Virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile has taken over Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion, renamed it “Live From Here,” and turned it into the best damned contemporary music show in America, and here’s the latest example.
Julian Lage, Mike Elizondo, and Ted Poor play Julian’s song “Look Book” on our December 9, 2017 broadcast
Website: julianlage.com
The reviews are in… pic.twitter.com/UNdkNbBEFF
— GOP (@GOP) January 5, 2018
Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book. He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad! https://t.co/mEeUhk5ZV9
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
Folks, senior dementia is a terrible thing. Please, if someone you know is suffering from it, see to it that they get proper treatment and care. You’ll not only be protecting them, but everyone around them. #FireAndFury https://t.co/a0VNk2WFR4
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 6, 2018
re: #1 Kragar
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Dude you sued The Onion. I mean fuck Bannon but you’re a whiny little child. This is just pathetic.
When has been being a bloviator a bad thing to the Trump GOP anyhow? And honestly how can these people say it’s lies? Rich Lowry isn’t in the WH. And neither is Podhoettz.
Watching Neil Tyson on the Late Show makes me feel somewhat better knowing what a insignificant speck we are, until I realize that my insignificant speck is currently being led by Donald Trump
I wanna post a rant I just did in the last thread regarding some of the criticism of Wolff’s book. It’s based on what I have heard and what is in Kragar’s (and Charles’ last thread) Tweet GOP “Liar and Phony” image. Thanks.
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That bit where Wolff gets criticized because he said he can’t be sure of the facts in it is a twist on what the book is about and how it was based.
I don’t know a damn thing about Michael Wolff, but I know he is quoting people in the White House. It is the premise of his whole book.
Book Theme: An expose of what is going on in the Trump White House and what people on the staff are saying about him.
What Wolff can’t say is true are the statements of the people he is quoting.
If someone has a grudge against Trump on his staff, they could say anything, even mocking lies, or overblown situations after the facts.
But they said them. And he built a book on them.
He said you can interpret them yourself…read the book.
It all shows what a mess the White House is and how Trump can’t even get a little respect from the people that work for the President of the United States.
Pathetic.
And if the people that work for him hate his ass enough to freely dump on him; hello America we have problems.
That is the goddamned book’s message!!!
re: #7 ObserverArt
I wanna post a rant I just did in the last thread regarding some of the criticism of Wolff’s book. It’s based on what I have heard and what is in Kragar’s (and Charles’ last thread) Tweet GOP “Liar and Phony” image. Thanks.
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That bit where Wolff gets criticized because he said he can’t be sure of the facts in it is a twist on what the book is about and how it was based.
I don’t know a damn thing about Michael Wolff, but I know he is quoting people in the White House. It is the premise of his whole book.
Book Theme: An expose of what is going on in the Trump White House and what people on the staff are saying about him.
What Wolff can’t say is true are the statements of the people he is quoting.
If someone has a grudge against Trump on his staff, they could say anything, even mocking lies, or overblown situations after the facts.
But they said them. And he built a book on them.
He said you can interpret them yourself…read the book.
It all shows what a mess the White House is and how Trump can’t even get a little respect from the people that work for the President of the United States.
Pathetic.
And if the people that work for him hate his ass enough to freely dump on him; hello America we have problems.
That is the goddamned book’s message!!!
Well said.
Y’all realize that the Trump physical that is to happen next week will only happen if Donald nukes North Korea or Australia.
If you ask a wingnut to prove that the DNC “exploits” black voters, they’ll probably be able to recite from memory the “quote” from LBJ saying that by signing the CRA, he’d “have those n*****s voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”
If you ask them if they believe the Clintons are racists, they’ll probably bring up the story about Bill telling Ted Kennedy about Obama that “years ago, this guy would have been bringing us coffee.”
Both of these “quotes” came from the same sort of books that now are totally unreliable and full of gossip and trash…so long as the book is about this joke of a presidency.
re: #7 ObserverArt
That bit where Wolff gets criticized because he said he can’t be sure of the facts in it is a twist on what the book is about and how it was based.
Which will probably be the most misused talking point on the right. He didn’t say he made up stuff. He said he quoted people, but he can’t say what they said was true. Too meta for some people.
I want you to see this. pic.twitter.com/Rzpw2NmOIQ
— Reina Scully (@ReinaScully) January 3, 2018
Man, POTUS is throwing some schoolyard shade there.
I mean, we talk about people never having left high school, and this is like never having left, um, approximately 6th grade.
Hey world. If you didn’t know, @LoganPaul has always been disrespectful and racist towards Asians.
This is nothing new. Sadly. pic.twitter.com/Gq1OIbUuoX— Jommy (@jfwong) January 2, 2018
re: #10 Targetpractice
If you ask a wingnut to prove that the DNC “exploits” black voters, they’ll probably be able to recite from memory the “quote” from LBJ saying that by signing the CRA, he’d “have those n*****s voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”
If you ask them if they believe the Clintons are racists, they’ll probably bring up the story about Bill telling Ted Kennedy about Obama that “years ago, this guy would have been bringing us coffee.”
Both of these “quotes” came from the same sort of books that now are totally unreliable and full of gossip and trash…so long as the book is about this joke of a presidency.
Exactly.
re: #13 The Ghost of a Flea
Man, POTUS is throwing some schoolyard shade there.
I mean, we talk about people never having left high school, and this is like never having left, um, approximately 6th grade.
Pathetic thing is his supporters think it makes him a “real man.”
re: #16 HappyWarrior
I hate that we make people like this famous.
Why the fuck do white Americans see Japanese as caricatures STILL?
re: #18 electrotek
Why the fuck do white Americans see Japanese as caricatures STILL?
Because racism lies deep?
re: #11 Belafon
Which will probably be the most misused talking point on the right. He didn’t say he made up stuff. He said he quoted people, but he can’t say what they said was true. Too meta for some people.
You can count on it. Half those quotes in that image are based on that thinking.
re: #13 The Ghost of a Flea
Man, POTUS is throwing some schoolyard shade there.
I mean, we talk about people never having left high school, and this is like never having left, um, approximately 6th grade.
I was thinking more like 3rd. Old enough to have two classes of kids below you to pick on and bully.
re: #17 HappyWarrior
Pathetic thing is his supporters think it makes him a “real man.”
It’s that De Sade thing I keep repeating. They want to sympathize with the people who have the power and use it arbitrarily…because it’s fun.
I’d love to think that Wolff’s book will make a difference, but really, why would it?
Trumpeteers will reject it as fake news. The R’s in power will yawn.
Sane people will point at it and say that Drumpf is a crazed Cheetodusted Jizztrumpet, that he presents a clear and present danger to the Republic and everyone around him accepts the fact and still sticks with the self-agrandizing Ego Masturbator. Nothing will happen.
And, scene.
re: #19 HappyWarrior
Because racism lies deep?
I mean you see this in A LOT of stupid memes about Japan. Morons who see Harajuku or Akihabara and conclude that ALL of Japan is like that…which is a total crock of shit.
re: #24 electrotek
I mean you see this in A LOT of stupid memes about Japan. Morons who see Harajuku or Akihabara and conclude that ALL of Japan is like that…which is a total crock of shit.
I always like the “scene from fetish porn presented as normal Japanese gameshow” gambit.
Alex Jones is selling a pro-Trump children’s book that promotes white nationalist imagery and teaches kids that sexually assaulting women isn’t a big deal https://t.co/CY4TU2Zwm6 via @timothywjohnson pic.twitter.com/stjqtsgMD4
— Leanne Naramore (@LeanneNaramore) January 4, 2018
what in the actual hell is this https://t.co/sA92YJjxvF
— shauna (@goldengateblond) January 6, 2018
re: #23 austin_blue
I’d love to think that Wolff’s book will make a difference, but really, why would it?
Trumpeteers will reject it as fake news. The R’s in power will yawn.
Sane people will point at it and say that Drumpf is a crazed Cheetodusted Jizztrumpet, that he presents a clear and present danger to the Republic and everyone around him accepts the fact and still sticks with the self-agrandizing Ego Masturbator. Nothing will happen.
And, scene.
Well, it did drive a personal wedge between Steve Bannon and everyone else. I also think that Trump is now more paranoid about the people around him.
It should completely lay to rest the idea that there’s some higher organization to the group. Yes, they’re making a mess that will have to be cleaned up. But we’re battling children with large hammers, not Lex Luthors.
re: #26 JordanRules
I see Dogbert in the upper right image.
re: #23 austin_blue
I’d love to think that Wolff’s book will make a difference, but really, why would it?
Trumpeteers will reject it as fake news. The R’s in power will yawn.
Sane people will point at it and say that Drumpf is a crazed Cheetodusted Jizztrumpet, that he presents a clear and present danger to the Republic and everyone around him accepts the fact and still sticks with the self-agrandizing Ego Masturbator. Nothing will happen.
And, scene.
Numbers. It’s all about numbers.
I think Decatur Deb used the word mathematics.
We want this book and all the other stuff we know about Trump to sway enough people to get out and vote to change this shit.
Democrats have the majority…just not the voters that always turn out. They need to be motivated to vote.
Women are the majority in this country. If 10% of the women that voted for Trump hold him and Republicans responsible for this craziness, that can swing the EC and maybe override gerrymandered Rep districts, and kick out some red state Senators.
Numbers. We need a few more our way and we can do this. Get Out the Vote…keep up the talk at places like here…on Facebook, Twitter. Talk to people.
We don’t need the crazy 25% of this country. We need to overpower them.
re: #26 JordanRules
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Dear World,
We apologize for not paying attention to the maniacs before they got into power. Hopefully we’l crush this embarrassing faux pas before it becomes too much of an irreparable mistake, that’s just the way we do it here in the USA.
re: #28 Belafon
Yep.
I wonder who published this hot garbage?
re: #26 JordanRules
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Sounds like way too expensive toilet paper and I don’t want to fund Jones’ meth habit.
re: #33 JordanRules
Yep.
I wonder who published this hot garbage?
