But I don’t think Trump hires only the best people:
Joseph W. Hagin, a deputy chief of staff to President Trump and one of the most seasoned government veterans on a team populated mainly by newcomers with little if any prior experience in the White House, plans to step down next month.
Mr. Hagin has run White House operations for Mr. Trump for 17 months, overseeing the daily administration of a building often whipsawed by chaos generated by the president. Just this month, Mr. Hagin led a delegation of officials in Singapore who arranged the logistics of Mr. Trump’s landmark summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader.
The NY Times fails to mention WHY he might be leaving, so we’ll leave that up to Buzzfeed:
Igtet, however, had other interests outside recovering Libyan riches, including one at the center of a major sex-trafficking case. Igtet was deeply involved in NXIVM, the celebrity “sex cult” whose leadership is now under federal indictment, two sources said. Igtet proselytized for the group, BuzzFeed News has learned, while his wife, the heir Sara Bronfman, reportedly kept the cult afloat with tens of millions of dollars.
And in 2013 — as Hagin’s future boss was railing against the Obama administration over the 2012 terrorist attack on the US embassy in Benghazi that killed a US ambassador — Igtet met with the man the US believed to be the mastermind of the attack, who has since been convicted on terrorism charges.
But Hagin’s firm, seeing the chance to reap millions, viewed Igtet as a golden goose and continued to work with the couple even as their associations with NXIVM became increasingly public.
Oh.
Meanwhile, another one of Trump’s finest is making news tonight:
.@Zac_Petkanas says on Fox News a 10-year-old girl with Down Syndrome was separated from her mother at the border.
Corey Lewandowski responds: "Womp womp." pic.twitter.com/cZMXWmwbjw
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) June 19, 2018
I can’t wait for the day when this Lewandowski asshole gets road rage and fucks with the wrong person and gets what he so richly deserves.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
Corey Lewandowski is human excrement.
rikyrah
They are all scum. Human scum. They have no redeeming qualities. At all.??
Pogonip
“Womp womp”? I don’t get it. Can someone explain?
lamh36
First of all..GOOD.
Second of all…a Mexican restaurant…she betta be glad she was run off, cause if anyone knew who she was, she might just have been eating something they may have called enchiladas, but was actually…well…let’s just say something she does not want to eat.
germy
And Hope Hicks thought he was fuckable.
arrieve
Even though I no longer have even the slightest expectation that any of these scumballs will not behave in the worst possible way, they continue to astonish me. How is it even possible? Every time I think they can’t possibly go lower they manage to find a way.
germy
@Pogonip: Sad trombone.
Utilized to mock someone’s sadness.
lamh36
Speaking of Corey,
Megyn Kelly thirsty for attention azz:
Girl…please…if you still had ur Fox News show, Corey would likely be a weekly guest…
Calouste
You say the sex cult is the reason he is leaving. I say it was the reason he was hired in the first place.
TenguPhule
Are you fucking kidding me? The Republicans have a direct connection to the Benghazi mastermind and this NEVER EVER FUCKING CAME OUT?!
SiubhanDuinne
This (and Ann “child actors” Coulter, and Laura “summer camp” Ingraham) have had me a state of incandescent rage for days now.
Drunkenhausfrau
I am becoming unbalanced fantasizing horrible deaths for these stains.
TenguPhule
@Pogonip:
Peanuts animated cartoon? The adults speaking in gibberish?
TenguPhule
@Drunkenhausfrau:
You’ll get used to it.
I did.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
Maybe she never saw The Help ?
Yarrow
@lamh36: Her ratings must be awful. I saw a rumor they’re trying to move her to the fourth hour of Today. Also, her producer’s leaving.
Frankensteinbeck
@lamh36:
Yeah, when I heard about Pence and the protest gathering for his visit to Philadelphia, I realized that people are enraged right now, and Trump’s administration people are likely to start seeing it directed at themselves personally.
germy
@TenguPhule: Comment #7
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Ha!
