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Sure, I like Owen Ellickson’s musing on Trump’s Scary Clown Army as much as the next person with a somewhat twisted sense of humor, but why must the (mostly) harmless Juggalos be tainted by association with a brutal, coked-up, misogynistic moron like the Repub’s presidential candidate? NYMag reports:
The Insane Clown Posse is concerned about your civil rights. In light of the recent rash of disturbing clown sightings being reported across the United States, Time reached out to America’s most popular clown-themed entertainers, the Insane Clown Posse, to get their input on the rise of these emotional-terrorist clowns that are freaking people out for no good reason at all. So, Violent J took up the pen and didn’t write a defense of clowns so much as he did a takedown of plainclothes villains who are trying to strip the American people — and especially their dedicated Juggalo Army — of their inalienable rights. Violent J begins his op-ed by saying, “After 25 years of unquestionably being The World’s Most Hated Band, Insane Clown Posse has just about seen it all.” …
As ICP has discovered over the last decade, there’s a whole army of scary, terrifying and dangerous clowns out there in this country trying to suppress the rights of thousands of people to exercise the most basic part of the Declaration of Independence, which evokes the freedom to “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”…
These clowns threaten the very fabric on which our nation was supposedly founded upon—and for some f—ing crazy-a– reason, they’re getting away with it. From keystone-cop clowns shooting unarmed citizens, to racist clowns burning down Islamic centers or clowns in the NSA spying on us through our cell phones and laptops, America has turned into something far more terrifying than Insane Clown Posse’s Dark Carnival. Even a scrub like me who dropped out of school in ninth grade can see what’s going on. Today’s reality is scarier than anything you’ll ever hear on one of our albums…
Man’s not wrong, is what I’m saying.
Also, fuckup Donald J. Trump forever and a weekend for making me think sympathetically — however briefly — of Richard M. Nixon. Who was an evil, twisted, sorry excuse for a human being who nevertheless had sufficient respect for the dignity of his party that, when I first saw this meme last night, I thought If Tricky Dick could see this, he’d throw himself out a window.
But he’d throw Donald out first.
Had…….to……..share………… pic.twitter.com/2e2yDaSw6m
— Reisa Miller (@ReisaMiller) October 10, 2016
k
Let’s make the slogan for this campaign be “let all the poisons in the mud hatch out.”
m0nty
Next up: Jared Leto is subbed in to moderate the third debate.
craigie
There won’t be another debate. I don’t think the Secret Service is going to let Hillary go anywhere near that psycho at this point.
By the way, shouldn’t we call it something else by now? It’s really not much of a Secret Service, is it?
BillinGlendaleCA
Good thing Omnes isn’t up to see this post, now I’m going to have nightmares.
toschek
What is that face he is making? I kind of pity Melania for having to wake up next to that … thing … every morning. Not to mention being contractually obligated to let it climb on top of you once in a while. There’s not enough money or eye bleach in the world thank you very much.
Some Dude
@toschek: I’m sure it’s lights out, and/or she wears a blindfold and earplugs.
Botsplainer
Now would be a good time for Obama to praise Republican leaders who have repudiated Trump, thanking them for their service to the nation….
tamiasmin
@toschek: Oh, I wish you hadn’t written that. I shall have to think of lambs and puppy dogs for the rest of the night to get that image out of my head.
OzarkHillbilly
@toschek: @Some Dude: Nobody made her marry him, and obviously she thinks the monetary recompense is worth it.
Some Dude
@OzarkHillbilly: Hazard Pay?
hellslittlestangel
@toschek: You think hookers wake up next to their tricks?
trnc
@craigie: I’m not sure Hillary is the only one we need to worry for. Ryan, Blunt and the rest of the Donald Dungeon Dwellers need to be asked if they bear any responsibility for violence committed by his supporters if he tacitly or explicitly calls for it.
BillinGlendaleCA
@hellslittlestangel: Sure, if they’re being paid to do so.
OzarkHillbilly
@Some Dude: Considering where it’s been……
rachel
@k: President Nero: do not want.
OzarkHillbilly
@trnc:
You think the party of ‘personal responsibility’ might somehow, someway, take responsibility for any of the negative consequences arising from their words and deeds? Oh, wait a minute, that was rhetorical.
OzarkHillbilly
Judge Dierker doesn’t get out very much.
