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You are here: Home / Economics / Grifters Gonna Grift / Late Night Repub Venality Open Thread: Grifters Fall Out

Late Night Repub Venality Open Thread: Grifters Fall Out

by Anne Laurie|  June 4, 20211:32 am| 35 Comments

This post is in: Grifters Gonna Grift, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Republicans in Disarray!, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You

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Apparently Stone is pretty desperate for attention — guess he doesn’t have Bannon’s talents for schmoozing foreign oligarchs:

… Stone’s throwdown directed at Bannon came during a Tuesday appearance on the far-right Infowars program alongside conspiracy theorist and host Alex Jones.

“Let’s be very clear. Not only did Steve Bannon steal the name of my Infowars show with the great American Owen Shroyer — The War Room — but he testified falsely at my trial against me. He was an informant for Robert Mueller,” Stone stated. “So right now, here, today, I am challenging Steve Bannon to come on Infowars and debate this; let’s have it out. Alex [Jones], you can moderate it, so it stays civil.”

Stone proceeded to taunt Bannon, who has long billed himself as willing to speak to anyone on his “War Room: Pandemic” podcast.

Stone said that Bannon “needs to answer as to why he was working with Robert Muller to destroy me and send me to prison. So there it is, the gauntlet has been laid down, big Steve. Come on, sloppy Steve. We can find you a suit and tie that is clean, I think, and you should come on Infowars and answer what I just said.” …

Gorka, who hawks Mike Lindell’s MyPillows but tosses cold water on his voter fraud theories, is now talking about blocking ultra-MAGA callers numbers with whom he doesn't agree.

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) June 3, 2021

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  1. 1.

    Redshift

    June 4, 2021 at 2:12 am

    Stone said that Bannon “needs to answer as to why he was working with Robert Muller to destroy me and send me to prison.

    Umm, because you’re a career petty criminal who was obviously guilty, and he needed to give up someone to save his own ass?

    C’mon, Roger, surely you’re familiar with “no honor among thieves”?

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    June 4, 2021 at 2:23 am

    I don’t follow the post-presidential Trump courtiers very closely, but I always approve of disharmony in their ranks.

  3. 3.

    HalfAssedHomesteader

    June 4, 2021 at 2:26 am

    Alex [Jones], you can moderate it, so it stays civil.

    Comedy gold!

  4. 4.

    piratedan

    June 4, 2021 at 2:26 am

    rooting for injuries just seems kind of tame at this point, considering the people involved should be in holding cells somewhere; yet all I can do is watch them make a few ethically challenged lawyers a bit more wealthy and hope that they continue to piss away their notoriety and finances on these endeavors.

  5. 5.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 4, 2021 at 2:34 am

    “I always approve disharmony in their ranks” should be a rotating tag.

    Can be used in all sorts of scenarios.

    Sports.

    Gang fights.

    Gardening posts. Who stands for the weeds?

  6. 6.

    BeautifulPlumage

    June 4, 2021 at 2:48 am

    Proof that the grift pie is shrinking?

  7. 7.

    opiejeanne

    June 4, 2021 at 2:48 am

    @HumboldtBlue:  The weeds in my garden could probably stand for themselves.

  8. 8.

    opiejeanne

    June 4, 2021 at 2:48 am

    @BeautifulPlumage: Can’t we make the pie higher?

  9. 9.

    Comrade Colette

    June 4, 2021 at 3:00 am

    Pro-Trump radio host Seb Gorka is in a super awkward position this afternoon because over the past couple of weeks he kept telling their audience that Trump wasn’t going to return come August – and now his audience is starting to turn on him for not being pro-Trump enough.

    I believe this phenomenon is known as a Klein bottle full of shit.

  10. 10.

    Uncle Cosmo

    June 4, 2021 at 3:26 am

    Pro-Trump radio host Seb Gorka is in a super awkward position this afternoon…

    Good old Magyar moron Seborrhea Dorka. Couldn’t be happening to a more deserving fasicst scumbag. Except for Stone. Or Bannon. Or Lewandowski. Or Stephen “Reinhard Heydrich’s Mini-Me” Miller. Or that other putz named Miller. Or anyone currently or formerly named Trump (except for niece Mary)….

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    June 4, 2021 at 3:35 am

    The Hill reports that TFG, Jr. has joined something called Cameo, where you can pay “celebrities” to call you on the phone or something send you personalized video messages. His fee is $525 for a video message (delivery within 2-7 days, within 24 hours it goes up to $787), but for the low, low price of $19.99 “he” will DM you on Twitter. Or something. This is a ridiculous scheme to earn chump change for someone who claims to be rich.

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    June 4, 2021 at 3:37 am

    I swear this place still currently devotes more real estate to Rs than to everything else combined. It’s like some perverse addiction.

  13. 13.

    opiejeanne

    June 4, 2021 at 3:38 am

    @Mary G: I saw his offer, and a request was advertised at $599.99, but a request for what is not explained.

  14. 14.

    Jay

    June 4, 2021 at 3:54 am

    United States senate refuses commission to study outbreak of cannibalistic "walking dead" that devoured millions in 2020, on grounds that commission would be overly partisan to democrat party.— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) June 4, 2021

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    June 4, 2021 at 5:14 am

    @Mary G:

    I’d be happy to accept a video message from TFG Jr. if he paid me US$525. But not one penny less.

  16. 16.

    Ten Bears

    June 4, 2021 at 5:21 am

    If fires broke out simultaneously in every Hobby Lobby in the country, would they blame the Devil?

