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GOP Death Cult

Late Night Cheapjack Horror Open Thread: Their ‘Secret’ Pathology Made Flesh

by Anne Laurie|  April 13, 20211:36 am| 56 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Repubs in Disarray!, Our Failed Media Experiment

Have heard same from attendees … and yet. So far not one will put their name to it and none will say it to him. https://t.co/btq64LA3pY

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 11, 2021

The ‘real’ Republican party, and their media abettors, would like us to know: They don’t like TFG, either! But somehow, this monster and his drooling minions have managed to take the GOP hostage!

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Narrator: yet they remained donors. https://t.co/Qaq6c7TIyu

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 12, 2021

Averting gaze to the deeply personal attacks on McConnell by calling them stylistic (and thereby keeping Trump from targeting Thune) is part of the GOP story of last five years. https://t.co/Eu1L03rWMU

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 11, 2021

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club was paid more than $100,000 by the Republican Party to host dinner and his speech, which he used to attack a range of Republican politicians and complain that Democrats were tougher while calling for party unity and vowing Republicans would win in 2024.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 11, 2021

I've never seen a party so in thrall to a candidate who lost, except maybe the Democrats to William Jennings Bryan. And that didn't work out that well.

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 11, 2021

it would be helpful if journalists like josh dawsey explained that politicians go to see donald trump at his rape compound because they want his donor list. and if josh doesn’t know that, well, hey dude, they want his donor list. you should know that. you’re a journalist. https://t.co/hpo0NUc1jA

— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) April 11, 2021

Perhaps the NYTimes was sending a coded signal, this weekend?…

What is financial domination? “It’s controlling someone through their wallet.” https://t.co/lBkEau2Nh8 pic.twitter.com/u4jQmC2rti

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 10, 2021

Evergreen tweet:

All the people who think there was some noble, credible US conservatism that has "fallen," or been "taken over" by Trumpism, tell me: why was it so weak? Why did it offer so little resistance? Why did it devolve so *easily* into reactionary madness? Doesn't it make you wonder?

— David Roberts (@drvolts) April 11, 2021

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Late Night Cheapjack Horrorshow Open Thread: In Palm Beach, the RNC Kisses the Ring

by Anne Laurie|  April 11, 20211:47 am| 65 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Repubs in Disarray!, Trump Crime Cartel, Schadenfreude

NEW: Republican officials are flocking to Mar-a-Lago this weekend, allowing Trump to continue his lucrative business of renting rooms to party leaders who want his blessing. https://t.co/uDrowqlvS7

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) April 9, 2021

Take heart, fellow Democrats! If not for human decency, basic intelligence, and a rudimentary sense of self-preservation, you too could be spending your time and money kissing up to a senile criminal at his subtropical lair…

… Since Trump left office, at least six Republican candidates have held fundraisers at the former president’s Florida properties. This weekend, at least six more events will be put on by GOP-allied groups.

The events show that Trump has maintained his status as the party’s central figure, even after the violent effort by supporters to overthrow the election results on his behalf, and a post-presidency exile in which he has rarely left his own property.

That control has allowed Trump to continue his unprecedented and lucrative business relationship with his own party. Republicans will pay Trump just to be where he is — or even, in some cases, where they hope he might be…

And what do the hopeful donors get for their money?

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Trump said everyone should be calling it the “Trumpcine” (instead of vaccine) and deemed Mitch McConnell a “dumb son of a bitch” during his RNC remarks at Mar-a-Lago tonight, per person in the room.

— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) April 11, 2021

Per CNN:

Former President Donald Trump repeated familiar lies about the 2020 election and insulted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Saturday when speaking to Republican National Committee donors gathered for the first time since Trump’s defeat, a person in the room told CNN…

Trump went through an extensive recounting of debunked claims the election was stolen from him, including detailed complaints about individual states, and insisted the results were rigged, the person in the room said. In addition to insulting the Republican Senate leader — which received huge applause — the former President was highly critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci and once again took aim at former Vice President Mike Pence, whom he said had failed him in certifying the Electoral College results, according to the same person in the room.

The former President spoke generally about party unity, lamenting that Republicans don’t stick together as well as Democrats, the person said…

With the party completely out of power in Washington for the first time in four years, GOP donors have been eager to hear from leaders about how Republicans can win back the House and Senate in 2022 and the White House in 2024. But the question of how big a role Trump will and should play in the GOP future looms…

While the Palm Beach location was a concession of convenience to Trump, the presence of other Republican White House hopefuls is meant to signal the RNC’s official policy of neutrality toward the 2024 primary.

The potential candidates include three of Florida’s top elected officials: Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, both of whom may also run for president, spoke at the retreat too.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has been making moves that suggest a White House run, was scheduled to appear but did not.

Most of the donors attending the retreat were both staunch Trump backers — one was spotted on Friday walking out to the Four Seasons pool deck donning a blue “Make America Great Again” ballcap — and faithful Republicans looking to build the party back.

