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Charles And Kim

Kim Shattuck Getting Canned By The Pixies Didn't Really Seem Important At The Time

The Pixies were going to be a nostalgia act, touring the hits until they were playing county fairs, and you could understand why they wouldn't want another songwriter, a person used to fronting a band, Kim Shattuck annoying them.  But in the years since they couldn't handle Shattuck, they've gone on to pretend to be a real, working band again, and now it seems like they really miss Kim.  If they weren't going to get Kim Deal back, Shattuck was probably exactly what they needed, but that didn't happen. 

Somehow I Don't Think Trump's Up To Dealing With Climate Issues

This is a heartwarming story--or complete fucking nightmare--of scientists who try real hard and get shit on for it.  This is not the sort of story Trump will be able to understand.  The USA has checked out of the reality-based community, maybe forever. 

How Do You Help Normalize Neo Nazi Racism And Fascism?

Collaborate!  This asshole Greg Ferenstein will be one of the first in line when they start handing out armbands and brown shirts.

Trump Needs To Make Alex Jones The Head Of NASA And The CDC

Alex Jones groks science, and our exceptional America needs a man like that in charge of stuff. 

Was The Election Stolen, Or Did Hillary Lose It?

Or is it both?  With an election this close, any sort of illegal manipulations might make a difference, and the 2016 election was astoundingly close in certain states.  You don't need to be wearing Alex Jones' tinfoil hat to concede that the GOP is always trying to steal an election if possible--all the voter purges and intimidation and other routine ratfucking make it possible to steal a victory when it's close like Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004, and a few states this year.  That tells you the Dems can't let it be close enough to steal.  But this year it was.  Hillary was as inept a national candidate as this country has ever seen, far worse than even her harshest critics feared, and now everyone will be paying for her incompetence.

Of Course The Neo Nazis Are Allies With Israel

Israel is one of the most fascist, racist nations in history, and the neo-Nazi fuckers eat that shit up.  They've traded hatred of Jews for hatred of Muslims, mostly because Israel is their dream land.  It's quite possible that they may turn on the Jews once again if it becomes fashionable or necessary, but for now, they're cool.

Concise Fisking Of Obama's Presidency

Not much good there, not much at all considering the necessity of bold action in 2009.  Now it is nearly 2017, and we are probably beyond help.  It's bad now but it will get worse.  It always gets worse.

Palz

Chris Gilbert On Castro

It sucks that too many Americans only know of Cuba the nonsense they hear from addle-headed reactionary bastards because the lessons of Cuba could certainly help the folks in the United States understand the reality of life in 2016.

Who Is Going To Stand Against The DAPL

Not Obama.  None of the other "leaders" out there.  This is definitely an establishment project, and none of the good people in charge are gonna do anything to stop it.

Fight For $15

Imagine if a major party candidate for President had supported the Fight for $15.  How much enthusiasm could such a candidate have created?  How much support would such a candidate have received in swing states?  Imagine.  Because the Democratic Party could do no such thing.

Trump Needs To Appoint Wolfgang Halbig As Head Of The FBI

Halbig is America's foremost investigator!  And well known genius!  He's the man Trump and America need!

Ed Resni Is Full Of Shit

Steve Forbes himself might be dumb enough to believe Ed Resni, but Forbes is a mental-defective son of a fabulous closet-case, so that makes wicked good sense.  The rest of us will take note of the mountain of fact-free horseshit Resni spouts in his sad little screed.  What real people and even real business owners know is that raising the minimum wage is ALWAYS good for business as we live in a consumer-driven demand economy even if is is SOMETIMES bad for the personal bottom lines of CERTAIN wealthy business owners. 

Kellyanne Conway Fits Right In With The Gleefully Incompetent Trump Squad

She's out of control.  Or not.  She's undercutting a future cabinet secretary.  Or not.  She's settling old scores.  Or not.  She's pissing off the chief incompetent.  Or not.  She's doing what she's told.  Or not.  This insane futility is the mission statement of Trump's administration, and Kellyanne Conway is the perfect embodiment of that lower-level futile incompetence, though she's obviously way too wrinkly and worn-out to be the fourth Mrs. Donald Trump.. 

Meet The Future Fourth Mrs. Donald Trump Jennifer Boyle

An exceptional American and a friend to the common man, the lovely and talented Jennifer Boyle will be the new Mrs. Donald Trump.  As soon as Donald can kick that dried up old skank Melania to the curb in some Jersey shithole.

Gotta say though, that if this Boyle bitch was black and male, she woulda been capped by the cops a long fucking time ago.

Updown

Even Trump's Uncle Tom's Are Bottom Of The Barrel

Trump can't find anybody sane or qualified to work with him, even Uncle Toms.  Sad.

Jill Stein's Recount Is Exposing Trump's Tiny Clay Feet

For a fascist strongman, Trump's awful jumpy.  These recounts aren't going to unseat Trump but watching him sweat and squirm like a punk is certainly entertaining enough.  Thanks, Dr. Stein.

Working In Retail Sucks, Trump Makes It Worse

This fucking shitstain makes retail suck worse than usual, thanks to Trump.  The poor dumb racist asshole doesn't understand what discriminate means, either.  That's kinda funny.  Filthy mouth, too.  What a cunt.

Castro's Legacy

Will remain unknown to most Americans, who believe the right-wing lies and the propaganda about Castro, Cuba, and the revolution.  But the world will know, certainly.   Too many people outside of the United States know what the Cuban people accomplished during their war against a vicious empire.  Too bad more exceptional Americans can't know the truth.

So, Belichick Did One Good Thing In His Life And That Was Fucking Over Tebow?

Fair enough.  Belichick is a first-class douche canoe but screwing Tebow was a pretty cool thing.

Josh Marshall: Kicking Machine Victim

I guess he likes it?  Marshall is just such a rube, spouting his horseshit, but he's the only one who doesn't see that it's farcical.  Is Marshall performing a public service giving us a reason to laugh at him? 

Forbes, Small, Weak, In The Eternal Twilight Struggle To Match The Risible Fucktardery Of The Federalist

Forbes has a go, running out some "economist" with a six-word vocabulary to say bad bad things about political concepts of which he clearly has no fucking clue but somehow can't manage the idiot-mania of serial-plagiarist Ben Domench's walking shit show.

When Trump Is President, Our School Shootings Will Be Better

Bolder, more deadly.  Finally America will be proud of its shootings the way we never were under that blah bastard.

Dinosaur Jr. Covers A Sebadoh Song Sebadoh Never Recorded

Reunion Era J Mascis Interview Which Makes J Sound Sane

So it must be suspect.  Yet, J seems to understand that he needs those two goons to make Dinosaur Jr. a viable commercial enterprise.  Money, it's a hell of a drug.

Trump's America Will Be That Little Bit Shittier Than Obama's America

But it's hard to really see how.  Trump's America will be much more vulgar and silly and pathetic, but will it really be fundamentally a much more horrible place?  Of course not.

The United States Failed Cuba, Not Fidel Castro Or The Revolution

All those things we wanted for the people of Cuba, vigorous democracy, thriving economy, vibrant freedoms--the same fucking things we want for ourselves but somehow don't have in our exceptional America, either--those things were rendered impossible by six fucking decades of imperial oppression of Cuba.  Cuba was fighting an existential war, and it was the powerful United Fucking States that could not defeat the nearly powerless island nation.  The Cubans and Castro fought the US at every turn, but the economic and military pressure made it impossible for Castro to loosen his grip on the government.  Had Castro faltered for a second, the weight of US imperialism would have wiped out the advances of Cuban society and turned the country into another Haiti.  Castro battled against that outcome every day, so when these self-righteous reactionary hypocrites bemoan the lack of anything in Cuba, they should stare into a mirror for a while first and see what's looking back.

Now Shailene Woodley Is A Great American: It's A Fucked Up World

Shailene? Shailene? Really? Jesus. But give the woman some credit: she has a voice and gets coverage, and she's taking the opportunity to speak out.  This probably makes up for those awful movies she was in, Hunger Maze or Allergy Trials or whatever.  The DAPL is something Obama should have been willing to stand up on seeing as he's not running for anything and the Dem candidate for President was an incompetent neoliberal asswipe.

Next Weeks Of The War

Whitey Love

Sister Havana

More On Lou And J

More noises, more stuff, and still the completely fucked up relationship between Mascis and Barlow.  I guess money makes everything better, and Joey and Johnny Ramone didn't talk either--probably because Johnny was an insufferable reactionary moron, but, whatevs.

