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You are here: Home / Politics / Activist Judges! / Rude Speculation Open Thread: WHICH Hunt?

Rude Speculation Open Thread: WHICH Hunt?

by Anne Laurie|  April 9, 201811:43 pm| 92 Comments

This post is in: Activist Judges!, Dolt 45, Open Threads, Russiagate, Trump Crime Cartel, Assholes, Fuck Yeah!

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President Trump responds to question about firing special counsel Robert Mueller.

"Well, I think it's a disgrace what's going on… This is a pure and simple witch-hunt." https://t.co/UWoaiimcAo pic.twitter.com/lTht6dPE7D

— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 9, 2018

Sources talking to @GloriaBorger say President Trump is more angry at Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein than Robert Mueller.

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) April 10, 2018

But they’re on “his” payroll! Doesn’t being President just mean you no longer have to pay your subordinates for that RICO stuff?!?…

It's disgraceful when the FBI raids the office of the president's attorney and nobody can even guess which scandal it's about.

— Paul Wells (@InklessPW) April 9, 2018

Trump on raid of Michael Cohen: "It's an attack on our country in a true sense. It's an attack on what we all stand for." pic.twitter.com/6aKs0A5Y3k

— Axios (@axios) April 9, 2018

Nah, that was Charlottesville https://t.co/M1BwP7QgWd

— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) April 10, 2018

Calling around the president's circle. His allies are taken aback. Rattled. Worry the president has a small legal team that lacks a heavy hitter. Worry that Mueller is making big moves and, in essence, prodding the president to finally sit down for an interview…

— Robert Costa (@costareports) April 9, 2018

Giuliani on phone w/ Post. Will POTUS now consider firing Mueller or Rod R?
"I don’t think that’s in the cards. Too explosive, the whole process is too near the end."

— Robert Costa (@costareports) April 9, 2018

Giuliani: "The only thing that's happening, perhaps, is that Mueller is trying to compel the president to testify. There is the legal battle and the public-relations battle, and this kind of thing amps up the pressure to get it all over with."

— Robert Costa (@costareports) April 9, 2018

and it's not believed to be Russia-related so SUPER telling that Trump is acting like it is.

— Zed Wood Junior (@Zeddary) April 9, 2018

Breaking News: A Ukrainian magnate paid Donald Trump’s charity $150,000 in 2015 after Trump gave a video talk. Robert Mueller is said to be investigating. https://t.co/1mXETS7COJ

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 10, 2018

First connection between Mueller investigation and @realdonaldtrump’s foundation that I know of. https://t.co/NiTLH1CLP1

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) April 10, 2018

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  1. 1.

    cain

    April 9, 2018 at 11:53 pm

    Poor Trump. snicker.

  2. 2.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 9, 2018 at 11:56 pm

    I mean, it’s not in any actual sense Mueller’s warrant, sure, but isn’t it based on evidence mueller brought to the US Attorney’s attention?

  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 9, 2018 at 11:58 pm

    On the right is GEN Milley, Chief of Staff of the Army, sitting next to the VP. This is not his happy face!

    pic.twitter.com/BJGeelSDvU

    — Flowers for Bergeron (@KrinkleKult) April 9, 2018

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    April 9, 2018 at 11:59 pm

    Half expect Dolt 45’s crack legal team flunkies to suggest he sign an NDA with himself which he then can cite as reason for not answering questions from the special counsel.

  5. 5.

    Wapiti

    April 10, 2018 at 12:02 am

    @Adam L Silverman: he’s mentally calculating how soon he can retire.

  6. 6.

    Mnemosyne

    April 10, 2018 at 12:04 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Pence looks like he’s not paying attention at all. It’s a very Homer Simpson look.

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:04 am

    Ruh Roh!

    NEW — Scott Pruitt’s D.C. Lobbyist Landlord Also Funded His Oklahoma Attorney General Campaign https://t.co/5FUcRrniRU

    W/ @lachlan

    — Sam Stein (@samstein) April 3, 2018

  8. 8.

