• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, man.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Bark louder, little dog.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Books are my comfort food!

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

The revolution will be supervised.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Fight them, without becoming them!

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

In after Baud. Damn.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickel?”

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Let’s finish the job.

Mobile Menu

  • Four Directions Montana
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2024 Elections
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Hail to the Hairpiece / Tweet VERY LOUDLY and Carry a Teeny Tiny Stick Because You Really Have Ridiculously Small, Some Would Say Miniscule Hands and You Know What That Means Don’t You Ferrethead

Tweet VERY LOUDLY and Carry a Teeny Tiny Stick Because You Really Have Ridiculously Small, Some Would Say Miniscule Hands and You Know What That Means Don’t You Ferrethead

by John Cole|  February 10, 201710:22 pm| 95 Comments

This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece

FacebookTweetEmail

Been a banner week for Dolt 45, as he has been basically rolled on all fronts. He has:

1.) Dropped his bellicose BS with China over Taiwan, and has agree to adhere to the One China policy. That’s playing well in China:

The phrase bandied around after Trump’s Thursday night phone call with Chinese Communist Party Secretary Xi Jinping is “paper tiger.” James Zimmerman, the former head of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, told Reuters that Trump’s threatening to repudiate the One China Policy and then backing down “confirmed to the world that he is a paper tiger … someone that seems threatening but is wholly ineffectual and unable to stomach a challenge.” The international affairs expert Shi Yanhong told the New York Times, “Trump lost his first fight with Xi and will be looked at as a paper tiger,” while The Guardian headlined a piece about the call, “China U-turn is latest sign Trump may turn out to be a paper tiger.” (Mainland Chinese media has, generally speaking, taken a gracious — one might even say victorious — attitude towards the phone call.)

2.) Got the military kicked out of Yemen (which might be a good thing so we can no longer wage Saudi Arabia’s war):

Angry at the civilian casualties incurred last month in the first commando raid authorized by President Trump, Yemen has withdrawn permission for the United States to run Special Operations ground missions against suspected terror groups in the country, according to American officials.

Grisly photographs of children apparently killed in the crossfire of a 50-minute firefight during the raid caused outrage in Yemen. A member of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, Chief Petty Officer William Owens, was also killed in the operation.

3.) Got beat up by the 9th circuit for being a fucking bigmouthed idiot, said he would take them to court, and now is backing down:

The White House sent conflicting signals on Friday evening, with chief of staff Reince Priebus saying the administration was still considering an appeal to the Supreme Court after a lower court soundly rejected its request to reinstate the order.

Priebus’s statement came roughly an hour after a White House official said it was not planning to challenge the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the ban.

And Trump himself has said a new order on security could come next week.

Speaking of threatening to go to court and then not following through, when is he going to sue all the women he sexually assaulted?

4.) Got screwed in the ass and had his VP made to look like the fool by the wingnut he has advising him:

National security adviser Michael Flynn spoke privately with Vice President Pence on Friday in an apparent attempt to contain the fallout from the disclosure that Flynn had discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia with that country’s ambassador and then allowed Pence and other White House officials to publicly deny that he had done so, an administration official said.

The conversation took place as senior Democrats in Congress called for existing investigations of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election to expand in scope to scrutinize Flynn’s contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak weeks before the Trump administration took office.

5.) Had his other advisor almost banned from CNN and then beat down for promoting Ivanka’s clothing line.

In other news, intelligence agencies are corroborating the Russian dossier and Trump hates his job and his staff and Republicans everywhere are getting screamed at by angry constituents.

This would be funny if it weren’t so damned tragic.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « M-O-O-N!
Next Post: Late Night Open Thread: Well, That Wasn’t Pleasant… »

Reader Interactions

95Comments

  1. 1.

    amk

    February 10, 2017 at 10:27 pm

    shouldn’t it be called a bannon week?

  2. 2.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 10, 2017 at 10:28 pm

    I don’t think it’s worth the human fallout, but credit where it’s due: Heightening the contradictions actually seems to be working this time.

