Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

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

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

White supremacy is terrorism.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

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

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Petty moves from a petty man.

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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

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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Okay, Maybe Christmas, Too

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It’s beginning to feel more and more like Weekend at Bernie’s.  It was a joke for me before, but it kind of feels like they are working very hard to keep the ambulatory cream cheese, well, ambulatory!

I never watch MSNBC, CNN, etc, except for maybe after the big debate.  But I turned on my TV today and MSNBC came on, and there was Trump’s ugly mug saying how Kamala is taking the day off – because she’s so lazy – so he’s taking the day off, too.

I’m sorry, if she’s lazy for taking the day off, Trump taking the day off is… not lazy?

Guessing that Kamala is not taking a day off, but if she is… has Trump never heard of the concept of sharpening the saw?  Taking a day of rest after 60 or 90 days of going full steam, so she can give it her all for the next 14 days?

In happy news:  they have nabbed the MAGA guy who made the giant sign for Jan 6.  Them catching the guy(s) who built the gallows is still unmarked, but hopeful,  on my bingo card.

Oh, and the US Economy leads the world again.

Good news for Michigan voters!

Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney

JUST IN: A federal judge has dismissed RNC’s challenge to Michigan voter rolls.

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.

Did everyone see the tweet from Four Season’s Landscaping, saying they don’t have the capacity for a Kamala event, but there’s room for  Trump event?  That was yesterday, and I don’t have a link.

Ironworkers for Harris

“You gotta vote for your job.  Vote for Kamala Harris.  I am 1,000% for Harris.”

@meidastouch

💪 @rebuildusa_

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  2. 2.

    RaflW

    The business community in the US is insane for still largely backing Trump & Repubilcans.‪

    Stacey Burns‬ ‪@wentrogue.bsky.social‬
    In her Morning Edition interview, the Wall Street Journal’s editor in chief dismisses criticism of the paper’s coverage of Trump, saying they don’t want to be “truth nannies”

    Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social‬
    They’re also basically rooting for the guy who will launch a new global tariff trade war, destabilize US labor markets (by committing human rights crimes, but I know the WSJ doesn’t care about that part), and appointing more reckless and unqualified judges who could make crazy rulings against co’s.🤷🏼‍♂️

  3. 3.

    Rusty

    Bankrupting Giuliani is at least satisfying.  I like that his claim for attorneys fees from Trump is included, so now the debt collectors can start hounding him too!  A twofer!!

  6. 6.

    RaflW

    @WaterGirl: They’re revealing what we’ve long suspected. Total capture by the right. People used to say “Well, the opinion page is a dumpster fire, but the news side of the WSJ is right down the middle.”

    Nope!

  7. 7.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Trollhattan: ​ 

    Nope, haven’t seen ad, haven’t seen any footage from events, haven’t seen hide nor hair of that silly old man, and that’s a good thing.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    I will never not be mad at how Biden got shafted on his management of the economy, and especially by those who are voters on our side.

  10. 10.

    Raoul Paste

    Actually, we DO want you to be the truth nannies.  Unless you think it’s your job to mislead the public, and thereby harm the public.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: A favorite phrase of my mom’s:

    A prophet without honor in his own country.

    Fortunately, Joe Biden is smart enough to know that history will be kind to him

    *mostly.  I wish we could kick Bibi’s ass, along with Israel’s policies about Gaza.

  13. 13.

    jonas

    @RaflW: They assume Trump is largely bluffing on the tariff stuff and even if there’s some trade war over this or that, they can make it up on the back end with deregulation, union busting, and lower corporate taxes.

  14. 14.

    Trollhattan

    @Baud: Have you SEEN the price of milk!?!

    The dipshits who claim the “economy was great under Trump” annoy me to no end. Between ’17 and ’21 my retirement accounts hemorrhaged as much as I was earning, working.

  15. 15.

    Ruckus

    @RaflW:

    The WSJ cares about their bottom line.

    They print whatever they think will continue to provide them with green wallet stuffing, as that is the ONLY thing they give an actual rat’s ass about.

  16. 16.

    Trollhattan

    @jonas: All he’s done is repackaged “Mexico will pay for the wall” to now include all consumer goods from the entire globe. Simple, we all get free shit from everybody!