Could it have been self published?
re: #35 HappyWarrior
Right, very plausible or maybe a loose definition of actually published.
Like you, I’m not gonna enable the meth fiends to find out.
re: #30 ObserverArt
Numbers. It’s all about numbers.
I think Decatur Deb used the word mathematics.
We want this book and all the other stuff we know about Trump to sway enough people to get out and vote to change this shit.
Democrats have the majority…just not the voters that always turn out. They need to be motivated to vote.
Women are the majority in this country. If 10% of the women that voted for Trump hold him and Republicans responsible for this craziness, that can swing the EC and maybe override gerrymandered Rep districts, and kick out some red state Senators.
Numbers. We need a few more our way and we can do this. Get Out the Vote…keep up the talk at places like here…on Facebook, Twitter. Talk to people.
We don’t need the crazy 25% of this country. We need to overpower them.
The problem as it exists today is Dems vs. Reps
It should be:
Sane conservative people vs. republicans
Young idealistic dreamers vs. republicans
Disillusioned Libertarians vs. republicans
Democrats vs. republicans
Independents vs. republicans
Disenfranchised minority groups vs. republicans
It is just a crying pitiful shame that that is what it takes to beat the republicans.
If it takes that broad of a coalition to keep the fascists from keeping control of our nation then I am fearful.
re: #36 JordanRules
Right, very plausible or maybe a loose definition of actually published.
Like you, I’m not gonna enable the meth fiends to find out.
To me the funniest thing of the past year is seeing Jones whom in the Bush and Obama years always acted so paranoid about the executive branch becoming a cheerleader for it. His fear of government power was always a sham and it’s showing. He just wanted a guy that shared his racist and xenophobic outlook on the world and that man wasn’t Bush and it certainly wasn’t Obama so he embraced Trump.
re: #24 electrotek
I mean you see this in A LOT of stupid memes about Japan. Morons who see Harajuku or Akihabara and conclude that ALL of Japan is like that…which is a total crock of shit.
I have to disagree. Japan, although somewhat more liberal since the end of the war, is still a very striated society. The Ainu in Hokkaido are still treated as less than Japanese. The Korean immigrants, even after several generations, have a terrible time getting citizenship, and tanners are still treated as untouchables.
It’s a complex society, still coming to grips with itself. A work in progress.
re: #35 HappyWarrior
Could it have been self published?
Sure could. As a graphic artist I have done some small books for people. With the ‘net and digital printing, you can easily get a book printed and published and up on Amazon or wherever.
Here is an example…CreateSpace
re: #40 ObserverArt
Sure could. As a graphic artist I have done some small books for people. With the ‘net and digital printing, you can easily get a book printed and published and up on Amazon or wherever.
Here is an example…CreateSpace
I know about self publishing since my cousin’s wife suggested that’s what I do if I’m to write a family history book which I’m seriously thinking about doing.
re: #26 JordanRules
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I think I don’t wanna know what Pence is doing with that rabbit.
re: #39 austin_blue
I have to disagree. Japan, although somewhat more liberal since the end of the war, is still a very striated society. The Ainu in Hokkaido are still treated as less than Japanese. The Korean immigrants, even after several generations, have a terrible time getting citizenship, and tanners are still treated as untouchables.
It’s a complex society, still coming to grips with itself. A work in progress.
Also hella sexist.
re: #42 allegro
Might not be a Glenn Close treatment but it damn sure ain’t right!
re: #39 austin_blue
They are getting my side eye.
This is one of the reasons why I avoided white Americans while in Japan:
If the suicide forest issue wasn’t bad enough, have a look at the rest of Logan Paul’s stay in Japan. pic.twitter.com/Nzw5JgFI3O
— 逝苦湍留雀 (@yuxelcan) January 5, 2018
How fucking embarrassing. We deserve Trump for tolerating this behavior for many years from the looks of it.
re: #44 JordanRules
Might not be a Glenn Close treatment but it damn sure ain’t right!
Oooo that’s it! I knew it squicked me.
re: #30 ObserverArt
Numbers. It’s all about numbers.
I think Decatur Deb used the word mathematics.
We want this book and all the other stuff we know about Trump to sway enough people to get out and vote to change this shit.
Democrats have the majority…just not the voters that always turn out. They need to be motivated to vote.
Women are the majority in this country. If 10% of the women that voted for Trump hold him and Republicans responsible for this craziness, that can swing the EC and maybe override gerrymandered Rep districts, and kick out some red state Senators.
Numbers. We need a few more our way and we can do this. Get Out the Vote…keep up the talk at places like here…on Facebook, Twitter. Talk to people.
We don’t need the crazy 25% of this country. We need to overpower them.
I certainly hope you are right! Let’s see how that turns out when the Koch brothers and the rest of the facilitators pour money into the 2018 campaigns now that they have their tax breaks and need to protect them.
Too cynical? I don’t think so.
re: #30 ObserverArt
Numbers. It’s all about numbers.
I think Decatur Deb used the word mathematics.
We want this book and all the other stuff we know about Trump to sway enough people to get out and vote to change this shit.
Note that there was a poll out in December showing that 70% of the people already believed Trump did something at least unethical regarding Russia (40% said illegal). That was before Bannon putting the T-word in play.
And Mueller’s still out there quietly bringing the Ring to the Cracks of Doom.
re: #39 austin_blue
I have to disagree. Japan, although somewhat more liberal since the end of the war, is still a very striated society. The Ainu in Hokkaido are still treated as less than Japanese. The Korean immigrants, even after several generations, have a terrible time getting citizenship, and tanners are still treated as untouchables.
It’s a complex society, still coming to grips with itself. A work in progress.
It’s a very complex society. Lot to admire about Japan and how they’ve become successful post WWII and as much as I dislike him historically, credit is due to MacArthur but there are problems with the society too. That of course doesn’t justify acting like an ugly American when visiting as I know you agree.
re: #50 HappyWarrior
Yup and the same could be said about us. Complex.
Prison industrial.
Military industrial.
And still so many of us pushing that arc of the moral universe towards justice.
And still a flame for liberal democratic values. Flickering.
re: #20 ObserverArt
You can count on it. Half those quotes in that image are based on that thinking.
And like I care what Podhoretz or “starbust” Lowry has to say about anything. Maggie’s just pissed that this book stole her and Glenn’s future thunder and CNN really shouldn’t talk about anything being sloppy.
The Axios guys also said But there are two things he gets absolutely right, even in the eyes of White House officials who think some of the book’s scenes are fiction: his spot-on portrait of Trump as an emotionally erratic president, and the low opinion of him among some of those serving him.
I’m only 40 pages into it, so I need to go and read some more…
re: #14 electrotek
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Ok, so I got to ask—Is Logan Paul related to Grandpa Ron and Uncle Ayn Rand?
re: #51 JordanRules
Yup and the same could be said about us. Complex.
Prison industrial.
Military industrial.And still so many of us pushing that arc of the moral universe towards justice.
And still a flame for liberal democratic values. Flickering.
Yes, we’re complex too. More prudish than our European counterparts but our European counterparts would say we dress too casually. Welcoming yet can be xenophobic too.
re: #48 austin_blue
I certainly hope you are right! Let’s see how that turns out when the Koch brothers and the rest of the facilitators pour money into the 2018 campaigns now that they have their tax breaks and need to protect them.
Too cynical? I don’t think so.
They will, and they’ll say all sorts of shit to get people to stay home. It’s our job to make sure people don’t.
re: #53 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ok, so I got to ask—Is Logan Paul related to Grandpa Ron and Uncle Ayn Rand?
Nope according to Wiki. To be fair to Rand and Ron, I don’t think they would act that obnoxious. They’re stupid people for other reasons.
re: #46 electrotek
This is one of the reasons why I avoided white Americans while in Japan:
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How fucking embarrassing. We deserve Trump for tolerating this behavior for many years from the looks of it.
It’s like he’s trying on purpose to make it hard for Americans to visit.
re: #50 HappyWarrior
It’s a very complex society. Lot to admire about Japan and how they’ve become successful post WWII and as much as I dislike him historically, credit is due to MacArthur but there are problems with the society too. That of course doesn’t justify acting like an ugly American when visiting as I know you agree.
Of course! Any intelligent American should enter a country, pause and take stock, then be as benign as he or she can possibly be, until they learn that country’s rhythms and mores.
This is not rocket science. This is common sense.
re: #52 BeachDem
And like I care what Podhoretz or “starbust” Lowry has to say about anything. Maggie’s just pissed that this book stole her and Glenn’s future thunder and CNN really shouldn’t talk about anything being sloppy.
The Axios guys also said But there are two things he gets absolutely right, even in the eyes of White House officials who think some of the book’s scenes are fiction: his spot-on portrait of Trump as an emotionally erratic president, and the low opinion of him among some of those serving him.
I’m only 40 pages into it, so I need to go and read some more…
Here here.
re: #58 austin_blue
Of course! Any intelligent American should enter a country, pause and take stock, then be as benign as he or she can possibly be, until they learn that country’s rhythms and mores.
This is not rocket science. This is common sense.
I always feel bad due to my lingustic limitations abroad. I want to learn the native language or at least parts of it but I’m afraid I’ll butcher it so badly that I’ll offend more so I just stick to my native English. I mean if I know a phrase like please or thank you, I definitely do use it and I go out of my way to be respectful and eager to learn more.
re: #35 HappyWarrior
Could it have been self published?
The book, called Thump: The First Bundred Days, was written by a group of co-authors including Brett R. Smith, the creative director of the Steve Bannon-backed Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel, and Timothy Lim, who has worked with Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Hasbro. The book is published by Post Hill Press, whose books are distributed by Simon and Schuster.
Says it’s a “limited edition.”
re: #52 BeachDem
And like I care what Podhoretz or “starbust” Lowry has to say about anything. Maggie’s just pissed that this book stole her and Glenn’s future thunder and CNN really shouldn’t talk about anything being sloppy.
The Axios guys also said But there are two things he gets absolutely right, even in the eyes of White House officials who think some of the book’s scenes are fiction: his spot-on portrait of Trump as an emotionally erratic president, and the low opinion of him among some of those serving him.
