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Late Night Open Thread: Rockin’ in the TPUSA

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In case you’ve been feeling sorry for yourself about your less-than-exciting weekend plans, remember: It could be so much worse…

Since the con’s not till December, any odds one or more of the top-row speakers will’ve bolted for Russia by then?

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    with an optional $50 add on for an unannounced concert

    Diamond and Silk?

    Who do I collar to demand a refund?

    //

  3. 3.

    Ruckus

    This sounds like POW torture.

    It’s a very sick war movie, you are a prisoner and you have to listen to every single speaker while being hog tied and fed strange foods by angry guys who are too stupid to learn to point a gun, there isn’t actually enough of the crappy strange food like substance, and it feels like being in a deranged 3rd grade class with adults who never graduated elementary school. And you had to pay to get in….

  6. 6.

    Tony Jay

    Those promotional mugshots are as tacky and awful as the creed they front. From Tucker Carlson’s smug smirk to Josh Hawley’s severed head look, it’s like the most morally corrupt edition of Celebrity Squares ever.

    Also, such a nice touch to place Tim Pool’s ‘hipster rape-burglar’ ensemble right next to Candace Owens’ ‘Beyon-saying serious racist shit from the shadows’ image and both above and behind Allie ‘just gals chatting about insurrection over cocktails’ Stuckey.

    Did they pay the graphic artist? Seems he didn’t like them much.

  7. 7.

    JWR

    @prostratedragon: Just did my midnight run to Ralph’s supermarket, and somebody in the parking lot was blasting out Deep Purple’s “Burn”. It wasn’t a ballad, but my head was banging with a fury.

    ETA 7! THE coveted #!

  10. 10.

    Tony Jay

    I don’t actually know who most of these ‘people’ are, which is encouraging.

    I think I remember Benny Johnson playing an arrogant Watcher who ends up being killed by a bubblegum demon in Season 6 of Buffy, but apart from finding George Farmer’s shiny grille vaguely reminiscent of every slappable face ever pictured standing just behind Jared Kushner, I’m drawing a blank on the non-Congresspawns.

  11. 11.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Shitload of seditionists.  Every one of them should be taking a tumbrel ride.

  12. 12.

    divF

    @Tony Jay: I’ve been waiting for you to grace us with a screed regarding Liz Truss’ first few days in office. Although it might be difficult to top what the BOE has already said about her economic plan.

  14. 14.

    Tony Jay

    @divF:

    Between the deafening clangour surrounding Other Lizzy’s death and the last two weeks being spent fending off eleventy-billion whining e-mails at work while covering for the manager, I just haven’t been able to give Truss’ catastrophic debut as PM the concentrated attention to disaster it deserves. I’ve just been looking up every now and again and boggling like the rest of the sentient world.

    Should find time next week, should she survive that long.

  15. 15.

    Wanderer

    That poster is enough to cause nightmares.  I can’t imagine what actual attendance could cause.

  18. 18.

    Gvg

    The good news is if we are lucky Russia won’t exist for them to bolt to by December. It’s falling apart. I doubt we will be that lucky that fast but Vlad probably made sure no one was strong enough to be a logical successor and now has made himself too horrible and wrong.

    It is a horrible place to live and our conservatives are suckers and idiots.

  23. 23.

    Tony Jay

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    What? Arizona’s third best known touring tribute act, Welton Jon the Sprocket-Man, is all booked up?

    Shame.

    I’d have thought they’d have formed a wingnut ‘supergroup’ for these events by now. Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, John Lydon… uh… little help?

    The could call themselves The Trumping Shillburys and really capture that MAGA sound.

  24. 24.

    Tony G

    $750 to attend this shit-show.  If I had $750 lying around, I’d just burn it in a dumpster instead.

  26. 26.

    artem1s

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    IMHO, the concert is “unannounced” because they’re having trouble finding someone to come and do it.

    And what sort of hack event has to make it clear these are ‘confirmed’ speakers? As if they need to clarify they don’t just throw random ‘celebrities’ on their posters hoping to bump up interest and ticket sales.

  30. 30.

    Ohio Mom

    When I see stuff like this poster I chuckle because as reactionary and antediluvian the RWNJs are, they have assimilated the message that diversity is to be valued. Else why would Candace Owens and Lauren Chen (never heard of this Chen gal) have careers.

  36. 36.

    zhena gogolia

    @Gvg: I tried to watch Putin’s speech last night. Just couldn’t get through it. I can’t explain, it’s worse than listening to TFG.

    Does he ever wonder, if they’re so great, why people are fleeing in the tens of thousands?

    When he walked out, he had his right arm strangely pinned to his side. And he never gestures with it. He tried to do a sprightly trot to the lectern, but with his immobile right arm it just looked weird.

  37. 37.

    Betsy

    I’m looking at the lineup and I thought at least three or four of these people were in jail!?!

    How is it that they’re speaking at a convention center?

  38. 38.

    Tony Jay

    @EmbraceYourInnerCrone:

    It’s such a chaotic free-for-all on the Right I bet if you threw up a really crappy website and hawked yourself as the ‘ creative force’ behind bringing “America’s most patriotic musical sound” to Phoenix, you’d clear a good few thousand in Magat donations before anyone noticed you weren’t actually claiming to represent anybody.

  40. 40.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Ohio Mom: But they’re always itching to toss the diversity tokens overboard.

