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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2020 / Late Night Open Thread: The Ghouliania Philes, Four Seasons Total Landscaping Edition

Late Night Open Thread: The Ghouliania Philes, Four Seasons Total Landscaping Edition

by Anne Laurie|  November 8, 202012:20 am| 117 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Trump Crime Cartel, Schadenfreude

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Rudy Giuliani: "Who was it called by?"

Media: "All of networks."

Rudy Giuliani: "All the networks!" pic.twitter.com/TXjreOmrAh

— CSPAN (@cspan) November 7, 2020

Giuliani and Trump have been running buddies in the ‘not prosecutorially corrupt’ NYC version of Ankh-Morpork since at least the 1980s; it’s only fair (to the narrative) that he now plays the Fool to Trump’s King Leer…

Rudy Giuliani shouting outside an adult store is exactly how we saw this ending.https://t.co/bnxrxIl04v

— The Mary Sue (@TheMarySue) November 7, 2020

What in the actual… pic.twitter.com/FbOio5ZZPA

— Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) November 7, 2020

An answer to the Four Seasons Total Landscaping mystery: the company told me the Trump campaign contacted them today out of the blue ahead of the Giuliani presser and said their location was close to an exit on I95, and was secure, and that’s why they wanted to use it.

— Daniel Bush (@DanielBush) November 7, 2020

when the scriptwriters get really high https://t.co/qOLpN1GEir

— kilgore trout, tucker carlson’s mailman (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 7, 2020

trump is out of money and on a suicide mission. these are the only people and locations left he can book https://t.co/ArbD0QJwj4

— kilgore trout, tucker carlson’s mailman (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 7, 2020

I didn't know SNL did remote locations for their skits.

— Peter (@widsss) November 7, 2020

News filtering through here that the race has been called. Some press are leaving. pic.twitter.com/WMvruc6JD0

— Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) November 7, 2020

Absolute scenes. A woman celebrating Biden’s win, cheering Black Lives Matter, just drove past Trump supporters gathered outside. pic.twitter.com/96trpweeC8

— Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) November 7, 2020

Fact check: Four Seasons Total Landscaping where Rudy Giuliani gave a speech is NOT between a crematorium and a dildo shop.

The crematorium is across the street.

The dildo shop also has "viewing booths" for anyone who may need to "tuck in their shirt" pic.twitter.com/q5BB5qDoNP

— Christoph? (@Staycation2020) November 8, 2020

pic.twitter.com/EMxg2YGAPs

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) November 8, 2020

these guys are like the japanese soldiers who crawled out of the tunnels 30 years after the war ended but if they wore clown paint and were fighting for mcdonalds to keep the mcrib on the menu year round https://t.co/dbRdnvDLVT

— kilgore trout, tucker carlson’s mailman (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 7, 2020

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  1. 1.

    Jerzy Russian

    November 8, 2020 at 12:26 am

    I know this is real since it is too dumb to make up.

  2. 2.

    dmsilev

    November 8, 2020 at 12:27 am

    Ending in farce, while Trump golfed. Seems appropriate.

  3. 3.

    Redshift

    November 8, 2020 at 12:28 am

    As I told my friend in New Zealand who just learned of this, I’m kind of glad the writers for 2020 decided to turn to farce for the finale.

  4. 4.

    cain

    November 8, 2020 at 12:29 am

    haha – oh my god, these people…

  5. 5.

    Redshift

    November 8, 2020 at 12:30 am

    @Jerzy Russian: Trump’s Razor: the stupidest explanation is the correct one.

    So I’d have to go with “announced it was at the Four Seasons before booking it, ” because “we needed somewhere cheap and close to the highway” actually seems less stupid.

  6. 6.

    Benw

    November 8, 2020 at 12:30 am

    This is the weirdest thing in a year of being weird.

    There’s been a lot of speculation on Twitter about HOW and WHY it happened. But the crazy thing to me is that once it was clear what was GOING to happen, they went ahead and did it anyway.

  7. 7.

