Trump calls the New York Times to say 1) he's not angry 2) he's very popular 3) he goes to work early and stays late https://t.co/nMVkXpNho2
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 1, 2017
Maggie Haberman, of course:
President Trump projected an air of calm on Wednesday after charges against his former campaign chief and a foreign policy aide roiled Washington, insisting to The New York Times that he was not “angry at anybody” and that investigations into his campaign’s links to Russia had not come near him personally.
“I’m not under investigation, as you know,” Mr. Trump said in a brief telephone call to The Times late Wednesday afternoon. Pointing to the indictment of his former campaign chief, Paul Manafort, the president said, “And even if you look at that, there’s not even a mention of Trump in there.”
“It has nothing to do with us,” Mr. Trump said…
.
Apart from pointing & mocking, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
.@PeterAlexander: "What are President Trump's flaws?"
Sanders: "Probably that he has to deal with you guys on a daily basis" pic.twitter.com/1cU0QnqnTb
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 1, 2017
My personal ‘And what was your first clue, Sherlock?’ fave-of-the-day…
Looks like Jeff Sessions perjured himself. https://t.co/5y08d0zr0H
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 1, 2017
Mike J
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-offered-rt-15-of-its-total-share-of-us-elections
Twitter Offered Russian TV Network 15% Of Its Total Share Of US Elections Advertising
lamh36
From Booman
Trump’s Defense is That Sessions Perjured Himself https://shar.es/1PxROS
Trump’s Trip to Asia Will Make Things Worse https://shar.es/1PxRps
dmsilev
I continue to find it mildly startling that any reporter would consider ‘court stenographer for Donald Trump’ to be a position worth aspiring to.
dmsilev
@lamh36:
Fixed for full generality and completeness.
Patricia Kayden
Where is Trump popular? I need to learn more about that planet. Sounds like a horrible place.
NotMax
Am not a lawyer, so having some difficulty plotting this on a scale ranging from ‘verging on the arcane’ to ‘BFD.’
lamh36
@washingtonpost
Analysis: April Ryan is not the only one who’s unclear on the Trump administration’s view of slavery
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Patricia Kayden:
He’s popular at his rallies.
I live in the second reddest county in Misery, he’s popular here. And so on.
The Crazification Pockets are, alas, widespread.
waspuppet
“What are President Trump’s flaws?”
Sanders: “Probably that he has to deal with you guys on a daily basis”
HAHA I SMILED COS IT’S FUNNY I MADE A JOKE REALLY IT’S A JOKE LAUGH DAMMIT
Remember when we were supposed to think Barack Obama and the people around him were effete weirdos who didn’t know how to talk to ordinary people? Because I sure as fk do.
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: What I found interesting is the judge is a colonel, the Marine is a brigadier general, and he sentenced him to confinement anyway. The general is the one who thinks this whole military commission concept is full of shit, if I read accurately.
Patricia Kayden
Sanders Huckabee is furious when Black reporter asks her if the White House thinks slavery was bad. It’s a fair question given Trump’s Charlottesville comments and Kelly’s recent comments about the Civil War.
HeleninEire
WOO HOO. Just had dinner with KAinMA’s friend Gayle. One of the best dinners and talks I’ve ever had. Send your friends to Dublin. Two degrees of separation I can manage. One degree is OK too!!
Baud
We’ll see if anyone notices one cares, or if they move the goal posts yet again.
lamh36
More sexual harassment accusations leveled against Kevin Spacey https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kevin-spacey-more-sexual-harassment-accusations/
Peale
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: as long as they are still pockets of crazy. But I’m worried that it’s really pockets of sanity we have
quakerinabasement
Sessions still has a slender reed he can grasp. He told Franken, “I’m not aware of any of those activities.” This week’s indictment says he quashed the idea of meeting with the Russians. He can plausibly claim he was unaware of any meetings with the Russians because he told the campaign not to meet with them.
If I say, “Don’t smoke in the barn,” but the barn burns down, it’s not a stretch for me to say, “I don’t know of anyone smoking in the barn.”
