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Accountability, motherfuckers.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

When we show up, we win.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

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  8. 8.

    Jeffro

    I just want to know how that critical ‘first minute’ goes…everything after that is either roses or mushroom clouds…

  11. 11.

    Baud

    Five to one, the person who shows up is that Kim impersonator from the Olympics and no one on Trump’s team realizes it.

  17. 17.

    piratedan

    will there be a live feed of a burning dumpster to simulate the discussion/negotiation?

  23. 23.

    JPL

    Weren’t we a nation where human rights meant something? Trump’s world is about shiny lights, and nothing else. North Korea gets a McDonald’s and a Trump hotel.

  26. 26.

    TS (the original)

    @Baud: They watch to save my sanity. I worry about theirs after the event.

    Now if a fist/gun fight starts – I’ll be right there.

  32. 32.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @eemom:

    Wounded from torture and starving, Grace Jo’s father died on a train heading to a North Korean prison camp, a fellow inmate told his family. His crime: illegally possessing a bag of rice during the 1990s famine.

    Jo escaped across the river to China in 1998, and is now a U.S. citizen and college student in suburban Washington. She is deeply concerned that President Donald Trump is preparing to make peace with the “monster,” as she put it, who runs her native country.

    “He should not make a deal with terrorists,” Jo told NBC News. “This regime will never give up its nuclear development.”

    Trump slave: “Shut up slant eyes! MAGA”!

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    @MomSense:

    He’s the only person on Trump’s team who’s ever met Kim, so he’s their expert.

    Muse on that for a minute.

  38. 38.

    M4

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

    How refreshing that BJ is following in the emmessemm footsteps of ignoring the 800 pound gorilla in any discussion of North Korea

    South Korea’s Moon, whose parents were North Korean refugees, seems happy to let Trump primp and preen and if necessary take all the credit and oxygen from the room.

  39. 39.

    eemom

    @TS (the original):

    Yup.

    Trump has more vehicles in his convoy. WIN!

    Enjoy your popcorn, folks.

    How about some “live coverage” of the children being torn from their mothers’ arms by our very own Gestapo and taken to “the showers”? That would be hilarious too.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Lireralist

    and Nick Kristofff starts his “liberals need to clap for trump” bleating

    god I hate that preening wanker

  42. 42.

    Schlemazel

    NOW would be a great time for a massive tsunami to wipe out the entire city. Sorry for the collateral damage but damn the world would be so much better off. (yes, being sarcastic, relax)

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    And Kristof starts his “liberals need to clap for trump” bleating. God I hate that preening wanker

    @Baud: Hear hear

  50. 50.

    M4

    @eemom: sorry, we’ll work harder to ignore the American President on this American politics blog at the next world historic summit.

  56. 56.

    TS (the original)

    @M4: This is not historic – this is graft and corruption – those who used to be friends of the the USA are in mourning

  57. 57.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Huh

    Yes, Trump is tweeting.

  67. 67.

    M4

    @eemom: it seemed to me (not that your point was in any way clear) that coverage of North Korea would only be acceptable to you if it focused on their rampant human rights violations, rather than discussing the meeting occurring between Kim and Trump.

  71. 71.

    White & Gold Purgatorian

    @MomSense:

    Trump just tweeted that Larry Kudlow had a heart attack.

    Might that be contagious? Am I evil for wishing it so? Karma for his shameless remarks about Trudeau, at any rate.

  73. 73.

    GregB

    I needed to interrupt all with breaking news from MSNBC.

    Trump and Kim Jong Un are using cars to travel to their meeting.

    Thought you would want to know this groundbreaking news as it happens.

  74. 74.

    Jeffro

    Anyone who’s read The Orphan Master’s Son would know that making nice with this murderous clown – Kim, I’m talking about Kim here – is the opposite of what our country should stand for.

  76. 76.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Larry Kudlow has had a heart attack.

    ETA: ….as numerous others have already noted.

  81. 81.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @M4:
    Yeah, I can do that. I guess I’m still in a certain frame of mind from writing out trash-talking villains.

  90. 90.

    Chyron HR

    @eemom:

    Why don’t you take some valium, and once you’ve settled down you can tell us what your actual problem is. Did Cheryl Rofer “steal your man”?

  91. 91.

    MomSense

    Brian Williams is asking about artillery tubes. And it looks like Kim got a new do.

  92. 92.

    rikyrah

    No, it’s not worth it…So, don’t do it

    For Black Lives Activists, Engaging in Trump’s Pardon Politics Feels Like a Deal With the Devil

    Is it “worth boosting the reputation of a racist, misogynist, and dangerously authoritarian administration?”

