And what is it with this Beyonce and Jay Z, amirite? This hip-hop stuff. I don’t get it:
In his defense, this is kind of how I feel about speedwalking. I mean, are they walking? Are they running? What’s going on with it?
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And what is it with this Beyonce and Jay Z, amirite? This hip-hop stuff. I don’t get it:
In his defense, this is kind of how I feel about speedwalking. I mean, are they walking? Are they running? What’s going on with it?
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Obama appears in a video for the Democrat running against 1 of his most frequent critics, @DarrellIssa https://t.co/FMt0PdSsle #CA49
— Kimberly Railey (@KimberlyRailey) November 2, 2016
I don’t know if this will help Doug Applegate win, but at least it will greatly perturb Darrell Issa… San Diegans?
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Shut up, crazy lady.
Breitbart and Stein.
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This is kind of hilarious. I followed Corey Robin on FB because I like to see what other people think (a good thing), and sometimes I politely commented. I just got unfriended after this exchange:
That’s just sad and funny on so many levels. And I didn’t change my initial remarks- I initially assumed he was smart enough to go from point a to point b. He wasn’t, so I extended them.
I’ve seen this over and over again with these guys. Zaid Jilani, Freddie de Boer, that Bruenig fellow.
Sad!
In all honesty, what did I say or do that was so offensive here?
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(h/t commentor Hovercraft)
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Suspect there will be some fireworks at this rally…
Meanwhile: What’s on the agenda for the evening?
LeBron James, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, JayZ all campaigning for Hillary. Not just star power — it's an appeal to men.
— Beth Fouhy (@bfouhy) November 6, 2016
Somewhere in the back of the crowd when Springsteen takes the stage with Clinton tomorrow night. pic.twitter.com/W0oRWIhCVv
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) November 7, 2016
by DougJ| 251 Comments
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What I like best about politics is the abject idiocy of commentators. I think modern civilization is so smug, so proud of its liberal democracies and its scientific method. People think we’re smarter and better than our illiterate cave people ancestors, but we’re not, and the best proof of this is the writing of Peggy Noonan. Will this column the day before the 2012 election ever be surpassed?
Who knows what to make of the weighting of the polls and the assumptions as to who will vote? Who knows the depth and breadth of each party’s turnout efforts? Among the wisest words spoken this cycle were by John Dickerson of CBS News and Slate, who said, in a conversation the night before the last presidential debate, that he thought maybe the American people were quietly cooking something up, something we don’t know about.
I think they are and I think it’s this: a Romney win.
[…]All the vibrations are right…
[…]One of the Romney campaign’s surrogates, who appeared at a rally with him the other night, spoke of the intensity and joy of the crowd “I worked the rope line, people wouldn’t let go of my hand.” It startled him.
[…]But he (Obama) is still trying to fire up the base when he ought to be wooing the center and speaking their calm centrist talk. His crowds haven’t been big.
Will we ever see political punditry this bad again, now that we live in a Sam Wang/Nate Silver world? You can talk about H. A. Goodman but he writes for HuffPost so that’s like talking about Herschel Walker’s USFL records. Peggy Noonan is famous and has been talked up for a Pulitzer. You might say that in terms of pure volume, Megan McArdle produces more words of stupidity than Noonan, but she’s working in a medium that allows longer articles. It’s like comparing Sadaharu Oh to Babe Ruth.
Is there anyone out there who’s going to challenge Noona’s record? I can see Frank Bruni making a run at it, but he seems like the clean-and-sober type. Theres no way that Noonan could have done what she did without performance-enhancers like vodka.
by Betty Cracker| 169 Comments
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Anyone having a watch party tomorrow? We are – a small, mostly family one. My sister, my daughter and a couple of my daughter’s friends are coming by for a chili dinner and to view Election Night coverage.
For the over-21s, a variety of libations will be available, but the champagne will remain on ice until the race is called, at which point we will break out the bubbly to toast the first woman president-elect or drown our sorrows and form a resistance cell. We’re prepared for it to go late but hoping it’s not so late that the champagne must be incorporated into brunch mimosas. But like the Girl Scout I once was, I am prepared, if so.
There’s no dress code at our party, but Suffragette white is suggested, despite the hazards associated with chili consumption. You?