Absolute morons Jacob “I’m Really Going to Commit a Big Boy Crime Any Day Now” Wohl and his unzipped co-conspirator Jack Burckman, fresh off failing to actually dox the Intelligence Community Whistleblower yesterday and today, have reverted to their usual modus operandi of creating sex scandals out of nothing. Having failed to actually bring down Special Counsel Mueller and Mayor Buttigieg with bogus allegations of sexual assault and impropriety have have announced their latest masterpiece. Behold:
The stupid, it burns!
The Warax asked the important question:
jack why do you do this to yourself?
— The Warax. ?? (@iAmTheWarax) October 2, 2019
It is important to remember that Jacob Wohl is the twenty-something aspiring career petty criminal who is currently facing actual real felony charges in California state court. He is also the son of one of the President’s key Jewish-American surrogates. I have been authorized on behalf of the Elders and our revered and venerated leader, the Supreme Babka, to apologize on behalf of the rest of the tribe. We are tremendously sorry about the Wohl mess.
And our own Food Goddess had the best take when I texted Burkman’s tweet too her:
If at 72 Elizabeth Warren is having a fling with a young Marine I say more power to her
Is everyone still enjoying this extra special Jewish New Year and Day’s of Awe Infrastructure Week?
Open thread!
Kevin F
“Shock the conscious of the nation” – Twice. It’s in there twice.
Once is a typo. Twice means he thinks that’s really the saying.
Unbelievable morons.
TaMara (HFG)
Wait? Our texts aren’t kept on a classified server? I disavow any knowledge of bribing Cole to allow me to be a Front Pager and I DO NOT have naked mopping pictures of him.
Gin & Tonic
“Shock the conscious of the nation”?? Not once, but twice? I know he’s a moron, but illiterate, too?
NotMax
Lake Wohlbegone, where everyone is below average.
PhoenixRising
If Liz Warren is capable of being a competent & effective US Senator while staffing a well-funded campaign for the Dem nomination while getting nailed by a ripped 24 year old ‘long term’…I’m maxing out for her. Because that person can manage her damn time.
divF
Doesn’t know how to spell, either.
Keith
This locks down the white male, youth, military voting bloc.
Adam L Silverman
@TaMara (HFG): This is all because Cole is too cheap to spring for a secure slack channel for us!
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: I think they meant the couscous of the Nation.
Adam L Silverman
@PhoenixRising: I don’t understand how the last several months equals long term, but what do I know.
PaulWartenberg
GO RAYS!
Kelly
OH No all is lost! Sinclair Broadcasting’s Boris Epshteyn has connected the dots between our global warming hoax and Biden’s Ukraine petro-corruption! Our devious globalist plots are uncovered!
https://twitter.com/BorisEP/status/1178818054488121346
lamh36
Immanentize
Is the Supreme Babka to whom you are beholden, Chocolate or Cinnamon?
billcinsd
Wouldn’t this leave her at least 3 and probably more like 20 affairs behind the President
TaMara (HFG)
@Kelly: Nope, not going to get out of the boat for that one. LOL
jl
Did Warren, who is a spry 70 not 72, pay them to do this? Now, that would be a scandal. I hope she just had the affair, and didn’t pay for the reveal, since that would be the kind of corruption she is crusading against.
But… naw… Warren would have gotten better people to announce it.
RSA
They’re putting up a decorated Marine who got out at 24 years old… I’m thinking these guys understand military culture even less than I do, and I work for the military.
TaMara (HFG)
I’m going to go and chill out and watch the PBS Octopus documentary.
Adam L Silverman
@Kelly: I’m pretty sure Boris couldn’t connect the dots with a Native American tracker, a Sherpa guide, a US Army Ranger, a US Army Scout, a US Marine Corps Recon Marine, a GPS, a scratch map, a flashlight, and both hands.
zhena gogolia
@PhoenixRising:
THIS IS THE BEST THING I’VE HEARD ABOUT ELIZABETH WARREN. If it’s true, I will be making my first contribution to her campaign fund.
Amir Khalid
Well, Tamara’s absolutely right. If Elizabeth Warren has the energy for a 24-year-old ex-Marine bodybuilder boyfriend, she certainly has the energy for the presidency.
Also, too: “the conscious of the nation”? Eyeroll.
Steve in the ATL
@Adam L Silverman: many people don’t realize that it’s pasta. Shocking? Indeed!
Steve in the ATL
@Immanentize: pumpkin spice. Duh, it’s October.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Adam L Silverman: Jacob Wohl’s longest relationship was not quite a whole semester, so… perspective
I think I remember Jack Burkman from Bill Maher’s old ABC show, along with a couple of obnoxious blondes who were supposed to be different kinds of Republicans because they wore mini-skirts, one sneered a lot, Laura something, one giggled a lot, but was probably nastier than the sneering one, Kelly Something, maybe Kellyanne…. And another young woman with faraway eyes who may or may not have been a witch
Adam L Silverman
@Immanentize: I only take orders from the chocolate one, but there is, apparently a schism…
https://www.lillysbakingco.com/buyonline/supreme-babka
Immanentize
@Steve in the ATL: heretic!!!!
divF
@jl: I’d like to think they confronted her with this, and she begged them not to go public with it, with the forseen (and desired) result.
