Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

When the time comes to make an endorsement, the pain of NYT editors will be palpable as they reluctantly whisper “Biden.”

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

T R E 4 5 O N

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

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

Accountability, motherfuckers.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

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

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    You’re Fired!  from Drudge, that’s gotta hurt.

    Every so often this afternoon I feel a twinge of sympathy for a man who has lost everything in a single day, and has no coping skills to help him handle it.  And then, a second later, I think about all the people whose deaths he caused, and my twinge of sympathy evaporates.

  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    Today was a good day.

    And, just to remind everyone, Biden and Harris will be speaking at 8 Eastern tonight.

  5. 5.

    Suzanne

    More fireworks being set off in my neighborhood. Living in what the national news keeps calling a “Democratic stronghold” is awesome.

  7. 7.

    bbleh

    Spent most of the day waving a flag in front of Rocky steps.  Huge support.

    Philadelphia: toppling tyrants since 1776.

  9. 9.

    MisterForkbeard

    @WaterGirl: Honestly, I just remember him and his supporters just relishing the fact that liberals, minorities and women were devastated on 11/9/2016. And they continued to openly be assholes and intentionally troll and bully for the next four years.

    I have no sympathy for any of these evil fucks, and no compunction about celebrating loudly and openly about it. We shot down a fascist against huge headwinds. We did this thing. Dance, sing, have a drink, we all earned it.

  11. 11.

    dmsilev

    The Post has a long post-mortem of the Trump campaign. Title says it all:

    How Trump’s erratic behavior and failure on coronavirus doomed his reelection

    I’ll just quote the intro:

    Air Force One was descending into Detroit when President Trump posed a question that would come to define his entire approach to the deadly coronavirus pandemic: “Do you think I should wear a mask?” he asked the aides and advisers gathered in the plane’s front cabin. Trump was headed to visit a Ford Motor plant in Ypsilanti, Mich., which by May was already a coronavirus hot zone, with more than 5,000 dead, thousands more sickened — and cases still spiking — in the critical Midwest battleground
    But the responses were nearly unanimous, with senior White House officials arguing that wearing a mask was unnecessary and would send a bad signal to the public about the magnitude of the crisis.
    You’re the leader of the free world, they told him, and the leader of the free world doesn’t need a mask. The conclusion of the episode — like so much of Trump’s presidency and reelection campaign — was a muddle. The president donned a mask for his private tour of the Ford plant as required by company rules, but took it off before appearing in public, telling the assembled media, “I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.”

    Around the same time, on a Zoom call with a core group of advisers, former vice president Joe Biden posed a similar question — “Should I wear a mask when I go out?” — in preparation for a Memorial Day visit with his wife, Jill, to a Delaware veterans park.The occasion marked the first time Biden would leave his house in 71 days, and his aides were unanimous in their response: Of course he should wear a mask. The group discussed whether he needed a highly protective N95 mask or if a cloth one would suffice since he would be outside, and decided on a cloth mask. His team specially procured black masks from a local business for the somber occasion.
    For the event, Biden emerged from a large black SUV wearing aviator shades and a large black mask. He kept it on while laying a wreath of cream roses. And he kept the mask on while talking — “It feels good to be out of my house,” he said — only removing it when he was safely back in the vehicle.
    Trump and his allies were quick to mock Biden and his mask, but the Democrat embraced the image, changing his social media avatar to a picture of him staring into the camera while wearing dark sunglasses and the black face covering.
    “Wear a mask,” Biden tweeted

  12. 12.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    Current playlist-

    My house by Flo rida

    Philadelphia freedom by Elton John

    Independence Day by Martina McBride

    Get up Standup by Bob Marley and the Wailers

    YMCA by the Village People

    A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke

    Push it by Salt n Peppa

    This is America by Childish Gambino

  13. 13.

    opiejeanne

    @WaterGirl: You are a very kind person, or else you wouldn’t even have that tiny drop of sympathy for him. I, on the other hand, am a monster and have no sympathy at all. In fact, I feel my rage at Trump has become larger and triumphant today, if that’s even a thing.

