As you’ve probably heard, Trump toady Sean Hannity has been shamelessly exploiting the tragic death of DNC staffer Seth Rich to distract folks from the RussiaGate scandal that is engulfing Trump’s administration. Fox News went along for a while. But as it became increasingly clear that the story is an absurd conspiracy theory propagated by disreputable louts, even Fox News retracted it:
On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich. The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed.
We will continue to investigate this story and will provide updates as warranted.
Hannity kept beating the drum on his show, despite the Rich family’s direct appeal to his producer to stop exploiting their dead son. Last night, Hannity was supposed to reveal “game-changing” information from known fraudster Kim Dotcom. He even teased it by retweeting this deeply idiotic cartoon tweeted by the fraudster himself:
There is no Russia collusion / hacking pic.twitter.com/oC7IScz8dX
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 23, 2017
But according to the WaPo story linked above, Kim Dotcom tried to access the late Mr. Rich’s Gmail account to plant fake evidence this week but was rebuffed. So, no big reveal on the Hannity show. Instead, Hannity pretended to grow a conscience and drop the matter “out of respect for the family’s wishes.” But to satisfy his mouth-breather audience, he hinted on Twitter that he’s still pursuing the story:
Ok TO BE CLEAR, I am closer to the TRUTH than ever. Not only am I not stopping, I am working harder. Updates when available. Stay tuned!
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 24, 2017
My guess is that, in addition to the Dotcom bust, the network’s lawyers told him to STFU. Right now, #FireHannity is trending on Twitter, and Hannity is bellowing like a ruptured bull about his persecution by Soros-Hillary-Satan:
Spoke to many advertisers. They are being inundated with Emails to stop advertising on my show. This is Soros/Clinton/Brock liberal fascism https://t.co/WRCzfWVs9N
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 24, 2017
MediaMatters has a handy list of Hannity’s advertisers here. I don’t know if Hannity is in any real danger. He’s probably screaming at the top of his lungs about being silenced to save face after being taken in by a known bullshit artist. But it would be cool if he got shit-canned right after O’Reilly was kicked to the curb and Ailes croaked.
Anyhoo. Open thread!
dedc79
cars.com announced that it is pulling advertising from hannity’s show. Hopefully the first of many.
Villago Delenda Est
Lumpy is next to be exiled to The Blaze. Can’t wait.
Mike E
Instead of just doing a boycott, write the sponsors of his show with examples of his horrid claims/behavior and ask them, “Is this who you want your products/services associated with?”
TenguPhule
@Villago Delenda Est:
Me either, break out the weenies and marshmallows……Oh, you meant the online rag.
craigie
@dedc79:
At this point, you have to wonder why any advertiser with a conscience is there in the first place.
sigaba
Wow, someone spent a couple hours of their life on that cartoon.
Then again it’s incredible parody.
FlyingToaster
I think Hannity is more worried because he’s now standing out there alone; Ailes is gone, O’Reilly’s gone, the new evening nutcases are ideologues rather than conspiracy theorists so he can’t get any cover. And the lawyers told him to knock it off.
I took a look at the advertiser list; most of the major advertisers are in the “We advertise in all evening news and opinion broadcasts” category, so they’re not going to pull ads from Hannity’s program unless he gets a lot more bad publicity.
Archon
If there is ever a future book written on the collapse of the United States I suspect Fox News will get it’s very own chapter.
encephalopath
The Spocko method is just about the only thing that actually works.
Leave him with nothing but wingnut welfare.
Villago Delenda Est
@sigaba: Cartoonist not bright enough to know it’s a parody of itself.
schrodingers_cat
No idea and don’t care.
jl
Schrödinger’s Cat and Schrödinger’s Dog are going to have to fight over the hot and happening new handle, Schrödinger’s Death Tax.
” Just a minor piece of the Trump budget fiasco, but still: Schrodinger’s death tax-both abolished and a major revenue source. ”
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/867359752094834689
LAO
Hey Betty — here’s another Hannity Tweet to add above:
ETA:
jl
And, via Josh Marshall’s twitter, the Trump budget takes a hatched to the sinister Deep State and Big Government numerical short term weather forecasting plot. Probably good for Making America Great Again, and teach us to be self reliant again, guild character and humbility.
