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Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Donald Never Had Much Use for Education

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‘Ignorant and proud of it’ is pretty much his brand, and the GOP’s as well. As Jimmy Breslin used to say, Class tells, when there is no class…

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  1. 1.

    Keith P.

    I still can’t wrap my head around Trump constantly serving McDonald’s as “rewards”. That was *literally* a gag the supervillain from “Kingsman” did.

  2. 2.

    MJS

    I suppose if you don’t boycott the WH visit, standing behind Trump and letting your facial expression let everyone know what you think of him is the next best thing.

  5. 5.

    TenguPhule

    Fast food, again. At the Whitehouse.

    Burn it all down and build another one. The stink is never going to come out.

  6. 6.

    Duane

    It’s one bizzare thing after another with Trumpov. What an asshole. Fuckem and his stupid supporters.

  7. 7.

    sharl

    @MJS: Yeah, I don’t see the conservative administration at Baylor ever allowing one of their teams to boycott a GOP Presidential invitation, regardless of what the team or coaching staff may think. This irked Baylor alum tried to find out what went down.

    Asked around about whether Baylor required the national champion women’s basketball team to go to the White House. Apparently Coach Mulkey has said that if they’re invited, they go. Interpret that as you will.— Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) April 30, 2019

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  8. 8.

    randy khan

    As someone noted in the Twitter thread, it’s worth mentioning that Baylor is conservative, religiously-affiliated university, which had Ken Starr as its president for a while and has a longstanding policy basically saying that the only sex that’s allowed is between married heterosexuals. I would say that the odds that the team was told to accept the invitation were pretty high.

    Also, I am 100% confident that Kim Mulkey, Baylor’s coach, did not approve of the food choices made available to her team. (And for any fellow WCBB fans here, she apparently found a friend with good taste to dress her today.) (For those who don’t get the joke, do an image search for her outfits; she has said that she does not pick her clothes for games, but has friends do it.)

  10. 10.

    Ohio Mom

    Can I dream that the next president will make this up to Rodney Robinson with a make-up ceremony?

  11. 11.

    MJS

    @sharl: I kind of figured that, it being Baylor. Oh well, now Baylor can proudly display the pictures… somewhere. And at least UVA’s men’s team told him to pound sand.

  12. 12.

    TenguPhule

    HUD’s top watchdog: Agency is impeding probe into Puerto Rico hurricane aid

    The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is “unreasonably” delaying production of email and other records related to the agency’s handling of hurricane relief funding for Puerto Rico, HUD’s top watchdog said Tuesday.

    HUD’s inspector general told congressional staff that the delays unlawfully hamper her office’s oversight mission.

    “Delayed access to departmental records causes OIG [Office of Inspector General] oversight efforts to be diluted, become stale, or worse, halt entirely,” wrote HUD Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis to HUD Secretary Ben Carson this week.

    The April 29 memo was shared with House and Senate Appropriations Committee staff and obtained by The Washington Post.

    Add Ben Carson to the growing list of Criminal Trump Appointees.

  14. 14.

    MJS

    @randy khan: Of course Baylor is also accepting of sexual assault, so a visit to the Pussy Grabber in Chief is in keeping with their mission.

  16. 16.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Why are people punishing the Teacher of the Year? No wonder so many people want to get out of K-12 education.

  18. 18.

    trollhattan

    @Keith P.:
    Last time wasn’t his excuse the shutdown and the WH staff being furloughed? What was it this time, “We were all out of peanut butter”?

  21. 21.

    TenguPhule

    @trollhattan:

    What was it this time, “We were all out of peanut butter”?

    “We must cut Medicare and Social Security in order to properly feed people in the White House.”

    And I pray this stays as just a joke.

  22. 22.

    trollhattan

    @randy khan:
    It’s legally mandatory [you could look it up] to bring up Baylor’s sportsball sexual assault scandals when citing Ken Starr for basically anything. Naturally, he got a big fat farewell check when the finally gently canned him.

    It’s good to be a Republican.

  23. 23.

