Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

T R E 4 5 O N

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

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

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

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

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Come on, man.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Be a wild strawberry.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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  1. 1.

    Roger Moore

    Obviously, Trump thinks rioting is good for his polling numbers.  I can’t think of any other reason to have Steven Miller write his speech.

  4. 4.

    Jeffro

    Please proceed, little orange man.

    Five months to go, GOP.  Five months!  Can you believe it?  I think we might actually get them close to the crazification factor this time.

  5. 5.

    schrodingers_cat

    The Orange One wants to kill us all but according to true Progressives, Nancy Pelosi and the Dems are the real enemy.
    COVID dead > 110,00

    He is going to double down on xenophobia. Announce that he is going to stop people who are traveling and are on long term work visas from reentry.

    He is going to announce that his administration is working on getting rid of the OPT for F-1 visa which allows international students to work in the United States after graduation for 1 to 3 years

    This is my guess because these rumors have been swirling on immigration twitter for a while now and Santa Monica Goebbels is writing the speech.

  6. 6.

    Mike in NC

    After his last chat with Putin, Fat Bastard decided to reduce our NATO presence in Germany by about 30%. This ties in with his ongoing feud with Angela Merkel. His last few months in office will be exceedingly dangerous and will coincide with a second coronavirus wave sweeping through the red states.

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jeffro:

    crazification factor 

    Is that a level above the batshit crazy and sucking of Putin’s asshole of the past 3.5 years?

  9. 9.

    scott (the other one)

    @Roger Moore: Incomprehensible as it may be to us, I suspect Trump really thinks Miller is simply right about the issue and will be helpful in enlightening the rest of us as to the proper way to view these things.

  10. 10.

    artem1s

    Trump’s speech on race will be written by Steven Miller.

    sweet baby Jeebus.  Normally I avoid the sight of the Orange Plague and cannot abide the sound of his voice, but I might have to actually watch this in real time.  It’s getting to be like not being able to look away from the accident now.

  11. 11.

    Mike in DC

    I assume that David Duke and Richard Spencer had prior engagements and were unable to assist.  Let’s see, a proper speech on race relations right now would require showing deep empathy(which 45 is utterly incapable of), an “even handed” discussion of conflicting perspectives(impossible for Trump), and some constructive policy proposals(not gonna happen).  So I expect a flaming shitshow.

  14. 14.

    John Revolta

    “Folks, first off, I just wanna say…………….I like Eye-talian people, y’know? I see we got some Eye-talian people here in the front…………..”

  15. 15.

    Jim Appleton

    His latest assertion — that Martin Gugino kinda sorta is a badass extremist — shows he can easily be manipulated.

    That’s a great setup for some child of darkness to take full advantage of his third-rate dictator reflex.

    Barr fits, but so far no washee.  McConnell too, but his manipulation is narrow in scope.

    Maybe iDJT is just too dumb to be vulnerable?

  19. 19.

    hilts

    Can’t wait to see Trump get the shock of his life when he’s defeated on Election Day.  I have a vision of him being removed from the White House wearing a straitjacket and sucking on a pacifier.

  21. 21.

    artem1s

    @schrodingers_cat:

    He is going to double down on xenophobia.

    let’s see, can he find a way to inject the speech with White Xtian butthurt too?  I’ll be disappointed if I can’t cross that off my Hate Speech Bingo Card.

  22. 22.

    rp

    “Race relations in this country were perfect before the damned Mexicans arrived.”

  27. 27.

    mrmoshpotato

    @artem1s: Got some spare vocal cords to use after you shred yours from “Are you fucking kidding me?!” and “Oh fuck you, you fascist orange shitstain!”?

  31. 31.

    JPL

    @Baud:  I’ve been monitoring nextdoor and if they could afford to live where I do, they wouldn’t have to wait.    We seem to have plenty of working machines, imagine that.

     

    Just in case someone doesn’t recognize my sentiment.. I’m pissed as several others are.  Fulton Cty  allocates voting sites and the State allocates voting machines.

  35. 35.

    zzyzx

    I think it’ll be one of the Trump boring stick to platitudes speeches. They might throw in a code word or two but I don’t think they’ve reached the point of throwing the election.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    @zzyzx: You’re probably right.  The reason Miller is doing it is because he knows how to talk in code on this issue.

  39. 39.

