Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Second rate reporter says what?

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

The lights are all blinking red.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

When we show up, we win.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

You cannot love your country only when you win.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

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  1. 1.

    suzanne

    Elon Musk is fucken gross. I usually wouldn’t encourage violence, but if Travis Kelce turned Elmo into a smear on the pavement, it might be better for us all.

  7. 7.

    hueyplong

    If you’re looking for more objective reactions to last night, Trump’s stock is down about 12% today.

  9. 9.

    Ken

    After due consideration, I’ve decided my favorite reaction to the debate is the one from Erick Erickson screaming at all the other RWNJs for using the “eating your pets” slur so often that it managed to penetrate into Trump’s brain

    (Related, though not directly about the debate, Asher Langton notes: “Sadly, there actually is a group of people who brutally murder more than 10,000 pet dogs a year in this country. Their union just endorsed Trump.”)

  11. 11.

    HumboldtBlue

    I still wanna know what the fuck was up with the MAYOR OF MOSCOW’S WIFE!!!!!

    Fox is having a tough time today, and you love to see it. Meanwhile, Kamala basks in the afterglow of a much-needed beat down of that fat orange clown.

    Even Chris Christie’s ever-odious ass was impressed.

    Chris Christie: “She was exquisitely well prepared. She laid traps, and he chased every rabbit down every hole…This is the difference between someone who’s well-prepared and someone who’s unprepared. Whoever did debate prep for Donald Trump should be fired.”

  12. 12.

    sdhays

    I had read that Trump had underbussed JV, but damn!

    “I don’t talk to JD.”

    I wonder if Tim Walz will bring that up in the debate.

  14. 14.

    dmsilev

    Alexandra Petri is, as ever, a treasure: The Trump-Harris debate, summarized

    Moderator Linsey Davis: Donald Trump, just say things that a person would say. They don’t have to be in response to the question. They can just be words. “Person,” “woman,” “man,” “camera,” “TV,” for example. Just words that a normal person might say. Not a talk radio host, a normal person. Just to prove you can. Just until the end of the debate.

    […]

    Donald Trump: [foaming at the mouth] Excuse me! Excuse me! Officer, that lady — very rude! — said my rallies are small. They are not small! They are large, above average! Everyone says they are pleasurable and last the right amount of time! No one even goes to her rallies! I don’t think women even have rallies! JD Vance says they’re not allowed to congregate like that. I’m so mad and keyed up right now! It’s got to be the fault of immigrants who are ruining this country! In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. [This is a verbatim quote.])

    [The moderators pull out a big clock from under their desk and reset it.]

     

    Muir: [resetting the clock a third time] Okay, Donald. It’s okay. Don’t get frustrated! You can try again. Just normal words. Things where if you said them to a stranger next to you on the city bus, he would stay the same distance away from you and not move farther away.

    Trump: A city bus? What’s that?

    Harris: Like a limo, but with more sharing.

    Trump: Not her. I don’t want her to talk. When she talks I get upset! She is a Marxist, like her father.

    Muir: [resetting] Okay. How about a question? Nationwide abortion ban. JD Vance said you wouldn’t sign one.

    Trump: I don’t really talk to JD Vance about everything.

    [Everyone nods encouragingly. The clock keeps ticking.]

    Trump: Excuse me, I have to respond. I have been a leader on fertilization.

    [The moderators sigh and reset the clock.]

    Harris: For someone who hasn’t been discussing things with JD Vance, you sound as if you’ve been discussing things with JD Vance.

  15. 15.

    mali muso

    Working from home today to stay with the kiddo as the entire area school system is shut down from “an abundance of caution” related to a threat situation. America.
    On the positive side, I am enjoying reading/watching the reactions to last night’s debate, as I went to bed early and didn’t watch live. Woke up around midnight, threw some money at the campaign to help run up the score, and didn’t check any headlines until morning. Is it accurate to summarize that the wisdom of our media betters yesterday was that this debate was the MOST important thing and today it’s “debates don’t matter”?

  17. 17.

    suzanne

    @Leto: I saw a Cybertruck on Saturday while I was running. First time I got to see one up really close. It looked like shit. The area around the door handle was super fingerprint-y and oily-looking. Like stainless steel appliances! Which also look bad!

  20. 20.

    Ken

    @HumboldtBlue: Chris Christie: She laid traps, and he chased every rabbit down every hole…

    Congratulations to Christie for noticing that Trump is easily provoked, a fact pointed out by Hillary Clinton in 2016. What will he discover next? That Trump is a convicted felon?

  24. 24.

    zhena gogolia

    @HumboldtBlue: Yelena Baturina, wife of the long-dead FORMER major of Moscow, major gangster Yuri Luzhkov, did NOT give any money to Hunter Biden. That’s the story.

