I won’t gloat in real life – it’s so unattractive – but I am ridiculously pleased by this, and it’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders, so please tell me I can be forgiven for gloating over her getting her commuppance.
“In other words, Huckabee-Sanders inflated the price of a wooden podium that appears to have never even been delivered, funneled the taxpayer money to an insurrectionist friend, and then tried to hide the purchase from taxpayers and reporters.”
That about (allegedly) sums it up. https://t.co/W8encP6urt
— Allison for Arkansas (@AllisonForAR) September 30, 2023
⭐️
From Occupy Democrats twitter feed
BREAKING: Trumper Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is caught in a massive new scandal as reporters reveal that she spent a whopping $20,000 of taxpayer money on a podium that was never delivered — and then tried to cover it up by abusing her power.
It all started when it was revealed that she wasted $20,000 on the wooden podium. Then, the Arkansas Republican Party swooped in and paid for the podium in order to save her from the growing scandal — and Huckabee Sanders quickly got a law passed that would block the public from knocking what she had spent their money on.
Unfortunately for Huckabee Sanders, the scandal was only just beginning, and about to get MUCH worse for her, because a REPUBLICAN lawmaker smelled a rat and immediately demanded that the Legislative Audit of Arkansas initiate a full audit of her podium purchase — and every single another purchase that she had made with taxpayer dollars.
Now, reporters, auditors, and ethics organizations are accusing Huckabee Sanders of using the $20,000 of taxpayer money to pay a friend’s company — and that it appears that the podium was never even delivered.
To make matters worse, they claim that Sanders show used taxpayer money to fly her friend, who happens to be one of the organizers of Trump’s January 6 insurrection, to Paris to join her on a trip.
I’m other words, Huckabee-Sanders inflated the price of a wooden podium that appears to have never even been delivered, funneled the taxpayer money to an insurrectionist friend, and then tried to hide the purchase from taxpayers and reporters.
Simply deplorable…
At first I was cranky because I thought a giant picture of her face should come with a trigger warning, but then I saw the story and didn’t care.
⭐️
Their Hunger Games have begun.
May the odds never be in their favor. https://t.co/ZAqSymlWyv
— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) October 2, 2023
Open thread.
Baud
Would prefer child labor to be the scandal, but I’ll take it.
Suzanne
She really does look like she fell off the surface of Guernica.
bbleh
Here’s a tidbit:
WaPo lead hed
Maxim
@Suzanne: I try not to criticize people about their appearance, but that made me laugh.
cain
I must say that Clint Eastwood does the narrowed one eye scowl better than she does.
Regardless, I will celebrate her being uncomfortable. She’ll likely survive it given that it is Arkansas. But it is a pretty bad scandal if you’re funneling tax dollars and then go out and do fun things with a Jan 6th Organizer. JFC.. She must have been confident that the GOP was going to cover for it.
She clearly pissed some member of her own party for a GOP dude to go after her like that.
WaterGirl
@Maxim: If they weren’t so ugly on the inside, we wouldn’t care what they looked like on the outside.
Scout211
The story in Salon reports that this started with a whistleblower who has “direct knowledge” of Huckabee-Sanders’ fraud. Link
Jaime Harris is a very good communicator.
WaterGirl
@bbleh: Yes! I had copied that tweet to include it, but then in my excitement I first posted it without the Matty G. story. Updated now, thanks.
Brachiator
These clowns are clumsy, low level grifters. They love to complain about free spending big government, and how the baby Jesus keeps them honest, but then show their true colors. They are pigs who can’t wait to wallow in the slops of corruption.
Villago Delenda Est
I’ll gloat all damn week over this turn of events. This woman is utterly evil, and deserves every bit of opprobrium she gets.
Baud
Via Reddit, dogs know.
Villago Delenda Est
@bbleh: If there was ever a Lead Zeppelin, this is it. Go ahead, Panhandle Pedo. Make our week, although you have to compete with the bawling three year old who graced a Manhattan courtroom today.
eclare
@Baud:
Awww…and yes, they do.