  3. 3.

    PeakVT

    February 10, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    Week three. Week three.

    I so want to wake up from this nightmare.

  4. 4.

    zhena gogolia

    February 10, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    God, I know, I hate to think it, but people are getting so “woke.”

  5. 5.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 10, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    Very common mistake, but it’s “minuscule” and not “miniscule.”

  6. 6.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 10, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    @PeakVT: Only 205 to go.

  7. 7.

    Manyakitty

    February 10, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    That headline might be enough to bring me back from the edge of a rage stroke. Well done.

  8. 8.

    scottinnj

    February 10, 2017 at 10:32 pm

    Trump should just declare America is Great already, declare victory, and quit.

  9. 9.

    patrick II

    February 10, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    All those things sound terrible, however I am coming here from Mr. Numbers (Kevin Drum) place and since all of these f*$k-ups, Mr. Trump’s favorability rating has gone up over three points (41.8 to 45.1). Also now, by a 51-23 percent margin, Trump voters believe the “Bowling Green Massacre” is something that actually exists. Perhaps when Trump screws with their social security and medicare they will start paying attention.

  10. 10.

    father pussbucket

    February 10, 2017 at 10:35 pm

    With Pence gone, fellow Republicans undo his work in Indiana

  11. 11.

    chris

    February 10, 2017 at 10:35 pm

    Saw this somewhere and it seems appropriate: What if Mexico and Canada both build a wall and we all chip in for a lid?

  12. 12.

    Drunkenhausfrau

    February 10, 2017 at 10:36 pm

    Anyone else nostalgic for Dubya nonsense?

  13. 13.

    amk

    February 10, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    @father pussbucket: wow, lot of mike dense’s fuck-ups there to undo.

  14. 14.

    Feebog

    February 10, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    The Russia connection is what is going to sink him. Hopefully, he will take down some of the worst assholes with him.

  15. 15.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    February 10, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    Pivot

  16. 16.

    Emma

    February 10, 2017 at 10:39 pm

    @patrick II: They will NEVER accept reality. Their alternative Universe is all they see. We need to stop caring so much about what they think or say or do, because nothing can reach them. All we can do is first contain and then roll back the madness.

  17. 17.

    amk

    February 10, 2017 at 10:40 pm

    @patrick II: pox news bubble. hard to prick it.

  18. 18.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    I volunteered to take a VAWA /immigration pro bono case from our local legal aid folk. I will find out next week if I get assigned to the case.

  19. 19.

    Bobby Thomson

    February 10, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    @zhena gogolia: problem is, unless it’s part of your history and culture – and it isn’t for most white folks – that awakening is shortlived.

  20. 20.

    trollhattan

    February 10, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    @patrick II:
    Was trying to work out a Bowling Green Balloons Massacre mashup to no avail. Anyone?

  21. 21.

    guachi

    February 10, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    @patrick II:

    Don’t think too much of the bump in Trump’s favorable ratings.

    It’s more useful to look at changes in any given poll from one survey to another.

    For example, Gallup polls every day and comes out with a three day average. That average has held steady at about 43-52 for about two weeks.

  22. 22.

    PK

    February 10, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    @patrick II:

    Perhaps when Trump screws with their social security and medicare they will start paying attention.

    No they won’t. It’s not lack of attention. It’s lack of analytical skills. They’ll believe whatever explanation the republican leadership comes up with.

  23. 23.

    CaseyL

    February 10, 2017 at 10:47 pm

    @patrick II: I looked at those other HuffPo polls, and they make for some really depressing reading. I think people respond to “success,” so the fact that all of his Cabinet nominees were approved, and the Dems couldn’t stop a single one, has the Shitgibbon and the GOP on an upswing, and the Dems on a downswing.

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 10, 2017 at 10:47 pm

    John, I love you, but please spell it right: “minuscule” (not “miniscule”). Thanks, okay?

    ETA: G&T @ 5 got there first.

  25. 25.

    Lyrebird

    February 10, 2017 at 10:48 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: WooT!!! Go you & go justice!