Yarrow
@SiubhanDuinne: I’ve been in a state of rage since the election.
Pogonip
@germy: Thank you.
What a jerk. (Him, not you.)
germy
@Yarrow: Some of the production crew have said how badly she treats the crew. Makeup people, etc., she treats like shit.
She reminds me of every high school mean girl I ever sat next to back in the ’70s.
sukabi
@Pogonip: if you listen to the video in the tweet its self explanatory.
I don’t care what anybody says. Samantha Bee is right, except she didn’t go far enough…Feckless c…s the lot of them.
SiubhanDuinne
@Pogonip:
This.
Platonailedit
Amazing how these scumballs with all the investigations and indictments are still out there in public parading their increasingly disgusting levels of ugliness every day.
lamh36
Oh no you didn’t Melanoma…smh
sukabi
@lamh36: yeah, if this country had any decency neither would she.
Pogonip
@TenguPhule: Thank you.
I used to work in a warehouse where the loudspeaker sounded exactly like Charlie Brown’s teacher. One guy had been there 20 years and had never been able to decipher an announcement.
Hungry Joe
Such people are now mainstream. And more and more are signing up:
“University professors, students, intellectuals were turning Nazi, Iron Guards, one after the other. At the beginning, certainly they were not Nazis. We were some fifteen people who used to get together to discuss, to try to find arguments opposing theirs. It was not easy…From time to time, one of our friends said: ‘I don’t agree with them, to be sure, but on certain points, nevertheless, I must admit, for example, the Jews…’, etc. And this was a symptom. Three weeks later, this man would become a Nazi. He was caught in the mechanism, he accepted everything, he became a rhinoceros. Toward the end, we were only three or four to have resisted.” — Eugene Ionescu, 1970
Mart
This is hitting me a bit like 911. I am shocked to the point of numbness. I am going to a party on the 4’th near Houston with a group of college friends. it is our 35th anniversary. I am going to go to war this time over the followers of asshole dear leader who has surrounded himself with fucking Nazis’ Miller, Gorka, Bannon, et. al. No more Mart, whatever you do, do not bring up politics. And then the Trumpies fire off one shot after another at me. I now know how a person feels about these kids is a tell if they are an American, or a Nazi. This.American.Carnage.Ends.Now – Womp Womp Motherfuckers.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@germy:
I sense a theme here. Roseanne was difficult to work with, apparently. Was the reason none of this came out during the original run of her show because the internet was (even as late as 1997) still in its infancy? Or was she just not as batshit crazy then as she is now?
lamh36
@Yarrow: she is so obvious it’s just sad…smh
jacy
@lamh36: these people should probably invest in some scott-pruitt-level security. Things are starting to feel unhinged.
ender
You know, though, these shitheads are cowards. If they really had the courage of their convictions, they wouldn’t be trying to pretend the Democrats are responsible, or imagining that gluing the families back together again is possible, or any other half-assed hedging.
If they actually had balls, they’d proudly say yes, and they’re not done. Use them for slave labor to build the wall, or let their ragaholics shoot ’em up, to spare the schools and churches. But no, they don’t have the courage of their convictions.
Cowardly Donnie and the Nutless Wonders, breaking shit again.
TenguPhule
Wapo headline.
Baby steps.
And the piece de resistance:
zhena gogolia
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
She was pretty bad back then too. Lots of people quit behind the scenes, as I recall.
germy
Full “womp womp” clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir6gU4u003s&feature=youtu.be&t=17m41s
efgoldman
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
Not that good. Lower than whale shit
TenguPhule
@jacy:
Stop making it harder for justice to be done.
Yarrow
@lamh36: She really is. NBC has to be regretting their low quality hire (tm Kay). She’s awful and certainly not worth the $69 million they’re paying her.
efgoldman
@Pogonip:
Translation: I am much more of an asshole than even you thought I could be.
lamh36
TenguPhule
@efgoldman:
Whale shit is worth $7,000 a pound FYI.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
I haven’t had a TV in seven or eight years now. How the hell many hours long is the fucking Today Show these days, anyhow?
hilts
@SiubhanDuinne:
Tweedle Dumbass A and Tweedle Dumbass B.
