The Shitgoblin on Twitter, two hours ago:
The Democrats, who know Steel Slats (Wall) are necessary for Border Security, are putting politics over Country. What they are just beginning to realize is that I will not sign any of their legislation, including infrastructure, unless it has perfect Border Security. U.S.A. WINS!
The Shitgoblin on Twitter, one hour ago:
With so much talk about the Wall, people are losing sight of the great job being done on our Southern Border by Border Patrol, ICE and our great Military. Remember the Caravans? Well, they didn’t get through and none are forming or on their way. Border is tight. Fake News silent!
So, if the Shitgoblin doesn’t get US taxpayer money for the “Steel Slats” that Mexico was supposed to/is paying for, the Shitgoblin will veto popular, job-creating legislation. But oh by the way, diseased brown hordes were repelled and the border is somehow tight without “Steel Slats.”
No sane person expects logical consistency from Trump, but it does seem like the cycle of contradictory lies is accelerating. Pelosi and Schumer probably did a double high-five and then a flying chest bump when they saw the tweet about holding legislation hostage for the vanity wall. Bring it, mofo.
chopper
why is he so fucking obsessed with steel slats? someone drew a mockup of the fucking thing or something.
chopper
so the border is tight and nobody’s getting in, but we need a wall built to make the border secure. and somehow “steel slats” are like garlic to the vampiric brown hordes.
Mowgli
Quoting Stephen King’s The Stand, quoting Yeats:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Trump is truly the manifestation of “mere anarchy” and his “center” (ego) is not holding.
Betty Cracker
@chopper: I think an artist’s rendering must be involved. Earlier he was babbling about the “artistic design” of the wall.
p.a.
We pretty much know what our enemies are thinking about us right now, but do you think our allies are able to objectively place themselves outside of the moment and laugh their asses off, or does the very real and proper fear and loathing totally prevent it?
=lastbesthope
kd bart
We haven’t been attacked from space either so Space Force is working too.
p.a.
We pretty much know what our enemies are thinking about us right now, but do you think our allies are able to objectively place themselves outside of the moment and laugh their asses off, or does the very real and proper fear and loathing totally prevent it?
#lastbesthope
(Can’t edit)
rikyrah
Trump’s AG pick, Bill Barr, sent an unsolicited 20-page memo to the Justice Department this year excoriating Mueller’s obstruction of justice investigation. He apparently told Trump about the memo and said it could come up during his confirmation hearings. https://t.co/tw2NcKAjHt
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 20, 2018
Ruckus
@chopper:
Never expect logic or consistency from a moronic narcissist. With the exception of, he will be consistent that everything is about him. These two tweets are examples, he’s winning and that’s all that matters. To him, to the country, to the world. Reality is an unknown system to him, as the entire world rotates about the stick up his butt. He ran for King of the World, not president. In his mind, King of the World is his right, president is just a job, and he doesn’t do those.
schrodingers_cat
Is it me or does anyone else find the repetition of Nazi propaganda as snark unfunny?
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
The recurring phrase “steel slats” makes me picture the wall as vaguely resembling Venetian blinds. Which is going to look pretty weird, and probably not work all that well.
Quinerly
I’ll leave this here. The guy who taught Trump how to tweet.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/20/oh-no-the-day-trump-learned-to-tweet-1070789
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
And it will of course be much cheaper to build something on that scale that is porous and steel and no one has ever done. Or is likely to do. //
White & Gold Purgatorian
Chuck and Nancy should do this on camera. They could raise a ton of money off the video.
White & Gold Purgatorian
@Amir Khalid: It will look like those horrible vertical blinds. Remember how well those worked?
RAVEN
BEIRUT — America’s Kurdish allies in Syria are discussing the release of 3,200 Islamic State prisoners, a prominent monitoring group and a Western official of the anti-Islamic State coalition said Thursday, a day after President Trump ordered the withdrawal of all American troops from the country.
Top officials of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-led and American-supported militia fighting the Islamic State in eastern Syria, met Wednesday to discuss the option of releasing about 1,100 Islamic State fighters and 2,080 relatives of the group’s members, according to Rami Abdul Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights.
tobie
Evidently Trump’s also tweeting this morning that his decision to remove US troops from Syria is brilliant because this now means that Russia/Iran/Syria will be fighting ISIS directly and killing each other. This of course flies in the face of his victory lap yesterday that the US had defeated ISIS in Syria. What an ass.