Idiots.
NotMax
@lamh36
Like Raskin’s full description (source):
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
I’m calling it right now. This “marine” is probably some stolen valor fake
Immanentize
@Adam L Silverman: Splitter!
Amir Khalid
@divF:
Upon further consideration, he may have been distinguishing “the conscious of the nation” from the unconscious, who would of course not be paying attention anyway.
divF
@Adam L Silverman: What, no love for poppy seed babka ?
dmsilev
@Immanentize: One of the most hilarious Internet flame wars I ever read was in the comments of the NYT’s cooking section when they posted a chocolate babke recipe.
Mac vs PC had nothing on it.
Good recipe though, albeit a lot of work.
Adam L Silverman
@Steve in the ATL: And you can’t get it in Egypt.
Immanentize
@divF: As fine as Poppy Seed Babka may be — be serious, PSB is no leader announced by the Elders.
Mary G
Republican efforts to distract from the impeachment have been very lame. I kind of want Liz Warren to show up to their press conference and have her golden retriever love bomb them
SFAW
I’d be more impressed if it were Baba Yaga, and if one of the legs holding up her hut kicked Wohl and Burkman in the cojones. Repeatedly.
randy khan
@Gin & Tonic:
Apparently the unconscious will not be shocked.
Hovercraft
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: KAC, Ann Coulter, and Laura Ingrahm
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Adam L Silverman: Splitters. The Avignon babke is the one true babke.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: One was Ingraham one was Conway and one was Coulter.
Immanentize
@dmsilev: that’s hilarious! The Chocolate Babka sold at the one true Jewish bakery in South Beach in the early 80’s was one true Babka I would follow anywhere.
Immanentize
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
Only people from Montreal would claim that!
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
Or she would, if her political instincts weren’t so terrible.
Oh, wait, worng thread. Sorry!
Adam L Silverman
@divF: I don’t think I’ve ever actually had babka.
NotMax
@dmsilev
Ham & cheese babka, anyone?
;)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
water finds its own level, my old man used to say
Rudi learned how to get in touch with prisoners when he was negotiating Bernie Kerik’s post-incarceration Fox News contract
Steve in the ATL
@Hovercraft: “upon whom did Shakespeare base the three witches in ‘Macbeth’?”
We are playing Jeopardy, right?
Jay
Heads up.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Great, now all we need is an Anti-Babka.
sigaba
“Former” Marine kinda vaguely implies he was tossed out or has a DD or something else unsavory. Marines are like Eagle Scouts, you’re always one ceteris paribus.
SFAW
@Hovercraft:
Hey! Good to see you back!
[NB: You may have been “back” for awhile, and I’m just unconscience/oblive.]
Steve in the ATL
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: bien joue.
divF
@Adam L Silverman: I get the occasional nibble when I go out with a friend to a local deli to treat him to kippers and eggs, babka on the side (prefers chocolate, will settle for poppy seed).
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Conscious, indeed…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Hovercraft: how quickly people have forgotten almost-Senator Christine O’Donnell
Immanentize
@NotMax:
I love you, NotMax, but after that, well….
No words.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@SFAW:I thought Baud was the unconscience of this blog.
dmsilev
@Immanentize: Sample comment (from memory): ‘MY Bubbe was said to be the best baker in New York and _she_ never used cinnamon.’
Immanentize
@Jay:
Our new military connected version of the prisons connected Aryan Brotherhood
SFAW
@sigaba:
It would not amaze me to hear that the former “Marine” said something like “When I was a soldier …”
Immanentize
@Adam L Silverman:
Oh man. I need to send you Babka. Maybe from Zabar’s. You will be changed.
jl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Thanks for info. I was out and about attending to my affairs and when I got back to the news, seems like a bunch of weird bombshells came out that I didn’t understand. Your link explains the fuss over Giuliani’s latest gift.
I guess the other thing is that the IG went to Congress to report that Pompeo is harassing his employees at Dept of State to keep them from testifying. And there was another, but I forget now. And it’s only Wednesday.
Those Trumpsters need to pay attention to Warren to learn how to get better free media. I hope that Marine is handsome hunk.
Silverman’s still in Florida, right?
dmsilev
@Omnes Omnibus: BLT on Wonderbread?
Jay
NotMax
@SFAW
Semper Lie.
Immanentize
@Omnes Omnibus:
Anti-Babka = the sly Deceiver, Hot Pocket.
Steve in the ATL
@Adam L Silverman: which is a shame, because Egyptian food is totally meh.
Adam L Silverman
@Immanentize: I’m good, but thanks.
Hovercraft
@Steve in the ATL:
Sorry, they were much better people. @Jim, Foolish Literalist: not a witch
@SFAW:
Thanks, I truly do “hover” these days
Immanentize
@Adam L Silverman:
Opinion. Not fact?
Gin & Tonic
@jl:
At least you weren’t attending to Elizabeth Warren’s affairs.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: We don’t know that.
Immanentize
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Witch!
