Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We still have time to mess this up!

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

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Late Night Open Thread: Maybe Trump’s Afraid of… Pantsuits?

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Authoritarians have always been obsessed with appearances (frequently with less-than-stellar results, as with Nixon’s ‘honor guard’ Secret Service uniforms). We knew that President-Asterisk Trump had him some standards, of course, but it took Politico founder Mike Allen, at his new Koch-funded ‘startup’ Axios, to drop the handkerchief:

… Trump likes the women who work for him “to dress like women,” says a source who worked on Trump’s campaign. “Even if you’re in jeans, you need to look neat and orderly.” We hear that women who worked in Trump’s campaign field offices — folks who spend more time knocking on doors than attending glitzy events — felt pressure to wear dresses to impress Trump…

The NYTimes jumped in for even-handedness, of course…

…[W]hile many of the tweets were aimed at rejecting the idea that women should be restricted to some narrow sartorial category, the “dress like a woman” phrase, co-opted as a hashtag, didn’t come directly from Mr. Trump….

It’s clear that appearances matter to the president. Mr. Trump, the former owner of the Miss Universe Organization, has come under harsh criticism for rating women’s appearances on a scale of one to 10 and for hurling insults at female critics.

As a candidate, he readily attacked when people commented on the size of his hands or on his hair….

Like presidents past, Mr. Trump will most likely have some influence over style in the West Wing. The White House does not have an official dress code, according to its Press Office, but every administration has its own norms…

Such as KellyAnne Conway’s inauguration outfit?

Regardless, the comment has been a gift to Friday-night Twitter…


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ETA: Apparently FYWP is afraid of KellyAnne Conway photos, because taking one out fixed the comment formatting problem.

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  4. 4.

    NotMax

    Rosie the riveter apparently was an unAmerican disgrace. :)

    And now for something completely different*.

    Yes, there was an era when someone was paid – perhaps even rewarded with a bonus – for pitching the concept of using atomic radioactivity to hawk cold cream. It was a more innocent, naive, gullible time, the 1950s.

    *Overnight thread usually more laid back and easygoing as to free range of topicality. Actually even marginally topical, as it refers to women’s make-up.

  5. 5.

    Yarrow

    @Major Major Major Major: This is what it says when you google it:

    A mix of original and smartly-narrated coverage of media trends, tech, business, and politics with expertise, voice AND smart brevity.

    Sounds like Buzzfeed but for people who tell themselves they’re smarter and more well-connected than those other people over there.

  8. 8.

    Peale

    Weren’t we all supposed to be wearing silver, unisex leotards by this time anyway? This century has been one big step bacoward thus far.

  9. 9.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    How about a dress code for the men in the administration who make plenty of money but are incapable of finding well tailored clothing including the Big Moron himself?

  10. 10.

    Davebo

    I never cease to be amazed at the magnificence that is the American woman. And the Scottish woman, and the French woman. Hell, they all amaze me!

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    So, two weeks in and Dolt 45 is taking a vacation. And not at the abode where his wife and son are.

  20. 20.

    oklahomo

    Every time I see KellyAnn in that costume I think someone needs to call Westworld and tell them a malevolent host is on the loose .

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    Curious what the closest airport is to Mar-a-lago, where Hair Farce One will land. Were protestors alert to being there?

  28. 28.

    Yarrow

    @NotMax: Not sure about the airport, but a large protest is planned for Saturday. Over 2,000 people have RSVP’d. They had to move it because of that. They were going to march across a bridge but it was deemed unsafe with that many people. I guess they can’t get that close to Mar-a-lago, but they figure he’ll see/hear about it on TV, since he watches so much of it.

    In other news, even if we could get rid of Trump and his people right now, a lot of damage has been done.

    Only 22% of Germans now think of US as trustworthy partner. Down from 59% and on par with Russia. https://t.co/Zn6Ia6T7Ve— Franz Strasser (@franzstrasser) February 3, 2017

    I suspect this sort of loss of confidence in the US is going to affect us in a wide variety of ways. Loss of business. Loss of students wanting to come here and study. Brain drain. Less investment. Perhaps US dollar no longer world’s reserve currency. He’s destroying the country.

  33. 33.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    Maybe the giant banner ad at the top of the page is screwing things up.

    Oh, well, I just finished watching a good episode of Maigret with Bruno Cremer. “The Lady’s Companion.” Very well done.

  35. 35.

    ? Martin

    @sigaba: My son for his hobby needs to buy from a lot of B2B places, and they always ask for the name of the company as a required field. He’s been a senior vice president of Weyland-Yutani since he was about 13. We get a ton of shit to the house addressed to Weyland-Yutani. I’m surprised Yelp or Google hasn’t labeled my house the HQ by now.

  40. 40.

    prob50

    If you don’t keep them in line the next thing you know they’ll be telling you what they think. It’s “gateway” behavior that can lead to critical thinking, which can lead to criticism and even willful disobedience, you know, like marijuana leading to heroin and abortions.

    These morons seem absolutely hell-bent on erasing every ounce, no, every particulate of social, racial and gender progress of the last several decades.

  42. 42.

    Skepticat

    He’s fussy about women’s clothes–and yet he’s fine wearing the sacks in his wardrobe and with that ambulatory pile of trash labeled Bannon. I’m certain that when he looks in the mirror he sees a sleek, svelte, properly dressed person.

  45. 45.

    Ruckus

    Annie
    Even FYWP has it’s standards. It was just rejecting the one non human among all those fine pictures of real women.

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