Donald Trump Makes SNL’s Weekend Update Funny Again
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, including the FBI raiding the home, office and hotel of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s lawyer.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, including the FBI raiding the home, office and hotel of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s lawyer.
[New] Voting Rights Roundup: A majority on the Washington, D.C. city council backs a bill to lower the voting age to 16 following #MarchforOurLives https://t.co/Tfbgfmkbiz
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) April 15, 2018
This is great news and this weekly voting rights round-up from @PoliticsWolf is essential as hell! https://t.co/FeSKPkUUyC
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) April 15, 2018
cannot watch in Germany due to copyright restrictions, alternate link?
James Comey writes that partisans will misconstrue what the FBI does no matter what, but then he says he made decisions out of concern about what partisans would say about the FBI. This book is damning in ways he may not even realize.
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) April 15, 2018
This is a great critical thread on Comey’s book, esp. his extremely consequential announcement about Clinton’s emails in October. https://t.co/QTU6CCJdEI
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) April 15, 2018
— Josiah Neeley 🤔 (@jneeley78) April 14, 2018
re: #3 JordanRules
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I mentioned that Rachel Maddow will be having Comey on sometime (Tuesday, Thursday?) next week.
Others had him on right away last week. I hope Comey is ready because Rachel is going to have some time to prepare, and some of it will be with others at MSNBC.
I think she can make him squirm. It will be fun seeing an FBI guy under the spotlight and not treated as some hero but a person in government with his own likes and dislikes, flaws, etc.
Personally I rather have a POTUS that did not make the SNL writing so easy to do.
re: #5 ObserverArt
I mentioned that Rachel Maddow will be having Comey on sometime (Tuesday, Thursday?) next week.
Others had him on right away last week. I hope Comey is ready because Rachel is going to have some time to prepare, and some of it will be with others at MSNBC.
I think she can make him squirm. It will be fun seeing an FBI guy under the spotlight and not treated as some hero but a person in government with his own likes and dislikes, flaws, etc.
Looking forward to that.
Almost gave him props for going then I remembered she’s the #1 cable news show now (woot!) so that’s just smart for book sales.
Hmmm
#BREAKING Macron says France has convinced Trump to “stay in Syria long-term”
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 15, 2018
re: #8 JordanRules
I agree. Hmm. Is this just another way to “handle” DT?
re: #1 JordanRules
Thinking about this. I think, ultimately, it would be a good idea. Two years of being taken to bote with your parents would help establish a voting pattern.
re: #10 Belafon
Thinking about this. I think, ultimately, it would be a good idea. Two years of being taken to bote with your parents would help establish a voting pattern.
I think 18 is a reasonable age for drinking, voting and doing all the other things that adults do.
re: #9 PhillyPretzel
I agree. Hmm. Is this just another way to “handle” DT?
Right. I think everyone tries to handle him. Putin being the successful one.
I hope Macron also gets that he could change his mind any minute. It’s always chaos.
Don’t all germaphobes live on anonymously prepared fast food?
President Trump has arrived at his golf club in Sterling. pic.twitter.com/I67TybZpmB
— Tammy Thueringer (@TammyThueringer) April 15, 2018
Elizabeth Warren and top Democratic lawmakers want Citigroup and Apollo Global Management to provide detailed records of the loans totaling more than $500 million that were made to Jared Kushner’s family real estate business and to hand over any comms with Kushner himself. pic.twitter.com/kQEP4c6TqD
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 15, 2018
re: #13 jaunte
Don’t all germaphobes live on anonymously prepared fast food?
Supposedly, his affection for anonymously prepared fast food is because it’s already done before it’s ordered, and they don’t know it’s for him.
If he ordered dinner at a real sit-down restaurant, cooks and servers would be spitting in his food. Or worse.
The storm has arrived, and I have water pouring in from the top of my sliding doors
Knew this was going to happen when they removed & replaced the railings on the balconies above me
re: #17 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The storm has arrived, and I have water pouring in from the top of my sliding doors
Knew this was going to happen when they removed & replaced the railings on the balconies above me
Dang. That sounds horrible.
Another journalist in Russia murdered. Maksim Borodin of RIA Novy Den “fell” from the fifth floor. He had been investigating Vagner, the private military company managed by Putin’s friend whose mercenaries are fighting on Asad’s behalf in Syria. https://t.co/34wpyucmmt
— Michael Carpenter (@mikercarpenter) April 15, 2018
re: #17 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The storm has arrived, and I have water pouring in from the top of my sliding doors
Knew this was going to happen when they removed & replaced the railings on the balconies above me
I guess the new balconies are w/o solid floors. Unfortunately, that can result in a mess for you and require installing some sort of deflector coaming above your sliding doors.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
I was a day off.
Mission Accomplished.
Now watch me go play a round of golf today. Because we know that’s coming next.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 14, 2018
Trump is entirely predictable - both in the lies and his response to his own lies.
re: #20 Semper Fi
I guess the new balconies are w/o solid floors. Unfortunately, that can result in a mess for you and require installing some sort of deflector coaming above your sliding doors.
The water is entering the building through large holes in the stucco exterior where the old wood railing used to be.
I get the same leakage during tropical storms/hurricanes. That I assumed came from water entering from where the balcony decks connected to the building. But, that was with much higher wind speeds
re: #17 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The storm has arrived, and I have water pouring in from the top of my sliding doors
Knew this was going to happen when they removed & replaced the railings on the balconies above me
I re-read your post and saw it must have been solid ‘railings’ instead. Sorry
Another cover, Donald, you must be so proud. https://t.co/kzjXKrPZlo
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) April 15, 2018
re: #18 Patricia Kayden
Dang. That sounds horrible.
luckily most of the water poured into the door tracks, so it has a method to flow back outside. The splashing and splatter has soaked a bit of the carpet.
Making matters worse, it’s humid as hell (84%), my AC stopped working yesterday and I of course had to close my window & sliding door as the wind & rain arrived
re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
luckily most of the water poured into the door tracks, so it has a method to flow back outside. The splashing and splatter has soaked a bit of the carpet.
Making matters worse, it’s humid as hell (84%), my AC stopped working yesterday and I of course had to close my window & sliding door as the wind & rain arrived
Make that the humidity is up to 94%
But, the exterior temperature has dropped 13 degrees since right before the storm, now in the low 70s outside, and I should be able to crack the window and door soon
someone called the police on my dog because he ran away and attacked a deer and i know this is serious but the sight of him in the cop car i’m alskdjfhsgh 😂😂😭😭 pic.twitter.com/czZqzzc3x3
— emme 🌸 (@emmethompsonn) April 14, 2018
free him https://t.co/zI1h2Q6RIO
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) April 15, 2018
Ok, who’s got the vid of Cohen meeting the goomba’s done to the Sopranos theme song. I can’t find it and I know it’s out there!
re: #22 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The water is entering the building through large holes in the stucco exterior where the old wood railing used to be.
I get the same leakage during tropical storms/hurricanes. That I assumed came from water entering from where the balcony decks connected to the building. But, that was with much higher wind speeds
Thanks. So you must be located in hurricane country? If so, I’m kinda envious as I’m only familiar with earthquakes, mud slides and flash fires. Not much going-on in the sky.
It would be nice to have a list of all lizards showing some reasonable idea of their location. So many times I read a lizard is experiencing (or about to) extreme weather but I’m w/o any notion of where that might be.
re: #27 JordanRules
There’s a sub thread in there that had me all 🤣😂😭.
I found the before video of them chasing him 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/8LtYFYpbI9
— Quedarius Slade (@qslade3) April 15, 2018
Duh 🙄
— Quedarius Slade (@qslade3) April 15, 2018
Duh it’s a joke
— Quedarius Slade (@qslade3) April 15, 2018
Well fancy that:
High level of interest in midterm elections: (via new NBC/WSJ poll)
2010 midterms:
Republicans: 66%
Democrats: 49%
2018 midterms:
Democrats: 66%
Republicans: 49%— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 15, 2018
If you listen closely you can hear me wheezing pic.twitter.com/9vjaJMOzfX
— madison (@mad_dawgg13) April 12, 2018
Oh. My Goodness. Charlie Pierce addresses that “thing” we have with all the Republican Never-Trumpers with the best possible essay. Whoop! He is channeling his inner Jim Wright! esquire.com
re: #33 retired cynic
And his final essay of the week:
Since I don’t believe that Trump would know Libby if the latter sat in his lap, I’ve got to believe that this pardon is at least partly a little cookie thrown to Libby’s legal team. But this ties it all up in a nice bow. DiGenova and Toensing became famous for being TV lawyers during the Great Penis Hunt of 1998. They’ve since surfed the Republican sewage-treatment plants for clients, finally washing up in the sludge maelstrom of this White House. Their very presence, and what they’ve just managed to bring about on behalf of Scooter Libby, is all the proof you need of one fundamental fact.
