“It was an offer she could, in fact, refuse.”
GUYS. Tulip Gazpacho is trying to convince Hillary Clinton to join the 2020 primary. pic.twitter.com/Mb9w99PpEI
— Anna Maltese (@MalteseAnna) October 19, 2019
Ben Shapiro is a professional Wingnut Wurlitzer pest who’s spent the past year whining that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won’t pay him any attention. Of course he never actually intended to ‘debate’ her, but his donors have generously supported his ongoing public grievance.
Guess Tulsi figures that her higher media profile gives her the ‘right’ to ‘challenge’ the OG wingnut boogey-woman her own self. Let’s see how much she scams on this new dogwhistle!
Alternatively:
Hey all, @kaikahele is running in the primary against Tulsi for her congressional seat. If you’d like to support him, today is a good day to do so. And you can do so ?? https://t.co/dFtbttVUVX
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) October 18, 2019
Urza
Easy commercial, play it everywhere:
Mulvaney confessing its quid pro quo, followed by a quick shot of relevant laws and regulations. Then, ask if people in power should be above the law while all the regular voters need to pay their taxes and follow the laws like the serfs they are.
Followup ads with any number of law breaking that there’s enough proof to toss in a video with a website link. Then maybe some people from other countries mentioning how much they used to respect America and can’t anymore.
chopper
oh bless your heart.
cain
Tulsi should probably pay attention to her challenger to her seat. Because I’m pretty sure Kai is going to wipe the floor. Tulsi is going to lose not only the nomination but her own seat and that is a good thing. Fuck her, and fuck the Russians.
Jeffro
Expose Russian stooges early & often, I say.
Yang…you’re still just a useful idiot at this stage…but still…
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Hillary be like “where is my green shirt?”
Amir Khalid
“Tulip Gazpacho”. I like that.
Aleta
@Amir Khalid: It’s a lovely spring soup. Poisonous though.
Doug R
Boy, Hillz REALLY set her off.
What’s that Bill Clinton or James Carville used to say: “A hit dog will holler”.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/470162/how-does-a-hit-dog-will-holler-work-as-a-metaphor
Calouste
@Doug R: Yeah, she might as well post a couple of cancelled checks from Moscow, couldn’t be a clearer admission of guilt. That tweet is nuts.
Mary G
“Queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot” is downright Shakespearean. Based on nothing I am convinced that Putin dictated it. It has that personal vitriol and is not at all how she talked in the debates.
Twitter had some good stuff – many people riffed on Russian to judgment, so Assad to say, and nesting dolls. Her primary opponent had $501,000 in his campaign fund, and Tulsi has $3 million in hers. I know JR in WV donated today, and people were linking to him all day, so I hope he can catch up. He sounds pretty good:
Good zingers at the end!
ThresherK
Tulsi has a lot of botfans on Twitter who normally stan conservatives. Who could have known?
https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1185332311983869952?
Adam L Silverman
@Urza: Like this one?
rikyrah
The thing is…
Hillary didn’t name names.
She just said ‘her ”
But, Tulsi went off…
I think it’s hilarious???
Chetan Murthy
@Adam L Silverman: That’s not bad at all, Uncle Joe! Now do one on Mitch! B/c you don’t think you’re gonna be able to get anything done without dealing with him, do you? And I don’t mean “making a deal”, Uncle Joe.
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: Kahele outranks Gabbard. Maybe he should just order her to retire from Congress and drop out of the presidential race?//
Adam L Silverman
@Chetan Murthy: I’d have hit harder, but it’s a start. Unfortunately, I think it is solely a social media ad. I don’t think they’re paying to put it on the air anywhere.
FlipYrWhig
Gabbard is insane.
HumboldtBlue
@FlipYrWhig:
Nope, she’s not insane, she’s an opportunist.
Chetan Murthy
@Adam L Silverman: I hear Uncle Joe is low on cash. Maybe some other candidate will produce similar ads. I’d hope The Cop would ……
Chetan Murthy
@Adam L Silverman: This -is- progress, that he’s willing to take a swing at Don Bedsore like this.
