The Republican convention is going to be a freak show. Having that Covington kid speak is a classic post-wingnut move. Does anyone really remember what that story was all about?
Let’s raise some money for state parties today. Wisconsin and North Carolina are both battleground states where there is also a chance to flip the legislature.
North Carolina.
Wisconsin
dmsilev
Liberal media fake news politically-correct cancel culture.
germy
Covington kid’s speech:
“What a great country this is! Where else can you harass an elderly Native American and then win a big payout?”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dmsilev: he was in Washington for the “pro life” march. I don’t know if having a smarmy prep school boy talk about abortion will be the ringing triumph trump probably thinks it will
West of the Rockies
Next week will be pure grievance politics. Resentment croquettes as an appetizer, a fear salad with a rage vinaigrette, an entree of half-baked lies served over a bed of bullshit pilaf.
Yummers. Eat up, America.
LuciaMia
Especially now that Little Trump Horner has got all his thumbs in the pie…
Hunter Gathers
The only thing that could shock me at this point is if no one skull fucks a kitten for freedom during Triumph of the Will, I mean the GOP convention next week,
PsiFighter37
Fuck the Covington kid.
PAM Dirac
Oooh, Oooh, call on me.
White people are the most persecuted people in the history of the universe.
ns
Sandmann was made to look terrible when the WP quickly published a clip that misrepresented the situation. It was a crappy thing to do to a HS kid, even a MAGA hat wearing fool who now has embraced the full wingnut victim trip. He never should have been made a public figure. Now he’s got a career in conservative politics or grifting all lined up and of course he’ll speak at the RNC. Set phasers to ignore.
If you get upset by my post then you are in a state of epistemic closure inside a media bubble. This and the “Ahmed the clock bomber” story were huge media failures. So naturally, they are being used to prop up a phony narrative about the MSM in general. That doesn’t mean the WP’s clickbait journalism is a good fit for the “democracy dies in darkness” journalism, but it pays the bills.
MomSense
Anyone here decided whether or not they are going to watch the Republican convention?
On the one hand it may be good material for pointing and mocking. On the other hand it could be bad for my blood pressure.
Brachiator
@West of the Rockies:
Excellent description. For beverage, Diet Coke and many bottles of whine.
jonas
IIRC, there was this radical group of “Black Zionists” or something supposedly harassing this older Native American protester. Some witnesses believed the kid was joining in on the mocking; he claims he was just trying to intervene or something by standing in front of the guy with a smirking Backpfeifegesicht.
LuciaMia
He will lie for the 151st time that he passed the Veterans Choice bill.
Ohio Mom
Catholic high schools’ version of Florida Spring Break — they all converge on DC for the annual anti-women’s rights march and get high on their own supply.
Chaperones look the other way, they want it to be a “fun” experience for the kids (so they will always associate misogyny with positive feelings), and what could be more of a gas than bullying an old man who is an “other”?
Nick Sandmann isn’t the only miscreant from Covington Catholic; earlier this year one of their sports stars was sentenced to 25 years on rape and sexual abuse charges. Apparently this school has a great record when it comes to instilling values.
Central Planning
@MomSense: My wife and I had this exact same discussion today. I think it will make her blood boil and piss her off.
I think I might be able to put up with a little bit of it, but I would be watching to see what kind of trainwreck they can put up.
germy
@jonas: If he had tried to intervene, as he says, then his back would have been to the old man and he would have been facing (and smirking) at the black zionists.
germy
Just saw an interview with D.L. Hughley. He says Kanye and Trump are the same. Two narcissists who don’t read. And he’s seen both their wives naked. He says he knows Kanye is mentally ill, but that his illness is separate from what he’s up to. Kanye is savvy enough to attack Harriet Tubman, right at the moment Trump is fighting the renaming of bases.
Ken
@Central Planning: The trainwrecks will be available as clips within a few hours. Though calling them “clips” might be a stretch, if as expected the whole production is a flop.
