The Bob & Chez Show: Tiny Hands, Big Bowl of Meat

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob & Chez Show:

Big Bowl of Meat: Presumptive Nominee Donald Trump; Ted Cruz Drops Out; Cruz’s Stupid Concession Speech; We Recap Trump’s Greatest Hits; Steve Schmidt Blasts the Conservative Movement; Trump Getting CIA Briefings Now; Trump’s Word Salad on Abortion; Trump’s Ridiculous Cinco de Mayo Tweet; Alex Jones Goes Off About George Will Literally Raping America; and more.

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106 comments
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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 10:42:12am

I’m willing to bet that sales of taco bowls/taco salads surged in red states yesterday.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 10:43:07am

Either that fork is huge or his hands are small

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 10:44:13am

re: #2 Kragar

Either that fork is huge or his hands are small

It’s the angle and the camera location.

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MsJ  May 6, 2016 • 10:44:13am

I can’t remember how much I wanted something, politically speaking, as much as I want Trump to go down…politically and professionally. I want him to fail so spectacularly that he will be considered nuclear fallout in all of his concerns.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 10:45:07am

re: #3 Belafon

Tiny hands. got it.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 10:45:16am
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Great White Snark  May 6, 2016 • 10:45:22am

Charles,
Some days the Pages are more fun than others. Like today.

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 10:46:21am

7 Innocent Gestures That Can Get You Killed Overseas
cracked.com

Thumbs up!

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blueraven  May 6, 2016 • 10:48:12am
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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 10:48:29am

re: #8 jaunte

You don’t say.

3 glasses

What was the giveaway?

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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 10:48:31am

re: #6 Kragar

That campaign button sure looks a lot like….

What, Me Worry?

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Jenner7  May 6, 2016 • 10:48:36am

re: #6 Kragar

Who needs a country.

Vote Trump.

//

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iossarian  May 6, 2016 • 10:49:37am

re: #9 blueraven

Finally, I do not plan to attend the Republican convention in Cleveland this summer.

And… nothing of value was lost.

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Jenner7  May 6, 2016 • 10:51:01am

How many does that make not attending convention?

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iossarian  May 6, 2016 • 10:52:03am

Trump poses an impossible conundrum for serious journalists, because basically they need to step outside their frame to deal with him.

“Today Donald Trump made a totally asinine suggestion about not repaying the national debt.”

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 10:52:27am
Found this. Thought I drop it off.
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 10:53:19am

re: #9 blueraven

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Well I’ll give him credit. He’s not doing the stupid I support the nominee bs but the no true Scotsman conservative shit needs to stop.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 6, 2016 • 10:54:37am

re: #5 Kragar

A major party nominee suggesting the U.S. make only partial debt payments is a huge, huge deal. http://

He wants to “run the country like a business”. And Trump was famous for settling with his creditors (often small contractors who had done work for his casinos and hotels) for pennies on the dollar

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 10:54:46am

re: #11 Franklin

“…Repurchasing debt is a fairly common tactic in the corporate world, but it only works if the debt is trading at a discount. If creditors think they are going to get 80 cents for every dollar they are owed, they may be overjoyed to get 90 cents. Mr. Trump’s companies had sometimes been able to retire debt at a discount because creditors feared they might default.”
nytimes.com

So that’s where he got the idea that being unpredictable was a good national strategy.

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 10:56:15am

Economic terrorism.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 10:58:46am

re: #9 blueraven

But Lindsey was for the other 99.99% of what his party represented. Crocodile tears.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 10:59:17am
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Dr. Matt  May 6, 2016 • 11:01:09am
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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:02:46am

re: #23 Kragar

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It’s as you said good will build from actually campaigning for people. Obama did the same thing. Bernie thinks all he has to is have a sterling record and that will make people flock to him. It’s arrogant and presumptuous as hell.

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 11:02:57am

re: #23 Kragar

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I alternate between a cynic and an idealist, but even in most idealistic moods, I have to laugh at these people because they have absolutely no idea how politics works.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:03:30am

re: #26 Timothy Watson

I alternate between a cynic and an idealist, but even in most idealistic moods, I have to laugh at these people because they have absolutely no idea how politics works.

