Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

I was promised a recession.

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

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

This blog will pay for itself.

Bark louder, little dog.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

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

You are here: Home / Politics / Impeachment Inquiry / Late Night Open Thread: “These Aren’t Very Bright Guys… “

Late Night Open Thread: “These Aren’t Very Bright Guys… “

by | 26 Comments

This post is in: , , , ,

“… and things got out of hand.”

Reader Interactions

26Comments

  1. 1.

    Ruckus

    I wonder how many people would stand in line with a rusty cleaver to help Joey Salads with his promise. I also wonder what Joey is going to say to get out of his promise….

  8. 8.

    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid:
    There was a locker-room theory, when I was in high school 50 years ago, that a man’s dominant handedness determined which of his testicles was larger. In the intervening years, I have heard the ‘my left testicle’ construction used in vulgar parlance. So Mr. Saladino was, one presumes, offering to sacrifice his less personally valuable appendage…

  9. 9.

    scav

    @Anne Laurie: Well, then, why don’t we offer to take his left brain hemisphere? He’s really not using that appendage. I mean, if we’re feeling kind and charitable and all that.

  10. 10.

    JoyceH

    I saw some clips from tonight’s rally, which was as crazed as advertised. But I was struck by Trump’s appearance – did anyone else think he was made up darker than usual? Are they slathering on more layers of makeup to hide some sort of skin condition?

  13. 13.

    montanareddog

    There seems to be still some debate in the Democratic caucus of whether to send the articles of impeachment over immediately, or delay a bit.

    I do like Nonna’s tactic of delaying until the Senate decides upon its trial procedures, though.

    If they are sent over immediately, and the narrative becomes that it is a win for the Repugs, there will be lots of counterfactual concern-trolling from the pundits. If they are delayed, and the narrative is a win for the Repugs, ditto.

    A genuine question: since the two articles were voted upon separately, could Nonna send one over now and another one later and there be two trials?

  14. 14.

    Chris Johnson

    I don’t think Russia wants Trump to remain President.
    The guy’s an asshole and Pence would be a much more useful puppet, or Paul Ryan, or whatever other traitor R they’ve got in their pocket. Trump is a liability to Russia, not just to us. He’s only good as a wrecking ball and has not extracted all the concessions for Russia that he could have, were he competent.
    I think one possible outcome is this: the Republicans continue to play to the deplorables with their Jesus analogies, but that’s because Trump is due to play the martyr. They’ll have a few key Rs to ‘betray’ him so he gets ‘removed’ and replaced with a better puppet, and then they’ll protect the sacrificial ‘betrayers’ and fire up a literal civil war, and see to it that whatever right wing nutjobs they control are driven totally berserk.
    I’m convinced some of these guys are playing Putin’s game, and Trump is not: he’s a narcissist and a dumpster fire and only wants to protect himself. Russia can do more damage to the US by taking him out in a staged impeachment that leaves some other Russian stooge still in charge, but sets up a martyr narrative. Maybe they’ll even Epstein him: give him a ‘suicide’, or actively whack him pretending to be Hillary Clinton’s hit squad or some shit like that.
    It’s really important to know that none of these people are truly loyal to Trump. And he knows it. There is no retirement plan for being the Putin puppet, not if you’re more useful as a martyr.

  15. 15.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Chris Johnson: I think Putin has much less direct control over the US than you’re implying, and I also think he thinks like a troll, not a master strategist. He wants Trump in there to weaken the United States and cause international chaos. That’s all.

  17. 17.

    m0nty

    While it is true that Trump has not succeeded in lifting sanctions on Russia, he is still Putin’s best asset to get it done, and the longer he stays in power the more chaos is sown in his enemy.

  20. 20.

    p.a.

    I have No expectation of it taking this long, but as a civics question: if the Impeachment Arts are not sent over until the new Congress is sworn in, are they still valid? (Say if it were a mid-term election, or if impeached Pres were to be reelected)

    p.s. remember civics? what do schools call it now?

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    @p.a.

    There’s precedent of a sort with what happened in the case of Clinton. Impeachment on two articles passed during a lame duck session in mid-December ’98, the trial began in the Senate of the new Congress in January ’99.

  26. 26.

    schrodingers_cat

    OT Home Improvement question.

    Does anyone have a solar water heater? And how do you like it? We are considering upgrading to it because the Commonwealth has great subsidies but I am in the research phase.  So no commitment yet made.

    Thanks.

Comments are closed.