Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We will not go back.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The revolution will be supervised.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

How stupid are these people?

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

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

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Bark louder, little dog.

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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Rallying His Base Rallying Him

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Like any other addict, an adulation junkie needs to keep upping his dosage to get the same boost. Trump’s recent rallies just haven’t been doing the job for him — even the LameStream Media is bored watching the same MAGAt DeadBrainHeads yowl LAWKERUP like it was a prayer. So he’s flailing around, looking for that special attention-getting message that will make him feel alive again.

His handlers had him all set up for a good time in Minneapolis — where people vote for Muslim immigrants who are also Black, and even female! — but the natives didn’t take the bait:

Friday night, he was shipped to Louisiana to bath in some old-fashioned hardcore racist GOTV… but ended up spending most of the evening angrily defending himself against the morgue’s worth of still-rotting corpses falling out of various Trump closets.

So for his weekend retreat, he dropped in on the hardest of the hardcore — the “Values Voters Summit” evangelical beanfest / witch hunt, where those media representatives not of the body can be barred from spoiling the ‘where we go one, we go all’ happytimes…


This is, I’m legitimately afraid, approaching Jonestown territory. We all make jokes about ‘drinking the koolaid’, but in retrospect many of those 900 deaths have been reclassified from ‘mass suicide’ to ‘mass murder.’ And you know that if Trump decides (is persuaded) that a similar massacre is his only chance at immortality… he’d take it in a New York minute.

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  1. 1.

    Humdog

    No presidential library for this Shitstain. It will be a wing in a federal prison for him, his lawyers, and any family who are crosswise with the law. I’m willing to give him a can of gold spray paint for his commode.

  2. 2.

    tokyokie

    I think the way to deal with this asshole should he eventually be convicted for his treachery in the service of his crookedness is to refurbish and reopen one cell in Alcatraz, and put him in it. Locking him in a single-inmate prison near a major city is not a lot different from the treatment Rudolph Hess received, and I cannot think of a reason this asshole should be treated any better.

  4. 4.

    jl

    ” Trump complains that “they are using the IRS against me,” but then seems to have a brain meltdown: “Generations of Americans before us … did not work. They fight. They sacrifice. ”

    I saw that clip. Seems obvious to me that he couldn’t read the prompter, had no clue at all what was in the speech, and started skipping through it, just enunciating scattered phrases he could make out.

  5. 5.

    Another Scott

    Donnie is throwing everything he can against the wall to see what will stick. He’s flailing. I’m not worried.

    Yet.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  6. 6.

    hells littlest angel

    You know, Trump masturbating and defecating onstage would really own the liberals.

  8. 8.

    jl

    Will be interesting to watch what the Evangelical leaders do. They’ve framed Trump as a very flawed person, perhaps even an infidel, appointed by The Lord to work The Lord’s mysterious purposes. The Lord, can do that if he wants to, you know, it’s in the Bible. Trump is a modern Saul/Cyrus type of figure. Pat Robertson got his cultures mixed up when he threatened that the Mandate of Heaven may be withdrawn the concept is the same.

    What counts for the corrupt Evangelical pastor media celebrities is their influence, power and $ take from their dupes. If that is threatened they can use the same theology they used to prop Trump up to tear him down. Those kind of people will never vote for the Democratic nominee, but they might be told to stay home, and in that case they will.

  10. 10.

    jl

    @Another Scott:” Donnie is throwing everything he can against the wall to see what will stick. He’s flailing. I’m not worried. ”
    I read someplace that Trump said that Obama is in hiding, afraid that his role will be revealed in the world historical global graft Biden giga-scandal, and the half a dozen or a dozen and their sisters and their cousins nations who treasonously coup plotted against Trump, and The Lord, in the 2016 election.