    TenguPhule

    @NotMax: I’m willing to bet the poor bastard from the SS who has to pick up the order has to pay out of pocket and submit for government reimbursement.

  24. 24.

    TaMara (HFG)

    I’m liking this:

  27. 27.

    Ohio Mom

    Winning an award that includes having to shake hands and make pleasant small talk with the likes of Trump, Pence, and anyone else from that administration reminds me of that W.C. Fields joke about first prize being a week in Philadelphia and second prize being two weeks.

    I can’t help but think it’s more like a booby prize than anything else. I feel sorry for them.

  28. 28.

    Damien

    Can we all take a deep breath and appreciate the unbelievably small miracle that they didn’t serve Church’s Chicken?

  29. 29.

    randy khan

    @MJS:

    Of course Baylor is also accepting of sexual assault, so a visit to the Pussy Grabber in Chief is in keeping with their mission.

    There are a lot of things that I don’t like about Mulkey, but I will say that if he tried anything with anyone on her team, she’d be on him so fast there wouldn’t be time for the Secret Service to get in the way. Not to mention that the puniest player on that team would be both stronger and quicker than him.

  30. 30.

    Cckids

    The ridiculous part is, if he is set on burgers & other junk food for athletes, he could contract in a few good food trucks, pop some pretty tents up on the WH lawn, and it would work! Imagine Pres. Obama & Michelle doing that-it would be fun and charming. But no-that would involve actual planning and giving a shit.
    Have previous First Ladies taken charge of planning this kind of thing?? Maybe that’s why all these events are such fails-she just can’t be fussed about it.

  32. 32.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    I’ve commented on Trump’s penchant for serving fast food at these functions before. It’s so transparently cheap. His (online) base loves to spin it as him somehow knowing just what “normal, ordinary working class people love”, but that’s such a line of bullshit.

    I admit to having fast food every now and then. It’s not the worst thing in the world. Most poorer people, if given the choice, would choose fancier fare than this cold, greasy slop. I guarantee it.

    It’ll never understand how people can defend this. There’s no excuse for serving honored guests cold fast food at the White House when you’re supposedly rich. This asshole is no Herbert Hoover.

  33. 33.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Damien:

    Can we all take a deep breath and appreciate the unbelievably small miracle that they didn’t serve Church’s Chicken?

    Or Pope Yes :-)

  34. 34.

    JPL

    @TaMara (HFG): per the Washington Post
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/04/30/mueller-told-the-attorney-general-that-the-depiction-of-his-findings-failed-to-capture-context-nature-and-substance-of-probe/?utm_term=.1bbf9c948700

    Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III expressed his concerns in a letter to William P. Barr after the attorney general publicized Mueller’s principal conclusions. The letter was followed by a phone call during which Mueller pressed Barr to release executive summaries of his report.
    This is a developing story. It will be updated.

  36. 36.

    NotMax

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Trivia: One of FDR’s dinners during a state visit by the British royals became famous for he and Eleanor serving the king and queen hot dogs. Which were eaten with a knife and fork.

  37. 37.

    Roger Moore

    @randy khan:

    a longstanding policy basically saying that the only sex that’s allowed is between married heterosexuals.

    But apparently there’s nothing really wrong with banging a porn star on the side, as long as you turn over appointment of all judges to the Federalist Society.

  40. 40.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @JPL: It seems Mueller isn’t ok with Barr’s whitewashing effort. Can’t blame him. That was nearly two years of his life he put into that report. Mueller’s testifying before a House committee, correct?

  41. 41.

    NotMax

    @Damien

    Are they still around? Many years ago would occasionally make a detour to one that was sort of nearby only for the fried okra.

  42. 42.

    Roger Moore

    @trollhattan:

    Last time wasn’t his excuse the shutdown and the WH staff being furloughed? What was it this time, “We were all out of peanut butter”?

    Now that they’ve served one team cheap fast food, it would look like favoritism to serve anything better to any other team. Besides, you know the youths love that stuff. I’m pretty sure there’s a grift angle in there somewhere, though.

