This reads more like something the 3rd Missus Trumpus might throw on...
"BUFF TOEHOLD, looking out of it" had me going for awhile – I reread the post to that point trying to figure what it was Buff was looking out of, and imagining some sort of isolation cell/cage contraption...
Have to agree with Claire about being overdressed but the outfit was absolutely *fabulous*, especially with those shoes. (I suspect Roy played with Barbies when he was a kid,)
Right there with ya. "Dad you say you don't like musicals, but I have a question for you: How many songs do you know from that movie?" "Why, all of them, of course" "Gotta a news flash for ya Dad"
The soundtrack was played continuously when I was a kid, my mom loved it. We wore that record out. And yes, I really can sing pretty much every song.
I struggled with how Comma-La doesn't work, but then I realized this would be sung by a chorus of Republican campaign consultants, so of course they'd use Trump's pronunciation.
Coincidently, thrashing TOEHOLD is my new band name now available for sale at my Bandcamp page. Please visit and drop some crypto on the plate when you leave, thanks.
It’s funny but also sickening how Trump seems to know the media will have his back, that his remarks will be described as “racially tinged” or “racially charged” and not simply RACIST. The press used to be less lily-livered, but those days are dead. Now they need a Trump victory and all the clicks a second term of chaotic destruction will bring with it.
But WaPo outdid itself, shifting the responsibility for Trump’s tirade onto *Harris.* As if Trump is simply a troublesome force of nature she must decide how to deal with.
Any woman who is not currently fellating Donald Trump is "nasty." He called Hillary nasty, as well as Warren, Klobuchar, Megyn Kelly, and Nikki Haley. "Nasty" is usually coupled with some variant of "dumb" or "low IQ."
Part of it is to deflect the fact he doesn't have a good answer, and part of it is the whiny entitlement just below the surface of every conservative man's macho posturing. Despite their veneer of bravado, you won't find bigger crybabies outside of a preschool.
Oh fer sure. The tell came later, at his Harrisburg rally, where, among his many obsessive verbal side trips, he whinged about how he's SUPPOSED to be running against Joe Biden.
What I love about it all is how it makes him look weak. His entire schtick is STRENGTH and whining to the refs ad nauseum is really taking some hot air out of his STRENGTH balloon.
"a troublesome force of nature she must decide how to deal with"
Perfect illustration of some smart people's (I forget the names) thesis that, per the media, only Democrats have agency. THEY are expected to deal with, understand, adapt to Republicans, who are assumed to be unchanging in their lunacy and evil. Similarly, Dems are PROTAGONISTS, whose job it is to confront, learn, and change, while Repubs are fixed in and defined by their antagonist character.
Not only remember but have the entire series on DVD. (Spouse and I prefer late 50s and early 60s TV shows. It helped us get through the first Trumpov Regime.)
You mean it ENTERS A NEW PHASE? Will his bold choice to use the N-word be a CHALLENGE for Harris? Will Democrats debate how she should respond, thus proving that he has cast them into DISARRAY?
"The news about him and J.D. Vance has been terrible lately — maybe by insulting a bunch of black people Trump has managed to change the media frame."
Anyway.
I don't follow the fashion stuff at all because it's like a foreign language. Being old and retired and a misanthrope in area with enough MAGAts (also living in these times) fashion and stuff means nothing.
So with that caveat, Peony's sandals makes me think maybe one of the men should be wearing sandals.
Ohhh... speaking of the Bolt Upright shtick, a nano-second of mourning for CBS News for realizing that making Norah O'Donnell the face of CBS News was at least as stupid an idea as she.
"WYRD is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English "weird," whose meaning has drifted towards an adjectival use with a more general sense of "supernatural" or "uncanny," or simply "unexpected." —Wikipedia, pg. 53,006,987.
Typical Bradford pear: they stink in spring, their fruit is inedible and a sneeze will blow them over. I call them "architect's trees" because they look good on paper.
