this lunacy.

  26. 26.

    dmsilev

    @MomSense:

    I’m almost done with a baby sweater I’m calling little liberal snowflake. It’s very cute.

    Isnt it traditional to wait until after the wedding to start nagging your DIL for grandkids?

  27. 27.

    Kay

    Which Trump lowlifes walked the women into that trap? It takes a lot of people to put on a reality show. Was it the Apprentice sleazes? Which Trump bottomfeeders did the actual dirty work?

  31. 31.

    Steeplejack

    Scott Dane, Associated Contract Loggers & Truckers of Minnesota.

    “I represent loggers, but I also represent a way of life.” Let’s bring back those 1.2 million logging jobs!

  32. 32.

    MomSense

    Radical democrats and their violent mobs are looting and causing chaos and murder in democrat run cities.

    2A religious freedom and lawn order.

    Dump fighting for the common American .

  33. 33.

    Mary G

    Tucker goes there:

    Tucker Carlson: "How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?" pic.twitter.com/6jf59YW60U— Brendan Karet ? (@bad_takes) August 27, 2020

    I’ve wanted to believe that Adam’s projections are too dark, but this is beyond the pale and will bring the fascists out of the woodwork.

  39. 39.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    I loathe these people. This is only the first revelation, Baud. It’s a 4 day Trump event. Putting aside the actual lawbreaking we all witnessed there were probably tens of disgusting flim-flams and cons like this.

    Donald Trumps media employees come from reality tv, The Enquirer and Fox News. 100% sleaze.

  42. 42.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    The sleazy Trump Family see it as them personally conferring citizenship on these people- that’s why the new citizens have to donate their ceremony to the Trumps. It’s payment in kind.

  49. 49.

    MomSense

    The Chinese communist regime unleashed the China virus.  Blackburn is racist.

    you know who can’t be canceled?  Our men and women in uniform.

  51. 51.

    Steeplejack

    Rep. Daniel Crenshaw, R-TX. Eye patch guy. The entire nation owes Pete Davidson of SNL an apology.

    He’s talking in front of the big guns of some warship.

  52. 52.

    MomSense

    Biden Harris and their radical allies are trying to get rid of our heroes and control us.  They want to keep us locked in our houses until we are dependent on government.  Sounds just like communist China to Marsha. No wonder they like Biden!

  53. 53.

    WaterGirl

    @MomSense: I can put them up in this thread, to help keep us calm.  Unless we need to wait until it’s complete.

    edit: Or save them for a happy thread.  Or both.  Your choice.

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    Lt. Gen. (ret.) Keith Kellogg, national security adviser to the president. Another guy who should probably not be speaking because of his official position.

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack

    “When President Donald Trump took office, decades of failed foreign policy had crippled us.” Okay, that’s the reality-based perspective I want to see. I’m reassured.

  64. 64.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @WaterGirl: Yes

    Fair warning about the upcoming coverage: I am saltier than a stadium pretzel today. There will be unkind tweets.

    Although the poor man has only a single beer to see him through the night. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

  65. 65.

    Leto

    Someone mentioned in a previous thread that the flags are wrinkled and that’s all I can see now. Corn Flakes is lying about the military, of course, but the wrinkled flags are getting me.

  75. 75.

    Eljai

    To those watching the convention, thank you for the lowlights!  I hate-watched the first two nights, but I have to take a break to detox my liver and repair the holes in my aura.

  76. 76.

    Steeplejack

    Tera Myers, “school choice advocate,” Mansfield, OH. Mother of Downs syndrome child. Warming up with anti-abortion screed.

    School choice is “education freedom.” Got it.

  77. 77.

    MomSense

    Here we go. Mom of special needs child CHOSE to parent.  Now she is against women making choices except when it comes to schools.

  79. 79.

    Steeplejack

    Montage: 19th-century suffragettes! Republicans, of course, I’m guessing?

    Okay, here we go: leading up to Trump’s pardon of Susan B. Anthony. ?

  85. 85.

    Steeplejack

    Hmm, women’s suffrage enacted right after Republicans retook Congress. Uh, what election happened right before August 3, 1920?

  88. 88.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Pointed out by Talking Points Memo:

    If you were just to watch the RNC and then stick your head in the sand, you might think that the Republican party boasts a surplus of female lawmakers based on how many have been featured. In reality, there are only nine Republican female senators and an embarrassing 13 in the House. It’s part of the reason that House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) was boosted to her leadership position so quickly.