ETA not forgotten by all.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Based on the infamous navy seal copypasta. I think you’re in trouble Adam //
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: i think Goku is the only jackal in her preferred age range
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: @jl: And some of the materials were on White House stationary/letterhead. So either Rudy used official US government indicia formatted materials or he fabricated the US government indicia formatted materials to put his conspiracy theory crap on before sending it to Pompeo at State. Both of those are crimes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: That is frightening on so many levels.
jl
Oh, yeah, apparently Trump called pretty much every head of state to ask for dirt on Bidens and/or Mueller.investigation. I want to hear the call to Jersey.
‘Hi, is this is Jersey, the old one, not the new one, right? You’re a country, right? You the minister, is that a prime minister, or… OK says here Chief on the paper.. OK, Chief, I’m President Trump, but you can call me Sir. That’s a nice little country you got there and we’ve done a lot for you but you haven’t been so nice to us. You seen any US Deep State scandal servers around there? Black, bigger than a breadbox, a suitcase kind of thing.? So, I gotta a favor to ask…”
Edit: need a BJ blog contest on what countries Trump didn’t call.
rikyrah
Is this real????
He actually tried it?
Amir Khalid
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Trained in gorilla warfare? Straight away you know he’s a phony. Gorillas don’t do war, that’s a chimpanzee thing.
Immanentize
@jl:
Grand Fenwick
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Dude, everyone knows that gibbons are like ninjas.
hells littlest angel
Is there video of Elizabeth Warren saying, “If you’re a star you can do anything. Grab ’em by the cock.”?
Adam L Silverman
@Immanentize: I can’t eat it even if you were to send it to me. My body doesn’t handle refined carbohydrates, including refined sugar, well. I get an immediate hysteminic/allergic response followed by other unpleasantness. So I eat very little of that stuff. And then, I usually pay for cheating. On the other hand, I’ve just order new jeans again as I’ve lost about 5 inches of my waist since 2015 when I decided to clean up my diet in order to avoid the unpleasant side effects.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Adam L Silverman: he seems to have admitted to making it up, which conjures some very odd images of Rudi shopping in a craft store.You’d think Rudi at the Michael’s service desk asking “Where are your gold pens and calligraphy guides?” would rate a Page Six item
jl
@Adam L Silverman: Oh… OK.. that’s not so good for somebody, is it?
I bet it’s that treasonous rat Schiff’s fault, though.
Adam L Silverman
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Did you start drinking Zima again?
Jay
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Amir Khalid:
You don’t say? I thought it was bonobos that made war? Or was it love?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@jl:
Immanentize
@Adam L Silverman: Adam, I salute you. That is hard work — and I am trying to follow that example, but stress eating is always upturning my virtue eating….
Good on you
But a good Babka is still a really fine thing.
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: Tried what?
jl
@Jay: Nice try, Ted. Try putting that up against first hand prison scuttlebutt from Manafort. Loser.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
If you put enough of them in a room with enough typewriters, they make a Megan McArdle column.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: but only as a goof, they wouldn’t submit it for publication
Amir Khalid
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Bonobos believe in free love. They’re the 1960s hippies of the primate world, alongside actual human hippies of the 1960s.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Rogin’s tweet isn’t well worried. He’s basically saying that by Giuliani copping to having sent the material to Pompeo, and that some of the materials were on stationary/letterhead with official White House indicia, that Giuliani is also admitting to forging those. Basically he’s saying the same thing I am.
lamh36
Well damn Beto…
https://media.tenor.com/images/61372db54210f36390adfcb89c98b705/tenor.gif
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Adam L Silverman:
Nope. Just trying to be a funnyman. I think I still have a bottle or two of Zima laying around, speaking of
Immanentize
I just want to again say before I go to meet the insides of my eyelids. I really love this blog.
Domani.
Ken
@Steve in the ATL:
Hey, you find a good recipe, you stick with it. For five thousand years in this case.
Amir Khalid
Let me just say, this is one of the silliest, and best, comment threads I’ve seen in my time as a jackal.
Gin & Tonic
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: They make nice pants, though.
joel hanes
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
another young woman with faraway eyes
So if you’re down on your luck
And you can’t harmonize
Steve in the ATL
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: you are en fuego tonight
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: ha!
Mike in DC
25% tariff imposed by Trump on single malt scotch, French wine and Italian cheese. Stop, bro, no need to oversell us on impeachment.
Jamie
@NotMax:
My god, that’s genius.
Kay
It’s hysterical how they put their own names first in the “press release”.
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
I wonder if this Rudy person still remembers he’s supposedly a lawyer.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: I think you can thank Jacob Wohl for that.
joel hanes
@SFAW:
Baba Yaga
Holding out for Ningauble of the Seven Eyes, or Sheelba of the Eyeless Face
Jay
Viva BrisVegas
I presume Wohl is OK with Trump, the part-time married human lard bag made of orange leatherette, having sex with 20-something porn stars and paying them off afterwards.
It’s not like it’s sleazy or anything.
West of the Rockies
Isn’t this sort of thing, I don’t know… Illegal?
Also, was today’s super urgent IG meeting with some members of Congress a bit less astounding than maybe we were led to think it would be, or am I missing something?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
so…. for some reason someone asked Bob Woodward to host a discussion of the MeToo movement and the new Jodi Kantor/Meghan Twoyey book, and the Norma Desmond of the Beltway punditry was not ready for the close-up
There’s more in this thread.