I’m only 40 pages into it, so I need to go and read some more…
I don’t have the book, but if you’re basically a stenographer of this administration, it would look sloppy. Very much like his quotes, he’s describing what’s going on, which just looks like a mess.
re: #57 Belafon
It’s like he’s trying on purpose to make it hard for Americans to visit.
And for us to buy car parts in, on top of it.
re: #61 BeachDem
The book, called Thump: The First Bundred Days, was written by a group of co-authors including Brett R. Smith, the creative director of the Steve Bannon-backed Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel, and Timothy Lim, who has worked with Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Hasbro. The book is published by Post Hill Press, whose books are distributed by Simon and Schuster.
Says it’s a “limited edition.”
What a bucnh of losers.
re: #46 electrotek
This is one of the reasons why I avoided white Americans while in Japan:
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How fucking embarrassing. We deserve Trump for tolerating this behavior for many years from the looks of it.
What a douche.
re: #64 HappyWarrior
What a bucnh of losers.
I’m sure they’re dreaming of Pulitzers with fine copy like:
“Thump found friends in strange places and in all shapes and sizes. Such as the frogs that croaked ‘KEK!’ They were full of surprises!”
and
“Thump was caught talking of grabbing all things pusillanimous. Protesters even made pink hats: their ire was unanimous.”
Ew—now I need a shower!!
On my way home, just after I got off the highway here in conservative Rockwall, TX, I got behind a car with Alabama license plates with a Doug Jones December 2017 sticker on the back of his car.
re: #66 BeachDem
I’m sure they’re dreaming of Pulitzers with fine copy like:
“Thump found friends in strange places and in all shapes and sizes. Such as the frogs that croaked ‘KEK!’ They were full of surprises!”
and
“Thump was caught talking of grabbing all things pusillanimous. Protesters even made pink hats: their ire was unanimous.”
Ew—now I need a shower!!
IT really is a fucking cult. The Nazis would tell these guys to tune it down.
re: #67 Belafon
On my way home, just after I got off the highway here in conservative Rockwall, TX, I got behind a car with Alabama license plates with a Doug Jones December 2017 sticker on the back of his car.
I’m still so happy that happened. I’ve never been to Alabama but that was one of the elections I got the most joy from because the difference between the two candidates not just on the issues but as men couldn’t be anymore stark.
re: #67 Belafon
On my way home, just after I got off the highway here in conservative Rockwall, TX, I got behind a car with Alabama license plates with a Doug Jones December 2017 sticker on the back of his car.
Clapping at you from Fort Worth.
re: #26 JordanRules
The frogs says “Kek”? pic.twitter.com/tWLZ0nzGal
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 6, 2018
I downloaded Fire and Fury from the iTunes book store. Been reading a chapter then taking a break between them. Finished the first six chapters so far.
Wolff’s book is sounding more and more like Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Trump makes Caligula look like Pericles…
re: #60 HappyWarrior
I always feel bad due to my lingustic limitations abroad. I want to learn the native language or at least parts of it but I’m afraid I’ll butcher it so badly that I’ll offend more so I just stick to my native English. I mean if I know a phrase like please or thank you, I definitely do use it and I go out of my way to be respectful and eager to learn more.
Try as hard as you can with whatever you’ve got. Even if you are mangling their language, they’ll appreciate you trying to communicate in their tongue. Trust me on this. My French, Spanish, and Italian is horrible, and I can completely embarrass myself by trying to use it.
But it’s worth it.
Parisiens are notorious for being surly bastards, but I found that if you just made an attempt at speaking French, they were very accommodating. Surly, yes, but smiling and helpful. And not spitting in your food. Bonus. And having a pack of Gauloises was helpful.
re: #75 austin_blue
Try as hard as you can with whatever you’ve got. Even if you are mangling their language, they’ll appreciate you trying to communicate in their tongue. Trust me on this. My French, Spanish, and Italian is horrible, and I can completely embarrass myself by trying to use it.
But it’s worth it.
Parisiens are notorious for being surly bastards, but I found that if you just made an attempt at speaking French, they were very accommodating. Surly, yes, but smiling and helpful. And not spitting in your food. Bonus. And having a pack of Gauloises was helpful.
Sounds good.
re: #67 Belafon
More great feels from your neck of the woods…
BEST STORY OF THE DAY: South Dallas middle school started a “Breakfast with Dads” program but many dads couldn’t make it and several students didn’t have father figures. The school posted a Facebook request for 50 volunteer fathers… 600 fathers from all backgrounds showed up… pic.twitter.com/y7W9R3qFcs
— Jerica Phillips (@Jerica_Phillips) January 4, 2018
Worth a repost if it’s already made an appearance here.
re: #74 electrotek
North Fort Worth here
Sweet, downtown Cowtown here. Moved here from the mid-cities last spring and have grown to love this underappreciated town a lot. It is the 16th biggest city in the US and in three years it will be bigger than San Francisco. Unfreaking real.
re: #75 austin_blue
Try as hard as you can with whatever you’ve got. Even if you are mangling their language, they’ll appreciate you trying to communicate in their tongue. Trust me on this. My French, Spanish, and Italian is horrible, and I can completely embarrass myself by trying to use it.
But it’s worth it.
Parisiens are notorious for being surly bastards, but I found that if you just made an attempt at speaking French, they were very accommodating. Surly, yes, but smiling and helpful. And not spitting in your food. Bonus. And having a pack of Gauloises was helpful.
One of my college buddies has a story about trying to order dinner at a restaurant when he was in France. He attempted to do it in French. When he was done and the waiter walked away a guy from the next table leaned over and said “You speak French like a Spanish cow.” He wasn’t sure whether to laugh or be insulted.
re: #78 bill d. (b.d.)
Sweet, downtown Cowtown here. Moved here from the mid-cities last spring and have grown to love this underappreciated town a lot. It is the 16th biggest city in the US and in three years it will be bigger than San Francisco. Unfreaking real.
Great art scene.
New York City records fewest murders, lowest crime rate in decades: “The murder rate hasn’t been lower since the Korean War.” https://t.co/2zo1320rIo pic.twitter.com/voYSLGLRgO
— ABC News (@ABC) January 6, 2018
re: #75 austin_blue
Try as hard as you can with whatever you’ve got. Even if you are mangling their language, they’ll appreciate you trying to communicate in their tongue. Trust me on this. My French, Spanish, and Italian is horrible, and I can completely embarrass myself by trying to use it.
But it’s worth it.
Parisiens are notorious for being surly bastards, but I found that if you just made an attempt at speaking French, they were very accommodating. Surly, yes, but smiling and helpful. And not spitting in your food. Bonus. And having a pack of Gauloises was helpful.
On my 50th birthday, I managed enough rudimentary French to bum a Gauloises in Harry’s Bar in Paris. What a memory!
re: #79 danarchy
One of my college buddies has a story about trying to order dinner at a restaurant when he was in France. He attempted to do it in French. When he was done and the waiter walked away a guy from the next table leaned over and and said “You speak French like a Spanish cow.” He wasn’t sure whether to laugh or be insulted.
Well sure, but that’s part of the fun. You use what you’ve got and beg for forgiveness.
I once ordered the fish of the day in a restaurant in Saint-Jean-De-Luz and got a one pound grilled octopus.
It was delicious.
re: #81 FormerDirtDart
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Trump is conflicted as to take credit or claim the rate is really high. I’m not surprised btw. I always feel safe when I visit NYC.
re: #83 austin_blue
Well sure, but that’s part of the fun. You use what you’ve got and beg for forgiveness.
I once ordered the fish of the day in a restaurant in Saint-Jean-De-Luz and got a one pound grilled octopus.
It was delicious.
On the same birthday when I successfully bummed a cigarette in Paris, I also used my limited French to order a birthday dinner that I though was going to be a grilled seafood medley and turned out to be a TOWER of raw fishies that could probably have fed 10 people—I ate what I could.
re: #83 austin_blue
Well sure, but that’s part of the fun. You use what you’ve got and beg for forgiveness.
I once ordered the fish of the day in a restaurant in Saint-Jean-De-Luz and got a one pound grilled octopus.
It was delicious.
This wasn’t overseas but a conversation with my brother’s sil. She’s a native Spanish speaker. She had visited Colombia. So I said in a comment so you’re Ka Patrona De Mar, refenceing a show about Pablo Escobar, she laughed, Mar is the ocean, I had meant mal.
Rand and Donnie are being stupid. I tried to edumacate them. I doubt I’ll make much progress. Some students are unteachable.
I’m introducing a bill to end aid to Pakistan in the coming days. My bill will take the money that would have gone to Pakistan and put it in an infrastructure fund to build roads and bridges here at home. pic.twitter.com/SHlA00rWEd
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 4, 2018
Good idea Rand! https://t.co/55sqUDiC0s
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
@RandPaul You guys do understand that Pakistan is somewhat of an ally of ours in S Asia? Alienating them will drive #Pakistan closer to #China
Also we’re talking abt $742Mhttps://t.co/aDkKY7o23g
And infrastructure needs are in the billions or trillionshttps://t.co/IshmowdAmW https://t.co/PMOZPzuSTO— wheat-dogg still thinks editing tweets way overdue (@liguy743) January 6, 2018
Honestly, China will be less patient with Pakistan too so Pakistan should be REALLY careful from here on out.
re: #87 wheat-dogg
Rand and Donnie are being stupid. I tried to edumacate them. I doubt I’ll make much progress. Some students are unteachable.
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They really are idiots. Trump loves to talk tough on China but he’s the best thing they could have asked for.
Well, that’s it for me.
Enough of this clever banter, it’s time for the rack!
But because I am an enveterate shit stirrer:
I think WH staff should spike Drumpf’s Diet Cokes with Thorazine. And then his Big Macs with Thorazine. And then his fries with Thorazine.
His presidency and our sanity will last a lot longer if he just turns into a potted plant.
re: #88 JordanRules
I’m really enjoying this genre of food abroad comments!
Same and it’s making me hungry!
