Combover Caligula appeared on noted feminist Bill O’Reilly‘s show last night to pay tribute to a bold slayer of glass ceilings — himself:
I have great respect for women. I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women more than anybody in the construction industry. And my relationship, I think, is going to end up being very good with women.
Emphasis mine. I can’t wait to watch Hillary Clinton dismantle this self-aggrandizing goon over the next five months. Seeing that bag of flatulence flame out Hindenburg-style will be a joy on some level for every woman who has ever had a piggish male boss who appropriated or undermined her accomplishments (i.e., every woman who has ever had a job, anywhere, ever).
Open thread!
Comrade Jake
A brief explanation of how Hillary won the nomination: 1+1= 2.
Big Ole Hound
Assholio tRump is about to have it handed to hisself. I wonder how he will handle utter failure…
cmorenc
Let’s don’t count our chickens before they’re fucked, insofar as Trump’s chances of winning the GE purportedly already being screwed due to his racist/sexist/reckless/ignorant comments and purported disarray among the GOP. There’s unfortunately more of a market for this shit among a larger portion of the electorate than we wish there was – enough for Trump to pull an upset unless we take him seriously and work like Hell to GOTV in November.
Nicole
I’m sick with worry that he’s going to flame out before the convention, allowing the GOP to stick in whomever they want.
dr. bloor
I wish the GOP would hurry up and have their convention to lock him into the nomination. I’m worried about him completely flaming out before then and re-opening the door for the Zodiac Killer.
schrodinger's cat
@Nicole: Why would this be a good thing for the GOP?
Betty Cracker
@cmorenc: Oh, I agree. I plan to work harder for Clinton’s victory and Trump’s defeat than I’ve ever worked for any non-paying activity, ever. And I expect a tsunami of sexist crap the likes of which we’ve never seen. But I like our chances.
JPL
@schrodinger’s cat: I agree with you. Trump voters would riot in the streets, if the GOP stopped Trump now.
also, if they couldn’t stop him during the primary, they can’t now.
dedc79
I can only assume he’s referring to an actual, physical glass ceiling that he actually broke. More likely though he had someone break it for him because he didn’t want to bloody his beautiful tiny hands.
Snarki, child of Loki
…but enough about your singing abilities…
MattF
@schrodinger’s cat: Right. Bear in mind that in the real-world Republican party, virtue has undergone a drastic devaluation. It’s not at all clear that anyone could replace Der Trump.
Eric U.
@Betty Cracker: when Hillary wins, the sexism level is going to be so high it will break through the glass ceiling all by itself.
As noted on the previous thread, if Trump doesn’t win, his remaining businesses will likely be ruined. I’m pretty sure $500 a night hotels require some people that he has insulted to stay in business.
Mike J
@Comrade Jake:
The masses will rise up! They’re sick of the rigged process!
VOR
C’mon Betty, tell us how you really feel. Don’t hold back.
Remember Carolyn Kepcher from the early seasons of “The Apprentice”? I thought she was very impressive. Trump did promote her, albeit not in the construction business, and gave her a prominent position. But then her profile became too high and Trump let her go.
Betty Cracker
@dedc79: The quote so perfectly captures Trump’s clueless, ego-maniacal buffoonery. From what I’ve read, he actually did put a female project manager in charge of building Trump Tower, and if he had said he was proud to have given her the opportunity to break the glass ceiling in the industry, that would be a legitimate point to weigh against his copious examples of on-the-record sexism. But he’s Trump — he has to hog all the credit. What a dick.
NotMax
Maybe he can call up Giuliani, ask to borrow one of his dresses and show up wearing that to demonstrate his yooge respect for women.
scav
There is a baroque insanity in imagining that the broken glass the true believers are belly-crawling across to vote for the he-man Drump is the result of the strong-man’s busting of the glass-ceiling for the helpless wimminz. Build Those Walls! Bust Those Ceilings! The You’re Fired guy is handing out All the Jobs!
bystander
Every time I try to post about Little Boots in BC’s exact, hilarious sobriquet, my post gets eaten.
mdblanche
…in volume too loud to ignore…
Humboldtblue
Speaking of men treating women badly, the judge who sentenced Brock Turner to just six months in jail for the rape of an unconscious woman will face a recall.
Keith P.
@dedc79: And it was only after he had promised to give it – intact – to the @dedc79: It was probably a large, elaborate glass ceiling that he had previously promised to donate to the Museum of Modern Art before deciding to break it. But do we thank him? Noooooo-ooooooo.
Ryan
@cmorenc: “Let’s don’t count our chickens before they’re fucked”
This. Epic!
chopper
if a democrat says this sort of thing it’s “invented the internet” territory. when trump says it his buffoon voters eat it up like candy.
gvg
@Nicole: If trump is not the nominee, it will be because of some event or him quitting. Those circumstances will not be pretty and will damage the GOP more, fracture their factions, pretty much certain defeat this election.
Now afterwards is a less visible future. Another getting nuttier cycle or breakup? Breakup sounds great but it’s likely that different factions would ally with factions of our party and reform in new ways. I have no idea if I will like a new arrangement better, However if the reformed parties are both sane, it should be safer. We are set up for 2 parties as checks and balances.
I hate to say it but we need to allow pork back in Congress as apparently that was how we actually got people to negotiate and get things done. We also need to overturn citizens united. Too many money sources with no limits and no transparency is causing a system where we don’t know what is going on. Its also accelerated the disfunction of the GOP and I am afraid it will eventually get our party too.
