“Run in circles, scream and shout.”
My sister and I used to mock an extra-flinchy relative with that derisive couplet behind her back. It also applies to the current POTUS, who’s been losing his shit on Twitter all morning:
Robert Mueller and Leakin’ Lyin’ James Comey are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest. And bye the way, wasn’t the woman in charge of prosecuting Jerome Corsi (who I do not know) in charge of “legal” at the corrupt Clinton Foundation? A total Witch Hunt…
….Will Robert Mueller’s big time conflicts of interest be listed at the top of his Republicans only Report. Will Andrew Weissman’s horrible and vicious prosecutorial past be listed in the Report. He wrongly destroyed people’s lives, took down great companies, only to be……..
…..overturned, 9-0, in the United States Supreme Court. Doing same thing to people now. Will all of the substantial & many contributions made by the 17 Angry Democrats to the Campaign of Crooked Hillary be listed in top of Report. Will the people that worked for the Clinton….
…Foundation be listed at the top of the Report? Will the scathing document written about Lyin’ James Comey, by the man in charge of the case, Rod Rosenstein (who also signed the FISA Warrant), be a big part of the Report? Isn’t Rod therefore totally conflicted? Will all of….
…the lying and leaking by the people doing the Report, & also Bruce Ohr (and his lovely wife Molly), Comey, Brennan, Clapper, & all of the many fired people of the FBI, be listed in the Report? Will the corruption within the DNC & Clinton Campaign be exposed?..And so much more!
It has been incorrectly reported that Rudy Giuliani and others will not be doing a counter to the Mueller Report. That is Fake News. Already 87 pages done, but obviously cannot complete until we see the final Witch Hunt Report.
We will be doing a major Counter Report to the Mueller Report. This should never again be allowed to happen to a future President of the United States!
Interestingly, Trump hasn’t bothered to deny the reports about Kelly’s imminent resignation, even though “John Kelly” has been trending on Twitter all morning. Sounds like the reports of the two not speaking to each other are true — no one’s left to enforce limits to “executive time,” so it’s all Fox News and Twitter today for Spanky as we all await the Cohen and Manafort sentencing documents.
cain
Wasn’t Rudy Gulliani the source of the news for the whole we aren’t going to be doing anything about Mueller report? 85 blank pages I suppose!
schrodingers_cat
Is the gibberish you quoted, English? I need my moron to English translator.
David Hunt
It was my understanding that the phrase came from aviation. Basically translated to “If you’re lost, start moving in a circle and call for help.” Keeping your location roughly unmoving would help triangulate your position so you could get a correct heading.
I might even be right about that…
JPL
trump didn’t write the last two tweets.
waspuppet
@cain: Yep. And that’s after giving glowing progress reports on it.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/giuliani-counter-report-mueller-trump-russia.html
Jim, Foolish Literalist
put me down with the twitter ghost of corrupt presidents past
RepubAnon
Wow, I’m so impressed by the civility displayed by Mr. Trump. To follow his example, I’ll start calling him Drooling Dotard Donald.
Dorothy A. Winsor
When I read the last tweet in that series, I’m reminded of why you’re not supposed to use “this” without a following now or a very clear antecedent. What is “this” that shouldn’t happen to another president ever again?
Gravenstone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Or Whitaker let slip there’s a sealed indictment (or 20) with Donnie’s very own name on them. Wouldn’t that just be fabulous?
Gravenstone
@Dorothy A. Winsor: An investigation into rampant criminality, of course. Any future president should be allowed to do as they wish. At least the Republican ones.
Frankensteinbeck
@schrodingers_cat:
It’s a standard narcissist’s rant when they get caught. Everything is someone else’s fault, appeals to authority, it’s unfair that people are picking on him, everyone who says he’s guilty is biased and a bad person. Most or all of it wild misrepresentations or flat-out lies. Interesting side note: He believes every word the moment it’s out of his mouth.
germy
dogwood
Another bomb threat and evacuation at CNN. Trump gets a big personal pay-off from these tweets, and that’s all that matters to him.
Jerzy Russian
In this day and age, is there anyone who refers to someone else’s wife as “lovely”? Anyone who is not an asshole, I mean.
germy
A Ghost To Most
I am convinced by Rudy’s behavior that he played a part in the conspiracy that has yet to be revealed.
Eta thanks, BC, for gathering up the tweetstorm.
germy
Tokyokie
@Jerzy Russian: I’ve long used it to describe actresses I like, as in “the lovely and talented Maggie Cheung.” But always in a rather sarcastic way, even though I find Maggie Cheung to be both lovely and talented.
A Ghost To Most
– David Jolly
Mary G
And Bruce Ohr’s wife’s name is Nellie, not Molly. What a maroon.
dogwood
@germy:
The Democrats will probably send a lot of decent legislation to the Senate where it will never see a vote. Bernie, and a good share of his “progressive” allies, will then blame Democrats for the failure.
germy
Rex Tillerson on Trump: ‘Undisciplined, doesn’t like to read’ and tries to do illegal things
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/07/rex-tillerson-trump-undisciplined-doesnt-like-read-tries-do-illegal-things/?utm_term=.f89adf53fbce
Rex’s comeback tour, like Elvis’s ’68 Singer Special.
bemused
@schrodingers_cat:
I love that panic quote. It’s supposedly an ancient adage.
When in danger,
when in doubt,
run in circles,
scream and shout.
