I'm in a little diner in the middle of PA ony way to visit ABC, and ACTION NEWS on the tv set tells me that Spicer has resigned and an internet troll is now running the WH comms shop. 
*** UPDATE ***
SWEET MOTHER OF GOD LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THIS FISH SANDWICH!
The butter knife is for reference. Apparently I am eating Moby Dick for lunch.
TriassicSands
SNL will have to sue.
eric
ask any lawyer and you will learn that for any business enterprise, the three most dangerous words in the english language are “disgruntled former employee”
Elizabelle
Whoever could have guessed that we would end up regarding Spicer as one of the (relatively) good ones.
Melissa McCarthy has a sad.
And maybe Pope Francis will give him an audience, and instruct him on the perils of moral turpitude. (Derpitude; it’s all the Trump administration provides.)
dmsilev
Who’s in charge of the semicolons?
Elizabelle
@eric: Please, may that be the case. “Disgruntled former employee.” With public relations skills, if not a reputation for veracity …
PaulWartenberg
FLY AWAY, SPICEY, BE FREE
LAO
eric
@Elizabelle: and who knows the name of every reporter in DC because that was his job…….and the two most dangerous words in DC: “anonymous source”….Spicer is a thermonuclear bomb
Cheryl Rofer
Spicer objected to the appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as director of communications. Trump appointed Scaramucci this morning, over Reince Priebus’s objections as well. Scaramucci is a financier but has been appearing on tv supporting Trump, which Trump likes. Not clear he knows anything about comms. Alumnus of Goldman Sachs.
Spicer has put up with a lot. Why does he object so strongly to Scaramucci?
low-tech cyclist
Like I’ve been saying, if the White House staff isn’t happy with their lot, nobody’s holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to stay.
Guess he’ll have to find new shrubbery to hide in. Ni!
Anonymous At Work
Wow. That’s a fish sandwich. But did they have to melt American “cheese” slices on it?
Tom Levenson
@dmsilev: The full colons are led by Mister Bannon.
Major Major Major Major
That’s a big fish sandwich.
Gin & Tonic
@LAO: Dingell is awesome on the Twitters.
eric
@low-tech cyclist: maybe not a gun to the their heads, but maybe polonium….
Yutsano
@Elizabelle:
Unfortunately lying for the Hairy Yam is going to make his credibility questionable. Spice Boy has a LOT to atone for here. Having said that, there is every possibility he knows where a LOT of bodies are buried. And has zero incentive not to talk.
EDIT: Goddammit JC Why you show me that when I’m hungry?
Tom Levenson
@Major Major Major Major: My guess? A pollock raised near the Plymouth nuclear plant outflows.
oatler.
Who had mid-July in the pool? Smart money was on August.
Yarrow
The CNN chyron says, “Source: Spicer is upset, but will help with transition.” LOL. Poor, sad Spicey.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Spice pulling the ejection cord is no surprise, it was clear he regreated taking the job from the first press conferance. The real question is is how big of an idiot is Scaramucci that he is willing to take a job with the Trump admin?
TriassicSands
@Elizabelle:
One of the “good” ones? Really? I would consider him just another dreadful Trump Cartel
member who got squeezd out by a boss who has no management skills at all. But that can’t elevate Spicer to be considered “good” by any reasonable definition of good.
The man is a serial liar…period!
Immanentize
“Sean? Some guy who is calling himself ‘Bobby Three Sticks’ is on the phone….”
Gin & Tonic
This administration is a well-oiled machine indeed.
opiejeanne
@Anonymous At Work: Cheese with fish is a big no-no, Yuck.
dmsilev
@Gin & Tonic:
Presumably in the alcoholic sense of ‘well-oiled’.
Immanentize
@Cheryl Rofer:
Now this is an excellent question.
Yarrow
Wonder how heavily he’s lawyering up?
Yarrow
That fish sandwich looks amazing.
TriassicSands
@Elizabelle:
Spicer can earn his “(relatively) good” status by becoming a rat and helping Mueller put Trump where he belongs. At a minimum that involves eviction from the White House, but prison would be more appropriate.
But the only way I could see that as a possibility would be if Spicer himself faces legal liability.
Bex
@dmsilev: You mean the half-assed?
dmsilev
@Yarrow: All of them, Katie.
MJS
@TriassicSands: Agreed. It is far more likely that Spicer becomes a paid contributor to a cable news channel, where he’ll continue to spout inanities, than he’ll flip on Trump. He knows his next full-time job is dependent on Republicans, and he won’t do anything to damage those prospects.
Elizabelle
@TriassicSands: It’s so damn relative. There are NO good ones in the Trump admin.
Can you think of one? I cannot. I only feel sorry for Spicer for having been denied a chance to meet the Pope. Otherwise, he is dreck too.
I’m curious: isn’t he in the military reserve? Does he face any peril for lying? Because he should.
Cheryl Rofer
Apparently it’s a slap to Bannon too.
Betty Cracker
Makes sense: an internet troll is president, so he should have an all-troll staff. Hope Spicer has several chapters of the tell-all book already written!
MomSense
Cheese on a fish sandwich???
schrodingers_cat
Is it necessary to bread and fry everything?
LAO
Joy Reid’s twitter game is savage — she is eviscerating Spicer.
MomSense
@Gin & Tonic:
He and Carl Reiner are the masters of twitter.
kindness
Trump Regime has a thing for internet trolls (& far-right radio nut cases). Wasn’t it just yesterday that TrumpCo nominated one to be head of the Science Department over at the Agriculture Dept? Yes, yes they did. Guess they are more compliant to the demands of putting forth fact free noise backing up ridiculous ideas.
henqiguai
@Tom Levenson(#12):
Okay, took me a couple of takes to remember the earlier comment. Aaand, okay, mind always seems to have a thread running in the gutter…
Otis Freeman
I love this place, it keeps me sane. I discovered it by googling after the election. Just have been meaning to post that as I rarely have posted. I was thinking last week about a couple things: people used to talk about the administration’s worst week so far. Even that seems passe now–it seems natural Standard Operating Procedure that each succeeding week is more worse than the one before it.
Also, I miss references to the term “shit show”. It’s a great, simple and concise descriptor.
The Fox and Friends post earlier made me laugh out loud.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: How be the doggies?
paper
what’s in his non-disclosure?
rikyrah
Nice sized sandwich. The tartar sauce looks good. I’d put some hot sauce on it too :)
Have a good trip, Cole :)
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Apparently I am eating Moby Dick for lunch.
Have you heard of tiny Melinda Mae,
Who ate a monstrous whale?
She thought she could,
She said she would,
So she started in right at the tail.
And everyone said, “You’re much too small,”
But that didn’t bother Melinda at all.
She took little bites and she chewed very slow,
Just like a good girl should…
…And in eighty-nine years she ate that whale
Because she said she would!
(Melinda Mae by Shel Silverstein)
Couldn’t resist this, especially because Shel Silverstein was just mentioned a thread or two ago.
Gelfling 545
@dmsilev: Please. They’re good Americans who don’t need no fancy, elitist punctuation.
Greg Ferguson
Cole, you are so much loved. Have a great vac.
GregB
Sean, history has looked kindly upon John Dean.
Take that wise advice.
bystander
@dmsilev:
…and if “machine” meets “automated dildo”.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Tom Levenson:
That was mean, Tom. Funny as hell, also, too.
Amaranthine RBG
@Immanentize:
Seems to me like Spicer is using the hiring as a pretext.
