In an interview airing Sunday on 60 Minutes, correspondent Ross Douthat asks President Trump: If it took six months of not insulting the Democrats to get a deal done, do you think you could do it? https://t.co/PJO8fLfl6C
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 7, 2026
“That’s Senator Talafreako.” https://t.co/QWMTGgGL5S
— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) November 8, 2026
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I don’t believe it.
Not likely.
He's been humbled.
He's a new man.
Let's see if Israel takes the lesson.
Some mama's try to protect their boys from a good ass kicking but sometimes we pacifist have to kick ass.
You play dirty, ann.
You still lost. What you have built here is your reward...
Kudos to Bari Weiss on getting some Republicans on 60 Minutes. That's a big improvement in interview style. Clearly Ross does not have TDS. And yet he controls the interview (at least in the clip Althouse gives us). He interrupts Trump and keeps him focused and on point. Instead of ridiculous hatred this is a real and classy give-and-take. Very impressed.
"St Croix" is jizzing over Ross douthat...
Which one of the cohens plays that character? Hm
Why do we keep posting videos of Democrat liars making up a fever dream version of Trump to justify killing him?
SNL is for sick evil people like Inga who want to lie and justify killing Trump.
Does Ann secretly want Trump killed but is happy that Chappelle spoke up for her?
This is sick and disgusting.
Talarico wants to turn kids into Eunchs. He has succeeded in turning some number of kids into eunuchs.
He is worse than a child molester.
Of course, the 'sensible' people never engage in name-calling *cough* MAGAts *cough" Rethuglicans *cough*.
Hold them to their own standards.
…well, it’s not too soon to start wheeling out each other’s talking point - No - isn’t Trump’s responsibility to compromise and make a deal to award Democrats everything or anything they want. Obstruction and lawfare became part of our political process and Democrats should be made to play by their own set of rules. I know by February there will be calls to remove Trump and JD Vance from office because they’re uncooperative…if they haven’t been removed already…
If we compromise with people who want to turn children into Eunuchs then we become as evil as they are.
Maybe we should compromise on the Burkhas and locking women up in their husband's houses though?
When do people like Talerico start getting thrown off roofs in Michigan?
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Would top Democrats refrain from insulting Trump for six months too, or would this just be the usual unilateral "truce?"
SNL continues to do the worst thing in comedy - be unfunny.
Senator Talafreako.
Senator Coreleone.
Senator bin Laden.
Nebraska State Senator Megan Hunt publically said on the floor of the Legislature that she wanted to change the sex of her then pre-teen daughter. Medicaid wouldn’t pay for it even though she applied several times.
Nebraska then passed a law banning it.
Last week, Sen. Hunt posted a picture of her now teenage daughter.
The Left never admits when it is wrong.
Quick answer: No.
It won't last 6 minutes.
"Would top Democrats refrain from insulting Trump for six months too, or would this just be the usual unilateral "truce?""
Fritz nails it right to the wall here. Except that it isn't just "top" Democrats.
Comments, Inga?
Yes. I know that there are commenters here who unfailingly insult our resident lefties. I'm not suggesting that Inga or any other lefty here should curtail whatever insult they want to throw (nor any of the righties who do it). I'm just saying, is it not true that Democrats in Congress and elsewhere would have at LEAST as much trouble with this charge as Trump? The expectation is always that Republicans stop doing whatever they're doing in order to make space for Democrats to continue doing what they're doing - not just in regard to Trump.
But in regard to Trump - my brother-in-law still isn't speaking to me or my husband, his only brother, after two years. We've endured unsolicited anti-Trump (sometimes rabidly anti-Trump) commentary from relatives and friends for ten years now. We almost always hold our tongues and let them roll; when we respond, we keep it to policy - Trump's versus the policy aims of those they hold up as alternatives to Trump. The response, always, is some form of, "You're not being reasonable - you're still not agreeing with me that Trump is awful!" (That's when it's not simply, "I'm not going to talk about this anymore!")
“If it took six months of not insulting the Democrats to get a deal done, do you think you could do it?”
@Althouse, if the Democrats were asked to go six DAYS without threatening lawfare and violence do you think THEY could do it?
Leftists have pretensions of virtue and compassion...but defined only in terms of their belief system. If someone doesn't agree with their belief system, they are not only not worthy of their compassion, they must be treated as vile enemies who must be destroyed. And once destroyed, it's perfectly fine to ridicule and make fun of the destroyed non- believers.
Thus, leftists and Islamists make ideal temporary allies. I say temporary because once their common enemies are destroyed, the Islamists will destroy the leftists (who are blissfully not yet aware of this fact).
“Would top Democrats refrain from insulting Trump for six months too…”
“Comments, Inga?”
Not likely.
He's so full of shit.
jim said...
He's so full of shit.
11/8/26, 8:02 AM
I agree, but you idiots voted Freako in anyways.
Soviet Stasi dems can insult and murder whoever they want.
Now they seek to imprison and destroy even more.
So much for 'decency' eh, Inga.
Could James Talarico be the 2026 edition of the 2006 Barack Obama, new Senator-Elect on the way to being elected President in 2028? He is 5 months older than AOC.
JD Vance swearing in Talarico and El-Sayed. Some moments write their own punchlines.
Apparently, even Texas has a limit on how much winning it can take.
I met up with a friend from Texas yesterday, and he is just stunned. I'm in Virgina, and I just said "Welcome to my world."
That Talarico guy freaks me out everytime I see him.