Mary G
Love him or hate him, Michael Avenatti’s got reality show instincts better than Twitler’s. Here he tweets a letter from a mother to her 6-year-old who was taken away from her for “a bath” two weeks ago. You don’t even need to be able to read Spanish, just look at her little drawings to be appalled that they are not together. Also, it certainly doesn’t fit the administration’s narrative that these are illiterate useless people trying to come in.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
Me too, but it’s really ratcheted up since the family separation border news started breaking last week.
oldster
So the Republicans–a guy who has worked in every Republican administration since Reagan–was in bed with the actual attackers at Benghazi. Unbelievable.
With Republicans, it is just projection all the way down.
At this rate, I am pretty sure that Trump was born in Kenya, and it’s even odds that he was married to Bill Clinton.
Yarrow
@SiubhanDuinne: Four hours. Two of the actual Today Show. An hour of Megyn Kelly Today. Another hour of Kathie Lee and Hoda, also under the Today umbrella.
lahke
@Calouste: Read all the way to the end–he’s quitting to angle for the deputy CIA spot.
Brachiator
It may have been noted before, but Snopes officially debunks this bullshit
Just in case you need it for your Facebook friends.
Link
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/does-law-family-separation-detention-minors/
zhena gogolia
@oldster:
Internet won.
hilts
@lamh36:
Melania’s lack of self awareness is breathtaking. With each successive tweet, she reinforces the fact that she’s an utterly clueless horse’s ass.
TenguPhule
The Wisdom of Balloon Juice Provides!
jl
For the GOP and Trumpsters, there is a limited liability doctrine for bad people and bad countries. If you can make some money with them, you are dealing with the holding company, not the bad entity itself. So perfectly OK to damn and smear people you can associate with the bad thing, but OK to make lots of dough with the same bad thing, since for that purpose it is a different thing, not bad at all. See? Easy.
germy
That NXIVM stuff is weird. Whats weirder is that the biggest critic of the cult seems to suffer from Hillary Derangement Syndrome:
https://artvoice.com
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
I “read” the sad trombone sound as more “Wah-wah-wah” than “Womp-womp”—needs to be three, Corey, not two, by the way—but whatevs.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@zhena gogolia:
It makes me mad that the network covered it up for years while the show was on the air. It makes me even madder that ABC gave her show knowing full well what she was.
SiubhanDuinne
@hilts:
Alternatively, Tweedledum and Tweedledumber.
germy
@oldster:
Let’s just say:
in his pizza joint, there is a basement.
Brachiator
@hilts:
Feckless, too.
TenguPhule
@germy: Its worse.
Via Urban dictionary.
He was comparing her internment to a fucking GAME SHOW LOSS.
hilts
@Yarrow:
That’s brutal. Hopefully, she’ll get cancelled before her contract expires. She’s a trainwreck.
Chet Murthy
@Brachiator: All she fuckin’ had to do was continue to stay away. To say *nothing*. To do *nothing*. She (like St John McMaverick McCain) couldn’t manage to do *nothing*.
Ah, well.
arrieve
@oldster:
Okay that made me laugh. Thank you.
Amir Khalid
@oldster:
I found myself imagining what the wedding pictures might look like. And I’m all out of brain bleach. I hates you.
germy
@hilts: Either way, she gets paid.
Same as Roseanne. They’re talking about doing a spin-off without her. She won’t appear in it, but she’ll get a giant paycheck, because it’s her “concept”
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@jacy:
Tell me about it. This is not normal.
Ruckus
I just got home and posted this on a probably dead thread so I’m sticking it here as well.
