That and his personal pollster. Apparently whoever is advising him is being paid reliably enough to tell him the hard truth about how generally loathed he is. Then again, they apparently also told him that he can totally pull off those baby bangs, so I guess I’ll put that one down as “citation needed.”

Looking at their comment histories, it seems this thread has been hijacked by a couple of performance trolls.  I wouldn’t expect any good-faith discussions.

At least we managed to avoid the Democrats running the Zuckerberg-Clooney ticket in 2020 that was previously campaigning in my nightmares.

I couldn’t find an article that confirms that, exactly, but I did find one from a couple years ago that confirms that legislatures were contemplating bills that would shift the liability burden onto protesters that get hit. It doesn’t mention any of them successfully being passed, however. Still, I suppose some of…

And in other disenfranchisement news, the illiberal bloc of the Supreme Court is doing its damnedest to make it harder to vote without contracting a deadly illness.

I say, Old Spice, you’d better release a Dove of peace on this matter or you’ll have to answer to the long Arm & Hammer of the law!

I was absolutely staggered by the persistent relevance of these lines:

It’s absolutely amazing how he walks a rhetorical tightrope. Even before calling out the “Christians” of his day, he managed to turn a long, loving blowjob to the founders into a slap at Fillmore’s face so hard I’m pretty sure his descendants still have palm marks - and he managed to come back around and make sure the…

Yeah, re: we haven’t progressed as much as many like to think:

The bill also bans abortion for anyone in custody of the Department of Children’s Services.

I think it’s absolutely right to be suspicious of the NFL’s motives and demand substantive anti-racist efforts (e.g. better care for the players risking TBIs, bringing Black people into the managerial and owner side of the sport). But I think there might be some small value in even these performative gestures, because…

I wonder if this doesn’t actually have a bit of value for just that reason. You hear all these racist white people pleading to get “politics out of their sports,” because they’re a bunch of snowflakes that need their safe space. As long as your politics govern whether your neighbors live or die, and you’ve come down…

Well, those three things plus an undemocratic Electoral College, voter suppression, and a just a pinch of cyber-warfare from foreign adversaries.

Oh hey, even more neo-nazi imagery off the Trump store:

Ugh. I’ve been bracing for whatever Barr and Durham have been cooking up. I’m really not looking forward to finding out; mostly because I’m not convinced the corporate press has learned any lessons from 2016.

At least the Solomon Islands have standard treasure. I’m only waging war on 2d4 kobolds.

It’s entirely possible there’s an innocent explanation for this. On the other hand, last week the campaign sent out eighty eight versions of an ad with explicit Nazi imagery, that opened with fourteen words. If you’ve mercifully not looked into the white supremacist abyss as I have, you might not recognize that 14 and…

Meanwhile, over on Tucker Carlson’s White Power Hour, the propaganda wing of the Trump campaign is comparing protesters to a disease and insisting the only the Republican Party can protect you... but not this current Republican Party of soy-boy cucks who won’t bow to dear leader’s every xenophobic whim.

Yeah, my reaction to that line was, “pics or didn’t happen.”

On the nose.