I have been kind of out of it for a few days. Do we all know that there are gaps in the MAL surveillance tapes that Trump turned over? And that apparently Jack has subpoenaed the surveillance tapes directly from the company? Jack Smith is very thorough. Go Jack!
I hadn’t seen this clip from Garland, though I had seen other clips.
If you still believe January 6 was a normal tourist visit, then you are either in a cult or you are … definitely in a cult. https://t.co/oVWacYN97B
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) May 4, 2023
Short clip from one of the podcasts I listen to. Funny, I always thought Norm Ornstein’s last name was spelled with an M.
.@NormOrnstein: this is about all the voters who are torn about voting R after everything that’s come to light, but if Trump keeps the 30% he’s still likely to get the nomination. Hear him, @carolelee & @jonathanalter analyze further https://t.co/lYsEmNtPfu pic.twitter.com/2Bijs9lZ3M
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) May 5, 2023
This is a Happy Friday gift to whoever it is on Balloon Juice who keeps begging for them to dig up Ivana from the golf course because they are sure classified documents are buried there.
— Greg Rossi 🇺🇦 #CлаваУкраїні (@sailorboygreg) May 5, 2023
Interesting thread. Here’s the first tweet.
FRIDAY THOUGHTS :: THRED ::
WHAT WE KNOW:
1. Donald cut his trip short to return to the states.
2. The Calamaris just testified in the documents case and they work for the Trump Org.
3. DoJ subpoenaed Mar a Lago surveillance tapes last June. 1/— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) May 5, 2023
Some fun speculation:
2. The DoJ has developed evidence of additional documents at other properties pursuant to evidence from the LIV golf tournament or the cooperating witness and Donald came home to fight/negotiate another subpoena/search warrant.
Just some thoughts. #FindOutFriday END/
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) May 5, 2023
Looking forward to the (other) Jack Smith’s Q & A tonight.
Open thread.
FelonyGovt
The Calamaris testified? What about the Squids? (I’ll be here all week.)
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@FelonyGovt: The Squids are sleeping with the fishes. They should have clammed up.
FelonyGovt
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: 😀😀😀
bbleh
Meanwhile, has anybody noticed the obvious tell in “MAL”? I mean, were the writers working to rule before the strike or something? Sheesh …
bbleh
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: yeah but now they’re being grilled.
WaterGirl
@FelonyGovt: @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:
Thanks for the laughs!
mrmoshpotato
Who are these bitches who besmirch the good name of a delicious appetizer?
lollipopguild
We should deep six some of these comments.
WaterGirl
@bbleh: ???
bbleh
@lollipopguild: at least they avoided salty language
@WaterGirl: “mal” = Latin root meaning bad; evil (literally “evil” in French)
WaterGirl
oooh. just in.
kalakal
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Should have found a safe plaice
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@bbleh: That’s what happens when the prosecutor flexes his mussel. I’m just glad the whole coup attempt Floundered.
bbleh
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: yeah, brings ’em out of their shells.
okay I stop now
mrmoshpotato
Cubs win! (the end times are near!)
WaterGirl
@bbleh: oh. very tired today, not too sharp!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:
They won’t clam up for long under that pressure
trollhattan
@FelonyGovt: That’s one chewy amuse bouche!
Aren’t phosphorous weapons illegal? Not that any namby pamby “rules” ever stop Russia from war-criming. Really, they’re more suggestions than rules.
Other MJS
@FelonyGovt: It’s a trap!
trollhattan
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Speaking of couping as a verb, “The Great” season 3 arrives Monday. Huzzah!
No One of Consequence
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l1GvDWtccI
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: I hope they had very valuable information.
Josie
Everyone is getting so salty.
ETA: Darn, bbleh got there first.
Layer8Problem
@bbleh: You’re channeling River Tam there: “Mal. Bad. In the Latin.”
Alce _e_ardillo
Holy mackerel!
trollhattan
@Josie: I’m working for scale.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl: Pondering an immune Fani. Never gets numb?
geg6
Could also be related to Georgia. Apparently, Fani Willis has given immunity to 8 of the fake electors there. And speculation is she’s going for RICO.
ETA: Lindsey, Rudy and Eastman seem to be in deep shit. Hope she buries them in it.
Baud
Y’all are doing this on porpoise.
Layer8Problem
You’re not baiting me, chum.
FelonyGovt
@mrmoshpotato: I see your Cubbies beat the Marlins, furthering the fishy metaphors…
RaflW
re: the missing sections of surveillance tape, I know the rageful don goes with his gut and fails to think things through, but in the 21st century did anyone on his team think a Nixonian deletion was gonna work? C’mon.
mrmoshpotato
@FelonyGovt: I was NOT going for that! Shame on you!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Does anyone have any theories yet on why Tucker was fired?
Yeah, I know, we’re supposed to believe, or pretend to believe, the story Fox planted. The host of the White Supremacist Power Hour never said anything racist ever except that one time in that email in 2021, and nobody read that email until a few days ago, and they’re really shocked at what he said so that’s why he was fired.
A lot of the media seems to have dropped interest and just gone with that absurd story line.
But it makes me wonder what was behind it? Honestly, I wouldn’t have cared. I accepted the earlier story line that it was because he called someone in upper management a poopyhead. But the fact that they’re working so hard to get disinformation out there has me curious now.
Was something really, REALLY bad about to come out from Abby Grossberg and she agreed to drop what she was going to say in exchange for something, and allow this story to stay out there?
Omnes Omnibus
@RaflW: Trump apparently did.
