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Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

This really is a full service blog.

No one could have predicted…

This blog will pay for itself.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

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  1. 1.

    Trentrunner

    I’d add Sean Spicer’s Spitting Shitshow of Shame press statement.

    MSM, now that they don’t have bothsidesism operating, are actually going after the outright lies.

    In his few minutes today, in trying to claim Trump’s inauguration was the most well-attended “ever,” Spicer lied about:

    – DC Transit numbers (Obama’s were much higher, both times; so were GWB’s second)
    – Magnetometers on the Mall: There were none.
    – Light-colored ground cover panels: They were not new to 2017; Obama’s 2013 inaugural had them, too.

  3. 3.

    dr. bloor

    I’d feel a little better about goading the Shitgibbon to his inevitable dissolution if I knew that Brennan and SecDef were all over the Senate to get the 25th Amendment proceedings teed up and ready to go at a moment’s notice. Be a pity to see civilization end because some random tweet was the last straw for him on a night when Jared and Ivanka decided to leave him with the babysitter.

  6. 6.

    Suzanne

    @Breezeblock: I am very encouraged by the show of joyful yet determined resistance that we saw today.

    I want to shame, shame, shame this cretin and his cabal of propagandists.

  7. 7.

    Mike in NC

    Trump is going to go full-on Nixon. Maybe in 6 months, maybe a year. A spectacular meltdown on live TV.

  8. 8.

    Trentrunner

    @dr. bloor: LOL, this was rich:

    Right after Spicer said Trump’s inauguration was the best attended “period,” he then went on to give a bunch of reasons why access to the Mall was harder in 2017 than in prior inaugurations.

    These included higher security procedures, to wit, “magnetometers,” and more restricted areas.

    Both were lies.

    IOW, “Ours was the most popular inaugural ever, but if it wasn’t, here’s why.”

    And then he bulletpointed lie after lie.

  10. 10.

    The Dangerman

    I don’t get the strategy exhibited by Spicer; I happened to be watching FoxNews at the time and, after Spicer did his shitshow, even the Fox Trumpette’s were shocked into basically saying WTF was that shit? A wise person once said something to the effect of don’t get into a war of words with someone who buys ink by the barrel (should know who said it and far too lazy to look it up) but getting into an all out war with Big Media will not end well for Trump.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Today was a good day

    I was just thinking that. Yesterday at this time I was depressed, despondent, weeping, grouchy, and snarly to everyone who came within about 50 feet of me.

    Tonight, after a top-notch, truly incredible performance of Roméo et Juliette at the MET Opera Live in HD this afternoon, and then hours of reading through all the BJ posts and photos and reports on Women’s Marches around the country and around the word, I find myself feeling really pumped for the first time at least since November 8th.

    So, yeah, it was indeed a good day.

  16. 16.

    skerry

    He did more than “speak to the CIA”. He spoke in front of the wall of memorial stars, each star representing a death in service to our country. He defiled that space.

    “Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump’s despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA’s Memorial Wall of Agency heroes,” Nick Shapiro said in a statement. “Brennan says that Trump should be ashamed of himself.”

    ETA: I am told that the senior staff who were at the speech stood stoically during it. No clapping or laughing or anything else. I find this quite telling.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    @The Dangerman: The secret to the media is that they want to feel they are in on the con. Lies about Hillary are perfectly fine, because the media is on board with this. The problem with today’s press conference was that it was a lie that the media felt they weren’t part of.

  20. 20.

    NeenerNeener

    @Breezeblock: If he doesn’t fake a health crisis so he can resign “for his health” after 6 months of protests and relentless mockery, then I expect him to stroke out within 18 months.

  21. 21.

    dr. bloor

    @The Dangerman: Today wasn’t about winning the spin or fooling some of the people some of the time. It was a flat-out challenge to the media to suck Trump’s dick, or perish. it’s full-on authoritarianism, and they’re betting that the media will succumb.

    Let’s see who’s right. I don’t think the outcome is certain either way, myself.

  24. 24.

    Jeffro

    @Trentrunner:

    I haven’t felt this good since November 8. Period.

    I know…it’s like a cloud lifted, isn’t it? Not for good…not yet…but it’s a beautiful thing.

