Are you f**king kidding me?! THIS is why Trump scheduled the trip to Denmark?! pic.twitter.com/9TpZP6mgVk
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 20, 2019
I wonder if other national leaders will preemptively announce that none of their territory is for sale to ward off a possible Trump visit.
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 21, 2019
I bet Australia gets all smart and sells him New Zealand. When he shows up and finds out Australia didn't own New Zealand, it will be hilarious. Best. Scam. Ever.
— Bob Blaskiewicz✌?? (@rjblaskiewicz) August 21, 2019
Maybe we could buy Madagascar?
Or, better yet, the Puerto Ricans could offer to sell them THEIR island…
— 614 Bantam (@jpbach) August 21, 2019
Ok, is anyone around him, at the very least, a little bit concerned that he has lost his mind?
— Sighthound (@xifer84) August 21, 2019
“Losing” — ?!?
Ken
A question that, if there is any justice, will be asked of every one of them on the witness stand.
opiejeanne
This is why I love Balloon Juice.
I just read this to mr opiejeanne and he doesn’t know whether he should laugh or not. Trump is insane.
dmsilev
For the next, I dunno, five generations, whenever someone tries to claim that Republicans are serious adults, it should be met with ‘they elected and supported Donald Trump. Case closed.’
TS (the original)
@Ken: Did he have a mind to lose?
namekarB
Somebody should whisper in his ear that the Lost isle of Atlanta has been found and is looking for a host country
Peale
The sad truth is that for the next 40 years, Republican presidents will be running on the promise to get the Danes to sell Greenland and eventually Denmark will join Iran, Venezuela and North Korea in the Axis of Evil.
NotMax
Downhill Donald thinks it is all one big putting green, doesn’t he?
Mike in NC
What Fat Bastard really meant to say was “Denmark is a very WHITE country with incredible WHITE people…”
When we visited Copenhagen, a tour guide explained that their national flag was the exclusive property of the Danish government. People couldn’t just run out to whatever they have equivalent to Wal*Mart and treat the flag like a piece of toilet paper, like Fat Bastard does.
Wag
@opiejeanne:
I’m laughing while beating my head against the table.
NotMax
@NotMax
My bad. Substitute “believes” for “thinks.” For obvious reasons.
Joe Falco
I go and watch a movie (The Art of Racing in the Rain) and this was the first piece of news on my phone when I walk out of the theater. Dammit, America, I need to go back in and watch another movie until I get better news when I come out.
NotMax
@Joe Falco
Popcorn is good but not sure it is a life sustaining diet.
;)
Ken
Now that I’ve read his tweets postponing the trip, I’m pretty sure he thinks this is a negotiating tactic, and in less than a month the Danes will crawl back to the table and beg to sign the deal.
So yes, insane.
Steve in the ATL
@NotMax: much easier to putt uphill, FYI
TS (the original)
trump really hates travelling anywhere other than to his golf courses. He made a ridiculous fool of himself in London, maybe he was just looking for a reason to cancel a trip that one of his minions thought he was capable of doing.
dexwood
@Joe Falco:
Don’t leave me hanging, how was the flick? Haven’t heard of it.
Momus
How long until we hear, “The Marines have landed”?
Mary G
NotMax
@<a href="https://balloon-juice.com/2019/08/20/facepalm-open-thread-greenland-unlike-the-trump-administration-is-not-for-sale/#comment-7379217"Steve in the ATL
The ball: southern tip of Greenland.
The hole: northern tip of Greenland.
Dolt 45: “That’s a gimme.”
;:)
SiubhanDuinne
@TS (the original):
Surprised he didn’t send Ivanka to sub for him.
Sm*t Cl*de
I can offer the Aurora Islands for a very reasonable price.
Gin & Tonic
@Mary G: Go home, Joe.
Ken
@NotMax: The “Three Sisters” combination of corn, beans, and squash is nutritionally complete. Working out how to add beans and squash to popcorn is left as an exercise for the reader, or perhaps a particularly disgusting episode of “Chopped”.
dmsilev
@Sm*t Cl*de: I believe Laputa is also available.
