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Death Cult Bunker Open Thread: Paranoia Strikes Deep

by Anne Laurie| October 24, 20207:01 pm| 253 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Foreign Affairs, GOP Death Cult, Trump Crime Cartel, Schadenfreude

International market indicators…

My favorite part of this is watching Trump’s face drop when he realizes Bibi is not gonna endorse his campaign line. https://t.co/V1oqYTUjY2

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 23, 2020

it’s worth considering that trump is so deep into his extremely online fox news cinematic universe that he really and truly believes he’s up ten points right now and the first time he’s considered actually losing will be election night watching teevee along with the rest of us

— kilgore trout, biden wi-fi switchman (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 23, 2020

Naaaaah…

“Finger-pointing is a common feature of campaigns that think they’re losing, but it's happening at an uncommon level in this campaign. Shifting responsibility has been a staple of the Trump presidency — and his lieutenants are now following suit.” https://t.co/eeo36qrfgn

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 24, 2020

… Top Trump advisers insist they remain confident, with campaign manager Bill Stepien saying privately the president still has a path to victory…

But senior Republicans say a culture of paranoia has developed in the waning days of the race, with fears mounting that they will be the targets of post-election attacks if Trump loses, which could damage their careers going forward.

“I haven’t worked for Donald Trump since 2015, but I guess nothing changes,” said Sam Nunberg, a former Trump political adviser.

Shaaade… enfreude!

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Much of the blame is being directed at Parscale, who was ousted as campaign manager in July amid mounting questions over his stewardship of the reelection effort…

Parscale’s defenders say he’s being unfairly scapegoated. Every spending decision he made, including the Super Bowl ad, had sign-off from Trump’s top lieutenants, and sometimes the president himself, they said. Much of Parscale’s early spending was devoted to finding new online donors, his backers say.

The former campaign manager felt compelled to invest heavily in advertising in May and June because Trump’s poll numbers were sliding amid the onset of the pandemic. With little backup from the primary pro-Trump outside group, America First Action, Parscale felt the need to hit the airwaves. The plan, Parscale allies said, had the support of the president and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner…

It’s not just Parscale getting blamed for Trump’s predicament. Some Republican officials are also angry at Meadows for how he managed Trump’s hospitalization. The chief of staff undercut the White House messaging when he told reporters early on that Trump was “still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”

The statement initiated a damaging news cycle, forcing the administration to assure the nation that Trump was in stable condition.

Officials also blame Meadows for not doing more to rein in Trump. Among the complaints: That he should have tried to stop Trump from giving Bob Woodward practically unfettered access as the pandemic intensified, and that he erred in encouraging Trump to hold in-person rallies. Others question why Meadows has so far failed to deliver in congressional negotiations on a coronavirus relief package and worry the inability to get checks to voters could damage the president in the election.

But others argue that it’s folly to think that Meadows — or anyone else — could have put guardrails on Trump…

The dissension has spilled into the final days of the race. In theory, the campaign and RNC are supposed to be working in tandem. But senior Republicans have said the campaign’s coordination with the RNC broke down after Parscale’s departure, with little communication between the two organizations.

Campaign officials insist things have recently improved and that the breakdown wasn’t either side’s fault…

Let’s not argue about ‘oo killed ‘oo!

So, with the debates now over and the Hunter Biden story being debunked by a Rupert Murdoch outlet, Trump's last remaining hope for a rebound would seem to require JFK Jr. coming back to life and replacing Pence on the ticket.

— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) October 23, 2020

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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Last Days of Sod’Em

by Anne Laurie| October 21, 202012:17 am| 94 Comments

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

The Grand Farewell Tour is… not as heartening as Lord Smallgloves and his minions expected:

Look Trump could still win but even the last hour of my Twitter feed give the impression of the wheels coming off his entire campaign. pic.twitter.com/3eNDHieoeI

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 20, 2020

In Erie, President Trump said that before the pandemic he was coasting to re-election and did not need to campaign. “There was no way I was coming to Erie. To be honest I didn’t have to. Then we got hit by the plague and we had to go back to work. Hello Erie!”

