Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Let me file that under fuck it.

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

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Giving up is unforgivable.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

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

So many bastards, so little time.

This fight is for everything.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Consistently wrong since 2002

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

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GOP Stupidity Open Thread: Mitt Romney Has Nothing to Worry About

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And CPAC was never exactly Mitt’s kinda people anyways. Remember when we could make fun of the grifters, resume-padders and grievance voters who hung around that event like flies circling carrion?

I wish I could remember which twitter wit referred to Matt Schlapp as ‘the sound made by two porkchops falling onto a wet kitchen floor.’

These Trump remoras can’t make me like Mitt Romney, but they’re making me more sympathetic to the general, near-extinct class of Honorable Republicans.

Mitt’s an upper-class Mormon. He grew up in a wealthy suburb in Michigan, moved to Massachusetts for college and to New York to make his fortune, moved back to Massachusetts to jump-start his political career because ‘nobody elects a president from Utah‘. He still has multi-million-dollar ‘family vacation homes’ in California and New Hampshire. But his primary loyalty has always been to his class and his faith, not necessarily in that order, and there’s no better place on earth for a well-to-do Mormon of impeccable LDS lineage than the state of Utah. They don’t care what that vulgar gentile in the White House thinks, although they’ll dutifully pull the (R) lever during the general election.

If you don’t trust my insight, McKay Coppins is also a Mormon:


… Utah Republicans never quite fell for Mr. Trump as hard as the rest of their party did. The state’s political sensibilities, heavily influenced by its Mormon culture, are more agree-to-disagree than salt-the-earth. The president’s coarse language, belittling nicknames and aversion to humility help explain why his approval ratings over all in Utah have been below 50 percent for most of the last three years.

And while they support Mr. Trump as their president — very few Republicans here say they would have voted to convict him as Mr. Romney did — they have refused to join the pile-on they see happening back east on Fox News sets and in social media feeds of the president’s followers, where their junior senator is being vilified as a “coward” and “Judas” who should be expelled from the Republican Party.

Not only does Mr. Lyman’s censure resolution appear to be dead on arrival, but the leader of the State Senate, Mr. Adams, also said last week that he would rather not vote on or debate any action related to Mr. Romney at all. He stressed that anything his chamber took up should be “positive” — a word he used repeatedly as he spoke to reporters at the State Capitol on Friday. He said he preferred something like a unanimously agreed-to statement that affirmed Mr. Trump’s strengths as president…

Utah is one of the rare places where the few Romney-style Republicans who remain are relatively safe from a challenge from their right, where speaking out against the president can be an act to admire, not an apostasy.

With the most vitriolic condemnation of Mr. Romney coming from outside Utah, there has been something of a rallying effect around the senator.

“Not everyone hates Romney,” read the headline on an opinion article in The Tribune this weekend. “In spite of the loud voices who are busy calling him names, there are many of us out here who are cheering for him,” wrote the author, Holly Richardson, a former Republican legislator.

Salt Lake City’s other major paper, The Deseret News, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, published an editorial arguing against a censure of the senator and has run numerous other supportive pieces, including one declaring that his vote was “what a Christian conscience demands.”…

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  2. 2.

    Kent

    Romney doesn’t come up for re-election until 2024, at which point this will be really old history and we will be in the middle of the 2024 presidential election. He is as safe as any Republican in the entire Senate, no matter what Trump’s out of state MAGA trolls might think.

  5. 5.

    Kent

    @anarchoRex: They have an entirely different religious and cultural history from the southern neo-confederate evangelical bunch.  They are loyal to the state but in a different way.  Mormons make good FBI officers, for example.

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    waspuppet

    … their junior senator is being vilified as a “coward” and “Judas” who should be expelled from the Republican Party.

    Whatever you want to say about him, how exactly does Mitt Romney’s vote make him a “coward”? This is just pure temper tantrum talk.

  12. 12.

    Martin

    So, California is creating a new state agency: Financial Protection and Innovation. Basically the CFPB but for the state now that the CFPB is fucking busted.

  13. 13.

    Another Scott

    You’ll be surprised to learn that President Lying McCrimey was lying.

    BBC News:

    The number of US troops suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBI) after an Iranian attack on a US base in Iraq in January has risen to 109, according to US officials.

    The figure is a significant increase from the 64 injured service members previously reported by the Pentagon.

    President Donald Trump initially said no Americans were injured in the raid.

    […]

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  14. 14.

    Geminid

    I noticed quite a contrast between the cool, standoffish attitude Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr. et al had towards Romney in 2012 and the way they were all-in for Trump in 2016. I bet Mormons noticed too.

