Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Let me file that under fuck it.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

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

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

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Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Trump’s Press Campaign Proudly Declares Him A Comic-Book Villain

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… a comic-book villain who is mere seconds away from getting the beat-down of his life…

Nicely (in the original sense of the word) encapsulating the modern Republican Party: Parasitizing a smarter group’s work, failing to pay attention long enough to spot the problems with the stolen ideas, and not caring how much they get kicked around afterwards so long as the check clears. Per the Guardian:

… Shortly after the House brought two articles of impeachment against the president for his efforts seeking foreign interference to bolster his own political interests, the official Trump War Room re-election campaign Twitter account posted a video to social media that superimposed his face over that of the villainous Marvel comic book character Thanos.

In the scene from the movie Avengers: Endgame, Thanos snaps his fingers, attempting to destroy the diverse array of heroes from throughout the universe who’ve teamed up to defeat him. I am inevitable Trump/Thanos says…

The video then cuts to footage of Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Jerry Nadler who magically vanish much like in the movie. Not the movie in question, mind you, the previous one, but these low-effort trolling operations from Trump’s social media team tend not to be heavy on consistency or logic.

Marvel Universe timeline discrepancies aside, the choice of this moment from the film was a strange one, as it’s seconds before Thanos realizes he’s about to be defeated.

Among the chorus of critics to point out the many other flaws at work in the analogy here was Jim Starlin, the artist who created the character of Thanos in the 1970s…

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  2. 2.

    Jeffro

    His people love his nihilistic schtick, so all this does is reinforce that he’s totes awesome.  And they don’t care what we gab about on Twitter.  They just like seeing him rendered as powerful and omnipotent and above all else, the subject of everything.

    trumptrumptrumptrumptrumptrumptrump

    I sure hope the eventual Dem candidate doesn’t get sucked into responding to every stupid video, every misspelled tweet, every dumb thing Parscale or Don Jr throws out there.

  3. 3.

    The Dangerman

    …taking all of his sycophantic followers down with him?

    Damn, I need a cigarette. And I don’t smoke.

  4. 4.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Tonight I learned that the markup hearings for the Articles of Impeachment are where the speeches we’ve been waiting to hear are being made. They’ve recessed for tonight, but be sure to tune in tomorrow. Also (in the short time I watched) no Republican jackassery.

  8. 8.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    John Santucci‏Verified account @ Santucci
     Gearing up for an impeachment trial in the Senate, President Donald Trump and his top advisers are considering expanding his legal team and bringing on controversial attorney and professor Alan Dershowitz, multiple sources told

    [ETA:] Dershowitz has been in the headlines due to his ties to now-deceased accused child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Roberts Giuffre has alleged in courts documents that she was lent out to Dershowitz for sex by Epstein. Dershowitz has vehemently denied those accusations.
  10. 10.

    Redshift

    I remember back during the Bush Adminstration we used to complain that they shouldn’t use Orwell as an instruction manual.

    Then these bozos insist on using Idiocracy as an instruction manual…

  11. 11.

    hells littlest angel

    Trump: Giuliani’s assault will bring it under control.

    Mulvaney: My fuhrer, Giuliani…

    Pence: Giuliani couldn’t mobilize enough men. He was unable to carry out the assault.

    Trump: These men will stay here: Miller, Mulvaney, Barr and Pence.

  15. 15.

    Jay

    More comic book villians,

    NEW: A remote region of Western Mongolia is home to a plummeting population of the largest sheep in the world, an endangered species beloved for its giant horns, which can run over 6ft.On a hunting trip this August, Donald Trump Jr. shot and killed one.t.co/SZuVOiN96n— ProPublica (@propublica) December 11, 2019

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Jay: Ike Perlmutter has no control over Marvel’s movie division. And he’s also had his power over the TV side curtailed with Fiege put in charge of the new shows for Disney+. If Marvel or Disney decides they want to protect their IP on this, Perlmutter isn’t going to have any say.

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Keith P: What’re the prize categories for proximity, because no one’s getting that close?  Secret Service will tackle your ass if they’re nice.

  25. 25.

    Ruckus

    @Jeffro:

    That in the middle of your comment looks like the sound of a car being driven with a blown out tire, at about 20 mph, because the driver is either too drunk or too stupid to notice.

  27. 27.

    Ruckus

    trump and his pals live in a very strange world, one where reality is something they want nothing to do with. They are 5 yr olds in adult bodies playing with legos while the help watches and wonders what might happen if they do the world a favor.

  30. 30.

    Adam L Silverman

    @mrmoshpotato: Not really. I find that when I deploy that sentence at appropriate moments it allows me to forego having to take more aggressive and physical forms of conflict resolution.

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    @smintheus:

    I wonder if Trump’s parents managed to have him taught (I presume that chez Trump teaching kids such things was a job for the help) why you shouldn’t hide in the fridge.

  35. 35.

    Amir Khalid

    Trumpistas: “He’s like Thanos, the mass murderer!”

    Trump base: “A really powerful guy? Cool!”

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    With apologies to Percy.

    I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said: “Two varicose veined legs of stone
    Stand in the desert . . . “

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    It’s all just more “owning the libs” shit. It doesn’t have to make sense as long as they can rub their … hands together and chortle about how this will TOTALLY piss off the libs.

