Oh that's why "Cawthorned" is trending. https://t.co/AwNkf8C39k
— Eyes on the Right (@EyesOnTheRight) October 5, 2023
I’m not betting on Gaetz actually getting ousted — he’s too shameless / vicious to go without the threat of genuine legal jeopardy, and (so far) he’s got the support of Gym Jordan, per NBC:
… Jordan also said he would not support efforts to oust Gaetz from the Republican Conference, a possibility that has been floated by House members who are angry that the Florida lawmaker worked to remove McCarthy from the speaker post.
“I don’t think that’s warranted,” Jordan said. “We’ve got a four-seat majority, Matt’s a talented member of Congress.” Jordan added, “I disagree with what he did … but he’s a great member of our committee … I think we gotta come together.” …
Good luck with that, Gym!
Knives out. Keep it coming, boys. pic.twitter.com/wOoD3CfOmR
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 5, 2023
Sen. Markwayne Mullin dishes some more on Matt Gaetz's behavior in Congress, claiming his first interaction with Gaetz involved him drooling over Kristi Noem and calling her a "fine b-word." pic.twitter.com/KACrBdIwES
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 5, 2023
Of course, part of the problem is that half the GOP members probably have almost-as-embarrassing skeletons in their own closets. But any dissension between Republicans, IMO, is good news for the rest of us!
Would require 2/3 of the conference. 147 members. not impossible, given how much people dislike Gaetz
(Rule 1(b) of House Republican Conference Rules) https://t.co/0jzsfmuZrK
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 4, 2023
And, of course, no telling how many more ugly stories are due for release…
Yep Matt Gaetz is getting politically Cawthorned.
Everyone should be expecting the early findings report, of that Ethics Committee investigation into Gaetz, to come out any day now AND for it to be VERY BAD for Gaetz.
Like EXPEL-worthy level of BAD for Gaetz.
Stay tuned. ?? ??
— Phoenix_Ranger_ProdigalSon (@Phoenix_Ranger2) October 5, 2023
Backstory, in case you suppressed the memories:
#Cawthorned KARMA pic.twitter.com/aDvEmgRjDj
— IT’S TIME FOR JUSTICE (@LiddleSavages) October 5, 2023
It’s great that Matt Gaetz is getting #Cawthorned but it’s so telling that the GOP defended this sexual predator for so long, ignoring what they knew about him to protect their corrupt party
No surprise fellow abuser Gym Jordan defends him as he runs for Speaker of the House pic.twitter.com/i73xvJGc0b
— Caitlin of County Kerry (@lynn_of_cait) October 5, 2023
Baud
They’ll expel him and blame Dems for it.
Stephen
This sounds bad – Trump discussing nuclear sub secrets with a foreign national, who then told others.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-white-house-trump-allegedly-discussed-potentially-sensitive/story?id=103760456
hells littlest angel
It doesn’t get much more on fucking brand than that. Dr. Richard Strauss says hello.
NotMax
Gaetzgate.
Maybe they’ll agree to expel him and then award him the speakership as a consolation prize.
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David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
MattF
They deserve to end up like the final scene in the last episode of Seinfeld: locked up together in a jail cell in Podunk. And, sure, give them all free ED meds mixed into their energy drinks.
hells littlest angel
@Stephen:Trump discussing nuclear sub secrets with a foreign national
I take solace in imagining the discussion: “And it’s very big, very powerful. They’re saying it’s record-breaking, like no one has ever seen before. And it’s big. So powerful. Hey, where are you going?”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Stephen: It does sound bad, but this is from Cheryl Rofer so I’m going to wait and see:
hueyplong
@Baud: If the Dems don’t want the “blame” for a Gaetz ouster, I’ll gladly take credit for it.
Rebel’s Dad
The chickens are finally coming home to roost for Fivehead.
Maybe if he’d choked a few of them instead of hoeing around, he wouldn’t be in this situation.
Captain C
Re: that pic of Gaetz and Failson #1, you just know all the coke dealers in the area were able to take the rest of the week off.
prostratedragon
Wanna see Barbara McQuade laugh? Ask her what happens if Rudy Giuliani can’t find a lawyer to take his GA case, as Joy Reid did. It was startling.