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    @MisterForkbeard: Yeah, this. The group that reveled in ‘fuck your feelings’, that danced on RBG’s grave before she was actually even buried, etc etc, deserves neither sympathy nor any time to ‘come to terms with their loss’. What goes around, comes around.

  16. 16.

    Kent

    @dmsilev:@MisterForkbeard: Yeah, this. The group that reveled in ‘fuck your feelings’, that danced on RBG’s grave before she was actually even buried, etc etc, deserves neither sympathy nor any time to ‘come to terms with their loss’. What goes around, comes around.

    I’m willing to give them as much time as they need.  As soon as they scurry their asses back to North Dakota and Arkansas and wherever other hellspawns they came from.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    @bbleh:

    Philadelphia: toppling tyrants since 1776.

    Oh yeah.  Enjoy your time in the spotlight, Philly (also Pittsburgh, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Atlanta).

  20. 20.

    phdesmond

    posted this in the thread below, but my joy continues.  i wrote this last night:

     

    An Inauguration Tune

     
    Trump is gone, and none too soon!
    Angry, smug, grotesque buffoon,
    stupid-suited Pantaloon,
    Queens brat trying to play tycoon,
    piccolo posing as bassoon.
     
    No more poison-gas balloon,
    orange-caked, pale-eyed raccoon,
    whose nightly hissing at the moon
    has made this country his spittoon —
    on January twentieth, at noon!  

     
      —  Peter H. Desmond

  21. 21.

    zhena gogolia

    That Meidas Project video is so sweet! I’ll be watching that again and again. I have really loved their videos.

  27. 27.

    bbleh

    @Baud: True that.  And everywhere else, including every other city, town, and unincorporated township.  Every vote counts.

    But it DID feel good to be in the place that reported the votes that convinced the nets to call PA and call the election …

  28. 28.

    bluehill

    @dmsilev: I don’t know if Biden would have won if not for Trump’s cockup of a response and subsequent fallout. Silver lining to a national tragedy.

  29. 29.

    Winston

    I hope the Biden administration will ask the Chinese if we can borrow a few teams to help us get control of this virus. It would be a smart thing to do.

  30. 30.

    Jess

    Most people were low-key cheerful out here today (Fitchburg MA is not a very political town), but behind me in line at the grocery was a grumpy-looking old white guy with an American flag mask, buying an 18-pack of Coors. Drowning his sorrows, I assume. I felt a faint twinge of pity, because I’m not totally heartless, but it was a very faint twinge.

  31. 31.

    opiejeanne

    @phdesmond: What’s the tune? Because I want to sing that and it almost works for Yankee Doodle, except there’s an extra line in each verse.

  33. 33.

    zhena gogolia

    THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated

  34. 34.

    randy khan

    Reposting from social media:

    There are more of us than there are of them.

    I wrote that a lot in 2017, particularly during the fight over the ACA – here, on blogs I frequent, in messages to friends. It was a reminder that the American people as a whole did not support Donald Trump, and that there was power in the collective voice of those people.

    I first really felt that at the Women’s March, the first full day of Trump’s Presidency. The memory of that event still gives me chills; it was so big in D.C. that they literally couldn’t hold the march itself, and there were millions of other people marching in other places, large and small, across the country and the world. It wasn’t the number of people that impressed me so much, though. It was the determination, the feeling that everyone knew this was the beginning of the work, not the end, that there was much more to do.

    And the number of people who answered that call was incredible. First, there were groups like Indivisible that helped people understand what they could do to help. There were the protests against the Muslim ban, which were spontaneous and again happened all over the country. That was followed by the sustained effort to save the Affordable Care Act, so intense and so widespread that Representatives and Senators not only couldn’t keep up with the calls and emails, but that Republicans also started cancelling town halls because they knew they would be faced with united, organized, opposition in packed rooms. The ACA was saved by a single vote.

    Then there are the elections. People who’d never been active before jumped in. I remember reading one post-mortem article on the incredible 2017 election in Virginia, which talked about how campaigns had more volunteers than they’d hoped for in their wildest dreams, to the point that they weren’t making choices about priorities because they could do *everything* they wanted to do. That resulted in a sweep of the statewide offices (by big margins), and an unprecedented swing in the House of Delegates. The same thing happened in 2018 in the midterms, with the Democrats gaining 40 seats in the House. Both times, turnout among Republicans actually was higher than usual, but the Democrats swamped them.

