The FAKE MSM is working so hard trying to get me not to use Social Media. They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2017
Here at the ACLU, we think you should keep using social media. https://t.co/KjM62aKGuL
— ACLU National (@ACLU) June 6, 2017
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Apart from picking at sworn testimony, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Major Major Major Major
Is this him getting mad at his aides for trying to keep him from live-tweeting the Comey testimony or something? I haven’t seen anybody in the media try to keep him from tweeting. The media loves that shit. And, of course, so do the people filing lawsuits.
The Dangerman
Pro Tip, Donald: If you run a TV Network and brag about how “fair and balanced” you are, you aren’t. Same thing applies to “honest, unfiltered” tweets.
Corner Stone
“Preznit give me turkee”
Calouste
Whatever crap the shitgibbon spews in his tweets sure is unfiltered.
Baud
Does he use any social media other than Twitter?
Major Major Major Major
@Calouste: Here’s a scary thought – maybe it is the filtered stuff.
Kathleen
If only Obama would urge him not to tweet for the good of the country…
rk
Is he really going to be live tweeting the testimony or is this some kind of a joke?
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: My husband the other day called him a “high-functioning YouTube comment”.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Hubby was feeling generous.
debbie
@Major Major Major Major:
Some are beginning to get upset at Trump’s blocking people on his feed.
debbie
@Baud:
He doesn’t seem to use much of anything else except Twitter.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: well, high-functioning for something non-sentient though.
Gelfling 545
@The Dangerman: well, they do seem pretty unfiltered. Pretty much stream of consciousness.
The Dangerman
@Major Major Major Major:
Hubby was feeling generous.
Bill E Pilgrim
This Chrome extension at least makes the visuals match the content.
Image
Extension link
I’ve had it installed for weeks, it actually seems to reduce the cognitive dissonance. Reads like an eight year old wrote it, looks like an eight year old wrote it, all is aligned.
Now the obligatory “that’s an insult to eight year old” jokes. Go ahead. You know you will.
Morzer
@Corner Stone:
Be my turkey this Thankgiving, Mr President!
hellslittlestangel
Oh, please don’t throw us in the Twitter patch, Mr Trump!
Mary G
I am sick of politics and discovered the twitter feed and from there the website “Letters of Note.” Turns out Dorothy Parker died 50 years ago today and they have some good stuff.
This review by Carl Jung of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and a letter he sent him subsequently were amazeballs.
I had an long distance admirer in college who used to send me long typewritten letters. Blog posts are what we have now, I guess.
debbie
@Bill E Pilgrim:
I love that extension! Someone ought to paste his Tweets into that and then re-Tweet the childish versions back to Trump.
Major Major Major Major
@Bill E Pilgrim: @debbie: Brilliant. It should be in sharpie, though.
Personally, I use Make Trump Kittens Again, which manages to replace many pictures of Trump and his ilk with kittens.
Morzer
@hellslittlestangel:
“Not many people know this – it’s amazing, really, but I did the Kobayashi Maru run in less than 12 parsnips.”
hovercraft
@Major Major Major Major:
By constantly pointing out that he’s hurting himself and the country with his tweets, the media is implying that he should stop tweeting. Apparently he’s missed the fact that all of those panels of villagers exist to tell politicians what they should do and how they should do it. He’s also as you say missing the fact that they love his tweets, they are so dumb and misinformed, it gives them the opportunity to tsk, tsk, and show their very serious person schtick.
Humdog
@Mary G: Whoa, Jung lost himself in Joyce’s Ulysses. Thanks for sharing that. What’s this ‘devil’s own grandmother’ stuff?
Bill E Pilgrim
@Humdog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_grandmother
TS
@Mary G: The pinned tweet at the top of your “letters of note” link – titled “obligatory” seems good for all times.
The Dorothy Parker thread is full of delight – and includes a few political leanings.
joel hanes
@Corner Stone:
“Preznit give me turkee”
One of the greatest uses ever made of these Intertubes.
