Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Peak wingnut was a lie.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

This fight is for everything.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

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

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

So many bastards, so little time.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

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

This blog will pay for itself.

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Friday Night Schadenfreude Open Thread: TFG Haz Loser Stench!

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they are also hopping off the train because trump is cooked

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— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) Aug 9, 2024 at 1:25 PM

(Nick Fuentes’ Wikipedia page)

 
No wonder the NYTimes is melting down — they’ll do their clenched upper-middle-class major-media-market best, but how can they properly catapult the propaganda without a steady golden shower of Kamala deepfakes, Tim Walz swiftboating, and sick dank memes?

(Pretty clear the Russian bot farms aren’t bringing the heat any more, either; seems like Putin may have more immediate problems than propping up what looks like an increasingly bad bet.)

Erick ‘Voice of the GOP Gated Community’ Erickson wishes to talk to the manager!


(There *is* no manager)

TFG’s reduced to doing hits for the… well, even as reicht-wing gamers go, this dude seems to be pretty far off main:


Srsly?

Now we’re just waiting for Norman Desmond: Sunset Boulevard, The Documentary…

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  1. 1.

    Trivia Man

    It was always my hope – the more subtle he tried to get at obfuscating his hate, the more the most rabid haters would demand explicit and vocal HATE! TO ELEVEN!

    Modern communication and ease of documenting words and pictures ruins the dog whistle.

  2. 2.

    Chet Murthy

    Do I even want to know what that was with him sniffing the chair after Tate gets up and leaves?

  3. 3.

    prostratedragon

    Just heard on The Twilight Zone, “The Jungle,” set in NYC:

    Chad, tell me something. If you wanted to find a dead goat on an hour’s notice, where would you go?

  4. 4.

    piratedan

    I feel like I’m witnessing a political equivalent of that crappy MST3K episode of The Killer Shrews, we’re all swimming for the safety of the boat while on the island, they’re all starting to eat each other.

    While the actual campaign and it’s ticket may be a loser, we have to remember we’re STILL also having to campaign against Russia, the MSM and the cabal of Tech Bros/NatC’s/Those who control SCOTUS.  It’s helpful to have such enemies, but the next three months is gonna be a misinformation feed fest and turd polishing seminar.

  5. 5.

    Trivia Man

    @piratedan: and it is all a prelude to the real “lawfare” being planned right now – election fuckery by so-called election officials and starting after election day the captured state legislatures. The fig leafs have been put in place, they just need an election close enough to doubt. CRUSH THEM INTO DUST and make any “legal” challenges moot though ridiculous denial of truth.

  7. 7.

    Dangerman

    @Trivia Man: That’s why Trump is spending all day in bed (except for bathroom breaks, I hope). He knows The Fixx (great band) is in. Hope the Fuckers realize that going down with the ship is a bad career move.

  8. 8.

    hueyplong

    I want to learn that Ronny Jackson is carrying a cyanide pill with him wherever he goes.

  11. 11.

    BR

    Fun fact:

    FUN FACT: Tim Walz could serve 8 years as Vice President, run in 2032, win, serve 8 years as President, leave office in 2041 — and still be younger than Donald Trump is today.

  14. 14.

    Bupalos

    I feel like “on monday, I will present a detailed statement of the facts…” is a legendary thing to say. Massive “I will gladly pay you tuesday” energy here.

    “this guy has all the facts, and he’s going to present them later…several days in the future”  is exactly what you want your voters to be saying!!! Very energizing!!! Bigly.

  15. 15.

    Sanjeevs

    @Trivia Man: And Musk spent last week trialling Twitter as a platform to spark an insurrection.

    Luckily guns are almost impossible to obtain in England.

  16. 16.

    ascap_scab

    Rumor I heard is Trump landed in Billings cuz he still owes the Bozeman airport money for fuel from a previous flight where he stiffed them.

  17. 17.