That endeavor is more complicated for the sizable number of GOP donors who are not so enamored with Trump but want to help the party regain power in Washington…

TFG’s no tiger, but he is a big, mean, stupid, potentially poisonous predator. Maybe the new RNC motto should be You can ride the Komodo dragon, but can you dismount?

The invitation-only event is taking place at the Four Seasons Resort, and the RNC reserved the entire hotel.

While Timken, former Ohio GOP chair, was invited to the event “because she is a major donor” — Mandel was not, so he was asked to leave

— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) April 10, 2021

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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Masks Off (Hoods On)

by Anne Laurie|  April 10, 20211:19 am| 29 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Post-racial America, Violent Insurrection at the Capitols, MONSTERS

In the last two weeks, Tucker Carlson has agreed with the idea that Republicans will eventually be “forced” to pick a fascist leader, has defended the fascists who attacked the Capitol on 1/6, and is now speaking up in support of neo-Nazi ideology. https://t.co/fh3IunJNQO

— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) April 9, 2021

so we’re just gonna go full white supremacist great replacement on fox news now. no euphemisms. no wink wink.

not great bob

— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) April 9, 2021

What Tucker Carlson says here about whites being replaced by the "Third World" lines up with what the New Zealand terrorist wrote in his 2019 manifesto.

Society condemned that document and pushed it off the web. This we feed to millions every night. https://t.co/Ty3ao6Hcfx

— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) April 9, 2021

Hard to disagree with Tucker Carlson: these are just honest, hard-working, economically anxious and politically disenfranchised people who just really, really love this country.
Well, a country. pic.twitter.com/vj5EIOI4qQ

— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) April 8, 2021

Of course, wealthy aristocrats like Carlson don’t lead their own slave patrols; there’s always ‘white trash’ bullies who’ll do the hard work in return for crumbs, plus the chance to feel better than Those People…

I guess he only went with “Hillbilly Elegy” because the book title “My Struggle” was already taken. pic.twitter.com/V7dXWlOPHO

— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) April 9, 2021

The 2024 GOP platform is just gonna be “The Purge” box set. https://t.co/x48X1bmv6J

— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) April 6, 2021


(I’d like to believe she meant ‘shoot’ as in ‘film’, but… )

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Late Night Creepshow Open Thread: GQP Masks Off

by Anne Laurie|  April 7, 20211:04 am| 61 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Repubs in Disarray!

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lashed out at corporate America, warning CEOs to stay out of the debate over a new voting law in Georgia that has been criticized as restricting votes among minorities and the poor https://t.co/nB6yJH5VLK pic.twitter.com/ET7TbBSh8L

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 6, 2021

Maybe I’m projecting, but in this clip, Minority Leader McConnell is not looking good physically, either. This is an old man who’s recently gotten some nasty news from his health care provider, looks to me.

Very glad that President Biden, may his shadow never grow less, and the other Democrats are giving him so much agita.

Don’t you try to tell me what I should do, and incidentally I hope your quarterly contribution has been deposited…

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NEWS: #McConnell in Kentucky calls actions of #MLB, #Coke, and #Delta in opposition of Georgia voting law ‘stupid.’ ‘My warning to corporate America is to stay out of politics,’ he says. ‘I’m not talking about political contributions, he adds. pic.twitter.com/J0yEMjqyYc

— Nancy Ognanovich (@NOgnanovich) April 6, 2021

bipartisanship is doing what the majority of people want, not begging mitch mcconnell to stop being the world's worst person. https://t.co/yW7hGeV47R

— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) April 6, 2021

Another simple-minded late-night joke… All women eventually turn into their mothers, and all politicians eventually turn into their philosophical fathers:

Christians believe that Jesus Christ was resurrected on Easter Sunday.

… and Cuban Americans are now horrified to discover that Fidel Castro has officially been reincarnated as @TedCruz. ??????? pic.twitter.com/C7UX1ilyoD

— Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) April 6, 2021

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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Last of the Watergate Gang?

by Anne Laurie|  March 31, 20211:36 am| 52 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, GOP Death Cult, Information As Power, Open Threads, Republican Venality

G. Gordon Liddy has died at 90. His bungling of Watergate break-in triggered a crisis that led to President Nixon's resignation. https://t.co/UM81k5hv5v

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 30, 2021

And the world is a slightly better, more honest place tonight. Liddy was an inspiration to every cheapjack would-be tough-guy rightwing politicial grifter of the last several decades, from Oliver North to the latest anti-vaxxer gymrat with a podcast and a grievance. He never repented, he never got smarter — as far as I can tell, he gloried in being a paranoid little ratfvcker who never did a decent thing in his long life. From the Washington Post:

… With his intense stare, cannonball head, bristling mustache and machine-gun style of speaking, Mr. Liddy looked like the archetypal bad guys he later depicted in television shows including “Miami Vice.” His friend and fellow Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt described him as “a wired, wisecracking extrovert who seemed as if he might be a candidate for decaffeinated coffee.”…

He also developed an early fascination with Nazi Germany, saying that he felt an “electric current” surge through his body when he listened to Adolf Hitler on the radio. To the young Liddy, Hitler embodied the “power of will.”