Jeffro
@dr. bloor:
I worry about this too, until I realize: even if Trump flames out, quits, or is blocked at the convention, many of his supporters will not get behind Cruz, Kaisch, or Ryan. The GOP really is in a catch-22 here: stick with Trump and see the “moderates” stay home or vote for Clinton, or ditch Trump and see the Trumpkins revolt against the Establishment’s ‘puppet’.
Even with a full-on media lovefest, even with a supposed “moderate” like Kaisch, I don’t think they can knit this party together well enough to overcome Hillary campaigning with Obama, Warren, Michelle, Joe, and the rest. Just don’t see it.
low-tech cyclist
@Comrade Jake:
Some people don’t accept such a narrow, absolutist view of math.
dedc79
@Betty Cracker:
This. It’s always entirely about him. Look at his explanation of his endorsement of a Republican Congresswoman in North Carolina:
NotMax
@Keith P.
Remember Trump buddy Steve Wynn’s $40 million elbow jab?
O. Felix Culpa
I just got cable installed in order to watch the conventions. I’d like to see Hillary’s victory speech tonight (yay!). Any recommendations for a news station (are there any real ones left?) to watch that won’t cause me to damage the teevee machine?
Jeffro
@gvg:
Looks like we were sharing a brain there at 10:32, gvg!
I hate to say it but you’re right.
And again. Dark money is already blowing folks out of the water downticket – it’s nothing for the Kochs to drop $.5M on a congressional seat or heck even a state senate seat. But that much money in a local race is like an atomic bomb. Naturally I’m not worried about ‘our’ billionaires dropping bombs like that…I’m worried about what it does to democracy overall. We need to get back to a ‘mutually assured destruction’ frame of mind when it comes to campaign finance, before both sides go all out.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@Eric U.:
I know people in the travel industry. Curiously, each has said they’ve never booked anyone into a Trump property. Not only that, they’ve never had inquiries.
Comrade Jake
Jeffrey Lord says Paul Ryan is the real racist!
twitter.com/mmfa/status/740189879393525760
Trump’s campaign is amazing. It’s like watching a racist version of the Bad News Bears run for POTUS.
NotMax
@O. Felix Culpa
C-SPAN.
Feebog
He will make it to the convention. Once Hilz battens down the hatches tonight, she will be able to focus on him like a laser beam, and he will continue to ramp it up. If I was on team Trump (ugh) I would be much more concerned about his health than him quitting. His giant ego won’t allow him to quit.
sigaba
@Comrade Jake:
Thus:
I like how the Republicans are finally finding their Sister Souljah moment, only instead of Sister Souljah it’s their presumptive presidential nominee.
Cacti
Nancy Smash formally endorses Hillary for President.
MattF
Grassley (via TPM): Trump respects judges– look at all the lawsuits he’s won! This would be a lot funnier if Grassley wasn’t chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee.
Iowa Old Lady
@sigaba: I have to admit Lindsay Graham is impressing me in his denunciation of Trump.
SoulOnIce
“I have great respect for blacks. I was the one that really broke the color barrier on behalf of blacks more than anybody in law enforcement. And my relationship, I think, is going to end up being very good with blacks.”
-Bull Connor, 1965
Shell
You and me both, Ms.Cracker. You and me both.
Matt McIrvin
@Nicole: The replacement candidate would be a better candidate–but that candidate would also be pre-damaged by the non-support of the Republican rank and file, and Trump’s voter armies would be outraged. It would be chaos and confusion in the Republican party like we haven’t seen in many years.
Mustang Bobby
I wish I could remember where I saw it, but this one made me gigglesnort: Hair Furor.
Neldob
Anybody interested in what’s going on around the BDS scene in NY?
O. Felix Culpa
@NotMax: Thank you! I’ve only watched tv in dentist’s offices in recent years – typically Faux News to add to the pain – so I’m out of the loop WRT what’s reasonably watchable.
Iowa Old Lady
@Matt McIrvin: Plus having to remove a candidate makes them look hapless, like removing Eagleton as VP candidate did to the Ds years ago. It doesn’t help if the party removing the candidate actually is hapless.
Comrade Jake
@sigaba: I mean, I didn’t think the GOP would ever surpass the PR trainwreck that was Sarah Palin’s interviews, but here we are. We are witnessing internecine warfare because their own nominee is making racist comments. It’s unreal.
Mike J
@O. Felix Culpa: .
CSPAN but turn it off if they start taking phone calls.CSPAN calls ins are the TV equivalent of a newspaper comment section.
low-tech cyclist
@Matt McIrvin:
Hell, we’ve already got that – but they’re more than welcome to crank it up to 11!
Betty Cracker
@Mustang Bobby: Oooo, that’s good! Adding it to my repertoire!
mdblanche
@sigaba: That, and they’re still going to “support” their Sister Souljah.
trollhattan
Ken Osmond is 73 today, so in his honor and using my best Eddie Haskell voice:
“Donny got beat up by a girrrlll! Oh, hello madam president, my those are fetching pearls.”
SiubhanDuinne
@low-tech cyclist:
Best thing about that link was the banner ad for YUGE: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump.
May need to preorder that.
Mnemosyne
Reminder for Californians who normally vote by mail — if you want to vote in person instead today, you MUST BRING YOUR MAIL-IN BALLOT WITH YOU because you have to trade it for an in-person one. If you don’t, you will have to vote provisionally so they can verify you didn’t also mail in your ballot. Two people in line behind me this morning did this.
