Rudy Giuliani thinks Game of Thrones was a "famous documentary about fictitious medieval England"https://t.co/JlrYfczNRJ pic.twitter.com/NzKhEvLvlJ
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) January 14, 2021
In the spirit of reconciliation, Joe Biden should invite every GOP leader to a lavish feast in his mead-hall after the inauguration.
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) January 14, 2021
A timeline, of sorts:
Trump has instructed aides not to pay Giuliani’s legal fees and the president did not appreciate a demand from Giuliani for $20,000 a day in fees, per ?@PhilipRucker? ?@jdawsey1? ?@AshleyRParker? https://t.co/3BOtWJuifY
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) January 14, 2021
in total fairness to rudy giuliani, try to imagine the president hearing *good* legal advice
— kilgore trout, brad r’s brother (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 14, 2021
Per @maggieNYT, "White House officials have started blocking Mr. Giuliani’s calls to the president" https://t.co/29nTJplLrm
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 14, 2021
Life without Trump twitter. https://t.co/xZYCpIgBxh
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) January 14, 2021
Folks around Trump, who has few lawyers eager to defend him right now, are trying to walk back reports of Trump being angry at Giuliani.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 14, 2021
Oh, look, Steve Bannon’s back on board the SSTrumptanic!
Just listened to a wild podcast exchange between Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani.
Rudy is spinning the Antifa-did-this ?. And Bannon is like, “Rudy. Rudy. Rudy. OK. OK. Fine. Fine.”
Bannon: “I don’t mind being shut down for my craziness. I’m not gonna be shut down for yours.”
— Alexander Panetta (@Alex_Panetta) January 14, 2021
This week, top aides met w/ Trump to discuss options going forward.Among them-what a potential resignation would look like.POTUS asked q’s about it,but ultimately said it was a nonstarter, in part b/c he doesn't trust Pence to pardon him, sources tell me @CeciliaVega & @Santucci
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) January 14, 2021
What year of the week is this?
— Seth Masket (@smotus) January 14, 2021
trollhattan
“A documentary. This time with real dragons.”
Moron.
From the who could’a guessed? files.
Roseville is one of California’s larger school districts.
Also, too, Tyrion kinda did kill, you know, dad.
The Moar You Know
Bannon is self-aware. That’s an interesting development.
trollhattan
@The Moar You Know:
Self-awareness/self-preservation, potato/potatah.
Bastard still insists Trump is an actual, not pretend genius.
The Moar You Know
Maybe Donnie should have thought of that before trying to get Pence murdered by a mob.
Raoul Paste
It really is a snake pit With any luck they will keep each other busy until they all have to leave the White House
Chetan Murthy
@Raoul Paste:
FTFY
dmsilev
Probably the most realistic appraisal he’s made all year.
arrieve
I haven’t seen this discussed anywhere (apologies if I missed it) but I’m very amused by the report that Tom Hanks is going to host the Inaugural celebration. In Cloud-QQ-land, he is of course the ringleader of the Hollywood pedophiles and they’re always reporting that he’s been arrested, he’s about to be arrested, he’s been executed, or he’s fleeing to Greece where he apparently has citizenship.
I can’t believe Biden’s team isn’t aware of this and enjoying the thought of all those exploding heads.
ByRookorbyCrook
How crazy do you have to be to have Steve Bannon not just shut down your wild-eyed fantasies but label them as crazy? Hoocoodanode ‘America’s Mayor’ was an amoral fantasist with delusions of grandeur? I mean other than all of NYC.
dm
@arrieve: Did Tom Hanks get Q-notoriety before being an early, prominent, victim of COVID? Or did he become persona-non-Qrata by trying to lend credence to the COVID hoax?
germy
Brachiator
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!
Wait.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!
Nobody saw this coming.
Mike in NC
If New York City ever names anything for Rudy Giuliani, I hope it’s a new building on Rikers Island.
Fleeting Expletive
I missed the Pompeo thread, but it should be noted that included in the European tour bust, the Pope denied him an audience. I’d think that would hurt, but he may be among the most brainwashed of the cultists.
Cameron
Why would Trump need to be pardoned? According to him, he hasn’t done anything wrong.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Run through truth translator we get…
“Fuck, if that fucking wet-brained lush flips on me I’m fucked! Tweet something to keep him from going rat””
germy
germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
So Jason Miller has attained the rank of “ventriloquist’s dummy”
debbie
Talk about delusional! You basically call your ravening dogs to execute your vice president, and then express disappointment when you can’t count on him to pardon you? Oy.