I went on a tapas tour in Madrid. Great food.
re: #93 Joe Bacon 🌹
You have no doubt posted several food comments with pics that aggressively drive my next meal choice.
I am a sucker for old school, iconic Southern Cali meals and you’ve delivered those.
The memory and accompanying picture here are superb!
Critter observation diversion from the politics. Under private for those who aren’t interested.
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Justice Ginsburg would like President Trump to know that she has already hired a full slate of law clerks for 2019-2020. https://t.co/6Z4AopE9kS pic.twitter.com/ixPUod1FWA
— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) January 5, 2018
These familial dynamics are so interesting.
And treasonous.
Inside Jared Kushner’s circle of trust https://t.co/5keV5ybknM via @politico
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) January 6, 2018
One of the many interesting nuggets from “Fire and Fury” is that Jared’s & Ivanka’s lobbying to fire Comey was spurred, in part, by Charles Kushner, who was worried Comey would look into Kushner family finances. This Politico piece says that Jared talks to his father every day. https://t.co/v48djRcTEV
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) January 6, 2018
Two words for any wingnut who insists that “Fire and Fury” can’t be trusted because the author has said he can’t verify the authenticity of claims made by people he interviewed: “Clinton Cash.”
OMG watch this dog take itself sledding pic.twitter.com/8YY9oqJWHx
— theCHIVE (@theCHIVE) January 3, 2018
h/t Balloon Juice
I agree, this Clinton Foundation scandal where Hillary sold fetus parts to ISIS in Benghazi in order to finance the child sex ring run out of the basement of a pizza parlor that has no basement really needs to be looked into for the fifteen hundredth time
— (((Jeff Tiedrich))) (@jefftiedrich) January 5, 2018
please stop calling our customer service hotline to ask if we have The Gorilla Channel
— Netflix US (@netflix) January 6, 2018
re: #103 Dave In Austin
If I could get near Trump, I would ask him if he’s enjoyed the new shows on the Gorilla Channel. I suspect it would drive him nuts to be asked about that.
“Well they’re dead, they’re…all messed up.”
Ah, classic movies.
re: #17 HappyWarrior
“Pathetic thing is his supporters think it makes him a “real man.”“
And——they’ll do it while they’re watching a video clip of him running from the press today as he headed for Camp David and after knowing he didn’t have the nerve to come to the podium, stand by SHS and make a comment yesterday. I had my problems with GWB’s policies and some of his decisions on issues, but I cannot imagine him running away from the press as much as I’ve seen the Talking Yam do it. His supporters won’t notice that this is very unusual behavior for a media hog, a man who has, in the recent past, never seen a camera he’d run away from.
re: #18 electrotek
“Why the fuck do white Americans see Japanese as caricatures STILL?”
I see the answer, elctrotek, being the same reason some of them seem to think that no Black Americans have jobs, and we all grew up in single-parent families in the ghetto with a mom who had/s five kids with five different men. Stereotyping and scapegoating, along with a dash of carefully-groomed brainwashing. It’s systemic, and I don’t know whether we’ll ever move past these things. If we ever move forward and abandon these negatives, I feel that there will be other things the society will focus on that will create divisiveness. As you probably already know, I grew up black in the South under Jim Crow, and although some things have changed, the aforementioned characteristics can still be found 50+ years later in some of our citizens. That’s why the Unite the Right Rally occurred in Charlottesville last year in the 21st Century with a whole new cast of characters pushing the same vileness that their predecessors pushed when I was a child.
re: #75 austin_blue
Flirt a little and you might get extra butter.
Alex Jones defends Trump’s penis
Jones: “And by the way he doesn’t even have small hands, and by the way that’s a cliche, and a wives’ tale, and not even true as well. Medical doctors will tell you it’s the feet size”
I hate having an imagination like mine at times like this…
The reviews are in… pic.twitter.com/UNdkNbBEFF
— GOP (@GOP) January 5, 2018
Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book. He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad! https://t.co/mEeUhk5ZV9
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
Congratulations, sir! This dignified, statesman-like tweet is the perfect way to counter the book’s narrative that you’re an impulsive, childish dimwit. https://t.co/VW1uzqu5pr
The reviews are in… pic.twitter.com/UNdkNbBEFF
— GOP (@GOP) January 5, 2018
Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book. He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad! https://t.co/mEeUhk5ZV9
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
At this point to be a Republican means being an abusive piece of shit and/or a codependent enabler of this pathetic, malignant, infantile, abusive piece of shit. https://t.co/1AnCMNHIZF
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) January 6, 2018
re: #112 goddamnedfrank
The reviews are in… pic.twitter.com/UNdkNbBEFF
— GOP (@GOP) January 5, 2018
So the Republican party is now nothing more than lapdogs for the Trump Crime family. Sad! https://t.co/OKz6X2Nunj
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 6, 2018
re: #113 Kragar
The GOP finally got up the courage to move their mistress into the big house.
They’re well fucking chuffed.
re: #83 austin_blue
You use what you’ve got and beg for forgiveness.
One thing I use is the Czech for “Please excuse me; unfortunately, my Czech isn’t so good” as a preface if I have to ask a fairly complex question in a shop - the younger set here will ask if I speak English, the older folks I can speak German or Russian (German, yes….Russian, a tiny handful of words). And I’ve been told my Czech pronunciation is very good, particularly with ř, which is very difficult to master. Ř is a cross between a staccato rolled “r” and “zh” executed simultaneously.
currently 0F in TheBackwoods, and 41F here at the computer desk.
I really want to head back to snuggling under the duvet, but the plumbing needs attention.
sigh
One of the most surprising parts of “Fire and Fury” is how Donald Trump accidentally started a national book club.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) January 6, 2018
Dog thought process:
1. I’m running
2. No I’m not
3. Shit
4. TELL MY WIFE I LOVE HER pic.twitter.com/3HU0TJfHGJ— Ash Warner (@AlsBoy) January 5, 2018
it is awake and still a moron
The African American unemployment rate fell to 6.8%, the lowest rate in 45 years. I am so happy about this News! And, in the Washington Post (of all places), headline states, “Trumps first year jobs numbers were very, very good.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
it is awake and still a moron
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You said the economy was in terrible shape. Either you fucking lied repeatedly about the state of the economy to get elected or you really don’t understand how economies work. But I get it, you don’t want to give your black predecessor any credit because you’re still butt hurt he mocked you at the WH Correspondents Dinner and you know giving him any credit is like sunlight for the vampires of your base.
Good Morning. Only -15F this morning up here in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Today warms a little, tomorrow back up to +20ish.
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oh…he’s ranting now.
Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh…he’s ranting now.
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….Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
good grief…
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone might wanna point out that early signs of Reagan’s Alzheimers began appearing around the time of his re-election campaign in 1984. IIRC, it was during one of the debates with Mondale - Reagan definitely looked lost and confused, but he was able to soldier on because of his actor’s training.
But there were visible signs that, in hindsight, something was wrong with President Reagan.
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh my…
….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
Ragetweeting at 7am from the White House about how, like, really smart you are may not be the best strategy for allaying concerns about your mental health.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 6, 2018
The “Ronald Reagan playbook”…talking about the obvious decline in Reagan’s faculties?
RONALD REAGAN LITERALLY HAD ALZHEIMERS. IT WAS A LEGITIMATE QUESTION TO ASK.
So…about your obvious decline in faculties…— jay (@random__name) January 6, 2018
Cute cartoon. You’ll get the joke even if your Spanish is not so hot.
Hollywood no tiene nada que hacer con nuestra nieta ⭐️⭐️⭐️ pic.twitter.com/tmvYgUdIUG
— FuensantayAntón (@FuensantAnton) January 6, 2018
Because nothing shows stability, smarts, and success like badly-written rage-tweets at the 7 AM hour on the weekend. pic.twitter.com/qinaUIXenj
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 6, 2018
The stupid person’s idea of a smart person is having another tough morning.
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) January 6, 2018
Someone needs to go and push trump out of the white house into a puddle.
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) January 6, 2018
yikes
Free at last! After a 14-hour flight from Beijing, and another 7-hours stranded on the @JFKairport TarMac, passengers aboard @airchina Flight #CA989 are deplaning. The next concern is lengthy customs lines. Our flight was just one of many that landed, but without a gate assigned pic.twitter.com/hzO1iUSPx0
— missmonet (@jennimonet) January 6, 2018
After 7 hours of waiting at JFK passengers from flight #CA989 have finally been able to leave the aircraft.
But there are more new flights that landed at JFK this morning, parked with passengers waiting to deplane.#AV20 - 2h 40min#AM400 - 2h#AV42 - 1h 50min#AI101 - 1h https://t.co/v0a9RKkrMG— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) January 6, 2018
re: #66 BeachDem
I’m sure they’re dreaming of Pulitzers with fine copy like:
“Thump was caught talking of grabbing all things pusillanimous. Protesters even made pink hats: their ire was unanimous.”
Ew—now I need a shower!!
Acid bath with a Brillo. And, grammar and vocabulary ass, here. Pusillanimous may sound like pussy (cue Beavis and Butthead laugh) but that first sentence makes zero sense.
Literal translation — Grabbing things lacking courage.
WTF? There’s not even a vague hint at a metaphor to grasp at so it would make sense.
Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
In case you were wondering, this was Fox at 7:10 am this morning.
The president’s tweet at 7:20 am. https://t.co/E68vHEbRSF pic.twitter.com/akbRIBK9L7— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) January 6, 2018
re: #136 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I hate that my life is being taken up by critiquing attempted pussy puns by prats pining for Pinochet at 8 am on Saturday morning.
pussy puns by prats pining for Pinochet
Also, YOU SEE THAT YOU DUMB FUCKERS?! I CAN DO BETTER THAN YOU AT 8 AM ON SATURDAY MORNING!
GOP officials refusing to act against Trump are one of the “Three C’s”: 1) Crooked (benefiting from it all); 2) Compromised (threatened & thus silent); or 3) Cowards (self explanatory). None are acceptable & come November they must fall under another C - Crushed. #BlueWave2018
— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) January 6, 2018
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He claims to hate the media yet gets all his news on FNC including on himself.
