‘Neither the extreme left nor the extreme right is representative of any significant constituency in American politics.’ pic.twitter.com/lsJdWqVNl4
— Lars Olsson (@larsolsson) August 15, 2017
1939, Madison Square Garden Nazi rally. Saying the far right doesn't represent a significant constituency is just wrong. It always has.
— Lars Olsson (@larsolsson) August 16, 2017
I know, I know — overkill. But this is 2017, and we’re trying to explain to the guy currently squatting in the Oval Office, in this very timeline, that Nazis are wrong. It feels like we have to make some kind of record…
?? Top lookups right now: fascism, bigot, racism, complicit, neo-Nazi, nationalism.
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) August 16, 2017
One suspects most of the searches are coming from the president's press team.
— Mark Doyle (@frenchtoastpie) August 16, 2017
If 10 guys thinks it's ok to hang with 1 Nazi then they just became 11 Nazis. Alt right / white supremacist it's just nazis. Fuck Nazis.
— Chris Rock (@chrisrock) August 15, 2017
I've interviewed a lot of alt-right leaders recently. Trump just defended Charlottesville harder than many *actual white nationalists* did.
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) August 15, 2017
Presidents come to office with a sum of credibility, some lower than others. They spend it over it time. DJT just zeroed out his account. /4
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 15, 2017
IMO, that's a good thing. "Getting back on track" was a binky that GOPers sucked on to alleviate their anxiety. Wasn't going to happen. /9
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 15, 2017
President @realDonaldTrump once again denounced hate today. The GOP stands behind his message of love and inclusiveness!
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) August 15, 2017
The new RNC National Spokeswoman https://t.co/AYHyyC0HOW
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 15, 2017
Horrifying scene from CASABLANCA, where alt-left agitator Rick Blaine shoots Heinrich Strasser, a Nazi with a permit. pic.twitter.com/ksQaHksqYM
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) August 15, 2017
FYI, if you're wondering how Germany commemorates Hitler, this is the spot where he died: pic.twitter.com/bxCRNSbfDi
— Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) August 15, 2017
MattF
Jen Rubin gives up on the Republican Party. Not a surprise, in any manner shape or form, but still worth noting.
Patricia Kayden
Kayleigh McEnany’s tweet. Drugs? Alcohol?
germy
Betty Cracker
I like Chris Murphy’s moral clarity:
Patricia Kayden
@MattF: Isn’t Rubin still a Republican though? Nicole Wallace was demanding on her MSNBC show that folks working in Trump’s administration drop out immediately after Trump’s awful speechifying yesterday. However, to the best of my knowledge, Ms. Wallace is still a Republican.
Big Ole Hound
As I read all over the web and all news sites, the one thread in common is that Trump has committed no impeachable offense and that we are just stuck with him so far…shit. Maybe there is a vague hope that some GOPers in congress will get on board and somehow force him out.
SRW1
Fuck. People have to look that up?
Laura
@Patricia Kayden: nope, just a deep and abiding love for authoritarianism, white nationalism, sexism. In short, she’s a nazi.
Major Major Major Major
@Big Ole Hound: I’m sure they can find a misdemeanor somewhere to charge him with.
@SRW1: sometimes people who know what a word means look it up anyway to see what the dictionary says.
Yarrow
Posted this on the previous thread. Kasich brings The Outrage, but can’t follow through with any sort of denunciation. Moral coward, like most of his fellow Republicans.
Governor Kasich (on the Today Show) was yelling about how terrible all these Nazis are. He Totally Outraged about how unacceptable it all is, going on and on. Then Savannah Guthrie asks him,”What should Republicans do? What do you do if you work in the Trump White House?” Kasich reminds us he didn’t endorse Trump, but says, “I want him to do well.” When Matt Lauer asks him if he’ll go around to Republicans leaders and say, “tell this President we no longer support him, period.” Kasich completely wimps out, “Well, look. He’s our President, okay, and I’m here speaking out as aggressively as I can.” Uh huh. He did a fine job of Looking Outraged, but denouncing Trump is apparently a bridge too far.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@MattF: I thought you meant she was leaving the Republican Party. I don’t see any evidence in any of that scolding that she is resolving to change her own registration.