NotMax
@dmsilev
Perfect for aerial surveillance! Add a little stealth technology here, a little there…
zhena gogolia
The night of that f–king election I was shaking all night and I said to my husband, “I don’t want to see what he’s going to do. I don’t want to live through it.”
I had no idea.
Joe Falco
@dexwood:
It’s a sweet movie like most dog movies are. I’d recommend it if you got nothing else to watch. I could probably listen to Kevin Costner’s gravely old man(dog?) voice narrate audio books all the time in the car if I could.
@NotMax
Maybe not, but if it’s fresh popcorn , I wouldn’t mind wasting away eating it. ;)
stinger
@Mary G: Evidence of the immutable law that, when you are chastising someone for minor errors, you make one yourself. There’s an Urbandale, Iowa, and an Urbana, Iowa, but no Urbande. Glad to see that Nolan caught his typo shortly after tweeting it.
And there’s probably a typo in this comment!
zhena gogolia
This looks really good — Expert Summaries of Mueller Report.
https://www.justsecurity.org/65863/expert-summaries-of-mueller-report-a-collection-of-short-essays/
kindness
I’m not really sure what is real anymore.
What’s worse is the President is already there.
debbie
“It all started with the strawberries…”
zhena gogolia
@stinger:
He obviously meant late 60s.
I’m paying no attention to Biden “gaffes.” The POTUS cancelled a trip to Denmark because they won’t sell him Greenland. There is no such thing as a “gaffe” by any Democrat. Note I said Democrat.
Dan B
Trump rage tweets at Denmark. At Denmark?!? Is there a more benign country?
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
On the plus side, I bet Joe has no interest in buying another country.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
I think he’s stopped listening to her. She should just leave.
dexwood
@Joe Falco:
Thanks. Will look for it. We have one independent/art theater left in this town. We patronize the place. My son and his wife booked the place for their wedding years ago.
Omnes Omnibus
@Dan B: Luxembourg?
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
I mean this completely unironically: NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED.
Chip Daniels
Nancy Pelosi should go to Mexico and announce that Texas is available for purchase or lease with option.
Amir Khalid
I look forward to seeing the list of sanctions that Trump proposes against Denmark for its churlish refusal to sell Greenland.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
I was looking at my programming guide on Sling TV, and I noticed two channels.
1. RT America showing ‘Politicking w/Larry King’.
I despised Larry King when he was on CNN, so I’m not upset or disappointed at this like I was when Ed Schultz (R.I.P.) went to RT America after his MSNBC show was cancelled.
2. NewsmaxTV listing ‘Michelle Malkin Investigates’
Frankly I wouldn’t watch that channel unless I was getting paid, but I can guess what she ‘investigates’.
The above notwithstanding there are some interesting news channels on Sling Blue, especially since I added the News Extras package to get MSNBC.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Herring tariffs.
Mary G
Miss Bianca
@zhena gogolia: I’m with you. Any time now someone tries to make something of “Democratic gaffes” I’m going to go all Death Stare and say “Greenland. At least they’re not offering to buy fucking GREENLAND.”
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
No danishes at hotel breakfast buffets, for starters. Followed closely by banning any productions of Hamlet.
;)
Patricia Kayden
@Peale: Maybe I’m being optimistic but I’m hoping that Trump is the last Republican President for a couple of decades. He certainly should be. They have lost their minds.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax:
Now you tell me.
zhena gogolia
Jeffro
@zhena gogolia: Agreed. Joe’s not my #1 pick, but I’ll start drilling down on his “gaffes” right after he gets busted paying off a mistress with campaign funds laundered through a shell corporation, or participating in multi-generational tax fraud, or calling for/accepting the assistance of a hostile foreign power in subverting our democratic elections.
Also, Greenland. Also, tweeting crazy shit eight times a day. Also, also, also…
Steve in the ATL
@Ken: reminds me of “Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years”. Good read if you haven’t already.
dmsilev
@Amir Khalid: IKEA furniture, BMWs, and North Sea gas will all be targeted.
Gravenstone
@Ken: Simple. Add the popcorn as a ‘textural component ‘ to a mixture of spaghetti squash and beans. I’m sure we can come up with a sauce to tie it all together.