    FWIW this week, for all my sympathies with (LGM’s) Campos’ book about why not to go to law school, I’m feeling super-grateful for the law schools that educated the 9th Circuit judges & alla them honest state AGs like the ones from WA and MA.

  26. 26.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 10, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    @PK:
    They’ll tell the Republican leadership what explanation they’ll accept: Obama did it, by giving more to brown people when obviously it’s brown people who are the problem. I’ve seen Republican leaders try to tell their base the truth. They ain’t having it. Racists know their problems are the fault of the Other.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    February 10, 2017 at 10:51 pm

    I made a giant pot of spaghetti sauce on Tuesday night and kept some of it out of the freezer so I could make lasagna today. We’ll see how it turns out, but it won’t be the fault of the sauce.

    BTW, you can make lasagna for two in a bread loaf pan so you don’t have to eat it for days on end afterwards. Who knew?

  28. 28.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 10:52 pm

    @Lyrebird: WRT Campos on law school – I would say that if your dream is to be a lawyer, follow it. If you are looking for a solid upper middle class job and you can’t get into a top 30 school, look elsewhere.

  29. 29.

    Mary G

    February 10, 2017 at 10:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Thank you. That is a great action.

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 10:55 pm

    @Mary G: Let’s see if I get the gig.

  31. 31.

    Yarrow

    February 10, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    @Feebog: Yes. This. The Russia thing is going to be what takes him down. I can only hope he takes all the Republican leadership with him. They all knew. They’re all guilty.

  32. 32.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 10, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: and @Mary G:
    Yeah, thank you for walking the walk. Everyone out there helping clean up Trump’s mess is a hero.

  33. 33.

    Yarrow

    February 10, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: How’s your mom?

    Edit: @Mnemosyne: And how’s your mom coming along?

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm

    @Yarrow: Doing well. She is home now. My dad and my brother reconfigured a guest bedroom to suit her needs. She has started to do PT. All is good. Thank you for asking.

  35. 35.

    Yarrow

    February 10, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Good! Glad to hear she’s home and doing well.

  36. 36.

    satby

    February 10, 2017 at 11:03 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: How’s Momnibus today?
    Edit: asked and answered, also glad she’s doing better.

  37. 37.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 10, 2017 at 11:04 pm

    @patrick II: That poll was a mess based on its methodology.

  38. 38.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 11:04 pm

    @satby: Here.

  39. 39.

    frosty

    February 10, 2017 at 11:07 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: A different joint but my sister had double knee replacements this summer. Everyone she talked to who didn’t think it was successful slacked off on the PT. She pushed the therapist for more and is doing fine. Hope your mom does well too.

  40. 40.

    amk

    February 10, 2017 at 11:07 pm

    Hundreds of protesters attended a “constituent service day” with aides to Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA), railing against the lawmakers and erupting into chants of “shame!”, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

    The lawmakers themselves were not present at the “mobile office hours” event, designed as a meeting with the lawmakers’ aides in an east Georgia town so that constituents didn’t have to travel all the way to Atlanta to have their voices heard. The aides appeared overwhelmed by the size and enthusiasm of the crowd, according to the Journal-Constitution.“I’ve never called my Congressman – ever – until four or five weeks ago,” Ron Denham told the publication. “These people need to represent us and our voice needs to get louder and louder and louder.” “It’s not just progressives and liberals. Because I’m not one,” said Heidi Morton. “There are a lot of conservatives and Republicans that can’t stand Trump. And Republican politicians need to know their constituents are out here.”

  41. 41.

    Peale

    February 10, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    @patrick II: he didn’t issue any exutive orders since before the super bowl that had an immediate impact. And he’s gone ten days between threats to foreign leaders.

  42. 42.

    Yarrow

    February 10, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    So what’s this deal with being rude to the Japanese leader’s wife? I didn’t catch the details.

  43. 43.

    Mnemosyne

    February 10, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Very well! I talked to her on the phone today and she sounds much better. They want her to stay until Monday to finish the respiratory therapy, but she’s definitely not in crisis.

