Who could have predicted years ago that, under Obama, America would turn against Israel and align itself with Iran and Cuba? Actually, I did
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) July 1, 2015
Wonkette highlights another convicted felon looking for a new grift at the Wingnut Welfare freak show:
“This is coming. And it’s coming like a tidal wave.” Tom Delay, the former
SpeakerMajority Leader of the House of Representatives — really, the national one! — knows a tidal wave of coming when he sees one, and the tidal wave of coming that is coming is this here “secret memo” from the Department of Justice that will legalize “the 12 perversions,” including bestiality, pedophilia, raping little boys, and like nine others, depending on whether “pedophilia” and “little boy rape” are the same perversion or, somehow, different ones…
And way down the right-wing food chain, former Masshole Scott “Cosmo Boy” Brown, who has never actually been convicted of anything (yet), settles for using his fifteen minutes of fame to promote a fad-diet pyramid scam, per the Boston Globe:
It was not the sight of their former senator bare-chested that ignited fiery indignation in Scott Brown’s Facebook followers last week. They were used to that.
It was the sales pitch accompanying the before-and-after photos of his physique, which credited his recent, dramatic weight loss to a commercial diet and fitness plan. Brown’s testament to the merits of AdvoCare’s “24-day challenge” was met with guffaws by many followers, prompting Brown to swiftly post a disclaimer that he is not a paid spokesman for the supplement company.
But he didn’t explain that he’s a distributor…
As his original post ricocheted online over the past week, it was “liked” by 1,718 people and shared by 192, mocked by many and greeted skeptically or with outright denial by some. (One woman repeatedly insisted his account had been hacked; he couldn’t really be doing this now.) Brown loyalists asserted that he was merely spreading the word about a product that helped him restore his health — what could be wrong with that? — while others panned the company’s marketing plan and described its product as unnatural.
Suffice it to say, there hasn’t been this much intrigue about Brown’s activity online since he blamed his pocket for an errant Tweet. (“Bqhatevwr.”)…
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Apart from the political equivalent of sump water seeking its own level, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
JPL
According to Huckabee, Brown did nothing wrong. In fact he can run for President also, toooooo
Baud
How much you wanna bet Obama will end up only legalizing 6 perversions.
#HeSoldUsOut
beltane
Tom DeLay presided over a Republican House majority whose members were notorious for reveling in the “12 perversions”. This is a subject he knows a great deal about.
Big ole hound
Israel turned against the us by courting the hard line faction of the GOP. Bibi bet against Obama and lost. Something about ye shall reap what you sow?
Cervantes
Who could have predicted years ago that Dinesh D’Souza would end up an exposed scofflaw and a sham intellectual? Actually, many did.
_PK_
“The 12 perversions” — I’m surprised there are only 12. Delay lacks imagination. Just watch Game of Thrones and you should be able to come up with at least 15.
SFAW
Are the 12 perversions anything like “the two dirts”?
the Conster
The ramping up of hysterical rhetoric is something to behold. Obama was in Wisconsin today recounting the litany of fears Republicans used about Obamacare. I haven’t seen it reported anywhere, but he knocked them down one by one, because of today’s jobs report. They’ve got nothing, and it really feels like they’re burning themselves out, and really, any normal person who reads DeLay’s list of perversions will back away in horror. It says way more about a person who can put a list like that together, than it does about anyone else.
Rick Perry of all people has turned on Trump, and released a speech apologizing for his 10th amendment goobery and acknowledged that all the Republicans need to emphasize the 14th. Last week shifted the ground under them, they’re off balance and flailing. They’ve really got nothing to offer to anyone except the real dead enders, the goober gun humping ignoramus shit eaters.
Mike in NC
Scott Brown has Facebook followers? How sad for them.
Germy Shoemangler
When I hear about Scott Brown and his diet/pyramid hustle it reminds me of all the assholish part-time amway distributors I used to run across in the ’80s/early ’90s. Smarmy crooks who were all about getting rich quick but couldn’t be bothered with the details.