Republicanism simply was Trumpism in waiting, and Trumpism is Republicanism in excelsis.
Poor Alex Jones….
Too late, Alex….. (BTW: Seen your kids lately?)
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) April 15, 2018
A story in two Tweets: pic.twitter.com/Fh21RfHaT4
— Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) April 15, 2018
re: #32 Stanley Sea
Thanks. I needed that. rofl
re: #38 HappyWarrior
I honestly can’t remember a weekend where he’s been at the WH.
To my knowledge he has only once: During the first brief government shutdown earlier this year. He missed a big party at Mar-a-lago celebrating his first year as President and was apparently very pissed about it.
re: #1 JordanRules
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I would normally think that 16 year olds don’t have the capacity to vote, but after seeing the 2016 elections, it’s not that outlandish.
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
To my knowledge he has only once: During the first brief government shutdown earlier this year. He missed a big party at Mar-a-lago celebrating his first year as President and was apparently very pissed about it.
Yes, that’s the only time I remember. You’re right.
re: #33 retired cynic
Oh. My Goodness. Charlie Pierce addresses that “thing” we have with all the Republican Never-Trumpers with the best possible essay. Whoop! He is channeling his inner Jim Wright! esquire.com
That was brilliant. Honestly.
re: #38 HappyWarrior
I honestly can’t remember a weekend where he’s been at the WH.
He had to stay during shutdown negotiations in January and was reportedly pissed off about being forced to cancel his planned weekend trip to Mar a Lago.
So I was hungry and thought a Whataburger grilled chicken melt would hit the spot. Sitting at the window to pay the $5.29 with a $10 bill and .29 change. The kid takes the money but the bill blows out of his hand. We’re both oh shit and he says sit tight he’ll get it. He runs out of the door and reaches for the bill for it to blow away again. I watched him in the rear view window chasing that bill down the parking lot to the street, the fucker blowing just as he reached for it every time. LMAO and feeling a bit heelish for laughing at his pain, trying to straighten up before he got back. I was not successful but it was okay because he was cracking up too.
Some realities are a respite for others.
re: #44 goddamnedfrank
He had to stay during shutdown negotiations in January and was reportedly pissed off about being forced to cancel his planned weekend trip to Mar a Lago.
That’s right.
Today’s walk with Rango. Normally, I’d have done his long walk on Saturday and gone for a bike ride today, but Weather Underground convinced me it was going to rain. So far, it’s still pretty damn sunny out.
The view from Rolling Hill in San Mateo. You can see Mt San Bruno and downtown SF.
White California Poppies among the orange ones. Years ago, my Dad told me he didn’t think they existed. I told him it would be a simple mutation in one of the components in the pathway to making the pigment. He said he believed if that happened, it would prevent the plant from developing.
I said, “Dad - this is what I do for a living!”
“April in Paris San Mateo,
“Chestnuts in blossom…”
And here’s the obligatory weekly Rango pic…..
re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White
As you know, we are in the closing stages of Snowmageddon here in the wild north country. We have three cats; two live in our basement, but the third lives outside in a heated cat box. However, during this snowpocalypse, the snow drifted over the cat box and made it uninhabitable. The cat disappeared shortly after the major snow began, and I hadn’t seen her in almost 24 hours when I got home from church this morning. Concerned, I asked Mrs. Fish if she had seen the animal, or any paw prints, or anything - any sign that she hadn’t been in her cat box as it closed up. She responded in the negative. I walked over to the back door, and… there is the feline in question, sound asleep on a bare patch of the deck. Panic averted.
re: #3 JordanRules
The really damning thing is that Comey did this knowing, and keeping secret, the fact that the FBI had an open investigation into the Trump campaign based on Papadopoulos bragging to Australian Ambassador Alexander Downer that the Russians were going to release stolen DNC emails.
— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 15, 2018
re: #48 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Cats have keen survival instincts. Glad you got your buddy back.
re: #33 retired cynic
Oh. My Goodness. Charlie Pierce addresses that “thing” we have with all the Republican Never-Trumpers with the best possible essay. Whoop! He is channeling his inner Jim Wright! esquire.com
Anyone who thinks that Trump alone is responsible for the dumbing down of the Republican party obviously doesn’t remember the great Chick-fil-A rebellion of ‘12. pic.twitter.com/DJkSbPNBbN
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 15, 2018
So, I got interested in what’s still standing at Barzeh after 76 missiles. (Thread) pic.twitter.com/2XaGSr8uXd
— Veli-Pekka Kivimäki (@vpkivimaki) April 15, 2018
Here’s a pre-strike satellite image from 2014, same locations numbered as in the post-strike image. Looks like stairwells? pic.twitter.com/nNLoyCyTAm
— Veli-Pekka Kivimäki (@vpkivimaki) April 15, 2018
Another high level IoT exploit.
Straight out Mr Robot. #MrRobot
— ᴅᴇᴠᴏʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴᴀʀʏ (@DevolutionMan) April 15, 2018
re: #51 Interesting Times
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Trump is their symptom not their illness. They were fucked up prior to Trump. I don’t realistically expect never Trumpers in the GOP to admit that because it would involve being honest not just about past Republican presidents but themselves and their role.
re: #53 goddamnedfrank
Another high level IoT exploit.
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But it’s just too fucking hard for Twitter to ban Nazis…
This thread lays out what we already know in a way that makes the stakes starker than ever:
Trump’s recent tweeting is pretty clearly a sign of precipitous decline in office. Since I (literally) wrote the book on unfiltered outsider Presidents (https://t.co/UP9GUmDVVu) this seems like the time for my first-ever Tweet storm:
— Gautam Mukunda (@gmukunda) April 15, 2018
Read the whole thing. It’s impossible for me to choose the best excerpt.
.@Franklin_Graham: “I just appreciate that we have a man in office that understands the power of prayer and the need for prayer.” pic.twitter.com/HttINFc3JR
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 15, 2018
Not a parody. https://t.co/VDwlCHlqte
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 15, 2018
my final comment on the starbucks:
when the police arrived, they should have instantly realized this was not a 911 situation. it was obvious because everyone else in the room already had.
when the men said they were waiting for a friend, the police could’ve stepped back and waited with them.
or as some suggested, could have bought them each a cup of coffee and said “now they’re not trespassing.”
instead the police escalated this
the two cups of coffee would have been a whole lot less expensive than what it’s gonna hopefully cost those officers now, plus starbucks and the Philly taxpayers
its the difference between being a human being vs acting stunningly stupidly
(all that without using the words “white” or “black”)
re: #37 PhillyPretzel
Thanks. I needed that. rofl
And, then you got to the thread and the “animal lovers” are lecturing on why that was animal abuse. Morons.
re: #58 dangerman
And the police should have never been called.
I’m not sure why they would have needed to stay once they assessed everything. They know, like we all do that it’s okay for people to chill there. They should have talked to the manager about that.
It is okay to use those words too though.
re: #57 JordanRules
I think Graham is talking about the guy holding the launch codes, not Trump. //
re: #56 Interesting Times
This thread lays out what we already know in a way that makes the stakes starker than ever:
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Read the whole thing. It’s impossible for me to choose the best excerpt.
my vote:
a front for fairly inept white collar crime
re: #63 Blind Frog Belly White
Post walk bedfail…
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Me after staying up to watch Beyonce.
re: #63 Blind Frog Belly White
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz
The exchange between @ZerlinaMaxwell and @MichaelSteele on MSNBC today is why we have to stop relitigating 2016: Maxwell is right that Comey might have stopped Clinton’s momentum, but Steele was right that Clinton lived in a world of troubles of her own making. /1
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 15, 2018
No, Steele wasn’t “right” - the willful blindness of guys like Nichols who simply won’t (can’t?) face up to truth is troubling. We need stoic, clear-eyed, and steady-handed view of what actually happened with Russia, disinfo, Comey, race, gender etc. we we proceed to win it back. https://t.co/kOtpqPudYS
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) April 15, 2018
re: #67 JordanRules
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“Sure, the whole email server thing was overblown, and Wikileaks dribbling out the DNC and Podesta emails disrupted the usual intraparty healing, and a substantial portion of the electorate are racist and sexist, and the Comey letter broke Clinton’s momentum a week before the election.
