So, the rumors were true: empty-headed reality TV has-been Sarah Palin officially endorsed the ambulatory, hirsute, angry Circus Peanut known as Donald Trump, according to the NYT. With any luck, this will result in a YOOODGE intraparty pie-fight.
Update: Predictably, the anti-Trump RedState crew shat a cat:
The Palins are just such ridiculous people. Today’s crapshow really showcased the high-tension neurosis that defines everything they are nowadays. Ted Cruz’s campaign manager released a fairly innocuous statement saying that if Palin endorsed Trump, he thought it might hurt Palin’s image. Nothing personally derogatory about Palin at all, and in fact Cruz himself tweeted earlier today that even if Palin endorsed Trump, he would remain a fan of hers.
So Sarah sends out her daughter’s not-very-talented ghostwriter to produce this utterly classless attack on Cruz that basically makes a huge deal out of the fact that Ted Cruz has said complimentary things about her in the past, and concludes with “no one likes you…” Anyway, I’m sure Trump is glad to have the aid of this huge, super classy family.
A scant eight years ago, that sort of talk would have triggered the mighty RedState Strike Force to implement Operation Leper!
Ben Cisco
AND KLASSY!
Sad_Dem
So, BJ readers, which country will you be moving to if the Trump/Palin ticket wins?
cmorenc
Please please please PLEASE if Trump does get the nomination, let is VP pick be Sarah Palin. She may have a grifter-cunning sort of smarts about how to latch onto a teat on the wingnut gravy train, but in terms of the electorate beyond whatever still-admiring/leering wingnut circles that get starbursts from her aura, the rest of the electorate sees her as dumb as a box of rocks with the tawdry drama of a Jerry Springer show participant from a cheap trailer park.
Xecky Gilchrist
I keep being surprised anybody still gives a shit what Sarah Palin has to say.
hilts
Chuck Todd and Chris Matthews will have orgasms
Mike J
“A high-quality person.”
RandomMonster
Donald, I can see your raging, bloated ego from my house!
Trentrunner
OT to note that the “both sides poisoned Flint” narrative is settling in: Fournier just croaked it out on MSNBC (no pushback), and Ted Cruz just blamed “government at all levels.”
Really wish we Dems, including Hillary, could just fucking say “Republican policies poised Flint’s water. It’s the inevitable outcome of hating government. Your children drink water that poisons them.”
How hard is that?
Mike J
@Sad_Dem: And be a victim of their foreign policy?
Villago Delenda Est
Why did Sarah endorse The Donald, and not Rafael?
Who has the most money to provide an honorarium for the endorsement?
Grifters gotta grift.
kindness
Oh I’m really looking forward to the snark on this one.
the Conster
We’ve really gone through the looking glass. I guess as we approach the wingularity event horizon, reality show becomes reality and vice versa. It’s like every ridiculous once-was from tacky movies and bad TV has been summoned from the crypt by The Donald. Kirk Cameron is stumping for Ben Carson. This country has become an embarrassing shit show.
Villago Delenda Est
@Trentrunner: Someone with a national platform needs to say it. This crisis is entirely due to GOP policy choices.
Snyder and his appointed “manager” of Flint should hang for this. In the Clint Eastwood movie of the 60’s sort of way.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAHAHHHHHAHAHAHHAHHHAHH
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(deep breath)
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(oh! my ribs!)
the Conster
@Trentrunner:
When you vote for politicians that want to run government like a business, you’re going to get Flint(s).
See, is that so hard to say?
RaflW
The vacuous endorsing the voracious.
Your GOP. Today. Tomorrow. Yesterday.
Mike in NC
The Grift Train is departing from Grand Central Station. ALL ABOARD!
different-church-lady
@RandomMonster: You can see his raging, bloated ego from space.
Ben Cisco
@Sad_Dem: In the immortal words of Daffy Duck, “I AIN’T NO BUNNY RABBIT!!”
RaflW
@the Conster: “Kirk Cameron is stumping for Ben Carson.”
I did not know that. But it makes sense, given their compatible levels of clueless.
schrodinger's cat
@Mike J: Too true, better to live in Victorian London than in Bengal!
David *Born in the USA* Koch
Oh my — proof God wants the Dems to win all 50 states
Ben Cisco
@the Conster: Night of 1000
StarsLoons.Amir Khalid
@Trentrunner:
You forgot: “And they’re still dunning you to pay for poisoned water.”
CaseyL
OK, now he’s just trolling everyone.
Gotta be.
I mean: I can’t stand The Donald (and haven’t been able to stand him since before not being able to stand him was cool), but surely even he can’t be serious about this.
RaflW
Oh, and per the Trump press release re: this coveted and influential endorsement, they say Palin has a proven record of being “fiscally modest.”
She’s never been modest about anything.
But I think even Trumps folks get that calling her prudent just would not pass the laugh test.
RandomMonster
@different-church-lady: I read recently that black holes have ‘hair’. That seems to describe Trump pretty well.
Amir Khalid
@Sad_Dem:
I plan to stay right here in Malaysia.
Betty Cracker
@Trentrunner: A thousand amens to that! HRC made a good start by laying it at the governor’s feet at the end of the last debate, but you’re right. It’s the logical result of the Republican approach to governing (not just one shitty governor in one failing GOP-led state), and Democrats should shout that from the freaking rooftops.
No One of Consequence
I read somewhere today/recently: watch her home sale be quietly taken care of, potentially to an anonymous buyer…
Grandpa Walnuts must be so proud. Reason enough to put him first in line for the ice floe ride…
– NOoC
Chyron HR
@Sad_Dem:
Nazi Germany, apparently.
slag
Yay! As history has shown, the most direct path to the presidency is through Sarah Palin’s endorsement. (Which also happens to be within spitting distance of Russia.)
SatanicPanic
Isn’t she too old for him?
Timurid
@Sad_Dem:
That’s something I’ve given some thought to in the event of some kind of SHTF scenario (and President Trump would certainly qualify)… and the answer I come up with, unfortunately, is nowhere.