John Revolta
BRB going out for ALL the popcorn
Shalimar
If she were a better person, I would feel sorry for her. She is the best example of “resting unhappy asshole face” I have ever seen.
schrodingers_cat
OT Is any here doing the Inktober challenge?
jonas
Abusing the public trust and corruptly wasting taxpayer dollars to enrich your cronies is a feature, not a bug, among Republicans these days. I expect her poll numbers will hold steady if not rise. Remember the more you’re persecuted, the holier you really are.
If she were a Democrat, her immediate resignation and suicide would be the only acceptable outcome for something like this.
NaijaGal
I’m delighted about Katalina Kariko and Drew Weissman receiving the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their mRNA work that led to a COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough.
New York Times gift link. Wouldn’t blame Kariko for gloating right now (UPenn demoted her to adjunct faculty status because she couldn’t get NIH grants – her area of work on mRNA wasn’t considered promising when she started it decades ago). That is one woman who persevered.
bbleh
@John Revolta: lol, the buttery popcorn, the cheesy popcorn, the caramel popcorn, the spicy popcorn, the Hawaiian popcorn with that weird sweet purple stuff …
I have perfected my vegan popcorn recipe: olive oil, salt, brewer’s yeast and garlic powder, plus red pepper flakes if you want some bite. Mmmm! Buttery and slightly cheesy without butter or cheese!
bbleh
@Baud: That is … brilliant. The campaign should grab that and send it all over the place. That dog could probably sway more votes than half a dozen Senators.
C Stars
@NaijaGal: Thank you for the link. I remember reading about her during the pandemic; it’s a great life story.
Chetan Murthy
@bbleh: Can I ask: how do you … “pop” it? I’ve tried using a brown paper bag in the microwave (with organic corn kernels) and it ….doesn’t seem to give good results.
zhena gogolia
@Suzanne: 😂😂😂
WaterGirl
@Baud: No idea who Selma Blair is, but she is definitely on the side of light.
Dogs do know.
C Stars
The story is a little unclear–was the $20k for the podium used to fund her trip to Paris with said seditionist? Or was that a separate output of taxpayer dollars.
Either way, it’s so creepy that she immediately signed a law to cover her tracks.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Oh, that is priceless!
unctuous
@Suzanne: That’s mean.
Yet.
You know, sometimes I feel for ugly people, especially women. Because beautiful people, especially women (especially in a Man’s world), have so many advantages, and not so the ugly.
But then I think of all the quote unquote beautiful people, with all the advantages and privileges that pertains, yet who are truly ugly on the inside; and all the quote unquote ugly people, with all the disadvantages and discriminations that pertains, who are truly beautiful on the inside, and then I think of Sara Huckabee-Sanders, who unlike so many ugly people did in fact have the fortune to be born into a powerful and connected family, with all the advantages and privileges that pertains, and I think of how surely with her first-hand understanding of “there but for the grace of god go I, ugly and powerless and with no prospects”, and I think of her cruelty and meanness and her indifference toward those deemed “other”, surely no great step from those shunned as “ugly” among the beautiful and powerful, and I cannot muster any sympathy or empathy toward her.
And in short,
fuck this mean cruel ugly bitch who ought to know better
who should have known better.
And yes, that’s mean.
Let them reap as they sow.
Or as efgoldman used to say, fuck ‘em.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: She’s an actress (Legally Blonde, etc.) who has MS.
zhena gogolia
@unctuous: She’s an example of someone who could be nice-looking if she weren’t so mean and dumb. It’s not really her features, it’s her soul you’re seeing that is so ugly.
bbleh
@Chetan Murthy: I get the stuff in the plastic bags — yellow popping corn. I use a BIG pot, pour in a thick layer of olive oil — not nearly enough to float the kernels, more like half a cup, but too much is much better than too little — put it on the stove top, turn on the heat, and drop in THREE kernels. When all three have popped, the temp is right, and then I dump in the rest and put on a lid. And then it’s just pop pop pop. I’ll shake it a few times to make sure any unpopped kernels settle to the bottom. When you don’t hear a pop for, say, three seconds, it’s done. Takes maybe 10-15 minutes, a significant chunk of which is just waiting for the oil to heat up.