MikefromArlington
Clowns are showing up in Ireland too. 2 of them showed up at a school a friend teaches at with chainsaws (not powered on). Apparently, the fitness teacher, ex rugby player, knocked one of them out cold!
http://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/gardai-called-after-terrifying-clowns-12001549
OzarkHillbilly
“What? Have you seen the line to the women’s bathroom?” (hurricane Matthew photo)
NotMax
Know not what you’ve begun smoking, drinking, topically applying, ingesting or otherwise intaking, but humbly propone finding an alternative. Stat.
Schlemazel
I think I have a plausible explanation for why threatening Hillary with jail is so important to Trump. I think in addition to feeding the mouth-breathers he may believe he is insulating himself from the legal issues he is going to have as a result of his run. The foundation stuff could send him up (as well as several other problems he has created for himself) and he will pretend it is all political. He may yet destroy this country without getting elected.
Patricia Kayden
@MikefromArlington: With chainsaws? I don’t find clowns scary but that is frightening.
Kay
This to me is actually the grossest Trump habit, but in the subset of “women,” so not it’s not top-top, just worst in this category:
See, he owns the pageant, which is why he “gets away with it”. His casinos are collapsing so it may be too late, but I bet those female employees have some horror stories to tell.
NorthLeft12
This was a comment from an earlier thread which I could not agree with more. You can liken it to the drug cartels and the LEOs. They both prosper as long as drugs are illegal. With the cold warriors, peace is the enemy.
Helen
Morning Joe desperately trying to unscew the NBC poll showing Hillary ahead by 11. He so smart.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Helen: And Halperin chimes in about Hillary’s emails(the ones that appear to be frauds).
Kay
@Helen:
I bet he’s a little panicky. Trump’s shit sticks to everyone who brushes up against him. Joe better pivot quickly:
Nothing good happens to people who wander into Trumpworld.
OzarkHillbilly
@Schlemazel: I had the exact same thought.
Kay
@BillinGlendaleCA:
The crack cable tv research team hasn’t authenticated the emails yet? So they now promote phony docs?
They were too scared of lawsuits to publish the tape with Trump’s voice but they’re promoting altered emails?
BillinGlendaleCA
Looks like Samsung has deep sixed the Note7.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay: It’s Halperin, Kay.
BillinGlendaleCA
The Morning Joe crowd is talking about the House going Dem.
Kay
It’s one of the mysteries of the 2016 election how so many journalists were extremely concerned about the threat to national security posed by Clinton’s email management practices, yet they are unconcerned that there appears to be foreign government intervention in a US election.
Doesn’t that require some kind of explanation? If your thing is national security I would think this would be a big story.
OzarkHillbilly
@BillinGlendaleCA: I thought they cremated it.
Schlemazel
It also occurs to me that we are in for an incredibly ugly 4 years, even if we take both houses. The great unwashed believe there is something wrong with Hillary and the usual villains will be spewing extra heat and bullshit so that those not paying attention will assume there must be something going on there. I find that little dark cloud depressing behind this silver lining
Immanentize
@Kay: I know you know that you answered your own question there….
BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Heh, Samsung announced that they’re ceasing production and existing units are being recalled. It’s a great phone, except that it seems to burst into flames.
ETA: I have 2 Samsung Notes(the 3 and the Edge).
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Kay: Well, Kay, VSP obviously know that such a thing is inconceivable, so reports to the contrary are merely pandering conspiracies, and are not to be taken seriously.
Immanentize
@Schlemazel:
This is what I worry about the most. A Democratic President is the best money maker for Fox and their ilk possible. How can we shut down the anger amplifier?
Schlemazel
@BillinGlendaleCA:
There is a good possibility, particularly if the Drumpfenstein monster decides to punish people who were not loyal to Trump. I have my fingers crossed!
Ian
You know something is wrong when the ‘Insane Clown Posse” and their juggaloes are the voice of fucking reason.
Arclite
@toschek: I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that they sleep in separate beds. He probably comes in her room from time to time, high on a cocktail of coke and viagra, for a quicky.
Kay
@BillinGlendaleCA:
It isn’t just Halperin, though. I watched Jake Tapper demand that Kaine authenticate and then defend the carefully chosen quote they all pulled out of the emails. It was a question at the debate.
They have no idea whether the emails have been altered- none. They didn’t do the most basic part of their job, which is authenticate the documents they’re relying on.
Look at the pains the NYTimes took to authenticate the leaked Trump tax pages. That’s how it’s done.
