There is so much going on in this photo….Corey, Scaramucci, Gorka, and Omarosa….. pic.twitter.com/qlvLfbOXHp
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 30, 2017
The League Of Extraordinary Incompetence
— Derek Snow (@Nightscene1) July 30, 2017
The watch for when time is running out. pic.twitter.com/0tWbEfaXox
— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 30, 2017
Apart from praying these clowns don’t take us all with them, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the weekend?
***********
The NYTimes would very much like to remain upbeat, but…
President Trump enters a new phase of his presidency on Monday with a new chief of staff but an old set of challenges as he seeks to get back on course after enduring one of the worst weeks that any modern occupant of the Oval Office has experienced in his inaugural year in power.
With his poll numbers at historic lows, his legislative agenda stalled and his advisers busy plotting against one another, Mr. Trump hoped to regain momentum by pushing out his top aide, Reince Priebus, and installing a retired four-star Marine general, John F. Kelly, to take command. But it is far from certain that the move will be enough to tame a dysfunctional White House…
The setbacks came against the backdrop of a West Wing at war with itself, egged on by a president who thrives on conflict and chaos. Mr. Kelly, who had been serving as secretary of homeland security, brings a career of decisive leadership to his new assignment as White House chief of staff. But he confronts multiple power centers among presidential aides, all with independent lines to the man in the Oval Office who resists the discipline and structure favored by generals.“Everybody knows what needs to be done to fix it, and I think everybody is coming to accept that they’re not going to happen,” said Sara Fagen, a White House political director under President George W. Bush. “And the reason they’re not going to happen is the person at the top of the food chain is not going to change. This is the new normal. This goes down as one of the worst weeks he’s had politically and P.R.-wise, but I don’t think anything will change.”…
Presidential historians found it hard to recall precedents for the combination of internal warfare and external legislative troubles. Jeffrey A. Engel, the director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, said the best examples were John Tyler and Andrew Johnson in the 19th century. Both men were serving as vice president when their bosses died in office, each during a time of great turmoil in his political party.
“In either case, we are forced to go well back over a century in the past to find an administration in such an open state of infighting coupled with legislative disarray,” he said…
I guess the analogy would be that Trump took over the Oval Office when his “boss”, d/b/a the remnants of the GOP as a functional political party, dropped dead during the 2016 primaries.
The deep state is real. All Obama hold overs in the Gov't need to go to allow @realDonaldTrump to Make America Great Again!
— Corey R. Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) July 30, 2017
You have never worked a day in the executive branch and haven't the faintest idea what the f**k you are talking about. https://t.co/sfN9F1Bo5O
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 30, 2017
My favorite part of the week has been Russian friends writing to ask what I think is going to happen next or if I understand what's going on
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) July 28, 2017
The entire administration is now just a series of scorpions asking for rides across rivers. https://t.co/HaZc6fjGuI
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) July 29, 2017
Quinerly
Both Biden and Lieberman lobbied McCain on his health care vote: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/344476-biden-lobbied-mccain-on-healthcare-vote-report
Another Scott
Cory looks ridiculous. Who walks with both their hands pointing like that?
Cheers,
Scott.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Another Scott: An asshole.
Princess
Look at how long Mooch’s tie is. Have you seen the video of him imitating Trump’s gestures? He is trying to become a complete mirror of Trump. I guess he knows how to please a narcissist.
Felonius Monk
What fucking legislative agenda? He has none. All he has is some hair up the ass ideas to mistreat people or enrich the rich, but has he turned any of it into any concrete proposals delivered to congress for implementation? All I hear is a bunch of jingoist sloganeering. This is the laziest, most ignorant, and feckless person to ever occupy the WH bar none.
I am hopeful that the day will come when we will hear those joyous words: “The president’s plane is missing.”
Jay C
And of course, the Trump (mal-)Administration is going be starting the week with a serious international incident – the Russian diplomat-expulsion – which, if not quite rising to the level of “crisis”, is going to stress the Imbecile-in-Chief’s executive capabilities (which, except for blustering, name-calling and blame-shifting, have already been exposed as minimal and inadequate) to a YUGE degree. Especially since his
main creditorpal Putin is on the other side…Felonius Monk
@Princess:
Then he needs to fatten up a bit.
debbie
That top photo shows Moosch isn’t a tall man. I knew there was a Napoleonic Complex in there somewhere!
JGabriel
Yashar Ali via Anne Laurie @ Top:
It’s like the Abbey Road of Assholery.
MattF
Not the least bit surprised that Lewandowski is back. Not a good sign for Trump– going back to the old crowd really isn’t the positive path here. I imagine everyone in the White House is thinking up ways to stymie Kelley.
NotMax
Refresh my memory*. What type of government is it that engages in political or ideological purges?
*rhetorical request
Felonius Monk
@debbie:
It’s called “Walking Short”. Even if he was over 6 ft tall, he’d still be Walking Short.
Bess
Moochette
schrodingers_cat
What are Kelly’s motivations? If his tenure at DHS is anything to go by, he is on board their most vile agendas.
GregB
As Pence pondersTrump’s response to North Korea, can we assume his conversation with his wife is as follows: Mother do you think he’ll drop the bomb?
MisterForkbeard
@Jay C: But, all I’m reading on the interwebs is that this PROVES Trump isn’t in league with Putin! It’s good for Trump!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: There ya go, bashing short guys. We get this all the time…
prostratedragon
For years I’ve felt that Taj Mahal (of whom I am a fan) needed to apologize for this, but such is the present state of the world that now I must apologize to him:
“Cakewalk Into Town”*
_____
* See also thread below on NKorea and Trum’s alleged foreign policy.
JGabriel
@Another Scott:
Those aren’t hands. That’s the tip of shit poking out of a constipated rectum that refuses to evacuate.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MattF: It seems that the only folk that report to Kelly is the secretarial pool.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
Why don’t these pieces ever talk about what an evil fuck Kelly is over at DHS?
MattF
@schrodingers_cat: I guess the question is whether Kelly sees his role as Fulfllling the Will of the Leader, or actually accomplishing something. We shall see. And probably pretty soon. Lewandowski looks impatient.
Miss Bianca
@Quinerly: And *Lieberman*? Jesus, am I going to have to start thinking well of *him* now, too? I was just wrapping my head around McCain…
NotMax
@schrodingers_cat
If not for the sideways reference to Mao, would call it the Great Leap Backwards.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@debbie: Being technical, more like “Nelson/Stalin/Alexandros o Megas complex.”
The word for this week is “clustermotherwhatintheactualfuckery.”
Applejinx
Bear in mind Gorka is huge, tall with a huge head.