As a History PhD (currently teaching full time but not on the tenure track) I am barely employable in this country… and the humanities academic job market in the entire Anglophone world is as at least as screwed up as it is in the US. I’m pretty sure that I lack the desired job skills and earning potential to get admission to any First World country. And that’s before the mass exodus and more intense competition that would follow a Trumpocalypse or similar disaster. My only “hope” would be things going so far off the rails that the anti-brown/gay/leftist/etc. persecution would be bad enough to give me a plausible case for asylum. Oh boy, I can hardly wait…
Sad_Dem
@Mike J: There must be a list somewhere of countries that the USA has not bombed and probably won’t bomb, unless the wrong GPS coordinates get dialed in by an overzealous staffer.
danielx
Trying to come up with an appropriate response, but…words fail.
AAAAAAHHHH! The stupid, it burns!
Gimlet
But.. But.. Who will the extremely popular Duck Dynasty stars endorse?
Iowa Old Lady
@Mike J: You’re making that up.
ETA: I admit I laughed out loud at the very notion of this endorsement. These two deserve on another.
schrodinger's cat
@Sad_Dem: He is not going to win. This preemptive defeatism is unwarranted.
Sad_Dem
@Ben Cisco: @Timurid: Naturally, any country considering American refugees would have to consider: Do they share our humane values? Our commitment to the rule of law?
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: Don’t spoil the fun.
Brachiator
I guess this suggests that any Tea Party people “loyal” to Palin should choose Trump over Cruz.
All this may be empty theater. Or it may be a sign that some “official” Establishment Republicans begin to endorse Trump.
@Chyron HR
The crazy thing, of course, is that you won’t have to move at all. Nazi (or Trumpi) Germany will come to you.
jl
@cmorenc: Palin as veep nom? OK, things would be getting really weird if that happens.I’d prefer another choice that would be electoral suicide on Trump’s part.
But, if Palin would definitely be the worst choice, maybe it would be for the best, if scary.
lgerard
I wonder if starbursts is still feeling it?
Looking forward to the rest of the wingnut establishment now claiming that Bible Spice is some crazy old lady who should be ignored because she is not a REAL CONSERVATIVE.
Princess
I wonder how much he paid her. I bet she goes pretty cheap right now.
catclub
@David *Born in the USA* Koch:
I can envision the type of person who says “Some people just want to watch the world burn.”
Voting for that pair. We can hope they are not a majority.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
this is Trump’s Katrina.
SoupCatcher
@Iowa Old Lady: Unfortunately, he isn’t. That’s a direct quote from a Trump press release.
eta quote
Mike J
@Iowa Old Lady:
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Do you have a spare bedroom?
Iowa Old Lady
@SoupCatcher: @Mike J: Trump has surpassed my imagination. All I can do is echo@David *Born in the USA* Koch: HAHAHAHAHA
danielx
I blame Obama.
Mike J
@Iowa Old Lady: I think John should add, “a high quality blog” to the rotating taglines.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Trentrunner:
I saw that on Joe of the Morning this am. At that point I either had to go to bed or start chugging my mouthwash(only thing with alcohol in the house).
David *Born in the USA* Koch
Palin endorsed the buffoon who said McCain wasn’t a hero because he was captured.
There is so much WIN to this.
slag
@slag: OK. Now I’m in love with the idea of a Disneyland ride based on Donald Trump’s path to the presidency. You board an unsinkable boat made out of million dollar bills and simply float through the ride in it.
Reality Teevee Reef. Fox News Lagoon. Jerry Falwell Falls. Sarah Palin Swamp. So much to see and do!
Vhh
Suddenly v glad that my family and I acquired Australian passports during a decade long gig there last century. Only took 2 years back then, now it’s up to 5. Far away and very unlikely to get bombed or droned.
Bill
It’s going to be fun to watch the rest of the R candidates smear their parties 08 VP nominee.
But is there a voter left for whom her endorsement matters at all?
David *Born in the USA* Koch
@danielx:
Exactly! That will happen next. The Beltway slobs have already been pushing “it’s Obama’s fault they’re voting for Trump” for months.
Mike E
What a coupla boobs!
Sad_Dem
Henry V: What is thy name? I know thy high quality.
Pogonip
The Stentorian Baboons will be on a double bill with the Angry Circus Peanuts this Friday night, no cover charge.
Baud/Jane 2016: Because It’s A Jungle Out There.
RaflW
Gawker, with excellent timing:
“Per online court records, Track Palin, 26, was charged yesterday with assault, interfering with a report of domestic violence, and possession of a weapon while intoxicated. All three charges are misdemeanors….”
David *Born in the USA* Koch
Juxtaposed moments in time.
On one hand you have Trump doubling down on #GRIFT #FAIL
***
On the other hand:
Gallup — Monday, January 18 – President Obama’s Job Ratings
Approve………………..51%
Disapprove……………45%
At this point in Bush’s presidency his ratings were: 32% approve, 64% disapprove.
Bush had a corporate media cheerleading him every step of way and an opposition party that was respectful.
President Obama had a corporate media attacking him from every angle from day one and an opposition so fueled by racist hate that they’re going to commit political suicide and nominate a buffoon just because he validates their racist hated of the President.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
They’ve already done a commercial for Cruz, IIANM
One of the best parts about it, the old coot must be nail spitting mad.
jl
Some people mentioned Putin. Can Putin be the veep nominee?
Need a spare strong man to replace the strong man if something happens.
I figure, if Ted is eligible, then there has to be an angle for Putin to make the cut.
catclub
@David *Born in the USA* Koch:
I am no Trump fan, but that was the most correct thing Trump has said.
McCain will get over that insult LONG before he forgives Cruz for anything.
Pogonip
Since I moved in to help my father I see a lot more Fox News than I feel I should have to. Yesterday afternoon we watched him give a speech. He has already mastered the political art of making promises you can’t possibly keep.
