“[T]hese are people that believe ‘Lord of the Rings’ is a documentary. And the fact that we’re trying to appeal to them is just ridiculous. [I]f we’re looking at misinformation to pander to a subset of voters, I think we’ve lost our way.”
—U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), slamming members of his own party who buy into the conspiracy theories promoted by QAanon.
Amy Coney Barrett, confirmed. Happy Birthday, Hillary Clinton!
—Tweet from the House Judiciary Republicans following confirmation of Barrett to the Supreme Court. [Nothing quite like a sore winner.]
All this focus on Clinton has me concerned she won’t win the 2020 election. Smart of the GOP to troll her childishly about the new justice in a stolen seat who’s going to take our health insurance away during a deadly pandemic. It’s almost as good as their 2018 election strategy.
—Tweet from Walter Shaub.
Imagine an entire political party having the emotional intelligence of a petty six-year-old who didn’t get invited to a birthday party – oh, wait, I didn’t have to imagine.
—Tweet by Amanda Webster.
As someone who was a Republican when it was a principles-based party, I am repulsed by its current juvenilism. Why don’t you all grow up?
—Tweet by Steve Metz.
“One thing we’ve seen in a lot of the Black community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they’re complaining about. But he can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful.”
—Jared Kushner, aka Ken Doll, on Fox & Friends. [Nothing like invoking a time-worn stereotype to reap votes for the president who “has done more for Blacks than any president except (maybe) Lincoln” and who is “the least racist person in the room.”]
The president should be focused on the economy and moving the country forward and making sure his team working on the vaccine has every asset possible. The president has a tendency to always make it about him, and this is one story where he should let others take the spotlight.”
—Republican fundraiser Dan Eberhart.
NOT A TRUMP QUOTE, but it should be (with apologies to Cavin & Hobbes):
“I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly wrong information.”
Louisiana Voice 
For four years my sensibilities have been bombarded by lies, ineptness, corruption, and criminal behavior from the highest levels of our federal government. Seeing the sycophants and supporters of this demagogue president responsible for it all continue to patronize his words and actions is disheartening and frankly, frightening. Repeated Irrational thinking and behavior on a grand scale does that to me. It makes me empathize with a combat-weary soldier longing for the normalcy of peacetime life. The end of this madness cannot come soon enough, but the results next week will at least set the country on a course towards restoration of sanity.
That Calvin and Hobbes quote could be customized to our Dear Leader by adding the clause…”and I am convinced you’re at least dumb enough to believe it.”
“It wasn’t even going to be like we had an election,” Trump said on a rain-drenched tarmac in Lansing, Michigan, on Tuesday, lamenting that the coronavirus had imperiled his political prospects and, in his telling, forced him to return to the cold grind and meteorological mishaps of the campaign trail.
“I probably wouldn’t be standing out here in the freezing rain with you,” he told a crowd of hearty souls who had been standing for hours in persistent drizzle to hear him speak. “I’d be home in the White House, doing whatever the hell I was doing. I wouldn’t be out here.”
In Omaha, where hundreds were left stranded for hours after his 45 minute speech there, Trump had acknowledged the cold weather to the crowd from the podium earlier in the evening, where he stood in an overcoat and gloves.
“I mean, I’m standing here freezing,” he said. “I ask you one little favor: Get the hell out and vote.”
“We win Wisconsin, we win the whole ballgame,” he said last week on yet another frigid airport tarmac, this time in Janesville. “What the hell do you think I’m doing here on a freezing night with 45-degree winds?”
“Do you think I’m doing this for my health?” he continued as the temperature dropped and some of the crowd began trickling out. “I’m not doing this for my health.”
At least he’s consistent in only caring about himself and his supporters love him for it. I also love the telling sentence in his first statements, “”I’d be home in the White House, doing whatever the hell I was doing.” A clear admission he has no clue what he might be doing even if he was in D. C.
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE. This thing is not in the bag and don’t let yourself think it is.
…and I’m looking forward to returning to whatever the hell I was doing before we chose to endure a 4 year bought with trumperroids.
Great comments! I am still amazed by the Louisiana Repugnians, and very disappointed with 2 very close friends, who dranked the “kool -aid” and are very rude to me, but then another dear friend reminds me I can’t whip anybody at my age. I will feel better after the election and I can get in shape……ron thompson
Cannot help but post this column from Tom Friedman in today’s NY Times…
s://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/opinion/trump-obama-2020.html?smid=em-share
CJG, is it the column about the teacher and the song “Amazing Grace”?