    And this year: On the fundraising side, Biden raised an incredible amount of money, but equally important, by the end of September he had 2.2 million more donors than Trump. This was a campaign driven by small donations, by regular people who thought it was important. Once again, the number of volunteers and activists was incredible, and it went down to the end – I’ve seen several reports of people running text banks and phone banks who had so many volunteers that they completely finished their call lists and had to resort to follow-up calling and texting to give the volunteers something useful to do.

    Republican wins often come because Republicans are more committed to the cause. Their positions are, in general, unpopular (at this point, the stories about focus groups literally not believing summaries of Republican positions are a cliché), but they donate, volunteer, and vote faithfully. This election, Republicans were just as committed as before, maybe even more so. And yet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris out-fundraised them, are going to have at least 5 million more votes, and are going to the White House.

    In other words, there are more of us than there are of them.

    We need to savor this moment and remember it. Remember what comes from commitment and hard work. Remember why that matters – it’s how the country moves forward. Yet we also have to remember what happens when we don’t do those things because the forces that want to push our country backward aren’t going away, and only continued work and commitment will keep that from happening.

    So the work continues. Right now, it means doing what we can to win the runoffs in Georgia so the Senate will flip to the Democrats. There are two strong candidates there, and they definitely can win, but they need our help. There will be more to do next year, the year after, and all the years after that.

    Ted Kennedy, in a valedictory for his failed Presidential campaign at the 1980 Democratic Convention, ended the greatest speech of his career this way: “The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.” The election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris gives us a chance to keep doing the work that matters for causes that matter, and to bring the dream closer to reality.

    We can do it, because there are more of us than there are of them.

    * * * *

    Separate from that, let me just say that the BJ community has been a huge part of getting through the last 4 years from me.  (Yes, even the people who despaired, who inspired me to fight back against that feeling.)  And I know that everyone here gets that the fight is not over, never will be over, but always is worth fighting.  Thank you all for that.

  36. 36.

    patrick II

    Waiting was a pain, but the nice thing about declaring the winner on  Saturday morning is a!l of the dancing in the street.

  38. 38.

    Arclite

    Kamala is a strong, intelligent, capable, and empathic politician. And when she runs in 2024, she’s going to lose.  Because America sucks.

  42. 42.

    Morzer

    Ooops – we did it again!

    Hit the road, Dotard, and don’t you come back no more, no more!

     

    Now, let’s march through Georgia to the sea and take back the Senate for the American people.

  43. 43.

    bbleh

    @bluehill: @raven:  One might also say, Trump was — as always — incredibly lucky, in this case that (1) he inherited about the sweetest situation imaginable and (2) unlike almost every other president, he faced NO serious crisis until the last year of his term.  And then, like everything else he’s ever “managed,” he completely bobbled it.

    If not God, write it down to karma, or just simple statistical regression to the mean.  Eventually, something would happen, and he would screw it up.

  50. 50.

    phdesmond

    @opiejeanne:

    opie, i called it a “tune” for the rhyme scheme, and had no particular music in mind.

     

    but let me know if you think of the right song!

  56. 56.

    Ohio Mom

    Phdesmond @20:

    What tune can we set that to?

    I see that people in England and Germany are setting off fireworks, and in Paris, the churches rang their bells. It feels good to feel connected across the globe.

  58. 58.

    bluehill

    @raven: Yep. It does seem like something that uncovered all of Trump’s weaknesses and was impervious to his demagogic campaigning strengths.

  59. 59.

    PaulB

    I found a bottle of an imperial stout in my fridge to open, and I am now completely unfit to drive.

    Fuck  Trump!

  60. 60.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    @Ohio Mom:

    I see that people in England and Germany are setting off fireworks, and in Paris, the churches rang their bells. It feels good to feel connected across the globe.

    NZ would join you in celebrating, except the All Blacks lost to the Wallabies.

  63. 63.