LAO
What is so damn infuriating is that Ryan, may say things like Trump’s comments are text book racisim but he finishes with this:
F*ck them all. I will no longer tolerate a person claiming that “reasonable republicans” exist — because there are none. Party before principals, the motto of the modern republican party.
hovercraft
@Betty Cracker:
She was interviewed by Chris Hayes a couple of weeks ago. She is not a fan of his, yes he gave her a great opportunity, but he was capricious, petty , and demeaning. Sexist comments about her looks and weight. She said she would never vote for him.
sigaba
@Iowa Old Lady: There’s been several denunciations fro Republicans but nobody’s demanded he apologize or withdraw his remarks. Even his hardest critics on the right are leaving open the “this is all a big misunderstanding” play.
Corner Stone
@mdblanche:
Exactly. Ryan went on next to firmly denounce the eebil that is HRC and said “she was not the answer”. Susan Collins also recently stated she’s, “not ready to back Trump yet”. That was *after* she denounced his repeated attacks on the judge. Chris Christie is calling this a “kerfuffle” and what’s important is “winning and losing”. I particularly liked his wormy evasion when they asked Christie about defending the judge he nominated years ago. The one people claimed would impose Sharia Law.
He totally squirmed on that hook for several minutes.
Shell
I almost feel sorry for these surrogates/spokespeople, having to twist themselves into pretzels.
But then I actually see them on TV and, nope, stew in it, ya fuckers!
LAO
@Comrade Jake: But what does it really matter, if they are all going to continue to support Trump anyway and block Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. If ever a candidate has disqualified himself from appoint members of the judiciary (including the Supreme Court), it’s Trump. I am so thoroughly disgusted with republican’s that I can’t even feign civility.
Corner Stone
Has there ever been a better case study on political ambition & hubris than Chris Christie?
Iowa Old Lady
@sigaba: True, but at least Graham says he won’t vote for Trump. He won’t vote for Clinton either.
Cacti
@Corner Stone:
Chris Christie was found sufficiently unethical to survive the Karl Rove U.S. Attorney purge.
hovercraft
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class:
His business has plummeted . I guess being an ass is not good for business.
mdblanche
@Iowa Old Lady: If Combover Caligula is such an awful candidate that he has to be removed from the ticket, what does that say about the 16 other candidates he beat for the nomination?
Mnemosyne
@cmorenc:
Fix’d. White voters vote Republican in large numbers — in 2012, it was 62 percent of white men and 54 percent of white women. What put Obama over the top was the Obama Coalition, namely African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American voters.
Unless a huge number of white Obama voters from 2012 break for Trump, he’s going down. Hard. And the more we work on voter turnout, the more humiliating his loss will be.
Ramping Up
Don’t count on it.
The race is still TOO CLOSE TO CALL.
With disappointing jobs reports (possible recession on the horizon?) And CRISIS OF CHARACTER hitting bookstores, anything is possible. Trump is in a great position given all the heat and fury surrounding his comments, yet it hasn’t seem to change this race one bit!
We could be up ALL NIGHT on November 8th! Very exciting!
Ohio Ohio Ohio, Florida Florida Florida!
hovercraft
@Comrade Jake:
I thought the strategy he laid out was to call anyone who asked about the judge racist. But I guess it’s to call anyone who doesn’t agree with him a racist. This morning on CNN Lord was calling Anna Novarro a GOP strategist a racist for being offended.
Corner Stone
@mdblanche:
Mainly that they were cowards contending for votes from racist, hateful, cowards? And he beat them at it?
LAO
@Corner Stone: Or that the relentless stoking of racial resentment in their base has come home to roost for the Republican party, as exemplified by a candidate that doesn’t understand how to dog whistle?
Corner Stone
@hovercraft:
It’s great for business if your business is primarily selling that assholishness, see Gordon Ramsey and Simon Cowell. But actual business that have to sustain contact with real people may be a little tougher.
Immanentize
Betty! This is an “open thread” — so sorry for the delay —
TOMATO PIE #1
INGREDIENTS
• 1 (9 inch) pie shell
• 6 ripe tomatoes, sliced and drained (blanched and peeled if you prefer)
• 1 yellow onion
• 3/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1/3 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• ground black pepper to taste
• 2 -4 Tablespoons fresh basil
• 2 teaspoons fresh oregano (optional)
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Bake the pastry shell for 8 to 10 minutes or until browned.
3. Slice onion and place in the bottom of pastry shell. Slice tomatoes and arrange over onions. Add black pepper to taste.
4. In a medium bowl, combine mozzarella, parmesan, mayonnaise and herbs. Spread this mixture evenly over tomatoes.
5. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown on top.
Immanentize
Tomato Pie #2!
The perfect summertime dish.
At least 4 Large Tomatoes (red or green, your choice) thick sliced
Fresh Basil (12 leaves or more)
2 T fresh chives, chopped
2 cloves garlic (pressed or minced)
Salt
Pepper
2/3 Cup Mayonnaise (maybe a bit more)
1/2 Cup grated xtra sharp cheddar
1/2 Cup fresh grated Parmesan
1 Pie crust — pre baked and cooled.
Preheat oven to 350. Sprinkle the tomato slices with salt and let them stand for 20 minutes or so. Mix up the mayo, parmesan, cheddar, basil and chives. Place the tomatoes in the crust, cover with the mixture and bake for about 30 minutes.
SOME extravagant folks put crisp bacon into the mix and sprinkle it over the top before they bake the pie!
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: Have you watched Gordon Ramsey’s original British shows. He is acerbic but the criticism is usually well deserved and he doesn’t yell all that much either.
Rob Lll
Just voted. I live in the hipster-heavy Los Feliz neighborhood in LA, and when I arrived just after 7:00 AM I counted about 50 people in line ahead of me. Usually I just scoot right in — never seen so many people voting in a non-Presidential election. Regardless of the outcome, I’m always heartened to see a higher level of voter turnout.