Amir Khalid
@White & Gold Purgatorian:
I remember how finicky they could be, and their tendency to jam if you didn’t draw them at a constant enough speed.
germy
– Elvis Costello
Yarrow
@chopper:
It’s a tell. He’s worried about going to prison.
NotMax
All in all it’s just another shtick for the wall.
Shifting gears, some rarely trudged out cubic zirconia on TCM this holiday weekend.
Saturday at 4:15 a.m., Santa Claus, bizarre Mexican cheaploitation flick. From TCM’s site;
Monday at 6:00 a.m., Beyond Tomorrow. Sappier than Vermont in the spring, nevertheless an opportunity to see character actor stalwarts Charles Winninger, C. Aubrey Smith and Harry Carey co-shoulder lead roles, in a veritable deluge of contrived holiday fluff sprinkled with a touch of the morbid.
Betty Cracker
@schrodingers_cat: It’s not supposed to be funny; it’s meant to underscore how vile and dehumanizing the rhetoric used by Trump and other Republicans was in the run-up to the mid-terms — and still is at outlets like the Tucker Carlson White Power Hour on Fox. They went all-in on demonizing immigrants, and they lost. If they double-down, they’ll lose again.
Gelfling 545
@chopper: I figured it was just phallic.
Ryan
“Remember the Caravans? Well, they didn’t get through and none are forming or on their way. Border is tight. Fake News silent!”
Then why do you also need a wall? Christ, what a maroon!
FlipYrWhig
JET FUEL CANT MELT STEEL SLATS WAKE UP SHEEPLE
Gelfling 545
@White & Gold Purgatorian: A couple of people on my street have them in their craftsman style houses. It’s ghastly.
K488
@Amir Khalid: Hmmm. Makes me picture “ladder”.
Elizabelle
@Amir Khalid: Amir! For you! The faked up Der Spiegel article whose writer has been discredited and fired. All about Trumpenvolk in poor Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
In the original German. And the debunking, in English, in Medium.
Always interested in the state of journalism, actual and manufactured. And your take on same.
And now I will stop obsessing on the topic.
Elizabelle
@Yarrow: Steel bars. LOL. Maybe, indeed.
chopper
@FlipYrWhig:
shut up! you’ll wake The Sheeple!
germy
@NotMax: Have you ever seen “Happyland” the Don Ameche film?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Mango Milosovic can’t help himself from fucking up, as failure goes to the bone with him. His only dealmaking ability is to leverage the price and extent of his failure so as to escape personal consequences; his only tool in the drawer is this:
Leto
@rikyrah:
Barr: Boss, I said some really stupid things that might get in the way of my confirmation. What should I do?
Trump: Even if there were a dead girl/live boy situation, the Republicans in the Senate will pass you. Remember Kavanaugh? Zinke? Price? Pruitt? You’re fine, don’t worry. Now shut down the Mueller probe and get me a bucket of KFC!
At least that’s how I imagine the phone call would go.
Jerzy Russian
@Betty Cracker: Here is a dumb question (I am pulling out all of the stops to avoid grading papers): Where does this figure of $5 billion come from? Has someone who knows about building things (like the Army Corps of Engineers) gone out there and tried to put together a realistic bid? Even if everyone wanted this wall, I doubt the requested budget is big enough.
SFAW
@kd bart:
Hudson & Landry had a bit — don’t know if it was theirs originally, or just a retread of an old joke — about the farmer who planted radishes.
“Is that crop a big money-maker?”
“No, it’s a loser”
“Well, then, why do you keep planting it”
“Why, to keep the wolverines away, dummy!”
“But there are no wolverines around here!”
“Ya see? They work!”
NotMax
@germy
Vaguely rings a bell. IIRC, it required insulin-coated popcorn to watch.
Vhh
@chopper: Because steel slats is what Manafort, Cohen, Flynn (if he doesn’t give up Trump between now and March) and maybe tge Trump Crime Family are facing.
NotMax
@SFAW
Kearsarge!
SFAW
@germy:
Sounds like a job for The Insufferable Movie Snob!
MattF
I think that attempts to figure out what’s going on inside Trump’s head are useless and distracting. You have to point out his lies and his ‘four Bs’, i.e., bullying, bluster, bullshit, and being an asshole approach to reality, but psychologizing is just a distraction.
germy
@NotMax: First appearance by Natalie Wood in a very small part (she’s the little girl who drops her ice cream) and a twenty-something Harry Morgan.
