Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Books are my comfort food!

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

White supremacy is terrorism.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

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

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

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The Grand Farewell Tour is… not as heartening as Lord Smallgloves and his minions expected:

No complacency before November 3rd, etc etc, but this is *not* a man who believes he’s gonna win. So, if nothing else, you can take consolation in the fact that we’re making him miserable. More miserable.


It’s always projection:

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  1. 1.

    mrmoshpotato

    “FUCK YOU, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA!  I didn’t have to come here!  Vote for me!”

    Hell of a get-out-the-vote speech in the closing two weeks of this election.

  2. 2.

    Punchy

    Trump Translator:

    “Erie?  Who the fuck wants to be in this shit town?  Certainly not me.  I wouldnt be caught dead here in Erie (checks notes) Arkan….Alabam…..Wrought Islands.  But now disease has forced me to come here and pretend to give a shit about all you poors and uglos.  So yeah, vote for me and some other guy over there with the hot wife who so wants to do me….”

  4. 4.

    Marcopolo

    No doubt this has been posted somewhere below but I just watched it and this Biden World Series ad that aired tonight is the cat’s meow:

    Joe Biden is running this 60 second spot during Game 1 of the World Series, and it’s the best ad of the cycle. pic.twitter.com/nP8Rj2bm4R— Matt Compton (@mattcompton) October 21, 202

    And honestly, I’d much rather watch something like this than anything with the Orange Arsehole.

  5. 5.

    Mallard Filmore

    That next to last tweet, by Aaron Rupar, is a duplicate. Should it be a different tweet? Perhaps Trump saying he will leave the country?

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    Trump on Florida: “If we don’t win it, I’m blaming the governor. I’m gonna fire him somehow. I’ll find a way.”

    ROFLMAO!  This Soviet shitpile mobster conman gives delusional people a bad name.

  7. 7.

    Roger Moore

    If you want depression, doom and despair, vote for Sleepy Joe.

    Because clearly there has been no depression, doom, and despair during the Trump administration.

  8. 8.

    Kent

    I’m like the prisoner marking the days off on the wall.  At this point, every day that passes without a dramatic change in the race is a good one.  Millions more people voted today.  The race is more solidified than it was a day ago.   Day by day we get closer and closer.  But I can’t hardly take it anymore.

  10. 10.

    Wapiti

    There’s a scene in the musical In the Heights where a Cuban-American (iirc) woman demonstrates being able to dance without moving her feet from a single floor tile. She moved her feet more than Fred Trump’s screwed up son does.

  11. 11.

    dmsilev

    Susan Glasser
    @sbg1
    Note: Trump was trailing in the polls to Biden since the race began, long before covid was a thing

    Trump was so worried about facing Biden that, back in 2019, he tried so hard to create a fake Biden scandal that he ended up impeached. Remember impeachment?

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    @Kent: I know the feeling. I’m counting days right now, and I have a sense that by early next week I’m going to start counting hours. Polls close in California in 334.25 hours, by the way.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    Wait until he explodes upon discovering his own mail-in ballot does not have his name printed in day-glo orange in 144 point type.

    “Are they all like this? Get me Barr on the phone. Heads will roll!”

    //

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Roger Moore: No.  It hasn’t been 4 years of mind-blowing shit that’s held most* of this country hostage.

    *Trump trash aren’t hostages since they love this orange shitstain.

  19. 19.

    CaseyL

    Hard to tell if the unraveling is because he knows he’s going to lose or he’s in withdrawal from all the drugs they’ve had him on.

    Could be both.

    Whatever his current misery, I hope it gets ten times worse and never ever stops.

  24. 24.

    MattF

    Adobe has their big conference starting today and they’ve updated their software…the new version of Photoshop has a “Happiness” setting.

    Does the software come with a shock collar?

  28. 28.

    West of the Rockies

    So any word on what Lesley Stahl asked or said that made Donald shit his diaper?  I wonder if the interview will air this Sunday.

  31. 31.

    tokyokie

    I seem to recall Boris Yeltsin famously danced at the end of his re-election campaign in 1996 — then shortly thereafter was hospitalized for several months after quintuple heart bypass surgery.