  27. 27.

    suzanne

    @zhena gogolia: After Swift’s endorsement, Elmo xhitted (tweeted?) the following:

    Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life

    :::hurl:::

  34. 34.

    Falling Diphthong

    @suzanne: I think that the best response to Elon was someone searching to see if Swift had ever commented on his account, or about him.

    No.

  37. 37.

    zhena gogolia

    @HumboldtBlue: Thanks! I’m getting ready for an intense work trip, and I’m all prepared, and I’m finding myself unable to do anything else today but watch interesting videos.

  39. 39.

    Redshift

    @sdhays: The thing is, if you look at the articles about Vance saying Trump would veto an abortion ban, he didn’t even say Trump had told him that. He just said, basically, “his position is that it should be left to the states, so of course that must mean he’d be against a ban.”

  41. 41.

    rikyrah

    @mali muso:

    they had their stories all ready and waiting. All they needed was the Orange Menace to give them any kind of plausible cover for which they could hang their TRUMP WON stories. He gave them NOTHING…

     

    BWA HA HA HA AH HA HA AH HA

  46. 46.

    Redshift

    @suzanne: It was unbelievably creepy and gross. Swift was hitting back at Vance’s “childless cat lady” smear, and he thinks it’s funny to say “she’s lamenting that she doesn’t have children, like all females, and is in desperate need of an incel like me to make it happen!”

    If only we had an HR department for humanity that could tell him that’s a firing offense!

  54. 54.

    Trollhattan

    @suzanne: Definitely statementmobiles. Owners can’t imagine the delta between what they believe they’re stating and what they’re effectively stating.

    It’s the H2 Hummer for the modern era.

  55. 55.

    Redshift

    @mali muso:

    Is it accurate to summarize that the wisdom of our media betters yesterday was that this debate was the MOST important thing and today it’s “debates don’t matter”?

    I wouldn’t say so. Top headline on WaPo right now is “Harris dominated Trump in the debate, but tight race is still ahead.” NYT has the boring but not terrible “Harris and Trump Bet on Their Own Sharply Contrasting Views of America,” but are also featuring the fact-check of the immigrant smear and an opinion roundup with “‘Harris Won, and It Wasn’t Close’: 14 Writers Rate the Presidential Debate”. Better than I expected from them.

  63. 63.

    catclub

    CNN:

    Trump and Harris shake hands at 9/11 memorial service

    Lip reading says she is saying “I ate your lunch at the debate, old man.”

  67. 67.

    catclub

    @Baud: Comment on that picture about Vance:

    Vladimir futon is dressed in the cult uniform.

     

    Everyone? I certainly do not see Giuliani.  Isn’t he hiding from being served subpoenas?

  68. 68.

    Barbara

    @schrodingers_cat: I would guess that Swift receives thousands of messages through every kind of media that express similarly crude sentiments.  He’s not even being original.

    Taylor Swift is also the woman who refused to ignore sexual assault inflicted on her as a teenager by a radio host.   I assume she ignores anything that isn’t physically threatening.

  70. 70.

    BellyCat

    @TBone: Tiedrich is fairly good. Would read him more but his unrelenting commitment to lower-case letters at the beginning of each sentence is not just irritating, it demands too much fucking work of the reader. I mean, if you miss a damn period, you’re trying figure out what looks like a run-on sentence.

  75. 75.

    JaySinWA

    @catclub:

    Vladimir futon is dressed in the cult uniform.

    Size (of the tie) matters. It looks like Vance hasn’t quite got the length down. Perhaps he doesn’t want to outshine the boss.

  78. 78.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @schrodingers_cat: Sounded to me more like Elmo thinks he ought to be utterly irresistible to women, what with his reputation and his fortune and all. Or he’s joking in that punching-down sense.

    Too bad for him Taylor Swift has her own reputation and fortune and much better taste in companions.

    And I wouldn’t like to be in Elmo’s shoes when the Swifties decide what to do about him. (Caveat: all I know about the Swifties is what they did to Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem over a syntax-mangled compliment that got autocorrected into an insult.)

  88. 88.

    SW

    @suzanne: No shit.  I saw one yesterday and it is butt ugly.  It looks like someone knocked it together in their garage with flat panels of stainless steal and a welder.  Can’t believe a real human was paid to design it.

  91. 91.

    EarthWindFire

    @rikyrah: Wasn’t even equal footing. He won a coin toss that gave him the last word on every question. Even with that boost, he couldn’t pull it off.

    Imagine the whoop-ass if Harris got the last word. I don’t think Trump will risk it but with his vengeance issues, who knows?

  94. 94.