The media was pretty easy on Reagan anyhow A) and more importantly he DID have Alheimzets for part of his presidency.
Open a can of cat food, cats come running.
Open a can of spam, cats come running.
Therefore spam=cat food
They still aren’t going to get any of this delicious mystery meat.
Well, now we know why Clarke quit. His $100,000/year pension is set up for life…
Evergreen:
GOP has continued to put party over nation.
Yesterday’s actions were no different than those of the preceding year+
re: #146 lawhawk
Evergreen:
GOP has continued to put party over nation.
Yesterday’s actions were no different than those of the preceding year+
GOP=
Getting
Orders from
Putin
The old Ronald Reagan playbook?
It’s not a playbook when it’s reporting facts.
The fact that everyone around Trump knows he is a tangerine toddler who only wants to hear things that he agrees with and will treat anyone who argues with him otherwise as the enemy is well known and has been identified for years.
Trump is a sociopath and is mentally unfit for any elected office, let alone the presidency.
The GOP refuses to act because they’re continuing to get their way. The only way that changes is if the Democrats retake Congress, and the Senate will be an impediment because a guilty verdict on impeachment requires 2/3 vote.
There’s no way any of these craven GOPers will do that.
re: #144 Joe Bacon 🌹
Well, now we know why Clarke quit. His $100,000/year pension is set up for life…
He should be in jail.
re: #93 Joe Bacon 🌹
I still remember the first time I went to Porto Nuevo in Baja and had their famous Lobster Dinner! Oh a dozen friends just GORGED on the scrumptious lobsters! You’re seeing the first of 5 trays that we feasted on!
that reminds me of a dinner we had in Ensenada a long, long time ago
Very little new in the book by page 686, at least for LGF regulars. My major take away is nausea at what is revealed about the character of the characters. There is no class there. These are venal, incompetent, careless, willingly ignorant … never mind, my vocabulary is too big to go on. You really don’t want any of these people as neighbors: “In the Oval Office, in front of her father, Bannon openly attacked her. ‘You,’ he said, pointing at her as the president watched, ‘are a fucking liar.’ Ivanka’s bitter complaints to her father, which in the past had diminished Bannon, were now met by a hands-off Trump: “I told you this is a tough town, baby.’”
re: #142 Shropshire Slasher
Open a can of cat food, cats come running.
Open a can of spam, cats come running.
Therefore spam=cat food
They still aren’t going to get any of this delicious mystery meat.
I recall that Jack-in-the-Box restaurants were owned my Ralson-Purina Corp. (dunno if they still are or still even exist) but as far as I was concerned, there was just one slurry line, pull one lever for dog chow, one for cat food, one for taco filling…
re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They did get the meat jelly. My dad always said the spam meat jelly was too good for a dog/cats. This is the same man that would scoop out the fish eggs from the fish we caught and fry them with his eggs.
Shorter Trump: ‘I’m an excellent driver. Excellent driver. Yeah, excellent driver.’
I see little point in a public discussion of Trump’s mental state. It was obvious to most anyone who did not support him that he does not have the character or mental acuity to occupy the post of President, but it is not going to result in anything other than a lot of empty counter-arguments on Fox and in the RW press about him being a “stable genius”.
Forget about bringing in those listless homeless during the cold snap, bring in the turtles!
Texas Game Wardens rescued handfuls of sea turtles this week near South Padre Island after cold weather left the creatures stunned. When temperatures suddenly drop 10 degrees, sea turtles can go into a hypothermic state, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
re: #155 makeitstop
Shorter Trump: ‘I’m an excellent driver. Excellent driver. Yeah, excellent driver.’
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
Funny, I didn’t hear anything about the Mueller investigation winding down anytime soon. Remember what Yogi Berra said: “It in’t over ‘till it’s over”. Also, we’ll see what your physical next week comes out with. you tub of lard….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) January 6, 2018
re: #142 Shropshire Slasher
Open a can of cat food, cats come running.
Open a can of spam, cats come running.
Therefore spam=cat food
They still aren’t going to get any of this delicious mystery meat.
Spam sushi is really good!
Good morning this bitter cold weekend. 1 degree as I took my son to gymnastics practice this morning.
For those of you who enjoy podcasts, I have a recommendation: This American Life had an episode from back at the end of November with the story of Harold Washington, first black mayor of Chicago. I listened for the first time last week, and have replayed it twice since. It just feels very powerful.
I swear, the photo the GOP is using of Wolff looks just like an anti-Jewish propaganda cartoon I’ve seen somewhere. They’re going for the dangerous, duplicitous Jew angle with that photo.
Makes me sick.
It’s a balmy 11 degrees here this morning.
Poor Scout went out to do his thing this morning and literally got cold feet. He was trying to hold them all out of the snow at the same time, which of course didn’t end well.
I picked him up and carried him back to the house. He’s fine now.
We can all go back to bed, someone already won the whole internet for the weekend.
I’ve made a pop-up easy reader version of Fire and Fury so Donald can see what all the fuss is about pic.twitter.com/xMASZUKjSn
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 6, 2018
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” Margaret Thatcher
— Dave (@Bosoxgent) January 6, 2018
re: #78 bill d. (b.d.)
Sweet, downtown Cowtown here. Moved here from the mid-cities last spring and have grown to love this underappreciated town a lot. It is the 16th biggest city in the US and in three years it will be bigger than San Francisco. Unfreaking real.
That means you have to pass up both Indianapolis and Columbus.
The race is on!
You have us beat as far as Metro area. Pretty hard to compete against Dallas Fort Worth when we are an island and can only take in small communities as we expand.
Oh yeah…Morning!
Brrrr. Hopefully this is the last day of the two week deep freeze we have been in. One more single digit night to go…30° on Sunday.
Trump ended voter fraud panel, saying DHS will now take over. But the panel does not intend to hand over its data, @srl reports https://t.co/DA8eaPVl76
— Marina Fang (@marinafang) January 6, 2018
I got Fire and Fury. Chapter in and furious.
re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I see little point in a public discussion of Trump’s mental state. It was obvious to most anyone who did not support him that he does not have the character or mental acuity to occupy the post of President, but it is not going to result in anything other than a lot of empty counter-arguments on Fox and in the RW press about him being a “stable genius”.
Well when his own people say it, it’s going to be talked about.
re: #142 Shropshire Slasher
Open a can of cat food, cats come running.
Open a can of spam, cats come running.
Therefore spam=cat food
They still aren’t going to get any of this delicious mystery meat.
Open a can of mushrooms for spaghetti sauce, kitty comes running.
She’s terribly disappointed to find out it’s just vegetables and meows at me. I don’t speak Cat, but I believe she’s saying, “WHERE’S MAH TUNAS!”
re: #170 mmmirele
Open a can of mushrooms for spaghetti sauce, kitty comes running.
She’s terribly disappointed to find out it’s just vegetables and meows at me. I don’t speak Cat, but I believe she’s saying, “WHERE’S MAH TUNAS!”
I’ve been learning how to knit. With balls of yarn and pretty needles.
I’m ready to kick both of my cats out of the house.
Everybody gets a little grumpy when sleeping arrangements are over crowded
WATCH: Endangered wolves at a New York sanctuary weather the blizzard that hit the U.S. East Coast. https://t.co/JL8IZmxUZ6 pic.twitter.com/ZlZC0X7nCq
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) January 6, 2018
squeek-a pbbbbbb whirrrr, whirrrr whoo cha-chitter WEET! whiddly widdly whoodala
— Korben the Budgie (@korbenisabird) January 6, 2018
re: #165 makeitstop
Kind of like when you’re dating someone and they say, “I’m a real nice guy”. Run.
re: #169 HappyWarrior
Well when his own people say it, it’s going to be talked about.
It will still be denied by Fox News and his supporters. And in the end, it is irrelevant. We need to nail him on clear and irrefutable criminal charges that compel Congress to act on them.
Rude Pundit acknowledges Sen. Chris Murphy’s essay on Puerto Rico, and builds on it.
re: #174 plansbandc
Kind of like when you’re dating someone and they say, “I’m a real nice guy”. Run.
Trust me
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Run faster.
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It will still be denied by Fox News and his supporters. And in the end, it is irrelevant. We need to nail him on clear and irrefutable criminal charges that compel Congress to act on them.
It’s not irrelevant. By the logic you’re using, we shouldn’t try to ban him on criminal charges because in your own words FNC and his supporters won’t believe it.
His mental state is very relevant especially as we deal with international crisis.
.@latimes reports that Mueller’s investigators have recalled a participant in the 2016 Trump Tower meeting — and they’re asking about an encounter two participants had with IVANKA Trump in the elevator area.https://t.co/HIbcx2o0S8
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 6, 2018
Mueller: ‘Hey, Ms. Dumb as a Brick, don’t go too far.’
….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
cable genius pic.twitter.com/M07ulMdkHg
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) January 6, 2018
Stable genius pic.twitter.com/QlBCvzJeol
— Constance Menefee (@ConnieMenefee) January 6, 2018
Stable genus pic.twitter.com/QsNyj7GOTk
— Jayson up to 50 characters in length Tobias (@tobiasjayson) January 6, 2018
re: #182 FormerDirtDart
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Most people become president on their first try Dotard including Obama who you call Dumb.
….Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
“I’m not insane” is the new “I’m not a crook” https://t.co/K3ETRux8Il
— Richard Wolffe (@richardwolffedc) January 6, 2018
My ex and I fell out over her horse obsession. I later heard she had a new beau who was shoveling horse shit for her and my comment was “stable boy meets unstable woman”.
re: #183 HappyWarrior
Most people become president on their first try Dotard including Obama who you call Dumb.
Nixon was a notable exception.
re: #186 makeitstop
Nixon was a notable exception.
Reagan and Bush I. But Clinton, Obama, & Bush II. He’s not unique just like his win wasn’t historic in any groundbreaking sense.