It has been clear for a long time that Spicer did not enjoy the job. And as Mueller plods along, the job is not going to get any more pleasant.
Also, there’s this from Wikipedia:
“Scaramuccia (literally “little skirmisher”), also known as Scaramouche or Scaramouch, is a stock clown character of the Italian commedia dell’arte. The role combined characteristics of the zanni (servant) and the Capitano (masked henchman). Usually attired in black Spanish dress and burlesquing a don, he was often beaten by Harlequin for his boasting and cowardice.”
d58826
@Cheryl Rofer: I saw on a bio of the guy that he has (wait for it drum roll please) links to a Russian mutual/hedge fund of some kind.
Did the US Gov’t outsource it’s HR dept to Moscow?
LAO
@GregB: Sean Spicer was (and probably still is) a true believer — he willing stood in front of the press on a daily basis and lied to us, the American People. You don’t wake up one morning and decide you are no longer a shit heel. IMO, there is no way he turns on the WH.
opiejeanne
@Otis Freeman: Hi there. Welcome to this… this… pack of snarling hyenas.
GregB
@MomSense:
Standard for almost every fish sandwich ordered in New England. Burger bun, fried haddock filet, American cheese slice, iceburg lettuce, tartar sauce. Sometimes a lemon slice.
Also, if you want to get some good out loud laughs, follow Richard Painter on Twitter.
For a stodgy old Republican, he’s seriously funny.
Jeffro
TWO THINGS:
1) Once upon a time, that fish sandwich would have looked pretty good to me…now? I start thinking, “can they do grilled fish tacos with some pico de gallo and crema instead?” Because not everything has to be fried, cheesed, and sauced, that’s why
2) Ben Wittes just tweeted “If Sean Spicer says he’s resigned…is that true?” He’s right, how would we be able to tell?
and because I can’t count…
3) Reince is next.
No Drought No More
I bet Spicer is thinking to himself today: “They didn’t indict Zeigler, why should they indict me”? I also guess that his ears perked up when he learned that his boss had been inquiring about his power to pardon, and it stunned him to hear about it for the first time. Stunned him into resigning, in fact.
El Caganer
@Betty Cracker: What a great Disney animated feature that was, Alt-Right and the Seven Trolls!
Cheryl Rofer
Here’s a partial answer to my question.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@d58826:
Yes.
This isn’t even snark for me anymore. I am completely convinced that Putin or his functionaries are telling Trump who to hire for what, or at the very least have major influence on those decisions.
I am also completely convinced that in those many off-the-record conversations with Putin, not only do American interests take a back seat, but they don’t even come up. I think those conversations are all “What can I do for you today, Vladimir?” And that money or blackmail is driving all of it.
A Ghost To Most
@Tom Levenson:
fixt
JPL
By the end of the day Trump will tweet, he let Spicer go.
Quinerly
@MomSense:
Big no-no in my parts.
MisterForkbeard
@Otis Freeman: I lurked here for YEARS before I started to comment in earnest around a year or two ago. This place really does help keep you on the level.
El Caganer
@henqiguai: Didn’t people make fun of Mitt Romney for saying, “I like to go to be with a full colon?” Or maybe it was “full tummy.” Whatever.
SiubhanDuinne
@dmsilev:
Someone half-assed, that I can tell you.
MattF
@LAO: I think if Trump makes a few good tweets about how Spicer is a loser– Sean will have a sad. And then, perhaps, in the middle of the night, a thought.
rikyrah
Trump makes an odd choice for White House communications director
07/21/17 10:04 AM—UPDATED 07/21/17 10:21 AM
By Steve Benen
If Scaramucci’s name sounds familiar, it’s probably because you’ve seen him on television several times, defending Trump in dubious ways. My personal favorite came in December on MSNBC, when Scaramucci, hoping to provide cover for Trump’s routine departures from the truth, said in all seriousness, “Don’t take him literally, take him symbolically. See, it’s different.”
Scaramucci, one of six Goldman Sachs veterans with prominent positions in the administration despite Trump using the finance giant as a campaign punching bag, was initially supposed to serve in the White House Office of Public Liaison – the president wanted him to be Team Trump’s “liaison” to the business community – but Chief of Staff Reince Priebus reportedly scuttled the move.
As for Scaramucci’s qualifications as a communications professional, he doesn’t seem to have any, never having worked in political communications aside from occasional television appearances on Trump’s behalf.
That, evidently, was enough to impress the president, who hasn’t taken qualifications too seriously anyway.
p.a.
No one escapes the Binks admin undamaged.
SiubhanDuinne
@opiejeanne:
I mostly agree, although now and then I find a nice tuna melt to be soothing.
Gravenstone
Always nice when the fish entree includes the entire fish.
schrodingers_cat
All that a good piece of fish needs is a dash of lime with some seasoning of course (cayenne, turmeric and kosher salt). If you want it crisp, dust lightly with rice flour.
TriassicSands
@Elizabelle:
I understand what you’re saying and in any other administration I’d agree with you that there are relatively better and worse people. But in the Trump Cartel Spicer’s role from the beginning was to lie for the president. And he did that with no apparent reluctance.
I don’t want to overstate my objection to what you wrote. I certainly don’t think you’ve said anything terrible, but I just can’t accept Spicer as being even relatively good given the role he’s played. He’s probably been waiting for a way to slither out the door, since his status within the cartel has slipped. But that will eventually happen to almost everyone who is trying to please a man like Trump, who can never fail, but is constantly failed by others. You can’t really please a man whose only measure of greatness is himself. Why would anyone willingly work for him? (Rhetorical.)
What is relatively good in the Trump administration? Is McMasters relatively good? On one level, I guess you’d have to say “yes,” since he’s nowhere near as incompetent as most of Trump’s appointees (He may be genuinely competent.). But the man is using his skills to help Trump. On balance, McMasters may be one of the few who can legitimately be called relatively good, since he may be offering us some protection from the extreme danger his boss poses. Can he oast four years?
Betty Cracker
@opiejeanne: Two words for you — tuna melt! :)
@schrodingers_cat: Same old farting, drooling, lazy sofa-dwellers! Hope your pets are all well!
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
(Shaking fist at Bex@30.)
MattF
@opiejeanne: Unless it’s lox and cream cheese.
opiejeanne
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Just imagine those Putin aides snickering among themselves over who they can tell Trump to hire, trying to find the point where Trump tells them it’s too much, and they won’t because for Trump no horrible person they could name is too much.
schrodingers_cat
Goldman Sachs should change their name to God Damn Sucks.
Elizabelle
@TriassicSands: The Trump administration is a floating garbage barge on fire. And I don’t know enough about McMaster; just know that anyone stupid enough to get involved with the Trump administration deserves what comes their way.
Friday news dump day. And Spicer is among the first of those dumped.
Roger Moore
@low-tech cyclist:
Are you 100% sure of that? I think it’s unlikely that they’ve been physically threatened, but with this White House I’m having a hard time ruling it out completely. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear that they’ve been threatened in other ways, e.g. that they were required to sign NDA/no compete agreements and Trump’s lawyers are threatening them with legal hell if they try to get a job that uses their skills and experience after leaving.
Gravenstone
@MomSense: Damn, I had no idea Mr. Reiner was still going – and going strong indeed at 95!
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: Yeah. I will love if those vampire squids end up radioactive. They should be.