Scout211
Nah, they won’t expel him . . .yet. My guess is that this is all public shaming to attempt to knock him off of his self-styled pedestal and force him back in line and under the control of leadership.
Will it work? I doubt it. But I don’t mind watching the spectacle of the GOP House members trying to get control over him.
NotMax
Sidney slapped.
That (D) oughtn’t be there at all, more especially as Powell is not followed by (R). It’s another example of journalistic malpractice.
TheronWare
@Rebel’s Dad: Fivehead…Haaahahahahahahahahahahaha!
WaterGirl
@prostratedragon: Do you have a link?
WaterGirl
@TheronWare: At least someone understood the comment.
Redshift
@hueyplong:
Yeah, I think it would be quite a briar patch situation: “Oh, don’t you dare try to blame us for that! We would really hate that!”
NotMax
@hells littlest angel
Remembering “Puerto Rico is surrounded by big water, ocean water.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@prostratedragon: I’ve only listened a couple of times, but I find all the Sisters In Law (McQuade, Joyce Vance, Kimberly Atkins and to some extent Jill Wine-banks) much looser on their podcast than on TV. JWB is a bit looser in general
satby
For your amusement, Driftglass channels DougJ:
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
His forehead is bigger than a fourhead, hence it’s a fivehead.
MattF
@Dorothy A. Winsor: On the bird site it’s pretty specific:
Nukular Biskits
Yesterday, MS Governor Tate Reeves proudly bragged on Twitter, “I’m voting for Donald Trump in 2024.”
Today, he hasn’t had a word to say about Trump blabbing nuke sub secrets.
Baud
@Nukular Biskits:
He’s still voting for Trump.
eclare
@WaterGirl:
I got it too! He may be a Sixhead…
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@eclare: Perhaps, but he’s no more than a four from the eyes down.
eclare
@satby:
:::chef’s kiss:::
Chetan Murthy
@prostratedragon: Oh, do you have a linkie? I always like hearing from Barbara McQuade, Joyce Vance, and Jill Wine-Banks. They …. do not fuck around.
MagdaInBlack
Gaetz bs story about viagra and energy drinks sounds like a letter to Playboy or Hustler about things that never actually happened.
Nukular Biskits
@Baud:
I assume you mean with respect to a finding of guilt in a court of law?
JoyceH
@Steeplejack: what I find most peculiar about Gaetz is his weirdly protruding and pointy chin. Boebert has the same thing— relatives?
eclare
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
I am restraining myself from commenting. Many thoughts are in my head.
I will say this, I wonder how popular he would have been without Molly?
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@MagdaInBlack: I just wanted to sound cool, man.
I tend to think of that shit as honesty in powder form. I wonder how many unflattering comments he let slide while partying.
Chief Oshkosh
@Stephen: Pratt and Trump ought to be sharing a cell at Guantanamo. I hear DeSantis would be all for that, given his Gitmo experience.
satby
@JoyceH: get everything sorted for your trip?
piratedan
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I think that’s entirely based on how extensive that informal network is; to use an example that rolls thru all of our informal networks that identifies noteworthy scuttlebutt. I’m simply unsure on how much intersection there is between Aussie millionaires in Trump’s orbit and members of the nuclear power community there is….
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Dump’s knowledge of new-clear subs consists of watching the Lauren Holly comedy, “Down Periscope“
Roger Moore
They can say whatever they want, but people who want to support Gaetz can ignore it because it’s just he said she said. The thing that really did Cawthorn in was the videos, especially the gay sex videos, which he couldn’t dismiss easily. Nothing is going to happen to Gaetz until they can produce something similarly embarrassing with the plausible promise of more to come.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Roger Moore: Honestly, the stuff that got Cawthorne thrown out was some of the most likeable and real shit I’ve seen out of any Republican in my adult life.
cain
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Probably drinking 😉
skerry
Looking at the pic of Gaetz and Jr, I didn’t realize until now that the combination of ED meds and energy drinks makes your forehead grow.
Nukular Biskits
I normally refrain from commenting about the physical appearances of others, but Gaetz reminds me of this guy for some reason:
Jethro Bodine
Baud
@skerry:
I think it’s the lying. It’s not always the nose that grows.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
No, that’s not it at all. He’s just a dick in a suit.
