TRUMP: So this button launches a nuclear warhead? GEN. KELLY [handing him a Staples Easy! button with the word BOMB scrawled across it in Sharpie]: Absolutely — Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) January 3, 2018 His poll numbers are abysmal. The assessments from pundits and historians are scathing. He's approaching the one-year mark, and the din …
Russiagate Open Thread: Did You Know There Are African-Americans on the Voter Rolls in DC?
When the dog whistle is a train horn. https://t.co/6PrnXgzRFJ — Matt Pearce ?? (@mattdpearce) January 2, 2018 … The Washington, DC, grand jury, which meets only on Fridays, handed down its first indictments in October, charging Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, and his partner Rick Gates with money laundering and failing to register as …
Open Thread: Trial Buffoon Balloon
'Am I Being Called to Do This?' @MicheleBachmann Hints at Possible Bid for @SenFranken's Seat https://t.co/jwr2CXErm3 — Fox News (@FoxNews) January 2, 2018 . Mamma needs a new grift! Per CNN: … “I’ve had people contact me and urge me to run for that Senate seat,” Bachmann said. “The only reason I would run is …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Here’s for A Quiet Year
(Non Sequitur via GoComics.com) . Professor Krugman, “America Is Not Yet Lost”: … I’m ending this year with a feeling of hope, because tens of millions of Americans have risen to the occasion. The U.S. may yet become another Turkey or Hungary — a state that preserves the forms of democracy but has become an …
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Open Thread: NYTimes: Our Sucking-Up Will Continue!
what the fuck. pic.twitter.com/0iD9NBgTkl — sean. ?? (@SeanMcElwee) December 31, 2017 President Trump has brought a reality-show accessibility to a once-aloof presidency, invigorating voters who felt alienated by the establishment https://t.co/arNi1F2bNr — The New York Times (@nytimes) December 31, 2017 The Night King has brought a winter wonderland to once temperate Westeros, invigorating a once …
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Monday Evening Open Thread: President Obama Subtweets 2018
Barack Obama’s 2017 reading list is ? pic.twitter.com/EvtXisSaBm — Erin Ruberry (@erinruberry) December 31, 2017 subtweetˈsəbˌtwēt/ noun informal noun: subtweet; plural noun: subtweets; noun: sub-tweet; plural noun: sub-tweets (on Twitter) a post that refers to a particular user without directly mentioning them, typically as a form of furtive mockery or criticism. “while he didn’t include …
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Excellent Read: ‘The World’s Biggest Terrorist Has a Pikachu Bedspread’
I’ll probably get clipped for saying this — I may even deserve it! — but after reading Kerry Howley’s NYMag profile, I think Reality Winner and Heather Heyer (killed by a Nazi in Charlottesville) would’ve been friends. “Not every leaker is an ideological combatant like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. Reality Winner may be the …
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