    Barbara

    @Betty Cracker:  You mean the one where he botched the policy on returning from Europe that sent Americans into a panic and probably made the situation in NYC a lot worse? I think that was a joint effort between Miller and Kushner.

  40. 40.

    Chyron HR

    “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw New York forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

  41. 41.

    artem1s

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Got some spare vocal cords to use after you shred yours from “Are you fucking kidding me?!”

    haha, I lost those after Comey’s October surprise.

  42. 42.

    Shrillhouse

    “A lot of people are saying that ‘the Blacks’ are not good people. That’s not true. They are much better than Mexicans…”

  43. 43.

    Brachiator

    @schrodingers_cat:

    The Orange One wants to kill us all but according to true Progressives, Nancy Pelosi and the Dems are the real enemy.
    COVID dead > 110,00

    While scanning the comments for a YouTube political video, I ran across a few declaring how bad Pelosi is and how everything would be better if Bernie was the nominee. These people are just stuck. The only thing they see is their fantasy world, a world waiting forever for Bernie.

  46. 46.

    Roger Moore

    @Baud:

    Believe it or not, “Boogaloo” has already started to have nasty racist connotations.  There is apparently a group of racist idiots who want to spark a second Civil War and who have started to call it “The Boogaloo” in reference to the “Whatever II: Electric Boogaloo” meme.

  47. 47.

    fancycwabs

    “What happened to George Floyd was a tragedy, but it did not justify looting and rioting and assaulting police officers and raping women in Central Park and celebrating when the towers fell and getting so uppity that I had to go inspect my bunker.”

  48. 48.

    BruceFromOhio

    Is someone riffing on the old double-take jokes?

    Preventing Teen Suicide, by Youth In Asia

    Obtaining Legal Services, by Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe

    Given the “Soros is driving the busload of antifa to YOUR COMMUNITY!!1!1!1eleventy-one!!1!” legends making the rounds of empty winger skulls, it would not surprise me in the least to hear these idiots try to incite a full-blown civil war so Bill “Make it lower” Barr can justify canceling elections. Or something.

  49. 49.

    LuciaMia

    “Fell harder than he was pushed”?  Yeah, its called gravity, President Pinhead.

  51. 51.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Let me guess, it’ll probably go along the lines of a white supremacist’s idea of what egalitarianism is:

    “Africa for the Africans, Asia for the Asiatics, and Europe for the Europeans!”

    Could also be a variation on “separate, BUT equal, libtards! Dummycrats are the REAL racists!”

  52. 52.

    mrmoshpotato

    @hilts:

    Can’t wait to see Trump get the shock of his life when he’s defeated on Election Day.  I have a vision of him being removed from the White House wearing a straitjacket and sucking on a pacifier. 

    If IF! Dump is defeated on Election day, the 2+ months of him being a lame dick Soviet shitpile mobster conman who sucks Putin’s asshole will be the most dangerous period in American history.

    And defeating the Soviet shitpile is REQUIRED for our democracy to continue, but be ready for shit we’ve never seen.

  56. 56.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    @mrmoshpotato: What is so particularly crazy about batshit? I’ve been working of this for decades, and can’t figure it out.

  57. 57.

    Brachiator

    When is this speech?

    Have the pundits already labeled this as the speech when Trump truly became presidential?

  59. 59.

    trollhattan

    @JoJo:

    Or he could try the “Unite blacks and whites against immigrants” ploy.

    “This clear and present thread from Antifa-13 can no longer be tolerated.”

  60. 60.

    debbie

    @Chyron HR:

    No, he won’t. Too much money to be made off NYC.

    What he will do is announce he’s outlawing the First Amendment.

  61. 61.

    LuciaMia

    This was a diary I put on Daily Kos today. I had assumed wiser heads had prevailed and put the kibosh on any speech.

    The President Addresses the Nation.

    There was a story floating about yesterday that the White House was considering having the President address the nation about racism and the current protests .

    No. Just…no. Hasn’t the country suffered enough?

    Ill tell you, anonymous WH advisers, why this would be a disaster either way.

    1.Say he has the best,most inspiring speech possible and reads it word for word with no deviation. Problem is he’ll read it in a dead monotone, with a sullen,irritable face. Everything saying that he was dragged, kicking and screaming to do this.

