when Q shows up in the Oval Office to tell you it’s time to put humanity on trial pic.twitter.com/2L5zMMkgwA
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 27, 2018
… At least, it’s not only dumber than I ever imagined, it’s dumber than I could have imagined. And I’m supposed to have a pretty good imagination!
Context for the top pic:
I’ll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency when cameras stops filming him like a toddler. https://t.co/TI9xEJ4L6t
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 27, 2018
A defining feature of the Trump presidency is how he turns little things we never used to think about – condolence statements! flag-lowering decisions! stakeholder roundtables! – into controversies and brawls. Everything has to be something.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 27, 2018
Trump could have the mainstream press proclaiming him presidential at last with the smallest of concessions to normal human civility and he just can't or won't. It's amazing.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 28, 2018
At this point nobody with any sense expects Trump to BE a decent human being, but it’s downright bizarre how fervently he resists even *going through the motions of pretending*, even when it’s both obviously in his interests and essentially costless to do so.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 27, 2018
He’s somehow both insanely obsessed with optics and seemingly unable to foresee hilariously obvious scenarios like “If you behave like a petulant prick toward a dead veteran, you will look terrible and ultimately be shamed into making a grudging show of respect anyway.”
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 27, 2018
I tell people that the 3 hardest things to do in a foreign language are be smart, be funny, and be polite. He behaves like someone not operating in his native language.
— Adrienne Lynne (@49Henle) August 28, 2018
Of course, when its “Dear Leader” is that dumb-stubborn, the Base is going to double down…
The latest QAnon post claims that John McCain committed suicide rather than face a military tribunal—a popular idea with QAnon believers. Great that the president hosted a promoter of this conspiracy theory in the White House! pic.twitter.com/ufStIj0TCw
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 26, 2018
Not joking. Dana Milbank, in the Washington Post, “McCain conspiracists say his brain cancer was a hoax”:
… When McCain’s family put out the news Friday that he had discontinued treatment for his terminal brain cancer, this was done “to take media attention” from Senate candidate Kelli Ward, and, according to Ward herself, replace it with a “narrative that they hope is negative to me.”
Ward had unsuccessfully challenged McCain in the 2016 Republican primary in Arizona, so it makes complete sense that, two years later, McCain would arrange his death to divert attention from Ward’s bus tour.
Furthermore, according to a conspiracy theory network popular among some Trump boosters, when McCain supposedly died on Saturday, he did not succumb to cancer but took his own life to avoid being hauled off to Guantanamo Bay and put before a military tribunal for his longtime work helping Islamic State terrorists and others. (And before he died, he concealed his criminal ankle bracelet by wearing a medical boot on his leg.)
Unless, of course, the suicide, like the cancer, was just a ruse. In that case, McCain will continue to work secretly for the deep state and for the Clinton Foundation.
So many lies. Heck, he’s even lying in state!
In death, as in life, McCain has a way of bringing out the loons. Undoubtedly the posthumous conspiracy theories would have amused him as much as anybody. He took particular delight in debunking “propaganda and crackpot conspiracy theories,” as he put it to Naval Academy midshipmen 10 months ago…
Last Thursday, as the Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer reported, Trump hosted Lionel Lebron, a prominent conspiracy theorist, and posed with him in the Oval Office. Lebron is a 9/11 truther who believes Trump is fighting the deep state and globalist pedophiles and is a leading promoter of the very online network floating the notion McCain is alive or a suicide. Three days after his White House visit, Lebron tweeted an image of Trump crossing a swamp of Democrats, featuring racist images of Barack and Michelle Obama and the words “fire at will.”
With the exception of Hillary Clinton, perhaps nobody stoked the conspiracy crowd’s fevers like McCain. He was “songbird” McCain, a secret agent of the North Vietnamese who threw the 2008 election to Obama, covertly met with the leaders of Islamic State in Syria, secretively started the Robert S. Mueller III “witch hunt” against Trump, and was “in bed with the Clinton Foundation” but turned against Clinton shortly before his death.