    (asking for a fiend)

  17. 17.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    June 4, 2021 at 5:23 am

    now talking about blocking ultra-MAGA callers numbers with whom he doesn’t agree.

    yeah, that Cancel Culture is bad.

  18. 18.

    MagdaInBlack

    June 4, 2021 at 5:26 am

    @NotMax: Takes a while to work a bad relationship out of ones system. Sometimes laughing and ridiculing what complete fuck-ups they continue to be is therapeutic. Or sumthin like that ?

  19. 19.

    satby

    June 4, 2021 at 6:36 am

    @NotMax: Well, I enjoy a good chuckle at their expense as much as anyone, but I’m sure the morning thread will bring out the usual “we’re doomed” posters soon, so full service blog, I guess.

  20. 20.

    Bex

    June 4, 2021 at 7:32 am

    Re Petrizzo’s tweet, Gorka also hawks some kind of patent medicine along with other “stars” like Pat Boone.

  21. 21.

    NorthLeft12

    June 4, 2021 at 7:39 am

    The highlight of Stone’s challenge was asking Alex Jones to moderate the debate to keep it “civil”. LOL

  22. 22.

    WayneL140

    June 4, 2021 at 8:00 am

    They have to be coming apart. This is madness.

    How many people know who Alex Ward is? What Infowars is? How many people know who Roger Stone and Sebastien Gorka are? C’mon, while I find it great entertainment, this is political porn. Enjoy it for what it is.

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    June 4, 2021 at 8:08 am

    The Gorka thing; it’s clear the MAGA die hard are just desperate to yell at someone but everyone else is blocking/ignoring them now, except the gifter idiots like Gorka.

  24. 24.

    SFAW

    June 4, 2021 at 8:14 am

    @satby:

    We’re doomed.

    [Just trying to get it in before there’s a morning thread.]

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    June 4, 2021 at 8:17 am

    @piratedan:

    rooting for injuries just seems kind of tame at this point, considering the people involved should be in holding cells somewhere;

    Would you be OK with “grenades at three paces”? I mean, if they’re going to have the RWMF equivalent of a steel-cage match, they might as well make it interesting.

  26. 26.

    ...now I try to be amused

    June 4, 2021 at 9:32 am

    Gorka is deviating from the party line (i.e., acknowledging reality a little bit)? I didn’t know he had it in him.

  27. 27.

    Just Chuck

    June 4, 2021 at 9:40 am

    Goodness Roger, you must be right, no one would have independently come up with a name as novel as “The War Room”.

    Rooting. For. Injuries.  Rah rah injuries!

  28. 28.

    lowtechcyclist

    June 4, 2021 at 10:22 am

    The conservative movement in the U.S. reminds me more all the time of the bad guys in C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength.

    @Ten Bears:

    (asking for a fiend)

    :golf clap:

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Who stands for the weeds?

    The Lorax, once the weeds get tall enough to be confused with small trees.

  29. 29.

    cmorenc

    June 4, 2021 at 10:27 am

    @Bex:

    Re Petrizzo’s tweet, Gorka also hawks some kind of patent medicine along with other “stars” like Pat Boone.

    Except Pat Boone was a genuine mega-star, back in the Neolithic age.

  30. 30.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    June 4, 2021 at 10:37 am

    I am thinking, the Right is almost at it’s Network moment.  So which Conservative media personality will be ritually sacrificed by live streaming for the clicks?

  31. 31.

    Jay C

    June 4, 2021 at 10:40 am

    @Ten Bears:

     

    If fires broke out simultaneously in every Hobby Lobby in the country, would they blame the Devil?

    You mean, in spite of the stores being protected by the ancient papyrus amulets the dealer SWORE were personally blessed by Jesus and at least three Apostles??

    Certainly…..

  32. 32.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    June 4, 2021 at 11:09 am

    @Ten Bears: Let me work on that for a bit. The answer is in my library somewhere…

  33. 33.

    Chris Johnson

    June 4, 2021 at 12:16 pm

    @…now I try to be amused: 
    I don’t get how Gorka doesn’t know the Q stuff is run out of Russia. It’s like everybody has their own breaking points. Somebody like Gorka is happy with fascism and fine with TFG supposedly leading the show because he thinks, HE, GORKA will be very important and really calling the shots and running a good fascism, but just suggest that the whole thing is a stupid puppet show set up for failure and he’s noping out of there?

    It really seems like some of these people expected to act as catspaw for Putin and still have REAL power. That seems exceedingly dumb and shortsighted.

    I think it’s very interesting to see which ones are noping out. We already know folks like the Lincoln Project are the real Republicans but not amused by open fascism (and therefore outnumbered and hoist on their own petard, as they built all this). It’s REAL interesting to see that there’s a contingent of outright fascists who are still not happy with how things have turned out. I guess they believed the cover story?

  34. 34.

    dnfree

    June 4, 2021 at 1:24 pm

    @Mary G: can you pay him to send you a message that says something like “Hi, This is Donald Trump Jt., and my dad and I are both idiots?”  Might be worth it.

  35. 35.

    ...now I try to be amused

    June 4, 2021 at 1:47 pm

    @Chris Johnson:

    I think it’s very interesting to see which ones are noping out. We already know folks like the Lincoln Project are the real Republicans but not amused by open fascism (and therefore outnumbered and hoist on their own petard, as they built all this). It’s REAL interesting to see that there’s a contingent of outright fascists who are still not happy with how things have turned out. I guess they believed the cover story?

    It makes sense. The movement conservatives were the first to recognize that Trump was harming their long-term prospects. It took longer for the movement fascists to recognize that Trump’s charade is harming their long-term prospects too.

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