Wag
Giuliani just called Trump a defenseless midget who can’t defend himself! You can’t make this shit up!
natem
@germy: He was always a dummy with someone’s hand shoved up his ass.
germy
arrieve
@dm: I do not claim to be a Q expert — I value my sanity too much — but I believe the story is that he never really had Covid. He was actually under arrest in Australia for sex trafficking.
It is interesting that they latched onto Hanks — along with Oprah and Ellen and apparently the entire cast of Friends — since he doesn’t really resemble my idea of a pedophile. Maybe that’s how they tell if you’ve really drunk the KoolAid — if you’ll buy that Tom Hanks has been in league with Jeffrey Epstein to drink the blood of children you will obviously believe anything.
Chetan Murthy
@Wag: Checks out: he wears lifts, after all.
Just Chuck
Car of Endless Clowns: a rare artifact appearing as a normal subcompact car that is actually a portal into the Material Plane of Clowns.
(for all you D&D geeks)
NotMax
@germy
MYnah bird?
Wag
@Mike in NC: With Giuliani as the first resident
Wapiti
@Mike in NC: The Geriatric Traitor Wing at Rikers Island?
Benw
@debbie: your “dogs” description made me snort, causing my dog to startle awake, which made me laugh again
CarolPW
@NotMax: Ring-neck pheasant, not native. He is sending it to ICE.
Luciamia
So what is Rudi saying, that Trump is “A very small man.”?
NotMax
@Mike in NC
Shame there aren’t any pissoirs in NYC, innit?
:)
JaneE
Gee, if Trump were rational he might have considered that having a mob target Pence for hanging might not improve the odds of a pardon. Sort of like burning your bridges before you cross them.
HumboldtBlue
I was talking about this with a friend. The more details come out about this assault on our country the angrier I get and the intransigence of the GOP is now clearly traitorous.
jl
Giuliani does seem to understand that the GoT ‘documentary’ covered fictitious events.
So I think the post is a little unfair to Rudy, but I need to some time to figure what he thinks it means.
For example, does Rudy think England ever had flying fire-breathing dragons that could be trained like an attack dog? Wow, figuring out what he was talking about will take some time and effort; huge elements of sheer speculation will be required. Probably not worth it.
gene108
I can’t wait for time to get back to normal on the 20th. The decades that have passed, since Trump took office four years ago are beyond my ability to describe
Aleta
@germy: I wonder what podcast that’s taken from?
And another thing …
Wonder if this is happening now as the normal pace of this investigation, or did someone recently offer some new evidence on DJTJR now that T-power is receding.
Benw
Jack Kirby’s kid: not a fan of Trump or insurrectionists dressing up as Cap.
https://news.avclub.com/jack-kirbys-son-has-a-message-for-pro-trump-rioters-dre-1846058636
germy
@Aleta:
I think Bannon has his own podcast. As does Seb Gorka.
Damned_at_Random
Where would one go about buyuing a “Camp Auschwitz”T-shirt anyhow? I’ve been to Breitbart and Free Republic on occasion and seen nothing like it. Maybe Stormfront? Gateway Pundit? 4chan?
germy
germy
This story about the Jan 5th tours isn’t going away.
jl
I have a feeling I am about to ‘go through some things’, though I hope it is an inconvenience and doesn’t devolve into disaster.
I have no clue how it could have happened, but I got onto some GOP chump list that has my work and personal email, and cell phone number. So far I have an invite from Gosar for some kind of zoom rally, Graham wants to know how much I approve of him, McCarthy wants money for some damn thing, some more I deleted without looking past the name. My only response is to delete them, so not sure about the details of what the F it is they want.
Lord God, why did You do this to me? How did this happen? I’ll go read Job and think about what to do.
Keep close tabs on my financial accounts, that’s for sure.
Gvg
@gene108: Don’t count on it exactly. I think we are finally at Trumps watergate…..hearings. The outrageous info is going to drip drip drip out for the next 9 months while some of us are stuck at home in various lockdowns to get COVID under control and the vaccinated elderly go on trips. I expect to be dog sitting while this all goes on and parents traveling…it’s going to be strange.
hueyplong
@germy: The housing discrimination case was even before that, wasn’t it?