Chapo Trap House has done hilarious bits on Gorka: having a host pretend to be Gorka and harangue the show as a call-in, like a cross between Boris Badenov and a Bond villain. “Ha ha, Mister Chapo! Gorka of course remains eleven moves ahead of you, in Stratego!”
Anybody looks small next to Gorka. He is twelve moves ahead of your puny brain, by now. In Stratego. ;)
Mike in NC
So what job did they give to shitheel Lewandowski? Polishing the silverware? Better count the forks after each service.
Miss Bianca
@JGabriel: “It’s like the Abbey Road of assholery” FTW!!
encephalopath
And what is Rexxon going to do at the State Department now that the sanctions are signed/all but signed/implemented by overridden veto?
Now none of his people from State are in Russia anymore. He’s never getting that oil deal. The pouting is going to be hard to tolerate.
Emma
@Miss Bianca: it’s like riding a free-floating, multi-dimensional Tilt-a-Whirl.
sukabi
@debbie: you’re right. He needs a step stool to see the top of the car. Omarosa could squash him like a bug.
JGabriel
@Miss Bianca: Danke. We aim to please.
Baud
@encephalopath: I’ll find a way to tolerate it.
sukabi
@MattF: if he isn’t in the path between trump and the others it isn’t going to make a difference what he does. He’s got no power, other than being trumps fly catcher
schrodingers_cat
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Because immigrants don’t matter to the likes of Vichy Times and their prestige media brethren.
Villago Delenda Est
H/T Josh Marshall: “Reservoir Derp”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@sukabi:
If he doesn’t kill it AND eat it*, he’s fired.
*The bar’s been raised.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Your fan club was pining for you, yesterday. I reassured them that you would be back. Welcome back.
schrodingers_cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Ewww. Gross.
efgoldman
@Felonius Monk:
Now, now. The young man has done everything of which he’s capable. He’s tried really, really hard. Not everyone will grow up to be a major league pitcher, or a rock star, or an actor, or president. I’m sure he’ll feel better tomorrow when he sees this nice “thank you for playing” gold paper medal hanging over his bed
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Thanks. I was catching up on some threads, and people seemed remarkably happy in my absence. So I was thinking of staying away.
But then I remembered that we are living in a Fuck Your Feelings world.
efgoldman
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Yes, yes we do.
Our daughter was taller than both of us by age 13 (not hard!) – and then stopped.
sukabi
@?BillinGlendaleCA: yep.
Baud
@Miss Bianca: IKR? I can’t believe who our allies are.
sukabi
@Mike in NC: “press liaison?” His job is to kneecap reporters that don’t sufficiently grovel.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: (waves)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: Protein.
lollipopguild
@NotMax: Dictatorships-read about communist Russia and nazi Germany. Also any third rate third world dictatorship. We are a Banana Republic with Nukes.
sm*t cl*de
We must eliminate the last of the counter-revolutionaries and kulaks who are preventing the Revolution from bearing fruit.
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Must recite “The blood is the life!” in the process.
schrodingers_cat
So how many tongue baths did the good general get from the Sunday gab fests.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Come on, we know you love us, and your fan club on Tunchblog is growing by the day.
lollipopguild
@schrodingers_cat: I give Kelly 3 months. He will quit the White House job.
Ruckus
I drove to the store today and passed the Pasadena Convention Center.
The not so hilarious bit was that there is a drumpf rally going on there this afternoon. A very few people on the sidewalk with signs “Drumpf is my president! Honk if you agree.” As the traffic stopped with me right by the person holding the sign, I flipped her off. Then the car behind me honked. You could hear the necks snapping as people looked around to see who the idiot was. She was the car behind me so I flipped her off as well.
Felt good, but not nearly good enough. Was ready to roll down the window and tell the people standing there that they were fucking morons, but I think the world has already made that clear.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: (blows kisses)
@schrodingers_cat: (blushes)
ETA:. Wait, did I get that backwards…?
schrodingers_cat
@Ruckus: How big a crowd was it?
lollipopguild
@Baud: Baud! Baud! Baud of the jungle ! Strong as he can be! Watch out for that tree!
MattF
@Ruckus: These are people who have ridden bumper cars and think they’ve learned to drive.
Underpaid Propagandist
Resevoir Dogs.
And full of rabid ignorance.
scav
When incompetence is what you’re hoping for — Who you gonna call. See Photo!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@lollipopguild: I was in the Jungle Garden yesterday evening.
Ruckus
@Felonius Monk:
Would be much better if it was announced that the presidential plane turned around when less than half way across the Atlantic and landed at Andrews AFB after having taken off as AF1. A banner was found upon cleaning the plane. “Have a Nice Swim, Asshole.”
schrodingers_cat
DHS Under Kelly:
Deporting minors
Deporting veterans who were promised a fast track to GC and citizenship
Deporting mothers and fathers w/o criminal records who have deep roots within the community and sometimes citizen spouses and children
Kelly and Mattis stood behind T as he signed the Muslim travel ban.
Kelly deserves zero praise.
RepubAnon
I’m curious – how is Trump firing his Chief of Staff supposed to “get his momentum back”? Sounds to me more like Trump admitting that he made a bad hire – not a policy success.
ThresherK
Back in the old days the Inquirer was said to have kept a headline permanently mounted (i.e. not broken down into its letters) as it was needed so often:
schrodingers_cat
@RepubAnon: They use physics terms like optics, momentum, chaos without having clue of what they mean.
Ruckus
@schrodingers_cat:
There were far more cops hanging around than supporters. But then I don’t know if it hadn’t started yet. I can not imagine a very large turn out. This is an area of poverty and wealth, a lot of, at least in the american sense old money. But I doubt many of them would be seen with the riff raff.
@MattF:
They may have learned to operate bumper cars, they hadn’t learned how to print.
Ruckus
@Miss Bianca:
McCain earned a few brownie points this week but he has a long way to go for that redemption merit badge.
Joe Lies has even farther to go.
Keith P.
@debbie: Loud-mouthed Italian guy is shorter than everyone else? You don’t say!
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: The media is completely entangled with the GOP.
schrodingers_cat
@Keith P.: We are not supposed to make fun of their physical appearance, I was told yesterday.
zhena gogolia
We just went for a walk and turned down a side street. We saw a guy who might at first blush be taken for a Trumpanzee mowing his lawn. But he was wearing a T-shirt that said, “I SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.” We exchanged waves and smiles. I said to my husband, it’s like being in the French resistance, we have our little signals to each other. (I know, I know, I’m not in the French resistance. But it cheered me up a tad.)
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Keith P.:
You know who else was a loud-mouthed Italian guy?
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat:
Who told you that????
