Sarah Palin coming to Mar-a-Lago for Palm Beach County GOP dinner https://t.co/h4VV8yxePi pic.twitter.com/TKvPMeECd3
— The Palm Beach Post (@pbpost) March 13, 2018
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Remember the halcyon days when this would’ve been as much entertainment as political junkies could expect over a weekend?…
If they came to see the president, they were disappointed. But the well-dressed crowd of Republican activists who gathered at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club here Friday night still got a glimpse of party royalty.
There by the poolside, in a pink shirt and sport jacket, was Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. And the headliner of the night was Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate…
Laughter rippled through the sold-out crowd of about 700 attending the Palm Beach GOP’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner, which cost $350 for an individual. Prices went up from there: A “patriots” package was $1,000 for two, and the “presidential” package was $25,000 for two tables of 10…
Florida Gov. Rick Scott was also scheduled to speak, but he canceled because of a deadly bridge collapse in Miami, event organizers said…
Some of Palin’s lines drew laughter and applause, particularly those that echoed the phrases that propelled her to fame….
As her speech veered into policy specifics about trade with China and other matters, however, the crowd’s attention appeared to shift to their meal. “I wish you would pay attention,” Palin admonished. “I traveled two days from Alaska to get here.”
As she was walking out the ballroom, Palin was asked if the crowd’s inattention and noisy chatter bothered her. She thought for a long second, and then said with a smile: “I like a crowd with energy.”
Speaking of half-forgotten GOP figures…
Thanks to @DonaldJTrumpJr for hosting us at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. pic.twitter.com/TihChUcfpl
— Adam Putnam (@adamputnam) March 16, 2018
Mark Foley (helpfully pictured with name tag on), who had to quit Congress for sending sexually explicit messages to teenage Congressional pages, hanging out with the president’s son and a Republican gubernatorial candidate tonight at the president’s Florida resort: https://t.co/N6xOXvXCg5
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 17, 2018
Corner Stone
Steve in the ATL has cooties and has very bad BO and wants to have sex with Palin!
Crashman06
Jesus this feels like some real last days of the empire type shit.
Villago Delenda Est
Where is a fucking meteor when it’s desperately needed?
Mike J
They call her Natasha but she looks like Elsie.
Mary G
Birds of a feather flock together.
ruemara
I daydream of them falling into a woodchipper.
efgoldman
Fuck! Michigan over Houston on a no time left three point prayer.
NotMax
Trying to set up Bristol with Dolt the lesser?
hellslittlestangel
It has got to be the most exclusive trailer park in the world.
trollhattan
Beginning to question mom’s encouragement to “be a good person.” Really, mom? What happens if I’m the opposite?
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Projection!
:)
(Yeah, I saw below why you’re miffed.)
Anne Laurie
@trollhattan:
You have to spend all your time with people like the Palins and the Trumps. You want that?
efgoldman
@efgoldman: On the other hand, my Boston U Terriers beat Providence College, real nail-biter, in the Hockey East final, guaranteeing an NCAA berth.
Scoreless until about eight minutes gone in the third, BU scored an empty-net for the final 2-0
And raven isn’t here to tell me nobody gives a fuck. Has UGA fired Kirby yet?
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Corner Stone:
Yeah, well, you know… that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
Aleta
@ruemara: ha
ruemara
@trollhattan: You seem to become filthy rich.
Aleta
I’d settle for a brawl.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
In keeping with the movie theme from the thread below, I’m trying to remember a movie that features an aging comedian who keeps dragging out his trademark line to ever-diminishing reaction, getting sweatier and sadder and more desperate his fame diminishes. Is it Zero Mostel in The Front?
At least there was some degree of wry, resigned self-awareness in “Please clap”
Major Major Major Major
@Corner Stone: I heard he isn’t even in the ATL.
NotMax
Looked up ‘yesterday’s news’ in the Giant Pictorial Dictionary of Slang Expressions.
Lo and behold, there was a photo of Palin.
;)
Raoul
Ohhh. How sad.
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Bwahahahahahaaa.
Yarrow
“Please clap.” — Jeb Bush
“First of all, could I have a round of applause?” — Fred Thompson
NotMax
@Raoul
Hey, those iceberg lettuce wedges require attention; they don’t cut themselves, don’tcha know.