I hate to sound like or be a downer. I have to stay positive because of my health, falling off that cliff of despair makes me far worse than a normal crappy day. It makes me physically sicker. Yesterday morning I couldn’t type. I tried but my fingers wouldn’t stay on the keys and I couldn’t control where they went. That’s my life, it’s OK, that’s how it is. No one did this to me, it isn’t anyones fault. It’s shit but it’s life. Some are better than mine, some are far worse.
But things we can control, things we can make better, even if only a little bit, to turn around and make those far, far worse because you are a sick fuck of a human being and you have to bring along a crew of like minded asswipes? And they don’t even seem to be in it for the money. WHATTHEEVERLOVINGFUCK.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G:
That made me cry. Heartbreaking. Avenatti may be a bit of a showboat, but his instincts are great, he defends sympathetic clients, and he really seems to know his stuff.
Also, he’s extremely hot.
hilts
@SiubhanDuinne:
Each time I think these two clowns can’t sink any lower, they prove me wrong.
Yarrow
@hilts: I’ve occasionally seen a few moments of it and she always looks like a snotty mean girl. I don’t understand why anyone would watch her show on purpose.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
Holy cow.
Kjsbrooklyn
@Pogonip: He meant it as a sad trombone noise
germy
Quite the wordsmith:
link
Yarrow
@SiubhanDuinne: Yep. If you happen to walk by a TV tuned to NBC anytime in the morning you’ll probably be looking at some version of Today. It’s just gross.
lamh36
Folks talking about Nielsen went to a Mexican restaurant to get just the reaction she got.
Of course she did…it’s the Chump school of drama…like Pence leaving the football game cause some players knelt, nevermind that was the whole purpose for going.
But I can’t be mad at folks for being pissed and wanting to shout even if it’s exactly what the FUQ’er wants
germy
promote, proliferate and perpetuate
diversion, distraction, defamation and disinformation
He must have taken writing lessons from Safire.
hilts
@Brachiator:
Absolutely. I’m sick and tired of any idiot who still believes that Melania or Ivanka could serve as moderating influences on Donald Trump. As far as I’m concerned, the whole damn Trump family is scum.
TS (the original)
@lamh36: Listening to Rachel – Melania is following instructions – make everyone outraged – the president* loves chaos – the more they protest, the happier he is. Everything the ahole has done since he was elected reinforce this concept. Melania and Ivanka do EXACTLY as they are told.
Shell
Was on Youtube doing some searching and what pops up was Neil Diamonds “America”. Hadn’t listened to it in a while, did…and well. Perhaps it should be played at every WH briefing and at every pundit trying to justify this policy. Heres the beginning lyrics.
Far,
We’ve been traveling far
Without a home
But not without a star
Free,
Only want to be free
We huddle close
Hang on to a dream
On the boats and on the planes
They’re coming to America
Never looking back again,
They’re coming to America
Home
Don’t it seem so far away
Oh, we’re traveling light today
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm
Home
To a new and a shiny place
Make our bed and we’ll say our grace
Freedom’s light burning warm
Freedom’s light burning warm
**************************
Goddamn.
Ruckus
@hilts:
A horses ass is a useful part of the animal. The hind legs attach somewhere around there, there is an outlet for fertilizer…… That’s 12 more uses for a horses ass than for shitgibbon’s immigrant wife.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@germy:
Yup, he’s freaking out. He fears he’s going to be caught up in this mess too.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: People (who have been doing it since the Women’s March) are doing what needs to be done and institutions seem to be figuring out how to deal (imperfectly) with what is happening. Congress is acting. Media seem to be getting a clue. Kids from moms is visceral.
On a personal level, please keep on keeping on as best you can.
Barbara
@lamh36: That’s a pretty upscale Mexican restaurant very close to the White House.
zhena gogolia
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
I mean just being difficult. I don’t remember anything about racism back then.
JPL
I think Trump lost Alan Dershowitz, but the question remains is whether or not he will lose the house.
efgoldman
@germy:
Why did you link that excrescence? No one should get out of the boat. Shame on you.