Baud/Jane 2016: Because It’s A Jungle Out There.
max
empty-headed reality TV has-been Sarah Palin officially endorsed the ambulatory, hirsute, angry Circus Peanut known as Donald Trump
You knew it – it had to be. Outstanding!
max
[‘Cruz is collapsed onto part of his evangelical core, looks like. Very good.’]
bemused
@RaflW:
LOL you can’t make this stuff up.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
I can’t wait for the incoherent word salad to fall out of her mouth
Somewhere Andy Kaufman is kicking himself for not coming up with this performance art.
bemused
@the Conster:
Snyder’s “river of opportunity” for Michiganders hasn’t worked out so well.
slag
@RaflW: I hate to do this, but really, is there a more stunning example of white privilege than the Palin family? So little to offer the world yet still alive and not incarcerated. And not only ignorant of their privilege but thoroughly resentful of those who bring much more value. Sad sad sad.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yup, they did a commercial for Failgunner Ted.
SatanicPanic
@RaflW: Why did they even bother with that Sarah Palin’s America show? They should have just followed this dumbass family around and gave them liquor like The Real World. Would have got plenty of material.
Timurid
Well the 2016 I TOLD YOU I WAS HARDCORE Award may already be locked up:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/18/asia/pakistan-teen-cuts-hand-blasphemy/index.html
Yikes.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ben Cisco:
It’s possible I (or someone) posted this before, but if you want KLASSY, you need to hear Trump speaking in a veddy posh British accent.
Keith G
@Trentrunner:
If Hillary were to do this (and she should), it would be a step in the direction of affirmatively showing that she is the fighter for the little people that she states she is. Folks like passion and they reward it. They really do. Some of Hillary’s best moments last year was her professionally emotive performance in front of Congress.
If she lets moments like the one you point to escape her, she is showing that she is not up to the fight.
Bokonon
Thanks, Obama!
Seriously … watch the likes of Chuck Todd and Jake Tapper find a way to blame this on Obama’s failure to find bipartisan common ground with the GOP. All that polarization by the MOST POLARIZING PRESIDENT EVER! Now the GOP just can’t help themselves …
Anyone want to wager a beer?
Mike J
Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi 5m5 minutes ago
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@Trentrunner:
This kind of shit is what steams me so when conservative assholes bleat about the unfairness of the “liberal press”. “Fair” would indeed be to dump this smoldering heap of blame where it belongs, at the feet of Republican sociopaths. Yeah, but, no. They won’t say that. At least the “serious” people won’t say that. It’ll all be, “Well, surely there’s blame to go around. If only the Democrats weren’t so vituperative and didn’t say such provocative things, I’m sure this never would have happened.”
Mike in NC
Enjoyed the report linked here this morning about how the Trump rally supporters wore red ballcaps instead of red armbands.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
Megyn Kelly:
trollhattan
I know they went out for pizza that one time (and Jon Stewart lost his shit) but who on earth does Trump think Falin can bring to him that he doesn’t already have in tow? Trump’s moves tend to have a reason (even if a tenuous one) behind them but I can’t begin to imagine what’s behind this. “All you meth-heads that don’t usually vote, take an extra hit and VOTE FOR ME.” Doesn’t begin to fit on a bumper sticker.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Bokonon: Obama’s so polarizing and partisan Bernie Sanders wanted a primary challenger in 2012, even thought about doing it himself.
Mike J
Related: today is national popcorn day.
The Other Chuck
@trollhattan: How does “Tweakers for Trump” sound?
trollhattan
@David *Born in the USA* Koch: Quite the windup there. Chin music.
trollhattan
@The Other Chuck:
Much moah bettah!
Amir Khalid
It’s futile to try to figure out the Donald’s thinking. I doubt he gave it any thought beyond “She’s a Republican and the people like her.” I doubt she gave it any thought beyond “He’s the frontrunner.”
Baud
@Amir Khalid: They both thought about the media exposure they would get.
Did Palin go birther on Cruz? That would have made this day perfect.
Baud
@Mike J: Nice.
Roger Moore
@Sad_Dem:
The People’s Republic of California.
Kyle
Baud
@Kyle: Agreed.
Bubblegum Tate
Oh man, I had forgotten about the Red State Trike Force. That shit was hilarious.
chrome agnomen
@Princess: picked her up hitch hiking…
mdblanche
This has just got to be the Wingularity. The only question is which side of the Schwarzschild radius we’re on.
Mike J
Making Python great again
Here’s an actual compilable, runable program:
Sad_Dem
@Roger Moore:
Home of the Reagan and Nixon libraries, Duncan Hunter, Tom McClintock, and former GOP dahling Schwarzenegger?
Josie
IIRC, Palin spent time here in Texas, helping Cruz in his run for the senate. I’d like to know the backstory on how that turnaround happened.
John Revolta
@Amir Khalid:
FTFY
gogol's wife
@SiubhanDuinne:
Love it! Hilarious! I wonder who the voice is. He almost (but not quite) sounds like Nathaniel Parker.
Baud
@efgoldman: Booman has a post up suggesting that Kasich is making his move in New Hampshire as the establishment candidate. One poll has him second only to Trump.
Mike J
@efgoldman: Kasich at 20% in NH.
Adam L Silverman
@SatanicPanic: She’s also not foreign.
geg6
Meanwhile, apparently a warrant for Track Palin’s arrest was issued yesterday. Dude has issues, I’m thinking.
SatanicPanic
@Sad_Dem: Hey, we’ve come a long way since then!
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
@gogol’s wife:
Yeah, that was genius.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@David *Born in the USA* Koch:
Good news for John McCain though.
Adam L Silverman
@catclub: They’re very real. Zandar wrote about them this morning:
http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2016/01/elegy-for-turned-out.html
Redshift
“Nowadays.” Bwahahahaha!
Yeah, there was no hint of any of this back when Ewick was trumpeting Palin as the new conservative messiah, and calling libs the task haterz for pointing out any of it.
mdblanche
Somewhere a supercomputer is thinking “Christ, what an imagination I’ve got!”