Also, my polling place is the local Masonic temple. I would tell you about all the crazy stuff I saw inside, but before I left they made me sign a blood oath to protect the secrets of the order. I guess they really do run the world.
dmsilev
@Ramping Up: Given your consistent track record of predictive accuracy, I guess we can all get used to saying Madame President.
SRW1
@Snarki, child of Loki:
If that is what he meant, Trump is wrong. That honor belongs to Oskar Mazerath.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drum
schrodinger's cat
Now that Ramping Up is here, his buddy Reggie Mantle won’t be far behind.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Jeffro: This is a far worse problem than realized. Half a mil on a congressional seat? How about half a million on a school board seat? That was last election. Over 2 million for a country supervisor’s seat where the supervisors are already 80% Republican, but no, that’s not enough, gotta be 100%. That’s happening right now.
It’s happening here, right now where I live, this election cycle. The amount of money involved can’t be fought, not when our local Dem candidates have a hard time coming up with ten grand.
hovercraft
This is an interesting pile of steaming crap brought to you by one of Denesh D’Souza’s old colleagues. Why Trump will crush Hillary How many of these articles will we see daily?
Miss Bianca
@cmorenc:
May I just add my kudos for this turn of phrase? And so noted on the sentiment.
Corner Stone
@schrodinger’s cat: I’ve seen a handful. It seems to me he was very formulaic in his fixes or remedies. Have to admit every dish he turned out was markedly better than most dishes one would see in a good restauarant, let alone the dumps he was fixing.
His US ones seemed to me to be mainly about making at least one person cry and/or one person almost come to blows before storming out.
Amir Khalid
@Ramping Up:
Yeah, too close to call.
Villago Delenda Est
@chopper: The Village eats it up, too.
Wipe them out. All of them.
sigaba
@Rob Lll: Is this the place on Glendale Blvd. south of Hyperion? When my dad was trying to get me into Masons he suggested that lodge.
I drove by there recently and right across the street from the lodge is a house done up in huge Bernie signs. My guess is Los Feliz would be big Bernie territory. I voted absentee as is my custom, thank heavens.
Corner Stone
Silly question, but when is the media going to actually ask the follow up question to R’s who are “denouncing” Trump?
Side note – is the correct usage “when is the media” or “when are the media” ? They both sound right to my ear but I believe the usage of “the” makes the singular “is” the correct choice.
Where is Steepman when he’s so desperately needed?
mdblanche
@Corner Stone: “I want a president who’s not a racist but just a cowardly loser” said nobody ever.
Miss Bianca
@gvg:
I agree with both these sentiments. I bet the Republicans never realized that the light they perceived at the end of the tunnel when Citizens United was decided – yay, finally, unlimited cash from corporate interests! – was attached to a freight train that was going to run them over.
sigaba
@Corner Stone: Media is a plural noun, but then again we do not typically say “when are the United States…” we say “when IS the United States…”
trollhattan
@Ramping Up:
We can smell the flopsweat when you break out the Random Capitalization and boldface text. Change that t-shirt.
Immanentize
@JPL: The violence thingy — Anyone remember the 1968 Nixon campaign, “Nixon’s the One”? He waged his campaign in large part on a law and order argument claiming he could stop the rioting and the lawlessness that was on everyone’s TV machines every night. What play do Trump and the R.s have this summer/fall? Create situations where violence is promoted, get Trump friendly police (like Comey?) to equate the lawlessness and street violence in the big bad cities with disrespect for police and the rule of law. Create more situations for violence. Promise, with the help of the police who are backing them, to be the solution to all this (hippy and nig-CLANG) violence. Then, we can start work on the “Nixon, Now More Than Ever” (the 1972 campaign motto). Substituting Trump for Nixon, of course.
And nothing would round out that picture more than chaos at the Democratic convention…. Jes sayin’.
Corner Stone
@Rob Lll:
I thought it was “Girlz!” ? Oh, wait. They run “this motherfucker”. My bad.
Gindy51
@Mustang Bobby: Trumpberius, he reminds me so much of Caligula’s uncle Tiberius. So paaranoid, so easily pushed to extremes, and so vendictive… Trump would have treason trials daily.
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: I agree about the formulaic part. In the US shows he is playing a part, a louder and nastier version of himself. I can’t watch those shows, they seem fake.
Did you ever watch WNTW? The British version was better, I like Clinton and Stacy but they did kinda put everyone in the same uniform.
CONGRATULATIONS!
.
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: Before the stumpy-fingered vulgarian got into this race, the wife and I booked a room at the Trump in Vegas. Spectacular discount rates, as it’s not on the strip and does not have it’s own establishment of games of chance. Both pluses in my eyes.
I’m not gonna lie, that’s the second nicest hotel I’ve ever stayed in (Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island would be #1 by a long shot). It was great, not a detail missed, run by professionals. I honestly wasn’t expecting that as I knew that Trump was a bungling moron even then, but somebody had hired some damn good people to run that hotel.
It also looks like a huge erect penis from a distance, and I have an odd feeling that may not be an accident.
Lizzy L
@Matt McIrvin: I’m good with all of that.
Miss Bianca
@Iowa Old Lady: Could this be the advent of NFLTG Lindsey Graham? *That* would be interesting.
trollhattan
@Corner Stone:
I prefer media are. Style guides are split on whether media is has transitioned to common use, but I also stick with data/datum so what do I know?
CONGRATULATIONS!
Oh FFS, in moderation, damn that word press is picky.
Mnemosyne
@Rob Lll:
My polling place was the SpiritWorks church, which seems to be some weird sect I’ve never heard of that’s a little similar to both Christian Science and Scientology, but isn’t associated with either.