MomSense
@lamh36:
WTAF
This is why I will never feel sorry for her. The birther BS was bad enough but this.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
Lower than diseased whale shit.
JPL
From Haberman .. a link to the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-seems-to-be-saying-more-and-more-things-that-arent-true/2018/06/19/c1bb8af6-73d5-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?utm_term=.7dbe75ecc2d4
Brachiator
Fuck the New York Times
From HuffPo.
Easier for Trump to label a written interview as fake news if there is not audio to contradict his lie.
Mary G
@germy: He’s pretty riled up, I wonder why?
This is rich:
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
For some version of action.
Fucking senile Hatch was on CBS tonite bleating about the unacceptable policy. Did he sign on to Difi’s bill? Can i dunk a basketball?
Smelly old senile prick.
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Isn’t a day 24 hrs?
You don’t think that some moron upper level dumbass thinks that’s what The Today Show means, do you?
The Dangerman
@lamh36:
What IS that special sauce?
/Harold and Kumar
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Frankensteinbeck: They should, a lot of them are sounding like inbred decedent perverts the French imagined the Nobility of their time to be.
WereBear
@Ruckus: Yes.
The last time I felt this sick was when the News about the US torture system broke. And now, the Republicans have managed to go lower.
dexwood
Our fake president has declared war on our allies. Worse yet, he has declared war on our country. And, he has too many supporters, traitors really, willing to defend him. Quite a fight ahead of us.
hilts
@germy: @Yarrow:
I’ll go to my grave never having understood the appeal of Megyn Kelly. Meanwhile, I can’t imagine 3 more years of Trumpenstein in office. If the Cubs could win the goddamn World Series in my lifetime, it should be possible for some miracle to occur that will result in Trump’s removal from office.
TenguPhule
@Omnes Omnibus:
Democrats in Congress are acting.
Republicans are playing terrorists with live hostages.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@ender:
That’s the thing, they are moral nihilists.
Felanius Kootea
I just saw Chet Murthy’s comment in another thread about Warsan Shire’s poem, “Home.” Shire is Somali-British and write the poetry for Beyonce’s Lemonade album.
Her words are like a punch in the gut and she captures perfectly why people leave home even when they are not
welcome where they are going.
I’l except the first part below (read the rest at the link above):
TenguPhule
@Ruckus:
$7,000 a pound for the stuff. Find a new metaphor, guys!
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
If you eliminated all the modifiers, you could get that whole thing down to about 200 characters.
Chet Murthy
My new nickname for Secretary of DHS: “Totenkopf Barbie”.
MomSense
@Ruckus:
Please take care of yourself. We have to pace ourselves.
Here’s some Mavis Staples
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Why “seems to be”?
Why not just “is”?
hilts
@Ruckus:
I stand corrected. I find Melania utterly repulsive and horse’s ass was simply the first insult that popped into my mind to describe her.
schrodingers_cat
@Ruckus: Can you use Google voice to type?
tony prost
@Pogonip: I think it is sad trombone!
Thoughtful David
@Brachiator:
She’s not doing any of those tweets or anything else. What, she’s been seen once in 8 or 9 weeks? Some aide is writing that shit.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I am thinking, you can’t be this blatantly vindictive like Trump is because as Micheaville said the leader wants fear, not contempt. That’s why Hilter and Stalin did their nasty stuff in secret and never in the open. It’s getting to the point were anyone on Trump’s shit list will have nothing to lose but attack Trump directly themselves. Intresting.
Omnes Omnibus
@TenguPhule: My point is both people and institutions are acting. I know it postpones the war in the streets that you are waiting for, but it is happening.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thanks. I do try but this level of fucking bullshit, not on a daily but an hourly, not trickle but a fucking flood, it’s worse by far than the Vietnam war. And that was absolutely fucking bad. I was part of that. Didn’t have any good choice sure but still had a small part in it. I didn’t vote for this shit, most of the citizens didn’t vote for this shit. But here we are, at the confluence of way too many shit rivers and the smallest one makes the Mississippi look like a dried up creek. One can’t help but feel like crap since Nov 8, 2016. I knew it would be bad, because the shitgibbon has zero talent as a human being, he’s incapable of even trying. But this is far worse than my worst concepts of how bad it would get.
