If you haven’t watched the video of Wyatt Koch that Anne Laurie linked to, you’re missing out, so here it is again.
I’ve never heard discoteque pronounced that way before.
We may not be billionaires here but we did raise 6K yesterday for a fund that is split equally among all eventual Democratic nominees in House districts held by Republicans. If everyone who voted for Hillary last time gave 100 dollars we could get outspend the entire right-wing complex in 2018.
Mike in DC
Impatiently waiting for news of the big meetup between Mueller and Trump’s lawyers. If there’s anything that can be construed as exoneration, they will rush it out there. If there isn’t and Mueller asks for an interview with their client, set your timers for the meltdown to end all meltdowns.
Raoul
Um, raise the goal?
Also this is missing:
MT-AL — that shitheel who beat up the reporter. Let’s nail the bastard.
These are ‘dem’ seats, but open. Maybe add them?
AZ-09 — open seat
NH-01 — open seat
NV-03 — open seat
MN-01 — open seat
While you’re editing:
IN-07 should be removed, I think. Incumbent Dem.
MI-05 – incumbent Dem
Thanks Doug!
Binky
Maybe he’s spent too much time at Ibiza and feels like he has to say discoteca
Suzanne
@Mike in DC:
Oh God, I hope so. I hope so hard.
Right after J-Kush.
Riccardo Cabeza
Tacky, ugly clothes from a fat slob. No thank you.
zhena gogolia
@Riccardo Cabeza:
He looks like the guy from “Modern Family” in Al Yankovic’s “Tacky” video. But much, much less cute.
germy
I like the brief shot of his sketchbook. Very professional drawing. A very talented young man.
I think a visionary like him would be a force to be reckoned with even if he’d come up from humble beginnings.
And I like that his clothes are suitable for places everyone goes: the discotecka, the yacht…
Doug!
@Raoul:
Thanks. I’m book-marking this for when I get a chance to do some editing.
SiubhanDuinne
@Riccardo Cabeza:
As I mentioned in a comment yesterday: at least we finally know where Blake Farenthold buys his pajamas.
zhena gogolia
@Riccardo Cabeza:
Eric Stonestreet.
patrick II
I don’t know how old he is. I have known young people like that, optimistic and overconfident, and not yet tested against reality. As a matter of fact a young libertarian I met in econ class at the local jc. (I am old and retired and take a class or two for fun). My confident young friend, not dumb but not really that smart, says that when the robots come he will get a job fixing robots. There is a lot of reasons that’s not true, and he will start bumping up against reality soon. But his young Koch billionaire will just keep cruising, everyone lying to him and saying how great he is, how great his seventh grade drawing is (in that vein, did you see the Trump meeting yesterday?) building a world in his head different than ours, but with the money to build some of a world like that around him.
marcopolo
Donated. Just unfathomable to me that this guy got a $75 billion dollar tax cut yesterday (according to the sources I read).
Droppy
On my yacht, you dress like Thurston Howell the Third or you are shark food, buddy.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: So I was watching Major Crimes last night and (spoiler, not that anyone else probably watches) and they were trying to figure out who the murderer was. Because the son reminded me of Jared, my money was on him, and my hunch only got stronger when he gave a threatening speech about how they needed to drop this witch hunt. Right. Now. Let’s just say I have pretty good instincts. It was gratifying when they arrested him.
Aleta
He spared no expense to get top quality video production, cool interesting actors, trendy music, and sets that are outside the box of your average early 70s drive-in movie porn, I see.
laura
On his yacht (it’s actually a bicycle), my husband dresses like the Captain:
https://youtu.be/1h1bBzw8ahE
ruemara
No thank you.
Chyron HR
I’m not going to watch that thing. How does he pronounce it, “Disco-Teek”?
Doug!
@Chyron HR:
Disco-TekUh
Raoul
@Droppy: Hey! My Mary Ann drag is first rate.
OK, yeah, third rate gender-bender camp, really. I won’t shave my beard for anyone (Patsy Cline’s birthday party, 1991, was the last straw).
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Here’s a great twitter thread from Zach Wahls, running for a seat in the Iowa legislature. Some of you may remember the splash he made when he stood up and testified about growing up with 2 mothers. This is exactly the kind of campaign to support to get a lot of bang for your buck.
Raoul
Wow that video. My question: Is the fabio-haired dude in the turquoise trunks Wyatt’s date? Or just a gigolo for the ladies?
Mike J
@Droppy: The crew should not be dressed like Thurston Howell III.
dr. luba
That’s because you don’t hang out with Ukrainian teenagers……..at summer camp, every evening they beg for a дискотека. I don’t know what his reason is, though.
Brachiator
At first it flew by me that Koch the Younger was saying that he wanted his shirts to be worn anywhere, you know, in a boardroom or on a yacht.