    2. Worse, he decides to stray from the script, throwing his own thoughts into the stew. We all know how that is gonna go.

    So, for everybody’s sake, just…don’t.

    UPDATE: After Trump’s little tweet today, accusing that 75 year old man who was injured by Buffalo police of being an antifa plant?  I think we can put to rest the laughable idea that he could be any kind of ‘unifying’ force.

  70. 70.

    MisterForkbeard

    @mrmoshpotato: While I think this is somewhat true, once it’s clear that Trump and his pet DOJ is getting tossed out on their collective asses we’re going to see a lot more career people sticking their heads back up.

    Much more pushback from the military, internal audit & ethics people, etc. It won’t stop Trump completely (especially in places like judicial nominations) but it’s going to be useful and especially useful in disinfecting things after they leave.

  71. 71.

    Benw

    I guess the plan is for Barr to tear gas the entire National Mall so Trump can walk over and give the speech in front of the MLK memorial?

  72. 72.

    West of the Rockies

    @mrmoshpotato:

    If Trump goes nuts after the election, he really would be making the odds of his own incarceration that much higher.

  74. 74.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @JoJo:

    That sounds like something they would try. Condescending and self-serving, just like the Imperial Japanese and their Greater “Co-Prosperity” Sphere, which was in reality the intention to colonize Mainland Asia and set up puppet states for the benefit of Japan. They played the anti-imperialist and anti-Western sentiments of Asian people as a result of Western colonial efforts in Asia

  79. 79.

    mrmoshpotato

    @artem1s: Oh Comey.  I wonder how things would be different because wasn’t Chaffetz going to leak some shit anyway?

    (Not that I’m letting Comey off the hook.  Fuck him.)

  81. 81.

    Kattails

    @Brachiator: I see from the Hoarse Whisperer’s twitter feed that Bernie has broken from party establishment and endorsed Charles Booker in the Kentucky senatorial primary. Instead of Amy McGrath. You know, the Amy McGrath who’s polling +1 against McConnell.  At this point you will never convince me that Bernie is not actively working for Putin.

  85. 85.

    Patricia Kayden

    “Lives like George will not matter until somebody pays the cost for taking their lives,” Rev. Al Sharpton said during his eulogy for George Floyd. “If four black cops had done to one white what was done to George … they would send them to jail.” pic.twitter.com/QZhnMljJdL— NPR (@NPR) June 9, 2020

  86. 86.

    Miss Bianca

    @BruceFromOhio: And then there’s this phenomenon…all these armed people showing up claiming they’re there to “help the protestors” because they’ve heard that antifa is coming!! Apparently this happened in Colorado Springs.

  87. 87.

    Jeffro

    This GA election mess is fuuuuuuuucked up. We’d better get proactive about all aspects of GOP vote suppression, now: get loud, make sure the public knows that purposeful negligence (under-supplying voting machines, poll workers, and provisional ballots) is yet another tool in the GOP election-ratfucking toolbox, and do what we can across the next five months to make sure every American’s vote is going to count.

    ‘Cause there are going to be a LOT of votes in five months ;)

  88. 88.

    Ksmiami

    @artem1s: Comey reminds me of Beaks in Trading Places… “Oh yeah Beaks- What happened to that guy” as the camera pans over to him and his male gorilla lover in a cage being shipped off

  89. 89.

    Keith P.

    He probably queued up Miller for the speech to show Jared that he’s pissed at him over poll numbers.

  90. 90.

    Patricia Kayden

    @dmsilev: He’ll always have Diamond, Silk, Candace Owens, Sheriff Clark and Ben Carson. I guess that’s something.

  93. 93.

    James E Powell

    Assuming that Trump actually gives a speech on race, what’s the over/under on the number of Village blowhards who will declare that this was the day – no kidding we’re serious this time – that Trump became president.

  95. 95.

    Kay

    It’ll be junk. If it’s not actively offensive it will be low quality garbage.

    Bad hires don’t get better, only worse.

  96. 96.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    This is going to be ugly.  I am worried.  All Trump knows how to do is double down on the nastiness and incite.

  100. 100.

    senyordave

    The speech will be a bland why can’t we all get along.  Throw in a pinch of we all have a stake in this, add a dash of we all are responsible for our actions.  He won’t go off script, and there won’t be any follow up.  For a couple of days some in the media will push the “Trump is starting to be presidential” lime, but then some Trumpian event will remind us all how we got here.