    Splitting Image

    “Right now, the Republican Party is basically the Titanic. We’re slowly sinking, we have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it’s fine. And meanwhile, Drumpf is running around trying to find women’s clothing and get on the first lifeboat.” — Adam Kinzinger

    Considering how many of these guys seem to be deep in the self-hating closet, I wouldn’t think that women’s clothing was too difficult to find.

  22. 22.

    Gretchen

    Chris Hayes asked why Trump is in Montana. He found that Trump wanted to make Ronny Jackson head of the VA, and Sen. Tester did an investigation into Jackson’s drinking and ambien use while on duty as White House physician and passing out prescription pills, and got that nomination stopped. Trump swore revenge on Tester.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    TFG Haz Loser Stench!

    When it comes to downballot races in the general election, what’s the opposite of coattails?

  25. 25.

    Darkrose

    Apologies if y’all mentioned this before, but the issue with the helicopter ride appears to be that we all look alike (NYT Gift Link):

    Nate Holden, 95, a former Los Angeles city councilman and state senator, said in an interview with The Times that he had been on a helicopter ride with Mr. Trump around 1990 when the aircraft experienced mechanical trouble and was forced to make an emergency landing in New Jersey.

    […]

    Mr. Holden said he was in his living room watching Mr. Trump’s news conference on TV on Thursday when the former president told of experiencing a brush with death on a helicopter ride with Mr. Brown.

    “I said, ‘What the hell is this?’” Mr. Holden said. “‘Was he in two near-fatal helicopter crashes? He didn’t fix those damn helicopters yet?’”

    Mr. Holden said that he called Mr. Brown to compare notes. Mr. Brown told him he had never been in a helicopter with Mr. Trump.

    “I said, ‘Willie, you know what? That’s me!’” Mr. Holden said. “And I told him, “You’re a short Black guy and I’m a tall Black guy — but we all look alike, right?”

    Mr. Holden gave his own height as 6-foot-1. “Willie has to be about 5-foot-6. Maybe 5-foot-5. He comes up to about my shoulders. And he’s bald. And I’m not bald.”

    The orange fuckwit can’t tell two Black men apart but thinks he can tell if Harris is Indian or Black

    ETA: Ah, I see it’s up on the other thread. :D

  27. 27.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @NotMax:

    When it comes to downballot races in the general election, what’s the opposite of coattails?

    A drag anchor?

  28. 28.

    Chet Murthy

    @Darkrose: After the many, many, many instances where po-po have made equal-or-worse misidentifications of dark-skinned/Black men who “fit the description”, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised.

  31. 31.

    Darkrose

    @Chet Murthy: My mother used to tell a story about how she was stopped when police were looking for Angela Davis in the ’60’s in SoCal. My mother was dark-skinned, around 5’4″, and was rocking a straightened beehive at the time–she looked nothing like Angela Davis.

  35. 35.

    yellowdog

    @Trivia Man: I don’t know why you think they would be any less likely to dispute a blowout election. In fact, they would be even more likely to have it believed because it would be an outlier.

  36. 36.

    Chet Murthy

    @yellowdog: Perhaps  it’s this:

    • sure, the mouth-breathers and jackbooted thugs will dispute any loss
    • but their enablers in the courts and state governments might be less than enthusiastic to join in disputing results that are strongly, perhaps even landslides, in favor of the Dems

    Perhaps what Triviam Man means is just that there are limits to the shamelessness of these enablers.  And of course, limits to the extent to which Dem officials will put up with obstruction of democracy.  [*cough* on that last bit, we can all hope, I guess]

  37. 37.

    wjca

    @Trivia Man: the more subtle he tried to get at obfuscating his hate

    TCFG wasn’t trying to be more subtle.  He just lost the ability to express it clearly.

  38. 38.

    wjca

    @NotMax: When it comes to downballot races in the general election, what’s the opposite of coattails?

    Oh, they’re still coattails.   It’s just that the coat is pulling down instead of up.

    I can see Sen Tester on the stump saying something like “Last time Trump was here, he stiffed the folks at Bozeman Airport.  Why did my opponent bring him back here to stiff the folks at Billings Airport?”

