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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Cult45 on Display in Tampa Bay

Cult45 on Display in Tampa Bay

by Betty Cracker|  July 31, 201812:40 pm| 227 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, General Stupidity

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Trump will be in Tampa later today. First he’ll snarl rush hour traffic to visit a technical high school, and later he’ll hold a campaign rally at the Florida State Fairgrounds. The people pictured below are camping out at the fairgrounds to make sure they’re first in line:

Gene Huber, 48, claims to have been the first in line to wait for the rally. He got here around 2 p.m. yesterday, he claims. His shirt features a picture of him hugging President Trump at a rally last year in Melbourne, Florida. This is his 11th rally, he says. @TB_Times pic.twitter.com/SraV2vs3Si

— Josh Fiallo (@ByJoshFiallo) July 31, 2018

For context, keep in mind that this is July in Florida. The sun beats down like a sledgehammer, and just breathing the humid air is like huffing dragon farts. Afternoons are enlivened by dramatic thunderstorms, with sheets of pounding rain punctuated by frequent lightning. And these dumb fucks are camping out on the asphalt by the side of a busy road. For Trump.

As the tweet notes, the guy in the center of the photo has been to 10 Trump rallies already and wears a shirt picturing himself hugging Trump. Nothing weird or cult-like about that, nosiree.

But I’m more intrigued by the outfit of the woman at left. She has apparently sawed the top off a wicker basket and is wearing that around her midsection, presumably to indicate her occupancy of the “basket of deplorables.” I didn’t get it at first, and I’m fairly well-versed in Cult45 symbology. I bet 95% of the folks who notice her are thinking, “Why is that woman wearing a stiff, ill-fitting wicker belt?”

Anyway, here’s hoping swarms of mosquitoes and plagues of ditch-gators immiserate these fools until the gates open. And may Lady Deplorable consume so many burgers from the nearby Five Guys that she has to be extracted from her basket via a hack saw. I’ve got no sympathy for these people, nor a desire to understand them; only a burning desire to see them defeated.

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    the Conster

    July 31, 2018 at 12:43 pm

    I would take 10,000 asylum seekers for every one of these morons every day.

  2. 2.

    imonlylurking

    July 31, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    I grew up with these sssholes. I understand them already. When will they be lectured about understanding me?

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    July 31, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    My kid’s been hooked on the CNN series on the last several decades. (Yes, per the president* she’s just learned several hours’ worth of lies.) The ’70s episode covering Watergate showed hordes of sign-waving Nixon supporters outside the White House the day he departed for the last time. I don’t think these assholes are any different, they just have Facebook.

  4. 4.

    father pusbucket

    July 31, 2018 at 12:46 pm

    This is soooo fucking brilliant.

    Here’s How America Uses Its Land

  5. 5.

    schrodingers_cat

    July 31, 2018 at 12:47 pm

    Some of them are probably being paid , check out your local CL.

  6. 6.

    RedDirtGirl

    July 31, 2018 at 12:49 pm

    Ugh. Listening to Senator Cruz give a tongue-bath to testifying ICE head.

  7. 7.

    Raoul

    July 31, 2018 at 12:52 pm

    David Roberts from Vox had a great thread overnight. Here’s a sample

    Our minds simply rebel at the fact that global events, decades-old alliances, and longstanding norms of political conduct are being shaped by the human equivalent of a goldfish, who carries nothing with him from situation to situation but his resentments.

  8. 8.

    Roger Moore

    July 31, 2018 at 12:52 pm

    I think the basket case lady is also wearing a T-shirt with a picture of herself on it. The caption reads “You just gotta love her/Deplorable to [obscured in the picture]”. Somehow having your own face on a T-shirt just seems really weird.

  9. 9.

    Elizabelle

    July 31, 2018 at 12:52 pm

    The Trump groupies have self-incarcerated on a slab of burning concrete. Leaves them less time to be out harassing others who are just out and about.

    Bring on the lightning bolts miles ahead of thunderstorms. It happens some times.

  10. 10.

    rikyrah

    July 31, 2018 at 12:52 pm

    Anyway, here’s hoping swarms of mosquitoes and plagues of ditch-gators immiserate these fools until the gates open. And may Lady Deplorable consume so many burgers from the nearby Five Guys that she has to be extracted from her basket via a hack saw.

    LMAO!!

  11. 11.

    r€nato

    July 31, 2018 at 12:55 pm

    I happened to be in Tampa on the day when there was nothing but blue skies and puffy white clouds in the sky when a man walking on the causeway was struck dead by lightning. Literally a bolt out of the blue.

    May it happen again to these deplorable pieces of shit.

  12. 12.

    ruemara

    July 31, 2018 at 12:57 pm

    These are the dumbest people. Tell them libtards don’t want them to enjoy the good, American pastime of licking electrical sockets.

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    July 31, 2018 at 12:58 pm

    whatever.

    The Uneasy Relationship Between Trump and Wealthy Republicans
    by Nancy LeTourneau
    July 31, 2018

    Despite pushing for a huge corporate tax cut and implementing attempts to roll back government regulations, wealthy Republicans don’t seem particularly happy with Donald Trump.

    Top officials with the donor network affiliated with billionaire industrialist Charles Koch this weekend sought to distance the network from the Republican Party and President Trump, citing tariff and immigration policies and “divisive” rhetoric out of Washington.

    At a gathering of hundreds of donors at the Broadmoor resort here, officials reiterated their plans to spend as much as $400 million on policy issues and political campaigns during the 2018 cycle. Earlier this year, they announced heavy spending aimed at helping Republicans to hold the Senate. But in a warning shot at Trump and the GOP, network co-chair Brian Hooks lamented “tremendous lack of leadership” in Trump’s Washington and the “deterioration of the core institutions of society.”

    That comes from a room full of people who have traditionally donated big money to Republican candidates. They’re not ready to flip allegiances yet, but it’s clear that there are some things going on in their party that are causing concern. We can summarize those concerns with two words: Donald Trump.

  14. 14.

    Matt

    July 31, 2018 at 12:58 pm

    The sun beats down like a sledgehammer, and just breathing the humid air is like huffing dragon farts.

    You know who feels this happy about that kind of weather? Frickin lizards.

    I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo! And somebody was giving booze to these god damn things! It wont be long now, before they tear us to shreds.

  15. 15.

    The Dangerman

    July 31, 2018 at 12:59 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Some of them are probably being paid…

    Couldn’t pay me enough. Well, maybe if I was temporarily rendered deaf and couldn’t hear the asshole, it might be worth it.

  16. 16.

    catclub

    July 31, 2018 at 12:59 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Somehow having your own face on a T-shirt just seems really weird.

    I think it is no more weird than advertising somebody else’s product with your t shirt. (unless you are LeBron James and being paid well to wear that t-shirt.)

  17. 17.

    Melusine

    July 31, 2018 at 1:01 pm

    Long-time lurker, first-time commenter. I LOVE thatas soon as I saw the phrase “like huffing dragon farts”, I knew it was a BC post. Bravo! Bellisimo!

  18. 18.

    Jeffro

    July 31, 2018 at 1:04 pm

    10 Trumpov rallies? 11? What are they, Deadheads-for-Donnie? Lollapa-losers?

    …although if they are, to be fair, the music is probably better at Trumpov rallies (ducks)

  19. 19.

    Raoul

    July 31, 2018 at 1:04 pm

    OT, but there was some chatter on Twitter that Sen. Flake is traveling abroad for most of August. Speculation is that he did this on purpose to make it nigh impossible for McConnell to move any more judges, as Flake sits on Judiciary and his vote is needed.
    Anyone know more about this?

  20. 20.

    TaMara (HFG)

    July 31, 2018 at 1:05 pm

    I have been saying this since I became involved in climate change efforts. These folks had their chance – they do not deserve, nor will they get, another minute of my time. They need to be marginalized, placed in a room with a box of crayons and recycled paper and left to entertain themselves while the adults get to the business of making the world a better place for everyone.

    I cannot tolerate another whine about how we MUST understand them and get them to see it our way. They won’t, they never will, so our job it so overwhelm them with our numbers.

  21. 21.

    lowtechcyclist

    July 31, 2018 at 1:05 pm

    For context, keep in mind that this is July in Florida. The sun beats down like a sledgehammer, and just breathing the humid air is like huffing dragon farts. Afternoons are enlivened by dramatic thunderstorms, with sheets of pounding rain punctuated by frequent lightning.

    And to think I’ll be there in eleven days. Scary thought!

  22. 22.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 1:07 pm

    only a burning desire to see them defeated.

