Cruz may not win the presidency, but he'll surely win the dirtiest campaign in modern history award. pic.twitter.com/dJnuqGifWJ
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) February 22, 2016
… Low-rent ratfvcking and Talibangelical Bible-humping. I first saw the story in the Washington Post last night:
… The 21-second video offered an exchange unthinkable for a candidate trying to court evangelical voters as he seeks to consolidate support among the Republican establishment: Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) dismissing the Bible.
In the video, Rubio confidently strolls into a hotel lobby past Rafael Cruz — the father of rival Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) — and a man identified as a Cruz staffer reading a book. But not just any book: the Good one…
But it was soon revealed that the video was incorrectly subtitled. The actual exchange:
Rubio: “Got a good book there,” Rubio said to the staffer.
Staffer: “Yes, sir.”
Rubio: “All the answers are in there. Especially in that one.”…
"Even if it was true, we are not going to question the faith of another candidate," Cruz told reporters re: the Rubio story.
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) February 22, 2016
Full details at the link, including video and the original source for same — a pro-Cruz college newspaper. (So at least the original ‘reporters’ have the excuse of being too young to know any better.)
If we’re going to talk about the Media Village Idiots’ all-important “Narratives”, the one coalescing around #Failgunner Ted is, shall we say, unflattering to the aura of a Christian Conservative…
Just in — @marcorubio campaign responds to @tedcruz asking for Rick Tyler's resignation: pic.twitter.com/GVGidNBSmE
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) February 22, 2016
Good news for You-Know-Who, of course…
The reason that Ted Cruz lost the Evangelicals in S.C. is because he is a world class LIAR, and Evangelicals do not like liars!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2016
And popcorn futures! Munch, munch…
have we tried turning this election off and on again
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) February 22, 2016
anon
See something say something! See a gun call 911! Help prevent gun deaths!
raven
Sheeeet.
“By the time of the election in November 1968, LBJ had evidence Nixon had sabotaged the Vietnam war peace talks – or, as he put it, that Nixon was guilty of treason and had “blood on his hands”.
And another Fuck LBJ moment. He said nothing.
MattF
Senator Cruz always has another surprise up his sleeve.
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
I realize that’s a tree behind Cruz’s head, but at a glance it looks as though he has hair even weirder and more unkempt than Trump’s.
mark
@SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel:
That’s his Satanic aura. Kinda like Medusa
dedc79
Hmmm, which has a better ring to it: Cruz & Atwater or Atwater & Cruz?
LAO
That is some damn fine shade thrown by team Rubio.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel:
I think it looks more like a crown of thorns he has donned so people will see his godliness.
Major Major Major Major
Just dropped the bf off for his first therapy session! Good for him.
MattF
Cruz fires Tyler. Quote:
Ha ha.
muddy
I am watching the CBS Evening News. Just now they had a segment about the Supreme Court without Scalia. They went to their chief legal correspondent, Jan Crawford, who told us that Joe Biden said that HWBush should not put someone in before the election. Showed Biden on floor of Senate stating this. Then she said, “Charles Grassley was quick to agree.”
I wondered whether she meant he was quick to agree back then, or whether he was quick to agree only now. Ha ha no really I didn’t wonder. She did not offer whether a nominee had gone through or not, just that Biden said it, so there. She ended by saying that it usually takes a month for a president to nominate a judge, but Obama was expected to do it a lot quicker than that.
You know, ramming it down our throats and all.
p.a.
Do any couples comment here? People mention their SOs all the time, but only 1 party seems to comment. Is it a ‘relationship George/independent George’ thing?
dedc79
Speaking of Rafael Cruz:
ant
@muddy:
I think there is a new normal, whereby no one gets appointed to the Supreme Court until the Senate and the Presidency is held by the same party, and the filibuster is abolished for SCOUS confirmation.
I’ll be fine with it as long as the Dems play by the same rules.
Gimlet
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/joe-biden-interview-219476
Echoing some recent Republican arguments about judicial nominations, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday suggested that President Barack Obama will not nominate a staunch liberal to replace Justice Antonin Scalia at a time when the ideological balance of the Supreme Court is up in the air.