  44. 44.

    Mike J

    February 10, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Missed you last night, only got to send best wishes in a later thread. Glad to hear everything is going well.

    And on the topic of trump being an idiot:

    James Fallows ‏@JamesFallows 3 hours ago
    Screenshot of Team @realDonaldTrump calling PM Abe “PM Shinzō,” in case original goes down the memory hole.
    Ignorant (almost) beyond belief

  45. 45.

    Yarrow

    February 10, 2017 at 11:11 pm

    @Mnemosyne: That’s good news! I’m sure you’re relieved. it’s good they’re keeping her. Let the professionals take care of her and make sure your brother takes a break now before she’s home and he has to do more.

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 11:11 pm

    @frosty: My mom is a list person. Give her a list of exercises that she must do 2 times each day, she will do it. It is on the list.

    When I had my ACL/MCL/Meniscus surgery nearly 20 years ago, I busted my ass in PT. It worked.

  47. 47.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 10, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    @Yarrow: Neither the President’s wife nor the Vice President’s wife escorted Mrs. Abe around town. Mrs Abe apparently had a couple of meetings scheduled, and she went on her own. It is customary for the First Lady to take a visiting male head of government’s wife around.

  48. 48.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 10, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    @Mike J: As I said in an earlier thread, I guess it’s good that the Japanese are not known for adherence to customs and protocol.

  49. 49.

    jl

    February 10, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    Question I have is Trump very slowly incrementally growing up, and if so, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
    So damn many important questions with no answers these days.

    I just heard on the news that instead of a loser ‘SEE YOU IN COURT!’ approach, Trump has apparently listened to some people who understand the law and is going to redraft the EO on immigration to make it easier to pass muster. I dunno. maybe someday Trump will come up with a hideous idea that is worth making incrementally less hideous. Trump has some strong competition in ignorance and bad judgement and ill intent in the GOP Congress. So possible, for example, that Congress hashes up health care so bad, a Trump idea might be, hard to believe, a better alternative after it is improved by competent hands, maybe Dems in Congress if they can stick together and Trump gets a wild hair up his ass to work with them. I wouldn’t bet on that happening, but I suppose it is a remote possibility. And, if the GOP Congress pisses Trump off, he might do it out of spite..

    But, the Trump immigration EO is all bad news from start to finish in every way I can see it. I don’t care what Trump tries to do, the opposition to it needs to be absolute.

  50. 50.

    Yarrow

    February 10, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Ohh….that’s rude. And protocol and politeness is such a big deal in Japan. This administration is so embarrassing.

  51. 51.

    sharl

    February 10, 2017 at 11:17 pm

    @father pussbucket: Damn. During his tenure I’ve seen accounts of the havoc wreaked by Pence in Indiana, but never in such a single-story concentrated form. And I’m sure it’s not a complete documentation of the atrocities.

    Getting a little nostalgic for Doghouse Riley here…

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: @Yarrow: Years ago in the army, I had to do some protocol related stuff in Germany. Complicated. I so do not envy the pros at State.

  53. 53.

    jl

    February 10, 2017 at 11:21 pm

    @Yarrow: That makes HW puking all over his state dinner in Japan look like the epitome of class and winning.

  54. 54.

    Yarrow

    February 10, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I can imagine. What a nightmare it must be right now.

  55. 55.

    efgoldman

    February 10, 2017 at 11:27 pm

    Republicans everywhere are getting screamed at by angry constituents.

    This is actually my most favoritest part.

  56. 56.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 11:28 pm

    @Yarrow: I have a couple of fraternity brothers who ended up at State. One was a reporter who served as Kerry’s spokesbot – so he is safely gone now. The other is a State lifer – spent the last 10 years in Africa, back in DC now. Poor bastard. Hell of a rugby player though.

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 11:29 pm

    @efgoldman: Yes. It is a good thing.

