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Chris ‘Mad Bitcher’ Cillizza, now that he’s on the way out the door at the Washington Post, decides to demonstrate he can so commit journalism if he feels like it:

… Against such strong denials from people in a position to know, the White House has offered up, well, not much. Trump has largely gone silent since making the allegations 10-ish days ago. His White House senior aides have been backpedaling; the latest being White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s decidedly odd argument that “wire tapping” and wiretapping are simply not the same thing. (Breaking news: They are!)

As I wrote at the time that Trump leveled these very serious allegations: The burden of proof was on him. To suggest that a former president orchestrated a listening program using the tools and resources of the federal government during a heated national campaign is a big charge. To do so without providing evidence — then or now — is eye-popping.

The repercussions of such charges should be serious. After all, this is conspiracy theorizing at the top levels of government. But they almost certainly won’t be, as a Republican Congress is unlikely to scold a Republican president so new to the White House. And Trump, if past is prologue, will somehow declare victory and move on.

Thanks, Repubs!

Apart from the healthful exercise involved in rolling our eyes, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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  7. 7.

    jl

    The administration consists of complete goofs.
    The horrid disasters will be endless.
    What will happen at the Thanksgiving Day turkey pardon? Could well turn into a bloodbath.
    Will we need hazmat teams for the Easter egg roll on the WH lawn? Will the Easter Bunny survive?
    How many states will have a multi-day blackout when they try to turn on the WH Christmas Tree.
    I worry about these things. Someone has to.

  8. 8.

    TenguPhule

    When North Korea gets into a public pissing match with Der Trumper, people are literally not going to know which side to believe.

    That’s where we are at folks. Weep for our once great republic.

  10. 10.

    SFAW

    @jl:

    Will the Easter Bunny survive?

    Of course. It’s just a stepping-stone position on the way to Press Secretary, anyway.

    “Hey, Rock! Watch me pull a Press Secretary outta my hat!”
    “Again? Bullwinkle, that trick never works!”

  11. 11.

    FlyingToaster

    @jl: SATSQ:

    Thanksgiving Turkey — pardon will happen at that place Sarah Palin recommended. Ooops!
    Easter egg roll — Trump is unlikely to attend.
    Easter Bunny — not in danger, since it’ll just be him, the Park Service, and kids.
    Three states will black out, DelMarVa plus the District.

  14. 14.

    Big Ole Hound

    Obama should sue him defamation or some such thing. If the tables were reversed you know Trump would be howling.

  15. 15.

    bystander

    Did anybody else catch Grassley and Feinstein coming out of the meeting with Comey? Feinstein spoke for both her and Grassley (?!?) and said the material was too sensitive to comment on. For once, her years of pearl clutching resulted in an understated performance, subtly underscored by biting her lower lip. That may have been to suppress a smile the size of Cleveland. Anybody else catch that?

  17. 17.

    SFAW

    By the way, apropos of nothing in particular, did Shitgibbon visit the Senate today? Did he get a shiv shout out from Bill Cassius Cassidy?

  19. 19.

    FlyingToaster

    @TenguPhule: No!!!!

    Seriously, I don’t think Trump will attend. It’ll interfere with his Mar-a-Lago weekends. Also, the hoi-polloi will be there. Sad!

  20. 20.

    delk

    In 2009 my guy and I went to DC to participate in the National Equality March. The day before the march we celebrated 10 years together. The march was amazing but on the way home I couldn’t shake the feeling that marriage equality would ever happen in my lifetime. I even told my partner that I wish I was a bit younger to be able to see how this was going to play out.

    Today my husband and I celebrate our fifth year legally married.

  23. 23.

    different-church-lady

    You know, like how when I “dope slap” someone, it’s totally different from when I dopeslap someone.

  29. 29.

    AliceBlue

    @FlyingToaster:
    I doubt there will even be an Easter Egg roll. I think the First Lady’s office is in charge of organizing it, and Melania hasn’t been exactly . . . engaged in the whole First Lady business.

  30. 30.

    A Ghost to Most

    @delk:
    Congratulations.
    As a wise man once told me: marriages may be made in heaven, but they are lived in Cleveland

  31. 31.

    Brachiator

    @delk:

    Today my husband and I celebrate our fifth year legally married.

    Hope the legal part has been as much fun as the earlier, illegal marriage.

    Congrats!

  32. 32.

    Woodrow/Asim

    @bystander: Pulled it up via Raw Story (I know…), and yeah, that’s a whole lotta smoke coming out of Sen. Feinstein’s “can’t say nuthin'” statement.

