Look on the bright side, DC Republicans. You're about to learn a lot about your integrity and that of your colleagues. Cool!
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) May 3, 2016
Yes, we must all buckle down and do our very damndest to ensure Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes our next President. But at least we’re not any of these guys!
A Republican Party without a sense of shame is a Republican Party I don’t want to be a part of. https://t.co/xZQzKyN1Xr
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 4, 2016
Bill Clinton has just been elected First Lady. Cruz withdraws. Trump will lose.
This is the darkest day in my… https://t.co/moTf5rLg83
— Michael Farris (@michaelfarris) May 4, 2016
I will vote for Trump but I will drink myself blind first should be an option. pic.twitter.com/zfkg0JMDnr
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) May 4, 2016
Editor of https://t.co/PKekjGxijB https://t.co/K4qXzUeZfD pic.twitter.com/Z8AJ8b5xve
— Jason Emory Parker (@jaspar) May 4, 2016
or "Forget All That Stuff I Said About Being Suicidal If Cruz Lost Here Are Some Flags" pic.twitter.com/NVvQXrLnHM
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) May 4, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump tells the NYTimes that @RealBenCarson will head up his VP selection committee.
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) May 4, 2016
hahahaha
what if it's a Cheney move https://t.co/3hkOsd8Rkv— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) May 4, 2016
Meanwhile…
#Math from @UpshotNYT: Clinton 347, Trump 191 pic.twitter.com/maZbOSsO3i
— Evan Smith (@evanasmith) May 4, 2016
Baud
The New York Times disagrees.
Damien
When the novels of this time are written, I just want Tom Wolfe to do “Ragetears of the Wingnuts” with thinly veiled portraits of all the top bloggers.
And maybe someone can do the Cruz campaign “Animal Smarm.”
I could go all day.
Jeffro
Also (but not on Twitter, as far as I can tell): Ross Douthat calls Trump a “proto-fascist grotesque”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/opinion/campaign-stops/the-defeat-of-true-conservatism.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
Geez, Ross, take it easy, save some for October…
shomi
To DougJ and all the other wankers yammering on about “oh noezzz….the Clinton zombie lies from the 90’s are coming and we should be afraid”.
Just read this link and watch her response in the video and then STFU!
http://bluenationreview.com/hillary-to-trump-and-media-good-luck-reviving-90s-personal-attacks/
Baud
And yet….
gf120581
Has anyone checked to see if Lindsey Graham has finally had his long-threatened full-on Blanche Dubois breakdown? Not just because of Trump, but also because thanks to Trump, the odds of John McCain being tossed in November got a lot higher (not to mention the Curly Joe of their Three Senate Stooges act, Kelly Ayotte, who is pretty much the walking dead right now).
JudyinSD
Facebook Cruz supporters are now finding a way around having Trump on the top of the ticket. They are saying “I won’t be voting FOR someone, but I will be voting AGAINST someone.” So there you have, it problem solved, Trump gets their vote but they didn’t vote FOR him!!
Jeffro
@shomi: Seriously! No fear here.
At this point, even the early years of the Obama administration are cycling out of most Americans’ memories…we’re Americans, after all…
Anyone trying to score points on HRC for a) things her husband did, b) 20 years ago, is c) wasting his precious orange-faced time
gf120581
@shomi: More like Trump should be petrified at what Hillary is about to unleash on him.
Trump has so many skeletons in his closet it couldn’t hold them all even if it had TARDIS capabilities.
jl
Will First Mr. Big Dawg Bill shop at JC Crew? They have men’s department, right?
I wouldn’t know, Crew is a little rich for my blood. I’m more a Kohl’s and Target person.
But I don’t hold it against Michelle that she shops at fancy rich people joints like Crew. She’s the first lady.
Jeffro
@gf120581: Lindsey’s the one I can see as most likely to be this election’s Zell Miller – not quite to the level where I can see him actually addressing the Dem convention like Zell did the GOP one – but at least he and Mitt are the highest GOP muckety-mucks most likely to put it right out there: “Hillary’s a better choice”
jl
Real wage growth is up substantially in latest report. That is good news for a third Democratic term. I think will be more important that the name calling, scandals about arcane bureaucratic shit that few understand or care about, and the dying embers of the Democratic primary spats.
gf120581
@srv: Oh, look, there’s a hungry troll. Does anyone have any goat?
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: I thought FOTUS was shopping with you at Target.
A Ghost To Most
@Baud:
Fft.
