"i have everything under control, Susan" pic.twitter.com/9tULcViMfA
— Paul Bronks (@BoringEnormous) June 7, 2018
At least you’re not the only one wishing it were the weekend already…
Trump isn’t happy about flying to Canada for the G7, WaPo reports.
He "does not want to be lectured by" the leaders and has "griped periodically" about Angela Merkel and Theresa May. Of note: Trump has reportedly griped about the 2 female heads of state.https://t.co/LyztdsZOb0
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 7, 2018
How Trump views himself negotiating trade deals vs how the rest of the world views Trump negotiating trade deals pic.twitter.com/Sfhmi2jZfZ
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) June 8, 2018
(When you just know some nervous editor demanded the suit be photoshopped in…)
The new cover of @TIME. pic.twitter.com/zTrZLHp3Im
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 7, 2018
Juice Box
If he’s not happy to be doing his damn job, then why doesn’t he just quit? Pence will pardon him for whatever.
OzarkHillbilly
@Juice Box: But Putin won’t.
NotMax
“This is Canadian air traffic control. We apologize for the inconvenience but due to national security considerations we must redirect the Air Force One flight to Yellowknife.”
JPL
@NotMax: Nice! Theresa May should cancel his plans to visit Great Britain this summer. He just wants to use the trip as a pretext to go to his club in Scotland.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ? ??
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: They should nationalize his club in Scotland.
Amir Khalid
@JPL:
I don’t know if she dares do that. May’s had a good close look at what an arsehole Trump is. But I think she feels compelled by the special relationship to be nice to him, and is trapped between that and the fact that Britons from the Queen on down despise him. Blair, as I recall, felt similarly compelled with George Walker Bush.
OzarkHillbilly
Words fail me.
Patricia Kayden
Man Baby doesn’t like being “scolded” by actual world leaders. He’s so skin thinned that he absolutely cannot stand any criticism, no matter how minor or slight. I don’t recall foreign leaders (with the exception of Netanyahu, Putin and Duterte) having any problem with President Obama.
Patricia Kayden
@OzarkHillbilly: Why is Carson assuming that the poor don’t work? At $17/hr, you’d only earn around $35,000 which is barely enough to live off, especially if you have children.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Montanareddog
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Nah – the Scottish government should simply bump up the property taxes:
Donald Trump’s Golf Courses in Scotland Are Losing a Ton of Money
and build more offshore wind turbines (he sued the Scottish govt and lost):
World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine Installed in Full View of Trump’s Scottish Golf Course
JPL
@Patricia Kayden: I’m not sure how we recover from the damage this administration is doing.
JPL
@Montanareddog: The Trump organization has been treated so poorly by members of the EU demanding that he follow their rules and regulations. sad
Baud
@JPL: Since history says Dems will only get two years to fix everything, it’ll be tough.
OzarkHillbilly
@Patricia Kayden: Most of the people who receive rental assistance work, but that is not the established narrative from our “friends” on the right. In their telling poor people are lazy leaches (read: Black) refusing to get a job sucking tax dollars out of the pockets of hard working (read: White) Americans. The GOP does not want any attention paid to the fact that a lot of people are underpaid (minimum wage) and underemployed (25-35 hr workweek so they don’t qualify for the benefits that full time employees receive) as part of a strategy by corporate America to control labor costs.
PS: most of the people receiving rental assistance also happen to be white, but don’t tell anyone.
JPL
@Baud: Republicans will demand that the debt be paid off, and they will stand aside and laugh.
Trump has been tweeting up a storm, about Canada and Schumer. Schumer didn’t solve North Korea and Iran, so he’s not in a position to give advice.
Nicole
Ugh. That’s my first thought every morning when I browse the news.
That said, thank you for introducing me to the Twitter feed of Paul Bronks, Anne Laurie. My seven-year-old and I have spent a LOT of time giggling over his posts together, and I hope those memories will last longer than my fury at this stupid Administration and this stupid (GOP) Congress.
evodevo
@Patricia Kayden: They don’t MAKE $17/hr….especially not in SC. No one in Ky makes that much …I make $21/hr working for the Post Office, which is a plum part-time job here in Ky. People in eastern Ky fight over part-time PO jobs because they pay that much. Everything else pays $10-11, if you’re lucky….