David *Born in the USA* Koch
NYT has an article saying Rubio recent blathering about guns is an attempt to butch-up after high-heel-gate.
trollhattan
@Sad_Dem:
Well, McClintock’s gone when the glorious instant-welfare State of Jefferson is formed.
I do hope they put George on the state seal.
SiubhanDuinne
@gogol’s wife:
Parker does a lot of voice-over and audio narration work, so it’s quite possible. Nice catch.
geg6
@trollhattan:
This is purely to piss off Cruz, who thought he had the hillbilly grifter vote wrapped up since Snowbilly Snookie stumped so hard to get him elected to the Senate.
ETA: Apparently, he didn’t share any of that sweet, sweet Goldman Sachs cash, so she went where the gritting opportunities are more generous than the Tailgunner can afford.
Adam L Silverman
@trollhattan: She’ll be unleashed to go after Secretary Clinton. He’ll now stay out of that and sub the job out to Palin. She’ll do her hockey mom/momma grizzly schtick. Someone will bring up both her and her husbands alleged affairs. She’ll scream I’m being victimized by so called feminists because I’ve got a hunky husband and I’m a fit and sexy grandma with traditional Christian, small town American values. I would guess there’s a lock down tight with non disclosure agreements financial arrangement here.
Mike J
@Adam L Silverman: Many in London thought it would be hilarious to vote for a loud mouth with bad hair for mayor.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Didn’t he have some kind of run-in with the Wasilla constabulary not long after he got out of the Army? I’m not talking about that party when the whole famn damily got into a fight with their hosts. The thing I’m vaguely remembering was longer ago and AFAIR didn’t involve his sisters and parents.
Broke into somebody’s house and drank all the booze or something? Just can’t recall.
trollhattan
@geg6:
Well hell, if it’s that simple then I must grudgingly approve. Anything to cut Cruz off at his doubtless knobby knees has my support. And Caribou Barbie gets to say, “Ooooh, CAMERAS!” one more time.
MattF
@Mike J: Looks like a YOOOGE dialect of brainfuck.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: Ahhh Boris.
debbie
NPR ran this story and provided a fair-sized audio clip of Palin’s statement about Trump. It’s as word-salady as I’ve ever heard from her.
The audio won’t be available until 7pm, but it’ll be worth the wait.
The accompanying story includes part of the clip:
It was radio, but I’d swear I could hear the host and correspondent shaking their heads in disbelief.
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
Intriguing, but wouldn’t that require her to follow the playbook at least a little? Question whether she’s learned to study or gained any self-discipline the last four years.
Schlemazel
@Sad_Dem:
FSM does not love me enough to produce a Trump/Palin ticket. A train wreck like that could produce a 45 state landslide for POTUS and flip the House back to Dem.
ellennelle
ex-politician turned reality show dope endorses reality show dope turned politician (not soon enough to be ex).
perfect.
MattF
@debbie: Seeing Palin and Trump giving speeches together is something I’ll enjoy not doing.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yeah, I think it was B&E and stealing booze. Not sure if he was charged in the party incident. I think just Bristol got charged for that one.
Those Palins–so classy!
David *Born in the USA* Koch
Palin’s advice to Trump: “Donald, if things get too hard, you can always quit”.
Adam L Silverman
@trollhattan: I don’t think they care about a playbook. She’ll be off the reservation a lot, but as long as its not directed at Trump and she directs a lot of it at Secretary Clinton, they’ll be happy. Though it will be interesting to see if she starts traveling and she’s got a handler/aid she didn’t have before.
I think part of this is that they’ve realized that Fiorina isn’t going to be in the race much longer. She’s slid to the kiddie table pre debate debate and they desperately need a woman to attack Clinton.
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: Do you have room on your couch?
Personally I’m thinking either Canada or Germany. MAYBE Switzerland if a friend can put me up there.
Schlemazel
@Gimlet:
The dumb duck guy has come out for Cruz
BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan:
I think that’s already been taken.
Mike J
Bill KristolVerified account @BillKristol
BillinGlendaleCA
@geg6: Is Bristol a virgin again?
ETA: Or is there a waiting period after she popped out the latest “one night indiscretion”?
Jeffro
@geg6:
Seconded and OMGWHATSNOTTOLOVEHERE??? David Brooks is beside himself today, calling for a coup of the moderates in the GOP…hey, David, WHAT. MODERATES???
smintheus
Trump shows again that as soon as he tries to talk policy he wounds himself: He just came out in favor of putting even more ethanol in gas. Call it a jobs bill for auto mechanics.
Aleta
Speaking of reality TV shows, it’s rutting season at the Malware Lowlife Refuge.
Next they will be crashing up against each other’s bodies until only one is left standing. The weaker ones will slink away, with some unfortunates becoming roadkill.
(At Raw Story and TPM: Oregon Militiamen Sound ‘Battle Trumpets’ As Call To Arms)
geg6
@Adam L Silverman:
Oh dear. Desperate is the word, if they think Hillary isn’t laughing her ass off at the thought of the “attacks” Caribou Barbie will be subjecting her to.
smintheus
@Adam L Silverman: Forget the husband and family weirdness. Trump’s opponents just need to arrange for him to be asked which position in his Cabinet he’ll give to Palin. Trump of course is dumb enough to answer such a question.
Adam L Silverman
@geg6: I’m not saying its a good strategy or that it would be an effective one, I’m just saying it makes sense. He can’t have his wife do it – apparently her English is heavily accented. He can’t have his daughter do it – she’s too young. So this is who he got.
JPL
@efgoldman: Wasn’t that because of the Koch papa? I have to google in order to refresh my memory.
jnfr
They’re speaking now but I just can’t listen.
Shrillhouse
@Mike J:
Ha ha. Seconded.
Adam L Silverman
@Aleta: Tekeiah! Shevarim T’ruah! Tekeiah!
http://www.biblicalgallery.com/ShofarSounds.HTM
More seriously, they must have at least one Messianic Jew (Jews for Jesus) there. They have a whole ministry dedicated to this. Its not surprising that their members are sliding into this stuff. The overlap, minus the racism, with the Christian Identity appropriation of Judaic rules and codes makes a lot of sense.
http://www.shofarcall.com/about-us.html
Mike J
@smintheus:
All of them, Katie.
