Parker Curry’s mom took her to the National Portrait Gallery to see the new portraits of President and Mrs. Obama. Parker was very, very impressed with Michelle Obama’s portrait.
Hey @MichelleObama! Parker, the little girl who loves your portrait, has an important message for you and we promised her we'd deliver it! ?? pic.twitter.com/m60f6zhLkc
— AM to DM by BuzzFeed News (@AM2DM) March 5, 2018
The AM TO DM guys, as well as most of the Internet, made sure Michelle Obama got the message. As was easily predicted, the former First Lady responded as everyone would expect:
Parker, I'm so glad I had the chance to meet you today (and for the dance party)! Keep on dreaming big for yourself…and maybe one day I'll proudly look up at a portrait of you! pic.twitter.com/faUVTsYWun
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) March 6, 2018
Don’t look directly at Parker without protective glasses! The cuteness, it burns!!!!!
Open thread!
ruemara
I demand Michelle & Barack be returned to the WH.
jeffreyw
Gwen C. Katz
@gwenckatz
They discovered a new species of cat that’s like an ocelot but smaller and they DID NOT name it the ocelittle. What are you doing, biologists??
9:10 AM – Mar 6, 2018
Some Guy
Dance party
JPL
If I fly to DC and look in awe at the painting, can I meet her too?
Brachiator
Too cute for words
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: I demand a link to the surely adorable kitty!
MomSense
@ruemara:
Oh I would give anything for that to happen. I got all teary just seeing Michelle dance with little Parker.
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: Here you go:
RobertDSC-iPhone 6
My FLOTUS. Always.
Adam L Silverman
@JPL: Depends. Are you as cute as Parker? If yes, then maybe.
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: Thank you, Adam! And here I thought my kitty looked like an ocelot. These guys definitely have her beat in ocelot-ed-ness.
Jay C
@WaterGirl: @WaterGirl:
Here you go.
Wild kitty or no, it definitely carries the CUTE genes….
ETA: Dammit, late again!
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: You’re welcome. Just don’t ask me to explain election rules to you tonight. I had a very long, though from what I can tell good, day.
Amir Khalid
@jeffreyw:
Quite understandable. When the zoologist said, “I know! We’ll call it the ocelittle!”, everyone in the room turned around and gave him this really withering look.
TenguPhule
@ruemara:
At this point its better to burn it down with the current occupants trapped inside and just build a nice new building for the Obamas to rule from.
chopper
michelle is just the fucking best.
bluefish
This is everything! Thanks for posting this and bringing a smile.
lowtechcyclist
Parker is unbelievably cute.
So is the ocelittle. Especially the kitten.
And if Michelle Obama showed up at my house to dance with my son, I’d be more speechless and awkward and tongue-tied around a woman than I’ve been in 40 years. I’d just be overwhelmed.
Chip Daniels
I’ll never understand how we could go from the very best president of my lifetime to the very worst.
With every passing day, I miss those two more and more.
Adam L Silverman
So this happened:
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: https://twitter.com/gwenckatz/status/971040265283821570
TenguPhule
So Conway is in violation of the Hatch act. Cohn is gone. Tariffs are coming down from Trump to fuck up our economy. Nunburg went bonkers on national TV. Putin is pulling wetwork in Britain.
And its only Tuesday.
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: My ears perked up. Something potentially job-related?
Ruviana
@Amir Khalid: @jeffreyw: I think it should be an ocelette.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman: What are the odds of him not taking the fifth during the hearing?
John Revolta
Ocelite?
WaterGirl
Thanks to all for the links to the ocelittle!
Jeffro
Just run a Michelle/Oprah or Michelle/anyone ticket already and let’s blow the Rs’ doors off. The president’s just a figurehead for a coalition of interests: why not go with a smart, funny, warm-hearted, inclusive leader with name recognition out the yin-yang and be done with it? Why stress over the next 2+ years of maneuvering and primaries and what not?
Actually, fuck the Constitution: let’s run them next week and not wait around for 2020.
Brachiator
According to the SF Chronicle, Attorney General Sessions is in California to stir up some immigration shit.
Hang on to your hats.