OzarkHillbilly
@Nicole:
I want to second that. Hilarious.
gene108
@OzarkHillbilly:
Those new luxury condos can’t be built, with poor people still living in low rent apartments. It would be inhumane to tear down the apartments with poor people still inside.
OzarkHillbilly
A Republican, doing the Republican thing.
danielx
Jesus wept.
Why doesn’t he just declare victory, i.e., he’s made America great again, and resign? He doesn’t like the job and doesn’t want to do the work.
Also too, I have found that if you don’t want to be lectured (or screamed at or punched out), a good start is to not be an asshole. But then I haven’t spent my life acting like an asshole, or so I hope.
OzarkHillbilly
@Nicole: #FridayFeeling.
debbie
@Juice Box:
Who’s the real pussy now?
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?!
I’m debating popping in at the market today, it’s optional on a Friday (my lease requires me to be there three of the four days it’s open). I’m more inclined to stay home, finish my orders, and mow the lawn before we get more rain tonight.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
This may never happen. It takes HUD forever to do the smallest things, so my hope is there will be a new administration in place before this crap is enacted.
OzarkHillbilly
@danielx:
I have. It’s a great way to keep people from bothering you, they don’t want to be anywhere near you.
debbie
@JPL:
Ummn, Trump hasn’t either.
I want him to be humiliated in Quebec, and then again in Singapore.
Platonailedit
@Nicole: He is my fav twitterati too. I just wish he didn’t throw the fuck bombs so much around so that I can share his tweets with my kids.
bystander
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
So now we know it’s not his love of golf that compels him to Mar a Lago every weekend.
But her emaillllssss!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@danielx:
He’s still waiting for the Nobel Peace Prize, it the Kenyan can get one….
Leto
@Nicole:
Looks like I picked the wrong time to stop drinking Drano.
@evodevo: Just going to second this. SC has seen a large influx of major manufacturers relocating there (Boeing for example) due to the fact it’s violently non-union, right-to-work state, and they can pay $10 hr and that’s considered “good”. My mother put it succinctly: it’s a great place to retire, but not to live.
Just as an aside, when BMW built their plant in upstate Greenville they discovered that the local populace was essentially too dumb to work at the plant. Smart by SC standards, but by German standards they had a long way to go. The initial run of vehicles, for a few years, had higher amounts of production related defects. BMW partnered with a local community college to develop apprenticeship programs so they could have the necessary workforce needed to build their vehicles to proper spec, as well as having to do a lot of additional training on that original workforce to bring them up to snuff. So yes, you get cheaper labor costs but at a significant cost to your product. Just something I thought I’d share with the class.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: From your keyboard to the FSM’s noodley appendages.
JPL
@debbie: The one thing that I know will happen, is we will be humiliated. Trump is incapable of admitting defeat.
bystander
After watching Moanin’ Joe this morning, I have to go on record with my response to their hagiography again.
A lot of us never gave Giuliani credit for the decline in crime rates because it was the beginning of a national trend in urban areas. The decline began under Mayor Dinkins but he cannot be given credit.
Giuliani did a terrible job in managing the inevitable emergency. Terrorists made it known that they wanted to take the twin towers down in February 1993. What foresight was there in putting the emergency control area in that building? Yet they continue to lionize him over a photo that should be the punchline in a Harold Lloyd comedy.
We never got a full accounting of Giuliani’s use of hotel rooms reserved for fire fighters.
Many of us remember Bernard Kerik, Rudi’s right hand man, and now a convicted felon.
Dorothy Winsor
Good lord. Anthony Bourdain has apparently committed suicide.
And there’s something wrong with me because while I find that sad, I also find it less disturbing than reading about the R’s continuing efforts to destroy the ACA piece by piece.
danielx
@OzarkHillbilly:
There’s that, of course. But if they have to be near you….
Gin & Tonic
@Dorothy Winsor: I’ve followed him through all his TV shows. I know he wasn’t to everyone’s taste, but I really liked him. What a shock.
