Let’s talk about something besides the debt ceiling. Who put up that post anyway????
Fifty pages of notes from Corcoran will hopefully nail Trump to the proverbial wall.
BREAKING: special counsel Jack Smith SUBPOENAED the trump org for documents related to real estate deals in CHINA, FRANCE, TURKEY, SAUDI ARABIA, KUWAIT, UAE, and OMAN since he took office. https://t.co/mq3vbYPhEQ
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) May 22, 2023
BREAKING: E Jean Carroll WILL SEEK DAMAGES for Donald’s CNN town hall comments. https://t.co/AgoJ7OahzP
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) May 22, 2023
so not a new defamation count, just an added count to the case that she already has. https://t.co/DRXnBGT38z
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) May 22, 2023
Let’s do the other crooked Supreme Court justices next.
Dear ProPublica,
Thanks for all your great work.
Please do the Rapey Beer Justice next.
Love, WaterGirl
Open thread.
schrodingers_cat
Eww gross. Can we avoid these overtly sexual metaphors. We don’t have to descend to the depths of hell to match the Orange Ogre.
GibberJack
Is there a reason you can’t publish the word “dildo” in a hed on this blog? This is Balloon Juice, correct? The place where the phrase “skull-fuck a kitten” was once used…
JPL
The Clinton Foundation and the trump gimme money fund, were in the news during 2016. Only one stands now. I’m glad that they are looking how money influences government. We’ve seen how this movie ends.
SpaceUnit
Also it’s cucumber(s). Plural.
Scout211
Link
JPL
@GibberJack: It wasn’t a banana. I hadn’t even thought of that.
yuck
Geoduck
Let’s finally learn who paid off BeerBro’s debts!
Omnes Omnibus
Garland and Smith are crypto-Republicans and are looking for any chance to let Trump skate!
GibberJack
@JPL: The banana of consequences?
Anyhow, it’s not consequences yet.
Baud
Yeah, Amazon always messes up the order.
SpaceUnit
I think maybe we ought to have plural names for vegetables the same way we do for animals – a pod of dolphins, a murder of crows, etc.
A consequence of cucumbers.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Cacti was such a jerk in that thread
Scout211
@Omnes Omnibus: Ice or Roller?
gene108
@Omnes Omnibus:
I doubt Garland or Smith have clue how crypto works or blockchain.
Just old fashioned Republicans.
Jeffro
@Geoduck: it was billionaire Barre Seid (“Barry Side”)
I think it was New Republic who had a big expose’ on that clown.
GibberJack
@SpaceUnit: A ream of cucumbers?
Omnes Omnibus
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): No big deal.
Jeffro
WIN
craigie
One of the internet’s greatest headlines.
SpaceUnit
Hopefully the cucumber of consequences is only a precursor to the pineapple of justice.
suzanne
This is the “TWO wetsuits and a dildo” blog.
Dude, the first time I used that turn of phrase in real conversation…. I had to explain myself.
suzanne
@SpaceUnit:
Or the hot sauce of lavashit oh what the fuck
mrmoshpotato
So this is a sex toy post? It’s not after dark in the US. 🤣
NotMax
@GibberJack
The pickle of pursuance?
//
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit: Fixed
edit: not fixed, then I would have had to change the verb, also.
Josie
Goodness, it’s not even after dark yet. Whatever shall I do to avoid reading such suggestive comments?
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Is this opposite day?
SpaceUnit
@WaterGirl:
It’s the thought that counts.
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit:
ooh, I like that.
Ken
Garland definitely has people who can explain it, although after the first few examples he probably realized that every explanation boiled down to “crime”.
(Subcategories include “fraud”, “money laundering”, “payment for criminal activities”, and “sanctions evasion”.)
mrmoshpotato
YES PLEASE!
KrackenJack
@SpaceUnit: The Pineapple of Justice NEVER arrives lubed.
WaterGirl
@gene108: Why are you assuming Jack Smith is a Republican?
