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— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 29, 2018
Joe B will be playing just downstream from us in two weeks at the Loreley open air on May 12th.
I can watch this over and over.
And while we are talking about the #WHCD, here is the BEST PERFORMANCE EVER from 2011. #TheResistance #MichelleWolf #Obama #BirthCertificate https://t.co/HyoD8cc5YT
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 29, 2018
re: #4 The Vicious Babushka
And over, and over, and over, and…
You know, it’s almost like there’s a different standard for the white guy that “speaks his mind,” and for women, who are immediately labeled “vulgar” and “insulting.”
(Trust me, there is.)— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) April 29, 2018
This. https://t.co/gZQ6bBqVii
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2018
Comedians defend WHCD speech: “Fuck the niceties, Michelle Wolf was brilliant.” From @mattwilstein https://t.co/riY62wnDRF
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 29, 2018
Co-sign. https://t.co/kxNtW2krtv
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2018
A) Ok I have some thoughts on @michelleisawolf’s act and the reaction to it from members of the press and other DC insiders. For the record, I was in the room last night. @michelleisawolf’s set was great. She was hilarious and confident.
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) April 29, 2018
This thread… https://t.co/Ss1otgDJGO
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2018
The beltway press out here bitching about Michelle Wolf’s routine because a hit dog hollers. She made it clear how much they profit from Trump & how much they actively enable his shitty, mean spirited Presidency. So OF COURSE they’re defensively calling HER routine mean spirited.
— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 29, 2018
Maybe it’s just me, but didn’t the media follow every single Trump plane landing, sitting on the tarmac, taxiing, batshit speech, then take off during the campaign?
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Damn, you beat me.
I’ll still add Soledad’s endorsement
For those wondering, Kathy got to “S”
A) Ok I have some thoughts on @michelleisawolf’s act and the reaction to it from members of the press and other DC insiders. For the record, I was in the room last night. @michelleisawolf’s set was great. She was hilarious and confident.
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) April 29, 2018
This thread is worth reading: https://t.co/r8hezdogyF
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) April 29, 2018
Well one thing is for damn certain. Michelle Fox had one powerful and clear mirror she held up last night.
And a lot of people in and around DC are all upset because they didn’t like what they saw.
No, really, believe all of the American people that are just plain at wits end trying to figure out when this madness will be righted.
That’s you.
I mean if we’re gonna keep it all the way funky comedians have been doing journalism better than journalists for a while now. There’s more news content in an episode of Last Week Tonight than Wolf Blitzer Reports.
— Yo, just call me Christina now. (@thewayoftheid) April 29, 2018
re: #8 Ace Rothstein
Maybe it’s just me, but didn’t the media follow every single Trump plane landing, sitting on the tarmac, taxiing, batshit speech, then take off during the campaign?
Don’t forget the empty podium.
Apparently, the sapling (from Belleau Wood) is in quarantine now. As is required by US Customs.
Which means, the White House broke federal law for a photo op
Tree that Macron gave to Trump disappears from White House lawn days after they planted it there https://t.co/jgd4xcXnvT pic.twitter.com/ZlJyIbDybD
— The Hill (@thehill) April 29, 2018
re: #4 The Vicious Babushka
I can watch this over and over.
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I miss having a President who knows what the hell he’s doing.
Given Keratingate last week and now SmokeyEyeGate, I think the media is trying to drive up their unfavorables with the left as high as they are with the right. Apparently, they will only be happy if a majority of Democrats as well as Republicans consider them enemies of the nation so they can both sides it comfortably.
re: #15 Weaselone
Given Keratingate last week and now SmokeyEyeGate, I think the media is trying to drive up their unfavorables with the left as high as they are with the right. Apparently, they will only be happy if a majority of Democrats as well as Republicans consider them enemies of the nation so they can both sides it comfortably.
Isn’t this already happening?
re: #13 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
In every minute detail the orange piece of shit is an abject idiot.
TRUMP: Are there any Hispanics in the room?
[crowd boos]
TRUMP: Not so many? That’s okay… and in fairness, Kanye West gets it! pic.twitter.com/CegLcNzDXy— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2018
Donald Trump’s supporters booed at the mere mention of Latinos and he said nothing to stop them, but I’m hearing a comic was the one who was lacking civility last night. https://t.co/AnmC3Cco6k
— Gabe #DreamActNow Ortíz (@TUSK81) April 29, 2018
I am very much enjoying today’s merger of Conservative Bad Faith Argument Twitter with Don’t Understand How Comedy Works Twitter
— Jesse David Fox (@JesseDavidFox) April 29, 2018
Please don’t make fun of the nice people ripping America apart.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 29, 2018
Has anyone considered maybe the reason the press is so angry about Michelle Wolf is bc they know she was dead right about THEM?
“He helped you sell your papers, books and TV. You helped created this monster and now you’re profiting off of him.”
🔥🎯🔥 pic.twitter.com/Ow2s9i7lRU— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) April 29, 2018
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2018
re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg
Isn’t this already happening?
Not according to this Quinnipiac Poll.
Apparently 51% of Republicans compared to 3% of Democrats believe that “enemy of the people” more closely describes the media than “part of democracy”.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
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So right on. My niece is Hispanic. These pendejos booed the sheer mention of her ethnicity. She’s four and sang God Bless America in front of a crowd.
re: #22 Weaselone
Not according to this Quinnipiac Poll.
Apparently 51% of Republicans compared to 3% of Democrats believe that enemy of the people more closely describes the media than part of democracy.
I’m annoyed by the media but they’re not the enemy.
re: #9 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Damn, you beat me.
I’ll still add Soledad’s endorsementFor those wondering, Kathy got to “S”
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and Michael Ian Black deserves a repost:
Michelle Wolf did great. If it had been me, there wouldn’t even have been jokes - just me pointing at each of them and saying, “Go fuck yourself.”
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) April 29, 2018
re: #19 Charles Johnson
You know, there’s a larger picture here in which conservative “humor” hinges on saying ugly, “rude” things about targeted people and believing them to be entirely true.
Dishing but not being able to take it defines these people.
re: #26 The Ghost of a Flea
You know, there’s a larger picture here in which conservative “humor” hinges on saying ugly, “rude” things about targeted people and believing them to be entirely true.
Dishing but not being able to take it defines these people.
It defines every bully I’ve known. And that includes Trump.
Michelle Wolf should hire a press secretary to defend her WHCD jokes.
“The joke speaks for itself.”
“The American people knew they were getting a fighter.”
“That joke was certainly something that Ms. Wolf believes.”
“She fights fire with fire.”https://t.co/XgbLRxv6uc— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) April 29, 2018
Great meeting up with @zionkelly18 again in DC working the #WHCD got 6 congressman to sign the @noNRAmoney pledge today. Change is coming pic.twitter.com/JBNxfg575l
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) April 29, 2018
So it turns out #WHCD is good for something … https://t.co/VGTK1ryecZ
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) April 29, 2018
re: #24 HappyWarrior
I believe that as well, but their current alliance with Republicans in gaslighting Michelle Wolf’s performance last night as an unfair attack on Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ appearance because she called them out for being hacks make it harder to hold onto that conviction.
Andrea Mitchell getting seriously ratio’ed for this one. Deservedly. @michelleisawolf should apologize? Is this another joke?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2018
Oops, forgot the screenshot.
Andrea Mitchell getting seriously ratio’ed for this one. Deservedly. @michelleisawolf should apologize? Is this another joke? pic.twitter.com/OzQlmvYvTD
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2018
Soledad, do you know why it raises so little money? They have to keep the cost of admission below the dollar cap under the government’s gift rules. This suggests that the event is primarily about getting access to government officials and only secondarily about charity. pic.twitter.com/SQ9rFOE5xC
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 29, 2018
where was this sisterhood of the traveling journalistic outrage during the 2016 campaign
— shauna (@goldengateblond) April 29, 2018
Now people are talking about discontinuing the dinner. Congratulations, @michelleisawolf - you might have killed the #WHCD with the awesome power of a joke about eye makeup.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2018
Michelle Wolf destroys Sarah Huckabee Sanders at #WHCD pic.twitter.com/pKGSSOCu8d
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 29, 2018
Boy, am I glad I spent the evening with my kids and friends. This #WHCD “comedian” is a complete disgrace. The Left’s intolerance and mean-spiritedness knows no bounds. https://t.co/fKSpDMGULT
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 29, 2018
Yeah, it was pretty distasteful when she made fun of a high school shooting survivor. Oh wait, that was you. https://t.co/0TQTA4Jo7N
— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) April 29, 2018
The KKK just took out a full page ad on the front page a Virginia newspaper, but sure, let’s keep talking about Michelle Wolf & the #WHCD. https://t.co/GspKFGQM5v
— Millennial Politics (@MillenPolitics) April 29, 2018
Where are the attack helicopters??? Where is the Army holding this horde back??
Central Americans in a “caravan” of asylum-seekers have gathered along a fence that divides the U.S. and Mexico: https://t.co/CpZcSfdyj5 pic.twitter.com/NzyU0HzReb
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 29, 2018
re: #38 DodgerFan1988
The KKK just took out a full page ad on the front page a Virginia newspaper…
I know that is getting passed around a lot on twitter, but as phrased that sentence is misleading, is it not?
I thought the real story is such: a local KKK circulated a flier in a town. Then, a newspaper not far away decided to run a (not positive) story on it, and reproduced the flier in the article. Then, readers started to point out that by reproducing said flier that said newspaper was in essence running an advert for the KKK. Which brought about a mea culpa from the newspaper.
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
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You literally likened liberals to herpes at CPAC. Fuck off already. You can dish it out but you can’t take it. Typical conservative twit.
re: #39 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
sure isn’t too difficult to climb that wall when there is a chain link fence accessible for footholds via the thoughtfully provided gaps in the steel panels.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson ✔
@Green_Footballs
Now people are talking about discontinuing the dinner. Congratulations, @michelleisawolf - you might have killed the #WHCD with the awesome power of a joke about eye makeup.3:24 PM - Apr 29, 2018
I think I mentioned that possibility last night.
Ouch…she is killing everyone.
She may put an end to these events. At least as far as inviting any comedians.
You know why they’re pissed? Its not because she mocked SHS. It’s because she called them out for not doing their job on the administration.
re: #26 The Ghost of a Flea
You know, there’s a larger picture here in which conservative “humor” hinges on saying ugly, “rude” things about targeted people and believing them to be entirely true.
Dishing but not being able to take it defines these people.
Conservative humor tends to boil down to ‘punching down, because the folks you’re punching deserve it for being inferior, and that’s funny’
WATCH: During an event with Team USA Olympians and Paralympians at the White House, President Trump said, “What happened with the Paralympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me. And I watched — it’s a little tough to watch too much, but I watched as much as I could.” pic.twitter.com/geYUUu9vmg
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) April 27, 2018
It’s not “tough to watch” incredible @Paralympics athletes compete and showcase their talents, it’s inspiring. These brave athletes overcome a lot to get to the finish line RT: https://t.co/ffHHYQjpmR
— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) April 29, 2018
re: #46 Citizen K
Conservative humor tends to boil down to ‘punching down, because the folks you’re punching deserve it for being inferior, and that’s funny’
See, Trump making fun of the disabled reporter.
re: #47 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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I imagine the Paralympians find it tough to watch him run his mouth.
I need booze to cope with things like him shitting on the Paralympics. NO ONE shits on the Paralympics. JFC
re: #39 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
For those who don’t know, the US ran the fence out into the water, and the US side is a “park”, in which the Department of Homeland Security vans can park and pick up people:
This is less of an “invasion” then the monarch butterflies who cross the border every year, whose only American impediments are bats in Texas.
That park, btw, is one of the great euphemisms of our nation: “International Friendship Park”.
Trump mentions the word Hispanics and the crowd boos. Pretty much silence from the media on this today. Michelle mocks the Press Secretary. OUTRAGE!
re: #44 ObserverArt
I think I mentioned that possibility last night.
The most read story at WaPo right now is Michelle Wolf’s caustic comedy routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner, annotated. It’s a full transcript with links to the stories that Michelle was riffing on.
Hugh Hewitt’s WaPo response is titled Michelle Wolf’s performance at the White House correspondents’ dinner: What a fail. I wish I could get to the comments without clicking on the link to his self-righteous tripe.
re: #50 plansbandc
I need booze to cope with things like him shitting on the Special Olympics. NO ONE shits on the Special Olympics. JFC
minor nitpick, the paralympics and special olympics are different things.
re: #54 stpaulbear
The most read story at WaPo right now is Michelle Wolf’s caustic comedy routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner, annotated. It’s a full transcript with links to the stories that Michelle was riffing on.
Hugh Hewitt’s WaPo response is titled Michelle Wolf’s performance at the White House correspondents’ dinner: What a fail. I wish I could get to the comments without clicking on the link to his self-righteous tripe.
Hugh Hewitt is a walking example of a fail.
re: #55 danarchy
Oh crap. I meant Paralympics. Yeah, I know they’re different things.
What a horrid human being Michelle Wolf is. I’m going to read up on her over the next couple of days and I will have a few brutally mean jokes about her by Wednesday.
— Dennis Miller (@DennisDMZ) April 29, 2018
That sound you hear is every professional and amateur comedian on the planet jotting down their best jokes at Dennis “Didn’t you used to be Dennis Miller?” Miller’s expense, just so they’ll be ready to unload them on Wednesday. https://t.co/0wNJfd0c93
— Zachariah Von Fang (@MistahScooter) April 29, 2018
re: #58 scottslemmons
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I’m sure she’ll be happy to battle wits with a has-been whose whole schtick is I went right wing because of 9/11 and just became a right wing arrogant douche rather than a left wing one.
