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dmsilev
Unpossible.
PsiFighter37
Hard pass
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
Not today Satan !
Cheryl Rofer
Trump is on his way! Kim not yet.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Dollhands and Little Rocket Man, Must See TV!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Cheryl Rofer: Heh, still pegging at 25% KJU doesn’t show.
Brachiator
Here we go…
Jeffro
I just want to know how that critical ‘first minute’ goes…everything after that is either roses or mushroom clouds…
Cheryl Rofer
Kim on the move now.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jeffro: Sounds like my romantic life.
Baud
Five to one, the person who shows up is that Kim impersonator from the Olympics and no one on Trump’s team realizes it.
Cheryl Rofer
I like the commentators trying to make sense of all this.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
He said first minute, not only minute.
Cheryl Rofer
Trump has more vehicles in his convoy. WIN!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Wait, there’s supposed to be more than one minute?
MomSense
So far Dennis Rodman has the best take on what to expect.
piratedan
will there be a live feed of a burning dumpster to simulate the discussion/negotiation?
Baud
@MomSense: I’ll take things I never thought I’d say for $100, Alex.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: Well, that’s reassuring.
TS (the original)
@dmsilev:
Thank you – what sane person would want to watch this unspectacle.
Jeffro
@Baud: @?BillinGlendaleCA: YOU GUYS
Baud
@TS (the original): Thankfully, we have Adam!
ETA:. And Cheryl!
JPL
Weren’t we a nation where human rights meant something? Trump’s world is about shiny lights, and nothing else. North Korea gets a McDonald’s and a Trump hotel.
eemom
There is nothing fucking funny about this.
How refreshing that BJ is following in the emmessemm footsteps of ignoring the 800 pound gorilla in any discussion of North Korea — i.e., that Nazi Germany is alive and well on this earth.
jk
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
One Dumb Fuck meets Kim Jong Numb Nuts
TS (the original)
@Baud: They watch to save my sanity. I worry about theirs after the event.
Now if a fist/gun fight starts – I’ll be right there.
Kifaru1
@Cheryl Rofer: Amen
MomSense
@Baud: @?BillinGlendaleCA:
What a world. What a world.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: There’s a hotel in Pyongyang ready for Trump’s name.
TS (the original)
@eemom: And trump is leading the US down the same path.
Baud
@TS (the original):
They watch with a quasi-professional purpose, which I think makes it easier.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@eemom:
Trump slave: “Shut up slant eyes! MAGA”!
Mnemosyne
@MomSense:
He’s the only person on Trump’s team who’s ever met Kim, so he’s their expert.
Muse on that for a minute.
Baud
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Let’s agree to not vocalize what’s in the heads of Trump supporters.
JPL
@Cheryl Rofer: I expect that Trump and Kim Jong-un to sign an agreement to end the Korean War. I don’t expect ticker tape parades though.
Cheryl Rofer
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That path lies madness.
M4
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: @eemom:
South Korea’s Moon, whose parents were North Korean refugees, seems happy to let Trump primp and preen and if necessary take all the credit and oxygen from the room.
eemom
@TS (the original):
Yup.
Enjoy your popcorn, folks.
How about some “live coverage” of the children being torn from their mothers’ arms by our very own Gestapo and taken to “the showers”? That would be hilarious too.
Jim, Foolish Lireralist
and Nick Kristofff starts his “liberals need to clap for trump” bleating
god I hate that preening wanker
Baud
@Cheryl Rofer:
Is that the same senior U.S. official who told Trump not to congratulate Putin?
Schlemazel
NOW would be a great time for a massive tsunami to wipe out the entire city. Sorry for the collateral damage but damn the world would be so much better off. (yes, being sarcastic, relax)
Shell
And then are they gonna compete to see who can get out of town the fastest?
Cheryl Rofer
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Baud:
I thought it was ok if it was ironic
eemom
You’ve become what you despise. Have a lovely evening.
