Bill Kristol nails it. Oh my! The world has turned upside down:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[Wwcd]

1. Quote of the day. Pity things have gotten this ridiculous.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Your GOP congress friends created tax payer funded slush funds to use as hush money.

Don't act so surprised Bill.

[Nitram]

3. Fuck Billy Krostol if that's the worst thing he can say about Trump.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. It's not the harshest against Trump he has said. Discard purism and binary thinking. . . . . . nt

[Nitram]

7. Bernardo, do you know something about Kristol that I don't? I can't find any saving grace

for the man who backed Sarah Palin and invading Iran. Please correct my "binary thinking" with some insight on why Kristol should not be ignored.

[RandomAccess]

34. Because he's a staunch CONSERVATIVE voice against Trump -- and

because he's a thought leader -- and

because he's got almost 300,000 followers on Twitter -- and

because sometimes he's funny as hell -- and

because we need allies wherever we can find them in order to save our democracy.

[cab67]

37. when, exactly, has he been funny as hell?

[RandomAccess]

38. frequently on twitter

also to some extent on MSNBC

Very intelligent, dry and witty commentary. Might not be your taste, but it's definitely mine.

When I went to Twitter a bit ago and ready through his recent tweets, several caused me to LOL.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

47. Well, that tweet was really funny. N/T

[Hortensis]

46. +1000. I wonder if Kristol isn't a bellweather, suggesting traditional

moderate conservatism could make a comeback. He's among those who were trying to establish an intellectual basis for those gut feelings that are conservatism when the Koch types so rudely interrupted.

Conservatism has no long-developed intellectual basis to help guide its application. Very unlike liberalism, with roots in the Enlightenment through the establishment of our nation to today.

"We believe these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..." is liberal principle applied then as it is now.

As Americans, today's conservatives inherited that legacy also, but their gut feelings so often disagree. In some, very strongly.

[Nitram]

49. He's just about as funny as William Buckley.

Buckley would have hated Trump, btw. But his support helped Regan get elected, and what's going on now is directly related to Reagan's ideology.

[Hekate]

55. Thank you. We can't get rid of this pestilence on our own.

[Major Nikon]

6. There's other reasons to say fuck Bill Kristol, but that ain't one of them

[Nitram]

23. Smarmy, self-satisfied asshole.

[Major Nikon]

27. ..and then some

But he often directs some of his vitriol towards he who shall not be named.

[JI7]

21. He has said worse and been consistently anti trump

[Nitram]

24. I'm not giving any of those right wing douchebags credit for jumping a sinking ship.

Kristol is one of the people who cleared the way for a Trump in the White House. I'm not going to let him disavow his handiwork now.

[Bradshaw3]

29. He never was on the ship

He's been critical of dump all along. It's debatable that his neoliberal economics, establishment repub philosophy led to dump and his faux populism and nationalism. Kristol is certainly culpable for Iraq and a number of other odious policies but he has always been an anti-trumper and should be applauded for that.

[erronis]

30. But other lets-call-them-conservative pundits were willing to go along with the clown car

They have been willing to go along with the debasement of the repuglican party and thus the multi-party democratic system - probably since the grade-B actor sweet-smiled his way into the heart of america.

I expect pundits to be critical thinkers and willing to call bs when they see it - whether on their side of an issue or the other. While it's not black and white and there are lots of shades of many colors, once a 'spert starts to spurt one one side or the other, they become supporters.

It is very difficult to be objective when there are emotional discussions. And especially when your reputation and livelihood depend on you taking a position and driving dissent and "page views".

[Nitram]

48. He's a hard right conservative who helped pave the way for a Trump and now he wants to disown him.

Sarah Palin was the Gateway VP pick that has led directly to the Trump election. I don't buy his conversion. Way too little, way too late. I can't imagine how a progressive of any stripe could be an apologist for Kristol.

[Bradshaw3]

52. Your position is provably false

It wasn't a "conversion". Kristol opposed dump from the very start of the primaries.

[Nitram]

54. I'm not saying he ever supported Trump. I'm saying anyone who supported Palin, as he did,

must have undergone a conversation to oppose Trump. But go ahead and love you some Billy Kristol. He probably needs it.

[xor]

50. Oh that's not worst thing he has to say about Trump

He's actually pretty obsessed with really hating Trump. Which is obviously not a bad thing, and I for one 100% welcome it.

[Gothmog]

5. Great tweet from Bill Kristol

[KG]

8. piss on bill kristol anyway #sorrynotsorry

[pangaia]

9. Who, Kristol?.. maybe.... you..? Is that lurking back there somewhere?

Someone asked me about that?

[PatSeg]

10. I can't stand the man,

but I'll give him credit when he is right. I can't believe how many conservatives have been making sense lately.

[NewJeffCT]

11. Once they leave Congress and/or the immediate DC environment

it's funny how many Republican pundits and former Congressmen seem to grow hearts and/or brains.

Kristol, Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, Ana Navarro, Jennifer Rubin, etc

[FakeNoose]

15. It's only the Republicans who didn't get in on the Russian gravy train

... because most of them did take the handouts. Now we're hearing from the ones who didn't.

[PatSeg]

25. That pretty much is how it appears to me

Also for those who haven't been tainted by Russian money, Trump in the White House is like a Snake Pit effect I think. "Shit, even I can't go along with THAT."