MagdaInBlack
@Adam L Silverman:
I actually spit my tea at that! Thank you!
After all the insanity I’ve seen come out today, Thank you !???
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Amir Khalid:
I read about bonobos in my freshman year of college. Pretty interesting creatures. I believe it was Frans de Waal’s Our Inner Ape. Basically, bonobos and humans are the most alike among primates and yet bobobos also offer insight into how humans could be better
I liked that de Waal tends to emphasize that many of the qualities we ascribe to ourselves (morality, empathy) can be found in animals. That morality is partially a result of evolution
Jay
Viva BrisVegas
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
The ex-PM of Australia was replaced by a far right evangelical liar and propagandist called Scott Morrison. As part of his political image he nicknamed himself “Scomo”. Which tells you a lot about the kind of people who give themselves nicknames.
Anyway, he is an all in Trumpist. The only thing holding him back from surrendering our country’s integrity to Trump is the fact that Trump is deeply unpopular with everyone but the lunar right. Murdoch is working on that problem.
West of the Rockies
@Hovercraft:
Hey, welcome back! I haven’t seen you around these parts in a while.
B.B.A.
in the immortal words of Kenan Thompson on last week’s SNL, ain’t nothing gonna happen.
Ken
@West of the Rockies: In any other administration, the news that one of the President’s top advisors and lawyers was forging White House documents to push a lunatic conspiracy theory would be incredibly astounding. For this administration, it’s Wednesday.
joel hanes
@Amir Khalid:
I was there in the 1960s. Free love seems to work out a lot better for bonobos.
Very few actual humans seem to be emotionally set up for it.
I once took a seminar from Will Schutz, who was a big part of Esalen, and he said that most of the people who tried the “free love” thing eventually found it emotionally intolerable.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
Eh, even monkeys collectively are smarter than McArdleBargle
Jay
ByRookorbyCrook
@joel hanes:
Somehow Lankhmar seems less corrupt than the Orangymandias Administration.
Jay
@joel hanes:
A huge chunk of the Free Love thing was mysoginistic, how ever many women found Sister Solidarity in the Communes.
cain
Huh.. you’d think it would be a lesbian scandal or something. Lame.
Adam L Silverman
@joel hanes:
joel hanes
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
bonobos and humans are the most alike among primates
The common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes
– makes war
– occasionally kills and eats other mammals
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
Please.. let’s not do proprietary software.. have you tried Rocket Chat or Mattermost?
Adam L Silverman
@Amir Khalid: I’m amazed Judith Nathan hasn’t had her divorce lawyer go into court, have him declared non compus mentus and placed in custodial care, and have her awarded power of attorney. She gets access to all his money and he’s out of her hair in a way he wouldn’t be through the normal divorce proceedings, which he is dragging out.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jay:
Yeah. As it turns out, a lot of the hippies and the left was fairly misogynistic back then. Probably racist too.
There was a prominent hippie who later became a stock broker and had became a Nixon fan in the early 70s. His name escapes me atm
psycholinguist
One of the congressmen showed some printouts of the Rudy dossier. I was all kinds of fonts, weird internet formatting, etc. It looked pretty much identical to what that bottom 10% of my freshmen hand in as “sources” when I assign them their first research paper and they go scrounging around on google and print out the first 5 sources they find and throw them together in a folder and hand it in 3 days late. I am just flabbergasted. Can you not at least write them up in a coherent narrative with some kind of consistent appearance you idiot? Why did he need to travel the world, all he was doing was going to 4chan and following the conspiracy links. How was anybody taking this shit seriously? the only possible explanation is that Trump is a true believer (he wouldn’t have read it, only half listened to Rudy’s summaries) and sent this over with orders to track down every lead and get to the TRUTH,
Calouste
Everything’s projection with these people, so who will pop in the news in a few days with an affair? Pence?
Jay
Adam L Silverman
@West of the Rockies: It was, except for one important bit of information. Which is that it appears that Pompeo pulled Yovanovitch as ambassador to Ukraine based on Rudy’s bullshit conspiracy theory material.
Adam L Silverman
@MagdaInBlack: You’re welcome.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@joel hanes:
Shit maybe I’m misremembering. I read it like 5 years ago. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that chimps and bonobos represent different sides of human nature. That humans are somewhere in between the two. Though, bonobos can pretty violent themselves
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Carol Leonnig, uber-serious political reporter, predicts trump will rage-tweet tomorrow. She says she hopes it doesn’t “include the word BS” (that’s how she said it). I don’t think she was kidding. This fuckign country.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: I was kidding.
lamh36
Da fuqn nerve of Dallas PD!
Course they mention his brother and the judge, but didn’t mention the clip of Botham’s mother calling their asses out for the fuq’ry that aided in the death of her son
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
In the late ‘70’s, spent some time in one of the last “Free Love” Communes in NorCal. I was hitchiking, guy gave me a ride, asked me if I wanted to crash. The Commune was 90% women.
I think the Guy just wanted help splitting wood and hauling water.
