Wow. Michael Caputo says he can no longer pay for kids' college bc of legal fees (Trumps' are covered by campaign)https://t.co/ygAT6dce6J pic.twitter.com/xvK0P12Wlj
— Matt Mittenthal (@mattmittenthal) July 17, 2017
The Clintons helped cover WH aides' legal bills, will the billionaire president not do same? https://t.co/FgfRpdY4bU https://t.co/0vj3t7pI1n
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) July 18, 2017
From the AP:
As the government’s Russia investigations heat up, a growing cast of lawyers is signing up to defend President Donald Trump and his associates. But the interests of those lawyers — and their clients — don’t always align, adding a new layer of drama and suspicion in a White House already rife with internal rivalries.
Trump himself has both an outside legal team and a new in-house special counsel, Ty Cobb, for Russia-related matters. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, who is also Trump’s son-in-law, has a pair of high-powered attorneys working for him. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., recently hired his own lawyer. And former campaign aides who expect to be caught up in the expanding probes are also shopping for representation — and dealing with sticker-shock over the price tags.
The result is a crowded group of high-priced attorneys bent on defending their own clients, even if it means elbowing those clients’ colleagues…
In Trump’s inner circle, a group long split into factions, the potential for fueling other officials’ legal difficulties could be high.
It’s all going to get even more complicated as both Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and three separate congressional probes gather steam. Kushner is expected to talk to the Senate intelligence committee soon, and Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley wants to summon Trump Jr. for testimony…The Trump presidential campaign has spent almost $1 million on legal fees since the beginning of the year, according to a campaign finance report filed Saturday with the Federal Election Commission. That includes a $50,000 charge for the law firm of Alan Futerfas, who is representing Trump Jr. The payment was made nearly two weeks before news reports about the younger Trump’s Russia meeting.
Several former campaign advisers who expect to have to testify before Congress are also hiring lawyers, but they’re picking up the cost themselves. The House intelligence committee had planned to interview longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone and campaign digital director Brad Parscale before the August recess, but both interviews have been delayed…
Before anyone decides to start a GoFundMe for Mr. Caputo, this was just last week:
Thank you to former campaign adviser Michael Caputo for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2017
This would be the Michael Caputo who used to live in Russia and had a contract to promote Putin's image in the USA? Well, I'm convinced then https://t.co/2LuQZkJPgD
— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) July 16, 2017
Interesting fact: Caputo left the campaign the same month as the Don Jr.-Russian lawyer meeting. https://t.co/pFsxuBDZQU
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 16, 2017
He left bc of celebrating Lewandowski’s sacking, which is probably a much more significant staff change in that period. https://t.co/Zf97XFMc6x
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 16, 2017
lollipopguild
SAD!
Quinerly
OT? Breaks my heart: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/342462-poll-clinton-more-unpopular-than-trump
Amaranthine RBG
Here are some gems from Caputo’s wikipedia:
Caputo gained admiration for Ronald Reagan during his military service after the president signed legislation giving him a pay raise of ten percent on his Army pay, and at that point decided he would side with the Republican party.[2]
Yes, because nothing says you value small government like getting a pay raise from the government.
While working in Russia in the 1990s, Caputo met a Russian student studying astrophysics and they were married.[2][3] Caputo became a Catholic in 2000, and this religious change helped him find peace.[2] While advising in Kiev, Ukraine in 2007, Caputo connected with a woman who would become his second wife, named Maryna Ponomarenko
Marries woman, gets Catholic, finds peace, [step omitted], finds new wife.
Yarrow
@Quinerly: Why is anyone even wasting time polling that? Hillary’s not running for anything. It’s stupid.
gene108
I don’t want to get too excited…
Until people start going to jail and Republicans get crushed electorally.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Quinerly: My god, Trump is still running against Hillary lol
The other part of this shows; there is no point in the High Road when the mudsling start. People will just assume bothsides are just bad no matter what is really happening so one mine as well fight back..
schrodingers_cat
The more T’s agenda flails, he goes after immigrants with a gusto, my prediction is that the DACA kids are next. Rounding up and deporting people with no criminal records is what he has been doing. Kelly is implementing this agenda with ruthless efficiency.
