Joe Biden might want to stop pining over his friendships with Republican Senators and touting the Heritage Foundation healthcare plan if he doesn’t want to be called “Republican-lite” then. Reaching out for some mythical moderates who are willing to support fascist Republicans but miiiiiggghhhttt vote for a moderate…

1: “The more personal and petty the politics are the harder it is going to be to emerge from the party convention with a unified base, no matter what all the vanquished candidates say about supporting the winner.”

If the purpose of this primary is to select a nominee that we’re all going to get behind, then Diet Republican Joe Biden and his “How’re you going to pay for it?” whining aren’t really needed at this stage.

I’m curious how “we need a candidate who can stand up and beat Trump” squares with “oh, you can’t say anything mean about him!” Trump will also be calling Biden “Sleepy Joe” or “Forgetful Joe” or whatever, the only difference is that Trump won’t be clever enough or remember enough to catch when Biden immediately…

Tucker Carlson has been passing this talking point for a while now, that any sort of gun ban would be a defacto declaration of war against whoever watches his show. I guess the “Thin Blue Line COPS ARE HEROES!!!” crowd feels differently about shooting federal agents...

Honestly?  He sounds like someone who looks up to and tries to emulate George W Bush.  He’s a stupider George W Bush.  

I only come here for the comments, and those never seem to work in the live blogs anyway...

What an uplifting and inspiring scene where, uh, some people argued over whether or not a lady was dead yet.

Well, shit or like, the inmate who tattles on everyone.  They aren’t very self-aware.

Yeah, this was something that I sort of planned to try out and then ignore, so hearing it’s sort of boring seems okay. At worst it seems like a mini game to grind for heart pieces and collectibles, which would not be the first time Link’s Awakening has given me that experience. 

That makes sense; every article from Labor Day weekend was overrun with trolls. Away from home with a long weekend seems like the sort of thing that would cause a friendless wingnut child to lash out online. 

Yeah, the trolling gets real thick here around elections, but this seems like a lot for this early in the primary. 

I fully expect that, following the round-up of however many homeless people are swept up in their dragnet, the warehouse they’re sending these people to will send out 10 million absentee ballots voting for Trump on Election Day.

I rad some speculation that “he manages a hedge fund” is one of those valid reasons for rich people to send him money without anyone raising much concern. Like, if you presented a wealthy guy with a child to rape and now you have photos that would send him to jail, explain that you manage a hedge fund and he’ll send…

You hear about how Trump was raised in his bedroom by a nanny, and when I hear Barrrron speaking with his mother’s accent I have some doubts about all the “Maybe Barrron will turn out okay” wishfull thinking.

Poor Barrrron, he probably spent all day worrying he’d have to start doing the Ivanka stuff with Mom’s friend.

“She wears a hat I don’t like.”

I remember a blog (A Tiny Revolution by Bob Harris) I used to visit in the early ‘00s, and the author told a story about a taxi ride in London where he saw a statue that the cabbie didn’t recognize. This is unusual, because London taxicab drivers are pretty exhaustively tested on Knowledge of the city and its byways…

You’ve got fingers, you can point at whatever you want, right?

Yeah, I’m not sure I buy “every fan base has some bad people” as a defense.    It’s not like anybody is shouting about how great Tom Brady is after they shoot up a church.