There’s being idealistic and there’s being stupid. These people are stupid.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 11:04:18am

re: #24 Dr. Matt

But it’s for our own safety.

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 11:05:26am

re: #7 Great White Snark

Charles,
Some days the Pages are more fun than others. Like today.

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The parrot works on the Page, but in your comment it looks like you’re not recommending that nice Page.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 11:05:48am
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iossarian  May 6, 2016 • 11:06:07am

re: #27 HappyWarrior

There’s being idealistic and there’s being stupid. These people are stupid.

Eh… I wouldn’t really say “stupid”. They’re passionate, and wrong on the internet. It’s fine to engage with them but to be honest I think it’s a lot of sturm und drang over a pretty small group of people. Most democratic and democratic-leaning independent voters are going to be perfectly happy voting for Hillary in November.

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FormerDirtDart  May 6, 2016 • 11:06:13am

re: #24 Dr. Matt

#London is the most populous city of England and the United Kingdom, and their Mayor would be banned from entering a Trump America.

To be fair, didn’t the British Parliament, just some 4 months ago, debate banning entry to the possible future President of the United States?

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 6, 2016 • 11:06:35am

re: #10 lawhawk

You don’t say.

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What was the giveaway?

When I saw that, I knew immediately and knew shit was going down.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 11:06:38am

re: #30 Kragar

Chemtrails…….

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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 11:06:56am

re: #31 iossarian

Eh… I wouldn’t really say “stupid”. They’re passionate, and wrong on the internet. It’s fine to engage with them but to be honest I think it’s a lot of sturm und drang over a pretty small group of people. Most democratic and democratic-leaning independent voters are going to be perfectly happy voting for Hillary in November.

Bernie supporters will vote for Clinton 86-10.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:06:58am

Honestly, even though it’s not impacting my ideology, Bernie has soured me on some of the left. I still agree with a lot of what he has to offer in principle but he has shown himself to be a sore loser and all around far from the benevolent force his supporters make him out to be. I don’t see Clinton as a saint. I see her as given what the Democratic party has to offer at the moment, the best possible candidate and one that has shown that she has the wisdom and experience for the job along with a philosophy that is close enough to my own. To some, that makes me a sell out but I’d rather be practical than put all my hopes in a man who bitches about the Democrats losing the votes of voters who left them due to their own prejudices and does not embrace the diverse body that is the Democratic Party.

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iossarian  May 6, 2016 • 11:07:10am

re: #32 FormerDirtDart

To be fair, didn’t the British Parliament, just some 4 months ago, debate banning entry to the possible future President of the United States?

Yes, but that was based on him being an asshole, not the color (orange) of his skin.

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Stanley Sea  May 6, 2016 • 11:07:13am

Allegro, I love Bic!!! So cool.

(dead thread before I knew it)

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 6, 2016 • 11:07:27am

re: #23 Kragar

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:07:48am

re: #30 Kragar

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These people are the left’s Tea Party. I’m glad that cooler heads have prevailed.

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 11:07:51am

re: #26 Timothy Watson

I alternate between a cynic and an idealist,

Do that just right and you become a cyclist.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:08:40am

re: #39 GlutenFreeJesus

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And Bernie Sanders would have more superdelegates if he actually cared about other elected officials other than Bernie Sanders. Bernie doesn’t give a shit about building a strong Democratic Congress, he cares about his own fragile ego.

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gwangung  May 6, 2016 • 11:10:37am

re: #36 HappyWarrior

Honestly, even though it’s not impacting my ideology, Bernie has soured me on some of the left. I still agree with a lot of what he has to offer in principle but he has shown himself to be a sore loser and all around far from the benevolent force his supporters make him out to be. I don’t see Clinton as a saint. I see her as given what the Democratic party has to offer at the moment, the best possible candidate and one that has shown that she has the wisdom and experience for the job along with a philosophy that is close enough to my own. To some, that makes me a sell out but I’d rather be practical than put all my hopes in a man who bitches about the Democrats losing the votes of voters who left them due to their own prejudices and does not embrace the diverse body that is the Democratic Party.

As I said before, if Bernie had won, I’d happily volunteer for him. However, just not with particular Bernie supporters….

(As I’ve said before, the right issues, but the wrong guy. And the wrong guy is way more likely to make things worse through his incompetence).