  40. 40.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @hueyplong: yes, just imagine him thinking “I have important strategic information, I know Trump true weight! No way can I be taken alive!”

  44. 44.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Darkrose: The orange fuckwit can’t tell two Black men apart but thinks he can tell if Harris is Indian or Black

    It’s even more twisted than that – since this also involves white as the walls Jerry Brown, apparently all liberals look the same to Mushroom dick.  Leave to Trump to fuck up even being a racists.

  45. 45.

    bjacques

    I’m enjoying the Trump campaign going up in flames with toxic shit bombs like Fuentes and Rogan cooking off like a Russian ammo dump.

  46. 46.

    Betty Cracker

    Has the orange fuckopotamus lost The Times?

    In an angry phone call to a New York Times reporter as he landed several hours away from his planned rally in Bozeman, Mont., because of a mechanical issue on his plane, Mr. Trump excoriated The Times for its coverage of his meandering news conference on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and home, during which he told of an emergency landing during a helicopter trip that he said both he and Mr. Brown had made together…

    “We have the flight records of the helicopter,” Mr. Trump insisted Friday, saying the helicopter had landed “in a field,” and indicating that he intended to release the flight records, before shouting that he was “probably going to sue” over the Times article.

    When asked to produce the flight records, Mr. Trump responded mockingly, repeating the request in a sing-song voice. As of early Friday evening, he had not provided them.

    Mr. Trump has a history of claiming he will provide evidence to back up his claims but ultimately not doing so.

    Haberman’s byline!

  47. 47.

    bjacques

    I’m enjoying the Trump campaign going up like a Russian ammo dump, with Fuentes and Rogan cooking off like toxic shit bombs.

    “I identify as an exploding Russian attack helicopter”

  48. 48.

    piratedan

    @Betty Cracker: believe it when I see it.  The FTFNYT has had multiple opportunities to decamp their noses from Trump’s ass and yet they still are steeped in the fast food aromas that their dreams are apparently made of….

  50. 50.

    gene108

    Trump has always been bad but he’s bad like a shark or a sinkhole.

    What does this even mean? Trump’s bad but he’ll only bite your leg off? Trump’s bad but he’ll only swallow you and your home whole without any warning?

    I feel like this was written by high school me trying to make an analogy or metaphor or one of those image things my teacher kept talking about.

  52. 52.

    gene108

    @Betty Cracker:

    Memories are a tricky thing. People often disagree about things they both experienced, like whether John came to that party at Betty’s place 10 years ago.

    I personally have my doubts about Trump’s ability to remember things in a way that conforms to objective reality anymore.

    Sometimes a person under a lot of stress tries to comfort themselves by trying to deny things that happened or remember bad things in a positive light or just lie about the past to themselves.

    I mean Trump’s under a lot of strain from 34 felony convictions to his campaign being upended by Kamala’s candidacy to literally dodging a bullet.

    Maybe his psyche spins up comforting lies to placate his fragile narcissistic ego.

    He already does this by refusing to accept he lost the 2020 election.

  55. 55.

    gene108

    @E.:

    Trump has malicious intent.

    He put forward the Muslim ban. He signed off on the family separation policy. He launched a coup to try to retain power.

    If the author of that statement thinks Trump does not have malicious intent, he’s one of the stupidest people around.

  56. 56.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Dan B: Trump mixed up a flight with Jerry Brown with a flight with Holden and then somehow got Willie Brown involved.  Two of these men are black, one of them is white.

    It was also an apparently an attempt to bring up Harris and Willie Brown’s affair back in the day. I assume it was an attempt to dog whistle the “those people are lust crazed animal” trope, which is rich coming from a guy who was disappointing a sex worker while his wife was pregnant.  Instead Trump managed to make himself look like a complete idiot.

    As I said, leave it to Trump to fuck up at being a racist.

  57. 57.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @gene108: Trump has malicious intent.

    I would hesitate to accuse Trump of having intent since it implies Trump is capable of forethought.

