Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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  1. 1.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The Donald knows the value of keeping his name in the news.

    So he’ll go past 11 to 12, if he must, to keep his name out there.

    It’s his bread and butter. Or caviar and vodka, I guess.

  2. 2.

    Lolis

    This is why I love the right wing talking point that President Obama is thin-skinned. They have the most insecure, petty, and sensitive people on their team. Trump trumps them all. I love that he dissed Bill Cosby, too. That will go over well.

  3. 3.

    Amanda in the South Bay

    Umm granted I’m reading this on a small iPhone screen, but this post seems like one of those arcane/meta posts that like 4 people get and that’s not intuitively obvious.

  4. 4.

    slag

    and a debossed “DONALD J. TRUMP” note card of surprisingly thin paper stock.

    Ha! A metaphor for our times.

  6. 6.

    Failure, Inc.

    I love that he dissed Bill Cosby, too. That will go over well.

    Implying that Cosby is an incoherent, hypocritical racist will reap the whirlwind for The Hairpiece.

    Jesus, Cosby reminds everyone of their dad. He reminds me of my dad – who is not black, but it doesn’t matter, Cosby reminds me of him every damn time I see the guy. I don’t know what Trump is trying to do here, but it is not going to end well for him.

  7. 7.

    Yutsano

    There is something vaguely psychopathic about marking up an article like that then sending it back to the publisher. Of course Vanity Fair fell for releasing it rather than making it an office inside joke.

  9. 9.

    Sentient Puddle

    I was going to highlight the “And who is Ben Smith?” part, but I see you already made it a tag.

  10. 10.

    Joe Beese

    The talk of Spy magazine is a reminder that – as hard as it may be for the young ‘uns to believe this – there was once a time when it required a bit of courage to publicly ridicule Donald Trump.

    Nice to see that, despite the many years that have passed since then, he’s still vulgar and still short-fingered.

  12. 12.

    Keith G

    Can we just stop with Trump? All he is doing, besides self promoting is making the other GOP candidates look less insane and more dignified.

  13. 13.

    Jay in Oregon

    They have the most insecure, petty, and sensitive people on their team.

    For God’s sake, Sarah Palin had a long-running public feud with the father of Bristol’s child! If watching wits with a 19-year-old is taxing her, maybe she shouldn’t be the one answering the red phone in the WH at 3 a.m…

  16. 16.

    Violet

    @Lolis:

    I love that he dissed Bill Cosby, too. That will go over well.

    The Today Show made more hay with the incident this morning. Donald responded to Cosby, but Cosby didn’t return their calls.

    Bill Cosby is a smart, educated black man. Cosby’s just a stand-in for the real target.

  17. 17.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Lolis:

    So much of the wingtard bloviation is pure projection. See the obsession with Obama and teleprompters, for example.

  18. 18.

    Poopyman

    @Keith G:

    Can we just stop with Trump? All he is doing, besides self promoting is making the other GOP candidates look less insane and more dignified.

    Yeah! Now, Andrew Sullivan ….

  21. 21.

    Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill

    @Violet:

    Donald responded to Cosby, but Cosby didn’t return their calls.

    I don’t always agree with Cos, but good on him for not screwing with this. Which part of “I don’t want to talk about Trump” did they not get The First Time?

    It’s almost like they are trumping up a fight between them for story’s stake, or something.

  22. 22.

    Waldo

    Alex Pareene says the Trump-for-prez thing has moved beyond the Donald’s usual “look at me” antics to something truly pathetic: the sad clown phase.

    Can’t argue with that.

  23. 23.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    Sorry, OT: Steam has Bioshock 2 for $4.99 today. 2K games are on sale this week. I got Mafia 2 for $10 yesterday. I’m hoping Civ V is on sale tomorrow or Thursday.

  24. 24.

    Jamey: Bike Commuter of the Gods

    Donald and Graydon’s 25-year-old contretemps: Separated at Birther?

  26. 26.

    Davis X. Machina

    @Failure, Inc.:

    Jesus, Cosby reminds everyone of their dad

    Bill Cosby goes around my house turning lights off in rooms that nobody is in. I know why he does it, but it’s still creepy.

  27. 27.

    dmsilev

    Can’t wait until Palin and Trump start airing negative ads about each other. The whining and escalated responses and responses to the responses will quickly test our experimental ability to resolve the Wingularity.

    dms

  28. 28.

    sukabi

    there aren’t clown shoes big enough for the Donald, every pair the previous clown brings out Trump goes and proves he can fill AND THEN SOME…

  29. 29.

    sukabi

    I’m looking forward to the Trump / Huckabee ticket…

    The Combover and The Christian

    …I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

  30. 30.

