Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

The words do not have to be perfect.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

You cannot shame the shameless.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Bark louder, little dog.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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Bye, Felicia

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These fucking people:

Senior Trump administration official Mina Chang resigned from her job at the State Department two and a half hours after NBC News went to her spokesperson to ask about newly discovered false claims she had made about her charity work.

NBC News had previously reported that Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, had embellished her resume with misleading claims about her educational achievements and the scope of her nonprofit’s work — even posting a fake cover of Time magazine with her face on it.

“It is essential that my resignation be seen as a protest and not as surrender because I will not surrender my commitment to serve, my fidelity to the truth, or my love of country,” Chang wrote in her resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “Indeed, I intend to fight for those things as a citizen in the days and years to come.”

Why would you even lie on your resume to get a job in this administration, as it is completely unnecessary. Literally any shithead can get a job with this administration. I mean, Trump is the President- the bar is pretty god damned low.

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  2. 2.

    Ruckus

    Some people are really special.

    You ask why would you lie to get a job with this maladministration?

    It’s a job requirement, she just skipped the part about being asked.

  4. 4.

    mrmoshpotato

    Why would you even lie on your resume to get a job in this administration?

    Shot in the dark here, but, “Because it’s trash all the way down?”

  5. 5.

    mrmoshpotato

    @tokyokie: And add 3 Peabodys, 2 Emmys and an Oscar!  And a BAFTA award for good measure!

     

    And don’t you be modest and leave off the Medal of Freedom you were awarded by Zachary Taylor.

  6. 6.

    sdhays

    …even posting a fake cover of Time magazine with her face on it…

    Someone got her job by mimicking the boss…

  8. 8.

    Sab

    Mina Chang with no qualifications, and many disqualifications (multiple cases of lying on her resume) had the same rank in the State department as George Kent. Good job vetting, Pompeo people.

  10. 10.

    Chetan Murthy

    I think you’re all being too hard on her.  She couldn’t exactly lie about criming, could she?  They check that shit out — gotta know if the yegg they’re hirin’ is actually legit, so to speak.  So she had to lie about do-gooding — it was her only option.

  11. 11.

    Gin & Tonic

    Why is “commitment to serve” and “love of country” always manifested in a six-figure job in DC, and not, say, in a gig with the Peace Corps in Cameroon, or aboard a destroyer in the Persian gulf?

  12. 12.

    Jay

    So, petty mcgrifter saw an opportunity for the big grift by:

     

    – paddington bearing the resume , ( would be useful post Dolt45, had it not been exposed during Dolt45)

     

    – weaselling a post in Pompeo’s State for which one is wholly unqualified, but because it’s a Dolt45 Admin, easy in, chance for the Big Money Corruption,

     

    – when exposed, do the Wingnut Victim Whine in the hopes some Sugar Daddy Kochsucker will give you a Welfare Job.

  13. 13.

    Martin

    Can you get a job in this administration without lying on your resume? Isn’t the willingness to commit petty crimes and lapses of ethical behavior a prerequisite to getting hired?

  14. 14.

    EmanG

    First, Obama led us into a post-racial society. Now Trump has led us into a post-shame society. Progress!!

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    @mrmoshpotato: It was necessary to process the pay grade equivalency for her position. A Deputy Assistant Secretary is somewhere in the SES 2 or 3 range. It requires specific educational credentials. Even for political appointees.

  17. 17.

    mad citizen

    @Gin & Tonic: I notice the term “serve” a lot in and around my state government job.  I’ve noticed that the political appointees, governors, etc. who talk about “serving” are always making more money than myself.  Mitch Daniels and his people would always write the press release about the person leaving as  “returning to the private sector”, as if that was somehow the default and “serving” in government is some (low-paying/slumming) aberration.  He even liked to talk about it referring to himself.  What is doing today?  In the public sector pulling down 400 or 500K a year as the president of Purdue University.  Serving indeed.  (you touched a nerve

     

    Anyway, did this Trump criminal work for The Human Fund by any chance?

  21. 21.

    Adam L Silverman

    @MobiusKlein: There can be. It depends on how they’ve written the position description. And I’m sure there are some for the political appointments because you’ll get people with a wide range of degrees, from bachelors who are lifetime practitioners, to folks with professional degrees, advanced academic degrees, etc.

  22. 22.

    lgerard

    @Kay:

     

    I thought JFK Jr was supposed to take over

     

    Something has clearly gone wrong

     

    PS  Love the new editing function

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    Who could’ve ever predicted?

  26. 26.

    sdhays

    @Kay: Well, if it’s true, they’ll be blabbing about it on unsecured cell phones and talking loudly on the phone in Starbucks, so we’ll hear about it soon enough.

  27. 27.

    TS (the original)

    @Kay:  Just heard the memo from his doc? (a doc) on MSNBC that says he is just fine, no heart problems, just a planned trip to the hospital (on a weekend without telling anyone).

     

    Not showing himself to anyone.