Lou Barlow: Anti-Bassist

And the "real" bassists out there don't like that one bit.  Heh, indeedy.

Colin Kaepernick Is Rapidly Become One Of The Greatest Americans

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Pro Tip: Count On The Serotta Twits To Be Nasty And Stupid

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Castro And Mandela

Heroic fighters, reviled by the West and enemies of empire, Castro and Mandela were powerful leaders and powerful symbols that the powers of oppression didn't have to win every single fucking time.

Fidel Castro: A Great Man Gone

Castro was a true revolutionary, and a man who helped his people defy the exceptional American imperialism for almost 60 years.  Cuba didn't simply defy the US.  The Cuban people defied the world, building a society while at war with the greatest empire in human history 90 miles away.  Castro will be vilified by the right-wing scum in the United States, but so many people around the world understand the legacy of Castro and his revolution. 

Wise Penny

So Far Jill Stein Has Done What She Said

Agree with her or not, so far she's as good as her word.  I'm beginning to think this exercise might be an object lesson for the segment of the Democratic Party not completely fucking worthless, an attempt to teach them in the most simple, straightforward fashion how not to suck so fucking badly.  Will our slow Dem childrens learned?  No fucking way.

Matt Johnson, Time Traveler

Time to update this classic. 

Again.

1989?

1989.  27 fucking year.  Jesus.

Delightfully Wanton Fisking Of Samantha Bee And John Oliver

Two smarmy and shallow tee vee clowns get royally fisked by great American JB Nicholson, and gods-damn we need more of that shit right about now--the Jon Stewart stink on both Bee and Oliver should not be overlooked, either.  The simplistic tee vee suckups sure loved Hillary and loved to laugh about Jill Stein but never did manage to much deep thinkin' where the Dems were concerned, and as it turns out that didn't really help Clinton in any way.  If we are really planning on any possibility of progress, fatuous tee vee dopes like Bee and Oliver should be routinely ignored.

They're Twits, You Know, And That's Why They Don't Understand Shit

The collective mentality is approximately equal to a medium-sized group of 4th graders in the slow class.  What fucking dimwits.  Crappy taste in bikes AND guitars, too.  No wonder this country is going down the shitter.

No Yeti 650B Remix

No 700C remix neither. 

A Look Inside The Future Trump Whitehouse

Who is gonna be the guy who has to tell Trump to settle down, Beavis?

Moon Of Alabama: Good Stuff Not At All Associated With Gross Things Jeff Sessions Likes To Do With Farm Animals

Thank the gods.  But you can find good stuff for today's America.  America needs more of this to help fight the fascists, and with Billmon gone from even Twitter, the rest of us will need to step up. 

Sistah Luvrz

Bite This, Pilgrim

Political Song for Trump's Cabinet to Sing

The Federalist Leading The Rest Of The Petty Fascists Onto Their Knees For Their Masters

Ready to serve and sooth Trump and his people.  Nothing scares super-cucks like John Daniel Davidson more than anyone who won't help him lovingly tongue the anuses of exceptional fascist leaders.  The left is scary to Davidson so he lashes out and tries to call them names, but it doesn't work so well when you have one of Trump's kid's dicks in your mouth.

Thanksgiving Is An Exceptionally Fucked Up American Tradition

And certain things just scream about the insanity, like the protesters at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservations fighting to block the DAPL.  Only in America could such irony not cause a massive implosion in the fabric of our exceptional reality.  Fortunately, most Americans are hilariously clueless and as dense as a neutron star, so nothing will make them even consider what the fuck is happening on this fucking day.  Fuck yeah!

Guntards Are The Terrorists Destroying Freedom In America

Exceptionally stupid, exceptionally violent, exceptionally fascist exceptionally American, guntard assholes are the true terrorists, more dangerous than ISIS and Russia and China combined.  The USA was strong until the fascist gun nuts and reactionary assholes grew like a cancer in our society.  Be very unthankful that guntards have destroyed your freedom, your safety, and your peace, America.  See the true terrorists: right-wing guntards.  Only when we decide to rid ourselves of their sickness will we ever know progress.

Trump Is Outsourcing His Entire Presidency To The Biggest Assholes On Earth

Trump understands exactly nothing about any of this shit, and he doesn't care to.  He's perfectly happy to let the troglodytes and cretins from the dankest bowels of the right wing do whatever the fuck they want with the government as long as Trump gets paid.  That's what those fools voted for and that is exactly what they are going to get.  In the eye hole.

The American Establishment Is Not Going To Resist

Any more than they resisted Nixon or Reagan or Bush or the retarded Bush.  There will be no resistance.  Neo Nazis and other violent reactionaries will be normalized and accepted into the establishment along with such luminaries as Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz and Ed Meese.  Nobody with a platform will call them what they are or hold them to account for their words OR their actions.  This is the new normal: more debased today than yesterday; more broken; more ugly; more hopeless.  It's the same as the old normal, just this time with Trump instead of Clinton.

Small Lesson For The Gossip Kids In How Politics Is Supposed To Work

Jill Stein, a candidate in actual opposition to Donald Trump, is working to make sure the system was properly administered.  Hillary Clinton, not, is not.  That's a lesson for the dumb-bunny gossip kids in what politics looks like when one candidate believes in fairness and voting access for all and does not trust in neo-Nazis and other reactionary criminals to protect the system for everyone.

Dragon Flys

Trump's Transition Shit Show

Is not really Trump.  He's not doing anything.  He handed this off to every idiot in the room, which is why you see an unreconstructed Klan guy and an Amway fucktard and Ann Coulter's Tonto and General Jack D. Ripper getting gigs.  Trump couldn't tell you two things about any of them.  The better GOP assholes won't go anywhere near this abortion, so all the third and fourth string Heritage Foundations numbskulls will be running the dump.  Exceptional!

Kate E Song

Another Joyous, Life-Affirming Drive-By Fisking Of Imani Gandy

The world's worst lawyer and dumbest angry blah lady.  These quick 'n dirty fiskings of fucking scum like Gandy truly are what is making America great again!

I remember when John Cole brought this idiot Gandy onto his blog--he apparently felt the need to bring some non-white fuckheads into the mix so he found an AA woman who was as much a loony airhead as he was.  Exceptional!  Gandy proved to be completely deranged and apparently unfamiliar with reality on anything resembling a consistent basis.  Now she spends her time spouting outright bullshit about Bernie Sanders because Hillary Clinton was a neoliberal asshole who couldn't win a national election of any sort.  That's a quirky brand of genius you got right there, Ms. ABL.  Stupid fucker.

The Federalist Will Be Proud To Wear Trump's Brown Shirts

Your finest news source for creepy old dudes and mentally-challenged women hectoring about other people's freedom of choice and other people's access to abortion is also a fine place to find racist old white guys puking up some nonsense about the blahs.  Because it's pretty fucking obvious the cops don't kill black kids.  The cops only kill whites!!  In fact, those fucking darkies aren't even dead!  Michael Brown?  Alive!  Freddie Gray?  Alive!  Eric Garner?  Alive!  Keith Lamont Scott?  Even that fucking guy is alive alive alive!  C.C. Taylor has his piss bucket and knee pads ready just in case Trump or any beat cops want to stop by anytime.  Exceptional!

1 Firefly

Bob Mould Current Guitar Stuff

Stuff you can buy!  Or not.  But Mould has this shit down by now.  And he can pretty much use whatever he wants at this point, too.

Obama Was President When Sophia Walinsky Had Her Arm Blown Off By The Fucking Police

Not Trump, not yet--this is Obama's exceptional America.  The one with the secret torture prisons and drone murders and killer police.  Obama.  Not Trump.

Western Sky Land

Dean Baker Fisks The Doctors With Free Trade

Goose meet gander.  But doctors really have been almost as successful protecting their own asses as Major League ballplayers.  That's pretty fucking good for them.  Bad for everyone else.

Tulsi Gabbard's Right-Wing Connections Make Her A Mainstream Dem

And should not be a surprise to anyone at this point.  The fatuous Hillary true-believers are just pissed at Gabbard for not kissing Clinton's ass during the campaign.  Hawaii is a really small political pond, and Gabbard's background was well-known.  But the losing losers who love the loser Clinton can't think straight.  About anything.  Fucking morons.