Villago Delenda Est
@hovercraft: Ayup. He’s feeding them what they crave. Obama knew better than to do that.
TenguPhule
I predict a shortage of popcorn and booze tomorrow.
debbie
@Major Major Major Major:
Love it! Are there different photos or the same one over and over? I see it now also works for Pence, Bannon, etc.
TenguPhule
@rk:
Yes.
SATSQ.
bystander
@Humdog: Little known fact: Jung had an apartment at 666 5th Avenue.
ETA: I like that MSNBC is treating tomorrow’s testimony like the Super Bowl.
TenguPhule
@Morzer:
English language is one thing, but conflating cultural icons? Its on now!
hovercraft
@Major Major Major Major: @Baud:
That’s an insult to youtube comments!
MobiusKlein
I’ll be watching B-Ball, of one denomination or the other.
Major Major Major Major
Speaking of cats, I just took a lovely photo of Samwise.
Baud
I just heard on MSNBC that Trump denied that he was involved with Russian hookers. That means Trump was involved with Russian hookers.
Baud
@bystander: I’m surprised they don’t have a countdown clock.
zhena gogolia
@Major Major Major Major:
Fantastic! Steve is jealous.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Quite excellent.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Baud: My favorite Tweet of the entire day
https://twitter.com/7im/status/872528483674578944/photo/1
zhena gogolia
@bystander:
So did Alfred Drake’s agent.
Baud
@Bill E Pilgrim: Perfect.
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: He looks like he is plotting your demise, I would sleep with one eye open, if I were you.
dmsilev
@Baud:
Somewhere, LBJ is smiling.
TriassicSands
I absolutely think Trump should keep tweeting. He hurts himself constantly, but what is more important is that it is a way for all of us to keep track of just how unhinged he is.
Who knows, someday his tweets may have exhibit IDs in either impeachment hearings or a courtroom.
Keep on tweetin’, Donnie.
raven
@dmsilev: fuck lbj
Cheryl Rofer
@rk: He said he would live-tweet his responses to Comey. Today “he” has tweeted twice, pro-forma tweets that probably came from aides. They took him to Ohio to pose with darling children to keep his mind off events. If I were his lawyers, I would take away his phone, but that doesn’t seem to have worked so far.
eclare
@Major Major Major Major: Samwise looks majestic on his mighty perch!
Teddys Person
Dolt45 and his twitter account are turning self-sabotage into an Olympic sport.
frosty
@Baud: I read someone’s comment who parsed this out. He said he wasn’t involved with hookers in Russia. That means it could have been Russian hookers anywhere else — NYC, Mar-a-lago, etc.
What it doesn’t mean is that he wasn’t compromised by interactions with women not his wife who may or may not have been paid for the interaction.
Mnemosyne
Speaking of cats, our kitty Annie continues to improve on her regimen of steroids. Last night, she was creeping around my craft room while I was in there, which she hasn’t done for several months.
We see the kitty dermatologist next week to see if we should continue the daily steroids or if we can ramp those down. She’s pretty underweight right now, so they may want to keep her on until she gets back up to 8 pounds (she’s about 6.5 pounds right now).
(For those not up to date: after seeing several vets, it looks like our middle cat has an autoimmune disorder called pemphigus that attacks skin cells. It’s treatable with steroids, but figuring out the right maintenance dose can be tricky.)
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: I sleep with the door closed, so we’re in the clear.
@Baud: No, it’s not a slam-dunk that he’s guilty of something until he accuses Democrats of doing it.
Barbara
@frosty: Or women in Russia who were not prostitutes.
TenguPhule
@Barbara:
KGB Cheerleaders then.
Mnemosyne
@Cheryl Rofer:
Since Trump notoriously hates children, I assume he is now hiding under the covers at the nearest Trump property whimpering, Can’t sleep, kids’ll eat me.
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: Bosscat loves to sleep draped around my shoulder or on my pillow over my head.
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
Are you sure it isn’t the other way around? Small hands loves to hurt those smaller then him, after all.
? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?
