.
Man’s a known germaphobe, maybe he’ll get an urge to feel clean inside as well as out.
Or he could stroke out, after reading the latest from Hollywood Reporter:
Michael Wolff’s controversial Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is coming to television.
Endeavor Content — the financing and sales arm formed in October between sister companies William Morris Endeavor and IMG — has purchased film and television rights to the No. 1 best-selling book. The massive deal is said to be in the seven-figure range. Endeavor Content plans to adapt the book as a TV series. A network is not yet attached, as Endeavor will now begin shopping the project.
Wolff will executive produce the series, with veteran Channel 4 and BBC executive Michael Jackson — now CEO of indie producer Two Cities Television — also on board to produce…
… Fire and Fury debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, based only on the first two days of sales. In less than a week, the publisher reported more than 1.4 million hardcovers on order and 700,000 copies shipped, making it the fastest-selling nonfiction book in the company’s history.
To date, rights to the book have been sold in 32 countries. It is currently the best-selling book of any genre worldwide. (A Spanish-language edition is set for Feb. 28, with subsequent takes in Arabic, Albanian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Japanese, French, German and other languages also planned.)
Fire and Fury comes to the small screen after HBO canceled a planned series based on the 2016 election in what was poised to be a Game Change sequel of sorts. The pay cabler scrapped the project after sexual harassment allegations emerged regarding source material co-author Mark Halperin, who was poised to pen the script alongside John Heilemann. That opened the door for a Trump tell-all, with demand high for Fire and Fury given Wolff’s cinematic writing and fly-on-the-wall detail…
My only question: Will there be a laugh track? Or is this more of a Stephen-King’s-It-remake deal?
Speaking of heartburn, not to mention scary tales for the GOP:
Trump says he plans to spend 4-5 days a week this year helping Republicans get re-elected https://t.co/bkhPudCnTo @jamesoliphant
— Caren Bohan (@carenbohan) January 18, 2018
This could really cut into Executive Time. https://t.co/KZtY0iKhHi
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 18, 2018
Magda in Black
Yet another example of why I do not own a television.
Waldo
He could spend 7 days a week helping Republicans get elected. By resigning.
JPL
good morning! Thinking of you Ozark.
?BillinGlendaleCA
That’s one mighty clean desk. Reminds me of a sign one of my high school English teachers had on her’s, “A Clean Desk is the Sign of A Sick Mind”.
Gvg
I think all that executive time is because no one wants to see him. People have learned he doesn’t keep his word and even excessive flattery isn’t any use. Everyone is deciding to just work around him, especially world leaders. Lord, is he bad for US interests.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Quinerly
Ozark, thinking of you. We are all worried.
Patricia Kayden
Trump may still be popular among his smallish base but I don’t see how he will motivate anyone outside of his base to vote Republican. He’s an embarrassment to any rational human being. Which President tweets about “Fake News Awards”? Such a petty bully.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
but, but…. I was told we should target white non college men.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
?BillinGlendaleCA
I put together this timelapse of the sunset last Friday from my favorite perch in Griffith Park.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Quinnipiac Poll — Jan 17 — (link)
***Drumpf***
Approve…………………..38%
Disapprove………………57%
***Oprah Winfrey***
Approve…………………..47%
Disapprove………………33%
***Joe Biden***
Approve…………………..53%
Disapprove………………29%
***[Expletive Deleted]***
Approve…………………..48%
Disapprove………………38%
Handsome Joe is the only one with positive numbers among white-non college (42-39). In the same demo Oprah is underwater (33-47) and [Expletive Deleted] is also underwater (35-51).
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@?BillinGlendaleCA: wow, look at pretty orange and soft blue hues.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Thanks, it’s a great place to shot sunsets with West LA in the background.
Magda in Black
@Patricia Kayden:
That “rational human being” thing is the sticking point, unfortunately.
Immanentize
@Quinerly: And thinking of his son and daughter in law. I truly feel for them and fear such an accident in my own family. Good luck to all.
