Hillary Clinton reads the Mueller Report section in which President Trump says, “I’m f**ked!” pic.twitter.com/79W7D1tAq2
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) April 28, 2019
I wish they wouldn’t have bleeped it.
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Hillary Clinton reads the Mueller Report section in which President Trump says, “I’m f**ked!” pic.twitter.com/79W7D1tAq2
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) April 28, 2019
I wish they wouldn’t have bleeped it.
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Bill Arnold
Yes! I would buy that audiobook!
Brachiator
I’m glad she is having a little fun with this.
mrmoshpotato
I wish they hadn’t bleeped it too. And I’d buy that audiobook for everyone I know.
Baud
I’d put her in a Baud! 2020! campaign ad reading that line, with no bleeping.
MomSense
Sometimes I get really emotional thinking about what was stolen from us.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Reposting from down below
So Haaretz interviewed Dean Baquet:
He was also asked: Do you see anything positive in Trump’s term in office so far?
If you want to know why the NYT ran so many Cleatus Safari pieces and has covered Trump the way it has, this is it.
Baud
@MomSense:
Me too.
schrodingers_cat
@MomSense: I finished watching all the episodes of Made in Heaven. It was so so good.
Baud
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
It’s the equivalent of a Democrat saying that we shouldn’t do things our voters want because we really want to reach Republican voters.
Except liberals accept it willingly when the NYT does it.
Wag
Me, too
debbie
@Baud:
I love the change of tone in her voice when she’s quoting Trump.
It would indeed be a great ad for your campaign. She reads the line, unbleeped, pauses, looks up and intones, “Make it so.”
MomSense
@schrodingers_cat:
I’m looking forward to it. I still have a lot of dishes and clean up to do before I can relax.
Steve in the ATL
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Also reposting from down below: Christ, what an asshole
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: The New York Times is garbage.
Omnes Omnibus
Bill’s face was great.
Dorothy A. Winsor
That video is great!
JPL
@Baud: Baud the no f..king bleeps president.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
The evidence keeps mounting.
mrmoshpotato
@MomSense: Same here.
Raoul
Twitter is a hellhole of stupid (plus Nazis and so on), but every now and then a fine moment occurs, like Josh Marshall calling Meghan McCain a “shiksa bonehead with some spasmodic crying issue”.
So I keep going back on that terrible web site.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Baud:
I can almost see his reasoning. Ideally, as a newspaper, you would want your circulation to be very high and also be widespread across much of society. This would not only be good for the paper’s bottom line, but it’s importance and influence. The trouble is, you can’t (shouldn’t) sacrifice objective reporting to get that, which Baquet has done.
Raoul
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Indeed. Baquet is an ass. I see his overly cautious bullshit in things like the paper’s twitter feed calling Trump’s infanticide lie an “inaccurate refrain”. WTF, milquetoast?
mrmoshpotato
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Let’s spell it out long form – Fuck the fucking New York Times
NotMax
@JPL
You mean I’ve got to throw out my “BLEEPS FOR BAUD!” button?
Well, that was a waste of a perfectly good nickel.
:)
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Steve in the ATL:
I know. I’m not sure how you can reach such assholes like Baquet when he spouts stupid reasoning like this in the face of criticism:
He hasn’t learned a damn thing in 3 years. It’s particularly sad since the very kind of people his paper is enabling would throw him in the nearest gas chamber without a second thought
CliosFanBoy
@MomSense: me too. She would have bee a great president…
MoxieM
@MomSense: Me too. That was beyond bittersweet. How she manages is far past my understanding.
Baud
@CliosFanBoy:
We would have taken her for granted. The hate fest that caused her loss would have gone full throttle.
@MoxieM:
She’s preternaturally strong.
SenyorDave
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: So as long as the FTFNYT decides Trump doesn’t know it is lie they will not call him out on it. And I guess Trump didn’t know the Trump Foundation was a slush fund, so the FTFNYT didn’t bother looking into it. And even when Trump’s own people all but admitted it was and agreed to shut it down, it still wasn’t really a big deal to the FTFNYT. But during the campaign it was very newsworthy to imply there was something fishy going on with the Clinton charity even though there was no evidence at all. Fuck this guy and the horse he rode in on.
trollhattan
Yes, please.
James E Powell
@SenyorDave:
Agree completely. We have to stop saying the NYT hasn’t learned or that they are weak. Everyone at the NYT knows exactly what they are doing and it is their intention to continue to do so.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Our younger jackals may not know this, but the Starr report on Bill Clinton was published, unredacted, as a paperback and widely available in bookstores to everybody. And not just US citizens. EVERYBODY. Hell, it’s probably still available.
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
The FTFNYT learned nothing from their coverage of Hitler,
early Vietnam War coverage,
the Iraq War bullshit they pushed,
so many other venal political hit campaigns, lies, Clinton Cash fluffing,
so why would they have learned anything from their coverage of Insane Clown POSus?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
OK, we got our Endgame tickets. 2:20 pm on Wednesday (I love retirement!). So far looks like a nearly empty theater (it’s one of those theaters that uses reserved seats, big fluffy comfy chairs).
