Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

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

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

White supremacy is terrorism.

The willow is too close to the house.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

This fight is for everything.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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Late Night Open Thread: TFG, The GOP’s Most Powerful Findom

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Financial domination (also known as findom) is a fetish lifestyle, in particular a practice of dominance and submission, in which a submissive (money slave, finsub, paypig, human ATM, or cash piggy) gives gifts and money to a financial dominant (money mistress, findom/findomme, God/Goddess or money domme).

The relation may often be accompanied by other practices of BDSM and d/s relationships, such as erotic humiliation, but there may be virtually no further intimacy between the individuals. The relationship between the submissive and the dominant may take place solely via online communication, but it is not uncommon for the submissive to accompany the dominant while shopping and paying with the submissive’s money…

Reince Priebus, Ronna Romney McDaniel, ‘Leader’ McConnell — all reduced to cam guys, meekly scurrying to comply as the Great God-Emperor barks Rent me a rally venue! Bulk up my private club memberships! Pay down my legal bills!

And the Gilded Whored MAGAts have one hand down their pants and the other frantically clicking the DONATE button.

Perhaps some of the higher-ranking RNC members were overoptimistic in their interpretation of the old saw: You don’t pay the hooker to get you off; you pay them to go away afterwards.

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  4. 4.

    eclare

    I think Charlie Sheen said that in one of his trials.  I didn’t pay the hooker for sex, I paid her to leave when I was done.

    IIRC that argument did not work.

  5. 5.

    JoyceH

    Open thread? Alrighty then. You have my permission to call me callous if you want, but I am SO sick of the endless repeating video clips of murder suspects blubbering on the witness stand!

  6. 6.

    Ken

    Republican officials say privately that Trump is the biggest fundraising draw for the party

    They may regret saying that, if TFG realizes it means there’s money that’s not going to him.

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    Crazy: RNC will pay up to $1.6 million for Trump’s legal bills, all involving issues related to his business practices. He’s not a public official, not a candidate, and this doesn’t relate to his time as president. And this!

    Wow.  During the shitstain’s Nazi rallies that he called campaign rallies, I wondered if his fat, orange, fascist head was wondering “How the fuck are these idiots believing this bullshit I say?”

    Now I add if he’s amazed by the con he pulled on an entire party.

    ETA – that highlighted section is puke-worthy, but this is what the Rethuglican has been steadily devolving itself into for at least 40 years.

  9. 9.

    L85NJGT

    Stop wasting my time
    You know what I want
    You know what I need
    Or maybe you don’t
    Do I have to come right flat out and tell you everything?
    Gimme some money, gimme some money
    I’m nobody’s fool
    I’m nobody’s clown
    I’m treating you cool
    I’m putting you down
    But baby I don’t intend to leave empty handed
    Gimme some money, gimme some money
    (Oh yeah! Go Nigel, Go!)
    Gimme some money, gimme some money
    Gimme some money, gimme some money
    Don’t get me wrong (Gimme some money, gimme some money)
    Try getting me right (Gimme some money, gimme some money)
    Your face is okay
    But your purse is too tight (Gimme some money, gimme some money)
    I’m looking for pound notes, loose change, bad checks, anything
    Gimme some money, gimme some money
    Gimme some money, gimme some money
    Gimme some money, gimme some money

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    @feebog:

    I keep wondering what happens when TFG doesn’t wake up one morning. 

    What happens to whom?

    Because a lot of us will be popping well-chilled champagne!  And hoping the rest shuffle fuck off before the end of the day!

  15. 15.

    Jerzy Russian

    What does Liz Cheney have to do with the RNC paying the bills for TFG?  And no, I don’t want to click on the story since it will hit a paywall.

  17. 17.

    Brachiator

    @James E Powell:

    It’s not like they have a shortage of cash.

    True enough. The GOP donors have deep pockets and are determined to throw money down a rat hole.

    This must make Trump feel truly loved.

    This also reinforces the sad reality that the GOP has entirely abandoned democracy.

  18. 18.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Jerzy Russian: I believe it’s Chovanec sarcastically referencing the repeated refrain from Fox and other GrOPers of the form “Why can’t the Dems move on?” about Russiagate and impeachment.  I mean, now it’s Cheney, a GrOPer.

