Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

As long as McCarthy is Speaker, the House will never be in order.

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

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

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL

He really is that stupid.

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Late Night Schadenfreude / Rumormonging Open Thread – Walter Reed Edition

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“Oh, like sitting on the can for an hour or so furiously texting isn’t work?”

I personally subscribe to the theory that, after a bad news week, the Oval Office Occupant had a massive panic attack, complete with chest pain and shortness of breath. But since he’s a uniquely powerful fat old man — and since another 20202 candidate recently suffered ‘chest discomfort’ that turned out to be an actual myocardial infarction — he got hauled off to Walter Reed ASAP, just in case. Didn’t wanna gloat too soon last night, but since there’s no been no honest updates…



Since-deleted tweet, which I found too good not to share:

Trump's at Walter Reed being seen by a proctologist even though Schiff said he could keep the boot.

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  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    Jeanine Pirro says “he’s almost superhuman”

    Oh, for fuck’s sake!  If a 73-year-old overweight manchild who stuffs McDonald’s cheeseburgers into his face and couldn’t even be bothered to walk with other heads of state at the G7 is “almost superhuman,” what the fuck qualifies as “human” in Speedy Jeanine’s eyes?

     

    Was she drunk when she said this?  (It would be irresponsible not to speculate.)

  6. 6.

    Ann Marie

    Any possibility he is angling for a “resign due to illness, from working SO hard for this country” with an agreement not to prosecute?  I hope not.  Whether he’s removed from office by impeachment or election, I want him prospected–and ideally, I want him to spend what’s left of his useless life in prison, having to obey orders and with no access to Twitter.

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    @mrmoshpotato

    By this time next week the story will be that he not only performed surgery on himself but also that the doctors present are unanimous in saying they learned more from watching than in their entire med school years. And they are immediately nominating him for the Nobel prize in medicine.

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

     

    Pompeo, maybe? Nixon sent his letter of resignation to Kissinger. Don’t know how the SoS would figure into any negotiating, but I’m sure the Dealmaker-in-Chief could come up with something.

     

  12. 12.

    Sebastian

    I subscribe to the panic attack theory but I am wondering what exactly triggered it.

    The ONLY thing that really gets him is any attack on his “wealth”. I think we are about to see something happen in that regard very soon.

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax: Oh, no no no.  He developed the surgery while he was performing it on himself.

     

    And it was surgery on one of his shoulder blades.  “He has superhuman flexibility!” cried Drunkass Jeanine.

     

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    My theory is that there was a flare-up severe enough to warrant going in for a full body hemorrhoidectomy.

  21. 21.

    Repatriated

    White House Press Secretary says Trump has “more energy than anybody else in the White House”

    What if she’s not lying?
    If so, just imagine how pathetically low-energy the rest of them must be! Sad!

  24. 24.

    My Side of Town

    I don’t know if anyone else is having to deal with this outfit called traindemocrats. they are making me start to think about supporting republicans. I gave some money to a candidate and they want half. Fuck them. Why are there leaches?

  26. 26.

    Chetan Murthy

    @My Side of Town:  Hm.  I don’t know anything about them, but if they’ve made enemies like this jamoke, they can’t be all bad:

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/5/1855453/-Fundraising-Deception-On-TrainDemocrats-org-and-the-Democratic-National-Training-Committee

     

    Next, the poll asked how important it is to me personally that the Democrats win in 2020. I answered, “unsure”, because, up and down the ballot, that question, for me personally, will be determined by whether the Democrat in question is a pro-corporate establishment neo-liberal, or a progressive willing to confront neo-liberal corporate plutocrachy/oligarchy, whether Republican or “Democrat” backed.

    It goes on from there being just as moronic.

    The last email was even more comically pathetic. It played the Trump card, saying that we were “doomed” if we had 4 more years of Donald Trump. It asked me to take a pledge that I would vote Trump out in 2020……meaning, of course, “Blue No Matter Who”. I had no interest in making such a ridiculous pledge so I just laughed and exited the email.