    There should be a cream for that.

  23. 23.

    cope

    July 31, 2018 at 1:07 pm

    Gene Huber’s picture should be on the “TV Tropes/Empty Eyes” page.

  24. 24.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 1:08 pm

    @Matt:

    I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo! And somebody was giving booze to these god damn things! It wont be long now, before they tear us to shreds.

    I welcome our Reptile Overlords.

  25. 25.

    different-church-lady

    July 31, 2018 at 1:09 pm

    So, basically Trump’s rallies are the same 10,000 people over and over again?

  26. 26.

    Roger Moore

    July 31, 2018 at 1:09 pm

    @father pusbucket:

    Here’s How America Uses Its Land

    It’s a really excellent set of maps. One thing I didn’t see listed as a land use category is mining and drilling; I’d be very interested to see just how much land that takes up.

  27. 27.

    James E Powell

    July 31, 2018 at 1:09 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    Pretty much like the tea party rallies.

  28. 28.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 1:11 pm

    @rikyrah:

    “deterioration of the core institutions of society.”

    That’s Republican speak for “black people are being uppity and therefore we must cut Social Security and Medicare to show them their place in the natural order of things.”

  29. 29.

    different-church-lady

    July 31, 2018 at 1:12 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    I cannot tolerate another whine about how we MUST understand them and get them to see it our way.

    We already understand them: they are angry, demented racists.

    When people say we need to understand them, they’re using “understand” as a substitute for “pander to”.

  30. 30.

    Chyron HR

    July 31, 2018 at 1:13 pm

    “Look out, here comes the master race!”

    ALTERNATIVE JOKE: “Super-duper supermen!”

  31. 31.

    JPL

    July 31, 2018 at 1:14 pm

    @Raoul: Flake is just like his colleague Paul. All talk and then fold.

  32. 32.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    July 31, 2018 at 1:14 pm

    I’ve got no sympathy for these people, nor a desire to understand them; only a burning desire to see them defeated.

    The Gilliard Doctrine is more pertinent today that 13+ years ago:

    I’m tired of people acting like these people can be reasoned with or talked to. They don’t want to talk, they want to drive us away into a corner and ridicule our ideas.
    I’m not writing to make conservatives happy. I want them to hate my opinions.
    I’m not interested in debating them.
    I want to stop them.

  33. 33.

    Schlemazel

    July 31, 2018 at 1:16 pm

    @r€nato:
    One of the more interesting things about living in Central FLA is watching the storms roll in every summer day. I had always heard that lightning often proceeds the rain & while there I saw many occasions where I could see the front coming with the rain behind & lighting out front. I gained a lot of respect for that stuff. They get crazy storms down there

  34. 34.

    schrodingers_cat

    July 31, 2018 at 1:16 pm

    @The Dangerman: People have found local CL listings prior to these unhinged gatherings, promising a gift voucher for attending.
    ETA: You will still have to see him.

  35. 35.

    schrodingers_cat

    July 31, 2018 at 1:19 pm

    @different-church-lady: 10,000 is a high number. These days they are having trouble filling up school gyms.

  36. 36.

    Schlemazel

    July 31, 2018 at 1:20 pm

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage:
    If there were a God he would have many things to answer for. Taking Steve so early is one of them

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    July 31, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    @Roger Moore:
    It’s like one of those shirts with an arrow pointing up and”I’m With Stupid”

  38. 38.

    hedgehog the occasional commenter

    July 31, 2018 at 1:22 pm

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage: THIS, to the 1000x. Like Betty and TaMara and everyone else above, I.Am.Done.With.Them.
    One last snarky comment–how the hell does someone have time off to go to ten (!) fucking rallies? Independently wealthy? Retired (at 48, unlikely)? But lie-berals are the ones who don’t put in an honest day’s work. *headdesk* Guess since I’m not a cultist, praise Ghu, I don’t understand it (nor do I want to).

  39. 39.

    The Dangerman

    July 31, 2018 at 1:23 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    …gift voucher for attending.

    Gift voucher?!! It had better be one helluva GREAT gift.

  40. 40.

    rikyrah

    July 31, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    Trump Is Not a Simple-Minded Crowd Pleaser
    by Martin Longman
    July 30, 2018

    ………………………….

    There are many things that Trump remembers very well, and many ideas that he sticks to with an absurd doggedness. One thing he very clearly adheres to is a commitment to please Vladimir Putin. In fact, he is so thorough in this respect that he must be getting more routine help in understanding what Putin wants than he’s getting from his regularly scheduled private meetings with him. But even if someone is telling him what Russia would like to see in Syria, Macedonia, the Korean Peninsula, and the Baltics, it’s certainly never far from his mind that he should not do anything that might displease Russia. And, if he feels like he may have been cornered into giving some offense, he’s sure to find a way to compensate at the very next opportunity.

    Trump remembers things just fine, and when he lies he most often knows that he’s lying. It’s true that he has no conscience about this and that lying means so little to him that he has no real voice in his head alerting him to contradictions. He may very well sometimes be unaware that he’s saying the opposite of what he said just 15 minutes previously, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t realize that what he’s saying is bullshit. It means that one bullshit comment can’t really contradict another bullshit comment because, for him, truthfulness is a worthless practice.

    What Trump is most effective at in life is conning people. He’s never much concerned himself with making sure his cons stay secret. Contractors know they haven’t been paid. People who lay down twenty thousand dollars to take a course from Trump University know they have been duped. When the bill comes due, he brings in his lawyers, pays his fines and legal settlements if he must, and moves on to the next scam.

  41. 41.

    kd bart

    July 31, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    At what point do they all end up at a jungle campground in French Guyana?

  42. 42.

    different-church-lady

    July 31, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    @kd bart:

    At what point do they all end up at a jungle campground in French Guyana?

    Not soon enough.

  43. 43.

    Sister Golden Bear

    July 31, 2018 at 1:27 pm

    @Elizabelle: Darwinism in action? I’m in favor of it.

  44. 44.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 1:30 pm

    @father pusbucket:

    This is soooo fucking brilliant.

    Yeah, that was pretty cool.

    However, one thing that seemed to be missing: the geographical distribution of racist moron motherfuckers a/k/a RWAs a/k/a Shitgibbonistas. I, for one, am at a loss as to where the largest concentrations might be. Any ideas?

  45. 45.

    rikyrah

    July 31, 2018 at 1:30 pm

    In key statewide race, Donald Trump finds his ‘mini-me’
    07/31/18 12:51 PM—UPDATED 07/31/18 01:00 PM
    By Steve Benen

    As he wraps up his second term, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has his eyes set on the U.S. Senate, creating an open gubernatorial race in the nation’s largest swing state. The conventional wisdom suggested state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, a former congressman, was the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.

    That’s no longer true. Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) has very quickly risen to the top of GOP polls in Florida, thanks almost entirely to the endorsement he received from Donald Trump. The New York Times reports today on how the largely unknown congressman, once seen as a longshot, positioned himself as the odds-on favorite to win Florida’s Republican gubernatorial nomination.

    By going on [Fox News] as often as he could to rail against [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller’s investigation and defend Mr. Trump – he has appeared on Fox prime-time shows at least 41 times since Mr. Trump was inaugurated – Mr. DeSantis attracted the president’s attention and his favor.

    After watching a Fox segment on Air Force One last December that featured Mr. DeSantis, 39, Mr. Trump tweeted favorably about the three-term congressman’s campaign for governor but stopped short of a full-throated endorsement. Mr. Putnam’s allies – including his former House colleague, Vice President Mike Pence – scrambled to stop the president from formalizing his support.

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    July 31, 2018 at 1:32 pm

    @catclub:

    I’m going to start a tangent about t-shirts:

    I think the social purpose of wearing a fan t-shirt (sports jersey/shirt, brand, movie or TV, etc) is as a conversation starter. It’s to get other people to look and then say, “Hey, I like that (team/book/character/TV show/etc), too!” I frequently wear a “Little Prince” parody t-shirt called “Le Petit Chat” that I get a lot of positive comments about.

    So IMO wearing a t-shirt with your own face on it is counterproductive, to say the least. It’s an anti-conversation starter and will make most people avoid you.

  47. 47.

    rikyrah

    July 31, 2018 at 1:33 pm

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage:

    I’ve got no sympathy for these people, nor a desire to understand them; only a burning desire to see them defeated.

    they will NEVER be forgiven.

    and, don’t ever
    and I mean EVER
    purse the lips to tell me that I need to ‘ understand’ these muthaphuckas.