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack

    Kayleigh McEnany. Cancer survivor or just daughter of a cancer survivor? Unclear.

    “The next day, with my mom, my husband and Jesus by my side, I underwent a preventive mastectomy.”

    Supportive phone call from Ivanka after surgery, then President Trump! “I was blown away!”

  91. 91.

    Leto

    My take away from Baghdad Betty’s message is: if Trumpov thinks I’m fuckable, I’ll get his support. At least until my first crows foot.

  92. 92.

    MomSense

    MACNinny wants us to believe that because Vanky and Dump were nice to her they are good for all women.  BS

  93. 93.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @WaterGirl: Hoarse agrees with you.

    I am now staring down the barrel of being terrifyingly alert for Mike Pence’s speech later.

    All is terrible. Terrible is all.

    I will cling to that one beer like it was a backup parachute during a frantic plummet to earth.

    Open before impact.
    — The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 27, 2020

  97. 97.

    Suzanne

    Why is Kaylee McNeenerNeener talking about the healthcare that other people get because of Obamacare?

  102. 102.

    Leto

    So did anyone know, previous to this, that MOTHER! was involved with military spouses? Or the fact that she copied FLOTUSFOREVER Michelle Obama and SLOTUS Jill Biden’s 8 year initiative? Bueller? Bueller? Also the fact that I can hear her swallow… might want to turn the sensitivity on that mic down.

  103. 103.

    MomSense

    Did they forget to book the hall for the third night?  Is this a green screen of blurry flags?  Did she tape this in the WH bunker?

  104. 104.

    Steeplejack

    During the lull that is Mother’s speech, I am reminded that, according to all three nights’ speakers so far, the country is awash in goddamn heroes. Then how can things be so fucked up? ?

  106. 106.

    MomSense

    Right! And if trump is so strong and good at protecting us, why are violent Democrat mobs causing chaos in our cities?

  110. 110.

    Delk

    Just checked in with my hubby who has watched all of Monday and Tuesday’s shit shows and he is watching American Dad. He’s had his fill. I get the impression that he’s not the only one.

  113. 113.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Steeplejack: We don’t need lots of heroes.  We need garbage men, CNAs, teacher’s aides, lunch ladies, and all the other unsung people who do the shitty little jobs that keep society functioning.

  115. 115.

    Steeplejack

    Weird body language: standing at the lectern with both arms straight down at her side.

  116. 116.

    MomSense

    What is wrong with her arms?  They look like they may not be functional – so weird.  Straight down at her sides like an Irish step dancer.

  117. 117.

    Steeplejack

    WTF?! Did she just take credit (on Trump’s behalf) for some two-job low-wage worker finally getting health insurance?! GTFO.

  123. 123.

    Steeplejack

    Sister Deirdre Byrne, M.D. Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts. (Also retired Army colonel.) I don’t know if I can take this. Do I sense abortion on the horizon again?

    Entered her order in 2002, apparently in midlife.

  126. 126.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Finally broke down and start live-streaming. Holy shit those flags are wrinkled! I guess jack-booted tromping over the laws, conventions and Constitution of our government will do that.

  127. 127.

    Steeplejack

    Oh, shit. Talking about refugees and oppressed people around the world. Then: “The largest [something–persecuted?] group in the world can be found right here in the United States–the unborn.”

    “Life begins at conception.” There you have it.

    “Donald Trump is the most pro-life president this nation has ever had.”

    Biden-Harris support the horrors of late-term abortions. How does “religious” woman sleep at night?

  128. 128.

    joel hanes

    @Emma from FL:

    Kevin is a squish who refuses to believe that Republicans are who they have been telling us that they are for twenty years.

    He lives in Orange County and knows many nice Republicans.  Also he is white and comfortably affluent.  Also he seems to derive satisfaction from a mild iconoclasm with respect to nearly-consensus liberal ideas.

    OTOH, he probably was and is right in claiming that the wave of violent crime in the 1960s was caused by tetraethyl lead in gasoline.

  129. 129.

    Steeplejack

    Self-described “football guy” Lou Holtz. Recently in the news for saying, “Damn the coronavirus, we need to play football!”

  135. 135.

    HumboldtBlue

    Sweet Jesus beating a cripple with a bat, here’s Lou Fuicking Holtz sucking his dentures for Trump.

