"We've just launched 59 missiles heading toward Iraq…"
"Heading toward Syria."
"Yes." https://t.co/uaaf6yNCOc— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) April 12, 2017
.@POTUS tells @MariaBartiromo he told President Xi about the Missile strikes over "the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake." pic.twitter.com/vPLu7ZhxbR
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) April 12, 2017
MARIE ANTOINETTE: let them eat cake
TRUMP: let me eat cake, while I bomb iraq
BARTIROMO: syria
TRUMP: chocolate https://t.co/aYX5Moxq4d— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) April 12, 2017
Ms. Bartiromo sure understands how to draw out an aging narcissist. You could subtitle this exchange “When Granpa Bought a Second-Hand Convertible for the Part-Time Hooker Down At the VFW”.
I will never forgive the Republican Party for “gifting” us, and the world, with this grifting clown.
@jdelreal Trump: And then I was like, 'Gee, this is complicated stuff! We had no idea! What a crazy world we live in! But wasn't that cake something?' pic.twitter.com/DIh5tAFyXm
— Brit DeLillo (@This1sWrong) April 12, 2017
I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2017
North Korea is looking for trouble. If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! U.S.A.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2017
We are watching a real-world experiment in how Trump's Twitter diplomacy will play in the world's most volatile NatSec crisis. https://t.co/UyX9NmvWV5
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 11, 2017
One by one we are keeping our promises – on the border, on energy, on jobs, on regulations. Big changes are happening!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2017
lollipopguild
No matter how dumb/stupid he is he can always top himself.
jharp
Just cannot believe this is happening.
Holy fuck.
SFAW
I keep hoping I run into George Orr, and get him to dream a world without Trump. Or Rethuglicans, for that matter.
Luthe
The only jobs Trump is creating are for lawyers.
Adam L Silverman
Before anyone freaks about either The Jester’s tweets on the subject, anyone else’s tweets in response to the The Jester’s tweets, or any other coverage about just what the DPRK leadership is doing or planning to do, I have asked Cheryl Rofer to do a guest post for us. She has graciously agreed and it should be here within an hour. So provided nothing goes kaboom between now and then…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
posted this below on the subject of trumpy’s culinary tastes, though I will fight anyone who says there’s something wrong with chocolate cake, especially served warm with a nice creme anglaise
Jeff Ross, the comedian who has taken over the roasting gig and has some kind of past show biz relationship with the Rough Beast, said on the Marc Maron podcast that he saw trumpy at one of his properties in December, and they chatted. Ross said he found the flabby dimwitted ape to the same as he’s always been, and mentioned, “he was dipping his cheeseburger in mayonnaise”
SuzieC
I just can’t stand to look at the bloated sagging face of this asshole. His face looks like a rotting orange Halloween pumpkin that has been left on the front porch for too long. I applied the app MAKA (Make America Kittens Again) on my laptop to change the Rotting Pumpkin Head to kittens, but too many still get through.
jl
Wow. I am trying to count the dimensions of Total Fail in Trump’s comment on how Xi explained things too him re North Korea.
I think it works like, a stable theory can exist if I can keep it under 12, but then everything falls apart into some kind of indescribable chaos. Is that right? I think that is some kind of egghead physics or math shit.
Corner Stone
I keep waiting for press pool photos of Trump running around the White House grounds naked except for an open bath robe and a fake imitation crown.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Adam L Silverman: that’s great, thanks to you and Ms Rofer (Dr?)
I hope she’s going to tell us the the situation is less terrifying than it appears. Ever since the Syrian strike, my first thought when I wake up every morning is “I wonder if he started a war over night”. I’m ready to dip a cheeseburger in mayonnaise, or eat an entire pan of lasagna,
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Corner Stone: Riding Sean Spicer piggyback and whipping him with a ridging crop
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: We are all going to die, Adam. And I don’t mean “eventually”.
columbusqueen
Every time I think Trump can’t possibly beclown himself further, he proves me wrong. May all our fellow citizens who voted for this asshole go fuck themselves with chain saws.
columbusqueen
@Corner Stone: I need brain bleach now.
Corner Stone
It’s a god damn disgrace to have Gen Wesley Clark and Katrina Vandenhovelscheiss on the same panel, Lawrence.
