Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

The revolution will be supervised.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

You are here: Home / Open Threads / Caught one more time

Caught one more time

by | 140 Comments

This post is in: 

A lawyer who can’t spell Cyprus has a fool for a client.

So much strange stuff swirling around the Russia investigation. That’s why I think we just don’t know where it’s headed. Yes, maybe Manafort will clam up but with lawyers like this, who could predict what he’s going to do?

Reader Interactions

140Comments

  5. 5.

    PaulWartenberg

    Just want to mention to the Balloon-Juicers here, a cross-note from the TNC Horde to y’all:

    “My dad’s having some major health issues — TL;DR after falling a lot at home he’s been doing a hospital tour and is now in a rehab place. It’s kept him offline for more than a week and he’d like someone to let them know he’s still alive and doing fine and will be back eventually.

    I talked to him on the phone just now and mentioned the Horde in passing when he asked about the layoff, and he asked if I could have someone in the Horde who still overlaps in both places basically post an “EFGoldman is ok” message so, here I am, checking in.”

    So, to note: EFGOLDMAN IS OKAY!

  7. 7.

    PaulWartenberg

    And for the lawyer who can’t spell Cyprus: it’s not so much that the lawyer is over-relying on his Wordperfect Spell-Checker, it’s that the idiot flunked out of high school World History class.

  11. 11.

    germy

    @PaulWartenberg:

    the idiot flunked out of high school World History class

    One of those guys who whined to the teacher “Why do I hafta learn this crap? How is it going to help me make money when I graduate?”

  13. 13.

    gvg

    Also, I think I read here recently that certain states in America have such lax bank law enforcement that they are as bad as off shore accounts. I believe Connecticut was one of the states named? So the lawyer doesn’t know what he is talking about?

  15. 15.

    gvg

    @germy: Someone should pin the news to the front page, otherwise people will keep asking over in over in multiple threads.

    glad he is doing ok.

  20. 20.

    mai naem mobile

    They buried the money in a hole they dug under the Cypress tree. On a Dolt45 owned golf resort .

  22. 22.

    Gin & Tonic

    “The majority of Mr. Manafort’s assets are in the United States.” Good one. I think the correct phrasing is “the majority of the assets that Mr. Manafort was willing to tell us about are in the United States.”

  24. 24.

    mai naem mobile

    Sessions got caught in a lie with Poopoopadullesky. Hope he ends up in prison with a bunch of blackity blackity black people that he put in prison.

  26. 26.

    lgerard

    I hope everyone is enjoying National Deviled Egg Day!

    It is also National Men Must Cook Day, which does not seem to be a coincidence to me.

  30. 30.

    smintheus

    Is Manafort so cheap he won’t pay for a competent lawyer? I doubt it. Is he so stupid he can’t tell a good lawyer from a bad one? Maybe. Are the best lawyers refusing to have anything to do with him? Quite possibly. He’s got to be a marked man in Moscow, for starters. Then there’s the stink of crookedness about him.

  34. 34.

    Cacti

    Here’s some news that would make our old friend Bob in Putinland’s head explode:

    Ukraine government offers cooperation in Manafort prosecution and access to any information in their possession about his work for the Yanukovych regime.

    Karma, you one mean mother.

  37. 37.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Cacti:

    Asked if no one in the current Ukrainian administration or civil society would shed a tear over the indictments, Groysman said: “I think that’s true.”

  41. 41.

    Corner Stone

    @Cacti:

    Karma, you one mean mother.

    “Shut yo mouth!”
    “But I’m talking bout Shaft!” -ing Paul Manafort right into the hottest of hot seats.

  43. 43.

    mai naem mobile

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): I figure Papadopoulos is making a lot of people at the WH poop when they think about the conversations they had with him. That’s one of the majorly schadenfreud parts of this story . You’re already in a stressful job at the WH,made more stressful by Dolt45 and now you have to wonder about Papadopoulos. They’re all going to get stress ulcers and there’s not a more deserving group of people out there.

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    O/T but since he’s also in Trump’s cabinet I need to correct myself–Ben Carson was right!

