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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Dolt 45 / Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting Open Thread: Rideshares for Tweakers

Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting Open Thread: Rideshares for Tweakers

by Anne Laurie|  December 22, 20189:02 pm| 134 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Open Threads, Republicans in Disarray!, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Clown car

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My sources in the White House describe Trump as "watching television harder than they've ever seen him do it before" and "damp to the point that, when he moves, it makes a sound like a dish sponge being squeezed."

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) December 22, 2018

What did you expect, GOP ‘experts’? Some kind of code of honor, not to cheat his own?

i've used this metaphor before, but a lot of people that feel left out of DC policy world and suddenly see POTUS as an opportunity to get their various agendas done are getting into an Uber driven by a crackhead

— 4164616d20456c6b7573 (@Aelkus) December 20, 2018

the fact that the uber is being driven by a crackhead is the selling point, because he's a crackhead he's different from the other drivers, who aren't willing to take them to their preferred destination. It's a roll of the dice but better than the status quo, right?

— 4164616d20456c6b7573 (@Aelkus) December 20, 2018

Either way, they're fooling themselves. It's hard resisting that temptation, admittedly, especially because the opportunity itself seems so rare and ephemeral. And the alternative is doing nothing. But……its an Uber driven by a crackhead. END.

— 4164616d20456c6b7573 (@Aelkus) December 20, 2018

This would all kinda be ok if we weren’t all required to ride along

— Kevin Hardiman (@kevin_hardiman) December 20, 2018

But gosh, doesn't that still seem better than a woman driving? Plus, I heard she paid her insurance by email instead of snail mail. Or something.

— Summer Saraf (@sanssaraf) December 20, 2018

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    December 22, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    The comparison seems unfair to Uber drivers and crackheads.

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2018 at 9:08 pm

    “damp to the point that, when he moves, it makes a sound like a dish sponge being squeezed.”

    #ohgodohgodohgod
    #MakeItStop

  3. 3.

    Jerzy Russian

    December 22, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    Isn’t Uber run by a bunch of dicks? It figures that they have crackhead drivers.

  4. 4.

    Plato

    December 22, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    Merry nothing, magats. (not that the totus thug will ever be Santa).

  5. 5.

    Frankensteinbeck

    December 22, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    “watching television harder than they’ve ever seen him do it before”

    Again, he’s terrified and humiliated and is desperately hoping the television will say he’s being strong and will win. I think instead he’s seeing mockery. This isn’t a showdown to him, it’s being tortured until he submits.

  6. 6.

    satby

    December 22, 2018 at 9:11 pm

    @Baud: yeah, I ‘he known higher qualities of both Uber drivers and crackheads than anyone in the current White House.

    @SiubhanDuinne: can only hope it’s the prelude before the massive coronary. #justenditnow

  7. 7.

    satby

    December 22, 2018 at 9:13 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    This isn’t a showdown to him, it’s being tortured until he submits.

    Good

  8. 8.

    EriktheRed

    December 22, 2018 at 9:13 pm

    Seems this @Aelkus individual has deleted those tweets.

  9. 9.

    Immanentize

    December 22, 2018 at 9:14 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:
    The enhanced interrogation he so wanted to impose is now just a flop sweat channel changing Twilight Zone episode for Mr. Trump

  10. 10.

    Mart

    December 22, 2018 at 9:15 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I don’t know if I will ever recover from reading the Prez is so damp he squishes.

  11. 11.

    Chyron HR

    December 22, 2018 at 9:15 pm

    SURRENDER DONALD

  12. 12.

    jl

    December 22, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    @Baud: ” The comparison seems unfair to Uber drivers and crackheads. ”

    If only Baud 2020! would get to work and up that name recognition, he could be the point of comparison.
    Innocent crackheads and animal pests and assorted vermin would not have to worry about being slandered anymore.
    That is the kind of leadership we need now. from Baud 2020!

    Edit: BTW, who is being slandered in that tweet, Uber drivers or crackheads, or both, because Trump? (OK, sorry, I see you meant both. And you are correct.)

  13. 13.

    Immanentize

    December 22, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    @Mart: I suspect the edge of his bed does too

  14. 14.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 22, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    @EriktheRed: Well, it was insulting to crackheads.

  15. 15.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 22, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    How does one watch TV “hard”?

  16. 16.

    Baud

    December 22, 2018 at 9:19 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    There are these certain paid channels that are not in your basic cable package…

  17. 17.

    Baud

    December 22, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @jl:

    Innocent crackheads and animal pests and assorted vermin would not have to worry about being slandered anymore.