Well, the digital NYT did go with “Trump Falsely Questions Harris’ Race,” so I’d give them a half a credit for that one article, but between them and WaPo you’d hardly know what a shitshow that interview was. Donald brought up immigrants stealing Black jobs and when challenged, went “All of them, Katie” in response. He whined that Rachel Scott didn’t greet him nicely after she had just shaken his hand, and didn’t even wipe her own on her pantsuit! In short, another weird performance which blew up the internet and made barely a ruffle in the Times’ desperate search for a middle ground between a gibbering felon and a rising star.
WaPo did do a nice, lengthy fact check of all bullshit Trump spewed, but of course could t bring themselves to use “lies,” it was “falsehood after falsehood.” But progress, I guess.
Yeah, what the fuck is up with that? Do they even bother to give a reason, to explain the distinction between the two? Or is it now just a flat-out prohibition on the shorter, simpler, more accurate word?
Just went to read said article, and, while WaPo allowed me to get an editorial without complaining, wants me to "log in" for the actual article, and just what I need, another goddamn "account" sitting out there with another password I have to keep track of. Democracy dies behind a fucking paywall. 🤬
I couldn't believe the WaPo headline you cited was real, but apparently others were shocked as well. They've changed it to the slightly less awful Trump's Attack on Harris' Racial Identity Moves Contest Into New Phase.
It's somewhat dishonest of newspapers to change their headlines online when they get a little blowback. I know, it's partly to increase clicks by making it look like a different article, but here they clearly realized they stepped in it. And what's the "new phase" anyway? Like Trump never made racist or sexist remarks before.
It’s whatever phase is after the “honeymoon phase” the media has been itching to move beyond for the last few days. Basically they want to get back to the horse race and this gave them the cover to do it.
Olbermann had a long piece consisting of choice bits from Trump's appearance. I can't stand to listen to Trump or even look at him. (I have a beautiful mind I insist remains untroubled)
I forced myself to listen to several minutes of the choice bits this morning. More than I've ever probably listened to Trump . Holy fuck is he irritating. If I went into a Frisch's and he was there and I couldn't find a table that wasn't out of earshot I would leave. That whiny, nasal constantly complaining voice is hellishly intolerable. That's not even considering the content. Pureile,woe is me racist, bullshit. I live out in the Heartland, with the Simple Folk, - the common clay morons. Listening to their hero Trump, I've had to somehow lower my opinion of them and I didn't think that was possible.
Funny stuff! I was going to go look up a Ralph Lauren cricket sweater to see what was involved, then I decided I wouldn't because I'd probably end up wanting it.
Leave it to the master panderer to react to the real-live Nazis’ outrage at JD Vance’s wife of darker cast by stepping onstage and repeating the word “Black” in the weirdest, most offensive way possible. That’ll keep the “race critical” among his base happy for a week or two.
Sure nice of that conference to just give him the opportunity…
"Hear that, boys? The Vice President is a-nearin'!"
Really good one today, Mr. E, even bearing into mind the giant hunk of sirloin the Golden Steer served America's hard working and underpaid political satirists. (I realize this skirts a mixed metaphor, but many steak houses have cartoons of a ring-nosed bull in a chef's hat offering the passerby a plate of beef. So I think it flies.)
I didn't see that whole fiasco, just an eleven minute supercut, and I'm charmed to see the Big Three papers sucking their thumbs about what the meaning of it all could possibly be. Tom Cotton was on CNN burning a tire or a cross or something, trying to smoke-bomb the event in what I'd consider the kind of shouty voice that ought to make a journalist say, "Shut the fuck up, hayseed." The issue as he saw it was that it didn't matter what color Kamala was, the real issue was borders, hot San Francisco nights and kitchen tables. At night, all cats--and all veeps--are grey!
I mean, when you think about it, it takes two to be racist: one to observe and make forbidden disgusting comments, and the other to provoke a statement by being of a color infrequently seen at country clubs.
Theres a weird (there's that word again) dynamic going on of half the campaign shoveling raw meat and the other half "staying on message" like Senator Pencil Neck there. My theory goes something like this: the Veep is doing his job (very badly), to shovel the rawest of meat, while the Big Guy is supposed to nod and wink at that scamp, while the backbenchers howl and the grand old men harrumph about the opponent being bad for business and soft on stuff, and the consultants spin and guide the media.
