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You are here: Home / Axios, bold as love

Axios, bold as love

by DougJ|  December 20, 20166:11 pm| 143 Comments

This post is in: Our Failed Media Experiment

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Jim VandeHei’s thoughtful piece advocating for a techno-military dictatorship was one of the highlights of 2016 political journalism, so I’ve been waiting with bated breath to see what he and Mike Allen were planning next. It seems to be a a high-priced subscription-based news service called Axios that promotes itself by tweeting out pictures of off-the-record events with Donald Trump.

I understand selling one’s soul for some nice food and high-class booze, but…what the fuck kind of buffet is this?

Christmas at Mar-a-Lago: #NotYourTypicalPoolHold! dinner for pool apres @realDonaldTrump off-record .. follow @axios pic.twitter.com/8Zw9QFc1vJ

— Mike Allen (@mikeallen) December 19, 2016

The student activity center called and they want their rolls and potato chips back.

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  1. 1.

    JMG

    December 20, 2016 at 6:13 pm

    I swear to you, Marge Schott laid out a better spread for the press at the Cincinnati Reds post-game buffets for the press at the 1990 World Series. And because we were sportswriters, we bitched about its quality. We were just moochers, not hos.

  2. 2.

    debbie

    December 20, 2016 at 6:15 pm

    Even though they look a little undercooked, I’d bet those Trump steaks are like shoe leather.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    December 20, 2016 at 6:15 pm

    The first state dinner will feature ramen noodles.

  4. 4.

    MelissaM

    December 20, 2016 at 6:16 pm

    Hey, is that Jimmy John himself behind the table?

  5. 5.

    Hunter Gathers

    December 20, 2016 at 6:17 pm

    But Lay’s are hands down the classiest of potato chips. Available at only the finest of establishments. Like right outside a road stop bathroom.

  6. 6.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 6:18 pm

    what the fuck kind of buffet is this?

    A tacky one.

  7. 7.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    @Baud: No, it’ll be a nice spread; catered by a Tump subsidiary.

  8. 8.

    Elizabelle

    December 20, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    Are there more pictures? I want to see our pay to play journalists, with the master.

  9. 9.

    Brachiator

    December 20, 2016 at 6:21 pm

    Jimi knew:

    My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war,
    And ribbons of euphoria
    Orange is young, full of daring,
    But very unsteady for the first go round
    My yellow in this case is not so mellow
    In fact I’m trying to say it’s frightened like me…
    Just ask the shitgibbon (he knows everything)

    But we are bold as love…

  10. 10.

    rikyrah

    December 20, 2016 at 6:21 pm

    Not even a three piece and a biscuit from Popeyes ???
    The actual bags of Lays potato chips is what got me going Da hail?
    The rolls look stale.

  11. 11.

    SenyorDave

    December 20, 2016 at 6:22 pm

    The first state dinner will feature ramen noodles.

    Probably supplied by a catering company owned by one of the evil spawn of the predator-elect. Its pretty comical to see what a cheap piece of shit Trump is. And also to see what low-rent whores the media are (I actually think it is an insult to whores to compare the media to them).

  12. 12.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    @JMG: The political press are not only whores*, but cheep whores*.

    *No disrespect to sex workers, many who are very good at their jobs and provide a useful service.

    ETA: (Tips hat to Senyor Dave, who got there first.)

  13. 13.

    Botsplainer

    December 20, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    Besides the buckets of mustard and mayo, there are elaborately labeled bottles of Trump sparkling wine, undoubtedly from the finest vintages produced by Bartles AND James…

    Probably had Bud Lite for beer drinkers.

  14. 14.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    December 20, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    Doug: Anytime I see Jim Fucking Vandehei I’m reminded of the bad old days when we’d try to tweak his sorry, dim ass on the WaPo chats. His spots haven’t changed. Every time his name pops up it highlights how he deserves a spot right up there with Mrs Greenspan and Chuckles Todd for inclusion in the first tumbrel load.

    As Driftglass posted recently, the media is Enemy #1. This is just Example #3,658.

  15. 15.