TS (the original)
@Cheryl Rofer: Reporters are discussing whether trump will smile!!! They get paid for this?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
And Kristof starts his “liberals need to clap for trump” bleating. God I hate that preening wanker
@Baud: Hear hear
Cheryl Rofer
@Baud: Probably
M4
@eemom: sorry, we’ll work harder to ignore the American President on this American politics blog at the next world historic summit.
Baud
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Irony isn’t a free pass to let your freak fly.
MomSense
Trump just tweeted that Larry Kudlow had a heart attack.
Dorothy Winsor
Larry Kudlow had a heart attack? He has a heart?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@eemom:
How? Explain.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Now sarcasm…
TS (the original)
@M4: This is not historic – this is graft and corruption – those who used to be friends of the the USA are in mourning
Cheryl Rofer
Huh
Yes, Trump is tweeting.
Carolina Dave
Trump tweets Kudlow has suffered a heart attack and is at Walter Reed
Raven
@Cheryl Rofer: sin loi mofo
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Cheryl Rofer: Ol’ Larry probably did one too may lines.
eemom
@M4:
Where did I say anything about ignoring?
M4
@TS (the original):
The American President does not generally speaking meet as equals with the dictator of North Korea.
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: @Baud: yeah, let’s minimize the recreational ethnic slurs.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@TS (the original):
“Historic” isn’t necessarily good.
Baud
@TS (the original):
The level of graft and corruption is pretty historic.
Cheryl Rofer
@?BillinGlendaleCA: He wasn’t looking too coherent yesterday.
Sm*t Cl*de
@MomSense:
He was stabbed in the back.
M4
@eemom: it seemed to me (not that your point was in any way clear) that coverage of North Korea would only be acceptable to you if it focused on their rampant human rights violations, rather than discussing the meeting occurring between Kim and Trump.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Sm*t Cl*de:
No, Larry was shot through the heart and Canada’s to blame
Baud
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Canada gives love a bad name.
eemom
She’ll be here all week.
White & Gold Purgatorian
@MomSense:
Might that be contagious? Am I evil for wishing it so? Karma for his shameless remarks about Trudeau, at any rate.
Cheryl Rofer
GregB
I needed to interrupt all with breaking news from MSNBC.
Trump and Kim Jong Un are using cars to travel to their meeting.
Thought you would want to know this groundbreaking news as it happens.
Jeffro
Anyone who’s read The Orphan Master’s Son would know that making nice with this murderous clown – Kim, I’m talking about Kim here – is the opposite of what our country should stand for.
Baud
@eemom: Is Trump Hitler or Hoover?
SiubhanDuinne
Larry Kudlow has had a heart attack.
ETA: ….as numerous others have already noted.
jacy
I am not turning on the news. I trust the jackals to tell me if anything important happens.
Jeffro
@Cheryl Rofer: Lovely. Never gonna get those images back either, Trumpov enablers. Wanna tweet about that too, Jeff Flake?
Cheryl Rofer
?BillinGlendaleCA
@eemom: Might want to brush up on history there, Hoover wasn’t President when Hitler became Chancellor.
ETA: I sit corrected, there was couple month overlap.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@M4:
Yeah, I can do that. I guess I’m still in a certain frame of mind from writing out trash-talking villains.
Cheryl Rofer
MomSense
Trump is going in to the meeting without a note taker.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Yes.
eemom
@Jeffro:
And that’s fiction. Also read Nothing To Envy.
different-church-lady
@MomSense: …and 10 Million in unmarked bills.
M4
@Cheryl Rofer: I saw that! Who was handing them out?
PsiFighter37
@Sm*t Cl*de: Exactly what I was going to say. +1 to you, sir.
eemom
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Might want to click on the link.
Chyron HR
@eemom:
Why don’t you take some valium, and once you’ve settled down you can tell us what your actual problem is. Did Cheryl Rofer “steal your man”?