Patricia Kayden
@Mary G: Biden recently claimed that Dr. King and President Kennedy were assassinated in the 70s. I really hope that he’s not our nominee.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: Ugh, Joe needs to hang it up.
NotMax
@ Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
Larry King has been appearing on RT for years, and is among the co-owners with them of the concern behind some of the odious video ads that show up on the front page.
Jeffro
@Dan B: Belgium? No wait – CANADA! (I know trumpov has already knocked Trudeau around a bunch of times but not the country itself)
When he goes after Canadians, well, THEN we’ll know he’s finally 25th Amendment material. But not now – getting pissed at Denmark for rejecting his offer to buy Greenland is totally reasonable. Absolutely.
zhena gogolia
None of the candidates needs to hang it up except Gabbard and Williamson.
Ken
@Gravenstone: If we’re hypothetically talking about a “Chopped” basket, the sauce will have to be based on squid, because the fourth item in the basket is always a squid.
NotMax
@Gravenstone
In B-J tradition, Blechamel sauce.
Jay
@Omnes Omnibus:
They make that cheese, so, no.
Gravenstone
@Miss Bianca: At this point, I think it’s more threatening to buy Greenland. As in approaching ‘offer they can’t refuse ‘ level of fixation.
Omnes Omnibus
@Patricia Kayden:
“Greenland. At least he’s not offering to buy fucking GREENLAND.”
@Miss Bianca: I think it works.
dmsilev
@Jeffro: Belgium has another century or so of living down what they did in their Congo colony before being allowed to compete for ‘most innocuous’.
Joe Falco
@NotMax:
Not my danish!
Omnes Omnibus
@Jay: If you mean Limburger, that is Dutch. That style of cheese is also made in Wisconsin. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
NotMax
@Ken
Or licorice.
;)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden: That’s why we just celebrated the 40th anniversary of the moon landing a few weeks ago and will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the internet in a couple of weeks.
Jeffro
@dmsilev: Fair enough. Canada it is! And maybe Lichtenstein?
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: no effing way. Banking state. Maybe Lichtenstein.
@dmsilev: dude, stop ripping off my posts from last night!
TaMara (HFG)
Comment on FB regarding Greenland/Denmark IQ45 tweet.
Steve in the ATL
@Jeffro: dude, stop ripping off my posts from tonight!
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: mmm…smoked Wisconsin Limburger….
NotMax
@Jeffro
Ifni.
:)
Omnes Omnibus
@Jeffro:
@Steve in the ATL:
It is really nice place get lunch if you are headed to Davos.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
If I understand this, trump was talking not too seriously about buying Greenland, and it leaked to the media. Trump denied wanting to buy Greenland, but then his apologists on Fox and elsewhere, what Jon Lovett calls his zambonis, started being all “Akshully, wanting to buy Greenland is bigly smart and it was Truman’s idea.” And trump saw these people making excuses for him and got confused and now thinks he was trying to buy Greenland and so he cancelled his visit.
Gin & Tonic
@Ken: Spent four days on a boat in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam – live-aboard sea kayaking – and I swear to God, every dish at every meal involved squid (squid fishing is very big there.)
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: You wouldn’t be able to tell the difference….
Repatriated
The US buying buying Greenland makes a weird kind of sense when viewed in the context of a near-future US & Russia alliance against the entire rest of the world, particularly Europe and China.
That said, such an alliance would benefit Russia far more than it could possibly benefit the US. Which raises the question, “WTF!?”
cynthia ackerman
@Ken:
Real Indian popcorn (e.g. those little dried multicolor ears on sale around Thanksgiving) is more flavorful and delicate than Paleface’s.
I make a mean salmon stew with it, and beans and squash.
Seriously, if you like popcorn, try a few ears this fall. Recommend pan frying over air popper, as the tiny kernels can blow away.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@NotMax:
Ora TV?
His shows may just be licensed to RT America, as opposed to being produced by them, but I have no doubt that if he consistently went ‘off message’ RT America would drop him like a hot potato.
