Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

This blog will pay for itself.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

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

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Everybody saw this coming.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

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

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  1. 1.

    marklar

    I had just finished the Masters with a 12 under par. Tiger and Phil were on the 11th green, both at 10 under. I immediately declared victory. The Green Jacket was mine.

  2. 2.

    germy

    While you gleefully celebrate his demise you are also insulting those who supported him.

    Yes. Yes I am.

  4. 4.

    Mowgli

    As a relocated yankee that’s lived in GA for 15 years, I wasn’t sure I’d ever see the day that we went blue in a presidential election without a GA native on the ballot. If it holds, Abrams is the hero of the republic, showing us the path forward to flip the South. Bless her.

  5. 5.

    Roger Moore

    I get that the media elites hate the president but realize that over 68 million Americans voted for him, in what has to be one of the closest contest in modern presidential history. While you gleefully celebrate his demise you are also insulting those who supported him.

    Let me just repeat what I’ve been told again and again for the past 4+ years: Fuck Your Feelings.

  7. 7.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    While you gleefully celebrate his demise you are also insulting those who supported him.

    What does the MAGA people say,  “fuck your feelings”?

  8. 8.

    Ian G.

    My message to Craig Robinson there:

    First, lick my New York balls.

    Second, thank me for all the federal transfer payments that New York provides to Iowa so MAGA asshats there can live better than Bolivian alpaca herders.

    (Needless to say, no offense intended for good liberals who live in Iowa)

  9. 9.

    Salty Sam

    While you gleefully celebrate his demise you are also insulting those who supported him.

    You say that as if it was a BAD thing…

  10. 10.

    mad citizen

    A thought from last night while watching 3 minutes of my media betters on abc was, Trump has been running for this election for FOUR F-ing years, why didn’t he win?  He started holding 2024 rallies in 2017, FFS.  Wikipedia calls them all other things (Thank You rally, Mid-Term Rally), and I totally forgot his F-ing Thank You rallies in DECEMBER 2016.  Anyone remember that?  Rubbing it in peoples’ faces?  He held 9 of those in December 2016.

    Overall, and I may be off one or two, he had 174 rallies over the last four years, which is 11.9% of the days.  So basically every 12 days on average he needed to appear in front of a large crowd to validate his sorry self, ramble on about how great he is, and denigrate the other side.

    I thought I need to replace my campaign car stickers with a President Joe Biden sticker.  Then a better idea: God Bless President Biden.  And I want his face on it as well.

  13. 13.

    germy

    Everybody brace yourselves because as mad as they are now, the Trumpkins will absolutely flip their shit when they realize they’re getting beaten by black people.

    — Roy Edroso (@edroso) November 6, 2020

    I mean, we see their baseline crazy all the time, but when their feeds start filling with pictures of a smiling Stacey Abrams we are really going to see some frothing at the mouth. https://t.co/AbbdHEDyAm

    — Roy Edroso (@edroso) November 6, 2020

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    Oh Craig.  You adorable, fascist, sack of shit.

    ETA – FUCK THEIR FEELINGS, AND FUCK YOU TOO!

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    Quoth Craig Robinson:

    While you gleefully celebrate his demise you are also insulting those who supported him.

    Well, Mr Robinson, the soon-to-be-former President has spent this week showing his true colours, and if you’ll pardon the understatement (and a gratuitous Cyndi Lauper reference) they are not beautiful like a wainbow. Gloating over his demise is no more insult than his supporters deserve. They are angry spoiled children who elected an angry spoiled child to the White House.

  19. 19.

    germy

    The sad and unpopular truth is that the GOP was leaning strongly into anti-democratic tendencies even before Trump got into office.

    — Matt Rogers (@MattForDelegate) November 6, 2020

    I sat through 8 years of Fox News telling us Putin was a better leader than Obama. This shit didn’t start with Trump. https://t.co/cgsB8oR3a9

    — Joe Remi (@JoeOfTheNorth) November 6, 2020

  21. 21.

    Mustang Bobby

    I get that the media elites hate the president but realize that over 68 million Americans voted for him, in what has to be one of the closest contest in modern presidential history.

    “One of the closest contests”?

    Wrong, Turkey Lips. 1960, 1968, 1976, 2000, 2016 were all closer.  And the loser conceded gracefully without threats of revolution.

  22. 22.