I know it’s possible that we can recover. I really don’t see much of a path to get there though.
Chet Murthy
@Thoughtful David: One says to oneself that if she really wanted to make sure that she wasn’t associated, she’d delete her account. Sure it’d be reactivated. But it wouldn’t be hard to get the message across, that she was *done*. Nobody’s [at least I’m not] asking her to divorce the fucking traitor. Just make it clear she’s not a part of it.
Frankensteinbeck
@dexwood:
We’ve been in this war for at least ten years. You could make a good case for as long as fifty. Our side didn’t want to see it until now. For conservatives, it has been a viscerally clear existential battle for a long time.
schrodingers_cat
@Frankensteinbeck: It was pretty obvious since Obama was elected.
Kay
@lamh36:
Blech. The Trumps should stay away from other peoples children. Not that Melania will actually do anything. The Trumps aren’t big on volunteer work.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus:
I do. It involves a lot of work. And you may have done your part already. My parents are in their 70s; they have done their bit. I watched it.
Felanius Kootea
@Felanius Kootea: Ugh, wrote the poetry not write.
Thoughtful David
@Chet Murthy:
I suspect she doesn’t even know what’s going on. As in, incapacitated.
JPL
Corey just dug him a hole that he can’t get out of, and that’s good new.
Thoughtful David
FYWP duplicated my last post. Ignore this one.
sdhays
@TenguPhule: Diseased Trump-shit?
hilts
@Ruckus:
Every day since Trump was elected, my mood has oscillated between Jack Nicholson at the end of Chinatown and Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes.
I’m convinced that Trump has Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal DNA.
dexwood
@Frankensteinbeck:
I agree with your long view. My political awareness & activism goes back to the 60s. Traitor Trump and his supporters have taken it up to, or down to, a new level. Things have changed for the worse. Racism, ugliness, have a new face, same as the old face, just shinier.. The Obama years, years of hope and progress, I thought, brought out the worst of the nightcrawlers. The fight continues.
Brachiator
@hilts:
Naw. Trump would be a better human being if he did.
Ruckus
@hilts:
It’s normally a good insult. We’ve all used it a times, it’s been around since people drove wheeled vehicles looking at horse’s asses.
But this group, they really are far, far worse than any horse’s ass. They are what the scum of the earth looks down upon. They are worse than the slime that the scum of the earth leave when they are done eating whatever scum eats. They make the devil seem nice. Compared to them the devil IS nice. The devil has one redeeming quality, he looks good in comparison to them.
Sherparick
@rikyrah: Sadly, they are all to human. That worst humans are devils; and these people are devils. They are not going to Hell, they are already there.
Immanentize
@oldster: All of the missing girls and toddlers are being held in the basement of a pizza parlor in D.C. next door to the Trump Hotel.
Ruckus
@schrodingers_cat:
I use iMac and it has a dictation app. Haven’t tried it. I have bad days and OK days. Yesterday was a Really Bad day. But I’m typing this so it isn’t all that bad. Actually it’s an OK day, I’m only having to correct about every third word. And a year ago I could type 50-60 words a min. I still can but readability is crap. I often go back and correct things after I post and I rarely used to have to do that.
Gvg
@Chet Murthy: if she is actually writing that, she is getting all her info filtered by Trump chosen hires and Fox News, going back years too. She started from a Russian client state too so she didn’t get our public school education and doesn’t already know things we take for granted. I don’t like her or know her really but I kind of think it’s a waste of time to try to judge her.