  17. 17.

    HumboldtBlue

    @jonas: ​ 

    They think he’s bluffing, or rather the project 2025 fucks are, and that it wasn’t so bad in his first term, the institutions will hold in his second.

    They’re fucking delusional.

  20. 20.

    scav

    @RaflW: May all those brave types not wanting to be “truth nannies” enjoy all their three-martini lunches at restaurants  similarly  dedicated to not being “hygiene nannies”.

  21. 21.

    K-Mo

    @HumboldtBlue: It’s a helluva bluff.  He doesn’t have any other policy ideas and he talks about tariffs in response to virtually any question.  There’s just nothing else to go on, policy-wise.

  22. 22.

    Chet Murthy

    I saw the news of Springsteen headlining a concert alongside Obama, and thought to myself: Swift+Harris is not so far away now,  is it?  Is it?  I mean, I’m not even a Swiftie (sure, I like the PMJ covers of some of her songs) but hell, it seems like the obvious move.  America would lose our collective mind.

  23. 23.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Raoul Paste: ​
     

    Actually, we DO want you to be the truth nannies. Unless you think it’s your job to mislead the public, and thereby harm the public. be a propaganda mill.

    Figured I’d simplify it a bit.

  24. 24.

    Scout211

    @Trollhattan:In California news, has anybody seen Steve Garvey since summer?

    Who dat?

    LOL

    I googled Steve Garvey campaign appearances and it looked like a google desert.  They got nuthin’ coming up.

    Here is a recent article from an online news source that I have never heard of, California Globe.

    Steve Garvey Ramps Up Campaign in Final Month Before Election

    LOL.  I think right there that “ramps up” really means “starts up”  and probably is wishful thinking.

    Post-Primary, Garvey has remained mostly in Southern California. For months he ran a pretty quiet campaign. He did venture out at times, giving interviews in places like Bakersfield, or hosting fundraisers elsewhere. His biggest even was travelling outside of the U.S. to Israel, showing support for the country while also brushing up on foreign experience in the leadup to the heavier political season ahead… not to mention higher profile events, like those with fellow former Dodgers and Padres players, across SoCal. And now, with October coming in and the end of the legislative session and Governor signing period in Sacramento, Garvey has finally begun to go all out.

    . . .

    “Statistically, Garvey isn’t going to win,” said Stephanie Lewis, a pollster in Southern California, to the Globe on Wednesday. “But, to use some baseball analogies, he is like the team that is out of playoff contention but is still playing teams that could make it. He needs to win these final games, have a strong showing, and then help spoil the night for those going on. Garvey hitting above 40%, like you said, would send a strong message to Schiff and Democrats.

    “And Garvey’s strategy right now is good. He didn’t have all the money in the world, so travelling was used sparingly until around September. And now, with business in Sacramento wrapped up, the news cycle is more open for political news. So him doing more and more interviews and events and fundraisers in the last few months made sense. Go all in on October and the last few days in November. Go to these places candidates don’t always visit, show his face, and do as much of that before election day and before mail-in ballots start to go out.

    So he is hoping for that sweet 40%. That will shake the California Democratic party to the core. //

  25. 25.

    HumboldtBlue

    @K-Mo: ​ 

    He doesn’t even want the fucking job, he’s running to stop ongoing federal investigations, but also because the money men and the 2025 fucks need him to implement their policies because the fucking base won’t support anyone else. He’s their last shot.

  26. 26.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @WaterGirl: Do they even hear themselves? They have lost the plot.

    A long time ago. Honestly, it’s one thing not to wade into an unclear controversy; but that impulse has been abused by bad faith predominantly Republicans actors for decades to the point where every facet of reality is controversial and up for debate.

    Getting to the truth, news’s purported reason to exist, is implicitly biased in this situation, so they leave the literate and illiterate to fight the truth out amongst each other.

  27. 27.

    Aziz, light!

    For Biden’s domestic successes, I say thank you for your service. For his refusal to enable the Ukrainians to defend themselves from Russian terror, I want him out of the damn way. Adam says this a lot better than I can.

  28. 28.

    RaflW

    I feel like a heel sharing this, but it’s a credible news/data source. NV Independent says the early voting news out of Nevada is really grim.