Remember when Donald Trump boasted about the size of his dick during a presidential debate? But yeah, Michelle Wolf was terribly vulgar and indecorous.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2018
re: #60 Charles Johnson
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Remember when Donald Trump accused the father of one of his rivals of murdering President Kennedy. I don’t like Ted Cruz’s father at all but that was fucking disgusting even for Trump.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
I was thinking about that. Maybe, unless there’s an actual president to confront, comedians shouldn’t accept showing up because the media makes it about themselves, and in our current case, uses it as an excuse not to pay attention to the president.
re: #51 freetoken
For those who don’t know, the US ran the fence out into the water, and the US side is a “park”, in which the Department of Homeland Security vans can park and pick up people:
This is less of an “invasion” then the monarch butterflies who cross the border every year, whose only American impediments are bats in Texas.
The image makes people think that swarms of these caravan hordes are crawling over the border fence like zombies
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People trying to come in, who have not been clued in, try to come in via the beach route.
But it’s the easiest way for them to be picked up by DHS, because there’s nowhere to go or hide (what you going to do, try to swim up Long Beach?)
Discussing the caravan that arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border today, @mschlapp pointed out that migrant border crossings occur on a daily basis. https://t.co/eUhQ8gynza pic.twitter.com/njMEZ0trli
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 29, 2018
Yesterday Donald Trump spoke at a town near the border & claimed that the Senator from that state is in favor of obliterating international borders. #TheResistance #TrumpSnowflake https://t.co/8h9uHEifB6
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 29, 2018
Mocking a liar for telling lies is the 2nd most vile thing a human being can do. The first most vile thing, it would seem to the Washington press corp, is for a reporter to admit they are being lied to be Sarah Sanders.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 29, 2018
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
Michael is correct. Michelle was very reserved in her jokes. Can you imagine a George Carlin tearing the media and Republican operatives to pieces? Michelle should have been so rough that they got up and walked out in disgust like the weak kneed snowflakes they are.
I’m sorry, did Wolf lie & say Sarah’s face was bleeding like Trump did to Mika? Or that she had “blood coming out of her wherever” like he did to Megyn? Or call her a fat pig like like he did to Rosie? Or threaten her spouse & say that her Dad killed JFK like he did to Ted?
FOH!— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 29, 2018
re: #70 goddamnedfrank
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Did she mention her ethnicity knowing it would get boos from the audience? SEriously this shit is pathetic. Trump literally got his audience to boo the ethnicity of 18% of the American people but let’s whine about a comedian poking fun at a press secretary at a orast because that’s the real outrage!
I’m just imagining the reaction if Obama said white people to a throng of boos. Yeah.
I saw Avengers movie. Enjoyed. But I have a serious question: Why do people still get up from Marvel movies before the credits are finished? There’s only one in this movie, but you have to see it.
re: #70 goddamnedfrank
Don’t forget when Trump insulted not only the physical appearance but also the mental stability of Mrs. Cruz. When is the media going to demand that Trump apologize for calling Rep Waters “low I.Q.”? Or for claiming that Mika had bad plastic surgery?
Andrea Mitchell can go take several seats with her sanctimonious self. Please!
Here, have a media personality taking sense about the WHCD for a change:
I have comedian friends who’ve done #WHCD. Many writer friends who’ve written WHCD jokes. I always advised them precisely on the line they shouldn’t cross. I respected the line. They did too but still they made mistakes.
Then Trump destroyed the line.
THERE IS NO LINE.— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) April 29, 2018
As a member of the news media, I am embarrassed about Michelle Wolf.
Because I haven’t followed @michelleisawolf on twitter until right now.
(btw following comedians is THE reason to be on twitter)— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) April 29, 2018
re: #73 Belafon
I’m about to see it now. It apparently has already broken international box office records.
re: #76 Patricia Kayden
I’m about to see it now. It apparently has already broken international box office records.
Two words: Be prepared.
re: #76 Patricia Kayden
I’m about to see it now. It apparently has already broken international box office records.
Just looked, and they’re saying it will make $630M worldwide for opening weekend.
re: #78 Belafon
Just looked, and they’re saying it will make $630M worldwide for opening weekend.
JFC…
It’s great white shark season in SoCal; here’s what you need to know: https://t.co/TMPTOZfYLO pic.twitter.com/d6SyFCb5gQ
— Surfline (@surfline) April 28, 2018
Trump Repellent
re: #75 Interesting Times
Thank you, Laurence!!! Exactly. Trump lacks the decorum of a pig wallowing in mud. I can’t believe how the MSM (which Trump and his sycophants despise) is all hot and bothered about a comedian’s jokes.
Ms. Wolff is not President nor does she hold any position of power. The same can’t be said of the Bigot in the White Hoise.
re: #77 Belafon
Two words: Be prepared.
Well, that sounds quite ominous!! As long as Trump doesn’t make a cameo appearance, it’s all good.
Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y’know the thing about a shark, he’s got… lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’… until he bites ya.
While the pearl-clutching over SHS makeup reference continues…
The Justice Department quietly removed the section headed “need for a free press” from its guidelines https://t.co/UPX0mvyfdH
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) April 29, 2018
re: #83 Belafon
Yep, and it hasn’t opened in Russia or China yet.
To think, it all started with a roll of the dice by Marvel Studios and Paramount on Robert Downey Jr. and Iron Man just ten years ago to kickstart the MCU.
IMO, if someone else like Tom Cruise or another action-oriented actor had played Stark/IM in that first movie, I don’t think the MCU (and, by extension, Marvel Studios and Disney) would have been anywhere near as successful; Downey is Stark.
Anyone else follow @irisrimon (aka BWD) on Twitter? Looks like her account’s been suspended! I was reading her timeline last night, but still have no idea what tweet did it…? I’m assuming she’s been the target of a coordinated right-wing/bot attack.
How much you want to bet the same people clutching their pearls about Michelle Wolf are the same people crying about Colbert 12 years ago?
BTW, there’s been a Carpenter Bee the size of a planet hitting the lavender outside my window this afternoon, and it just bounced off said window with a serious *thunk*. She’s so big, when she lands on one of the flowers, it be-e-ends way over.
I told The Older Boy how big she is, and he said, “Don’t fat-shame the Carpenter Bee!”
re: #90 Blind Frog Belly White
BTW, there’s been a Carpenter Bee the size of a planet hitting the lavender outside my window this afternoon, and it just bounced off said window with a serious *thunk*. She’s so big, when she lands on one of the flowers, it be-e-ends way over.
I told The Older Boy how big she is, and he said, “Don’t fat-shame the Carpenter Bee!”
To quote Cartman, “I’m not fat, I’m big-boned!”
I guess we will have to set up safe rooms for the snowflake Republicans who are having the vapors over Michelle Wolf’s monologue. Fortunately, the GOPers themselves have supplied plenty of instructions for this: Cookies, playdough, live puppies, etc.
Oh, wait. Maybe it’s not such a good idea to have puppies if the Huckabees will be around.
For a complete change of pace for your Sunday afternoon enjoyment…
Klys talking about her sister’s Sweet Adeline competition got me to remembering the best barbershop quartet I ever heard (out of so many I couldn’t count) who performed at one of the Tidelander’s shows. These guys were astonishingly talented and funny as hell. Their coolest gimmick, for lack of a better word, was putting words to classical symphonic pieces and singing them, as follows…
And at the next outrageous thing @realDonaldTrump says, what will @NBCNews & @mitchellreports do - give him and the @PressSec another tongue bath? Edward R. Murrow is spinning like a turbine in his grave right now…
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) April 29, 2018
re: #19 Charles Johnson
My mom died from toxic smokey eye shade makeup poisoning (SESMP) and I am deeply offended by Michele Wolf’s insensitive joke. Smokey eye shade is not a joking subject matter.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) April 29, 2018
My mom didn’t die from eye shade poisoning. It’s a joke, lighten up. She died of cancer
re: #96 gocart mozart
It’s toxic if it’s made from facts.
re: #92 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I guess we will have to set up safe rooms for the snowflake Republicans who are having the vapors over Michelle Wolf’s monologue. Fortunately, the GOPers themselves have supplied plenty of instructions for this: Cookies, playdough, live puppies, etc.
Oh, wait. Maybe it’s not such a good idea to have puppies if Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be around.
As long as Sarah doesn’t let her K9 serial murderer brother dog sit, they should be okay.
I criticized an obvious conservative on a FB group for posting a graphic that said you should buy an electric vehicle to help defeat terrorism. Could have gone with any other positive message, but this guy went with “Booga booga booga, buy an EV or the terrorists under your bed will murder you.”
His response: liberals are so full of hate.
I just laughed and told him that conservatives are so fragile, mild criticism is hate speech. These people are un-fucking-real.
re: #85 jaunte
And this draws no outcry from the MSM because….
At a rally in Michigan, President Trump’s supporters chanted “Lock her up” at the mention of Hillary Clinton, booed every reference to a Democrat, and chanted “Nobel” when the president brought up North Korea https://t.co/DdLa4aCvJb
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 29, 2018
Lucian Wintrich has officially lost it:
After a few martinis, that Michelle Wolf is totally bangable pic.twitter.com/pTGXTFgRb1
— Lucian B. Wintrich (@lucianwintrich) April 29, 2018
I’m catching up on all the whining from the press and it seems I was right last night, they seem to truly believe that Huckaboo did them a favor by appearing last night and Michelle somehow broke an unspoken agreement by ridiculing her. If you want to define “lapdog press,” just show the tweets and video clips of journalists “outraged” by jokes made about this administration and their demands for apologies on Huckaboo’s behalf.
.@realDonaldTrump repeatedly called @chucktodd “sleepy eyed” which is an established antisemitic slur & the beltway press said nothing. @michelleisawolf joked about @PressSec’s using ashes of burnt facts to create “smokey eye” which is a makeup style & they all shit themselves.
— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 29, 2018
re: #104 The Major
Lucian Wintrich has officially lost it:
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That’s probably not even her….
Carrot Top.
re: #94 allegro
For a complete change of pace for your Sunday afternoon enjoyment…
Klys talking about her sister’s Sweet Adeline competition got me to remembering the best barbershop quartet I ever heard (out of so many I couldn’t count) who performed at one of the Tidelander’s shows. These guys were astonishingly talented and funny as hell. Their coolest gimmick, for lack of a better word, was putting words to classical symphonic pieces and singing them, as follows…
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Some friends of my father had a quartet, and the piece I always enjoyed most was singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame, getting the words off by one syllable from the music. They kept singing and looking at each other and trying to figure out what was wrong, ending one syllable before the music ended. I used to be able to do it, but it takes practice, and I can’t do it anymore!
re: #86 TedStriker
To think, it all started with a roll of the dice by Marvel Studios and Paramount on Robert Downey Jr. and Iron Man just ten years ago to kickstart the MCU.
IMO, if someone else like Tom Cruise or another action-oriented actor had played Stark/IM in that first movie, I don’t think the MCU (and, by extension, Marvel Studios and Disney) would have been anywhere near as successful; Downey is Stark.
To see where I’m coming from (and for a really fun review), please listen to the Late Seating (with Jason Harding and Steve Shives) review of Iron Man they just did a few days ago to coincide with the release of Avengers: Infinity War (and because IM is now 10 years old, one of their review criteria); I can’t link it here, because my work filters won’t let me go there from here, but it’s funny.
If you like comedy with your movie reviews, Late Seating is really good.
re: #105 Targetpractice
Well the WaPo has this on their front page right now. There are some MSM people sticking up for Michelle.
re: #104 The Major
Lucian Wintrich has officially lost it:
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That’s probably not even her….
I guess that’s who Lucian wants to get down with when he plays Mystery Date.
If you studied actual history you would learn how the GOP adopted the “Southern Strategy” which was cater to White people & ignore the needs of Black people. Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act which GOP wants to overthrow.
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 29, 2018
The snowflakes seem to think that ridiculing SHS’s appearance is much worse than calling her a liar.
Meanwhile this is the top polling RepubliKKKlan running against Dianne Feinstein…
The man in question is Patrick Little, an extremist with hardline anti-Semitic views who is backed by David Duke and other far-right extremists. Little will be squaring off in a top-two primary with 10 other Republicans as well as Democrats and independents on June 5 for the chance to oppose veteran Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein. According to a recent poll, released last week, he very much has a chance of winning the right to face off with the incumbent.
A poll conducted by local ABC News affiliates along with the polling company Survey USA, suggested that Little is polling at 18 percent of the vote on the Republican ticket, a full 10 points ahead of his next strongest opponent. The 84-year-old Feinstein, who first entered office way back in 1992, at the start of Bill Clinton’s first term, remains a solid favorite to win the state—polling at 39 percent.
The US-led coalition bombed the Syrian government and Iranian-backed militias today. This is a big deal.
I spoke to several sources today who were there or connected to people there. Here is what happened:— Shane Bauer (@shane_bauer) April 29, 2018
The complete lack of American media attention on today’s clash between the US and Assad’s forces is yet another example of how thoroughly Trump sets the media agenda in America. Trump hasn’t said anything about this bombing, so it isn’t news.
— Shane Bauer (@shane_bauer) April 29, 2018
For the record, here’s the problem w the “smoky eye” comment. It emphasizes the notion that GOP women are all about appearance not substance
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) April 29, 2018
For the record, this is total b.s.
The joke emphasized the fact that Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies all the time,
by joking that she makes her eye makeup out of burned lies.
