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You are here: Home / Politics / America / I’m Setting The Blog To Def-Blog 2: The President Will Be OnFox & Friends

I’m Setting The Blog To Def-Blog 2: The President Will Be OnFox & Friends

by Adam L Silverman|  May 24, 201812:41 am| 61 Comments

This post is in: America, Election 2016, Foreign Affairs, Humorous, Open Threads, Politics, Popular Culture, Post-racial America, Not Normal

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Will be interviewed on @foxandfriends tomorrow morning at 6:00 A.M. Enjoy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2018

Please stay at your stations, off the comms, and await official updates regarding the President’s calling in to Fox’s A Blonde with Two Boobs morning show and it’s aftermath!

 

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    May 24, 2018 at 12:44 am

    6 AM Eastern, I assume? Is this some weird way for him to get his I’m-on-TV fix without anyone actually watching?

  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 12:45 am

    This has got to be Florida!

    This is the headline to beat today. pic.twitter.com/D8ZQ9Au7oc

    — Maggie Serota (@maggieserota) May 23, 2018

  3. 3.

    Mandalay

    May 24, 2018 at 12:45 am

    I had never heard of Christopher Johnson before, but I”d buy him a beer:

    Despite the NFL’s approval of a revised policy that requires players on the field to stand during the national anthem, Jets chairman Christopher Johnson told Newsday on Wednesday that his players are free to take a knee or perform some other protest without fear of repercussion from the team.

    An excellent FUCK YOU to Trump and the NFL.

  4. 4.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    May 24, 2018 at 12:46 am

    if we tune in, will we hear him chewing his Egg McMuffins in bed?

    Melanie has never had to hear that

  5. 5.

    Steve in DUVAL!

    May 24, 2018 at 12:47 am

    @Adam L Silverman: dude, I thought you weren’t going to post about what’s happening in my hotel room!

  6. 6.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 12:51 am

    @Steve in DUVAL!: There are some things even I don’t need to know! Let alone don’t want to know!

  7. 7.

    Yarrow

    May 24, 2018 at 12:52 am

    @Steve in DUVAL!: Posted a reply to you in the previous thread.

    And re: the post, this news is terrifying. I’ll just wait for highlights. I’m at the point where looking at him or hearing his voice makes me physically ill.

  8. 8.

    Manyakitty

    May 24, 2018 at 12:53 am

    Maybe this is the key to open the Hellmouth all the way. Fingers crossed, y’all.

  9. 9.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 12:56 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: He’s a hotcakes and sausage kind of guy…//

  10. 10.

    Geeno

    May 24, 2018 at 1:00 am

    Weirdly, there are some countries where if the “short woman” is youthful looking enough, she’d be illegal for phot/porn-ography. Flat chested models have a hard time in some countries, because the law treats nude pictures of them the same as child porn, because they’re “youthful looking”.

  11. 11.

    Mart

    May 24, 2018 at 1:01 am

    Def-Blog 2 shields energized.

  12. 12.

    Steve in DUVAL!

    May 24, 2018 at 1:03 am

    @Geeno: decorum prevents me from asking how you know this!

    Or are you Corner Stone posting under a different name?

  13. 13.

    Geeno

    May 24, 2018 at 1:06 am

    @Steve in DUVAL!: Actually it was by reading an article about Australian models suing on right to work grounds. Labor law is weird. In fact, most things are weird under normal circumstances, and current circumstances are weirder than normal.

  14. 14.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    May 24, 2018 at 1:11 am

    Matthew Yglesias @ mattyglesias
    An obvious question: What do Nunes & Gowdy want to do that they don’t want to let Democrats (or even GOP Senators) see them doing and why should DOJ let them do it?

    I will give Nancy Pelosi five dollars is she asks that question to the cameras one White House driveway

  15. 15.

    SectionH

    May 24, 2018 at 1:11 am

    Death by puerility?

    Also too, now I’m wondering if Fox is gonna introduce the first triple-breasted blonde on earth TV.

  16. 16.

    oldgold

    May 24, 2018 at 1:13 am

    The interview was taped on Wednesday afternoon.

    After the last debacle, they are not going to let Himself go live on Faux and Fiends.

  17. 17.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 1:18 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: My guess is that Nunes and Gowdy will be given different/differing information in the first for those 2 only meeting than what will be given to the Gang of 8 where Gowdy will sit in for Nunes. I think they’re setting a trap to see if Nunes leaks. Either by putting the information out himself or giving it to the President.

  18. 18.

    Yarrow

    May 24, 2018 at 1:19 am

    @oldgold: He may, however, call in after his interview plays to talk about how great his interview was.

  19. 19.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    May 24, 2018 at 1:21 am

    @Adam L Silverman: There’s a new bar in town that I’ve walked by and they have a bouncer in a nice suit out in front, he’s about 3′ tops.