    Brian Williams is gushing on MSNBC right now.

    Waiting to see how much coverage former CIA director Brennan’s statement is going to get…

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @skerry:

    No clapping or laughing or anything else. I find this quite telling.

    I’m sure that’s true, but in that case, who were the folks cheering and laughing and applauding? Did he bring along the same claque he had at his “quote “press conference” unquote”? How many times, how much longer, can he do this and get away with it?

  27. 27.

    debbie

    @Jeffro:

    I’m going to watch my local Fox news at 10pm and then the NBC affiliate at 11pm. The differences should be very telling.

  30. 30.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    The Spicer thing really jolted me far more than Trump’s shitshow earlier. I mean, I know this is the kind of thing we’re going to get from Donald Trump; but I had thought that the people around him would be less, well, fucked up. I guess that was my big mistake. Nobody who’s all there would willingly sign on with this clown.

  32. 32.

    Jeffro

    @Corner Stone:

    He fucking defiles every single space he stumps through. Fucking garbage time motherfucker.

    I had to look it up for attribution – it was Jacob Weisberg who tweeted a while back, “Note to GOP: everything trump touches turns to shit”. “Defiles everything” is actually more accurate.

  34. 34.

    Felanius Kootea

    I’m so thrilled about the march turnouts around the world today. I had to go to work, so my husband represented us at the Los Angeles march. The turnout was incredible and he said the Metro was unbelievably packed and the positive energy palpable. I’m energized because it’s one thing to know that there are like-minded people on Balloon Juice and another to meet strangers in person who are now seriously thinking about running for office, as my husband did. I hope that comes true.

  36. 36.

    Mike J

    Want to know why the White House had a press briefing about crowd size?

    Anthony Fremont: No kids came over to play with me today, not a single one, and I wanted someone to play with!
    Mr. Fremont: Well, Anthony, you remember the last time some kids came over to play. The little Fredricks boy and his sister.
    Anthony Fremont: I had a real good time.
    Mr. Fremont: Oh, sure you did, you had a real good time, and it’s good that you had a good time, it’s real good. It’s, uh, just that…
    Anthony Fremont: Just that what?
    Mr. Fremont: Well, Anthony, you, uh, you wished them away into the cornfield. Their mommy and daddy were real upset.

    As press secretary in the Trump WH, your main concern is avoiding being sent to the cornfield.

  37. 37.

    Jeffro

    @debbie: WHOA…for what it’s worth, Fox News dot com headline now says “several hundred thousand people flood DC to protest Trump, his policies”

    lower headline: “Krauthammer: Spicer ‘weird’ press conference basically over ratings”

    Something’s up!!!

  40. 40.

    Ohio Mom

    The Cincinnati march was a lot bigger than I thought it would be, but I don’t expect to ever hear a good estimate. Just that there were thousands.

    Lots of funny and creative signs. A few speakers went on too long about how the whole “system” needs to be torn down — sigh — that I could have lived without. A pretty white crowd but a fabulous mix of ages, lots of young children. Saving my pink pussy hat because I think there will be other occasions to wear it.

    I watched the videos of Trump at the CIA, and Spicer in his ill-fitting suit. It all gets more and more unbelieveable to me. Also boring. Trump is boring to listen to.

  43. 43.

    Jeffro

    @sloan: I hope they quit covering Trump (and Spicer, and all the other Trumpista henchmen) live…only show the footage if they quit lying. Have the fact check be part of the report if/when they eventually show any footage.

  44. 44.

    The Dangerman

    @dr. bloor:

    Oh, I’m certain the outcome; somebody will go after Trump’s scalp, to go in history for having done it…

    …and, given Trump has massive quantity of skeletons in his closet, someone will get him. Bigtime.

  45. 45.

    Dan Borroff

    The march in Seattle started at 11. The last people got to Seattle Center at 5! Amazed at the great spirits.

  46. 46.

    hilts

    Trump was spooked into an insane rambling speech before the CIA.

    Trump descended to a new low bragging about crowd size while standing in front of a memorial for fallen CIA officers. He’s got a severe case of penis envy and it’s time for him to grow up.