MomSense
Brian Williams is asking about artillery tubes. And it looks like Kim got a new do.
rikyrah
No, it’s not worth it…So, don’t do it
For Black Lives Activists, Engaging in Trump’s Pardon Politics Feels Like a Deal With the Devil
Is it “worth boosting the reputation of a racist, misogynist, and dangerously authoritarian administration?”
Brandon E. PattersonJun. 11, 2018 3:24 PM
Last Wednesday, Alice Marie Johnson,
a 63-year-old great-grandmother who served more than 20 years of a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense, was released from federal prison in Alabama after President Donald Trump commuted her sentence at the request of Kim Kardashian West. The reality TV star, who got
involved after seeing a news video about Johnson, had met with Trump at
the White House to plead her case.
…………………..
“It’s clear that this is a PR stunt,” says Malkia Cyril, executive director and co-founder of the Center for Media Justice,
an Oakland-based group focused on the role of surveillance technology in incarcerating people of color. “That said, even a PR stunt can get some of our people free.”
“We have to make a decision,” she adds, “as to whether getting one or two, or three or four, or 10 people released from prison is worth
boosting the reputation of a racist, misogynist, and dangerously
authoritarian administration.”
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/06/black-lives-matter-donald-trump-pardon-politics-feels-like-deal-with-devil-alice-marie-johnson-1/
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
And even if he were, Hoover wasn’t a proto-fascist. Pelley, or Huey Long would have made more sense:
Dorothy Winsor
I listening to this live coverage and these TV people aren’t any better than ours. They sound like they’re covering the red carpet at some award show.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@M4: I’m sure they were a special order made in China.
Cheryl Rofer
@M4: I’m not clear on that. Lots of advice on Twitter not to plug them into your computer.
MomSense
@different-church-lady:
Cash money bitch!
Not you, the song.
Steve in the ATL
@jacy: I live by this mantra
Baud
MSNBC has the worst people covering this.
Schlemazel
Trump is Putin’s ‘most useful idiot’
http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/07/31/trump-is-putins-most-useful-idiot-because-he-believes-what-he-says-piontkovsky-says/#arvlbdata
M4
@Cheryl Rofer: I mean… yeah.
chopper
@eemom:
we’re all just a bunch of assholes!
Cheryl Rofer
Trump just went in. The guy with the football followed.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Schlemazel:
From 2016, but still true
MomSense
@Baud:
Well that’s only fitting since we have the worst people in the meeting, too.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@eemom: OK, so? Bill Clinton has met with Kim Jong Il.
Schlemazel
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
I have complained repeatedly about being behind in my reading . . .
TS (the original)
@M4: That makes it stupid and insane – not historic. Historic is usually associated with a positive event – not a sh!t fool selling out his country.
PaulWartenberg
it’s 9 pm here. has it started?
has trump already insult everybody in the room and started World War III, I mean?
M4
@TS (the original):
That’s ridiculous.
PaulWartenberg
@Cheryl Rofer:
Oh fck. Did Kim walk out with it?!
TS (the original)
@Baud:
You define trump well.
Corner Stone
Trump loves this guy. He acts like he’s trying to sell him units in Trump Tower.
Cheryl Rofer
So there’s the handshake. Trump managed to maintain a serious face. Nor did he do his handshake theatrics.
Baud
@Cheryl Rofer: My take also.
Omnes Omnibus
Putin is going to be upset when Trump gives Alaska to Kim.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: Maybe he is, or put the Trump name on that unfinished hotel in Pyongyang.
Corner Stone
Here comes the clown show.
TS (the original)
@M4:
Everything about your so called president* is ridiculous.
MomSense
In other news. evidence of Ghouliani pron use?
Corner Stone
SMOD, if you ever loved me…now’s the time….
Dorothy Winsor
Trump says it’s a tremendous success. So that takes care of that.