The Thin Black Duke
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Let’s hear it for enlightened self-interest. Sisters are doing it for themselves.
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA: And there it goes, over the edge of the disc to great Great A’tuin…. Very soothing, thanks.
Quinerly
May have been posted. Breaks my heart: http://news.gallup.com/poll/225761/world-approval-leadership-drops-new-low.aspx
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
matt
I’m so old I remember Republicans flipping out about Obama campaigning whenever he did it.
Quinerly
@Immanentize: I’m trying to find out if our mutual St. Louis friend knows anything. She knows Ozark’s other son very well. Talked to her yesterday. She’s looking after my house while I’m gone. Saw Ozark’s post on a rest area stop late in the day.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, nice.
Chyron HR
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
No, see, he’s their champion and they are his chosen people. They yearn for the democratic socialist policies that only he can provide. Republican voters only vote for Republicans because Democrats aren’t left-wing enough. He would have won.
rikyrah
@Quinerly:
Sending positive thoughts and prayers for your family ?
Baud
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: We’re no longer using Wilmer?
Immanentize
@Quinerly: I did not see the update. Did Ozark report the dice we’re still coming up good??
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Baud: I’m just trying something different cuz too many people show up for the other word.
beetlejuice! beetlejuice! beetlejuice!
debbie
@Quinerly:
I wonder if that was published before the “shithole” remark.
Amir Khalid
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Uh-oh. Oprah’s presidential campaign is already in trouble.
MomSense
OzarkHillbilly, thinking of you, your son and family.
Citizen Alan
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
I find the Biden numbers exasperating. People don’t like Joe Biden. People like the amusing genial parody of Joe Biden that is seen in Onion articles and internet memes. In any actual race where Biden is the nominee, you would have to address his role in both the Anita Hill hearing and the passage of the bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005, both of which might will be deal breakers with certain parts of the Obama coalition.
debbie
Someone’s scared. Now tweeting that the Wall was never intended to be an unbroken, solid edifice, and Mexico is still going to pay for it.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: really great! I love sunsets.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: You’re welcome, I’m checking out some different programs to get these timelapses to work without flickering and reduce the amount of noise* in the pics.
*You don’t see as much of the noise on youtube as I do since I look at the 4k mp4.
Amir Khalid
@debbie:
The numbers wouldn’t have been that much different before l’affaire “shithole”, I think. It’s just one of the continuing series of President Trump’s assaults on America’s good name.
satby
@Baud: oh, it took me a minute to figure that one out. I think the name fits.
Raven
@Immanentize: he posted that things were looking fairly positive
Baud
@Citizen Alan: Those numbers will change if he decides to run again.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
@satby: Thanks, I’ve mod’ed my camera and evaluating software so I should be able to produce a much better product once I figure those two parts out.
Baud
@debbie: My lord, he so didn’t write that.
debbie
@Baud:
I hate that Twitter upped their character count.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Joe Biden as a theoretical candidate is much different than as a real candidate. He’s never gained much traction in any Presidential race he’s run in.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
So, more of a confirmation than a new insult. Sad!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’m thinking Steven Miller wrote that.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?!
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Or Kelly. Didn’t he meet with the Dems yesterday about the wall?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Not sure, could be.
Amir Khalid
I’m having a little trouble understanding this “Tide pod” thing. Are there really teenagers eating detergent sachets and getting sick?
satby
Adding my hopes that Ozark’s son is doing better and that things are heading toward recovery.
Lapassionara
Good morning, all. Hoping for good report from Ozark.
Peale
@?BillinGlendaleCA: and he’s too old now. Jesus. I’d end up having to vote for Oprah who at 63 is the whippersnapper.
Patricia Kayden
@matt: I’m so old I remember Republicans flipping out whenever President Obama went on vacation or golfing or when he read from a teleprompter. They have zero problems with Orange Bigot doing the same which is odd.