    Scientists using an imaging method based on cosmic rays have detected a large and enigmatic internal structure in the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing, the massive Great Pyramid of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo. Researchers announced the discovery on Thursday but said they did not know the purpose, contents or precise dimensions of what they are calling a “void” or “cavity” inside the pyramid, built as a monumental tomb around 2560 BC.

    To peer inside the pyramid, the scientists used an imaging technique called muon tomography that tracks particles that bombard Earth at close to the speed of light and penetrate deeply into solid objects. They said the newly discovered internal structure was at least 100 feet (30 meters) long, and located above a hallway measuring about 155 feet long (47 meters) called the Grand Gallery, one of a series of passageways and chambers inside the immense pyramid. The researchers said it constitutes the first major inner structure found in the Great Pyramid since the 19th century.

    “What we are sure about is that this big void is there, that it is impressive, that it was not expected by, as far as I know, any kind of theory,” said Mehdi Tayoubi, president and co-founder of the HIP Institute in France, one of the leaders of the study published in the journal Nature.

    Obvious grainery. Also history’s earliest bowling alley, pharaohs loved them some duck pins.

  45. 45.

    The Moar You Know

    I learned a life lesson the real easy way a while back, one that Manafort hasn’t learned yet.

    DO NOT CHEAP OUT ON YOUR LEGAL REPRESENTATION. It will cost you far more than you’d ever save.

    ETA: also, I am still 12 years old somewhere in my brain, am fighting an overwhelming urge to spell his name “Manafart”.

  48. 48.

    Gin & Tonic

    @mai naem mobile: I’m willing to bet Papadopoulos hasn’t really talked to a lot of people in the last few months. What I hope gives them agita is wondering who else they’re talking to that may be wearing a wire. That stuff can eat at you (and I hope it does.)

  50. 50.

    Adrift

    @PaulWartenberg: Thanks, Paul. I don’t post much but like everyone else here I get concerned when someone is gone for a while. So this is great news. (back to my semi-lurker status).

    Edited for spelling errors, dammit.

  54. 54.

    clay

    @Gin & Tonic:

    “The majority of Mr. Manafort’s assets are in the United States.”

    It’s another typo. They meant the majority of Manafort’s asses are in the United States.

  58. 58.

    Gin & Tonic

    @mai naem mobile: But the interesting aspect of Papadopoulos is his mentor in London, one Joseph Mifsud and his London Academy of Diplomacy, which has disappeared without a trace, both physically and on the Internet. Along with, apparently, Mifsud himself. Nowhere to be found. Odd, that, no?

    Well, no, in fact.

  59. 59.

    Salvatore Napoli

    Always golf with these yutzes. Also known as “Anal Rage and Checkered Berets”. Cypress Point: Golf course in Southern Cal. (thanks to the late DF Wallace for the golf definition)

  60. 60.

    TenguPhule

    @mai naem mobile:

    Hope he ends up in prison with a bunch of blackity blackity black people that he put in prison.

    Not all black prisoners rape the new white meat. Some of them I assume are good people.

    /snark

  64. 64.

    rikyrah

    BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

    Paul Manafort’s lawyers misspelled Cyprus throughout his bail memo. pic.twitter.com/Ls9JI1WDbN

    — Sigh Hersh (@Ugarles) November 2, 2017

  68. 68.

    trollhattan

    Senator Franken does not like being lied to, not one bit.

    Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), whose questioning of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in his January confirmation hearing kicked off a chain of events that ultimately led to the appointment of a special counsel, on Thursday had some more pointed questions for Sessions. Franken included his questions in a scathing letter to Sessions after court documents unsealed Monday revealed that President Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos in March 2016 floated the idea of setting up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    According to several reports, Sessions was present at the meeting when Papadopoulos made the suggestion, though Sessions previously denied being aware of any communications between members of Trump’s campaign and the Russian government. Papadopoulos claimed he had “connections” that could help arrange the meeting between Trump and Putin.

    “Once again, developments in the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election have brought to light evidence that you failed to tell the truth about your interactions with Russian operatives during the campaign, as well as your awareness of Russian contacts by other members of the Trump campaign team,” Franken wrote. He called it “another example in an alarming pattern” in which Sessions “apparently failed to tell the truth, under oath, about the Trump team’s contacts with agents of Russia—a hostile foreign power that interfered in the 2016 election.”