  20. 20.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    May 24, 2018 at 1:22 am

    @Mandalay:
    All of the teams should just stay in the locker rooms during the anthem or do something that can’t be banned in protest during the anthem.

  21. 21.

    Mj_Oregon

    May 24, 2018 at 1:24 am

    I’ve been watching YouTube videos and live streams of the Kilauea eruptions as a distraction from all this crap. I alternate those with the Cornell Labs hummingbird stream in West Texas and the Kitten Academy live stream which is guaranteed to bring your blood pressure down. I can’t listen to tRump’s screeching anymore or even watch him with the sound off. I still feel like I’m down the rabbit hole and ate from the wrong side of a bad mushroom. I hate to think what tomorrow will be like.

  22. 22.

    mai naem mobile

    May 24, 2018 at 1:24 am

    I would love love love it if Muellers deputies presented a search warrant on one of Trumpov’s pals at 6AM tomorrow. See him meltdown in real time. Oy vey!

  23. 23.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    May 24, 2018 at 1:24 am

    @Adam L Silverman:
    There was speculation earlier today and the last two days that the DOJ and FBI were caving and basically surrendering their independence. I like your version better.

  24. 24.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 1:24 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: You’ll never see him coming. And a lot of rowdy drunks are gonna get hit in the crotch.

  25. 25.

    psycholinguist

    May 24, 2018 at 1:24 am

    @Geeno: can most things be weird under normal circumstances? Wouldn’t that make them part of the norm, and therefore, not weird? But as I can’t remember the last time our president was a 73 year old, infantile, Cheeto colored lunatic, right now is definitely weird.

  26. 26.

    Yarrow

    May 24, 2018 at 1:25 am

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: They should stay in the locker room until just before the game starts. The whole national anthem and military pageantry crap is stupid. Maybe this whole thing will help bring it to an end.

  27. 27.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 1:26 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: The other possibility is simply that this White House, which has trouble with details, failed to remove the meeting they originally scheduled from the schedule when they scheduled the second meeting with the proper Gang of 8, but with Gowdy sitting in for Nunes. So I wouldn’t be surprised if there is only that one meeting for the Gang of 8 and not the earlier meeting with just Nunes and Gowdy. But we won’t know until later tomorrow.

  28. 28.

    Yutsano

    May 24, 2018 at 1:27 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I’m sorry but I refuse to believe anyone in the White House is capable of pulling off the Tyrion ruse.

  29. 29.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    May 24, 2018 at 1:29 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Won’t work on me, I’m a midget.

  30. 30.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 1:30 am

    @Yutsano: It wouldn’t be the White House. It would be the national security section professionals at the FBI/DOJ. These are the counterintelligence folks. They know their business and they are not amused at what they’ve been asked to do tomorrow.

  31. 31.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 1:30 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: We’ll update your dossier.

  32. 32.

    MisterForkbeard

    May 24, 2018 at 1:33 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Since Gowdy is at both meetings, wouldn’t he know the information is different?

  33. 33.

    Amir Khalid

    May 24, 2018 at 1:35 am

    The same phrase has been in my mind for days: “Squier Affinity Stratocaster slick silver”. I keep telling myself not so soon, but the urge to acquire gear won’t go away.

    Knowing what der Scheißgibbon has on his mind (such as it is) will be useful even if it is not interesting. I look forward to the usual after-action report.

  34. 34.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    May 24, 2018 at 1:37 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Interesting– Wray and Rosenstein running a sting on Nunes?

    You heard Paul Ryan is otherwise engaged and won’t be able to attend?

  35. 35.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 1:37 am

    @MisterForkbeard: Gowdy is a former Federal prosecutor. And despite his partisan behavior with the Benghazi special committee crap, my impression is he takes his access to classified information seriously. So he knows how important it is, from his past experience as a US Attorney, to safeguard the identities of covered human sources, which is what we’re dealing with here.

    But, again, I’m only working on what is being reported and won’t know more until later tomorrow. If we know at all.

  36. 36.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    May 24, 2018 at 1:39 am

    @Yarrow:
    No argument from me. I’ve never liked how much the military is glorified but at the same time, like public schools as Kay notes, are expected to solve all of our problems as a society.

    The crap like the sports stadium pagents and the “Thank you for your service” is an overreaction to how the armed forces were viewed and treated in the aftermath of Vietnam until the start of the Gulf War imo.

  37. 37.

    Corner Stone

    May 24, 2018 at 1:44 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Come on.

  38. 38.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 1:46 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I would if I was them.

    And I hadn’t heard that.

  39. 39.

    Corner Stone

    May 24, 2018 at 1:47 am

    Man, I think Steve has killed the American Airlines website. I been trying to go to Germany in July for the last couple hours.

  40. 40.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 1:47 am

    @Corner Stone: I have no doubts what so ever that Nunes leaks classified information. I have seen no evidence whatsoever that Gowdy does. Unclassified, partisan, spun/tailored information? Yes. Classified? No.