Oklahomo
Good God, I went back to that link from 2009 . . . 2009 seems like something from another geological age.
Marcopolo
How about instead of talking about that smug kid maybe we talk about some of the excellent state legislature candidates in WI & NC who are trying to flip seats?
If I weren’t phone posting (harder to search & cut & paste) I’d do it myself. Maybe when I’m back at a real computer in an hour or so. I’ll see if I can find a link to a post about flipping the TX state house. There’s at least an even chance that happens in Nov & that would be a big fucking deal.
marklar
Convington Kid? That was my first post on BJ, and I made an ass of myself (I derailed the convo suggesting we shouldn’t judge because he might be autistic/have autism).
I still feel like I particularly owe JR in WV an apology, as well as Watergirl. You were right. I was wrong.
I’m also grateful to the words of encouragement given to me by Ohio Mom. Thanks!
Baud
@Marcopolo: Good call.
leeleeFL
@Ohio Mom: Well, Catholic, amirite? Not a surprise, just a disappointment and validation of my decision not to attened a Catholic HS in my sinful youth! Full scholarship! Dad NEVER forgave me!
Ohio Mom
I get that the Native American drummer thought he was doing a good deed by trying to diffuse whatever was going on between the Black Zionists and the high school kids but the world would have been better off if he had mutttered to himself, “Not my monkey, not my circus,” and gone on his way.
I hasten to add that I am not excusing Sandmann, he is a twerp in the highest degree. Probably scared of the Black Zionists and dealt with it by trying to bully an old man. What is a bunch of high school boys asserting their dominence over women’s autonomy but a dick swinging demonstration? As long as he had it whipped out, wave it in the drummer’s face.
different-church-lady
Gonna be four days of outraged resentment over the fact that they can’t be as shitty as they feel like being to anyone who isn’t white, couched as “oppression.”
different-church-lady
@jonas: C’mon, the poor kid just has
restingintervening smirk face.Ohio Mom
Marklar, I have no memory of that thread but glad you’ve stuck around.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
My bet is this time next week I will be reading a quote from a pundit that will feature “Well if you look carefully at the film the President did not actually consume the flesh of the victim…”
International Mikey
The only thing I remember about the little twerp is that he had a close resemblance to NASCAR driver, Joey Logano…..
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Absolutely not watching! Those who do can point us to small clips for pointing and mocking.
But I will not subject myself to the Republican convention.
You must be feeling some better if you can even consider watching?
Ohio Mom
Is the Republican convention always after ours? Too bad, the country would be better off if we went second, as an antidote.
I’ve mentioned this before, Covington is just across the river from Cincinnati, so Sandmann is something of a local celeb. The Cincinnati press keeps us updated on the progress of his many lawsuits, I can’t help being aware of him. Ugh.
Gin & Tonic
@marklar: Most of us make asses of ourselves here from time to time. Not to worry.
BCHS Class of 1980
@West of the Rockies: I tweeted “Festivus on meth” to describe the 2020 RNC. Someone followed up with a more pithy distillation: “Methtivus.”
dmsilev
@Ohio Mom:
No. The tradition is that the incumbent’s party goes last, so the DNC was after the RNC in 2016, etc.
WaterGirl
@marklar:
If you were wrong, but weren’t a dick about it, there’s no need for an apology.
But of course I accept your apology, in spite of the fact that I do not recall the particulars of that conversation.
I remember my first comment many moons ago, and I remember how vulnerable I felt sticking my neck out. Kudos to lurkers who delurk.
germy
Ladies and gentlemen, the party of tort reform.
eclare
@MomSense: Hell fucking no. I will see the worst bits mocked by Colbert.
Raven
fishy
Ohio Mom
dimsilev,
Thanks, what a quick response.
I’m torn about watching the Republicans. Part of me wants to see it for myself, part of me thinks I should be more protective of my mental health. It is sure to be completely demoralizing.