Leto
@gene108: The section this housing is in, ain’t nobody building luxury condos there. They’d have to raze hundreds of blocks in all directions, while simultaneously building commercial development that businesses might want to move into. You’re still at least 30 mins from a usable beach (Foley), and at least 45 from any of the ones that those luxury dwellers would want to go to. But I’ll concede, maybe this is the first step that they will take on that path. It would be the first time in about 50 years they’ve shown any thought to doing something with these areas, even if it is evil. And of course it’s evil because that’s how they roll.
JPL
@Gin & Tonic: I just texted my “foodie” son, and the response back was omg wtf. That about says it.
Baud
This is interesting. Vox
OzarkHillbilly
@danielx: Then they probably deserve it. Most likely were a mass murderer or something in a previous life.
Baud
@JPL:
I didn’t follow him, but he came off as vivacious. I expect this will hit similar to Robin Williams suicide.
MomSense
@Gin & Tonic:
Same here. It’s just really sad.
debbie
@JPL:
I see Trump’s humiliation as a plus.
TS (the original)
@Amir Khalid:
Blair was the biggest supporter of GWB in the weapons of mass destruction lie. If Blair had not supported Bush, there would have been no attack on Iraq. Blair was GWB’s BFF
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
Phuck that slave catching muthaphucka ?
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Come sit by me?
Platonailedit
Cole will love this.
Quinerly
@Dorothy Winsor: I adored him… his shows, his books.
I’m in tears.
TS (the original)
@OzarkHillbilly:
Quite the a.h. and he still doesn’t understand why he was defeated in the election.
SFAW
@JPL:
A Truth and Retribution Commission would be a start. The biggest problem I (currently) see is: who’s up first? McConnell? Ryan? Lying Littledick? Jefferson Beauregard Klansman III? Pruitt?
And, no, my name is not Katie.
ETA: Nor Shirley.
rikyrah
@Dorothy Winsor:
RIP ?
JPL
President Obama and Anthony Bourdain in Vietnam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyfkFIPeFBw
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/bourdain-parts-unknown-obama-hanoi/index.html
Brachiator
@Dorothy Winsor:
When I saw the breaking news item, I had to double check to make sure this was not some terrible hoax.
How very sad.
rikyrah
@debbie:
I want them to not speak English around him ?
I want them to have entire conversations around him, that he doesn’t understand ?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@JPL:
That’s why the Dems are saying balanced budget now if they take the House next year. They learned their lesson with GW that if the dems go along with deficte spending in a national crises under a GoP prez the GoP will blame the Dems for it.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Your proposal has earned you a top spot in my administration.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I’ve been reading one of his books. Picked up a distinct vibe of bi-polar. Not that I’m a psychiatrist or anything.
SFAW
@rikyrah:
Um, they can do that by speaking English perfectly around him.
Patricia Kayden
@Dorothy Winsor: Very sad news. Kate Spade and now Mr. Boudain. Just awful.
Another Scott
Shocking news about Bourdain. :-( I enjoyed his “No Reservations” show when I happened to come across it, flipping channels.
In other news, I like Darth’s version of the Time cover better (via LOLGOP yesterday, I think).
Have a good Friday, everyone.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@SFAW: Another top spot.
rikyrah
This society doesn’t view Black children as children ?
https://twitter.com/MarshallProj/status/1004740306351329282?s=19
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: You talk too much.
Patricia Kayden
@JPL: I read somewhere that that Vietnamese restaurant has kept the table used by Bourdain and President Obama as a shrine.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Yeah, about that … when a carpenter talks about a “stud” being “proud,” it’s not a comment on some PUA-wannabe talking about how many models he’s bedded (or similar). .
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@JPL:
Based on that episode, the Countess and I went to that restaurant in Hanoi in January. it was everything as billed, an absolute delight. We each got the Obama Special – bowl of noodles, the pile of green accompaniments, fried seafood roll and a good local beer (Hanoi beer). Had to get more beers.
Baud
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: The only question for me is whether Dems will finally learn to support Dems, especially in the face of the inevitable media onslaught.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah:
They can quite easily accomplish the latter without resorting to the former.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Patricia Kayden:
They do. The walls are festooned with photos, as well.