Aleta
Too late.
Duane
@Aleta: Will Kasich become a Democrat? The party Crazyland doesn’t want him. He’s a politician without a party.
Kay
@FlipYrWhig:
I think so too. Russia aside, I just get such a bad feeling from her. Real malice. Steer clear. And, this may be petty but the constant slight smile is creepy.
Leto
Apparently she’s a fan of the White Power Hour.
I think she’s found her post-Congressional landing pad. This will be my shocked face when she partners with Trumpov to call on Ukraine to release the email servers. =|
Leto
@Kay: I’m going to say it comes from her occult upbringing. I wish I was making that up.
Calouste
@Aleta: I don’t care whether Kasich is on time or too late. What I do care about is that his statement makes it acceptable for a few more Republican voters to support impeachment. Because in the end what is going to make conviction possible is 55-60% of the voters supporting removal. And every little bit helps.
mrmoshpotato
@Leto:
Ukraine:
ReleaseYou two are drunk on The Kraken! Sober up, and don’t call us in the morning – or ever again!Kay
I know political parties are less powerful but I will never stop thinking that running in a Democratic primary on a platform that is mostly about how much you loathe Democrats is bizarre.
This person has somehow convinced herself that Democratic voters hate everyone on that stage except for her. That just isn’t true! These politicians in the primary? They’re quite popular with Democratic voters!
Chetan Murthy
@Leto:
I kinda agree. Hare Krishnas[1], man. Who knows what happens in those fucking cults. Gotta mess you up.
[1] They sure as hell ain’t no Hindus.
Adam L Silverman
@Chetan Murthy: The DNC should have these ads up. All the Democratic PACs and SuperPACs. And not just these. They should be hammering McConnell on the airwaves in KY. Ernst in Iowa. Gardner in CO. Tillis in NC. Collins in Maine. Etc, etc, etc.
Adam L Silverman
@Leto: That’s the Swanson Frozen Dinner Hour of White Power Hour!
mrmoshpotato
@Kay: What’d else would we expect from a Russian stooge who’s pissed the Democrats are having an impeachment inquiry into another Russian stooge?
Adam L Silverman
@Chetan Murthy: Read Monkey on a Stick
https://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Stick-Hubner/dp/0451401875/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Wag
@Aleta:
But better to be an early too late than a late hanging on never
NotMax
Might want to ask Colleen Hanabusa how those endorsements from D governors worked out when she ran for Senate. Spoiler: she lost.
Kahele is no paragon, being entrenched in the old boy network of Hawaii Dems, but is light years more preferable than Gabbard.
@FlipYrWhig
Being home schooled by an ultra far right, shadowy religious splinter group associated, politically opportunistic family will do that to a person. The coconut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Kay
@Leto:
I think she suffers from megalomania. That she’s on a mission, that it’s misguided, won’t end well and we shouldn’t go.
NotMax
Minor fix.
Might want to ask Colleen Hanabusa how those endorsements from D governors worked out when she ran for Senate. Spoiler: she lost.
Kahele is no paragon, being entrenched in the old boy network of Hawaii Dems, but is light years more preferable than Gabbard.
@FlipYrWhig
Being home schooled by an ultra far right, shadowy religious splinter group associated, politically opportunistic family will do that to a person. The coconut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Leto
@Chetan Murthy: I read a bio on her that looked pretty hard at her specific occult leader, and his influence on her family. She might have distanced herself from him, but yeah that influence lives on.
@mrmoshpotato: Release The Kragle!!!
@Adam L Silverman: The Gordon Fisherman turned out to be more inclusive than Fucker Carlson expected.
opiejeanne
@Aleta: While I don’t think tulip gazpacho would taste very nice, I also don’t think tulips are poisonous. There’s a story about a very expensive tulip being eaten by mistake during the Tulip Mania in Holland, and the diners didn’t die but they were ruined because the family had used almost all of their fortune to obtain this one bulb. A cook supposedly mistook it for an onion. Makes a good story, anyway. Sort of the Gift of the Magi without the sweet realization at the end.