SiubhanDuinne
So I’m looking at the photo of the Scaramucci watch, and I’m noticing the placement of the numeral “6,” and I’m humming Colonel Bogey to myself and singing “Moochie…has only got one ball….”
Iowa Old Lady
I admit to trying to map the Trump WH onto West Wing characters. So Kelly is now Leo and The Mooch is Toby. Somehow it looked better on TV.
hueyplong
1. If even Joe Fucking Lieberman was against the skinny repeal, that means 49 Senators are inhuman monsters.
2. Soon I will be saying, “Yes, I thought of that line myself” about “the Abbey Road of assholery.”
Baud
@zhena gogolia: Some ugly guy.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@schrodingers_cat:
Well, it can come across as hypocritical. I know at WeHuntedtheMammoth.com, a feminist, anti-MRA blog, you can get your head taken off for making fun of someone’s looks or calling them crazy.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
My sister was taller than me till I was 12. She never made 5 ft tall. She found out that I had gotten bigger by stabbing me in the arm with a fork for not getting my elbows off the table. After pulling out the fork, during which she looked at me and realized her mistake, I chased her up to her room and lucky for her she got the door closed just in time. So I had to put my fist through it. She never fucked with me again. And we became pretty damn good friends after that. Very, very good in the last decade or two of her life.
craigie
Is it me, or do we read this pretty much every week? Are they trying for the gold medal in incompetence?
debbie
@Baud:
Total nonsense. No one was happy yesterday.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Iowa Old Lady: The Mooch is Sam.
Baud
@debbie: Maybe they were still happy about Trumpcare failing. Hard to tell.
LongHairedWeirdo
@Felonius Monk:
What legislative agenda?
He wants to REFORM HEALTH CARE! It will be EASY! We’ll have the best health care ever at lower costs!
He wants to BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE! It will be easy! We’ll have the best infrastructure ever at lower costs! Including a BIG BEAUTIFUL (see-through!!!) WALL and MEXICO WILL PAY FOR IT!
He wants TAX REFORM! It will be easy! We’ll have the best taxation ever at lower costs!
And he wants to bring back STEEL jobs and COAL jobs and JOBS, and JOBS and did you hear me, JOBS!!!!!!!!!11!!
What do you mean that’s not a legislative agenda? The whole campaign, that’s what he called for. Isn’t it a tad late *now* to go all “oh, that’s not a legislative agenda”?
And what do you mean, no one but a chump believes someone who says “I can do this better than anyone, and it will cost less, no one else is up to these challenges” when that person has demonstrated, repeatedly, that his only competency is letting his mouth write checks he knows he can’t cash? WHY ARE YOU INSULTING TRUMP VOTERS?
(Because of whatever-law, it’s impossible to tell satire from a True Believe, this is all sarcasm/irony. And yes, Trump voters, you were chumps, because you voted for a blowhard whose biggest lie was that he *cared* about you. If you think Trump isn’t a serial BS-artist and that he does, too, care for you, feel free to think I’m factually incorrect – but I think even you’d agree that only a chump votes for a BS artist who doesn’t give a damn about them.)
hueyplong
@craigie: Well, there are those moments after he has read a speech in another country and hasn’t yet sent out that subsequent tweet that contradicts what he said. During those precious moments, he’s “beginning to look a little more presidential.” “Worst week yet” ensues.
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: I was. Picnic, wine, theatre. Life was good.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
How was Taliesin?
ETA: I’m going to go eat dinner now but will see your reply in a little while.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Damn, couldn’t edit/correct in time. Lewandowski, not Scaramucci; and “Corey…has only got one ball….”
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
No, certainly not all, but you can’t deny a good many dip too deeply into the well of overcompensation. I’m short, I know a few short women, and none of us are bullies.
Baud
@hueyplong: Maybe Trump should give another speech to Congress. Van Jones hasn’t looked foolish in a while.
Kathleen
@GregB: I wonder if he calls her “Mommy” when he wants her to cook something special for dinner.
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good. That’s definitely a wonderful way to spend a summer’s evening. Or several.
Ithink
Corey Lewandowski is a proto-white nationalist, know-nothing genital wort; he was just on “Meet the (Watchtower) Press” spewing some psycho babble propaganda about Trump’s most profoundly disastrous week yet strictly for his base rubes and nobody else. I don’t have nothing nice or frankly relevant to say about all the other useless psychophants above, so whatever…
God we have got to get this everlasting chain of fools out of our f***-ing White House come 2020 or we really are screwed for another generation or more!
hueyplong
@Baud: Great idea. The best idea, and it’s terrific.
SiubhanDuinne
@Iowa Old Lady:
Yeah. And Sarah Huckabee-Sanders is C.J. Cregg.
Ithink
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Great Mussolini reference!?
hueyplong
@Kathleen: Maybe he calls her Mommy while fondling some blue velvet.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: When a tall guy asserts himself, it’s called leadership; a short guy, it’s called a Napoleon Complex.
debbie
@hueyplong:
I’m beginning to think he talks about Mother the way Norman Bates did.
Iowa Old Lady
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Really? I conclude I don’t know what most of these people are supposed to spend their time doing. I mean I know in general terms: “craft a communication strategy.” But in practical terms, I don’t know what that means hour by hour.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: OK, that comment made me spit Diet Coke on my keyboard, you owe me a new keyboard.
SiubhanDuinne
@Princess:
Mooch’s and Corey’s, both. Whenever I see those Trumpish overlong ties, the only thing I can think is that they’re directing the viewer’s eye to their junk. I mean, there’s the pointy arrow-end of the tie and everything. How insecure does a person have to be, anyhow?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Iowa Old Lady: @SiubhanDuinne: I would do that with Veep, but even those characters aren’t mean enough to deserve being compared to this crew.
Even Selena has sorta-kinda been concerned about family leave and the environment
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Iowa Old Lady: First few seasons, Sam was the Director of Communications; same as The Mooch.
Keith P.
@Ithink: I’m gonna try on “Il Muce” for a bit on Da Mooch. I’m still partial to “Da Mooch”, but I’ll give Il Muce some time.
chris
Ah, the place did seem to be missing a beat here and there. Or a Baud. Welcome back, Dear Leader To Be.
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Disagree, based on my experience. However, if a tall guy acted the same way, he’d be an asshole. Y’know, like Trump.
SiubhanDuinne
@GregB:
That sounds amazingly scatological.
Quinerly
@Miss Bianca:
I know. The world has gone mad. In other news, I read where Omarosa hates her some Mooch. He got the office with the view of the Washington Monument that she’s been pining for. I’m thinking she could beat the shit out of the little shit.
