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Friday Afternoon Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  December 11, 20151:08 pm| 273 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, General Stupidity

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No real point to this thread — I was just desperate to post something that would push Ted Cruz’s smug mug below the fold. It was doing me psychological harm to look at that awful smirk, which looks like the bastard love child-expression of Joe McCarthy’s zealot’s scowl and Eddie Haskell’s simpering sycophant’s pout.

Speaking of psychological damage, I ran across this picture of Jeb! on some random site and was moved to feel real pity for the bastard because I thought he’d completed the circle of indignity and pissed himself in front of a crowd:

jeb peed

But no, it’s just the shadow of someone’s head, not a urine stain. Oh well. Metaphorical incontinence can’t be far away for Jeb.

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    The Republic of Stupity

    December 11, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    Well yeah, it is just a shadow…

    But I think I’ll stay w/ ‘Jeb pissing himself in front of an audience’ as an explanation nonetheless…

    It’s a much more satisfying explanation…

  2. 2.

    benw

    December 11, 2015 at 1:15 pm

    Maybe Jeb’s just trying to show his commitment to the latest Republican bed-wetting fear-mongering by remaining covered in urine at all times.

  3. 3.

    Ruckus

    December 11, 2015 at 1:15 pm

    Thank you for pushing that hideous replicant off the top of the page.

  4. 4.

    Ruckus

    December 11, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    @benw:
    He’s doing such a good job of pissing all over himself that no one else even has to try.

  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 11, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    The Rethugs seem to be running for “who’s picture is going to be next to the definition of Backpfeifengesicht” in Webster’s.

  6. 6.

    MattF

    December 11, 2015 at 1:17 pm

    Some interesting commentary on Marine Le Pen from Margaret Soltan, aka UD. Very unlike our home grown right-wingers.

  7. 7.

    JustRuss

    December 11, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    Heh, nice pic! I L’d a little bit OL.

  8. 8.

    Roger Moore

    December 11, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    Would it be irresponsible to speculate about ¿Jeb? pissing himself? It would be irresponsible not to speculate!

  9. 9.

    Poopyman

    December 11, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    @Ruckus: You misspelled “reptile”.

  10. 10.

    donnah

    December 11, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    Jeb$ pisses everyone else off, might as well piss himself.

  11. 11.

    Waldo

    December 11, 2015 at 1:24 pm

    Pissing himself in public may be the only way he can still generate some interest. Just needs someone to stay awake long enough to notice and, uh, leak the story.

  12. 12.

    Paul in KY

    December 11, 2015 at 1:26 pm

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, Betty!

  13. 13.

    mai naem mobile

    December 11, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    I thought the exclamation mark in Jebs logo was going to be changed to a sad face emoticon.

  14. 14.

    schrodinger's cat

    December 11, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    Betty Cracker@ top

    I have finally procured the champagne yeast, could you give me your hard cider recipe again?

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    @MattF:
    A commenter there mentioned that Marine Le Pen kicked her own dad out of the Front National, after succeeding him as party president. But I’ve read about that in their Wikipedia articles, and it looks like Jean-Marie left her no choice.

  16. 16.

    Keith P.

    December 11, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    Any fans of “Nathan For You” here? I watched the finale last night (“The Hero”) and was in tears at several points. I don’t know of a show that has had me in tears like that since maybe Ali G. The whole season was like that, too.

  17. 17.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    December 11, 2015 at 1:44 pm

    @Keith P.: My wife loves it. I think he’s an insufferable douche bag. Love Ali G, though.

  18. 18.

    Betty Cracker

    December 11, 2015 at 1:46 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: It’s originally commenter Betsy’s recipe (FSM bless her forever), and it’s the simplest thing in the world. Here’s what I do:

    1) Obtain a 1.5 liter glass container of Martinelli’s apple juice from the grocery store. (Martinelli’s is 100% apple juice with no additives; preservatives would kill off the yeast. I don’t know if you HAVE to use a glass container, but I always do.)

    2) Take off the cap and add a scant teaspoon of the yeast to the apple juice.

    3) Place the cap LOOSELY on the bottle (otherwise — kerblooey!) and store in a cool place (65-75 F) with a towel underneath to catch any overflow.

    4) Leave it a day or two, and then pour yourself a little taste occasionally to find the level of fermentation you favor.

    The sooner you refrigerate it (or drink it!) to stop fermentation, the sweeter and bubblier it will be, and the lower the ABV. If you leave it for several days, it will basically turn into apple wine — dry without many bubbles and much stronger. I personally like day 4 — still some sweetness and bubbles but with a kick.

    DISCLAIMER: I have done this many, many times exactly as described above and have never once poisoned myself. But I guess it is possible to get bacteria in your cider — the cider-making sites urge people to sanitize everything, etc., and I do follow that advice when making my own beer, but I don’t bother with this cider recipe and have never had a problem. Anyway, proceed at your own risk! And let me know how it turns out!

  19. 19.

    schrodinger's cat

    December 11, 2015 at 1:54 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I have local cider from the grocery store, will that work?

  20. 20.

    Peale

    December 11, 2015 at 1:55 pm

    Eating my share of the world’s largest Death by Chocolate trifle that my co-worker made. Not even the sight of Ted Cruz’s smiling mug can ruin my day now.

  21. 21.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 11, 2015 at 1:55 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I buy unpasteurized cider, which will do more or less the same thing on its own, just takes a little longer. But I think that’s not an option for most people who don’t live in very close proximity to a small orchard.

  22. 22.

    Shlemazel

    December 11, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    @Betty Cracker:
    I am always super careful when brewing beer but I know that beer produces an antibiotic. That’s one reason it was a healthy drink as opposed to water in the old days. I have no idea if apple cider will perform the same magic but you can’t go wrong keeping things clean.

  23. 23.

    scav

    December 11, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I’ve done the wild-yeast, unpasteurized juice thing too, watching the plastic jugs bulge as it keeps going. Apparently living dangerously on multiple fronts.

  24. 24.

    Keith P.

    December 11, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    @Old Dan and Little Anne: I can’t get over how, describing how he’s worried about potentially becoming a registered sex offender (“The Claw of Shame”), he deadpanned ‘While there’s nothing wrong with one man giving another man oral pleasure, I didn’t want to do it.”

  25. 25.

    Mike in NC

    December 11, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    I’m concerned that there aren’t enough telephone booths left in this country to host rallies for people still supporting JEB!

  26. 26.

    bystander

    December 11, 2015 at 2:03 pm

    Maybe Jebula is advertising for a watersports pal. Yes, I had to go there.

    And thanks, Betty, for pushing Ted’s face out of sight. Although that pic of him says it all.

  27. 27.

    shell

    December 11, 2015 at 2:03 pm

    I just entered a longish post and its completely disappeared. More site update shenanigans?

    Re: the hard cider. Yes, champagne yeast is essential. One time , for the heck of it, I sprinkled a little Fleischmans bread yeast into some left over cider. It actually did ferment, but it tasted like stale bread soaked in apple juice. Yeee-uk.

  28. 28.

    Betty Cracker

    December 11, 2015 at 2:05 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: I think it depends on whether or not they put preservatives in it. I bought some wonderful, freshly pressed cider on my trip to NC a couple of months ago, tried to make hard cider out of it, and it didn’t turn out well at all. Don’t know why.

  29. 29.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    @Ruckus:

    Thank you for pushing that hideous replicant off the top of the page.

    Yeah, I can’t stand to look at him, either. But a question in my mind is: why is that? What about his appearance is so repellent? Is it that he’s trying to look like a little pixy, with that “ain’t I the cu-u-u-test thing?” grin?

    OK, so that’s actually three questions, but I’m being serious about this. I mean, the cutesy grin contrasted with his evil psycho personality may be part of it, but I’ll be (more) bothered until I can figure out why.

  30. 30.

    Betty Cracker

    December 11, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    @shell: Glad you said that as I’ve been tempted to do that a time or two when I was out of champagne yeast. Now I know not to bother…

  31. 31.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 2:08 pm

    @SFAW: Every photo I’ve ever seen of him, he’s either simpering (see above) or he’s doing the “possessed by the spirit of Jebus” pose (beatific expression, eyes upward)

  32. 32.

    Paul in KY

    December 11, 2015 at 2:09 pm

    @Peale: My mom used to make a trifle on special occasions. She is too old now. Enjoy!