“Like, maybe she’s born with it; maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.” https://t.co/EkaaAnxmId— Mark A.R. Kleiman (@MarkARKleiman) April 29, 2018
re: #110 TedStriker
To see where I’m coming from (and for a really fun review), please listen to the Late Seating (with Jason Harding and Steve Shives) review of Iron Man they just did a few days ago to coincide with Avengers: Infinity War; I can’t link it here, because my work filters won’t let me go there from here, but it’s funny.
It really was a big gamble on Marvel’s part. RDJ was still viewed as “damaged goods” in Hollywood, Iron Man wasn’t as big a Marvel property as the X-Men (sold to Fox) or Spiderman (sold to Sony), Jon Favreau was still relatively new to Hollywood, and comic book movies had taken a seriously dive after the late-90s/early-00s period of exchanging “wild and wacky” for “dark and angsty.”
Marvel was prepared to accept just breaking even, possibly even making enough to fund a sequel. Despite what it seems like now, there was no plan in place when they filmed that Nick Fury post-credits scene.
re: #117 jaunte
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That tweet from Liz Mair doesn’t age well when played alongside Wintrich’s late-afternoon derpage, which is a pure attack on Wolf’s appearance. But IOKIYAR, of course.
Has anyone considered maybe the reason the press is so angry about Michelle Wolf is bc they know she was dead right about THEM?
“He helped you sell your papers, books and TV. You helped created this monster and now you’re profiting off of him.”
🔥🎯🔥 pic.twitter.com/Ow2s9i7lRU— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) April 29, 2018
re: #119 ipsos
Attacking appearance is supposed to be a conservatives-only weapon.
We’ve heard quite enough about eye makeup today, so here’s an unfriendly reminder: Sarah Huckabee Sanders routinely lies to the American people, attacking our shared foundation of truth, and therefore undermining democracy. Write that on your mirror in fucking mascara, fascists.
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) April 29, 2018
Limbaugh makes disgusting remarks about a female Democrat and the press (if they cover it) defend him by saying “he’s an entertainer” and thus it’s his job to say shocking and outrageous things.
Wolf says something about Huckaboo’s eye makeup and the fainting couches of America are immediately occupied by journalists demanding apologies and wailing over a conservative woman having her appearance criticized.
TONIGHT: The Battle of Gettysburg on ‘Legends & Lies: The Civil War’ hosted by Brian @kilmeade - Tune in at 8p ET on Fox News Channel! https://t.co/e0cP2Odxfa pic.twitter.com/2BDn5Uo66c
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 29, 2018
Dear Fox News viewers: this is not actual Civil War battle footage. https://t.co/NhBMYi4gog
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 29, 2018
re: #113 The Vicious Babushka
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I suppose it can be considered progress that they’re lying about lack of education instead of just going with the standard “They vote Dem to get handouts!” talking point.
re: #124 The Vicious Babushka
Does the South win in the Fox version?
re: #126 First Epistle of Paul to the Bagmen
It ends up as a tie./
re: #104 The Major
Lucian Wintrich has officially lost it:
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That’s probably not even her….
That’s Carrot Top… I think he was trying to be funny
re: #118 Targetpractice
It really was a big gamble on Marvel’s part. RDJ was still viewed as “damaged goods” in Hollywood, Iron Man wasn’t as big a Marvel property as the X-Men (sold to Fox) or Spiderman (sold to Sony), Jon Favreau was still relatively new to Hollywood, and comic book movies had taken a seriously dive after the late-90s/early-00s period of exchanging “wild and wacky” for “dark and angsty.”
Marvel was prepared to accept just breaking even, possibly even making enough to fund a sequel. Despite what it seems like now, there was no plan in place when they filmed that Nick Fury post-credits scene.
Sort of, but not quite, because Marvel/Universal already had The Incredible Hulk in the can when Iron Man released to theaters (IM released in May 2008, TIH released a month later) and they had quite a few references to IM and the nascent MCU already in that movie, including the appearance of Downey-as-Tony Stark about the Avenger Initiative, much as Sam Jackson did in Iron Man, and StarkTech references throughout.
However, it was indeed a huge gamble to create a massive cinematic universe from whole cloth.
re: #123 Targetpractice
Limbaugh makes disgusting remarks about a female Democrat and the press (if they cover it) defend him by saying “he’s an entertainer” and thus it’s his job to say shocking and outrageous things.
Wolf says something about Huckaboo’s eye makeup and the fainting couches of America are immediately occupied by journalists demanding apologies and wailing over a conservative woman having her appearance criticized.
And Chuck Todd just now on the late afternoon MTP repeat is playing Trump calling Comey “leaking, lyin’ Comey” without comment.
Dear “the media” - @michelleisawolf was FUNNY. Hire a juggler next year.
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 29, 2018
re: #120 gocart mozart
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That’s exactly it.
Like I said last night - she took that idealized version of The Rules of Trump World (that anyone can say anything with no consequences) and threw it right back at them.
‘You guys love being politically incorrect, right? Okay, let’s do that.’
‘First off - fuck your feelings, let’s get real.’
Wolf got way too real for the press corps. She told them what they really are, and they hated that brief unvarnished look they had at themselves.
They’ll happily side with a woman who considers them enemies of the state rather than look honestly at how they are failing at their jobs.
For that epic takedown, @michelleisawolf gets my follow. Friends, show your support.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) April 29, 2018
re: #132 William Lewis
Well sure, an asshat playing an asshat is a sure thing //////
I know you’re sarc’ing there, but it really is why Downey’s Stark is so believable and real, because his own well-known character flaws make his performances as Stark so spot-on.
I can’t imagine another actor playing Stark nearly as well.
re: #136 TedStriker
I know you’re sarc’ing there, but it really is why Downey’s Stark is so believable and real, because his own well-known character flaws make his performances as Stark so spot-on.
I can’t imagine another actor playing Stark nearly as well.
It’s also the reason why he was so good as Sherlock Holmes in the Guy Richie films, because he played well the more “true-to-the-books” image of Holmes as a eccentric, erratic character rather than tight-laced, upper-crust gentleman that later depictions have gone for.
re: #126 First Epistle of Paul to the Bagmen
Does the South win in the Fox version?
The favorite subject of alternate history writers. Winston Churchill himself wrote one.
Harry Turtledove’s Southern Victory is an epic 11 volume series in the genre. Without giving away too much, only the prologue is about the Civil War itself, explaining the “hinge point” where his history diverges from the real one. The rest is a remarkably elaborate history of the alternate world that results, right up to the middle of the twentieth century.
The Southern Victory series or Timeline-191 are fan names given to a series of eleven alternate history novels by author Harry Turtledove, beginning with How Few Remain (1997) and published over a decade.
This alternate world is pointedly much worse than the real one where the south lost, and not just for the United States.
Here’s your wingnut talking point for the week:
Watch Republican @LizMair melt down claiming that Michelle Wolf used coded language to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders a “fat lesbian.”https://t.co/edbzIOMmFA
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 29, 2018
I see there are some Twitter accounts dedicated to digging up (or making up?) old shit about liberal celebrities, like Joy Reid. Now Jimmy Kimmel is their target:
Reminder that this guy @jimmykimmel is a leader of #TheResistance. But different standards apply to those on the left. pic.twitter.com/sziuZLuzjs
— Jim Thomas (@Jt856) April 29, 2018
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Meanwhile this is the top polling RepubliKKKlan running against Dianne Feinstein…
The man in question is Patrick Little, an extremist with hardline anti-Semitic views who is backed by David Duke and other far-right extremists. Little will be squaring off in a top-two primary with 10 other Republicans as well as Democrats and independents on June 5 for the chance to oppose veteran Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein. According to a recent poll, released last week, he very much has a chance of winning the right to face off with the incumbent.
A poll conducted by local ABC News affiliates along with the polling company Survey USA, suggested that Little is polling at 18 percent of the vote on the Republican ticket, a full 10 points ahead of his next strongest opponent. The 84-year-old Feinstein, who first entered office way back in 1992, at the start of Bill Clinton’s first term, remains a solid favorite to win the state—polling at 39 percent.
Wait a sec: doesn’t California have a “jungle primary” for Senate seats: the top two (regardless of party) go on the final ballot?
IIRC, Kamala Harris won her Senate seat in 2016 running against another Democrat. I also recall a Democratic officeholder (Kevin DeLeon??) in the race: who may be polling better than Mr. Little (?)
When Trump was a candidate for POTUS- he took a moment in the first debate to insult @Rosie … The audience applauded and laughed. WHERE WAS THE MEDIA DEMANDING HIS APOLOGY?!? Why does he get a pass but @michelleisawolf should apologize for being a comedian hired to roast?
— David Cross #Resist (@Cross1007) April 29, 2018
exactly https://t.co/yEVqq6ExhA
— ROSIE (@Rosie) April 29, 2018
re: #142 Jay C
Wait a sec: doesn’t California have a “jungle primary” for Senate seats: the top two (regardless of party) go on the final ballot?
IIRC, Kamala Harris won her Senate seat in 2016 running against another Democrat. I also recall a Democratic officeholder (Kevin DeLeon??) in the race: who may be polling better than Mr. Little (?)
And now “Jungle Boogie” is stuck in my head.
re: #139 Targetpractice
Pretending the significance of the Aunt Lydia character is that she’s a lesbian is idiotic.
White House physician Ronny Jackson will not return to his role as the president’s personal physician, according to two senior administration officials, after a string of allegations caused the Navy rear admiral to withdraw his nomination last week to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Sean Conley, a Navy officer who took over Jackson’s role as the president’s personal doctor last month, will continue in the role, the officials said.
re: #145 jaunte
Pretending the significance of the Aunt Lydia character is that she’s a lesbian is idiotic.
And as Wolf herself tweeted earlier, the fact that these people are bringing up Sanders’ looks says an awful lot about what they think of her looks.
re: #137 Targetpractice
It’s also the reason why he was so good as Sherlock Holmes in the Guy Richie films, because he played well the more “true-to-the-books” image of Holmes as a eccentric, erratic character rather than tight-laced, upper-crust gentleman that later depictions have gone for.
If we could get the best of Jeremy Brett & Downey in one person, that would be a perfect Holmes.
re: #137 Targetpractice
It’s also the reason why he was so good as Sherlock Holmes in the Guy Richie films, because he played well the more “true-to-the-books” image of Holmes as a eccentric, erratic character rather than tight-laced, upper-crust gentleman that later depictions have gone for.
Downey was fantastic as Holmes.
— Mac McKinsey (@MacMcKinseyIV) April 29, 2018
re: #146 Belafon
If Jackson has any sense, he’d be quietly putting in for retirement right now and hope that the IG and JAGs don’t end up stripping his rank and pension and putting him in prison.
Dude is fucked…
re: #139 Targetpractice
Here’s your wingnut talking point for the week:
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re: #141 The Vicious Babushka
I see there are some Twitter accounts dedicated to digging up (or making up?) old shit about liberal celebrities, like Joy Reid. Now Jimmy Kimmel is their target:
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FFS. I remember that bit. It definitely was in bad taste but it’s got shit nothing to do with Kimmel now. Meanwhile these people could care less that the mere mention of Hispanics gets a boo from a Trump crowd.
Toompa Loompa is butthurt that Michelle Wolf never even mentioned her.
These women are the epitome of class, elegance & intelligence. It’s sad the unloving & intolerant Left can’t recognize it. Kellyanne & Sarah, thanks for being true beacons of female empowerment. If you were Democrats they’d be be falling all over themselves singing your praises! pic.twitter.com/b1EFdlk00P
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) April 29, 2018
Aunt Lydia is the enabler of a dystopian society. Her role is to use propaganda and brainwashing to indoctrinate the Handmaids to accept that dystopian society. I would say @michelleisawolf hit the nail squarely on the head at the #WHCD last night. pic.twitter.com/Mgxa6IH8Z7
— Cornelia (@PaladinCornelia) April 29, 2018
re: #155 jaunte
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Yep I don’t even watch the show but it’s obvious that’s what the comment was about.
Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” https://t.co/qZJYE8MQul pic.twitter.com/br5hYirtDR
— Open Culture (@openculture) April 29, 2018
“…In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true… The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
re: #154 The Vicious Babushka
Toompa Loompa is butthurt that Michelle Wolf never even mentioned her.
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Millennial Coulter says what. Seriously Tomi, you’re typical. You dish it out about liberals all the time and the second a liberal actually mocks your side, you cry about ohw mean and intolerant we are. Maybe if you left your safe space at Fox News, you’d realize that but nah you’re just a stupid hack who gets paid to look pretty and sound like Limbaugh so the old bastards who watch FNC can get boners over a woman old enough to be their granddaughters sound like Rush.
re: #154 The Vicious Babushka
Toompa Loompa is butthurt that Michelle Wolf never even mentioned her.
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That White Power Barbie can say that shit with a straight face after all the insults hurled at Hillary Clinton since she first entered the national scene shows just how much of a joke all this “outrage” over Wolf’s digs is.
re: #160 Targetpractice
That White Power Barbie can say that shit with a straight face after all the insults hurled at Hillary Clinton since she first entered the national scene shows just how much of a joke all this “outrage” over Wolf’s digs is.
Laura Ingraham with a straight face complained about it too. Someone reminded her that it wasn’t Michelle that belittled a gun shooting survivor. Too bad joseph Welch who famously told off McCarthy can’t come back and tell these people off. They have no shame at all.