I dress with more olive oil (that’s why more is better than less) and the other stuff, usually by dumping half of it into another pot and putting all the goodies in the middle and then shaking it all up, but that’s probably overkill. Could mix it all up in a bag too.
cain
haha – apparently, at Dianne Feinstein’s funeral George Santos reveals that he is married to his husband.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/george-santos-husband-dianne-feinstein
The joke being that not only is it a funeral it’s a husband-husband reveal.
WaterGirl
@NaijaGal: Thank you for the backstory!
@C Stars: We gave her credit here – she was the image for some of our vaccine stickers!
Brachiator
@NaijaGal:
I listened to a wonderful interview with a reporter who asked how she reacted on hearing the news about the prize. I am very happy for her. She also mentioned her daughter, who is talented in a different field.
An amazing family.
bbleh
@Brachiator: That is … more than amazing. We need to harvest their genes, stat! Get Fauci suited up and send out the black helicopter!
lowtechcyclist
@NaijaGal:
From the NYT story:
Quantum weirdness sounds like something I should aspire to.
HumboldtBlue
@Chetan Murthy:
Just get yourself one of these.
bbleh
@lowtechcyclist: dibs on the band name
Kent
The real scandal in Arkansas is the dismembering of the public education system to funnel billions of dollars to out of state billionaires.
That is happening on her watch too.
MattF
Soooo not surprised. ‘Huckabee’ should become a term of opprobrium— “Wow, that’s one really big Huckabee.”
Suzanne
@unctuous: She’s not ugly. She cultivates that WTF, asymmetrical look. It is ludicrous in a professional setting.
lowtechcyclist
@Kent:
If you don’t teach the kids about pronouns at all, you won’t have to worry about which ones they want to use.
Ken
“Their Hunger Games”? I thought we’d agreed to call it “Night if the Long Sporks.” Who forgot to cc: fake Jack Smith with the memo?
laura
Something something Smokey Eye https://youtu.be/NclJj1h_MW4 These Huckabees are terrible people each and every one.
bbleh
@MattF: Lol I nearly clogged the toilet when I took this massive huckabee, and okay I apologize to the blog community that was inappropriately crude.
Suzanne
@bbleh: It’s okay. We got to read all about John’s colonoscopy prep for days, and it was hilarious.
laura
@schrodingers_cat: OMG! I’m late because I ran away, but I may have to drawtober. I thought of You this weekend whilst using some prismatic brush pens.
jonas
DeSantis has done something similar in FL — basically said anything the governor does is off-limits to oversight or FOIA. Squirrelshit crazy corruption — but the MAGAts think it’s pwning the libs to abuse the public trust like this, so wev.
Shalimar
@Suzanne: She just looks so angry all the time. I do not know how she has been successful in politics.
prostratedragon
Holy moly! When I saw what the item was I snappily thought, “What did she do, charge it at $10,000?” I’m so naive!
For the Governor and whomever else to which it may apply:
“All Your Goodies Are Gone [Let Hurt Put You In the Loser’s Seat],” Parliament/Funkadelic.
Chetan Murthy
@unctuous: it’s funny, I don’t think of Huckabee Sanders when I think of an ugly look; I think instantly of Lauren Bobert for whom the phrase ” keep making that face and it’ll stick that way” comes to mind instantly. Just a hateful pinched grimace.
bbleh
@lowtechcyclist: Pro-nouns? What’s this “pro”? Some kinda ee-leetist Harvard thing? I done fine with good old-fashioned regular nouns all my life, and I don’t see any reason to change!
bbleh
@Suzanne: @Shalimar: I would say she looks aggrieved, and being aggrieved and offended and victimized is central to MAGAism.
Jackie
TIFG doesn’t pay his attorneys, but at least he goes all out to wine and dine them!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Clearly not…
West of the Rockies
@zhena gogolia:
Every now and then SHS takes a photo where she actually looks maybe sweet and pleasant, but yes, her inner wretchedness usually pours out.
bbleh
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: you callin’ me some kinda pro-something? That what yer doin’?!?
WaterGirl
@Ken: That would probably be me. It goes under “other duties as assigned”.
hells littlest angel
I knew I’d seen her somewhere before!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@jonas:
That can’t be legal. I hope someone is challenging this in court
Suzanne
@bbleh: See, I think she’s trying to play dumb. That’s the look of feigning confusion or ignorance when you know perfectly well what’s up. Like “I could not possibly know who charged $20K for furniture, what?!”. It’s patronizing and insulting and full of contempt.