    Love Trumps Hate

  18. 18.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @Mart:

    “Damp Trump” is not a thing I want in my life.

  19. 19.

    Mart

    December 22, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @Immanentize: My mind immediately went to the SNL skit – “NPR’s Delicious Dish – Schweddy Balls” featuring President Alec Baldwin.

  20. 20.

    Emma

    December 22, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: yeah. I threw up a bit in my mouth at that.

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    December 22, 2018 at 9:21 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    “Don’t give us none of your aggravation, we’ve had it with your discipline …” pretty much sums up Trump’s approach to presidenting.

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2018 at 9:23 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    How doesn’t one watch TV “hard”?

    Oh, Dorothy. Where to start?

    Okay. When one person loves oneself very much….

  23. 23.

    satby

    December 22, 2018 at 9:23 pm

    @Immanentize: aaaaaagggghhhh!

    @SiubhanDuinne: that goes double for you young lady!

  24. 24.

    Chyron HR

    December 22, 2018 at 9:23 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Trump can watch TV harder, better, faster AND stronger than any of you NPC soyboys.

  25. 25.

    debbie

    December 22, 2018 at 9:23 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    A question that should never be answered. //

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    @Emma:

    It’s possible I may never again be able to swab down the kitchen sink without feeling a bit nauseated.

  27. 27.

    Baud

    December 22, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: You have a dirty mind.

  28. 28.

    satby

    December 22, 2018 at 9:26 pm

    @Baud: that’s why she’s more badass than the rest of us.

  29. 29.

    jl

    December 22, 2018 at 9:26 pm

    @Baud: Baud 2020! burdened with all our sins, despised and reviled, carries them away into the desert. And Baud 2020! doesn’t really care, if he can stay tipsy on cheap beer. It’s a total win-win.

  30. 30.

    hilts

    December 22, 2018 at 9:27 pm

    “damp to the point that, when he moves, it makes a sound like a dish sponge being squeezed.”

    Trump has finally attained peak butthurt.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2018 at 9:28 pm

    @Baud:

    Me, and — judging by the comments — a lot of other jackals here.

    *Pout* I don’t know why you’re always picking on meeeeee.

  32. 32.

    Gelfling 545

    December 22, 2018 at 9:28 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I didn’t need that cup of coffee I just spit all over the place any way.

  33. 33.

    O. Felix Culpa

    December 22, 2018 at 9:29 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: LOL! You are a bad, bad, badass.

  34. 34.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    December 22, 2018 at 9:29 pm

    @Immanentize:
    That reminds me of this.

    A man alone, a man in trouble, a man slowly going insane. Donald Trump is the most powerful man on Earth, yet all he can do is sit alone in his White House bedroom and watch the news for some sign that he’s winning. But he isn’t, and neither are the American people. There is no winning for him or America, in the Twilight Zone.

  35. 35.

    Chetan Murthy

    December 22, 2018 at 9:30 pm

    @hilts: Just deserts is for his first three children to spend eternity changing his Depends.

  36. 36.

    jl

    December 22, 2018 at 9:30 pm

    Trump could sell his flop sweat as a miracle cure to his base. Has Trump ordered his flunkies to collect it? If not, Trump is truly far gone.
    (that could have been another great innovation by Baud 2020!, but Trump got in just ahead).

  37. 37.

    Chris Johnson

    December 22, 2018 at 9:30 pm

    HE GETS HIS INSTRUCTIONS OVER FOX NEWS
    And Putin has nothing, nothing good to tell him. He’s not going to get to run off to Russia and gloat. He’s hung out to dry.
    He’s watching the TV for messages from Putin, relayed through Fox News. When Fox praises him he knows he’s doing well. When Fox is angry with him, he knows he has to burn more shit down to stay in Putin’s good graces. And those are gone. They aren’t coming back.

  38. 38.

    Brachiator

    December 22, 2018 at 9:31 pm

    @Baud:

    The comparison seems unfair to Uber drivers and crackheads.

    The phrase, “ride or die,” from the Fast and Furious films, has never seemed more apt.

  39. 39.

    Schlemazel

    December 22, 2018 at 9:31 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:
    How do people do stuff “on accident”?
    How did admitting a mistake become “my bad”?
    when did curse word become “swears”?

    The language is going to hell in a hand cart, now get off my lawn

  40. 40.

    Suzanne

    December 22, 2018 at 9:31 pm

    damp to the point that, when he moves, it makes a sound like a dish sponge being squeezed

    Yeah so this is fucking grotesque.

