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You are here: Home / Election 2020 / Late Night Open Thread: Pour One Out for Bill Weld

Late Night Open Thread: Pour One Out for Bill Weld

by Anne Laurie|  February 10, 20201:05 am| 41 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Open Threads, Repubs in Disarray!

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— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 7, 2020

I just hope we don't end up in cages on the border. https://t.co/qZgeQAc4Wo

— Gov. Bill Weld (@GovBillWeld) February 6, 2020

For all our hand-wringing about Democratic infighting (and ‘independents’ trying to ratfvck us in service to their cult leader)… Don’t forget that ‘GOP unity’ is a result of every Republican unable to stomach the criminality of Donald Trump’s administration leaving or being driven out of the party.

It’s easy to be unified as ‘a team of horses under one driver, one whip.’

Hey, pundits.

Before you rattle on about Democrats being bad at democracy because a few caucuses still exist, do a fucking segment on how Republicans are literally cancelling primaries to prevent Trump from facing a primary challenger.

— Caucus Error Reporter. (@CascadianSolo) February 5, 2020

Give the old warhorse credit for getting out there, just as a protest against the vandals.

There is an actual crowd also waiting for Weld, although a number of them seem to be students and / or caucus tourists. Not sure how many are actually Iowa voters. #iacaucus pic.twitter.com/TYyr44T1zB

— Dave Redlawsk (@DavidRedlawsk) February 2, 2020

From the @washingtonpost fashion critic @daveweigel. https://t.co/FdvUJnjUdW

— Gov. Bill Weld (@GovBillWeld) February 2, 2020

That's not "The Shining"-level creepy at all. https://t.co/4UB7lnQqAX

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) February 4, 2020

GOP Uplifts King Donald - Matt Davies

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  1. 1.

    jl

    February 10, 2020 at 1:21 am

    Hope Weld can plug on. I just gave a big contribution to Warren.
    Listening to her interview today on This Week. The shithead interviewing her is giving her crap about being a ‘socialist’, after Warren has repeatedly ID’d herself as a capitalist to the marrow of her bones.
    Is Stephagoopalus , sorry, Stephanopoulos, (I can never remember how to spell his name)  an idiot or or lazy, or incompetent, corrupt or all of the above? But Warren played nice like it was a reasonable question and pointed out to Stoopagoofalus  Stephanopoulos that she was a capitalist without any detectable snark or righteous pissyness.

    I saw a while ago even the centrist Max Rose tell some bigshot corporate news reporters that they needed to understand they were not a PR wing of the Republican Party. And I remember Jerry Brown tell some corporate reporters that they were like pathetic lap dogs that run after every GOP fart and burp to sniff it.
    Maybe the Dem candidates shouldn’t be so nice to these corporate media jerks.

  2. 2.

    jl

    February 10, 2020 at 1:32 am

    @jl: I would have said ‘Hey Georgie, wakey wakey. I’m not Bernie. You do any homework at all, or what? I’ve said over and over again that I’m a capitalist. Cut the crap questions, OK?’ Then I’d probably smoosh Rose’s and Brown’s comments together.

    But, that is probably why I’m not in politics.

  3. 3.

    Mary G

    February 10, 2020 at 1:35 am

    Hey, AL, your senator rocks:

    Hooooly shit. An audience member asks Warren if she ever wonders, “Who is going to be my Mike Pence? Who is going to look at me with adoring eyes?”

    @ewarren: “I already have a dog.”  pic.twitter.com/svyS5dkCRw

    — Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) February 10, 2020

    Got my CA ballot and have decided to go for EW. She’s the best candidate left and I don’t wanna do the vote strategically to make sure Wilmer doesn’t win. I am a woman who wants a woman president.

  4. 4.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 10, 2020 at 1:35 am

    Fuck Dump and ZERGNET.

  5. 5.

    HumboldtBlue

    February 10, 2020 at 1:36 am

    I do like a mail-in ballot.

    I also like athletics.

    Watch this 800 meter run by Ajee Wilson at the Millrose Games.

    And moms are always welcome.

    Here’s Nia Ali doing mom stuff.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 10, 2020 at 1:38 am

    @HumboldtBlue: Mail-in ballots are most excellent.  No rush to fill it out.

    ETA – And you can listen to rock and roll music while researching/filling it out of you want.

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    February 10, 2020 at 1:39 am

    I’m nervous about what happens to the Republican Party when Trump inevitably keels over of natural causes while in office. Do they have a new demagogue waiting in the wings to replace him, or do they implode?

  8. 8.

    Kent

    February 10, 2020 at 1:40 am

    @Mary G: I don’t know when we get our mail-in ballots here in WA.  We vote March 10, week after Super Tuesday and I hope to God I still at least have either Warren or Klobuchar to vote for.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 10, 2020 at 1:41 am

    @Mnemosyne: Ritual suicide for their god emperor?