    Elizabelle

    December 20, 2016 at 6:24 pm

    Tweets found at the link on the photo:

    #NotYourTypicalPoolHold! writes the journalist equivalent of a crack whore working the Greyhound bus station bathroom

    AngelaH Retweeted Mike Allen
    I had a better buffet at my Blockbuster Christmas party circa 1995.

  16. 16.

    germy

    December 20, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    Nothingburgers all the way down

  17. 17.

    Botsplainer

    December 20, 2016 at 6:26 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    Actually it may not be so much tacky as it is a reflection of the esteem felt by Twitler toward them.

    He isn’t wrong, if that was intentional.

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    December 20, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    Aw, no pic of the life-size bust of you know who.

    Constructed of tripe.

  19. 19.

    Felonius Monk

    December 20, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    #NotYourTypicalPoolHold! dinner for pool apres

    Is that Pool as in Ptomaine?

  20. 20.

    schrodinger's cat

    December 20, 2016 at 6:29 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Collaborators, is the word you are looking for.

  21. 21.

    sloan

    December 20, 2016 at 6:30 pm

    This is what I imagine a Golden Corral buffet would look like.

    But the food server would have shaved in the last few days and would be wearing a hair net.

  22. 22.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 20, 2016 at 6:30 pm

    In moderation again, for using my old nym. FYWP.

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    December 20, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    The blinis and vodka must be further down the table.

  24. 24.

    Iowa Old Lady

    December 20, 2016 at 6:35 pm

    I saw a picture of the press lined up with Trump at that gathering. Do we have the names of the media people who allowed themselves to be used like this?

  25. 25.

    delk

    December 20, 2016 at 6:36 pm

    I’ve thrown Lunch & Learn’s with better looking spreads than that and you got CLE credit.

  26. 26.

    JenJen

    December 20, 2016 at 6:36 pm

    I’ve been laughing about Axios ever since I heard it was being run by that dick Mike Allen, last seen smiling at Mar-a-Lago with our new Electoral President-Elect.

    And, saw this post title on Twitter and thought, “Oh man, that has to be a DougJ post.” And whadda ya know, hot damn, it is!

  27. 27.

    kindness

    December 20, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    Not a Twitter guy but the comments following up Allen’s post were funny. I’m left wondering why many of those who claimed this made them unfollow Allen hadn’t done so for the million outstanding reasons previously. Not a good way to run a high priced subscription service focused on fluffing.

  28. 28.

    beth

    December 20, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    Is that a stack of paper plates to the right of the rolls? Tacky, tacky.

  29. 29.

    JPL

    December 20, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    It appears there was champagne, and I can only imagine what that tasted like.

  30. 30.

    GregB

    December 20, 2016 at 6:40 pm

    The dessert table had a delicious assortment if circus peanuts snd snowballs. Classy!

  31. 31.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 6:44 pm

    @Botsplainer:
    @schrodinger’s cat: Why not both?

  32. 32.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 6:45 pm

    @JPL: I’m guessing the same as the stuff my college friends had at the Rose Parade in 1979. Bronco champagne, tastes like horse piss.

  33. 33.

    Baud

    December 20, 2016 at 6:46 pm

    Y’all be arugula-eating elitists.

  34. 34.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 20, 2016 at 6:46 pm

    Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei. Two more reasons for my nym.

    Wipe them out. All of them.

  35. 35.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 6:46 pm

    @GregB:

    The dessert table had a delicious assortment if circus peanuts snd snowballs.

    See, that climate change stuff is Chinese Hoax!

  36. 36.

    MomSense

    December 20, 2016 at 6:47 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Without getting into it too much I’ll just say that I remember him from the 80s as my social circles sometimes crossed with his social circles. He’s a vulgar, shallow person. He is socially aspirant and incredibly self absorbed. There is no center. There is no moral compass. There is no introspection or consideration. He needs constant validation and adulation because he lacks any kind of substance or faith that might root him as a human being. He lives hand to mouth in the basest way possible.

  37. 37.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 6:47 pm

    @Baud: Not me, I stick with lettuce.

  38. 38.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 20, 2016 at 6:47 pm

    @NotMax: Insult to tripe.