Maybe Trump will take out all the “too big to fail” enterprises. Because they are failed, and corrupted.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: I bought two new rugs, they have installed themselves there, one cat per rug. Boss kitteh on the green one and my ginger cat on the red one, giving me the quintessential, impress me monkey, look.
Mike in DC
@opiejeanne:
Dennis Hastert has been released from prison and could probably use a job.
TenguPhule
For the last time, WHALES ARE NOT FISH!!!
low-tech cyclist
Unless their bodies are in the morgue, I’m gonna say they lied again.
Link.
TenguPhule
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
A job when the Trumps appear to be imploding into the second season of GOT no less.
Gravenstone
@Cheryl Rofer: And Trumpworld isn’t “amateur hour” now because … why?
El Caganer
@TenguPhule: True, but after 4 years of Trump we’ll all be eating dick.
Roger Moore
@schrodingers_cat:
No. Some foods, like french fries, do not require breading.
MCA1
I want the second question asked Scaramucci (after “Do you do the fandango,” of course) to be “Has the President inquired with the OLC whether he can take Air Force One to Russia on his way out, and do you agree that the American people should get to keep it?”
TenguPhule
@opiejeanne:
Goes perfectly well with breaded fried fish. American cheese’s mild salty flavor goes well with bland whitefish.
Elizabelle
Scaramucci has a degree from Harvard Law. Sad!
LAO
LMAO:
ETA: I still don’t think he’ll write a book, but this was too funny not to post.
hovercraft
@LAO:
The problem is that the clowns have been running the show the entire time, led by the Clown in Chief Orange Shitface.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
No. But when it comes to pollack and cod, it’s mandatory.
WaterGirl
@LAO: Gotta love John Dingell!
MattF
@low-tech cyclist: So, if Trump is ignoring urgent advice from both Bannon and Priebus– who is he listening to? Besides the voices in his head. Just curious.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat:
Did they not cover this at the citizenship ceremony?
Quinerly
@MattF:
Yep. Only time.
david spikes
The main qualification for WH jobs is being able to unflinchingly tell Donnie that he is not just the greatest, but the greatest that’s ever been.
Never correct, never contradict and always, always, lay on the gross flattery with a trowel.
It would be soul destroying but none of those people have one.
Spicer resigned because he realized that he would not only be sweeping up Donnie’s messes but Little Tony’s too.
TriassicSands
@Elizabelle:
As someone up-page wrote, Spicer will be lying on cable TV before long. Either that or he’ll find a place somewhere on the Wingnut Welfare Wagon — big pay raise, no accountability. And no penalty for his despicable role in the service of Trump.
I’m curious about his reason for resigning. Is it a personal or professional beef with Scaramucci? Or just unhappiness with his fall from grace?
MCA1
@TenguPhule: Seriously. This is like boarding the Titanic after it’s already hit the iceberg to take over as the head chef.
StudlyPantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@PaulWartenberg: And with that, you get the keys to the Internets for the day. Use your powers of snarkjitsu wisely.
divF
@MomSense: They are the 2000-year-old men of The Twitter.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Well see, that’s the problem right there. The pieces are usually not that good, hence the breading.
rikyrah
Republicans’ failure to overhaul health care is a testament to Obama’s vision and tenacity, writes Andrew Sullivan t.co/3ZUfpnyxBg
— Daily Intelligencer (@intelligencer) July 21, 2017
LAO
More Dingell: g-d, I love him!
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: They gave us cute red ware tankards along with tiny flags, but no food, breaded or otherwise = (
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
So many contenders for thread winner today.
LAO
@WaterGirl: I do, I really do.
opiejeanne
@SiubhanDuinne: That’s the only exception in my house. My daughter who runs a raclette booth at local farmers markets was trying to trying to figure out how to participate in the Fish Fest at one of the foodie weekends in Seattle, and the one thing that was sort of ok was a cheese and shrimp combination, but it wasn’t that good. They experimented on us, came over and cooked a bunch of the candidates; when they went home we tossed most of the leftovers, except for some unsullied shrimp. This was an unusual failure for her bf who is a talented cook who loves to experiment.
On Chopped there was a basket with fish (not tuna) and a hunk of cheese, and the judges were groaning at the idea of cheese with fish and how would these poor souls deal with it. They avoided dealing with it by using the cheese on a side dish, IIRC.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: Not even in Hawaii?
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Now Now, it simply depends on which side of the spiked dildo of the Free Market you’re on.
Laura
That’s a whale of a sammich. And it looks mighty tasty to boot.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: Have you shared pictures, by the way? It sounded lovely.
lgerard
@Cheryl Rofer:
You have to love their description of Scaramucci as a Wall Street personality
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
We have fresh fish and do amazing things with it raw, broiled, baked, steamed, fried, grilled and citrus cooked.
The place John ate at probably used pre-frozen and possibly pre-battered fillets harvested by giant factory ships.
MattF
@rikyrah: Sullivan keeps reissuing his PhD thesis. He needs to get over it.
opiejeanne
@Betty Cracker: Tuna’s practically not fish, more like a meat, so yes, tuna melts. The one dish I can endorse. (I knew there was an exception, just couldn’t think of it).
germy
best comment I’ve seen, over at LGM:
JPL
@MattF: Ivanka!
opiejeanne
@MattF: I don’t think that counts as an actual cheese, and lox are smoked so they’ve been changed from “fish” to “smoked deliciousness”.
Bill
I’m pretty sure Scaramucci was the name of the Bond Villain in Man With A Golden Gun. That guy had three nipples, so I’m going to assume the new White House flak does too.
Jeffro
@SiubhanDuinne: Made my day!
Jeffro
@Bill: Scaramanga. ;)
jonas
Cole’s sandwich reminded me of this Onion classic: theonion.com/article/whaler-sandwich-not-sitting-too-good-with-area-man-987
rikyrah
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump supported Anthony Scaramucci’s hiring and Steve Bannon vehemently opposed it, a White House official says
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 21, 2017
TenguPhule
@opiejeanne:
You are not going to deny science on this blog.
SatanicPanic
@MattF: Fox and Friends
Ian G.
@Elizabelle:
I’m going to give McMaster and Mattis the benefit of the doubt given that we haven’t gotten into a war with North Korea or Iran yet, and assume they’re doing good work behind the scenes to keep that from happening.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule:
Wow sounds heavenly.
germy
@Bill: That was Francisco Scaramanga.
rikyrah
The BCRA, it transpires,
Is short of the votes it requires
So may not endure
And harm all the poor
Like Mr. McConnell desires.
— Limericking (@Limericking) July 18, 2017
Geeno
@Jeffro: Close enough
Jeffro
@divF:On Twitter, “Dick Nixon” just tweeted at Tortilla Coast – a Capitol Hill watering hole – to “please send Mr. Spicer’s bill to President Nixon’s office: 577 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677” – RZ*
(his tweets initialed ‘RZ’ are from Ron Ziegler)
L
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cmorenc
Crap. Now we’ll have to remove our Spicer-head photo that’s been poking out from the shrubs in our front yard for the past several weeks, ever since the infamous incident where Spicer hid out in the White House bushes.
Major Major Major Major
@opiejeanne:
Something just feels off about this statement…
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: No I haven’t. They are still in my camera. One more thing on the never ending to do list.
rikyrah
Here is every stunning look Michelle Obama’s rocked in her six months since leaving the White House t.co/iekIHzcy7Y pic.twitter.com/UZjmWWtBqc
— Mic (@mic) July 21, 2017
Immanentize
@divF: I LOVE the 2000 year old man recordings — of course, Reiner’s Dad!
