Speaking of ridiculous…
Holy shit. Democrats just burst out laughing at Marjorie Taylor Greene as she’s presiding over the House when she told them to have “decorum.” She kept hitting the gavel and they kept laughing at her. (@acyn) pic.twitter.com/r3mhFgWOC6
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 24, 2023
Watching that 45 seconds of video was a great antidote to all the stress of what’s going on.
And this is the icing on the cake – 4.5 years for this fucker to think about what he did
UPDATE: Richard Barnett, the nitwit who ransacked Nancy Pelosi’s office during J6, has been sentenced to 54 months in prison.
Plenty of time to put his feet up and contemplate his actions. pic.twitter.com/GwqwYiRGXj
— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) May 24, 2023
Totally open thread.
Rebel’s Dad
I love this, and no I’m not ashamed to be this petty.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Rebel’s Dad: Come sit by me.
trollhattan
Takes up smoking.
Lights one up.
Stubs out Marlboro on MTG’s copy of “Mein Kampf” in the original Piglatin.
And that’s a Wednesday wrap.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
As I said to my mom when I was 13:
side note: that did not go over well with my mom.
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: In the original Pig Latin! hahaha
WaterGirl
I also enjoyed this from (not the real) Jack Smith who retweeted the top tweet with this comment:
Does dog love us this much? Yes he does.
Sure Lurkalot
She’s so fucking high on her own supply that she thinks her presence commands deference and respect.
Wrong as usual, Marge.
Jackie
WaterGirl, in the MTG Tweet replies there’s an image of her you need to capture!😂 It’s labeled *sensitive* but only if you’re Margie.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Sure Lurkalot: Decorum for me but not for thee…
Burnspbesq
Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy, gets sentenced tomorrow. Hoping Judge Mehta gives him what he deserves.
piratedan
@Sure Lurkalot: well the position does/should…. but coupled with her behavior and statements (and likely involvement with J6) she personally doesn’t warrant that respect.
I do expect the media to flood us with takes on the Dems disrespect for the office and the norms not being observed because that’s how they roll.
RaflW
Rhonda Santis’ campaign launch just crashed Twitter Spaces. Murphy the trickster loves some fun times.
Jackie
@Burnspbesq: 🤞🏻🤞🏻
CaseyL
@RaflW: Half a million people to watch a campaign announcement sounds like a pretty good-sized audience to me. How many were they expecting to tune in?
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Counterfactual Rhonda Sandtits: Hold my beer.
RaflW
@CaseyL: IDK. But don’t major stars and influencers use Musk’s Spaces platform? Shouldn’t it be robust enough to just stream info to people’s devices?
eta: Musk is also attending the space that is crashing!
Ha ha ha, la de freaking HA!
Cameron
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Hold your beer? Eewww. I don’t want pudding all over my hands.
Suzanne
@Dorothy A. Winsor: @Rebel’s Dad: Joining you both. Bringing good pasta to share.
Another Scott
@CaseyL: I assume 20% are press people (mostly unpaid interns hoping for their big break), 79.999% are bots attached to Ronda’s campaign.
Cheers,
Scott.
karen marie
@Sure Lurkalot: She’s jonesing for the speakership. I’m a little surprised McCarthy allowed her the gavel.
karen marie
@Jackie: Twitter does that to block people who don’t have accounts from seeing it.
Zzyzx
So what happens when you fire all of the devs and try to roll out new features? Who could have predicted this?
BlueGuitarist
@RaflW:
When DeSadeness’s announcement crashed, Biden posted
”This link works” for link to his donation page
political wire labels it “troll of the year”
West of the Rockies
So rich, a call for decorum, coming from the jack ass who brayed on and on during President Biden’s SOTU address.
Mo MacArbie
@RaflW: Well, don’t that just wax yer bees.
No, I don’t know what that means either. It’s fun to say though.
Math Guy
Thank you for posting that. I do need to try to laugh a little more these days.
mrmoshpotato
Oh Majorly Trashy Gasbag…
RaflW
Biden campaign did a tweet about 16 minutes ago with a link to their Act Blue:
“This link works”
Someone very snappy on that social media account today!
.
eta: @BlueGuitarist got there first :)
Tony Jay
@Sure Lurkalot:
But she ‘won’, and she’s got a gavel, so that means those limp-twisted, rule-following, bourgeois Democrats have to give her respect and deference.
Thing is, Marge, you MAGOP morons are using the old rule book, from the old game that people enjoyed for a long time until your friends ruined it by cheating constantly. Those guys and girls laughing at you? They’ve got the new and updated version, the one with whole pages explaining how to asskick trolls, throatpunch orcs, and even rip the guts out of that disgusting sub-species of Mickey Rourke-skin wearing ogre that can be heard howling and growling around the Capitol after the three bottles for $5 singles-bars have shut for the night.