    This whole fucking fall has felt murky as hell with a lack of good state level polling. I’m not giving up, but goddam.

  29. 29.

    lamh47

    Ya’ll watching the Obama/Walz rally.

    Coach Tim is on fire:

     “At McDonald’s, he looks more like Ronald McDonald and Ronald wears less makeup. Everything about this guy is fake – next he’s going to tell you he’s a cop or construction worker because he dances to the Village People.”

  30. 30.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Scout211: ​ 

    I’m terrified, that’s for sure. On the other hand, I haven’t seen an ad or any footage from events for Schiff either, so there’s that.

  32. 32.

    lamh47

    Gov. Walz in Madison: “I’m gonna talk about his running mate – his running mate Elon Musk.” “Elon’s on that stage jumping around, skipping like a dipshit.”

  33. 33.

    Misterpuff

    @Trollhattan: I saw him at the Senatorial Debate but it was like he wasn’t there, just another celeb spouting TFG tributes and lying about supporting a national abortion ban..

    Also haven’t seen any Garvey ads, but then haven’t seen any Schiff ads either (because there is no need?).

    Local news is the battleground for House races though, one after the other after the other. I count 4 seperate races in local LA area, so like 8 ads in a row…..Women healthcare being the main melee weapon.

  34. 34.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Baud:

    I will never not be mad at how Biden got shafted on his management of the eco nomy, and especially by those who are voters on our side.

    I don’t blame voters much, because most voters on our side are only just now starting to realize that maybe the FTFNYT, the WaPo, the TV networks, etc. aren’t honest, impartial reporters of the news.  And far from all of them even now.

    And anyone who relied on those sources over the past three years for their news on the economy, well of course they’d regurgitate all that bullshit about how horrible the inflation was, and not mention full employment or wage increases or any of that.

  36. 36.

    RaflW

    @HumboldtBlue: I will say this: If Trump is quickly incapacitated after (FSM no, don’t) he somehow takes the WH, Junior Varsity Vance as installed or even de-facto POTUS will not have the special sauce to make Project 2025 palatable.

  38. 38.

    Bill Arnold

    @RaflW:

    the Wall Street Journal’s editor in chief dismisses criticism of the paper’s coverage of Trump, saying they don’t want to be “truth nannies”

    It used to be that if one could ignore the WSJ editorial pages, it was the most accurate newspaper in the USA.

  39. 39.

    Hoodie

    @RaflW: Most of the people I’ve heard opine on early voting numbers is that they’re nearly impossible to interpret because of the shifting views on early voting.  R’s are now encouraging early voting when they weren’t in 2020, so this could just be a shift in timing.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    @lowtechcyclist:

    …most voters on our side are only just now starting to realize that maybe the FTFNYT, the WaPo, the TV networks, etc. aren’t honest, impartial reporters of the news.

    Sadly, most voters on our side have realized no such thing.  Only the people who are politically engaged have started to realize that.

  42. 42.

    HumboldtBlue

    Barack is speaking in Wisconsin, same speech, but the crowd is loving it as he roasts Trump.

  43. 43.

    RaflW

    @RaflW: A calmer person than me just noted that we only know the registration of the voters who’ve early voted. We don’t actually know if they’re sticking to their past habits. Republican women in particular could be a wild card.

    eta: @Hoodie Thanks. I’ll try and climb off the back of the sofa now.

  44. 44.

    gene108

    @jonas:

    They assume Trump is largely bluffing on the tariff stuff and even if there’s some trade war over this or that

    One side effect of high tariffs is less competition in the domestic market from foreign competitors. Prices on domestic manufactured goods can be raised because there’s no real competition for large companies.

    Businesses can Jack up domestic prices for more profit, since they’re protected from a lot of international competition.

  46. 46.

    Chet Murthy

    @WaterGirl: Eh, Aziz is right: within the parameters of the funding allocated, Biden has been noticeably slow in providing arms and allowing Ukraine to do what needs to be done.  There are those categories of  obsolete arms that he could have much more aggressively shipped to Ukraine.  DPICMs, some IFVs that were phased-out.  And he could have invoked the DPA to get production of shells and other heavily-used consumables going much sooner.

