Is there a reward? https://t.co/2tAGLGPUm9 pic.twitter.com/WB1UIl3Cu9
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) June 2, 2020
CNN just confirmed that this was the thinking behind the photo op https://t.co/ssGrSMA1eA
— Amy Mackinnon?? (@ak_mack) June 2, 2020
this is a guy who feasts like a vampire on adulation and screaming crowds and now he needs a battalion of goons to gas priests and just to walk two hundred yards out the front door
— kilgore trout, potato thief (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 2, 2020
you can buy into the woe-is-me bullshit and curl up into a little ball saying he’ll just steal the election or no one will vote or the idiots love him too much but that’s a choice you’re making when the evidence in front of you clearly says his entire world is collapsing
— kilgore trout, potato thief (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 2, 2020
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In Trump’s America, War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.#EndThisNightmare pic.twitter.com/fzFrIWVui8
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) June 2, 2020
Jim, Foolish Literalist
debbie
I don’t care how rudely this comes across (and I feel like being rude after all the crap that’s been going on in America), but Kelly, you really need a fashion consultant.
Baud
Benedict Arnold
John Wilkes Booth
Donald Trump
SiubhanDuinne
WaPo and NYT both reported that tear gassing the Lafayette Park protesters yesterday was Bill Barr’s idea and done on his orders.
Baud
I’d like to subscribe to the potato thief’s newsletter.
Frankensteinbeck
Whoever this Kilgore Trout person is, they speak wisdom.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Will all those people extending their middle digits lose their jobs like that reporter did a year or two ago?
cmorenc
@Baud:
You left out Aaron Burr.
debbie
@Baud:
Don’t equivocate. Adolf Hitler.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Think he’s taking the fall for Trump?
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I probably wouldn’t use the term myself, but I’m glad one of the signs Trump might have seen this morning was BunkerBitch.
Baud
@debbie: Not American.
@cmorenc: No one really thinks about him except extreme Hamilton fans.
SiubhanDuinne
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JPL
@Baud: Then why hasn’t trump fired him?
debbie
@Baud:
Doesn’t matter. That’s the direction he’s heading.
OT: Will Apple be suing?
Baud
@JPL: Good question. Another good question is why Barr hasn’t been arrested.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
No, Kelly his new Sean Spicer. She’s in the top photo.
Gravenstone
@Baud: Fall? He likely sees it as burnishing his hippie punching credentials. Regardless of whether he actually made the call or not.
SiubhanDuinne
@debbie:
You’re talking about Kayleigh in the lineup photo? She looks like a slut. Yeah, I said it.
Baud
@Gravenstone:
If Trump thought it made him look good, wouldn’t he just take the credit himself?
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
LOL. For such a lil bitty thing, she looks gangly.
Miss Bianca
So, I’ve been keeping a lower profile on FB than I used to – mostly because as the government meetings reporter for my small-town newspaper, I feel a need to make some feeble pretense of “objectivity”, so spittle-flecked political screeds are a thing of the past except for my super-sekrit local liberal ladies’ group.
However, “the spirit moved and I had to speak”, the other day. Not quite up to the standards of Betty C, Anne Laurie, or Tony Jay, but I thought it expressed my feelings quite nicely:
You know, I haven’t voluntarily attended a church service in 40 years…but I was brought up an Episcopalian. And damned if Trump’s stunt of tear-gassing protestors so that he could cut a wide, waddling, unimpeded swath through them to hijack St. John’s, his minions and myrmidons bobbing in his wake like a particularly seedy collection of ducklings, all there to gape at Daddy Drake brandishing the Bible like he just had it ghost-written, just broke something in me.
I didn’t think myself capable of being any more shocked, any more disgusted, any more infuriated by the Orange Shitgibbon’s antics. But this…like I said, this broke something in me. Proud as hell of the pushback from the pastor and her Bishop. Do.Not.Fuck.With.The.Episcopalians, y’all.
It’s enough to make me at least *think* about reclaiming my do-not-fuck-with-me heritage and attending St. Luke’s this Sunday. Now, when the time comes, I’ll probably react the way my father did to the impulse to exercise – I’ll just lie down till the feeling goes away. So shh! Nobody tell my colleagues that I’m in danger of being a born-again Episcopalian!
But fuck Trump. Fuck him, his family, his followers, and his low-quality hires, forever and ever. Amen.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Nope. I think it was his idea and was done on his orders.
