Many people have complained that Donald Trump hasn’t gone before the press to answer questions. After today, those complaints may stop.
It’s…hard to know where to start.
The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, just said the following. (I. Am. Not. Making. This. Up.) pic.twitter.com/9LR9HxruAi
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) August 10, 2017
Here’s the video:
Q: Thoughts on Putin expelling US diplomats?
Trump: “I greatly appreciate the fact that they’ve been able to cut our payroll.” (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/iR5JbHLHZj
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 10, 2017
Here’s Trump’s nuclear/missile defense statement. Someone help me out here. pic.twitter.com/oiribNFkop
— Aaron Mehta (@AaronMehta) August 10, 2017
Trump: “I would like to de-nuke the world.” (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/FO03mPGMZW
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 10, 2017
Trump said he’s “somewhat honored” by leaks “where people want to love me, and they’re all fighting for my love,” per pool
— Nolan D. McCaskill (@NolanDMcCaskill) August 10, 2017
The one thanking Putin has scrambled my brain to where it’s hard to look for more. If you’ve got more, I’ll add them. I would like to see a transcript, too. There should be one out soon.
Update: This is from earlier.
WATCH: President Trump says his "fire and fury" threat against North Korea may not have been tough enough pic.twitter.com/nZfZeqvY4m
— Axios (@axios) August 10, 2017
Also this
BREAKING: Trump tells North Korea to `get their act together' or it will be in trouble `like few nations have ever been'
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 10, 2017
More
Breaking: POTUS says explicitly #Iran "is not in compliance" with the nuclear agreement
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 10, 2017
Bonus (This is good news, I think)
CNN statement: “Nazi salutes are indefensible. Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.” https://t.co/xwFYTSF8o3
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 10, 2017
Roger Moore
How long will it take before the media and the Republican party acknowledge Trump is a Russian asset? How could he make it more obvious, giving Putin the nuclear football on live TV?
A Ghost to Most
Not goin’ on that ship of fools.
Thank you, Cheryl, for all that you do.
RedDirtGirl
Language…how does it work? He has this habit of using adjectives as nouns. Maybe his attention span is so short that he can’t make it to the end of his sentences…
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
I said it once, I’ll say it again: That debilitating stroke can’t come soon enough
A Ghost to Most
@Roger Moore: It appears that nothing short of mushroom clouds will suffice.
Betty Cracker
Putin may be paying Trump and his family via shady money laundering instruments, but I doubt very much Putin manages payroll for US diplomats. Sorry, Shitgibbon — you still gotta pay them. What a stupid fucking thing to say.
Jerzy Russian
Please tell me you made the whole thing up. Please?
lamh36
IJS, BUT gotta think they were just WAITING for “good” reason to fire Lords…insult Black and Brown folks all he likes, but Jews..NO SIR!
encephalopath
CNN was OK paying Lord to lie in the most insulting was he could manage in the service of evil for the last year and a half, but tweeting a Nazi salute is going to far.
I don’t think Jeffrey Lord is the problem here.
SiubhanDuinne
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, MAKE IT STOP!!
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
So I guess referring to Reagan’s admin as fascist wasn’t hyperbolic.
NotMax
Stop the World — I Want To Get off isn’t just a stage play anymore.
Jerzy Russian
@Betty Cracker: The stupid can’t fit in normal space anymore. We need those extra dimensions from string theory to contain it.
Major Major Major Major
Oh boy. Thanks for the featured excerpts, now I know to avoid it for sure.
LurkerNoLonger
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Who says it hasn’t already happened?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@SiubhanDuinne:
Stupid Hitler needs to shut the fuck up
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
I’d tell you to stop giving him ideas, but we really don’t know what happened during that private meeting of theirs.
randy khan
He also slammed Mitch McConnell again, saying that repeal and replace should have been on his desk the first week he was in office. This actually was more or less coherent, certainly as compared to the defense word salad. (And there’s a tweet saying the Senate should come back and give him his infrastructure bill, too.)
It’s kind of mind-boggling, but his tweets actually are better than his spontaneous comments; there’s a bit more thought put into them.
bemused
When is Trump not stupid and self-idolizing?
Jerzy Russian
@Roger Moore: At this point I would have asked “What would have happened if Obama (or Clinton) had said that?”, but that game is not fun anymore.
