Four legs good, two legs better. Good morning. pic.twitter.com/o6BVImIL8K
— Paul Bronks (@BoringEnormous) April 20, 2018
For this Monday, a ditty from universally beloved commentor SiubhanDuinne:
Good old Balloon Juice,
As good as it gets:
Come for the POLITICS,
Stay for the PETS.Balloon Juice will serve you,
Whatever your mood:
Come for the ANIMALS,
Stay for the FOOD.Most of us love Cole’s
Emotional rants:
Come for the RECIPES,
Stay for the PLANTS.The kittehs meow,
And the puppehs do bark.
Come for the GARDENING,
Stay for the SNARK.We make fun of Huckabee-
Sanders’s looks:
Come for the NASTINESS,
Stay for the BOOKS.We’re few of us burdened
With riches or wealth.
But come for the WRITERS’ THREADS,
Stay for the HEALTH.I’m by no means a lawyer,
Don’t know about torts;
But I came for OBAMACARE,
Stayed for the SPORTS.You may care not for music,
Nor skull-fucking goats;
But come for the FOOTBALL,
And stay for the VOTES.
Brava!
***********
Not to jinx anything, but I’d be just as happy if the Chaos Gods decided to send us a week where very little “breaking news” arises, and we front-pagers get to use up some of our backlog of interesting / funny story links. Who’s with me?
PIGL
Good morning, everyone! The last week of classes has begun.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
satby
Good morning! I’m with you AL, I’ve lost innumerable hours glued to whatever breaking news clusterfuck was occurring at the time. Just one quieter week is probably way too much to ask given what we have in power though.
On the other hand, it it was the start of real accountability for the corrupt bunch because Mueller was dropping indictments, that would give me deep joy.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne, was too late to comment on the thread you posted this, but I love our new theme song/poem. Well done!
satby
Is the blog borked or has everyone suddenly developed different morning reading habits?
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: I’m here.
NotMax
FYI.
OzarkHillbilly
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
Of course Melania is comfortable around people who despise Donald Trump. Who wouldn’t be, when among like-minded company?
satby
@NotMax: gin and squirt was my favorite drink when I was in nursing school and we’d have lunch at the tavern down the street when clinical was done. We’d go back to the afternoon lectures half in the bag.
@OzarkHillbilly: I hadn’t seen you over the weekend, probably more a marker of how hit and miss my reading has been lately. Glad you’re here!
Oh this Kindle word substitutions thing!
satby
@Amir Khalid: honestly, that was my first thought too.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: In my experience a good gin and tonic will cure most anything, for a while at least.
NotMax
A footnote to a footnote to a footnote of history.
Amir Khalid
Sister the black Les Paul of Awesomeness demands that we learn some Led Zeppelin riffs. So that’s what we’re doing, alongside the other stuff.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: We had a houseful. My brother, SIL, her daughter and son spent the wkend with us. Bro ended up in the hospital for a few days recently and SIL’s father died 3 wks ago. They needed some decompression time away from the big city and all their worries.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I hope your brother is doing much better now.
satby
@Amir Khalid: learn this one!
bystander
@NotMax:
Great! Now if they find Negronis cure sciatica, I’m fixed.
I liked the pics of Melania grinning at BB’s funeral. Was she thinking how even a funeral is more enjoyable without him? Looking forward to attending another funeral?
Amir Khalid
@satby:
That’s on the list.
Montanareddog
@bystander: Let’s raise a glass to the anonymous genius who decided to try mixing mother’s ruin with an anti-malarial tonic and discovered the perfect aperitif.
SFAW
Who?
Oh, you mean Star Lord(ette).
[Insert obligatory Djimon Hounsou GIF as appropriate]
OzarkHillbilly
Foul
Ball
Swinging Strike
Foul
Foul
Ball
Foul
Foul
Ball
Foul
Foul
Foul
Foul
Foul
Foul
Foul
Foul
Foul
Foul
Foul
Flyout
That is a breakdown of San Francisco’s Brandon Belt’s record breaking 21 pitch plate appearance. It lasted 12 minutes and 45 seconds.
Eural Joiner
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/podcasts/the-josh-marshall-podcast/ep-9-why-did-donald-trump-get-in-so-deep-with-michael-cohen-we-explain”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/podcasts/the-josh-marshall-podcast/extra-theres-even-more-michael-cohen-news-you-need-to-know
Just had the pleasure of catching these two recent podcasts from Josh Marshall at TPM and they are absolutely fascinating. These people are so very, very, very guilty.
And, as it turns out, Hannity talking about his relationship with Cohen just involved discussions concerning “real estate” is a lot more explosive than just a throwaway excuse!
Mary G
Great poem, SD!
SFAW
@Eural Joiner:
Although I sometimes get the impression that some here don’t like — or maybe don’t think much of — Josh, I really appreciate most, if not all, of what he does. He digs into stuff that’s (early on) mostly off the radar, but ends up becoming significant. He was writing about Cohen and Felix Sater awhile ago, for example. Anyway, thanks for the pointers.
satby
@Eural Joiner: what a superb bonus it would be if they uncovered some felony (tax evasion maybe?) that would put Hannity away too. A girl can dream.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
That’s 20, not 21.