In the wide-ranging interview that often turned provocative, especially when he complained about the Democratic presidential race he decided to skip, the vice president flatly said an Obama nominee in the outspoken progressive mold of former Justice William Brennan is “not going to happen.” Biden, who fiercely defended legislative prerogatives as the longtime chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also volunteered that “it was never intended for the president to pick whoever he wants and that’s it.” And he suggested the Senate has the right to consider not only a nominee’s philosophy, but how much the nomination would change the court, a common GOP talking point these days.
Pogonip
The Snoopy insurance pays more than I thought it did so the dentist won’t be as expensive as I thought. While she’s fiddling around she’s going to replace a couple of ancient fillings so I go back in 3 weeks for the grand renovation and since getting the old fillings removed is a little involved I get to go back stoned. Whee! I have one pill I take an hour before the appointment, one I take when she starts, and there’s a 3rd I forget when I’m supposed to take but I figure I’ll be so stoned I wouldn’t remember anyway.
JPL
@muddy: Biden released the entire speech and it sorta says the opposite, but I’m 100% that, CBS will not correct it.
Pogonip
@p.a.: “You read that site full of snarling jackals? I’m outta here!”
So the one who Juices keeps it quiet.
muddy
@JPL: They didn’t even say how it turned out. Wasn’t that when we got Thomas?
JPL
@muddy: Yes..
Ultraviolet Thunder
@p.a.:
Mrs. Thunder and I like to keep our arguments IRL, and argue only with strangers online.
Just a thought: is it just me or has the pro-gun meme noise on FB dropped to zero since the Kalamazoo shootings. I haven’t seen one ridiculous gun-promoting post since then.
tybee
@raven:
and there’s ronny with the hostage release delay and iran contra.
and then there’s boy blunder with his not so excellent iraq adventure…
i’m beginning to see a pattern.
Chip Daniels
If I had Twitter, I would respond to Alexandra that yes, we have tried turning it off, but this election has achieved full sentience, and has decided that the American experiment in self-governance is too risky and so has set it on auto-destruct mode.
gogol's wife
@p.a.:
There are a couple of couples who comment. I think the person with “trowel” in their name?
You won’t see my husband here, though! He’s internet-phobic.
p.a.
@Pogonip: @Ultraviolet Thunder:
Do they even know your nom de blog?
“Balloon Juice!!?? Can’t you just watch pR0n like a normal person!”
Roger Moore
@tybee:
And the Iranians have accused Republicans of trying to sabotage the recent prisoner releases. It just goes to show how far you should trust the Republicans when they say “Country First!”.
The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...
How about taking it behind the barn and shooting it?
Or down to the river and drowning it in a burlap bag full of rocks?
Sheesh… we’re not even thru February and I’m already going numb…
schrodinger's cat
@p.a.: Mr. Kitteh does not read political blogs or comment on them. He prefers to get his news from the NYT and BBC instead of snarling jackals.
eemom
@p.a.:
There’s a couple who actually MET on BJ, many years ago, and are still together. Neither comments much anymore, though.
AnotherBruce
What a strange religion these lizards have. It’s like Christianity without all the Jesusness.
Ryan
Isn’t “you know who” how some of our favorite bloggers refer to Hitler?
singfoom
@AnotherBruce: It’s JEEZUS:
Jesus vs JEEZUS
He doesn’t turn the other cheek, he reloads.
lamh36
X-Files season finale tonight at 7pm CST.
That’s “season” finale, not “series”. Duchovny has said he’d be interested in doing more episodes. Gillian Anderson is actually busy filming overseas for another season of The Fall, I believe.
As an X-Files-stan…I’d love it!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@muddy: ey went to their chief legal correspondent, Jan Crawford, who told us that Joe Biden said that HWBush should not put someone in before the election. Showed Biden on floor of Senate stating this. Then she said, “Charles Grassley was quick to agree.”
I knew that name, Jan Crawford, rang a bell
She has quite a few hits at Media Matters.
Major Major Major Major
@Ryan: it’s “you know who else…”
p.a.
@eemom: 1 for 1. Better avg than online dating.
p.a.
@AnotherBruce: He had fingers crossed when talking all that justice-y stuff.
Omnes Omnibus
@p.a.: There are at least two married couples who comment here. Couples? I don’t know.
muddy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I remember her on PBS Newshour a long time ago when she looked very young. Maybe 15 years ago? The Supreme Court was her thing back then too.
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
@Gimlet:
Link is appreciated. Thank you.
Gimlet
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
things changed 10 years ago, when Democrats started filibustering President Bush’s qualified nominees,” Crawford said
Would that be Harriet Miers?