Sad_Dem
@efgoldman: So while wingnuts decry California as a liberal state, the facts say otherwise, as they so often to do to wingnuts. California is big, with lots of people in it, and the southern and inland portions tend conservative.
Mandalay
@geg6:
Let’s see if the lamestream media ask mom about this:
So “domestic violence assault on a female” is only a misdemeanor? WTF?
trollhattan
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Somebody took George Jefferson? Zounds and consternation!
Mike J
@Adam L Silverman: When asked how the standoff was going they answered, “shofar, shogood.”
Jeffro
@Mike J: …he said with a wink…;)
NotMax
Graham endorses Bush.
Palin endorses Trump.
Toss-up as to who is the more execrable, the endorsers or the endorsees.
bemused
Oh God. Trump is on and his crowds always sound like drunken mobs. Makes my skin crawl. They want to shed protester’s blood in the worst way.
Ohio Mom
@Baud: Oh no! That has been my dread all along, that Kasich, my crappy governor, would somehow come from behind.
Maybe it is because I’ve had ringside seats to watching him get elected and then re-elected, but I could imagine him beating Hillary.
And boy, would he set us back. It would be Bush’s third term.
(Starts bring nails)
amk
@Adam L Silverman:
“it makes sense”
No, it doesn’t. He wanted a shiny object for IA to distract ted crud voters. He’ll dump her as soon as IA is done. Two egotists in a pod? Not gonna work.
eemom
Team Cruz is “deeply disappointed” in Palin, which is a hilarity unto itself.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: Well played, well played indeed.
Baud
@Ohio Mom: This particular poll had Trump rising the same amount as Kasich was rising, so he hasn’t gained on Trump yet.
Peale
Fear I had last night is Bernie going with Jill Stein for his VP to counter Pailin
Adam L Silverman
@amk: Your take also makes sense. We’ll see what happens. I think she’d play well in SC and a lot of the Southern and Southwestern primary states, but she may be Iowa and out.
NotMax
@bemused
Redneck Nuremberg rallies.
Pogonip
@Timurid: If there’s a mass exodus, won’t that leave some openings for those staying put? Especially if you can do something besides teach history. I’ve always applied for everything in or above my pay grade; I let Personnel tell me I’m not qualified. It’s worked out pretty well. So don’t limit yourself, and good luck!
Baud/Jane 2016: Because It’s A Jungle Out There.
Mike J
@Baud: Also, the poll was done by ARG, which 538 rates as a C- pollster.
JPL
Sorry if this has been posted, but here’s what the freedom girls were thinking.. link
debbie
@Baud:
There is no way RWNJs will accept Kasich as their candidate. Should he get the nomination (and I still think that’s nearly impossible), they’ll stay home rather than vote for him.
Baud
@debbie: Even if he won NH, it’s hard for me to see him doing well in other states (except Ohio).
Mandalay
@smintheus:
Palin is already on the record saying that she would like to be head of the Department of Energy so she can abolish it.
So we can look forward to the privatization of our nuclear security under Secretary Palin. A novel approach I suppose.
dedc79
@Adam L Silverman: Hey, it is a new year. Different calendar, but still.
NotMax
@Mike J
Kasich has been creeping up under the radar in NH for a while.
South Carolina is not his milieu but should he maintain a credible showing in NH, look to Nevada to quite possibly shift his way.
debbie
@Baud:
Or maybe this is all a diabolical plan orchestrated by ALEC. But as Kasich’s numbers move up, so does his bumbling incoherence. As the party faithful begin to have second thoughts about their move to Kasich, in swoops the Mitt to save the day.
bemused
@NotMax:
I think a large number of those people go to Trump rallies just hoping they will be sitting next to protesters so they can rage in their faces. They’d beat one up in an instant if Trump gave them even a slight hint.
Baud
@debbie: Bumbling incoherence is an asset in the GOP race.
Mike J
@bemused:
The notTrumps are taking longer to flame out than the notRomneys did.
muddy
@bemused: There was one a few weeks ago where they wanted to light the protester on fire.
muddy
@Mike J: I think Romney has been sitting by the phone in a 3 piece suit waiting for the call. Save the party, Mittens, you’re our only hope!
bemused
@muddy:
They are all insane. They start looking at people suspiciously who aren’t clapping, hooting and hollering for Trump. I’d be scared to be at any of those rallies and I’m white.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman:
That’s just because where all the people live(Commies), but most of the land area is bright RED!
Mike J
@muddy: I don’t know how he gets on the ballot in any significant number of races at this point.
Baud
Lordy, Sarah Palin makes Donald Trump look statesmanlike. Maybe that’s the whole point to all this.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: See how it’s worked for jeb?
bemused
Palin is babbling but the crowd doesn’t seem very loud or enthusiastic, not like for Trump.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: Jeb’s problem is that he’s such a loser, he couldn’t even pull off bumbling incoherence well.
Josie
CNN and MSNBC et al are carrying Trump’s and Palin’s speeches in their entirety. I have turned off the television for obvious reasons. Does the rule about equal time not apply to news channels?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Dear god, that voice. That shrieky, disagreeable voice! I’d forgotten how much it clawed down your back like rusty blades.
and the way she hops and bounces when she’s shrieking.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I hear he’s low energy, that jeb?
JPL
@bemused: I loved the intro by the Trump who talked about her wonderful family. Maybe he doesn’t know about the arrest for domestic violence. I don’t think McCain knew about the pregnancy.
Docg
Palin speech going over like a lead balloon.
Baud
@Josie: It never applied to cable channels.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Nails on a chalkboard (which incidentally never really bugged me).
Gimlet
When will Michael Bay have the definitive documentary out on Hillary’s emails.
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton’s emails on her unsecured, homebrew server contained intelligence from the U.S. government’s most secretive and highly classified programs, according to an unclassified letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers.