Jeffro
@srv: Perhaps Ted Nugent will self-deputize and be the one to bring History’s Greatest Monster to justice?
BillinGlendaleCA
@gf120581: Nope, just an orange.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: How is Boehner these days?
dmsilev
Another Clinton ad: https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/727903361983356928
The problem that Jeb, Ted, et al. had was that they couldn’t effectively attack Trump for his whacko far-right ideas because they needed the votes of people with similar whacko far-right views. Hillary is under no such constraint.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Jeffro:
Jimmy Carter?
Obama?
There are so many to choose from in RWNJland.
aimai
@shomi: A thing of beauty. Gorgeous.
geg6
I try so hard to not be over confident. I’ve fallen into that trap before and refuse to do it again. But I think it’s still okay to do the backstroke and float around with a pina colada in their sweet, salty and truly delicious tears.
dmsilev
@Baud: Drunk, one assumes.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Last I saw he was pushing smokes on POTUS.
jl
@srv: That would horrible, unjust (considering HRC did pretty much what her predecessors did no matter how you try to spin it), and I would think stink of double standards and partisanship somewhere in the process. The subversion of democratic process was severe enough, and she couldn’t run, the I guess the next choice would be Sanders in terms of electability
That would be fun. If anything would take public mind off HRC’s manufactured problems, the deafening roar Sanders Trump duke out would do it nicely. his pointing and yelling all the time, and his Old Testament Prophet cosplay would be less irritating.
WarMunchkin
That electoral map… no, I want the Dakotas, Montana, Georgia, Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri, Alaska and Arkansas on top of the rest. Yeah, I’m greedy.
Johnny Coelacanth
“Hillary is indicted” That’s the third comment along those lines I’ve seen today. I guess the new attack lines have been pushed out.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: That clip was the best thing he’s ever done in his career.
Rolling Along
Strictly neutral for now, but remember: Dukakis was up 15 in June 1988, and Carter was up on Reagn until October! Very intriguing to think about this year!
AkaDad
Fun Fact:
There’s a video of Trump saying Democrats are better for the economy than Republicans.
Might be usefull in the upcoming debates.
jl
@BillinGlendaleCA: Never seen Michelle at my fav Target outlet. Not once. But then, it is a yooooge place. And my elapsed time shopping in the store is pretty short. I have algorithm.
Sale?
Fits well enough that no threat of it maiming me?
Not overly ugly (very low bar for me, BTW):
Good to go.
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: Real wages also rose across the board during the last few years of the Clinton administration.
geg6
@BillinGlendaleCA:
FLOTUS does shop at Target. And also at JCrew. So do I. And I’m about as far from wealthy as one can get and not be poor.
Miss Bianca
OK, I will be of (comparatively) good cheer. I won’t be freaking out over the fact that the CDOC background check people left me a message to “call them back” which I didn’t get till after their office closed. And now I have to spend all night wondering “What? What do they want? Is something wrong? Some skeleton in *my* closet I don’t even know about?”
No, I’m not freakin’ out. Oh, hell, yes I am – cause that’s just how I roll.
Gin & Tonic
@gf120581: I’m thinking more goatse than goat.
MattF
@Baud: Well, it may be true, although it’s a shameless thing to say. The R party tested and proved its lack of shame with the help of Erik ibn Erik, now they have the opportunity to put that quality to use.
Gimlet
@WarMunchkin:
More realistic one.
http://images.politico.com/global/2015/05/01/sabatographic503.jpg
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: True, turns out that AOS isn’t a bad actor.
Gravenstone
@shomi: Shut the piehole, Derf. Aren’t you about due for another visit from the ban hammer?
Gin & Tonic
@Rolling Along: You’ll be sucking Trump’s dick before Memorial Day. Bank on it.
dmsilev
@Rolling Along: We all know that you’ll be a fervent Trumpista by this time next week.
JMG
Let’s be realistic. Well over 90 percent of Republicans will vote for Trump because root, root, root for the home team. But if even five percent don’t, that spells doom, because there are more Democrats than Republicans. Also, more women than men.
Rommie
I’m still a bit stunned Cruz gave up so suddenly. There were still ways to ratfink the convention and prevent a first-ballot win no matter how many delegates Trump comes in with. If they *really* wanted to stop him, they still could (and can!)
It’s like someone did a magic wave and POOF, no more primary. Or used the Brinks trucks to change some minds. Are the party bosses really afraid of the contested convention more than Herr Trump in charge? It feels like there’s more to the story.
dmsilev
And a Republican Party _with_ a sense of shame would want no part of Erick Son of Erick of the House of Erick.