Though her voice this year has been welcome (she used to sound more like Kayleigh McEneny’s tweet above), it’s still too little, too late.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Big Ole Hound: Emoluments lawsuit starts in October
MattF
@Patricia Kayden: She’s avoided saying specifically, but has crossed a line here, IMO. I’ll note that George Fucking Wills quit the Republican party several months ago, but is exactly the same asshole he always was. Seems different with Rubin.
Mike R
The only thing most republicans are concerned about is that Trump gives them nowhere to hide from the reality of the republican party.
kat
I do disagree with the general populace on one thing, in that I think we absolutely need to commemorate the Civil War. We just need to do it the same way the Brits commemorate the Gunpowder Plot. We can hold the festivities between November 15 and December 21 each year. The party starts with bonfires and fireworks in Atlanta and ends with a patriotic parade through Savannah.
Yarrow
@Major Major Major Major:
Or a felony if those rumors of his cocaine habit are true.
germy
@MattF:
I can imagine him pulling his bow tie off, hurling it to the floor, stomping on it, then pouring a stiff drink while muttering about “the bastards betraying everything Reagan stood for.”
Betty Cracker
@Big Ole Hound: If the GOP wanted him out, there are plenty of grounds for impeachment already. Trump is on video saying he fired Comey to stop the Russia investigation, FFS. That Trump remains unimpeached is all on the GOP.
Bobby Thomson
@Yarrow: or, you know, letting nonwhite people vote.
“Don’t be a sucker!”
FlipYrWhig
@Betty Cracker: I love Chris Murphy and wonder a bit about why he doesn’t have presidential buzz.
WaterGirl
I never quote an entire article or blog post, but I think this one is important, so I hope Dave Zirin will forgive me.
Dave Zirin – Trump’s Message to the Country: #NotAllNazis:
Betty Cracker
@Patricia Kayden: Leni Riefenstahl without the talent.
Bobby Thomson
By the way, all three of the Trump favored children unfollowed Marlee Matlin on Twitter after she condemned Nazism.
gene108
Nazis bad is not a hard concept. We’ve been teaching that for 70+ years.
Trump has to not want to learn this basic lesson taught in every school for decades.
gene108
@FlipYrWhig:
It’s 2017 and 2020 is a long way out…
A Ghost To Most
Alt-righters have declared themselves alt-human.
A Ghost To Most
@Patricia Kayden: Jebus juice.
germy
@Bobby Thomson:
Yarrow
@Bobby Thomson: If it weren’t so serious it would have been fascinating to watch Kasich’s outrage cosplaying. He was good with Outrage but fell apart when asked how to turn the outrage into action. Moral coward.
A Ghost To Most
@Patricia Kayden: I keep commenting on Rubin’s blog that her road to atonement is NOT complete until she disavows the Rs, as well as the Great Orange Shitstain.
She is still an R.
germy
Has dolt45 been in touch yet with Heather Heyer’s family?
rikyrah
CBO: High costs if Trump follows through on ACA sabotage threats
08/15/17 04:18 PM
By Steve Benen
For health care advocates, congressional Republicans’ difficulties in passing regressive health care legislation have brought some comfort, but the threats haven’t gone away. Not only are many GOP lawmakers committed to returning to the issue, but systemic sabotage from Donald Trump remains a real possibility.
Indeed, as we’ve discussed many times, the president has made repeated threats to cut off cost-sharing reductions (or CSRs) – a component of the Affordable Care Act that helps cover working families’ out-of-pocket costs – which Trump has effectively turned into a political weapon. The mere threat has already pushed consumers’ costs higher.