SFAW
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Not sure mayo goes well with lasagna, so you might want to rethink that.
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
I know you guys get irritated when these things freak me out, but I’m a good 2,000 miles closer to the potential action than you are. Even if it’s “only” Japan or South Korea, there will be not-good aftereffects on this side of the country for a very long time.
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
What was the defense against that creepy kid in Twilight Zone that could wish anything to happen to people? Or maybe we pull a Simpson’s treatment in a Halloween Special and, “Just don’t look! Just don’t look!”
Gin & Tonic
Katrina van den Heuvel needs to STFU.
(((CassandraLeo)))
As a professional pedant (OK, not really; I haven’t figured out a way to earn a living this way yet), I have to point out that Marie Antoinette almost certainly never actually said “Let them eat cake.”
amk
mission accomplished, wwc, sarandon and co.
jl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The situation is scary. Our hope is that Trump folds quickly when challenged. Who the hell knows what Xi told him, and how much of it was BS designed to keep Trump off his back on NK, and how much was accurate info that Trump was (naturally) completely ignorant about? But fact that a corrupt old fart and hack running an authoritarian regime can just jaw Trump into submission over some warm chocolate cake at a tacky FL resort fake up of a state dinner, that is a good sign even Trump can sense when one of his goofy plans won’t work. When he is slapped in the face with the evidence.
Now we have to hope that Trump goes to his central casting generals and make some inquiries, and that Mattis’ nickname ‘Mad Dog’ is just a little military humor, and the guy can give Drumpf some sound advice.
SFAW
Someone should remind him of his campaign promise to commit seppuku if he didn’t repeal Obamacare in the first 10 days.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
that’s how they serve at Trumpini’s, teh best Italian food anywhere, many people say, fantastic, the best. People come from Rome and Naples, all the time, real Italians, for Trumpini’s lasagna. The secret ingredient, is Heinz 57 and Velvet
ETA:
I take comfort in the fact that he’s said to hate that name.
danielx
I have to wonder if they’re having to use an atomic clock to measure Doomsday Clock time.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying ‘we’re doomed, all is lost’, Dies Irae, etc. The question is whether whatever work we do will be in time to bear fruit.
SFAW
@jl:
All of it, Katie.
Adam L Silverman
@jharp: I fixed the formatting in your comment. Also, the good news is, despite what he’s saying tweeting, they’re not actually accomplishing a lot. Yes, what little they’ve been able to accomplish is nasty and mean, but they are fortunately not very good at what they’re doing. Hell, when you have to request a budget increase to cover 24/7 security coverage as a cabinet secretary and the stated reason is fear of the civil servants in your agency, you’re both demonstrating being a pathetic coward and telegraphing that you’re not going to accomplish much.
Corner Stone
@Gin & Tonic: I hate seeing her on TV.
SuzieC
@Mnemosyne: Just out of curiousity, are you in Hawaii? And are you active duty military? I ask because my Navy son is being sent to Pearl Harbor. Otherwise fabulous duty but of course we worry about NK. If there is anyone here who is based in Hawaii I would like to correspond with you.
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: And yet I’d rather see her than her husband.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The only reason to use mayonnaise is as a thin layer buffer on the top and bottom of the bun to keep the juices from seeping in and turning the bun into mush and making the burger impossible to eat. That is the actual structural purpose of putting mayo on a burger, unless you are someone who likes mayo on a burger.
danielx
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I suspect the Rude Pundit will be working with images of that nature.
amk
@Adam L Silverman: your ph.d’s are showing dood.
gene108
@SuzieC:
Commenter NotMax resides in Hawaii. I am not sure which island though.
SFAW
@jl:
Where I grew up (North Shore of Long Island), the go-to tacky bar mitzvah joint was a place called “Leonard’s.” Even at that age, I could tell it was world-class, and not in a good way. I’m thinking Shitgibbon went there a bazillion times, and said “This is the way to go!”
[And I can hear the screams of BJ-ers familiar with the place, right now, yelling “Fucking Leonard’s? Jesus H. Christ!!!!!”]
Yarrow
Tonight TCM was showing the 1962 film “Panic in Year Zero,” which opens with a nuclear attack on Los Angeles. You get to see the mushroom cloud and everything. Normally I’d think it was a quaint cold war film. But now…
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Hey, put that under a brain bleach warning!