“But Democrats have to accept that Clinton was a fatally flawed candidate!!!”
Grrrrrrr…….
re: #57 JordanRules
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.@Franklin_Graham: “I just appreciate that we have a man in office that understands the power of prayer and the need for prayer.” pic.twitter.com/HttINFc3JR
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 15, 2018
Our president is so spiritual that every time he pays a Pornstar he says a rosary. https://t.co/qKlfGRm0an
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) April 15, 2018
re: #61 JordanRules
And the police should have never been called.
I’m not sure why they would have needed to stay once they assessed everything. They know, like we all do that it’s okay for people to chill there. They should have talked to the manager about that.
It is okay to use those words too though.
i mentioned that last thread
the problem is almost anything that goes through 911 acquires an aura of legitimacy
there doesnt seem to be any verification or validation
a 911 call saying two guys are sitting in a starbucks “trespassing” should be de-escalated before it goes out over the radio to patrol
the only difference between this and the kansas / swat case is those officers had no way of knowing it was a hoax. (that they might have shot too quickly is a separate matter). this was a public accommodation. and a starbucks. it’s almost their business model . trespass was going to be a stretch to start with.
re: #67 JordanRules
Nichols wants the Democrats to become the party he thought the Republicans were. Get rid of Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, and Hillary Clinton. Run more candidates like Conor Lamb, even where the electorate is substantially more progressive.
Seth Klarman, New England’s biggest Republican donor, is now directing his money to Democrats. https://t.co/tXbs27vPwA pic.twitter.com/PnCqHNq04S
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 15, 2018
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@Franklin_Graham: “I just appreciate that we have a man in office that understands the power of prayer and the need for prayer.”
i think it’s an actual miracle taht this guy says stuff like this without his pants combusting on the spot
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
If he believed in the power of prayer he wouldn’t be under investigation for obvious and ongoing obstruction.
re: #67 JordanRules
Compare Trump to Clinton. After that, compare the coverage of Trump to Clinton. Then figure out what went wrong.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 15, 2018
re: #72 Blind Frog Belly White
Nichols wants the Democrats to become the party he thought the Republicans were. Get rid of Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, and Hillary Clinton. Run more candidates like Conor Lamb, even where the electorate is substantially more progressive.
And tell the Parkland Survivors to sit down and be quiet, and respect the grownups.
re: #74 dangerman
i think it’s an actual miracle taht this guy says stuff like this without his pants combusting on the spot
Or without being struck by lightning.
It is my responsibility to represent you, not only when I’m speaking to you but also when I’m speaking on your behalf. It is not my intent to hurt anyone…but to help us all move forward. We need each other. We’re in this together. #WeAreKY https://t.co/2MzQaoJGNk
— Governor Matt Bevin (@GovMattBevin) April 15, 2018
Gov. Matt Bevin apologizes to those who “misunderstood” what he said about teachers being responsible for kids being sexually assaulted, and were this hurt by those words. https://t.co/z7Kl8PFjkI
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) April 15, 2018
this bit from Rep Kay is sarcasm, just in case anyone could not tell:
Our Governor threw another temper tantrum today. He was defeated soundly and his only response was to act out for attention. His comments and tweets are beneath the office.
— Rep. James Kay (@RepJamesKay) April 14, 2018
Hey Everyone, we got it cleared up. The Governor is sorry you misunderstood him. He was right, you were wrong, but if that hurt your feelings, he’s sorry. https://t.co/s8O1T4eOEl
— Rep. James Kay (@RepJamesKay) April 15, 2018
GOP legislators: Bevin’s remarks are indefensible.
Bevin: My defense is that you’re hurt because you misunderstood me.— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) April 15, 2018
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou https://t.co/6nFls1fdwL
— Alison L. Grimes (@AlisonForKY) April 15, 2018
I hate Bevin with the heat of a thousand suns.
that is all.
.@GovMattBevin usually disables the comments on his @YouTube page.
This a sign that he’s willing to take the public punishment for his admittedly hurtful comments? Let’s see how long this lasts. #kyga18 pic.twitter.com/QUbPPTBkQh— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) April 15, 2018
re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth
Went to check out the comments in bevins tweet, and apparently he or his minions blocked me. Snowflake❄️
re: #76 Belafon
His take on the 2016 election is like the inverse of the ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ scene from “Life of Brian”.
He says the Dems should do what he wants us to because we keep losing to his party. Except his party won because they went against his principles and ideals. And it we went with what he said, and won, who would we be then? Abandon women in leadership positions, because it makes Republican men upset. Abandon blacks and Latinos because they make rural and exurban white people upset. Abandon LGBT folks because they make Conservative voters uncomfortable.
Maybe we should run Mitt Romney in 2020, eh, Tom?
re: #78 TedStriker
Or without being struck by lightning.
It certainly argues that the god he espouses doesn’t exist.
THIS MUCH STUPIDS SHOULD HURT
.@MariaBartiromo: “Why did Jim @Comey take so many memos about @POTUS, then President-elect or candidate Trump, and no memos about @HillaryClinton?” pic.twitter.com/5N4CT36uqt
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 15, 2018
re: #81 VegasGolfer
Went to check out the comments in bevins tweet, and apparently he or his minions blocked me. Snowflake❄️
Here are the first few; the rest are pretty much in the same vein:
re: #84 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth
I probably said he was a fake Christian, they hate that.
re: #84 The Vicious Babushka
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Um, when did he take memos about Trump the candidate or president-elect?
Yesterday I was briefed by US embassy personnel on illegal gold mining in Latin America. Drug dealers and other bad actors use gold to launder their money. #SummitOfTheAmericas #SummitPeru pic.twitter.com/JGXmjI4I0t
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) April 15, 2018
Dear Marco: Drug dealers also use real estate to launder money. For example, your parents’ home, bought with your brother-in-laws’ profits from cocaine. Look into that, too. #SummitPeru https://t.co/SM4lb3kVCV
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) April 15, 2018
The Alt-Right bigots are out in full force all over Twitter and Youtube, attacking the 2 black men wrongly arrested at Starbucks, calling them thugs and criminals.
Officers in @Starbucks incident ‘did absolutely nothing wrong,’ Philadelphia police chief says https://t.co/RogcmzzCHh
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 15, 2018
***NEW VIDEO*** We’re getting our first look at some of the damage from the apparent tornado that pushed through parts of Greensboro, NC Sunday. Dangerous weather remains possible in this region through tonight. #ncwx #tornado #Greensboro @NWSRaleigh pic.twitter.com/gfHxOaWyPZ
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) April 15, 2018
re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone should photoshop Pence in there in black-and-white.
What the fuck is going on in here on this day pic.twitter.com/jxTHL5OzVV
— Ira Madison III (@ira) April 15, 2018
Get Out
— Medusa (@lusamedusa) April 15, 2018
re: #92 Skip Intro
Anybody know what church he attended today?
The church of bad macaroni and cheese.
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Greensboro, NC]
I’ve been on that street. Or one that looked just like it, but with all the poles up. That’s the easiest town to get lost in that I have ever driven through.
Fortunately, celticdragon gives very good directions, and lives not far from the nursing home at which I visited my father. Finding her house was easy. I hope she’s unharmed and undamaged.
re: #90 DodgerFan1988
The Alt-Right bigots are out in full force all over Twitter and Youtube, attacking the 2 black men wrongly arrested at Starbucks, calling them thugs and criminals.