— Steve Holland (@steveholland1) October 21, 2020

No complacency before November 3rd, etc etc, but this is *not* a man who believes he’s gonna win. So, if nothing else, you can take consolation in the fact that we’re making him miserable. More miserable.

"People of tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots,” Trump says in campaign call that has become a longish rant in which he is trying to deny he is at risk of losing this election.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 19, 2020

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President Donald Trump lashes out at "stupid" critics from within his own party and calls for unity after growing Republican criticism and warnings of a "bloodbath" in the November 3 election https://t.co/n7jU6fIRbJ pic.twitter.com/xKuGRoX7Vc

— AFP news agency (@AFP) October 19, 2020

Note: Trump was trailing in the polls to Biden since the race began, long before covid was a thing https://t.co/oOII9qVdwq

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) October 21, 2020

It’s always projection:

"If you want depression, doom and despair, vote for Sleepy Joe. And boredom," Trump says in Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/8cQrJsm61Q

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 21, 2020

Going through Trump's rally transcripts from this weekend and even I am mildly impressed at how dishonest he was.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 18, 2020

On the bright side, this should finally put an end to the whole "Master Race" thing. pic.twitter.com/QoRrStlsAo

— KevinlyFather ???????????????? (@KevinlyFather) October 17, 2020

Everyone is LOVING the Trumptanic’s fun-filled cruise.

People are laughing and drinking… and we have plenty of ice cubes! https://t.co/cAOOC0yElj

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 19, 2020

"There's something about that, when you watched everybody getting pushed around, there's some very beautiful about it. I don't care what anyone says. Not politically correct." — Trump describes the National Guard getting into physical altercations with protesters as "beautiful" pic.twitter.com/04ax2wWKra

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2020

Call me conservative, but I prefer Presidents who don’t have to flee the jurisdiction if they lose a re-election campaign.

— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) October 17, 2020

Trump is spewing hate at his MI rally & admitting he will lose. He will be crying onstage b4 his delusional, grievance-fest campaign ends.
"On January 1, I better damn well be president I'll tell you. Well I will be. I will be for 20 days. Don't do this to me. You can't do that."

— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) October 18, 2020

Some in the crowd, including GOP officials, head for the exits before Trump finishes his remarks. #gapol pic.twitter.com/SMwuKUcvAV

— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) October 17, 2020

Someone should do an analysis of how many words Trump was speaking per minute before being given dexamethasone, how many words per minute now, & how many words per minute 7 days from now.

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 15, 2020

Is he trying to pronounce “Burisma”? pic.twitter.com/f4veqoolC7

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 15, 2020

After complimenting Trump on his smile at Miami town hall, Paulette Dale plans to vote for Biden #BecauseMiami https://t.co/rB2QtewU0X

— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) October 16, 2020

The fact that she's voting for Biden is better. https://t.co/5hhJTlpPoh

— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) October 19, 2020

Trump on Florida: "If we don't win it, I'm blaming the governor. I'm gonna fire him somehow. I'll find a way."

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) October 16, 2020

De Santis gambled his whole career on letting seniors die to not piss off Trump in April, and look where he's ended up in October https://t.co/iyblgMKnty

— antifa but spooky (@MenshevikM) October 16, 2020

We’re so inured to this now. And it’s so fucked up. https://t.co/tS02ENJ8j2

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 17, 2020

Trump rallies are a time suck, a money suck, which aren't being carried on national TV. And it's not clear that hosting large gatherings mid-pandemic doesn't hurt him with voters in the end.

But the adoring crowds keep the president happy.