    Other than “we’re dead serious on this”, I really don’t know what to make of it, though.

  33. 33.

    randy khan

    @AliceBlue:

    As it happens, they opened the lottery today, so apparently it’s on. I wonder if the articles a couple of weeks ago about how there had been no word about it got some people going.

    I do kind of hope that Spicer reprises his role as the Easter Bunny.

  39. 39.

    raven

    My bride and her friend are going to see “Brooklyn” and the, Colm Toibin, author of the book was supposed to be there but the storm kept him in Brooklyn!

  40. 40.

    laura

    @delk: Molotov!
    Before my mom’s long slow slide into dementia, we were in SF together on Valentines Day 2004 when Mayor Newsom authorized same sex civil marriage. Seeing the happy couples lined up, with flowers randomly delivered to those awaiting in line from orders placed by people all over the country is one of the best experiences we shared. We drank champagne and cried joyful tears.
    Happy anniversary Delk!

  42. 42.

    joel hanes

    Since it’s an open thread, I’d like to turn the conversation to something serious.

    Over at Gin And Tacos, Ed urges us not to let a 1040 from 2005 distract us :
    http://www.ginandtacos.com/2017/03/14/more-like-rachel-much-ado-amirite/

    There are two possibilities to explain the random release of a random piece of tax information about Donald Trump. Three if you count coincidence.

    One is that Trump had these released as a red herring to redirect attention away from additional revelations about his Russian ties that may be coming out this week. Or, in a less Machiavellian sense it may just be an effort to garner attention that has been drifting away from him and toward the stillborn House GOP health care bill.

    The other is that Donald Trump is a very vain, dumb, and predictable person, and that somebody – perhaps a fired U.S. Attorney who was leading the investigation into DeutscheBank’s ties to Russian organized crime and money laundering – wanted to establish that Donald Trump earned a huge amount of income in 2005. Perhaps they knew that if a document showing Trump in a favorable light were leaked, he would rush to confirm its authenticity. Having released it himself to deny the hated media a chance to scoop him, there’s no plausible way to refute it now.

    The crystal ball is murky, but one thing is absolutely certain: There are but a few reasons one person pays another vastly more than the actual value to buy a piece of property. None of those reasons involve things that are legal. Aaron Schock is about to go to prison for it. Duke Cunningham did go to prison for it. And Donald Trump received $100 million from a Russian organized crime figure for a property not worth 1/3 of that, which the buyer never even occupied and eventually had demolished. This came at a time when Trump was deeply in debt to a German bank that is under investigation for helping Russian criminals launder money using third parties.

    Most people saw a big non-story on Tuesday evening. Maybe it’s actually a prosecutor building a case.

  43. 43.

    debbie

    Adam Schiff gave a great interview about this on NPR this afternoon. My heart may be with Baud 2020!, but my brain is telling me I want Schiff to run for president. He’s very knowledgable on every subject I’ve ever heard him interviewed for. He’s calm, and he speaks without sounding like it’s all sound bites. Run, Adam, run!

  44. 44.

    SFAW

    @jl:

    Will we need hazmat teams for the Easter egg roll on the WH lawn?

    First of all, according to Lyin’ Spice, it’s the Easter Eggroll, in honor of President Xi’s trip. And I think it’s insulting to insinuate that a HazMat team needs to be around because of Xi’s presence.

    And, of course, Shitgibbon asked Xi to bring the fortune cookies, thinking there might actually be some money in there, and he’s a little short this month. And I don’t mean his fingers or certain other body parts.

  47. 47.

    Woodrow/Asim

    And as a follow-up, another reason Grassley was quiet? He might have been hoarse from screaming, earlier today, about DOJ stonewalling to a WaPo reporter (?!?!):

    “Every time they come up here for their nomination hearing . . . I ask them: ‘Are you going to answer phone calls and our letters, and are you going to give us the documents we want?’ And every time we get a real positive ‘yes!’ And then they end up being liars!” Grassley said, screaming into the phone during an interview with The Washington Post. “It’s not if they’re treating us differently than another committee. It’s if they’re responding at all.”

    50 days in, and Trump + his team already have a powerful GOP Senator so pissed off he’s going to the liberal media to vent.

    FASCINATING.