But what if the president followed through on the threat and decide to use this weapon? NBC News’ Benjy Sarlin noted the latest findings from the Congressional Budget Office.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/15/17
Donald Trump remarks aid white supremacists’ political ambitions
Rachel Maddow looks at the history of Ku Klux Klan in American politics and its quest for power and points out that it was no accident that Donald Trump helped give racists legitimacy with his remarks about the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Gator90
My father-in-law, a wonderful man in his personal life who has been far kinder to me than I deserve, is also a hard-right Jew who adores DJT. By happenstance I’ve neither seen nor spoken with him in the past few days, and frankly I am afraid to. Recent events will not put him off Trump, I am sure of it. I am afraid of what I will say to him. We’ve always been able to disagree amicably about politics, but I don’t think calling him a Nazi-lover would go over well. I really don’t know how to handle this.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/15/17
Trump fails on moral leadership with embrace of hate groups
Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian, talks with Rachel Maddow about how far afield Donald Trump is from the American president’s function as a role model of responsible, moral leadership.
lamh36
Did ya’ll see this mofo…Micheal Cohen…Trump’s JEWISH lawyer…”He’s not a racist cause he supports Trump” then he posted a collage of his “Black Friends”…smh
WHITE PEOPLE…DON’T DO THIS PLEASE!
Repatriated
@SRW1: Fuck. People have to look that up?
germy
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/15/17
Trump gives emboldening ‘green light’ to white supremacists
Congresswoman Karen Bass, part of the leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump’s coddling of racist extremists emboldens white supremacist actions in the future.
A Ghost To Most
@germy: she said as she winked and gave white power hand signs.
BC in Illinois
@Big Ole Hound:
The first sentence is not true–Trump has committed continuous impeachable offenses.
It’s the second sentence that points out the huge rock in the roadway. We need the GOP to act. We NEED them.
There are reasons to impeach that are undeniable [unimpeachable]:
(1) using the office of President as a means of enriching his personal fortune (or paying off his personal debt) and (2) a demonstrated disloyalty to our nation – whether because of his emulation of the Russian President or his indebtedness to the Russian President/mob/oligarchy, to which he owes his fortune. (At the very least – – the Donald Trump Junior e-mail about “Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump” indicates a depth of indebtedness to a hostile foreign power unimaginable in any preceding President.)
If the political will were there (i.e., if the GOP saw it in there best interests), either of these could be written up as abuse of the office / abuse of power. Add in obstruction of justice and you have perfectly fine Articles of Impeachment.
We have reached, in the Trump administration, the level of conduct that Professor Charles L. Black, Jr. described in his book Impeachment: A Handbook (1974, 1998) as conduct requiring impeachment and removal:
—offenses “which so seriously threaten the order of political society as to make pestilent and dangerous the continuation in power of the perpetrator.”
—misdeeds “so gross and malignant as to warrant an undoing of a national election.”
Both of these definitions define Donald Trump.
I have a GOP Rep and a GOP Senator. This is what I wrote them this morning:
If an appeal to patriotism doesn’t work and if an appeal to their own self-interest doesn’t work, then we have no recourse but consistent, constant resistance until November 2018.
rikyrah
Schmidt was ON FIRE.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/15/17
Trump remarks on racist rally force moral reckoning for GOP
Steve Schmidt, veteran Republican adviser and strategist, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump’s comments about the racist rally in Virginia disgrace a generation of Americans who fought Nazis and force Republicans to speak out against their own leader.
randy khan
@MattF:
Since Rubin’s basically calling for the dissolution of the Republican Party, I’d say she’s definitely crossed a line.
There is a pretty clean moral test here, and she is passing it. Others, not so much.
ETA: In particular, Kayleigh McEnany, not so much. Wow.
