This Week on Politics: Trump Goes Mola Ram on the GOP

This one’s going to leave a mark
Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
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It’s not often that you see Rachel Maddow as chastened as she was last night. She ran down the long history of kooks, cranks, dingbats, racists and shitheels that have run for president, and found a little traction with the paranoid-freakazoid fringe. And then she came to the fact that Donald Trump is now the GOP nominee and there is a chance - a real, live, honest-to-god chance, that this egomaniacal Mussolini-wannabe could wind up as the Most Powerful Man On Earth.

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“God bless America,” Rachel said. Uncharacteristically grim. She’s a master at keeping things light, at not going in for bombast or end-of-world hysteria. But this one, you could tell … this one has shocked her to her core. She honestly thought there would be a contested convention.

And now we all know that there will not.

Glenn Beck even says “it makes us pretty racist, it makes us big government guys … I will not endorse it, I will not tolerate it.”

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“You will never elect another GOP person to high office. Ever again.”

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Kragar  May 5, 2016 • 5:18:04pm

“You will never elect another GOP person to high office. Ever again.”

When Harry Met Sally - Orgasm Scene

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Jack Burton  May 5, 2016 • 5:22:18pm

Does this mean Hillary will have to do this:

Mola Ram, prepare to meet Kali, in Hell

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Kragar  May 5, 2016 • 5:25:13pm
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Nyet  May 5, 2016 • 5:26:28pm

Dear Glenn: you built it, own it.

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Targetpractice  May 5, 2016 • 5:27:48pm

There really are few things as hilarious as watching the GOP try to simultaneously embrace Trump and yet convince everybody outside the party base that they don’t subscribe to the fecal matter issuing forth from his mouth. “Yeah, he’s batshit crazy, but we love him!”

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jaunte  May 5, 2016 • 5:29:06pm

re: #5 Targetpractice

The Non-binding Un-endorsement Endorsement.

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teleskiguy  May 5, 2016 • 5:29:18pm

GOP establishment be all like

We are going to die! - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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No Depression  May 5, 2016 • 5:32:40pm

re: #3 Kragar

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Ye gods no.

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freetoken  May 5, 2016 • 5:32:51pm

Yes, Drumpfskind has a LaRouche element to his schtick.

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Jenner7  May 5, 2016 • 5:33:30pm

I have no words.

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No Depression  May 5, 2016 • 5:33:49pm

re: #7 teleskiguy

GOP establishment be all like

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That’ll be all of us if Trump somehow wins.

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Der Flohgeisteffekt  May 5, 2016 • 5:34:07pm

Thing is, the culture of the right has matched Trump long before the political platform. AM radio, FOX News, the endless roster of outrage-peddling pseudo-intellectuals and their pious equivalents all contributed to building an alternate reality in which only conspiracy and pure evil can explain why the viewers don’t have everything they want.

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Charles Johnson  May 5, 2016 • 5:34:09pm
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teleskiguy  May 5, 2016 • 5:35:35pm

This page is garbage. Gonna need some downdings to make it disappear, seven more I believe.

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EPR-radar  May 5, 2016 • 5:35:43pm

re: #11 No Depression

That’ll be all of us if Trump somehow wins.

If Trump wins in November, it would be perfectly rational for Russia, China and Europe to set up a NATO-like mutual defense pact vs. America.

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jaunte  May 5, 2016 • 5:36:29pm

If Trump picks a VP candidate who adds something he thinks he lacks politically, what/who would it be? Westerner/Southerner/Woman/Hispanic name?

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Stanley Sea  May 5, 2016 • 5:36:31pm

OT

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No Depression  May 5, 2016 • 5:36:43pm

re: #10 Jenner7

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I have no words.

Giphy

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Franklin  May 5, 2016 • 5:37:48pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

This page is garbage. Gonna need some downdings to make it disappear, seven more I believe.

Done

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Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday's Child)  May 5, 2016 • 5:39:39pm

Whoa! Promoted to the front page again! And I seem to have touched off a moment of nostalgia for one of my favorite films of the 80s (even though my sister’s nails left marks in my forearms during that crawly-bugs scene). As I recall, it was one of the first movies to get the newly-minted “PG-13” label.