    I still think that Obama should have issued stern warnings about how drinking bleach would really make him mad, and Hillary might have won those swing states since the very dumbest voters wouldn’t have made it to the polls.

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    @Kayla Rudbek:

    I happen to know that the majority of the Giant Evil Corporation’s lawyers really, REALLY hate Trump. In a visceral way.

    So, yeah, it would be fun to watch.

  49. 49.

    Roger Moore

    I think the core of this kind of thing is that Trump cares far more about being the center of attention than he does about whether the attention he’s getting is positive or negative.  Sure, he prefers to be adored rather than reviled, but both are preferable to being ignored.  So he’s perfectly happy to do something like this that gets the liberals frothing at the mouth about how stupid he is and doesn’t he understand that this is the scene where Thanos is about to get his ass handed to him and is too dumb to realize it.  He just doesn’t care.  He only cares that the liberals are talking about him instead of something else.

  50. 50.

    Shalimar

    @Mnemosyne: I think Wonkette was where I saw a story last week about Alan Keyes.  His current grift is a snake-oil operation where they push drinking their special bleach as a cure-all.

    You don’t even need a Dem like Obama to say it.  They push their own supporters to do stupid things if there is a buck in it.

  51. 51.

    janesays

    @Jay: Kevin Feige is higher up the food chain than Perlmutter now at least as far as MCU properties are concerned, and he can’t stand the man’s politics. Perlmutter famously wanted to kill off the Black Panther and Captain Marvel movies before they were even made because the idea of diversity offended him, but then they wound up becoming two of the highest-grossing Marvel movies of all time and Feige no longer had to report to him. He now reports to Alan Horn, chairman of Walt Disney Studios, and since Feige’s movies have raked in $23 billion over the past decade, he pretty much gets to call the shots.

    But it’s all probably a moot point, as the cheesy Twitter ad almost certainly falls under fair use doctrine.

    variety.com/2019/biz/news/kevin-feige-ike-perlmutter-marvel-disney-1203377802/

  56. 56.

    tomtofa

    @Roger Moore: Trump has said that if you keep saying the same thing over and over people will believe you. What he’s been saying for a long time is that he should serve more than 2 terms – even that terms should be eliminated and he should just stay in power/control as long as he wants. He (so far) has usually added that he’s just joking, but he keeps saying it.

    Things like this Thanos, the Rocky/Stallone pic, the mass murder of his enemies video, etc, are entertainment for his base. If they’re sufficiently entertained, they won’t allow him to leave. It’s tough to renew your show season after season, but that, as he sees it, is his main job. Do we want a return to the boring status quo, or preachy moralistic do-gooders, or a never ending series of outrageous cliffhanger episodes? His wallet, and maybe his freedom, depends on the third option.

  58. 58.

    Cacti

    I think the real reason Trump likes the Thanos video is because it finally makes his hands look big.

  59. 59.

    low-tech cyclist

    Marvel Universe timeline discrepancies aside, the choice of this moment from the film was a strange one, as it’s seconds before Thanos realizes he’s about to be defeated.

    Reminds me of another bit of movie dialogue:

    Black Knight: “I’m invincible!”

    Arthur: “You’re a loony.”

  60. 60.

    jimmiraybob

    “…they’ll call it the Era of Stupid.”

    As the prophets foretold in the Book of Idiocracy.  All hail the incarnation of President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

  64. 64.

    Mary Ellen Sandahl

    Let’s not forget the snapping of the fingers and the atomizing annihilation of Pelosi and the impeachment chairpersons.

  65. 65.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @smintheus:  What I wouldn’t give for Trump to run from a persistent reporter and hide in a fridge.

    Obligatory long joke:

    The souls of three middle-age men arrived at the Pearly Gates one afternoon (EST). St. Peter took them aside one at a time & asked them how they had perished.

    The first one said, “I was a repairman for a condo highrise. I went up to the 14th floor & the lady let me in to unstop a toilet. Next I knew her husband barged in & shouting started. When I stuck my head out he accused me of sleeping with his wife & started chasing me around with a baseball bat.”

    “And he killed you with it?”

    “No, I ran onto the balcony when I thought he wasn’t looking & went over the edge hanging on by my fingertips – but he saw my fingertips & came out & bashed them till I couldn’t hold on any more.”

    “And the fall killed you.”

    “Oh no, I landed in an awning five floors down that broke my fall. But just as I got my wind back, I looked up & saw a huge refrigerator hurtling down right on top of me – & that’s the last thing I remember before I showed up here.”

    St Peter sent him through the gate & called the next man in & asked him how he had died.

    “I was absolutely convinced my wife was cheating on me so I came home in the middle of the day with my trusty Louisville Slugger & surprised her & sure enough there was this guy there claiming to be a repairman & when  he tried to escape by hanging off the balcony, I bashed his hands & he let go, but this awning a few floors down broke his fall, so I went into the kitchen & dragged the fridge out to the balcony & tipped it over so it would land on top of him – but the exertion triggered a massive heart attack & next thing I knew I was here.”

    St Peter sent him through the gates & called for the third guy & asked him what his story was.

    “I was in this highrise condo making love to this woman whose husband mistreats her, when he comes barging through the door with a baseball bat. When he went after after the repairman who was fixing the toilet, I sneaked into the kitchen & hid in the fridge…”

    /rimshot

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