     

    Maybe Q is right.

  31. 31.

    gwangung

    JFC….she should be disowned from Asian Nation….

     

    I mean, if any card carrying member were gonna fake something, it wouldn’t be such a halfass mess of easily disprovable lies

  34. 34.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Sab:

    Good job vetting, Pompeo people.

    Vetting? We’re running a mobster shitpile administration here, not a hospital for Fido!

  36. 36.

    Marianne 19

    But N Y Times says the GOP has a new star. I have no idea how to post the link with the new site. Sorry.

  40. 40.

    Steve in the ATL

    I feel silly now about the fake Time cover I had printed up, but I was embarrassed because I was actually only on the cover of Newsweek

  43. 43.

    tokyokie

    @mrmoshpotato:

    And don’t you be modest and leave off the Medal of Freedom you were awarded by Zachary Taylor.

    Because I’m a modest sort, I haven’t been listing that one, although I claim that Bruno Ganz gave me the Iffland-Ring before he died.

  44. 44.

    Jay

    The C.I.A. had tossed many of its longtime secret agents out on the street, leaving them jobless and destitute in a country still shattered from the invasion — and fearful that they could be killed for their links with the United States, possibly by Iran. Short of money, many began to offer their services to Tehran. And they were happy to tell the Iranians everything they knew about C.I.A. operations in Iraq.

    In November 2014, one of them, an Iraqi who had spied for the C.I.A., broke and terrified that his ties to the Americans would cost him his life, switched sides. The C.I.A., according to the cable, had known the man by a nickname: “Donnie Brasco.” His Iranian handler would call him, simply “Source 134992.”

    Turning to Iran for protection, he said that everything he knew about American intelligence gathering in Iraq was for sale: the locations of C.I.A. safe houses; the names of hotels where C.I.A. operatives met with agents; details of his weapons and surveillance training; the names of other Iraqis working as spies for the Americans.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/18/world/middleeast/iran-iraq-spy-cables.html?login=facebook&auth=login-facebook

  45. 45.

    JaneE

    Why would you even lie on your resume to get a job in this administration

    Because it was a demo tape for her audition.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    So old can remember when the saying “D.C. is Hollywood for ugly people” just referred to being unattractive on the outside.

  48. 48.

    Elizabelle

    Have been following Dallas media on her. And, in a 2014 profile, she claimed to be a first responder in the Philippines. While battling brain cancer. I wonder if any of this is true.

    Dallas Observer:Singer-Turned-Activist Mina Chang Now Faces the Biggest Challenge of Her Life

    … If Chang is one to describe her work as “selfish,” it won’t come as a surprise that when she was diagnosed with brain cancer last May, her first thought was, “This is inconvenient.”

    …She’s been undergoing chemotherapy for almost a year, and while she acknowledges the consistent struggle, she says it’s her job that keeps her grounded. At the end of last year, she was one of the first responders in the Philippines, a trip she didn’t tell her doctors about.

    Elsewhere in the story:

    Chang has the vibe, and the résumé, of someone much older. … through Chang’s eyes, helping others is helping herself. The child of two Salvation Army officers, Chang’s upbringing in inner-city Atlanta gave her insight into the significance of global education, and the dearth of it.

    I wonder if any of her story is true. Had a much longer comment, destroyed when the internet connection failed when I posted, but I wonder if she got away with this for so long because she was claiming experiences not easily verified, because the work she claimed took place overseas.

    The Dallas community appears to have bought her story hook, line, and sinker. She was profiled in 2014 as a city resident to watch. She also spoke at a 2017 CEO conference sponsored by D magazine. Which now has a blogpost up, Mina Chang’s Pants Are On Fire.

  49. 49.

    chopper

    “It is essential that my resignation be seen as a protest and not as surrender because I will not surrender my commitment to serve, my fidelity to the truth, or my love of country,” Chang wrote in her resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “Indeed, I intend to fight for those things as a citizen in the days and years to come.”

    she continued, “as I said by video conference from the space station when I accepted the Nobel peace prize from the pope, this is just what i do every. single. day.”

  50. 50.

    J R in WV

    @Kay:

     

    The Q people think Trump is dead. Pence is President, and an actor plays Trump to avoid “civil unrest”.

    I had to read this several times to figure out what was being said, it’s so strange. “The Q People” are stranger than fiction, even magical realism fiction. Thanks for sharing this fantasy with us. And what actor could possibly pull off a Trump in real time? Can’t be done!

  51. 51.

    Elizabelle

    @chopper:  Her “fidelity to the truth” when the only reason she’s leaving is that her resume was a fabric of lie upon lie upon lie.

     

    The balls on these people.  And not in a good way!

  52. 52.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Kay: A remake of Dave where all the characters are recast as sonsofbitches?

    @Adam L Silverman: I see that image of Goombah Ghouliani with the cellphone & I want someone to crawl up behind him & whisper in his ear, Black Jack on Red Queen…

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