  43. 43.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @JPL:
    I’ll gotta level chief, Chick-fil-A is pretty good and is a real guilty pleasure of mine. It’s a shame the owners are right wing, homophobic dicks

  45. 45.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    @TaMara (HFG): @JPL: So did Sen. Harris tweet that before or after the Post story? Amazing timing if she had it out before the story. Even if she didn’t, that’s some impressive turnaround time. I continue to think she’s probably the politically savviest candidate running.

    @oatler.: …FFS, this country :|

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    @Roger Moore

    I believe the standing rule is that Dolt 45 receives all the toys from the kids’ meals, so he can play with them in the war room.

  47. 47.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @JPL: But people were telling me that he is really just a GOP stooge and that Barr’s “summary” of the report marked the end of the American experiment with democracy. Oh yeah, and it showed that all of our institutions were failing.

  48. 48.

    Ian R

    @West of the Cascades: Could they use the evil of the NCAA policies for good?

    “I’m sorry, but a trip to DC and picture with the president has a non-zero value, so NCAA rules prohibit me from accepting. I wouldn’t want to risk my scholarship.”

    Force the Possum Queen to get up and argue that meeting with Trump is worthless.

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    @NotMax:
    I’m just suspicious that there’s some kind of petty grift involved, like there being an official budget for this kind of thing and Trump is overcharging for the food and keeping the difference.

  51. 51.

    Mike in NC

    Pictures of Fat Bastard sitting at the desk are always hilarious. Just a phone and maybe a can of Diet Coke. No piles of papers or file folders or IN/OUT baskets like any normal executive would have, because he literally does nothing all day long but talk to loons like Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity.

  52. 52.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @NotMax:
    I think I’ve heard of that before : ).
    I wonder what kind of hot dogs they were? Beef? Naturally cased? Or the pork and chicken ones? Hopefully, not the latter as they’re low quality. Certainly not fit for the King and Queen of the UK!

    3 years ago on vacation to LA, I got to eat chilli dogs at Pink’s. It was a real treat

  55. 55.

    burnspbesq

    @randy khan:

    And for any fellow WCBB fans here, she apparently found a friend with good taste to dress her today.) (For those who don’t get the joke, do an image search for her outfits; she has said that she does not pick her clothes for games, but has friends do it.)

    Mulkey has never been as bad as Sylvia (Hatchell, the recently deposed North Carolina coach).

  58. 58.

    BlueDWarrior

    @Roger Moore: They were likely the finest sausages he could find that would still fit in a then standard bun.

    When it comes to White House dinners, it’s one part what is served; but a lot more of it is how it is served. LIke I said during the Shutdown, that you can do ‘working people food’ if you do it live, as it were.

    Like have a grill set up in an open-air area of the White House, make it a backyard barbeque or something like that. This is mostly a failure of imagination and someone of means being a spendthrift because he probably doesn’t much care for the people he’s honoring.

  59. 59.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @BlueDWarrior: No, my understanding of the event was that the staff served regular hotdogs. As another patrician, FDR was communicating that he didn’t feel the petite bourgeois need to try to impress the Windsors.

  60. 60.

    TenguPhule

    @Damien:

    Can we all take a deep breath and appreciate the unbelievably small miracle that they didn’t serve Church’s Chicken?

    Its hard to get worse then cold Big Macs.

  64. 64.

    TenguPhule

    @Cckids:

    he could contract in a few good food trucks, pop some pretty tents up on the WH lawn, and it would work!

    And it would cost at least three times as much.

  65. 65.

    TenguPhule

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Oh yeah, and it showed that all of our institutions were failing.

    Barr as AG is a definite sign that the institutions had one job and failed to do it.

  66. 66.

    TenguPhule

    @BlueDWarrior:

    Like have a grill set up in an open-air area of the White House, make it a backyard barbeque or something like that.

    Putting Trump anywhere near an open flame is a recipe for trouble. Just think about all the oil and hair gel.

  67. 67.