A Ghost to Most
Throw in failure to pay, and this could be epic.
Droppy
These people really do eat their own. It is the thing which will save us – they carry the seeds of their own destruction.
Mike in NC
Somebody ought to start a GoFuckYou for Caputo.
GxB
Yeah, that whole “choices have consequences” thing is a real bitch, ain’t it? You’re one of the very few “elite” true believers to actually experience it. Hope this sets a trend.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Yarrow: With the media, the Clintons(especially Hillary) is always running for something. They’ll only stop thinking that when she’s dead, and probably not even then.
Redshift
Via Joy Reid, an interesting excerpt from a new PPP poll illustrating how impenetrable the wingnut bubble is, and how anyone who thinks the way forward for Dems is to try to “appeal” to them is delusional.
Example: only 45% of Trump voters believe Trump Jr. met with Russians about oppo research, even though he has publicly admitted to it.
Major Major Major Major
@Yarrow: Agreed. We shouldn’t waste time reacting to it either.
@Redshift: Something like 60% of indies and 80% of Dems believe the meeting took place, which is… very low.
khead
The Atlanta Falcons were up 28-3 halfway through the third quarter of the Super Bowl. That’s pretty impressive by any standard.
Eric U.
@schrodingers_cat: I always thought that Obama’s bid to push through immigration reform by first cracking down on undocumented immigrants was a losing plan. The contrast between the two administrations looks pretty stark from here, but a lot of immigrants didn’t see it that way before the election. And I’m not sure they see the difference now.
I know trump is having trouble getting people to work for him, but it looks like a much worse idea than anyone thought
Jeffro
Since the country has already been through the wringer with this clown and his gang of Keystone Krooks, with much more ‘wringer’ to come, we ought to at least get to enjoy the spectacle as they all try to pin treason on the OTHER guy…it’s going to be glorious. Especially with lawyers involved.
It’s like a Pats/Cowboys game: rooting for injuries times elebenty!!
Iowa Old Lady
@Quinerly: She will enjoy her life and Trump will go down in disgrace.
MJS
@A Ghost to Most: “I hate to bring this up, but there is the small matter of my fee.” “Quite right. Now, where is my Secretary of the Treasury and the checkbook?”
Major Major Major Major
@Mike in NC: Now there’s an idea! A website where after a certain amount is pledged, a (legal) harassment campaign begins. Like mailing him glitter every day for a year.
WTF
@Quinerly:
The Trumpian mindset and worldview: Hillary Lost.
If she had been captured and imprisoned her numbers would even be worse.
schrodingers_cat
@Eric U.: Obama won the naturalized citizens’ vote by huge margins, both times he ran. Immigrants get it.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Quinerly: Some perspective.
Given that Clinton will never run for president again, this poll is fucking meaningless.
Quinerly
@Yarrow:
I get your point. Still disturbing.
JMG
About all Trump has to offer his voters is their belief that as bad as things are, Hillary would’ve made their lives worse. How? By being a woman in power.
WaterGirl
@Quinerly: That article is still slanted toward Trump. They are within 2 or 3 points of each other, for them to tout that Trump is more popular than Clinton is bullshit.
SFAW
@Redshift:
But but but … I read something today, in The Atlantic by Noted Liberal Franklin Foer telling me that until the Dems can appeal to the white working class, then something something something. So YOU are obliviously worng!
Libtard.
Redshift
@Quinerly: That’s one poll. Alternatively, PPP has:
Redshift
@SFAW:
And proud of it! LOL
SFAW
@Quinerly:
Just demonstrates the MSM’s demonizing of Hitlary is the gift that keeps on giving.
Quinerly
@Iowa Old Lady:
Yes, that’s what I hope. I get that the poll really accomplishes nothing but I have to say it startled me.