Maybe after he is arrested and she has been freed of him for a few years, it’ll be possible. I don’t think she is that important nor fascinating. Given how bad he is, I am kind of keeping an eye out. If Barron turns out OK in 10 years, I’ll assume she is an exceptional mother because she’ll have a lot to overcome.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well I’m days away from turning 69 yrs old. I never really thought I’d get this far. I wonder how many people think that way. Now I want to see how far I can get, if for no other reason than to keep poking a very sharp, if imaginary, stick in the shitheads that think that making people miserable is fun. Miserable sucks donkey balls. Fuck those assholes.
Ruckus
@hilts:
You are giving that dingle berry far more credit than I’m willing to.
hilts
@Brachiator:
All I know is that Trump has no heart, no soul, and no brains. He’s just an overfed knuckledragger consumed with vindictiveness and massive insecurities.
The Lodger
@hilts: Most people of European ancestry have between 1 and 2 percent Neanderthal DNA. Even the ones with chins.
Brachiator
@Ruckus:
I remember as a kid thinking that I would be ancient when I reached 40. I’m well past that now. I’ve had a few health challenges, including significant dental work just today. But I’m hoping to be able to contribute even a little something to the battles ahead.
Hope you have a happy birthday in the days ahead and whatever you need to keep on keeping on.
Ohio Mom
@Pogonip: My kid goes Womp Womp when he’s blowing me off, particularly when I am trying to explain what he did wrong and why it matters.
It’s the verbal equivalent of rolling his eyes at me. It’s Yadda, Yadda, Yadda, I cant hear you, I have my fingers in my ears.
hilts
@Ruckus: @Ruckus:
The day Trump was elected, we went through the goddamn motherfucking looking glass.
I think of myself as someone with a fairly good imagination, but never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that Barack Obama would be succeeded by someone as stone cold stupid and mentally deranged as Donald Trump.
Jager
I’m involved in a lawsuit, I was in court today for three hours, during a break, I wandered outside, there was a construction site across the street, I was looking at the Cat version of the old Melroe Bobcat. The operator was a Mexican American guy. We had a nice talk, I told him I used to run an original when i worked on construction in college. We got around to trump, he said, “Man if this shit had been going on when my parents crossed, I’d be fucked.”
Brachiator
@hilts:
Oh, I agree he’s a throwback and a monster. Neanderthals weren’t knuckledraggers, and were undoubtedly smarter than Trump. But they would let him hang with them out of pity. They also probably had more soul than him, also.
hilts
@The Lodger:
I was trying to think of something that could possibly explain Trump’s level of barbarism.
Mnemosyne
@TenguPhule:
As people have been saying for months, Trump is a toxic narcissist. “Truth” is whatever he decides it is, and the flunkies around him had better get on board or there’ll be hell to pay.
Amir Khalid
@The Lodger:
As I understand it, everyone descended from the original small group of emigrants out of Africa — i.e. everyone but today’s sub-Saharan Africans — has some Neanderthaler DNA.
hilts
@Brachiator:
Now that you mention it, I vaguely recall a NY Times article from a few months ago discussing art work created by Neanderthals. I don’t believe Trump has a creative bone in his body, so based on that metric alone Neanderthals were superior to him.
I also had recent dental work done myself and it’s a bitch. I’ll be glad when it’s over.
Kay
@Ohio Mom:
This is how the Trump people act in public, on television. Imagine the discussions in that White House. No one must be safe from their childish, vindictive nastiness. I can’t even imagine how these children were talked about when they were cooking up this cruelty. They discussed it for months. The “infestation” – these children.
hilts
@Mnemosyne:
I think Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit has more relevance than ever given the fact that Trump is the biggest bullshit artist in the nation.
B.B.A.
Fuck it. Not only am I for open borders, I don’t give a fuck if MS-13 murders me and every other white person in this shithole of a country. It’s not like we don’t have it coming.
(Spoiler alert: MS-13 doesn’t exist.)
B.B.A.
“The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean Algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.” – Susan Sontag, in remarks she later apologized for as unfair to cancer.
