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Poom!
Many thanks to commentor SiubhanDuinne, demonstrating once again why she is so universally beloved here. (She posted this in the comments last night, but I know not everybody gets to read all the comments.)
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Apart from dealing with That One Person In Your Life, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Pivot.
Baud
I always thought the French had better things to do with their time compared to us.
Thankfully, that’s not so.
efgoldman
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Did the shitbag really say that, or is it just something that showed up on the toobz?
schrodingers_cat
@efgoldman: He hates immigrants with the exception of tall Eastern European models. So I can see why he wants to pardon Joe Arapaio.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: He likes the ones that serve on his properties.
Betty Cracker
@efgoldman: Fox News says so. That’s probably one story they got right.
lamh36
Wow… public defenders have the hardest jobs sometimes and they don’t even get paid as much as private defense lawyers, do they?
JPL
So cute and thank you to Siubhan for sharing it.
@efgoldman: Only if Fox news is to believed, which has been mentioned by Miss Cracker.
dmsilev
@efgoldman: Via TPM:
Teddys Person
@efgoldman: From TMP
Nevermind, others got their before me.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: True. He doesn’t like to hire Americans or permanent residents for seasonal jobs on his properties, too uppity.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@schrodingers_cat:
What bullshit reason could he cough up for pardoning this asshole?
Roger Moore
A man with three buttocks?
lamh36
Too bad, I wish he had continued…but I understand why he didn’t…
Geeno
@Baud: I know, so did I. They’re just as bored and goofy as the rest of us.
Baud
OT. Here’s something not entirely Trump related to talk about
WaPo
schrodingers_cat
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Does the President need to justify a pardon? I am no constitutional scholar or a lawyer. Tunch blog lawyers, what say you?
Suffragette City
I may have actually learned French as a language if things like this had been around much earlier in my life.
Baud
@Roger Moore: Not as different as you might think…
MomSense
That video was very sweet. A nice break from the ugly.
I missed everything today because it was another manic Monday (wish it was Sunday).
Haven’t watched the asshole in chief’s statement because fuck him. Decent people didn’t need several days to figure out what to say and we have a right to expect better from a president.
No mulligans when it comes to denouncing a terrorist attack committed by Nazis.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@dmsilev:
HE BROKE THE LAW! He violated constitutional and human rights! He’s no fucking patriot. He’s a scumbag who deserves to rot in prison for the rest of his life. Arpaio is just some two-bit goon of a sheriff. Why is the POTUS considering pardoning some low-life nobody?
See, this is why I don’t believe in karma. Finally, Arpaio was going to face some justice, until the Orange asshole decided to muck that up.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Not legally.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@schrodingers_cat:
To my limited knowledge no. But if you’re going to pardon someone, it should be for a good fucking reason other than just because you agree with and are a horrifying racist POS too.
I’m still pissed about Charlottesville and Trump’s response to it. No amount of backtracking will erase what he did
lamh36
FUQ!!!
Now who wants to bet Trump tweets about this before the end of the night!
dmsilev
@schrodingers_cat:
No. Sad but true.
A Ghost to Most
rawstory
This was the father of one of the marchers. Apologies if previously noted.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: That’s what I thought. Let T make toxic political decisions that play well among his base of assorted bigots.
ETA: Got my voter registration in the mail. One more box checked!
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: I appreciate your support.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Betty Cracker: So does WaPo. Shit.
NotMax
A penguin atop the TV to which Dolt 45 is eternally glued?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@A Ghost to Most:
So IOW, if you say something we don’t like we’ll murder you.
But please tell me more about the evil SJW’s and how their criticisms of things you say are the worst thing ever.
A Ghost to Most
@schrodingers_cat:
Congratulations.
Use it wisely.
/slughorn
Yarrow
@MomSense: How are things with your dad? Saw he got some possibly not great news.
A Ghost to Most
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
What are the chances of Arpaio facing state charges?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
So how did Trump’s mulligan go? Did the media fall for it hook, line, and sinker? I couldn’t watch.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So Trump’s big China trade annoucment today was signing an exacutive order instructing some depratment to look into Chines trade practices? WTF? How utterly useless can this guy be? The guy is nothing but a basket of badly done symbolic gestures.