Quinerly
@Redshift:
Well, that made me feel a bit better.
Baud
@Quinerly: It’s depressing, but not unexpected. People aren’t going to blame themselves for what they did when there’s a societally acceptable scapegoat.
debbie
@Redshift:
They’re not impenetrable; they’re flat-out stupid.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@WaterGirl: Also, too.
Quinerly
@WaterGirl:
The Hill can be very slanted. .depends on who writes the piece. I still find it disturbing after all that has happened in the last six months that a poll could be so close. Trump’s people ain’t changing. It seems the “double haters” ain’t changing.
Baud
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Baud! is gaining!
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Redshift:
I’ve decided for my own sanity and bliss to not hope for Trump voters to discover their own stupidity. Oh, sure, some Trump voters regret their vote, maybe even publicly admit it — but the majority could watch Trump filet a newborn, eat its heart, and would argue Trump had done nothing wrong.
WaterGirl
@Redshift: How are you doing today?
Major Major Major Major
@Quinerly: Somebody here once described The Hill as “Politico for people who can’t spell”, which has stuck with me.
SFAW
@WaterGirl:
No, the problem is that it’s even close.
Cyril Kornbluth seemed to have predicted the 2016 US electorate.
Quinerly
@Baud:
In better news, your running mate for 2020 is all packed for his 10 day exploratory sniff around Carteret County, NC. Poco is well known in those parts. He’ll report back after he goosed some chicks and licked some babies.?
WaterGirl
@Quinerly: I don’t actually care about Trump’s people. I care more that even the Hill is slanting its coverage for Trump. Grrr. (not directed at you.)
SFAW
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
Actually, they’d argue that the newborn must have done something REALLY TERRIBLE to have merited a punishment like that.
Quinerly
@SFAW:
Yes, that’s the problem. And anyone who doesn’t see it as a problem is in denial.
WaterGirl
@West of the Rockies (been a while): I mean, really, who wouldn’t eat a newborn? Hillary has probably already done it!
SiubhanDuinne
Haven’t looked at comments yet, so this has likely already been mentioned. But if not, wow and holy shit.
Quinerly
@Major Major Major Major:
Good one. Still, it was a Bloomberg poll.
Baud
@Quinerly: Awesome. Make sure he doesn’t confuse the chicks and babies. Don’t need an early scandal.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Major Major Major Major: I was quoting a Twitter user talking to Atrios there.
And as noted upthread , the same Bloomberg poll shows more people would have wanted her to win than Trump, so the meme is bullshit.
WaterGirl
@SFAW: I guess I have lowered my exceptions of Trump voters to such an extent that I wasn’t surprised to see that outcome in the poll.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@SFAW:
Who among us hasn’t devoured the heart of a newborn?!?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Quinerly:
Probably better than the other way around.
Quinerly
@SiubhanDuinne:
And with Putin’s translator. Glad to see someone else also reads “The Hill.” ?
Baud
The Hill seems very right-wing to me. Not Fox-level, but worse than the regular media.
Jeffro
Btw I know we all hate Chris Cillizza and rightfully so…but this is kind of funny: Trumpov’s Teetering on the Brink of Disaster
OUCH!
Go read it – go ahead, Chris will never know – just for the “Wallace and Gromit” GIF ;)
Yarrow
@Quinerly: I’d be more interested in Trump vs “Generic Dem” for 2020.
Major Major Major Major
@Jeffro: Surely you can find a way to link to a Wallace and Gromit gif without also linking to Chinchilla :P
Quinerly
@Baud:
I’m hoping we have put that sneaky piss incident behind us. The people at Grateful Pets haven’t brought it up in weeks. There was no tape…just witnesses.
Baud
@Quinerly: Good. Plausible deniability is key.
VeniceRiley
@SFAW:
Like … oh, had been brought to the US by foreign brown parents?