There's 2 problems here. One is that the consultants are mostly out of a job. They're busy with the Lincoln Project and the Bulwark, and their fellow travellers like David Brooks threw up their hands a while ago and are just waiting for the hurricane to pass, so what passes for GOM in the GOP are learning to spin on the fly. The other problem? Theres one person not in alignment with the program. Go on, see if you can guess who it is.
Maybe I'm nuts, but isn't he running for President? Like he wants to get people to vote for him? How does any of this help? If it doesn't help, why do it? And if anyone says "It energizes his base" my head's gonna explode.
I'll keep saying this until I'm blue in the face: Trump doesn't plan on winning by getting more votes. The plan is to
1) have Charlie Kirk's Turning Point goons "ensure the vote" (aka fuck shit up) in strategic counties
2) have lawyers file suits against recognizing the vote totals because of Antifa/Black Panthers/SLA/who cares
3) have slates of alternate electors on speed dial
4) throw ot all in a blender and try to game the Electoral Gollege vote or throw it to the House
There are news stories about each step. With a plan like this, fuck independent voters, fuck GOTV, fuck all y'all. Let Trump be Trump! Unleash Trump! The schizoprenia we're seeing in the campaign I think is a tug-of-war between those who read internal polls and those who say "Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!". Supposedly the co-chairs of the Trump campaign are the ones taking credit for getting the head of Project 2025 to "step down" in an old-school attempmat damage control. You think Trump cares about damage control? Damage is his middle name!
Sorry, I'm having an allergic reaction to seeing "Trump" and "plan" in the same paragraph. His whole life he's done whatever the fuck he wanted to do, and it's mostly worked for him because he is White and was born with billions to squander. A lot of success is about being in the right place at the right time, and he sure was in 2016.
But sure, somewhere there are people who think they can plan this out. They've got a list of clever tactics, mostly stuff they tried last time that didn't work last time. I don't know why any of it would work any better this time. I read somewhere that 5of the 7 swing states have Democratic Secretaries of State, and of the two remaining, one is Georgia, and we know how Georgia worked for him last time.
If I gave the impression I thought this was his plan I failed badly. Of course its not his plan, his plans consist of "hire a lawyer". This is the detrius of the Eastman/Guiliani Run for the Roses in 2020, but run by guys who actually know the rules and the value of getting ducks in a row before attempting a coup. Anybody who knows the real details won't be dropping bread crumbs to some Trump whisperer at the Times or the Journal, let alone Rolling Stone, but I'd bet the farm there is a plan, because there's no other realistic option. Trump can no more "pivot" or play the statesman than he can run a mile or pay a bill from a nobody creditor. I never said it was a GOOD plan, but I see no other plausible option for him.
I still think he really could win it outright, my opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Average American Voter is just that low.
He had shitty lawyers last time because it was a shit case, and good lawyers won't take shit cases because they don't want to lose, lest people start thinking they're not good lawyers. The case will still be shit, because what they're trying to do is still illegal. I don't have much faith in the legal system, but there's some shit that even Trump-appointed Republican judges wouldn't do for him last time, when he was still the actual President.
I saw that "Republican lawyers" were going to challenge the transfer of money from Biden/Harris to Harris. Because of course they would, they've got an army of lawyers. and those lawyers have to prove their usefulness to the campaign while also running up lots of billable hours. Will it work? I have no idea, but at this point I'm extremely skeptical when I hear "Republican lawyers have a plan" because we've seen about a hundred cases where the "plan" is "Lose in court, buy a second beach house with the proceeds."
"ribbed cashmere shrug"
This reads more like something the 3rd Missus Trumpus might throw on...
"BUFF TOEHOLD, looking out of it" had me going for awhile – I reread the post to that point trying to figure what it was Buff was looking out of, and imagining some sort of isolation cell/cage contraption...
I felt like maybe Peoni was overdressed this time.
Everyone's a (fashion) critic
Speaking of fashion, I hope that “scurbs” enters the couture lexicon.
Thanks, fixed.
I almost never click thru the sartorial links, but jesus christ the price tags!
Thanks a lot, BIDEN!
We all might as wear BACON!!!
Hey now, son, you've quit preaching and gone to meddlin'.
