I can’t unhear it.
Also, now I’m afraid to fall asleep, in the “Can’t sleep–clown will eat me” sense.
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Eric U.
@ThresherK: I’m pretty sure the republican clowns will harvest your organs if you fall asleep as per a tweet yesterday from Erick son of Erick. So there’s also that reason to remain wakeful.
It’s times like these that make me glad I’m not traveling abroad. Foreigners must be aghast at the fuck dumbedness of the American political system. How a Never Has Been and Never Really Was One can become the face of 1 of only 2 major polical parties is just mind-blowing.
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sukabi
Pretty sure there wasn’t much creative editing to get that result.
Going to be interesting over the next couple of days to see what Donald does with this yoooouge, clASSY endorsement. It might finally put to rest if he’s running a serious campaign or if he’s just trolling the GOP and the rest of the country.
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The Moar You Know
It was the most truthful thing Obama has said (so far) about the modern conservative movement and boy, I guess it climbed right up their asses and stayed there, because they’re all still furious about it.
@SiubhanDuinne: I love pedantry as much as the next guy, but if wasn’t afraid to fall asleep before, and I am now, doesn’t now belong in there someplace?
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catclub
@Bubblegum Tate: The last line in that article, that after her speech the Trump campaign wanted less to do with her, is tantalizing. Not making it clear at the next event whether she skipped out or they did not want her, should lead to hurt feelings.
Here’s hoping.
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sukabi
@Bubblegum Tate: More than likely it was a mutually agreed upon decision, ie, Trump told her to go take care of her family issues and may have given her a wad of cash to GO DO IT!!!
Win, win for both of them. Sarah gets what she’s really after, and Trump gets rid of her.
12.
dlm
I woke up to her screechy, incoherent speech on NPR this morning. It was not a good start to the day. I wish this woman would go back to her hole.
13.
Hope
I do live abroad, and yes, people think we’re batshit insane. And who could disagree?
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jl
@dlm: I wasn’t listening to NPR, but an extended sound clip of Palin seemed obligatory on the radio news this morning.
Seems like she feels that she has to ever increase the crazy, the incoherent, and the screech to make an impression.
@Hope: No one with a functioning brain, and a scintilla of knowledge of American politics.
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Princess (now General) Leia
NYT is reporting Trump campaign has said she’ll be his running mate…
18.
dedc79
Take a look at Rubio’s 3-2-1 (Contact!) plan for the nomination. It is hilarious, mostly because the South Carolina part is pure fantasy.
19.
Dork
I find it unpossible that Trump’s campaign just decided after one day to ditch the bitch. Unless his advisors were all living in a hermetically sealed underground bunker in Antofagasta the past 8 years, they could not have possibly been the slightest bit surprised at the train wreck and media eye-rolling they were accepting by bringing the Yeehaw Yeti on board. No way they just gave up after one day of great media coverage.
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.
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Germy
LOLGOP @LOLGOP 17h17 hours ago
FUN FACT: Sarah Palin is in the middle of a run-on sentence she began the day before she was elected mayor of Wassalia.
Was only able to watch a little of Palins speech. But it was fun to watch the growing expression on Trumps face, like “WTF is she talking about? Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea…”
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Germy
LOLGOP @LOLGOP 22h22 hours ago
Watching your party run off with Trump must be what it’s like to watch your bride leave the wedding reception with the DJ.
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jl
@dedc79: A 3-4-oblivion outcome is more likely in the first three.
It’s like Rubio looked at the Rudy strategy, and decided that doing marginally better than Rudy would be good enough for the nomination. Odd reasoning, IMHO.
Rubio may be grifting, or just a practice run. It seems like a campaign that is designed to look serious, not do badly enough to hurt him in subsequent years, but not to actually win anything.
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Punchy
@jl: “unelectable” is putting it mildly. That would be grounds for the RNC to pull Convention shenanigans and nommy the Rubio/Nugent ticket over Trump. Not only would Trump/Palin lose in assuredly historic amounts, it would (or should) cast the GOP as so absurdly unserious about governing that the Senate could flip, too. Could, would, should….sigh.
It was so nice when Caribou Barbie’s career was back in the shadows. Now Trump has slapped some more lipstick and glitter on that pig and she’s reanimated. sigh.
We will never be rid of her.
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catclub
This is wonderful!
“Maybe the Tea Party isn’t splintered and weak,” wrote National Review’s Jim Geraghty. “Maybe it’s dead.” His colleague Charles C.W. Cooke wondered if the Tea Party had instead descended from movement to racket. “Today was the day that Rick Santelli’s famous yelp finally melted into populism and avarice,” he argued. “Today, at about 10 minutes past six, P. T. Barnum beat out Hayek for the soul of the insurgent right. Today, the rebels became the charlatans they had set out to depose.”
He is only about 6 years late to THAT realization.
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catclub
@Germy: Wassalalia! I learned a new word. And I made it myself.
Thanks.
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Matt McIrvin
@donnah: Based on today’s news, it sounds as if the Trump campaign dropped Palin like a hot potato after that speech.
@jl: At least Rudy was leading in national polls for a long time, with percentages sometimes in the high 20s IIRC. Rubio last lead the national polls last April or so, and hasn’t polled above 15%.
Well, he has until May 6 to change his mind and start running again for his current sinecure.
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Just Some Fuckhead
@Roger Moore: Just because you don’t understand Evangelical Wingnut doesn’t mean it’s incoherent.
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dedc79
@jl: yeah i’m predicting 3-3-4-spend more time with family.
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Punchy
@Matt McIrvin: An alternate explanation is that her family is incapable of staying out of jail, and Baked Alaska had to go front some scratch to keep her ammosexual spawn from making love to his cellmate.
I like this. However, I cant believe we’re back to inventing new nicknames for this trollop.
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Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: If I never see or hear the “also, too” construction for the rest of my natural life I will be quite content.
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dedc79
@Calouste: At which point he’ll have to explain why the good people of Florida should reelect him for a job he never showed up for, admitted he hates, and claims to be pointless.
Here is a sentence that I still cannot quite figure out.