Just your average non elite kind of guy.
Mike J
He sounds just like Bill Koch.
dr. luba
Does using cyrillic text put you in moderation? I don’t think I used any of the forbidden words……..
Heywood J.
He’s the ginger version of the kid from Bad Santa, and those clothes look exactly what that kid would come up with. I would pay serious money to watch him get dropped off anywhere in Real ‘murka without his driver or black card.
Amir Khalid
@Brachiator:
You would not get away with dressing like that for a board of directors’ meeting. He reminds me a little of Ivanka — a supposed business person who seems to have no idea how to dress for a business occasion.
Steeplejack
@Doug!:
I got a vibe like he was leaning toward “discoteca,” as in “That’s how we say it on the yacht at Ibiza.”
Corner Stone
@Droppy: Mega Yacht or go home, prole.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Heywood J.:
I’d like to see him walk into any bar in the working class, blue collar union shop neighborhood where I went to high school. His black card wouldn’t spend because they only take cash; they will deign to take a check to settle up a week old tab.
Suzanne
Those shirts look like they’ve been sewn out of those Lularoe leggings. The really ugly ones.
Well, the good news is that, after the release of that video, the company will be going under. They HAVE to be going under.
If these shirts become another one of the semiotic mascots of the deplorables, I will just have to stay indoors forever. Between the giant pickups, the McMansions, the sandals with socks, the flag pins, etc, I am already having a really hard time coping aesthetically with these people.
Calouste
@Mike in DC: Most likely scenario is that Eddie the Legal Eagles tell the shitgibbon that he is exonerated on something (while Team Mueller of course didn’t say anything like that), and he immediately brags about it on Twitter while confessing to another crime.
Something like:
“I made this great deal with Vlad to give him back Alaska, and people said it was illegal. Wrong!”
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Heywood J.:
*Deliverance banjo music begins playing*
Chyron HR
@Doug!:
I’ll allow that.
Corner Stone
I don’t mean to sound fat shamist, *buuut*…when you’re that wealthy you have to really work at it to be his level of overweight. Or maybe it’s just baby fat and he’ll shed it through all the hard work he’s doing to make his way in this, cold, cruel world.
Corner Stone
@Suzanne:
Speaking of, where are my neon blue hospital socks, I wonder. I need to run several errands about town.
Doug!
@Chyron HR:
Is it a Brit thing?
SWMBO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4F4w58NNv0
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
ETA: What Binky said.
Orpho
I don’t have a hundred bucks right now, but I have 25.
Also, I heard one of my friends say the best thing yesterday. She said that they were going to calculate their “tax savings” from this shit tastic bill and donate every cent of it to Democrats running against Republicans for 2018.
I like it.
Raoul
@Corner Stone: I am well above my ideal BMI, and I’m fine with people fat-shaming that guy.
I guess there’s a perspective that you should be flamboyantly fat, if you want to. And who am I to say no to other’s fashion choices. But you know that it’s his money that buys off the folks from pointing and laughing (in front of him).
The Moar You Know
First generation makes the money, second generation…goes insane and pisses it all away.
THIS is the legacy of the Kochs. Gotta say, they’re not going to be able to point at this blubbering man-toad thing with pride. WHICH IS GREAT.
Steeplejack
God, I was hoping there would be a PronunciationManual entry for discotheque, but I couldn’t find one.
“Aéropostale” is my favorite.
cmorenc
Hard-living hard-partying pro golfer John Daley has already conquored the territory young Mr. Koch seeks to move into – with Daley’s
– and John Daley is a quintessential example of the sort of entirely self-made man conservatives lionize (and in Daley’s case, nearly self-destructed, but he seems to have pulled it back together to find a nice life on the senior tour). Daley literally came from a trailer-trash like humble background in Arkansas, learning to play golf on a rag-tag local 9-hole course – and when he got into the 1991 PGA major championship field as a last-minute alternate, he made good on his long-shot chance by winning one of golf’s most prestigious events. Koch, on the other hand, strikes me as someone who would likely have found his niche as assistant manager of a Burger King, if he wasn’t the scion of the wealthy Kock family.
Corner Stone
@The Moar You Know: It’s like Brewster’s Millions on hyper-steroids. How could you burn through $40B? The interest alone would keep you in a new supercar every day of the week.
cmorenc
Whups, here’s a link to John Daley’s Loudmouth line of wear.
Suzanne
@Corner Stone:
HOT.
I’m sorry, I just sexually harassed you.
Captain C
@Heywood J.: Heh! I was just thinking that he looked like Thurman Merman (AKA ‘The Kid’) from Bad Santa.
I would imagine that The Kid had/has a lot more redeeming qualities, though.
