Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

We still have time to mess this up!

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

T R E 4 5 O N

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

This really is a full service blog.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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

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We’re never going to be rid of Trump supporters, but if we can hold the line this November, we can reduce their political impact to that of similar cultists for Lyndon LaRouche or Scientology…


(Ergo, people who are not voting for Nevada candidates — if they bother voting at all.)

Local paper, the Record Courier, reports:

… “You’re going to send Joe Lombardo to the Governor’s Mansion and you’re going to send Adam Laxalt to the Senate and we’re going to end the crazy,” he told the crowd at the Minden Airport. “It’s the only way to end this madness if you want to watch the decline and fall of America and save the American Dream.”

He added that, “it’s best to vote on election day. It’s much harder for them to cheat that way.”

Trump charged that he won both in 2016 and again in 2020, saying he won by “millions of votes” in 2020 but the election was stolen from him.

According to official certified results, he lost by more than 7.5 million votes…

Trump spoke for nearly 90 minutes to about 5,000 attendees...

The Crazification Factor, live & in person…

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  1. 1.

    James E Powell

    We’re never going to be rid of Trump supporters, but if we can hold the line this November, we can reduce their political impact to that of similar cultists for Lyndon LaRouche or Scientology…

    We – meaning the whole country, not us here – blew our chance to do this in 2016. We cannot afford to blow it again.

  2. 2.

    dmsilev

    And Bush 41 put his docs in a bowling alley/Chinese restaurant.

    My Batshit-crazy to English translator is broken. Can anyone interpret this?

  3. 3.

    bbleh

    Cults will be cults.

    I get the “vote harder” joke, but the way we win is to get out the vote, both us and those we know.

  4. 4.

    JMG

    @dmsilev: While the Bush Library was being built, documents that would eventually be put in it were in a nearby warehouse that at one time had been the site of a Chinese restaurant and bowling alley. Said documents were under the control of National Archives for all that time.

  5. 5.

    MagdaInBlack

    It’s the same crap he drones on and on about at every rally. He may toss in a new grievance or 2, but its just all the same whining. Every. Damn. Time.

  7. 7.

    japa21

    If only Pfizer or Moderna could come up with a vaccine against the crazy and it lasted lifelong and was mandated to be given at birth.

  8. 8.

    Geminid

    I knew trump had a rally yesterday,  but I didn’t see any clips until I ran into one posted by former US Attorney Joyce Vance White. It was 8 seconds of trump whining over some yarn about the elder Bush handing secrets over to the Chinese, in a former bowling alley.  White commented this was the kind of talk she’s heard guilty criminals make.

    I thought trump sounded like Bogart’s Fred C. Dobbs, from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

  9. 9.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Woman at Trump rally today says she loves Putin because he is cleaning out the American bio weapons labs in Ukraine: “I love Putin! He’s a good president, #2 of the presidents” after Trump.

    And I’m sure this woman considers herself an American patriot. For the sake of argument, she’s cheerleading an enemy country destroying our “bio labs” (which of course don’t exist in the sense they think they do). Think about that. Never mind the horrific murder of thousands of Ukrainian civilians by the Russian military, including hospitals, or the documented war crimes they’ve committed.

    Fuck that piece of shit. Send her over to Izium and Bucha to show her the mass graves. Show her the devastated cities

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    @JMG: That’s impressive for its combination of historical trivia and complete and utter idiocy.

    Thanks, I think.

  18. 18.

    prostratedragon

    “I may be wrong here, and it’s possible my analysis may be flawed, but:
    I don’t think Trump has gotten over losing to Biden.”

    Now now, no need to go rushing to any conclusions here.

  19. 19.

    Steeplejack

    Re Trump and documents:

    I’m just not sure that workshopping alibis in front of an adoring crowd and TV cameras is legal best practices.

    — Schooley (@Rschooley) October 9, 2022

  20. 20.

    Suzanne

    @dmsilev: INORITE?! Their specific flavor of crazy feels like the kind of in-group lingo adopted by middle schoolers. Also roughly that intellectual.

  22. 22.

    Steeplejack

    @dmsilev:

    No translation available or necessary. You’re getting the undiluted Trump feed.

    “George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them. So they’re in a bowling alley slash Chinese restaurant.”
    — Trump pic.twitter.com/T7sF52ilt2

    — Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) October 9, 2022

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    @japa21:

    If only Pfizer or Moderna could come up with a vaccine against the crazy and it lasted lifelong and was mandated to be given at birth. 

    Then we’d have universal healthcare like every other developed country on this planet!

    Also FUCK RONALD REAGAN!

  27. 27.

    Ivan X

    Man I wish I hadn’t read this post. I feel like my brain has been poisoned all over again.

  28. 28.

    zhena gogolia

    @Steeplejack: That’s what it sounds like. Stress should be on the first syllable. Better yet, Putler is what many people are calling him these days.

  31. 31.

    Citizen Alan

    @japa21: I still hold out hope that eventually, science will develop a drug that cures sociopathy. The GOP would cease to exist overnight.

  35. 35.