  15. 15.

    khead

    @anarchoRex:

    Helpful hint – they are still not your friend.

    I’m still pretty sure Mitt could buy and sell Trump.  Even after Trump has cashed in for 3 years.  So, Mitt is gonna be ok.

  18. 18.

    Shalimar

    If Fox allowed Pirro to give Trump a blowjob om national tv, she would definitely have him on air to do it.  Whether his ego would allow him to be seen fucking a woman her age is the bigger question.

  20. 20.

    Ruckus

    @waspuppet: 

    This is just pure temper tantrum talk

    You expect different from the vast majority of republicans? Or 5 yr old spoiled brat, which is pretty much the same thing.

  23. 23.

    debbie

    @waspuppet:

    Speaking of tantrums, he’s in Manchester, NH telling his MAGATs that “millions” of Democrats are leaving the Democrat Party and coming over to join his movement.  ?

  24. 24.

    rk

    And while they support Mr. Trump as their president — very few Republicans here say they would have voted to convict him as Mr. Romney did

     

    And how is this impressive? It doesn’t matter if they support Trump wholeheartedly or reluctantly. The end result is the same.  So they won’t censure Romney? Wow! We should pin a medal on them for not being jackasses.

  26. 26.

    Anne Laurie

    @bluehill: If they still vote for Trump in 2020, then they will be no different than the evangelicals.

    Utah gave Evan McMullin his only electoral vote(s) in 2016.  If there isn’t a similar third-party candidate by November — and Bill Kristol, goddess save us all, is encouraging Never-Trump Repubs to vote for a ‘moderate’ Democrat — I suspect Bill Weld, as the last official not-Trump (R) candidate, may actually do even better than McMullin!

  27. 27.

    Origuy

    @Anya: Mormons use “gentile” to mean non-Mormons. They see themselves as spiritual or actual descendents of the tribe of Ephraim.

  28. 28.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    @Shalimar: Would FOX be willing to have a four hour special just to get some turgidness in the orange mushroom? Otherwise it’s just as flaccid as a sad, deflated birthday balloon.

  29. 29.

    tokyokie

    @chris: 

    Utah is the only place on Earth where Jews are commonly referred to as “Gentiles.” Which might help explain why so few of them live there.

  30. 30.

    Another Scott

    In other news, RollCall has some analysis of the proposed Pentagon budget:

    For the coming fiscal year, President Donald Trump is proposing the second-biggest defense budget since World War II, even after adjusting for inflation, except for the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. [ What a strange sentence.]

    The only fiscal year that has seen higher spending, save for the post-9/11 wars’ peak, is the current one. The new request may ultimately be about 3 percent less than this year’s spending levels, after adjusting for inflation.

    Congress will go along with the total amount that Trump is proposing, but the details will be substantially reordered.

    The forces that will reshape Trump’s plan include not just lawmakers but also world events and the ballooning cost of U.S. weapons, facilities and personnel benefits.

    National security spending in the Pentagon and other federal departments and agencies is set by law at $740.5 billion for fiscal 2021, and that is the amount the president is requesting. The Pentagon’s base budget accounts for $636.4 billion of that total, while its overseas contingency operations, or warfighting, account is $69 billion.

    The budget law that has capped defense spending since 2011 expires after fiscal 2021. After that, no caps will apply, unless Congress imposes new ones.

    The Pentagon is planning for its budget to grow a little more than 2 percent a year on average in each year through fiscal 2025.

    That’s a lot of money, but it is not a growing pot, after accounting for inflation — at least as envisioned by the Pentagon right now.

    […]

    The story has an obvious slant, especially near the end, but it shows what is going on with the budget. If you want Pentagon spending to come down, or it to be spent on things like making sure that Navy ships have crews that don’t suffer severe sleep deprivation, rather than on new Buck Rogers weapons, then work like hell to elect sensible people this fall. It’s not just the White House that we need to win.

    The whole team needs to win. Eyes on the prizes.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  33. 33.

    Citizen_X

    @mrmoshpotato: If you watch with the sound off, it’s pretty clearly “You damn kids think you’re so smart!” glug glug glug “I know where your parents work! Hell, I can buy and sell all your whole damn families!” glug glug “Now stay the hell off my lawn!” [throws glass]

  35. 35.

    JustRuss

    I look forward to FTFNYT cletus safaris to darkest Utah to learn why the natives support Romney despite his antipathy for Trump.

  36. 36.

    artem1s

    Romney’s vote to convict is not being met with the same apocalyptic rage in Utah as it is in much of MAGA country.

    well, since Mitt doesn’t regularly go on Cletus Safaris in diners in the mid-west, I doubt he has anything to worry about.

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