Amaranthine RBG
@lamh36:
Damn … it gets worse and worse.
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: Oof, not a good look.
NotMax
@HeleninEire
Speaking of eating, a little oddment from the old sod.
:)
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
Sorry for the interruption but I sent out my first newsletter on Monday and my own email service dumped it right in the spam. If you signed up and didn’t get it, check there.
germy
source
Yarrow
@Mike J: Ah, Twitter. Not going to go well for them. Re: the tech hearings, I posted this downstairs but it’s worth a re-post.
DiFi wasn’t too happy with the corporate counsels the tech companies sent. Click through here to see the whole transcript (it’s an image, so I can’t copy it):
Mediate has a summary of it, but the whole thing (in image above) is better.
There’s also video at the Mediaite link.
kindness
While Sessions certainly would deserve hanging….as a good liberal I’d give him exile. Just so long as I didn’t see that evil leprecaun ever again.
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Jeez, if you can’t trust your own email service…
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Consider: American cheese deep dish, seasoned liberally with oregano and topped with pineapple and strawberry.
Major Major Major Major
Let’s analyze Paul Manafort’s apparent use of “bond007” as a password
debbie
@germy:
Credibility left that institution many, many years ago.
germy
the wall street journal: what’s not to love?
germy
@debbie: Indeed.
burnspbesq
@NotMax:
Huge fucking deal. It is now effectively impossible for any of these defendants to get a fair trial, after the prosecution eavesdropped on privileged conversations between defendants and their lawyers. The defense lawyers are absolutely doing the right thing by refusing to continue to participate.
TenguPhule
Three easily rebuked lies in one sentence.
Gonna need a bigger pike.
VeniceRiley
My state kick all your state’s *sses at picking Senators. Go Dodgers!
MisterForkbeard
@germy: Wow, what ISN’T the fault of a democrat? Who knew? And who knew that the Republican’s ceaseless lying, obfuscation and propaganda had nothing to do with Trump’s rise?
TenguPhule
@Patricia Kayden:
Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, Florida.
All places ripe for invasion to spread democracy among them.
Mary G
@VeniceRiley: Yes, what else could be on the agenda except the last game of baseball this year?
burnspbesq
@Yarrow:
Feinstein at her best. Try to envision DeLeon kicking ass like that …
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: Except Florida. Exactly the sort of place you don’t want to fight a counterinsurgency campaign.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
They’ve had the goalposts on wheels since at least 1992.
NotMax
@burnspbesq
Thank you.
It also struck me that the judge seriously overstepped his purview.
Elizabelle
CNN’s roadblock coverage of TERROR IN NEW YORK is nerving me out, since we have elections next week. It’s Ebola all over again.
Although: 6 days to Election Day, and people could tune out. Or Mueller Thursday, Friday, another Mueller Monday.
But fuckin’ CNN, the most trusted name in news. They never fucking learn.
TenguPhule
@kindness:
What, and allow him to plot against us overseas? I’d agree to exile only if the regime we sent him to is good about disposing of him for us.
debbie
@germy:
This can all be explained: Paul Gigot is still the editorial page editor. He went from a “reasonable” moderate to extremist wingnut about 8 or 9 years ago, for a reason I just can’t discern. It’s beyond his time to retire.
Major Major Major Major
@burnspbesq: It’s funny, in my peer group it’s very fashionable to start every compliment paid to Feinstein (or Pelosi or Hillary or hmm there’s a pattern here) with “I don’t even like [blank], but…”
So I always have to do a double-take when there’s just a straightforward nice thing said.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
Nothing that carpet bombing and the tides can’t solve. We must destroy the state to save us.
debbie
@burnspbesq:
Agreed. I wish the youngsters would stop criticizing her. She has her strong points.
Major Major Major Major
@debbie: Gigot really really really needs Trump to hang on until the tax cuts are done.
@TenguPhule: Yeah, they said all that about Vietnam, too, and look how that turned out.
burnspbesq
@NotMax:
Good call. He totally did. He seems to have not yet realized that he’s been played, and is now running a kangaroo court.
