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You are here: Home / Politics / Activist Judges! / Late Night Open Thread: No Love for the Malevolent Leprechaun

Late Night Open Thread: No Love for the Malevolent Leprechaun

by Anne Laurie|  November 9, 20182:40 am| 35 Comments

This post is in: Activist Judges!, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Post-racial America, Republican Venality, Trump Crime Cartel, Assholes

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"Gratitude is a dog's disease." – Joseph Stalin. pic.twitter.com/xO0iJeTH5O

— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) November 7, 2018

jeff sessions is the only confederate monument trump was willing to take down

— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) November 7, 2018

A lot of bad shit is about to go down, but let's all take a moment and enjoy the fact that, for the first time in 23 years, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III holds no political office and wields no official state power over anyone.

— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 7, 2018

This owns. The biggest, most pointy-headed child-kidnappinest wrinkled scrote in the administration is finally gone and it's blatantly obvious it's only because he knew committing obstruction would impair his ability to commit racism.

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) November 7, 2018

Sessions is implicated in the Russian interference case. He met illicitly with Kremlin officials and oligarchs and lied about it on his clearance forms. He also likely committed perjury multiple times.

Sessions should be indicted.

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 7, 2018


Perhaps relatedly, Mueller’s grand jury meets on Fridays. https://t.co/aMTMJXx0Mw

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 7, 2018

Incoming House Oversight Committee Chair @RepCummings: “Congress must now investigate the real reason for this termination” pic.twitter.com/O2ZSzafd3I

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) November 7, 2018

The question now is how motivated is Jeff "I forgot about the Russian contact" Sessions to get on the right side of the Mueller or house investigation?

— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 7, 2018

Sessions got pushed out for not knuckling under on the Mueller probe when all he wanted to do was inflict suffering, bar immigrants. separate families, mass-up mass incarceration, "let cops be cops" and make you do serious time for weed. https://t.co/C9CdBXVSHC

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 9, 2018

One thing I would not have expected two years ago is that there would be greater panic when Jeff Sessions was fired than there was when Jeff Sessions was hired.

— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) November 7, 2018

I think the raw treatment of Jeff Session is karma, and I don't really care that much. This is the price of being on the Trump train. But I hope all those red-hat wearing loyalists down in Alabama are getting a good eyeful of what Trump thinks of their beloved local son.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 7, 2018

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— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 8, 2018

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  1. 1.

    wasabi gasp

    November 9, 2018 at 2:49 am

    Millhiser is a fucking moron. The VA, ffs, was being run by a few rich invisibles sitting at a Mar-a-lago bar.

  2. 2.

    rikyrah

    November 9, 2018 at 3:14 am

    Good bye KKKeebler Elf.
    Good riddance.

  3. 3.

    Mary G

    November 9, 2018 at 3:43 am

    Unfortunately Bilbo Bigot will probably run against Doug Jones for his old Senate seat, unless Mueller has a smoking gun. I will always treasure the memory of his whining about Kamala Harris being mean to him.

  4. 4.

    sukabi

    November 9, 2018 at 3:50 am

    I know it’s not meant to be a comedy twitter feed, but the DPRK news feed is pretty funny.

  5. 5.

    Dan B

    November 9, 2018 at 3:54 am

    Sessions’ malevolence is so extreme I can’t begin to understand it and haven’t tried. I’ve been around people like him too many hours of my life. What benefit do they derive from making people’s lives more difficult? Do they harbor hatred so great it can never be worn down? Were they shown such hatred early in their lives that it’s the foundation of their existence?

    We can’t waste time trying to suss out their souls. We’ve got work to do to keep democracy together and our spirits strong for at least the next two months. We’re dealing with cornered animals. They’re afraid that they’ll be facing justice because they’ve wandered from the norms, decency, and morality. And the law. Our task is to restore these four things without crossing any lines ourselves. And we haven’t even begun to come to any agreement on what we should tackle first – you know, strategy.

  6. 6.

    JGabriel

    November 9, 2018 at 3:55 am

    Mary G:

    Unfortunately Bilbo Bigot will probably run against Doug Jones for his old Senate seat …

    We should be so lucky. I suspect KKKeebler Sessions won’t be too popular in ‘Bama now that Trump has written him off as a disloyal recuser – and Sessions’s popularity is only likely to decline further in Alabama if he testifies in Mueller’s investigation.

  7. 7.

    Ian R

    November 9, 2018 at 3:58 am

    @sukabi: It’s not? I’ve always assumed it to be satirical.

  8. 8.

    Yarrow

    November 9, 2018 at 3:59 am

    @Mary G: Sessions is a traitor. We’ll see if he’ll be allowed to run for his old Senate seat again.

  9. 9.

    JGabriel

    November 9, 2018 at 4:01 am

    @sukabi:

    I know it’s not meant to be a comedy twitter feed, but the DPRK news feed is pretty funny.

    My understanding, and I could be wrong, is that the DPRK Twitter feed isn’t officially associated with N. Korea at all, and is, in fact, intended to be funny.

    Again, though, I could be wrong about that. It’s what I’ve heard, but I’ve never done any research to verify it.

  10. 10.

    sukabi

    November 9, 2018 at 4:05 am

    @Ian R: probably started out as “news service” set to fluff Kim Jung Un’s ego, evolved into “aww fuckit” …

  11. 11.

    Platonailedit

    November 9, 2018 at 4:12 am

    @wasabi gasp:

    Wtf was wrong with his tweet?

  12. 12.