    “We must get to the bottom of what happened so that we can prevent it from happening again,” Franken wrote. “I am deeply troubled that this newest revelation strongly suggests that the Senate—and the American public—cannot trust your word.”

    He asked Sessions to respond to his questions by next Friday, Nov. 10.

    Can a senator compel the AG to respond? I need to see whether I can accumulate sufficient popcorn before November 10.

  77. 77.

    Lyrebird

    @trollhattan: DAYYUMMMMMM, Sen Franken!

    My more pragmatic relatives are just hoping Orangemandias will resign & that we (“we” being “anyone who cares about governance”) retake Congress.

    I would accept that outcome as better than the status quo, but boy oh boy if at least Sessions should see some consequences for his cruelty, his lying, ..anything really, that would go along way to remove the stain on our nation that this administration has created.

  78. 78.

    Major Major Major Major

    @TenguPhule: honestly I just thought it was a comment about how being surrounded by the people whose lives he’d helped ruin would be just desserts. Hadn’t put any thought into what actions they might pursue. Sad that your mind jumped straight to rape.

  79. 79.

    Kay

    @trollhattan:

    Once again

    I love that. Sessions really has to appear. He’s not like the rest of the Trumpsters. He’s supposed to be somewhat legit and law-abiding. If they make enough noise he’ll go.

  82. 82.

    Lyrebird

    @Major Major Major Major: The very existence of people of color bothers Sessions, so yeah, keep-away, or just breathing!

    Better yet, maybe the shampoo & skin care supplies available are all labeled with ultra “urban” marketing and so forth.

    Yes I wish the prison system in the US of A was not a massive example of noxiously racist institutional bias, and I apologize in advance if I sound like I’m insulting anyone OTHER than Sessions. Who should serve many many years in prison, preferably only allowed shaving cream and aftershave that appeals to Black men, only allowed to style his hair with Jheri curl products, and so forth.

    Note I do not wish violence or abuse on anyone,
    so I hope that Sessions is removed from office ASAP.

  90. 90.

    catclub

    Donald Trump’s inner circle expressed shock when Hillary Clinton failed to quickly condemn Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein after allegations of sexual assault. Now, the president’s team may find the shoe on the other foot as allegations land on a business partner of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

    Mnuchin until June co-owned RatPac-Dune Entertainment, a film financing company that launched a partnership in 2013 with Warner Brothers to bankroll up to 75 films. Mnuchin himself was partnered with filmmaker Brett Ratner and Australian billionaire James Packer.

    According to the Los Angeles Times, six women are now accusing Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct amid a widening scandal sweeping Hollywood.

    I wonder if Fox News will cover this wall-to-wall.

  91. 91.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    @TenguPhule: just to clear this up it wasn’t a rape joke. It wasn’t even about violence against Sessions. I do want him to have just plain fear in him because 1/he thinks minorities are like that esp, blacks and 2/he’s more than happy to have minorities feel fearful just going about their lives. He needs to feel that same fear.

  95. 95.

    Corner Stone

    @p.a.:

    Anyone know anything about the fedhed nominee?

    Apparently he’s not Obama picked Janet Yellen. And that’s enough.

    Reportedly, he favors all the same low drag, no change policies that Yellen did. He’s just not her.

  98. 98.

    Corner Stone

    Why, oh why, does MSNBC keep booking this fucking Pence surrogate spokesperson on their air?

  99. 99.

    Miss Bianca

    @TenguPhule: errr…according to my friends who work in the prison system, crimes of violence against inmates tend to follow the same racial trends as on the outside. In other words, white on white, black on black. Just sayin’.

  101. 101.

    Immanentize

    @TenguPhule:

    It was either rape or murder. I picked the lesser of two evils.

    WTF is WRONG with you? Do you have more funny rape jokes to share with us? Because your murder and torture jokes are soooo very funny.

    Really, you need help.

  102. 102.

