Of all the possible plausible explanations, “Horsing around with Barron” has to be the one designed to raise the most eyebrows. https://t.co/eB5C1j8Pqx
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 16, 2019
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I’d bet a store-bought cookie the old man’s on blood thinners. Although it’s quite possible his aides / Jarvanka have told him they’re ‘vitamins’, or even Murphy forbid ‘virility supplements’.
And in the working-class milieu where I grew up, this kind of ‘horsing around with the kid’ injury would mean that Barron is now big enough to physically stop the old man from bashing his mother again. But then, we didn’t have Secret Service agents hanging around 24/7…
SFAW
Does Ronny Jackson make (White) House calls? Or whatsisname Hippie Doctor in NYC?
I’d trust either of them with Shitgibbon’s life.
Emma
Jeeeezuz on a red Harley FL Bobber. One day. All I want is one day when I don’t have to think about the destruction of decency, ethics, and plain humanity.
F_ck Winter is coming. The Apocalypse is here.
gene108
From the article.
We really badly need to move beyond white people’s complexion to describe flesh colored.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
the saddest thing is, the kid’s probably gonna see that and say to himself, “Oh fuck you, Jethrene, and your fat dumb clown of a boss”. In Slovenian.
Ruckus
@gene108:
I’ve got a band aid on my finger now, and if you met me you say I’m damned white. That band aid is not flesh colored. And no it’s not a kiddy band aid. It’s regular ole band aid. Band Aid brand in fact.
But you are correct about the concept of band aids being called flesh colored. It may be in the general vicinity of some one’s flesh tone, I’ve just never met them, nor do I remember ever seeing them.
Peale
@Ruckus: maybe someone who is slightly jaundiced?
Ruckus
@Peale:
OK LOL.
I have a question. Only slightly?
feebog
Why is the fact this moron has a bandaid on his hand worthy of a news article?
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Eh, maybe it’s just that thing lots of old people get where their skin thins and their veins become more prominent and they scratch and bleed easily? Both my parents (80-ish) have had that issue for a while, and they’re not on blood thinners and not knockin’ each other about. Much as I loathe the Pumpkinturd, there’s no need to read too much into every little thing.
ON THE OTHER HAND – it’s inconceivable that asshole has ever done anything remotely resembling “playing” with Barron, or any other of his offspring. I’d be astonished if he’s even laid eyes on Barron in the last two months. AL, your theory is at least as plausible as the idiotic official excuse.
ruemara
Based on placement & size, I felt it was a skin cancer removal.
West of the Rockies
@feebog:
I rather agree. In light of all the terrible things Trump is and does, this is inconsequential. It can’t be all Mueller all the time though here, so I’ll pipe down.
Mnemosyne
I finally saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It really is as good as everyone has been saying.
sukabi
@ruemara: wrong, if it was the cancerous blob would be gone and it’s clearly still here.
smike
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
Being of a certain age, I’m willing to bet that all old people experience the same thing. It also takes longer to heal injuries, so we’ve got that going for us.
JWR
From the Politico link…
And from a graf down, after some argle-bargle about mixed martial arts…
No, Sean. We’re just wondering if you and Donny have been sharing blood, just to keep up the cold-heartedness.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JWR: Obviously they took a blood oath to each other, it’s really quite sweet.
Villago Delenda Est
@sukabi: well played.
sukabi
Senate Democrat: We’re ‘Moving Toward Indictment And Charges’ Against Trump
?BillinGlendaleCA
@sukabi: I think the OLC policy is bunk, if the President feels that an indictment will hinder him doing his job, he can invoke Section 3 of the 25th Amendment.
sukabi
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Is that the section where he fucks right on off to the loony bin?
Doug R
@Mnemosyne: Spider Verse better get nominated for an Oscar, it’s the best Spider picture yet, possibly beating Spiderman 2. Yeah, I know Heresy!
Doug R
Back OT, I saw a comment at the Politico article that it’s in the right place for a butterfly iv-maybe some treatment.
Duane
@sukabi: Whatever facility Trumpov lands in, they’ll need lots of orange colored bandaids.
sukabi
@Doug R: I think it’s more likely that the ‘horse play’ with Barron was a backhand to the face and a cut from braces or teeth.
Martin
Good christ. Granted, I’m probably several orders of magnitude more active than Trump, but I always have either a bandaid or a visible injury. My boss asked me about it once, and I explained that because I played sports and do woodworking, I sort of don’t have the kind of self preservation from small injuries that a lot of people normally do. I’ll absentmindedly shove my hand into a rose bush, or reach behind a piece of furniture that might have a sharp edge or staple exposed. I burn myself a lot as well. Usually I don’t even notice it until my wife gives me the dry ‘you’re bleeding again, please make it stop’. My grandfather was the same way, but my dad, who didn’t get the woodworking bug like me, is a lot more careful about not injuring himself.
Now, that’s not to say I’m particularly tough. I’ve passed out giving blood before, and needles do require me to concentrate very hard to not freak out. Simple illnesses will incapacitate me. But tearing up my hands, arms, etc – do it all the time.