The Women were wonderful. Elizebeth Warren energy, wisdom, emotion to what was a young, dumb guy at the time.
Ken
@Adam L Silverman: I’m surprised Trump’s children haven’t done the same to him. I suspect it would have happened by now had he lost the election.
Hmm, if they did that, would Trump have to step down? It doesn’t fit the triggers of the 25th.
Adam L Silverman
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Fred. His name was Fred.
joel hanes
@Adam L Silverman:
much honkier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisXJSsULGM
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Gee, ya think?
cain
@lamh36:
I really like that guy. He is all in with no fucks to give and speaks from the heart at all times. I think he’s realized that is what he does best. I don’t konw how that will work as president, but I enjoy it all the the same.
BTW fuck Trump, he is putting tariffs on scotch and whiskey from scotland and ireland..
Jay
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
How disappointing!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Donnie Jr sends up the bat signal
his girlfriend must’ve told him not to use dollar signs when he typed Soros
Adam L Silverman
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: The important thing you need to know is there are only 4 differences/changes in the DNA of humans and our closest primate relatives the pygmy chimpanzee. And that these four changes, which are in the pygmy chimpanzee’s DNA, evolved after humans evolved. Basically nature determined that humans were a mistake and made an evolutionary adjustment to go back to the trees. Apparently humans have never gotten the memo, but we’re a blip.
cain
@lamh36:
Is there anything more magnificent than a black woman when they in defense mode?
joel hanes
@Adam L Silverman:
One that Cole would approve
Still pretty honky, but not as honky as that last one
You may find the guitar sufficiently rocking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RvR3j535qc
joel hanes
@Adam L Silverman:
there are only 4 differences/changes in the DNA of humans and our closest primate relatives the pygmy chimpanzee
Hmm. cite?
mrmoshpotato
Dragged up from “Impeach Them All”: But will Jacob and Jack just flat out be in their boxer shorts this time. Gotta outdo the fly-down “press conference.”
And “Conservative activists”? Hahahha, they misspelled “hacks” badly.
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
Can’t wait till they are ascendant and take over for us. Hopefully there is something left after we don’t survive global warming and or nuclear winter.
Adam L Silverman
@Ken: I’m amazed someone in Florida hasn’t tried to have him Baker Acted when he’s in Florida at Mar a Lago. The Baker Act is Florida’s statute that allows for a complaint to be made about the mental state of an individual, which then requires that law enforcement takes the individual in question into custody where they’re placed on a 72 hour evaluatory hold. At the end of that 72 hours they are either released if determined to be mentally sound or they are remanded into custodial care if they are not.
cain
@mrmoshpotato:
Did you have to mention boxer shorts with those two?
Adam L Silverman
@joel hanes: I like that one a lot.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
“Back to the trees!”
:)
(Had to fit a comic book reference into this eclectic thread someplace.)
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
Too bad there is not a “Baked Act”. He’d probably be in violation.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: I’ve actually been told by one front pager, in an email, that the front pagers shouldn’t be communicating by email or other means where the readers and commenters can’t see what we’re talking about. Usually it is about trying to fix a problem on the site or asking someone to cover a post or trying to find a commenter to make sure they’re okay.
Jay
Adam L Silverman
joel hanes
@Adam L Silverman:
This last one evokes a different emotion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wut4Tn7GcBY
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The head of the ADL called him out very quickly.
joel hanes
@Jay:
Lawyers Guns and Money had a front-page post about the Elaine massacre just today.
I never knew about it before.
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
Bah.. ridiculous. Fraternizing is just fine, IMHO. You are definitely the social type unlike our very unsocial blog host who won’t mix with the commentariat on here :)
joel hanes
@Adam L Silverman:
Remember the journolist “scandal” ?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
in which I return to the topic to quote Tbogg
wish I’d thought of that
I actually have an aunt who sent around the Marine Todd story, and similar. Somehow she leaves me off those emails even though we never discuss politics. I must give off a vibe.
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
HAHA! That’s hiliarious.. those assholes are definitely having fun. Too bad that country is so horrible.
jl
@Adam L Silverman: What, you can’t trust decorated former U.S. Marine body builders anymore? What is the country coming to?
Even on the very remote,almost zero, chance this story just might not be completely accurate, enough people will believe it to put any age issue for Warren to bed… to rest… I mean.
SFAW
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
See, to really make it super-believable, you shoulda had him close with “Have a nice day!”
cain
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Having a consensual relationship is so much better than all that diddling with male interns by Republican congressman back in the day.
Jay
NotMax
@cain
It’s a parody/satire site.
cain
@SFAW:
Hah, “shit fury”
cain
@NotMax:
Doh.. for some reason I thought it was actually them making fun of them. Now I feel kinda dumb.
West of the Rockies
@Adam L Silverman:
And yet, as someone mentioned above, for this administration, such an act is no big deal.
HumboldtBlue
Guarantee she’s got a plan for that.
Adam L Silverman
@joel hanes: My favorite Little Feat song and my favorite version of that song.
NotMax
@cain
From then, something that made the rounds:
Q: Why don’t senators use bookmarks?