Martin
@Damned_at_Random: Etsy. All of this stuff is on Etsy.
NotMax
@Damned_at_Random
Calvin Klan.
//
The Moar You Know
New excuse: That mean ol’ Trump made me do it
Expect so much more of this shit. These people should all be in prison
AKA: “I was just following Herr Hitler’s orders.” It’s obvious that Nuremburg was a one-off historic anomaly but it still was a damn fine idea.
germy
@hueyplong:
Yes. And I think it was the first time he got mentioned in the press.
jl
@The Moar You Know: Maybe we can all use that excuse. ‘Trump Tantrum’ has fewer syllables that the old standards we use now.
‘The dog ate my homework’ has 6 syllables, which is more than 3.
Edit: Trump going apeshit yelly on your ass is clearly worse than summary execution or being thrown into a prison camp for disobeying orders. Everyone knows that.
Spanky
@Wag:
You’re redundantly saying things twice here, you know.
Martin
@hueyplong: Yes, a fair bit before. The housing discrimination case was ’73. Central park 5 was ’89. Trump was pretty famous by ’89. Taj Mahal opened in ’90.
Damned_at_Random
@jl: Could be completely innocent. a friend asked me to help her research her mother’s old doll and we tried dolls.com on my laptop. NEVER go to dolls.com, I got sex doll ads for months after that
germy
Joanne Rogers, wife of the late Fred Rogers, has passed away at 92.
debbie
@germy:
His loyal friend hounded his predecessor from Day 1 for 8 years. Fuck his loyal friend and fuck him. He’s well overdue for his trip to obscurity.
HumboldtBlue
@germy:
We’re seeing a lot of this “we didn’t think it would be this bad” bullshit from assholes like Rivera.
This has been a disastrous four years and I wonder if this nation will ever truly recover.
MisterForkbeard
@germy: Nice to see he’s blaming Trump’s blatant narcissism and insanity on Democrats. What a fucking blowhard.
kindness
Rudi would use GOT as a reference point. It does mimic his life. Like the incest. Well some would say marrying your 1st cousin isn’t incest per say but for this post it’s close enough for me.
The Moar You Know
@Damned_at_Random: Etsy and eBay. Both pulled. This is a full-service blog.
Martin
@Damned_at_Random: Uh huh. Sure. ‘It’s my friends mom’s sex doll’ is the oldest excuse in the book.
trnc
Probably any store in Montana or South Dakota.
jl
@Damned_at_Random: “I got sex doll ads for months after that”
That’s slightly more tolerable than Gosar, Graham and McCarthy. Other people have all the luck. I’m going to go to my room to mope and eat worms for a while.
germy
I didn’t know about this. Some liberal women have opened up accounts on dating sites identifying as “Conservative” to attract lonely MAGATs, who then boast and share photos of themselves at the Capitol riot. These women then forward the info to the authorities.
debbie
@germy:
Jezebels! Blood suckers of Incels!
Spanky
@debbie:
Yes! Totally awesome!
NotMax
@germy
Contact “Camoslut1776.”
:)
Ken
Well, let’s hear it for the Rainbow Tour!
jl
@germy: They could really micro-target their ads.
“Tall guy vegetarians with hairy bellies dressed in Chewbacca pants and fantasy shaman hats who invade national capitols really turn me on!”
“Smokin’ hot young babe looking for grizzled pot-bellied geezer insurrectionist in Auschwitz T , but only if in it for the Trump crusade”
HumboldtBlue
@germy:
Roy Edroso was once again hilariously mocking Rod Dreher who was complaining about this happening.
zhena gogolia
@jl:
I’ve been getting Trump crap in the snail mail. I have no idea who played this prank on me. Luckily no e-mails or phone calls. I hope you can get it straightened out.
zhena gogolia
@germy:
Oh, that’s sad. She seemed like a very cool person.
mrmoshpotato
@jl: What “documentary?” Was there a feature-length behind-the-scenes special?
lamh36
Today is #GodbabyMaddie’s 10th birthday! Gawd times fly
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/1349745557070352386?s=20
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: You know what you did jl.
Cheryl from Maryland
@germy: I’m with Mr. Kleper — King Lear was crazy in the first act.
MomSense
@arrieve:
Didn’t they think that JFKjr was still alive?
