Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

T R E 4 5 O N

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

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

You cannot shame the shameless.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

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

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

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The words do not have to be perfect.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Don’t You Think He Looks… Tired?

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Guess it’s true that the rigors of the office ages every president, even the ones who don’t even pretend to be doing the job (looking at you, Warren G!).

Actually, I’d assume yesterday’s performance just meant his handlers have been recalibrating whatever mixture of pharmaceuticals they use to keep him more-or-less on topic and in line… but even the intimation that he’s losing it is bound to drive Tang the Conqueror further out of his tiny mind, so let’s all speculate!

Decompensation or not, he’s not a happy camper right now, and November 2020 is still a long way down the road for a guy who gets bored so easily…

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  1. 1.

    tokyokie

    I think back to the closeups from the pictures in front of a congregation in his golf duds a few weeks ago. Without his customary 2 inches of pancake makeup, he looks absolutely pallorous, ashen gray, and waxy. The only other person I’ve seen who looked like that was my father as he was bidding me farewell at the airport years ago. He suffered a fatal MI a few weeks later.

    Anyway, I’m not sure it’s dementia as much as it’s extraordinarily poor cardiovascular condition. But a significant reduction in brain perfusion can cause brain damage, so I’m guessing it’s both.

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    In news of very slightly more interest than the state of Trump’s feeble mind, I think my guitar multi-FX pedal is on the fritz. It does not seem to be passing guitar signal to the amp.

    Poor widdle Trumpie. He’s supposed to be Boss of The Whole Wide World. But no one listens to him. No one likes him. People are making fun of him to his face. He’s bored. He’s tired. This is no fun anymore. But he can’t take his toys and go home, because the Boss of The Whole Wide World doesn’t get to do that. That makes a kid unhappy.

  3. 3.

    Mary G

    A federal court ruled that Deutsche Bank and Capitol One had to give Congress his tax returns. It’ll be appealed, but he has to feel the walls closing a bit with the polls getting worse.

  4. 4.

    Sloane Ranger

    I read somewhere, here? that Dorien is going to hit Mar a Largo “dead centre”. This might be a contributing factor. The Chosen One has realised that he is as subject to the vicissitudes of nature as lesser people?

    To all jackals in Dorian’s path, stay safe.

  5. 5.

    opiejeanne

    @Sloane Ranger: If it hits either of his properties it’s a chance for him to claim a huge amount of damage even if there is none. He’s done it before to the tune of $17 million, when the only damage were some trees blown down and a few roof tiles loosened.

  7. 7.

    Chyron HR

    “It’s going to be big, a big tornado, everybody says I have the biggest disasters, you know Obama’s wasn’t as big as mine, big men who never cried with tears in their eyes saying sir, thank you for making this disaster great.”

  10. 10.

    SectionH

    @Mandalay: TY! I’m gonna watch it again because I love it so much. I shared it yesterday on the Twit machine, mostly so I could find it again.

    (it’s “… with pumpkin-spice” that cracks me up every time.)

  11. 11.

    Jeffery

    He’s exhausted with all the globetrotting he’s been doing. Add morbidly obese to being 73 and it’s a heart attack or stroke waiting to happen.

  12. 12.

    sukabi

    @Jeffery: think it’s more the old syphilic hamsters powering his brain pan have worn out from all the coke and addera11 he stuffs up his nose.

  14. 14.

    BC in Illinois

    @Amir Khalid:

    But he can’t take his toys and go home, because the Boss of The Whole Wide World doesn’t get to do that.

    Also, the moment that he’s no longer Boss of the World and — more importantly — Boss of the Attorney General and his minions, the legal trouble he will face, post White House, will be immense. All it will take is one discovery, one disclosure, and his whole criminal enterprise will come to light and come crashing down.

    It is my contention that in three years, the Trump name will be on nothing.

    No building.
    No golf course.
    No casino.
    No street.
    No vodka.
    No university.
    No airline.
    No football team.
    No steak.
    No tie.
    No deodorant.
    No game.
    No bottled water.
    Nothing.

    I cannot imagine him retiring within the United States, going to the theatre, making occasional speeches [cf. the Obamas, Hillary Clinton, George Bush (?)] or devoting himself to good works and positive foundations [cf. the Carters, the Clintons, the Obamas]. I can’t imagine him retiring within the United States at all (especially not within the Southern District of New York).

    [This may be just my wishful thinking, my “Let the Sunshine In” fantasy, but one has to have hope.* There’s just so much to un-do.]

    * And I hope that someone is working on the upcoming book, Failure: The Donald Trump Story.

  15. 15.

    Ken

    @M. Bouffant: If you mean 1984, “Newspeak” was the Party’s language that used “ungood” instead of “bad”. “Doublethink” was the mental discipline that allowed believing two or more contradictory things at once.

    In this case it’s neither, it’s sundowning.

  19. 19.

    mrmoshpotato

    But he has the bigliest stamina! Apparently sucking so much dictator ass and rage tweeting is doing a number on him.

    He could just give up being a Soviet shitpile mobster conman and resign.

  20. 20.

    artem1s

    that ‘speech’ is the equivalent of a 4th grader giving a book report. His vocabulary is deplorable. To think we once had leaders who could quote Aeschylus off the cuff and who had some understanding of historical context. We have become a nation of Know Nothings who worship ignorance, greed, and cruelty. He’s not self aware enough to go away and his family will use him for their own grifting purposes for the rest of eternity. We will never be rid of this stain on our national conscious. Likening him to Hitler is too generous. We’ve let Ernst Rohm take over.

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    @BC in Illinois:

    I cannot imagine him retiring within the United States, going to the theatre, making occasional speeches [cf. the Obamas, Hillary Clinton, George Bush (?)] or devoting himself to good works and positive foundations [cf. the Carters, the Clintons, the Obamas]. I can’t imagine him retiring within the United States at all (especially not within the Southern District of New York).

    Does being put on trial for crimes against humanity count as retiring?

  22. 22.

    jonas

    I think there’s a pretty basic breakdown to understanding when the president is at least partially coherent and when he’s “WTF where are the men in white coats with nets?” When he’s talking — or rather bullshitting — about himself, he’s interested in that and can string a few well-practiced sentences together to boast about the incredible buffet at Mar-a-Lago or something. When he has to speak on any other issue not primarily about himself or his own delusions of grandeur, he’s bored, uninterested, and struggles because he has to rely on notes or a script which he cannot really read (he’s functionally illiterate), and he knows nothing about the subject at hand. So we get the slow, stammering, word salads of a sundowning fish out of water in a world he never made.

  23. 23.

    FlyingToaster (Tablet)

    I cannot imagine him retiring within the United States

    Trump hates everywhere else. I expect he’s got the pardon-himself papers ready to sign on 1/20/21 on his way out the door, and splits his remaining time between Bedminster and Mar a Lago. And buried at Bedminster.

  26. 26.

    stinger

    @sdhays: LOL. My fear is that he’ll say, “I’m the host, it’s my party, so I can invite whomever I want.” And invite Putin.

  28. 28.

    sdhays

    @stinger: If he does it up front, he risks having a boycott by the other nations, which would be pretty embarrassing for him, right before an election. But Putin could be “a surprise guest”.

  32. 32.

    Mary Ellen Sandahl

    @FlyingToaster (Tablet): Please, God, no.
    Bedminster is just up the road.
    And I’m sure there are plenty of Bedminsterites who would be deeply repelled by such an idea. Like torches-&-pitchforks repelled.

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