Human beings, of sound mind and body, paid fifty bucks to hear Donald Trump give 109 seconds of live commentary as a fellow AARP member was mauled by a notorious Roid user on 9/11. https://t.co/5r2GwmJSqL
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 12, 2021
But he also apparently spent the broadcast winking and nodding at his latest foreign reactionary benefactors in Brazil so he still contains multitudes.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 12, 2021
Later that evening…
the former president and members of his cabinet going to a moony convention seems odd but money spends
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) September 12, 2021
They own the Washington Times, Republicans do this every year and it never gets less weird. https://t.co/VM9DHZraD4
— Please mess with Texas (@agraybee) September 12, 2021
Says a lot about the state of the American Religious Right that Trump will pay zero price for speaking to a cult that believes the Second Coming already happened in the form of a tax cheat who died 9 years ago.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 12, 2021
Fox News seems to have found their new Putin https://t.co/k87utvFHD8
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 10, 2021
And that was *still* only the second most embarrassing GOP performance of the day!
The dinner Rudy spoke at https://t.co/H1xUzexMKC
— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) September 12, 2021
Pat Lynch, the PBA head who had vicious fights with Giuliani as mayor, is there as well. So is Eddie Gallagher, the former Navy SEAL pardoned by Trump.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 12, 2021
What do you think the dinner is for? Hint: fundraising.
— Barbara Holtzman (@bdholtzman) September 12, 2021
It was simply because Bush & Cheney were in their bunkers all day but he'd been dumb enough to put his bunker, against all expert advice, in the only building Al Qaeda had attacked before. So he was the only relevant executive politician out on the street with the rest of NYC. https://t.co/DRujl7uWqt
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 12, 2021
Benno
Thanks to everybody who sent their good thoughts my way yesterday. I have arrived in Karachi, and while there was nothing to be done about my having to come, being able to say it out loud here helped a lot.
Benw
I understand half of this half as well as I should, and hate all of it twice as much it deserves the effort
Jim, Foolish Literalist
the fact that the Eddie Gallagher case, much less the pardon, weren’t more of a national scandal is kind of terrifying.
Comrade Colette
@Benw: Bilbo! Good to see you, even if you must feel like a teaspoon of butter spread over 144 loaves of bread.
@Benno: All the best to your mom and to you. I hope the treatment goes well and that you are not missing your family nearly as long as you feared. Are you going to be in a relatively safe area?
Ken
I have to disagree with one thing in zeddy’s tweet. There’s no way TFG is an AARP member. They charge dues.
The Moar You Know
If I were in charge boxing would be banned immediately. Fucking barbarism. A sport where the goal is to inflict serious head injuries on your opponent is not a sport, just a waste of human potential.
RepubAnon
“we would have accepted the leadership of a fungus-ridden tree stump at that moment …”
We did.
Wyatt Salamanca
Time magazine owes its readers an apology for selecting Rudy Giuliani as its 2001 Person of the Year.
Any discussion of Giuliani’s tenure as mayor must include a reference to this story. The public needs to know the full scope of Giuliani’s arrogance and stupidity:
h/t https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newyork-security-giuliani/nypd-analysis-opposed-wtc-command-center-site-paper-idUSB21557420080126
Rocks
“…he’d (Giuliani) been dumb enough to put his bunker, against all expert advice, in the only building Al Qaeda had attacked before.” Never forget why he put the command and control bunker in the World Trade Center, after it had already been attacked once by Al Qaeda. He put it there because it was close to City Hall, and thus a convenient place for porking his various assignations. NYC lost emergency command and controls the instant the first plane hit thanks to Giuliani’s dick.
trollhattan
@Wyatt Salamanca:
Yikes.
Guessing Giuliani’s fallback plan was putting it in a Miami seaside condo.
trollhattan
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Wednesday can’t arrive soon enough.