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) October 15, 2020

"January 1, I better damn well be president, I'll tell you. Well, I will be. I will be, for 20 days. Don't do this to me. You can't do that." — Trump pic.twitter.com/ru7xjzGifl

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2020

Promise? pic.twitter.com/Wbl86i8uYo

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 17, 2020

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by Anne Laurie| October 18, 20201:19 am| 120 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Information As Power

Among those who get their election news primarily from Fox “News,” 86% say that Trump is delivering the “completely right” or “mostly right” message about the pandemic and 39% say that QAnon—an insane conspiracy theory—is “somewhat good” or “very good.”https://t.co/XRxVHmrjF0

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) October 13, 2020

Straight down a cult-hole of self-reinforcing unreality…

I’m packing my toothbrush and waiting at the curb to be rounded up. https://t.co/QaDIAepkEs

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 17, 2020

We have to laugh, because the alternative is despair. Wonkette is, as ever, brilliant:

Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory have had quite a month. On the downside, they’ve been banned from practically every social media site and also from Etsy. On the upside, Donald Trump has remained resolute in his refusal to condemn them, which has made them feel very empowered and what have you.

There are, of course, only a few more weeks left for all of the things they’ve been promised to come to fruition. If Trump loses the election, they lose all hope of the martial law, military tribunals and mass arrests of their dreams, and will have to go back to fretting about the martial law, military tribunals and mass arrests of their nightmares. They’ll be back to worrying about Jade Helm type things, of being put in FEMA camps, of jack booted thugs banging down their doors, rather than the doors of Hillary Clinton and Tom Hanks.

But today is the day many of them have been looking forward to for a long while now, a day that is supposed to turn things around. October 17, because of how Q is the 17th letter in the alphabet. It is to be the day Donald Trump announces, at a rally in Dallas, the city where John F. Kennedy was assassinated, that he is replacing Mike Pence with a new running mate — the surprisingly not dead John F. Kennedy, Jr…

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Late Night Open Thread: People for Whom It Is Hard to Feel Pity

by Anne Laurie| October 17, 202012:35 am| 139 Comments

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

“How much Trump stink is on my resume right now?” Preparing for the worst, GOPers ponder life after Trump. My latest on the uptick in resumes circulating on Gmail, disqualifiers for corporate clients, & where all the Trump staff might go post Trumpworld. https://t.co/h8iT0xlPjd

— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) October 16, 2020

The Washington Post is the company paper in a town where the monopoly industry is national politics, so this is actually a pertinent issue for them. Not that the answer isn’t both obvious and (for us sane people) depressing:

… “There’s always a market for lobbyists, but look at someone like Spicer who had high-profile gigs in the White House and where did he land?” noted Amanda Carpenter, a Trump critic, CNN contributor and former aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.). “He’s a host on Newsmax right now. That’s not the kind of leg-up to high-profile communications in the corporate world that’s the typical path…. If he can’t do it, I think people with such a high profile will have similar problems.”…

Over a dozen Republican strategists, former Trump administration staffers, current Capitol Hill hands and associates close to the Trump White House predict that many graduates of the Trump administration could have a tough time sticking a landing in the private sector.

They say Trump’s shaky standing in the campaign — and his pull on down-ballot races — is already making Republicans especially nervous…

“Americans have short memories,” Rodney Faraon, a former CIA analyst and member of the president’s daily brief team in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, who is now a partner with Martin+Crumpton Group. “One would think that the GOP would, as John McCain would say, ‘return to normal order,’ and then we can finally debate issues on the basis of real substance. But that’s the big $64,000 question. What happens to the GOP after Trump?”…

‘Return to normal order’ is quite the lift, right now. Rather like announcing that the patient will be fine once those stubborn Kapowsi’s sarcoma nodules are successfully treated — it’s the underlying immune deficiency which let the cancer establish itself that’s the real problem.

