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The Calm Before the Storm of Next Week’s Summit

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The President has made it to Singapore and is, apparently, enjoying the local time version of Executive Time by completely misunderstanding the broad or fine details of global trade and economics. As the President uses his thumbs to battle the Maple Menace from the North, here’s an ode to his martial prowess.

At this point there’s not much we can do but wait for the “greatest negotiator of all time” to meet with Kim Jong Un and hope he doesn’t agree to give him Japan, Guam, and Hawaii in exchange for a casino. So remember:

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    Sandia Blanca

    OMG, Jubilation T. Cornpone is the best! (And watch for a young Valerie Harper in the chorus.) Thanks Adam.

  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Sandia Blanca: I am not a big fan of musicals, but I’ve always had a soft spot for this one. And Jubilation T. Cornpone is a personal favorite.

  5. 5.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Steve in the ATL: Generally not an issue or a concern.

    I am a big opera fan, but musicals just do nothing for me. The only reason I ever watched this one was because I had a bad flu one winter in Scotland, the TV in my flat didn’t have a remote, and I wasn’t getting off the sofa to change the channel. Also, the only other thing on was snooker. So I watched it. Same reason I wound up watching Deliverance the next night.

  12. 12.

    bluehill

    This is like a comic book or WWE storyline where one of the good guys goes rogue and teams up with the bad guys. Our existing alliances are weakening and new ones are starting to form. Crazy. Destabilization is going to lead to some bad outcomes.

  13. 13.

    Sab

    @Adam L Silverman: North Americans in the UK do tend to get flu. I got swine flu in ’76. I have never been so sick. Chills, fever, teeth chattering. It was unpleasant. If I had been older than twenty, and therefore had more brains than God gives to goats, I might have sought out competent medical advice. It was available, what with their socialized medicine.

  14. 14.

    Corner Stone

    @rikyrah: Yeah. Until he owns that shit I don’t give AF what he has to say about the god damn sun rising in the morning or anything else.

  15. 15.

    oldgold

    David Frum was asked on CNN this evening if it was “appropriate” for him to write an article for the Atlantic harshly critical of Trump’s conduct at the G-7, given the upcoming Singapore Summit.

    “You wrote a very bruising piece earlier today for The Atlantic about what happened at the G-7 meeting,” Stelter said on Reliable Sources Sunday. “What I’m wondering David is, whether you thought about keeping your powder dry at this moment in time when Trump is heading into this key meeting with the North Korean dictator.”

  20. 20.

    Sab

    @M4: @M4: How bad was it? In retrospect, I might have died from mine. High, high fever. I have had friends who lost kids to such.

  28. 28.

    sanjeevs

    Cadwalladr’s latest bombshell
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/09/arron-banks-russia-brexit-meeting

    It is understood they [Banks and Wigmore] were presented with a business opportunity in which they were offered a chance to invest in a plan to buy six Russian gold firms and merge them into a single entity, potentially netting a profit of several billion dollars.

    Oakeshott (Banks ‘biographer’ had all of Banks emails in her dropbox account.
    Which presumably mean MI5 knew all about them.
    But did nothing

  29. 29.

    different-church-lady

    @Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ:

    My fears veer more toward mushroom clouds.

    TRUMP: “John! Give me The Football! NOW!”

    KELLY: “Mr. President, I really think we ought to depart from the target country first…”

  33. 33.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Sab: I just had the normal flu. I think I got it just before I got my flu shot that year. We were very fortunate that the NHS surgery in St. Andrews was very good. The doctors actually still made house calls if necessary, or so I was told. The only real back ups, from what I was told, was there was a backlog for mental health counseling because so many of the students were seeking counseling.

  35. 35.

    Adam L Silverman

    @different-church-lady: Actually I only had the standard four channels at the time. BBC 1 and 2, ITV and Channel 4. So there was probably news on, and snooker, and Lil Abner, and most likely darts. Or East Enders.

  39. 39.

    Platonailedit

    @sanjeevs: UK is the new Switzerland where all the tax cheats & treasury looters from rest of the world and kinky bankers are in bed.

  40. 40.

    jl

    I’m enlisting in the Expeditionary Force to rescue Canada from anti-democratic Justin forces. It will be a mere matter of marching, just like Jefferson said.

    Well, no, OK. I am too old to enlist. But I just sent some money to the Trump kids and they’ll make me a Colonel. I’m raising troops right now. We are taking Western Canada.
    My plan is to sneak into Canada before war is declared, occupy a penthouse suite at the Lake Louise place and stockpile smoked trout, arctic char, venison, and rack of lamb, and blackberry and blueberry creme brulee for the invasion forces.

    BJ commenters get first crack at enlisting. Bargain. $500 per night. Drinks extra. I’m chartering an luxury bus to get there, also extra.
    Who’s in?

