What’s going on?
Two years sober this weekend. Woo.
Just watched Cornell West on Bill Maher, and the man is a moron.
This post is in: Open Threads
What’s going on?
Two years sober this weekend. Woo.
Just watched Cornell West on Bill Maher, and the man is a moron.
This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Venality, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
Evidence is mounting Russia wants Trump and the Repubs in charge; they’ve also hacked the DCCC https://t.co/TgmUtul0j7
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 29, 2016
Guy who wrote Art of the Deal for Trump:
Trump now says he was joking re: Russia. Here's what I know: he doesn't joke. He is humorless. What he does is lie when he gets in trouble.
— Tony Schwartz (@tonyschwartz) July 28, 2016
Foreign security expert; Professor, Naval War College:
If you blurt something out in a moment, you can claim it was sarcasm or a poor joke.
If you take the time to tweet it after?
Not a joke.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 28, 2016
As many critics have pointed out, Ian Fleming wrote the first James Bond novels just as the sun was conclusively setting over the British Empire. While grey little MI bureaucrats coped with rationing coupons and currency restrictions, every day seemed to bring news of another embassy ceded or outpost overrun by lawless wogs and ungrateful colonials. But the imaginary Bond was an invicible Trickster, breezing past every finger-wagging Moneypenny and shadowy figurehead M to play one exciting scenario after another in a world of limitless funds, fast cars, exciting tech toys, bangable women, high-end cuisine, and a whole carefully-curated shopping list of the top consumer brands in every category. Even President Kennedy — who knew to a nicety just how much it cost to live like Bond — enjoyed the paperback fantasies where constant physical discomfort and the subliminal Cold War drumbeat of Mutually Assured Destruction could be ignored, however briefly.
Half a century later, as the American Exceptionalism empire ebbs, and even the bedrock verities of white racial superiority and ‘natural’ patriarchy are under assault, an aging New York developer stands in front of a full-length gilt mirror in his knockoff penthouse, adjusts his made-in-China self-branded tie, and whispers to himself “Trump. Donald Trump.”…
First time as tragedy, second time as farce.
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.@KatyTurNBC basically gave Trump 2 chances to say he was joking about Russia hacking Hillary. He stood by it. https://t.co/pMMbjw5kuf
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 28, 2016
To believe Trump was serious about Russians hacking Hillary, you'd have to believe he is clinically insane https://t.co/9Sn0j7wn0q
— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) July 28, 2016
He said it, not me https://t.co/GksEYGuwA9
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 29, 2016
.@HowardKurtz @MalcolmNance @FoxNews Is that so very hard to believe?
— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) July 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton should not be given national security briefings in that she is a lose cannon with extraordinarily bad judgement & insticts.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2016
"lose cannon?" https://t.co/PzUgrb1a27
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 30, 2016
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The last couple of days, we’ve heard over and over again from many Republicans the same sort of thing, typified by Charlie Sykes, the dean of conservative talk radio in Wisconsin:
Do you know how old I am? Old enough to remember when speeches like this would've been given at GOP convention… Not Dem one. Brutal.
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) July 29, 2016
Snark aside: GOP needs to understand what is happening to them tonight…
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) July 29, 2016
I cannot believe I'm watching the Democrats become the party of patriotism.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) July 29, 2016
Now first things first. Dems were always patriotic- it was Republicans who confused patriotism with just agreeing with whatever bullshit the government said while we rushed into war and had their heads so far up Rush Limbaugh’s ass they couldn’t see straight
At the same time, this was the most overt display of patriotism I have ever witnessed, but without what I felt was the jingoism of the right. And I gotta add, I find overt patriotism unsettling and uncomfortable outside World Cup events and the Olympics. I’m more of a hang a flag out front of the house and watch white people dance awkwardly on the PBS 4th of July specials than I am the tattoo an eagle on my chest and scream “USA!! USA!!” while pissing Budweiser on a stack of back issues of Le Monde. But that’s just me.