Captain C
@Amir Khalid: I think Ivanka dresses to tease her dad.
Captain C
@Captain C: Looks like Thurman Merman, probably acts like Spaulding Smails.
d58826
Hollywood central casting could not have come up with a clown like this. On the other hand maybe the D’s can turn him into the Willy Horton of the 1%.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@WaterGirl: We watched a recording of that too, and our recording cut off the last couple of minutes. I was pretty sure I knew what happened, but we had to go on line to see that I was right.
sdhays
@Calouste:
You get my vote for winning the internets today!
moops
@patrick II: 31 is a bit old to still be in youngster-delusion world without making an effort to stay that way.
MP
@Calouste: Now that you mention it, if this whole Russian thing goes down in the history books as “Trump’s Folly”, I won’t be disappointed.
patrick II
Wyatt says his high school classmates voted him most fashionable. It’s been a long time for me — can high school kids be this ironic?
Leto
@Corner Stone: As I’ve always told people, give me the money and I’ll show you how it can happen. I’m pretty sure I could blow through $40B in a week, but I’m fairly creative.
Another Scott
@cmorenc: Ow! My Eyes!!11
Cheers,
Scott.
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid:
I think that if you own the business and control the board, you can dress however you like.
And even though Koch the Younger’s shirts are tacky beyond belief, Mark Zuckerberg and other tech leaders set a standard for casual wear in business settings.
woodrowfan
Crispin Horsefly here looks like the new assistantmanager of a Wendy’s somewhere off an interstate in the middle of nowhere. Married the first girl who would have sex with him without charging. His employees hate him and secretly spit in his food . His wife does too and has been binge eating potato chips to smother her anger. He’ll be fired next year for sending explicit photos of his junk to a 16 year old working the drive thru.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): I always set my Tivo DVR to record an extra minute on all TNT shows – their clock doesn’t seem to match anyone else’s. I really wanted to punch that son because he was so smarmy.
Brachiator
More Koch the Younger news. Unlucky in love…
Mnemosyne
Slightly OT, but when Adam said that the alt-right was gearing up to weaponize #metoo against us, he did not lie. Those posters you’ve seen of Meryl Streep saying “She Knew”? Produced by Trump fans who are pissed at Streep for dissing their hero.
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
Casual =/= tacky. Zuckerberg seems to be sticking with the Steve Jobs route of wearing the same casual thing all the time, except that Zuckerberg’s casual is a dark blue button-down and not a black mock turtleneck.
@dr. luba:
Americans don’t say “discotheque.” Pretty much ever. Most people would say “club.” So, yeah, he probably picked up the term from hanging around Eurotrash.
(Not that the teenagers you know are Eurotrash. I’m doing him the favor of assuming he hangs around with nominal adults, not teenagers.)
DougJ
@Mnemosyne:
I was wondering about that
Brachiator
@The Moar You Know:
I think Wyatt is third generation. The Koch brothers inherited their pile from their father and expanded their financial empire.
Doug R
@Captain C:
I actually met Brett Kelly once in Vancouver (his home town). He was with his dad or handler and so very even tempered. I told him he did a good job on Bad Santa and he just nodded with a hint of a smile. His dad then told me about the next thing Brett was in, of course.
The commentary on Bad Santa, the director says Brett was in on the joke.
catclub
@marcopolo:
Your sources are just making up large numbers and tossing them around. 1) The Koch’s family combined Fortune is maybe $80B which is a huge amount.
But I seriously doubt that Junior there is in line to get it all.
2) They did not actually repeal the inheritance tax, and I am pretty sure that amounts over $22M are still taxed, so another reason that the large number thrown around is just made up. [Yes, I know that there will be trusts involved that cut the amount of federal Inheritance tax as much as possible, but they were ALREADY there, the new law made no difference to them.]
J R in WV
So, like “Disquoteckia” ???
Maybe that’s how they say it in Ibezia, Spain?
I understand it’s where the rich folks go to party… little island in the Med, between Valencia and Mallorca. I wouldn’t know personally, I party, but not in discotecias.
catclub
@The Moar You Know:
In the Koch’s case he second generation, now in their late 70’s and 80’s have doubled (or more than doubled) the stake. (… I will admit that some of them have gone insane.) The sibling fights via lawsuits are also epic, natcherly.
Another Scott
@marcopolo: “like” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your quote. ;-) It’s hyperbole.
Cheers,
Scott.
AnotherBruce
I really think that Democrats should make that bag of shit their poster boy. Let Americans see where their money is going.
marcopolo
@Another Scott: OMFG missed that entirely. Obviously time to hit the beer.
Raoul
@d58826: I love the idea of linking him to Blake Farenthold’s P.J. parties.
Gary K
The care label on that shirt should say “Tumbril Dry.”