.@realDonaldTrump "gently touches Mike Pence's thigh" during Billy Graham's memorial service.
Ironically, the person who would hate this most is Billy Graham.https://t.co/8ecnVCgchV
— CAFE (@cafedotcom) February 28, 2018
Jokes aside, Trump looks like a little kid grabbing for Daddy’s leg because the sudden booming organ noise scared him. Or like he’s grabbing at Pence the way a potential vampire victim would grab a crucifix — hoping that physical contact with the “holiest” thing in his purview will protect him from the retribution of an angry god (reanimated zombie Graham?)…
Mike Pence looks like the stern daddy torn between benevolent authority and irritation that his pre-service ‘be a man, not a baby’ lecture didn’t take.
Melania looks like she can’t believe her goddamned lawyers forgot to insert a “void in case of the medically documented onset of senile dementia” escape clause into the pre-nup.
Trump sounds out of breath as he looks around the room for Melania. #WheresMelania pic.twitter.com/zdnQO3bFhP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2018
On the other hand, I’m thinking that if Mueller’s team needs to get any factual statements out of Trump, they can use the old cop-show routine with the “magic truth detector” (pre-loaded copier) — put his hand in a blinky-light-laden black box and tell him his brain will explode if he doesn’t tell the truth. He’ll be sharing the offshore bank account numbers and Putin’s favorite sex tips before the next commercial break!
cain
I’m drunk. Lets discuss that.
Viva BrisVegas
Personally, I think that it looks like Melania pulled her thigh out of the way just in time.
Trump will have gone away happy, he’s long forgotten what Melania’s thigh actually feels like.
Major Major Major Major
Here are some better pictures.
1. My great grandma Rambo
2. Samwise chilling on ‘his’ couch
m.j.
An unexpressed longing or the dull realization that something Pence told you would happen 5 minutes earlier would and did actually happen.
Amir Khalid
Melania is smiling at the back of Donald’s head, and it’s not a friendly smile.
Major Major Major Major
@cain: Okay, you first.
Gin & Tonic
Still no power, which means no heat. Can’t sleep, but can’t do much else either.
BruceFromOhio
Down, boy. And stop drooling.
BruceFromOhio
@Gin & Tonic: Sing a song from long ago, but only if it’s not keeping everyone else awake. Solitaire by candlelight works too, it’s quieter.
Aleta
Alarming force field among those three. Rome, gfathr3 like.
Mnemosyne
10 o’clock news here in So Cal had zero time for the Graham funeral — it was 2 minutes in the middle of the newscast taken from a different Fox affiliate. Our weather (rain + mudslides) and East Coast weather took up the majority of the airtime.
m.j.
Trump sounds out of breath
Was he rushed into the venue? He reached out to his, “wife,” for a time-killer. He’s old, obese, and ungainly. I would expect this.
It’s twelve seconds of video.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Nothing on the 11pm news either.
ThresherK
Anyone else relieved that all Dems in the White House (or aspiring) won’t need to kiss up to BG going forward?
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
We never watch the evening news, but we randomly had the whole 10 pm newscast on in the background tonight. It was a full hour, so they found those two minutes for the Graham funeral, and that was about it.
Taking a bunch of junior high kids from south LA to see Black Panther got way more airtime.
cain
@Major Major Major Major:
Your grandmother is a vivacioius woman.
Frankensteinbeck
It looks like the reverse to me, like Trump thinks he’s comforting Pence. Either way, utterly bizarre. Totally nailed it with Melania. There’s a woman for whom the money stopped being worth it. That’s not even anger, just contempt.
ChuckBerryIsGod
If “it” moved Pence is gonna have to repeat conversion therapy…
EBT
Posted an audio file today on my little porn and smut account. The people that I was targeting it too both were too busy to actually listen today, and I don’t think much of my regular audience had much interest.
Ah well next week has a good story.
Mnemosyne
Random thought as I try to fall asleep: I got my Glendale hospitals mixed up and it is, in fact, Glendale Adventist hospital that advertises themselves as a cardiac center, and that’s where Kevin Smith was taken after his heart attack. Sorry for my confusion.
Major Major Major Major
@cain: Great grandma. Great grandma Rambo.
Betty Cracker
@Major Major Major Major: It’s a cool photo.
Cermet
Lost power yesterday (later in the afternoon.) Luckily, have a nice portable generator, and a electrical system that connects the house to the generator so have heat, and normal power – so the computer/internet works (except for the water pump – a phone tech who installed our fios somehow cut that power line by accident (I guess) .) Living in the country, one uses a pump for water … . Can’t complain since I have power but no one in the area has power (some of the houses are well over half a million and some are million plus – and they have no standby power?!) and we are not that far from a major city. Went towards the city on dark roads and got extra fuel for the generator in an area that had both power and gas stations. Looking at the map for power loss, it includes the entire metro area including the city! Shocked how wide spread and our winds only reach 70 mph max. gusts. Very calm now – just 20 or so mph with minor gusts to 40 mph. That least the temps are fine – mid-30’s.