Peale
@Amir Khalid: yes. Thankfully it’s just hundreds.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Don’t know, but if they hear they can get high by doing it, teens will do it.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Well after the shitshow currently squatting in the WH, I think Joe would do the best he’s ever done. I hope he doesn’t run, he’s too old, but he would be light years better than the other two polled.
Peale
@?BillinGlendaleCA: that’s the thing. They aren’t doing it to get high. There isn’t even a legend that you can get high from tide pods. If they could get high, I could understand the phenomena more.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden:
Funny, ain’t it?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Peale: That is rather odd then.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: That’s probably the case, but I agree he’s too old and we have better choices.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@Citizen Alan:
I had forgotten about that.
While I would vote for Biden in the general, I would not be able to support him in the primary.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Trump, or whoever is writing the tweets, is sub-tweeting Kelly, who rather insulting implied that Trump was talking out of his ass on The Wall during the campaign and “evolved” on the issue once he encountered reality.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: just read that Madam is down with the flu. Sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery to her.
MJS
@Baud: Yes, I suspect it’s Kelly. He apparently told the Hispanic Caucus yesterday that candidate Trump was “uninformed” regarding the wall, there was no way it was ever going to cover 2100 miles, and that no, Mexico would not be paying for any portion of it. Based on what I read (and I don’t remember now where I read it), it sounded to me like Kelly was looking for an exit strategy for himself, that’s how diametrically opposed it was to everything Trump ever said about the wall.
Baud
@Betty Cracker: The World of Fire and Ice is too difficult to follow.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Sorry to hear about MadameinGlendaleCA.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: Thanks, we spent 3 hours at Urgent Care last night. I’m hoping I don’t get sick as well, big weekend coming up.
Chet
That Gallup poll is good data for refuting wingers who boast about ‘Merca being respected again. Wait, silly me.
bystander
@Patricia Kayden: You have to admit, tho, that when we found out Obama had paid off a porn worker to the tune of $130,000, the news was met with the same sophisticated equanimity accorded Trump. OTOH, the words Obama heard in church spoken by the minister, now, that was worth all the brouhaha.
James E Powell
@Patricia Kayden:
It will help Republicans because the local press/media will treat him like a celebrity and his arrival will be an event that crowds out all other stories. The coverage will feature interviews with local Trump supporters. He will definitely get his people to come out.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Thanks, she was in pretty bad shape. They gave her a chest x-ray, a shot in the arm and a script to pick up this morning. Hopefully it’ll get her feeling better by Sunday.
satby
@Chet: they never have a shit about being respected. They want this country to be the bully everyone is afraid of.
Baud
@bystander:
Snarky truth.
bystander
@Betty Cracker:
Obviously Kelly has seen those cartoons showing the devolution of fish to man to twitler.
?BillinGlendaleCA
OT: If anyone wants to do light to moderate photo editing(and you know I encourage photo editing), I ran across this program(Photo Editor Pro by Polarr) earlier this month. It works on Windoze, Mac, Chromebook, and Linux and is not overly pricey at $20 right now(it was $10 over the holidays).
ETA: While I use Lightroom and Photoshop since I’m a snob, I bought a copy when it was $10 and was quite impressed with it’s features and it’s ease of use.
Patricia Kayden
@Quinerly:
So now Angela Merkel is the Leader of the Free World. Good to know. By electing an egomaniac to the office of the Presidency, the U.S. has given up that role.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden: So a woman became Leader of the Free World anyway, but her name is Angela and not Hillary.
MJS
@Patricia Kayden: Germany the leader of the free world? Oy. They’ve historically done poorly when seeking to lead. But America NOT the leader of the free world with Trump at the helm? I’m more than okay with that.
Jeffro
Funniest thing I read all morning (from the normally not-funny Dana Milbank): Is Trumpov’s Doctor Okay?
