Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

We still have time to mess this up!

You cannot shame the shameless.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

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  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I saw this a couple of weeks ago, I think. Love it! Have always kind of been a fan of Vicente Fox anyhow, but his “fuck you very much” attitude to Trump just makes me happy.

  7. 7.

    JDM

    My favorite bit as I watched it this time was “cause you’re always drinking diet coke [beat] which, by the way, is not working”.

  10. 10.

    Oatler.

    Vincente courageously criticized the drug war- AFTER he was gone. When he was in power he swore fealty to the DEA. Typical of many ex-leaders.

  11. 11.

    oldster

    Man, that is great. And hilarious. I love the guy.

    “I have busy day of not being hated by the majority of my countrymen.”

    So many burns! So many lols!

  14. 14.

    Karmus

    @JDM: Diet Coke not working? Unpossible. Quoting (at least) the War Nerd, “the most fattening drink on Earth.”

  15. 15.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @Oatler.: well to be fair,you can get some money if you play ball or you can get the Noriega treatment if you don’t.

  16. 16.

    Ohio Mom

    @Spanky: He’s done a couple of other videos addressed to Trump. Trolling Donald seems to be a new hobby of Vincent’s.

  18. 18.

    Old Broad in California

    I love the way he keeps saying that Mexico “will not pay for the fucken wall”.

  19. 19.

    hovercraft

    @Major Major Major Major: She’s not a thing, she’s his Overlord, or better yet Overmistress!
    Poor Twitler, he craves love and respect more than anything else, and more and more leaders and former leaders are trolling him.
    So SAD!

  20. 20.

    nightranger

    Build a bridge across the ocean of time and walk back across it to find this small boy. Tell him that just because his father doesn’t love him, doesn’t mean he cannot love the world.

    I have to get going, I have a busy day of not being hated by the vast majority of my country.

    Donald come on man. What would be the point of us paying for something beautiful if we cannot even see it. That would be like marrying a model who won’t even sleep in the same city as you.

    Daayyyum.

  23. 23.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I saw this a couple of weeks ago, I think. Love it! Have always kind of been a fan of Vicente Fox anyhow, but his “fuck you very much” attitude to Trump just makes me happy.

    WOW, did I ever jump the gun! Had not realised there was a new Vicente Fox video, and just assumed it was the one I saw a few weeks back. But OMG, Fox is great! Burn. Burn. Burn.

  24. 24.

    Wapiti

    I love the subtitles, for people who might reflexively think Fox is talking Mexican.

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @nightranger:

    Donald come on man. What would be the point of us paying for something beautiful if we cannot even see it. That would be like marrying a model who won’t even sleep in the same city as you.

    So beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes.

  26. 26.

    Peale

    @Oatler.: yeah. But it’s strange times. Usually I look around at other democratically elected world leaders and think “well it could be worse. We could have so-and-so” even when the GOP is in office. Now, I’m to the point where pretty much every executive who hasn’t ruined his country for his own gain starts looking plausible. “You know, that PM of Morasiliokavia, you know the guy. They elected him not despite, but because of the fact that he was caught drunkenly urinating on their national tomb to the fallen from their independence war while dressed like Cher…I wish we could have someone classy like that”.

  27. 27.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?

    @Peale: We could have Putie Poot. As bad as Trumpov is, he isn’t competent enough to have people systematically murdered

  30. 30.

    hovercraft

    I just saw a clip on Chris Hayes for this afternoons presser, where a Romanian asks Twitler about the possibility of including Romania in the visa waiver program. Te replies that they didn’t discuss it but will soon. The Romanian President then says he mentioned it during the meeting they just had and in previous discussions because it’s important to the people of Romania.
    I have a serious question, did his mind wander and he doesn’t know or remember, did he forget they just talked about it, or is he lying, and does he know he’s lying? I’m serious does he believe his own lies?
    The man is standing right next to you, if you’re lying don’t you think he going to tell the world that you’re full of shit, politely, but he still called you out right in front of the whole world.

  32. 32.

    rikyrah

    Kaivan Shroff‏ @KaivanShroff

    What people mean by “white male privilege” is a billionaire who claims he is a genius and should run country, then cries “I’m new at this.”

  34. 34.

    JPL

    @hovercraft: Maybe he’s setting up a situation where if he lies under oath, they have a case for early onset dementia. Truthfully, Trump doesn’t listen to anything, unless it’s about him. What does a Romanian wanting a VISA to visit the US have to do with him?

  35. 35.