She looks fine, but her facial expression is part of her communication strategy, and thus I feel no shame in saying that she looks fucken dumb and bad.
karen marie
I prefer reading about a Republican scandal in the local paper that does actual reporting, as opposed to those occupy idiots who continue on Musk’s social media platform and can’t be bothered to proofread or to be accurate in their details.
I think it was pretty obvious to everyone that the rules change was to cover up something. Or many things. And now we know.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jackie:
I remember him doing the same thing during the 2019 shutdown with a college sports team he invited to the WH. It was all fast food. Imagine getting invited to the WH only to be fed lukewarm Micky D’s. I’ll still never forget the chuds who defended it at the time as Trump being a “Man of the People”. Dude owned a hotel, probably with resturants/room service, a few blocks away that could’ve catered it for what, a few grand at cost to him?
NotMax
To be succinctly schoolmarmish, it’s a lectern. A podium is what one stands on; a lectern is what stands at.
//
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Yes, you is a pronoun.
schrodingers_cat
@laura: Which brush pens do you have? I have done two drawings so far but I have yet to ink and color them.
RaflW
@C Stars: It sounds like it isn’t clear yet where the money really went. I’d bet she funded her trip with it, but who knows with these unethical clowns?
karen marie
@NotMax: Sonny Albarado, who has been an investigations editor, a business editor, a city editor, an environmental reporter and a government reporter at newspapers in Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana, a former national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a current member of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, says:
bbleh
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: I “is” a what? Now you makin’ fun of me?!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@bbleh: I think you’re doing a fine job of that, yourself.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
What kills me is that $20k is pocket change to most of these clowns. If the money was used to fund the trip to Paris, just use your own money to fund it like everybody else
bbleh
@NotMax: From the Greek πous, πo∂-, “foot,” as in “podiatry,” “pseudopod,” etc.
The world just all went to H-E-double-toothpicks when we stopped teaching Greek in the schools.
geg6
Fuck her. She’s a horrible person and it shows.
RevRick
@bbleh: Yes and several Democrats have said that they won’t bail him out, because they don’t trust him. The only way they would change their minds would be for McCarthy to create a coalition with the Democrats to govern the House.
Baud
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
That’s why you’re poor.
RaflW
@bbleh: I was a committed pan-method popper for a long time, you describe exactly what my dad taught us. We had specific pot with a reasonably heavy bottom but especially it had an excellent steam vent that helped keep to popped corn crisp but didn’t let any kernels out.
Somewhere along the years, it got lost and I got a hot air popper. Which I still use from time to time, and like just fine.
geg6
@Suzanne:
That slayed me. Should be a rotating tag.
karen marie
@RaflW: The State of Arkansas reportedly paid an invoice from Beckett Events LLC in the amount of $19,029.25. So that’s who got the money. The outstanding question is, what was it for, since it wasn’t for a podium/lectern.
The article I read mentions a “Falcon” lectern similar to the one used at Sanders’ inauguration. A custom Falcon lectern is $6,962. Somebody’s ripping off the Arkansas state government. Looks to me like it’s the governor.
scav
@bbleh: Clearly, you are indeed a red-blooded salt-of-the-earth amateur noun, none of that edjumakated bought and paid for ee-leet professional noun class. Doen let no uppity school marm & grammar book tell you otherwise.
RevRick
@NaijaGal: Kariko ranks with Jenner and Pasteur in the field of immunology.
RaflW
@RevRick: Yes. My question over on Xitter this evening has been, what’s the mechanism by which Kevin delivers on any concessions?
He broke his word on the budget deal. He can’t control is caucus (obviously!). So what deal can he make with Dems that survives more than an ignasecond?
prostratedragon
@NotMax: “succinctly schoolmarmish”
You and Jededaiah Lela, eh?🙂
like a metaphor
@unctuous:
Yet.
You know, sometimes I feel for ugly people, especially women. Because beautiful people, especially women (especially in a Man’s world), have so many advantages, and not so the ugly.