    MisterForkbeard

    April 10, 2018 at 12:05 am

    @NotMax: Can we call them “crack legal flunkies”? I think that might be the best description I’ve heard in a long time.

  9. 9.

    Origuy

    April 10, 2018 at 12:07 am

    @Mnemosyne: Mentally rehearsing the Oath of Office.

  10. 10.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:07 am

    @Wapiti: He’s got 4 stars. So anytime he feels like it.

  11. 11.

    Ken

    April 10, 2018 at 12:08 am

    If evidence is found that the Trump foundation was more a slush fund than a charity, could the IRS make adjustments to the returns of donors?

  12. 12.

    dmsilev

    April 10, 2018 at 12:09 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I guess we can now say that Pruitt is an honest politician, of the ‘stays bought’ sort.

    Perhaps his lobbyist aquaintance purchased him on layaway?

  13. 13.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:10 am

    @Mnemosyne: That’s his stern resolve look. Same one he made at North Korea. It’s Jesus tested and Mother approved!

  14. 14.

    clay

    April 10, 2018 at 12:10 am

    “Sarah, will you clarify why the President thinks that prosecuting bank fraud and campaign fraud are attacks on ‘what we all stand for’?”

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    April 10, 2018 at 12:10 am

    @Mnemosyne

    Mentally undressing the women in the press pool.

  16. 16.

    danielx

    April 10, 2018 at 12:11 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    From someone who has had the dubious pleasure of observing Mike Pence as governor and congressman, I can attest that is not an unusual expression for him.

  17. 17.

    MisterForkbeard

    April 10, 2018 at 12:11 am

    @Mnemosyne: He’s trying VERY HARD to not pay attention to anything in the Trump White House.

  18. 18.

    Mnemosyne

    April 10, 2018 at 12:12 am

    @Origuy:

    Nah. More like this.

  19. 19.

    dmsilev

    April 10, 2018 at 12:12 am

    @NotMax: Mother would not approve.

  20. 20.

    danielx

    April 10, 2018 at 12:15 am

    @dmsilev:

    Probably concerned that Mother would have his nutsack for a coin purse, which is likely true.

  21. 21.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 10, 2018 at 12:15 am

    Looking around twitter and seeing– hang on to your wigs and keys– no reaction from elected Republicans to trump’s declaration that this seizure of documents is ‘an attack on our coutnry’

  22. 22.

    Mnemosyne

    April 10, 2018 at 12:18 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    “L’État, c’est moi.”

  23. 23.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 10, 2018 at 12:19 am

    @Adam L Silverman: anyone else get the impression that reporters are hearing rumors that Samantha Dravis– who got a no-show job and a trip to Paris and Morocco– was Pruitt’s girlfriend? Even the normally prim and proper Doc Maddow seems to be smirkingly hinting at it

  24. 24.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:19 am

    @danielx: It’s all the saltpeter that Mother puts in his food.

  25. 25.

    Mnemosyne

    April 10, 2018 at 12:20 am

    @NotMax:

    There’s not even that much expression on his face. He looks like a Roomba sitting on its charger. Completely vacant.

  26. 26.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:21 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m just getting to Maddow on the DVR now. So this is the first I’ve heard of it. Wouldn’t surprise me. These are not very smart people. Damned determinedly corrupt people, not very smart people.

  27. 27.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:21 am

    @Mnemosyne: The Roomba’s more intelligent. And useful.

  28. 28.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 10, 2018 at 12:22 am

    Kobe beef.

  29. 29.

    cain

    April 10, 2018 at 12:22 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    @danielx: It’s all the salt peter that Mother puts in his food.

    Not pigeon droppings?

  30. 30.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:25 am

    How’s everyone enjoying Infrastructure Week? Having a good time so far?

  31. 31.

    dmsilev

    April 10, 2018 at 12:25 am

    @Adam L Silverman: On the other hand, I’ll bet that a video of a cat sitting on Pence’s head as he randomly walks about a room would garner plenty of views, so in that sense he’s on a par with a Roomba.

