Tapper’s face in the fourth panel gives me life pic.twitter.com/WH7nME6Qcl
— Jean Little (@emily_littl) April 14, 2018
If you didn’t have a chance over the weekend to read Adam Davidson’s “Michael Cohen and the End Stage of the Trump Presidency” in the New Yorker, it drew a lot of comment on social media. Here’s some of his response:
There are tipping points in which public opinion flips, dramatically. And the core national narrative changes.
I believe that, eventually, more Americans will take in the truth of Trump. I think that Cohen's emails and phone calls will rapidly advance that process.
3.
— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) April 15, 2018
I don't know if Trump will be impeached. I find it highly unlikely he'd win reelection but he might.
That being said, I think that he is already in something of a lame duck phase. His presidency is, already, in some ways, over.
5.
— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) April 15, 2018
Some of the phrases that will come out in reference to Trump's business partners and will become part of our national media diet:
– Terror financing.
– WMD proliferation.
– Sex trafficking.
– Murder.
– Boring old stuff like bribery, sanctions violations, money laundering.— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) April 15, 2018
Canadian pundit (& TNR editor) Jeet Heer adds:
4. Reading @rickperlstein excellent The Invisible Bridge (about Watergate & Reagan), I was struck by role televised hearings played in changing public opinion.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) April 15, 2018
Counterpoint from a cynic:
Mitch McConnell will still be leading chants of 'Gorsuch! Gorsuch! Gorsuch!' when the Super Bowl halftime show gets hacked by the pee tape.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) April 15, 2018
rikyrah
The only way for live hearings is to have the Democrats take the House
lamh36
Sooo…NOBODY knew he’d had conversations…BWHAHAHA
Ya know the “news” folks can’t stand Hannity or the Fox punditry…other than Shep…so you can bet…they all like…YES…let’s use this to get rid of this jackasss.
Like I said in previous thread…in the REAL world…Hannity would fired for not disclosing the conflict so the Faux news corp wouldn’t be blindsided.
Baud
@rikyrah: Sounds good to me.
lamh36
Aww…no I used love Night Court!!! I still remember the theme music
‘Night Court’ actor Harry Anderson dies in Asheville http://www.wspa.com/news/night-court-actor-harry-anderson-dies-in-asheville/1126241637
lamh36
Spaniel
Ronna Romney McDaniel, Republican National Committee’s chairperson in that first tweet?
lamh36
It begins!
Baud
@lamh36: Same here. A shame.
debbie
In the last thread, VDE said this was Watergate on steroids. The more I hear, the more I think a better descriptor would be Watergate on Jersey Shore.
These people are buffoons.
Tenar Arha
Right now I’m going through one of my phases, you know, the one where every new revelation makes me angrier at multiple media outlets & the GOP (cable news, the New York Times…basically everybody) for dropping the ball so comprehensively, so completely that 45 actually got out of the first primaries.
trollhattan
@lamh36:
Dang, loved him, loved the show. :-(
lamh36
hey…FPers…this deserves a music thread dontcha think?
Kendrick Lamar becomes first Hip Hop artist to win Pulizter Prize in Music for his album “DAMN”
Here’s how they came about the decision…
Pulitzer Prize Administrator Explains How Kendrick Lamar Won
Anne Laurie
@Spaniel: Yup. But she dropped her maiden name, because Trump didn’t like being reminded about Mitt whenever he saw it…
Mandalay
@lamh36:
And my question for Juan Williams is why he sold his integrity and soul to make a living being an enabling patsy for lying, white racists. Juan Williams can fuck off and shove his opinions up his ass.
MisterForkbeard
@lamh36: I’m just going to sit here and bang my head on my desk repeatedly. The world CANNOT be this stupid. It can’t.
Roger Moore
Loser stink. Looking like a loser is one of the few things that can really sink him with his base. Their #1 demand in politics is for their guy to own the liberals. Watching the liberals own Trump badly enough will be enough to turn him into a RINO.
lamh36
KKKlanity did not disclose his relationship with Cohen…cause he already knew that his viewers wouldn’t care…
dmsilev
@Anne Laurie: Has anyone asked her recently why RNC Finance Chairmen (all men, natch) all seem to be lacking a bit of something in the morality/family values category? Also, will the RNC commit to returning money raised by anyone who is a sexual predator?
Hahahaha I kid.
