WATCH: "Instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles, President Trump cowered in the presence of Putin. And the entire world watched and saw that," Rep. Nancy Pelosi says https://t.co/zkrmOeSQvW pic.twitter.com/eFzCap9uet
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 17, 2018
But it’s not just Trump who’s acting just like someone whose career relies on keeping a foreign oligarch happy…
GOP members of Congress "were happy to enjoy the benefits of Russian interference and said so openly among themselves." https://t.co/3ik5l7ub4I
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) July 18, 2018
“Or I’ll say ‘stop’ again!” https://t.co/VPuDXXDFmn
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 18, 2018
Appears that again he refuses to say it was to help Trump. https://t.co/is9b6CYRwd
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 17, 2018
Portrait of a man taking his constitutional duty very seriously. pic.twitter.com/PVuUIa9pBH
— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 17, 2018
.@SpeakerRyan downplays Russian interference: "It is clear that it didn't have a material effect on our elections." (That assertion is not in fact clear at all.) pic.twitter.com/R0Yt1zL6Ln
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 17, 2018
Dear @SpeakerRyan: I appreciate your words. But as Speaker, there are actual actions you can take. For example:
1. Subpoena the translator in the private meeting of @realDonaldTrump with Putin. Congress needs to know what was said.
2. Allow a vote on bills to protect Mueller. https://t.co/6MzPLTb6Ba
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 17, 2018
Jeffro
Ballot or bul…er…in November, the Treason Party is going down.
trollhattan
Possibly Tony Bourdain’s last interview. It’s lengthy, interesting (for anybody who enjoyed him) and takes an unexpected turn to discuss the NYT op/ed crew with unbridled savagery. A sample:
p.a.
I wish I was a space alien: this would be a fascinating time but for the fact it affects me and the whole fucking world for the worse.
p.a.
@trollhattan: I started reading that (h/t atrios I believe. Saved the link.) Gotta finish it.
A Ghost To Most
@trollhattan: Bobo, in a heartbeat.
hueyplong
Don’t care, because I think either would get the message after the first one got strangled.
Teddys Person
@trollhattan: Today it would be MAGA “my book deal is more important than the role of journalism in a functioning democracy” Haberman
rikyrah
TRAITORS ALL ? ?
Yarrow
Or what? Strongly worded letter? Maybe even–gasp!–a stern talking to?
Yarrow
@rikyrah: Truth!
Eljai
I like headlines that are to the point.
US Officials ‘at a Fucking Loss’ Over Latest Russia Sell Out
SFAW
@trollhattan: @p.a.: @A Ghost To Most:
Friedman? Brooks? Stephens?
Screw that shit: Pinch and Pinche Sulzberger
Yes, I realize they’re technically not Op-Ed “writers.” So?
Teddys Person
@Yarrow:
More McConnell: You’re just lucky the president at the time was blackity, black, black, black, black or we would have really showed you.
piratedan
@Yarrow: no, he meant that there better not be any Democrats winning any election ever again…..
SFAW
@Eljai:
Day-um.
debbie
Don’t see Tim Scott ever standing up and being all defiant like our Nancy does, day after day after day.
Yarrow
@Eljai: This Michael McFaul stuff is terrifying. I hope he’s got good, trustworthy security.
SFAW
@Yarrow:
You left out the “with brows furrowed ever-so-deeply” part.
The Midnight Lurker
@Jeffro: I’m down either way. Prefer ballots.
nymofnyms
It would be great if the Democrats started pushing a clear message NOW:
“We are under attack. The President is not protecting us. He is compromised and has joined the enemies of the US. The Republicans in the Senate and House are not protecting us. They are compromised and have joined the enemies of the US. Only the US voter can save this great country. Vote. Vote in every election, from city to county to state to nationally. Get registered. Confirm your registration. Vote.”
Then let the Republicans whine about how unfair and mean Nancy Smash is.
Teddys Person
@nymofnyms:
’cause they’re going to anyway.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
They’re all in on it. Unless they prove otherwise, they’re all in on it. We must take down these people. We have no choice here. They have to fall, and fall far and hard. We may not have a country otherwise. It’s going to be hard, because they’ve worked hard to tilt things toward themselves, but that doesn’t make any difference. We need to take these people down, however hard it is.