It Looks Like The Squirrel Broke But The Specialized Is Intact

Remarkable.  I'm kinda shocked that the squirrel didn't shear the fork clean off.

Uncle Tom Useful Idiot Nick Cannon Is A Gift From All The Gods To Donald Trump And His Neo Nazis

Brought to you by the risible fucktards at the Federalist--where the editor is a close personal friend of tee vee's the-liberal Chris Hayes.  If black guys on the radio had a fucking clue about anything, then it would be much harder for Trumpenfuhrer and his goosestepping shitheads to harm the African American community and the rest of society, but with Nick Cannon and the rest of the retard army out in force, even the nimrods with Trump will be able to win the battle of wits.

More Her, Less Him Singing For The Silversun Pickups

They're not the worst band ever, but that guy's fucking voice is really annoying.  They should definitely let the tall woman sing more--anything to shut Brian Aubert up.  And I like Superchunk, so I have a high tolerance for weak singing.  Silversun Pickups needs way more back-up singing, another guitar player, and way more input form the chubby hipster douchebag noodling on the toy keyboards, whatever the fuck it is he does.  It can't really be much worse.  Let him pick up a guitar and violin or give him an electric piano or a gods-damned saxophone, something to fill out that weak reedy aural esthetic they're working.

Another Viciously Ugly Expensive Bike

Fuckin' awful.  Continuing the theme of sickening bikes off the Serotta Forum.  If you need to use that bugfuck ugly saddle to keep you nuts from falling off, find another hobby.  44 mm headtubes look pretty wretched on road bikes.  Gotta go for that tapered thing or something.  Plus, the proportions look all wrong, and the colored bits are nauseating.  This bike is a fucking abortion.

A Guy Died

At some point over the summer, I stopped reading the welfare academia idiots on Lawyers, Guns & Money--along with utterly tedious fatuous Obama fluffers at Balloon Juice--because they had all become so fucking inane that it didn't seem to have a point anymore.  The welfare academia clowns pretend to be the too smart too cool successful kids when they're barely hanging on at risible non-competitive colleges and universities, and the John Cole crew are even more pathetic--with both groups being so fucking hilariously wrong about politics and everything else that I'm sure they'd fit right in on the Serotta Forum.  Except the clueless and embarrassing Serotta Forum twits have lots more money.  Anywho, I had no idea that minor internets legend Scott Eric Kaufman was even sick.  Fucked up.

Besides Recess Appointing The Supreme Court, Obama Should Be Pardoning The Shit Out Of Pretty Much Everyone

Snowden, sure, fine, but also the not-white folks like Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier--even better because the neo-Nazis and other conservatives will lose their shit--along with a fuckload of the not as famous black and brown brothers and sisters in prison.  If Obama had any balls at all, this he would do for America, for justice, for his legacy.  But he won't.

Fukin' Fukushima

Finally something potentially more toxic and annoying than Trump!  The fun never stops in Fukushima.  I guess it was going to happen eventually.  Jesus.

So, Sr. Richard Sachs Moved Back To CT?

Noone of my business, atmo, but let's see: he was a Connecticut guy for years, decades, then moves to the Deerfield Dirt Road Randonee in Massassachusetts, stays there but decides it's too fucking boring, and then moves back to Connecticut to get some excitement?  Sounds like a plan.  Or something.  But I guess now he can afford to open his worldwide HQ in Cos Cob.

I wonder if my original CT-vintage frame deposit has been earning interest?

All Good People

Everybody Likes Andy Hampsten

Except Lance Armstrong, probably.  Hampsten seems like one of those generally decent fellows, and you never hear anyone talking shit about him.

Kanye West's Insipid And Inane "Music" Is The Perfect Soundtrack For The Trump Era

Matchmakers rejoice.  West, and his ilk, are atrocious, untalented and hackneyed, pointless and dumb as fucking posts, the perfect accompaniment to our modern society.  America gets the exceptional garbage it deserves, in politics as well as music.

Dead Set

Brilliant Parody Blog: Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Technology

Fucking genius.  This is yet another of the brilliant sites viciously destroying the creepy right-wing assholes out there.  Funny stuff.  Hard to imagine that anyone's dumb enough to believe this greasy bullshit is serious.

Highs

If Those Hamilton Idiots Really Did Fuck With Mike Pence

That would be the first good thing about 'em.  I'm not sure I really believe the way it supposedly went down, with the audience or with the cast, but it's great if it did.  Otherwise, Hamilton is pretty sucky and dumb, perfect pablum for the corrupt and demented establishment and their courtiers. 

Much Of The Destruction Trump Brings Will Be Due To Obama

Ted Rall on the case, as are many others.  Trump's going to be following Obama's lead, literally.  And those people who trusted Obama will be shocked by the damage Trump will do.  Those people on the left who were highly critical of Obama's authoritarian legacy will not be shocked at all.  Exceptional!

Now We've Said Goodbye To Those Nasty Shitbird PUMAs Like Riverdaughter

How's that Hillary or bust looking eight years later assholes?  Jesus, they're so fucking dumb.  And we can never completely forget all the petty racism that came with those PUMA fuckwads.  Clinton was always the worst choice, and even though the insane Dems gave Clinton eight years to prepare, she still sucked and managed to lose to the least popular candidate in modern American history.  I guess we won't have the PUMAs to kick around anymore after their chosen candidate proved she was the biggest asshole who ever lived.  Stupid fuckers.

Nun So Black

Hey, Al Giordano, How's That Campaign Against Bernie Sanders Going, You Fucking Asshole

Al Giordano and Joy Reid, a couple of real morons we don't need fucking things up around here anymore.

Thank The Gods That In These Troubled Times We Still Have Assholes Like Mario Diaz And Yuckmouth Brent Bozell

To bring the bugfuck crazy comedy.  CNS is a perhaps an even more asinine shithole than The Federalist.

The Gossip Kids Are Not Too Bright, Part A Billion

But Sam Wang has to stop going on the tee vee with that reactionary racist asshole Smerconish.   Wang probably cultivates a bit of the absent-minded professor shtick, but that Smerconish is a nasty piece of racist trash.  The gossip kids can't really understand much, but it might be helpful if Wang explained how the turnout/voter models of all the polls were wrong, so the predictive abilities were shit given the small lead Clinton had.  That was the failure: building a model of who was actually going to vote.  And none of the polls had it right because turnout was down so much this year.  Trump underperformed Romney and Clinton way underperformed Obama.

The Biggest Issue With Keith Ellison Is That He Will Still Be A Congressman

It's fun to bitch, but unless someone better comes along, Ellison will be the choice over Dean.  Dean was good, and the Obama people fucked up much of what Dean had accomplished, but if the Dems want to skip the lobbyist coworker of Newt Gingrich this time and go for the black Muslim guy from Detroit, let 'em.  Ellison's job will be wicked harder because he'll still be a sitting Congressman, but if the Dems decide the look of Ellison fits better than the look of Dean in 2017, that should be okay with the folks on the left who are not Dems, atmo.

Where's Eric?

After We Get All The Muslims Into The Camps, Will America Be Hiring Servpro Or Maybe Those Crime Scene Cleanup Guys To Fumigate Their Houses And Shit?

I'd imagine any good white christian exceptional American would want a house or car or business a Muslim had before going to the camps be really well-cleaned before liberating it for the prosperity of white America.  I hope President Trump will hire some real good white christian guys to clean the fuck out of all those places once we move out the Muslims.  I've never lived in their ghettos, but I can't imagine Muslims have the hygiene standards of an exceptional white American.  There have to awful smells and nasty bugs that jesus won't let good people like us live with.

Maybe The Internment Camp Builders Should Get Overtime After 8 Hours

Maybe we should incentivize hard-working white christian Americans by paying overtime after 8 hours to the guys working construction jobs building the Muslim camps.  That will be great stimulus to the Trump economy, the white economy.  Any non-whites that are working get straight-time only.

Will The Guys Working To Construct The Muslim Relocation Camps Get Paid Time And A Half After 40 Hours In A Week?

I'd imagine there's gonna be shitloads of overtime once the construction starts, so if it's time and a half, that's gonna be a really grand economic stimulus!  As long as the jobs are only given to exceptional white American men, I fully endorse time and a half after 40 hours for all internment camp construction workers!

After We Register All The Muslims, We're Gonna Make 'Em Wear Yellow Crescent Badges, Right?