  32. 32.

    Peale

    April 10, 2018 at 12:25 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: frankly, I prefer the pre drained swamp, thank you very much.

  33. 33.

    dmsilev

    April 10, 2018 at 12:26 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Infrastructure Week seems to come earlier and earlier every year. I can barely get the decorations up in time.

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:27 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Made from real basketball player?

  35. 35.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:28 am

    @dmsilev: Only if he can suck dog hair up at the same time.

  36. 36.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:30 am

    @dmsilev: It’s an Infrastructure Week miracle!

  37. 37.

    sukabi

    April 10, 2018 at 12:31 am

    @Adam L Silverman: the General has a bit of a “WTF is this shit?” face going on. Could there be a sudden retirement in his near future?

  38. 38.

    sukabi

    April 10, 2018 at 12:33 am

    @dmsilev: please. NO. MORE. SEX. SCANDALS!

  39. 39.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 10, 2018 at 12:34 am

    @Adam L Silverman: sure.

  40. 40.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:36 am

    @sukabi: Doubtful. The Joint Chiefs will all stay in place as long as they are able to protect their Services. All of them were put in place by President Obama. GEN Milley is 1/2 way through his first three years as Chief of Staff. The most he would serve as Chief of Staff before retirement is two 3 year assignments. So six years total. Then he’d retire.

  41. 41.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:36 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Then you’re good to go!

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    April 10, 2018 at 12:37 am

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Will (gingerly) cross that bridge when I come to it.

  43. 43.

    dmsilev

    April 10, 2018 at 12:37 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Ah, the story of the first Infrastructure Week, when one concrete mixer truck miraculously lasted the whole week.

  44. 44.

    sukabi

    April 10, 2018 at 12:39 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I’m actually loving Mueller’s Infrastructure Week moves. Think he’s doing a FINE job.

  45. 45.

    Ruckus

    April 10, 2018 at 12:40 am

    @danielx:
    So, he always looks constipated.

  46. 46.

    danielx

    April 10, 2018 at 12:43 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    These are not very smart people. Damned determinedly corrupt people, not very smart people.

    It’s true. I mean, Pruitt is almost a caricature of a corrupt pol, starting at the state level and increasingly obviously upon reaching to the DC stratosphere. His deeper relationships with the awl bidness, as Molly Ivins called it, are much the more serious of his crimes as far as I’m concerned, but it’s the venial ones that are going to be his undoing. The one which may have doomed him with Trump is the lights-and-sirens demand. If anybody in a black limo or SUV is going to be driven around in DC with lights and siren it’s going to be the shitgibbon and nobody else, thankyewverymuch.

    It’s like Pruitt suddenly forgot everything he ever heard about keeping a low profile if you are going to be a crook.

    That’s bad enough, but watching Trump going off his rocker…slipping his gears…losing his shit…over the last few days has been and is getting more and more frightening. It becomes more and more obvious that he really does not know what he’s doing or what to do, and the only advisors he is willing to listen to are Fox and Friends and John Bolton.

  47. 47.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:44 am

    @danielx: I’m waiting for him to explain how he got an $850,000 mortgage on a $131,000 salary as Oklahoma AG.

  48. 48.

    Frankensteinbeck

    April 10, 2018 at 12:45 am

    @Mnemosyne:
    Not joking, I don’t expect expressions from Pence. The one thing he has shown he’s good at is playing partisan robot. He says what he’s told and doesn’t even acknowledge when he’s corrected. The guy has ‘bland liar’ down to a science.

  49. 49.

    Ruckus

    April 10, 2018 at 12:46 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    Completely vacant.

    OK so it’s not constipation, that’s his smug look, his smart look, his what’s for dinner look, his intent in thought look, his I wonder if anyone would notice if I scratch myself in that place look, IOW his entire range of facial expression.
    I guess it would be difficult to have more than one considering all the power contained behind it.

  50. 50.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 10, 2018 at 12:49 am

    Wait, are they really doing infrastructure week again?

