I worship Jesus, not Mother Earth. He calls us all to be good stewards of the planet, but doesn't mean I have to care about global warming.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 31, 2017
Maybe Erick Infinite Ericks is just envious of the “Dumbest Man on the Internet” title. At least he took the ‘studying for my preacher license’ line out of his bio, because it seems like he’s never actually read the New Testament. Where’s a [Jesus: facepalm] GIF when you need one?…
I worship Jesus, not other people. He calls us all to love our neighbor, but that doesn't mean I have to care about genocide
— Elizabeth Bruenig (@ebruenig) May 31, 2017
1/ The GOP has mastered the skill of identifying folks fear and anger of 'the other' into a hatred of anything seeming elite, e.g. Science.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 31, 2017
2/ what is diabolical about this is that these leaders know better. They know science is real. They know climate change isn't a hoax.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 31, 2017
5/ what could be more important than a clean, God-Given planet that our own grandchildren can thrive in? Could it be money? My God…
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 31, 2017
6/ that would be the height of cynicism. Diabolical. To stick your middle finger in the eye of God…what scum would be brazen enough…
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) May 31, 2017
Here's a good quote for you sir. pic.twitter.com/CqKCCjHdfJ
— Mikael Vierge (@Mikael_Vierge) May 31, 2017
lamh36
Hilary…ma’am…where do we send internet winning for today!!!
@HillaryClinton
People in covfefe houses shouldn’t throw covfefe.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/870090101765931008
Mike in NC
Now I’m picturing a movie in which Ron Perlman strangles Donald Trump. Sad!
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
This country has depressingly many shitbags. But while this is true, we shouldn’t make more of this than we need to. Every country has had these people. We have, too. They almost trashed the country 150 years ago. As awful as they are, there are more of us than there are of them.
smintheus
Anti-intellectualism has been a powerful force in American politics and culture for a long time. It would be elitist of me to specify how long.
schrodingers_cat
Abhorrence of logic and science and embrace of religious intolerance is the hallmark of a polity in trouble. I have seen it time and again in India’s history. Late Deccan sultanates, Marathas after the death of Nana Phadnavis, Mughal Empire in Aurangzeb’s fading years.
Confident people/polities don’t need to belittle others to feel good about themselves.
We should not let the Rs speak for all of us.
jl
Erik can do his part. He can cuddle little bunnies and puppies with his loving, but strong, manly Christian patriarch grip.
End result might be the same, though.
C’mon George, lemme pet ’em, lemme pet ’em.
Edit: Erik should get an award for emitting a stupid and offensively absurd tweet.
dm
In other news, I see that Richard Hofstadter’s 1964 classic, Anti-intellectualism in American Life was released on audiobook last month. How timely.
BruceFromOhio
Rothkopf quote is so coldly accurate it has frost forming around it.
Gravenstone
To be fair to Eric bin Eric, Mother Earth will continue on along just fine* even after she’s made the ecosystem untenable for human occupancy.
*At least until the sun gets into its later years and first boils the place dry before burning it to a cinder in a few billion years.
Gravenstone
@Mike in NC: Maybe with Kathy Griffin in the background next to a guillotine, just waiting to release the blade?
jl
@Gravenstone: Maybe Jesus loves waterbears and archeobacteria too. Give them a chance. Anyone think about that? Huh?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I don’t know who NYCSoutpaw is, but I see her/him retweeted a lot, and I think this one is dead-on. The R’s want to beat up on Susan Rice and have a “What about…?” talking point for Chuck Todd, but they could just wind up making things worse for trump and Jared
and one of the things I’m seeing battered around the tubes is a clip from a cameo appearance JaVanka made on Gossip Girl, which I gather was an adolescent version of Dynasty set in NYC, just the sort of thing trumps would find glamorous and sophisticated. It makes me think of what his former Observer editor said about people who say he doesn’t do TV cause he’s modest: A trust fund baby who buys a newspaper and marries Ivanka trump is not someone who shuns the limelight. He just wants to control his image in a very, very specific way.
Karmus
Words mean what I want them to mean. That way I can call myself a Christian while still maintaining my selfish lifestyle.
different-church-lady
Jesus wept…
lamh36
@BoyGeorge
Why do we need to see Tiger Woods being arrested and why does the ‘Dash Cam’ only work for celebrity arrests?
