I think of this argument as “The Mel Gibson.” Nope, honey, pretty sure I would die of alcohol poisoning before I called someone a kike.

Also always relevant

Just think what we can accomplish in November if we do this at the offices of more and more of these assholes!

I never at any time alleged that Trump assaulted or abused his daughter. That’s a big jump from what I said. I stated that several aspects of his history and behavior regarding sexualizing children, and his generally having terrible boundaries and morals, makes him suspicious to me as a potential abuser. I think that…

oh my god I want this to be me why is this not me being mauled by adorable island monsters

Why not both? He’s a narcissist, to be sure, but he’s also an avowed serial sexual assaulter and an accused domestic abuser, and he has a long and larger history of comments and actions sexualizing underaged and nearly underaged girls. I’m not at all joking when I say that I wouldn’t want him anywhere near my…

He’s still not actually denying that he did in fact say most of those things.

There’s also the sunk cost fallacy. They all feel like they’re complicit now, they know they’re permanently tarnished if it all goes down in flames, and each day probably makes it both harder to quit and more unbearable not to. Add a generous dose of the Dunning-Kruger effect and you get a lot of people trying to see…

He’s one of the very biggest fish in the puny and shallow intellectual pool that is this administration, for sure.

Well, and the fact that he’s what would happen if xenophobia and cystic acne had a baby, and that baby grew up to be the worst dumb creep in the ninth grade. It’s probably a self perpetuating cycle- he’s horrible because he’s terminally unfuckable because he’s horrible.

YES stay with us forever, Ruth, you flawless goddess. They can pry the gavel out of your cold dead hands in 2050 if there’s any justice in this world.

My understanding is that it is flat and grey now, alas. Actually I have no doubt it’s an improvement. It was extremely helmet-like in person, and it had the same eerily unnatural blue-black sheen as my 76 year old mother’s old-lady rinse-and-set, which I found mildly disturbing every time I got trapped by his habitual…

If you won’t mind me putting on my tinfoil hat for a moment, I have on occasion wondered if the pee-tape portion is a false flag detail planted to discredit the actual contents of the dossier, which are less salacious in nature but far more damning. I’m suspicious because Trump and Fox ran with the “pee tape slander!”…

this was my thought here too. Caveat emptor. It also paints a picture of a high-society subculture of truly terrible human beings, where any one of the people in this scenario would be a willing participant on any level.

Whatever he just found out Mueller has must be amazing. He does have a pattern of creating tweet freakouts when stuff he wants to be unnoticed is about to drop. The more he wants us to LOOK OVER THERE the more outlandish and lurid his tweet spasms get.

He tends to go batshit on Twitter right when he finds out something bad is coming out that he really wants to distract from... so I remain hopeful this is merely a sign of impending Mueller Time! And not at all, you know, the tawdry origin story of our inexorable nuclear doom!

I think Catheter Cowboy is on point in terms of how to reach him, although I guess we probably won’t ever know for sure if he has gotten through.

3. They’re nihilists and think everything is probably fucked anyway but they figure they might as well enjoy some sweet sweet pandering and some tasty “liberal tears” while everything burns. (This does not preclude 1 and/or 2 from being probably also true)

If America got a lucky break somehow and he really did get thrown into prison, even Club Fed would likely make it very difficult for him to get niceties like self-tanner and hair dye. So he’d probably revert to his natural ashen gray color.

(I learned this tidbit thanks to my ex-neighbor Rod Blagojevich, whose lack of…

Ugh, he was the worst in 1984 and he’s the worst now. He can fuck right off with his bloviating and his stupid yellow glasses and his palsy-walsy relationship with Henry Kissinger and his dumb fake name and his shitty derivative garbage music so bad he had to sneak it on my phone in the dead of night. Fuck off…