  58. 58.

    rikyrah

    February 10, 2017 at 11:32 pm

    @Emma:
    Amen

  59. 59.

    rikyrah

    February 10, 2017 at 11:34 pm

    @Mnemosyne:
    Good idea about the bread loaf pan

  60. 60.

    efgoldman

    February 10, 2017 at 11:34 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    G&T @ 5 got there first.

    Rhode Island’s new state slogan: We’re small but pedantic.

  61. 61.

    rikyrah

    February 10, 2017 at 11:35 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Doing everything that the therapist says is key to her recovery.

  62. 62.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 11:36 pm

    @efgoldman: Fucking Roger Williams.

  63. 63.

    rikyrah

    February 10, 2017 at 11:37 pm

    @Yarrow:
    His wife was left to wander around DC. No Melania . No Ivanka. No Mrs. Pence even. Huge breach of protocol.

  64. 64.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 11:37 pm

    @rikyrah: She will. She did for the first one and it worked well. Thank you.

  65. 65.

    efgoldman

    February 10, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    She is home now.

    What was that, about a day and a half in the hospital?
    People don’t understand that’s one important way that the health insurance system in this country has screwed people: SEND ‘EM HOME. DO DAY SURGERY!
    When our daughter was born, 36 years ago this month, non-C-section moms got 3-1/2 – 4 days in the hospital. Our daughter, 3-1/2 years ago, had a section, yet was sent home in 2-1/2 days. Fortunately she had a good friend that came and stayed for a week or so. They’re sending Momnibus home, and your dad, who’s about the same age and is certainly not a medical pro [is he? or did you say he’s a retired doc?] has to provide services that nurses and orderlies would otherwise have to.
    This is now pretty universal regardless of coverage.

  66. 66.

    Peale

    February 10, 2017 at 11:43 pm

    @jl: yep. He’s got that 1952 Act and dreams of Operation Wetback, and don’t you tell him that there’s other immigration laws on the books. That’s the law that gives him the power, and it obviously is above all laws and court opinions.

    I honestly don’t want a new “safe” EO. We really need some clarity on what that law means, since his interpretation of it needs to be checked.

  67. 67.

    Peale

    February 10, 2017 at 11:45 pm

    @rikyrah: at the same time, she didn’t have to visit the Old Post Office and be involved in an attempted infomercial for Japanese Tourists.

  68. 68.

    dww44

    February 10, 2017 at 11:45 pm

    @amk: While it’s good to have Trump around to ‘heighten the contradictions’ both Perdue and Isakson voted to confirm DeVoss, Sessions, and Isakson’s special good friend, Price, who will all do serious damage to our democratic institutions, diminish the stature of our government, all the while stepping on the backs of the vulnerable and powerless. In addition, Perdue partnered with Tom Cotton to introduce legislation to cut legal immigration in half over the next couple of years.Reactionaries, the whole lot of them.

    So, as bad as Trump is, the focus on his particular chaos also serves to keep the GOP Congress front and center as well and that means they aren’t going to be able to dismantle the entirety of the federal government and the Social Safety net without paying a price, even if its just being screamed at in town halls

  69. 69.

    sukabi

    February 10, 2017 at 11:45 pm

    @Drunkenhausfrau: no, at least this time we don’t have the likes of Tom Friedman opining that in 6 months we’ll turn a corner…

    All those assholes are just as horrified as the rest of us.

  70. 70.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 10, 2017 at 11:46 pm

    @efgoldman:

    When our daughter was born, 36 years ago this month, non-C-section moms got 3-1/2 – 4 days in the hospital.

    When I was born — with no complications, I might add — my mother had a lovely ten days or so in the hospital, getting a chance to rest up and get to know me. That was pretty standard back in the day, so I understand.

  71. 71.

    efgoldman

    February 10, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    It is customary for the First Lady to take a visiting male head of government’s wife around.

    Well, she can probably find the Washington Monument (it’s kind of obvious) but after that, I’m not sure that Mrs Abe is so interested in Nordstrom’s, Bloomie’s, or Lord & Taylor.