  60. 60.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @gene108: I mean Trump’s under a lot of strain from 34 felony convictions to his campaign being upended by Kamala’s candidacy to literally dodging a bullet

    Harris is former prosecutor. Harris is judgement day for these fucktards.

    Biden was “play nice with smiling Joe and we will all pretend the Trump admin didn’t happen”. Instead they had to be assholes and now they are going to get Harris the prosecutor.

  62. 62.

    Betty Cracker

    Saw the following headline at CNN just now, only I misread “tornadoes” as “tomatoes.”

    At least 1,450 tornadoes have been reported this year in the contiguous US. See where they’re clustered

    I was thinking to myself, “WTF? We produced at least 1,450 tomatoes in our yard!”

    I should go back to bed…

  64. 64.

    Ramalama

    @Betty Cracker: “hello, news? I’d like to report a cluster of tomatoes…stat.”

    I’d say keep reading if only for our amusement, but if you can get back to sleep, well, hit the hay.

  65. 65.

    gene108

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I would hesitate to accuse Trump of having intent since it implies Trump is capable of forethought.

    Trump is very smart. He’s someone who is very good in a very narrow set of skills, like many scientists and artists.

    He’s a genius at self promotion. He’s great at figuring out what plays to a certain type of crowd.

    He remade the Republican Party to cater to his agenda. Instead of free trade, Republicans are now pro tariffs.

    He’s fully capable of letting his terrible intentions become policy, like family separation, the Muslim ban, a failed coup, etc.

  66. 66.

    snoey

    @ascap_scab: It’s two hours from Billings to Bozeman, so landing there had to be planned and built into the schedule. Mechanical trouble story doesn’t fit.

  67. 67.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I think that this is the intent of the analogy.  The idea is that Trump is a reflex level, thoughtless type of cruel racist asshole.  He is being manipulated by the calculatedly evil.  I personally don’t think there’s a difference just because Trump plans less.

    @Baud:

    As long as Trump talks to them

    I’m wondering if this is the point.  Haberman built her disgusting platform of normalization with access.  If all he’s giving her is abuse, there is no longer money in it for her to suck up to him.

    As for the abuse, this is an established Trump thing he’s gotten more intense about lately.  It infuriates him when he takes a racist dump publicly and the public reaction is he’s a fucking idiot.  His pride is wrapped up in his belief that these speeches are perfect and genius oration.  The press conference was supposed to show everyone how much smarter and wiser and more charming he is than Harris/Walz.

  68. 68.

    TS

    @Baud:

    As long as Trump talks to them and Harris doesn’t, the NYT will be on Team Trump

    And if  Harris talks to them – the NYT will still be on team trump

  69. 69.

    different-church-lady

    I’m so old I can remember when misremembering something meant you were too senile to be president.

  72. 72.

    Princess

    @Darkrose: I said this at the end of the dead thread, but conflating two events almost thirty years apart is Alzheimer’s territory. My mom does this all the time. She’ll think her husband did something my Dad who died in 1987 did.
    Plus the racism. It’s both.

  75. 75.

    WereBear

    When Trump promised to change all the rules, that one he meant.

    WIth the dementia, he’s got less of a leash on what he is thinking getting out to the public. This soothing lie that tRump is simply a puppet of evildoers is how they hide that this is all him, getting less and less handleable.

    We will get a convention bump at this rate, and we get to see more tantrums. Maybe this will inoculate much of the populace against further authoritarianism inroads.

  76. 76.

    WereBear

    @piratedan: They let out one criticism in a storm of kiss ass.

    Liberals pass it around and it means more than it does, and we take the bait. I’ve lost all interest in what they say. Trust is not there.

    It does warp our political process. But they have David Brooks rearranging the same pieces on a three month cycle for decades now.

    I’m not getting through to them. They like their paper this way.

  77. 77.

