And I think this is the Tunchiest of Tunch pictures ever:
I wonder if he and Steve would have gotten along. I think he would have killed Thurston as a puppy. He also seems so small compared to Steve.
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And I think this is the Tunchiest of Tunch pictures ever:
I wonder if he and Steve would have gotten along. I think he would have killed Thurston as a puppy. He also seems so small compared to Steve.
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One of the things I truly did not understand in the 90’s when I was a Republican was that there were a not insignificant number of people on “teh left” who hate Hillary Clinton as much or more as Rush Limbaugh. I was not a fan of hers during the 2008 primaries, but other than that, there’s really nothing she’s done that’s moved me to the kind of ire that I say leveled at her from certain alleged Democrats. I thought the email server was stupid, and said so, opposed Libya and said so, but other than that, there hasn’t really been anything to make me furious.
Trump’s Russian buddies used wikileaks to dump the DNC hack, and there is some shitty stuff in there, like a couple of clowns talking about using Bernie’s alleged atheism (which is about as open a secret as Dreier’s sexual preferences were) in WV, which is kind of disgusting, but here’s the thing. They never did it. So, umm, ok. Some shitty people at the DNC said some shitty things, and thus Hillary is evil and the election was stolen. That totally fucking makes sense.
Not to mention, you think atheism and religion wouldn’t be an issue in the general had Bernie won? At any rate, the intra-party nastiness with this release and the Kaine selection is kind of eye-opening.
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So. I am writing a comic book series for Marvel. https://t.co/adcBWBtThT
— roxane gay (@rgay) July 22, 2016
My inner teenage comix geek still gets excited when new, diverse writers get top billing… especially when they’re highlighted in the NYTimes!
… Her story, written with Mr. [Ta-Nehisi] Coates, will follow Ayo and Aneka, two lovers who are former members of the Dora Milaje, the Black Panther’s female security force. “The opportunity to write black women and queer black women into the Marvel universe, there’s no saying no to that,” she said.
The first issue of World of Wakanda will include a 10-page second story by Ms. Harvey about Zenzi, a female revolutionary who incited a riot in the first issue of the Black Panther series. Mr. Coates, who recruited both writers, said he thought it was important to have female voices help breathe life into these characters. “The women in Black Panther’s life are very, very important,” he said…
Apart from celebrating a wider world inside our imaginations, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
…and Congressman John Lewis wins an #eisnerawards!!! #SDCC16 So. Great. pic.twitter.com/TLZ9zO6X4p
— Paul Guinan (@Boilerplate1893) July 23, 2016
(Yup, that’s great, too.)
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It really doesn’t matter whether or not Tim Kaine gives you a warm tingly feeling. What matters is even with the many things I don’t like about him (the hawkishness, the spotty labor records, the apparent deference to Israel) is that he is solid and should anything happen to Hillary, he would be a sober and serious leader.
And she likes him and thinks he will help her govern. That’s all that fucking matters.
Remember, Biden had a LOT of baggage when Obama chose him (google Biden+Banking+Delaware). He’s turned out ok, hasn’t he?
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I’ve been impressed by how many right-wing pundits — George Will and Robert Kagan stand out — are so freaked out and upset about Trump that they’re willing to be anti-Trump all the time and note devote any columns to fragging Hillary. Meanwhile, the professional centrists continue to treat Trump and Hillary as two sides of the same coin:
Why is the convention so negative? For the same reasons next weeks’ Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia likely will be an anti-Trump orgy.
[….]Shouts of “fascist” from the convention floor, for example, would be the Philadelphia analogue of “Lock her up!” Smug dismissals of Trump’s populist approach and policies might be viewed by undecided voters as an indictment of them.
Ron Fournier and Matt Bai aren’t upset that the country could devolve into a fascist dictatorship under Trump (note: I don’t think it probably would, but some on the right make a good case that it might). It would just be further proof of the corrupt duopoly derp derp and, anyway, they have plenty of money so it probably wouldn’t hurt them much.