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Friday Morning Open Thread: ‘Sleepy’ Joe Biden for President!

by Anne Laurie| October 16, 20206:58 am| 228 Comments

This post is in: Biden-Harris 2020, GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

After the Kavanaugh confirmation my wife Hanji was so disgusted that she applied to become a US Citizen so she could vote against Susan Collins.

Today she finished this animation urging other Mainers to vote. #mepolitics #VOTE pic.twitter.com/6Q6YNonmPe

— Andy O'Brien (@aobrien2010) October 14, 2020

Trump and Biden's dueling town halls offer a visual reminder of the deeply divided American electorate, while more than 18 million ballots have already been cast ahead of election day https://t.co/6BBSojROB5 pic.twitter.com/APUR2cZVO3

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 16, 2020

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Late Night Post-Dueling-Townhalls Open Thread: Early Reviews

by Anne Laurie| October 16, 20201:27 am| 70 Comments

This post is in: Biden-Harris 2020, GOP Death Cult

I didn’t watch, but…

I can’t imagine watching trump but if my feed is any indication I gather it is going quiiiiiite poorly

— kilgore trout, kiss me mr. president (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 16, 2020

UMMMM “He didn’t spend the whole time yelling, he didn’t piss himself… so this was as best as we could have hoped for,” one Trump campaign adviser tells @swin24. https://t.co/C6nrUQBFAj

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) October 16, 2020

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Dueling town hall Twitter is like:

After biting the head off a live flamingo, Donald Trump spits bits of blood and feathers at audience while dancing to the Village People.

Meanwhile, as angels sing, Joe Biden is gently icing the bruised wing of an injured Philadelphia pigeon.

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 16, 2020

It’s not the most important thing but I like that Biden’s first impulse was to put the onus on himself rather than the country. https://t.co/gCtqlveqJj

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 16, 2020

At the moment that Mr. Trump was effectively defending a fringe corner of the internet, Mr. Biden was speaking about corporate tax rates and citing the business-analysis service Moody’s.

on the splitscreen with @alexburnsNYT https://t.co/wMRBAJZ8KF

— Katie Glueck (@katieglueck) October 16, 2020

Trump: the doctors told me my lungs were infected
Guthrie: with what?
Trump: I didn’t really ask too many questions

this really just happened and we are only in the first 90 seconds of this thing

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 16, 2020

Sorry but Team Biden has to be loving the split screen rn.

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) October 16, 2020

Pres. Trump: “That was a retweet, I’ll put it out there. People can decide for themselves.” @SavannahGuthrie: “I don’t get that. You’re the president. You’re not, like, someone’s crazy uncle who can just retweet whatever.” #TrumpTownHall pic.twitter.com/Im0QFy7VOU

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 16, 2020

Trump would have been better served by accepting the virtual debate. Suicide bombers have hurt themselves less than this…

— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) October 16, 2020

not tweeting is free https://t.co/oYbLPPwVcI

— kilgore trout, kiss me mr. president (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 16, 2020

imagine what kind of genuine psychopath you have to be to think not just, "god, i hate mr. rogers," but "you know who americans hate? mr. rogers." https://t.co/yFaPPtLSPY

— fnu lnu (@Theophite) October 16, 2020

Boy Donald Trump is sweating a lot. Shades of 1960.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) October 16, 2020

Watching Joe Biden for a few minutes while I’ve been watching this Trump town Hall is like taking a cool drink of water after standing in front of a fan blowing a blast furnace in my face

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 16, 2020

My goodness, Trump is debating no-one and still losing.

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) October 16, 2020

I have about 70 pro-trump blue checks on a twitter list, they aren’t celebrating Trump’s performance, only attacking the moderator. That’s not a good sign.

— Josh Russell (@josh_emerson) October 16, 2020

Okay I switched over. Biden is shockingly coherent.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) October 16, 2020

“It was a clear win. Our candidate successfully fought off all partisan efforts to get him to answer any questions, and did not audibly call any specific audience member a racial slur.”