    I think Adam’s made a pretty convincing case that Biden’s afraid of the consequences of aggressively supporting Ukraine, and as a result, our support has been just enough to keep Ukraine in the fight.  Just enough.  Which is the same as “enough so that Russia can learn how to beat Ukraine.”  If we’d done a better job of supporting Ukraine early-on, Russia would be defeated by now; instead, Russia has learned how to counter the kit we gave Ukraine, and the advantages they had early-on.

    The one thing you don’t want to do, in a war, is allow your adversary time to learn, to correct, to improve their training and methods.  We’ve done that, in spades.

  47. 47.

    Trollhattan

    @Scout211:“And Garvey’s strategy right now is good.”

    What a kidder this one is. The Leg is on vaycay and so Steve can get in front of all those idle cameras. Oh look, sea lions on Pier 39!

  51. 51.

    jonas

    @HumboldtBlue: He desperately wants the trappings of power and pageantry and none of the actual responsibility (including being able to evade all his convictions and indictments). The lackeys around him and megalomaniacs like Musk know this and are chomping at the bit to go hog wild on the federal government for themselves and their corrupt cronies while Trump has a hamberder and nap executive time up in the WH residence.

  52. 52.

    lamh47

    @lamh47:

    Obama: You are running for president and you’re selling merchandise. Gold sneakers, $100,000 watch, supposed to be Swiss watch, the best watch. Why are you selling a watch? What are you doing?

  53. 53.

    frog

    @Trollhattan:

    Simple, we all get free shit from everybody!

    At 100% tariffs, and the other country pays, we get stuff for free.

    Over 100%, they pay us to take their stuff.

  55. 55.

    Ruckus

    @RaflW:

    Nevada will be a reach for some time. There is basically one big money area and one lessor money area. Las Vegas and Reno, in that order. There really isn’t much else there. The population of the entire state is over 800,000, a fair bit less than the population of LA County.

  56. 56.

    Bill Arnold

    @jonas:

    They assume Trump is largely bluffing on the tariff stuff

    That’s just stupid of them. Tariffs are something Trump could, if given the opportunity, do without the cooperation of the pesky legislative branch. If the American polity gives him the big POTUS lever of power, he would do what he calls the most “the most beautiful word”.
    (Election is in play, Harris is in a better position, work to give her a win!)

  57. 57.

    Trollhattan

    @Misterpuff: Have not seen #s but will guess the senate primary was the most expensive in state history. Last open seat was Boxer’s, which what’s her name, oh yeah, Kamala Harris won, facing another Dem in the general.

  59. 59.

    Hoodie

    @gene108:  They may be correct in thinking he’s just bullshitting, wouldn’t be for the first time.  The tariff stuff may be akin to Mexico paying for the wall.  The problem is that he may use the promise of tariffs raising massive amounts of new revenue as a way of selling another round of massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.  He’ll sign off on those and never get around to the tariffs, except may a few token efforts.

  64. 64.

    gene108

    @HumboldtBlue:

    He doesn’t even want the fucking job, he’s running to stop ongoing federal investigations,

    He wants the job. He wouldn’t have fomented an insurrection to keep the job, if he didn’t want it.

    Staying out of jail is a bonus.

  66. 66.

    RaflW

    @Hoodie: He did tariffs before. I have no reason to doubt he’d impose them asap, particularly because it’s something his spox can run around saying he’s been ‘decisive’ and ‘swift’ on.

  68. 68.

    Steve LaBonne

    @gene108: He doesn’t actually have to do anything (he didn’t last time)- he will have people for that (much more dangerous people this time). But everyone will automatically pay attention to him every day. Of course he wants that again.

  69. 69.

    Jackie

    Guessing that Kamala is not taking a day off, but if she is…

    She’s doing interviews in DC today; NOT taking the day off. TCFG took the rest of the day off – because he was too tired to do an event with RFK jr and Tulsi Gabbard. On this, I gotta agree lol

  70. 70.

    jonas

    @gene108: Sure, if your only business is producing for the domestic market. Anyone who relies on export markets is going to get nailed with retaliatory tariffs and suffer accordingly.