SuzieC
@gene108: Thank you.
SFAW
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’m oscillating between laughing and puking
ETA: I’m guessing that “Velvet” was supposed to be “Velveeta”?
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Nuclear winter can’t be that bad.
schrodingers_cat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That’s just gross, even worse than ketchup on steak.
Adam L Silverman
Cheryl’s guest post is up! She has indicated she’ll hang around in comments for about an hour to answer whatever questions you all might have.
Corner Stone
@gene108: Maui. We have another BJ person on Kauai, LauraPDX. Nobody on Oahu that I can remember but it’s possible. This blog contains multitudes!
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: What’s with the “white people and mayonnaise” stereotype?
humboldtblue
Now now now you motherclucking hens Sam Bee explains it all.
Pythons in Wonderland
That’s the second excellent band name I’ve come up with today.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: All will be well.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
Mayo’s the best thing for a burger when the bun is an English muffin.
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: As I wrote in reply to you down below:
In this case I think it most likely they’re going to do a 6th test, and as large a one as they can manage, at their testing facility in NE DPRK. They can’t get a medium range missile to fire successfully so I think you’re pretty safe for the time being.
zhena gogolia
@Yarrow:
I thought, “Oh boy, a Frankie Avalon movie!” then I read the plot. No thanks, not right now.
joel hanes
@Corner Stone:
What was the defense against that creepy kid in Twilight Zone
There really was none, because he was erratic, and was holding everyone left in the world hostage to his emotional needs.
Hmm, why does this sound relevant ….
…anyway, the best strategy for survival seemed to be effulgent flattery coupled with a refusal to acknowledge any aspect of reality that the child-with-power did not wish to be so.
The original story is “It’s A Good Life”, by Jerome Bixby
https://www.librarything.com/topic/179520
schrodingers_cat
OT aside. In the Americans*, Frank Langella’s who plays the KGB handler of our lead pair says, they once had Lincoln, now they have Reagan. I wonder what he would have said about T.
Its about 1984 in their world, I think.
Steve in the ATL
@Corner Stone: why isn’t LauraPDX in Portland? I feel like this whole blog is a lie!
Villago Delenda Est
@SFAW: Black Velvet?
Mnemosyne
@SuzieC:
I’m not — I’m in California. I know that commenter NotMax is in Hawaii, and a few others pop in from time to time.
We have gotten some radiation from Fukushima in California (detectable but not at dangerous levels) and they’ve found Fukushima-identifiable radiation in our fish (though, again, at low levels that are not dangerous). So a nuclear event in South Korea or Japan would affect us, probably starting several years afterwards.
jl
@SFAW: I don’t particularly care that Trump throws tacky fake-ups of state dinners at sketchy filthy rich resorts, for certain leaders who probably don’t really deserve any better. To the extent that it insults the diplomatic niceties and makes good deals harder to negotiate, it’s bad. But, it’s Trump so those are not going to happen anyway.
Fact that the expense of it is larger than entire programs that Trump’s hacks propose to eliminate bothers me. And after all the racist crap about how Obama disgraced the WH, his office and the country, every time he moved a finger, and then Trump pulls this shit and no one says even a word about it, that also bothers me. But then Trump is filthy rich old white asshole, so I guess that is to be expected.
I notice in pics that at official functions Melania Trump always seems to be frozen in some mixture of agony, panic and dread. Not sure why. But that doesn’t bother me as much as Trump swanking around his resorts.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: There is no excuse for mayo on a burger. My dad does it; I love him, but he is wrong.
Adam L Silverman
@amk: Actually my training as a chef, which helped me pay for my education, is showing. Also, I watched the Good Eats episode about this…
Omnes Omnibus
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Who else eats it?
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
See my comment at #54 — even if “only” South Korea or Japan gets nuked, we will still get aftereffects in California. A big enough earthquake in that part of the Pacific puts us on tsunami watch.
Corner Stone
@Steve in the ATL: I don’t know, but I take her at her word.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Villago Delenda Est: supposed to be Velveeta, dammit. Stupid autocorrect.