Officers in @Starbucks incident ‘did absolutely nothing wrong,’ Philadelphia police chief says foxnews.com …
if the police had acted like human beings
two lousy cups of coffee
and a whole lot of people wouldnt be pissed off at another group of cops
and maybe the story that might have come out instead would have put things in an entirely different light
and lastly, the police chief wouldnt be defending anything today.
re: #70 dangerman
.@Franklin_Graham: “I just appreciate that we have a man in office that understands the power of prayer and the need for prayer.” pic.twitter.com/HttINFc3JR
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 15, 2018
In 2014, Donald Trump urged that one of Franklin Graham’s evangelical doctors be left to die in West Africa when he contracted Ebola. Trump called Pres. Obama “stupid” for evacuating this man back to the US where his life was saved. https://t.co/CQCnLf6v2D
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) April 15, 2018
And then there’s this. https://t.co/SezaPpC08Z
— Morten Øverbye (@morten) April 15, 2018
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
Franklin has a word for his evangelical doctors: Suckers.
re: #99 Cheechako
I’m beginning to think that “church” sign stuffed the toilet.
re: #90 DodgerFan1988
The Alt-Right bigots are out in full force all over Twitter and Youtube, attacking the 2 black men wrongly arrested at Starbucks, calling them thugs and criminals.
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A buddy of mine who lives in the Manayunk section of Philly is between gigs and hangs out in that neighborhood’s franchise on occasion. Stays there for a bit to grab the wifi and doesn’t bother to buy anything.
Never been hassled once.
Three guesses what his skin color is.
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #76 Belafon
Ugh, apparently Radio Free Tom is also Reality Free as well.
re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I hate Bevin with the heat of a thousand suns.
that is all.
I hate the SOB too, but I also believe the voters will re-elect him in a landslide.
Statement from R. Lee Ermey’s long time manager, Bill Rogin:
It is with deep sadness that I regret to inform you all that R. Lee Ermey (“The Gunny”) passed away this morning from complications of pneumonia. He will be greatly missed by all of us.
Semper Fi, Gunny. Godspeed. pic.twitter.com/vf4O78JKmb— R. Lee Ermey (@RLeeErmey) April 15, 2018
re: #106 Joe Bacon 🌹
I hate the SOB too, but I also believe the voters will re-elect him in a landslide.
If memory serves, he won pretty narrowly last time didn’t he?
re: #107 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
RIP Gunny and Semper Fidelis.
re: #92 Skip Intro
Anybody know what church he attended today?
After he tweeted himself to another feeble orgasm, President Asshole went to the Cathedral of St. Mulligan!
re: #72 Blind Frog Belly White
Nichols wants the Democrats to become the party he thought the Republicans were. Get rid of Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, and Hillary Clinton. Run more candidates like Conor Lamb, even where the electorate is substantially more progressive.
I think I heard something like that last national election cycle around these parts of LGF.
Something from the save us from ourselves folder.
Nuts.
re: #107 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Semper Fi, Gunny. Godspeed o7
— Teo (@Teukka72) April 15, 2018
An internet conspiracy theorist tied to Alex Jones has launched a new website dedicated to attacking David Hogg and claims it’s protected by free speech. https://t.co/Lbh6mBVJlm
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 15, 2018
re: #108 Eclectic Cyborg
If memory serves, he won pretty narrowly last time didn’t he?
Bevin got 52.5%; voter turnout was 30.6%
Lentil soup & sourdough rolls pic.twitter.com/tSNYo4MDV8
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 15, 2018
Uh oh. Tom Nichols is replying to a tweet o’ mine with… a tweetstorm!
Sorry, @CharlesPPierce, but if you think being #NeverTrump means we have to justify everything the GOP or its erstwhile allies ever did, I’m not playing. I could put together the same quiz for you - and just about the Kennedys, really. But to what end? /1
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 15, 2018
Statement from former AG Loretta Lynch on Comey pic.twitter.com/w9lRIT0dwS
— Laura Jarrett (@LauraAJarrett) April 15, 2018
“I followed the Department’s longstanding policy of neither confirming nor denying the fact of an ongoing investigation,” is something James Comey won’t be able to say in tonight’s interview. For me, that makes all the difference. When unsure in uncertain times, rules help. https://t.co/m7VB2qktwP
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 15, 2018
re: #113 MsJ
Who’s hosting the site? Because they don’t have to run it.
re: #116 teleskiguy
Uh oh. Tom Nichols is replying to a tweet o’ mine with… a tweetstorm!
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He’s not asking you to justify the GOP. He’s asking you to state your position on GOP actions.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 15, 2018
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
But the problem is, wingnuts will be triggered by “Loretta Lynch” and thus said wingnuts will be all the more supportive of Trump.
re: #120 freetoken
But the problem is, wingnuts will be triggered
by “Loretta Lynch”and thus said wingnuts will be all the more supportive of Trump.
It doesn’t really matter on the wingnut end.
re: #116 teleskiguy
Dense motherfucker. Master of obfuscation.
But if making allies among Democrats and liberals means “now apologize for every bad moment in GOP politics, even the ones you don’t think are bad,” well, I guess we’ll have to soldier on without it. I’m not up for ritual self-denunciation. /4x
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 15, 2018
re: #107 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Statement from R. Lee Ermey’s long time manager, Bill Rogin:
It is with deep sadness that I regret to inform you all that R. Lee Ermey (“The Gunny”) passed away this morning from complications of pneumonia. He will be greatly missed by all of us.
Semper Fi, Gunny. Godspeed. pic.twitter.com
— R. Lee Ermey (@RLeeErmey) April 15, 2018
re: #112 Teukka
Damn.
Didn’t care for his politics, but I generally liked him in his acting roles.
I can’t imagine any other actor (even as accidental as Ermey was getting into show business) trying to play Gunny Hartman in Full Metal Jacket.
re: #116 teleskiguy
“…you Republicans back in the 80s” has a direct line to what we’re seeing today. The seeds of Trumpism were laid earlier than that with Nixon’s racist “southern strategy.” Trump is a feature of today’s GOP, not a bug.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 15, 2018
re: #122 teleskiguy
Dense motherfucker. Master of obfuscation.
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Tom is against Trump because of the damage Trump is doing that isn’t the damage any other Republican would be doing. Cruz wouldn’t be destroying the State Department. Rubio wouldn’t be wrecking our trading with other countries. None of them would be making us worry they were going to start a nuclear war.
And right now, those are definitely issues that we care about. But, as we’ve said before, they are not our friends, they are the enemy of our enemy. He doesn’t mind lowering taxes on the rich. He doesn’t mind weakening education.
Sounds like a fun job! “Find me an environmental summit in The Bahamas!”
— Tay Zonday (@TayZonday) April 15, 2018
This is my first publicity photo, taken in 1964, by my college artist friend, Phil Carey. pic.twitter.com/B7FAAvhpRu
— Steve Martin (@SteveMartinToGo) April 15, 2018
This is an interesting perspective:
I wrote about unashamed Stormy Daniels, giving Trump trouble by rejecting the role the Other Woman in a political sex scandal is supposed to play: https://t.co/V2XV2PfQLr
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 15, 2018
Kensington Wine Rooms in London commemorating #TrumpRussia treason with a classy blue plaque 🍷 pic.twitter.com/C7xhXJzYcr
— Owen Wynne-Griffith (@OwenWG1976) April 15, 2018
SpaceX will try to bring rocket upper stage back from orbital velocity using a giant party balloon
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2018
Phx police threw my husbands Latino canvasser w/a disability out of a white neighborhood in #az06. Their answer was no soliciting. Electioneering is not soliciting. Police should not and cannot interfere in democracy. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/Vu3QbdZttC
— Erica McFadden (@DrEricaMc) April 15, 2018
re: #116 teleskiguy
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re: #116 teleskiguy
You and the rest of the @GOP are a day late, a dollar short and own @realDonaldTrump’s actions - you all had the last clear chance to do something about it and you failed.
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) April 15, 2018
re: #129 Interesting Times
This is an interesting perspective:
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There is a long history, Dagnes notes, of the U.S. media and public hounding and demonizing women who have sex with married politicians. Dagnes said she is “pleasantly surprised at how seriously the media is taking Ms. Clifford and how responsibly they are reporting on this.” Part of the reason, she said, is how impressive Daniels has been.
The media tends to be drawn in by someone who doesn’t fit their expectations. This paragraph actually reminded me of the media’s treatment of Obama in 2007 and 2008.
I read once that the only 2 actors Stanley Kubrick ever allowed to improvise dialogue were Peter Sellers & R. Lee Ermey and we are all the better for it. Thank you Gunny.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) April 15, 2018
Dick’s Sporting Goods, which said after Parkland that its Field & Stream locations will stop selling assault-style rifles, announced that it will destroy and recycle its remaining inventory of the weapons in accordance with federal law. https://t.co/j4kcunXCvw
— The Trace (@teamtrace) April 15, 2018
Probably the most iconic shot of the man acting. But was he really acting? Or just being his normal hard-ass self? #RIPRLeeErmey pic.twitter.com/60RArxqFBM
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 15, 2018
What time does the Comey show start again?
