Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

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

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

So very ready.

Everybody saw this coming.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

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

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

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

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Late Night Open Thread: The GOP Death Cult’s Marketing Problem

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One can only wish TFG, and his minions, embrace all the anchors as they flail…

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  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    dining to standing applause

    Great job drowning that piece of burnt-ass steak in ketchup before shoving it into your resting-butthole mouth! Bravo!

  4. 4.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    Julian Sanchez via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    This is sort of familiar from the business world. Failing firm has has an outdated, nonviable product/brand that the existing customer base is nevertheless attached to. …

    So … the GOP is joining the ranks of Kodak, Blockbuster, and Tower Records?

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    Drawing a blank on who it was asking for a reminder on when arguably the best boxing movie ever, The Set-up, comes around on TCM. This Saturday, the 16th, at noon Eastern time.

    Keep an eye open for the clock in the street shots. The elapsed time it takes for the story to unfold is the same as the running length of the film, one of the first uses of ‘real time’ as a device in movies (pre-dates High Noon by three years).

  6. 6.

    The Pale Scot

    Sounds like WKRP S01E02,

    a group of elderly listeners invades the station protesting the removal of their favorite music.

    We Want Racism…..We Want Racism…….We Want Racism

    BOOGERRRRRR!!!

  13. 13.

    Mary G

    LA Times has an article today about Republican schisms in Texas between the old Chamber of Commerce business types and the new breed of crazies.

    Andrews and her friend Lee Jenkins, a hairstylist, said they joined the crowd “storming the Capitol” but insisted most protesters were peaceful and didn’t deserve to be charged. The women said they had considered entering the building too, but decided not to because they feared the tear gas would aggravate Jenkins’ asthma.

    After they returned to Texas, Jenkins’ Twitter account was removed. FBI agents interviewed Andrews at her home several times, she said. Neither woman was charged.

    Photos Andrews had posted online were circulated. Although Jenkins — whose business had just reopened after the pandemic lockdown — lost some liberal clients, she said she gained conservative ones, as did Andrews, who works as a dominatrix. (Bold by me)

    She’s married with three kids and her husband was at the Capitol with them, though without any TFG regalia.

  14. 14.

    Ruckus

    @Lacuna Synecdoche:

    It’s far worse than Kodak, Blockbuster and Tower Records.

    Those companies actually delivered product that was viable, at least until new came along and replaced it. shitforbrains was never a viable product. He was a disaster of epic proportions. In a list of the 5 worst presidents, he takes all 5 spots. The previous holder of worst, just got salvation and he didn’t deserve that in any way. He got worst ripped from his cold, dead hands, with gusto, bravado, bullshit, racism and a bit of theft. Prior he was the worst by quite a bit, but shitforbrains out did him so badly, in a race for bad, and now he’s not. If anyone could tell him that he lost worst place to shitforbrains, he would be pissed that dipshit, dumb, worthless, fuck of a human being actually made him look good. He did his worst to be the worst and he got snookered. He’s going to have to be dug up and have his trophy for worst ripped out of his cold dead hands. Oh the shame of losing worst. To shitforbrains.

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    mrmoshpotato

    LOL!

    I wonder if the GOP is having a civil war just so they can put up statues of the losers.— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) May 11, 2021

  19. 19.

    Redshift

    The business analogy isn’t just about TFG, the GOP has been stuck this way through multiple election “post mortems.” They recognize they need to expand their appeal, but that risks losing some of their current base to gain some of the people the base has been encouraged to despise.

    The key point is that it could work, but even if it does, there’s no guarantee the people currently in power will still be around to benefit. Taking a hit for the future good is the party isn’t something most politicians are good at, and especially not the IGMFY crowd. So they double and triple down on voter suppression…

  22. 22.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    “Trump largely spends his days watching cable news, calling allies and his small cadre of remaining political advisers, welcoming Republicans to his private club, dining to standing applause, playing golf and fulminating against the 2020 election results”

    Media spent years telling us he was business man, operating a vast empire. Don’t they feel foolish.

  23. 23.

    opiejeanne

    @eclare: Thanks. The walls are up, but only one section of the roof so far, because we are short and old.  We hope to be able to get 3 sections up tomorrow, but this would be a lot easier with one more person.