    TriassicSands

    It’s too bad Fox wasn’t as good a president as he is comedian. Anyway, I’ll take anyone with any public recognition and stature giving grief to our unquestionably obese president — unless of course, he’s grown again and he’s now 6’4″ or 6’5″. With the weight he’s putting on he’s going to have to be 6’8″ by the time he leaves office if he’s to continue claiming he’s merely “overweight” and not obese, which is what he really is.

    Note: growth spurt are exceedingly rare once a person reaches their late 60s and 70s.

    No more chocolate cake for you tubby!

  37. 37.

    hovercraft

    @Peale:
    Robert Mugabe, he kills and sends out roving gangs of hooligans to neighborhoods that have historically voted against him just before elections to persuade people to support the president, and people often disappear during these romps, and then reappear after the balloting is done covered in bruises. He also always seem to get magical vote totals from rural areas with very sparse populations, suddenly multiplying tenfold or more. Mugabe has had 37 years to perfect his skills, Twitler still has the training wheels on.

  38. 38.

    Felonius Monk

    @Peale:

    I wish we could have someone classy like that”.

    You are probably too young to remember Congressman Wilbur Mills (D-Arkansas):

    Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.) yesterday broke three days of silence and denials by admitting that U.S. Park Police found him with his face cut after they stopped his speeding car near the Tidal Basin at 2 a.m. Monday.

    Reporters were told yesterday that Mrs. Battistella worked as a stripper at the Silver Slipper at 815 13th Street NW in 1973 under the name Fanne Foxe. She was billed as the “Argentine Firecracker.”

    (Source)

  40. 40.

    hovercraft

    @JPL:
    “Maybe he’s setting up a situation where if he lies under oath, they have a case for early onset dementia. ”

    As a New Yorker he got a first row seat to Vinny The Chins dementia case, it kept him out of jail for years. If you see him shuffling around in pajamas asking how he got to DC you’ll know what he’s about.

  41. 41.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @rikyrah:

    What people mean by “white male privilege” is a “billionaire” who claims he is a genius and should run country, then cries “I’m new at this.”

    Needed one minor change.

  45. 45.

    Adam L Silverman

    @hovercraft:

    I have a serious question, did his mind wander and he doesn’t know or remember, did he forget they just talked about it, or is he lying, and does he know he’s lying? I’m serious does he believe his own lies?

    All of them Katie.

  46. 46.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?

    @germy: Was thinking more along the lines of taking dissidents out to sea in helicopters and shoving them out from 1500 feet up

  47. 47.

    Mnemosyne

    @hovercraft:

    It’s the narcissist thing. He really has very little sense of what “reality” is outside of his head. I guarantee you that when the PM of Romania said that, Trump was fuming because, in his mind, they never discussed it. It’s not even that he forgot — he just dismissed the conversation from his mind as unimportant.

  50. 50.

    JPL

    @Adam L Silverman: What are your thoughts on Tillerson’s and the president’s views on the situation in Qatar. I read that a whitehouse spokesmen said they are on the same page, but different parts of the same page.

  52. 52.

    Adam L Silverman

    @JPL: They’re not on the same page. Moreover, someone needs to explain to the President, just so it is noted and on record, that blockades are considered an act of war. So taking credit for the creation of a blockade of a statutory ally that is pushing that ally into the orbit of Iran and where he have the regional headquarters for our most active Geographic Combatant Commands while we’re trying to prosecute a war in the region from that base is NOT a good idea.

  53. 53.

    Corner Stone

    @JPL: Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Russia and possibly India are all on Qatar’s side.
    Anyone heard from NoKo on this issue yet?

  54. 54.

    hovercraft

    @Adam L Silverman:
    @Mnemosyne:
    I always knew he was a bumbling dangerous idiot, but as low as my expectations were he manages to be so much worse than I thought he could be. Between this embarrassment and the discordant messages to Qatar today, he really is going to get people killed.

  55. 55.

    JPL

    @Adam L Silverman: General Mattis was with him yesterday, when he watched the Comey hearings. I can’t imagine that it wasn’t mentioned, and whatever was said, didn’t help.

  56. 56.

    Corner Stone

    @Adam L Silverman: Gotta pop those collars harder. And add some vocalizations that make me think about my first wife nagging me about taking the trash out.

  60. 60.

    efgoldman

    @hovercraft:

    did his mind wander and he doesn’t know or remember, did he forget they just talked about it, or is he lying, and does he know he’s lying? I’m serious does he believe his own lies?

    Yes

    SATSQ

  61. 61.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Felonius Monk:

    You are probably too young to remember Congressman Wilbur Mills (D-Arkansas):

    Not I. (“Ah yes, I remember it well.”)