If we wear Bacon, who does Bacon wear?
Have to agree with Claire about being overdressed but the outfit was absolutely *fabulous*, especially with those shoes. (I suspect Roy played with Barbies when he was a kid,)
How do you know she wasn't going to a garden party directly afterward? In Greenwich?
Mean Times at Greenwich High
I was thinking a cocktail party in Murray Hill.
I've seen waaay too many old movies, because I can't see Murray Hill without thinking it's a telephone exchange.
Or a drag king https://mistershowbiz.com/
The entire Peoni fashion critique is getting so meta. Now we have a speculative social calendar, lol.
"The news about him and J.D. Vance has been terrible lately — maybe by insulting a bunch of black people Trump has managed to change the media frame."
Bloody hell – it's gonna be a long slightly-less-than-100 days...
How do we solve a problem like Ka-MAH-luh
How do we grab her polls and pull 'em down?
Especially when our guy just likes to holler
Speaks flibberty-gibberish, a Weirdo-for-Whites, a clown?
Nice work!
I fuckin' love that movie, and I don't care who knows it.
Is it one of Your Favorite Things?
Right there with ya. "Dad you say you don't like musicals, but I have a question for you: How many songs do you know from that movie?" "Why, all of them, of course" "Gotta a news flash for ya Dad"
The soundtrack was played continuously when I was a kid, my mom loved it. We wore that record out. And yes, I really can sing pretty much every song.
Coltrane only plays one, but I enjoy the lot of them.
2 marks.
One for distinctive mispronunciation
One for flibberty-gibberish
Ah hell, 3 marks
Gotta hat-tip the formatting too.
I struggled with how Comma-La doesn't work, but then I realized this would be sung by a chorus of Republican campaign consultants, so of course they'd use Trump's pronunciation.
Inside poetry-ball
This is Marks-ism in ACTION!
The JD Vance who is using that name he wasn’t born with - and chose the last name because it’s “Hillbilly adjacent?
The JD Vance who isn’t a Hillbilly?
The JD Vance who grew up in
Middletown, OH - and graduated from The Ohio State University, and Yale?
The JD Vance who said on the Megyn Kelly show, “Obviously she’s not a white person…but I love Aisha, she’s such a good mom.”?
Sorry, that’s supposed to be Usha.
THANKS AUTOCORRECT 🙄
Aisha would have been a BIG problem!
ROTFL, I thought about that 😆🤣😂
Yeah, that one. Was there another? Because, YOICKS!
"Like Mrs. Obama!"
Thanks Peoni – I do, I do...
Anyway, 2 marks.
Ooooohhhhh, I knew this was going to be a good one *rubbing hands together in glee as I settle down to read*
Ah, but how does it compare to that all-the-hits clip I linked to?
Coincidently, thrashing TOEHOLD is my new band name now available for sale at my Bandcamp page. Please visit and drop some crypto on the plate when you leave, thanks.
Do you accept my not-grifty-at-all BernCoin® crypto?
ACCEPT it??!! I DEMAND it!!!
I feel the grift starting.
[lip curl/mustache twirl]
It’s funny but also sickening how Trump seems to know the media will have his back, that his remarks will be described as “racially tinged” or “racially charged” and not simply RACIST. The press used to be less lily-livered, but those days are dead. Now they need a Trump victory and all the clicks a second term of chaotic destruction will bring with it.
But WaPo outdid itself, shifting the responsibility for Trump’s tirade onto *Harris.* As if Trump is simply a troublesome force of nature she must decide how to deal with.
And yet the only clip I had the stomach to catch was complaining that some substantive question was rude or whatever.
"Rude" and "nasty" are Trump code words for "OK you got me, and I don't have any bullshit at the ready to counter you."
Any woman who is not currently fellating Donald Trump is "nasty." He called Hillary nasty, as well as Warren, Klobuchar, Megyn Kelly, and Nikki Haley. "Nasty" is usually coupled with some variant of "dumb" or "low IQ."
Relieved that the NASTY WOMAN t-shirts I made up in 2020 are still relevant.
Evergreen.
I shall lay one on his grave at whatever golf course when he's laid to rest, soon.