They got your number, and they don’t even need a 20 sided dice to roll it.
JPL
@mrmoshpotato: omg She was suppose to run in my district, and the repubs recognized that would be a wipeout. They carved out a prettty little area where she can’t lose. Since then my district was redrawn but we can win it back.
Ken
@RaflW: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ is amusing. Though it’ll disappear in 24 hours – maybe some kind front-pager will post a screencap…
zhena gogolia
@RaflW:
JL Cauvin has done his interpretation. His rendition of the laughter of the two men, which ends the video, is epic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky7R7J1NzyQ&t=1s
WaterGirl
@Jackie: ??
WaterGirl
@RaflW: But, but… he’s a bold trailblazer! hahaha
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: 500k seems like a lot to me, too. In the middle of the day!
mrmoshpotato
Fucked around, now finding out. And he can go fuck himself!
Same asshole who threw a tantrum over Zoom during one of his court appearances because he didn’t like being in jail.
None of us who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 stormed the Capitol building, or even tried.
Fuck ’em!
Geminid
Washington Post Capitol Hill correspondent Marianna Sotomayor reported 4 hours ago that the entire Democratic caucus has signed on to the discharge petition for Rep. DeSaulnier’s bill. Caucus Whip Catherine Clark said that it shows that House Democrats are united.
The discharge petition does not seem that likely a solution to the debt ceiling impasse, but Democrats are still pressing it forward.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: You are probably right about bots.
RSA
And it sounded pretty spontaneous! For some reason I didn’t realize that members of Congress probably have the same view of MTG as ordinary people.
WaterGirl
@Tony Jay: Marge is so dumb that when they laughed at her the first 3 or 4 times… she thought that maybe with one more gavel – this time she means it! – she will get the respect she will never deserve.
She’s an embarrassment.
RaflW
It just gets better and better.
Replying to Jon:
Dunno what the total Spaces audience is now, but after the re-launch, it was holding at about 100K listeners for a while. He probably would have reached a couple mil on Fox primetime so Jon’s point stands that his political & comms instincts (ie sucking up to Musk) are — of course — poor.
karen marie
I can’t find anything about MTG’s stint today as speaker pro tempore. She’s apparently gotten to do it, I think, two other times previously.
Here’s something to make you gag.
Absolutely foul.
karen marie
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: You heard about Tim what’s his name, right?
C Stars
At this point incompetence is a part of the GOP brand, right? Like if an event didn’t go horribly off the rails the mouthbreathers would probably find it untrustworthy and elitist.
Open thread? I had been doing a great job of staying away from news and politics lately by taking up exercising: hiking and/or an exercise class every day. Now I have peroneal tendinitis. Bah.
WaterGirl
@Ken: Ask and you shall receive.
NotMax
Greene Convene Scene Demeaned
– (imaginary) Variety
:)
Alison Rose
@Rebel’s Dad: Likewise, friend.
WaterGirl
@RSA: The Dems were pretty raucous at the 1-15 votes for The Squeaker, as I recall. Or was that pushback at the State of the Union. I don’t remember for sure, but these are not our father’s Democrats.
(apostrophe after S?)
Manyakitty
@RaflW: I love everything about this.
mrmoshpotato
@Rebel’s Dad:
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
@Suzanne: Mind if I join you three?
mrmoshpotato
@karen marie:
Where is
JoeKevin btw?prostratedragon
How wonderfully spontaneous! I busted a guffaw right with them, so I guess they’re representing me.
As for Barnett, I hope he doesn’t already have a lot of time served. For him to be that much a goof at his age suggests things take a while to sink in.
WaterGirl
@karen marie: Oh my god, that’s disgusting.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Smokin’Weepin’ in theboyscloakroom.Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl:
Wait until you find out what she does with it.
Ken
@WaterGirl: Thank you! Mind you, 391 is not a huge reported outage — I’ve seen it over 8000.
Steve in the ATL
@mrmoshpotato: ok clearly your account was hacked. You have never posted three times in a row—or even two times—without using the word “shitstain”
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
I did.
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
Literally.
;)
Princess
Imagine trusting all your political hopes dreams and aspirations on something run by Elon Musk. Imagine. They touted the “millions” who would tune in. It crashed with a piddly 250k viewers.
Baud
Aside from the crash, was there anything noteworthy about the announcement?
Baud
@Rebel’s Dad:
If I could play the guitar, I’d be Tom Petty.