SiubhanDuinne
Oh, thanks for putting that up in prime time, Anne Laurie! The only reason I linked to it last night is that M4 reported that Samwise was giving him a boop, and it reminded me of poom, and, well.
But the English-language version (Pattycake) — identical video, completely different dialogue — is also brilliantly done. They’re fun to watch back-to-back.
NotMax
@Baud
Linked to this here earlier in the month:
This 1 number sums up why that Foxconn deal is over-the-top bad for Wisconsin
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: I am curious why Trump doesn’t come out and admit the pardon is because Arpaio kisses Trump’s south end.
bystander
I think I’m just going to watch that video and skip the news tonight. So much more enjoyable and I’d really like to add Dansons to my repertoire of Sous le pont and Chevaliers de la Table Ronde.
Ruckus
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
You’d think the answer would be obvious.
schrodingers_cat
A man is known by the company he keeps. Putin, Arapaio, Duke are T’s buddies, tells us a lot about the man and the people who decided to hand him the keys to the nuclear arsenal.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@NotMax: Sounds like another group of Chines’ buisnessmen about to find out that low bidding high volumn, low margen work in a high cost of living area isn’t going to work out like they expect.
A Ghost to Most
@NotMax:
Didn’t hit the link, but guessing that the number is 2042
bystander
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks for that one. I was hoping the “Poum” was a reference to Charles Trenet’s “Boum”. I was excited to see cats perform Trenet.
geg6
Kitty video is adorable (pronounced the French way). I needed the laugh after catching the local news announcing that Pittsburgh is about to be invaded by the racist pigs as part of their Google protests next weekend. This is not good news.
trollhattan
@bystander:
Not bragging when I note having completely ditched the teevee news habit.
Local disaster, election returns, Seahawks victory parade, Hillary’s in town, my kid’s in the news, okay, otherwise, nyet.
JPL
@geg6: ugh
It’s times like that, you hope it rains.
Baud
@NotMax:
Thanks. The one thing I would say that’s missing from that analysis is any consideration of whether the deal will have an economic multiplier effect for the regional economy. Just as we say that raising the minimum wage does, for example. That said, it does seem like an enormous amount of money for what they are getting.
lamh36
Welp…time to mark my calendar!!
BIRTH OF THE DRAGON – OFFICIAL TRAILER (2017) https://youtu.be/SL7OfxJo2oA
Baud
@geg6: How many are they expecting? I can’t imagine it’s a lot, especially for a city the size of Pittsburgh.
NotMax
@Baud
Also too (because of Wisconsin’s governor), obligatory to point out the Brit slang “Walker!”
MomSense
@Yarrow:
He has another aortic dissection although this one is seemingly not aggressive. He’s too weak for another surgery to repair it and it can’t be fixed with a stent. So he is home with significant pain and knows he could drop dead at any time. We are just enjoying every day we have. I spent the weekend there and my youngest is spending a whole week. Yesterday we took a drive through gorgeous country to visit some cousins he hasn’t seen in a while. Their farm is amazing and we ate a ton of fresh sweet corn. He slept the whole way home!
He will have cat scans every month to see how it looks and hopefully will be around long enough to have the repair.
I’ll go back next weekend and spend as much time with them as I can. My stepmom is a champion but she is exhausted.
Thank you for thinking of us.
Baud
@MomSense: I’m sorry. I didn’t know.
schrodingers_cat
When has David Brooks asked for a CEO’s resignation before this? CEOs are treated like Gods by the Rs, unless they have happen to have non European immigrant origins, coincidence? I think not.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Ruckus:
Oh, I know. He’s a scumbag loser too. That is obvious. My question was more rhetorical than anything. The POTUS should not pardon a person like Arpaio. Doesn’t he understand he’s only throwing more fuel on the fire? A few more Charlottesvilles and this country will blow up. I wouldn’t be surprised see in a 6 months to a year from now someone seriously trying to kill Trump.