  39. 39.

    Roger Moore

    December 20, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    No, it’ll be a nice insanely expensive spread; catered by a Tump subsidiary.

    FTFY.

  40. 40.

    Ruviana

    December 20, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I’m concerned about how you know this.

  41. 41.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 20, 2016 at 6:50 pm

    Axios is an acclamation used in the various Eastern Orthodox and Eastern (Byzantine) Rite churches meaning “deserving” or “worthy of”. It’s what you say to a bishop after he is awarded that position.

    I can’t think of anything less “worthy of” than the Allen/VandeHei pond scum.

  42. 42.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 20, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Not to get too personal, but how do you know how horse piss tastes?

  43. 43.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    @Ruviana:
    @Gin & Tonic: I was not present, I went the next year, but that’s what I was told. The next year we had Andre champagne(still shitty, but I’m told it was better).

  44. 44.

    Elizabelle

    December 20, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    This is sad to say, but it would not surprise me if Mike Allen was a suicide one day. He seems to be a strange little man with no center. No moral core. People have pegged him as soulless for a while now.

  45. 45.

    Aleta

    December 20, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    https://medium.com/more-or-less/trump-interrupted-b0603bb35b07#.klfyuw73a
    Tr— Interrupted
    -Sarah Cooper
    Short piece, could be funny if not for being real

  46. 46.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    @Roger Moore: I sit corrected.

  47. 47.

    Petorado

    December 20, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    This reminds me of how cheaply Congresscritters can be bought out as well. For a few thousand dollars thrown at their campaign, they’ll give away billions in public assets to corporations or big donors. Our media will now be thrilled to have a few buns tossed their way after being released from their hostile press pens.

  48. 48.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 20, 2016 at 6:56 pm

    @MomSense:

    Are you talking about Trump, VandeHei or Allen?

  49. 49.

    Roger Moore

    December 20, 2016 at 6:57 pm

    @JPL:

    It appears there was champagne

    That’s sparkling wine. You can bet Trump wouldn’t be willing to spring for the real stuff.

  50. 50.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 6:57 pm

    @Elizabelle: Then we won’t get “Happy Friday” on “Morning Joe”, SAD.

    (In an effort to preserve my mental health, I quit watching “Morning Joe” a week prior to the election.)

  51. 51.

    Ruviana

    December 20, 2016 at 6:58 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Too easy: All of them Katie.

  52. 52.

    MomSense

    December 20, 2016 at 6:59 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    Trump

  53. 53.

    JPL

    December 20, 2016 at 6:59 pm

    @Aleta: If only Bezos would read this, and then hang his head in shame.

  54. 54.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): OT: Did you see the Amazon link to the case I have for my S2?

  55. 55.

    debbie

    December 20, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    Hmm, the first of many flauntings of the law?

  56. 56.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    @MomSense: I’m sorry.

  57. 57.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 7:01 pm

    @debbie: “When the President(or evidently President-elect) does it, it’s not illegal.”

  58. 58.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 20, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    I can’t decide if that spread is an expression of Trump’s disdain for the press, or an expression of his innate tackiness.

  59. 59.

    Elizabelle

    December 20, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    @MomSense: Excellent description.

    And now he gets the nuclear codes.

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 20, 2016 at 7:04 pm

    @Ruviana, @MomSense:

    Just glad it wasn’t Popeyes. Now I’m jonesin’ for some spicy pieces with a salty biscuit and a side of red beans and rice.

  61. 61.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 20, 2016 at 7:07 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Can easily be both.

  62. 62.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 20, 2016 at 7:08 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    Yes, got it and bookmarked it on my computer for post-Christmas consideration. One question: does it get in the way when you’re holding the tablet in portrait mode?

    P.S. I usually come back the next morning and check the overnight threads. OCD/​closure.

  63. 63.

    catclub

    December 20, 2016 at 7:08 pm

    @germy: I knew this comment would be here.
    Saved me typing it.

  64. 64.

    NotMax

    December 20, 2016 at 7:08 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    Absolutely the lowest form of “champagne” swill ever. Undrinkable? Hell, it’s unsippable. Would gag a maggot.