But put me down as a ‘playing with Barron’ skeptic. More likely he hurt it punching the portrait of Hillary in the WH.
smike
@sukabi:
I think that is the section where he says, “Hey, I’m pardoned. Can you believe it? Me! Donald Trump! No crimes! No crimes! And now, I’m pardoned.”
Mnemosyne
@Doug R:
I loved the revelation of that universe’s Doc Ock. I’ll say no more.
Mnemosyne
@sukabi:
Or, to Anne Laurie’s point above, Barron is finally strong enough to punch back and make the old man back down. You know — “horseplay.”
Sab
@?BillinGlendaleCA: LOL.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: that cracked me up. and the weirdness of the Ocktopus arms. Plus Spider Gwen is hella cool
?BillinGlendaleCA
@sukabi: No, it’s the provision that allows the President to temporarily transfer power.
Amir Khalid
@Ruckus:
It might be cheaper to make “flesh-coloured” Band-Aids in one colour resembling nobody who ever lived and lower people’s expectations that way than to incur the expense (and business risk) of making them in a rainbow of plausible skin colours including some unusual ones.
Sab
@Duane: Bandaids already are kind of orange colored. That’s why they don’t actually match many real people.
Ruckus
@smike:
Not exactly sure where old starts but I’d guess that I’m there and I heal about the same as always. And I once considered that investing in J & J would be about the safest investment for me, as a very regular customer. One gets that way working in machine shops, too many sharpe edges and loose bits of metal.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
I’m not hugely familiar with the current Spider-Man universe, but I enjoyed the multiverse choices they made. And I always like it when the villain has a tragic backstory reason for his actions rather than just MUUUAAAHHAHAHAHAHA EEEEVILLLL!
sukabi
@Mnemosyne: possibly, but Barron needs to up his game. A cut on the hand’s just gonna piss the old man off more. Then it turns into — you get a beating and you get a beating and you get a beating too.
Anne Laurie
@Sab: IIRC, when Crayola renamed its ‘flesh colored’ crayons, they went with ‘peach’. That seems like a fair compromise — who doesn’t like a nice peach? (Even Trump talks about calling his WAAAAHLL ‘Peaches’!)
Mnemosyne
@Amir Khalid:
They actually do make different skin tones of band-aids now, but I don’t think they’re official Band-Aid brand. I’ve seen them at Target.
I’ve been buying cartoon band-aids instead, because those go with every skin tone anyway.
sukabi
@?BillinGlendaleCA: how does that keep him from getting indicted?
joel hanes
@ruemara:
Based on placement & size, I felt it was a skin cancer removal.
Reminds me of one of my favorite British dry cuts :
Evelyn Waugh’s diary entry (March 1964), after hearing that doctors had removed a benign tumor from Randolph Churchill:
“A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.”
similarly, if they removed all the malignant parts of The Donald, there’d be nothing left at all.
joel hanes
I’ve seen phlebotomists use that back-of-hand vein when they can’t get into one in the arm.
Sab
@Ruckus: I keep my bandaids in the kitchen knife drawer. Where else would I need them?
My husband thinks I am nuts, but he keeps his tools all over the house in any available open space, so a person could bleed to death waiting for others looking for bandaids to find them. Plus the kitchen is more clean.
Medicine cabinet in the bathroom is way too damp in Ohio climate.
smike
@Ruckus:
Cabinetry shops, too. Trim carpentry, too. In younger days, those were my only two job related trips to the ER. Fortunately, fairly minor incidents.
Sab
@Anne Laurie: I am so old that I had forgotten that until you reminded me. I do like that crayon color.
Mary G
The Guardian has gotten hold of the latest tell-all book, Chris Christie’s “Let Me Finish.”
He describes how much of an idiot Jared Kushner is in detail, and Mikes Pence and Flynn are trashed too.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@sukabi: It doesn’t, that’s the point. They can’t use the excuse that his duties prevent him from being indicted or face a trial. He can temporarily transfer his powers to the Vice President who would be Acting President.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
Oh it is, much cheaper.
But they come in different shades of something close to probably someone’s flesh. Of course they still aren’t the color of any flesh I’ve ever seen. On any human. And with people in the richer end of the color scheme, they don’t even come close.
Ruckus
@joel hanes:
“He disappeared as if in a zero vacuum.”
Just a little something to wish for.
Ruckus
@joel hanes:
I don’t let them use the back of the hand any more. Too much nerve damage in there as it is.
joel hanes
@Ruckus:
Just a little something to wish for.
Devoutly.
May the next snark that The Donald encounters be a boojum.
Amen.
Ruckus
@smike:
Only once to ER for a work injury in almost 50 yrs of machine work.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: When I got my shingles shot on Monday they gave me a red band-aid with a Rite-Aid logo.
Sebastian
Anyone watching the Barr confirmation?
oatler.
Occurs to me if Trump really had cancer, he would so to speak, play that card.
sukabi
@?BillinGlendaleCA: ok, thought so…but I don’t see drumpf voluntarily handing over his office to pence even temporarily.
I can see him trying to flee the country, but like ecerything else there would be no real plan.