Actually that was the only funny part. Then the questions began:
Oh wait…the really-not-funny part…
satby
My trip is coming up fast and I feel like I’m just not ready. After the last two times I went anywhere and the per sitting disasters that occurred, I would rather not go. But I booked it in May of 2016, and I changed the date four times. I have to go or lose all the money I paid. Ugh.
JPL
@Patricia Kayden: MAGA
danielx
Supposed to warm up to the thirties today…I may wear shorts.
satby
@Jeffro:
Very reassuring.
CarolDuhart2
Too old? After Orange Cheeto I’m convinced nobody is too old anymore. About Biden’s runs: Back in 1988 he had the aneurysm, and in 2008 I heard he was running more for inner redemption, plus he was faced with Obama and Hillary, so he’s never gotten any real attention or traction.We have never seen Biden in a clear field with real funding and a real chance to make his case.
Also, I think we underestimate Biden’s appeal to the Democratic base. Eight years of loyal service to Obama trumps a long-distant Anita Hill hearing and even the 2005 bill. As long as he apologizes for the first, and makes it clear there will be no repeat, and that if it makes his desk, a repeal/reform of the 2005 bill will be signed, he won’t have any trouble.
It’s worth noticing that Trump really fears Biden. He can talk to those Pennsylvanian coal miner guys and the Obama coalition.
Biden, the poorest Senator can call Trump out on his self-dealing, arrogant life, his bigotries, and his prejudice. Hillary had to be a lady. Biden has no such shackles around him.
bystander
Just heard a panel on Moanin’ Joe decrying the assault on democracy’s? Guess who’s to blame. Right, Congress. Not the repubs in Congress but both sides do it.
danielx
@satby:
And I suspect it’s going to get worse. After November of this year, it’s almost guaranteed to get worse.
The only consolation I derive from Trump’s election is that it will probably cause the demise of the Republican party.
PVDMichael
Does anyone else see Trump’s “hush-money”/NDA situations as evidence that one can successfully blackmail Trump in order to keep damaging information from being released?
Baud
@danielx: Probably not.
satby
@danielx: and the clear unspoken statement is that they’re afraid of his volatility and rage, they know he’s unfit, and no one will do a damn thing about it. Including former military officers serving under him. Not a single patriot in the bunch.
Patricia Kayden
Is there something wrong with Trump’s Doctor? A better question would be is there something wrong with an administration which requires anyone remotely connected with it to lie their faces off?
NotMax
Cannot be repeated too often.
This is not normal. This is not the “new normal.” This is aberrant and perverse.
Ladyraxterinok
@Quinerly: What happened?
sherparick1
@Magda in Black: Time to throw mine out the window. Alternatively, I will just set it permanently on TCM and MLBNETWORK and go back and forth between old movies and baseball while waiting for the apocalypse.
By the way, there is an article in the WaPo and MSN on line about the press not printing the Stormy Daniels story before the 2016 election. It ends with this self-congratulatory comment (which also shows how little the Village Media really understands the rightwingers and their mind set – that because you refuse to tell them the fables they want to hear, you guys (MSM) will always be the enemy).
“…. Although voters were left in the dark about Trump’s alleged relationship with Daniels before the election, news organizations’ reluctance to publish the story suggests a high level of professionalism, said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute.
“It is not clear whether any news organization had the hush-money story [or the affair itself] in a verifiable form prior to the election,” he said. “In journalism, you shouldn’t publish what you believe to be true. You should only publish what you can prove.””
Unless of course it involves the Clintons.
Ladyraxterinok
@Citizen Alan: These 2 are ignored in discussions I have seen. They bother me.
PIGP
@The Thin Black Duke: where were they last November? Oh wait, I know that one. They were voting Republican.
Kay
The NYTimes has more horrible political coverage. They have a piece on how Democrats are going far Left based on their support of DACA. That’s far Left now.
“Whites only” immigration policy is the centrist position, I suppose.
Their political team is horrible and it will continue to be horrible for the foreseeable future including the midterms because they don’t see any problems with it, so get used to it.