JPL
@A Ghost to Most: Seconded.
donnah
You would have to be the most abjectly ignorant idiot to still support this man as president. If even the most staunch Republican voters don’t find this to be utterly appalling and embarrassing, then let North Korea nuke us. I don’t want to share a planet with these numbskulls.
TenguPhule
@Jerzy Russian:
And here we were arguing about voting types.
The real question is, are there going to be any survivors left among the ruins of civilization?
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I’m not sure if it was that or if actually using a Nazi phrase made it so obvious where Lord stands that even CNN couldn’t play dumb anymore.
And I have to laugh (sardonically) whenever a grown man like Lord claims that he only said something racist/sexist/fascist to prove he’s NOT racist/sexist/fascist. That’s the kind of excuse a 10-year-old comes up with.
bemused
@randy khan:
Less beautiful words in tweets.
TenguPhule
@donnah:
FFS, all of us in range are blue. The red assholes are further to the rear, like always.
ETA: except Alaska, screw them, splitters.
TenguPhule
@Betty Cracker:
The layoffs are to follow.
trollhattan
Who made Jeffrey, Lord to begin with? Is he a Barathian?
“Sieg verrückt”
Mnemosyne
@randy khan:
There’s been speculation all along that he dictates his tweets to staffers, who then translate them as best they can from Trumpese to English.
This seems more and more plausible the more he tries to speak off-script.
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
I much prefer Girl Hitler.
@TenguPhule:
Alaska isn’t blue.
JPL
@lamh36: Yup. He might be out of work for awhile because Fox news must be running out of room for all the white supremacists who are losing their jobs. Since MSNBC gave Hugh a time slot, maybe they are still in the hiring mode.
Roger Moore
@LurkerNoLonger:
Insufficiently debilitating. I think he’s hoping for something like complete aphasia.
Hal
Ta-Nehisi Coates wasn’t lying:
Trump’s idiocy is a monument to white male privilege.
Bobby Thomson
I don’t understand why anyone is confused or surprised. Trump is a dipshit. Full stop.
A Ghost to Most
@TenguPhule:
Yea, well, I’m done living in red states. Living under a nuclear bulls-eye is overrated.
Chet
Argh! Does he actually believe that having diplomats expelled by their host country is the same as laying them off?
TopClimber
I think you all are missing the real message with the payroll remark. Donald is just telling Putin “you didn’t hurt me with those expulsions because I wanted to do them myself!” One can never dominate Der Trump–outsmart, play like a fiddle, tweet-goad and troll all day long–but never dominate. Not even grandmaster Putin. Which isn’t to say he has any use for diplomats, but that weeding them out is a secondary motivator.
NotMax
@NotMax
Follow-up.
From the play, the election song: Mumbo Jumbo.
And dear friends
If I’m elected…
I’m all right, Jack
Screw you all
BC in Illinois
“I would like to thank my friend and master, Vlad, for his kindness in allowing me to serve him. It has been a total blessing to have the honor of serving his agenda. Thank you, sir. May I have another?”
Mnemosyne
@Hal:
Rich, white, and male (though that may have been stated earlier in the piece). We really can’t discount misogyny as a factor here, because Hillary Clinton is also rich and white.
NotMax
@BC in Illinois
The Moscovian Candidate.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@TenguPhule: Alaska’s going to wish it was apart of Canada
Hungry Joe
I’m currently reading “I Am Alive and You Are Dead,” Emmanuel Carrere’s speculative psychological biography of Philip K. Dick. I think If Dick were still around he’d look at All Things Trump and say, “I knew it. I just KNEW that, beneath the veneer of normality and sanity, this is what reality is actually like.” Dick’s mind-detonating novel “Ubik” comes to mind (“I am alive and you are dead” is a line from that book), as does his short story “Faith of Our Fathers,” in which the head of the government is a powerful extraterrestrial who has spiked the water supply with a psychedelic drug that makes it impossible to see it as it really is.
SiubhanDuinne
Just got a message from a former colleague. A retired Canadian diplomat, he said he has always made a point of not commenting or expressing a view on any POTUS; but, he continues, “This guy is a thug; it is scary that America is still under his command.” And “Seeing him speak magnifies in my mind how crazy his supporters must be.”
ThresherK
@Major Major Major Major: Mess with the girl, und you get ze Hitler!