    I just saw Trump whining about Mitch McConnell with a racist crack about his “China-loving wife” that I’m not even going to repeat in full. She was Trump’s Secretary of Transportation! Anyone who thinks they’ve got a good thing going with these people as “one of the good ones” is a fool.

  41. 41.

    Doug R

    @Gvg:

     

    The good news is if we are lucky Russia won’t exist for them to bolt to by December. It’s falling apart. I doubt we will be that lucky that fast but Vlad probably made sure no one was strong enough to be a logical successor and now has made himself too horrible and wrong.

    It is a horrible place to live and our conservatives are suckers and idiots.

    From what I know of recent Soviet/Russian history (The Death of Stalin) the Politburo should be able to make some decisions until a senior member seizes power and another senior member “replaces” him in a few months.

  45. 45.

    Subsole

    @Gvg:

    They won’t bolt. Ever. They’ll die in court first.

    Key thing to remember: these people HATE America, but they LOVE living in America.

    Just like they hate liberal cities, but wouldn’t live anywhere else if you shoved a gun all the way up their jejunum and frog-marched them there.

    I mean, think on it: for all their railing against the soft, decadent, crime-infested urban hellscapes, you don’t see them leaving for Bent Pecker, OH do you? For all their pandering to the good Ole down-home hokey-doke small-town real folks, these TPUSA chodes sure spend a LOT of time, effort, and money staying as far the fuck way from them as physically possible.

    It’s Duck Dynasty. These people ain’t country. Their church, their clothes, their culture, their race, ALL of it is just a pose. An aesthetic posture to excuse their myriad psychological and moral pathologies to themselves and each other

    ETA: they want to be small town without having to live small town, and they want to live American without behaving American.

    Because they are lazy. Those two desires only work if everyone keeps picking up the slack for them.

  46. 46.

    Tony G

    @zhena gogolia: Hmm.  My mother’s left arm was like that for several years before her death (at age 91).  A series of small strokes immobilized her left arm (and caused increasing dementia) and eventually led to her death.  “Thoughts and prayers” for Mr. Putin.  Putin’s “leadership” is based only on fear — but fear is a brittle source of power.  When the “leader’s” power slips and the fear diminishes, people will stop obeying.

  47. 47.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Subsole: Honestly, I feel the same way to some extent. I think this country is possibly mortally diseased but I’m not going to leave it, because it’s mine. I’ll go down with the ship. (I do live in a corner of it whose politics are more to my taste, though.)

  49. 49.

    Subsole

    @Ohio Mom: Charitably? The ‘pukes know p.r., and every tribe has its share of mercenaries.

    Uncharitably? It seems to me that featured minority conservatives tend to be women.

    Seeing someone as lesser doesn’t preclude sexual desire. It’s the other half of seeing different groups as a threat. If being different makes you threatening, it also makes you novel. And, at least subconsciously, these slimebag hypocrites love novelty as much as anyone – maybe more, since their beartrap of a culture leaves them utterly starved for anything and anyone that isn’t decanted from a FedSoc cloning facility.

    And the minorities in question? They get to be junior-grade provisional white women, 4th class. They get to buy into the system white women have learned to negotiate for power and advancement.

  50. 50.

    Jay C

    I wonder what it signifies (other than, probably, that I spend way too much time on the Internet) that out of the fourteen “confirmed” speakers at TPUSA’s hack-fest, I recognized nine of them?

    And am I the only one who sees “TPUSA” and reads the first two letters as standing for “Toilet Paper”??

  51. 51.

    Subsole

     

     

    @Matt McIrvin: I feel you, though I don’t necessarily agree. I spent many, many years in a corner of this nation whose politics did NOT mesh with mine. So I feel the sometimes overwhelming despair, and the grim resolve to stick it out, not give the badtards the sayisfaction of running you off. I’m just fine being me. You get lost if you can’t hack it. Y’know. That whole trip.

    I don’t know that we’re mortally diseased, though.

    When we show up, we stomp these assholes into a fine pink paste. Reliably. And it isn’t particularly close.

    When we show up.

    Our big hurdle isn’t evil. It’s various forms of laziness.

  52. 52.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Subsole:

    Seeing someone as lesser doesn’t preclude sexual desire.

    Hell, to some of these guys (and they are largely guys), that’s the main thing that turns them on.

  53. 53.

    Mike in NC

    Quite the scum of the earth roster they put together. But not Matt Gaetz or Empty Greene? Disappointed!

  54. 54.

    cain

    Very disappointed that they were not able to  capture MTG as a headliner. Very disappointed. This is my disappointed face. 🤡

  57. 57.

    Tony Jay

    @Subsole:

    Precisely. It should have crossed their minds that they shouldn’t have done what they did with any of it.

    But then they wouldn’t be in a position to do what they did in the first place.

  58. 58.

    feebog

    Steve Bannon is scheduled to be sentenced on October 25, so unless they can arrange a guest appearance from federal prison, he will be a scratch.

  60. 60.

    Kropacetic

    @hueyplong:I don’t know who five of those people are. Wish the number were higher.

    There are three who I don’t recognize. I’m betting the ones people are missing are Youtube personalities.
    The visage of the ones I’m missing are giving me Fox news or OAN vibes.

  62. 62.

    Tehanu

    Since the con’s not till December, any odds one or more of the top-row speakers will’ve bolted for Russia by then?

    The con’s going on right now and has been ever since Ronnie Rayguns got elevated to sainthood in the Church of the Braindead.
    @zhena gogolia: ​ Maybe he’s had a stroke. We can but hope.​

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