NotMax
@Baud
Also pretty much ignored is that the type of manufacturing envisioned creates toxic by-products. In a facility of such size and scope (coupled with a defanged EPA), an environmental time bomb.
JPL
This is Trump’s latest tweet, which I assume was written as a threat to other CEO’s thinking about jumping ship.
I’m going to boycott the companies.
lamh36
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/897212560340127745
JPL
@MomSense: I’m so sorry.
Tazj
Cute video but I feel cheated, my cats don’t do that.
I saw something on a car that actually made me smile. It was on a car that had an Obama/Biden bumper sticker on it. These words surrounded the liscense plate. On the top it said”We are loved”, and on the bottom it said “And so are they.”
MomSense
@Baud:
Thanks. He was doing so well so it was a big blow to all of us.
Baud
@lamh36: What do have against adopting babies?
Major Major Major Major
@Baud:
That they do not is evident if you visit France, but then again my definition of “better things to do” is that of coastal elite cosmopolitan scum.
The French, they’re just like us!
debbie
@dmsilev:
After his “missteps” this weekend, pardoning Arpaio would wouldn’t help his approval rating, to say the least.
Ohio Mom
@NotMax: The Murphy Brown clip you linked to in the previous thread made me laugh the hardest since I can remember.
I wasn’t all that big a fan (got a little tired of the Elroy, baby, and other-stretched-too-far-plot devices) but now I am going to look for the whole episode.
Thanks!
lamh36
But Stephen Miller will still be there though…
Baud
@lamh36: Good. Miller is a much higher class of Nazi.
SFAW
And universally feared, when she is in her “Mob Enforcer” mode.
Re: the vid: which one is Groucho and which one is Harpo?
debbie
So I come home and there are all kinds of Charlottesville photos on my FB feed. One is of the Nazi thugs doing their Tiki Torch Dance, and for the first time, I realized that they all dressed like Trump on the golf course — white polo, khakis, black belt, and that stupid red hat. I can only assume this was intentional on their part. Has anyone asked any of Trump’s staff for their reaction?
lamh36
This will probably be happening in ALOT of places…
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud: The french people I know seem to have a one-track mind (photo)
SFAW
@MomSense:
Best wishes to you and your father (and stepmom). I hope he strengthens enough for surgery.
NotMax
@Ohio Mom
You’re welcome. IIRC, there’s also a funny follow-up episode about what occurs regarding Congressman Best after the interview.
Suzanne
@A Ghost to Most:
Delicate snowflakes, can’t deal with any disagreement. Hurts their fee-fees.
I have been fantasizing about the speech I want to hear when Trump is thrown in jail. It ends with, “Well, Mr. Trump, you finally made America great again.”
lamh36
Aww…he mad again ya’ll…fuq’n crybaby
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/897223558073602049
Tazj
@MomSense: I’m sorry. Good thoughts for your Dad, you and your family for more good days and hopefully recovery.
MomSense
@SFAW:
Thanks. Me too!
MomSense
@Tazj:
Thank you!
debbie
@MomSense:
I listened. Reading his statement, Trump couldn’t have sounded more disinterested if he had tried.
zhena gogolia
@bystander:
It really looks as if those cats are saying what the guys are saying. It’s very skillfully done.
debbie
@MomSense:
I am so sorry to read this. Wishing you much strength.
Suzanne
@MomSense: Hugs to you and your family. Hang in there. Come vent at your favorite herd of snarling jackals whenever you’re feeling down.
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
I HATE THIS MAN SO MUCH THE HATE IS EATING AWAY AT MY SOUL
Villago Delenda Est
@A Ghost to Most: Non-existent. The entire thing is because he defied a Federal Judge’s ruling.
debbie
Someone needs to file a FOIA for staff phone records. You gotta think calls were made to Duke, Spencer, etc., telling them Trump’s fingers were crossed behind his back when he read the statement calling out the hate groups by name. I can’t believe he’d alienate them.
Villago Delenda Est
@Ohio Mom: Only made better by Wallace Shawn’s terrific performance.