I’m reading a book called Blitzed, about 30s and 40s Germany and amphetamines. It posits that Hitler was so dependent on a variety of drugs by the end of 1941 that almost any attempt to write about him (after the war) as if he were normal is doomed to fail.
There no normative there.
Covering Trump has been the same way.
Baud
Hillary would have been worse. She probably would have handed out donuts and water at the press conference.
geg6
Well, the good news is that I heard Justin Trudeau sent an envoy or something to NK. Hopefully, he can save us.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: except…Lord has saying some PRETTY horrible things about immigrants and people of color…just never the N-word I guess? But even so….1,000,000 derogatory things said bout P.O.C., one Nazi salute tweet…OMG!!!
Like I said, they were looking for a reason I’m sure, but I have this idea that even if he’d used the N-word…CNN would have still kept in on payroll…
efgoldman
@LurkerNoLonger:
Having had one myself, I vote no. Even for a “mild” stroke the symptoms are more obvious.
I’ll buy onset of some kind of dementia, though.
hellslittlestangel
Good news: Somebody has finally managed to control what The Orange Better One blurts out in public.
Bad news: That somebody is Vladimir Putin.
Baud
@hellslittlestangel: Nice.
Cheryl Rofer
And North Korea responds!
Ohio Mom
When Trump says he disagrees with what Obama said about global climate change being the biggest threat, the biggest threat is “nuclear,” I had to stop and think, Yeah, that might be true since you started mucking about.
jl
@Betty Cracker: That jerk Josh Marshall beat me to it:
Trump has a terrible time firing people. Had Putin do it. Next story. Putin fired Reince.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/895761383308046336
If Putin seen filing the paper work and delivering pink slips to the embassy workers, then might be some merit to Trmpster “I’m no puppet, You;re the puppet!” line. I won’t hold my breath.
Peale
They’ve managed to build warheads and they don’t have their act together? Imagine what they could do if they’d focus more and lay off the sauce?
JPL
@trollhattan: From a 4/4/17 nytimes article
https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/895760904536694784
Baud
@Cheryl Rofer: I’m happy that Jong Un finally has a play buddy.
trollhattan
@geg6: By any chance is the Canadian envoy named Rodman?
Asking for a friend.
Baud
@JPL: Wait, can we suggest names like that?
efgoldman
@Chet:
Who knows what he “believes”. Shit, he doesn’t know his ignorant self. And it will change the next time he “thinks” about it.
NotMax
“May I speak with the ambassador, please?”
“Sorry, it’s his day to dust.”
trollhattan
@JPL:
Jesus, what a pack of sycophants. “Yes, mister Trump, right away, mister Trump, will you come back on now, mister Trump?”
Ratings schmatings.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major:
Wunderbar!
TenguPhule
@Cheryl Rofer: please make it stop
Cheryl Rofer
@NotMax: That happened in the last major expulsion in October 1986.
Cheryl Rofer
@TenguPhule: I wish I could
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@trollhattan:
“Would you like us to suck your schlong, Mr. Trump?”
MisterForkbeard
Note for Alain: Something on this page is causing amazing performance problems. for me in Chrome or IE. Like, hitches, problems scrolling or typing. Not on any other site, either.
ETA: Looks like JS gone amok. Halting all processes on the page helped significantly.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Other way around — I think that CNN was desperately trying not to fire Lord, and it was only something this blatantly obvious that made them do it. Tweeting the N-word probably would have gotten Lord fired, too — that’s also something that’s pretty hard to claim was meant “ironically” or whatever Lord’s lame excuse was.
schrodingers_cat
United States has no ambassadors yet to Canada, Australia and India among other countries. So. Much. Winning.
catclub
There is anew thread at LGM on an unhinged manifesto a White House NSC staffer wrote and distributed to his friends.
The Staffer got fired from NSC by McMaster.
Ranting about cultural marxist conspiracy to remove Trump.
The cultural marxists are allied with the Islamists. who knew?
JPL
@Baud: Baud you can, but only if you run as a republican.
Poco could do a better job than Lord did. At least he piss on the other sycophants
Baud
@JPL: Too bad. I would have nominated Betty Cracker.