A post on Sunday from the leader of a prominent conspiracy forum wrestled with whether McCain killed himself or surrendered: “Suicide weekend? Hands up? . . . We are in control. BIG week ahead.”…
November can’t come soon enough.
Had my wife take a picture of this incredibly normal car today. pic.twitter.com/9iL0yYHHjz
— Atticus Goldfinch (@AtticusGF) August 27, 2018
Platonailedit
Any primaries news?
TenguPhule
And its only Tuesday.
dmsilev
And when nothing much happens this week beyond some new Trumpian scandals, I’m sure that this prediction will be flushed down the memory hole and replaced with a new one that THIS week is the big one. Etc.
Basically like those religious nuts predicting a date for The End Of The World which always seems to be updated to be next Thursday.
NotMax
Thought everyone knew he took off to shack up with Elvis in an abandoned Walmart.
oatler.
He’s losing it, like Malcolm MacDowell in “Caligula”. (
Quinerly
Yes, I’m growing tired of the McCain coverage. So many mixed feelings about him. With that said, you gotta love this piece on who his pallbearers will be. I haven’t seen Warren Beatty in awhile…….. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/28/john-mccain-pallbearer-russia-799061
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
How the fuck would McCain have faced a military tribunal? He was in the Navy, but he was discharged decades ago. Can that even happen?
philpm
I was going to say something along the lines of “just think what these idiots could do if they applied all this energy to actual real world problems”, but then realized that still wouldn’t give them the ability to find their way out of a paper bag.
Baud
Some of us realized all of this about Trump during the 2016 campaign.
philpm
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: These people would have considered him an enemy combatant with the amount of conspiracy they’ve cooked up.
Major Major Major Major
@philpm: I almost prefer they don’t try to apply themselves.
philpm
@Major Major Major Major: Same here. I’ve got family that are buying in to this crap, and it’s becoming very difficult to keep my mouth shut.
JWL
If you ate as many cheeseburgers as Trump does, you’d occasionally be constipated, too, and you’d look just like he does in that photo..
It’s a fact: Trump took to tweeting as he sits on his golden toilet in the early morning hours because he struggles when he reads. Quite simply, it’s easier to punch buttons and spew words than it is to concentrate on on reading them. And the man genuinely loves his greasy cheeseburgers, so there you go.
raven
@philpm: There’s a whole group that thinks that now.
oatler.
@philpm: The idea of those Walmart scooter-asses mobilizing for combat is hilarious.
WaterGirl
That top photo of the Dumpster looks like a 4-year-old who is holding his breath until he gets what he wants.
Roger Moore
I’m not sure it is in his interest. He can’t refrain from being an asshole for long enough to convince anyone he’s changed, and looking as if he’s trying to change will lose his credibility with the people who like it when he’s an asshole. He’s made being a petulant asshole into his personal brand, and he needs to stick with the brand image.
Citizen Alan
@philpm:
Then don’t. I have never regretted cutting garbage humans out of my life and never will.
FlyingToaster
@philpm: Don’t keep your mouth shut. But DO ask them questions. “If McCain resigned his commission 35 years ago, how could he be eligible for a military tribunal?” “If Trump were honest, why didn’t he release his tax returns?”
That’s the only way I’ve seen the Trumpista’s shut up. Don’t yell at them, don’t contradict them, just ask them all of the unanswerable questions…
different-church-lady
I’m looking at all those tweets and thinking, “Do you not understand that the man is simply insane?”
TenguPhule
@philpm:
They’d fuck them up even worse. Energy is not competence.
TenguPhule
@different-church-lady:
This is Sparta. //
philpm
@oatler.: And you know the closest that a lot of them have ever been to combat is screaming at the mall security guard when told they can’t take their food into a store.
Mike in NC
@WaterGirl: His unhappy pose: wrap the arms tightly across the body, stare into the distance, roll the eyes back in his head. It’s as if he puts himself into a petulant trance.