MisterForkbeard
@Roger Moore: Nah. If the Liberals own Trump pretty badly, it’s just more reason to hate Liberals than abandon poor, victim Trump.
Did you know there’s a FBI Conspiracy to get him? I mean, wow! Those libs are going too far this time!
Mandalay
@dmsilev:
Actually I believe that they have committed to returning Wynn’s money if he is found guilty in a court of law, but until then…not so much.
Incidentally, this is Wynn’s argument over being accused of leering:
If all this stuff was in a movie people would get up and leave because it was so implausible.
opiejeanne
@Spaniel: That is she, who has shamefully dropped the Romney part of her name on Trump’s request.
schrodingers_cat
@opiejeanne: WTF? These people have no self respect.
Mary G
Here’s another bombshell. One of CambAnal’s lead partners, Nigel Oakes, caught on tape comparing Hitler’s demonization of Jews to Trump’s demonization of Muslims.
lamh36
I’m noticing the old guard on air CNN folks are carrying water for Sean Hannity and Fox News…
Brachiator
More projection and wishful thinking. Let’s hear from one of Trump’s base, someone who knows him up close and personal.
She, and maybe other women like her, see him as Sugar Daddy Supreme, and they withhold nothing from him, no matter what.
Creepier still, women like this seem to see Trump as a great protector.
Yes, these people are stupid. Yes, they are deplorable. But they stand by their man. Maybe something may lead Trump’s base to abandon him, but I ain’t holding my breath.
Meantime, as many, many point out here, the majority of the country don’t swoon for the buffoon. The majority can knock out his support in the midterms and kick his ass out of the White House in 2020. If Team Mueller or other investigators can deal a blow in the meantime, yes, yes, yes.
Otherwise, talking about the end of Trump is about as empty as a Hannity denial.
khead
@lamh36:
Well this is depressing. Friday it was bad news(!) about Huey Lewis and now I find out Harry Anderson is dead. I watched an episode of Night Court THIS afternoon.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
If you have any life at all, you cannot keep up with the crazy. I go to the gym and I write for a couple of hours a day and that’s it, and I cannot keep up.
Spaniel
@opiejeanne:
So, she sold out her family. Blood thicker than water, eh?
lamh36
@lamh36: tagged our twitter obsessed blog host Mr Cole…and he’s gonna post about Kendrick’s Pulitizer prize later late today
Roger Moore
Shorter Hannity: I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again. I did not have legal relations with that man, Mr. Cohen.
trollhattan
@Mandalay:
Sa-weet, “Steve didn’t mean nuttin’, he was just tryin’ to get a closer look.”
That vision thing may explain this. Although it’s a little like claiming a deaf guy owns a zillion dollar Steinway because it makes a great flower stand.
opiejeanne
@schrodingers_cat: Yes. I don’t get it. Why would she bow to his wishes about something as personal as her name? I think she could have ignored his request, she does not need to bow down to him, she’s the head of the RNC and I can’t imagine the fight they’d be in for if they tried to remove her because of her name. .
MomSense
@Tenar Arha:
That’s why I couldn’t watch the Comey interview last night. Was that only last night??? I’m so furious at how all of the journalists, media outlets, FBI,Congress all failed to vet Donald Trump. Worse, they were cynically using his racist, freak show rallies for ratings – which means $$$. And now that they’ve wrought this disaster they are still making money off of it. Sometimes I’m so mad about it I can’t find words to express it. I’m absolutely furious.
Roger Moore
@Spaniel:
But thirty pieces of silver will cover anything.
chopper
looks like i picked the wrong infrastructure week to stop sniffing glue.
Baud
@Tenar Arha:
@MomSense:
Agree.
Brachiator
@lamh36:
Loved that show, Night Court. Anderson was the leader of a great cast. I remember doing this double focus thing where I would laugh and immediately think, “what a great piece of writing.”
I think that John Larroquette won most of the acting Emmys, but Anderson was the lovable heart of the show.
ETA: I echo the sentiments of another poster:
“and his stand-up act, like his Cheers character, wasn’t aimed toward “likability”, which made him funnier.”
Yes. Yes.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Spaniel: Yup. There was a story a few weeks back that trump counts on her to do the stuff Kelly and Kellyanne can convince him is too sleazy to come straight from Jethrene
@lamh36: Damn, pretty young still, wasn’t he. He played grifter Harry the Hat on Cheers before he got Nightcourt. Seems to me he used to also do Letterman, and his stand-up act, like his Cheers character, wasn’t aimed toward “likability”, which made him funnier.
trollhattan
Can we talk about Syria now? No? I officially can no longer keep up. And it’s only Monday.
