Here’s a link to TPM’s live feed!
Press conference concluded. Wow, she hammered the ever-lovin’ fuck outta Trump! Will try to scare up a video to post.
No mean-girl tweets from Trump Tower so far (10:03 AM ET). Maybe Kellyanne and Ivanka each have hold of a tiny thumb…
The Ancient Randonnuer
Yes, but is she smiling?
PaulWartenberg2016
OH JOY!
NOW THE BELTWAY MEDIA WILL LOVE HILLARY LIKE A LONG-LOST FRIEND AND HOLD HANDS AND GO FOR MALT SHAKES AFTERWARDS THEY’LL GO… go… gooooo…. sigh. You know damn well the Beltway pundits will keep hammering Hillary for being “unlikable” and “corrupt” and a “liar” and 100 other criticisms about her because they’ve got their f-cking Narrative and nothing’s going to change it, and we’re going to get Trump winning because that f-cking bias is going to lull too many voters into thinking “Trump can lead” or some such. DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT
/headdesk
OzarkHillbilly
Is she wearing a pantsuit again?
Jerzy Russian
She is just getting everyone in the same room so that she can personally given each one of them the Zika virus. The ones that survive this will be put into FEMA camps and/or given high-level positions in ISIS.
Betty Cracker
@PaulWartenberg2016: Get ahold of yourself! ;-)
Bobby Thomson
Ordinarily I’d advise against giving reporters something to write about other than Trump’s Nazi rhetoric, but given the doubleplusungood behavior of the Times I guess some clue by fours are in order.
The Dangerman
Damn, when I said she should do the PC a few days, I got flamed and flambed around here. Oh, well; occasionally, I get it right (not often enough for my tastes, but occasionally).
artem1s
Kahleesi is coming is coming to Westeros and you better watch out!
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
I just sent a friend a link to the Gary Johnson post from LGM yesterday, the one talking about his involvement in the the private prison industry. He’s been in arguments with friends who just can’t trust either one of the major candidates and thinks the prison angle might help.
I told him that in another state, I’d say to let them be morons, but this is NC. The polls are just too close here.
Jeffro
From the WaPo’s article today about how Trump doesn’t even have a basic understanding of how the presidency and the Pentagon/generals interact:
ETA: again, just more evidence that the main argument against Trump is that he’s a fucking moron. Apparently that argument doesn’t count for much with older whites, but hey there you go…
ETA (just one more) – Obama says as much, just more politely:
(from CNN.com) Obama declared last month that Trump was unqualified to succeed him as commander in chief, and reiterated his view Thursday.
“Every time he speaks that opinion is confirmed,” Obama said.
“I think the most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what he says and follow-up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas.”
Bobby Thomson
@The Dangerman: you aren’t right yet. People said it wouldn’t make a difference. Always bet on hack.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: A lovely blue one!
Corner Stone
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes, and she came strutting out to the podium Like.A.Boss.
Quinerly
@OzarkHillbilly:
Royal blue! But no flag pin. Sad!
Betty Cracker
No coughing yet…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
So the various NBC bots are sticking with the idea that their super-awesome hyped to the skies “CinC forum” was a great noble journalistic exercise for them, a disaster for HRC and what’s a Drump?
Betty Cracker
Ooooo, he’s so gonna mean-girl tweet about that!
JMG
@Betty Cracker: Maybe she’s saving it up to hock an enormous loogie on the front row of press.
Betty Cracker
Whoa, she’s bringing it. Calls out Trump for preferring Putin to Obama, says it’s unpatriotic. What would Reagan say? Take the oil? WTF? OMG!
Corner Stone
“What would Ronald Reagan say?”
sick burn
Betty Cracker
“Every Republican who holds office in this country should be asked if they agree with Trump.”
MattF
@Betty Cracker: And the stretchers, wheelchairs, and cardiac monitors are all hidden. What gives?
Bobby Thomson
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t think anyone was happy with your hack’s performance, Chuck, but somehow I don’t think that’s what you meant.