  102. 102.

    Another Scott

    @Boris Rasputin (the evil twin):

    idiomation.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/bat-shit-crazy/

    Heather E. Johnson asked Idiomation where bat shit crazy came from, and what made bat excrement crazier than any other rodent’s. The expression means that the person accused of being bat shit crazy is acting in a threatening manner that is devoid of all reason and that borders on insanity. In other words, someone who is bat shit crazy so irrationally (and possibly violently as well) that reasonable, sane measures of dealing with the situation at hand are ineffective.

    Scientifically speaking, the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum is found in bat guano and when the fungus infects the brain (a possibility, not a given), it leaves the infected person or animal behaving in a psychotic manner.

    Until the early 1950s when Histoplasma capsulatum was finally being diagnosed correctly, sufferers were usually misdiagnosed with tuberculosis. Placed on antibacterial antibiotics, the medication worsened the disease. Why? According to medical studies, once the bacteria in the body was killed off, the fungus had nothing to stop it from taking over completely.

    […]

    More at the link.

    HTH!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  104. 104.

    Patricia Kayden

    Heh

    Perhaps the most disgusting thing I've heard today (and that's a lot) is that Stephen Miller is writing trump's speech on racism.That's like Goebbels writing a speech for Hitler on anti-semitism.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 9, 2020

  105. 105.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Kay: It still hasn’t occurred to Trump and his incompetent hires that they have no real ability to positively influence the situation, no credibility to spend.

    I suppose there’s a “nixon comes to China” possibility here. The police units venerate Trump, as do racists and everyone else who really loves authoritarianism. But that would involve completely reversing himself and attacking his own supporters. At best we’re going to get some pablum about Bad Apples or “everyone can improve”.

    But the people who are upset and protesting? Trump has no ability to change their thinking. Because he’s spent decades vilifying and attacking them and it’s only gotten worse since he stole the presidency.

  107. 107.

    cain

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    That’s a good one because he’s very sensitive about the crowd size for his inauguration. Our president is going to fly into a rage.

  108. 108.

    laura

    Stephen Miller is the perfect person to draft trump’s speech to the nation on the subject of race relations. No other individual is likely the encapsulate all the loathsomeness of trumps feelings as the man who shares the same disregard for others as Miller. It will be a speech for the ages in its awfulness. It will not heal the nation, but it should further heighten the distinctions. And the Biden campaign ought to prepare a real speech for a real president and then deliver it.

  110. 110.

    CaseyL

    Stephen Miller?  Stephen Miller? Stephen Fucking Miller??

    Either T* is trolling everyone, which seems unlikely, or he really is in Cloud Cuckoo Land.

    Stephen.  Fucking.  Miller.  Whose own family won’t have anything to do with him.

  112. 112.

    Another Scott

    @senyordave: He’ll try to announce something, anything to change the subject away from his disastrous administration.

    Like he did 2 weeks ago when he announced the insulin stuff.  You know, the smoke and mirrors insulin cost control plan:

    Driving the news: A new project through the Affordable Care Act’s Innovation Center will allow these types of plans to receive the 70% discount if they cap monthly insulin costs, starting in 2021.

    Yes, but: This only applies to insulin. People with diabetes often have to take other expensive medications, which won’t get lower copays.

    • The model also doesn’t affect the list or net price of any insulin.
    • An out-of-pocket cap means higher premiums for other beneficiaries and taxpayers, which Medicare chief Seema Verma acknowledged.

    The big picture: Insulin has been one of the most politically charged medications, as people have died from rationing their insulin due to cost. But the health care industry wouldn’t have endorsed this idea if companies didn’t think there would be some payoff.

    This is my shocked, shocked face.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  113. 113.

    MisterForkbeard

    @cain: Right. He actually DOES theoretically have the capability to do some good here, because he’s spent years being exactly the kind of awful asshole they look up and have hitched their wagons to. He could defang quite a bit of them if he wanted.

    But in actuality, he can’t do this – he can’t admit the protesters are in the right, can’t admit he misstepped repeatedly, can’t admit he’s been a huge part of the problem. And if he actually did it seriously it would dent a huge portion of his ‘racism and rage’ base. And it would only help if he took it seriously.