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 11:11:31am
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Testy Toad T  May 6, 2016 • 11:12:00am

re: #36 HappyWarrior

Honestly, even though it’s not impacting my ideology, Bernie has soured me on some of the left.

Since Super Tuesday, he has driven me somewhat to the right, in that his campaign has made it more clear what an anti-compromise far-left government might look like.

He could rightly label me as a “conservative”, in the literal sense that I want to make incremental change so that unexpected side effects can be dealt with in a calm and reserved manner, rather than bern the whole thing down and start over from scratch. Revolutionary, versus evolutionary, progress is dangerous and is guaran-damn-teed to result in crazy ramifications when you’re steering something as large and complex as a high diverse country of 300 million people.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:12:39am

re: #31 iossarian

Eh… I wouldn’t really say “stupid”. They’re passionate, and wrong on the internet. It’s fine to engage with them but to be honest I think it’s a lot of sturm und drang over a pretty small group of people. Most democratic and democratic-leaning independent voters are going to be perfectly happy voting for Hillary in November.

i’m not talking about Sanders supporters as a whole being stupid, I’m talking about the people who believe the conspiracy nonsense that HRC bought off the SDs while ignoring that their candidate has done nothing to gain good will with the people he would hypothetically be working with as President of the country. Clinton like her or not has worked to get many Democrats throughout the nation elected. IF these people don’t see why elected officials who are delegates don’t appreciate that, then they frankly are as I said stupid.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 11:12:50am
My Vice Presidential Candidate Story In Pictures by Carly Fiorina

tRUSTed.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:14:24am

re: #43 gwangung

As I said before, if Bernie had won, I’d happily volunteer for him. However, just not with particular Bernie supporters….

(As I’ve said before, the right issues, but the wrong guy. And the wrong guy is way more likely to make things worse through his incompetence).

Yeah it’s definitely a case of the wrong guy. And the wrong guy can definitely be problematic not just in a campaign but in goverence. Listen, I am glad Bernie’s moved the discussion to the left on many issues. I appreciate that greatly but at the same time, I think he’s shown himself to be out of his depth as a possible presidential nominee and president. I’d take him over any of the Republicans running no question because he would at least be operating from a sound ideology and not a batshit right wing one but he’s not presidential material and he shows that often.

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 11:14:37am

rejecTed
ejecTed
eliminaTed

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Testy Toad T  May 6, 2016 • 11:15:47am

farTed

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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 11:15:49am

re: #43 gwangung

As I said before, if Bernie had won, I’d happily volunteer for him. However, just not with particular Bernie supporters….

(As I’ve said before, the right issues, but the wrong guy. And the wrong guy is way more likely to make things worse through his incompetence).

The thing about Bernie’s issues is that, if Bernie was the nominee, as a scary socialist he would drive enough conservatives to the polls to ensure GOP control of the House and possibly the Senate as well. The only way to get any progressive legislation passed is to run a centrist campaign in the hopes that Trump is such a disaster that GOP leaning districts will elect enough moderate Democrats to get to 218 Representatives in the House. Berniebros may not like those people, who won’t pass any liberal purity tests, but the Democrats can’t pass anything in Congress without them. A Bernie Presidency would be a tire fire.

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 11:16:12am

re: #50 Testy Toad T

farTed

His new travel agency.

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Great White Snark  May 6, 2016 • 11:16:37am

re: #29 wrenchwench

The parrot works on the Page, but in your comment it looks like you’re not recommending that nice Page.

Ah true, (fixed) was just “parroting” Lindsey Graham.

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iossarian  May 6, 2016 • 11:17:42am

re: #46 HappyWarrior

Yeah, I don’t know. I think it’s important not to get too carried away with all this. Hillary’s a politician, and like all politicians, some of the stuff she does is nice and genuine and selfless, and some of it is her own ruthless pursuit of power. You can’t really disentangle it, all you can do is decide that you think she’s the best option in November (at this point) and vote accordingly, which is what I think most people will do. The same applied to Bernie in the primary and I was definitely a supporter.

I’m reluctant to pump up her various good deeds too much. She was engaged in the same kind of knife fight with Obama in 2008 - anyone remember the Florida/Michigan debacle?

