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Late Saturday Night Open Thread: Like Caligula’s Rome, But As Farce

by Anne Laurie|  February 23, 20251:14 am| 69 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republicans in Disarray!, Trump Crime Cartel, Clown car

Less than a month into Trump’s second term and theyre launching an Uber for mercenaries. Going great https://t.co/Ho1MFGTEkD

— Fentanyl Tsar (@canderaid) February 18, 2025

Michael Wolff (remember him?) has a new book to sell, which the Guardian just reviewed under the headline “Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner refused to sign memo saying Trump was not antisemitic, book says”. Also included:

… Describing a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in October, where Trump survived an assassination attempt in July, Wolff writes: “And Elon is here, waiting when [Trump’s team] arrive[s], which is cause for a moment of consternation … Elon! Next only to Trump, there is Elon.”

Saying aides viewed Musk as “a new, overwhelming, and discordant presence in the campaign”, generating “an ever-rising tide of bewildering, if not opaque, requests, orders, and recommendations”, Wolff said aides thought Musk had “elevated the Trump campaign in his own mind to a personal mission and religious cause”, while “the Trump circle” was “already anticipating the earth shaking when he and Trump invariably f[e]ll out.

“When they arrive, Elon – wandering about by himself, with only a thin layer of assistants or security – is hungry. This causes a kerfuffle and results in uncertainty over how to attend to him. Someone produces a bag of pretzel sticks.

[What, no juice box?!?]

“The suggestion is made that JD is here and would love to speak to him. Musk, sitting down and eating his pretzel sticks, politely declines: ‘I’ve really no interest in speaking to a vice-president.’

“Later, called onstage, with no one having any idea what he might say, Musk bounds up and, suddenly – in Mick Jagger style, prancing and jumping – becomes the headline, his T-shirt rising far above his midriff.

“What the fuck is wrong with this guy?” says a bewildered Trump. “And why doesn’t his shirt fit?”…

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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Repubs Prepping for Tonight’s SotU

by Anne Laurie|  March 7, 20247:43 pm| 119 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Stupidity, Clown car

This happens before every Biden debate and SOTU. They spend all year telling people that he’s old and senile and can’t put two sentences together, then the day of the event he’s a maniacal deceptive genius. pic.twitter.com/lg5cpIugLE

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 7, 2024

Mike Johnson has reportedly implored his Members not to behave like classless asses again during the SOTU tonight and they will listen to him about that as much as they do about everything else.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 7, 2024

Some House Republicans are dismissing Speaker Johnson's calls for decorum during the State of the Union tonight.

Rep. Lauren Boebert told me: “I don’t even promise my pastor I’m going to hold back in church.

And MTG says: "Decorum broke a long time ago."

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) March 7, 2024

I vote the Secret Service have a super-soaker on hand for ‘Just Us’ Alito, assuming he shows up…

I think Joe needs to have a super soaker on hand to handle the hecklers.

— SnarkTank (@TheSnarkTank99) March 7, 2024

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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Our Failed Major Media, (Pretend) Impeachment Edition

by Anne Laurie|  November 2, 20235:12 pm| 28 Comments

This post is in: Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Venality, Clown car, Our Failed Media Experiment

Here we go again…

After abandoning a floor vote on an inquiry, holding a single clown show hearing that went kersplat!, and an inability to define an impeachable offense, let alone provide any evidence whatsoever, they are now close to a "point of decision"??

— Chris, plant person (@cgillespie62) November 2, 2023

But you didn't ask what that impeachment would even be about?

— Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦| 🛡 (@alwaysadorecats) November 2, 2023

I mean, people posing as journalists are certainly entitled to feign abject stupidity in the service of cultivating powerful Republican sources.

Free speech and all.