In a way it doesn’t matter, because decisions only matter if there’s an actual decision to make and IMO there isn’t one here. Democrats can’t support whites only immigration policy. They shouldn’t make that deal whether they get blamed for the shutdown or not. What’s popular in West Virginia can’t be the center position for Democrats on immigration.
NotMax
@sherparick1
TCM is the only reason I have not cut the cable cord.
Patricia Kayden
We should stay vigilant but it’s looking up for Democrats in November. Thanks Trump!! Keep acting the fool.
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Hope that the Mrs. Feels better.
I have had the bug. Lost my voice for most of last week. Still hacking up phlegm.??
Patricia Kayden
@Kay:
The vast majority of Americans support DACA so I guess we’re all far left now. **rolls eyes**
NotMax
Minor, but good news nonetheless. :)
Cranked out a loaf of port wine and bleu cheese bread that is to die for. Wasn’t totally pleased with previous attempts. Upping the amount of flour recommended in the recipe by about 20% was the key to success.
Ladyraxterinok
@Jeffro: 1 brief video Isaw of doctor’s briefing, he looked like he had eaten something that tasted very bad.
BC in Illinois
@CarolDuhart2:
We want Joe Biden on the campaign trail. At the side of every candidate for every office.
In 2016, in St Louis, I heard Bill Clinton speak, I heard Hillary Clinton. Great rallies — they knew how to fire up the crowd. But the most fired-up crowd I heard all year was for a Jason Kander rally (at the “Pageant,” on Delmar), when Joe Biden spoke.
Jason Kander (who has done magnificent work recently) was impressive, and I signed up that day to go knocking on doors for him. (I wasn’t very good at it.) But Joe Biden did more than impress us; he moved us. He speaks from a heart of conviction that this is all about real people’s lives. I would vote for him in a moment, but he’s seven years older than I am.
I want him at the side of every candidate we run in 2018. Everywhere. I want someone to make a collection of videos of “the speeches of Joe Biden” and I want every candidate to watch it in their spare time.
We WANT Joe Biden. We NEED Joe Biden. We will LOVE Joe Biden. On the stump. For everybody else.
Kay
@Patricia Kayden:
It’s that awful snarky coverage they used with Clinton all of 2016, where everything Democrats do is portrayed as cynical positioning.
They portray Democrats as motivated solely by their efforts to run Left of each other, which on immigration is just not true. These are the same immigration positions Democrats have had for years. Corey Booker is pro-immigration. He’s never been anything BUT pro-immigration. The idea that Manchin is the “center” of the Democratic Party on immigration is nonsense, but it’s nonsense that helps Donald Trump, because it makes Trump’s position the national standard.
Anyway. Doesn’t matter. They’ll have to overcome or get around the NYTimes leading crappy political coverage for another cycle because I don’t see them trading California for West Virginia. That’s not a compromise they can make. It’s akin to demanding Republicans all become pro-choice so they can win in …Connecticut. Ridiculous and not going to happen.
Baud
@Kay:
They see profit in it.
Patricia Kayden
@BC in Illinois: We also need the Obamas and the Clintons campaigning for our candidates. All hands on deck.
bemused
Rightwingers will leave no stone unturned when it comes to increasing their bank accounts.
Jennifer Carnahan, the new chair of Minnesota Republican party sent out a memo Dec. 14 saying she want a 10% commission on large donations to the MNGOP. The memo didn’t specify the amount of “large” donations but included a chart which would result in immediate payout of $24,500 in addition to her current annual basis salary of $67,000. Campaign finance experts say they have never of such an arrangement.
Tim Pawlenty who immediately became a wall street bank lobbyist when he left governor office making seven figures was asked by Fox news if he would run for Franken’s seat. Pawlenty said he is “very interested in public service and service for the common good” and “there are a lot of ways to do that but running for Senate in 2018 won’t be part of those plans.”
Peale
@Kay: why, I’ve never heard of a democrat supporting DACA until this week, I tell you. Those Democrats are sure shifty.
