Jake hasn’t been one of my favorites in the past, but damn that’s a serious beat down.
2.
Quinerly
LOVE THIS. THANK YOU.
3.
pinacacci
Indeed
4.
Punchy
I find it encouraging that Barr subordy has been in place 10 days and not a peep about Special Counsel for Hunter B and election fooferall and the like. If the guy was a total Trumpy, he’da hinted (or acted ) on all these things by now. Tells me the DOJ is in proper shut-it-down-till-Biden mode at this point.
5.
Mo Salad
I am not good at embedding tweets, but Jason went all “Say that to my face”, and AJ Delgado (the mom) tweeted back that Jason is 5 10 on a good day and overweight and she’s met Jake Tapper as well, who is 6 2 – 6 3 and broad shouldered.
6.
PsiFighter37
I wonder if we are hitting a tipping point with media hacks. Tapper has been good the past 4 years, on balance, but even Chuckles was calling Ron Johnson an arsonist to his face today. Methinks the media finally is realizing what authoritarianism means for their line of business…
Also read that Devin Nunes and Gym Jordan are in line to get the Medal of Freedom. I wonder if Biden can get Congress to pass a law revoking every single handout made under Trump – the honor is worth less than nothing when you look at the POS that he has handed it to over the past 4 years.
7.
Patricia Kayden
The truth’s on tape. For those who’ve joined the effort to subvert the election, you still have a choice: you can either side w/someone who is asking officials in your own party to break the law or you can side with our republic. There is no middle ground. https://t.co/n5oiWl4hb6— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) January 3, 2021
I hadn’t thought about Barr’s replacement, but now that you mention it, yes, it’s surprising and good that things have been quiet. I hope it stays that way.
9.
ThresherK
@Geoboy: I have said (perhaps here) that it seems Jake Tapper has given up the false equivalence Beltway schtick for a certain time now.
Mark Strauss @MarkDStrauss Trump might as well give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Stormy Daniels since his main criteria seems to be anyone who sucks his dick.
11.
Yutsano
I’m so old I remember when Jake Tapper actually commented here once. We were less than kind as I recall, but maybe it was a spark. Jake, if you’re lurking, thank you for being better.
12.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Dump will award himself, as well as Javanka the MOF
@PsiFighter37: Asterisks. MLB shamed Roger Maris with one for too many years; everyone who received a medal or an appointment under this Administration should be burdened with one forever.
Well, that and ostracism, blacklisting, and a complete ban from the airwaves
16.
Punchy
@Yutsano: didnt Greenwald barge in here a few times back in the day?
17.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think Charlie Pierce has posted in the comments a time or two?
More to the topic: LOLOLOL at Jake Tapper.
My favorite cutdown I’ve seen in recent weeks, in response to either bigoted comments or batshit crazy comments (or both, I suppose) is, “So THAT’S why your grandchildren don’t call or visit!”.
19.
debbie
i’m generally opposed to someone being surreptitiously taped on a phone call…but not this one, folks!— Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@MonicaLewinsky) January 3, 2021
@Punchy:I find it encouraging that Barr subordy has been in place 10 days and not a peep about Special Counsel for Hunter B and election fooferall and the like. If the guy was a total Trumpy, he’da hinted (or acted ) on all these things by now. Tells me the DOJ is in proper shut-it-down-till-Biden mode at this point.
It’s pretty hard for an unqualified hack to get much done when his professional staff aren’t going along. “Yes sir, we are working on it. We have internal rules and processes that we need to follow. You aren’t asking us to BREAK THE LAW are you?”
25.
Obvious Russian Troll
@Punchy: Greenwald googles himself and has waded into the comment section on more than one lefty blog. I stopped taking him seriously long before Snowden.
Freddie deBoer was a front pager for a short period, if I remember correctly.
27.
Punchy
Holy shit….I know none of yoose care about Vegas odds on this stuff, but offshore odds for the GA Sen elections have MASSIVELY changed (inverted!) to favor the Dems. Enormous swing to the Dems. And this was the site whose odds swings correctly predicted Trump’s FL, NC, Ernst’s surprise, etc. Not the end-all, but sumpin….
I wonder if we are hitting a tipping point with media hacks. Tapper has been good the past 4 years, on balance, but even Chuckles was calling Ron Johnson an arsonist to his face today. Methinks the media finally is realizing what authoritarianism means for their line of business…
Like Baud noted below, open, anti-democratic sedition appears to be a redline the MSM has. Also, I think Trump’s pandemic response has also floored many of them
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): His pandemic response has floored me. He doesn’t care. I mean, more than 10,000 people a week are dying and he, literally, doesn’t care at all.
