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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Dolt 45 / It’s A God Damned Stunt is Why

It’s A God Damned Stunt is Why

by John Cole|  January 21, 20186:09 pm| 135 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Assholes, Teabagger Stupidity

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Donald Trump’s favorite rectal wart, Devin Nunes, is still playing games and doing everything he can to fuck with any investigation into Trump’s potential crimes:

The FBI has not been permitted to see the memo Rep. Devin Nunes and his staff wrote about alleged abuses by the intelligence community, The Daily Beast has learned.

“The FBI has requested to receive a copy of the memo in order to evaluate the information and take appropriate steps if necessary. To date, the request has been declined,” said Andrew Ames, a spokesperson for the FBI.

Reached for comment, Nunes’ spokesperson Jack Langer said, “The Daily Beast has become America’s foremost publication for regurgitating the Democrats’ talking points.”

Nunes, who heads the powerful House intelligence community, put together the four-page memo based on intelligence the FBI showed him and a few of his staff, as well as Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee. More than 150 members of the House have seen Nunes’ memo. Scores are calling for its release, while Democrats say it is “a misleading set of talking points attacking the FBI.”

I an not wait to see what dirt there is out there on Nunes, because I can’t think of any reason other than his own complicity for someone to go this all in for Trump.

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  1. 1.

    Anne Laurie

    January 21, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    How about “Nunes is a vealpen GOP moron who thought he could get himself some Mercer bucks shilling bullshit to his fellow Fox-watching rubes?”

  2. 2.

    NotMax

    January 21, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    It’s elementary fustian misdirection, straight out of Stage Magic for Dummies.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 21, 2018 at 6:23 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    I see you’ve entered the “Betty Cracker Prose Stakes.”

    All I can do is offer “Jubilation T. Shutdown” as one of thousands of epithets describing our Traitor in Chief.

  4. 4.

    Davis X. Machina

    January 21, 2018 at 6:32 pm

    You realize this memo spells the effective end of the Clinton administration…

  5. 5.

    Baud

    January 21, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    @Davis X. Machina: Good. The way Hillary shut down the government is despicable.

  6. 6.

    Miss Bianca

    January 21, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:

    You realize this memo spells the effective end of the Clinton administration…

    OK, it’s early yet, but I call “winning the Internets today” for this one.

  7. 7.

    Anne Laurie

    January 21, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    All I can do is offer “Jubilation T. Shutdown” as one of thousands of epithets describing our Traitor in Chief.

    I think bobblethroat slapdick Tom Cotton has dibs on that moniker!

  8. 8.

    glory b

    January 21, 2018 at 6:48 pm

    OT, but the Pittsburgh Women’s March today was bigger than last year’s! No crowd estimates though.

  9. 9.

    J R in WV

    January 21, 2018 at 6:54 pm

    @glory b: Day after some of the biggest demonstrations in the nation’s recent history, nothing involved is OT the very next day!!

    Looks like a good point was made everywhere! Thanks for the update…

  10. 10.

    Miss Bianca

    January 21, 2018 at 6:56 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Damn, girl! “bobblethroat slapdick” – you sure you haven’t been drinking some of Betty Cracker’s hooch? You two are are definitely neck-and-neck for the “BJ Neologisms of the Year” Award!

  11. 11.

    raven

    January 21, 2018 at 6:56 pm

    @J R in WV: And even more since it was today!

  12. 12.

    Zinsky

    January 21, 2018 at 6:57 pm

    Nunes is an accessory after the fact to conspiracy to commit treason. In earlier times, he would have gone to the gallows.

  13. 13.

    chopper

    January 21, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I see you’ve entered the “Betty Cracker Prose Stakes.”

    there’s no point. nobody beats B. Crack. it’s like “oh hey I think I’m a play lebron in a game of horse”

  14. 14.

    chopper

    January 21, 2018 at 7:00 pm

    @Baud:

    somebody needs to whisper that in drumpf’s ear. the tweets would be epic.