White House budget aims to ‘slow’ gains in weather prediction, shocking forecasters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/05/24/white-house-budget-aims-to-slow-gains-in-weather-forecasting-shocking-weather-community/?utm_term=.11df7b320855
Edit: not mentioned nearly enough that the Galveston hurricane and flood happened when America was Still Great. Should be a lesson there for all of us.
Iowa Old Lady
Open thread: I’m reading Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann. I picked it up because I heard Terry Gross interviewing the author. It turns out that in the 1920s, members of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma were the wealthiest group per capita of any group in the nation because of the oil under their tribal land. Local white people conspired to murder some of them to get at the money, and the deeply corrupt local law let it go on. The FBI was known as just the Bureau of Investigation at the time and Hoover was newly installed as director. The Osage asked them to come and catch the culprits.
Citizen_X
@Villago Delenda Est: I don’t know what’s worse: that Onion-level-parody cartoon, or the fact that “Kim Dot Com” tweeted it, thinking it makes him look like a hero.
GregB
Ask not for whom the bell tolls Sea Han-Nazi.
hellslittlestangel
If you want to talk about pleasant things, how about Rupert Murdoch dropping dead?
Brachiator
Yeah, but it is a weak ass retraction, with an entirely false, but sly suggestion that they will keep looking just in case something comes up (it won’t). The family involved is still having to deal with crap arising from this nonsense.
This is not a new low, but a continuation of bullshit political propaganda as blood sport, with no care about who might be hurt, damaged or unfairly maligned by obviously false “news.”
Fox and Hannity deserve every nasty bit of fallout from this. They knew they were dealing in lies, and persisted anyway.
LAO
Free me from moderation! I have 1st Amendment rights!
//snark, if not obvious. But still, I’m stuck in moderation.
? ?? Goku ? ?
Hannity exploits a man’s death for attention, political points, and money. Buys into bullshit artist’s agitprop
Other people get pissed at him for doing that and try to boycott/protest him
“You libtards are the real scumbags!” bellows Hannity
When will these idiots realize that sometimes the things they say will have consequences? The First Amendment doesn’t guarantee them the right to advertisers
Never seizes to amaze. And Soros liberal fascism? This man has completely gone around the bend. That shit’s said on the likes of 4Chan and Brainfart
GregB
The far nuts are now reduced to relying on a pack of criminally indicted and and already convicted Bond villains as their saviors.
LAO
This is brilliant.
Miss Bianca
@Iowa Old Lady: oh, damn…*another* book to add to Mt-To-Be-Read!
And just to see if there was some tie-in to my newly-revived obsession with the Kentucky Derby and its winners, survey says…yes! Black Gold, who won in 1924, was owned by Mrs. Rosa Hoots, who was a member of the Osage nation. (I remembered from my days reading Marguerite Henry’s wonderful biography of the little horse that Rosa’s oil money paid the stud fee for Black Gold’s dam, U-See-It, to be bred to his sire, Black Toney.)
Ian G.
@? ?? Goku ? ?:
The fact that Hannity and Newt Gingrich have descended into the swamps occupied by 9/11 Truthers, Holocaust deniers, moon landing hoaxers, and the like suggests they’re sweating bullets over the Trump-Russia stuff and need something, anything to get keep the rubes from giving up on Dear Leader. So it’s back to Vince Foster, except a younger, Jewish-er version.
Another Scott
@jl: rofl. Good catch!
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@hellslittlestangel:
Aspirational, or did this really happen?
Gin & Tonic
Wow, what a 1337 h4x0r our Kim is. Gets caught pulling a stunt that wouldn’t fool a 3rd grader.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
“Technically passable but aesthetically (and politically) repellent” seems a good description of Garrison’s work.
Why isn’t Clinton wearing shoes?
Miss Bianca
@LAO: He does it so we won’t have to? Gotta love it!
? ?? Goku ? ?
@Ian G.: Yeah. It’s despicable. I just couldn’t imagine lying like that all the time. Especially about a dead man. My career and life would be empty and hollow.
mai naem mobile
Maybe there is no Russian collusion. Maybe George Soros has a deal with Dolt 45 to pay him one billion dollars to destroy Fox News and the GOP. Teaching the redneck hillbillies a lesson is just a side benefit. Now that is the Art of the Dill.