Wapiti
I was quite the little bible-quote finding kid, when I was a kid. I seriously can think of no tale from the gospels in which Jesus calls on us to be good stewards of the planet. (I’m pretty sure such admonishment comes in the old testament, before Jesus enters stage left.)
schrodingers_cat
@different-church-lady: Indeed and said God forgive them for they know not what they are doing (or saying).
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Mike in NC: Whenever I read X-Men comics, I always hear either Ron Perlman or Ian Mckellen’s voice as Magneto. (And Ron Perlman as the definitive Deathstroke for the DC Universe).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
lamh36
@Mike in NC: The only movie role I want to picture Ron Pearlman in, is a final Hellboy film!!!!
Yes…I’m a Hellboy -stan…lol
chris
This guy or gal must have some fun stories. Outreach is the answer, people!
?BillinGlendaleCA
Just finished Al Franken, Giant of the Senate*, I thought you were talking about Ted Cruz.
*If you read Al’s book, make sure you read the footnotes/endnotes, that’s where the good stuff is.
seaboogie
@BruceFromOhio: yep.
M. Bouffant
Here’s another classic from Erick-Woods today, at his web-log The Resentment:
He’s certainly giving Hoft a run for his money.
lollipopguild
Many of these folks believe that God is going to destroy planet earth anyway so why not give God a hand? The true believers will go to Heaven to be with their God so the faster they ruin the earth the sooner they will be in Heaven. A lot of these type of folks voted for Reagan because they thought that the second Reagan became President he would start a war with Russia that would send them all to Heaven. These are people who never learn anything or they learn the wrong lesson.
jl
One sliver of hope is that Trump and his flunkies have decided to stand up for what they really believe in, and I think the vast majority in the US will want to vomit in disgust. And, as I think Shakespeare wrote in Lear, ‘filths savor only their own. Malicious fools will reveal their true colors. This imbecilic tweet by EE is an example: Basically, saying, yeah right whatever, For the dogmatic, God in Genesis instructs humankind to take care of the earth, explicitly identified as His creation Iand He did not create it as a shake and bake toy oven for greedy corporate assholes to play with, I don’t remember reading that in Gensis) But that don’t mean Erick has to ‘care about it’.
Implicitly EE equates caring (at all) about the fate of the planet, as anything like God’s creation, with pantheistic paganism.
EE didn’t say, ‘not give it top priority’, or anything like that. He said he doesn’t have to ‘care about’ it.
Does EE understand how offensively stupid and callous he is? Even a child can explain it. (Edit: but probably no one can explain it to the likes of EE)
rikyrah
Sean Spicer Storms Out of Briefing Again
May 31, 2017
CNN: “For two days in a row, since returning from President Trump’s trip abroad, the White House press secretary has held uncharacteristically short press briefings in which he claimed not to know the answer to questions, outsourced questions to other officials or dismissed the premise of questions entirely.”
“Both briefings included less than 20 minutes for questions — far less than most prior briefings — and ended with Spicer abruptly exiting the room to the consternation of reporters.”
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/31/media/sean-spicer-press-briefings/index.html
germy
I just saw this in the washington post
rikyrah
Ted LieuVerified account @tedlieu
Ted Lieu Retweeted CNN Politics
If Sessions-Kislyak story is true, it shows Sessions didn’t just commit perjury, he committed big time perjury. Why is he still in office?
ThresherK
@Gravenstone: Earth will survival humans. Erick is a little too blithe about the experiment, though, the way conservatives just brush off things like other peoples’ poverty.
I don’t want the experiment where Erick bin Erick plays the Yosemite Sam idjit, sawing off the tree branch humanity is sitting on.
jl
@M. Bouffant: Amazing how Trumpster flunkies, in the WH and out, paid and unpaid, near and far, are willing to persuade themselves into idiocy in order the carry Mr Big Shot’s water.
Jeffro
@lamh36: oh…(pardon) HELL yeah!
rikyrah
Smithsonian NMAAHCVerified account @NMAAHC
A statement from our Founding Director Lonnie Bunch on the noose found in our history galleries today.
https://twitter.com/NMAAHC/status/870044676967084033?
Peale
@M. Bouffant: seriously, this much I agree with him on. We really do need to expand the fleet. To protect all those ships coming in from Germany and China filled with goods that are taking our jobs away. Heck, I’m sure they’d be full of sailors shanghaied from the streets of foreign lands since we can barely staff the paltry number of ships we have now.
rikyrah
DA PHUQ?