A: They prefer their pages bent over.
jl
@cain: Sad to think this was the best smear these two jokers could come up with shows how retro they are and dumb.
To damage Warren, rather than maybe help her, they should have come with a money or influence corruption story. Either they were too stupid or sexist to understand that, or someone pointed out to them that making charges like that might bring more serious consequences than ridicule. Wohl is already in trouble with the law for one of these dishonest stunts, right? They’re just goofy losers.
Cacti
This shit just keeps getting better and better:
Turns out Rudy has been consulting inmate Manafort on Ukraine.
He’s like a random incriminating evidence generator.
cain
@NotMax:
Haha! Man, those were the days.. it wasn’t even normal sex scandals.. just men on boys sex scandals and it seemed to happen so often. Shit.. what a bunch of wankers.
Kattails
@Adam L Silverman: Bernard Clayton’s has a recipe for Babka (Grandmother’s Loaf)that has cardamom, 2 eggs plus 2 yolks, a stick of butter, homemade almond paste, a cup of bittersweet chocolate, a cup of raisins plumped in brandy, a cup of slivered almonds, and is topped with poppy seeds. two loaves. I’ve made it. I want to meet his grandmother.
Adam L Silverman
@joel hanes: The book is with 98% of the rest of my stuff in storage.
jl
@Cacti: But wait, Manafort has a lot of inside info that hasn’t come out yet!
I’ll bet even money we’ll here some GOPer say that on a news talky soon.
emrys
@Steve in the ATL: Khoshary. Umm Ali. I would add falafel but that is more generic.
cain
@jl:
I never understand how these provocateurs get away with staying out of jails even though they have committed felonies? It’s like our system of governance refuse to give these people a harsh sentence. Do a couple of them and assholes like them will turn into whiny bitches and will learn fast what it will like to live in the general population.
West of the Rockies
@Adam L Silverman:
I’m guessing the drab fellow on the left is an Incel. Can’t imagine women are lining up to get with him.
Cacti
@jl:
Tomorrow on Fox News:
It’s completely normal for a sitting President to consult a convicted felon and known Kremlin asset! The Constitution requires it!
piratedan
@joel hanes: like every thing else on this blog… go Fafherd or go home
cain
I hate the fact that despite all this brain trust we still get punked by a bunch low life, low intelligence, poor hygiene low lifes who apparently seem to garner a lot of sympathy during sentencing. grr.. meanwhile, black folks who show incredible amount of nobility get fucked over.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: I tend to write very technical posts which are partially based on professional experience. If I just abandon the post after I hit publish, I’m not doing you all any benefit by not being around to answer questions. Also, because I’m primarily doing consulting, and have been, and not on a full time equivalent line, I have the time to do it as I work from home. So I can work and reply at the same time.
I would really, really, really like to get back on a full time equivalent line!
jonas
So…according to this numbnuts, the idea that Elizabeth Warren has been schtupping a Marine bodybuilder is supposed to be some career-ending scandal? Shit, that should rocket her right to the top of the ticket. Especially if it emerges that the safe word was “wealth tax”.
mrmoshpotato
@cain: I take it you prefer tighty whities. ?
It was my first thought when asking myself, “How will these idiots outdo their fly-down hack job on Mueller?”
Mnemosyne
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
I’m pretty sure “he’s” a stock photo that Wohl and his buddy removed the watermark from.
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
I hear you. I’m unemployed.. and have been since early May. I’d love to be back on full time. I spend my time working on start ups, and non-profits and posting on here.
Adam L Silverman
@SFAW: Actually every Marine I know, and I know a lot of them, end every email and letter with S/F for Semper Fi.
cain
@mrmoshpotato:
I’m a boxer-brief kind of guy :) I just object to knowing anything below the waist with those assholes :D
Adam L Silverman
@cain:
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
Definitely a parody, but fairly hilarious. Heh.
Adam L Silverman
@West of the Rockies: That would be the young Master Wohl. Who thinks he is the Deity’s gift to everyone, especially the ladies. He went to the same surgeon that Sarah Huckabee Sanders did for the facial work. That surgeon is a major fan of Picasso.
joel hanes
@Adam L Silverman:
I believe you’ve misremembered, and conflated percentage differences estimated from DNA hybridization experiments with a count of gene/allele differences.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/06/bonobos-join-chimps-closest-human-relatives
Bonobos and humans share about 99.6% of their base-pair sequence
The human genome is estimated to have about 25,000 “genes”, expressed in about 3 billion base-pairs.
0.4% of 25,000 genes would be 100 genes.
0.4% of 3 billion base-pairs would be 12 million base-pair mismatches.
Perhaps more crucially for speciation, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos have 24 chromosome pairs, humans and our closest extinct ancestors (Neanderthals and Denisovans) have 23.
Jay
Adam L Silverman
@jonas:
Only if the Marine is assigned to Space Force.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: You have my fullest sympathy and empathy.
jl
@Mnemosyne: ” removed the watermark”? I think that kind of trade craft is above them.
Can they really get away with another no show witness? i think they already did that once. Even for them, that would be stretch.