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Fucking Chuck Todd. And if she didn’t have a presser to firm up her performance from last night he would be saying, “The HRC camp can’t be happy with her performance last night or else she’d be out there repeating her message.”
Betty Cracker
First question: Hillary, why does everyone hate you?
p.a.
@JMG: since they’ve coverd themselves in shit it would be an upgrade.
amk
@The Dangerman: yeah right, she took your advice straight away.
Kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Keep in mind. These are the people who thought the Trump Mexico visit was “Presidential”
It doesn’t matter though- Mexicans aren’t white people. It’s not like when Mitt Romney made a gaffe in England. That was disqualifying.
Quinerly
@Betty Cracker:
Well, at least no one was surprised by the question. She certainly wasn’t.
singfoom
Hope Lauer is there to ask her about her e-mails again. There’s just so many clouds obscuring those e-mails. Storm clouds whirling around the presser I’m sure.
Is she a witch?
artem1s
Jeebus wept, they are bitching about the fact that Hillz is only leading by a little and not a landslide. never mind the constant fluffing from the media Donnie has been getting for more than a year.
MomSense
@Betty Cracker:
I want to go Hulk Smash on the press corpse.
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: “Given your statement that he is so unfit, why aren’t you pissing on Trump’s grave right now?”
JMG
@Corner Stone: I think Todd has it exactly backwards. After last night, the Clinton camp may have decided/realized that when Clinton is in front of the public in mass TV audience settings, she gains, not loses.
Corner Stone
Ooooo, a “smile” question!
Corner Stone
“Shopping in your closet?”
I liked that exchange.
singfoom
@Betty Cracker: “Secretary Clinton, where do you keep Vince Foster’s severed head?”
amk
@Betty Cracker: Seriously? Who was the clown?
Corner Stone
And now a question on Clinton Rules in the media!
hilts
These reporters are a fucking disgrace and should be prosecuted for journalistic malpractice.
p.a.
Question for press: if you are not treating Donald tRump as an idiot (fascist… insert accurate adjective) because he has the support of x% of Americans, at what point less than x would you accurately report that he is an idiot/fascist etc? Would this point change depending on which political party the candidate is a member of?
Corner Stone
@JMG: Chuck doesn’t care what she does. Either way it’s the wrong thing and it speaks to her weakness/untrustworthiness/etc as a candidate.
RSR
Not falling for your Rick Roll. ;)
JMG
They’ve waited months to come up with these? My God, Lauer’s questions were better. These aren’t “tough” they’re just stupid.
Betty Cracker
Andrea Mitchell is asking a question now, but I can’t hear it. Could it be a stupid question? Probably!
bystander
@MattF:
Another thing she has in common with FDR?
amk
any stupid e-mails!!! question yet?
Amir Khalid
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
Speaking of Gary Johnson … These presidential candidates know they’re running against a former Secretary of State, who knows stuff like this inside and out. For crap’s sake, why don’t they do their homework?
eric
Press: “Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year?”
bonus points for getting the reference
Joel
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Toddler is probably right, here, but for the wrong reasons. By losing the coin toss, Clinton didn’t get a chance to debunk Trump in real time.
Corner Stone
“I know the road that I’m on. I’ve been on it for 25 years. I just keep getting up every morning and keep moving forward.”
Betty Cracker
And, she’s done. Wow!
Betty Cracker
@amk: I don’t believe they were mentioned even once. Inconceivable!
comrade scott's agenda of rage
Chuck Fucking Todd said something that moranic? I award that 4 Claudes meaning he’s this week’s recipient of the Claude Rains Memorial Gambling Awareness Award. Methinks the CRMGAA will be awarded nonstop over the next couple of days.
Redshift
My favorite thing from the “OMG, no press conferences!” outrage was journalists suggesting that she wouldn’t be getting asked about issues like the emails if she had “put them to bed” by answering them in a press conference.
Do these people even listen to themselves? Name one time that an issue with Hillary has been “put to bed” by her doing what the press demanded.
The Ancient Randonnuer
@Amir Khalid: Gary’s a bright guy so I was stunned when he fumbled that one.