  62. 62.

    germy

    Newsweek :

    By the time Michael Flynn was fired as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser in February, he had made a lot of bad decisions. One was taking money from the Russians (and failing to disclose it); another was taking money under the table from the Turks. But an overlooked line in his financial disclosure form, which he was forced to amend to detail those foreign payments, reveals he was also involved in one of the most audacious—and some say harebrained—schemes in recent memory: a plan to build scores of U.S. nuclear power plants in the Middle East. As a safety measure.

  63. 63.

    ThresherK

    @Adam L Silverman: Don’t tell the Massachusetts Wilmerites, or they’ll build a tiny PureProgressive to primary her.

    (I’m kidding. Well, kidding about them primarying an action figure.)

  64. 64.

    GregB

    I am back to thinking that, before he’d done, he’ll be responsible for more deaths than Bush Jr. and LBJ combined.

    He is the the right combinaion of ignorant and malignant.

  65. 65.

    TenguPhule

    @? ?? Goku (aka Junior G-Man) ? ?:

    As bad as Trumpov is, he isn’t competent enough to have people systematically murdered

    So Comey’s “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest” reference not raise any eyebrows?

    Did Trump ever accuse Obama of operating death squads?

  67. 67.

    TenguPhule

    @Adam L Silverman:

    So taking credit for the creation of a blockade of a statutory ally that is pushing that ally into the orbit of Iran and where he have the regional headquarters for our most active Geographic Combatant Commands while we’re trying to prosecute a war in the region from that base is NOT a good idea.

    Obviously I am going to need two drinks hard enough to bounce a quarter off of today.

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Corner Stone: Well the good news is we’ve gotten both Pakistan and India to agree on something. On the other hand we’ve now expanded the various Saudi-Iranian-Turkish proxy wars in the Middle East and Central Asia to include at least one and maybe two nuclear weapon states. Yipeee!

  69. 69.

    TenguPhule

    @germy:

    a plan to build scores of U.S. nuclear power plants in the Middle East. As a safety measure.

    And this was not from the Onion.

    Right then, THREE drinks.

  70. 70.

    hovercraft

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    According to ZEGS and co. for a good while yet. The poor man is new to the job and unfamiliar with the ways of DC, so we need to cut j=him some slack. He also provides a useful distraction for us and the media so that they can pass their Dickensian legislation while no ones paying attention

  71. 71.

    efgoldman

    @Adam L Silverman:

    someone needs to explain to the President, just so it is noted and on record, that blockades are considered an act of war. So taking credit for the creation of a blockade of a statutory ally that is pushing that ally into the orbit of Iran

    And he’d understand that about as well as my granddaughter can understand PhD level astrophysics.
    He’d have to go to school for ten years to rise to the level of “dunce”

  73. 73.

    Quinerly

    @Felonius Monk:
    Now you are making me feel old. Remember Fannie well….she was pre Fawn in DC scandals. As I recall Mills was Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee…one of the most powerful men in DC….and a notorious alcoholic.

    .

  74. 74.

    TenguPhule

    @efgoldman:

    And he’d understand that about as well as my granddaughter can understand PhD level astrophysics.

    If she just understands that light moves very very fast, your granddaughter has a greater understanding of astrophysics then Trump does of Acts of War.

  75. 75.

    japa21

    @hovercraft: I wonder why some member of the media didn’t ask him why he felt Obama wasn’t qualified to be President because he didn’t have enough government experience behind him, but Trump is. Also, I knew all about the lines of communication, FBI independence etc. when I was in HS. Ryan really is dumb.

  76. 76.

    rikyrah

    THE EVERLOVING PHUCK??????

    Trump Can Accept Payments From Foreign Governments, U.S. Argues
    June 9, 2017, 6:56 PM EDT

    Donald Trump isn’t violating a U.S. Constitution provision that bars federal officials from accepting payments and gifts from foreign governments without congressional approval, Justice Department lawyers argued.

    The foreign emoluments clause doesn’t apply to fair-market commercial transactions, such as hotel bills, golf club fees, licensing payments and office rent, the government argued in a brief asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by a watchdog group, which claims Trump’s business dealings violate the Constitution. If accepted by the court, the argument would eliminate a major legal obstacle blocking Trump’s businesses from keeping money from foreign officials and companies owned by foreign governments.

    Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, sued Trump within days of his inauguration in January, claiming foreign officials are doing business with Trump properties as a way to curry favor with the president. The group is seeking an order from U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams in Manhattan that Trump is in violation of the foreign emoluments clause and the domestic emoluments clause, which specifically bars presidents from taking payments from federal or state officials.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-09/trump-can-accept-payments-from-foreign-governments-u-s-argues?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

  78. 78.