  48. 48.

    germy

    @debbie:

    After receiving his JD from Harvard, Adam Schiff began working as a prosecutor in the Los Angeles branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. While an assistant U.S. Attorney, he gained attention by prosecuting a case against Richard Miller, a former FBI agent convicted of “passing secret documents to the Soviet Union in exchange for a promised $65,000 in gold and cash.” The first time Miller was tried, it resulted in a hung jury; the second time, it resulted in a conviction overturned on appeal, and the third time he was convicted.

  52. 52.

    debbie

    @Baud:

    My gut is not my heart, bub. ;)

    By the way, can a president be sanctioned when he’s found to have lied like this? Is there any precedent?

  56. 56.

    SFAW

    @Woodrow/Asim:

    Maybe Grassley will apoplexize himself into a stroke. Be a shame if that happened. Maybe Merrick Garland would send him a Get Well card.

  58. 58.

    efgoldman

    @AliceBlue:

    I doubt there will even be an Easter Egg roll.

    So many things which were a pleasure to watch because the Obamas clearly loved people, especially kids: Easter egg roll, the kids’ science fair….
    I can’t even imagine Mango Misogynist even sticking his face in the door.

  60. 60.

    SFAW

    @debbie:

    By the way, can a president be sanctioned when he’s found to have lied like this? Is there any precedent?

    Well, if he were a Demoncrat, no problem — impeachment, heresy trial, public stoning, take your pick. But since he’s not: No.

  67. 67.

    SFAW

    @Baud:

    The American people can glower at him at his public appearances.

    No, the REAL Americans would cheer him. All those Others might glower, but they’d risk deportation. Especially if they yelled “Lock Him Up!”

  68. 68.

    Waldo

    I see GOPers still need to get up to speed on the basics of authoritarianism. Their job isn’t to find evidence to support their leader’s conclusions – it’s to make reality conform to his delusions. I trust they’ll have this sorted out soon.

  70. 70.

    raven

    @jeffreyw

    : cosima
    March 15, 2017 at 5:25 pm
    @jeffreyw: First thing I thought was the old ‘bake sales for bombers’ bumper stickers (not sure if you’re old enough to remember those, but they were a big thing way back when).

  71. 71.

    SFAW

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    What no drawing and quartering? You’re getting soft.

    I thought about that, decided to leave it as an exercise for the not-very-advanced students. Apparently it worked.

  72. 72.

    Brachiator

    Trump is going from strength. Now that he has fixed the border, health care, jobs, set the auto industry straight on emissions standards and fixed everything that Obama broke, he is making ready his budget proposal, which will be full of tax cuts, government shake ups, and trillion dollar infrastructure fix ups. It’s gonna be huge. But please ignore the fvck ups.

  75. 75.

    debbie

    Trump’s not giving up. He’s saying a few interesting things will be coming to light in the next couple of weeks. Keep doubling down, you jackal.

  77. 77.

    humboldtblue

    @FlyingToaster:

    The State of California will be involved in what appears to be about 6,000 lawsuits now that Trump has settled in.

    Water, range and land management, pollution and emission standards, health care, sanctuary cities, education, renewable energy, that train that should have been built in the 50’s except California was stuck with a Brown and not a Randian hero who loved trains, drilling and fuel exploration on terra firma and off shore … the list goes on and on and on.

    And congrats to Delk!

  79. 79.

    StringOnAStick

    @debbie: That was his same BS approach on his crack birther research team. They were finding “great stuff, unbelievable stuff” that somehow never made it back to the mainland.

  81. 81.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Big Ole Hound: I wouldn’t sue Trump if I were President Obama. However, it is appalling that a sitting President can make up ridiculous claims that he and everyone else knows are lies with zero repercussions. If we cannot trust Trump’s word, how will we be able to trust his actions? He’s a liar, a conspiracy theorist and an idiot. What a horrible combination. Sheesh!

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @delk:

    Today my husband and I celebrate our fifth year legally married.

    That is so great! It’s especially lovely to read happy, good news when most of what we see these days is depressing. Congratulations to you and your husband, and may you celebrate many, many more!

  83. 83.

    Brachiator

    @germy:

    Can we have faith in Netherlands’ exit polls?

    Heavy turnout, so results look pretty solid. The right wing guy did not win, but he made a strong showing, according to Reuters and others.

    Rutte’s VVD Party was projected to win 31 of parliament’s 150 seats, down from 41 at the last vote in 2012, but ahead of Wilders who tied in second place with two other parties at 19 each, according to the polls by national broadcaster NOS based on interviews with voters.