Waspuppet
Fox News had to turn comments off on their McCain-related videos. Trump being human towards him isn’t necessarily cost-free. (That doesn’t excuse him of course.)
TenguPhule
@oatler.:
Its a lot less funny when you realize how many of them can still use a gun.
Platonailedit
@different-church-lady:
Their wanton feigned surprise shtick.
philpm
Nothing is costless to Trump, EVERYTHING is zero-sum with him.
hilts
Anne Laurie,
That photo of Trump at top captures him at his doucheiest and most childish. The only thing missing is a pacifier.
philpm
@TenguPhule:
Very true.
philpm
@FlyingToaster:
Unfortunately, the rabbit hole is bottomless.
A Ghost To Most
@NotMax: ICE has Elvis in an abandoned Walmart?
A Ghost To Most
@hilts: Whadja think is stuck up his ass?
TenguPhule
@philpm:
its not the fall that kills you….
FlyingToaster
@different-church-lady: They’re paid not to understand that. It won’t change until it costs them. And when they figure out that it’s costing them.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Obviously, McCain didn’t die of brain cancer nor did he commit suicide; Hillary killed him like she did all the others. //
A Ghost To Most
@TenguPhule:
They will just mount a .50 on their hoveround.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule:
Using a gun and being able to hit the broad side of a barn are two different things.
FlyingToaster
@philpm: I can always think up another question. My neighbor (who used to be a Trump supporter, until he came to the inevitable conclusion that Trump is a crook) responded rather well to my fairly “I’m sorry, but that doesn’t make sense because” and then another fact that he was familiar with that contradicted his Trumpista worldview.
You won’t peel off the true believers, but you might actually shift the reachables. And the true believers will start leaving you alone rather than have to fail to answer your questions in public.
Major Major Major Major
I saw a tweet reacting to the first picture with “this I Dream of Jeannie reboot looks TERRIBLE.”
Martin
Well, that’s narcissm for you. When everything is about you, then everything gets scaled to you. Trivial slights get elevated to critiques on American leadership, and nuclear agreements get diluted to having your steak delivered slightly underdone. There is nothing beneath his attention and nothing too big and complex for a ‘here, hold my beer’ attempt to solve.
He is the poster boy for upper class white male privilege. Fucking up every aspect of his life until those like him decide he’s the perfect candidate to be president. Anyone else would have been beaten into a coma by a couple of cops by the time they were 19.
Frankensteinbeck
No one who knows his base is surprised by this. They chose him because they’re absolutely fucking furious that they’ve been less and less free to be assholes their whole life. Trump is expressing their ideals.
Keith P.
So, apparently CNN has gotten the message that 10 pundits all lined up arguing with each other is not ratings gold, but they seem to have shifted to the idea that Alan Dershowitz and Jeffrey Toobin having the exact same argument about POTUS and obstruction (and it’s literally got the same stupid bon mots about Toobin taking Dershowitz’ class). I don’t recall an evening that I have watched CNN that did not have this exact same Dershowitz-Toobin argument. Not one.
FlyingToaster
@A Ghost To Most: Last I heard, it was an assisted-living facility…
kindness
Trump’s ‘base’ isn’t the traditional Republican base. It’s more like a World Wrestling fan club. They act like it too. So, you have a slice of Americana that loves professional wrestling, and there is a Venn diagram overlap with Trump’s base. I suspect those two circles overlap a bunch. People who are willing to treat national politics as a sporting event (and a fake sporting event at that) are not who our MSM should be treating as Ma & Pa American. It sells though.
Bobby Thomson
@Baud:
Only the people who saw or heard him or read his remarks.
Platonailedit
@Martin: He is the poster boy for typical ugly american.
Roger Moore
@hilts:
He’s using a pacifier in that picture; you just don’t want to know where it is.
John Revolta
@Baud:
Those are the people who never heard of or saw him before then, right?
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m not afraid of the bullet with a name on it. I’m worried about the ones addressed “to whom it may concern.”