Comrade Scrutinizer
I wonder if Clinton had daily pressers whether the inane questions would eventually dry up, or whether we’d hear the same shit over and over. Press treatment of Clinton so far reminds me of exactly what the press did to Gore.
D58826
but the narrative will be – was it a press conference or a press avail or just a plain old gaggle? If the verdict is that it wasn’t a press conference then the Villager Idiots can continue counting the days since she had a real press conference.
NorthLeft12
@Jeffro: If it hasn’t already happened yet, I think we are very close to hearing Pres. Obama refer to Deadbeat Donald as a buffoon.
A very dangerous buffoon, but a buffoon nonetheless.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@The Ancient Randonnuer: Dude was probably just stoned.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
on emails, from one of the more decent and VSP pedigreed Villagers
Iowa Old Lady
Not entirely OT, I’m just catching up on last night’s events. I see Trump said Clinton has a happy trigger. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but to me that sounds kind of….dirty?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
like those scary clowns in the woods in Ohio and North Carolina
Pennywise Trump!
dww44
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That tweet from Todd just sealed it for me. He is not only a Clinton hater but a not so closeted GOP lover as well. I’ll never trust a single thing he says or writes or tweets again. Neither he nor Norah O’Donnell should have ostensibly non-partisan jobs in the MSM. Neither is at all adept at hiding their biases.
Yesterday, the CEO of Starbucks was on the CBS morning show opining about how Washington was broken but that there was a need for all citizens to come together outside of D.C. and work to address the problems facing this country. He kept saying that the political climate was irretrievably broken there. and that it was caused by both parties.
O’Donnell finally pressured him to name which Presidential candidate he was supporting and he replied Hillary Clinton. Then she plaintively asked him how Republican and libertarian supporters would feel about his support of HRC .
Even Charlie Rose got irritated with her. I’ve long been irritated with her, even before that obnoxious interview of Valerie Jarrett on 60 Minutes a few months back.
MattF
@D58826: Yeah, Reince has been tweeting ‘days since Clinton press conference’. Think he’ll stop now? I’m guessing he’s run out of Bailey’s.
p.a.
@Iowa Old Lady: Maybe it should be capitalized: I understand some people name theirs.
amk
@Betty Cracker: Inconceivable indeed. Guess that meme is dead?
The Dangerman
@amk:
I rather doubt she or her campaign reads this blog to take advice, but, if she does as you presume, she agrees with me and doesn’t agree with you. Not bad, huh?
See, it wasn’t THAT bad and the PC piece is off the board. Damn, maybe she should take my advice.
Zarley
@Iowa Old Lady: is it entirely out of the question that he was referring to her clitoris? Because that would be a factually correct statement — a real achievement for Donnie.
Tazj
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes, and even Comey has said recently the decision not to prosecute her was “not a cliff-hanger.”
hovercraft
@The Ancient Randonnuer:
Funny thing is Mark “Good News for John McCain” Halpern scrambled off the set after him to try to give im the opportunity to clean it up, and he relayed a story about one time when he was running for governor, he was asked about an area in New Mexico that was a big deal and that he’d never heard of, but he was elected anyway.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
Never mind. Confused my Trainspotting and Python references.
Judge Crater
One of her better performances. Actually, very good.
amk
@The Dangerman: Nope. You were just onoez’ing while she knows what she was doing. Don’t pat yourself too hard.
MomSense
@Kay:
The bar has been lowered so far for Trump. Before that forum last night the MSNBC panel basically said he had to seem capable and know all the words. I’m not exaggerating. Know all the words? Obviously this is no problem for der Trump because he has the best words but this low set of expectations was offered after presenting Clinton with a laundry list of things she had to do to prove herself.
It’s completely messed up. The only silver lining I can see is that a bunch of us women of a certain age, who have had the experience of being passed for a job only for it to go to a no-nothing guy, will take out our revenge in the voting booth.
the antibob
Hah! Wiping coffee off the monitor now. Thanks Betty.