Just kidding — I was just trying to get you to go back and count.
ETA: Of course, were I smart, I would have put the “made ya look” thing in a separate comment. But, of course, the “were I smart” thing is a null set.
TS (the original)
@NotMax:
Best news I’ve heard this year. I’m wondering if my morning hayfever started when I swapped G & Ts for wine. I shall investigate further.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
satby
@TS (the original): a lot of people react to the sulfites in wine with hay fever like symptoms.
RedDirtGirl
Good morning, Jackals! Thanks again for all the input regarding my cat’s messy eating routine. So much great information in that thread (Andrea Mitchell side-eye).
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: It is, verily, the nectar of the gods.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: I think the kid’s clinicals were regular nursing shifts, 12 hours.
Baud
I hope the Waffle House shooting will teach Taylor Swift not to stalk people.
satby
Beautiful dawn and a nice day ahead. Time to plant the replacement roses that came last week. And the strawberries, which are growing out of the aluminum tray I heeled them into until they could go outside. I just hope the tomatoes I ordered don’t show up til the middle of May.
OzarkHillbilly
@Eural Joiner: I doubt that consulting with Cohen on real estate matters is the smartest of moves (beyond having an innate talent for milking his marks, Hannity isn’t known for being especially intelligent) he does have a rather extensive portfolio of real estate. He might even be telling the truth about this matter.
The whole thing smells like Cohen was trying to inflate his “law practice” in order to make the FBI raids look more sinister than they actually were.
debbie
@Baud:
I hope they bust the father.
SiubhanDuinne
I would have taken a great deal more care with that doggerel (catterel) if I had thought anyone would FP it. Thanks, AL, for putting it up top, and thanks @Mary G, @SFAW, and @satby for your kind, or otherwise, comments.
Good morning, everyone!
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: This was in 1973, so before hospitals had gone to the routine 12 hour shifts. We started at 6am, got off at 2pm, had sandwiches with our drinks some days, and went back at 3 for lectures until 6pm or later. So we had 12 hour days, just not on the floor.
Edit: the nursing floor, not the tavern floor, Baud.
Baud
@debbie:
I hope they bust Trump.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: You want to sue her for copyright infringement?
Eural Joiner
@OzarkHillbilly:
That’s the point – Cohen’s entire background involves money laundering (mostly Russian) money through real estate and taxi cab investments. It sounds innocent but he’s spent decades working with Russian/Ukrainian (and others?) immigrant families (all with mob connections) to bring their money over here and clean it up. That’s how he meet Trump and I can guarantee you Hannity is well aware of the shadiness of his investments. Just look at his reaction in public on his radio show and FOX :)
Baud
I see Harry and Meghan are going to have to kill yet one more person to get the throne.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: I love them. Sadly tho, they give me terrible heart burn.
rikyrah
Kelly Anne Conway losing it ?
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/988270356111781891?s=19
OzarkHillbilly
“I don’t have any specific combat training, I just fight my daughter every night trying to put her to bed.”
A good man without a gun.
debbie
@rikyrah:
She ain’t no Mary Matlin, is she?
debbie
@Baud:
I wonder if he was wearing pants when he tried to get in to see Trump?
satby
Here
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@SiubhanDuinne: Love the poem!
Baud
@debbie: He gives the pantless a bad name.
SFAW
@debbie:
Your comment made my “brain” jump to the “thought” of: What if KAC, not Matalin, were married to Carville? Interesting photo ops, to say the least.
RedDirtGirl
@rikyrah: Jesus H. Christ! That woman makes my blood boil. Fucking snowflake!
OzarkHillbilly
@Eural Joiner:
He has rather extensive experience with paying off porn stars too. I took Hannitty’s immediate reaction as being one of, “Oh shit, how do I explain this to my wife?” Considering his lack of legal filings over his non attorney/client privilege, I suspect they had some casual conversations that touched on legal matters in a very oblique way and Cohen tried to inflate them into something more to bolster his arguments over the seized evidence.
As to what those conversations were about, only those 2 know. Cohen may have been stupid enough to record those conversations, in which case the FBI will soon know as well. Time will tell.
Baud
Ha! Today show will cover Hannity’s real estate dealings and HUD loans.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: Can’t lose what you never had.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Only if you represent me pro bono.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: How about Sonny Bono?
SiubhanDuinne
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Thanks!
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Or just Bono. Or Bonzo.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Yep. Now I have to put pants on every time I leave the house.
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne:
For what it’s worth, I, too, loved your poem.
ETA: In case it wasn’t clear earlier. Which it probably wasn’t.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
A modern-day version of Kind Hearts and Coronets?
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
I would never represent a client who would want me as their attorney.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: I mean, who voluntarily has three kids nowadays? This is obviously directed at Harry.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Maybe they should hire Hillary.
