Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Fight them, without becoming them!

White supremacy is terrorism.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Republicans in disarray!

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

The words do not have to be perfect.

When I was faster i was always behind.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

So many bastards, so little time.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

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

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

You are here: Home / Open Threads / And Grass is Green and Sky is Blue

And Grass is Green and Sky is Blue

by | 25 Comments

This post is in: , ,

They just now figured this out?

…the warped topography of Trumplandia.

It’s a reputation-savaging place. Ask Rod Rosenstein for sure. Herbert McMaster, too. Also James Mattis. Sean Spicer. Reince Priebus. Rex Tillerson. Dan Coats. All have been under pressure, undercut or contradicted. They’ve been asked to pledge their fidelity to — even proclaim their adoration for — a man who adores only himself.

Here’s hoping he takes down the entire GOP as he sinks to that’s magical 27%. FSM willing.

Reader Interactions

25Comments

  2. 2.

    seaboogie

    Frank Bruni. Why the NYT is ceding credibility and losing subscribers every day. Also why I subscribe to WAPO, especially now that Cilizza is gone.

  3. 3.

    efgoldman

    @seaboogie:

    Frank Bruni. Why the NYT is ceding credibility and losing subscribers every day.

    Yeah, he said that in a twittle. Did they actually print it in the paper (dead tree or web)?

    Fuckem

  6. 6.

    efgoldman

    @Quinerly:

    NBC has problems with the new and very expensive hire

    Well, since she’s been totally destroyed in the ratings by 60 Minutes, which only old people watch outside of football season, yeah, they have a problem/
    They’d probably do better renting classic movies from TCM

  7. 7.

    ruemara

    @Morzer: A wealthy powerful man beloved by America who for years has been portrayed as an icon people are having trouble convicting for decades of rape and sexual abuse against a bunch of vicious, conniving females? You don’t say.

  8. 8.

    sdhays

    @Peale: Yeah. I suppose you could say Sean Spicer’s reputation is worse now (because now he’s famous for being pathetic and stupid), but did he really have much of a reputation before? And Reince didn’t bathe himself in glory as head of the RNC. I think McMaster definitely had an actual earned reputation which has been damaged, but I think he may have gone in knowing that would happen and decided he needed to limit the damage to the nation (not sure how successful he’s being; we only know about his failures so far).

  9. 9.

    Oatler.

    I’d like to see “King MIdas In Reverse” hit the charts again (though IHeartradio would squash it).

  11. 11.

    Morzer

    @efgoldman:

    The Fox News rabble hate her for murdering Cuddly Uncle Roger and betraying Agent Orange; decent people hate her for being a lying racist hatemonger. All of which leaves her with David Brooks, Andrew Sullivan and the people who think that Joe Scar is an impartial journalist.

  12. 12.

    Morzer

    @ruemara:

    I am still recovering from reading the article that solemnly assured me that Bill Cosby really was and is Dr. Huxtable, who, of course, would never do such terrible things.

  14. 14.

    sdhays

    @Quinerly: If their gamble fails as spectacularly as it seems to be, I wonder if it will cause anyone to consider that maybe Andrew Lack is a total moron and shouldn’t be getting paid to run NBC News into the ground…

  18. 18.

    Morzer

    @EBT:

    I fear so. I have a bad feeling that they are taking their time to make it look as if they exhausted the evidence before acquitting him.

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    And Grass is Green and Sky is Blue

    There you go, dragging reality and science into the room.

  22. 22.

    Aleta

    When will we actually know if Trump is, indeed, under investigation by Mueller? Two events could trigger a public announcement. … Given Rosenstein’s role in Comey’s dismissal, he may end up being a witness in any obstruction investigation and would therefore have to recuse himself from that part of the inquiry, a fact that would likely be made public. …

    A second sign that Trump himself is under investigation would be if Mueller begins to interview witnesses who can corroborate Comey’s testimony and then the interviews, or subpoenas associated with them, become public. The day after Comey testified, Senator Dianne Feinstein sent a letter to Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asking the committee to investigate whether Trump obstructed justice. She listed five witnesses who could help confirm Comey’s account of the Oval Office meeting (Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the F.B.I.; Jim Rybicki, Comey’s chief of staff; James Baker, Comey’s general counsel; David Bowditch, the associate deputy director of the F.B.I.; and Carl Ghattas, an official in the National Security Branch of the F.B.I.). These are all allies of Comey, but Trump’s closest allies may also be important witnesses, including his son Donald Trump, Jr., who, in an interview on Fox News on Sunday, seemed to confirm Comey’s version of events. (There is no parent-child privilege in federal law, so Trump’s sons, as well as his daughter Ivanka, could be called to testify in front of a grand jury about their conversations with their father.)

    It’s probably not a matter of if Trump will be personally investigated; it’s a matter of when. “There is no doubt in my mind that Mueller will investigate that,” a former federal prosecutor who served in the Obama Administration said. “Trump claims total vindication, and the thing that he was claiming vindication about was that he was not the target of a criminal investigation. But now he is—or imminently will be.”

    Ryan Lizza in New Yorker

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    Never much cared for his writing but he’s now shot way up on the reputation chart for me.

    Horror author Stephen King says his frequent criticism of President Donald Trump has gotten him blocked on Twitter.

    The author of “Firestarter” and “It” tweeted Tuesday the Republican president has blocked him on the social media website. He says, “I may have to kill myself.”

    …He called Trump “an impulsive, bad-tempered idiot.” Source

  24. 24.

    JGabriel

    TaMara @ Top:

    Here’s hoping [Trump] takes down the entire GOP as he sinks to that’s magical 27%.

    Or lower. Let’s not forget that both Nixon and Bush fils sunk to 23% at their respective nadirs – four percent below The Crazification Factor.

    I’m assuming Trump will manage to poll even lower before he’s gone.

Comments are closed.