:)
jl
Palin is an obvious grifter and knows damn well what she is doing. When it worked to her advantage, she could play the act of a half-competent moderate GOP gubernator of Alaska, for about half a term. OK, pretty weak work, and when the GOP national presidential campaign grifter opportunity came up, she completely lost interest in her AK day job. But, it beats Trump by several light years.
So, Palin works the room to make a few bucks. It’s a gig and I guess she has to pay the bills. Too bad that the room got tough when she wanted to talk about something that required two neurons to rub together.
hellslittlestangel
While most of the crowd came hoping to see Donald Trump, Mark Foley was there to see Barron.
Yarrow
@jl: She shut down her Super PAC last year. It was a decade long grift but the money finally dried up. With Track’s legal bills, Bristol’s divorce and Willow’s upcoming wedding she’s got to keep the money coming in somehow. Willow is a hairdresser but the other kids don’t work.
Washburn
@hellslittlestangel:
snap.
Raoul
Also, too, it takes as little as ten and a half hours to fly from ANC to FLL. What the heck is that dumbass doing taking two days to get there? I mean, add in an hour drive from Wasilla, and 90-120 mins for bag drop and TSA. 13 hours.
Uhh, OK, sad lady.
Snarki, child of Loki
Foley: “GOP 2006: come for the corruption, stay for the pedophilia!”
Everything old is new again.
Major Major Major Major
@Raoul: yeah that really stuck out to me too.
frosty
DJT Jr can’t remember how to tie a fuckin’ tie?
NotMax
Ancient joke fits in just as well here.
“What are your thoughts on Red China, Ms Palin?”
“Works okay with a white tablecloth.”
jl
@Yarrow: Thanks for the update. Maybe she can squeak out a living as a Trumpster banquet intellectual. Maybe she’ll audition for a cabinet post, but probably doesn’t qualify by Trump criteria. I have no idea what that would be except I imagine extremely sleazy and stupid.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I didn’t even know she was pregnant.
frosty
@efgoldman:
The UMBC Retrievers beat Virginia. The Terriers beat Providence. I’m sensing a trend here … where’s my bookie??
Corner Stone
@Major Major Major Major: Some people are saying he can see Russia from his house.
NotMax
@frosty
On a window ledge?
Roger Moore
@Raoul:
She’s probably stopping for an overnight layover rather than spending all day traveling. I can imagine that would make the trip a lot more pleasant, especially if she or anyone in her family (Trig, maybe?) has problems spending too many hours in a row in airports and planes.
Aleta
Good 4 min twitter video about adopting deaf dogs and sign language.
John Revolta
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Zing!!
frosty
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Rim shot!!
Feebog
$350 a pop to hear Sarah Palin trot out the same old horseshit and hang with Mark Foley? These people are stupid. And masochistic.
Cckids
@Roger Moore: Please. As though she takes that poor child anywhere enjoyable.
He’s served his purpose-nailing down her anti-abortion bona fides. Now he’s old/big enough to be difficult. I doubt she is up for that. She’s never shown any signs of it.
NotMax
@Feebog
It’s an intellectual superfund site.
efgoldman
@hellslittlestangel:
Cold, cold, cold.
And funny.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
You have won every internet.
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Of the kids, Willow is the one who actually seems to have her own life. She’s marrying her long time boyfriend. She went to school to learn how to do hair and has been working at that for several years. She’s not pregnant last I heard and seems to know how to keep from getting pregnant.
efgoldman
@Feebog:
And criminal.
Can you imagine if some Dem poobah invited Anthony Weiner to a fund raiser?
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
“Do you like gladiator movies, kid?”
Yarrow
@Cckids:
Exactly. She never had any interest in Trig except for his use as a prop. There’s a sad video filmed in her house in Arizona (since sold because they needed the money) where she’s “reading” to him. He couldn’t be less interested and she’s absolutely awful at it. He deserves so much better.
Steve in the ATL
@Raoul: FLL? Tacky. PBI or bust.
Steve in the ATL
@Corner Stone: I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations. But I’m pretty sure I showered earlier.
Jay
@ruemara:
Some do, some don’t, depends if you started out rich or not.