JPL
President Donald Trump railed against voting in a Thursday night tweet, and again in a speech in Arlington, VA on Friday and claimed that Democrats required picture I.D. to attend the virtual convention this week
After Tuesday comes WTF
@MomSense: NO
germy
@eclare: I’d like to see some excerpts with commentary by Trevor Noah.
oatler.
“Oh, he’s a sick man, frustrated, sick in his mind, sick in his soul, if he has one. He hates anybody who has what he can’t have.”
George Bailey’s father describing Old Man Potter
Marcopolo
Okay, sitting at my computer. This is from the flipnc website:
The Most Competitive NC House Districts in 2020
There’s a list of the targeted seats, which, unsurprisingly lines up with the list of 10 NC state house candidate endorsements Obama included in his first endorsement list 2 weeks ago. He’s also got five NC state senate candidates on the list.
The only actual list of targeted seats for WI I could find was from SwingLeft. According to the website they are hoping to flip the state assembly in 2022 with a strong start in 2020.
Wisconsin Super State Strategy
If you go to the site they have a list of 8 targeted state assembly seats.
While I don’t expect most folks to click through, if you know someone in either state maybe forward this along to them. I am supporting state legislative candidates in my home state of MO, where we’d just like to flip enough seats to get rid of R supermajorities in both the State House & Senate, but it is a much steeper climb here than in WI or NC.
Betty Cracker
Speaking of fundraising and the upcoming GOP shit-show, this somewhat scoldy Trump campaign email landed in my burner account today, allegedly from Jr.’s awful girlfriend:
Notice something? Would it surprise anyone if the Third Lady delivered a dead-eyed, droning recitation of Michelle Obama’s speech, with proper nouns clumsily switched out? Or if Trump yammers on about “building back better”? Prepare for anything, friends. There is literally no bottom.
eclare
@germy: That will also be must see teevee, thanks for the reminder. I just can’t watch in full, I’m still on my hope high from this week.
narya
I’m tempted to watch with the sound off. There is no POSSIBLE way I can listen to any of them, for any amount of time, but I am expecting a technological nightmare. No planning, probably tried to hire on the cheap, lots of last-minute schedule changes, nothing shared w/ the networks yet, it’ll be amateur hour, and in the worst possible way. But actually watch/listen? I . . . cannot. I trust the jackaltariat to let me know what I need to know.
pamelabrown53
@germy:
Yes!!! The party of “tort reform”, indeed.
I’ve been thinking about how for years, the republicans hammered on “tort reform”, then nada. They now just inundate the courts with frivolous law suites…on every level.
“Tort reform” was only ever about protecting misbehaving corporations.
Old Dan and Little Ann
I would watch next week’s shit show but I am going to be staring at trees up near Old Forge. I might watch Thursday to re-enrage.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ohio Mom:
The party in power (in the White House) goes second. So hopefully in 2024 that will happen.
Roger Moore
@pamelabrown53:
Tort reform means big business can use the courts to harass the public, but the public can’t use the courts to get justice from big business.
Sloane Peterson's knee therapist
Covington Kids!? Aren’t they a set of nesting dolls available at FAO Shwarz for little rich tykes Christmas gifts?
PenAndKey
The short clip didn’t have as much detail as the hour and a half one that came out later, but it didn’t “misrepresent the situation”. He was still a smarmy, cocky MAGA idiot. The event still occurred. He still played victim while the conservative movement in this country added him to their “liberal media!” grievance politics soundbite menu.
But do go on about how not falling for their BS “poor me” lamentations means we are victims of epistemic closure.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Be Building Back Best!
Marcopolo
@Betty Cracker: So you could throw them a $5 donation and wind up in the “donor hall of fame.” Talk about low bars.
In the meantime at ActBlue it took 6 months to go from $4 billion in contributions to 5 on May 28th and will only take 3 months to go from 5 to 6 (currently its at 5.97). Shit has been going crazy since the Harris nomination.
