Should be noted: Just 80 minutes before Trump arrived at his golf club, the White House made the pool correct an earlier report that said Trump was having a “low-key day” to “the president will NOT have a low-key day and has a full schedule of meetings and phone calls”.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 22, 2017
After 5 hours at his golf club, Pres Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago. Per usual, WH declines to say if he played golf or with whom.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) November 22, 2017
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In case you wanna tweak that one Trump-humping relative who can’t be left off the invite list. But who did he play with?….
I am being corrected by the Abramovich circle that his yacht is near Palm Beach for maintenance, while Roman + family are not on board & won't be spending T-Day with Trumps.
— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) November 20, 2017
Awww… just a potential getaway boat, then…
Roman Abramovich's yacht isn't the only one that's pulled into Palm Beach in time for Trump's visit. Robert Mercer's yacht, Sea Owl, is there too. About a mile away. pic.twitter.com/ui5yrtdIVI
— Barney ?????? (@barney1776) November 20, 2017
Secret Service agents, already disgruntled at having to work the holiday, calculate the odds on another “Donny Junior challenges Rebekah to arm-wrestling match, tries to persuade Daddy to nuke the Hamptons when he loses” incident…
NotMax
Turkey, well done.
With ketchup.
Quasi-obligatory annual Turkey Day family horror show clip.
Baud
I didn’t understand most of this post, but I don’t care.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
debbie
It is alarming that a Russian oligarch has moored alongside Trump’s bloated carcass. The Secret Service better stay alert.
Elizabelle
The less presidentin’ he does, the safer we all are. Golf on, orange one.
Cheryl Rofer
Shameless self-promotion: I’m quoted on that ruthenium-106 leak by Oliver Carroll in The Independent.
debbie
@Baud:
Happy Holidays, bub.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
That does not start for another 36 hours, you bastard.
NotMax
(Posted in wrong thread, thus repeated.)
A 74th birthday shout out to Billie Jean King.
TenguPhule
@Elizabelle: I object to having to pay him not to kill us all.
lgerard
Interesting details of one of the Kumquat Kim’s many screw ups
What Trump Really Told Kislyak After Comey Was Canned
Baud
@Cheryl Rofer: I see you took the intelligent approach used by David Anderson of not revealing your association with Balloon Juice.
Congrats!
realbtl
@Cheryl Rofer: Congrats.
Kay
It really can’t be said enough- these people are assholes:
Really, to a man or woman, they are personally mean-spirited, nasty people. It must be a job requirement.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Cheryl Rofer:
Oh, great… how can you keep ‘me down on the BJ after they’ve been in The Guardian?
Seriously, very cool!
NotMax
@TenguPhule
Hau’oli Lā Ho’omaika’i.
JPL
@Baud: Merry Christmas to you!
p.a.
@Baud:
We can really Moore a reputation/career…
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Baud:
Merry Christmas… ya filthy animal.
Kay
I’m thankful for this piece, which could be titled “Mark Halperin ruined everything” :
Let’s all take a moment and be grateful his career is over. Damn shame that it took so long.
Emma
@Kay: You cannot be humiliated in that fashion if you refuse to participate. The reporters were cowards.
Mary G
@Kay: Dana Millbank in the WaPo has a good column addressing Sanders, listing a large number of the people resisting the administration.
TenguPhule
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
I……I……FUCK.
germy
British Movietone News
Carving the turkey, 1930
Brachiator
@Cheryl Rofer:
Very cool!
Makes me feel “smart by assoication.”
HeleninEire
@Baud:Me either. Merry Christmas,!
Baud
@TenguPhule: Makes sense after the Texas chuch shooting.
Betsy
Details and photos of the Sea Owl. It sounds lovely, but I wish it belonged to someone deserving and not despicable.
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/editorial-features/sea-owl-the-personal-and-enchanting-62m-feadship–325
Miss Bianca
@Cheryl Rofer: whooo! all right!: )
@Brachiator: What you said.
Brachiator
@TenguPhule:
Words fail me.
Emma
@Betsy: Meh. It’s exquisite but as my father often says, a boat you’re afraid to slop dead fish on it’s not really a boat.
TenguPhule
@Baud: Our country is clinically insane.
sharl
@Cheryl Rofer: Congrats, and well deserved! Hopefully the attention you helped to bring to this will motivate Russia to clean up its act. The lives most likely impacted will be those living in areas where the airborne concentrations are highest – regular Russian folks, who have been sucking in that isotope with every breath.
Mary G
Some great wardrobe choices in this tweet. Hillary looks great. She is so tough.
rikyrah
@Kay:
They are lowlife scumbags- the entire lot of them
chris
Happy Thanksgiving to all. For those of you with those relatives I hope it’s peaceful too.
My next door neighbour is a Christmas tree farmer so I can report that the first truckload of trees left here on Sunday bound for Boston. The second one left today. The trees will be on sale Friday morning so you got that to look forward to.
rikyrah
@Cheryl Rofer:
Bravo ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
You know, we can say that now.
rikyrah
@TenguPhule:
The Everloving PHUCK???
