Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

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

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

A consequence of cucumbers

An almost top 10,000 blog!

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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Sad, Low Energy Late-Night Open Thread: Rallying the Deplorables, Disappointing the Rest of Us

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From early reports, looks like the biggest news from the rally is that it was a bog-standard Trump rally — no epic meltdowns, no mention of the day’s earlier events. SAD!

Biggest takeaway that I can see: Trump *is* still capable of pulling himself together to get through another one of his Greatest Hits Arena Shows, like any other professional performer on auto-pilot. Bad news for the rest of the Repub criminals… it’s gonna be that much harder to convince anyone outside The Base that “we” need to take away Granpa’s car keys & checkbook if the old man can fumble convincingly through a competency performance in front of a sympathetic judge.

Ah, well, we all live with our little disappointments…


 
Think this guy might just be correct in his diagnosis?…

 
WATCH OUT HE’S GONNA MAKE A RUN FOR IT!…

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36Comments

  1. 1.

    NotMax

    He says he might make “a few trips without them.” (………….)

    Might one suggest trips to, I dunno, L.A.? Or New York City? Or Chicago?

    ;)

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    His endorsed choice for Governor of Wyoming, Foster Friess, lost the GOP primary yesterday.

  4. 4.

    Montanareddog

    A sitting president cannot be indicted and Trump can “totally” pardon himself. Perhaps, he could continue the sterling work of his DOJ in draining the swamp (convictions for Manafort, Cohen, Flynn, Gates etc.) and show the Deep State who’s boss by indicting himself. Win win!

    OT: mobile site is working much better now (touch wood)

  8. 8.

    Patricia Kayden

    Despite everything that happened yesterday, Congressional Republicans are still standing firmly behind Trump and McConnell is pushing ahead with confirming a new SCOTUS Justice.

    So much for a law and order President.

  11. 11.

    Rich2506

    I like the idea of making the President an offer. “If you take Air Force One to Moscow and ask for asylum, liberals have agreed to let you keep the plane! Think about it. you (Trump) could sell he plane for a lot of rubles, buy yourself a dacha on the Black Sea and settle down.”

  12. 12.

    Jay

    @NotMax:

    There’s two schools of thought on this:

    A). Deer in Headlights

    B). Manniquinning. If he freezes in place like his hero’s, Boris and Natasha, in the Rocky and Bullwinkle Documentaries Mother makes him watch, Meuller won’t see him.

  14. 14.

    Noah Brand

    Honest question: do you think he literally didn’t know about Manafort and Cohen?

    Not even joking here. How would he have found out? Via the news? He doesn’t read or watch it. Twitter? That’s a one-way megaphone for him. The only possible avenues are Fox News, or someone on his staff telling him.

    So a conversation was had among that staff. The upshot of that conversation was “Just keep him away from the TV for a few hours, just until he goes onstage.” Any fallout from that decision will, definitionally, be less than the fallout from the decision to tell him the truth and then give him a live mic. Assuming you don’t believe in any principle greater than self-interest, you’d be crazy NOT to hide the news from him.

  20. 20.

    different-church-lady

    but they responded, “Sir, we wanna keep coal.”

    I actually find that quite believable.

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    Will the president strip? It’s a distinct possibility.

    Such a sight would call for triple-strength brain bleach.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    Trump hasn’t tweeted one word about Cohen’s guilty plea or Manafort’s conviction. I think he’s afraid.

  28. 28.

    low-tech cyclist

    Is it just me, or is Lara Trump auditioning for the Julie Nixon Eisenhower role in this scandal?

  30. 30.

    Gvg

    @Noah Brand: he avoided talking about Mueller too much this time as opposed to other speeches, in fact avoided whole topics he usually hits that might lead back to today’s subjects. Not likely to be a coincidence. I am certain he know the news.

  31. 31.

    trnc

    @Montanareddog:

    A sitting president cannot be indicted

    Says who? I don’t see anything in the constitution stating that. Impeachment is explicitly mentioned, not because it’s the only way to remove a president but rather to give congress a way to remove one when classified evidence may prevent a conventional trial.

  32. 32.

    trnc

    @Noah Brand:

    Honest question: do you think he literally didn’t know about Manafort and Cohen?

    He’s been talking about them pretty regularly, so the fact that he didn’t give Manafort the pity party at the rally probably means he knew.

  33. 33.

    Butch

    I guess I’m a masochist, but we briefly turned to Fox last night to see what they were saying about Cohen and Manafort. Instead of any mention of them we saw footage of the rally and a discussion of how Democrats are veering too far left, courtesy of Tucker. The thing that most impressed me was how listless the crowd seemed at the rally; I assumed Fox would be showing the most enthusiastic supporters and most of those in attendance seemed to be pretty much just standing there.

  35. 35.

    JGabriel

    NotMax:

    [Trump] says he might make “a few trips without [the Secret Service].” (………….)

    Might one suggest trips to, I dunno, L.A.? Or New York City? Or Chicago?

    Jay:

    Afghanistan, Iraq, Mali, Somalia, Syria, Lybia, Lughansk, Donetsk, Nigeria, Yemen,…….

    … Hell.

    I think Hell would be a good, appropriate, destination for Trump.

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