But then I think of all the quote unquote beautiful people, with all the advantages and privileges that pertains, yet who are truly ugly on the inside; and all the quote unquote ugly people, with all the disadvantages and discriminations that pertains, who are truly beautiful on the inside, and then I think of Sara Huckabee-Sanders, who unlike so many ugly people did in fact have the fortune to be born into a powerful and connected family, with all the advantages and privileges that pertains, and I think of how surely with her first-hand understanding of “there but for the grace of god go I, ugly and powerless and with no prospects”, and I think of her cruelty and meanness and her indifference toward those deemed “other”, surely no great step from those shunned as “ugly” among the beautiful and powerful, and I cannot muster any sympathy or empathy toward her.
And in short,
fuck this mean cruel ugly bitch who ought to know better
who should have known better.
And yes, that’s mean.
Let them reap as they sow.
Or as efgoldman used to say, fuck ‘em.
this was so beautiful, I just had to see it again
Uncle Cosmo
Mugshots of Sourah Fuckabee Slanders never fail to remind me of the old adage:
(ETA 2: Cf. unctuous at #27 supra.)
ETA: The other thing is, in the greater scheming of things, $20K is not a lot. Reminds me of the Dishonorable Spiro T. Agnew, former VPOTUS, who was nailed for accepting bribes in white envelopes from his time as Baltimore County Executive through MD Governor even unto the Vice-Presidency: The truly disgusting part was that the amounts were so small, cash in the low 4 figures at most…
Ken
@karen marie: Sounds like a legislative version of the Streisand Effect. “I’ll get a special law passed forbidding reporters from seeing my travel records, then they’ll never suspect there’s anything suspicious about them.”
RaflW
@karen marie: Right, but the speculation is that the recipient of the state’s money then purchased and supplied back things SHS desired bud din’t want taxpayers to know about, since they didn’t spend money building the thing purchased (or spend like 15 or 20% of the purchase price) if it was ever even delivered.
Sure, businesses can make a profit, but say an 80% margin on a government contract is … suspicious on its face.
NotMax
@Chetan Murthy
This little microwave popper does a decent enough job, once one experiments a bit as to which proportions of what to use.
Whether it will perform as well in compact microwave ovens, cannot say.
eclare
@WaterGirl:
Actress who suffers from MS.
bbleh
@RevRick: @RaflW: how indeed can anyone deal with most contemporary Republicans, when it’s obvious their word isn’t worth the gas it takes to get it out of their mouths?
The only answer I can come up with is twofold: (1) there are things that can be demanded immediately, maybe not in this case but in other cases, and (2) this is a repeated game, not a one-time game, so Qevin knows he’s gonna need the Dems again (indeed, he’s already got their support once, in a big way), and if he reneges on a deal (again) then he may not get it the next time.
I can’t imagine Jeffries is a babe in the woods about this, plus he has Nancy Smash! advising him. It may not be made all loud and public, but I trust the price will be paid.
kalakal
@bbleh:
Be careful or you’ll be using the perpendicular pronoun next
Yes Minister
karen marie
@Brachiator: This is why I’m astonished that Tate Reeves is not only running for reelection as governor of Mississippi but has the gall to say SHIT about “welfare.”
What he doesn’t say – and hopes that people forget – is that he was lieutenant governor while his friends were directly benefiting from the fraud that was going on. He absolutely knew about it.
His proposal? Have hospitals would pay higher taxes in order to get federal Medicaid money. Do you know who ultimately pays those higher taxes? That’s right – patients and insurance companies. Of course the insurance companies have to charge higher premiums to account for those increased taxes passed on by the hospitals.
BUT NOBODY BE USING NO WELFARE MONEY BECAUSE WE GOT MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO USE THAT MONEY FOR, LIKE A NEW VOLLEYBALL COURT.
Fuck all Republicans with prejudice.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Baud:
True, I’m not a shameless crook lol
karen marie
@jonas: And, of course, Republicans would be SCREAMING for the resignation and suicide. We’d never hear the end of it.
karen marie
@NaijaGal: Penn is keeping the profits though.
*That’s one way to phrase it, I suppose.