AMDG, our kids have consistently told us that SNL's time has passed but I thought some of this opening was funny including the "JD Vance" cameo.
I think Talarico looks somewhat like Charlie Kirk - pencil neck, shit-eating grin - except with a better haircut. One of them is the bizarro world version of the other, but I'm not sure which is which. Beyond policy and theology, one thing seems true - it's unlikely anyone is going to shoot Talarico in the (pencil) neck and then have people celebrating it.
What a stupid question by Ross Doughnut. Yeah, that's why Trump didn't get deals done with Pelosi and schumer in 2018-2020 "he was insulting them". LOL. It doesn't matter if Trump called Democrat party leaders "Sir" and "my Lady" and bowed everytime he saw them. They don't care.
They have stonewalled Trump's agenda and nominees, called him racist and every name in the book, and impeached him twice.
The struggle is over real policy. All this stuff of "Being nice and respectful" is just irrelevant powder puff nonsense. This is isn't a Girls Tea party.
Ross Doughnut is a fanatical zionist and the Liberal/Lefts idea of a "reasonable conservative". He doesn't really want to fight the Left, let alone beat them. He wants everyone to be respectful and obey the political elite, worship the x-burts, and use the right tone.
In fact, Peggy noonan and Rod Dreher are cut from the same cloth. None of them voted for Trump in 2016, and I dont think Ross or Peggy did so in 2020 or 2024.
Trump fights like a Democrat. He slings right back at them. That's one reason why the Peggy Noonans and Ross Doughnuts dislike him. Their models are Bush and 2012 Romney. The left called them every name in the book, and they just ignored it. And their "Im above it all attitude" got them nowhere.
Bush loves showing up with Obama and Clinton and being pal with them. He's helped pushed their agenda and gotten praise for it. But if publically came out and opposed something the liberal/left wanted, they would turn on a dime and it'd be "chimpy mcHitler" all over again.
"Lorne," the documentary about the "legendary SNL producer" is hard to watch. There's a smug and smarmy narration by SNL alum Chris Parnell. He says Lorne Michaels is one of the most famous and one of the most enigmatic producers in television today. How many current TV producers can you name? How much do you know about them? The film treats Michaels as some great enigma or sphinx who no one around him can truly fathom, but all we see is a rather boring guy with a routine life who doesn't like to talk about himself. Rather than create and interesting persona for himself, he created a vacant one, and somehow that became intriguing to those who worked with him.
The upside of the documentary is the clips from the early years of SNL. The impersonations of Michaels by cast members, on air and off, are also nice. But the "inside SNL" look at a typical week of producing the show was deathly boring, as were the contributions of the more recent cast members.
Is there really any common ground for Republicans and Democrats? Even if there is, would elected officials want to meet there and build anything together? It's not like this started with Trump either. It's been the state of US politics for some time now. When it wasn't it was because the federal government wasn't doing much (late 19th century) or because each party contained some who were more in tune with the other party on some big issues (much of the 20th century). Today, even in quiet times, the internet stokes the polarization.
Obama could not speak publicly without strawmen and indirect ad hominem attacks. That he didn't use crude insults does not make his vileness any less horrid. Trump insults people directly, by name. Pick your flavor, both were effective and nasty.
And running a SNL skit as part of Trump's effect on the zeitgeist is a cheap trick.
Talarico was an excellent candidate, and Joe Rogan deserves some credit for helping introduce him to a wider audience. His praise may have helped Democrats recognize that Talarico’s message could resonate with voters they needed to win over.
Trump’s intervention to make Paxton the nominee created a favorable matchup, but the results go well beyond that. Democrats won four of five redrawn House seats, captured the governor’s race and made major gains in the Texas House. Even Greg Abbott, who wasn’t considered particularly vulnerable, took a hit.
This wasn’t simply a backlash against Paxton or scandal-plagued Republicans. Something bigger was happening in Texas, and Democrats shouldn’t overlook it.
Michaels thinks he’s the new Fellini.
This was the "Okay, Boomer" election. Generic white guys lost. You need a hook, a persona, a narrative. I guess Talarico has that, for better or for worse. El-Sayed has it, again for better or worse. Mike Rogers or Gary Peters, the sitting MI senator, didn't.
The dude is still an incel who lives with his Mom. He makes Beto O'Rourke look like Jean Claude Van Damme. No amount of SNL appearances will make him cool. He did run a very good campaign though.
^^ How do you explain the Texas house flipping? How do you explain Abbott losing his election?
Abbott was a Bush Republican who didn't listen to Republican voters. The Texas Republican party is infested with Bushes and their cronies.
It isn't shocking that MAGA voters don't support the Texas State Republican party.
Remember it was Abbott that thought the best thing to do during the Biden administration was to ship illegal immigrants to democrat cities for democrats.
He shipped them right to the voter registration operations.
He sure owned the libs with that one.
Lorne Michaels was born in 1944, so he had a good handle on what young people wanted to watch in the 1975-1995 time period. He was also good at picking the right cast and writers.
But Lorne got lazy and old. A weekly TV Comedy show is a young man's game. Or at least a middle-aged man's game. Its definitely not an old man's game.
Talarico looks like Alfred E. Neuman. Checking the spelling on Neuman, I see that Trump already thought of that!
I agree lorne michaels - the person - is a bore. I'm sure if we all could sit down and talk to him over dinner and discuss "Life, the Universe, and everything" he'd probably be fascinating. But that's not what the documentaries are about.
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