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Late Night Open Thread: Political Pilot Fish

by Anne Laurie|  February 12, 202212:39 am| 45 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republicans in Disarray!, Trumpery

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Late Night Open Thread 2

(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com)

But his entrails

— Harry (@DocEgonSpengler) February 11, 2022

Preview of Trump's legal defense on destroying evidence:

"Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just… *do* things."

— Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz) February 10, 2022

Unfortunately, the test was invalidated when it was discovered that @RonnyJacksonTX let Trump go to the bathroom, where he could check his notes https://t.co/T499Cd5yj4

— ClassifiedMeansDeliciousHat (@Popehat) February 11, 2022


Official WH Photographer during the Obama Administration:

Hey Ronny, I didn’t know you were a liar when you sat next to me in the spare limousine, but i could tell you were often hung over on foreign trips. I have photos in the archive to prove it (since we preserved all Presidential records). @RonnyJacksonTX pic.twitter.com/VmnRRwXEeS

— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) February 9, 2022

This may be, but if it is, our problem isn’t MTG. https://t.co/ve5GnoynhX

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) February 10, 2022

Late Night Open Thread 1

(John Deering via GoComics.com)
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45Comments

  1. 1.

    The Dangerman

    February 12, 2022 at 12:47 am

    Has TFG’s official portrait been reviled yet? Maybe it should be of him on the can, head resting on fist, kinda like The Thinker. Other hand would be tearing up papers.

  2. 2.

    Starboard Tack

    February 12, 2022 at 12:51 am

    @The Dangerman: Reviled is better.

  3. 3.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 12, 2022 at 12:55 am

    Lol that Souza tweet

  4. 4.

    Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)

    February 12, 2022 at 12:58 am

    We just can’t get rid of the guy. The only way we’re ever going to be free of him is when he dies. I wish he’d just go ahead and do it already.

  5. 5.

    Sebastian

    February 12, 2022 at 1:04 am

    Welp. I’ve been permanently suspended from Twitter for wishing an asshole to experience the same treatment Elon gave those poor monkeys.

  6. 6.

    Starboard Tack

    February 12, 2022 at 1:04 am

    @Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): The world is covered by a thin film of excrement. I think Trump’s going to leave something similar.

  7. 7.

    Jerzy Russian

    February 12, 2022 at 1:12 am

    Can someone nearby Ronny Jackson give him a knee to the groin?  Ideally, you would step on his foot with your own left foot and use your right knee to finish the job.  However, given the circumstances, you can use your own discretion in this matter.

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 12, 2022 at 1:25 am

    @Jerzy Russian:

    Can someone nearby Ronny Jackson give him a knee to the groin? 

    I can resume the dick kicking in the morning.

  9. 9.

    Felanius Kootea

    February 12, 2022 at 1:26 am

    @The Dangerman: His portrait should definitely be reviled by every sane person.

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 12, 2022 at 1:27 am

    @Sebastian:

    Welp. I’ve been permanently suspended from Twitter for wishing an asshole to experience the same treatment Elon gave those poor monkeys.

    Wait a year, ask to be unbanned.

  11. 11.

    Sebastian

    February 12, 2022 at 1:29 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Is that how it works? One year wait?

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 12, 2022 at 1:30 am

    @Felanius Kootea:

    His portrait should definitely be reviled pooped on and peed on by every sane person.

    Fixed.

  13. 13.

    Chetan Murthy

    February 12, 2022 at 1:30 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Or, y’know, *don’t*, and enjoy the calm and lower blood pressure!

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 12, 2022 at 1:31 am

    @Jerzy Russian: My dad has a Solomon Islands war club* that his uncle brought him back from the Pacific after WWII.  I think it would work well.

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 12, 2022 at 1:38 am

    @Sebastian: Not sure but

    I'd like to report a Zappadan miracle.— Driftglass, Guardian of Inconvenient History (@Mr_Electrico) December 18, 2021

  16. 16.

    Sebastian

    February 12, 2022 at 1:40 am

    @Chetan Murthy:

    Yeah, it’s probably for the better. I was getting into quite a lot of fights with Tesla cultists.