TenguPhule
A gathering of Republicans. What do we call it? Clowns? Sheep?
The courage of their convictions.
Uh huh.
Cue Village.
Villago Delenda Est
@LAO: An enjoyable read. I appreciate him including the unfit for wrapping fish NYT.
Major Major Major Major
@Citizen_X:
Alas, it’s sincere.
Kay
Doesn’t this feel panicky, though? Like FOX is maybe not raking in the bucks to the extent they have become accustomed? They pay these hacks enormous amounts of money. I think Hannity has a plane. He probably has a pretty lavish lifestyle. Might be hard to dial that down if the money tree stops producing.
It just feels desperate.
Mnemosyne
When your conspiracy theory rests on the word of a con artist like Kim Dotcom, that really should make you think twice.
Not Hannity, though.
TenguPhule
@? ?? Goku ? ?:
Never. SATSQ.
GregB
@TenguPhule:
A lemming of Republicans?
The Moar You Know
1. Who is “Brock”?
2. Where can I join my local “liberal fascist” party? I AM SO IN. We could sure use one.
Villago Delenda Est
@TenguPhule: As they’re being transferred from the tumbrels to the dais with the wicker basket, they still will not get it. They’ll watch MomSense knit, and they still won’t get it.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: Well, I imagine if they ever actually faced consequences it might help.
catclub
@FlyingToaster:
Actually, I thought that Fox was unchanged in its derangement level even after Ailes has left. I thought there might be a change.
Kay
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character”
I feel like I have been trying to nail that down for 10 years, using hundreds of words and just muddling it all up :)
All along this Sarah Kendzior person had said it with 14 words!
Rand Careaga
I was particularly charmed by this tidbit from the WaPo story:
Ah. A floppy disk! Why, he could have smuggled almost four hundred pages of incriminating documents that way. Stone’s cluelessness puts me in mind of Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret medic who claimed in 1970 that his wife and two children had been killed by intruders who chanted “Acid is groovy—kill the pigs.” Yeah, right Jeff. Right, Roger.
Villago Delenda Est
@The Moar You Know: David Brock, apostate wingnut who now runs Media Matters For America.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: But every time I suggest something, people dismiss it as too extreme.
GxB
@sigaba: Yeah, Garrison is the John McNaughton of political cartoons. I’d like to think he’s just a cynical smartass taking repugs money and giving them what they want, but I’ve seen enough of his crap to conclude he’s just another conservative moron true believer. I love how he has to label everything – at least he realizes that he’s dealing with imbeciles that won’t get his point without it being over-explained to them. Maybe he can do Dump’s executive briefings.
Chet Murthy
empty
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
I think the technical term is a Klavern.
Spanky
Sad!
And I was sorta kinda looking forward to the Senate hearing.
Naaaah!
hovercraft
@The Moar You Know:
A founding member of the “Arkansas Project” to destroy the Clintons. He has since repented.
TenguPhule
Exhibit 1,000,003,342 why I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.
Our nation’s infrastructure is fucked.
Iowa Old Lady
@Miss Bianca: What an unexpected connection!
LAO
@Roger Moore: Well done.
otmar
As this is an open thread. Something completely different: Germany’s energy policy:
hovercraft
McConnell: ‘I Don’t Know How We Get To 50’ Senate Votes To Pass ACA Repeal
The best line in the piece, which I think should have been the headline, Fuck the Democrats, okay not really, but close:
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Silly jl, silly Kthug; don’t you know if you reduce a tax to zero, you get more revenue?
Kay
That’s two. They did it in North Carolina too. This is always reported as if it’s just normal for Republicans but think about what these judges are saying: Texas and North Carolina Republicans- all of them- spent months deliberately crafting laws that deny minority voters their rights. In 2017.
If you’re a Republican this is what you’re defending. Blatant, vicious, UNLAWFUL racism. A judge had to ORDER them to stop. Not one of their members objected to any of it. These politicians went after black voters– the same people who pay their salaries. Un fucking believable.