  15. 15.

    laura

    January 21, 2018 at 7:03 pm

    @Anne Laurie: I’m happy to toss this in the mix:
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rawstory.com/2018/01/welcome-to-the-political-jungle-the-internet-welcomes-axl-rose-into-theresistance-after-he-tweets-criticism-of-devin-nunes/amp/

  16. 16.

    J R in WV

    January 21, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    @raven:

    More Better!!! I have seen that several of these demonstrations were today, spreading out the happy wealth of being Democratic! Thanks for the update of facts…

    You hear anything from the OzarkHillbilly family? I figure Ozark is on the road without access to the innertubes…

  17. 17.

    raven

    January 21, 2018 at 7:10 pm

    @J R in WV: Nope, nothing since the second hopeful post.

  18. 18.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 21, 2018 at 7:10 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    I think bobblethroat slapdick Tom Cotton has dibs on that moniker!

    Works equally well for me.

  19. 19.

    PsiFighter37

    January 21, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    FUCK TOM BRADY PF37 +7

  20. 20.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 21, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    @Zinsky:

    In earlier times, he would have gone to the gallows

    And what’s a few centuries among friends?

  21. 21.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 21, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    @glory b: So when will NYT turn over its editorial pages to the millions of women who marched against Trump this weekend? This is the demographic which we should all be interested in hearing from since they’re going to play a pivotal role in November’s election.

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 21, 2018 at 7:14 pm

    @chopper:

    I agree, B. Crack is nonpareil.

  23. 23.

    mai naem mobile

    January 21, 2018 at 7:14 pm

    Please tell me Jeanine Pirro got lost in the woods in Chapopaque and got eaten by a big black bear.

  24. 24.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 21, 2018 at 7:17 pm

    @Zinsky: Thankfully, it may not matter what Nunes is up to since the only investigation which is important is the one being conducted by Mueller. I wouldn’t expect anything substantive to come out of the House or Senate committees since Republicans are covering for Trump.

  25. 25.

    Aleta

    January 21, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    when will NYT turn over its editorial pages to the millions of women who marched against Trump

    . After the tax cut its execs just got? Not so likely right. Maybe some articles about the downsides of #metoo for business though.

    IB Times: After Scoring Huge Tax Cuts, Charles Koch Floods Ryan With Cash. Thirteen days after the U.S. House passed its version of the tax legislation, Charles Koch and his wife, Elizabeth, combined to donate nearly $500,000 to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s joint fundraising committee, according to a new campaign finance report released Thursday. These two donations were by far the largest sums added to Ryan’s coffers in the fourth quarter of 2017. Marlene Ricketts, the wife of billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, donated $100,000, as did five other individuals.

    Of the roughly $5 million Ryan received in the 4th quarter of 2017, more than $330,000 arrived in the two days after the House passed the tax bill.

    On the same day as their donations to the Ryan committee, Charles and Elizabeth Koch each donated the maximum possible amount of $237,000 total to the National Republican Congressional Committee’s main, legal and building accounts. These Nov. 29 donations were the Kochs’ first to the NRCC in 2017, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. In June, mega-donors in the Koch political network had threatened to withhold contributions to GOP members of Congress unless they repealed Obamacare and passed tax reform.

  26. 26.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 21, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    @Davis X. Machina: My understanding is that this mysterious memo is just Nunes yapping about his dislike of the FBI. Not understanding why anyone thinks its important to folks who aren’t already part of Trump’s base. It’s certainly not going to sway Mueller or Trump critics.

  27. 27.

    JR

    January 21, 2018 at 7:29 pm

    @Zinsky: maybe in the future he can go to the guillotine. It is more humane, after all.

  28. 28.

    Suzanne

    January 21, 2018 at 7:29 pm

    I would like to share photos from the marches this weekend (Phoenix marched today, estimated crowd of 25K, which I think was bigger than last year). Is anyone collecting photos?

  29. 29.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 21, 2018 at 7:32 pm

    @Zinsky: Prezactly.

  30. 30.

    JPL

    January 21, 2018 at 7:37 pm

    @Suzanne: Send them to Anne.. Gelfing 545 posted a link to facebook for the Buffalo march. It was comment 42 on the GOP monsters thread.

  31. 31.