    At 81 percent, turnout was the highest in 30 years in an election that was a test of whether the Dutch wanted to end decades of liberalism and choose a nationalist, nativist path by voting for Wilders and his promise to “de-Islamicise” the Netherlands and quit the European Union.

    In the city of Nijmegen, polling stations had to order extra ballot papers and extend opening times to give people enough time to vote.

    The result was a relief to mainstream parties across Europe, particularly in France and Germany, where right-wing nationalists hope to make a big impact in elections this year, potentially posing an existential threat to the EU.

  85. 85.

    Patricia Kayden

    @debbie: Like what, Donnie? What the hell do you think President Obama did in terms of “wire tapping” that would be interesting to us?

    This man is a liar and nothing he says should be taken at face value. I don’t know how he’s going to deal with foreign leaders and handle foreign affairs. This is such a disaster.

  90. 90.

    Baud

    U.S. Women’s Hockey Team Boycotting World Championships To Protest Low Pay

    I think they just didn’t want to go to White House if they won again.

  91. 91.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    He’s a liar, a conspiracy theorist and an idiot. What a horrible combination. Sheesh!

    Geez… did you just figure this out?

  93. 93.

    debbie

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Your second paragraph is pretty much what Adam Schiff said in the NPR interview this afternoon. He’s very worried that Trump will have pre-screwed us in the event of an international crisis.

  94. 94.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SFAW:

    First of all, according to Lyin’ Spice, it’s the Easter Eggroll, in honor of President Xi’s trip. And I think it’s insulting to insinuate that a HazMat team needs to be around because of Xi’s presence.

    And, of course, Shitgibbon asked Xi to bring the fortune cookies, thinking there might actually be some money in there, and he’s a little short this month. And I don’t mean his fingers or certain other body parts.

    Will there be a special ceremony to pardon General Tsu’s Favorite Chicken? Will the surveillance apparatus be used for Peeking Duck?

  98. 98.

    zhena gogolia

    @EBT:

    The picture illustrating the story has him with his arm around Don Jr., so I thought it was a joke at first and Don Jr. was the “boy.”

  100. 100.

    Mary G

    @germy: I like to think that undecided voters in the Netherlands saw Steve King’s white nationalist tweet and promptly made up their minds to vote against Wilders, because who wants to be approved of by a crazy racist?

    Also, too, the president isn’t making white men look very competent.

  101. 101.

    Roger Moore

    @SFAW:

    And, of course, Shitgibbon asked Xi to bring the fortune cookies, thinking there might actually be some money in there, and he’s a little short this month.

    The fool needs to learn: if you’re short of money, you ask for a red envelope, not a fortune cookie.

  102. 102.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @efgoldman:

    So many things which were a pleasure to watch because the Obamas clearly loved people, especially kids

    I always loved the way POTUS (by which, of course, I mean the one, the only True POTUS) would read Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are with funny voices and scary gestures and awesome faces. And the lovely, perfect, one-and-only FLOTUS was right there with him, contributing her own thespian gifts to the proceedings.

  103. 103.

    MazeDancer

    Hawaii judge stops Muslim Ban before it can go into effect tomorrow.

    Says it violates Constitution

    From ruling “Significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus driving the promulgation of the Executive Order”

  104. 104.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @germy:

    He’ll toss throw RAW eggs to at the kids from a top floor window.

    Improved a bit, I think.

    ETA: Curse you with a rusty thing, Bill in Glendale

  106. 106.

    different-church-lady

    It’s like once a week the entire country is going to be forced to spend a tremendous amount of energy proving the blatantly obvious: this man is full of shit. Over and over again, week in and week out. “Yes, he was full of shit last week. And the week before. And all the weeks before that. But we have to do it again this week.”

  108. 108.

    hovercraft

    Chris ‘Mad Bitcher’ Cillizza, now that he’s on the way out the door at the Washington Post

    What, how did I miss this?
    Ugh, I see that like so many of his ilk, he’s failing up.

  111. 111.

    Brachiator

    Trump’s budget sez we don’t need no environment protection or diplomacy because we’re gonna bomb the crap out of everybody, bigly and cleanly:

    A budget proposal to be released by U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday includes deep cuts for the State Department and Environmental Protection Agency as his administration seeks to raise military spending, the New York Times said on Wednesday.

    The budget plan for fiscal 2018 will call for cuts of 28 percent for the State Department and 31 percent for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Times reported, citing congressional staff members familiar with the plan.

    It will also propose a big reduction in the State Department’s Food for Peace program and the elimination of a Transportation Department program that subsidizes flights to rural U.S. airports, the Times said.

