The real story is no longer even remotely that this deranged, colossally ignorant, mendacious, and malicious man has somehow become the nominee of a major party. The Republican Party is nothing but a racist con job and money-laundering operation anyhow, it has been running on fumes for a generation. So yeah, whatever.…

Well, it’s sure all of a piece, around the world from Europe to the antipodes, and right here at home as well. Poland, Hungary (and God help them, because they’re descending into outright fascism), Germany, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and, of course, the good old US of A.

I would not be able to eat food prepared in that kitchen. The one photo made me actually, I don’t know, seasick or something. That is the worst kitchen I have ever seen.

God, I remember this. I loved this story. Everybody did. I’d forgotten all about it, including the part about Prince Frederick von Anhalt. That he existed at all was completely weird. These were the kinds of characters Christopher Hitchens was talking about when he referred once upon a time to the “international…

Yes. This guy would be nothing but a trust fund brat with a crappy reality TV show, some foundering real estate holdings, and a lot of Russian “financial partners,” if it were not for Republican voters. He is a fascistic old creep, but they are a friggin’ lynch mob. If they were capable of a sense of shame, they would…

This is the Fox business model for gender. They’ve created a sort of Stepford Wives fantasy world in which the women are young, wasp-waisted, with huge boobs and big hair and skin that has been Botoxed and Restylaned into a kind of cream-like plastic without detail or features.

They can be shut down a lot fucking faster than you would imagine. These people are being exposed.

True that. Sigh.

I am told that this is the very kind of thing Trump’s supporters admire most about him--this, and his implicit approval of racial violence, the vicious negging of women, not to mention torture, nuclear bombs, political assassination, etc. They like the fact that the man is a rip-off artist, a thug, and a brute. They…

I struggle with this. I think it’s simply the case that a lot of women are shaped by the ethos of the larger culture, and that ethos is profoundly anti-woman. I also think it’s why women who are Republican or conservative-identified (a fairly significant majority of older, married white women) are so deeply resentful…

Poe’s Law abounds.

He has a reputation for being both vindictive and mobbed-up, a combination that tends to produce an easy affinity for extortion and crudity, a foolish level of fearlessness, and a quite remarkable lack of introspection.

All of them, Katie.

“The Clintons”? Oh, don’t do this. “The Clintons” are not running for president, any more than Donald Trump posed nude recumbent on a fur rug for a skeevy men’s magazine.

Thank you.

I don’t think the Republicans would actually have a problem with that, ergo, Mike Pence.

It’s right up there with “stop resisting!” which is something they sometimes scream at someone who is resisting, but a lot of times at someone who is already down on the ground, pinioned, immobilized, and thoroughly terrified. They scream it as they beat him bloody.

Just give in. You’re going to want to be really, really drunk well before the post-debate “analysis.”

I’m prepared for “Trump won by losing! Great night for Trump! He looked taller and more male than Hillary! He may not know his ass from a hole in a doughnut, and his answers tonight certainly proved it, but Hillary just looked like she knew way too much about the issues. America doesn’t like a know-it-all. Nobody…

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