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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Dolt 45 / Late Night Open Thread: SPEAKING OF FOOLS…

Late Night Open Thread: SPEAKING OF FOOLS…

by Anne Laurie|  May 18, 20192:35 am| 47 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Russiagate, Assholes

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Why wasn’t I warned (by a white guy)?

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 17, 2019

To be fair, given Trump’s recent rally rambling, it’s entirely possible that Trump genuinely forgets a lot these days.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 17, 2019

And he’s setting the table for it quite nicely.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 17, 2019

These were the least competent political criminals since… well, thinking about it, neither the Watergate burglars nor Ollie North’s merry band of mercenaries were exactly masterminds, either. And as cynical political observers keep pointing out, no halfway successful lawbreaker would be dumb enough to work for the sundowning narcissist currently occupying the Oval Office — it’s all nitwits, has-beens and wanna-bes.

THERE'S MORE Judge Sullivan demands that public gets to learn everything Trump's lawyer John Dowd said in voice mail to Flynn's lawyer. In his calls, Dowd appeared to suggest it wasn't good idea for Flynn to cooperate, it would upset @realdonaldtrump
https://t.co/ZTDP8p0EvC

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) May 17, 2019

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47Comments

  1. 1.

    NotMax

    May 18, 2019 at 2:48 am

    “Who’s more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?”
      – Obi Wan Kenobi

  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    May 18, 2019 at 3:40 am

    They say a fool and his money are soon parted. How did the fool and his money get together in the first place?

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    May 18, 2019 at 3:46 am

    Are there really people stupid enough to believe Trump’s transparently phony claim of innocence? (he thundered naively.)

  4. 4.

    plato

    May 18, 2019 at 3:58 am

    Punters are betting on labour win down under. Hope they don’t come up ‘short'(en).

  5. 5.

    sukabi

    May 18, 2019 at 4:00 am

    @Jerzy Russian: inheritance, daddy bail outs, cons, grifts and theft.

  6. 6.

    plato

    May 18, 2019 at 4:09 am

    Grumpy Cat is up with Me in heaven for eternity and he's still so fucking grumpy.— God (@TheTweetOfGod) May 17, 2019

  7. 7.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    May 18, 2019 at 4:20 am

    @Jerzy Russian: Fred Trump died.

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    May 18, 2019 at 4:24 am

    @plato:
    How does God not know that Tardar Sauce is female? I think this tweeter is an impostor.

  9. 9.

    plato

    May 18, 2019 at 4:27 am

    @Amir Khalid: He has not been verified – god, not the cat – so yeah.

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    May 18, 2019 at 5:10 am

    @Amir Khalid

    Sex is incompatible with the afterlife, don’tcha know.

    ;P

  11. 11.

    oatler.

    May 18, 2019 at 5:11 am

    @NotMax: “You couldn’t fool your own mother on the foolingest day of the year even if you had an electrified fooling machine!”

  12. 12.

    Aussie Sheila

    May 18, 2019 at 5:11 am

    @plato:

    Ok I’ll bite?

    It’s one hour and 8 mins into counting. Answer?

    Too early to tell.

    I’m predicting ALP by 4 seats.

    Will update as results come in. If we can’t beat these A holes, (LNP) we are truly f’d.

    See youse in about 2 hours.

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    May 18, 2019 at 5:15 am

    @oatler.

    Shecky Kenobi?

    :)

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    May 18, 2019 at 5:35 am

    @NotMax:
    But I was promised 72 virgins in … oh, now I get it.

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    May 18, 2019 at 5:35 am

    @NotMax: Where Alabama goes, Misery is sure to follow.

  16. 16.

    OzarkHillbilly

    May 18, 2019 at 5:38 am

    @sukabi: You left out Russians and Deutsche Bank

  17. 17.

    satby

    May 18, 2019 at 5:39 am

    @Amir Khalid: oh, well played!

    @Aussie Sheila: got my fingers crossed for you.

  18. 18.

    satby

    May 18, 2019 at 5:57 am

    Shit, there was a rapture and no one told me.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    May 18, 2019 at 6:01 am

    @satby

    Some animal music to pass the time.

    ;)

  20. 20.

    OzarkHillbilly

    May 18, 2019 at 6:02 am

    The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a ….. add ‘unarmed ex college football player’ to the list.

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    May 18, 2019 at 6:06 am

    @satby: You mean all the Chistianist assholes are gone?

  22. 22.

    satby

    May 18, 2019 at 6:10 am

    @NotMax: nice!

    @OzarkHillbilly: if only!

    Oh, guess what happened 64 years ago today?

  23. 23.

    OzarkHillbilly

    May 18, 2019 at 6:13 am

    West Point set to see record number of black women graduate

    Mike Pence will address the class of more than 950 at the graduation ceremony on 25 May.