We gotta make sure we know who they are, so patches sound good.  We can put some white Americans to work makin' 'em, too.  And if Muslims don't sew, then some good white christian seamstresses can get some work, also.  This is good shit.  I'm glad Trump thought of it.  It's an anti-terror plan and a jobs plan all rolled into one!  Exceptional!

Political Song for Obama to Sing

Obama Has Only One Chance Left: Make A Recess Appointment To The Supreme Court

He simply must do it if he hopes to preserve anything decent in America or the possibility of an Obama legacy or simply preserve a shred of hope for the Democratic Party, but Obama is not that kind of man, so he will not do it.  Obama is the man who made Rahm Emanuel his Chief of Staff.  Obama is the man who put James Comey at the head of the FBI.  Obama is not a great man, or a great politician, or a great leader.  Obama will watch his paltry legacy--whatever he believes that legacy to be--lost in time, like tears in the rain.  So very fucking quickly.  And he will not fight it.  Obama is a coward.  A great man would make that recess appointment and create the greatest upheaval in Washington in anyone's living memory.  Through such bold, selfless action, he would give his country, his party, and his legacy a fighting chance of survival.  But he won't.  He lacks the courage and the vision and the love of country.  He's just another failed right-wing politician from what was once called the Democratic Party.

Cenk Uygur Is Fun In Small Bites

And he's a nasty bastard, which is a very good thing.  He fucking hates Hillary supporters as much as he hates Trump supporters, so that makes him a great gods-damned American.

Lee Papa Winds It Down

Like many before him, the Rude Pundit is winding it down.  When Trump collapses under its own incompetence, they're really won't be anyone left with the initiative to put anything back together.  Such is life.

Hating On Snowden Is Not A Good Look For The Gossip Kids--Or Anyone Else

Snowden's no hero--wait, yes he is--but he doesn't have to be right about every fucking thing or agree with you on every fucking thing in the fucking world.  Snowden's not the president of the world or even your clubhouse.  Knee-jerk reactionary Snowden bitching should be reserved for the right-wing cocksuckers and teabaggers and other assorted reactionary fuckwits. 

Of Years

When Workbook Was 25

American music doesn't get much better than Bob Mould's Workbook.  Part of it was the unexpectedness of it.  Part of was the sense of loss we all felt.  Part of it was the place and time.  But the music on Workbook remains transcendent.  The songs remain vital.  It was the surest sign that we'd never see Husker Du again, but the album was a promise that something glorious was just beginning.  Mould delivered on the promised glory again and again.

Even Freddie DeBoer Knows Sanders Would Have Won

DeBoer's right--a dream of his come true!  He's better at this than zombie Obama fluffers who were all-in with her, though.  What does that say for all folks out there who spent an inordinate amount of time over the last few years shitting on deBoer?  At some point, we as a society are going to have to demand some actual results, some literal progress, being fucking right about something important in our politics.  The Hillary contingent was as fucking wrong as wrong could be from way before 2008 even.  Those gods-damned fools fucked us all, and one of the favorite targets for snark and scorn for the entry level establishment and village idiot wannabees was on the right side this time while they all looked foolish.  Oops.

I Wonder If The Anti-Trump Folks Are Up To It

There's a vast horde of folks who are not down with Trump, but I wonder if they're up to really doing better than the orange vulgarian.  Maybe.  But I'm not hopeful.

Look At This Harp Bastard Aodhan O Riordain Getting All Up In Trump's Business Calling Him A Fascist

Damn, this fucking guy sounds pretty peeved.  Maybe Ireland will lead a coalition to facilitate some regime change in D.C. in order to save the American people from their government.  That would be nice of them.

This Is The Ugliest Gaulzetti Since Craig

I keed.  But this bike's fucking heinous.  It clearly doesn't fit, or the rider is some deformed mutant.  That stem.  Those bars.  That tape.  Wrong-color seatmast topper.  A fender?  Nasty.

Daryush Valizadeh: This Is The Face Of A Man Who Has Never Had Sex With A Human Other Than Himself

Of one thing we can all be sure: that's no alpha, no man who gets sex from any woman ever.  I don't even think Daryush is some self-hating closet case, but he's clearly a chronic-masturbating loser who likes to pretend he gets laid sometimes even though it's pretty obvious he never, ever has.

Goo Goo

Can't The Clintons Take Joy Reid With Them On Their Way Out?

We gotta be able to do better than this.  Reid was not the worst of the establishment media shitheads out there, but it was close.  These fatuous turdballs have got to go.  Please?

Muslim Internment Camp Construction Will Be An Exceptional Jobs Program!

It's all fucking win.  We get rid of the greasy Islamic terrorists in our towns, steal their shit, and get shitloads of overtime building the internment camps to house them.  Fucking genius!

Trump's Not Going To Do Shit For The Economy Of Working People

Trump is less serious about infrastructure and creating jobs than he is about building walls or putting Muslims in concentration camps.  Dean Baker should know better, but I guess hope is all that's left.

DeAndre Levy Is The Hero America Needs

Levy is exactly the sort of man who can help lead America through these harrowing times.  He's the definition of a great American.

Hey Everybody! Point And Laugh At Al Giordano, The Biggest Asshole In America And The Loser's Loser

ALL THE WAY WITH HILLARY!  All the way into the shitter.  That dumb bastard Giordano is so fucking clueless.  But he had a huge oppo file on Bernie Sanders that he didn't use!  He woulda stopped Sanders himself!  He's a hero!  Why won't Hillary return his calls??

For The Last Time: Sanders Would Have Won

Probably quite easily, as there are a few important points to consider:

1: Democratic turnout was awful--as was GOP turnout--and Clinton wicked underperformed, so it is likely Sanders could not have managed to do any worse meaning that Sanders would have won every state Clinton won;

2: Sanders would have also won Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania because he would have blunted or completely counteracted Trump's appeal to the marginalized crackers;

3: Sanders would have won Florida because of Jewish.

That's that.

Plus, as the results down-ballot showed once again, people tend to vote the party line; Sanders would have delivered Senators in PA and WI and FL.  North Carolina might have been bigger for the Dems with Sanders running, so maybe that Senate seat would have delivered, too. 

President-Elect Sanders would have had a much better chance of flipping the House on the way to victory as well.  Clinton ran an abysmal campaign, and the Dems in general were total shit.  Sanders would have been much stronger, energizing not only the base voters who would vote for a chicken salad sandwich if it had a D after it--and did, essentially voting for a chickenshit salad sandwich named Hillary Clinton--but also expanding the Obama electorate with a popular, centrist message including labor rights and civil rights and women's rights that the neoliberal asshole HRC would never have embraced--and didn't which is why nobody came out to vote for her that wasn't a brainless D-zombie.

The GOP would have labeled Sanders a socialist a communist a leftist unamerican, but so what?  They called the rock-ribbed conservatives Obama and Bill Clinton all those things, and it didn't matter because the only voters dumb enough to listen to or care about that horseshit would never vote for a Dem in a billion years.  Those marginalized white idiots who were the difference in the 2016 election because of the historically low turnout on both sides voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 and many more of them would have voted for Sanders because there are simply more eligible voters than back then.

Jesus Frakking Charlie Crist, Nobody Likes Jonathan Chait

Another brutal drive-by fisking, this time by Jeremy Scahill.  Chait defines fatuous establishment stooge, but after Clinton's loss, the smart kids have decided to beat him to death, metaphorically, of course.  Not that he doesn't deserve it; he could be the poster boy for upward-failing wrong-headed neoliberal mediocrity.  Plus it's fun to watch Scahill work.

Hey, Let's Not Forget When Good Things Happen: Duke Lost

So much is wrong, but when it's right, you can't forget.  Duke lost, which is always good for universal karma.  And for a few days at least, Kansas is the most popular basketball team in the galaxy.

And This Is Probably The Dumbest Thing Duncan Black's Ever Written

Atrios tries way to hard to be the too-chill dude who knows the score, man.  And it's bullshit.  Atrios is/was employed by David Brock before David Brock went fucking coo coo for Hillary, so I'm sure he knows what the score is, man.  So he either knows the truth about Hillary and the Democratic Party Hillary fail machine, or he's a fucking idiot.

Because The Democratic Party Will Never Be Able To Address Class In America, Maybe We Finally Abandon That Failed Institution

Buh. Fucking. Bye.  The Dems were useless because they were neoliberal monsters at heart beholden to the Wall Street money and the Wall Street vision.  That was fine for them, but it wasn't for the other 99%.