Mike J
@Brachiator: It’s amazing what you can tweet and get likes from Republicans.
Lizzy L
NYT Breaking News:
w00t!
John Fremont
@Roger Moore: You win the internets!!
Calouste
@Roger Moore: Won’t be enough for the evangelicals. The evangelical conmen have sold the shitgibbon to the rubes as being chosen by their god. Turning that around will cause a religious crisis for the people involved, and that is a massive hurdle. So the evangelicals will keep believing in the shitgibbon, despite all the facts. Of course they are well-trained in believing in things despite the facts.
schrodingers_cat
@Tenar Arha: Same here. That’s why I hold Paul Fucking Ryan and Mitch Fucking McConnell responsible for the current Tangerine tragedy that we are being subjected to. And Vichy Times and other news organizations for making a big deal of Her Emailz.
TenguPhule
@chopper:
It’s actually worse when you’re not drunk these days.
different-church-lady
@chopper: HEY!
schrodingers_cat
@Mike J: He is the culmination and will lead to their annihilation.
schrodingers_cat
On the plus side, I filed my taxes and am going to get a refund because of energy credits for my solar panels.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
Loved the show, loved him, loved our shared passion for Mel Tormé. RIP.
WereBear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: He started as a street magician.
Brachiator
@Mike J:
Yep. Trump is absolutely repellent. And yet this only makes his supporters love him all the more. Part of this, I think, is because he is resentment personified. He promises, and delivers, a bully’s revenge. And some of his supporters want desperately to get even, to hurt somebody who has been conveniently scapegoated. They will not be satisfied unto they have tasted blood.
All the more reason why reasonable people must defeat him.
Cheryl from Maryland
@lamh36: Oh, no!!! I remember visiting his magic store in New Orleans. It had the best store windows!
chopper
@different-church-lady:
goddammit!
chopper
@different-church-lady:
we have achieved the part of history where all jokes have been made. might as well wrap it up, folks.
khead
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I was just going through his Harry the Hat clips on You Tube. Pretty sure he had some well received appearances on HBO specials too.
Eric S.
@Roger Moore: there is more truth in this statement than is comfortable.
Gretchen
Commenter on American Conservative told me that I am a deranged, wild-eyed conspiracy theorist for thinking that there is something to the Trump-Russia story. That’s crazy! He’s been quite heated about it. All the charges are for things that had nothing to do with Russia. NO COLLUSION1
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@khead: the episode where he teamed up with Coach is one of my favorites
Emma
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Let’s you and me find a spa somewhere in the South Pacific with no electricity and no newspaper delivery. EVERY time I step away from work to grab a cup of coffee and do a little light surfing I end up going WTF?WTF?!WTF??!!
It’s really not good for my blood pressure.
Kathleen
@Tenar Arha: May I sit next to you?
lamh36
Me waiting for Jimmy Kimmel to comment on the news bout Hannity and Micheal Cohen!
MomSense
@debbie:
Watergate on crystal meth and diet pills.
Baud
@lamh36: :-)
MomSense
@Kathleen:
You can all come sit with me on my comfy couch but first I need to move the giant pile of laundry I was going to fold and put away THIS MORNING.
Roger Moore
@Gretchen:
Except, you know, for all the Russians indicted for interfering in the election.
TenguPhule
@Gretchen:
Only because most of the Russian witnesses are dead.
TenguPhule
@MomSense: PCP and LSD.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@TenguPhule: Poor Russians. They keep slipping on a bar of soap and falling out of windows.
Kathleen
@lamh36: Many of the so called “real” media castigated Obama when he suggested Fox was a propaganda outlet so I expect most of the Mainslimers will circle their tricycles and defend Hammity. Who knows when they will need new jobs.
The Pale Scot
@Brachiator: What you can do with an ensemble cast. One episode had a guy outside on a window edge threatening suicide because he was still a virgin. One by one characters walk into the room and join the crowd in convincing him nobody cares that he’s still a virgin. He agrees and starts climbing down. Then Bull walks in asking “what’s the virgin doing in the window”.