    Other side of the coin is that (if one can find them) Israeli sparkling wines can be darn good quality and very affordable.

  65. 65.

    Mnemosyne

    December 20, 2016 at 7:08 pm

    I order buffets at work with a budget of under $250. I’ll take a photo next time so you can see how much better mine look even when we order from frickin’ El Pollo Loco.

  66. 66.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 20, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    @debbie:

    Flouting.

  67. 67.

    raven

    December 20, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    Speaking of “journalism” you see this shit about

    How Ed Schultz transformed from MSNBC lefty to the American face of Moscow media

    “Good evening, friends,” Schultz boomed on his program one recent evening before swiftly segueing into “the alleged hacking” of the presidential election by Russia. Schultz skipped the latest details, such as President Obama’s views on the matter or the consensus among American intelligence agencies about the extent of Russian meddling. Instead he went straight to Ed Schultz’s view of the matter: “This has become a lifeline for Clinton supporters in an effort to reverse the outcome of the election. . . . In the meantime, the story has entered the arena of outrageous.”

  68. 68.

    MomSense

    December 20, 2016 at 7:12 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    Sounds good. I could go for biscuits right about now. Bread is my weakness!

  69. 69.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Nope, it just folds back behind the tablet and secures with a magnetic clasp. It can also act as a stand in landscape mode.

    ETA: I can provide pics upon request.

  70. 70.

    Roger Moore

    December 20, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    @debbie:

    Hmm, the first of many flauntings of the law?

    Nitpick: that should be floutings of the law, not flauntings. To flaunt is to show off; to flout is to ignore.

  71. 71.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 7:14 pm

    @Mnemosyne: El Pollo Loco’s good stuff.

  72. 72.

    raven

    December 20, 2016 at 7:14 pm

    @Roger Moore: Wow, I never knew that!

  73. 73.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    @Roger Moore: With Trump, it’s both.

  74. 74.

    mike in dc

    December 20, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    @raven:

    Fuck that guy.

    Incidentally, if the media really wants Trump to do regular press conferences, there’s an easy way to force him to do it. Stop covering his rallies and tweets. I know, Fox will still do it, but if everyone else drops coverage, he’ll cave. I suspect they’re going to have to force the issue, because I don’t think Trump wants a forum where he gets hit with hard questions and harder follow ups.

  75. 75.

    Roger Moore

    December 20, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    I’ll take a photo next time so you can see how much better mine look even when we order from frickin’ El Pollo Loco.

    Might I suggest ordering from your favorite taco truck the next time? They’ll need the business now that they aren’t going to be on every corner.

  76. 76.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 7:18 pm

    @mike in dc:

    a forum where he gets hit with hard questions and harder follow ups.

    You’ve seen the White House Press Corps, right?

  77. 77.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 20, 2016 at 7:18 pm

    @NotMax:

    My favorite inexpensive bubbly is Conde de Caralt Brut. A nice Cava for 10 bucks.

  78. 78.

    Roger Moore

    December 20, 2016 at 7:19 pm

    @mike in dc:

    I don’t think Trump wants a forum where he gets hit with hard questions and harder follow ups.

    How much of the media actually wants that, though? What they really want is easy material they can put on their “news” shows. As long as Trump provides them with free content, they’ll be happy.

  79. 79.

    Baud

    December 20, 2016 at 7:19 pm

    @raven: Wow. That’s news to me. I did not realize how much economic anxiety Schultz had.

  80. 80.

    Aleta

    December 20, 2016 at 7:19 pm

    A guy like Tr might just spring for Cold Duck to impress the women.

  81. 81.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    @Baud: Well, he got canned at MSNBC.

  82. 82.

    raven

    December 20, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    @Baud: Yea, I had no idea either.

  83. 83.

    Elizabelle

    December 20, 2016 at 7:21 pm

    Axios. Sounds like men’s cologne. In midlevel department stores.

    But here’s a Vanity Fair article on what could Axios possibly be? The usual journo-techno-speak from VandeHei. It’s undecipherable. (The following excerpt is clearer than what preceded.)