Call

So, 10 Years Ago Exclaim Thought 'Honky Tonkin' Was The Third Mekons Album?

Jesus, that's fucking stupid.  I know where they got that though: in some review I read a long time ago on Allmusic or Pitchfork or No Depression or somewhere which was obviously also read and ripped off by that the Exclaim person, the original writer stated something about Honky Tonkin' being the third Mekons album in their country music period.  Not the third album.  So some idiot, Jason Schneider, read that other review, poorly, plagiarized it, hacktastically, and nobody ever bothered to correct the mistake.  Exceptional!

Math Is Not A Thing For The Gossip Kids

They have wicked bad trouble with it--but let's be fair, so does Nate Silver.  Silver seems especially reluctant to admit what did happen to the polling for the 2016, and I'm not sure why.  Maybe he's afraid of revealing how full of shit he is, but that's a done deal.  Silver probably understands that the polls were quite accurate except for one fairly serious mistake: the turnout model.  Most polls used Obama and Romney turnouts more or less--but nothing radically different.  That modelling of the electorate is what makes a poll a poll.  None of the pollsters believed that Dem turnout would be so stupendously low.  They fucked up, but they all fucked up for the same reason.  The polls and the probabilities weren't shit because a bunch of asswipes were trying to fuck everything up, but they wound up so far off because nobody built a model where GOP turnout was down but Dem turnout was way the fuck down.  Had they done that, the polls would have been much closer and then Nate Silver's bullshit and Sam Wang's state polls all would have been much more useful in predicting the finish.  Those models of the likely electorate would opened up the possibility that a very small change along the margin in a few key states could change an electoral blowout for Clinton into an electoral blowout for Trump or vice versa, but nobody picked that up because if the Dems had voted for Clinton they way had voted for Obama numbers-wise, a few pissy white trash union dipshits would not have been enough to shift the victory to Trump.  The gossip kids prove they are not gonna understand that shit, though.  Math is hard.

Hole In The

Nick Martin's Trump Town

Decent. Better. Good.  The sort of shit that most Dems and other twits never consider about what it means to be alive in our exceptional American decline.  It's key to remember that the white racist assholes were not the ones who put Trump over the top--those nasty fuckwits and anti-semite shitheels were never gonna vote for Clinton the same way they were never gonna vote for Obama the same way they were never gonna vote for any with a D after their name.  The Dem defections were voters from the marginalized white lower classes, those folks who grew up in those Trump-type towns but voted for Obama and would have voted for Sanders.  Of course, honest discussion of class is anathema to the Democratic Party establishment.

Yet Another Brutal Fisking Of Kurt Eichenwald

Much easy. Very fisking. Wow.  Eichenwald is very quickly becoming everyone's favorite neoliberal cocksucker punching bag.  For good reason.  He deserves every blow.

Racist White Assholes And Other Ignorant White Trash Handed The Middle East To Putin

And what's he gonna do with it?  Good question, as certainly Putin has been eying ways to increase the influence of Russia for a couple of decades, though I'm sure he never believed that everyone would make it so fucking easy for him.  The Middle East is a good place to wield military power and political influence.  Trump cucked the Republicans and America, but Putin's fixing to cuck the feckless Trump bigtime around the world.

So, Trump Will Completely Undo 8 Years Of Obama In 2 Hours, But Obama Did Not Undo Very Much Of Bush/Cheney In 8 YEARS

Funny how that works.  Republicans completely destroy whatever was done by a Dem--no matter how helpful, major or minor--as a matter of course, but the Dems must always maintain whatever vile or dangerous precedent the GOP has establishment.  It almost makes you think that maybe the Dems share the core values of the GOP at heart while the Republicans are just ignorant bullying shitbirds.  Exceptional!

History Has A Stutter

How The Fuck Could You Lose Bill Walton's Yuge Fucking Bike?

70cm. Is that c-c or c-t?   The guy's a fucking animal, though.  Can't be easy riding when you are so fucking tall and as beat-up as he is.

Keith Ellison: Left-Wing Congressman With Ties To Nation Of Islam? Sign Me The Fuck Up!

Sounds good, Fox "News". Thanks.  Ellison would be great.  And if Fox "News" hates him, that should be good enough for you!

Kurt Eichenwald, Neoliberal Shithead And Establishment Democratic Stooge, Please Fuck Right The Fuck Off Right Now

Another astoundingly inane rock-ribbed reactionary fuckbag, Kurt Eichenwald needs to go far away and stay there forever.  I would suggest the outer solar system somewhere cold and dark.  He's exactly the sort of idiot who helped Trump destroy whatever was left of the Democratic Party for the worst reason: Hillary Clinton.  What a titanic fucking asshole. 

Donald Sutherland Sounds Suprising Lucid And Indignant

Lucid. Or lucent, if you're first language ain't English.  Anywho, President Hawkeye Snow is not wicked happy with the way things are going.  He's probably right, even though he's Canadian.

Carl Strong's Pursuit Cycles: That Guy's Had More Business Models Than Serotta

With the key difference being that he is still in business.  Yep, Strong did carbon.  Stopped.  Opened a production shop with production models and a bike shop in front.  Nope.  Ibis contract-builder.  Nah.   Powdercoat vendor.  Quit.  Frame-building vendor.  No.  Now, back to carbon with this.  Hey, he's better at this than Ben Serotta ever was.  So far.

Ralph Nader On Clarence Ditlow

Excellent brief Nader on the auto-safety champion Clarence Ditlow.  Good.  Safer is always better when it comes to consumer products with a huge mass and kinetic energy being piloted by the average barely-conscious exceptional American.  How many folks like Ditlow will be a favorite of Trump's?  Or were with Obama?  Or would have been with Clinton?

Daily Kos: The Stupidest Place On Earth

Never forget that Daily Kos is part of a media company as corporate and right-wing as any NBC or Fox or any big newspaper.  Hell, the parent company was created by partners including noted lunatic and lifelong Hillary supporter Jerome Armstrong in addition to Markos Moulitsas, both of whom were mentored by world-famous right-wing stooge and Fox "News" "democrat" Joe Trippi before their venture capital courtship and the creation of such valued content as Ezra and the rest of the sad little twits at Vox.  The entire enterprise was a long con from the beginning, a way to transfer money from the naive, self-described and self-deluded political class of the internet to a few careerist schemers.  Pretty neat.  But those fools help give us Trump.  Kos and the rest are solidly establishment and gleeful guzzlers of the piss and jizz and everything else the leaders jam down their holes--while they may be a step up from the pathetic failures in the welfare academia cohort, all of them are enthusiastic, right-wing entry-level establishment morons and mindless, rock-ribbed Obama fluffers.  They may pretend that they're going to resist the new order, but in the end they will scheme to get paid just as before.

Princeling Of Darkness

Dean Baker Plans To Survive The Trump Presidency

Somebody has to.  Plan.  Or survive.  Dean Baker usually has something smart to say, and if we had a tee vee media worth any fucking thing, Baker would have a show every night.

How's That Legacy Lookin' Now, Obama?

Barack Obama is hella fucked now.  His legacy will be as a complete fucking neoliberal tool who squandered a(n outside) shot at greatness.  His atrocious political instincts and infuriating lack of courage let Mitch McConnell walk all over him time after time, culminating with the Merrick Garland nomination domination.  McConnell and Trump defeated Obama completely.  Thanks, Obama.

Dave Lindorff Also Notes That Trump Has Destroyed Both Parties

Welcome to the party, pal.  Neither party is working now, but at least the former GOP has a leader in Trump and a purpose in the insane vulgar corruption orgy.

Josh Marshall Finds A Nut

Not that you need to be Thomas Paine or John Stuart Mill to figger this one out, but Marshall is correct in saying that the Trump administration will unleash an orgy of ostentatious and vulgar political corruption all over this dump.  Trump will have neither the ability nor the desire to stop it, and, while it will be fucking hilarious, it will also be incredibly destructive to society and the economy.  For some very early examples of this vulgar grift orgy in all it's grimy glory, see Pubies, Rinse and Bannon, Steve.

Empire's Record

Billmon Has Checked Out

Underground, maybe. Waiting for the solution to appear.  He apparently wasn't kidding.

Michael Tomasky Is A Fucking Dope And Should Be Ignored

Part of the problem.  Tomasky is neoliberal turd and must be ignored.  Fuck him.  He was wrong, is wrong, and like all the rest will always be wrong.  Fuck him. 