  47. 47.

    dr. bloor

    @sloan: I saw that and was encouraged by it, but it’s going to take near unanimity among news orgs in every instance in which Trump and his lackeys just make shit up in order to create chaos and wear down the good guys. You know, the ones with some grasp of reality and capable of the “facts.”

  48. 48.

    James Powell

    He defiled that space.

    He’s going to be doing a lot of defiling. As far as I’m concerned, he’s defiling the whole country every day he’s in the White House.

  49. 49.

    sloan

    @Jeffro: This is very important! And note, from the article:

    The CNN television network made a choice not to broadcast the Spicer statement live. Instead, the statement was monitored and then reported on after the fact.

    That’s huge, right? No live shot. Fact-checked. On day one, they refused to give him live coverage.

  52. 52.

    Baud

    I can’t believe the main spokesman for birtherism would tell his press secretary to lie about crowd size.

  53. 53.

    CaseyL

    I’d like to see these mega-marches in every city Trump visits. Preferably around whatever hotel or private mansion he’s staying in. Hundreds of thousands of people letting him know how vile and reviled he is.

    ETA: Isn’t he supposed to be holding victory rallies all over the country at some point? Those would be great opportunities for counter-demonstrations.

  54. 54.

    PhoenixRising

    NYT just edited their headline and lede on the story Trump insists on: Crowd Size Means Everything.

    To make both *accurate*, by removing the weasel words.

    We’re winning. And by ‘we’ I mean citizens who want this to be an election that turned out badly, not our last.

  55. 55.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: I’m more shrill than you are.

    OT: It took 3 1/2 hours for the tow truck to arrive, they couldn’t find where the fuck I was(even though I explained it to them multiple times). AAA is really bad at figuring out where you are if you don’t have a street address for them(or a cross street).

  59. 59.

    Jeffro

    @amk:

    you mean, basically doing their fucking job?

    Yup!

    to quote a certain tangerine asshole, “What do [they] have to lose?” =)

  61. 61.

    sloan

    @dr. bloor: Fingers crossed. This feels…I don’t know, like we’re already at the point in Bush’s second term when the whole country was just so sick of him they didn’t even want to hear his name anymore. But dude’s been President for less than 36 hours.

    The flailing of Spicer and Trump today, combined with the massive global protests and push back from the media give me hope.

    And there’s a 55 year old community organizer who is currently looking for a new gig. Can’t wait to see what he gets up to.

  62. 62.

    Suzanne

    JUST when I was starting to SLIGHTLY soften my opinion of Erick Son of Erick:

    “I feel sorry for all the ham and cheese that won’t get made into sandwiches while all those women are marching.”

    Fuck this clown.

  63. 63.

    Jeffro

    @Baud: It’s amazing that the Obama fixation extends from hotel beds to crowd sizes to Michelle’s speeches to inaugural crowds…

    …can a beer summit be too far off?

  66. 66.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Paris, June 1940: Chuckles the Toddler, Scott Pelley, Wolf Blitzer, and David Muir tell Parisiennes “Hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little goosestepping! The Führer will take care of all of us, especially you Jews out there!”

  69. 69.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    @CaseyL: Oh, shit, that would be great. His deep, abiding and seemingly growing unpopularity is already eating at him. Marches in every town he shows up to will only speed that up. Normally, I wouldn’t wish for the psychic disemboweling of anybody. But in this case, this guy needs to get the fuck out of office right quick, for the good of the country. The fact that his Cro-Magnon fans will lose their shit and most likely take it out on the feckless RINOs (that is, any Republican who didn’t personally slaughter any protester who dared disrespect their Dear Leader) only makes it all the more pressing that this guy go, and fast.

  74. 74.

    debbie

    @Ohio Mom:

    I haven’t heard of a single march where the turnout was not huger than expected. I think everyone’s been surprised, in a good way.

  77. 77.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I know I’ve said this over at Wonkette, but don’t recall if I’ve said it here yet, so it might be a rerun.

    Sean Spicer makes Ron Ziegler look like C.J. Cregg.

    Or, to update it for our younger readers who might not grok the reference, Sean Spicer makes the Mouth of Sauron look like C.J. Cregg.