    Trump is an idiot, and we have to hope he keeps going with an idiot’s reelection strategy. Which I’ve read from the higher toned political horse race touts is to win a couplet of states by a few dozen MAGA voters by riling the base, and win the electoral college that way. So, Trump gets nuttier and crazier, looking for more bad meth to rile up his base more than ever. But, won’t do anything to get his support up in wider voting population up above 40 percent, if anything, drive it down further.

    We have to hope his base keeps shrinking, and more he tries to rile it, the more he disgusts the rest of the population.

  12. 12.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    This is, I’m legitimately afraid, approaching Jonestown territory. We all make jokes about ‘drinking the koolaid’, but in retrospect many of those 900 deaths have been reclassified from ‘mass suicide’ to ‘mass murder.’ And you know that if Trump decides (is persuaded) that a similar massacre is his only chance at immortality… he’d take it in a New York minute.

    I’ve been thinking they’ve been working themselves into a mass suicide for a while now. They are well into full blown paranoia for a while now.

  13. 13.

    jl

    BTW, from news reports, and videos going around. Erdogan, like the honey badger, just don’t give a shit, and is going to make the mess he wants in Syria, and cause all sorts of trouble there and among his NATO allies in Europe, and won’t give a damn what fallout there is for Trump. It’s gotten ugly already and will get worse.. Looks like Erdogan thinks that blunt force ethnic cleansing is the way to go in order to solve the PKK terrorist problem, which for some reason he thinks involves the whole of US Kurdish allies in Syria. Already good documentation of war and humanitarian crimes and bound to get worse.

    Trump’s blundercrime with the Kurds isn’t going away, and it may get much more dangerous to regional stability. He should me removed from office just for that alone.

    Edit: and Trump, the ass, who got rolled by Erdogan like a cheap Turkish rug, is back to saying today, essentially, who cares Turks and Kurds have always fought, so get off my back about it.

    Huh, I thought the Mighty All-Wise Trump would destroy Turkey if the didn’t mind what Trump thought was proper. Don’t hear much about that.

    What a dangerous toxic incompetent ass Trump is.

  15. 15.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @jl: Erdogan is just the first of many as long as Trump is president. Trump showed with Iran that he will always back down and Erdogan just reinforced that.

  16. 16.

    jl

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Erdogan is as bad and as untrustworthy as Putin, and done to Turkey pretty much what Putin has done to Russia. Only an ignorant fool would pay attention to Ergogan’s flattery, or tantrums, or threats, or try deal with him (whatever the hell happened on that call) when such high and irreversible stakes were on the line.

  18. 18.

    James E Powell

    This is why it is so important to impeach the mofo and expose him for the fraud that he is. If he merely loses the election, it will be Lost Cause, Part Two.

  19. 19.

    Ruckus

    @Humdog:

    I’m willing to give him a can of gold spray paint for his commode.

    Don’t do that. He’ll feel right at home. He gets to suffer just like every other prisoner who is responsible for the death of thousands of people.

  21. 21.

    hervevillechaizelounge

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I don’t worry about a mass suicide at all—a huge component of the “values voter” raison d’etre is making OTHER people suffer. They’ll go on shooting sprees first and then end things—that’s what I worry about.

    If I believed they were apt to do a big Masada-like mass checkout of Hotel Earth I could sleep at night, although I would still be concerned about their pets.

    Anxiety is a never-ending cycle these days.

  23. 23.

    Jay

    That time Rudy Giuliani had Haitian migrants locked up for Ronald Reagan. (RIP Wayne Barrett) Eventually he helped negotiate a repatriation to the notorious Baby Doc regime and claimed there was “no evidence of persecution.” UNHCR documented torture and murder of returnees. pic.twitter.com/WbSK2VHA1y— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) October 12, 2019

  25. 25.

    Mary G

    @James E Powell: Yes, because what’s happened to Republicans from Nixon to Iran Contra to fake WMDS hasn’t had any effect at all – they will just do much worse next time.

    Mueller did a good thing taking Manafort’s money. I want more of that. Jared and Ivanka alone should give at least $100 million. Each. Plus jail time.