JPL
@WaterGirl: It’s always opposite day on BJ.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: It’s dark somewhere.
mrmoshpotato
@mrmoshpotato: Given the content of this post, I rescind my previous comment.
Jackie
I remembered to stock up on popcorn while at Costco this past weekend 😊
And, to whoever posted “I’m Your Puppet” on the prior thread… thanks for the 👂🪱🤪
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I was just getting it out of the way. Also, wondering who would take me seriously.
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: Draw your curtains. Problem solved.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@mrmoshpotato:
It is if you close your eyes…
Roger Moore
@Ken:
Cryptocurrency is not, in and of itself, a crime. What it is, more than anything, is a dodge. The idea is to reinvent our financial system but to call everything by new names. Then, because everything is under a new name, it isn’t covered by existing regulations. Boom! Now we have a new, completely unregulated financial system. What could possibly go wrong, except for everything that went wrong with the old financial system that make people decide to regulate it?
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
Because Donald Trump hasn’t been executed for treason yet. Everyone in the Justice Department secretly being Trump sympathizers is the only possible explanation.
WaterGirl
@Josie: Hey, we needed a new post.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: For what it’s worth, I obviously did not.
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: I hope you aren’t being serious, because I laughed.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: It is known.
Frankensteinbeck
@WaterGirl:
I read that as snark.
@Ken:
Smith took a single glance at the people pushing crypto and knew it was fraud.
japa21
@Jackie: You’re welcome. I made the same statement to the Mrs.
Jackie
@Roger Moore: Wasn’t TFG accusing Smith’s wife of donating to Hillary?
Not that that means he himself is a Democrat.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
Sorry. I thought the /s was understood.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: I refuse to use /s on principle.
Mousebumples
@Omnes Omnibus: The internet needs a sarcasm font.
Though some statements are so clearly sarcastic that it may not be as needed.
Re: Balloon Juice After Dark, my baby is asleep (and the 3 yo is at swim lessons with Mr. Mouse), so it’s close enough to dusk in my book. 🍻
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: Well, I did laugh, so my initial response was that it was snark.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mousebumples: A sarcasm font would remove 3/4 of the fun of sarcasm.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: You could always cover their ears, but if Mickey is any indication, mouse ears are very large. Possibly hard to cover.
Mousebumples
@Omnes Omnibus: Lol, fair enough.
I just know sarcasm is how I survived working in retail for over 15 years.
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Haha, and my daughter loves Minnie Mouse, and even has a Minnie hat. (yes, it’s warm here today; yes, she still wore her warm Minnie hat – good luck rationalizing much with a 3 year old)
Mr. Bemused Senior
No! Put down that pickle!
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: as long as she doesn’t get cranky when she’s hot, i say let her wear the hat. :-)
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Yup, I’ve learned to pick my battles. The joys of parenting. 😜
eversor
I wrote another five+ paragraph essay for this but ditched it for this. After all I’ve gone through in my career, I’m still aghast that any of these Trump fucks were cleared and not heavily looked into. Cause god fucking lord I’m still explaining each new reup for clear how I took ectasy and smoked a joint cause I was really into this girl and she was really hot and how my foreign national contacts are family. Of that dangerous country, Netherlands.
Just fucking SSBI people. This “you can’t SSBI elected people” shit is getting old. The rest of us have to do it, Single Scope the morons.
karen marie
@Jackie: Have you ever made kettle corn? My understanding is you throw sugar in with the oil and pop the corn in the combo. I’m skeptical but intrigued.
Baud
@Mousebumples:
Like this?
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud:
No.
azlib
Crypto currency could never be a realistic financial system. The transaction rate in the system is just so slow by many orders of magnitude. Also, the transaction verifiction cost is really staggeringly high. Bitcoin as an example cryptocurrency is also by design deflationary. There are only so many bitcoins you can “mine”. The libertarians who dreamed this up must have been high on some pretty good weed, if they thought this whole project was going to be anything except a small niche financial investment with a very high risk factor.
different-church-lady
Wait—which kind of cucumbers do arrive lubed?
different-church-lady
@Baud: needs more comic sans
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
I tend not to use /s, though I will occasionally when my humor is sufficiently dry I think people might not get it. One should always keep Poe’s Law in mind.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Who doesn’t love comic sans? :-)
Ishiyama
@Mr. Bemused Senior: Kudos for the firesign theater reference.
different-church-lady
@Scout211: Hard to believe nobody’s quoted Stringer Bell yet.