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Testy Toad T  May 6, 2016 • 11:19:21am

re: #54 iossarian

I’m reluctant to pump up her various good deeds too much. She was engaged in the same kind of knife fight with Obama in 2008 - anyone remember the Florida/Michigan debacle?

In 2008, Hillary Clinton had a credible case to make that she represented a better candidate for party leader than Barack Obama did.

Sanders does not and has never been able to make such a claim with a straight face.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:19:51am

re: #51 Big Beautiful Door

The thing about Bernie’s issues is that, if Bernie was the nominee, as a scary socialist he would drive enough conservatives to the polls to ensure GOP control of the House and possibly the Senate as well. The only way to get any progressive legislation passed is to run a centrist campaign in the hopes that Trump is such a disaster that GOP leaning districts will elect enough moderate Democrats to get to 218 Representatives in the House. Berniebros may not like those people, who won’t pass any liberal purity tests, but the Democrats can’t pass anything in Congress without them. A Bernie Presidency would be a tire fire.

They brush anyone to their right as not a real progressive and not worthy of their vote or support. And they have the nerve to claim they’re the heirs of FDR. Yes, it’s true that FDR had Henry Wallace as VP, it’s also true that John Nance Garner was FDR’s VP. FDR had a wide coalition of people in Congress he relied to get his programs passed. LBJ too. I just don’t think Bernie understands the importance of a strong party in politics. And I really think much as it pains me to say it, a reason for that is his own ego, he wants to sell himself as the lone voice. I mean he says the usual stuff, you know the it’s not about me stuff but he hasn’t shown that’s the case. He had a senate candidate backing him in PA. Bernie never appeared with the guy or offered him support. Bernie may be a decent legislator when it comes to where he votes but as far as a leader, frankly Bernie is terrible.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 11:20:13am

re: #52 jaunte

Ted Cruz Cruise Lines

Featuring Captain Carly “Crash” Fiorina

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 11:20:48am

re: #57 nines09

Definitely leans right.

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Kragar  May 6, 2016 • 11:21:04am
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Kent Dorfman  May 6, 2016 • 11:21:08am

Trump keeps eating like that he will have a grabber for sure!

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 11:21:09am

Oh, ok, starboard.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:21:13am

re: #54 iossarian

Yeah, I don’t know. I think it’s important not to get too carried away with all this. Hillary’s a politician, and like all politicians, some of the stuff she does is nice and genuine and selfless, and some of it is her own ruthless pursuit of power. You can’t really disentangle it, all you can do is decide that you think she’s the best option in November (at this point) and vote accordingly, which is what I think most people will do. The same applied to Bernie in the primary and I was definitely a supporter.

I’m reluctant to pump up her various good deeds too much. She was engaged in the same kind of knife fight with Obama in 2008 - anyone remember the Florida/Michigan debacle?

True that. She’s definitely no saint. I just think Sanders has no concept of why the SDs went to her and not to him. I really would respect him so much more if he had actually campaigned for other like minded individuals over the years and in this election cycle.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 11:21:18am

re: #58 jaunte

All the way

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 11:22:35am
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Jebediah, RBG  May 6, 2016 • 11:23:51am

re: #30 Kragar

So they went into an EARTHSHAKINGLY IMPORTANT competition without bothering to learn the rules first. That makes them sound really, really dumb and really, really unserious.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 11:24:19am

re: #23 Kragar

I ran a bunch of tweets this morning on the subject.

Basically, I’m blocking anyone claiming that Bernie can somehow win the nomination or manages to force a contested convention.

He lacks the delegates. He lacks the voters. He lacks the superdelegates.

I know the AP ran its numbers and found that the number of delegates remaining is less than the number Bernie needs to win the nomination without relying on superdelegates.

And he’s claiming superdelegates are anti-Democratic, but somehow needs all of them to switch from supporting Hillary (who leads in delegates and the popular vote) all because he says so.

That’s not how any of this works, and now he’s bitching about the platform committee assignments? He’s lucky he’s even invited as a frickin’ observer, let alone adding actual content to the platform.

He lost. He continues leading his supporters along in this nonsense. And the longer that goes on, the more I wish Hillary would go in and squash him like a bug - to show that she can. She’s being far more charitable and far less diabolical and power hungry than so many of her opponents make her out to be. She’s not running attack ads against Bernie. She didn’t run ads in Indiana. And we see her going out of her way attacking Bernie, time and time again. Doesn’t stop Bernie (or his supporters) from attacking her.