WaterGirl
@Quinerly: @SiubhanDuinne: From the article:
Nothing to see here, just one more breach of national security protocol. Lately, I can’t decide which is more likely to happen first: Is my head going to explode or am I am going to spontaneously combust?
Quinerly
@Yarrow:
Me too.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
I got the link from Digby. My bad for not giving her a h/t.
Yarrow
@Quinerly: Hope you have a great trip. Are you going to post some “Poco’s View’ photos? I enjoyed those from your trip out west earlier this year. He’s such a cutie.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Yes, that point struck me. Also the fact that nobody from the White House saw fit to fucking mention it until today.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Major Major Major Major: To be fair almost everyone here was in utter disbelief that Trump Jr was both dumb enough to do the meeting and then admit to it. when the story broke.
Yarrow
@WaterGirl: Neither. Because you’re going to hold on to watch his head explode when he gets carted away in handcuffs for treason. But first we’ll get to enjoy his family doing perp walks as well.
schrodingers_cat
@WaterGirl: IIRC Putin can speak English.
Keith P.
CNN reporting that Trump had additional private dinner meeting with Vladimir Putin, but with none of his staff…just Trump, Putin, and a Russian translator. It makes me wonder who were the other 5 Russians that were probably there.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
Infuriating. The right wing and media smeared her for 30 years and it paid off.
Major Major Major Major
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: I was surprised but only by the latter.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Quinerly: Keep in mind that these voters have been conditioned to hate the world “Clinton” since the 90s.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: okay, let’s go with that! :-)
Quinerly
@SiubhanDuinne:
Love Digby. Maybe we will be forgiven for our Hill links. She links to The Hill quite often in her pieces.?
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: That’s interesting to know. But I still wonder why Putin would have his interpreter there then, and we would not have one for the US as well. Besides the fact that Trump is an idiot with no respect for the rule of law, I mean.
Jeffro
Looks like EJ Dionne has teamed up with Ornstein & Mann to write the book…(sob)…the book that I wanted to write: what we’re gonna need to do post-Trumpov.
I wonder what they call their Truth & Reconciliation commission? Probably something more original than “truth & reconciliation commission”…
Clever that they’re hustling to get a post-Trumpov book out by September…it’d be even more clever if some Dem politician took that ball and ran with it. 15 minutes of paid airtime (or a well-done YouTube video?) could get you pretty close to the 2020 Dem nomination these days…
Cheryl Rofer
Baud
@WaterGirl: An American interpreter might have been loyal to this country.
lamh36
Ohh
https://twitter.com/thejoshuablog/status/887403659348267008
WaterGirl
@Quinerly: I don’t mind The Hill links, I just mind that their article seems slanted.
OT, I am still feeding my kitties the wet diet of roast chicken thighs and pumpkin, and I am roasting the chicken for this week. I looked up and I see that all 4 of my guys – both kitties and both dogs – are staring at me to tell me that the chicken is ready. They are right, too, because my mom taught me to cook by smell. I guess I handed that down to the guys. Off to feed dinner…
trollhattan
@Baud:
It does, however, present gems like this:
Bwa-ha-ha-ha!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Major Major Major Major: Well I figured they would have some surrogates to do that actual talking – Trump’s Jr friend meets with this lawyer so if it comes out no one in the president’s immedate circle has direct knowlage of what was discussed so it can all be disavowed. Instead; show up to the meeting to expecting talk about treason after sending an email titled “Hey all, we just got an offer to comit treason. I hope the pay off is big because I really want to betray this country like Qisling did to Norway.”
Jeffro
@Keith P.: I’m trying to picture just how many torches and pitchforks would be awaiting President Hillary Clinton later this evening if she’d pulled something like that with, say, the same Chinese leader whose country was suspected of hacking our election (and not even winning a majority of votes to boot).