Baud
@Mary G:
Seconded. Shame to see so many Dems pandering to Hillary hate right now. Makes me think they won’t be able to stand up to real pressure.
Felony Govt (formerly Old Broad in California)
I hope all you Jackals have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Don’t let any Trump supporting relatives raise your blood pressure TOO much.
Origuy
@Cheryl Rofer: And the comments are filling up from the Putinists denying everything.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You doing Thanksgiving tonight?
SiubhanDuinne
@Cheryl Rofer:
That is incredibly awesome. Proud to know you, however virtually.
(Autocorrect insisted that I meant “virtuously.” I insisted I did not. There’s very little of my BJ activity that can be categorised as “virtuous.”)
sharl
Yeah, that could be.
debbie
@chris:
Christmas trees were on sale starting last week. I can’t imagine they’ll be okay in 33 days.
Baud
@sharl: Plus it’s the holidays.
Saw a poll that the House bill isn’t that unpopular.
trollhattan
What’s the name of those Iranian shore-to-ship missiles everybody worries about? We’d like half a dozen, please, C.O.D. South Florida.
debbie
Well, well, well. Joe Barton’s back in the news.
LurkerNoLonger
@debbie: It’s not his back that’s in the news.
germy
The 2016 conversation Paul Ryan wanted to keep private
rikyrah
@TenguPhule:
They are giving the gun companies good customers
germy
@rikyrah: guns are like cigarettes. Their consumers keep dying off, and so new customers are needed.
Kay
@rikyrah:
So gross. The smug sanctimony – like anyone needs a “gratitude” lecture from this pack of lying thieves. She’s a bully too- they all are. With any luck someone will figure out a way to indict her for something- seems like there’s enough criminality in that administration to go around.
lgerard
@germy:
Yet another example of the “they were joking” defense
hope
@Cheryl Rofer: noticed that – well done!
Betsy
@Emma: Yeah. I like boats you can turn over and push your cousins and siblings off of.
Boats so big that you don’t know you’re on water? Dad and I have no use for ’em.
Baud
@Betsy: I’ll take it off your hands.
chris
@debbie: Insane isn’t it? One guy in town has been selling since Hallowe’en. I used to sell trees when I worked at the garden centre and learned that there are people who do a tree in October and get a fresh one in December.
( A reasonably fresh balsam fir that is properly cared for will last six weeks or more. A friend keeps hers going for two months.)
Ohio Mom
What happened with efg? He announced he was in rehab and coming back to comment and then..I haven’t seen him since.
I’ve been very busy and I’m not getting to every thread. I just hope he hasn’t had a setback of some kind.
Cheryl Rofer
@Origuy: Thanks for pointing out the comments. I never read comments except here and at Nuclear Diner. Maybe a few other blogs. That comment chain is not too bad, but yeah it’s infested with Russian deniers.
sharl
@Ohio Mom: He made a brief return appearance – he even got his own post a little less than two weeks ago, to commemorate his return – then disappeared again. I’ve been wondering about him too, and I hope/assume that his re-disappearance just means he is still recuperating and regaining his strength.
Betsy
@Cheryl Rofer: Very nice,. Cheryl. I so enjoy your knowledgeable columns here. Aren’t we lucky to have you!
Waratah
@Cheryl Rofer: You spend a lot of time on your posts so I am happy to see you get recognition.
Mary G
@Ohio Mom: As far as I know, he is back home and has commented a couple times that he’s resting up so unable to comment much.
Patricia Kayden
@TenguPhule: LOL. My local pop stations have already switched to all Christmas formats. Arghhhh!
MisterForkbeard
@rikyrah: Remember guys, Trump is Strong On Crime. Also, Doug Jones is Weak. Though apparently only one of these people thinks wanted fugitives should be able to buy guns.
@sharl: This is legitimately my own response. I’m really tired of being threatened on a daily basis by the Republicans, and I’m really really tired of the media being complicit and trying to make it sound like Republicans are making reasonable proposals that actually benefit the country, instead of taking Republican’s words at face value that it will help the poor and the economy.
I’m really tired of having the health care of my friends and family threatened. And the internet getting threatened. And my immigrant friends being afraid they’ll be thrown out of the country. It’s exhausting and I don’t have the energy to fight these fuckers literally every day and still do my day job.
That’s where big chunks of the rest of the country are as well.
Steve in the ATL
@Ohio Mom: he got a better offer from a top-9,000 blog
dexwood
@Waratah:
This place has such an interesting and diverse group of front pagers. Let me take this opportunity to say thanks to all (commenters included) and Merry Thanksgiving. Off to make dinner.
Mnemosyne
@MisterForkbeard:
You may need to check your Republican-to-English dictionary. “Strong on Crime” means “Will keep Black and brown people down.” “Weak on Crime” means “N*-lover.”
HTH.
Patricia Kayden
@Cheryl Rofer: Congrats!