Ithink
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
That dies sort of male sense but I don’t think we should become so restrictive that it stiffles a legitimate criticism of our opponents or own tactics. As long as being wonderfully nasty is coupled with facts, logic, & reason, its all good, right?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: I’m 5’4″, I’m very sensitive about this.
NMgal
@lollipopguild: I want to start a betting pool on Kelly’s tenure. RNC PR BS lasted 129 days, right? I’m in for 63 days for Kelly.
Barney
The photo makes me think of the movie of Entourage. Talking of which, here is the world’s best movie review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfgCZ9lgQ3I
(his review of Sex and the City 2 is another classic)
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@NMgal:
Why less? Whatever I think of Kelly, I think he’s tougher than Rinse Pubics
Baud
@chris: Thanks, good chris.
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Judging by the number of jacked up 4x4s that never see dirt, the number of overly loud motorcycles and more specifically in my neighborhood, the number of high end sports/supercars driven around in 2nd gear, it’s not all that uncommon for some to recognize their short comings and need attention to compensate.
Kathleen
@debbie: I’m beginning to think “Mother” really is Norman Bates.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
What do you suppose Moochie is saying? “Yeah, whooda I gotta boff to get a fookin’ pizza here?”
Tin-plated Lewandowski needs to go down in flames.
Omorosa… sell-out.
Buncha losers.
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
You don’t seem the overcompensating type, so you shouldn’t worry. But it still happens.
schrodingers_cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Don’t worry you are taller than me, I am 5ft 3
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Ithink:
Call it Goku’s Law, a corollary to Godwin’s Law
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: Have you seen his camera lenses?
schrodingers_cat
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: He probably has more of a spine than Priebus (sp?) so will leave early.
Quinerly
@Baud:
Poco has been giving good beach goose to the bikini clad crowd, he’s licked two babies, killed a ghost crab in mid air and ate part of it on the spot, tried to roll on a dead horseshoe crab, sniffed a Pekingese, pissed on three beach umbrellas, pooped in the sand dunes, and listened to Mark Knopfler for hours….he’s ready for Baud/Poco 2020!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: I’ve learned to keep my head down and keep quiet.
@schrodingers_cat: It’s different for a guy.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: You mean seen, right?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Heh, the fisheye is my favorite.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: precisely why he’s more likely to crash hard if he takes on trump directly. Who the fuck knows? Joan Walsh floated the unsettling rumor that the Martinet and the Beast have “bonded”. OTOH, the other flying rumor is that Kelly was very hesitant to take the job, and consulted friends who told him not to do it.
Quinerly
@Baud:
How could Corner Stone just abandon us like this??
JPL
@NMgal: I think that he lasts longer than Mooch. Scaramooch is receiving a lot of attention, and Trump doesn’t like that. Now Trump doesn’t care if it’s negative attention, he just doesn’t want someone to receive more airtime than he does.
Kathleen
@Barney: The photo reminded me of “The Walk” in the last scene of the opening credits – when Brisco, Green, McCoy and Asst DA de jour walk down the hallway.
schrodingers_cat
@Quinerly: Have you told Baud about his Russian connection, Ivan?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Ithink: I tend to not make fun of others based on their looks. There’s plenty to mock that they can help, such as the content of their character
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
That makes me smile and smile and smile.
schrodingers_cat
@Quinerly: Do you try that line at least once, every day/
chris
@SiubhanDuinne: Look at the tie itself as a phallic symbol… Or don’t. Ew.
Baud
@Quinerly: I also did one of those things.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
I’m beginning to be reminded of that old joke about the masochist who said “Beat me! Beat me!” and the sadist replied: “No.”
Kathleen
@Quinerly: As long as the Poco Poop video doesn’t go viral.
ETA Or the Baud Whatever Video.
SiubhanDuinne
@chris:
I know, right? It’s impossible not to.
Kathleen
@hueyplong: I totally get that vibe from both of them.
Major Major Major Major
@chris: @SiubhanDuinne: Once upon a time, when I was in college, we had a TA who talked one time about the evolution of such things as going from ancient Greek satyr plays where the actors had giant dongs, through the (relatively) more conservative enormous codpieces of the dark ages, and to today, where we merely wear giant arrows.
The Lodger
@SiubhanDuinne: Mooch on a watch. All of the Mickey Mouse, none of the licensing fees.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: You sniffed a Pekingese, didn’t you?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@schrodingers_cat: @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
We’ll see. I hope he gets very publicly humiliated by Trump
efgoldman
@Quinerly:
My daughter works in Farragut Square. Her building is being renovated/updated. The temporary offices have a lovely view of the Washington Monument. So?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: I once interviewed with a guy who had a really nice view of the White House.
efgoldman
@schrodingers_cat:
A jellyfish has more spine than Rinse
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
It’s basically a law of physics that (s)he who works for Trump shall be publicly humiliated.
Quinerly
@Kathleen:
Well, it was an outlaw poop. Seems it was a two bag walk and his body girl only brought one bag. We dug and ran. Don’t let this get out. It will be our secret, ok? Remember, we share a name……
Quinerly
@SiubhanDuinne:
?
sukabi
@Iowa Old Lady: that’s ok, don’t beat yourself up. They don’t know what they’re doing either.
Quinerly
@Baud:
Poco/Baud 2020?
dogwood
I’ve never been an avid reader of Kos, but have always started my day reading the Abbreviated Pundit Roundup. Today that post used a term I had yet to see, but it is a perfect description of this government. “Proctocracy”. Government of, by and for assholes.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
Ah the double dump! My pup is famous for double dumps and the dreaded hat tricks. I confess to burying them under leaves on a few unfortunate occasions when I went through all the bags.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Quinerly: I always multi-use bags for each walk.
ETA: Two dogs and the Cocker will double and sometimes triple dump.
Baud
@Quinerly: Oh no! That’s worse than emails!
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
One of the nicest things about the Canadian Embassy is its incredible view of the Capitol. (It is also next door to the Newseum, and across the street from the Museum of the American Indian. Sweet Pennsylvania Avenue location, for sure.)
Quinerly
@schrodingers_cat:
It’s my own kind of Tourette’s.? It’s been weeks and hardly anyone noticed….and then everyone noticed. Hmmmmmmm
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major:
I really look forward to what poli scientists years from now write about Trump and the GOP in general
NMgal
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: @Jim, Foolish Literalist: @JPL: @schrodingers_cat: Because he’s not as floppy a fish as I think Priebus is, he’s likely to: resign because he won’t be allowed the authority to do the job as it would need to be done to even minimal competence, and I think he does understand what that is, unlike a lot of these mooks; resign because the president* gives him what in his mind will be an egregious and clearly illegal order; or get fired for standing up to Il Douche, or being mean to Javanka, or whatever the hell gets under the toddler’s skin one day (perhaps at 3 a.m.).