    David ?Booooooo!? Koch

    November 8, 2020 at 12:31 am

    the adult book store will be the site of Dump’s library

    they won’t even change the contents

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    November 8, 2020 at 12:32 am

    At the landscaping company.

    Late arrival: “Where’s Giuliani?”

    “Over there. See all the bags of manure?”

    Late arrival: “Yeah, but which one is Rudy?”

  9. 9.

    Ruckus

    November 8, 2020 at 12:33 am

    There is no way anyone with enough sense to come in out of a blizzard would believe this without video and the last 4 centuries of the shitforbrains maladministration.

  10. 10.

    JanieM

    November 8, 2020 at 12:34 am

    From Giuliani’s words through the tweet from KT_So_It_Goes and on into the comments — maybe I’m just punchy, but I haven’t laughed so hard, or for so long, in months.

    KT’s collection of nyms is priceless in its own right.

  11. 11.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 8, 2020 at 12:36 am

    Georgia on my mind…

    Sen. Kelly Loeffler sold at least $18 million more in stocks before the coronavirus crash than previously reported

    I look forward to Senator Loeffler explaining to us that she’s far too rich to need to break laws for a piddling $18M

  12. 12.

    Al Z.

    November 8, 2020 at 12:37 am

    @Jerzy Russian: Actually I’m now convinced more than ever that we are living in a simulation.  Dumbest Simulation Ever.

  13. 13.

    Emma from FL

    November 8, 2020 at 12:39 am

    I can just imagine a young historian a hundred years from now facing his dissertation committee. “Mr. Jones, unless you can find at least four independent corroborating accounts, you will have to start all over again. This is simply too impossible to accept as true without them.”

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    November 8, 2020 at 12:40 am

    @Al Z.

    Written and directed by Ed Wood.

    When he’s having an off day.

    //

  15. 15.

    Roger Moore

    November 8, 2020 at 12:43 am

    George W Bush famously said, “That was some weird shit” to describe Trump’s inauguration. It’s only gotten weirder since.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    November 8, 2020 at 12:44 am

    This baffles me. Trump still has that hotel in DC, right? Couldn’t his campaign have booked a room there and spared itself this embarrassment?

  17. 17.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 8, 2020 at 12:49 am

    Rudy – an assclown until the bitter end. SAD!

  18. 18.

    Ruckus

    November 8, 2020 at 12:49 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    There isn’t a close enough dildo shop to that hotel. Besides it’s rudy.

    The only person in the world as dumb as his pal, shitforbrains.

  19. 19.

    Kelly

    November 8, 2020 at 12:50 am

    It’s easy to kick trump supporters when they’re down but please remember it also doesn’t cost anything.

  20. 20.

    Redshift

    November 8, 2020 at 12:50 am

    @Al Z.:

    Dumbest Simulation Ever. 

    Simulation constructed by a high school D-student higher being throwing together a final project the night before it’s due.

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 8, 2020 at 12:51 am

    @Amir Khalid:  Donald would have demanded that Donald pay.

  22. 22.

    Sebastian

    November 8, 2020 at 12:51 am

    Savor.

    Hahaha my DC college roommate just sent me a pic of sullen Stephen Miller going to buy booze pic.twitter.com/89D1OAIVmp
    — andrew woods (@JimJarmuschHair) November 7, 2020

  23. 23.

    Achrachno

    November 8, 2020 at 12:51 am

    Oh, come on! Even Trump is not this stupid. Is he? It’s worse than I’d imagined from earlier reports.

  24. 24.

    Wag

    November 8, 2020 at 12:52 am

    This press conference was the second best thing to happen today. If I wasn’t already grinning ear to ear because the election was called in favor of Joe, then this would have had me laughing all day.

  25. 25.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 8, 2020 at 12:52 am

    @Amir Khalid: Spared themselves the embarrassment?

    Do you usually try out new material at 2PM on a Sunday?

  26. 26.

    Ronno2018

    November 8, 2020 at 12:53 am

    I hope the journalists track down what the hell happened and let the reich wing morons know how stupid their “leaders” are. LOL.

  27. 27.