    And of course the whole economy is going to be hampered with higher prices across the board if this kind of hyper-protectionism is ever enacted, but I think a lot of business owners and managers just hate liberals out of sheer tribalism more than they care about their own bottom line. If your business has to be destroyed so Trump can look good, then I guess that’s how it goes.

  72. 72.

    Sister Golden Bear

    More details on how to sucks to be Rudy today:  Election Workers Get Giuliani’s NYC Penthouse, His Mercedes, His Watches, And $2M Owed By Trump

    Judge Lewis Liman of the federal court in Manhattan said Giuliani must turn over his interest in the property to the women in seven days, to a receivership they will control. The judge’s turnover order of the luxury items is swift and simple, but the penthouse apartment will have its control transferred so Freeman and Moss can sell it, potentially for millions of dollars.

  73. 73.

    lamh47

    @lamh47:

    Obama: This is a leader.. who was raised in a middle class family and who actually worked at McDonald’s when she was paying expenses in college. Didn’t just pretend to work at McDonald’s when it was closed.

  74. 74.

    RaflW

    @Hoodie: All the big corps that said they’d ‘reevaluate’ their donations to the GOP after J6, damn near all of them went back to giving to all sorts of Republicans since then.

    And when you have the g.d. Speaker of the House on TV saying he’ll push to deport 4.5 million people asap in a new Congress (he’s counting his chickens waaaay before they’ve hatched), well, the GOP is Trump is the GOP.

  75. 75.

    PatD

    @Baud: he wasn’t shafted. He was unlucky to preside over a term that saw relatively high inflation after he successfully managed a recovery from the pandemic. High interest rates and higher prices is what did it.

  77. 77.

    HumboldtBlue

    @gene108: ​

    I disagree, I think Jonas put it best — he wants the trappings and the attention that go with the job, but he doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything related to policy, he doesn’t give a shit, that’s where Thiel and Musk come in with the Heritage folks.

    On another note, here’s Tim Walz calling out dipshit Elon Musk.

    “Elon’s on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dipshit.”
    — Tim Walz jokes that Elon Musk is Trump’s real “running mate”

  78. 78.

    Aziz, light!

    @gene108: He doesn’t want the job, which requires work, he wants the power. Trump can’t and won’t and has never done the work, but a return to power will let him stay out of jail.

  79. 79.

    K-Mo

    @Ruckus: I listened to a NYT Daily episode yesterday about NV.  Bit of a Safari but suffice to say there has been a run up in house prices in LV due to local demand increases.

    When the Safari finally got to the wildlife they were basically saying, I like trump because he’s a businessman who will run the government like a business.

    (Throws up hands)

  82. 82.

    TBone

    Disgraced movie mogul news

    Harvey Weinstein, 72, has been diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia and is undergoing treatment behind bars in Rikers Island, the reports say, citing sources.

  83. 83.

    Miki

    @RaflW: I listened to that interview, and while I hate Inskeep with a white hot passion, here’s what preceded the “nanny” quote:

    INSKEEP: Do you accept the idea, which has been expressed by a lot of journalists, that covering Donald Trump is a different challenge than covering any other political figure?

    TUCKER: I think it – yes, I think it’s difficult. I think he’s an – you know, he’s a character like no other. Well, yeah, I think I do accept that. I think it’s a challenge.

    INSKEEP: And what’s the challenge exactly?

    TUCKER: I think the challenge is how do you – you know, our – how – I mean, I think the challenge is reminding people or putting in context what he says. You know, we always – we’re unflinching in how we report things. We’re always looking for transparency. If people say things that aren’t true, we make sure our readers understand that. I’m trying to think – how do you put this? It’s like…

    INSKEEP: Take your time.

  84. 84.

    lamh47

    Tim Walz in Madison: “He calls it ‘the weave.’ Donald, come on, we know there is only one weave you know anything about.”

  85. 85.

    lamh47

    Obama: If you challenge Trump or Vance on their concepts of a plan, they’ll fall back on one answer: Blame immigrants. He wants you to believe that if you let him round up whoever he wants and ships them out, all your problems will be solved.

  87. 87.

    lowtechcyclist

    @PatD: ​
     

    He was unlucky to preside over a term that saw relatively high inflation after he successfully managed a recovery from the pandemic. High interest rates and higher prices is what did it.