So if they get some dope up there, will he say Warren’s sinister sultry wiles, her wholesome cheerful Oklahoma enthusiasm, and her socialist wealth tax policy, seduced innocent little him? He’ll have to be the victim. A combat decorated U.S. former Marine body builder is the victim because he had an affair? Ho-kay.
They should have gone with a lie about money. But they are dense and denser.
Which reminds me, fourth thing today, apparently came out that Pence was up to his eyeballs in the Ukraine mess, except for some reason, his people say, he didn’t notice or didn’t quite understand what was gong on? Four things hit while I was out this afternoon. Edit: We already knew he was the designated bag man for monitor compliance and collect official Ukrainian work product. But apparently he was read in on every damn detail of it. Why would anyone let someone like Pence in on the whole scheme? Seems weird, or stupid.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: It’s run by several of the people that blog and tweet with Ken White at Popehat.
Adam L Silverman
@joel hanes: I will cop to that. I also saw this documentary with Charlton Heston and Roddy MacDowell.
joel hanes
@joel hanes:
estimated from DNA hybridization experiments with a count of gene/allele differences.
Ah, showing my age here.
Of course, in today’s modern world of The Future, we have actual sequences of the full genome of these species, so no one has needed to use DNA hybridization for these estimates for a couple decades.
I regret the error.
Jay
@cain:
Sports underwear here.
Mike in DC
@Jay: Their boomer will be followed around by hunter-killer subs for the full duration of its existence. Japan, South Korea and America will rotate shifts.
joel hanes
@jl:
Pence was up to his eyeballs in the Ukraine mess
Manafort was working for the corrupt pre-Zelensky government of the Ukraine (but not honestly: he didn’t register as their agent with the US government)
Manafort was working for Trump. Without a fee, IIRC.
Manafort was the one who wanted Pence for VP.
Manafort is the one who has decided he prefers prison to cooperation, and I think it’s because if he tells what he knows, he’ll have an “accident” — shortly after his family also has an “accident”.
jl
@joel hanes: ” Perhaps more crucially for speciation, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos have 24 chromosome pairs, humans and our closest extinct ancestors (Neanderthals and Denisovans) have 23″
Devolution! I’m horrified. I for one welcome our new great ape overlords.
No One of Consequence
@Immanentize: I see what you did there.
Peace, and over-loud rodents,
NOoC
jl
@joel hanes: Well, OK then. Good thing Giuliani got a lot of the scoops blowing the Biden Ukraine scandal wide open from Manafort. Manafort has a lot of inside info.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
Umm … that’s not the point I was trying to make.
“I’m going to rip your head off and shit down your neck. I’m going to kick your ass into next week. I’ll hit you so hard I’ll kill your whole fucking family. I’m going to bring the pain so hard, you’ll wish you had died retroactively.” and so on, concluding with “Have a nice day!” (followed by a smile emoji)
Jay
@Mike in DC:
Their boomer doesn’t have to leave NORK ports to hit Japan or Oakinawa with a nuke.
Dolt 45 has given the NORKs a free hand, because of some “beautiful letters” that probably have “Sir” in them.
Sebastian
Was the #meltdown discussed today?
Mike in DC
@Jay: “Sir”, accompanied by a single tear emoji.
jl
@Sebastian: ” Was the #meltdown discussed today? ”
You talking about Trump, or Wohl and Buirkman, or Balloon-juice commenters?
joel hanes
@jl:
Devolution!
Do a first approximation, most of the physiological differences between humans and the other apes are “neoteny” : human adults physically resemble the infants of the other species. Large rounded smooth skull, small jaws and reduced dentition, small nose and ears, large eyes, shorter and finer body hair. Our young also take much longer to reach physiological adulthood. So in a way, we’re an ape species that never really grows up.
Other differences are really curious-making. Concealed ovulation, f’rinstance.
Recently, it’s looking as if menopause and the relatively long human lifespan are related: giving birth is dangerous, but infants with living grandmothers tend to leave more descendants that those without.
jl
@joel hanes: What happened to the p * n * s bone? That would come in handy for a lot of guys.
Devolution. QED. I win. Sorry
Edit: but, thanks for the info.
joel hanes
@Jay:
Dolt 45 has given the NORKs a free hand
Just a reminder here that under the “framework” agreement hammered out under Clinton, major NK nuclear development facilities were sealed, and those seals monitored.
All that went by the board when W stupidly named North Korea as a member of the “axis of evil.”
West of the Rockies
@Adam L Silverman:
Picasso, indeed! I was gonna say he is a bit Stan Laurel by way of Phantom of the Opera.
Bupalos
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I think one would probably qualify as “enough” in this case.
Skippy-san
If at 72 Elizabeth Warren is having sex with a younger man, that just makes me want to vote for her more!
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid:
Agreed! And I’m only halfway through.
mrmoshpotato
@Mike in DC: Damn right!
joel hanes
@jl:
Interesting. If I’d ever known that other apes have a baculum, I’d forgotten. Thanks.
Devolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o
Sebastian
@jl:
Haha I saw some of the commentariat get hot under the collar, yes.
But I meant Trump. Just saw the press conference and it was delicious.