  27. 27.

    psycholinguist

    I’m convinced a lot of the buy in for trump from these people is all about hating Clinton. i know these people, have them in my family and my wife’s family, and the hate for her was visceral. A lot of them were convinced she was the anti-christ, which made trump the savior. Now they’re stuck. And somebody explain how these groups still have tax-exempt status.

  29. 29.

    prostratedragon

    Saw a Murder She Wrote from 1985 where the MacGuffin is a big highrise resort hotel that some out-of-town developer wants to build in, of all places, little Cabot Cove, right over a site that’s important to the town’s legend. The guy owed scads of money to the construction people he employed, and equipped them with poorly maintained and unsafe machinery. When asked why keep working with him, one implied that if he walked it might be hard for him to get other work.

    Not for the first time when watching pop fiction, I had the feeling that some folks have been all over this fucking guy for decades.

  30. 30.

    TS (the original)

    I do have a lot faith in President Trump, that he knows things that we don’t know,” Mary Holloway from Texas told me. “People should trust their president.”

    I have an idea in the back of my mind that Mary Holloway from Texas did not say the same things about President Obama.

  31. 31.

    Alex

    When I see these municipalities stuck with big rally bills, it reminds me of the royal progress lots of monarchs used to undertake in the days before modern communication and travel systems. It was a huge honor to be visited, but nobles dreaded the expense, which could be enormous. It’s a good way to check on various areas of your realm and make sure the nobles don’t accumulate enough money to raise an army against you.

  32. 32.

    Ken

    I ask that you give the president supernatural discernment to know who is trustworthy and who is not.

    At this point the camera turns to Rod Serling, who says “What happened next, when a narcissistic sociopath became paranoid, can be found in one of the darker corners of… The Twilight Zone.”

  35. 35.

    AxelFoley

    @Cacti:

    Afraid of them? No.

    Ready to kick their lily asses? Yep

    This.

    These muthafuckas ain’t nuthin’ to be scared of. I wish some of y’all would stop giving them power over you by being afraid.

  40. 40.

    joel hanes

    @tokyokie:

    Alcatraz

    Far too special and grandiose.
    The worst pain for Trump would be to be ordinary.

    Something like Elwood Blues’s fleabag hotel room next to the elevated railway would be ideal.
    Ten-dollar ordinary haircuts, clothes from Walmart racks.
    No golf, no golf carts.
    No TV.

  42. 42.

    joel hanes

    @206inKY:

    And Amy McGrath, despite all this, is running on being a better ally to Trump than McConnell has been.

    You might well believe that, but I couldn’t possibly comment.

  45. 45.

    Kirk Spencer

    @RAM: nah. Fill it with early readers and true crime books. Maybe some income tax form guides.

    Over the lintel “Don’t be a Donald. Trump Learning Library.”

  46. 46.

    Marcopolo

    Good morning folks.

    So there was an election in Louisiana yesterday. According to the folks crunching the numbers the urban/suburban vs rural divide continues to grow/harden. And apparently being the governor who signed the most restrictive abortion regulations in the US into law does by you any favor with conservatives if there is a D by your name.

    And though I don’t think this means we should outright give up on states with a smaller ratio of urban/suburban to rural pop electorally, I do hope the D campaign strategists focus a shit load of resources on flipping AZ & TX (places w/ a greater share of their pop living in the burbs/exurbs) in 2020.

  47. 47.

    mrmoshpotato

    the morgue’s worth of still-rotting corpses falling out of various Trump closets.

    These bastards have such disrespect for the living and the dead.

  48. 48.

    rk

    Do I care if they do what the Jim Jones crowd did? No, I don’t. My only reaction to mass suicide by Trump supporters will be good riddance. I’ll wear Melania’ s jacket.

  49. 49.

    navigator

    If only there existed a prison, outside the US legal system, dedicated to the detention of those deemed threats to national security by the next commander in chief.

  50. 50.

