Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

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Late Night Early Reviews Open Thread: Different Month, Same Old Trumpstuntin’

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CNN [warning: autoplay] “Trump gets what he wants in Florida: Campaign-level adulation“:

… Trump, who just months ago finished campaigning for the office he now holds, was both selling what his administration has done in its first 30 days and trying to change the subject after a chaotic month. The President was forced to fire his national security adviser, struggled to roll out his travel ban and strained to explain a growing story about how members of his 2016 campaign made repeated contact with Russian individuals known to US intelligence…

What was unclear Saturday was what exactly Trump was campaigning for. The event was being run by Trump’s 2016 campaign, Donald J. Trump for President Inc.

Before taking the stage, Trump was asked if it was too early to do another campaign event. His response: “Life is a campaign.”

“Making our country great again is a campaign,” Trump added. “For me, it’s a campaign. To make America great again is absolutely a campaign.”…

Michael Caputo, a former senior adviser to Trump’s campaign, said he expects this sort of campaign-style event will be the “first of many.”

“He grew very familiar with the rally concept and I expect him to return to where he is comfortable when he needs to recharge,” Caputo said. “The fact that Trump showed us a new way of winning should have given everyone a hint that he would show everyone a new way of governing.”

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  1. 1.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    “The fact that Trump showed us a new way of winning should have given everyone a hint that he would show everyone a new way of governing.”

    Right… and in keeping w/ the whole “White Power/Neo Nazi” tone of the Trump Presidency, not to mention the astonishing ineptitude on display, perhaps that new way of governing could be called “The Shitzkreig”…

  2. 2.

    TenguPhule

    If Trump is going to start the 2020 race early, does that mean political attack ads are going to be a fact of life again effective immediately?

  3. 3.

    TenguPhule

    Also, if Trump steals from his campaign again for personal use, does he have immunity this time?

  4. 4.

    amk

    Is maggie, the tool, justifying the narcissist’s constant seeking of adulation from his pathetic cult mob?

    Also, too, did maggie even graduate high school?

    @maggieNYT obviously made marbles of your brains— Sal the turtle (@archroadgoldy) February 18, 2017

  5. 5.

    RaflW

    new way of governing

    Ain’t nothing new about corrupt incompetence. It was easy to predict it would be bad. Though really, I didn’t think our Republican president would be an order of magnitude worse than Berlusconi.

  6. 6.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @RaflW:

    Though really, I didn’t think our Republican president would be an order of magnitude worse than Berlusconi.

    Hah. After the election I told my friends that an orange-haired Berlusconi was about the best we could hope for. Clearly Who/Whatever might be running the multiverse has not been disposed to be so kind…

  7. 7.

    Skippy-san

    It is amazing to me, that every bad thing said about Trump in the campaign has come true – and still these fucking morons turn out for him. You can sum up Republican support in two words: selfish pigs. They don’t care about country or others-so long as they get theirs. It would be interesting to run the numbers on how many of them are getting government benefits, ACA subsidies, SS, etc-while all the while they are cheering a man dedicated to destroying those benefits, and them.

  8. 8.

    ThresherK

    Maggie Haberman’s tweets all read tainted to me now. No matter how.plain they are, I swear she could write something like “A bowling ball is round” and I’d wonder what Stockholm-y syndrome subtext would be in it.

  9. 9.

    montanareddog

    @Uncle Cosmo: Of course, Italians and Belgians are walking around with big grins on their faces, now that another important democracy has a government even more embarrassing than their own recent “unpleasantnesses”

  10. 10.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    @Skippy-san:

    It is amazing to me, that every bad thing said about Trump in the campaign has come true – and still these fucking morons turn out for him. You can sum up Republican support in two words: selfish pigs. They don’t care about country or others-so long as they get theirs. It would be interesting to run the numbers on how many of them are getting government benefits, ACA subsidies, SS, etc-while all the while they are cheering a man dedicated to destroying those benefits, and them.