  33. 33.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    December 11, 2015 at 2:09 pm

    @Roger Moore: I was going to joke, “what if a shadow of someone’s head showed up in that spot on a photo of John Kerry in 2004?”

    But we all know what the response would have been.

  34. 34.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 2:10 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    telephone booths

    What are those? Kiosks that Apple set up in areas where they didn’t want a full-blown Apple Store? What an interesting concept.

  35. 35.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    December 11, 2015 at 2:11 pm

    @Betty Cracker: My wife loves cider. We gotta try this.

  36. 36.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 2:13 pm

    @Germy:

    Yeah, the simpering gets me, but I’m not sure if that’s the entirety of what modestly freaks me out. (Not “Terror at 20,000 Feet” freak-out, but more than it should.)

  37. 37.

    Lolis

    December 11, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    This made me laugh so hard, and I really needed it. Thanks.

  38. 38.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    Things more interesting – and more important – than a half dozen posts a day about whatever some random GOP Presidential candidate said today (I swear, the front page posters here blog more frequently about REPUBLICAN candidates than about Clinton or Sanders):

    Why are these Congressional seats uncontested?

    Bringing back a 50 State Strategy.

    Who Runs the Democratic Party?

    The Left Wing Plan to Rescue the Democratic Party

  39. 39.

    Paul in KY

    December 11, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    @SFAW: He looks like one of his parents (at least) was the witch from Hansel & Gretal.

  40. 40.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    NEW YORK CITY – Former NYS Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, have been found guilty of all corruption charges against them.

    The felony counts include bribery, extortion and conspiracy.

    Jurors determined Skelos abused his power in order to get his 33-year-old son a series of no-show jobs worth around $300,000.

    Defense argued the companies weren’t paying Adam Skelos to punch a clock. They were paying Dean Skelos to pass legislation for them.

  41. 41.

    benw

    December 11, 2015 at 2:24 pm

    Speaking of Jeb, the NYT is taking him out for a little spin today:

    Jeb Bush Is Trying Hard to Not Be the Mitt Romney of 2016

    “The similarities between the two men were, and remain, unmistakable: Tall and lean. Well-bred sons of political dynasties. Diction harking back to a more genteel era.”

    Swoon!

  42. 42.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 2:28 pm

    @benw:
    A description more suited to the hero of a Harlequin Romance than to a politician.

  43. 43.

    kg

    December 11, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    @shell:

    I’ve made plenty of cider with ale yeast and it turns out great. What I didn’t like as much is the cider made using wine yeast. I let that ferment completely and ended up with, basically, wine. Very dry and kind of sour.
    Producing sweet cider that is carbonated is a trick proposition. So far the best way I’ve heard is to let the cider ferment completely then add certain agents to stop the yeast then keg the cider along with some apple juice concentrate (or any other sweetening agent your desire) and force carbonate in the keg.
    tldr, I like fermentation

  44. 44.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, have been found guilty of all corruption charges

    Seeing photos of Dean and Adam side by side, they look nothing like each other. Dean has that square-jawed corrupt republican look, while Adam looks like a thuggish weasel. Devo?

  45. 45.

    Randy P

    December 11, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    @Germy:

    Defense argued the companies weren’t paying Adam Skelos to punch a clock. They were paying Dean Skelos to pass legislation for them.

    That’s a defense? That the payments were bribes? What’s the prosecution’s theory then?

  46. 46.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 2:31 pm

    And stuck in moderation despite using the “link” button.

    Can the mechanics add a “Bork It!” button to the comments box?

  47. 47.

    Betty Cracker

    December 11, 2015 at 2:31 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Also, edited recipe above to include temp range (65-75 F) as I realized “cool” might mean something different to you!

  48. 48.

    schrodinger's cat

    December 11, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Jeb Bush as a hero of a trashy romantic novel? Sorry doesn’t compute. His hotness approaches liquid nitrogen at best.

  49. 49.

    Booger

    December 11, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Yeah, you don’t really need to worry about poisoning yourself. Doesn’t happen.

  50. 50.

    kg

    December 11, 2015 at 2:33 pm

    Hi @BettyCracker ! Do you still contribute to that other blog along with (I think) Vixen Strangely? I can’t remember the name of the place now. Used to love the content, not sure why I stopped going there.
    I’m thrilled to hear you’re a homebrewer and love your posts!

  51. 51.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 2:34 pm

    @Randy P:
    I had the same thought. That’s no defence, it’s not even a plea in mitigation. That’s an outright confession that the companies were bribing Skelos Senior and Junior.

  52. 52.

    schrodinger's cat

    December 11, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Thanks! In winter if I have a party I just put cases of beer etc outside the house if there is no room in the refrigerator. Instant fridge!

  53. 53.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    @Betty Cracker: My wife has been using the latex glove technique. She puts a glove over the container. It puffs up like a Mickey Mouse hand. When it deflates, she knows it’s time to strain and bottle.

    She’s been using grapes and an occasional fresh pineapple.

  54. 54.

    Peale

    December 11, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    @benw: Yeah. But Romney had tons of charisma that connected with the uncommon man. Jeb can make up that deficit.

  55. 55.

    Booger

    December 11, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    @kg: Ferment to dryness, add corn sugar (@ 3/4 cup per 5 gallons) then bottle in beer bottles or champagne bottles with crown caps or plain old 2-liter soda bottles. Wait 2-3 weeks.

  56. 56.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    December 11, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    How about we rehash the Rahm Wars of 2010 so those of us on the “professional left” can take yet another victory lap for being right about everyfuckingthing.

  57. 57.

    Betty Cracker

    December 11, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    @goblue72: I fished your post out of pending. I think comments are still restricted to three links even if you use the link thingy.

  58. 58.

    NotMax

    December 11, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    @benw

    Also too, not on speaking terms with reality.

    Well on his way to not being the Mitt Romney of 2016.

    Romney won the nomination.

  59. 59.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    @Betty Cracker:
    Did you see this cartoon Ted Cruz’s campaign did, depicting him as a turn of the 20th century boxer? They drew him with an athlete’s physique — muscular arms, no tummy, and only one chin. He looked like Prince Eric from Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

  60. 60.

    Paul in KY

    December 11, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    @benw: Yeah, why would he want to be that Mitt Romney guy who WON the nomination. He’s definitely off that track.

  61. 61.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    @Germy: Kudos to Indian-American U.S.A. Preet “I Punched Reason Magazine in the Nose” Bharara for S.D.N.Y. in bringing down 2 of the “3 men in a room” in Albany’s corrupt political establishment. Between Skelos and Silver, those are two fine heads to mount on the wall.

    If only there were a chance for him to add Cuomo to the list, then my Christmas would be complete.

  62. 62.

    vheidi

    December 11, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    @Germy: Adam is adopted.

  63. 63.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Thanks. At least its not Andrew Sullivan Green.

  64. 64.

    Paul in KY

    December 11, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    @Randy P: “We should all be fired if we can’t convict these crooks”

  65. 65.

    benw

    December 11, 2015 at 2:44 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I know! I swooned!

  66. 66.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 2:44 pm

    @Randy P: Well, its New York, so the argument was probably that the bribes weren’t that effective, so somebody needs to go to jail for incompetent bribing.

  67. 67.

    Humboldtblue

    December 11, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    Our region has not suffered any of the effects of the ongoing drought that has left the rest of the state bone-dry. Primarily because we have been getting normal or close to normal levels of rain over the past five years.

    This week, however we have gotten far higher than normal rain totals as a series of winter storms has swept through the region. High surf, fast-moving rivers, hail and sleet and snow at elevations below 3,000 feet have resulted.

    That high surf can be pretty damn dramatic, however, particularly for complete and utter dumbasses who venture out onto the jetties at the mouth of Humboldt bay while 30-foot breaker slam into the rocks.

    The worst part is that the latest storm will probably ruin the most countrified, backwoods, rural-rump of the state parade in this history of parades. There is nothing more Humboldt than the annual KEKA Thunder Country Truckers parade. It’s the reason for the only time I invite more than one person at once to my place each year because the parade route runs right past my apartment.

  68. 68.

    Paul in KY

    December 11, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Guess the cartoonists wanted to get paid. If they drew a ‘lifelike’ pic, they’d be fired.

  69. 69.

    Betty Cracker

    December 11, 2015 at 2:47 pm

    @kg: Thanks! You’re thinking of Rumproast, and sadly, the crew there kinda scattered to the winds. Regarding home brewing, I’m preparing to resume beer making after my summer hiatus (too damn hot down here). I’m a newbie at it, but it is fun. Got any favorite recipes or sites?