    Shalimar

    @TS: Exactly.  If/when Harris finally does an interview with the NYT, most of the questions will be leading and biased to punish her for all the time she and Biden didn’t talk to them.  They have created an incentive structure where she gains no benefit from talking to them at this point.

  79. 79.

    Princess

    As long as he’s still promising tax cuts, Trump won’t lose the NYT.

    But if he’s really lost Haberman herself, that’s worth watching. She has better access to him than most and probably has a clearer idea of his state. If she thinks he’s declined too far, if she thinks he won’t win, she’ll be cutting her loses and trying to ingratiate herself with her next meal ticket.

  81. 81.

    p.a.

    I know the FTFNYT owners can insulate themselves from victorious tRumpism because $$$$$, but the reporters/commentariat, who are at $$ or $$$ level, maybe not.  Their ass kissing tRumpism reminds me of the old article in The Onion: “ACLU Sues to Allow NAZIS to burn down ACLU HQ”  They will be way above the fold on the tRumpist target list.

  83. 83.

    hueyplong

    The inalterable rule is ETTD.  Haberman isn’t going to give us some cinematic moment of character growth and “blow the lid off” Trump’s campaign; she’s simply going to wither and, in terms of relevance, die.

    I’ll take it.  In fact, I’m anxiously awaiting it.

  86. 86.

    Ken

    @WereBear: They glued Nancy to his side, as I remember.

    Oh, well, how fortunate that Trump has Melania. Or perhaps Ivanka would be willing to step up.

  87. 87.

    Ken

    @prostratedragon: [From an old “Twilight Zone”] Chad, tell me something. If you wanted to find a dead goat on an hour’s notice, where would you go?

    Life was so much more difficult before Amazon Prime.

  88. 88.

    Darkrose

    @Ramalama: Somehow she was able to talk them down. Given my mother and her temper, I’m actually a bit surprised that she didn’t get arrested at the very least.

  90. 90.

    Ken

    @Betty Cracker: Mr. Trump excoriated The Times for its coverage of his meandering news conference on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago

    “You didn’t print what I said! You had someone completely rewrite my perfect answers! It didn’t sound like me at all!”

    Obviously this would never happen, since it would require that Trump remember what he said.

  92. 92.

    p.a.

    Forethought?  tRump is like an unsuccessful parasite.  It recognizes a target then latches on.  But ultimately kills the host instead of allowing it to survive at a reduced level, which would be to the parasite’s benefit.

    Everything Donald tRump touches dies.  Sometimes not quickly enough.

  93. 93.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @Dan B: Even apart from the “all Black guys look alike” vibe, the identity of the person with Trump matters. At least I thought it did. Wasn’t Trump’s point (if he had such a thing) that Willie Brown (who dated Harris) told him bad things about her while on that flight

    ETA: I see others beat me to it.

  95. 95.

    Ken

    @Gretchen: @snoey: So if I understand:

    Trump makes one of his few campaign appearances in the last two weeks in Montana, a state he is certain to win, speaking before the now-usual half-empty venue, because he wants revenge on the Senator who blocked the nomination of Trump’s personal Dr. Feelgood, and has to spend an extra four hours on the road because he can’t land in the rally city, because his campaign hasn’t paid the fuel bills from the last time he flew there.

    That is either the weirdest mad-lib I’ve ever seen, or the perfect lead-in sentence for some writer’s obituary of the campaign and/or Trump.

  96. 96.

    stinger

    A hundred eighty-four locker room comments in Cole’s Friday Night Open Thread and none of them insulting to women? How is it possible? Was… was Melania…wrong???

  97. 97.

    artem1s

    seems like Putin may have more immediate problems than propping up what looks like an increasingly bad bet

    Thank you Joe and NATO. All that work lead to Ukraine finally being able to go on the offensive. If there was a grand pass the torch plan of 11itybillion dimensional chess it seems likely that and maybe the hostage release had something to do with the timing.

  98. 98.

    snoey

    @Ken: Turns out that someone had a private plane ready to ferry TFG to Bozeman, so only 2-3 hours wasted, but clearly planned.

