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If that speech in New Hampshire meant anything it was fear of loss, he really did not do that well compared to Joe with 70+% who was not even on the ballot!

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Ta, Evan. TFG is not confident. What he is is scared witless of a prison cell, real bankruptcy, or both.

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Nevada decided their nominating process should be an even bigger cluster fuck that Iowa’s.

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It’s weird that so many people want to vote for a man who would send a birdbrain to the UN as our country’s ambassador.

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I'm sure it makes me a bad person, which I blame on Trump, but I'm enjoying watching him unravel in real time.

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Many respected pundits believe if the GOP did pivot to Haley, she’d beat Biden due to the American fantasy that all current prices, world affairs and economics are due to the incumbent potus, personally. Biden absolutely wants Trump to be their nominee. The vast majority of Americans despise Trump and will send him back to FL or prison in November. Count on it.

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nicolle wallace is still on maternity leave.

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Haley could direct a lot of firepower at Trump and damage him with undecideds. But like the rest of them she has no courage or inclination to take the gloves off.

It's the most pathetic campaign strategy imaginable.

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Oh, so all of a sudden NOW they hate election deniers?

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The new talking point is the “Dems were the real election deniers in 2016 because Rusher Rusher Rusher!”

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I find this interesting: typically, when a candidate wins the primaries and wraps up the nomination, they begin to tack to the center; so they can siphon up independents and Republicans who aren’t in the Heinrich Himmler Wing. (If they actually exist outside of a poll company’s imagination.)

But Trump has nowhere to go. He can’t soften his rhetoric because the MAGA crowd thrives on it. He apparently thinks his 50% of Republicans equals America. Au contraire, mon shithead. It represents 25% of the general population, and they are the craziest motherfuckers in this country.

Trump could probably get away with tacking to the center since his True Believers would justify it for what it is—not something he believes but something he’s doing to win in November.

The thing is that he can’t pull it off. He’s too damaged, and changing anything strikes him as a confession to failure. (Or at least to admitting that his team fucked up. Top advisors will change every four hours. Step right up to see the rearrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic! “Are you looking at a career in politics? Here’s a chance to go to the top floor with entry-level skills!”)

And, weekly, they will carry out staffers tied to stretchers, struggling to stay still. Foaming at the mouth and eyes darting. “The tape! I’ve seen the tape! WHATEVER YOU DO, FOR GOD’S SAKE, FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR SANITY, DO NOT WATCH THE VIDEO!)

“Take him out the back door! There’s a horde of reporters out front. And they’re chanting: HIT SOMEBODY!”

That’s who Trump is, and he’s too stupid, narcissistic, and senile to make a correction. The Emperor does not error.

If we come out of the conventions and Biden has a lead that Trump can’t cut into, no matter what size, we’re going to see the greatest total meltdown in American political history. One for the books, as they say.

It might well be unspeakably toothsome. Particularly if Trump is facing jail time that he won’t be able to pardon himself out of. He’ll get more and more desperate, openly weeping and pissing himself, not even bothering to hide behind the podium. Snorting Adderal off the back of his hand while doing TV interviews. They might have to suspend the campaign for a week or so after Trump, wandering aimlessly, accidentally falls off the stage. His speeches will become ever more disconnected from reality, and he may well claim he won before voting has started.

By Halloween, Donald Trump will be nearly indistinguishable from Charley Cheswick in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” You’ll be able to identify Cheswick, however, because he’s shorter.

“The former president is not planning to participate in any of the Democrats’ rigged debates. Next question?”

I don’t know if any of this will actually come to pass, but it’s certainly pleasant to speculate.

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Goddess I hope you're right. Though I'd also be fine with him shuffling off this mortal coil before November.

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I may be a bad person for saying this but...I so want that future.

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"He apparently thinks his 50% of Republicans equals America"

More accurately 'fifty percent of Republicans that could be bothered to vote in a primary that has a predestined outcome.'

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Fifty percent of republicans in Iowa who didn’t care if they froze to death.

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I'm here for all of that.

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Nikki's in a tough place. She's on the Trump Train, and said she'd pardon him if she wins, and she'll definitely endorse him once she drops out of the race, but the longer she stays in the more PAB reveals himself to be a raging racist misogynist.

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Her career is effectively over anyway, she should pull a Liz Cheney or Chris Christie and just say to hell with all of this—this man is clearly out of his fucking mind and what brain cells remain are full-on fascist.

I doubt she'll do it because coward, but at least she'd retain some dignity if she did.

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It’s not like he’ll stop revealing himself to be a raging racist misogynist when she drops out.

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Why does ha call her Bird Brain? That doesn't make any sense. I would have gone with Comet Face.

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As I've pointed out multiple times "Tricky Nikki" is RIGHT THERE

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Back in the Cold War days, there was a joke about a two-car car race between an American and a Russian. The American won. Pravda reported on the race with the headline, "Russian Comes in 2nd, American Next to Last."

In conclusion, TFG can go fuck himself, then go to Hell.

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The really depressing thing is, Trump will easily beat Haley in South Carolina. And when she eventually concedes, she'll endorse him.

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The Morning Joe crew suggested Nikki might want to stay in the race no matter what just in case the winning candidate has been convicted of a crime or ten come nomination time. She could be the only candidate standing in the end.

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Oh God! Four more years of Cletis Safaris asking everyone in every Ohio diner why they stayed home on Election Day.

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I feel like everyone realizes her only hope is for Donald to shuffle off this mortal coil

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This is what I've been thinking she's sticking around for. Although i would also like to point out that Dr Evil Hot Wheels Abbott, the brown recluse in the corner, is also planning on being around for this eventuality.

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The MAGAts want their orange Jesus and won’t settle for someone competent and “boring”, or brown.

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