The Midnight Lurker
@trollhattan: David I’m-just-a-fucking-parrot-who-says-BRRRACK!-Both Sides!-Both Sides!-BRRRACK! Brooks!
Yarrow
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): We sure do. And we will.
A Ghost To Most
@The Midnight Lurker: Plan A. Plan B.
Teddys Person
Trump is going after his critics:
Viva BrisVegas
McConnell: Or I’ll be forced to keep it secret from the American people once again.
When he says “fully understand what happened”, he is telling the Deplorables that Russia interfered to help Hillary.
Dev Null
@trollhattan: David Brooks. I know that’s legacy, but still…
Dev Null
@A Ghost To Most: Great minds think in the same rut.
Not a sexual double entendre. I save my sexual double entendres for appropriate venues.
“It’s your dirty picture, Doc!”
Dev Null
@Teddys Person: Reminds me of the old joke:
Q. You see your conductor and your opera company’s soprano in the middle of the road in front of you.
Which do you take out first?
A. The conductor. Business before pleasure.
Or perhaps it’s the other way around. Seriously, either one works.
Note to The Youngs: back in the day, orchestras really were A Thing.
tobie
@Teddys Person: Who the hell is supposed to “they”?
A Ghost To Most
@Dev Null: As much as I hate the Mustache of Douchedom, Bobo first.
Teddys Person
The minority in Congress trying to do their jobs:
Chip Daniels
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Yes.
It isn’t just Trump.
The entire right wing apparatus- the GOP, NRA, evangelicals, they all knew the Russians were ratfucking us, and welcomed it.
Miss Bianca
OMG! I just got this call from Scott Tipton, CO(3), inviting me to a “live town hall”. What question should I be asking Republican Scott Tipton??
Yarrow
@Chip Daniels: They didn’t just know it, they were actively involved in it and benefited from it themselves. They are traitors. They are going down.
Yarrow
@Miss Bianca: Ask him why he’s not introducing articles of impeachment against Trump.
A Ghost To Most
@Dev Null:
I’m not a young, but orchestras have never been part of the soundtrack of my life. The Beatles took care of that.
Chip Daniels
@Miss Bianca:
Tell him you are from glorious nation for benefit of Kazahkstan, and you wish to provide arms to kindergartners in his district.
Uncle Cosmo
@Dev Null: I think of Brooks (when I think of him at all, which is as seldom as possible) more as “leGassy.”
A Ghost To Most
@Miss Bianca:
How can you continue to support a traitor, Scott? At long last, have you no decency, sir?
James E Powell
@Miss Bianca:
Ask him when he intends to resign.
Miss Bianca
@Yarrow: that’s what I was thinking.
Adam L Silverman
@tobie: As of this time the Elders have not authorized me to confirm or deny anything.
Calouste
@Miss Bianca: Ask him what the Russians have on him. Live boy, dead girl, goat in an indeterminate state of being…
The Midnight Lurker
Democracy Dies in Darkness so Jim Bennett should take the entire opinion pages staff over to Lamps Plus and have a millennial show them what a fucking light looks like!
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: Are you one of the Republican officials that Mariia Butina had sex with as indicated in the Federal grand jury indictment?
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: Adam! You’re here! What should I ask Re. Scott Tipton?
tobie
@Adam L Silverman: I knew it was some cabal that shall not be named!
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: More seriously, I have no idea. Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I don’t pay much attention to your member of Congress.
tobie
@Miss Bianca: Ask him whether he’ll return all NRA contributions to his campaign and pledge not to accept any contributions from super-pacs if he’s really committed to draining the swamp and this is not just an empty slogan. Throw is faux populism back at him.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: No, I got it. I’m just betting that they are screening the questions. I want to ask something about whether he thinks the President has committed impeachable offenses.
Yarrow
@tobie: That’s a good question that may actually get through. It includes both the dead children part and the treason part of the NRA.
A Ghost To Most
@Calouste:
Schrodinger’s goat?