Nightcourt, WEXP and Murphy Brown. The Classics
chris
OT This article from the Montreal Gazette won’t get much if any attention in the USA but maybe it should. Andre Bissonette, the Quebec mosque shooter, is being sentenced this week. He’ll get somewhere between 25 and 150 years.
The thing that might interest Americans, besides his MAGA hat selfie, is the list of Twitter feeds that he was following before the shooting. You’ll recognise the names, I’m sure, because they’re almost all American and they’re reaching the crazy people.
ThresherK
Jeopardy! has a Disney Channel movie flashback, for the college tourney. I was ready with my Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Ub Iwerks, and the clues are all about made-for-cable stuff since 2000!
Roger Moore
@MomSense:
I think you need more than meth and diet pills. This is Watergate on bizarre, unapproved mixtures of psychoactive drugs.
lamh36
So…what’s the over/under of Maddow covering the Hannity news more than just a news of the day segment?
I know Lawrence O’Donnell is gonna be ALLL over it like he was with Bill O
karen marie
@MisterForkbeard: Oh, but it is. I am taking a break from transcribing an arbitration hearing which involves the fire department at an Air Force base that shall remain nameless. The level of stupid involved is amazing. The witnesses, the hearing officer, the people representing the Air Force and the union – I have been working on this thing for four days and have yet to come across a single complete sentence outside of “yes, ma’am” or “no, ma’am.” The entire transcript is incoherent sentence fragments from start to finish. I cannot believe I have six hours of transcribing these morons left.
Kathleen
@Roger Moore: And that would include textual relations.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@TenguPhule: Poor Russians – they keep slipping on a bar of soap and falling out of windows.
TenguPhule
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Worst cases of suicide the coroner has ever seen.
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
@Gretchen: They’re a bunch of loons over there. I like the guy who calls himself the Elite Commenter, who has posted zero elite comments.
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
I suppose it depends on how you define what it means when you say “client”.
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
PCP, LSD and a good measure of bath salts.
TenguPhule
@karen marie:
Congratulations, we’ve found our Trump trial transcriber.
Sucks to be you.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Emma: It’s crazy. And it all overlaps in the most confusing ways. Russia, Stormy, FOX, Comey, and everything else. We’re going to have to make one of those crazy bulletin boards with yarn stretched between connections. We are all Glenn Beck now
Tenar Arha
@MomSense:
You are not alone. I couldn’t watch it or even read the transcript; the reactions were enough to get me swearing & calling names.
Lately…
Me: Don’t think about it.
Brain: Haha! But I am!
Me: Stoppit! Told you not to read about it.
Addictive Brain: Haha! You can’t make me.
Me, reading: Oh dear. ??????
Me: Why yes, this was inspired by Twitter.
MisterForkbeard
@karen marie: What I’m taking from this is that the Republican media/fundraising/political establishment is a bunch of sometimes literally incestuous idiots who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing but have convinced enough of the country to run on hate and lies that they’ve gotten pretty far without any real investigation.
Pulling on a thread like “Trump’s personal lawyer” gets you another 60 or so people all involved in borderline illicit behavior AT BEST.
TenguPhule
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Yarn? I always preferred using an erasable marker.
MisterForkbeard
Aw, in moderation around #84. I can guess what word caused it. :P
Tenar Arha
@Kathleen: Sure. I think that might be an alternative tag line for here: C’mon & let’s Mae West the h*ck out of this joint.
Ruckus
@MisterForkbeard:
Mister Forkbeard to the white curtesy phone please….. We have important news about the world. The world isn’t that stupid, many of the inhabitants definitely are.
Mandalay
Tweety just now, discussing last night’s Comey interview in the light of the Hannity revelation….
Tweety: Should Stephanopoulos have disclosed that he worked for Clinton?
Guest: I think there’s a good case to be made for that.
You can’t make this stuff up. Whenever you think that our media can’t get any worse they are there to prove you wrong.
lamh36
hitchhiker
@debbie:
It’s not Watergate on steroids. It’s Watergate on bad mushrooms, the kind that don’t get you high but do make everything feel slightly distorted in such a way that you’re struggling against nausea & telling yourself quietly that you’ll come down soon and everything will go back to normal.
I loathe these people.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@TenguPhule: That would work too.
TenguPhule
@Ruckus:
But the world allows this stupid to exist without taking preemptive preventive measures.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mandalay: IIRC, the Clintons still carry a grudge against GS for mentioning the possibility of impeachment in the earliest days of Clenis mania
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@TenguPhule:
MORTY
Yeah? Ain’t that something? Middle
of a drought, the water commissioner
drowns. Only in L.A.