    Corner Stone

    DAMN! Nicolle just dropped it on that fool like it’s hot! “We will call Fox and get you a booking on there but what you’re saying is just not true,”
    BOOM!

  104. 104.

    FlipYrWhig

    @catclub:

    Donald Trump’s inner circle expressed shock when Hillary Clinton failed to quickly condemn Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein after allegations of sexual assault.

    “I can’t believe she’d be THAT willing to continue to associate with a creepy past-his-prime celebrity facing sexual assault allegations!” said friends of Donald Trump.

  107. 107.

    Mnemosyne

    @catclub:

    According to the Los Angeles Times, six women are now accusing Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct amid a widening scandal sweeping Hollywood.

    Least surprising accusations ever. Ratner’s been notorious for years.

    I predict that Peter Berg is also going to be going down, because he and Ratner are partners in crime.

  108. 108.

    Corner Stone

    @FlipYrWhig: “You won’t believe this One Weird Trick to avoid covering up for some guy you haven’t talked to but twice in ten years! Click Here For More!”

  114. 114.

    Immanentize

    @Mnemosyne: In the most recent pictures of Ol’ Jeff (with extra “Honor Sauce”) it looks like his nose is one of a drinker. Not a full-on Bannon, but a cosmetically covered blotchy nose none the less. Anyone have any insights into his drinking habits?

  115. 115.

    Corner Stone

    Steve Schmidt is in NFLTG mode. I know, I know. But still. It’s kinda fun to watch now.

  116. 116.

    Corner Stone

    @Mai.naem.mobile: I still think he’s living his best life as AG. Trashing laws that protect minorities and women and dope smokers and all the fun things that little Klan Elf enjoys.
    But it does make you wonder. How many times a day does he wish he were still in a safe seat for life in AL?

  119. 119.

    Immanentize

    Also good news today — Lamar Smith from Texas is not running for Congress in 2018. I have long said we need to watch the retirements for signs of how the next election will go. And so far, it looks great for Nancy Smash to once again wield the gavel.

  122. 122.

    Immanentize

    @zhena gogolia: I love that movie too. You know it got ousted from the Academy awards because it was shown on HBO (I think it was) before theatrical release. Made me mad at the time.

  127. 127.

    les

    @p.a.:

    Anyone know anything about the fedhed nominee?

    I think he’s spent the last several years yelling that interest rates are too low and crippling inflation is just around the corner. Years of being wrong haven’t changed his mind–a perfect republican appointee.

  131. 131.

    different-church-lady

    @Cacti:

    Here’s some news that would make our old friend Bob in Putinland’s head explode

    Why Vlad wanted to waste his money on us so damn badly I have no idea.

    Can you image Bob’s performance review?

    PUTIN: They keep telling you to fuck off.
    BinP: Just give me one more month, I’m sure I can get them to vote Republican!
    PUTIN: It’s not even top 10,000 blog! We need more than 108 votes to steal this thing!

  136. 136.

    marv

    @DougJ:
    me too. only listened to it a gazillion times over the years but never checked the lyrics till your post. I’ve had a couple words wrong all this time – o well, i believe i'[[ go walkin’ by the railroad…

  137. 137.

    J R in WV

    Noted in the EFG thread how glad I am to hear that he’s doing better.

    Now, about this legal fuss over where Paul’s bank accounts are. And rank accusations of error on his lawyers’ part. This is the biggest Fake News BS yet in this whole fakey newsey thing!!

    You all have jumped to the conclusion that Paul’s bank accounts are at a bank in Cyprus, the famous island in the eastern Med, now split between Turkey and Greece.

    So when his lawyers spelled the name of the city where Paul’s banking is ACTUALLY located, Cypress, Texas, the home of Cypress Bank, a full service bank located in Cypress, TX a well-known suburb of Houston, TX, it gave the libtards a chance to reveal themselves!!

    Ignorance, thy name is Trumped!!

    Oh, wait!!??// Cypress Bank isn’t in Cypress Tx, it’s in:

    Pittsburg
    Lone Star
    Commerce
    Mt. Pleasant

    Oops!! My bad!…

    Maybe the lawyers did make a mistake!??!!!

Comments are closed.