    Brandon E. PattersonJun. 11, 2018 3:24 PM

    Last Wednesday, Alice Marie Johnson,
    a 63-year-old great-grandmother who served more than 20 years of a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense, was released from federal prison in Alabama after President Donald Trump commuted her sentence at the request of Kim Kardashian West. The reality TV star, who got
    involved after seeing a news video about Johnson, had met with Trump at
    the White House to plead her case.

    …………………..

    “It’s clear that this is a PR stunt,” says Malkia Cyril, executive director and co-founder of the Center for Media Justice,
    an Oakland-based group focused on the role of surveillance technology in incarcerating people of color. “That said, even a PR stunt can get some of our people free.”

    “We have to make a decision,” she adds, “as to whether getting one or two, or three or four, or 10 people released from prison is worth
    boosting the reputation of a racist, misogynist, and dangerously
    authoritarian administration.”

    https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/06/black-lives-matter-donald-trump-pardon-politics-feels-like-deal-with-devil-alice-marie-johnson-1/

  93. 93.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    And even if he were, Hoover wasn’t a proto-fascist. Pelley, or Huey Long would have made more sense:

    “Live coverage of Hitler-Pelley summit. Enjoy!”

    “Long is on his way! Hitler not yet!”

    “Long has more vehicles in his convoy. WIN!”

  94. 94.

    Dorothy Winsor

    I listening to this live coverage and these TV people aren’t any better than ours. They sound like they’re covering the red carpet at some award show.

  108. 108.

    TS (the original)

    @M4: That makes it stupid and insane – not historic. Historic is usually associated with a positive event – not a sh!t fool selling out his country.

  113. 113.

    Corner Stone

    Trump loves this guy. He acts like he’s trying to sell him units in Trump Tower.

  119. 119.

    TS (the original)

    @M4:

    That’s ridiculous.

    Everything about your so called president* is ridiculous.

  124. 124.

    Roger Moore

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Hoover wasn’t President when Hitler became Chancellor.

    Actually he was; they overlapped in office for just over a month (Jan 30 – Mar 4, 1933). You may be confused because the president’s term now ends on January 20th, but when Hoover was in office it didn’t end until March 4th. It was actually the end of Hoover’s term that convinced the country to change the inauguration date. Hoover refused to do anything substantive during his lame duck period*, which left the country effectively leaderless for about 4 months at a time when the economy was collapsing. People decided we could figure out who won the election considerably sooner than that, so they moved the date up. It’s intriguing to think about what might have happened in 2000-2001 with an extra month to tabulate votes.

    *Which admittedly would have precluded a Hitler/Hoover summit meeting.

  128. 128.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @TS (the original):
    I’m sure M4 agrees with that this is insane. However, you’re being a tad pedantic. Something can be historic and be bad.

    According to Wiktionary:

    Very important, very noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.

    You can’t argue that no matter how this thing turns out, it’s not noteworthy. That doesn’t mean we think this is positive.

  129. 129.

    MomSense

    I guess the first minute went well because trump said they would have a terrific relationship.

  132. 132.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    and for comic relief, the top White House adviser who made $82 million dollars in 2017 apparently had dinner at Hunan Garden and is tweeting out wisdom from her fortune cookie

    Ivanka Trump @ IvankaTrump
    “Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.” -Chinese Proverb

  135. 135.

    Cheryl Rofer

  139. 139.

    Mary G

    Body language not great, Trump leaning forward, tapping fingers together, picture of nerves. Kim looks relaxed and a bit contemptuous. Agree that the commentators are horrible.

  140. 140.

    MomSense

    Ok here’s the best take of the night.

    My 14 year old.

    Kim’s has crazy hair because he actually has hair he could do something with. Trump’s is sad. That combover is what sad men do.

  143. 143.

    Roger Moore

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Ivanka Trump @ IvankaTrump
    “Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.” -Chinese Proverb

    We aren’t saying it can’t be done, just that it shouldn’t be.

  146. 146.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Roger Moore:

    What the fuck is this little idiot doing? She should know better than anyone that her father is incapable of pulling this off. Daddy’s little rich spoiled brat is all “Melivanka” is.

  148. 148.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Okay, y’all. I’m gonna read the newspaper with the kittehs for a while and will come back about the time Trump and Kim are supposed to emerge.

  151. 151.

    Raoul

    Maybe it’s the quality of the photography or transmission of it via Twitter, but I swear the US flags behind the big damn handshake are cheap ass printed American flags. Those white stars are not stitched on fabric. Nope.
    I bet the damn cheap flimsy things were printed in Asia in a sweat shop. That alone would be three weeks of wall-to-wall Fox coverage if any Dem was shaking hands on that stage.