  48. 48.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 1:34 pm

    @Jeffro:

    Lollapa-losers?

    Outstanding!

  49. 49.

    schrodingers_cat

    July 31, 2018 at 1:35 pm

    @Raoul: He is pretty focused on 3 things.
    1. Grifting as many $$ for himself as possible
    2. Racism and xenophobia
    3. Pleasing Putin.

  50. 50.

    Schlemazel

    July 31, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    @The Dangerman:
    A free lobotomy, performed by hair furor’s obnoxious voice

  51. 51.

    Mnemosyne

    July 31, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Trump is a toxic narcissist. “Truth” is what he wants it to be at that moment, and he gets pissed if anyone tries to tell him that there’s such a thing as objective truth.

  52. 52.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    These days they are having trouble filling up school gyms.

    Fake news!!!

  53. 53.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 1:38 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    Taking Steve so early is one of them

    Yeah, I still miss him.

  54. 54.

    Roger Moore

    July 31, 2018 at 1:38 pm

    @r€nato:

    May it happen again to these deplorable pieces of shit.

    If it happened to the Deplorable in Chief, I might actually start believing in a deity.

  55. 55.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 31, 2018 at 1:39 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a gray T-shirt identifying me as a member of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries. I keep hoping someone will get the joke.

  56. 56.

    Roger Moore

    July 31, 2018 at 1:40 pm

    @catclub:

    I think it is no more weird than advertising somebody else’s product with your t shirt.

    I don’t wear product placement T-shirts; I actually remove logos from a lot of my stuff because I don’t like the idea of looking like a walking advertisement.

  57. 57.

    Mel

    July 31, 2018 at 1:41 pm

    @Roger Moore: Okay. So, that lunatic is actually clad in a basket rim. How I wish that my eyes were deceiving me.

  58. 58.

    Timurid

    July 31, 2018 at 1:41 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    But that joke keeps going Miles over their heads…

  59. 59.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 1:41 pm

    is like huffing dragon farts.

    Not to be indelicate, but: how in the hell would you know what that is like?

  60. 60.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 1:43 pm

    @ruemara:

    Tell them libtards don’t want them to enjoy the good, American pastime of licking electrical sockets.

    A parallel to that, back before evil took over, was hoping President Obama would get on primetime TV and say “Drinking anti-freeze is dangerous! Please don’t do it!!!”

  61. 61.

    Roger Moore

    July 31, 2018 at 1:44 pm

    @Jeffro:

    10 Trumpov rallies? 11? What are they, Deadheads-for-Donnie? Lollapa-losers?

    Yeah, I’m old enough to remember when a conservative knock on liberals protesting was that the conservatives were too busy working to be able to do that stuff. I wonder which form of government benefits these Trump fans are depending on that they have the free time to go to endless Trump rallies.

  62. 62.

    Drunkenhausfrau

    July 31, 2018 at 1:45 pm

    Don’t these people have jobs?! *snort*

  63. 63.

    Mnemosyne

    July 31, 2018 at 1:46 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    I get the joke! Maybe you need a “My Family Went to Vorbarr Sultana And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt” shirt.

  64. 64.

    rikyrah

    July 31, 2018 at 1:47 pm

    Donald Trump Has Almost Cashed His Check
    by Martin Longman
    July 27, 2018

    History is more an art than a science which becomes clear when you realize that it rhymes without ever quite repeating itself. We can read some strikingly similar stanzas when we go back to a rough time period in Richard Nixon’s second term and compare it to what Donald Trump is currently careening through in his first.

    ……………………….

    Things are coming at Trump fast now, with emoluments reaching the charts for the first time yesterday, his former fixer looking to reprise John Dean’s role, his former campaign manager about to begin the first of two doomed trials, and the Southern District of New York hauling his finance chief before a grand jury. He’s getting caught in his big lies on an almost daily basis now, with his feigned ignorance of hush payments to ex-girlfriends and foreknowledge of collusion-rich meetings with Kremlin emissaries turning to ash in his mouth.

    At least when Nixon went to China he didn’t tell the world that all our differences were due to stupid Americans and that Mao Zedong was far more credible than CIA director Richard Helms and the rest of the Deep State goons working in our intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Tricky Dick was a paranoid thug but half the country wasn’t convinced with good reason that he was a helpless agent of a foreign power.

    Deep Throat aside, most of the establishment was reluctant to think the worst of Nixon. At this point, you can almost pick any former high-ranking intelligence officer you want and find them quoted as suspecting Trump of treason. Even Fox News generals are quitting while accusing the president of being “a slave to Putin.”

    So, no, things are not exactly the same as they were in 1973. Back then, the country was watching Congress hold hearings and steadily losing faith in the administration. If we have hearings this time, they’ll probably have to wait until next year. But in every other way, Trump is in a weaker position than Nixon was a year before he was forced to resign. Nixon had just won by one the biggest margins in American history, while Trump lost the popular vote and is still arguing about the size of his minuscule inaugural crowd. Nixon had showed competence and even excellence in several areas during his administration, while Trump stumbles from one self-inflicted disaster to another. Nixon had loyal soldiers lining up to take a bullet for him, but Trump is now virtually alone.

    What Trump has that Nixon did not is Republican majorities in Congress. That is the only thing propping him up. If he loses that advantage (and maybe even if he doesn’t), he’ll be cashing his check.

    His roots are thoroughly rotted out and all that should be required now is the strong breeze provided by Manafort’s trial, Cohen’s evidence, Mueller’s report, and some Democratic committee chairs to help make sense of it all.

  65. 65.

    Haroldo

    July 31, 2018 at 1:47 pm

    @Jeffro: And well you should duck, Mr. Jeffro. (But you get a pass for the sterling Lollapa-losers.)

  66. 66.

    hueyplong

    July 31, 2018 at 1:48 pm

    It has been said before, but Gilliard is missed.

  67. 67.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    July 31, 2018 at 1:48 pm

    @SFAW:
    Conservatives/Trump supporters are stupid but not that stupid, unfortunately. I don’t think most would fall for that.

    (Yes, I know it’s a joke)

  68. 68.

    ruemara

    July 31, 2018 at 1:49 pm

    @kd bart: I’m willing to donate to that kickstarter.

  69. 69.

    Mary G

    July 31, 2018 at 1:49 pm

    Don’t these people have jobs? I wish some media outfit would get pictures outside the venue where these rallies are going on, to see if the thousands Twitler is always claiming couldn’t get in are actually there.

    @Melusine: I choked on the beverage I was sipping when I got to “huffing dragon farts.” BC has mad language skillz. Nice to see a lurker speaking up! Welcome to the jackals.

    ETA: word is that the DOJ is going to announce arrests in a major cybercrime investigation unrelated to Mueller’s investigation tomorrow.

  70. 70.

    MCA1

    July 31, 2018 at 1:49 pm

    @hedgehog the occasional commenter: Yeah, that’s what horks me off most about these traveling cultist losers. They’re fucking zeroes, but they go around blithely decrying the moochers and takers in society, utterly unaware of the fact that they’re talking about themselves.

    That’s one concept I’d love to kill once and for all: this idea that the lower middle class and rural Republicans are so much more hardworking than everyone else. Fuck that. We all work hard. They have it entirely backwards – without urban white collar professionals subsidizing their rural lifestyle, they’d be worse off than they are currently.

    That cudgel needs to be broken, along with notion that the GOP the party of personal responsibility, sound foreign policy, patriotism and fiscal sanity. All demonstrably untrue, yet they still brand themselves that way for the rubes and it works.

  71. 71.

    different-church-lady

    July 31, 2018 at 1:50 pm

    Vital article at 538:
    Why We’re Sharing 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets

    Right Troll and Left Troll are the meat of the agency’s trolling campaign. Right Trolls behave like “bread-and-butter MAGA Americans, only all they do is talk about politics all day long,” Linvill said. Left Trolls often adopt the personae of Black Lives Matter activists, typically expressing support for Bernie Sanders and derision for Hillary Clinton, along with “clearly trying to divide the Democratic Party and lower voter turnout.”

    If you want to know why the summer of 2016 smelled so damn off, this goes a long way to explaining it.

  72. 72.

    Ohio Mom

    July 31, 2018 at 1:51 pm

    @different-church-lady: Are these Trumpheads who migrate to one rally after another all retired? Don’t some of them have jobs to go to? Eleven rallies plus travel time to and from for the out-of-your-state-ones — that’s a lot of work to miss.