SiubhanDuinne
@SFAW: Nah, I was just poking you a little.
@Baud: You should embroider that on a pillow and send it to Michael Cohen.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
An heir, a spare, and a dare.
rikyrah
@Eural Joiner:
Thanks for the links.
rikyrah
@SiubhanDuinne:
The poem rocks ?
Patricia Kayden
@Amir Khalid: Lol!! True. Too bad she hasn’t publicly repudiated Trump’s birtherism which she apparently shared. Her marriage to Trump is obviously not based on mutual love and respect. Hence, her inability to look happy around Donald.
Steve in the SFO
Love to start the day with exercise, a nutritious breakfast, and a skull-fucking goats poem!
TomatoQueen
And it’s a boy
rikyrah
Um, Hillary is a private citizen ??
https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/988083372403691520?s=19
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: Great poem, and it is a nice way to start the week.
Elizabelle
@TomatoQueen: I always wished Charlotte had been born first. Granted, most of us have had a full lifetime with QE2. But still, three apparent male heirs in a row … bo-ring.
Good morning, jackals.
Elizabelle
@ Subaru Dianne: Great poem, as always.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: Obligatory: She’s a witch!
“She turned me into a newt!”
“A newt?”
“I got better.”
raven
“Come for the football”
That ship sailed
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
Thanks! ?
Baud
@rikyrah:
Doesn’t matter. The GOP understands that the concept of Hillary Clinton is beyond the capacity of the minds of half of America to comprehend, resulting in “Norman, Coordinate” situation that gave them 2016 and which is their only hope for 2018.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: The comments are really funny.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Thanks, JPL!
germy
link
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
LOL! Thank you ?
rikyrah
It’s a boy. William and Kate have a second son.?
Baud
@germy: Right idea, wrong person.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
I was thinking of Randinho’s type of football, not American Handegg.
germy
I read that three of the four victims of Reinking were Black. It wasn’t reported on the network TV news because I guess they just don’t see color.
Eural Joiner
@OzarkHillbilly:
I hope I live another 20 years (at least!) to see all the movie and read all the books after the real story finally emerges – may take another 50 years now that I think about it! What a world we live in :O
WaterGirl
@NotMax: I wonder if they tested each of the ingredients separately to see if it’s just the gin, or the tonic, or the lime. :-)
Steve in the SFO
@raven: what?! We just had the spring game!
Fair Economist
@Baud:
You’ll never get elected in America rephrasing Marx.
satby
@germy: @Baud:
Alternative news media would be good, but authoritarian Wilmer has neither the right idea nor is the right person.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: If Donald Trump were a physical abuser, I would expect Melania to suddenly have bruises and broken bones when she gets home. I wonder how Donald Trump punishes Melania? If Trump has seen that photo of happy Melania with Barack Obama, some sort of shit will hit the fan.
satby
@Fair Economist: lots of people still love Groucho. But they’re all old.
Steve in the SFO
@germy: I’m a white man and I was naked earlier, but rather than shoot up a Waffle House I simply got out of the shower and got dressed. Wasn’t that difficult. Not sure what this guy’s problem was.
Lapassionara
@OzarkHillbilly: and they say baseball is boring! ?
Good morning, everyone. And love the poem.
Elizabelle
@germy: Naked came the gunman.
Whose own father handed him back his guns after the Secret Service deemed him a threat. I hope we get some better laws after that ridiculous decision.
I was surprised to hear he is still on the lam.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: When I was a bartender, there was a regular, kind of an old codger, who would, if he was getting sick, go home, run hot bath and drink a pint of rye and then go to bed. He swore that was a guaranteed cure.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s nice. And your son, how is he doing?
Lapassionara
@Elizabelle: I think any male heir would be King before Charlotte, no matter the birth order. I think.
satby
@Lapassionara: they changed the law, Charlotte is in line after George and before her new baby brother.
germy
@Steve in the SFO: Here’s one of his problems:
Steve in the SFO
@Amir Khalid: you can start easy with “whole lotta love” and “communications breakdown”, then move on to “black dog”, “rock and roll”, “how many more times”, et al, then at expert level “black mountain side”
germy
@Elizabelle:
I predict police will take him alive.
WaterGirl
@satby: I finally ordered a grow light from Amazon in order to keep my 36 new strawberry plants alive until I can plant them. It had been two weeks since they arrived and were starting to look a bit puny. There are even strawberries on them at this point!
OzarkHillbilly
@Eural Joiner: TBH, I rather doubt I will want to read any of the accounts, Maybe Jane Mayer’s forthcoming treatise “The Weird Side”.
SiubhanDuinne
@Lapassionara:
Not any more. Parliament changed the Laws of Succession several years ago, so now it’s strictly birth order, gender notwithstanding.
germy
Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility:
At least the drumpf family got paid.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: We are willing to accept any edits you might propose, as long as they pass muster with the edit review members. Right now, it’s a committee of one, whose initials are WG.
satby
@WaterGirl: wow! Mine are just sprouting.