I guess I’m waiting for a Mortal Kombat “Finish Him” moment from Hillary. Because the coup d’gras is needed.

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wrenchwench  May 6, 2016 • 11:24:45am

re: #64 jaunte

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Man, that is really good.

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Franklin  May 6, 2016 • 11:25:17am

disgusTed
wilTed

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 11:27:00am

re: #51 Big Beautiful Door

The thing about Bernie’s issues is that, if Bernie was the nominee, as a scary socialist he would drive enough conservatives to the polls to ensure GOP control of the House and possibly the Senate as well. The only way to get any progressive legislation passed is to run a centrist campaign in the hopes that Trump is such a disaster that GOP leaning districts will elect enough moderate Democrats to get to 218 Representatives in the House. Berniebros may not like those people, who won’t pass any liberal purity tests, but the Democrats can’t pass anything in Congress without them. A Bernie Presidency would be a tire fire.

And I don’t think you have to run all the way to the middle. But you do have to recognize that the country, and the Democratic party especially, is more diverse than the white working class male population, and that not all of the problems are economic ones.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:27:31am

discrediTED

defeaTED

averTED

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 11:28:36am

re: #70 HappyWarrior

dispiriTed
DefecaTed

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jaunte  May 6, 2016 • 11:29:36am

shorTed
truncaTed
halTed

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gwangung  May 6, 2016 • 11:30:05am

re: #51 Big Beautiful Door

The thing about Bernie’s issues is that, if Bernie was the nominee, as a scary socialist he would drive enough conservatives to the polls to ensure GOP control of the House and possibly the Senate as well. The only way to get any progressive legislation passed is to run a centrist campaign in the hopes that Trump is such a disaster that GOP leaning districts will elect enough moderate Democrats to get to 218 Representatives in the House. Berniebros may not like those people, who won’t pass any liberal purity tests, but the Democrats can’t pass anything in Congress without them. A Bernie Presidency would be a tire fire.

Thing progressives forget about Blue Dog Democrats is….THEY’RE DEMOCRATS. With ‘em, you might get a little progress. Without ‘em, you get the shit show you have now. Which is preferable?

(And I don’t discount the possibility of nudging Blue Dogs gradually and ever so gently leftward, either).

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 11:30:10am

Sometimes this place is no fun when you have been too busy to keep up and yet want to comment on stuff that everyone has moved on from.

Yeah, there is a string of comments from me at the end of the last thread because…

Sigh.

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 11:30:18am

frustraTed
complicaTed
busTed

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:30:43am

re: #69 Belafon

And I don’t think you have to run all the way to the middle. But you do have to recognize that the country, and the Democratic party especially, is more diverse than the white working class male population, and that not all of the problems are economic ones.

Exactly, take the police brutality issue. You had an African-American professional tennis player harassed by police. Now, you can argue and I would actually be inclined to agree that these problems do happen to poorer African-Americans more but that still did happen to that gentleman and police mistreatment of African-Americans is something I’ve witnessed here in quite wealthy NoVa. Bernie seems to view the issues in an economic prism. Sometimes, he’s right but sometimes he’s wrong. He just doesn’t seem to see the big picture. He’s already made his mind up that Wall Street and big business cause most of our societal problems and I’m sorry but that’s just not right. That’s not to say they dont’ cause problems,.

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Bubblehead II  May 6, 2016 • 11:31:31am

re: #58 jaunte

Definitely leans right starboard.

ftfy :-)

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 11:31:58am

re: #64 jaunte

and after you drink that…………….you……………………

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BongCrodny  May 6, 2016 • 11:32:27am

The meat in that taco bowl must be 100% Trump Steaks.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:32:48am

re: #73 gwangung

Thing progressives forget about Blue Dog Democrats is….THEY’RE DEMOCRATS. With ‘em, you might get a little progress. Without ‘em, you get the shit show you have now. Which is preferable?

(And I don’t discount the possibility of nudging Blue Dogs gradually and ever so gently leftward, either).