FlipYrWhig
@Baud: He always wants to meet the Republicans somewhere in the middle. Which is actually the 7th perversion he favors.
Davis X. Machina
@_PK_: The 12 Perversions are appearing this weekend at the Hampton Beach Ca sino.
Mind you, I don’t think they’re the original 12 Perversions. Half a dozen groups tour under that name.
Pogonip
Are any Canadians reading this? I live in the U. S. I have a set of 12 notepads, each with a monthly theme: January snowflakes, February hearts, March leprechauns, and so on down the line. Yesterday I was hanging July’s notepad, American-flag design, and I wondered what such monthly items in Canada have as their July theme. (If you’re curious, I ordered the notepads from Current do t c om, and the rest of it is: April, chick; May, flowers; June, ladybugs on watermelon; August, palm tree; September, apples; October, pumpkins; November, autumn leaves; December, holly.)
Germy Shoemangler
@the Conster:
It was mentioned in passing by the new yawk times:
Likening Mr. Walker and the “bus full” of Republican candidates to a crazy uncle at a family Thanksgiving meal, Mr. Obama said they would be “making a whole bunch of stuff up.”
the Conster
@Germy Shoemangler:
I watched the network “news” tonight, and no mention. One station showed him singing Davy Crocket. You know, because that’s news.
Germy Shoemangler
@the Conster: They can be counted on to highlight the most trivial bullshit while willfully ignoring the important stuff.
But I am stating the obvious here. I really think they want people too discouraged to vote.
srv
D’spuza is impressive, but I’m batting better than him
Comrade Dread
Really, dickwad?
Tell me, have we cut off aid to Israel? Have we stopped selling them weapons? Have we stopped covering for them at the UN? Have we withdrawn our ambassador and shut down our embassy? When did the economic sanctions go into effect, eh? When did we start threatening to bomb them? When exactly did we do anything substantial to hinder Israel in ANY way? Huh? Please enlighten me, you cretinous bloviating buffoon.
Likewise, I’m sure you can tell me when we stopped sanctions against Iran? When we normalized relations with them? Oh, what’s that we negotiated a potential deal to get them to reduce their civilian nuclear program and open it up to inspections? Oh, well, sure, that’s exactly like aligning yourself with them, if you’re a delusional sack of crap.
And I guess since we aligned with Cuba, we got single payer health care? Or did Obama arrest you for your beliefs yet? Did he order your Twitter shut down? Did he outlaw the Republican party? I must have missed that on the news.
What a fucking dunce.
Germy Shoemangler
@Davis X. Machina: I saw them on an oldies-themed cruise. They dye their hair and wear matching white suits. Their choreography is as suggestive as ever; all pelvic thrusts and crotch grabbing (each others). An old lady in the audience jumped up in her poodle skirt and tried to do the nasty with the lead singer.
We wouldn’t let them leave until they encored their biggest hit: “Secret Memo To My Love”
MattF
@the Conster: So, is Rick Perry turning out to be the smart one? I see two sides to that possibility.
chopper
@SFAW:
it’s the seven deadly sins plus five others that are like totally gross.
WereBear
@MattF: That’s one of the 12 signs of the End Times.
SFAW
@Pogonip:
Red Kelly’s birthday? Bryan Trottier’s? Jean Chretien’s half-birthday?
Pogonip
@Germy Shoemangler: That’s one cruise that would have moved me to ask for a refund!
I think I will see if there is a market for monthly 12-perversion notepads.
Also, shoppers, Dollar Tree has the cute little solar-powered toys in stock again, at least till closing time (you know how those dollar stores are).
SFAW
@srv:
Hell, Mario Mendoza is batting better than he D’Spewza.
the Conster
@MattF:
Yeah, weird right? We’re in the wingularity.
here’s his speech
Kendall
@Comrade Dread: What he said.
Woodrowfan
12 perversions, 12 months. an accident? I think not…
SFAW
@Comrade Dread:
I’m sorry, but you owe apologies to dickwads, cretinous bloviating buffoons, delusional sacks of crap, and fucking dunces everywhere.