  51. 51.

    Mnemosyne

    April 10, 2018 at 12:50 am

    @danielx:

    They are assuming that since they have control of both Congress and the presidency, they will never be prosecuted.

    Worst part is, they may well be right.

  52. 52.

    Ken

    April 10, 2018 at 12:51 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Infrastructure week will continue until they get it right.

  53. 53.

    efgoldman

    April 10, 2018 at 12:58 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    are they really doing infrastructure week again?

    They sent your invitation to your home address, didn’t know you were traveling.

  54. 54.

    efgoldman

    April 10, 2018 at 1:02 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    They are assuming that since they have control of both Congress and the presidency, they will never be prosecuted.

    There are a whole bunch of assumptions that are going to bump up against reality.

  55. 55.

    West of the Rockies

    April 10, 2018 at 1:04 am

    Just to see how the other half lives, I popped over to the Fox News website. The lead story is about Chinese tariffs. Story two is framed as the Mueller witch hunt. Stories three through five are about Katy Perry, someone who ate a bunch of chili peppers, and two black men accused of gang raping a 13 year old.

    It is a stunning disconnect of propaganda, idiocy and racism.

  56. 56.

    Gretchen

    April 10, 2018 at 1:05 am

    @Mnemosyne: Thank you for “roomba on its charger.” I needed the laugh.

  57. 57.

    Peale

    April 10, 2018 at 1:06 am

    @efgoldman: he’s not really traveling. He’s stranded until someone fixes the bridge.

  58. 58.

    jl

    April 10, 2018 at 1:08 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    ” I mean, it’s not in any actual sense Mueller’s warrant, sure, but isn’t it based on evidence mueller brought to the US Attorney’s attention? ”

    Mueller to Rosenstein: “It’s just one heck of a thing, Rod. We were getting ready to clear that nice Mr. Trump, but dangitall, look what we just found. That could be kind of bad huh? Waddayoo think Rod? Could that be kind of bad?’

  59. 59.

    joel hanes

    April 10, 2018 at 1:14 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    “Flowers for Bergeron” is a brilliant nym

  60. 60.

    danielx

    April 10, 2018 at 1:15 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    Yeah, I know, I know….I went on a rant in some thread recently in which my point, although it may have been some what spittle-inflected, is that if people at that level keep getting away with…everything…they will keep on doing it. Why not? There’s no downside.

    ETA: Starting with Nixon, who was never even admonished for the most serious of his crimes.

  61. 61.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 10, 2018 at 1:16 am

    @jl: “you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the president. The PRESIDENT, Rod. President trump. Well now, what happened is, it’s just, one of his lawyers, he had a sort of… well, he went a little funny in the head, and uh, he went and did a silly thing…”

  62. 62.

    Ninedragonspot

    April 10, 2018 at 1:18 am

    That expression on Pence’s face suggests a man trying to stifle impure thoughts about a rugged, yet gentle security agent on his detail.

  63. 63.

    patrick II

    April 10, 2018 at 1:19 am

    @danielx:

    Pruitt saw Tom Price go and took at as a challenge. He is not just passively breaking norms, regulations, and laws he is actively seeking opportunities for new levels of Trump administration corruption. But he will never beat the master.

  64. 64.

    jl

    April 10, 2018 at 1:20 am

    @Ninedragonspot: A commenter above, as I understand it, said it had something to do with Pence’s ‘power constipation.’ So, I don’t need to know any more about it, whatever it is.

  65. 65.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    April 10, 2018 at 1:23 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Wow, you can see him thinking “This is the apex of my carrier?”

    EDIT FOR LEGAL COMPLIANCE: Did you know this is infrastructure week?

  66. 66.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    April 10, 2018 at 1:23 am

    @Mnemosyne:
    They won’t get away with it. Whether they’re punished by the justice system or destroyed electorally (why not both?).