ETA: This was in Burbank, and also super-packed at 7:15 am.
Corner Stone
This Trump Sr Press person on MSNBC has Foxbot career stamped all over her.
sigaba
@Miss Bianca:
I think a lot of them just didn’t care, half the Republicans in congress hate the Republican party and gleefully run against it. The people in the bitch seat are the RNC and congressional leadership who have to take the abuse in good humor because it’s the only way they can hold onto their legislative majorities. If Citizens United brought a freight train, there’s a lot of Gohmert’s and Cruz’s out there saying “BRING ON THE TRAIN.”
To earmarks and “pork,” I’m not sure the money itself was as important as the fact that they were basically discreet agreements and every lobbyist and his brother wasn’t sniffing your clothes for perfume and cigarettes every time you came out of an elevator. Transparency makes it impossible for people to compromise.
Miss Bianca
@Mustang Bobby: @Betty Cracker: you all have seen this one, right? (h/t Adam Silverman)
Rob Lll
@sigaba:
No, this is the one on Vermont — just north of Franklin. How many Masonic temples do we have around here anyhow? :)
I think you’re right in assuming that Los Feliz is heavy Bernie territory. The booths were all designated by party affiliation and there were long lines in front of those labeled “Democratic”. The Republican booths looked awful lonely. I didn’t see a single person use them.
Eric U.
@mdblanche: I think that if the republicans hadn’t screwed up their primary system so badly, he probably wouldn’t have won. Which leaves the horrifying idea that one of the others would have won. Maybe Kasich.
trollhattan
Least surprising news of a busy news day: St. Ralph is still an asshole.
sherparick
Bernie’s campaign and his supporters when ballistic last night when the AP and NBC News put out the news that Clinton had enough delegates, both pledged from primary and caucus results and super-delegate preferences. This was pretty much inevitable after Clinton slammed Bernie in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands put her within 26 votes over the weekend. Apparently, Clinton getting more votes is the new definition of “rigged” by Sanders and his supporters. There is a streak in some “progressive” white males of real misogyny and view that minority voters don’t count as much as “white progressive voters.” The New Left of the late sixties and seventies, which is what Bernie and Jeff Weaver came out of, was pretty steeped in this stuff and also a practice of purity politics. They need to look at their own premises and who they are willing to throw under the bus for the sake of their purity politics, washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_06/a_day_of_reckoning_for_the_san060741.php
O. Felix Culpa
@Mike J:
Thank you for both recommendations. Every time I foolishly click through to newspaper comments, I find I need to take a shower and return to Balloon Juice to restore (relative) sanity.
sigaba
@Rob Lll: There are many, many Masons in Cali.
Matt McIrvin
@Amir Khalid: That article is a little out of date–as you can see from the headline on his blog, it’s now down to Clinton 321, Trump 217.
A couple of polls came out around Clinton’s absolute low point showing Trump winning Oregon (really?) and tied in New Hampshire. The Oregon poll is basically the only general-election poll anyone’s taken there in months, but Sam Wang’s policy is not to filter anything out just for seeming dodgy.
Villago Delenda Est
@NotMax: How can this guy be a buddy of Drumpf? He took responsibility for the elbow jab, he called off the deal because of it, and he behaved ethically.
Amir Khalid
I just read what Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord had to say about Paul Ryan’s rebuke of the Donald. If this keeps up, I suspect some Republican will eventually say, “Okay, that’s it. I’m withdrawing my endorsement of Trump and sitting this one out/voting for Hillary.”
philpm
Just think what will happen if, after the convention, Hair Dump dies of the massive coronary that he’s working up to daily. The entire internet will melt down into a puddle from the massive rush of RW conspiracy theories that will make the Hillary killing of Vince Foster theory look like a beginner’s reading book.
hovercraft
Meryl Streep as Donald Trump, do you think he’ll be flattered? Imitation is the highest form of flattery right?
MattF
Via TPM, Senator Richard Burr (NC):
Hey, man… WTF?
Iowa Old Lady
@trollhattan: Is having followers who think you’re a “saint” a result of your being an asshole or a cause?
Shantanu Saha
My big worry is if Trump strokes out before the convention, paving the way for the zombie-eyed granny starver to claim the nomination. After the convention, not so much. If he picks a guy like himself as VP, they’re going to have to go with a second tier Trump instead of the first cut bozo.
Ramping Up
@Shantanu Saha:
Again with the Trump will drop out fantasies. Do you know how many times his GOP opponents told themselves that? The pattern from the primaries is repeating: THIS WILL BE IT! THIS UN-PC STATEMENT WILL TOTES END HIS CAMPAIGN! HE WILL DROP OUT! And nothing changes. People are sick of PC.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@hovercraft:
It makes sense. The best a Trump property could do would be a business 4 star – not a leisure 4.
There are much better properties available at that rate.
Miss Bianca
@hovercraft: Not when she shows up on SNL to roast his nuts in Trumpendrag, he won’t be!
hovercraft
@philpm:
Obama already killed Scalia this year, so I wouldn’t put it past him to kill the man who would be the greatest president ever. And Obama would also do it so that Clinton can come in and make sure that all his crimes are covered up, study up people.
Corner Stone
@philpm:
Theory? Ah, how refreshing it can be to see such youthful naivete…
MattF
@Ramping Up: It was ‘stroke out’ not ‘drop out’.
trollhattan
@Iowa Old Lady:
Uh…yes?
Confess I’ve never understood the Nader phenomenon–to follow him you have to deafen yourself to his actual words. FFS he wrote a whole book about how only America’s billionaires could save democracy.