  81. 81.

    Jeffro

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    Oh, shit, that would be great. His deep, abiding and seemingly growing unpopularity is already eating at him. Marches in every town he shows up to will only speed that up. Normally, I wouldn’t wish for the psychic disemboweling of anybody. But in this case, this guy needs to get the fuck out of office right quick, for the good of the country. The fact that his Cro-Magnon fans will lose their shit and most likely take it out on the feckless RINOs (that is, any Republican who didn’t personally slaughter any protester who dared disrespect their Dear Leader) only makes it all the more pressing that this guy go, and fast.

    I agree, but…does everybody remember Dark Trump? The guy who was alternately raging and mumbling through his speeches and appearances the last month of the campaign? We’re going to see Dark Trump come back right quick.

    He’ll order up another round of rallies in the red states. My fear is that the protest marches and demonstrations will indeed follow…but follow too closely. Folks, encourage people to keep protesting, but trying to get right in there up against the mouth-breathers who support this guy, that’s not smart or safe.

  82. 82.

    Corner Stone

    The media seem none too pleased by what Senior Spicer had to say in his ugly, rage filled rant.

  84. 84.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Barry BurdenVerified account
    ‏@ bcburden
    Appears that at least 1 out of every 100 Americans participated in #WomensMarch today.
    Jeremy Pressman @ djpressman
    [email protected] AP, fyi, 3.2 mn and counting from today’s protests in US

  86. 86.

    scott (the other one)

    @dr. bloor:

    I really do wonder what the Joint Chiefs would do if he ordered a nuclear strike because he was infuriated by some tweet or perceived (or real) slight.

  88. 88.

    Emerald

    I’m gonna repeat something I wrote here last week (and I am not the originator of it–I saw it somewhere, probably Twitter):

    This may turn out to be America’s finest hour.

    I’d say that it depends on our intrepid media, but if people keep up this level of defiance, we might even flip the media (although they will never admit that they lied about Hillary for a year).

  89. 89.

    dmsilev

    @Corner Stone: Sure, because he lied badly. The media would have been happy to run with plausible lies (‘opinions differ’), but he didn’t give them anything to work with. Media hates that.

  91. 91.

    Major Major Major Major

    Great job around the world today, everybody. I left the San Francisco one after a few hours because I can’t stand as long as I’d like at the moment for medical reasons. Super cool. Go team!

    ETA: saw a *lot* of Princess-Leia-with-a-blaster “a woman’s place is in the resistance” signs.

  92. 92.

    Jeffro

    @scott (the other one):

    I really do wonder what the Joint Chiefs would do if he ordered a nuclear strike because he was infuriated by some tweet or perceived (or real) slight.

    This is the question, right? “Wag the dog” and drop a nuke on ISIS to look tough and take the heat off him (in his mind)

    Here’s hoping that there are enough sane folks around him (Mattis, Pence – yes Pence is evil but sane, others) who will then go full 25th amendment on him and not allow it. A crisis like no other, to be sure.

  93. 93.

    Jeffro

    @Villago Delenda Est: You know, it’s Doonesbury’s fault that I even know who that is. =)

    Oh my…”that someone came out in such a tacky, whiny fashion, and didn’t even have the spine to take questions…” (MSNBC just now)

  94. 94.

    Tom

    @Baud: Actually, Benedict Arnold was a wonderfully competent general who almost took Canada for the US during the Revolutionary War, and then fought a brilliant delaying action up the St. Lawrence River and down Lake Champlain, holding the British off long enough for the US to amass its forces and defeat the British at the Battle of Saratoga, one of the turning points of the Revolutionary War. Comparisons to Trump are an insult to Arnold.

  95. 95.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @skerry:

    “Brennan says that Trump should be ashamed of himself.”

    Donald is the textbook definition of shameless.

  97. 97.

    sloan

    @Corner Stone: just saw Spicer’s tantrum referred to as “psy-ops” and MSNBC called him out as a “brazen liar”. Good times. On day one.

    This is how I wished the media would have stood up to Bush. They need to keep it up.