But Nixon is very unique in having lost a GE and ran again and won.
re: #188 HappyWarrior
But Nixon is very unique in having lost a GE and ran again and won.
Yeah, he actually got to the Big Dance and lost the first time.
re: #188 HappyWarrior
And on the funnier side Nixon was on Laugh-In where he did say, “Sock it to me.”
re: #189 makeitstop
Yeah, he actually got to the Big Dance and lost the first time.
It amazes me that William Jennings Bryan got nominated three times and lost. Too bad he never ran against TR, would have been an interesting race. I’m voting TR in that case.
re: #190 PhillyPretzel
And on the funnier side Nixon was on Laugh-In where he did say, “Sock it to me.”
Yep!
re: #7 ObserverArt
I wanna post a rant I just did in the last thread regarding some of the criticism of Wolff’s book. It’s based on what I have heard and what is in Kragar’s (and Charles’ last thread) Tweet GOP “Liar and Phony” image. Thanks.
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That bit where Wolff gets criticized because he said he can’t be sure of the facts in it is a twist on what the book is about and how it was based.
I don’t know a damn thing about Michael Wolff, but I know he is quoting people in the White House. It is the premise of his whole book.
Book Theme: An expose of what is going on in the Trump White House and what people on the staff are saying about him.
What Wolff can’t say is true are the statements of the people he is quoting.
If someone has a grudge against Trump on his staff, they could say anything, even mocking lies, or overblown situations after the facts.
But they said them. And he built a book on them.
He said you can interpret them yourself…read the book.
It all shows what a mess the White House is and how Trump can’t even get a little respect from the people that work for the President of the United States.
Pathetic.
And if the people that work for him hate his ass enough to freely dump on him; hello America we have problems.
That is the goddamned book’s message!!!
Seeing that every single person associated with this admin is a proven liar, of course truth is questionable. But it’s what and that they said it that’s the story. You’re 100% spot on.
re: #180 HappyWarrior
His mental state is very relevant especially as we deal with international crisis.
The word “sane” does not occur in the Constitution. The time for folk-psychiatry is before the election.
re: #193 MsJ
Seeing that every single person associated with this admin is a proven liar, of course truth is questionable. But it’s what and that they said it that’s the story. You’re 100% spot on.
Which is why the RNC using Lowry and Podhoertz to discredit it is bs. I doubt they talked to everyone quoted in the book and Bannon hasn’t denied what he said either.
“Mr. Ed” is trending because thousands of people made the same lame pun when Trump said he was a #stablegenius.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 6, 2018
re: #180 HappyWarrior
His mental state is very relevant especially as we deal with international crisis.
Flshback
“But he wore a Tan suit!”
Or from Trump himself on Obama, re the Ebola faux-troversey.
“There’s something wrong and nobody knows what it is but there’s something wrong,” Trump said. “There’s so many bad decisions. Can anybody be that incompetent? There’s something wrong, there’s something going on.”
re: #194 Decatur Deb
The word “sane” does not occur in the Constitution. The time for folk-psychiatry is before the election.
I just think when his own aides question his mental capacities, it is relevant. I agree the big issue is Russia but his capacities are a serious issue here too.
I almost feel sorry for this wingnut that Joy rips to shreds and embarrasses every Saturday morning.
re: #196 Ace-o-aces
Mr Ed has more brains he was a talking horse.
re: #184 makeitstop
.@realDonaldTrump Repeating those things over and over “everybody knows” is it’s own sad lonely pathology
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) January 6, 2018
re: #184 makeitstop
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True! —nervous —very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses —not destroyed —not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily —how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
The Tell-tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
re: #201 Unshaken Defiance
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Hillary has had much more of a Rise then him. Ditto Obama. He’s a pampered brat who got aided by bigots and a hostile foreign power.
re: #198 HappyWarrior
I just think when his own aides question his mental capacities, it is relevant. I agree the big issue is Russia but his capacities are a serious issue here too.
OMG, he’s going to beat the Russia rap because “as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct”!
re: #198 HappyWarrior
I just think when his own aides question his mental capacities, it is relevant. I agree the big issue is Russia but his capacities are a serious issue here too.
In a medical and legal sense his mental state is not generally knowable, even by his staff. There is the cabinet-based removal process, but that’s never been tried and has no history or metrics. It could easily be described as a ‘cabinet coup’ to very bad effect.
re: #27 Belafon
Well, it did drive a personal wedge between Steve Bannon and everyone else. I also think that Trump is now more paranoid about the people around him.
It should completely lay to rest the idea that there’s some higher organization to the group. Yes, they’re making a mess that will have to be cleaned up. But we’re battling children with large hammers, not Lex Luthors.
this.
it’s always been this.
At this point, we can easily make a better case against Trump and his Congress being blackmailed by Putin than the GOP ever could about Hillary’s emails, Foundation or alleged Uranium deal illegality. All you need to do is refuse to be blinded by accusations against Clinton.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) January 6, 2018
Let’s face it. It’s going to be a unique twitter day for Dotard. It’s way to cold for him to go play golf. You know the cabin fever should kick in around noon.
Anyone that has to use ‘stable’ and ‘genius’ to describe themselves in a single sentence is neither. #JustSaying #stablegenius #ThisIsNotNormal pic.twitter.com/EZkuR9UFD4
— New Year’s K Won’t Miss 2017 (@Citizen_Kryptik) January 6, 2018
re: #204 garzooma
OMG, he’s going to beat the Russia rap because “as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct”!
By the time Mueller gets him to testify he’ll be completely and utterly psychologically incompetent to perform that task. It will be a sad and frustrating thing to see him skate because he can’t remember anything.
re: #205 Decatur Deb
In a medical and legal sense his mental state is not generally knowable, even by his staff. There is the cabinet-based removal process, but that’s never been tried and has no history or metrics. It could easily be described as a ‘cabinet coup’ to very bad effect.
Speculation and discussion though? I’m sorry but after we had Reagan with Alzheimer’s in office, I don’t want another senile puppet who thinks he knows what he’s doing. Trump’s behavior worries the hell outta me.
re: #204 garzooma
OMG, he’s going to beat the Russia rap because “as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct”!
I truly do not expect that he will face any serious personal consequences other than being removed from office. That is the absolute best we can hope for in the current political and social climate
re: #208 FormerDirtDart
You know, he could spend a few minutes with Barron.
re: #164 makeitstop
We can all go back to bed, someone already won the whole internet for the weekend.
Excellent Three Kings Day for Trump!
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I truly do not expect that he will face any serious personal consequences other than being removed from office. That is the absolute best we can hope for in the current political and social climate
Yet there he is. The least damaging thing we can do is deprive him of a complicit Congress in November, and vote him into oblivion in 2020.
edit: Attached to the wrong comment, belongs with #211.
re: #213 Ace Rothstein
You know, he could spend a few minutes with Barron.
According to Wolff’s book, he’s even more absentee with Barron than he was the other kids. I feel bad for Barron honestly. Only Trump I feel bad for.
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I truly do not expect that he will face any serious personal consequences other than being removed from office. That is the absolute best we can hope for in the current political and social climate
I expect money laundering and it’s related offenses will put him in jail. But one can live with a lessor result.
Here I go again :)
At another web site, they asked us to post our 5 favorite photos of 2017. There is a goodly number of great photographers here, do the same! I’ve started with a page here:littlegreenfootballs.com
Now page yours so we can all enjoy them!
In the end, it will just be Trump and Hope Hicks rattling around the White House like some kind of reverse Sunset Boulevard.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 6, 2018
With this morning’s tweets, I stand by this prediction. https://t.co/E31rGMqmIn
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 6, 2018
I’m casting Busey for Trump in the Fire and Fury adaptation. Gary, here’s your chance at an Oscar!
AND SOMEDAY HE WILL COME AND TAKE @ScottPresler AWAY AND THEY WILL LIVE IN A MAGICAL CASTLE TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 6, 2018
re: #216 HappyWarrior
This is probably cold of me, not nice at all. I can’t feel for any of them, not in the face of the kids without Obamacare, parents getting uselessly drug screened for safety net benefits and in the face of the Trump family contempt for all the little people. He will see his father disgraced and jailed. At that moment I may have sympathy for him.
re: #223 Unshaken Defiance
This is probably cold of me, not nice at all. I can’t feel for any of them, not in the face of the kids without Obamacare, parents getting uselessly drug screened for safety net benefits and in the face of the Trump family contempt for all the little people. He will see his father disgraced and jailed. At that moment I may have sympathy for him.
That’s very true.
If welfare recipients get drug tested, that better include CEOs that get corporate welfare.
re: #196 Ace-o-aces
“Mr. Ed” is trending because thousands of people made the same lame pun when Trump said he was a #stablegenius.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 6, 2018
re: #200 PhillyPretzel
Mr Ed has more brains he was a talking horse.
Here’s the only other #StableGenius I know of. pic.twitter.com/00UaM5ppLm
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) January 6, 2018
re: #223 Unshaken Defiance
This is probably cold of me, not nice at all. I can’t feel for any of them, not in the face of the kids without Obamacare, parents getting uselessly drug screened for safety net benefits and in the face of the Trump family contempt for all the little people. He will see his father disgraced and jailed. At that moment I may have sympathy for him.
I look at Barron, and his face tells me that he knows something is very wrong, but he can’t recognize what it is.
He just looks perpetually shell-shocked. I feel bad for him, but the rest of them deserve whatever karma visits upon them.
re: #226 Ace Rothstein
If welfare recipients get drug tested, that better include CEOs that get corporate welfare.
How about elected officials who receive a taxpayer funded salary, protection, etc?
re: #223 Unshaken Defiance
This is probably cold of me, not nice at all. I can’t feel for any of them, not in the face of the kids without Obamacare, parents getting uselessly drug screened for safety net benefits and in the face of the Trump family contempt for all the little people. He will see his father disgraced and jailed. At that moment I may have sympathy for him.