And especially if there’s anyone who is all of those things – something to which D’Spewza aspires, apparently.
BGinCHI
I can only assume that Delay’s “perversions list” is just a repurposed Wish List.
SFAW
@BGinCHI:
Nah, it’s things crossed off his To-Do List.
ETA: Although I guess that list and a Wish List are not mutually exclusive.
SatanicPanic
@MattF: Rick Perry was the one guy who said he supported the DREAM act’s purpose in the last election.
Iowa Old Lady
Someone at the gym was rolling their eyes about Cuba, and I said we normalized relations with Vietnam, for god’s sake. That made them laugh and kind of agree actually. I thing the truly passionate objectors to that one are limited in number.
Pogonip
@Woodrowfan: I’m sketching designs even as we speak!
Bobby B.
I’ll be meditating this fine toasty JULY Oregon afternoon on the orthogonal permutations of sump water.
joel hanes
@Germy Shoemangler:
all pelvic thrusts
It’s the pelvic thrust that really drives them insaa-a-a-ane.
Pogonip
@_PK_: You get that many by page 76 in the first book.
Villago Delenda Est
@the Conster: Of course it wasn’t reported anywhere. The scum of the Village have their orders from their corporate paymasters.
Wipe them out. ALL of them.
Pogonip
@SFAW: When I think of Canada in July, I think of enormous mosquitoes.
LWA
@Comrade Dread:
#IWishAMutherFuckerWould
SFAW
@Pogonip:
You might consider staying away from the brown acid.
gogol's wife
Happy TCM Shirley Temple Month!
Culture of Truth
#NotAllPerversions
slag
Of the first of perversions the DOJ gave to me–An abortion in a pear tree.
Brachiator
Is this like the 7 dirty words you can’t say on the radio?
And will we get to pick our new perversion, or will it be assigned to us, like with the Hogwarts’ Sorting Hat?
srv
The tsunami is growing:
Omnes Omnibus
@Brachiator: Why do you just want one?
WereBear
@Brachiator: It’s like the wingnuts are desensitized and need harder and harder stuff to get their rage stoked…
JPL
@srv: Oh no… Their resignations will cause unemployment to rise.
Omnes Omnibus
@srv: Even worse…
SiubhanDuinne
Speaking of clueless, insensitive grifters….
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/02/3676770/sister-alleged-charleston-shooter-complains-massacre-ruined-wedding-day-seeks-donations/
It is for news items like this that phrases such as “I.Can’t.Even.” and “the fuck is this??” were invented.
(h/t ABL and her Magic Facebook Page)
bemused
@beltane:
Hot Tub Tom! I had forgotten that.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: I saw that too. I am sure it was a bad day for her, but wasn’t just a bit worse for a few others?
Iowa Old Lady
@WereBear: Who thinks this crap up? 12 perversions about to be legalized? That sounds like a dystopic novel.
Renie
I was wondering who is Trump going to sue if he loses?
WereBear
@SiubhanDuinne: It explains so much.
Omnes Omnibus
@Renie: His campaign manager.
JPL
@Iowa Old Lady: Someone has been reading Fifty Shades of Grey, I think.
FlyingToaster
@srv: Yawn.
Villago Delenda Est
@Renie: The discovery process he’ll need to find out who didn’t vote for him, so he knows who to name in the suit, should be interesting.
Villago Delenda Est
@srv: Good. Three worthless sacks of shit no longer sucking on the taxpayers’ teat.
Pogonip
@SFAW: I did consider it. Briefly.
SFAW
@srv:
… and it’s spreading like wildfire.
SFAW
@srv:
@JPL:
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thanks, Obama!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@srv: Good for them. I wish them well in divinity school, or taking tickets at the Creation Museum, or wherever life’s crazy path guides them.
SFAW
@Pogonip:
And then switched to some good Owsley, I hope?