    @Roger Moore: Adding mining and drilling would have been interesting, also, what about manufacturing? Even if there is less manufacturing then there used to be, if you are going to list golf courses, why not factories? Or schools, college campuses and research facilities? A geographer might have an interesting critique of what was included and what was left out.

    I also want to know who those 100 families are!

    @rikyrah: Eh, the Koch brothers’ henchmen just opened an office in Cincinnati because they are worried our two congressional districts might flip Blue, and of course they’d like very much to be rid of Sherrod Brown. There’s a big gap between wanting to get rid of Trump and jettisoning the rest of the elected Republican officials.

    Finally, thanks for explaining that woman’s belt. It had me mystified.

  73. 73.

    gvg

    July 31, 2018 at 1:52 pm

    @rikyrah: Some people need to just so we can out plan them and defeat them, but not sympathize with them, that’s right out. Who wants to understand crazy people? But we haven’t exactly been outsmarting them so far, so some volunteers do need to “study” them.

  74. 74.

    Ohio Mom

    July 31, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    @Melusine: Welcome, and please stick around.

  75. 75.

    Elizabelle

    July 31, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: How are you feeling today? How is Thailand? Hope you are doing swimmingly.

  76. 76.

    Roger Moore

    July 31, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a gray T-shirt identifying me as a member of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries. I keep hoping someone will get the joke.

    I would get the joke, and similar types of things seem OK. I’ve seen somebody wearing an Aperture Laboratories T-shirt who was very pleased I got the joke. And I have a “Stand back! I’m going to try science!” T-shirt.

  77. 77.

    gvg

    July 31, 2018 at 1:54 pm

    At this point I would want to investigate those “Trump fans” for ties to Russia. I feel reporters are failing if they don’t check ID an these storybait people.

  78. 78.

    matt

    July 31, 2018 at 1:55 pm

    At least they’re not getting mad at their neighbors for having yard sales, or whatever the fuck it is they do all day long the rest of the time.

  79. 79.

    oatler.

    July 31, 2018 at 1:58 pm

    Is the Gruppenrally going on right now? (Arizona time here)

  80. 80.

    Raoul

    July 31, 2018 at 1:59 pm

    @JPL: I generally agree that Flake is useless. But IF it is true that he’ll be gone for the bulk of August, this would throw a judge-packing wrench. I guess we’ll see if his staff are right that he’s planning to be away that much.

  81. 81.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 2:05 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a gray T-shirt identifying me as a member of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries. I keep hoping someone will get the joke.

    Is Miles still hiring?

  82. 82.

    germy

    July 31, 2018 at 2:06 pm

    The Sanders family always have been grifters. Kudos to @VTDigger for this investigative report on Sanders' #nepotism. After all those $100k donations Carina grifted from Burlington College looks like brother Dave is finally getting his grift on.https://t.co/VZyyJM1Kgl
    — m. mendoza ferrer (@mgranville1) July 31, 2018

  83. 83.

    cope

    July 31, 2018 at 2:07 pm

    @Ohio Mom: Here you go.

    http://www.landreport.com/americas-100-largest-landowners/

  84. 84.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 2:07 pm

    @gvg:

    But we haven’t exactly been outsmarting them so far, so some volunteers do need to “study” them.

    Vivisection is a type of study.

  85. 85.

    Cckids

    July 31, 2018 at 2:08 pm

    Betty, when I first read your opening, I thought you wrote “complain” rally.

    Wouldn’t be wrong. At all.

    May the dank heat of a FL July make them all feel & smell like Satan’s swamp ass.

  86. 86.

    Leto

    July 31, 2018 at 2:10 pm

    And may Lady Deplorable consume so many burgers from the nearby Five Guys that she has to be extracted from her basket via a hack saw

    Nah, there’s so much grease in the 5 Guys burgers that she’s probably squatting in the bushes (ala Spicer) wishing she had two ply instead of a handful of poison ivy.

  87. 87.

    Jeffro

    July 31, 2018 at 2:10 pm

    @rikyrah: Stuff like this is exactly why that stupid Bret Stephens’ “CAREFUL LIBS! YOU’RE GONNA LEFTY IT UP TOO FAR LEFTISH AND TRUMPOV’S GONNA GET RE-ELECTED!!1!”

    No he won’t, Stephens, you putz. He likely won’t even be in office. But even if he is…he’s been underwater for his whole presidency, he isn’t producing anything for his base except rage-tweets, and most everyone around him is going to be under indictment before the year is out.

  88. 88.

    Mike J

    July 31, 2018 at 2:14 pm

    @Leto: Squatting AMONG the bushes.

  89. 89.

    Steve in the STL

    July 31, 2018 at 2:16 pm

    @lowtechcyclist:

    And to think I’ll be there in eleven days. Scary thought!

    BC was writing about July in Florida. August will be cool and breezy with low humidity.

  90. 90.

    Mandalay

    July 31, 2018 at 2:17 pm

    Katy Tur on MSNBC just informed us that it isn’t just Paul Manafort who is going on trial; Bob Mueller is as well.

    WTF???…Because both sides?

  91. 91.

    Shell

    July 31, 2018 at 2:18 pm

    folks who notice her are thinking, “Why is that woman wearing a stiff, ill-fitting wicker belt?”

    I think she looks more like she was trying to hang a grape-vine wreath and got confused.

  92. 92.

    The Midnight Lurker

    July 31, 2018 at 2:21 pm

    You can joke… but these people scare the shit out of me. Just imagine them in black uniforms with just a little authority and you’ll see what I mean.

  93. 93.

    A Ghost To Most

    July 31, 2018 at 2:21 pm

    “The sun beats down like a sledgehammer”

    Try it with 5000′ less of air. The sun here will cook you. The difference is moving into the shade here actually helps.

  94. 94.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 31, 2018 at 2:21 pm

    @Timurid: @Timurid: @Mnemosyne: @Roger Moore: I knew you all would get it. Sadly, I’ve never run into anyone in real life who did.

  95. 95.

    Jeffro

    July 31, 2018 at 2:21 pm

    @Mandalay: I’m curious, Katy: before Trumpov, did we used to ‘put the prosecutor on trial’ as well? I don’t remember that happening, like, ever.

    LAZY REPORTING JUST REINFORCES “BOTH SIDES” BS!

  96. 96.

    Kay

    July 31, 2018 at 2:22 pm

    (((Harry Enten)))
    ‏@ForecasterEnten
    Follow Follow @ForecasterEnten
    More
    This was what I was talking about yesterday. The economy imho is really the only thing holding Trump up. If the economy goes south, the floor will open up.

    This is true, IMO.

    It’s so perfect that the serial bankrupt has nothing in the bank. No good will, no one beyond the base, all kinds of legal problems.

    Obama was able to weather the tough economic conditions because Obama wasn’t an asshole and people liked him. He had banked good will. Trump has none. First bump in the economic road and he bottoms out.

  97. 97.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 31, 2018 at 2:25 pm

    @TenguPhule: Sadly, Miles seems to have reached an end point.

  98. 98.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 31, 2018 at 2:26 pm

    @Mandalay: So, if Mueller doesn’t get a conviction, he has to serve time in the greybar hotel?

  99. 99.

    Kay

    July 31, 2018 at 2:27 pm

    @Mandalay:

    Mueller has behaved very well. Unlike Comey and Ken Starr he seems to have some self-discipline. The Trump people really got a break with him. He didn’t do any of the bullshit grandstanding a lot of them do, no riding in with a white hat, no public lectures. It’s refreshing. Gives one hope that people can do their jobs without promoting themselves or ax-grinding.

  100. 100.

    scav

    July 31, 2018 at 2:28 pm

    @Shell: Or, maybe failing at twirling a home-made wicker remedial hula-hoop . . . .

  101. 101.

    Mandalay

    July 31, 2018 at 2:30 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Trump remembers things just fine, and when he lies he most often knows that he’s lying.

    I agree with that, and it should be accepted wisdom in the absence of any arguments to the contrary.

    Pundits constantly claim that Trump doesn’t even know he’s lying without a shred of evidence to support that.

  102. 102.

    J R in WV

    July 31, 2018 at 2:31 pm

    @SFAW:

    is like huffing dragon farts.

    Not to be indelicate, but: how in the hell would you know what that is like?

    You don’t have a dog? Dog eat terrible things, and then they fart right under your chair. Could be from a dragon. Also chemical plants…

  103. 103.

    P-dog

    July 31, 2018 at 2:33 pm

    They are probably kooky, but it’s Kind of hard to top this though
    https://funnyjunk.com/channel/politics/Lgbtq+alphabet+movement+posing+under+the+baby+trump+balloon/YhxyLLu/

  104. 104.