    SFAW

    January 21, 2018 at 7:44 pm

    @Aleta:

    I saw a Randy Bryce tweet about the Ryan as Koch-holster thing earlier today.

    My brother once characterized Ryan as someone who gets up every day, trying to think up new ways to harm the non-wealthy. Still haven’t seen anything to convince me otherwise.

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    January 21, 2018 at 7:50 pm

    @SFAW

    His first real job was peddling baloney, and he hasn’t ceased doing so since.

  33. 33.

    HinTN

    January 21, 2018 at 7:53 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Never too early to acknowledge the real deal.

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    January 21, 2018 at 7:57 pm

    FYI.

    The Statue of Liberty will reopen Monday after the state agreed to pick up the tab for the iconic site closed by the federal government shutdown, Gov. Cuomo said Sunday.

    “It’s going to be open and running as normal,” Cuomo said at a press conference in a lower Manhattan park overlooking the statue. “We will pay to keep the Statue of Liberty open every day.”
    [snip]
    …Cuomo said the state had reached an agreement with the federal Department of Interior so New York could pay for the federal employees who operate Liberty Island. The cost amounts to about $65,000 a day. Source

  35. 35.

    Kathleen

    January 21, 2018 at 7:59 pm

    @Davis X. Machina: Speaking of which, why did I see a clip of Bill and Hillary Clinton circa 199something on 60 Minutes as a was surfing channels on my TeeVee? (Rhetorical question – I’m not expecting you to answer LOL). WTF, 60 Minutes? Hillary hadn’t even committed Benghazi yet. Or had she?

  36. 36.

    Kathleen

    January 21, 2018 at 8:03 pm

    @Aleta: I’m shocked, shocked to discover that quidding Ryan’s quo is going on in this administration.

  37. 37.

    Brachiator

    January 21, 2018 at 8:09 pm

    OT. BBC News headline

    ‘World’s richest 1% get 82% of the wealth’, says Oxfam

    Damn. Sure sounds like we need a tax cut for corporations and the wealthy.

  38. 38.

    TS

    January 21, 2018 at 8:14 pm

    @NotMax: Which makes one wonder if this admin is going to backpay the federal workers for the time that the govt is shutdown.

  39. 39.

    chris

    January 21, 2018 at 8:21 pm

    Speaking of marches, these women are quite something.

    Six women from the British Army have become the largest all-female group to ski coast-to-coast across Antarctica.

    The Ice Maiden team began the 1,000-mile expedition on 20 November – each pulling an 80kg sledge behind them.

    After 62 days on the ice, the six soldiers crossed the finish line at the Hercules Inlet just before 10:00 GMT.

  40. 40.

    Gelfling 545

    January 21, 2018 at 8:25 pm

    @glory b: Teriffic. I posted this below but think it deserves another go. From today’s march in Buffalo – the Resistance Revival Chorus
    https://www.facebook.com/mrsnstarr/posts/10211767679090619

  41. 41.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    January 21, 2018 at 8:39 pm

    Reached for comment, Nunes’ spokesperson Jack Langer said, “The Daily Beast has become America’s foremost publication for regurgitating the Democrats’ talking points.”

    A spokesman said this? What an unprofessional, uncivil asshat.

  42. 42.

    Amir Khalid

    January 21, 2018 at 8:41 pm

    @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
    He works for Devin Nunes. Why are you surprised?

  43. 43.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    January 21, 2018 at 8:43 pm

    @Aleta:
    Seriously, why hasn’t anybody tried to kill the Kochs yet?

  44. 44.

    Calouste

    January 21, 2018 at 8:43 pm

    @Zinsky: The hanging would just be for starters. Then there is the drawing as the entree, and the quartering as the dessert.

  45. 45.

    HinTN

    January 21, 2018 at 8:45 pm

    @Suzanne: Nashville had 15K yesterday, which exceeded last year. It’s happening!

  46. 46.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    January 21, 2018 at 8:45 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    I’m just shocked it was so blatant. He didn’t have to return comment like so many RWNJ offices do.

  47. 47.

    hueyplong

    January 21, 2018 at 8:49 pm

    @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Well, there is the first rule of Kill the Kochs Club.