  19. 19.

    Mike in Pasadena

     

     

    @feebog: Fantasizing his stroke that leaves him with little speech capability and maybe more. Don’t want to reveal how much I really hate trump.

  23. 23.

    Ruckus

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Wow.  During the shitstain’s Nazi rallies that he called campaign rallies, I wondered if his fat, orange, fascist head was wondering “How the fuck are these idiots believing this bullshit I say?”

    Your first mistake – he does not believe anything he’s saying is bullshit. In his alternate world, he is the truth, the one, the only, the greatest human to ever live. Yes it’s all a con. But he didn’t need to convince himself, he absolutely believes all of it. He conned himself long ago, he’s not “In on it,” he’s the first person he conned. That’s how he knows it will work on everyone else, he’s that good at conning idiots.

  24. 24.

    Anne Laurie

    @Jerzy Russian: What does Liz Cheney have to do with the RNC paying the bills for TFG?

    Chovanec, the tweeter, is a conservative ex-Republican.  The existing GOP ‘leadership’, such as it is, considers Rep. Cheney’s role on the Jan. 6 Insurrection Investigation committee deeply embarrassing.  Actual conservatives, especially those who used to vote Republican, applaud her willingness to keep the spotlight on the lawbreakers.

    (One would assume this is why Nancy Pelosi blocked Gym Jordan from the position Cheney now holds… )

  25. 25.

    Ruckus

    @Brachiator:

    This also reinforces the sad reality that the GOP has entirely abandoned democracy.

    Well they’ve abandoned reality long ago, why should they have anything to do with democracy?

  27. 27.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Anne Laurie:

    One would assume this is why Nancy Pelosi blocked Gym Jordan from the position Cheney now holds…

    The Speaker wanted a serious investigation of what happened, not a circus.  Gym Jordan is a clown(who all right minded folk should find frightening) who would turn any committee hearings into a circus.

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JoyceH:

    Oh, Joyce, you’re not alone. Hated it with the Rittenhouse kid, hating it even more with the Potter woman. I’m sure they’re legit scared and emotional, but it always merely comes across as hammy overacting of badly-scripted lines.

  29. 29.

    Geoduck

    @Ruckus: Eh. I’d say even deeper down, he knows he’s worthless piece of garbage. It’s why he over-compensates so viciously and completely, with the gold-plating and the hideous combover and illfitting suits. At the end of the day, the voice of his long-dead father is still there, telling him the truth about himself..

  30. 30.

    Ruckus

    @Geoduck:

    I think the vast majority of them know deep down how fucking worthless they are, that’s what scares the crap out of them, that their whiteness is no longer the guarantee that they will be protected from failure, is no longer a blanket pass on their less than even mediocre lives and obvious failings as humans. I think enough of them think that if SFB can make it they need to support him or lose all concept of their “greatness.” As well, I’m saying is that I think you are correct in that there is a voice in his head, but I think it’s really his own tiny, crappy, childish voice, and it’s even louder than the voice of his POS father.

  31. 31.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Ruckus: Point taken.

    He conned himself long ago, he’s not “In on it,” he’s the first person he conned. That’s how he knows it will work on everyone else, he’s that good at conning idiots.

    And hahaha.  Well said!

  32. 32.

    JR

    1.6 million is nothing compared to the Trump fundraising haul, though. They’ll pay that kickback every day and twice on Sundays.

  33. 33.

    Scamp Dog

    Did anyone else catch the line about McDaniel warning him to not form a third party? That might actually be a way out of this crisis of democracy, for the GOP/conservative movement to explode into various (hopefully) ineffective factions. Then again, it might not make much of a change at all, and just turn out to be a renaming of the current conglomeration of evil, greed and stupidity.

    Wait. we’re supposed to avoid doom-thinking until January, aren’t we? Sorry.

  34. 34.

    Amir Khalid

    $1.6 million? Hmm. That’s chump change compared to the lawyer bills that TFG must be facing if he’s properly lawyered up.

  38. 38.