  98. 98.

    debbie

    I sent an angry email to NPR tonight. Michel Martin interviewed Carly Fiorina, who said that 80% of Americans didn’t choose Clinton because she belonged to the political class. I can’t imagine what Fiorina was basing her calculations on, but Martin didn’t challenge it and let it go by without comment. I’ve often heard her challenge or give some sort of qualification to someone’s sketchy remark. Not tonight though.

  99. 99.

    Mike in NC

    @Jeffro: Just read a whole bunch of articles by WaPo pundits today. Almost universal disgust at Apricot Asshole’s address yesterday. Even George Will, Anne Applebaum, and Michael Gerson were appalled by its dystopian tone. WaPo seemed to take a hard right turn during the Lewinsky scandal but is finally trying to course correct.

  100. 100.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @sloan:

    The article then calls him out on every single lie. Too bad they didn’t do this a year ago.

    Trump’s the president now. He doesn’t have Hillary or Obama to blame anymore. As Biden said, big boy pants time.

  102. 102.

    hilts

    1460 to go.

    Don’t discount the possibility that this lunatic might have a nervous breakdown and have to step down before his term ends.

  107. 107.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Jeffro:

    Something’s up!!!

    Indeed, Fox was in a state of horror when Trump won. Even the conservatives know this guy isn’t right for the job and get the damage he is going to do to their cause.

  108. 108.

    Jeffro

    I just took a minute to remind my RWNJ dad and brother that “this doesn’t reflect well on the Republican Party” ;)

  109. 109.

    m.j.

    @SiubhanDuinne: Exactly.

    Watching the damned thing I couldn’t help but think he needed an Ed McMahon type along side to chuckle at his, “jokes.”

    No offense, Ed…R.I.P.

  110. 110.

    Suzanne

    @Corner Stone: Because I read that piece he wrote about him and his wife being sick and potentially leaving their kids without parents, and I cannot help but have sympathy, but then he proves that he hasn’t learned shit about shit.

  113. 113.

    hilts

    @Mike in NC:

    I disagree with George Will on every issue, but he’s been fairly consistent in his opposition to Trump and it was nice to see him trash Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Reagan book on The O’Reilly Factor.

  115. 115.

    Jeffro

    “the media…made it sounds like I had a feuuuud with the intelligence community…”
    -DJT, earlier today

    (Btw Brian Williams’ faint disdain as he relays that Trump said this in front of the CIA memorial wall…baby steps, people!)

    What say you, IC? Feud or no feud?

  116. 116.

    The Dangerman

    @Jeffro:

    One can kinda predict what’s gonna happen; some asshole is gonna go shoot up a Trump property (golf course, hotel, whatever) and Trump will go ballistic.

    I wonder if his golf courses and hotels are getting more security (and I wonder who is paying for it).

  119. 119.

    hovercraft

    @Baud:
    He may be able to buy his way into all the other places Obama went, but Bey will not be one of them. She and her Bey-hive have no use for the shitgibbon. She is all in on BLM, she made her own money, and she is friends with the Obama’s. Something else for him to envy about Obama, he has friends, people who like him, and don’t have to be paid to hang out with him. Regular people, famous people, nice decent people like and respect him.

  123. 123.

    drdavechemist

    @debbie: The calculation is simple enough, and it’s accurate in a twisted sort of way: out of a population of 300 million, only about 60 million (20%) voted for Clinton. By Fiorina’s logic, then, 80% didn’t vote for Clinton. Of course, she ignores that an even higher percentage didn’t vote for Trump…

  125. 125.

    Wapiti

    @Tom: I’m worried that Flynn might be our Arnold, upset that he was not given due credit, he sells out to the Russians.

  126. 126.

    Gravenstone

    @dr. bloor: I suspect the implication is meant to be that screening for weapons would have driven most of their fans away, thus driving down attendance.

  127. 127.

    Corner Stone

    @hilts:

    I disagree with George Will on every issue, but he’s been fairly consistent in his opposition to Trump

    George Will is another one we need to hold at a considerable distance. It does not matter what he says about Trump. George Will is an enemy.

  129. 129.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Double checked, and blew it.

    Jerald terHorst.

    I regret the error, and am now forcing myself to view the Drumpf stream of drivel on Twitter in penance.