Edited to add, I had forgotten about them and the climbing roses, both were in their boxes in the garage because they were delivered while it was snowing and 36° out.
WaterGirl
@Baud: ???
SFBayAreaGal
@rikyrah: I love this recipe from one of the commentators:
NR_Garrett
@NR_Garrett
·
19h
Replying to @AP_Politics
RW Catnip:
2 TBSP Reagan
4 Cups HRC
1 Cup Pelosi
1/2 Cup CNN
2 Cups Soros
3/4 Cup White Grievance
Add all ingredients in bowl.
Mix until ingredients turns white.
Serve with milk and white toast.
Eat with Fox News.
SiubhanDuinne
I do like the fact that the new baby (a) shares a birthday (probably) with William Shakespeare, and (b) was born on the feast day of Saint George, England’s patron saint.
Too bad the names William and George are already taken :-)
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: Seems like such a nice guy.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Every day, in every way….
OzarkHillbilly
@WaterGirl: The last I talked to him he is doing well. The bone regrowth is slower than the doctors would like but otherwise he’s doing fine. That was 2 weeks ago. I meant to call him last night but my sleep over the wkend was pretty broken and I was kind of beat. I’ll call him this eve, but I figure “No news is good news.”
Lapassionara
@SiubhanDuinne: Really? Cool! Thanks.
O. Felix Culpa
If only the shitgibbon would follow suit.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the SFO:
Stationary boats, steel-cut oats, and skull-fucking goats.
Elizabelle
@germy: I wondered if he was unclothed because meth! and mental illness, or if he’s taken Forensic Files to heart. (“If I ditch the jacket and am not wearing clothes …”)
Tragic for the poor souls who were just getting a meal and even some companionship. Waffle Houses have regulars. I’m kind of jonesing for some scrambled eggs and grits right now …
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: So glad he came through as well as he did and that things are moving in the right direction!
germy
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@germy: Remember how when he got the nomination, rents to the RNC in his building quadrupled? It’s always been a grift, and that bloodsucker doesn’t care if the host it bleeds is the whole country or just the RNC.
Steve in the SFO
@SiubhanDuinne: you are en fuego this morning
ETA: which is especially helpful today, after all the sad reminders of canine mortality
rikyrah
@germy:
the fourth was Latino, and looked obviously non-White.
SiubhanDuinne
@Lapassionara:
IIRC, it was one of the many changes made in the wake of Diana’s death. I recall there were all kinds of Royal Commissions and Parliamentary Recommendations on updating and streamlining the Monarchy, and doing away with gender bias in the Succession was one of them.
O. Felix Culpa
Trigger warning: by Fred Hiatt (stopped clock, and all that): The arc of white supremacy’s history in America
Gin & Tonic
@Steve in the SFO: I don’t think there’s a Waffle House in San Francisco.
Manyakitty
@Amir Khalid: Ooh, like what? I’m a long-time, deeply devoted Zeppelin girl.
Steve in the SFO
@Gin & Tonic: yeah, I had Lori’s Diner as my back up
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
This should help.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@O. Felix Culpa: There was a protest here in town about him last night, then they all got in there benz’s and honked their horns at each other.
Jeffro
Unintentionally hilarious in That Paper today: A Time For Big Economic Ideas
David Leonhard proposes a few things that sound, well, downright HIllaryesque. Or if you prefer, straight-up normal Dem stuff (under the guise of ‘going big’)
Yes…they certainly need to be more bold. “Innovative”, even (FSM do I ever hate that word, since it is so often used to describe a situation where folks can’t simply execute on the fundamentals.) Anyway, “bold”: what would that look like, good sir?
A jobs program? A higher minimum wage? Infrastructure? Child care? ‘Medicare for All’? Free pre-K and/or community college? Taxing the rich to pay for it?
Positively boldFucking straight-up Democratic Party line, Mr. Leonhardt. Straight. Up. Just call it what it is – a time for the Democrats to be back in charge for a good long while.Oh, the hilarious part? It was actually back up in the earlier part of the article, but I moved it down here:
Ahem.
A-hem.
You have to laugh or you’ll cry…but technically Ms. Tanden is correct: Donald Trump most certainly has widened America’s aperture, all right. That’s one way to put it, fer sure!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
AL your musings about a quiet week triggered the following fantasy (no, not that kind of fantasy you perverts!). Remember how we found out months after the fact that several people had been indicted by Mueller?
What if T went completely silent one day on the Twitter. No statements, no photo ops, nothing. And it stretched into a week, and a month. The flowers started to bloom, people started smiling again, the birds started chirping, etc.
Finally one day Mueller releases his report, in which he adds as a footnote that T was arrested six months before and has been in the pen awaiting trial.
Steve in the SFO
@SiubhanDuinne: 45 Waffle Houses in Cartersville?! Is that because of I-75 traffic?
And 29 in not-on-an-interstate Athens?! How much does raven eat? That said, I have fond, though vague, memories of the one at Milledge and Lumpkin. Which, I learned many years after law school, is open during the daytime, not just midnight to 3 am.