  41. 41.

    dmsilev

    December 22, 2018 at 9:32 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    How does one watch TV “hard”?

    Like Bruce Willis in Die Hard, only watching TV instead of fighting criminals.

  42. 42.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2018 at 9:32 pm

    @Mart:

    Me too.

  43. 43.

    jl

    December 22, 2018 at 9:33 pm

    @Chris Johnson: Putin, Erdogan, MBS, Netanyahu, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh… so many bosses for the most powerful head of state in the world. It’s a damned shame. Poor Mr. Trump.

  44. 44.

    O. Felix Culpa

    December 22, 2018 at 9:34 pm

    @jl: The worst matrix management chart ever.

  45. 45.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    December 22, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    @jl:
    He won’t have to worry about Netanyahu much longer at least. Isn’t he going to be arrested soon?

  46. 46.

    Frankensteinbeck

    December 22, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    @Chris Johnson:

    He’s watching the TV for messages from Putin, relayed through Fox News.

    You wildly underestimate how needy he is, how he hate-watches CNN because he believes in his heart that’s what all of America watches.

  47. 47.

    NotMax

    December 22, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    “Ivanka, get in here! And bring the Shamwow.”

  48. 48.

    Brachiator

    December 22, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??:

    A man alone, a man in trouble, a man slowly going insane. Donald Trump is the most powerful man on Earth, yet all he can do is sit alone in his White House bedroom and watch the news for some sign that he’s winning.

    The sad thing is that Fox News will crank up the volume on its propaganda engine and Trump will feel renewed.

    I think the only thing that might truly rattle him would being loudly jeered at one of his rallies. I don’t think that he would take public repudiation by his base well.

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Yeah so this is fucking grotesque.

    QFFT.

  50. 50.

    Aleta

    December 22, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: on fire

  51. 51.

    The Dangerman

    December 22, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    This isn’t a showdown to him, it’s being tortured until he submits.

    I don’t see how he submits. I suspect he doesn’t much give a shit about a wall, it’s a ludicrous idea, but Fox and his base are spun way up. Good luck, asshole.

  52. 52.

    Immanentize

    December 22, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    @satby: I live to serve.

  53. 53.

    Mai Naem mobile

    December 22, 2018 at 9:37 pm

    I feel like an idiot for saying this but I am not understanding the damp thing. Is he incontinent? Is it a sexual issue? Is he perspiring? Drinking? Doing drugs that make him wet in some way?

  54. 54.

    Brachiator

    December 22, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    You wildly underestimate how needy he is, how he hate-watches CNN because he believes in his heart that’s what all of America watches.

    Yep. He has also cultivated a long relationship with the New York Times, even though he claims to hate them.

    He pretends to care about the “little guy,” but craves the approval of the Establishment. And even that of liberals.

  55. 55.

    satby

    December 22, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    If I check the tracking tomorrow on all those packages I sent out this week and people haven’t got stuff delivered I may croak.
    The Indianapolis PO distribution center seems to be sitting on stuff an extra day. Which blows the days early I sent stuff out by.
    Time for adult beverages.

  56. 56.

    dmsilev

    December 22, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile: I think, though I confess I’m not sure, that that Tweet was a joke.

  57. 57.

    Jerzy Russian

    December 22, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile:

    Is he incontinent? Is it a sexual issue? Is he perspiring? Drinking? Doing drugs that make him wet in some way?

    yes.

  58. 58.

    satby

    December 22, 2018 at 9:43 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck: @Brachiator: then I hope he’s also hate watching the Late Show and hearing all the laughter at his expense (and applause when he’s called a tool).

  59. 59.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 22, 2018 at 9:44 pm

    @Baud: @SiubhanDuinne: @Chyron HR: @debbie: @Schlemazel: @dmsilev: I’m sorry I asked.

  60. 60.

    A Ghost To Most

    December 22, 2018 at 9:44 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    “Damp Trump” is not a thing I want in my life.

    Maybe after he’s been burning for awhile?

  61. 61.

    Frankensteinbeck

    December 22, 2018 at 9:44 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile:

    I am not understanding the damp thing.

    Perspiring. Flop sweat. He is so stressed and miserable that he’s sweating constantly, so much that his whole body is soaked with it. He is angry and scared and ashamed, in the manner of a narcissist where they depend on other people’s approval because they have no inner self.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2018 at 9:45 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:

    Just deserts is for his first three children to spend eternity changing his Depends.