Kay
I wrote this earlier and it didn’t post so I apologize if it later did but I feel I must share and I can’t read this entire site at this time :)
Anyhoo. I listened to a popular local music station this AM and the two (horrible) male disc jockeys started this thing where they don’t so much disagree with Trump’s “both sides” but they are disgusted at his “lack of leadership”. This to me sounds like bullshit to rationalize their former support of Trump but it’s really surprising they’re publicly opposing him because they are Righties.
Just to give you an example of their assholeness when Kerry ran in 2004 they would run a Kerry radio ad (which Kerry paid for, obviously) and then do nasty comments about Kerry immediately after the ad. For these two to find Trump “lacks leadership” (even if it is bullshit to give them something acceptable to object to that isn’t racism) means something.
LAO
I don’t know if any own has posted this yet, since it was written yesterday. But, damn. I’ve Got Heritage, Too.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/15/17
Dodgy development deal in Georgia exposes Trump to legal risk
Adam Davidson, staff writer for The New Yorker, talks with Rachel Maddow about why a sketchy Donald Trump real estate deal in the nation of Georgia could expose Trump to legal problems, not to mention Russian “Kompromat.”
The Moar You Know
“Both Sides Do It” is engraved over the gates of Hell.
rikyrah
Trump creates a ‘moral reckoning’ for his Republican Party
08/16/17 08:00 AM—UPDATED 08/16/17 08:08 AM
By Steve Benen
The lede in the New York Times’ report on Donald Trump’s press conference yesterday reads like a dystopian nightmare.
This is the world we live in now – one in which a sitting president of the United States publicly praises racist activists as “very fine people” who’ve been treated “unfairly” by journalists.
It’s a moment of national shame, but it’s also the basis for a challenge to Donald Trump’s partisan allies: what exactly does the Republican Party intend to do with its president in the face of such a scandal?
MoxieM
@germy: umm…. something something Philadelphia, MS … something something Bitburg something St. Ronnie dog whistle visits.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Mike R:
More like no way to hide it. They knew and they were fine with it. Just like the guy who smiles and waves to his black neighbors, then refers to them using racial slurs when he’s in his own house. They’re white, they know they’re superior, they just don’t want the hassle of hearing the rest of us argue with them.
A Ghost To Most
@randy khan: Yea, no. When she quits the party, I will accept that she has atoned for her previous positions, which were atrocious.
MCA1
@randy khan: I generally agree with this, but there’s another line that needs to be crossed for me by people like Rubin before they go from passing a basic moral test to redemption. That’s admitting to the world that they were part of the problem, and contributed to getting us here. Blindly, nihilistically, whatever, she helped drive the boat for quite a while.
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
@rikyrah:
Umm, probably not.
BC in Illinois
@germy:
And as Cheryl Rofer noted, when Marlee Matlin came out against secessionists, anti-Semites, and Nazis, each of the Trumpenkinder–Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka–immediately unfollowed her.
eclare
@rikyrah: That was good, thanks for posting.
randy khan
@A Ghost To Most:
@MCA1:
Oh, I don’t think she’s made up for years of awfulness, by any means. And I certainly agree she has more work to do (a *lot* more work). But right now there’s a really obvious line for anyone who claims to be decent and she at least is on the right side of it. Many other Republicans have failed that particular test so far, and it’s good that she’s pointing it out.
Jeffro
On a slightly related side note: this article was in the print version of the WaPo back on Monday…it seems to not be available online on their website now (but somehow is available on this odd blog)
“Militiamen Came to City to Protect Free Speech, Chief Says”
It’s unnerving on multiple levels…
Riiiiiiight…that’s what they train and drill in the woods for, to defend their fellow Americans’ First Amendment rights…
Uh huh…
Yes…I’m sure that plenty of Nazis and anti-Nazis went up to men dressed in camo and toting automatic weapons and “beat and bloodied” them…
Well, that’s certainly reassuring that the ‘First Amendment Peacekeepers’ are able to keep from chambering a round in their long guns…(!)…
No way!
No way!!