Gravenstone
@?BillinGlendaleCA: someone must’ve stabbed him in the back …
Roger Moore
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Actually he was; they overlapped in office for just over a month (Jan 30 – Mar 4, 1933). You may be confused because the president’s term now ends on January 20th, but when Hoover was in office it didn’t end until March 4th. It was actually the end of Hoover’s term that convinced the country to change the inauguration date. Hoover refused to do anything substantive during his lame duck period*, which left the country effectively leaderless for about 4 months at a time when the economy was collapsing. People decided we could figure out who won the election considerably sooner than that, so they moved the date up. It’s intriguing to think about what might have happened in 2000-2001 with an extra month to tabulate votes.
*Which admittedly would have precluded a Hitler/Hoover summit meeting.
Corner Stone
@Cheryl Rofer: Trump all but felt KJU up for his bra size.
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: No mangoes are good enough to make me get out of the boat.
Baud
I wish the North Korean translator were our president.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@TS (the original):
I’m sure M4 agrees with that this is insane. However, you’re being a tad pedantic. Something can be historic and be bad.
According to Wiktionary:
You can’t argue that no matter how this thing turns out, it’s not noteworthy. That doesn’t mean we think this is positive.
MomSense
I guess the first minute went well because trump said they would have a terrific relationship.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
Just tweets. Nothing to fear.
Cheryl Rofer
@Corner Stone: Grab him by the Juche!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and for comic relief, the top White House adviser who made $82 million dollars in 2017 apparently had dinner at Hunan Garden and is tweeting out wisdom from her fortune cookie
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: No, actually I thought that Hitler became Chancellor later in 1933, I was aware of the original March inaugural. You must have missed my ETA.
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: Nope. I am not falling for it.
Cheryl Rofer
Roger Moore
@Schlemazel:
Trump is a flunky, not a useful idiot.
Gravenstone
@Cheryl Rofer: with gods know what sort of malware embedded therein
JaneSays
Fuck Larry Kudlow.
There. I said it.
Mary G
Body language not great, Trump leaning forward, tapping fingers together, picture of nerves. Kim looks relaxed and a bit contemptuous. Agree that the commentators are horrible.
MomSense
Ok here’s the best take of the night.
My 14 year old.
Kim’s has crazy hair because he actually has hair he could do something with. Trump’s is sad. That combover is what sad men do.
Platonailedit
@TS (the original): Yup. This is just a shitshow for and by two most insecure narcissists seeking the world approval.
Omnes Omnibus
@JaneSays: Do not fuck Larry Kudlow. God only knows what you’d catch.
Roger Moore
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
We aren’t saying it can’t be done, just that it shouldn’t be.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
Eeeeewwww. And you were afraid of my link.
Corner Stone
@Roger Moore: Should never have been done. We look tiny and small. Just like Trump’s hands.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Roger Moore:
What the fuck is this little idiot doing? She should know better than anyone that her father is incapable of pulling this off. Daddy’s little rich spoiled brat is all “Melivanka” is.
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: I was more concerned for Jane’s health.
Cheryl Rofer
Okay, y’all. I’m gonna read the newspaper with the kittehs for a while and will come back about the time Trump and Kim are supposed to emerge.
eric
@Cheryl Rofer: if trump sees his shadow, six more weeks of nuclear winter?
Cheryl Rofer
Raoul
Maybe it’s the quality of the photography or transmission of it via Twitter, but I swear the US flags behind the big damn handshake are cheap ass printed American flags. Those white stars are not stitched on fabric. Nope.
I bet the damn cheap flimsy things were printed in Asia in a sweat shop. That alone would be three weeks of wall-to-wall Fox coverage if any Dem was shaking hands on that stage.
jk
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Ivanka – Clueless, shit for brains grifter. Hopefully, there will be a perp walk in her future.
B.B.A.