    I’m not going to read her damned book, but I can’t help thinking that Ivana bears a load of responsibility for the awfulness of Uday, Qusay, and Lucrezia. Not to take any of the blame off their dad, or themselves, but she’s the one who largely brought them up. Tiffany seems okay. A bit shallow, but not evidently craven AFAIK. Barron, too young to know, and off-limits anyhow b/c of age. But I do think the first Mrs Trump has much to answer for.

  63. 63.

    Brachiator

    December 22, 2018 at 9:45 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    I suspect he doesn’t much give a shit about a wall, it’s a ludicrous idea, but Fox and his base are spun way up.

    Trump cares that his will be done. He has spoken and expects to be obeyed.

    And his ego is invested in his promises. Unfortunately, it is harder for him to lie his way out of building a wall in the way that he lied his way out of replacing Obamacare with something better.

    The wall is stupid, but easy to understand. And so, the dopier members of his base expect him to deliver on his promises.

  64. 64.

    A Ghost To Most

    December 22, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile: Crying between rages?

    Is he talking to the ghost of Andrew Jackson?

  65. 65.

    Immanentize

    December 22, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    when did curse word become “swears”

    Ooo, ooo. Call on me! I think I know the answer to this one —

    Profanity came to be called “oaths” or “swears” because a proper oath or swearing for testimony invokes the name of God. Properly, some say, but not the Puritans. Anyway, if you used God’s name in vain, it sounded like an oath or a “swear” except for the bitter angry mean part. Hence, profane usage became “oaths” which are also in common parlance, “swears.”

    But staying with the thread topic, even top swears should not be confused with flop sweats.

  66. 66.

    Aleta

    December 22, 2018 at 9:47 pm

    Truth is, all he knows how to do is TV. In times of crisis he’ll do more not less. Maybe go on camera more, like w/ Pelosi.

  67. 67.

    dmsilev

    December 22, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    Eyeroll of the day: A review of a $600 internet-connected toaster oven. Yes, you too can livestream video of your toast …toasting for only six times as much money as a normal toaster oven would cost. And, as a bonus, there’s the possibility that some hacker halfway across the world can break into your toaster and burn down your house!

    Ain’t progress grand?

  68. 68.

    Immanentize

    December 22, 2018 at 9:51 pm

    @dmsilev: So you bought one, yes?

  69. 69.

    MagdaInBlack

    December 22, 2018 at 9:51 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    You’re my new idol ?

  70. 70.

    NotMax

    December 22, 2018 at 9:52 pm

    @Aleta

    Past time to cancel So You Think You Can President.

  71. 71.

    zhena gogolia

    December 22, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    What the hell does it even mean? He’s peeing himself? He’s sweating? What?

  72. 72.

    jl

    December 22, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    Looks like this David Roth is a writer for Deadspin, So, it’s either a spoof, or so inside the inside that this is the insideist scoop you’ll ever read in your life.
    His tweeter feed has some interesting information on a certain genius’ new revolutionary tunnelling brave new world innovation that is out of this world (hilarious).

    What happened to the speed of sound personal travel pods in a vacuum that would take me from Silicon Valley to San Diego smoother than silk in the blink of an eye for a very reasonable consideration?

  73. 73.

    Frankensteinbeck

    December 22, 2018 at 9:55 pm

    @zhena gogolia:
    Like I said, it means he’s so stressed out and scared and angry that he’s sweating constantly. Nervous breakdown stuff.

  74. 74.

    Chetan Murthy

    December 22, 2018 at 9:56 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    But I do think the first Mrs Trump has much to answer for.

    I agree. But ….. I’ve come to believe that there comes a point in one’s live, when one must stop blaming one’s elders, for how one turns out. And these three …. well, maybe Eric is at the upper limit of where one can blame parenting. But the elder two, they need to own their path thru life. Not saying that Ivana’s blameless. Rather, that as with the “Dead Bishop on the Landing” sketch, “society is not to blame”.

  75. 75.

    Schlemazel

    December 22, 2018 at 9:56 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile:
    ingesting a specific drug prescribed to help people who suffer from ADD via your nose raises body temp

    and FYWP for changing the gottam rules and tricks again

  76. 76.

    FelonyGovt

    December 22, 2018 at 9:56 pm

    They’re going to need to fumigate the White House after he leaves, aren’t they

  77. 77.

    Bill Arnold

    December 22, 2018 at 9:56 pm

    Saw this cover of the NY Daily News (Grinch Trump) while grocery shopping today; in case it hasn’t been linked. Been spread broadly already. Hoping he hates it.