Q. What’s is Humanity”s greatest invention?
A. Saran Wrap…..
Q. What about amazing scientific miracles like the iron lung?!
A. Eh, that’s nice too.
TenguPhule
@opiejeanne:
Eating tuna other then raw or as lightly grilled steaks is a crime against good taste.
Yutsano
@oatler.: A guy on Twitter predicted Spicey would be out in 6 months.
Simon Taverner
Must be a Friday
LesGS
@Amaranthine RBG: “Scaramouch, Scaramouch, can you do the fandango?”
Immanentize
@Roger Moore: Maybe true, but battered french fries are AWESOME!
pamelabrown53
@low-tech cyclist: @87.
Wondering what is Bannon’s objection to Scaramucci ? Only reason I can think of is that Bannon views Scaramucci as a globalist who would dilute/pollute the white nationalist message.
germy
@TriassicSands:
I assume he was asked to leave, and then the official story is that he “resigned”. Isn’t that how it’s done?
Just like Hannity had a “scheduling conflict” and so had to “turn down” that award.
matryoshka
@rikyrah: Michelle Obama is a goddess.
hovercraft
@Cheryl Rofer:
Nicole Wallace said with the addition of Jay Sekolov (?) and now Scarramucci as the faces of the WH on TV, it’s ” All of Hannity’s Men instead of All the President’s Men”, SAD!
JPL
Rick Santelli from CNBC would make a great addition to Trump’s communication team.
Laura
@Elizabelle: degrees from Harvard Law aren’t that hard to get. I have one, albeit a single semester program. Harvard Trade Union Program, Labor & Work life Division 100th session, class of 2011 representin’!
Frankensteinbeck
@david spikes:
In this case especially, it sounds like he got the job because he’s been doing the only thing Trump thinks is important – going on cable shows and lying about how great Trump is. Both the old man and Kushner think that is the only communications strategy. No others exist to them.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat: A quick peek at some of our best places
You may find yourself drooling a little.
Our local cooks are very good
And its literally from the boat to the dock to the cook to your plate, often same day.
MattF
@hovercraft: Speaking of Hannity, there’s been a little todo about him.
germy
@JPL: You can laugh at Santelli all you want, but he made an interesting point to confound the climate scientists:
I bet they were scratching their heads in confusion after that one. Suck it, libtards!
TenguPhule
@Immanentize:
Let me plug air fryers for french fries.
Because they are low oil and still awesome.
Crispy hot salty goodness. And for bonus points, drizzle some garlic or truffle infused olive oil over them after they come out of the fryer with a few turns of freshly cracked black pepper.
MisterForkbeard
@Frankensteinbeck: To be fair, this works WONDERS with the Fox/Breitbart set. If you go on cable and lie, Fox and conservative media will back you up regardless of how ridiculous you are.
When literally everyone else points out that you’re lying, that just reinforces the whole “media is out to get Trump” and makes his base happy again.
Mike in NC
Spicey could write a great tell-all book covering the last six months of America’s sad decline under the misrule of Malignant Mullet, but he probably had to sign an NDA good for 99 years.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: Thanks, will take a look.
pamelabrown53
@opiejeanne: @112.
A dish I’m seeing more and more is shrimp with grits-which frequently includes cheese in the grits.
Personally, I’d like some spicy shrimp with a side of polenta or polenta crisp wedges-no cheese. More deconstructed as snooty as that sounds.
Immanentize
@pamelabrown53: If Bannon has any real pride of profession it is as a media and communications guy — film making, Breitbart, general propaganda efforts that are pretty successful in a certain way. Scarramuci is a total amateur. It insults Bannon’s core sense of worth.
Frankensteinbeck
@pamelabrown53:
I’m thinking power struggle, (see @rikyrah: ) combined with Bannon being smart enough to realize talking up Trump on cable shows is not the be-all end-all of communications. Kushner’s statements suggest his head is so far up his own ass, he actually thinks that’s all that’s needed and everything will be fine if that master plan is followed.
schrodingers_cat
Wedding Party gets high on bhang!
Panghat pe nache, Madhubala from Mere Brother Ki Dulhan*
Madhubala == actress of the 50s and 60s, known for her legendary beauty, the lines of the number are a meta reference one of the biggest hits of her career.
My brother’s bride, a rom-com that makes fun of Hindi movie wedding romance conventions. I am thinking of watching it soon. Seems like fun.
Cheryl Rofer
@hovercraft: interesting
SFBayAreaGal
The first domino to start the fall of many more? One could only wish.
Joey Maloney
You and Kelly Tisdale.
Thanks, I’m here all week.
I think tRump is about to find out how much those global NDAs he makes everyone sign are actually worth.
Lapassionara
@rikyrah: I thought Yertle was going to try again next week, based on Rand Paul’s change of heart. I hope BCRA is dead, but I don’t think it is for sure yet.
TenguPhule
@Joey Maloney:
The equivalent of three Trump university degrees.
Mike J
@schrodingers_cat:
One sandwich is not everything. Do you stand in John’s kitchen and monitor all of his intake? Why do you assume everything is breaded and fried?
Don’t be such a scold about what other people eat.
SatanicPanic
@Mike in NC: Can federal workers be asked to sign NDAs? I’m skeptical
Jeffro
Was this already covered back on Wednesday? Senate Judiciary Committee investigation looking at Jill Stein, too.
Awesome!
Jeffro
@TenguPhule: But three times zero is…oh wait…
catclub
@Tom Levenson:
Carbon14 limits for nuclear plants are FAR lower than the amounts of C14 coming out of any coal fired plant – where there is no limit.
Not sure what happens if you put a nuclear plant near a coal fired power plant.
schrodingers_cat
From the same movie:
Kaisa Isq hai, ajab sa risk hai (Love is a strange kind of a risk) sung by the one and only Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
I love how they share tea at the Taj, as a sign of true love. I am not sharing my tea with you unless I really love you, that’s fur shure.
hovercraft
@MattF:
HA!
Though in Hannity’s defense, Christopher is a RINO, I seem to remember him saying nice things about Obummer, in fact I think he may have endorsed him because of La Palin’s selection as VP. I may be misremembering.
Mike in NC
I’d bet good money that both Sessions and Priebus will be gone before Labor Day.
catclub
@TenguPhule:
Yes. Tuna salad made from tuna cooked only rare is amazing.
pamelabrown53
@rikyrah: @140.
Thank you so much for the link to former First Lady Michelle Obama. Gorgeous! Living well is the best revenge.
catclub
@Mike in NC: I would bet against that. We shall see.
Brachiator
@Cheryl Rofer:
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango…
Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
— Spicerian Rhapsody
schrodingers_cat
@Mike J: I was just teasing JC a little bit, no scolding intended.
Ruckus
@Otis Freeman:
Problem is that shit show doesn’t really cover it. It’s more like shit universe.
MCA1
@opiejeanne: Ummmm…lox aren’t smoked. They’re brined. Smoked salmon is smoked.
TenguPhule
@catclub:
Atomic Blonde.
MCA1
@TenguPhule: Truth.
TenguPhule
@MCA1:
Many people confuse the two.
Immanentize
@Jeffro: I mentioned it the day the letter was sent to Junior. I have dreams of what they are looking at, but the best guess is the meeting in Russia that Stein attended. Of course, we could learn that she was funded both by the Trumps and the Russians. What would GG say?!