  34. 34.

    mrmoshpotato

    Yup. What went wrong in your life that this Dayglo manbaby is your god?

    imagine being a Trump supporter and having to pretend that this stupid fucking panicked and flailing overgrown diaperload toddler has any plan or any fucking clue at all as to what the fuck he's doing out there— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) October 21, 2020

  35. 35.

    piratedan

    @West of the Rockies:  my understanding is she questioned his statements in regards to inciting violence against the Governor of Michigan, then his Coronavirus response… she also contradicted his positions on attendance totals to his inauguration and the Obama spying on his campaign and the baseless attacks on Hunter Biden, probably in that calm Leslie Stahl approach and after some terse responses he decided that he’s had enough and left… not exactly Benghazi Senate meeting levels of interrogation. I guess since he couldn’t control or sabotage the process, he walked off… again violating the agreement that he and Pence would also be interviewed together.

     

    https://t.co/1BTJ7doAq8?amp=1

  37. 37.

    gwangung

    @West of the Rockies:  Washington Post article intimated it was not one thing, but aggressive pressing about his attacks on Gov. Whitmer, his “handling” of the pandemic and the size of his crowd.s

    IOW, he’s being a fricking baby.

  38. 38.

    West of the Rockies

    @piratedan:

    Sounds like she had adult questions but Trump didn’t have on his big-boy panties.

    So I’ve been wondering about something… The Tea Party has largely disappeared, but was it sort of the father of QAnon?    I imagine a Venn diagram would reveal a lot of crossover.  Thoughts?

  39. 39.

    Mary G

    I can’t listen that voice at all anymore, have never made it through more than 90 seconds of Sarah Cooper or the guy, turned off the debate after ten minutes, have never clicked play on an Aaron Rupar tweet. I am fantasizing about him being so out of control when his mic is muted during the debate Thursday that he does his “wander the stage trick aimlessly” trying to get close enough to Biden so as to drown him out within the first minute. Then before he gets within six feet being tackled hard by Symone Sanders, Jill Biden, Doug Emhoff, and Karine Jean-Pierre. They’ve demonstrated the ability to do it before without having to call themselves mama grizzlies or pit bulls with lipstick. The Secret Service will stand by snickering, only stepping in after he’s down and can’t get up.

    A woman can dream.

  41. 41.

    piratedan

    @West of the Rockies: i think that they’re the latest fringe group to be hoovered up and be weaponized by the right

    Some of them True believers… others trolls and some… just desperate people trying to find any explanation that relieves them of guilt and introspection

  43. 43.

    mrmoshpotato

    @piratedan:

    she also contradicted his positions on attendance totals to his inauguration 

    Did she bring this up, or did he go off on a “I had the biggliest inauguration crowd ever!  Many peoples says so!” non sequitur?

  44. 44.

    CaseyL

    @West of the Rockies: I think some people really are empty vessels, waiting to be filled by something that drowns out the emptiness.  The mean ones turn into rage-aholics and the not-mean ones go in for religious fervor and/or New Age nonsense.

    How and why a person would be that empty is beyond me.

  45. 45.

    frosty

    @West of the Rockies:  Based on the flags (Gadsden) and yard signs (No More Bullshit) on my street, I think the Tea Party became the Trump Cult. Considering my interactions with them I don’t think my neighbors are dialed in enough to have a clue about Q.

  47. 47.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Mary G:

    I am fantasizing about him being so out of control when his mic is muted during the debate Thursday that he does his “wander the stage trick aimlessly” trying to get close enough to Biden so as to drown him out within the first minute. 

    My money’s on Dump screaming in a frothing rage at the moderator when he realizes his mic is off while adults are speaking.

  48. 48.

    West of the Rockies

    @Geminid: 

    One really doesn’t hear the name at all anymore. Their ascendancy and burn out was pretty rapid, so I thought maybe they rebranded.

  53. 53.

    TS (the original)

    @West of the Rockies:

    Sounds like she had adult questions

    After 5 years the political media asks him to explain his policies and actions.  Not surprising that trump is upset, the previous hardest question was do you have a favorite tie.

  54. 54.

    Ms. Deranged in AZ

    @CaseyL: Ahem, don’t you mean the Freedumb Caucus?