“…Why the constant, often blatant lying? For one thing, it functioned as a means of fully dominating subordinates, who would have to cast aside all their integrity to repeat outrageous falsehoods and would then be bound to the leader by shame and complicity. “The great analysts of truth and language in politics”—-writes McGill University political philosophy professor Jacob T. Levy—-including “George Orwell, Hannah Arendt, Vaclav Havel—can help us recognize this kind of lie for what it is…. Saying something obviously untrue, and making your subordinates repeat it with a straight face in their own voice, is a particularly startling display of power over them. It’s something that was endemic to totalitarianism.”
I’ve never seen a melting marshmallow go down a slide. pic.twitter.com/adfxCDhwIL
— Clint Falin (@ClintFalin) April 28, 2018
What a horrid human being Michelle Wolf is. I’m going to read up on her over the next couple of days and I will have a few brutally mean jokes about her by Wednesday.
— Dennis Miller (@DennisDMZ) April 29, 2018
I don’t have high hopes for these “brutally mean jokes” you’re working on. You haven’t been funny for 20 years. https://t.co/vs2SAcUwu1
— Mike Birbiglia (@birbigs) April 29, 2018
You know what the truth is? It’s that conservatives are a bunch of cowards who have made an even bigger coward, Trump their standard bearer. History will judge the right harshly for embracing the likes of Trump at a critical moment in our nation’s history.
Ha:
Michelle Wolf totally BOMBED at the White House Correspondence Dinner. Maybe I SHOULD go next year. I’ve got lots of great jokes about fat women, yucky period blood, face lifts and boob jobs. I’m fucking hilarious. #WHCD #SundayMorning
— Donald J. Drumpf (@RealDonalDrumpf) April 29, 2018
first rule of comedy: NEVER target someone more famous than U who is in the audience. U will lose the entire crowd.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) April 29, 2018
Second rule: Promote birtherism and falsely accuse Democrats of running a child molestation ring in the basement of a pizza store which inspires a man with a gun to go there and try to kill innocent people https://t.co/FJCXHxbC2u
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) April 29, 2018
re: #164 teleskiguy
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I honestly don’t think he was ever that funny. He’s always been an obnoxious jackass. If he had stayed left wing, he’d be just another Bill Maher type that laughs at his own shit and smugly reminds you how smart and better he is than anyone else. 9/11 just made him a right wing version of that. And Wednesday? You’re really going to need that long?
re: #167 teleskiguy
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Okay Roseanne, I get that you’ve gone full Trumper but have you ever attended a roast before because I’ve seen plenty of roasts where lesser known comics target someone with lots of name recognition.
This is a long thread on Twitter, but I encourage people to click through to it and at least dip your toes in.
A brief thread on the Facebook ad and page problem (h/t to @TheLiberal_x and @TransparentRef) 1/ The day before Facebook introduced the new view ads feature in Ireland, this domain was registered: pic.twitter.com/uKEZHrE8Iy
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 29, 2018
Ireland is going to have a referendum on whether to repeal its ban on abortion. This is scheduled for May 25.
The author of the tweets is CEO of a legal research startup in Dublin. Here he shows how a website Undecided8 dot org ultimately goes to Protectthe8th dot org and to Catholic groups who appear to be based in the USA.
This Tweet is why this is important to us and it’s not just about Irish abortion law.
And to be clear: this FB page and YouTube page could be by *literally anyone*.
1. Existing members of the No campaign in Ireland
2. Right wing groups in the US
3. UKIP or English Defence League
4. Fascists or neo-Fascists
5. Alt-right or far right, in Europe
¯\_(ツ)_/¯— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) April 29, 2018
If we don’t know who is buying ads on FB and YouTube, it could be anyone. Anyone.
Michelle did her job. She triggered the Trumpers in and out of the administration. And Trump saying she bombed? Yeah Donnie, you want Greg Gutfeld, who is never funny and just a smug, talking gas bag.
I read this piecce a while back and thought of it when someone mentioned Tuna Leaden.
I’m a former reality TV star who almost became a conservative pundit. I couldn’t stomach it.
“I know you said you’re not politically conservative, but with your doctorate in religious studies and your look, you could get a lot of work as a talking head or host for a conservative outlet. They love blonde, girl-next-door types.”
I heard some version of this from half a dozen agents when I was looking for TV work. I wasn’t surprised. It was not the first time I was asked to lie about my identity for the sake of making “good” television. As a former reality TV star, I understood the game well.
The first time I realized I was a brand, not a person, was in 1998. I had just starred on the MTV reality show Road Rules: Down Under. Like many young people in the late ’90s, I had loved the new wave of reality TV shows like Real World, and I found the unscripted and seemingly “real” nature of the cast members refreshing and authentic.
I decided to audition (via VHS tape!) to be a part of one of these social experiments. I was thrilled when I was chosen for the “ride of my life” as a cast member on Road Rules. I filmed my first season of reality TV at 18 years old.
It wasn’t until after we wrapped up filming and the show began airing that I began to see that through editing, I had been distilled down to a particular trope.
How many Switzerlands fits in Brazil pic.twitter.com/a9YM92sgfw
— Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) April 29, 2018
re: #170 mmmirele
This is a long thread on Twitter, but I encourage people to click through to it and at least dip your toes in.
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If we don’t know who is buying ads on FB and YouTube, it could be anyone. Anyone.
I really hope this passes in Ireland. Ireland’s been treading more socially liberal in recent years. Voted overwhelmingly for SSM via referendum, have a gay Taoiseach(Prime Minister) who is also biracial, but abortion has always been a controversial issue on the island.
“Pelosi seems so mean and bitter! She only has money because of her husband! She’s old and needs to step down so somebody younger can take over!”
“Hillary screeches all the time! She needs to smile more! She needs to ditch the pantsuits so she doesn’t look like a man! And she needs to be at home knitting and being a grandmother!”
“Pocahontas!”
“Bleeding from her ‘you know what’!”
“Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a habitual liar who is helping to perpetuate an authoritarian state.”
“HOW DARE YOU INSULT A STRONG CONSERVATIVE WOMAN!?”
re: #168 HappyWarrior
I honestly don’t think he was ever that funny. He’s always been an obnoxious jackass. If he had stayed left wing, he’d be just another Bill Maher type that laughs at his own shit and smugly reminds you how smart and better he is than anyone else. 9/11 just made him a right wing version of that. And Wednesday? You’re really going to need that long?
His writers do. You don’t think HE actually comes up with his own garbage? He’d have to have even a wee bit of talent for that.
re: #175 Targetpractice
“Pelosi seems so mean and bitter! She only has money because of her husband! She’s old and needs to step down so somebody younger can take over!”
“Hillary screeches all the time! She needs to smile more! She needs to ditch the pantsuits so she doesn’t look like a man! And she needs to be at home knitting and being a grandmother!”
“Pocahontas!”
“Bleeding from her ‘you know what’!”
“Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a habitual liar who is helping to perpetuate an authoritarian state.”
“HOW DARE YOU INSULT A STRONG CONSERVATIVE WOMAN!?”
They can dish it out but they can’t take it. They’ve proven everything I believed to be true about them and their ideology with their reaction to Michelle’s monologue and that’s conservatives love to insult people but the second you push back even a little at them, they cry like babies. Maybe they need the safe spaces more than we do.
re: #176 William Lewis
His writers do. You don’t think HE actually comes up with his own garbage? He’d have to have even a wee bit of talent for that.
Ha touche.
Flashback to RNC 2016.
Yes, those t-shirts are in children’s sizes.
And yes, children were wearing them. pic.twitter.com/MJobIYsJUB— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) April 29, 2018
Of course Trumpers are upset at a comedian making fun of SHS because, well, that’s what they do.
One can’t be a Trumper and have a well developed sense of introspection.
Now, one can be a mogul who knows exactly what he is doing when supporting Trump, but that is just cynical manipulation of the masses.
Limbaugh who actually has pull in conservative circles calls a young woman a slut who advocates for more comprehensive contraception coverage. Lighten up! He’s a satirist! I get it, conservatives, you love it when Rush mocks women without power but you don’t like it when a comedienne mocks one of your own.
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Didn’t hear any complaining from the people who are whining about Michelle about this.
hahahahahahaaaa!!!!!!!!
What a horrid human being Michelle Wolf is. I’m going to read up on her over the next couple of days and I will have a few brutally mean jokes about her by Wednesday.
— Dennis Miller (@DennisDMZ) April 29, 2018
Maybe you’re not famous anymore because it takes you three days to write a few jokes. https://t.co/L6XVdmw4xi
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) April 29, 2018
Shout out to @maggieNYT @mitchellreports @MegKinnardAP and @morningmika for defending the White House press secretary today while the Justice Department quietly removed “need for a free press” from its guidelines. Way to hold the powerful accountable today, ladies.
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) April 29, 2018
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The comedians will save us if the press is full of toadies like them.
If Michelle Wolf is the straw that breaks the camel’s back, if she finally ends nerd prom, her act last night needs to go into the Smithsonian.
Unfortunately, I don’t think we advanced the cause of journalism tonight.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 29, 2018
A comedian’s job is to “advance the cause of journalism?” Most of the journalists in the room don’t even do that. https://t.co/rkGR2vWqQT
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) April 29, 2018
Dennis Miller’s whole shtick is he’s a “thinking man’s comedian,” i.e. he throws a reference to the Battle of Thermopylae into a joke and the “smart guy” in the audience goes “I get it!” It’s why he totally bombed when he was brought on to provide commentary for Monday Night Football, because they expected a comedian and instead got the college professor who laughs at his own jokes. It says a lot that even back in ‘99, when he first started as commentator, the common complaint from viewers was “he sounds scripted.”
re: #181 HappyWarrior
Limbaugh who actually has pull in conservative circles calls a young woman a slut who advocates for more comprehensive contraception coverage. Lighten up! He’s a satirist! I get it, conservatives, you love it when Rush mocks women without power but you don’t like it when a comedienne mocks one of your own.
But wingnuts lost their shit when Wanda Sykes said “I hope his kidneys fail” after Limpballs said he hoped Obama failed. OMG IT’S A DEATH THREAT!!!1!!!!
Speaking of moguls and such, there is a lot of tweeting action going on right now but like usual so many are targeting the front men/women.
People like Ingraham and Lauren etc. are just the pawns of the real players, like Murdoch, Epperson and Atsinger (heads of Salem, owners of outlets like Red State, lots of radio states, etc.), David Smith (head of Sinclair, owns oodles of outlets), etc.
I see so many young people who want to be progressive and support their gay or transgendered friends, or who want to support their brown-skinned friends, etc., but then who turn right around and willingly put money in the pockets of the likes of Murdoch.
This is why any attempt to reform America has to go straight to one of the key issues: that a small group of people have extreme influence through great wealth.
The only time Michelle Wolf made fun of someone’s looks was when she made fun of herself.
We should definitely talk about the women in the Trump administration. There’s Kellyanne Conway. Man, she has the perfect last name for what she does: Conway. It’s like if my name was Michelle Jokes Frizzy Hair Small Tits.
Negative levels of insight.
In other words: Cower before your social betters, act like a gutless, anodyne, servile turd terrified to punch upwards or speak real truth to power.
It explains so much that you think this is the first rule of comedy.— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 29, 2018
re: #168 HappyWarrior
I honestly don’t think he was ever that funny. He’s always been an obnoxious jackass. If he had stayed left wing, he’d be just another Bill Maher type that laughs at his own shit and smugly reminds you how smart and better he is than anyone else. 9/11 just made him a right wing version of that. And Wednesday? You’re really going to need that long?
It’ll take him that long to marshal what brain cells he has to put together a putdown that makes him laugh.
Personally, I always thought the first rule of comedy was “There are no sacred cows.”
SHS gets a hand when she shows up tomorrow to do her daily lying.
Call me Kreskin.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 29, 2018
re: #172 makeitstop
I read this piecce a while back and thought of it when someone mentioned Tuna Leaden.
I’m a former reality TV star who almost became a conservative pundit. I couldn’t stomach it.
Thank you for posting that. As a religious lefty, I found her thinking interesting. Especially when admitting to being tempted. I remember a great bit in a novel where the main character was tempted by an offer of everything he’d ever wanted to look the other way about the issue he was investigating…
He fought to keep his words even. “Just … wrestling with temptation.”
Illyan’s voice came back, amused. “Who’s winning?”
Miles’s eye followed the cracks in the plaster, overhead. His voice came out high and light, on a sigh: “I think … I’m going for the best two falls out of three.”
Every single person bitching about jokes being told about Sarah Sanders’ appearance has retweeted at least one dozen political cartoons depicting Michelle Obama as a man
— CPAC Chopra (@steak_ham) April 29, 2018
All I can say is anyone who watched Wolf’s performance and thinks it was “mean-spirited” has never sat through a roast.
re: #173 teleskiguy
How many Switzerlands fit in Brazil?
you can’t fit that many in because they’re swiss so they can’t stand to stand that close to each other
re: #201 Targetpractice
All I can say is anyone who watched Wolf’s performance and thinks it was “mean-spirited” has never sat through a roast.
Brings back memories of the old Dean Martin Comedy Roasts back in the 1970s. Now THAT’S some first class handiwork there. Too bad not all of them are available-just a select set.
re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth
SHS gets a hand when she shows up tomorrow to do her daily lying.
Call me Kreskin.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 29, 2018
That happens and that’ll cement the notion that the WH press corps are nothing but state media stenographers pushing the official TrumpGOP party line, lest they get banished for any coverage unfavorable to King Donald.
The trick is making everyone else give a shit.
President Trump will meet with the crew of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 on Tuesday
— Noah Gray (@NoahGrayCNN) April 29, 2018
That’s a nice gesture.