Ohio Mom
@Omnes Omnibus: Bill is definitely living his best life these days.
@Raoul: That’s a great find. Josh Marshall is usually measured and analytical, that is, when he’s not trying to be funny. But he is a very committed and proud Jew and I don’t blame him one bit for his disgust that Meghan McCain is pretending to be an expert on antisemitism. What is noteworthy is that even in his anger, he is precise and accurate.
As for the NYT, having grown up surrounded by loyal readers, I don’t doubt that many of them are indeed fascinated by what they consider the aboriginals of the land beyond the Hudson. There is probably a certain amount of that urge that makes one slow down and gape at a car accident — the accident here being, “How the hell did we end up with Trump?” — operating here.
Still, there is no answering an unanswerable question — New Yorkers will never be able to fathom Red Staters. Enough already, reassign those reporters!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@James E Powell:
Honestly? I find it entirely plausible that Dean sincerely believes that bullshit above. I think he’s a useful idiot with bad ideas that’s aiding people with bad faith intentions (i.e. Trump). J-Schools all over the country are infected with his kind of thinking. That doesn’t mean the owners of these media corporations aren’t shaping coverage knowingly, but Baquet strikes me as a total moron with a fancy education
Ohio Mom
@Ohio Mom: This isn’t to say that the Times hasn’t done horrible things, like their decades-long vendetta against the Clintons. As noted by others, the Times has a long history of getting things wrong and promoting the exact wrong and destructive conversation.
I’m just saying that I think many of their readers were actually curious about Trumpers at first. For a short while. Before they shook their heads and moved on.
Juju
That’s the beat laugh I’ve had all day. I’d buy that audiobook.
Harbison
America in general, and the democratic party leadership in particular, has completely failed to come to grips with Trump’s election.
They prefer to stick their fingers in their ears and just yell: racism, misogyny, russian influence, and so forth as though that _completely_ explains why about 48% of the electorate voted for Trump.
Redshift
If they did a Kickstarter for that audiobook, it would be funded in a day. I hope they do.
cliosfanboy
We adopted an older pair of dachshunds today to keep our older weiner dog company. (Having lost our other two in the past 6 months) They are so cute and settling in. One has been exploring everywhere. The shy one found a quiet spot under my wife’s end table and is snoring softly. Our original dog is confused but getting along fine and getting reassurance that he’s still the alpha.
Chetan Murthy
@Harbison: I add this illiterate[1] joker to the pie filter, and yet he comes back in the clear. feh.
[1] Illiterate b/c he sure can’t read, or he’d have read the many, many studies that showed that,yeah, it was their racism/misogyny/homophobia. Illiterate oaf.
Harbison
@Chetan Murthy:
Speaking of illiteracy …
CaseyL
@Chetan Murthy: Someone said he was an old troll under a new nym, but I don’t recognize the style – frex, Goblow72 is more strident.
Ruviana
@cliosfanboy: How oldish are your new doggies?
Bex
My condolences to all the female BJ fans out there on the marriage of Idris on April 24 to Sabrina Dhowre in Morocco.
oatler.
Just lifted this from a Guardian comment:
They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine
– English Nursery Rhyme -1764
Ruckus
@Baud:
The pile of evidence has attained Super Fund site status.
SiubhanDuinne
@Bex:
Well, at least she has the right initials.
Nicole
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: We saw Endgame today (me, the better half and the 8-year-old). Very crowded theater- they actually had two employees acting as ushers, I think to make sure there were no disputes over seats. But there weren’t.
No spoilers, but I enjoyed. Hope you do too!
Also, that video of Hillary is amazing. It blows my mind, what she has withstood from the media and from the political arena, and here she still is. Love her.
Ruckus
@Jay:
They did learn something.
They can let their very conservative flag fly, they have for decades and they still make a not insignificant amount of money. Why should they stop now?
Jay
@CaseyL:
Suspicions are he’s one of the ammosexual trolls under a new nym.
Jay
@SiubhanDuinne:
She’s Canadian, so Idris has a refuge if needed.
Brachiator
@Ohio Mom:
New Yorkers grew up with Trump. They’ve known about him, and his antics for years. Many even played along with him, invited him to their fancy parties, thought he was hip to be a billionaire playboy. What rankles is that now they have to bend the knee to him, and must look over their shoulders at all the hicks they used to spit on.
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Dean should know better. But he was a dipshit at the LA Times, and hasn’t much changed.
Amir Khalid
@Harbison:
I don’t even understand your objection here.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Nicole: Just two important questions:
1. Is Stan Lee in it? I heard he did film some cameos before he died. He was in Captain Marvel and apparently there were a lot of inside jokes in those few seconds.