If a nontrivial percentage of culturally conservative white voters no longer sees a meaningful connection between limited government and their values, interests, or even livelihoods, that’s going to be a problem for the right that outlasts Trump.
It appeared in The Week. I _think_ that ‘limited government’ is the placeholder for ‘drown government in a bathtub’
that the libertarians profess. But I am not sure.
@catclub: Anyone hired by the National Socialist Review is a bit slow. Six years might be generous, too.
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Amir Khalid
@Matt McIrvin:
Pity. The Donald and La Sarah would have made a good match, having in common that not-too-common combination of popular appeal and a complete lack of readiness for public office.
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peach flavored shampoo
@chopper: I dont get it. Why is that misspelling (pronounciation?) funny?
@peach flavored shampoo:
It’s an over-the-top clever use of echolalia.Reason the umpteenth I keep coming to this joint, despite the lousy beer selection.
Could Obama — a former president of the Harvard Law Review who will be 55 years old as he starts his post-White House life — be tempted by the high court?
“I think being a justice is a little bit too monastic for me,” he told The New Yorker in October 2014. “Particularly after having spent six years and what will be eight years in this bubble, I think I need to get outside a little bit more.”
The example of the two Democratic presidents before him — Carter and Clinton, who both launched foundations that are respected beyond America’s borders — could serve as a guide for Obama.
Persistent rumors also suggest he could be interested in teaching courses at Columbia University in New York, where he studied in the early 1980s.
“I love teaching. I miss the classroom and engaging with students,” he told The New Yorker.
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Villago Delenda Est
@chopper: I’m doing my part. I dropped it (with credit to catclub) over at Wonkette.
Well, he has until May 6 to change his mind and start running again for his current sinecure.
1) He won in 2010 – not a Presidential year – against turncoat Crist. This year is likely to be tougher.
2) He has promised he will not run again. I think I will take his word on that.
@dedc79: Rubio doesn’t have to explain anything to the good people of Florida, because they won’t vote for him. He also doesn’t have to explain anything to the bad people of Florida, because they would vote for a dead raccoon as long as it has an (R) behind its name. Of course, there will be other candidates in the GOP Primary, but Rubio could carry over money from his presidential campaign and PACs to his senate run and blow them out of the water.
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trollhattan
I’m plowing through the transcript [why, I cannot begin to explain] and there are so many delightful chalupas del Palin I simply can’t pick a favorite.
Trump’s candidacy. It has exposed not just that tragic the ramifications of that betrayal of the transformation of our country, but too, he has exposed the complicity on both sides of the aisle that has enabled it, OK?
Well, Trump, what he’s been able to do, which is really ticking people off, which I’m glad about, he’s going rogue left and right, man. That’s why he’s doing so well. He’s been able to tear the veil off this idea of the system. The way that the system really works and please hear me on this. I want you guys to understand more and more how the system, the establishment, works and has gotten us into the troubles that we are in — in America.
The second graf reminds me of live Janis Joplin performances when she’d halt mid-song to rap. Believe she was on heroin at the time.
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ruemara
@peach flavored shampoo: glossolalia – the phenomenon of speaking in unintelligible tongues
Wassalalia – Palin speech.
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Betty Cracker
@dedc79: I believe that escape route is closed as Rubio has already indicated he’s not running for reelection. All that remains now is to see if the Democratic Party of Florida can fumble away a chance to gain a senate seat by nominating Alan Grayson.
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Brachiator
Trump and Palin next to each other … The new American Gothic.
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Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: It’s all the same fucking day, maaaaaaaan!
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Mike J
@trollhattan: I thought it was a variant of glossolalia, speaking in tongues.
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ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne: That’s from ‘enry ‘iggins’ song, ain’t it? Good call!
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gbear
It’ll be interesting to see, if Trump has really dumped Sarah, if Cruz tries to get her onto his team just for the spite of it. I wouldn’t put it past Cruz.
My guess is that Trump dumped her because he was pissed off that her son was making headlines for battery at the exact moment that he was raving about her great family. Haha. Oopie.
@gbear: She’s introducing Trump now. Guardian is streaming it, but I decided not to watch.
According to the Guardian, she blamed her son’s arrest to PTSD which was caused by the President treating Illegals better than veterans.
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HinTN
@peach flavored shampoo: echolalia is a psychosis wherein the sufferer repeats everything said before/to them. I’m still failing to diagnose wtf Wasillalia is but we sure know what it looks like (and can laugh and point).
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Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: I have one word for that explanation of her spawn’s behavior.
PUH-LEEEZE.
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HinTN
@trollhattan: oops, should have kept reading instead of jumping in. glossolalia was also to the point.
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Amir Khalid
@gbear:
If Der Donald dumped La Sarah because Track was becoming an embarrassment, Le Ted* would have to be really stupid to pick her up on the rebound. So, of course, I could certainly see it happening
* Since he.’s Canadian
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The Moar You Know
At which point he’ll have to explain why the good people of Florida should reelect him for a job he never showed up for, admitted he hates, and claims to be pointless.
I honestly had never heard that referred to as an “Irish goodbye.” I’ve heard it called “taking French leave,” but I read a lot of historical fiction.
Having Irish relatives and having married into an Irish family, I think people have it backwards. An Irish goodbye is saying goodbye and then never fucking leaving. Seriously, the family at G’s cousin’s wedding lingered so long after the official end of the reception that the hotel staff started vacuuming the room … AND THEY STILL DIDNT LEAVE. Eventually, the staff gave up and let people leave on their own. (It was at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, so they’re fully staffed 24/7 for the casino.)
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Mnemosyne
D’oh! I accidentally used a forbidden word. Will a kindly front pager release me from moderation, please?
A lot of this speech is the same as yesterday in Iowa. “No, we won’t chill. In fact it’s time to drill, baby, drill down.”……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Of course, having taken the trouble to write that kind of line, it would be a shame only to use it once.
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Princess (now General) Leia
Why would Trump not select her as his VP? Who else would he choose?
