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Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

This blog will pay for itself.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

I really should read my own blog.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

No one could have predicted…

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

We still have time to mess this up!

Not all heroes wear capes.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

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

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

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  2. 2.

    Gin & Tonic

    As the gardener said in Chinatown: “bad for glass.”

     

    ETA: A bit of racist stereotyping that advanced an important plot point, so I’m conflicted.

  4. 4.

    ant

    it doesn’t even look like him to me.

     

    Looks to me like you’ve been having everyone pee at the base of your willow tree.

  6. 6.

    Sure Lurkalot

    I would be happy to pee on that,

    Happy birthday. 50’s were a piece of cake for me. My departed mother told me she didn’t feel old until 60 and she wasn’t entirely wrong.

  8. 8.

    counterfactual

    Any wild speculation (or better, some informed speculation) on why Trump ordered all of the reporters out of the White House tonight?

  10. 10.

    Tom Levenson

    @Mary G: Because I am a worrywort, I fear that the next man up (it will be a man) may be slightly less in-it-for-the-grift and somewhat more competent.

    But hard to see how anyone could survive the Tulsa Coronapalooza.

  13. 13.

    trnc

    Question about Matt Gaetz new found fatherhood/adoption/sub-step-uncle/whatever – was it totally legit for a kid living in his house to get a job as a House page?

  14. 14.

    MisterForkbeard

    @counterfactual: I’m going with “didn’t want them to be around while protesters were doing their thing nearby and getting pushed out” – maybe they didn’t want reporters to see Trump rushing to the bunker again, or maybe they wanted to keep reporters from getting particularly well-framed pictures from the White House.

    Or Trump had a medical emergency or something.

  16. 16.

    Kay

    Brian Stelter
    @brianstelter
    · Jun 16
    Showtime just released the first pics from “The Comey Rule,” a two-night miniseries premiering in November, based on @Comey’s book. “The story of two powerful figures, Comey and Trump, whose strikingly different personalities, ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.”

    OMG. He will not just go away.

  18. 18.

    bluehill

    @Mary G: There is also some twitter chatter that Trump can’t fire him because they run payments to Don Jr’s and Eric’s significant others through Brad’s company. Who knows, but another interesting plot twist.

  19. 19.

    SWMBO

    @trnc: Folks have been spelling it Matt Gayetz.  Not that I condone such juvenile behavior.
    Happy Birthday Cole!  Since you can’t get the real Trump or one of his spawn to volunteer to park out front to help water the grass, I guess the sculpture will do.  Pro tip from someone who has multiple dogs who like to mark one spot. Put baking soda under it to help keep the smell down and to keep the chemical burns from being as dramatic on the grass.

  24. 24.

    Kay

    @MisterForkbeard:

    I can’t believe he got someone to make a miniseries about his massive fuck up where he’s the hero.

    What is wrong with people? Why are they encouraging him? He needs to 1. apologize and 2. find some useful, productive under the radar volunteer job to make amends. But quietly.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    @Mary G:

    Big deal. Unless he’s a complete idiot—not ruling that out—Parscale has already banked enough money to never have to work again. He doesn’t strike me as an ideological power player. He’s just a website griftlord who struck gold and had the run of a lifetime. He can take his expensive cars and retire to his condo (mansion?) in Florida.

    Shame, you say? None of them has any.

  27. 27.

    Anya

     

    Cole, by putting the Trump bust, considering your state, you’re bringing MAGA trouble to yourself. Be safe, Cole. You never know with the MAGA freaks. You’re insulting their lord and savior.

    Speaking of MAGA cult, did any of you read Jeffrey Sharlet’s Vanity Fair piece: “HE’S THE CHOSEN ONE TO RUN AMERICA”: INSIDE THE CULT OF TRUMP, HIS RALLIES ARE CHURCH AND HE IS THE GOSPEL

    It’s scary. I don’t think the left has any group similar to this. Not even Bernie’s hardcore supporters reach this level of cult lunacy.

  28. 28.

    Kay

    Tommy X-TrumpIsARacist-opher
    @tommyxtopher
    Here is the
    @maggieNYT
    “Biden is a flawed candidate” clip, and it is much worse than you thought it was.
    cc
    @neeratanden

    It’s really bad.

  31. 31.

    Anya

    @Kay: Comey and Trump share egotistical self regard. Like Trump, he is completely and utterly in love with himself and his image as the one true hero of Justice. And he never did a wrong thing in his entire life.

