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Late Night Open Thread: CPAC L’Envoi

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Charles P. Pierce, at Esquire:

He was very old and in the way, until he got to the hit list. The hit list energized him. It turned on all his lights. It was the pure, uncut evil juju that had been missing from his life for months and, generous demon from the depths of hell that he is, he shared it with all the minions gathered at CPAC in Florida, and it made all their lights shine…

… He wouldn’t know most of the people he mentioned if they sat in what used to be his lap. But he knows they voted to impeach him for his role in the insurrection, so they get to hire bodyguards and food-tasters. He doesn’t care if one or several of these members of Congress get visited at home by elements of his Fifth Armored Deer Camp Drunk Division.

Get rid of them all.

He’s not talking entirely about elections and, in any case, he doesn’t speak in metaphors.

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Late Night Open Thread: CPAC L'Envoi

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  1. 1.

    lahke

    Hi, AL, mighty quiet here tonight.

    Good news: scored a vaccine appointment in 10 days. Yeah!

    ETA: “yeah” because it’s  Massachusetts and getting a slot is frigging impossible.

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    I believe we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Republican party. As long as it clings to Donald Trump, I can’t see any other outcome. What will it do, whom can it turn to, when he goes to prison?

    ETA: The coveted second spot! I can’t believe my good fortune!

  3. 3.

    Damien

    Third?  Moi?!

    Now that’s locked in, I have to admit that I’m concerned anew with outright violence. I saw a bumper sticker on a light pole with an AR15 over a rainbow flag that said “fight for equality,” is that really what it’s going to come down to?

  4. 4.

    2liberal

    got scheduled up today for shot #1 on Wednesday.  Nice to get that out of the way.

  5. 5.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Amir Khalid: ​

    I believe we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Republican party.

    Are we witnessing it on YouTube or DVD/Bluray? Please say DVD/Bluray? I can fast forward at 7x on my player. :)​

  9. 9.

    Raven Onthill

    This, from an Antifa reporter: “Good morning, it sure is a great day to not be at #CPAC2021 anymore Y’all I am not sure how I’m alive right now. I am composed entirely of an unholy amalgam of alcohol and coffee. I’ve barely slept and barely eaten but I’ve learned a lot Here’s some general policy observations:” – https://twitter.com/LauraJedeed/status/1366481392587190274?s=20

    Her take is that CPAC now represents the center right. I hope she’s wrong, but fear she’s not.

  12. 12.

    JWR

    But he knows they voted to impeach him for his role in the insurrection, so they get to hire bodyguards and food-tasters.

    Except for the bodyguards, this hadn’t occurred to me. Wonder if he’s had a little chat with Vlad about it.

    he doesn’t speak in metaphors.

    His voice was literally dripping with “it’s payback time” when he said “Get rid of them all.” It was all of his petty grievances crammed into one little phrase.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    Annals of the Former Guy:

    Secret Service just released new docs showing Trump’s first trip to Bedminster as POTUS in 2017—and the spigot of taxpayer money it opened for his business.

    First trip: 4 days, Trump Org charged the Secret Service $5,343 for a cottage near Trump.
    1/2

    After that, the Secret Service started renting the cottage every night, just to be ready. Trump Org charged $566.64 per night, every night.

    First bill: $9,689.60.

    That was the start. Over Trump’s presidency, Trump charged taxpayers more than $392,000 for rooms at Bedminster.

  15. 15.

    the pollyanna from hell

    My private count of American conflict based on lying stands at half the wars and ninety per cent of the genocides. Turnip is a twofer!

  16. 16.

    Frankensteinbeck

    People are taking this way too seriously.  It’s CPAC.  It’s always horrible.  It’s the worst of the Republican Party and every year the topic is whatever they think trolls Democrats.

    Mainstream Republican pundits were speculating about military coups when Obama was elected.  The state parties were discussing secession.  Posters have had bullseyes over Democrats.  Voter suppression has been the Republican electoral strategy for as long as I can remember.  Trump was uniquely horrible.  The rest is business as usual and people are only just noticing how ugly that is.

    Only one thing came out of CPAC that’s telling.  Slightly over a month since he lost power, in the friendliest event to him possible, Trump got only 55% of the Republican vote.  And this is the only event he’s been able to book.  Wrap Trump up.  He’s done.  Republicans are well on their way to forgetting him.

  17. 17.

    Raven Onthill

    “A guy I chatted with thought a Pompeo-Hawley ticket would unite the party in 2024. I think he’s right. It’s a terrifying ticket.” – LJ

    And Kristi Noem seems to be a female version of Hitler.

  18. 18.

    the pollyanna from hell

    More of my made-up numbers: how does demography move? 2% points every two years, 5% every four.

  19. 19.

    Dan B

    @Raven Onthill: What about DeathSantis / Hawley?  I thought Death S won the poll at CPAC if Turnip was off the poll.

    Also, wasn’t there an alternative to CPAC – only one day. It was outright White Supremacist and also seemed to call for terrorism and sedition.  That would make CPAC “Center Right”.  Don’t remember the name at the moment.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    It’s CPAC. It’s always horrible. It’s the worst of the Republican Party and every year the topic is whatever they think trolls Democrats.

