Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Everybody saw this coming.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

This really is a full service blog.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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But, to be serious: Dana Houle, former & future campaign professional, has been pointing out for some time that Trump is not the one tapping out at least some of “his” tweets — certainly not the ones that use proper capitalization and sentence structure:

Sure, Lord Smallgloves no doubt could be brought to agree with whatever the current ‘John Barron’ or ‘Meredith McGiver’ are sending out under his name, but getting his scripters’ names on the public record would, IMO, be an important step towards ending the pretense that the ugly, racist, conspiratorial blasts are just ‘he’s senile so impulsive, he’s not used to politics’ rather than ‘This is your modern Republican party, folks’!

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  3. 3.

    Bobby Thomson

    I thought it was already uderstood that iPhone tweets were staff and android tweets were the dotard.

  4. 4.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @rikyrah:

    The coherent ones are definitely not him.

    I assume that you mean coherent as in sentence structure, rather than content.

    The contents of the coherent tweets are just as much self-serving fantasies as the incoherent tweets.

  6. 6.

    different-church-lady

    Let me try something here:

    [starts camera behind one-way glass]

    “Economic anxiety.”

    [waits]

  10. 10.

    raven

    Georgia Bulldogs senior running back Sony Michel recently sat down for an interview with CBS Sports to discuss his journey to Athens. Michel, who was ranked as the 247Sports Composite No. 20 overall player in the class of 2014, was born in Florida. However, his parents immigrated from Haiti in search of opportunity. Michel said it was like starting from “ground zero.” But now, the senior is likely on the verge of being one of the first running backs taken in the 2018 NFL Draft.

    We walked with Sony’s family for a bit after the Rose Bowl. We just expressed our admiration and respect for him and the family.

  11. 11.

    lamh36

    @Yamiche
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    I just talked to Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States Paul Altidor who said he and the Haitian government “vehemently condemn” President Trump’s comments which they believe are “based on stereotypes.” “Either the president has been misinformed or he is miseducated.”

    @Yamiche
    Haiti’s US Ambassador Paul Altidor tells me Haiti’s government has formerly summoned a US official to explain Trump’s comments to Haiti’s officials. “Haitians fought along US soldiers in the revolutionary war and we continue to be great contributors to American society,” he said
    https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/951629375224668160

  12. 12.

    different-church-lady

    @lamh36:

    Paul Altidor tells me Haiti’s government has formerly summoned a US official to explain Trump’s comments to Haiti’s officials.

    “He’s fuckin’ bugnuts insane, what do you want from me?”

  21. 21.

    Mike in NC

    Isn’t his caddy/social media guru the one composing most of the tweets? (Not the ones with spelling and grammar errors, that is.)

  22. 22.

    Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)

    From Trump’s interview with the WSJ

    There’s a lot of—there’s a lot of—there’s a big difference—first of all, there’s a big difference between DACA and Dreamers, OK?
    Dreamers are different. And I want American kids to be Dreamers also, by the way. I want American kids to be Dreamers also.
    But there’s a big difference between DACA and Dreamers. And a lot of times when I was with certain Democrats they kept using the word dreamer. I said, “Please, use the word DACA.” You know it’s a totally different word.

    I wish I were making that up

  23. 23.

    Mary G

    OK, stay close to your fainting couches. The Trump administration did something right for once. My housemate, whose green card expired last year, applied for a renewal in March and did the appointment with fingerprints, etc. in early April, when they gave him an extension to December 31. The website said it would take about six months, so all seemed fine. In November we requested a status and got back an email basically saying “we’ll take as long as we want, so DIAF.”

    At the end of the year, he was concerned so he went to the office. They told him that they can’t give another extension, but to bring in his passport and they would mark it there that he was OK to stay. I was afraid if he did that, he would find himself on a plane to Guatemala. People on here told me to tell him to get a lawyer. I did, and offered to pay for it. I also offered to write a letter and ask his regular clients, who are all pretty much Republican if not open Twitler supporters, to do the same. His wife and her family also chimed in. He has speeding tickets and possibly a bit of an arrest record, he’s a bit vague about it, he was definitely not charged with anything.

    He’s a stubborn cuss and ignored us all and went in with his passport Monday, where they gave him a year’s visa to stay and said it’s taking about a year to renew a green card now, but he should be fine. Relief all around.

