DOJ beefed up its J6 sedition case against the Oath Keepers. New details about post-election military drills and stockpiling of weapons & explosives. One member said: "Tell me who to shoot first and I’m all in!” story from @HBRabinowitz @HolmesLybrand –> https://t.co/UmStLqZIcB pic.twitter.com/E81Ml5MGgL
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) July 9, 2022
Yesterday:
Rhodes’ latest cosplay fantasy: Oliver North Mk2, rising from the burning rubble of Iran-contra to a very profitable career at various Wingnut Wurlitzer outlets.
(We all have our dreams, but nothing we’ve seen from the Jan6 Committee indicates they’re dumb enough to permit a showboating try-hard to derail their hearings — fun though it might be for home viewers.)
This morning:
Legal expert @GlennKirschner2 tells @JoyAnnReid Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes is apparently "done" and looking for way out. #reiders https://t.co/0ZQ6kt9cac
— The ReidOut (@thereidout) July 9, 2022
For some reason, this news is making TFG’s one-time Chief Medical Advisor Ronny Jackson quite agitated:
(Or else — seems possible, given the very specific formatting — Jackson’s just letting an old crony / employer use his twitter account.)
Oh look Bannon, Ronny Jackson, Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes, Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio there’s going to more, not less. Have a fantastic weekend:) https://t.co/SZvbiBtEPW
— Christopher Michael Fredrickson (@ChrisMikeFred1) July 9, 2022
Seems like Tuesday is gonna be another day of Must-See TV.
Ken
I would settle for either the kind involving a meteor, or the kind involving his colon, if the latter were recurring.
Suzanne
What is it with dumb choads who see a shithead with a lifetime of shitty, disloyal behavior….who think that he won’t be disloyal to them? These people are credulous fucks with so little “street smart” that I don’t think they’ve ever even purchased a used car.
trollhattan
@Ken: Decades since I took physics but “impacting Donald Trump” sounds like the best midterm project ever.
trollhattan
@Suzanne: Where to start….
The Thin Black Duke
Keyser Soze was wrong. The Devil’s greatest trick was convincing poor white trash that rich white trash gave a Fuck about them.
tom
Hmm, I seem to have the ability to edit @trollhattan’s posts – not that I would do that
ETA: and as soon as I post this, that ability goes away.
bbleh
@trollhattan: I would suggest a song. The Amore thread a few posts ago was pretty successful. Or maybe some limericks
A despicable shitposting choad —
a hundred-kilogram load —
thought he was bad
but really (it’s sad)
was merely a gullible toad.
sab
@Suzanne: People like this surround narcissists like flies, and stay with him forever until he kills them. Usually he doesn’t, until he hits rough waters.
bbleh
@tom: I had that too, briefly, and not just that post. Appears fixed now.
Kropacetic
@Suzanne: A cultural affinity for selfish shitheaderhy?
Raoul Paste
I have read that Steve Bannon is also floating the idea of his live testimony, but I don’t think anyone is falling for that.
tom
@bbleh: it’s why it’s called FYWP I guess.
piratedan
yeah, but the “conventional wisdom” is stating that the GOP is likely to win the midterms…
with what fucking message? elect us and you get theocratic fascism!?!?…
they keep rolling this stuff out, who knows, maybe we can watch them arrest Lindsey Graham, Mo Brooks, Hawley, Cruz, McConnell, Greene, Colorado Barbie and Gaetz on live TV. Who knows, might even reach into a fishing expedition on how the GOP bought the SCOTUS and the impact of justices committing perjury during their confirmation hearings.
who knew that upholding the law could be so fun!
Jay
@tom:
it’s a bug since the restore. You can’t actually edit, and it goes away fast.
tom
@Jay: good to know you can’t actually edit someone else’s post.
trollhattan
@bbleh: Nice! If we can lure Subaru Diane into a Trump limerick contest the night will be lit.
Pity Trump and Nantucket don’t rhyme.