Never mind that his appearance gives RT America undeserved credibility.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: I was thinking maybe Andorra but the whole 13th century loyalty to two princes brought back painful memories of the Spin Doctors and other ‘90’s atrocities.
Jay
@Gin & Tonic:
Squid and jelly fish are thriving under global warming.
NotMax
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
That’s the one.
geg6
I just can’t even any more with this mother fucker. Jesus fucking Christ, make it stop!
Gin & Tonic
@Jay: For the aficionados.
Chetan Murthy
@Gin & Tonic: surely aFISHionados ? Or aFISHINados ?
Gin & Tonic
@Chetan Murthy: Squid aren’t fish.
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
San Marino.
We’ll finally break the stranglehold of Big Match!
Steve in the ATL
@geg6: I was with you until you used swear words. Now I’m totally pro-trump.
zzyzx
Might be bad form to quote my own tweet but…
Steve in the ATL
@NotMax: yes! And that is an impressive salt to tobacco ratio, one of the key measures of QOL.
Repatriated
What if Trump just wants to buy Greenland so he can flip it to Russia?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@NotMax:
“Downhill Donald” I love that! Mind of if I steal it?
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Please do; pass it on.
cynthia ackerman
@debbie:
My usual Queeg pet peeve:
Conventional wisdom too often treats him as a case study in freak. Strawberries, yellow stain, shirt tails, ball bearings, typhoon … Hyuk hyuk hyuk, what a maroon!
The real point of The Caine Mutiny is that his officers are the bad guys, for actively and/or passively throwing him under the bus, when they had a range of options that preserve his dignity while ensuring the ship’s safety, because that’s what he asked them to do.
When someone today pokes fun at Queeg, it’s probably out of ignorance, possibly because s/he is child of darkness, just like the mutineers.
lamh36
Whassup BJ.
A bit of late night posting for a little while…before getting back to some studying
So, I’m taking 2 accounting courses this semester. I’ve never taken an accounting course before. I’m ok with math, but after one day of class and studying, I’m realizing that I will need to use as much of my time just keeping up and not falling behind in these accounting classes. I was spoiled by the ease of classes I had this past 3 semesters…smh. Looks like my nights will be filled with studying and practicing…and not much social media if any…
https://media.giphy.com/media/IPbS5R4fSUl5S/giphy.gif
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Repatriated: “Art of the Deal”.
Jay
Ruckus
@Steve in the ATL:
Damn you are fucking easy.
Steve in the ATL
@Jay:
They’ve been decimated!
@Ruckus: don’t you know it, sailor!
Repatriated
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Hey, he has to recoup the losses from the tax cut — and a bigly real-estate deal just might do the trick!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
Hmm. Overfishing, effects of climate change, pollution, or all of em’ Katie? (I tend to go with D.) all of the above
Dan B
@Omnes Omnibus: Lichtenstein?
Ruckus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
That sounds exactly like what actually happened and makes about as much sense as anything else about trump. He’s not any brighter than any of his followers/supporters.
Is it possible that this entire four years of trump is president, is an SNL skit gone terribly wrong, because we all believed it? It has all the right concepts, the lead is stupidly asinine and asininely stupid, doesn’t do any of the actual job, tweets from the toilet, remains in character by lying, stealing, cheating, acting massively racist, misogynistic and narcissistic, at the minimum.
Jay
Brutal poll results.
Ruckus
@Steve in the ATL:
Not sure but I don’t think it was a complement.
Steve in the ATL
@Dan B: off my corner, ho
Dan B
@Jeffro: Heartened to hear that a Greenland acquisition is reasonable, TOTALLY LITERALLY reasonable! Really..
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@NotMax:
Will do = D
cokane
i dont think this is evidence he’s losing it at all. this is the bullshit spectacle that he loves putting out there
Ohio Mom
@lamh36: Would you consider getting a tutor — if your college has a tutoring center, that’s one option, or finding an advanced student and paying out of pocket. Just to help you get over the initial hump.
In any case, good luck, we are all rooting for you.
Dan B
@Steve in the ATL: What kind of a pipecleaner do you need for Limberger? Robotic rats?
Maybe mechanical mice…
Ohio Mom
@Jay: Brutal? i say Beatiful!