    Winston

    November 8, 2020 at 12:57 am

    I’ve been seeing this all day and wondering what it was about. Thanks to ace reporter, Anne Laurie, I now know. I’m laughing so hard, I’m sneezing.

  28. 28.

    Neldob

    November 8, 2020 at 12:57 am

    I always liked King Lears fool. Giuliani is not Lears fool, more like one of the mad, cruel husbands of the cruel and vicious daughters.

  29. 29.

    smike

    November 8, 2020 at 12:59 am

    @Al Z.:

    My wife and I and were discussing that very recently. It is hard to reconcile what we observe and make sense of it. Maybe impossible.

  30. 30.

    Punchy

    November 8, 2020 at 12:59 am

    OT:  this SNL episode with Chapelle is crazy as hell.  Dave did about a 15 min intro, some funny and a lot not funny.  A bunch of N-bombs.  Was there a backstory here that I missed?

  31. 31.

    Mary G

    November 8, 2020 at 12:59 am

    I thought that was a prank, but no. I can just imagine Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Amy Covid Barrett seeing this.  “We’re supposed to pretend to believe that this clown crew has a valid legal argument for overturning the election? Shoot me now.”

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    November 8, 2020 at 1:00 am

    @Amir Khalid

    Couldn’t his campaign have booked a room there

    At this point the campaign can’t afford the fee.

  33. 33.

    smike

    November 8, 2020 at 1:01 am

    @Kelly: FTW!

  34. 34.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 8, 2020 at 1:04 am

    Call me crazy, but I think you might be a Soviet shitpile mobster conman when our country’s allies celebrate your impending demise.

  35. 35.

    Jerzy Russian

    November 8, 2020 at 1:05 am

    @Al Z.:   Even if we were in a holodeck simulation, someone would have to program it.  It is too dumb to program, especially for a computer like they have on the Enterprise.

  36. 36.

    scav

    November 8, 2020 at 1:06 am

    @Neldob: Trump’s no Lear either, Lear’s articulate.

    Maybe closer to Dogberry and the ilk, only utterly without their usually good intentions.

  37. 37.

    Facebones

    November 8, 2020 at 1:06 am

    In one of those weird coincidences, the crematory across the street from the Four Seasons landscaping was where we had services for my aunt. I hope her spirit helped influence the timing of the election results.

  38. 38.

    L85NJGT

    November 8, 2020 at 1:07 am

    The inner circle were always running down brown bags at small operator shops.

  39. 39.

    NotMax

    November 8, 2020 at 1:09 am

    Did y’all see the questionnaire (I won’t characterize it as a poll) the Dolt 45 dumbos sent out on Saturday morning?

    Not a satire site, BTW.

  40. 40.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    November 8, 2020 at 1:14 am

    https://twitter.com/nanglish/status/1325242917519233024

    Comedy sketch “I work at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in PA”

  41. 41.

    smike

    November 8, 2020 at 1:15 am

    @Jerzy Russian:

    Beta program. Just let it run and see where it ends up. Then fix it.

  42. 42.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    November 8, 2020 at 1:16 am

    And a serious one – “This is how Ireland [RTE] ended its newscast tonight”.

    It hit me right in the feels.

    https://twitter.com/HarryAlford3/status/1325220150497464320

  43. 43.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 8, 2020 at 1:17 am

    @NotMax: I thought we’d reached the “Man yells nonsense on street corner” part of this shitshow a long time ago.

    And yet…

    That is insane.

    ETA – I bet he tries to fleece his Trump trash supporters when his millions of loans come due.

  44. 44.

    pamelabrown53

    November 8, 2020 at 1:17 am

    @NotMax:

    HAH! No, he’s in the porn shop “tucking in” his shirt.

  45. 45.

    HumboldtBlue

    November 8, 2020 at 1:18 am

    Joe and Kamala’s flow had a little Obama vibe to it.

    Some rhythm.

  46. 46.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    November 8, 2020 at 1:25 am

    oh my god, I just played the video in the Richard Hall tweet. They have a flag of trump as Rocky Balboa

  47. 47.