A modest proposal: Invite James Shaw Jr. to meet as well. https://t.co/jyqtduX6Ev— Dan Shapiro (@DanielBShapiro) April 29, 2018
Speaking of women and outrage:
Saudi Arabia ‘sorry’ for promotional footage of women wrestlers
Saudi Arabia’s sport authority has apologised for the appearance of scantily clad women during a wrestling broadcast.
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) held matches in Jeddah, billed as its Greatest Royal Rumble.
Men and women attended, although no female wrestlers were allowed to take part in the fights.
But state television cut off its broadcast of the event when promotional footage showing female wrestlers aired.
The footage rolled on giant television screens around the arena during the fight.
Saudi General Sports Authority apologised for what it described as “indecent scenes”.
What happened was, even though no women were allowed on the show, and WWE did not bring any women at all, during the show they aired one of their in-program video inserts of some of their female talent speaking about how great things are.
Apparent the image of these (mix of married and single) women, heads uncovered, in the video stream was too much.
re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth
Reminds me of a Babylon 5 episode where the ISN reporter gushes about the “Wildly successful martial law under President Clark” - you can bet we’d see the same thing happen should Hair Furor pull that stunt with our press poodles….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) April 29, 2018
re: #199 The Vicious Babushka
Don’t forget the last two decades of Clinton pants suit jokes
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) April 29, 2018
Apology is owed to @PressSec and others grossly insulted ny Michelle Wolf at White House Correspondents Assoc dinner which started with uplifting heartfelt speech by @margarettalev - comedian was worst since Imus insulted Clinton’s
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) April 29, 2018
after everything this administration has said and done to the American people with no apology? are you fucking kidding me???? this has to be a joke.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) April 29, 2018
WHAT WORLD DO YOU THINK TRUMP LIVES IN?? ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) April 29, 2018
I cannot BELIEVE anyone separates DONALD J TRUMP from HOLLYWOOD ELITES. this is fucking bizarro world. delusional. absolutely delusional.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) April 29, 2018
Chrissy ain’t taking no shit off nobody.
While checking to see if Comedy Central still does celebrity roasts (they do, just infrequently), I was reminded that both Trump and Barr have been roasted. And yes, both were roasted by comedians whose fame is lower than the person in the chair.
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why don’t you stop being stenographers and do some real news reporting for a change - then maybe your ox won’t get deservedly gored by truth-tellers such as @michelleisawolf and other philosophers?
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) April 29, 2018
in the old days, public figures used to consider it de rigeur to laugh as hard as possible no matter how mean the jokes about them were
it was considered a sign of good sportsmanship, not to mention a sign emotional maturity
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Chrissy ain’t taking no shit off nobody.
An elite, rich world? Sounds like Mar a Lago to me.
Donald Trump threatened a US Senator yesterday, last week said his former FBI Director should be in prison and was an hour away from Flint last night and did NOTHING to help the people…
And Republicans are snowflakin’ about a comedian? SMDH.— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) April 29, 2018
re: #212 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
in the old days, public figures used to consider it de rigeur to laugh as hard as possible no matter how mean the jokes about them were
it was considered a sign of good sportsmanship, not to mention a sign emotional maturity
I thought Obama took the birtherism really well all things considered.
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Mike, that’s why they’re Republicans. Feature not a bug.
You gotta learn the parlor tricks first pic.twitter.com/JkDhkUPTY3
— janitorial man (@johnthejanitor) April 29, 2018
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The former is “Trump being Trump,” the latter is “A GRAVE INSULT TO THESE STRONG CONSERVATIVE WOMEN AND HAS FOREVER SHATTERED THE GOOD NATURE OF THE WHCD!!!”
Shit I remember the reaction when Obama used the lipstick on a pig metaphor for Palin. And they got pissed. Meanwhile she was calling him anti American and a terrorist sympathizer.
re: #206 freetoken
Speaking of women and outrage:
Saudi Arabia ‘sorry’ for promotional footage of women wrestlers
What happened was, even though no women were allowed on the show, and WWE did not bring any women at all, during the show they aired one of their in-program video inserts of some of their female talent speaking about how great things are.
Apparent the image of these (mix of married and single) women, heads uncovered, in the video stream was too much.
No, it’s right in your first paragraph; it was the WWE running promos of their female roster on the venue screens during the show (even though the WWE left the ladies back here in the US) that was broadcast by Saudi state TV and that’s what the kerfuffle is about.
In any case, fuck the WWE and Vince McMahon and fuck the Saudi royals.
re: #220 TedStriker
No, it was the WWE running promos of their female roster on the screens in the venue (even though the WWE left the ladies back here in the US) that was broadcast by Saudi state TV and that’s what the kerfuffle is about.
I thought that’s what I said.
Anyway, yes, I believe WWE needs to register as an agent of a foreign government now, especially as Linda McMahon is in Trump’s cabinet.
Little has openly called for making the country Judenfrei - free of Jews. He advocates forbidding all immigration except biological kin, “where no person of Jewish origin may live, vacation, or traverse.” /2
— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) April 29, 2018
Further: “I’d be willing to lay down my life if needed for my family to be in a state where whites are left to themselves where it is enshrined in law that can never be unwritten, that state will remain white forever. The US was this state until the Jews took over.” /4
— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) April 29, 2018
Donald Trump has sure brought anti-Semitism back in a BIG way. Go ahead, media folks: Keep pretending that’s just a coincidence.
— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) April 29, 2018
But the eye shadow jokes crossed the line…
I stand by those comments. Comments made on a veteran hosted show with veteran audience. I am an ambassador to and involved with many Vet groups and spend much of my free time helping vets. That’s how i can accurately make those comments.
— Carl Higbie (@CarlHigbie) April 29, 2018
Trump group staffer Carl Higbie says he stands by his comments that 75% of veterans with PTSD are faking it. https://t.co/SsOkH3l2yp
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 29, 2018
A neo-Nazi Republican is polling at 18%. In California.
One week ago today, a gunman opened fire at a TN Waffle House- murdering DeEbony Groves, Akilah DaSilva, Taurean Sanderlin & Joe Perez
Perhaps today Pres. Trump will tweet about that mass shooting
Maybe a message for the victims families?
Or praise for hero James Shaw, Jr?— Dianne Gallagher (@DianneG) April 29, 2018
re: #225 jaunte
A neo-Nazi Republican is polling at 18%. In California.
That’s probably lower than the percentage of Californians who believe in Chupacabra.
Just to put things in a different perspective.
Overall, the Republican party in California is in bad shape. The sane ones are fewer and fewer and threatening to leave the party (e.g., Schwarzenegger) and they are old. Young people are not joining the party much. And the middle age to elderly who are left in the party will be the distilled remnant of bigots and rich people (hence the neo-Nazi.)
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
Peter Baker ✔
@peterbakernyt
Unfortunately, I don’t think we advanced the cause of journalism tonight.11:47 PM - Apr 28, 2018
The journalists don’t seem to grasp it yet, but they are looking like the NRA/Gun Industry/Gun Nuts against the Students From Parkland Florida and Elsewhere Protesters.
They are trashing the person that got the upper hand last night. Michelle Wolf is speaking for the frustrated.
The media is acting like the NRA in attack. It’s a bad look. They aren’t seeing it.
Twitter fight (Tyrmand is some Bretbart / Project Veritas choad)*
* Choad is my new go to insult.
Let me get this straight. You specifically come over to me and ask me to take a picture with you during a social event so you can then turn around and use it for your agenda? What a piece of garbage, among other things.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) April 29, 2018
I didn’t ask to take a pic with you - you asked me. And you didn’t have the cojones to say anything to me to my face because you are weak. Go back to the rock you crawled out from under. And remind me what you have accomplished in your life again. Oh, that’s right - zero.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) April 29, 2018
re: #230 gocart mozart
This guy is a real class act….-NOT:
Severed head selfie w/one & only @kathygriffin. KG loved the most offensive political comedy routine ever presented live on C-Span. She’s a comedian&that’s comedy. No holds barred offensive comedy is a net positive for society- it’s a healthy release valve- but #WHCD wrong venue. pic.twitter.com/oEbgpivDx0
— Matthew Tyrmand (@MatthewTyrmand) April 29, 2018
Whoa 💥
Former George W. Bush ethics lawyer ditches GOP, to seek U.S. Senate in Minn. as Democrat | Star Tribune #RichardPainter https://t.co/0U551kfLXS— (((DuneMyThang™))) (@Kris_Sacrebleu) April 29, 2018
re: #229 ObserverArt
Well, it’s not all journalists, just some.
I suspect that those who are squealing the loudest are those who have something to lose, namely “access”, in this age of access-journalism.
The greatest joke Michelle Wolf played on Trump is that nobody is covering his rally because everyone is tallking about her performance. You know that’s driving him CRAZY.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) April 30, 2018
Andrea Mitchell, meet Andrea Mitchell. I think you guys have some things to hash out. pic.twitter.com/bf7CiK3jFk
— martin gale (@mgale15) April 29, 2018
New House report has this ominous outreach email from longtime NRA official opening backchannel with Russia to Trump campaign Senior Advisor: “for reasons that we can discuss in person or on the phone” (see pg 23) https://t.co/Q2cpwW6iVC
— Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) April 27, 2018
Here’s a situation I’m interested in: The NRA put millions of dollars into pro-Trump/anti-Clinton work. They also emailed former Sessions Chief of Staff & future Trump WH Deputy CoS, titled “Kremlin Connection,” to connect the Trump campaign with Putin. https://t.co/lGNzOSvYBr https://t.co/ng0aVNUpjL
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) April 30, 2018
re: #236 jaunte
How is that not collusion?
Head on over to Washington Monthly for this horrifyingly stupid news:
washingtonmonthly.com
… Trump apparatchiks are implementing an array of pointless microaggressions that don’t even have a policy effect and aren’t designed to grab headlines, just to twist the screws a little more on anyone not privileged enough to be a white Christian man in power. …
re: #237 Patricia Kayden
Trump keeps repeating “no collusion” because that’s not technically a crime, but he won’t mention “conspiracy.”
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
What if Shaw doesn’t want to meet Trump? I think it’s a good thing when Trump ignores Black people, tbh. It seems that when he does notice us, it’s to call us “low I.Q.” or “sons of bitches” or to attack an entire continent and country full of us. Shaw doesn’t need to meet with Trump to be a hero.
re: #201 Targetpractice
All I can say is anyone who watched Wolf’s performance and thinks it was “mean-spirited” has never sat through a roast.
It was no more mean spirited than Trump is every single day.
re: #172 makeitstop
The person in that Vox article
If someone jokes about how you gleefully lie for a living, but you’re more upset they referred to your “perfect smoky eye,” you might want to take a look at yourself (& your terrible makeup).
— Susie Meister (@susie_meister) April 29, 2018
re: #238 petesh
Head on over to Washington Monthly for this horrifyingly stupid news:
washingtonmonthly.com
These are why, if you’re not a lawyer fighting against the administration, you need to be donating to a group that is.
Space is so cool. Some of the particles that make up Saturn’s rings (seen below) are as big as mountains, while others are smaller than a grain of sand. They also have the added effect of making you dizzy. https://t.co/9V3VET6X6y pic.twitter.com/PTEn64Pclv
— Alex Whitcomb (@AlexWhitcomb) April 29, 2018
I thought Michelle Wolf was going to get more guff for the Kellyanne Conway getting stuck under a tree joke. Nope, something about makeup.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 29, 2018
I remember that, as a media critic of the Star-Ledger, I was allowed to say anything I wanted to about the Clintons from 1995-2000, but as soon as Bush came in, I was warned by multiple editors to keep politics out of my TV news critiques.
— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) April 30, 2018
This whole business of people wanting a “neutral” or “objective” press is nearly always horseshit. Generally speaking, readers & viewers want tough, even unmerciful coverage of people they disagree with and passes given to people they agree with. It’s sad, and it’s human nature.
— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) April 30, 2018
Sessions aide pledged loyalty to Trump’s agenda in order to be hired: report https://t.co/bbXBQFFp0F pic.twitter.com/8KQsT6F0m1
— The Hill (@thehill) April 30, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s choice to serve as his spokeswoman met with President Trump to assure him of her loyalty to his agenda so that she would be hired, according to a report from the Washington Post.
Sarah Isgur Flores, who has worked as an adviser for GOP candidates and organizations for at least a decade, told the president in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that she supported his agenda and would be honored to work in his administration, several sources familiar with the meeting told the Post.
The meeting was seen as necessary because Isgur Flores had criticized Trump during the 2016 campaign and would likely lose her chance at the job unless she met with Trump, according to the Post. Cabinet secretaries typically have the freedom to make their own hires.
Flores declined The Hill’s request for comment.
JFC
re: #246 teleskiguy
My favorite part of that joke is that a tree falling on Conway was p0rn to Scott Pruitt. Not because of the Conway part, but because of the tree falling.
hahahahaaa
hm, checks out, sounds like it’s about to be a big night for me pic.twitter.com/DD1M5UccHE
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) April 30, 2018
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
hahahahaaa
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— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) April 30, 2018
these questions are getting a little invasive, honestly pic.twitter.com/jV9BQWqhmU
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) April 30, 2018
Skerd of what them negros mite think? Yeah, i’m skerd
This is an amazing quote. https://t.co/Tfuwa2FI2F pic.twitter.com/XnTqXm50QB
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) April 30, 2018
re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Did she also do the proper salute and pledge her undying loyalty to Adolf Hit…I mean, Donald Trump?