(Man, the IC is really going at it in real time, aren’t they? Sorry Trumpov, this ain’t beanbag anymore…)
gene108
@Eric U.:
Obama made the mistake of thinking the racists in Congress could be reasoned with. He thought, if he was super tough on immigration, they would realize the laws are being strictly enforced and that would get Obama their goodwill to have a comprehensive bill.
@schrodingers_cat:
Well, that’s why he got elected: To Deport all 11 million illegal aliens. He promised this. He didn’t make any distinctions etween those building lives here and those breaking laws, and neither do his voters; to them they are all criminal aliens.
The DACA kids need to get busy finding single American citizens to marry.
I think that’s the only way they can be guaranteed to stay here. Or return, if they are deported before their GC’s get processed.
Yarrow
@Cheryl Rofer: He wasn’t played by Putin. Trump works for Putin. He was reporting in. Six month performance review.
moops
At least most of the media is enjoying making hay and moving copy based on an actual scandal. I wouldn’t count on them being able to recognize actual scandals. The IC and Trump’s own incompetent short-bus WH staff keep making sure to throw softballs over the plate for them. Then there is ManBaby there to make everything worse.
I am actually pretty worried that Trump will manage to shut up for one month and the media will utterly loses interest and moves on to the next story. The IC will have to stay on target if Trump does not participate in his own scandalized sensation.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@WaterGirl: The slant’s borrowed from the Bloomberg article, which neglects that more respondents considered her more fit to be president.
Baud
@Yarrow:
Core competencies: None.
notoriousJRT
@schrodingers_cat:
They may “get it,” but do they turn out?
WaterGirl
@Baud: :: chuckling :: then sobbing because it may be funny but it’s also true.
gene108
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
To be fair to Quisling, he had a militarily superior occupying army in his country.
Trump just did it for the hell of it.
lamh36
Morzer
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/trump-jr-russia-meeting-irakly-ike-kaveladze
Follow the money and you’ll find all the dirt that Trump’s been hiding for decades.
schrodingers_cat
@WaterGirl: T’s base thinks that being monolingual is an asset.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jeffro: Looks like it’s coming on the 7th anniversary of me giving up the bottle and what would have been my dad’s 98th b-day. I pre-ordered it.
schrodingers_cat
@notoriousJRT: I speak of the people that actually voted, so they did get it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That all depends on who hired him or her.
Ladyraxterinok
Didn’t GOP have a major fit if 1) they didn’t have complete access to the Obama WH log listing every visitor, their purpose, and how long they stayed?? 2) There wasn’t 24/7 monitoring of every official Obama trip??
moops
The media can barely manage to give appropriate coverage to health care. One actual domestic terrorist attack and all of this might flow away. The media rally behind the President, the WH finally learns how to trade “access” for fawning coverage, antagonistic media are labeled traitors, etc.
where “access” means just printing what the WH hands you. You know, the “surrogates” Kushner was asking for earlier this week.
Major Major Major Major
@Eric U.: @schrodingers_cat: Immigration policy also is not the primary policy concern for most voters, immigrants or not.
bemused
@Jeffro:
Great! Three excellent authors.
Jeffro
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You too on the pre-order? Let’s both of us crack an ice-cold ginger ale and…what’s that word, Peggy Noonan? Ah yes: SAVOR.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat:
He speaks German fluently. I don’t know how much English he knows. I never heard he was fluent in English.
Quinerly
@lamh36:
I don’t know if it really makes much difference but I have to assume Secret Service was in the room during this meeting. To me, this SECRET one hour long meeting with Putin and Putin’s translator is a really big deal. The Dems need to refer to it for what it was…A SECRET MEETING with someone who interfered with our election process.
PigDog
@Amaranthine RBG: I’ll just assume murder.
debbie
@lamh36:
Trump’s not going to be at all happy about a reporter from his favorite network walking out of the press conference.
Keith P.
@Ladyraxterinok: Hell, they had major fits when people on the WH Visitors Log shared the same damn name with someone controversial, and a lot of those times, it was with a different middle initial!
