Tonight on The Swanson TV Dinner Hour of White Power Glower Hour, Putin’s other useless idiot has thoughts to share. Bozhe moi!
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— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) January 30, 2019
I'll be on @FoxNews tonight at 8pm ET talking about @HowardSchultz & the Democratic Party establishment's treatment of independent candidates & voters. If you don’t like Fox, please let @CNN, @MSNBC & your favorite channel know I'll talk with them anytime. :)
— Dr. Jill Stein? (@DrJillStein) January 29, 2019
You can click across if you like for the rest of Dr. Stein’s deep thoughts on the structure and nature of the American political system, American politics, and, of course, Dr. Jill Stein who, Dr. Jill Stein holds in exceedingly high regard.
NOOOOO DON’T LISTEN TUCKER, GET THE FLU SHOThttps://t.co/4FjjMoNX8t
— NotOutlandishHat (@Popehat) January 30, 2019
(Dr. Stein and LTG Flynn dining with Vladimir Putin in December 2015)
It is important to remember that when Dr. Stein and LTG Flynn were dining with Putin and enjoying the gala, the NRA’s delegation was being hosted in Moscow by Alexander Torshin, Mariia Butina, and several Russian government officials. This amount of coincidence takes a lot of planning!
Open thread!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Tucker’s a grown ass man, let Tucker make his own decisions.
Brickley Paiste
Ugh, another Harvard asshole fucking up the world.
Duane
Her appearance on Fox news kinda says it all. Removes all doubt she’s an idiot. Her and Pucker deserve each other.
Ruckus
Every one of these jackasses couldn’t, on their own, plan to pour water out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom and they were told in advance of that.
They can however plan on grifting and conspiracy with a foreign power to overthrow the government of this country because they are morons and haven’t been potty trained, so they shit on everything.
Villago Delenda Est
Putin’s moll sez wut?
Ruckus
@Duane:
Anyone with more sense than a flat rock has known for ever that she’s an idiot. People have sold communism, fascism, racism, and a lot of other isms since basically the dawn of time, to millions of people, yet she can’t manage to sell anything but herself. And she’s only getting 6 cents a pound so not even smart enough to get list price.
different-church-lady
Anyone else find it weird the way only the Democratic Party is charged with treating candidates who aren’t members of their party well?
BruceFromOhio
Tuckers’ got the same look on his face that I get when I consider the good Doctor. Or feel a kidney stone coming on.
Adam L Silverman
@different-church-lady: Ees a puzzlement!
SFAW
She seems nice.
No, wait, that’s not the right word(s) … it’ll come to me … umm … oh yeah
She seems moronic.
That’s better
Citizen Alan
I swear I have never been a violent person at any point in my life. I haven’t even been in a fist fight since fourth grade on the playground. But if I ever found myself in the same room as that woman, I would have to be physically restrained from trying to strangle her.
Steeplejack
Jill Stein:
If I was a hip left-wing gadfly with the belief that I could run a serious third-party presidential campaign, the fact that only Fox News is willing to give me air time would give me pause. Just sayin’.
The Midnight Lurker
Can we lobby the FCC to rename Fox News to Traitor TV?
No? Okay, how about the Collaborator News Network or… never mind.
I guess we should just stick with Izvestia.
Uncle Cosmo
Fucker Churlson & Shill Swine – what a combination.
lgerard
@different-church-lady:
Remember in 2008 when the RNC wouldn’t let Ron Paul participate in the debates?
His supporters chased Sean Hannity down the street outside the New Hampshire debate
Good Times!
laura
@BruceFromOhio: Spouse calls that the “he’s crowning” look.
The Midnight Lurker
And what did you do with the money, Jill?
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: She’s not hip and she’s not really left-wing.
Adam L Silverman
@lgerard: I’d never seen a canned ham run before.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack:
If she actually were, it would.
Suzanne
@Steeplejack:
The egomania and griftiness of these people defies belief.
schrodingers_cat
A shallow observation.
Jill Stein has a ridiculous hair cut. Does she cut her own hair in the dark?
RAVEN
@Adam L Silverman: Maybe not a canned ham but you’ve seen a ham run.
Felanius Kootea
I’ve been thinking about those Rhode Island students who sued the state for not teaching civics. Those students give me hope and are definitely much smarter than Jill Stein, Instructor, HMS. When I moved to the US, I had to take two years of US history to graduate from high school in Massachusetts. It was easy and I aced it because I already knew a lot of US history because most non-Americans know waaaay more about the US than the US knows about the rest of the world. Years later, in order to become a citizen, I had to learn civics essentially, in addition to history.