Kay
So as far as I can tell that Wisconsin state upset winner won on two things- funding and supporting local governments and institutions and being trustworthy. She said “trustworthy”, is where I got it. That’s a good word you don’t hear a lot.
This isn’t “genius super maverick businessman” stuff. Seems like a lot of them could follow her lead state-level. She supports the schools, the senior centers and the libraries and she thinks local government should remain within the democratic form of government rather than being run from Scott Walker’s Koch bunker in his basement. We can pull that off :)
Weaselone
@Kay:
I eagerly await the New York Times article calling out Democrats for going too far left due to their opposition to the Watering the Tree of Liberty with the Blood of Totally Unfair Fake News Reporters, No Really they’re Horrible, Believe Me Bill of 2019.
gvg
@satby: “Not one will do anything about him” is a problem statement. We are a democracy and we are supposed to act by majority votes and such. One of my concerns was Trump clearly didn’t get the Presidency’s real powers and limitations. Anyway, none of the people we are yelling at including most Senators can actually do anything by realizing alone and saying he is unfit. It will make things worse if they say he is unfit to in Trumps face before they have enough agreement among Congress people to actually act. So yes they should oppose him somewhat in public but getting more of them in agreement is how he will be removed and that would have to be somewhat secret…otherwise we will have to find out how self pardons and firing prosecutors actually works out and I am not fond of that risk. Trump could really go wild with illegal orders and attempts to do never done things before if he realizes things have reached the almost definite impeachment point.
I was wishing Congress could just repeal the debt limit because I don’t like the constant next deadline crisis if Congress was seriously trying to remove him. He could screw things up even more if he decided he hated us all.
Kay
@Peale:
They’re as evil and manipulative as Hillary Clinton, unlike that plain spoken NYC real estate heir. He speaks from his heart. Ignore the rough edges! He isn’t a “politician”. Underneath that racist, mean spirited exterior is a heart of gold.
I don’t get the snarkiness. Why is that acceptable at that newspaper? The whole piece is the reporter rolling her eyes at how political they are. Poor Joe Manchin. He’s just try’in to get some stuff done and here comes that ambitious Corey Booker insisting his constituents be represented in Congress.
Lee
Here is the reason for Twitler’s tweets this morning.
Apparently Kelly told a bunch of people that Trump wasn’t getting his wall.
PaulWartenberg
Of course we’re getting a government shutdown… because Republicans are already blaming Democrats for it even though REPUBLICANS CONTROL CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE! /rage
Jeffro
@Ladyraxterinok: probably the taste of whatever bribe, threat, or both that he had been offered 5 minutes before he went out there
Lee
Also regarding Trump’s doctor: My theory is was ordered to say & do exactly what he did. Either Trump ordered him as CiC or the doctor’s commander did it.
Amir Khalid
@bemused:
How is it not corrupt of a state party chairman to claim for herself 10% of all large donations to the party? Even if it’s not illegal because a political party is a private organisation, it smells very wrong. If I were a party member, I would call for a vote of no confidence.
danielx
@bemused:
Nice work if you can get it.
BC in Illinois
@Patricia Kayden:
Yes. Oh, yes.
We want the energy, the enthusiasm, the excitement . . . along with the solid, knowledgable depth of the Bidens, Obamas, and Clintons. The devotion to country and empathy toward and delight in all kinds of people.
We want these at the side of every candidate. Everywhere.
( Now. Where will we find news media who are interested in solid, knowledgable depth, devotion, and empathy? Hard to say. )
?BillinGlendaleCA
@gvg: Even if you got rid of the debt limit, Congress still hasn’t passed a budget in years and has been funding government by continuing resolutions, so a shutdown can still occur if there isn’t an authorization to spend money even if they have the money.
CarolDuhart2
But what if someone else doesn’t catch fire, isn’t ready to go? Would we really turn down old Joe? Yes, he’s old, but if he can reassure about health, or has a dynamic VP or could draw from a good field?