    TenguPhule

    @rikyrah:

    The foreign emoluments clause doesn’t apply to fair-market commercial transactions

    I smell another Bush v Gore moment at the Supreme Court.

    “This decision only applies this one time and may not be used as any kind of precedent ever again”

  86. 86.

    rikyrah

    Marc Caputo‏Verified account @MarcACaputo

    President Trump will be in Miami next Friday to announce new Cuba policy, hammered out w/Rubio & Diaz-Balart

  90. 90.

    TenguPhule

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Such a relief not to have a big Friday night news dump, only the usual horrors of the week.

    Perhaps the IC took a moment to think about Trump’s Qatar fuckup and decided they just couldn’t top it this week.

  92. 92.

    TenguPhule

    @rikyrah:

    Trump will be in Miami next Friday to announce new Cuba policy, hammered out w/Rubio & Diaz-Balart

    What could possibly go wrong?

    I’m gonna need a bigger glass next week it seems.

  93. 93.

    TriassicSands

    A question that comes up fairly often in conversations with friends and family is —

    >How aware is Trump of everything that’s going on in the world around him?
    >Does he have any idea how much he is hated by so many people?
    >Is he at all aware that he embarrasses the country with his tweets and gross behavior in public?
    >How much do his aides tell him and allow him to see? Obviously, they can’t stop him from watching cable news. But he’s not getting any idea from that of what people think of him and what he’s doing.
    >Also, no one here a BJ thinks Trump has any idea what is in the AHCA but does he really think it is good or even mediocre coverage or does he believe that the CBO is just making stuff up to make him look bad? (That seems likely.)

    It’s very hard for me to imagine what goes on inside Trump’s head because it is so alien to me. Given that he’s very unhealthy mentally and may be succumbing to dementia unless you interacted with him on a regular basis I think opinions about answers to those questions are really just guesses.

  94. 94.

    sukabi

    @Cheryl Rofer: the night’s still young. I fully expect an epic tweetpocolyspe before morning which will counter any “positive” messaging that was put out today…

  95. 95.

    TenguPhule

    @Emma: I promised to be a more positive person here if Labour managed to hang the Conservatives in the UK.

    They did.

    So now its positive thoughts. Even if I have to get them from alcohol.

    ETA: F-AUTO CORRECT!! Recognize King’s English damnit!!

  98. 98.

    efgoldman

    @TenguPhule:

    Perhaps the IC took a moment to think about Trump’s Qatar fuckup and decided they just couldn’t top it this week.

    Did I miss it, or has he failed to congratulate May on “a yooooge win”?

  100. 100.

    efgoldman

    @Adam L Silverman:

    They oiled the hinges in his neck this morning.

    Every time I see a picture of him now, he looks more and more like a figure out of Mme Tussaud’s.
    And not a very good one.

  106. 106.

    hovercraft

    @Adam L Silverman:
    So what you’re saying is that I really need to start drinking again? I was trying to save my liver, but at this point I’m not really going to need it that much longer?

  111. 111.

    eclare

    @germy: Wait, what? We have strict controls over nuclear power plants, I used to work for a public utility that had nuclear plants, and it gave me job security that US law prevented a foreign country from owning them, therefore the company I worked for.

  114. 114.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Steeplejack: Now you show up. Where were you earlier today when I was making revisions to something for work and couldn’t have used your input?

  115. 115.

    Adam L Silverman

    @eclare: Do not bother LTG (ret) Flynn with pesky details like Federal law or regulations or policies or guidelines. Those are for lesser mortals.

  117. 117.

    Corner Stone

    Where were you earlier today when I was making revisions to something for work and couldn’t have used your input?

    Keeping this!

  119. 119.

    Peale

    @Adam L Silverman: I’m still wondering where we are going to house that 600 ship navy that we are going to then charge our allies protection money for if we have managed to piss off all of our allies so much that they won’t let us into their ports after they close our bases.

  122. 122.

    hovercraft

    @TenguPhule: @rikyrah:
    I suspect that this one would be too sordid even for them, Bush vs Gore was a chance to solidify their wing of the SC and to pack lower courts with conservatives. This would benefit only Twitler and his vampire family, I could even see Alito ruling against him on this. That’s probably wishful thunking on my part, but Roberts likes to do things to preserve the “dignity” of the court and ruling that it’s okay for the president to accept bribes would be unseemly. If Gorsuck voted against him, he might try to fire him, and then have a stroke when they explained to him that he can’t.

