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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Hail to the Hairpiece / Can’t Make This Shit Up

Can’t Make This Shit Up

by John Cole|  January 30, 201711:46 pm| 33 Comments

This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece

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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.

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  1. 1.

    jl

    January 30, 2017 at 11:51 pm

    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.

  2. 2.

    philpm

    January 30, 2017 at 11:54 pm

    “Requires enormous stones.”

    Must’ve been talking about the rocks in his head.

  3. 3.

    Ian G.

    January 30, 2017 at 11:59 pm

    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.

  4. 4.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 30, 2017 at 11:59 pm

    @Ian G.: People keep saying nice things about that young Mattis fellow.

  5. 5.

    XTPD

    January 31, 2017 at 12:00 am

    I can’t possibly believe the short-eyed vulgarian makes it to 2018.

  6. 6.

    Ian G.

    January 31, 2017 at 12:01 am

    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.

  7. 7.

    Ian G.

    January 31, 2017 at 12:02 am

    @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.

  8. 8.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    January 31, 2017 at 12:07 am

    I’ve fallen over rotting logs in the woods with more self awareness than these assclowns.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    January 31, 2017 at 12:09 am

    The election turned over a rock, and all manner of vermin has come slithering out.

  10. 10.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 31, 2017 at 12:11 am

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

  11. 11.

    JudyinSD

    January 31, 2017 at 12:13 am

    A ray of hope for NSC per Jonathan Alter

    Breaking: obscure law requires Sen confirmation for WH aide like Bannon to serve on NSC. 50 U.S. Code § 3021 https://t.co/1sRQEnP3CY— Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter) January 31, 2017

  12. 12.

    amk

    January 31, 2017 at 12:13 am

    @NotMax: yup, the ugly underbelly is now the true face of murka.

  13. 13.

    Smiling Mortician

    January 31, 2017 at 12:16 am

    What a fucking surprise. No, seriously, I’m all agog.

  14. 14.

    ? Martin

    January 31, 2017 at 12:19 am

    @JudyinSD: That seems pretty clear cut. Also seems that the DNI cannot be uninvited.

  15. 15.

    trnc

    January 31, 2017 at 12:21 am

    @philpm: I’d be perfectly happy with a pair involving his feet and an ocean.

  16. 16.

    Steve in the ATL

    January 31, 2017 at 12:22 am

    @JudyinSD: yawn. Wake me up when the R-majority senate does the right thing.

  17. 17.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 31, 2017 at 12:22 am

    @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.

  18. 18.

    Mike G

    January 31, 2017 at 12:26 am

    he was accused of exploiting positions that he held in the administrations of both states for financial gain.

    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.”

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne

    January 31, 2017 at 12:28 am

    @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.

  20. 20.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    January 31, 2017 at 12:29 am

    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.

  21. 21.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 31, 2017 at 12:43 am

    @efgoldman: They would never do that to us.

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 31, 2017 at 12:44 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Sam had a bit of a dark vision.

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    January 31, 2017 at 12:47 am

    @efgoldman

    Additional color commentary from Thomas Nast, Herblock, Gore Vidal and Jack Germond

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    January 31, 2017 at 1:07 am

    @efgoldman

    Sammy C. was also known to savor a cheroot.

  25. 25.

    jl

    January 31, 2017 at 1:19 am

    @NotMax: Twain was proudly anti-tobacco, and bragged about quitting smoking ten times a day.

  26. 26.

    Arclite

    January 31, 2017 at 2:10 am

    “Trump’s voter fraud expert is registered to vote in three states.”

    Well, I guess he really is an expert then.

  27. 27.

    Honus

    January 31, 2017 at 2:20 am

    @jl: and his attitude toward whisky is neatly summed up in the Joy of Cooking recipe for “eggnog in quantity”

  28. 28.

    cmorenc

    January 31, 2017 at 2:35 am

    Life is imitating the art of political satire – isn’t it supposed to be the other way around?

  29. 29.

    Sunny Raines

    January 31, 2017 at 4:49 am

    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!

  30. 30.

    Chris T.

    January 31, 2017 at 5:26 am

    @jl: Oh yeah, well I can quit smoking 20 times a day!

    (rimshot)

  31. 31.

    Jinchi

    January 31, 2017 at 10:12 am

    I’ve torn down govt in two states, eliminated 20k jobs

    I’m old enough to remember when politicians bragged about creating jobs.

  32. 32.

    J R in WV

    January 31, 2017 at 10:44 am

    @Honus:

    @jl: and his attitude toward whisky is neatly summed up in the Joy of Cooking recipe for “eggnog in quantity”

    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…

  33. 33.

    Mike G

    January 31, 2017 at 6:49 pm

    @Jinchi:

    I’m old enough to remember when politicians bragged about creating jobs.

    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.

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