Here’s Badger hanging out on the Lido Deck: (This is a rerun if you follow me on Twitter — sorry!) In the links worth sharing department, here’s a disturbing piece in the March edition of The Atlantic by Franklin Foer: Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread …
Whitaker Hearing Open Thread
Courtesy of NBC’s YouTube channel, a live stream: I hope it works. A brief on the hearing from The Post: Acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker is scheduled to appear Friday morning before the House Judiciary Committee — a high-stakes confrontation that was nearly canceled a day earlier in a standoff with Democratic lawmakers. Lawmakers …
Raise your hand if…
…you were a white college student in the 1980s who didn’t wear “black face.” For fuck’s sake: RICHMOND — Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) said Wednesday he dressed in blackface during college, elevating the Capitol’s scandals to a new level that engulfed the entire executive branch of government. “In 1980, when I was a …
State of the Rebellion (Open Thread)
Hubby and I opted to skip the SOTU in favor of continuing our Game of Thrones marathon. This morning, I watched WaPo’s three-minute highlight reel and read the transcript. Looks like our prediction yesterday — that the speech would be a discordant amalgam of white nationalist scaremongering and pseudo-loftiness — was on target. As anticipated, …
Tuesday Afternoon Open Thread
Posted this on Twitter earlier during my trip into town: RV-driving Shitgibbon fan in front of me at a traffic light. The sticker paints Trump as a martyr for giving up a “great life” to be “slandered, mocked,” etc., “FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.” It’s a wonder someone that dumb can pull a wagon, let alone …
Nancy Nailed It
We’ve never had a president who is more needy and attention-seeking than Trump, so Nancy Pelosi’s move to deny him an invitation to deliver the SOTU during the government shutdown was brilliant, as most of us appreciated in real time. A report from The Times yesterday reveals for the record just how significant a role …
Show & Tell
Since the earliest days of the Trump administration, we’ve heard tales of the lengths to which aides and briefers must go to try to capture and hold the attention of their distracted, dumb, lazy, self-absorbed boss. As the Dothraki say, “It is known.” But for some reason, this anecdote from a Time article describing how …