Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When I was faster i was always behind.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

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

Let me file that under fuck it.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

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

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

We still have time to mess this up!

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I don’t have to tell you fucking anything …

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Sit down to write post on election polling. Read comments in Tuesday Morning Open Thread. Say fuck it – let the punters field this one. Cut, paste. Wander off to search out another drink.

dm says:
August 9, 2016 at 7:39 am

I see these polls and I think: Bradley Effect Bradley Effect Bradley Effect. Who wants to admit to a pollster that they’re voting for an idiot? So… expect Trump to do better at the ballot box than he does in polls.

one_particular_harbour, fka Botsplainer says:
August 9, 2016 at 7:46 am
@dm:

My prediction all along has been that Hill is actually underpolling, that conservative women aged 50+ will go ahead and vote for her in the privacy of the voting booth. They’re polling differently because they’re worried about people overhearing, return calls, direct mail, etc.

Trump reminds them too much of their husbands.

It’s gonna play hell with exit polls, while leading to squealing accusations of rampant fraud.

Expect big surprises, maybe even in the plains.

Amir Khalid says:
August 9, 2016 at 8:02 am

My own suspicion about the polling is that I don’t know if the Trump campaign is capable of performing to its candidate’s polling. He might poll at x% in such-and-such state, and fall short of that number on election day because he didn’t have the organisation to get the vote out for him.

Shalimar says:
August 9, 2016 at 8:28 am

@Amir Khalid: I am not sure a major American party has ever had a candidate who thought his supporters would all go to the polls on their own because he was so awesome. If great organization was really a big difference between Obama and Romney/McCain, then it should mean Trump gets at least 5% below his projections. And his projections are beginning to look really horrible.

Have at it.

ETA: The discussion in the comment thread is wonderful. I love you all. rikyrah wins though.

rikyrah says:
August 9, 2016 at 10:08 am (Edit)
GET.OUT.THE.VOTE.
Pound these muthaphuckas INTO THE GROUND!!!!

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Late Night Music Open Thread

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If my photoshop skills were a bit better developed I would copy Cole’s latest selfie, go back through the blog and find every single photo of his mangled, sprained, broken and clawed appendages and then paste them all together in a giant, glorious ginger Frankenstein’s Monster collage of domestic disaster.

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If you missed the sermon by the Reverend William Barber, please watch this theologically conservative, liberal, evangelical, biblicist speak about right and wrong, and the heart of our democracy. You owe it to yourself.

Via PBS

ETA: I found the full speech by Mr Khizr Khan, in which he is accompanied by his lovely wife. Also this.

Special mention of the gentleman delegate with the fab red turban.

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We must be the moral defibrillators of our time (or, “I have a Constitution to lend you”).

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Chickens before they hatch and all that…. but the thing I think I am most looking forward to is the photos of Bill walking into the White House as First Gentleman.

I’m a cynical old trout, but Bill’s beaming mug on my ipad has made me giggle like a schoolgirl for the last three days. It seemed like every time someone cracked a joke, or ripped into the Toupéed Apricot Fucktrumpet (but I repeat myself), there was Bill, grinnin’ like a dog with three balls and a bone.

It’s been a barn burner so far, and the leading lady is yet to hit the stage, but my votes for best supporting act go to the Reverend William Barber for:

“We must be the moral defibrillator of our time. We must shock this Nation with the power of love.”

and the equally righteous Mr Khizr Khan for offering his copy of the Constitution to the Hairpiece.

If anyone can link me to a video or a transcript of both, I’d be most grateful.

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Via TPM

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Friday Night Music Open Thread

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There’s been a lot of talk on the threads this week about trolls and what should be done about them.

I think Cole’s rules have always been pretty clear. The banhammer (temporary or otherwise) only comes out for egregiously bad behaviour – actual physical or emotional threats, truly offensive -isms, 9/11 truthers and the like. In such instances, one or more of the front pagers contact Cole (who has, I note for those who complain that Cole never reads his own blog, usually already seen it) and Cole decides if they get banned.

The front pagers might very occasionally delete comments which are highly offensive or gratuitously derailing of a thread which has nothing to do with the shit they are spouting, but otherwise, you’re all adults and you can deal with a few dickheads yourselves.

Speaking for myself only, I kind of like the trolls – be they one note weirdos, Republican ratfuckers, ex-PUMAs for Trump, or just DougJ in a new hat. They are an integral part of this blog’s history – from Doug trolling Republican Cole, through Brick Oven Bob Bill (if you don’t know who he was, I suggest you google), to Mikey the Goatfucker, the helicopters are not laughing guy, Uncle Clarence Thomas, Unlimited Corporate Cash, and that guy I managed to flirt out of existence in one thread after he resorted to copying the entire thread into successive comments in an attempt to crash the blog.*

More to the point – it’s election season. There are going to be trolls, and trolls in increasing numbers until we get to November. If we banned everyone who said something stupid in the next 5 months, the blog would consist entirely of posts from Tom and Richard on which none of you fuckers would be allowed to comment.

Also to remember – just because someone disagrees with you, even to the point of complete exasperation, that doesn’t necessarily make them a troll. Or mean that they should be banned to preserve your delicate sensibilities.

If you really hate trolls, ignore them, or install one of the filters that some kind person will link to below a few comments in, or send them pancake recipes, or read one of the other threads.

Anyway, I’m listening to Grimes this weekend (a long weekend here in Sydney). What are you listening to?

* If anyone knows when that thread was, I’d love to read it again. That was fun.

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