    Just Chuck

    Trump threatens to sue Pelosi and Schiff. Oh god yes please do. Discovery would be a dream. But naw, the FSM doesn’t love me that much, don’t think you’ll get much discovery when the case doesn’t even make it past filing.

  51. 51.

    Chip Daniels

    See the thing is, if Trump,didn’t exist, the base would create him out whatever lump of shit and toxic sludge they could find.

    If he keels over tomorrow, they will raise up another.

  52. 52.

    J R in WV

    @RAM:

    Creating a Presidential library for a criminal moron who’s never read a book in his life would be an act of almost cosmic irony.

    Shouldn’t Turmp’s presidential* library specialize in the evidence of his crimes??

    A little irony there. But in a good way!

  53. 53.

    Citizen Alan

    @206inKY:

    To be perfect late frank, Amy McGrath is free to vote 100% with the Republican party so long as she A) defeats mcconnell and drives him from public office and B) votes for Chuck schumer or some other Democrat to be majority leader. Anything else we get from a senator from Kentucky is gravy.

  54. 54.

    206inKY

    @joel hanes: Did you read the Courier Journal article? Or see her Morning Joe appearance where she said the same thing about McConnell letting down Trump? I’m obviously going to be canvassing for McGrath if she wins the primary just like I’m doing now for Andy Beshear despite voting for Adam Edelen in the primary. But there is a beloved local celebrity running too, Matt Jones, who will be a potent alternative:

    simonandschuster.com/books/Mitch-Please!/Matt-Jones/9781982142049

    Several people have shit on me for my earlier comment. Are any of you actual Kentucky voters? My point wasn’t to refrain from donating or to donate to Jones; I specifically said that I hope people give to the fund supporting the winner of the primary so it’s not used roughing up fellow Democrats, since this is a hot primary locally, even though nationally people only know McGrath.

  55. 55.

    Bill Arnold

    Re

    Pastor Bruson, praying for Trump: “I ask that you give the president supernatural discernment to know who is trustworthy and who is not. Bring into the light all deception and intrigue. …

    I wonder of Bruson realizes that this is a curse, or closer, an exorcism.

  57. 57.

    joel hanes

    @206inKY:

    Did you read

    Yes. IMHO, your precis was a distortion of McGrath’s intended meaning.
    To be scrupfair, her wording was … inartful.

  58. 58.

    206inKY

    @Citizen Alan: I completely agree and want McConnell out with a burning passion. I want Bevin out too. My whole point is simply that there’s going to be an active primary between Amy McGrath and Matt Jones, and I don’t think most outside donors realize it. Don’t be surprised if Jones wins. Even though McGrath got him fired from his TV show “Hey Kentucky!”, he has built a huge statewide radio audience for his show on college sports.

    I think there’s an important role for the national party in recruiting candidates, getting them started, and supporting winners of the primary. But it’s also important to get the local pulse on primary campaigns, lest the candidate who actually inspires the most voters gets overwhelmed with outside money.

    As for the gubernatorial race against Bevin, even many of my colleagues assumed it was happening in 2020, not three weeks from now. There is an urgent need to inform people that the election is in 2019.

  59. 59.

    206inKY

    @joel hanes: It’s not an isolated moment. When you read a headline like this, one might assume that McConnell filed the complaint to WLEX:

    “Sports radio host Matt Jones fired from TV show after announcing Mitch McConnell book”

    washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/08/19/sports-radio-host-matt-jones-fired-tv-show-after-announcing-mit…

    But no:

    “According to one person familiar with the deliberations, the campaign of Amy McGrath, another Democrat challenging McConnell in the Senate, had raised questions to WLEX about Jones hosting the show while contemplating a Senate run. Now, Jones will not return to the TV show regardless of whether he runs for public office.”

    Wtf is this? Can you imagine Warren filing a formal complaint with a fellow candidate’s employer over writing an anti-Trump book? It totally sucks. The show sucks without him too.

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