Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Everybody saw this coming.

No one could have predicted…

I was promised a recession.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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

He really is that stupid.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Republicans in disarray!

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

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Floriduh Man Open Thread: More Scenes from the Potemkin President’s Vrroom-Vrroom Sunday Afternoon

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Over-the-top flourish: He had to prep for Stephen Miller’s wedding. SRSLY:


(It would be in poor taste for an almost-top-10,000 blog to mock a private celebration, but if you’re curious, @Zeddy has a nicely curated collection of Stephen Miller wedding gifs… )

#ETTD – Everything Trump Touches Dies…

You can tell Idiocracy was not a documentary, cuz it had better scripting and prettier actors.

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  1. 1.

    Major Major Major Major

    Trump’s campaign manager tweeted a dramatic photo of Air Force One at Daytona, saying “[email protected] won the #Daytona500 before the race even started.”

    The shot was of George W. Bush’s plane leaving in 2004. Parscale deleted three hours later

    Ah! I was hoping that would be included here.

    The man’s a buffoon, idk how he gets those profiles calling him a wacky genius.

  5. 5.

    debbie

    I assumed the photo was fake, based on the crowd size. But how (and why) would the limo be distorted like that?

  6. 6.

    Uncle Jeffy

    “Imagine a president needing notes to wish good luck to drivers and say god bless America”

    That describes trump perfectly.

  7. 7.

    Major Major Major Major

    I had to explain to some Bernie supporters at a book club meeting that their “Buttigieg stole Iowa by bribing the app company into making a bad app” theory was stupid. My husband leaned in and stage-whispered he’s a party operative. They were so worried the DNC was going to “steal this” from Sanders, it sounds like a very tiring mindset.

  11. 11.

    debbie

    Trump really is the ultimate Floriduh man, isn’t he? Bloomberg really ought to work that into one of his ads.

  13. 13.

    Another Scott

    When I saw the first few words of the title of this post, I was expecting it to be about this.

    Nelson Gibson of Port St. Lucie, Florida, has to get dialysis three times a week, for three and a half hours. Because his family can’t join him, he — like many other dialysis patients — sometimes brings something from home for a little emotional support.

    At first, he brought a picture with him. Of his family? No. Not of his family. He brought a picture of Donald Trump. That was fine with the staff and the other patients. Then, he started bringing in a small cardboard cutout of himself, which he would place next to the photo. I don’t know who just has cardboard cutouts of themselves just … around — but hey! Everyone’s got their thing.

    That wasn’t a problem either. No one had a problem with it at all.

    But then, one day, he showed up with a giant life-size cutout of Donald Trump.

    While the other, smaller things were just fine, the hospital staff had to say no. What with it being a giant, life-size, cardboard cutout of Donald Trump. And now Mr. Gibson feels as though he is being discriminated against.

    […]

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  14. 14.

    Martin

    @debbie: Willing to bet Bloomberg has staff whose sole job is to figure out the most impactful ad slots and get them run. I’d be willing to bet you can call up Fox and ask them to cut away from Trump to run that ad provided you are willing to add a zero to the rate.

    It’s a business, after all. Normal rules apply.

  15. 15.

    Eric U.

    NASCAR tracks have been taking out seats.  Daytona has reportedly taken out half their seats since 2004, when that picture was taken.  A local on twitter said that stand AF1 is in front of with Bush in it is no longer there. Even with all those seats gone, attendance is down enough that there are plenty of empty seats at most events.  It’s not surprising that there are empty seats when Trump took off

    And Trump went the wrong way on the speedway.

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    @Martin

    Dates and specific commercial break blocks (or else just somewhere within a specific block of time) are negotiated and set in advance by contract. Also which programming, including defining breaking coverage as its own ‘program.’

    Dunno but it also may not have been a national buy but rather a rollover targeted at certain markets.

  20. 20.

    Ohio Mom

    Another Scott @13: There are moments when I feel as resentful as any right-winger. That Mr. Gibson’s treatments are fully paid for by the government — one might even say dialysis is socialized — while he supports Trump, brings on one of those moments.

  25. 25.

    ziggy

    Take a closer look at the longer video of his speech, and you will be shocked at how much dyskinesia Trump has. The twitching and turning are constant now, his left hand is a claw. at this point I have to agree with Tom Joseph that he must have Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. My mother died of Parkinson’s Disease so I’m very familiar with dyskinesias and the related dementia. But it sounds like this type of palsy is much harder to medicate successfully.

    This would explain several very odd things about his behaviour–  1) Poor balance and gait issues, hanging onto Melania, the podium, his problems with steps, 2) the way he turns his whole head left to right, and lifts the entire head up and down, rather than moving his eyes (very obvious during SOTU speech) 3) Slow, slurred and weakened speech, 4) Not finding the correct word and other dementia symptoms (impulsiveness, lack of concentration, rages), 4) not eating in public, tongue thrusting, odd vocal noises–etc….