Mike in NC
In a better world Matt Gaetz would be picked to be Fat Bastard’s running mate, but they’re both Florida residents
There’s probably a video out there of Gaetz and Trump Jr snorting coke off some hooker’s ass.
smith
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: TFG may very well have had authoritative documents back in his office to jog his memory. For that matter, we already know he’s shown classified maps and battle documents to random people — who’s to say he didn’t have the nuclear sub ones right there in his pocket?
bbleh
They are so wrapped around the axle that I haven’t seen a thing about Hunter Biden in DAYS.
The implosion was inevitable and desirable, but neither it nor the damage they cause is anywhere near over, and that 45-day clock keeps ticking ..
(And to hear Gym Jordan trying to sound like a Pillar Of The Institution is 😂 )
cain
Oh sure .. before all that shit was just ‘locker room talk’s when Trump says shit .. now not so much eh ?
GOP voters are gonna be very confused. If this civil war became prolonged.. Fox viewers are gonna know a lot of shit about random stuff on TV.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@smith: Electors would then be forced to choose if they prefer Trump as President or Gaetz as Veep. I don’t envy them this task.
eclare
@Nukular Biskits:
But he knew his guzintas!
Two guzinta four two times…
Yes, I was raised on bad reruns, also Gilligan’s Island.
Nukular Biskits
@eclare:
Ah, those halcyon days.
My brother and I would race home from the bus stop so we could catch reruns of the Three Stooges on afternoon TV.
hueyplong
@Nukular Biskits: I think he’s more like 1980s 15-minute icon Max Headroom (only with odd, jet-black hair).
JoyceH
Roger Moore
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
I won’t argue the point, but whether it was likeable and real or not, it was revenge porn. Someone who had access to Cawthorn’s personal stuff released it to punish him for doing something they didn’t like. Whoever released that stuff should be sued into penury and thrown in prison for good measure.
Another Scott
@MattF: I wouldn’t be at all surprised if at least some of the reporting is wrong. (I haven’t read the story or the tweets.)
Nuclear warheads are limited by treaties that we still honor.
Wikipedia:
The “how close” stuff may be right or may be wrong, dunno.
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@eclare
Take it you arrived too late on the scene for the likes of My Mother the Car and Captain Nice.
;)
JoyceH
@Roger Moore: but apparently Gaetz had videos too, that he showed to people on the house floor, bragging about how he’d done this one and that one. They’ve known all along what a sleaze he is
Betty
What a dilemma for Republicans. An Ethics Committee Report on Gaetz which allegedly addresses campaign finance problems due to come out while the Santos case is heating up since his Campaign Finance Manager has pleaded guilty. They can’t afford to lose two members so it looks like they are stuck with these two.
Nukular Biskits
@hueyplong:
Now that you mention it … I can’t unsee it.
bbleh
@hueyplong: Nukular Biskits: no aspersions meant, but he has also a Jack-Nicholson-like wicked thing going on — the sharp features, the eyebrows, etc.
I’ll give him this — he can talk and handle static and not miss a beat. The news conference before the “debate” on the MTV was a little surprising
But omg what a sleaze. Ladies and gentlemen, your Party of Family Values.
Brachiator
@Stephen:
As far as his base is concerned, Trump can do no wrong. And the Pope envies Trump’s infallibility.
Nukular Biskits
@bbleh:
In my mind’s eye, he fits the stereotypical image of a shady used car dealer.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Roger Moore: When you put it that way, it was even less of a reason to have him removed. And fully agreed on the consequences deserved by the person whonreleased those videos
ETA: The likeable and real assessment almost applied to the whole Reoublican caucus when he was talking coke orgies, right up until they responded the way they did. But why would I ever believe Republican politicians would engage in such pure, wholesome, community engaging activities?
Lyrebird
@Nukular Biskits: Yeah the various folks I know near that wee little shipyard on the Gulf Coast might not be very happy right now. I never ever ever discuss politics with them, since I am an evil Yankee bluestocking, but I wonder.
glc
@Roger Moore: That and his co-conspirator offering Roger Stone $250,000 for a presidential pardon and eventually pleading guilty, but then we all have friends like that.
smith
Sociopaths are pretty hard to ruffle.
Nukular Biskits
@bbleh:
One more thing: I seriously do not get how any woman could think the man attractive, or at least on the scale that Gaetz has been bragging.