[Mopar151]

17. I call it the Norquist Effect

Once you remove Grover's threat of electoral ruin (being "primaried", and.or cut off from PAC money), they start to breathe oxygen again....

[PatSeg]

19. I know

When a republican is running for office or in office or representing someone in office, you can't believe a word they say. I used to fast forward when some of them showed up on TV, because I didn't need to hear the same old prepackaged talking points.

Jennifer Rubin is one who really has surprised me. Before Trump, I could not stand her, but now she makes a lot of sense. And I've actually enjoyed listening to David Frum, who would have thought? Rick Wilson is my favorite, such a rare wit and brilliant rhetoric.

In some bizarre and sick way, Trump actually has united us.

[Skittles]

22. I am very reluctant to give him points

but that was one heck of a slam

[PatSeg]

26. The one republican who has become

King of the Zingers is Richard Painter. He looks so serious and foreboding, but he is surprisingly witty. The first time I saw him on Bill Maher's show, he cracked me up.

[Skittles]

28. agreed

he has become quite entertaining

[bigbrother05]

33. He sounds like Froggy from the Little Rascals

His voice always cracks me up

[PatSeg]

40. You're right, he does

It makes it that much funnier when he says something really witty. I really like the guy.

[LuckyLib]

42. While a Republican, he is also an academic, and therefore has

brain matter and actually reads. He works in a world where you can pretty much say what you want. He seems to relish that where this idiot in the WH is concerned.

[NewJeffCT]

12. For those without access to Twitter in the office

what did Kristol tweet out this time? He's been pretty anti-Trump all along

[Major Nikon]

13. Who among us hasnt created a Delaware LLC to pay an adult film star hush money?

[jgmiller]

14. The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Bill Kristol has spent over a year multiple times a day taking shots at Trump and getting very aggressive. That works for me, Trump will never be taken down if the mainstream GOP doesn't get a backbone. Kristol has many friends there and if he can work to turn them then that's fine by me. I'd take fighting Kristol in the old days over dealing with Trump now.

[W T F]

16. So, you finally came around....Welcome to Liberalism!!!!

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. Excellent point, Bill!

My experience in this area is limited, however, and I'm left wondering if one LLC is sufficient. If you see yourself in need of more porn stars, can you reuse the same one, or should you create a new LLC for each?

[erronis]

31. Well, at least take them off-shore! Delaware is too easy to tap.

I'm surprised vlad didn't just pay the blackmail, or deal with the difficulty in his inimical way.....

[Orsino]

20. Huh. A Kristol piece worth the time it takes to read.

Maybe he just doesn't belong in long form.

[underpants]

32. 1209 North Orange Street Wilmington DE - I'm sure

The Corporation Trust Center, 1209 North Orange Street, is a single-story building located in the Brandywine neighborhood of Wilmington, Delaware, USA, operated by CT Corporation. This is CT Corporation's location in the state of Delaware for providing "registered agent services."[1] In 2012 it was the registered agent address of no fewer than 285,000 separate businesses.[2]

Companies have offices in Delaware due to its desirable corporate taxes and law, and it is estimated that 9 billion dollars of potential taxes were not levied over the past decade, due to the Delaware loophole.[3] Offices are usually held in the state to avoid the high franchise fees associated with registering the company in Delaware and operating the corporation outside the state.[4] Notable companies that hold a post-office box at this location include Google, American Airlines, Apple Inc, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Verizon Internet Services, and Deutsche Bank with about 430 of their more than 2,000 subsidiary companies and special purpose companies.[5][6] Both President Donald Trump, and his opponent in the United States presidential election 2016 Hillary Clinton, have registered companies at the center.[3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_Trust_Center_(CT_Corporation)

[Cha]

35. I like how he framed that.

[pecosbob]

36. And then today he's on TrumpVision for the abortion terrorists

but they have no problem with this.

[Honeycombe8]

39. Well, I know I have. Everyone's who's ANYONE has, dahling. Only the little people don't.

[PatrickforO]

41. LOL.

Not me.

Being unfaithful to my love is not how I roll.

[orleans]

43. a little cute but he's still a royal prick n/t

[Poiuyt]

44. kicky

[rpannier]

45. Me

Mine was in Connecticut



Bill is spot on though

[xor]

51. Bill Kristol is someone who has been confusing me

I understand he's always been a NeverTrumper like a lot of similar republicans. But I was reading his twitter awhile ago I noticed he really goes after Trump. I was curious to hear about his thoughts in more detail to see what exactly he took issue with. So I searched for videos of him on youtube and stumbled his channel on there. In the videos I watched, he came off as rather tame and had pretty nuanced views that almost seem to have a liberal slant to them. If it wasn't for knowing his previous support of bad aggressive foreign policy, I would say he's a fairly reasonable guy. I don't know if this is a result of him tempering his views or if the right has gone so batshit insane that anything in comparison seems reasonable enough. It's odd hearing conservatives these days talk about universal basic income without it devolving into them just shouting "COMMIE COMMIE COMMIE"

I'm curious what his thought today are with regards to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. I haven't found any recent video or audio of him discussing his thoughts now.

[Orange Free State]

53. Probably the first porn star

to be paid more money to close her mouth than to open it.