Exceptional Story In Trump's America

American Can Count On The Federalist To Maintain Its Astounding Level Of Conservative Inanity In These Dark Times

The conservative cucks created by Trump are scared and confused because they don't want to believe or cannot believe that an R candidate was put into the presidency in a comically low-turnout election because of an energized base of neo nazis and other revanchist racist scum.  They don't want to believe they're all racist shitheads, but they are, so expect to see plenty of this inane fucktardery for years to come.

The Young Women And The Sea

I'm Not Sure Hamilton Nolan And The Gossip Kids Are Up To It

Maybe I'm wrong.  It would be nice to be wrong on this one, but the good guys always seem to get played by the bad guys, and the changing demographic army never shows up on the battlefield to fight for on the side of those good guys.  Funny how that works.  The racist white cohort and dumb fucking conservative cohort in America can't die fast enough to save anyone.  All is lost, or at least enough is lost that it won't matter now.  This country never got around to fixing the stuff Reagan fucked up, and everything is way worse now than it was then.  Game over, dude.  At this point there's no one to fight and nothing to win.

American Anthem, 2016

Lee Papa Sees The Light, A Little Late

Way too many Dems were mindlessly credulous of Hillary Clinton, even some that supported Sanders, and now everyone is fixing to get skull-fucked because of their gross stupidity.  Exceptional!

But it's really too late to fight.  Anything of worth might already be lost because those Dems couldn't pull their heads out of their asses and imagine winning with someone better than another fucking creepy rock-ribbed conservative Clinton.

Harry Reid's Parting Shots

Keep this shit up, Harry.  He's out, so he doesn't need to play nice.  Plus his state will get to join the first-world country that California, Oregon, and Washington will form.  I betcha both Canada and Mexico will help them build that wall.

Pro Tip: Never Forget That Conservative Shitheads Like John Kass Are Never Part Of The Solution And Always Part Of The Problem

White conservative assholes always want less democracy, less access to voting rights, fewer minorities, women, and younger people voting overall.  Fuck them.  They are filthy and rotten and should never be tolerated in polite society. 

Your Green

Virag's Movie Reviews: Ghostbusters (2016)

Not only an ill-advised reboot, the 2016 flick was also a spectacularly unfunny film.  Sookie can be good in some things, but not here.  Kristin Wiig is easily the most over-rated actress working.  SNL Hillary is unwatchable once you get past three minutes.  Thor is just.  The rest of the movie was worse.  It wasn't funny.  It wasn't clever.  The leads were awful and worse together.  This thing sucked huge ass.  And not because they made them women.  They should have found a role for Paul Giamatti and turned the entire exercise into a legit atrocity.

Pacific Rim 2 Started Today

Kinda never thought that would actually happen.  Cool, though.  The first one was good clean fun.

Your Curse

The Valerian Movie Sure Looks Like A (Younger?) Kids' Version Of Fifth Element

Maybe it'll be good, but if it has an even more simplistic, worthless, boring story than Fifth Element, it will be unwatchable where the other flick wasn't.

Maybe It's Time To Start Ignoring Imbeciles Like Ezra Klein--Everything Klein Writes Will Always Be The Dumbest Thing

And Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and Erik Loomis and TBogg and every other establishment Dem and Obama fluffer and all of them.  Sure, pissing all over a fatuous smarty-pants nimrod like Klein is good fun and all, but maybe we have better things to do now?  Those fools couldn't help defeat Donald Trump--they were as wrong as wrong could ever hope to be about Bernie Sanders and every other fucking facet of American politics--so let's forget 'em.  Maybe that's the best plan.  Maybe?

The Poor Little Gossip Kids Aren't Any Dumber Than TBogg Or Erik Loomis Or The Rest, Though

But they are fucking pretty gods-damned dumb.  It must be a fucktardery congenital defect that Dems can't understand why their candidates refuse to win and that makes them blame everybody else who was correct.  That's not hopeful.  The gossip kids are like the elementary school versions of worthless Obama fluffers.

Here's some simple truth: Sanders would have won.  He would have won every state Clinton won this year, plus he would have won PA, MI, WI, OH easily--and he would have won FL because Jewish.

Clinton also would have won if she'd picked Sanders as VP.

She would have won if she'd picked Elizabeth Warren.

She would have won if she'd run on one actual fucking issue.

Jill Stein didn't defeat Hillary, dumbfucks, OR cause her to lose.

Grow up.

At Least Now We Get To Flush Bill And Hillary Clinton Down Into The Cesspool Of History Once And For All

Where they've always belonged.  The Clintons were a cancer on the ass of America and now everyone with a brain finally understands that.  Take Bill and Hill and John Podesta and Rahm Emanuel and Sidney Blumenthal and the rest and flush 'em down!  Send all the shithead Obama fluffers down with 'em, too.

Or Maybe It's TBogg And The Welfare Academia Shitheads Like Erik Loomis--It's Def TBogg

Yeah, Tom Boggioni and Erik Loomis are surely bigger fucking dipshits than Joy Reid.  Zephyr Teachout loses a race where the presidential candidate drags everyone down with an unprecedentedly shitty campaign and somehow that's not Clinton's fault?  That's fucking asinine even for TBogg and the Welfare Academia idiots.  The Republican candidates won close races because Trump brought out voters who voted for the R-candidates.  If Sanders had been running--and winning--he brings out enthusiastic voters to vote for Teachout and Feingold and McGinty and plenty of other Dems, but that didn't happen.

With Sanders as the nominee, Teachout and Feingold win.

Or not, but they could not have fared worse than they did with a Sanders candidacy--with Clinton, they got pummeled.

TBogg and Erik Loomis are fucking useless Obama fluffers.

Fuck them.

Fuck them in the eye hole with a burning spear.

Or Trump's tiny syphilitic weeny.

Joy Reid Is Still Actively Campaigning For The Office Of Biggest Dem Asshole In America

If that worthless fucktard is stupid enough to think Susan Sarandon had anything to do with electing Trump, well, she is clearly the biggest asshole in America.

When The Shitty Reactionary Idiots Come Out On The Serotta Forum

It makes everything worse.  Some of the safe white people are mortified, though, while the disgusting usual suspects are forevermore worthless pond scum.

For Safe Privileged White Folks At Least, Trump's Operation Hummingbird Should Be Wicked Entertaining

It will be pretty funny to watch Trump take his revenge on the non-cucks in the Republican Party.  Trump's not going to accomplish much, but if he delivers a bloody comic political reality show for our amusement, then we will all get some entertainment at least.

Life-Affirming Drive-By Fisking Of The World's Worst Lawyer And Dumbest Angry Black Lady Imani Gandi

Imani Gandi and her ilk will always be part of the problem.  Incompetent Obama fluffers did as much to get Trump elected as the KKK did.

Now Will Obama Make A Recess Appointment To The Supreme Court?

Of course not.  He's a fucking coward and is as much a part of the problem as Hillary and Bill Clinton and the rest of the Dem establishment. 

It Won't Be The Upper-Class And Upper-Middle Class White Guys Suffering The Most Under Trump

When things turn to shit during the first hours of the Trump era, it won't be the rich white dudes feeling the pain.  It will be the old folks, white and non.  It will be the poor of all colors.  The sick people losing their access to health care.  The women facing tragedy.  The minorities, mostly boys and young men, being rounded up or gunned down by the police.  Life gets worse for them and stays that way.  The white men in Washington and New York might be embarrassed by President Trump or Secretary of State Newt Gingrich or Attorney General Rudy Giuliani, or those fellows might be mildly inconvenienced by an economic collapse, but they'll be fine.  The Americans on the margins, the frail, the powerless, the sick, the hopeless, plenty of those Americans will die.  Remember that.

Now America Splits Into Two Very Different Worlds: Blue States That Will Survive And Red States Turning To Hell

The prosperous blue states on the west coast and the northern east coast will be okay no matter what.  California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, those states will not be as bad as many other places under Trump.  They are solidly blue so there will be civil rights and dignity for all (or most) and a functional economy and schools that work okay and access to abortion; they will weather the storm without sinking into the most debased of the insanity.  It will be mostly livable even if it gets uncomfortable at times.  But those red states, those southern and midwestern states are so fucked.  The crazed Trump cucks are going to fling shit everywhere and wreck whatever they touch--each of those states is going to be filled with the most belligerent idiots in the country running around like assholes.  Those states will crumble under the gross incompetence of the worst of the Republican Party, with any progress made in the last decade wiped out.  Imagine unfettered Republican Mississippi and Wisconsin and Kansas without the Federal Government to offer any sanity--or money when the inevitable happens.  That's the reality of America under Trump, where the blue states will be bad enough but the red states will be hell on Earth.