A Ghost To Most
@FlyingToaster: “Elvis is not dead. He just went home”. – K
MagdaInBlack
@Mike in NC:
I know you’ve seen 4 year olds do the same pose.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
well played.
TenguPhule
@FlyingToaster:
Only until they are given permission to start killing.
schrodingers_cat
@MagdaInBlack: 4 year olds don’t know any better and they are far cuter than the Clown-in-Chief.
A Ghost To Most
@TenguPhule:
Radio Tonawanda?
MagdaInBlack
@kindness:
I’ve often made that comparison. The convention was combo WWF and white power rally.
Let us not forget roller derby.
Tokyokie
@hilts:
The only thing missing is Angela Merkel looming over him.
A Ghost To Most
@kindness:
They’re just the cosplayers at the rallies. The dangerous ones wouldn’t be separated from their sex toys.
MagdaInBlack
@schrodingers_cat:
LOL. Agreed on both points.
However that is the classic “No! I don’t wanna and you can’t make me.”
Followed by shrieking / twitstorms.
Jay
@FlyingToaster:
“If McCain resigned his commission 35 years ago, how could he be eligible for a military tribunal?”
The same way a Bangladeshi kidnapped in Pakistan, sold to the CIA, tortured at Baghram or another Black Site, renditioned to Gitmo and kept in a cage for years, can wind up infront of a Military Tribunal with his Defence trying to prove he was just a Taxi Driver, and not one of Osama’s “lieutenants”.
Stick to questioning the crazy beliefs,
oatler.
@MagdaInBlack: Roller derby! Remember Martin Mull’s “Banana Nose” tribute to Ann Cavallo?…(smacks dentures, savoring)
kindness
@MagdaInBlack: Hey! Roller Derby is real compared to professional wrestling. I used to watch Rollerderby on tv when I was a kid. This was before cable mind you.
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: That’s my line. Taught to me by my late ASO.
Jay
@Roger Moore:
They look kinda like pacifiers, but that’s not what they are called.
Adam L Silverman
A Ghost To Most
A final FUCK YOU to Shitler and Putin.
Gelfling 545
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, jesus, does this mean somebody’s going to shoot a watermelon or a hubbard squash or something now?
Adam L Silverman
@Gelfling 545: Crenshaw melon.
MagdaInBlack
@kindness:
I’ll be honest. I am amused with roller derby, I like stock car racing, and I LUV drag-racing.
But then, I grew up during muscle car era ?
@oatler.:
Sadly, I have no memory of this. Fortunately, theres youtube ?
No One of Consequence
@TenguPhule: oooohhhhh, I do like that one. Well played. May I borrow it?
-NOoC
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
in the sandbox. With a little plastic toy dog.
TenguPhule
@No One of Consequence: I stole it from Shlock Mercenaries who stole it from an old military person somewhere. Keep the tradition alive!
Kay
This enrages me. I really find the Republican effort to stop people from voting to be a huge motivator. We have to defeat these people.
Platonailedit
And fricken NASA became a surrender monkey to this dolt?
MagdaInBlack
@Adam L Silverman:
Exactly!
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: Actually I’ve quoted it here numerous times citing my late, and missed, ASO.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
Yeah, but McCain was a white male American who belonged to the GOP.
Platonailedit
A Ghost To Most
@Adam L Silverman: I heard it when I was in service, and it was old then. Sounds like WWII humor to me.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Kay:
We have to call them what they are; unAmerican fascists every day, to their faces.
MomSense
The twitter toddler was having a tantrum because he wasn’t getting all the attention.
TenguPhule
Byline at Wapo now.
Mary G
FYFNYT has a story about Abigail Spanberger, an ex-CIA agent running against Dave Brat in Virginia whose complete application for a security clearance was obtained by Paul Ryan’s PAC, with all her personal information unredacted, and they are doing push polls of voters saying she taught at “Terror High” in Saudi Arabia. Valery Plame Wilson redux, except this time she’s at least not active duty.