Inventor
I don’t think Nazis should work in the Whitehouse.
Even if they are accomplished contortionists.
NotMax
Thought for the day: With the Daily Stormer site gone (for now), the daily Dolt 45 propaganda folder is gonna be noticeably slimmer.
Also, for those so inclined, Scaramucci scheduled to appear on Colbert’s show tonight.
eclare
@MomSense: So sorry to hear.
geg6
@Baud:
There are tons of white supremacists all over Western PA. Hell, PA is a hotbed of these sorts. They don’t live in the city but they are all over nearby counties. It could be a lot but no one seems to know. Mayor is making preparations and there is a community meeting set up. Google’s operations here are located in an area of the city filled with college students (Pitt, CMU and some smaller colleges) and an incredibly diverse place. A very upscale neighborhood is just a few blocks away. Students are moving in this week. It could be very bad.
debbie
How pitiful: Retweeting a 16-year-old!
rikyrah
I am asking for positive thoughts and prayers.
I had to bring my sister to the ER.
MomSense
??? Thanks, everyone. He’s had a really good life and he has done so much good with his life so we really do feel grateful. We are are trying not to allow much more than love and joy to enter our family space.
eclare
@rikyrah: What?
trollhattan
@NotMax: Seriously, Colbert and the Front-Stabber? This will be GOLD, JERRY!
MomSense
@rikyrah:
Sending love and healing thoughts to you and your sister. Please let us know how we can support you.
Another Scott
@rikyrah: You got it, rikyrah. Fingers crossed for her, and you.
Best wishes,
Scott.
smintheus
@lamh36: The latest revelations concern the “Model UN” doofus Trump hired, who spent months trying to set up meetings between Trump and the Russians.
Model UN guy kept pushing for meetings with the Russians, higher-ups in the campaign were all ‘concerned’ about the optics, but nobody ever fired Model UN guy for proposing that they commit treason. Just like they never told the FBI about the Russians’ attempts to use them to attack Clinton. They were only treason-curious.
debbie
No mention of Putin in this NYT article about the tie between North Korean missiles and Ukraine, but his fingerprints have got to be all over this.
trollhattan
@lamh36:
I’ll tell you when they’ll be satisfied, Donnie boy, when you’re on that plane flight to Moscow to take up permanent residence. #FakeToughGuy
eclare
@Another Scott: Cosign.
debbie
@rikyrah:
Positive thoughts heading your way for you and your sister.
geg6
@rikyrah:
Oh no! Sending good vibes her way!
Yarrow
@MomSense: Sorry I’m late back to the thread–got a phone call. I’m sorry to hear things are so fragile with your dad right now. I hope he can hang on, heal and get strong enough for the next surgery. It’s great you and your family can spend so much time with him. Enjoy every day! Sending warm thoughts your way.
TenguPhule
@A Ghost to Most:
And he did not immediately beat some sense into his son?
Yarrow
@rikyrah: Sending good thoughts. I hope you get good news.
Gelfling 545
@Suffragette City: Ce n’est jamais trop tard.
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: You have mine.
Cheryl Rofer
@debbie: That NYT article is highly suspect. Joshua Pollock, editor of the Nonproliferation Review, tweeted a long thread on it this morning. He knows more of the details than I do, but given Ukraine’s desire to get along with Europe and the US and its removal of missile-launching capabilities in the 1990s, I find it hard to believe that such cooperation existed. It’s possible, but you need a lot of people supporting the program to ship a rocket motor from Ukraine to North Korea.
Here’s a tweet from the middle of Pollock’s tweetstream. It goes in both directions and incorporates a shorter tweetstream from Jeffrey Lewis wherein he agrees.
Villago Delenda Est
@debbie: It’s disinformation. Vlad is projecting his own involvement on to Ukraine.
lamh36
Ya’ll, FRFR…my fuqn’ heart starts racing whenever that new damn “you’ll float too”… “IT” trailer comes on tv…
You won’t see my azz in no theatre seats for that one…nope!!