Betty Cracker
@Immanentize: Wow, these both sound awesome, and I’ve got bushels of tomatoes, so the timing is perfect. Thank you!
Corner Stone
@MattF:
What?
MattF
@Corner Stone: There’s a certain je ne sais quoi about that quote, IMO.
dmsilev
@hovercraft: No no no. Remember, Obama is a Time Lord. He would get rid of Trump by going back in time and ensuring that Trump’s father’s business collapsed. Hillary is the one with the ninja assassination squad.
Ramping Up
@MattF:
Same diff. Some fantasy that Trump won’t make it to the election.
Corner Stone
“Democrats Divided”
An actual tag above the chryon on MSNBC right now. The Democrats just settled their hash last night and will reinforce their majority selection tonight.
Meantime, the R’s are in full racist meltdown mode because Donald does not know what the words sotto voce mean.
philpm
@Corner Stone: I was trying to come up with a better term, but I haven’t had enough coffee yet this morning.
Corner Stone
@MattF: It’s fucking non-parsible, I am here to tell you.
Where is FlipYrWhig when he is so desperately needed?
shell
So..”Weve always known he was a racist buffoon, so its all right.”
Corner Stone
@philpm: HRC was the original Xenia Onatopp. Dude didn’t stand a chance.
Aleta
He has broken thousands of glass ceilings.
Dear little Trumpnoccio.
dmsilev
@Corner Stone:
“Klaxon horn”, right?
[email protected]
@Rob Lll: I had the same observation–I’ve never seen so many people voting at 7:30 AM (line of ~25 deep at a house in suburban San Diego). My neighborhood is nearly 100% Democratic, so by default, everyone I saw was wanting to weigh in on Sanders (and maybe Kamala Harris v. Loretta Sanchez). Maybe it’s just the random circumstances this year prompting early morning voting.
Brachiator
@Betty Cracker:
@hovercraft:
Actually, she said “He has to be stopped!!”
An interesting woman, Barbara Res. She’s written a book about her experience in the construction industry and with Trump. And, curiously, she says that Trump started out being respectful towards her and other women, but something seemed to change later. A short clip of the interview can be seen here.
She warns that he is not qualified and ” would try to take America back 30 years,”
I wonder if the Democrats could quote her in a campaign ad.
dmsilev
Feel the love:
(TPM)
? Martin
We have a notion of fairness even in fighting. If someone kicks your dog, you’ll probably be forgiven for punching them in the mouth, but not for hacking off their arm. Politicians always worry about this, which is why they use surrogates or hit groups for the nasty stuff.
The good news for Clinton is that none of that will apply this year. She cannot possibly hit Trump so hard that the public feels sympathy for him. This is going to be brutal.
srv
Pat Buchanan calls out the PC and RINO crowd:
MuckJagger
@Humboldtblue:
This is all kinds of fucked up.
So, to summarize: If you’re a drunk male, you have less moral culpability — but if you’re a drunk female, you have *more* moral culpability.
Yuck.
? Martin
So I figure within a week GOP senators are going to be directly questioned why they are holding open a USSC seat that Trump has broadcast can only be filled by a white, Christian male. They will need to answer for why they are now complicit in a race, gender, and religious litmus test for judges.
MattF
@MuckJagger: Well, it does simplify the whole ‘guilt’ thing.
Bobby Thomson
@Comrade Jake: weren’t the actual Bad News Bears pretty racist?
sigaba
@srv: I read that article and even some of the other columnists at American Conservative took him down for it. When even the neo-confederates can’t agree on Trump…
Jeffro
@Iowa Old Lady:
In Jeffro-fantasy-land, the media actually does its job and asks Graham (and Ryan, and any other GOP weasel who says that they’re ‘equally bad choices’), “What exactly is it about Secretary Clinton that you are afraid of, considering a) how well the nation has done under President Obama and b) that Secretary Clinton’s policies appear virtually indistinguishable from the President’s?”
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
Intriguing – I just took a gander at some of the the reviews of Trump hotels on TripAdvisor.
I travel quite a bit, as you’ve all gathered, and the properties I stay in are generally in the Trump price range or greater. i’ve also dropped a fair number of reviews in at TripAdvisor over the years, depending on mood, and use it a lot in advance of a trip, when making selections (it is generally more reliable than Yelp if you use it right and know how to read reviews).
The European reviews were discounted by me, because they’re all too frequently used to shit accommodations, and are happy if the lights work and the roaches aren’t attacking in their sleep. I saw a suspicious number of one hit reviews from those who were posting as Americans, and when they were Badge 3 and up, they generally had a disturbing number of Trump properties they stayed at. They could be devotees, but could also be sockpuppets.
Jeffro
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
Yup. And because it’s not the presidential race, it’s under the radar of 99% of the media and 99.9% of the public.
Jane Mayer’s book on this, “Dark Money”, is excellent. Her articles are worth linking to and she’s worth re-tweeting every chance you get.
Mnemosyne
@MuckJagger:
When the victim wakes up in a hospital bed afterwards, it’s pretty hard to argue that it was just a misunderstanding between drunk people, and yet that seems to be the judge’s stance despite the jury’s decision.
trollhattan
@srv:
The treasured Pat Buchanan endorsement should put Donny over the top, especially with disaffected Berners, yes? Ralph Reed and Charles Manson should fall into line now.
trollhattan
@Mnemosyne:
Worst judge since the Texas affluenza murderer case.
Jeffro
@dmsilev:
So, which is Michelle? I’m trying to picture whether a time machine or ninja minions would be the best option for getting rid of the Whitey tape.
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid:
I sincerely hope that the Republicans keep this up. They have pivoted to a perfect circular firing squad.