Hildebrand
I am wondering if Hillary shouldn’t do daily pressers just to show the ghastly press corps just what a candidate is supposed to be able to do. Every day just trot out there, answer questions with substance and grace, and remind them that this is what we expect out of our Presidential candidates. Put the screws to them – tell them that they should expect the same level of competence from the anthropomorphic cheeto. Every damn day.
mike in dc
Pleasantly surprised that the conference wasn’t 15 consecutive questions about emails, foundation pay for play and why people don’t trust her. Maybe that’s for the next one…
Librarian
@eric: “It’s a trick question, Coventry City has never won the FA cup.”
rikyrah
video!!!
video!!!!
please?
bystander
In a just world, last night’s silly mess would put it away for Clinton. I thought her press conference was good if only because she got to point out that Trump violated the first classified intelligence briefing he was in.
I would personally revel in the outrage if Obama decided to rescind Trump’s attendance at intelligence briefings.
chopper
well that was a perfect example of why hilz doesn’t do pressers. was there a single substantive or policy question in the whole thing?
Betty Cracker
Balloon Juice favorite Glenn Greenwald is on Twitter disapproving of the language Clinton used to convey that ISIS is rooting for a Trump win…perhaps not realizing that she was quoting an ISIS spokesman.
Iowa Old Lady
@MomSense: It’s hard to tell if Trump knew all the words because Lauer didn’t ask him about some of them. Gary Johnson apparently didn’t know what Aleppo was this morning. Does Trump?
James E Powell
Transcript available?
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: Here’s a link to the C-SPAN video. Haven’t found an embeddable version yet.
Jerzy Russian
@eric: What about the Hammers?
Peale
@Betty Cracker: But how can you trust what ISIS says? Those are just their words that they used. Maybe if you’d look at the body language more carefully, you’d get a different message.
Peale
@chopper: “why is this election “issues free?” asks CNN.
hovercraft
@MomSense:
As I said last night we have to hope that it’s like 2008 and 2012 where the punditocracy kept telling us that us that Obama had lost the debates, but then when the reputable polls were done not the online insta crap polling, which can be juiced by a campaign, they all said Obama won.* The media really wants and needs a horse race, but as you said, for many of us women, the constant interrupting and the double standard rings too many bells for us to look past it.
* he first debate in 2012, is the exception, but even that did not change the trajectory of the race like the media said it would.
Highway Rob
@Librarian: The workers control the means of production! The struggle of the urban proletariat! …oh, bugger.
Peale
@dww44: I think the Starbucks guy was one of the big contributor to “No Labels” and is a big believer in the idea that only a billionaire can save us from our rancorous politics.
Central Planning
@Highway Rob: Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses!
Barbara
@Peale: Of all the things Trump said last night, that was the most outrageous. Let’s say it was accurate, just for the sake of argument. What it shows is that, for political advantage,Trump is willing to disclose discord between the president and his advisers, which is information that potentially helps others, including Russia or ISIS in devising strategy against the U.S. Boys and girls, does that make America stronger or weaker? And, of course, it was not accurate so it just shows Trump is a big fat liar willing to make things up.
SFAW
@eric:
Trick question! Coventry City have never won the FA Cup!
Yes, I got the ref.
You goddam Marxist.
ETA: And if I had only read just a little further, I woulda seen Librarian’s response.
Oh, bugger.
Amir Khalid
@Jerzy Russian:
Per Wikipedia, West Ham United have won the Cup three times.
Botsplainer
@Jeffro:
He’s actually dumb enough to envision himself bringing the Chiefs and every other 4 star in the structure and shouting “you’re fired”.
That’ll sure in shit motivate the three stars to excel – each of them at a career point that would have them in a position to retire.
Are there a bunch of two and one stars that would be ready to fill the void? Yes, and as we’ve seen, at that career point they’re administratively untested, and more likely to be craven opportunists and religious nut jobs who haven’t been weeded out yet.
hovercraft
@Hildebrand:
That’s kind of what the plane gaggles are. For most voters who watch the news, when they see clips of her fielding questions from the press, that will dispel the meme that she is hiding from the media. Prius and Trump Co. can tweet their “number of days” count but it will be meaningless.
