Sarah Palin Will Interview Donald Trump Tonight http://t.co/cmpSJiqL2u pic.twitter.com/UiRQKBctpE
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) August 28, 2015
Somewhere, Molly Ivins and Hunter Thompson are sharing a beer, shaking their heads about how easy the current crop of political humorists has it…
Sam Clovis called Trump "cancer on conservatism." Then endorsed: http://t.co/FLh88VaCRV But won't say "how much he would be paid" by Trump.
— Walter Shapiro (@MrWalterShapiro) August 28, 2015
Jennifer Jacobs, in the Des Moines Register article:
… “(Trump) left me with questions about his moral center and his foundational beliefs. … His comments reveal no foundation in Christ, which is a big deal,” evangelical conservative activist Sam Clovis said in an email just 35 days before he quit his job as Republican Rick Perry’s Iowa chairman and signed on with Trump’s campaign.
In the emails, shared by Perry backers Wednesday with The Des Moines Register, Clovis castigated Trump for his past liberal positions and admission that he has never asked for God’s forgiveness for any wrongdoing.
In an interview Wednesday, Clovis verified that he’d written the sharply worded criticisms of Trump, including one email in which he praises Perry for calling Trump a “cancer on conservatism.”…
Clovis defected from Perry’s team at a time when the former Texas governor has been struggling to cover his campaign aides’ salaries.
Iowa Republicans said Wednesday that Clovis’ move raises questions about how he reconciles endorsing Trump with his previous stances and statements, and whether he was motivated less by ideology and more by the promise of a big paycheck from a business mogul who has said he is willing to spend as much as a billion dollars to get elected…
Sarah Palin would really wish you would stop asking about her being a possible Trump running mate. And start treating it like it's a fact.
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) August 28, 2015
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Apart from wishing confusion upon our enemies (who are pretty confused already!), what’s on the agenda for the start of the weekend?
Calouste
Considering that for movement conservatism and Prosperity Gospel, money is their ideology, I don’t see a contradiction.
Scout211
What is happening with this blog and why does Is it Down Right Now say that this blog is “down for everyone” and “the server isn’t responding?”
It has said that for the past three days.
Benw
Since a Trump/Palin campaign would want to get rid of PP, it would be Trum/Alin 2016!
Villago Delenda Est
OK, Jehovah. You have one last chance to prove you exist. Meteor on The Donald and Mooselini tonight.
Get ‘er done.
Villago Delenda Est
@Scout211: It’s been up for me the last three days, even through a Win 10 upgrade. Firefox on Win 7 then Win 10.
srv
@Scout211: Crumbling infrastructure, John’s intertubes need flushing.
dedc79
A copy of the interview has already been leaked to youtube
Jeffro
Can we get a GoFundMe going, to pay for a PI to follow these two horny-for-each-other klowns after the interview?
lgerard
Over/under on new “‘words” invented during this interview?
Amir Khalid
@Benw:
You has winned da Intertoobz!
Mike E
@Villago Delenda Est: Yahway or the highway!
Baud
Sarah Palin is boring.
Baud
@efgoldman:
Congrats. And sympathies for your wife.
shell
I dont think the usual use of the word ‘interview’ should be applied here. Try ‘tongue bath.’
*************
Awaiting the birth of my eldest nephew’s first baby. My sisters gonna be a grandmother!? Goddamn, I feel old.
Gimlet
If Erika survives the mountains, it could regain intensity over the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane center added.
Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency on Friday, noting the storm could travel “up the spine of Florida” from Sunday into next week.
Scott said the Tampa area on Florida’s Gulf Coast was a major flood concern due to saturation from rain this month.
I’ve heard Republicans repeatedly say “America’s broke”. They need to cut the budget. Perhaps Gov. Scott could talk to the IMF about a loan if it’s necessary. They’ve done well by Greece I think.
Baud
@shell:
Congrats!
sm*t cl*de
OMFSM, that photograph. It cannot be natural to have a head so closely resembling a carbuncle. It is as if he blew his original head off with a shotgun, and the new one is partway through growing back.
MattF
The snark generator here on my desk just exploded.