    @Germy: My granny used to make the most godawful muscadine wine like that.

  70. 70.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 2:48 pm

    Via TPM, Bloomberg Politics report says the next Republican presidential candidates’ debate will likely see Rand Paul at the kiddie table.

  71. 71.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 2:50 pm

    @Humboldtblue: Cool! (Not the parade cancellation, but about the ocean swells video)

    The “batten down the hatches” storm we were supposed to see here in the immediate Bay Area didn’t really materialize – seems like it hit more further north? Got some much needed rain, but nothing like the torrents the weather folks were predicting.

    As long as it snows in the Sierras and gets us our snowpack back, I’m happy.

  72. 72.

    Calouste

    December 11, 2015 at 2:51 pm

    In other news today, Rand Paul likely will be relegated to the kids table for next week’s GOP debate, to be replaced by Chris Christie.

  73. 73.

    kg

    December 11, 2015 at 2:52 pm

    @Booger: Right, that gets you carbonated dry cider. Carbonated sweet cider in a bottle is a bit trickier because whatever fermentable sugar you add will get eaten up by the yeast further drying out your cider. To get carbonated sweet cider in a bottle you’ve got to add sugar then test for carbonation after a few days and when they’re fully carbonated you have to stop those yeast or your bottles might explode. To do this you can pasteurize the bottles in a pot of very hot water but that’s a dangerous proposition in itself.

  74. 74.

    jl

    December 11, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    So, i guess I have gone insane and am having hallucinations again, similar to Cole’s ‘moment of clarity’ when he stepped in dog shit (or was it Tunch shit) while mopping naked at 3 AM?

    I dunno.

    Heard on news this morning that Ben Carson threatened to run as an independent if the RNC does not treat Trump ‘fairly’ in the primary. Wow, is a total GOP crackup developing?

    I joked that Trump might run as an independent if there would be enough profit it in. But with Carson, it probably isn’t a joke, since I have read that there is quite a bit of evidence that some person or group is making bank on the Carson campaign. If Carson needs to keep the money flowing, maybe he is looking for an excuse to keep his campaign going after he loses the nomination?

    But, it must be that I have gone mad, it is a hallucination, since it can’t be a real thing.

  75. 75.

    different-church-lady

    December 11, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    Two-fer!!!

  76. 76.

    kg

    December 11, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Sorry about rumproast but glad I found you here. I’ve been homebrewing about 4 years and absolutely love it. There are tons of good resources including youtube video instructionals. There’s a site called HomeBrewTalk that’s very good and even the Reddit homebrewing community is good.

  77. 77.

    Roger Moore

    December 11, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    DISCLAIMER: I have done this many, many times exactly as described above and have never once poisoned myself. But I guess it is possible to get bacteria in your cider — the cider-making sites urge people to sanitize everything, etc., and I do follow that advice when making my own beer, but I don’t bother with this cider recipe and have never had a problem.

    AFAIK, the biggest risk with getting bacteria into your cider is that it will taste bad, not that it will poison you. And there really is a lot less risk with your recipe than with beer making. With beer making, you are using your own containers, you’re transferring stuff from one container to another, etc. so there’s lots of potential for contamination. With your cider recipe, you’re opening up a container of already pasteurized juice, adding yeast, and closing it right back up again, so there’s very little chance for contamination. You might be able to do a bit better by using a bubbler rather than a loose cap, but you’re not at great risk either way. And if it tastes funky, toss it and you aren’t out a huge amount of time or money.

  78. 78.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    @Randy P:

    That’s a defense? That the payments were bribes? What’s the prosecution’s theory then?

    The prosecution just points to the defense and says “we rest our case.”

    @vheidi:

    Adam is adopted.

    I honestly didn’t know that. I thought it was just a weird genetic thing; a throwback to some weaselly Skelos ancestor.

  79. 79.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    @jl: Carson going rogue will leave him winding up like Porkins at the end of Star Wars.

    Trump going rogue could easily be Ross Perot 2.0. He’s got Perot-like money to keep his campaign going, and his candidacy from the start has been less a GOP campaign, than an “angry white populist” campaign, whose base is as much composed of conservative “independents” as it is core Republicans.

  80. 80.

    NotMax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:01 pm

    @Betty Cracker

    Shall suggest again experimenting with making apple cyser. Good stuff.

    Some recipes: #1 – #2.

  81. 81.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 3:01 pm

    @goblue72:

    Kudos to Indian-American U.S.A. Preet “I Punched Reason Magazine in the Nose” Bharara for S.D.N.Y. in bringing down 2 of the “3 men in a room”

    I agree. He’s a hero.

    He’s make a fine U.S. Attorney General.

  82. 82.

    Betty Cracker

    December 11, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    @different-church-lady: Can this get any better? What I’d really like to see is clearer definition of the schism — perhaps a joint Trump-Carson manifesto that leaves the knucklehead base with no doubt who the scheming politicians are (i.e., everyone except Trump and Carson).

  83. 83.

    Peale

    December 11, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    @Randy P: Maybe its against the law in New York to hire someone and not have them work. The crime of hiring a lay-about is 100 lashes per offense and two weeks in the stockade as it is an obscure holdover from colonial days. Bribery is actually the lesser crime.

  84. 84.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    @Peale:

    Maybe its against the law in New York to hire someone and not have them work.

    Joseph Bruno’s daughter had a no-show job. They actually used her office for storage. $70,000K for an assistant’s job:

    O’Connor, according to investigators, hired Susan Bruno for a $70,000-a-year assistant director’s job in 2003 without conducting a search – and despite the fact that she did not hold the needed college degrees.

  85. 85.

    rikyrah

    December 11, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    uh huh

    uh huh

    Because he’s not speaking to a SLIVER of the GOP. He’s in the heart and soul of the GOP. THIS is the GOP voter.

    …………………

    The Daily 202: Focus group shows why Donald Trump is not going anywhere

    By James Hohmann

    December 10

    I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Frank Luntz. “There is no sign of them leaving. He has created or found the magic formula.”

    “He” was Donald Trump. “They” were 29 voters from the D.C. metro area who either supported Trump, were considering it, or had once supported Trump and then cooled on the idea. It was not the first Luntz focus group with Trump voters, but over three hours in an Alexandria conference room Wednesday night, he found them hugging their candidate tighter than ever.

    The 29 subjects were asked to pick a number between one and 10 to gauge the likelihood that they’d support Trump. At the start of the night, just 10 people said they were at nine or 10. After one hour of mostly negative questions about Trump, 16 said they were that likely to back him. After a barrage of negative ads, the number fell to 15 — and only because an attack on his business record was seen as a potential “killer” in a general election.

    But nothing else dented the Republican front-runner. Asked what they liked about Trump, the subjects echoed what he’d said about himself. “He offers things that can’t be bought,” said a middle-aged man named Michael. “He’s not coming from these Monsantos, Kochs or Soros. He doesn’t have any skin he owes to anyone else.”

    Asked about Trump’s proposal for a ban on Muslim immigration, 17 of the 29 in the focus group backed it. Several pushed back on the question to say that Trump has only proposed this as a temporary, short-term measure. Several cited the same dubious evidence that Trump does to argue that up to a quarter of Muslims around the world are radicalized.

    One big problem for Trump’s opponents: establishment Republicans hold no sway whatsoever with his base. Asked who they’d back in a three-way election between Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton and an independent Donald Trump, 19 of the 29 said they would still back Trump. When Ted Cruz was swapped into the question, 14 stuck with Trump. Only after being asked to imagine a scenario where that vote would ensure a Clinton victory did the support fall off.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/12/10/the-daily-202-focus-group-shows-why-donald-trump-is-not-going-anywhere/

  86. 86.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:11 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Via TPM, Bloomberg Politics report says the next Republican presidential candidates’ debate will likely see Rand Paul at the kiddie table.

    Based on his polling average (at RCP, no less) of 3.6 percent (with Christie at 2.6 and Li’l Prince Randy at 2.2), I think Jeb?!? should also be relegated to the kiddie table. At least the Outlaw Joisey Whale is rising in the polls, unlike certain “smarter” sons of a certain political dynasty.

  87. 87.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 3:11 pm

    @jl:
    I know how you feel. If the Republican food fight starts this early, it might peter out too soon, and everyone will have settled down by the convention. Much entertainment value will have been lost.