NotMax
@schrodingers_cat
Canada: too insignificant
Australia: too remote
India: too brown
Quinerly
@randy khan:
I think I heard Trump say something like Elaine Cho needs to talk to her husband. There was a mention of her in that presser. Need to read the transcript.
bystander
I liked the part where Trump congratulated himself on Haley’s getting 15 nations on board with further sanctions. He then said the sanctions will not work and started with the itchy trigger finger again.
Anyway, is it too soon to start referring to President Penice?
debbie
@Roger Moore:
More importantly, how long until the GOP takes note and acts to stop the growing support for fascists like Spencer and Lord? What will it take for conservatives to cut out that cancer?
The local Fox station used to broadcast “think pieces” by the head of Sinclair during their evening newscasts. They’ve started to give time to Boris Epshteyn, who used to be a Trump aide. Last night, he claimed that Obama’s policy on North Korea was “appeasment.” I ask, how can sanctions ever be considered to be appeasment?
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Is it Charles Pierce or Betty Cracker who always refers to Hugh Hewitt as “an ambulatory cream-cheese sculpture”?
lamh36
@geg6: I believe the envoy was to negotiate return of a Canadian citizen arrested or jailed by NK…
But they did release a statement, that they are aware of other situations involving NK…
Major Major Major Major
@MisterForkbeard: it’s the auto play ad. Complain to Cole.
ETA: or block it like I do.
Baud
@debbie:
Jeff Flake will get right on that.
Quinerly
@JPL:
??
Yarrow
Jeff Zucker, who runs CNN, is Jewish. I wonder if that had something to do with firing Lord for the Nazi salute.
MomSense
WE ARE IN THE WRONG TIMELINE!!!
chopper
i would like to (ouch) thank…mr. putin (oof) for…stabbing me 40 times. ugh. uh, see, i haven’t taken a look at my blood recently and i wanted…to make sure it was still red. so thanks, mr. putin, for (passes out)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: And firing people was the ONE FUCKING THING he was supposed be good at!
jl
@Cheryl Rofer: With luck this mess will devolve into a game of diplomatic dozens between two unfit fools.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Kelly Knight Craft has (very recently) been confirmed as Ambassador to Canada, but AFAIK she hasn’t taken up residence in Ottawa yet. Don’t know about Oz or India.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: we’ll have to agree to disagree…I just don’t believe that CNN would have fired Lord for using the N-word…
Still, I do think CNN was looking for a more “compelling” reason to get rid of Lords other than his blatant racism/xenophobia
Gravenstone
More and more, this feels far too appropriate.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Gonna need to come up with a collective noun for people named Kelly.
lamh36
@Yarrow: Zucker hired Lord didn’t he…but
DING, DING, DING!!!
MisterForkbeard
@Major Major Major Major: Haven’t had that problem with the ad before – it was just extremely annoying.
This is the thing that’s finally going to make me install an ad blocker again. Hell, it even crashed IE when I left the browser alone for 5. Not that it’s hard to crash IE. :)
TenguPhule
@MomSense:
Its Baud’s fault.
scav
@NotMax: And South America stole our name.
Roger Moore
@debbie:
By lying and claiming that wasn’t Obama’s policy. How many people remember or are willing to check? Will the network step in and claim it’s a lie? This is how they work. They say whatever they think will work and count on everyone’s inability to keep up with the lies. It’s the Gish marathon.
trnc
I know a way we can save $400,000. Come to think of it, we’d save a hell of a lot more than that.
Baud
@TenguPhule: Didn’t you lose a bet?
MisterForkbeard
@catclub: Was that Watnick-Cohen that wrote the manifesto? This I have to read.
Travels with Charley
@Mnemosyne:
Off topic, but I’m a long time lurker who is rarely around when the Threads are”alive”. I just wanted to thank Mnemosyne for showing me Hamilton and Lin Manuel Miranda and for the recommendation for Mary jo putney books. Great for escape at times like these! I look forward to reading your novel!
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
It wouldn’t be sufficient to get someone fired from Fox, but I think CNN is still sufficiently invested in appearing mainstream that they would fire someone over the n-word. But hopefully we’ll never have to find out.
ETA: And I think we’re both saying the same thing — CNN was willing to ignore all of the racist and xenophobic shit that Lord was saying until he crossed that line into actual Nazi quotes. ?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@catclub:
That cultural marxist shit is the same weird theory that manosphereians like to promulgate
schrodingers_cat
@NotMax: Canada is our biggest trading partner. I know you are snarking but WTF.