    James E Powell

    July 31, 2018 at 2:34 pm

    @Kay:

    He didn’t do any of the bullshit grandstanding a lot of them do, no riding in with a white hat, no public lectures.

    No constant flow of scurrilous rumors leaked to the NYT.

  105. 105.

    Mike in NC

    July 31, 2018 at 2:34 pm

    Thinking happy thoughts for the suffering MAGAts gathered in central Florida on the last day of July. Hope the hate rally is worth the heat stroke a number of them will experience.

    Visited Tampa a few years ago for July 4th and it was uniquely miserable even if you could find a spot of shade.

  106. 106.

    Mel

    July 31, 2018 at 2:34 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: How are you doing today?

  107. 107.

    Tom Levenson

    July 31, 2018 at 2:35 pm

    @Kay: I don’t think the Trumpanzees got a break with Mueller. His competence and his meticulous attention to the substance of his job are killing them.

  108. 108.

    Brachiator

    July 31, 2018 at 2:35 pm

    Again, I guess the rally should be interesting to know what is shaking in Trump’s manic mind. We’ll get the greatest hits of course. “No collusion” and “fake news.” Maybe some hints as to where his rage and resentment will be focused next. He seems to be hot for “the wall” again.

  109. 109.

    Roger Moore

    July 31, 2018 at 2:35 pm

    @Kay:

    The Trump people really got a break with him.

    I don’t think so. I think they’d be happier with a grandstanding incompetent than a quiet guy who’s going to dig up their dirty secrets and send them to lifetime prison sentences.

  110. 110.

    Mnemosyne

    July 31, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Honestly, I prefer Imperial Auditor Vorkosigan to Admiral Naismith. I have fairly low tolerance for military stories and find the new political mystery bent much more interesting.

  111. 111.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 31, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Mueller is playing in a whole different league than the media or Giuliani are. His PR is his integrity. Beyond that, he ignores it.

  112. 112.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 2:37 pm

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:

    Then you haven’t been paying attention.

    There was more than enough “I fucking hate that black guy so fucking much because he’s blackity-black” going around, and that translated into RWAs doing things contra Obama, JUST BECAUSE OBAMA SAID IT WAS GOOD (or whatever). Or has all the stuff that Shitgibbon has done to negate Obama’s Presidency escaped your notice?

  113. 113.

    Elizabelle

    July 31, 2018 at 2:38 pm

    Tampa Bay Times website, right now: <Five things to watch as Trump descends on Tampa today

    We seem to be watching them already. Five deplorables in that photo.

    Anyhow, the TB Times’ five things are:

    1. Will Trump go after Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam? Trump supports whackaroo congresscritter Ron DeSantis for governor.
    (trivia point: today is Putnam’s birthday.)

    2. Will Trump inflame government shutdown speculation?

    “Congressional Republicans didn’t appear interested in following Trump down that road. It’s going to be a tough-enough election year as it is without Democrats hanging a shutdown around the neck of the ruling party.

    But Trump has staked out positions before that rally his base even if a majority of the country is skeptical or opposed. This could be one of those times.”

    3. Will Trump revive attacks on “Low Energy” Jeb Bush and “Little” Marco Rubio? [Do we jackals even care?]

    As Tampa Bay Times Political Editor Adam C. Smith wrote last week, the Florida GOP [RPOF] is now the Party of Trump. Many long-time Bush and Rubio voters are firmly Team MAGA. Will Trump further seize that mantle by trashing the Republicans who built the RPOF into a shithouse powerhouse? And how would the crowd react if he does? Rubio is still a sitting senator, after all.

    4. How strongly will Trump stump for Gov. Rick Scott?

    Scott faces token primary opposition. He needs Trump’s base of support to come out strong in November, but he can’t turn off moderates who might be growing disenchanted by chaos and bombast coming out of the White House.

    The extent to which Trump makes noise for Scott or against Nelson could signal how much Scott wants to be associated with the administration come November.

    5. Where does Pam Bondi fit in Trump’s world now?

    She’s supporting birthday boy Adam Putnam for gov, who is NOT Trump’s candidate.

  114. 114.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 31, 2018 at 2:38 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I like the Auditor stories too, but one of the things I like about the military ones is that he uses cleverness as a battle strategy. I’m bored by guns or swords or fists.

  115. 115.

    Immanentize

    July 31, 2018 at 2:38 pm

    @Kay: I am a bit worried — but that is my nature. There have been so many federal prosecution fails recently. Either acquittals like in Oregon, or prosecutorial misconduct like in Alaska in high profile “political” cases. And TS Ellis is a cranky old tank. This prosecution needs a completely straight shooter like Mueller to pull it off. My read so far is that the defense in the case is simply that the Government will mess up somehow. We will know more this evening after opening arguments.

  116. 116.

    mapaghimagsik

    July 31, 2018 at 2:38 pm

    @Roger Moore: Considering they worship a narcissistic self-promoter…

  117. 117.

    Fair Economist

    July 31, 2018 at 2:38 pm

    @father pusbucket: Great link!

  118. 118.

    different-church-lady

    July 31, 2018 at 2:39 pm

    @Jeffro:

    Stuff like this is exactly why that stupid Bret Stephens’ “CAREFUL LIBS! YOU’RE GONNA LEFTY IT UP TOO FAR LEFTISH AND TRUMPOV’S GONNA GET RE-ELECTED!!1!”

    Ah, yes, another installment in the timeless “IF YOU DON’T GIVE ME RESPECT I’M GOING TO GO OUT AND VOTE FOR THE IDIOT I WAS GOING TO VOTE FOR ANYWAY” series.

  119. 119.

    Mel

    July 31, 2018 at 2:39 pm

    @J R in WV: Worst dog gas experience – an already farty Labrador who stole and ate two cabbage rolls. Blisteringly awful.

  120. 120.

    Mnemosyne

    July 31, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    @Mandalay:

    It’s not that Trump doesn’t know that he’s lying. It’s that he doesn’t care. He is completely indifferent to the truth and thinks that people who care about the truth are weak losers who deserve to be conned by him.

    It would be easier to convince a great white shark not to eat you than it would be to convince Trump that “truth” is something he should care about.

  121. 121.

    The Moar You Know

    July 31, 2018 at 2:41 pm

    The sun beats down like a sledgehammer

    My grandparents are from Alabama. My dad used to make us go back there every year on summer break.

    Even at age 9, when you can handle heat like a champ, I remember getting out of the nice air conditioned car and feeling like I’d been hit. Physically. The last time I went to the South I was in my mid-forties, I went outside and couldn’t control it; I puked. I can’t handle heat anymore. Not that kind, anyway. SoCal is bad enough but never anything like Southern heat.

    I’d like to hope those Trumpsters would just keel over and die from it but like kudzu, pythons or rats, they’ve adapted very quickly to their environment and most of them probably handle it just fine.

    The future of that part of the world is going to be hellish. I had the rather unpleasant experience of going to the Gulf of Aden a few years back in August. Imagine hard packed sterile sandstone desert to the water, daytime highs of 125 degrees, humidity still at 67% even in that heat. That’s the South in 40 years. Hell, it’s probably going to be less than 40.

  122. 122.

    Immanentize

    July 31, 2018 at 2:42 pm

    @Mel: Indoor dog, I assume….

  123. 123.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 2:42 pm

    @J R in WV:

    You don’t have a dog?

    Nope.

    Although I can see that dogs are just like dragons. Except for almost everything about them. Of course, maybe the dogs in West By God Virginia are like mini-dragons. (Well, SOME of the dogs, maybe — clearly, Lily is not.)

  124. 124.

    different-church-lady

    July 31, 2018 at 2:42 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Five things to watch as Trump descends on below Tampa today

    To paraphrase Mel Brooks, he’ll rise below vulgarity. Except he won’t rise.

  125. 125.

    Hoodie

    July 31, 2018 at 2:44 pm

    @Kay: Agree, which is why they’re trying to prop up the numbers with every short term gimmick they can muster, especially if it lines their own pockets. The gop know they’ll be toast if a recession hits with Trump in charge. They’re like cockroaches, though, they’ll resurface after he disappears and then they’ll pretend he never existed and/or was a democrat.

  126. 126.

    Mnemosyne

    July 31, 2018 at 2:44 pm

    @Immanentize:

    As a longtime resident of Los Angeles, I completely get your fears about prosecutors fucking up important and high-profile cases. We have a long, long history of that here. The OJ Simpson case was only one example — the “Twilight Zone” case was probably even more stupidly handled.

