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Readership Capture Open Thread: Chicago Edition

by Anne Laurie|  August 4, 20187:32 pm| 37 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Readership Capture, Daydream Believers

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It’s #ObamaDay here in Chicago! Things are getting crazy. Everyone is wearing tan suits and helping each other get health care. https://t.co/qLCgvFMnYp

— Meg McMuffin (@siamesemeg) August 4, 2018

Happy birthday to the 44th President of the United States @BarackObama and Happy #ObamaDay to our citizens in the state of #Illinois. Visit https://t.co/GTUEsJK8Ck for more about his enduring legacy ??? pic.twitter.com/IXILjsyx2e

— NAACP (@NAACP) August 4, 2018

Outside our window the streets are flowing w Dijon. https://t.co/Xh6MSzO89W

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 4, 2018

Happy Birthday @BarackObama!

Hope everyone is enjoying #ObamaDay! pic.twitter.com/fV17d9cbYh

— Barnes & Noble (@BNFifthAvenue) August 4, 2018

#ObamaDay

Strength doesn’t roar. pic.twitter.com/IYauakdric

— Jillian Hurley (@BeautyBind) August 4, 2018

Donald Trump’s day so far:

– After attacking LeBron’s intelligence, Trump misspells “its”
– Michael Jordan sides with LeBron
– #ObamaDay is trending
– Maria Butina confesses Trump connections
– Roger Stone goes berserk after getting word he’ll be indicted
– It’s still only 5pm

— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) August 4, 2018

Maybe they will have a Trump Day in Russia! pic.twitter.com/lWfs90LkFr

— YDub2015 (@YDub2015) August 4, 2018

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  1. 1.

    lollipopguild

    August 4, 2018 at 7:36 pm

    Trump tweets that he has signed an Executive Order outlawing Obama Day.

  2. 2.

    JPL

    August 4, 2018 at 7:37 pm

    Melania would like a word with Palmer Report.

  3. 3.

    Frankensteinbeck

    August 4, 2018 at 7:40 pm

    Roger Stone goes berserk after getting word he’ll be indicted

    What now?????

  4. 4.

    RobertDSC-iPhone 6

    August 4, 2018 at 7:41 pm

    That picture of 44 and Putin is a laugh. Fuck you and your orange poodle, Vladimir.

  5. 5.

    Mary G

    August 4, 2018 at 7:43 pm

    This almost seems worse than not getting rid of both MAGA and Fake News merch:

    We have removed the "You Are Very Fake News" t-shirts from the gift shop and online. We made a mistake and we apologize. A free press is an essential part of our democracy and journalists are not the enemy of the people. https://t.co/eLXa9t646g— Newseum (@Newseum) August 4, 2018

  6. 6.

    JPL

    August 4, 2018 at 7:43 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck: I saw earlier on Mediate that he said Nunberg was a drunk with a small p.e.n.is., so that might show a tad bit of concern. If he had said a maniac with a small p.e.n.is, then we would know he was talking about trump.

  7. 7.

    JPL

    August 4, 2018 at 7:48 pm

    Much ado about nothing, but I haven’t been able to turn left out of my neighborhood for a month due to road construction. What is left for me is Fresh Market, Trader Joe’s and Home Depot. Google maps is telling me they are opening the road, so I expect to be out and about tomorrow. wahoo Actually the son is coming over to help me get wood for the retaining wall from HD. There is an alternative route but it involve a six lane divided road, and I prefer not to do that with wood hanging out of the trunk.

  8. 8.

    MomSense

    August 4, 2018 at 7:50 pm

    Seeing those photos of Barack Obama is so bittersweet. Every now and then I have to remind myself that he was really our president. We really did enjoy 8 years of that extraordinary family representing us to the world. There were concerts and laughter and beauty at the White House.

    I don’t think I’ll ever get over the shock and disgust I feel that we went from hero to zero.

  9. 9.

    efgoldman

    August 4, 2018 at 7:52 pm

    It’s still only 5pm

    On Saturday!

  10. 10.

    Yarrow

    August 4, 2018 at 7:53 pm

    @efgoldman: Mueller’s back from vacation. Next week’s gonna be lit.

  11. 11.

    JPL

    August 4, 2018 at 7:56 pm

    @MomSense: My son bought me Pete Souza’s book for xmas and that helps. I just flip though it every once and awhile, and remember when.

  12. 12.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    August 4, 2018 at 7:56 pm

    @MomSense:

    One of the weirdest things about Donald Tяump’s loser fans us that for the first six months he was in office, they kept telling us that after eight years of the world laughing at us, now they’d respect us, God damn it! And once it became too clear to avoid admitting that the world is laughing at Donald Tяump, now all of a sudden, they tell us that what the rest of the world thinks doesn’t matter any longer.

  13. 13.

    debbie

    August 4, 2018 at 8:05 pm

    Weather permitting, protesters should show up in tan suits.

  14. 14.

    Brachiator

    August 4, 2018 at 8:10 pm

    @JPL:

    Much ado about nothing, but I haven’t been able to turn left out of my neighborhood for a month due to road construction.

    Damn. An alt-right neighborhood. My sympathies.

  15. 15.

    HinTN

    August 4, 2018 at 8:12 pm

    @debbie:

    protesters should show up in tan suits

    This.made.my.day

  16. 16.

    HinTN

    August 4, 2018 at 8:13 pm

    @Brachiator: And that made it a wrap.

  17. 17.