    Hart Williams

    You know, I’ve noticed that the Capi Attention Whore De Tutti Attention Whores is actually a bit thin-skinned. His nasty letter to the New York Times last week gives away his Achilles heel.

    He doesn’t like certain buttons to be pushed, which he magnanimously lists for us.

    It would be the height of rudeness to ceaselessly and mercilessly mock those sore points in the elephantine ego of the lying sack of shit, uncivil in the extreme.

    Which I am completely positive that nobody will want to take advantage of. Because, you know, it would just be wrong.

    A hell of a lot of fun nuking the pants-load, but wrong nonetheless.

  33. 33.

    Amir_Khalid

    So where will Donald Trump stop next, on the My Violent Torpedo of Candidacy tour?

  36. 36.

    DonkeyKong

    Maybe Donald is behaving this way because he hasnt had his anal gland expressed.

    Gross, but that’s my theory.

  37. 37.

    Studly Pantload, Vibrant Trollbot for Obama

    @Zifnab:

    Interestingly enough, per Rotten Tomatoes, The Hollywood Reporter’s and Variety’s critics got hold of it before its release, and then only one other critic. None of these critics were exactly overwhelmed (surprise!).

    Can’t wait till Ebert gets a hold of this – provided he deigns it even worth his time.

  38. 38.

    Kilkee

    I became utterly convinced that The Donald’s candidacy is a joke when he declared to Meredith Viera that he was SO looking forward to the point in June when he would need to release his personal financial records in order to run.

    If there is one thing about Trump I’m sure of, it’s that (a) he has nowhere near as much money as he’d like people to believe, and (b) he feels deeply that this is as emasculating to him as his shortfingeredness, and all that THAT implies. (Ok, two things.) So no, there’s no way on earth that Trump ever lets this stunt go so far as to require him to show he’s just a rich blowhard, not a SUPER-rich blowhard. May I point out, Donald, that if you wanted to you could release that information now, before it’s required. What’s that? Oh, yes, I thought so.

  39. 39.

    EJ

    I LOL’d when they said his card was printed on “surprisingly thin paper stock.”

    I was hoping they’d work in a reference to Huey Lewis and the News but that would have been a bit of a stretch.

  41. 41.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @DonkeyKong:

    Maybe Donald is behaving this way because he hasn’t had his anal gland expressed.

    For the right person, it should be quite simple to snap a photo of him in his “special place”(you know, the place where he told the Christian Broadcasting reporter he keeps all his Bibles) licking his butt and dragging himself across the carpet with his arms, sitting upright.

    That might sink the whole campaign, once and for all. It would be totally worth sleeping in the janitor’s closet at Trump Plaza for a few days, doncha think?

  43. 43.

    Dusty

    @Studly Pantload, Vibrant Trollbot for Obama:

    Interestingly enough, per Rotten Tomatoes, The Hollywood Reporter’s and Variety’s critics got hold of it before its release, and then only one other critic.

    It’s probably just that most of the daily critics’ scores won’t be posted until the reviews get printed in the Friday papers.

  45. 45.

    EconWatcher

    Please, please, keep the Donald in the race, for as long as possible. This is pure gold.

  46. 46.

    Lysana

    @gelfling545:

    ust wondering how old Trump is anyway? Could he be succumbing to senility because this is just not the behavior of a normal person.

    Problem is, he’s been like this for years. His feud with Rosie O’Donnell a few years ago was just as vapid, insipid, and hypersensitive. Not saying Ro was a complete victim, but he’s always been this kind of a bullying twit. When they talk about rich white cisgender male privilege, The Donald is a walking example of its worst excesses.

  48. 48.

    Sad_Dem

    Someone who argues with magazine editors would be just perfect for the White House, dontcha think?

  51. 51.

    brucds

    re – @Linda Featheringill: Just wondering how old Trump is anyway? Could he be succumbing to senility because this is just not the behavior of a normal person.

    When was he ever?

  53. 53.

    Sly

    If Palin and Gingrich run, it will be a three-way race to see who can lock up the petty and vindictive asshole vote; a sizable constituency in any internal GOP contest.

    They could bill it as “The Thin-Skinned Trifecta.”

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