  131. 131.

    hovercraft

    @debbie:

    I can’t imagine what Fiorina was basing her calculations on,

    The same source that says she did a great job at HP, and that their success today is a direct result of her time as CEO.

  135. 135.

    Corner Stone

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    I regret the error, and am now forcing myself to view the Drumpf stream of drivel on Twitter in penance.

    Not good enough. Take yourself to an urban (BLACK) neighborhood and walk to the corner bodega for milk, bread and a few tallboys. If you don’t get shot maybe you can get right with our new demi-god Dear Leader Trump on the other side.

  136. 136.

    hovercraft

    @Mike in NC:
    I don’t think they are any less far right, they are just neocons, to them Russia is still the great enemy, so Putin’s meddling and the shitgibbon’s embrace of him is forcing them to be critical of him. If he was just an imbecile but willing to do as he’s told they’d have no problem with him.

  138. 138.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Wapiti: I have said this before, but I’ll say it again:

    Flynn needs to be stripped of his rank (and pension) in a ceremony where he plays the Chuck Connors role in the opening of “Branded”

  139. 139.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jeffro: Richard M. Nixon ‏@ dick_nixon 35s35 seconds ago
    The Hill is full of guys like Spicer. All so terrified of growing old in the Kansas 45th that they’ll sell granny for a seat at the table.

    Hell, Spicer’s first job was working for Mark Foley.

  140. 140.

    Millard Filmore

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    I know I’ve said this over at Wonkette,

    You Lie! Its a well known fact that they do not allow comments!

    (where is that comment button anyway? how come I never see it?)

  141. 141.

    MomSense

    What a phenomenal day! In the knitting/crocheting/sewing community this was amazing. We have been making p_ssyhats and sending them off to be worn by sisters we’ve never met. The whole time we’ve been meeting to stitch together and cheering each other on. So today as we watched our hats march all over the world we all felt so connected. What an amazing thing to be a part of. We are not stopping.

    My favorite pu_ssyhat at the march I attended was worn by a woman in her 89s. She made ears out of pink mittens her mother had knit for her when she was a little girl so her mother could march with her today.

    If you are on IG you can see some fantastic videos and photos.

  142. 142.

    drdavechemist

    @Baud: Yep, pretty much. They have mastered the difficult calculation of dividing a random number by 300 million and then multiplying by 100. Now as for understanding whether the result is meaningful…This is why I teach science rather than math (and hope that I get through to at least a few of them).

  143. 143.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @drdavechemist:

    The calculation is simple enough, and it’s accurate in a twisted sort of way: out of a population of 300 million, only about 60 million (20%) voted for Clinton. By Fiorina’s logic, then, 80% didn’t vote for Clinton. Of course, she ignores that an even higher percentage didn’t vote for Trump…

    This the same woman who thought personal computers was the future of a test instrument company like HP. Much like President Mullet she’s only there because her wealth and privilege protects her from the consequences of her poor judgement.

  144. 144.

    hovercraft

    @rikyrah:
    Of course he did, he’s an insecure imbecile, he needs constant validation. Remember his performance in Flint, ( he actually let a blah woman shut him down), he is unnerved by hostile crowds, so he will travel with a cheering section to make him look strong and confident.

  146. 146.

    dr. bloor

    @efgoldman: I’d like to think it won’t, but even Nixon et al’s assaults lacked the chaos and relentlessness that characterizes Trump’s; it has the effect of making everything Joe Ordinary sees as if it’s being reflected in a funhouse mirror. I don’t envy the press’s job of keeping up with it and sorting it out.

    And social media is a dual-edged sword. When every damn thing is challenged as being “fake,” the people that Adam Silverman refers to as being in the Gray Zone or the Center (or something like that) can get awfully confused awfully fast.

  149. 149.

    Mortimer

    We were in DC. So many pink hats. So much amazing energy. I can’t stop grinning.

    This crowd felt young, in all the best ways. It was smart, and funny, and passionate. If the ferret-faced shitgibbon isn’t terrified, he should be.

    Vive le resistance!

  152. 152.