FlipYrWhig
@Betty Cracker: Ask Glenn which candidate he thinks his buddy Julian wants to win.
Botsplainer
@singfoom:
Winter is coming.
eric
@SFAW: yes to all. It is my favorite Python bit .
Grumpy Code Monkey
@Betty Cracker:
Greenwald’s a prime example of what happens when you believe your own bullshit.
Botsplainer
@Betty Cracker:
Mrs Greenspan’s mouth is moving. Stupidity is assumed.
I’m happily eating breakfast in an open air cantina in Mexico so I can’t see it.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Betty Cracker: Favorite to DIAF, for sure. I’ll admit that.
Grumpy Code Monkey
@Betty Cracker:
“Madame Secretary, does it bother you that facts just don’t seem to matter in this campaign?”
germy
@Iowa Old Lady:
“Sure. Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Aleppo. Next question, Matt.”
Mitt Romney said Johnson should be allowed in the three debates. Can the bar be set any lower?
I know young people who ignore print media; believe everything should be digital. I like the speed and efficiency of online news myself, but it makes hijinks like the NYTimes article switching possible. If the original Times article had appeared in an early morning print edition, it’d be impossible to make disappear.
Amir Khalid
@Botsplainer:
You’re in a cantina? Do the musicians in the band look at all … unusual?
Iowa Old Lady
@Botsplainer: I am so jealous
StringOnAStick
Hey, I’d like to send a pet photo to Annie Laurie for the “help us stay sane” project; anyone know how to do that?
Wyrm1
USA today can’t bring themselves to call it a press conference, calling it half a press conference, whatever that means.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/08/05/hillary-clinton-holds-half-way-press-conference/88303254/
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Peale: I worked for that SOB’s company for a couple of years back in college. He’s really good at talking a game. His real agenda (a two-layered society comprised of billionaires and their owned slaves) which is something anyone can find out by working in one of his shit coffee outlets for a month, is very different.
Botsplainer
@D58826:
It would be fun if she popped out and said “I know YOU PEOPLE have your obsession with narrative and here’s mine: he’s an idiot and a fascist and a fraud, singularly unfit to lead the government of our great nation. He’s like every conman developer who will vomit out anything to coddle unhappy investors, and YOU PEOPLE lap that up like the dog’s breakfast. So go out and print your little tale about “both sides” being nasty or whatever you’re gonna do; I don’t really give a shit. Pressed is over, there will be no followips, and I don’t care about granting you access.”
Then she gives a derisive sneer and stomps off to silence.
Hoodie
@dww44: I believed many used to refer to her as “Noron.” I’m really dreading the next few months because we’ll see the idiocy of the press corps on full display. What’s been depressing me lately, though, is the realization that something between 45-55 % of my fellow American voters will pull the lever for a lying, narcissistic, ignorant old fart with a bad spray tan and a shitty combover. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter that Matt Lauer is an overpaid infomercial host, because anyone with half a brain would have seen that Trump is not qualified to have anyone’s life in his hands. The fact that the press can get anywhere at all trying to normalize him for purposes of a creating a ratings-driving horserace is scary. I guess they know their audience.
Highway Rob
@Central Planning: Marxism and anarcho-syndicalism are fundamentally different philosophies. Splitter!
burnspbesq
“The place Gary Johnson’s campaign died.”
“‘What is Aleppo?’, Alex”
Iowa Old Lady
@StringOnAStick: At the top of this page, click “quick links,” and then “contact a front pager.”
Botsplainer
@Betty Cracker:
He’s got me blocked. So do Chuck Todd and Mark Halperin.
WaterGirl
@bystander:
can you say more or point me to a link? thanks
bupalos
The reason we need 2 strong responsible parties in US politics is because the press is simply a mass corporate enterprise where ratings are the coin of the realm. The Trump has hacked into that existing reality and has ridden it further than anyone could have possibly expected, but zoom out and there’s no reason to be surprised. This is a cadre of people and corporations whose livelihoods are completely dependent on the horserace. No one need hold their breath waiting to see if this will change and the press will somehow grow a conscience and stop throwing their entire body onto the Trump side of the scale. They won’t. They can’t. This is like waiting for a tree to grow a nose.