  88. 88.

    rikyrah

    December 11, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    Attacks on Trump just make these voters like him more
    By David Weigel December 10 at 6:41 PM

    It was the most brutal attack ad run against Donald Trump, and it was tanking. Twenty-nine voters, all of whom supported or used to support Trump, watched retired Air Force Col. Tom Moe not so subtly compare the Republican front-runner to Adolf Hitler.

    “You might not care if Donald Trump says he’s going to round up all the Hispanic immigrants, because you’re not one,” Moe said onscreen. “You might not care if Donald Trump wants to suppress journalists, because you’re not one. But think about this: If he keeps going, and he actually becomes president, he might just get around to you.”

    Frank Luntz, the Republican media consultant who had put together this focus group, watched the dials turn down. On a scale of zero to 100, the ad’s effectiveness never got above 20. It did not help that the ad was produced for Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio), a presidential candidate no one in the group supported.

    “It was too far over the top,” one voter said.

    “They use every trick in the book to make him look like the ultimate bad guy,” said another.

    “It tried to make Trump look like the new Mussolini,” said one more disgusted voter. “I mean, that ain’t gonna happen.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/attacking-trump-just-makes-these-voters-like-him-more/2015/12/10/2de9edf8-9f44-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html

  89. 89.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:14 pm

    @goblue72:

    Preet “I Punched Reason Magazine in the Nose” Bharara

    What’s the Reason Magazine comment about? (TLWG)

  90. 90.

    different-church-lady

    December 11, 2015 at 3:16 pm

    @Betty Cracker: It’s a double-edged sword though: if Trump and Carson walk, that clears the field for the GOP to tunnel down to an actually viable candidate.

  91. 91.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:16 pm

    @goblue72:

    Trump going rogue could easily be Ross Perot 2.0.

    Maybe even better than that – Perot took about the same number of votes from Clinton and Bush. I have a tough time envisioning Trump taking votes away from Hillary.

  92. 92.

    Peale

    December 11, 2015 at 3:18 pm

    @Germy: Yep. It is awful. That and insider dealing on public real estate is just rife with the state reps who can’t live on their salaries but still live very well. I think Governor Paterson lost his chance to get reelected when he took the line item pen to the bogus non-profits funded with donations by the state which just happened to be controlled by family members and were all salaries and very little expenditures on programs that produced results.

  93. 93.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 3:19 pm

    @SFAW: Excellent point. Perot was much more a “third way” candidate – fiscal hawk on one side, kinda protectionist on trade, and fairly moderate on the culture war stuff. Trump is white hot xenophobic rage.

  94. 94.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    Comes Tuesday the gloves are coming off motherfuckers.

    Trump’s mob connections will be the main point of attack, as well as how he cost 1000s of workers their jobs during his various bankruptices.

    Gloves…are…OFF.

    We’re going Lee Atwater on his ass, baby.

  95. 95.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    @different-church-lady:
    And that would be who? I honestly don’t see a viable candidate in their motley collection of underwhelming career pols, grifters and flashes-in-the-pan.

  96. 96.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:24 pm

    Oh, looky looky

    Can it be Racist to Rise is back?

  97. 97.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 3:24 pm

    @SFAW: Some commenters to Reason’s website made comments that appeared to be threats against a Federal judge. Bharara subpoenaed Reason for their identity and then followed it up with a gag order.

    Regardless of the merits, seeing Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie get so butthurt was just awesome.

  98. 98.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    Keep on “misunderestimating” another Bush…but the gloves are coming off. The Super PAC is setting up nicely for a utter smashing of Trump the likes of which has never been seen before. RTR has been nothing but positive, but that’s about to change.

    Mike Murphy has been real patient so far before going negative, but when he gives the green light next week, get ready: it’s HAMMER TIME.

  99. 99.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    And that would be who?

    Well, Mittens is tanned, rested, and ready. And Jeb?!? has just been lying in wait, planning his “surge.” Although, give Jeb’s apparently massive intellect, I’m a-thinking he’ll think the word is “spew,” and respond accordingly.

  100. 100.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    @Germy: Oh snap – I hadn’t seen this that he may have Cuomo in his sights –

    Baller Tweets by Preet.

  101. 101.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    @SFAW:

    Your constant accusations of racism against anybody who isn’t a Democrat is a primary reason for the rise of Trump, you’re like the boy who cried wolf. There’s a real racist out there now, but nobody believes it when you call him one because the likes of you have stripped the word of all meaning.

    But again: Trump will be taken care of soon. The “green light” to go 100% negative is about to be switched on by Mike Murphy…

  102. 102.

    jl

    December 11, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    ” it might peter out too soon ”

    But if the Carson campaign is the money machine that I’ve read it is, why would a Carson independent run peter out? And his main audience is reactionary White fundie Xtianists, and I hope it is not too politically incorrect to point out that a lot of them are hopeless marks who will keep pumping money into anything and anybody that just mindlessly keeps pushing the symbol right buttons. That would take a few precious percentage points out of the GOP column in the general, either voting for some goofy Carson independent campaing (maybe even a Quixotic write-in thing) or them staying home in a pout after Carson refuses to bless the RNC nominee.

  103. 103.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:29 pm

    @Relax:

    YES!!!! We have a wiener!!

    With Jeb?!? SURGING to 3.6 percent – a significant rise over his 4.8 percent of a week ago – the rest of the anti-American treasonous Republicans are quaking — QUAKING I TELLS YA! — in their saddle shoes.

  104. 104.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 11, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    @Relax: I am quivering with anticipation.

  105. 105.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    @goblue72: Cuomo… that would be nice to see him taken down. The prince of darkness…

  106. 106.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    @Relax:

    Oh, sod off, you moron.

    How many bannings are you up to? Twelve? Maybe you can hit lucky 13.

  107. 107.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    @SFAW:

    Stop looking at the national polls.

    Look to New Hampshire. Jeb is quietly rising.

    As I said, Trump is going to be taken care of by Murphy and RTR.

    Come Tuesday, it’s HAMMER TIME.

  108. 108.

    Ruckus

    December 11, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    @SFAW:
    It isn’t necessarily his looks, although that isn’t a ray of sunshine anywhere, it’s the fact that you know what he stands for and he delivers it like he’s challenging you to just get on with it and call him the asshole he knows he is, and likes being. He’s not stupid but he’s so fucked in the head that he figures he’s smarter than everyone else and therefore he should be in charge of your life, no matter what, he knows more and better than you.

    He’s full of shit of course and in every picture it seems to just ooze out of every pore.

  109. 109.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Only Frank N. Furter gets me to quiver with …. anticipation.

  110. 110.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    His mob connections, his ex-wives, his use of illegals to build his hotels (Jeb has a great one-liner coming up on that) and (on the down-low) a possible mixed-race love child are going to be brought out as the main line of attacks against Trump.

    The last one will be “offshored” to a third party (twice removed even from the Super PAC) that will be conducting thousands of push-polls on the topic in early primary states.

  111. 111.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 3:35 pm

    @Relax: Bwahahahahahahahahaha.

    Apparently !?!JEB!?!’s SuperDuperPAC is now paying its trolls in Purple Kush.

  112. 112.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:36 pm

    @Relax:

    Thanks for the laugh, racist.

    You’re like the apocryphal Eternal Optimist: after falling out of a window in the 80th floor of the Empire State Building, he was heard to say – as he passed each floor – “So far, so good.”

    When your love object hits negative numbers, you’ll no doubt have some similarly stupid response.

  113. 113.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    @Relax:

    Come Tuesday, it’s HAMMER TIME.

    For the love of God, nobody wants to see Jeb dancing in MC Hammer pants.

  114. 114.

    Roger Moore

    December 11, 2015 at 3:39 pm

    @Relax:

    Stop looking at the national polls.

    Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

  115. 115.

    Peale

    December 11, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    @Relax: Yeah. Good luck with that. No one who has been aware of Trump for the past 40 years is going to be suddenly shocked that he isn’t a choir boy. You can only really be a hypocrite if you actually claim to represent values that you don’t.

    What, you think Liberals haven’t tried and failed miserably pointing out the hypocrisy of your candidates?. Hardly makes a dent with the voters and it won’t matter coming from a liberal like Bush.

  116. 116.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    @Relax:
    By bragging about all this here, aren’t you ruining the surprise?

  117. 117.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    “Hammer Time” of course is the code name for the coming anti-Trump blitz.

  118. 118.

    NotMax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    @Relax

    Tuesday the 15th? Beware the ides of December.