    HumboldtBlue

    November 8, 2020 at 1:26 am

    It’s reversal day.

    On this day in 2020 the United States rejected fascism.

    On this day in 1923, Adolf Hitler launches his failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. The uprising is crushed within hours and the future German Führer is jailed for nine months.

  48. 48.

    westyny

    November 8, 2020 at 1:26 am

    Exit, pursued by a bear . . .

  49. 49.

    West of the Rockies

    November 8, 2020 at 1:27 am

    So what IS the explanation  for this nonsense? Did they think they were booking The  Four Seasons restaurant?  Were they turned down by The Four Seasons  and had no choice because  Trump already announced it?

    And, omg, Guiliani  is like a burnt-out community  college  instructor  who was last interesting and informative  in 1973 but just won’t quit (and is now just angry and boring).

  50. 50.

    hotshoe

    November 8, 2020 at 1:27 am

    @Kelly:

    You make me smile :)

  51. 51.

    NotMax

    November 8, 2020 at 1:32 am

    @mrmoshpotato

    Not that I wish harm upon anyone but it would be be quite the plot twist for the handful of members of the Patriotic Iron Jellyfish Brigade who can manage to find it to storm Fox News HQ.

  52. 52.

    LurkerNoLonger

    November 8, 2020 at 1:33 am

    So what’s the actual story? Their credit card was declined at the real Four Seasons? Someone booked Four Seasons Landscaping without checking that it wasn’t the hotel? Rudy wanted to get in some shirt tucking before flying out?

  53. 53.

    James E Powell

    November 8, 2020 at 1:36 am

    Have to say that over the last week or so and especially over the last three days, the American press/media has not been shy about saying straight out that Trump and his people are lying, ridiculous, and no class people. What pisses me off is that Trump and his people have all been that way the whole time and it’s only when they were pretty sure he was going down that they had the nerve to say it out loud.

    I don’t normally listen to any cable shows. (People here are very generous in sharing excerpts and summaries. Thank you.) But starting Sunday night, because of the election, I’ve had my TV on one channel or another for most of the week. Even the best shows are shit.

    Today’s consensus? Great job Joe! Now it’s on you to soothe the feelings of people that would destroy the country just to show how much they hate you. Now it’s on you to work with people who refuse to work with you. Now it’s on you to figure out & solve why the country is filled with racist assholes who live in a sick, dark fantasy world. Don’t any of them ever consider that America is the way it is because of the way they are?

    That’s all I got. I’m fucking celebrating alone. I had a dinner of a filet with bleu cheese & spinach salad, downed a bottle of Taittinger, and now I’m having a few glasses of red wine before calling it a night. Thanks to everybody for putting up with my bullshit throughout this campaign season.

  54. 54.

    West of the Rockies

    November 8, 2020 at 1:42 am

    @James E Powell:

    I suspect that collectively this week, jackal alcohol  consumption  has risen several  units.

  55. 55.

    Aleta

    November 8, 2020 at 1:43 am

    @West of the Rockies:

    Daniel Bush  @DanielBush
    An answer to the Four Seasons Total Landscaping mystery: the company told me the Trump campaign contacted them today out of the blue ahead of the Giuliani presser and said their location was close to an exit on I95, and was secure, and that’s why they wanted to use it.

    But I think they are broke and cheap,  and only intend to pay  money to  Trump properties and other authorized grifters.  And no decent venue will allow them to book w/o seeing money up front, because the campaign owes cities and facilities all over the country.  This is at least the 3rd story that’s been offered as cover for the desolation that’s about to be the only remaining image associated with the Trump brand.

  56. 56.

    Mike E

    November 8, 2020 at 1:43 am

    @Punchy: Watch his George Floyd special… it’s less than 30 mins and it might catch you up

  57. 57.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 8, 2020 at 1:46 am

    @NotMax:

    Patriotic Iron Jellyfish Brigade 

    I don’t know if you’re making that up with the BoogaBooga Boys being a real hate group.

  58. 58.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 8, 2020 at 1:47 am

    Time for sleep.

    This feeling of relief is so foreign after 5 years.

  59. 59.