CNBC TechVerified account @CNBCtech
This start-up is offering $8,000 blood transfusions from teens to people who want to fight aging
Morzer
@rikyrah:
Well, it’s probably hard for the Trump folks to figure out which of their colleagues committed perjury, which committed perjury squared and which deserve the perjury cubed citation at the end of the month sales team meeting.
Peale
@germy: don’t worry about him. He will lose in the primary.
Kathleen
Got this from my daughter’s tweet from Words With Friends:
covfefe
noun
1. The amount and quality of reporting when autocorrect fails you at 3am
https://twitter.com/heatherleigh73/status/870089750388125696
jl
EE to humanity: die young and leave a bad looking corpse. BTW, Jesus loves you, why don’t you love him back?
Jeffro
@germy: I know 70 is the new 50, but Biden’s 75 already and would be 78 in 2020. Thank you Boomers, but here’s the door. Heck, Biden is technically not even a Boomer, he’s too old for that label by 4 years.
In other news…looks like it’s going to be a fun June, with all these J-Kush and now Sessions “meetings with Russians that I done forgot about” bullshit. Here’s hoping our national #fakemedia, at a minimum, calls their lame excuses out for what they are. They laughed at Spicey’s “covfefe” excuse today…it’s encouraging!
Peale
@rikyrah: oh to be young enough to sell my blood to rich bastards.
Morzer
rikyrah
Philip KleinVerified account @philipaklein
Mulvaney says person in charge of CBO healthcare model is “Hillarycare alum” planted by Dems to score Obamacare
Jeffro
@Morzer: Ramping up of anti-Trumpov efforts by by IC in 3…2…1…
rikyrah
El FlacoVerified account @bomani_jones
not even lebron can rich himself out of someone scrawling a racial slur on his house. remember that, all you “it’s really class” clowns.
Omnes Omnibus
So, I was one of the people who thought that HR McMaster would be a moderating force in the administration… After today’s WSJ shitbag, He can go fuck himself. Also this.
Mnemosyne
@chris:
My favorite part is that the guy or gal driving that truck is driving it around in Texas. Texas.
He or she must need that pickup bed to haul around their giant (metaphorical) balls.
hovercraft
Erick son of Erick is an asshole and always has been, I felt sorry for him and his wife when he disclosed their illnesses, and empathized with their concern for their kids if the worst should happen. Fuck him, regardless of if or who we worship, we all have a right to clean air and a viable planet for our kids and grandkids. Responsible people do not destroy shit just because they can, especially when they know that their destructiveness is harming people today, and will harm future generations.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
The saying “never ask a witness a question you don’t know the answer to”. Apparently no one in the GOP has ever heard this, or if they do, they haven’t thought this through. My bad, this assumes that Nunes can think.
ETA: Nunes and his WH bosses are stupid and short sighted, after all these are the same geniuses who thought their last stunt was smart. SAD !!
Gin & Tonic
@Jeffro: Oh, come on, who among us hasn’t overlooked a meeting here or there with the Ambassador of Russia?
jl
@Jeffro: It’s a free country, I really don’t see the point of complaining about people doing what they can do in a free country under the current laws, and party rules.
Bernis can run, HRC can run (even if she is saying ‘no’ now), Biden can run, in 2020. O’Malley can run, I just hope he thinks out something more substantive to say next time.
I don’t want any of those oldsters running again, unless we are really desperate for leadership. But anyone worried about enduring these people for another run really need to contact people they think would be good candidates and support them. And advocate with Democratic Party to put a stop to oldsters and sinister outsiders (aka *******).
rikyrah
Kyle GriffinVerified account @kylegriffin1
Noose found in Nat’l Museum of African American History and Culture—Sec. of Smithsonian called it a “repugnant” act.
kindness
Ericson is such a putz. But you know what is beautiful? Eric’s old website RedState has a handful of regulars and that’s it. Used to be packed over there. No more. I would love it more but I know they went to 4Chan, Breitbart and the other hater sites. They didn’t suddenly become aware and I doubt they ever will.
p.a.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients.