  25. 25.

    Derelict

    The problem, of course, is that the GOP feels it doesn’t really need to care whether people vote for Republicans or not. The new legislation Republican state legislatures are enacting will keep non-GOP faithful from voting AT ALL. And even if the Republican candidate loses, the state legislature can simply declare the vote invalid and install the Republican anyway–all perfectly legal now.

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    Gvg

    @Redshift: Because they have been selling racism for quite some time, and because they have repeatedly said they should seek a more diverse base (Hispanics they usually mean), the gop would need to prove by actions over some minimum number of years, before most minorities would consider voting for them again. This means that they would first alienate their most racist base voters, and then wait a long while to see any reward. They made it impossible to pull off by waiting this long to change.

    They can’t change their policy. Anyone who tries, will lose faster than anyone who stays with the sinking ship current policy.

    Some individuals may manage in less racist regions. Specific locals may escape this doom calculation.

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    Robert Sneddon

    I am reminded somewhat of the story and eventual fate of Big Fido, the ruler of the dogs of the city of Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books.
    Big Fido was the undisputed king of the city’s canine population and then he died (and, in the spirit of Ankh-Morpork an entrepreneur found his body, skinned it and turned into leather). The dogs recovered Big Fido’s collar and it became an object of veneration and worship for a couple of years and then they forgot all about him and why they were worshipping this collar thing.​

  31. 31.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Lacuna Synecdoche: So … the GOP is joining the ranks of Kodak, Blockbuster, and Tower Records?

    Think Buggy Whip International, LLC**. They’ve already got the buggy part down; now the reality-based electorate is primed to whip their flabby arses over and over again with a clue-by-4.

    ** Lying Liars’ Collective

  32. 32.

    Splitting Image

    @Mary G:

    Photos Andrews had posted online were circulated. Although Jenkins — whose business had just reopened after the pandemic lockdown — lost some liberal clients, she said she gained conservative ones, as did Andrews, who works as a dominatrix

    I’d have been surprised by that 20 years or so ago. Having met a fair number of people in the kink scene I can say that I’d be more surprised now if the reactionary assholes in it aren’t a majority. Compared to other subcultures, the kink scene skews older, whiter, wealthier, and closeted. It also seems to be very active on Twitter.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    This is sort of familiar from the business world. Failing firm has has an outdated, nonviable product/brand that the existing customer base is nevertheless attached to. Change requires definitely alienating existing customers and HOPING you attract more new ones.

    Except all the GOP customers are addicts and will buy what ever shit that has the letter R after it the GOP pushes out.

    The better analogy is a business that outsourced everything, including sales and marketing,  now the there pro is changing the executive staff is finding out their only skill is collecting a paycheck.

  35. 35.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Ruckus: What, no love for James Buchanan who killed 10% of the adult male population by letting the Civil War happen, Woodrow Wilson who killed 2% ith his non-response to the Spanish Flue and Andrew Jackson who crashed the economy while murdering native Americans wholesale?  Trump is a bit of failure even at failing.

  36. 36.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Splitting Image: Key word is “Dominatrix” as someone whose fantasy is be an assertive personality. as opposed to her clients who very likely are and want some time off, so to say. It’s pretty easy to see someone like that would eat up Trump’s fake Alpha male persona.

  37. 37.

    Lawrence

    Interesting that this is the same branding problem that is killing evangelical christianity. But kind of obvious when you consider it’s the same set of customers.

  40. 40.

    Ruckus

    I’m not saying the others mentioned weren’t bad, they were. BAD. I’m saying that shitforbrains was the worst of the lot. The others mentioned did horrible things. And most of them had some small, not quite so horrible bit.

    Name one positive thing that shitforbrains was for or did.

    Name one thing he did that wasn’t horrible and wrong.

    He was bad because he was a racist. So were the others. He was bad because he didn’t want the actual job, he was in it solely for himself. His stupidity and hate got more people killed than the others. That may be the time but that’s the time he lives in. How many of the others were in it solely to save his sorry ass because of all the crap he’s done his entire life?

    How fucked up is it that we can even have a discussion about which asshole has been the worst president and everyone had ample proof that everyone of the examples they give is a valid choice for worst president?

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