    Three words: Bigoted Selfish Pigs.

  11. 11.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    but to him they are. He’s under attack and he rallies.

    Translation: He feels threatened and retreats to his safe zone.

  12. 12.

    bystander

    @amk: I think Haberman relates to Trump’s mentality. She does NOT like being challenged, and will respond to all challengers. Weirdly thin skinned, on top of her pedestrian blather.

    What I don’t get is why he’s campaigning now when he likely won’t even survive the first year ?

    From your keyboard to the Goddess’s ears. Just make it stop. I don’t care how.

    And what boomer among us hasn’t thought back on a certain graffiti of the Vietnam protest era? Who hasn’t quoted Henry II on Becket in the past month?

  13. 13.

    CarolDuhart2

    Trump is a junkie. He needs his fix of adulation. Of course, like junkies, it’s never going to be enough. Prepare for the rally of the month, then week, then whatever they can do daily.

    Whent that happens, hope that Congress decides to stop paying for that fix.

  16. 16.

    low-tech cyclist

    @bystander:

    And what boomer among us hasn’t thought back on a certain graffiti of the Vietnam protest era?

    I’m a Boomer who’s racking his brains, but not coming up with anything particularly apropos. A little help, please?

  23. 23.

    Fester Addams

    @Rschooley @Karoli What I don’t get is why he’s campaigning now when he likely won’t even survive the first year ? — Don Klyne (@klyne_donald) February 18, 2017

    If people like @LouiseMensch are right then the Republican congressional majority must be desperate right now to figure out ways to turn Republican primary voters against the Republican president before #KremlinGate goes critical.

    Childish gratification is sufficient reason for the Republican president to hold “campaign” rallies but regent Bannon may be playing for higher stakes.

  24. 24.

    ding7777

    @Iowa Old Lady: Super Pacs is the new slush fund. Would not surprise me if Trump “donates” money to other (real and stalking horse) candidates willing to hold fund raisers at a Trump property. . ,

  25. 25.

    Jack the Second

    My new hobby is figuring out how many scare quotes to add to things that get said by or about Trump.

    The fact that Trump showed us a “new” way of “winning” should have given everyone a “hint” that he would show everyone a “new” “way” of “governing.”

    The “White” House is running so “smoothly”. And “believe” me, I and we “inherited” one big “mess.”

  26. 26.

    Sherparick

    @Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): .First, very unfair to pigs, a rather intelligent & delightful animal. No, these are human beings getting a thrill up their leg on the tribal identity & mob action high. They can feel great about themselves just because they are White & “winning” means telling everyone not part of the tribe to suck it.

  28. 28.

    bystander

    @leeleeFL: Too polite by far. If only Cromwell had used a two word imperative, a four letter word with a dangling preposition. Now, that one I routinely shriek at the tv, tablet and radio.

  29. 29.

    leeleeFL

    @bystander: I concur. I often use Cromwell when I need thoroughly useless and/or incompetent ppl to vacate my area, just to keep my “little grey cells” functioning. But your direction leaves my lips at least 20 times a day. BTW, the Rally was only a few miles away from me and I had to suffer thru dozens of ppl who had been there sharing their “joy”. Ppl I actually like. It was unpleasant, I can tell you.

  30. 30.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Before taking the stage, Trump was asked if it was too early to do another campaign event. His response: “Life is a campaign.”

    “Making our country great again is a campaign,” Trump added. “For me, it’s a campaign. To make America great again is absolutely a campaign.”…

    If one just substitutes the words “bulls shitting” for “campaigning”, it all makes sense.

  32. 32.

    JGabriel

    Thru the Looking Glass…:

    Right… and in keeping w/ the whole “White Power/Neo Nazi” tone of the Trump Presidency, not to mention the astonishing ineptitude on display, perhaps that new way of governing could be called “The Shitzkreig”…

    I believe that would be “The Scheissekreig.”

    But I could be wrong – anyone fluent in Deutsche wanna help out here?

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