Dan B
@Gin & Tonic: Squid for breakfast with smoked limberger, positively cosmopolitan!
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
I haven’t seen the year by year breakdowns yet, but the commercial industry was basically “take as much as you can” then with clearcut logging and unregulated log drives until the major collapse in the 70’s.
I’m gonna go with overfishing and logging for now, with non-recovery post 70’s due to all the above factors, loss of genetic diversity and changing conditions due to a bunch of factors, from fish farms, to global warming.
I know that for all the Fraser River salmon runs, the collapse came in 1923 and they have never recovered. There’s a 157 salmon rivers and streams in the Thompson River drainage. Only one has healthy runs, every other year. 42 have salmon runs, 113 the runs are functionally extinct.
TS (the original)
@dmsilev: tax on Lego – trump will lose the next generation.
Bill Arnold
@Jay:
Found the paper for that. Long, on a skim looks interesting.
Genetics of century‐old fish scales reveal population patterns of decline (Michael H.H. Price, 20 August 2019, open access html)
Uncle Omar
@NotMax: #66 Hell, Lakrids can’t ship to the US already. Somehow Trump put a kibosh on them a couple of years ago. Bastard.
jl
If the Trumpsters are as innovative as they think they are, why not try for a Greenland timeshare? They could fly the Danes into a New Jersey Day’s Inn, treat them to a breakfast buffet (on Day’s Inn dime, if boiled eggs, oatmeal, and raisin bagels are good enough), make the pitch. Maybe have a ringer there, pretending to offer Lichtenstein.
That doesn’t work, see if Norway interested in unloading Svalbard. If Trump wants a little country, where there’s a will, there’s a way. All you need is focus.
Jay
FTFNYT with a rusty shovel,
zhena gogolia
@Jay:
What are you talking about? It was the New York Times that published the 1619 project. The tweet is responding to the National Review.
zhena gogolia
@cynthia ackerman:
I just like to hear Humphrey Bogart say “The mess boys ate the strawberries.”
Jay
@Bill Arnold:
Thanks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Then there is this from Glen Matlock’s post Pistols band.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@zzyzx: The Haman thingy? Being somewhat unfamiliar with the story of Esther, I had to question our young Jewish guest tonight about this. He explained the reference to me, and then gave our visiting grandchildren (ages 10 and 11) a lesson in how to read Hebrew. He’s one of the 5 young people we’ve had staying with us as campaign workers for the the Iowa caucuses. It’s been a great experience – I recommend it to any who can do so.
Jay
@zhena gogolia:
I stand Corrected.
The Dangerman
@Dan B:
Someone gave him an intelligence briefing that something is rotten in Denmark. That the intelligence briefing was cribbed off of Shakespeare is of no concern.
Just wait until Trump wants his pound of flesh from Venice … then the shit will hit the fan.
ola azul
@Ruckus:
Compliments is uncomplementary. Unless, a-course, the complement is complimentary.
(Will say, separate n apart from my silly comment to you, Ruckus: Don’t give a shit about folks’ spelling rigor-mortis pedantry, just find peeps reax to the phenomenon both ridiculous and sad, inna fulsome complement of uncomplimentary.)
‘Minds me of a saying I heard once ’bout campus politics: The small-minded attacks is so vicious cuz the stakes is so small.
jl
@zhena gogolia: I’m not sure why the NYT get the FTF treatment from comenter Jay either. The NR piece mentioned some notable figures. Celebrating African-American soldiers who fought for the country since the Revolutionary War is inspiring. But odd that the NR writer thought that provided a contrast to his idea of the flawed focus of the NYT 1619 project.
I don’t know about earlier periods, but in 20th Century, returning black veterans who had fought in battle, or even had gained discipline and some success in the military during war time, were seen as a threat to racist whites. After WWI, this has been cited as one reason for horrific ‘race riots’ (really, US versions of pogroms) that wiped out prosperous black business communities. And the outrage of black veterans returning from WWII being beaten as soon as they arrived was one reason Truman ordered integration of the military. Not quite the stark contrast the NR guy had in mind.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
Thank you. That’s awful! It’s so sad that all of this started years ago when we were so ignorant. It seems humanity never plans ahead or tries mitigate the possible or foreseeable consequences of our actions until it’s too late.