Earlier a poster noted that some purveyor of smoking substances was having a joke at Session’s expense. This story provides a picture of the box of rolling papers.
rikyrah
Forever FLOTUS ??? rocks!
Quinerly
OT….Stormy Daniels suing Trump. Been out of the loop all day. Breaking news?
TenguPhule
@Brachiator:
Speaking of which, the FYNYT is now running a story about how vulnerable immigrants are backing out of public nutrition services due to fears of being detained and deported if they use them. This is beyond obscene.
TenguPhule
@Quinerly:
Take a number and get in line behind all the other breaking news today.
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: I love infrastructure week! More infrastructure week!!!!!!
Brachiator
@Quinerly:
Surely, Trump must have seen that … coming.
Or this:
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: Nope, just got some conceptual work done that I needed to finish off.
TaMara (HFG)
Aaaahh! Cute Parker, Lovely Michelle and an ocelittle. Great way to end the work day.
I’m off to caucus for governor.
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: yup…it was a “distraction “ after the fact, to cover up that he’d had an epic meltdown
MomSense
@Adam L Silverman:
My oldest son’s take after watching the Nunberg spectacle last night is that he is really stressed out, pissed off that trump and co. treat everyone like garbage, self medicating, and not listening to his lawyer.
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: He can take the 5th all he wants. What he can’t do is shield production of emails or other records under the 5th Amendment. That stuff has to be turned over.
JPL
@Adam L Silverman: spoilsport.
TenguPhule
@Brachiator:
How has this man not been disbarred before now?
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: @Jeffro: @MomSense:
More details:
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: every week is infrastructure week…it’s like “Groundhog Day” x Nixon x “Red Dawn” since Nov 2016 in this cruddy timeline…
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
I’m going to take a stab that he’s stupid enough to think he can get around this by having preemptively tried to destroy the evidence first.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
Let’s hope he’s not prescribed any tea in the near future.
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: hey man, we all know Erin Burnett don’t lie…
…?????….
Ok, ok, didn’t lie in this one particular instance
TenguPhule
@Jeffro:
With Idioracy thrown in for good measure.
Adam L Silverman
@Quinerly:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/stormy-daniels-sues-trump-says-hush-agreement-invalid-because-he-n854246
Amir Khalid
@Brachiator:
He was actually expecting Trump to pay for something?
Mnemosyne
The Oregon Zoo has a baby sea otter named Lincoln, and I love him. I love him and want to snorgle him.
If you follow the Oregon Zoo on Facebook, they put up videos of him at least once a week.
TenguPhule
@Brachiator:
I see what you did there.
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: you mean it wasn’t eleventy-dimensional Roger Stone chess? Shocking.
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule:
I love infrastructure week! More infrastructure week!!!!!!
Adam L Silverman
@TaMara (HFG): Good luck. If you win the governership, let me know.
TenguPhule
@Amir Khalid:
To be fair, its normally a very bad idea to stiff your own lawyer.
Adam L Silverman
@JPL: Ask me no questions, I’ll tell you no lies.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman: Things shouldn’t be able to get worse. But somehow, inevitably, they will.
japa21
@WaterGirl: He’ll probably lie or something. The reality is, if he told us anything he’d have to kill us to keep it secret. (That is what my LTC Army son always tells us when we ask what he is working on.)
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: Because he doesn’t actually practice law. He has his own real estate empire, which overlaps with the President’s. He owns a significant number of the hack licenses in NY City in partnership with some really shady Eastern European organized crime folks. He’s also tried his hand at casino boat cruises and the energy industry in his father in law’s native Ukraine.
Adam L Silverman
This will work out well.
SiubhanDuinne
@Quinerly:
First I had heard of it, so I Googled.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/stormy-daniels-sues-trump-says-hush-agreement-invalid-because-he-n854246/amp
Looks like the Great, Smart Businessman never bothered to sign the NDA.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
(Also: David Dennison?)
ETA: I would never curse out Adam L Silverman for getting there before me, but if he were anyone else? Katie, bar the door!
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: Also, he will likely not have that law license for very much longer:
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: I’m thinking Trump is screwed either way on this. No pun intended.
If Trump says Cohen did this without his knowledge, I would think the agreement would be invalid because it has Trump’s name on it, so she could sing her little heart out. Or he has to admit that the agreement existed, and he is caught in his millionth lie.