The Oracle of Solace
It’s a gross indictment of the national character that two out of five Americans will follow these people into fire, into darkness, into death, in order to avoid having to treat non-whites, non-men, and non-Christians as equals.
dmsilev
@trollhattan: Where’s the egg-throwing lady wearing a gorilla mask riding a bicycle when we truly need her?
(Reference, for those who missed it)
trollhattan
@dmsilev:
Right? Jeez, hope she didn’t have to return the costume.
You’re needed, gorilla lady!
jl
I guess I am a bad person, but laughed hysterically at this stuff.
Why is Rudy babbling about Prince Andrew at a 9/11 event. If Rudy and Andy went out on a date together, that is there business not mine. Hope that they had a good time.
Saw a clip of Holyfield training. I don’t know whether he was doing some training drill that I didn’t understand, but wow, did he seem slllooooowww, even for his age, at least compared to some older martial arts people I’ve seen. Maybe cumulative damage from boxing made him slow even for late 50 something. Glad that the CA boxing commission nixed the fight in my state.
jl
@dmsilev: The Egg Lady is on the recall ballot? I didn’t know that. That changes everything!
Eggs! Eggs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_qBsHuJb40
jl
@jl:
Got the Egg Lady mixed up with Groucho Marx, which maybe is appropriate for the California recall circus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHzVHmmHHPk
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Rudy is a drunk.
Geminid
@trollhattan: I saw a picture of McGowan speaking at a Larry Elder rally. Elder was standing off to the side. He looked scared.
Steeplejack
prostratedragon
@Steeplejack: Brava!
The post from Mr. Argiope, master collagist earlier reminded me a bit of this song:
“Balada para un loco,” Piazzolla y Ferrer; Marina Cedro, voice, Ricardo Urrutia gtr & voice, Josean Morles animation
Translation (Some coincidence, that posting date, or maybe not since as I recall a couple dozen Argentine citizens were killed in the towers.)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So the Right now in love with The Great Marshall, so deep down they were all just commies and do embarrassed to admit it.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@?BillinGlendaleCA: what ever it Rudy’s head in tilt mode. I guess that’s the other side of the GOP being shrinking party of old white men, a lot of them brains are starting to fail.
ian
@dmsilev:
@trollhattan:
Maybe the monkey suit is a bad idea when trying to egg a black politician??? Not sure why you guys aren’t seeing that, but I would not go there, and would not want to associate with someone who would.
Chetan Murthy
@ian: I have to admit, at first I thought “what’s the big deal about a gorilla suit” but then, well, I realized “the purpose is just as well served by a clown suit”. Indeed, I can’t see any good reason to choose gorilla/monkey over clown.
JWR
@Chetan Murthy:
Not denying the possibility of racism behind the choice of a $30-$40 mask, but that could’ve been the only one available? I dunno. You’d have to talk to the person inside.
gvg
@JWR: I don’t know of anyone who has ever dressed as a clown, gorilla’s on the other hand, are usually asked for. Racism may play into it, but their are a lot of other reasons possible.
I am aware of the nasty racism themes, but I still don’t think of it unless someone reminds me. I think of the pink panther movies and the gorillas driving sports cars around lost first.
Uncle Cosmo
Queue (sic) a clip of NotMax lipsynching Gorilla My Dreams….:^D
JWR
@gvg: Totally agree with you. When I was a young’un, I really wanted a full head gorilla mask because a) their human size, and b) they’re funny as he** when worn to church youth group gatherings.
Lacuna Synecdoche
zeddy via Anne Laurie @ Top:
I’m pretty sure that paying $50 to hear Donald Trump speak for any length of time is definitive evidence that they are not of sound mind.
The best that can be said of their purchase is that they only had to listen to him for 109 seconds, instead of 109 minutes.
mr perfect
Yeah, but you all are missing the big news that would be fit to print on the front page of the National Enquirer and the New York Times (same thing): Has Rachel Campos Duffy volunteered to replace Sara Huckabee Sanders in taking one for the team?