  114. 114.

    mrmoshpotato

    @James E Powell:

    Assuming that Trump actually gives a speech on race, what’s the over/under on the number of Village blowhards who will declare that this was the day – no kidding we’re serious this time – that Trump became president.

    Van Jones will be in a fucking tizzy.

  115. 115.

    Kattails

    @mrmoshpotato: Yes, those Venn diagrams keep plenty of social distancing, I know that.  But undermining someone who’s edging into taking out McConnell is either galactically stupid or evil. If McConnell remains in power, things will be just as stalled as they are now. So then, what, the Berners get to wag their fingers and say “we told you so?”

    @schrodingers_cat: Well it’s either I bang my head against the desk, or pour a slug of rum into my iced tea. I think the latter.

  116. 116.

    PST

    @JoJo:

    Or he could try the “Unite blacks and whites against immigrants” ploy. That would be my guess.

    Mine too. And he’ll find a way to do it that strikes blacks as condescending (You think we’re dumb enough to fall for that!) while really grating on the sensibilities of citizens who are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Mexico and elsewhere.

  117. 117.

    japa21

    Regarding the speech.  At some point he will make the claim, as he has before, that no president since Lincoln has done more for “the blacks” than he has done. Therefore, if it wasn’t for FAKE NEWS roiling “the blacks” up race relations in the country would be wonderful.  This will be repeated in some form or another several times.

    Regarding the election in Georgia. I think this is being done for one reason, make voting so difficult now that people won’t even try to vote in November.

  118. 118.

    Brachiator

    @schrodingers_cat:

    He has some nasty EOs on immigration lined up. When in doubt he always doubles down on racism and xenophobia.

    Sadly, true enough.

    Trump’s speech might be bland, but hint at nastier stuff to come. I wonder if Trump has scheduled one of his political rallies yet. This is usually when he lets his full feelings be known.

    But anything coming from Miller will be vile.

  121. 121.

    Suzy

    @senyordave: It will include praise for the police, and sorrow for law enforcement officers who have been killed while on duty. Blue lives matter, White lives matter, etc. And a good portion of the speech on rioting, looters and criminals. And Law and Order. And Antifa.

    Or… It will be surprisingly pretty uncontroversial, aimed at winning back moderate repubs and some independents.

    Because, let’s not forget, the ONE AND ONLY preoccupation of the Trump team is the general election.

  122. 122.

    bluehill

    @MisterForkbeard: I like this contrarian play. The scriptwriters are getting predictable (relatively), so give the speech no one expects. He says he’s “evolved” on the issue and wants to work police departments and the black community to find common ground. He launches a task force and appoints someone mildly respectable to lead it. Pledges some token amount to improve community /police relationships. Says he will discontinue sales of surplus military equipment to police departments unlike his predecessors.  And unlike the dems he believes in law and order not chaos that will come from disbanding the police.

    It’s a hail mary approach, but that’s kind of where he’s at. Woo back some of the white suburban voters in the swing states. Continue with all the other voter suppression tactics. Launch new round of attack ads on supporting good policing not anarchy. He doesn’t even have to do anything substantial between now and November.

    Hahaha. It’ll never happen, but would be an interesting plot twist.

  124. 124.

    Kay

    @MisterForkbeard:

    that they have no real ability to positively influence the situation, no credibility to spend.

    I think there’s a kind of panic as they realize they’ll be the bad guys when this story gets told. On the wrong side.

  126. 126.

    Kay

    Hunter Walker
    @hunterw
    ·1h
    New fundraising email from the Trump campaign – “Violent thugs are running rampant – these people are ANARCHISTS.”

    As you can see, this effort by the Trump Administration to write a speech is completely sincere.

  128. 128.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Kattails:

    Yes, those Venn diagrams keep plenty of social distancing, I know that.

    Well done. :)

    But undermining someone who’s edging into taking out McConnell is either galactically stupid or evil.

    110% agreement here.  I still blame the children on the “purity left” for fucking over Hillary.  And I still will when I shuffle off hopefully decades from now.

    And now, some booms with this downpour against my windows and AC would be nice. ?

    ETA – a slug of iced tea into your rum ?

  130. 130.

    trollhattan

    Cats and dogs, sleepin’ together, politics edition: Tom McClintock, California’s answer to Steve King, had an epiphany.

