Are pigs flying?

Fawking tRump??? HAS NONE OF THIS, HE’S A BIG FAT FAWKING PIECE OF SHIT, AND HIS GAWD NAME ONLY BELONGS ON THE LOWEST OF THE LOW ITEMS, ya know, like, garbage bags that were full of doggie shit, and puke, or toilets that are backed up, or diapers filled with the unimaginable stuff. No his gawd name does NOT BELONG ON THE KENNEDY CENTER building. 🤬 🤮 🤬 🤮 🤬 How soon before I get arrested???

Trump's awful behavior, alienating the likes of Cal Thomas. Extraordinary. This will reverberate, particularly amongst seniors who are familiar with Thomas' rabid-right stances over the years. Encouraging!

Not everything is a hoax!

Edit: Wikipedia says he's 83. This photo is from 2012 and looks like someone like him should look like. I seem to remember he was sporting a porn star mustache back then.

I'd say it was gone by the mid-2000's.

WhiteSupremacy2Spare! Ask him!

Both are pieces of shit.

His column is printed in my local paper as well. I find it odd that he was griping about the DOJ (while Biden was president) pursuing him for his criminal activities, but naming stuff is the thing that trips his trigger.

Turning on Trump for his narcissism is not a cause for dispute.
Let us hope the dominos continue to tumble.

A chink in the armor so to speak.

Cal Thomas with his sneering public comments during the late 1980s and 1990s contributed a great deal to the "confrontational and corrosive political language" in today's public sphere.

As my dear departed mother would say, "He must be dying; he's clearing his conscience now!"

Not every conservative is Right Wing, but Right Wingers love to call themselves "conservative." It's a soft-focus that hides the how extreme they are.

There's not really any point to the phrase "uber-conservative." Anybody it might apply to can be better characterized as Right Wing, Hard Right, Flaming, Foaming Right Wingnut, and Cal Thomas definitely qualifies for that.

They somehow back then did not want to seen as part of the Goldwater wing of the party. That kind of talk now will get them demoted to lavatory page.

Surely that old fossil is long dead--if only his brain...... JHC, I thought his 15 minutes was up after we kicked W out. He must be 150 years old now. His ideas certainly are.

Cal Thomas and his cohorts enabled this nightmare. They worked for years to get us here. They don't get to just step away.

Apparently, they're our "allies" now. They utterly failed at what was supposed to the reason for making nice with them, namely to getting like-minded Republicans to vote for Democrats to beat Trump, and they're crowding actual liberals out of media spaces, but hey, allies, so you can't do anything rude like bring up the fact that they spent their careers creating a voter base of easily-manipulated Ahabs who were ripe for a guy who promised them White Whale steak dinners for life (and the hagfish will pay for it).

Well said.

we use them as much as we need/can to help get rid of the f**kers they enabled but we should then crucify them along side those f**kers unless they show TRUE sustained remorse and better ideology (i.e., they have truly changed ... for the better).

Trump got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016, and got still more in 2024. So how many votes did they shift? Them and all 14 of their friends? They didn't do any better in downticket races, either.

Show remorse and change? Only Stuart Stevens really broke with his past, the rest of them just want to get back to the status quo of 2005. They pretend nothing was wrong before 2015. They still "both sides" all the time.

And just who is going to crucify them and how? And when? Because we are at (past) that point, but anyone who tries gets shushed up and scolded. Meanwhile, NeverTrumpers get loads of free media time and resources that ought to be going to people who've actually been right about the Right for oh, several decades now. Yet at the same time, people on our side lament that "we need our own Joe Rogan" and that liberal media posts are clickbaity to pay the bills because they don't get big donations to establish themselves like the Lincoln Project and The Bulwark did.

And since they have an outsized media reach and influence, by what means will they be crucified? It won't be on MSNOW, where they practically have a colony of paid contributors.

With a truncated handful of exceptions, their goal now is the same as it was in 2016: to position themselves for a post-Trump Republican Party.

It is not like we control the media that you say they are crowding liberal voices out of.

Are you saying you don't want anyone on DU to post anything by or about them and if anyone on DU does post or say anything about them we should all respond every time with a lecture on how they created this problem and that they are part of the problem?

What exactly do you want?

...you're actually making my case?

This subthread began with me complaining that any time we tried reminding people NeverTrumpers were part of the crew that built the road that Trump is drag racing on we got told to hush up because they were our allies now. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend," even when our new friends will shiv us in the kidneys the moment they think its to their advantage.

This was rationalized by pretty much your position: "We'll use them, and then get rid of them."

In responding to your post to that effect, I noted that it's time to pull that trigger, so how exactly do we get rid of them?

And now you turn that question back on me, someone who was not part of the "use'em and lose'em" crowd.

what to do about pulling the trigger.

If you want people on DU to "stop amplifying them" (which I assume means not posting about them - also, that's not ever going to happen with a group this large and diverse) then you need to say that in your post rather than just "Not so fast. Cal Thomas and his cohorts enabled this nightmare. They worked for years to get us here. They don't get to just step away." My "so what do you suggest we do" was aimed at that post.

I thought I'd checked that but I guess I only went back to your first post instead of the first post I responded to. I apologize.

heavily trashed Democrats, lefties, etc. using the same old tired Fox talking points. But he hasn't said a word about Trump -- good or bad during that time. I'm guessing Trump is beginning to lose his support.

Trump has done so many radically offensive things this year, everybody has had equal opportunity to despise him for one thing or another.
For Cal Thomas it was the Kennedy Center. And yes, he'll be back on "The Five" with a bag full of republican taking points.

… (too disgusting to reiterate here)… but it was putting his name on a cultural treasure that is the breaking point for Cal Thomas?
Sheesh… words fail me. (Shakes head in amazement.)
Crawl back under your rock, you shriveled fossil.

You and I see nothing we like in him, but he's a Geezer Influencer, and this helps

it only matters if it matters to or directly affects him!

The *LAW* says any name change MUST be approved by Congress.

....any name change made by the current president but DT continues regardless..

"Some Democrats are saying Congress should approve any name change. They are right, but Trump presses on ..."

No one has heard any republicans complaining.

Old Cal looks like the undertakers started their work early.

...the newspaper picture subtracts 10 years.

If this is the only thing that bothers you about this rapist 34 count felon, then you have some big brain problems.

i vaguely remember him as being impossibly old in the 90's, ridiculously out of touch with insanely unrealistic dyed hair. Is that the guy?