Ken
@Raoul Paste: Earlier one of the commenters suggested Rhodes be allowed to testify while wearing a shock collar, under Cheney’s control. I would extend Bannon the same courtesy, though I might push for using one of those devices from the Saw movies.
bbleh
@tom: @Jay: (suspected of being the next omicron subvariant, but not enough evidence yet.)
Villago Delenda Est
Idiots. If they’d been paying attention, they’d be aware that TFG expects loyalty, but refuses to give any in return.
debbie
Twitter is full of rumblings about the D.N.C. bomber being exposed in this hearing, but maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
BeautifulPlumage
Maybe we’ll get to find out exactly what Ginni was up to.
Too bad she didn’t have a documentary film crew in tow.
Kropacetic
Best Michael crichton sequel ever written.
Ken
@trollhattan: Something along these lines, perhaps?
(Be sure to read the title text. Randall returned to the theme here.)
bbleh
@trollhattan: But the scatological possibilities are endless!
There once was a Trump from Nantucket
who would take a dump and then suck it
for publicity’s sake
and half of the take.
“It’s attention!” said he, “so fuck it!”
Ben Cisco
A bunch of folks have already found out that ignorance of the law (or ignoring the law, or ignorance in general) is no excuse.
May it continue to be so.
Jay
@tom:
Well, ………………. it could be fun.
Imagine Betty Cracker and Tony Jay editing MisterMix,
Cameron
@sab: Kind of refreshing, seeing the rats get thrown under the sinking ship rather than swimming off on their own. (An example from my brief treatise, How to Mangle Two Metaphors Into One)
trollhattan
@bbleh: Game on.
sab
Slightly OT but not very OT.
Akron here. I wish the outside agitators would go home, even the ones who lost loved ones elsewhere. We have a real chance of making changes here, and the outsiders are undercutting all the goodwill. Everyone local has been horrified by what happened. Please don’t turn it into cops at risk.
Wag
i personally feel like we need to disimpact Trump and his minions from American society.
WaterGirl
@Jay: All the front pagers can edit any comment. But I don’t think any of us aspire to edit a mistermix comment! :-)
tom
@Jay: as long as they leave the titles alone :)
Kropacetic
@bbleh: A public high point for Trump nearest I can tell…
BeautifulPlumage
@Cameron: a chimeraphore?
Wag
@Ken:
the second one is classic.
CaseyL
In my wilder fantasies, the Biden Administration takes care of the midterm issue, the Senate issue, and the SCOTUS issue, by bringing sedition charges against nearly the entire GOP-Fascist complex.
A girl can dream.
In the meantime, I’ll be tuning in on Tuesday.
Cameron
@Wag: Now I’m afraid that the next time I go for a colonoscopy, the doc will tell me my lower intestine is fully impacted with Donald Trump.
Tony G
@Suzanne: I’m starting to think that the “Oath Keepers”, the “Proud Boys” and the other junior varsity Nazis are not the brightest guys around.
Scout211
Trump is considering waiving executive privilege for Three Shirts Bannon.
Seems kind of shaky but could mean he will have to be interviewed by the J6 committee
bbleh
@Cameron: and then, inevitably, the scene from Alien, only with that … hair
raven
@Tony G: Rhodes graduated from Yale Law.
Sure Lurkalot
@Suzanne: From thread below, love Carolina Gull, hope you adore your door.
Scout211
bbleh
@Scout211: And as to this, (1) as noted it’s a nothingburger because no privilege applies (Bannon had been dismissed long before 1/6), (2) it’s probably just a pure publicity ploy — after all, see (1) above — and the media have (predictably enough) fallen for it hook, line and sinker, and (3) if it’s more than that, it’s likely the same thing as Rhodes, ie, an attempt to shoehorn Bannon into the hearings so he can disrupt them.
One trusts the committee will treat this with the contempt (heh) that it deserves. One wishes the media would do the same…
David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch
@debbie: What basis, reasoning or rational do the Twiterites give for this conclusion/supposition?
zhena gogolia
@David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch: He has the pee tape.
prostratedragon
Ronny Jackson’s prayer: for “atomic bomb” read “truth bomb.”
Cameron
@raven: As did Clarence Thomas.