    The closer to the week of the holiday, the fewer people paying any attention whatsoever.

    The gang who couldn’t shoot smear straight, throwing bad money after bad.

    What a maroon.

  119. 119.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    @Peale:

    Look at what happened to Bob Dole in ’88 and McCain in ’00.

    Bushes know how to fight and fight dirty.

    HAMMER TIME, baby!

  120. 120.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:43 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    For the love of God, nobody wants to see Jeb dancing in MC Hammer pants.

    Not even if they’re urine-stained?

  121. 121.

    Roger Moore

    December 11, 2015 at 3:43 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    nobody wants to see Jeb dancing in MC Hammer pants.

    Can’t touch this!

  122. 122.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    @NotMax:

    Of course they’ll pay attention! Watching a Christmas movie on TV with the fam in NH? You’re going to see negative ad after negative ad after negative ad against Trump.

    We’re even planning a feature-film documentary to be released near the NH primary and promoted in early primary state theaters, especially NH.

  123. 123.

    debbie

    December 11, 2015 at 3:45 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    No, s/he’s hoping to distract from the fake pro-Trump ads we’ve been promised.

  124. 124.

    Betty Cracker

    December 11, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    @SFAW: I thought it was antici…..pation.

  125. 125.

    Ruckus

    December 11, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    This current incantation gives me an idea.
    Maybe it’s actually ¿jeb? hisself. ¿jeb? isn’t smart enough to know not to give away his plans upfront. He fired/cut off their pay, a lot of staff because no one can prop up or make pretty that much of a loser, and he was bleeding bucket fulls of money trying to and now there’s no one left to do the grunt shit work.

  126. 126.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    possible mixed-race love child
    Gasp!

  127. 127.

    Gravenstone

    December 11, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    @Relax: You’re so cute when you get all whiny and petulant.

  128. 128.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    @NotMax:

    Yup, the 15th. That’s when Murphy is going to say “all systems, go!” right before the debate and a deluge of ads will spew out onto the airwaves drowning out Trump.

    He’s going to have to sack up and spend his own money (a competition he can’t win) or watch his support slowly erode and his negatives rise.

    “Hit him on his strengths” Karl Rove used to like to say, and that’s what we’re going after. Donald Trump: #1 employer of illegals in New Jersey.

  129. 129.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 11, 2015 at 3:48 pm

    @goblue72: The snow pack is being rebuilt but what is really needed is for your reservoirs to refill. We are good on that end as well.

  130. 130.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:48 pm

    @Germy:

    Once the racists Trump appeals to hear of that, many of them will simply stay home!

    We’ll also be starting a phony front “Jews for Trump” organization that will robocall likely voters in IA and NH to “helpfully remind” that Trump’s wife is a Jew (his daughter is Jewish as well), not a Christian. That will peel off more support from his base.

  131. 131.

    NonyNony

    December 11, 2015 at 3:48 pm

    Is Right 2 Rise still pushing Jeb??

    That’s some commitment to trolling right there. A lesser troll would have picked a new horse to back when they came back with a new name, but not R2R.

  132. 132.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:50 pm

    @NonyNony:

    I’m “all-in” for Jeb, right up to Inauguration Day.

  133. 133.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    @Relax: What have you found on cruz? I know you uncovered rubio’s secret second wife, but have you dug up anything on the cruz man?

  134. 134.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:52 pm

    @Relax:

    Right, because McCain was 25 points up on W before the smearing started. Except that EVERYONE KNEW in 1999 that W was going to be the nominee.

    Look, we all realize you’re getting paid to troll us with your hysterical (in both senses of the word) bullshit, but doesn’t what remains of your alleged brain ever rebel at the thought of writing the ridiculous bullshit you post here?

    The alternative, I guess, is that you actually believe it, which would mean you have significantly greater MH issues.

  135. 135.

    Gravenstone

    December 11, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    Totally un-Jeb related; the Cubs just won the Jason Heyward sweepstakes.

  136. 136.

    NotMax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    @Relax

    Repeatedly and intrusively interrupting the enjoyment of family holiday for the minority who still sit through ads at all with messages that are the antithesis of the seasonal sentiment. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

    You could score a gig at any Ha-Ha Hut in the land with that routine.

    What a maroon.

  137. 137.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    @Relax:

    I’m “all-in” for Jeb, right up to Inauguration Day.

    When you’ll be contemplating suicide while Hillary takes the oath of office.

  138. 138.

    jl

    December 11, 2015 at 3:54 pm

    Is Relax RtR, or a RtR spoof? I still think RtR is a spoof troll, since it was just so funny. I guess a spoof of a spoof can be funny too.

    Jeb? is practicing a great one-liner, huh? That really works against a guy who can ad lib faster than Jeb?’s brain cells can crank out a resentful and alarmed sneer.

    “possible mixed race love child’? ROFLAO. thanks!

    Edit: Jeb? can’t even make an earnestly practiced one-liner attack work against the likes of Rubio. Funny stuff, Relax. Really funny.

  139. 139.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 3:54 pm

    @NonyNony:
    You don’t change horses midflush.

  140. 140.

    NotMax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:55 pm

    Omitted one word. No edit function.

    Fix:

    @Relax

    Repeatedly and intrusively interrupting the enjoyment of family holiday viewing for the minority who still sit through ads at all with messages that are the antithesis of the seasonal sentiment. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

    You could score a gig at any Ha-Ha Hut in the land with that routine.

    What a maroon.

  141. 141.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:55 pm

    @Germy:

    Two lines of attack on Cruz, one on the “up and up” above the board, and the other “on the down-low”.

    First “clean” line: Cruz is weak on national defense and national security, refusing to commit troops to fight ISIS and voting to weakening our intelligence gathering operations which will put the nation at risk of a second September 11th.

    “Dirty” line: Cruz has Communist relatives who fought with Castro, and Cruz might even be a Communist plant himself working hand-in-glove with the Castro Bros. Also, bring up his Canadian birth and insinuate that he’s not eligible to be President.

    The second one is incredibly stupid but we’ve tested it in focus groups among the types that listen to Glenn Beck and it plays extraordinarily well with them. FUD–Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.

  142. 142.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 3:55 pm

    @trollhattan: never change a diaper in mid-stream

  143. 143.

    NickM

    December 11, 2015 at 3:56 pm

    I don’t get it – the troll here is implying he’s with the Jeb? campaign. Is he posting here on his union-mandated breaks? Or is he supposedly doing this on paid time?

  144. 144.

    Germy

    December 11, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    @Relax:

    The second one is incredibly stupid but we’ve tested it in focus groups among the types that listen to Glenn Beck and it plays extraordinarily well with them.

    Contempt for the audience. That’s what killed Dennis Day.

  145. 145.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    @NickM:

    I’m not with the campaign but one of the related (“uncoordinated”, wink wink) organizations. I cannot reveal which one.

  146. 146.

    NickM

    December 11, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    @Germy: Well, the peasants *are* revolting, you know.

  147. 147.

    NickM

    December 11, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    @Relax: Why do you waste your time here?

  148. 148.

    D58826

    December 11, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    The Palm Beach Post is reporting that one of the guns used in the Paris attacks has been traced to a Fla. gun dealer. A gun deal who just happened to be involved in selling weapons to the Contras in the 1980’s as part of the Iran-Contra scandal. GOP corruption has deep roots.

  149. 149.

    jl

    December 11, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    I’m kind of shocked that DougJ flatly lied to the blog commentariate that he was not sock puppeting as Bush trolls.

  150. 150.

    different-church-lady

    December 11, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    @NickM: Shtick. Never look for reason when dealing with shtick.

  151. 151.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 4:01 pm

    @NickM:

    I started out to promote Jeb on social media/blogs (I currently am doing so on other sites) but when I realized that this blog has a strong anti-Bush bias I come here now to reveal insider info to any followers I have here! I think they will appreciate it!

  152. 152.

    different-church-lady

    December 11, 2015 at 4:01 pm

    @NickM: Your confusion is part of his entertainment.

  153. 153.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:01 pm

    @Germy:

    That’s what killed Dennis Day.

    I thought it was singing “Que Sera, Sera” one time too many.

  154. 154.

    scav

    December 11, 2015 at 4:02 pm

    @NickM: Whichever, it certainly speaks to the caliber of the campaign, either real, aspirational or delusional, as we even have to pose that question.

  155. 155.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    I also enjoy seeing you all shit your pants at the prospect of another Bush just eight years after his brother. And deep down, you know the primary is his to lose, you know it.