NotMax
@Princess
You mean the tech genius also promising self-driving cars?
//
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl:
Marge, you’re not our real mom!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Baud: I had no idea what to expect going into the link. Just delightful.
@karen marie: I heard every Republican’s “I have a friend” had announced but not the mic incident .
I’ll consider the current state of the Republican primary an auspicious omen.
Tony Jay
@WaterGirl:
That’s the thing with these Kewl Rool-Braykin Edgegods of the MAGOP, give them a single tremulous droplet of actual institutional authority and they morph straight into Keith Poindexter, Hall-Monitor Emeritus. The second Marge got hold of that gavel she instantly became a six year old in a too-big blazer and lots of lipstick playacting as “Mommy in one of her meetings”.
They can’t help it. They’re very immature people with no earthly idea of how adults act other than what they’ve seen Democrats doing, which is why they’re terribly bad at it.
NotMax
@Baud
Sadly, I play guitar like Richard and drive like Tom.
:)
Ohio Mom
That outburst of discourteous laughter at MGT is karma in real time. I enjoyed every moment of it, watched it several times in order to savor it.
@Another Scott: Eternally levelheaded Scott, you are right, no need for any of us to panic that Desantis has that many fans. Please know that your comments have calmed me many times.
@BlueGuitarist: Obviously, Biden does not monitor or maintain his twitter feed but whoever does, has captured his voice. I can see in my mind’s eye, Biden announcing “This link works” with a big grin and a twinkle in his eyes, thoroughly relishing the opening given him.
TaMara
Worth an embed. His social media team deserves a raise, or at least a double scoop tonight. This after Spaces crashed:
Suzanne
@mrmoshpotato: Pasta and schadenfreude for everyone, friend! There’s plenty more.
mrmoshpotato
@Steve in the ATL: Quick! Someone mention Dump!
Jackie
@karen marie: I was able to see it and I don’t have an account. I just clicked the “view.” I just wanted WaterGirl to see it 😊
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Was thinking Monty Python before I clicked!
Jackie
@BlueGuitarist:
😂😂😂
Dark Brandon strikes again!
Omnes Omnibus
@Ohio Mom: I still like to think of him typing it himself.
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: YUMM-O!
Jackie
@WaterGirl: I wonder how many were Dems attempting and succeeding in crashing the site🤔
Roger Moore
@RaflW:
Rudy Giuliani at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
kalakal
@WaterGirl: Ohio diners mysteriously empty reports FTNYT
Jackie
@WaterGirl: There’s a meme in the comments of the MTG tweet you posted that’s worth viewing. It’s marked sensitive so you have to click “view” to open. It made me lol.
Geminid
@Baud: Not sure if it’s noteworthy, but according to Ron Filipkowski, DeSantis said he’s “been preparing for this primary all my life.” Kind of a left-handed compliment.
Layer8Problem
@C Stars: The word “Ow” springs to mind. Sorry to hear.
Baud
@Geminid:
He’s been practicing his laugh in the mirror.
kalakal
@Sure Lurkalot: I would have thought the words “Fisher Price” on the gavel they gave her should have been a clue
Captain C
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Is that Puddin’ Fingers’ drag name?
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s an image I don’t need in my head, thanks a lot!
Jackie
@karen marie: Makes me wonder if Mrs McCarthy approves of Kevin and Margie’s closeness. Myself? EWWWWWW🤢🤮
Captain C
@RaflW:
And he’s probably already fired all the Spaces people he could possibly fire without making it completely kaput. Didn’t he get rid of a bunch of servers, too?
mrmoshpotato
Lewis Black describes the Floriduh insanity against anyone who’s gay as “Orwellian comedy.”
mrmoshpotato
@kalakal: Squeak! Squeak!
Maxim
The laughter felt rehearsed to me (especially how loud it was and how long it went on), but either way she deserved it. And her voice — good grief. Like a bad SNL impression of a whiny baby.
WaterGirl
@TaMara: There was an article about their new social media hire a few weeks/months ago. Looks like she is as good as expected.
WaterGirl
@Jackie: Interesting thought!
WaterGirl
@kalakal: Ha! Or maybe there were so many connecting from the diners that it took out the wifi.
WaterGirl
@Jackie: Oh, in the comments! I’ll be right back.
Manyakitty
@TaMara: okay, fine. They earned my donation 😀
karen marie
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s probably already got her DNA on it.
JaySinWA
@WaterGirl: There are a lot of comments, I think Jackie will have to be more specific.
WaterGirl
@Jackie: I’m not seeing anything marked Sensitive. ??
But I found this gem.
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: Banging for decorum.