Trump says something obviously racist. Then this doofus ups the ante and attacks another Republican, Ryan.
The guy saying this, Jeffrey Lord, was evidently a member of the Reagan administration, which kinda taints old beloved Ronnie as well.
The Democrats only have to nudge this a little bit, and Trump will do the rest himself to keep things going.
Glennis Waterman
@Ryan: Don’t you mean rats?
Frankensteinbeck
@trollhattan:
To be fair, having grown up Jewish, I can tell you the Jewish joke books were mostly sold by Jews to Jews.
(Disclaimer: I am making an amused side note. Nader’s bigotry in this article is vile. He honestly makes the argument that white males are being unfairly oppressed by not being allowed to use ethnic slurs and harass women on the street.)
Mnemosyne
@Jeffro:
She’s the companion. Duh.
Frankensteinbeck
Removed. I decided there are some things you don’t want even to get close enough to step around.
scav
@Frankensteinbeck:
Well, that and getting a consequence-free 20 minutes of action on demand may very well be the utter core essence of white-maledom judging by their panicked all-out multi-front defense of it.
HRA
DT is scripted to the extent of grabbing all the media attention. It’s more than evident the losers did not know how to handle him in their debates. Now he has gone way over the top in the same pattern. The truth is my puppy is more presidential than what reeks from his mouth.
I don’t agree with HRC going into the weeds he established to battle him. This is what gives him power and what he aims to happen. Yes, she does in certain scenarios as in the current one of discrimination have to give a response. I want her to do it wisely and calmly. That throws egotistical bullies right off of their plans.
Everyone have a good day!
Mike J
@Mnemosyne: Hey Mnem, didja see the Lin-Manuel Miranda article in the Times today? He comes down solidly on the side against forcing people to fight robots.
Miss Bianca
@Frankensteinbeck: How can this guy have gone from actually doing some good as a consumer advocate to this sad caricature? Now it almost makes me want to go back and review “Unsafe at Any Speed” to see if I can see the signs of incipient asshole-ism. Almost.
Elmo
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: Don’t you have a particular brand you stay in to get points? I travel on business 3-4x a month, and my Marriott points and United miles are going to pay for a very nice vacation in San Diego for my wife and me later this year.
Gin & Tonic
@scav: Not to make light of a crime, but I’ll bet my house it wasn’t anywhere near 20 minutes.
Tripod
Team Clinton took Obama’s correspondents dinner routine and applied them to her foreign policy speech.
They’re celebrity roast beats, and very effective against this reality TV huckster, because of his life’s work as a grifter cum celebrity buffoon.
Jeffro
@Mnemosyne:
So…Time Lady, then?
She seems cool enough to do both: send the ninjas through the time machine and erase the tape before it was ever filmed, then slice it to ribbons for good measure.
scav
@Gin & Tonic: Then it actually speaks even louder of the biased dreams of the father, no? with similar caveats.
Brachiator
@hovercraft:
Bunches. There is not much new here, and the writer gives Trump too much credit for being able to define the campaign. They need to do this to divert attention from the current mess they keep stepping in.
The author makes some valid points, but underestimates how Trump himself undermines his message.
I expect that the GOP will try to exert some discipline as they head into their convention. The question will be whether Trump continues to be his own agent of chaos or begins to listen to the advice he is being given.
Original Lee
@Mnemosyne: BTW, in case you haven’t seen it: clearly I thought of you immediately.
Immanentize
@Shantanu Saha: I saw Scott Brown pitched as a VP choice. Oh please Dog, yes — what fun it could be.
please please please
let me, let me, let me
let me have what i want this time.
Emerald
@Brachiator:
Considering the fact that Ronnie began his official campaign with a speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, known only for the murders of the three civil rights workers, I’d say old Ronnie was pretty adept at tainting his own self.
Cat48
@Jeffro:
The Whitey Tape Lives! Good,times,they were!
catclub
@schrodinger’s cat: I think if there wasa godawful fight by Cruz as second in line, then that mess would help the Democrats. If Paul Ryan is elected as savior of the GOP’s fine reputation, the press would fall all over themselves to help lift him up.
So, Trump is far less dangerous in one case.
catclub
@hovercraft: Isn’t that convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza?
catclub
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: There was a news bit that Trump hotels are suffering lower bookings these days. Presumably due to his campaign.
Brachiator
@? Martin:
They will keep deflecting the question with nonsense about letting the American people decide.
Also, Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland is white, Jewish and male. Two out of three.
Mnemosyne
@Jeffro:
She’s River Song.
… explains a lot, actually.
Mnemosyne
@Original Lee:
One of my co-workers sent it to me by 8:30 this morning! And even my boss got sucked into it.
Cat48
Ms Lindsey Graham, my Sen., seems really upset with the Dumpster. He won’t vote for him or Hillz. He seems near tears. A lot of us Northeners have invaded SC & it is twice as diverse as it was. He needs to get re-elected.
Shell
Jeepers, I forgot all about him. Another one scrambling for revelancy.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Gin & Tonic: I have bravely resisted saying that on social media, but yeah, I’m thinking more like twenty seconds at best.
RedDirtGirl
@Neldob: You mean our esteemed governor refusing to do business with companies that are boycotting Israel? Yeah, saw that.
Bill Arnold
@dmsilev:
I guess we can all get used to saying Madame President.
Yeah, I find RU unsettlingly comforting. Irritating, it is.
Rob Lll
@sigaba:
Wow, I had no idea. That’s fascinating. Not only did I vote, I learned something new today!