GITTES
(looking at. Mulwray)
Yeah. Banged up pretty bad.
MORTY
That’s a long fall.
GITTES
So how are you, Morty?
MORTY
Never better. You know me, Jake.
MisterForkbeard
@Mandalay: Please tell me you’re kidding. “Let’s compare a publicly known fact of a relationship that terminated over two decades ago to Hannity not disclosing a hidden relationship – that he’s a client of someone he’s interviewed and when Hannity is commenting on the legal troubles that lawyer is in”.
I don’t even. Someone boot Tweety in the face for me.
@Ruckus: Granted. It just feels like this whole thing was written by an 8th grader with pretensions to greatness. “And then we reveal that Trump had a secret 3-way between Cohen, Trump and Hannity! In the room while the Pee Tape was being filmed!”
TenguPhule
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): On a related note, I hate corporations that spawn endless amounts of proxies, makes trying to diagram them on one page a royal copper plated bitch.
/Pardon my French
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
RWNJ twitter tells me Judge Kimba Woods presided at Soros’ wedding. Checkmate libtards !
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Mandalay: Is Tweety suggesting Stephaolopoulus hid his working for Clinton? That no one knew it? Sigh. It’s time for Tweety to retire.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Source is a DC-based reporter for an Emirati newspaper, if I read her bio right
TenguPhule
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Its kinda sad that the classics never become irrelevant these days.
Roger Moore
@lamh36:
I appreciate he’s trying to fight through this and serve out his term, but I don’t think he’s doing right by his constituents. He ought to retire right now so he can devote his energy to his medical condition and let Arizona have a Senator who can devote their full time to their job.
lamh36
Good!
Michigan Man Faces Attempted Murder Charges for Shooting at 14-Year-Old Who Asked for Directions via @TheRoot
Also too…my money says, Starbucks does have a policy on this, but it’s at the discretion of the mgr or barista…which is why they won’t say they “fired” her…but what it leads to is cases like this…where the barista/mgr inherent racial bias means they will primarily use it against P.O.C. and ESP Black men.
Philadelphia Starbucks Manager Who Called Police on 2 Black Men Decides to Leave Company in ‘Mutual’ Decision: Report via @TheRoot
Ruckus
@Calouste:
It isn’t in spite of the facts, they have alternate “facts.” And their “facts” come in a book that is thousands of years old so it must be right and can’t possibly be a fairy tale. No sir it has to be true, no man of the cloth would lie. Of course if that cloth was extremely expensive that would make it even more true.
danielx
Likely so, but unfortunately a great many of them won’t care.
Brachiator
@The Pale Scot:
Yep. And great extras and supporting players and guests. They consistently peopled that Night Court world with arresting characters played by actors with great comic timing. Damn good show.
MisterForkbeard
@Roger Moore: He may be thinking that by remaining in his position he’s blocking an insane appointee. In which case, that would harm his constituents even more than remaining in place.
sukabi
@MisterForkbeard: stupid and SMALL. It’s like the authoritian wealthy are an inbred family that shares the same spoon.
lamh36
Marsha Warfield posted a FB live video after she learned about Harry Anderson’s death.
https://www.facebook.com/MarshaWarfield/videos/1823549527683503/
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
He wasn’t serving them well when he was the picture of health, why change now?
TenguPhule
@MisterForkbeard:
Sorry, that barn is long empty and the door was set on fire.
lamh36
sukabi
@dmsilev: already asked her…apparently they are waiting for “due process”. Translated it means “No,we’re waiting for you to forget about it and move on.”
TenguPhule
Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles
In better times, with more responsible leaders, this wouldn’t have worried me so much.
Lots and lots of modern day structures and products have plastic in them.
MisterForkbeard
@sukabi: Yeah. It’s like they all met at a cocktail party.
TRUMP: “I use this guy for threatening my mistresses. Bigly.”
HANNITY: “Amazing, really. I should talk to him. For a friend.”
TRUMP: “I also use him to pass messages to and from Russians, which is just the best.”
HANNITY: “I use this other guy for that. Have you met Roger Stone?”
Fair Economist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wag that dog.
arrieve
@chopper: This made me LOL
r€nato
@Mandalay: here, here
Got myself blocked from Juan’s FB page for reminding him a few too many times – with evidence and examples – how he was the Fox News house negro.
