Classic https://t.co/Bi27XCnoEr
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 31, 2017
Also, this:
While he has posted online about excessive government spending, Phillips owes the federal government $100,961 in unpaid income taxes with his wife, according to a lien filed by the IRS in Manatee County, Florida, in 2014. An official at the county clerk’s office said the outstanding sum had not been paid. In a text message on Friday, Phillips said: “I am in a disagreement with the IRS over income taxes. The amount owed is less than $50,000.”
Phillips also had a colorful and lesser-known career in Mississippi and Texas state politics over the past few decades, in which he was accused of exploiting positions that he held in the administrations of both states for financial gain.
The former stockbroker and Republican fundraiser described those years differently in a tweet posted last November. “I’ve torn down govt in two states, eliminated 20k jobs, & saved $5 billion,” he said. “Requires enormous stones.”
Awesome.
jl
OK that does it. I believe in an afterlife now.
Mark Twain is clearly scripting this from someplace beyond our ken.
IIRC, he never was satisfied with The Gilded Age. Now he has his chance to really do it up right.
philpm
Must’ve been talking about the rocks in his head.
Ian G.
Wait, were we really expecting anything but total lunacy and charlatanism from this guy? Wake me up when someone connected to Trump isn’t a fraud or a lunatic or both.
Major Major Major Major
@Ian G.: People keep saying nice things about that young Mattis fellow.
XTPD
I can’t possibly believe the short-eyed vulgarian makes it to 2018.
Ian G.
I dunno, I genuinely do think that the Bannon regime is the kamikaze attack phase of the Bull Connor right, before they finally die off and someone named “Lopez” gets elected president. It’s scary, it’s horrifying, and (like sailors on the aircraft carrier Franklin) there will be bad casualties, but I really think we will prevail.
Ian G.
@Major Major Major Major:
He already appears to be on the outs with the Bannon regime. Good. I want the military insulated from this insanity.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
I’ve fallen over rotting logs in the woods with more self awareness than these assclowns.
NotMax
The election turned over a rock, and all manner of vermin has come slithering out.
Omnes Omnibus
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Obligatory.
JudyinSD
A ray of hope for NSC per Jonathan Alter
amk
@NotMax: yup, the ugly underbelly is now the true face of murka.
Smiling Mortician
What a fucking surprise. No, seriously, I’m all agog.
? Martin
@JudyinSD: That seems pretty clear cut. Also seems that the DNI cannot be uninvited.
trnc
@philpm: I’d be perfectly happy with a pair involving his feet and an ocean.
Steve in the ATL
@JudyinSD: yawn. Wake me up when the R-majority senate does the right thing.
Major Major Major Major
@JudyinSD: I heard today (& is mentioned in that twitter thread) that Bannon is actually on some other committee that does the real actual meetings that was established by an earlier president. The press secretary was saying, well of course the generals are still on the NSC, but you never actually convene the whole thing. Something about how it’s silly to expect the chairman of the joint chiefs to haul himself off the couch to talk about avian flu.
Mike G
That’s pretty much a job requirement for a Texas Republican.
“We say government doesn’t work. And when we’re running the government we make it come true.”
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
I will bet you a very large amount of money that Valerie Jarrett was not on the equivalent committee during Obama’s two terms.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
It’s just one disaster after another. Trump and his band of merry morons… everything is a fucking travesty with them.
Do you have spies, Trump, perusing such sites as this? If so, let me be clear: you are all embarrassments to the country, but you’re too stupid to realize it.
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: They would never do that to us.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Sam had a bit of a dark vision.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Additional color commentary from Thomas Nast, Herblock, Gore Vidal and Jack Germond
NotMax
@efgoldman
Sammy C. was also known to savor a cheroot.
jl
@NotMax: Twain was proudly anti-tobacco, and bragged about quitting smoking ten times a day.
Arclite
“Trump’s voter fraud expert is registered to vote in three states.”
Well, I guess he really is an expert then.
Honus
@jl: and his attitude toward whisky is neatly summed up in the Joy of Cooking recipe for “eggnog in quantity”
cmorenc
Life is imitating the art of political satire – isn’t it supposed to be the other way around?
Sunny Raines
If you ever want to know what criminal immoral things a republican is up to, just listen to what criminal immoral things they’re accusing others of. Republicans ALWAYS project!
Chris T.
@jl: Oh yeah, well I can quit smoking 20 times a day!
(rimshot)
Jinchi
I’m old enough to remember when politicians bragged about creating jobs.
J R in WV
@Honus:
This recipe you speak of… back when we kept a dairy cow, we used that recipe every Xmas season. It is truly blessed, perhaps by Mr Sam Clemons…
Mike G
@Jinchi:
I’m old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan bragged about the living standards of working-class Americans. Now all you get from Repukes is whining about how overpaid and lazy they are.