For example, we’ve known automation has been coming for a while. We should’ve been planning for and anticipating for it 30 years ago
AnotherBruce
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: @Jay: This is the true test of the crazification factor. That’s because Dementia Donny is crazy.
Dan B
@Steve in the ATL: Whaaaattt! You spect me to jes flounce offa wit jes ur little threat? Don count on it gurl!!!
Jay
ola azul
@zhena gogolia:
Harumph-Harumphry: “Straw-breze.”
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ve been trying to answer the musical question, “whatever happened to the Housemartins?”
SRW1
Would Deutsche Bank even be in a position to extend another loan to Trump? I hear they are in deep doo-doo themselves!
laura
Has new American Citizen Ruemara checked in since the swearing in?
I’m hoping delicious cake was involved.
SiubhanDuinne
Okay, this is fun: Senator Professor Warren has a Doppelgänger. The resemblance at first glance is really quite startling.
SiubhanDuinne
@laura:
Yes, in one of the downstairs threads. She didn’t mention cake, so we jackals will have to supply it. Labour of love, that’ll be.
Steve in the ATL
@Dan B: don’t make me pull out chore weave
cynthia ackerman
@zhena gogolia:
If his officers cared a fig about his dignity, he never would have had to measure out all those …
Part of the problem is that Bogart did such a great job. As they say, he stole every scene. And well he should. But it’s a shame that the enduring icon of the story/film is his oddness, not the Lord of the Flies baseness of his officers.
Dan B
@The Dangerman: What’s amatter with Denmark? I can’t find anything on the intertubes. Is it spreading?
Steve in the ATL
@laura: she posted a pic of herself in her new MAGA hat. It was inspiring.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
In many, many cases, we were not ignorant, we were greedy, refused to listen, refused to enquire.
There was always another forest, fishery, technology just over the horizon. No biggie if “we” left dead zones behind.
Up near Ross Moore, I drive through a standing dead forest, that was a tree plantation. They clear cut the origional 200 year old forest, stuck saplings in the ground a year later, which grew for the next 5 wet years we had, but with no roots, no shade, no groundcover, with herbicides sprayed to keep “the weeds” down, ( ground cover), they died standing in the next drought cycle, one by one over the years.
It’s never been replanted because that Corporation doesn’t exist any more, and the Corporate welfare that was the slashing of stumpage rates, has left the Ministry of Forests no money to replant.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
They made her watch a video of Trump, and made her listen to Lee Greenwood. What a country.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: @Dan B: Hit him with a writ.
Dan B
@Steve in the ATL: Sooo skert!! 0
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: This also happened.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: the writ has hit the fan
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Plausible theory. Obama was on his bubbling brain today
Yarrow
@SiubhanDuinne: There is a woman at my gym who looks so much like Elizabeth Warren it’s startling. The only difference is her hair style–color is the same. I do a double take every time I see her.
Steve in the ATL
And on that note, I should hit the rack. Slept only three hours last night and I have to drop the hammer on some teamsters tomorrow morning. Hope I dream of furries all night!
chopper
@Omnes Omnibus:
man, that matlock guy had the best theme song.
Viva BrisVegas
@SRW1:
Trump has his own bank now. It’s called the US Government.
SRW1
@Yarrow:
Does she get asked to sign autographs on sweaty T-shirts?
ola azul
@Jay:
Odds are, you sit corrected. Just so long’s you don’t lie corrected, no explanation necessary.
mrmoshpotato
Oh God damn! Cubs won tonight, but bring on the meteor! Sweet Meteor O’Death
Omnes Omnibus
@cynthia ackerman:
Queeg was a remarkably shitty commander. And a bad commander can easily turn his subordinates into bad sailors/soldiers/junior officers which is exactly what Queeg did. Christ, I could live blog the movie and point out a leadership mistake every 30 seconds.
Jay
mrmoshpotato
@ola azul: It’s possible that Jay smacks you corrected. ? Just so you’re prepared.
