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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Murderers’ Balls

Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Murderers’ Balls

by Anne Laurie|  December 3, 201812:15 am| 20 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything, Hail to the Hairpiece, Trump-Russia

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at #G20Summit pic.twitter.com/AzvHXg2oWX

— CSPAN (@cspan) November 30, 2018

The G-20 in BA was the “avoidance summit”: US, China avoided escalating their trade war; MBS avoided being shunned despite his role in Khashoggi’s murder; Putin avoided any penalty for his latest Ukraine agression. And world leaders avoided doing much of anything for the world.

— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) December 2, 2018

This high-five might’ve gotten more attention if GHWB hadn’t done his beloved GOP one last fortuitous favor, but don’t worry, we’ll hear more about the Russia-Saudi bro-fest as its implications multiply. Both Putin and MBS are kleptocrats in control of third-world shitholes entirely dependent on fossil fuels for their continued survival… but to date, as far as I know, the Saudis haven’t been able to get their hands on the kind of nuclear arsenal that keeps Russia ‘relevant’. Maybe MuhammedBoneSaw’s new BFF can help him with that, now!

And to think we might’ve had an actual President in the Oval Office, instead of the current Squatter-in-Chief…

The Cheese stands alone pic.twitter.com/g9dsjhLkze

— John Lurie (@lurie_john) November 30, 2018

Saudi Arabia is saying Trump and Crown Prince MBS met at G20, but White House says Trump merely exchanged pleasantries at a leaders’ session, as he did with nearly every leader there.

“We might but we had none,” Trump told reporters of an MBS meeting, per @jeneps.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 30, 2018

This headline is incorrect. Trump never canceled the Putin meeting. But what he did do is play the media. https://t.co/kABvWraUb9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 2, 2018


During his #G20Summit2018 press conference, Putin takes great pleasure in mockingly pointing out that "two little boats gifted to #Ukraine by the U.S. couldn't even get through the #KerchStrait."#G20 #G20Summit pic.twitter.com/IH7mXYzka7

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) December 1, 2018

Putin says he and Trump discussed the clash between Russian and Ukrainian navy vessels when they met briefly on the sidelines at G-20 summit.

“I answered his questions,” Putin told reporters, per @world_reporter. “He has his position on these issues and problems. I have mine.”

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) December 1, 2018

Man, this guy Putin is the worst US president since Cheney. https://t.co/qy1664ngbj

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 2, 2018

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20Comments

  1. 1.

    prostratedragon

    December 3, 2018 at 12:23 am

    “I’ve Seen That Face Before [Libertango],” Grace Jones

  2. 2.

    prostratedragon

    December 3, 2018 at 12:40 am

    In these wretched times, one should not let the incandescence of that loathsome creature in the WH obscure the loathsomeness of the one in Moscow. This has to be a low point in the modern era for national leadership.

  3. 3.

    Raoul

    December 3, 2018 at 12:58 am

    @prostratedragon: Sprinkle in some Brexit mayhem, and I think I agree – quite the nadir (but, like ‘peak wingnut’, how low national leadership can go is likely bottomless).

  4. 4.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    December 3, 2018 at 1:15 am

    One of the weird things about Tяump voters is how little they care about what the rest of the world thinks about us after telling us all for eight years how galling it was to have a president the world laughed at all the time. Now we really do have a president the world is laughing at, and they tell us it doesn’t matter what the world thinks.

  5. 5.

    Doug R

    December 3, 2018 at 1:28 am

    SNL likeys to geoblock their links, probably rights issues. The video in this link worked here in Canada: ‘SNL’ mocks Trump, applauds Bush

  6. 6.

    Mike in NC

    December 3, 2018 at 1:34 am

    January just can’t come soon enough. Fat Bastard will be slowly grilled by House Democrats over a spit until he and his whole crime syndicate family are cooked to a crisp. Fuckem!

  7. 7.

    John Revolta

    December 3, 2018 at 1:37 am

    Trump’s got the same look on his face as at the WHCD back when Obama was making fun of him; back when all the trouble started.
    What’s gonna happen next? Stay tuned!!