There were unsubstantiated rumors that Sarah was born in Canada, too, back when she was running for VP. It would be funny to have a double-birther team.
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vhh
@Punchy: You can dream, but if the Dems nominate the affable, pure thinking ol Uncle Bernie, within 24 hours we will be back to 1930s Germany. The GOP will turn Bernie into a wild-eyed, senile 75 year old Communist class warrior out to nationalize our Medicare, banks, and everything else, increasing the overall net tax rate to 90%. Dem office holders will rush to join Democrats for Trump to proclaim their patriotism. Trump will vow to make English the only official language of the US, and Christianity the state religion. Mobs will cheer the news, and then rush out to burn down mosques, synagogues, and Buddhist, Sikh, and Hindu temples. Once the GOP controls all the branches of government, they might finally give us Single Payer with permanent banning of abortion and contraception for unmarried people.
Think it can’t happen here? Go to Youtube and watch Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl’s propagandasm about the 1934 Nührenberg Nazi party rally. The Führer flies over the city in an airplane and is greeted by enthusiastic crowds at the airport and along his motorcade route. The introductory speakers exalt him and how he is Making Germany Great Again. He calls for national unity and hard work to rebuild the economy and a society free of class warfare. .
Handpicked McCain stooge Sarah Palin now gonna tell us all about fighting The System (maaann). LOL.
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Amir Khalid
@Princess (now General) Leia:
According to Wikipedia, Joseph Hazelwood still has his master mariner’s licence, although he hasn’t captained a ship since that incident.
ETA: He might make a good Secretary of Transportation.
If true, fuck her, fuck her children, fuck everyone in Alaska for voting for her and everyone who follows her on Twitter and who interviewed her with throwing vomit in her face. Seriously. Fuck her.
(I blame my outburst on having to get up in the morning and go to work).
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trollhattan
@HinTN:
I think we can have ALL THE LALIAS, Katie.
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sparrow
@vhh: You glossed over the part where Germany was in the throes of a really crushing depression, 1 million unemployed, practically no imports, a famine, a depreciating currency, and people physically weak with hunger and seeing no way out. Americans may not be better than Germans, but I don’t think this situation is remotely parallel.
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trollhattan
@Betty Cracker: @Chris:
Heh. Maybe Sarah can tour with Kris Kristofferson. She could use her mad skilz to flag a diesel down.
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Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: He deployed to Iraq two months before the 2008 election.
No! Actually, it’s by the 17th-century English poet Samuel Butler (I had to double-check, because I always think it’s Alexander Pope).
From the same source, Butler’s Canto I:
For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happen’d to break off
I’ th’ middle of his speech, or cough,
H’ had hard words,ready to show why,
And tell what rules he did it by;
Else, when with greatest art he spoke,
You’d think he talk’d like other folk,
For all a rhetorician’s rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.
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Peale
According to the Guardian, she blamed her son’s arrest to PTSD which was caused by the President treating Illegals better than veterans.
@Peale: I’m still seeing people blaming veteran homelessness on Obama, even though veteran homelessness has dramatically dropped specifically because of Obama administration policy. And, yes, it somehow has something to do with illegal immigrants.
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Litlebritdifrnt
Ireland called they want their Banshee back.
Did you guys see MJ this morning? Mika kept wanting to talk about Palin and Joe was so embarrassed he wouldn’t let her. It was hilarious. When Chuck Todd started talking about Palin’s endorsement Joe was just shaking his head.
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Matt McIrvin
…And, whoops, I guess this means Trump hasn’t dropped Palin from his rallies.
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JPL
@Amir Khalid: Normally Trump and Palin just disgust me, but today I am feeling out and out hate.
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catclub
@Matt McIrvin: Another achievement undersold. That is a very big Biden deal.
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Peale
@Matt McIrvin:Please list the social groups who have more wussies and whiners than Right Wing Veterans. The police unions may be a distant second.
ETA: Is there no end to the nefarious powers of the hapless community organizer?
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beltane
OK, I’m in Italy right now, and I can honestly say we’ve managed to make Italian politics look staid and respectable. Heckuvajob GOP.
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Peale
@JPL: yep. I’m on the verge of typing a word that will get me banned.
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scav
@Peale: Well, Responsibility, Parties, sometimes all that Bitter-Bible-Clutching-In-A-Bottle-Blond-Battles means it’s all that other guys fault, Big Government Obama jackbooted thugs coming in and interfering in Christian family relationships too, which is not what we’re about, and what are the Second Amendment and Founding Fathers About if you can’t Clutch and Wave guns at law enforcement?!
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Germy
Saw this fine poem on LGM:
Roger Ailes says:
January 20, 2016 at 2:52 pm
There once was an ex-Mayor of Wasilla
Who said, “Trump’s totes the rill dill. Yah
Betcha, him and his Trumpteers
Ain’t no pussyfootin’ queers
Squirmish, ass-kick, okey, Donny, I’ll bill ya!”
Echolalia is “the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made by another person”. However, palilalia is repetitions by the same person, which also fits, and has the advantage of coming from the Greek root pálin, which is just too perfect.
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Gin & Tonic
@trollhattan: I’ve looked at that Wikipedia article and I’m a little skeptical. It says, with no reference, that he never had his master mariner’s license “revoked.” But a USCG master’s license is only good for 5 years. You have to renew it by submitting a drug test, undergoing a Homeland Security check and attesting to 360 days at sea in the preceding 5 years.
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Peale
@Cacti: Fuck him. Maybe she should spend some of that hard earned media whoring money she got over the years on treating her son rather than on her oxycontin fix and camo shoes.
@Gin & Tonic: Still lacks the true hidden essence of chaos, complexity and babble. I think I could reduce it and solve. But one can still dream of surfing the fractal front of textual elements. , ,
I am mightily tired of The Troops being the excuse for why we can never do anything for anyone (illegals, minimum wage workers, etc) because no matter their situation, The Troops had it worse and should get all the attention first. (Even though that attention vanishes as soon as The Troops no longer have leeches and moochers to be compared with).