A lot is made about how the country has become too polarized and angry. Well, fury can be misdirected but being mad as hell is at least a sign that you give a fuck.
In the comments a few times, some of you have mentioned studies that show that people can’t make decisions if the part of the brain that deals with emotion is incapacitated. I hate to go into Boboish pseudoscientific gibberish here, but I do think that sober-minded, nonpartisan, objective blah blah blah analysis has its limits. That it’s not just that Ron Fournier is a sociopathic asshole but that the whole nonpartisan project is doomed to failure.
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dear god pic.twitter.com/rAWEV5EpqJ
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) July 22, 2016
If Leni Riefenstahl were alive, Trump would hire her to film this speech. Then not pay her.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) July 22, 2016
Tom Toles wins the prize, for imagining this scene a full week before the RNC assembled in Cleveland:
Hillary Clinton's job is to paint a sane, sober, serious, and positive contrast next week. She couldn't have an easier job.
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) July 22, 2016
Plenty of targets for all, though…
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"You have to appreciate that he just has, you know, a unique communication style." It's been fun to see the little lies they tell themselves
— Martin Gelin (@M_Gelin) July 22, 2016
In case you were wondering if GOP insiders are still in a cranial rectal state. pic.twitter.com/Ua1nbxxPUX
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 22, 2016
Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, held a press conference today. And it was… something. https://t.co/14AQIadOtN
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) July 22, 2016
From the NYTimes article:
… After declaring that he had unified the party in one of the most “love-filled” conventions in political history, Mr. Trump launched an extended diatribe against Mr. Cruz, who pointedly declined to endorse him during his own convention speech on Wednesday and instead urged people to vote their conscience. The speech embarrassed Mr. Trump and cast a shadow of discord over the convention, which had already been marred by plagiarism in a speech by Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania, on Monday.
“I don’t want his endorsement,” Mr. Trump said angrily, in a rambling stream-of-consciousness performance that seemed half stand-up routine, half vengeful rant. “If he gives it, I won’t accept it.”
The remarks were a noteworthy display of lingering tension within the party and Mr. Trump’s inability to let go of grudges.
They also represented a seemingly inevitable reappearance of Mr. Trump’s irrepressible id. Having spoken from a teleprompter for more than an hour on Thursday, the final day of his convention, he seemed almost incapable of restraining himself any longer as the campaign moved into its next phase…
Mr. Trump briefly turned his focus from Mr. Cruz to Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, who will be formally nominated next week at her party’s convention in Philadelphia. Attention is expected to shift to the Democrats in the coming days, but Mr. Trump said that he did not expect to watch Mrs. Clinton’s speech because she is “boring.”…
At one point, the Republican nominee quipped that, as president, he might form a “super PAC” to challenge a Senate re-election bid by Mr. Cruz, before questioning the ethics of such a move. And he kept up the personal attacks, saying that Mr. Cruz did not know how to properly use his intellect…
Nonetheless, Mr. Trump said that the convention was a raging success and that the party was, in fact, coming together.
“That was unity,” Mr. Trump said from a downtown hotel here. “The party has just come together.”…
This is terrific. He's going to spend his post convention bump fretting about Ted Cruz. https://t.co/AS2N6ozvS0
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 22, 2016
Suddenly today I'm seeing a lot fewer complaints about "tone policing" & a lot more recognition that "screaming angry vulgar" is a bad tone.
— jtlevy (@jtlevy) July 22, 2016
https://t.co/oxOkQA7QHw pic.twitter.com/ToLFSPlwlm
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) July 22, 2016
Trump to begin receiving intelligence briefings next month https://t.co/dmMo9FZRNl pic.twitter.com/QGrIXoYfW5
— The Hill (@thehill) July 23, 2016
Can we get Trump to play a nice long game of Civilization instead?
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) July 22, 2016
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