Brachiator
@lamh36:
Another way of looking at this, which is still amazing. Lamar is the first winner of a music Pulitzer who is not a classical or jazz artist.
Kathleen
@MomSense: I hear you! Between working, chores, laundry, L&O reruns and working out, I have too little time to keep up with the story arc. But I can help you fold!
aarrgghh
try watergate in a flaming outbreak of the clap …
Kathleen
@Tenar Arha: Ha Ha!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@aarrgghh: isn’t it syphilis that makes you go nuts if left untreated?
lamh36
@Roger Moore: Totally agree…
lamh36
People like this only respect the troops when they are white…not people of color…
sukabi
@MisterForkbeard:
Paging Mr. Cheney to the white courtesy phone.
debbie
@MomSense:
Duck Dynasty Watergate!
danielx
@lamh36:
Hannity needed a fixer; neither Cohen or Sekulow is noted for courtroom or legal skills either one.
chopper
@TenguPhule:
this sounds like the beginning of a disaster film
lamh36
@Brachiator: right…that’s actually how they described it in another article I read
dopey-o
gotta link?
mad citizen
Off topic, maybe, but as we age in Trumpov years, I was wondering how the planning was going for the big summit with North Korea. Do you think any work at all ever gets done in this White House? What a grand experiment, to see if our nation can function for four years with either: no, evil, or incompetent leadership in the Executive Branch.
karen marie
@TenguPhule: I could not even a little bit. My head would ‘splode even ‘splodier than it is now.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@MomSense: Can I come sit by you too? I missed all this because I’m so busy at work (not complaining!) that I don’t have time to check news.
If I had to do laundry it wouldn’t get done. Mr. Q booked the movers for 4/30, even though it’s very short lead time. We’re going to be right down the road from Ohio Mom & Ohio Dad.
Kathleen, plz email. I lost my unsaved addresses in that account. Mom Sense, your I have, should we need to converse!
Davebo
The world is a very different place than it was during Watergate/Iran Contra.
I’m skeptical how much influence televised congressional hearings would have today.
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
Yes, but that’s less important than you think:
1) This affects one specific type of plastic, PETE, not all kinds of plastic generally. PETE is mostly used in drinking bottles and other food storage containers, and there are good ways of keeping a plastic-eating bacterium from destroying those before they can be used.
2) There are bacteria that can digest all kinds of things we use as building materials. Wood, paper, and many kinds of fabric are made of cellulose, and there are cellulose digesting bacteria, but our wooden buildings haven’t collapsed and our libraries haven’t been eaten. Plastic eating bacteria may be a long-term worry, but we have experience dealing with biodegradable materials.
debbie
@lamh36:
Your thread’s up.
realbtl
As a 25 year old hippie transfixed by the Watergate hearings, may I suggest “Watergate on sopers?” Seems the only explanation for the stupidity.
debbie
Hannity’s not talking about his problems. Instead, he’s interviewing Alan Derschowitz who says Sessions should take over on Cohn’s case because his recusal wouldn’t apply. Is this true?
Shana
@The Pale Scot: Don’t forget Frank’s Place. Not as well known but also great.
lumpkin
@Tilda Swintons Bald Cap: RWNJ twitter tells me Judge Kimba Woods presided at Soros’ wedding. Checkmate libtards
The smear begins.
Kimba Wood was nominated by none either than…….Bill Clinton to be US Attorney General but was unfairly blocked due to nannygate. She did nothing illegal. But, expect her to be smeared for employing “illegals”. And somehow they will twist their own recursive logic to suggest that she is biased against Trump because she got screwed out of the USAG post. Also, too I’m sure numerous Russian trolls and their domestic counterparts are busily trying to find an email/Benghazi connection.
lamh36
Hey BJ lawyers…can this waiter sue this guy or using the picture he took of him…to tweet some racist bullshit like this?
https://twitter.com/rangerholton/status/985966113371586566
Villago Delenda Est
@lamh36: The Villagers. Forming the wagons in a circle.
Wipe them out. All of them.
lamh36
@debbie: saw..it thx
Villago Delenda Est
@realbtl: Perhaps LSD? Horse? The THC of the time was mild compared to the current stuff…perhaps special brownies?