JoyceH
@CaseyL:
Same, but peeved at the committee for going with 10 am versus 1 pm. Will have to set an alarm. Hey, I’m retired, I don’t DO mornings.
raven
@prostratedragon:
COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH – Please Don’t Drop That H Bomb On Me
Scout211
@JoyceH: Hey, it’s on at 7:00 here! I guess I’ll be watching while I drink my morning coffee.
bbleh
@Cameron: @raven: res ipsa loquitur.
Ruckus
@Wag:
My question was going to be “Are they going to impact SFB with a fully loaded garbage truck?”
sab
@sab: Jayland Walker’s family don’t want riots and attention. They want real police reforms. The local police chief, mayor and city council are committed to change. Police union not so much. Outsiders are inadvertantly helping the police union cave men. Please go home.
ETA All politics is local, and every city is different. Akron is not like Louisville or Minneapolis.
Suzanne
@Sure Lurkalot: Have you used Carolina Gull? The chip looks more gray but the internet says that it is much more green in real life, once big and with light on it.
Reviews of paint colors are one of my favorite non-Balloon Juice slices of the internet.
tom
@Cameron: as did Josh Hawley
Scout211
@Suzanne: I like it. It looks like a grayish teal on my screen. What color is your house and trim?
raven
These fascists may be crazy but they ain’t stupid. They know exactly what they are doing.
David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch
@Scout211: Don’t fall for the banana in the tail pipe trick. This is similar to “Dump is dying to release his taxes” and “Dump is dying to testify to Mueller” and “Dump will submit a new health care plan in two weeks”.
Furthermore, the person who holds executive privilege is the current office holder of president. It would be up to Biden to waive.This is just Bannon trying to muddy the waters 9 days before he goes on trial for contempt.
Baud
@David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch:
The retweets are the evidence.
Villago Delenda Est
@Ken: Give the control to Maggie Simpson.
Baud
@Scout211:
Bullshit
Jay
@Suzanne:
standard process when I was a GC was to have customers pick out 4 wall paints, then paint 1’ by1’ foot squares on each wall in the space.
Ask them to look at them and grade them morning, noon, sunset, at night, then pick their favourite.
That’s not how a restaurant I worked on went from grease, to scarlet, to cinnamon gingerbread to eventually Ultra White.
Suzanne
@Scout211: Most of the house is beige brick. The concrete sills and the metal flashings were painted a dark brown, and they need a repaint. So I selected a tan color for the sills (Wicker Basket) and a warm creamy white (Ballet White) for the flashings. There is one spot where the flashing is gone and the original trim is visible, and the trim was originally a warm white color. The dark brown looks crappy. It makes the house look short.
Scout211
@bbleh: @David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch:
Thank you for the explanation and dose of reality. It sounded shaky to me but the article was confusing. You both cleared it right up for me.
Madeleine
@Baud: I’ve been offered the ability to edit Baud’s comment. Exciting!
Scout211
Yup.
Amir Khalid
@Scout211:
By now, someone should have made Trump aware that his power to grant/revoke executive privilege ended 18 months ago. This offer of his to waive Bannon’s executive privilege just makes him look delusional and pathetic.
Suzanne
@Jay: I work with a lot of interior designers, so I am used to looking at interior finish palettes. I like to have a binder of all the stuff for future reference. I do usually narrow it to a couple of options, get samples, and then do the swatch on the wall before buying enough for the whole project. I hear that Samplize is a good service (big stick-on wall swatches so you don’t have to do it on the wall itself), but I’ve never used it.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid: Well, TFG is delusional and pathetic, so no misrepresentation there.
sab
@Suzanne: Good to know. I redecorate sporadically. Good to have a permanent pallette.
Cameron
@tom: Christ, now I’m glad I got my degree from Close-Cover-Before-Striking U.
Alison Rose
@The Thin Black Duke: This is a thing I will never understand. I mean, I know they’re fucking stupid but even still.