@Cheryl Rofer: Heard about that on NPR. Caught part of his speech about infrastructure, talking about how we’re going to have bright future. The person doing the piece, actually used the phrase, “putting America first”. From the little I heard I can actually see how some were duped by him.
But that’s only considering what he said in isolation
Barbara
@TenguPhule: They could have been paid by someone else, like Charles Kushner. I mean, it has been known to happen.
Trentrunner
I think our side is about to get very disappointed and very frustrated at what will happen tomorrow and in the ensuing weeks.
We’re expecting this to bring Trump down, and soon. That is not going to happen.
SFAW
@MobiusKlein:
Make sure they know your “safe word.” [I think “99 green balloons” is taken, however. In both German and English.]
bystander
@Baud: At least they’re not touting the half-time show. Even if they do have Janet Jackson.
Peale
@Barbara: are they hookers if someone else is paying for them?
Steve in the ATL
@Barbara:
Or men in Russia. He is a republican, after all.
Baud
@Trentrunner: Nothing will happen soon.
raven
@Trentrunner: Not if we don’t have any expectations.
bystander
@Peale: Oh sure, go zen on us.
Baud
@raven: Zen and the Art of Impeachment.
Gin & Tonic
@Trentrunner: We who?
? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?
@Trentrunner: In normal times, it would. Someone like Trump would have been removed from office by now for gross incompetence, let alone possible treason or espionage.
I thought the GOP was supposed to be the grown up party? Don’t they care about our global reputation; America’s role as leader of the free world since the end of WW2?
Major Major Major Major
@Peale: When they’re dead, they’re just hookers
Bill E Pilgrim
In Russia I think they’re both hookers and not hookers until you open the Matryoshka doll and look.
Louise B.
@Mary G: The owner of the Letters of Note site has published two books, “Letters of Note” and “Lists of Notes.” They are beautiful books, very much worth buying in hard bound form – as gifts for book-lovers – even though most of the content is available online. My favorite is the letter from Kurt Vonnegut to a bunch of high school kids who asked him to come to their class and visit.
Jeffro
@Major Major Major Major: low-IQ Breitbart comment, perhaps? Although that’s a little redundant…
Kayla Rudbek
Well, the PTO has a new acting/interim director who worked for Jeff Sessions and is/was a member of the Federalist Society see Patently-O here
hovercraft
@Trentrunner:
I expect nothing to “happen” any time soon, if at all. In fact I’m counting on it, by tying themselves to this anvil, I do expect the GOP to tie themselves in knots to him. The moron who was on Chris Hayes show a few minutes ago sounded so stupid that I actually enjoyed his blather. I look forward to watching them all blather away trying to explain why it’s perfectly fine for a president to lean on an FBI Director to get rid of the “cloud” hanging over his administration. Between this Comey mess, and whatever Mueller finds and God help us, passing the AHCA, we will have the opportunity to take back congress next year. Nothing is a slam dunk, but we’re four months in, Fall 2018 is a long way off, things can change. But have you seen any evidence that Twtler, ZEGS and McConnell will do anything to improve their standing with the electorate. Every thing they are pushing is unpopular.
TenguPhule
@? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?:
Whatever gave you that idea?
Reagan? Bush Jr?
Jeffro
@Baud:
Well, yes.
But are they “hookers” in Trumpov’s view if he personally didn’t pay? No doubt Vlad sent them over gratis…
TenguPhule
@Trentrunner:
We?
I’m hoping for entertainment.
TenguPhule
@Peale:
Are they still hookers if Trump stiffed them on the bill?
Jeffro
@Peale: OMG someone else always gets there first when I don’t read the thread all the way through…sigh…my bad, Peale…
Jeffro
@Bill E Pilgrim: Schrodinger’s Hookers? It’s quite a concept.
Morzer
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Schrödinger’s Hookers?
Major Major Major Major
@Jeffro: have you read YouTube comments?
Mnemosyne
@Trentrunner:
Who’s “we,” kemo sabe?