    Leto

    @suzanne: Avalune said she spotted one this past weekend in our neighborhood. There’s only one house that turd could belong to, but we know it’s not theirs so back into the wild it returned…

  96. 96.

    Jinchi

    @mali muso: Is it accurate to summarize that the wisdom of our media betters yesterday was that this debate was the MOST important thing and today it’s “debates don’t matter”?

    Well CNN currently has an Analysis column titled :

    “Harris won the debate, but could still easily lose the election”

    because there is no such thing as ‘Good News’ for Democrats.

  97. 97.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Ken: ​
     

    After due consideration, I’ve decided my favorite reaction to the debate is the one from Erick Erickson screaming at all the other RWNJs for using the “eating your pets” slur so often that it managed to penetrate into Trump’s brain

    If I were still on Xitter, I’d tell him, “Dude, that’s who y’all ARE these days. If you’ve got a problem with this, then you’ve got a problem with being a Republican in 2024.”

  98. 98.

    mrmoshpotato

    @catclub:

    Lip reading says she is saying “I ate your lunch at the debate, old man.” 

    Oh?  Not “Surprised you showed up, you traitorous trash.”?

  99. 99.

    KatKapCC

    @Jinchi: I love how the media and pundits think saying “someone could lose the election” is some kind of trenchant analysis. Like, yeah, dumbass. Someone always loses every election. That’s how they work.

  100. 100.

    Ned F.

    So, is anyone calling for donald to drop out of the race? He screwed the debate…

    No wait, don’t drop out!! everything’s fine, just keep up the good work, you got it, man.

  101. 101.

    Trollhattan

    @SatanicPanic: Yup, it exists. I’ve seen one, and luckily just the one. They really fill up a parking space.

    I try not to ponder being hit by one.

    The Hummer EV Edition 1 we tested had the 1000-hp powertrain, and it rocketed to 60 mph in 3.3 seconds thanks to its Watts to Freedom (WTF) launch control mode. That makes it one of the quickest pickups we’ve ever tested. And nothing this heavy (9640 pounds) is anywhere near this quick.

    10,000 pounds going 0-60 in 3.3 sec?

  103. 103.

    Dangerman

    After Arlington, how big of an asshole do you have to be grinning at a 9/11 service?

    I guess he’s not winning New York.

    ETA: Although I’ll give him a pass if that was his “just made poopy in public” look

  105. 105.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Anoniminous: ​
     

    Trying to encapsulate last night in a single image.

    I keep thinking of Billie Jean King’s demolishing Bobby Riggs. That moment when she slammed the ball into an open court – I can still see that in my mind’s eye after 51 years. (Riggs had had to run off the court to return her previous shot.)

  106. 106.

    Kent

    @HumboldtBlue:I still wanna know what the fuck was up with the MAYOR OF MOSCOW’S WIFE!!!!!

    A few months ago there was some made-up lie passed around by James Comer’s investigation of Hunter Biden in which they claimed that $3.5 million were funneled to Joe Biden via the wife of the Moscow mayor, using Hunter Biden as a cutout.

    Apparently the deeply feverish right wing media ran with it for a bit and like the immigrants eating dogs thing, Trump just absorbed the nonsense and repeated it in the debate.

    So he didn’t actually make it up.  He is just repeating Republican fever swamp dipshittery and lies.

  107. 107.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Barbara: Not to mention, Swift has a boyfriend who is rich, good-looking, famous and an elite athlete.

    No, Elon, like most women, she doesn’t want to fuck you.  And never will.  All the $ in the world won’t ever make the cool girls want to fuck Nazis like you!

  117. 117.

    Chris

    @Dangerman:

    After Arlington, how big of an asshole do you have to be grinning at a 9/11 service?

    I guess he’s not winning New York.

    Might even help him with his base.

    Remember, the immediate reaction from the GOP’s two biggest cult leaders at the time was to go on national TV and giggle about how 9/11 was God’s vengeance on New York for having so many gays and feminists.

    I suspect there were quite a few nineties neo-Nazi militia types who saw the towers go down and thought “damn it, that was going to be our next big project!”

  118. 118.

    Trollhattan

    @dr. luba:

    Heh. Any chance of deporting him with all that other furriner rabble?

    Like his new buddy Trump, Elmo imagines himself as being suave and funny. Absurd on its face it’s ultimately a product of surrounding yourself with toadies. “Good one, sir. You really got her with that.”

  120. 120.

    Leto

    @HumboldtBlue: “B*tch, I will break that hand off and beak you with it like you owe me lunch money…” – excerpt from MVP’s upcoming book, “Concepts of a Beat Down”

  122. 122.