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: Actually, ask him whether he supports preserving and increasing support for ensuring the integrity of elections in the US. Including his position on House Resolution 6147 that strips the election integrity grants, as well as his position on whether election infrastructure – from voter registration systems and databases/rolls to the machines and processes used to vote to how we count and then report election results to how we vet and verify donations to candidates and for ballot initiatives – should be considered critical infrastructure that is necessary to be protected in order to ensure and enhance national security. And if not, why not? As in why does he want to make it easy for both domestic bad actors and hostile foreign states to meddle with and influence our elections?
zhena gogolia
@The Midnight Lurker:
That’s the Washington Post slogan. James Bennet has nothing to do with it.
Yarrow
@Miss Bianca: More seriously, what’s Scott Tipton known for? Does he have particular favorite issues or something like that? If so, you might frame a question around one of those issues.
Adam L Silverman
@A Ghost To Most: She’s evolving…// Devolving?// Parallel evolutioning?//
Miss Bianca
@Miss Bianca: Oooh, ooh, someone’s already asking this question!
ETA: Aaaannnddd…weasel words. I am totally going to ask about the quid pro quo proposed by Putin – arresting American diplomats as a tit for tat for the GRU indictments.
Davebo
Fuck Glenn Greenwald.
That is all carry on.
Yarrow
@Miss Bianca: Awesome! What’s his answer?
columbusqueen
@tobie: This.
Just One More Canuck
@Miss Bianca: How much does a soul go for these days?
The Midnight Lurker
@zhena gogolia: Sorry. Senior moment. You’re right about the slogan, but Jim Bennett is a jackass.
Yarrow
@Davebo: Note: that’s a link to RT, in case anyone wants to avoid it. I’m not clicking through so what did he say that’s so bad this time?
Miss Bianca
@Yarrow: Oh, it was unfortunate that he slagged our intelligence guys, and….OOHH TRUMP IS GETTING SLAGGED BY A VETERAN RIGHT NOWW!! Oh, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: Ooh, I’m in the queue,
Davebo
@Yarrow: Not sure why one would avoid it. Here’s a snippet.
dmsilev
@Davebo: I’m not clicking over to RT to read GG. Can you give a taste of what he said?
Edit: Never mind, looks like you already did. Thanks.
Baud
@Davebo: It’s what he gets paid to do.
TS (the original)
@Yarrow:
Horrendous and ghastly – trump will do anything to attack President Obama and anyone who worked for him – fascism has arrived in the US wearing an orange face.
Starfish
@Miss Bianca: Is it one of those phone live townhalls? I am not an optimist when it comes to those. They answer softball questions from people who do not seem to be all there or softball questions from their friends. Ask what he is doing to assure that we have free and fair elections in 2018 that are not interfered with by foreign governments maybe?
The Thin Black Duke
@Baud: Aren’t the folks who read GG either vote third party or not at all? And if that’s the case, then why should we care what this hack types?
Mary G
@Miss Bianca: Looking at Wikipedia, pretty much anything you want, he doesn’t, but I found this the most objectionable:
ETA: Oh, God. November can’t come too soon:
Dev Null
@SFAW:
If we can add Habs and the other White House
fellatorsfluffersstenographers and reporters of deep sads from Trumpkin voters in Red States, I’m in.Where do I sign?
Baud
@The Thin Black Duke:
I think he may have an audience among some Bros who still vote Dem but spend all their time looking down at the rest of us.
Teddys Person
@Miss Bianca: Do you still have your soul?
Hobbes83
@debbie: Some people are willing to sell their souls for a tax cut, the repeal of some regulations, and good old fashioned DC power. It really is that simple. I still remember him sharing a story about being pulled over for driving while black. He did fuck all after that to push any legislation or call for more oversight to alleviate what many of us have to deal with on a day to day basis. Fuck him with a rusty chainsaw.
Miss Bianca
@Starfish: He’s had a couple comments on the Trump thing, one from a veteran who basically reamed him for supporting Trump. So, maybe. I’l definitely leave a voicemail if I don’t get to ask the question.