sequel: The Republican Who Mistook Russians for Thin Air…
Juju
Jeeze I hate Andrea Mitchell. If anyone else watched Ari Melber filling in for Rachel, I found the section where Ari had Andrea Mitchell to comment on the Hillary interview infuriating. No, Hillary never talked about being a grandmother in previous campaigns because she wasn’t a grandmother. Also, there was documentable evidence that Comey’s letter at the end of the campaign caused Hillary’s numbers to drop. It is not just HRC’s opinion, and yes, women put up with sexism, especially women who seek power in whatever field they pursue. Mrs. Allan Greenspan is the last person who MSNBC should seek commentary on HRC. Mitchell bears a long held grudge. I just wish Mitchell would stay home and diaper her husband. Rant over. I feel a bit better.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
And, of course, some jackass in the twitter comments has to whine about all of the white people being killed and get the beliefs of the Dallas shooter completely ass-backwards as a bonus.
rikyrah
this bytch here!!
jodikantorVerified account @jodikantor
I get the practical concerns. But Barack Obama buying schmancy DC house in nabe thick w lobbyists just feels weird
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@rikyrah: Good. God.
ETA: Of course there were no, say, oil executives in the fancy Dallas “nabe” Shrubb moved into when the Lazy Potemkin had ceased to serve its photo-op purpose. And Cheney’s “nabes” Jackson Hole are all plumbers and carpenters.
hovercraft
@M. Bouffant:
Wow!
Who knew that liberals bought small cars as a form of family planning.
Peale
@Juju: who says she wasn’t already a grandmother in the 2006 Senate Race.
jl
@Juju: At least Andrea Miller is even handed. She’s just as good a journalist on Hillary Clinton as I’ve seen her on any other topic.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Someone can write a book called Dereliction of Duty about his role in T admin.
rikyrah
Anthony SlaterVerified account @anthonyVslater
LeBron James responds to racial slur sprayed on front gate of his LA home with strong statement on race issues in America
https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/870021800465281025?
Peale
@rikyrah: Jesus. He needs to pull his daughter from Sidwell Friends and high tail it to Anacostia.
lamh36
OT, but WHAT THE FUQ…
Son of a… “falling in love”…
HE WAS FUQ’N 12!!!!!!
FUQ you Daily Mail…for that fuq’ed up headline
Peale
@hovercraft: queue “making love in a Subaru”
Duane
You need to buy a scorecard to keep track of all the assholes.Deep bench.New players every day.
hovercraft
@Juju:
I saw that, she has a love hate relationship with Hillary, she loves going on TV to trash her because she hates her. Fuck Mrs Greenspan!
Gravenstone
@lollipopguild: So suicide is a mortal sin. But voting for a politician in the specific hope he’ll start a war that directly leads to your death (suicide by proxy) is the righteous path? Fucking bible humping idjits.
rikyrah
This entire thread
Jack Runyan @JackDRunyan
I am going to candidly articulate why white liberals can often be poor allies by appealing to my own personal evolution.
https://twitter.com/JackDRunyan/status/869754460431634432?
jl
@hovercraft: I have not read and I have not heard one bit of news that indicates anything at all wrong with the unmasenenneineINGhazigate. So, Nunes must have been instructed by his WH handlers to try some truly desperate attempts at distraction.
If Sessions is trying to hide yet another contact with Russian officials, that won’t be a shoe dropping, it will be box car full of horse shoes. Josh Marshall’s hunch will be much more likely that there is a huge recent corruption and/or crime even being covered up that includes Trumpsters and top GOPers (and NRA…which has been more open about its racism lately)
Gravenstone
@rikyrah: Impeach – Indict – Disbar.- Imprison
Mary G
I am embarrassed to say that I had no idea how much racism and sexism there still is on the left.
lamh36
@rikyrah: like I replied to Jodi on Twitter,
chris
@Mnemosyne: How can you tell it’s Texas?
Also, can the Dems recruit this person to run for office? I’d watch that!
efgoldman
@M. Bouffant:
Yes, and everyone will pay for it with the platinum coins which their pet unicorns shit.
jl
@Gravenstone: Heresy doesn’t mean much these days, in a modern secular country. But worth noting that by traditional dogmatic standards, much of the modern Endtimes Dispensationalist Xtianity is heresy.
Traditional interpretation, and probably accurate, of an important message of Revelations, is that a good Christian should remain true to the good Chrsitian values (love, charity, Jesus teachings) The end time would come on God’s calendar and a good Christian should endure and live the values of their faith. Not egg it on.
That is not a ringing defense of Revelations. It is full of revenge porn and it is difficult to keep that a spectator sport.
efgoldman
@germy:
No, Joe, say it ain’t so, Joe.
lollipopguild
@Gravenstone: You are correct but we are dealing with people who have the brain of a turnip. Obama was the antichrist and yet the world did not end, trump could be the antichrist and they would worship him. Go figure.