Stacy
@Roger Moore: Chuck Todd went out on a limb and said it dawned on him today that Trump has been harder on McConnell than he has on Putin.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: So may be the article I read was a bit old. Thanks for the update.
Major Major Major Major
@MisterForkbeard: well, I suppose it could be something new.
TS
Trump, his henchmen and the GOP have NOTHING – the latter are supporting a man who will lead them into WWII – and all they can do is bring up lies about President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
@SiubhanDuinne:
Holy crap, he hasn’t even nominated anyone for Australia or India!
Interesting list here. Look at all the slots marked VACANT.
Cheryl Rofer
Burns was a career diplomat with several high postings.
Gravenstone
@LurkerNoLonger: He’s still talking and tweeting, ergo not debilitating (enough).
NotMax
@schrodingers_cat
Yeah, snark imagining the reasons whined about by the wading pool of candidates for the posts. That any of them have an inkling about trade and Canada assumes facts not in evidence.
Baud
@Cheryl Rofer: Sounds like a cultural Marxist to me.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@TenguPhule:
I have to confess. I used the Delorean to give Trump a small loan of a million dollars. In the OTL, he was cleaning toilets in the NYC subway. I fucked up guys.
TS
@Betty Cracker:
And what a message it sends to US diplomats around the world. All you are is an expense on the budget.
NotMax
@NotMax
Willing to revise, though.
Canada: too boring
Major Major Major Major
@TS: an unwelcome expense at that.
TenguPhule
@Baud: Yes, but I was out of mustard and had to substitute ketchup.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
You’ve been warned:
I can just imagine the non-good this will do.
Baud
So on the national embarrassment scale, how many tan suits was today’s presser?
Gravenstone
@Cheryl Rofer: *sigh*
schrodingers_cat
@debbie: I want to go to India this fall or winter, I will avoid those dates.
Miss Bianca
been thinking this might be a good thread for this link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/
TenguPhule
@debbie:
On the plus side, she wears enough beef byproducts to get her on the wrong side of the insane sexist cultists currently in charge of the place.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Elebenty!
lamh36
Because of course…
Yarrow
@lamh36: Zucker and Trump are buddies, so when Trump said to hire Lord he probably just went ahead and did it. But Lord’s Nazi salute probably made life difficult for Zucker with his fellow Jewish friends and family members, so…
TenguPhule
@Cheryl Rofer:
Experts don’t matter anymore. //
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Yes, have often wondered at the prevalence of people connected to this (mal)administration with either first or last names of Kelly, and thought it again just now when I typed that comment. I include MSNBC’s Kelly O’Donnell.
Quinerly
@Baud:
There aren’t enough tan suits in the world….including a polyester factor of 10.
randy khan
@SiubhanDuinne:
I walked past the Department of Commerce building, which is in the midst of a modernization, today, and there were more names missing from the sign outside than had been updated since the inauguration. Basically, all of the GSA people listed on it under Obama Administration haven’t been replaced. I just shook my head.
ETA: More than 50 ambassador slots with not even anyone nominated, including Australia, Germany, and India. Fascinating.
TenguPhule
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
I too have to confess, I made the mistake of not smothering Bush & Cheney in their cribs during my seven day run. We had flying cars in the OTL.
eemom
@lamh36:
That is not only an incredibly shitty thing to say, it also demonstrates pig ignorance about the tsunami of overt antiSemitism that has been unleashed against Jewish journalists since Dump and his merry band of neo Nazis came to power.
But what does it matter anymore.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: That manifesto that you had linked to from the Guardian, was lampooned thoroughly in the Indian media and also on Twitter. They are roughly the equivalents of the fundie evangelical brigade here.
MisterForkbeard
@Cheryl Rofer: It may be that Trump is a genius and he’s grokked something about North Korea that no one else understood: Like Trump, North Korea makes completely ridiculous statements that they can’t actually back up in a meaningful way. Trump knows from the campaign that the one making the most ridiculous and obviously untrue statements wins! North Korea demonstrated this against the US for years, getting a nuclear weapon out of it. Trump did this to other republicans and then to Clinton.