    CCL

    I just want to leave this here as personal report.   I worked the in-person polls here in a reliable blue state, but polarized district.  Two thirds voted in-person.  We had a third vote absentee.  In person votes favored T, so a lot of folks saw those numbers and despaired (or rejoiced, I suppose).  However, once we added in the absentee ballot totals, biden won.

    Similar to other BJers, I have been an election official for many years.  I am pretty proud of my little town for how well the voters treated us (with few exceptions), even when they didn’t quite understand why we were doing what we were doing to make sure every eligible voter could cast their ballots.

  24. 24.

    different-church-lady

    While you gleefully celebrate his demise you are also insulting those who supported him.

    Those would be the same people wearing t-shirts with “FUCK YOUR FEELINGS” printed on them, yes?

  25. 25.

    Sab

    @Amir Khalid: Oh. It’s that Craig Robinson. Scared me for a minute, since Michelle Obama’s brother is also a Craig Robinson, I thought for a minute they were going overboard on the “they go low, we go high” thing.

  27. 27.

    OzarkHillbilly

    While you gleefully celebrate his demise you are also insulting those who supported him.

    Hey Craig? Their existence is an insult. Fuck you.

  30. 30.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @Mowgli: I’m echoing someone else who posted in a thread yesterday (I think). It’s good to imagine Stacey Abrams bending over the corpse of the Trump campaign and whispering, “John Lewis sends his regards.”

  35. 35.

    germy

    @Nina:

    I love that bongo cat, and I see people are mixing him into a bunch of different memes.  They did one with him bopping to Trump’s spiritual advisor lady shouting her prayers.

    .

  37. 37.

    Cermet

    The rump lost and as the rump say’s himself, losers are the worst. Ergo, rump is a pile of sh%t  because he is a LOSER! Suck it rumpie’s.

  39. 39.

    Sab

    @Nina: I once adopted a dog from a guy who played drums in a rock band. Only dog I ever had who would jump up and down and bark when she heard a drum solo on the radio.

  40. 40.

    Jeffro

    @mad citizen:Trump has been running for this election for FOUR F-ing years, why didn’t he win?

    Because he (and his GOP enablers) weren’t smart enough to tweak Obamacare, call it ‘trumpovCare’, and move on.

    Because he knows SO much more about the coronavirus than everyone else, and put Jared in charge of the “response”, and yeah well look how that turned out.

    Because nobody could get him to stop tweeting.

    Because nobody could get him to stop criming.

  41. 41.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    Fuck their feelings indeed. I’m glad I have BJ as a place to share the vindictiveness.

    I slept really well last night, I think because I was sure Biden was going to win. I feel like a layer of stress has fallen away.

  45. 45.

    Llelldorin

    in what has to be one of the closest contest in modern presidential history.

    Honestly, I got stuck here to the point that I never quite got to the “STOP INSULTING US BY CELEBRATING” part. After twice scraping out marginal electoral college wins with popular vote losses, this loon wants to claim that a 50.5%-47.7% shellacking is close?

  47. 47.

    randy khan

    in what has to be one of the closest contest in modern presidential history.

    Not really.  I am sure we’re going to see this coming from the right for quite a while, but when all is said and done it’s not likely to be particularly close in the Electoral College and the popular vote margin will be pretty big – definitely bigger than Clinton’s in 2016, as one of many examples.

  49. 49.

    Splitting Image

    While we’re gleefully celebrating Trump’s demise and insulting his supporters, don’t forget that we should also be gleefully celebrating the demise of the NRA and insulting its supporters. Its collapse amid allegations of fraud and foreign money laundering seems to have been forgotten amid other concerns, but it is something that ought to be savoured.

  53. 53.

    Geminid

     

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: regarding trump’s rallies: I listened to WBT Charlotte radio election coverage Tuesday night, and I heard a couple journalists speculating on the effect of the trump rallies in that state. While acknowledging the public health dangers, they thought the NC rallies may have helped trump, possibly by creating a “bandwagon effect” attraction to voters, and as a means to harvest names and addresses to employ in GOTV and propaganda efforts. Of course, the rallies  demonstrated a cynical and callous approach to public health, and will leave disease and death in their wake. But since when has trump shown any sincere concern for anybody but himself?

  58. 58.

    Martin

    Biden now in the lead in PA.

    I have two theories on why it hasn’t been called.