Patricia Kayden
@evodevo: I really wonder how anyone can live a good life earning such little pay.
Leto
Yellowstone chief says he is ousted after dispute with Trump administration
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
You’re not the first person to have told me that. Why, I remember that time, back in aught-six, when ….. etc. etc.
Elizabelle
@Patricia Kayden: Yeah. Makes you wonder about suicide contagion, since KSpade’s suicide received so much press.
Hotel room in Strasbourg, France. Lovely little town. Very sad news.
Patricia Kayden
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Lucky you!!
lurker dean
@Quinerly: devastated here too :o(
WereBear
@bystander: Just reading an account of taking down John Gotti (Gangland by Harold Blum) and it explains the Guiliani endangered the FBI investigation by grandstanding and moving too quickly.
Always been a jerk.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: Beat me to it. Great minds and all that.
bemused
Bourdain and Spade both left young daughters. Bourdain clearly adored his daughter. Bourdain was a character but I really enjoyed watching his shows and reading his books. It’s unfathomable to most people how miserable a person must feel to decide to depart from an amazing life and a beloved daughter. Tragic.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
OK, but that doesn’t explain me/mine.
[And in the background, I can hear someone saying to the Stooges “Gentlemen! Gentlemen!” and Curly responding “Who came in?”]
germy
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/justice-department-seizes-nyt-reporters-data-in-leak-probe.html
Quinerly
@lurker dean: Best friend and French chef Eric Ripert found him. I’m speechless. So loved his first book (actually all but his first is my favorite). His current girlfriend has been caught up in this Harvey Weinstein mess.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: I didn’t say great at what. We’re probably olympic medalists in the Mediocrity Marathon.
rikyrah
ICE needs to be disbanded ?
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1004927919033081862?s=19
Quinerly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: ?
Weaselone
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Dems are saying that as a defense against the attack that Dems are the fiscally irresponsible party and will spend us into oblivion especially given the budget deficit is exploding for some unknown reason totally unrelated to Republican tax policy.
If Democrats regain control of Congress, it will probably be before the economy ends up in the crapper. Trump will still be in control of the Presidency What you should see is numerous attempts at passing popular Democratic policies funded by repealing portions of the Republican tax cuts for billionaires bill.
rikyrah
@Quinerly:
Say hi to Poco and the tribe ? ?
Immanentize
@germy:
oh, but Watkins probably had a book deal, so no one cared.
(I miss you, Kay. The morning threads are safe enough)
Quinerly
@rikyrah: thanks sweetie. Been mostly lurking and catching up at night after threads are dead. Crazy busy here after my NC trip. Waves, tail wags, and meows back at you. Have a nice weekend.
Quinerly
@rikyrah: This piece somehow was my first early morning read. So awful. I think I have to step away from the news today. Between this piece, Bourdain’s suicide, and the piece you posted about the 10 year old CHILD, I want to pull the covers over my head and just hide.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
The term “great mind” needs no qualifiers, modifiers, or adjectives.
Quinerly
@Immanentize: I miss Kay too. So brilliant in her comments.
SFAW
@Weaselone:
But if/when inertia gets it there, the Dems will get blamed by the Party of Traitors and the MSM.
WereBear
@rikyrah: YES. Did they search for power-mad bullies or did they just promote the ones already there?
Quinerly
Trump is babbling right now.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Where did Kay go?
Quinerly
Has anyone posted this?
https://www.axios.com/president-donald-trump-bedtime-story-the-book-883b67ea-6f0e-4bbd-8e98-2744e9307527.html
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
Just saw a news alert that he has proposed the G7 readmit Russia.
Steve in the ATL
@Quinerly: is this comment specific to something that’s being reported, or just a general observation of his muddled mind?
@SiubhanDuinne: and are republicans admitting yet that he is a Russian agent installed by Putin to destroy America?
SFAW
@Quinerly:
Ma Nishtana ….
Quinerly
@Steve in the ATL: 20 min rant that just ended. Trump leaving the WH for the summit. Highlights… “Dennis Rodman wasn’t that tall.” Russia should be going to the summit. Overpreparation caused HRC to lose the debates. Iran is now a totally different country. Plus, he’s thinking about Muhammad Ali.