MomSense
We are having a birthday dinner for my youngest and his brothers made a surprise visit. im so happy when we are all together.
Damn, I’ve become my mom.
TenguPhule
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
Otherwise known as a crime against humanity, or Japan’s Thursday night special.
/Yes, there was a place in Tokyo that did exactly that and worse.
Corner Stone
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Good God! What kind of a monster are you?!
Baud
@Elizabelle: They’ll never learn. We need to figure out how to deal with it.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
To be fair, The Vietnamese were in much better shape and smarter then your average white Floridian.
Baud
@MomSense: Good. Your mom did a good job.
Amaranthine RBG
In other open thread news: lobby of my local theatrer made Accidental Wes Anderson forum on Reddit today:
https://format-com-cld-res.cloudinary.com/image/private/s–P6nvnBBW–/c_limit,g_center,h_1200,w_65535/a_auto,fl_keep_iptc.progressive,q_95/v1/3ba61fc5884b168cf99f431b5e2fbdd5/FB_Cinema_026.jpg
Mnemosyne
@debbie:
Oh, I’m pretty sure I can discern what caused him to flip out based on that timeline.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Corner Stone: the type of monster who’d also mix massive amounts of ketchup in with the tomato sauce
and also mix in candy corn and peas with the cheese
Yarrow
@Elizabelle: Trump leaves Friday for his Asia trip. I expect some juicy news to drop once Air Force One is wheels up.
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Heh. Good catch.
hueyplong
@Corner Stone: Thanks for posting the link to the Vanity Fair article in that other thread. The easiest cheer-up for me in these dark times is an account of Trump whining or blaming teammates for a potential loss.
NotMax
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Silly.
Candy corn and peas are for guacamole.
;)
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: Low bar, but yes.
Corner Stone
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): It’s ok. It’s all going to be ok. Just tell us your location and we’ll have some very friendly gentlemen swing by and take you for ice cream or hot cocoa. Whatever you like!
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
debbie is probably being sardonic, but that definitely stood out.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Corner Stone: like i would actually eat THAT
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
And guacamole is a lovely diet food.
You look at it and then find something else to eat.
lamh36
University of Hartford student arrested after allegedly poisoning freshman roommate
I am soo mad at this…if everyone dare say that racism will die when the ole foagies of the past finally die off…I just have to read this and roll my damn eyes!
Citizen Alan
@Patricia Kayden:
HER OWN FUCKING FATHER ENDORSED “BIBLICAL SLAVERY” JUST 2 YEARS AGO!!!!!! JESUS! (/ tries to get heart rate back under control)
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Your probably right. I didn’t catch it in her original comment.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: Economic anxiety?
Bobby Thomson
@dmsilev: Haberman is a partisan hack, not a reporter.
TenguPhule
@Citizen Alan:
But it would be rude to confront them with their own bad behavior, don’tcha know?
Baud
@Citizen Alan:
Biblical Slavery was the Democrats’ fault.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: Also, for those of us who aren’t insane and do like guacamole, it’s still a very diet-friendly food since it’s low-carb, high in fiber, nutritious, and filling.
ETA unless you’re on some sort of low-fat diet, to which I ask, why?
Baud
Not a shadow or cloud in the sky.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Everyone knows Hillary was the original snake on the tree.
Naked, to booty.
Bobby Thomson
@Patricia Kayden
I can’t help but notice she never denied it.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Holy crap! I’m white and I wouldn’t want to risk being her roommate. Who knows what creepy shit she’d decide to do if I left dishes in the sink or hogged the bathroom too long?
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Just utter darkness from the incoming asteroids.
Corner Stone
@dmsilev:
MAGA Habs is counting that phat cash from selling an “insider’s account” of the Rise and Fall of Donald Trump.
TS
@Elizabelle:
And they will NEVER learn – this is exactly what terrorist organizations want – media coverage – top of the news – scare the US population into imploding. They don’t have to destroy the US – CNN will do it for them.