At any rate, what we can probably expect to see is that people of the, well, professional left, the guys who thought it was necessary to scream at a Marine General speaking during the convention (a guy who went all out for the Iran deal PRECISELY because he doesn’t want war) are probably going to start braying that the Democratic party left them and what not, and fail to realize that the Democratic party didn’t leave them, the Republican party just left their fucking senses.
That’s right. We Democrats get ALL THE GOOD SHIT NOW. We get the most progressive platform and agenda in my lifetime, we get to cheer for our troops and say NO MORE STUPID WARS. We get to stand up and say Black Lives Matter and thank the cops who risk their lives because we’re fucking smart enough to hold two god damned ideas in our heads. We get to stand up for a woman’s right to choose and gay people to marry and still get to rock the house as Rev. Barber brings down the fucking roof in the name of the almighty.
We get it all. We get all the good stuff. The whole kit and kaboodle. The Republicans get Trump and his dingy digits and we get to make them wear it and own it. Progressives didn’t lose the Democratic party. Republicans lost their fucking minds.
Sucks to be them. We get all the balloons, too.
See that look of pure joy on Bill’s face? That’s what I look like in the ice cream aisle at Kroger, btw.
by Betty Cracker| 214 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, General Stupidity
Mike Pence appeared on ghostly apparition Hugh Hewitt’s radio show today and complained about President Obama calling Donald Trump a “demagogue:”
While speaking to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence took issue with Obama calling Trump a “demagogue” during his speech, saying that it made him feel disheartened.
“You know, I don’t think name calling has any place in public life, and I thought that was unfortunate that the President of the United States would use a term like that, let alone laced into a sentence like that,” he said.
Emphasis mine, because are you fucking kidding me? Has this half-wit not seen his own running mate’s Twitter account? Did he not watch any of the GOP debates? Here you go, Mike; try not to knock your head on the mahogany trim during your swoon:
Honest to dog, y’all, if I could add an immutable law to the universe, it might be to set a maximum level of hypocrisy that would make any creature exceeding it spontaneously combust. It might reduce every elected Republican Party official to an ash heap inside a week, but we could live with that, right? Open thread!
by Betty Cracker| 115 Comments
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Via Buzzfeed, here’s a little girl in Brazil grooming a chicken:
I’m on pretty good terms with the hens, but I suspect my birds would peck me to pieces if I tried something like that. Open thread!
by Betty Cracker| 380 Comments
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Figured Trump would have a hissy fit over the convention speeches, especially actual multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s criticism. Yep:
@realDonaldTrump Hey, but that's not what you said ever before, you feckless dimwit. pic.twitter.com/BRv2eECeZW
— JordanHeath-Rawlings (@TheGameSheet) July 29, 2016
He was yelling at people with his stumpy little thumbs all morning. I think we’re getting to the ambulatory Tang-colored scrotal sac, y’all!
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This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Assholes
. @realDonaldTrump on Romney: "his is a peanut compared to mine. … It’s very small. Not nearly as big." https://t.co/hSIcHPuMZh
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) July 29, 2016
Things that are too grotesque to parody, for a bazillion…
… Trump has long refused to release his tax returns, saying that he is currently under audit. But asked Thursday night by Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren if he would release older tax returns that are not under audit, Trump said the beating Romney took in 2012 over his own tax returns should serve as a warning.
“I remember with Mitt Romney four years ago, everybody wanted his, and his is a peanut compared to mine. It’s like a peanut. It’s very small. Not nearly as big a document. I mean, mine, you saw the picture where it’s two or three feet high,” Trump said.
“Now, they finally got it in September. He decided to give it. And they found a couple of little minor things. Little things that didn’t mean anything,” Trump continued. “He did nothing wrong. By the way, Mitt Romney did nothing wrong. But when they gave them, they found a couple of little sentences. If you remember Harry Reid lied about it. He told a dirty lie. And Mitt gave that and after he gave it, they found a little sentence and they made such a big deal. He might have lost the election over that.”…
Maybe a Democratic prankster can start following Trump’s campaign around, carrying a sign saying HARRY REID WILL LAUGH WHEN HILLARY TAKES YOUR PEANUT. But only out of sympathy, for our oppressed billionaire class!
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