I ate too much.
Open Thread: Intelligence — Trump’s Not A Fan
Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2014
SCOOP: Trump has been turning away intelligence briefers since his election win, by @gregpmiller @adamentoushttps://t.co/9CXq1DIo0i
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) November 23, 2016
… A team of intelligence analysts has been prepared to deliver daily briefings on global developments and security threats to Trump in the two weeks since he won. Vice President-elect Mike Pence, by contrast, has set aside time for intelligence briefings almost every day since the election, officials said…
Trump has yet to meet with Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. or other top intelligence officials — aside from an unofficial meeting with embattled Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, who is rumored to be a top candidate to replace Clapper. Trump has greeted a parade of other officials auditioning for Cabinet positions, but also met with Indian business partners, television news anchors and figures in the entertainment industry.
President-Elect Smallgloves is busy with the latest installment of his (un) reality show, while the man known to his Repub colleagues as ‘Mike Dense’ tries to bone up on the difference between all those ferrn places and their leaders. As Betty would remind us: Not Normal.
Of course, if Trump’s suffering from the familial Alzheimers that took his father, it’s probably just as well he’s avoiding (his kids are steering him away from) any information he might inadvertently repeat at the wrong time. Which makes me feel so much better, if you know what I mean.
Bin Laden determined to strike in United States: The Sequel https://t.co/8RuIo7i8R4
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 24, 2016
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I Don’t Ever Want to Hear Another Fucking Thing about Hillary’s Fucking Emails
Trump’s National Security Advisor:
Flynn broke rules he thought were stupid. He once told me about a period he spent assigned to a C.I.A. station in Iraq, when he would sometimes sneak out of the compound without the “insane” required approval from C.I.A. headquarters, in Langley, Virginia. He had technicians secretly install an Internet connection in his Pentagon office, even though it was forbidden. There was also the time he gave classified information to nato allies without approval, an incident which prompted an investigation, and a warning from superiors. During his stint as Mullen’s intelligence chief, Flynn would often write “This is bullshit!” in the margins of classified papers he was obliged to pass on to his boss, someone who saw these papers told me.
Fuck the media. Fuck Chris Cilizza. Fuck the Republicans. Fuck Flynn. And fuck Trump.
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Thanksgiving Morning Open Thread
TURKEY DOG gets a whole new meaning in the #CharlesPhoenixTestKitchen pic.twitter.com/UOpCjEiuqc
— Charles Phoenix (@_charlesphoenix) November 22, 2016
I’m sure some of you are horrified now, but frankly, I’d eat this over the usual giant hacked-up bird.
The gathering where I’ll be spending the day will have a high-end, well-prepared turkey — along with a goose and a duck, also painstakingly prepared. I will be eating some of the Dakin ham that is my contribution to the feast. I’ll be sorry not to share the general accolades, but not sorry enough to force myself to chew poultry with a smile on my face.
What are y’all looking forward to, or looking forward to avoiding, at the table today?
Late Night Open Thread: Turkeys All the Way Down
In another bad sign for 2016, the turkey Obama is due to pardon tomorrow has instead politely requested sweet merciful death.
— David Mack (@davidmackau) November 22, 2016
The New York Times pardons the Thanksgiving turkey. pic.twitter.com/J3yNG5WDMc
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 23, 2016
As an Irish-American from a deeply dysfunctional family, I thought I knew something about cherishing a grudge like it was your sickly first-born. But I cannot fathom how the New York Fecking Times, of all rich-people publications, is so committed to its Hillary-hate that it’s leaping to enable a penny-ante autocrat who’s threatened the publication, its owners, and its reporters so often and so recently.
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Jill Stein- Grifter, Idiot, or Attention Seeking Diva?
I’ll take all three:
Fundraiser to enable Jill Stein to request recounts in WI, MI, & PA just passed $1 million.
Total goal is $2.5 million.
On pace to exceed.
— ? (@leahmcelrath) November 24, 2016
Jill Stein, having spent the entire election telling us all that Hillary Clinton was a mass murderer who would be worse than Trump has apparently had a change of heart, or wants more attention, or just wants to raise a ton of money she won’t refund when the states won’t or don’t do the recount.
If you want to know why no one takes the green party seriously despite aligning with them on many issues (or more accurately, them aligning with us on many issues since they haven’t done jack shit), this is why.
In related news, I am also raising money for a recount. Just click on the paypal link above and I will make sure I send it right away to my fucking bloodsucking plumber and electrician the appropriate states.
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Florida Man: Tutu Edition! Updated at 10:15 PM EDT
Another day, another embarrassing act by someone from my home state (Like BettyC, I’m a native. We’re on 6 hour shifts!).
TAMPA (FOX 13) – Two men, one wearing a tutu, broke into Tampa Farmer’s Market to eat fruit and drink soda early Tuesday morning.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released surveillance footage of the suspects breaking into the Fletcher Avenue store in hopes that the public can help identify them.
According to HCSO, the suspects gained access to the store by breaking out the glass door at approximately 1 a.m. on November 1, and proceeded to consume fruit and soda once inside.
A sheriff’s office spokesperson shared the following descriptions of the two suspects:
#1 – white male, thin build, possibly dressed in a cheerleading costume, wearing a TuTu, possibly wearing a wig.
#2- male (unknown race), wearing a hoodie with an image of an owl on the front.
Anyone with any information reference these suspects is asked to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office at 247-8200 or anyone with any information regarding the identity and whereabouts of these suspects and who wants to be eligible for a cash reward is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-873-TIPS (8477).
There’s video at the link!
Open, night before Thanksgiving open thread!!!
Updated at 10:15 PM EDT
Allow me to regale you with more tales of the nightlife of Tampa!
TAMPA (FOX 13) – Newly released surveillance video could help Tampa Police locate the man who drove his car onto a sidewalk in Ybor City, hitting two people and a bar early Tuesday morning.
Around 3:25 a.m. Tuesday, after businesses had closed, a group of men began fighting outside the Bad Monkey Bar on East 7th Avenue in Tampa.
Surveillance cameras captured the brawl, including one subject involved in the fighting who attempted to leave the scene by driving away in a black Nissan.
“He tries to do a U-turn, and it’s really too tight of a street to do that. He gets hung up on the curb,” said Steve Hegarty, spokesperson for the Tampa Police Department.
The driver jumped the sidewalk and crashed into several men who were still fighting. One of the men was pushed through the window of the Bad Monkey bar when the car made impact, smashing the glass.
After crashing through the building, the driver left the scene.Detectives are working to determine if the driver intentionally accelerated his car or if the crash was accidental.
“That’s a big question that we have right now. At the very least, it’s a hit and run. There was damage to the building, clearly, someone was injured and he left the scene,” said Hegarty.
Only one of the men on the sidewalk, Michael Silhol, 25, was hurt in the crash. Silhol suffered a minor leg and head injury.
The Bad Monkey bar was left with $15,000 worth of damage. It was closed at the time of the crash.
Video at the link, too, also, again!
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