Pogonip
@SFAW: I had to look that one up–I’m glad there’s something I’m too young to remember!
Another Holocene Human
@the Conster:
I didn’t see it coming either, nothing else seemed to wake the mushy white middle from its torpor, but I didn’t stake a political career on it either.
Brachiator
@Omnes Omnibus:
Moderation in pursuit of perversion is true virtue. I think Barry Goldwater said that.
blueskies
@Villago Delenda Est: See? Liberalism CAN lead to shrinking the government…
Another Holocene Human
@slag: That Wonkette thread was epic.
SFAW
@blueskies:
Only in the short term: the godless Lie-berals will try to hire TWO moochers/takers for each of the hard-workin’, God-fearin’, right-thinkin’ persons who followed their consciences and decided to
go on the dolequit their jobs.SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
@WereBear:
Seeing the pictures of Dylann Roof and reading his “manifesto” and learning a bit about his upbringing, I already had a pretty low opinion of the family, needless to say. But his sister’s reaction puts the shit icing on the turd cupcake. I can’t help wondering if her very first thought upon hearing the news was something like “What, he couldn’t have waited a week?”
Mike J
open thread?
Chicago-Area Brewery Renames Beer ‘F**k Your Hair’ Over Trump Remarks
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chicago-brewery-trump-hair
The Judybats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBgLKns1aos
WaterGirl
@srv: See, Obama is a job creator! 3 new job openings today that weren’t there yesterday.
Another Holocene Human
@SiubhanDuinne: My first thought is that it’s a white supremacist bounty fund, but under her name to try to deflect the criticism such fundraisers are dogged by.
srv
If only those people would listen:
Healing takes two. Who will meet Rick half way?
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I’m so very sorry I clicked on that. Un-fucking-believable. You brother
killsmassacres 9 black people in cold blood in a church and your biggest concern is your wedding?There’s something seriously wrong about that.
@Omnes Omnibus: Someone needs to give her the greeting card that says “You, you, you… It’s not always about you.”
Felonius Monk
@Villago Delenda Est:
It amazes me that these people, who have undoubtedly issued marriage licenses to all sorts of fornicators, adulterers, thieves, and other assorted sinners, without any apparent pangs of conscience have suddenly found religion.
mai naem mobile
Jeezus.christ. These fuckers.have.completely lost their shit. We had to put up with six years of Bush doing.everything and Reid trying to hold the dam.before Pelosi.came in to help out. This was starting with Bush stealing the election with the help of his brother and the USSC. The only time Bush was roundly criticized by pretty much everybody was during Katrina. All the shit the left had to put up with and did not lose their shit. These people need to sit their asses down and STFU.
scav
true ‘mercan christians are clearly oppressed as none others have been, ever, in the entire history of humanity, if they are not above following the mere law of the land, the requirements of their jobs, let alone (for a distinct few) following the pronouncements of the leader of their faith. They know they are already forgiven by Jebus for their sins and their transgressions against their purported precepts let alone transgressions against others –thathaloed bboy-dispenser-of-absolution does as he’s told and they know his mind better than he does so havepremtively taken over his judging and smiting roles as well. Yeah verily, it is the apocryphal end times if they do not get their way in all things.
lamh36
This was me when I was watching Luther and Criminal Minds by myself…lol.
Can’t wait for the next season of Luther.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6nhnuB4gW1qlknxjo5_r1_250.gif
SFAW
@mai naem mobile:
Quit whining. Obama had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and 75 percent of the House, for like the first 12 years of his first term, and what did he accomplish? Nothing! And then, because he was bent on Mau-Mau-ing America, he confiscated ALL the guns, and rescinded the Bill of Rights, and had his hit squads take out all the Republicans.
Thanks FSM it’s looking like he won’t win a third term. Of course, if it looks really bad, he’ll just cancel the election.
Little Boots
met Dinesh in another life. He talked about chicks. it was not complimentary.
opiejeanne
@Little Boots: what’s he got against poultry?