Anyway. Thanks for the promo.

I can’t see far enough to predict what this is going to do to the GOP. The party has been hijacked by hate radio and Fox, an endless stream of paranoia, anger, resentment and ignorance. Will a 49-state blowout cause them to realize that the cheap high they’ve gotten off having their own lapdog propaganda mills has led them into a blind alley?

If you really want to change politics in America … reinstate the “Equal Time” clause into the FCC, and fucking enforce it. Put Rush and Hannity and Ingraham and Steele, and all the rest of the freaks off the air - or at least force them to stop putting out pure hated and propaganda and calling it “news and opinion.”

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Maxwell Not So Smart  May 5, 2016 • 5:41:28pm

I’ve taken some artistic license with this.

Rod Serling Narrative to the start of a Twilight Zone episode.

Donald Trump a dealer in petulance and poison. His rather arbitrarily chosen America is his personal götterdämmerung. What we are watching is the metamorphosis of a twisted fanatic, poisoned by the gangrene of prejudice and ego to the status of an avenging angel. Upright in omnission dedicated and fearsome.

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Charles Johnson  May 5, 2016 • 5:41:36pm
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EPR-radar  May 5, 2016 • 5:42:06pm

re: #20 Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday’s Child)

Losing in a 49-50 state blowout is what the Republican party desperately needs to spur its reform, but this won’t happen.

There just aren’t that many Romney states that can plausibly turn blue, even with Trump as the nominee.

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Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday's Child)  May 5, 2016 • 5:42:26pm

re: #15 EPR-radar

If Trump wins in November, it would be perfectly rational for Russia, China and Europe to set up a NATO-like mutual defense pact vs. America.

I’ve wondered what would happen, if in late October, after some kind of attack/Hilary meltdown, if Trump is close to winning … would Europe break away from the U.S., leave NATO and join with Russia? What would it take for that to happen? Trump has already threatened to randomly nuke countries that piss him off, and round up minorities in a repeat of the Final Solution.

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jaunte  May 5, 2016 • 5:42:32pm
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goddamnedfrank  May 5, 2016 • 5:42:37pm
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No Depression  May 5, 2016 • 5:43:18pm

re: #16 jaunte

If Trump picks a VP candidate who adds something he thinks he lacks politically, what/who would it be? Westerner/Southerner/Woman/Hispanic name?

I wouldn’t assume that Trump is going to approach this strategically.

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jaunte  May 5, 2016 • 5:44:31pm

re: #27 No Depression

I forgot to embiggen the IF.

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goddamnedfrank  May 5, 2016 • 5:44:45pm

re: #10 Jenner7

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I have no words.

He wants conservative Independents to ratfuck the Dem primary by voting for Sanders.

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EPR-radar  May 5, 2016 • 5:44:49pm

re: #27 No Depression

I wouldn’t assume that Trump is going to approach this strategically.

Perhaps Rafalca is available.

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teleskiguy  May 5, 2016 • 5:45:17pm

List of Donald Trump endorsements.

It’s a long list.

And I don’t think Bruce Bartlett is correct in this assumption.

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jaunte  May 5, 2016 • 5:45:26pm

re: #27 No Depression

I don’t think he really believes anyone can help him politically, because he is the master showman.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 5, 2016 • 5:45:51pm

Why would Russia be afraid of Trump? He loves Putin.

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Skip Intro  May 5, 2016 • 5:45:55pm

re: #27 No Depression

I wouldn’t assume that Trump is going to approach this strategically.

He’s probably negotiating a deal right now for a summer tv series called The VP Apprentice. Pick 8 or 10 stooges and get to fire them all summer long.

This would be perfect for NBC since they no longer even pretend to be a real news station.

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Targetpractice  May 5, 2016 • 5:45:57pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

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The only people who seemed to believe in #NeverTrump were the extremely gullible. Everybody else knew that the moment he was anointed, the party would snap in line and any talk of dissent would be smothered. They did it for McCain, they did it for Romney, and they’ll do it for Trump.