LAO
@Roger Moore: Also, your comment made me look up strange/weird collective animal names. LINK. There are some really strange ones, like “a conspiracy of lemurs,” “a shiver of sharks” and my personal favorite “a murder of crows.”
Tokyokie
@Iowa Old Lady: Also known as the Osage Reign of Terror. In the late 19th century, the Osage sold their traditional lands in Kansas to the U.S. because of violent trespassing whites (such as Laura Ingalls’ ancestors) and used the proceeds to buy the northwestern-most portion of the Cherokee Nation from that tribe. Thus, the Osage were the only tribe of Native Americans who claimed a land title from other than a federal grant and as a result, they held on to the land as the other tribes Andy Jackson forcibly relocated to what is now Oklahoma had theirs taken away. But it so happened that the Osage land sat atop of the second-largest inland oil reservoir in the Lower 48, and the tribe owned it all, divvying up the proceeds through head rights. So what some racist bastards would do would be to marry into an Osage family, then start murdering all the wife’s relatives so that she would inherit their head rights, and once all of them were gone, bump off the wife and inherit the entire family’s wealth. Over a brief period, hundreds of Osage turned up dead under mysterious circumstances (mostly attributed to bootleg booze with too much wood alcohol), and when all was said and done, I think maybe one conviction resulted. But Hoover and his crew, who came in well after the slaughter was under way, kept things from being even worse.
hovercraft
So how pissed is the Shitgibbon that even on his magical Grand Tour that stupid blah man is raining on his parade. The papers back home are shitting all over him, fucking ISIS are stealing his headlines by bombing shit when the world should be watching him, and now the Kenyan is going to host a forum in Berlin tomorrow that will invite comparisons! Why is the world so unfair? He just wants to MAGA and be the Greatest President in the History of The World!
One gets protesters, the other gets standing ovations. Poor Angela, well at least she gets this treat before she has to meet the moran again.
Chyron HR
@The Moar You Know:
The squinty guy from Pokemon. I never trusted him.
Tokyokie
@Kay: I agree with your sentiment but hardly find it unbelievable. If the only way your group of elites can continue to hold power is to restrict the franchise more and more to your group of elites, then that’s what you do. In other jurisdictions, it was once called apartheid. And when I have referred to supporters of such legal maneuvering as “apartheid Republicans,” I’ve been greeted with guffaws, because they think they’re not the evil, repressive, Nazi-leaning scum that their Afrikaans-speaking brethren were. But that’s exactly what you are, sunshine, except the fellows with the Dutch accents had no delusions about what they were doing.
dm
@jl: I’m guessing that they’re confusing “weather” and “climate” again, thinking that cuts to weather forecasting will represent cuts to climate change research.
As I recall, there are also concerns about our aging weather satellite fleet not getting replaced, leaving us unable to monitor the weather (there was reporting on this in 2012 and 2014 — perhaps the problem has been addressed in the meantime, I’m not sure).
Steve in the ATL
@LAO: you’d like it better if it were an “appeal of a murder conviction of crows”
Mnemosyne
@Tokyokie:
IIRC (and I haven’t read the story in a while) there was one guy who, on his father’s orders, murdered his own wife and children in order to inherit.
That’s some toxic patriarchy in action right there. You’re willing to murder your own children to benefit your father and his family.
LesGS
@LAO: The name for a pair of crows? Attempted murder.
hovercraft
@hellslittlestangel:
Well if we’re making a list for the grim reaper…………..
Sheldon Adelson, Rush Limbaugh is not old, but he’s an obese tub of lard who’s heart should be about ready to pack it in, no? Should I go on, I mean how comprehensive should the list be?
LAO
@Steve in the ATL: @LesGS: Both of your replies brought tears to my eyes. I’m still chortling in an unladylike manner.
Spanky
Did anyone cite Mitch Landrieu’s speech on the removal of the Confederate statues? Read the whole thing. He lays it all out, unvarnished. It’s pretty awesome.
Go and read.
Roger Moore
@LAO:
I have always hated those cute lists of weird names for groups of animals. There are some of them that are clearly traditional and used by real people (e.g. a pack of wolves, a flock of geese) but about 80% of them are twee made up names that are only used when compiling that kind of list or by people trying to sound clever. Besides, they left one of the best ones- a plague of locusts- off their list.