SFAW
@germy:
Well, he’s not as big a moron as the Moron-in-Chief, but not for lack of trying.
germy
@dogwood:
Of course, who else would they blame? Certainly not the obstructionists…
Timurid
@cain:
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY.
Gelfling 545
@schrodingers_cat: Sorry, I don’t think Google Translate has thst language yet.
Makes me wonder if some “counter report” should get written whether it will be comprehensible to humans.
SFAW
@germy:
Right. As if that motherfucker could/would ever feel shame.
dmsilev
@germy: Stupid or dishonest? The age old question.
bemused
I now have a second comment in moderation & have no idea why.
dmsilev
I trust that the “counter report” will use geometric logic to prove, once and for all, that Hillary ate the strawberries.
trollhattan
@germy:
This is the worst thing ever said about Elvis!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@germy: That is such a Bernie “plan.”
schrodingers_cat
@germy: What a shining example of the “master race” I am in awe.
germy
@dmsilev: with a cool whip topping of arrogance.
A Ghost To Most
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Grammar, like facts, doesn’t matter to fascists.
Ian G.
Reading these tweets make me yet again hope that all the Big Macs over the years will finally cause the coronary artery to give out and we’ll be rid of him the easiest way possible.
Anywho, I’m basically feeling like my 8 year old self waiting to open Christmas presents the way these tweets have me anticipating the Mueller drops.
SFAW
@dmsilev:
Por que no los dos?
Quaker in a Basement
This, alone, is sufficient evidence to conclude the man has Gone to Milledgeville.
Chyron HR
@germy:
If only there was a window for Mitch to look out of back when the Senate was confirming Justice Rapeanaugh.
germy
@trollhattan:
Elvis met with Nixon and offered to help round up drug users. He made the offer while high on drugs.
Nixon gave him a badge in honor of the visit.
chris
@dmsilev: Haha! Just saw this on Mr. Pierce’s twitter. The other witch hunt continues… Jesus, these people.
Quaker in a Basement
Also, Betty Cracker, that title is an Underdog reference, isn’t it?
Gelfling 545
@Jerzy Russian: Trump should never, never get to mention ANYONE’S wife without getting punched in the face. Filthy hypocrite.
gene108
When are the Manafort court documents or whatever going to drop? Need a distraction today.
Betty Cracker
@Jerzy Russian: I’ve noticed that Trump finds really creepy, personalized ways of referring to women he perceives as enemies. Someone will write a PhD thesis on his names for Hillary Clinton someday, but it goes beyond that. For example, he always refers to Lisa Page, former FBI attorney, as Peter Strzok’s “lover.” That’s kind of a weird thing for a infamous serial philanderer to do.
rikyrah
@germy:
whole lotta truth
A Ghost To Most
@chris:
They held on to all this hate and spite for 150 years, waiting for this chance.
If you think they are going to quit now, you underestimate them. They will double down.
rikyrah
@A Ghost To Most:
ROT in FBI NY Branch
Betty Cracker
@Quaker in a Basement: Not consciously. Was that line used in Underdog?
Jay C
@germy:
SRSLY? Come January, Bernie Sanders will have been in Congress for 28 years, 12 of them in the Senate. And he blithely assumes (or is trying to convince us that he assumes) that “public pressure” is going to sway Republican Senators ( and in the Majority) to sign off on a progressive agenda?
For realz, Bernie?
rikyrah
@germy:
Ponies and unicorns
debit
@gene108: The Cohen sentencing stuff is due before 5:00, the Manafort documents before midnight, IIRC.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
ah, the return of the mill-youngs and mill-youngs of young people outside of Mitch McConnell’s window!
Or Conor Lamb, or Dan Lipinski, or Seth Moulton…
I was tempted to watch Colbert last night, because I figured the comedian was likely to hold Wilmer to a higher standard than the starry-eyed Chris Hayes.
TenguPhule
It won’t, if only because there will be standards for President and they will be enforced.
germy
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Only a guy who reportedly got kicked out of a kibbutz for laziness would come up with such a plan.
catclub
@SFAW: the age old answer.
Jharp
@gene108:
At the end of today.
And judging from Trump’s twitter tantrum it’s gonna be a blockbuster.
Amir Khalid
When Barack Obama was sworn into the Oval Office, he was for security reasons not allowed to use his Blackberry, and he complied with that. I don’t think he even had a personal or official Twitter account while in office; if he did, his use of it never made the news. And he would never have used it to taunt people or abuse public servants for doing their job.
TenguPhule
@Timurid:
All play and no work makes Donald a Trump.
TenguPhule
@dmsilev:
The answer is yes.
TenguPhule
@Ian G.:
Unfortunately that would only be easy for him. The rest of us would be left a seriously fucked up mess.
catclub
@Quaker in a Basement: I thought it was a burma-shave slogan
When in trouble or in doubt,
run in circles, scream and shout.
Burma-Shave.
rikyrah
@Ian G.:
LOL…
I don’t think anything will drop until 4:45 pm EST today.
Kathleen
@Jerzy Russian: LOL. Sherrod Brown’s wife (journalist Connie Schultz) wrote a book about Sherrod ‘s first campaign entitled “And His Lovely Wife”.
catclub
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That enormous pressure halted the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
Mitch said it was just too much.
Amir Khalid
@germy:
I see Wilmer hasn’t learned much since 2016 about how things get done in Washington. He sounds as ignorant now about that as he was then. And yet he still sees a future POTUS in the mirror.
TenguPhule
@Jay C:
To be generous to him, that’s how things USED TO and are supposed to work.