Davebo
@efgoldman:
It ain’t so.
Mnemosyne
@chris:
I’ve seen the photo before — that’s a zoomed-in and cropped version. I think the original caption said it was spotted in Houston, but I can’t remember.
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: PACs have other uses too.
hovercraft
@rikyrah:
All these people who are so concerned about how the Obama’s earn money, what they wear, who they vacation with, and where they fucking live need to go DIAFF. Unless they commit crimes or take money from criminals mind your fucking business, they are private citizens, you had eight years to criticize his every waking moment, now just back the fuck off. If you chose to project all your ideals onto the Obama’s that’s your fucking problem, they are honorable human beings who get to make their own choices, when someone offers you 400 K to speak at their event, and you turn them down come talk to me, and I will applaud your standing by your “principles”, but that still won’t give you the right to dictate how Barrack and Michelle live their lives. Fucking assholes, where is all the hand ringing about how other ex-presidents are earning money or where they chose to live.
lollipopguild
@jl: One of their dumbest ideas is that THEY can Force God to do what THEY want when THEY want him to. I have never figured this out-how they can believe this but they do.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
Duffelblog is a parody site, yes?
tobie
@rikyrah: @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I suppose we can be grateful she didn’t say ‘hood. Small consolation.
efgoldman
@Mnemosyne:
Also must own (or be related to someone who owns) a body shop.
dogwood
@rikyrah:
Jodi should get her story straight. The Obamas are renting.
jl
@lollipopguild: I think very dogmatic and devout spiritual pride. And I am very sure that Jesus did say that spiritual pride was no big deal. He said you have to watch out for really big sins like being a loser, adultery, and general human weakness. I’ll go look it up and be back with the verse right away. You just wait right here and I’ll be back, quick like a bunny.
Calouste
@rikyrah: Are there any neighborhoods in DC where an ex-President could live (I assume the Secret Service imposes quite a few limitations) that aren’t thick with lobbyists?
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: It is. But this is what I was referring to.
StringOnAStick
@efgoldmandeleted.
LurkerNoLonger
@rikyrah: He was picked by HHS secretary Tom Price. God, these people are worthless.
Peale
@Gravenstone: much to plato’s chagrin, and that of Christ, too, death or injury in the armed forces is an expression of the highest form of love there is.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
I think they spotted our friend Adam in the wild:
Emma
@lollipopguild: One of the most amazing pieces of hubris I’ve ever encountered is some fanatics’ idea that they can force God’s hand. “He’s omniscient, omnipotent, and infinite, but we can trick him into changing his timetable to our liking.”
Chris
This is giving conservative leaders far too much credit. No, they certainly don’t “know better.” They’re just as deluded as any stereotypical hick blaming black helicopters for cattle mutilation. At best, they’re deluded in different ways – i.e. “all right, maybe there is global warming, but the Free Market will find a solution in time, and since the government always does everything wrong, it’s best not to get it started.”
efgoldman
@Davebo:
You ain’t Joe, Davebo
hovercraft
@jl:
Twitler is now Tweeting about Crooked Hillary, and to defend Carter Page, who he claims not to know, I smell desperation to change the subject. Hillary’s interview was probably a godsend to him, he thought it would pull the media back to the campaign fight, but while the media is making sure to mention her refusal to take any blame for her loss, they all inevitably go right back to TRussia. They used to be so easy to distract, but now …………….. they just won’t quit this FAKE NEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
scav
Erwick wuuuvs Jebus, not his house. So, despite it being day 20 of constant rain with no change in the weather prediction, he’s not going to buy flood insurance, let alone gather any sacks for sandbags (the sand is readily available right by its foundations) or even critters in matched sets. See also Matthew 7:24-27
Calouste
@germy: Ages of Democratic Presidents when they took over from a Republican:
Obama: 47
Clinton: 46
Carter: 52
Kennedy: 43
FDR: 51
You’d think people would notice a pattern.
jl
@Mnemosyne: But, did one of the powerpoint mental disorientation weapons get loose? That’s what I want to know. If so, none of us are safe.
dogwood
@Calouste:
The Kalorama neighborhood is probably one of the few places someone who has security needs can live. The home they are renting is on a fairly large lot with off-street parking. That neighborhood is essentially part of Embassy Row, very pricey, yet fairly amenable to security requirements.