  102. 102.

    TBone

    Not clicking on those Adin Ross videos or anything cybercuck – it’s not even tempting.  I woke up bathed in fresh, clean air today and I’d like to enjoy the fresh scents of the sunny, cool morning after a storm.  Mmmmmmm

    I enjoy schadenfreude as much as anyone and the ongoing denouement is a delicious addition to coffee though.  More maga tears, please!

    Adam Kinzinger 😆

  105. 105.

    MomSense

    @Gretchen:

    The medication log Jackson kept during the Trump years is wild.  I’m sure there were some omissions but what was listed is crazytown.

  106. 106.

    Ken

    @snoey: Turns out that someone had a private plane ready to ferry TFG to Bozeman, so only 2-3 hours wasted, but clearly planned.

    “It’s a better story the way I told it.”

    Speaking of which, early reports from Bluesky suggest Trump is doubling down on the helicopter story, so yay?

  107. 107.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @snoey: Actually, it could easily fit, depending on the mechanical. I’m not saying that that story about having to land elsewhere was due to stiffing the FBO, but I don’t think your line of reasoning supports it.

    BTW, it’s equaling questionable whether there was only one FBO at Bozeman capable of fueling Trump’s plane, but could be! I’m interested enough that I’d like to see more information on the episode, either way. Would be great if it’s true and if it got a bit more press

    ETA: Maybe I should read the rest of the thread before commenting?  ;)

  108. 108.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Darkrose: Kinda gives credence to the theory that when he said ” she was Indian and now she’s Black” he really was confusing Nikki Haley and Kamala Harris. He mistook E Jean Carroll and his ex wife Marla Maples so he can’t even tell white woman apart. How’s he supposed to keep brown women straight?

  109. 109.

    hueyplong

    Trump getting questioned on anything he says, however insignificant, is an improvement and a hopeful sign.  If a single Trump statement, looked at closely, turns out to be true, it’s sure to have been inadvertent.

    We’ll get a two-fer each time:

    1 revealing the inveterate liar behind the curtain to that tiny (and probably stupid) slice of the electorate that can be persuaded to switch; and

    2 feeding the impaired oldster theme that we didn’t start but will be more than happy to finish.

  112. 112.

    artem1s

    @Trivia Man: 

    It was always my hope – the more subtle he tried to get at obfuscating his hate, the more the most rabid haters would demand explicit and vocal HATE! TO ELEVEN!

    And the more the rabid MAGAt turn on the GOP, the more they will try to pivot back to the old NeoCons that let these weirdos out of the box.
    Obligatory
    Not going back.

  114. 114.

    Geminid

    A follow-up to a news report I posted yesterday. It was from Andalou Agency by way of Levent Kemal, about a statement by Iran’s UN representative. Axios reporter Barak Ravid posted a fuller text yesterday:

    Breaking: The Iranian delegation to the UN issued a statement stating that achieving a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is Iran’s top priority.

    “Any agreement that is acceptable to Hamas will be acceptable to us. The Israeli regime violated Iran sovereignity in its latest act of terrorism. We have the right to self-defense. However, we hope that our response will be carried out in a timely manner and in a way that will not harm the potential ceasefire,” the Iranian delegation said.

    This statement was likely approved by the office of Supreme Leader Khameini which controls Iran’s major foreign policy decisons.

    On Thursday President Biden and the leaders of Egypt and Qatar issued an “invitation” to Israel and Hamas to meet in either Cairo or Doha this Thursday to finalize a ceasefire deal. The three leaders’ “invitation” had elements of an ultimatum:

       “No more time should be wasted, and there should be no excuses by any party for further postponement.”

    So for now, Iran seems to be forgoing it’s promised retaliation strikes pending the outcome of these talks.

    This will be a busy week for diplomats. The US will also host talks in Switzerland between the two opponents in Sudan’s terrible civil war.

    There is another, less acute conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia over the status of Somaliland, and Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will host talks this week between representatives of Ethiopia and Somalia. This round of talks was originally set for September but apparently enough progress has been made already to move them up.