@schrodingers_cat: speaking of Lincoln (the party of) , did everyone see the NC legislator, and because of course he is, pastor, who compared Lincoln to Hitler, and not indirectly or accidentally or…
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article144216324.html#storylink=cpy
Corner Stone
@joel hanes: I seem to recall a mildly pretty woman with a perky rack taking his hand in friendship and all seemed to be well…for a time.
ThresherK
@Corner Stone: I believe if you snuck up behind the.boy without thinking about it there would be no thoughts to read.
The idea that not thinking is the way to conquer Trump’s effect is pretty funny.
Well, it would be funny if this presidency didn’t make me think, Which Twilight Zone will America’s demise most closely resemble?
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m not saying I agree with it, but this appears to be a scientifically valid structural argument.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
No dipping, but I occasionally like a shmitz of mayonnaise on a burger. There, I said it.
jl
@jl: In a way the traveling Trump Rump House is grimly hilarious, apart from the rank hypocrisy of the corporate media for not even noticing Trump’s gaucherie after broadcasting racist GOP talking points about how awful Obama was, and the sheer waste and expense.
When I can distance myself from it, funny to see Trump put on these tacky diplomatic and administrative shit shows in FL, or wherever, like the WH is not good enough for him.
I’m not for going back to what I considered the sometimes just too precious Obama class about this stuff. I’d prefer a healthy mix of the down home tacky, but I think honest, BS Dub threw, and the high Obama style. But maybe I am wrong. Did Obama ever throw a BBQ, or damn pic-a-nic with baskets and paper plates? If so, I take back my comment.
But the Trump show alternates between betng hilarious and infuriating.
Edit: any element favorable to Dub in comment only applies to social and diplomatic events, nothing else about Dub. At least that admin could throw a g-damned Easter Egg Roll. And knew how to staff it. Dub and Laura had a boffo Easter Bunny, didn’t they?
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: Madara Uchiha would disagree.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: Nice work with the semicolon, BTW.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Saw that about the NC legislator, and he’s the reason why Lincoln was wrong about Reconstruction. It wasn’t painful enough or permanent enough for the South.
Mnemosyne
You guys are making me want to get a burger this weekend. Maybe a run to The Counter or Umami Burger.
Corner Stone
@Steve in the ATL:
You know what’s a lie? I’ll tell you what’s a lie! The damn cake is a lie! That’s what is a lie! There was no beautiful chocolate cake! Maria Bartiromo Antoinette never said anything about letting them eat cake!
It’s all a fucking lie! A lie! LIE!
SFAW
@Mnemosyne:
But think of the great surfing!
In Fresno.
Villago Delenda Est
@Corner Stone: Also, too, the cannoli was a lie. The gun, however, was real!
SFAW
@Villago Delenda Est:
Yeah, at least a fifth, to wash down the Heinz 57 and Velveeta.
Yarrow
@zhena gogolia: Yeah, me too. I did watch the first five minutes out of curiosity. That’s when I got to see the mushroom cloud. I turned it off when someone stole gas from the gas station attendant by punching him in the face and driving off.
joel hanes
Which Twilight Zone will America’s demise most closely resemble?
The hot part of the earth-moves-closer-to-sun / earth-breaks-out-of-solar-orbit-and-freezes episode,
“Midnight Sun”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiWjdYOeNqQ
We’re doing nothing about CO2 under Trump and the Rs, rather the opposite , and some recent projections have us at 600 ppm atmospheric CO2 by 2050 — in just 33 years. That’d be the highest concentration in 50 milliion years, since the Eocene.
Truly a victory for the Heartland Institute and “sound science”. Fuckers.
SFAW
@Villago Delenda Est:
No, the cannoli were real. Just had to remember which one to take, which one to leave.
Steve in the ATL
@Corner Stone: you can’t handle the cake!
jl
@joel hanes: Chuck D recently recommended that episode. I was going to watch, but I am delicate and Twilight Zone scares me. Probably scared from memories of watching creepy re-runs when I was a tyke.
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
I haven’t had a real burger in years, but I’m going to have to make one this weekend. I’ve got plenty of Hellman’s on hand.
SiubhanDuinne
Dinner with Xi
Trump made an egregious mistake
When he poured bottled ketchup on steak.