  10. 10.

    Kent

    February 10, 2020 at 1:42 am

    @Mnemosyne:I’m nervous about what happens to the Republican Party when Trump inevitably keels over of natural causes while in office. Do they have a new demagogue waiting in the wings to replace him, or do they implode?

    It will be Lord of the Flies but with their God-given AR-15s and bump stocks.

    But Ted Cruz is tanned and rested.

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 10, 2020 at 1:47 am

    @Kent:

    But Ted Cruz is tanned and rested. 

    I can’t see them going from being Trump trash to being Ted trash.  Especially given how they’ve been told to hate the “Establishment” for decades.

  12. 12.

    HumboldtBlue

    February 10, 2020 at 1:47 am

    Capirotada De Mi Rancho A Tu Cocina Mi gente ya esta aqui la cuaresma y les hice una capirotada muy rica como yo la hago en mi rancho ojala les guste

  13. 13.

    Martin

    February 10, 2020 at 1:49 am

    @Mnemosyne: Dunno. They seem intent on this trajectory with increasing electoral interference.

    At some point it’s going to come to a head – either we’ll win, or we’ll revolt. We’ll unwind this garbage, and then what?

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    February 10, 2020 at 1:50 am

    @Mary G

    Mike Pence is the new (but not improved) Nancy Reagan. Or an escapee from Madame Tussaud’s. Or both.

    ;)

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    February 10, 2020 at 1:53 am

    @Mnemosyne

    ¿Por qué no los dos?

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 10, 2020 at 1:59 am

    @NotMax: How would they do both?

  17. 17.

    The Dangerman

    February 10, 2020 at 2:02 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    Do they have a new demagogue waiting in the wings to replace him…

    Junior and Ivanka will wrestle for it. 2 falls out of 3

    ETA: Bet on Ivanka

    ETA: Then again, could be Tag Team. Junior and Kimberly against Jared and Ivanka. I think KG could kick all their asses, 1 on 3.

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    February 10, 2020 at 2:02 am

    @mrmoshpotato

    Sequentially.

  19. 19.

    Martin

    February 10, 2020 at 2:18 am

    @The Dangerman: Jared/Zuckerberg 2024!

  20. 20.

    Mai naem mobile

    February 10, 2020 at 2:50 am

    @Mnemosyne: I am worried about that too because you just know there’s going to be conspiracy theories about how the Deep State did him in by poisoning him or the Dems stressed him out to an MI or stroke.

    BTW anybody notice the right foot dragging by Trumpov when he’s walking. There’s a guy on Twitter who talks about Trumpovs medical issues/dementia . He’s talked about the foot dragging and I could never really see it.. Anyhow if you turn off the sound of a clip of him walking, the foot drag becomes more noticeable. I don’t know the reason but we really should demand his medical records be released.

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 10, 2020 at 3:00 am

    @Mai naem mobile:

    but we really should demand his medical records be released. 

    You want to demand Wilmer’s as well while you’re at it?

  22. 22.

    opiejeanne

    February 10, 2020 at 3:07 am

    @Mai naem mobile: I saw someone talking about that a couple of weeks ago. Probably the same guy. I wasn’t sure if I was imagining the foot-dragging, but he wasn’t walking like a healthy human.

  23. 23.

    opiejeanne

    February 10, 2020 at 3:08 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Funny, both he and Trump refuse to release their taxes and health records. I mean the real ones, not the opinion “Brent Spiner” from Independence Day released.

  24. 24.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 10, 2020 at 3:14 am

    @opiejeanne: Yup.

  25. 25.

    Mai naem mobile

    February 10, 2020 at 3:16 am

    @mrmoshpotato: absolutely . I actually think insisting Sanders release his is one way into bugging Trumpov to release his. He won’t but at least voters will know he’s trying to hide something or at least the Dems should make sure the voters understand he’s trying to hide something. The Dems have to make Trumpovs health issues part of the election.  They have to do it carefully. You don’t want to be seen as making fun of him – it has to be done as a national security issue.

  26. 26.

    Barb 2

    February 10, 2020 at 3:30 am

    @opiejeanne: re: twins Trump and what’s his name not releasing their health & financial  records – Putin is so pleased.

    what’s his name wife records – how does she record the facts about how she killed a college. She could be the one to watch.

    Warren needs to distance herself from the guy who is not a Democrat and who will stab democrats in the back. That BS guy.

    Amazing how the GOP is protecting Trump from competition.

  27. 27.

    JWR

    February 10, 2020 at 3:35 am

    @opiejeanne:

    In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd played a clip of Sanders in September 2019 prior to his heart attack, promising to release his medical records before the Democratic primaries. “It’s the right thing to do,” Sanders said in November, adding, “The American people have a right to know whether the person they’re going to be voting for for president is healthy.” which he said cardiologists and doctors have confirmed.