Hal
Watching Chris Hayes and once again I can’t believe McKay Coppins isn’t directly related to Truman Capote.
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
@Pogonip:
It’s probably some variety of V@L1UM. If you can get them to give you nitrous oxide during the procedure, you’ll be one happy dental patient. Some years ago I had a lot of work done, culminating in full-mouth extraction and five or six implant surgeries. The Big V and the N2O in combination kept me sane, comfortable (relatively) and as cheerful as one could expect.
(They knocked me out for at least some of the surgeries, but at that point I was so looped on V and N2O that I hardly knew what was happening.)
amk
If god chose ted, wonder why he is withholding all the delegates.
What a family of creeps.
Mike G
Not from what I’ve seen.
They love people who tell them flattering lies, and they’ll happily excuse blatant liars when it supports their agenda.
Gimlet
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/gop-insiders-want-kasich-gone-219634
FAIRFAX, VA — The Republican establishment has a message for John Kasich: get out, and get out of Marco Rubio’s way.
A string of elected officials, GOP insiders and prominent donors officially threw their support behind Rubio on Monday, calling him their last chance to take down Donald Trump. Their statements had another common theme. Some explicitly called for Kasich to quit, while others stopped sent the same message by saying the Ohio Governor’s ongoing presence is holding Rubio back.
Anne Laurie
@p.a.:
The Spousal Unit and I agree, mostly, on political topics — but the vicious daily sniping, especially during election seasons, just makes him sad. He’d be glad in any case that spending so much time on Balloon Juice keeps me happy, because he likes it when I’m happy, but we both appreciate that I’m venting here with people who can appreciate the nastiness & snark without getting depressed by it.
divF
@schrodinger’s cat: Madame divF reads selected subsets of HuffPo. Sometimes she sees the snark first, sometimes I tell her about it.
Matt McIrvin
@Ryan: no, it’s He Who Must Not Be Named.
trollhattan
@lamh36:
It’s been far better than I had any right to expect. Loved having the two back and the mix of creepy and goofy episodes.
Major Major Major Major
One of my high school buddies just re-registered as a dem at the DMV so she can vote in the Dem primary in Colorado. Apparently nobody told her that the deadline for that was a month and a half ago. I also made sure to point out that she had history’s greatest monster, Bill Clinton, to thank for the whole motor-voter thing.
p.a.
@efgoldman: Can’t wait for the blowout media coverage of this story.
Steve in the ATL
@p.a.:
My wife is too busy doing her kitchen duties to post here.
/kasich
Shana
@Mike G: Yeah, my late father, who was the only jewish architect in his small area, became the go to guy for all the churches in his community and the small surrounding communities. He told story after story of congregants who fleeced their churches on building work, either additions or remodeling. Kind of surprising how many of these churches had dealt with, not only shoddy work, but people who flat out defrauded them. “But they were good Christians.”
MomSense
I had chocolate chip cookies hot out of the oven for dinner. I just didn’t feel like making anything else.
Technocrat
Since this is open…it seems some people are upset over Morning Joe treating Trump with kid gloves:
Yeah, they’re pretty pissed over at RedState. Oh WAIT, didn’t I mention this was from RedState?
The TPM link was from the OP. Sooooo, RedState is attacking Trump via links to TPM. The world has gone mad. Mommy?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@MomSense: Good decision. Why would you want to make anything else?
Steve in the ATL
@MomSense:
I know I keep saying this, but I like you
Peale
@efgoldman: yep. Demi’s were complaining that she was his personal lawyer and had no record. It was republicans who killed that nomination.
Steve in the ATL
@Shana: When I was a litigator my guard went up every time opposing counsel pushed his membership in whatever the Christian bar association is called. Those were the least trustworthy motherfuckers I ever dealt with, and that includes investment bankers and insurance company lawyers.
There is also a Christian Brothers auto repair shop near me that is a den of thieves.
PsiFighter37
@Gimlet: Do you only read Politico? The first link (on Biden) sounds like Republicans wrote it so they can excuse themselves from considering anyone.
As for the second one, it’s relatively common knowledge that Kasich is a bit of an asshole himself, but he covers it up a bit more. He will tell those wanting him to get out to fuck off.
p.a.
@Steve in the ATL:
Good thing your wife’s in the kitchen!?