    HalfAssedHomesteader

    If “the libs” are forcing TFG/RNC to pay at least $1.6M in fees it’s fair to say we own them.

  39. 39.

    Geminid

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Also, Jordan is implicated in the Insurrection and the “soft coup” it was supporting, and the Commitee would be investigating his role..

    When Speaker Pelosi rejected Jordan and another nominee, the Minority Leader could have nominated replacements to serve alongside Rodney Davis (R-IL) and two other other Republican nominees. They might not have carried on like Jordan would have, but they still could have blown smoke and sown doubt. Instead, McCarthy pulled his remaining nominees. Then the Speaker added Cheney and Kinzinger and got the Commitee she wanted.

    I think trump was agitating against Republican participation at the time. He ended up facilitating Liz Cheney’s selection and I think many Republicans will regret it. Cheney is out for blood.

    When a joint commitee was killed by the Senate, I downplayed the effect an investigating commitee might have anyway- a sour grapes attitude. But now that this January 6 Commitee is in action, I can tell I was wrong. I think it will be a neccesary and effective complement to the criminal prosections the Department of Justice is conducting. Its public impact is hard to predict, but I think that the timing of the public hearings will be good.

  42. 42.

    Geminid

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I’m curious, how does the new Illinois Congressional map look to you? I know it may knock out some Republicans, and center a new district in “Chicagoland.”* Are you still in Sean Casten’s district?

    * At night I listen some to Chicago’s clear channel AM news station, and I hear announcers and advertisers alike use this term for the greater Chicago area. It’s a nice name; “Chicagoland” seems positive, even a little magical.

  46. 46.

    Geminid

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: On December 14, the Washington Post reported that a Manhattan grand jury had heard testimoney by Donald Bender of the accounting firm Mazars. David Farenthold and three other reporters wrote the story, and also said that Rosemary Vrabic of Deutchebank, Trump’s principal lender, had met with prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office that is overseeing the grand jury.

    Bender and Vrabic, the authors say, “were never Trump’s employees, but they knew more about his company’s inner workings than many employees did.

    I found this story through @Kyle Chaney, who is following these investigations closely.

  47. 47.

    Chris Johnson

    @Geminid: Deutsche Bank! Nice.

    Them who know can see the tick, tick, tick here… I have a very good feeling about stuff like this that goes on and mysteriously doesn’t get a lot of press attention, as if it’s something happening that the powers that be aren’t eager to have publicized…

  48. 48.

    dnfree

    @Geminid: I live in the Elgin area, which is now part of Chicagoland but 40 years ago was a separate city, not a suburb.  Population of Elgin then was 50-60,000, and now is double that.

    I’m also still in Sean Casten’s district, but he will have a primary challenger from a neighboring district because our district acquired part of hers.

  49. 49.

    prostratedragon

    @Geminid:
    The Chicagoland concept. Generally attributed to the founding publisher of the Tribune. He had in mind the whole territory with which the city had essential commercial relationships, so it’s much larger than the current CBSA or CSA, which are based largely on commutability (and to a lesser extent the reach of local media markets). Nature’s Metropolis by William Cronon, a book I need to reread soon, treats Chicagoland as a function of the exploitation of natural resources by the industries based in the city.

    The more casual use is just the 5-county metro area/CBSA.

  50. 50.

    Geminid

    @Chris Johnson: I’m glad somebody can spell that damn bank’s name! The Manhattan County District Attorney’s Office will have a new chief sworn in next month, but that shouldn’t alter the trajectory of this investigation.

  51. 51.

    Geminid

    @prostratedragon: Being at the southern tip of Lake Michigan, Chicago was in a prime location for rail transport, and rail to ship and vice versa. Atlanta similarly prospered as a railroad center at the southern edge of the Appalachian Mountains. Now the two cities are major air transpirt hubs as well. Both cities are surrounded by flat, buildable land on three sides at least, which along with hood educational resources favors continued economic development.

  52. 52.

    trnc

    @Scamp Dog: Did anyone else catch the line about McDaniel warning him to not form a third party?

    Yup. Isn’t that essentially the same as buying someone’s vote? How is any of this legal?

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