Yes, insulin-coated popcorn is indicated.
Gin & Tonic
Ambassador Samantha Power not pulling her punches this morning.
Which reminds me, whatever happened to Heather Nauert?
ThresherK
@NotMax: The Mexican Santa Clause? I haven’t seen that in ages. it’s everything you imagine.
Elizabelle
That Gatwick Airport (near London) disruption/closure (drones flying nearby) today is going to be a logistical nightmare. Christmas season, and not a lot of excess capacity.
Am sure airports around the world are looking at this because any of them can be next.
Elizabelle
@Gin & Tonic: That twitter by Samantha Power is more interesting for the ugly responses directed back at her. Shutting the woman down, or so they are trying.
And it is meant to look as from the left; maybe some of it is. Who knows who is what on twitter or Facebook?
ETA: Power’s tweet, appended to some White House statement, apparently by Trump: The author of this statement is a dangerous, ignorant simpleton.
germy
@Gin & Tonic:
http://www.sasknewsnow.com/trump-confirms-nomination-of-ex-fox-news-anchor-nauert-as-un-envoy-5081.html
SFAW
@NotMax:
And here I was, thinking I was the only Hudson & Landry nutcase.
I had forgotten the title of the bit, thanks for providing it. I can’t tell how much, if any of it, was ad-lib.
I had also forgotten why I sometimes refer to Amarillo as “Armadillo.”
NotMax
@SFAW
To this day, even though I know full well what’s coming, The Prospectors sketch still makes me laugh out loud.
Gin & Tonic
@germy: Yeah, I know that. I meant what’s she doing, like today. Has she been confirmed? Is she in NY attempting to learn anything?
Betty Cracker
@Elizabelle: I think she’s absolutely right, regardless of where one comes down on the US mission in Syria. Trump’s comments about Iran and Russia’s reaction are incredibly stupid. Her follow up comment:
Of course the Kurds learned of the withdrawal in the media. Good god.
Gin & Tonic
@Elizabelle: Yeah, my wife lost a day due to mechanical issues flying back from Vienna – got home last night. Capacity is thin and people are not in the Christmas spirit at airports.
germy
@Gin & Tonic:
I imagine so. She’s very smart, very quick, and I think she’s going to be respected by all.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Betty Cracker: I’m guessing McNaughton drew him a personal sketch showing himself on top of a beautiful shining steel wall holding back the criminal hordes with his bare will alone.
Not going to link to Jon McNaughton. Google his work if you’re curious. It’s… astonishing.
Jerzy Russian
@Elizabelle:
There was a lot of obsession with “unmasking”. I guess that is some wingnut meme that I am happily unaware of.
Gin & Tonic
@Jerzy Russian:
Indeed it is.
Elizabelle
@Jerzy Russian: I just remember “unmasking” being thrown at Susan Rice all the time.
Maybe it’s one of the go tos for when women and/or Democrats say anything powerful.
tobie
@Jerzy Russian: @Gin & Tonic: I have no idea what the unmasking meme is about. I was wondering if the wing nuts were confusing Samantha Powers with Susan Rice. They’re both women who served in the Obama administration and specialized in foreign affairs. Ergo, they’re the same.
ETA: Elizabelle in #56 puts this more succinctly!
Platonailedit
Fucking maga is going great.
Platonailedit
This corrupt dictator thug is lecturing on democracy?
schrodingers_cat
@Platonailedit: Blog father and a lot of commenters were applauding the decision in a thread yesterday. T exists for one major purpose to destroy America’s global reputation and make its policies inward looking. Yesterday’s decision, his immigration policy and trade policy all serve that purpose.
chopper
@Elizabelle:
many of them are all “you’re going to prison!” uh yeah, whatever dude. it’s q-anon level goof-fuckery with the belief that all the obama people are gonna be rounded up.
feebog
Just a few questions about these steel slats. Chinese, Canadian or American steel? How long and how thick? How far apart will they be placed? How many slats needed per 100 miles?Has a cost benefit analysis between steel slats and poured concrete been done? If so, which is cheaper?
Gin & Tonic
@Platonailedit: Stavridis, for those who might be unaware, was Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy for the last five years, so knows a thing or two about geopolitics.
Gin & Tonic
@Platonailedit: Comrade Vladimir Vladimirovich opining on democracy is rich.