It seems to me that many Americans’ ignorance about the way the US political system works is by design – keep people in the dark and they have no clue how to effect change. I look at how France chose the better of two evils in Macron vs LePen, even though most people voting for Macron had to hold their noses to do so, and think about how the US failed that test in 2016 (for those who thought “Hilary’s emails” were evidence of “evil”). Today, many well-meaning people in the US think a third-party candidate that splits the votes and can’t get to 270 electoral college votes is just fine in the face of an existential threat in the White House. Many don’t understand the impact of gerrymandering and downplay the impact of voter suppression through unreasonable demands for voter ID or closures of polling locations once these closures are framed as budget issues. And too many (not on BJ but elsewhere) make misstatements that essentially betray the thinking that because Trump won the electoral college, the majority of US voters back him/voted for him (he is the president of a democracy, so he got the majority of the vote).
I’ve been visiting this blog off and on since GWB and it helps keep me sane because sometimes, when I speak to regular people outside BJ and academia about politics I think the US is in serious trouble. In some ways though, having 45 be this much of a fuck up has helped; now, even my hairdresser knows something is wrong and she was a fan of his when he was on the Apprentice. Not anymore.
Adam L Silverman
@RAVEN: I had forgotten about that. Mostly because it wasn’t kosher.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
speaking of not-really-left-wing shiny-object “candidates” (I’m not hip enough to know if she’s hip or not):
RAVEN
@Adam L Silverman: Boo Ray!
Steeplejack
@Adam L Silverman:
Thank you for pointing out the bleedingly obvious.
ETA: Perhaps it should give her supporters pause that all is not quite as it seems.
Aleta
Part of a story by by Sarah Stillman in the NYer
[In Oct. Sindy fled Honduras with her husband Kevin and kids, escaping gangsters who said they’d kill her. At the US border their 17 month old girl was taken from her husband.]
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-asylum-seekers-quest-to-get-her-toddler-back
plato
So basically, dems in minority = no powers and dems in majority = also no powers, is that it?
Chyron HR
@schrodingers_cat:
Hey, she’s a garbage person but that’s a perfectly fine “middle aged dyke” haircut.
TaMara (HFG)
I prefer the dinner guests in the previous post.
The Midnight Lurker
@TaMara (HFG): Furniture was nicer. Probably the food too.
Brickley Paiste
@Felanius Kootea:
Dude, I am in an argument with a guy who has a doctorate in American History from a decent state school and he is arguing that Kamala Harris is not a “natural born” citizen because .. well you see you have to look to the historical context and the writings of Vassel (or some schmuck) who we just know was read by both Jefferson and Madison and he clearly states ….
I should have fuckin’ moved to NZ when I had the chance.
I think we are doomed.
Miss Bianca
@different-church-lady:
Yeah…weird…that’s the word…
Felanius Kootea
@Citizen Alan: True story: a few years after GWB won the 2000 election, a friend’s father was at the Springfield, MA airport waiting for a puddle jumper when he ran into Ralph Nader. He walked over, pointed and said, his voice trembling, “You, you, you’re the reason we have this abominable president.” Nader shook his head and walked away but I imagine he was shocked to have this middle-aged man with a thick Nigerian accent try to take him to task at the airport. I wonder how many times Jill Stein has had a similar experience.
Miss Bianca
@Steeplejack:
That would argue a degree of honest self-awareness that I am quite sure Dr. Stein does not possess.
@Omnes Omnibus: or what you said.
Adam L Silverman
@plato: Subpoena inbound!
Ken
“On the other hand the Republicans are very welcoming of third party candidates. The RNC helped me get on the ballot in several states in 2016, and even hooked me up with some of their own funding sources. General Flynn introduced me to one of them during our trip to Russia.”
Please please please please please….
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Brickley Paiste: We’ve no shortage of bleeding idiots, that’s for sure. But that’s humans for you.
Felanius Kootea
@Brickley Paiste: Well, Prickly Waste, I hope to God those Rhode Island students win their lawsuit. It’s too late for some people, but definitely not too late for others.
Miss Bianca
@Felanius Kootea: awesome. thank you for this image.
jacy
@Citizen Alan:
I have never hated people like I hate this entire raft of cretins. (And I’m a pretty passionate person.) We’re lucky I can’t blow up people’s heads through sheer force of will. There would be a lot of cleanup.