    Soprano2

    I didn’t want to harsh everyone’s buzz in the morning thread, so I’m going to post this here. My husband had his visit with the hematologist on Monday; the doctor is almost sure that he has multiple myeloma. *sigh* He’s waiting for a few more tests to know for sure, but all signs point to it. He says after he gets these other tests he’ll know more about what treatment to do, if any. He’s fully aware of my husband’s other health problems; we know that something like a bone marrow transplant is not in the cards for him, it would probably kill him to even try it. Just something else to manage and go to the doctor for…..

  125. 125.

    Soprano2

    @HumboldtBlue: It doesn’t matter who did debate prep for TCFG, because he can’t resist doing exactly what he did last night no matter what they tell him he should do.

  127. 127.

    Trollhattan

    @SatanicPanic: Agreed. It’s mental and the rest of us shouldn’t be responsible for keeping out of its way.

    Reminded of my first encounter with the civilian H1, which is WAY larger than the H2 Hummer. Was driving CA 160, a 2-lane highway in the Delta. This thing was coming at me taking its entire lane and part of mine, forcing me to drive partly on the shoulder with the Sacramento River levee edge another foot or two to my right. Frickin’ harrowing.

  128. 128.

    OId Man Shadow

    ABC News committed several wanton acts of journalism last night and I’m sure a senior editor is trying to find out how that happened.

  129. 129.

    Barbara

    @Soprano2: I am sorry to hear this.  My sister in law has had multiple myeloma for years.  I think it is highly variable, but she doesn’t share too much about the kind of treatments she has received.  I think bone marrow transplant is a last resort.  Wishing you the best.

  131. 131.

    scribbler

    @Soprano2:  That’s really terrible news.  You and your husband don’t need anything more to deal with!  Sending you hugs, if that’s okay.

  132. 132.

    Anonymous At Work

    Question: After assembling all those panels of “undecided voters” for different papers, polls, and networks, have all of them successfully managed to get home safely?  I imagine that a lot of them cannot operate motor vehicles, non-rotary telephones, or metal silverware without assistance.

  138. 138.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Jinchi:

    Well CNN currently has an Analysis column titled :

    “Harris won the debate, but could still easily lose the election”

    because there is no such thing as ‘Good News’ for Democrats.

    Worse than that, CNN thinks it’s perfectly fine if that easily manipulated, lying bag of grievance becomes president again and they will false equivalence his glaring unfitness and abject cruelty to make it possible.

  141. 141.

    lowtechcyclist

    @twbrandt:

    I’d like to ask Megyn, if Trump is so weak he can be bamboozled by a couple of journalists, how is he going to deal with people like Putin or Xi?

    By doing whatever they want him to. Duh!

  148. 148.

    Kent

    As usual, the Harris campaign staff are 100% on top of things.

    Within minutes of Taylor Swift’s beautifully written and timed endorsement:

    They leave nothing to chance.   It is the best run campaign I have seen since Obama08 and given that they have had only a tiny fraction of the time to get things in gear compared to Obama’s campaign, are doing an even more impressive job.  The Obama campaigns early months were pretty rough actually.  They didn’t really hit their stride until nearly a year in.

  149. 149.

    narya

    Charlie Pierce did a zoom for subscribers–while I listened, I did another 10 postcards for Vargas in NE.

  153. 153.

    Tim C.

    @SatanicPanic: EV Driver here.  YES.  With the Single exception of the Leaf, pretty much all EVs are much more powerful than most people think.   Simple Transmissions, Instant Torqe and the fact it’s just a lot simpler to put more Kw Output in an electric motor than HP in an Internal combustion engine.

  155. 155.

    Kent

    @Tim C.: Even the Leaf is more powerful than you think.  The current model can do 0-60 in 6.7 seconds which beats pretty much any equivalent gas powered econobox like a Honda Fit or Toyota Corolla.

  157. 157.

    Mousebumples

    @Soprano2: ugh, I’m sorry to hear that. Good luck.

    If you ever want to pick my brain on pharmacology stuff (*I’m a pharmacist for my day job), feel free to DM me on bsky, if you’re there, or I’m sure WaterGirl could connect us too.

  159. 159.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, …

    Laffy

    Mike Johnson pulls stopgap funding plan over widespread GOP opposition

    trib.al/Ry0jr4z

    Sep 11, 2024, 12:03 PM

    [ womp, womp ]

    Unless things have changed, this is the Continuing Resolution with the poison pill “must show proof of citizenship to vote” rider.  Everyone quasi-expected the GQP House to pass this and for it to die in the Senate (as Schumer won’t take it up).  (Then they would vote for the real CR in a few weeks.)

    As usual, their “majority” can’t do the simplest things like vote to keep the lights on without Democrats’ help.

    We have to vote the monsters out.   Forward!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  161. 161.