  25. 25.

    lamh36

    Repost…
    Bakari Sellers quoted Stokely Carmicheal on AC360!

    ““If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.”

    Donald Trump is that racist white man with the ultimate POWER to enact policies to denigrate and demoralize minorities and people of color.

  27. 27.

    trollhattan

    I’ll bet Trump works the verb “surveil” into conversation at least 4x daily–suck it hippies! #BecamePrezniTodayy”

  28. 28.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Just checked a few R twitter feeds for comment: Paul Ryan, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Bob Corker, Marco Rubio have nothing to say about trump’s racism

    Jeff Flake has a mealy-mouthed “My ancestors came from a less prosperous country…”

  29. 29.

    Adam L Silverman

    @rikyrah: Dan Scavino. His longtime caddie and now the Director of Social Media at the White House (official title is something like Assistant to the President for Social Media). Scavino will tweet for the President – as in compose and send. Hope Hicks will also tweet for the President, but she basically just transcribes what he tells her to.

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Bobby Thomson: It was reported about a year ago that he’d gotten a new iPhone. This seems to have been done to make it harder to determine which were his verses Scavino’s.

  36. 36.

    Mary G

    @Mike in NC: The releases coming from the Press Secretary’s office are a nightmare to any grammar nazi or copy editor. Prime Ministers are called presidents, and vice versa, the erratic capitalization of any word they feel strongly about, spelling errors (Normay for Norway yesterday, etc.)

    I tweeted to Sarah Sanders to for dog’s sake, buy an AP style manual, then I offered to buy one and send it to her, then I offered free proofreading by email. Strangely enough, she ignored me. I think looking like careless, ignorant people is a feature, not a bug.

  41. 41.

    Gelfling 545

    @different-church-lady: I imagine that same conversation will be happening in several countries. Same explanation, too. It really is the only explanation. Then there will be the explanation of what’s wrong with US voters.

  42. 42.

    Aleta

    Jennifer Mendelsohn‏
    @CleverTitleTK

    So Dan. Let’s say Victor Scavino arrives from Canelli, Italy in 1904, then brother Hector in 1905, brother Gildo in 1912, sister Esther in 1913, & sister Clotilde and their father Giuseppe in 1916, and they live together in NY. Do you think that would count as chain migration?

    Dan Scavino Jr.
     @Scavino45
    It’s time to end #ChainMigration!

    Jennifer Mendelsohn
    @CleverTitleTK
    Also, here’s your great-grandfather’s Gildo’s birth certificate from 1884. Just because.
    (photo)

  43. 43.

    lamh36

    @mkraju
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    Ya can’t make it up: Trump was taping a video message for MLK Jr. this afternoon as the story broke about his ‘shithole’ comments, per @jeffzeleny

  44. 44.

    Duane

    How much longer are republicans going to support shithole? Can’t they see shithole is dragging them right into the shithole. Get the shithole out of the White House. Shithole, the lot of them.

  45. 45.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Patricia Kayden: In this context it means removing them from the restoration of the temporary legal resident status due to emergency conditions at home. Part of what Durbin, Graham, Flake and the other three have negotiated with each other is a reversal of the end of the emergency legal resident status for Haitians, Salvadarons, etc that DHS has ordered.

  47. 47.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Adam L Silverman: not quite in the way I’m thinking, unless I missed one of the analyses (I’m sure there are many!). I doubt there’s enough data to actually get any worthwhile results though, it’s just not a large corpus (in language analysis terms).

    ETA it’s easy to say if a tweet is by trump or not; I’m interested in the clusters within the not-trump subset.

  49. 49.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Aleta: Here you go:

  52. 52.

    lamh36

    I think Lawrence just said, that there was 1 Democrat (Dick Durbin) vs 7 Republicans in that meeting…it was supposed to be 1 Dem and 1 Repub…instead he also had 6 other House GOP…

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mary G:

    I think looking like careless, ignorant people is a feature, not a bug.

    It’s partly meant to be a demonstration of their power, IMO. They can make stupid mistakes and nobody can make them fix them. A toddler’s dream, and they’ve never mentally progressed beyond that stage.