  48. 48.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 21, 2018 at 8:51 pm

    @Brachiator: What we need are tumbrels.

  49. 49.

    dww44

    January 21, 2018 at 8:56 pm

    @Kathleen: Tonight’s 60 minutes was a celebration of its 50 years on the air and they’ve shown lots of footage from earlier years.

  50. 50.

    Suzanne

    January 21, 2018 at 8:59 pm

    @HinTN: I was very encouraged by the overall atmosphere. People were definitely fired up, but respectful. I saw one group of counterprotestors in MAGA hats; they got surrounded and outshouted, but not harmed or silenced.

    One thing that I deeply appreciate about The Resistance is that it is FUNNY. The Civil Rights protestors in the 60s were more serious in tone and had more gravitas, which underscored their moral authority. But the humor seems more befitting to the tone of the present day.

  51. 51.

    Spanky

    January 21, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: What we also need s a destination for those riding in them.

  52. 52.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    January 21, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    @hueyplong:
    Never talk about Kill the Kochs Club

  53. 53.

    raven

    January 21, 2018 at 9:04 pm

    @dww44: And 50 years ago today 31 North Koreans came across the DMZ to take Park Chung Hee’s head back. We were seriously fucked if the balloon went up.

    January 21, 1968 Blue House Raid

  54. 54.

    Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)

    January 21, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    When is Trump supposed to leave for Davos?

  55. 55.

    BroD

    January 21, 2018 at 9:06 pm

    @PsiFighter37:
    Can’t argue with that.

  56. 56.

    SFAW

    January 21, 2018 at 9:06 pm

    @Kathleen:

    Hillary hadn’t even committed Benghazi yet. Or had she?

    No, but she had already murdered Vince Foster by that time. Ron Brown, too, I think.

  57. 57.

    SFAW

    January 21, 2018 at 9:09 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):

    When is Trump supposed to leave for Davos?

    I’m hoping he’s heading for Davros. Given the Maladministration’s level of “competence,” it might actually come about.

  58. 58.

    Another Scott

    January 21, 2018 at 9:11 pm

    Whole lot of nothing happening right now in the Senate – ReutersTV live feed.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  59. 59.

    Mandarama

    January 21, 2018 at 9:11 pm

    @HinTN: Yeah! It was fantastic. Were you there?

  60. 60.

    B.B.A.

    January 21, 2018 at 9:11 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): The Forum begins on Tuesday, so I assume he was planning for a Monday flight to maximize his hobnobbing time. He has a speech scheduled for Friday.

  61. 61.

    dww44

    January 21, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    @raven: Didn’t know anything about this. Thanks for the lin;;my SO was actually in Vietnam when this happened.

  62. 62.

    John Revolta

    January 21, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    @J R in WV: @raven: Well, I’ve been checking at Nola.com and the only storm-related traffic death they reported was a man in his 50s. So there’s that.

  63. 63.

    chris

    January 21, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    @SFAW: Nope, much executive business tomorrow.

    Gonna start posting Trump’s daily public schedule. Here is tomorrow’s. pic.twitter.com/VOAEFlakHY— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) 22 January 2018

  64. 64.

    mskitty

    January 21, 2018 at 9:13 pm

    Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the chyron on either CNN or MSNBC (I was flipping back and forth) announced that the FBI had turned over another wodge of texts between the two agents-who-used-to-be-on-the-Mueller investigation and now are not. Texts were supposedly about Hillary’s emails and further politicized shit.
    Flipping around, lots of R-friendly talkers. Why do Ds never get invited?

  65. 65.

    jl

    January 21, 2018 at 9:14 pm

    @Suzanne: The tone of moral authority needs to change to suit the time and situation. In the long run, I am confident that our side will win. Time to start showing good humor and tolerance, in order to salvage the salvageable among the Trumpsters, is now. (Edit: that is, to maximize the chances that the salvageable Trumpsters get out and vote for forces of good in 2018).

    That is only for the ordinary voters, though. Trumpster officials who have committed crimes need to face impartial justice. Good humored impartial justice, but rules are stricter about how that works.

  66. 66.