Heliopause
Trump’s got good numbers again today on Pollster.
If you knew nothing about the polls and asked yourself at the outset, out of the field of 17, “who are the three most dangerous, batshit insane candidates who would get us all killed if elected,” I think the answer would be pretty easy: Trump, Carson, and Cruz. Current Pollster average of these three together is 46%. If you asked yourself, “who are the three candidates that the party establishment would be most comfortable with” they would be, IMO, Bush, Walker, and Christie. Together they are polling 15.4%. OK, let’s help out the establishment by giving them Rubio, which gets them up to 22%. Now add Kasich, they’re up to 26.1%. Not looking good. Better throw in Fiorina; 31.9%. At least they’re past Trump now. Fine, make it Everybody Else: 44.3% TrumpCarsonCruz beats Everybody Else, and that’s giving Huckabee and Santorum to The Establishment. Funny.
Thoughtful Today
I assume…
Ted Cruz’s Dad’s revised prophecy is where Ted Cruz becomes Trump’s Vice President and then Cruz masterfully engineers a House Of Cards moment in March of 2017!
12 years of Prophecy instead of only eight!
Villago Delenda Est
@efgoldman: It has been a bit slow for me as well. Perhaps Steve needs to scare the bejezus out of the server hamsters or something.
Mike in NC
This guy Sam Clovis is clearly someone who never missed a meal in his life, and he was happy to dump Perry for 30 pieces of Trump’s silver.
Mike in NC
Last night I installed an update to the OS on my iPad and it seems to have helped with loading BJ.
Amir Khalid
@Mike in NC: Sam Clovis doesn’t just look like he’s never missed a meal in his life. He looks like he’s had seconds and even thirds at most of them.
chromeagnomen
@efgoldman: hey hey hey! i’m just catching up on postings, and i see yesterday that you are actually considering rooting for the mets for the rest of this year?!?!?! what the fuckity-fucking-fuck!!!
/red sox fan since the early 50s
WereBear
I like that Trump is ripping the veneer off the Republican pretense of sanity and statesmanship. Next Presidential cycle it will be that robot that vomits and a Triffid.
mdblanche
@lgerard: All of them.
lgerard
@Amir Khalid:
He’s corn fed
M. Bouffant
@Thoughtful Today: They’d have to wait until 2019. 22nd Amendment says you can only run twice if you serve less than two yrs. unelected.
cckids
@shell:
I found out via FB this year that a classmate from high school has SEVEN grandchildren.
We are 52 years old. That is just not right.
Plus, to completely blow my mind, this meanest-of-the-mean girls has become (at least on FB) an uber-Xtian. I’m glad she lives all the way across the country.
mai naem mobile
Maybe the Trumpster thinls he can get Princess Sarah of the Northwest Snowbillies Megan Kelly’s Fozxy gig.
A guy
I really don’t know if it’s good or bad but trump is kicking everybody’s ass. There no denying it
Archon
@Mike in NC:
Modern day conservatism is basically one gigantic grift operation.
PurpleGirl
@Scout211: BJ was loading slowly for me, but it’s back to normal for me. Not seeing any other problems with it. But then I’m still using Win XP… (Can’t afford to buy all new software for doing things, so I stay with what has been a stable platform for me.)
WereBear
I’m sorry. I’m not catching the difference?
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman: Congratulations. I hope Mrs. efgoldman enjoys her dinner, she has earned it. Have a great time. :)
PurpleGirl
@efgoldman: Hope you and Mrs EFG have a great evening and best wishes for another 38 years.
Cacti
POTUS has ordered an across the board 1% pay raise for federal civilian employees and 1.3% for military personnel for fiscal year 2016.
Link
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Congratulations, and enjoy. Isn’t that the place that blew up a few years ago?
Myiq2xu
Bill Clinton Sought State Department OK For Paid Speeches Related to North Korea, Congo, New E-mails Show
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike in NC: Sam Clovis obviously worships the same deity that Trump does.
Mammon.
gnomedad
@sm*t cl*de:
Do you know how much that stings?