Spanky
@schrodingers_cat:
You have to understand that the slice of Pennsylvania Cole’s traveling through offers no other option. This is the part of the world that foisted funnel cakes on us, after all.
TenguPhule
@Immanentize:
“There is no evidence of collusion with Russia!!!”
And then a drone hits him from above.
TenguPhule
@Spanky:
I believe they also serve catfish there.
Which either has to be breaded and fried or soaked in lots of sauce if you want to be able to eat it.
germy
My wife makes the best saltfish and roti.
lgerard
Evidently Spicer will be interviewed by Hannity tonight
that should be illuminating
catclub
@Frankensteinbeck:
and actually assigning Scaramucci to the job means he will no longer have the time to go on those shows and talk up the boss.
A Ghost to Most
@TenguPhule:
And Atlantic salmon, not that fishy Pacific stuff.
SatanicPanic
@Immanentize: It’s McCarthyism.
satby
@Otis Freeman: Welcome!
Karen
In the midst of Spiceyness has anyone noticed the nominee for defense? must nuke first?
rawstory.com/2017/07/america-must-be-ready-to-nuke-first-trumps-new-defense-nominee-has-an-itchy-mis…
TenguPhule
@A Ghost to Most:
Are you prepared to eat those words?
geg6
@TenguPhule:
Actually, that’s simply not true. I worked in my sister’s bar for many years and we breaded that fish ourselves. It was the highest quality cod and haddock we could get.
Anyway, that’s how a good fish sandwich looks around here. A giant filet, with some seasoned panko, fried about 6 minutes and served on a toasted soft bun with tartar, lettuce, tomato and American cheese. Delicious. Places around here compete to have the one named best in the city/county/region.
Miss Bianca
@catclub: what I’m wondering is why the hell Trump doesn’t just appoint Bannon as the (mis)communications director. I mean, *isn’t* that his field?
TenguPhule
@lgerard:
As a darklamp.
Turgidson
@Cheryl Rofer:
Bwahahahahahaha.
JMG
Sen. Murkowskl meeting with Trump’s Medicaid-Medicare director to discuss “Alaska issues.” The spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down, or for her constituents, make it go away.
Elizabelle
@Laura: Well done!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Major Major Major Major
CNN: “Spicer left over concerns new communications chief wouldn’t know Washington and Spicer would have to do both jobs”
? ? ? ?
germy
Give Cole a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach Cole to fish and he’ll get tangled up in the fishing line, and possibly stick himself with the fish hook.
Drive him to PA and he’ll enjoy a fish sandwich.
Ruckus
@MattF:
That’s not voices. It’s the screeching of all the tiny gears because all the oil (shit, actually) that keeps them from doing that has dried up and no longer can provide any positive qualities. Of course the only positive qualities that drumpf had, his gears were oiled (shit filled) well enough to mostly keep him reasonably quiet.
Now the gears are screeching and the shit is hardening and we are seeing and trying to live with the results.
TenguPhule
@geg6:
Hence why I said “usually”. There are places that do go the extra mile, but I used to work in the “food service” industry and am well aware of the many shortcuts used in the kitchen by those who don’t.
Barbara
@MattF: I am going with Jared Kushner. Trump relies way too much on family members but he seems to shrink inward even more when he perceives trouble. This is a problem that is going to make his high priced lawyers not worth their fees, assuming they get paid.
TenguPhule
@germy:
This is Cole. That only covers one meal out of three. Or seven, if he’s cosplaying as a Hobbit.
schrodingers_cat
@Mike J: Also too, it was a statement on how the fish was prepared, rather than scolding JC, as you put it. Fish is delicate, breading seems a bit heavy handed. YMMV.
p.a.
@TenguPhule: I missed 2nd breakfast today. I’ll make up for it at tweeners.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: Aren’t hobbits, tiny?
Elizabelle
Wish I had a fish sandwich like that in my future. Think I would eat it without the roll, and not miss a calorie.
Off to the DMV. They escaped issuing me a driver’s license yesterday; they are very stern about their list of documents accepted, and “credit card statement from the bank that issues your card” does not equal “bank statement.” Be forewarned. Thank Dog for having a passport.
Everyone: get a passport. The country you flee may be your own.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: They eat a lot.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Cod, Pollack and Haddock are not delicate in America.
Now snapper, that’s another story.
Ruckus
Sean, the gift that keeps on giving.
A Valiant Hero In The War Against Journalism
Elizabelle
A FTF NYTimes reader comment:
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: Delicate compared to salmon, swordfish etc. We get good fresh cod in MA, sometimes haddock too.
Cheryl Rofer
Press briefing live here.
henqiguai
Nevermind…
geg6
@TenguPhule:
I very much doubt that, based on what it looks like. It looks like they do what we did in my sister’s place. Get the fish from a good local fish vendor (never frozen or pre-breaded–fresh as possible in a landlocked state) and bread it and fry it to order.
Spanky
Jen Rubin over at the WaPo gives Spicey her tender goodbyes:
Ouch.
Robert Sneddon
@catclub:
If you do that the radiation detectors at the nuclear plant go off a lot. There are no radiation detectors at a coal plant because they’d be going off a lot and no-one wants all that noise pollution in their neighbourhood.
hueyplong
From Spice to Scary sounds like a punchline.
I can only imagine just how aggressively obnoxious this guy is going to be.
His appointment is totally consistent with the Trumpian idea that the most effective response to any “problem” is to go with crazily aggressive PR
Not sure Mueller and his crew are particularly concerned with press briefings..
JPL
@lgerard: He is also going to be on with Scaramucci and Prebus.
Spicer’s reputation depends on being liked by the Don at this point.
satby
@Cheryl Rofer:
And so I say: Please continue, Fake President.
schrodingers_cat
@Spanky: I lubs Jrub columns!
Jeffro
@Immanentize: Thanks for catching it (I’m a little behind it seems). I can picture JS promising to continue kneecapping HRC as long as the money kept coming in, and I can picture both Don Sr. and Jr. saying, “What’s wrong with funding another anti-HRC campaign if it helps us win?”. Saying it with straight faces, too.
Campaign finance reform, how does it work?
TenguPhule
Washington Post feeling its Oats a little. “Trump can usually make it about a third of the way through an interview without mentioning Hillary Clinton”
I think she should be given the privilege of throwing the switch when he’s finally strapped to the chair.
p.a.
Guy I go saltwater fishing with trades his catch (mostly scup, black sea bass, tataug) to his auto mechanic for work. The mechanic keeps some, flash freezes the rest to send to his family in Ohio where fresh seafood is beyond their budget.
Jeffro
@Major Major Major Major: see, that should be
TriassicSands
People are being terribly unfair to Scaramucci.
He hasn’t even told his first lie yet.
Spanky
@Spanky: I’ll make the link the opening sentence:
OK, that was two sentences. Quintesential Rubin.
burnspbesq
@eric:
True, but Spicer doesn’t seem the type to go back to his former workplace with an AR-15.
hueyplong
Rubin seems to be finding the strike zone.
different-church-lady
@Cheryl Rofer:
So, effectively no change then.
Gravenstone
@lgerard:
I believe the word you’re searching for is obfuscating. I predict immense squid clouds of butt hurt emanating from both parties, but no clarity to be found.
germy
@TriassicSands: He actually told some uncomfortable truths two years ago:
His predictions were wrong, but his analysis was sound.
