Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Petty moves from a petty man.

How stupid are these people?

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

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

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

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

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

The revolution will be supervised.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

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

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Cult of Narcissistic Personality

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Well, it’s a gift, of sorts. Although I don’t think it’s one Trump actually shares — he certainly riles people up at those rallies, but it’s a self-selected bunch of angry racists eager to feed on each others’ negative energy. As in all aspects of his career, he’s a user, not a generator.

On the positive side, Trump’s too much of a physical coward to kill himself. So, in the ever-Trumpian “second time as farce” mode, worse we’re liable to witness is an all-networks media meltdown where he demands — fruitlessly — that his ‘loyal fellow patriots’ use their Second Amendment ‘rights’ to TAKE AMURKKA BACK from the libtards and luzers.

After which, his most trusted Secret Service agents tenderly lead him off-stage, for delivery to a “secure location” with lots of gilded accessories… and doors that lock on the outside.

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  1. 1.

    Mnemosyne

    I know people keep saying the Secret Service would never allow Trump to be arrested because their mission is to protect him, but I can’t imagine they wouldn’t agree to some form of house arrest with themselves as the guards/bodyguards if Mueller had the right indictments.

  2. 2.

    The Dangerman

    I wish I was as confidant about “fruitlessly”; there are many Timorthy McVeigh’s out there. All being told that the FBI is out to get David Koresh Trump.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @The Dangerman: I try to comfort myself that while there are many of them, they’re all too stupid to figure out how to release the trigger locks on their guns.

  4. 4.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Used to illegal to buy a Christmas tree.

    We used to have to huddle in the attic and whisper Christmas carols to make sure none of the liberals reported us to Reich Marshall Biden.

    People just don’t what it was like before we started winning again under Chancellor Drumpf

  5. 5.

    mike in dc

    @Mnemosyne: Removal via impeachment would likely remove Trump’s secret service protection. And secret service protection for his entire family. No presidential pension either.

  6. 6.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Are there American antecedents for the sort of cult of personality Trump is building for himself?

    Kim Jong-il

  7. 7.

    Duane

    Another example of how evil the conservatives have become. They happily use merry Christmas to pit us against one another. Its evil to use religion to further your political agenda. They’ve done it for years, but that is pathetic

  8. 8.

    Mnemosyne

    @Duane:

    Not just religion, but the one holiday of their purported religion that’s supposed to be about “peace on earth, goodwill towards all.” They’ve turned that exact holiday into a divisive weapon against everyone else.

  9. 9.

    Ruckus

    @Duane:

    Its evil to use religion to further your political agenda.

    Why? Religions have been using people to further their political agenda for centuries. Why does it only work one way?

  10. 10.

    RandomMonster

    Jim Jones wouldn’t have had 36% of the electorate behind him. A closer analogy for your cult of personality would be the NSDAP winning 33% of the vote in 1932.

  12. 12.

    James E. Powell

    They can do shit like that TV ad – and have a lot of people believe that there was some liberal Democrat imposed ban on saying Merry Christmas – because when they started spreading that lie we liberals & Democrats laughed or ignored it or tried to mollify their deranged asses. We should have shouted LIAR! we should have made them back down and admit the lie, but no. We Democrats are always being civil, trying to reach out, understand, and other completely useless efforts to gain the approval of people that want to see us wiped off the face of the earth.

    I can not throw up enough.

  14. 14.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    the Trump administration has approved the largest U.S. commercial sale of lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine since 2014. The move was heavily supported by top Trump national security Cabinet officials and Congress but may complicate President Trump’s stated ambition to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    Administration officials confirmed that the State Department this month approved a commercial license authorizing the export of Model M107A1 Sniper Systems, ammunition, and associated parts and accessories to Ukraine, a sale valued at $41.5 million. (WaPo)

    Remember how Drumpf changed the GOP platform to ban lethal aid to Ukraine. NOW, after Flynn turns states evidence, Drumpf flip flops and decides to let a marginal amount of arms to be sold.

    Obviously, this is to set up a defense when Mueller reveals Drumpf’s treasonous acts.