Of course, all that changed 24 years ago.
catclub
@rikyrah:
What about the stock market?
hitchhiker
@Betty Cracker:
I had to admire the creepy way that “crooked” implied corruption and old age and disability all in one little word. He never gets tired of saying it. The HW avalanche of gooey press this week also reminded me how much “fun” W used to have giving nicknames to his friends and to the press. Remember Turdblossom?
T***p’s use of ugly names is — like everything else he does — a distortion of what in other people is mostly innocent. He really is the goddamn worst person in the country.
TenguPhule
@Amir Khalid:
please stop rubbing the salt into our wounds. It burns.
JPL
@germy: The fact that the current commander and chief wants to break the law should receive media attention. At least they gave five minutes of coverage to Mrs. Morales
TenguPhule
@catclub:
Well played.
catclub
@TenguPhule: A better example of the Senate responding to pressure is the Jamal Khoshoggi murder.
They expressed outrage but did very little.
Mike in DC
@Jharp: I expect further dot-connecting to occur. More puzzle pieces put together. I think the major indictments happen in the first half of next year, and any report re Trump drops before next Labor day. What happens next depends upon a bunch of factors.
catclub
@Amir Khalid: I am pretty sure he was tweeting by 2016. I would not be surprised if over 80% of his tweets were: “Sign up for healthcare insurance at healthcare.gov !”
Schlemazel
@catclub:
I associated it with the military since those are the guys I first heard it from. The explanation near the top, about it being advice for a lost pilot sort of sounds believable.
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: I could be wrong, but I recall there being this big to-do when he finally started using his old Twitter handle the day after leaving office. I think. It’s hard to tell these things anymore honestly.
tobie
@chris: The judge is a 75 year old Reagan appointee named Royce Lambeth. Judging from the entry on him on Wikipedia, Royce seems like a cantankerous character but it’s hard glean any consistent political or ideological bent. I’ll let the lawyers on the blog weigh in…
hitchhiker
Just got this in a fundraising email from the T***p campaign:
Apparently he thinks he’s gonna get primaried?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Just One More Canuck
@Quaker in a Basement: Caine Mutiny
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@tobie: Holy fuck, Royce Lambeth is still with us, and only 75? Unless my memory is really off the rails, he was the judge, one of them, who rubber-stamped every goony motion/suit/whatever (NAL) filed by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy back in the 90s
Mike in NC
Fat Bastard offers so many tweeted questions, most without correct punctuation. His bizzare stream-of-consciousness bullshit is completely off the charts. Looks like the media love fest for GHWB (and dismal comparisons to his own criminal administration) this past week has sent him over a cliff.
chris
@tobie: I wasn’t surprised by JW but, yeah, the judge’s comment seemed… a little off.
rikyrah
@catclub:
Down 407 so far
Quaker in a Basement
@Betty Cracker: Dunno, but he always spoke in couplets and that struck me as sounding like his mild-mannered shoeshine boy alter ego.
tobie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yup. But apparently he’s also a big defender of Native American rights against the encroachments of the US govt. Maybe there is something ideological there along the lines of Grover Norquist’s pledge to shrink govt down to a size where it can be drowned in a bathtub. I’d like to know if a 3 judge panel or the full bench can review this decision.
Jeffro
president* bwah bwah bwah sure is having a bad day…would be great if he could give one of those freewheelin’ no-holds-barred pressers right around 4pm…I’m sure he wouldn’t incriminate himself in the slightest…
TenguPhule
Why the stock market is freaking out
@rikyrah: Wheeeee!
Quaker in a Basement
@Just One More Canuck: Tha Google says you’re right!
mr gravity
@hitchhiker: World.
Kay
Jerome Corsi is now a serious player in the conservative movement :)
You-all just have no idea how horrible and patronizing these people were to liberals in law school. OMFG- insufferable.
I cannot tell you how many lectures I endured from young conservative men. This was at the peak, when they all thought they were Federalist Papers scholars. Now it’s like this motley collection of crazy old men who sell useless crap on cable channels.
One. Big. Grift. It’s profitable, too. It will continue as long as everyone is making money. The DeVos family recently invested in some kind of brain-scanning, intelligence-o-meter, useful only for sorting people into “worthy” tiers and “unworthy” tiers.
You can’t even tell the marks from the cons anymore- it’s all the same group of people.
Ken
@Jerzy Russian: I’m sure he means “f*ckable”, but is (minimally) aware he shouldn’t say that on Twitter.
lumpkin
Weird how they keep boasting about the number of pages in the “counter report”. Kinda like a stupid person’s idea of how to brag about their reading.
Mandalay
@Tokyokie:
I’ve never heard of her, but this is certainly a notable talent:
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@germy: Well, I’ve been saying much the same but trying not to be too pie-in-the-sky about it. I believe some legislation we like will get through after the shit hits the fan and the rest of the rats see the writing on the wall and jump (did I mix enough metaphors?) Because I believe we have some smart, capable politicians on our side beginning with Nancy Smash! And they will know how to pick their battles and work all the angles.
So I’ve been predicting “more than zero between now and 2020”.
Barbara
@Amir Khalid: I am pretty sure that they worked out some arrangement for Obama to use a blackberry. The frustration for Clinton is that they refused to work out a similar arrangement for her as SOS. Of course, all of that is different from the president using a personal cell phone to make calls involving any kind of discussion about official matters.
Ladyraxterinok
@Kathleen: Evangelical speakers always introduce a visiting preacher as ‘(xyz)…and his lovely wife.’