Cheryl Rofer
@satby: Yes, I was thinking that this could add to the clown show.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Ah, regional thing.
Can’t get fresh cod here.
Salmon, swordfish, snapper, mackerel, mahimahi (sadly depleted so hard to get now), tuna and octopus are fresh catch of the day here.
geg6
@catclub:
Just so happens that I live less than five miles from where a nuke and a coal-fired plant are side-by-side on the same property. We don’t eat the fish in the Ohio, so I’m not sure. But I do know that we have more fish and fewer fish with mutations than we did when the entire river in our part of the world was lined by steel mills. So both nukes and coal are safer than the by-products of making steel.
SiubhanDuinne
@hueyplong:
Or a girl group.
TenguPhule
@geg6:
Only for the fish. Not for anything that wants to eat them. The bad stuff concentrates in the predators more then the prey.
Spanky
@hueyplong: A-yup. Here’s how she closes out:
Major Major Major Major
@Jeffro: I just don’t see why the white house would release that statement, it isn’t exactly flattering to them.
Mike in NC
@Spanky: Looks like it’ll be a fine weekend’s worth of reading.
Gary K
@Amaranthine RBG: Great composition by Milhaud
Spanky
@germy:
You know, The Donald holds grudges, and never forgets. I will be not at all surprised if he makes Scarey his whipping boy. We’ll see just how long it’ll take before he gets his first humiliation.
Turgidson
@hueyplong:
Has Mueller even spoken publicly since he was appointed? If he did I missed it.
The Ken Starr shitshow was a long time ago, but I have a dim recollection of him speaking publicly from time to time.
schrodingers_cat
So how long will Scary Spice last?
Miss Bianca
@germy: wow, given that that’s the case, I’m amazed that Trump would bring him on. I mean, wasn’t criticism of The Donald enough to make him reject people for Administration posts?
@Spanky: Or, you know, what you said.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat:
Well-named, ma’am!
Quinerly
@TriassicSands:
He’s telling his first lies right now.?
tybee
@dmsilev:
they are all colons, nothing semi about it.
TenguPhule
USA LE: We are stupid as fuck. UK: One second, Hold my lemonade.
I can almost feel common sense and humanity shrinking.
Brachiator
Hmmm. Scaramucci.
C’mon, SNL. Don’t let me down. The satiric possibilities are endless.
Frankensteinbeck
Calling it now: No pardons for anyone outside the Trump family. Trump is beyond stupid to ‘cognitively impaired.’ He can only hold onto a very small handful of simple facts. When his lawyer mentioned (and his lawyer has to have mentioned) that people pardoned can be compelled to testify against him, that’s it. That fact will lodge, and nothing else will matter. The only question is whether he’ll throw his family under the bus as well.
I also expect Trump to pardon himself, and it will be done in the stupidest way imaginable, essentially a confession and somehow will make things worse. I would not be surprised if it’s improperly issued and thus incriminates him without protecting him. I’m not betting on that, but he is actually that insanely stupid, so stupid even the people who would draft the pardon are that stupid. The pardon will definitely happen. Trump is the most cowardly person I’ve ever seen. No matter how great the arguments against doing it are, he will not be able to resist a simple solution that declares him untouchable.
catclub
@Spanky: My guess is that the long term connection they have makes it possible tor Trump to ignore this one.
Since Scaramucci very publicly backed Trump during the campaign – he first backed Bush, but so what. Perhaps there was a very clear apology for that.
If Trump still held the grudge he would not give Scaramucci a big job – whipping boy or no.
germy
@Miss Bianca:
Is it possible he doesn’t know about this?
Then again, KellyAnne said some harsh things about him back when she was cashing paychecks from the Cruz campaign…
Ruckus
@geg6:
Well one thing is that rivers in OH don’t catch fire anymore.
I’m not sure they are cleaner, but there are a lot fewer of them and there is/was the idea that we can’t keep just flushing our industrial crap down the river in the hopes that it will wash away. Our skies are dramatically clearer and cleaner in southern CA now than they were in the first half of my life. Government did that for us, not industry. And our lives are better for it. The industry fought that the entire way. Like they did/do in every instance. Right up to the moment they finally realize that it’s better for them overall and long term.
Wapiti
@TenguPhule:
.
Had cod last night, poached in a tomato sauce. Breading would have been problematic.
Frankensteinbeck
@Spanky:
The Donald forgets frequently. He forgot he was in a signing ceremony and walked out without doing the signing. The guy has to have Alzheimers, on top of his personality defects. I just can’t see anything else that explains the steady degradation of his memory and focus. He used to be just as big an asshole, but coherent.
Plus, he has no subtlety, no layers to his actions. He would not give that job thinking it’s a shit post, especially since ‘Person in charge of making America love Donald Trump’ is the most important post he can think of.
Best guess is, he’s seen Scoochy Poochy fellating him on cable television recently, and liked the cut of his smarmy jib.
TenguPhule
@Frankensteinbeck:
From your mouth to the FSM’s awaiting tentacles.
Quinerly
What a sleaze. Scaramucci speaking. “The President has really good karma.” Yes, he said that. Plus, he said something about having “to believe my body language.”
pamelabrown53
@Frankensteinbeck: @163.
I agree. I’m thinking that Bannon wants more congruency with the subterranean and main stream. The better to reinforce white supremacy,, my dear. (Thinking of “Little Red Riding Hood”).
randy khan
@Roger Moore:
I don’t think they could enforce an NDA/non-compete against a former government employee, although I also wouldn’t be surprised if the Trump team tried.
TenguPhule
@Quinerly:
“what.”
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: Thank You sir!
Cheryl Rofer
Sarah Huckaby-Sanders is the new Press Secretary.
randy khan
@TenguPhule:
Let me speak in favor of good tuna salad here.
Quinerly
@TenguPhule:
New Communications Director said that about Trump. I kid you not. Who else watching this?
Quinerly
“We’re going to do a lot of winning.” Scaramucci
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: “Kid fined for selling lemonade!!!11” articles pop up every now and again, and without fail, like this one, they’re written by conservatives as a heart-rending plea towards liberals to stop with all the spirit-crushing regulations.
schrodingers_cat
@Cheryl Rofer: Such beauty, much poise, reputation for honesty, wow!
MattF
@hueyplong: Here, JRubs lays out the case that Trump will fire Mueller.
Frankensteinbeck
@Quinerly:
And that, right there, is why Scores Muchly got the job. In Trump and Kushner’s mind, public statements like that are pure gold, the essence of what a communications director is supposed to do.
schrodingers_cat
@Quinerly: Scary Spice and Tubby Spice, what a pair!
SiubhanDuinne
@TenguPhule:
That English kid could’ve been much worse off. She should thank her lucky stars she didn’t face these kinds of obstacles:
Quinerly
Scaramucci has used the words “loyal to him” and loyal to the President” at least 6 times. “The President is phenomenal with the press.” “The President is an unbelievable person and politician.”
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: I thought I was the cynic here.
Brachiator
@Frankensteinbeck:
Trump never, never, never, never, ever confesses. He doesn’t admit he’s wrong or made a mistake. It is not in his DNA.
I have no idea whether he would pardon himself. This administration is such a farce that you really cannot predict anything. Hell, could he pardon himself (or his family) multiple times?
pamelabrown53
@TenguPhule:
Aren’t lox not only brined but shaved? Makes ’em slimy. While smoked, i.e. kippered salmon is a smoked filet or whole fish. I much prefer the latter. No slime, a texture thing.