Squirrels have dug up most of my tulips. The daffodils are poisonous and they leave them alone.
SiubhanDuinne
@Leto:
Speaking of occult upbringings, did you see about Trump’s new appointment to the Commission on Presidential Scholars?
I’ve seen two or three items on this guy today. Here’s Wonkette’s take.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: ?Put the lime in the crazy coconut, and it makes you a RWNJ??
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
In this case, that should be slime, not lime.
:)
cain
@Chetan Murthy:
Pretty sure that Hare Krishnas have been linked to organized crime especially in India.
prostratedragon
@chopper: I’d agree with you, but who am I to importune the lord?
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: Wow. When the subject matter is so ridiculous, Wonkette can slack off while making fun of it.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Well played.
Leto
@SiubhanDuinne: Hahaha, just that title alone… I did see that ole Moscow Mitch advanced a judicial nominee that’s 37, never argued a case in his life, clerked for Kavanaugh, and defended him heavily when Dr Ford came forward. The ABA rated him, like so many other Trumov nominees, “unqualified”.
How’s the wrist?
NotMax
@cain
Not even Hare Krishnas as most people would think of them. A splinter group begun by nutbar Chris Butler.
Leto
@mrmoshpotato: Haha, some of the names of those “books”! Oh man.
Bill Arnold
@Leto:
Looks like it. (Watched a few videos.) Call it [dangerous] and [amused]. It’s a real state of mind, and can be cultivated intentionally. (I was counseled as an undergraduate for “smiling too much”, and also similarly criticized a few times more recently, rather less directly.)
A much bigger issue from my POV is that she is undeniably the darling of Russian and alt-right influence operations (though some of it is genuine curiosity), and she hasn’t really repudiated them. (To my knowledge.) That is worrisome.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: Read Monkey on a Stick
https://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Stick-Hubner/dp/0451401875/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
patrick II
When Gabbard went after Kamala, after Kamala was seen as a threat, was when I decided she was actively working for Putin, not just passively accepting his help.
SiubhanDuinne
@Leto:
Thanks for asking. I’m in a proper cast now instead of the horrible temporary splint. Still very achy with occasional moments of stabby pain, but mostly under control. And I’ve discovered that those long plastic bags meant for wet umbrellas are the perfect size to fit over the cast and well up the arm, so showering is marginally easier than it was. All in all, things could be a lot worse.
Don’t think I commented yesterday (or whatever day it was), but I was thrilled to see your one-year anniversary report, and hope you continue to mend well.
mrmoshpotato
@Leto: Yup.
“Can this bastard administration get any crazier?” Ask and ye shall receive!
Sab
@SiubhanDuinne: I have many many plastic bags from newspaper deliveries. Would those be useful?
West of the Rockies
@cain:
What are her favorables in Hawaii? Could she lose?
SiubhanDuinne
@Sab:
Oh, thanks, I’m well-supplied with plastic bags. But the oceans are grateful for your eagerness to reuse them and I hope you can.
SiubhanDuinne
I missed this Trump Tweet (excerpt) earlier:
Wow.
Major Major Major Major
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Vescere bracis meis, Yang.
smike
@NotMax:
My experience with the Haris mostly involved a conversation with one of their street guys – robes, clangy things and printed handouts were involved. It devolved into him claiming the streets of heaven are indeed paved in gold, or bricked in gold, or something. No explanation as to why Dog needed all that gold, but hey, he really liked the idea.
frosty
@SiubhanDuinne: @Leto: I, too, was glad to see your anniversary report. The story of the accident was horrifying. All the defensive driving (riding) you can do may not be enough.
Glad you’re both on the mend. And showers too!
West of the Rockies
@SiubhanDuinne:
Guess what! We bought a Subaru Forester today. Your endorsement made a difference! I mean, why else would you call yourself…
Oh. Wait. Nevermind. I think I’ve been misinformed.
Mary G
@West of the Rockies: I have a Forester!@SiubhanDuinne: Good to see you, sorry you’re dealing with that and have been promoted to a cast.@Leto: Happy accident anniversary to you and Avelune.