Schlemazel Khan
@srv:
I think they will send Tinkerbell, The tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny and a crack team of fantasy characters equivalent to the severity of the delusions that she will be arrested.
BillinGlendaleCA
@geg6: I’m not sure what a JCrew is, I was recruited for Crew when I was admitted to college(think the tiny guy in the boat).
Baud
@Rommie: He really fell apart towards the end there. He had been running an evil but savvy campaign for most of the primary.
Gimlet
@Rommie:
It was Carly. She did for Cruz’ campaign what she did for HP only faster.
Major Major Major Major
@Miss Bianca: Aw, I’m sure it’s fine. I… have no way of knowing anything about it whatsoever, but I’m sure it’s fine!
aimai
@geg6: Yes, and she looks fabulous in their clothes, damn her!
Matt McIrvin
@Damien: Tom Wolfe? He’s basically one of them.
Schlemazel Khan
@Stumbling Along blindly:
So you are going to pretend not to support the dumpster fire & concern troll us for 8 months? You really need a hobby
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: thank you, she snivelled pathetically.
Actually, I’m not sure what I *am* freaking out about…it’s not like I haven’t had to pass a background check before. And sure, it was a while back, but I’m fairly certain I’d remember it if I’d been arrested or something in the iterim…
amk
@shomi:
some of the bj fp’ers and commentariat
oh, noez, walker, the union killing thug.
oh, noez, christie, the tough talking thug.
oh, noez, rubio, the young looking thug.
oh, noez, kasich, the sane sounding thug.
oh, noez, trump, the THUG!!!
sheez.
Baud
@Miss Bianca: You didn’t tell them about this joint, right?
wag
@Jeffro:
Best thing that Doughy Pantsload has ever written I con’t argue with a single point.
His tears are delicious.
hellslittlestangel
May I steal that please?
jl
@Rolling Along:
Please make a long list of intriguing things for us to think about.
Did you know that the smell of a dogs ass is as unique as the patterns of a human finger print?
That a severed snake head can bite its own body?
That I find it intriguing that would would expect us to believe you are neutral in this now?
So, many intriguing things, it makes the head spin.
Applejinx
@Miss Bianca: Easy now, Miss Bianca. It will be okay :)
gf120581
@hellslittlestangel: You may. ;)
Besides, I doubt I’m the first one who came up with it.
Kelly Ayotte is so screwed right now. The down ballot effect from Trump alone is going to sweep her out and to make matters worse, she’s got a late primary, so she has months of being forced to take ridiculous stances like going along with the SC blockade to fend off any challenge from the right, all while Maggie Haasan uses it to beat her over the head with it like a cudgel. She is in utter misery right now.
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Did you learn this from academic study or from practical experience? Enquiring minds want to know!
Rolling Along
I’m done here until the convention.
I need a break from politics, vacation time!
See you all late July!
Major Major Major Major
@Rolling Along: …
OK, definitely a parody.
jl
@BillinGlendaleCA: Baud! 2016! explained it to me. I don’t remember it clearly. Working on the campaign, so we were pretty trashed.
jl
@BillinGlendaleCA:
” Last I saw he was pushing smokes on POTUS. ”
At least it wasn’t tobacco. That would have caused a scandal.
The Lodger
@srv: Oh, probably a Constitutional Sheriff, seeing as how the Bundys are otherwise occupied.
jl
@BillinGlendaleCA:
” Real wages also rose across the board during the last few years of the Clinton administration. ”
What matters is the last few quarters, and labor market conditions were stagnating during the election on lead up to 2001 recession.
Signs are labor market this summer will be much better. I hope the early good signs continue.
Shana
@Miss Bianca: You sound like my daughter who’s registering for the bar exam. They want to know every place she’s worked and lived since the age of 18. She’s worked a bunch of campaigns over the years which complicates things since they’re entities that technically don’t exist any longer.
Terry chay
@gf120581: heck she has to endorse Trump in order to prevent from being primaried. I can smell the burnt flesh from California.
catclub
@Jeffro: This is like how important JFK’s infidelities were in the 1980 election. A LOT had happened in the meantime.
Miss Bianca
@Baud: not as such, no…
ETA: Why, do you think the fact that I supported Baud! for President might count against me?
