Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

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

He really is that stupid.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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Late Night Open Thread: ‘A Pride Movement for Bad People’

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With Donald Trump barred from publicly attacking the key witness in his hush money trial, his campaign brought to court a phalanx of Republican elected officials to speak for him.

“The thing that the president is prevented from saying, which is a disgrace, is that every single person involved in this prosecution is practically a Democratic political operative,” U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio said outside the courthouse Monday during a morning break…

Bringing allies to court allowed Trump’s campaign to press his message without violating the gag order. It also gave those allies a high-profile platform to demonstrate loyalty to their party’s presumptive nominee and perhaps audition for higher office.

According to Trump’s campaign, all of his courthouse guests Monday volunteered to appear to support the former president and were not explicitly invited by people affiliated with the campaign. But U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who was at court with Trump last week, said Monday that he had been invited by Susie Wiles, a senior adviser to Trump’s campaign and also a longtime Florida GOP operative who advised Scott’s 2010 gubernatorial bid…

Vance, widely seen as a contender to be Trump’s vice presidential pick, was part of a group that arrived at court with Trump and stood behind him as he addressed reporters before heading into the courtroom. It was the biggest single showing of the allies joining Trump in court for the hush money trial since it began last month.

Others in Monday’s group included Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York, and a pair of attorneys general, Steve Marshall of Alabama and Brenna Bird of Iowa. Former GOP rival Vivek Ramaswamy, who shuttered his campaign earlier this year but is considered a likely part of a new Trump administration, planned to come to court on Tuesday, according to a spokesman for the entrepreneur…

Outside court with Vance, Tuberville on Monday questioned the citizenship of the jurors, suggesting there were “supposedly American citizens in that courtroom,” and portrayed Bragg as a publicity-seeker.

He described Trump as “going through mental anguish in a courtroom. That’s very depressing.” …

Tuesday, it was ‘Leader’ Johnson’s turn atop the klown car:



The media’s horse-race touts are very excited!!!

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Notes from Saturday’s Wildwood rally:


Roger Stone, doing what he’s best at, lying:

Per Politico, “Trump, escalating attacks at rally, says Biden is ‘surrounded by fascists’ “:

… “All of this persecution is only happening because I’m running for president. If I wasn’t leading in the polls by a lot and running for president, they wouldn’t be after me. I’d have a nice place. I’d be down in Palm Beach. I’d be traveling the world,” Trump said, before repeating falsehoods about the 2020 election that he lost to Biden.

During the speech, Trump threw well-worn lines on the border, windmills and electric vehicles, China and migrants. And he compared himself to the infamous gangster Al Capone, which has become a regular bit on the campaign trail.

“Al Capone was so mean that if you went to dinner with him and he didn’t like you, you’d be dead the next morning. And I got indicted more than him. On bullshit, too. Just bullshit,” Trump said. The crowd erupted into cheers of “bullshit.”…

Trump on Saturday also went after some of New Jersey’s most famous residents, including Bruce Springsteen and former Gov. Chris Christie. Trump claimed he attracted a bigger crowd than Springsteen, and invited the crowd to boo Christie, a former Trump ally turned critic.

“Does anybody like Chris Christie?” Trump said, before calling Christie “unhinged” and suffering from a major case of Trump derangement syndrome.”

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  1. 1.

    piratedan

    conversely, it’s perfectly acceptable that judges that Trump appointed are the ones actively delaying his other trials for federal offences, it’s funny how according to the GOP, naked partisanship only flows in one direction…..

  2. 2.

    prostratedragon

    Fallows is a bit off about one thing. He has not “become” profoundly boring in the sense that we can access previous times in which he was not; he is the essence made physical, timelessly boring. Perhaps he is even the reason the concept of time was invented.

  3. 3.

    Villago Delenda Est

    All accomplices after the fact in his crimes.

    Wipe them out.  All of them.

  4. 4.

    sab

    OT Alice Munro  Canadian short story writer has died at age 92. She was amazing.. Wrote about normal people in small towns. Hers were in Canada. Mine were in USA, but everyone she wrote about I could identify with. I think she was an unacknowledged genius. If you haven’t read her you should.