The Blue Dogs actually have moved left ward. In the Reagan years, they were even more right wing. You’re right. They’re still Dems. It’s not even the Blue Dogs. They see centrist Democrats as the enemy too. As I said, for people who claim to be the ideological heirs of FDR, they have none of FDR’s sense of coalition. I get frustrated by the BDs, I’ll be the first to say but I get frustrated by family too. I know, two totally different things but the BDs aren’t the enemy.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 11:33:07am

re: #79 BongCrodny

In front of a Rump Roast.

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 11:33:35am

re: #4 MsJ

I can’t remember how much I wanted something, politically speaking, as much as I want Trump to go down…politically and professionally. I want him to fail so spectacularly that he will be considered nuclear fallout in all of his concerns.

Well that hasn’t stopped him from being considered a great business man.

And total annihilation in a presidential run (hopefully) won’t stop many from saying he was One Great American that should have won, but those lousy (fill in the blank) stopped him.

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Sir John Barron  May 6, 2016 • 11:33:44am

re: #9 blueraven

another RINO the Breitbarts and Hofts can unleash their rabid commenters on.

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calochortus  May 6, 2016 • 11:34:01am

re: #74 ObserverArt

Sometimes this place is no fun when you have been too busy to keep up and yet want to comment on stuff that everyone has moved on from.

Yeah, there is a string of comments from me at the end of the last thread because…

Sigh.

I feel your pain-so I went back and read them. I spend a lot of time reading threads and then either everyone has moved on or I’m so short on time before I need to go do something else that I don’t want to post and run. But it’s still fun to hang out here.

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calochortus  May 6, 2016 • 11:36:19am

Also, your public service announcement for the day: Stay away from Costco. I didn’t and apparently people go there to prepare for Mothers’ Day.

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nines09  May 6, 2016 • 11:38:05am

re: #85 calochortus

Also, your public service announcement for the day: Stay away from Costco. I didn’t and apparently people go there to prepare for Mothers’ Day.

Friday after new coupons, and I’m going tomorrow and expected a mob.

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Kilroy01  May 6, 2016 • 11:39:01am

This guy is a riot..
Liberal Redneck talking about Cruz

Liberal Redneck - Ted Cruz Drops Out
or the Target bathroom boycott

Liberal Redneck - American Family Association Boycotts Target

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 11:39:20am

re: #44 Kragar

Donald J. Trump ✔ ‎@realDonaldTrump

Joe Scarborough initially endorsed Jeb Bush and Jeb crashed, then John Kasich and that didn’t work. Not much power or insight!

2:03 PM - 6 May 2016

Oh that is going to cause Mika and Joey to cry. Their best bud is dumping on them.

Right.

Schedule him for every 6:30 AM time slot next week so they can make it up to him.

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calochortus  May 6, 2016 • 11:40:49am

re: #86 nines09

Friday after new coupons, and I’m going tomorrow and expected a mob.

That too, but I chatted with people in line and noted the number with flowers and orchid plants in their carts, and Mothers’ Day is apparently a Big Deal. Speaking as a mom who is happy with “Happy Mothers’ Day, Mom” from the kids it always surprises me what a big deal some people make of it.

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Lidane  May 6, 2016 • 11:40:50am
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Shimshon  May 6, 2016 • 11:41:05am

On the stack of papers and magazines is one of the bikini photo of Trump’s ex wife. You can’t write a better script to this hilariously awful election season.

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Barefoot Grin  May 6, 2016 • 11:42:01am