Platonailedit
@Gin & Tonic: The tweet Powers is responding to seems to be from a bot account, whatever that means.
SWMBO
@Platonailedit: That’s rich coming from Vlad. I want Vlad, Mitch and Rupert to jump in an active volcano. For Christmas.
L85NJGT
@chopper:
His constituency, both labor and capital, are very much vested in the coal steel economy of 1968. I’m sure the deal for Russian made slats (and his kickback) are already in place, and Vlad’s bosses are getting impatient. Trump will make a show at some dead US Steel plant, and then use tariff violating and falsely labeled as made in the USA product.
He’s a grifter – it’s what they do.
Platonailedit
@Gin & Tonic: @SWMBO:
I take it as yet another proof that this corrupt looter had a hand in both of these elections.
NotMax
@feebog
Strikes me as a too obvious attempt to come up with a catchphrase the cultists can shout at the rallies.
Gin & Tonic
@Platonailedit: It’s a bot account which reformats Trump’s tweets as official statements from the White House, which is consistent with the White House’s position that his tweets are official policy statements.
hueyplong
Trump’s new terminology re wall might be the result of a promised kickback/bribe by a (probably foreign) steel producer.
Of course, that blind speculation posits a rational (if amoral) consideration of cause and effect, and we can’t be sure the gibbon is capable of that now.
Each infrastructure week manages to limbo under the bar of the previous one.
SWMBO
@SWMBO: It would be a real moneymaker if they jumped on pay per view. Also the impeachment of Trump would be a cash cow for the government. If Trump thought he could make money off it, would get highest ratings and plea to no jail time, he might go for it.
Platonailedit
@Gin & Tonic: Wow. How is that even legit?
Platonailedit
@schrodingers_cat: Yup, at least Silverman pushed back with some reality.
Gin & Tonic
@Platonailedit: How is what legit? President makes a statement, bot re-sends it. They are his exact words, just formatted a little differently.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
It has the most misogynistic punch line I’ve ever heard!
ET
He wrote the first tweet but someone on staff wrote the other because it is too complimentary of/focused on someone(s) other than him
Platonailedit
@Gin & Tonic: I was referring to “White House’s position that his tweets are official policy statements”.
Spanky
Just sort of dropping by at the moment, but has anyone covered this?
catclub
@NotMax: I am too young for the first time around of Bob and Ray, but I got them on NPR in the 90’s.
Slow …. Talkers …. of …. America
Gravenstone
@Gin & Tonic: There are some deeply stupid, if not mentally deranged people replying to that tweet. Alas, once Trump is gone those wastes of protoplasm will remain.
lurker dean
it’s simply amazing how many stupid and racist people there are in this country. trump has made them all reveal themselves. i wish they would all contribute their 401ks to the wall, and then get second mortgages to give even more. let them all suffer.
for some reason “band aid” popped into my head this morning. appropriate for the season i guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE
yes, it has problematic lyrics, but the sentiment behind it, to help people, was nice. meanwhile, we have so many millions starving in yemen, and no one cares. it’s so sad.
Sloane Ranger
@NotMax: Isn’t Christmas is just as much (or as little) “native” to Mexico as it is to the USA?
rikyrah
@Platonailedit:
Ain’t nobody playing with him.
Elizabelle
The Gatwick closure is economic terrorism. Utter disruption. Think of all the effects downstream. Hotels, cars, restaurants, vacations, family time. Maybe it’s some sociopath with a grudge or trying to prevent another’s travel, but this is millions upon millions in economic effects. Who will house and feed the passengers? What happens when they can’t get where they need? Complete embarrassment for the local authorities, too.
I hope they nail whoever is doing this to the wall. It is so cruel.
germy
@Spanky:
I don’t understand their logic.
Platonailedit
rikyrah
@Spanky:
Let the Justice Department put out an official statement.
germy
Brachiator
@Jerzy Russian:
I don’t even know what this is supposed to be about. Probably a good thing. I’m not curious to know more.
Sometimes the right wing nutjobs wrap themselves up so tightly in their own nonsense that they only make sense to each other.
NotMax
@Elizabelle
More than likely was some unthinking teenagers goofing around.
Platonailedit
This is terrorism, despite UK govt’s denial.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
I know that’s Internetese for “Sask(atchewan) News Now,” but having lived in Regina for a year, I can read it only as “Sask(atchewan) New Snow.”
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: Exactly. Justice department official could be John Barron or whatever T calls himself when he speaks to reporters as a “source”.