Fox News exclusively obtained the unclassified letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by intelligence agencies that identified “several dozen” additional classified emails — including specific intelligence known as “special access programs” (SAP).
That indicates a level of classification beyond even “top secret,” the label previously given to two emails found on her server, and brings even more scrutiny to the presidential candidate’s handling of the government’s closely held secrets.
While the State Department and Clinton campaign have said the emails in questions were “retroactively classified” or “upgraded” – to justify the more than 1,300 classified emails on her server – those terms are meaningless under federal law.
NEW MICHAEL BAY POST.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
She looks like a porcupine ?
Baud
@Docg:
She keeps saying “art of the dill” as if Trump were the Pickle Master.
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: This is so awful.
Satby
@Trentrunner: The talking points were out about three days ago, I started seeing my wingnut friends using them. We all need to push back hard on this one, and hold MSM accountable like the Tea party does when they don’t like the way something is reported.
Montarvillois
Love Sarah’s shout-out to the “holy rollers”.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
This Palin impersonator is almost as good as Tina Fey.
WaterGirl
Last night Larry Wilmore asked two of his regulars (Mike Yard and Ricky Valez) who they would prefer: Trump or Cruz. Mike Yard said if either of them won he would have to shoot himself in the face; Ricky Valez asked Mike Yard to save him a bullet.
When I think about being faced with either of those horrible horrible people as president (or any of the other clowns) I can begin to understand the rage that right-wingers feel toward/about Obama and how they can feel that he has no right to be president – that’s exactly how I would feel about these other guys. I wonder, could I really respect the office of president if Trump were in it?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
anybody else getting a vibe from Trump like he wishes she’d wrap it up? we may have found the thing that embarrasses him
JPL
main thing the main thing. That is really deep. I just need to figure out what it means.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I hope he didn’t give her his real phone number.
Nate Dawg
I had forgotten how annoying Sarah Palin is.
She seems almost hopped up on drugs, and a bit annoyed at her inability to speak clearly. Early onset dementia? Or a bad pill habit?
Sparrow
I was forced to listen to this endorsement during the interminable wait for baggage at BWI. I feel like my ears and brain have been assaulted.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
The look on Trump’s face is priceless ? – he looks like he’s trying to translate a foreign language he’s never heard of.
Corner Stone
Just like when Romney had Christie give that awful speech at the 2012 RNC nomination event, Trump is wondering now why anyone gave this thick has been a place to say anything out loud.
I think we’re a few minutes away from him pulling a McCain in 2008 when he took the mic away from that nuts ass birther white lady in the audience.
east is east
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Absolutely. She’s fucking up his shit and he knows it. This is physically painful.
Jeffro
The comments to Brooks’ NYT column today are incredibly on point: Brooks, YOU and everyone like you in the GOP faux-intelligentsia are truly reaping what you have sown.
Enjoy the Palin speech!
trollhattan
@Nate Dawg:
Guessing in Palin’s view there’s no such thing as a “bad pill habit.” Except for that not taken by her surprisingly fecund kid–that pill’s for lie-berals and the poors.
Baud
Sarah Palin would currently be in her seventh year as Veep.
Aleta
@geg6: I bet she announced this today to divert the coverage. Which she has.
JPL
@David *Born in the USA* Koch: Aren’t we all.
smintheus
@Mandalay: Yes she is. It’s exactly the kind of catastrophe for Trump I’d like to see: let the idea of Palin in the Cabinet sink in with voters, and give her a chance to remind them how awful she’d be.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
now who can argue with this genuine frontier gibberish.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m picturing Trump as played by Phil Hartman playing Sinatra: “Did nobody tell that broad Trump doesn’t do sidekick? She can save the windy yammering for when she’s on her own. Trump always has top billing. I didn’t second banana for Dino and Sammy, I ain’t gonna do it for some jumped Walmart cashier from the Klondike.”
Corner Stone
I have the sound on mute and this is so fucking awful I can barely stand it.
JPL
wtf… really..
our prostitution… did I hear wrong?
Baud
@Corner Stone: I might have to buy a new TV.
amk
@Gimlet: so?
David *Born in the USA* Koch
McCain must be drinking heavily at this moment.
Baud
Ted Cruz must be pleased at this point.
Josie
I hope she yammers on for at least another 30 minutes – as long as I don’t have to listen to it.
feedusafetus
How in the hell is she still allowed on TV? Does this gibberish make sense to anyone? I’m not nearly drunk enough for this.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
Hillary Clinton must have a dresser full of 4-leaf clovers.
Corner Stone
When does the big cartoon wooden hook come out on stage and pull her off?
JPL
Holy fk.. this is bad
Jim, Foolish Literalist
oh man, she’s been starved of the big spotlight so long, I think she’s OD’ing.
and a pox on MSNBC for enabling.
Iowa Old Lady
We’re gleeful and Red State is dismayed. How Palin’s place in the political world has changed. Apparently Trump didn’t know that.
Corner Stone
This simply has to be scripted reality TV at this point. Someone put this whole freakin’ gag together.
He sooo wants to push her off stage right now.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
@Baud: under normal circumstances, you would think so. but she’s the grand siren of the know-nothings that make up their base.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The train wreck got me to watch their crappy network, so it works.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@David *Born in the USA* Koch: quick, somebody tweety Tweety to refer to her as “John McCains’ vice presidential pick” when the (finally) cut to him
east is east
Keep screeching, Sarah! The Donald is dying inside up there. He’s thinking, “fucking bitch!”
Mandalay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
She’s gone rogue and told the crowd what a great guy Rand Paul is! WTF???
Corner Stone
@Josie: Can you imagine if she goes for another 15? I can not wait to see right wing pundits reviews of this. And I mean I can’t wait to see other people summarize those reviews because I am not reading them.
feedusafetus
She seems to have opium on the mind, this explains a lot.
smintheus
@Mike J: Even better, try to get Trump to give one of his ‘why the hell not’ answers to the question “Will you consider Palin as your running mate?”
bemused
Was it Trump’s idea to have Palin speak or his advisors? I’m waiting for steam to come out of his ears or wherever.