  136. 136.

    Leto

    @MomSense: He coached at Notre Dame for a while, then went to into obscurity at the University of South Carolina, where all coaches go to career death.

  137. 137.

    MomSense

    @Steeplejack:

    Enough with the fetus fetishists!  It’s so tiresome.  They don’t give a crap what happens to mom or baby after the birth.  1 in 5 moms has children at home who are hungry.  These forced birth fanatics don’t care one bit.

  143. 143.

    Ked

    And has spent at least a decade at ESPN since, descending into frothy incoherence.

    I notice that there’s a very distinct lack of color tonight.

  144. 144.

    MomSense

    Can I imagine what would have happened if Trump hadn’t shown up in 2015?  Hell yes.  That sounds awesome.

  148. 148.

    Steeplejack

    Michael McHale (“but my friends call me Mick”), president, National Association of Police Organizations. Silver crewcut like I haven’t seen since second-tier 1950s cop movies.

  150. 150.

    Steeplejack

    This guy is straight-up capital-F fascist.

    President Trump has led the initiative on police training in deëscalation?! Get. the. fuck. out.

  151. 151.

    MomSense

    Something is wrong with his mouth.  Violence and bloodshed because we won’t let law enforcement do what it takes.

    nonononono Profile shot is a really bad idea

  153. 153.

    Steeplejack

    Essay question topic: Should officials of state entities with life-and-death enforcement powers be issuing partisan endorsements? Discuss.

  160. 160.

    Steeplejack

    “My claim to fame is that I am the youngest Republican woman elected to Congress in history.” Well, all righty.

  162. 162.

    MomSense

    They’re all saying the same fucking things.  It’s like a rotisserie of slogans. So boring.

  163. 163.

    Steeplejack

    My pipe dream right now is that some mind-bendingly colossal Trump fuckup/scandal will occur between now and the election and all these choads who are binding themselves to him will go down in flames with him. Even unto the level of county commissioners and dogcatchers.

  165. 165.

    MomSense

    Hey this guy is named for a founding father!  Drink!

    Its Madison, btw.  It’s always Madison.

  167. 167.

    Steeplejack

    Madison Cawthorn, running for Congress in North Carolina. Google this guy; he’s the fascist-in-waiting who had Hitler’s mountain retreat on his “must see” bucket list.

    Do I even have to add: spread collar.

  169. 169.

    Rusty

    @MomSense: what a dope.  Under the school choice programs the Republicans want she would get some average x dollars for her kid to go to school, that’s it.  Educating a special needs child could be an order of magnitude more.  She would have to come with the rest if she was lucky enough to find a school to take her kid.

  176. 176.

    MomSense

    Wait they brought him something – oh god they brought him something so he could stand at the one nation under god for which I STAND.

  181. 181.

    MomSense

    Wait this guy shot a skinhead?  Or was he with someone who shot a skinhead? This won’t go over well with Trump’s base?

  183. 183.

    WaterGirl

    wow, had a work call for 30 minutes and we went from 74 to 178!  in any case, proof of life for MomSense and Little Liberal Snowflake!

    Republican Convention – House on Fire Floats Downstream: Day 3 1

    edit: also proof that she is watching the convention.  not that we doubted it.  :-)

  190. 190.

    Steeplejack

    Chen Guangcheng, attorney, civil rights activist and Bond movie supervillain stand-in. He’s wearing dark, dark sunglasses. I will be only mildly embarrassed if he starts talking about how the Democrats or the Chinese Communist Party struck him blind.

  193. 193.

    Steeplejack

    Okay, this guy straight up bought his screen time with a $10 million contribution or something.

  194. 194.

    MomSense

    @Leto:

    Thanks!  The color is much brighter and happier but I’m dealing with lighting that is  RNC CONvention production quality here.

  196. 196.

    Steeplejack

    Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY. Squinty eyes mean sincerity. More heroes. And “President Trump fights for them every day.”

  199. 199.

    Steeplejack

    @MisterForkbeard:

    Sin, redemption, “I did bad things but now I’m saved,” couched in lurid rhetoric. Think Southern gospel tent revival meeting if Sunday school doesn’t get it for you.

  204. 204.

    Steeplejack

    Sen. Joni Ernst, R-IA, apparently speaking from the set of Hee Haw. Tractor. Hay bales. But indoors with golden lighting.