buzzfeed.com

With Donald Trump on the brink of receiving classified security briefings from the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. foreign policy figures of both parties are raising concerns about a close Trump aide’s ties to allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump’s top adviser, Paul Manafort, has spent much of his recent career working for pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, and doing complex deals for an oligarch with close ties to Putin. And while a Democratic senator has already charged Trump is not responsible enough to receive secret information, Manafort’s deep relationships with top pro-Russian figures raise special concerns.
Manafort may be best known for managing the 2010 campaign of Viktor Yanukovych, the Ukrainian politician whose ouster as president prompted a Russian invasion of the country. He has, according to court documents, managed tens of millions of dollars for Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch denied entry to the U.S. reportedly for ties to organized crime, but so close to Vladimir Putin that top Russian officials fought (unsuccessfully) to get him a visa.
Gary Schmitt, a former Reagan Administration official now at the American Enterprise Institute, said he believed Manafort’s ties merit extra scrutiny.
“If Trump is to be given access to sensitive intelligence, which can’t help but implicitly involve even more sensitive information about ‘sources and methods,’ then it’s imperative that any campaign staff who have had commercial ties with foreign governments and politicians not be given access as well until they have gone through a full, thorough background check — not the typical perfunctory review,” he said.
“Given his dubious foreign connections, it’s fair to assume that many in the intelligence and national security community would be extremely wary of him handling or receiving material at even the lowest level of classification,” said Adam Blickstein, a former aide to former Obama defense secretary Robert Gates.
Presidential nominees have been given access to classified briefings for decades, a tradition aimed at ensuring that they are prepared for the presidency, as well as that their campaign rhetoric not depart from secret realities.
Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer in Washington, D.C., said the process typically begins with the formal nomination, at the Republican National Convention, followed by a memorandum of understanding with the General Services Administration, a federal agency, that will offer him access to a “sanitized version of the president’s daily briefing.”
A staffer to Mitt Romney’s 2008 campaign said that both Romney and vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan received detailed briefings from members of the same CIA team that briefs Obama. The briefings were conducted at secure facilities in Washington and elsewhere.
The aides were rushed through an intense security-clearance process, and while the Trump campaign didn’t respond to an inquiry about which aide would join Trump in the briefings, people familiar with the process said it is difficult to imagine Manafort clearing such a process.
“Ties to Russia and the Kremlin would without question be a matter of concern. He’d have to explain in far more detail what the contact has been. That will have to be fleshed out in far more detail,” said Moss. “It would be difficult — but not impossible — to imagine security clearing him.”
A former Republican national security official put it more bluntly: “He’s an intelligence classification vetting nightmare scenario.”
Manafort’s close ties to Russia’s authoritarian ruler match Trump’s own praise for Putin. Putin — whose project of undermining his western antagonists by any means has often included support for right-wing populists — last year called Trump a “bright and talented” figure, and Russia’s propaganda outlets have amplified the American’s campaign. Trump responded to Putin’s praise in kind, saying that “he’s running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country,” and avoided condemning the murders of journalists in Putin’s Russia.
“I got to know him very well because we were both on 60 Minutes,” Trump said of Putin during one Republican debate. “We were stablemates, and we did very well that night.”
(Though they appeared on the same show, Trump and Putin did not meet, because they were in different countries.)
U.S. relations with Russia are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 sought to rebuild Russia’s sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, and the Obama Administration — which had tried and failed to make Russia a partner — imposed travel bans sanctions on the country’s finance and oil industries. Russia has more recently frustrated U.S. attempts to depose Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, a Putin ally.
Trump has disturbed critics of Russia by suggesting the United States should not let the invasion of Ukraine get in the way of vaguely-described dealmaking.
“Trump has alluded to the fact that he seems ready to do a deal without preconditions, and that’s exactly what Putin wants,” said former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul. “Putin wants to sit down and do deals and forget about annexation of Ukraine, forget about the forces he’s supporting in Ukraine, forget about the crackdown in Russia. Trump is exactly the kind of president they seek.”
McFaul also said that Manafort’s ties to pro-Russian figures are a “concern” and that his proximity to Trump is “very odd if you think about who his clients are in that part of the world.”
Schmitt, the former Reagan administration official, suggested that the CIA refuse to brief either candidate this year.
“Given Trump’s erratic behavior, and his willingness to go public with any story regardless of how dubious, and Hillary’s own sloppiness with emails and personal server, I’d rather the administration simply not provide the briefings to either candidate,” he said. “Plus, Hillary really doesn’t need them; she can always rely on Sidney Blumenthal for ‘intelligence,’ it appears.”

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Big Beautiful Door  May 6, 2016 • 11:42:15am

For some reason I had a conference call scheduled with a Louisville attorney this afternoon, and of course I couldn’t get him. No lawyer in Louisville works on Oaks Day; they are all getting drunk at Churchill Downs.

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Great White Snark  May 6, 2016 • 11:43:16am

Long list of big name republicans will boycott the GOP convention because of Trumps toxic campaign and platform. An atmosphere somewhat more toxic than the waters around Brazilian Olympic venues apparently.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 11:43:22am

My Clinton Operative check is late, dammit.