Compassion, altruism really, is all that keeps us from being like them. Share it even with them - for does not even the tax collector love those who love them? Loving our neighbor as we love ourselves is hard and made all the harder when they are our enemy. But that is the lesson to remember.
re: #230 William Lewis
Compassion, altruism really, is all that keeps us from being like them. Share it even with them - for does not even the tax collector love those who love them? Loving our neighbor as we love ourselves is hard and made all the harder when they are our enemy. But that is the lesson to remember.
I don’t see Barron as an enemy. The older boys and Ivanka, yes since especially the boys treat everyone who criticizes their father as we can’t be real Americans.
re: #229 HappyWarrior
How about elected officials who receive a taxpayer funded salary, protection, etc?
Especially them. They are making critical decisions for all of us, not just a small family group.
re: #229 HappyWarrior
How about elected officials who receive a taxpayer funded salary, protection, etc?
That too.
Stable Genius is going to be the name of my band.
re: #230 William Lewis
Compassion, altruism really, is all that keeps us from being like them. Share it even with them - for does not even the tax collector love those who love them? Loving our neighbor as we love ourselves is hard and made all the harder when they are our enemy. But that is the lesson to remember.
Point taken, well said.
re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I see little point in a public discussion of Trump’s mental state. It was obvious to most anyone who did not support him that he does not have the character or mental acuity to occupy the post of President, but it is not going to result in anything other than a lot of empty counter-arguments on Fox and in the RW press about him being a “stable genius”.
for those supporters, it might make the eventual fall that much worse
BREAKING! #stablegenius #FireAndFury pic.twitter.com/xdnqU1QS7l
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get dick cancer (@DrMatthew) January 6, 2018
re: #184 makeitstop
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….Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star…..7:27 AM - Jan 6, 2018
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He’s just about gone now. Another few months of extreme pressure and he’s gonna explode into something very undesirable that will force those who cover for him to give up.
re: #238 ObserverArt
He’s just about gone now. Another few months of extreme pressure and he’s gonna explode into something very undesirable that will force those who cover for him to give up.
And that’s where the Wolff book will serve a very important purpose.
His mental state is general currency in conversation now. People are watching.
Even the asshole Trumpers on Facebook this morning are prefacing their support with ‘I don’t care how crazy he is…’
What was that saying about admitting you have a problem? We’re just about there.
re: #209 Citizen K
Anyone that has to use ‘stable’ and ‘genius’ to describe themselves in a single sentence is neither. #JustSaying #stablegenius
any minute “stable genius” is gonna morph into “super genius”
i hope he does it himself
then we can pull all the stops
re: #239 makeitstop
And that’s where the Wolff book will serve a very important purpose.
His mental state is general currency in conversation now. People are watching.
Even the asshole Trumpers on Facebook this morning are prefacing their support with ‘I don’t care how crazy he is…’
What was that saying about admitting you have a problem? We’re just about there.
They just wanted an asshole like them, the anti Obama. McCain and Romney as much as I dislike them aren’t as much Obama’s antithesis as Trump is.
re: #240 dangerman
any minute “stable genius” is gonna morph into “super genius”
i hope he does it himselfthen we can pull all the stops
The Wile E. Coyote gifs better be at the read within the minute of him saying that.
The yapping yam is on TV. This oughta be great.
re: #215 Decatur Deb
Yet there he is. The least damaging thing we can do is deprive him of a complicit Congress in November, and vote him into oblivion in 2020.
edit: Attached to the wrong comment, belongs with #211.
Yes, Congress has enough prima facie evidence of tampering with justice and violation of the Emoluments Clause to impeach and convict him, but they will refuse to act until it is forced on them by external circumstances.
re: #242 Citizen K
The Wile E. Coyote gifs better be at the read within the minute of him saying that.
queued up
alls i gotta do is press “enter”
His brain is literally deteriorating before our very eyes.
re: #241 HappyWarrior
They just wanted an asshole like them, the anti Obama. McCain and Romney as much as I dislike them aren’t as much Obama’s antithesis as Trump is.
I tell people that Trump has let people unleash their Inner Asshole from Queens.
It’s actually kind of funny - I know a guy, a record producer who grew up in Trump’s neighborhood. Acts exactly like him.
‘Asshole from Queens’ is an actual thing. It should be a diagnosis, and after Trump it may be.
re: #248 makeitstop
I changed my mind. ‘Asshole from Queens’ is my new band name.
re: #226 Ace Rothstein
If welfare recipients get drug tested, that better include CEOs that get corporate welfare.
anyone who receives money from the government - directly or indirectly - without performing a particular service in exchange, yes…
Lre: #249 Ace Rothstein
I changed my mind. ‘Asshole from Queens’ is my new band name.
Sloppy Steve and the Trump Four is mine.
President Trump speaks at Camp David alongside congressional leaders and members of the Cabinet: “We are very well prepared for the coming year” https://t.co/qzoOC5VHdd
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 6, 2018
Dummy Donnie is so Low-energy. Sad.
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get dick cancer (@DrMatthew) January 6, 2018
re: #240 dangerman
any minute “stable genius” is gonna morph into “super genius”
i hope he does it himselfthen we can pull all the stops
Like Wile E. Coyote?
He just called President Moon “President Maroon.”
re: #247 Ace Rothstein
His brain is literally deteriorating before our very eyes.
as if the sane people among us did not see that happening
I am certain that people in government whose job it is to keep things in this country on an even keep are already putting measures in place to limit the damage he can do when he finally goes full-on bonkers
re: #260 Ace Rothstein
Oy Vey. When is he going to shut up?
re: #249 Ace Rothstein
I changed my mind. ‘Asshole from Queens’ is my new band name.
Heh. I can understand but none of these could ever get me to change my band name from my son:
Penguin Air Force
I need to get an artist to put an emperor penguin in flight suit into the cockpit of an F-22 someday :D
Morning Lizardim. What fresh hell awaits from the frozen wasteland of the wild north country?
re: #264 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
We are still in the freezer section.
forecast.weather.gov
This is probably coincidence, but I just visited the USPS website to buy stamps and this was the featured stamp.
The wall will never happen because none of those eight senators want images of people having their land taken away from them through eminent domain. And I got $1000 in Trump casino chips that says the yam doesn’t know what ‘eminent domain’ means.
re: #268 Ace Rothstein
The wall will never happen because none of those eight senators want images of people having their land taken away from them through eminent domain. And I got $1000 in Trump casino chips that says the yam doesn’t know what ‘eminent domain’ means.
or Separation of Powers or Checks and Balances or Freedom of Information Act
We’re saddened by the loss of astronaut John Young, who was 87. Young flew twice to the Moon, walked on its surface & flew the first Space Shuttle mission. He went to space six times in the Gemini, Apollo & Space Shuttle programs. pic.twitter.com/l4nSwUCMIq
— NASA (@NASA) January 6, 2018
Hopefully before I die, I can point at real change and say to this person, things are getting better. But not today I can’t.
Flint still has toxic water, nearly half of Puerto Rico is still without electricity and water, school kids in Baltimore freezing in classrooms.. I’m disgusted with the way this country has treated and continues to treat people of color.
— Remove Trump Now (@KaniJJackson) January 5, 2018
re: #272 Unshaken Defiance
Flint still has toxic water, nearly half of Puerto Rico is still without electricity and water, school kids in Baltimore freezing in classrooms.. I’m disgusted with the way this country has treated and continues to treat people
of color.
.@POTUS: “I went to the best colleges, or college. I went to - I had a situation where I was a very excellent student, came out, made billions and billions of dollars… Went to television and for 10 years was a tremendous success.” pic.twitter.com/r6gH8n7CeM
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 6, 2018
You had a rich daddy. https://t.co/ZgopxM7t5Z
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) January 6, 2018
“If he leaves, I’m going to say I’m very happy that he left.” — President Trump on his economic adviser Gary Cohn. Cohn is in the hangar.
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) January 6, 2018
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I went to the best colleges, or college. I went to - I had a situation where I was a very excellent student, came out, made billions and billions of dollars… Went to television and for 10 years was a tremendous success.”
“I have a condition that compels me to constantly remind the public how successful I have been.”
Anybody else notice that Trump’s press conference right now at Camp David is a total white men show. We have, what? a dozen guys up there that all more or less look alike.
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) January 6, 2018
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Yes, I’m happy, how’s that,” Gary Cohn says at this unscheduled Q&A session at Camp David, smiling and shaking @POTUS hand.
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) January 6, 2018
Pasted on smile, hostage situation https://t.co/YWx4ovzttu
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) January 6, 2018
“Everything that I’ve done is 100% proper. That’s what I do, is I do things proper.” -@POTUS, asked about whether he directed White House aides to tell his Attorney General not to recuse himself from Russia investigation.
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) January 6, 2018
He notably didn’t answer the question…. https://t.co/lnQywHS2hs
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 6, 2018
Show of unity after “Fire and Fury?” pic.twitter.com/l6uwOKZjef
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 6, 2018
President Trump responds to question about tweets on his mental fitness: “[Michael Wolff] said he interviewed me for 3 hours in the White House. It didn’t exist, OK? It is in his imagination.” https://t.co/Wh1BDY3wJ1 pic.twitter.com/fLlAtLcVpO
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 6, 2018
re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth
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.@POTUS on Michael Wolff: “I never interviewed with him in the White House at all. He was never in the Oval Office. We didn’t have an interview.” pic.twitter.com/YWdVK9OIwl
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 6, 2018
Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently confirmed that Trump did, in fact, have an interview with Michael Wolff. Whoops. https://t.co/yz7ngsCdnS
— William “Stable Genius” LeGate 🌊 (@williamlegate) January 6, 2018
Chief of Staff John Kelly tells press at Camp David he had not seen Trump’s “stable genius” tweet or other new tweets.
(The reporters showed him, per @margarettalev.)— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 6, 2018
If this were a comedy skit everyone would be laughing. Unfortunately it is reality.
