This should be the final nail in the GOP’s coffin but we’ve been saying that for years now. What is unfuckingbelievable about to me is not that he’ll go this low, but that on paper, at least, he still has a good chance of winning. It shocks me to my core that so many of our fellow citizens are so vile as to love this creep.
I'm currently reading Ruth Ben-Ghiat's STRONGMEN, which studies the techniques of 20th and 21st century "leaders", including Trump. I wouldn't have put Trump in the same league with, e.g., Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Pinochet -- but the similarities and parallels are striking, and use of media is a big one: propaganda becomes reality for people relentlessly exposed to it. I don't know personally any hardcore Fox addicts, but I do know some hardcore anti-vaxxers and it's impossible to get through to them either.
but New Yorkers are a sort of "special" group...we've had this miserable prick in our crosshairs since...can it actually be since the '70s?
oy. this means that, on some level, TFF has occupied at least a tiny bit of my mental real estate for almost half a century. and I'd already seriously overdosed on his scumbaggery by 1990. at the latest.
obviously, there are some people (actually, a great many) who just seriously dig being repeatedly played by someone who's never read a book...
and that's about the NICEST thing I an say about him.
but again, watching him explode in slow motion is a beautiful thing...it reminds me of the last few minutes of the otherwise unwatchable "Zabriskie Point."
what must be borne in mind is what he's obviously planning big-time for his new Big Lie, and THAT is no fucking joke.
Holly in the words of 12th steppers, it’s called ‘looking up at what you thought was your bottom’. My response echoes yours, ‘just when I thought they’d gone as low as they could’. I’m now just beginning to understand the hell painted by some of the greatest painters of the Renaissance. I used to think, oh well,
As you have shown, and has Charlie Pierce has argued, it has taken Democrats a long time to stop being afraid of their shadows. This needs to be in their--our--ads. Mind you, the DOJ would order the arrests of everyone there on charges of treason and sedition if Joe Biden, whom I love, had simply appointed an attorney general who was still alive.
📣Let’s all keep showing the video from the DNC showing Trump’s role in J6, along with all the violence,destruction and chaos caused by the “awardees”.📣
Speaking of the Inquisition calls to mind the Monty Python sketch about the Inquisition.
If only we could deal with this existential quandary with humor!
Biting satire can make us feel better, but it appears to be lost on the intended objects of ridicule.
When we were young the public narrative was managed by TV broadcasters and newspaper publishers. These days there is no single thread of "public narrative" -- it has become diffused. The "weirdos" keep repeating their fictional observations of "reality", which are vastly different from what we here consider good, and right, and true.
Haven’t immigrants always been the nearest target. Do enough genealogy research and it will become abundantly clear. I hope Swift’s desperate suggestion is down a road a bit. But…
"The event is planned to happen before Trump formally becomes a felon when he is sentenced on September 18 for the 34 felony counts he was convicted on in the Stormy Daniels hush money case in New York. After he officially becomes a felon, Trump will be 'legally prohibited from associating with other felons,' according to Tristan Snell, an attorney who prosecuted the Trump University case." This is THE FUNNIEST thing I have read in ages!!!
There is nothing to surpass your phrase of “Unfuckingbelievable”. At all. I don’t know when the bottom will fall out of this, but I’m sure there’s more to come.
How far has Rudy Giuliani fallen? THIS far. Trump putting this event on is more sickening than surprising, but to see the former "America's Mayor" (and yes, he was way overrated, but had stature, at least) shilling this is downright pathetic.
He turned baaad when he was mayor. Getting rid of Bratton, installing Kerik, who was his driver. How about when he tried to cancel the election after 9/11? Thank heavens most people saw through him when he ran as America’s mayor.
Holy shit. Unfuckingbelievable. Their shame knows no bounds, and of course, it's a fucking shill. All the shit they're doing, out in the open, the court rulings, the promises of pardons etc.
What is their plan to get to SCOTUS with an election case? That's the only way he won't lose. Hmm...
What shame? You have to have a conscience and a moral compass in order to feel shame. The Convicted Felon has neither conscience nor moral compass, so how could he possibly feel shame. We shall have to administer the humiliation of total defeat in November which is the only way he'll ever become acquainted with the feeling of shame.