  41. 41.

    Platonailedit

    The most pathetic political head since the treason turd’s ‘election’ has been Japan’s Abe. No amount of ass kissing seems to have earned him some donny love.

  43. 43.

    oldgold

    @Adam L Silverman:

    It got worse as “appropriate” soon turned into “patriotism.”

    Stelter noted that “American journalists still have a sense of patriotism” and that pundits on cable news have said they “are all rooting for this to go well.”

  45. 45.

    Platonailedit

    @oldgold:

    The rethugs were kneecapping Obama 24×7 for all eight years in all matters internal and external. Stelter can go fuck himself with his sudden found faux patriotism.

  47. 47.

    jl

    The Trumpster BS on Canada is amazing. I guess they’ll reveal their secret plot to take over the world soon, with backstabbing, talkingoutofturninging, backtalking, sorrying and their other vile tricks. Protocols of the Elders of Winnipeg. It will shock the world.

    Edit: new puzzle for Mueller, when did Trump see the Southpark movie, and when did he not understand it was a cartoon?

  48. 48.

    GregB

    Someone showed The King of Lies the film Canadian Bacon and told him it was a documentary.

    It looks like England is finally getting around to understanding that the Brexit vote was an info war ratfucking.

  49. 49.

    jl

    Jeet Heer, patriot, researches why Canada and the US have always been at war, even if you libs didn’t know about it.
    https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1005885279637401600

    And proto-Trujmpsters knew the danger of the fiendishly clever Cree, commie Canada’s secret weapon.

    No takers for my expeditionary regiment. Now $499.95, limited time sale, and I’m throwing in a MAGA cap.

  52. 52.

    frosty

    @jl: Throw in the drinks and we’ll think about it. And what’s the “luxury bus”? Thomas-built schoolbus or are we up to Scenicruiser level?

  54. 54.

    NotMax

    Told this before, but what they hey. One production of Li’l Abner which was involved in, we had an actor play the role of the Jubilation T. Cornpone statue. With appropriate body make-up.

    The kicker was that, each time the lights came up, he was in a different position. My favorite was the time he spontaneously decided to be thumbing his nose, using both hands, one in front of the other.

    Good times, good times.

    No Tony Awards spoilers, please. Only the first hour has aired here so far.

  57. 57.

    YetAnotherJay formerly (Jay S)

    @jl:

    Jeet Heer, patriot,

    You mean “Jeet Heer, Canadian” don’t you?

  58. 58.

    SectionH

    @jl: Your Elite shock troops might pay C$200/night for a couple of weeks in Lake Louise, or even Banff, if you include the booze. Depending on the exchange rate. And you weren’t too worried about the attrition rate, because you’d get a stream of replacements. Maybe let some of them infiltrate on their own? Also too, as long as there aren’t actual guns involved. Or marching, or all that icky stuff.

    @NotMax: Is that the one with the “Shoulders” joke (as in “driving on them”?)

    edited

  59. 59.

    JeffH

    I was in a high school production of Li’l Abner and just like every other show I was in, I wound up doing the off-stage voices that were needed along with other characters. In this case it was doing mock radio broadcasts in other languages. The last of them was Russian and I was taking Russian at the time, so I knew that what was in the script was just made up nonsense that supposedly sounded Russian. I fixed this and threw in a couple, er, salty words that the teacher had taught us.

    One night at intermission, the musical director sought me out and asked “So what exactly did you say there? [The Russian teacher] is sitting right behind me and he was practically on the floor.” I just smiled and kept silent.

  61. 61.

    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac in That Man from Rio (1964) on TCM at 4:00 a.m. EDT, in case you missed the mention earlier. That should be 10:00 p.m. for you, right?

  63. 63.

    SectionH

    @NotMax: Ok, I was curious enough to check IMDB, and yeah, 3rd character in the Big Bus cast list is Shoulders. I didn’t see the film until sometime in the early 1980s, and am now kinda amazed that it was released in ’76, and Airplane not until 1980. I always thought The Big Bus was an Airplane parody.

  64. 64.

    Steeplejack

    Pleasant lull in the nighttime. Was about to go to bed a while ago, but a soft but steady rain came up, and it’s pleasant to sit here and listen to it tapping on the windows and smell it on the breeze. Temp is 64°—quite nice. Even the high humidity is not bad.

  66. 66.

    Jeffro

    @rikyrah: amen to that thread, and a great reminder – trying to talk policy to a Trumpkin is worse than playing “I know you are but what am I?” with a six-year-old

    (some pretty funny comments in there, too)

    “A Trumpista would eat a shit sandwich if they thought libs would have to smell their breath” – OUCH! BUT TRUE!!

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