ThresherK
@Kay: A bit like college football, where a coach will tell players, “If you ain’t cheatin’. you ain’t tryin’.”
If R’s laws don’t get overturned in court, are they legislating hard enough? I think not.
(Yes, dropped “G’s” on purpose, for geographical reasons.)
hovercraft
@jl:
Of course it does, and just as:
Mulvaney: Debt ceiling deadline could come sooner than expected
By Colin Wilhelm
05/24/2017 02:50 PM EDT Updated 05/24/2017 03:07 PM EDT
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney warned Wednesday that Congress may have to raise the debt ceiling sooner than previously expected.
“My understanding that the [tax] receipts, currently, are coming in slower than expected and you may soon hear from [Treasury Secretary Steven] Mnuchin about a change in the date,” Mulvaney told the House Budget Committee. “We look forward to working with the Hill on the best way to go about this.”
But hey no worries, this is before the slashing of taxes and regulations produces the magical 4 to 9% growth rates that are needed to make this budget come close to balancing!
Another Scott
I’m keeping an occasional eye on the CBO’s “cost-estimates” web page but nothing about the House’s “gut-Obamacare” bill yet. (Nothing dated 5/24 is there yet.) I assume it will show up there, but it might be in the press before the web page gets updated…
Cheers,
Scott.
hovercraft
Is anyone else having problems with BJ?
Anyway.
I’m adding him to the drop dead list, this man is beyond an evil ghoul.
hovercraft
@Another Scott:
I believe the score will come out during the witching hour, don’t you know that these days it’s not news unless it comes out between 5 and 6.
TenguPhule
@hovercraft:
Mnuchin is stealing from the till. Take that one to the bank.
Tokyokie
@Mnemosyne: I was vaguely aware of the story — I grew up in the county on the eastern border of the Osage Nation — but then a few years ago I came across The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: An American History by Washington Post reporter Dennis McAuliffe, which I found informative, if not particularly well written. In it, he concludes that the title character, one of his grandmothers, was murdered by his grandfather for her head rights. Which would be a pretty disturbing thing to figure out about the guy you’d always thought of as your kindly old gramps.
pamelabrown53
@Mnemosyne: #37.
I agree with both you and Kay (comment above yours). Hannity is simultaneously an incomparable hack where disseminating conspiracy theories is “in the service of” and he just might feel threatened that his amazing grift might be threatened.
Steve in the ATL
@hovercraft:
I’m having problems with my posts here not getting enough love, but that’s been an ongoing issue since my very first post here.
And McConnell needs to be #1 on the guillotine. He is more responsible than anyone for the destruction of our country.
smintheus
Speaking of Soros conspiracy BS, Comey was duped by an obvious Russian forgery that supposedly linked Soros, Lynch, and Clinton’s campaign in a conspiracy to deep-six the FBI investigation into Clinton’s emails. It’s alleged that Comey has justified his public doushbaggery by referring to this fake evidence, even though anybody with three brain cells could tell immediately that it was bogus.
Fair Economist
@Another Scott:
Makes me suspect the bill flunked the Byrd rule (meaning it can’t go through reconciliation as passed) and Ryan is applying last-minute pressure to have it changed.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: That’s because all of your suggested consequences are violent.
bemused
@Roger Moore:
Perfect!
Barbara
@dedc79: Honestly, I don’t see the outrageous misuse of Seth Rich’s death as much of a political issue as it is just a matter of common decency. Fabricating a story about this young man who was murdered for its political or entertainment value is not that much different from abusing a corpse. It’s not just a lie, it’s obscene and cruel. The Comet Pizza idiocy was also outrageous but at least the guy who owned the place had some recourse for suing Alex Jones and others who publicized it. Rich’s parents are really at the mercy of people’s empathy and decency not to torment them when they are already no doubt overwhelmed by grief.
JPL
Clinton hatred led the FBI to depend on dubious information about Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-dubious-russian-document-influenced-the-fbis-handling-of-the-clinton-probe/2017/05/24/f375c07c-3a95-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.ec3b611a3a07
Thanks Comey!
