Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

“woke” is the new caravan.

You cannot shame the shameless.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Come on, man.

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

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

Peak wingnut was a lie.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Bark louder, little dog.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Let’s finish the job.

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Early Morning Open Thread: Ted Cruz Slinks ‘Home’ to Trump

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  3. 3.

    piratedan

    waits for the GOP to pour gasoline over themselves… knows a good many folks that will provide the matches… The only problem is, that these fuckers are going to punk the know-nothings that support them. Wonder how long it will be before that sadly abused dog will finally turn on its master.

  4. 4.

    hilts

    FUCK Ted Cruz and his fellow cowardly scumbags Rubio, Perry, et al

    Has anyone heard from George Pataki, Jim Gilmore, or Carly Fiorina as to whether or not they plan to endorse Trump?

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    I don’t feel at all sorry for Cruz. He’s just another grandstanding coward.

    For months now, Trump has been force-feeding the Republican party big helpings of humble pie. He’s got the power now to bully people. But that power won’t last, i think. When he loses in November (touch wood) the spell will be broken. The party as a whole will awaken from his thrall as if from a bad dream. And then, let’s hope, Trump will sink as fast as he rose.

  9. 9.

    amk

    All the thugs are now coalescing around the ultimate thug. If the left is smart (and not pouting), this is a golden opportunity to burn the whole lot along with donnie dick in Nov. But are they smart?

  11. 11.

    Ruckus

    @Amir Khalid:
    Thing is Trump has been a pathetic loser for decades. The spotlight was a 10w bulb and he needed more as not everyone could see the disaster. Well he has the spotlight now and it’s showing us just who he’s been the entire time. Some are just blinded by the light. Shinny bullshit will do that to his kind of people.

  14. 14.

    karen marie

    @Amir Khalid: That’s what I kept telling myself through Bush Junior’s administration. They just double down. Cleek’s Law has fully taken effect, Godwin’s Law has been suspended, and I don’t think this will end until they finally do something so monstrous, it simply cannot be ignored. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al killed hundreds of thousands, set fire to the Middle East, didn’t stop the biggest attack on US soil in history, giggled while New Orleans drowned, drove the economy into the biggest ditch since The Depression, yet that hasn’t stopped them from winning enough elections to be a major pain in everyone’s ass. This will not end well.

  16. 16.

    Oatler.

    @karen marie: Just as it was “Obama’s Depression”, it will be “Obama’s Ragnarok” to them. Cheney chortles churlishly, choo choo!
    Loudermilk died at 82 yesterday RIP

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax:
    God seems to have told quite a few American politicians to run for President. None of them ever wins. I wonder what conclusion the called-by-God candidate cohort draws from this.

  21. 21.

    Betty Cracker

    Gearing up for a tailgate party before the USF-FSU game at noon today. I’m bringing pimento cheese and PB&J sandwiches. There will also be mimosas! I’m driving since I have an enormous car with a cavernous trunk.

  24. 24.

    MJS

    @karen marie: Absolutely. Republicans uber alles. To them, America is the GOP, and vice versa. Remember, when they lose elections, including likely this one, it’s because their candidate wasn’t 100% pure Republican. It’s never because the majority of voters disagree with them.

  25. 25.

    Betty Cracker

    @raven: That should be a great game! Lots of good match-ups today, including Florida-Tennessee at 3:30 in Knoxville. I will make sure my phone is charged up so I can follow the action!

  26. 26.

    Bruce K

    You know, when you boil it down, Cruz and Trump aren’t all that different. They’re both cruel, selfish, unprincipled opportunists; it’s just that Cruz has a few more skill points spent on intelligence instead of charisma.

  32. 32.

    Botsplainer

    @Betty Cracker:

    Watched the Louisville episode of “A Season With FSU”. There was a defeatist vibe in the team meetings prior to the game. Facial expressions and body language didn’t look like a winning combo.

  34. 34.