Ken
@TenguPhule:
I’m hoping it will be named the “Donald Trump Presidential Corruption Act”.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@TenguPhule: We already have that. Now it’s all about waiting for the tornado to finish so we can start the cleanup.
catclub
@Kay:
I bet they bought it from the scientologists
JR
@TenguPhule: Even without the news we are due for a correction:
http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/
TenguPhule
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Yes, but have you seen the average quality on the other side?
Suicidal Overconfidence is an understatement.
Chris Johnson
‘cos you need the full 88 to complete. Yes?
Mnemosyne
@SFAW:
Here’s where it gets tricky because he’s a toxic narcissist: he won’t feel shame but he can be publicly shamed by having his lies and schemes revealed. As the Hoarse Whisperer says, the worst possible moment for a narcissist is when someone reveals that they were never fooled by the narcissist’s lies. That’s what triggers their cocooning and emotional breakdown … until they get their equilibrium back and start plotting revenge on the enemy that exposed them.
Because, of course, the problem is not that they lied, the problem is that their enemy exposed their lies and embarrassed them. ?
TenguPhule
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Trump’s untimely death sans conviction and execution by a court of law would give McConnell and Pence and the whole GOP enough squid ink to cripple the Federal Government by the numbers. Our Elected Democrats aren’t yet ruthless enough to do what needs to be done and say “fuck civility”.
Ken
@SFAW: The HoarseWhisperer explains that. The narcissistic personality still feels shame but does not react as a normal person. Instead it lashes out, lies, throws tantrums, and so forth, until it convinces itself it was in the right all along.
A Ghost To Most
@hitchhiker:
Ah, that’s so cute. He thinks he will make it to. 2020.
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
Have you ever read Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man? Science-y folks tell me that Gould’s actual science is now outdated, but he gives a really good explanation of how “race scientists” of the Victorian age stacked the decks to always get the results they wanted, which just happened to show that they and their own social class were naturally more civilized and intelligent than anyone else.
rikyrah
Multiple facets of Trump-Russia scandal reach benchmark moments
Rachel Maddow reviews the slew of events expected on Friday in court cases related to the Trump-Russia scandal, with other major developments apparently in the offing.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
A snake eating its tail. All the while the two demons on either shoulder are shouting “FASTER!”
Mike in DC
@Chris Johnson: That’s 1488.
Kay
@catclub:
Why are they like this? What happened to them?
stinger
I never heard of Mrs. Ohr before, but when Trump tweets that a woman is “lovely”, I automatically assume that she’s older, not skinny, and doesn’t have long blonde hair. In other words, he’s insulting her. It’s as if I referred to the current White House occupant as “well-informed, kind-hearted, and self-effacing”. Except that his idea of taking down a woman is by demeaning her physical appearance. She is INADEQUATE EYE CANDY.
Aleta
Someday he’ll blame twitter too.
Mnemosyne
@Ken:
Exactly. A normal person feels shame and thinks, I should stop doing that thing because it’s bad. A narcissist feels shame and thinks, That other person is making me feel ashamed. I need to lash out at them in retaliation.
And, of course, the classic “shame” movie reference ?:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_w4MV_LwMw
Kay
@Mnemosyne:
They reject all those earnest, serious climate researchers but then they’re like “Neurocore? Sure. Here’s 5 million dollars. Go burn it to light cigars”
Some kind of collapse happened – it really doesn’t matter when at this point.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
They were born and raised with a silver dildo of evil in their mouth.
rikyrah
Apparent NC election rigging scheme has been going on for years
Rachel Maddow revisits a past episode of the This American Life radio show in which the central figure in the current North Carolina election scandal is heard admitting to the same scheme in 2016.
Jeffro
@A Ghost To Most:
I know, right? “RICO” and “resign”, they just kinda go together, don’t they? “RICO-sign”? Whatever. It’ll be part of the charges.
A Ghost To Most
@TenguPhule: My family is not rich, but they are just like DeVos. Greed and spite.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@rikyrah: That segment is amazing.
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
They can make money from Neurocore. Climate change will cost them money. Therefore, Neurocore is good science because it lines their pockets, and climate change is bad science because it takes money away from them.
I actually did one of the better-regarded ADHD brain training programs, which is called CogMed. It was fine, but I didn’t keep up on the refreshers that you have to do. ?♀️
Noah Brand
I’m curious: is there a site or a Twitter account or something that just compares the weird claims in Trump’s tweets to the claims made on Fox News? Because obviously, I assume these alternate-reality talking points of his are drawn directly from the Scared Grandpa Network, but it’d be nice to be able to check that assumption against records.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@TenguPhule:
I see right wing framing about economics creeps into the article.
Jeffro
Merriam Webster is trolling Trumpov again – today’s word of the day is “sandbag”
LOLOL
A Ghost To Most
@Jeffro: 1974 was a helluva year. 2019 promises to make it look like an Obama no-drama year.
stinger
@Ken:
I think he means the opposite. He’s angry and lashing out at the people he’s naming, and I’ll bet she’s not “lovely” by HIS STANDARDS.
For all I know, she’s gorgeous, but solely on the basis of this tweet, I’m thinking she’s not.
Quaker in a Basement
I had to look that one up, too. Weissman took down Arthur Anderson for covering up the Enron fraud. He convinced the trial judge to give jury instructions in a way that favored the prosecution. THAT is what the supreme court ruled against. With this tweet, Trump is backing Enron.
tobie
@Mnemosyne:
Bingo. That’s the rightwing mindset in a nutshell. If there’s no profit in it for me, it must be wrong (or demagogued as wrong).