What Would Sanders Have Done With Trump? (Besides Won)

Sanders certainly would have been quite adept at mitigating some of that Trump pandering to the (formerly steady middle-class) white people who felt betrayed by generations of the conservative political establishment in both parties as their wages fell and their healthcare costs exploded and their good jobs disappeared and their lives became harder and their futures became less secure and their dignity evaporated.  There's no denying that Sanders understood how to address those people--Sanders was all over that shit in the primaries and bludgeoned Hillary with it.  Sanders surely would have done better against Trump than Clinton wound up doing.  (More than a few) people both inside and outside the Democratic Party understood that...

In The End, This Is The Culmination Of The Greatest Malpractice By A Politcal Party In American History

And yes, I know about the Civil War.

But the fucking Dems chose Clinton in 2008 and confirmed her in 2012, trusting in the Democratic Party coalition and the Electoral College to get her over the line.  But they couldn't get it done--couldn't get it done after soundly rejecting a surprise candidate who exposed the Clinton mistake as it was being finalized.  They lost to a sexual-molesting serial liar, completely fucking stupid sociopath, and incompetent petty fascist demagogue that has failed in every single thing he's done except for a crappy tee vee show and an unhinged campaign for POTUS.  That's way fucking worse than the Civil War, which couldn't be stopped--the US was beyond strictly political solutions by the time the fighting started--and in the end should not have been fought at all--Lincoln should have let those Confederate assholes go.  We wouldn't be having this problem tonight, that's for sure.

The Dems had been the rock-ribbed conservative party for generations, allowing labor to wither, failing to advance the agenda of the majority on healthcare and jobs and taxes, the white majority, and now we are all fucked.  The poor, bugfuck ignorant, racist white people had been ignored long enough by the Dems and had their racism pandered to by lying conservatives ginning up those racist tendencies hard enough and long enough that they finally decided to go all in with the Klan and the neo-Nazi fuckers because they were wicked fucking sure they had nothing left to lose and a screamy orange clown kissing their asses.  Exceptional!

Think About Being Black Or Latino Or Muslim Or A Woman Or Gay Or An Immigrant Or Sane In A Red State For The Next Four Years

Those people are fucked.  They are going to have to try to live for the next four years with an engorged army of Bill Mitchells shitting all over them constantly.  Sucks for them.

Racist White Trash Rule America, Still

The stupid white people will fuck up everything every time, and they will always fight to the death against their own best interests.  Those stupid fucks in the red states are going to be the ones suffering as bad as anyone going forward.  Exceptional!

Give Trump Credit, He Destroyed Two Political Parties

So now what was the Republican Party is the home of the victorious sociopaths and American Nazis and anti-vaxxers and lunatic christians.  The Democratic Party has failed in the most ostentatious manner possible because they couldn't defeat a racist vulgarian/petty fascist.  When will Trump University be the highest-rated college in America?

Russ Feingold, You Suck

Another genius choice for the Dems.  The entire Senate fuck-up by the Dems will be a disaster for this country.  Brilliant.

Holy Christ, Have The Fucking Dems Fucked America For The Final Time?

This was a race that the Dems could not lose, even with Hillary Fucking Clinton running given the Electoral College map and likely Democratic states, and yet, Trump has won the presidency with a coalition of Nazis, other flavors of racists, flat-Earth lunatics like Alex Jones, and insane fundies.  This is the sort of shit that the US cannot survive.  What's going to happen, next, well, it's not going to be good.  Clinton would have been bad, but this is going to be worse.  This is way worse than the Red Sox or the Cubs winning the World Series.  This is even worse than George W. "Retardboy" Bush, and now the world can see how diseased America really is.  Everyone needs to accept that this country is just that little bit nastier and stupider and uglier than any good person wanted to believe.  That luxury of denial is over now.  This is a nation that in the last 40 years has elected Reagan and Trump and allowed Retardboy into office.  The truth about America is now clear if it wasn't before.

The only question left is whether Trump will ever actually assume the office. 

And Fuck You Chuck Schumer

Bayh was a terrible choice.  Murphy in Florida a terrible choice.  Fucking Ted Strickland.  These were seats the Dems should have won, or at least competed hard to win, and they didn't even try, mostly because Schumer is a such a reactionary shithead.  Thanks, Chuckles.  Dickhead.

Fuck You Evan Bayh

Gratifying to see that disgusting piece of shit sent packing.  Having the Senate would not really have been worth putting that asswipe back in office.

Jesus Charlie Crist

That fucking guy is vampire.  And now he's in as a Dem.  Jesus.

Thank The Gods For A Candidate Like Jill Stein

I didn't have to vote for that neoliberal monster Hillary Clinton, but I still get to revel in the glory of watching Trump's cucks and the Republican Party being roasted alive in real time.  That's a beautiful fucking thing.

Drew Mistak: An Exceptional American Cuck, Weak, Impotent Beta, And Pathetic Loser Trump Supporter

This worthless cuck is a sick, sad beta loser, and the classic impotent, effeminate Trump voter, with a weak mind and even weaker body, bleating sadly for their king cuck Trump.  Tonight we gather to laugh at sad masturbator Drew Mistak in his moment of ultimate shame thanks to the risible loser Donald Trump.  America!  Fuck yeah!

Julian Assange Has All The Proper Enemies

Because all the establishment Dems and media piss-guzzlers hate Assange so fucking much, anyone with a working nervous system should make sure they are supporting Wikileaks 100%.  Clinton and the rock-ribbed conservative neoliberal Democratic Party establishment is the enemy here, not Assange.  Right now the lunatic tinfoil hat wearing assholes in the neo-Nazi wing of the Republican Party love Assange, but they won't stick with him when he starts holding them up to the same treatment.  Fuck 'em.  Free Julian Assange.

Studio's Empty But The Tape Rolls On

Bill Mitchell, The Cuck's Cuck, Is Having A Full-On Ocean-Going Psychotic Break

Heh, indeedy.  Clinton might be a fucking nightmare, but watching these Trump cucks eat all this shit is fucking really fucking fun.

Empty-Headed Overprivileged Upper-Class Twits Shouldn't Vote

Just sayin'.  No excuse for those assholes being so utterly useless.

Lew Rockwell: An Old-School Moron And Racist Asshole From Way Back

Lew Rockwell has been slumming around the fringes with Randian libertarian horseshit for years, but he's been marginalized by the younger, more energetic racist idiots and ignorant fuckheads out there in exceptional America.  Rockwell doesn't have the passion to rant and rave like some of the nastiest clowns out there.  He's a half-dead cuck, clearly.  Sad.

Joyful Fisking Of Pathetic And Insane Christian Fundamentalist Teabaggers

Fundies are the grossest people on the planet, and christian exceptional American fundies are the worst ever.  Savaging these stupid fuckers is the best fun a sane, decent American can ever have.

NY Never Had Any Time For Trump's Bullshit

New York always treated Trump like the weakest little impotent cuck, and today they booed him and treated him like the pussy he is.  Fun stuff.

Bill Belichick Is A Fucking Piece Of Shit

What a vile cocksucker.  After being involved with athletics for his entire fucking life, Belichick has to be the most miserable motherfucker on Earth to support a tawdry racist and petty fascist twit like Donald Trump.  How stupid and ugly is Bill Belichick to be a racist piece of shit after all this time.  White people suck, and Bill Belichick eats shit.  Fuck him.

C Lite

Glorious Fisking Of Vox And Everybody's Favorite Clueless Fuckheads Ezra Klein And Matty Yglesias

Gods damn, that was fucking wicked.  Finally, Vox is being savaged on all sides now by people who are just a tiny bit sick of brainless sanctimony ladled out by the demented princelings of the establishment media village.  If the Clinton campaign has done nothing else of value, it brought out the righteous haters on the left to gleefully piss all over the Dems and their enablers. 

Art Laffer: Exceptionally Fatuous All-American Fucktard

Never has anyone ever been so wrong about so many things as Art Laffer has.  I'm shocked he took zombie Reagan's decaying cock out of his mouth long enough to be wrong yet again.  Laffer is a fucking walking joke, and much like a drunken sidewalk preacher, now that he's about to proven wrong this time, he says he'll be right next time.  Fuck him. 