Turgidson
@hueyplong:
Good to see, and every conservative/GOP voice we can get on our side to defeat Hair Furor’s assault on this country and the rule of law is valuable.
But damn, does she have a long way to go yet to atone for her firehose-turned-up-to-eleventy torrent of lies and stupidity during the Obama years, particularly in support of Willard Mitt “Mittens” Romney.
Quinerly
“I love the President.” Scaramucci at least 3 times. “It’s important for the President to express his identity.” Scaramucci on Trump’s twitter habit.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: I’m a very critical reader.
Olivia
Spicy can always go back to his job as Easter Bunny. Hope the suit still fits.
trollhattan
Speaking of people still in the WH, Steve Bannon as Karl Rove on acid.
randy khan
I think it’s pretty evident that the notional reason for Spicer quitting is that Trump put somebody over him in the hierarchy, a humiliation that was substantive, not symbolic (like excluding him from the meeting with the Pope), and therefore makes sense as an official reason to leave. But I have to think that he’s been looking for an excuse to go for a while now, probably since the Papal visit, but maybe longer.
I don’t know if he’ll turn on the Administration; the appearance on Hannity tonight suggests otherwise, but you never know. If he did, though, it could be pretty damaging.
germy
@Major Major Major Major:
It’s always that and the lawsuit where the elderly woman was scalded by coffee. “We need tort reform!!”
Major Major Major Major
@Quinerly:
Such a fucking snowflake!
Peale
@Quinerly: Says the party that spent the last 50 years running for the bunkers each time an out gay man asked for something.
Frankensteinbeck
@Brachiator:
Trump has confessed repeatedly, every time making this Russia scandal worse. What Trump does not do is DELIBERATELY confess. He is quite good at declaring he’s not wrong by intimately describing the thing he’s supposed to be keeping secret, for example. It is exactly in this well-established tradition that he could issue a pardon for himself that somehow manages to implicate him further. Trump is so stupid satiric comedians regularly abandon their material because Trump has actually done the thing they crafted as a joke exaggeration of Trump’s stupidity.
Cheryl Rofer
@Quinerly: He has also said he loves the president at least three times. Plus everyone in the White House loves everyone else.
ETA: I see you are counting “loves” too.
Quinerly
“If the President says it, it has a certain level of truth.” Scaramucci on Trump’s allegations of 3 million people voting illegally voting for HRC. I CAN’T TAKE THIS SHIT ANY MORE. Opening a beer and going back to my beach sitting. I picked a fine time to go on vacation. ?
Mnemosyne
@Gravenstone:
When Reiner goes, Mel Brooks will probably follow within a few months, if not on the same day like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Reiner and Brooks have been BFFs and colleagues for something like 60 years now.
TenguPhule
@Quinerly:
I’m sure that nugget of truth unintentionally slipped out.
GregB
I think it is great news that Trump coninues to seek the counsel of his hollow eyed son in law.
If he takes after his father, he’ll recommend Russian hookers be sent to try to seduce Mueller any day now.
The kid has no political skills at all.
rikyrah
(202) 224-3121
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(202) 224-3121
(202) 224-3121
(202) 224-3121
Call your senators now to vote NO on the GOP health care bill.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 21, 2017
TenguPhule
@Cheryl Rofer:
So full seventy’s flashback including the gay orgies then?
trollhattan
Heh.
Patricia Kayden
@LAO: Thank you, Joy. I wouldn’t be interested in any book Spicer writes given his willingness to lie on behalf of Trump so regularly and passionately. I’d like someone to ask him about inauguration crowds though to see if he has repented (just out of curiosity).
On days like this, the contrast between President Obama and Bigot-in-Chief is so pronounced.
Jack the Second
I know this isn’t a Betty Cracker thread but —
Florida man livestreams drunken car chase.
Quinerly
@Cheryl Rofer:
Corner Stone picked a fine time to just abandon us for his vacation. I interrupted my beer drinking, Tony Hillerman reading, beach sitting to catch this live. Now this sleaze bag is talking “his zip code.”
Patricia Kayden
@Quinerly: Yeah, Trump is pretty unbelievable but not in a good way.
Cheryl Rofer
Captain C
@eric: Or just a veiled threat involving shady finances and maybe that incident with cute little Svetlana…
Quinerly
“I’m not going to speak for the President”….says the man who is now the Communications Director for the WH. Unfuckingbelievable. Back to the beach for me.
germy
Spicer will retain his job through August, though?
In other words, the remainder of trump’s administration?
Brachiator
@Frankensteinbeck:
You got a point here. Don’t know if you could build a case using his spontaneous non-confessional confessions.
Trump also attributes to others many of his own weaknesses and fears. He questioned Hillary Clinton’s stamina, and then later I read how his staff worked to make sure that he was not too tired out flying to Europe for the G20 conference.
@randy khan:
I don’t know. I doubt that Spicer knows anything substantive about Trump. He was probably kept away from a lot of family and staff meetings.
rikyrah
@Frankensteinbeck:
He really does believe that this is about ‘ communications’. Not that he and that whole family are phucking grifting traitors and we want them ALL in orange jumpsuits.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne:
My mom’s cousin and Reiner were in some Broadway musicals together. I’ve seen lots of photos of them as young men on stage and then yukking it up backstage.
rikyrah
Reminder: Cardin, Warner want to investigate whether Scaramucci’s firm, SkyBridge Capital, violated Russia sanctions t.co/8GkNYw7koZ
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 21, 2017
That’s because Scaramucci reportedly discussed joint investments w/the head of a Russian sovereign wealth fund sanctioned by the US in 2015.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 21, 2017
Xenos
@TenguPhule: “Lox” just means salmon, I think, from the German “Lachs”, Swedish “lax”. Danish and Norwegian “laks”. Is Nova Lox, then, New World gravlax?
sukabi
@LAO: lol…love Dingle’s berries of wisdom.?
Major Major Major Major
@Xenos: Gravlax is its own thing, they used to bury it, ‘grav’ is cognate with ‘grave’.
rikyrah
Why Republicans Are Failing to Repeal Obamacare
by Nancy LeTourneau
July 21, 2017 2:01 PM
While Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare continue, it is evident that they are failing more spectacularly than most people assumed they would immediately after the election. There has been a lot of chatter about why that is the case. It includes talk about how Trump hasn’t actually outlined an alternative and has given very mixed signals about what the administration thinks should be done. Similarly, Republican leadership has been put under the microscope for their approach. It has even been suggested that if the GOP had elected a more moderate president, they would have been successful in their attempts to repeal Obamacare.
All of that is typical punditry, which zeros in on politicians and dismisses the role played by the public. The New York Times captured what is probably the more significant reason for this failure in an article titled, “These Americans Hated the Health Law. Until the Idea of Repeal Sank In.” They traveled to Bucks County, Pennsylvania—a perennial swing district outside Philadelphia—to talk to voters about health care and found what we have been seeing nationally.
opiejeanne
@Mike in DC: Yeah. And Trump would love him.
Patricia Kayden
@rikyrah: To be connected with this administration in any form or fashion, you have to be sleazy so this isn’t even surprising anymore. I will assume that every one of Trump’s sycophants are under investigation for something or another. That’s just how Trump rolls.
Mnemosyne
@germy:
You’ll like this: Christopher Lee was a trained opera singer, and would sometimes entertain the cast and crew of his movies with impromptu performances.