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Tom Q
@Mnemosyne: Agree here. In my fairly large Irish family, whenever a group of us is leaving, we say to allow half an hour for the Irish Goodbye.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
Greg Sargent @ ThePlumLineGS 11m11 minutes ago
Just amazing. New Pew poll finds 56% of GOP voters think Trump would make great or good president:
@Tom Q: me too, it was just a couple years ago that I heard slipping out unnoticed is “the Irish good-bye”, in my family it as as you Mnem describe. Though the story is that my grandfather left his parents’ home for the US without telling them, leaving his brother and sister to do it for him, and that was pretty typical from what I understand, since the assumption was that they’d never see each other again. I wonder if that’s what it refers to (he left in ’25 or so, went back around thirty years later. HIs mother was alive but his father had died).
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Gravenstone
@trollhattan: Ho-leee shit! Those are actual words that tumbled forth from the Palin’s yap? I do believe I will continue with my conscious and active evasion of any and everything she chooses to utter. What little sanity I may have left will doubtless thank me.
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trollhattan
@Gravenstone:
The well is deep and of Flintlike quality. As a famous drunk lady used to say, “Let us savor.”
He, being an optimist, passionate about equal opportunity to work. The self-made success of his, he, you know that he doesn’t get his power, his high, off of O.P.M, other people’s money, like a lot of dopes in Washington do. They’re addicted to O.P.M., where they take other people’s money, and then their high is getting to redistribute it, right? And then, they get to be really popular people when they get to give out your hard money. Well, he doesn’t do that.
Sarah is lecturing us on getting high, so I suppose this is actually in her wheelhouse.
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JCT
@Princess (now General) Leia: He was talking up that nitwit Scott Brown recently. This whole thing is like very bad performance art.
I scanned the chyron quickly and read “AMES, IA” as “AMNESIA” in front of the Trump name (scrawled in big blue letters- that’s TRUMP!) In case it was missed. I think my initial visual impression was right on the mark…
@Matt McIrvin: That depends on if you define videogamers as “people who play video games”, who tend to be pretty sane and normal, or “people who insist that ‘gamers’ are a distinct culture”, most of whom tend toward being neither of those things.
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Matt McIrvin
@Mike J: The latter. Though we can perhaps expand it to “people who post a lot on videogame-related Internet forums.”
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Hoodie
@trollhattan: So I guess declaring bankruptcy and stiffing creditors doesn’t qualify as OPM..
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
@trollhattan: @Hoodie: or the campaign funds she took to Nieman-Marcus for some fancy new big city duds
Apparently Barack Obama had Track brainwashed while in the military so that Track will go all secret assassin whenever anyone asks him to pass the time with a little solitaire.
Either that or Obama used his Star Trek teleporter to get over to Alaska and put a samurai sword to Track’s head forcing him to punch his girlfriend and go DUI while possessing a gun.
This is where blaming Obama for EVERYTHING gets ridiculous to the point where every human being has to HAS TO point at Sarah Palin and tell her how wrong she is.
@trollhattan: Can you figure out whether Palin did booze talk from dope talk from meth talk from barb talk? If so, can you figure out two and three way combinations?
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farthestnorth
I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that our former half term governor followed up her deranged remarks last night with something even more stupid and offensive this morning, but Yikes! Blaming Obama, even obliquely, for her effed up kid’s latest eff up? Please go away, though now that she has had a whiff of media attention again I imagine she will get increasingly bombastic, if that is even possible.
” The Troops had it worse and should get all the attention first. ”
And how come the ‘Troops had it worse’? What political party used them like shovels until the handle broke and the blade bent, because, well, because, they could do that?
I remember patriotic GOPers who love to prate about the Warriors, when the Bush-Cheney disaster sent them off on endless and repeated deployments, saying that those chumps signed a contract, and they could be used just as the ruling class damn pleased that they be used. So, they should shut up and do it. No matter what it is.
The F them attitude was pretty blatant as I recall, when people started complaining about unreasonable demands on the ordinary troopers. They may have been glorious Warriors, but they were still disposable ‘lesser’ people.
Edit: which doesn’t excuse Track if he did beat up someone, threaten them with a gun, and then fall apart and get all suicidal, if the news report I read is correct.
@The Moar You Know: Sorry to be dense. What was it that Big O said that pissed off the conservatives?
Edited to say: Duh. How could I forget. Holding on bitterly to their guns and bibles or something like that, right?
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jl
@blueskies: probably the ‘they cling to their Bibles and their guns’ comment Obama made to some campaign volunteers back in 2008. I’m pretty sure that is what Palin was referring to.
Maybe it’s just me, but I have read the whole Bible and I have shot plenty of guns in my time, but I took no offense. But then, I am not ‘clingy’ about them either.
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nellcote
full quote in context:
“But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
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tones
@Roger Moore: and makes more sense as well as the bonus of rhyming…
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tones
@jl: I would like it to include : endless deployments all the while fighting in congress to lower the benefits they are entitled to when [if] they actually return.
The whole time they were patriot warrior-ing they were trying to gut the benefits.
Sleazeballs.
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MaryRC
@JPL: After her son’s girlfriend called the police, he called them himself to say that his girlfriend was drunk and they should ignore her.
Did PTSD make him do that, Sarah?
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boatboy_srq
@Eric U.: According to the tweet, the Son of Erick merely knows what it’s like to prevent a bathroom fixture from sleeping after it has donated an organ…
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ThresherK
I can’t unhear it.
Also, now I’m afraid to fall asleep, in the “Can’t sleep–clown will eat me” sense.
Eric U.
@ThresherK: I’m pretty sure the republican clowns will harvest your organs if you fall asleep as per a tweet yesterday from Erick son of Erick. So there’s also that reason to remain wakeful.
SiubhanDuinne
@ThresherK:
Sorry to be pedantic, but it’s “Also, too….”
Just Some Fuckhead
Is there anything Sarah Palin can’t do?
Face
It’s times like these that make me glad I’m not traveling abroad. Foreigners must be aghast at the fuck dumbedness of the American political system. How a Never Has Been and Never Really Was One can become the face of 1 of only 2 major polical parties is just mind-blowing.
sukabi
Pretty sure there wasn’t much creative editing to get that result.