“Several reporters who cover the White House approached Ms. Sanders in the Hilton ballroom to express sympathy in the immediate aftermath of Ms. Wolf’s monologue.” https://t.co/NVsjDXsjcS
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 30, 2018
This is the saddest, most pathetic thing I’ve ever heard. https://t.co/2q0O8mfoDl
— R. Paine (@ArrghPaine) April 30, 2018
Opinion | Michelle Wolf didn’t attack Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s looks https://t.co/FMxnF603rP pic.twitter.com/lpqRezExqh
— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) April 30, 2018
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JUST IN: Trump to speak at NRA annual meeting as pressure over gun control mounts: report https://t.co/UA9SsVssxe pic.twitter.com/Tb4UKOrY9v
— The Hill (@thehill) April 30, 2018
lol THIS IS THE MOMENT TRUMP BECAME PRESIDENTIAL™ https://t.co/k2JrUE9bAg
— The Warax (@iAmTheWarax) April 30, 2018
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
As SHS laughed to herself and thought, “Man, they’re trained real good!”, I bet.
re: #257 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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So the POTUS AND the VPOTUS are both going to address that crowd of losers?
re: #252 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Skerd of what them negros mite think? Yeah, i’m skerd
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The whole article really speaks to the truth about the modern South: They want to hang onto their idealized version of the past and plow under all the ugliness. The people who make the most noise about the need to keep monuments to the first because “That’s our history” want to destroy as much evidence of the latter because they are personally ashamed of it.
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The lap dog press rushing to make sure that their master understands how much they care for her.
It’s not hard to understand why the jokes @michelleisawolf made about @realDonaldTrump did not play well with his genteel christian family values worshipers that are drawn to him like flies to a fresh pile of manure.@CNNSotu@amjoyshow pic.twitter.com/8hwz061Knt
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) April 29, 2018
you are a total POS……not part POS….total POS…..
— Doug Angstrom (@champa911) April 30, 2018
I apologize to Dougie … obviously I’ve given him the impression that what he things matters and nothing could be further from the truth. https://t.co/KoEmX56L5A
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) April 30, 2018
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
Did SHS extend her foot so those journalists could kiss it? Or will she wait to do that on Monday before her lying session?
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
Several reporters who cover the White House approached Ms. Sanders in the Hilton ballroom to express sympathy in the immediate aftermath of Ms. Wolf’s monologue.
I want names, NYT.
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And then she went to the MSNBC party, where Stephanie and Ali took a picture with her and then Stephanie applauded her grace. Barf. The end.
A little rain couldn’t stop the #NBCNewsMSNBCAfterParty. @AliVelshi and @SRuhle with @PressSec cc: @VelshiRuhle pic.twitter.com/wVh7rmzvAa
— NBC News PR (@NBCNewsPR) April 29, 2018
Thank you @PressSec for rising above a whole lot more than rain & joining our (not intentionally) wet & wild #NBCNewsMSNBCAfterParty.
Few (certainly not me) women would have had such grace. https://t.co/0Dr4IJWzfo— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) April 29, 2018
Area veteran who receives a monthly retirement check at age 44 posts ‘Taxation is Theft’ without any sense of irony
— Matt Gallagher (@MattGallagher0) April 29, 2018
re: #265 BeachDem
jeebus…Stephanie’s boobs….
re: #265 BeachDem
Lol! So it’s okay that SHS lies. Just don’t be rude and point out the lies. Got it?
I never said a thing about the “comic” and hate speech. I said conservatives get accused of it
Imagine if a conservative comic at a Trump event joked about Obama and other liberals with half that much crudity
That would be called hate speech
And you know it
One standard— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) April 30, 2018
Do you really want to try the hypothetical abt things that were said about O and Hillary and Trump events? That’s amazing. Jim, tell the joke last night that went to fair, that is equivalent to “hate speech”. https://t.co/beSw1jHb0X
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 30, 2018
Oh God Damn!!
Obama is Savage AF!! pic.twitter.com/rh2vB3mHRm
— Maggie Resists Trump (@Stop_Trump20) April 29, 2018
OH LOOK MOAR BLACKS FOR TRUMP
.@TezlynFigaro on critics of @POTUS: “Whether it’s good or bad…people are gonna remain critical because he continues to go outside of the box and not doing what we are used to seeing a president do.” @NextRevFNC pic.twitter.com/Xa7zNT6qMq
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 30, 2018
.@TezlynFigaro: “I tell rappers all the time, ‘most of you are more Republican than you think. You either are talking about getting rich or you’re already rich.’ So hip-hop has no problem with being rich.” @NextRevFNC pic.twitter.com/PvgMpbUFzs
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 30, 2018
re: #272 Dave In Austin
Oh God Damn!!
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Hello, police? I’d like to report a murder.
he’s watching teevee…
“Trump’s Triumphs are driving his critics Crazy!” Thank you Steve Hilton @NextRevFNC, just want to do what is right for our wonderful U.S.A.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018
re: #273 The Vicious Babushka
OH LOOK MOAR BLACKS FOR TRUMP
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Hey, at least she’s honest, Republicans are people who either are rich or think they’re going to be rich soon.
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thanks for confirming how thin skinned you and the rest of the DC Press Corpse are, Mrs. Greenspan!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) April 30, 2018
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
Stop trying to make “Trump’s Triumphs” happen, Donnie. It’s not going to happen.
I watched the first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 and they already took it to eleventy and I’m like this is White Girl Privilege.
I mean they are showing a fiction show about atrocities being done to White Girls that have been done to Women of Color for millennia.
All the critics of last night are either too young to know (and don’t seem capable of googling) or have a short memory. https://t.co/8WBBhiA1wr
— Catenigma (@Catenigma) April 29, 2018
It really says a lot that the press has gone in just over a decade from “Jeff Gannon acted in total violation of journalistic ethics by lying and cozying up to the White House” to “NOTICE ME, SARAH-SENPAI!”
my hero James Shaw Jr. pic.twitter.com/BRnuYEURdv
— Emma González (@Emma4Change) April 29, 2018
Thank you. https://t.co/7on3p4IspY
— James Shaw Jr. (@JamesShawJr9) April 29, 2018
When did it become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does?
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 29, 2018
re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Is that the tweet in response to Kanye calling Emma his hero?
I mean that final scene where
June cut the tag off her ear
was just like the final scene with Rosalie in Underground.
Except Underground got cancelled so Rosalie went back to being a slave for 6 more years.
re: #265 BeachDem
And then she went to the MSNBC party, where Stephanie and Ali took a picture with her and then Stephanie applauded her grace. Barf. The end.
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This makes me sad. I like SR, but she’s getting this wrong.
On NPR tonight David Folkenflick said of the hand wringing that, considering the passes the media have given Trump for the vulgar things he has said and continues to say “it’s appallingly disingenuous” to criticize Michelle Wolf.
Mitch McConnell still getting his neck circumcised?
re: #272 Dave In Austin
Not sure that is real. I can’t find it in Obama’s Twitter feed.
re: #289 gocart mozart
Not sure that is real. I can’t find it in Obama’s Twitter feed.
I always doubt tweets when they don’t come with twitter’s own embed code.
re: #284 freetoken
When did it become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does?
Whenever there is any hint of the playing field being leveled by a hair.
This is the stupidest meme you will see all day. In spoiler tags for those who want to avoid The Stupids.
WARNING: THIS MEME IS STUPID.
The night Trump got elected was the moment it became wrong to criticize those in power yet no sin to criticize those with no power.
The more these cretins are resisted the more they will impugne the motives of that resistance. We don’t have much longer.
re: #273 The Vicious Babushka
OH LOOK MOAR BLACKS FOR TRUMP
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And a former Bernie campaign worker—what are the odds??
re: #227 freetoken
That’s probably lower than the percentage of Californians who believe in Chupacabra.
Just to put things in a different perspective.
Overall, the Republican party in California is in bad shape. The sane ones are fewer and fewer and threatening to leave the party (e.g., Schwarzenegger) and they are old. Young people are not joining the party much. And the middle age to elderly who are left in the party will be the distilled remnant of bigots and rich people (hence the neo-Nazi.)
I posted the Newsweek article before and some folks didn’t believe it.
re: #227 freetoken
That’s probably lower than the percentage of Californians who believe in Chupacabra.
Just to put things in a different perspective.
Overall, the Republican party in California is in bad shape. The sane ones are fewer and fewer and threatening to leave the party (e.g., Schwarzenegger) and they are old. Young people are not joining the party much. And the middle age to elderly who are left in the party will be the distilled remnant of bigots and rich people (hence the neo-Nazi.)
So, have the remnants started accusing the Dem majority of “outlawing” them yet?
re: #277 Joe Bacon 🌹
I would love for someone to ask her when she’s ever demanded that Trump apologize for all of the nasty, mean spirited bullying he has done over the last two years. Would love to see her response.
re: #231 The Major
He’s just another BreitFART boob!
Lies turning into ash turning into a smokey eye is a joke about lies. Calling her Aunt Lydia is a joke about standing for the oppression of women under the guise of folksy warmth. These aren’t jokes about her physical appearance. They’re intense criticisms of her character.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) April 29, 2018
And the softball coach one? https://t.co/FbUVvR70HT
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 30, 2018
Maggie out here hitting #ratio grand slams https://t.co/UeSeYQZLgb
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) April 30, 2018
Trump administration has removed Yellowstone grizzly bear protections. Protections have been in place for 45 years. https://t.co/ywGHJOpq2R
— Arctic Friend (@FriendEden100) April 29, 2018
re: #280 The Vicious Babushka
I watched the first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 and they already took it to eleventy and I’m like this is White Girl Privilege.
I mean they are showing a fiction show about atrocities being done to White Girls that have been done to Women of Color for millennia.
If I recall the novel correctly, Blacks were in detention centers and thus weren’t really part of the story. I thought the novel was very sad so I’m not tempted to watch the series although I’ve read glowing reviews.
re: #297 Targetpractice
So, have the remnants started accusing the Dem majority of “outlawing” them yet?
I don’t really check the local news outlets. And AM Radio around here has long been dominated by the hate-right, ever since Clear Channel started to rise. With only a few exceptions.
I do know that even though Facebook knows where I live, that I don’t get any political ads anymore. Then again, many of the 2016 ones I got on Facebook were probably Russian funded, given some of my relatives.
If the neo-Nazi does come in 2nd in the primary, and thus get on the final ballot (though I’m expecting two Dems on the Nov ballot), I strongly suspect that many local Republicans will find themselves in a tough spot.
In most places with a city, Republicans are already rare. That Car Thief remains in office has to do with his district running up to Orange county, and even though his coastal San Diego district portion contains some of the wealthiest communities in the country, on the whole that part of San Diego county has inched into Democratic side, the holdouts being much about fundamentalists and very rich people who are only in politics for the tax cuts.
I agree that Michelle Wolf went too far. The WHCD is not supposed to be mean spirited. However, nothing she said was even close to the crass insults flung by the President almost every day. Are we now holding comics to a higher standard than presidents?
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) April 29, 2018
Dude, we are holding porn stars to a higher standard than the President. https://t.co/B1zIh4cXeD
— TDPattillo (@TDPattillo) April 29, 2018
I do know this: when Trump finally came here, he was tightly scheduled to only interact with the contractors doing the “wall” demos, and the fundraiser event at a conclave of wealthy people up in the LA region.
Notably absent were flocks of local Republican party candidates.
re: #265 BeachDem
And then she went to the MSNBC party, where Stephanie and Ali took a picture with her and then Stephanie applauded her grace. Barf. The end.
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I see that image and I am thinking it looks like a cast party after a good show.
Not journalists and political people they cover for their networks, websites, magazines, etc.
Actors in the big Washington DC play.
re: #302 Patricia Kayden
If I recall the novel correctly, Blacks were in detention centers and thus weren’t really part of the story. I thought the novel was very sad so I’m not tempted to watch the series although I’ve read glowing reviews.
In the novel, Giliead was a white supremacist authoritarian state but the Hulu series completely ignores the racism angle, even including a few WOC as Handmaids and showing June in an interracial relationship.
I watched season 1 in tandem with episodes of Underground (which was cancelled) and it struck me how similar they were.
A comic who’s actual job is satire and insults is being held to a much higher standard than the president.
This is insane. Highly entertaining but extremely damaging.
It was only a matter of time before I started on Handmaid’s Tale. I like to let them stack up before the binge but I can’t wait for this one.
re: #309 BigPapa
A comic who’s actual job is satire and insults is being held to a much higher standard than the president.
This is insane. Highly entertaining but extremely damaging.
What makes it particularly galling is how many times they’ve defended the same shit from conservative men like Limbaugh or Hannity with “They’re entertainers! They’re supposed to provoke controversy!”
Just putting this out here: We’re at the point were the Trump Republican Party would embrace a remake of The Triumph of the Will.
re: #308 The Vicious Babushka
In the novel, Giliead was a white supremacist authoritarian state but the Hulu series completely ignores the racism angle, even including a few WOC as Handmaids and showing June in an interracial relationship.
I watched season 1 in tandem with episodes of Underground (which was cancelled) and it struck me how similar they were.
There was a scene described in the novel which was not included in the series (at least not yet). Gilead expelled all the Jews. Of course by that time a whole bunch of random people who were not Jews wanted to leave so only Hasidics who could pass a “religion test” were allowed to leave, non-Orthodox Jews were not allowed to leave.
heh
North Korea is China’s problem. (They built a fence.) Mexico is our problem. Are the media in China & S Korea consumed with the Mexico problem?
