Mike Pompeo is never gonna be President:
chinese state media: nothing can beat our pomposity, idiotic leaps of logic, and inability to meme
mike pompeo: hold my pineapple https://t.co/sEcHvDVVkq— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) April 12, 2021
Pompeo supported leaving the Iran deal, wrongly predicted Iran would not respond by expanding its nuclear program, and then spent 1.5 years blaming Obama for the shrinking breakout time that his own policy caused.
I think I'll look elsewhere for an analysis of Biden's policy. https://t.co/BmfZkWYAgW
— Nicholas Miller (@Nick_L_Miller) April 12, 2021
Seb Gorka is never gonna be Rush Limbaugh:
Sebastian Gorka has been permanently banned from @YouTube pic.twitter.com/JB6iqUYFWe
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) April 13, 2021
Jack Shafer is a toad, but Gorka is the subject he was born to chew on:
New @Politico: Seb Gorka Lays an Egg on TV https://t.co/ks3IHDPtkg
— Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) April 12, 2021
… Since Donald Trump’s defeat, there’s been a TV land rush to capture as much of the Trump base as possible and turn its Trumpian grievances and nostalgia for the past four years into a reliable viewership…
This right-wing gold rush bestowed a show on Gorka, who is both handicapped and blessed by the limited range he brings to the microphone when singing his right-wing hymns. He flattens Trumpism, which is pretty flat to begin with, into an even simpler set of pro-Trump, anti-“Democrat Party” homilies. In other words, he’s the Trump administration’s eternal flame, doggedly burning to illuminate the path to Trump’s restoration for the faithful.
If the one-time Trump administration aide, current radio host, and occasional book author possessed much in the way of broadcast potential, wouldn’t his ideological comrades at Fox have given him a show or, at the very least, let him enter the tryouts the network has been holding to select a host for its currently open 7 p.m. slot?… Gorka has a history at Fox. He worked there as a contributor from November 2017 to March 2019, when he was pushed out. His version of his Fox departure was that he wanted to spend more time on his syndicated radio show and his commitment to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. But according to a 2018 Daily Beast piece, the doctor earned a “soft ban” from producers on the news side (as opposed to the talk side), with one anonymous producer telling the Beast it avoided Gorka because he was essentially “useless” to shows, unable to produce anything but routinized songs of praise for President Donald Trump. When Fox news producers dismiss you as a mere Trump propagandist, it makes sense to move your act to a lesser network like Newsmax where that’s an asset…
And Matt Gaetz *might* be going places, but it won’t be by his choice, or to the places he envisioned…
SPEAK INTO THE WHITE CLAW I AM HOLDING MATT https://t.co/pxf3kpbBca
— the women of kilgore trout’s office (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 13, 2021
frosty
Losers is right. Can we finally get free of these guys and their cohort?
Omnes Omnibus
Even among the unqualified people of the Trump admin, Gorka always seemed particularly unqualified to me.
Anne Laurie
“But he *looks* so good on the teevee, like a real general or something!”
(These are people who thought TFG *looked* like a successful bidnizguy, so… )
featheredsprite
Pompeo has zero following. He has no charm, no charisma. He doesn’t stand a chance. On the other hand, most people who try for the presidency fail, so that in itself doesn’t make him especially pathetic.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: But he doesn’t either. It is a puzzlement.
mrmoshpotato
Well this certainly fits here!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@featheredsprite: like you, I find his apparent confidence in his 2025 inauguration bewildering, but ever since I predicted McCain was toast in 2007 and that they’d never nominate Romney and oh boy 2016… I am done trying to predict what those goons will do
mrmoshpotato
Can we deport (via cannon) pajama boy Gorka already?
West of the Rockies
@featheredsprite:
I agree. He also has something of the Dick Cheney sneer of contempt. His high regard for himself and disdain for everyone else is oozingly obvious.
CaseyL
If the GQP succeeds in its multi-state voter suppression tactics, it could run that dried pineapple as a nominee and win the election.
West of the Rockies
@mrmoshpotato:
What means “pajama boy”? I’ve not heard the term.
Shalimar
It isn’t the full board, but just from looking at Pompeo’s pieces there is 0% chance that position is a checkmate. Does Pompeo even know how to play chess?