    MobileForkbeard

    August 4, 2018 at 8:15 pm

    What is the news about Butina and Stone? I hadn’t heard anything new today, so…?

  18. 18.

    Kay

    August 4, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    They’re so bad at this:

    More from Melania Trump’s spokeswoman:
    “Her platform centers around visiting organizations, hospitals and schools, and she would be open to visiting the I Promise School in Akron”

    Her platform centers around? What does that even mean? She has a platform… of visiting places? That’s a schedule – it’s not a “platform”

    And “open to”. Not “I would love to” or “I would be honored to” or anything else a normally polite person might say, but she’s “open to”? Does she think we’re going to beg her to come?

    It’s not even that they’re bad at being President and First Lady. They’re bad at being normal people.

  19. 19.

    Kay

    August 4, 2018 at 8:35 pm

    LeBron James is better at the role model/public face aspects of being the US President than the President.

    Much better.

    The Trumps can’t even graciously pull off a school opening, something every county commissioner can do in his or her sleep. They’re on like Hour Twelve of fucking up what should have been a simple “job well done, Mr. James!”

  20. 20.

    JPL

    August 4, 2018 at 8:35 pm

    @Brachiator: lol I am pretty excited to get back to a normal routine.

  21. 21.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    August 4, 2018 at 8:36 pm

    Drumpf will be buried in the Kremlin wall, right next to Putin, Snowden and Yuri Andropov

  22. 22.

    Platonailedit

    August 4, 2018 at 8:37 pm

    @Brachiator: Good one.

    @Kay: They are all arrogant & ignorant little shits. Nothing more, nothing less.

  23. 23.

    Mike in NC

    August 4, 2018 at 8:39 pm

    @Kay: So grateful to hear that the trophy wife would soil her heels by visiting that Akron school. We are SO not worthy of her empathy and intellect.

  24. 24.

    Platonailedit

    August 4, 2018 at 8:43 pm

    From totally class to totally crass. How quickly it all turned totally ugly.

  25. 25.

    FlyingToaster

    August 4, 2018 at 8:47 pm

    @Mike in NC: Remember, this is the woman giving away Dr. Seuss books to schools. Which, trust me, ALREADY OWN THEM, because about half of the families try to donate them when their kids reach 10.*

    (I’m keeping ours, regardless of what HerrDoktor wants)

    * I work in WarriorGirl’s school library because I learned to catalog books when it involved amber CRTs and TELEX. I know everything there is to know about what parents try to donate to school libraries…

  26. 26.

    SFAW

    August 4, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    We are SO not worthy of her empathy and intellect.

    Well, doesn’t she have one of them “Einstein visas”?

  27. 27.

    SFAW

    August 4, 2018 at 8:50 pm

    What bothers me about the Palmer Report list is that it’s almost enough for a typical Infrastructure Week, but it’s all in half a day. What are they going to do for the remaining 6.5 days? I shudder at the prospect.

  28. 28.

    Platonailedit

    August 4, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    If I didn't love LeBron James I wouldn't have named the King James Bible after him.

    — God (@TheTweetOfGod) August 4, 2018

  29. 29.

    Citizen_X

    August 4, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    Drumpf will be buried in the Kremlin wall

    There’s your wall, Donny. Enjoy it.

  30. 30.

    dmsilev

    August 4, 2018 at 9:11 pm

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    Drumpf will be buried in the Kremlin wal

    Not nearly enough gold leaf for his tastes. He’s holding out for St. Basil’s Cathedral. Or for a new, huge, mausoleum right next to Lenin’s Tomb.

  31. 31.

    Platonailedit

    August 4, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    fynyt tool tweets that hope hicks is traveling with the traitorous turd in AF1 for his hate rally with OH hicks. Isn’t she under federal investigation? Witness tampering in plain sight?

  32. 32.

    hervevillechaizelounge

    August 4, 2018 at 9:24 pm

    @SFAW:

    What bothers me about the Palmer Report is it’s actual fake news—the blogkeeper just pulls wish-fulfillment stories out of his ass.

    My personal favorite is this post from April claiming Rudy Ghouliani is a cooperating witness against Trump.

    We shouldn’t be sharing his tweets or anything related to his site.

  33. 33.

    SFAW

    August 4, 2018 at 9:29 pm

    @hervevillechaizelounge:

    What bothers me about the Palmer Report is it’s actual fake news—the blogkeeper just pulls wish-fulfillment stories out of his ass.

    Which ones are fake? The MJ-siding-with-LeBron and Butina-Trump-campaign-connection stories are real, the misspelling of “its” would surprise no one. I have no idea about Stone hearing he’ll be indicted, nor the ObamaDay thing.

    So what am I missing?

  34. 34.

    mellowjohn

    August 4, 2018 at 10:48 pm

    and to help celebrate Obama Day, i put Dijon mustard on my hot dog. (but
    no fucking ketchup!)

  35. 35.

    dm

    August 4, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    I was in a bookstore today and they had a big display of Hope never dies — an Obama-Biden mystery. Obama and Biden team up to solve the mysterious death of an Amtrak conductor. Sounds like a hoot.

  36. 36.

    dm

    August 4, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    Also, The Obama inheritance — fifteen stories of conspiracy noir. A collection of stories by great writers riffing on the time we had a President worthy of the office.

  37. 37.

    sukabi

    August 5, 2018 at 5:40 am

    @Kay: you expect people who steal and cage babies to even have an inkling of what normal people do?

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