  127. 127.

    Fair Economist

    July 31, 2018 at 2:44 pm

    @Raoul: Flake being absent doesn’t change the vote much. That makes the Senate tied with Pence breaking the tie. Republicans win if they have unanimity and lose with one defector, same as now. The only difference is they can’t take another absence.

  128. 128.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 2:45 pm

    Trump administration officials mounted a fierce defense Tuesday of the controversial family separation policy at the border, defending sites as “more like a summer camp” than holding facilities, and arguing that the detention system simply was not set up to facilitate court-ordered reunions easily.

    “I’m very comfortable with the level of service and protection that is being provided,” top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Matthew Albence told the Senate Judiciary Committee about the conditions at the “family residential centers,” which he likened to summer camps.

    JFC. SUMMER CAMPS?!

    /Wapo Link

  129. 129.

    Kay

    July 31, 2018 at 2:46 pm

    @Immanentize:

    The two were charged in October — in a related case in Washington, D.C. — with conspiracy against the U.S., conspiracy to launder money, false and misleading Foreign Agent Registration (FARA) statements and other counts.
    Gates pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal conspiracy and false-statement charges in that case, which signaled he would cooperate with Mueller’s team. Mueller later moved to dismiss tax and bank fraud charges against Gates in Virginia.

    Gates thought they could convict him (Gates), though, and he would know more about Manafort’s dealings than anyone.

  130. 130.

    Mandalay

    July 31, 2018 at 2:48 pm

    @Jeffro:

    I’m curious, Katy: before Trumpov, did we used to ‘put the prosecutor on trial’ as well?

    Several of the regular political hosts and pundits are nakedly ambitious, and they will spew any drivel, however toxic or absurd, to advance their own career.

    So that means being edgy without offending your audience, dwelling on the supposed personality of politicians, inventing horse races that don’t exist, invoking both sides in one sided issues, and doing “gotchas”: in 1997 X said “this” but look at what he/she is saying now!!!!!!

    We already know what Fox and CNN and MSNBC will be saying and doing at this time tomorrow, regardless of what actually happens in the next 24 hours. It’s completely predictable.

  131. 131.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 2:50 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    but one of the things I like about the military ones is that he uses cleverness as a battle strategy. I’m bored by guns or swords or fists.

    Its actually amusing to note that his mercenaries do very little fighting aside from a few key strategic battles.

    Bavarian Fire Drills were his tried and true strategy most of the time.

    Although the last book released, Red Queen, was a horrible disappointment. It was boring, and it shouldn’t have had to be. Especially since his mother was such an awesome character in the earlier novels she starred in.
    Peace is boring in fiction, no tension.

  132. 132.

    Mel

    July 31, 2018 at 2:50 pm

    @Immanentize: Indoor dog who slept on the bed. The gassing woke us out of a sound sleep in the middle of the night. The cats had already wisely fled the scene.

  133. 133.

    Immanentize

    July 31, 2018 at 2:50 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    the “Twilight Zone” case

    Almost forgot about that — poor Vic Morrow. Didn’t Spielberg try to trip a witness on the way to the stand? You live crazy lives out there….

  134. 134.

    Doug R

    July 31, 2018 at 2:51 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    So, basically Trump’s rallies are the same 10,000 3,500 people over and over again?

    FIFY

  135. 135.

    different-church-lady

    July 31, 2018 at 2:52 pm

    @TenguPhule: When I recall the lens of despair and terror through which my brother and I viewed summer camp, it makes perfect sense.

  136. 136.

    SenyorDave

    July 31, 2018 at 2:52 pm

    @TenguPhule: “I’m very comfortable with the level of service and protection that is being provided,” top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Matthew Albence told the Senate Judiciary Committee about the conditions at the “family residential centers,” which he likened to summer camps.

    I’m guessing that he would have tried to find a way to make Auschwitz sound decent. maybe he would characterize it as a place for extreme weight loss.

    I pray that there is a hell so people like matthew Albence will end up there.

  137. 137.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 31, 2018 at 2:53 pm

    The bit that fascinates me; who in the heck has two days off to spend on a political rally in the middle of a work week? Or, are these two hard working Real Americans on Social Security disability….

  138. 138.

    les

    July 31, 2018 at 2:55 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a gray T-shirt identifying me as a member of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries.

    With white piping, I presume?

  139. 139.

    zhena gogolia

    July 31, 2018 at 2:56 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Oh, but when I called the Hartford Courant to complain about a “political” cartoon slandering him, I was told that “the other day, we thought the NY Attorney General was a man of integrity too, didn’t we?”

  140. 140.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 2:57 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    When I recall the lens of despair and terror through which my brother and I viewed summer camp, it makes perfect sense.

    Texas, in the summer, without A/C, in a plastic tent. Hell on Earth.

  141. 141.

    danielx

    July 31, 2018 at 3:00 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Is there a Naismith in your family tree?

  142. 142.

    rikyrah

    July 31, 2018 at 3:01 pm

    They never intended to give back the children to their parents ??

    BREAKING: Commander Jonathan White of HHS just admitted he warned Trump @realDonaldTrump & Sessions about “significant risk of harm” & “psychological injury” as consequence of zero tolerance & was ignored: https://t.co/lKrUeLECVc @KPBSMidday

    — Jean Guerrero (@jeanguerre) July 31, 2018

  143. 143.

    Betty Cracker

    July 31, 2018 at 3:02 pm

    @The Moar You Know: The summers are hellish here, but it’s nice the rest of the year, which is a decent trade-off. Fortunately for me, I’ll be dead by the time climate change makes it unfit for human habitation.

  144. 144.

    joel hanes

    July 31, 2018 at 3:02 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Dendarii Free Mercenaries

    I’d have appreciated it if I ever saw it, but I don’t spend much time in Waterloo/Cedar Falls.

    Myself, I have :
    – A bright red t-shirt bearing the logo of Communist Martyr High School
    – a gray-green shirt identifying me as a retainer of House Reed, the Crannogmen

  145. 145.

    germy

    July 31, 2018 at 3:03 pm

    Ladies and gentlemen, the Sanders Institute.

    "Jane Sanders wears many hats at the institute… The institute is being run by her son, David Driscoll, a political neophyte who previously worked at Burton Snowboards. His estimated salary for the job is $100,000." https://t.co/fNmDXbSuaE— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 31, 2018

  146. 146.

    geg6

    July 31, 2018 at 3:03 pm

    @Mandalay:

    I cannot even express how much I despise her. She’s nothing but a younger, prettier and much, much, much more stupid UpChuck Toad.

  147. 147.

    germy

    July 31, 2018 at 3:04 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Self-employed contractors with one or two trucks. They choose when they want to work, and rip off their customers accordingly.

  148. 148.

    joel hanes

    July 31, 2018 at 3:04 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Aperture Laboratories T-shirt

    I have a Black Mesa Facility parking tag on my car.
    No one has ever gotten the reference.

  149. 149.

    Mandalay

    July 31, 2018 at 3:06 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Bring on the lightning bolts miles ahead of thunderstorms. It happens some times.

    Six people have already been killed by lightning in Florida so far this year. So the chances of it happening to anyone aren’t high, but ignoring the possibility if you are isolated and out in the open during a summer storm in Florida is close to being reckless.

  150. 150.

    joel hanes

    July 31, 2018 at 3:07 pm

    @hueyplong:

    Gilliard is missed

    Not equivalent, but Olliver Willis abides and is a national treasure, and is too little read.
    http://oliverwillis.com/

  151. 151.

    geg6

    July 31, 2018 at 3:10 pm

    @SFAW:

    If Thurston is anything like his sister Lovey, he definitely farts dragon farts. Hell, most dragons would run away from Lovey on a bad day the smell can be so bad (like a week ago when she ate broccoli that fell on the kitchen floor during dinner prep).

  152. 152.

    the Conster

    July 31, 2018 at 3:11 pm

    @germy:

    “We want to get money out of politics and put it into our pockets”

    The Sanders are the Green Mountain Trumps, including a bankrupt college and the nepotism.

  153. 153.

    geg6

    July 31, 2018 at 3:13 pm

    @joel hanes:

    I read him regularly. He’s awesome.

  154. 154.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 31, 2018 at 3:13 pm

    @joel hanes: Surely you’re aware that it’s plural: Communist Martyrs High.

  155. 155.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 31, 2018 at 3:17 pm

    @the Conster: Hey, a 501(c)3 in which you hold all the key positions? What better way to avoid tax on your husband’s salary while still getting use of all that money

  156. 156.

    trollhattan

    July 31, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:
    Stop calling me Shirley.
    Call me Adolph.