Therefore, this is a master plan to get North Korea to lose the election/war/whatever by saying even more lies, inflammatory rhetoric, and threats.
Or Trump is just a giant idiot. One of those.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
All of em, Katie.
Quinerly
@Stacy:
Was that before of after he discussed the moderating influence of Gen Kelly and the “Kelly effect?”
debbie
Hmm, Kai Rysdall just announced that the markets went down “not a little” by 2%. I wonder when this will show up in Trump’s Twitter feed?
Betty Cracker
@SiubhanDuinne: That is mine, but I’m flattered to be confused with Pierce. I know he’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I think he’s funny as heck and on-point 99% of the time.
ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes.
I really don’t know if it’s either, but it sounds like both of them.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that party currently in charge is trying to ban beef eating across the whole country & has roaming packs of insane vigilantes literally murdering those they accuse of eating beef as I understand it.
ETA: And remember, the fundies are in charge here now.
Mnemosyne
@Travels with Charley:
Aww, thank you! I’m stuck in the Dark Forest with my book right now (HT: Jessica Abel) where I’m convinced it’s all crap and it’s too hard and I suck as a writer, so this came along at just the right time to cheer me up! ?
Cheryl Rofer
@Miss Bianca: Thanks! I haven’t read that article yet – have a policy of not reading things on line that I will see on dead trees. It’s more thoughtful than I can manage at the moment – will be going out with friends soon to decompress.
I do think, fwiw, that some Americans, maybe the famous 27%, really do think this is fine. They want to express their feelings of hostility and enjoy the Jerry Springer show now in the White House. Although iirc, Jerry Springer said a while back that this was a bit much.
TenguPhule
@MisterForkbeard:
What are you smoking and could you please send it to the White House.
Cheryl Rofer
@debbie: Oddly, investors think that nuclear war might be bad for business.
debbie
Reminder for those who love to listen to Trump Abuse: NBC is broadcasting SNL’s Weekend Update feature, theoretically on a weekly basis at 9:00 am Eastern. Either they’re lying in their ads, or there will actually be new material.
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Those sillies are so unpredictable!
TenguPhule
@Cheryl Rofer:
You know what’s really nuts?
The Yen and US Treasury’s are both strengthening.
Because its a flight to safety.
Yeah.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@TenguPhule:
This could be a really fun game.
I travelled back in time and told Hitler he should go into public speaking
randy khan
Thinking a bit more about the comments on McConnell, a split between Trump and Congressional Republicans could be trouble for the Republicans in the midterms. If the Trumpists think the Republicans are responsible for not getting them the things they want, they could stay home or even vote for Dems. That would be pretty amusing.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Cheryl Rofer:
Obviously, FAKE NEWS!
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@lamh36:
Racist fascists have mouths they have to feed too!
randy khan
@debbie:
It’s all new material.
MisterForkbeard
@TenguPhule: “It must be very strange to be President *Trump*. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@randy khan:
We’re going with regional ambassadors now, so the important countries get one. China will get one, and represent Japan and South Korea and those countries in Southeast Asian since they look alike. It saves boatloads of money.
lamh36
TFW you start to type out a response to another commenter but decided “nah…aint’ worth it…
lamh36
@Yarrow: I’d bet it would.
lamh36
@NBCNews
Sen. John McCain thanks supporters after cancer diagnosis: “Even those that want me to die don’t want me to die right away, so that’s good”
Roger Moore
@Baud:
All of them, Katie.
Ohio Mom
@Cheryl Rofer: Jerry Springer is very liberal and very smart. Of course he’s appalled.
He is also very, very cynical. That is what allowed him to foist that show on the rest of us.
Fun fact: I voted for him when he was a Cincinnati Councilman.
Haroldo
@Cheryl Rofer: This is to Cheryl and anybody else who cares to chime in. In the dark hours of this morning (~3 am, maybe), in a half-awake dream state, I thought I heard the folks on the BBC quoting Mattis responding to Kim Jong-un in a such a bellicose fashion that he might have made his boss blush….and now checking up on it, it seems as though I wasn’t dreaming (tho’ probably embellishing a bit with the boss blushing stuff). So much for the moderating influence, eh?
Major Major Major Major
@Ohio Mom: If he were younger and American I could see him having presidential ambitions right now.
Ohio Mom
@Major Major Major Major: I believe he was born in England. His parents were WWII refugees.