    Trump’s budget proposals include cuts in federal government agencies that have been targeted by Republican Party politicians for decades but historically protected by Congress which under law holds the federal purse strings.

    His administration is seeking to boost military spending by $54 billion and seek cuts of the same size in non-defense programs. Early drafts described by government officials call for dramatic cuts at some agencies.

  112. 112.

    JWR

    @debbie:

    He’s very knowledgable on every subject I’ve ever heard him interviewed for. He’s calm, and he speaks without sounding like it’s all sound bites. Run, Adam, run!

    Yeah, Schiff, also my congressman, has gotten much better since his days as a Blue Dog Dem.

  113. 113.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @SFAW: Walk of Atonement, with Michelle Obama following immediately behind with the “shame” bell.

  115. 115.

    randy khan

    The Hawaii federal judge is the first one to put Travel Ban 2.0 on hold:

    Go Hawaii!

    There are still pending cases in maybe half a dozen other courts, but he got there first.

  116. 116.

    JWR

    Just heard on my local TV news that the judge in Hawaii has just blocked Muslim Ban 2.0! W00t!

  117. 117.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Brachiator: One has to ask: what, precisely, is Donald thinking of spending all this new DoD money on? More tanks (ideally suited for the terrain of Iran)? More jets? More ships? More headspace and timing gauges?

    (OK, admittedly we do need a lot more of that last item in the Executive Branch, but with those clowns 2x4s will do the trick nicely…)

  118. 118.

    Roger Moore

    @JWR:

    Yeah, Schiff, also my congressman, has gotten much better since his days as a Blue Dog Dem.

    He’s no longer my congressman- I got redistricted into Judy Chu’s district- but he’s a good example of why it’s worth going for a Blue Dog in a close district. He’s gotten a lot better over the past 16 years, which wouldn’t have happened if we had kept the execrable Jim Rogan.

  121. 121.

    Roger Moore

    @Patricia Kayden:

    I don’t know how he’s going to deal with foreign leaders and handle foreign affairs.

    I don’t know about foreign leaders, but he has plenty of experience having foreign affairs. Where do you think Melania came from?

  122. 122.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @FlyingToaster:

    For the Easter egg roll, El Caudillo de Mar a Lago will be in residence in his Southern Palace. The cruddy shack we provide our Chief Executive will have an event for the children of the GOP members Congress, run by Reince Priebus. That event will consist of plastic eggs filled with the shredded pages of the only physical copies of El Caudillo’s tax returns. Democratic congressmen get the chunks of the IRS hard drives that held his returns sent to their kids in a box.

    At Mar a Lago, the children of members get plastic eggs filled with the SS account balances of 50-65 year olds killed by TrumpCare/GOPDontCare…

  125. 125.

    JWR

    @Roger Moore:

    He’s gotten a lot better over the past 16 years, which wouldn’t have happened if we had kept the execrable Jim Rogan.

    That’s fer damn sure. Wasn’t Rogan one of the Clinton impeachment managers? I was so very happy to see him go.

  128. 128.

    Brachiator

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    One has to ask: what, precisely, is Donald thinking of spending all this new DoD money on? More tanks (ideally suited for the terrain of Iran)? More jets? More ships? More headspace and timing gauges?

    (OK, admittedly we do need a lot more of that last item in the Executive Branch, but with those clowns 2x4s will do the trick nicely…)

    I’ve heard from some military minded people that the Navy would like a chunk of money. It will be interesting to see the justification.

    And of course, Hillary was the hawk. God dam. Trump is the right wing nut jobs wet dream. What the hell were people thinking? Scratch that. I know that there are fools aching for a war for us to win. That will show ’em that we really are great again.

  131. 131.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Brachiator:

    I’ve heard from some military minded people that the Navy would like a chunk of money. It will be interesting to see the justification.

    A new aircraft carrier, the USS Donald J. Trump. Everything on it will be GOLD.

  132. 132.

    DissidentFish

    @Brachiator: You can cut the state department because our foreign policy is basically just a Trump brand now. And like most of them, it’s been outsourced. To the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation.

  135. 135.

    Roger Moore

    @JWR:

    Wasn’t Rogan one of the Clinton impeachment managers?

    Yes, he was. I think it was one of the factors that helped Schiff in his first election.

  136. 136.

    Feebog

    Happy Anniversary Delk! Very good news about the Federal Judge in Hawaii putting a hold on the travel ban. I hope a half dozen other judges to the same over the next few days. Cheeto Benito will be spitting nails, and wearing his short fingers down using the twitter. Heading to the kitchen to pull out the popcorn.