SFAW
@Steve in the ATL:
Such a joker, you are.
SFAW
@Quinerly:
No doubt Shitgibbon said he — if he chose to play hoop, instead of becoming the world’s bestestest real estate developer — would have been a better rebounder than Rodman
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: from what I gather, some night posters pissed her off. Complaining that she was negative and a surrender monkey or something. I didn’t read all the threads because who has that kinda time? Anyway, I think she quit BJ (hopefully just for a while?)
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: There seems to have been some friction in one of the evening/night threads earlier this week.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
Nyet.
Immanentize
@Quinerly:
Ha! Is Trump planning to pardon Muhammad Ali for Casius Clay’s draft evasion conviction?
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: @Gin & Tonic: Thanx. Sorry to hear that. I miss you too, Kay.
Quinerly
@Immanentize: pretty sure the Supremes did something on this years ago. Must Google.
(actually I must step away from all news and internet today for my own wellbeing)
NotMax
@Ozark Hillbilly
Could be misremembering but do seem to recall Kay taking a B-J sabbatical before.
Expect she’ll return as tempers, um, temper. Once you go jackal, you never go backal.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
Yeah, I was just coming to say that the SC overturned Ali’s conviction unanimously 8-0.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
A BJ slogan for the ages! Thank you, NM.
Wapiti
@danielx:
Are you kidding? The Trump Organization has positive cash flow for the first time in decades. Why get off the gravy train?
rikyrah
With Mueller Closing In, Manafort’s Allies Abandon Him
June 7, 2018
WASHINGTON — The special counsel’s accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort after working closely with him to prop up the former Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, interviews and documents show.
The two journalists, who helped lead a project to which prosecutors say Mr. Manafort funneled more than $2 million from overseas accounts, are the latest in a series of onetime Manafort business partners who have provided damaging evidence to Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Their cooperation with the government has increasingly isolated Mr. Manafort as he awaits trial on charges of violating financial, tax and federal lobbying disclosure laws.
Mr. Manafort’s associates say he feels betrayed by the former business partners, to whom he collectively steered millions of dollars over the years for consulting, lobbying and legal work intended to bolster the reputation of Viktor F. Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine. Mr. Manafort has told associates that he believes Mr. Mueller’s team is using the business partners to pressure him to flip on Mr. Trump in a manner similar to the one used to prosecute the energy giant Enron in the early 2000s by a Justice Department task force that included some lawyers now serving on Mr. Mueller’s team.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/us/politics/mueller-manafort-witnesses.html
rikyrah
Oh Kay,
Please come back. Please. I miss your thoughts. :(
rikyrah
Washington Capitals player won’t meet with Trump after Stanley Cup win https://t.co/Bf9dIgRDZ8 pic.twitter.com/WfdugPMLtZ
— The Hill (@thehill) June 8, 2018
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
Wasn’t that taken care of by Jimmy Carter’s blanket pardon of Vietnam draft dodgers?
germy
Here is an improved version of the TIME cover:
O. Felix Culpa
As a constant reader if infrequent commenter, I miss Kay too. I always appreciated her thoughtful perspectives. The rest of youse guys is ok, but Kay is/was uniquely insightful.
Come back, Kay!
rikyrah
Can one of the Frontpagers get in touch with Kay, and tell her that she’s missed :(
rikyrah
President Trump says he wants to meet with NFL players (or athletes generally) who kneel during national anthem so they can recommend people they think should be pardoned because they were treated unfairly by the justice system.
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) June 8, 2018
This has everything to do with Kaep’s legal team saying that they want to subpoena him.
Yes, Kaep…subpoena that muthaphucka.
Another Scott
@rikyrah: She’s listed in the e-mail dropdown as a front-pager. Dunno if the address is still current, but I sent her a note, too.
Cheers,
Scott.
Rmirth
@Amir Khalid: I don’t get that. All these European countries (our allies) tiptoeing around and trying to keep the peace…far better if they took the fight to him and shunned him or something.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Step 1. Declare a State of Emergency.
Step 2. Declare Republicans a Terrorist Organization
Bonnie
One of the articles is misnamed. It should read The Republicans vs. The Constitution.