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 27, 2018
First, Mexico doesn’t have Nukes. Second, don’t try to be analytical b/c you’re an idiot. Third, China/NKorea are threats. Fourth, SKorea is our ally & a democracy & we have a treaty to protect them as we do w/ Japan. Fifth, your faux outrage shit tweets suck. Sixth, get a job. https://t.co/N6W7UPArst
— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) April 30, 2018
re: #313 Targetpractice
Yup. 20 years ago I heard Savage say ‘every time a woman complains about sexual harrasment they should be fined $50.’ I thought it was shtick. And here we are now with Trump and the GOP who made a deal with the devil.
Some enterprising young film makers ought to do that: create a remake of The Triumph of the Will, then shop it around to local GOP groups and see if anyone bites.
Charles: Spy is dumping out to the front page again, anytime I use one of the formatting buttons on top of the text entry box.
re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t think Coulter is enjoying 280 character twitter
Team Trump: Arrogance as a virtue | OpEdNews - https://t.co/zTpxXqU1tH
— Rick Cooley (@rcooley123) April 30, 2018
“…Just to return to the admiral for a minute. The depths of his self-serving smarminess should have been evident when he “examined” Trump and declared, “I think he will remain fit for duty for the remainder of this term and even the remainder of another term if he is elected.”
Sycophancy, as Team Trump demonstrates, can be contagious. It can also be dangerous to careers. The doctor should have known.”
re: #317 BigPapa
Yup. 20 years ago I heard Savage say ‘every time a woman complains about sexual harrasment they should be fined $50.’ I thought it was shtick. And here we are now with Trump and the GOP who made a deal with the devil.
The press who give Limbaugh a pass to this day for coining the term “feminazi” because “he’s an entertainer” want Wolf to bow and kiss Huckaboo’s feet in contrition for saying she uses the ashes of burnt facts as eyeliner.
re: #308 The Vicious Babushka
Kind of scary how Atwood correctly forecasted the direction of American politics. Her novel feels a little too close to home. Ditto “It Can’t Happen Here” which I read for the first time last year.
Some possible titles for the remake:
Mastery of Great, Again
The Wonder of American Greatness
Prevailing Towards Greatness
The Ascendancy of America Again
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The softball coach? I took that one as SHS is a sort of gruff type. If she were a guy, Michelle could have easily said football coach. Mags is just looking to get outraged.
re: #321 jaunte
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Wingnuts have been trying to argue that if the report on Jackson is true, then Obama should have fired him back in ‘12. Considering how the report says Jackson is a total suck-up to his superiors in order to advance his career, I’m perfectly willing to believe that Obama could not square the report’s findings in his head with the friendly guy he met at least once a year and decided to withhold judgment barring further evidence.
re: #323 Patricia Kayden
Kind of scary how Atwood correctly forecasted the direction of American politics. Her novel feels a little too close to home. Ditto “It Can’t Happen Here” which I read for the first time last year.
I can just see one of those stupid Buzzfeed quiz clickbaits “What Gilead Woman Are You?”
1. Wife
2. Aunt
3. Handmaid
4. Martha
5. Econowife
6. Jezebel
7. Unwoman
re: #325 HappyWarrior
The softball coach? I took that one as SHS is a sort of gruff type. If she were a guy, Michelle could have easily said football coach. Mags is just looking to get outraged.
Maggie claims that “softball coach” is code for “lesbian”.
O_o
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
What does that make “softball question” code for?
re: #327 The Vicious Babushka
I can just see one of those stupid Buzzfeed quiz clickbaits “What Gilead Woman Are You?”
1. Wife
2. Aunt
3. Handmaid
4. Martha
5. Econowife
6. Jezebel
7. Unwoman
Econowife. :)
re: #327 The Vicious Babushka
Lol!! I guess I’d be in a detention center so an “unwoman”.
So, ex-Bush ethics lawyer has left the GOP, and running for Minnesota Al Franken’s former US Senate seat as a Democrat.
Don’t fall for that shit
One of the best in the Senate is Minnesota’s @SenTinaSmith. She’s already taken on drug costs and is fighting hard for people.
Today a Republican announced he is running in the Democratic primary against Tina. He is starting by attacking her husband. Reminds me of 2016. pic.twitter.com/MK8823YZHY— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) April 30, 2018
“For two years I have been tracking a speech pattern among American journalists, in which they try to explain to us — and perhaps to themselves — why Trump’s campaign to discredit them is not what it seems, why it’s no big deal.” This is my new post. https://t.co/qQMSTTNejV
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) April 30, 2018
The DC press corps has spent the better part of 2 years convincing themselves — against all available evidence — that Trump is someone, or something, other than what he clearly reveals himself to be.
This is an excellent summary of their efforts. https://t.co/zaKsTW8lk1— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) April 30, 2018
Sailing in search of the Great White Pivot.
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maggie claims that “softball coach” is code for “lesbian”.
O_o
Too bad for Maggie that “softball coach” is not a term actually used in the bit. Does expose Maggie’s stereotypes about lesbians rather nicely though.
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maggie claims that “softball coach” is code for “lesbian”.
O_o
Reading way too much into it.
Caroline O is a great Twitter follow. She’s really on point.
re: #335 HappyWarrior
Reading way too much into it.
Lesbians. Men always read way too much into lesbians.
re: #325 HappyWarrior
The softball coach? I took that one as SHS is a sort of gruff type. If she were a guy, Michelle could have easily said football coach. Mags is just looking to get outraged.
Yes, it makes no sense as a code word for “lesbian” since the joke was partly about the White House press corps.
re: #338 Barefoot Grin
Yes, it makes no sense as a code word for “lesbian” since the joke was about the White House press corps.
She was making fun of Accosta in that bit too.
Maggie is gonna get her outrage, facts or no facts…
if you think gay twitter is dramatic, media twitter is acting like it just got robbed at gunpoint over a joke that complimented someone’s eyeshadow
— JuanPa (@jpbrammer) April 29, 2018
I mean there is the lesbian softball coach stereotype but she clearly was poking fun at SHS’s personality which is something you see in a gruff coach like that. If Spicer still had the job, she easily could have said football. SHS gives off a dour vibe.
re: #325 HappyWarrior
The softball coach? I took that one as SHS is a sort of gruff type. If she were a guy, Michelle could have easily said football coach. Mags is just looking to get outraged.
“Every time Sarah steps up to the podium, I get excited because I’m not really sure what we’re going to get: you know, a press briefing, a bunch of lies, or divided into softball teams. ‘It’s shirts and skins, and this time, don’t be such a little b*tch, Jim Acosta.’”
I’m not seeing the sexual orientation reference.
re: #343 jaunte
I’m not seeing the sexual orientation reference.
that’s because you don’t know the code like Maggie does…
yeah…he’s been stewing about it ALL FREAKING DAY:
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a failure last year, but this year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it. The filthy “comedian” totally bombed (couldn’t even deliver her lines-much like the Seth Meyers weak performance). Put Dinner to rest, or start over!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018
150 years ago today, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 was signed. In it, the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) was promised the Black Hills. In 1980, SCOTUS ruled that the Black Hills were taken from us without just compensation. We refuse to accept the money. We want the land. pic.twitter.com/K5EjExb6hT
— Ruth H. Hopkins (@RuthHHopkins) April 29, 2018
re: #343 jaunte
I’m not seeing the sexual orientation reference.
Perhaps because there isn’t one? Just a thought…
re: #342 HappyWarrior
I mean there is the lesbian softball coach stereotype but she clearly was poking fun at SHS’s personality which is something you see in a gruff coach like that. If Spicer still had the job, she easily could have said football. SHS gives off a dour vibe.
SHS gives off the air of someone forced into a job she doesn’t like to deal with people (the media) she hates. If she’s upset with Wolf’s jokes, she could always follow Truman’s advice and get the hell out of the kitchen.
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a failure last year, but this year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it. The filthy “comedian” totally bombed (couldn’t even deliver her lines-much like the Seth Meyers weak performance). Put Dinner to rest, or start over!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018
Some people can dish it out but can’t take it. https://t.co/NVeTrWO56m
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 30, 2018
re: #349 wheat-dogg
SHS gives off the air of someone forced into a job she doesn’t like to deal with people (the media) she hates. If she’s upset with Wolf’s jokes, she could always follow Truman’s advice and get the hell out of the kitchen.
She enjoys lying to the press the exact same way her Dad lied about why he overrode the Arkansas parole board and allowed Wayne Dumond to go free so he could rape and kill again. But that wasn’t enough for Huck Sinn because he did the same thing letting Maurice Clemmons out of jail which led to Clemmons killing 4 police officers in Washington State.
re: #348 calochortus
Perhaps because there isn’t one? Just a thought…
It is interesting that so many read so much about personal appearance into the comments about Sanders, requiring so much twisted inference.
I swear, if Wolf had said, “Have you seen the weather? It’s getting ugly out there!”, they’d have said, “How dare she call Sarah ugly!”
“Over the last 5 years you people were so good—over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn’t want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. Those were good times, as far as we knew” - Stephen Colbert to the press at WHCA, 2006
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) April 30, 2018
You have no idea how much I enjoyed confronting one of Trump’s favorite liars Jason Miller last night.
I gave him the 🖕🏻https://t.co/3jpS2u3S9T pic.twitter.com/U2enQbs9Gg— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) April 30, 2018
@AprilDRyan’s face is like “get me the hell outta here”, in this picture 😂😂😂 https://t.co/ePKZQ7cLCa
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) April 30, 2018
re: #351 Joe Bacon 🌹
If I recall correctly Dumond had raped a Clinton relative (third cousin) so Huckabee’s actions were possibly politically motivated.
re: #354 Varek Raith
Butthurt media is butthurt.
They’re laser focused on jokes Michelle Wolf told that they perceive as personal attacks on individuals. The media is mostly silent of her final tirade where she called them out for not vetting Fuckface Von Clownstick properly and subsequently reaping more money with him as president.
re: #358 teleskiguy
They laser focused on jokes Michelle Wolf told that they perceive as personal attacks on individuals. The media is mostly silent of her final tirade where she called them out for not vetting Fuckface Von Clownstick properly and subsequently reap more money with him as president.
Yup.
Aversion in action.
Well, who didn’t expect that
JUST IN: White House Correspondents’ Association: Michelle Wolf’s routine was “not in the spirit” of our mission https://t.co/HGsY8f50ew pic.twitter.com/ak1S2WZKUV
— The Hill (@thehill) April 30, 2018
re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth
More than a few encounters in that room where you could cut the tension with a knife. Oh to be a fly on the wall!
This is an embarrassment. Not in the spirit of our mission of a vigorous and free press is a White House that makes a mockery of the concept on a daily basis. What a comedian had to say during a roast is irrelevant. pic.twitter.com/FjHi4Gi3va
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) April 30, 2018
re: #359 freetoken
Still… it was beautiful. Michelle Wolf took her comedy to level I think is the most admirable, the act was an absolute good. This tweet kind of summed it up for me.
There’s a thing in abusive households called the “cone of silence”.
No one talks about it. The idea of saying the thing out loud is excruciatingly uncomfortable.
Last night, Michelle Wolf said it out loud.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 29, 2018
re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Did you ask him if he sang “Having My Baby” to A.J. Delgado?
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) April 30, 2018
Yesterday afternoon my dog and I came across a wedding party taking photos in a park by my house, a wedding party filled with little girls in dresses. He loves little girls, so he was captivated by the scene. He observed them for a while, then went over to introduce himself. pic.twitter.com/nygNd3RgMc
— Brett Michael (@thecajunboy) April 29, 2018
re: #360 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Well, who didn’t expect that
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Well, maybe if they bothered to research who they hired…
Ah fuck it.
Media and research is dead.
Back to the Joy Reid thingie for a minute.
What is up with this Hayley Miller from HuffPo? She really seems to have her claws out for Joy. She’s now written five lengthy diatribes, the latest castigating Joy’s supporters for not further vilifying her. And, if I remember correctly, she, Miller, is supposedly the only reporter who claims to have been in touch personally with “Jamie Maz.”
Something smells funny about her obsession with Joy.
I think we’ve all seen this movie.
It doesn’t end well for a lot of people
The spike in activity has puzzled scientists who closely monitor Yellowstone - the crown jewel of the national park system that rests on top of a violent supervolcano measuring 44 miles across. https://t.co/isr7XQKped
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) April 30, 2018
re: #360 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Well, who didn’t expect that
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The DC Press Corpse will make up for it next year by hiring Yakov Smirnoff live from Branson.
re: #370 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Well, we’re boned.
re: #370 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Shit. I’m in the zone where day will just turn to night forever and we’ll slowly freeze to death. If that thing blew, I’d rather be in Jackson or Driggs. Vaporisation.
Last night, I decided to watch some old James Bond movies I don’t remember ever seeing. First up: Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
Horrible. It looked like a TV movie, and I could tell Connery was just phoning in his performance, because by that time he’d already decided to quit as 007. Also, the two guys playing the hitmen were portrayed as gay, but in such offensive, stereotypic ways I can understand why this flick is rarely seen on cable now.
Seeing Jill St. John in a bikini was a plus, though.
re: #374 wheat-dogg
Last night, I decided to watch some old James Bond movies I don’t remember ever seeing. First up: Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
Horrible. It looked like a TV movie, and I could tell Connery was just phoning in his performance, because by that time he’d already decided to quit as 007. Also, the two guys playing the hitmen were portrayed as gay, but in such offensive, stereotypic ways I can understand why this flick is rarely seen on cable now.
Seeing Jill St. John in a bikini was a plus, though.
And Jimmy Dean as Willard (Howard Hughes) Whyte…
re: #372 Varek Raith
Well, we’re boned.