Gimlet
@PsiFighter37:
I’m sure it’s available from more than one source or will be. I get the stories from an aggregator. One of the problems with posting links is someone often goes off on a tangent about Glenn Greenwald or Fox News or Politico and the content is disregarded.
Baud
@efgoldman: Still more gravitas than a GOP debate.
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
@efgoldman:
OMG. A punster at two. That is some high-level funny wordplay there.
O/T, have been meaning to ask you how things are going in mrs efg’s family. Is she still with her mom? Have they been able to make any funeral arrangements yet? I am sure when you share the anecdote about your granddaughter the pirate, she’ll feel better about life in general.
TallPete
@amk: Cruz’s wife Heidi has also declared that a Ted Cruz presidency would exist “to show this country the face of the God we serve.”
MomSense
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
I added nuts to the last bunch and yum. Gooey chocolate and pecans are a wonderful combination.
@Steve in the ATL:
We political survivors have to stick together.
Elie
Hear that Trump is telling the Ricketts family that they had “better watch out” supporting a PAC against him. Think about that. A candidate for President implying !what!? Donald needs to be given a little “lesson” about threats by someone… not necessarily responding in kind — but how fragile his whole shtick really is — how dependent he is on good media and enough passivity among key decision makers to leave his shit alone — for now.
People are literally staying up at night figuring out whats what with him, green eye shades and whatever. He has not lived his life with any semblance of purity. Everybody has their limits in the burden of enemies that they can tolerate; hubris was invented to describe people like HIM.
rikyrah
@MomSense:
Sounds delicious ?
p.a.
@Steve in the ATL: There was an auto mechanic in my neighborhood: crooked (as a mechanic). In the very early days of local access CATV he had a show preaching jeebus. Made enough to sell the garage. Ended up in jail for cultish stuff. Small group of followers. He got them to sign over their property, various financial shenanigans, IRS stuff. “B b but I’m a church!” “Not any more you’re not.”
Peale
@TallPete: do evangelicals really want to see the countenance of God? Have they actually read the bible?
Elizabelle
@efgoldman: Pirate of the high cheese?
Classic.
Gimlet
@Elie:
“Game of Thrones”. Be sure you win!
MomSense
@efgoldman:
I love your granddaughter.
Old Dan and Little Anne
I haven’t seen one fb post regarding the Kalamazoo killing. I just asked my wife about her feed and she said the same thing. Yet she was in Toronto this weekend and heard people talking about it. That’s fucking depressing.
p.a.
@efgoldman: I’m waiting on an offer from Duncan Black to comment exclusively there.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@TallPete:
A smarmy, authoritarian, self-absorbed closet case with a tinny voice and a face that’s begging for a fist?
lamh36
@trollhattan: watched tonight’s season finale and my reaction at the end was Son of a bitch
I’ve really enjoyed this 6 ep series. Made me feel like I was back in my early 20s and watching it in college.
X-Files is literally, my fav sci-fi show and this revival was awesome
Peale
@TallPete: seriously. God doesn’t show his face. Showing the country his face would be a worse catastrophe than Even Cruz’s most extreme right wing policy.
Steve in the ATL
@Peale:
They read a re-written version of it. Similar to the “constitution” that sovereign citizens use.
Zinsky
It’s kinda funny that a Hispanic Canadian whose real name is Rafael Eduardo Cruz and who has a wife that works for Goldman Sachs has made it this far in the modern Republican Party.
Gimlet
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class:
a Ted Cruz presidency would exist “to show this country the face of the God we serve.”
Unintentional irony is still the best.
Steve in the ATL
@Peale:
Now picturing Ted Cruz as the Nazi getting his face melted by the ark of the covenant in Indiana Jones….
MomSense
@rikyrah:
It got me thinking of making a chocolate pecan pie. I may start a “mealless Monday” tradition.
p.a.
@efgoldman: High Cheese is a Dennis Eckersley-ism for a high fastball.
Steve in the ATL
@Zinsky:
She’s on leave from GS now. I wonder if she will be welcomed back after the looney Bible thumping stuff she’s been saying. GS worships only one god, and it ain’t that one.
J R in WV
I’ve been pretty skeptical of DC reporting ever since AP appointed Rob Fournier as DC bureau chief. He was obviously extremely prejudiced against any Dem and in favor of any Republican, and would do anything to a story to give ity his slant.
