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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Late Night Open Thread: HELP I AM BEING HELD HOSTAGE…

Late Night Open Thread: HELP I AM BEING HELD HOSTAGE…

by Anne Laurie|  September 26, 20192:53 am| 18 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Trump-Russia, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome

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President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in New York. pic.twitter.com/QsCQcqSlWx

— Evan Vucci (@evanvucci) September 25, 2019

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a professional actor / comedian as recently as May, which gives him an advantage over the snuffling amateur showing him off as a trophy:

ABC News: Ukrainians understood Biden probe was condition for Trump-Zelenskiy phone call: Ukrainian adviser https://t.co/Tf73S9GANO

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 25, 2019

Trump: "I really hope you and President Putin get together and can solve your problem."

Zelensky: pic.twitter.com/mqU3PMGZxk

— Mike Hayes (@michaelhayes) September 25, 2019

Zelensky: “I would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense…” (That’s the military aid.)
Trump’s next line: “I would like you to do us a favor though…”

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 25, 2019

I was an Assistant Secretary of State when this happened. All of us working on Ukraine wanted this prosecutor gone, because he was NOT prosecuting corruption. So did the Europeans. So did the IMF. This didn't come from Joe Biden – he just delivered our message. https://t.co/3dro0xXDbH

— Tom Malinowski (@Malinowski) September 25, 2019

Zelensky to America: “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative." https://t.co/x4JGaXeCEa

— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) September 25, 2019

Wait: did Zelensky know the aid was being held up? https://t.co/nqmzscM0VO

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) September 25, 2019

Elsewhere, someone falls back on her childhood memories of Atlantic City gangster molls…

Kellyanne Conway on Safe Space News this morning: Trump wasn't being corrupt, he was only testing Ukraine's new president to see if he would do what Trump wanted.

They think you're stupid. pic.twitter.com/5vpYlWH1Q9

— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) September 24, 2019

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18Comments

  1. 1.

    prostratedragon

    September 26, 2019 at 3:41 am

    “What is this with the hand? We do not do this thing in my country.”

    (They did of course shake hands a moment later.)

  2. 2.

    rikyrah

    September 26, 2019 at 3:54 am

    That Zelensky picture???

  3. 3.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 26, 2019 at 3:57 am

    @prostratedragon: Does The Bedsore still do that thing where he tries to rip the arm off the guy he’s shaking hands with, as a dominance ritual?

    ITMFA

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2019 at 4:05 am

    FYI, season 1 of Zelensky’s comedy series Servant of the People seems still available on Netflix., later seasons also at one time but apparently no longer. Some of the humor makes the trans-hemisphere leap intact, some not so much.

  5. 5.

    TS (the original)

    September 26, 2019 at 4:17 am

    President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in New York.

    From the photo – they didn’t meet – they sat in the same room.

  6. 6.

    JPL

    September 26, 2019 at 4:22 am

    trump is being who he is, but those who work for him sold their soul a long time ago.

  7. 7.

    John Revolta

    September 26, 2019 at 4:40 am

    I can’t find it now but somebody over at LGM said today about Kellyanne C.-

    “Root canals recover from her.”

  8. 8.

    WereBear

    September 26, 2019 at 5:07 am

    Why can’t WE have a professional comedian in charge? It would be such an upgrade!

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    September 26, 2019 at 5:09 am

    @WereBear

    Baud!/Krusty MMXX.

    :)

  10. 10.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2019 at 5:26 am

    @NotMax: Are you implying Baud is crusty?

  11. 11.

    RAVEN

    September 26, 2019 at 5:29 am

    Waking up at 4am in the Easy. We had a fancy smancy dinner after 2 days on the water. Looks like the boys want to do the Cafe Du Monde , WW2 Museum and maybe Frenchman for some early music. Hot’n mofo.

  12. 12.

    WereBear

    September 26, 2019 at 5:33 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I think he’s going for the clown VP instead of the clown college dropout we have now.

  13. 13.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 26, 2019 at 5:34 am

    @WereBear: Clowns are frightening.

  14. 14.

    SFAW

    September 26, 2019 at 6:56 am

    I see that picture of Zelensky in the Hayes tweet, and I’.m thinking “That poor bastard.”

  15. 15.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    September 26, 2019 at 7:55 am

    Any update on the public release of the whistleblower report?

  16. 16.

    Ken

    September 26, 2019 at 7:58 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh lord, are we back to that? I thought everyone was distracted by the coast debate.

  17. 17.

    Ken

    September 26, 2019 at 8:01 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: There are procedures for declassification, have patience. They have to take a picture of it with an unsecured cell phone, then post it on Facebook.

    (I used this in a thread below after Adam posted the real process for release, but thought I’d take this opportunity to remind everyone of that security scandal which has since been buried by a series of successively worse ones.)

  18. 18.

    laura

    September 26, 2019 at 8:14 am

    Has anyone checked on Manafort to see if he’s drowned in flop sweat as his pardon vaporizes?

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