@sharl: I think we have done all we can do by contacting our Reps — especially Republican ones. Not sure what else we can do to resist. Republicans are going to do all they can to destroy this country for as long as Trump is in power. Sigh.
Patricia Kayden
@TenguPhule: Guns above people. Guns above safety. Guns above common sense. The GOP = GUNS OVER PEOPLE.
Mary G
The New Yorker has a great interview with Mavis Staples, who has a record coming out. It covers all kinds of things.
and
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
So here’s something fun…I work for a federal government agency, and even though my job doesn’t involve dealing with classified or sensitive material, every year we have to take a short training on counterintelligence awareness – it’s basically a series of power point slides on warning signs that indicate someone might be a asset working for a foreign adversary. Half the West Wing and the guy in the Oval Office himself check ALL THE BOXES. Not just a couple, but all of them. And I’m not someone who ever interacts with those guys and has first hand or even second hand knowledge, all this is apparent just from following the daily news. So I’m supposed to be vigilant while a dozen Russian assets sit in the White House selling us out? It’s enough to make you laugh, or cry.
sharl
@Patricia Kayden: I don’t really disagree with you on that, but I am surprised (and a bit worried) that @PrisonCulture is voicing a sense of exhaustion. As far as I can tell, she is a dynamo both online and in real life, not only in her main efforts to reform prison conditions and the lives of prisoners (hence her account ID), but on urgent matters that come up, like health care.
I’m just hoping she’s only temporarily feeling a bit down, and that some holiday time off will rejuvenate her spirits, since she’s one of those folks who usually provides the encouragement for others.
Aleta
How about couriers?
germy
@Mary G: She’s currently touring with Dylan. She still sounds great.
Aleta
@Cheryl Rofer: Well deserved.
Felonius Monk
@Baud:
And Happy Holidays to you, Soon-to-be_President Baud.
matt
boy, they really like making the press dance don’t they.
MomSense
@Baud:
Merry Christmas? You’re worse than Bush, you sold us out!
I thought you were our leader in the War on Christmas!!!
glory b
@Ohio Mom: If no one else has chimed in, I saw efg at LGM, his post was yesterday or today, can’t remember which.
Mary G
@germy: The lyrics they quote make me sure to get her album when it comes out.
She’s not too keen on Twitler.
Mnemosyne
@Mary G:
I wish I could remember the story I heard her tell on NPR about the time she got pulled over by a racist cop in the 1960s and was very worried until Pops showed up and it turned out that the cop and his supervisor were HUGE fans.
Mnemosyne
@glory b:
Yeah, we’re his second family over here. ?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Kay:
I blame a supine press corps for not shouting “not in this lifetime, you fucking pig – no access is worth this”, and stomping out.
tobie
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Yes, the saddest thing was that the press didn’t protest. It’s funny…I remember when the Obama administration in 2009 offered some vague criticism of FOX and the press stood united in their outrage. Ruth Marcus labeled the administration’s comments as a “hissy fit.” Susan Page complained that the Obama administration represented the greatest threat to the freedom of the press. And I can’t count the rest.
By the way: why is Susan Page always treated as the dean of the DC press corp and a non-partisan journalist? In the past few days I’ve heard her lament that Hillary Clinton won’t shut up and erroneously declare that Trump won the popular vote; I’ve heard her excuse Roy Moore saying that he can get a pass like the President did. This evening she said that Mitch McConnell shouldn’t get involved in the AL senate race, as the decision belongs legitimately and exclusively to Alabama voters. What is wrong with this woman? Ideologically she’s the same as Hugh Hewitt with maybe a little less fire-breathing.
germy
chris
Damn it
debbie
@germy:
She tells a great story about the time he proposed to her.
debbie
@debbie:
If anyone’s around, here’s the interview with Mavis Staples (from Feb 2017 on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me).
MattF
Happy almost turkey day. I’m on vacation, so posting a comment is a chore but I’ll be back next week probably
woodrowfan
all those assholes’ yachts at anchor in one place. Where’s a group of Japanese aircraft carriers when you really need them??
tybee
@Cheryl Rofer: way cool. congrats.
Amir Khalid
Roman Abramovich is actually quite famous to sportsball fans the world over — he owns the London club Chelsea FC, which thanks to his lavish financial support has risen to the European elite alongside Real Madrid and Bayern München. Indeed, the lavishness of his financial support has led to accusations that he bought Chelsea’s success for it, and to much stricter regulation by UEFA of clubs’ finances to prevent what is called “financial doping”.
Bill Arnold
@Cheryl Rofer:
Very deserved congratulations on that.
I’m especially impressed that the Chernobyl/Gorbachev thought got cleanly inserted into the newspaper article. (In my very limited experience, the most interesting comment often gets the last sentence.)
J R in WV
@Cheryl Rofer:
If you don’t promote yourself, who will?
Oh, wait, we will !!
Congrats! and Happy Thanksgiving
Aleta
@woodrowfan: ha. You’d think at least one of our allies would come to our aid.