Quinerly
I thought this was an interesting piece on “Roseanne.” I never watched the original except to catch an episode in re runs… wanted to see Bonnie Bramlett, as I met her in person at a concert a few years back (and an ex boyfriend dated her pre Delaney?) Have no interest in watching it now. Apologies if it has already been posted: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/how-one-joke-on-roseanne-explains-the-show
O. Felix Culpa
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I like that – protests in Benz’s! I’d gladly take one of these to the streets. Ridding the body politic of the tangerine toddler would be a plus.
No Drought No More
The republican party in a nutshell:
The Guardian reports: “..The records link [Sean] Hannity to a group of shell companies that spent at least $90m on more than 870 homes in seven states over the past decade. The properties range from luxurious mansions to rentals for low-income families. Hannity is the hidden owner behind some of the shell companies and his attorney did not dispute that he owns all of them.
Dozens of the properties were bought at a discount in 2013, after banks foreclosed on their previous owners for defaulting on mortgages. Before and after then, Hannity sharply criticised Barack Obama for the US foreclosure rate. In January 2016, Hannity said there were “millions more Americans suffering under this president” partly because of foreclosures..”.
Brachiator
@germy:
Did Trump or any other administration official say anything about this act of domestic terrorism?
Did the NRA suggest that waitresses start packing heat?
Manyakitty
@Steve in the SFO: Don’t forget about Bron yr Aur
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks for that, I think. Now I want a map of all the Waffle House locations where there’s been a murder.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@SiubhanDuinne: I am unfortunately not a composer, so though I wish I could hear your masterpiece set to music I’m not the one to do it.
Worse, as an amateur musician I have quite a lot of music of all genres and qualities rattling around in the brain. It kicks out the most bizarre things sometimes.
So what came out as I read the last two lines of each verse was the old Hellman’s Mayo jingle.
https://youtu.be/27Sxx0FYdbk
OzarkHillbilly
@Jeffro:
Thereby undermining good union jobs offering $30-50/hour compensation packages. Yeah, that’ll work.
O. Felix Culpa
From Alexandra Petri, about the sad, sad “silencing” of the fellow (whose name I don’t care to look up) who got shitcanned from the Atlantic because the editor was forced to acknowledge that the knotty-pated fool really meant it when he called for hanging women who had abortions:
More here.
Gin & Tonic
Armenia’s Prime Minister has resigned, apparently in reaction to anti-corruption protests.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: It’s the same map. The food there is just to die for.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the SFO:
I haven’t set foot in a Waffle House for, probably, close to ten years — no boycott or anything, it just hasn’t occurred to me — but back in the day I drank many a coffee and ate many an egg (and many a grit!) in their friendly confines. Spent many years on the road in the seven Southeastern states; there were always countless WH locations along my route, often only a short walk from my motel. So it was easy and cheap, and I was grateful for their ubiquity.
geg6
@SFAW:
People can say whatever they like about him. I find TPM indispensible, especially for breaking news and investigative journalism, in which he has been heavily investing time, space and assets. And yes, when all the Cohen stuff broke, I was not surprised. He’s been featuring stuff on him and Sater for a good long while. They also do stellar work on polling and elections.
O. Felix Culpa
Joke shamelessly stolen from the interwebs:
Q. Why do people take an instant dislike to Ted Cruz?
A. It saves time.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
Saw it last night and was too tired to post my bravos to you. So let me just say bravo now. Masterful.
lollipopguild
@satby: Who are you calling old?
Genine
I love the song/poem, SiubhanDuinne!
raven
@Steve in the SFO: I mean around here.
Fair Economist
@No Drought No More:
Emphasis mine. Given Cohen’s MO, I’m betting that Hannity was helping Russians launder money – for a fee, of course.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
That fits very well! And I’m the same way with music of all genres — usually classical, but could just as easily be a show tune, an ad jingle, a nursery rhyme, or big band music from WW2. Or, of course, my beloved Gilbert & Sullivan.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: Oh and here in Ozarkistan, “Waffle House” is pronounced “Awful Waffle”.
Fair Economist
@SiubhanDuinne: When I was a kid, I loved Waffle House and I’d go with my grandmother all the time, but I don’t like it now. Dunno whether my tastes changed or their food deteriorated or some combination thereof.
rikyrah
So….no tweets from Dolt45 about the Waffle House Shooting…
Uh huh
Neither he, nor the phucking KKKeebler Elf, and goddamn SILENCE from the NRA.
UH HUH
UH HUH
Gin & Tonic
@raven: I dunno, Amir Khalid, Mike J, some other folks are chatting about football every weekend around here.
rikyrah
@geg6:
They, along with Maddow and Ari Berman, have been out in front on GOP Voter Suppression.
Steve in the SFO
@SiubhanDuinne: you can’t eat at Waffle House if you use words such as “ubiquity”
germy
@rikyrah: He simply doesn’t care.