Cheryl Rofer
@zhena gogolia: Putin has been learning English and has spoken a bit of it in public. I recently read that he is getting more fluent. But best practice in diplomatic encounters is to use an interpreter for anything that isn’t one’s native language. Gives another viewpoint of what is said and time to compose what you’re going to say.
sm*t cl*de
@Keith P.:
So literally just a meeting of Putin and his employees, what’s the fuss?
Baud
Paying for the Wall just got easier
patrick II
@gene108:
Instead, the excuse I most heard, from McConnell especially, for not passing the immigration bill was that Obama couldn’t be trusted to enforce it.
Always that implicit, when not explicit, appeal to racism.
Miss Bianca
@SFAW: So, *that’s* where “Idiocracy” came from!
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
Google says he’s not comfortable speaking English.
SatanicPanic
@SiubhanDuinne: I was coming here to post this. Trump should resign to focus on his job as president of the Putin Fan Club.
Quinerly
OK, the meeting was held in full view of others present. I guess not that secret. MSNBC reporting.
debbie
@Baud:
I’d bet Mexico talking to China about a trade deal has helped the peso more than a little.
Baud
@Quinerly: That’s somewhat better. Who knows how much damage could do on his own?
Baud
@debbie: China has such an opportunity here.
p.a.
I’m not hoping for a circular firing squad. Too neat. Shovels, axe handles and hand tools are what this misadministration and its lawyers deserve.
japa21
@Quinerly: But could they hear what was being said?
Ohio Mom
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It probably isn’t at all true, but I have read that within every seven year period, all your molecules have turned over. I like it as a metaphor. Anyway, by this measure, you are well on your way to being sober on a molecular level.
Major Major Major Major
@p.a.: Don’t worry, they can’t shoot straight.
@Ohio Mom: I think your cells have all been replaced by then.
Quinerly
@Baud:
I have to admit, didn’t click on full stories. Just reading these snippets. MSNBC has pictures of the dinner with many attending. Trump left his seat to go be next to Putin…to talk for an hour.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Ohio Mom: Ship of Theseus
Frankensteinbeck
@moops:
It’s already happened. More than once. Trump has so badly stepped on his own dick that not only did he not rally support, you don’t even remember it occurred.
debbie
@Baud:
And they’re not likely to squander it either. America is being marginalized. Thanks, Trump!
Quinerly
@japa21:
No. It’s terrible. But I had it pictured as a meeting in a room with Trump, Putin, translator. This hour chat was in full view of the entire room. Wonder why it didn’t leak sooner? Bremmer wasn’t there. He was told it happened.
debbie
So much for stodgy Wimbledon.
Major Major Major Major
@debbie: Pulling out of TPP was great for China, too.
different-church-lady
TRUMP JR: “I’m sorry Dad, nothing could be dumber than my taking a secret meeting with Russian agents during the election.”
TRUMP SR: “Hold my 5 piece extra crispy bucket…”
Mnemosyne
@SFAW:
I like that Wikipedia points out the same problem with that story that I’ve pointed out with a lot of the “population panic” stories: male science fiction writers literally could not comprehend that women who were given a chance to control their own fertility would voluntarily choose to have one, two, or zero children all on their own. And yet, when the Pill was made widely available, that’s exactly what happened.
Revanchists have been trying to change that reality ever since.
trollhattan
In case anybody thinks congressional Republicans can’t get any stupider let me remind you they include Dana Rohrabacher, congress’ answer to Alex Jones.
SatanicPanic
@different-church-lady: eyew, he’s like, “hey man, anyone sitting here?” BARF
Quinerly
@different-church-lady:
Discussion being described as “animated” by those witnessing it. The other leaders being described as being “befuddled” by what was taking place in front of them. Watching Hardball. Philip Rucker WaPo reporting.
Quinerly
Schiff calling the hour after dinner discussion “a secret meeting.” He is just learning of it.
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
He can. Which probably means that the “translator” doubles as an intelligence operative.