    Quinerly

    I am late to all threads. Kitchen cabinet update project keeps me off the internet. Just got in a dust up on FB with a Trumper who is friends with a musician friend of mine. My musician friend is all in re Harris. He doesn’t cull his friends like I do.

    Anyway, the Trumper is doing her own research. Someone connected to ABC introduced Harris to Emhoff way back. This proves the debate was rigged. (Harris got all questions ahead of time). And if that wasn’t enough, this Trumper has done a Google search and found KH’s earrings on line. They were equipped with microphones.

  162. 162.

    Tim C.

    @Kent: Okay, I stand corrected.  When I test drove them… a while ago, I thought they were fine, but didn’t have the obvious “Zoom” of other models.

  165. 165.

    cmorenc

    @SW: Someone drove up in a cybertruck to my neighborhood grocery store and parked in the lot.  It looks like a retro-future relic from a 1960s era Twilight Zone episode or maybe the batmobile if there had been a Batman TV series back in the era of black and white TV.  Actually, kind of handsome as a piece of metal sculpture, but ugly as something actually intended as any sort of practical working vehicle.

  166. 166.

    Anonymous At Work

    @Another Scott: That was Round 1 and Mikey has 9 more toes to lose after he accidentally shot one off.  Given that half of the caucus was pissed over the CR itself and the other half hated the poison pill stunt giving the MAGAts more power, he’s not going to find a path without Democrats but can’t admit that he can’t find a path without Democrats.

    A few stories about how elections would work under government shutdown conditions should be in the works.

  167. 167.

    hueyplong

    I’m so old I remember the days when doing your own research was a post-vaccine way for people to die of COVID.

  168. 168.

    jonas

    @EmbraceYourInnerCrone: OMG, I haven’t read any of the stories about the ceremony this morning, but the first thing I thought when I saw some headline about Trump being there was “I bet that sack of shit posed for a bunch of pictures at Ground Zero grinning and giving a thumbs-up.”

    And of course he did.

  170. 170.

    Old School

    @Baud:

    How do microphone earrings help Kamala? Was her audio better than Trump’s?

    They are trying to say Kamala Harris was being fed lines during the debate.

    Twitter has found her actually earrings online.  They are from Tiffany and not equipped with a transmitter.

  171. 171.

    Kent

    @Tim C.: The first gen ones were slower.  But the current model (which is obsolete in other ways) is actually not really a slouch.  Electric motors have so much more low-end torque than gas engines that it is trivially easy to build them that will accelerate fast

    That is the same reason why all locomotives are electric.  Even the diesel ones are simply a diesel generator feeding electricity to electric motors driving the wheels.

  172. 172.

    Old School

    @Quinerly:

    Anyway, the Trumper is doing her own research. Someone connected to ABC introduced Harris to Emhoff way back. This proves the debate was rigged. (Harris got all questions ahead of time).

    I’m not finding a connection to ABC.  Not that that would convince your friend’s friend.

    Doug was a lawyer for Reginald Hudlin who was President of Entertainment for BET from 2005 to 2008.  Reginald’s wife Chrisette, who works in public relations, set up Emhoff and Harris in 2013.

  176. 176.

    Anonymous At Work

    Something I just realized about Harris’s comment on TFG’s rallies.  Was it just me or was she daring CNN and other networks to show his next rally in its entirety, rather than play 20 seconds worth of clips?

  177. 177.

    Ken

    @Old School: Well of course the ones you get from Tiffany aren’t equipped with receivers. The CIA added those to Harris’s pair.

    We know the CIA is all in for Harris because they tried to assassinate Trump — and we know that was the CIA because he’s still alive. (Rimshot, it’s an old joke, I think originally about Castro.)

  183. 183.

    geg6

    @Soprano2:

    I’m so sorry to hear this.  You’ve been through so much lately and I feel for you.  It’s truly a bitch having a partner who is failing and fading.  And now for him to have to go through treatment hell!  If there is anything at all I can do, I’m here.

  185. 185.

    Another Scott

    @Baud:

    Between last night and today she has held his hand more than Melania

    The snark is strong with that one.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  186. 186.

    Old School

    @SatanicPanic:

    why would having the questions in advance matter anyway? No one ever directly answers debate questions

    True.  And it’s not like any of the questions were completely out of the blue.  They were all ones that could have been reasonably expected.

