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

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

This really is a full service blog.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Let there be snark.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

“But what about the lurkers?”

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

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

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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Late-Night “Yeah, We Knew It Was Coming” Open Thread: PIVOT!

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JUST IN TIME FOR THE BIG ROLL-OUT!


That would be Matt Boyle, who didn’t get to “transition” from Breitbart to the (official) Trump campaign. Sad!

Meh, it’s not like Trump actually means anything by this…

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  1. 1.

    Patricia Kayden

    Nice to see that Coulter is getting in on Trump’s grifting.

    It’s hilarious that Trump is talking about immigrants having to pay taxes when he refuses to show us his tax returns because they probably reveal that he pays none.

  2. 2.

    Mustang Bobby

    It may be 4 a.m. EDT, but there’s always room for popcorn.

    I love the timing: the very day Ann Coulter, the whitest woman in America, comes out with her lathering and slathering paean to Trump, he goes mushy on the one thing she will never retreat on. They deserve each other.

  4. 4.

    craigie

    Also, why is this now called a “pivot”? Wasn’t it only yesterday that this was called “flip-flopping”?

  6. 6.

    gene108

    When people complain about “immigration reform” and how illegal immigrants broke the law, I like to point immigration reform is about devising penalties for the illegal activities, as mass deportation is not feasible.

    We all break the law, such as speeding or parking tickets. It does not mean we are outcast from society forever because of this. We pay the penalty required by law and our “debt to society” is met and we go on our way.

    So either you go with Trump’s original position on immigration and have mass deportations or you reform the immigration code to determine the penalties for existing violations. And like a speeding or parking ticket, once you have paid the penalty, you are back into good standing with the powers that be.

  7. 7.

    gene108

    Also isn’t this similar to the plan George W Bush tried to get passed in his second term, which Congressional Republicans derailed because they did not want to give illegal aliens “amnesty”?

    Unsaid is that the position of most Congressional Republicans are the same as Trump’s original position, mass deportation.

  8. 8.

    Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

    @craigie: It’s only flip-flopping if dirty liberal hippies do it. It’s only pivoting if a virile white male conservative does it. So says their friendly media talking heads (the smarter ones make sure the check dosen’t bounce first).

  10. 10.

    Keith P.

    Wait a minute…when did Ann Coulter stop wearing that black cocktail dress everywhere? And I love that Trump has also adopted the “My plan is not amnesty” tag…it’s a requirement in the GOP to say “NO AMNESTY!” regardless of what the policy is. I mean, shit, REAGAN did amnesty, so how is it so bad?

  12. 12.

    Cermet

    Glad tRump is softening on immigrants; not a bad thing since it provides oxygen to both Hillary and even some thugs in congress. Nice change.

  13. 13.

    MattF

    Why does anyone believe anything Trump says, much less argue over it? That’s the real puzzle here.

  15. 15.

    bystander

    I see Assange is going to release more purloined emails from Clinton and the DNC. Faux is loving it. So ethicky and journalistic of them!

  17. 17.

    one_particular_harbour, fka Botsplainer

    @bystander:

    I note that in RWNJ fever swamps, they’re calling them “private server” emails, which they’re not.

    The server at home wasn’t hacked, based on releases so far. Anonymity had its own security value.

  18. 18.

    Kay

    His “immigration policies”. Like he has any. Every phrase is a lie from the get-go because the words within don’t mean anything.

  19. 19.

    Kay

    So Republicans are planning on creating an officially recognized group who may work and pay taxes but aren’t and never can become citizens and can’t vote, about 90% of whom happen to be Latino?

    Like sub-Americans? First class and second class? What a great idea! No historical precedent there at all. No, sir.

  20. 20.

    robert thompson

    This supposed softening of his immigration won’t change a thing. It won’t cause his Sturm Abteilung from cooling on his candidacy nor will he pickup many Latino/Dem voters as we all now he is lying. He voters will simply say he is lying for the Lord and snicker. Sure he will get a few of the more radical reactionaries loudly shrieking because of this abandonment of the Alt-Right but even in their fetid swamps the marginally sane ones they know they will look stupid to everyone else and white trash does not like to look stupid.

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    @Kay:

    So Republicans are planning on creating an officially recognized group who may work and pay taxes but aren’t and never can become citizens and can’t vote, about 90% of whom happen to be Latino?

    It sounded better in the original German – gastarbeiter. (Who weren’t Latino, but were usually darker-skinned than the “real” German citizens.)

  23. 23.

    Matt McIrvin

    @one_particular_harbour, fka Botsplainer:

    I note that in RWNJ fever swamps, they’re calling them “private server” emails, which they’re not.

    What it reminds me of is “climate skeptics” who didn’t know that global warming and the ozone hole were two different things. When that particular confusion came up it was a helpful indicator that you were dealing with a high-grade ignoramus.

  30. 30.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Anne Laurie:

    It sounded better in the original German – gastarbeiter.

    I found a pamphlet on a train seat in Wiesbaden in 1980 imploring Germans to treat the gastarbeiter decently because they were doing useful work that contributed to everyone’s well-being. (At least that’s what I gleaned on the basis of my then-10-years-distant study of the language & some furious work with a pocket dictionary..)

    We tend to think of the German guest-workers as exclusively Turks, but FTR at that time there were significant numbers there & in Austria from Greece & the Balkans as well. (Maybe because it’s the Turks who stuck around & raised families there rather than go home.) On that first trip to Europe I dined & danced (& twisted the crap out of my ankle) in a Greek restaurant in Vienna crowded by nationals working for the newspapers.

  33. 33.

    lollipopguild

    We have a person running for the White House who can say anything he wants because EVERYTHING he says is meaningless. Wait five minutes and it will change, wait five more and it will change again. He is a shapeshifter that cannot decide which shape it wants to show you, it constantly shifts and changes shape.

  35. 35.

    JustRuss

    @Kay: I assume when it comes time for apportioning reps in the House they’ll count as 3/5ths of a person.

  36. 36.

    daves09

    Coulter looks exactly like my best friend’s brother’s meth head girlfriend. They even dress alike, guess they know what the trailer park crowd likes.
    Am sitting in auditorium waiting for Hilz alt right speech to begin. It’s packed and getting hot and I hate crowds but this should be worth it.

  37. 37.

    Old Broad in California

    Gotta love the image of the oh-so-respectful Latino saying “Mr. Trump, I love you but it’s so tough, Mr. Trump”. Like the Latino Stepin Fetchit.

  38. 38.

    Procopius

    @gene108: “We pay our debt to society …” You don’t know anyone who’s been convicted of a felony, do you? Anyone who ever spent time in jail knows how wrong that is.

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