I’m not wedded to the notion, but it has occurred to me that Kelly (I keep typing Flynn and having to correct it, these five-letter Irish wingnut generals are easy to mix up) accepted the job because it’s an “honorable” path out of the administration altogether. He doesn’t think Cheeto Ceaucescu will fire him at DHS and doesn’t want to try to find out, but also has some personal problem with resigning. He figures the CoS job will be short time given the past six months of history. Again, maybe not, but it wouldn’t be a big surprise.
Quinerly
@schrodingers_cat: Shhhhh. He’s under deep cover(s).
Omnes Omnibus
@Quinerly: Everyone noticed. We were pretending not to in the hope that you would stop.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
Some of us noticed, but were far too well-mannered to say anything.
Quinerly
@Omnes Omnibus:
“I will not be ignored.”?
Omnes Omnibus
@Quinerly: Clearly.
MomSense
The incompetence has been a yuuge help to the resistance in many cases but I’m not looking forward to the consequences of incompetence when we have a natural disaster or other major crisis.
Quinerly
@?BillinGlendaleCA
: Poco is a fine tuned machine of an ex street dog. Very predictable, if you get my drift. We had a rain day yesterday. He hates the rain. Needless to say it was a big morning.
chris
@Major Major Major Major: And bow ties? Ugh, never mind
Quinerly
@MomSense:
We had a rain delay yesterday.
Wapiti
I think Trump is getting worse over time, and there’s less honeymoon period for his staff as well as for him. I wouldn’t be surprised if he lasts less time than Priebus. I also wouldn’t be surprised if some other lackey takes an under-the-bus tour first; Trump is the kind of boss who will use someone else to shield himself from blame.
SiubhanDuinne
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
I keep thinking of Gresham’s Law, but then one would with this crew, wouldn’t one?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’m sure that Hillary’s done that too.
ETA: Another reason we need a special prosecutor to look into her affairs.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Remind me where you went to college? Must have been pretty different from mine….
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: I too look forward to it being a day where this is that far in the rearview mirror.
Another Scott
@Baud: Welcome back. Hope you and Corner Stone had a great time.
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Compared to trump, The Mooch also has a child’s command of back-stabbing and neediness. And as far as back-stabbing, he’ll have to contend with Bannon, JaVanka and whoever those last two turn to for their dirty work. I imagine Kelly could scare Mooch all the way back to Manhattan if he wanted to, without much effort. The family isn’t going anywhere. Not because of Kelly.
trump is allergic to hard work, thinks being trump is the most bigly solid performance ever given, and needs suck-ups more than he needs water
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Perhaps Ball State?
:)
Quinerly
@Omnes Omnibus:
Maybe it’s a “Betelgeuse” kinda thing……..??
Quinerly
@Another Scott:
You win….I duff my hat to you. But I have no hat, I hate hat hair. Poco/Another Scott 2020!??❤??
Felonius Monk
@schrodingers_cat:
Ah, but the entropy. Think of the entropy.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Quinerly
@SiubhanDuinne:
Ah, yes….buggy rides!?
zhena gogolia
@efgoldman:
My husband and I always laugh at the way every single office in DC (according to TV and movies) has a view of the Capitol dome.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I heard something about an email server or something? Can’t quite remember, it was in passing and the media never picked up on the story.
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, she was a hoot. Although the best was our Whitman & Faulkner professor who would come over and get drunk on Two Buck Chuck.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
And shoo-fly pie!!
sm*t cl*de
@Wapiti:
Look at it from the perspective of Trump’s inner circle advisors, the family courtiers. They are the ones most uncertain of the loyalty of Trump appointees, where “loyalty” = “willingness to overlook dementia”.
There are two ways they could be thrown off the gravy train: Trump is impeached, or deposed by way of the 25th Amendment. The former requires the herding of Senators and congresscreatures, so not such a big worry. The latter only requires a majority of his cabinet to agree with Pence “that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”.
So the family courtiers cannot afford an outbreak of competence among Trump appointees.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: This is why I don’t think Kelly will be able to tolerate being in such a place for long. He can’t address the actual problem: Donald. Rearranging the deck chairs might keep him busy for a few weeks, but the real problem is the iceberg that is Donald.
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s really crazy how little scrutiny the Clintons get. They could probably murder somebody and the media would hardly cover it.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@lollipopguild:
Oh Baudy, you’re so fine
You’re so fine you blow my mind, hey Baudy,
Hey Baudy
SiubhanDuinne
@Felonius Monk:
Yes indeed, and you are very wise to remind us of the
Wise to remind us of the entro
Remind us of
Of the entrop
En
Tro
Py
…………………..
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Why do (non-retired) politicians go to baseball/sportsball games? It rarely goes well. Did Christie think he was gonna be in the owner’s box again, like with Jones? (video at link)
Villago Delenda Est
@Major Major Major Major: Did you ever hear of a guy named Vince Foster? Probably not.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
Ha!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Villago Delenda Est: I’m not sure who reports to him, Bannon, Mooch, and JVanka don’t.
Quinerly
@MomSense:
Strangest ex street dog ever.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Villago Delenda Est:
He the Foster Farms chicken guy?
schrodingers_cat
@Felonius Monk: Heh why no love for enthalpy or free energy for that matter?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Tiffany and the Fredos?
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Then he has no chance of being successful.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: If you are Mother, then you lie back and think of England.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Nope.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Also too, schmierkase and apple butter.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: …or steely resolve or Steely Dan.
mai naem mobile
@Quinerly: Lieberman did something right for a change or is lobbying for insurance companies???
schrodingers_cat
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Its only a matter of time.
schrodingers_cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Mother == Mrs Pence. I didn’t get the steely Dan reference.
Omnes Omnibus
@mai naem mobile: End result was the same. Just like with McCain’s vote. I don’t care what they were thinking.
Quinerly
Breitbart reporting Meghan Kelly’s show pulled after two months. Didn’t want to give the site the clicks. So no details.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Which Steely Dan?
Heywood J.
I hope Lewandoucheski has a concealed carry permit for those finger guns. Pew-pew!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Which one would Mother like?
sukabi
@Omnes Omnibus: Drumpf is going to insist he wears his uniform and his main duties will include catching flies, getting sandwiches and diet cokes, and telling Drumpf what a great president is.
Kelly will last 6 weeks tops.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
My fucking heart is fucking broken.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: ::shudders::
schrodingers_cat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: He has been overseeing the Icestapo with great efficiency. He is rude to members of Congress and mouths the same hatred towards immigrants as his boss. Such a stand up guy, Gen Kelly.