Myiq2xu
Villago Delenda Est
@Myiq2xu: Which is significant for what reason, pray tell? Did Reagan on either Bush ever consult with the State Department about their overseas or foreign policy related speeches?
Baud
@Cacti:
Good.
Baud
@WereBear:
My first thought also.
PaulW
Please don’t pray to include Sarah Palin as a Veep to any ticket. My drinking game list would pretty much boil down to “bottoms up.”
http://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2015/08/update-gop-debate-drinking-game-for.html
Omnes Omnibus
@Myiq2xu: And?
PaulW
@efgoldman:
congrats on the anniversary.
Baud
I hope the servers are fixed soon so we can get the regulars back to dilute the paid trolls.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@shell:
FWIW, my late brother’s girlfriend is already a grandmother of three and she’s two years younger than I am. And at 46, I ain’t that old.
Baud
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Damn.
jl
@Villago Delenda Est: From the link, Bill Clinton declined the two invitations, which means there must be an even huger scandal than we first suspected, somehow, than if he had accepted
HRC did a thing, whatever it was, and something must be fishy about it. It is big news and raises questions, no matter what.
If that is not fair and objective coverage of important news, I just don’t know what is,
Amir Khalid
@Myiq2xu:
He asked. State said no. No scandal. End of story.
Scout211
Hmmm. Okay, on my mac and the site works fine.
On the iPad, the desktop version takes forever to load but the iPad (mobile) version works fine.
Still, Is it Down Right Now? says balloon-juice.com is down and the servers are not responding.
Very strange.
Myiq2xu
This one is definitely on topic:
John Revolta
Oh fuck. Somebody showed the troll how to blockquote.
Batten down the hatches!
Baud
Anyone ever watch Tiny House Hunters on HGTV? Ho-lee cow, those houses are small.
Scout211
@Baud:
I hope they have a follow-up on those people after at least a year living in those tiny houses. I am not sure that living in those tiny houses will turn out they way they think it will.
Scout211
@Scout211:
correction: mac is slow, too
Roger Moore
@Thoughtful Today:
Nope. If the VP succeeds the President less than two years into the term, he’s only eligible for reelection once. Check the 22nd Amendment. Also, too, the 12th Amendment requirement that the VP meet the same eligibility criteria as the President means you can’t wriggle around the 22nd by having somebody who’s termed out run as VP and then have the President resign.
Baud
@Scout211:
That would be fun to see. Lots of broken relationships perhaps.
JPL
@Myiq2xu: At the start of every speech, Trump talks about the Bible. It’s fair game and has nothing to do with Hillary.
trollhattan
@Myiq2xu:
Joke’s on you; my IQ is negative.
Baud
@JPL:
He probably sees it as an autobiography.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Baud:
No kidding. She got married at 18, her son got married at 18. I’m pretty sure she’s getting him a vastectomy for the holidays this year.
mdblanche
@Roger Moore: Isn’t it cute you think niceties like that would still matter in Ted Cruz’s America.
BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan:
That’s what happens when you live too close to the State Capitol.
patrick II
“So, tell me Don, what newspapers do you read?”
WereBear
@Baud: Yep, they hate the holy heck out of the sin.
WereBear
@Myiq2xu: dude, gotta put a warning on that. Thought my brain had melted.
cckids
@WereBear: Ha ! Well, at least all the FB stuff she posts is about “letting God take over”, etc. She’s not at all political, very family-oriented from what I see. It’s just such a total reversal from her HS persona it is surprising.
Gimlet
After defying multiple orders to issue marriage licenses to gays and lesbians, a Kentucky clerk is taking her case to the Supreme Court.
Rowan County clerk Kim Davis on Friday filed an emergency request with the court to put a temporary hold on a lower-court ruling that effectively forces her to begin serving gay couples, saying that complying with the order would violate her religious beliefs.
Davis’ request was addressed to Justice Elena Kagan, who oversees emergency petitions from Kentucky.
The petition goes on: “If Davis’ religious objection cannot be accommodated when Kentucky marriage licenses are available in more than 130 marriage licensing locations … then elected officials have no real religious freedom when they take public office.”
Thoughtful Today
;)
A couple of ya’all are confusing our neo-Prophets Master Plan with Constitutional safeguards.