  157. 157.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 31, 2018 at 3:20 pm

    Disgusting.

  158. 158.

    rikyrah

    July 31, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    “more like a summer camp”

    That’s from Fox.

  159. 159.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    @geg6:

    If Thurston is anything like his sister Lovey, he definitely farts dragon farts. Hell, most dragons would run away from Lovey on a bad day the smell can be so bad (like a week ago when she ate broccoli that fell on the kitchen floor during dinner prep).

    “Balloon Juice: Come for the political commentary, stay for the dog farts discussion. Or not. Come to think of it, who the fuck wastes their valuable time talking about dog farts?”

    I’d say it’s what I love about this place, but Jeebus told me not to lie.

  160. 160.

    germy

    July 31, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    What happened to this story? Down the memory hole?

    Hey @RealDonaldTrump, before your rally in Tampa tonight, we have a few unanswered questions about your illegal $25,000 donation to @AGPamBondi and why she didn't pursue charges against your scam school. https://t.co/RRWzYcLrqA— Gwen Graham (@GwenGraham) July 31, 2018

  161. 161.

    piratedan

    July 31, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    @Fair Economist: my understanding is that it’s a bigger deal because w/o Flake, they can’t get out of judiciary to be voted upon (based on my understanding of the process, ymmv) not out of committee, no vote.. as such, everyone is bottlenecked until Flake is back to vote. yes, its passive resistance but better than zero resistance…

  162. 162.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Surely you’re aware that it’s plural: Communist Martyrs High.

    Shoes for Industry, comrade!

  163. 163.

    danielx

    July 31, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    What can one say about somebody who has attended eleven Trump rallies, except “that guy really needs a life”.

  164. 164.

    Gravenstone

    July 31, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    @Raoul: That sounds just passive aggressive enough for Flake.

  165. 165.

    Mnemosyne

    July 31, 2018 at 3:27 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Yup. Ingraham was pushing that line. Strangely, she did not volunteer to send her kids to this great “summer camp” run by Trump.

  166. 166.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 31, 2018 at 3:28 pm

    @Raoul: can’t Mitch bring a judge to a floor vote without a committee referral if he wants?

  167. 167.

    rikyrah

    July 31, 2018 at 3:32 pm

    President Jimmy Carter slams Trump’s America as ‘an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery’ https://t.co/FIZpCjouiS

    — Dina Ellithorpe (@DinaEllithorpe) July 31, 2018

  168. 168.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 31, 2018 at 3:32 pm

    @SFAW: Now you can see how increased spending opportunities mean harder work for everyone, and more of it, too!

  169. 169.

    the Conster

    July 31, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Funneling money from a 501(c)(4) run by the spouse of your husband’s campaign aide, into a 501(c)(3) run by your son who also employs the campaign aide, while also under investigation by the FBI is peak Crooked Jane.

  170. 170.

    schrodingers_cat

    July 31, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Everything T and his supporters say about immigration or immigrants is either misinformation or outright lies. Every single thing.

  171. 171.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    So apparently Trump discovered this morning that his people just approved 3D printed gun schematics. Apparently even he realized this might not be a good thing.

  172. 172.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 3:38 pm

    Trump on Tuesday revived his threat of a government shutdown over the issues of immigration and border security, creating yet another headache for Republican leaders on Capitol Hill who have been marching forward with plans to avert a funding crisis before the November midterms.

    “I don’t care what the political ramifications are, our immigration laws and border security have been a complete and total disaster for decades, and there is no way that the Democrats will allow it to be fixed without a Government Shutdown,” Trump said in a tweet Tuesday afternoon.

    “Border Security is National Security, and National Security is the long-term viability of our Country,” he added. “A Government Shutdown is a very small price to pay for a safe and Prosperous America!”

    Via Wapo.

    We know Trump can’t really dictate to Congress about any spending bills.

    But what happens if he orders the Departments through his appointees to simply not spend the allocated money?

  173. 173.

    JPL

    July 31, 2018 at 3:39 pm

    @Fair Economist: It’s doubtful that McCain will return.

    never mind, it would still be tied.

  174. 174.

    germy

    July 31, 2018 at 3:40 pm

    @TenguPhule: He made all those promises to his base that Mexico would pay for it.

  175. 175.

    the Conster

    July 31, 2018 at 3:41 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    He realized it’s not profitable for gun manufacturers or otherwise beneficial for the NRA.

  176. 176.

    ET

    July 31, 2018 at 3:41 pm

    That is a Mardi Gras or Halloween costume – outside of those settings it makes no sense.

  177. 177.

    germy

    July 31, 2018 at 3:42 pm

    @the Conster:

    peak Crooked Jane.

    I’m old enough to remember when Jane told reporters she “couldn’t wait” for the FBI to complete their HRC investigation.

  178. 178.

    Ksmiami

    July 31, 2018 at 3:44 pm

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage: my problem now is I want to go further than that- I don’t want to share a civil society with them ever again… how we get there is the question

  179. 179.

    Jay

    July 31, 2018 at 3:46 pm

    @SFAW:

    Casey used to wake her self up with them, give us a disgusted look, then leave the room. Moments later the stench would hit the rest of us.

  180. 180.

    Mandalay

    July 31, 2018 at 3:51 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    So apparently Trump discovered this morning that his people just approved 3D printed gun schematics. Apparently even he realized this might not be a good thing.

    You are giving Trump far too much credit; the NRA “realized this might not be a good thing” for gun sales, and ordered Trump to do something about it.

    But you will search in vain for a word on the subject from Rand Paul. Every fiber of his libertarian being told him that anyone should be able to publish the details on how to make a gun at home, and the government had no right to prevent it. But then every fiber of his money grabbing political being told him to be a hypocrite, STFU and hang on to his job.

  181. 181.

    A Ghost To Most

    July 31, 2018 at 3:52 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Everything T and his supporters say about immigration or immigrants is either misinformation or outright lies. Every single thing.

  182. 182.

    Leto

    July 31, 2018 at 3:55 pm

    @joel hanes:

    You just keep on trying
    ’til you run out of cake.

  183. 183.

    the Conster

    July 31, 2018 at 3:55 pm

    @germy:

    She went on Fox (Cavuto) to say that. Her husband the Russian asset used to do a show on RT every week. There’s absolutely no difference between Cult#45 and the cult of the High Sparrow Grifter.

  184. 184.

    Dan B

    July 31, 2018 at 3:59 pm

    @SFAW: Reminds me of this guy in Cleveland in the 60’s. He swallowed a tablespoon of DDT every day yo show how safe it was. Didn’t hear from him after a few years.

  185. 185.

    Mandalay

    July 31, 2018 at 3:59 pm

    @the Conster:

    Funneling money from a 501(c)(4) run by the spouse of your husband’s campaign aide, into a 501(c)(3) run by your son who also employs the campaign aide, while also under investigation by the FBI is peak Crooked Jane.

    The Democratic Party needs to do to the Sanders family what Putin has done to Trump: get the dirt on the grifting, and then politely but firmly tell Bernie that he is not running in 2020, but they expect his wholehearted support for their presidential candidate.

    And then in 2021 they can anonymously send the dirt to the IRS anyway.

  186. 186.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 31, 2018 at 3:59 pm

    @TenguPhule: Surely this older-than-dirt crowd has commenters who remember when The Progressive printed instructions for making a nuclear bomb? Publishing instructions for something is hard to block in the USA.

    (Sadly, my copy of that issue was destroyed one year when our basement flooded.)

  187. 187.

    Mayken

    July 31, 2018 at 4:00 pm

    @imonlylurking: This this this! OMFG! This!

  188. 188.

    Schlemazel

    July 31, 2018 at 4:02 pm

    @SFAW:
    Are you also in that philatelist club?

    And, when will the bridge finally be built?

  189. 189.

    Central Planning

    July 31, 2018 at 4:03 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    printed instructions for making a nuclear bomb?

    Did it go something like this:

    1. Obtain uranium
    2. ????
    3. Boom!

    ?

  190. 190.

    Chyron HR

    July 31, 2018 at 4:09 pm

    @the Conster:

    Watch out, his supporters will send you death and/or rape threats (depending on your ethnicity and gender).

  191. 191.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 31, 2018 at 4:11 pm

    @Central Planning: Here’s a backgrounder. I was mis-remembering: it was a hydrogen bomb; and I was confusing their article with the case of John Aristotle Phillips. Memory ain’t what it used to be.