    Jeffro

    @EmbraceYourInnerCrone: “Philadelphia Freedom” just rawks!!

     

    I saw the tweet in the original post and your note here about ‘YMCA’ and it reminded me…Election Day morning when I was working as an outside observer, there was this one young-ish guy who pulled up, windows down, ‘YMCA’ blasting.

    He stayed in his car until the song was completely done, stepped out, made sure to have his mask on…below his nose (as in, he actually had it on right at first, then tugged it down)…and then strode oh-so-angrily into the polling place.

    I can’t imagine what it’s like to live like that but whew, good for him. The stress and strain of having to follow all those weird MAGAt signaling rules will hopefully take years off of his life.

  66. 66.

    Danielx

    @WaterGirl:

    I am sure you will bear up under this burden ?.

    Man, celebrations on teewee look like New Year’s Eve. Mixed emotions, very – love the spirit but this is likely the superspreader supernova.

  67. 67.

    piratedan

    @Arclite: checks watch….

    really?  Now’s a good time for that take?

    your future is yours, take a moment to celebrate this one and then pick your raggedy ass up and get to work to make a better future.

  73. 73.

    Ninedragonspot

    @Winston:  The Taiwanese controlled COVID much better than the Chinese. I’m thinking Biden should bring them onboard (oh, and get them back in the WHO)

  76. 76.

    Tim Posh-looking in a mask

    I was working today, took a break and read all about it. My office flies the Stars &Stripes right over our front door. I took it down from it’s mount and just walked up and down the parking lot, right by busy Hwy. 17 in Brunswick Co. NC, one fist raised and letting those colors fly. The breeze was perfect. A good 2 or 3 minutes. I am not prone to public displays of patriotism, and I fully respect taking a knee, but damn that felt so right. God Bless America, now more than ever. Peace.

  78. 78.

    PsiFighter37

    Folks still driving through Manhattan honking horns, 7 hours later. People here are ecstatic. Perhaps it’s also because it’s the nicest it’s been in weeks, but Manhattan was hopping this afternoon.

    Got my good bottle of beer that I’ve aged for nearly 6.5 years waiting to pop tonight during the victory speech.

  80. 80.

    Baud

    Michael Steele just said that Mitt Romney has beem the only national republican to congratulate Biden.

  82. 82.

    TS (the original)

    @WaterGirl:

    The American people lost close to everything when he was elected. He thought being “rich and famous” was all you needed to run the country.  He refused to take any advice in relation to – what the president does, how he does it and the very real consequences of getting things wrong.

    In defeat, it is the fault of everyone else. It is cheating at the polls, it is illegal vote counting. It is his sycophants not doing enough, it is the medicos not creating the magic cure etc etc

    No sympathy warranted, no sympathy given.

    All my thoughts to Biden, Harris & their team, in 3 days the media will be blaming them for everything trump did, or did not, do.

  85. 85.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud: can’t remember who I saw talking about GW Bush today. Apparently even a tweet is too much to ask of him.

  89. 89.

    Jeffro

    @Omnes Omnibus: I think for them, what it’s about is, Dear Leader plays it at the end of his rallies.  Full stop.

    But to answer your question, no, of course not.  It’s all just tribal signaling, all the way down.

    I just wish trumpov had hit that whole ‘drink bleach’ thing a bit harder…

  90. 90.

    West of the Rockies

    For any Republican  demanding respect  and space “to work through  their feelings,” how about you vow not to be obstructionist?  How about Trump give a concession  speech?  How about McConnell  “allows” Biden to select his own cabinet?  How about Trump NOT pardon a bunch  of dirtbags  (including  himself)?

    Yeah, then we’ll  chat about your needs.

  91. 91.

    Cermet

    Some of these deplorables will be dangerous; certainly as the rump stirs the pot, it will boil over in places. Too many of his sick supporters are not sane. I am worried there will be a few killings by some of these goons. Being stupid and proud of it, while no way to go through life, creates a dangerous fuel that the orange fart cloud is determined to ignite.