2. I heard that there’s no post-credits scene. Is that true? That somehow seems a violation of the Marvel Universe natural order.
Brachiator
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Enjoy! It’s a long movie, so don’t fall asleep in those comfy chairs.
Villago Delenda Est
@Harbison: You’re aware you’re an utter MAGAt idiot, right?
Jay
@Amir Khalid:
He’s hinging his argument on “completely”,
Ruckus
TPM has a story up that Barr is refusing to testify to the house if he isn’t accorded a veto right over the questioning format.
Fuck you pal. You get to show up and answer questions. You can take the fifth if it incriminates you. Otherwise you show up, you answer the fucking questions.
Let’s get it on. These assholes think they are above the law? Time to take them down a peg or 12.
CliosFanBoy
@Ruviana: 11 or 12. We looked for elderly dogs who had been waiting for a new home. As a bonded pair of elderly dogs they had been waiting a while. The lady who owned them died, and her husband kept them in a dark bedroom all the time. His new girlfriend (!) convinced him to give them up for adoption. She also crocheted them each a pretty blanket, and used material that will not catch their nails…
Patricia Kayden
Really loving PBS’ latest adaptation of “Les Miserables”. Great cast.
NotMax
@Nicole
Having spent the bulk of my weekday evenings during high school working as an usher (looking quite suave in the required tuxedo, BTW), can assure you they are employees.
Jay
@CliosFanBoy:
Good on ya,……
Ruviana
@CliosFanBoy: Thanks. Sounds like they lucked out with you.
James E Powell
@Ruckus:
What if he doesn’t? What’s the next move? I hope someone thought about it because he is going to refuse to show up just because he and his boss are confident that they will get away with it.
Jay
@James E Powell:
#1. They Subpena him, if he ignores it,
# 2. Contempt of Congress charges,
# 3. The DC Court holds a trial,
# 4. He goes to jail,
# 5. disbarrment, ( see what I did there)
# 6. Impeachement, removal from office, stripped of pension benifits
Jay
@James E Powell:
# 7. No Pardon.
Bill Arnold
@Jay:
They (not sure/don’t care about gender) should have bolded or used italics, though on some platforms _x_ does that.
It’s a open ended point. There were many factors in that (2016) election. My list includes: the Democrats were utterly outplayed by actors trying to get Republicans elected, both domestic and external, on manipulation of media cycles and in propaganda/political marketing(/call it whatever) in general. The materials released by wikileaks had influence and they were well-played by actors trying to get Republicans elected. There might have been manipulation of the voting apparatuses in a few states though this remains to be proven. Comey released the Comey memo (was he forced, did he sell his soul, or what?). It was a perfect storm (not sure it was even intended by some of the actors) and it will not be easy for the Republicans and current allies to pull off again (in different form because learning), but they will try.
Jay
@Bill Arnold:
It was a perfect storm, but all the Cletus Safari’s to find the economically anxious, found White Nationalist Mysoginous Nazi’s instead.
Remember “he’s not hurting the right people” Drumph voter?
Ruckus
@James E Powell:
They may be confidant. But that would be misplaced till they actually get away with it. And that is actually not all that likely. They act like they do because they are assholes and morons. They think they own the world, that their shit doesn’t stink. But it does and they don’t. And they are fucking with serious people with the law on their side. Now I could be wrong. If I am then we are far more fucked than I think we are. And being that far fucked would be a very bad place to be. Because there really aren’t a lot of options left then and at the end of the day, we no longer live in a democracy, we would be living in a shithole. History would show that DT was the death of the democracy, but it would still be dead. But there are a lot of steps to go to get to that point, let’s not get ahead of ourselves, it doesn’t help anyone.
LivinginExile
@Jay: I read #5 as dismemberment and got all excited. In a good way.
Jay
@Ruckus:
Double Yup.
Jay
@LivinginExile:
Yup.
Nicole
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Sorry I’m so late getting back to you on this (had to watch Game of Thrones)
1) Yes, Stan Lee cameo, and it’s delightful. The crowd cheered.
2) No post-credits scene (although there’s a sound cue at the very end, that will have an emotional effect. Or so I assume; we left, knowing there was no post-credits scene, and I read about the sound cue after. Not a big thing, so no need to stay if you have to pee (movie is 3 hours long). Oh! Speaking of- if you do need a bathroom break, the two spots where you won’t miss too, too much is when it says “San Francisco” on screen and when it says “New Jersey.” The SF one is only about 30 minutes in; the NJ one is about 2 hours in.
Brachiator
@Nicole:
Stayed to the very end, but missed the sound queue. Now, have to read up on it.
But sweet mother of dragons, between Game of Thrones and Endgame, I am all wrung out. Some interesting thematic parallels between the movie and this latest episode of Thrones.
Nicole
@Brachiator:Here’s the spoiler, such as it is, on the sound at the end of the credits:
https://www.capitalfm.com/news/tv-film/avengers-endgame-sound-credits-scene/