  187. 187.

    hilts

    Mark Levin and Megyn Kelly have completely lost their minds over Taylor Swift’s endorsement:

    Levin’s reaction

    Taylor Swift, imbecile

    Taylor Swift just endorsed for president the most antisemitic, pro-Islamist, pro-criminal, anti-cop, anti-middle class & working people, open borders, anti-women’s sports, anti-military, inflation-causing, job-destroying, pathological liar and extremist Marxist politician ever to run for president.

    mediaite.com/news/mark-levin-reaches-out-to-swifties-by-denouncing-superstar-as-an-imbecile-after-ha…

    Kelly’s reaction

    Oh my God, so this woman is fine with his plan to take custody of the children from parents who don’t want them to chop off their body parts and put them in Minnesota courts’ custody so the body parts can be chopped off and they can be sterilized outside the custody of their parents,” mused Kelly after she finished reading Swift’s statement. “That’s what led Taylor Swift to endorse him!

    mediaite.com/news/this-is-disgusting-f-you-megyn-kelly-loses-it-over-taylor-swifts-endorsement-of-ka…

  191. 191.

    Trollhattan

    @hilts:

    They seem nice.

    You do know one of the best ways to cloak your anti-Semitism is to marry a Jew. Nobody will suspect a thing.

    Until it’s too late.

  192. 192.

    Old School

    @Matt McIrvin:

    Maybe they were confusing CBS (Paramount/Viacom) with ABC (the Mouse)? BET seems to be part of the former.

    I found it!  Here’s the ABC connection (although Doug isn’t really needed):

    Harris also has a tight circle of powerful female friends in Hollywood that advise and support her, including Disney’s [Dana] Walden, Amazon Studios chief Jen Salke and Sharon Klein, Disney’s head of TV casting.

    Walden is a particularly close friend of many years, having met and been friends since 1994, according to an individual close to Walden. The rise of the two women is indeed remarkable. While Harris finds herself catapulted into a race for the Oval Office, Walden is Disney Entertainment co-chairman and is seen as a potential heir to CEO Bob Iger.

    As Puck pointed out this week, Walden and her husband, Matt are among the closest in the industry to Harris and Emhoff, along with Reggie and Chrisette Hudlin.

    At a 2022 fundraiser at the Waldens’ home, Harris recalled that the Hudlins introduced her on a blind date to Emhoff, after the Waldens introduced the Hudlins. “So, in many ways, Dana and Matt are responsible for my marriage,” she said according to the pool report. “But [they] have always been extraordinary friends.”

    That said, Walden has stopped fundraising for her powerful friend, since as the head of Disney’s television business she runs ABC News, according to a knowledgeable Disney insider. (Though Donald Trump’s friendship with Rupert Murdoch hasn’t made Fox News shy about its support of the Republican candidate.)

  193. 193.

    Baud

    @hilts:

    Taylor Swift just endorsed for president the most antisemitic, pro-Islamist, pro-criminal, anti-cop, anti-middle class & working people, open borders, anti-women’s sports, anti-military, inflation-causing, job-destroying, pathological liar and extremist Marxist politician ever to run for president so far. 

     
    Baud! 20XX!

  198. 198.

    raven

    In an appearance this week on WRUF in Gainesville, former Florida football coach and Heisman Trophy winner Steve Spurrier spoke out against the sale of AR-15s, the same style of weapon used by the shooter in Georgia and in many other mass shootings in recent years.
    “Why in the world in America are you eligible to walk into a gun store and buy an AR-15 rifle?” Spurrier said on the program, “Inside the Huddle.”
    “They should have a sign, ‘If you need a gun for mass school shootings, here’s your AR-15. We’ll give you a discount.’ Why don’t they just put that sign up there?”

  201. 201.

    Jeffro

    @Anyway: that, and there was an upset in the gubernatorial primary, too.  Dem voters didn’t go for the Lt Gov (the ‘next in line’ candidate) as her husband had mishandled campaign funds over the years.

    Another sign of a healthy party!  “DEMS: we actually have standards/police ourselves”

  203. 203.

    TBone

    Comment found elsewhere 😆

    I would like to take this moment to congratulate Antifa on successfully planting that Immigrants Are Eating Your Pets story where Trump would be sure to pick it up and repeat it as fact in front of the entire world to prove what a gullible schmuck he is.

  211. 211.

    TBone

    @WaterGirl: hard agree.

    A dominance ploy (that always backfires on fElon through ferocious pushback, resulting in his rapid unplanned disassembly in public).

  212. 212.

    Jeffro

    @Anonymous At Work:Something I just realized about Harris’s comment on TFG’s rallies.  Was it just me or was she daring CNN and other networks to show his next rally in its entirety, rather than play 20 seconds worth of clips?

    She (and her campaign) ABSOLUTELY want the snooze media to cover his rallies more closely.  Very smart, strategically, to bring it up.

    and trumpov is so stupid, he’ll be like, “Yeah, cover me and my rallies a lot more closely!  Do that, media!!” =P

  216. 216.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Trollhattan: ​ 

    You do know one of the best ways to cloak your anti-Semitism is to marry a Jew. Nobody will suspect a thing.

    I’ve read that line 20 times and laughed very time.