MCA1
I love that harnessing the power of the free market is now “liberal fascism” to Sean Hannity. The lack of self-awareness, it burns.
It’s the same cognitive mistake that gets them all foaming about the mouth over “political correctness” (which often = being told they’re being an asshole). They fundamentally do not comprehend that having a right to free speech is not equal to having a right to consequence-free speech. Witness all the wailing by rightwingers about college students protesting their universities’s invitations to sociopaths like Richard Spencer to “speak” on campus. A bunch of students making it clear they don’t approve of their university bringing hate speech onto campus is those students expressing their right to free speech, not suppressing someone else’s. A college declining to provide these douchenozzles a forum and an audience, after weighing the incendiary and corrosive nature of what they say, is not the equivalent of taking away their right to say what they want.
Mnemosyne
@Spanky:
I think it was Adam who front-paged that a night or two ago. Really amazing to hear a white Southerner call his fellow whites out like that (and of course the Landrieu family are longtime Democrats).
hovercraft
@Steve in the ATL:
You have all the greatest posts, they are the bestest evah!!!! : ) ; ) ;D
How’s that, feel better?
The site has been sluggish all day, but now I keep getting the timeout crap.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: The non-violent ones don’t seem to be dissuading them.
It is an option of last resort. But we are running out of all the other resorts rather quickly.
Laura
@LAO: a “lack of principals.”
germy
Saw this at the Washington Post
‘Bad’ Russian intel may have influenced how FBI and Comey handled Clinton email investigation, helping Trump win
EDIT: See comment #82. I should have read more of the thread before posting!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@The Moar You Know:
Brock “Swedish Killing Machine” Samson, Dr Venture’s bodygaurd from The Venture Brothers.
efgoldman
@craigie:
Money has no morals. If they didn’t think he was getting them eyeballs, and potential sales, they wouldn’t do it.
There are possibly contract terms that limit when they can cancel, too.
Miss Bianca
@Kay:
Oh, holy God. I’ve never seen this concept quite so pithily expressed. So swiping!
hovercraft
@TenguPhule:
They are all stealing, I just saw this morning that C(K)arl Ichan’s company just increased their 1st quarter profits by 60 million because they are betting on the government changing a regulation requiring biofuels be added to gas. Coincidentally Ichan is an advisor to Twitler, and he recommended the switch, and he’s pretty sure it’s going to be done very soon. That cartoon from earlier with them all filling bags of loot is inaccurate, they all have trailers backed up and are using front loaders to loot the treasury.
efgoldman
@LAO:
Actually, he’d make an excellent replacement for Sphincter. Klannity is even more of an ideologue and conspiracy theorist, and a much, much better and more natural liar. Not like Sphincter, with his flop sweat, shifty eyes, and breathing hard.
Tenar Arha
@TenguPhule:Seems self evident but I believe this would be appropriate
A gathering of Republicans = A Murder
West of the Rockies (been a while)
See! Fox News has standards…
… and if you don’t like those, they have others.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: they don’t face the nonviolent ones. They keep getting elected. Maybe try stopping that first.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Scammity always looks like a fat baby bird waiting for a night crawler to be jammed down his gaping pie hole.
Miss Bianca
@Iowa Old Lady: Ain’t it just?
lgerard
@Spanky:
Sad to see the Lieberman balloon shot down, but since the republicans are obviously trolling by suggesting he and Merrick Garland as candidates i suggest the Dems do the same by talking up NY AG Eric Schneiderman or Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel as candidates.
I would love to the expressions displayed by certain Senators in response to those proposals (after they goggled them of course)
JPL
@smintheus: The story made me sad, and it’s proof that Russia interfered. Now we are left with a crook in office, that the repubs simply ignore.
I had missed your link, before I put up mine. The story is such that it can’t be posted too often though.
germy
@West of the Rockies (been a while): I wish he would just part his hair in the middle and be done with it. That weird high/side part looks weirder every day.
He seems a bit more agitated ever since that woman accused him of being icky with her. He must be sore from sleeping on the couch at home.
Miss Bianca
@hovercraft: Gee, these two lines are juxtaposed in complete lack of irony in McConnellLand: “Don’t know how we’ll get to 50 votes” and “no plan to work with Democrats on legislative agenda”.