NotMax
Mr. Sandmann, venting your spleen
Major class asshole, though only a teen
Show all the world your loathsome colors
Spew tainted pablum to the right wing dullards
Marcopolo
In poorly planned & carried out ratfucking news (aka Jaredworld):
Kanye West fails to make Ohio ballot
So no Yeezy on the WI, OH, MT, or IL ballots. Oh and also WV in the last hour. So hard to keep up with all the f(l)ailing.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Sloane Peterson’s knee therapist:
I believe you are going to run into trouble with your nym—having to have every comment approved by a front-pager. FYWP does not like apostrophes in nyms. Maybe consider “Sloane Peterson*s knee therapist” or some such.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Hahaha! Perfect! I might have to watch at least some of it to see what a shit-show it is. I’m sure I won’t last long though.
NotMax
Go west, young men. Preferably all the way to the international Date Line.
//
mrmoshpotato
@MomSense: No way in hell am I watching any of that shitshow.
I regret watching any of it in 2016 and any of the GOP primary shitshow.
It’s not like I’ve ever been on the fence when one major party has been a we-hate-working-people-and-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-fix-everything pile of shit for longer than I’ve been alive.
Marcopolo
One last post on flipping the TX State House from Red to Blue.
From the Texas Democratic party on January 27 (there is a list of 22 targeted seats at this page). This link goes to the TX D homepage if you want to donate to them:
Texas Democratic Party Chair on August 19:
Texas Democratic Party chair Gilberto Hinojosa tells Texas Democrats at a breakfast Zoom call that of the 20 Texas House seats Ds have targeted this cycle, internal polling shows they are leading in 18 of them. Texas Democrats need 9 seats in order to retake the majority.
Keeping TX from being gerrymandered from 2022-2030 should be right up there (well maybe just below) electing Biden and flipping the Senate.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Marcopolo: Let me guess, Tik Tock strikes again?
Sister Golden Bear
<pendant mode = “on”>
The Metallica song is actually “Enter Sandman” (no “the”)
<pendant mode = “off”>
I’ve taken to calling the Republican convention the Freak Flag Festivus. (Admittedly, without the feats of strength, since the Grifter in Chief will be need to be propped up against the podium.)
satby
Nope, nope, NOPE! Not even for purposes of mockery. Because hate-watching still boosts the ratings, and that’s what the Orange traitor will be hoping for: good ratings. Lousy ones will demoralize the shot out of him, and I want him to suffer like we have been.
NotMax
Whoopsie. #59 meant to be @Marcopolo
Sorry ’bout that.
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@Betty Cracker
Repeated from a deadish very late night thread:
To pull in the Hamilton crowd, Melania will perform a rap number, Mega MAGA Man, composed by “Biggie J” Kushner, while she’s dressed as Susan B. Anthony.
Then in a surprise segment Dolt 45 will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, with Extreme Super Bestest Distinction, to…
…himself.
And to top off the final evening of festivities there will be a massive paper towel drop.
Betty Cracker
@Marcopolo: West also fell short in Illinois, per Politico, though he probably wouldn’t have managed a proper rat-copulation there anyway. Here’s hoping the attempt is detrimental to the West-Kardashian revenue streams.
Mai naem mobile
@BCHS Class of 1980: Corona of Methtivirus?
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: Melanie will tell us of her days growing up in a working-class black family on the south side of Chicago.
Marcopolo
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Possibly, though more likely a foul tasting brew concocted of grifting political operatives fleecing a mentally ill billionaire in collaboration with failson Jared.
As the MT Secretary of State said yesterday:
Marcopolo
@MomSense:
I’m as much a junkie about politics as anyone but Oh Hell No. I’ll try to find a good running commentary livestream but I’ll be damned if I am going to contribute to its ratings.
Have a good rest of the day y’all, gotta head back to meatspace: person, man, mower, grass, yard.