Corner Stone
@Steve in the ATL:
Sure. In the virgin goat blood that was required from your most recent sacrifice.
Cckids
@Yarrow: He does. I remember a trailer for her short-lived show where she was taking the kids camping (supposedly), and he was left with grandma, waving as EVERYONE ELSE in the family, including Bristol’s first kid, went along. Who does that??
Mike G
Mark Foley, really?
Rumor is Larry Craig was invited but he missed his connection in Minneapolis having spent too long in the men’s room because….reasons.
Steve in the ATL
@Corner Stone: yeah, but I have to drive all way to Virginia, the nearest blue state, to find goats that haven’t been defiled
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL: He’s not worth it.
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
Mum’s the word.
;)
Anne Laurie
@Yarrow:
Willow got to take notes while big sister Bristol had her fifteen minutes. Apparently, she was smart enough to figure out that the drama, and the effort, wasn’t worth the “glory”. Good for her, and I hope her little sister (Piper?) is paying attention now!
Amir Khalid
It’s cruel to say this, so I can’t resist: Tina Fey now looks way too young to do her SNL parody Sarah of Palin.
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
No. Bird is the word.
Aleta
Something’s the matter with Palin — not even a post at the Taxpayer-Funded Travel Department.
piratedan
well if she could see Russia from her house, maybe Vlad sent instructions via semaphore…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: No, Grease is the Word.
hervevillechaizelounge
She won’t be his first choice—her grifting schemes are far too piddling for his liking—but I wouldn’t be surprised if Palin ends up in the Trump cabinet. Even moderately sane republicans aren’t lining up to take a one-way trip to indictment on the SS Trumptanic; and what better way to stick it to the libs?
BTW, did Dennis Hastert’s invite get lost in the mail? Or is he still in the jug?
Irony altert: despite their populous roster of high-profile convicted (if pardoned) criminals—Hastert, Dinesh D’Souza, Ollie North, Larry Craig, Oxy-enthusiast Rush Limbaugh—the media still calls the Republicans the law-and-order party.
lgerard
I am sure she has to hurry home, Track’s trial is coming up shortly.
EBT
Burnin that mania~
457/809 backgrounds done.
Chyron HR
Nice.
GxB
Too late to the thread but a perfect accompaniment for this post. “The Cursed Images of Mar-a-Largo”. Oh the humanity.
NobodySpecial
@hervevillechaizelounge: Technically, living in a cell counts as dealing with law and order, right?
Patricia Kayden
@ruemara: With the wood chipper on.
Frankensteinbeck
This story reeks of the news’s obsession with politely softening stories of political incompetence, especially Republican incompetence. I’m betting the speech was a trash fire.
@Yarrow:
I said back then that it’s only a matter of time before Palin ends up in extreme poverty. She got a taste of the good life and spends money like water. She’s too stupid to invest. And she didn’t achieve the big time by herself. She was just the lucky pawn to be used by people who would drop her the moment she stopped being a political asset.
Quinerly
He’s tweeting this AM: https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/975350027169206273?p=v
Quinerly
Another AM Trump tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/975346628113596417?p=v
Luthe
@GxB: Why did I subject my eyeballs to that. Why.
DesertFriar
@efgoldman:
BU needed the win, the Friars did not. PC’s a 2 seed, BU a 4. One piece of advise to BU if they happen to meet the Friars in the NCAA finals, be careful of the dump-ins from the Center line.
Radiumgirl
@GxB: Icky poo! Those images have a late-phase French artistocrats- just-a-few-steps-ahead-of-the-guillotine look to them — corrupt, venal, self-absorbed, hopelessly pampered and out of touch wealthy people who have no idea how gross they really are.
No Drought No More
Wouldn’t it be great if Palin’s daughter married Donnie Jr.? After his divorce is finalized, I mean- wouldn’t want to chance a scandal. Her innocent children would finally have the wealthy father they deserve to balance the cruel twist of fate of being born a Palin, and [what’s-her-name] would have a prison pen pal to correspond with in between the conjugal visits.
Another_Bob
What is it with the too-long ties with this crowd? Trump looks like a slob in his over-sized suits and dangly red tie. Why would anyone try to emulate that, or anything else about Trump in the looks/style department?
fuckwit
@Crashman06: that’s because it is.