  72. 72.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 10, 2017 at 11:49 pm

    @efgoldman: She is happy to be home. She is mobile with a walker. She can shower and get to toilet. They kept her for four days the last time; she hated it. They tested her on those things before they let her go. Right now, dad’s most onerous duties are helping her get her affected leg into bed and buying and chopping fruit because that is all she wants to eat.

  73. 73.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 10, 2017 at 11:50 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Rhode Island’s new state slogan: We’re small minuscule but pedantic.

  74. 74.

    efgoldman

    February 10, 2017 at 11:50 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Fucking Roger Williams.

    Their (Roger Williams’) hospital sucks, too.

  75. 75.

    efgoldman

    February 10, 2017 at 11:54 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    That was pretty standard back in the day, so I understand.

    My mom isn’t around to ask.
    I did once see the hospital bill from my birth. As I recall, it was less than 400 bucks. But I was always a cheap date. It’s also possible that my mom, an RN at that hospital, got an employee discount.

  76. 76.

    jl

    February 10, 2017 at 11:54 pm

    @dww44: Vocal and persistent opposition to GOP Congresspersons is extremely important. And also to hold Dem Congresspersons’ accountable for opposing bad policy.

    I don’t know if anyone has any advice for most effective way to do that for people who live far away from a GOPer seat in Senate or House.

  77. 77.

    PIGL

    February 10, 2017 at 11:55 pm

    @Mnemosyne: days on end? If by “days” you mean “tomorrow”.
    He can’t spell PIGL without pig.

  78. 78.

    EriktheRed

    February 11, 2017 at 12:01 am

    This would be funny if it weren’t so damned tragic.

    Hell, I sure don’t have a problem laughing!

  79. 79.

    dww44

    February 11, 2017 at 12:02 am

    @jl: Yes, the vocal and persistent opposition is important, particularly when Democrats are totally powerless. If we do nothing but afflict the comfortable (our Republican congress persons) and stiffen the spines of our all too often inclined to waver Democratic minority, then we can hopefully claw back some seats in 2018. I never bothered to check, but who was the lone Democrat to vote for Price? I think the vote was 52 to 47?

  80. 80.

    sukabi

    February 11, 2017 at 12:09 am

    @Yarrow: she isn’t a 10 by drumpf standards?

    Mostly drumpfs people don’t know shit, and are too stupid to ask for help / guidance…

    Wonder if drumpf met Abe in a dark room for their meeting…

  81. 81.

    Vhh

    February 11, 2017 at 12:25 am

    @Adam L Silverman: This morning, the news was thst Flynn lied about not discussing sanctions with the Russian ambassador before the inaiguration, a no no for sure, and likely actionable. This evening came the news that the IC has confirmed “some” of the Russian-to-Russian communications described in the Steele dossier, but has not verified the salacious bits. I perused the dossier again, and essentially all of it is based on Russian-to-Russian comms. Sean the Spicer Sheep called it “all fake news” TWICE, awfully difficult to argue when there are no details in what was confirmed. This looks rather like the new version of what was called in Watergate days a non-denial denial. If Flynn news and the dossier news are connected, what is the play here? A signal that the IC is closing in, and open to an exchange of killer info in exchange for lesser charges or immunity for the source? The WH is leaking at the seams, are there some rats in there, too? Meanwhile, our so called Prez is suddenly making nice with the PRC, who just happen to hold a big loan on a Trump property …..

  82. 82.

    Jerzy Russian

    February 11, 2017 at 12:39 am

    @efgoldman: well, $400 was lot of money 100 years ago ?

  83. 83.

    Raoul

    February 11, 2017 at 12:41 am

    Also, too: Just tons and tons of leaks. Many seemingly from State and from the various intelligence agencies. I guess when you come in an act like a total ass and piss everyone off, the veneer may crack and some slime may ooze out…

    And

  84. 84.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    February 11, 2017 at 1:38 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Good on you.

  85. 85.

    Mart

    February 11, 2017 at 2:27 am

    How come the US news consumer never gets to see the woman, children, and men being pulled out of the ruble we create? Rest of the world gets to see our war effort. Think of the impact on the US electorate if our drone and special ops war results were not whitewashed.

