Cecil the lion immortalized as Beanie Baby http://t.co/oSvyJ67d0W pic.twitter.com/LR76CGvQHs
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) August 4, 2015
Maybe one of the lower-polling GOP candidates could shoot it with a shotgun for publicity. https://t.co/AyIEPoibsj
— Andrew Stiles (@AndrewStilesUSA) August 4, 2015
I can’t play Vampira, much less Vampirella, but with enough green body paint I can fake a pretty good Broom-Hilda. In the spirit of past-its-sell-by-date late-night schlock, some recent ‘Hail to the Hairpiece’ cheez…
"His ego is driving this train…and he keeps blackmailing the party with this 3rd party idea." @TheRickWilson #Trump pic.twitter.com/F9rlMM8vn4
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) August 5, 2015
There is nothing more tiresome than respectable Republicans pretending that they don't know how all this ever happened to their party
— SkarkWeekSneak (@word_34) August 4, 2015
Matt Bai, at Yahoo Politics, “Donald Trump Amuses Us to Death“:
… This was back in 1999, just like the Prince song, when I was a junior political correspondent at Newsweek, and Trump was pretending to run for president for the very first time. His venue then was a complete train wreck called the Reform Party, which for a brief moment, believe it or not, was a pretty big deal in American politics, but by that point was ripping itself in half.
Founded by Ross Perot in 1995, Reform was then led, nominally, by the wrestler-turned-Minnesota-governor Jesse Ventura, a populist libertarian with whom I spent an inordinate amount of time in those days. But Pat Buchanan, the disenchanted social conservative, had decided to stage a hostile takeover so he could use the party’s ballot line to run for president again — an eventuality Ventura was so determined to stop that he would have gladly thrown his support behind any half-wit degenerate who came through the door with some cash and a plausible resume.
And in walked Donald Trump…
Marcy Wheeler, at Salon, enjoying the show:
… While once thought of as a flash in the pan, Trump’s candidacy has proven to be a far bigger problem for the Republican Party than establishment figures ever expected. In coping with such a colossal headache, the Party seems to be following the Kübler-Ross model of grief — the model frequently used to describe how people come to grips with the death of a loved one.
Most institutional Republicans still appear to still be in the denial stage: “He doesn’t really want to be President, he just wants to run and get lots of attention doing so.”… “As soon as yet another imagined dream candidate gets in the race he’ll start eating into Trump’s lead.” “He — or an staffer — said something so offensive it will make him toxic.” Curiously, this latter form of denial always seems to focus on what Trump said, not what he did.
It’s that series of things that Trump has said, starting with the claim that immigrants are rapists,, which Republicans (fairly) worry might damage the party brand, that has led them to start lashing out — although the response was muted, as anything short of full-blown nativism risks damaging the national prospects of GOP candidates these days…
As Trump’s continued strength — and decisive pull in any third-party bid has become clear — the focus has shifted to securing assurances that he won’t withdraw his considerable fortune from the GOP and run on the Donald Trump Party ticket…
Kitsch is King: Trump and the Right Wing Authoritarian Style
https://t.co/khHbVnWiUk
From earlier today…
— Billmon (@billmon1) August 4, 2015
craigie
This is all fun and everything, but these dangerous morons are ruining the country. Or maybe they already have.
How do we sober them up, or if not that, make them go away and start their own country? It’s like a relative who has gone crazy and won’t move out.
Omnes Omnibus
@craigie: Vote. In every election. Every time.
Steeplejack
Much crazy. Many failure. So scare.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Perot-Ventura-Buchanan seems (seemed) like a perfecta of crazy, but when you look at the prospective GOP field for ’16 they don’t seem so “out there,” do they? Hell, they’d probably fit right into the debate tomorrow night. Ngrr!
BillinGlendaleCA
Maddow has just spent 15 minutes telling me that Fox News is manipulating the data(the polls). Knock me over with a feather.
ETA: Hey Rachel, I’m never getting back that 15 minutes.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@BillinGlendaleCA: She seems a little late to the party.
Little Boots
I hate that I was such a dick. hate that.
Little Boots
I seriously called somebody a cunt?
really?
Little Boots
Can I miss omnes? can that happen?
Little Boots
steeplejack, I suck, sorry.
Major Major Major Major
Fine, I missed a joke and got a few hundred miles in the South China Sea wrong. You try being stoned before lunch for work. Sheesh.
Little Boots
you may be the most honorable man on this site, ever.
Little Boots
seriously steeplejack, not dicking around, not dicking around, sorry I am so fucking annoying sometimes. miss you, really.
Little Boots
and incidentally, you could be a bit nicer too.
Little Boots
wow, I seriously said …, damn, I suck sometimes.
Little Boots
omnes, did I really?
Major Major Major Major
Is little boots ok?
Little Boots
@Major Major Major Major:
little bit.
miss some people.
Little Boots
@Major Major Major Major:
am I awful?
Little Boots
miss steeplejack, so much.
I know I suck, steeplejack, but I can you not hate me?