Baud
@Miss Bianca: Then you’re golden.
gf120581
@Terry chay: Oh no, she’s only “supporting” Trump, not “endorsing” him. There’s a…actually, there is no difference. It’s just a sign of how utterly desperate her and her ilk are going to be until November.
max
@Gin & Tonic: You’ll be sucking Trump’s dick before Memorial Day. Bank on it.
UNLIMITED MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS!
max
[‘You self-tanned that!’]
The Dangerman
@Rommie:
I think he went all in on Indiana and has no more money.
I think there is still a small chance that Trump gets ratfucked in Cleveland. There’s an awful lot of doom and gloom on their side today; it would take a massive set of balls for someone to do it (and Cleveland would burn) but … Team Republicans are in need of being saved from a massive beatdown and someone might step up. I wouldn’t bet on the RF but that looming beatdown might look worse to them come July.
The Lodger
@tRolling Along: Slow mail delivery on that pink slip?
PaulWartenberg2016
I haven’t been doing this as long as John and the other elder statespersons, but I just remembered that today ten years ago I started my own blog (under a different name and intent).
Ten years gone. Where did it all go?
Oh, right. Waging war against the Far Right Wingnuts.
Thank GOD I lived long enough to see a musical about Alexander Hamilton become a sexy Broadway hit.
Omnes Omnibus
@PaulWartenberg2016: Congrats on the blogiversary.
PaulWartenberg2016
@srv:
They’ll send no one. Hillary will summon her alien guardians and have them all teleported to Hoboken New Jersey.
chopper
@Rolling Along:
oh god, you’re still here. you’d think you’d have died of shame.
pseudonymous in nc
@The Dangerman:
Indiana was the last place where it seemed like he had a chance, and he got plastered. The big donors will have made it clear that the jig was up.
chopper
@pseudonymous in nc:
“shlonged”. the word is “shlonged”.
Omnes Omnibus
@chopper: Goy that I am, I still think it is “schlonged.”
chopper
@Omnes Omnibus:
you’re one of those guys that thinks there’s one spelling for ‘chanukah’, aren’t you.
Villago Delenda Est
@gf120581: I brought some salted dicks over from Wonkette, will those do?
Omnes Omnibus
@chopper: No. That comment is as deep as I wade into Yiddish spelling questions. Or Hebrew transliterations.
themann1086
I just saw an attack ad on Katie McGinty (our Senate candidate here) from Crazy Person Pat Toomey (R-PA) on tonight’s evening news. He has to be scared shitless, right? Who runs general election ads in May??
chris m
@dmsilev: Actually their problem is that they could not attack Trump for his far right ideas because they have advocated equally absurd and dangerous far right ideas. Just as importantly the liberal or left wing ideas Trump espouses, preserving SS & Medicare and anti-globalization, are wildly popular.
randy khan
@Gimlet:
The Politico map seems . . . optimistic for Trump.
Obama won Colorado by 4%, Virginia by 3%, and Florida by 2% and the demographics in all three states have gotten more favorable for the Dems. Obama won New Hampshire by 6%, and while the demographics haven’t gotten more favorable for the Dems there, that’s a big margin for Trump to make up.
catclub
@themann1086:
ummm, someone with a lot of money?
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: @chopper: Its schlong. Its originally from the High German: slango.
And it has nothing to do with the different legitimate spellings of Chanuka or Hanuka or Chanukah or Hanukah. Or Hnoyikar (don’t ask, it was a strange year…)
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: I love a scholarly weigh-in on such matters.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: Did you get my email?
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: Also, the original non High German, as in conversational German that existed at the time the word was imported into Yiddish was schlange, with the “a” pronounced like “aw”, hence the vowel adjustment to how it sounded. Regardless, it originally meant snake, which explains why it was adapted to its current usage.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Dude, I knew I was right. I just wasn’t going to fight about it. As far as the rest goes, I have, in the past, wished people “Chappy Chanukah” just to be sure.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I just want to make sure that if anyone has to use schlong, they have it spelled correctly. Its embarrassing when you get your schlong messed up in public…
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Tracking.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: “Schlange” as in “Snake”? Aaaand..that’s as far as I’m going with that one.
Email? Will check. Just woke up from trying to watch “Spock’s Brain”. That’s 50 minutes of my life I’ll never see again…
chopper
@Adam L Silverman:
the one thing I’ve learned through the years is there is no such thing as an ‘official English spelling’ for Yiddish. telling your alter cocker zayde that he spelled something wrong in an email will cure you of that idea right fuckin quick.
sinnedbackwards
@randy khan: Map is dated 2015. It was a WAG, looks like from Larry Sabato.