    @Kent: I’m stressed out and exhausted.  And insomnia makes it all so much worse. The election will only cure some of my woes.  If I could vote my way out of the fact that my eldest is depressed and failing his senior year of high school, I would.  I just wrote a diatribe email to his teachers who pretty much stopped teaching the online students (which seems to be just my kid now) once everyone else went back on campus.  Of course both the elementary school and the high school have already had their first positives on campus, proving me right to keep both my kids online, but the complete lack of instruction and structure is pissing me off.  At least my 10 year old is getting face time with his teachers but he ends most days by 1 or 2 and then he’s in my hair while I’m trying to work.  And I should be grateful that I have a job where I can work from home but the 10-12 hour days are wearing thin, but my industry is booming right now. And I’m so frigging tired of being in my house.  I’ve been here since March.  I’d give an appendage to eat out at a restaurant.   I’m just done with 2020, so frigging done.

    PS:. If any of you say anything condescending to me, I swear by holy baby jeebus on a cracker, there will be blood.

  55. 55.

    Geminid

    @West of the Rockies: I watched them in Virginia. The mainstream, Chamber of Commerce types running the republican party welcomed the tea party movement as new blood. But then the tea party types knocked out Congressman Eric Cantor in a primary for the Va. 7th in 2014. The year before they demanded and got a state convention, so they could get Ken Cucchinelli nominated for governor. His rival, Lieutenant Gov. Bill Bolling, had won eight straight elections for various offices, but he knew he couldn’t compete in a caucus and convention system, and did not even try. In 2016 two fairly young republican congressmen-Rigell, VA2nd, and Hurt, VA5th retired. I believe they did so because they knew they would have to run the caucus convention gauntlet. They were both wealthy businessmen, too proud to kiss tea party ass.  The tea party people now call themselves “constitutional conservatives,” and in alliance with evangelical dominionists successfully challenged my republican VA 5th Congressman, again using the caucus/convention route. The Republican nominee calls himself “a Biblical and Constitutional Conservative.”    The VA 7th and 2nd are now held by Democrats, and it looks like the 5th will be too. The republican insurgents that came out of the tea party were not strong enough to wreck the Commonwealth, but they’ve just about wrecked the Virginia republican party

  56. 56.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    @Omnes Omnibus: 

    Then again, Yeltsin had 100x the style, grace, intelligence, and integrity of Donald.

    And Korsakov’s Syndrome rather than frontotemporal dementia.

  58. 58.

    Geminid

    @Achrachno: Well, it took two cycles, 2017 and 2019, but Virginia Democrats now control the General Assembly, having beaten the republicans on a district map the republicans themselves gerrymandered. Demographic changes were a factor, but the lurch to the right by the republicans also played a role.

  59. 59.

    Achrachno

    @Geminid: 

    That’s what happened here in CA. Republicans lurched right in response to demographic change (they hate the sound of Spanish!) and the people did not follow them. This state wasn’t always so bright cheery blue.

  60. 60.

    Luciamia

    Don’t see a lot of women in those rally crowds.
    ++++++++++++
    People go on about his hands, but damn, his feet are tiny too!

  61. 61.

    Sab

    His feet aren’t all that tiny. It’s just that his body is really really big in proportion to his hands, his feet and his head.

  62. 62.

    Geminid

    @Geminid: This year the Virginia legislature passed some good gun safety laws, and prohibited guns on the Capitol grounds. And in 2017, Governor Northam was able to push through Medicaid expansion that has extended coverage to 400,000 Virginians.       Northam did this with help from Republicans- 10 Delegates and three Senators. Three of those Delegates were successfully primaried from the right last year. And Senator Jill Vogel (Culpeper) would have been an obvious choice to replace 5th District Congressman Scott Garrett when he abruptly retired in 2018, but she did not even try- I suspect because she knew her vote for “Obamacare” was anathema to the cranks that dominate the republican party in the 5th.

  63. 63.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Sab:

    It’s just that his body is really really big in proportion to his hands, his feet and his head. 

    Eric Cartman (South Park): I’m not fat!  I’m big-boned!  My body is really really big in proportion to my hands, my feet and my head!

  66. 66.

    Sab

    @Ms. Deranged in AZ: I am an introvert and okay with housetime.

    My stepson is extremely extroverted. The covid resrtrictions would have destroyed him. He managed to almost destroy himself with drugs, but he got over that eventually. Years ago pre-covid.

    My oldest granddaughtwr is introverted and didn’t want to go to college anyway because people. So lockdown has been a godsend to her. But her tiny autistic sister wants to go to school.