  8. 8.

    hilts

    December 3, 2018 at 1:47 am

    @Mike in NC:

    Grilled Fat Bastard sounds delicious.

    @John Revolta:

    I hope Trump has many extended alternating bouts of diarrhea and constipation between now and 2020. I want this fat ugly bastard feeling as miserable as possible for the remainder of his term in office.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    December 3, 2018 at 2:06 am

    Dolt 45 lies.

    AND NO ONE POINTS IT OUT. Business as usual, nothing to see here.

  10. 10.

    prostratedragon

    December 3, 2018 at 2:22 am

    @Raoul: “how low national leadership can go is likely bottomless”

    I’m afraid you’re right. I confidently predicted in 2016 that if that clown won, he’d crash through each day’s version of the absolute bottom like tissue paper. With nothing to stop it, the phenomenon could be global.

  11. 11.

    prostratedragon

    December 3, 2018 at 2:36 am

    Bah, enough of them. A few scrapings of the charisma of the Wrecker Brothers:
    “Mala Junta [Bad Company],” Los Hermanos Macana

  12. 12.

    Redshift

    December 3, 2018 at 3:09 am

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): No, they’re absolutely convinced that the world respects and fears us with Big Man Trump in charge. They watch Fox (the same place they got the idea that Obama had ruined our reputation) and they don’t see any of this worldwide mockery there.

    Propaganda is a hellava drug.

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    December 3, 2018 at 3:19 am

    @John Revolta:
    As much as I’d love to see it, it’s hard to imagine Trump daring to lash out at Putin. So I wonder at whom he will lash out instead.

  14. 14.

    J R in WV

    December 3, 2018 at 3:54 am

    Love that remark:

    Boy, that PUTIN ~!!~ WORST President since CHENEY~!!~

    Who could have predicted that the Repubican Teahaddi Jihad would lead to this/???

    Who believed that two years in the Republicans would still be confident that Putin will be the best of all possible leaders for America, or else that whatever kind of bad Putin will be, that’s better than a Demoncratic leader would surely be. I’m not really way surprised, the money for the leadership has been from the Russians, and Faux is prepared to lie about that forever.

    What a leader we have,
    In Putin
    What a leader we have
    in Mohammed Bin Sawd

    Thanks be to Trump
    For sucking Putins dick

    Thanks be to Trump
    For sucking Mohammed Bin Sawed’s dick

  15. 15.

    bemused

    December 3, 2018 at 3:54 am

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    It’s not surprising to me trump voters care so little about what the rest of the world thinks of us or what happens to their citizens because that’s exactly how they feel about their own neighbors where they live. Self-centered assholes. It’s me, me, me and bitch, bitch, bitch.

  16. 16.

    John Revolta

    December 3, 2018 at 4:00 am

    @Amir Khalid: Staff and/or family, I expect.
    Wish I could say I feel bad for them but I’d be lying. Oh well!

  17. 17.

    Bruce K

    December 3, 2018 at 4:52 am

    Since it’s an open thread, does anyone know if there exists somewhere on Teh Intarweebs an uncensored copy of Jon Stewart’s bit on The Daily Show where he got a gospel choir to sing out to Fox News to “go fuck yourself”? I can find versions on YouTube, but the censor beeps kind of detract from the message I’d like to send certain people (embellished by Amazon links to a paring knife and a corkscrew).

  18. 18.

    debbie

    December 3, 2018 at 7:08 am

    I hope the oontext of that Putin-MBS display becomes known. I have never, ever seen Putin so demonstrative or so giddy.

  19. 19.

    Butch

    December 3, 2018 at 8:35 am

    And yet proving they haven’t learned a damn thing, every single one of the major TV newscasts last night referred to a “historic” trade deal with China that Trump supposedly struck in Argentina. Which apparently consists of nothing but a half-baked agreement to delay some sanctions.

  20. 20.

    A Ghost To Most

    December 3, 2018 at 8:47 am

    The World Wide He-Man Girl Hater Dictator’s Club needs to work on their secret handshake.

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