They lie repeatedly on theirs and release their rivals’ for political gain. Shameful.
chris
There may be something to this Blue Wave in Florida.
Dems are at 1.356 million votes now with 22% still to come.
joel hanes
@A Ghost To Most:
mount a .50 on their hoveround.
If that weren’t so stupidly dangerous to everyone involved, it would be funny to see it attempted.
A .50 has serious recoil.
Even a single shot would tip a hoveround right over, and a burst would have it spinning on its side.
Baud
@Kay: Every one of these stories is awful.
John Revolta
@Adam L Silverman: Hey Adam, a good point was raised in the last thread…………Devin Nunes tried to set up a meeting with MI6 and GCHQ in London and they blew him off. Why wouldn’t they take the opportunity to feed him some bullshit and see where it turned up?
Adam L Silverman
@Kay: It ended well:
Adam L Silverman
@A Ghost To Most: Most likely. If not older. My ASO was a retired senior NCO 18D/Special Forces Shooting Medic who served in Vietnam.
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks for the update. Still horrible that this will be an issue.
debbie
@Mike in NC:
He IS Eric Cartman.
joel hanes
@John Revolta:
Exactly. Trump’s public personna already was a despicable fool back when his wife was named Marla, and it hasn’t improved.
A Ghost To Most
@joel hanes:
Yeah. I keep hoping.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman: I’ve seen it going back 20 years ago on military humor in Reader’s Digest.
Baud
@joel hanes: Yeah, but I didn’t give him a second thought when it came to any elected office, much less the presidency, until he became the GOP nominee.
Omnes Omnibus
@FlyingToaster: I love that movie.
debbie
@joel hanes:
He was the same asshole as when he was with his first wife, Ivana.
TenguPhule
@Mary G: One more norm thrown to the wild pigs.
TenguPhule
He sounds violent to me.
Kay
@Adam L Silverman:
I’ve seen it happen and the voter references it in the letter- he was embarrassed. They’re always embarrassed. It’s an awful thing and it’s meant to discourage voting.
We have to change voting back to a process that is about the voter. It’s about serving the voter. They aren’t an inconvenience or presumptive felons. They are THE POINT of the exercise. It is FOR THEM. That has gotten lost in this ridiculous voter fraud bullshit and it needs to come back.
We don’t shame or humiliate or embarrass them. It’s not an obstacle course. It’s a simple state recording process that is by and for them. The burden isn’t on them. They don’t have to prove they are not felons. The state should have a damn good reason, checked and double checked, before they refuse a person a ballot.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Norms and courtesies no longer apply in this timeline.
A Ghost To Most
@Adam L Silverman: Often, in the telling, it was addressed to “Recipient” or “Current Occupant”.
Military black humor; spoken courage.
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: A lot of crimes in this one. There is no way an SF86 can be obtained through a FISA request. This information could only be obtained through illegal means. Releasing it to a journalist is also illegal. Federal officials – elected, appointed, civil servants, uniformed military, and/or contractors – are all prohibited by law and by regulation and policies based on them from transmitting and/or releasing anyone’s personal identifying information.
Kay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Well, or don’t call them anything. Just beat them.
You can call them fascists later, after they no longer hold elected office :)
Adam L Silverman
@John Revolta: They’ve observed his attacks on
MichaelChristopher Steele. Steele is one of theirs. They’re not going to give Nunes the time of day. They had a deputy meet with him, provide the minimize courtesy, and then sent him packing. And then they leaked the story to make him look stupid.TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
IOIYAR.
The norms and safeguards lie broken and shattered.
cain
@philpm:
Republicans have keeping mum. Do they think they can control these people? They are very wrong. They will replace all of the Republicans with their own crazies. They don’t know it, but their party is a dead man walking. They have no idea what they are unleashing.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
FTFY.
Platonailedit
@Kay: Yup. Show your rage at the voting booth. The rwnj’s do.