But that behavior it itself far more newsworthy than the evidence-free impeachment.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) November 2, 2023

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Vacation Weekend

by Anne Laurie|  September 3, 20227:07 am| 223 Comments

This post is in: Biden Administration in Action, President Biden, Proud to Be A Democrat, Clown car

Saturday Morning Open Thread 15

(h/t Siubhan Duinne)

Biden and FLOTUS leave White House for Camp David for Labor Day weekend pic.twitter.com/kp34bnWOS2

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 2, 2022

"The bottom line is jobs are up, wages are up, people are back to work. And we're seeing some signs that inflation may be — may be, I'm not over promising — may be beginning to ease," Biden says at the White House, reading from prepared remarks on the jobs report

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 2, 2022

A few easy laughs from the recent plethora of Konservative Klown Kar banana-peel pratfalls:

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CPAC Malign Clown Car Open Thread: Burning Man Resentment

by Anne Laurie|  February 27, 20216:57 pm| 69 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Trumpery, Clown car

CPAC Clown Car Open Thread:  Burning <del>Man</del> Resentment

(Jeff Danziger via GoComics.com)

CPAC is now Burning Man for people who commit tax fraud

— sean hannity's bottomless pasta pass (@MenshevikM) February 26, 2021

CPAC’s always been a grift bazaar — excuse me, celebration of capitalism. But until a couple years ago, it was also a gathering where the old pros could parade their laurels and the young hopefuls could strut their stuff, like a right-wing political ComicCon. Post-Trump, it’s reduced to one of those flea-market-adjacent ‘popular culture shows’ where you can buy signed photos with Scott Baio’s understudy, two of the recurring characters from the Dukes of Hazzard, or Clint Eastwood’s orangutan wrangler…

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Repubs in Disarray! Open Thread (You *Don’t* Hate to See It)

by Anne Laurie|  January 4, 202111:52 pm| 51 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Republicans in Disarray!, Clown car, Schadenfreude

Bitter GOP split upends the pomp as a new Congress takes over https://t.co/vfptmw7WmJ

— DonnaCassata (@DonnaCassata) January 4, 2021

His members keep this clownshow up, Very Serious People are gonna start questioning #MoscowMitch’s political talents…

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Open Thread: New Hampshire Winnows the Field, Slightly

by Anne Laurie|  February 11, 20209:46 pm| 257 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Open Threads, Clown car

Polls opened here in #Londonderry at 6AM. One voter told me she was the 1,501 person to vote. Steady turnout so far this morning! #NHPrimary pic.twitter.com/dv5ZvkSmBX

— Monica Ricci (@MonicaWWLP) February 11, 2020

NEW – @AndrewYang is dropping out. Late last night, we sat for an exclusive interview about what’s next for him, what he wants out of the Yang Gang and what the other candidates need to learn from his https://t.co/L6oSkr0mK5

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 12, 2020

NEW – @MichaelBennet is dropping out too. “Whether you knew it or not, we were having a great time together,” he says of New Hampshire in Concord. “Tonight is not going to be our night. But let me say this to New Hampshire. You may see me once again.” pic.twitter.com/jsHE4gb9Dc

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 12, 2020

I’m sure Bennet is a fine Senator, and may even become president in some less fraught year, assuming we survive this one. And Andrew Yang… meant well. But with a better signal-to-noise ratio, maybe Kamala Harris and/or Cory Booker and/or Julian Castro are still in the race right now. So my sympathy for these guys is limited.

Take a hint, Deval Patrick. Maybe Mike Bloomberg will offer you a cabinet position, if you drop out and endorse him before Super Tuesday.

Hardly worth complaining about Tom ThStheyer, because only the threat of violence or a big on-camera french kiss from Bernie could get him to go away now, and I’m not sure about the first one.

One thing remains true: No one really knows what’s going to happen. Let the voters vote.

— laura olin (@lauraolin) February 12, 2020

NOT DEAD YET:

It really doesn't get sadder than this. https://t.co/V5rkLidgpK

— German Lopez (@germanrlopez) February 12, 2020

Reminder: NH Is for Ratfvckers –

"I hear a lot of Republicans tomorrow will vote for the weakest candidate possible of the Democrats," Trump says of the crossover primary in NH, where independents can vote in either primary.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 11, 2020

Horse-race touts, of course, are lovin’ it.

NEW from me on the coming war of attrition and why this Democratic field is so flawed that even Biden still has a chance https://t.co/8TX0KZ0Ooz

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) February 11, 2020

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