    More on the disease: https://www.theaftd.org/what-is-ftd/progressive-supranuclear-palsy/

    If this is the case they are not going to be able to hide it much longer, no matter how much they medicate him, and he is at very serious risk of a fall if he doesn’t start using some kind of walking aid. Plus obviously he has no business making any kind of decisions.

  33. 33.

    Jay Noble

    @Ohio Mom: If you are going to be on permanent dialysis, it all goes over to the government to get you out of the insurance pool. And give a nice grift to the dialysis centers.

    Disclosure: I was on dialysis for about a month and a half and was going to be looking at that paperwork nightmare very soon. MIracle or science or a combo of the 2, I got well and have never looked back.

  35. 35.

    Amir Khalid

    I think I know why the POTUSmobile looks distorted in that picture. NASCAR racetracks are banked, as we all know. So the limo would be leaning to one side as it went along the track; you would not see it from quite the same angle as you would see a limo on a horizontal surface. And the photo is tightly cropped, which would take away visual clues that remind us the surface is not level. The brain assumes it is seeing a limo on a level surface and processes the visual input accordingly. Hence the wonky-looking appearance of the limo.

  38. 38.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @ziggy:

    Didn’t the Rolling Stones tell him to stop using their song (“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”)? And who would want to have that as their theme song? Too much negativity before the payoff line.

  39. 39.

    Martin

    @Duane: It looks like the car is down on the apron where it’s flat. But really, it looks like a photo of a TV taken at an angle. You can see the artifacting around the car.

  44. 44.

    Jay

    Kevin was required to see a therapist when he got to the US. She said their sessions would be private. Instead, everything he disclosed was passed to ICE, to be used against him in court. This is now happening in migrant child shelters around the country.https://t.co/UlCyJjCTED— Hannah Dreier (@hannahdreier) February 16, 2020

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Amir Khalid:

    Trump’s limousine stayed down on the flat part of the track next to the infield. It can’t go fast enough to handle the banked part of the track. The NASCAR announcers were saying 70 miles per hour for that. Supposedly the Beast peaks out at around 60 mph. And it was going nowhere near that fast during Trump’s parade lap.

    Question: Does anyone ever actually look at the tweets or videos at the top of the posts? This is all shown quite clearly in the first video at the top of Cole’s previous post. Check out the 1:30 mark.

    (General question not directed at you, Amir. Possibly you can’t see the videos because of being “out of market.”)

  48. 48.

    smike

    @Amir Khalid: So, “what color is this dress?” I dunno, my theory is that tRump’s narcissism is massive enough to warp space/time. Beware the event horizon…

  50. 50.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Jay: I had just finished reading that. This is the worst thing I’ve seen in a long, long time. It’s inexpressively awful and it fills me with rage and sadness and dread. I don’t often think “we are doomed!” but, goddamn it, if our own government is doing this, we are doomed. I and Mr Colette are going to go down fighting, as are most here, but this is just fucking horrible and it feels like there’s nothing we can do to help.

  52. 52.

    opiejeanne

    @Steeplejack (phone): I don’t think the song plays all the way to the payoff line, because with Trump there is no payoff. Remember, this is the guy who quotes the song about the woman and the snake, “Take Me In, Tender Woman”. Obviously, he’s telling his fans that he’s the snake but they’re unable to understand that part.

  54. 54.

    JWR

    @Another Scott

    But then, one day, he (Gibson) showed up with a giant life-size cutout of Donald Trump.

    Saw that yesterday at LG&M, and one or more commenters noted the obvious escalation on the part of Mr. Gibson, probably to rile the Libs and / or the POC caring for him.

  55. 55.

    JWR

    BTW, how does this “Beast” of an automobile follow Trump around? I would imagine it’s flown in on a military transport, but it’s never mentioned. Also, how did Obama handle campaign stops?

    Also too, does anyone remember back when all campaign stops usually had to involve some agenda item or other? I think that “norm” went out the window during Reagan’s reign of error.

  57. 57.

    mrmoshpotato

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Don’t be so sure.  As the saying goes, “Where there’s a will, this bloated tub of lard who apparently has the “stamina” for the job of President, the Russthuglicans will make sure the deficit skyrockets trying to find a way.”

    Or they’ll just inject McDonald’s grease traps into his veins (after salting them of course) and charge taxpayers millions for the “research and development.”

  58. 58.

    Ksmiami

    @JWR: just a tiny wrong move by one of the caregivers…I mean Mr. Gibson really sounds like a waste of space (actually most Trump supporters are a drag on humanity)

  60. 60.

    Quiltingfool

    NASCAR has become very expensive.  A weekend ticket (2 or 3 races) was around $800 a few years ago.  Oy.  My husband used to watch NASCAR but hasn’t in several years – the rule changes irritated him.  Attendance did start dropping (you could see lots of empty seats when he watched regularly) and I think price was a big factor.  Track racing bores me, and the talking head announcers were annoying.

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