  17. 17.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 12, 2022 at 1:40 am

    @Chetan Murthy: Well, these days that means ignore all news – yes, still. :)

  18. 18.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 12, 2022 at 1:45 am

    @Sebastian:

    I was getting into quite a lot of fights with Tesla cultists. 

    Oh boy. :)

  19. 19.

    Sebastian

    February 12, 2022 at 1:51 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    I know haha

    But seriously, there are thousands of people who are COMPLETELY disconnected from reality. It’s frightening.

    Elon Musk has created a dangerous cult and he obviously a raging narcissist and built a fake success persona, much better than Trump. His fans are no less dangerous than Trump’s and they are of course rabidly racist, too.

    My only hope is that Elon’s stock manipulations are coming back to haunt him and will take him out for good but I am still worried.

  20. 20.

    Fair Economist

    February 12, 2022 at 1:51 am

    It wasn’t a metaphor when we said Trump was putting our laws in the shitter.

  21. 21.

    Sebastian

    February 12, 2022 at 1:55 am

    @Fair Economist:

    Did anyone make a comprehensive list of weird statements like the toilet flushing? All of them are admissions of crimes.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    February 12, 2022 at 2:03 am

    In Trump poker, a flush snags the pot.

    //

  23. 23.

    Ruckus

    February 12, 2022 at 2:16 am

    @Sebastian:

    Welcome to the club…

    We don’t have hats or anything like that but really it isn’t important enough for that anyway, it is just twitter….

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    February 12, 2022 at 2:19 am

    @Starboard Tack:

    His pile is much, much bigger, stinkier, nastier and he’s an automatic shit dispenser, which is handy for him because that’s what he was trained to do, sort of like the circus monkey that flings his shit. Only far more vile.

  25. 25.

    Ruckus

    February 12, 2022 at 2:21 am

    @Jerzy Russian:

    We could get their mascot to do the kneeing. I’d imagine that being hit in the nutsack by an elephant’s knee might be a tad harsh, but when someone really, really deserves it…..

  26. 26.

    Sebastian

    February 12, 2022 at 2:42 am

    @Ruckus:

    True. What was your sin?

  27. 27.

    Leslie

    February 12, 2022 at 3:06 am

    FYI to game players: Wordle has spawned some similar games, all of which may have already been posted in various threads, but just in case:

    -Nerdle, for equations (perforce very simple ones);

    -Globle, for geography; and

    -Quordle, my new favorite, which works like Wordle but lets you /makes you solve four words simultaneously.

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    February 12, 2022 at 3:20 am

    @Leslie

    “Everybody wants to get in’ta the act.”
    – J. Durante
    :)

  29. 29.

    Viva BrisVegas

    February 12, 2022 at 4:33 am

    If we are looking for a fish metaphor for Trump, lamprey would be much better fit than the noble Great White Shark.

    The lamprey latches onto other fish and bores into them with its rasping teeth, eventually eviscerating them. It can also produce unlimited quantities of slime to confuse and entangle its enemies.

  30. 30.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 12, 2022 at 5:30 am

    @Starboard Tack:

    The world is covered by a thin film of excrement. I think Trump’s going to leave something similar. 

    Haha, eww.  Time to go back to wearing gloves outside and immediately washing my hands went I get home.

  31. 31.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 12, 2022 at 5:34 am

    @Sebastian:

    Did anyone make a comprehensive list of weird statements like the toilet flushing? All of them are admissions of crimes. 

    The mental toll that would take…

    On a related note, bless Daniel Dale.

  32. 32.

    Professor Bigfoot

    February 12, 2022 at 5:54 am

    @Sebastian: Same thing happened to me except it was a slap fight with some conservative Klan-boy.

  33. 33.

    Cermet

    February 12, 2022 at 6:15 am

    @Sebastian: LOL; me, the WashPoo for telling people to go back to their mother’s basement. Yup – that’ll get you banned from that rag

    I should add that the people I crossed the line with where telling others to ignore safe guards and vaccination – i.e. killing people but that’s A-OK for that rag.

  34. 34.

    Professor Bigfoot

    February 12, 2022 at 6:46 am

    @Ruckus: well, now I don’t feel so bad.  Looks like I’m just another Jackal, which puts me in very good company, n’cest pas?