Cacti
I just read that Wilmer’s stepdaughter lost the election for Mayor of Burlington, VT.
:-) :-) :-)
No coronation for an aspiring political dynasty.
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne:
Major Major Major Major
@Cacti: I presume she will now take up knitting.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: Stone threw him under the bus in an interview with Chuck Todd this afternoon.
Roger Moore
@Adam L Silverman:
I’m glad to hear Nunberg is getting treatment. It sounds as if he needs it.
Mary G
@Mnemosyne: In “Hamilton” news, the Olivier award nominations came out today and AH got the most ever, 13, except as NY Magazine asks: Is Eliza the Most Thankless Part in Hamilton?
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
Isn’t most of Ivanka’s crap contracted out to China?
Adam L Silverman
As I’ve been saying:
Quinerly
@TenguPhule: Back from 6 weeks in New Mexico. No cable news, sporadic internet.All day on a construction project at my home today. Caught 5 mins of Hardball….Tweety digs a sex scandal. Said….”breaking news.”
WaterGirl
@japa21: i guess we’ll never know!
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
Definition of “snorgle”, smart guy.
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: Cohen isn’t the President’s lawyer. He has not actually ever done legal work for the President’s businesses. He’s just a senior associate, who sometimes calls himself the special counsel, at the Trump Organization. He does threaten to sue people on behalf of the President, but there’s no indication he’s ever done that.
WaterGirl
@Cacti: So sad!
TenguPhule
@Quinerly:
This happened in two days. Most of it today.
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule:
I love infrastructure week! More infrastructure week!!!!!!
Quinerly
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks! Pulling wire all day!
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
But the media keeps insisting he is because Trump and company keep saying it.
The gaslighting is enough to drive lesser mortals to madness.
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: I took his interview to be overly parsed and technically insufficient. IOW, he Roger Stoned all over the place.
Quinerly
@TenguPhule: And I thought we were in prep mode for Infrastructure Week! I guess I need to change my heels.?
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
A lot of American consumers rely on affordable goods from China. A lot of American manufacturers rely on parts/sub-assemblies from China. When I see Trump’s “administration” making economic policy this destructive, I wonder whose side he’s on. It sure as fuck isn’t America’s.
Adam L Silverman
@japa21: No, I finished an analytical piece I’ve been futzing around with. It is for work, and it does include some ideas that I’ve written about here as I was thinking my way through the problem set.
schrodingers_cat
@Adam L Silverman: Paymasters in Russia want to wreck the economy?
Adam L Silverman
Ewww! Just EWWWWWW!!!!!!!
Corner Stone
@Roger Moore:
Some here might suggest it was just more of his distraction theater. I would not because I think he cracked under the pressure.
efgoldman
@Adam L Silverman:
Does the grand jury offer detox?
Mnemosyne
@Mary G:
The writer’s not wrong because, as with The Shape of Water, it does feel like people are sometimes missing the point of the ending. ? There’s a reason it’s called Hamilton and not Alexander Hamilton.
Matt McIrvin
@Brachiator: Ooh, shooting war coming between ICE and the California National Guard?
TenguPhule
@Quinerly: I recommend something stunning in spikes.
Adam L Silverman
As usual, the Florida legislature screws around for 5 weeks, 4 days, and 10 hours, and then this happens. Every freaking year!
chris
Texas primary results trickling in. I always forget just how many people live in Texas, the numbers are huge already.
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne: And no spoilers beyond that. Have not seen either work. Oscars night was first I heard of the fish aspect. Grinding Nemo, as those here inform.
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
I wonder if he’s violated any California laws we could lock him up for.
TenguPhule
@Amir Khalid:
Donald Trump has only one side. Its Donald Trump.
I’m running out of possible disasters he hasn’t yet caused or tried yet to torpedo the economy.
I suppose doing something incredibly stupid at the nation’s busiest ports that causes them to slow down or grind to a halt might be a step too far for him….
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
Being a Republican must surely violate at least one local ordinance.
Mnemosyne
@Elizabelle:
No spoilers! It’s a fairly divisive movie and it depends on your tolerance for Del Toro’s combination of whimsy and gore.