Jeffro
I’m shocked (still! how is that even possible?!?) that some of the same idiots who, to one degree or another, were in on the conspiracy continue to make public appearances, much less actively shill for RWNJ causes and/or try to drag the Dems.
Stein is one. Spicer is another. Bannon is still free for now. Seriously, why are they not all either in chains or running for their lives?
Jeffro
@jacy: “Democratic SCANNERS!” That’s a B-movie I’d pay to see.
poleaxedbyboatwork
@Adam L Silverman:
Followed as day follows night by perjury suborned.
Every-fucking-one in this maladmin lies like cross-ties onna railroad track not b/c it’s second-nature (tho it is that) but b/c they must.
And then tries to diminish and dismiss their perfidy by calling it a “process crime”.
Ruckus
@Steeplejack:
Just more proof that she’s a fucking moron. As if anyone smarter than a housefly actually needed any.
trollhattan
Sweet pogosticking Jesus there’s so much wrong in play in this post my brain is going Defcon Malt-o-meal.
One of my kid’s HS soccer teammates was hauled off in an ambulance tonight and we don’t yet know how she’s doing. Hug your kid, scratch your dog.
JR
@Steeplejack: she can FOAD
GxB
@BruceFromOhio: Seen elsewhere on the net (paraphrased): “Tucker Carlson looks like a fairly dumb (but somehow lovable) dog on the internet, trying to figure out a doorknob… Minus the lovable.”
Patricia Kayden
Good to see Dr. Stein once again showing her true colors. She should just come out and endorse Trump and stop playing.
Barbara
@Felanius Kootea: However many it has been it’s not enough.
PPCLI
Has “Green Party” candidate Stein ever once commented on Trump’s evisceration of the EPA? Or any other of the core issues that are the Green Party raison d’être?
glory b
@schrodingers_cat: The mean girls’ table is now being populated!
Who told her that lipstick was a good color for her?
Also, Karen Hunter, talk show host on Sirius radio’s Urban View, says she’s been trying to get Stein for a while now, but she’s avoiding her.
Wonder why?
Villago Delenda Est
@Felanius Kootea: Nader has the blood of a million Iraqis on his hands.
Villago Delenda Est
@PPCLI: The Green Party has been a very bad joke since 2000.
Bill Arnold
@Adam L Silverman:
She’s also not Green[1]. At all. She massively helped Fossil Fuel interests (notably in the US and Russia) by helping to get Donald J. Trump elected, at least on a short-term basis. (The Republican party is fragile ATM.) We’re in a slow massive extinction-level global-climate-change emergency, this was abundantly clear in 2015 (and decades earlier, yes), and yet she “helped” the US down that path anyway.
[1] Green in a real sense, not a US party-membership sense.
Major Major Major Major
Twitter seems to be mad that Kamala Harris dithered on the matter of outlawing private health insurance.
plato
@Adam L Silverman: And if subpoenas are also ignored?
Burnspbesq
@plato:
Next step is a subpoena.
Amir Khalid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Heilige Fickkugeln!
glory b
@Bill Arnold: Didn’t the European Greens ask us not to vote for her?
Burnspbesq
@Brickley Paiste:
For a change, you’re right and the other guy is wrong.
Stick to your damn guns.
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
So the letter was like a yellow card in football, and a subpoena would be the red card?
coin operated
@Jeffro:
As I recall, didn’t Rove amend his grand jury testimony *five* damn times and was still never charged in the Plame affair? I do wish some of these assholes a lifetime in the greybar hotel, but if you give the prosecutor what they want, it’s slap on the wrist time.
Don’t know for sure if these assholes have cooperated, but that’s usually what it takes to walk free.
Adam L Silverman
@Bill Arnold: The actual Green Parties in various European countries actually publicly asked her to stop calling herself a Green Party member.
coin operated
@Villago Delenda Est:
GREEN=Getting Republicans Elected Every November
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: Not so much.
Adam L Silverman
@plato: Then the House starts zeroing out DHS’s budget.
Adam L Silverman
@glory b: The European Greens asked her to stop saying she was affiliated with the Green Party movement!
Bill Arnold
@glory b:
@Adam L Silverman:
@Adam L Silverman:
Did not recall that. Here are a few links found in a quick search:
Russian Greens’ Open Letter to Jill Stein (September 7, 2016)
Foreign Greens Think the US Green Party Needs to Ditch Jill Stein (08 November 2016, but has some refs to earlier statements)
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: I too saw that tweet. Her willingness to do something other than Bernie’s plan (of which she is a cosponsor) is being spun as a sellout weak neolib etc.