    Another Scott

    January 21, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    Turtle is talking now…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  67. 67.

    smedley the uncertain

    January 21, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    @Gelfling 545: Too bad FB insists on a damned sign in.

  68. 68.

    Lalophobia

    January 21, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    @Suzanne: This all comes down to what you can afford to do and how the public sees you. The civil rights movement might not have been able to be funny, given the country’s history of minstrel show type bullshit. Sometimes women, conversely, when they are marching and protesting for something, are portrayed as being humorless dried up schoolmarm husks that need to lighten up and can’t take a joke.

    This isn’t always the case but it might be a contributing factor sometimes.

  69. 69.

    Another Scott

    January 21, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @Another Scott: Cloture vote at noon tomorrow.

    Schumer objected to having the cloture vote at 10 PM tonight.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  70. 70.

    jl

    January 21, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @mskitty: Because our failed corporate news media is a garbage shitshow low grade reality show, meant to push GOP memes. Look at the corrupt hack Dickerson.

    These frauds are bleating all over the place, trying to fit the Trump Shitdown (thanks, BillinGelndale) into a hackneyed partisan stand off, and blame Democrats for being obstructionist. Very little mention that McConnell could even hold his own caucus and would have lost even on a majority vote.

    The vast majority of our corporate media ‘journalists’ are fraudulent reality show stars who push the GOP line. Corrupt nihilistic power hungry corporate hacks who believe in nothing but getting ‘the win’. So, obviously they have an affinity for they GOPers think.

    Edit: sorry, my mistake, I looked it up. the vote was 50 to 49. But my bigger point was that 4 GOPers and 5 Dems crossed party lines. It is not a classic partisan standoff that the media is babbling about.

  71. 71.

    chris

    January 21, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    Gah. I wish I had a FNYT subscription so I could cancel it. This is disgusting.

    In a profile published this weekend in the Style section of the New York Times, National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch was dubbed a “telegenic warrior.”

    MoJo link

  72. 72.

    Shana

    January 21, 2018 at 9:27 pm

    @Miss Bianca: No disrespect to Betty C. but I think that’s originally from Charlie Pierce. Sorry if someone else has already pointed this out.

  73. 73.

    Brachiator

    January 21, 2018 at 9:28 pm

    @Lalophobia:

    Sometimes women, conversely, when they are marching and protesting for something, are portrayed as being humorless dried up schoolmarm husks that need to lighten up and can’t take a joke.

    Excellent point!

    Also, women often cannot win. If serious, they are school marm husks. If convivial, they are frivolous and not to be taken seriously.

    I just want to see this energy continue and turn into votes and candidates running for office.

    And then I want to see women turning to all those who were not on their side, and saying, “Try to mock this, muthafucker!”

  74. 74.

    Jeffro

    January 21, 2018 at 9:32 pm

    @Baud:

    The way Hillary shut down the government is despicable.

    Right up there with Bill Clinton’s inaction on 9/11 and Obama letting New Orleans drown…

  75. 75.

    Jeffro

    January 21, 2018 at 9:34 pm

    @PsiFighter37: I’d have to agree with that sentiment every day, and twice on Sundays. Let’s shred ’em, Eagles!!

  76. 76.

    efgoldman

    January 21, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    @Lalophobia:

    This isn’t always the case but it might be a contributing factor sometimes.

    Generally Dems/progressives/liberals can be very funny and have great senses of humor. Conservanazis, on the other hand….
    You ever seen a funny conservanazi comedian? Dennis Miller me no Dennis Millers – he’s pathetic.

  77. 77.

    Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)

    January 21, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    @B.B.A.: After missing his party, if he has to cancel Davos, he’ll be in full meltdown.

  78. 78.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 21, 2018 at 9:37 pm

    @efgoldman: P.J. O’Rourke has had his moments.

  79. 79.

    Amir Khalid

    January 21, 2018 at 9:41 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
    Good.

  80. 80.

    B.B.A.

    January 21, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    @efgoldman: Mike Nelson is funny, conservative, and keeps his material completely apolitical. Which, judging by how his MST castmates are on Twitter, is a good call for multiple reasons.