Baud
@east is east: Yeah, he’s holding back the “You’re Fired” big time.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: You think Grandpa Walnuts would have lasted 7 years?
JPL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Rich Lowery must be so proud.
Mandalay
@Baud:
Not as much as Hillary Clinton.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: No, we would have all been eradicated by the nuclear winter by Year 5.
Montarvillois
She’s yapping faster than Rubio can.
Corner Stone
“Somebody drop the fucking drapes ala Johnny Carson Show style!”
David *Born in the USA* Koch
How did she get out of high school — there isn’t a single teacher who wouldn’t fail her in english.
Corner Stone
Starrr-bursts! Where have you gone? La da dee, la da da…
Iowa Old Lady
How can she still be talking?
Adam L Silverman
@Gimlet: As someone who has clearance at all of those levels this really doesn’t make a lot of sense. Anything that is special access program (SAP) only, let alone sensitive compartmented information (SCI) or even just Top Secret (TS), is compartmented. In order for this to have originated on her server – as in from her – she would have had to recreate from memory whatever it is that she read and or heard while in the sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF). While that’s possible, I find that hard to believe. What would be more likely is that someone emailed her something that they had seen or heard. This would be called spillage and the receiver is not on the hook for any penalty, just the sender/originator. There is spillage all over the Internet. Technically no one with active clearances can read or access anything on Snowden because those news reports all contained spillage of classified information.
What I think is the most likely thing going on here is that she was sent things by people who thought it was unclassified. The reason for this is that classification, or steps up in classification, are not necessarily because a specific piece of information is classified, but rather because its combined with one or more other pieces of what would be on its own unclassified, but when combined are deemed to be either Secret (S), Top Secret (TS), Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), or Special Access Program (SAP).
And while it may be true that reclassification after the fact has no salience under Federal Law, it happens all the time. Stuff is periodically reviewed to determine if it can be partially or completely declassified. When this happens it is sometimes determined that it needs to actually, because of changes around the world, have its classification increased. In other cases something maybe ambiguously marked, hung on a server of higher classification than needs be, and then it technically defaults to that level of classification.
Josie
@Corner Stone: Once again, you made me laugh out loud.
Helen
The CNN lady just called the speech “riveting”
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: It’s a Fox News article. They are lying.
Baud
@Helen: When you’re my press secretary, you can punish them.
Iowa Old Lady
@Helen: Riveting, yes, but not in a good way.
east is east
Is any of that crowd out of high school? Weird.
bemused
Reporter on msnbc said Palin’s speech didn’t seem to be rousing to the crowd, heh.
feedusafetus
Somewhere a clinic is missing a meth addict.
east is east
She is supposed to travel with him tomorrow. We’ll see if that happens. What a disaster.
Corner Stone
She just looks bad, and really out of place.
BillinGlendaleCA
@bemused: I guess no Starbursts™?
Corner Stone
Tweety has a bad case of Sanders hair.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Helen: MSNBC cub reporter referred to “Sarah Palin’s typical pithy remarks”, and tweety now doing a greatest hits reel from the jeremiad they just devoted I don’t know how many minutes to
JPL
Type in the new word squirmish and see what happens.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: Normally he has Boris Johnson hair, how could you tell the difference?
bemused
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Palin is so yesterday judging by the crowd tepid reaction. They wanted Trump, all Trump like they used to want Palin.
JPL
Now tweety and crew are saying what a good speech. They were able to understand Sarah speech in a way I couldn’t. I’m not impressed.
BillinGlendaleCA
@bemused: The opening act is usually not as good as the headliner(usually the headliner makes sure of that).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Tweety: “She has a magnetic quality, you can’t take your eyes off her…”
To the kind of rapidly aging, horny guy who dyes his hair and thinks waitresses are flirting with them
Mandalay
Tweety haz a sad: “You can’t even see her behind that lectern!!!”.
WTF is it that he wants to see so much?
bemused
@JPL:
If that isn’t a glaring example of how full of shit msm is…Anyone who watched Palin could see the crowd was just not that into her.
feedusafetus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
More like watching a train wreck or someone on a meth bender.
east is east
I like how she kept saying that Trump is the master of the dill.
bemused
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Omg, that’s pathetic even for Tweety.
Mandalay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Earlier she said how Democrats had been “terrified” of Palin in 2008 after she gave a speech at the GOP National Convention.
That’s some serious rewriting of history right there.
Our liberal media at work.
bemused
@east is east:
Someone translate that for me. I don’t have a clue what that means.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Hey, I resemble that comment!
David *Born in the USA* Koch
@Helen: riveting, in the sense she was full of holes.
SiubhanDuinne
@Aleta:
Did you see Ursula LeGuin’s fantastic letter to the editor about the Y’all Qaida occupation? I’ll try to find it again and provide a link in a subsequent comment.
debbie
@David *Born in the USA* Koch:
Too funny. Wouldn’t her frontier gibberish be better employed as spokeschick for Bundy’s mob?
Mike J
@SiubhanDuinne: I linked it in the next thread, because I know AL is in sf fandom.
SiubhanDuinne
@Aleta:
@SiubhanDuinne:
Here’s the link to the LeGuin letter.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
David *Born in the USA* Koch
David *Born in the USA* Koch
SiubhanDuinne
@Mandalay:
I love the idea of Energy Secretary Palin waltzing in to her Department, waving a magic wand — “Poof! You’re gone!!”
Who even needs Congress, amirite?
David *Born in the USA* Koch
David *Born in the USA* Koch
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I believe the metaphor he’s groping for is “trainwreck.” Damn, I’m sorry I missed this apparently catastrophic event. Will be searching for links.
SiubhanDuinne
@muddy:
And that’s just his underwear.
David *Born in the USA* Koch
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker:
Please, B Crack. Please don’t do it. We need you too much. *sobs* Too damn much!
David *Born in the USA* Koch
David *Born in the USA* Koch
David *Born in the USA* Koch
SiubhanDuinne
@Nate Dawg:
Yes, probably.