He choked on the gristle
And launched off a missile,
Sat back, smirked, and said “Piece of cake.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie: I wanna try the save the bun thing
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie:
Why?
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: Duke’s is the mayonnaise to eat.
Steve in the ATL
@Gin & Tonic: OMG I’m going to have to pie you now. Though if you’d said Miracle Whip I would organize an intervention.
David Spikes
Nothing big has been made of the baby kushes singing a Chinese song at the dinner.
Try to imagine your feelings at somebody’s house when they bring out the grandkids to entertain, then multiply those feelings to infinity.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@David Spikes: god, it never ends. What’s next? Melanie asked him if he knows General Tso from the chicken?
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne:
Well played
SFAW
@Steve in the ATL:
Mayonnaise pie? That’s as weird as a mayo martini (which, according to Tom Robbins, was a thing, at least in his circle of nutcases).
SFAW
@David Spikes:
Maybe because they were singing “Arirang,” and it didn’t translate well?
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: I am going to pretend that this comment never happened.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
Sacrilege!
debbie
@Steve in the ATL:
My roommate liked that horrid Miracle Whip. The only way to keep peace was to keep the jars at opposite ends of the refrigerator.
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: I cannot believe that there are fights over brands of mayonnaise.
Major Major Major Major
Signed up for Thai cooking classes tomorrow. Suuuuper looking forward to it.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: Miracle Whip is not mayonnaise.
Steve in the ATL
@debbie: I would have insisted on separate refrigerators, just to be safe
Corner Stone
@debbie:
No they didn’t. They was just bullshitin’.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Colorado Congressman holds town hall
It didn’t play well in the room, it seems.
Suzanne
@SFAW:
Where at? I was born on LI and lived there (Huntington Station) until I was nine. I dream about moving back.
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
No fights, just a respectable separateness.
SFAW
@Suzanne:
Great Neck
Corner Stone
@Major Major Major Major: Tom Yum Goong while the world burns.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Show me where i mentioned MW?
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Pretend all you want. I heard Robbins (I think) talking about it on NPR, five-or-so years ago. Kinda fucked up, to my mind, but that’s just me.
SiubhanDuinne
@SFAW:
Isn’t just you.
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: Mayonnaise is horrible. Fighting about brands of horrible strikes me as silly. Seriously, it is literally the only “food” that automatically triggers my gag reflex. I have a mayo issue.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SFAW: it’s called a gin greasy. I won’t post any extracts
SFAW
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Yeah, I know. Even with a name like that, it’s still fucked up.
jl
@SFAW: must be a hoax. Great name though. Need to find something good to hang it on.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
Just because YOU have an issue doesn’t mean no-one else is supposed to use it.
I mean, mrs efg and millions of other people like lamb, which makes ME gag. You can eat whatever the fuck you want – I don’t tell YOU not to drink vanilla brandy
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: I’ve heard tell that in Wisconsin, they make a brandy flavored mayonnaise.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: We had testing in Nevada in the 50’s and CA was pretty much effected much, but you could see the sky light up towards the northeast when they tested. There was the partial meltdown in the Simi Hills in 1959.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
I’m not worried about the mayo, vanilla brandy, or lamb — it’s the anthrax and tire rims that I try to stay away from.
Sab
@(((CassandraLeo))): Of course not. She didn’t speak English.
SFAW
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wicked pissah.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Don’t conflate accident with intent.
SFAW
@Sab:
Look, just because she was a Geordie doesn’t mean she couldn’t speak English. The accent just takes some getting used to, is all.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Also slather what you want on you want. As I said, I have a mayo issue. I didn’t ask you to have one.
Edited a bit.
Bill E Pilgrim
@(((CassandraLeo))): No one actually said anything, it turns out. There’s a whole category of famous quotes that float around between being attributed to Shaw or Wilde or Bertrand Russell and almost every single one of them when you look into it turns out to be from none of those people but assembled from two snippets, one in a magazine somewhere and the other something in an ad, neither of which even resemble what they got assembled into all that much to begin with.
Snopes is the only actual real thing in the world I think, and even that is probably all just made up.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Bill E Pilgrim: The internet is just an internet hoax
ETA: This is Josh Barro’s pinned tweet
SFAW
@Bill E Pilgrim:
“Your Majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss” is real, however.