Barbara
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I think she is married and it’s possible that she not only wanted someone else to pay, but she wanted others not to know that she was taking a personal trip. An expense of that magnitude would show up on the monthly credit cards.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@bbleh:
What are the odds McCarthy will actually be removed?
Also, I know there was a 45 day stop-gap passed for federal spending the other day. If there’s no Speaker in place, that means no business can be conducted in the House, including a budget, right?
eclare
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Forget the hotel, the White House is perfectly capable of catering a very good lunch to 100-120 people. I remain convinced TIFG did this because the team was Alabama, which has a lot of those people on it, and of course they all love fast food
I just reread your comment, did the White House kitchen actually shut down? Like you said, if so, his hotel could have done it.
NotMax
@eclare
And it wasn’t watermelon season?
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Ken
I am hoping that sometime in the next few months, after Huckabee Sanders tries to justify the concealed records by invoking her need for security, someone points out that the Republicans don’t want her harmed because they like what she’s doing for the standing and reputation of the Republican party, and the Democrats don’t want her harmed because they like what she’s doing for the standing and reputation of the Republican party.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Barbara:
That’s a good point I didn’t think of
Barbara
@karen marie: Hospital taxes are levied and then the state raises the reimbursement to the hospital for Medicaid patients, which the federal government funds through federal financial participation. Basically, it’s a wash for the state and the hospital but it is used to leverage additional federal money. Tennessee started this back in the 90s, and the federal government won’t pay if the tax is not genuine and is considered to be a sham.
eclare
@Barbara:
That’s an interesting angle.
karen marie
@Barbara:
And everyone else who’s not on Medicaid and doesn’t otherwise have insurance just gets boned again.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@eclare:
I’m not 100% sure, but yes the WH kitchen had to shut down I think. The reason you mentioned is possible given it’s Trump, but I also think he’s just that much of a cheapskate he got the fast food junk. Restaurant-quality meals would’ve been more expensive after all
bbleh
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): as to #2, I’m pretty sure you are correct. No Speaker, no business, no appropriations, no nothing. This is one big argument AGAINST Dems supporting a MTV.
And accordingly as to #1 I’ll go with … approximately zero. Who would benefit? Dems might enjoy the spectacle, but there’s already a spectacle, and per the above it might come with a very material cost (gov’t shuts down –> economy tips into recession –> voters blame Biden and vote against him –> eeek!) so they don’t have much to gain, but conversely they might gain something important by cutting a deal with McQarthy. Republicans would look (even more) like clowns (apologies to actual clowns), plus they’d be squandering their majority and thus their ability to advance their agenda. (There is commentary that maybe TIFG also would benefit, but I don’t think his influence over the most Republican Congress-critters is so strong that they’d go along with a MTV.) So who’s left? The Crazies, but everybody hates them. So … no, na ga ha pa.
OzarkHillbilly
I live in the Ozarks. Nothing in Arkansaw surprises me. Misery too for that matter.
eta or Oklahoma for that matter.
Eyeroller
@karen marie: They always do, whatever work an employee does on “company time” is owned by the employer. This isn’t just a university thing. Most universities have some form of profit-sharing for the inventors, at least.
laura
Quantum weirdness- I feel seen.
Ksmiami
@WaterGirl: she played the snooty smart fiancé in legally blonde
karen marie
@Eyeroller: Except that they demoted her first – after licensing and patenting the work she’d already done. After patenting the work she’d done, knowing there would be significant profits, they demoted her and ultimately forced her out BECAUSE SHE WASN’T ABLE TO GET OUTSIDE FUNDING.
They had the funding. They’d licensed and patented her work. They didn’t want to have anything impinge on their profits – certainly not the cost her being tenured.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@bbleh:
I think you’re correct. I guess we’ll just have to see how this plays out
Mike in NC
Comedian and painter Jim Carrey did a very nice (as in accurate) portrait of Sarah Huckabilly Sanders.
Chetan Murthy
@Mike in NC: pic (scroll down): https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2018/03/jim-carrey-slammed-for-sarah-huckabee-sanders-painting-did-he-go/
bbleh
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): See above discussion re popcorn.
prostratedragon
“Just because a plan is bad […] doen’t mean it isn’t a plan:” Ben Collins on his new article aboutMusk’s twitter strategy.