Mary G
Matt Smith
If Elizabeth Warren hopes to beat Trump at his own game, it’s gonna take more than a single ex-Marine bodybuilder scandal. She’ll need a number of tawdry sex scandals, sexual assault and harassment allegations, and it would help if she started creepily objectifying her own kids. She’s got her work cut out for her!
mrmoshpotato
@Jay:
As Cole has said, American Nuremberg Trials.
Can they get worse? Question answered.
Bmaccnm
@Adam L Silverman: Several months = long term because neither Jacob nor Jack have ever gotten a second date with anyone.
Mart
Being reminded about “the ultra liberal” Bill Maher below: he sure has leashed a lot of pain on his fans by normalizing Coulter, Conway, ingraham, and the other witch on us. Is he on Putin’s payroll too?
Jay
Dave Empey
@jl: Apropos of nothing in particular, the current betting is that we used to have 24 pairs like all the other apes but two of ours got fused together to make the human chromosome called number 2.
Jay
Jay
mrmoshpotato
@Kattails: Not sure you’ll see this but how much cardamom? Because it’s a punch-you-in-the-nose/mouth spice.
mrmoshpotato
@cain: Oh sorry! Oh wait! You already knew one had his fly open. Sorry not sorry.
Jay
cain
@West of the Rockies:
Jeezus you are old. Stan Laurel? ??
cain
@Adam L Silverman: Thank you. It will come eventually.
Jay
Martin
@Jay: Don’t run your datacenter on coal.
Jay
joel hanes
One last one before I hit the bed.
I can’t stand to watch videos of Trump.
Except this one. Trump as you’ve never seen him before.
https://mobile.twitter.com/cmcubfan/status/1179457423762964483?s=21
mrmoshpotato
@cain: Jeezus you are old. Stan Laurel?
Redshift
My favorite bit is that the romance is both “whirlwind” and “long-term.” Sure.
rikyrah
@Adam L Silverman:
Warren and a Marine?
He is putting that out there?
sukabi
@Adam L Silverman: Rudy copped to using the official WH seal on documents he faked yesterday so….
In other news David Jolly is advocating expanding the impeachment to include Pence, Pompeo, Barr and Mulvaney…
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/ex-gop-congressman-wants-impeachment-probe-expanded-to-four-senior-trump-officials-including-mike-pence/
Jay
https://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2019/10/01/how-to-struggle-on-350000-a-year/
Jay
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/after-years-in-afghanistan-im-going-home-to-an-america-i-dont-recognize/2019/10/01/b5036d1c-db1f-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html%3foutputType=amp
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: $1500/year in get-drunk-as-fuck money after all expenses are paid? OK!
ETA – WTF this isn’t a new bullshit article. I saw this crap at least a year ago.
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
$70 a day on food. That’s a shitload of avacado toast.
Sm*t Cl*de
@cain:
I am old enough to remember that joke in the Victorian version. “Yes, the honorable MP for X did promise to turn over a new leaf. He started at the bottom of the page.”
Calouste
@mrmoshpotato: Yeah, it’s not like these people “struggle” to make ends meet. The ends actually meet very well if you can put money away for retirement and a college fund and have leftovers for vacations.
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: And don’t forget Health Care (employer subsidized)
Time for cartoons then sleep. Good night.
mrmoshpotato
@Calouste: Two destination vacations! ?
Ok, gone to cartoon land seriously.
prostratedragon
@Adam L Silverman: Well I for one would have thought you knew some Marines.
WereBear
@Immanentize: Chocolate rules all other babkas.
Also, I’ve been conscious this whole time, and still get shocked on the regular.
Dan B
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Jerry Rubin, one of the Chicago Seven.
Did EST became a stockbroker, invested early in Apple, became a multi millionaire.
Eric Schneider
@PhoenixRising:
Word.
Chris Johnson
@jl:
Because he is the Manafort-picked, chosen Russian successor agent for when Trump flakes out, which was expected to happen way before now. He’s dumb, but Trump is insane and twisted so he’s a way better agent. Of course he was read in on every detail of it. He is the intended Russian mole President and always has been. He was meant to be the end game.
Nice to see that failing. Imagine if Trump flamed out over something else and the media got the chance to be all, ‘Return to normalcy with President Pence!’.
J R in WV
Can we impeach Rudy, just to keep him away from the White House?!
sherparick
@Viva BrisVegas: Remember, IOKIYAR, is now the Supreme Law of the Land.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Shock the “conscious”? You are no longer allowed to write words, Jack Burman.
sherparick
@sherparick: Also, Elisabeth Warren only just turned 70. A relative youngster these days.
Uncle Cosmo
@Chris Johnson:
Glad to see someone else finally figured out what I was posting at least 18 months ago.
Don’t speak too soon – compromised MSM arseholes like Pinche Sulzberger’s drones still have a shot at scrubbing clean the former consensus Stupidest Member Of The House Of Representatives. Eternal vigilance, peeps.
artem1s
@jl:
Georgia, but only because he called the US state by mistake
lee
@Adam L Silverman: Dude that’s awesome news to just slide into a random thread. Good for you!
Yeah this ‘news’ is going to hurt Warren just like that dancing video hurt AOC….
TomatoQueen
@NotMax: You win.
H-Bob
@Redshift: These impatient Millennials and their accelerated timeframes!