“I guess Sloppy Steve brought him into the White House quite a bit,” Trump says of Wolff, as legislative leaders and his Cabinet looks on.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 6, 2018
“The libel laws are very weak in this country.” — President Trump
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) January 6, 2018
A guy in Florida loaded his car up with frozen iguanas and then they came back to life while he was driving. https://t.co/FBFtpR5SyI pic.twitter.com/wxQobX33Un
— Chris Ostertag (@videograndpa) January 6, 2018
re: #272 Unshaken Defiance
Hopefully before I die, I can point at real change and say to this person, things are getting better. But not today I can’t.
Flint still has toxic water, nearly half of Puerto Rico is still without electricity and water, school kids in Baltimore freezing in classrooms.. I’m disgusted with the way this country has treated and continues to treat
people of colorits citizens.
re: #273 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
i didnt see yours
i defer
Michael Wolff: “I hear that the president is very angry, or, let me be precise: I hear that he is truly bouncing off the walls.” https://t.co/0C0vRXBNcl
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 6, 2018
Wolff on Trump: “Did he ever listen to me for one second? I never got that feeling. He just talks at you. “Blah blah blah blah blah blah. I’m great. I’m great. I’m great.”… It’s like that. Any conversation with him is, not to overuse the word surreal, but it’s surreal.” https://t.co/OgacQw42j4
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 6, 2018
re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth
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oh…
Trump on ‘Fire and Fury’: “The libel laws are very weak in this country. If they were strong, it would be very helpful. You wouldn’t have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes to your head.” (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/4feL4cFesU
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 6, 2018
Excited to ask members of Congress on Monday if they too believe the President is “a stable genius.”
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 6, 2018
Even more excited for the number who pretend they haven’t read or seen the tweets yet! https://t.co/0tVLjqu1mg
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) January 6, 2018
re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Fucker really does have a problem with the 1st amendment.
Just sayin’ pic.twitter.com/VHHcR2FqNs
— Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay) January 6, 2018
re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth
You dumb shit, that’s one of the best parts of being an American. Granted, it does get kinda frustrating when people are allowed to run their mouths on stupid subjects like, for example, being Nazis, but at least you can’t arrest people just for calling you out on your dumbfuckery.
re: #298 Decatur Deb
Hmm. Voting Democratic? Excellent idea. Thank G-d my late mom taught me how to do it. :)
I just saw a clip of Trump yakking and did he sort of hint that he was going to get tough on drugs and he mentioned some countries are real harsh which seemed to be a nod toward his buddy Duterte?
Gaming Community continues to impress pic.twitter.com/GPCRWs9WDj
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 6, 2018
I ordered Fire and Fury from B&N last night. This morning I had an email telling me that it wouldn’t ship until the 19th. Now I get this message:
We expect your book to arrive by the delivery date provided when you placed the order.
Please disregard the email you received indicating there would be a delay.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
The supply/demand situation must be insane for this book.
re: #302 FormerDirtDart
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I don’t believe you deserve rights because I don’t think your lifestyle fits my standards. See how easy this is.
oh dear
Trump says the Mueller probe is “very, very bad for our country. It’s making our country look foolish. And this is a country that I don’t want looking foolish. And it’s not going to look foolish as long as I’m here.” pic.twitter.com/SulLnG80B9
— David Mack (@davidmackau) January 6, 2018
re: #302 FormerDirtDart
Blah. Not all gamers, no true Scotsman, etc., etc. Why do I always have to belong to the groups whose reputations are permanently tarnished by a large population of complete shitheads.
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh dear
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Coming from a guy who wanted an electoral investigation after he won because he wanted to prove his delusional belief that he won the popular vote.
State news:
Tuesday Landowners v TransCanada will be heard in the state Supreme Court.
The landowners are still seeking compensation from TransCanada for legal fees and court costs from fighting the foreign company’s eminent domain threats and tarsands export pipeline project for seven years. These same Nebraska farmers and ranchers have been to countless court hearings, intervenor hearings, state, federal and local public hearings and community meetings over the past seven years — and are still standing strong to resist this pipeline that threatens our land and water.
LOL, the Nebraska Democratic Party is having a State of the Union watch party for “Trump Bingo.” They encourage Democrats across the nation to get bingo cards and host a watch party.
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently confirmed that Trump did, in fact, have an interview with Michael Wolff. Whoops.
Sarah is not doing her job, namely to lie, prevaricate and twist facts to cover her boss’ ass….
Hey Donny…the country looks foolish because of you big guy.
Is this what he is going to be doing at his Camp David Republican asskissing retreat all weekend?
“I swear I am not nuts…buh-lee-eve-me. I’m not crazy…watch, I can count to ten…”
I bet Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is glad he wasn’t invited. He can start to work on his retirement package.
re: #308 Anymouse 🌹
State news:
Tuesday Landowners v TransCanada will be heard in the state Supreme Court.
LOL, the Nebraska Democratic Party is having a State of the Union watch party for “Trump Bingo.” They encourage Democrats across the nation to get bingo cards and host a watch party.
I couldn’t get drunk enough to sit through a Trump speech.
….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018
IM A HORSE THAT LEARNED TO TYPE
I THINK THAT MAKES ME A STABLE GENIUS https://t.co/OC1HrxPyeN— Roy Moore’s Horse (@RoyMooresHorse) January 6, 2018
re: #312 allegro
I have earplugs. No hangover. :)
re: #164 makeitstop
We can all go back to bed, someone already won the whole internet for the weekend.
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presidential dinners pic.twitter.com/J36h858S2L
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 6, 2018
Yeah, pretty much.
The senior leaders of the Republican Party arrived at Camp David this morning to talk about important issues.
By noon, Trump had hijacked the meeting and turned it into a press conference to insist he is not an idiot.
(Note: he is)
This is peak Party of Trump.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 6, 2018
re: #306 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Blah. Not all gamers, no true Scotsman, etc., etc. Why do I always have to belong to the groups whose reputations are permanently tarnished by a large population of complete shitheads.
I’m a gamer too but I’m also other things. In short, it doesn’t defone me.
re: #315 allegro
That would be a bit obvious.
“Greatest memory of all time”.
Here are two images of you with Michael Wolff. One is in the oval office. pic.twitter.com/XjgzBe5jOz— Tom Wellborn 👓 (@TomWellborn) January 6, 2018
re: #318 HappyWarrior
I’m a gamer too but I’m also other things. In short, it doesn’t defone me.
NO ONE CAN DEFONE YOU
re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I see little point in a public discussion of Trump’s mental state. It was obvious to most anyone who did not support him that he does not have the character or mental acuity to occupy the post of President, but it is not going to result in anything other than a lot of empty counter-arguments on Fox and in the RW press about him being a “stable genius”.
It won’t convince anyone who is part of the GOP crazification factor. That’s not the point.
The point is to hammer this home with the magic balance fariyists and the “I don’t vote because politics doesn’t affect me” crowds. Those are the people to convince.
I noted a statistic that broke out the voters in Texas in the last election. Unlike my state’s usual approximate 80% turnout, Texas is not a red state, it’s a non-voting state (the percentage of non-voters there is almost as high as the percentage of voters here).
Those are the people to reach.
*blink*
“If Robert Mueller asks you to come and speak with his committee personally, are you committed still to doing that?”
President Trump: “Just so you understand, there’s been no collusion. There’s been no crime. And, in theory, everybody tells me I’m not under investigation.” pic.twitter.com/qxLquXKksA— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 6, 2018
re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth
So in other words, people are just telling him what he wants to hear.
re: #266 PhillyPretzel
We are still in the freezer section.
forecast.weather.gov
Well, you’re about the same temp as we are, but we don’t have the high winds.
re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth
He is a member of the 82 Chairborne and legend in his own mind and trying to convince everyone to follow him.
re: #254 Dr. Matt
What they’re REALLY saying—“We’re going to go for broke and slash Social Security, Medicare, SSI and Medicaid since we’re going to lose in November anyway. We’ll also purge the voting rolls and pass a Voter ID law to make it harder for Democrats to vote!”
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) January 6, 2018
re: #300 PhillyPretzel
Hmm. Voting Democratic? Excellent idea. Thank G-d my late mom taught me how to do it. :)
My mother taught me not to vote because I was in the military. I ignored her advice.
She was really upset when I ran for office (because veteran).
That said, when Mark Kirk and Donald Trump were on the Illinois ballot, her attitude was “hell no” and she registered to vote for the first time in her life.
re: #88 The Major
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re: #331 Anymouse 🌹
My mother taught me not to vote because I was in the military. I ignored her advice.
She was really upset when I ran for office (because veteran).
That said, when Mark Kirk and Donald Trump were on the Illinois ballot, her attitude was “hell no” and she registered to vote for the first time in her life.
I was really happy to see Kirk lose. That bigoted line he pulled on Duckworth.
BREAKING: United Flight 895 From Chicago To Hong Kong Makes Emergency Landing In Alaska, Due To A Passenger Smearing Feces All Over 2 Bathrooms - NBC
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 5, 2018
Anyone seen Rudy Giuliani lately? https://t.co/JGRFKxnNgG
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get dick cancer (@DrMatthew) January 6, 2018
re: #323 Anymouse 🌹
It won’t convince anyone who is part of the GOP crazification factor. That’s not the point.
The point is to hammer this home with the magic balance fariyists and the “I don’t vote because politics doesn’t affect me” crowds. Those are the people to convince.
I noted a statistic that broke out the voters in Texas in the last election. Unlike my state’s usual approximate 80% turnout, Texas is not a red state, it’s a non-voting state (the percentage of non-voters there is almost as high as the percentage of voters here).
Those are the people to reach.
you have a point there
re: #327 Eclectic Cyborg
So in other words, people are just telling him what he wants to hear.
that’s what her hired them to do
President Dunning Kruger
— Schaden Freude (@ThatElJefe) January 6, 2018
re: #313 nines09
This isn’t the first time Trump ran for office. He did it before, twice.
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Everything that I’ve done is 100% proper. That’s what I do, is I do things proper.” -@POTUS,
That should be ‘properly’. I guess “the best words” don’t include adverbs.
re: #313 nines09
….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!
Hang on, how many Presidents of the US were not elected on the first try? The only modern version (ie post WW2) I can think of is Richard Nixon.
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