Patricia Kayden
@bemused: Carnahan has been motivated by her Commander-in-Chief who is gritting the hell out of his gig in the White House. He’s so inspirational.
bemused
@Amir Khalid:
The MNGOP has spent the last 7 years struggling to pay for $2.2 million debt from 2010 guv campaign. Carnahan is touting that she has helped to pay the debt down to below $800,000 saying “the party’s finances are the brightest it’s been in over 6 years.”
There has been blowback to the memo from both R’s and Dems. Republican chair of 8th district Lovdhal worried it could turn off a lot of big donors and said he has a “sickly feeling” the 14 member exec committee meeting this week will pass it.
bemused
@Patricia Kayden:
I think there is a lot to that. When the GOP and Trump WH has taken self-dealing to unlimited levels that Republicans from previous eras would not have dreamed possible without major repercussions. They are all going to up their self dealing because their chances of getting wealthier are greater while the risks are at an historic low.
trnc
@debbie: So no one has been able to explain to dt how trade surpluses and deficits work. This is not a surprise.
J R in WV
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
So did you give up on the one by the bridge? This looks pretty good. I can see how easy it would be for thing to go sideways on those, any little thing and it looks jumpy.
J R in WV
@satby:
OK, where are you going? Across the pond? Which parts?
Jackals need to know, so as to know what to demand you report on!
J R in WV
@Ladyraxterinok:
OzarkHillbilly’s younger son in New Orleans was run over by a car, both legs broken badly. Last report was guardedly optimistic, he was doing OK so far. Everyone would like to see an update, though, for obvious reasons.
J R in WV
@Lee:
I suspect they handed him a script with “excellent” in it 7 or 8 times, which is what it took to get the script approved by Dump. That would put a sour taste in any doctor’s mouth, even an Admiral.
Gelfling 545
@Waldo: or at least shutting his big mouth for the duration. Will candidates be clamoring for his valuable assistance, do you think?
Gelfling 545
@?BillinGlendaleCA: My boss years ago at the Canadian Consolate said it was a sign that no work was being done.
Gelfling 545
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yet comapred to Trump things might go differently. Still, I hope he doesn’t run. I’d, old though I am, prefer to see someone younger nominated.
Gelfling 545
@Baud: Sure. Said Trump had “evolved”. Trump says: not so much.
Gelfling 545
@Amir Khalid: I suspect not. We frequently get these “young’uns on the high road to hell” alarms. Possibility exists that someone did, though maybe not.
Gelfling 545
@bystander: The ones where homo sapiens says “Go back guys. We got it wrong?
Gelfling 545
@CarolDuhart2: I believe he has already apologized to Ms. Hill.
Gelfling 545
@Lee: I wonder what the protocol would be if the doctor did actually discover a serious issue. Clearly he couldn’t just announce it at a press conference due to national security considerations. Would he have to keep it quiet until Congress had been alerted? Though, obviously he wouldn’t go out and cheerlead as this guy did.
VincentN
@Amir Khalid:
My understanding is that this is just the latest of stupid internet challenges (e.g., the cinnamon challenge, milk chugging challenge) where people are essentially taking the dare to ingest things that either shouldn’t be ingested or at least not ingested so quickly to show how tough and ‘cool’ they are.
SFAW
@J R in WV:
Shit. I’ve been intermittent here, missed that.
Ozark: best wishes to your son, you and the family. Keeping my fingers crossed for a full and complete recovery.
tychay
@Patricia Kayden: The Doug Jones internal polling showed that whenever Trump opened his mouth there was a small but sizeable shift to Roy Moore. Because enthusiasm wins elections in this electorate, Trump can theoretically help Republicans in the midterms.
However Trump focused all his resources and capital on a single election in a very Red state and still lost. The Republicans are going to be bleeding across the entire map in the midterms and Trump is famously lazy.
Bonnie
Maybe the RNC should pay his salary and other expenses (golf, etc.) instead of the taxpayers.