Spoiler alert: They’re not the same thing.
Rich (In Name Only) in reno
This is the Whore of Babylon interviewing the Beast as prophesized in the Book of Revelations, isn’t it?
Anne Laurie
@efgoldman: Congratulations, and here’s for many more to come!
Kropadope
@Myiq2xu:
Unfamiliar with the term “open thread,” smarty pants?
Only someone who would quote Sarah Palin as an authority on anything would aggrandize their own intelligence so much. “She was a governor and almost VP. If she’s smart enough to do that, I must be a genius!!!”
rikyrah
They are all about the GRIFT. This entire post was hilarious. Of all of them, Trump is the most honest. Think about that…..LOL
trollhattan
@BillinGlendaleCA:
A-yup. And also, too, that
giantfaint sucking sound is what’s left of my soul vanishing into the void.Kropadope
@rikyrah:
Skinny kid at fat camp principle?
rikyrah
@efgoldman:
Wow , 38 years.
CONGRATULATIONS.
JGabriel
Des Moines Register via Anne Laurie @ Top:
Expecting consistency from a Republican political consultant? That’s hilarious.
JGabriel
@efgoldman: Congratulations, and best wishes for many more.
rikyrah
@Baud:
I don’t get the show
ThresherK
@Baud: Wait, is that being cross-promoted with “Little People, Big World”? I consume absolutely no reality TV.
jibeaux
This split between the chamber of commerce types and the even nuttier types is coming, if they keep losing non-gerrymandered races. There won’t be anything to lose, and in the nuttier minds everything to gain by embracing their true batshit selves. Do you think we’re at that point yet, or later, or never? I think we’re close. I don’t think Republicans want Trump as an independent, and they simultaneously favor him above the others and he wins highest marks for the one they won’t support (there’s your split.) Fascinating dynamic.
Ultraviolet Thunder
I’m stuck at LaGuardia past my bedtime trying to get from Manchester NH to Detroit before I have to get up in the morning. It’s already an hour past my bedtime.
Some day I’ll be too old for this shit.
Maybe soon.
Gravenstone
@Scout211: Didn’t they used to have a name for tiny houses? I think it was, an “apartment”?
PurpleGirl
TCM: on now Casablanca. They haven’t sung Les Marseilles yet.
Omnes Omnibus
@PurpleGirl: It’s coming soon.
Iowa Old Lady
Friend of mine in Florida is getting email from Publix urging her to stock up before the hurricane. They send her a list of possible buys, including latex free examining gloves. Since she’s an English professor, she puzzled over what she’s meant to do with them.
Gravenstone
@JGabriel:
I think this is what you meant …
WereBear
@cckids: Well, pardon my sarcasm then. It sounds like it turned things around for her and she doesn’t want to be mean anymore.
Gin & Tonic
@PurpleGirl: Sorry, La Marseillaise.
/pedant
Gin & Tonic
So there was a Cole post, then it disappeared. Since it takes about a half-hour per page load, I can’t be 100% sure, though.
PurpleGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: As many times as I watch the movie, that scene hits me emotionally.
PurpleGirl
@Gin & Tonic: No problem.
mdblanche
You know, I just remembered this isn’t the first time Trump and Palin have held a meeting of the mindlesses.
Debbie
@PurpleGirl:
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen that movie, but I always get teary when they start singing.
trollhattan
@Iowa Old Lady:
Removing passive voice once and for all?
Gawd, I don’t know but suppose if there’s flooding the sewers back up and everything wet is a possible biohazard. I’d recommend going to higher ground but it’s Florida….
WereBear
@PurpleGirl: me too.
I believe I have figured out why we have relatively few yoots commenting here. The mobile version barely lets you comment.
schrodinger's cat
What happened to the thread extolling the virtues of Red State in the years past?
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: Maybe Cole rethought the value of explaining that measles are better than cholera.
sukabi
@M. Bouffant: just located the next amendment on the chopping block.
Gin & Tonic
@schrodinger’s cat: It’s back.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I was going to say, that the Republicans were always this bad and that Cole didn’t see it because he didn’t want to see it.