Right now, Hillary is an existential threat for the media beast. The current wisdom (which I think is right) is that it’s truly and numerically impossible for The Trump to win, but very possible for him to get blown out early, essentially cancelling the election and a whole bunch of the billion dollars that it pumps into the corporate media ecosphere every few years. The past month was scary for this beast, as there didn’t even appear to be a theoretical batch of states Trump could cobble together, and they had to contemplate the idea that John King might be standing in front of a big interactive map for 6 hours being asked about the formula for a Trump victory, and simply not being able to create one no matter however furiously he tapped on every rural and exurban county in Michigan and Pennsylvania. So last night you have Matt Lauer opening with 30 minutes of questioning on “emails” but not one second for a follow up on Trump’s Iraq opposition lies or apparent “plan” to plunder its corpse. And this morning on NPR you have Mara Laison reporting on this half-hour questioning of emails as proof of the clouds of murky mistrustful mist surrounding her campaign, the balancing mass against which The Trump’s laughable gradeschool-level lies, evasions, and Nazi rhetoric is weighed and found to be…hmmm, oh wow, It looks like a close one, Bob! Back to you!
Botsplainer
@Amir Khalid:
Heh.
No musicians in this one, alien or otherwise. Actually, I’ve only been in one place in this town (been 4 times in the last year) that had live music.
Interesting part is that there is a table full of Mexicans across the bar speaking to each other in English. Everybody here is bilingual to a great extent, and this is just a working fishing village.
I can practice my bad Spanish while they gently correct me.
hovercraft
@James E Powell:
The GOS live blogged it here.
Jeffro
@NorthLeft12:
In my wildest dreams, NFLTG Obama just comes out and says, “The guy is an f-ing moron”.
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
It’s not those “guys” Botsplainer has to worry about — it’s sitting down at a table with some pilot who looks like a “lovable rogue.” I hear he shoots first, asks questions later.
MattF
@Jeffro: “Common clay of the new west.”
SFAW
@Jeffro:
His, too, I’ll bet.
Jeffro
@MomSense:
That (a variation of it, anyway) is a running joke in the Jeffro household – my kids love it. Any time one of us does something dumb, we make a goofy face and go, “…but at least I have the best words…” (a la Trump several months ago).
I mean between being possibly the most offensive person on the planet and one of the dumbest, c’mon Deep Bench, how did y’all not clean this guy’s clock?
trollhattan
@MattF:
It instantly becomes “days since Clinton’s penultimate press conference,” which will have legions of wingnuts looking to borrow their neighbors dict…fancy word books.
Jeffro
@Botsplainer:
He’ll fire them until he finds the ones that will tell him what he wants to hear, i.e., that we can swoop back in there, ‘take the oil’, kill every ISIS soldier and their families, and then evac our troops back out in 48 hours with no casualties. Or POWS either, since he doesn’t like those.
lgerard
@Iowa Old Lady:
Is there a golf course there?
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Jeffro: I’d prefer the unexpurgated version: “The guy’s a fucking moron.” I’m never quite sure how to pronounce the dash. A glottal stop? An elision?
Botsplainer
@SFAW:
He did not shoot first – I saw it in a movie on DVD…
Corner Stone
I was thinking about Trump’s Putin-loving comments. Not only did he praise Putin for his leadership he cited a specific number for his approval rating! “He has an 82% approval rating.”
He took the time to know the actual number for the leader of Russia! WTF.
bystander
@WaterGirl: Sorry no link. Mark Murray was discussing it with Kornacki. Barbara Boxer also was on. She was good but enough with the smoky eyes at 10 AM.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Based on his recent LGF performance, any missing of his obvious intentional irony is 100% the fault of the neo-liberal deaď-enders.
SFAW
@Jeffro:
Outside of me, that is.