  15. 15.

    The Dangerman

    @RandomMonster:

    Jim Jones wouldn’t have had 36% of the electorate behind him.

    Disagree. Stick an “R” after a name, you can even run a pedophile for office.

  16. 16.

    mike in dc

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: As has been pointed out elsewhere, this is meaningless unless we sell them Javelin ATGM systems(or similar). The only way for them to break the stalemate is to have anti-armor, anti-air and improved artillery capabilities.

  21. 21.

    Aleta

    Couple days ago, going across the parking lot from a box store to my car, a woman walking toward me was looking each person in the eye with a fixed smile aggressively saying Merry Christmas. After she passed I realized from the triumphant vibe that she’d been claiming Christmas for her side. I mean WTF.

  23. 23.

    Duane

    @Ruckus: Using religion to further a political agenda is evil in any form, agreed. When I printed that the question was poorly stated.

  24. 24.

    lgerard

    This is interesting

    Donald Trump’s deal with the town of Palm Beach to turn Mar-a-Lago into a private club hinged on an act of charity crafted to skirt IRS scrutiny and deliver for Trump a seven-figure tax break, a Palm Beach Post investigation has found.

  25. 25.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et Al.)

    I think of The U.S.S.R. under Stalin when I think of this kind of thing.

  27. 27.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    It’s nice seeing young, blonde, female, Aryan Drumpf youth get some air time.

  28. 28.

    cmorenc

    Why does Balloon Juice have ads for Gavin McGiness’s Get off my Lawn CRTV program in the header rotation? McGinness is a far right-wing asshole Trump apologist, using his platform to spew utter garbage in faux alpha-male mode.

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    @Mnemosyne:
    There is, so I have read, no text in the Constitution that actually says POTUS can’t be indicted. Is there anything in it that says POTUS can’t be arrested?

  30. 30.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Ainsley Earhardt ✔ @ainsleyearhardt

    TUNE IN @IvankaTrump joins us on @foxandfriends right now.

    bonnie cogswell @bonniecogswell

    BLAH BLAH daddy BLAH BLAH money BLAH BLAH BLAH richer BLAH BLAH BLAH fuck the poor. Thank you Ivanka for that great interview

    24 24 Retweets
    64 64 Favorites

    frankstucker @frankstucker1

    Hey Ivanka maybe you could ask your husbsnd not to try and throw people in jail for owing him rent ? For the holidays ?

    5 5 Retweets
    25 25 Favorites

  32. 32.

    ZyklonBeaArthur

    @James E. Powell:

    I’ve been thinking about this issue a lot lately; did the Daily Show screw us by making Fox’s mendacity funny instead of evil?

    I couldn’t agree with you more about Dems needing to push back with fury, incidentally, but i also think the MSM is hugely to blame as well. They let the little lies slide because they didn’t want to look like they were picking on the Republicans and the lies began to metastasize.

  34. 34.

    mai naem mobile

    That little girl looks too young for Roy Moore and Dolt45. The ad agency obviously didn’t do their job.

  35. 35.

    Keith G

    How will Trump be relegated to the trash heap of history?

    Policy. Policy. Policy. And the repudiation of Trump’s bizarre policy fever dreams during the next two national elections.

    And that is the best way to have it done: Rejection of the man, his plans, his family, and his supplicants by American voters.

  36. 36.

    Aleta

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding an Obama-era letter to local courts advising them to be wary of imposing stiff fees and penalties on poor defendants, The Washington Post reports.

    The move comes as Sessions revokes more than two dozen Justice Department guidance documents going back to the 1990s on various topics, the Post reports.

    Sessions said the move would do away with “the long-standing abuse of issuing rules by simply publishing a letter or posting a web page.” (Note: WTF YOU ACRID HYPOCRITE)

    “Congress has provided for a regulatory process in statute, and we are going to follow it,” Sessions said, according to the Post. “This is good government and prevents confusing the public with improper and wrong advice.” (Note: WTF YOU VICIOUS PIETIST)

    The Obama administration’s March 2016 letter to local courts said the department had a “strong interest” in protecting citizens’ rights and warned against using the fees to try to raise raise revenues for their jurisdictions.