    Ohio Mom

    @zhena gogolia: I am also curious about the source of her accent, not that it makes a difference in the end. She says she “grew up 40 years under Russia,” so maybe East Germany or another satellite country? At any rate, she has less excuse for being in Trump’s cult than our native born fellow citizens.

  36. 36.

    Tony G

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): On February 20, 1939 — about six years after Hitler took power in Germany — more than 20,000 people joined a pro-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in New York City.  Logically, there must have been — at least — tens of thousands of other American Nazi supporters throughout the country.  The American Putin supporters in the present day are the modern equivalent.  There has always been a sizable portion of the U.S. population that are just garbage people.  Trump (of all people) is just the catalyst for those people.

  37. 37.

    JoyceH

    People here from NV, California, Idaho & Michigan.

    I saw a snippet of news about these people who attend Trump rallies. Apparently there’s some sort of token passed out – not sure if it’s buttons or patches or decals or what, but anyway, these folks collect them, and then show them off at subsequent rallies – some people have dozens of tokens, one person had 80 of them. Eighty! Since Trump has only been doing rallies for six or seven years, that’s more than ten a year.

  45. 45.

    mrmoshpotato

    Anyone come across British announcers on today’s NFL game, or was it just American announcers?

  46. 46.

    Jackie

    A significant number of dtrump rally attenders are equivalent to Deadheads: they go rally to rally – but can only vote once: in whatever state they’re registered to vote in. Plus a lot of these attendees don’t vote. At all.

  47. 47.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jackie:

    A significant number of dtrump rally attenders are equivalent to Deadheads: they go rally to rally 

    I’ve thought that too, but didn’t want to insult Deadheads. :)

  48. 48.

    Matt McIrvin

    SHIT SOMEONE STILL HAS A FUCKING SUNDOWN SIREN

    I guess it’s not 100% surprising that in the town in question, the non-whites they were oppressing were Native Americans.

    I still remember a conversation my dad had with me when I was little about confronting his own internal racism. He described talking to a white Southerner when he was young, back in the 1950s or so, and asking him how they could do all those things to Black people, and the guy fired back at him that in his own Nebraska town they had exactly the same kind of segregationist restrictions on Natives, right down to the whites-only restrooms. And Dad said he had never even thought about that before that moment. That they’d thought of these human beings as subhuman and it was just a background assumption of life.

    The extent to which Jim Crow was replicated in the 20th century for Native Americans seems like it’s still under-discussed today. (Though this in particular is more a Northern-segregationist thing.)

  50. 50.

    James E Powell

    @Jackie:

    What is galling is that the press continues to portray them as decent, God-loving, RealAmericans® with legitimate grievances and who are definitely not racists.

  51. 51.

    Jeffro

    “hand-counted paper ballots with ‘counterfeit measures’ “…seriously, fuck these people.

    Why, it’s almost like these fine folks simply cannot BELIEVE that their excellent worldviews and support for the corrupt orange clown aren’t being coming through at the ballot box!!

    (Narrator: that’s EXACTLY what it is)

    (the orange Jesus made them feel like The Exalted Ones for a little while, back in the deepest recesses of their little lizard brains, and they’d do ANYTHING go get that back)

  52. 52.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Jackie:

    they go rally to rally – but can only vote once: in whatever state they’re registered to vote in.

    Imagining a “hold my beer” here.

  53. 53.

    MisterDancer

    @Matt McIrvin: The extent to which Jim Crow was replicated in the 20th century for Native Americans seems like it’s still under-discussed today. (Though this in particular is more a Northern-segregationist thing.)

    To swipe from Game of Thrones, The North Does Not, In Fact, Remember. And that’s core to a lot of issues around how America, as a whole, ignores it’s Racial issues across a wide and painful spectrum.

  54. 54.

    Matt McIrvin

    …”to honor first responders”, Jesus. Does anyone actually buy that? I’m still mad about that.

  56. 56.

    Matt McIrvin

    @mrmoshpotato: From the town with the sundown siren. They claim the reason they still set off the “brown people get out of town” siren every evening is “to honor first responders”.

  62. 62.

    Mike in NC

    The Trump groupies who flock to all of his hate rallies are known as “Front Row Joes”. Sad!

  67. 67.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, …

    Thread.

    So the big NYT article about California high speed rail is not actually saying anything new. It’s the latest from a former LA Times reporter who spent the last 12 years writing based hit pieces about the project. I shut my blog down years ago. But it’s time to debunk him again.

    — Robert Cruickshank (@cruickshank) October 9, 2022

    (via nycsouthpaw)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  69. 69.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Matt McIrvin: Heather McGhee’s Sum of Us podcast on Spotify has an episode all about this Sundown Siren in Minden, NV.  The state of Nevada passed a ban on this sort of thing so the city changed it to be a siren to honor First Responders like last year and now all the White People are like “It’s not even about racism” as a justification for keeping it.  Sadly one of the Tribal elders (Washone, I think) even went along with that bullshit.

  72. 72.

    zzyzx

    As a Deadhead (and someone who goes on Phish tour), this Deadhead comparison is bullshit. The whole point is that the Dead never played the same show twice. Going on Trump tour is like seeing Harry Styles play the same songs every night.

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