It takes all kinds to make the world go ’round and most of us aren’t Playboy/Playgirl cover material. I got it. But without even knowing Gaetz’s (alleged) history, even as a heterosexual guy, I’m thinking “ICK!”
NotMax
@Brachiator
They both issue forth bull?
;)
Brachiator
@bbleh:
Whenever I see the name Gym Jordan, I think of a pair of old workout shoes.
Nukular Biskits
@Lyrebird:
You work out at HII as well?
Shalimar
Jeffries might want to talk to Scalise or Emmers and see if they can provide support in exchange for something like Ukraine aid being brought up for a vote. Scalise does not have enough votes against Jordan without help, and Emmers or someone else would be a good compromise candidate. Anyone but Jim Jordan.
smith
@glc: Stone was offering them for only $250,000? Rudy was asking $2 mil! Maybe you could get them wholesale if you knew where to look.
JoyceH
@Nukular Biskits: teenage hookers, paid with money and drugs and “glamorous” parties.
MagdaInBlack
@Nukular Biskits: He has overwhelming “Ick Factor.” Thats why I dont believe his stories.
Nukular Biskits
@JoyceH:
This is awful of me, I admit, but there’s no way they were paid enough.
Chetan Murthy
@MagdaInBlack: We know TFG raped a 13-year-old; I’m inclined to believe he did the things he claims, though I agree with @JoyceH: as to the “how”.
smith
@JoyceH: Naive as I am, it only occurred to me today that a slimeball with a predilection for teenagers is well advised to go for the underage sex workers instead of random high school girls. That way you can be assured she won’t testify against you.
WaterGirl
@Nukular Biskits: But when you’re 16 or 17? And he’s an “important” guy in government? Why, that could turn your pretty little head in an instant.
glc
@smith: Well, that might be why he wound up pleading guilty. Apparently it wasn’t enough. I was never deeply involved in that market, focused more on getting my car through inspection. Which was tricky enough, but I’m good for the next two years.
eclare
@JoyceH:
Yay! Assuming normal flight times, hopefully you can have a relaxing day before the flight. Tip: call the front desk and ask for a late checkout. They will give it to you, they can’t clean hundreds of rooms at 11 am at once.
WaterGirl
@Brachiator: When I hear the name Gym Jordan, I think of boys being sexually assaulted, I think of boys being sexually assaulted.
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Nukular Biskits
@MagdaInBlack:
Even back in my “wild and woolly days” (which really weren’t very wild or even woolly), I never did get into the bragging about sexual exploits thing.
A lot of guys I knew bragged about their conquests. I kept my damned mouth shut (but that was more because I was never really a “player” in the first place).
Guys who bragged about how many girls they bedded were trying to convince themselves, IMHO, more than everyone else.
eclare
@NotMax:
Yep! Never saw those. The Munsters was considered better tv.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … Science.org:
I’m no expert, but the standard model that (as I understand it) had people crossing the land bridge just after the ice age and then being everywhere in the Americas in a relatively short period of time never made any sense to me.
“But it would only take 2.5 years to walk from Anchorage to Tierra Del Fuego averaging 10 miles a day!! Sure, but why would you do that unless you knew it was there, and had a reason to, and had all the necessary resources with you??
Cheers,
Scott.
Ken
I thought they had a slightly larger margin. Up above Jordan is quoted saying “We’ve got a four-seat majority”. I was trying to figure out who besides Gaetz and Santos might leave — unfortunately it doesn’t look like McCarthy is going to rage-quit.
Nukular Biskits
@WaterGirl:
Absolutely no one has ever accused me of having a “pretty head”.
LOL!
But, yeah, I got it: Youth are impressionable. I resemble that as well.
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: I suppose you’re right, when I consider all the truly icky men with women on their arms.
But still, ick ick ick ick ick.
Roger Moore
@JoyceH:
The question isn’t whether Gaetz has videos; it’s whether anyone who want to hurt him has those videos. From the reporting I’ve seen, he showed people videos on his phone. There’s no indication he sent those videos to anyone, so it’s quite likely nobody else has them.
Also, while we’re at it, somebody should post a link to Alexandra Petri’s outstanding column on this topic. Since nobody else seems to have done it, I volunteer. It shows her sense of humor, but she’s direct and earnest in saying Gaetz’s behavior is not OK rather than making fun of people who act like that as she usually would. I thought it was a sufficiently outstanding column that I saved a link, and I’m kind of sad Gaetz has given me a chance to share it.