I have to confess that when I’m not yelling at my radio or television, I’ve been rolling my eyes hard at all the people, especially pundits and journalists, who are so surprised by the conspiracists turned rioters. Did they miss Agenda 21 and sovereign citizens? Did they forget about the snack force that violated the Malheur national refuge? Did they forget all the reports by workers for the Dept of the Interior about the threats and the vandalizing of indigenous sites? Some of the most egregious and cruel behavior was directed at the families of the Sandy Hook victims.
These people have been doing this shit for years and what passes for press are acting like this just ducking happened. Ignoring it doesn’t work. Letting the media personalities who promote these conspiracies off the hook for the lies and bullshit they spread doesn’t work. The audience for this crap believe increasingly fantastical things and are radicalized and more willing to act violently.
We need accountability and consequences for this abhorrent behavior and that includes the media personalities.
germy
Martin
@mrmoshpotato: No, he thinks GoT is a documentary.
Just Chuck
@Benw: T’s analogous character would have to be Orange Skull
Robert Sneddon
Oddly enough, sort-of. The Game of Thrones is inspired by the Wars of the Roses, the battle for the throne of England and bits of northern France between the Tudors and Plantagenets. One of the factors in the fighting were siege guns that could crack the hitherto-impregnable castles the Normans had dotted around the countryside three hundred years before. They were big, expensive and dangerous at both ends but “fire-breathing” was what they did.
We’d sit with George in the con bars at three in the morning rabbiting on about this sort of shit, rationalising and theorising what he had written and how to make it work. Fuck COVID-19, I’ve not been to a con for eighteen months now…
arrieve
@MomSense: Yes, I think JFK Jr was going to replace Pence in the second term that is mercifully not to be. That’s about as credible as the rest of the unbelievable shit they believe.
Ken
@germy: Brilliant. Though I’m surprised the MAGAts didn’t have experience with such sting operations.
Just One More Canuck
@Mike in NC: I’m sure the Department of Sanitation has a few garbage dumps that Roody would lend his name to
Just Chuck
@Robert Sneddon: Not to mention the names of the two biggest houses embroiled in that war: the Lancasters and the Yorks.
trollhattan
Speaking of the pope, how happy is he to be rid of Mrs. Newt #3?
lamh36
It’s official…Biden chooses Jaime Harrision to lead the DNC.
Very cool. I really wanted Stacey or Jaime, but with Stacey like doing a re-match for Ga GOV…I was def hoping for Jaime!
geg6
@germy:
Oh no! She was a wonderful, feisty woman, as beloved here in Pittsburgh as her husband. RIP Mrs. Rogers.
Punchy
Surely late to the party on this, but the AZ GOP is censuring a McCain! I thought McCains were to AZ what Kennedys were to MA, but apparently Kelli’s Kool-Aid is some new flavor of hate and bigotry.
lamh36
@lamh36: heres the list of Biden’s choices for DNC
Not a Bernie-bro in sight! Nice!
SiubhanDuinne
Biden is scheduled to give a major speech on COVID and the economy at 7:30 pm EST. Is one of our front-pagers planning to put up a new thread for it? TIA.
geg6
@germy:
That is the most awesome thing I’ve heard all week. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Chetan Murthy
@lamh36: I know I’m late to this party, but … I saw Stacey Abrams talkin’ on the teevee a few months ago, and thought: “she’s a serious wonk”. I’d heard of her ability as a people person, but had forgotten about it. Now that I’m reminded of it, I can’t help wondering: when’s the last time we had a serious wonk who was also a people person, a “persuader” ? I know of only two people who come to mind: Obama and Bill Clinton. Both phenomenal political talents.
Maybe 47 will be President Abrams.
Ruckus
@trollhattan:
Look at the person making that decision. He thinks he’s a genius. Now compared to shitforbrains he actually does have some capacity. So he quite likely does consider himself a genius. At least in comparison….
SiubhanDuinne
@jl:
You might alert your bank just as a precaution. Ask them to block any activity on your account from these names.
Alison Rose
@Robert Sneddon: Fuck COVID indeed, though I’d grasped onto a smidgen of hope that nigh on a year’s worth of quarantine might mean we would FINALLY GET THE NEXT FUCKING BOOK except LOL no we will never ever ever get that book, let alone both remaining books.
Benw
@Just Chuck: LOL
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
No. No, that cannot possibly be. I refuse to believe it.