    Rep. Tom McClintock is siding with some of Congress’ most outspoken liberals in an effort to overturn the “qualified immunity” that can protect police and other state and local officials from civil lawsuits.

    McClintock, a California Republican who has been urging such reforms for years, has joined Democrats and Libertarian Rep. Justin Amash in backing legislation to eliminate qualified immunity.

    “Whatever his motive, the killer of George Floyd had 18 complaints for misconduct, and one of his accomplices had six. Why is such misconduct tolerated by big city police departments?” McClintock asked after Floyd, a black man, died while in Minneapolis police custody. Derek Chauvin, the officer who leaned on Floyd’s neck, was named in 18 prior complaints to the Minneapolis Police Department.

    “Is it because politically powerful police unions protect the bad apples among them?” McClintock asked. “Is it because the doctrine of qualified immunity shields corrupt officials from accountability for a wide range of crimes?”

    His reservation about qualified immunity sounded a lot like the concern of Rep. Ayanna Pressley. The Massachusetts Democrat and member of “The Squad” – four freshmen Democratic liberal women of color under 50 – is a leading sponsor of the effort to end qualified immunity.

    “Qualified immunity shields police from accountability, impedes true justice, and undermines the constitutional rights of every person in this country,” Pressley said. “There can be no justice without healing and accountability, and there can be no true accountability with qualified immunity. It’s past time to end qualified immunity, and that’s exactly what this bill does.”

    sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article243395971.html#storylink=cpy

    I’ll ignore the anti-union subtext for now and just accept the small, short-lived gift of sanity.

  131. 131.

    Baud

    I think Trump is going to say he supports defunding the police and run to Biden’s left!

  139. 139.

    The Moar You Know

    Stephen Miller.  OK.

    In the last days of WW2, Hitler, deciding that the German people didn’t deserve to live for failing to succeed in the goals of the Reich, ordered that all infrastructure be destroyed and the farmland poisoned.

    This didn’t happen, mostly because it was too late in the process.  The Germans knew it was over at that point.

    Trump’s starting early.

  140. 140.

    MattF

    Rick Wilson comments on the prospect of Trump delivering a Miller-written speech on race:

    Irony is dead, buried, decomposed, exhumed, reburied, dug up a second time, ground to ashes, and scattered into an active volcano.

    I agree. Even Trumpites realize that The Big Orange doesn’t do empathy– how is he ever going to succeed at talking about race? I don’t think it’s going to happen. I think that someone decided to throw some shit at a fan to kill the notion of a Trump speech on race for once and for all.

  141. 141.

    mrmoshpotato

    @bluehill: “I’m so luxurious and tremendous bigly that after being sued by Nixon, can you believe it Nixon, for racial discrimination, the blacks, yes the blacks, I’m tremendous at the blacks, love me!”

    Too on the nose?

  147. 147.

    Cacti

    @debbie:  I wonder what the ghosts of Amadou Diallo and Eric Garner would have to say about what fine individuals the NYPD employs.

  148. 148.

    debbie

    @Kay:

    I don’t know, Kay. I’m thinking his lovely bride will be at his side to provide assistance.

  154. 154.

    jimmiraybob

    I for one am rooting for Miller to do his best work.

    I’ll even offer a good faith suggestion for a couple of the applause lines, “We must look to the future and start preparations for liberating and reclaiming the Sudetenland….California…. for the glory of the Germ….American people. [APPLAUSE]  It will only be then that we can begin to reach our full potential as Ger….Americans and begin our march toward our rightful destiny!  [APPLAUSE]  And, once victory is ours on the western front, we can turn our eyes to the eastern front and the world will one day be ours. [APPLAUSE]  For blood!!  [APPLAUSE]  For soil!!” [APPLAUSE]

    Or something like that.  I’m working on the fly here.

  155. 155.

    Subsole

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    How well did that work for them?

    Because I got the impression it did not play very well at all in Vietnam, Korea or the Philippines. And not super well in China.

    I have read about a few thousand Indian volunteers, but that is…not impressive, given India’s size. (Especially in light of what the British put them through.)

  156. 156.

    jimmiraybob

    @Subsole:

    I fully expect them to vandalize the White House on their way out.
    And that will be the least of it.

    I was wondering earlier about the push by the fuhrer to start up the rallies with “full attendance.’  Fetid petri dishes with militant nutjobs refusing masks and distancing – prime infection environment.  And then from each rally, they spread out to their communities.  I’m wondering if mass vengeance on a disloyal nation might be the object – the ultimate vandalization.