  217. 217.

    artem1s

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Whoever did debate prep for Donald Trump should be fired

    The candidate should get fired. That’s the difference between a party that expects their candidates to be qualified and one that only wants a puppet that his “donors”, staff and the press leads around by the nose.

  222. 222.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Trollhattan: I will say, some of the worst racists out there do seem to be married to members of groups they have contempt for. But most often it’s racist white guy + POC wife.

  224. 224.

    sdhays

    @artem1s: Yeah, how does anyone think Debate Prep Gandalf would “prepare” Bullshit McAngryPants for a debate? He’s never “prepared” for anything in his life. He has one debate setting: blather and bullshit. Loudly. He can’t do anything else.

  228. 228.

    Princess

    @hilts: You know everything is projection with the Republicans so between Kelly and the chopping off body parts and Trump and Vance with the eating cats and dogs thing, not to mention RFKjr with the whale and the bear and lord knows what else, I’m sure never going to go to a BBQ at their house ever ever ever.

    Bunch of weirdos. They can’t even hear how weird they sound.

  232. 232.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Soprano2:

    Oh, I am really sorry. Tough news for both of you. If you feel so inclined, please keep us posted. You and your husband are in my thoughts.

  233. 233.

    Jeffro

    @Jay: Jared Moskowitz interview afterwards:

    Moskowitz: It wasn’t a hidden strategy. They were literally telling people, “We’re going to get under Trump’s skin.” The Trump strategy was also very public — they were going to make sure they didn’t let her get under his skin. Eleven minutes in, she mentions crowd size, and he responds with Viktor Orbán, they’re eating puppies and cats, Abdul, concepts of plans… It was like diarrhea of the mouth as soon as she said “crowd size.” I can’t recall another time where someone telegraphed their plan, let their opponent know about it, the opponent prepared against it, and then, within a second of launching the plan, the opponent fell for it immediately.

    pretty much!

  234. 234.

    Chet Murthy

    @sdhays: His prep could have focused on teaching him to not take the bait and go down rabbit holes on things like crowd size, or people eating cats.  I mean, for sure he’s not going to bone up on policy: and he doesn’t need to: he can just spout lies and get away with it (most of the time).  But he has to actually stay on-topic and know which topics to hammer, right?  And which to stay away from.  So debate prep could have taught him discipline.

    Of course, that would have meant forcing him into uncomfortable situations over-and-over-again, which he wouldn’t like.  But that might have worked.  Oh, also, it could have worked on attacks that he could use against Harris (like the “I’m talking now” thing).

    But it all went out the window when he went racing after the Squrrel!

  237. 237.

    TBone

    Rev. Al Sharpton called VP Harris “Hillary Clinton and Obama rolled up into one last night” a little bit ago on Deadline Whitehouse (with a twinkle in his eye).

  238. 238.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Princess: ​
     

    Looks like the Trumpers are at the bargaining and denial stage

    Plenty of anger, too.

    Come to think of it, though, they always have plenty of anger, so it’s hard to connect that to where they are in the five stages.

    The one thing we know for sure is that they’ll never reach acceptance.

  239. 239.

    Old School

    Even if many are saying that Kamala Harris won last night's debate, Trump supporters should take some solace in the fact that their candidate did not speak in a raspy voice.— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) September 11, 2024

  245. 245.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @hilts: I think Levin and Kelly need to be superglued together and tossed in the river. There’s just nothing good left in either of them.

  250. 250.

    Anonymous At Work

    @Jeffro: She can’t just ask.  That becomes the story.  She has to dare them to do it and then make them think it was their idea all along.  It’s incredibly childish but that’s the media these days.

  252. 252.

    Jackie

    I’m waaay behind on the posts… Has this been mentioned?

    NPR reports that as of 11 a.m. ET today there have been 306,422 visitors to Vote.gov referred from Taylor Swifts’s Instagram post last night endorsing Kamala Harris for president.

  253. 253.

    Old School

    President Biden briefly donned a “Trump 2024” hat during a visit to a Shanksville, Pa., fire station in what the White House said was intended as a show of unity on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

    “At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that,” White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates posted on X. “As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it.”

  256. 256.

    sdhays

    @Chet Murthy: Sure, some human being not Donald Trump could have been prepared, but my point is that Donny doesn’t take to training or teaching. He already knows everything he will ever know because the door to his puddle of a brain is shut tight.

    His campaign could have hired “the very best debate preppers” and stolen all of the questions ABC was going to ask and in what order and literally told him everything he needed to say or do or strategies to get through the hurtful truths MVP said to him without being triggered, and he would be physically incapable of learning ANY of it.

    The only thing he could possible “learn” would be new “awesome” personal insults. But MVP shut that shit down, so….