Shalimar
@MagdaInBlack: Viagra and energy drinks together sounds like a massive heart attack risk. I cannot imagine being that stupid. There is no prize for sex endurance that makes the death risk worth it.
Ken
Maybe Stone was forging the signature. Rudy, foolishly going to TFG, had to give him his cut.
Nukular Biskits
@Shalimar:
Yeah, but you’re forgetting the “OWNING TEH STEWPIT LIBTARDS! HYUCK!HYUCK!HYUCK!” factor.
Ken
I would definitely have included some context with that comment.
dmsilev
@Shalimar: Steve Scalise is the guy who accurately described himself as being ‘David Duke without the baggage’, so uh I’d rather not see any Dem votes for him. Not unless it came with an awful lot of substantial and enforceable concessions.
Citizen Alan
@glc: I genuinely don’t think Gaetz has ever had sex without either paying for it or forcing it on someone.
Chetan Murthy
@Citizen Alan: *cough* he’s married. Recently.
Lyrebird
@Nukular Biskits: Nope, but friends of our family have worked for Bath IW, Electric Boat, and Chevron. Different friends, not all the same person, natch! All now either retired or left to do grad school etc.
When I heard you had your recent boat ride to Fla, I was reminiscing though! And thank you for the pecan beer recommendation, I’ve gotta try that.
PS: the folks I met who live near HII are truly wonderful people, but again we NEVER ever ever talked politics. Very carefully avoided.
Nukular Biskits
@Chetan Murthy:
Cue the old joke about how we all pay for sex, one way or another.
hueyplong
@dmsilev: I’ll take Scalise over Jordan, nauseous as it makes me to say that. Scalise has cancer, right?
On the topic, Ron Filipkowski is saying that Trump has decided against trying for speaker.
With luck, Putin will soon declare a lack of interest as well.
Nukular Biskits
@Lyrebird:
I’ve been there for 36 years this past August, having ridden almost every Aegis class cruiser and destroyer built there at least once and a few built at BIW.
You’re welcome. Just had one myself!
smith
In some ways, I’m a little disappointed. TFG as Speaker would be an unimaginable shitshow, far beyond what we’re seeing now, and when the government inevitably shut down just before Thanksgiving it would have been easy to convince the normies that TFG was to blame.
Jay
@Another Scott:
a bunch of the current theories is coastal skirting in boats.
Unfortunately, proof of that is underwater.
It wasn’t a “land bridge”, but instead a coastal marine environment that you could skirt along, eating as you went, until eventually, you got below the ice fields.
The X̱aayda traded and raided into Siberia and as far south as South America in their canoes into the 1800’s.
We are now discovering “clam beds”. Rock walls on beaches out to the low tide zone. They contain 90% more shellfish and crabs than an “unfarmed” beach, have a greater diversity, and trap finfish inside at low tide, (sole, halibut, rockfish, etc).
The saying here is that at low tide, the table is set.
Nukular Biskits
@Lyrebird:
One more thing:
My office is filled with anti-Biden, pro-Trump types. I typically avoid any discussions involving politics (and religion) in the office. Now that I’m management and, of course, an old grumpy bastard, I’ve had to play that card on occasion, reminding members of my own team that we’re not paid to pontificate about politics. I’ve also reminded employees of other contractors that I’ll be more than happy to discuss their inability to refrain from creating a hostile workplace with their own management. That usually tamps things down.
Roger Moore
@Another Scott:
I think a more realistic approach is that it would only take people 1000 years to go from one end of the continent to the other if they moved only 10 or 20 miles a year. That’s fast enough the archeological record would look like people appeared everywhere all at once, but it’s slow enough to be realistic. The whole New World was full of animals that didn’t know how dangerous humans were, and it was almost devoid of communicable diseases dangerous to humans. That’s ideal conditions for humans to thrive. If you assume the population would double every couple of generations, i.e. if every couple had three children who grew to adulthood and had kids of their own, an initial group of a few hundred people could completely fill the continent in 1000 years.