(It’s not as gory as some of his other films, but it has its fair share.)
Mary G
@Mnemosyne: I know, so many people don’t get the “who tells your story” part of the end scene.
@Adam L Silverman: 2018 is shaping up to be infrastructure year all year.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman: Restorying Honor and Dignity to the White House.
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
I doubt he knows where the nation’s busiest ports are.
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
Are Honor and Dignity the stage names of his new mistresses?
TenguPhule
Wapo breaking story…..
ET
Am watching the documentary on Fred Roger’s “It’s You I Like” and he had the woman who played the Wicked Witch on as a guest and he said something to the effect that as an adult how important it was to know the difference between what was real and make believe and all I could think was that tRump was obviously too old for the show because he clearly doesn’t know the difference between what’s real and what’s not.
WaterGirl
@Mnemosyne:
There is? (Have not seen it yet but would still like to know the answer.)
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
He couldn’t find Syria on a map either. When in doubt, all of em, Katie!
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
‘There is a man who lives a life of Danger….’
Mnemosyne
@WaterGirl:
You’ll have to listen to the soundtrack to find out since I’ve already promised no spoilers. ?
Corner Stone
@chris: “It’s MY island!”
Quinerly
@TenguPhule: I rather like your style. What have you done with the old TenguPhule?
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: Yes.
TenguPhule
@Quinerly:
I have moved to the next stage of grieving.
efgoldman
@Matt McIrvin:
The ICE gestapo is stupid enough to fire the first shot.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: He is a very, very strange and creepy dude.
Ken
@TenguPhule:
When they announced there’d be no steel tariff exemptions based on country of origin, but there would be for some importing companies, my first thought was, “Such as a certain real estate developer with a long history of using the imported stuff.” I’m sure there will be special carve-outs for some importers.
Ken
BTW, it should be ocelotless.
Roger Moore
@Ken:
I wonder how large a bribe it will take to get one.
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
Some things never change. That was happening back when I lived in Florida. And that was 1969-75.
WaterGirl
OT, but I’m wondering if everyone has listened to the BJ podcast that’s posted on Friday:
https://balloon-juice.com/2018/03/02/balloon-juice-podcast-episode-one/
If so, I am wondering what you thought of it.
Quinerly
@TenguPhule: probably best that you move into a low slung Espadrille then.
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
What else is new?
We’ve broken actual and applied promises to the Kurds for many decades.
Adam L Silverman
@Amir Khalid: I saw someone ask the following question on twitter the other day (I’m paraphrasing from memory):
My answer would be nothing much.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: Yes.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: I think they validate your parking, but that’s it.
Amir Khalid
These discussions of Trump have reminded me of two of my favourite Neil Young songs: this one and this other one. I want a Les Paul.
Gelfling 545
@Ruviana: or ocelite?
SiubhanDuinne
@Ken:
Ocelotfewer, dammit.
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: Its all about this city in Ontario. Especially the minor league hockey team.
Adam L Silverman
@Ken: I’m waiting for someone to explain to this crowd that under Federal law, for national security reasons, British, Canadian, and Australian steel (not sure about aluminum) are considered to be domestic products. It is illegal under US Federal law to impose tariffs on steel from any and/or all of those three countries.
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: FAKE NEWS! Low Energy! SAD!
schrodingers_cat
@WaterGirl: Can you give us a gist. I have yet to hear it.
randy khan
@JPL:
Get in line.
frosty
@Amir Khalid:
Yes, everyone should have something with humbuckers. I played a borrowed Epi LP last year. Played well and sounded good and cheaper than Gibson, if that’s a factor.
randy khan
I was just reading a NY Times Magazine article from October 2016 (I know, but I was behind and it’s been too painful to read) about Trump and right wing media. Imagine my surprise to find out that the person who connected Trump and Erick Son of Erick (although as of the time of the article, Erickson was still a never-Trumper) was none other than Sam Nunberg.
Amir Khalid
@frosty:
I yearn for the Epi Les Paul Studio. It does the business, it’s cheaper than the Standard, and it looks more elegant.
Gravenstone
@Adam L Silverman: If you’re going to single those countries out, it should be aluminium.
Amir Khalid
@Gravenstone:
An American has spelled this word correctly! Finally!