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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Open Thread: At Least We Still Have Mockery

Open Thread: At Least We Still Have Mockery

by Anne Laurie|  October 24, 201810:52 pm| 38 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Clown Shoes

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Ok, but her emails tho…. https://t.co/rHzS9rVPCO

— Centrism Fan Acct ? (@Wilson__Valdez) October 24, 2018

Well that's a relief: "[White House officials] said they had further confidence he was not spilling secrets because he rarely digs into the details of the intelligence he is shown and is not well versed in the operational specifics of military or covert activities." https://t.co/JhnzsNRQBT

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) October 24, 2018

Spare a moment of sympathy today for the poor Chinese spies forced to endure listening to Trump’s phone calls.

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 24, 2018

"He is talking about the Fed again. He seems to think it's a savings and loan owned by Nancy Pelosi."
"I strangled a Japanese diplomat with my bare hands to get this Ministry of State Security promotion, to listen to this. I shame my parents."

— EmergyHat! (@Popehat) October 24, 2018

"Ai Huan, the good news is that we now know where he's going to devote a big chunk of the CIA's assets over the rest of his administration."

"What's the bad news?"

"Narnia. It's Narnia."

"Why is that bad?"

"We're pretty sure he thinks it's in Macau."

— EmergyHat! (@Popehat) October 24, 2018

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38Comments

  1. 1.

    opiejeanne

    October 24, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    Testing.

  2. 2.

    zhena gogolia

    October 24, 2018 at 10:59 pm

    Sorry, can’t laugh about this.

  3. 3.

    Ken

    October 24, 2018 at 11:00 pm

    @opiejeanne: It worked.

    Re the Catherine Rampell quote, the real mess will be when Trump is out of office, and keeps tweeting stuff that he may or may not remember from the briefings. The authority to automatically declassify – which is the only reason he’s not been arrested for numerous violations of the security laws – ends with the office, doesn’t it?

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 24, 2018 at 11:01 pm

    @opiejeanne:

    Testing.

    Your test came back positive.

  5. 5.

    jk

    October 24, 2018 at 11:02 pm

    Donald Trump is a profoundly heinous and defective form of protoplasm.

  6. 6.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 24, 2018 at 11:03 pm

    @Ken: Yep, once he’s no longer president he’s no longer the highest and final original classification authority in the US.

  7. 7.

    Anne Laurie

    October 24, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    @opiejeanne: If this means what I think it means, I suspect ‘reunion’ is one of the spam filter’s tripwords.

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    October 24, 2018 at 11:05 pm

    Presently enjoying “Flight of the Conchords Live in London” remembering how much I miss their show. And if you haven’t seen “What We Do in the Shadows” fix that in time for Halloween.

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    October 24, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    @Anne Laurie: why would that be in the spam filter???

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    October 24, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne

    The rabbit laughed.

    ;)

  11. 11.

    MomSense

    October 24, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    @trollhattan:

    And I loved their stand up, really a sit down, before their HBO show.

  12. 12.

    Mike J

    October 24, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    @trollhattan: We’re werewolves, not swearwolves.

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    October 24, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    @NotMax:
    The walrus is Paul.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    October 24, 2018 at 11:11 pm

    Mike J

    Could be worse. Could be wereRepublicans.

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 24, 2018 at 11:22 pm

    He seems nice…

    Former GOP candidate arrested for attempting to kill with "radioactive material" https://t.co/s0itFTfCV2

    — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 25, 2018

  16. 16.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 24, 2018 at 11:28 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: There is no end to their evil. None.

    The entire party is corrupt and into treason and terrorism from top to bottom.

  17. 17.

    polyorchnid octopunch

    October 24, 2018 at 11:33 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: That is really special. Dope smoking libertarian indeed.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    October 24, 2018 at 11:34 pm

    Too lazy to learn national secrets, and too dumb to talk about them anyway; therefore less of a danger to national security. This argument will really appeal to Trump’s base in 2020.

    @Ken:
    I for one hope that Trump ‘s presidency ends in a way that ensures he won’t need the Secret Service because he has prison guards.

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 24, 2018 at 11:38 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: They have fully revealed themselves to be what we have always known them to be.

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    October 24, 2018 at 11:38 pm

    @Anne Laurie:
    Reunion. Reunion reunion reunion. Reunion? Reunion!
    (This has been a test.)

  21. 21.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 24, 2018 at 11:39 pm

    @polyorchnid octopunch: The Pauls would be so proud.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    October 24, 2018 at 11:42 pm

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Well, well. Don’t that take the rag offen the bush.