    “I want to thank all of you who will put your lives on the line for my right to get up in all of your uteri.”

  24. 24.

    OzarkHillbilly

    May 18, 2019 at 6:18 am

    @satby: Happy Birthday, if it really is happy.

    eta (i mourn mine)

  25. 25.

    Raven

    May 18, 2019 at 6:18 am

    @satby: 50 years ago was Hamburger Hill.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    May 18, 2019 at 6:22 am

    @satby

    Happy satby day!

    Denouement of a birthday soap vid.

  27. 27.

    raven

    May 18, 2019 at 6:23 am

    @satby: Oops, Happy Birthday.

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    May 18, 2019 at 6:24 am

    Sigh. Bad linky and fix.

    @satby

    Happy satby day!

    Denouement of a birthday soap vid.

  29. 29.

    JPL

    May 18, 2019 at 6:24 am

    @satby: Have a wonderful day!

  30. 30.

    satby

    May 18, 2019 at 6:26 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: thank you!
    @NotMax: thanks!
    @Raven: Were you there then?

  31. 31.

    satby

    May 18, 2019 at 6:27 am

    @JPL: thanks! I’m shillyshallying about getting to the market. Should leave in a few minutes.

  32. 32.

    Raven

    May 18, 2019 at 6:31 am

    @satby: Yea but way down south.

  33. 33.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 18, 2019 at 6:39 am

    @satby:

    Today you are the cube of four,
    The square of eight, and so much more!

    Power six of number two,
    In black and white, a chessboard, you!

    The cube of four, the square of eight,
    A number fit to celebrate!

    Perfect cube and perfect square:
    Such perfection’s rather rare.

    A million, you, in binary;
    In Roman terms, LXIV.

    Are you feeling rather keen?
    Quadruple, then, the sweet sixteen.

    In 64 A.D., I learned,
    Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

    North latitude of 64°
    Knocks upon your Arctic door.

    McCartney (music), Lennon (sage)
    Wrote famously about your age.

    Play sixty-four fast notes as favours:
    Hemidemisemiquavers.

    Happy birthday without end
    To our Satby in South Bend!

  34. 34.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    May 18, 2019 at 6:52 am

    @satby: Happy b-day.

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    McCartney (music), Lennon (sage)
    Wrote famously about your age.

    Lennon thought that as one Paul’s granny songs.

  35. 35.

    trnc

    May 18, 2019 at 7:33 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    “I want to thank all of you who will put your lives on the line for my right to get up in all of your uteri.”

    His imagined right, that is.

  36. 36.

    satby

    May 18, 2019 at 8:09 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: I am honored! Thanks Siubhan!

  37. 37.

    satby

    May 18, 2019 at 8:10 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: thanks!
    Delayed replies because I had to get to work.

  38. 38.

    O. Felix Culpa

    May 18, 2019 at 8:16 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: Brilliant! @satby: Happy b’day!!!

  39. 39.

    J R in WV

    May 18, 2019 at 8:54 am

    @NotMax:

    Sex is incompatible with the afterlife, don’tcha know.

    Are you talking Heaven or Hell? My favorite teachers in HS were elderly sisters, very sharp, traveled all over the world back in the 50s and 60s — one of their favorite sayings was “Heaven for climate, Hell for good Company”!!

  40. 40.

    OldDave

    May 18, 2019 at 9:26 am

    Happy Birthday to satby, and remember – you’re only 40 years old (thank Ghod for hexadecimal notation).

  41. 41.

    Uncle Cosmo

    May 18, 2019 at 9:31 am

    @J R in WV: “Heaven for climate, Hell for clientele” is how I heard it Way Back When. Your smileage may vary.

  42. 42.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 18, 2019 at 10:08 am

    @satby:

    Oh, guess what happened 64 years ago today?

    The sun rose in the east to announce the start of May 18, 1955? ?

    Happy b-day!

  43. 43.

    KSinMA

    May 18, 2019 at 10:54 am

    @satby: Happy Birthday, Satby!

  44. 44.

    Brachiator

    May 18, 2019 at 11:44 am

    @satby: Heppi beedy!

  45. 45.

    JAFD

    May 18, 2019 at 1:36 pm

    @satby: Congratulatons, and many many more!

    BTW, Ms. Duinne, I’l be celebrating natal day #69 in July. I hope your muse might be encouraged. Such a celebratory ode ‘twould be a welcome gift.

  46. 46.

    Wapiti

    May 18, 2019 at 1:42 pm

    @J R in WV: I met an old guy who mentioned funeral planning. He said he didn’t want to be cremated, “I don’t want to burn twice.”

  47. 47.

    brantl

    May 19, 2019 at 9:19 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: It was.

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