Bill E Pilgrim
@SFAW: I think you could replace “Snopes” in my comment above with “Monty Python” and it would work also.
I was looking at a year old This Modern World cartoon the other day and it was so close to what’s now just reality that I thought okay that’s it, we keep saying this but now life itself really has just become wild exaggerated satire, making real satire the closest thing to reflecting it in print or pixels that we have.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: How people pronounce mayonnaise is the interesting one for me. I grew up saying “maynase” but other kids said “mahnase”, 1st syllable rhyming with “map”, and it was just the weirdest thing, there’s the real divide in the world IMO. This is leaving the “YO” part completely out of it by the way, neither of us pronounced that at all.
Bill E Pilgrim
I’m just writing in a dead thread now, aren’t I.
Frankensteinbeck
@Corner Stone:
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!
Corner Stone
@Bill E Pilgrim: If it twere your love that killed it, then aye. It is dead.
hovercraft
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Pretty much, just a few like me, catching up. I assume there are others out there
;- )
Corner Stone
@Bill E Pilgrim:
It’s weird. Because i wanted to. i thought about it several times. What would happen when i said something? Could i say something? Would the situation be better or improved by my saying something? Maybe it would just be selfishly making myself feel better if i said something. Would they attack me if i said something?
In the end i decided not to say anything. i guess that’s it.
hovercraft
@jl:
Apart from the Fourth of July WH picnics, this is probably why there were no publicized “cookouts”.
Just kidding this one is satire, unfortunately the second one isn’t.
Obama Promises To Have “BBQ Cookout” On White House Lawn Before End Of Presidency
Obama made a comment on Monday that has his opponents and some Americans upset. Some people are even saying that President Obama is disrespecting our country’s s heritage. In his announcement, Obama discussed his plans for exiting the White House by holding a summer barbecue cookout on the White House lawn.
“I’m gonna say it because I’ve been wanting to say it,” said Obama. “Everybody wants to talk about the first black president. Black this, black that. Sure I played some basketball at the White House, even listen to rap music when nobody was looking. But now I’m going to show America how black I can get. We are barbecuing and throwing a cookout on the White House lawn. Obama Out!”
Throughout history, cooking in the front yard was a means of showing prosperity, to show off what you were cooking. Cooking in the front yard is widely accepted in many cultures, except the white culture. 99% of the protesters that showed up at today’s rally in opposition of the White House barbecue were caucasian. The other 1% were Asian. Technically, there is no rule, regulation, or law that can stop the president from having his party. The summer barbecue going away party is set for June 18th.
Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs
Published August 5, 2011
Celebrity-filled bash, as entertainer Chris Rock reported on his Twitter feed: “Just left the Presidents birthday party at the White House. Herbie Hancock played, Stevie Wonder sang and yes they did the electric slide. A great night.”
Daughter Malia, 13 just arrived home from summer camp in time for the Rose Garden party as she was joined by her sister, Sasha, 10, First Lady Michelle, grandmother Marian Robinson and their godmother, Eleanor “Mama Kaye, Wilson,” who flew to Washington from Chicago on Air Force One with Obama when he returned from his Thursday fund-raiser back home.
Obama’s party–paid for, the White House said, by the First Couple–was closed press and not on his official schedule. Obama’s team was not eager for pictures of the bash, coming as the stock market was plunging and a new jobless report comes out Friday morning.
joel hanes
anthrax and tire rims
Cole is immortal for that metaphor.
Maybe for other things too, but that one will live on.
And what a perfect description of Republican policy ideas!
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@SuzieC:
Thanks for the reminder. I just did that and my world is already a softer, fuzzier, cuter place, tiny claws and needle-like teeth notwithstanding.
efgoldman
@GrandJury:
I wouldn’t go quite that far…
Hoover, maybe? Garfield?
Sunny Raines
credit where credit is due: the republican establishment tried to avoid trump. It was the 62 million republican voters that gave us the orange maggot as POTUS. (And of course ALL of the republican alternates to trump were as bad policy-wise so it wouldn’t have mattered.)
leeleeFL
@columbusqueen: My mantra presently. WT actual F can a citizen who doesn’t pray do?