Shalimar
@dmsilev: I despise Scalise, which is why I mention compromise candidates if it is possible. But if it is Scalise or Jordan and you believe Scalise will at least keep his bargains when he makes them, then that isn’t even a close choice. You jump at the chance to help Scalise. In addition to everything else, Scalise is pro-Ukraine and Jordan is very anti-Ukraine. That matters a lot right now.
Lyrebird
Lame fact that you might apprciate: I’ve driven (or ridden) past the cruiser in the cornfields for most of my life!
I might have briefly been part of some software development for coordinating different info streams for those kinds of boats, but my role was miniscule, and I don’t know what the prime contractor did ultimately.
Geminid
@dmsilev: I don’t think Democratic House leadership will trade votes for any concessions, even on Ukraine aid. They’ll make Republicans elect their own Speaker, if they can.
Anyway, I suspect Democrats have a Petition to Discharge ready for Ukraine funding. Rep. Gallego was talking about this back in January.
hueyplong
@smith: I’d bet someone told him that trying for speaker would not immunize him from trials.
HumboldtBlue
Dick Butkus has died.
raven
RIP great Illini and Bear Dick Butkus
hueyplong
@HumboldtBlue: Rumor on LGM is that he had no intention of sitting through the Bears’ game tonight.
Jeffro
@Another Scott: awesome piece!
The history of human migrations around the globe, whether by foot, outrigger canoe, or…?…is surely more strange and amazing than we can guess.
(but it’s SO much fun to think about!)
Nukular Biskits
@Lyrebird:
Ah, yes. CSEDS. Been there many a time.
That area has grown quite a bit since I started in 1987.
Then you know of Martin’s Liquors. My manager used to drive up from Dahlgren, VA, back in his earlier days to support testing at CSEDS and, on his way back home, stop at Martin’s to fill his trunk with Yuengling (at the time, not available in VA). He said that was Moorestown’s only redeeming feature. LOL!
MattF
OT. TPM reports that ‘prosecutors’ (from DOJ, presumably) have solved that last big remaining mystery about George Santos: where did that half-million dollars come from? Entirely imaginary, apparently.
Shalimar
@hueyplong: Bears up 17-0. They’re kicking ass in his memory.
raven
Nukular Biskits
@hueyplong:
That’s awful … and funny as hell.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@smith: I heard today house rules say a Speaker under indictment would need to step down. Trump couldn’t get the job if he wanted it.
Geminid
@raven: Another sports star of the 1960s passed away last week. Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson was 86.
hueyplong
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Probably take them as many as five minutes to change that rule for Trump.
bbleh
@dmsilev: @hueyplong: @smith: @Shalimar: @Geminid: ignoring all the horrible practical realities, it’s a fascinating situation. On the Republican side the choice appears to be between transgressing the rule that Thou Shalt Not Work With Democrats or failing entirely, and on the Democratic side the choice is among a few pretty loathsome alternatives or continued chaos (which is also bad).
I hope the story is right about TIFG — I’d guess it is because HE wouldn’t want it — because he IS a candidate they could all rally behind, and he would be an utter catastrophe. They wouldn’t even have to burn the Reichstag; they could just let it crumble.
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: and re the rule, yes, but (1) they can change the rules and (2) TIFG has made transgression a central part of his brand, so waddaya gonna do about it, huh?!?
Ken
@MattF: Cautious reporting, there.
Could have been the Democrats, could have been the Greens, could even have been the Working Families Party.
raven
@Geminid: Yea, I know.
rikyrah
This voicemail 🤗🤗🤗
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The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@hueyplong: I suppose if he has the votes for the job, he has votes for the rule change. Granted, I don’t think he has any of that.
HumboldtBlue
@hueyplong:
Lol, and now they’re winning.
Matt McIrvin
@Steeplejack: “But I’m not an alien!” –MST3K, the Movie
wjca
Given that they were hearing it from a known reflexive liar, why would any foreign intelligence organization believe it for an instant? Absent one of those lovely classified documents, of course.
“We aren’t worried that President Trump might reveal secrets. Even making the heroic assumption that he could remember one (since secrets are unlikely to have his name featured in the text), no serious spy would give his words any credence anyway.” — proposed statement from the administration in response to these reports.
Suzanne
@Shalimar:
Is there anyone else who thinks about going all night and is like, “That sounds terrible, I’ve got stuff to do”?