Mousebumples
@Baud:
@different-church-lady:
I would probably suggest Papyrus, myself.
Jackie
@karen marie: No. I’m not a fan of kettle corn. The smell of it popping actually triggers a headache.
prostratedragon
@different-church-lady: I think this is the patsy insurance exception.
WaterGirl
@different-church-lady: The regular non-consequence cucumbers, of course!
WaterGirl
@different-church-lady: My thought is that Corcoran wasn’t exactly in on it, but he knew it was going to go south and it would get ugly, so he kept copious notes to protect his ass.
different-church-lady
@Mousebumples: Papyrus would be good for mocking pundits like David Brooks and Tom Freidman.
WaterGirl
@prostratedragon: see me at #76 :-)
Mousebumples
@different-church-lady: So… Anytime someone talks about them?
different-church-lady
@WaterGirl: Waxed perhaps, but I’ve never seen one lubed.
Baud
@Mousebumples:
This is snark.
I like it.
Mousebumples
@Baud: Full service blog, amirite?
Jay
@different-church-lady:
some arrived waxed,…… but I don’t think that’s enough,……
prostratedragon
@WaterGirl:
“Who’s Gonna Take the Weight,” Kool and the Gang😉
different-church-lady
@WaterGirl: Usually under the sink.
different-church-lady
@Mousebumples: Exactement!
Nukular Biskits
@SpaceUnit:
Damn. I wish I had thought of that!
Nominated for the rotating tag line!
geg6
@WaterGirl:
That’s what I think, too.
Roger Moore
@azlib:
The biggest problem, IMO, is that trying to keep the entire world’s finances, or even those of a single country, on a single public ledger is just nonsense. You’re talking about millions (small country) to billions (whole world) of financial transactions per day. Transmitting and synchronizing all those transactions to anyone who wants to keep track is just ludicrous. I think the people who want the system to work just can’t grasp the scale of the world’s finances.
Dan B
@Jeffro: Scary article about a fast growing right wing network run by Leonard Leo.
different-church-lady
@Roger Moore: Money is imaginary. Why shouldn’t accounting be too?
Quinerly
@different-church-lady:
Ever wonder why those English ones are wrapped separately in cellophane?
Mr. Bemused Senior
@different-church-lady:
The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech
RSA
Nah. The Internet just needs smarter people.
VOR
I recall reading an anecdote in one of the books about TFG’s maladministration. Can’t remember which book, maybe one of the Woodward books. TFG met with a lawyer, IIRC White House Counsel Don McGahn, who took notes during their conversation. TFG said none of his previous lawyers took notes. McGahn replied that real lawyers actually take notes so they serve clients more effectively.
JaySinWA
@mrmoshpotato: It’s a cucumber salad with salad oil dressing reference. Get your mind out of the gutter.
JaySinWA
@RSA: A sarcasm font is easier to implement than making smarter people.
WaterGirl
@JaySinWA: Tough to argue with that!
NotMax
@different-church-lady
But- but- I still spot a Fiat now and again.
//
grumbles
I guess it shouldn’t be surprising, but the thing about cryptocurrency that kills me is that the killer app for crimeing turns out to be… complicated, fossil fuel-powered accounting.
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
@KrackenJack: And sometimes arrives with centipedes…
K-Mo
@schrodingers_cat:
Welp I scrolled through the whole thread hoping someone would point this out, but this is not a sex metaphor- It’s a rape metaphor, and it’s not amusing.
There go two miscreants
I am so late to the thread (catching up) that no one will see this, but considering the subject (crypto), that is a truly inspired typo!