Villago Delenda Est
@MomSense: Best one can hope for. Went through this 9 years ago.
The Lodger
@rikyrah: Best wishes and healing thoughts to you both.
realbtl
@rikyrah: Hang in there.
sharl
@rikyrah: Positive thoughts sent your way, and best wishes for your sister’s return to health.
Major Major Major Major
@rikyrah: oh no! Good vibes y’alls way.
Ohio Mom
@MomSense: Sounds like you are all doing what can be done, which is enjoying and loving and appreciating one another. It’s wonderful that everyone on your family is on the same page, and working together to support your dad and step mom and each other.
Sadly, a lot of families can’t manage something like that.
@rikyrah: Oh dear — how frightening. Hope the doctors find what’s wrong and get her on the road to recovery ASAP. Take good care of yourself while you are taking good care of your sister.
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: @rikyrah: Good thoughts to both of you and your families.
Suzanne
@rikyrah: Hugs and many positive thoughts headed your way.
Kay
This is just sad:
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
Oh rikyrah! So sorry to hear this, and of course I am holding your sister and you in my heart and with all good thoughts. Please let us know what we can do to help support you, even from a distance.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
It would be like teaching a Holocaust course that focused solely on the death camps and einsatzgruppen (the Nazis’ roving murder squads). Important work, but damn hard to look at and read about week after week for 14 or 16 weeks.
chopper
@smintheus:
don’t tell me, the whole thing went tits up after his son Webster set the house on fire.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
So sorry to learn that your father has had something of a setback, and especially that he’s in pain. I hope they can find some way to alleviate that, so he can really enjoy having family around, visiting old friends, eating corn ?, etc.
Most of us are a pretty fair distance from you geographically, but you know, I hope, that if you need anything, you have only to mention it and this jackal-pack will be there for you and your dad. Sending {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}} to you both, as well as your son and stepmother.
TriassicSands
Pardoning Fascist Joe is perfect for Trump. He was convicted of criminal contempt of court. I mean, he didn’t do anything wrong, he just ignored a judge’s order, um, excuse me, a so-called judge’s order. No one has more contempt for the law and the rule of law than white nationalist Donald Trump. So, pardoning Arpaio is exactly what one would expect of Trump.
Donald Trump: “It’s a great honor being named honorary Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. No one has done more for real Americans than the Klan.” If only he’d just come right out and say it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kay:
It’s sad on several levels. When I first saw the video, I hadn’t yet read, and didn’t notice, that she was in a wheelchair. She came across to me as someone who simply didn’t grasp in any way the horror of what her son did. She was almost giggling. Childlike. It was very off-putting. Sad, certainly, that she is chair-bound, and just awful that her son has such a history of abusing her (without, evidently, paying any price for it).
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
Oh, no! I will keep her and your family in my thoughts, and @MomSense’s dad, too.
Shana
@rikyrah: Done. Best thoughts for you and Sis, Dear.
Kathleen
@rikyrah: Sending prayers her way. I hope she is OK.
Kathleen
@MomSense: Sending prayers to you and your family.
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
@Villago Delenda Est:
Thanks to you both.
MomSense
Jackals are the sweetest. ???
Frank McCormick
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks for the find! Have you watched the other videos from “faireset”? The videos with “moustache” are particularly clever:
https://youtu.be/3SORSl0Su0I
Another Scott
@lamh36: Yeah, everyone was waiting for Donnie to “[make] additional remarks” – as if the problem was the quantity of words he used.
He is so brain damaged that he doesn’t even understand why people hate him and why he’s such a horrible, horrible man.
Even when he tries to do what he thinks is normal making amends, he does it badly.
(sigh)
We have to fight them every single day.
Cheers,
Scott.
SFAW
@rikyrah:
I hope all goes well for your sister, and that this is just a temporary/short-term thing.
sukabi
@A Ghost to Most: no $66,600.00… The amount of money per year per person employed by (3300) foxconn would be paid by the taxpayers to foxconn in subsidies…while the average wage foxconn would pay those 3300 people would be approximately $54,000.00 / year.