JMG
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Why didn’t the fan get right back into his face, possibly with a knee to the groin as punctuation? Let the fat slob press charges and have a jury decide. Put him under oath.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Heh, you had to ask.
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
Not unlike Paris and the Eiffel Tower.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JMG:
Was the game in Philly?
MomSense
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Oh god. VP Pense (R-Giles) is sooooo creepy. He makes my skin crawl.
efgoldman
@Quinerly:
I believe she got unmeasurably low ratings, but I thought they’d leave the show in place until the start of football season, when the pre-game takes the time slot.
Some executive VP at NBC needs to get his/her resume spiffed up.
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne:
Good.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@schrodingers_cat: that’s what worries me about Joan Walsh’s assertion that people have told her he and trump have “bonded”, what they “bonded” over, that this guy is a smarter, more polished version of Flynn or Jerry Boykin. Or worse.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
The short-lived Police Squad! covered both bases!
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: Won’t somebody think of the
childrenentropy??‽!‽?!Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Milwaukee.
Steve in the ATL
So…any juicers at the Greenhouse Tavern tonight? Party in Cleveland!
germy
sukabi
@Quinerly: a quick Google search shows breibart is the only one reporting that….so I’d take it with a can of salt.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: all those ex-Fox hires were Andrew Lack’s brilliant moves, weren’t they? Same guy who drove out Tamron Hall because she was upstaging Matt Lauer, and wanted to (per rumor) fire Joy Reid and Lawrence O’Donnell.
Quinerly
Ivanka has a sad about her dad’s tweet about transgenders in the military. Friend says where her dad is concerned, “she’s in there doing what she can:” http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/30/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-241149
Felonius Monk
@SiubhanDuinne:
Unfortunately, it doesn’t mean that NBC is letting her go. She will have a daytime morning show beginning in the fall.
germy
@sukabi: I saw gateway pundit, also.
Do they not like her?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@schrodingers_cat:
Has Adam ever commented on this about Kelly?
germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Nobody upstages Matt Lauer. It’s in his contract.
Quinerly
@sukabi:
Came up on memeorandum.com.
chris
@MomSense: The first time I saw a picture of Pence I thought he looked like a serial killer straight from Central Casting. Those eyes!
Major Major Major Major
@germy: She bleeds.
Out of places.
And, you know, was mean to Dear Leader.
Felonius Monk
@schrodingers_cat:
That’s going to win him lots of points up on the Hill. I give hime two months, tops.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, that would explain the lack of a knee to the groin. Wisconsin nice*, ya know.
*Or is that one of those other states up there in the frozen north country?
schrodingers_cat
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Nope. Wonder if he has any Russian connections, every on in T circle seems to have them.
germy
Pence is Jim Carrey imitating Clint Eastwood.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: He got in the face of a Cubs fan.
schrodingers_cat
@Felonius Monk: I remember reading several instances of his having walked out in a huff when questioned about DHS policies.
efgoldman
@Felonius Monk:
I expect they don’t want to be paying off a huge contract while she sits on the beach. Think the Red Sox and Pablo Sandoval.
germy
@Omnes Omnibus:
schrodingers_cat
@Steve in the ATL: You seem to be in every place other than ATL. Have fun at the party.
Quinerly
@germy: @chris: But there’s good news!?: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/north-korea-offers-unconditional-surrender-after-mike-pence-angrily-squints-at-it
sukabi
@Quinerly: she may very well be on her way out. Just wouldn’t take breitbarts word for anything….plus she shouldn’t have been hired by NBC anyway…
schrodingers_cat
@germy: Well at least Jim Carrey has never talked to a chair onstage, AFAIK.
MomSense
@chris:
Those dead eyes! That man is a smooth liar. No conscience to interfere.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
She’s just trying to cover the dementia.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@schrodingers_cat: Kelly? At this point, nothing would surprise me
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I wish we were frozen right now. I fucking hate summer.
Quinerly
@MomSense:
My mind is in the gutter tonight. The quote made my inner 12 year old boy laugh.
germy
Joe Biden still wants to be president. Can his family endure one last campaign?
schrodingers_cat
@Quinerly: The one that is pining for Corner Stone?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@germy: We love ya Joe, but no, just no.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
?
Gravenstone
@Keith P.: ‘Il Muce’ looks for all the world like ‘Mucilage’, which works surprisingly well.
efgoldman
@germy:
No no no no no no no.
Nobody close to my age should ever run for anything, ever.
No no No no No no No no No no No no No no No no No no No no No no
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gravenstone: No, I think he’s Governor of Maine.
Shalimar
@Villago Delenda Est: Scaramucci doesn’t report to Kelly. Kushner damn well doesn’t. I doubt Bannon does. He can’t even rearrange the deck chairs. It’s not clear at this point what Kelly will actually do. Does he even have access to Trump when he wants it? This position is not like any other White House CoS ever.
germy
@efgoldman: I would prefer Joe write a book rather than run for president.
SiubhanDuinne
@ThresherK:
And a hearty ETAOIN SHRDLU to you, my good sir!
Suzanne
@Shalimar:
I have no idea why anyone who ever wants to leave the house again would take the CoS job.
……when the GOP talked about “running government like a business”, perhaps they should have been more specific about which business.
Patricia Kayden
@Another Scott: LOL!! It’s all good. Just wait until a mockumentary is made about this farce of an administration. We’ll be rolling on the ground holding our bellies. Just dying for Mueller to end it all.
Suzanne
The business that this government seems to be emulating is “seedy strip club doubling as front for drug trafficking”.
Gravenstone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Fuck, what was Jersey Whale doing in Milwaukee? Was Snotty Walker involved?
Patricia Kayden
@Felonius Monk:
Building a wall which “Mexico”* will pay for. Repealing and replacing the ACA on day one. Destroying ISIS on day one. And other what nots and promises.
*Mexico being you and me and other American tax payers.
Shalimar
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: I think Kelly lasts less time than Preibus because everything is speeding up. Preibus got a few months grace period during the heady early days of the administration when they were delusional enough to think they could get things done just by wishing aloud. Now it is all infighting and backstabbing to blame someone else for today’s screwup. Everyone other than Kushner and maybe Huckabee Sanders will be gone by October.
rikyrah
pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl
Mayor @TedWheeler has been secretly working with Jeff Sessions’ DOJ to dismantle police accountability in Portland.
https://twitter.com/pdxlawgrrrl/status/891785339571847168
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
Thank you!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gravenstone: Taking Preibus back to Wisconsin, the Jersey Whale is the White House delivery boy, after all.