West of the Rockies
@Mary G:
It’s definitely a neat car. I loved my old Honda del Sol, but this Forester is pretty slick. I’m glad to hear you like yours.
guachi
@Major Major Major Major:
I’d already crossed Gabbard and Yang off my list. So I made another list just to cross them off again.
Emerald
@Major Major Major Major: Hillary said that Putin will be sure to run somebody third party. If it wasn’t Tulsi (unnamed but obvious) then it might be Jill Stein again.
I think it might be Yang. He’s got the money and he’s attracting a bit of a cult following.
Peale
@Major Major Major Major: really. You don’t say. If she just got back, how did she manage to get to the debate last week.
mrmoshpotato
@guachi:
Haha
MisterForkbeard
@Mary G: We’ve got a Forester as well. Great car, awesome for transporting the two kiddos and their associated stuff.
@Major Major Major Major: If you look at all this and your response is to back Tulsi, you’ve got no business being on that debate stage. Bleah.
smike
@mrmoshpotato:
Haha seconded.
Ruckus
@MisterForkbeard:
It’s nice to serve your country. It’s nicer to do it and live through it. That doesn’t mean you can be a loon and be president…….
OK maybe that was a bit hasty, all things considered.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: Now back to site testing for you!
mrmoshpotato
@Ruckus: Trying to anger the Audubon Society I see.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: Ruckus as all about making birdie friends.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’d still steer clear of Bodega Bay.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: I’ve been to Arcadia, the land of the peafowl.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You’d be better off hitting a child than a peacock. There are perfectly nice neighborhoods adjacent to the LA County Arboretum that have been befouled by peafowl.
opiejeanne
@MisterForkbeard: And we have a Subaru Forester, but then we live just outside Seattle and they seem to be de rigeur in this region.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: Wilmington as well.
mrmoshpotato
@opiejeanne:
Flagrant foul!
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
Raised in Monrovia and we had peacocks in our yard every once in a while. Those suckers would come over from the arboretum and hang out. That’s 3-4 miles away. Beautiful in the front yard. Have no idea why they liked our place. When they got hungry they’d go back home.
prostratedragon
A cute picture of a politician in a big truck
Chris T.
@Kay:
In particular, Gabbard reminds me of Michele Bachmann. It’s a not-quite-sane look, and the creepy feeling that they’d as soon stab you in the stomach and yank out your innards while chanting “this will cleanse your soul” as just say “hello”….
(((CassandraLeo)))
@Chris T.: It occurs to me that both are also cult members, so maybe there’s your explanation.
Ceterum censeo factionem Republicanam esse delendam.
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
Tulip Gazpacho is showing the thin skin of the guilty.
JAFD
Had a good friend, few decades back, his folks raised peacocks at their place in the Philly exurbs. The peacocks made weird sounds at night – sounded like a baby crying, in distress, outside.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JAFD: When I visited the Banning Mansion a few years ago, I had to park a few blocks away and walking over there I heard this horrible sound like somebody hurting a baby, peacocks.
OzarkHillbilly
Trump awarded the G7 to his resort in Doral – without telling anyone in Doral
This is my surprised face.
OzarkHillbilly
From.
SFAW
SFAW:
“LeBron, it’s now clear that this 1-on-1 Championship is between you and me.”
“Kasparov, it’s now clear that this chess match is between you and me.”
SFAW
@prostratedragon:
But was Omar making a “choo-choo!” sound the way Trump did? If not, then she’s a terrist sympathizer.
debbie
Russia still hasn’t grasped American syntax? //
Citizen_X
@NotMax:
So she’s always been a nasty loon, eh? Sounds completely in character with what she tweeted yesterday.
zzyzx
I go to a music festival most years on a property that has peacocks on it. We stay up all night listening to music and annoying them and they get their revenge at 8 AM when they start screaming.
brantl
@Duane: I wouldn’ t touch Kasich with your appendages, he’s an invertebrate, inveterate, A-hole.