Ken
Does that mean the Republicans had at least two different people forging West’s signature for these documents?
Barbara
@satby: If Daniel Dale or another one of my Twitter buddies is following it, I will “watch” through their commentary.
Also, there are not just one but two tropical storms that are likely to make landfall on the Gulf Coast next week one west of New Orleans and one right around Pensacola, which is projected now to land as a Category 1 hurricane. The landfall is projected to be on August 26, which would be next Wednesday. I have a feeling there will be a lot of competition for air time. Talk about being preempted by an Act of God.
OGLiberal
Covington kid was wearing his stupid MAGA hat and previewing his lifetime douchiness while smirking at an older non-white fella. Asshole – and yes, kids can be assholes – reminded me of Chet from “Weird Science”….just a big time dick. But now he has tons of cash from a frivolous lawsuit to heal his hurt fe-fes. That’s America!
Barbara
@Betty Cracker: I think Kardashian has been considering divorce for some time. It’s infuriating that people are using West this way, because he seems to be genuinely mentally ill. That appears to be what’s stopping her.
Mike in NC
That kid is a future Matt Gaetz.
Chetan Murthy
@Marcopolo:
FTFY.
Betty Cracker
@Barbara: Maybe it’s cold of me, but I’ve got zero sympathy for West. Trump is mentally ill too, but he’s also an asshole in addition to whatever collection of pathologies he’d be diagnosed with if he sought treatment, and West seems like a similar type.
Delk
Who gives a fuck about thatkidtroll?Jim, Foolish Literalist
I won’t watch it live. I’d like to say I’ll be ignoring it, but I know I’ll wind up clicking around twitter . The crazy will be hard enough to avoid over that week.
Jonas
@Old Dan and Little Ann: Cheers! — we were out on the Sacandaga River last week in the southern Adirondacks. Got to see a pair of bald eagles fly past our porch.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ohio Mom:
No, whoever is then incumbent party in the White House has their convention last.
zhena gogolia
Can’t stop laughing at J-L. Cauvin. He’s been doing such brilliant work the last few weeks, just day after day of brilliant satire.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I can’t imagine watching the R convention. My blood pressure would shoot up high enough to send blood spurting out of my temples.
eclare
@Barbara: He has always been, as Obama said, a jackass. He needs help for a lot of things.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Ohio Mom:
Personally, I’m in favor of someone beating that smirky little fuck to death with a baseball bat. I was a 70s kid at a blue collar Catholic boys high school in Louisville. Nobody gave a shit about abortion, and if we’d acted like that choad, we’d have been punched out by our chaperones.
germy
Ex-President George W. Bush backs Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins
eclare
@Betty Cracker: See my comment #84. Someone here said DL Hughley compared Trump and West today, very similar.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker:
Not sure why they’d need to switch anything out, they’re using the 2016 platform, INCLUDING THE PARTS THAT SAY HOW BAD THE PRESIDENT IS.
James E Powell
@MomSense:
The last RNC I watched was 1976. After Ford won a hotly contested, open convention, Reagan appeared and the crowd went crazy. The worst white people in America gave him a huge ovation. My reaction at the time was, well we dodged that bullet. They call me Wrong Again Jimmy.
West of the Rockies
Pence won’t match Harris for content, heart, or style. Melania can’t do warm and real to save her life (“I don’t care, do you?”). No former president or first lady speaking (a la the Obamas and their stunning speeches).
Finally, Trump will be an enraged hobgoblin who mispronounces and spits his way through the speech.
Hunter Gathers
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
My wife described the look on his face as ‘The last thing you see clearly before the Roofie sets in”.
He will be a highly respected member of Phi Kappa Date Rape in college.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Why do you hate Guam?
lgerard
I would watch if someone had a split screen with Sarah Cooper “interpreting” the proceedings
?BillinGlendaleCA
@James E Powell: The only major party convention that I’ve missed since 1968 was the 2016 RNC.