Mary G
@debbie: Kayleigh
Aleta
This is the GOP campaign to reelect and hold. Making TV images, getting free advertising (like 2016), working the symbols that they hope will get out the single-issue vote. Moving the media away from stories of the virus and their ongoing corruption. I honestly suspect involvement of Bannon-like minds in steering some of the vandalism that’s been simultaneous in cities.
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne: Someone has to play Eva in the bunker finale, and it’s clear that Melania ain’t gonna cooperate.
Downpuppy
Nixon also went to the Lincoln Memorial to talk to protestors.
Gassing the clergy & clearing out the church is so far below Nixon that the mind boggles.
debbie
@Miss Bianca:
Nice.
I have to ask, Where was God? Why didn’t he smite Trump while his grubby mitts were pawing His Word?
Miss Bianca
@debbie: Dear God, I thought that was Melania.
Achrachno
@SiubhanDuinne: So, we should nail him for assault and battery as soon as we can.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie:
Prison stripes. Done!
debbie
@Miss Bianca:
She knows better than to wear clothes that tight.
scav
They all look plastic. Entirely plastic. Plastic skin and plastic joints in plastic clothes. Cheap-ass action figures and not at all collectable.
Baud
@scav:
You would think the men would have better fitting suits.
Miss Bianca
@Downpuppy: Right? Truly, we live in dark times.
Cacti
A week or so ago, I said lefties should be ready to fight in the literal sense for their right to vote this Fall.
It was hand waved away by some.
For those who did, are you still feeling confident that the Trump cult will go out peacefully?
Geoboy
Did you see the film of him walking across the street? There’s something neurologically seriously wrong with this guy.
Frankensteinbeck
@SiubhanDuinne:
Maybe. Hitting the weakest person they can find is something a malignant narcissist does when they’re mocked. But Trump is a world championship level coward. He’s a coward beyond anything most people would believe, like being unable to fire anyone face to face even though he has all the power in that situation. That has to be a major factor shaping these events.
Gravenstone
@debbie: I believe Adam used the phrase the other day that his wrist was bigger around than her waist. Said right after begging someone to get her a sandwich…
SiubhanDuinne
@Anne Laurie: I thought that was maybe why they brought Hope Hicks back, but Kayleigh will fill the bill nicely.
Nora
@Downpuppy: Did you ever think we’d have someone in office who made NIXON look good? Or at least better? Neither did I.
Baud
@Cacti:
Some of them will become domestic terrorists. I don’t think that’s been disputed.
MattF
@SiubhanDuinne: Looks to me like all six have… body image issues.
scav
@Baud: But then again, do we really want to see a more accurate representation of their bodies? Tailoring can only go so far . . . .
Baud
@Nora:
According to LGM, W. issued a nice statement.
SiubhanDuinne
@Achrachno:
I would, yeah. Just on general principles.
Anotherlurker
Mary G
Here’s a real politician with guts:
Masks and khaki shorts! Love her.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
“Hahaha, most people have forgotten how terrible my war-crimes-committing dumb ass was! Hahahahaha!”
Fuck Dick, W, Donnie, Condi and Colin.
debbie
@Gravenstone:
I saw that. I hadn’t seen a full-length shot of her until now. Chick needs a heck of a lot more than a sandwich.
JaySinWA
@SiubhanDuinne: It kind of looks like she’s wearing Kelly-Anne’s hand me downs though. I seem to remember her wearing a sailor girl outfit back in the day.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato:
No way, might catch something(especially Trump).
ThresherK
@Baud: But:
Arnold was a brilliant general before he traitored.
Booth was a fine actor before he got all Lost Causey. (I especially like him reading about Southerners mourning Lincoln’s assissination when Booth thought it was going to set off the South rising.)
Trump shouldn’t have quit his day job, whatever that was. He was better at it than this.
Chyron HR
@Cacti:
That’s interesting, because here on planet Earth you got told to stop calling women “wh*res” and “c*nts” and whined that doing so was how you “fought to defend your right to vote”.
Duane
@Anne Laurie: Now would be a great time to leave a Diet Coke and a cyanide capsule in Trumpov’s bunker. For the good of the country.
Bill Arnold
So it’s probably worth being familiar with the United States Park Police acting Chief Gregory T. Monahan:
Statement from United States Park Police acting Chief Gregory T. Monahan about the actions taken over the weekend to protect life and property (June 2, 2020)
Narrator: There was no violence underway:
Narrator: There was no violence, and he did not respect the protesters First Amendment rights to peaceable assembly.
This was a show of force; as Putin instructed D.J Trump[1], “the word is dominate”. Protesters were dispersed on camera. Wannabe “dominant” male bullshit. Weak.