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EPR-radar  May 5, 2016 • 5:46:08pm

re: #29 goddamnedfrank

He wants conservative Independents to ratfuck the Dem primary by voting for Sanders.

A preference for closed primaries may be the only point on which I generally agree with wingnuts.

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teleskiguy  May 5, 2016 • 5:47:11pm
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EPR-radar  May 5, 2016 • 5:48:00pm

re: #35 Targetpractice

The only people who seemed to believe in #NeverTrump were the extremely gullible. Everybody else knew that the moment he was anointed, the party would snap in line and any talk of dissent would be smothered. They did it for McCain, they did it for Romney, and they’ll do it for Trump.

The merry band over at RedState may end up being an exception to this general rule, but their numbers are small.

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Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday's Child)  May 5, 2016 • 5:48:45pm

re: #23 EPR-radar

Losing in a 49-50 state blowout is what the Republican party desperately needs to spur its reform, but this won’t happen.

There just aren’t that many Romney states that can plausibly turn blue, even with Trump as the nominee.

If Texas goes blue, that might do it. Leave aside S. Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee; you’re probably right that it would take Pol Pot throwing infants into ovens on national TV as the GOP nominee to make them pull the (D) lever.

But losing Texas? Without Texas, the GOP does not win a national election. Glenn Beck is crazy, but he’s not stupid. That part he realizes. What happened in California becomes the national standard - rural areas are angry white & rednecky, and the rest of the country goes about the business of cleaning up the mess the way that Jerry Brown has done. That’s a best-case scenario.

Of course, the California budget is still balanced precariously on the 1% making a killing in their tech-fueled IPOs, and we are still living with the Original Sin of Prop 13 making the tax system dysfunctional and corrupt …

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teleskiguy  May 5, 2016 • 5:49:13pm

I’m hungry, let’s get a taco

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The Vicious Babushka  May 5, 2016 • 5:50:07pm

re: #16 jaunte

If Trump picks a VP candidate who adds something he thinks he lacks politically, what/who would it be? Westerner/Southerner/Woman/Hispanic name?

Trump thinks he lacks nothing. He will choose as his VP:

Himself
Donald, Jr. (his other kids are under 35)
Marla Maples

or maybe Omarosa, even though he’s SO STRONG WITH THE BLACKS!!! ALL THE BLACKS LOVE ME!11!!!

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blueraven  May 5, 2016 • 5:50:39pm

re: #25 jaunte

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Why would Trump even want Perry? He buys him nothing politically (well, maybe some favor with some TX Hispanics) But I would think Trump would carry TX anyway, as embarrassing as that is for me to say.

Have you not even a shred of self respect left, Governor? Ugh.

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Barefoot Grin  May 5, 2016 • 5:51:06pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

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Yep. A particularly stupid guy I know on another site goes to the default of (sorry I don’t remember the details) “Hillary looked the other way while Bill and others were flown to a secret location by billionaire [can’t remember] to have orgies with underaged sex slaves.” And of course there is the “48 unsolved murders have Clinton ties” lie. It’s going to get nasty as hell.

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Targetpractice  May 5, 2016 • 5:51:16pm

re: #38 EPR-radar

The merry band over at RedState may end up being an exception to this general rule, but their numbers are small.

Erick, son of Erick, will eventually decide he hates Hillary more than he hates Trump and RedState will follow. And those who won’t will join those who’ve found themselves run off from FR, whose management also once insisted they’d never support Trump.

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jaunte  May 5, 2016 • 5:51:45pm

Gary Busey

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Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday's Child)  May 5, 2016 • 5:53:21pm

Just watched the last minute or so of the Maddow clip again. She’s not on camera - but you can hear her voice start to catch and waver, as though she is on the brink of bursting into tears, the way she did when she had the Sandy Hook parents on the show.

A lot of suppressed emotion going on there.

When I stop to consider it? Me too.

It still just doesn’t seem real.

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Targetpractice  May 5, 2016 • 5:53:28pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

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Two things we can expect: The GOP will go nasty and will try to turn this into an election over who is the least objectionable, and the media will support them in the endeavor by unearthing the box listed “Worst of the 90s” and playing it constantly with “Both sides are bad!” playing on constant loop in the background.