  123. 123.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Corner Stone: I wanted to see if anyone picked up on the couldn’t instead of could. Well done. You get one free “get my comment out of the trash folder because WP put it there and no one knows why”. Contact Alain to redeem your prize.

  124. 124.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Apparently. My Mom is convinced he has an undiagnosed brain tumor that is negatively impacting his behavior. I just think he’s nuts, angry, and vindictive.

  125. 125.

    Chet Murthy

    @Wapiti: True story. At age 21, I’m visiting an art museum in Montreal with my grad school classmates on fall break. I need to visit the loo, so I duck down some nearby stairs, hoping that they’ll lead me to paydirt. There’s a woman at the bottom of the stairs — obviously a security guard.

    GUARD:
    ME: I’m sorry, I’m from the USA, and I can only understand English.
    GUARD: I WAS speaking English to you.

    HA!

  127. 127.

    hovercraft

    @rikyrah:
    I read something about this being a payoff for Lil Marco going after Comey yesterday. I guess Marco does put out after one dinner.

  129. 129.

    Corner Stone

    @Adam L Silverman: I’m not some pathetic pedant clown show like others that swirl around here, bottom feeding, keeping score by there their’s and you’re yours.
    Take your Monopoly Money and go stuff, you flat footed freak.

  136. 136.

    Adam L Silverman

    @amk: After Bobby Three Sticks finishes squeezing everyone else on his way up the food chain.

  137. 137.

    hovercraft

    @sukabi:
    Ten bucks on Sunday morning, “the shows” will all be focused on the Comey testimony, which may be why we haven’t had a new dump tonight, they want the focus to be on Comey, get him as much exposure as possible. Twitler will not be able to restrain himself, even if he sends out his minions, it won’t help, their bullshit is so weak that even the likes of Chuck frigging Todd are calling bullshit.

  141. 141.

    hovercraft

    @Adam L Silverman:
    “Apparently. My Mom is convinced he has an undiagnosed brain tumor that is negatively impacting his behavior. I just think he’s nuts, angry, and vindictive.”

    That would be the slowest acting tumor in history, he’s been off his rocker for decades, his targets change but his nonsense is consistent. Mad hatter, pure and simple, malicious, petty, mean, ignorant, I could go on.

  144. 144.

    sukabi

    @hovercraft: you’re probably right on keeping Comey’s testimony alive for the weekend shows…still not going to keep Drumpf from tweeting himself into a deeper hole, probably in an attempt to change the subject..

  145. 145.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Adam L Silverman: Speaking of Bobby Three Sticks, something I’ve been wondering about: is Mueller obligated, by law not his good conscience or some such , to make criminal referrals if he finds stuff unrelated to trump/Russia? I”m thinking of financing shenanigans in the trump or kushner companies. Would he refer those back to the Sessions Justice Department? and “referral” essentially that he would be recommending prosecution. Do I have that right?

  146. 146.

    hovercraft

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Oops, well that one’s moving slowly too. He’s been off his rocker since the Blah man fired him. Him the great General fire by a man with no military service! Which is why he signed up to support and work with……… oh, well never mind.

  147. 147.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes. Any crimes discovered will be referred for prosecution. And remember as the Special Prosecutor he will have his own team of prosecutors. This is why the President and so many of they people around him are wrapped tightly around the axle right now. They don’t know where this will go or who it will ensnare.

  152. 152.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @sukabi: Trump already managed to undercut Tillerson on Qatar and guaranteed that the conflict will continue. Maybe he will denounce Tillerson tomorrow morning. Or maybe something none of us have even thought of!

  155. 155.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @Corner Stone: I halfway saw a quote floating around on Twitter today about the precautions some of Nixon’s staff took. I just hope that the appropriate people in the military have been giving this some hard thought. I remain convinced that Mattis, and possibly McMaster, signed on for the purpose of dealing with the briefcase.

  158. 158.

    Corner Stone

    @Cheryl Rofer: My son and I had this conversation recently. Obviously, I would never be in the chain of command because I would never launch. But he asked me what I would do, if given the order.
    It scares the shit out of me that a 12 year old has thought more, and more significantly, about this than our current POTUS.

  159. 159.

    TenguPhule

    @Adam L Silverman:

    My Mom is convinced he has an undiagnosed brain tumor that is negatively impacting his behavior. I just think he’s nuts, angry, and vindictive.

    How would you be able to tell the difference?

  162. 162.

    J R in WV

    @rikyrah:

    CREW should ask the judge to find that the DOJ has no standing to be involved with this issue, that Trump needs a private lawyer to argue his case. Fuck that shit!!! The DOJ is NOT Mr Trump’s lawyer, they are the nation’s lawyers.

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