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: An ice cream chain here in New England has a drink they call an “Awful Awful.” People elsewhere in the country would likely call it a milk shake.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: Bah, bunch commies.
OzarkHillbilly
@Steve in the SFO: Sure you can, you just can’t use them in an Awful Waffle.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: In STL they have “Concretes”.
O. Felix Culpa
@Steve in the SFO:
LOL. I have never eaten at that establishment, but then I grew up in a northern state where we were blessed with resplendent Greek diners.
Kathleen
@SiubhanDuinne: That was brilliant!
SFAW
@Elizabelle:
I’d like to see a “law” where the local “law” enforcement person pays the father a visit, resulting in extra convection-cooling holes in the father (whose excuse for a “brain” appears to have overheated), for being a fucking moron.
rikyrah
About Shania Twain and her ‘ I would have voted for Dolt45’
I’ll say it again..
Ain’t got no time.
Ain’t got no tolerance for anyone pursing their lips about supporting Dolt45.
We can go on the internet and bring you 50 horror stories – IN POLICY- within 5 minutes..
and, you think people gonna tolerate this bullshyt?
ARE. YOU.SERIOUS?
Off the top of my head, the most disgusting things I’ve read in the past 36 hours:
1. Trying to kick Native People off Medicaid
2. Trying to declare Native People a ‘race’, so that they can try a land grab
3. 700 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN SEPARATED FROM THEIR PARENTS IN THE ICE DETENTION FACILITIES
This is off the top of my head.
And, you think that I’m gonna ‘ understand’ muthaphuckas who try and ‘explain’ their support for this evil?
PHUCK.OUTTA.HERE.
TWAIN IS CANCELLED.
PERIOD.
rikyrah
How one Baltimore clinic is helping patients with food, housing and even the gas bill. Fascinating by @brettnorman: https://t.co/bgnYWtVMTG
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) November 30, 2016
rikyrah
TWITTER TRUTH ABOUT THAT RIDICULOUS ATLANTIC ARTICLE:
44 former presidents, not once was something like this written. Trump inherited a booming economy, Obama one falling apart, an auto industry collapsing, banks and institutions crumbling, but NOT ONCE did a report from @TheAtlantic or anywhere else write a piece of shit like this! https://t.co/pEJeKRWoaB
— tina morphis (@TinaMorphis) April 23, 2018
44 former presidents have held this office, 44 men, who stood over wars, watched a Great Depression, steered us through countless recession, terrorist strikes and NOT ONCE did a report write drivel like this, NOT ONCE.
I have a fucking Idea, maybe it’s not the PRESIDENCY and or
— tina morphis (@TinaMorphis) April 23, 2018
the office, maybe just fucking maybe it’s the Goddamn Imbecile, lying Authoritarian wannbe ignorant sob in the office? A man who speaks on a 3rd grade level. A man who can’t read more than 3, yes 3 bullet points. This article should be burned. Yes, that’s what should happen.
— tina morphis (@TinaMorphis) April 23, 2018
Take all the copies from everywhere, throw it in a pile of rubbish and burn the damn thing until there’s nothing left but soot!
JFC, what nation did I wake up in? Victim Card Mentality Award given too…….one @realDonaldTrump and the Author of this piece of shit!
— tina morphis (@TinaMorphis) April 23, 2018
geg6
Never stepped foot in a Waffle House in my life, despite having driven all over the Atlantic and some of the Gulf south. No idea why, but it’s probably that I try to avoid chain restaurants if at all possible. My BIL, whose mother grew up in TN and who spent a lot of time there both as a kid and now, loves a Shoney’s, in which I’ve also never set foot. Two southern franchises we just don’t have here in Western PA. Now, I will admit to having eaten a lot of breakfasts at Eat’n’Park, the local family restaurant chain. A few lunches, too. But never dinner. I like them because, although they are chain with family/diner fare, they source local ingredients. I like that a lot.
rikyrah
Remember, he was ‘ Presidential Timber’
BWA HA HA HA HA HA AH AH
New felony charges filed against Missouri governor Greitens
Rachel Maddow reports on new felony charges against Missouri Governor Eric Greitens related to a charity he runs, separate from the disturbing sex scandal that has also brought charges.
Kathleen
I’m @germy: I eagerly await launch of his new PAC “Black Votes Matter” or “The targeted rodent procreation of the Dem base continues apace”.
Kathleen
@germy: I suspected he may have been targeting African Americans.
rikyrah
DNC files lawsuit against Trump camp, others over 2016 hack
In a remarkable echo of the Watergate era, the DNC has filed a lawsuit against the Donald Trump campaign, members of Trump’s inner circle, Russia, Wikileaks, and others over the hack of e-mails and other data by Russia during the 2016 campaign.
rikyrah
Pending DoJ IG report could have answer to Giuliani leak inquiry
Congressman Eric Swalwell talks with Rachel Maddow about what is expected from a Department of Justice inspector general report reported to be coming next month that could include the results of an investigation into whether Rudy Giuliani received leaks from the FBI New York office.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
@Genine:
@Kathleen:
Many thanks — and to anyone else whose kind comments I may not have acknowledged, last night or this morning, I am very grateful.
rikyrah
Former Stormy Daniels lawyer cooperating in Michael Cohen probe
Rachel Maddow reports breaking news from the Washington Post that Keith Davidson, the former lawyer for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, is cooperating in the federal investigation of Donald Trump confidant Michael Cohen.
rikyrah
Students across U.S. walk out of class to advocate for gun reform
Rachel Maddow shares scenes from around the country of students marching in protest for gun reform legislation on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School gun massacre.