Gravenstone
@germy: in other words, ‘we’re off the air for 6 months while we order more lipstick for this pig’.
Patricia Kayden
@efgoldman: Democrats need some fresh blood when it comes to a presidential candidate. Biden needs to enjoy his retirement and perhaps help rally support for Democratic candidates from time to time. Neither he nor Sanders should run for President ever again.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I wonder how many people cast their presidential votes based on age/generation. Nixon was about four years older than my mother, and as far as she was concerned he was already something of an elder statesman. JFK, like my mom, was born in 1917 — he was only three months older than she — but she viewed him as an immature pup. The first presidential candidate who brought me up short by his extreme youth was Bill Clinton, four or five years my junior. Gore, Kerry, Obama, and Hillary Clinton (and for that matter, Bush 43, Romney, and Trump) are all younger than I am. It is disconcerting. I do agree with you, I don’t want anyone close to my age running for POTUS.
Patricia Kayden
@Quinerly:
Which pretty much is absolutely nothing.
Quinerly
Unrelated….the Mark Knopfler “station” on Pandora is fantastic.
Quinerly
@Patricia Kayden:
You took the high road with that comment.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Obama was the first that was my junior.
The Lodger
@efgoldman: Biden would make a great White House advisor but I agree he is too damn old to be President.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I haven’t had a junior yet. Obama is three years older than me.
Major Major Major Major
Was tooling around my streaming services and decided to start watching Fargo (the tv show). It’s great! Thanks to the various juicers who suggested it.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
You are substantially younger than I am. I’ll celebrate (if that’s the word) my 75th this week.
Quinerly
Agent Orange connection to McCain’s brain cancer?: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/medical/article/McCain-s-brain-cancer-draws-renewed-attention-to-11437640.php
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m not even.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Well, not quite three years. You are right.
Keith P.
Twin Peaks…Blue Rose…ho-lee shit!
SiubhanDuinne
@Felonius Monk:
She will have to pull in those blockbuster ratings without me. I don’t have a television, and if I did, I wouldn’t watch daytime tv, and if I did, it wouldn’t be Megan Kelly.
/snob
/elitist
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: You were 17 when I was born.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
His birthday is just a day off ours.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Hence the “not quite three years.”
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: Love that story, except for the “pulling out the fork” part. eeeew.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I celebrated my 17th birthday in Paris. Pâté de foie gras, and my first-ever champagne. I loved the second, have never been interested in revisiting the first.
Quinerly
Mooch’s publicist (yes, the WH Communications Director seems to have a publicist) wants to talk about Priebus’s mistress. Yes, our country is now truly a reality show: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/07/scaramucci-friend-threatens-expose-reince
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: I enjoy both. Swine that I am.
WaterGirl
@Baud: One more thing I hate Trump for, as if I needed any more things. I used to really like Van Jones.
Felonius Monk
@SiubhanDuinne:
And yes, celebrate it is. Welcome to the 3/4 Century Club. May I indulge in cake and ice cream in your honor, and then wash it down with a nice cold beer? Happy Birthday in advance.
And Omnes is still just a pup. After all, he is the same age as my youngest daughter and I still refer to her as Kid. :)
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: cochon
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m 5’3″. If you’re shorter than me, you’re short. If you’re taller than 6’5″, you’re tall. Everybody in between is regular. That’s how it seems to play out for me, anyway.
I have only known two short guys who fall into the short-guy complex, so I have to agree with you that it is kind of a bum rap to be seen that way.
Mike J
@WaterGirl: Van Jones has been an idiot longer than Trump has been a politician.
Omnes Omnibus
@Felonius Monk: Golly.
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
That struck me that your mom was born in the same yr as my dad. Then I thought about my older my sister and it made me feel good, older sister. You and efg, there are a few others, we are the retirement gang. Maybe we are still going strong, maybe not quite so much but still kicking. But someone else has to do the work. We get to sit around and look and talk important, maybe an upturned middle finger or two once in a while as well.
The Lodger
@Quinerly: Seriously, I never wanted to see the words Priebus and mistress in the same sentence. Ever.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: 6’2″ and 5’7″. I say that as a 5’10” (5′ 9 3/4″) person.
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Congrats.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: My comment about height was written before you stated your actual height.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ll 6’4″ and people call me tall or really tall a lot.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: On a different note, shall we raise a glass on Thursday? Rupert Brook would approve.
dww44
@SiubhanDuinne: Megyn is taking the 9 o’clock Today hour over. Lauer doesn’t do the third hour. Currently hosted by Al Roker, Jenna Bush Hager, and an attractive personable young African American woman whose name I don’t recollet..
I actually tried watching her Sunday night show, and I thought the production values were not very good. Subjects/topics weren’t compelling, particularly when you’re on opposite 60 minutes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: You are tall. Officially.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
Actually it was not that big a deal. Going in or coming out. She couldn’t have managed to do less damage if she’d tried. But she was a fresh sorority sister and so now we all had to get our manners in line. You might have guessed from a sampling of my comments that between telling me and stabbing me I told her to fuck off. She appreciated that about as much as I appreciated being stabbed.
Felonius Monk
@Omnes Omnibus:
I used to be 5’11”, but after fighting the earth’s gravitational field for 75 yrs. I’m about as tall as you are. So I guess we see eye to eye now.
sukabi
@Patricia Kayden: yeah, if she was doing everything she could she would have harpooned his ass with an elephants dose of thorazine last summer.
Quinerly
@The Lodger:
How about Pence and mistress?
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: not according to WaterGirl, she thinks I’m normal.
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: No one who comments here is normal, whatever their height.
Steve in the ATL
@Major Major Major Major: no one thinks you’re normal
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: There goes your reputation!
edit: All those years of driving separate cars to the blog so we wouldn’t catch on, all in vain.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: @Steve in the ATL: normal, abnormal, such loaded terms.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: She is daft. You know that.
@Felonius Monk: True of my dad as well. He is 74 and I am now taller than he is. I still think that he is still stronger than me. Over the short run.
Felonius Monk
@Steve in the ATL:
And this, coming from a guy currently hanging out in Cleveland?
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
6’4″ is tallish. I’m 5″ 11″, exactly average for my age. But I had a 6′ 10″ guy work for me and worked with another at the same place, out of 16 people, who was also 6′ 10″. That’s pretty damn tall. Walking along with either one of them I felt like I was kid walking with my dad.
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: Normal = 90 degrees. Do you prefer orthogonal?
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Moi aussi. cochons, unite!
WaterGirl
@Villago Delenda Est: Pretty sure the Major knew exactly what he was doing there.
Ruckus
@schrodingers_cat:
@Steve in the ATL:
You guys, you say the nicest things.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Spending time interacting with women hockey players can change your perspective on what’s tall or short.