Luthe
@sukabi: I heard the Trump Tower in Moscow has some available units…
sm*t cl*de
@ruemara:
“A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.”
ETA Joel Hanes got there first.
Viva BrisVegas
If anybody is feeling chilly:
The world’s hottest places in the 24 hours to 11am (AEDT) on January 16:
Tarcoola (Australia) 49.1°C
Port Augusta Aws (Australia) 49°C
Woomera Aerodrome (Australia) 48°C
Olympic Dam Aerodrome (Australia) 47.9°C
Hay Airport Aws (Australia) 47.8°C
Oodnadatta Airport (Australia) 47.7°C
Marree Aero (Australia) 47.6°C
Coober Pedy Aws (Australia) 47.5°C
Warburton Airfield (Australia) 47.3°C
Ivanhoe Aerodrome Aws (Australia) 46.9°C
Wilcannia Aerodrome Aws (Australia) 46.6°C
Leigh Creek Airport (Australia) 46.3°C
Wulungurru (Australia) 46.2°C
Moomba Airport (Australia) 46.1°C
Yulara Aws (Australia) 46.1°C
Canberra is expecting it’s 4th day in a row over 40°C. Between 1973 and 1998 there were zero such days.
But don’t worry, global warming is a commie hoax.
At least BrisVegas is missing the heat it was only 35°C here today.
Anne Laurie
@oatler.:
Nah, cancer is for weaklings, in GOP-world.
You may not be old enough to remember St. Reagan, after having cancerous polyps removed from his intestines, assuring reporters. “I never had cancer. There were things inside me that had cancer, but they’ve been removed now.”
sukabi
@Viva BrisVegas: doesn’t sound so bad until you convert it to Fahrenheit. Ugh much too hot.?☔☔ sending cooler weather wishes.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Viva BrisVegas: Sounds like our summer last year.
JWR
Hmm, quiet night. BTW, did anyone else catch Gillibrand on Colbert’s show? Said she was forming an exploratory committee, and when Colbert asked if that meant she was running, she said that yes, she’s running. So there was that.
And not to relitigate the last thread… Her opening remarks were okay, but when Colbert asked how she would go about reopening the government, she began going on about how we all need to get together and blah blah blah. (Blah!) I was really hoping for a better interview from Colbert, like asking her how she would negotiate anything with McConnell, but oh well.
JAFD
@joel hanes: Between blood tests and IVs, I got home from the hospital feeling like a damn pincushion.
trnc
The Haunting of Shill House
Chris Johnson
WHAT
OK, Hannity being like ‘oh do you think we COLLUDED’ is super disingenuous. So, what the FLYING FUCK is going on here.
On the one hand (heh) I’m like “okay, Trump is faking stigmata to further symbolize Jesus to his nutjob last ditch followers”.
On the other hand, he’s a fucking Russian asset and likes to privately consult with Putin for half an hour without anyone present, and there’s every reason to consider him literally a Putin agent. Not a clever one, a wackjob off the rails one, but totally owned in deeply creepy ways. SO…
If Trump needs to send a frantic emergency signal to his master, how does he do that?
I think this is their panic button signal. If Trump’s seen publically with bleeding wounds on the back of his hand, it means ‘HELP’. And if his handlers also show that same mark, it means…? I dunno, ‘got it’? ‘understood’?
If he keeps on showing that sign over and over without ‘his hand healing up or at least clotting like a regular human’s’, I think it’s a signal. That or he is Jesus. NOT. It’s a signal to Putin and he’s looking for some kind of assistance. That IS who he works for, and he gets to consult with Putin in total privacy, even as President, but then he needs to be inaccessible for long periods of time because he’s being watched as President. Therefore, signal-sending, of a kind that can operate in public.
Fester Addams
As irresponsible speculation is always in order here, I’m going to go with I.V. site where the bedtime Propofol goes in.
trnc
@Chris Johnson:
So it’s their shat signal?
Keith P.
@joel hanes: They try that in my hand all the time. I was just in the ER two nights ago, and I had to insist that they go into my elbow (which would seem to be the obvious place to stick, since it’s got better veins. My hands almost never get good sticks. But those bandages do look like medical ones (or the ones you get in office first aid kits)…definitely not any band-aid I’ve seen.
In any case, if he’s getting an IV at age 70+, we’ll find out soon enough without having to speculate….he’ll end up grabbing his chest in the middle of a press spray ala Fred Sanford.
trnc
@Mary G: So Christie tried and tried and tried to get a job in the administration long after it was clear to everyone what a dumpster fire it was, and now he’s hawking a few funny-stupid stories in some kind of tell-all?
I think I’ll skip it.
trnc
Was Barron even in the same city as “World’s #1 Criminal” recently? Pops was famously all alone in the WH, and I wouldn’t put it past SHS to make up a lie that can be easily debunked inside of 5 seconds.
ewrunning
I’m going with the theory that he’s had some suspicious growths removed. Speaking as someone who’s worn bandages in the same place recently for similar reasons. And I’m only 60 and don’t lie around on tanning beds on a regular basis.
Matt McIrvin
Misread that as “horsing around with Bannon” and AAAGH