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blueraven  May 5, 2016 • 5:53:44pm

re: #16 jaunte

If Trump picks a VP candidate who adds something he thinks he lacks politically, what/who would it be? Westerner/Southerner/Woman/Hispanic name?

Maybe someone from the military. Not Petraeus, but someone who is admired.

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Der Flohgeisteffekt  May 5, 2016 • 5:54:03pm

The thing is, you listen to Beck and realize that he can only truly believe that if he hadn’t paid attention to what Republicans have been doing since the 90s.

And that is entirely possible. The GOP and the right carefully crafted this scheme in which they poked passions with conspiracy and angry, shouty pundit-men, yet at the same time told themselves that they wouldn’t be changed by that choice. They lied and deceived, but at the same time told themselves that the people they were lying to and deceiving would eventually see things in their insider, moderated fiscal-first conservative terms.

At this very moment, there’s a conservative “thinker” pushing a column for tomorrow’s NYT through his lower intestine, and it’s contents will be (1) we don’t know where this came from, it isn’t True Conservatism that will save us all, (2) this isn’t our fault.

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freetoken  May 5, 2016 • 5:54:19pm

re: #44 Targetpractice

It’s going to be hard for McErick to bow the knee to Drumpfskind, but I think it is a possibility.

As the time approaches and it appears as if Hillary is going to be elected, i expect many wingnuts to suddenly get converted to Drumpfskind-ism.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 5, 2016 • 5:54:43pm

re: #39 Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday’s Child)

If Texas goes blue, that might do it. Leave aside S. Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee; you’re probably right that it would take Pol Pot throwing infants into ovens on national TV as the GOP nominee to make them pull the (D) lever.

But losing Texas? Without Texas, the GOP does not win a national election. Glenn Beck is crazy, but he’s not stupid. That part he realizes. What happened in California becomes the national standard - rural areas are angry white & rednecky, and the rest of the country goes about the business of cleaning up the mess the way that Jerry Brown has done. That’s a best-case scenario.

Of course, the California budget is still balanced precariously on the 1% making a killing in their tech-fueled IPOs, and we are still living with the Original Sin of Prop 13 making the tax system dysfunctional and corrupt …

It’s hard to imagine the Democratic nominee not winning the Kerry map, and that plus Ohio OR Virginia OR North Carolina OR Florida and that’s it. Texas would be gravy, but it would be glorious (speaking as a half-Texan myself). tRump’s anti-Mexican rhetoric may just precipitate the demographic flip a couple of Presidential years early.

And maybe knowing what they have to lose, they’ll be smart enough to vote in the midterms!

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Targetpractice  May 5, 2016 • 5:54:49pm

re: #48 blueraven

Maybe someone from the military. Not Petraeus, but someone who is admired.

The question is “Admired by who?” My guess still remains that he’ll keep Allen West on the short list.

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EPR-radar  May 5, 2016 • 5:55:01pm

re: #44 Targetpractice

Erick, son of Erick, will eventually decide he hates Hillary more than he hates Trump and RedState will follow. And those who won’t will join those who’ve found themselves run off from FR, whose management also once insisted they’d never support Trump.

Erickson’s thing these days is the Regurgitant, not RedState. If RedState does a 180 on Trump, that will be a sight to behold. Even wingnut super-amnesia powers will have difficulty walking back something like (roughly) ‘in a race between Hitler and Hillary, I’ll vote for Hillary’, which I’ve seen more than once from RedState front-pagers.

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goddamnedfrank  May 5, 2016 • 5:56:25pm
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EPR-radar  May 5, 2016 • 5:56:25pm

re: #49 Der Flohgeisteffekt

The thing is, you listen to Beck and realize that he can only truly believe that if he hadn’t paid attention to what Republicans have been doing since the 90s.

And that is entirely possible. The GOP and the right carefully crafted this scheme in which they poked passions with conspiracy and angry, shouty pundit-men, yet at the same time tell themselves that they wouldn’t be changed by that choice. They lied and deceived, but at the same time told themselves that the people they were lying to and deceiving would eventually see things in their insider, moderated fiscal-first conservative terms.