    And look who is financing the new venture. NBC has a stake. Andrew Lack will be on the board. Nothing says quality journalism (Villager! On steroids!) like NBC these days.

    For VandeHei, too many media companies have fallen into the traffic trap, or as he has eloquently put it, the “crap trap.” What Axios is trying to do is occupy the space that VandeHei feels The New York Times and The Economist could have commanded if they weren’t tethered to their old print roots. He has joked with potential investors that Axios is best described as what you get if the “Economist mated with Twitter,” and “smartly narrated all the good stuff its own reporters missed,” according to someone familiar with the conversation. In late summer, Axios secured $10 million in financing. The round was led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, the venture-capital firm integral to the launch of the Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. Also backing the venture is NBC News, which is a media partner and whose president, Andy Lack, will sit on the board. Other funders include Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective, Greycroft Partners, and David and Katherine Bradley, owners of Atlantic Media.

    In particular, Axios wants to focus on business, technology, politics, and media trends through hiring people “who are authentically wired and smart in those topic areas,” as Allen was uniquely suited when he began Playbook.

    Cue the crack whore snark.

    Although there’s a photo of the two at the Vanity Fair link. VandeHei looks full of himself. Allen looks shyly kind and human. Better pic of him, than usual.

  84. 84.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 20, 2016 at 7:21 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    The pics on the Amazon page are clear enough. I just wondered about holding it freehand.

  85. 85.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 7:21 pm

    @Aleta:

    impress the women

    Oh, that’s what they call it now.

  86. 86.

    Baud

    December 20, 2016 at 7:22 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Now if they could just can Andrea Mitchell.

  87. 87.

    mike in dc

    December 20, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    Yeah, but Trump can’t even field a medium speed pitch. And even simple follow ups would make him look bad. If his team thought press conferences were a strong point for him, he’d be doing one a month.

  88. 88.

    Aleta

    December 20, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    @Elizabelle: Or medieval department stores..

  89. 89.

    JPL

    December 20, 2016 at 7:28 pm

    This is so sad.. from AP

    BREAKING: Mexican Federal Police: 9 dead, 70 injured in explosion at fireworks market outside Mexico City.

    Because it wasn’t a terrorist event, it will not receive much attention from 24/7.

  90. 90.

    Aleta

    December 20, 2016 at 7:29 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): People having their portraits done are holding tablets now?

  91. 91.

    NotMax

    December 20, 2016 at 7:30 pm

    @Steeplejack

    Used to be a specialty cheese and wanna-be gourmet food shop here which stocked a sizeable selection of sparkling wines at Xmas season, all $10 or less. Also brought in a caraway-infused cheese at holiday time only which was to die for. Might be misremembering, but think it was a Danish cheese called King Christian.

    Out of business for some time now, was saddled with an unfortunate name: Who Cut The Cheese.

  92. 92.

    Roger Moore

    December 20, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    @mike in dc:

    If his team thought press conferences were a strong point for him, he’d be doing one a month.

    I think he’d be doing it every day if he thought it was a strong point; he’d love the attention.

  93. 93.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 20, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    @mike in dc: They will never do that. Drumpf rallies are good for ratings. They are mercenaries, they have no loyalty to truth, to honor, to integrity, to decency. They make $10 blow job ajimas in Itaewon look like dignified businesswomen.

  94. 94.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 20, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Corpse. It’s spelled Corpse.

  95. 95.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 20, 2016 at 7:39 pm

    @raven: Another name on the tumbrel manifest.

  96. 96.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 7:39 pm

    @NotMax:

    Constructed of tripe.

    I was thinking “cheap pâté” (okay, liverwurst. OKAY?) but “tripe” has a certain poetry to it.

  97. 97.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    @Felonius Monk:

    Is that Pool as in Ptomaine?

    The P is silent, as in pswimming.

  98. 98.

    Mnemosyne

    December 20, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Why choose?

  99. 99.

    Roger Moore

    December 20, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    @NotMax:

    Constructed of tripe.

    I thought the media brought all the tripe. Or did they use it all up producing their “content”?