Here’s your answer to global warming and you’re all “we’re boned….” ///
re: #370 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Like all the rest of the movies, scientists will be ignored.
re: #375 Joe Bacon 🌹
And Jimmy Dean as Willard (Howard Hughes) Whyte…
Yeah! Been ages since I thought of him.
he’s nuts
Headline: “Kim Prepared to Cede Nuclear Weapons if U.S. Pledges Not to Invade” - from the Failing New York Times. Also, will shut down Nuclear Test Site in May.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018
The comments of people like Andrea Mitchell today drove home the point that they wish to continue to be “insiders” above all else. All of this calls into question what’s darker and *not* being reported so as to not alienate the scum in charge. Unbelievable times
— Edward Kocur (@EdwardKocurJr) April 30, 2018
Yes. On one hand, we have some journalists dealing with serious threats to both their safety and to a free press. That’s a real issue.
But we also have gutless reporters bowing to a proto-autocrat in return for…what? Access? Cash? “Success” based on a morally bankrupt metric? https://t.co/RaGVkhEiu1— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 30, 2018
#WHCA Statement to Members on Annual Dinner pic.twitter.com/8DKoHNxpNi
— WHCA (@whca) April 30, 2018
This horrendous statement should be a good call for a recommitment to not playing footsie with this administration—instead valuing reporters who do deep dives on its members and their effect on us, then asking fearless questions, relationships be damned.https://t.co/zxQRcgGrXk
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 30, 2018
I too found the #WHCA apology sickening. It played a more degrading game than footsie with the Trump administration. Shame on whoever thought this letter appropriate. https://t.co/ay1Im4V7sK
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 30, 2018
#WHCA Statement to Members on Annual Dinner pic.twitter.com/8DKoHNxpNi
— WHCA (@whca) April 30, 2018
“Shocked, shocked we were that the edgy political comedian we booked for our event had a presentation full of edgy political comedy.” https://t.co/hmefKtuMxU
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 30, 2018
Access journalism has always been a problem, it’s not new.
Indeed, 100 years ago Presidents could do basically what they wanted without the press really knowing what was going on. Only the other politicians in DC and lobbyists that hung around them could really know what was going on in the government.
Here in 2018 we’ve grown accustomed to instant everything, but it is pretty clear that the truth, whatever that is, is hardly instant.
I’m cynical enough about our society by now to think that frankly most Americans just don’t care what Trump does as long as they are allowed to go about their daily routine as usual. Why should they care if someone they will never know gets deported? Why should they care if some person never gets into a hospital because of costs, if they don’t know that person?
This is why Trump is President today: because a great many Americans just don’t care.
re: #382 Backwoods_Sleuth
She covered that base in her act.
Yeah, shoulda done more research before you got me to do this.
Did anyone verify if that POTUS (Obama, naturally ) to Kanye was real?
Cuz I doubt it.
re: #385 Stanley Sea
Did anyone verify if that POTUS (Obama, naturally ) to Kanye was real?
Cuz I doubt it.
it wasn’t in Obama’s TL
re: #385 Stanley Sea
It’s fake. Obama wouldn’t do that, he’s too careful.
The 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and a twice Acting-Surgeon General of the United States
For context, the 20th is currently serving. I would add that five other Acting-SGOTUS, that served with in the time span of the 15th-20th did not sign on
BREAKING: 6 Former US Surgeon Generals take on Trump’s fallacies used to attack transgender troops and attempts to disallow them from serving. https://t.co/Rkw30jwPMi
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) April 30, 2018
re: #387 teleskiguy
It’s fake. Obama wouldn’t do that, he’s too careful.
Too above it all. Shit, he’s probably parasailing.
re: #362 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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On the drive over, I wondered what would happen if the WHCA put out an apology like this. I really should have been wondering when it would happen, because I knew that journalists have spines of vermicelli when “access” is on the line.
What’s the most disgusting part of it all is they’ve effectively thrown Michelle to the wolves (no pun intended), trying to act as though they were caught totally unaware of who it was they brought in to do jokes. I may have to agree that it’s time to put an end to the WHCD if this is the sort of chickenshit attitude that greets the least bit of criticism.
re: #381 jaunte
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They say…
Each day, we work to ensure that the men and women who cover the White House have the ability to seek answers from powerful officials, up to and including the President.
But they leave out “We don’t care if the answers are truthful or pure bullshit, and just don’t say anything mean about Sarah Huckabee and the lies she tells, or we’ll have to call you out, because it’s all about the access, baby.”
“What Mr Donald Duck did in mocking Herr Hitler went above and beyond the boundaries of decency, and we at the White House Correspondents Association completely apologize for this outrageous performance.” https://t.co/QHuRKqVjNd
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 30, 2018
re: #392 BeachDem
They say…
“Each day, we work to ensure that the men and women who cover the White House have the ability toseek answers from powerful officials, up to and including the President.recite the latest Republican Party talking points”.Fixed it for those liars.
And so, next year they’ll do as they did after Colbert killed it in ‘06: They’ll massively overcompensate by bringing in a “safe” and “nonpolitical” comedian who will get panned but will leave journalists feeling comfortable again that their biases are not being questioned.
re: #289 gocart mozart
Not sure that is real. I can’t find it in Obama’s Twitter feed.
It’s by @ electorotting, not Obama, sad to say.
I was looking for a cheap MacBook for my gf—anybody know what’s wrong with Craigslist? It takes every page forever to load—doesn’t even show on MenuMeters. Searches always come up in gallery—you can hit “list” till your finger falls off, but it comes back up in gallery. The first thumbnail isn’t finished loading after 15 minutes. Tried killing my VPN—no difference. Tried Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome—same thing. Rebooted—same thing. Every other site is fine.
re: #390 Targetpractice
I doubt Michelle will care much about the WHCA. If anything, she’s going to become a rallying point.
However, the vermicelli, on the other hand, are going to be ridiculed by everyone. Not only will they continue to be pissed on by Trump (he’s into that kind of thing we hear), but now even more people in general will deride them.
And other journalists will see an opening to start to look at their own profession with another perspective. It’s a competitive business, and I’m sure there are a lot of up-and-comers who will want to make their mark.
re: #391 teleskiguy
Never too early to take up snow skiing! 😎
Case in point. The man didn’t start skiing until his mid-40s.
A white guy with an AR-15 killed 4 blacks at a Waffle House. Trump never said a word about it. And the media let him slide.
A comedian told some jokes at a dinner, and the media are outraged.— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 30, 2018
re: #397 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I was looking for a cheap MacBook for my gf—anybody know what’s wrong with Craigslist? It takes every page forever to load—doesn’t even show on MenuMeters. Searches always come up in gallery—you can hit “list” till your finger falls off, but it comes back up in gallery. The first thumbnail isn’t finished loading after 15 minutes. Tried killing my VPN—no difference. Tried Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome—same thing. Rebooted—same thing. Every other site is fine.
I’m starting to note that several pages that I frequent are now getting slowed down.
Thanks, Ajat Pai!
trump has more self pity than all the susan hayward weepies put together
re: #397 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I was looking for a cheap MacBook for my gf—anybody know what’s wrong with Craigslist? It takes every page forever to load—doesn’t even show on MenuMeters. Searches always come up in gallery—you can hit “list” till your finger falls off, but it comes back up in gallery. The first thumbnail isn’t finished loading after 15 minutes. Tried killing my VPN—no difference. Tried Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome—same thing. Rebooted—same thing. Every other site is fine.
Try here groups.google.com It’s a Mac oriented swapping/selling mail list. Everything from old Apple II to the latest Mac’s move on it. Put up a WTB ad (after reading the FAQs) and you’ll probably find something in your budget range.
re: #403 William Lewis
But don’t buy anything too old. My daughter’s MacBook is now close to 15 years old. It still runs OK, but she cannot update the OS. Get one built in the last three or four years.
Hannibal Buress: The comic who kindled the Cosby firestorm
By Tre’vell Anderson Dec 31, 2015
Just over a year ago, a comedy routine by Hannibal Buress changed the lives of nearly 50 women.
“Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the ’80s,” Buress said during a show at a Philadelphia comedy club, mocking Bill Cosby. “Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby. So turn the crazy down a couple notches.”
latimes.com
re: #404 wheat-dogg
But don’t buy anything too old. My daughter’s MacBook is now close to 15 years old. It still runs OK, but she cannot update the OS. Get one built in the last three or four years.
Also check the Apple Support pages to see the models that are no longer supported for repair purposes.Generally applies to products that were discontinued more than 5 years ago.
re: #404 wheat-dogg
But don’t buy anything too old. My daughter’s MacBook is now close to 15 years old. It still runs OK, but she cannot update the OS. Get one built in the last three or four years.
Yeah, my “Early 2009” Whitebook is stuck on El Capitan. Sierra’s big feature was Siri on the Mac, which I would never use, and High Sierra’s is a new file system that’s incompatible with hard disks, so screw ‘em anyway.
re: #402 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
trump has more self pity than all the susan hayward weepies put together
Heh—“I Want to Live,” the weepiest of them all, was on TCM tonight.
From the 2015 #WHCD—->Sketching the White House Correspondents’ Dinner https://t.co/uRWmFGwNcI pic.twitter.com/LQ8WfYdIIi
— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) April 29, 2018
re: #409 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Yeah, my “Early 2009” Whitebook is stuck on El Capitan. Sierra’s big feature was Siri on the Mac, which I would never use, and High Sierra’s is a new file system that’s incompatible with hard disks, so screw ‘em anyway.
Also, High Sierra’s new file system is only compatible with solid state hard drives. My Mac Mini with a fusion drive had major problems when I tried to upgrade. I was glad an Apple Store genius was able to realign the Fusion Drive to get it going again!
re: #412 Joe Bacon 🌹
Also, High Sierra’s new file system is only compatible with solid state hard drives. My Mac Mini with a fusion drive had major problems when I tried to upgrade. I was glad an Apple Store genius was able to realign the Fusion Drive to get it going again!
My son has offered to install Linux on his sister’s MacBook to make it more useful, but she’s shopping for a new PC for the family.
re: #412 Joe Bacon 🌹
Also, High Sierra’s new file system is only compatible with solid state hard drives. My Mac Mini with a fusion drive had major problems when I tried to upgrade. I was glad an Apple Store genius was able to realign the Fusion Drive to get it going again!
Yeah, that’s what I meant. It will format your hard disk in the old filesystem if that’s what you have. I’m not sold on storage with no moving parts that actually wears out!
What I want is a “Mid-2012” MacBook Pro—the last one with a hard disk and an optical drive. They actually sold them till October 2016, so it should be a few years before they’re unusable.
re: #413 wheat-dogg
My son has offered to install Linux on his sister’s MacBook to make it more useful, but she’s shopping for a new PC for the family.
Linux as in “write your own OS on the fly if you want it to do anything”? No thanks. And if a PC is the only remaining choice, I’ll just stop using a computer altogether—I’m old enough that I consider it a luxury….
re: #414 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
My iMac is ancient, a relic of an era gone by…
My PowerMac (the original 17” version) is downright antediluvian.
re: #395 Targetpractice
And so, next year they’ll do as they did after Colbert killed it in ‘06: They’ll massively overcompensate by bringing in a “safe” and “nonpolitical” comedian who will get panned but will leave journalists feeling comfortable again that their biases are not being questioned.
or bring in a noncomedian like Dennis Miller.
re: #417 BlueSpotinAL
or bring in a noncomedian like Dennis Miller.
Speaking of which, he seems to be trending on Twitter. Can someone else find out why so I don’t have to? -_-
re: #416 freetoken
My iMac is ancient, a relic of an era gone by…
My PowerMac (the original 17” version) is downright antediluvian.
I’ve still got an Indigo slot-loading iMac running Tiger—works fine, but anything web-related is hopeless on it now—mainly because of the PPC rather than the OS.
re: #415 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Linux as in “write your own OS on the fly if you want it to do anything”? No thanks. And if a PC is the only remaining choice, I’ll just stop using a computer altogether—I’m old enough that I consider it a luxury….
Pretty much. My daughter is pretty good with computers, but not on the level of wanting to deal with Linux and its many quirks. Their existing Windoze laptop is also getting long in tooth and Wheat-Dogg Jr and I are advising them on what would make a good replacement. Wheat-Doggette is comfortable with both Mac and Windows, but her husband is more of a Windows guy. Plus, Macs for all their swoopy tech and ease of use are still more expensive than a similar Windows machine.
re: #418 Interesting Times
Speaking of which, he seems to be trending on Twitter. Can someone else find out why so I don’t have to? -_-
Dennis Miller tweeted something stupid about how he could make mean jokes that would kill just as much as Michelle Wolf’s. Why he should start writing killer jokes now after 20 years is still a mystery.
re: #418 Interesting Times
Speaking of which, he seems to be trending on Twitter. Can someone else find out why so I don’t have to? -_-
He claims that he will have a new set of “jokes” to slam Michelle on Wednesday…
re: #417 BlueSpotinAL
or bring in a noncomedian like Dennis Miller.
Even before 9/11 drove him crazy, he was funny as an access. I always thought he could profit from a really serious beating.
re: #424 Interesting Times
I saw that, but figured it was (literally) yesterday’s news. Therefore, I thought his trending *now* was due to something even more pathetic and cringe-worthy…
Gotta wait till Wednesday for that…
re: #419 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I’ve still got an Indigo slot-loading iMac running Tiger—works fine, but anything web-related is hopeless on it now—mainly because of the PPC rather than the OS.
I want to get my grubbies on a cheap G4 Mac Mini so I can run MorphOS on it. Just for giggles and to see how a PPC works as a sort of Amiga ;)
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