    There were a lot of supply chain issues as a result of the pandemic. Biden could have controlled inflation by having a weak recovery, which would have resulted in low demand (due to high unemployment) to match the low supply.

    But Biden correctly went for getting people back to work. We had full (really overfull!) employment, which meant high wages and high demand. But if you have high demand at the same time as you’re having supply issues, of course prices are gonna go up. That’s Econ 101, hell it’s more like Econ 001. High wages for workers producing domestic goods and services pushed costs (hence prices) up too.

    But all that was better than a lot of unemployment and a slow recovery like under Obama. (Fuck Larry Summers.)

  89. 89.

    Jackie

    Not even bothering to lie:

    Missouri’s attorney general has renewed a push to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone, arguing in a lawsuit filed this month that its availability hurt the state by decreasing teenage pregnancy.

    The revised lawsuit was filed by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, alongside GOP attorneys general in Kansas and Idaho. It asks a judge in Texas to order the Federal Drug Administration to reinstate restrictions on mifepristone, one of two medications prescribed to induce chemical abortions.

    https://www.rawstory.com/missouri-ag-tells-judge-drop-in-teen-pregnancies-hurts-state-financially/

    Much more misogynistic BS at the link. I got too pissed off to post more.😡

  92. 92.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jackie:

    arguing in a lawsuit filed this month that its availability hurt the state by decreasing teenage pregnancy.

    Since when did teen pregnancies become a GOOD thing?!

  97. 97.

    Gretchen

    @Trollhattan: Mike Johnson was on Jake Tapper saying nobody thinks they’re better off than they were 4 years ago. Jake didn’t point out that was 2020 because he was focused on getting an answer to the question is it helpful for Trump to be talking about Arnold Palmer’s penis two weeks before the election?

  98. 98.

    scav

    @Trollhattan: Well, with the Chinese throttling down on adoptions, they may see a market niche opening up, especially if they can get the right sort of little heifers popping out product pronto.

  99. 99.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @RaflW: I would say that the reckless and unqualified judges have a basic principle that whatever a business does is correct and they will bend and break the law to ensure that it doesn’t get punished.

  101. 101.

    Captain C

    @Raoul Paste:

    Actually, we DO want you to be the truth nannies.  Unless you think it’s your job to mislead the public, and thereby harm the public.

    That seems to be the Murdoch-era WSJ’s mission.  Also, what the FTFNYT aspires to, though they want everyone to still pretend that they’re the paper of record.  Kind of like how John “Dred Scott” Roberts wants everyone to see him as a neutral umpire calling strikes when in fact he’s basically the Angel Hernandez of Supreme Court Justices, except deliberately bad.

  102. 102.

    Citizen Alan

    @TBone:  Possibly off topic, but the Weinstein news reminded me: In possibly the least surprising news report ever, multi-millionaire Mike Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch who became notorious for putting out catalogues that were thinly disguised softcore gay porn and for commenting that he didn’t want ugly or fat people to buy his clothes … has been busted for running a gay sex trafficking ring.

  103. 103.

    Captain C

    @HumboldtBlue: Unless he drowns his sorrows with it in the next few days, there’s going to be a lot of high end liquor in Rudy’s apartment for those election workers to drink or sell.

  105. 105.

    Ruckus

    @HumboldtBlue:

    That seems to be most of what he has to turn over to them.

    To me Rudy seems to have aged out a fair while ago. Not that he was ever all that and a dozen muffins, but still he does have some history. And nothing more.

  106. 106.

    Citizen Alan

    @lowtechcyclist: Since the GOP embraced utter degeneracy, that’s when. It is now the party of racism, sexism, religious bigotry, homophobia, classism. It is objectively pro-rape and pro-pedophilia. If they win next month and shut off aid to Ukraine, they may yet become the party of outright genocide. It is utterly in keeping with the GOP (“Gross Old Perverts”) that they openly want to become the party of unplanned teen pregnancy.

  107. 107.

    SatanicPanic

    @Citizen Alan: I was thinking back to how he had a dress code for his flight attendants on his private jet that included what underwear they should wear. I know this because I read about it in a magazine article. The guy was hiding in plain sight.

  108. 108.