At this very moment, there’s a conservative “thinker” pushing a column for tomorrow’s NYT through his lower intestine, and it’s contents will be (1) we don’t know where this came from, it isn’t True Conservatism that will save us all, (2) this isn’t our fault.

I see you are well-acquiainted with the literary output of David Effing Brooks.

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Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday's Child)  May 5, 2016 • 5:57:00pm

re: #45 jaunte

Gary Busey


You had to make me go Google it.

Because fuck you, that’s why

Turns out there has been a movement for Busey for VP since last fall.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  May 5, 2016 • 5:57:27pm

re: #48 blueraven

Maybe someone from the military. Not Petraeus, but someone who is admired.

Boykin.

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Targetpractice  May 5, 2016 • 5:57:45pm

re: #53 EPR-radar

Erickson’s thing these days is the Regurgitant, not RedState. If RedState does a 180 on Trump, that will be a sight to behold. Even wingnut super-amnesia powers will have difficulty walking back something like (roughly) ‘in a race between Hitler and Hillary, I’ll vote for Hillary’, which I’ve seen more than once from RedState front-pagers.

It’s going to come down to party before country, as it has for years now. Erick’s principals will last right up until the day inevitably comes that he decides that Trump could actually win it all and decides to bring him and his in for the “big win.” It won’t be able supporting Trump, it’ll be about furthering the goals of the far-right conservatism.

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freetoken  May 5, 2016 • 5:58:31pm

re: #53 EPR-radar

Erickson’s thing these days is the Regurgitant, not RedState.

heh…

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freetoken  May 5, 2016 • 6:01:37pm

I suspect VDH will lead the rationalizing-camp over at NRO, as for why NRO-ers ought to vote for Drumpfskind.

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Sherlock Hound  May 5, 2016 • 6:01:46pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

Wow, brigading’s legal here!! Never knew.

/////

Seriously, “Downfall“‘s Done Quite Enough.

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Jenner7  May 5, 2016 • 6:05:14pm
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Targetpractice  May 5, 2016 • 6:05:57pm

I’m of the opinion that West will be on Trump’s short list because of his fame amongst wingnuts for having his soldiers beat the shit out of an Iraqi police officer, then threatening the man with summary execution to extract a “confession” that later turned out to be bogus. That West was only saved from being cashiered out of the Army by accepting early retirement and a loss in benefits will be spun as his being the “victim” of “PC culture.”

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 5, 2016 • 6:06:36pm

AP Source: Clinton aide interviewed in email investigation

WASHINGTON — The FBI has interviewed Huma Abedin, a close aide to Hillary Clinton, as part of a federal investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state, a person familiar with the probe said Thursday.

The person insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The FBI and Justice Department have been investigating whether sensitive information that flowed through Clinton’s email server was mishandled.

Abedin was one of Clinton’s closest aides during her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat, serving as deputy chief of staff. It was not immediately clear whether other aides have been interviewed, or when or if Clinton herself might be questioned.

“From the start, Hillary Clinton has offered to answer any questions that would help the Justice Department complete its review, and we hope and expect that anyone else who is asked would do the same,” Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement. “We are confident the review will conclude that nothing inappropriate took place.”

It is not known how much longer the investigation will take. FBI Director James Comey has said there is no timetable for finishing the probe and it’s being done thoroughly.

A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment Thursday, and a spokesman for the FBI did not return messages seeking comment.

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De Kolta Chair  May 5, 2016 • 6:08:50pm

Speaking of Glenn Beck, I’m sure Trump could hook him up with a decent firm specializing in bankruptcies, since that’s where his media empire appears to be heading to at Mach numbers.

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Jenner7  May 5, 2016 • 6:10:52pm

re: #64 Eric The Fruit Bat

Lots of information coming out today. I think the investigation is near the end and will be good news for Hillary.

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TedStriker  May 5, 2016 • 7:03:59pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

Indeed…the overwhelming hate of Hillary and the primal need to defeat her in the general at all costs will drive most NeverTrumpers to prostrate at the feet of The Donald.


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