Baud
@TenguPhule:
That is what naked means.
hueyplong
It’s difficult to imagine a phrase less supportive of Haberman’s tattered credibility than “President Trump projected an air of calm.” Whenthafuck has that ever been a true statement?
ThresherK
@lamh36: This place is four miles from me. I’d like to say “I can’t imagine this (ETA being done by some white student who is then stupid enough to post it on social media)”, but…I easily can.
I would enjoy adding local knowledge for the Juicers who live farther away from UHfd than I. But I really don’t have much to put on this.
Teddys Person
@lamh36: Psychopath Barbie needs to be charged with assault.
Major Major Major Major
@hueyplong: Maybe he was asleep.
Baud
@Corner Stone: This.
LurkerNoLonger
Since everything is the opposite of what Trump says, it’s easy to decipher the true meaning behind this quote:
He is under investigation and it has everything to do with them.
ThresherK
@Amaranthine RBG: That’s amazing. Is it restored Art Deco, or an original?
NotMax
@hueyplong
The first three words are unquestionably a true statement.
Study pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@lamh36: Dammit! I can’t think of a movie I’ve seen with him in it that wasn’t better for his presence.
As The Wife said, is Tom Hanks going to be the next one outed for pulling this crap?
chopper
to be fair, that is pretty funny. apparently even jethrene can throw at least some shade. I mean, I know it’s all a farce, as does the WH press corps, but what kind of stupid question is that to ask? I guess when you know that the answer is going to be either a deflection or a bold-faced lie, may as well just start going stream-of-conscious.
Cheryl Rofer
In the category of pointing and mocking, I thought Trump’s hair looked even thinner than usual today.
Steve in the ATL
@Major Major Major Major:
And everyone needs fat, and avocados are loaded with the good kind
Amaranthine RBG
@ThresherK:
Opened in 41, long restoration in the 80s. Mural are original, I believe.
Theater itself is restored, too and they kept the red velvet seats without cupholders: http://www.cityviewphotography.com/
Sorry, I couldn’t link directly to picture. Just scroll down a page and look for the red velvet seats.
debbie
@MomSense:
That really is a Mom thing to say!
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
Yep! And intentional!
japa21
@chopper: The question was in response to Sanders’ statement yesterday that all leaders have flaws. The mistake the reporter made was equating Trump with being a leader.
Yarrow
This sounds interesting.
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Should we be worried that his mispronunciation of diversity (“diversery”) might signal a TIA? That was ridiculous. It took him 4 tries to get it right.
debbie
@chopper:
That reminds me of Barbara Walter’s favorite question: “If you could be a tree, what kind would you be?”
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: Linden.
Major Major Major Major
@debbie: aspen!
Amaranthine RBG
@debbie:
I believe that started when Hepburn said in an interview that she was “just and old tree” or something and Walter’s followed up with “what kind of tree?”
Baud
@debbie: Shoe.
Gravenstone
@germy: A little late now, kids. Your editorial credibility has been garbage for decades (cf. CDS)
FlipYrWhig
@debbie: I’m telling you, he can read but not that well, and he almost never understands what he’s reading _while_ he’s reading it, and it’s been a problem for a long time (compounded by bad vision and vanity), and he’s been faking it by having someone else explain to him what he is about to say or has just said, and that’s why he tries to have Ivanka in every meeting, because he trusts that she won’t lie to him.
Yarrow
@FlipYrWhig:
If he throws Jared under the bus, as was rumored earlier today, things might get a little awkward.
schrodingers_cat
@MomSense: How is your Indian friend who was sick? I just thought of her when I was watching a Kangana video the other day.
Corner Stone
@Yarrow: Ivanka knows where the bread gets the butter.
Kathleen
@dmsilev: Maggie The Handmaid (OfTrump) keeps pimping that pivot moment.
Yarrow
@Corner Stone: From Russia.
lollipopguild
@Baud: I blame Obama, and Baud.
JMG
If Haberman begged off this assignment, her career at the Times would be over. Its political coverage is deeply corrupt and stupid — too bad for the others doing good work there. BUT, I will say this. He only calls Haberman (and to a lesser extent, Robert Costa at the Post) when he’s very, very depressed. So while the story might be insane bullshit, it’s a real tell.