    Ruckus

    @K-Mo:

    They refuse to believe than he’s run everything he’s touched right into the ground. I mean THEY SUPPORTED HIM, he must be great!

    There is a large portion of humanity that can be sold anything. It doesn’t have to be real, useable, worth 2 cents, if the right people sell it, they will buy it. Even if it takes their last cent. It can be something they can actually use, it can be pure bullshit, if the right people sell it they will buy it.

  109. 109.

    catclub

    @Ishiyama: Ooooh! Tim Walz just called J.D. Vance a dipsh*t, in so many words!

     

    I think we should tell Trump that Vance made up the eating the dogs story so Trump would believe it and make a fool of himself.

  110. 110.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Citizen Alan:

    It is utterly in keeping with the GOP (“Gross Old Perverts”) that they openly want to become the party of unplanned teen pregnancy.

    And if a lot of those babies of teen moms are black or brown, they’ll get all upset about it.

  111. 111.

    Gretchen

    @Jackie: Missouri has a really good Democrat running for Attorney General against this bozo who has cost the state a bundle with his frivolous lawsuits. I wish I felt he has a chance. The abortion issue might drive up turnout and give us a chance of getting rid of Hawley

  112. 112.

    catclub

    @lowtechcyclist: It is very simple. Ever since 2021 the US Economy has left all other developed nations’ economies in the dust. Better inflation, better unemployment, better stock market.

     

    Also compared with 1984 Reagan’s morning in America:  Better unemployment, better inflation, better stock market, better health insurance.

  113. 113.

    Gretchen

    @scav: I hate that this could be a factor. Some reporting had separated migrant children sent to an adoption agency associated with Betsy DeVos.

  118. 118.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Citizen Alan: once he gets to prison, I hope the guards that most frequently bring his food or interact with him are indeed fat, or seemingly ugly. Give him a dose of his weird bigotry.

    I heard rapists really get a bad time in prison, even though they don’t seem to get much time for their crimes. I hope the word gets out about his sex trafficking, so he can get a sample of what he’s caused for others.
    will that cause him to see and understand the effect he’s had?

  120. 120.

    moonbat

    @rikyrah: ​
     I giggle picturing them drinking an expensive cocktail from Rudy’s liquor cabinet and passing breath mints back and forth to one another while they enjoy their view of the Manhattan skyline. lol

  121. 121.

    Brant Lamb

    @RaflW:In her Morning Edition interview, the Wall Street Journal’s editor in chief dismisses criticism of the paper’s coverage of Trump, saying they don’t want to be “truth nannies”

     

    Would they prefer “liar douchebags”?  Because that could be arranged.

  122. 122.

    Brant Lamb

    @RaflW:

     

    In her Morning Edition interview, the Wall Street Journal’s editor in chief dismisses criticism of the paper’s coverage of Trump, saying they don’t want to be “truth nannies”.

    Would they prefer “liar douchebags”? Because the word on the street is that’s what they’re really called.

  125. 125.

    K-Mo

    @Ruckus: They are low information voters and they got that way by being averse to information or just utterly unable to process it.

    But you’re right that they can be sold on anything.  A bunch of Angelinos moved to my city and now rent is so high that I can’t build wealth while working a minimum wage phone banking job?  It must be due to Biden because Sean Hannity says so.

  126. 126.

    PatD

    @Baud: Yeah, probably not. But you might be surprised by how many people are pissed because a 7% interest rate makes a mortgage or car note unaffordable and will still vote for Harris. So maybe Biden is just the scapegoat for the anxiety some feel.

  128. 128.

    MinuteMan

    @RaflW: ​The business community in the US is insane for still largely backing Trump & Repubilcans.‪

    Their motto: better to rule in hell than serve in heaven.

  129. 129.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Brant Lamb: what the hell is a truth nanny? Google won’t say, but I’m guessing it means stewards for truth. What the hell else is media supposed to be?
    if it’s biased uneven coverage and partisan promotion. They need to say it on the front header: wsj, propaganda rag.
    all of them.
    getting paid well to promote a bunch of lies and only certain candidates, is not reporting, nor does it seem like journalism.

    grrr

  132. 132.

    Brant Lamb

    I don’t think Stumpy could look any more like a beached whale, that had been on a three day bender.

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