Gohmert (Congress), Hannity (TV), or Hoft (Intertubez) have him beat. The ferret-headed shitgibbon is nowhere near as smart as (some) people give him credit for, but he’s not a complete moron. Complete asshole, maybe.
MomSense
@Jeffro:
I think we could have enjoyable combined family dinners. It’s a big joke at my house, too.
shomi
@The Dangerman: Pffft…HAHAHAH!
Yea, her campaign advisers are reading all your comments for a clue what they should be doing next. LOL!
SFAW
@Botsplainer:
If telling yourself that makes you feel better, then by all means, feel free to do so.
Botsplainer
@Jeffro:
Probably some wingnut USAF evangelical two star will sign right on to that. It’ll be some raging asshole with zero time in a combat role. Navy, Marines and Army will shriek, McConnell will move the Senate to quickly confirm a 4th star, and the British, French, Italian and German militaries will have to coordinate with China to usher in regime change in DC about 2 years in.
In that event, Reince Priebus winds up standing in the dock at The Hague begging for mercy…
trollhattan
@Peale:
Saint Ralph wrote a book telling us only billionaires can deliver us.
Citizen_X
@Amir Khalid: He’s in Mexico, not some wretched hive of scum and villainy. That would be Wall Street.
SFAW
@trollhattan:
Ahem … I believe the proper way to refer to him is “Saint Ralph the Pure.”
Kay
@Corner Stone:
trollhattan
@SFAW:
Sorry! [Stares at Corvair sneaker tops.]
dexwood
@The Ancient Randonnuer:
Well, as someone who lived under two Johnson terms as governor (Governor No), I’ve seen little proof of that. While he was governor, part of my job was to track his policies and statements for a research outfit I worked for at the time. I thought he was always an ill-informed idiot. Yet, people liked him because he took a “bold” stand against government. Hell, he even vetoed a bill his wife championed. Of course, to be honest, I thought that about him long before he became a successful, millionaire building contractor and Republican governor. When he was in college at UNM, he worked for my neighbor’s construction company sometimes, as did I. My impression of him was not favorable. My neighbor, on more than one occasion, called Johnson the dumbest employee he ever had.
As for Johnson’s successful company, Big J, I can tell you he was fortunate to have a wife who was smart, skilled, and very business savvy. She really ran the company. Without her, Big J would have been just another small construction company. This was the same wife he later divorced after taking up with a younger woman and who died from cancer not too long after the divorce. Gary is, and always has been, a self-centered jerk.
Sorry to post this and run.
SFAW
I just received an e-mail “News Alert” from The Hill re: her presser: “Media doesn’t ask Clinton about emails”
The article was bad enough. Then you get to the comment. Oy. The first ones wanted her jailed and executed for treason.
I SO WISH they would all move to Dumbfuckistan, bring all their firearms with them, and then let things follow their natural course. Crazy/stupid/evil motherfuckers.
hovercraft
@Jeffro:
Laughing in the face of the reporter who asked him if he’d like to defend himself from Trump’s attack, is getting pretty close.
SFAW
@dexwood:
Me, too! Does that mean I can run for Preznit?
Kay
Email from the trenches :)
It’s a red, rural county w/maybe 10k Democrats. I bet it means they have the whole state covered now.
Maybe Clinton Team can just outwork the douchebags. That sometimes turns out okay. Not always, or often enough really, but sometimes.
SFAW
@trollhattan:
If you’re wearing them when you’re out running (or playing hoop or whatever) don’t make any sudden turns.
SFAW
@Kay:
“I mean, who else could be AG and still be as corrupt as the people she’s supposed to investigate, amirite? Not like that lightweight Schneiderman, or that Spitzer guy – what losers! And she doesn’t try to make life difficult for rich people like Jaahb Creators who know how to work the system.”
Jeffro
@Comrade Scrutinizer: You just say “effing moron”. For some reason I was self-censoring…I think I was feeling badly about dropping a full f-bomb earlier in the thread or something.
I don’t know why – this is BJ after all
Jeffro
@MomSense:
One would think that when even the 11-year-old in my house gets it, that anyone who would say something that incredibly dumb shouldn’t even be in charge of cutting up their own food, perhaps the media could take note one in a while.