    1. Bob Casey said that about half of the remaining ballots are provisional and not mail-in. If so, the analysts may not have a trend on how those ballots will go. Given they’re mostly from Philly and Pitt, they should all break Biden.
    2. Given Trump’s declaration of victory, the networks are coordinating their decision to call the election, and that’s not going to happen at 5 AM Pacific time.
  59. 59.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    Dear Craig Robinson,

    Biden-Harris 2020: Make Conservatives Cry Again

    With sincere hopes that you GFY

  61. 61.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    I’m laughing at my Facebook feed right now – lots of calls from civility from Trumpers, and from one law school classmate who I used to crush on (and boy, am I glad I ducked THAT bullet), a call for a demonstration of empathy and care and concern for Trump’s feelings….

  63. 63.

    Mai Naem mobile

    Byedon just took the lead in Pennsylvania. Bye bye bye. Pack your bags Donnie and we’ll be doing a cavity search when you leave incase you’re talking about stealing some memorablia items on your way out,  to sell on ebay .

  66. 66.

    Spanky

    Please don’t forget to generously tip our server Anne, who tossed in that bit of catnip at the end, gratis.

  68. 68.

    Splitting Image

    @JPL:

    Biden leads in PA

    And that’s the ball game!

    Has it started tweeting yet this morning? Yesterday’s meltdown will probably seem presidential by noon today.

  78. 78.

    artem1s

    just getting up here… So exited about GA lead.  BUT

    270towin flipped PA blue.  I’m almost afraid to ask if any of the other media outlets are reporting on this? did AP call it?

  79. 79.

    dmsilev

    Whooo!

    Breaking news alert: “Joe Biden is Projected Winner of US Election”

    (call from Vox; I’m sure the actual networks won’t be far behind)

  83. 83.

    Humanities Prof

    @artem1s: The AP has not yet, no.

    Probably won’t for a couple of hours.

    But Biden now has a lead of about 5,500 votes, and that seems overwhelmingly likely to grow as more votes are counted.

  86. 86.

    unknown known

    I get that the media elites hate the president but realize that over 68 million Americans voted for him, in what has to be one of the closest contest in modern presidential history. While you gleefully celebrate his demise you are also insulting those who supported him.

    What an excellent point, thank you. The GOP really lead by example on this, illustrating the rule that you’re not supposed to have gleeful, loud public celebrations unless you lose the popular vote by at least a million or two, and then squeak out victory by a few hundred thousand votes in a key state or so. That’s when you’ve won for real and can rub it shamelessly and tirelessly in the face of anyone who can’t escape listening.

     

    Also, when you’ve pinched a supreme court seat. that’s worth breaking covid secure restrictions to have a big party for. But winning a few key states somewhat narrowly AND ALSO the popular vote by 3 million! Why that’s just being a sore winner! You are probably best off shaking hands in a gentlemanly way, and quietly adopting the policies and personnel of the … not losing party, that sounds wrong… the confederacy party? No, the winning disadvantaged party.. yes, them. The poor hard-done by darlings.

  89. 89.

    dmsilev

    With regards to Arizona, maybe Trump spending the last several years in a feud with John McCain was not strategically optimal for him.

  91. 91.

    Kattails

    @germy: The Bongo cat set to Trump’s “cast out the demon baby” lady prayers? I would love to have seen that. This one cracked me up.

    Trump has ruthlessly and viciously mocked everyone who disagreed with him for four years. If a large batch of psychologists had not been muzzled, we would have been able to have the discussion on him meeting all the criteria for clinical insanity. His supporters have been fine with mountains of shit. My sympathies are rather limited.

  96. 96.

    MJS

    @Martin: Did the 35,000 ballots from Allegheny County come in yet? That counting wasn’t supposed to happen until today, and I doubt they have, so that’s another reason not to call it. Not saying that those won’t break for Biden, just that there’s too many outstanding to call it based on a 5000 vote lead.

  103. 103.

    artem1s

    Thank you, thank you, thank you Georgia!  So embarrassed for OH today.  Can we borrow Stacey (just a little bit) for our state elections?

  107. 107.

    narya

    When my dad was born, women had only had the right to vote for 10 years and much/all of this country was segregated. He got to vote for the first black president and it looks like maybe the first female Vice President as well. And he’s in PA, so his and my mom’s votes helped make this happen.

  108. 108.

    Martin

    @Sab: My guess is Biden will win by enough votes to populate the 7 smallest states in the US (14% of the states).

  109. 109.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Harlan clearly has never spent time in those places outside the airport.

    I say “Proceed bigly, little buddy. Proceed.”