    I cannot imagine what it is like to push a teen through high school in these times. Every educational structure we have is contra-intuitive to life in lockdown.

    My stepkid made up for lost and wasted high school times. Kids are amazingly resilient, especislly with family support.

    ETA for many typos.

  67. 67.

    Sloane Ranger

    @CaseyL: 

    or he’s in withdrawal from all the drugs they’ve had him on.

    I don’t think he’s in withdrawal. I think he’s still on a drug cocktail of some sort. He allegedly had a moderately serious case of COVID-19 and that wrings people out. Yet here he is flying round the country talking for hours and apparently full of energy.

    I suspected that, once he realised the drugs made him feel better than he had in years, he wouldn’t let them wean him off. And his doctors are either too spineless to insist or can’t because he’s the CinC.

  68. 68.

    NotMax

    @mrmoshpotato

    Not of whom I spake. Suppose should have included “Many anthropologists say.”

    :)

    (Tried a few episodes of South Park when it first appeared but found the muddled voices nearly entirely unintelligible.)

  69. 69.

    mrmoshpotato

    Oh boy. Via commiegirl1

    It's supposed to be 0 degrees (or lower) across Western Montana this weekend; hope these California transplants know about double/triple pants weather— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) October 21, 2020

  70. 70.

    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax: Don’t anthropologists study societies?  How could they study one orange assclown who doesn’t believe anyone else exists?

  71. 71.

    NotMax

    @mrmoshpotato

    Also too, long johns.

    Many moons ago had a wonderful pair of jeans lined on the inside with plaid flannel, insurance for the extra-nippy times.

  72. 72.

    Brachiator

    No complacency before November 3rd, etc etc, but this is *not* a man who believes he’s gonna win. So, if nothing else, you can take consolation in the fact that we’re making him miserable. More miserable.

    Nope. I want to see Trump defeated in November. I want to rub his nose in the stink of failure. I don’t care how miserable he feels.

    I would like to see him in a cage. He could even have some hamburgers.

  73. 73.

    Sab

    @Sloane Ranger: Doctors too spineless. To treat Trump you have to sign an NDA. As Federal employees that’ s unethical and illegal.  Also too not necessary since ordinary doctor ethics accompish same thing.

    Doctors willing to sign NDA are already  ethically suspect. Care they provide is also probably over ethical lines. They just want to be on board for the attention, so do whatever he wants. Trump usual low quality hires.

  74. 74.

    JAFD

    Good morning, and greetings from New Jersey !

    To follow on previous thread intro from Mr. Cole;  I am an old man, I remember when Nixon and Agnew* were in charge.  They were evil, and they were smart and competent.  Trump & Co are evil, but not smart or competent.

    Anyway, if you mailed or dropped off your New Jersey ballot, you can go to

    https://voter.svrs.nj.gov/auth/sign-in

    and checked if your ballot was ‘Received’ or ‘Accepted’

    and if not ‘Accepted’ by Election Day, the polling place where you can go to fill out a Provisional Ballot (Mine be home of Devils – the Prudential Center ;-) )

    Have a healthy and happy Wednesday, fellow jackals !

     

    *Old joke

    “Spiro Agnew made me a Democrat.”

    “If I get him the lumber, would he make me one, too ?”

  75. 75.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @mrmoshpotato: rump trash aren’t hostages since they love this orange shitstain.

    Oddly according to the polls a lot of them don’t. Trump has a R after his name and that’s all they seem to care about.

  77. 77.

    lowtechcyclist

    Clicked on the link to Drezner’s tweet, and found this just a few tweets down in his feed:

    https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1318679776144420865

    545 of the kids who were separated from their parents at the border – they still have the kids, and can’t find the parents.

    Child abuse on an industrial scale.

    Everybody associated with this horrible policy should be sentenced to at least a year in prison for each instance of this. And have to serve the sentences consecutively, not concurrently.

    Trump, Stephen Miller, Rod Rosenstein, everybody. Lock ’em up, throw away the key.

  84. 84.

    ThresherK

    I’m reminded of GHWB who, about October ’92, started calling Clinton and Gore “Bozo and the Ozone Man”.

    Fascinating how even the dignified (sic) R’s lose their shit when losing, and how quickly our press corps memory holes this stuff.

    I don’t want to be such a “homer”, but I don’t remember any Dem prez nom getting so desperately stupid and wacko like this in my political lifetime. Am I forgetting anyone?