Major Major Major Major
@Little Boots: I dunno man. I don’t know what you’re talking about. But frankly you’re probably a good enough dude. Never rubbed me the wrong way at least.
Little Boots
@Major Major Major Major:
I got issues.
but I do not truly hate anyone on this site. nobody. ever.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
You need to sack up and do the needful. Over and out.
Major Major Major Major
@Little Boots: if you’re having acute troubles I’m happy to refer you to a local crisis hotline.
Little Boots
here’s the thing. I said something truly awful, but I do not dislike anything, ever. never. ever. sorry, for whatever I said.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
you will not tell me, stop being all omnes. dammit. you can talk to me, you do not need to dick around.
Major Major Major Major
@Little Boots: obviously i can’t absolve you but you sound like somebody in crisis mode. you ok?
Little Boots
@Major Major Major Major:
and you stop too.
cokane
@Little Boots: this is bordering on spam
Little Boots
major, you and I both know the only one who can absolve me is omnes.
Major Major Major Major
@Little Boots: I wasn’t joking.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
I have said everything I need to say.
Little Boots
@cokane:
you are going to get me banned again.
miss omnes, dammit.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
and you, miss you.
I kinda fucked up the other night, didn’t I?
Major Major Major Major
Didn’t realize the history. Everybody stay alive long enough to get banned, k?
Little Boots
did I call somebody a cunt?
the hell is wrong with me?
Little Boots
@Major Major Major Major:
but sometimes, jeebus, the hell, man? seriously? I was that dick?
Little Boots
goddammit, can I love you, steeplejack. I know you are straight, but can I love you anyway, dammit.
Little Boots
and can I apologize for everything the other night, cause, damn, I suck sometimes.
Little Boots
i miss omnes, is that crazy?
Little Boots
steeplejack, how do I suck? who do I owe an aplogy to?
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
you can’t leave yet.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
can I miss you?
Little Boots
@Little Boots:
its’ a whole crazy thing.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Little Boots: Steep has pointed out where you went off the rails the other day and the steps you need to do to rectify much of the ill feelings. I was not on-line real time when that thread was active, I only read it later, was a train-wreck and there were warnings that you were going off the rails. Sometimes ya gota listen to what others are saying and unplug the ol’ keyboard. I’ve been there done that back in my drinkin’ days.
Little Boots
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I am totally okay apologizing.
did I really use that word? really? I really need to apologize.
Major Major Major Major
@Little Boots: sometimes life is shitty.
sometimes one is drunk.
when the two combine it leads to a very nasty situation sometimes.
there is nothing wrong with acknowledging this.
do something else, play diablo, go to sleep, watch archer, literally anything else.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Little Boots: Yes, you said the c-word, go read the link that steep linked to, I believe, in the previous thread.
Little Boots
@Major Major Major Major:
yeah, and sometimes I am a damn goob.
I really hate when I get like I get sometimes.
Little Boots
and sometimes I am glad there is a billin.
Little Boots
@BillinGlendaleCA:
hate that. sorry to every lady on this thread, sorry.
Little Boots
and by the way, omnes, stop hating me, I am not awful.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Little Boots: As Major*4 said, it might be a good idea to make a note to read it later before you comment in other treads.
Major Major Major Major
don’t get banned, ‘boots. go to sleep.
Little Boots
@BillinGlendaleCA:
don’t you start. I know I am what am I am. you know I am not awful. you know that.
Little Boots
@Major Major Major Major:
It’s all all good. and you know what, miss omnes. dammit.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Little Boots: A peace offering.
ETA: Interesting trivia, Lennon didn’t play on the song on the White Album, Clapton played guitar.
Little Boots
omnes has been no help at all
Major Major Major Major
@BillinGlendaleCA: Did not know that. That’s pretty cool.
I’m gonna fool around on Grindr now while I finish this beer. Better’n this thread ;)
Little Boots
@Major Major Major Major:
don’t engage, he is angry
Major Major Major Major
Go home, ‘Boots, you’re drunk.
Little Boots
you know who I miss? omnes.
Little Boots
@Major Major Major Major: of course. that is no reason to leave.
Little Boots
I can’t love you a little?
NotMax
So, figure the chances are about 60/40 that one of the FOX “moderators” will ask for a show of hands from those on the stage who are packing heat.
@Little Boots
Chill, dude. Don’t have to make up for a week’s absence all in one thread, ‘kay?
Amir Khalid
@Little Boots:
Three things:
— Omnes already told you he was never engaging with you again. Quit pining for him, it won’t work.
— You still owe someone an apology. Make that apology ASAP.
— Pestering people for attention is only going to get you banned again.
kc
@Little Boots:
I don’t know what you see in that guy.
FourTen
@BillinGlendaleCA: She really can do that, can’t she? I like her, don’t get me wrong, but she can go an Abe Simpson style ramble about a single small fact sometimes and before you know it, her hour’s up.
Paul in KY
@Major Major Major Major: No big deal. I misspelled some province in Malaysia, that I thought was in Indonesia. I got over it….