Another Scott
@Wapiti: I blame the New Agers, don’t you?
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
I don’t subscribe, but if I did, and could read the whole thing, it would probably piss me off much too much for this hour.
dogwood
I stand corrected. The Obamas did purchase the place. They were renting initially. It’s probably a good investment.
efgoldman
@StringOnAStick:
What did i do to deserve deletion…
tonight?
jl
@hovercraft: I don’t mean to diss Hillary Clinton, but fact is, no one really cares about the Hillary BS non-scandals anymore, even if Hillary herself isn’t that popular right now. Just because Trump himself repeatedly said, to stop his crowds from chanting ‘lock her up’ after the election, that no one cares about Hillary’s emails anymore, doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
I find it hard to believe something that Trump ever said might actually be true. But there you are. Reality can be very mysterious and paradoxical.
Anyway, you are right, looks like desperation. If news breaks that Sessions is still lying about his Russian contacts, the dam may be about to break on what was and is really going on.
different-church-lady
I just saw this in an earlier thread: my nomination for comment of the year
efgoldman
@Mnemosyne:
Like all really good parodies, it’s this close to true.
Fort Meyer, among other things, is the headquarters for the US Army Band.
hovercraft
@efgoldman:
It’s purportedly to raise money for the two gubernatorial races this year and the midterms. The media is desperate for a designated “leader”, who will validate their contention that all our leaders are old and we have no bench. Remember all our problems are Obama and Hillary’s fault, they both did terrible damage to the party.
Morzer
@Omnes Omnibus:
They’ll always have Fox and Friends.
lollipopguild
@Emma: “Here hold my beer while I trick God into doing what I want him to.”
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Summary. The piece manages to include a flat-out lie about NATO Article 5 and Trump. Pissed me the fuck off.
lollipopguild
@different-church-lady: The answer to the question is “Never Katie.”
Mnemosyne
@different-church-lady:
Trump’s election is the fault of everyone except Trump’s voters.
Morzer
@jl:
Didn’t that news just break, or did I miss an episode of Jeff Sessions Does Perjury: Season II?
Omnes Omnibus
@Morzer: And, of course, America First doesn’t harken back to Lindbergh in the late ’30s.
hovercraft
To anyone who’s interested Lawrence O said he’ll be there for the next couple of years, so I guess they were shamed into renewing his contract.
jl
@Morzer: Shoes drop so fast, I may have missed something. When i read it, it was an unconfirmed report on lead in the IC investigation. I have to go now, and am confident that if it is verified, I’ll probably notice it sooner or later in the news.
Sort of like I’d notice a pound of sick elephant shit hitting a fan in my bedroom.
Edit: just so there is no misunderstanding, what I was talking about was report that Sessions has been hiding a third and perhaps fourth meeting with Russian ambassador and other officials. That’s what I meant by ‘still lying’.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
You don’t mean to tell me that a highly-placed person of this maladministration told a public, easily disprovable, lie?!?
It is to gasp in astonishment :::gasp:::
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@hovercraft: he’s my distant third favorite MSNBC prime time host, but since his rumored replacement was said to be Brian Willams, I’m glad to hear this
Morzer
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/mcmaster-cohn-trump/528609/
lollipopguild
@efgoldman: Please do not pass out from the shock.
workworkwork
@rikyrah: Horrifying as this is in any event, a couple of questions occur to me:
1. How much do the teens get paid?
2. How do the customers know that the blood is a) safe and b) from an actual teen?
This doesn’t even get into the completely gross pseudo-science.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I expected better of McMaster. Oh, well.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’ve heard at least a half-dozen interviews with him over the last few days. Looking forward to the book.
(I always read footnotes, endnotes, prefaces, introductions, forewords, bibliographies, appendices, and annotated indices. If I recall from Franken’s earlier books, which I read and enjoyed, his are especially worth checking out.)
Mnemosyne
In case anyone is interested, a kind soul in a previous thread provided a link to the full transcript of Hillary’s interview by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at Code 2017.
Turns out, when you ask Hillary Clinton questions about her campaign and what she thinks went wrong, she answers them rather than trying to change the subject!
jl
@Morzer: Thanks for the link. That op-ed was a disgusting and dangerous screed and a disgrace to both the Trumpster flunkies who scribbled it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think Harwood’s one of the good ones
Sab
@hovercraft: Calm down. Every time Michelle Obama speaks anywhere in any forum my granddaughters (ages 16 to 12) go berserk. The Obama aren’t going away and the kids who grew up in the last eight years won’t forget them.