Ohio Mom
@Ruckus: Oh dear. I know you don’t like harping on your big health issue — I am not really sure what it is, and respect your privacy.
But I hope you have an OT who is helping you find tricks around your new limitations. For instance, what pops into mind for days typing isn’t happening is a voice activated system (yeah, I know they can have glitches). A good OT will have lots of work arounds.
We all have to find ways to take care of ourselves nowadays, we are of no use if we internalize all the despair. That’s what they want, for us to give up. Let’s not any of us do that.
Kay
@B.B.A.:
They’re just so ungenerous, the Trumps and their awful hires. They;ve been given so much and they’re so crabbed and stingy. All they talk about is people TAKING things from them. How much do they need? What would be enough to make them grateful and easy with the idea that someone else might get something? There’s plenty of fucking room in this country. There’s who areas of the midwest that are DYING for young people. No one will take anything from them. It doesn;t have to be zero sum. At this point I would trade the whole pack of them for one of these kids- who have to be tough and brave to get here in the first place, tougher and braver than any of these coddled, privileged blabbermouths who have never wanted for anything a day in their lives.
B.B.A.
No, I’m not OK. If you’re OK something’s very wrong with you.
Emperor of Ice Cream
@oldster: Where would you like your internet delivered, sir? And you owe me a keyboard.
Ruckus
@Ohio Mom:
Primarily why I vent here.
One of my docs thinks I may have Parkinson’s. I have a bunch of the symptoms, what I think was a problem 8-9 months ago was the stage of my symptoms. Things have gotten worse and on some days, it’s bad. Best explanation I’ve come up with about how it feels constantly is it’s like a car that is supposed to idle at 800 RPM, but is idling at 1800 RPM. There is just a constant level of stress/movement going on. That’s just the every day stuff. There are lots of moving bits and pieces. And some days, like yesterday, the tremors, which I’ve had for a while and which are getting worse, just take over. Last Thursday I had to ask a coworker do something for me because I couldn’t control my fingers/hands well or safely enough. As I stated above, it is what it is. The VA will most likely figure it out, it just takes a while. But I wonder what I’ll do if the shitgibbon and friends tries to cut back the VA in the way they are trying to cut back Medicare or SS? Cutting back any of those would make my life untenable. And I doubt I’d be happy about that.
Emperor of Ice Cream
@Emperor of Ice Cream: And apologies … I don’t know if you are a sir, mam, or neither … but you made me laugh out loud. Thanks!
Ruckus
@Kay:
I really can’t think of anything worse for an over privileged asswipe than to be in prison. Then they find out how good they used to think they didn’t have it. And of course I’m not talking about one of those low risk, stuck in a nice beach community bullshit jails. I’m talking about any big city jail or a county jail like that fuckstick in AZ ran. A peanut butter sandwich on 2 day old white bread with no butter for lunch or surprise chill for dinner, lights out a 9, lights on at 6, community showers/toilets….. Damn that sounds a lot like the navy I was in. OK there the bread got to 10 days old before they ran out and had to make some. Back to today. I don’t want these asswipes to be hung, I want them all to live out their lives in the same conditions that they are keeping innocent kids in. I want them to never have another free day. And I normally disapprove of long sentences. No disapproval for this bunches overly long sentences.
Aleta
They are so corrupt that the story about Wilbur Ross shorting stock in a shipping company that did “substantial business with a Russian energy firm called Sibur, whose owners include Putin’s son-in-law Kirill Shamalov and Gennady Timchenko, a Russian oligarch”* (the day after he learned the NYT was writing a story) is struggling for space and attention.
* from Bloomberg
Aleta
@Ruckus: Don’t want to bother you with questions you’re probably tired of. So it’s OK to ignore these if you prefer — Has anyone suggested a support group for (possible) Parkinsons? Has any doctor suggested medication? I have two friends with it. One was initially misdiagnosed with Lyme, so the Parkinsons diagnosis was relatively late. (Btw Have you been tested for Lyme?)