But this was when AP became managed by a small pack of Gannett executives, interested in turning AP from a non-profit cooperative into a money-making machine.
That didn’t happen, by the way. Their staff shrunk by about 80%, and most states don’t even have statehouse corespondents any more. Very sad to see a news network in existence since the 1800s fade away into just another noise in the media noise machine.
jl
As a Democrat I am outraged, disappointed and greatly saddened that Cruz messed this up so badly.
danielx
@p.a.:
Back in the day when TBogg was on Firedoglake and his blog was (ahem) a lot more interactive, his lovely and talented spouse used to refer to his commentators as “his weird little internet friends”. I suspect there’s a lot of that going around; not that I’d in any way characterize the BJ commentariat as weird. Generally and reflexively hostile and ornery, maybe. More than one standard deviation out there, perhaps – but not weird.
Was standing outside a local watering hold this evening on what passes for high ground in these parts – kind of like a swamp with ambitions – and watched the full moon come over the horizon in about a minute this evening. Absolutely amazing….
FlyingToaster
@p.a.: HerrDoktor and I only overlap on a couple of blogs (and yes, this is one), but I have no idea what handle he uses. And I don’t particularly want to know. It’s a lot easier to let each other have our own online lives.
MomSense
@efgoldman:
As I get older I realize how many moments I missed because I felt pressure to do all the things. Now it seems like nothing is more important than joy so you just have to stop and delight in it.
Sly
Take the cartridge out and blow on it. That usually works.
/80sKid
trollhattan
@lamh36:
You KNOW when Mulder flips down the 8×10 of Flukeman in Ep1, that was just for us. :-)
p.a.
@efgoldman: Despite being born & raised in New England I am, like my father was, a Yankee fan (mixed marriage- mom was a Red Sox fan). Joking with a coworker about it, I explained I was brainwashed, evidence being a (now very) old photo of 3-year-old me in a Yankee uniform. His response I’ll never forget, “Pal that’s not brainwashing. That’s child abuse.”
Anoniminous
@TallPete:
Forgive me but I don’t speak genuine frontier gibberish. WTF does that mean?
Eric U.
CNN is doing a hit piece on Trump right now. I’m having trouble being too sympathetic to the people that have been screwed by developers that licensed his name. However, I always wondered who these screwees actually were.
Corner Stone
@FlyingToaster: Love you!
raven
@p.a.: stinkin jankees
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
@efgoldman:
Oh, sorry, I missed seeing that. I try every morning to catch up with the overnight threads, but now I think about it, I might not have done that today. Thanks for the update.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@MomSense: Do you deliver?
FlyingToaster (Tablet)
@Corner Stone: Well, I know you’re not him, because he’s snoring :)
[wave]
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
@Old Dan and Little Anne:
I’ve seen a few on FB, but for the most part commentary has been muted. And nothing at all from the usual NRA gunhumpers.
p.a.
@raven: Console yourself with the fact that the Yankees have lost more World Series than any other organization. (Cubs #2)
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@efgoldman: Gonna be a terror! In a highly amusing way. Rather precocious, sounds like. I like this kiddo a lot.
jl
@Technocrat: @Eric U.:
Morning Joe people claim Mika was really talking with her producers (and Trump just happened to be in on the conversation? Or, of course, the producers discuss the appearance before hand with Trump?)
Anyway, I am very concerned about incivility in social media. Time for a blog ethics pane!
I will spend a few seconds weeping for the fate of Mornin’ Joe’s veep nom, and whatever Mika was going to do in the Trump admin.
Hot Mic Captures Trump Asking ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts For No ‘Too Hard’ Questions (AUDIO)
TPM blog
“You don’t want me to do the ones—with deportation?” Brzezinski said.
After some cross-talk, co-host Joe Scarborough said, “We really have to get you some questions.”
“That’s right, nothing too hard Mika,” Trump interjected.
“Okay,” Brzezinski said.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/morning-joe-hot-mic-trump-conversation
PurpleGirl
@gogol’s wife: No, I think The Mighty Trowel has mentioned her partner but they haven’t commented together. The only couple I can think who sometimes comments for each other is La Caterina and Johannes.
ETA: p.a.: I think most people might mention a spouse or partner but they don’t do an inclusive comment.
MomSense
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
My fantasy is to have a little neighborhood restaurant that has a case full of pies.
jl
@Anoniminous:
‘ “Ted Cruz presidency would exist “to show this country the face of the God we serve.”