    Aleta

    November 8, 2020 at 1:47 am

    @Mary G:  It’s funny that they’re threatening a legal assault that would need a team of powerful lawyers when they can’t or won’t pay for even one legitimate legal brain, from the looks of it.  I bet they’ve asked around but had no takers.

  60. 60.

    West of the Rockies

    November 8, 2020 at 1:49 am

    @LurkerNoLonger:

    It’s  got to be that they discussed where to hold their presser.   Someone  suggested  TFS and Trump tweeted  it prior to confirmation.   The real Four Seasons said no, so they scrambled and made do.  But this today was beyond farce.

    I hope that from now on when Guiliani  or Lewandowski  hear “The Four Seasons”, it’s  like Larry and Moe hearing “Niagra Falls.”  Hopefully, Kushner is in the Curly role.

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    November 8, 2020 at 1:50 am

    @Aleta

    “Whaddaya mean every lawyer you called has to wash their hair?”

    “Um, coincidence?”

  62. 62.

    Aleta

    November 8, 2020 at 1:51 am

    @NotMax: The last line is probably a request for money.

  63. 63.

    Aleta

    November 8, 2020 at 1:54 am

    @NotMax: “Are you  trying to tell me Baker didn’t work pro bono for Bush and Cheney?”  (Jared probably)

  64. 64.

    West of the Rockies

    November 8, 2020 at 1:58 am

    @Aleta:

    Curiously, these twits are incapable of realizing  how ridiculous they look.

  65. 65.

    HumboldtBlue

    November 8, 2020 at 1:58 am

    @James E Powell:

    Today’s consensus? Great job Joe! Now it’s on you to soothe the feelings of people that would destroy the country just to show how much they hate you. Now it’s on you to work with people who refuse to work with you. Now it’s on you to figure out & solve why the country is filled with racist assholes who live in a sick, dark fantasy world. Don’t any of them ever consider that America is the way it is because of the way they are?

    I just spent two hours on a zoom meeting with friends and I voiced the same frustration. But I also realized that I’m gonna celebrate until January and be positive until January because once the calendar turns the hardest work becomes the focus.

    So for tonight and next week and the week after fuck McConnell and fuck Trump and fuck the GOP let’s dance.

  66. 66.

    Gvg

    November 8, 2020 at 1:59 am

    What did they announce? Why did they hold the press conference at all?

  67. 67.

    piratedan

    November 8, 2020 at 2:00 am

    with a new DOJ can we dust off the Mueller Report and start investigating all the money trails that Rosenstein forbade?

  68. 68.

    Ruckus

    November 8, 2020 at 2:00 am

    @James E Powell:

    Now it’s on you to figure out & solve why the country is filled with racist assholes who live in a sick, dark fantasy world. Don’t any of them ever consider that America is the way it is because of the way they are?

    The simple answer, no, they don’t.

    The longer answer is that they only see the past, that racism is normal and proper. They see that America is not the country they think it should be because of all the people who don’t see racism as normal and proper. They elected shitforbrains for that reason, they hate because they can and because it’s the way they were taught by parent(s) or friends. This has been a racist country since before it was officially a country. And that racism has been used by conservatives, because it supports their political concepts and because they are shit people. It’s the last 75 yrs that we’ve been trying to erase that and that we’ve done this in baby steps, 2 forward 3 back, then 3 forward, what the hell… But we have also not wanted to go too far too soon and that has meant that we’ve lived with racism as a defining platform for a very long time. Some how we have to change that concept to the one the country was supposedly founded on, equality and not a government of by and for the privileged. I have no idea how we go about that after shitforbrains but I hope that we can find a way and get there.

  69. 69.

    Ruckus

    November 8, 2020 at 2:01 am

    @West of the Rockies:

    Not a drop in this house.

  70. 70.

    Winston

    November 8, 2020 at 2:03 am

    @West of the Rockies: I can attest to that.

  71. 71.

    HumboldtBlue

    November 8, 2020 at 2:07 am

    Hamburglar in the house

  72. 72.