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
What time does the Comey show start again?
TONIGHT at 10/9c on ABC:@Comey@GStephanopoulos
An @ABC News exclusive event.https://t.co/J1mBIAdPo8#Comey pic.twitter.com/L4Fmd4aLTY— ABC News (@ABC) April 15, 2018
re: #134 The Major
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This. I get eyerolls and spines stiffened in supreme offense when I tell Never-Trump Repubs that he IS their party regardless of how they feel about him. When they energetically deny that fact I ask “Then why is your party protecting him and his administration that you acknowledge to be clearly corrupt?”
Amazing how the subject ALWAYS suddenly changes then.
Interesting tidbit re: R. Lee Ermey
According to director John Boorman, Stanley Kubrick wanted to cast Bill McKinney in the role of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. However, Kubrick was so unsettled after viewing McKinney’s performance in Deliverance (1972) that he declined to meet with him, saying he was simply too frightened at the idea of being in McKinney’s presence. Kubrick then hired Tim Colceri to play Hartman. Colceri never got to play the role, as former US Marine Corps Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey, consultant for the Marine Corps boot camp portion of the film, performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for 15 minutes without stopping, repeating himself or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges. Stanley Kubrick was so impressed that he cast Ermey as Hartman. Colceri was bitter but accepted Kubrick’s consolation prize of a small role as a helicopter door-gunner.
Bon Jovi, The Cars and the late Nina Simone have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame https://t.co/LKmzdk11KR
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) April 15, 2018
About fuckin’ time The Cars get inducted. https://t.co/2Q7aKKHegi
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 15, 2018
It was a sin that the HOF left out The Cars for all this time. Ben Orr never got to see it, ferfuckssake.
Crap, I hadn’t thought of this angle…
James Comey writes that partisans will misconstrue what the FBI does no matter what, but then he says he made decisions out of concern about what partisans would say about the FBI. This book is damning in ways he may not even realize.
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) April 15, 2018
Important @AriMelber. Another troubling issue: is @Comey compromising the #Mueller obstruction investigation? He’s the key witness, & he’s giving the defense a free shot. He’s also speculating (however noncommittally) on merits; major no-no for a witness. Ethical or egotistical? https://t.co/9LKm63wvHH
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) April 15, 2018
re: #138 William Lewis
RIP Gunny.
“But always remember this: Marines die, that’s what were here for! But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means you live forever!”
re: #145 teleskiguy
I mean, this rhythm section was outstanding, a cut above so many pop bands in those days.
re: #143 allegro
This. I get eyerolls and spines stiffened in supreme offense when I tell Never-Trump Repubs that he IS their party regardless of how they feel about him. When they energetically deny that fact I ask “Then why is your party protecting him and his administration that you acknowledge to be clearly corrupt?”
Amazing how the subject ALWAYS suddenly changes then.
And it wasn’t that long ago that the subject would usually change to why Democrats “owned” Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 for having the insane notion of running such a “spectacularly flawed” candidate* , and how the Dem Party would be permanent losers unless they “reconnected” with “Real Americans” like the GOP did.
* Maybe a minority opinion, but I still don’t think Hillary was all that bad a candidate. A “spectacularly flawed” nominee like Sec’y Clinton would have lost in a landslide; not the 80,000-vote electoral-college tipping that gave The Yam the win.
re: #145 teleskiguy
“Bon Jovi, The Cars and the late Nina Simone have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame”
I was glad to hear about this, and then I thought about Ted Nugent’s recent whining about why he’s not in the R&RHoF. I hope he ends his life without ever becoming a member because he’s a lowdown SOB with an inflated sense of his talent. I suspect he’s steamed because, once again, he’s been passed over for the induction. If this is the case, he should grab one of his guns, hug it as close to his body as he can get it, kiss it and maybe find some comfort in that.
Meanwhile, Twitter is ratio’ing his video. pic.twitter.com/fOrwhyC2Ut
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) April 15, 2018
and Facebook, with 5.5k comments… pic.twitter.com/YriOhuroS0
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) April 16, 2018
Michael Cohen used the same Delaware LLC to handle Elliott Broidy’s Playboy model payoff as he used for the Stormy Daniels payoff, WSJ reports.
Prosecutors are examining money flowing in and out of the LLC as part of its probe into Cohen.https://t.co/mBAbr9aekn— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 15, 2018
Ohhh here we have the Sunday night bombshell. SDNY is probing the LLC Cohen used to pay Stormy which SUUURPRIIIISE! Is the same one he used to pay off the Broidy Playboy model who got pregnant and had an abortion. Translation: Cohen, you in danger girl. BIGLY. https://t.co/yz3L9mjN6z
— Ale (@aliasvaughn) April 16, 2018
Around 2013, Michael Cohen succeeded in killing an Us Weekly story about an affair between Don Jr. and a “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant. In talks w/the magazine, Cohen “became so irate that they muted the call while he spoke.” https://t.co/eYYh7FWBzI
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) April 16, 2018
re: #146 Interesting Times
Crap, I hadn’t thought of this angle…
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Let me just say for the record: I am NOT a fan of James Comey, and I DON’T think this book and these interviews are helpful. He’s a witness and party in the Russia investigation.
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) April 13, 2018
Questions I wish Comey would answer:
1) Why did you dismiss Harry Reid’s open letters asking you to share with the public vital info about Trump’s collusion with Russia?
2) Why did you not correct the erroneous NYT headline about the FBI seeing no tie between Trump and Russia?— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 13, 2018
re: #154 JordanRules
The deconstruction of governance that Trump is bringing about is not totally under Trump’s control. It’s like a guy pushing a large rock at the top of a hill that then rolls downwards - somewhere along the way the rock causes a landslide.
Trump is not dumb, unlike some may portray him. He’s just ultra-narcissistic so when he speaks in public everything has to be about himself. His low language skills in public-speaking are, I think, in part an act, as he knows his marks are among the least educated of the populace.
Trump knows that the more noise he can throw into the legal system in this country the more likely this noise can disrupt any specific action pointed at himself.
In other words, Trump’s tweets attacking Comey are not just the rantings of a wounded animal. They are also an attempt to mess up the works (of the judicial system) so much that Trump can provide cover for himself and his friends, merely by causing so much confusion and in-fighting among the many vested interests in our society.
This is the real cost of Trump for this country - devaluing trust in our legal system and courts, in in devaluing the general comity in the polity.
Dick’s is not fucking around:
“Typically a retailer returns unsold merchandise to the manufacturer. But Dick’s is destroying them. ‘We are in the process of destroying all firearms and accessories no longer for sale as a result of our policy change.’” https://t.co/DX9UhxiGiI— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 15, 2018
Cambridge’s mayor said Sunday that a video of a police officer repeatedly striking a black Harvard University student pinned to the ground by fellow officers during his arrest was “disturbing.” https://t.co/XJZ011jNC8 pic.twitter.com/LXuUWLYoTf
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 15, 2018
Senate Sunday: North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp Laughed at Trump’s Invitation to Join the Dark Side (Wonkette, more at the link).
Red state Democrats need love too, if we want to flip the House, Senate, and local offices.
If there’s a theme to this year’s hopes for Democrats to take back the Senate, it’s that every goddamn seat matters. Progressives might wish for a whole Senate full of Elizabeth Warrens and Sherrod Browns, but they won’t be part of a Democratic majority at all if we don’t also defend seats held by centrist Democrats in red states, because that’s the math. Oh, and also because centrist Dems vote the way we’d prefer a hell of a lot more regularly than any “moderate” Republican ever would, as evidenced by the support of Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins for the Big Fat Tax Cuts For Rich Fuckwads Act of 2017, which not incidentally killed Obamacare’s individual mandate. Somehow, pointing that out makes us despicable corporate shills, which is why it’s so much fun being a liberal these days.
re: #156 freetoken
Trump is not dumb, unlike some may portray him. He’s just ultra-narcissistic so when he speaks in public everything has to be about himself. His low language skills in public-speaking are, I think, in part an act, as he knows his marks are among the least educated of the populace.