    Jeb will not be denied.

    Remember: four days to HAMMER TIME.

  156. 156.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    @Relax:
    This is fantastic material. You should submit it to the Onion, who might consider giving you paid employment.

  157. 157.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    @D58826:

    A gun deal who just happened to be involved in selling weapons to the Contras in the 1980’s as part of the Iran-Contra scandal.

    That dealer’s code name wouldn’t happen to be “Juan Elizondo Boosh,” would it?

  158. 158.

    different-church-lady

    December 11, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Hell, nobody wants to see MC Hammer dancing in MC Hammer pants.

  159. 159.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    @goblue72:
    We’re barely beginning snow-monitoring season and are presently somewhere between last year (yay) and average (boo). Y’all can watch via these handy dandy graphs.

    I understand Yosemite has actually closed Tioga Pass, which has been optional the last few winters. Baby steps.

  160. 160.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    It IS comedy gold. Or is that Fool’s Gold?

  161. 161.

    different-church-lady

    December 11, 2015 at 4:05 pm

    @Relax:

    And deep down, you know the primary is his to lose, you know it.

    And he’s handing that opportunity brilliantly!

  162. 162.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 4:05 pm

    Another reveal: as part of the campaign we will go around to blogs/newspaper comments sections/twitter with fake sock-puppeteed pro-Trump accounts that will say the most racist, anti-semitic things imaginable to make Trump look even further out of the mainstream. We’re talking KKK/Neo-Nazi stuff to make him look unelectable. There will also be plants at Trump events demanding talking about holocaust denial, advocating resegregation, etc.

  163. 163.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 11, 2015 at 4:05 pm

    @Relax: Cool story, bro.

  164. 164.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    @Relax:

    Yes, because that’s hurt his polling so much already.

  165. 165.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 4:07 pm

    @Relax:

    Jeb will not be denied.

    I find this so adorable I want to adopt it and take it home.

  166. 166.

    scav

    December 11, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    @SFAW: Is it a mole? Or a double-mole?

  167. 167.

    different-church-lady

    December 11, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    @Relax: In addition, Trump himself will be saying the most racist, anti-semitic things imaginable to make Trump look even further out of the mainstream.

  168. 168.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    @trollhattan:

    I find this so adorable I want to adopt it and take it home.

    Careful! You don’t know where it’s been!

  169. 169.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    @jl:
    I hope RtR/Relax is a spoof troll. It would be very sad to meet a real person who was so deluded.

  170. 170.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    It would be very sad to meet a real person who was so deluded.

    Truth.

  171. 171.

    Mike in NC

    December 11, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    @Relax: Change your blogging name to Ex-Lax, because you’re so full of shit it’s pathetic. What a sad loser.

  172. 172.

    Keith G

    December 11, 2015 at 4:11 pm

    @Relax: Don’t do it when you want to go to it!

  173. 173.

    different-church-lady

    December 11, 2015 at 4:11 pm

    @SFAW: Well, it’s been here, and that’s reason enough to say no all by itself.

  174. 174.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    He’s waiting until Jeb? surges to a whopping 1 percent average, and 3 percent in NH, at which time he’ll change it to “Panic!”

  175. 175.

    NotMax

    December 11, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    @Relax

    Pick up the phone. Captain Queeg on line 2.

    What a maroon.

  176. 176.

    Calouste

    December 11, 2015 at 4:13 pm

    @Relax: Bush in the last 10 polls in NH according to RealClearPolitics: 7 7 8 7 9 6 8 5 8 8.

    That rise is indeed quiet, very, very quiet.

  177. 177.

    Redshift

    December 11, 2015 at 4:13 pm

    @jl:

    Heard on news this morning that Ben Carson threatened to run as an independent if the RNC does not treat Trump ‘fairly’ in the primary. Wow, is a total GOP crackup developing?

    Carson said he’ll quit the GOP if “backroom deals override the will of the people” (i.e., the so-called “brokered convention” that was the catnip for the Village today), but that he doesn’t plan to run as an independent.

  178. 178.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:13 pm

    @Keith G:

    I was wondering when someone would bring that up. I of course, am too classy (and Yuuuuge!) to do so.

  179. 179.

    Steeplejack

    December 11, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    Pretty good end to the week: had lunch at El Paso Café in Arlington with a friend from the Barnes & Noble days, then got the doughty Kia emission-tested—no waiting!—and then (when I got home) registered for new tags on line. So that’s done for two years. Yee-haw.

    At lunch my friend and I were commiserating about how we can’t believe Christmas is only two weeks away. Where does the time go? I’ve got friends coming into town on the 21st, so I’ve got even less time to get it together.

    I went by Staples and Bed, Bath & Beyond to pick up a few things, and the crowds were already ominously large at three o’clock.

    Note to whomever was talking about adult coloring books a while back: I saw them at both Staples and BB&B. Interesting. It must be a thing now.

    The weather is very mild in NoVa today—sunny and 66° right now—and it’s going to be positively balmy tomorrow—high of 70°!

  180. 180.

    D58826

    December 11, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    and on a happier note for a Friday – Kirk Douglas Turns 99 With A Party And A $15 Million Birthday Gift to build an Alzheimer center in Hollywood.

  181. 181.

    Redshift

    December 11, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    @Relax: The real KKK and neo-Nazis are already publicly talking about how much they love Trump, and it hasn’t hurt him. How exactly will your fake ones have any more success?

  182. 182.

    cleek

    December 11, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    Jèb↓ is on the rise, and his secret posse of loose-lipped ratfuckers is gonna push him into the lead ?

    i love it.

  183. 183.

    NotMax

    December 11, 2015 at 4:18 pm

    @D58826

    Good idea, except none of the patients can remember where it is.

    /cheap laff

  184. 184.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 4:18 pm

    @Calouste:
    We were informed awhile back he’s the “wise tortoise” only to find out he’s been made into delicious soup and an assortment of grooming products. To torture the metaphor further: John Bush is well past his sell-by date. I think his campaign team will go down with Meg Whitman’s among the country’s truly blessed political grifters. I want to see where these people live, what they drive and where their yachts are moored.

  185. 185.

    p.a.

    December 11, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    @Betty Cracker: TMI: I’ve always had a thing for women with eyes done up like Magenta’s.

  186. 186.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    @D58826:
    Give it up for Spartacus! Wow, 99.

  187. 187.

    Randy P

    December 11, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    @Calouste:

    7 7 8 7 9 6 8 5 8 8

    If you just edit out a few numbers which are obviously outliers… X X X X X 6 X 5 8 8… I can fit a trend line with an upward slope to that.

    UNSKEWED POLLS!! OMG, commenter Reflux is right!

  188. 188.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 11, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    @Germy: So it was a bribe. Nice of the defense to just come out and admit it.

  189. 189.

    gene108

    December 11, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    @Relax:

    “Hammer Time” of course is the code name for the coming anti-Trump blitz.

    And Trump’s reply: U Can’t Touch This”

  190. 190.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    Putting aside the joke for a moment, would having fathered a child out of wedlock really be scandal enough to force the Donald out of the race? The man’s on his third trophy wife; I doubt anyone was expecting him to be an exemplar of chastity. And, in a country with a mixed race president, would it matter that the child was mixed race?

  191. 191.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 11, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    @Relax: No wonder ¡Heb! is doomed. He’s got assclowns like you trying to “help” him.

  192. 192.

    Calouste

    December 11, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    The funniest, most deluded, thing about Relax-don’t-do-it is the premise that when Bush attacks Trump, even if all those hair-brained schemes work, or even come to fruition unlike all the other ones that we have been promised, that those voters Trump are supposed to lose are actually going to end up with Bush, instead of say Christie.

  193. 193.

    p.a.

    December 11, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    @Amir Khalid: The Onion requires more than one-note Onanism in its writers.

  194. 194.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    @gene108:
    SRV, Trump’s yooogest rent boy here, refuses to take on RtR here directly to basically “pay the rent” for his continual peeling all over the joint. I think we deserve a little cage fight between them.

  195. 195.

    different-church-lady

    December 11, 2015 at 4:25 pm

    @Amir Khalid: The man could fuck a dead goat on national television and it wouldn’t make a scratch in his numbers.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    December 11, 2015 at 4:25 pm

    @Calouste: There’s a serious armored car shortage somewhere. Probably not in Boston, though, where massive ad buys have done next to nothing for the pathetic brother of the deserting coward.