  86. 86.

    Zinsky

    February 11, 2017 at 6:25 am

    Amen Cole. I don’t see how this Administration lasts four years, I really don’t. Trump is either going to be impeached, or he gets bored with it and quits or he strokes out or has a massive coronary from eating Big fucking Macs or someone who lost their health care coverage is gonna take him out. There just isn’t any way that this train wreck of a presidency goes the distance….

  87. 87.

    Zinsky

    February 11, 2017 at 6:42 am

    @efgoldman: You might be surprised – many Japanese are fanatic about shopping in America. I live in the Twin Cities and there are charter flights from Japan that bring Japanese tourists here exclusively to shop at Mall of America. They land at the airport, a shuttle brings them to MOA where they shop all day, they go back to the airport, get on a plane and go home. True story.

  88. 88.

    Spaniel

    February 11, 2017 at 8:19 am

    @efgoldman:

    I find it humorous and very untruthful when the Alt-Right blogs try paint the Utah congressman’s meetings as a “liberal” or “Democratic” plot to seed unrest. Utah has now become a bastion of hippism and liberalism? I never thought I would see the day that was reported.

  89. 89.

    Gindy51

    February 11, 2017 at 8:24 am

    @father pussbucket: if it can be undone here in red state IN, it can be undone anywhere.

  90. 90.

    Spaniel

    February 11, 2017 at 8:25 am

    With all of the news of the missteps these past few weeks, I am surprised no one has written what 3-Percenters and other militant Constitutionalists think of Trump so far. Do those nuts still in his corner with the love-Russia path and the empereror’s claim of his proclaimations are unreviewable, even by courts.

  91. 91.

    cmorenc

    February 11, 2017 at 11:16 am

    @frosty:

    @Omnes Omnibus: A different joint but my sister had double knee replacements this summer. Everyone she talked to who didn’t think it was successful slacked off on the PT. She pushed the therapist for more and is doing fine. Hope your mom does well too.

    With knee replacemements, you MUST scrupulously, vigorously, persistently do the rehab – and your reward in several months is a marvelously functioning new no-pain knee you can again do athletic things on, such as skiing and vigorous hiking (but no double-black mogul runs or marathons). DON’T do the rehab, and you get a balky lame, stiff knee that’s questionably better than what you had before.

  92. 92.

    Elie

    February 11, 2017 at 12:37 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    My thoughts are with you, M — read your Mom is sick…. Don’t know the details but hope she is getting better. Been there and it can be very very scary — no matter how old you are, when Momma aint good, nobody is good…

  93. 93.

    Elie

    February 11, 2017 at 12:38 pm

    @Elie:

    Oops sorry — saw it was Omnes…

  94. 94.

    Elie

    February 11, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Good for you — jumping in and doing what we can, right?

  95. 95.

    dww44

    February 11, 2017 at 5:07 pm

    @Mart: This is what happened with the Viet Nam war. Every night there was actual footage on the tv news and a daily body count. At least, Walter Cronkite did that. I remember it all very well.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • Jay on I Am All For This! (Apr 17, 2024 @ 6:40pm)
  • Leto on Humpty Trumpty (Open Thread) (Apr 17, 2024 @ 6:40pm)
  • ColoradoGuy on Humpty Trumpty (Open Thread) (Apr 17, 2024 @ 6:38pm)
  • Marcopolo on Humpty Trumpty (Open Thread) (Apr 17, 2024 @ 6:38pm)
  • sab on Humpty Trumpty (Open Thread) (Apr 17, 2024 @ 6:38pm)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Talk of Meetups – Meetup Planning
Proposed BJ meetups list from frosty

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8
Virginia House Races
Four Directions – Montana
Worker Power AZ
Four Directions – Arizona
Four Directions – Nevada

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
Positive Climate News
War in Ukraine
Cole’s “Stories from the Road”
Classified Documents Primer

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Political Action 2024

Postcard Writing Information

Balloon Juice for Four Directions AZ

Donate

Balloon Juice for Four Directions NV

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2024 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!