No, must disagree. He’s also dumb. Fundamentally incurious about any aspect of the world outside of himself. His low language skills appear genuine, rather than an act, since he doesn’t display any greater command when speaking to a more educated audience. He hasn’t used any part of his conscious mind to consider anything other than his own howling need for approval for so long that the things we would normally consider to be normal cognitive functions have atrophied.
To be honest, I almost consider that he might qualify for innocence by virtue of mental defect - perhaps not legally, but functionally. I genuinely believe that he doesn’t have the capacity to tell right from wrong, which might be pitiable in another person, but since he is sociopathic, this manifests in a profound cruelty and inability to tell when others are in pain, other than a vague sense of mental pleasure at the thought of inflicting it. I do believe he doesn’t think anything he’s done is wrong, because it wouldn’t occur to him that breaking the law, if indeed he even knows what the law is, or purposely hurting people might be wrong.
re: #159 JordanRules
Let me finish that for you, Sheriff: “A firing offense.”
re: #149 Jay C
And it wasn’t that long ago that the subject would usually change to why Democrats “owned” Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 for having the insane notion of running such a “spectacularly flawed” candidate* , and how the Dem Party would be permanent losers unless they “reconnected” with “Real Americans” like the GOP did.
* Maybe a minority opinion, but I still don’t think Hillary was all that bad a candidate. A “spectacularly flawed” nominee like Sec’y Clinton would have lost in a landslide; not the 80,000-vote electoral-college tipping that gave The Yam the win.
A “spectacularly flawed” nominee likely wouldn’t have been nominated in the first place
She was not spectacularly flawed. There were enough people determined to see her not succeed
14. SDNY is all over this. Meaning Cohen is SO beyond toast, he will flip like a pancake and Mueller will have enough of hearing from him. Also? These are not just federal crimes, they are NY STATE and Delaware crimes SOOOO UNPARDONABLE charges. Bloop!
— Ale (@aliasvaughn) April 16, 2018
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The LLC
Those are the tax returns I want to see
re: #161 Renaissance_Man
If you look at old videos of Trump, from when he was a young man, his manner of speech is more typical of the average person who has gone to school.
Now, aging can bring about idiosyncratic changes to personalities, and it is possible that Trump has had some sort of deterioration in his ability to communicate.
re: #156 freetoken
The deconstruction of governance that Trump is bringing about is not totally under Trump’s control. It’s like a guy pushing a large rock at the top of a hill that then rolls downwards - somewhere along the way the rock causes a landslide.
Trump is not dumb, unlike some may portray him. He’s just ultra-narcissistic so when he speaks in public everything has to be about himself. His low language skills in public-speaking are, I think, in part an act, as he knows his marks are among the least educated of the populace.
Trump knows that the more noise he can throw into the legal system in this country the more likely this noise can disrupt any specific action pointed at himself.
In other words, Trump’s tweets attacking Comey are not just the rantings of a wounded animal. They are also an attempt to mess up the works (of the judicial system) so much that Trump can provide cover for himself and his friends, merely by causing so much confusion and in-fighting among the many vested interests in our society.
This is the real cost of Trump for this country - devaluing trust in our legal system and courts, in in devaluing the general comity in the polity.
So you’re saying that it’s actually a Bug in a Trump-suit? We all know they thrive on chaos!
re: #166 freetoken
If you look at old videos of Trump, from when he was a young man, his manner of speech is more typical of the average person who has gone to school.
Now, aging can bring about idiosyncratic changes to personalities, and it is possible that Trump has had some sort of deterioration in his ability to communicate.
I definitely think it’s deterioration. We’ve seen him lose his way several times too.
re: #161 Renaissance_Man
No, must disagree. He’s also dumb. Fundamentally incurious about any aspect of the world outside of himself. His low language skills appear genuine, rather than an act, since he doesn’t display any greater command when speaking to a more educated audience. He hasn’t used any part of his conscious mind to consider anything other than his own howling need for approval for so long that the things we would normally consider to be normal cognitive functions have atrophied.
I don’t think both statements contradict each other. Sure, we expect some sort of inteligence from someone in his position (rich con man). Rarely people are savant in these things, but it has happened.
re: #166 freetoken
If you look at old videos of Trump, from when he was a young man, his manner of speech is more typical of the average person who has gone to school.
Now, aging can bring about idiosyncratic changes to personalities, and it is possible that Trump has had some sort of deterioration in his ability to communicate.
He clearly has. Mild dementia plus many years of watching FOX. It has eroded what mental agility he had, and it manifests in his endless repetition and empty bloviating when asked a question that he clearly doesn’t understand.
CORRECTION: Our earlier report “Thousands of white people hold silent protest in Starbucks stores across the nation” was incorrect. Turns out they were just “holding tables,” “waiting for friends,” and “checking email, like I always do.”
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) April 16, 2018
re: #170 Renaissance_Man
Even if true, I’m not going to give him a pass for his ill manner and cynical manipulation of the religious America.
Still, I’m proposing that Trump’s attack on Comey, the FBI, etc. are not just the rantings of an old person suffering dementia.
They are very clearly about undermining faith in our justice system.
“All they do now is hold hands,” the fmr First Lady, Barbara Bush, & her husband of 73yrs, fmr President @GeorgeHWBush.
They met 77yrs ago.
Mrs. Bush, 92, is suffering from COPD & congestive heart failure.
She’s receiving comfort care at home, & is declining further medical help— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) April 15, 2018
re: #173 freetoken
Even if true, I’m not going to give him a pass for his ill manner and cynical manipulation of the religious America.
Still, I’m proposing that Trump’s attack on Comey, the FBI, etc. are not just the rantings of an old person suffering dementia.
They are very clearly about undermining faith in our justice system.
I would never give an evil man a pass for such blatant cruelty.
I think the rantings on Comey and the FBI are definitely an attack on the justice system. A deliberate, calculated attack on the rule of law, with the intent to destroy the institutions that still hold America together.
But they aren’t a deliberate calculation on the part of Trump. He lacks the ability to think of it. The existence of American institutions and their stability is not something that he would think about, because they’re not named Donald Trump, and ergo don’t really exist in his mind.
They are, though, a deliberate calculation on the part of the people who do the programming for FOX. They know the effect their programming has on their cult. And they get feedback, in real time, on it, through his tweets. They are instituting this attack on the justice system, and acting through their puppet in the White House to do it.
re: #163 dangerman
A “spectacularly flawed” nominee likely wouldn’t have been nominated in the first place
She was not spectacularly flawed. There were enough people determined to see her not succeed
This. Going all the way back to the Arkansas Project. If Hillary Clinton was so badly flawed, then Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chaffee, Jim Webb, or Lawrence Lessing would have won the primaries.
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow. A marriage of seventy-three years is a hell of a long run. President and Mrs. Bush must really love and care for each other. I wish them well.
The new Wes Anderson film looks bad pic.twitter.com/63rnflr1PG
— Dustin (@DustinGiebel) April 15, 2018
re: #176 Anymouse 🌹
This. Going all the way back to the Arkansas Project. If Hillary Clinton was so badly flawed, then Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chaffee, Jim Webb, or Lawrence Lessing would have won the primaries.
Right back at ya
This and Why is this notion so effing hard?
Clinton did not win the dem primary the way that trump won the general
re: #179 dangerman
Right back at ya
This and Why is this notion so effing hard?Clinton did not win the dem primary the way that trump won the general
It’s hard for anyone to admit they backed the wrong candidate, or backed a loser.
Hence you get all the “Bernie would’ve won” or “both sides are bad so I’m voting for Stein/Johnson/Martians/Snoopy”
Trump should arrive at Mar-a-Lago a little after 3PM tomorrow, according to the W.H. schedule. As of now, there’s nothing on his schedule after that.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 16, 2018
one of the little known perks of being president is the extra day of golf u get when your sunday golf day gets rained out it is in the constitution u can look it up i think it is article 12https://t.co/euWDMOTEhg
— darth™ (@darth) April 16, 2018
re: #116 teleskiguy
Uh oh. Tom Nichols is replying to a tweet o’ mine with… a tweetstorm!
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All three Rs running for Senate in Indiana said that Mueller investigation “should end” in debate tonight. #partyoftrump https://t.co/bSMOk7YCuU
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) April 16, 2018
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) April 16, 2018
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
It’s hard for anyone to admit they backed the wrong candidate, or backed a loser.
Not only that, but I suspect that the poisoning-of-the-well that has been done against the Clintons for 30 years really has affected even self declared “progressives” and “liberals”.