He also spoke several languages fluently, so if you watch his lips closely in some of the post-dubbed films he made in Italy, you can spot him speaking different languages in different scenes depending on what language(s) his co-stars were most comfortable with.
henqiguai
@TenguPhule(#219):
Nor are tuna, shark, or swordfish
ETA: correct that replied to number.
opiejeanne
@TenguPhule: You are dead to me.
catclub
@Quinerly:
True statement. I certainly do not believe him.
schrodingers_cat
@henqiguai: Let’s bread everything and fry it!
scav
@Quinerly:
No reason the scale can’t have negative numbers / levels. Why not a building comprised entirely of basements?! Although I do rather think the word he was searching for when he blurted out with karma was truckma. (“Look Ma! I’m in a truck!!”)
Iowa Old Lady
@Amaranthine RBG: Can he do the fandango?
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Wait till you try your first deep fried ice cream.
glory b
@Tom Levenson: “My guess? A pollock raised near the Plymouth nuclear plant outflows.”
Late to the thread, but, this is PA! It would be Three Mile Island!
lgerard
@Brachiator:
With the amount of gossiping and backbiting that seems to exist around trump I would imagine he knows quite a lot.
i would assume any revelations he provides would be off the record so to speak.
He does know a lot or reporters, and the abruptness of his departure means something, even if it is just extreme butthurt
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: I have seen it on menus of Messican restaurants but never tried it.
schrodingers_cat
@Iowa Old Lady: Freddie’s fambly also has deep roots in Mumbai, just like mine does!
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat: You should do so. Its good. Sinfully so.
glory b
@schrodingers_cat: Hey, aren’t you a citizen now? Wasn’t that question on the exam?
Of course, the answer is yes!
Gelfling 545
@Laura: My daughter (2nd year law student) tells me it’s not all that hard to get a law degree. It just takes a lot of time and the ability to read, she says. Apparently, it’s not rocket surgery.
TenguPhule
@Gelfling 545:
Ask her again after she tries to take the bar exam.
glory b
@JPL: No, she doesn’t do politics, remember?
schrodingers_cat
@glory b: With cheese on top right?
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
I see you’ve never been to a county fair. They’ve been doing that for years now. Deep-fried dill pickle, anyone? ?
Mnemosyne
@Gelfling 545:
Did you ever see Catch Me If You Can? The main character passes the Louisiana bar exam without going to law school by reading the statutes.
opiejeanne
@Major Major Major Major: We talk about tuna steaks, and we eat it rare or raw. We treat it a bit like beef or pork.
opiejeanne
@TenguPhule: Still dead to me.
catclub
The mystery for me, in the picture at the top of this thread: The light fixture sure LOOKS like it is made for a fan.
1)Is there a fan but the speed was such that it became invisible?
2)Was there no fan? Then why have a fixture that is for a fan?
J R in WV
@Bill:
Close, but it was Christopher Lee playing Francisco Scaramanga.Never mind, too late as usual…..
Brachiator
@lgerard:
That’s just hearsay. Besides, Trump seems to like to kick everyone except for key people when important shit is about to go down. I think that Spicer is told what to say, but is never in the loop.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: I have actually. Heartburn city.
Gelfling 545
@TenguPhule: The bar exam is not the degree. You have the degree whether you make the bar or not. I expect her to pass it with no trouble though. Phi Beta Kappa in history as an undergrad & 4.0 so far in law school, all done with 2 kids and a disabled husband. She’s good at this stuff.
zhena gogolia
@rikyrah:
Sigh. I WISH WE COULD HAVE THEM BACK SO I COULD STOP BEING EMBARRASSED TO BE AN AMERICAN again.
Gelfling 545
@Mnemosyne: I understand that that was the traditional way to learn the law way back. You got a job as a clerk and your employer let you study his law books.
opiejeanne
@MattF: Chris Buckley has his moments. I remember an interview he gave on NPR when Palin was nominated for VP and he was quite funny. He talked about being fired by The National Review, his father’s magazine, because of his last page editorial about how stupid she was.
opiejeanne
@pamelabrown53: That sounds good to me.
trollhattan
@opiejeanne:
“Tuna” covers quite a spectrum of fish and only as an adult have I come to revere the stuff not-in-a-can (although, fancy schmancy Italian canned tuna can fetch $40 per). Last week in Portland we found a small, super-authentic Japanese restaurant and ordered the chef’s choice sashimi, which included three cuts of bluefin of varying fat content. Utter heaven.
Ruckus
@Quinerly:
It does have a certain level of truth.
Not an iota, not a scrinch, not the least little bit, nothing that would even require an electron microscope, as mom used to say, Fucking None.
That’s a certain level, zero. And we are certain that it is zero, he proves it each and every time he opens his mouth.
opiejeanne
@MCA1: Oh, duh. You knowl I’m a total WASP, right?
Felonius Monk
@Mnemosyne:
They go well with Deep-fried green tomatoes and should be followed with a fried Twinkie and a fried Snickers bar.
opiejeanne
@A Ghost to Most: Atlantic salmon, i.e. farmed salmon, is an abomination, other than the smoked kind.
Quinerly
@Ruckus:
Agreed.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: I hate dill pickles, fried or other wise.
Yutsano
@Gelfling 545: In Virginia from what I understand you can still apprentice to become a barred lawyer. It actually used to be the norm before law schools came about, probably to fill demand.
randy khan
@Brachiator:
He’s been in a lot of meetings; that’s part of the job. Also, there’s no doubt he would have dish on internal squabbles that could help with the narrative that this group couldn’t fight its way out of a wet paper bag.
opiejeanne
@schrodingers_cat: That’s what I thought you were going for, commenting on the preparation rather than on what John eats. .
opiejeanne
@schrodingers_cat: John’s a hobbit like the 6′ leprechaun in Finian’s Rainbow.
Quinerly
@Gelfling 545:
Depends on the law school. Depends on where she takes the bar exam. Two day exam. One day state specific, one day multistate. I graduated in 1985. Both law school and the bar exams are the hardest things I have ever done in my life, including relationships. Licensed in 3 states, used to try 2 week jury trials. “I did but I don’t anymore.”? Just saying….
opiejeanne
@schrodingers_cat: We get excellent Alaskan cod in Seattle. Some of it fresh, depending on where it was caught.
henqiguai
@schrodingers_cat(#327):
Mmmm, Fry Bread…
Quinerly
@rikyrah:
Thread be dead, but if you check back, MSNBC is telling me that Scaramucci is personally worth over a billion dollars.
Quinerly
@henqiguai:
Reading Tony Hillerman right now. A lot of fry bread…..?
Gary K
John, did you see soppressata & capicollo on the menu?
feebog
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m late to the thread because I was actually trying to get some work done today. But you won the internets way back at comment 67.
The Lodger
@schrodingers_cat: “all i said to my wife was that piece of halibut was good enough for jehovah.”
VeniceRiley
Fish belongs in tacos.
Chet Murthy
@TenguPhule: She’s lucky she’s white. vibe.com/2017/06/undercover-cops-handcuffed-black-teens-for-selling-water-on-national-mall/
Aleta
Wasn’t Scaramucci the bad uncle in the Lion King? And why were two articles I read about
SimbaSpicer’s resignation written obituary style?Another Scott
@germy: DeLong has more:
Heh.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim
That dinner is at US 22 & PA 819. It’s rather “new” and I have not eaten there so might put it on my list. The TV is watching Channel 4 from Pittsburgh.