    The letter was addressed to courts and chief judges in every state and came after the White House and Justice Department at the time held a summit on the issue.

    At the National Lawyers Convention in November, Sessions said he was directing Justice Department officials to stop putting out guidance documents in an effort to “impose new obligations on any party outside the executive branch.”

    -The Hill

  37. 37.

    Aleta

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    A law firm that represented senior White House adviser Jared Kushner’s real estate company in court is now suing the company for lack of payment, the New York Daily News reported Sunday.

    Cornicello, Tendler & Baumel-Cornicello filed a lawsuit earlier this month seeking $102,000 for work done in 2014 and 2015. The law firm represented Kushner Companies in dozens of eviction and housing cases, the newspaper reported.

    -The Hill

  39. 39.

    Hildebrand

    I don’t say Merry Christmas until the 24th. Why? Because its still Advent.

    (Christian with an understanding of the Church Year stomps off the stage in a bit of a pedantic dither. Hmph!)

  40. 40.

    waspuppet

    Remember when we were supposed to think Obama was a narcissistic cult-of-personality dictator because some kids in a school sang a song with a bunch of presidents’ names in it, including his because he was the current one? Remember how Fox spent days explaining how this was part of an insidious indoctrination plot? In fact, remember how parents demanded the option not to let their precious children listen to a taped message from that ni-CLANG! telling them to work hard in school?

    Because I sure as fk do, and no I am NEVER forgetting that.

  42. 42.

    satby

    My resistance to the tyranny of Merry Christmas aggressors is to walk up to them while they’re expounding (always loudly, always to a salesperson or vendor who isn’t in a position to disagree) and saying “oh, I hope you don’t mind saying Happy Hanukkah to me” . They always backpedal a bit and then end the conversation. If they don’t, I continue by pointing out no one ever gave a crap about what holiday wish they offered and they knew it.
    I’m not Jewish, though my cousins in one side are. I’m just done being quiet when bigots think they can proclaim their bigotry in public without pushback.

  44. 44.

    MomSense

    I fucking hate how stupid half the country has become. Jumping bean Jesus we can say whatever the hell we want to say. We don’t have to ask permission.

  45. 45.

    Denali

    I volunteer at a Fair Trade store. I say thank you and come back and see us. The whole discussion has become radioactive. Yesterday, a woman came in and told us her story about her time as a volunteer with the Samaratin’s Purse organization – sounded like they do wonderful things for children – then she mentioned Franklin Graham. I guess my eyes glazed over; we just agreed that we all do great things and left it at that.

  46. 46.

    satby

    @Denali: it is somewhat radioactive and I figure I lose some business over it. But that hurts no one but me, and I think the importance of fighting against this bigotry has become much more important than a few lost sales.
    And it is bigotry, hiding very poorly behind so-called “religious freedom”. We need to call out its real name.

  47. 47.

    Brachiator

    @Mnemosyne:

    I know people keep saying the Secret Service would never allow Trump to be arrested because their mission is to protect him, but I can’t imagine they wouldn’t agree to some form of house arrest with themselves as the guards/bodyguards if Mueller had the right indictments.

    I don’t think that the Constitution allows for arrest and house arrest.

    You would have to see if the 25th Amendment provided for relief. In this case, Trump would be temporarily removed from office and Pence would become acting president.

    Otherwise, charges that otherwise would lead to an arrest would have to cause Congress to seriously consider Impeachment, which they could decline to do, creating a Constitutional stalemate.

    Bottom line. I don’t think that Mueller could ever order the arrest of the president.

  48. 48.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    That violating norms might make one seem more powerful of a speaker is probably a well known trick. It’s how Gingrich was known as a “powerful communicator” back in the 90s. He would call anything Democratic anti-faith, anti-family, and anti-business. He would call King Herod’s slaughter of newborns as “the protection of traditional faith, and strong national security action!” had Herod been a Republican, and not able to harm the rest of the party.

    Problem is, there’s not as many norms left to violate! And some day, voila! TRUMP!

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