Omnes Omnibus
@opiejeanne: He’s afraid of bird flu.
Little Boots
@opiejeanne:
heh, except when they get uppity, nothing.
Little Boots
@SFAW:
did he? is that what happened there? was it?
lamh36
So I’m watching Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow. One of my favorite Johnny Depp movies and one that I own.
Le Sigh, I miss this Johnny Depp…not the latest one who looks like a Keith Richards impersonator!
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lted7dw6ev1r4l56go1_500.gif
BruinKid
So, I may have missed the reaction here, but it looks like Freddie DeBoer’s Politico piece on legalizing polygamy has fired up the Internet.
Little Boots
oops, nevermind.
Ultraviolet Thunder
The beginning of a nice 3 day pause between Mexico and Canada. I get to be a ‘Murican for a while, then back across the border to work.
Personally I love our absurd politics. I couldn’t pay people to entertain me like this.
The fact that we’re the most powerful entity on the planet and completely bugnuts daffy just adds an extra frisson to the experience.
Little Boots
@lamh36:
never, ever watch the chocolate factory.
SiubhanDuinne
@Another Holocene Human:
Wow, yeah, hadn’t even thought of that.
But no, I fear it’s just Bridezilla, writ large and racist.
Pogonip
@lamh36: That’s a great movie!
Mike in NC
@lamh36: Entertainment Weekly described tonight’s episode of “Aquarius”:
‘Detective Hodiak looks into a fallen Hollywood star. So, he buys a ticket to “Mortdecai” ‘
Ouch
Pogonip
@Little Boots: Seconded. It’s terrible. Stick with Gene Wilder.
Pogonip
It occurred to me that since 1 July is Canada Day, maybe all they have fo do for the Canadian notepads is print a pad with the Canadian flag for July and leave the other 11 as is. But I still hope to hear from an actual Canadian on this important subject, eh.
chopper
Delay has been reading Hastert’s diary again.
Thoughtful David
@WaterGirl:
Not only that, but the people they get to replace the ones who resigned will probably be happy to provide the marriage licenses, happy to have jobs, will work much harder, and will be an actual credit to their communities. It’s a win-win!
Thoughtful David
I keep seeing this about legalizing polygamy. It’s the mentality of third graders: “Nah, nah, we’ll now do twice and much as you wanted, and see, you’ll be sorry!” Thing is, as long as they’re consenting adults, I don’t give a FLICK. If consenting adults want to get married in bunches and hordes, more power to ’em. As long as they don’t do it in the middle of the street and scare the horses.
Frankensteinbeck
The more I read about Rick Perry’s speech about killing blacks being bad, the weirder it gets. He simultaneously sounds like he’s really grasped that the Republican Party provides coverage for racists and that’s bad, while failing to grasp that the entire purpose of most of his policies – like voter ID – is to oppress blacks.
SFAW
@Frankensteinbeck:
That’s a little unfair, don’t you think? I mean, he hasn’t implemented any of those policies in the last six months, so maybe he’s changed.
FlyingToaster
@SFAW: Or Perry doesn’t think that his policies single out blacks, so much as they single out liberals.
andy
@SiubhanDuinne: Exactomundo. She sure does spell like a conservative, too…
rikyrah
@srv:
There are people ready to get that paycheck every 2 weeks….willing to do the job.
EdinNJ
@Germy Shoemangler:
More recently, my FB feed has been inundated with posts by 4 different friends (who don’t know each other) who are hawking Isogenix under the guise it is some great new business they started. All of them have some quasi-professional angle (life coach, yoga instructor, fitness instructor, franchise consultant), but they just use that to get people to come to meetings to pitch their “business opportunity”. But it’s just a MLM distribution scheme to sell really expensive weight loss shakes and food through social networking, no different than Advocare or Herbalife.
Just One More Canuck
@Pogonip: Road construction
Pogonip
@Just One More Canuck: Thank you! An orange cone w/ a detour sign in French would make a great July notepad design.
SFAW
@Pogonip:
You are a very strange person