Going to be interesting over the next couple of days to see what Donald does with this yoooouge, clASSY endorsement. It might finally put to rest if he’s running a serious campaign or if he’s just trolling the GOP and the rest of the country.
The Moar You Know
It was the most truthful thing Obama has said (so far) about the modern conservative movement and boy, I guess it climbed right up their asses and stayed there, because they’re all still furious about it.
Bubblegum Tate
Did Sarah Palin give Donald Trump the ol’ Irish Goodbye? Either way, it’s fantastic.
ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne: I love pedantry as much as the next guy, but if wasn’t afraid to fall asleep before, and I am now, doesn’t now belong in there someplace?
catclub
@Bubblegum Tate: The last line in that article, that after her speech the Trump campaign wanted less to do with her, is tantalizing. Not making it clear at the next event whether she skipped out or they did not want her, should lead to hurt feelings.
Here’s hoping.
sukabi
@Bubblegum Tate: More than likely it was a mutually agreed upon decision, ie, Trump told her to go take care of her family issues and may have given her a wad of cash to GO DO IT!!!
Win, win for both of them. Sarah gets what she’s really after, and Trump gets rid of her.
dlm
I woke up to her screechy, incoherent speech on NPR this morning. It was not a good start to the day. I wish this woman would go back to her hole.
Hope
I do live abroad, and yes, people think we’re batshit insane. And who could disagree?
jl
@dlm: I wasn’t listening to NPR, but an extended sound clip of Palin seemed obligatory on the radio news this morning.
Seems like she feels that she has to ever increase the crazy, the incoherent, and the screech to make an impression.
gogol's wife
@The Moar You Know:
Yes, can you believe it? It really hit a nerve.
Mike R
@Hope: No one with a functioning brain, and a scintilla of knowledge of American politics.
Princess (now General) Leia
NYT is reporting Trump campaign has said she’ll be his running mate…
dedc79
Take a look at Rubio’s 3-2-1 (Contact!) plan for the nomination. It is hilarious, mostly because the South Carolina part is pure fantasy.
Dork
I find it unpossible that Trump’s campaign just decided after one day to ditch the bitch. Unless his advisors were all living in a hermetically sealed underground bunker in Antofagasta the past 8 years, they could not have possibly been the slightest bit surprised at the train wreck and media eye-rolling they were accepting by bringing the Yeehaw Yeti on board. No way they just gave up after one day of great media coverage.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Princess (now General) Leia: Someone put Omarosa on suicide watch.
Marc
@Princess (now General) Leia:
You’re Fired / I Quit.
The perfect team! What dark sacrifices do we need to do to make it so?
msdc
Nice to see La Divina Palin is still dining out on that one thing Obama said eight years ago.
peach flavored shampoo
@Princess (now General) Leia: No way, unless the whole campaign is one big troll job. NYT is either snarking or has been hacked.
jl
@Princess (now General) Leia: So, you put two unreliable sources together and what do you get?
I don’t think that Trump campaign sources, even Trump himself, is reliable.Say whatever gets some free media.
But, if that transpires, would make a Trump ticket even more unelectable, which is a good thing. So, I hope it happens if Trump is the GOP nominee.
SiubhanDuinne
@ThresherK:
I should have said “Also, too, now….”
Honestly, this language.
Germy
Shell
Was only able to watch a little of Palins speech. But it was fun to watch the growing expression on Trumps face, like “WTF is she talking about? Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea…”
Germy
jl
@dedc79: A 3-4-oblivion outcome is more likely in the first three.
It’s like Rubio looked at the Rudy strategy, and decided that doing marginally better than Rudy would be good enough for the nomination. Odd reasoning, IMHO.
Rubio may be grifting, or just a practice run. It seems like a campaign that is designed to look serious, not do badly enough to hurt him in subsequent years, but not to actually win anything.
Punchy
@jl: “unelectable” is putting it mildly. That would be grounds for the RNC to pull Convention shenanigans and nommy the Rubio/Nugent ticket over Trump. Not only would Trump/Palin lose in assuredly historic amounts, it would (or should) cast the GOP as so absurdly unserious about governing that the Senate could flip, too. Could, would, should….sigh.
SiubhanDuinne
@Princess (now General) Leia:
OPLEEZOPLEEZOPLEEZOPLEEZOPLEEZ….
donnah
It was so nice when Caribou Barbie’s career was back in the shadows. Now Trump has slapped some more lipstick and glitter on that pig and she’s reanimated. sigh.
We will never be rid of her.
catclub
This is wonderful!
He is only about 6 years late to THAT realization.
catclub
@Germy: Wassalalia! I learned a new word. And I made it myself.
Thanks.
Matt McIrvin
@donnah: Based on today’s news, it sounds as if the Trump campaign dropped Palin like a hot potato after that speech.
Roger Moore
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Speak coherently.
Calouste
@jl: At least Rudy was leading in national polls for a long time, with percentages sometimes in the high 20s IIRC. Rubio last lead the national polls last April or so, and hasn’t polled above 15%.
Well, he has until May 6 to change his mind and start running again for his current sinecure.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Roger Moore: Just because you don’t understand Evangelical Wingnut doesn’t mean it’s incoherent.
dedc79
@jl: yeah i’m predicting 3-3-4-spend more time with family.
Punchy
@Matt McIrvin: An alternate explanation is that her family is incapable of staying out of jail, and Baked Alaska had to go front some scratch to keep her ammosexual spawn from making love to his cellmate.
chopper
@Princess (now General) Leia:
god doesn’t love us that much.
peach flavored shampoo
I like this. However, I cant believe we’re back to inventing new nicknames for this trollop.
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: If I never see or hear the “also, too” construction for the rest of my natural life I will be quite content.
dedc79
@Calouste: At which point he’ll have to explain why the good people of Florida should reelect him for a job he never showed up for, admitted he hates, and claims to be pointless.
chopper
@catclub:
perfect.
catclub
Here is a sentence that I still cannot quite figure out.