Yarrow
@SRW1: Not that I’ve seen. I really want to ask her if people tell her she looks like Elizabeth Warren but I haven’t got the nerve to do it. We’ve exchanged pleasantries once or twice. She seems nice but I don’t want to get into politics at the gym. Too stressful.
Jay
Jay
Yarrow
The best people.
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Sweet Meteor needs to primary Dump. It can promise it won’t kill white trash on impact (lie).
Omnes Omnibus
@Yarrow: There’s always this guy.
Jay
West of the Rockies
@mrmoshpotato:
Is that a “humorous” conservative Twitter critter? If so, as usual, it is not funny. Cons don’t do funny. They only do mean and sarcastic.
Jay
BigJimSlade
Maybe he could offer California and Massachusetts for Greenland. I live in one and have a bunch of the friends in the other (so I wouldn’t need to leave the country to visit my friends), I think we could live with the trade.
ola azul
@Omnes Omnibus:
Live-blogging the incessant shit-show of the Trump presidency made any thought of live-blogging the abject failures of any other endeavor seem … what was the Bush-era saying? … quaint.
frosty
@lamh36: Accounting. Blech. I’m an engineering project manager which means I schedule staff on my projects, QC their work, do some of the technical work myself, and manage the budget and schedule. My usual complaint when accountants and supervisors ask about my budgets and overruns:
“I’m an engineer, I’m good with numbers … until you put a dollar sign in front of them!!!!”
ETA: I look forward to your GIFs, always on the money (eek, there’s the $$ again!)
Jay
Chetan Murthy
@BigJimSlade:
Yabbut if he did that, how many other Blue States would line up and demand to be traded also? Equal Dignitude of the States [(c) Chief Justice John “Trump-Felcher” Roberts] and all, donchyano? He’d be left with the shithole states and not much else.
cynthia ackerman
@Omnes Omnibus:
Agreed, Queeg is a disaster. But the point of the story is that he asked for help and his officers let him twist n the wind because that’s what they liked.
They had the opportunity to salvage his dignity but they chose to torpedo him.
ETA — my point isn’t that Queeg is a hero, it’s that his officers are unrecognized dicks.
prostratedragon
@zhena gogolia: That summer I told a friend that 1) the bastard just might get elected; 2) the GOP think they can control him like GWB, but they can’t; and 3) she’d be longing for a bottom only to find a new low quite regularly. Since then I’ve been disappointed (by the election result), angered, exasperated, disgusted, vibrating with contempt, and lots of bannable things, but I have not been surprised.
NotMax
@Jay
Gotta be a dozen better ways to word that.
Just sayin’.
Mary G
This guy is just nuts:
NotMax
@cynthia ackerman
As in other cases, the legend has superseded the plot.
Mandalay
@Mary G:
Here’s the video, and it’s not pretty:
https://twitter.com/banditelli/status/1163957029897031680
No worse than umpteen other recent gaffes of his I suppose, but the giant elephant in the room is that while everyone giggles about Trump it’s crystal clear that Biden is not all there either.
How many times does Biden have to “misspeak” before it becomes apparent that the Democrats potentially have a huge problem on their hands: he’ll get the nomination and Trump will squash “crazy Joe” like a bug.
Steeplejack
@dexwood:
It looks like crap from the trailers. Maudlin Hollywooden mess.
Jay
Omnes Omnibus
@cynthia ackerman: Actually, asking for help like that was one of his worst blunders. He told them that he could not function. Now, I will agree that the XO should have jumped on MacMurray’s character with both feet the moment he started his little campaign. Queeg was in over his head, the XO was weak, and MacMurray was poison. What happened was more or less inevitable.
mrmoshpotato
@West of the Rockies: Not sure. It’s a meteor.
Jay
@NotMax:
Solitary Confinement in the US is a type of prison cell, small, cramped, no windows, no bars, just a steel door with sliding slots, often soundproofed. One mattress, one toilet/sink. People often spend their entire day lying on the bare concrete just hoping to see the shadow in the light crack under the door as a foot passes, in the hope that there are other people out there. The protocols for “dealing” with those confined, are meals through the slot, a routine of checking to see if they are still alive, an absolute minimum of verbal contact.