    It could be head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But we think that the most likely reason of all may have been that his heart was two sizes too small. https://t.co/Vf44qMAj8m An early look at Saturday's front cover… pic.twitter.com/9sah0EwdBP— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 22, 2018

  78. 78.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    December 22, 2018 at 9:57 pm

    @Brachiator:

    I think the only thing that might truly rattle him would being loudly jeered at one of his rallies. I don’t think that he would take public repudiation by his base well.

    Perhaps. Or maybe he’d try to convince himself they were liberal plants and not “real” fans. Maybe after the 15th straight rally where he was booed it might sink in.

  79. 79.

    Plato

    December 22, 2018 at 9:58 pm

    Most of Trump admin original cabinet is gone. Those who remain tend to share two traits: complicity in plot and nepotism ties.

    * Trump family: Donald, Ivanka, Jared
    * Relatives of the complicit: Chao (McConnell), DeVos (Prince)
    * Complicit in corrupt campaign: Mnuchin, Pence

    — Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) December 21, 2018

  80. 80.

    jl

    December 22, 2018 at 9:59 pm

    @Bill Arnold: Trump should like it. He looks much healthier than usual.
    All the bitter bile has come to the skin, which is first stage for purging. Probably an ancient home remedy from his mother in law.

  81. 81.

    zhena gogolia

    December 22, 2018 at 9:59 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    I guess, per some of these comments, that it’s a kind of parody of a Maggie Haberman tweet. Hard to tell apart.

  82. 82.

    dmsilev

    December 22, 2018 at 10:02 pm

    @Immanentize: Heh, no. I have a good toaster oven (a Breville which I found on close-out somewhere) but even putting aside the security etc. issues, that’s a hell of a lot of money for exactly zero improvement in the ability to cook food.

  83. 83.

    Amir Khalid

    December 22, 2018 at 10:03 pm

    @dmsilev:
    I remember the days when there was nothing to watch but paint drying in your vicinity. I am sure that, upon reflection, you will agree it is a great advancement in human happiness to be able to watch someone else’s toast burning from the other side of the country. (He said earnestly.)

  84. 84.

    dmsilev

    December 22, 2018 at 10:04 pm

    @FelonyGovt: Never mind fumigating, whoever is next is going to need to inventory the china, silverware, and furniture.

  85. 85.

    jl

    December 22, 2018 at 10:05 pm

    This is a dry spoof. If it were a real report, or an ordinary jape-type spoof, Trump would sound like a ‘wet fart’, not a ‘dish sponge being squeezed’.
    I have to go now, which is why this is an opportune time to type up this accurate and needed, though not very comfortable, analysis.
    Sometimes the truth is hard and unpleasant.

  86. 86.

    Amir Khalid

    December 22, 2018 at 10:05 pm

    @jl:
    For some reason, I thought David Roth was a moonlighting singer.

  87. 87.

    Kathleen

    December 22, 2018 at 10:05 pm

    @Immanentize: A bit OT but on Cheryl’s last thread Baud quoted:

    Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say

    and you replied:

    “You know that there will be a similar story about Sanders soon”

    You must be psychic, because check out this Russia Today video touting Wilmer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk66fW4iDlc

  88. 88.

    dmsilev

    December 22, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I once watched somebody who was watching paint dry (I myself did not watch the paint). As you can probably imagine, it was a slow day.

  89. 89.

    Ohio Mom

    December 22, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    I know — and agree — that Baron is off limits, but this isn’t about him as a person. Just about his whereabouts.

    It strikes me that the news was that Melania was going to Florida by herself, then she was going back to DC, with no mention of her traveling with Baron. I am beginning to believe the rumors that he and Melania live with her parents in Potomac. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  90. 90.

    Schlemazel

    December 22, 2018 at 10:07 pm

    @FelonyGovt:
    I assume it will need to be rebuilt as he will set several fires when they come to get him

  91. 91.

    Kathleen

    December 22, 2018 at 10:07 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I wouldn’t touch that with a ten foot “poll” (heh heh).

  92. 92.

    Kathleen

    December 22, 2018 at 10:09 pm

    @hilts: I think he’s created new meme “buttsquish”.

  93. 93.

    Immanentize

    December 22, 2018 at 10:09 pm

    @Kathleen: Not psychic. But as the yutes today would say, woke. :-)

    ETA but now I will be “sleep.”. Adieu!

  94. 94.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    I noticed that omission too. It is all very odd, everything about this family. Or “family.”

  95. 95.

    Amir Khalid

    December 22, 2018 at 10:14 pm

    @dmsilev:
    Was that by any chance a scientist studying solvent evaporation in paint?