Working as I do in the *mumble* financial industry, I see CNBC on mute in my office every day. I can’t tell you what Kudlow’s voice sounds like but every time he’s on screen he twitches so much I figured he had to be on cocaine… even before I heard about his past use. He claims to be clean now but I doubt it.
Roger Moore
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Trying to keep the grift going.
eric
@Cheryl Rofer: are those barry manilow lyrics?
Platonailedit
Apparently, god heard kudlow and has acted already.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cheryl Rofer: who sounds like they want this more?
Jeffro
@Cheryl Rofer: Oh lovely…Trumpov is HONORED to be in Kim’s presence. Meanwhile, Kim notes his own perseverance in putting up with the Yankee imperialist warmonger long enough to get a photo op.
And our flag…right next to theirs, same height, same size, like this is all normal and we are all equal in the family of nations. Jesus. I guess at this point we might well be…
Corner Stone
@Raoul:
Calouste
@Platonailedit: 36 hours. Well, I guess God doesn’t work on Sundays, and his inbox was a bit full on Monday morning…
debbie
.
different-church-lady
@Cheryl Rofer:
Well, yeah, sure, enriching uranium ain’t the easiest thing in the world.
Corner Stone
I think Dr. Feelgood has given a little sum sum to Trump to get him over the jetlag hump. Dr. Lyin’ Ronny may be gone, but he’s not forgotten.
different-church-lady
@Roger Moore:
“Now hold my beer.” – Floridian Proverb.
Mike J
IHOb had a real shot at hosting this and had to go off brand.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wow, government service sure does pay better than it did “back in the day”.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: She is a GS-43,000, you know.
debbie
@MomSense:
I like your kid!
different-church-lady
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, but at least we don’t have a president who once gave a speech to bankers.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Ah, that accounts for it.
Jeffro
@Corner Stone: maybe Trumpov ran off with Larry K’s stash? It would explain both things.
Platonailedit
@Roger Moore: Fortune cookie barbie.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@different-church-lady: Dodged a bullet there.
Corner Stone
@Jeffro: I want someone to come in to Kudlow’s room and start playing acoustic guitar and accidentally knock out every IV line so he starts making fish face before he goes.
TS (the original)
So I reopen BJ to a quote from Frank Burns – on topic.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Can’t beat the classics.
Mike J
Cheryl, thanks for the tweet on the translator. Good to know one competent person will be in the room.
Jeffro
@Corner Stone: Win. Second best would be just him realizing he’s lived an utterly worthless, self-aggrandizing life and having him instantly turn into a polished turd. Ideally to be presented to Trumpov when he’s done degrading our once-great nation on this scuzz-fest.
eemom
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Read the fucking link, Part 2.
Both sides do it, amirite?
TS (the original)
@Platonailedit: Well said – two dip sh!ts using each other to fool the masses
randy khan
@Raoul:
It also appears that the U.S. flags are not the right colors. The reds and blues of the two flags should not match – the U.S. colors are darker. That’s bad advance work, to say the least.
Schlemazel
@Roger Moore:
In the original Russian there is no difference between the two
Aleta
Kudlow (quotes from a J. Chait article)
(In 2002)
(About the housing bubble)
(In 2009)
(In April 2011, refusing to credit Obama)
(In 2012)
Corner Stone
@Aleta: We can only hope he makes a statement saying, “This small heart attack isn’t going to get me.”
Steve in the ATL
@Aleta: lol. And all of this was obvious to non-ideologues and/or grifters.
Aleta
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
You’re very funny.
To Ivanka:
纸 (Paper
包 不 won’t contain
着火 something on fire.)
Citizen Alan
@Carolina Dave:
I hope he fucking dies. And Kudlow too.
Corner Stone
@Citizen Alan: I simply can not afford to buy enough co-signs for this comment.
Ksmiami
@Citizen Alan: all of them Katie- all of them- btw, I used to be a nice person, but I blame Republicans for Marching America off a cliff and now my contempt for them is a never ending font of bile