  212. 212.

    MomSense

    @Steeplejack:

    She seems really washed out, too.

    liberal coastal elites radical environmentalists want to eliminate animal agriculture gas powered cars and regulate puddles!  Woah.

  215. 215.

    Steeplejack

    More color: Burgess Owens, House candidate, Utah.

    Okay, played in the NFL but fell on hard times. Horatio Alger story.

  220. 220.

    Steeplejack

    Montage: “Standing guard over Baltimore Harbor,” some fort, earthworks or—oh, wait, Fort McHenry. Where is this going?

  227. 227.

    WaterGirl

    @MomSense:

    I love my children so much that I’m leaving my job, and so is my husband, oh, but not right away because I have this important convention.  Really honey, you be my most important thing… in just a couple of weeks.

    Way to show your daughter that she’s #1.

  228. 228.

    MomSense

    Warm caring hard working and down to earth.  Exactly the qualities I think of when I think of the Trumps.  Blech ?

  230. 230.

    Steeplejack

    Lara Trump, “Trump campaign senior adviser.”

    “Tonight I come to you simply as an American.”

    God, all these women look so alike—her, McEnany, Conway, Tiffany, Ivanka. It’s really apparent now that they’re getting close-up screen time.

    Okay, I don’t think [*checks notes*] Eric’s wife is the right person to be delivering the point about powerful, competent women takin’ care of business.

  236. 236.

    jonas

    @Kay:  Two women at last night’s naturalization ceremony said they were never told they would be showcased at a political convention, and no one sought their consent

    Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. JFC.

  238. 238.

    MomSense

    He will preserve our families?  Dude has five kids with three wives and cheats with porn stars.

  242. 242.

    Steeplejack

    Sam Vigil, “husband of shooting victim Jacqueline Vigil.”

    Is it bad that I have no idea which of the many shooting incidents this was?

  243. 243.

    lgerard

    From the very strong Washington Examiner interview with Byron York

    President Trump says he will call for drug tests for both former Vice President Joe Biden and himself before the first candidates’ debate on Sept. 29. In an Oval Office interview Wednesday, the president expressed suspicion at what he said was a sudden, marked improvement in Biden’s debate performance during the Democratic primary season and suggested that he believes the improvement was the result of drugs. The president offered no evidence to support his speculation.

  245. 245.

    Steeplejack

    More color: Clarence Henderson, “1960 Greensboro sit-in particant.”

    I don’t see how he manages to give Trump credit for the civil rights movement. Waiting to see.

    . . . Ah. It was the Republican Party that passed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. Okay, then. QED.

  246. 246.

    MomSense

    Does this guy know that without a birth certificate, Republicans want to make it tough for him to vote?

  253. 253.

    Steeplejack

    Richard Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence. Solid résumé there.

    Globalism bad. “That’s what happened when Washington stopped being the capital of the United States and became the capital of the world.” Another reality-based perspective that I want to see near the seat of power.

  258. 258.

    Chetan Murthy

    @patrick II:

    But it would have been dangerous for their chance at citizenship to turn it down.

    Now they can let him know what they think: at the ballot box.

  265. 265.

    Steeplejack

    Montage: flags, bucolic scenes. Back to Fort McHenry. More Getty outtakes from “like a rock” pickup commercials.

  270. 270.

    Another Scott

    “Donald Trump will never abandon you” – Donald Trump’s 3rd wife

    — Travis Allen ?? (@TravisAllen02) August 26, 2020

    It’s all just mouth noises.

    (via Popehat)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  272. 272.

    MomSense

    He had a frickin corn field in his back yard and found Jesus and mother in that corn field!  Then they had kids.  Children of the corn?

  277. 277.

    Steeplejack

    That montage built up Pence to be Captain America. I hope he appears in costume.

    Ooh, live segment from Baltimore. I guess this is the Fort McHenry connection.

    No masks, doesn’t look like much distancing in the audience.

  285. 285.

    Steeplejack

    Looks like they tried to do “every other chair” spacing, but a lot of people have pulled their chairs closer so they can “sit together.” Cool.

  288. 288.

    WaterGirl

    @Another Scott:

    “Donald Trump will never abandon you” – Donald Trump’s 3rd wife

    That is laugh-out-loud funny.