  96. 96.

    Brachiator

    December 22, 2018 at 10:15 pm

    @Plato:

    Most of Trump admin original cabinet is gone. Those who remain tend to share two traits: complicity in plot and nepotism ties.

    * Trump family: Donald, Ivanka, Jared
    * Relatives of the complicit: Chao (McConnell), DeVos (Prince)
    * Complicit in corrupt campaign: Mnuchin, Pence

    — Sarah Kendzior

    It’s kinda like the mystery novel “And Then There Were None,” with Trump as the chief culprit.

  97. 97.

    Plato

    December 22, 2018 at 10:16 pm

    Trump tonight tweeted that he doesn't know who Brett McGurk is, the U.S. envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State.

    McGurk has literally been the American leading the fight against ISIS.

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 23, 2018

    Jeez, the nutjob has lost it completely, activate article 25 already.

  98. 98.

    Steeplejack

    December 22, 2018 at 10:21 pm

    To ease the general nausea level in this thread, it should be noted that David Roth is a sportswriter at Deadspin and a well-known joker in his Twitter thread. It is doubtful that he has any White House sources. In fact, what he wrote was possibly not intended to be a factual statement.

    ETA: Also, what jl said above.

  99. 99.

    Brachiator

    December 22, 2018 at 10:23 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??:

    Perhaps. Or maybe he’d try to convince himself they were liberal plants and not “real” fans. Maybe after the 15th straight rally where he was booed it might sink in.

    Yeah. It would take multiple rallies where he was booed and jeered. Total rejection, sending him scurrying to his room to watch TV.

    And it is oddly telling that Trump and his most loyal supporters desperately depend upon Fox News as their source of reality. They are all trapped in the political echo chamber.

  100. 100.

    Schlemazel

    December 22, 2018 at 10:25 pm

    @Plato:

    Brett McGurk, who I do not know, was appointed by President Obama in 2015. Was supposed to leave in February but he just resigned prior to leaving. Grandstander? The Fake News is making such a big deal about this nothing event!

    I weep for our future. There are no words to express my rage. That evil little orange bastard needs to go and he needs to go very soon. We may never recover from his fumbling.

  101. 101.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 22, 2018 at 10:25 pm

    @Steeplejack: Didn’t he sing “Just a Gigolo”?

  102. 102.

    marv

    December 22, 2018 at 10:26 pm

    Someone put this more eloquently than I ever could a couple days ago, but I just wanted to thank you, Anne Laurie, for your posts here over the years.

  103. 103.

    M31

    December 22, 2018 at 10:27 pm

    “I KNOW he doesn’t make a sound like a dish sponge being squeezed, I want to hear the son-of-a-bitch deny it”

  104. 104.

    dmsilev

    December 22, 2018 at 10:27 pm

    @Amir Khalid: No, just a painter patching some drywall. Sorry for the banal answer.

  105. 105.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    December 22, 2018 at 10:37 pm

    @Brachiator:

    And it is oddly telling that Trump and his most loyal supporters desperately depend upon Fox News as their source of reality. They are all trapped in the political echo chamber.

    It’s also interesting that Fox News has started to criticize Trump and even call out his lies, at least when it comes to the Wall. I’ve pondered it before whether Trump will ultimately tear the right apart.

  106. 106.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 22, 2018 at 10:40 pm

    @dmsilev: Obviously you need to get a $600 toaster oven to spice up your life(and maybe burn your house down).

  107. 107.

    Luthe

    December 22, 2018 at 10:40 pm

    @dmsilev: I had to check that article wasn’t written by McMeghan. It is *exactly* the kind of thing she would write.

  108. 108.

    Wapiti

    December 22, 2018 at 10:41 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    I don’t see how he submits. I suspect he doesn’t much give a shit about a wall, it’s a ludicrous idea, but Fox and his base are spun way up. Good luck, asshole.

    He quits, blaming someone else. Two failed marriages, six bankrupt businesses, and who knows how many business ventures that just sputtered and died. At his core, Donald Turnip is a quitter.

  109. 109.

    Steeplejack

    December 22, 2018 at 10:41 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Stop it right now!

  110. 110.

    Just One More Canuck

    December 22, 2018 at 10:43 pm

    @O. Felix Culpa: baby did a bad bad thing

  111. 111.

    Spanky

    December 22, 2018 at 10:45 pm

    @satby: I got skinluvvers stuff today that I ordered on Sunday, fyi

  112. 112.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 22, 2018 at 10:46 pm

    @Steeplejack: ?