Bill E Pilgrim
@Jeffro:
@Morzer:
My train of thought got kicked off by all the Zen references, thinking of the “How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb” joke, then somehow landed there.
Schrodingersky’s Tart, I think I’d call it.
Kathleen
@? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?: Yup. He was here in Cincinnati talking about infrastructure but did not mention planned projects for the elephant that spans Ohio River between Ohio and Kenfuckty known as The Brent Spence Bridge. Trump campaigned on that, but one of our best local reporters noted that he failed to mention it by name.
Kathleen
@Bill E Pilgrim: In Putin’s Amerussia hookers hook you.
Jeffro
@Major Major Major Major: Yup. Is it okay if I think Breitbart is worse?
Bill E Pilgrim
@Kathleen: I was working on that!
Except, I think that hookers hook you in the normal version, nyet?
I couldn’t figure out what the reverse was, you hook the hookers, I guess, but I got confused at that point and gave up.
Jeffro
@Bill E Pilgrim: This kind of double-plus inside baseball is a little hard to pass along at the office tomorrow…but I’m going to do my best!
Morzer
@Jeffro:
Breitbart tries to be worse, but lacks the collective intelligence.
? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?
@TenguPhule: I never thought they would destroy America’s credibility so quickly like this.
Jeffro
@Morzer: That’s fair. it doesn’t take a whole lot of IQ points to be reflexively anti-whatever-Dems-are-for (aka Cleek’s Law)
I wonder, inside the “Breitbart Bubble” (and I guess this extends to folks who have Fox News on 24/7, subscribe to the Washington Times, etc etc) – is it kind of like a soothing, peaceful high? Or do they mainline psychobabble and nonsense so hard, then get withdrawal and have to watch old O’Reilly clips?
Morzer
@Jeffro:
I think it’s more or less about maintaining a continuous rage high, which leaves them prone to bad decisions (buy gold, ye preppers!) and prone to lashing out in paranoia against anyone who looks at them sideways.
Chet Murthy
@TenguPhule:
I sure hope those women got the Order of Lenin, or whatever passes for the highest honor the Russian Federation bestows. I mean, for that sort of service, most assuredly above and beyond the call of duty ….. They maybe our adversaries, but ya gotta respect the work — the talent, dedication, thoroughness.
Mnemosyne
@Bill E Pilgrim:
FWIW, I believe they’re called “hookers” because a Civil War general named Hooker became infamous for the number of what were then called “camp followers” that were hanging around with his troops, and people gave them that derisive name. Eventually it got applied to all ladies of the evening.
Bobby Thomson
@joel hanes: Ah, the days before Atrios lost his fucking mind.
Librarian
@Mnemosyne: Joseph Hooker was not just “a Civil War general “; he was “Fighting Joe” Hooker, commander of the Army of the Potomac.
chopper
@Kayla Rudbek:
well that’s just great.
Kayla Rudbek
@chopper: my spouse thinks that the directors of patents and trademarks turned the job down so as not to get caught up in the current administration. here is the current chain of command
J R in WV
I have plans that will preclude me from following anything, driving to run errands, followed up by hot-dawgs and beer at a baseball game. Hope it isn’t too warm for the outdoor entertainment.
I already know what will happen: stupid questions, evasive answers, irritating commentary.
Matt McIrvin
@Trentrunner: I figure Trump may get taken down in his second term, after he’s reelected. All the bills coming due in the second term is the usual pattern for these things.
Wyatt Derp
Two things:
1 – With someone who lies as constantly as Trump it makes no sense to try and parse out what he means by, for example, “Russian” hookers. Could it be Ukranian hookers? Could it have been somewhere besides Russia? No, it was Russian hookers and he is lying. Just assume he is lying about everything and you will usually be right.
2 – The conflict in his mind between Cleek’s Law (liberals want me to keep tweeting so I should stop) and his Twitter addiction reminds me of Nomad in the old Star Trek series. If only we had James T. Kirk to question him. (Bonus points for obscure Star Trek reference).