    A couple decades ago, I was distraught and sobbing because my now -ex had left me.  We were sitting on my couch, and I was looking at the balloon that was still up from Valentine’s day, which said:

    My Love Always

    And my friend said:  “My love always, or until August 21, whichever comes first.”

    That was the moment I started to move on.  That comment about Trump and the 3rd wife reminds me so much of that line.

  290. 290.

    laura

    @lgerard: that particular bullshit is trump setting up his out. There’s not going to be a debate because he’ll have his ass handed to him and it will be tough to shake the loser stank and so he’s building a ridiculous escape hatch. There will be no debate. And then Pence will weasel out of debating Kamala Harris because he’ll have his ass handed to him and it will be tough to shake the loser stank.

  291. 291.

    Steeplejack

    Standing ovation for something. I missed it because I’m getting that Charlie Brown “adults talking” noise with Pence.

  302. 302.

    Steeplejack

    Does anybody ever push back on this repeated claim that Trump-Pence inherited a “hollowed-out” military? Where the fuck was all the money going, then?

  308. 308.

    Danielx

    Pence does have magnificent political hair. As residents of his native state know, it’s the smartest part of him.

  311. 311.

    Steeplejack

    Pence pretty definitive that ISIS has been permanently, no-backsies crushed and eliminated. That couldn’t possibly come back to haunt them, could it?

    Oh, wait. Any attack that happens after November 3 will be Biden’s fault.

  314. 314.

    MomSense

    Bragging about jerb creation in the first three years.  All past tense achievements.  And then the coronavirus from China ??

  321. 321.

    Steeplejack

    The thing that is so disheartening is that this level of lying is so far beyond ordinary political hyperbole and exaggeration.

    “We are on track to have the world’s first safe, effective coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year!” Mark it, libtards.

  322. 322.

    MomSense

    no one who required a ventilator was ever denied a ventilator.  Not true.  Why do they keep talking about COVID in the past tense?

    I believe in miracles.  Where you from you sexy thing.  I believe in miracles.

     

    Why does Biden hate miracles?

  325. 325.

    Eljai

    @Steeplejack: They really are the QAnon and tire rims party now.  There’s no way to have common ground with them because they live in an alternate reality.

  329. 329.

    Steeplejack

    Mother will be returning to her classroom next week! Is it wrong that I am hoping what I am hoping?

  331. 331.

    Steeplejack

    I’m down to my last half-glass of Dogfish Head 60. Timing/pacing seems to have worked out.

    Wrap it up, Mike!

  342. 342.

    Steeplejack

    “Last week the Democrats didn’t talk much about their agenda.” What the fuck, Mike?! Srsly. Where were you?

  347. 347.

    Steeplejack

    Goddamn, I thought Pence was winding it up, but he’s ramping up again. Like missing the landing and doing a loop around the airport for another approach.

  353. 353.

    Kay

    philip lewis
    @Phil_Lewis_
    ·4h
    Kenny Smith, Inside the NBA host, just walked off the set: “As a black man, as a former player, I think it’s best for me to support the players and just not be here tonight.”

    This happening during the coward’s lie-fest is really something. Imagine if Republicans in Congress were that brave. Donald would be back in whatever hole he crawled out of.

  357. 357.

    Steeplejack

    Flag etiquette question: I thought the flag wasn’t supposed to be flown at night? Like, uh, the one right above Pence’s head.

  365. 365.

    Ked

    CNN showing the most lifeless, mournful national anthem I’ve ever heard. Wow, this’ll really win those youths.

  371. 371.

    Leto

    A friend asked me, about an hour ago, to help them in the video game we play. I see I made the correct choice :P

  374. 374.

    Steeplejack

    Okay, I could have used one more beer after Trump’s sudden appearance, but I’ll survive.

  383. 383.

    Steeplejack

    The Pences have disappeared. Trump, clinging to Melania, is milking the crowd for a few more cheers.

    Finally it seems to be over. Close-up of appropriately lighted flag above crowd.

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    sdhays

    @WaterGirl: Or he’s freaked out that everyone saw his namesake son high as a kite on Monday and he’s deflecting. Why has it taken all this time for him to come up with drugs as the reason the Biden at the DNC was different from the one his pumpkin head? Because Donald Trump and cocaine was trending.

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    Calouste

    I’m thinking, all these sycophants are going on about how much the shitgibbon has done against abortion, the most ever etc etc. So what has he actually done? There’s appointing the rapist to the “supreme” court, but Reagan did the same.

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