  55. 55.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lamh36: I think The Rachel Maddow said the same thing. Sweet Paulie Blue Eyes was afraid he’d give the store away and upset Mark Meadows and his little friends in the Freedom Caucus, so he sent Kevin McCarthy (and others) to babysit

  56. 56.

    schrodingers_cat

    The man who has ascended to the presidency is evil, he and his enablers, this includes the party and staff that props him up are going to be judged harshly by history. He wants to hurt people and he is in a position to do so. Immigrants may be the first on his list but they won’t be the last. This is anti-immigrant crusade going to have economic consequences for everyone, in addition to what it is doing to the soul of this country.
    Rescinding DACA was unnecessary, it was done with the sole purpose to hurt. There is going to be no reprieve if the nativists (Mr T is one) have their way.

  57. 57.

    Adam L Silverman

    @lamh36: @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It was reported in the WaPo story that Stephen Miller invited them. He was worried that with just Senators Graham and Durbin the President would only be meeting with liberals. So Miller made sure to blow up the meeting by inviting Congressman Goodlatte and Senator Cotton who are both hardliners.

  58. 58.

    Aleta

    @Mary G:
    Here’s your answer from Secratery of War Sanders:

    I’m not going to waste my time or the country’s time going page by page in a book that’s complete fantasy because it’s sad, pathetic, and our focus is going to be on going forward and grinding the country under our heel.

  60. 60.

    sdhays

    @raven: Wow, a war memorial for non-white people that isn’t made up? Does South Carolina know where Savanah is? Maybe those guys in the South Carolina legislature who were so excited to build the Black Confederate Soldiers Memorial won’t have to completely give up on their dream of honoring black soldiers!

  61. 61.

    Frankensteinbeck

    The country has ignored worse from President Shithole. Calling someone ‘Pocahontas’ is an out-and-out ethnic slur. I think Wolff’s book has made a lot of national journalists feel a little more comfortable admitting the Emperor has no clothes. Or maybe it’s just that every time he does something like this, a few more people notice.

  62. 62.

    Adam L Silverman

  63. 63.

    Mary G

    Well, one Republican congressperson has called him out, and will in consequence probably be primaried and lose her seat.

    GOP Rep. Mia Love demands that Trump apologize for his 'shithole' comments, which she says "are unkind, divisive, elitist, and fly in the face of our nation’s values. This behavior is unacceptable from the leader of our nation. My parents came from one of those countries…"— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 11, 2018

    I’d more impressed if she’d actually said the word “racist” in there.

    ETA: the full statement is in the picture embedded in this tweet of hers:

    Here is my statement on the President’s comments today: pic.twitter.com/EdtsFjc2zL— Rep. Mia Love (@RepMiaLove) January 11, 2018

    She does demand an apology from Twitler, which is impressive.

  64. 64.

    lamh36

    @ChrisCuomo
    Of course he said shithole countries. This is what he believes. They told us we misconstrued all the ugliness about brown people from him. They lied. This is what he and his admin is about. Us and Them. Immigrants and “real” Americans. How to respond? Ideas on #CuomoPrimeTime 9p
    https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/951605676551430145

    Statement from the US Black Delegation: “WE TRIED TO TELL YA’LL”

  65. 65.

    Duane

    @Patricia Kayden: They deserve public shaming then. Same goes for the wretch in the press corp. I hope for the day when people curse and spit on the ground at the mention of their names.

  66. 66.

    lamh36

    @yashar
    Following Following @yashar
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    . @donlemon: “He [Trump] is a racist…I’m tired of being outraged.”
    https://twitter.com/yashar/status/951654412522606597

    @lauriecrosswell
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    Bravo to Don Lemon who just cut the mic on John Fredericks and got him off the screen.
    “We don’t need someone who is going to make excuses for racism,” Don added

  67. 67.

    schrodingers_cat

    @lamh36: Indeed the man in the WH has always been a racist xenophobe, since Steven Miller was in diapers if not longer.

    ETA: As I said in an earlier thread, the President doesn’t need Miller to teach him bigotry. He needs him to translate that hate into policy that hurts people he considers inferior.

  72. 72.

    lamh36

    @Mary G: Mia Love can take that statement and shove it. Hell it has been reported that Chump said Haitians “have AIDS”…it’s not the first time he’s said shit bout Haitians.

    Donald Trump dont’ give two shits about Mia Love. Her and Tim Scott, are just the token chocolate faces to give GOP “diversity” cover. And they BOTH seem to be perfectly okay doing so. And they vote with the racist nearly 100 % of the time.