It appeared in The Week. I _think_ that ‘limited government’ is the placeholder for ‘drown government in a bathtub’
that the libertarians profess. But I am not sure.
chopper
@chopper:
seriously. this needs memeing.
Roger Moore
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Excuse me. She can’t speak coherently in English.
NonyNony
@Princess (now General) Leia: CNN is reporting that Trump is dodging that question – he claims he “hasn’t thought that far ahead yet”.
First thing to come out of his mouth in years that I actually believe.
Hungry Joe
Authentic tundra gibberish.
Villago Delenda Est
@Just Some Fuckhead: AOT, K.
Villago Delenda Est
@catclub: Anyone hired by the National Socialist Review is a bit slow. Six years might be generous, too.
Amir Khalid
@Matt McIrvin:
Pity. The Donald and La Sarah would have made a good match, having in common that not-too-common combination of popular appeal and a complete lack of readiness for public office.
peach flavored shampoo
@chopper: I dont get it. Why is that misspelling (pronounciation?) funny?
/old and clueless
trollhattan
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Just one: drop that crank pipe.
trollhattan
@peach flavored shampoo:
It’s an over-the-top clever use of echolalia.Reason the umpteenth I keep coming to this joint, despite the lousy beer selection.
Germy
What will Obama do after the White House?
Villago Delenda Est
@chopper: I’m doing my part. I dropped it (with credit to catclub) over at Wonkette.
Bubblegum Tate
@Germy:
As a DJ, I resent the comparison.
catclub
@Calouste:
1) He won in 2010 – not a Presidential year – against turncoat Crist. This year is likely to be tougher.
2) He has promised he will not run again. I think I will take his word on that.
Humboldtblue
@catclub: That’s very good.
Calouste
@dedc79: Rubio doesn’t have to explain anything to the good people of Florida, because they won’t vote for him. He also doesn’t have to explain anything to the bad people of Florida, because they would vote for a dead raccoon as long as it has an (R) behind its name. Of course, there will be other candidates in the GOP Primary, but Rubio could carry over money from his presidential campaign and PACs to his senate run and blow them out of the water.
trollhattan
I’m plowing through the transcript [why, I cannot begin to explain] and there are so many delightful chalupas del Palin I simply can’t pick a favorite.
The second graf reminds me of live Janis Joplin performances when she’d halt mid-song to rap. Believe she was on heroin at the time.
ruemara
@peach flavored shampoo: glossolalia – the phenomenon of speaking in unintelligible tongues
Wassalalia – Palin speech.
Betty Cracker
@dedc79: I believe that escape route is closed as Rubio has already indicated he’s not running for reelection. All that remains now is to see if the Democratic Party of Florida can fumble away a chance to gain a senate seat by nominating Alan Grayson.
Brachiator
Trump and Palin next to each other … The new American Gothic.
Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: It’s all the same fucking day, maaaaaaaan!
Mike J
@trollhattan: I thought it was a variant of glossolalia, speaking in tongues.
ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne: That’s from ‘enry ‘iggins’ song, ain’t it? Good call!
gbear
It’ll be interesting to see, if Trump has really dumped Sarah, if Cruz tries to get her onto his team just for the spite of it. I wouldn’t put it past Cruz.
My guess is that Trump dumped her because he was pissed off that her son was making headlines for battery at the exact moment that he was raving about her great family. Haha. Oopie.
Mike J
@trollhattan: Have you ever read the last words of Dutch Schultz?
JPL
@gbear: She’s introducing Trump now. Guardian is streaming it, but I decided not to watch.
According to the Guardian, she blamed her son’s arrest to PTSD which was caused by the President treating Illegals better than veterans.
HinTN
@peach flavored shampoo: echolalia is a psychosis wherein the sufferer repeats everything said before/to them. I’m still failing to diagnose wtf Wasillalia is but we sure know what it looks like (and can laugh and point).
Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: I have one word for that explanation of her spawn’s behavior.
PUH-LEEEZE.
HinTN
@trollhattan: oops, should have kept reading instead of jumping in. glossolalia was also to the point.
Amir Khalid
@gbear:
If Der Donald dumped La Sarah because Track was becoming an embarrassment, Le Ted* would have to be really stupid to pick her up on the rebound. So, of course, I could certainly see it happening
* Since he.’s Canadian
The Moar You Know
@dedc79: He’ll win in a landslide.
JPL
@Villago Delenda Est: Track had pre PTSD for the indiscretion that occurred before he entered the military.
I blame Obama for that also.
gbear
@JPL: Gah. Of course she is. Of course she does. I’ll just shut up now…
Betty Cracker
@JPL: Jesus Christ, she’s worse now than yesterday!
PS: Note to Adele’s lawyers — you need to issue a cease and desist order on the Trump campaign stat!
Mnemosyne
@Bubblegum Tate:
I honestly had never heard that referred to as an “Irish goodbye.” I’ve heard it called “taking French leave,” but I read a lot of historical fiction.
Having Irish relatives and having married into an Irish family, I think people have it backwards. An Irish goodbye is saying goodbye and then never fucking leaving. Seriously, the family at G’s cousin’s wedding lingered so long after the official end of the reception that the hotel staff started vacuuming the room … AND THEY STILL DIDNT LEAVE. Eventually, the staff gave up and let people leave on their own. (It was at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, so they’re fully staffed 24/7 for the casino.)
Mnemosyne
D’oh! I accidentally used a forbidden word. Will a kindly front pager release me from moderation, please?
JPL
@Betty Cracker:
From the Guardian..
Princess (now General) Leia
Why would Trump not select her as his VP? Who else would he choose?
JPL
@Princess (now General) Leia:
Carl Icahn Vice President
Sarah Palin Department of Education
Betty Cracker
@JPL: The whole thing seemed to be a regurgitation of 2008 applause lines.
Princess (now General) Leia
@JPL: ANd the Captain that crashed the Valdez will be head of the Dept of Energy!
Chris
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Yeah, win a national election.
Roger Moore
@trollhattan:
I assumed it was actually a reference to glossolalia, aka speaking in tongues, which Palin’s speech sometimes resembles.