    Sebastian

    November 8, 2020 at 2:10 am

    @Mary G:

    Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett have a huge problem after Trump’s and Giuliani’s statements.

  73. 73.

    Winston

    November 8, 2020 at 2:12 am

    @Ruckus: The reality that I am starting to see is there has been a coopting use of the term conservative. Hell I am conservative in that I don’t go leaping forward if I don’t see a place to land. These people today are confederate rebels wanting to fight the civil war all over again. We can’t let them do that. And they have duped 40% of the country.

  74. 74.

    Sebastian

    November 8, 2020 at 2:15 am

    @piratedan:

    That’s a given.

    The SMB and PPP loans are a treasure trove, too. We could even go after Tucker Carlson, he got money from there.

  75. 75.

    Winston

    November 8, 2020 at 2:16 am

    @Sebastian: would you expand on that?

  76. 76.

    HumboldtBlue

    November 8, 2020 at 2:32 am

    Pennsylvania grandmas, Mom-moms and Nanas know.

  77. 77.

    prostratedragon

    November 8, 2020 at 2:36 am

    Patton Oswalt is to be commended for the ruthless precision of his description:

    This is not over. For we shall mount our righteous stand at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Next to Fantasy Island Adult Books. Across the street from the Delaware Valley Cremation Center. Between the fire extinguisher and yellow hose.

  78. 78.

    CaseyL

    November 8, 2020 at 2:45 am

    The Four Seasons thing is emblematic of the public face of the Trump Administration: dumb, mean, corrupt, and hilariously inept.  If he didn’t have the mechanism of the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist (and Opus Dei, can’t forget them) actually doing the work, the entire four years might have been like this.  A bunch of bigoted corrupt nincompoops whose only talent is grifting.

  79. 79.

    No One of Consequence

    November 8, 2020 at 2:46 am

    So… I’ve been unplugged a little while, taking it easy. Checking in, and trying to follow along with the Four Seasons episode. Jeebus.

    Can we at least get an interception on The Football and get that into safekeeping please?

    Please?

    ( Holy shit how bad the wheels are coming off. I loathe this man, but we can’t take our eyes off the ball here folks. This bastard’s dangerous, unhinged, drug-addled and vicious on a *GOOD* day. )

    Peace,

    NOoC

  80. 80.

    KSinMA

    November 8, 2020 at 3:00 am

    @CaseyL: And don’t forget the KGB. We beat them today, too!

  81. 81.

    Kristine

    November 8, 2020 at 3:04 am

    I should be sleeping and I can’t stop scrolling.

  82. 82.

    prostratedragon

    November 8, 2020 at 3:21 am

    A celebratory vamp, or as Ravel conceived it, one long crescendo, like votes rolling in:

    “Bolero”

  83. 83.

    opiejeanne

    November 8, 2020 at 3:22 am

    @Kristine: Me too. I’m still so excited that I may be awake for a long time.

  84. 84.

    J R in WV

    November 8, 2020 at 3:55 am

    Just woke up to pee, thought to check for news, to see if anything was going on.  Nope.

    We had 2012 vintage French champagne with dinner,  it was very good. Will go back to sleep soon….

  85. 85.

    Montanareddog

    November 8, 2020 at 4:11 am

    Not sure if this is already posted somewhere but the Scots have come through again

  86. 86.

    Angelwhine

    November 8, 2020 at 4:21 am

    Is it wrong t be dreaming up “Acting Attorney General Hillary Clinton”…  if there’s one thing 45’s administration has taught me, we don’t need actual confirmed cabinet members.  Acting members have been tacitly approved by Republicans.

  87. 87.

    rikyrah

    November 8, 2020 at 4:35 am

    @Thor Heyerdahl:

    Me too ???

  88. 88.

    Frankensteinbeck

    November 8, 2020 at 4:37 am

    I realized recently how important it is for Pratchett readers to remember that Ankh-Morpork is social commentary about Britain.  The casual racism, the idiot and greedy citizenry, the arrogant and vicious upper class, the frequent mentions of a lost empire – it’s all a Brit making jokes about Britain.  Keep this in mind, and Brexit makes sense.