We won't see the end of it until the money runs out, the failed insurrectionist and his clique stop taking "How low can he go" as a challenge, or he is officially removed from the Republican ticket (which isn't going to happen). In the meantime, we can only enjoy the slightly macabre humor of RFK joining the ticket to raise the intellectual level of the campaign (and destroy his father's legacy completely), and hope that Judge Marchan continues as he's begun when the time for accountability officially arrives.
Like everything Trump & MAGA Repubs do it is at first « fuckingunbelievable » like J6, like McConnell refusing to allow confirmation of a judge Obama appointed , like cozying up to Putin, like all the cohort criminals in his cabinet, like appointing his children to the West Wing , like stealing top secret documents and stashing them in his bathrooms, like fact checking 30K lies from his sewer mouth, like shaming our vets, like giving Presidential Medals of Freedom to the highest bidders, and … Rush Limbaugh??? And he sells bibles and tennis shoes ???? This man has soiled the highest office with his enablers in the Republican Party cut of the same cloth .
This should be the final nail in the GOP’s coffin but we’ve been saying that for years now. What is unfuckingbelievable about to me is not that he’ll go this low, but that on paper, at least, he still has a good chance of winning. It shocks me to my core that so many of our fellow citizens are so vile as to love this creep.
Or so ignorant that they don't know how vile he is. It's a toss-up which is worse for the health of an aspiring democracy.
Or so stuck with Fox News they have no clue what is going on for real. I have a friend who is this way, which is very frustrating.
I'm currently reading Ruth Ben-Ghiat's STRONGMEN, which studies the techniques of 20th and 21st century "leaders", including Trump. I wouldn't have put Trump in the same league with, e.g., Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Pinochet -- but the similarities and parallels are striking, and use of media is a big one: propaganda becomes reality for people relentlessly exposed to it. I don't know personally any hardcore Fox addicts, but I do know some hardcore anti-vaxxers and it's impossible to get through to them either.
They’ve got a very sick and dangerous symbiosis going on.
Dr. Bandy Lee writes extensively about it here on Substack.
this whole thing still amazes me.
but New Yorkers are a sort of "special" group...we've had this miserable prick in our crosshairs since...can it actually be since the '70s?
oy. this means that, on some level, TFF has occupied at least a tiny bit of my mental real estate for almost half a century. and I'd already seriously overdosed on his scumbaggery by 1990. at the latest.
obviously, there are some people (actually, a great many) who just seriously dig being repeatedly played by someone who's never read a book...
and that's about the NICEST thing I an say about him.
but again, watching him explode in slow motion is a beautiful thing...it reminds me of the last few minutes of the otherwise unwatchable "Zabriskie Point."
what must be borne in mind is what he's obviously planning big-time for his new Big Lie, and THAT is no fucking joke.
Just when I thought they’d gone as low as they could… and it’s still August. Not looking forward to the next two months. 🙄
I AM looking forward to the next two months while we KICK ASS and WIN this sucker!
Holly in the words of 12th steppers, it’s called ‘looking up at what you thought was your bottom’. My response echoes yours, ‘just when I thought they’d gone as low as they could’. I’m now just beginning to understand the hell painted by some of the greatest painters of the Renaissance. I used to think, oh well,
As you have shown, and has Charlie Pierce has argued, it has taken Democrats a long time to stop being afraid of their shadows. This needs to be in their--our--ads. Mind you, the DOJ would order the arrests of everyone there on charges of treason and sedition if Joe Biden, whom I love, had simply appointed an attorney general who was still alive.
I hope in 2025 we will get a new attorney general chosen by President Harris.
Roy Cooper
I understand that he’s also planning an Excellence in Management gala for Boeing and a reunion dinner for former Arthur Andersen partners.
*That* made me laugh out loud.
Happy to return the favor.
Me too😂🤣😂
📣Let’s all keep showing the video from the DNC showing Trump’s role in J6, along with all the violence,destruction and chaos caused by the “awardees”.📣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCydRVpwtGA
Sickening 😡. But of course you are right 👍.
How anyone can stand to watch that and still believe in that numnut is beyond me. I watched it on the 6th and again on this video. It was terrifying.
Thanks for posting the link. It is a horrible memory but one no one should forget.
I think I have posted before that he has no bottom. Orwell would be gobsmacked. I guess the inquisition is next.
Speaking of the Inquisition calls to mind the Monty Python sketch about the Inquisition.