Jim Snyder
@Emma: The Spousal Unit snorted coffee thru her nose when I read your comment to her.
realbtl
@Villago Delenda Est: Nah, sopers for sure. Only drug I know of guarented to make you do seriously stupid things.
Villago Delenda Est
@Calouste: Their god is Mammon.
BluegirlFromWyo
@chris: Interesting and frightening. Thanks for posting.
JGabriel
Tenar Arha:
Kinda been in that phase myself – since about 1980 …
aarrgghh
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
yeah, but syph can go unnoticed for years, and stupid watergate ain’t that.
these guys were already nuts.
Marcopolo
This is OT but if you live in (or know folks living in) MO, WV, or AL you need to call your D Senator tomorrow and tell them they must oppose & vote against Pompeo becoming Sec of State. All are currently listed as open to voting for him.
different-church-lady
@TenguPhule: Let’s release it into the oceans! What could possibly go wrong?
WaterGirl
@lamh36: holy cowski!
I’m in commenting from my phone, and I said into the microphone “what a total fucking racist pig”. What was typed in for me when I said that ? “Ed”. Bastards!
chris
@TenguPhule: That clattering sound? All the near-future SF writers typing madly off in all directions.
Fair Economist
@different-church-lady: I’m with Roger Moore. The world is full of things that can digest wood, leather, and iron, but they are all still perfectly usable, often even for storing water. Plastic digesters will probably go slower than those existing ones, because plastics are generally impermeable and often hydrophobic, which will slow adhesion and enzymatic activity. Besides that, you can’t stop it. If protein plasticases are possible bacteria will almost certainly evolve them in short order.
Edit: Incidentally, an evolved nylonase has been known of for at least 2 decades, because I remember reading about it that long ago.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
What a guy. His bio is massive. Probably like his ego. So mostly bullshit.
Lahke
Oh, hi. Was told upstairs that this thread is NOT dead, but I bet it will be now.
rikyrah
@TenguPhule:
???
rikyrah
@Shana:
CBS did this show so wrong ??
Just One More Canuck
@lamh36: I loved that show – Marsha Warfield’s tribute was really touching
Frankensteinbeck
Comey is being raked over the coals on MSNBC as a self-absorbed egotist who could have avoided all of this by just following the rules. I liked the observation that he is a politician, and makes his decisions politically, which is the exact opposite of how he sees himself.
geg6
@realbtl:
That’s it! Sopers! Totally agree and as soon as I saw your first post saying it, the lightbulb went off. I hated them! And I took all kinds of shit back then. But I avoided those based on how all my friends who ate them like candy acted. No thanks. That’s just how all this feels—the worst of the 70s. Watergate on sopers. Gawd, what a nightmare.
lamh36
BWHAHAHAHAHAH
lamh36
@lamh36:
the video…
Hannity: “I have the right to privacy”…
bwhahahahah
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/986051884417986561
Peale
@Mandalay: huh? George’s time as Clinton’s communication director is a secret to whom exactly?
Bobby Thomson
@lamh36: man, when he’s lost right wing hack Alan Dershowitz . . . .
Matt
@Calouste:
No, *because* of the facts. Their “religion” is equal parts Two Minutes Hate for “those people” and knob-slobbering for the rich, so unless he suddenly turns woke or poor they’re all in.
J R in WV
@Peale:
Really !!! George still pisses me off every Sunday when he takes up the torch of Republicanism, after getting everywhere he is today on the back of Bill Clinton! What a sad sack of crap!!!
@lamh36:
A Right to Privacy for Hannity? NAWHHH, you don’t dude, you lost that when you mace a career out of violating other’s privacy on network TV. And now everyone knows you’re reporting falsely on your friends and associates!
joel hanes
@realbtl:
sopers for sure. Only drug I know of guaranteed to make you do seriously stupid things.
alcohol and PCP would like a word
lamh36
This Hannity news is NEVER not gonna be funny.
Cause all the on air initial reactions from the press shock and giggles….
lol
This from MSNBC…first reaction “WOW…” then giggles…LOL
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/985956833180487680
Sm*t Cl*de
@TenguPhule:
I read that book!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.Mutant_59
Tokyokie
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Russians really should reconsider outfitting their bathrooms with windows.
jonas
@Brachiator: What’s their other option? “Yes, I slept/cheated with with a total disgusting creep just because he was rich”? The impulse to preserve your self-esteem is powerful.
Ruckus
@joel hanes:
Meth would like a share of that conversation.