JPL
@Princess (now General) Leia: Since Trump doesn’t drink, it makes sense that someone has to bring the liquor. Good choice.
Mike in NC
@Princess (now General) Leia: Meatloaf
nutella
@Amir Khalid:
There were unsubstantiated rumors that Sarah was born in Canada, too, back when she was running for VP. It would be funny to have a double-birther team.
vhh
@Punchy: You can dream, but if the Dems nominate the affable, pure thinking ol Uncle Bernie, within 24 hours we will be back to 1930s Germany. The GOP will turn Bernie into a wild-eyed, senile 75 year old Communist class warrior out to nationalize our Medicare, banks, and everything else, increasing the overall net tax rate to 90%. Dem office holders will rush to join Democrats for Trump to proclaim their patriotism. Trump will vow to make English the only official language of the US, and Christianity the state religion. Mobs will cheer the news, and then rush out to burn down mosques, synagogues, and Buddhist, Sikh, and Hindu temples. Once the GOP controls all the branches of government, they might finally give us Single Payer with permanent banning of abortion and contraception for unmarried people.
Think it can’t happen here? Go to Youtube and watch Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl’s propagandasm about the 1934 Nührenberg Nazi party rally. The Führer flies over the city in an airplane and is greeted by enthusiastic crowds at the airport and along his motorcade route. The introductory speakers exalt him and how he is Making Germany Great Again. He calls for national unity and hard work to rebuild the economy and a society free of class warfare. .
Chris
@trollhattan:
Handpicked McCain stooge Sarah Palin now gonna tell us all about fighting The System (maaann). LOL.
Amir Khalid
@Princess (now General) Leia:
According to Wikipedia, Joseph Hazelwood still has his master mariner’s licence, although he hasn’t captained a ship since that incident.
ETA: He might make a good Secretary of Transportation.
Peale
@JPL:
If true, fuck her, fuck her children, fuck everyone in Alaska for voting for her and everyone who follows her on Twitter and who interviewed her with throwing vomit in her face. Seriously. Fuck her.
(I blame my outburst on having to get up in the morning and go to work).
trollhattan
@HinTN:
I think we can have ALL THE LALIAS, Katie.
sparrow
@vhh: You glossed over the part where Germany was in the throes of a really crushing depression, 1 million unemployed, practically no imports, a famine, a depreciating currency, and people physically weak with hunger and seeing no way out. Americans may not be better than Germans, but I don’t think this situation is remotely parallel.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker: @Chris:
Heh. Maybe Sarah can tour with Kris Kristofferson. She could use her mad skilz to flag a diesel down.
Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: He deployed to Iraq two months before the 2008 election.
Somehow his PTSD is Obama’s fault.
SiubhanDuinne
@ThresherK:
No! Actually, it’s by the 17th-century English poet Samuel Butler (I had to double-check, because I always think it’s Alexander Pope).
From the same source, Butler’s Canto I:
Peale
I’m so tired of this meme. Really tired of it.
JCJ
@Peale:
Not with your (if male) or anyone else’s schlong, especially my own!
Villago Delenda Est
@sparrow: For 27%, having a blah President is damn near the same thing.
Amir Khalid
A Donaldish twist on “Both sides do it”.
Matt McIrvin
@Peale: I’m still seeing people blaming veteran homelessness on Obama, even though veteran homelessness has dramatically dropped specifically because of Obama administration policy. And, yes, it somehow has something to do with illegal immigrants.
Litlebritdifrnt
Ireland called they want their Banshee back.
Did you guys see MJ this morning? Mika kept wanting to talk about Palin and Joe was so embarrassed he wouldn’t let her. It was hilarious. When Chuck Todd started talking about Palin’s endorsement Joe was just shaking his head.
Matt McIrvin
…And, whoops, I guess this means Trump hasn’t dropped Palin from his rallies.
JPL
@Amir Khalid: Normally Trump and Palin just disgust me, but today I am feeling out and out hate.
catclub
@Matt McIrvin: Another achievement undersold. That is a very big Biden deal.
Peale
@Matt McIrvin:Please list the social groups who have more wussies and whiners than Right Wing Veterans. The police unions may be a distant second.
:
Cacti
I know everyone here will be shocked to learn that Sarah Palin has blamed her son’s girlfriend beating activities on Barack Obama.
ETA: Is there no end to the nefarious powers of the hapless community organizer?
beltane
OK, I’m in Italy right now, and I can honestly say we’ve managed to make Italian politics look staid and respectable. Heckuvajob GOP.
Peale
@JPL: yep. I’m on the verge of typing a word that will get me banned.
scav
@Peale: Well, Responsibility, Parties, sometimes all that Bitter-Bible-Clutching-In-A-Bottle-Blond-Battles means it’s all that other guys fault, Big Government Obama jackbooted thugs coming in and interfering in Christian family relationships too, which is not what we’re about, and what are the Second Amendment and Founding Fathers About if you can’t Clutch and Wave guns at law enforcement?!
Germy
Saw this fine poem on LGM:
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid:
That’s a bit of a surprise, because I thought you needed a certain number of hours at sea every year to maintain your credential.
beltane
@Cacti: In the old days that woman would have been referred to as a shameless hussy.
SiubhanDuinne
Someone on FB, re Palin’s endorsement speech: “It’s like a crossword puzzle exploded in her mouth.”
Love it.
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
If so, hopefully as the literal figurehead affixed to the bow.
“Tell us if you spot any shoals, Joe,”
Gin & Tonic
@scav: You’re good.
FlipYrWhig
@catclub: Wasillalia, haha. WIN.
{Do people still say that? Such win so [emoji].}
The Golux
@trollhattan:
Echolalia is “the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made by another person”. However, palilalia is repetitions by the same person, which also fits, and has the advantage of coming from the Greek root pálin, which is just too perfect.
Gin & Tonic
@trollhattan: I’ve looked at that Wikipedia article and I’m a little skeptical. It says, with no reference, that he never had his master mariner’s license “revoked.” But a USCG master’s license is only good for 5 years. You have to renew it by submitting a drug test, undergoing a Homeland Security check and attesting to 360 days at sea in the preceding 5 years.