The Florida recount, the run up to the Iraq War are just two examples from the top of my head about their general awfulness.
NotMax
To save time, here’s the transcript.
SP: Tough but fair question first. Iran is the devil, right?
DT: In every poll, my support skyrockets when I talk about the evil of the so-called agreement with Iran.
SP: Have you ever been to Mexico?
DT: Beautiful beaches, beautiful people. Why they want to leave – well, that’ll stop once I’m president. (loud clap) Boom! Just like that.
SP: How great are you gonna make America again? Really great, really, really great or super-duper great?
DT: Just look around – I’ve built great things. I’ve had a great TV show – a ratings bonanza. Huge audience, huge success. I know great, great is what I do, why so many, many great, great people are flocking to me.
SP: Let’s get the facts on the table before we go. You’re really, really rich, right?
DT: You betcha. *wink*
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: They’ve gotten worse in the past 20 years, but they have been awful for my whole life.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Preach it, O. O.
All politics is dirty. Republican politics is filthy.
Anne Laurie
@Gravenstone:
Yeah, except these are perfect little jewel boxes for special snowflakes…
I’m not being fair (only seen a couple shows, when we’re at the gym on the weekend) but it’s on the same kind of take-a-semi-reasonable-concept-and-pound-it-into-senseless-display model as most of the HGTV shows I’ve seen. “Tiny houses” are defined as under 600sqft, which is okay for a single person with maybe a cat or small dog… then they find couples, with several big dogs, or two young kids, or she’s pregnant but they’re talking about zero-carbon earth toilets & gravity plumbing. And of course half the time, they’ve never owned their own home before, so they have no idea of upkeep beyond “call the landlord”. And it’s really hard to get the proper permits in most cities, so the acreage they settle for is either on the inlaws’ land, or so far out in the boonies that getting utilities hooked up will cost as much again as the house proper…
At least half the few couples in the shows I’ve seen end up abandoning the concept within a few months, but we’re all assured it’s a valuable learning experience.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie:
A couple of shows. Just in case eemom isn’t around.
Bobbo
@dedc79: pure genius. Better than a rickroll
catclub
@Omnes Omnibus: exactly.. If she had had the same emails on a federal server, having classified information on them is just as bad – actually worse, because all the machines have to be purged of classified info when there is ‘spillage’.
Kyle
Like the big super PACs, I suppose he’s laying low until the carnage leaves a winner, but where is Karl Rove? It sort of freaks me out that he’s not being heard from, and you know that bastard is up to no good.
Bobby Thomson
@Roger Moore: the 12th amendment doesn’t actually say that.
Anne Laurie
@Kyle: Last I heard, the NYTimes said the sumbitch was “dedicating” his American Crossroads PAC to attacking Hillary Clinton. Same article said there was “a history” of bad blood between Turdblossom and JEB! (so the Establishment GOP is holding their skirts away from Karl’s contamination) and that newer fiercer ratfvkers like the Kochs were running right over his pudgy rump on their way to 2016.
So, I’m not counting him out, not while he’s this side of the Styx. But I hope he’s enjoying getting kicked around by the monsters he helped create.
Kyle
@Anne Laurie: I would like to hope that all the money he wasted in 2012 has diminished his influence but “rational thought” isn’t something I assume from the right wing folks.
NotMax
Ingrid Bergman day on TCM. If anything, somehow she got better and better looking the older she became.
Mike G
A big positive deal as far as I’m concerned. We’ve had way too much of aggressive assholes who think, nay KNOW their Xtianity excuses any and all evils they commit.
low-tech cyclist
@schrodinger’s cat:
They weren’t pure evil IMHO until 1993, when they decided to engage in massive resistance to Clinton’s plan for universal health care just because its passage would have hurt them politically. (Major props to Digby for refusing to let us forget about or overlook this history.)
My dad used to say that both parties desire the best for this country, they just have differing views on what that is. This was when the GOP proved him wrong, putting their political fortunes ahead of the well-being of tens of millions of Americans.
And then the Gingrich Revolution of 1994 came along and locked the GOP in as the Party of Evil.