Amir Khalid
I was just looking for photographs by Candice Bergen on the Intertubes. (Because idle curiosity.) Alas, my google-fu is weak. All I have found is photos of Candice Bergen. Can anyone help?
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: I tried “Candice Bergen photo exhibit” and got a couple of hits about her work that were light on illustrations. But there may be richer veins to mine deeper in the results. I didn’t know she was a photographer!
Betty Cracker
@Cermet: We have very different notions of “calm” and “fine temps,” you and I. :-) Glad you made it through the storm okay. Was a really nasty one, from what I’m reading this morning.
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
She is usually described as both an actress and a photographer. I know that’s one reason she was cast as Margaret Bourke-White, who did the famous LIFE magazine photo shoot of the Mahatma, in Gandhi.
Cermet
@Betty Cracker: Thank you, and numerous 50 lbs + branches fell in my front yard – a few others hit the roof but luckily, in a flat manner so the roof did not get punctured. After the gusts of 70+ mph yesterday, yeah, those winds we are now having are calm (that is, tree’s and massive branches aren’t falling left and right – sigh with relief.)
clay
Ruh-roh:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/02/shortly-before-trump-announced-tariffs-his-former-adviser-dumped-millions-in-steel-related-stocks/?utm_term=.7fc43a163534
OzarkHillbilly
We need an AM open thread. So to goose the gander, I’m gonna just post this here.
Uber and Lyft drivers’ median hourly wage is just $3.37, report finds
MsOTU my ass.
OzarkHillbilly
Hmmmmm…. If at first you don’t succeed, try try again:
Mike Huckabee quits Country Music Association role due to protester ‘bullies’
NO FAIR!!! They’re fighting back!!! NO FAIR!!!! You won’t let me beat up the gay people!!!
OzarkHillbilly
@OzarkHillbilly: That did the job.
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: I had no idea!
Speaking of photography, I’ve been trying to get a photo of a family of Sandhill cranes that fly over my house every morning. Theoretically, it should be easy to do: They announce their arrival with an incredibly loud, pterodactyl-like call, and their flyover is regular enough to set your watch by — or was until today. They just flew over, a quarter of an hour before expected, catching me with my camera off and lens cap on, damn it.
Cermet
I hate uber and those other parasitic companies that rob both the workers, and the states these people operate within. What you posted both horrifies me but makes perfect sense in how the elite 0.001% suck the life blood from any/all sources until we are returned to the serf existence; then, like crabs in the heating pot, the serfs will pull each other down into destruction – not unlike the current republican poor that vote to keep their betters enriched at their own expense. At some point, the corporate system that the 0.001% control (esp. the banks), will need to be destroyed or else, what is left of the middle class will be returned to the serf-like existence the elite will cause.
On a more up beat note: now that it is getting light out, I repaired the cut auxiliary electrical wire that connects my generator to the water pump – so, I have water again. When driving to get extra fuel for the generator, I noticed where the main power line is damaged by a tree; hope that after reporting this “down wire”, they send a service team to repair it and maybe, we’ll get power today.
I hope all of you in real cold/snow conditions, get power restored asap.
father pusbucket
Oh, great. Now Pence can’t be alone with women or Trump.
Cermet
@father pusbucket: I think he like’s being alone with his best fiend rump … I mean tRump.
hellslittlestangel
It’s just a reflex action — reaching for the wallet of a distracted man.
PPCLI
I’m pretty sure Trump is taking advantage of Pence being distracted to try to pick his pocket. But whatever disorder it is that forces him to hold water bottles like a baby holds a sippy cup is really interfering with his aim.
Chyron HR
@OzarkHillbilly:
But, I don’t understand? They won the presidency by negative three million votes, gerrymandered congressional districts to give themselves a house majority, and hold 52 senate seats that represent 1/3 of the country’s population. TOMORROW IS SUPPOSED TO BELONG TO THEM!!
SFAW
@clay:
What a lucky break for Icahn!
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m not sure if the label “unmitigated evil” applies to Huckabee, but I’m thinking it’s within spittin’ distance of him.
And his kids larnt at their pappy’s knee, as far as I can tell.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: That might be my favorite photo of Samwise yet.
singing truth to power
Where was “Mother”? She should have been able to protect Pence from Trump’s grasping little fingers –
trnc
The problem with that idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn_PSJsl0LQ
sdhays
I think Melania looks relieved he’s grabbing Pence’s thigh and not hers.
Ken
@ThresherK: Only if they don’t transfer it to Franklin, who by all accounts is worse.