It’s weird, but if he doesn’t want to be seen as someone allying with white supremacists…maybe next time he could leave his guns at home and come march with the students and clergy? Or better yet, just leave the ‘defending the right of free speech’ to the police?
trollhattan
@MattF:
It’s instructive that her love of Mitt “Corporations are people” Romney was unbridled. Will she now become a third-way fan, because I don’t see Republicans reeling back the crazy wing for at least a generation and she’s not going Dem-curious.
I welcome her voice of late, regardless.
Jeffro
@rikyrah: I saw that last night and was proud that Schmidt addressed it so clearly, just as anyone with a conscience should – very well done, Steve.
rikyrah
@BC in Illinois:
Uh huh
No shock.
trollhattan
@germy:
I’m sure Tom Perez is thrilled at the gift.
A Ghost To Most
@randy khan: I’m good with that. As I have said before, I quit subscribing to WaPo back in 2009. primarily because of Rubin. I came back this year, again mainly because of Rubin’s transformation. But her work is far from done.
rikyrah
@Jeffro:
He was so blunt. It was excellent.
Matt McIrvin
@Big Ole Hound: With Clinton they used their imagination and kept digging until they found something. Presumably Mueller’s at it as we speak, but if Congress really gave a crap they’d join the fun.
rikyrah
@randy khan:
It’s been crazy…reading Rubin and actually agreeing with her.
Patricia Kayden
@Bobby Thomson: I found that shocking. I know I shouldn’t, but I did.
trollhattan
@rikyrah:
Is there a list of Donald Trump real estate deals that aren’t “sketchy”? I’m guessing it’s the world’s shortest list, like Inuit marlin fishermen.
Matt McIrvin
@germy: He’ll never stop believing that Democrats are hell-bent on tyranny through climate science and Amtrak.
germy
@Matt McIrvin:
Public transportation is for the devil.
Patricia Kayden
@A Ghost To Most: Okay thanks. That’s what I thought. Her voice is dimmed as long as she remains a Repub in my opinion.
trollhattan
@Jeffro:
Missing is the all-important detail of how many hours he invested deciding which AR15 to bring with him.
“Aww Princess, just because I chose Lightning doesn’t mean I love him more than you!”
Lord deliver me from these “patriots” so busily protecting my freedumbs.
germy
@trollhattan:
That’s what baffles me. If I had a history like dolt45, the last thing I’d want to do is be president. Did he think all the stuff in his past wouldn’t come to light?
trollhattan
@germy:
IMHO part of his pathology is an unrelenting belief that he can “have it all” with virtually no limits. If the Billy Bush tape told us anything it’s that he’s unburdened by self-discipline.
Jeffro
@trollhattan:
It’s unbelievable. I’d have had a field day with this guy if I were a reporter:
– so you were attracted to right-wing, anti-government beliefs…but you’re not a white supremacist? What parts of white supremacist doctrine do you disagree with?
– you and your ‘company’ attended in camo, with weapons, in order to help keep the peace…when fights broke out, you didn’t get involved…would you say that essentially you had no effect here?
– what would you have done if a Nazi had opened fire on the antifa members?
– what would you have done if a ‘company’ of well-armed leftists had also shown up?
etc etc
NUTS
Tenar Arha
@rikyrah: Agreed. It’s a constant low level “Wait, whut? Whose byline?”
nonynony
@Big Ole Hound:
This is flat out wrong. The standard for impeachment is literally “high crimes and misdemeanors”. Here’s the relevant bit:
There is no definition of what constitutes a high Crime or Misdemeanor. If the House brings Articles of Impeachment up on literally anything they could call a high crime or a misdemeanor, and the Senate holds a trial, votes to convict, then he’s impeached and out of office. The House could easily draw up Articles saying that his firing of Comey was Obstruction of Justice which counts as a high Crime, send it to the Senate, the Senate votes and he’s out. They could accuse him of any crime at all and it doesn’t matter if he’s guilty of it or not – if the House votes to impeach and the Senate votes to convict then he’s out of office (though he’s got plenty of shit that he’s guilty of already, so it would be nice to use that).