Ooh, gotta dig out my NASTY WOMAN brooch a friend made for me!
The pivot from that searing and fact-filled question to "you didn't even say HELLO" was breathtaking.
Part of it is to deflect the fact he doesn't have a good answer, and part of it is the whiny entitlement just below the surface of every conservative man's macho posturing. Despite their veneer of bravado, you won't find bigger crybabies outside of a preschool.
Oh fer sure. The tell came later, at his Harrisburg rally, where, among his many obsessive verbal side trips, he whinged about how he's SUPPOSED to be running against Joe Biden.
What I love about it all is how it makes him look weak. His entire schtick is STRENGTH and whining to the refs ad nauseum is really taking some hot air out of his STRENGTH balloon.
My goodness, he's the whiniest little crybaby god ever made. And here he is at 78. Someone needs to tell him to buck up and stop his sobbing.
The paradox of narcissism is that one is so abjectly dependent upon the opinion of others.
That the supporters, notwithstanding that they clearly have serious cognitive issues, are cool with all the infantile behavior makes me a little sad.
The to have not-white not-man Kamala laugh at them…
My cousin, a journalist in PA who was managing a team covering the event, says the I'm With The Felon t-shirts were selling like hot cakes.
They’re all sick.
Wait til they roll out the update:
"I'm With The Weird Orange Felon Guy"
Ticks every box.
Oh a mighty wind's a-blowin'
It's kickin' up the sand
It's blowin' out a message
To every woman, child & man
Yes a mighty wind's a-blowin'
Cross the land & cross the sea
It's blowin' peace & freedom
It's blowin' equality
Yes it's blowin' peace & freedom
It's blowin' you and me!
Kamala, my lord, Kamala. . .
Murc's Law is a harsh mistress
“As if Trump is simply a troublesome force of nature she must decide how to deal with.” Murc’s Law lives!
"a troublesome force of nature she must decide how to deal with"
Perfect illustration of some smart people's (I forget the names) thesis that, per the media, only Democrats have agency. THEY are expected to deal with, understand, adapt to Republicans, who are assumed to be unchanging in their lunacy and evil. Similarly, Dems are PROTAGONISTS, whose job it is to confront, learn, and change, while Repubs are fixed in and defined by their antagonist character.
Like they say, Ellis, you idiot. It's Murc's Law.
Hey, remember Gene Barry in Burke's Law? Lotsa hot babes, etc.? Yowzah.
This^^right^^here reads pretty funny. Occasionally the formatting justifies itself.
Not only remember but have the entire series on DVD. (Spouse and I prefer late 50s and early 60s TV shows. It helped us get through the first Trumpov Regime.)
They're waiting for him to break out the "NI-(CLANG)!" which is when the election REALLY heats up.
You mean it ENTERS A NEW PHASE? Will his bold choice to use the N-word be a CHALLENGE for Harris? Will Democrats debate how she should respond, thus proving that he has cast them into DISARRAY?
Trump's Bold and Controversial Statements Leave Harris' Team Stymied
Perfect. If New York Times Pitchbot needs to take a vacation, I nominate you for the replacement.
The word from Boeing is...accountability?
Absolutely…to shareholders! Passengers? Hey, good luck, hope that door stays on in flight!
Boeing's space program, boldly challenging the old dictum that "What goes up must come down."
Bravo!
Oh, Joe Kahn had a dream:
"The news about him and J.D. Vance has been terrible lately — maybe by insulting a bunch of black people Trump has managed to change the media frame."
Anyway.
I don't follow the fashion stuff at all because it's like a foreign language. Being old and retired and a misanthrope in area with enough MAGAts (also living in these times) fashion and stuff means nothing.
So with that caveat, Peony's sandals makes me think maybe one of the men should be wearing sandals.
Ohhh... speaking of the Bolt Upright shtick, a nano-second of mourning for CBS News for realizing that making Norah O'Donnell the face of CBS News was at least as stupid an idea as she.
Anyway.
A lesson:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-you-on-team-weird/sharetoken/eb85beb8-39ee-4cc9-abe3-b2331321f6b2
(Actually, weird is the nicest fact-based thing we can about them.)