  113. 113.

    Doug R

    December 22, 2018 at 10:59 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Eyeroll of the day: A review of a $600 internet-connected toaster oven. Yes, you too can livestream video of your toast …toasting for only six times as much money as a normal toaster oven would cost. And, as a bonus, there’s the possibility that some hacker halfway across the world can break into your toaster and burn down your house!

    Ain’t progress grand?

    Red Dwarf has taken us there already

  114. 114.

    West of the Rockies

    December 22, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    @Just One More Canuck:

    Are you a Chris Isaak fan? He’s a good guy.

  115. 115.

    satby

    December 22, 2018 at 11:12 pm

    @Spanky: relief. Now to be sure the other 12 people get theirs ?
    And thanks again!

  116. 116.

    Ken

    December 22, 2018 at 11:40 pm

    @Steeplejack: Roth being a joker just makes it all the worse, because it’s so freaking believable that Trump is binge-watching TV as he suffers a mental breakdown and his staff would (anonymously) tell the press about it.

  117. 117.

    Ken

    December 22, 2018 at 11:41 pm

    @Plato: Aren’t Perry and Carson still around? Might need a third category for Dunning-Kruger sufferers.

  118. 118.

    Ruckus

    December 22, 2018 at 11:43 pm

    @FelonyGovt:
    Might be easier to ask the British to come over and try to burn it down again.
    But at the minimum I’d say we are going to see people in sealed suits scrubbing the place down.

  119. 119.

    randy khan

    December 22, 2018 at 11:43 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    Brett McGurk, who I do not know, was appointed by President Obama in 2015. Was supposed to leave in February but he just resigned prior to leaving. Grandstander? The Fake News is making such a big deal about this nothing event!

    I weep for our future. There are no words to express my rage. That evil little orange bastard needs to go and he needs to go very soon. We may never recover from his fumbling.

    To summarize, Trump cares so much about dealing with ISIS that he didn’t bother to appoint someone to this job for two years, and claims never to have heard of the guy in the job until yesterday.

  120. 120.

    Ruckus

    December 22, 2018 at 11:51 pm

    Right now I’m playing Amazon gotcha with Hazel Jane on chat.
    Order is two days late with a USPS tracking number, enter that in the USPS tracking and it says they are awaiting the package from the shipper. From an Amazon warehouse about 25 miles from me. This is the second time Jeff’s boys couldn’t deliver a package to me in the last year. They can sell, but that’s not all that big a deal if they can’t deliver.

  121. 121.

    KSinMA

    December 22, 2018 at 11:54 pm

    @Chyron HR: Yay!!!!

  122. 122.

    AnotherBruce

    December 22, 2018 at 11:54 pm

    I’m so old, I can remember a time when taxi cabs without computers were driven by meth freaks. We are so much more advanced these days.

  123. 123.

    Barbara

    December 22, 2018 at 11:59 pm

    @randy khan: The guy who supposedly defeated ISIS no less.

  124. 124.

    Brachiator

    December 22, 2018 at 11:59 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??:

    I’ve pondered it before whether Trump will ultimately tear the right apart.

    He might, but they won’t realize it at first. It will be like the scene in which Hannibal Lector is slicing and eating the brain of one of his victims, who doesn’t at first comprehend what is being done to him.

    Right wing nut jobs firmly believe that they are finally on top and getting back at evil, effete liberals. And they can’t let up from slinging hate. I’ve noticed that local talk radio conservatives, especially the ones who are pro military, are simply ignoring the recent resignations of generals and Trump foreign policy officials, and instead keep regurgitating Hillary or Pelosi hate, or continue with stalking AOC.

    The nut jobs are stuck, and incapable of self reflection. They expected Trump to lead them to the right wing promised Land and can’t believe they are stuck in the swamp.

  125. 125.

    Yarrow

    December 23, 2018 at 12:02 am

    That top tweet is just so gross. I know it’s not real but it’s so believable and so absolutely disgusting.

  126. 126.

    Brachiator

    December 23, 2018 at 12:07 am

    @Ruckus:

    This is the second time Jeff’s boys couldn’t deliver a package to me in the last year. They can sell, but that’s not all that big a deal if they can’t deliver.

    I’m really curious as to what the problem might be, and whether Amazon has the critical smarts to diagnose and fix the delivery hole.

    I get packages delivered to my home and to my work address with numbing perfection. I’ve also had a few returns, of clothing that didn’t fit, and again the process was seamless. It was interesting to see that I was credited for a refund as soon as the USPS store scanned the return label and before the package was actually received by Amazon.