Mr. Bemused Senior
$20,000 for a podium?
Marx Brothers quotes are all the rage these days.
ArchTeryx
@NaijaGal: That’s just so very much like science these days.
Ksmiami
@geg6: As Regina George would say- “She can’t sit with us…” Sarah is a mean ass ugly fugly byotch.
Shalimar
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): MSNBC had an interview with Ken Buck 90 minutes ago, and he said something like there were 5 votes to oust McCarthy and another 10 considering it so there was a chance he would be ousted.
That gives the game away imo. The only way 15 out of 221 House Republicans dump McCarthy is if all 212 Democrats vote to kick him too. There is zero chance that will happen. If even 10 Democrats vote present instead of yes or no, McCarthy keeps his gavel.
Eolirin
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I would expect the Dems will abstain on the vote. There’s no reason for them to save McCarthy but there’s no reason for them to spike him either. I don’t think there are enough GOP votes to succeed a motion to vacate. So unless a majority of Dems vote with the Freedom Caucus to remove him he should survive.
If they want to play hardball they can threaten to not abstain without concessions but it’s a weak hand to play. Only if McCarthy would lose the vote with just Republicans would the Dems have any real leverage. While Republicans could get away with blowing up the house to hurt the Democrats, the reverse is not true. And if even a single Dem vote tips the scales they will be blamed for all of the consequences.
Villago Delenda Est
@Shalimar: I’d say that because Jeffries is no moran (the Wonkette spelling) and is coached by the best there is, Nancy SMASH, 212 Dems will all vote “present”.
laura
@jonas: please, do not dabble in normalizing suicidal tendancies.
laura
@schrodingers_cat: I’ll give you the inventory in an am thread if that’s okay- I use both the brush pens and crayons because of the deep color saturation.
Ken
@Shalimar: @Eolirin: Would this be a roll call vote like the Speaker election, with members voting in alphabetical order? If not, I would love to see the Democrats wait until all the Republicans have voted. After all, the Republicans have the majority, so it’s really up to them, right?
Then, perhaps after Jeffries stares at McCarthy for a few seconds, the Democrats vote and save McCarthy’s ass. Or maybe not, but I tend to agree with those who above said that the Democrats don’t want chaos.
like a metaphor
@Chetan Murthy: hey, at least he made her more… symmetrical.
dexwood
@geg6: Inner-ugly certainly does have a way of reaching one’s surface.
Barbara
@Ken: People pass and they come back around. They arrange in advance how that’s going to work. This is what happened in 2008 with the bail out, where Republicans wanted it to pass with Democrats only. Nancy Pelosi let it fail the first time around because so many Republicans voted no.
bbleh
@eclare: @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): and the fkin President couldn’t have told them to keep the kitchen open? No no, this was pure spectacle. Look at Rich Donald Trump giving out ALL this food, and paying for it himself! And look at the boys devouring it! What a smart AND generous guy! It’s even better than throwing paper towels at Puerto Ricans!
He’s got the common touch; I’ll give him that. But omg he’s both crass and cheap.
matt
The lying raccoon faced lady is a crook? What are the odds?
Manyakitty
@Shalimar: why on earth has he been showing up on MSNBC? The talking heads don’t push back at all and it’s super gross. Good motivation to turn off the TV, at least.
Shalimar
@Manyakitty: Excellent question. In this case, Jen Psaki was guest-hosting for Chris Hayes so my guess is she’s trying to establish her reputation as a journalist who will interview anyone. My reaction was the same as yours. I made it through the first 2 minutes, had to turn it off, and didn’t remember to turn the tv back on until 15 minutes into Maddow’s show.
Shalimar
duplicate, internet froze for a minute and I clicked post a 2nd time before I realized it wasn’t me who was the problem
TS
@bbleh:
No chance McCarthy would stick to any deal – NONE
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@NaijaGal: As Matthew Yglesias said when he was sane about Paul Krugman, revenge is a dish best served atop a Nobel Prize.
Betty
@Baud: I thought you were referring to the story that Commander only bites Secret Service agents.
Betty
@Shalimar: She has that spot on Monday nights now.