Forgive me but I don’t speak genuine frontier gibberish. WTF does that mean? ‘
It means Lovecraft was right, Cthulhu is really running the show.
Or the FSM with botulism in the sauce.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@Anoniminous:
I don’t remember the details but I seem to recall the OT mentioning that it would be fatal to look into the face of God, as in instantly burst into flames and turn into a crispy critter. SO that is probably about right for a Crudz Presidency
BillinGlendaleCA
@PurpleGirl: I think Grumpy Code Monkey and Ronnie Roo are a couple.
Roger Moore
@Steve in the ATL:
That’s OK. An awful lot of Evangelical Christians worship Mammon, too. The whole “Prosperity Gospel” is only the most blatant form.
PurpleGirl
@MomSense: Chocolate is one of the major food groups…;)
Miss Bianca
@lamh36:
When is the SECOND season of “The Fall” going to be available over here? Saw the first season, creeped me out, but I couldn’t stop, and then…bam! Can’t find it on DVD *anywhere*.
Steve in the ATL
@Roger Moore: Good point
benw
God: “Ted Cruz, what an asshole. Fuck that guy!”
Jesus: “Seriously, Dad, he’s such a dickbag.”
Holy Ghost: “Woooooooooooo!”
sinnedbackwards
@p.a.: I’m half of a couple who each independently comment here. Just not a whole lot.
Steve in the ATL
Have we discussed the now former Yelp employee who was fired for complaining about her wages being too low to live in the Bay Area? I haven’t seen an official statement from Yelp, perhaps because I haven’t looked, but she reported that HR told her that her letter to the CEO violated their code of conduct.
Has the NLRB or a similar agency weighed in on this? Wouldn’t commentary about wages be protected activity under the NLRA? I assume that Yelp is working with counsel right now on a better termination reason and a settlement/severance offer.
Also, maybe not the best idea to call yourself “Lady Murderface” if you are aiming for a corporate career.
p.a.
@MomSense: Woman I worked with baked scones for local restaurants after she retired. Lot easier than running a restaurant.
Madchen Amick, yum!
Miss Bianca
@Gimlet:
Oh, boy…I almost hope this is true re Ground Control to Major John, because Kasich is really the only one of the Klowns who manages to scare me with that special vibe of “reasonable enough seeming so that most of the electorate won’t realize he is, in fact, just as batsh*t as the others BEFORE they decide to vote for him”.
Miss Bianca
@efgoldman:
I think the technical term for the phenomenon you describe is “screaming cuteness”.
mclaren
Nobody is talking about Trump taking on the Pope.
We need a cage match: Trump v the Pope. The Pope can wield this giant gold cross encrusted with rubies and gems, Trump can haul in a sack of money, and they both set up with motorcycles and go after each other.
Now THAT would be worth watching on FOX network!
Steve in the ATL
@mclaren: He’s slaying every sacred cow, if I may mix religious metaphors. You’d think attacking the Pope would be like touching the third rail.
trollhattan
@PurpleGirl:
Per my kid it’s The food group. Maybe the food singularity.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: The problem is going to be that unless the Iranians release the communication, its just the Iranians saying it. And, you know, they’re Iranians. So unless there’s hard copy, documentary evidence, I don’t expect the news media will do anything with this.
My guess is that it is highly likely to happen and that the signatories probably overlap significantly with the same group that signed Senator Cotton’s letter.
mclaren
@Steve in the ATL:
Just another example of evil corporate thugs crushing underpaid employees. Like mass shootings, we’re getting one of these new horror stories per week.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon started this trend of brutalizing underpaid employees and it’s gotten steadily worse since Bezos made it fashionable.
Seriously, Jeff Bezos needs to get beaten to death with a baseball bat for the good of humanity.
mclaren
@Steve in the ATL:
At the current rate, Trump will bite the head off a puppy on live TV, and his numbers will go up.
debbie
@Roger Moore:
At what point will the GOP be charged with treason?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Adam L Silverman:
I hope the 8th word in the second sentence isn’t a typo, and that you’re correct. I’d be shocked, shocked, I tell you, if there weren’t significant overlap with Cotton’s letter.