“I have the best words”…right up there with “I love the poorly educated”…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Botsplainer:
I’m sure his liver will have given out by then, you can only do Bailey’s on Lucky Charms for so long.
randy khan
@SFAW:
Of course he shot first. If he didn’t, at that range he would be dead. (And besides, the script makes it obvious that he has to shoot.)
I’ve never actually gotten why there’s any question about that.
Bobby Thomson
@Hoodie: used to?
dww44
@Peale: Thanks. That explains the whole interview
.@Hoodie: An apt characterization of O’Donnell.
Feebog
@Corner Stone:
Apparently Trump is too stupid to realize that in a dictatorship your approval rating is whatever you want it to be.
D58826
LAtest outrage – according to weekly standard (large grain of salt) Congressional democrats were not told that the payments to Iran would be in cash. I guess I’m just getting old and senile but what the H____LL difference does it make if the payments were in cash, check. money or or coconuts?
And according to the VSP’s Hillary gave the presser today to make up for her bad performance last night.
(sigh)
MCA1
@bupalos: Perhaps the saddest part is the sheer lack of creativity and vision. If just one enterprising media outlet would remind itself that perhaps the most famous actual horserace of all time was Secretariat winning the Belmont by a quarter of a mile, they’d realize there’s another $$$ making narrative RIGHT THERE for them. The stories about a historically unqualified and buffoonish candidate present themselves every goddamned time Drumpf opens his mouth. Aren’t media executives supposed to be the leading storytelling experts? There’s more than one story, and there’s plenty of audience looking for a different movie right now.
Ian
@Tazj:
I saw that on the very last page in a small one paragraph blurb at the end of my local paper.
MomSense
@Jeffro:
It’s like we are playing the home edition of are you smarter than a fifth grader. The answer is no. SAD!
Origuy
@D58826: The payment was in cash, IIRC, because international sanctions have kept Iran out of the international banking system for the most part. Your ATM card won’t work there. Can you imagine the uproar if the payment was in gold?
hovercraft
@D58826:
Since it’s against the law for financial institutions t have dealings with Iran, what form did they think the payments would be in ? Bitcoins, Gold Bullion ?
NorthLeft12
@Corner Stone: And just the notion that there would be an unbiased poll on Putin’s popularity is also a little mind boggling too. But I guess Deadbeat Donald just thinks that polls are rigged in the US and other democracies and not in authoritarian states.
SFAW
Actually, it would not surprise me if Putin’s popularity were that high. What little I have heard — so take this with major salt — is that they love him, because he’s making
AmericaRussia great again. Standing up to the Americans, who are looking down their/our noses at them, etc.Of course, he’s in significantly better shape, and also considerably smarter, than the ferret-headed shitgibbon. But no doubt Corrupt Deadbeat Donnie would make
his paymasterVlad into a pitiful, helpless giant, because shitgibbon has the best words/mind/nukes.It still amazes me how many stupid people there are in this country.
sukabi
@Jerzy Russian: pretty sure she doesn’t have this guy on speed dial
sukabi
@Kay: and ir gets better… Mexican politician plan on if drumpf is elected…nullify treaties with US , reclaim Texas, California, other territories…
sukabi
@MattF: need two clocks for trump, one for counting his lies another for counting the time between lies.
Turgidson
@burnspbesq:
Unfortunately, most of the people supporting Johnson have no particular clue or interest in what he actually believes and just think (quite wrongly) he can’t possibly be worse than the Short-Fingered Vulgarian or Hitlery. Particularly former BernieBros who say they’re voting for him – because there is no sane world where someone who claims to actually believe in the things Bernie does and share his goals for policy would switch to Gary f’ing Johnson before they switch to Hillary. So the types of people supporting him won’t care, or likely even find out, that he doesn’t know what Aleppo is.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Kay,
we aren’t talking about where Hillary is opening 10 offices to Ferret head’s 6…..
He’s not opening ANY.
He’s leaving it ALL to the RNC.
We shall see what gets out the vote.
We shall see.