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Timothy Watson  May 6, 2016 • 11:44:30am

re: #95 Not a Sparkly Vampire

My Clinton Operative check is late, dammit.

I am still waiting on my CIA check for debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories.

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Blind Frog Belly White  May 6, 2016 • 11:44:38am

re: #95 Not a Sparkly Vampire

My Clinton Operative check is late, dammit.

It’s just a bargaining tactic. They’re hoping to negotiate lower rates now that the nomination is all but locked up.

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 11:47:07am

re: #66 lawhawk

I ran a bunch of tweets this morning on the subject.

Basically, I’m blocking anyone claiming that Bernie can somehow win the nomination or manages to force a contested convention.

He lacks the delegates. He lacks the voters. He lacks the superdelegates.

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I know the AP ran its numbers and found that the number of delegates remaining is less than the number Bernie needs to win the nomination without relying on superdelegates.

And he’s claiming superdelegates are anti-Democratic, but somehow needs all of them to switch from supporting Hillary (who leads in delegates and the popular vote) all because he says so.

That’s not how any of this works, and now he’s bitching about the platform committee assignments? He’s lucky he’s even invited as a frickin’ observer, let alone adding actual content to the platform.

He lost. He continues leading his supporters along in this nonsense. And the longer that goes on, the more I wish Hillary would go in and squash him like a bug - to show that she can. She’s being far more charitable and far less diabolical and power hungry than so many of her opponents make her out to be. She’s not running attack ads against Bernie. She didn’t run ads in Indiana. And we see her going out of her way attacking Bernie, time and time again. Doesn’t stop Bernie (or his supporters) from attacking her.

I guess I’m waiting for a Mortal Kombat “Finish Him” moment from Hillary. Because the coup d’gras is needed.

Wasn’t it Ghandi that said: “I like your Bernie, I do not like your BernieBots. Your BernieBots are so unlike your Bernie.”

No?

I see. He didn’t really like Bernie all that much, eh? He did like some of the ideas…early on and then Bernie grew pig-headed.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  May 6, 2016 • 11:47:23am

re: #97 Blind Frog Belly White

What.
That’s it!
FEELTHEBERN!

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ObserverArt  May 6, 2016 • 11:49:33am

re: #84 calochortus

I feel your pain-so I went back and read them. I spend a lot of time reading threads and then either everyone has moved on or I’m so short on time before I need to go do something else that I don’t want to post and run. But it’s still fun to hang out here.

Thanky! All my time was not a complete waste. I feel whole again…instead of embarrassed.

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Testy Toad T  May 6, 2016 • 11:49:56am

re: #98 ObserverArt

I see. He didn’t really like Bernie all that much, eh? He did like some of the ideas…early on and then Bernie grew pig-headed.

I like that Sanders brought a focused dialog around some things that he and I agree are serious problems for this country, but his ideas were never anything more than a warmed-over lump of crap.

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Belafon  May 6, 2016 • 11:51:54am

re: #92 Barefoot Grin

So, not only does Trump say everything the Republicans think, he’s every problem the Republicans project onto Democrats.

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HappyWarrior  May 6, 2016 • 11:53:51am

re: #87 Kilroy01

This guy is a riot..
Liberal Redneck talking about Cruz

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Video
or the Target bathroom boycott

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I like this guy. I loved his video on the bathrooms too.

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Nyet  May 6, 2016 • 11:54:04am

re: #95 Not a Sparkly Vampire

My Clinton Operative check is late, dammit.

The Illuminati and the ZOG checks are here though. Let’s party hard!

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lawhawk  May 6, 2016 • 11:58:22am

re: #94 Great White Snark

Long list of big name republicans will boycott the GOP convention because of Trumps toxic campaign and platform. An atmosphere somewhat more toxic than the waters around Brazilian Olympic venues apparently.

The platform is going to be virtually identical to the GOP platforms in years past. They’re just posturing to stay away from the bloodbath when Trump loses yuge in November.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  May 6, 2016 • 12:27:13pm

re: #32 FormerDirtDart

Yeah, but that pig-fucker Cameron supported him yesterday.


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