    Betty Cracker

    @Botsplainer: It would be huge if USF beats them. Lord knows Louisville exposed the ‘Noles as the poseurs they are. I can’t believe they’re still in the top 25.

  35. 35.

    SRW1

    @NotMax:

    Guess that whole anointed by God as a king gig didn’t quite pan out, huh?

    Whaddayameen? Did God not test Abraham? Ever heard of the Tribulation? Ted’s just gotta pray harder!

  36. 36.

    Chris T.

    That’s not quite fair. There are two, count ’em TWO!, conservative principles: “always be against whatever Democrats are for” and “win at all costs, including destroying anything we claimed to hold dear just a moment ago.”

  38. 38.

    gf120581

    All about approval ratings. It’s why a loathed prick like Cruz who’s facing reelection in two years folded like paper while Kasich (popular and term limited) openly tells Trump to fuck off.

  41. 41.

    Splitting Image

    @Bruce K:

    You know, when you boil it down, Cruz and Trump aren’t all that different. They’re both cruel, selfish, unprincipled opportunists; it’s just that Cruz has a few more skill points spent on intelligence instead of charisma.

    Ted Cruz is a walking demonstration of why you should not use Charisma as a dump stat, tempting though it might be.

  43. 43.

    Betty Cracker

    @Prufrock: Says you. I think the Gators are gonna beat the ‘Noles like a rented mule! ETA: Was that beat-down last weekend the worst whuppin’ the ‘Noles have received since the Gators thrashed them 52-20 in the ’96 Championship game? I think so.

  44. 44.

    Mary G

    Republicans are like the abused spouse who always goes back to the abused. I’m still gobsmacked by how many people want an authoritarian in charge in America.

  45. 45.

    SFAW

    @karen marie:

    until they finally do something so monstrous, it simply cannot be ignored.

    Good one!

    Have you ever seen ANY evidence, EVER, that something like that exists? Their base is so much more concerned with power than with maintaining a civilization, that it would take … I don’t know what. I often refer to Spader’s speech in Boston Legal (I think) where he’s delivering the closing for the woman who refused to pay her taxes because of Iraq, abu Ghraib, etc.

    You know how we say Peak Wingnut does not exist? This is part of it — it will never be reached, unless they all die. And then we won’t know it until long after.

  47. 47.

    NorthLeft12

    It’s almost as if “principled bedrock conservatives” don’t believe in anything but winning.

    This by Bob Schooley boils down the modern conservative credo elegantly.
    They don’t care about country, ordinary people, principles, morals, honour, or integrity. In fact they would betray their party, and humiliate/jettison family and friends if they felt it would secure some kind of personal advantage or opportunity. Shameful.

  48. 48.

    Tokyokie

    @SRW1: God might have called Teddy Boy to run, but he didn’t guarantee him victory. He needs to listen better to the voices in his head.

  49. 49.

    BC in Illinois

    @Tokyokie: As I remember it, the late night theologian Johnny Carson once observed that “Pat Robertson said that God told him to run for President.”

    “And when God tells me to vote for him, then I will.”

  52. 52.

    Kay

    Good piece on a lie Trump told at a GOP debate.

    This time, it is different. Trump can’t skip past his perfidy here. There are two records—one, a previously undisclosed deposition of the Republican nominee testifying under oath, and the second a transcript/video of a Republican presidential debate. In them, Trump tells contradictory versions of the same story with the clashing accounts tailored to provide what he wanted people to believe when he was speaking.

    Knowing Trump, this might explain why Trump went after Bush so viciously. Trump lobbied Bush personally for casino gambling in Florida and Bush wouldn’t give Trump what he wanted. We know Trump’s a psycho who seeks revenge so the intensity of the Trump/Bush fight makes more sense. They had a history.

    What’s amazing about this exchange between Trump and Bush at the GOP debate is Trump literally sounds like a mobster. It sounds like the transcript of a wire tap or something. Trump speaks like a criminal.

  53. 53.