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@JR:
I wonder if it’s going to happen in 2019 or 2020. Could it affect Trump’s reelection chances?
TenguPhule
@Quaker in a Basement:
Knowing Trump, his greatest achievement would be to die after conviction but before the appeal.
Aleta
They’re so discombobulated no one has given him a somber Pearl Harbor tweet that he could twist to make it about himself. Instead I hope some of the traitor’s boats will be sunk today.
rikyrah
Benczkowski, former Alfa Bank lawyer, recuses from Mueller cases
Rachel Maddow reports on Brian Benczkowski recusing himself from all matters related to the Mueller investigation. Benczkowski, who was a lawyer for Russia’s Alfa Bank before being named by Donald Trump to head the DOJ’s criminal division, was less clear about recusal in testimony to the Senate.
Martin
@TenguPhule: The stock market does not like global uncertainty. They want a steady message, not contradictory statements out of the White House every hour. It’s not even the message they particularly care about – the market can respond to things like tariffs and shifts in energy policy. Its the fact that it’s become clear to everyone that Trump is utterly full of shit and can’t be trusted on any statement, and they have no idea what people will and won’t believe. At times like this your money is best kept in a coffee can rather than the S&P 500.
Fair Economist
@SFAW: Sanders is a liar, not a moron. He’s been in Congress decades. He knows perfectly well the majority party controls what comes up and the Republican will ignore the most overwhelming public pressure if it suits them (e.g. criminal background checks). He’s setting up to blame Democrats for Republican inaction.
laura
@hitchhiker: I’m on the Trump campaign email list and do enjoy replying in the subject line-usually demanding that he resign, plus whatever is the outrage de jure.
The sniveling grifting is b-grade at best, and thinking that people send them money, well, if you’re offering yourself up as a mark and a rube, the fleecing never stops.
Aleta
@Quaker in a Basement: “Don’t worry, moneybag people. The Supreme Court will get me out of this.”
gwangung
@Mandalay: Maggie Cheung and Michelle Yeoh appeared in an iconic Hong Kong movie, THE TERRIFIC TRIO, that’s a touchstone for a lot of Asian American feminist geeks. (Think superhero pulp fun on a 90s budget).
germy
jl
Some good entertainment news here. Apparently Rudes will be writing a lot of the counter report. That should be a hoot, Might make for a bromance comedy. Let’s hope there are plenty of typos that create blind links so random people can supply commentary.
PPCLI
@Quaker in a Basement: True, Trump could mean Enron and Arthur Anderson as “great companies” that Weismann took down. But we shouldn’t exclude the possibility that Trump is referring to the Gambino, Genovese and Columbo crime families, who Weismann also contributed to taking down.
Martin
@Martin: And here’s what tariffs produces: Pegatron, one of Apple’s assembly contractors is moving from China to Indonesia, and GM is moving plants from the US to Mexico. Both moves solely to get out of the way of Trumps unhinged economic policy. Pegatron doesn’t come to the US, and GM leaves the US. US workers are either not helped, or are hurt, meantime, everyone is paying 25% more because Trump thinks the Chinese government pays the tariff, when it’s instead levied on US consumers.
rikyrah
A month after election, new GOP senator already faces investigation
12/07/18 08:00 AM—UPDATED 12/07/18 08:04 AM
By Steve Benen
In one of this year’s most closely watched U.S. Senate races, Missouri’s Josh Hawley (R) stood out for a candidacy chased by dark clouds. The Republican promised voters, for example, not to use his office as a springboard to a higher office, but then broke that commitment within months of becoming state attorney general. Hawley also lied repeatedly about the anti-health care lawsuit he helped file.
Both the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York Times took separate looks at Hawley’s tenure as state attorney general, and both painted deeply unflattering portraits, including criticisms from state judges over his office’s work.
But he’s a Republican in a red state, so voters last month elected Hawley to the U.S. Senate anyway. A month after the election, however, Hawley’s most serious controversy is already coming back to haunt him. Usually, senators have to wait a while before they find themselves under investigation, but as the Kansas City Star reported, the Missouri Republican is already facing a probe – and he won’t even be sworn in for several weeks.
West of the Rockies
@Kay:
Jerome Corsi was (is?) a regular on late-night alien/Bigfoot/CT radio. He’s a grifter who paddled out into the deep end without a pool noodle.
Soon he’ll be not waving but drowning.
opiejeanne
Thanks for gathering those tweets for us, Betty.
Today is Pearl Harbor Day. How many ways can he say the wrong thing today?
PPCLI
@germy: Indeed. I wonder how many Democrats were on the Ken Starr team? And how many of Starr’s underlings were Federalist Society Young Pioneers who participated in dirty tricks like the Brooks Brothers Riot (fx Kavanaugh).
artem1s
@SFAW:
Shame absolutely. Guilt, never.
Quinerly
Trump Administration downgrading UN Ambassador. It will no longer be a Cabinet level position.
gene108
@catclub:
Obama didn’t use his personal account. He used the official POTUS account and that too sparingly.
Amir Khalid
@Jerzy Russian:
The British sometimes decribe a person as “a lovely man” not to mean that he is physically attractive, but rather that he is a really nice guy.
germy
@PPCLI: I know they were drooling at the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency. I wonder how many of them felt a tug of disappointment in their hearts when PEETUS won?