J R in WV
McCain isn’t a hero, because he nearly sank the USN Forrestal CV-59 when he dropped his bomb load into a flight deck awash in flaming jet fuel. I’m hoping he works hard against Trump, who is more of a turd than a trump.
Palin is just – how to put this? – stupid, I guess will do. Everything she has done since her election as mayor of her little berg in Alaska has shown her lack of thought, lack of education, lack of knowledge. So she is perfect for Trump and his campaign.
They are a nearly perfect storm of, well, whatever they are. I’m holding back. Don’t hold that against me, please.
SiubhanDuinne
@Helen:
Yeah. That’s like looking at a friend’s newborn and saying “Now that’s a baby!!”
muddy
@SiubhanDuinne: Ahahahaha! This fall at the local catalog place that I work, I received a pallet of men’s pajamas, the old fashioned kind that looks like a suit. They had a buttonhole on the lapel! It was even cut, a fully functioning one. Does one wear a boutonniere to bed for formal occasions? So odd.
Btw, Grace says Hi, and wants you to know she is mostly a good girl by now.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike J:
Cool, thanks.
catclub
@efgoldman:
Paul Ryan out of brokered convention.
Sad_Dem
@efgoldman: Ken Calvert, Paul Cook, Duncan Hunter, Darrell Issa, Steve Knight, Doug LaMalfa, Kevin McCarthy, Devin Nunes, Dana Rohrabacher (who let his rented house be used for something–cough Dan Bilzerian cough cough–and resisted paying the landlord for damages–“party” of personal responsibility for the win!), Ed Royce, David Valadao, Mimi Walters, Paul Cook, Jeff Denham. Maybe not enough for a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but a quorum, perhaps.
SiubhanDuinne
@muddy:
Grace is an awesome puppeh. She made a friend of me in the first 15 seconds of zany, crazed, demented barking and running around.
Seriously, I’m glad she’s matured a little bit, but I really did think she was something special.
muddy
@SiubhanDuinne: She’s very bright and has a large vocabulary. It’s just that a 67# terrier is a bit much. You can’t tuck her under your arm and walk off. It took her a while to be able to take a breath (in her case a tension-breaking yawn) and be able to follow directions and be praised. Once she was getting a lot of praise, she got addicted to it. She still loses her mind if she sees other dogs through the fence though. Sawyer tries to herd her away from the fence, what a good boy. Not that it does anything but he tries, and looks up to the house to be sure I’m watching.
boatboy_srq
@@Sad_Dem: The S.O. is in Romania. Not the most conducive LGBT climate, but domestic partnerships are recognized, and my skills are marketable there. We’ve already talked about finding me work and finding us a nice flat or a small house.
Amir Khalid: Remember chastising me for saying “Kuala Lumpur looks better every year”? I think you begin to understand at least one reason why I say that.
catclub
@debbie:
Last verse of Battle Hymn of the Republic:
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
debbie
@catclub:
I know! I was in rush hour traffic when I heard her pearls. My laughter must have seemed lunatic to the neighboring drivers.
John Revolta
@muddy: Goddamnit, this is what happens when a thread gets all long and meandery. I thought you were talking about Palin.
Aleta
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks ! A toast to Ursula Le Guin.
Mike in NC
A couple of days ago the joke was that Trump would have to choose between Meatloaf, Gary Busey, or Dennis Rodman as his VP running mate. Then he appeared with Scotty “Cosmo” Brown. Now he unleashes Caribou Barbie! He really is the reincarnation of P. T. Barnum.
Julia Grey
@Josie:
There is no “equal time rule” anymore. That was eliminated in the Reagan era, and thus was conservative talk radio born.
muddy
@John Revolta: Please don’t be mean about my dog. You should have known it was not Palin when I said “large vocabulary”.
PurpleGirl
@Baud: Actually it was rescinded some time ago; it no longer exists.
Ksmiami
@Betty Cracker: it’s funny but lately I’ve been thinking that we as democrats need to do a 180 in terms of rhetoric attacking the GOP- I mean they always claim liberals will make you abort your gay married babies etc /gloom doom. Why can’t we just say GOP policies mean death- cuz it’s effing true.
laura
@Sad_Dem: all of them Katie
MaryRC
@SiubhanDuinne: She apparently has no idea what the Department of Energy does because she said she’d like the job since oil, gas and minerals are her “baby” and she wants to return federal lands to state control to open them up to drilling and mining.
Sarah, you crazy box of hair, controlling mining and drilling is what the Department of the Interior does. The DoE is responsible for the national nuclear program and nuclear weapons and not even Trump is stupid enough to let you near them.
HeartlandLiberal
@Chyron HR: I lived in Germany for a year back in the early 70’s. Been back to visit twice. I swear, if I thought I could afford it, I would sell off everything here and just move to southern Germany, preferably down in Swabia between the Black Forest to the West, the Swabian Alb to the east. South of Tuebingen, where I went to Uni for a year. My father and uncles who fought that last good war, WWII, would, I think, be disappointed by the irony of my choice, especially the two that advanced into Germany with Patton’s army.
Paul in KY
@Sad_Dem: England.
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: You might get some rental opportunities if the worst happens.
Paul in KY
@Timurid: You would think that kid is seriously disturbed, but then you think about what happens to ‘blasphemers’ over there, and he probably felt his life was in danger & did that to hopefully ensure he wasn’t stoned to death.
Paul in KY
@Keith G: Agree wholeheartedly!
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: She probably got some bucks from Trump. That’s all she thinks about.
Well, that and cheating on Toddd.
Paul in KY
@Nate Dawg: She gets like that when she’s really excited. She probably hasn’t been in front of a crowd that large in quite awhile.
Paul in KY
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well done! God, I could see Phil just killing it with that!
RIP, Phil. One of the greatest SNLers of all time.
Paul in KY
@David *Born in the USA* Koch: Her father was her ‘English’ teacher. She probably had to take care of him to ensure a passing grade.