    Ian

    @hilts:
    No one cared what they thought before. No one cares now. Now, Powell, Bush Sr., Brent Stowcraft, Bob Dole, and Tom Ridge? No one cares about them now because Democratic voters still do not like them, and Rethuglicans despise them because they did the ‘right’ thing and endorsed the Hill-dog.

  55. 55.

    Tokyokie

    @Kay: I disagree with the Newsweek reporter who said Trump either lied during the debate or committed perjury. I think he did both, lied during the debate to avoid admitting failure, and lied during his sworn testimony to blame his failure on an underling.

  56. 56.

    Kay

    @Tokyokie:

    Trump threatens people. That’s how he operates. What hasn’t been covered, at all, is the fact that Trump has a history with some of these people in both media and politics. They know him. They have had dealings with him.

    I think it hasn’t been covered because it pulls the curtain back a little. It reveals that this is really a small group of famous people and they have long histories with one another. Everyone knows that’s true with Clinton. People DON’T know it’s also true with Trump. It bothers me because of how opaque it is with Trump. HOW does Donald Trump know the hosts on MSNBC and Fox? How deep are those relationships and interactions?

  57. 57.

    low-tech cyclist

    And what better way to say ‘I love you” to your wife, than by endorsing the man who crapped all over her?

    Yep, Cruz fits comfortably in that basket, in so many ways.

  58. 58.

    Kay

    Jake Tapper still hot on the trail of Clinton’s emails The same media celebrity who almost single-handedly pushed the Benghazi bullshit. Remember- they found nothing in Benghazi. Nothing. Yet they pushed it for years to the point where most people believe they found something. They actively misled people.

    Meanwhile, CNN still has a Trump operative on the payroll.

    CNN wins ‘worst’ this election. There’s no contest.

  59. 59.

    Lizzy L

    @Kay: And the people who will vote for him in November don’t care. No, it’s worse. They like it. It’s Cleek’s Law, it’s the politics of resentment, it’s stick it to the liberals even if we cut our own throats doing it, it’s party over principle, it’s demented. //rant

    It’s too early for this shit.

  60. 60.

    You should know better...

    Winds changed direction.

    Indeed, indeed…

    And apparently a powerful wind is breaking around Ted Cruz in the moment…

  63. 63.

    Gelfling 545

    @Amir Khalid: God has a weird sense of humor? If I believed in divine intervention, I’d guess that the Supreme Being looked upon them and found they were getting above themselves and decided to give them a lesson in humility. It has always amused me to see how “God’s will” exactly coincided exactly with what they always intended to do anyway.

  67. 67.

    sukabi

    @Kay: there was a tiny blurb earlier this spring about msnbc talk / news folks talking wondering if drumpf would bring them some goodies… it sounded like they were actually asking for designer this or that and he’d send it over and then do his free promo.

    Between actually buying favorable access and press I think he also, so so some people say, might gather and use unfavorable info against them to get favorable coverage.

  70. 70.

    No One You Know

    Is anyone else thinking Trump is America’s Brexit?

    Two colleagues were talking about the outcome of a Clinton-Trump debate yesterday. I was appalled to find myself wondering if they were right: Hillary would show up with actual data and facts, and Trump would just interrupt, shout louder, and lie faster. And “win.”

  71. 71.

    Jeffro

    I think the Cruz thing had entirely to do with Rebekah Mercer (daughter of Robert) telling him, endorse or we’ll fund Rick Perry for your seat in the TX-Senate primary.

  72. 72.

    karen marie

    @SFAW: That was my point. In order for them to crushed into oblivion, the outrage they commit would have to be on the order of dropping a nuclear bomb on an American city, and even that might not bring them down.

  73. 73.

    karen marie

    @No One You Know: That was both Bush v Gore and Bush v Kerry. Ahh, memories. The media laughed themselves silly for weeks over Kerry’s debate assertion that the Iraq misadventure was going to cost upwards of a trillion dollars. We all know how that worked out.

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