Major Major Major Major
@JMG:
Good point.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Maybe this?
different-church-lady
@Mike J: But hey, you know, Twitter is just what you make of it. Neither good nor bad. Just a tool.
Or so I’m told over and over and over again.
Major Major Major Major
@different-church-lady: no you’re thinking of guns.
MomSense
@schrodingers_cat:
It spread to her pelvis so no surgical option. She’s undergoing radiation therapy now. It’s so sad. I’m hoping to spend some time with her next week. I’ve been spending so much time with my dad I haven’t had as much time with her lately.
Fuck fucking cancer.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Who is the “they” in this supposition?
different-church-lady
@Yarrow:
What the hell is vague about “Anything that gives us insane market capitalization is okay by us”?
Baud
@different-church-lady: The people moving the goal posts.
different-church-lady
@Yarrow: Which Asian countries do we have extradition treaties with?
Wapiti
@Yarrow: Trump leaves Friday for his Asia trip. I expect some juicy news to drop once Air Force One is wheels up.
Personal admission: I get nervous when Trump leaves the country. If Russia launched their arsenal at us while Air Force One was on the tarmac in Asia, would Trump care enough to respond?
Omnes Omnibus
@Wapiti:
Why would Russia do that?
Steeplejack
@debbie:
I’m sure it had nothing to do with Rupert Murdoch buying The Wall Street Journal in 2007.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: Mercy killing.
different-church-lady
@Omnes Omnibus: I know — why would Putin attack his own territory like that?
TenguPhule
@Wapiti:
Presumably they’d target him first.
rikyrah
@Study pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
Man, if Tom Hanks gets accused, that’s a wrap for me.
rikyrah
@MomSense:
???
Mnemosyne
@Study pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
No, because Tom Hanks is widely (and genuinely) known to be a good guy. Spacey was widely known to be an asshole IRL, though not necessarily the kind of asshole who molests a 14-year-old.
randy khan
@Baud:
I keep hearing people – people I generally respect – saying that the Dems don’t have a positive platform. It drives me crazy. (I also point out that the Contract
foron America wasn’t unveiled until some time in 1994.)lamh36
@ThresherK: what I am reading from people who have followed it closely and social media folk who have spoken to folks close on the incident…apparently the school made the Jazzy (the young lady who was victimized) sign a gag order and threatened to expel HER if she talked about it!!! It wasn’t until social media picked it up that the school then HAD to do something and couldn’t just let it be swept under the rug.
It a fairly simple process to change roommates…so somebody at the school dropped the fuq’n ball at some point and this young lady could have been poisoned to death…then of course it’d be the dead Black girl’s word vs the white girl…and we all probably know how those types of situations turn out for the Black person!
Matt McIrvin
@Mnemosyne: The person I keep hearing “good guy” comments about is, of all people, Keanu Reeves. Everyone who’s worked with him seems to really like him. He shows up on time, makes no unreasonable demands, has a good work ethic, is kind and generous to his co-workers. It’s probably kept him working through times when he had a string of flops.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: I always heard hanks was “kind of weird” but not like gratuitously or meanly.
@Matt McIrvin: why is that surprising though? He seems like he would be.
Wapiti
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, I didn’t say it was a rational worry. Still, relying on the Russkies to be the rational players turns my world sideways.
Matt McIrvin
@Wapiti: Honestly, if the Russians nuked us, I’d prefer it if we didn’t retaliate. Go down letting half the world live.
But the calculus of deterrence is such that you can’t express that thought and be President, or anywhere in the chain of command.
Czanne
Am I the only person who reads Maggie in Mean Girl voice? Because if read with a sarcastic, eye-rolling voice (and the one time I’ve ever heard her in an extended interview, she sounded flatly exasperated, so that’s how I always read her) she’s not at all flattering. She’s always 100% plausibly deniable, but she’s doing what’s called “Grey Rock” in Narcissist Survivor circles: be as flat, boring and non-reactive as a small, grey rock. That’s how she keeps getting these calls.