  110. 110.

    dmsilev

    Also, with regards to that Tweet from Mr Craig “sensitive snowflake” Robinson. In 2000, George W. Bush won what was probably the closest election in American history, which came down to a handful of votes in one state. He took office and governed as if he had an overwhelming mandate. In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote by millions and won the Electoral College because of tiny margins in 3 states, and governed like, well, Trump. So, after due consideration, I find I must join my fellow commentators in concluding “Fuck Your Feelings”.

  111. 111.

    Barbara

    @Mowgli: This is how I felt in 2006 when Jim Webb beat George Allen by razor thin margins. I watched until 3:00 am as the Fairfax votes were completely processed. It wasn’t a totally straight line after that but the compass had shifted and it hasn’t flipped back. OMG it felt good.

  114. 114.

    PPCLI

    @different-church-lady:

    Their newly elected nazi sympathizer Representative Madison Cawthorn tweeted what appears to be the latest, most popular version of F*ck your Feelings two days ago, one that has also been used by such luminaries as Don Trump Jr.:

    “Cry more, libs.

    So, yes, I do feel comfortable insulting his supporters.

  115. 115.

    hueyplong

    Amending my post from yesterday:

    Donnie, John McCain, RBG, Elijah Cummings and John Lewis send their regards.

  118. 118.

    hueyplong

    Did anyone else notice that Donnie Jr yesterday called for Totaler Krieg just like Goebbels did after Stalingrad?

    He actually used the term “total war.”

  119. 119.

    Sab

    @artem1s: DeWine in his initial Covid response saved Ohio Repubs bacon. I wonder if two years from now he and Husted will get credit, or be treated like turncoats.

  120. 120.

    Martin

    @Mary G: Took us a few tries, but we finally got it done. That’s a big fucking deal that hasn’t quite sunk in yet. What’s more, we’ve got a pretty good shot of having identified the first female president in the process.

  121. 121.

    germy

    Let it begin:

    The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has opened an investigation into allegations that the Trump campaign's use of the White House as an Election Day command center violated federal law, according to Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell. https://t.co/sHc27nnSYD— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 6, 2020

  124. 124.

    dmsilev

    As to network calls, NYT analyst Nate Cohn:

    The key question: will anyone call it on this basis? Often, they wait until a candidate has cleared .5 point / the recount threshold.— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) November 6, 2020

  128. 128.

    RobertB

    @Sab: My money’s on ‘turncoats’.  Some Republican legislators wanted to impeach him.  Not going to look it up, but I know there was more than one.

  129. 129.

    montanareddog

    The self-pity of these mewling fools is off the charts. A couple of recent examples of “gleeful celebration”:

    Mitch McConnell: “It was a wonderful birthday president for Hillary Clinton to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court Monday night on her birthday” he said at a recent campaign event. “Oh I’m sure she was so grateful, so grateful.”

    The execrable Madison Cawthorn, Nazi-curious, sexually-assaulting ass-clown: Cry more, Libs

    So Mr Robinson’s concern trolling can eat a bag of unseasoned Iowa dicks

  130. 130.

    Sab

    I am working on a “HaHa Phuck Your Feelings” sweat shirt. I don’t do silk screen, so it will have to be applique. With scraps left over from making Covid masks.

  131. 131.

    germy

    I get that the media elites hate the president but realize that over 68 million Americans voted for him, in what has to be one of the closest contest in modern presidential history. While you gleefully celebrate his demise you are also insulting those who supported him.

    — Craig Robinson (@IowaGOPer) November 6, 2020

    Hi Craig, Iowa media person here. You all LITERALLY put my face in an attack ad and I got an email threatening to shoot me and I lost my job. Also, the head of the Iowa GOP screamed in my face and I got bomb threats afterwards. https://t.co/PrzsgqJs40

    — Lyz Lenz (@lyzl) November 6, 2020

    When I emailed the head of the Iowa GOP to let him know how his attacks put me and my children's lives at danger, NO ONE REPLIED. So SPARE ME the decency talk.

    — Lyz Lenz (@lyzl) November 6, 2020

  133. 133.

    PPCLI

    @germy: I want every single violation of the Hatch act to be investigated and the warranted fine levied. I believe it’s $1000. Doesn’t seem like a lot, but since a lot of people have multiple violations, that could really add up, at a grand per violation.

    Also, charge the Trump Campaign market rates for every damn campaign event held on White House grounds, and seize Trump Tower if they don’t pay.

    And if I remember right, the Hatch Act also has a penalty of being barred from Federal employment for some chunk of time, a few years or so.