Way back when, namely the early 1980’s, when I first became more aware of politics and society, information flowed mostly through the major TV networks, then the major newspapers, and some radio networks.
It was pretty easy to totally miss out on anything not in one’s local community.
Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, a state in which the Democratic party had for a long time been associated with Confederates. When he and some other southern Democrats made their attempt at a “middle way” for the Democratic party to appeal to more whites in the South, I think the backlash against the Clintons took germ.
Not just in the Republicans, who had since incorporated George Wallace’s bigoted followers, but also among some Democrats from outside of middle America, a kernel of resentment arose against the Clintons.
Trump should arrive at Mar-a-Lago a little after 3PM tomorrow, according to the W.H. schedule. As of now, there’s nothing on his schedule after that.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 16, 2018
one of the little known perks of being president is the extra day of golf u get when your sunday golf day gets rained out it is in the constitution u can look it up i think it is article 12https://t.co/euWDMOTEhg
— darth™ (@darth) April 16, 2018
re: #184 freetoken
Not only that, but I suspect that the poisoning-of-the-well that has been done against the Clintons for 30 years really has affected even self declared “progressives” and “liberals”.
Way back when, namely the early 1980’s, when I first became more aware of politics and society, information flowed mostly through the major TV networks, then the major newspapers, and some radio networks.
It was pretty easy to totally miss out on anything not in one’s local community.
Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, a state in which the Democratic party had for a long time been associated with Confederates. When he and some other southern Democrats made their attempt at a “middle way” for the Democratic party to appeal to more whites in the South, I think the backlash against the Clintons took germ.
Not just in the Republicans, who had since incorporated George Wallace’s bigoted followers, but also among some Democrats from outside of middle America, a kernel of resentment arose against the Clintons.
And the GOP has been targeting her since Bill became governor. They knew she was a threat all the way back then.
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NEW: President Trump has asked a federal court in New York to block federal agents from reviewing materials seized in a raid of his private lawyer, Michael Cohen. pic.twitter.com/DgVX8Ls46S
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 16, 2018
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
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One of my practicing lawyer buddies in NYC just posted this to Facebook:
Trump’s lawyers tonight filed a motion in the Cohen case (they’ve already been permitted to intervene). Basically the President wants preliminary review of all materials seized so he can assert privilege before the FBI “dirty team” sees it. It seems very unlikely to me that a judge will grant this.
LOOK AT THESE CUTE LITTLE PILLOWY DOGGOS pic.twitter.com/sTpQ3jFN0d
— Cute Baby Animals (@CuteBabyAnimals) April 15, 2018
re: #188 mmmirele
One of my practicing lawyer buddies in NYC just posted this to Facebook:
.@documentcloud uploads are going slowly tonight (@knowtheory?). But @MikeScarcella has a link: https://t.co/HB62vEICCQ
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 16, 2018
See also https://t.co/lIsQhPM8vI
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) April 16, 2018
re: #184 freetoken
Well, it’s complicated, but I imagine that was part of it. This state used to routinely vote for Democrats but flipped to the Republicans. (It was interesting that Barack Obama drew an electoral vote here in 2008 though.)
Democratic messaging in a place like this is something like the Wonkette article about Heidi Heitkamp above. The same message that would get Elizabeth Warren elected in Massachusetts would get her pummeled here.
Sen. Heitkamp seems to be far better than any so-called moderate the GOP would put up for election. (Moreover, in North Dakota, her Republican challenger is the current representative for the state. That means the ND-At Large seat is open, and it’s a lot easier to win an open seat.)
LOL … the GOP Chairwoman getting the ratio at Twitter …
Comey has a credibility issue and that’s why we’re setting the record straight at https://t.co/FcoMlJELC4
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) April 15, 2018
NEW: President Trump has asked a federal court in New York to block federal agents from reviewing materials seized in a raid of his private lawyer, Michael Cohen. pic.twitter.com/DgVX8Ls46S
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 16, 2018
for a guy who dismissively directs the press to refer all questions about michael cohen to michael cohen he seems kind of sweaty rn 😹 https://t.co/3xCpJpPY4k
— darth™ (@darth) April 16, 2018
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What a great concert that was for an uninformed 16 year old me.
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹
LOL … the GOP Chairwoman getting the ratio at Twitter …
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I’ll take Comey over the man who insisted he saw American Muslims celebrating 9/11.
Yesterday’s statehouses gun rally turned out to be a giant flop:
Measly Crowds Rally for Gun Rights Across America in Response to March for Our Lives
Hundreds gathered at the statehouses, annoyed by the ability of the Parkland students to draw bigger crowds and worried that the momentum is on the other side.
Awful day at the old bonehouse. I work in a small long term acute care hospital, and everybody is sicker than hell and they’re all there for weeks on end before we get them transferred to a lower level of care. So today one of our patients codes in the CT scanner in our basement. We go running downstairs (ok hobbling and lurching) and leave a skeleton crew to maintain the floor. Early on we’re optimistic because the guy moved his arms and breathed spontaneously while I was doing compressions. (the first couple times he did it we stopped for a pulse check but there was none. After about 15 minutes we got a spontaneous pulse and we all had a cheer, but it only lasted about 15 seconds, and we all kind of knew where this was going. We wanted to keep him going until the family arrived, but after about 35 minutes the doc told us it was time to stop (the pupils had blown). Very disheartening. These people are really sick but we are very optimistic because we generally get them off of their vents, close their wounds, and back to eating or at least ready to go to a rehab or skilled nursing facility, and it is a shock to lose somebody. But it got worse. When we got up the skeleton crew was wrestling with a patient who had dislodged his airway, de-satted (lost much of the oxygen content in his blood, and was hypoxic. His BP was only 42. He was a DNR/DNI, and we called his family to come in. We were ready to give him morphine and remove the airway and keep the morphine going, but he was gone in seconds. It’s inspiring to see how resilient and loving the people I work with are. We still had 28 sick people to take care of.
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹
Yesterday’s statehouses gun rally turned out to be a giant flop:
Measly Crowds Rally for Gun Rights Across America in Response to March for Our Lives
Hundreds gathered at the statehouses, annoyed by the ability of the Parkland students to draw bigger crowds and worried that the momentum is on the other side.
And if Dick’s is physically destroying the guns they have rather than selling them back to the company they came from, then yes, the momentum is on the other side.
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— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) April 15, 2018
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— Peter Baniak (@pbaniak) April 16, 2018
re: #197 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
Been there. Respect.
re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Turns out he’ll be at Mar a Lago almost all week and originally wanted to stay til next sunday. https://t.co/8t44maJbJm
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 16, 2018
is trump taking off tax emancipation day to work on releasing his tax returns
— darth™ (@darth) April 16, 2018
re: #198 Belafon
And if Dick’s is physically destroying the guns they have rather than selling them back to the company they came from, then yes, the momentum is on the other side.
Dick’s will still get something out of the guns by recycling them, though not as much as if they continued to sell them as guns.
When the Yugoslav Civil War was over, Serbia collected weapons ranging from pistols to artillery, and melted down and sold the metal … gun steel is very high quality and that is quite a money maker for them.
As a reminder, the Earth will be destroyed on April 23.
Nibiru: That trick never works.
We all cope in different ways, but I think many of us take it personally when we lose somebody. We all know everybody, because even if they’re not on our assignment we’ve helped out in their rooms all the time. I mean, we were making this guy better, God, get out of the way. This man’s nurse was taking it hard, but I don’t know how to process this: with tears in her eyes, she eyed up the comfort tray we put outside his room (coffee pot, water, a few beverages and snacks that are rarely touched but we do it anyway as some sort of helplessly futile gesture), snuck up to it and snatched a banana.
Slippery James Comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack (he is not smart!), will go down as the WORST FBI Director in history, by far!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2018
Unstable Donald Trump, a man who always ends up lying and out of whack (he is not normal!) will go down as the WORST PRESIDENT in history, by far! https://t.co/3Gi8PdVuku
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) April 15, 2018
Breaking News: James Comey says President Trump is a serial liar, treats women like “meat” and is a “stain” on all who work for him, in an ABC News interviewhttps://t.co/87ass4h1n7
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 16, 2018
re: #207 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
{{{{SteveMcG}}}} It must be really hard on all of you. Kudos on your ability to do a tough but necessary job.