  137. 137.

    efgoldman

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Everything on it will be GOLD.

    You know, I almost wish….
    Imagine. They build it for eleventy kazillion dollars; it sparkles so much in the sun they all have to wear welder’s goggles to the launch; his fifth or sixth wife hits it with a Trump Wines bottle, it slides down the ways……………………
    and sinks like a boulder.

  139. 139.

    TenguPhule

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    One has to ask: what, precisely, is Donald thinking of spending all this new DoD money on?

    Subcontractors. Who will be owned by Trump through various Shell corporations. And that money will be used to finance his own private little army of mercenaries from XI.

  141. 141.

    Aleta

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: This year the Easter event will be adults only, admission fee charged on top of club membership, hetero men on the golf course whacking pastel colored balls, female escorts in rabbit ears, buffet of potato chips, ketchup and mayo, white bread, and lunch meat towers.

  142. 142.

    Roger Moore

    @TenguPhule:

    And that money will be used to finance his own private little army of mercenaries from XI.

    He’d better watch out about hiring XI. They’re connected to his Sec Ed, so they might conspire with her to overthrow him in a coup. We definitely need to feed his paranoia in that department.

  147. 147.

    MazeDancer

    Wish the Judge in Hawaii could staple a nice short form birth certificate to his ruling.

  148. 148.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Major Major Major Major:

    That is just fucking adorable. I put up the link on FB, and immediately one of my literal-minded friends began complaining that in some cases the answer was “none of the above” but that wasn’t an offered choice and she couldn’t skip it. I commented “They’re in SECOND GRADE! Just play along.” I didn’t add “FFS!” but I felt like it.

  149. 149.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Brachiator:

    the elimination of a Transportation Department program that subsidizes flights to rural U.S. airports, the Times said.

    Didn’t GW get in trouble with REAL America (as in not living a city) for touching their socialized flights?

  150. 150.

    humboldtblue

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Fuck pizza (I do love it, but it aint a staple), soup along with bread is the staple food of our species.

    Which frozen girl is this little one dressed as? That’s the one I like even if I chose the wrong one.

    I never liked Legos.

    Giraffes are far more interesting than zebras who are the equivalent of the angry neighbor next door who dresses funny and you can’t decide if they are crazy or just an asshole.

    Board games are far superior to coloring.

    I am not a farmer.

    And Ms. Porter better not skimp on the fucking graphs either. By tomorrow that poll will have a few million responses.

  151. 151.

    Aleta

    @efgoldman: Top heavy with gold cannon and escalators it rolls over in the harbor. Russian and Chinese dignitaries swim for their lives, leaving Trump floundering.

  152. 152.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    @bystander:

    Might we assume DF was biting back a grin because she now knows that evidence against Trump is real, significant, and will come out?

    Or am I being too hopeful?

  154. 154.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    @Major Major Major Major:

    I commented “They’re in SECOND GRADE! Just play along.”

    Her response was on the order of “And is the teacher in second grade TOO?”

    So far I have ignored this passive-aggressive comment. She is a fine soul, but I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone with a more impaired sense of humour.

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    FlyingToaster

    @humboldtblue: The girl in the blue-n-white dress and white hair is Elsa. The girl in the Teal/Black/dark Blue dress with brown hair is Anna.

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    No One You Know

    Over at ginandtacos, there’s a column for Branding that asks what do Democrats stand for.

    If Republicans are for small government and low taxes, what do we stand for?

    Healthy societies and ethnic plurality?
    It isn’t catchy, but how would you phrase it? (Brevity is the soul of wit and branding.)

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    SFAW

    @Roger Moore:

    The fool needs to learn: if you’re short of money, you ask for a red envelope, not a fortune cookie.

    First of all: he’s a fool, and he can’t/won’t learn.
    Second: assuming the “red envelope” thing is an actual Chinese “custom” (I don’t know if it is, it’s just the sense I get from your comment), that would be the furthest from Shitgibbon’s mind [sic]. He would probably ask for “One from Column A, one from Column B,” and ask if Xi would like “flied lice” for dinner (“It’s a house specialty at Mar-a-Lago!”), and ask him how things are in Tokyo or Seoul. In other words, be the racist moron we know him to be.

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    George

    @debbie: In case no one else has mentioned this, I checked Adam Schiff’s Wikipedia page and his wife’s name is Eve. Cool.

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