    Similarly, Americans take for granted that the Voldemort thing was about racism, and it was a mind-boggling shock when She Who Must Not Be Named turned out to be a vicious and self-righteous bigot.  It’s about social class, which in America is tightly tied to race, but in Britain has a long and different history tied to aristocratic family.

  89. 89.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 8, 2020 at 4:58 am

    Idaho loves themselves some My Little Pony.

    A very serious pornographic investigation into Pornhub's search term map https://t.co/pq0uesVNia pic.twitter.com/rzrJIt4wPI— Jezebel (@Jezebel) November 8, 2020

  90. 90.

    Sebastian

    November 8, 2020 at 5:10 am

    @Winston:

    Sorry, just saw that now.

     

    The Covid relief program and other handouts in hundreds of millions and billions, without any oversight whatsoever, have drawn attention. All sorts of “businesses” received loans and it seemed more like a slush fund to reward loyalists.

    Kanye got a few million as did Tucker Carlson. It’s probably the most target rich environment of all. I am sure Senator Warren is all over it already.

  91. 91.

    YY_Sima Qian

    November 8, 2020 at 5:58 am

    How the f*ck did this pack of clowns do so much damage to the the US and the world in four years?!!!!

    I know, enabled by the GOP at all levels of government, conservative media, and far too often MSM.

  92. 92.

    Luciamia

    November 8, 2020 at 6:01 am

    Nearly 6am. Have people stopped dancing  in front of the White House yet??

  93. 93.

    Frankensteinbeck

    November 8, 2020 at 6:07 am

    @YY_Sima Qian:

    Malicious stupidity is great at breaking things, especially when you put it in charge.  And more than half of whites, seethingly furious that a black man was a good president, specifically wanted malicious stupidity.

  94. 94.

    Croaker

    November 8, 2020 at 6:11 am

    Little is know of Operation Mockingbird

    Carla from Roxborough called looking for Uncle Joey and  Jimmy D.  They were supposed to going down to Penn’s Port on Delaware Ave for lunch.  Seems they ended up going to the Four Seasons.

  95. 95.

    Sebastien

    November 8, 2020 at 6:14 am

    Probably overdone already joke: these guys are good at metaphors in their location choice: a bunch of dildos crashed and burned and now the country needs to be rebuild.

  96. 96.

    zhena gogolia

    November 8, 2020 at 7:00 am

    I woke up this morning and realized that I have more forgiveness in my heart for the man who murdered my mother than I do for Trump. This is not posturing, or an intellectual exercise, it is a visceral feeling I had as I opened my eyes this morning.

  97. 97.

    zhena gogolia

    November 8, 2020 at 7:01 am

    @YY_Sima Qian:

    They could never have done this much without the complicity of Repubs and media.

    The Repubs could have gotten him out a year ago — by voting the way they knew was right.

  98. 98.

    p.a.

    November 8, 2020 at 7:14 am

    … ending not with a bang but with a trimmer…

  99. 99.

    Baud

    November 8, 2020 at 7:18 am

    @zhena gogolia:

    I’m sorry about your mom.

  100. 100.

    PST

    November 8, 2020 at 7:24 am

    Oh, my head!

  101. 101.

    trnc

    November 8, 2020 at 7:30 am

    @Aleta: Trump campaign contacted them today out of the blue ahead of the Giuliani presser and said their location was close to an exit on I95, and was secure, and that’s why they wanted to use it.

    Wow, super secure. Just like Half-Ass Nosferatu’s cyber security business that was hacked about 5 minutes after going online.

  102. 102.

    p.a.

    November 8, 2020 at 7:32 am

    What section of Philly is the Four Seasons?  NCAA men’s lax championship scheduled for Philly in ’21.  If it gets played I’ll consider staying there.  Only mildly familiar with the sports complex and Rittenhouse Sq.

  103. 103.

    trnc

    November 8, 2020 at 7:36 am

    @Angelwhine: Clinton was confirmed by the senate for SOS, so I believe Biden could put her in any position that requires confirmation. I think it’s only people who have not gone through any confirmation vote who have to be “acting.”