Gvg
@different-church-lady: ahh, I see. The two outcasts sat next to each other. Still not ok.
Trump really isn’t a real politician because he can’t grasp that when you are suspected of being a Russian puppet, you shouldn’t change your parties positions to be too nice to that country now hang out with the suspicious leader. He doesn’t seem to understand he is acting like a traitor. Doesn’t understand this stuff matters.
Kenneth Kohl
As a western NY’er – fuck Caputo and Vacco. My BIL used to work with Vacco and despised the mf.
Mnemosyne
@WaterGirl:
In case nobody has said this yet, check with your vet and see if you need to add vitamin or other supplements to your homemade food. Sometimes there isn’t quite enough taurine and other things that kitties need for optimal health.
And make sure you include the organ meats like the heart and liver — them’s good eating for an obligate carnivore!
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike in NC:
What an ineffable snob, to say that his kids are “unlucky” because they’ll be forced to go to (gasp!) Community College. The poor dears. Not sure how they’ll manage to survive the humiliation.
Roger Moore
@Ohio Mom:
It isn’t literally true. Different parts of your body turn over at different rates. Your water, for example, turns over very quickly. Other molecules turn over very slowly, if at all. DNA turns over no faster than the cells it’s in, so the DNA in cells that don’t divide (like neurons in your brain) doesn’t turn over. Neither do the proteins in the lenses of your eyes.
WaterGirl
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Fair point. But aren’t these supposed to be journalists who can notice stuff like that?
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Didn’t he do that months ago?
Now its “round them up ANYWHERE if you don’t have papers and look foreign” as proposed by the Nazis.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Don’t know how fluent he is, but I guarangoddamntee that his English is a thousand times better than Trump’s Russian. I know about six words in Russian, and that’s probably more than DJT.
Mnemosyne
@Gvg:
It makes sense if you realize that Trump is exactly like his average voters, who voted for the racist to prove they’re not racists.
TenguPhule
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
I don’t care what people say, veal tastes like tender cardboard.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
Too bad she doesn’t take comments. Every now and then, there’s something I just itch to mention in response to one of her posts. But yeah, she’s always pretty solid.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@WaterGirl: If it contradicts the Prime Directive of “suck it libtards,” apparently not.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule:
That’s why I told the wife and kid to get a passport card when they renew their passports.
Gravenstone
@trollhattan: (D-Ca)? He ain’t one of ours.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
WOW! Makes me feel vicariously proud. John Roberts is Canadian, and my Canadian cousin hired him for his very first broadcasting job, at radio station CFOS in Owen Sound, ON, many decades ago.
I’ve always liked him as a reporter, and when I worked for the Canadian Consulate and he lived in Atlanta, we slotted him in as a luncheon speaker at the Atlanta Press Club. He was sharp and entertaining. A good guy, and I’m delighted to see he has some starchy spine underneath all the Canadian niceness.
ETA: He is a far cry from being a FOX true believer. I know that for a fact.
Quinerly
@SiubhanDuinne:
She writes for Salon, also. Think there is a comment section there.
Major Major Major Major
@Quinerly: Yeah but then you have to go to Salon, which is unusable as a website and, nowadays, mostly unreadable, too.
BruceFromOhio
Grilling some tandoori-spiced chicken, sipping a martini and enjoying the backyard on a spectacular summer evening while the two-bit soulless ratfuck criminals destroying my country cry the two-bit ratfuck blues.
For a breath, I tarry.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
Right you are. I honestly never bother with Salon, because she always cross-posts to her own blog.
Van Buren
Totally OT, but in the last few days, a 27 year old woman and a 12 year old boy have been killed in senseless and tragic accidents within a mile of my home.
Hug someone you love tonight.
BruceFromOhio
@Jeffro: That Wallace & Gromit gif is hilarious.