Just me?
Awesome.
Geminid
@raven: Brooks Robinson’s passing was big news in Baltimare and DC, probably not as much nationwide as is Dick Butkus’s. But I figured you would know. and was just getting it out there.
Robinson started playing in the majors in 1955, 10 years before Butkus played his first NFL game, and retired in 1977, 3 years after Butkus did. I don’t think Robinson had to contend with pain like Butkus did; he just slowed down..
raven
@Suzanne:
Tell automatic slim
Tell razor totin’ jimT
ell butcher knife totin’ annie
Tell fast talkin’ fannyTonite we’re gonna pitch a ball
Down to that union hall
Gonna romp and tromp ’till midnite
We’re gonna fuss and fight ’till daylight
We’re gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
Frank Wilhoit
@hells littlest angel:
As you cannot conceivably be referring to the composer, who is the other Richard Strauss?
raven
@Geminid: Dude, I’m a 73 year old sports maniac, I know all this shit.
Shalimar
@Suzanne: I apologize in advance to everyone for this, but if you’re counting hours and don’t know whether she even had any orgasms, you’re not good at sex. I suspect Matt Gaetz is really bad at sex.
Noskilz
I don’t know if it will make Gaetz leave, but a good cawthorning will definitely be a very bad time for him which seems like a win no matter what.
Geminid
@raven: I figured you did, but not everybody in this sports desert does.
raven
@Geminid: That’s for damn sure! Brooksie was incredible.
wjca
The first necessary resource being a map. Unless you don’t mind getting stuck on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, or walking all the way around Baja because you were simply following the coast.
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@Rebel’s Dad: I can’t decide if Gaetz looks like a Dick Tracey bad guy, or someone from the Adam West “Batman” series.
hueyplong
lol, lots of sites saying that Trump has dismissed his case against Cohen.
Brachiator
@Boris Rasputin (the evil twin):
Definitely Dick Tracey bad guy.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: Not the “I’ve got stuff to do!” part, but yeah, I heard “going all night” and I’m thinking hell no. Even if he had a bunch of partners so he could go all night, wouldn’t he be sore? Maybe with the right drugs, it’s fine?
WaterGirl
@hueyplong: Yes!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@WaterGirl: Nope, still not tired of the winning.
WaterGirl
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: As an image.
hueyplong
@WaterGirl: That notice says dismissal is without prejudice, which means Trump could refile tomorrow. Expect Cohen to move for sanctions and to make the dismissal to be with prejudice.
Right after Trump filed the suit, Cohen noticed Trump’s depo. All that has happened since is Trump dodging that depo.
Pure bad faith.
WaterGirl
How do you “pause” a case? Does he have to drop it and then file again?
edit: I see that you answered my question at the same time I was composing it!
Ken
@WaterGirl: @hueyplong: Leaving two questions in my mind. Can Cohen now recover his legal fees from Trump? And, did Trump tell his lawyers to do this, or did he not pay their most recent bill?
Another Scott
@Brachiator:
Obligatory Happy Toast.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@hueyplong:Is “noticed Trump’s depo” a legal term?
As in, Cohen filed some notice that Trump would have to be deposed – and didn’t a judge set a certain number of hours that Trump would be deposed? – so Trump wouldn’t submit to a deposition?
Is that what that phrase means?
hueyplong
@Ken: 1. He’ll try.
2. Trump is dodging his deposition and his spokesman’s fecal content is 100%.
WaterGirl
@Ken: Surely this whole thing was malicious bullshit on Trump’s part. Too cute by half; I hope he comes to regret it and has to pay Cohen’s legal fees.
hueyplong
@WaterGirl: Sorry. “Noticed depo” is shorthand for Cohen sent Trump a notice to sit down and answer questions under oath, the questions being posed by Cohen’s attorney. I would have loved to be that questioner and would have felt like a failure if I didn’t cause him to come across the table at me.
Jay
@Boris Rasputin (the evil twin):
Thunderbirds are a Go!
WaterGirl
@hueyplong: I did not realize you were one of our BJ attorneys!
hueyplong
Continuing, the judge ordered him to sit for a 9 hour deposition and Trump just this week sought to put it off yet again because of the NY trial. Then Trump fled the trial, blowing his excuse not to be deposed next week.