  81. 81.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 21, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    @Spanky: Nouveau Place de la Concorde, DC. I suggest somewhere near Lafayette Square, DC.

  82. 82.

    sdhays

    January 21, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): That’s almost worth dragging out the shutdown, just to maximize his tantrum.

  83. 83.

    Mnemosyne

    January 21, 2018 at 9:43 pm

    I should be making dinner, but Charlotte decided that she needed to sit in my lap and purr.

  84. 84.

    Amir Khalid

    January 21, 2018 at 9:45 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Two things are happening to P.J. O’Rourke as he ages:
    1. He’s less and less funny.
    2. He looks more and more like TV villain the deep-state Cigarette-Smoking Man.

  85. 85.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 21, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: When he’s not being an obnoxious twit.

  86. 86.

    Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)

    January 21, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    @sdhays: Or maybe he’ll go anyway. That would be great optics!

  87. 87.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 21, 2018 at 9:47 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Priorities.

  88. 88.

    opiejeanne

    January 21, 2018 at 9:47 pm

    @SFAW: You know it’s Davos, no “r”, right?

    But Davros is funnier if you’re a Dr Who fan.

  89. 89.

    opiejeanne

    January 21, 2018 at 9:48 pm

    @raven: That was interesting. And weird.

  90. 90.

    Suzanne

    January 21, 2018 at 9:48 pm

    @Lalophobia: Agreed.

    I also think that the humor provides greater moral authority, as well, in this instance. It’s easier to be funny when one is in the right, and when the opposing argument/position is fuckin’ RIDICULOUS.

  91. 91.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 21, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    @Amir Khalid: @Villago Delenda Est: I agree. Note that I merely said he has had his moments. The Bachelor’s Home Companion is quite funny.

  92. 92.

    LesGS

    January 21, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    @Mnemosyne: A case of feline paralysis, eh?

  93. 93.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 21, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    @efgoldman: There are a lot of libertarian comedians– Larry Miller, Adam Carolla (who I think is actually a little bit nuts not just wrong but maybe shouldn’t be allowed to own guns which of course he does), a few others I’ve heard mentioned on Marc Maron’s podcast but the names escape me– some of them I have heard be funny, but never about politics.

  94. 94.

    Brachiator

    January 21, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    @opiejeanne:

    You know it’s Davos, no “r”, right?

    But Davros is funnier if you’re a Dr Who fan.

    Of course, Davos is also the name of a beloved character in Game of Thrones.

  95. 95.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 21, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: He had an essay on Seoul prior to the Olympics that I found to be pretty good, mainly because at the time I was stationed there and it rang pretty true.

  96. 96.

    opiejeanne

    January 21, 2018 at 9:55 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I have the semi-permanent visitor cat Henry sleeping on my feet. I need to get up soon to make supper and will have to disturb him, alas.

  97. 97.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 21, 2018 at 9:57 pm

    Ari Berman @ AriBerman
    Between 1.3 million to 2.1 million people participated in 328 @ womensmarch events yesterday. Amazing turnout

    Michael McDonald‏ @ ElectProject
    I’m old enough to remember that one old dude standing up at a Democrat’s town hall meeting got more media coverage than this

  98. 98.

    opiejeanne

    January 21, 2018 at 9:59 pm

    @Brachiator: Ah. Haven’t seen Game of Thrones. mr opiejeanne read all of the books and enjoyed them but has no desire to see the series.

    I was calling it Davros all the past week and realized yesterday why. Heh.

  99. 99.

    opiejeanne

    January 21, 2018 at 10:02 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Seattle’s march yesterday does not yet have an official estimate of participants, but one local source says with a sniff that it wasn’t as big as last year’s estimated 175,000. One tv station described it as hundreds but the Seattle Times said it was tens of thousands. From what I’ve read I will guess that it was about 100,000, or 1/6th the population of Seattle. Not too shabby.

  100. 100.

    eclare

    January 21, 2018 at 10:03 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I agree, some of his early travel writing was pretty good. Would be interesting to get his opinion of Russia now, back in the day, he was anti-USSR.

  101. 101.