If only we could deal with this existential quandary with humor!
Biting satire can make us feel better, but it appears to be lost on the intended objects of ridicule.
When we were young the public narrative was managed by TV broadcasters and newspaper publishers. These days there is no single thread of "public narrative" -- it has become diffused. The "weirdos" keep repeating their fictional observations of "reality", which are vastly different from what we here consider good, and right, and true.
I wish we could laugh them off the stage.
How I wish we could laugh them off the stage. Are we ready for Jonathan Swift?
A Modest Proposal, soon to be updated with immigrants.
Haven’t immigrants always been the nearest target. Do enough genealogy research and it will become abundantly clear. I hope Swift’s desperate suggestion is down a road a bit. But…
What a delightful thought 🙏
"The money raised from the event will reportedly go toward a Capitol riot legal fund, according to the video."
Hmmm, so that is what he is calling his legal defense fund these days.
Good to know...
He seems to always have at least one bullshit money scam going all the time. What happened to The Official Election Defense Fund?
"The event is planned to happen before Trump formally becomes a felon when he is sentenced on September 18 for the 34 felony counts he was convicted on in the Stormy Daniels hush money case in New York. After he officially becomes a felon, Trump will be 'legally prohibited from associating with other felons,' according to Tristan Snell, an attorney who prosecuted the Trump University case." This is THE FUNNIEST thing I have read in ages!!!
Why can't not holding office be a condition of bail / sentencing?
It can! But because of the risk of rioting, I'm sure that Judge Merchan won't do that.
There is nothing to surpass your phrase of “Unfuckingbelievable”. At all. I don’t know when the bottom will fall out of this, but I’m sure there’s more to come.
I have a rather large collection of invectives but I'm gonna have to start making some new ones. I'm starting to re-use them too often.
How far has Rudy Giuliani fallen? THIS far. Trump putting this event on is more sickening than surprising, but to see the former "America's Mayor" (and yes, he was way overrated, but had stature, at least) shilling this is downright pathetic.
He turned baaad when he was mayor. Getting rid of Bratton, installing Kerik, who was his driver. How about when he tried to cancel the election after 9/11? Thank heavens most people saw through him when he ran as America’s mayor.
I think he won exactly one delegate that cycle. How John Connally of him.
Pathetic is the word constantly coming out of my mouth. I could actually feel sorry for them if they weren't so pathetic.
Holy shit. Unfuckingbelievable. Their shame knows no bounds, and of course, it's a fucking shill. All the shit they're doing, out in the open, the court rulings, the promises of pardons etc.
What is their plan to get to SCOTUS with an election case? That's the only way he won't lose. Hmm...
What shame? You have to have a conscience and a moral compass in order to feel shame. The Convicted Felon has neither conscience nor moral compass, so how could he possibly feel shame. We shall have to administer the humiliation of total defeat in November which is the only way he'll ever become acquainted with the feeling of shame.
Agreed. I'm still on my first gallon of coffee.
We won't see the end of it until the money runs out, the failed insurrectionist and his clique stop taking "How low can he go" as a challenge, or he is officially removed from the Republican ticket (which isn't going to happen). In the meantime, we can only enjoy the slightly macabre humor of RFK joining the ticket to raise the intellectual level of the campaign (and destroy his father's legacy completely), and hope that Judge Marchan continues as he's begun when the time for accountability officially arrives.
Like everything Trump & MAGA Repubs do it is at first « fuckingunbelievable » like J6, like McConnell refusing to allow confirmation of a judge Obama appointed , like cozying up to Putin, like all the cohort criminals in his cabinet, like appointing his children to the West Wing , like stealing top secret documents and stashing them in his bathrooms, like fact checking 30K lies from his sewer mouth, like shaming our vets, like giving Presidential Medals of Freedom to the highest bidders, and … Rush Limbaugh??? And he sells bibles and tennis shoes ???? This man has soiled the highest office with his enablers in the Republican Party cut of the same cloth .
So not really an awards dinner at all at $50,000 a table. Just another grift. We know where all the proceeds will go.
Only $2,500 per ticket? I gots plennyo' miles on United.(All my ActBlue is on that card ) I'll cut my hair and give that Mo Fo a piece of my mind!
Save your hair and your mind. He wouldn’t know what to do with either.
There is no bottom when talking about the Felon.