MomSense
@Central Planning:
I’ve always watched the conventions, so I’m going to attempt it. Not sure I will last long, however. I remember how angry I was in 2004 with the horrible way they disrespected Kerry. That whole GOP campaign with the swift boating was appalling. I think that was also the year Zell Miller spoke at their convention and he was so out there I found it LOL funny.
I think I laughed at their 2016 convention, too.
Ugh.
Jeffro
@MomSense: I’m going to watch the final night, just to remind myself of the monstrous party of ghouls we are up against.
Btw Henry Olsen has up an unintentionally hilarious plan (at this hour!) for trumpov and Pence to give speeches all around the country, highlighting ‘American carnage’, trumpov’s great response to the pandemic (yes really), and the GOP’s commitment to – get this – “putting the party firmly behind righting racial injustice“.
You
Cannot
Make
This
Shit
Up
(but apparently Henry Olsen can)
There’s a reason the column is called, “The convention gimmick trumpov needs”
Brachiator
@MomSense:
I will peek in, maybe even watch Trump’s speech. I want to see what they are selling, and how they may be reacting to the Democrats.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: It was also the year Zell Miller challenged Tweety to a duel.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jeffro:
I read some of the comments. They were brutal.
Good.
Brachiator
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Is the Republican convention always after ours? Too bad, the country would be better off if we went second, as an antidote.
But this is just traditional, since 1856.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator: Its been a tradition longer than I’ve been here.
Mike in NC
@Jeffro: A former reality TV game show host only knows gimmicks and stunts.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Jeffro: I find it really hard to believe that most of the RNC won’t be just Trump babbling for hours on end. Couple of warm up acts to praise Paramount Leader Trump, denounce Trump’s enemies and then on to the Big Orange Man’s airing of grievances.
MomSense
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
HA! –
in the voice of tweety.
sdhays
That would at least be entertaining. It sounds like a lot of work and creativity, so it’s totally implausible.
catclub
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: yes, I thought he decided to schedule himself every night. … otherwise he knows the ratings will be terrible.
Chyron HR
@Mike in NC:
I think you mean future Matt Gaetz‘s son.
sdhays
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: This is what I’m expecting.
senyordave
I have a friend who donates two cents each week to the Trump campaign. The checks are cashed each time, and it has to cost at least 10 times that amount for the campaign in terms of labor. As he says the closest he will ever come to dirty tricks.
Wyatt Salamanca
That kid is a shameless little prick.
Does anyone know which, if any, tv/film actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jon Voight, Paul Sorvino, James Woods, Bruce McGill, Scott Baio has a speaking slot at next week’s convention?
?
Brachiator
Trump the dope is at it again. From a recent Politico article.
Many of the dopes Trump is playing to will believe his nonsense and never bother doing any fact checking. Trump always counts on this.
But Trump is becoming more dangerously delusional. Once he gets stuck on a bad idea, he may try to act on it, or interfere with people trying to do the right thing. We saw this with his disastrous response to the pandemic.
Another reason this guy must be voted out of office.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
“Angry Hootie.” ?
Wyatt Salamanca
@Brachiator:
In addition to an obvious mental illness, I suspect that Trump has stepped on a rake and had it whack him in the head a few too many times.
It will be refreshing to ring in 2021 with a President who actually believes in science.
JPL
@Brachiator: That’s okay… The dems required photo ID’s for the virtual convention. I didn’t have to show mine btw
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Brachiator: Not to mention most of the current fires are in the coastal range is which is chaparral; mostly bush grass that burns every nine years.
Wyatt Salamanca
@West of the Rockies:
Siri has more empathy and sincerity than Melania or Ivanka.
narya
Actually, since this is a full-service blog, if anyone knows of good live-tweets of the convention, I would prefer that to even watching w/ sound down, because then I”m not contributing to ratings.