Another Scott
@Emma: It’s a very old idea. Kinda like if you know and say the name of something, then you have some measure of control over it. Summoning the spirits; and recall the prohibition of saying Yahweh; etc.
Cheers,
Scott.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
Everything and everyone that Velveeta Voldemort touches turns to pigshit, if they weren’t that way already. It’s apparently one of his few real talents.
Redshift
@hovercraft: Yeah, when I hear “leadership PAC,” I think of one that’s raising money to support other candidates, not a super secret running-for-president PAC. I doubt there’s any legal distinction, but you generally don’t call it that if it’s for yourself.
Redshift
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Agree.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sab: Why does she need to calm down?
TenguPhule
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
And did we have global climate instability getting ready to make life a hellhole if we fuck it up back then?
Morzer
@efgoldman:
The EU and China are now working together on a stronger climate change agreement – and the logical step after that will be to punish states, like the US, that choose not to follow their standards. I think Trump has succeeded in isolating and weakening America in a way that can only delight China and, of course, his special friend in the Kremlin.
efgoldman
@Morzer:
And it will take the next [Democratic] president at least half a term to begin straightening it out.
hovercraft
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Exactly, Brian Williams needs to stay at 11 when i switch over to other stuff. According to the ratings Rachel is # 1, Lawrence # 2. I like Chris Hayes better, but between his penchant for inviting BS on and letting his GOP guest lie and filibuster him, I prefer watching Lawrence.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: The next D president will get and deserve another Nobel Peace Prize.
Morzer
@efgoldman:
More than that, if the GOP hold the Senate. There’s no chance that they’d sign up for treaties that might actually do some good.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@hovercraft:
I don’t think you’re giving them enough credit, they criticized Obama when he was sleeping.
Emma
@Another Scott: I know that, but it is still hubris of the worst order. The thing of it is that Yahweh is not exactly a kindly old man and pissing him off would be, IMHO, a real, real big oopsie.
Another Scott
@Omnes Omnibus: We already know that Lisa Simpson will be the next President…
Cheers,
Scott.
hovercraft
@Sab:
People get to have any reaction they want, if I ran into her I’d lose my shit.
My reaction as a black woman is to lose my shit every time white people try to tell this first family how to live their lives when I don’t remember people trying to tell anyone other than Hillary Clinton a woman how to live their lives. They get to whine about the Obama’s life choices, and I get to tell them to STFU.
efgoldman
@Another Scott:
Even though she’s imaginary, she’s got more common sense than the whole grifter family combined.
Chet Murthy
@Mnemosyne:
da phuq? Even I have limits to the level of animosity towards Putinfluffer that I’ll exhibit on Twitter (and here) b/c I might have to visit Texas for unvoidable reasons. The idea that somebody can be -that- up-front about their Trump-hatred …. wowsers..
Omnes Omnibus
@Another Scott: HRC is Lisa Simpson. And Hermione Granger.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Most of the book went though the DeHumorizer*, the comments didn’t.
*When you read the book, you’ll understand what the DeHumorizer is.
Chet Murthy
@rikyrah: Crrrikey. Clinton: Chappaqua. W: Prestonwood. These are richie-rich enclaves. What’s Obama supposed to do? Don a hair shirt and go around whipping himself?
Redshift
@dogwood:
There are other places if you don’t restrict yourself to DC proper (McLean and Potomac come to mind), but I’m sure they have just as many lobbyists, if not more. The criticism is just another idiotic “how dare he do things that people with money do.”
I have an acquaintance from my early activist days who turned Bernista and now periodically posts sneers about how Obama obviously always planned to cash in, and that’s why he didn’t break up the banks. Sigh.
mouse tolliver
@rikyrah: This topic went viral after last Sunday’s episode of Silicon Valley, called The Blood Boy.
https://hiddenremote.com/2017/05/21/yes-blood-boy-silicon-valley-actually-thing-kinda/
The show’s tech billionaire a-hole antagonist was shown getting a blood transfusion from this fit college jock claiming the transfusion of young blood would extend his life. People started wondering if this idea was based on something real, and it turns out everyone’s favorite libertarian Trump supporter is a fan of this idea.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@TenguPhule: Yeah, well, there’s that…
Bobby Thomson
@Peale: He’s had a lot of practice.
ruemara
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): But they work harder for longer. that’s why we’re back in this predicament but now with more weapons.
efgoldman
@mouse tolliver:
He’s got a REALLY BIG surprise coming.