— PutMr.RodgersInHisPlaceHat (@Popehat) October 16, 2020

Biden 2020: What if politics could feel like this, rather than [changes channel to the Trump townhall] like that?

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) October 16, 2020

Trump refused to disavow the violent QAnon movement at the NBC town hall, praising them as people who are "very much against pedophilia." https://t.co/HC2h17gs9v

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) October 16, 2020

Just imagine turning on the TV, seeing your president, and feeling your blood pressure go down instead of up.

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) October 16, 2020

imagine when you think it's a killer sum up to say you kicked the hosts ass. https://t.co/QVGQTyDPWs

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 16, 2020

Campaign professional’s rating:

Fit my my sense of it. Not Biden connecting like when he’s really on, but fine

But maybe I’m wrong, maybe voters undecided on whether to vote for him or vote at all ate it up. (And that’s how I assess things like this, not whether ones partisans loved it) https://t.co/Uhe3oDGthK

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 16, 2020

I dunno, man. Probably because Biden never launched into a staunch defense of an insane conspiracy theory, defended a retweet claiming that Obama had Seal Team Six murdered, and veered wildly off topic. https://t.co/BfLhNE2jsA

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) October 16, 2020

Talking to normal people is one of the things Biden likes most about campaigning, and this is one of the few chances during the pandemic that he's actually been able to do it. https://t.co/B5rgwkOzQ3

— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) October 16, 2020

.@JoeBiden still going at it with clarity and precision, now on foreign policy, while @realDonaldTrump left the building 15 minutes ago. Stamina anyone?

— Jennifer Granholm (@JenGranholm) October 16, 2020

*an exhausted donald trump returns to his hyperbaric chamber filled with vanilla pudding mixed with powdered barbiturates to prepare for another big day of shitposting*

— kilgore trout, kiss me mr. president (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 16, 2020

Joe Biden seems to not want the town hall to ever end. It concluded nearly 30 minutes ago, and he’s still fielding questions as voters take out notecards and ask the questions they didn’t get to during the televised broadcast. And Biden shows no signs of letting up.

— Matt Viser (@mviser) October 16, 2020

I see Trump followers have once again decided that he's a victim of his own choices.

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) October 16, 2020

Biden keeps inching closer to the voters asking questions, then pauses, goes back to the stage and puts his mask on. #leadershipbyexample

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 16, 2020

Trump supporters are just upset that their strategic genius cult leader ran away from a debate with Joe Biden so he could hold an hour long prime time pro-Biden campaign ad.

— Bob Sampson (@bobsalpha1) October 16, 2020

it’s almost as if he really cares about earning their votes! https://t.co/BQlPtpuVVn

— kilgore trout, kiss me mr. president (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 16, 2020

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The Barrett Hearings: Justice Blank Sheet of White Paper

by Anne Laurie| October 15, 20208:30 am| 149 Comments

This post is in: Activist Judges!, GOP Death Cult, Republican Venality

Caligula only appointed one of his horses to the Senate. The GOP Death Cult is about to give Trump his third ‘LOL, because we can’ SCOTUS seat…

The first amendment seems like one of the pretty important ones to know. https://t.co/JQy10VjeSP

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 14, 2020

ask yourself which is more likely…a sitting appeals court justice not knowing what's in the first amendment or a craven politician knowing her vain, fickle, power-mad boss wants to jail, beat and kill protesters at will.

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) October 14, 2020

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Amy Coney Barrett would be the third(!) sitting justice, alongside Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts, who worked on the Republican side of Bush v. Gore. https://t.co/46nIRSB3Kc

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 14, 2020

Amy Coney Barrett is asked if she can show the notes she's referring to while answering senators' questions. She holds up a blank notebook.

Sen. John Cornyn: "Is there anything on it?"