Suzanne
@SiubhanDuinne: Congrats on the birthday! I shall enjoy a cocktail in your honor. I’m sweet like that.
I am on the tail end of Gen-X (born in 1980). I somehow think that there won’t be any X-er presidents. The Baby Boomers will hang on well past their time, and then the Millennials will be old enough.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I shutter to think of it!
OldDave
@Major Major Major Major:
Majorly tall. I’ll show myself to the door.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: I still have a scar on my thumb from where my older sister dug her nail into me. Must be a rite of passage.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: I haven’t heard that joke since high school.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: Depending on the cultural vs demographic Gen-X, you may already have had one.
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Explain please.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Stop that!
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: um, excuse me, but I can hear you.
Another Scott
@sm*t cl*de: Some here have said (or pointed to others who have said) that the 25th Amendment would never apply to Donnie because he’d never agree that he’s incompetent to perform the job.
I decided to take a look at the text, especially Section 4:
(Emphasis added.)
1) It looks like Congress would need to pass some sort of law to change the conditions if the Cabinet decided that he shouldn’t be removed. Of course, Donnie would have to sign such a law (or refuse to veto it).
2) If Donnie decided to fight the declaration, then both houses of Congress would have to vote by 2/3 to decide the issue.
The 25th (rightly) isn’t an easy way to force a crazy or comatose President out. But it is a way if things get bad enough, and if we have Cabinet officers who are willing to actually follow their oaths to protect the Constitution…
Cheers,
Scott.
Chet Murthy
I can’ be the only one who, upon seeing that pic of Reservoir Dregs, thought “Joe Pesci on SNL”, yes? Though it’d sure be nice if they could get a woman to do it, b/c then we’d get added piss-em-off value.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
I hope not, I’d like to think that being attacked by a sibling that draws blood/leaves a mark is a rather rare occurrence or at least accidental. But then maybe it is more normal than we think.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: In our sample, it’s 100%!
Playing spoons is another way to be injured by a family member, though likely not intentionally.
Yarrow
@Ruckus: I think it’s more common than uncommon.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: But you are daft. No offense intended.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Omnes Omnibus: You start thinking that the average height for women is about 5’9″. More if you’re dealing with Gopher defensemen.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: My brother is enough younger than me that, when I went to college, I could easily kick his ass, and by the time I came home from the the army we were both old enough that fighting it out didn’t matter more than blood did. We never had the climactic fights that some brothers do. I ceded superior athleticism to him and he ceded academic superiority to me. And then, we encouraged the other one to see himself as better on the other thing.
Excuse my sentimentality, I just came off of a really good family weekend.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Ah. I’ve spent time in the Netherlands. It does something similar.
Procopius
@Felonius Monk: I think that’s not going to happen, because as unpredictable as he is, the quite predictable Mike Pence would be even worse (trust me, it’s possible). Also, if something dramatic like that happens to the President*, it will support conspiracy theories about the Deep State, which is not in their interest right now. They work best when there are lots of pundits (like now) out there insisting there’s no such thing as the Deep State.
Major Major Major Major
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: is the average height for women not about 5’9″?
ETA: misread and saw 4″ somehow
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I have a friend whose mother is Dutch, he is 6ft 4, and his mother is close to 6 ft tall as well. I feel like Frodo whenever I go for a visit.
Procopius
@debbie: Yeah, saw a picture of him and his wife standing next to the President* and Ivanka. He looked to be at least three inches shorter than Ivanka. After reading transcripts of his rant I find myself wondering, as I often do, how do people like that get to be so rich? I know they network and help each other while sabotaging everyone else, but it’s still a puzzlement to me. Like Robert Mercer.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Seriously? That’s how you think of me? Wow.
P.S. Offense taken.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: They are tall-ass people.
@WaterGirl: Lighten up, please. I ain’t calling myself normal – except in height.
ETA: I would go with bonkers. It is the best fit.
J R in WV
@sm*t cl*de:
No, you’re incorrect. The cabinet can remove him – declare him unable to perform the duties of the office. But that’s only a short time, unless the congress also declares him unable, and it takes 60% of the voting members of each house, Representatives and Senate.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Except for silly, I find all of those synonyms pretty insulting. I guess we never really know how other people see us. Maybe it’s better that way.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: It was not my intention to insult you. My view of what I meant to say does not conform with what you read. That is my fault. I am sorry.
Groucho48
The whole crew needs to be Cersei’d.
GHayduke
Shit, I don’t know. Spent two nights in a nice BNB with the wife, spent time with the prog. Replaced his bathroom faucet, and took a 7 mile hike on the superior hiking trail w him. Trump sucks.
sukabi
@WaterGirl: how’d the thesaurus get the ENTIRE Drumpf administration in one list?
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Enjoy family while you have one. You never know what comes with up with the sun.
AnotherBruce
@NotMax: @Ruckus: God I loved that show. It was the beginning of Leslie Nielson’s epic career.
sm*t cl*de
@J R in WV:
UNPOSSIBLE.
Uncle Cosmo
@sm*t cl*de:
Sorry, but you have fundamentally misunderstood the purpose & intent of the 25th Amendment. It was designed to be invoked to clearly designate who is in charge of the Federal government in circumstances where it is understood & agreed to by all parties, including POTUS, that s/he will be “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”. E.g., when undergoing a medical procedure requiring general anesthetic. Or (as in The West Wing) when POTUS would be subject to blackmail when a family member is held by hostile forces. Etc.
POTUS has 4 days to dispute in writing the assertion that “s/he is unable to discharge” etc. At which point, if VPOTUS & a majority of the Cabinet reaffirm within 4 days that s/he is “unable to discharge” (etc.) Congress has 21 days to act (23 days if not already in session). If 2/3 of both houses of Congress do not vote within that interval to transfer the duties & powers of the office to VPOTUS as “Acting President,” then POTUS retains those duties & powers. And even if that transfer was so voted, it looks to me as if the “unacting” POTUS could continue to bombard Congress with petitions to recover those duties & powers (IANA constitutional scholar & someone who is ought to weigh in here).
IOW, as a mechanism for sidelining a recalcitrant POTUS who does not agree s/he is unable etc., the 25th Amendment (specifically Section 4) is a clusterfuck. It would actually take fewer votes in Congress to impeach & remove him/her (simple majority vs 2/3 in the House), & it would be permanent – no appeal possible.
Anyone who blathers about “a 25th Amendment solution” to the current mishegoss clearly has not read (or at least, has not understood) the text of the amendment, & should be encouraged to do so before they shoot off their mouths & embarrass themselves further.