  100. 100.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 7:44 pm

    @beth:

    Is that a stack of paper plates to the right of the rolls? Tacky, tacky.

    Please. Mar-a-Lago is a class joint. Those plates are molded styrofoam.

  101. 101.

    Mnemosyne

    December 20, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    @raven:

    Misogyny is a hell of a drug.

  102. 102.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 7:48 pm

    @JPL:

    It appears there was champagne, and I can only imagine what that tasted like.

    Think of a cheap knockoff Asti Spumante that’s gone all funky.

  103. 103.

    debbie

    December 20, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):
    (also Roger Moore)

    I like flaunting for this:

    show off, display ostentatiously, make a (great) show of, put on show/display, parade

    He’s doing this because he can and because he likes to stick it to his opponents at every opportunity.

  104. 104.

    RSA

    December 20, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    @Botsplainer:

    Probably had Bud Lite for beer drinkers.

    At the cash bar.

  105. 105.

    Another Scott

    December 20, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    That spread reminds me of when our flight was cancelled years ago. We were stuck at some airport halfway home. We complained and got a coupon for a night’s stay at their contracted hotel and a $10 coupon for “dinner”. By the time we got to the hotel, their kitchen was closed, but they helpfully offered to take our $10 coupons in exchange for some sandwiches which were (honest to the FSM) two slices of plain white bread with a slice of American “cheese” between them…

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  106. 106.

    NotMax

    December 20, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    @debbie

    Obligatory clip.

  107. 107.

    Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap

    December 20, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    The other picture, that goes with this story is the one that shows the “reporters” standing in a semi-circle around Trump, who is giving his usual stupid thumbs up. I’ve seen that picture posted on at least a dozen web sites. I have yet to see a caption that tells me who the “reporters” are. We need to have names.

  108. 108.

    Adrift

    December 20, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: It’s a roast beef sandwich that you make yourself on a ridiculously sized roll (note the mayo and mustard bowls), tasteless tomato and lettuce(?) from Piggly-Wiggly with a side of bagged chips. All on a styrofoam/cardboard plate (on the right),

    Sorry if I repeated anyone, I just had to comment as soon as I walked in the door :)

    ETA minor edit

  109. 109.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    @debbie:

    I think you mean “flouting,” not “flaunting.”

    Isn’t Kuwait in breach of contract here? Seems to me the Four Seasons has a very solid lawsuit.

  110. 110.

    Botsplainer

    December 20, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    @RSA:

    Here’s how I picture the premium brands for the $8 drinks (well liquor was $6):

    Usher’s
    Seagram’s 7
    Jack Daniels
    Popov Vodka
    Glenmore Gin
    Bacardi white rum

    Mixers include Canada Dry for tonic, soda water and ginger ale
    Plain tomato juice for Bloody Marys
    No fresh cut limes, only RealLime
    SunnyD for Screwdrivers
    Pepsi Cola

    Ice was on the warm side, and sloppy

  111. 111.

    Jeffro

    December 20, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Axios is best described as what you get if the “Economist mated with Twitter,” and “smartly narrated all the good stuff its own reporters missed,” according to someone familiar with the conversation.

    I cannot imagine what the frock this means, but it’s approaching Trumpian levels of bullshit, that’s for sure.

  112. 112.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 8:08 pm

    @Aleta:

    A guy like Tr might just spring for Cold Duck to impress the women.

    Now I’m picturing a bar stocked with Cold Duck, Grey Goose, and Wild Turkey.

  113. 113.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 20, 2016 at 8:10 pm

    @Aleta:

    I always work in portrait mode. In landscape mode I tend to fall asleep.

  114. 114.

    Doug!

    December 20, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    @JenJen:

    Thanks!

  115. 115.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    @JPL:

    Just sent a FB message to a good FB friend who lives in Mexico City. I hope and assume she’s okay but will feel better when I hear back from her.

    Same as my high school friend who now lives in Berlin. I worried about her yesterday until she posted an “I’m fine, I’m safe” message some hours after the truck event.

  116. 116.

    lollipopguild

    December 20, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: A friend told him.

  117. 117.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 20, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    @NotMax:

    What an awful name. They deserved to go out of business for that alone.