Kay
You can’t imagine Trump holding court with young people in a summer school program for an hour, let alone making them laugh. And that’s a tough room, summer school!
Remember how Obama was funny and quick and not an asshole?
Now we have this bottom of the barrel nasty person who never laughs and who only finds humor in humiliating and demeaning people. Such a step down.
John Revolta
@joel hanes: @Baud: @debbie: I figured out too late that people outside of NYC probably didn’t know who he was, or WHAT he was, until recently.
A lot of people still haven’t figured it out I guess.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: Obama was better in every respect. Better looking, smarter, kinder, overall a better person.
Roger Moore
@MagdaInBlack:
The media’s complete infatuation with NASCAR as a cultural phenomenon while completely ignoring NHRA seems like one of those things that should have attracted more interest. I talking about NASCAR is a way of discussing the kind of people who like waving Confederate flags without using such derogatory stereotypes. NHRA doesn’t have the same kind of cultural baggage, so there’s less interest in it as a polite circumlocution.
I’m not a huge motorsports fan, but I find the NHRA very interesting as the most ridiculously extreme form of racing. I also find it interesting that it’s one of the few area in any high-level sport where women successfully compete head-to-head with men. You’d think auto racing would be an area where women would have the least disadvantage, so it’s interesting that they’ve had so little success. I assume a big part of it is cultural, and drag racing seems to be a rare area where women have been accepted into the culture.
Another Scott
@kindness: Same here.
Georgia Championship Wrestling!
:-/
It took me a really long time as a kid to recognize that it was all fake. But I eventually did.
Unfortunately, too few people can accept that the President can lie to them. Sure, the other party’s president is a lying monster, but not the guy **I** voted for.
And too many in the political press think that their job is to present whatever they’re told. No analysis because it’s the other party’s job to say what’s wrong.
(sigh)
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Infallible Founding Fathers, America being God’s Country, America being the Best Country in All Things, …, the President who knows much more than we do and would never lie to us, …. Etc.
Maybe we need new “myths” to teach our kids so that they don’t unquestioningly believe falsehoods. Maybe kids these days are already better at that than we were… :-/
Cheers,
Scott.
John Revolta
@Adam L Silverman: Gotcha.
Platonailedit
@Kay: From class to crass. In a New York minute. Pun intended.
Kay
Well, we dispersed all the money we raised at the county Dem meeting tonight. That was my goal. Spend all the money :)
We gave to four candidates- one local (the biggest donation) one state, one US House and the smallest amount to Cordray. Not because we don’t want Cordray but because he has a lot of money already.
It was only 3000 dollars so don’t get too excited, but jeez I had to pry it out of them with a crowbar. We raise it to spend it. They’re not supposed to sit on it!
Adam L Silverman
@Kay: In just checked and have not received my EFT. I’m sure this is simply an oversight that you will be correcting immediately.//
Gelfling 545
@Adam L Silverman: He didn’t need any help to look stupid, but it was nice of them to think of it. Can’t help wondering if he turned up in an Inspector Clouseau disguise.
hueyplong
One seemingly improper act that looks better and better in hindsight is Trump’s father slapping the shit out of him because he wasn’t wearing the correct clothes for a Yankees game.
I’d much rather see that than the supposed pee tape.
Ruckus
The word is can’t. He is an uncivilized ass. Why is this news to anyone? He’s been an uncivilized ass for over 5 decades. And uncivilized ass is the least worst thing I will say about him.
oatler.
@Platonailedit: They were showing all right in Maricopa,what with the voting “technology failures”. We might not even have results tomorrow.
Bill Arnold
@Mary G:
I choose Chinese intelligence, since the top ranks of the national-level of the Republican party are already a nest of traitors. (Would normally add a smiley, but this is just disgusting, at best.)
Awaiting Adam’s comment though.
zhena gogolia
@hueyplong:
That was Twitler slapping his son Don Jr. I don’t want to see it.