    O. Felix Culpa

    Mueller complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe

    Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wrote a letter in late March complaining to Attorney General William P. Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation into President Trump “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of Mueller’s work, according to a copy of the letter reviewed Tuesday by The Washington Post.

    Color me shocked.

  68. 68.

    Roger Moore

    @BlueDWarrior:

    Like have a grill set up in an open-air area of the White House, make it a backyard barbeque or something like that. This is mostly a failure of imagination and someone of means being a spendthrift because he probably doesn’t much care for the people he’s honoring.

    It could be that he just doesn’t care at all about this part of the job, and he’s letting his contempt for it show through. I think, though I’m not 100% sure, that he doesn’t like doing things like inviting sports teams he doesn’t care about to the White House to congratulate them because the attention is on his guests rather than him. Doing something awful like serving cheap fast food is a way of steering the attention back to him. He wants attention, even bad attention, that much.

  69. 69.

    BlueDWarrior

    @TenguPhule: I would argue differently. It’s showing the institutions are not magic. They are only as good as the people running them. A hammer cannot strike a nail if no one is holding it.

    People were assuming that the institutions are these magical machines that do things regardless of who is there, when they are carefully designed (mostly) human organizations that operate a certain way because everyone brought in and trained up is taught to operate that way.

    And now we have people internally sabotaging everything because they want an oligopoly where a small cabal is the sum total of power, a lot like Putin-era Russia.

  71. 71.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @O. Felix Culpa: All right, I was going to acknowledge that JPL posted this news at #34, but FYWP won’t let me edit. Shocking on all counts, I know.

  72. 72.

    Jim Parish

    @Ocotillo: It was Sen. John Heinz (R-PA) who gave the authoritative answer that ketchup and pickle chips did not qualify as vegetables. Yes, the Heinz…

  74. 74.

    Another Scott

    @Omnes Omnibus: Smithsonian Mag:

    It was a watershed moment in British-American statesmanship.

    A sitting British ruler—King George VI–visited an American president—Franklin Delano Roosevelt—on his home turf. The four-day excursion “featured all the staples of a royal visit: a sight-seeing tour of Washington, a formal State Dinner and a big bash at the British Embassy,” writes Jason English for Mental Floss. But there were more casual moments, too: like the picnic where the king had his first-ever hot dog.

    George visited with Queen Elizabeth (better remembered today as “the Queen Mum”). On June 11, 1939, the royal pair joined FDR and others at his Hyde Park “cottage” (read: mansion) in New York for a less-formal picnic. The menu, as quoted by English, included “Hot Dogs (if weather permits).” Thankfully, the weather held.

    “KING TRIES HOT DOG AND ASKS FOR MORE” was the headline The New York Times ran with the next day. According to reporter Felix Belair Jr., the King enjoyed his two hot dogs with beer, and away from prying eyes: although members of the party had cameras, “no reporters were present and regular photographers were barred.”

    […]

    As usual, things get garbled over time.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  75. 75.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Ohio Mom:

    W.C. Fields joke about first prize being a week in Philadelphia and second prize being two weeks.

    Never heard that one before.

    As for the Baylor sportsball women’s team, I don’t know why they’d even consider being around the pussy-grabbing pile of shit.

  76. 76.

    NonyNony

    @Roger Moore:

    It could be that he just doesn’t care at all about this part of the job, and he’s letting his contempt for it show through.

    I honestly think the man thinks that there’s no higher treat than fast food garbage food.

  77. 77.

    J R in WV

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

    This asshole is no Herbert Hoover.

    Hoover was a very wealthy mining engineer before he entered politics. So, no! Trump is not anything like Herbert Hoover, who was wealthy and dignified. Hoover was also a capitalist pig, willing to see people starve on the streets of New York and Washington before lifting a finger of the government’s hand to help them. But still better than Trump.

  78. 78.

    J R in WV

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Chick-fil-A is pretty good and is a real guilty pleasure of mine.

    So wrong! Sugar doesn’t improve fast food, not at all. Ate there one, knew they were Xianist pigs, thought I should try it before getting down on it. Terrible sweet horror.

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