  115. 115.

    Geminid

    @Ken: There was a time when Trump was so wealthy he could find the change to pay that Bozeman fuel bill in his couch cushions. Now…well, let’s just say conditions have changed and…ewww!

  117. 117.

    snoey

    @Chief Oshkosh: They had security up on the rooftops when he landed and I think the Secret Service wouldn’t be happy to let TFG get into any random supporter’s plane without a good checkout. Had to have been some significant warning to make arrangements at Billings. So we have a mechanical that doesn’t require them to get it on the ground now but we can’t make Bozeman either …

  118. 118.

    Robin Goodfellow

    @gene108: When we look at Trump we focus on the many stupid things he said completely overlooking the few smart things he said.  By smart I mean, knowing what his audience wants to hear and pandering to that audience.

    “I love the poorly educated” was perhaps the smartest thing he ever said. He was the only politician willing to say such a thing and the poorly educated loved him for that. Despite the fact that his policies did little to help the poorly educated.

    It takes an amoral genius to pull that off,

  119. 119.

    Chris Johnson

    @Baud: As long as they’re an arm of Russian state intelligence they’ll be Team Trump. It literally does not matter what he says and does, whether he talks to them or not, whether people subscribe to them or DON’T subscribe to them, because you can’t shame them or economic-pressure them into not doing their job, which for the time being is to support Trump and somehow come up with something that will work against Harris or which at least can be USED as pressure against Harris to get what their owners want, accomplished or at least nodded to.

    They are doing their job. There is nothing Trump can do or say that will stop them doing it, because THEY are not demented madmen, they’re doing their job.

  120. 120.

    stinger

    @Geminid: I appreciate your staying on top of issues like these and reporting back. I don’t pay enough attention to non-US affairs. Thanks!

  121. 121.

    RepubAnon

    @ascap_scab: This may explain why Trump isn’t doing rallies- the venues want cash in full in advance, plus payment of any past due invoices.

  122. 122.

    brantl

    @Chet Murthy:

    Perhaps what Trivia Man means is just that there are limits to the shamelessness of these enablers

    Assume facts clearly not in evidence.

  123. 123.

    TBone

    @NotMax: link not working for me, dang it!

    I am spending today relishing on the high notes, and really wondering what you posted!

  127. 127.

    Fraud Guy

    “Right now, the Republican Party is basically the Titanic. We’re slowly sinking, we have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it’s fine. And meanwhile, Trump is running around trying to find women’s clothing and get on the first lifeboat.”

    And that band is Kid Rock.

  128. 128.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Geminid: It would be so great to see a cease-fire finally happen.  And to watch protestors scurry feverishly to come up with another reason why they can’t support Harris (and of course, refuse to give Biden any credit for all the work he’s done to try and make a cease-fire happen).  Fingers crossed that we get to see this thing happen.

  129. 129.

    SFAW

    @Baud: ​
     

    As long as Trump talks to them and Harris doesn’t the world has not been burned to a cinder, the NYT will be on Team Trump.

    Possibly more accurate, in a global sense.

  132. 132.

    TBone

    @NotMax: captured my mood 💜 plus two great memories!  The Sterile Cuckoo and Liz in ‘The Sandpiper.’

    My mom had a huge crush on Richard Burton in her later years…happy times.  My mom was more than a bit like the Liz character in that movie.

  134. 134.

    Other MJS

    Adin Ross just gifted Donald Trump a custom Cybеrtruck.

    Ugly, uglier, ugliest (not sure what order).

  136. 136.

    BellaPea

    I said to my husband yesterday that the Orange Ass and Despicable JV have loser stink all over their campaign now. I hope it continues to get worse and these two hideously damaging monsters go down bigly.

  137. 137.

    Barry

    @hueyplong:

    “I want to learn that Ronny Jackson is carrying a cyanide pill with him wherever he goes.”  And that it turns out to be a pellet of Bolivian Death Pepper extract.

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