Another Scott
@Adam L Silverman:
MichaelChristopher;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
hueyplong
@zhena gogolia: @zhena gogolia: @zhena gogolia: I guess I’ve read some inaccurate accounts. Either that or I have Trump’s reading comprehension.
Jay
@TenguPhule:
As the FTFNYT story noted, there’s two paths this information was provided to the PAC’s,
A Federal Employee,
A Chinese Hack and supply.
In this timeline, the “Big Question” was never asked.
“When, as an American, you were provided a sensitive National Security document illegally, why did you not report this to the appropriate Authorities for investigation? Why did you use this illegally acquired information in your Campaign instead?”
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
Do you mean to say Christopher Steele?
Ruckus
He’s not. Some would say that he might sound better in Russian. He doesn’t know that either. We speak a bastardized english but he’s not speaking in the original either.
He is speaking the language known as PNA. That’s petulant narcissistic asshole, just in case you weren’t sure.
Mary G
@Jay: I smell Roger Stone’s fine hand and hope Mueller was watching him get it and pass it over to Ryan.
MagdaInBlack
@Roger Moore:
My spur-o-the-moment theory is that NASCAR became popular when (white) suburbia discovered it, thus is was noticed.
Drag-racing seems to me to be more a blue-collar thing…I’ve spent more than one rainy Sunday afternoon watching the boys pop the alcohol engine just for fun and fumes: we know how the media feels about the folks that get their hands dirty…they ignore them. So too with NHRA.
And yes, women who wrench on those cars often end up driving them. (No not me )
Justa theory. Feel free to pop it.
Kay
@Adam L Silverman:
They’re funny. They hate to let go of the money. But they have no expenses! They get the union hall where we meet free and they spend about 1500 a year up front for a dinner and a picnic, which they make up for with selling tickets and either break even or make money. Still. I can’t get them to part with money which we raised to give to candidates.
I finally convinced them by telling them they don’t have to carry it over on annual reports if they disburse it. Just get rid of it.
Adam L Silverman
@Bill Arnold: Reporters are already FOIAing the alleged FOIA request. You can’t FOIA this type of information. Or, rather, you can, but it is always summarily denied under both the Privacy Act and for national security reasons. All that CLF has to do is produce the FISA cover sheets to prove their assertions, but as of now I’ve seen at least two reporters tweet they’ve FOIAed for that.
Jay
@Mary G:
Hopefully, but
Both the FTFNYT and the AP were handed the Real Story, and they declined to persue it and went back to horseracing instead as if this is now the “New Normal”.
Adam L Silverman
@Another Scott: Thanks. Long day. I’ve fixed it.
Adam L Silverman
@Amir Khalid: Yep, long day. I’ve fixed it.
Ladyraxterinok
@FlyingToaster: In one of Sookie Stackhouse books (series HBO show True Blood was based on) mortuary attendant tries to turn Elvis into a vampire, but the transition is incomplete. So he’s a pretty stupid but amenable vampire.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman:
Wasn’t he chairman of the RNC?
Steve in the ATL
@MagdaInBlack:
How about drag queen bingo? That’s pretty entertaining.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yes, long day, I fixed it.
Bill Arnold
@Mary G:
I don’t smell Roger Stone here; suspect he’s keeping his nose as clean as possible ATM, and it’s clearly either illegal or … illegal. (A protege, perhaps.)
There’s at least a third possibility, that some other actor (either State or non-State, and not a rogue US government employee) acquired the same information, undetected. Motive not clear for any mechanism of transfer to Republicans (except maybe sheer stupidity), though one effect is that the national level Republicans look very bad since they didn’t report it. (Not surprising; many of them are Party Before Country people.)
Has anybody looked at the Republican conspiracy mills for any larval explanations?
catclub
@Martin:
I hope the fact that this so-called billionaire questioned every check – like those check to Michael Cohen for paying off Stormy Daniels – will help sink him.
Tokyokie
@John Revolta: I’ve never lived in NYC and have spent little time there, but I learned all I needed to know about Herr Drumpf because I used to subscribe to Spy magazine.