  93. 93.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @Jeffro:  I know! The Trumpies around me are often both so ridiculous in their beliefs and soooo angry at anyone who doesn’t agree with everything they say. And how do they stay so mad all the time?  I know we have a long way to go to get anything we need done as a nation but I am giving myself this weekend to be joyful. It was a beautiful sunny day today.

  95. 95.

    prostratedragon

    Queens Daily Eagle:

    Queens Man Evicted

    A 74-year-old Jamaica Estates developer has less than three months left at his current address after Americans overwhelmingly voted him out of the White House, the AP projected Saturday.

  100. 100.

    The Moar You Know

     

    Remember, this is the same political movement that thought Born in the USA was a patriotic melody.

    @dmsilev:  The abject ignorance of the meaning of song lyrics transcends all ages, colors, creeds, and political parties.  “Jailhouse Rock” is one of my favorites in that regard.  Yeah, it’s not quite YMCA, but it’s from the fifties!

    -not at all a bitter musician, oh wait, yes i am

  103. 103.

    different-church-lady

    @WaterGirl: Save your twinge for the fact that the single day is going to be a wound he feels every day he remains of this mortal coil.

  104. 104.

    jackmac

    @WaterGirl: For half a moment, for a fleeting nanosecond I can feel a twinge of sympathy for Trump. The nuns from my long-ago Catholic school days might encourage that and say there’s good in everyone. But in Donald John Trump we have the singular exception.

  105. 105.

    The Moar You Know

    I am not prone to public displays of patriotism, and I fully respect taking a knee, but damn that felt so right. God Bless America, now more than ever. Peace.

    @Tim Posh-looking in a mask:  The last time I flew my flag was four years ago, Election Day.  Swore it wasn’t going up again until that son of a bitch was out of office.

    Put it up today.  It was VERY unexpectedly emotional and I am very, very proud to be an American for the first time in quite a while.

    So did several of my neighbors.  Even the two that are Republicans for life wanted him out within a week of him getting sworn in.  Pretty sure one switched parties.

  106. 106.

    Jeffro

    @EmbraceYourInnerCrone: they’re just bitter, damaged, whiny, completely un-reflective, completely selfish people.  So…as the saying goes…fuck their feelings.

    It was indeed beautiful today.  SO appropriate!

  107. 107.

    different-church-lady

    @dmsilev:

    “I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.”

    Like the press gains pleasure from his doing some thing anyone with a lick of common sense would do anyway? How fucking paranoid and resentful do you have to be to think that in the first place?

  108. 108.

    bluehill

    Kind of pathetic, but for the first time in four years I’m not reflexively changing the station when the NPR news update comes on at the top of the hour.

  111. 111.

    Jeffro

    @Steeplejack (phone): not with a bang, or a whimper…but with a poorly-attended fake outrage fest, out back of a fertilizer store.

    GOP, you were scared of these people for five fucking years?  SAD!

    Tell us another one about Hunter’s laptop!  Where’s ‘Caravan 2020’, anyway?  Uranium One – how’s that going, at least?

    Idiots.

  112. 112.

    Spanky

    ATTENTION EVERYONE !!!!

    It has come to my attention that tomorrow, Sunday November 8, is

    NATIONAL PUPUSA DAY

    So go out and find your favorite Salvadoran restaurant and/or food truck!

  113. 113.

    WaterGirl

    @jackmac: Maybe it’s a catholic school thing – I went to catholic grade school, too.

    My first instinct is to feel empathy for any human being, so I’m sure that’s where it comes from, but Trump is a monster and the twinge goes away.

  114. 114.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Somebody’s setting off fireworks in Alpharetta, GA. Can’t see them, but I can sure hear them!

  116. 116.

    The Moar You Know

    Michael Steele just said that Mitt Romney has beem the only national republican to congratulate Biden.

    @Baud:  Romney would gladly sell my organs for the value of the chemicals therein, but I’ll give him this; he’s got manners, he’s not trying be the biggest jerk on the planet, and does the appropriate things in response to events that we used to expect out of our politicians.  And you know what?  It turns out that is worth A LOT, because goddamn, look what happens when that goes out the window.

    If we have to have a Republican party, I’d really prefer he be the guy putting it back together.  Which won’t happen.  Republican voters are going to be, from here on out, the 15-year old kid scratching “nigger” into the desk to piss off the teacher, as somebody said here recently.  Romney has no future in that party.