  35. 35.

    Cameron

    February 12, 2022 at 6:53 am

    I’m so old I remember when a ‘document dump’ had a non-fecal connotation.

  36. 36.

    lowtechcyclist

    February 12, 2022 at 6:54 am

    I’ve been on Twitter for five years or so now, but I almost never get into arguments there, despite being a somewhat argumentative sort of person.

    But I use Twitter in what I’d guess is a rather unconventional way.  I never even look at my own timeline there.  There are a handful of people I follow, and I read *their* timelines and occasionally toss in a comment if I feel I have something worthwhile to contribute.

    Occasionally I’ll see in my notifications that someone has taken issue with something I’ve said, but after one or two back-and-forths with them, it’s either turned into a genuine discussion or I’ve decided there isn’t likely to be a meeting of the minds, and walk away and let them have the last word.

    Part of it is the format: you can only explain your position but so much in 280 characters, so debate there is just too fucking tedious.

  37. 37.

    Chris Johnson

    February 12, 2022 at 7:01 am

    @Chetan Murthy: This. Much like Facebook, it’s important to realize that Twitter is just voluntarily hooking yourself up to every propagandist and bad actor, on purpose.

    They’ve got the money to saturate you with all the bullshit in the world: you are volunteering to be poisoned, informationally. Getting banned off Twitter is not so much a sign that you’re doing something right, as it is just DOING something right. Stay off, there is no good to be had there.

  38. 38.

    prostratedragon

    February 12, 2022 at 8:27 am

    @Viva BrisVegas: That works. The lamprey I had in HS biology lab was far, far more repulsive than the little shark in college. Really had to steel yourself to examine the thing.

  39. 39.

    Geminid

    February 12, 2022 at 8:53 am

  40. 40.

    barbequebob

    February 12, 2022 at 9:09 am

    @prostratedragon:

    The title Pilot Fish is confusing, because a Pilot Fish is a fish that hangs around sharks and eats food scraps and ectoparsites off the shark. To be honest, I thought a pilot fish and remora (aka sharksucker) were the same thing, but apparently they are not. I think the artist may be attempting to portray Trump as a parasite or scavenger, but is confused about fish species and their names.

  41. 41.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    February 12, 2022 at 9:11 am

    @Leslie: there’s also lewdle for the dirty word fans

  42. 42.

    Ella in New Mexico

    February 12, 2022 at 12:42 pm

    The MMSE (Mini Mental State Exam) for Dementia is easy for someone to pass who is of average intelligence, even if impaired. That’s why it’s not the testing used to diagnose dementia, it’s barely a screening exam.

    So I gave the “Very Hard 30 Question Test” to an elderly woman the other day because her family is concerned she’s got dementia.

    She passed the test with flying colors.

    Yesterday the daughter called me to say the police contacted her because she tried to drive to the church 3 blocks from her house like she’s done for 40 years and she ended up getting lost. Also, they found her daily medication pill pack had the entire bottle of each medication put by day: Monday it was lisinopril, Tuesday it was her thyroid medicine, Wednesday it was her metformin….She clearly can’t be left alone anymore but if you chatted with her you’d think her family was nuts.

    That test is practically worthless for all but the most severely impaired: who are already obviously having cognitive problems. Ronny knows it which is why he can blather on about how Trump aced it and not have to technically feel like he’s fucking lying to the whole country–AGAIN.

  43. 43.

    dyspeptic

    February 12, 2022 at 1:33 pm

    the Right wing Wurlitzer is going all in on the non-competence thing. Every er and um from Biden will be on FOX. i am not sure what the strategy out of the White House will be but they better have one

  44. 44.

    Nora

    February 12, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    @dyspeptic:  I suppose it would be a waste of time to remind people that Biden had (has?) a stutter and the ums and ers are the way stutterers are trained to deal with the issue.  I mean, the Faux News people are perfectly okay with mocking people who have handicaps, but it might be worthwhile reminding people that these guys are picking on someone for a handicap, and that’s pretty scummy.

  45. 45.

    eachother

    February 12, 2022 at 2:47 pm

    Twit(er) has made to too annoying for me to view anything there so I have decided to fly away.
    Bye bye birdie.

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