The “record” for the number of people confined to a Solitary Confinement cell in the US, is 9. 8 died from heatstroke over 5 days.
frosty
@Steve in the ATL: OMG what a great song, I’d forgotten all about it. Where are the jangly guitars and harmonies these days? And like one of the commenters said: “12-string solo!”
Jay
@Mandalay:
It’s no Greenland. Don’t worry about Joe, campaign/donate/vote for your favorites. It’s a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at mile 4.
ola azul
@cynthia ackerman:
Agreed.
Will say: I admire your dogged tenacity, even if in vain, to advance an unappreciated point and compel acknowledgement of same.
Piggybacking offa your point, may I add another?
I submit that Tom Sawyer, in the novel Huckleberry Finn, is one of the great unacknowledged monsters in literature. He ain’t the impish lovable rogue of his eponymous novel; in HF, Tom Sawyer is an active agent of minstrel repression and selfish menace. Tom Sawyer is the consummate douchebro asshole.
imo
Jay
Steve in the ATL
@frosty: possibly my favorite ‘80’s song!
NotMax
@Jay
Segment on today’s Maddow program about them.
Jay
zzyzx
@The Fat Kate Middleton: yep. The whole Purim story started because Haman demanded that everyone bow down before him.
Mandalay
@Jay:
OK. I like the cut of your jib. You are BJ’s most Panglossian poster for 2020.
frosty
@Steve in the ATL: Gotta be Bangles for me. Or maybe Blondie (saw them in June in the theater where I took my dates to the movies). But this one is pretty great.
Spc
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: makes one wonder then if all of this was created to find an out.
Msb
Trump asked for a state visit, so the Queen (Margrethe II) invited him and spouse. Official Denmark has been scurrying around preparing (and unofficial Denmark has already imported the trump baby balloon and planned a huge demo), and the the lout cancels by tweet! Danish politicians are already calling it both rude and insane and the palace has said “This is a surprise — we have nothing further to say at present.” Typical, that the Queen has better manners than Putin’s Puppet.
Former US ambassador Rufus Gifford tweeted the following: mobile.twitter.com/…
read the replies. Trump is a joke, but not a funny one to Americans in Denmark.
Sm*t Cl*de
@Msb:
Your POTUS has also been beating the “Denmark is not paying us enough for NATO membership, the freeloading parasites!” drum. So how much does the US pay for ground-rent on the Thule Base complex? That would be the amount formerly known as “Two-thirds of sweet-feck-all”.
Feckin freeloading parasites.
Sloane Ranger
I repeat what I’ve said before. Nations selling inhabited land to other nations is not something you can do in democracies today. Greenland is an autonomous area of the Kingdom of Denmark. It’s inhabitants get to vote for a government so they are the people who get the say in who has sovereignty over them.
Denmark cannot sell Greenland anymore than the USA can sell Alaska. If either nation were minded to even consider off loading parts of their territory, it could only be done after a plebiscite showing a significant majority of people supported the change in sovereignty.
There is no more support in Greenland for becoming part of the USA than there is in the Falklands for becoming part of Argentina
Gvg
I came up with another theory of why Trump is talking about buying Denmark.
His polls show him losing support. He thinks like a TV star or wrestling character. He needs a surprise twist plot device to regain audience share and ensure his show is renewed. He really thinks things are that simular and that reality is as simple as ratings. Bizarre plot twists often play well on TV, at least as far as ratings go.
I also thinks he loves the things about being President that resemble being a big star. He likes the attention, and having royalty meet him. He just ignores the work and doesn’t understand the significance of anything. He really can’t take in that he won’t be re-elected.
Chris Johnson
@Repatriated:
Exactly. I don’t know how much more obvious it could be… other than to say, it’s also a distraction from the ongoing process of revealing that nearly all the top Republican leadership are in fact traitors working in fear of, and knowingly to the advantage of, Russia and Putin.
I don’t know how much more obvious it could be.
catclub
@Gvg: That poll showing 60+% against re-election in PA, WIS and Mich was sweet.