Jeffro
@philpm: come sit by me!
LOL
Ruckus
@Roger Moore:
The motor vehicle racing community can be accepting of women’s participation but one thing I noticed is that they are watched like a hawk. The slightest hiccup in the learning curve or them not dropping in like a seasoned pro no matter their level of experience and a good portion of people will act like it’s a blow to the sport and against nature. IOW bigots. I’ve seen over the years that women are fully capable but they have to want it just as bad as the guys and they often don’t understand what that means. Not all the time, I’ve known a few women who showed up and kicked ass and no one gave them any shit at all. I’ve raced against women and in fact one of my most memorable races was against a very capable woman. And I lost by 2 feet. Talked to her on FB a year or two ago and she doesn’t remember it at all but it was 40 yrs ago. Still a great race.
In drag racing women have won a lot and get respected for their talent. NASCAR was and is about good ole boys and I don’t mean that in the nice way. And as that culture gets diminished more and more it becomes less and less.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
That’s because he has the maturity of a 4 yr old. And once again I think that dementia has a bit to do with that. He’s regressing, he used to have the maturity of a 7 yr old. And that’s what dementia can do to old farts, regression. I once described Alzheimer’s to a neurologist as infancy in reverse. He said that was a perfect description.
Ruckus
@philpm:
And with his rabid followers. They aren’t getting what the world owes them (any more than he is!) and that’s because someone, anyone else is getting it. They can see no other reason for them not to have whatever it is that they think they deserve.
As my college philosophy prof said “If common sense was so common, more people would have some.” Best thing I learned in his class.
Ruckus
@Martin:
Or a couple of frat boys. Was he in a frat? I wouldn’t think any would have had him as a member except as a punching bag.
Captain C
@kindness: As I recall, Trump was actually involved in some WWE wrestling shows back in the late ’80s/early ’90s, including one where he got to shave Vince McMahon’s head after his (Trump’s) proxy wrestler defeated McMahon’s.
Add that to his time on the Apprentice and frequent Howard Stern appearances, and it’s no wonder his base knows him mainly as his TV/media character; that got a lot more publicity outside the NY media umbrella than his various bankruptcies, carnal shenanigans, and extremely shady associates.
J R in WV
@MagdaInBlack:
Shirley Muldowney Top Fuel Champion several times.
Had a wheel come off at Indianapolis, the crew rebuilt the car, she ran again.
“Just Lucky” she said after driving through the crash. A well spoken attractive woman with the skill and talent to drive a race car at 250 MPH after a wheel came off. Brave too.
Captain C
@TenguPhule: 2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn’t know what’s going on.
3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody
Omnes Omnibus
@Captain C: What is the most terrifying thing in the army? A captain with a plan.
Ruckus
@J R in WV:
She was quite good at it. Got a tremendous amount of praise and respect because she was so good. And I’d bet opened a lot of doors if anyone else wanted to walk through them.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@philpm:
Sooner or later Phil you will have to tell your family that Qanon is a joke of yours that go out of hand.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@TenguPhule:
Exactly, they go for obvious stupid conspiracy theories because that’s the only thing they got.
Ruckus
@joel hanes:
You do understand where the phrase “Hold My Beer!” came from don’t you?
Ruckus
@joel hanes:
Both his private and public persona has been asshole for decades.
I’ve never understood why people thought well of this fucking ass. His dad was an ass, and the ass didn’t fall from the tree.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Nunes? Make him look stupid? Just being stupid would be a step up for him.
hilts
@Ruckus:
“He has the maturity of a 4 yr old.”
After Election Day, this knuckle dragging blob of insecurities will have the maturity of a 4 month old.
philpm
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Oooooh, I like that one. I have a couple that might work on.
philpm
@Ruckus:
Probably from someone in my family. Hell, I could probably be accused of that.
Tarragon
@Major Major Major Major:
My favorite so far is that shot and a reaction shot from Big Trouble in Little China and titled “I don’t think he’s going to stop!”