And real world laughs that don't require any satirization:
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1818737608765456659
“TRUMP FLIPS SCRIPT WITH A VENGEANCE: No more Mr Nice Guy.”
The report: FLIPS SCRIPT
The reality: FLIPS TABLE OVER IN INFANTILE FIT
KETCHUP FLIES
Just like Jesus with the moneychangers at the Temple
"WYRD is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English "weird," whose meaning has drifted towards an adjectival use with a more general sense of "supernatural" or "uncanny," or simply "unexpected." —Wikipedia, pg. 53,006,987.
So our use of weird would be connected to a possible fate or destiny of giving Trump if not the entire party the defeat or loss they fully deserve?
That's what I'm getting at, yes.
And the definition's "uncanny" reminds me of Grouchy's recent phrase "Uncanny Valley PTA."
"I'm gonna tel you all a story about a New York orange nut
who ain't got the sense God gave to a grasshopper's butt.."
Oh, this is gonna be fun. Thank you for the inspiration.
I've always liked that song. She's cool.
A Scot's phrase is "to dree one's weird", meaning to accept or embrace one's fate.
I kin
Damn it, "I ken the Dook of Orange should dree his weird ads stinking loser..."
Can't text for squat: medical results fair: but I slammed my truck door on three fingers.
Somewhat bruised..
Ouch!
Grr: "...should dree his weird AS stinking loser".
My weird today was to cut up a wretched Bradford pear that blew down in yesterday's thunderstorm.
The boyfriend gave me a hash oil vape and some gummies so I'm waiting a day.
I'll be fine...
Typical Bradford pear: they stink in spring, their fruit is inedible and a sneeze will blow them over. I call them "architect's trees" because they look good on paper.
Accepting his fate (which TBH has yet to come) is something our Donny is in no way wired for.
"Bubble bubble, toil and trouble...." As always, Billy Shakes knows weird.
Well, the digital NYT did go with “Trump Falsely Questions Harris’ Race,” so I’d give them a half a credit for that one article, but between them and WaPo you’d hardly know what a shitshow that interview was. Donald brought up immigrants stealing Black jobs and when challenged, went “All of them, Katie” in response. He whined that Rachel Scott didn’t greet him nicely after she had just shaken his hand, and didn’t even wipe her own on her pantsuit! In short, another weird performance which blew up the internet and made barely a ruffle in the Times’ desperate search for a middle ground between a gibbering felon and a rising star.
Did you catch the aggressive move with her water bottle? WEIRD.
WaPo did do a nice, lengthy fact check of all bullshit Trump spewed, but of course could t bring themselves to use “lies,” it was “falsehood after falsehood.” But progress, I guess.
Donald Falsehood, robs from the truth and gives to the fascists.
He falsehoods like a rug.
You, sir, are on fire today.
Yeah, what the fuck is up with that? Do they even bother to give a reason, to explain the distinction between the two? Or is it now just a flat-out prohibition on the shorter, simpler, more accurate word?
Just went to read said article, and, while WaPo allowed me to get an editorial without complaining, wants me to "log in" for the actual article, and just what I need, another goddamn "account" sitting out there with another password I have to keep track of. Democracy dies behind a fucking paywall. 🤬
The changed the headline, like a bunch of cowards without even the conviction of their lack of conviction
Charles Foster Kane writes out his Declaration of Principles, then says, "But if you don't like them I have others!"
If NYT-ee NYT is interested, I know a guy* who has a few dozen convictions he might be willing to make some deals on, know what I mean?
*"I know a guy" is my favorite preface toward a sentence full of promise...
The Jiminy Glick reference alone is praiseworthy; the costuming superb...
Bill Bear-ometer gives it 9 of a possible 10 Bear claws
I couldn't believe the WaPo headline you cited was real, but apparently others were shocked as well. They've changed it to the slightly less awful Trump's Attack on Harris' Racial Identity Moves Contest Into New Phase.
Never doubt the mendacity of the prestige press!
Tubby shit the bed in a spectacularly racist way -- we've got ourselves a horse race!
And what is this "new phase?" My guess is "all-out racist and misogynistic foghorns blaring loud enough to be heard on Neptune."