    Like when that idiot mocked Joe Biden’s dog for being old. They have no policy ideas beyond cutting taxes and regulation. Trolling Democrats is the only thing that motivates them now, isn’t it?
     ​

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    @Dan B:
    I think it was noted that DeSantis’ home ground advantage had something to do with his winning the poll, not that the win really means anything.​

  24. 24.

    JAFD

    @Amir Khalid: Methinks ’twas Gene McCarthy who said “The Republican Party is like the lichen on the trees.  There’s not much life in them in the best of times, but they’re very hard to kill.”

  26. 26.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: ​  I wonder what Rachel Maddow’s nym is. She clearly reads the threads.

    me, Friday night:

    I remember 2009 when the republicans and media went all out after Obama’s $787 billion stimulus. Biden’s stimulus is nearly 3 times bigger and not a peep.​

    Rachel, last night:

    “Republicans lost their minds over the 2009 recovery act and they never stopped talking about it… there was no rhetoric too extreme for them to use to denounce the recovery act and this time not a peep“​​

  27. 27.

    SFAW

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Is it too much to ask for you to be specific about which fucklehead?

    All of ’em, Katie

    ETA: Including Rupert and Lachlan, which would (possibly) go a long way to robbing the RWMFs of some oxygen.

  28. 28.

    SFAW

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    A number of people did not take Shitgibbon seriously in 2015. As the saying goes, “How’d that work out?”

    When 75 percent of Rethugs believe the election was stolen, and when 40-plus percent of the electorate would still vote for a guy who burned their house down and killed their dog/cat, as long as he had an “R” after his name, then not taking them seriously is not a particularly good strategery.

  29. 29.

    Geminid

    @SFAW: My Atlanta friend still worries about a trump presidential campaign in 2024, says we are not out of the woods yet. I am inclined to agree with Mr. Cole, when he says that trump is now a Republican problem. And a big problem, I would add.

    An interesting CPAC fact: ten years ago the winner of CPAC’s straw poll was Mitt Romney. Now these people would not nominate Romney for dogcatcher. Romney’s politics have changed little, but CPAC has gone off the deep end.

  30. 30.

    Nicole

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:

    As I recall, a commenter’s “one-act play” comment (I can’t remember what it was about, but I remember it was hilarious) made it onto her show one night, so yes, I think someone from her show does visit the site.

    She also did a bit on IOKIYAR, which I’ve only ever seen here.

  32. 32.

    SFAW

    @Geminid:

     I am inclined to agree with Mr. Cole, when he says that trump is now a Republican problem.

    He’s a problem for the country, not Rethugs. I have no idea how successful Rethug voter-suppression laws (presumably getting enacted between now and 2024) will be, but I’m assuming they’ll make the difference in a few states. And with four years on the Big Lie tacked on? I’m a little worried.

  34. 34.

    Geminid

    @Argiope: trump will certainly tease a presidential run, and thereby soak up attention and donations at least until 2023. His strength in his party will be measured in the 2022 primaries and general elections. The Georgia state primaries, where Kemp and Raffensperger face renomination, will be key tests. Lisa Murkowski’s race in Alaska will show trump’s strength there, although Murkowski will benefit from a new “jungle” primary. House impeacher Adam Kinsinger will test the power of trumpism in the Illinois party in his primary. Fellow impeacher Tom Rice is probably a goner in his South Carolina primary, although he might squeak though a primary if there are multiple trumpers arrayed against him.

    Florida’s Governor’s race will be a key test. If trump acolyte  DeSantis fails reelection, trump’s weakness in his new home state would be exposed. In any event that will almost certainly be a close election. Republican candidates in 2010 and 2014 won by only 60,000 votes out of 5 million+ votes cast. In 2018, DeSantis won by 33,000 out over over 8 million. Florida Senate votes have closely tracked the Governor’s race, so Marco Rubio’s race will be especially interesting, as his support of trump has been less than the absolute loyalty trumpists demand.

    trump weakness in the upcoming cycle will persuade party leaders that it’s time to move on. The voting base may be another story. In Virginia, successive drubbings in state and federal elections have not convinced the hard right radicals to change course. Sometimes I think they regard winning control of the Republican party as an end in itself, not as a means to electoral success. The die-hard trumpers may act like lemmings in the next couple cycles, and drag the party with them, over the cliff. At least I hope so.

  35. 35.

    Geminid

    @SFAW: My Atlanta friend also worries, and he’s a fairly canny cat. I may have to adjust my relative optimism based on the next election cycle.

  36. 36.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @Amir Khalid:

    I believe we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Republican party.

    From your virtual lips to the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s notional ears, Amir. Because if the GQP survives, America will be dead within 20 years.

  37. 37.

    Quicksand

    We can’t win the presidency with this boring, low energy, stream of conscience, weak, has been, choke artist.

    LOL, if only!

  38. 38.

    Geminid

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR: The Republican party will likely survive. I’m hoping it will survive on nationzl level as a hollowed out, marginilized institution, like the Virginia Republican party. They had a dominant position in Virginia politics twenty years ago, but in the last ten years the state has gone from purple to blue, while the Repuicans have persisted in their rightward  lurch.

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