ETA: And you’re right, I’m not gonna get to ask the question live. I sure will leave a voice mail, tho!
Dev Null
@Eljai: No shit, we’re all at a fucking loss. WTF do I care about White House staffers?!?
Good catch, Eljai …
JPL
@Adam L Silverman: My guess is Scott Brown, since he greeted her at the NRA conference in Russian. Seems kinda flirty to me.
Dev Null
@Teddys Person: This. Get off your fsckin’ asses, Dems.
Chip Daniels
Then there is this:
This predates Trump. Torshin was grooming the evangelicals for years before Trump even ran, to the point where he was sanctioned by our government for it.
And yet these fucksticks still welcomed him in with open arms.
Dev Null
@A Ghost To Most: The Mustache of Wisdom is a random idiot. David Brooks is a guided idiot.
Well, and then there are the publishers and the stenographers, as others pointed out.
I think you must have me mistaken for someone else. I would always run over Brooks before running over Friedman, on the chance that some random traffic cop would stop me after the first takedown.
er, that’s what a friend told me, anyway; I am merely stenographering my friend’s comments.
Perhaps I could be a
stenographerreporter at the Vichy Times. I seem to have the qualifications.schrodingers_cat
@JPL: Scott Walker, of Wisconsin. I have seen his photo with Maria B.
Mary G
From ex-CIA head of Russian division:
Baud
@Davebo:
FWIW, the Republican on MSNBC just now had the same talking point.
JPL
@JPL: UGH Edit fail .. Walker not Brown. Mariia liked Walker before Trump.
Teddys Person
@Mary G: This is particularly disturbing given everything we know.
Platonailedit
Vote. Mueller. Boot.
In that order.
gop = group of parasites
Dorothy A. Winsor
I thought I was past being shocked by Trump, but the Bowder & McFaul thing is really, truly shocking.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: I muted it, but I wonder who it is at MSNBC who thinks their viewers want to watch their, as a rule, too-polite anchors stammer through a spin session with Republican back-benchers. Ideology aside, how is that good or interesting TV?
Shell
At least when Tommy Johnson sold his soul, he got the talent to play the guitar “real good.”
chris
From Malcolm Nance’s twitter feed, a Julia Ioffe piece on Mariia Butina from 6 years ago. 6 YEARS AGO!
Chief Nance remarked that it sounds like Mariia had KGB training. Some guy here was talking about penetration at all levels…
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Maybe they think a good portion of their viewers like to hate watch? That’s the only thing that makes sense to me.
Dev Null
@A Ghost To Most: Some of us have eclectic tastes. I invite you to join the party.
And if not, it’s still a great joke. Just substitute appropriately.
Dev Null
@Chip Daniels: Oooo! That would work, for sure!
I.am.not.joking.
Dev Null
@Uncle Cosmo: Works for me. :-)
Srsly, why does anyone read Yale professor of humility David Brooks?
Granted that David Brooks has much to be humble about, why reward him for his failures?
Oh, wait, we’re talking about the Vichy Times.
Never mind.
Chetan Murthy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Andy Lack. I’m sure he gets off watching his anchors have to play nicey-nicey to these GrOPer dirtbags.
Dev Null
@A Ghost To Most: I second this.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Dorothy A. Winsor: should be a huge scandal, it’s making my head spin all over again
James E Powell
@chris:
Are we on full-time double entendre alert now?
Dev Null
@Adam L Silverman: “… and Mariia Butina found ‘disgusting'”?
The Midnight Lurker
@Dev Null: “guided idiot” HAHA! Perfect. You crack me up.
B.B.A.
Ya know, if Republicans came out and said, yes we colluded with the Russian government, but it was worth it to keep Hitlery out of the WH, I’d have a modicum of respect for them. Evil as fuck, but at least it’d be forthright about what’s totally fucking obvious to everyone with a pair of brain cells to rub together.
But noooo. Either they think we’re dumb enough to buy “no collusion, you’re the collusion” or they’re dumb enough to buy it.
chris
@James E Powell: Now? Always.