  153. 153.

    B.B.A.

    Working as I do in the *mumble* financial industry, I see CNBC on mute in my office every day. I can’t tell you what Kudlow’s voice sounds like but every time he’s on screen he twitches so much I figured he had to be on cocaine… even before I heard about his past use. He claims to be clean now but I doubt it.

  158. 158.

    Jeffro

    @Cheryl Rofer: Oh lovely…Trumpov is HONORED to be in Kim’s presence. Meanwhile, Kim notes his own perseverance in putting up with the Yankee imperialist warmonger long enough to get a photo op.

    And our flag…right next to theirs, same height, same size, like this is all normal and we are all equal in the family of nations. Jesus. I guess at this point we might well be…

  162. 162.

    different-church-lady

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Kim Jong Un: “There were a lot of obstacles to get to this point. It wasn’t easy to get here but we made it through.”

    Well, yeah, sure, enriching uranium ain’t the easiest thing in the world.

  163. 163.

    Corner Stone

    I think Dr. Feelgood has given a little sum sum to Trump to get him over the jetlag hump. Dr. Lyin’ Ronny may be gone, but he’s not forgotten.

  164. 164.

    different-church-lady

    @Roger Moore:

    “Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.” -Chinese Proverb

    “Now hold my beer.” – Floridian Proverb.

  174. 174.

    Corner Stone

    @Jeffro: I want someone to come in to Kudlow’s room and start playing acoustic guitar and accidentally knock out every IV line so he starts making fish face before he goes.

  178. 178.

    Jeffro

    @Corner Stone: Win. Second best would be just him realizing he’s lived an utterly worthless, self-aggrandizing life and having him instantly turn into a polished turd. Ideally to be presented to Trumpov when he’s done degrading our once-great nation on this scuzz-fest.

  179. 179.

    eemom

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    OK, so? Bill Clinton has met with Kim Jong Il.

    Read the fucking link, Part 2.

    Clinton refuses to grip-and-grin with Kim Jong Il

    Bill Clinton isn’t smiling in the official photograph from his 2009 trip to North Korea. He warned his aides not to smile, too. He was all business, officially there as a private citizen (though his wife was secretary of state) to negotiate the release of two American journalists held hostage by the government of Kim Jong Il, the current North Korean leader’s father

    Both sides do it, amirite?

  181. 181.

    randy khan

    @Raoul:

    It also appears that the U.S. flags are not the right colors. The reds and blues of the two flags should not match – the U.S. colors are darker. That’s bad advance work, to say the least.

  183. 183.

    Aleta

    Kudlow (quotes from a J. Chait article)

    In 1993, when Bill Clinton proposed an increase in the top tax rate from 31 percent to 39.6 percent, Kudlow wrote, “There is no question that President Clinton’s across-the-board tax increases … will throw a wet blanket over the recovery and depress the economy’s long-run potential to grow.”
    This was wrong. Instead, a boom ensued.

    Kudlow endorsed Bush’s argument that the budget surplus he inherited from Clinton would turn out to be even larger than forecast. (Kudlow also claimed that) “Faster economic growth and more profitable productivity returns will generate higher tax revenues at the new lower tax-rate levels. Future budget surpluses will rise, not fall.”
    This was wrong, too.

    (In 2002)

    “The shock therapy of decisive war will elevate the stock market by a couple-thousand points,” he predicted.
    That was wrong.

    (About the housing bubble)

    “There’s no recession coming. The pessimistas were wrong. It’s not going to happen. At a bare minimum, we are looking at Goldilocks 2.0. (And that’s a minimum). Goldilocks is alive and well. The Bush boom is alive and well.”
    + “The Media Are Missing the Housing Bottom,” he wrote in July 2008.
    All of this was wrong.

    (In 2009)

    The administration “is waging war on investors. He’s waging war against businesses. He’s waging war against bondholders. These are very bad things.”
    That was also wrong.

    (In April 2011, refusing to credit Obama)

    “March unemployment rate drop proof lower taxes work.”

    (In 2012)

    Kudlow advised Republican governor of Kansas Sam Brownback to implement a sweeping tax-cut plan that would produce faster growth.
    This was wrong.

  184. 184.

    Corner Stone

    @Aleta: We can only hope he makes a statement saying, “This small heart attack isn’t going to get me.”

  189. 189.

    Ksmiami

    @Citizen Alan: all of them Katie- all of them- btw, I used to be a nice person, but I blame Republicans for Marching America off a cliff and now my contempt for them is a never ending font of bile

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