  85. 85.

    BretH

    @mrmoshpotato: @Geminid: 

    A sign of it all is that our current Republican candidate in VA5 is simply a horrible choice. I see maybe 1 ad “for” him to every 30 for Webb, the Democrat. (Meaning they are simply attack ads). Goode is like the penguin pushed off the ice floe to the seals… and still with the crazy way the district is mapped the race will probably be close.

    Hopefully the gerrymandering can be reduced if everyone votes “yes” on the Question 1 for redistricting.

  86. 86.

    Geminid

    @Booger: Yeah, it’s Tom Garrett. One of the ironies of the 5th district is that in 2018, when Garrett announced he was retiring to deal with alcoholism, he was replaced by a vodka distiller. Although Riggleman had made his money as a defense contactor.

  87. 87.

    Another Scott

    @BretH:  Question 1 is a bad bill. It should be defeated. The are much better bills being worked on in the legislative.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  88. 88.

    Geminid

    @BretH: Bob Good’s job at Liberty U. was as a fundraiser for the athletic department. But he is getting creamed in fundraising by Democrat Cameron Webb.      The Va. 5th is shaped like an inverted funnel, with the base along the North Carolina line, and the tip being Fauqier County. Just ridiculous. It will be drawn more compactly for 2022, whether by a commission or by the Democrats in the General Assembly. Polling indicates that Virginians will in fact vote for the independent commission. I have mixed feelings about it, but I’ll probably vote for the Amendment.

  90. 90.

    Mandarama

    @Ms. Deranged in AZ:  I just want to commiserate with you. I have a HS junior who is doing online school and he’s definitely not thriving with it. I keep telling him that even if this is a lost year, a better future is coming. I sure hope it’ll turn out to be the truth and not just some parental bullshit. Hugs to you from another crazy mom.

  92. 92.

    J R in WV

    @Ms. Deranged in AZ:

    I’m stressed out and exhausted. And insomnia makes it all so much worse. The election will only cure some of my woes. If I could vote my way out of the fact that my eldest is depressed and failing his senior year of high school, I would. I just wrote a diatribe email to his teachers who pretty much stopped teaching the online students (which seems to be just my kid now) once everyone else went back on campus. Of course both the elementary school and the high school have already had their first positives on campus, proving me right to keep both my kids online, but the complete lack of instruction and structure is pissing me off. At least my 10 year old is getting face time with his teachers but he ends most days by 1 or 2 and then he’s in my hair while I’m trying to work. And I should be grateful that I have a job where I can work from home but the 10-12 hour days are wearing thin, but my industry is booming right now. And I’m so frigging tired of being in my house. I’ve been here since March. I’d give an appendage to eat out at a restaurant. I’m just done with 2020, so frigging done.

    PS:. If any of you say anything condescending to me, I swear by holy baby jeebus on a cracker, there will be blood.

    I promise not to be condescending! I’m sorry your older kid isn’t receiving the support he deserves from his school and teachers. Perhaps older kid should just do a GED after dropping out of school? I think most colleges and universities will understand that lots of kids were deserted by their secondary education folks.

    I too have had insomnia issues. My family doc prescribed the appropriate medications, and they help.

    Last night I dreamed I was somehow connected to a Mexican extended family starting up a Mexican restaurant by first founding a farm to grow Mexican fruits and vegetables. I remember telling the guy in charge of teaching me that I spent 6 months in a Navy Galley doing vegetable prep work and cooking lunches for hundreds of hungry sailors. He wasn’t impressed, which was appropriate.

    I have high hopes for the current election.

    I really wish reporters would stop using the phrase “election day” and telling is the election is only 2 weeks away. No, idiots, the election is currently underway and won’t even end on “election day” as votes will be counted for at least a few more days after “election day”.

    I really hope we get to see Ms Stahl’s interview with Der Trumpster. We don’t get CBS broadcast over-the-air any more, but perhaps a stream will be available. The contrast between Trump and Biden/Harris will be amazing…

    Anyway, best wishes to all the Deranged in Arizona family. Hard times will go away soon, I believe.

    ETA: speling and gramur fixd.

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    @Mark’s Bubbie:  When your screen name has an apostrophe in it,  no comment of yours will ever show up automatically, without being manually approved by a front pager.

    You could try an * instead of the apostrophe.

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