  197. 197.

    p.a.

    December 11, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    @Relax: Won’t work: Poe’s Law.

  198. 198.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    I think it would boost his support among the “Aw man, I wish I’d done that” voters.

    ETA what different-church lady said.

  199. 199.

    jl

    December 11, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    @Redshift: thanks for info.

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    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    @Calouste:

    Mike Murphy didn’t give the “green light” to go negative yet, so nothing was promised–until Tuesday. That’s when Murphy let’s the dogs out, baby.

  201. 201.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    I sit corrected. My apologies for the screw-up, and thanks for catching it.

    ETA: Although, I guess, technically, it should be “I see you quiver with antici … (say it!) pation.”

  202. 202.

    Relax

    December 11, 2015 at 4:28 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Haha, still bringing up the discredited national guard story. Lovin’ it. How’d that work out for Dan Rather? I bet you got hard the moment they came up with that memo, only to go all limp when it turned out to have been written on MS Word ’03. Dumbass.

  203. 203.

    debbie

    December 11, 2015 at 4:28 pm

    Putting quote marks around all-in is code for what, exactly?

  204. 204.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 4:28 pm

    @Relax:
    Was gonna cite poodles but they’re smart, so will guess, “Release the chow-chows!”

    Can’t wait.

  205. 205.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Note to whomever was talking about adult coloring books a while back: I saw them at both Staples and BB&B. Interesting. It must be a thing now.

    Do they make these colouring books with, ahem, age-appropriate pictures to colour in? (He asks him knowingly.)

  206. 206.

    BruceFromOhio

    December 11, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    But no, it’s just the shadow of someone’s head, not a urine stain.

    If only all of our problems were thus ….

  207. 207.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:33 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    And, in a country with a mixed race president, would it matter that the child was mixed race?

    Considering that some people think Jeb!’s kids are mixed-race – Columba’s one of those people, dontcha know – it would hardly matter.

    Or is Jorge Prescott no longer considered viable due to his ethnicity, and I missed it?

  208. 208.

    NotMax

    December 11, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    @Amir Khalid

    The amount of $$ someone like Adelson is capable of unleashing against the Jeb campaign for using the ‘Jew as smear’ gambit described above by the deluded, anti-semitic, racist maroon would make the combined total of the superPACs’ coffers look like significantly less than chump change.

  209. 209.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    @NotMax:
    Remain stupefied Adelson backed Newt last go. Is he so thick as to think Newt still has a future in office, or does Newt have incriminating photos or something? It made no sense.

  210. 210.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    @Relax:

    written on MS Word ’03. Dumbass.

    Tough to do in 2000, moron.

    And just because Rove ratfucked Rather doesn’t mean that W wasn’t a deserter. That’s kind of the nature of ratfucking. Doppeltes moron.

  211. 211.

    Chyron HR

    December 11, 2015 at 4:40 pm

    @Relax:

    Yup, the 15th. That’s when Murphy is going to say “all systems, go!” right before the debate and a deluge of ads will spew out onto the airwaves drowning out Trump.

    Surely even someone with your limited brain function understands that the universe will continue to exist after December 15, 2015. What are you going to do when another JEB! counterattack completely fails to happen, just like the last five you promised?

    P.S. Shitting your pants and shrieking “MISUNDERESTIMATE!!!!!” is not an actual rebuttal. Try harder.

  212. 212.

    Heliopause

    December 11, 2015 at 4:42 pm

    Has it been noticed yet that a large police organization has endorsed Trump? Interesting that they would do that so early in the cycle, long before a vote has even been cast, and every candidate will reliably issue staunchly pro-police rhetoric. Also interesting they chose to do this in a week that Trump’s pronouncements are so nutty that even other Republicans are denouncing him.

  213. 213.

    Steeplejack

    December 11, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Heh, they’re not “adult” coloring books, just coloring books for adults. Lots of flowers and semi-abstract designs.

  214. 214.

    gene108

    December 11, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    @trollhattan:

    SRV, Trump’s yooogest rent boy here, refuses to take on RtR here directly to basically “pay the rent” for his continual peeling all over the joint. I think we deserve a little cage fight between them.

    srv seems more of a professional contrarian to me than a paid troll. He just tries to throw stuff out there to get a rise from the crowd. I have a co-worker like this.

    He’s posted about other things than Trump that are non-trollish.

  215. 215.

    Chyron HR

    December 11, 2015 at 4:48 pm

    @SFAW:

    I, for one, look forward to a bargain-basement version of Brandt from The Big Lebowski getting on stage next Tuesday night and rambling about “miscegenation”. That will definitely send JEB! rocketing to the top of the polls.

  216. 216.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 4:48 pm

    @Heliopause:
    The Donald has been saying that as president, he’ll issue an executive order making it a capital crime to kill a police officer. (I’m pretty sure the Presidency doesn’t work that way, though.)

  217. 217.

    bemused

    December 11, 2015 at 4:48 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    I was doing a lot of searching online for adult coloring books and that kind of adult books didn’t show up from what I noticed. 50 shades of gray versions must be out there somewhere…

    @D58826:

    I guess it’s a big thing. People get together in groups to color and socialize.

  218. 218.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    @Steeplejack:
    I am disappoint.

  219. 219.

    OzarkHillbilly

    December 11, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    @SFAW: Oh, no. Don’t you understand that George W Bush served his country honorably in the NG*?

    * during Vietnam, NG stood for Not Going.

  220. 220.

    Origuy

    December 11, 2015 at 4:51 pm

    @Heliopause: It was mentioned, but not a lot of discussion. It seems like Trump’s announcement that he would mandate the death penalty for killing a police officer got the cops heated up. Regardless of the fact that he couldn’t mandate any such thing.

  221. 221.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    George W Bush served his country honorably in the NG*?

    Which country is that? Dumbfuckistan? In the pre-Rick-Perry days?

  222. 222.

    Mike in NC

    December 11, 2015 at 4:53 pm

    Fun fact about Poppy’s other boy: in 1972 the Selective Service lottery came out and young JEB! got a low number, meaning he stood a very good chance of being drafted. Characteristically, the little simp ran to mommy and daddy to announce that he wanted to register as a Conscientious Objector, because something something chickenshit coward. However, the Vietnam War was already winding down and ultimately very few were called up, and JEB! was thus free to pursue his career as a crooked businessman and pandering politician.

  223. 223.

    NotMax

    December 11, 2015 at 4:55 pm

    @bemused

    There’s a cute bit in World of Warcraft when an NPC* and his pet bird Percy, accompanying one on a quest, is rooting around the library of a deceased necromancer.

    “Hmm, what’s this? 50 Shades of Shadow? Percy, don’t look at that!”

    *non-player character, for those not into gaming

  224. 224.

    Xantar

    December 11, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    I guess “Hammer Time” is the new Brinks trucks, then?

  225. 225.

    waysel

    December 11, 2015 at 5:00 pm

    @SFAW: @SFAW: He appears to grit his teeth when smiling, or maybe all the time. The utterly dead eyes are rather creepy, too.

  226. 226.

    Marc

    December 11, 2015 at 5:01 pm

    The hilarious thing to me is that I could easily imagine the real Bush campaign doing the sort of boneheaded things that DougJ (excuse me, “Relax”) is writing. And they really would be boneheaded enough to announce it in advance.

  227. 227.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    @gene108:
    Probably, but he’s always making fun of little John Bush’s campaign and declaring Trump as good as president, so OWES us a slapfight with RtR.

  228. 228.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    @Marc:
    Yup. “Bookmark it, libs!”

  229. 229.

    chopper

    December 11, 2015 at 5:03 pm

    @Relax:

    with fake sock-puppeteed pro-Trump accounts that will say the most racist, anti-semitic things imaginable to make Trump look even further out of the mainstream. We’re talking KKK/Neo-Nazi stuff to make him look unelectable

    given today’s republican party you’re only going to be helping trump’s numbers.

  230. 230.

    Steeplejack

    December 11, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    Patterns of the Universe coloring book just released.

  231. 231.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    @chopper:
    I’m trying to recall, has Stormfront officially endorsed Trump or are they also Cruz-curious?

  232. 232.

    Steeplejack

    December 11, 2015 at 5:07 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Here you go.

  233. 233.

    scav

    December 11, 2015 at 5:07 pm

    @Origuy: It’s a good & natural fit, as the strong arm of the law are just preemptively enforcing the execution anytime they feel threatened without clogging up the court system (gotta save those taxpayer dollars). Might as well make this exceptional system official, right?