  257. 257.

    Trollhattan

    Turdblossom, everybody.

    September 11, 2024 at 4:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    Karl Rove: “Will this debate have an effect? Yes, though perhaps not as much as Team Harris hopes or as much as Team Trump might fear. But there’s no putting lipstick on this pig. Mr. Trump was crushed by a woman he previously dismissed as ‘dumb as a rock.’ Which raises the question: What does that make him?”

  259. 259.

    sdhays

    @Old School: The bipartisan unity after the 9/11 attacks was gross and a disaster for our country and the world. And it only goes one way – if Gore had been President, we would not have had “bipartisan unity”.

  260. 260.

    Geminid

    @Chet Murthy: Trump was too lazy to adequately prepare for this debate. And whatever debate prep he absorbed may have been undone by looney Laura Loomer, who should never been allowed on the airplane that flew Trump to Philadelphia. She’s even nuttier than him.

  261. 261.

    Trollhattan

    @Geminid:And whatever debate prep he absorbed may have been undone by looney Laura Loomer, who should never been allowed on the airplane that flew Trump to Philadelphia.

    She should definitely prep him for the next debate, should he be so-inclined. [Wait, that would be stupid. Which is why there will probably be one.]

  262. 262.

    mrmoshpotato

    @sdhays:

    Sure, some human being not Donald Trump could have been prepared, but my point is that Donny doesn’t take to training or teaching. He already knows everything he will ever know because the door to his puddle of a brain is shut tight. 

    Stupid dogs can’t learn new tricks.

    Wonder how long ago he learned that he was the Kremlin’s bitch.

  263. 263.

    Doc Sardonic

    Loony Loomer was with him on the plane! Hoo Boy, 10 cubic yards of squirrel poop ain’t as nutty as she is.

  266. 266.

    Geminid

    @sdhays: I don’t think the 9/11 attack would have come off if Gore had been President. Bill Clinton’s national security team took bin Laden more seriously than Bush’s team did, and Gore would not have been as complacent as Bush was when he got the warnings. That attack was preventable, and its perpetrators were hiding in plain sight.

  267. 267.

    Ruckus

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Whoever did debate prep for Donald Trump should be fired.

    Do you really think there was any debate prep whatsofuckingever?

    Even if his boys tried they wouldn’t get through that fat skull, because his brain is not only far from reality, it is far from rational functionality as well.

  268. 268.

    sdhays

    @Geminid: I don’t think the 9/11 attacks would have happened either. But if they had, the Republicans would not have backed President Gore to the hilt the way Democrats backed W.

  270. 270.

    Ruckus

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Wonder how long ago he learned that he was the Kremlin’s bitch.

    Him, learn anything? Are you serious?

    All the old stuff is falling/being shoved out of that mush pot. Soon it will be a completely empty lump on the shoulders of a useless pile of worse than useless hot air.

  272. 272.

    Geminid

    @sdhays: I think you are right here. Republicans exploited the Pearl Harbor attack, the Chinese intervention in Korea, and the Vietnam quagmire where they could have given Johnson political cover for de-escalation when they knew the war was unwinnable. Republicans would have treated Gore the same way they treated Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson.

  274. 274.

    Bill Arnold

    @Quinerly:
    No, Kamala Harris wasn’t wearing these audio earrings / Right-wing conspiracy theorists claim Harris was wearing the Nova H1 Audio Earrings, but that’s not true. (The Verge, Emma Roth, Sep 11, 2024)

    Echoing a long history of political conspiracy theories, X users claimed she wore the Nova H1 Audio Earrings, which double as wireless earpieces. But anyone who looks closely can tell those aren’t what Harris was wearing.

    In 2021, Kamala Harris was mocked for worrying about bluetooth (“azure dentition”) security.
    Kamala Harris is Bluetooth-phobic (Politico, ALEX THOMPSON, RUBY CRAMER and TINA SFONDELES, 12/06/2021)

    While a growing number of consumers are going wireless, the vice president is sticking with the classics. She has long felt that Bluetooth headphones are a security risk. As a result, Harris insists on using wired headphones, three former campaign aides told West Wing Playbook.

    ETA: The most recent big vuln was this, an old flaw just recently identified and publicized. Could have been exploited for many years, undetected.: New Bluetooth Flaw Let Hackers Take Over Android, Linux, macOS, and iOS Devices (Dec 07, 202, The Hacker News)

  275. 275.

    Bill Arnold

    @Ken:
    Verified with the transcript. Trump actually said during the debate that he “probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me.”
    He is alleging that an ear wound is a head wound. Which brings the Revelation 13 wounded-head-of-the-Beast-miraculously-healed interpretation back to life, at least in Trump’s mind, such as it is.

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