Fun With Voting

This is not unexpected.  They're pretty much lining up with their peers, and that's okay.  Trump's fucked, tho.

If Donald Trump Is The King Of The Cucks, Then Bill Mitchell Is The Queen

It's going to be a shitload of fun watching these cucks suffer when they are so comically failed by their king Trump.  Bill Mitchell deserves to be right there beside Trump on the throne of shame as the nation gathers to point and laugh and throw rotting produce.

Darkhorse Candidate For Biggest Fucking Exceptional Teabagging Dipshit In America

This asswipe.  I'm voting for suicide.  If only jesus was real.  If Trump is a weak and effeminate beta, what does that make this StatesPoll idiot?

Wag Less, Bark More

Michael Nothem: Exceptional American Asshole

And dumb as a fucking box of rocks.  I am looking forward the day after for these loathsome idiots.

The Twits Who Love Lance Are The Silly Twits Of Them All

It's a sick, sad world out there--and I'd imagine most of these Lance Armstrong fluffers also love them some Donald Trump and Alex Jones and hates them some cunts like Hillary and Mexicans and vaccines and shit.  They're fucking nasty.  And Lance will always be a coward--the ultimate beta up there with Trump himself--too fucking small and weak to admit what he was doing because he loved getting his ass kissed and pretending he was some kinda hero.  Fuck him.

The Struggle Against President Clinton Starts Tomorrow

Not just Social Security and Syria.  Clinton will do her best to be a rock-ribbed, hard-right conservative/neoliberal dimwit on labor and financial issues, on energy policy and corporate governance, on trade and environmental policies, and on law enforcement and civil rights.  She's never hidden what she is, and anyone who believes she is some sort of leftist is either amazingly fucking ignorant or completely brainless.  Trump's dead, and for the left in the US, the fight to stop Clinton starts on 8 November, just as we knew from the beginning.

Gary Johnson: The Joke We Didn't Need

Before the highly entertaining Trump unravelling, America might have needed a life-saving comedy boost form insane hard-right asswipe/embarrassing stoned old guy Gary Johnson.  But we didn't.  Trump fractured into a billion little twitching, greasy bits of hateful whackjob, providing all the comedy relief the land of Hillary Clinton could hope for.  Gary Johnson was left to toil in the background, another nasty, rock-ribbed authoritarian pretending they aren't just another astoundingly unpopular Republican.  Hella shitty Gary Johnson sucks, but nobody gives a fuck.

The Princeton Election Guy Explains Himself

Again.  Not that it will help since most people won't even try to understand it because it makes the story boring.  Tee vee jerk-offs and vile interwebs shitheads like Josh Marshall and Nate Silver are way more into a bullshit narrative and a fictional horserace story than they are into clarity or truth or math.  But, it's good that he keeps trying to jam some reality into the empty heads up and down the village idiot establishment media food chain.  Sam Wang seems like a decent guy, and this shit is good.  Nice things.  We need nice things.

The Strange

'Hips And Makers' Plus 20

An invested fan.  Not my favorite album, though.  Not as likely for me in 2016 as Workbook--maybe I have a Jane Scarpantoni limit, and I do prefer loud and messy to jangly acoustic introspection.  But Kristin, not Kirsten, Hersh, not Hersch, has created a wonderful body of work during her long career, and this album was a milestone, probably the artifact which did the most to enable her subsequent two decades of music.  So that's good.

Trump Versus The International Bankers: Saving America

President-for-Life Trump is the only one who can save America from the international bankers.  International bankers are parasites, bleeding America dry, draining the vigor from the true American nation, and enslaving the exceptional American workers.  Trump knows.  Trump will stop those greedy, pernicious international bankers.

Josh Marshall: Defining Insipid Banality For The Digital Age

Thanks Josh.  Some keen fucking insight there.  Great job. 

Julian Assange, Great American, Uh, Swede

Whoever is in charge of pardons in Sweden needs to just pardon that crazy fucker Assange so he can go home already.  We've all had our fun, and Assange has done us all a favor by completely fucking with the American political establishment so brazenly.  The nonsense headlines mostly didn't tell the story, but we've all learned enough to appreciate that Assange deserves to be free to go about his business.  And business is good.

Donald Trump: The King Of The Cucks, The Ultimate Beta

A sad, old weakling, being cucked by Grandma Hillary.  Trump's a risible failure in everything, and this presidential abortion is just his latest disaster.  Donald Trump will go down as the king of the cucks, the smallest of betas, getting totally pwned by Hillary Clinton.  Wicked yuge loser.

Political Song for HPD Sam Wang to Sing

The Finest Macedonian News Source

You and Alex Jones get all your American political news from the experts in Macedonia.  Exceptional!

What Kinda Nasty, Twisted Pervert Thinks JJ Abrams' Star Trek Was Great?

This is fucking sicker than Alex Jones and Donald Trump jerking off watching tapes of monkeys fucking!  Disgusting!  That first Abrams ST flick sucked major dirty ass.

There's Nothing More Sick, Sad, And Hillarious In America Than A Conservative Talking About Health Care

Stupid-ass motherfucking conservatives shitbirds have nothing to offer.  And Austin Bay is the dimmest of the dim bulbs.  It's funny.  Health care is serious business, but reactionary dimwits are fucking useless.

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The Vigorous Repudiation Of Trump Was Lost Long Before October 2016

Clinton was never capable of leading an overwhelming rejection of Trump.  Clinton is too flawed.  She's an awful candidate and a worse human being.  Clinton will be the POTUS, but she is not strong or decent enough to stand strongly against the lowest scum Trump supporters in America.  A decisive rejection would have been wonderful for the nation, but Hillary has always been the reason this would not happen.

Everybody Is Having Fun Kicking Nate Silver When He's Down

Jesus, even the goofy gossip kids are getting in on the game.  Silver was lauded one time as some sort of smart guy, and then spent every subsequent day working overtime to show everyone just how fucking dumb that was.  Now he's left with nothing but counting his money because the entire world sees how fucking clueless and shallow he really is.

It Was Always Hillary--She Got The Nomination The Day Obama Was First Elected

And became the President in Waiting on the day of his second election victory.  The Dems had made their decision, and knowing how the electoral college worked, understood Hillary would be the favorite no matter what.  That's the reality.  Sanders was as good, better, better than anyone would have predicted, and while Hillary had a hard time defeating him, the Democratic Party structure made sure she could not lose the nomination.  That's the truth, a sad, awful truth, but the USA has been living with the threat of President Hillary Clinton for eight fucking years, and we are about to get pounded by the shitstorm.

In The End, The Racist Republican Assholes Are More Comically Pathetic And Stupid Than They Are Dangerous

Sad little white men bleating weakly for Trump are the ultimate cucks.  They're sad and stupid, impotent and insane, not even betas or gammas, but deltas at best, and they will all be dead soon enough.  America's not making these sick sad reactionary cocksuckers fast enough anymore to sustain their population.  They'll die out and we'll be left with a population not quite as nasty and creepy as before.  That's something.

Hillary's Satanic Network Is The Bestest Thing About Her

We need more Satan to combat the wingnut stupidity of Alex Jones and his friends.  Hillary's personal relationship with Satan is the only hope we have left for our exceptional America!

Sam Wang On Your Tee Vee

Larry O'Donnell is a fucking idiot.  Herr Professor Doktor does his best to bring a little sanity, and Larry does his best to play the fool.  Krystal Ball and especially life-long Republican Josh Barro also do their best to bring the stupid back to MSNBC--Barro is a master at licking Nate Silver's fetid soiled taint.  Exceptional!

Clara Bow

Because Of Clinton The Dems Are Getting Dumber Before Our Eyes

Shouldn't these people know better? Shouldn't Heather Parton know better?  We'll give Yglesias a pass cuz he's been an obvious fatuous dipshit from day one, a nasty, clueless rich kid who couldn't be bothered to yank his head out of his own ass for five seconds.  But jesus fuck, the Dems are just getting stupid.  All this Clinton worship is melting their brains.  It's fucking disgusting.  Gonna be an ugly time watching these pissboys and pissgirls guzzling the poisonous rancid piss for the next four years.  Fools like Digby are are way more trusting of Clinton than history and common sense should allow.  That's fucking really bad for everyone because these people should know better, and Clinton will need to be held to a higher standards than these entry-level media stooges will be able maintain. 

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