I think that would be a lovely rotating tag. :-)
karen marie
@Jackie: I didn’t bother because something else I had followed a twitter link to that had a “restricted for content” or some such demanded I log in.
I hate that place and try to click through as infrequently as I can anyway.
Craig
@WaterGirl: OT. sometime last week people were talking about work from home and you posted an app that helps track your time on projects. I’m starting a new project soon and would love to check out that app. Can’t find the post if you wouldn’t mind reposting the link.
Roger Moore
@Jackie:
I would guess anything that lets her spend more time away from her husband is fine in her book.
WaterGirl
@kalakal: She’s so dumb, she thinks she gets more power by banging harder.
She never watched Nancy SMASH who didn’t need to prove she was the big dog, she would most often lightly tap the gavel and got everyone’s attention.
Ken
Well, it’s a cinch he’s not been serving as governor.
WaterGirl
How immature would it be to have a How Dumb Is Marge thread? It’s probably beneath me, but it is fun to think about.
Geminid
@Maxim: What may have triggered the laughter was how Greene admonished members to observe “decorum of the House. She left out a “the” in front of decorum, so it sounded like she said “de corum of the House.”
And Greene might actually think that decorum is two words, like how she confused gazpacho with Gestapo.
WaterGirl
@Craig: That’s easy!
Toggl
Jackie
@WaterGirl: Ironically the how dumb is MTG was a meme I was trying to direct you to in the Twitter comments. She’s holding a sign which says something like “I’m so stupid I don’t know how stupid I am.” I had to click a view box to open it – it was marked sensitive content.
Connor
@WaterGirl:
When I was 9 or 10 my mother, who had been drinking, called me a “son of a bitch.” I immediately replied “Mother! Don’t talk about yourself that way!”
What happened next was momentarily painful, but oh so worth it…
prostratedragon
@Jackie: What I wonder is why on earth such an item was up for auction.
Maxim
@Connor: On behalf of smartass kids everywhere, I salute you.
Captain C
MTG hammering the gavel reminds me of this part of this scene from Animal House.
mrmoshpotato
@Connor: LOL! Quick mind there!
Maxim
@Geminid: I keep thinking that she’s not as dumb as she acts, that it’s all a very cynical shtick to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Not that it matters; her deeds are reprehensible regardless.
Roger Moore
@Connor:
There is a similar story about Esther Edwards Burr, daughter of famed preacher Jonathan Edwards and mother of Aaron Burr. Supposedly, her father once called her “child of the devil” for waking up late, and she just responded, “Good morning, father“. Yes, it is unwise to criticize your children’s parentage.
PaulB
@WaterGirl: I assume this is the tweet that Jackie was referring to. It’s an image of Marge holding a (photoshopped) sign that says, “The tragic thing is I’ll never be smart enough to realize how stupid I am.”
Bill Arnold
@Jackie:
The internal Twitter postmortem/toot cause analysis on this will be amusing.
Jackie
@prostratedragon: Makes one wonder what else was being auctioned.
Jackie
@PaulB: Yes! Thanks PaulB!
It made me 😂
zeecube
@WaterGirl: It can be found in the tweet by “Peter”, about 12 comments down. Good will hunting.
Miss Bianca
@Jackie: and how much MTG paid for Kevin’s jockstrap.
zhena gogolia
I love it when she’s in a hearing and she’s wearing “smart glasses,” and she keeps taking them on and off. She thinks she looks like an intellectual.
NotMax
@Miss Bianca
She went for the set. Each tastefully embroidered with a day of the week.
//
cckids
@prostratedragon: Yes! They couldn’t find a pen he’d used, or his favorite tie, or . . . LITERALLY ANYTHING NORMAL?!
Jackie
@Miss Bianca: Used?
EEEEWWWWWW!
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia:
Haha! Burn!
WaterGirl
@Jackie: Sorry I didn’t find that one!
WaterGirl
@Maxim: She is cunning and conniving and ambitious, and yet still dumb.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: PaulB found it. Comment 117😊
Rebel’s Dad
@Alison Rose: I cackled!
Geminid
@Maxim: Personally, I would not neccesarily say that Greene is stupid. But college degree or no, she’s definitely uneducated.
Greene lucked out when she entered politics. She started running in the suburban Atlanta 6th(?) CD, where she would have faced Lucy McBath. Local Republicans wanted Karen Handel though, and Greene was steered to the 14th CD, whose Republican Congressman was retiring. Bordering Alabama on the west and Tennessee on the north, the 14th is probably Georgia’s safest Republican district.
Paul in KY
@Omnes Omnibus: I wish you hadn’t written that…. Yeeeiccckkkk