I look upthread and see Tom Nichols was responding in the usual fashion that “NeverTrumpers” do when confronted with the reality that they created the very fertile ground in which that turd-shaped pumpkin took root: “I’M NOT GONNA ANSWER FOR ANY BAD THINGS DONE! IF YOU WANT MY HELP, YOU GOTTA LET ME SLIDE!”
Or what, Tom? You’re gonna vote for Trump again in 2020? You and others like you will stay home? Do you realize just how empty that threat sounds?
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump’s lawyers seem to be arguing in incredibly bad faith, pretending that the material wasn’t seized via a legal search warrant. Their argument about no precedent looks like it’s based on material ordered surrendered via a subpoena duces tecum instead, which isn’t the case here. Basically a higher bar has already been cleared by the FBI, because the seizure and taint team review procedure is a much harder route to get a judge to approve in the first place.
They’re also ignoring the fact that the taint team doesn’t have final say on what is privileged, they simply flag potentially non-privileged material. The defense can object and the Court has final say before the prosecution sees it.
The absolute best outcome they’re going to get is that the Court will appoint a neutral special master to review the material, which will likely dramatically slow down production.
Trump brought this all on himself when he denied all knowledge of the payment.
James Comey is The Witch Hunting Deep State Never Trumper Fake News Supported Clinton Excuser.
It’s clear to see.
Trump erupted when it was announced that France and Germany were each expelling only 4 Russian officials while the U.S. was expelling 60; he was furious that his admin was being portrayed as taking by far the toughest stance on Russia, WaPo reports.https://t.co/DrOCNdE0GF
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 16, 2018
This is a significant WAPO scoop. Must Read. Trump started swearing and yelling at staffers when he saw that the US was being portrayed as being the toughest on Russia with respect to the expulsion of Russian intel officers. https://t.co/GPH9b4p8dV pic.twitter.com/vggRlbKPtr
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 16, 2018
I don’t have a personal anecdotal or story to share about Barbara Bush like a lot of reporters. But I will say she took one of the all time great White House photos with her and her dogs wearing matching tracksuits. pic.twitter.com/MpNWpFJH0c
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 16, 2018
re: #210 The Vicious Babushka
Wow, if there wasn’t thirty years of messages like that from Trump himself the fascist-curious Times could have reported on, instead of
We have a helluva Sunday night in the making. James Comey is about to talk on ABC. Cardi B is about to kill Coachella. And Bartolo Colon, at the age of 44, has a perfect game through six innings against the reigning World Series champions.
— Gary Parrish (@GaryParrishCBS) April 16, 2018
re: #212 Targetpractice
I look upthread and see Tom Nichols was responding in the usual fashion that “NeverTrumpers” do when confronted with the reality that they created the very fertile ground in which that turd-shaped pumpkin took root: “I’M NOT GONNA ANSWER FOR ANY BAD THINGS DONE! IF YOU WANT MY HELP, YOU GOTTA LET ME SLIDE!”
Or what, Tom? You’re gonna vote for Trump again in 2020? You and others like you will stay home? Do you realize just how empty that threat sounds?
Nichols and alot of the Never Trumpers refuse to see how directly or indirectly they’re responsible for why someone like Trump was palatable to GOP voters. And yes that includes Reagan, WFB, both Bushes, Karl Rove, and many more.
re: #206 Anymouse 🌹
As a reminder, the Earth will be destroyed on April 23.
Nibiru: That trick never works.
I guess I won’t have to meet the surgeon on the 26th now. Shame I won’t be able to walk well at the end. 🙄
Transcript of the Comey interview is up: https://t.co/FTeG5J3Nwp
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) April 16, 2018
Thread (eight tweets) … why is it that the media doesn’t seem to get “when a person tells you who they are, believe them the first time?”
Ah yes, such reluctance… pic.twitter.com/LnGl1nzdh9
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 16, 2018
re: #219 HappyWarrior
Nichols and alot of the Never Trumpers refuse to see how directly or indirectly they’re responsible for why someone like Trump was palatable to GOP voters. And yes that includes Reagan, WFB, both Bushes, Karl Rove, and many more.
It’s a variant I’ve heard all my life on the statement “the party left me, I didn’t leave the party.”
Not taking responsibility for your actions is a tenet of conservatism.
re: #224 Anymouse 🌹
It’s a variant I’ve heard all my life on the statement “the party left me, I didn’t leave the party.”
Not taking responsibility for your actions is a tenet of conservatism.
Not taking responsibility while lecturing others about it yep.
Crackpot Nina Turner Compares FBI Raid on Michael Cohen to Treatment of Martin Luther King https://t.co/fFCYAUu4Dl via @thedailybanter
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) April 16, 2018
Comey: “I didn’t need to go into the business about people peeing on each other.” when he went to meet with trump for the first time.
re: #226 The Vicious Babushka
These Purity Ponies need to get a fucking clue….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) April 16, 2018
Sure wish .@SenSanders would get this and apologize for calling Planned Parenthood Identity Politics.
Restricting Abortion Access Is Class Warfare https://t.co/YGMNP1SJ5D via @broadly— Beth🕶🚘𝚏𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 ⓟ𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚒o𝚗 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚟𝕖𝚛 (@bcuriouswithme) April 15, 2018
re: #226 The Vicious Babushka
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Oh brother.
“…you Republicans back in the 80s” has a direct line to what we’re seeing today. The seeds of Trumpism were laid earlier than that with Nixon’s racist “southern strategy.” Trump is a feature of today’s GOP, not a bug.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 15, 2018
No it does NOT. Trump is NOTHING like Reagan. Delusional liberals like you WANT to believe this though cuz you can say: “See? GOP was always this crazy. Dems are and were always the better party. Vote Dems.” https://t.co/ibEU1M6fEG
— Jordan Lebowitz (@Espnjordan) April 16, 2018
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He won’t because he’s clueless. He really thinks having a pro-choice record is that all that matters and it doesn’t matter if he just dismisses the right to choose as a distraction. Easy for him to fucking say.
re: #231 teleskiguy
Oh brother.
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Well because it’s true about Reagan. It’s true that Reagan racebaited like Trump. It’s true that Reagan was often just as uninformed as Trump. And yeah it’s also true that Reagan used his celebrity to get into politics. Sorry Tom and GOP NeverTrumpers, you need to acknowledge that your “Great Communicator” is part of why someone like Trump is so acceptable to Republicans. Reagan may not be a direct parallel of Trump but he has more in common with Trump than he doesn’t IMO.
Comey is functionally identical to a billion other dudes who thought they could have a consequence free recreational fling with a crazy person.
Curious, how ethical was it for you to only reveal the renewed Clinton email investigation (that went nowhere) while keeping secret the ongoing FBI investigation into Trump campaign coordination with Russia?
You made an active political choice to harm Clinton while aiding Trump.— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 16, 2018
re: #231 teleskiguy
My response:
That’s some argument you got there. I’ll be sure to vote for Republicans from now on. Good on you! pic.twitter.com/7bOSb8b9sd
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 16, 2018
You want another hard truth that people like Nichols can’t handle? William F. Buckley was a raging, racist asshole who only is acceptable because white conservatives have decided he was. Viewed through any other lens, W.F. Buckley is rightfully seen as the bigot that defended Apartheid well into the 80’s, made his bones defending McCarthy, and sounded more like George Wallace than he didn’t on Civil Rights. Why? Because Buckley was a bigoted, classist jerk.
I have mixed feelings about Comey, but I have to say, the man really has a high opinion of himself. I believe he thinks he’s not only the smartest person in the room he’s in, but in any room anywhere.
I don’t care anything about Comey anymore
I only want to know what he knows and can substantiate
re: #154 JordanRules
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Agreed. He’s not the hero he thinks he is. He revealed the investigation into Secretary Clinton right before the election while not revealing the investigation into Trump’s campaign.
re: #226 The Vicious Babushka
Wow. She’s getting worse.
re: #184 freetoken
When Bill was elected Governor in 1979 over 85% of Arkansas was white. There have been 46 Governors since 1836 and 35 of them have been Democrats.
There were a lot of petty assholes in this state that hated Hillary because she didn’t conform to their view of what a Governor’s wife should be.
She was a lawyer and she wasn’t about to sit at home and do nothing and on top of that she had the nerve to use her maiden name which sent a lot of the women into a frenzy.
Didn’t help her a bit that the assholes knew she was a whole hell of a lot smarter than they were.