  127. 127.

    Just One More Canuck

    December 23, 2018 at 12:10 am

    @West of the Rockies</ yes – O Felix's comment put the song into my head. Chris Isaak had a weird little show on tv back in the 90's- maybe early 00's – strange but great

    I listened to the song on YouTube, which of course led me to the Propellerheads with Shirley Bassey. YouTube is a weird place

  128. 128.

    Ruckus

    December 23, 2018 at 1:14 am

    @Brachiator:
    I believe that you must be in at least the top half of deliveries then. Or higher. Their reputation is so bad there are unlisted customer service phone numbers, or at least there were not that long ago, so that people could actually get through to a human. And given the language structure used in the chat function, I’d bet that this is a computer, not live people.
    Can they figure it out? Well some people seem to have good luck with them. You for example. My last lost package was delivered to my city councilman, who lives about 4 miles from me. The reason I know that is that he brought it to my place, which he could do as the address was fully legible. That day they had two different delivery people at least supposed to show up at my building, one never made it. The Amazon delivery people seem to get no training whatsoever and get pushed hard. They also use USPS as well and you can check the progress rather well with them. That’s how I know this package had never even gotten to the post office. It supposedly came from KY to CA and then to the PO. It’s somewhere. Maybe. Probably. Possibly. They are supposedly sending another. I ordered on the 18th, was supposed to be here on the 20th. Then 21st, then 22nd. So if you don’t get your item, it just stays in the ether until you complain. There seems to be no feedback from say the post office that a tracking number has been issued but there is nothing to deliver.

  129. 129.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    December 23, 2018 at 2:41 am

    Kind of amazing isn’t it,Trump, a man his age not knowing how to deal with a bad situation. I mean the smart thing to do is shut off the TV, try something constructive to make things better (like say negoicate with the Dems) instead he sits there and worries about how it will get worse. Clearly the politics isn’t for spoiled brats.

  130. 130.

    Van Buren

    December 23, 2018 at 6:01 am

    @dmsilev: I think that there was a show on HGTV that was mostly watching paint dry.

  131. 131.

    evodevo

    December 23, 2018 at 6:59 am

    @Ruckus: @Ruckus: I am a mail carrier and I can tell you you aren’t the only one …Amazon employs people for the least money they can pay, triples the work load at Xmas with no increase in either the workforce or the number of trucks in the fleet, relies on totally clueless Uber drivers to deliver the “last mile”, and has upped MY workload by at least 1.5x over LAST Xmas (which was horrific for us, given that the PO won’t send us any extra help either). This is GM management technique applied to logistics, and it doesn’t work. If you ordered the product from Amazon, it’s probably still sitting in the warehouse, overlooked by some overworked, minimum-wage drone. if it is ACTUALLY in OUR shipping stream (USPS) – there will be a USPS tracking number. OUR system is overloaded too. I assure you I am pedaling as fast as I can lol. One informal way to track it is to ask your personal mail carrier, IF you can find him;her…I have been working from 7AM to 7PM every day for 3 weeks, and I don’t even know where I am …

  132. 132.

    VOR

    December 23, 2018 at 8:45 am

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: And he really cares what Fox News says about him. We saw that this week where he insisted on Wall funding after Fox, Ann Coulter, and Rush criticized him. His tweets track closely to subjects discussed on Fox.

    I’m about half way through the Woodward book and it paints a picture even worse than I imagined. An example was his response to Charlottesville. His initial statement called for peace on all sides. Then he delivered a set of prepared remarks specifically written to be conciliatory. Fox News criticized him for a calmer tone so he decided to come out with the “fine people on both sides” press conference. The feedback loop of his behavior and the news is just toxic. The Presidency is a reality show under Trump and he is obsessed with his ratings.

  133. 133.

    tokyokie

    December 23, 2018 at 10:14 am

    @dmsilev: When I worked one summer for the city street department, we had a guy whose job was literally to watch concrete dry. He was a widowed retiree who was a longtime friend of the superintendent, and when the department patched a huge hole in street, somebody had to stay with it to keep kids from walking through it or otherwise messing it up. An easy job maybe, but boring and out in the sun in 98-degree heat.

  134. 134.

    tokyokie

    December 23, 2018 at 10:23 am

    101
    ?BillinGlendaleCA
    December 22, 2018 at 10:25 pm
    @Steeplejack: Didn’t he sing “Just a Gigolo”?

    Yes, he did, pretty much exactly like the original version by Louis Prima.

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