    My bigger concern is the reporting that Kelly will now be attending both. That’s bad.

  41. 41.

    Corner Stone

    May 24, 2018 at 1:48 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: ZEGS has abdicated. He don’t give a shit.

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 24, 2018 at 1:49 am

    And on that note, I’m going to bed.

  43. 43.

    Corner Stone

    May 24, 2018 at 1:50 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I will refer you to the classification authority of Dr. Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.

  44. 44.

    Mandalay

    May 24, 2018 at 1:53 am

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:

    All of the teams should just stay in the locker rooms during the anthem or do something that can’t be banned in protest during the anthem.

    If they did that wouldn’t the players be doing exactly what Trump and the NFL want?

  45. 45.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    May 24, 2018 at 1:57 am

    @Mandalay:
    Hence why they should do some other form of protest that would be incredibly difficult for the NFL to ban.

  46. 46.

    Calouste

    May 24, 2018 at 1:58 am

    @Mandalay: No, what the NFL wants is no fuss, and what the shitgibbon wants is to have them all stand there during the national anthem and finish with a “Hail Trump!”.

  47. 47.

    Sister Golden Bear

    May 24, 2018 at 1:59 am

    @Adam L Silverman: And Nunes is stupid enough that I’m sure he leapt at the chance when he was told he (and Gowdy) would get some “extra” secret info that the Gang of 8 won’t be privy to.

  48. 48.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    May 24, 2018 at 2:00 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    My bigger concern is the reporting that Kelly will now be attending both. That’s bad.

    Fuck that goddamn fascist fuck Kelly. I hope he ends up in prison, that Eisenhower wannabe.

  49. 49.

    jonas

    May 24, 2018 at 2:12 am

    @Adam L Silverman: My impression as well is that Gowdy thinks Nunes is a dimwitted asshat.

  50. 50.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    May 24, 2018 at 2:31 am

    @jonas: That would be correct.

  51. 51.

    jl

    May 24, 2018 at 2:33 am

    I thought ‘Everything’s Fucked’ is the default for this blog. Was that up there by mistake?

    Maybe something from this is more appropriate than the code read.

    Popping Popcorn at 30,000 FPS in Ultra Slow Motion [ Part 2 ]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZd33awqQk

  52. 52.

    Amir Khalid

    May 24, 2018 at 2:50 am

    I am having a problem with the site. Any kind of page refresh seems unable to conclude.

  53. 53.

    Mandalay

    May 24, 2018 at 2:55 am

    @Calouste:

    what the shitgibbon wants is to have them all stand there during the national anthem and finish with a “Hail Trump!”

    Hardly. Even if every player stayed in the dressing room for the entire season, Trump would still claim victory: “Those traitorous sons of bitches were on their knees disrespecting our anthem and our flag. Well they’re not doing that any more! I put a stop to that!”.

    The players union need to recruit Avenatti. He probably knows nothing about the finer points of the relevant law, but he’d be great at pointing out on TV every night ad nauseam that the NFL is traitorous and disrespecting the flag by selling beer and hot dogs while the anthem is playing. I can see this bullshit from the NFL backfiring on them quite nicely.

  54. 54.

    Steeplejack

    May 24, 2018 at 2:56 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    There is a new autoplay ad down the right side (under “Support Our Sponsors”) that takes forever to load. You have to go up and press “Pause” on it. Otherwise, yes, it makes it look like the page is taking forever to load.

    I haven’t finalized a way to add it to my AdBlock Plus list yet.

  55. 55.

    SectionH

    May 24, 2018 at 3:01 am

    @Mj_Oregon: You are so not alone. I don’t want to see his face or hear him at all either. I was sort of in that scene with the Shrub, but this is several factors worse.

    Hang in there.

  56. 56.

    JPL

    May 24, 2018 at 3:37 am

    Trump has already altered my sleep patterns, so I’ll pass. Since it was filmed previously, you can be assured that it will be heavily edited.

  57. 57.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    May 24, 2018 at 6:38 am

    @Mandalay:

    The NFL would just say that those are private vendors that they have no control over along with some additional arglebargle about “freedom” and “private enterprise”.

    That’s not exactly true, but the knuckle draggers will lap it up.

  58. 58.

    father pusbucket

    May 24, 2018 at 7:12 am

    Wow, prime time!

  59. 59.

    Haroldo

    May 24, 2018 at 7:28 am

    @Amir Khalid: Oh, dear. “It’s a terrible illness, it’s a terrible case.
    And it’s usually permanent when it takes place.” Good luck.

  60. 60.

    MattF

    May 24, 2018 at 8:21 am

    There’s a real need for a generalized, unified, multi-dimensional pie filter– a filter that is valid in all intertial reference frames. So that Fox fans may ask themselves “Why are they talking about pies?”

  61. 61.

    The Other Chuck

    May 24, 2018 at 12:34 pm

    @MattF: Such a filter is called “not hanging around right-wing dipshits”.

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