  234. 234.

    NotMax

    December 11, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    Long read, but nonetheless worthy of front page mention.

    IRRADIATED: The secret, tragic legacy of America’s nuclear weapons program

  235. 235.

    Calouste

    December 11, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    @Heliopause: Fascism is good for the policing business. More “responsibilities”, less oversight, and maybe even shiny new uniforms.

  236. 236.

    Amir Khalid

    December 11, 2015 at 5:15 pm

    @Steeplejack:
    I knew they had to be out there somwhere.

  237. 237.

    mainmata

    December 11, 2015 at 5:15 pm

    @Betty Cracker: It’s very easy to get acheap air lock. Problem solved.

  238. 238.

    Peale

    December 11, 2015 at 5:15 pm

    @Steeplejack: Adult coloring books are a big thing. I don’t get it. It’s probably related to “mindfulness”. But come on. If you want a semi-creative past-time do paint by numbers.

  239. 239.

    max

    December 11, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    @Relax: Mike Murphy has been real patient so far before going negative, but when he gives the green light next week, get ready: it’s HAMMER TIME.

    And he has UNLIMITED CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS! Because that always works.

    Meanwhile, the headline of the NYT:
    Jeb Bush Is Trying Hard to Not Be the Mitt Romney of 2016

    I would say he has been utterly and wholly successful in not being Mitt Romney. In December 2011, Mittens was the front runner.

    max
    [‘Finally, success!’]

  240. 240.

    p.a.

    December 11, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Heh, they’re not “adult” coloring books, just coloring books for adults.

    Damn. I just went long on fleshtone Crayolas.

  241. 241.

    scav

    December 11, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    @p.a.: When correctly viewed, everything is lewd!

  242. 242.

    JPL

    December 11, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    @Amir Khalid: IMO, nothing can bring him down. Cruz was born in Canada and the same folk that support him, yell that the President was born in Kenya and therefore disqualified.

  243. 243.

    goblue72

    December 11, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    @trollhattan: You live near the Sierras? Haven’t been out to Yosemite this year. Barely had time for a long weekend up in Mendocino over the summer.

    Horrible to say, really looking forward to the business cycle turning so I can have some free time and less hellish commute on BART.

  244. 244.

    p.a.

    December 11, 2015 at 5:22 pm

    @Mike in NC: Any Neil Bush/Silverado connections to Jeb?

  245. 245.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 5:22 pm

    @p.a.:

    I just went long on fleshtone Crayolas.

    Even in context that reads a little dirty. Taken in isolation…

  246. 246.

    bemused

    December 11, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    @NotMax:

    When the 50 shades book was at peak craze, I spent more time than I should have reading the internet alternate joke versions of the book, hilarious.

  247. 247.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    @goblue72:
    A couple hours to the nearest trailheads. Was in Yosemite in August when the Merced over the Vernal Falls lip was narrower than my arm-span and dying timber groves were everywhere. Fingers crossed for this Nino guy.

  248. 248.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Even in context that reads a little dirty.

    A little dirty? You’re not doing it right.

  249. 249.

    pat

    December 11, 2015 at 5:32 pm

    @Relax:

    ahh, I think you have not been following the news. Maybe spend less time in focus groups and actually read some stuff, huh?

  250. 250.

    Iowa Old Lady

    December 11, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    A friend of mine made the mistake of googling “adult coloring books.” Sort of like when Mr IOL wanted to know when Dick’s Sporting Goods was open and googled Dick’s.

  251. 251.

    p.a.

    December 11, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    @trollhattan: schweet. I’m not that good when I try. The leftover 3 yr old vicodin I’ve be using (back issues) may be the reason.

  252. 252.

    p.a.

    December 11, 2015 at 5:38 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Fingers crossed for this Nino guy.

    Fuck Scalia. ;-)

  253. 253.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    @p.a.:
    Knew as soon as I hit Post I should have found the little squiggle thing.

  254. 254.

    Heliopause

    December 11, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    @Amir Khalid: @Origuy:

    If all it takes to get police endorsement is to make a proposal that is legally absurd and/or illiterate then our problems are even deeper than we thought.

  255. 255.

    mclaren

    December 11, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    Was watching a video where a crazed maniac screams “I’ve never felt power like this before!” And a bunch of images of the end of the world came onscreen.

    Thought it was the new trailer for X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, but then I realized I was watching a Donald Trump speech.

    Anyway, here’s the X-MEN trailer.

  256. 256.

    JPL

    December 11, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: If John made a fifty shades coloring book of his antics and pets, the animal rescue would make a lot of money.

  257. 257.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    @JPL:
    At the very least the title would need to change to Fifty Wounds.

  258. 258.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 11, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    @Relax: The Colonel’s secretary said that the content of the “kerned” documents were what she typed. That they accurately reflected the evaluation of the worthless dogshit.

    Besides, there’s no record of the vile coward ever reporting in to to the MA NG when he started going to Harvard because UofTexas Law rejected his worthless ass. That’s where the desertion angle comes in. Anyone else would have been marked for life by that, but not fortunate grandson of a Nazi collaborator.

    The Bush Crime Family needs to go the way of the Bourbons, the Romanovs, the Pahlavis…well earned permanent obscurity.

  259. 259.

    mclaren

    December 11, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    @SFAW:

    Yeah, I can’t stand to look at him, either. But a question in my mind is: why is that? What about his appearance is so repellent?

    Ted Cruz falls into the Uncanny Valley.

    The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of aesthetics which holds that when features look and move almost, but not exactly, like natural beings, it causes a response of revulsion among some observers.

  260. 260.

    Heliopause

    December 11, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    @Calouste:

    I just found it odd that they would endorse the week of all weeks. It’s like if Greg Hardy got busted again for domestic violence and then you gave him a contract extension a couple of days later.

  261. 261.

    p.a.

    December 11, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    @trollhattan:

    I should have found the little squiggle thing.

    Is this re: El Niño or

    long on fleshtone Crayolas.

    ?

    Enquiring minds want to know.

  262. 262.

    Mike in NC

    December 11, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    @p.a.: Not sure about Neil & JEBzzz criminal interactions, since this family is rapidly fading from the national memory.

  263. 263.

    JPL

    December 11, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    @trollhattan: Fifty wounds and a mop. Fifty wounds with a mop just sounds weird.

  264. 264.

    mclaren

    December 11, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    @SFAW:

    @Relax: I’m “all-in” for Jeb, right up to Inauguration Day.

    When you’ll be contemplating suicide while Hillary takes the oath of office.

    Then he’s safe. When Hillary gets sworn in it’ll be Triangulation Day.

  265. 265.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 11, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Once the Enabling Act of 2017 is passed, all bets are off. Look for fun things like stripping Muslims of citizenship and Night and Fog decrees.

  266. 266.

    redshirt

    December 11, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Give it up for Spartacus! Wow, 99.

    I saw a really cool photo on Twitter of Liam Mcintyre (the latest Spartacus) kneeling and giving a sword to Douglas.

  267. 267.

    trollhattan

    December 11, 2015 at 5:57 pm

    @p.a.:
    Strictly the hot ocean thing. Hot Crayons I leave to my kid. Technically, she’s moved on to fvcking expensive Japanese markers in system colors. I miss Crayons.

  268. 268.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    @mclaren:

    OK, seems reasonable as a working theory.

  269. 269.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Look for fun things like stripping Muslims of citizenship and Night and Fog decrees.

    Sorta why I keep putting “Juden ‘raus!” in here. Wouldn’t take much for someone to try that shit again.

  270. 270.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    @trollhattan:

    I miss Crayons.

    Every so often, I look to see if someone is trying to bring back Venus Paradise. Maybe in my next life.

  271. 271.

    different-church-lady

    December 11, 2015 at 7:33 pm

    @mclaren: God help me, I’m starting to like you.

  272. 272.

    J R in WV

    December 11, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    And I’m pretty sure it’s already illegal to kill cops. Murder one is one of the the prototypical capital crimes, after all, cop or civilian.

    These guys really show their smarts when the going gets tough, don’t they?

    Pushing policies that directly violate Constitutional prohibitions, hating on people who came her because they love America, acting the fool in public… what’s left for them?

  273. 273.

    SFAW

    December 11, 2015 at 9:16 pm

    @J R in WV:

    what’s left for them?

    Unlimited power? (Said in a Darth Sidious cackle.)

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