Kathleen
@Elizabelle: I was pleasantly surprised that police didn’t arrest the young AA man who saved lives.
rikyrah
Trump’s bold new idea: suing the Democratic National Committee
04/23/18 08:00 AM—UPDATED 04/23/18 08:39 AM
By Steve Benen
Not long after Richard Nixon and his political operation launched their Watergate scheme, the Democratic National Committee launched a civil suit against the Republican president. Last week, in a remarkable historical echo, the DNC filed a similar lawsuit against the Russian government, Donald Trump’s campaign, and WikiLeaks, alleging they coordinated to disrupt the 2016 campaign.
The judge in the case, as luck would have it, was a former Watergate prosecutor.
Not surprisingly, the president, who’s already the subject of a criminal investigation, heard about the civil case, and on Friday afternoon, Trump shared his initial reaction:
To the extent that reality still has any meaning, nearly all of this was nonsense. The DNC, for example, didn’t refuse to cooperate with the FBI. For that matter, DNC officials aren’t in Congress, and therefore can’t be “obstructionists.” (The original version of Trump’s tweet also referred to Wendy Wasserman Schultz, instead of Debbie.)
But the words that stood out were, “we will now counter.”
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@rikyrah: On Point was on NPR while I drove home from the gym and they were deeply concerned that this suit might make the Russia investigation seem political. I shut it off.
Kay
It’s Monday, so it’s “nasty, petty people in the Trump Administration” day.
They’re bad people. They can all do backflips and whine a lot about how unpopular they are but they’re unpopular because they’re mean-spirited and petty. Every day, in small ways and large ways. It’s not just Trump either- it’s all of them.
Part of how Democrats are winning elections in formerly GOP areas is really simple- they’re running on “I’m not an asshole, unlike these people”. Pundits are saying it’s because they’re policy moderates but that’s not it at all- they’re running on the contrast between these assholes and themselves. It’s a really low bar, too. You just have to be a person of average decency.
But her emails!!!
@rikyrah:
That article, or at least the title is a heaping pile of garbage. President Obama handled the office masterfully despite having to deal with the nihilistic obstruction of Republicans. Bill Clinton did a fine job, despite not being able to keep his cigar in his pants. Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton would have been solid Presidents (one of them might have even surprised us and been more than that). The Presidency only seems to be an insurmountable challenge only for the last two Presidents dredged up from the Republican sewers. That’s probably one part electing stupendously unqualified men and two parts inability to compose a competent team and listen to it’s advice because everyone is John Fucking Wayne.
Gin & Tonic
People dancing in the streets of Yerevan.
Elizabelle
@rikyrah: Shania Twain: “Man. I feel like a moron. Do do do do do do do …”
Won’t hurt her with some of her fans, but she and Susan Sarandon can get together and gripe about immolating their own careers, with their own mouths.
Elizabelle
@Kay: I wonder if Macron will reach out to Democrats on his own; maybe the embassy is doing something.
It’s Trump Classique: short-sighted, mean and stupid.
Elizabelle
@Kathleen: Impressed with his presence of mind. James Shaw, Jr.
Kay
I know we’re not permitted to raise this, but I’d like everyone to consider how political media would have savaged Hillary Clinton if she had lost a nomination contest for the US Senate. They would have launched 2 full weeks of using her a s punching bag.
Compare/contrast with Mitt Romney. Many of you may recall Mitt Romney lost a Presidential race and did not take up knitting- in fact, he was given fawning coverage although he’s completely full of shit, has no principles of any kind and does NOT in fact, appear to be popular with Utah Republicans.
rikyrah
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Oh well. Too bad. Shut up. Nobody is playing with you.
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: It is interesting to see how our respected outlets like the NYT, PBS Newshour and The Atlantic make every excuse in the book for the Orange Ogre in the WH.
rikyrah
@Kay:
You say this all the time.
and, you are right all the time on this point.
No Drought No More
“@JYSexton
The President of the United States has no ethics, has the worst possible worldview, and is probably compromised by a foreign adversary. And, if that wasn’t bad enough, he’s an idiot”.
A minor quibble with that analysis. It’s not a matter of “probably”. It’s not a matter of Trump being “compromised”. His is ugly treason, pure and simple, and he’s been aided and abetted every step of the way by c0-conspirators.