Bobby Thomson
@Omnes Omnibus: by definition, anyone who goes to work for that dipshit has no integrity. Check your reputations at the door.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bobby Thomson: Thank you for pointing that out. It isn’t like I knew the guy in the past and am surprised, disappointed, and, quite honestly, upset by this.
hitchhiker
I just can’t get over a guy in 2017 saying that he “worships Jesus.”
It’s like I don’t … I don’t have access to whatever that means. I’m a blind woman trying to understand what chartreuse is when it comes to this kind of statement.
Which is why it’s so freaking strange to think that he represents a lot of others who somehow base their life choices on what appears to me to be a completely nonsensical assertion, AND claim the moral authority to also dictate MY life choices based on that same assertion.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sadly, Clinton Derangement Syndrome is a degenerative disease. Though, given the man’s age, an actual degenerative disease like dementia can’t be ruled out.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: CDS? Explain please?
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I suspect McMaster has a nasty case of it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: cites?
ETA: Maybe Obama was the issue?
nightranger
To quote terminator, from memory
“You can’t bargain or reason with them. They do not feel pity or remorse, and they will never stop”
nightranger
To quote terminator, from memory
“You can’t bargain or reason with them. They do not feel pity or remorse, and they will never stop”
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m trying to help you come up with a plausible explanation for why someone you used to like and respect has lost his goddamned mind. If you don’t want one, that’s cool.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
@Chet Murthy:
LOL. I like this.
M. Bouffant
@hovercraft: It’s all a liberal plot, as if the rich liberal elitists he so bitterly resents couldn’t buy a larger car if their family increased.
Uncle Cosmo
@mouse tolliver: My guess is someone gave Thiel a copy of Bug Jack Barron & the imbecile mistook it for a research report…
lowtechcyclist
What I like about Erick is the juxtaposition between his supposed Christian beliefs, and his Twitter avatar. The one with the word “POWER” right over his fat-fuck face, and about how he’s on a list of Atlanta’s movers and shakers.
A few words from Jesus:
“He who humbles himself will be exalted, and he who exalts himself will be humbled.”
“Who would be first of all must be last of all, and servant of all.”
“The first shall be last, and the last shall be first.”
Christianity isn’t about earthly power, and it definitely isn’t about self-promotion.
Oh, and his Twitter banner, or whatever the term is: a silhouette of an eagle, with stars. Because Jesus is all about America. You know, “For God so loved the U.S. of A….”
Leonard Bernstein had the number of guys like Erick with this little sermon from his Mass:
God made us the boss
God gave us the cross
We turned it into a sword
To spread the word of the Lord
We use his holy decrees
To do whatever we please
And it was good – yeah!
And it was good – yeah!
And it was god-damned good!
No One You Know
@jl: While I may understand the sentiment, I don’t buy the idea that age alone is a disqualifier. If Bernie Bros can have Bernie, I damned well am going to support Biden and like-minded others.
Old is not equal to “dead” or “irrelevant” and “young” isn’t necessarily an improvement. Witness the current Speaker. YMMV.
The Pale Scot
I’m waiting for the
“The Holy Grail can be found in the land of ..AHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” completed in a jerky scrawl Twitter
different-church-lady
@rikyrah: Let’s not kid ourselves: they’re drinking it, not transfusing it.
Sloane Ranger
@Omnes Omnibus:
“America first and last and always;
Our hearts are loyal, our faith is strong;
America first and last and always;
Our shrine and homeland, though right or wrong.”
Campaign song of Big Bill Thompson , friend of All Capone, during his successful 1927 run for Mayor of Chicago.
He later set up the America First Foundation and tried to run for President.
There are many similarities between him and the Dump.
Gelfling 545
@hovercraft: Here’s what I don’t get about their “Christian”theology. God: Here’s a great gift. This beautiful, wondrous world to live in. Weird Christianist: Thanks. I’ll befoul it and burn it up to show my gratitude and love.
momus
As DT might say “SAD, LOSER”
hovercraft
@Gelfling 545:
Lets be honest, republicans are the type of people who come to your house and trash it, then wonder why you never invite them back. You’re the snob who’s decided you’re too good for them.