    FUQ her

  73. 73.

    schrodingers_cat

    Like Don Lemon I am not outraged, just weary and tired. If you have to constantly put down others to feel good about yourself that says a lot about you and none of it good.

  74. 74.

    ??‍? Martin

    Being reported that the WH believes this will solidify support from GOP voters. Probably right. The GOP is going to have to own this for a generation.

  77. 77.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    Does anybody get what the fuck dullard is going on about below?

  78. 78.

    Mary G

    @lamh36: You’re right, I was wrong. It’s just a written furrowed brow, and I looked at her website, and she didn’t even mention it there.

  81. 81.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: he went after Dianne Feinstein tonight, so I’m guessing he’s watching the gorilla channel in bed with a bag of filet-o-fish and doesn’t know he’s getting the shit kicked out of him on two of three cable news channels

    or maybe Maria Bartiromo is doing an unscheduled live documentary on Mar-A-Lago on FBN

  82. 82.

    debbie

    The local Fox station reported that the president used the word S (as in Ess) Hole. I suppose that’s very daring of them, considering they’re Sinclair, but it felt more like Beavis and Butthead.

  86. 86.

    lamh36

    So Don told control room to cut his mike…but apparenlty TPTB at CNN must said, you can’t do that…so dude came back and was STILL insulting to Don…so Don checked him again!

    When DAFUQ is CNN et al gonna realize these “Conservative” talking heads on the show ahve NO respect for them and aside from the checks they get, they consider CNN et al to be shit at the bottom of their shoe. Occasionally they let that contempt show w/white hosts, but esp host of color and the female host…

    Don Lemon shuts down conservative panelist: ‘I’ll be damned if I’m going to let you sit here and insult me’ https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/don-lemon-shuts-down-conservative-commentator-ill-be-damned-if-im-going-to-let-you-sit-here-and-insult-me/#.WlgvSYjHkXx.twitter

  87. 87.

    Mary G

    @Another Scott: Oh, Jesus H. Christ on a breadstick. I said that CA50 was my November stretch goal, so I was psychic. Now that I have peeled myself off the ceiling, this might be a good thing. He would easily beat any other Republican, and then the hordes of people who hate him would canvass every house and apartment in the district. He has a lot of baggage, to say the least.

  88. 88.

    efgoldman

    @debbie:

    His saying “shithole” will solidify support from GOP voters? I don’t think so.

    The knuckle-dragging, racist, sexist flying monkeys will eat it up like ice cream.

  89. 89.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mary G: Ros-Lehtinen did. And in much starker and harsher terms. I’m pretty sure she considers herself white. I’m pretty sure the President just thinks she’s Cuban.

  92. 92.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh36:

    Ya can’t make it up: Trump was taping a video message for MLK Jr. this afternoon as the story broke about his ‘shithole’ comments

    Irony just downed a bottle of Valium, washed them down with a vodka chaser, stepped into a warm bath, and slit its wrists.

  95. 95.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Adam L Silverman: old school purity troll a few threads down, come back to tell us racism is a false narrative and that trump won because Dems forgot The People

  96. 96.

    Calouste

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I assume the embassy move started under Obama, you just don’t build something like that in 12 months. Moving it makes sense, the old embassy was some very prime real estate, and the US is not the first country that has moved its London embassy because the rent was getting too high or they could make a mint selling the property.

  102. 102.

    Steve in the ATL

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Irony just downed a bottle of Valium, washed them down with a vodka chaser, stepped into a warm bath, and slit its wrists.

    You, my dear, are a fucking poet.

  105. 105.

    Barbara

    @Adam L Silverman: Ros-Lehtinen is retiring at the end of this term. She has nothing left to lose. Not that she has ever been a vocal Trump supporter, but these statements would be more powerful if they were made by people who might actually have something to lose.

  107. 107.

    Duane

    @??‍? Martin: May the shitholes wear a scarlet letter and be shunned by society. The stench from their rot so foul no one comes near. Nothing is too bad for them to endure.

  109. 109.

    SgrAstar

    @Calouste: apparently, the embassy move was announced by the Bush administration. preznit ill-informed, new embassy NOT an Obama-originated project. Shocking news, yeah?

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