  32. 32.

    namekarB

    Now Parscale will have time to write a tell all book. He can get around the nondisclosure by making it fiction and using Alec Baldwin as the main prop. These guys have no loyalty, they are in it for the money and the book will just be adding a second helping to his plate.

  34. 34.

    Anya

    @Kay: I don’t get her logic. If Trump can’t fill out an arena in a solidly RED state why does she think he’ll fare better in a purple state?

  35. 35.

    Kay

    @MisterForkbeard:

    She states definitely that Biden is a “flawed candidate” with no explanation, that apparently being so much the conventional wisdom among the NYTimes political team that it is beyond question. IMO you can tell this is the theme they have all settled on- that Biden has no independent appeal, that he is only ahead because Trump has not yet recovered the manly magic they all remember from the 2016 campaign. She says it like it’s a given because it IS a given, among the people she talks to.

    It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter why they think he’s ahead or their prickly defensiveness of Donald Trump’s political appeal. It just matters that he is ahead. But they’re still horrible.

  36. 36.

    NotMax

    Watch out if Antboy should show up.

    (Link should be coded to start of relevant scene, which runs from 0:54 to 1:11.)

    :)

  38. 38.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Kay: I’m astounded that anyone was willing to put up the money for that, but I gotta say, the casting is interesting, including Joe Lo Truglio, whom you may know from such sitcoms as Brooklyn 9something, and maybe other sitcoms I don’t know him from, as Jeff Sessions. And there’s a lot chew on with John Boy Walton cast as Chuck Rosenberg, if you’re a watcher of both MSNBC and The Americans, as I am, and remember the Waltons, as I do.

    Comey should donate any money he got to the cause of HRC’s choice.

  39. 39.

    Kay

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I just love how they think “both sides” is Comey v Trump. Comey is on my side? Jesus Christ. How did I get stuck with him? I don’t want him. Not on my side. Trump should thank his lucky stars ever day for Comey. He’s the best thing that ever happened to Donald Trump.

    The movie should be titled “how these two egotistical assholes ruined everything they touched”

  41. 41.

    TS (the original)

    @Anya:

    Now the campaign knows that they have to pay more people to attend. That is how trump gets bigger crowds.

  45. 45.

    CaseyL

    I read “Pee on Me” and in my head sang it to the tune of “Lean on Me.”  Oh, dear.

    Cole, I fear for your lawn.  Way too much uric acid and nitrogen is coming its way!

  47. 47.

    rikyrah

    @Kay: the

    Absolutely hideous.

    They are furious that they haven’t been able to find their ” BUT HER EMAILS ” -2020 version.

    They want it so bad.

    They want for Biden to have just one of the regular rallies , so that ONE PERSON CAN GET COVID-19

    And they will have their BOTH SIDES

     

    They want it so Damn bad.

     

    Stay? your?azz?in?the?basement?JOE?

  50. 50.

    rikyrah

    When reporters say Biden is running a flawed campaign, keep in mind they considered Bernie to be running the perfect campaign, and he lost every county in Florida.— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) June 23, 2020

  53. 53.

    frosty

    @Sure Lurkalot: 50s and 60s … My FIL had a book on his shelf “Oh to Be 50 Again”. I looked at it in my 40s and said WHUT? Now some distance past 60 I understand.

  55. 55.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Kay: Haberhack needs to be constantly reminded of what happened to French Women who committed collaboration horizontale with the Germans during WWII.

  56. 56.

    Ruckus

    @Tom Levenson:

    He might be more competent, it’s doubtful of course, but the grifting part will be true. Of course how many grifters are left that are willing to run the through the shitstorm that is trump for a few bucks and all of it promised after delivery? His record precedes him. One might think that anyone who would agree to those terms would be all in and therefore NVB. That’s Not Very Bright if you were wondering. Any one with the skills to bring him back from this will have to be worth far more than shitforbrains will offer him, let alone pay.

  59. 59.

    trnc

    @namekarB: Now Parscale will have time to write a tell all book.

    I wonder if it will make him more money than skimming from the campaign.

  62. 62.

    karen marie

    I would kick that thing in its smirking fucking face.  But I’d probably only do that twice, and then I’d be sure to bring a big bucket with me to put over it so I didn’t have to look at it again the next time I walked my dog.

    While it’s something of a public service to give people an opportunity to kick, spit or pee on Trump, I’m not sure, if I were a neighbor of yours, that I wouldn’t be thinking, “Wow, he really hates us.”

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