    As delicious as it would be to see Hillary become AG, I think howls of “conflict of interest” would be picked up by the media. I’m sure there are others who would be effective, so all we’d have to listen to are whatever repubs flat out make up.

  104. 104.

    different-church-lady

    November 8, 2020 at 8:00 am

    The amazing part of this fuck up is not that they booked the wrong Four Seasons.

    The amazing part is that after they figured out they had fucked up, instead of finding another place they went ahead with doing it there anyway.

  105. 105.

    different-church-lady

    November 8, 2020 at 8:01 am

    @J R in WV: Well, there’s still a pandemic rampaging, but other than that…

  106. 106.

    Bruce K

    November 8, 2020 at 8:08 am

    @different-church-lady: That seems to be a common thread with the 21st-century GOP: never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever admit that you made a mistake. That shows weakness (to their way of thinking) and a bully cannot afford to be seen as weak, lest he be brought low by people who suddenly realize they don’t have to be afraid of him any more.

    It may explain why Murdoch held the line on Fox News calling Arizona – taking it back would be an admission that they might be wrong.

  107. 107.

    zhena gogolia

    November 8, 2020 at 8:14 am

    @Baud:

    Thanks. It was 30 years ago, almost 31.

  108. 108.

    Citizen Alan

    November 8, 2020 at 8:22 am

    @zhena gogolia:  I still don’t hate Shitgibbon as much as I do the people who voted for him. 70 million fellow Americans, and I would teleport them all into the heart of the Sun if it were possible.

  109. 109.

    different-church-lady

    November 8, 2020 at 8:24 am

    GIF of the year:

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1325415923969351681

  110. 110.

    Barry

    November 8, 2020 at 8:54 am

    @Emma from FL: “I can just imagine a young historian a hundred years from now facing his dissertation committee. “Mr. Jones, unless you can find at least four independent corroborating accounts, you will have to start all over again. This is simply too impossible to accept as true without them.””

     

    Other way around – they’d only say this about normal, sane and decent things happening in 2020.

  111. 111.

    Ken

    November 8, 2020 at 9:20 am

    The legal challenges start Monday. Rudy Giuliani is spearheading the case in Georgia and already has his tickets for Tbilisi.

    (Original to me, as far as I know.)

  112. 112.

    J R in WV

    November 8, 2020 at 9:22 am

    @different-church-lady:

    @J R in WV: Well, there’s still a pandemic rampaging, but other than that…

    The pandemic, unfortunately, isn’t actually news any more. It’s just what is in the background of every decision you make.

  113. 113.

    Bill Arnold

    November 8, 2020 at 11:21 am

    @Bruce K:

    That seems to be a common thread with the 21st-century GOP: never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever admit that you made a mistake.

    It helps that their information system is so full of nonsense that they are always hair-trigger primed to make mock-able errors. It is fun to [try to] nudge them into making mistakes.

  114. 114.

    Miss Bianca

    November 8, 2020 at 1:26 pm

    OMG. I am sitting on the couch here shaking with laughter. Yes, good going, 2020 scriptwriters! You finally came up with a couple of plot twists I am really, really loving right now!

  115. 115.

    droog

    November 8, 2020 at 1:51 pm

    What an inspired choice of location:

    • A crematorium, where everything you built will turn to ash.
    • A landscaping store, where all your manure you produced will be used to feed worms.
    • A dildo store, where you can get something to go f*ck yourself.
  116. 116.

    jonas

    November 8, 2020 at 1:53 pm

    This American Life or some other media show/podcast needs to do a deep dive on how this happened. Step-by-step all the way to the moment the staffer realizes that it’s an industrial landscaping company, but the president has already confirmed it by tweet even as you scramble to get a hold of the real Four Seasons hotel to reschedule. This has to be one of the most absurd moments in American history.

  117. 117.

    jonas

    November 8, 2020 at 1:59 pm

    @Sebastian:  it seemed more like a slush fund to reward loyalists.

    Basically how Trump viewed the entire federal government…

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