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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2016 / Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Toad Kisses Toady

Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Toad Kisses Toady

by Anne Laurie|  January 23, 201712:53 am| 23 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Assholes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Security Theatre

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Trump just literally blew a kiss to James Comey at a WH reception for law enforcement pic.twitter.com/HwVq9DNdZd

— Richard Hine (@richardhine) January 22, 2017

Between this and Tillerson I guess we know what Trump thinks was decisive. https://t.co/yjYlblXQ2a

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 22, 2017

They should also send fruit baskets to Stein & Johnson https://t.co/pkQXDc1Mal

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 22, 2017

Here’s President Trump shaking hands with and hugging FBI Director James Comey just now at the White House https://t.co/IU0I2SNIaj

— Joshua Chavers (@JoshuaChavers) January 22, 2017

Trump should have just shoved a C note in Comey's breast pocket, it would have been more subtle.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 22, 2017

@mattyglesias Comey's giddiness at being called to the front of the class makes me retch.

— WindUpBird (@MickieMo) January 22, 2017

Palate cleansers:

I am not surprised. SMHpic.twitter.com/4BO7vxtxYZ

— Le'Genius Williams (@d_weezy) January 23, 2017

I'm just going to say one thing: hands. pic.twitter.com/HvwP8OQy9d

— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) January 23, 2017

?? (photo by @Robyn_Beck) pic.twitter.com/OlagkFQoKT

— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) January 23, 2017

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23Comments

  1. 1.

    BGinCHI

    January 23, 2017 at 12:57 am

    All I can deduce from these videos is that Comey enjoys being pissed on more than Trump.

  2. 2.

    khead

    January 23, 2017 at 12:58 am

    Have some kittehs.

    The freaks come out at night.

  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 23, 2017 at 12:59 am

    It wasn’t a hug. It was a handshake and pat on the back of the shoulder. We used to call that the TRADOC handshake – you were checking for a good spot to stick the knife in.

    I am not going to even try to defend what Comey wound up doing with the letter at the end of October, but its important to remember that he’s kept the CI investigation compartmented and on track. And he’s now got two of Putin’s hackers for the CI investigators to interrogate. And remember, if Comey goes we’re likely to get Clarke as FBI Director.

  4. 4.

    sigaba

    January 23, 2017 at 1:00 am

    Garrison Keillor, August 31, 2016:

    Meanwhile, you keep plugging away. It’s the hardest work you’ve ever done. You walk out in the white cap and you rant for an hour about stuff that means nothing and the fans scream and wave their signs and you wish you could level with them for once and say one true thing: ‘I love you to death and when this is over I will have nothing that I want.’

  5. 5.

    BGinCHI

    January 23, 2017 at 1:02 am

    @Adam L Silverman: It was the body language. No feeling for his willingness to grovel?

    I agree that at this point we hope, like a ref, he pulls a make-up call against the Trump BS, but I don’t know what the incentive is. Ethics? #pullmyotherleg

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    NotMax

    January 23, 2017 at 1:06 am

    Omerta or bacio della morte?

  7. 7.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 23, 2017 at 1:07 am

    Oh my god, the one with the clergy, I’m dying.

  8. 8.

    Yarrow

    January 23, 2017 at 1:10 am

    I don’t know what was going on in that clip, but it looked like a scene from The Bachelor, with Trump calling over one of the contestants. It was just missing him asking Comey if he would accept this rose.

    Just saw this and it seems like a good idea going forward:

    One lesson from this mess: Massive protests the day before the SOTU could drive Trump off whatever message he hoped to project into whining.— Josh Barro (@jbarro) January 23, 2017

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    Mnemosyne

    January 23, 2017 at 1:11 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    its important to remember that he’s kept the CI investigation compartmented and on track.

    I would want a LOT more confirmation of that. Frankly, I’m expecting Comey to hold a press conference to announce that he’s pulling the plug on the investigation because there’s nothing there and Trump has been fully exonerated.

  10. 10.

    Yarrow

    January 23, 2017 at 1:12 am

    @Major Major Major Major: That was something else. The guy couldn’t be more obvious if he tried.

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    Adam L Silverman

    January 23, 2017 at 1:14 am

    @BGinCHI: The CI investigation will run its course. It is a spy hunt. They are looking for spies, moles, and those working for and with them.

    Comey takes great pride in his reputation as the last/only honest and upright person in DC. Such great pride that it was possible to use it to manipulate him to do what he did last October. The one thing you can count on with him is he will do the right thing regardless of the cost.

    My preference, if President Obama absolutely had to appoint a senior Republican former DOJ official to run the FBI would have been for Patrick Fitzgerald. But we got Comey and for now we need to be thankful that his appointment runs for several more years and that firing him would not play well.

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    Adam L Silverman

    January 23, 2017 at 1:16 am

    @Mnemosyne: Not with an active FISA warrant. And not now that his red notices to Interpol bagged two of the Russian hackers. At the end of this it could all come up as a bunch of coincidences creating a false pattern. But I don’t believe in coincidence. And if he tries to bury it the leaks will just get worse and worse and worse and then it won’t matter.

  13. 13.

    Anne Laurie

    January 23, 2017 at 1:16 am

    @Major Major Major Major: The way that clergyman swaps his staff to the other hand — genius!

  14. 14.

    amk

    January 23, 2017 at 1:27 am

    The black cleric slapped the racist punk on his face. Without using his hands. Genius.

  15. 15.

    tobie

    January 23, 2017 at 1:31 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    And not now that his red notices to Interpol bagged two of the Russian hackers.

    I feel like I missed an important news item here. Did Interpol catch two Russian hackers??? Two we know to be involved with the hacking of the DNC???

  16. 16.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    January 23, 2017 at 1:41 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Oh, so like with the CIA that’s why Trump is sucking up to him.

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne

    January 23, 2017 at 1:47 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    The one thing you can count on with him is he will do the right thing regardless of the cost.

    The problem is that Comey’s idea of “the right thing” is not necessarily our idea of the right thing. He seems to think that having the United States be a puppet of Russia is a better outcome than having Hillary Clinton be president.

    And if he thinks he’s going to be able to clear the Russian influence out of the government and install the Christianist of his dreams with Mike Pence, he hasn’t paid enough attention to who Pence has been recommending for appointments, because they’re still rife with Russian connections.

    I know you want to be optimistic about our institutions, but I honestly think that’s a false hope. The Republicans burrowed in over the course of the last 30 years and hollowed them out.

  18. 18.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 23, 2017 at 2:07 am

    @Adam L Silverman: wait, who manipulated him? How? I admit he seemed befuddled the whole time but…

  19. 19.

    eemom

    January 23, 2017 at 2:10 am

    The one thing you can count on with him is he will do the right thing regardless of the cost.

    Holy shit, am I really seeing this? You are talking about COMEY here?

  20. 20.

    eemom

    January 23, 2017 at 2:13 am

    Looks like BJ has its very own Putin/Trump mole.

  21. 21.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 23, 2017 at 2:20 am

    @eemom: that’s why it was down today, to replace Adam.

  22. 22.

    sukabi

    January 23, 2017 at 4:22 am

    The tweet with Obama , drumpf and Melania that says “hands” ….someone has very small hands, and it ain’t Melania.

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 23, 2017 at 11:23 am

    @tobie: Yes and yes.

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