Barrett: "The letterhead that says 'United States Senate.'" https://t.co/NN41m59TpP pic.twitter.com/XwcS5nSqEO

— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 13, 2020

She’s there to demonstrate her total, unblinking fealty to the GOP Death Cult, not to know anything about the law:

I'm sure she (and her Libertarian funders) imagine that she has an "open mind", but she just comes off as having a fundamentally incurious empty mind.https://t.co/0gXtSCt0rW

— Simon Porter (@AscendingNode) October 14, 2020

Given the impossible odds against them, the Democrats have done noble work getting her (and her fellow Repub cultists’) soulless dishonesty on the record…

Q: Will you commit to uphold the Constitution?

A: Well, kinda depends… https://t.co/UJmg6S27sv

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 13, 2020

WATCH: Senator @amyklobuchar just asked Judge Barrett whether it's illegal under federal law to intimidate voters at the polls.

Barrett refused to answer. Then Klobuchar read her the law. Astonishing. pic.twitter.com/cxoIaXTP9e

— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) October 13, 2020

Harris quizzes Amy Coney Barrett.

In 3 minutes. pic.twitter.com/LP6YV4v9cp

— Zach Purser Brown (@zachjourno) October 14, 2020

if you were warming up an "actually, what's wrong with separate but equal" take, please jump into a hot tub full of eels

— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) October 13, 2020

man, she’s raising two black children https://t.co/wHzLSETmOd

— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) October 13, 2020

the sheer amount of stupefyingly bad things we have her on camera copping to already is proof that the "boycott the hearings" proposal would have been an idiotic blunder https://t.co/KIGJEyr9Er

— local jack please ban the nazis person (@pleizar) October 13, 2020

Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse used his entire allotted time during confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to detail what he called a Republican party ‘scheme’ to deploy dark money in an effort to appoint conservative judges pic.twitter.com/5ORp0VYquF

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 13, 2020

Analysis: Amy Coney Barrett’s most telling exchange on abortion and Roe v. Wade https://t.co/6sK9Y2tapU

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 14, 2020

Neither does the word women and yet here we are. https://t.co/Gb4TvKUB9w

— Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) October 14, 2020

Lol Alliance Defending Freedom is such a joke name but basically every one of these conservative orgs gaslights on why they exist. And of course its David French's old employer.

Barrett is a comically extreme candidate. https://t.co/VwrFJtwBRR

— AdotSad (@AdotSad) October 13, 2020

the main problem is that you can't counter a leroy jenkins strategy. if mcconnell's willing to lose his senate majority to confirm her, you can't stop him. the only thing you can do is make sure that he'll lose it, and the good dems on the committee are doing their best.

— golikechildebertmachine (@golikehellmachi) October 14, 2020

also, not for nothing, but the republicans have done an absolutely abysmal job feeding her questions that make her look good to anyone but federalist society lawyer goons. they're too high on their own supply.

— golikechildebertmachine (@golikehellmachi) October 14, 2020

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This blog is Obama’s Katrina.

Naturally gregarious and alpha

We have all the best words.

Wetsuit optional.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

This blog will pay for itself.

Lighten up, Francis.

Saul Alinsky is my co-pilot.

We need fewer warriors in public service and more gardeners.

I can’t take this shit today. I just can’t.

I’m only here for the duck photos.

I’m going back to the respite thread.

The house always wins.

The willow is too close to the house.

Just a few bad apples.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

This blog goes to 11…

Shock troops for the Unitarian Jihad.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

… down to kool-aid drinkers and next of kin at the trump White House

… makes me wish i had hoarded more linguine

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Death Cult Bunker Open Thread: Paranoia Strikes Deep

Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Last Days of Sod’Em

Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Where They Go One, They Go All…

Late Night Open Thread: People for Whom It Is Hard to Feel Pity

Friday Morning Open Thread: ‘Sleepy’ Joe Biden for President!

Late Night Post-Dueling-Townhalls Open Thread: Early Reviews

The Barrett Hearings: Justice Blank Sheet of White Paper