Adam L Silverman
@Amir Khalid: The letter is a request. The subpoena is an order.
Kraux Pas
@Major Major Major Major:
God forbid we acknowledge that there are innumerable stakeholders affected by changes in health policy, including ordinary wage earners working for the insurance company. If we move away from private insurance, we’ll need a lot of these people’s expertise, but radically doing it all at once without taking the time to phase in a new system is just asking for failure. And enough people recognize this that it would never be passed anyway.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: @Adam L Silverman: When I was an army officer, I would ask people under me to do things. If they said something like “I am busy right now,” I would then explain that my request wasn’t really a request. Same here.
lgerard
@Brickley Paiste:
Do you mean Vattel and his Law of Nations?
That is a wingnut classic response
Just point out he was French (and that it was written 350 years ago)
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: I watched Walid Shahid be more or less positive and pleasant about her statement on Hayes tonight, not 24 hours removed from shitting all over her on twitter (because she’s not Bernie). The difference between Harris and Bernie is Harris actually understands how being a legislator works. You have to do three things simultaneously: 1) socialize the ideas and objectives you actually want to achieve, while 2) doing the hard, incremental work to slowly move people to those positions, while 3) actually taking what you can get to improve people’s lives and move things a little closer given the actual reality you live in right now.
The ultimate goal is universal coverage and access. One of the solutions, and it may ultimately be the best one, is Medicare for All with only not for profit private supplemental insurance companies remaining. But you’re not getting there next week. So you do what you can now in order to get a little closer by next week.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Pretty much.
Cheryl Rofer
Speaking of dinner parties with Vova, the Financial Times reported today that Trump had another tete-a-tete with Mr. Putin at the G20 meeting in Argentina in the beginning of December. No note-taker or interpreter.
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: this is what a reasonable person would think, yes, but we’re talking about twitter users here.
Villago Delenda Est
@Adam L Silverman: This is where Bernie is pure, unadulterated fail. He’s been a legislator for decades but still doesn’t know how to move legislation, or how it is processed. He’s classic “all hat, no cattle.”
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus: Politely asking a subordinate to get something done is just a good way of issuing an order. My first battalion commander advised heavily against talking about “direct orders”, as a failure to comply had serious consequences.
Omnes Omnibus
@Villago Delenda Est: No reason not to be nice and polite until there is a reason not to be nice and polite.
Mike in NC
So in 2020 we can expect Sanders, Stein, Shultz, and maybe five other people entering the campaign to reelect Fat Bastard (assuming he isn’t in prison).
Adam L Silverman
@Cheryl Rofer: Melania most likely served as the President’s interpreter. That’s what everyone misses in the reporting on these things. And neither of those are good things.
Adam L Silverman
@Villago Delenda Est: Didn’t keep Paul Ryan or Newt Gingrich from becoming Speaker of the House, nor did it keep Mitch McConnell from becoming Majority Leader of the Senate. None of those three had moved much, if any, legislation prior to assuming their leadership posts. And what few pieces of legislation they did move was trivial stuff like renaming post offices.
Brickley Paiste
@Major Major Major Major:
There is not an obvious answer for this. If medicare for all is such a great system, why prevent people from wasting their money on something that isn’t needed?
And if you prevent middle class people from buying insurance that just means that you are going to make it even cheaper for the few people who can afford to pay cash.
It makes sense for Harris to get some good polling data before she comes out with a position on this. Because there is absolutely no clear “moral” choice so the correct political decision is to embrace whatever answer will yield the most voters?
Jay
@Adam L Silverman:
Individual 1’s Handler, not translator.
Cheryl Rofer
@Adam L Silverman: Good point. She was part of the group in December, but not at other times, like Helsinki.
And Putin has some English. Lots of room there for misunderstanding, though, depending on how good Melania’s Russian is.
Adam L Silverman
@Cheryl Rofer: The whole thing is a mess.
Emma
@Major Major Major Major: Twitter is a disease in the body politic.
Adam L Silverman
@Jay: I hope she wears gloves…
Jay
@Adam L Silverman:
Once she became his handler, she stopped needing either latex or nitrile. Just a whip to crack.
And, eeeeeeeeeeeugh.
Adam L Silverman
@Jay: Ewwww!!!
BruceFromOhio
@GxB: That is hilarious.
rikyrah
@plato:
Subpoena her
chopper
@Aleta:
these people are such fucking assholes. this garbage is the shit that pisses me off the most about this admin. it’s just white hot rage.
OzarkHillbilly
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