    Mike in NC

    In fairness to the Apricot Asshole, he didn’t wear a mandatory flag lapel pin or a red plastic necktie that reached to his knees today at Langley. Sunday might see that rectified.

  157. 157.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    As a woman with a Trump scarf on climbed into the backseat of a black Suburban — her driver standing by her side, eagerly waiting for her to sit down so he could close the door — she kept lunging out the vehicle to give her commentary on the scene around her. She was clearly disgusted by the marchers surrounding her car. At one point, the woman in the Suburban said to a passerby:
    “If you people had jobs, you wouldn’t be out here doing this mess.”
    As this happened, another woman walked by and, without pausing to look at the Chevrolet Suburbanite, said:
    “Bitch, it’s Saturday.”
    Today was a great day.

  161. 161.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @MomSense: My favorite pu_ssyhat at the march I attended was worn by a woman in her 89s. She made ears out of pink mittens her mother had knit for her when she was a little girl so her mother could march with her today.

    That’s fantastic.

  168. 168.

    Corner Stone

    @Schlemazel: I am not a big Brian Williams fan but that mofo has the best taste in neckties I have ever seen. Props where it’s gotta be props.

  169. 169.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Wow
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/spicer-doesn-t-take-a-single-question-at-first-presser

    “There’s talk in the media of holding Donald Trump accountable, and I’m here to tell you it goes two ways,” Spicer said. “We are going to hold the press accountable, as well.”

    and the Ari Flieshcer opines that came straight from Trump himself.

    https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/822937963374018561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    Trump’s having a meltdown on day one. Damn. No wonder the press is pushing back. Trump’s cut off access so that have to reason to play nice now with Trump.

  174. 174.

    Jeffro

    @amk: Did you see what Nick Offerman said in response? Something along the lines of “if you’d like to hold my oversize balls in your teeny hands just to see, for once, what it feels like to be a man…” Something like that.

    We are just not. playing. around. anymore, are we, “libtards”?

  175. 175.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Trump’s cut off access so that have to reason to play nice now with Trump.

    Are you missing a “not” before “play nice with Trump” there?

    Or maybe “they have no reason to play nice now with Trump”

  176. 176.

    Mnemosyne

    @MomSense:

    I wore my pussyhat all day at Disneyland. I got one “I LOVE your hat!” from a young woman who clearly knew what it was for and a lot of conspiratorial smiles.

  177. 177.

    Jeffro

    Does anyone doubt that Donnie will be off on another self-congratulatory tour of the red states within the next 72 hours?

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    seaboogie

    @SiubhanDuinne: I feel pretty, pretty, pretty good today today.

    On my way to work today I passed women carrying signs hand in hand with small children, older kids, and babes in strollers on their way to join the gathering and march on and around the town square – a few hundred feet from where I work. One source estimated the crowd at 3,000 – which is a bunch, even here in Sonoma which has massive community involvement to support many causes.

    I got kind of verklempt, and felt quite a bit of that “hope” thing. Many pussyhats in varying shades of pink were present. Many men, too. A couple of women in their late seventies sat on the bench outside our shop window waiting for their ride, post protest – and a man stopped to take their picture with their signs. Feeling so much better than I did yesterday.

  181. 181.

    MomSense

    @Mnemosyne:

    What a fantastic day! Are you on IG? @willashalit took a video of a percussion band all wearing their hats. Those hats were everywhere-so freaking in his face.

  183. 183.

    seaboogie

    Also, to the commenter who pooh-poohed the idea of pink hats because the women protesting would not be taken seriously, I give you this….

    Hope the link works….

    ETA: Rats – it didn’t. Sorry.

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    Another Scott

    @Percysowner: That sounds about right.

    The CIA isn’t filled with a bunch of know-nothing sycophants. They’re professionals and they’re going to act that way, especially when what they’re doing in their first interactions with a new president is being filmed for broadcast. They’re not going to be hooting and hollering for a crazy old man who is pouting about his tiny crowd and how the press is picking on him.

    How stupid do Trump’s people think we are?

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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    Captain C

    @hilts: He’s systematically pissing off everyone a new president should not piss off. We knew this wouldn’t end well, but it may happen more quickly than we thought.

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