Hence his b.s. “pause” of his case.
To lawyers, this shit is laughably transparent.
JoyceH
Saw a thing from the Guardian on Twitter saying that the IRS has put a lien on Giuliani’s Palm Beach condo, he owes over a half a million in back taxes.
hueyplong
If you think about it, in recent times the word “pause” has nearly always been used mendaciously.
WaterGirl
@hueyplong:
Hopefully to the judge, as well.
Alison Rose
@Chetan Murthy: Trust me, that doesn’t necessarily disprove Alan’s point.
WaterGirl
@JoyceH: I saw a tweet that pointed out that for his piddly bak takes, which he has already paid (!) Hunter Biden is being charged with a felony.
And for Rudy’s $500,000 they put a lien on his condo.
Sounds fair to me. //
hueyplong
@JoyceH: Rudy would have been remembered less negativity if he had offed himself after the humiliation of that Sasha Baron Cohen scene.
One day I’ll feel guilty for thinking that. That day isn’t today.
Ken
@hueyplong: Thanks. And I’m glad to see that judges are noticing that Trump is being less than truthful about the amount of time he’s spending huddled with his lawyers preparing his cases.
smith
One of the presenters on Meidas Touch (I think it was Popok) predicted TFG would drop the suit against Cohen because his deposition would be nothing but taking the 5th all day, which in a civil case is considered prejudicial.
Splitting Image
@hueyplong:
Or after the time he claimed on TV that there were no terrorist attacks in the U.S. under George W. Bush. Or indeed after terrorists hit the city’s response headquarters because Giuliani put it in their intended target.
He’s had plenty of chances to preserve his reputation.
smith
@Splitting Image: I much prefer this ending, where he spends what’s left of his sorry life in a GA prison cell.
scav
I’ll admit I had missed how entirely a shit week or so Rudy G has been experiencing.
It’s simply raining shoes! Hallelujah!
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
I’m still laughing.
Sally
@Suzanne: Ha – probably every mother! (Def me!)
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Lyrebird: Some of my code may have run on the cruiser in the cornfields.
I was working at the Aegis plant, writing some of the Aegis code and I understand that after it left our shop, it would be tested there.
Actually that was a weird development process. Technically we were writing a spec. So we’d do algorithm development, then write up what the software did in spec language, then somebody would turn that into code again and then it would go into the cornfields.
Honus
@raven: yeah, but did you know that Brooks was left-handed?
Quinerly
@raven:
Thanks for this. I usually associate Koko Taylor with the song. Saw her twice, including at the Sparta (ILLINOIS) Blues Fest around 1999. Miss that little festival.
And some trivia…Sparta’s claim to fame is it was where In the Heat of the Night was filmed. Sparta is very proud of that.
“Sidney Poitier insisted that the movie be filmed in the North because of an incident in which he and Harry Belafonte were almost killed by Ku Klux Klansmen during a visit to Mississippi. That’s why Sparta, IL, was chosen for location filming.”
prostratedragon
@Nukular Biskits: Kind of like Queen Liz meeting Liz Truss and deciding now’s as good a time as any. But contrary to events in UK, the Bears actually won, and impressively.
columbusqueen
@Nukular Biskits: I’m with you there, but compared to his fellow conservative men I suppose he looks better. I just know that all of them remind me how much more attractive liberal men are across the board, including Joe.
Paul in KY
@Steeplejack: Harry Maguire has the same condition.
Paul in KY
@Nukular Biskits: The character ‘Jethro Bodine’ would be 5 times better or more representative than him. a 1000% better person too!
Paul in KY
@Nukular Biskits: Or an aluminum siding salesman.
Paul in KY
@Another Scott: People made it to the Americas approx 40,000 years ago. That’s when the megafauna began to disappear & you can bet good money it was people killing them off.
Paul in KY
@Jay: Good point. These first inhabitants also followed the great animal herds and predated on them. Via setting fires or stampeding them over cliffs, etc.
Paul in KY
@raven: He got Illinois a Rose Bowl! That shows how great he was. UI will not win a Rose Bowl for another 100 years.
Paul in KY
@Geminid: He stole a WS from us back in 1970. Probably the greatest defensive 3rd baseman I’ve ever seen.
Ben Cisco
@Paul in KY: Also, STILL ALIVE