    JR

    January 21, 2018 at 10:04 pm

    @efgoldman: there are a handful of guys. Funny in small doses. Jim Norton comes to mind.

  102. 102.

    Jeffro

    January 21, 2018 at 10:09 pm

    OT (for this thread, but still shutdown-related): I’m reading “A Nation of Nations” by Tom Gjelten. A great take on immigration, from the personal stories of immigrant families to America’s own history w/ immigration policy (both the steps forward the the backlashes, like now). Also centered on Fairfax VA (aka the Center of the Known Universe) so that makes it doubly interesting.

    As this board has discussed, everything that’s been said recently about ‘those’ people and “shithole” countries has already been said multiple times in multiple cycles ever since before we were a country. It does help, seeing that longer-term view. It’s a bit depressing that we have to keep fighting this fight, but bit by bit we expand the American promise to more and more people.

    Good book!

  103. 103.

    The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

    January 21, 2018 at 10:10 pm

    @Suzanne: and it has ancient roots. In many tribal and monarchical cultures, kings and chiefs could be deposed by the mockery of women, and no leader who could not command their respect could retain authority for long. The laughter of rebellious women is very old and potent magic.

  104. 104.

    Honus

    January 21, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    @chris: I’ve used a nine-pound hammer but an 80kg sledge is a little to heavy buddy for my size.

  105. 105.

    Jeffro

    January 21, 2018 at 10:14 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: @eclare: He peaked with “Parliament of Whores” and “Bachelor Home Companion”…I still have the latter, which he signed at a reading a couple months before I got married.

    I’ll give him credit, at least he (like Bill Weld and David Frum) tried to make the #NeverTrump case before the election. Unfortunately, their reach is pretty miniscule…

  106. 106.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 21, 2018 at 10:17 pm

    @Jeffro: Sadly, I still think some of the suggestions in BHC are worth considering. But then I drink on occasion.

  107. 107.

    PsiFighter37

    January 21, 2018 at 10:18 pm

    FLy EAGLES FLY! PF37 +unsure (I passed out during the NFC game after the refs gave the Pats the AFC title)

  108. 108.

    daize

    January 21, 2018 at 10:24 pm

    @PsiFighter37: On the road to victory!!!!! Woo hoo!

  109. 109.

    Jeffro

    January 21, 2018 at 10:26 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: The ‘bachelor cooking’ sections are the best.

    PJ once wrote a piece (either in RS or his ‘Republican Party Reptile’ book…not sure which came out first) called “How to drive fast on drugs while getting your wing-wang squeezed and not spill your drink”. Now that’s SOME title!

  110. 110.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 21, 2018 at 10:28 pm

    @daize: I was an anyone but the Viking person. But, secondarily, Doug Pederson was a good Packer for years, so I wish the Eagles well. And now, I don’t have to cheer for the Pats to keep the Vikings from a ring.

  111. 111.

    PsiFighter37

    January 21, 2018 at 10:28 pm

    @daize: More to beating that fuckhead Tom Brady, his pseudoscience, and that asshat Robert Kraft. Although Nick Foles thanking the fucking invisible man in the sky made me want to punch his face in.

  112. 112.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 21, 2018 at 10:29 pm

    @Jeffro: I’ve read that one. I think it was in RS first.

  113. 113.

    Tenar Arha

    January 21, 2018 at 10:29 pm

    @mskitty: I believe in the driftglass theory of media capture: because the bookers are instructed to book the panels and interviews this way.

  114. 114.

    opiejeanne

    January 21, 2018 at 10:30 pm

    @daize: And Mike Trout was there! Woohoo!

  115. 115.

    eclare

    January 21, 2018 at 10:30 pm

    @PsiFighter37: Cosign.

  116. 116.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 21, 2018 at 10:37 pm

    Only The Best People, Part The Nth

    Eliana Johnson‏Verified account @ elianayjohnson
    A source I had contacted about something more important responded that not only has Wilbur Ross fallen asleep at every meeting he’s been in with source, but that he drools – and uses his tie to clean it up.

    (maybe a Gigante defense for when Meuller walks in with all the records from the Bank of Cypress?)

  117. 117.