Peale
@Cacti: Fuck him. Maybe she should spend some of that hard earned media whoring money she got over the years on treating her son rather than on her oxycontin fix and camo shoes.
Poor, poor, multimillionaire. Poor, poor multimillionaire.
scav
@Gin & Tonic: Still lacks the true hidden essence of chaos, complexity and babble. I think I could reduce it and solve. But one can still dream of surfing the fractal front of textual elements. , ,
Chris
@Peale:
I am mightily tired of The Troops being the excuse for why we can never do anything for anyone (illegals, minimum wage workers, etc) because no matter their situation, The Troops had it worse and should get all the attention first. (Even though that attention vanishes as soon as The Troops no longer have leeches and moochers to be compared with).
Tom Q
@Mnemosyne: Agree here. In my fairly large Irish family, whenever a group of us is leaving, we say to allow half an hour for the Irish Goodbye.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Tom Q: me too, it was just a couple years ago that I heard slipping out unnoticed is “the Irish good-bye”, in my family it as as you Mnem describe. Though the story is that my grandfather left his parents’ home for the US without telling them, leaving his brother and sister to do it for him, and that was pretty typical from what I understand, since the assumption was that they’d never see each other again. I wonder if that’s what it refers to (he left in ’25 or so, went back around thirty years later. HIs mother was alive but his father had died).
Gravenstone
@trollhattan: Ho-leee shit! Those are actual words that tumbled forth from the Palin’s yap? I do believe I will continue with my conscious and active evasion of any and everything she chooses to utter. What little sanity I may have left will doubtless thank me.
trollhattan
@Gravenstone:
The well is deep and of Flintlike quality. As a famous drunk lady used to say, “Let us savor.”
Sarah is lecturing us on getting high, so I suppose this is actually in her wheelhouse.
JCT
@Princess (now General) Leia: He was talking up that nitwit Scott Brown recently. This whole thing is like very bad performance art.
Richard Fox
I scanned the chyron quickly and read “AMES, IA” as “AMNESIA” in front of the Trump name (scrawled in big blue letters- that’s TRUMP!) In case it was missed. I think my initial visual impression was right on the mark…
ed_finnerty
@Shell: i thought the same thing
Matt McIrvin
@Peale: Videogamers.
Mike J
@Matt McIrvin: That depends on if you define videogamers as “people who play video games”, who tend to be pretty sane and normal, or “people who insist that ‘gamers’ are a distinct culture”, most of whom tend toward being neither of those things.
Matt McIrvin
@Mike J: The latter. Though we can perhaps expand it to “people who post a lot on videogame-related Internet forums.”
Hoodie
@trollhattan: So I guess declaring bankruptcy and stiffing creditors doesn’t qualify as OPM..
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@trollhattan: @Hoodie: or the campaign funds she took to Nieman-Marcus for some fancy new big city duds
PaulW
@Cacti:
Apparently Barack Obama had Track brainwashed while in the military so that Track will go all secret assassin whenever anyone asks him to pass the time with a little solitaire.
Either that or Obama used his Star Trek teleporter to get over to Alaska and put a samurai sword to Track’s head forcing him to punch his girlfriend and go DUI while possessing a gun.
This is where blaming Obama for EVERYTHING gets ridiculous to the point where every human being has to HAS TO point at Sarah Palin and tell her how wrong she is.
PaulW
@Mike J:
It’s a clue where he hid the Oak Island treasure.
jl
@trollhattan: Can you figure out whether Palin did booze talk from dope talk from meth talk from barb talk? If so, can you figure out two and three way combinations?
farthestnorth
I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that our former half term governor followed up her deranged remarks last night with something even more stupid and offensive this morning, but Yikes! Blaming Obama, even obliquely, for her effed up kid’s latest eff up? Please go away, though now that she has had a whiff of media attention again I imagine she will get increasingly bombastic, if that is even possible.
jl
@Chris:
” The Troops had it worse and should get all the attention first. ”
And how come the ‘Troops had it worse’? What political party used them like shovels until the handle broke and the blade bent, because, well, because, they could do that?
I remember patriotic GOPers who love to prate about the Warriors, when the Bush-Cheney disaster sent them off on endless and repeated deployments, saying that those chumps signed a contract, and they could be used just as the ruling class damn pleased that they be used. So, they should shut up and do it. No matter what it is.
The F them attitude was pretty blatant as I recall, when people started complaining about unreasonable demands on the ordinary troopers. They may have been glorious Warriors, but they were still disposable ‘lesser’ people.
Edit: which doesn’t excuse Track if he did beat up someone, threaten them with a gun, and then fall apart and get all suicidal, if the news report I read is correct.
Matt McIrvin
@jl: Kipling wrote a whole poem about that.
blueskies
@The Moar You Know: Sorry to be dense. What was it that Big O said that pissed off the conservatives?
Edited to say: Duh. How could I forget. Holding on bitterly to their guns and bibles or something like that, right?
jl
@blueskies: probably the ‘they cling to their Bibles and their guns’ comment Obama made to some campaign volunteers back in 2008. I’m pretty sure that is what Palin was referring to.
Maybe it’s just me, but I have read the whole Bible and I have shot plenty of guns in my time, but I took no offense. But then, I am not ‘clingy’ about them either.
nellcote
full quote in context:
“But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
tones
@Roger Moore: and makes more sense as well as the bonus of rhyming…
tones
@jl: I would like it to include : endless deployments all the while fighting in congress to lower the benefits they are entitled to when [if] they actually return.
The whole time they were patriot warrior-ing they were trying to gut the benefits.
Sleazeballs.
MaryRC
@JPL: After her son’s girlfriend called the police, he called them himself to say that his girlfriend was drunk and they should ignore her.
Did PTSD make him do that, Sarah?
boatboy_srq
@Eric U.: According to the tweet, the Son of Erick merely knows what it’s like to prevent a bathroom fixture from sleeping after it has donated an organ…