NotMax
Yes, yes he is, taking Limbaugh’s current condition into account.
//
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mrmoshpotato: Chris Hayes once imitated Gorka talking about the Pyjama Boy and I’m pretty sure it’s the only time he’s ever made me laugh.
mrmoshpotato
@West of the Rockies: Nazi trash Gorka used the term “pajama boy” to refer to liberals back in 2017.
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Sam Seder and Michael Brooks (RIP) had a ball with all the right wing macho bullshit back in 2017-18.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@West of the Rockies: “pajama boy“
NotMax
Workin’ on a big batch of chicken marsala in the Instant Pot. Whole lotta sauteing ingredients in clusters going on before can pop on and seal the lid.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Yummo!
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Normies: “who’s mike pompeo?”
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
First thing that came to mind was Blake Farenthold.
West of the Rockies
@Shalimar:
Good eye. Yes, Piggy Pompeo is nowhere near having checkmate.
Redshift
@Shalimar: This was my favorite response:
West of the Rockies
@mrmoshpotato:
Ah, so the usual male rightwing toxic masculinity gig. Gorka is such a pissy little poseur.
West of the Rockies
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
So Gorka doesn’t enjoy hot chocolate and comfortable clothing and having Healthcare? What a man’s man he is.//
NotMax
@NotMax
Linky fail* above. Fix.
Blake Farenthold
*Can I blame the vaccine shot?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@West of the Rockies: The Dragon Of Budapest is perhaps not a man to mock fashion choices.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Too good to pass up special on whole baby bella mushrooms at Costco yesterday. 24 ounce tray for $3.50. 8 ounce container at the supermarket normally goes for nearly twice that amount.
Mary G
@West of the Rockies: It was in reaction to this particular ad for Obama care.
Conservatives thought the hot chocolate and alleged feety pajamas were unmanly and spent months making fun of it for the entertainment of those in their audience most insecure of their masculinity. Liberals laughed, most conservatives moved right on in a day or two, but a few like Gorka couldn’t let go of it, making lame memes and such, for years.
ETA: Sample, in Politico:
Pajama Boy, An Insufferable Man-Child
By RICH LOWRY
December 18, 2013
Not going to give Tiger Beat on the Potomac a link, you can google if you want to see it.
NotMax
Judging by the chanteuse in the tight fitting gown in the silly 1940s movie running in background it must be awfully chilly in the mad scientist’s lab where she has found herself.
;)
Mary G
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Missed your response while I was looking for links.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Ah, being reminded of trash I’d forgotten.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Yumm-o!
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: So she’s singing in this laboratory, and you can see her breath, right?
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Heh. Not quite. Pointedly so.
;)
lgerard
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
It is dangerous to take comfort in this. Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Brian Kemp and Ron DeSantis were all political nonentities until they were hyped into relevance by the fringe wingnut propaganda machine.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
BTW, when I say silly, it’s no exaggeration.
Suitable fare for listening to and giving occasional glances while puttering around in the kitchen.
NotMax
Crap. Code fix.
@mrmoshpotato
BTW, when I say silly, it’s no exaggeration.
Suitable fare for listening to and giving occasional glances while puttering around in the kitchen.
lgerard
@NotMax:
well, it has Mr. Peavy so it can’t be all bad
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
@lgerard: “as well as an invisible woman and a lovesick gorilla” SOLD!
NotMax
@lgerard
“Well, I wouldn’t say that.”
:)
Trivia: The actor who played Mr. Peavey was named America’s Favorite Neighborhood Druggist by the National Association of Retail Druggists on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in showbiz.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Only thing better would be an invisible lovesick gorilla, a Rubicon Hollywood has yet to cross (AFAIK).
:)
lgerard
@NotMax:
A well deserved award!
He still makes me laugh when I listen to the old radio shows.
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
Odious, vile, repugnant and shitbag racist fuck are far more accurate and descriptive.
NotMax
@Igerard
You by any chance also a fan of Vic and Sade?
Lawdy, I do love that show. So many thousands of episodes (literally) lost.
JoyceH
Okay, this is kind of silly. From AP: “The White House says President Joe Biden will accompany his wife Jill Biden early Wednesday morning to an appointment where she will undergo ‘a common medical procedure’.” Says they will then return to White House and resume normal schedules. The White House did not specify the ‘medical procedure’.