    I vaguely recall some low-level career bureaucrat in the Obama years, hounded out of her job by Mark Meadows, all sanctimonious about the sacred Hatch Act….

  134. 134.

    germy

    Needs the sarcasm tag:

    I'm looking forward to the endless interviews that major media outlets will surely do with middle-aged African American women in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit throughout the Biden presidency, reporting their takes on the issues and reflecting their concerns about the future.

    — Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 6, 2020

  136. 136.

    Roger Moore

    @Llelldorin: 

    After twice scraping out marginal electoral college wins with popular vote losses, this loon wants to claim that a 50.5%-47.7% shellacking is close?

    They haven’t finished counting the vote yet, either. California has something like 4.5 million votes left to count, which should add another percentage point by itself.

  137. 137.

    germy

    @PPCLI:  And if I remember right, the Hatch Act also has a penalty of being barred from Federal employment for some chunk of time, a few years or so.

    That would be helpful. Keep them out.

  138. 138.

    burnspbesq

    Somewhere in Heaven, I imagine Guy Clark and Molly Ivins sharing a chuckle over the fact that it looks like Joe will seal the deal on what would have been Guy’s 79th birthday.

  142. 142.

    JPL

    New: A new restricted “national defense airspace” has been put in place over presidential candidate Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware.

    Jim Sciutto

  143. 143.

    Sab

    @RobertB: But term limits, so what do their corporate masters’ want?

    I wish to God DeWine had made some kind of effort beyond speechifying to protect Dr Amy Acton. Apparently no qualified medical professional is willing to replace her, so we now have a non-medical RWNJ right-to-lifer from Bureau of Workers Comp as our new public health director. In mid-pandemic.

    His instincts were good but his spine was woefully lacking. Of course the Ohio Republicans with spines (Gym Jordan) barely have two brain cells to rub together.

  144. 144.

    Kattails

    Stonekettle is already (well this is ongoing for him) saying that if we want 2022, we need to start work NOW.  He’s absolutely correct.  Not quite sure what that means for me, I’m in NH and my Congresspersons have been very reliably blue for some time.  We  need a plan.  Give us a week off and then get onto it.

  145. 145.

    germy

    Jake Tapper blasts Fox News: The Murdoch's and the people at Fox have an obligation to put their country above their profits… Joe Biden is on the precipice of becoming the next president fair and square, and people [like us] have the obligation to convey that to their viewers. pic.twitter.com/35Hfke8hcY— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) November 6, 2020

  148. 148.

    Quinerly

    @Sab: Obviously. McCain came back from the grave to deliver AZ. (I’m cracking myself up… 45 min kitty nap, no sleep)

  151. 151.

    Sab

    @Kattails: Yes. Ohio used to be purple and now it is red, but I don’t think people’s underlying values have changed that much. We are all just much angrier. Weird. The more Republicans screw up our economy the angrier we get. Angry white people vote Republican. Sort of a death spiral.

  152. 152.

    SFAW

    @Immanentize:

    Leak of Biden/Harris cabinet:

    I saw that line, and for some reason — before I actually went to the tweet — my mind flashed to the match-cut in Putney Swope, after Swope is elected board chairman.

  153. 153.

    Kattails

    I’ve GOT to go get some work, as per the Bongo Cat meme up top. Just noting that on some other thread (been bouncing around here), someone mentioned that we should all go buy Stacey Abrams books so she can be financially secure.  I’m in for that, and pretty sure there’s a lot of thoughtful ideas in there as well.

  154. 154.

    Sab

    @Quinerly: McCain was very feisty and dissed Trump repeatedly. McSally just wrung her hands and looked lost and sad like a puppy in trouble. Apparently not a good look for electoral office seekers.

    I passionately hate Rob Portman, but he manages to be very deferential without actually looking weak. He goes for the no comment because I am preoccupid with other important issues you haven’t noticed yet approach.

  155. 155.

    clay

    @germy: Remember when Tapper got all out of shape when Obama suggested Fox was a biased organization?  I remember…

    Well, better late than never.

  156. 156.

    RobertB

    @Sab: DeWine chickening out is regression to the mean/return to normalcy.  I feel better now that he’s his usual weaselly self.

  161. 161.

    Sab

    @Kattails: She has written two serious non-fiction works. But also as Serena Montgomery lots of romance novels with not very steamy titles. For those who like such things.

  162. 162.

    SFAW

    @germy:

    Delusion — it’s what the Trump campaign is having for breakfast.

    And lunch. And dinner. And a midnight snack with all those hamberders.

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