    This might be going too far but it would be irresponsible not to speculate.

  159. 159.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @mrmoshpotato:

    defeating the Soviet shitpile is REQUIRED for our democracy to continue, but be ready for shit we’ve never seen

    Even though one could say every single day of Trump’s presidency has been an exercise in recovering from “shit we’ve never seen”, I really do worry that after he loses there will be stuff none of us has even really considered for us to deal with until January.

    I guess we all have to pray it’ll stop short of him imposing martial law and declaring himself the Supreme Leader…

  161. 161.

    Subsole

    @Keith P.:

    No.

    Miller pisses people off. Donnie don’t know shit, but he knows how to say “Fuck you.”

    That’s all this is. No deep strategy.

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    Subsole

    @cain:

    His white pride will not permit that. Backing down would be giving us the flinch. Us. The sissy gaysexual book-readin’ multi-culti commulists.

    Also, it’s too late anyway. We already watched them brutalize peaceful protestors. We know who they are.

     

    I almost cannot bear to hope, but I think some folks are finally, FINALLY starting to figure out that being white ain’t gonna save them. And a lot of us are getting mighty damn tired of dragging Jefferson Davis’s corpse on our backs.

  167. 167.

    Martin

    @Kattails: I would rather have Booker than McGrath. But I’d rather have McGrath than McConnell. I hope the good people of KY get this one right.

  168. 168.

    Subsole

    @Kattails:

    Bernie ain’t making NEAR as much money with Democrats actually enacting legislation.

    He’s like Michael Moore, that way.

  170. 170.

    Martin

    @MisterForkbeard: No, he cannot. 2 weeks ago he could, but now it could at best be a lie. Everyone knows he’s a scorpion.

    A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a babbling stream. It’s too treacherous to cross, so the scorpion nicely asks the frog to carry him across on its back. This makes the frog a little suspicious. It asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.” That sound reasoning relaxes the frog’s nerves. So he allows the scorpion to climb aboard and they shove off across the flowing water. They get halfway across the stream and the scorpion stings the frog directly in the middle of his back. The frog feels the onset of the scorpion’s poison and starts to sink. He manages one dying breath: “Why?!” And the scorpion replies: “It’s my nature…“

  171. 171.

    Subsole

    @jimmiraybob:  Mh. Too intricate, too subtle, not nearly petty enough.

    I think he just wants to bask in the glory of the cult and doesn’t care about their health.

    These folks seem like they send congratulation cards to the next of kin at funerals. That kind of small, obnoxious shittiness.

  173. 173.

    Kattails

    @Subsole: Humm. Interesting angle, had not thought of it. My cynicism gland must be under-active today. :-)

    I have GOT to get some work done.

  174. 174.

    cmorenc

    Holy shit – next we’ll discover a hitherto lost manuscript by Robert E. Lee written in 1860 on “Repairing race relations in the South”.

  175. 175.

    cmorenc

    @scott (the other one):

    @Roger Moore: Incomprehensible as it may be to us, I suspect Trump really thinks Miller is simply right about the issue and will be helpful in enlightening the rest of us as to the proper way to view these things.

    Well, Miller does have lots of insights to share with us on how to handle the colored problem.

  177. 177.

    cmorenc

    @hilts:

    Can’t wait to see Trump get the shock of his life when he’s defeated on Election Day.  I have a vision of him being removed from the White House wearing a straitjacket and sucking on a pacifier.

    You can get a sneak preview watching the bunker scene from “Downfall”.

  178. 178.

    J R in WV

    @MattF:

    June 9, 2020 at 6:33 pm

    Rick Wilson comments on the prospect of Trump delivering a Miller-written speech on race:

    Irony is dead, buried, decomposed, exhumed, reburied, dug up a second time, ground to ashes, and scattered into an active volcano.

    Rick, Dude! Don’t hold back now!

    You need to let us know how you really feel about Trump and Race in America!

    Let it all out right now…   you will be a better man for it~!!!!!!~

  179. 179.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    @Another Scott: Thank you, good sir. I can sleep easy now without the aid of litres of vodka every night.

    How I typed that with a straight face is beyond me, but thank you indeed. Time for another litre now.

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