    Yeah, but we don’t know what “cardiologists and doctors have confirmed.” Guess we’ll just have to take his word for it this time around.

  28. 28.

    Tony Jay

    February 10, 2020 at 3:40 am

    Got to love that Flight of the Damned pic.

    “Okay, let’s make this one count. You, lonely brown-face, nice and central, sit up straight. Straighter. Big smile. That’s great, now everyone hold the balls of the person to their right and say “Freeeeeeee-dom!” Okay, that’s good, that’s good. Only next time, could we not make it so obvious that Debbie on row three is a Godless skank that Mother will be punishing for her wanton attributes? Yeah? Okay? Great. The in-flight movie is ‘Border Guards III – Dude, Where’s My Civil-Rights?‘. Good flight.”

    Fine people.

  29. 29.

    LeftCoastYankee

    February 10, 2020 at 3:45 am

    One of 2 Republicans I ever voted for, and the only one I’m proud of.  John Silber was creepy as fuck.

    The other R was Joe Malone, who sucked, but his opponent was going to prison, so yeah.

  30. 30.

    David 🎅🎄Merry Christmas🎄🎅 Koch

    February 10, 2020 at 4:04 am

    Wilmer was on Fox News today campaigning for republican votes.

    Of course they called him a communist to which he replied:

     

    Sanders:  I just want to say something. And it — and it’s really sad. I gives me no pleasure to say this. We’ve got a president who’s a pathological liar, who lies — no, I did not get married in Moscow. I participated in creating a sister city program with the city of Yaroslavl when I was mayor of the city. We had Republicans with us. People — city officials. So that’s a lie.

    And, obviously, I am not a communist, that I presume the president knows the difference — maybe he doesn’t but I don’t know.

    It was a really weak, pathetic answer, not only in substance but in tone and delivery. He reserves his frothing anger only for Democrats and women.

  31. 31.

    Shalimar

    February 10, 2020 at 4:49 am

    @Mnemosyne: Junior is positioning himself as the successor, but I would still put my money on Tom Cotton.  In the end, it’s a matter of who the cult chooses to follow.

  32. 32.

    Chyron HR

    February 10, 2020 at 6:48 am

    @Shalimar:

    I hate to give Trump this much credit, but at least he selected the only competent one of his children to be his right-hand woman, while his ostensible heir was left begging for his attention by retweeting Nazi memes.

  33. 33.

    BellyCat

    February 10, 2020 at 6:57 am

    @Tony Jay:  Perfect capture. (Didn’t know you were a photographer!)

    “Freeeeeeee-dom!”

    Correction: The (heavily edited and redacted) transcript indicates: “Freeeeeeee-dumb!”

    BTW: We’re more than overdue for some of your snark infested insights on conditions on the ground post Brexit. And what’s the deal with Ireland?

    (apologies if I missed something!)

  34. 34.

    trnc

    February 10, 2020 at 7:06 am

    @mrmoshpotato: I can’t see them going from being Trump trash <thing republicans loved after faking hate for it> to being Ted trash   <next thing they pretended to hate>.

    Does that help?

  35. 35.

    MJS

    February 10, 2020 at 7:09 am

    @Chyron HR: All things are relative, but “competent” is quite the stretch for Ivanka. At what? Running a charity? Nope. As a designer? Her crap goes directly to TJ Maxx, at best. She’s as stupid and incompetent as her half-wit brothers. She’s just quieter about it.

  36. 36.

    debbie

    February 10, 2020 at 7:23 am

    @Mary G:

    I like!

  37. 37.

    Chyron HR

    February 10, 2020 at 7:55 am

    @MJS:

    Okay, fine, Ivanka is the “closest to competent” of his shitty brats.

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    February 10, 2020 at 8:26 am

    @Mary G: If I lived in CA, I would wait to mark my ballot for president, and hold off on returning it until much closer to the deadline, because a lot of things could change before then.

  39. 39.

    Kattails

    February 10, 2020 at 8:48 am

    @Mai naem mobile: The Rep answer to about Trump’s health records is that the Dems hid FDR’s health issues from the voters in the WWII election, so it’s totally fair for them to do it now. Silly. Don’t you know how these things work? This does not of course apply to releasing his tax records.

    @MJS: I worked in the accessories dept. at the local TJMaxx, and her stuff truly was crap. Junky and unimaginative. Of course, so were a lot of others that people paid stupid money for…

  40. 40.

    Marshall Eubanks

    February 10, 2020 at 10:30 am

    So, where does the black guy sit on the Trump flight when they are not taking photos? In the back? Or was he a walk-on actor?

  41. 41.

    Dadadadadadada

    February 10, 2020 at 3:26 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Ted Cruz, the Tea Party insurgent’s Tea Party insurgent, is now “Establishment”? What a time to be alive.

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