Roger Moore
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:
I expect them to cover for Trump with a cloud of ink.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@trollhattan: there was something fishy about that butler.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@RaflW: Worked (as far as we know publicly) for the Secret Service text messages. I’d be a little surprised if that’s true and some intelligence agency didn’t hoover them up, but of course if so that would be classified. Or, if it was Russian intelligence, in a file under Putin’s pillow.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
Things are heating up!
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
😃
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@WaterGirl:
I learned a new scummy thing this year about Republicans. They provide a lawyer “for you”, won’t cost you a nickel, but the lawyer is actually working for TFG and against your interests. Happened to Cassidy Hutchinson, and it happened to the fake electors, who never learned until very recently that Fani Willis had offered them immunity.
Captain C
I wonder if the testifying Calamaris are related to these Calamari Brothers?
Geminid
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Jack Smith’s looking for a squid pro quo.
Miss Bianca
OK. This thread is of-fish-ally off the hook.
Scout211
I didn’t know who “the Calamaris” were so I went fishing.
CNN has some info:
What the special counsel is investigating:
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: ha!
trollhattan
@Geminid: Expended a lot of ink on it, he did.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
We’ve netted a lot of great comments! I mean, despite just trolling, we managed to lure in a number of people into the pun fest!
WaterGirl
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: When they have a whole bunch of reasons, it begins to feel like “my dog ate my homework” and “my grandma died” and “the bus was late” etc. which all together = bullshit.
So we are in total agreement that they have not stated the real reason.
My person theory is that Dominion required the firing of Tucker, but part of the agreement was also that the fact that that was part of the agreement had to be kept confidential.
Discovery would have KILLED Fox deader than a doornail, so I think the big payout and firing Tucker was the deal for settling
CaseyL
The Calimaris, IIRC, were the frog-headed members of the Rebel’s Alliance in Star Wars, who became a meme for yelling “It’s a trap!” which was counter-memed at some point into “It’s a Tarp!”
But the ones who testified regarding classified documents are obviously a disfavored branch of the galactic Calimari family: Imperial p(r)awns, according to family spokesfish, though their opinions may be dismissed as mere
cuttlefishscuttlebutt.@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I find myself caring less and less about the “real” reason for TC’s firing. I note, though, that Grossberg worked at Fox for quite a while, and didn’t think anything disgusting was going on until it affected her personally (as is typical for the Right). So, if I had to come up with a theory, it would be that something really awful happened to her, directly to her, that she blames Fox or Carlson or both for.
M31
when puns are on offer we’ll always take the bait
Geminid
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Nobody’s very koi about it, either.
mrmoshpotato
You all disgust me.
trollhattan
@mrmoshpotato: Oh look, the gills are arriving!
kalakal
Let the scales of justice be evenly balanced
kalakal
@mrmoshpotato: no need to carp
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I’m no good at puns so I’m tuna-ing out at this point.
minachica
@mrmoshpotato: Are your ears burning?
Geminid
@Scout211: I believe Dr. Silverman described Calamari Sr. as one of Trump’s “hitters.” I think that meant a bodyguard ready to muscle people.
Or should that be “mussel” people?
Baud
I dedicate this thread to Not(ilus)Max.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Perhaps our hired mussel can convince you otherwise.
;)
Scout211
This article in Insider Is a profile of Calamari, Sr.
Oh my. Just look at his photos. He could be an extra in The Godfather. Scroll to the end and there are more fish puns via Twitter. LOL
He was a former college football player but was injured.
NotMax
@Baud
Aw, shuck(er)s.
Omnes Omnibus
Today is the anniversary of the Bay View Massacre. Where is Steve in the WTF when we need him as a rhetorical punching bag?
Baud
@Scout211:
So I guess Calamari is no shrimp.
lowtechcyclist
@Mr. Bemused Senior:
I think he was a Pisces.
NotMax
“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and no abalone?”
:)
FelonyGovt
Deleted. Enough Calamari for me today.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
C’mon. Have some sole.
Kristine
All these piscine-related puns are making me crabby.
UncleEbeneezer
From yesterday:
Fake Irishman
Is anyone concerned that the special counsel is merely on a fishing expedition, or has he got a whale of a case?
NotMax
@FelonyGovt
Gantzeh, k’nocker & Howe.
//
Scout211
trollhattan
@Baud: No shrimp, indeed. Family photo.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@lowtechcyclist: 😉
prostratedragon
@Fake Irishman: It all started innocently enough …
UncleEbeneezer
I hear Calamari is nothing more than a pig’s dick.
UncleEbeneezer
@Fake Irishman: With investigations of MAL, Obstruction, Fraud/Fundraising, etc., he’s definitely casting a wide net.
Omnes Omnibus
What kind of fish is that?
kalakal
@Fake Irishman: Time to start reeling in the criminals
NotMax
@kalakal
But- but- according to the idiot faction of the Left, Merrick Garland is floundering.
//
cmorenc
Will Trump wiggle off the hook somehow, using a bad-bass move? I am mahi afraid he could, even if it smelts to high heaven.
lowtechcyclist
@prostratedragon:
…on Tuesday. I was sitting in my office on that drizzly afternoon listening to the monotonous staccato of rain on my desktop and reading my name on the glass of my office door. “regnaD kciN”.
kalakal
@NotMax: They think he’s all at sea.
TriassicSands
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:
The Pun Police have a warrant out for your arrest.
soapdish
I’m pretty sure we learned from This American Life that Calamari is really just pig asshole, which is certainly appropriate.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/484/doppelgangers
prostratedragon
@lowtechcyclist: 😄😄
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
So many Fippers
UncleEbeneezer
@Omnes Omnibus: I dunno, probably Brittish!
Elizabelle
Just now herring about this thread.