The media will, of course, report that Trump use "an old colloquial term for a person of color when describing his opponent as a female dog."
From Neptune to Uranus!
Wait, that wasn't the phase we have been in since Biden dropped out?
It's somewhat dishonest of newspapers to change their headlines online when they get a little blowback. I know, it's partly to increase clicks by making it look like a different article, but here they clearly realized they stepped in it. And what's the "new phase" anyway? Like Trump never made racist or sexist remarks before.
It’s whatever phase is after the “honeymoon phase” the media has been itching to move beyond for the last few days. Basically they want to get back to the horse race and this gave them the cover to do it.
New phase? Oh no, he's not PIVOTING again, is he?
Like the gold-plated revolving door at the entrance to Trump Tower.
If you pivot four times, doesn't that just bring you back where you started?
His phase has been stuck on 'stun' for so long I doubt it can be reset.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Awfully "down the memory hole"-ish.
Not a spine to be found amongst those fatuous fellatin' phonies.
So their fallback from abject cowardice is total incomprehensibility.
That's what Trumps do best!
Olbermann had a long piece consisting of choice bits from Trump's appearance. I can't stand to listen to Trump or even look at him. (I have a beautiful mind I insist remains untroubled)
I forced myself to listen to several minutes of the choice bits this morning. More than I've ever probably listened to Trump . Holy fuck is he irritating. If I went into a Frisch's and he was there and I couldn't find a table that wasn't out of earshot I would leave. That whiny, nasal constantly complaining voice is hellishly intolerable. That's not even considering the content. Pureile,woe is me racist, bullshit. I live out in the Heartland, with the Simple Folk, - the common clay morons. Listening to their hero Trump, I've had to somehow lower my opinion of them and I didn't think that was possible.
Funny stuff! I was going to go look up a Ralph Lauren cricket sweater to see what was involved, then I decided I wouldn't because I'd probably end up wanting it.
Frisch’s…mmmmm…now I want a Big Boy.
Big Boy , extra tartar sauce on the side. 7 minute fries.
That sounds great!
We went last month. I had a Swiss Miss.
Did you catch the couple of times Trump said 'purple' instead of 'people'? Guy's losing it.
Maybe when you're orange, everyone else looks purple?
Purple is the New Black.
OK, ok – oof.
"The sky was all purple there were people running everywhere. . ." (the late Prince Rogers Nelson)
"And some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground"
Deep, man, deep.
Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?
Leave it to the master panderer to react to the real-live Nazis’ outrage at JD Vance’s wife of darker cast by stepping onstage and repeating the word “Black” in the weirdest, most offensive way possible. That’ll keep the “race critical” among his base happy for a week or two.
Sure nice of that conference to just give him the opportunity…
"Hear that, boys? The Vice President is a-nearin'!"
Really good one today, Mr. E, even bearing into mind the giant hunk of sirloin the Golden Steer served America's hard working and underpaid political satirists. (I realize this skirts a mixed metaphor, but many steak houses have cartoons of a ring-nosed bull in a chef's hat offering the passerby a plate of beef. So I think it flies.)
I didn't see that whole fiasco, just an eleven minute supercut, and I'm charmed to see the Big Three papers sucking their thumbs about what the meaning of it all could possibly be. Tom Cotton was on CNN burning a tire or a cross or something, trying to smoke-bomb the event in what I'd consider the kind of shouty voice that ought to make a journalist say, "Shut the fuck up, hayseed." The issue as he saw it was that it didn't matter what color Kamala was, the real issue was borders, hot San Francisco nights and kitchen tables. At night, all cats--and all veeps--are grey!
I mean, when you think about it, it takes two to be racist: one to observe and make forbidden disgusting comments, and the other to provoke a statement by being of a color infrequently seen at country clubs.
"... cartoons of a ring-nosed bull in a chef's hat offering the passerby a plate of beef."
Classic sendup of the genre: https://tinyurl.com/2jb9azh8
Cluckin' Chicken, sampling his own fried leg: "I'm delicious!"
"Suicidal food", as a website I saw long ago put it. It's been a long-time tradition.
Oh, that’s great! “Any last words, Clucky?”