    ETA She was so good at character development. Good people watching bad people doing bad stuff and understanding why. Who writes about that?  But we all see it everyday in real life.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    “Excuse me for a moment while I wipe the boot polish from my lips.”
    – Mike Johnson

  12. 12.

    John Revolta

    “The thing that Reichsmarschall Göring is prevented from saying, which is a disgrace, is that every single person involved in this prosecution is practically a Allied political operative,” former Minister von Ribbentrop said outside the courthouse Monday during a morning break…

  13. 13.

    SpaceUnit

    The blue suit, white shirt, red tie, flag pin thing is the stuff of clowns who don’t know they’re clowns.

     

    Keep it up, fools.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    Oh damn. Fix.

    @SectionH

    You talking rain? Pours like hell for five minutes, lets up for a half hour and repeats where I am. On the 1 to 10 scale of okay, a solid 9.

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @prostratedragon:

    These are wonderful! Thank you. I really appreciate your musical selections and links. You have an amazing, eclectic playlist, and I’m discovering or rediscovering all kinds of terrific music through you. I’m very grateful.

  22. 22.

    R-Jud

    Just popping in here to say thanks to Cole for mentioning my podcast, Books of All Time, in his open thread last night. What a nice thing to wake up to! I lurk here more often than not lately but I’ll try to stick my oar in now and again.

    Re DJT in Wildwood: I can believe he has fans in NJ—I’ve got a clutch of uncles dotted along the shore who are paid-up cultists. What I can’t believe is that he showed his face within a 100-mile radius of Atlantic City and wasn’t immediately showered with cinder blocks and fermented human shit.

  25. 25.

    Feathers

    @sab: I think that sort of keen observation is a feature of the best mystery novels. Probably why I don’t enjoy modern cozies as well as I do the old ones. They don’t have the same level of analysis.

    Also: Pride movement for assholes is probably why we are seeing the general rise in rude behavior everywhere. Worked in a hospital as a temp. Horrendous place. People took it as a job perk to be allowed to be awful to anyone further down the org chart. Small groups of peers could be very warm and friendly, but turn frosty the moment an outsider showed up.

  26. 26.

    TBone

    Trumpism is a pride movement for assholes is the best thing I’ve read all week. Genius.

  33. 33.

    AM in NC

    @NotMax:  Thanks for posting this. Mr. AM and I have been enjoying MHz and are just about in need of a new series to watch.

    We’ve gone through Spiral, A French Village, and Forbrydelssen so far and have really enjoyed all 3.

  35. 35.

    SFAW

    When I was working my first job after college, one of my co-workers was a former bomber pilot (during WW2 and Korea). Cool guy, worked hard, not a mean guy by any stretch, etc. Every so often, when a few of us kids (and non-kids) would be (non-work-related) chatting in the drafting bay, he’d saunter down and say “Gee, someone toss a grenade in here, he’d get the whole lot of you.”

    Not sure why I thought of that after reading about the Psychophants’ Parade to kiss TFG’s ass/ring at the courtroom.

  38. 38.

    Geminid

    @SFAW: When I worked for a general contractor I had an older supervisor use that grenade remark when he saw people clustering together and yakking while on the job.

  40. 40.

    waspuppet

    “The thing that the president is prevented from saying, which is a disgrace, is that every single person involved in this prosecution is practically a Democratic political operative,” U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio said outside the courthouse Monday during a morning break…

    So they’re not even hiding behind “it’s common usage to say ‘President’ before the name of a former president” anymore. They’re just straight up calling Trump “the president.”

    Their open hatred of America is, once again, duly noted, and will be treated accordingly.

  42. 42.

    Ruckus

    @SpaceUnit:

    They are vying for the lead role in this ridiculous children’s play about growing up and being important. But they really have zero idea of what the play is about. They think it is about polishing their careers as sycophants. They are not leaders, not in any reasonable definition of leading, they do though have the concept of the conservative party down pat, and that is we all have to fit into the same mold of following the big money, their most important ideal because none of them could in any way actually earn anything approaching big money. And the reason is that they think individuality means all being the same individual – the idiot who made a lot modicum of money by being a loud mouth nothing after stealing his siblings inheritance.

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