I’d prefer that they bring him up on the high Crime of “offering aid and comfort to Nazi terrorists while in the Oval Office” and make a case that that counts as Treason because by damn if we’re going to have a neverending War on Terror we should be able to use it against Nazis. But sadly there probably isn’t enough agreement in the House or Senate that that would be sufficient.
WVblueguy
The picture at the start of this post shows that our country has had a supremacist Nazi infestation for years. It touched my family when a great Judge Edward C. Eicher died while conducting a trial of Nazis at the end of the war. Ed Eicher was my Great Uncle. The Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups were as offensive then as they are now and everybody needs to understand that they aren’t going away especially when they have the tacit approval of the President of the United States. Read about what happened in 1944 to a good man harassed by Nazi vermin.
Mike Toreno
@Tenar Arha: If you think of her as evil Jennifer Rubin it’s easier:
kat
@Tenar Arha: I just think it’s sad that every time I think the bar has been lowered as far as it can go, someone’s out there with a shovel digging a trench under it. Hell, even the Joker drew a line at Nazis.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Jeffro:
So a druggie in otherwords.
Mom Says I*m Handsome
@BC in Illinois: Thanks, BC. I lifted that block quote in its entirety and included it in a letter I just faxed (cuz I’m old-skool) to my Senator, the execrable Cory Gardner (R-3:10 from Yuma). I also listed 7 actions he could take, since all of this Twitter disavowal is just more “thoughts and prayers” — let’s see some fucking action. I offered up the firing of the troika of Trump’s Nazis (as well as Gorka’s wife) and the restoration of DHS & FBI funding to counter white nationalist terrist groups.
randy khan
The interesting group of people who are doing something is the members of the American Manufacturing Council convened by Trump – all CEOs and labor bigwigs. It already had lost two members over the withdrawal from the Paris Accords, it’s now lost 8 members since the weekend. It started with the CEO of Merck, but the CEOs of Campbell Soup, IBM, Intel, and UnderArmour also have quit, as have both labor representatives and the president of the Alliance of American Manufacturers.
Now, they obviously can’t do the things that Congress could do, but at the same time it’s a pretty big signal that the Administration has gone beyond the pale. I seriously wonder how many people will be left on the council by the end of the week, or if it will be disbanded before it has no members left.
randy khan
@randy khan:
Well, it looks like it got disbanded before everyone could quit, maybe even as I was writing that post.
Immanentize
O/T (in this case “Open Thread”)
I am writing to share an update about my wife (J), son (the Immp) and me.
To recap for those who have missed my very spotty comments — after some very good news at the end of May (wasn’t that like five years ago?) with J’s first chemo regimen, her cancer adapted and started growing again. A second regimen was tried and that ended up showing little promise. We were looking at a third possible chemo set and perhaps some research trials when, just two weeks ago, she had two major setbacks. The first was some blood clotting (treatable) but the second was a stomach blockage from the tumor. This blocked most of the area which links the stomach to the small intestine as well as the bile drainage tube from the liver/gall bladder/pancreas. That blockage could not be shunted or bypassed, and is obviously a real problem as Julie hasn’t been able to eat much and is also getting bilious. The cancer had also spread, at a minimum, to her liver. Last week, we moved J from therapeutic treatment to palliative-only care. The plan was to get J’s symptoms stabilized and meds fine-tuned so that she could be moved to home hospice care. The plan was to move J home this past Tuesday which was coincidentally her 50th birthday.
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley
Instead of being at home, my dear wife died on Tuesday. The Immp and I were with her up to the near-end and her parents and only brother were also in town from Texas. This was a comfort to all involved. All of J’s friends, my friends, and Immp’s friends and their families have been so kind and generous. Also, people here have been so supportive and kind. Thank you.