Brachiator
@germy:
What year is this film? Sounds a lot like “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Mike in NC
All in all, Putin has had a pretty good year, but he might just pull off another outrageous stunt through Fat Bastard. Shutting down much of the US government at Christmastime would be out of the reach of most foreign dictators.
trollhattan
Distinctly remember Trump correcting a fake reporter during a presser who dared ask him about the border fence–It’s a wall, not a fence, stupid person.
Slats=wall.
Is he describing anything different from what’s there today?
J R in WV
Help me out here…what the hell are the morons going on about unmasking?
Platonailedit
Jerzy Russian
@Brachiator:
As one point I thought a good strategy was to understand all of their memes, etc. so as to better argue with them. I see now that that is a waste of time. Facts and reality don’t seem to matter to them, so there is no point in learning about every new meme that pops up (apart from some cheap laughs from time to time).
germy
@Brachiator: 1943.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtYb8g4Q5TU
Brachiator
So much contradictory nonsense. I thought that Trump had his own ideas about infrastructure and legislation he wanted passed.
And now he is announcing that he, El Trumpo Grande, will be the king of political gridlock in Washington.
ETA: The Trump Foundation shuts down as it is revealed to be a cesspool of self-dealing conflicts of interest. And yet, in Fox Idiot Land, the Clinton Foundation is still the worse thing that ever was.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mike in NC: I imagine trump will eventually cave because what he really wants is to get to his happy place in Florida, especially if the weather’s ungolfable in the DC area
Barbara
@Platonailedit: Time to cash in now that Mueller’s investigation is getting a lot warmer and more highly visible. As I told my husband this morning, I don’t think I will ever forgive my fellow citizens who voted for this transparently corrupt charlatan.
burnspbesq
@Jerzy Russian:
$5 billion won’t even put a dent in the cost of acquiring the land if the landowners decide to fight.
I have a vision of a regiment of BigLaw litigation associates fanning out across Texas and New Mexico, fighting tooth and nail so that every landowner gets top dollar from the eminent domain process, pro bono.
Just compensation, motherfuckers. Fifth Amendment FTW.
Schlemazel
Well the good news is that it probably isn’t cancer.
The Schlemazel news is that they need to remove everything anyway and leave me with a stoma
Barbara
@burnspbesq:
Why would they choose not to fight? Is there any question given the way Trump has operated that there will be strenuous efforts to pay a lot less than the land is worth?
Elizabelle
@NotMax: I don’t think so. And I think whoever it is is quite familiar with airport operations.
Elizabelle
@Schlemazel: Yea! Cancer not allowed.
tobie
@Platonailedit: I’ve been wondering if Putin and Erdogan aren’t calling in favors because they know that come January Trump will be so mired in controversy that he won’t be able to do anything, unless of course he declares martial law, which I wouldn’t put past him, though I don’t think he’d be successful.
tobie
@Schlemazel: So glad to hear the big C is not the issue.
catclub
@Platonailedit: If terrorism, I doubt it is being done by al Qaeda. Although if they really understood the west, it would be them.
Similarly for the DC sniper, two guys and $10k (very high estimate of how much cash they might spend)
sends everyone in a three state area into a panic.
Spanky
@Schlemazel: Well, shit!
And about this “need”. Given the drastic diagnosis, I hope you’re shopping for a second opinion?
L85NJGT
@hueyplong:
That’s what makes diseases like dementia so insidious. Ingrained, rote patterns of behavior can give the appearance of normalcy, while those afflicted are drifting of the edge of the map.
NotMax
@Schlemazel
Good news always welcome.
Platonailedit
burnspbesq
@Barbara:
I wouldn’t assume that all of them know that fighting is an option. And the Gubmint sure as shit won’t tell them.
JPL
@Schlemazel: I know that you were concerned that it was cancer, so the news sucks less.
While you are adapting to the new normal, please feel free to complain. We are good listeners. I gotta say I was concerned about a possible cancer diagnosis also.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@burnspbesq: somebody in LA will have to watch the Stetson stores to see Michael Avenatti is shopping for a ten gallon hat and fancy boots (what’s the Stetson of cowboy boots?), hiring a dialogue coach to teach him to say “y’all” and “gummint”
dmsilev
Just in: Conservative Revolt Endangers Deal to Avoid a Shutdown
You’ll be happy to know that legend-in-his-own-mind Paul Ryan is showing his brand of True House Leadership as his term winds down:
Sigh. Two weeks and counting until Nancy Pelosi regains the Gavel Of Smashing.