Dmbeaster
@muddy: And Thomas replaced Marshall. So much for the idea of not replacing a justice with another of the opposite ideological stripe. IOKIYAR. And Biden can be such a dick.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman:
Better than yelling “ho-yo-to-ho”, I guess.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel: Well Jim Hoft did try to claim he was a leftist because his facebook page said he was a Progressive employee. Hoft apparently has never heard of Progressive Insurance, because that’s where he was an employee:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/45635_SMOTI_Jim_Hoft_IDs_Kalamazoo_Shooter_as_Progressive_-_He_Worked_for_Progressive_Insurance
Trigger warning: there is a very large picture of Hoft’s head at the link.
Gvg
Terry Pratchett described the religious con man in Going Postal. Not the preacher kind, the kind that fleeced the sincere by pretending to be one too. Seems to me I’ve read the police also mention the type. People let down their guard with others they think are the same so watch out. any group is vulnerable.
Adam L Silverman
@mclaren: Well there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76BtP1GInlc
GregB
@Adam L Silverman:
I have been trying to convince people for years that Saddam Hussein was a Ronald Reagan supporter because his elite troops were called the Republican Gaurd.
PurpleGirl
@Dmbeaster: Yes, in no way, shape or form was Clarence Thomas a suitable replacement for Thurgood Marshall.
Adam L Silverman
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): good catch. My fingers out typed my brain. That should read highly unlikely.
Adam L Silverman
@GregB: That’s excellent. I’ll have to use that when an opportunity arises. My guess is that Saddam Hussein was a big Ronald Reagan supporter. Hussein was one of “our bastards” during the 80s because of the Iran-Iraq War.
nutella
So I looked at that TPM article and couldn’t get past the picture of Mika and Joe at the top. They have exactly the same expression on their faces, like they’re both smelling something really nasty.
People who watch their show: Do they really look like that? How can anybody not switch channels immediately if they do?
amk
@Adam L Silverman:
“unless the Iranians release the communication, its just the Iranians saying it. And, you know, they’re Iranians. So unless there’s hard copy, documentary evidence, I don’t expect the news media will do anything with this.”
Not that it is effing news media’s effing job to get that hard evidence ‘cos it’s effing soooo hard, right?
Adam L Silverman
@amk: They have the comfortable to comfort and the afflicted to afflict. That can take a lot out of a person.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: So I guess that makes Flo a liberal.
BillinGlendaleCA
@nutella:
Yup, pretty much.
Adam L Silverman
@BillinGlendaleCA: And she is armed with that name your price gun. Did she have to pass a background check?
Steve from Antioch
@Steve in the ATL: Yelp is a fraudulent company whose business model is extorting advertising from companies in exchange for favorable reviews.
So this dumbass employee was a little cog in that machine.
Personally, I am delighted to see a “tech” employees being paid crappy wages in San Francisco.
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
@Adam L Silverman:
I had not seen that. Classic. Epically classic.
chopper
@Steve in the ATL:
She has that mom sense. God, cookies for dessert. Shit I wish
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: “Kill the Wabbit!”
danielx
I don’t know about the dirtiest campaign in the modern era, I would imagine it depends on how you define modern – sort of like the various frats in Animal House, each has its own special brand of sleaziness. The 2000 campaign, certainly the 1972 campaign, all valid contendahs for the title. However…Cruz definitely strikes me as the most Nixonian of the current crop, with an extra helping of evangelical/Jesuitical hypocrisy layered on top.
Aleta
@p.a.: Though my pardner doesn’t read here, my roommates do and comment. Sometimes we talk amongst ourselves. Especially when Tunch, but other times too.
Aleta
@MomSense: Popcorn for breakfast goes great with that. Esp in February.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel: It is certainly something.
chopper
@Steve in the ATL:
where? when I lived in Atlanta I could have brought my car in there. My dad was a Christian brother back in the day. They’d have given me a deal.
frosty fka Bro Shotgun etc etc
@p.a.:
Nah, I’m the juicer. But I read her some of your comments sometimes* and she laughs every time. You people are a riot considering you’re just a snarling mass of vitriolic vicious jackals.
* Probably more often than she’d like.
low-tech cyclist
The Donald is seriously misinformed on that point. “Thou shalt not bear false witness” has long since fallen out of the evangelical Bible. Bearing false witness is what they do about their enemies.
Paul in KY
@raven: That’s cause the SOB wanted Nixon to win, not Humphrey.
No One You Know
@danielx: “generally and reflexively hostile and ornery.” I think you’ve coined a nice shiny tagline, there.