ETA: reading comprehension fail.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: Yes I have heard/read of a couple of cases like what you just mentioned. RSS-BJP are bad news.
JPL
@Haroldo: Mattis got points from MSM because he wasn’t Trump.
lgerard
@randy khan:
No South Korea ambassador either….not that there is anything going on in that corner of the world
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I think what you wrote in the comment was, um, inartfully put, but you’ve been here long enough that I was pretty sure I knew what you meant.
Cheryl Rofer
@Haroldo: The Mattis statement is strong. I need to read it again. Too much stuff happening.
Mike in DC
Trump needs to get tougher on NK. He should remind Kim Jong Un that he won 306 electoral votes.
sylvania
I don’t know why there are so many of you saying make it stop. His poll numbers keep going down and he is dragging the rest of the GOP down with him. It’s not like US voters are not already a huge embarassment for electing this clown. The rest of the world already knows he’s an idiot so this is not going to change any of that.
lgerard
@Mike in DC:
and did very well with short, fat people
lamh36
TFW, you purposely didn’t namecheck/tag anyone, but someone tries to do so for you</a
/LOL
Major Major Major Major
@sylvania: The “it” in “make it stop” includes as a subset Trump not being President any more.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Oops.
Kathleen
@Ohio Mom: I’ve always liked him. He was a great anchor on WLWT. A friend of mine was featured on a segment NPR did about Springer several years ago. She’s been politically active for years, had a job in City Hall, so is very well versed in in politicians in the city. Evidently Ken Blackwell and Tim Burke came of age at the same time at Xavier. My friend said Ken Blackwell was one of the most skilled, charismatic politicians she had ever seen before he sold out.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@sylvania:
We want him to stop ruining our government and global standing as a superpower. He’s doing damage
Sloane Ranger
@Cheryl Rofer: Matt is has just been on CNN where he’s been more measured. Basically he said that although the US would respond militarily if necessary he favoured trying the diplomatic route first.
A complete change of tone from his boss.
Roger Moore
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
I traveled back in time and told Gavrilo Princip to meet me at Moritz Schiller’s cafe.
Miss Bianca
@lamh36: omg, that’s *wayyyy* more dark humor than I would have expected of John McCain…
TenguPhule
@sylvania:
Tell you what, you hang your ass out on the North Korean target range for awhile and then get back to us.
Roger Moore
@sylvania:
We’d like to avoid nuclear war.
TenguPhule
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Have you had a chance to watch Blackadder? This game resembles a bunch of confessions from the finale of Season 3.
Manyakitty
@bemused: fewer
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
When Kyle Reese told me that Donald Trump was going to destroy all of humanity, I should have listened to him.
sylvania
@TenguPhule: Tell you what. Don’t complain that Hillary is not pure enough which helped elect these clowns in the first place and then retroactively say “make it stop”.
And to all the wankers giving me sheit for saying that Dems need to let Repubs shut down gov’t over the debt ceiling. One of your heros BooMan says the same thing. So go wank off over there about it.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2017/8/7/12933/18015
Major Major Major Major
@Manyakitty: I went to college with a guy who would erroneously ‘correct’ people when they used ‘less’ correctly just to fuck with them.
Major Major Major Major
@Major Major Major Major:
Thinking nobody here voted for Trump. What’s your fucking problem?
Shana
@Major Major Major Major: He must have been fun…
p.a.
I went back in time and told Lincoln
1) the play was going to be all understudies
2) fuck loyalty oaths; exile and expropriation is the way to go
2)a. 40 acres and a mule.
TenguPhule
@sylvania:
You’re clucking at the wrong piano.
TenguPhule
@sylvania:
You and Booman are both idiots.
There, you happy?
Major Major Major Major
@Shana: He is now an obese alcoholic lawyer in DC.
Gravenstone
@Major Major Major Major: To be fair, a few of the more persistent and annoying trolls likely did just that.
SatanicPanic
@TenguPhule: That’s about as much of a misreading of this audience as I can imagine. Well, I suppose she could accuse of being animal haters.
TenguPhule
@SatanicPanic:
I don’t know, I can imagine quite a lot.
SatanicPanic
@TenguPhule: Accusing us all of being decent people?
Major Major Major Major
@Gravenstone: I wasn’t counting them.