Schlemazel
@Spanky:
Yup. This was my second and different from the first so they are going to confer.
We’ll see what
L85NJGT
@Platonailedit:
U.S. Cash Repatriation Plunges 50%, Defying Trump’s Tax Forecast
Who wouldn’t want to invest in Trumpland????
zhena gogolia
@Schlemazel:
I know this is hard to hear, but you may actually feel better once they do that. Someone close to me had that experience — his pain and suffering were greatly reduced. I’m glad it’s not cancer. Our thoughts are with you.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
House leadership and “freedom caucus” leadership. Pelosi should get out a noisy tweet fast underlining that trump and the Rs are making this all about them. And I’m confident she will
sheila in nc
Re “unmasking”: When foreign officials are under surveillance, and they communicate with Americans, the identity of those Americans is kept “masked” unless there is a reason to reveal the names internally. Susan Rice was asked about unmasking in the context of her efforts to find out about a meeting in New York in December 2016 with the crown prince of the UAE. She told the House investigators that yes, she asked that the names be “unmasked” — they turned out to be Trump team people (Flynn, Kushner, and Bannon) — but she did not leak the names. See this CNN report.
Some people who don’t get it continue to insist that “unmasking” is some kind of crime in all cases.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/13/politics/susan-rice-house-investigators-unmasked-trump-officials/index.html
raven
@Schlemazel: Not great but better?
Mary G
@Schlemazel: That sucks, even if it’s not cancer. Hang in there.
catclub
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Tony Lama?
tobie
@Spanky: @germy: In disgust I called the Ethics Office of the Department of Justice to ask who signed off on this decision and whether the office would be releasing a public statement explaining the reasoning behind the decision. The woman who answered the phone said I would need to submit a FOIA request for this information but she could confirm that the decision that Acting AG Whitaker did not need to recuse himself from the Special Counsel’s investigation on ethical grounds was unanimous. Every ethics official in the DoJ signed off on this decision. I’m beyond irate.
NotMax
@dmsilev
Who knew a young Paul Ryan modeled for Charles Addams? //
Bill Arnold
@Quinerly:
That piece about the first Trump Tweet is screamingly funny. Pull quote:
Bill Arnold
@trollhattan:
Slats==The Emperor’s New Wall
NotMax
Ouch..Satire with a sting.
Bluefoot
@schrodingers_cat: definitely not just you.
The Moar You Know
@dmsilev: That dead-eyed zombie motherfucker has some plans. He hasn’t said shit against Trump on the way out. Not a fucking word. Not a word about anything, really. He’s obviously “keeping his options open” and that’s unfortunate; I’d prefer to never see him in public again.
Spanky
Anybody know what Ozark Hillbilly’s been up to?
Bill Arnold
@Jerzy Russian:
When DJ Trump uses numbers, they are usually to add emotional support to his rhetoric, or to support his ego, or both. They seldom have much to do with real reality, and more to do with supporting a reality that he is trying to manufacture.
I have a special loathing for this sort of lying. (Mind you, my father who worked as a project manager in the big-construction industry could estimate the cost of a new building project to within 5 percent just knowing square footage and local labor rates. The company avoided dealing with people like DJ Trump though.)
Amir Khalid
@Elizabelle:
I clicked the link, and Der Spiegel demanded of me, “Bitte deaktivieren Sie Ihren Adblocker!” To which my response is usually, “Beiß mich!”
Elizabelle
@Amir Khalid: Yeah. That’s a pain. I deactivated mine, briefly, and then right back on.
Spanky
Putin continues to paint himself as the Good Cop versus Trump’s Bad Cop schtick.
Ladyraxterinok
@Elizabelle: Comments to story are ‘interesting’. American RWers say authors are anti-Trump and feel selves superior to their Trum.p voting neighbors. Germans attack what they claim to is ‘Spiegel’s long running blatant leftist bias’
So A merican and German conservatives attack Spiegel’s ‘leftist’ editorial policy and the authors’ unwillingness to bow down to Trump and his supporters. So win-win for prevalence of rising revival of fascism, with voices from ‘Hitler’s fatherland of Blut und Boden worldviiew???
satby
@Schlemazel: well, better than the worst case anyway and relieved to hear it!
raven
Melber is sooooo much better than Tweety.