Dev Null
@Yarrow: I have no reason to think that RT is a phishing site, but it could become one at any moment. (Benevolent overlords, Cheryl and Adam, correct me if I am wrong.)
I clicked on the link, saw it was RT, and immediately deleted the window.
Teddys Person
@chris: What I hate about this timeline is the cartoonishness of the villians. Don’t get me wrong, they’re doing damage, but when you read about them, you can almost hear the mustaches twirling.
Chetan Murthy
@James E Powell: Adam’s been calling it “penetration at all levels” for … years. Years and years. Educating us all.
Bill Arnold
@Chip Daniels:
This (thinkprogress) piece includes a little material on Alexander Torshin. As you say, the relationship between the American and Russian Christian religious right is … strong. The Russians are now held up as an example to be admired; harsh laws on the books.
Russians and the American right started plotting in 1995. We have the notes from the first meeting. (June 19, 2018)
Teddys Person
@B.B.A.: Trumpers in the wild are saying just that.
A Ghost To Most
@Dev Null: Classical music doesnt speak to me. At all. Not relevant. Orchestras don’t have pedal steel guitars. Or lyrics that speak truths..
YMMV.
Dev Null
@James E Powell: There’s something wrong with that?!?
Askin’ for a frend.
Dev Null
@The Midnight Lurker:
We aim to please! (and so does Louise, so don’t hide arms, buy sidearms … er, where am I? And when is … this. Oh, wait, is this really the 20-teens?)
(If you don’t recognize the quote, never mind, it’s a form of Elder Pron.)
Platonailedit
If the traitorous thug’s corrupt regime, with the usual silent abetment from the treasonous gop, throws the ex-ambassador to the wolves, will the courts step in?
A Ghost To Most
@Dev Null: I won’t even visit Facebook. Visiting RT is asking for trouble.
The Midnight Lurker
@Dev Null: I like you too much. I say we stop this senseless in-fighting and join forces. You+Me v Bobo & The Mustache = Thunderdome. I’ll bring the Ben-Gay. You bring the chainsaws.
Bill Arnold
@Dev Null:
Re “guided idiot”, intuition has suggested more than once that D. Brooks has lurked here occasionally, especially threads that mention him.
I love your informal pundit taxonomy.
Omnes Omnibus
@Platonailedit: Courts address cases and controversies brought before them. Someone would need to file a suit.
Yarrow
@Davebo:
Because it’s Russia Today and I will not willingly give the Kremlin mouthpiece a click.
Dev Null
@B.B.A.: Wait, wut?!?
Republicans have said exactly this.
Admittedly, I suspect we’re talking about my deranged far-right prepper sister; whom I suspect of calling in under a nom-de-radio, but still. I have a link somewhere from commentary on the 2016 election which says, “Thank you, Russia”.
Here. Not the one I had in mind, but it works.
Adam L Silverman
@The Thin Black Duke: Because a number of progressive icons are tight and/or supportive of him. From the Doyenne of the Progressive Blogosphere Digby, who is largely excellent to Emptywheel to others even farther to the left. And they have significant influence. And their readers and followers will take him more seriously given their support of him and what he does.
Chetan Murthy
Re: Mariia Butina. She’s an agent of our enemy. And as a spy, she deserves only the protections of any other -person- on our soil. But still …. you gotta wonder who she had to … (ahem) boink in her job. I mean, maybe she’s -earned- her Order of Lenin medal? B/c shit, some of those critters …. {shudder}
Dev Null
@Chetan Murthy: This.
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: Given John Sipher (great name for a member of the National Clandestine Service), former Chief of Moscow Station, is in agreement on that, we’ve got the top CIA Russia hands in line that we have a problem.
Jay
@B.B.A.:
Booman and a bunch of others have noted that there are a bunch of ReThugs who in private, are appalled, but,
they are scared shitless of their base.
Booman, probably being overgenerous, or forgetting how wingnuttia works, thinks that they “need” Meuller’s report to come out, to first convince their base, before they can stand up,
It’s funny how people can note at one moment, how f’d up and cray-cray the ReThug base actually is, and then, moment’s later, think there are Bush41 Republicans in the ReThug base.