Theres a weird (there's that word again) dynamic going on of half the campaign shoveling raw meat and the other half "staying on message" like Senator Pencil Neck there. My theory goes something like this: the Veep is doing his job (very badly), to shovel the rawest of meat, while the Big Guy is supposed to nod and wink at that scamp, while the backbenchers howl and the grand old men harrumph about the opponent being bad for business and soft on stuff, and the consultants spin and guide the media.
There's 2 problems here. One is that the consultants are mostly out of a job. They're busy with the Lincoln Project and the Bulwark, and their fellow travellers like David Brooks threw up their hands a while ago and are just waiting for the hurricane to pass, so what passes for GOM in the GOP are learning to spin on the fly. The other problem? Theres one person not in alignment with the program. Go on, see if you can guess who it is.
Maybe I'm nuts, but isn't he running for President? Like he wants to get people to vote for him? How does any of this help? If it doesn't help, why do it? And if anyone says "It energizes his base" my head's gonna explode.
There's not enough meth in the world to energize the MAGA base.
Mr Scott, Energize the crap out of 'em!
I'll keep saying this until I'm blue in the face: Trump doesn't plan on winning by getting more votes. The plan is to
1) have Charlie Kirk's Turning Point goons "ensure the vote" (aka fuck shit up) in strategic counties
2) have lawyers file suits against recognizing the vote totals because of Antifa/Black Panthers/SLA/who cares
3) have slates of alternate electors on speed dial
4) throw ot all in a blender and try to game the Electoral Gollege vote or throw it to the House
There are news stories about each step. With a plan like this, fuck independent voters, fuck GOTV, fuck all y'all. Let Trump be Trump! Unleash Trump! The schizoprenia we're seeing in the campaign I think is a tug-of-war between those who read internal polls and those who say "Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!". Supposedly the co-chairs of the Trump campaign are the ones taking credit for getting the head of Project 2025 to "step down" in an old-school attempmat damage control. You think Trump cares about damage control? Damage is his middle name!
Sorry, I'm having an allergic reaction to seeing "Trump" and "plan" in the same paragraph. His whole life he's done whatever the fuck he wanted to do, and it's mostly worked for him because he is White and was born with billions to squander. A lot of success is about being in the right place at the right time, and he sure was in 2016.
But sure, somewhere there are people who think they can plan this out. They've got a list of clever tactics, mostly stuff they tried last time that didn't work last time. I don't know why any of it would work any better this time. I read somewhere that 5of the 7 swing states have Democratic Secretaries of State, and of the two remaining, one is Georgia, and we know how Georgia worked for him last time.
If I gave the impression I thought this was his plan I failed badly. Of course its not his plan, his plans consist of "hire a lawyer". This is the detrius of the Eastman/Guiliani Run for the Roses in 2020, but run by guys who actually know the rules and the value of getting ducks in a row before attempting a coup. Anybody who knows the real details won't be dropping bread crumbs to some Trump whisperer at the Times or the Journal, let alone Rolling Stone, but I'd bet the farm there is a plan, because there's no other realistic option. Trump can no more "pivot" or play the statesman than he can run a mile or pay a bill from a nobody creditor. I never said it was a GOOD plan, but I see no other plausible option for him.
I still think he really could win it outright, my opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Average American Voter is just that low.
He had shitty lawyers last time because it was a shit case, and good lawyers won't take shit cases because they don't want to lose, lest people start thinking they're not good lawyers. The case will still be shit, because what they're trying to do is still illegal. I don't have much faith in the legal system, but there's some shit that even Trump-appointed Republican judges wouldn't do for him last time, when he was still the actual President.
I saw that "Republican lawyers" were going to challenge the transfer of money from Biden/Harris to Harris. Because of course they would, they've got an army of lawyers. and those lawyers have to prove their usefulness to the campaign while also running up lots of billable hours. Will it work? I have no idea, but at this point I'm extremely skeptical when I hear "Republican lawyers have a plan" because we've seen about a hundred cases where the "plan" is "Lose in court, buy a second beach house with the proceeds."
I read somewhere that the invisible accordion comes out when he’s really lying
His lips are moving. Or he's touching some sort of electronic device.