OK, I really am getting into “A la tumbrel” area with these mofos – and McConnell can be in one of the very first.
germy
@Miss Bianca: The guillotine is useless when the criminal has no neck.
As soon as the blade came down, he’d jerk his head into his shell.
Okay, that’s all the violent talk from me today.
smintheus
@JPL: The story shows that a meteor cannot strike DC soon enough … that is, as long as it arrives no sooner than the Conspirator in Chief returns to town.
Steve in the ATL
@hovercraft: much better, thank you!
Apropos of nothing, saw this today in a email from a manager to his HR person:
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
They got voted out in a wave in 2006. What lesson did they take away from that?
Double down on evil, but just don’t get caught fixing the polls by eliminating Democratic votes.
It’s a cult. A cult determined to kill us all.
germy
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: their constituents voted them back into power so we should murder them. Got it.
efgoldman
@Spanky:
He probably finally figured out that Holy Droopy Dog Joe is, you know, Jewish, and couldn’t buy a membership in Mal-A-Loco.
Or maybe he just listened to Joe for five minutes and figured out, like the rest of us, it made him want to poke knitting kneedles in his ears.
germy
CNN plays a sad trombone:
Peale
@efgoldman: If he doesn’t like McMaster because he “talks to much” in security briefings, imagine how he’d deal with Joe.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
I’m good with their permanent exile. To Siberia.
Peale
@Miss Bianca: I’m sure if they could figure out a way to pass legislation that would block legal access to modern healthcare facilities to black people and close only hospitals in states represented by two Democratic Senators, they would.
Miss Bianca
OK, o/t – but hey, it is an open thread: this anecdote about the late Roger Moore (not *our* Roger Moore, naturlich!) completely stole my heart.
Seems that he was a quick-witted as well as a charming gentleman, to judge by his reaction to this young James Bond fan.
Miss Bianca
Rats – messed up the link in that last post. Here it is again, moar better, like…
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/roger-moore-dead-died-james-bond-airport-story-anecdote-signature-a7752636.html
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
You’re gonna’ be here, when? Weekend after this one coming? I’ll show you grumpy!
[Is your schedule firmed up yet?]
Quinerly
Afternoon chuckle. Spicer only had one wish. He was snubbed: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/politics/trump-pope-francis-white-house-staff/
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: arriving next Thursday. Don’t know all of our plans yet but will let you know when i do!
is there typically a time that’s better than others w/r/t Thursday/Friday/Saturday?
daverave
I assume that someone has posted about this but UK CI folks are incensed that the NYT has released photos and speculation about the bomb and parts used in the Manchester atrocity. Check the Guardian for the latest.
sigaba
@germy: Comey’s only partly to blame. Legitimately blame also falls on congressional Republicans, because we all know they’d have been only to happy to take a forged Russian email and throw it in everyone’s faces as proof that Hillary was let off the hook.
Republicans were completely willing to use Russian propaganda against the DOJ and the FBI, in order to help Trump win or at least to kneecap Hillary Clinton. That’s the story. Meanwhile the press could have cared less if such an email was Russian propaganda or not, it cast Shadows and Clouds just as well as any real evidence of anything.
Mnemosyne
@germy:
/pointing at Spicey
HA-ha! You didn’t meet the Pope!
matt
That cartoon is like the Onion parodies of editorial cartoons.
Miss Bianca
@Mnemosyne: y’know, I *almost* feel sorry for Carrot Spice about this one. Then I remember who he chose to work for, knowing (or should have known, anyway) what an asshole that guy is, and how he’d chose to stiff *anyone* who works for him, in any way possible.
Mnemosyne
@Miss Bianca:
There’s an old movie I need to re-watch called Alias Nick Beal which is basically “Faust” done as a film noir. A frustrated DA says that he’s willing to sell his soul to bring a particular gangster to justice, but of course a deal with the devil always causes the dealmaker pain, too.
Oh, and Ray Milland plays Nick Beal, alias …
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
Assumes attention span not in evidence.
Roger Moore
@Major Major Major Major:
They chose constituents who would put them back in power. Don’t forget the importance of gerrymandering.