  119. 119.

    different-church-lady

    @TS (the original):

    All my thoughts to Biden, Harris & their team, in 3 days the media will be blaming them for everything trump did, or did not, do.

    NYT Pitchbot pitch: NOV. 10: “Corona Virus rages on despite election being called for Biden”

  123. 123.

    Ken

    @different-church-lady: That’s not the pitchbot, that’s what the Republicans have been claiming for six months: “The press will stop talking about covid on November 4, because they’re only doing it to hurt Trump.”

  124. 124.

    Steeplejack

    I gave my Trader Joe’s friend a ride from work way out to Reston (near Dulles) for a weekend pet-sitting gig. She said her store (in Clarendon, Arlington) was way busy today and liquor sales (beer, wine, bubbly) were through the roof. Definitely a celebratory mood among both staff and customers.

    I just finished a small pizza from the Lost Dog Café and am working my way through a crowler of Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA. I’m in for the evening and catching up on the news. Cheers!

  125. 125.

    different-church-lady

    I’m reminded of what happened a few years ago on a job. The film crew was from Denver, and I was the only local. The Patriots were playing the Broncos that night. They spent the entire day boasting about how the Broncos were going to whup my team.

    The Patriots were down 21 points by halftime but came back to win in overtime.

    The next morning I come down and they’re all looking at me sheepishly waiting for the payback. And I drove them absolutely up the wall by… smirking but not saying a single damn word about it!

  128. 128.

    different-church-lady

    Gabriel Sherman

    @gabrielsherman

    · 3h

    Per source, lot of west wing anger at Jared right now over how embarrassing Trump’s legal fight has so far been. “Jared is running everything and it’s a disaster!”

    SENIOR FIGHTING FOR LIFE ON VENTILATOR: “Yah think?”

  129. 129.

    Ken

    @randy khan: Right now, it means doing what we can to win the runoffs in Georgia so the Senate will flip to the Democrats.

    Easy-peasy.  Get someone to tell Trump he has to campaign for the two Republicans so they’ll win and the Republicans will keep the Senate.  He’ll hear “YOU LOST BUT WE DON’T CARE NOW DO THIS THING SO THESE GUYS WILL WIN UNLIKE YOU DID YOU LOSER” and with any luck will order his loyal followers to punish those traitorous Republicans.

  134. 134.

    Tony Jay

    @The Moar You Know:

    If we have to have a Republican party, I’d really prefer he be the guy putting it back together.  Which won’t happen.  Republican voters are going to be, from here on out, the 15-year old kid scratching “nigger” into the desk to piss off the teacher, as somebody said here recently.  Romney has no future in that party.

    From out here in the lands that remain Under The Shadow it doesn’t look entirely impossible that Trump will respond to his defeat by lashing out at the people who, a) let him down the most and, b) he’s actually in a position to hurt, by announcing he’s going to run for President again in 2024 (for the grift, naturally) under the banner of his own personalised political party.

    Obviously he might not, and it might not even work, but it’s entirely in line with his self-regarding instinct for survival to make the most of his supporters’ angry disillusionment by trying pull them with him and away from the ‘loser’ Republican brand. Mitt Romney might find that he’s very much at home in the Party that Trump leaves behind, but only because the real nutters have moved even further right and taken their votes with them.

    Fingers crossed.

  136. 136.

    persistentillusion

    @Jess: You are kinder than I.  I live in CO and Coors (pronounced Curs) is known as a shit beer drunk by right wing losers.  I’d have pointed and laughed.

  138. 138.

    Kattails

    urp. trying to just delete a comment where I misunderstood what I was replying to.  oh well.

  140. 140.

    J R in WV

    And that Arclite bastard, I pied that motherfucker, and will never see a comment by that hateful bastard ever again!

  142. 142.

    J R in WV

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    can’t remember who I saw talking about GW Bush today. Apparently even a tweet is too much to ask of him.

    I think GWB is well into dementia by now. Laura was trying to keep him from acting nuts the last couple of times we saw W, but wasn’t having much luck.

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