I am committed to writing down some of my observations/insights/thoughts/ experiences about this blazingly fast five months from diagnosis to death. But that will happen after the crazy of the next few days slackens.
When J and I were talking about her coming death, she told me, “I will miss this whole world.”
Not really anything else to say, except hold those you love close.
kat
@Immanentize: I am so sorry for your loss.
Lee
FYI Gorsuch is now ‘Gorsuch, nominated by a Nazi apologist,….’
Lee
@Immanentize:
That is just heartbreaking. Sorry for your loss.
The Moar You Know
@Immanentize: I am so sorry. Stay strong as best you are able.
glory b
@Immanentize: Oh no, I’m so sorry (tears and hugs).
H.E.Wolf
@Immanentize:
Deepest sympathies. May her memory be a blessing to all who knew her.
BretH
Funny how all the “militias” protecting “free speech” seem to only want to protect it at alt-right, neo-nazi, white supremacist rallies. While posting videos of Black Lives Matter protests saying “Stay vigilant my friends”:
https://www.facebook.com/Pennsylvania-Light-Foot-Militia-Laurel-Highlands-Ghost-Company-1436871993221463/
MisterForkbeard
@Immanentize: Oh no. I’m so, so sorry for your loss. We’re all grieving with you.
I know it’s trite and I hated it hearing it when my fiancee died, but: If there’s anything we can do, please let us know.
Betty
@Immanentize: This must have been an awful time for all of you. So sorry for your heartbreaking loss. You have many friends here as well as in “real life” who offer their support.
Chris
@kat:
I’m absolutely good with burning a Robert E. Lee figure once a year.
(Of course, several hundred years later, pop fiction will reinvent Lee as a bomb-throwing symbol of anarchy. So it goes. What can you do?)
Chris
@trollhattan:
A recurring theme I’ve seen among #NeverTrumpists on the Interwebs has been “God, fuck the media for what they did to our good honorable moderate Great Leader, Mitt Romney. If they’d supported him, we wouldn’t have Trump now.”
Aardvark Cheeselog
@kat:
I like the way you think.
spudgun
@Immanentize: Don’t think you’ll see this (will try to post in a more recent thread), but I have to at least try – I am so very sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you and your family.
Captain C
@randy khan:
We have a winner!
Elizabelle
@Immanentize: I am so sorry that Julie did not have more time in this world.
My best to you and Immp. I am so very sorry.
Yarrow
@Immanentize: I’m so, so sorry to hear the news. Deepest condolences to you and your family.
debbie
@Immanentize:
I’m so very sorry for your loss. Life is unfair and cancer really, reallly sucks.
SiubhanDuinne
@Immanentize:
Oh, Imm. I am devastated to read this. All condolences to you and the Immp, J’s parents and brother, and her many many friends. Take time to care for yourself, come back to Balloon Juice when you can, and know that we are thinking of you with love.
Joy in FL
@Immanentize: I am so sorry for the death of your wife. So much pain…. I wish you and yours comfort and kindness.
chopper
@Immanentize:
oh, dammit. I am so sorry.
Yarrow
@Immanentize: Immanentize, in case you come back to this thread just wanted to let you know that Elizabelle was kind enough to copy your comment into this thread. Many people have offered their condolences there as well.
J R in WV
@Immanentize:
I am so sorry for your loss, your family’s loss.
I don’t know what else to say. Take care of each other, you are all at a loss.
This was all so fast… we are all shocked and saddened.
Best wishes going forward.
satby
@Immanentize: I saw Elizabelle’s repost of your comment and came back to tell you how very sorry I am. So short a time and so young! May Julie now finally rest peacefully without suffering and may you and your son and family find comfort and strength from all of us who hold you in our hearts and thoughts.
Mai.naem.mobile
@Immanentize: I don’t know if you will see this but I saw a comment from another thread. I am so so sorry about your wife. That is way way too young. Peace to you, your son and the rest of your family.