    PsiFighter37

    January 21, 2018 at 10:40 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: If I was 80 years old and worth less than the billions I purported to be, I’d do the above and drop gas below the decibel level perceptible to human hearing. You have to be a giant worthless douchebag at that point.

  118. 118.

    eclare

    January 21, 2018 at 10:41 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think I saw him in some photo where he was wearing slippers. Yep, I did.

    ETA> The article is horrible…just linked for the confirmation.

  119. 119.

    efgoldman

    January 21, 2018 at 10:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    P.J. O’Rourke has had his moments.

    I suppose, if you count writers. He’s also a talk-show guest raconteur. What he isn’t, is a kkkrazy.

  120. 120.

    Mike J

    January 21, 2018 at 10:50 pm

    @efgoldman: He’s one of the reasons I stopped listening to Wait Wait. Every single bit of shtick was an excuse to work in a big government Democrat party is evil gag. You always knew which fake news story was his because it was always about the gubmint seizing somebody’s chihuahua.

    The other reason was the “liberal” panel members who used every bit of shtick as an excuse to work in a big government Democrat party is evil gag,

  121. 121.

    Amir Khalid

    January 21, 2018 at 10:51 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    I once gave that book to a friend as his wedding present.

  122. 122.

    SFAW

    January 21, 2018 at 10:52 pm

    @opiejeanne:

    You know it’s Davos, no “r”, right?

    Yes’m, I do.

    But Davros is funnier if you’re a Dr Who fan.

    But only if he gets his minions/creations to do what they do best.

    And I don’t think “Blaidd Drwg” is Welsh for “Bad Combover.”
    (Apologies for being abstruse.)

  123. 123.

    Amir Khalid

    January 21, 2018 at 10:53 pm

    @chris:
    There’s some idiot reporter out there who doesn’t know a sled from a sledge.

  124. 124.

    chris

    January 21, 2018 at 11:03 pm

    @Amir Khalid: British vs American maybe?

    https://www.google.ca/search?q=sledge&oq=sledge&aqs=chrome..69i57.3136j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

  125. 125.

    MomSense

    January 21, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Did you see Maron’s stand up special on Netflix? I thought it was really funny. When he told the kitten story at the end, I thought he would fit in very well with us jackals.

  126. 126.

    eclare

    January 21, 2018 at 11:06 pm

    @MomSense: I just saw that! Also the part about being tired after going out, reminded me of the whole “wearing pants is hard” discussion. Hilarious!

  127. 127.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 21, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    @Amir Khalid: A friend from college gave it to me when I first got my own place.

  128. 128.

    efgoldman

    January 21, 2018 at 11:10 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    I passed out during the NFC game after the refs gave the Pats the AFC title

    Those sour grapes make really terrible wine (but excellent whine)

  129. 129.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 21, 2018 at 11:20 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Huh, whatever dictionary Google uses says this: “a vehicle on runners for conveying loads or passengers especially over snow or ice, often pulled by draft animals.”

  130. 130.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 21, 2018 at 11:20 pm

    @efgoldman: The Vikings are on the sidelines. I am happy.

  131. 131.

    MomSense

    January 21, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    @eclare:

    The Stones bit was really funny, too.

  132. 132.

    James E. Powell

    January 21, 2018 at 11:29 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Sledges are sleds. Sledge is pretty common in translations of Russian novels I’ve read. These are the sledges that the women in Antarctica used.

  133. 133.

    opiejeanne

    January 22, 2018 at 1:02 am

    @SFAW: *howls* AWOOOOOOO!!!!

  134. 134.

    opiejeanne

    January 22, 2018 at 1:08 am

    @James E. Powell: My grandfather was pulling a sledge across a muddy field with his mule when he caught my grandma’s eye, in the Ozarks long ago, circa 1915. There’s a photo of him with his mule with the note below it Chester Green with his mule Easter Sunday 1914. People have decided that the missing comma means that the mule’s name is Easter, which is a perfectly fine name for a mule, but Easter Sunday might be putting on airs..

  135. 135.

    T S

    January 22, 2018 at 1:16 am

    @Brachiator: Well, I’ve never been much of a speller.

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