    Just over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on the way to Rehoboth Beach is an excellent barbecue place with the slightly unfortunate name It’s the Pits, but that’s nowhere near as bad as the cheese place. Those cutesy names usually only work for hair salons, for some reason.

  118. 118.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 8:18 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Yup, the front cover just folds over the back and the magnetic clasp folds back as well to clasp in the back

  119. 119.

    lollipopguild

    December 20, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Curl up and Dye?

  120. 120.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    I always work in portrait mode. In landscape mode I tend to fall asleep.

    Wow, interesting. I am exactly the opposite. Portrait mode makes me all twitchy.

  121. 121.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 8:22 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: Wishful thinking, VDE.

  122. 122.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 8:25 pm

    @Baud:

    can Andrea Mitchell

    Can Andrea Mitchell what?

    What can Andrea Mitchell, that is what we want to know.

  123. 123.

    NotMax

    December 20, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    @Steeplejack

    Shear Madness was one seen someplace.

    During my monthly circuit through town, pass by a hair salon which has a huge printed banner across the front advertising, exactly as typed here, the following:

    Higlights Our Specialty.

    Cringe each time drive by it.

  124. 124.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    @NotMax:

    HIGlights?

  125. 125.

    lollipopguild

    December 20, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    @NotMax: The second “H” is silent.

  126. 126.

    lollipopguild

    December 20, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: How much can Andrea can if Andrea could can-can?

  127. 127.

    p.a.

    December 20, 2016 at 8:43 pm

    My god, in that closer bowl… can it be… Cole’s mustard!!?? ?

  128. 128.

    Roger Moore

    December 20, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    What can Andrea Mitchell, that is what we want to know.

    Can Andrea Mitchell be so mighty as to lay low the mountains of the Earth?

  129. 129.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 8:46 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Aha, I knew somebody here besides me could recite Beyond the Fringe routines from memory! Just didn’t know who would be first to step up!

    P.S. No. She will not be so mighty as all that. That is why we have come up on the mountains, you silly nit.

  130. 130.

    NotMax

    December 20, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Yup. To think they paid someone to print it…

  131. 131.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    December 20, 2016 at 8:52 pm

    @p.a.: There is no mustard, it’s just a myth.

  132. 132.

    laura

    December 20, 2016 at 9:00 pm

    @rikyrah: that special sorta greasy-stale.

  133. 133.

    Emma

    December 20, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    @Mnemosyne: We had a Christmas potluck last week that looked better than that!

  134. 134.

    gbbalto

    December 20, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    Unfortunately, it is conceivable that Trump thought he was offering a really good spread…

  135. 135.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    December 20, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I was talking about me, not the tablet. Although I do tend to prefer portrait mode there, too.

  136. 136.

    Sab

    December 20, 2016 at 9:28 pm

    @MomSense: Who was “he”? Mike Allen or Jim Vandehei?

  137. 137.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 20, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    I was talking about me, not the tablet.

    Ah. If you had posted that at coffee time, I expect I would have got it. At Wine-thirty, not so much.

  138. 138.

    stinger

    December 20, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    @beth: It looks almost exactly like the spread my company did for employees having their 5, 10, 15, and 20-year work anniversaries. Plus we got framed certificates.

  139. 139.

    The Lodger

    December 20, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: The mustard is a lie.

  140. 140.

    Amaranthine RBG

    December 20, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    You know what, making fun of Trump for being a tasteless boor isn’t going to do shit to change anything.

    Just like the hundreds of thousands of blog posts and news stories about what a tasteless boor he was didn’t change anyone’s vote.

  141. 141.

    Mnemosyne

    December 20, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    @Amaranthine RBG:

    So what? Fuck off back under your rock and let people snark if they feel like it.

  142. 142.

    Amaranthine RBG

    December 21, 2016 at 12:40 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    People like you are the reason Hillary lost.

    Wake up.

  143. 143.

    Lurking Canadian

    December 21, 2016 at 8:19 am

    @Amaranthine RBG: Yes, the exit polls were clear on the sovereign importance of cold cuts on a stale Kaiser.

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