(Happy birthday, Maddie! Ten years old is a wonderful age!)
Ruckus
@JaneE:
Or while.
Starboard Tack
@germy:
Brilliant.
MisterForkbeard
@lamh36: And yet I don’t think there’s anybody there that the BroLeft will really object to, either.
Well, okay. I should know better than to say that. We’re going to discover that they’re all “neoliberals” any moment now.
Barbara
@Damned_at_Random: My daughter was working on a Roman history project when she started yelling for me. Never, ever use “vestal virgin” as a search term. A porn site hijacked my homepage and began showing pictures of the available merchandise. I did figure out how to remove it eventually, but Gah!
germy
gwangung
@germy: Awwwww.
Punchy
@germy: nobody wants to hire a bunch of neckbeards with god complexes and gun fetishes?
Honus
@germy: abigail spanberger is a former CIA agent as I recall. She may know something about this.
randy khan
@trollhattan:
In fairness to Giuliani, that was after the trial for the murder he didn’t commit.
Omnes Omnibus
Clown car never empties?! Okay, now I am down with the doomsayers! We are all going to die.
The Thin Black Duke
@Alison Rose: George will forever be known as the cautionary tale of what happens when a writer doesn’t listen to his editors anymore.
DMcK
@Wag: Let’s also not forget that Tyrion had a profound weakness for brothels. Except he actually paid his debts!
CROAKER
@Just Chuck: Mmmm Lower plane if you are in second gear the car takes you to Pandemonium.
Inside the apparatus, the user finds levers that perform various functions, including: tweeting, retracting legal agreements, committing fraud, grifting, covering one’s tracks, and sedition.
It is known that uncovering the mirrors, moving the apparatus, turning its wheel, opening and closing its magically-lit “eyes”, and opening or closing the doors can cause mass insanity. Many human-sized characters can fit inside the apparatus, and the device can function only in confined spaces. It holds enough air for only one to survive on twitter.
mrmoshpotato
@germy:
Saw that earlier. Hilarious. I hope they get a bunch of names and incriminating video.
mrmoshpotato
@Martin:
All of my schooling’s textbooks forgot to mention the dragons!
different-church-lady
Okay, Rudy’s just punking us now…
Bill Arnold
That may have been Trump’s cunning autocoup plan. Have the mob kill Pence, Pelosi, Grassley, then Trump kills anyone else who would stop him from doing unconstitutional things, like the SCOTUS, then Trump “resigns”, then Pompeo pardons him, then Pompeo declares Trump VP on an emergency basis not requiring approval of Congress because they’re dead, then Pompeo resigns and Trump becomes President For Life, and decrees that the clocks be set back to January 19th and stay there for the rest of Trump’s unnatural life, to make his perpetual presidency constitutional. All it requires is trust in Pompeo.
The MAGA constitutional scholars would love it.
Bill Arnold
@The Moar You Know:
Bannon has always been self-aware. It can be hard to tell though because he’s quite Weird.
different-church-lady
@Bill Arnold: Right, so: (a) resign and there’s at least a chance Pence pardons you, or (b) stick it out and it’s guaranteed nobody pardons you.
I’m beginning to think this man is just not very smart.
Skepticat
That makes me sad. A dear friend of mine who recently died after a long siege with Alzheimer’s was very close to them. She was a artist/illustrator who did much of his artwork (and the art for the Cabbage Patch Kids!), and she and the Rogers were very much alike. I hope they’re all together now. Sigh.
Ruckus
@different-church-lady:
Now I KNOW that’s snark…..
BTW, what was your first clue……?
jl
@Robert Sneddon: “One of the factors in the fighting were siege guns that could crack the hitherto-impregnable castles ”
No fire, no scales, couldn’t fly. So, I’m not biting.
jl
@SiubhanDuinne: “You might alert your bank just as a precaution.”
That’s one of the reasons I never ever even clicked on any Trump or GOP pitch, just deleted it, or let it pass by. Too much fraud and grift in their pitches to take the risk. Which is why I wonder how I got on the GOP chump list.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@arrieve: Rita Wilson, Tom’s wife, is of Greek parentage. Saw one of those genealogy TV shows where she went back to the original village.
catclub
@different-church-lady:
I would not be surprised to learn that Trump thinks he will retain HIS pardon powers after jan 20. After all, the still call Bill Clinton president Clinton.