Ruckus
@Kay:
Sounds like the machine scientology had/has, that told if you were sufficiently within their grasp. IOW you believe whatever certain people say.
TenguPhule
@Martin:
Megatron’s little known younger brother who decided that the best things in life belonged to other people.
TenguPhule
@opiejeanne:
All of em, Katie.
TenguPhule
@Quinerly:
Think you misspelled degrading.
catclub
@Quaker in a Basement: There seems to be a LOT of prosecutor over-reach that is only punished when the defendant has gigantic resources. Prosecutors assume there will be essentially no defense lawyer, because usually that is true. When it isn’t they are too often shown to be very sloppy.
Amir Khalid
@jl:
I find myself hoping that Rudy G writes legal documents with the same care and consideration that he gives to what he says on television.
artem1s
@Quaker in a Basement:
Interesting. Thanks for looking it up, I had no idea.
I call fake tweet. No way does Trump know who any of those people are. Someone wrote that one for him, or at least suggested he throw in a dig at Weissman. It’s a dog whistle that will go over almost everyone’s head. I wonder who it is really targeting.
catclub
@PPCLI:
My first guess is about negative six.
Schlemazel
@Mnemosyne:
HEY! Wanted to thank you for the response on the late night thread. I had gone to bed but followed the link (it had not occurred to me to google that word) and that was interesting but stomping around on other links I think you are right. It is possible my dad didn’t get the actual meaning because it had shifted. That would still be a bit of ‘white privilege’ and I am not sure that is better but in one way it is.
Gravenstone
@lumpkin: Pages upon pages of “I didn’t do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can’t prove anything!”, ad nauseum.
Mandalay
@gwangung:
Is that also known as The Heroic Trio? If so, the plot looks…interesting…
I don’t know whether Maggie Cheung is lovely, but she is certainly easy on the eyes.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@catclub:
I’ve never particularly liked prosecutors in general. Every single one I’ve come across is an arrogant d-bag who, when shown fairly compelling evidence a defendant in a case they prosecuted was innocent, they usually double down. Same with law enforcement.
tobie
@Fair Economist: There’s this assumption that if only the Democrats would go bold, they would win everything. I can see how you would get that impression is you limited yourself to twitter-verse and leftwing blogs. But my sense from the last election is that what swayed most voters, especially in swing districts, was defending existing policy (the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security) and building on past achievements. No Justice Dem candidate won a swing district. I’m thinking of folks like Randy Bryce, Liz Watson, and Jess King.
Barbara
@catclub: Prosecutors like Carmen Ortiz, whose chance for a future in politics seems to have sunk to zero.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2013/01/25/triumphant-motel-owner-slams-carmen-ortiz/
tobie
@Fair Economist: There’s this assumption that if only the Democrats would go bold, they would win everything. I can see how you would get that impression is you limited yourself to twitter-verse and leftwing blogs. But my sense from the last election is that what swayed most voters, especially in swing districts, was defending existing policy (the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security) and building on past achievements. No Justice Dem candidate won a swing district. I’m thinking of folks like Randy Bryce, Liz Watson, and Jess King. No doubt they were facing uphill battles, but talk of political revolutions tends to scare Americans.
debit
@Mandalay: I love that movie.
Mnemosyne
@Schlemazel:
You’re welcome! When I was Googling around, it sounded as though the word persisted in the Detroit area, especially among the Polish community, as a word for junk man or trash picker without the connection to that person being Jewish.
My BFF is 100 percent Polish (both of her parents were Polish immigrants) and grew up in Detroit, so I may ask her about that. ?
Barbara
@tobie: In fairness, Bryce turned out to have more baggage than a candidate can carry with him and expect to be elected in a swing district.
catclub
@Ken: That, and all the Rudy Giuliani stuff tell me he has never realized he is no longer on the Howard Stern show.
rikyrah
Ain’t Shyt Kelly has been interviewed by Bobby Three Sticks….
things that make you go
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
TenguPhule
@Mandalay:
I have to take a moment to admire whoever came up with that.
different-church-lady
I wonder how much of this shit he’s going to do from prison.
different-church-lady
@rikyrah: Since Kelly came on later in the process, one might assume he’s being asked about the obstruction-of-justice phase.
Yes. One might.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@TenguPhule:
Because of course you would ;-)
different-church-lady
@germy: Which absolutely does not explain “Whip It” in the least.
Mandalay
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!…
CliosFanboy
@TenguPhule: Megatrons brother who really likes anal. (not judging, just saying)
Gravenstone
@Quinerly: Trying to circumvent Senate confirmation?
Mnemosyne
@different-church-lady:
With the right warrants, investigators can still monitor your communications from prison.
Paul Manafort found that out the hard way.
@rikyrah:
I don’t think that Kelly was one of the people who was pre-compromised by the Russians like Flynn was, but IMO he’s been participating in the after-the-fact cover-up. And “accessory after the fact” is the kind of thing that can get you a long prison sentence.
different-church-lady
@Mnemosyne: Why would they need a warrant? It’s all right there on Twitter.
The Dangerman
Champagne’s getting cold, but it’s still early on the West Coast (but I like Mimosas and came prepared with lots of OJ).