Miss Bianca
@Chetan Murthy: y’know, I keep forgetting that you and I and others on this blog have had the benefit of Adam’s (and Cheryl’s!) insights into all these connections for months and months, and so I’m afraid I’ve been rather impatient with some people who are all like, “ZOMG, treason!!” when before they’ve been more like, “oh, you and your Russia conspiracy theories” – and I’ve been yelling, “oh, NOW your hair’s on fire? NOW??”
Dev Null
@A Ghost To Most: There are none so blind as those who will not
see…er, ahem…
Look, a dragonfly!
The Midnight Lurker
@Teddys Person: If you wrote this as Hollywood movie script, they’d laugh you out of the studio.
Yarrow
@Miss Bianca: Me too. Especially the media, whose JOB it is to investigate such things.
Dev Null
@A Ghost To Most: No kidding.
My relatively sane sister (hey, it’s all relative, no double entendres intended, except those that are) posts only on FB, so I go to her links. Otherwise, almost never.
I also use half a dozen mutually conflicting ad blockers, on the theory that anything that can get thru my ad blockers is unlikely to cause problems.
Yeah, it’s a probability argument.
I’d do better to run in a VM with no sharing with the host, but …
… there are many security improvements I should make to my home network. This is the least of my security suboptimalities.
The Midnight Lurker
@Bill Arnold: Oh, my God! My secret identity has been revealed! I am DAVID BROOKS!
Just One More Canuck
@Shell: well, he wasn’t using it
J R in WV
@A Ghost To Most:
Have you ever been to a live orchestral performance? Perhaps doing a piano concerto? I love modern blues, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raite, Gov/t Mule, but a good symphony can make me cry.
Maybe you should try it out… Live orchestral music even in a small town like mine can be great.
The Midnight Lurker
@Chetan Murthy: Certainly she’s earned a trip to the free clinic.
B.B.A.
@Dev Null: I mean Repubs with power, like Cocaine Mitch.
Bill Arnold
@Dev Null:
A woman on C-SPAN, ranting about Hillary and thanking the Russians? (Link if asked.)
I have a low-priority project now to get such a confession out of one my wingnut friends. Would take just a little nudge. They’re pretty close, just need a bit more Russophilia; the rest is in place.
Rand Careaga
@Dev Null: Well, some of us still recognize the classics.
Adam L Silverman
@chris: I saw Ioffe’s article when it first came out, as well as Nance’s tweet. She’s obviously had significant tactical firearms training, whether it was KGB/FSB is another matter. I certainly haven’t seen enough about her actual life history to say one way or another. What we know, what has been published, is very limited.
Dev Null
@Adam L Silverman: Wait, wut?
You and I disagree on emptywheel, but almost all of the leftie blogs have abandoned GG. Even EW.net. I don’t recall a positive mention of GG on digby in ages. nor WashMo, which is hardly an extreme leftie site.
t was just smeared by a commenter on emptywheel.net for asking for evidence for a claim which I suspect is true, but if it’s true, where’s the evidence? Because I’ve seen no compelling evidence.
Site admin backed up the slagger rather than me, so I am having second thoughts about my defense of the integrity of EW.net.
Imagine that. ~dryly~
Adam L Silverman
@Dev Null: No, that was Paul Erickson, known as US Person 1 in the complaint and indictment.
Dev Null
@The Midnight Lurker: @Bill Arnold: Aw shucks. Thanks, guys…
Even if the human behind the Midnight Lurker nym is David Fsckin’ Brooks.
er, Midnight Lurker: I need new chainsaws. Oddly enough, my el-Cheapo Home Depot chainsaw is getting to hard to start
, or I am losing muscle mass, as befits the Eldrich cohort.Set the time and location, and I’ll be there, chainsaws akimbo.
Or sumpthin’. (Not sure what akimbo means, but it sounded appropriate.)
Adam L Silverman
@Jay: They live in constant fear of mean tweet.
Adam L Silverman
@Dev Null: If they’ve abandoned him, then that’s all to the good. I’ve not been over to Digby’s in a while as something she did with the formatting won’t load the site properly with the VPN I use.