Cameron
@Baud: I dunno. A few misspelled words scrawled with a Sharpie on a notebook page could be called a ‘letter’ if you squinted real hard.
tom
@Cameron:
Tom Q
@JoyceH: A woman after my own heart. Retired, and finally able to sleep on my schedule, not the world’s.
David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch
@Madeleine:
No one should have the power to genetically modify baud
Suzanne
@sab: Doing this house has been a mindshift for me. It’s much older and a different style than anywhere I lived in Arizona. And the landscape and the light are different here. When we moved in, the interior was painted a whole succession of terrible colors. Each room was worse than the last. So we painted them all a very pleasing but not-too-bright white (Swiss Coffee). And I told myself that I would live with it white for at least a year, through all four seasons, so I could let the right answers reveal themselves. We have replaced almost all of the flooring in the house, too. In AZ, it was always so godawful bright outside that I really wanted to bring the interior visual temperature down. Here, I want to frame all these views to the exterior.
Jay
@Suzanne:
there are now a bunch of digital features where you can take a photo, then fiddle with the wall colours.
as far as I know so far, they don’t have filters for different light levels.
Jackie
@JoyceH: I’m in WA State; I REALLY have to set my alarm! Gotta have coffee before the 7am start!
StringOnAStick
@Tom Q: Man, I wish I could sleep past 6am but I never can. Being so far north means it’s light until nearly 10pm so getting a nice long rest is hard this time of year.
Not today though. I did my hardest mountain bike ride in years this morning and I’m one tired zombie who will be going to bed well before sunset.
hells littlest angel
Of course Trump isn’t paying for the Oath Keepers’ defense. They did a lousy job. And besides, he’s not an oath keeper.
David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch
@hells littlest angel:
exactly. Dump has never kept an oath, just ask his “wives”
Suzanne
@Jay: Yeah, I’ve tried those out. I think they’re good for getting a general idea. Not good enough to make a fine-grained decision, but they have their place.
Nothing like actually seeing light come in and hit the wall.
Omnes Omnibus
@Scout211: AAARRRGGHHH!!!!! He can’t waive a privilege he doesn’t have!
TS
@Suzanne:
Been conned by republicans all their lives to think that they, one day, will be the masters of the universe. The social (or lack thereof) aspects of GOP policy have them voting against anything that would improve their lives.
Jackie
@hells littlest angel: Got that right! One would think TFG’s Deplorables would have figured that out by now. And, yet, they’re still loyal to him.
Sister Golden Bear
@Suzanne: I love Samplize! Much easier than painting swatches, and the samples are painted on a material that’s got a small amount of texture, which is a good approximation of finished drywall. (Foam core squares are overly smooth and consequently a bit overly reflective.)
One thing I did once I’d decided on a finalist color was to buy three additional swatches to give me 4 sf total — which was big enough avoid problems with the existing color influencing the swatch color
Obviously a little pricier than just painting a swatch on the wall, but 1) I didn’t have to look at wall with a swatch on it, and 2) I could move it to different location.
SFAW
@The Thin Black Duke:
I’m sure I’m late to the party, but: glad to see you back!
sab
@Suzanne: i am in Ohio with light like yours. I am a big fan ( for one room) of a very light purple/ lilac. That’s my bedroom. It goes with evrry other accent color.
I hate the beige my stepson painted his room. We do like the very pale turquoise I painted the bathroom, but I would like to change colors if only my husband would let me.
Suzanne
@Sister Golden Bear: That’s good to know about the texture! I LOATHE anything other than flat-ass-FLAT paint on walls. (Trim and floors and cabinets and door leaves, etc, can have some shine, but not walls.)
One cool thing about being an architect is that you can get the big paint chips. They’re not quite Samplize big, but much bigger than typical. I will also note that the Benjamin Moore Aura paint is far freaking superior to Behr, Valspar, Sherwin Williams, PPG, etc. It costs more but it is worth it.
SFAW
@trollhattan:
You lack imagination.
“It’s spelled ‘Luxury Yacht’ but it’s pronounced ‘Throat Wobbler Mangrove.’ “
hells littlest angel
@Jackie: The thinking is: He’s bound to treat someone decently some day, and that someone could be me!
sab
@Suzanne: When as a child I lived in Florida and my mother would raise the shades every morning and say “goddamned sun again” and rhen pull the shades down.