Schlemazel
@Immanentize:
I have no clue how we stop them, my hope is that more and more people will get sick of the BS and free themselves. Till then I just try to argue rationally & calmly with the ones I run into. Someone posted a twitter rant by a conservative woman. Of course she does not really get it but you can see the light seeping in that this is what they have always been. Trump & his supporters are a bridge too far & she is leaving the GOP. Thats a start.
Liked this cartoon about the debate:
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/154782/
Immanentize
@Kay: Didn’t Dan Rather get fired for that same lack of authenticating? But that was so very very long ago. Different set of ethics for reporters, etc. back then in the Triassic.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: IOKIYAR.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: They came out of the Dan Rather School of Journalism.
(maybe a little unfair to Dan but I could not resist)
Immanentize
@BillinGlendaleCA: But But. What are you suggesting?? Are all news media idgits (gasp) republicans??
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Beat me to the reference, but I took the snarky route.
amk
what did pox news and bill o’racist do now? alt-reich nutz are freaking out and are calling them ‘TRAITORS’ on teh twitterz.
msdc
@OzarkHillbilly: Same here.
Granted, this assumes a level of self-awareness and forward thinking that Trump has not previously demonstrated. Ockham’s razor (not to mention Trump’s Razor) dictates that it’s just projection. It’s always projection.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: I say it was a tie. the snarky route, as you know, is generally my preferred path….
OzarkHillbilly
@msdc: Yeah, Trump has the foresight of a 3 year old.
Kay
@Immanentize:
I don’t care that much. I think the emails are a bore and probably a big disappointment to Trump. But this citing “Wikileaks” as their reliable source probably shouldn’t continue. It could get dumber. The next cycle could include someone pretending to be Wikileaks.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: I have a t-shirt given to me by my brother: Sarcasm- It beats killing people
Joel
The other day, I joked to a friend that Violent J is going to be the GOP nominee in 2020.
I shouldn’t have joked. I would welcome this change.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: LOL and OMG. I am not kidding — My colleagues just last week gave me a button that reads: “SARCASM because beating up people is illegal.” Hmmm separated at birth?
Anne Laurie
@Immanentize: Ha! My button reads “I’m Being Sarcastic Because You’re Not Worth Punching“.
(Yes, it was a gift, too.)
gratuitous
@Kay: I’m so old, I remember when Republicans would get highly exercised if there was any whiff of a politician being associated however tangentially with the Russkies. Roy Cohn, a good friend and mentor to the Republican nominee, began his career Red baiting for Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy.
Now, with ample circumstantial evidence that Donald Trump may be up to his eyeballs in hock to the Russian mob, Republicans couldn’t be less interested in asking for an explanation.
1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
@OzarkHillbilly: Bless his heart. I think if pot was legal (and thus we had a clear idea of how much went on the market) in Tennessee the amount currently grown would place it in our top five agricultural products. I can’t imagine Missouri would be far behind.
jake the antisoshul soshulist
Not only does Trump remind you or your crazy uncle who rants about “Mexicans” and the CIA, he is your pervy uncle who creeps out your girlfriend (and everyone else).
Miss Bianca
Damn! HRC is going to be in Pueblo this Wednesday, and I have to work! But the Coordinating Campaign manager was at our Democratic Central Committee last night, and I am signed up for some phone banking. The bad news is that the campaign headquarters for our region is going to be in Walsenburg, some 60 miles away. But that’s cool…I’m used to travelling!
Fired Up, Ready to Go!
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Schlemazel: That certainly could be the reason. It plays with his fans too, so that shouldn’t be discounted, but the early news articles about his foundation all indicated that team Trump was really worried about legal repercussions from those stories. It appears they were right to be worried. So, threaten your opponent with jail time so it looks like political blowback if you get prosecuted for tax chicanery.
Procopius
@craigie: Call it something else, just don’t call it the “Protective Squadron.” That’s the translation of Schutzstaffel, the SS. Even “Protective Service” is too close. I wish they would rename the stupid Homeland Security Service or whatever it is (it’s about 400 f*cking police agencies put together to prevent any semblance of security). Why not be honest and call it the Fatherland Security Service? Or is it Motherland?
The Moar You Know
@Joel: God, there’s a thought. I hate ICP with the hate of a thousand suns. They are idiots. And yet, if I had to pick between one of those two morons or Trump, I’d be voting straight Juggalo.
oldswede
@craigie: The part you don’t know about is.