  23. 23.

    randy khan

    October 24, 2018 at 11:50 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I really feel like this is a classic example of funny/not funny. I mean, the possible jokes are endless, but at the same time, it’s just horrifying that someone like him is sitting in the Oval Office (when he’s not playing golf).

  24. 24.

    Chetan Murthy

    October 24, 2018 at 11:58 pm

    Ooh! Oooh! Amber Ruffin brings the scorn to Ms. “Jesus is White”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=232&v=-l7cfbyF95A

    Damn! Damn! “She’s 47, and that’s almost 50!”

  25. 25.

    Mike in NC

    October 25, 2018 at 12:05 am

    Fat Bastard spends exactly no time on those pesky Intel briefings. Delegated to Kelly or Mattis or maybe Jared.

  26. 26.

    Yutsano

    October 25, 2018 at 12:07 am

    In a (surprisingly) comfortable room right outside Minneapolis Minnesota and already having a good time. A couple bottles of hard cider will help that. And yes mocking them is indeed our best tool, because they can try but they can’t shut us all up.

    Yutsy + 2 but coming down.

  27. 27.

    gene108

    October 25, 2018 at 12:09 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Too lazy to learn national secrets, and too dumb to talk about them anyway; therefore less of a danger to national security. This argument will really appeal to Trump’s base in 2020.

    Yes it will appeal to them. They don’t what he does or what he says. He makes them feel in control against the hordes of Guatemala refugees, Syrian refugees, uppity blacks, shrill women, etc. and that is all they care about.

    *************************

    I wish we could push the meme Republican Presidents are dishonest crooks into the mainstream consciousness.

    Nixon had Watergate.
    Reagan had Iran-Contra
    Bush, Jr will forever be remembered for lying us into war in Iraq.
    And all Trump does is lie all day long.

  28. 28.

    aliasofwestgate

    October 25, 2018 at 12:11 am

    Just finished a round of giggles and grins while watching DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season premiere. Definitely what i needed to watch tonight. XD

    So many issues about those tweets that i can’t even begin to unpack. National Security being the least of them.

  29. 29.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    October 25, 2018 at 12:16 am

    @Amir Khalid: I am telling you all by 2020 they will be debating if “and he ate the flesh from the corpse” is really that bad.

  30. 30.

    Shell

    October 25, 2018 at 12:21 am

    @trollhattan: that was such a fun movie. The scene where they’re about to go clubbing and they have to check how each other looks cause….bummer, they can’t see themselves in the mirror.

  31. 31.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    October 25, 2018 at 12:27 am

    @zhena gogolia: Don’t need to laugh, just toss it in there faces; “well thank god your’ president is to incurious know any state secrets since he’s to pathetically lazy to use a secured phone. Boy howdy I understand now why your conservatives identify with Trump so strongly.”

    Stuff like that.

  32. 32.

    Sister Golden Bear

    October 25, 2018 at 12:39 am

    And so it begins…

    Health Department removes ‘gender’ from its civil rights page:
    https://thinkprogress.org/health-department-removes-gender-from-its-civil-rights-page-d60f33814b8e/

    and the DOJ argues in court that businesses can legally discriminate against trans workers:
    https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/justice-department-says-transgender-discrimination-is-lawful

    Although really it’s the latest salvos in a years-long war the Talibaptists have been waging against us to use the power of the government to harass us out of public existence.

    #WontBeErased #StillFuckingHere

  33. 33.

    Viva BrisVegas

    October 25, 2018 at 12:41 am

    Has anybody noticed that one of the biggest hurricanes this year is currently rolling over US territory.

    I wonder if anyone at the White House has bothered to tell Trump?

  34. 34.

    danielx

    October 25, 2018 at 12:44 am

    Go to the country for four days and the world goes crazy. Again.

    I may have to do this more often.

  35. 35.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 25, 2018 at 1:11 am

    @Viva BrisVegas: Unless they have votes in the Electoral College, they’re not really Americans; as defined by Trump.

  36. 36.

    NotMax

    October 25, 2018 at 1:35 am

    @Viva BrisVegas

    Minimal but local coverage of the typhoon.

  37. 37.

    zhena gogolia

    October 25, 2018 at 8:12 am

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    We’ve got (or are trying to get) your back.

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    October 25, 2018 at 8:51 am

    @Sister Golden Bear: So they’re basically arguing that either you’re not human, or you’re not really a citizen. Good to know.

    These fuckers need to go down.

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