SiubhanDuinne
@moops:
I’m not. Only if he suffers a terrible accident that requires, simultaneously, a laryngectomy and amputation of all of his fingers.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Major Major Major Major: The unreadability was mainly a function of the execrable Daley run. Nowadays, it’s just there – I’ve only read Legum, Maloy & Marcotte on there since the year started, and since the first two left and I just follow Amanda & Digby on Twitter…
LesGS
@Gravenstone: Right. Rohrabacher is one of those rare (R-Ca)s. Someone needs a little copy-editing.
ETA. Actually it looks like they now have it correct at Raw Story.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ohio Mom:
I have long heard (and, I guess, believed) the same, that every seven years you have an entirely new physical body. I’m very close to acquiring my 11th body. I feel like Doctor Who.
ETA: I had originally phrased that as “I feel like fucking Doctor Who,” but because of the attractive ambiguity of the word “fuck” and its inflections, I realized I might be misunderstood.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: No he hasn’t yet gone after DACA recipients.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat: Are you sure, I swear there were articles about that happening anyway once INS decided that standards didn’t matter. Trump said he wasn’t going after them, but they were still being rounded up anyway.
Iowa Old Lady
@trollhattan: Oh god. That would be hilarious if this guy weren’t making decisions that affect us all.
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Depends on which Doctor, I suppose. ?
SiubhanDuinne
@trollhattan:
Rohrabacher is someone whose name, I think, may surface with some frequency as this whole Russia Thing unfolds. For instance, a couple of months ago (easy enough to look up the actual date), UKIP’s Nigel Farage visited the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and had a meeting with Julian Assange. About a week later, he was vacationing with Dana Rohrabacher and his son in California.
I have always had a hearty contempt for conspiracy theorists of any stripe, but I’m beginning to scratch my head, stroke my chin, and go “Hmmmmm….” quite a lot these days.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: No ICE hadn’t canceled the deportation orders of some South and Central American children who are now in the final stages of GC approval. So far DACA recipients have been safe from the sweeps but that program hangs by a thread now.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne: ???
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
In the leaked tape where Ryan was “joking” about which Republicans have Russian ties, Rohrabacher was cited by name.
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
I think (but am too lazy to Google) that a DACA recipient was arrested but promptly sued, and the courts have been on his side so far.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
I can’t help thinking of Tillerson. God knows I have no use for him, but relatively speaking he’s a scoche better than, well, just about anyone else in this maladministration.
At this point, he has been so humiliated on the world stage by the President* he serves, I’m about ready to put down serious money that he will be the first cabinet member to walk out.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
Yes! I remember that!
Coincidence?
Quinerly
@Major Major Major Major:
I pretty much quit on Salon after Joan Walsh left. Hit or miss now. Digby writes regularly there and my point was if you want to comment/take issue with her, I think there is a comment section.
SiubhanDuinne
@different-church-lady:
@SatanicPanic:
It’s probably not that important in the great scheme of things, but would be interesting to know the identities of those seated on either side of Trump at the dinner, before he abandoned them for his hour-long tête-à-tête with Putin.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Quinerly: I quit being a regular reader some time last April/May, when about three to five columnists jumped ship – it felt like I was witnessing the death of a publication.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
I will be disappoint if our own “translators” are not in the USA IC. Not that Trump of would use them, of course.
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s totally plausible that Rohrabacher really believes this shit about Mars. He’s a nut job.
Yes, I know I keep misspelling his name. I don’t care. ?
Quinerly
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
The Nation is pretty horrible now. Guess that’s where Walsh still is. She left Salon a year or so before the election. Mostly just follow her on MSNBC.
Edward Zaitz
I am, and I have worked for, disabled vets all my life and I couldn’t even afford to send my sons to community college. Only one managed a degree. He graduated with high honors and now works as a waiter. Fuck Caputo.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: Isn’t he from your fair state?
Procopius
@Yarrow: Hillary needs to be seen helping her friends retain control of the Democratic Party and preventing hippies from getting elected. Otherwise the money flow might start to get restricted.
Rasputin's Evil Twin
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Say, did I miss something here?