Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

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

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

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Not all heroes wear capes.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

Republicans do not pay their debts.

This fight is for everything.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Second rate reporter says what?

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Bark louder, little dog.

The willow is too close to the house.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: TRly, Modly, Deeply Depressing

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But let’s not forget Modly’s boss, the guy responsible for hiring him in the first place!

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  1. 1.

    West of the Rockies

    I hope Moldy is in pain.  I hope he feels humiliated, disgraced.  I hope his children give him the silent treatment for the next 24 years.  I hope his wife leaves him, that he struggles to find work, knows the fear and humiliation of creditors demanding payment.

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    debbie

    We need to discover and celebrate the sailor’s voice who can be heard loudly saying, “What the fuck?” during Modly’s speech.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    re: the headline – A for effort.

    Modly will move seamlessly into a paid gig with Fox as a “military consultant.” Count on it.

  6. 6.

    Jerzy Russian

    Any word on how the Captain is doing?  Didn’t he test positive, along with apparently hundreds of others on his ship?

  7. 7.

    different-church-lady

    @debbie: Actually, we should hope he’s never identified, because this is the military and discipline would probably be swift and utterly out of proportion.

  9. 9.

    different-church-lady

    I’m about halfway through listening to Modly’s “speech” to the crew, and all I can say is “What the fuck did this guy think he was doing with this?”

  12. 12.

    Jonas

    Tanking the ag economy for two years with his stupid tariff war on China didn’t cost him any measurable support in farm country, from what I can tell, so why should this kerfuffle cost him any military votes? Remember the key axiom of our new political reality: nothing matters anymore.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Major Major Major Major: It occurred to me when I saw that, that Hemingway– probably The Sun Also Rises– was the last book he tried to read, in high school, because somebody was making him try, and he’s still resentful

  15. 15.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @rikyrah: And those men know that Trump would have left them on that ship to die. They won’t forgive that nor forget it.

  16. 16.

    Emma from FL

    My hope is that one of the servants of evil in the White House screws up and shows his boss that video of the sailors’ salute to their departing captain; and that for once in his sorry life the so-called President has enough awareness to understand that no matter what he says or does he will never reach the instep of Crozier’s shoes. Either that or strokes out in a paroxysm of envy.

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    lumpkin

    This happened because the president is capricious, cowardly and completely untrustworthy. And dumb as a rock, I should add. Nobody below him knows what to do and there is no direction from above. I’m sure everyone above Capt Crozier was paralyzed with fear and refused to act or even respond to his pleas for the safety of his crew because they didn’t know what to do and were afraid to decide on their own. If we have another crisis, perhaps involving a human enemy, trump and his administration will fuck it up as badly as they have the virus crisis and everything associated with it.

    The rest of the world, including all the people who hate us know how vulnerable we are right now.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    If I understand right, Modly went on board the USS Teodore Roosevelt to say naive and stupid things to its crew. Aside from incurring the expense of flying out to Guam on a US Navy jet to shoot himself in the foot, didn’t Modly put himself (and others back at the Pentagon) at risk of coronavirus infection by getting on the ship?

  23. 23.

    Chetan Murthy

    @joel hanes:

    Modly thought he was restoring discipline and good order.

    Ehhh … he was showing the boss that he knew how to administer a beatdown, is all.  It was a dominance display, meant to show the capo that he was an effective underboss.  And nothing more.  Sadly, the victim (the crew) kicked, and the transcript leaked.  And the rest is history.  Like Modly.

  24. 24.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Dump only knows Hemingway because his granddaughter Mariel once portrayed a Playboy “playmate”.

  25. 25.

    Mary G

    When the Democrats take the Senate and presidency, they need to pass a law cutting back on the terms of acting secretaries, etc.

  26. 26.

    guachi

    I’ve mentioned this before but the firing if CAPT Crozier has gone over very poorly with Navy enlisted personnel. And I say this as a Navy enlisted who has seen the reaction.

  27. 27.

    guachi

    In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that in my 18 years in the Navy I haven’t seen anything received more poorly by the rank and file than the firing of CAPT Crozier.

  30. 30.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Mary G: Problem is, such a law can and will be used -against- Dem Presidents. by GrOPer Senates, right?  Democracy depends on norms — we can’t devise a method that works in the presence of norm-breaking by 40% of the population and their tribunes.  Heck, -civilization- depends on norms for similar reasons.  We have to burn the GrOPers to the ground and salt their ground.

  31. 31.

    Ruckus

    @debbie:

    That one sailor may be the one heard, I absolutely guarantee that he was not the only one who said it out loud. There are probably at least a dozen ways the word fuck is used on a daily basis in the navy at least and I’d bet every other branch as well. It is very likely the most spoken word on board ship.

  33. 33.

    Chris T.

    @Major Major Major Major: Trump is falling to pieces mentally (and clearly has already fallen to pieces physically), but back in the day he wasn’t actually stupid, just totally narcissistic.  Sometimes words  and names like Hemingway come back to him.

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    Sloane Ranger

    @Major Major Major Major: More likely a better read minion made a sarcastic remark comparing Captain Crozier to Hemingway in his presence and Trump remembered it.

    According to CNN 3 other aircraft carriers have COVID cases on board. Which raises the question about what your navy needs to do now. If they’re kept operational the disease is going to spread like wildlife and although the crew are in a relatively good demographic, there will be some deaths leading to bad PR and reduced morale or they’re taken out of service reducing the US’s operational capacity. Seems to me as a foreign civvy that the High Command should have foreseen this happening and taken steps to prevent it. Unless they tried and the political leadership told them it was all a hoax, Hair Fuhrer had said so.

  35. 35.

    James E Powell

    I don’t know how many here are old enough to be familiar with the style, but Modly has a classic, Brezhnev Era, Soviet Bloc haircut. It’s juvenile, I know, but every time I see his photo I think of the CCCP1 skits on SCTV.

  37. 37.

    Robert Sneddon

    @debbie: “Well, the inquiry has determined that two thousand six hundred and forty-seven people on board have admitted to being the serviceman who uttered the phrase ‘What the fuck’ during Asst. Secretary Modly’s announcement over the ship’s 1MC. This includes some civilian supply personnel on board, Modly’s own staffers and the ship’s stuffed toy mascot character.”

  39. 39.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @rikyrah: The Captain saved his people. Not all the sailors aboard the ship, nor pilots in the air wing aboard the ship  are men.

  41. 41.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @Sloane Ranger: There is also the fact that while they make up a smaller proportion of the military, the military depends in many ways on their senior enlisted, who generally speaking are anywhere from thirties to late forties, early fifties.  Some stay in for 30+ years.  Those are not the people you want to lose in great numbers, or any numbers.

    Military demographics 2017

  42. 42.

    Jerzy Russian

    @different-church-lady:   Ted Cruz famously missed the point of Green Eggs and Ham on the Senate floor.  Both men  are dumb, but you have to hand the Stupid Prize to Trump in this case.  So indeed, we can conclude that Green Eggs and Ham is beyond Trump’s grasp.

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