I never had to do that in Ohio.
Matt McIrvin
@The Thin Black Duke: Welcome back!
Matt McIrvin
@piratedan:
“Inflation is bad and [my opponent]’s liberal policies will make it worse.” That’s what all their ads are hammering away at, in those exact words or something close.
Suzanne
@sab: The incessant glare can be too much to take. I like not feeling like I’m being smote when I go outside.
ETA: I don’t know the past tense of “smite”. Smote? Smited? Smeet? Smat?
Dan B
@sab: Outside agitators sounds terrible. When you’ve got the public’s attention it’s no time to amplify the shouting and acting out in anger. Who has influence and good political chops to gather enough influencers to push for positive change? I thought the mayor was being a jerk.
bbleh
@Suzanne: “smitten,” no? Past participle?
(ETA: past tense is “smote,” but that’s active. The sun did it to you, not the other way around.)
Timill
@Suzanne:
but you probably want “smitten” there…
piratedan
@Matt McIrvin: I heard that and just once, I would love to see an ad… the GOP blames the build back better plan, yet before that…unemployment was at double digits, pandemic response in the toilet and treason and instransigence blocking at the Senate of every funding proposal that paid for the BBB plan, and yet, somehow that’s to blame for inflation instead of the price gouging done by business as soon as Americans had cash in their pockets, thank to Democrats. but hey, if you’re explaining, you’re losing, right?
Scout211
@Suzanne:
Balloon-juice, come for the politics but get lessons in English instead.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smite
Ixnay
@bbleh: for the win.
2liberal
stolen.
Matt McIrvin
@piratedan: They don’t have to say HOW liberal policies make inflation, just that they do. Rely on people’s fuzzy memories of Jimmy Carter to do the rest.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Ruckus: Off topic, I know, but what does “SFB” mean in relation to The Former Guy?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: Shit For Brains.
Anne Laurie
Shit For Brains, which Ruckus prefers to TFG.
Mai Naem mobile
@Suzanne: what do you think of Dunn Edwards?
VeniceRiley
@StringOnAStick: Adjusting to this northern latitudes light situation as well. Its fine now, but the predawn light and accompanying hollering wood pigeons is quite the alarm clock.
The thing I dread is the long dark of winter. I think I will need a SAD lamp
As for color palates, thank god my wife has wonderful design sense! She’s done the whole house in grays copper rust mustard light taupe on soft white walls and it looks fantastic
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@ BillinGlendaleCA: @Anne Laurie:
Gotcha. Thanks! That TLA was bugging me. But, honestly, “shit for brains” could refer to a large fraction of the Republican establishment at this point…
Ruckus
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
Sorry been away for a while.
And yes shit for brains could refer to most current republicans – I’m just using the law of averages that there have to be some that aren’t completely full of shit. But also notice that I capitalize SFB when referring to TFG. Sure he’s not the only republican that is full of shit but he does seem to be their leader and they seem to like him because he’s so full of shit that his brain is shit brindle brown, rather than anything resembling pink. Also I don’t like TFG because the thought of anyone or anything actually screwing that repels me A Lot.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
“just makes him look delusional and pathetic.”
He is delusional and pathetic. To a rather elevated degree.
brianm
@VeniceRiley:
Most SAD lamps don’t put out much light. I got a couple of Hyperlight warehouse LED lamps (similar to https://hi-hyperlite.com/products/led-high-bay-light-hero-black-4000k) and they worked nicely.
rikyrah
@The Thin Black Duke:
You are okay?
rikyrah
@Scout211:
Doesn’t exist in the first place
Scout211
@rikyrah:
Yes, and as I read the comments here about that CNN article, I wonder if the CNN reporter just spelled “executive privilege” wrong and it really should be spelled “OMERTÀ.”
And really, TFG doesn’t “consider” something unless it benefits him. So the J6 committee should definitely ignore this.
I really appreciate how many smart people comment here.