  192. 192.

    matryoshka

    July 31, 2018 at 4:11 pm

    Why aren’t these deplorables at work? No one I know has time to go to 11 political rallies.

  193. 193.

    the Conster

    July 31, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    @Mandalay:

    I’m assuming that Robert Mueiller is in possession of all relevant financial information of everyone related to Manafort and his web of business associates. It gives me great pleasure to know that the same person who prepared the Sanders tax returns is the same person who prepared Burlington College’s financials and the People’s Bank loan application now the subject of a bank fraud investigation. ;-)

  194. 194.

    Mnemosyne

    July 31, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    I actually logged into my long-dormant Twitter account just to mock Ingraham for that.

  195. 195.

    Ruckus

    July 31, 2018 at 4:18 pm

    @hedgehog the occasional commenter:
    He can’t work because of his mental health. He’s a moron.

  196. 196.

    J R in WV

    July 31, 2018 at 4:23 pm

    @Mel:

    Our dogs run in the woods, and so can discover vastly bad things in the forest, to either eat or roll in, sometimes it seems both. Worst case was a 2 am skunk encounter just outside the bedroom windows. They insisted on going out, to my dismay, they convinced me.

    I know the environmental clean-up scientist’s recipe for cleaning up after skunked dogs.
    1qt hydrogen peroxide to 1/4 cup sodium bicarbonate plus a dash of Dawn dish detergent. Big dogs take double that amount at least. Wet the dog with the foaming liquid, let soak for 20 minutes, shampoo well, rinse multiple times. Then do the other dog, etc.

    The free oxygen relased neutralizes the sulfur chemicals in skunk odor… slowly.

  197. 197.

    Another lurker

    July 31, 2018 at 4:24 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Amen! I am done wasting my time and breath in discussions with these people. As you say, they need to be marginalized and given all the deference and respect a 27%er nut job deserves. Crayons and reams of paper, to occupy them, sounds like a good idea. We could also give them kitchen scissors and alow them to run sprints.

  198. 198.

    Roger Moore

    July 31, 2018 at 4:27 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Oh, but when I called the Hartford Courant to complain about a “political” cartoon slandering him, I was told that “the other day, we thought the NY Attorney General was a man of integrity too, didn’t we?”

    Yeah. Because the existence of one person who doesn’t live up to their public image makes it fine to defame anyone who has a good reputation. What universe do these people come from?

  199. 199.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 31, 2018 at 4:32 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I remember when the RSA encryption algorithm was considered a munition and thus illegal to export.

  200. 200.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 31, 2018 at 4:32 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I have that t-shirt.

  201. 201.

    Stuart Frasier

    July 31, 2018 at 4:35 pm

    @Fair Economist:
    Isn’t John McCain still absent? Doesn’t that mean there will be 49 R senators who can vote and Pence can’t weigh in?

  202. 202.

    rikyrah

    July 31, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    BREAKING: U.S. borrowing expected to hit $329 billion in the current quarter. This would be the largest July-September deficit in 8 years and would equate to a 74% rise over last year.

    In other words, Trump is bankrupting the Country like he did his businesses.

    — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) July 31, 2018

  203. 203.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 31, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Remember when PGP source code was published as a book (in an OCR-friendly font, with checksums on every page)? First Amendment, baby.

  204. 204.

    Ruckus

    July 31, 2018 at 4:42 pm

    @SFAW:
    Some days it’s nice to remember that there is at least one trait that you get to miss by not having a dog.

  205. 205.

    hedgehog mobile

    July 31, 2018 at 4:44 pm

    @Ruckus: Ha!

  206. 206.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 31, 2018 at 4:48 pm

    @Mel:

    The cats had already wisely fled the scene.

    Not all cats.

  207. 207.

    Miss Bianca

    July 31, 2018 at 4:54 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I get it! I get the joke!! : )

    You will definitely be the person to appreciate that my brew buddy and I are planning a Dendarii Mountain Maple Mead. We’re just trying to figure out the ingredient mix – we are thinking at least three fermentables to give it that special kick.

    @Mnemosyne: Even better…”my family went to The Orb and all I got was…you know what, never mind.”

  208. 208.

    Roger Moore

    July 31, 2018 at 4:56 pm

    @Mandalay:

    The Democratic Party needs to do to the Sanders family what Putin has done to Trump: get the dirt on the grifting, and then politely but firmly tell Bernie that he is not running in 2020, but they expect his wholehearted support for their presidential candidate.

    I think they just need to change the rules so releasing a certain number of years of taxes- 7 seems like a reasonable minimum- is a requirement to run for president as a Democrat. I think this would be a good idea even if they somehow convince Bernie not to run; some other grifter is going to get the same idea, and they need to make it a rule first.

  209. 209.

    Mayken

    July 31, 2018 at 5:00 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Sweet! I want one!

  210. 210.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 5:01 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    You will definitely be the person to appreciate that my brew buddy and I are planning a Dendarii Mountain Maple Mead. We’re just trying to figure out the ingredient mix – we are thinking at least three fermentables to give it that special kick.

    Everyone knows that’s inedible unless you add Bug Butter.

  211. 211.

    Miss Bianca

    July 31, 2018 at 5:09 pm

    @TenguPhule: No, no, no…it’s only *Ivan* who says that. Miles is apparently quite fond of it. ; )

  212. 212.

    TenguPhule

    July 31, 2018 at 5:14 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    Miles is apparently quite fond of it. ; )

    Everyone also knows Miles is completely insane.

  213. 213.

    Melusine

    July 31, 2018 at 5:29 pm

    @rikyrah: Never forgive. Never trust. Either deeply bigoted themselves or so morally bankrupt they don’t give a shit who gets hurt as long as they benefit.

    And anyone who hears a man brag about his daughter’s tits being real, call her “a piece of ass”, and say he’d totally do her if he were younger, and doesn’t immediately scream, “What the fuck is WRONG with you??!” and punch him in the dick, is a sick, worthless, potentially dangerous piece of shit. Never trust. Never forgive. Avoid like syphillis.

  214. 214.

    Melusine

    July 31, 2018 at 5:41 pm

    @TenguPhule:
    L
    M
    A
    O

    Save a zebrafish – dissect a Trumper instead!
    Damn, won’t work. Brain’s too small to substitute.

  215. 215.

    burnspbesq

    July 31, 2018 at 5:47 pm

    Unfortunately for Manafort, the charges with the biggest monetary penalties—willful failure to file FBARs—are trivially easy to prove. Testimony from the custodian of records at FinCen is enough to establish the fact of non-filing, and the case law says that checking the “no” box on Schedule B of Form 1040 is enough to establish willfulness.

  216. 216.

    J R in WV

    July 31, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    I looked on the innertubes, and I don’t see a Dendarii Free Mercenaries tee shirt anywhere. I bet you got that at a Con somewhere. Darn!

  217. 217.

    SFAW

    July 31, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    OK, enough. I’m going back to the shadows, again.

  218. 218.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 31, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    @germy: I sense a great “These are the kind of losers who you have to hire when it’s 4% Unemployment story here” I means seriously, as one of my self employed friends put it “the boss is always watching”

  219. 219.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 31, 2018 at 6:08 pm

    @J R in WV: Try here
    https://society6.com/product/miles-vorkosigan-dendarii-mercenary_t-shirt

  220. 220.

    Mel

    July 31, 2018 at 7:21 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: ???

  221. 221.

    Ohio Mom

    July 31, 2018 at 7:31 pm

    @cope: Wow. Thanks. I clicked on a bar randomly and read about a famiy that’s been in the timber business for almost 200 years. It is a reminder of a layer of our country usually invisible to most of us.

  222. 222.

    Lynwood Allen

    July 31, 2018 at 8:07 pm

    Ditch Gator is my new band name.

  223. 223.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    July 31, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    @germy:

    You can thank the gutless cowards in the Vermont Democratic Party for enabling Bernie. They don’t run a candidate against him. It’s a fucking disgrace.

  224. 224.

    Gravie

    July 31, 2018 at 9:32 pm

    One of my Trump-loving Tampa friends (from high school) burbled that there were certainly 100,000 people there. Facility capacity: 9,200.

  225. 225.

    Hellbastard

    July 31, 2018 at 9:51 pm

    Take a look at the goobers sitting behind the podium. Hard to believe they managed to dress themselves for the outing.

  226. 226.

    Seanly

    July 31, 2018 at 10:51 pm

    That guy in the picture is only 48? He looks 68…

  227. 227.

    Seanly

    July 31, 2018 at 10:57 pm

    @father pusbucket: Those maps are awesome. Very interesting.

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