Although Mr. Liddy frequently boasted of his impeccable tradecraft, he made elementary mistakes that allowed his former FBI colleagues to connect the break-in to the White House and ultimately to a small circle of Nixon aides…

The director of the nonprofit National Security Archive, Tom Blanton, said Mr. Liddy “brought out the worst” in Nixon and his aides, “raising the testosterone level in the White House and ratcheting them up to even more extreme action.”…

By his own account, the Liddy of the Watergate break-in was a product of the culture wars of the 1960s. “The nation was at war not only externally in Vietnam but internally,” he said in his 1980 autobiography “Will,” which sold more than 1 million copies. “I had learned long ago the maxims of Cicero that ‘laws are inoperative in war’ and that ‘the good of the people is the chief law.’ ”…

After his release from prison, Mr. Liddy finally broke his silence about his role in Watergate with the publication of “Will,” which was well-received by many of his former antagonists. Washington Post investigative reporter Bob Woodward described the book as the “self-portrait of a zealot,” but he also noted that it contained “an embarrassment of riches” growing out of “his blustery conceit and his freedom from any guilt about what he did. . . . His story rings true,” Woodward wrote in his review…

The best thing one might say about Liddy is that he didn’t whine and try to shift blame for his crimes, like so many of today’s right-wing zealots. And even then, he was accused of taking way more credit than he earned for those crimes.

Liddy was part of a small group of operatives known as the "White House plumbers," whose mission was to identify anyone who had leaked information that made the Nixon administration look bad. https://t.co/JftBHqfH5w

— NPR (@NPR) March 31, 2021

No take on G. Gordon Liddy will ever top Richard Nixon's assessment of the man on the "smoking gun" tapehttps://t.co/IRwXsr7Vwa pic.twitter.com/JRuMMFOP0z

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 31, 2021

The juxtaposition of the Matt Gaetz story with the death of G. Gordon Liddy story reminds us yet again that the lunatic, criminal loyalists around Donald Trump are of a much lower caliber than were the lunatic, criminal loyalists around Richard Nixon.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) March 30, 2021

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GOP Death Cult Open Thread: Cosplay for Soft-Handed Xenophobes

by Anne Laurie|  March 27, 20215:46 pm| 148 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Immigration, Open Threads, Assholes

Republican senators arrive at a U.S.-Mexico border site in an armed boat. pic.twitter.com/FH0zR7wWYq

— The Recount (@therecount) March 26, 2021

Ted Cruz, point man. He’s decided that negative attention is better than no attention at all…

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THANK GOD YOU SURVIVED THE HECKLING! https://t.co/IT7vQdldWy

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 26, 2021

Mexicans are STEALING OUR HECKLING https://t.co/dmRoZLfm33

— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) March 26, 2021

lol pic.twitter.com/p62qTIEdgG

— chloe simon (@npr_matrix) March 26, 2021

Season 7 of Lost looks really bad. pic.twitter.com/AdEZ1esFD1

— Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) March 26, 2021

That's when Private Ron Johnson got the call. We were spotted. Not by the enemy, but by our former commander. He was in a rage that we hadn't put his name on the side of the boat. We were gonna have to go back and do OPERATION PHOTO-OP all over again. War truly is hell. pic.twitter.com/QgsBF70IjN

— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) March 26, 2021

People, Mexicans are stealing good American meth making jobs. Did we lose a war or something? https://t.co/aTS2ZHT6mI

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) March 26, 2021

round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
the lone and level sands stretch far away

(also pictured: part of a wall) pic.twitter.com/MkRudYNcr7

— Peloton InfoSec Analyst (Incident Response) (@CalmSporting) March 27, 2021

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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: They Walk Among Us

by Anne Laurie|  March 27, 202112:20 am| 65 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Trumpery

You know what would be a great rule to stop all these jackasses? If you can get their gun off them, you get to keep it. Just walk up behind em with a pair of scissors, snip the strap, and the gun is yours. And if they chase you to get it back you can shoot them in self-defense. pic.twitter.com/6Wjd483Wje

— Cathedral ?? Engineer ? (@owenrumney) March 25, 2021

And they would tell us, in all sincerity, that they mean no harm…

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Once again. So absolutely thrilled he can't tweet. https://t.co/WUtQ2HEN5g

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) March 26, 2021

Five people fucking died. Cops got stabbed, crushed, maced, eyes gouged. A wannabe bomber is still on the loose. Among the recent arrests are a Trump appointee, a Neo-Nazi with a security clearance (and a Hitler stache!), plus a CIA contractor who speared a cop with a metal pole.

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) March 26, 2021

And that's what it comes down to. Sure, Proud Boys and militia cosplayers might have chomped at any bit to own the libs. But what got flower shop owners, off duty cops and mortgage-having suburban Dallas schlubs to attack the seat of democracy was their President giving an order.

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) March 26, 2021

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