Good evening, and welcome to tonight's closed-door edition of Top Comments. I've been nominated to write tonight's Edition, so please follow me through the ornate orange doors after a word from our sponsor...
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::steps up to TC platform::
After reflection, I have decided that I am not the writer you need tonight. We're community diarists, and I have always put this diary series and dailykos ahead of myself. I hereby step aside for tonight and leave you with an Open Thread until a new diarist is selected for tomorrow evening. I have it on good authority Steven Payne is a leading candidate for the position.
And now on to why you REALLY come here: the Top Comments, Mojo and Pictures that drive this community diary series.
Brillig's ObDisclaimer: The decision to publish each nomination lies with the evening's Diarist and/or Comment Formatter. My evenings at the helm, I try reeeeallllyy hard to publish everything without regard to content. I really do, even when I disagree personally with any given nomination. "TopCommentness" lies in the eyes of the nominator and of you, the reader - I leave the decision to you. I do not publish self-nominations (ie your own comments) and if I ruled the world, we'd all build community, supporting and uplifting instead of tearing our fellow Kossacks down.
From Jon Sitzman:
Why we need reasoned discourse, light not heat, signal not noise. In a paragraph and with a bow on, from KJB Oregon.
From CwV:
Good string started by collardgreens in Joan McCarter's Chaos erupts in House Republican conference as Kevin McCarthy drops out of Speaker race
From CWinebrinner:
There's bound to be several from here but here's my contribution to tonight's TC list! From nailbender in David Nir's The best Twitter reactions (so far!) to Kevin McCarthy dropping out of the House speaker's race.
From bluezen:
i'd like to nominate this comment by Bgrngod from David Nir's The best Twitter reactions (so far!) to Kevin McCarthy dropping out of the House speaker's race
From IndieGuy:
This comment from user Azazello in Russia's inadvertent bombing of Iran is just too good to pass up.
From Wee Mama:
This thread begun by se portland shows that Grammerly is right about the competence of Democrats and trolls - and how much fun kogs can get out of that!
Top Mojo for yesterday, October 7th, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you
mik for the mojo magic! For those of you interested in How Top Mojo Works, please see his diary
FAQing Top Mojo.
1) Shocking and sobering by fcvaguy +230
2) If you insist on having the by Pirogue +214
3) Sometimes taking a risk is the only right thing by One Pissed Off Liberal +164
4) It'd be nice to have Clinton on board now by Dallasdoc +151
5) this is very good news by mightymouse +143
6) Doing the right thing in this country by ChemBob +141
7) Clearly her supporters will believe her by Dallasdoc +129
8) If only ANOTHER good guy with a gun by Fordmandalay +124
9) Marissa Alexander, by Joffan +121
10) the updated version, which I saw a couple days ago by Angela Marx +120
11) the Wild West? by Angela Marx +113
12) Gunning while black was her problem. by wordene +106
12) I adore Grijalva. How sad it is that by flitedocnm +106
14) Hillary's "Pretend" Position by JekyllnHyde +104
15) "Possible" charges? by Black Max +98
16) It's nice to know what principles a by leu2500 +93
16) George Carlin: by Subterra +93
18) And big news. I expect Ellison next. by nailbender +90
19) Sitting here under-employed with a masters degree by xxdr zombiexx +88
20) What risk. Grijalva and the entire... by Meteor Blades +85
21) Damn straight. by One Pissed Off Liberal +84
22) Bernie is like Horton the elefant by foolme1ns +82
23) Wrong. Most Republicans are quite sure by ebrann +88
24) Other data points by Dallasdoc +78
24) Notice the weasel words. by leu2500 +78
26) When you're a hammer ... by AggieDemocrat +75
27) I love how Bernie's turning the conventional by One Pissed Off Liberal +72
28) Just like Bill, she'll campaign as a liberal by Puddytat +68
28) Yeah, and I'm wondering how the 1830s by middleagedhousewife +68
30) Do we still use the word Vigilante? by Caerus +67
Top Pictures for yesterday, October 7th. Click any picture to be taken to the full comment. Thank you
jotter for the image magic!