    I found nothing about them taking half the $$ of donations or whatever, but then, I always donate directly to candidates, so I wouldn’t know.

  27. 27.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    It’s possible this wasn’t a panic attack but a build up to a heart attack. People I knew in cardiac rehab had chest pains and tightness that faded when they went to have it checked out. But then at some point within the next few weeks, they had a heart attack. That wasn’t what mine was like, but symptoms vary.

     

    We’re at sea, heading for Dakar.

  28. 28.

    My Side of Town

    @Chetan Murthy: I was shocked when my actblue receipt showed they got half of what I thought was a direct donation.  Then after a series of donates, tonight, I get 15 emails from them asking me to donate. Who are these people anyway? They are driving me away.

  29. 29.

    My Side of Town

    @My Side of Town: This outfit, traindemocrats,  whoever they are seem more interested in alienating me than anything else. Well they have succeeded, so I suspect it is Russian’s bots.

  31. 31.

    My Side of Town

    @My Side of Town: I am not donating any more money until actblue issues a statement or reply to me about why some of my money went to traindemocrats without my authorization.

     

  32. 32.

    opiejeanne

    @SiubhanDuinne: Nasty divorce, restraining order against the ex-husband issued yesterday. He shot his wife, all four of their kids, and himself. Last I heard the oldest boy was still alive but undergoing surgery.

     

  39. 39.

    WereBear

    @opiejeanne: When I heard about it I suspected such a scenario. One holiday season on Long Island we had THREE in two weeks, though those were just the husband killing the ex-wife and then himself. The kids make it a whole new dimension of horrible.

     

  41. 41.

    chopper

    @Ann Marie:

     

    people worry that he’ll duck out and the GOP will rally around some ‘the witch hunt got to him’ talking point, but that will never happen. trump will never leave office willingly and he’d never admit to any sort of physical or mental fault. in his mind he’s as superhuman as these schmucks say he is.

     

  42. 42.

    chopper

    @NotMax:

     

    this big, burly doctor, real tough guy, walks up. tears rolling down his face. he says sir, sir, they won’t let us perform that kind of surgery cause it’s too tough, nobody could do it!

     

  43. 43.

    bbleh

    @NotMax: No no no.  The Commander-in-Chief is too busy running the Best Economy In History™ and making it possible for us all to have a nice weekend (h/t Lou Dobbs) to do anything as mundane as surgery, much less take the time to recover from it.

     

    What happened was much simpler: Jesus appeared and miraculously healed him.  (Trump has him on speed dial.)

     

    But seriously folks (and don’t forget to tip your server), why has this story suddenly sunk out of sight … everywhere?  There was an initial spate of stories, a few follow-up details, and then … crickets.  Where are the stories about similar incidents in the past?  About the Still Unanswered Questions and the Cloud That Hangs Over The White House?  About them stonewalling inquiries?

     

    I don’t wanna get all conspiracy theory here, but there certainly does seem to be a dog not barking.

     

  45. 45.

    J R in WV

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:

    @opiejeanne: I might be reading this wrong, but I think they tried to donate directly to the candidate via ActBlue, and that donation ended up split between the candidate and the org.

    I find that ActBlue is very responsive, and if your donation didn’t go as you desired, they will fix that if you contact them. Try that, and let us know how it went. We’ve donated to a lot of candidates via ActBue and never had an issue like that.

    I too would be upset if half of my donation went to some outfit not clearly identified as “going to receive part of this money” UP FRONT at the time of donation. I would be inclined to contact my credit card outfit to stop payment first, if ActBlue was not responsive.

    I would think that ActBlue would protect their integrity rather than endanger their ability to coordinate contributions among progressives. We DO NOT contribute to committees, because when you do that you completely lose control of where you money goes.

    ETA fix typos.

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