NoraLenderbee
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack:
I love that!
zhena gogolia
@narya:
Aaron Rupar is usually good.
Sab
Ohio Sen Rob Portman, when asked about Trumps’s Goodyear boycott, responded “I believe private companies are free to set their own guidelines, but I would hope they would do it fairly and objectively, with respect for free speech.”
What an utter coward. 3,300 jobs at stake in his state. Company with its world headquarters in his state, and that is his response. They even gave him some sort of award in 2017. I’ll bet their PAC donated to his campaign.
Sab
@senyordave: Plus it helps the Post Office.
Brachiator
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Trump just makes shit up. And even when corrected, he keeps coming back to the same crap. This was not a big deal when he was a blowhard private citizen. And even in his presidency, he mainly would just sharpie pen his wrong ass points. But now he more deliberately makes decisions and issues directives to enforce his will, even if it kills people.
He will only get worse if he is re-elected, and if the GOP leadership does not rein him in.
Wyatt Salamanca
@Sab:
With the exception of Mitt Romney, every Republican serving in the Senate and House has no more backbone than a Mister Softee ice cream cone.
catclub
FTFY
Wyatt Salamanca
Two new Trump related documentary films are on the way:
#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump – With interviews from doctors and mental health professionals, the film offers an analysis of the behavior, psyche, condition, and stability of Trump.
“#Unfit” will get a limited theatrical and virtual cinema release on August 28 before heading to on-demand platforms September 1.
h/t https://www.salon.com/2020/08/20/unfit-the-psychology-of-donald-trump-uses-science-to-explain-an-unhinged-president–watch_partner/
https://unfitfilm.com/
The Plot Against the President – Pro-Trump film Amanda Milius, whose father is ‘Apocalypse Now’ screenwriter John Milius. The producers are currently in talks with a few distributors and are planning an Oct. 1 release.
h/t https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pro-trump-russiagate-doc-in-the-works-from-daughter-of-hollywood-legend-exclusive
patrick II
@senyordave: 
It’s a wonder they cash the checks. Of course, any amount from any scam is probably their motto.
rikyrah
Started my weekly donation to Biden/Harris today.
Donated to these state parties???
rikyrah
@MomSense:
Watch?
Nope ?
I will tune into hear what Maddow, Reid and Wallace have to say afterwards.
The Moar You Know
@Barbara: I had the misfortune to meet him in 2003. He is a rage-filled, tiny spiteful little asshole of a human being who truly delights in making everyone around him as miserable as possible. In that respect, he’s the perfect match for Trump, and the least shocking thing in all of 2020 is that he’s out running around being an attention whore and trying to throw the election to his good friend Donald J Trump.
He’s gotten a lot wealthier since then, which usually doesn’t result in someone becoming nicer than they used to be.
I do not think he is mentally ill. I think he’s an asshole. There’s a difference.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@The Moar You Know:
One can be both. He has been institutionalized.
Subsole
@mrmoshpotato:
“I was born a poor black child…”
Skepticat
That’s a word sequence I never expected to see.
trnc
@Sab:
The worst part about his response is that they did it fairly. They didn’t single out magaty hats. They discouraged overtly political messages, period. My guess is that the maga-t employees screamed and made it a partisan thing. If so, I hope they just happen to be the first ones to go if the company lets people go, but then they would scream that they’re being singled out because they’re the Grievance Only Party.
trnc
Apparently he continues to claim he passed Veteran’s Choice.
Based on the reaction by GOP leadership since 2016, what are the odds they rein him in after a 2nd successful theft of office?
J R in WV
@marklar:
Nope. We don’t do apologies here! ;-)
You could have been right, but in reality this young person is in fact a twerp of the highest order.
Right wing nut job, would be a fascist, if he knew what that word meant. But too ignorant to actually know what fascist means…
ETA> But thanks for returning, commenting, we love to have new folks show up, especially when they have manners. Who knows, some of the Jackals may pick up manners…