  67. 67.

    jl

    April 10, 2018 at 1:25 am

    @Major Major Major Major: I laughed a laugh. But Trump is more than a little funny in the head, and he could do a silly thing in an attempt to get out of whatever crimes he and/or all his cronies are in to up to their necks.

    One thing I don’t think we need to speculate about is that, if it directly involves Trump, then Trump’s Razor will be in effect and it will be unimaginably dumbass. Might be heinous, might be despicable, or might not. Maybe pathetic, but maybe not. But absolutely surely dumbass.

  68. 68.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    April 10, 2018 at 1:33 am

    @West of the Rockies: On the same note my You Tube Suggested Videos tonight was hilarious, on the Breaking News category all the networks and papers the video title on their report was “FBI agents raid Trump attorney” EXCEPT for Fox News which was “Is Cohen raid an overreach of Mueller probe?” The people who watch Fox have to know they are only being told what they want to hear. But it is Infrastructure Week.

  69. 69.

    Aleta

    April 10, 2018 at 1:36 am

    Leaning back and trying to persuade himself he’s still king of rope a dope. Except he looks like a solid born loser. And those crazed saps keep pretending, because they’re that stupid and they’re thieves, that nobody will see him scrabbling behind his back for a way through the wall.

  70. 70.

    dm

    April 10, 2018 at 1:43 am

    I’m so glad we can say “Merry Infrastructure!” again. I was getting so tired of “Cement’s Greetings”.

  71. 71.

    different-church-lady

    April 10, 2018 at 1:46 am

    @clay:

    “Sarah, will you clarify why the President thinks that prosecuting bank fraud and campaign fraud are attacks on ‘what we all stand for’?”

    HUCKABEE-SANDERS: “Were you born after 2008 or something?”

  72. 72.

    sukabi

    April 10, 2018 at 1:48 am

    @Adam L Silverman: what’s interesting in that set of pics, is that Pence is sitting on drumpfs’ right, Bolton on his left…so Pense’s expression of blank nothingness is even more ‘interesting’.

  73. 73.

    different-church-lady

    April 10, 2018 at 1:50 am

    a) The body language. This is a man who feels the walls closing in.

    b) The hair. He’s losing it in front now, no longer has enough to get his forward-oriented flock-of-seagulls pompadour to sit correctly anymore.

  74. 74.

    Aleta

    April 10, 2018 at 1:57 am

    Isn’t it time to cut off the power to the WH air conditioning and water pumps and regular lights and TVs, and to every freezer with ice cream or steak in it. Time to seize Kushner’s property by civil forfeiture for suspected crimes; and auction it off to pay refunds to anyone willing to publicly claim in the newspaper that they voted for Hilary Clinton.

  75. 75.

    danielx

    April 10, 2018 at 2:00 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    EXCEPT for Fox News which was “Is Cohen raid an overreach of Mueller probe?”

    What, Fox News is treating it like it’s a question instead of immediately going directly to “blatant Federal overreach”? Could it be the times they really are a-changing?

    SATSQ: No. They will start that shit tomorrow.

    Musing earlier: it’s strange to see the ending of an era while not feeling any real change in my day-to-day life, as I suppose it is for most BJ commentators. Economic effects of the present unpleasantness won’t hit most people for a while yet. But hit they will, with the most violent effects starting in…five years or so. Trump will leave office eventually, whenever* or however he does, and a presumably more sane** person will sit in the Oval Office. Butttttt…it’s not like we – the collective we – can go back to people overseas and say hey, sorry, we fucked up and elected a lunatic. Can we go back to being friends, with our-now-nonexistent-diplomatic-corps leading the way?

    All together now and with spirit: ain’t happening.

    Things have changed and they are never, ever going to be the same. Electing Bush to preside over the biggest political/diplomatic/military fuckup in history, certainly US history, was bad enough. Electing this utter incompetent corrupt fuckup – for I know no other way to describe him – was worse, and our putative allies are never going to see the US the same way again.

  76. 76.

    Redshift

    April 10, 2018 at 2:03 am

    If you run Trump’s statement through a narcissist to English translator, it arguably makes more sense.