Agent Apricot appears more unhinged then usual. Is December 7th really the day Mueller lights him up? I doubt it, but I’m ready (in case of emergency, pop cork, etc.)
different-church-lady
Ladies and gentlemen, please make sure your freude is in the upright and schaden position.
tobie
@Barbara: True. We could, though, look at how candidates won in tough districts, and I think the overwhelming evidence would be that they had a pragmatic approach to local and national issues. Maybe I’m wrong but I sense fatigue with loud-mouth politicking after two years of Trump. Populism cannot help but divide the world into us (the people) vs. them. Who the them is varies depending on whether you’re dealing with leftwing or rightwing populism but the division itself is baked into the cake.
trollhattan
@rikyrah:
The name forced me to look--yes, he’s one of those Ashcrofts–real name is John Robert Ashcroft, son of former USAG John Ashcroft. And he’s a fucking engineer. And his pony is voter I.D.
The second generation of neocons is coming. Y’all have been warned.
sm*t cl*de
@Kay:
Part of the appeal of the NeuroCore scam is the anti-medication angle.
trollhattan
@The Dangerman:
We have plenty left over from the spouse’s birthday, ready and rarin’ to be uncorked. There may or may not be cake.
Gravenstone
@trollhattan: First thought was that he’s trying to hamstring Hawley in order to better position his own political future.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@different-church-lady:
But cryptocurrencies will replace fiat money, just you wait and see. Any day now.
trollhattan
@Gravenstone:
Knowing zip about MO politics myself that sounds exactly like something a careerist would do. “Hey look, a fly.” [thwack]
germy
@trollhattan:
If only they were the type to rebel against their parents…
TenguPhule
SFAW
@Mnemosyne:
Fake News! It’s only a process crime!!!
West of the Rockies
@Mandalay:
I’m sure his ex must be a lovely person, too. //
In these celeb divorce cases, everyone comes out looking like greedy, terrible people.
TenguPhule
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
You can pay your Ohio taxes with them now! //
TenguPhule
@West of the Rockies:
Because they are greedy, terrible people. QED.
TenguPhule
@trollhattan:
The cake is a lie.
jl
@different-church-lady: He didn’t explain what the role of the two-headed dog boys either.
NotMax
Heh. From the headline, at first thought you were going for a whole Underdog vibe.
When nanny’s away…
TenguPhule
@different-church-lady:
So apparently the majority of the SEC are still not drooling morons.
But this lady needs to go. Far far away.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: OMG I am dying here. Much noble, so brave, wow!
Mnemosyne
@tobie:
I think the leading edge of this particular wave was the transgender woman in Virginia who won a state legislature seat by running on improving traffic and infrastructure in her district rather than policing who uses which bathroom.
Democrats: We Get The Practical Shit Done seems like a pretty good message going into 2020.
Eric
An 87 page report prepared for Trump means an 87 slide PowerPoint presentation where half the pages are cartoons and the other half are each a single line in 48 pt text
TenguPhule
@trollhattan:
This time as farce.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@TenguPhule:
Seems like an even trade for Stand Your Ground and Fetal Heartbeat laws //
different-church-lady
@jl: Well, that was self evident.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat: I would be willing to place some cash money on the probability that Kelly lied to Mueller’s team.
Yes, I believe he’s that arrogant and entitled.
TenguPhule
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
The next legislative cycle’s Stand Your Ground on Fetal Heartbeats bill should be interesting in a Chinese curse way.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: Well Marines are not exactly known for their smarts, are they?
J R in WV
@The Dangerman:
We also keep champagne on hand for sudden announcements of guilty pleas or new indictments. I might have to ice the best bottle in case of Trumpetts being indicted, but there’s always some sparkling wine just in case!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@schrodingers_cat:
I guess he (probably) won’t be running for President. I can’t believe I ever thought he would.
The Dangerman
@SFAW:
WTF is a “process crime”? Seems to a be a favorite line of Hannity, so I assume on the Bullshit meter it is pegging the red light at the top.
TenguPhule
@TenguPhule:
So Bitcoin is cryptocurrency Donald Trump.
TenguPhule
@The Dangerman:
A crime committed in the process of aiding and abetting other crimes.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@The Dangerman:
It’s a real term of art. Process crimes are things like obstruction of justice
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat: They’re nicknamed Jarheads for a reason.
A Ghost To Most
@SFAW: “Process crime” may be my favorite new phrase from these proceedings
Process crime (noun) :
Any act taken by a white man in furtherance of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
The Dangerman
@J R in WV:
Damn, I’d have to go get the really good stuff if a Trumper is effectively perp walked; there’s a place that serves up a Marscapone locally and I’m too fucking cheap to buy it (ridiculously expensive), but I’ll make an exception if a Trumper gets one today. Same place makes fresh mozarella daily (it’s seriously good).
A Ghost To Most
@TenguPhule:
In truth, it is because of the haircuts.
Cckids
@catclub:
I remember in 2016, seeing Obama on The View, when they asked him about Twitter, since Trump was using it so much, he said there was an account, but probably “some intern” was tweeting. He seemed bemused that anyone would think the President had time & attention for such a thing.
Those were the days.
different-church-lady
@The Dangerman: Fine, it will only be a process incarceration then.
The Dangerman
@TenguPhule:
But still a crime, right? So, who cares if the person only drove the getaway car, they are still doing slammer time (can’t touch that).
zhena gogolia
I’m mainlining Maru videos. I can’t deal with this any more.
jacy
@Mnemosyne:
More succintly, a narcissist cannot feel shame, but they can acutely feel embarrassment. And if you cause them to feel embarrassment, you must be punished until their satisfaction in revenge against you outweighs their embarrassment, at which point their equilibrium is restored. Narcissists are like human amebas — they don’t have reason, they just react to stimuli.
Mandalay
@West of the Rockies:
The other day Avenatti said he wasn’t running for president at the request of his “family”. Now we know why.