Quinerly
@Mike in DC:
And that’s a hard feat for any Republican.
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker:
I do love it, and I think you and Pierce are both hilariously funny — yet both of you are occasionally downright poetic when the topic is more moving or somber.
Ryan
Oh, he’s a money launderer for sure, probably for Putin. Does anyone think that Trump is a make lemonade when life hands you lemons kind of guy?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@TenguPhule:
Can’t say I have. I don’t watch 1980s British sitcoms very much. Maybe I’ll check it out
Chyron HR
@sylvania:
The return of Matoko Loco?
SiubhanDuinne
@randy khan:
Yeah, in response to a comment from SC, I linked earlier (cannot now remember if it was upthread here or on an earlier, different thread) to the AFSA site listing current Ambassadorial appointments — confirmed, nominated awaiting confirmation, or vacant
I have a pretty solid belief that our career diplomats, mid-level bureaucrats, and Embassy/Consulate staff around the world will keep things ticking along reasonably well.
But when it comes to high-level receptions, meetings, negotiations, and various public events, there is nothing like having an Ambassador Plenipotentiary on hand to impress his or her opposite number. “Deputy Chef de Mission,” no matter how capable, isn’t a title that always cuts it.
What amazes me is that Trump keeps blaming Senate Democrats for holding up the confirmation process, even though in most cases he hasn’t even proposed a name for their consideration. Or in some cases [*cough* Callista Gingrich *cough*] the Trump team is way behind on filing the paperwork that’s required before the Senate can begin deliberations on the appointment.
I shall never again watch a “Keystone Kops” movie with the same careless abandon I used to innocently bring.
Roger Moore
@Ryan:
I think when life gives Trump lemons, he spray-tans them and tried to sell them as valuable mutant oranges. That or he holds a lemon party.
eemom
@Mnemosyne:
@lamh36:
Yeah, sure ladies. Antisemitism is such a funny topic, just like racism.
Ithink
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
I’d love to agree w/ you but then we’d be stuck w/ President Pence whom is every bit as awful as Trump is from a retrograde policy stance, just minus the vulgarity and infedelity because, let’s be honest, who on their right mi d wants to have an affair w/ the Caucasian Crimson Chin of Squinty Eyes??
Ryan
@Roger Moore: I think he spray tanks himself, kicks the lemons into the river, and attacks reporters for reporting that lemons were delivered.
bemused
@Manyakitty:
Doing more texting and quick emails plus short on time is hell on grammar, at least in my case.
Matt McIrvin
@Cheryl Rofer: Jerry Springer completely fucking despises Trump.
Matt McIrvin
@TenguPhule: A nice debt default would fix that situation.
Matt McIrvin
@sylvania:
The whole “mass death” side effect could be a problem.
TenguPhule
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
You should, its black comedy at its finest from season 2 onwards.
And you’ll find a lot of useful references to the mess we live in now.
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne: yeah, i’d say that as a wordsmith, Betty Cracker can give Charlie Pierce a run for his money with both the laughter and the tears.
I’ll never forget the story she told on her mom after she died, about her brother running off and calling home to say, “I’m in Savannah,” to which Ms, Cracker Mom replies, “Savannah better be the name of a girl, you little shit!” That wasan awesome laugh/sob there, obviously the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
randy khan
@SiubhanDuinne:
I did the count from that list. It was kind of amazing in a horrible sort of way.
GHayduke
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Refractory ventricular fibrillation would be better. If he had a debilitating stroke, would anybody be able to tell?
J R in WV
@Miss Bianca:
Just Wow!!! I know that’s by and large true. I once had a co-worker, supposedly a top level programmer and developer. She had a small aquarium on her desk, with 2 or 3 small tropical fish. She was a Tammi Fae sort of make-up user, which is important to the story.
One of the fish got fin-rot, and she got a medication to put in the water to cure the ailment. But then she decided to pray over them, and lay hands on them to heal them, just to help the antibiotic powder along a little.
The perfume etc on her hands killed all the fish shortly after she “laid hands” on them in prayer.
Note that this event did not change her attitudes about religion, illness, prayer, and people’s relationship with God one tiny nano-smidge of a bit. So not just ignorant, but also unable to learn from painful experience.
joe
@Major Major Major Major:
But some of us are blue.