Come ON, they’ve gotta know the press isn’t going to let that go, not until they learn what the procedure is. Since they’re not saying outright (‘hey, Jill needs a root canal’), I’m guessing it’s something vaguely embarrassing – so my money is on colonoscopy.
NotMax
@JoyceH
Medigate!
:)
JoyceH
@NotMax: And the White House will tell us what it was, probably later Wed or Thurs, and the press will grouse about ‘lack of transparency’, because it took the WH hours, HOURS I tells ya! to fess up.
lgerard
@NotMax:
i have listened to some of them, but it is not at the top of the list for me, at least as of yet (there is a large file of them on my desktop for future listening)
I am a big fan of Peg Lynch…..Ethel and Albert and the Couple Next Door as well as Easy Aces.
NotMax
@Igerard
A good entry to the surreal world of the little house halfway down the next block: 40 Pounds of Golf Clubs (9 minutes and change).
NotMax
@NotMax
Impossible, also too, not to grin every time they mention the unheard but sometimes mentioned Rishigan Fishigan from Sishigan, Michigan.
lgerard
@NotMax:
I left off a few episodes before this, so it is #4 in the upcoming queue when i get back to it.
Tony Jay
Gorka’s roadkill-flat mockery of ‘pyjama boy’ makes more sense when you remember that his ideological heroes spent much of their wartime service enjoying a good laugh at weedy people in pyjamas.
Striped ones, to be exact.
That doggie is playing the slide-whistle.
Morzer
Sebaceous Porka – the Drakkar Noir of BuddyPest. The guy’s make-up is worse than Rudy Giuliani’s.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@lgerard: And normies still say, “who?”. That was the big thing that The Former Guy had, everyone knew him from his game show on the TV machine, if they already didn’t know him from his self promotion for the previous 20 years or so.
Ruckus
@lgerard:
They don’t have to be or say anything smart, they are conservative, racist, haters.
But I repeat myself.
But even in the wild, wild world of totally ignorant, total bullshit, total nothing politics the ability to be a public asshole, to stand up for nothing but self centered exposure is worth a lot. Because it is endorsement for absolute bullshit that is today’s conservative politics. They don’t say stupid shit just because, they say it because they believe it and because it helps bring support for the policies that make rich, conservative assholes richer, it sells cheap crap that their stores sell or crappy services that they may provide if you pay them enough. It’s all of a part, it’s all a scam, if it is repeated often enough and loud enough the rubes buy it.
They are the voice of the scam, even if they don’t get a cut.
lowtechcyclist
“As a proponent of freedom, enjoying some Taiwanese dried pineapple. Checkmate.”
Yeah, I’ll bet that has Xi Jinping quaking in his boots.
As a proponent of freedom, I’m a Democrat. I believe in democracy, not authoritarianism, insurrection, or mob rule.
And not only is the board upside down and it’s not checkmate, but Pompeo’s at least two moves away from even putting the white king in check. What a dummy.
Matt McIrvin
@West of the Rockies: “Pajama Boy” was also the kind of inside reference you’d only even understand if you lived hip-deep in online political memes. So many right-wing pundit types soak in these things and toss them around in ways that make them seem like they’re speaking an unintelligible language.
SFAW
@West of the Rockies:
I’d fix your typo, but this is a family
magazineblog.Uncle Cosmo
@Morzer: I had “Seborrhea Dorka” on my bingo card, but our judges will accept your version.
Rarely have I seen a neck in direr need of a tourniquet.
Another Scott
@Redshift: That’s a weird board. What’s with the 1/4 square strips along the edge? And the room looks like an extended stay hotel suite or something. Is that one of Cecilia Jimenez’s pieces propped up on the table in the background??
Cheers,
Scott.
J R in WV
@Matt McIrvin:
Fix this for you:
So many right-wing pundit types soak in these things and toss them around
in ways that make them seem likeso that they’re speaking an unintelligible language.dnfree
@JoyceH: being of the Bidens’ age group, and female, my money is on some gynecological procedure that you really don’t want to get into the details of in public. A colonoscopy is nothing—everyone of a certain age gets them. Older women are prone to all kinds of mildly embarrassing but uncomfortable problems.