The “family” didn’t want him to do anything that would get in the way of him handing over the Ferrari, the jet and “$150,000 a month in child and spousal support”.
NotMax
@schrodingers_cat
Made me flash back on quite possibly the most insipid theme song ever.
;)
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@TenguPhule:
Good news on the Stand Your Ground front:
Ohio General Assembly passes firearms bill—but without ‘stand-your-ground’ provisions
It also shifts the burden of proof in a self-defense shooting:
It also bans “straw man” purchases of guns where someone buys a gun on behalf of someone else.
jl
@A Ghost To Most:
” Process crime (noun) :
Any act taken by a white man in furtherance of the vast right-wing conspiracy. ”
I think it has something to do with Trump’s repeated ravings that it’s a damn shame and disgrace what those dirty rat feds did to poor Al Capone, taking him down on measly tax evasion charges. That seems to be continuing sore point with Trump (wonder why?). That general inchoate sentiment needs to be dignified and neatened up for sophisticated high-toned discussions on the news talkies.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
when you find yourself in danger when you’re threatened by a stranger when it looks like you will take a lickin’
Oops, that’s Super Chicken.
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: Have you tried Shiro Neko?
Cabbage Patch Shiro and Tora
Aleta
Question in general, not just for today:
If I understand, for an Obstruction of J finding, it’s possible Mueller may not indict co-conspirators but might just pass the report to Congress. Is this also true for everything else–that he might just send reports to others (at DOJ, etc) to decide whether act on, rather than indicting anyone himself?
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat:
Cute, but they don’t look as happy as Maru! They look like regular cats.
Ken
@TenguPhule:
Giving Mueller an extra five months to gather evidence, and create questions based on it. Remind me, was Kelly supposed to be one of the smart ones in the room.
TenguPhule
The mind boggles.
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: They are pretty zen, and Shiro looks like the late great Tunch.
His YT channel
catclub
@schrodingers_cat: Bobby Three Sticks was a marine.
schrodingers_cat
@catclub: # Not all Marines.
I was kidding of course.
rikyrah
@zhena gogolia:
I love Maru
catclub
@TenguPhule: The amusing thing about all the Bitcoin futures and presumably bitcoin ETFs, is that all the trades in them are settled in dollars.
Amir Khalid
@The Dangerman:
I think Hannity and the rest of that ilk are trying to invent a distinction between actual crimes, involving some kind of harm to a person, and “process” crimes, involving no personal harm — like the distinction between personal fouls and technical fouls in basketball. Of course, criminal law is not basketball.
MisterForkbeard
@TenguPhule: If I had to guess, Trump is going to cause a shakeup and do something stupid in order to try and get any and all Mueller related news out of circulation.
I’m curious if he’s referring to succession to the Joint Chiefs positions, or whether he’s going to try and change the federal’s government’s succession order somehow to try and freeze out the House now that Pelosi’s there? IIRC correctly, the succession order after the Vice President has to be given by Congress so it’s basically a dead end if he tries it.
Chris Johnson
@TenguPhule: Trump dropping a bombshell at the Army/Navy game?
“Ladies and gentlemen, Mike Pence is a Russian traitor! This evil man is personally responsible for all the Russian collusion, not me, never me! And so I hereby announce that the new Vice President of the United States is the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who know how to make America great again”
It would be irresponsible not to speculate. And fuckin’ Pence is of course a total Russian pawn and they all know it. I think Trump is about ready to flip the table.
I was really sure he was going to bail and flee to Russia… until I saw his face at the summit, until I saw Putin cozying up to others and cutting him dead. The message is, NO Donny you don’t get to run to Daddy and gloat about what you’ve done. It’s being hung on you, and you’re dead to Vlad now. I’m sure he thought he could run to his best buddy and surrogate Daddy. It was a brutal, brutal blow to him to learn he was abandoned and fucked.
Trump will wreck Putin now… or try to… and the thing is, he is himself a Russian agent and about to be revealed as one. So it’s time for the big dramatic statement, and he trusts nobody because he himself has been a traitor this entire time, and it’s all for nothing. Vlad won’t love him, just as his dad didn’t love him.
Matt McIrvin
@Amir Khalid: Eliding the fact that they’re process crimes because they prevent justice for the other kind of crimes.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@MisterForkbeard: He knows he and Pence are about to be unseated, he announces that by executive order the presidential succession goes to the Chair of the Joint Chiefs instead of Speaker of the House and then he announces that Hannity is a Six-Star General and the new Chair of JCS.
Or maybe Ivanka.
Only half joking. Didn’t he brag on the campaign trail that he was going to get rid of all the generals and replace them with “my generals”? He doesn’t know anything about anything.
cliosfanboy
The key word in the phrase “process crime” is, of course “CRIME”
NotMax
@Ceci n est pas mon nym
Perhaps we’re reading this all wrong and in light of the Kelly news he’ll be talking about suck cession.
Mnemosyne
@zhena gogolia:
Cole and Marmalade’s YouTube channel also offers excellent cat videos. Their cat parents build them really amazing kitty forts out of boxes. And they have two little sister kittens now!
sdhays
@Amir Khalid: What’s kind of funny about that is that their definition of a “process crime”, such that it is, probably would include “using the wrong email server to do your job”. Unless you’re HRC, of course.
mapaghimagsik
@TenguPhule: Is it time to start DrumpfCoin?
MomSense
@Frankensteinbeck:
Yup. Classic narcissistic injury.