The USPP made no arrests; they would have done so if there had been actual violence against their officers.
[1] Demand a verbatim transcript of yesterday AM’s call between D.J.Trump and V. Putin!
Aleta
Iirc, in Hong Kong, protest last June began against an extradition order(s) (one item on a list) but quickly grew b/c of the harsh crackdown. And lasted through the fall. As people realized how much more was at stake.
(And also b/c the rest of the items on the list by the Chinese remained in place.)
Benw
@Baud: Henry Kissinger is like ” how many war crimes DO I have to commit!”
Another Scott
Former JCS Chair Mike Mullen at the Atlantic:
Cheers,
Scott.
Aleta
@Bill Arnold: “Civil Disturbance Units”
It’s beyond disturbing that their training or orders did not include the ability to pause to allow the helpers to leave (reportedly a priest on the church patio with the BLM volunteers flushing out eyes). Just kept advancing and lobbing.
Sounds more like the mentality of an Army urban warfare operation. Without modulation, that’s a form of out of control.
Cacti
I was told to stop calling the Washington Post a whore. The part about me calling anyone a cunt is you lying your ass off.
Any other fictions you’d like to peddle?
Another Scott
@Bill Arnold: It’s good to keep in mind that US Park Police officers killed a local NoVA resident in 2017, stonewalled the investigation, and the officers have faced no charges.
The US Park Police leadership under Donnie does not deserve trust in their pronouncements.
Cheers,
Scott.
VOR
@Another Scott: I’ll go further: no official appointed by Donald Trump deserves trust or the benefit of the doubt.
geg6
@debbie:
Sadly, it’s not Kellyanne. It’s Kayleigh McEnany (sp?), the new press secretary.
Shana
@SiubhanDuinne: Every woman in the Trump orbit looks like a porn star. The hair, the makeup, the fake boobs.
Bill Arnold
@Another Scott:
Yes, I’m just saying the right wing will be all “dumb liberals don’t think there’s a difference between smoke canisters and tear gas canisters”. There was a piece already at reason.com.
The problem with this argument (if in fact it was smoke) is that the crowd has no way of knowing if it’s smoke or tear gas, because tear gas is part of the threat and has already been used elsewhere to disperse protests. It’s like loading a submachine gun with blanks and letting loose aimed over the crowed ; the crowd has to assume that it’s real.
The Moar You Know
@Cacti: With what? Righties have got most of the guns. Either they go or they don’t, but don’t pretend that the left can “fight in the literal sense” because we cannot. If it came to that, we’re massively outgunned. That simple.
This may well be the single most idiotic post I’ve ever seen here.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bill Arnold: The smoke from a smoke grenade isn’t all that pleasant to breathe.
Bex
@debbie: God plays the long game.
Bill Arnold
@Bill Arnold:
Also, other parties than the Park Police were involved. Including the Secret Service. Last I heard, the Secret Service did not deny using tear gas, claiming operational security prevented them from saying anything.
debbie
@geg6:
That’s who I meant. Long day.
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: To be fair, the one is probably being groomed as the replacement for the other. KAC ain’t getting any younger, if you know what I mean.
Cacti
@The Moar You Know: Yep, keep shooting the messenger.
I’m sure things will be better five months from now.
If not, you can beg them for mercy. That usually works well with fascists.
SFAW
Just saw this on someone’s twitter thingy:
Why’d the chicken cross the road?
To take a picture with a Bible.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Miss Bianca: I was thinking; great, something as WASPy as the Epicopalians is now on The Right’s enemies list.
I now get the outrage in Iraq when a Mosque was boomed. This is like a repeat of the Iraq War, expect as a farce.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Aleta: No, the focus on the vandalism is just the presses knee jerk “Both sides do it”, the fact that the protests are just escalating and the Militia types are no were to be seen shows it’s not working.
If the Trump admin was filled with people who are as clever as you are assuming none of this would be happening.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Have you notice the lack of Proud Boi’s, 4/Chan Ecil, Cosplay Militia and MAGA hat counter protests? Trump called for them to defend the White House from the mean black people and they’ve been a no show.
You need to understand the wrestling term “kayfabe” because that’s what Trump is doing. This is all posturing from Trump.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@debbie: And a better hairdresser and make-up artist.
Chris Johnson
@Cacti:
Whoever you are, you could be saying exactly the same things if you were working from Moscow trying to heighten the contradictions. Sort of like the more cowardly version of undercover cops breaking the windows of Autozones to persuade people that the PROTESTERS are violent.
How about fuck off.