    “The country” = I/me
    “Everyone” = I/me
    “Our values” = my values
    Etc.

    Terrifying, but more coherent.

  77. 77.

    danielx

    April 10, 2018 at 2:15 am

    @danielx:

    Done forgotted:

    *Math does not appear to add up to Trump impeachment, conviction vote ain’t happening in the Senate. Note: should happen? yes. Could happen? no, for a number of shitty reasons.
    **whoever it may be, the person has to be more sane and stable than Trump. My estimate of what is required to achieve the presidency has been shattered, but I think a new baseline has been established.

    ETA: I used to joke about how the number of assholes who looked in the mirror and saw Republican presidential timber. It’s not so funny now.

  78. 78.

    John Revolta

    April 10, 2018 at 2:20 am

    @danielx:

    the biggest political/diplomatic/military fuckup in history, certainly US history

    I like a bit of hysteria as much as the next guy………………but come on.

  79. 79.

    Mary G

    April 10, 2018 at 2:22 am

    Don’t know if it will turn out to be true, but if so, this is exciting:

    Alzheimer's gene neutralised in human brain cells for the first time https://t.co/gUuz317jTd— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 10, 2018

    A team in California successfully identified the protein associated with the high-risk apoE4 gene and then manage to prevent it damaging human neuron cells.

    The study could open the door to a potential new drug capable of halting the disease, however the researchers have urged caution because so far their compound has only been tried on collections of cells in a laboratory.

  80. 80.

    sukabi

    April 10, 2018 at 2:24 am

    @John Revolta: I know, right? Drumpf hasn’t completed his “hold my beer” gambit yet.

  81. 81.

    danielx

    April 10, 2018 at 2:49 am

    @John Revolta:

    Ummm….please describe a bigger political/diplomatic/military fuckup in US history, than invading and occupying Iraq. Seriously. If there is one, I want to know.

  82. 82.

    JR

    April 10, 2018 at 2:56 am

    @Mary G: Sure, it’s true. But the second part is critical. Pharmacokinetics is a thing.

  83. 83.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 10, 2018 at 3:03 am

    @danielx: ……Vietnam?

  84. 84.

    JR

    April 10, 2018 at 3:04 am

    @danielx: Setting aside the Civil War, 3/5ths compromise, etc. as purely domestic fuckups:

    The “banana republic” era in the Caribbean
    Vietnam
    World War I

    Iraq is up there, though!

  85. 85.

    Manyakitty

    April 10, 2018 at 3:12 am

    @Adam L Silverman: While Pence carries on with his interpretation of “smell the fart” acting.

  86. 86.

    Manyakitty

    April 10, 2018 at 3:15 am

    @Adam L Silverman: TGIF! WOOHOO! oh, wait…

  87. 87.

    Manyakitty

    April 10, 2018 at 3:20 am

    @Peale: Where’s that confounded bridge?

  88. 88.

    Jack the Second

    April 10, 2018 at 6:58 am

    It’s like on a crime drama when they realize the blood soaked murder weapon doesn’t match the victim’s blood or wound, and are like, “shit, can someone else find the body that goes with this knife?”

  89. 89.

    RedDirtGirl

    April 10, 2018 at 7:00 am

    Looks like Trump’s dentures are coming loose again in that video.

  90. 90.

    Kristine

    April 10, 2018 at 8:20 am

    There T*%#p is with the folded arms again. Every time he’s cornered, or sitting with people he doesn’t like, or in some other way threatened.

  91. 91.

    The Simp in the Suit

    April 10, 2018 at 8:47 am

    @Mnemosyne: And it’s partner:

    “Après moi, le déluge”

  92. 92.

    SFAW

    April 10, 2018 at 9:16 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I’m waiting for him to explain how he got an $850,000 mortgage on a $131,000 salary as Oklahoma AG.

    Zero points! Zero closing costs! Zero Interest! Almost-zero Principal!

    Because he “knows a guy who knows a guy who will set you right up.”

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