Rob Lll
@Mnemosyne:
Interesting. For many years, my polling place was the assembly hall of the Roman Catholic church directly across the street from my apartment. Not a fan of the RCC (or at least the hierarchy), so it felt a bit awkward.I was always somewhat surprised that I didn’t burst into flames immediately after crossing the threshold.
Jado
this guy is Mr Heckles from the early years of Friends
youtube.com/watch?v=ritLRY6_1BI
TriassicSands
There’s a problem, Betty. What you and I might see as “dismantling” will mean absolutely nothing to the the millions of ignorant and stupid American voters who somehow manage to drag themselves to the polls. Reasoned argument, HRC’s strong suit, won’t have any effect — check that — will probably simply reinforce Trump’s supporters that she is the reincarnation of the anti-Christ (after Obama leaves office and turns the title over to her) and Trump is right about everything, because dammit, he doesn’t mince words. Today, the highest qualification for president seems to be a candidate’s willingness to say whatever is on his (or her) diseased mind, no matter how untrue, and stick with it no matter how much evidence to the contrary is revealed. It doesn’t matter that Trump can’t just build a wall and get the Mexicans to pay for it; what matters is that he expresses hatred and contempt for Mexicans (while simultaneously expressing his affection for Mexicans and how much they love him — to Trump a Mexican is anyone who is of Hispanic ancestry. It doesn’t matter how long they or they ancestors have been in this country, since 1550 say, they’re still just Mexicans — and sticks with his hatred and contempt now matter how critical decent people are of his disgusting behavior.
So, Betty, enjoy HRC dismantling Trump, while millions of your fellow Floridians are persuaded that he’s exactly what this country needs.
Mnemosyne
@TriassicSands:
Please let me know which of the following groups of Obama voters you see switching to Trump in large numbers: African-Americans, Hispanics, or Asian-Americans.
If one of those groups doesn’t break for Trump in large numbers, he’s toast. He gets Romney’s numbers at best, and Romney had a majority of the white vote.
You can no longer win a national election solely with white voters. You should be much more worried about voter suppression and outright voter fraud designed to prevent the Obama coalition from voting than about people choosing Trump.
Betty Cracker
@Cat48: Not a fan of Graham at all, but I do give him credit for repudiating Trump, unlike the craven sociopaths who once called him a “cancer,” “con man,” etc., and are now falling all over themselves to polish Trump’s knob.
@TriassicSands: What Mnem said — plus the largest gender gap ever recorded between white women and white men.
nonynony
@Betty Cracker:
I’m not counting on this one at all. I think that Hispanic/Latino voters will continue to back away from the GOP, but I don’t expect white Republican women to abandon the party in large numbers. They’re already voting Republican – what exactly about Trump is so much worse for women than Romney or McCain or W or any other Republican candidate in the past few decades have already been? I know the gap is in the polling now, but I expect it to close as those Republican women come back home to the GOP.
Romney got 56% of the white female vote in 2008. Trump might (MIGHT!) lose a bit at the margins because of his crude persona, but I’ll be surprised if he scores much less than that this go around. (I’ll be heartened to be proven wrong, but I expect that Trump will hold onto that core white demographic – male and female – and maybe even outperform Romney a little bit in that demographic. With demographic shifts he’ll have to significantly outperform Romney to even tie his vote totals, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him do it sadly.).
cckids
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
Not sure if people outside Nevada know this, but the reason Trump’s place doesn’t have games of chance is that he can’t get a NV gaming license.
And yet, the Repubs want him to be president. Mull that over.
rikyrah
@Mnemosyne:
tell that truth.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
I love tomatoes…but I don’t know if I would want tomato pie.
Betty Cracker
@nonynony: The most openly sexist candidate in modern history vs. the first major party female presidential candidate? Yeah, I’ll stick with my prediction. I’m not saying all or even most Republican woman will abandon Trump — there are plenty of stupid women out there, and plenty more without a shred of self-respect. But Trump unconsciously radiates contempt for women he doesn’t feel ownership over, and I don’t think he’ll be able to contain himself when he’s running against Clinton. His unfavorables among women are staggeringly high already, and I don’t see him improving that.
Paul in KY
@Comrade Jake: I laughed at that one!
Paul in KY
@Immanentize: I want our union people up in Cleveland to make sure our rowdier elements don’t give the Repubs good photo ops to whine about. We need to let them ‘please proceed’ & nominate the nutwad that we want to kick the shit out of.
Paul in KY
@Gindy51: Tiberius’ mother was Livia, so he knew all the bad shit that could happen & was probably correct to be a bit paranoid.
Bill Arnold
@hovercraft:
I am unreasonably sure that Obama did not kill Scalia. (Don’t ask.) On the other hand, Trump could easily suffer a health (mental or cardiovascular) crisis in reaction to being the target of relentless distributed negative campaigning. Am a little worried about the potential, to be honest. (No, really! The guy has always seemed a bit emotionally fragile. Let’s hope for a gentle implosion, should it happen. :-)
Paul in KY
@TriassicSands: We (Mrs. Clinton, Pres. Obama, VP Biden, whomever her VP choice is, other professional spokesassasins) are going to not mince words either. They will hear lots of pointed, easy-to-understand truths about the Combover Caligula.
By the time the election happens, all his potential voters will know in their heart of hearts that everything he says is a lie & he has been lying to them the whole time.
Trollhattan
@Paul in KY:
Whoa, I never made the connection before but Tony Soprano’s mother was Livia.
John W.
Betty, I don’t want to see Trump flame out like the Hindenberg. I want to see him flame out like one of them 2 ton aerial gas bombs. Scorched earth. Nothing left. The world would improve by just an iota, but that’s better than nothing.