ByRookorbyCrook
@Mnemosyne:
He was known to favor younger men. Seth McFarlane had a bit in Family Guy with baby Stewie crawling across a lobby floor screaming, “Help I’ve just escaped from Kevin Spacey’s basement!” Theater folk have been leery of him for a while.
Corner Stone
@Major Major Major Major:
Two words for you:
David S. Pumpkins. Any questions?
ByRookorbyCrook
No naked link From Family Guy 2004:
Emma
I don’t understand the shock people feel upon finding out a movie star or a musician or an artist of any kind is less than an upright, moral, nice guy/gal. It’s not as if we haven’t had multiple historical examples showing talent is not character! The problem is the environment that allows them to run out of control for years. Until the powerful moneymakers get stomped on, there will be other Spaceys.
Feathers
@Matt McIrvin: I worked on a Boston area film set or two 20 or so years ago, and the folks I worked with were ride or die for Mel Gibson. Apparently, when sober he looks after the folks in recovery, hires (hired?) them and created a safe working environment for them. It really doesn’t surprise me that he keeps getting second chances.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
News reports about a shooting at a WalMart in Colorado.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Emma: I was once in a discussion with a bunch of writers over what in an author’s personal life would make you stop reading them. Ann Perry committed murder and we were fine with that, but a writer had been mean to another writer on line and that was the end of her.
Festhers
@Feathers: just to add: I think it was John Rogers who offered the advice to be extra good to all the baby writers because some of them will become showrunners and be able to offer you consulting gigs when your own career is on the downswing. I think of that every time I hear Mel Gibson has a new gig.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Honestly, that’s almost worse than what the roommate was doing. The school finds out that one roommate is poisoning the other and their reaction is to punish the victim? Yeah, I’d sure feel safe letting my kids go there.
Emma
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): In a strange sort of way that makes sense. A murder long ago is an abstract. A verbal attack on someone in your professional circle isn’t.
MomSense
@Czanne:
I read Haberman and Dowd like I’m one of the female sidekicks in Clueless.
Haberman is so fetch.
SgrAstar
@lamh36: me too. It’s unspeakably vile. I’d like to believe that these cretins are dying off and carrying their toxic, stupid views with them, but this pathetic person is only 18. UGH.
Amir Khalid
@Yarrow:
Trump is coming to my side of the planet. It’s not going to be pretty. He’s certain to embarrass his country — your country again. Why didn’t you people hide his passport?
Gelfling 545
@Mnemosyne: Yeah, she’s gone right through racist and into psycho.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
No. He leaves, we change the locks on the White House doors.
rikyrah
Rachel M says that the #2 lawyer in the Marines has been put in prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Because, he doesn’t believe that one of the prisoners is getting fair representation and stood up to correct it.
Corner Stone
@Amir Khalid: Maybe he’ll get round robin PNG’d and have nowhere to go like that Tom Hanks movie.
Corner Stone
@rikyrah: That whole thing is garbage. If one of the civilian attorneys for the Gitmo defense refuses to return, and forcibly refuses to do so, what then?
rikyrah
Racist azz billboard from NJ
https://twitter.com/KhaledBeydoun/status/925900272223883265
rikyrah
THREAD
Texas TribuneVerified account @TexasTribune
1/ A Russian Facebook page organized a protest in Texas. Then a different Russian page launched the counter-protest. http://trib.it/Q
https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/925861609628676096
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@lamh36: Going by the screaming defensiveness of the twitter replies I would say that one struck a nerve. It never ceases to amaze me how the conservatards don’t get that screaming out person attacks against some one asks a question they don’t like is basically a confession that the other person’s point is true.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@rikyrah: So suddenly the Indians and the Chines are the Other. I thought the Chines were the favored minority because they work hard and don’t talk back to whites.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Anne,
You should just refer to her as “Trump’s spokesperson, Maggie Haberman” or “Trump surrogate, Maggie Haberman”
Shocking how she’s not “tired” and outraged at Drumpf’s “lies” and “sanctimony”
danielx
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
Rather not, if it’s all the same to you.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@NotMax:
Spath is a cocksucker who is trying to whitewash the fetid puddle of bubbling shit that these “commissions” are. Somebody needs to bar complaint his bitch ass.
rikyrah
April Ryan vs. Sasquatch
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/925811251464343552
https://twitter.com/RedTRaccoon/status/925838541766062083
https://twitter.com/battletested5/status/925809726071459840
zhena gogolia
@Study pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
No, I’m not expecting this to happen with Tom Hanks.
rikyrah
I’m going to say this again..
THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO KILL AMERICAN CITIZENS!!!
Y’ALL!!!
The US COMFORT – that huge floating hospital…
UNTIL LAST WEEK- the boat WAS NOT IN PORT.
Let me repeat that.
THE BOOK WAS NOT IN PORT!!!
DA EVERLOVING PHUCK?!?!?!
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Ain’t it the truth.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady:
Ooh, you always win the damn thread!
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: What is so scary about cricket? I have never been to Edison, although I do have a cousin in NJ. From what I understand Edison in NJ is like Jackson Heights in NYC. So that poster is about ten years too late, scare mongering about evil cricket playing people.
rikyrah
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Lyrebird
@dmsilev: In all fairness, reporters like Haberman and Cilizza may well find it startling that anyone would choose to be a physicist.
–posted to bring a smile, not to say you’re like them.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat:
Cricket is scary when you’re trying to watch Inspector Morse or Downton Abbey or Grantchester and you’re expected to sit through an interminable cricket scene without understanding the rules.
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: The cricket scenes in Downton Abbey were dreadful.
ETA: Actually almost every other test cricket playing country plays the game better than mummy. (Australia, India, SriLanka etc)
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Cricket is a silly sport. As is baseball (sorry, Mom).
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I think football is silly. I love cricket and baseball’s OK too.
Lyrebird
@Patricia Kayden: Totally fair question. I can’t find the news item now, but the Frederick Douglass Family Initiative folks had a pretty awesome response, I hope some of this resurgence of white supremacists brings an even bigger resurgence of interest in their work. Many of Robert E Lee’s own descendants have also had clear and admirable responses to this maladministration.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Which football? Association? Rugby Union? Rugby League? American? Australian?
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: All of them Katie.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Then we disagree. Only League is silly.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid:
I’m not sure Trump has a passport. When was he last outside of the country, since he started campaigning? I assume the TSA doesn’t get to barricade Air Force One…
(Maybe Duerte will be so nice to him, Trump’ll decide to stay in the Philippines. There would be a weird, tragic symmetry to that beleagured nation being the first victim of Gilded Age American expansionism, and the refuge of — hopefully — the last GOP president elected to enforce the second Gilded Age.)
J R in WV
@Steeplejack:
Or that scary Black Muslim Methodist getting elected President. Plus he was a DEMONcrat.
Anne Laurie
@schrodingers_cat:
An expat friend once told me, “You have to remember — cricket was invented in little hamlets where there just wasn’t much to do on the weekends. And every villager hated everyone in all the other hamlets, so day-long games where the participants got to work out their aggression with pads and bats instead of edged weapons were a net social good.”
Thinking about how baseball took off, it really wasn’t much different, except as the sport took off the ‘little hamlets’ were American cities pitted against each other for media/business supremacy…
NorthLeft12
@germy: Lets see if I have this straight. According to the WSJ and RWNJs in general, President Bill Clinton’s behavior in office justified impeachment, yet Deadbeat Donald’s known behavior still warranted the WSJ’s support for election to the Presidency.
Don’t these people have an ounce of integrity left? Or at least a microgram of self awareness? I am sure they would be able to defend these positions without cracking a smile.
Peale
@rikyrah: yep. I am a bit concerned that our side is being played a little too. Too late, though. If the Russians had managed to get, say, Rand Paul elected I might do some kind of “well, he sucks, but in a more normal GOP way”. But they put this monstrosity into power so counter protest away.