Hang ’em ALL high. The sole exceptions being, perhaps, those plotters that Mueller Inc. is prepared to bargain with in order to get to the bottom of this humiliating episode in American history. But only if their testimony is vital to hanging the rest high. Then we’ll begin to right the ship of state, if only then.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Willard has to run in a primary election…BWA HA HA HA HA HA
But, yes, Kay….I have noted the difference.
Hillary is supposed to shut up, but they had phucking McCain on Sunday shows pretty much every damn week for 3 years after 44 was elected.
Elizabelle
@Kathleen: WaPost, about Mr. Shaw and those shot at Waffle House: say their names: and the naked shooter knew the area; he lived a mile away, in a gated apartment community:
Kathleen
@rikyrah: Pet The Twitters Chuck Todd supposedly said DNC suit was “stunt”. Wonder how he’d react to RNC countersuit.
The Thin Black Duke
@Kathleen: I was pleasantly surprised the police didn’t shoot him.
Elizabelle
And, about states’ porous gun laws:
germy
Manyakitty
@germy: I heard about this over the weekend. That judge is a menace.
Brachiator
@Kay:
Whoah! I didn’t realize that Trump was pushing the pedal to the metal on pettiness.
It’s Monday, so it’s “nasty, petty people in the Trump Administration” day.
I’ve read that this is Trump’s first official state dinner, and a lot of planning has gone into it, which makes the apparent diss of Democrats all the more reprehensible.
The pundits are morons, but the Democrats better be running on the idea that they will do better than the Republicans, not just on the idea that they are nicer people.
I want Republicans to be voted out and to go to jail because they are corrupt, craven and criminal.
Gin & Tonic
@germy: You know, that’s an infuriating story, but the Newsweek article is crap. There’s no indication when this happened – the article refers to an ICE directive from January (of what year?), and says this incident was before that (OK, when?), it gives some sort of “not available” in reference to the judge, but if this happened at a minimum of 5 months ago, didn’t they have time to actually go to the judge’s office and ask in person? I don’t mean to belittle what happened to these people, but the decline and fall of Newsweek is really a sight to behold.
Kathleen
@Elizabelle: Eoe. Sounds like hate crime to me. Thanksfor the detail which I hadn’t read.
germy
EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Former Starbucks employee says manager was ‘racist’
MomSense
@Kay:
Knitting is too good for Mitt. We don’t want him.
Kathleen
@The Thin Black Duke: That too.
germy
@Gin & Tonic: Layoffs.
germy
@Elizabelle:
That’s the angle all the network TV news stories took. No mention of his political beliefs. No mention of the race of the victims. “It’s a mystery!” they shrugged.
Again, I predict he’ll be taken alive by authorities. Maybe they’ll even buy him a hamburger on the way to jail if he seems hungry.
Miss Bianca
Good morning, jackals! SD, that little ditty is genius.
Just wanted to pop in and say thanks and thanks again for all your condolences on the passing of the Good Good Dog, Stella. You have no idea what it’s meant to me to know you all are out there thinking of us both, you jackals with the hearts of gold. I felt a little bad raining on the happy Lily parade, but I knew that everyone who comes for the politics and stays for the pets would know how I was feeling. You’ve made this fictional white mouse feel very comforted. Thank you.
Gin & Tonic
@germy: Sorry, not buying that. Even if there was only one employee left, s/he could have written a better article.
Brachiator
@Elizabelle:
Sadly, this would not have the same impact, but it would be damned interesting if Macron were to reach out to the Democrats in some way. But Macron is also trying to get Trump to keep US troops in Syria and to adhere to the current agreements with Iran over the nuclear deal and sanctions, so he may not want to ruffle feathers.
Trump is laying it on thick for the French, with a lot of symbolism of friendship between the two countries.
Also, this is a big deal for Republicans and for Trump to try to prove that he has foreign policy chops:
But the bottom line is that given all the thought that has gone into hosting the French, Trump’s apparent cutting out of Democrats (and all journalists) is not short sighted, but cruelly deliberate, and yeah, mean and stupid. Trump, like the worst French despots, loves to indulge his resentments in public.
satby
@Miss Bianca: we’ve all been there and feel for you. Condolences again.
MomSense
@Miss Bianca:
It’s really tough to say goodbye to our fur babies. Please be gentle with yourself.
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
@rikyrah: links please? This is a huge deal for me and mine. We got family on the Rez.
gvg
@germy: he attacked while nude except for a jacket. Honestly I am not expecting any motive except crazy or possibly bad drug trip.He may turn out to have been influenced too but the real cause is he’s nuts. I also think he may already be dead-suicide somewhere.
There have been plenty of other cases that were domestic terrorism.
Now his dad might be more of a factor. I am guessing gun rights nut and those are pretty influenced by some sewer thoughts.
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
Wife and I went to a Gov’t Mule show last night… strongly recommend study of their advanced RnR abilities !! Great show, lights, sets, all worked without a hitch!!
J R in WV
@WaterGirl:
Could it be the ice cubes????? ;-)
SFAW
@The Thin Black Duke:
That may only be because he was not “a good guy with a gun.”