    Yarrow

    November 9, 2018 at 4:18 am

    @sukabi: It’s always been fake.

    In fact, the DPRK News Service, which first tweeted in July 2009, is the work of a West Coast data analyst and a North Carolina attorney who also blog at Popehat.com, a self-described “group complaint about law, liberty, and leisure” started in 2004 by former federal prosecutor Ken White.

    Link.

  13. 13.

    sukabi

    November 9, 2018 at 4:20 am

    @JGabriel: who knows any more? This timeline is ridiculous.

  14. 14.

    wasabi gasp

    November 9, 2018 at 4:20 am

    @Platonailedit: it unknowingly implies powerlessness. Just throwing out voices in his head.
    But I admit singling out Millhiser like I did is a little bit unfair, as there’s often a whole bunch of dum-dums among the ridiculous cast of characters AL follows.

  15. 15.

    ChuckBerryIsGod

    November 9, 2018 at 4:21 am

    @JGabriel:

    My understanding, and I could be wrong, is that the DPRK Twitter feed isn’t officially associated with N. Korea at all, and is, in fact, intended to be funny.

    Again, though, I could be wrong about that. It’s what I’ve heard, but I’ve never done any research to verify it.

    Per this article it is Popehat…
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-men-behind-the-infamous-fake-north-korean-twitter-account

  16. 16.

    sukabi

    November 9, 2018 at 4:22 am

    @Yarrow: ok, it’s still a ridiculous timeline.

    Adding, I’m actually disappointed that it’s not North Korean.

  17. 17.

    wasabi gasp

    November 9, 2018 at 4:29 am

    @wasabi gasp: …and I’m cranky…grrrr

  18. 18.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    November 9, 2018 at 4:41 am

    @Mary G: Nah. They’ll probably nominate Roy Moore again.

  19. 19.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    November 9, 2018 at 4:46 am

    @Yarrow:

    It’s always been fake.

    That’s what they want you to think.

    Of course it’s real. Marshal Kim is 10 steps ahead of running dog US corporate media.

  20. 20.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2018 at 5:05 am

    @sukabi:

    I’m actually disappointed that it’s not North Korean.

    You shouldn’t be, I’ve watched a 1/2 hour of North Korean TV.

  21. 21.

    Dan B

    November 9, 2018 at 5:28 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Better you than me.
    Better you than us!
    Is it better than Batesville, Arkansas’ local radio station in 1960? My brother and his friend Jim Burton Arnold were featured on Goin’ Fishin’ for catching a pair of Buffalo in the White River. Gowan fish hun, fish hun all a ty um, fish hun all a ty um…

  22. 22.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2018 at 5:32 am

    @Dan B: Being that I was born in 1960, I don’t remember(I was in CA anyway).

  23. 23.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 9, 2018 at 5:42 am

    @Dan B: Batesville, Arkansas… Many fond memories, did a lot of caving in that area and have many friends thereabouts. Never listened to the radio tho.

  24. 24.

    raven

    November 9, 2018 at 5:43 am

    @Dan B: Damn, I used to watch Virgil Ward but a radio show!!!

    Fr

    From the lakes of Northern Canada
    To the gulf of Mexico. . .

  25. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 9, 2018 at 6:03 am

    My wife is in deep doodoo. We lost our satellite feed this morn and she couldn’t get it back. I had to fix it. I, the resident Luddite, became the Technical Support Representative for the OH household. I went outside and swept the snow off the dish.

  26. 26.

    Raven

    November 9, 2018 at 6:04 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Wife or life?

  27. 27.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2018 at 6:05 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Did you expect your wife to sweep the snow off the dish?

  28. 28.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 9, 2018 at 6:10 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: The funny thing is, she had no idea it had snowed. I told her last night that it was snowing and she completely brain farted it. Didn’t really believe it, had to go outside and see it for herself.

    @Raven: My life has been deep doodoo from the gitgo, my wife only since she married me..

  29. 29.

    raven

    November 9, 2018 at 6:11 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Whoo hoo!

  30. 30.

    PaulWartenberg

    November 9, 2018 at 6:26 am

    The only person I feel sorry for in the Sessions firing is Kate McKinnon. She’s down to just seven people in the trump administration she can mimic for SNL from the 19 she did from 2016 onward.

  31. 31.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2018 at 6:35 am

    @PaulWartenberg: She’s going to have work on some new people, there’s going to be a lot of turnover between now and the beginning of the year. Unfortunately Trump probably won’t be one of them.

  32. 32.

    la caterina

    November 9, 2018 at 7:32 am

    @PaulWartenberg: I’d like to see Aidy Bryant in a bald cap as Whitaker. She’ll get to stretch her range a little.

  33. 33.

    debbie

    November 9, 2018 at 7:57 am

    If Omarosa could roll over, why not Sessions?

  34. 34.

    SFAW

    November 9, 2018 at 8:29 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    You shouldn’t be, I’ve watched a 1/2 hour of North Korean TV.

    Their soap operas must be outstanding.

  35. 35.

    sdhays

    November 9, 2018 at 8:53 am

    @JGabriel:

    Sessions’s popularity is only likely to decline further in Alabama if he testifies in Mueller’s investigation

    I think the lesson of Texas should disabuse you of that notion. Now that Sessions is no longer an obstacle to Spankee’s interference with the Mueller probe, all will be forgiven, and everything bad that was said about Jeffy Jeff will be water under the bridge. Sessions remains very popular in Alabama, and he would probably be tough to beat.

    But Doug Jones is going to have an uphill battle holding onto his seat in a normal election regardless of who runs.

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