Dev Null
@Adam L Silverman: Adam, srsly. That was the joke.
No offense intended. I’m running on four glasses of Sauvignon Blanc, as is probably obvious to everyone. Please make allowances, since clearly I am beyond that point.
Dev Null
@The Midnight Lurker: dude, you’re doing a damn’ poor impersonation if so.
You need to up your game.
er, /snark, if that isn’t obvious.
rikyrah
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Truth
The Midnight Lurker
@Dev Null: See you in the next “thread”… old man.
Dev Null
@J R in WV: I’m thinking music by cross-over performers like Yo-Yo Ma and Keith Jarrett. Jarrett’s performance of Handel’s Keyboard Suites is … beyond description.
Or the Borodin Quartet’s performance of Borodin’s string quartets.
Or Domus recordings of Brahms and Dvorak.
Well, OK … 2 & 3 aren’t cross-over.
But y’know, mebbe it’s like foreign languages. People who know more about this than me (ie basically everyone) are welcome to set me straight, but for many years the CW has been that if you don’t learn a 2nd language by age 10, you’ll never be fluent in a second language .. the part of the brain that somehow specializes in distinguishing odd sounds atrophies.
Could be the same with different species of music, I s’pose.
Just speculatin’, not layin’ down doctrine for the Church of Nothing.
Jay
@Adam L Silverman:
They are scared to death of being primaried by the wingnuts.
From the axios e-mail thingy,
“Yes, almost every elected Republican we talk to privately thinks President Trump’s warm embrace of Vladimir Putin was unexplainable, unacceptable and un-American. Yes, they wish they could say this publicly. No, they won’t — not now, and probably never.
They see no upside in speaking out — and fear political suicide if they do, numerous Republican officials tell us.”
GG’s been abandoned by the reality based community, which is why he’s selling his sticht on RT and Faux.
Adam L Silverman
@Dev Null: No worries.
Dev Null
@The Midnight Lurker: Hey, watch who you call “old”, Old Man.
I am Eldritch. /snark
If that’s not funny, well … wine.
Dev Null
@B.B.A.:
Good luck with that. Fvckem.
GOP delenda est, before they delenda the country.
I’m a milquetoast, guilty as charged, Officer … but seriously, the upper echelon of the GOP comprises traitors. How can this possibly be in dispute?
Dev Null
@Bill Arnold:
Yep, that’s the one. No need for links.
I’m joking about my sis, well, kinda sorta … she’d never call in under an assumed name. That would be too subtle. Cowardly, even.
You’re a better man than I am. And have more rational wingnut friends. I jettisoned most of mine years ago, because they were such blatantly racist misogynistic dicks. And yeah, I’d noticed, but I kept pushing back …
… until I snapped.
I gave up on my deranged sister after she told me that HRC should be prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917 … you know, the clause which has never been employed because it is widely considered unconstitutional. And she was a DA. I pointed her to multiple contrary opinions…
~crickets~
And then she told me not to send her political links because she was on the road with limited bandwidth.
Since then have talked to her only when not talking would have been outright rude.
Dev Null
@Rand Careaga: ROFL.
Surprising how many peeps can quote tens of minutes of Firesign Theatre from memory, eh?
Dan B
@SFAW: @Bill Arnold: This is creepy stuff, especially if you’re LGBTQ. It seems that most of the ink flows about Roe v Wade but I wonder how extreme the “Religious Liberty” could get. Probably not Handmaid’s Tale gender traitor but probably ‘attacking family’ level.
Dev Null
@Dan B: Agreed. It’s straight white Protestant Xtian males, all the way down, with this regime.
A Ghost To Most
@Dev Null:
“My relatively sane sister”
You got me there. My entire family (and most of my wife’s) went over to the dark side over a decade ago. We keep an entire timezone between us and them.
A Ghost To Most
@Dev Null:
Get back to me when you have absorbed the relevant wisdom of “American Band” by DBT, or “The Nashville Sound” by Jason Isbell, or “Call to Action” by Sturgill Simpson.
Dead people’s music isn’t relevant to me.