34.
dmsilev
Huh. About that op-Ed from all of the former SecDefs,
The idea for this statement actually originated from Vice President Cheney. Each of us swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution; that oath does not change according to party designation.https://t.co/NSsdLkZX9g— William J. Perry (@SecDef19) January 4, 2021
‘Dick Cheney is worried about where things are going’ is not really what I’d call a ‘good sign’.
@Yutsano: We were really not very nice to him, but I was holding a particular grudge about his bullshit “Obama’s secretly smoking and therefore can’t be trusted!” piece and felt I should get it off my chest.
I think Jake now has a proper perspective on what “bad behavior” by a president looks like no (PROTIP IT IS NOT SNEAKING SMOKES), so I’ll refrain from dick-punching him if he ever comes back here.
37.
Mike in NC
Fat Bastard has cheapened every award he ever handed out. Joe Biden should retire several of them.
The Ladies on MSNBC and Ali Veshi that have been interviewing medical workers on COVID-19 and the people on long lines for food are very upset too. The low level Republicans that have been brave enough to turn up on their shows are demolished. They expected the usual reception and were glad when the time was up
Did you ever think that you would write that sentence?
47.
Delk
Miller ran Jack Ryan’s campaign against Obama. Four years later Obama was President.
48.
Kattails
@dmsilev: CHENEY??? If my gob gets any more smacked over the next couple of days, Imma gonna need an ice pack and bandages.
Tapper’s been pretty impressive lately.
I’ve been calling my (Dem) congresswomen to let them know how I feel about letting sedition slide this time around. I want it clear that I support maximum penalties for the garbage that is going down. Unfortunately they are Nice Ladies and don’t quite have the ovaries of, say, Katie Porter.
49.
Hoodie
@PsiFighter37: The red line is that Trump’s obvious clinical psychopathy is finally sinking in, i.e., it’s not just performance art. The context of the tape is as important as the substance. He’s spending an hour doing this as 3000 people are dying each day and vaccine rollout stalls, neither of which even registers in his consciousness. I’m getting a sense that even Republicans are getting scared about what Trump (and his more whacked out supporters) would be willing to do to get what he wants, e.g., try to impose martial law and, most importantly to them, encourage his supporters to conduct violent attacks on pols and media types.
50.
dexwood
@RSA: You dredged up a memory of the mediocre Famous Amos cookies when i read this.
His pandemic response has floored me. He doesn’t care. I mean, more than 10,000 people a week are dying and he, literally, doesn’t care at all.
I know. He doesn’t care and he never did. All he gives a shit about is keeping the powers of his office.
And then all of the morons trying to whitewash this clown: “It’s all China’s fault! Fake virus! Plandemic! It’s just the flu! 99% survival rate! Open up!” and on and on. It’s maddening and I’m so sick of people who will defend this asshole no matter what the fuck he does.
I still think back to that 2019 WH Dinner where he invited college athletes and he fed them fast food slop because he was too much of a cheapskate to properly cater it after the shutdown. And his dumbass supporters defended it by saying Trump understood college age kids love fast food and that critics were elitists. I know in the grand scheme of things this is minor, but it still pisses me off that these pathetic cretins couldn’t just admit Trump fucked it up
We very seldom give him a hard time about Octopussy.
61.
Citizen Alan
And I’m in Twitter time-out. I don’t even know specifically what for, as I’ve called lot of perfect strangers “treasonous swine” over the last hour or so.
@zhena gogolia: I did give him a bit of a hard time when Sir Roger Moore died.
64.
Starfish
@Amir Khalid: Someone that I followed on Twitter was always going on about how smart Glenn Greenwald and Freddie de Boer are and how they are wrongfully persecuted by people trying to cancel them. I unfollowed him.
65.
RSA
@Amir Khalid: I think it was justified. For me, I don’t follow either deBoer or Greenwald nowadays, and their views may not have much in common, but good God were they long-winded, self-important bores.
(I will be judgmental, having similar flaws. :-)
66.
Starfish
@RSA: The inability to admit that they might be wrong or uncertain really is a character flaw.
@RSA: Yeah….poor fit for this blog. The best you an say about them is that the blog is not kind to people who take themselves too seriously. Pompous and self-important are not survival traits here.
Miller ran Jack Ryan’s campaign against Obama. Four years later Obama was President.
I did not know that. The first part, I mean. The second part, I remember. /sigh/
any word on the plan to do some kind of book club on BO’s memoir?
72.
Gin & Tonic
Because you need this. Pépito the cat has a cat door, so he can go in and out, and that door reports his comings and goings on Twitter. https://twitter.com/PepitoTheCat
73.
Subsole
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Being too weak to admit error is the atomic force that binds conservatism. It is their defining feature, all the way down the chain.
Greenwald googles himself and has waded into the comment section on more than one lefty blog.
Sometimes people mention his name just for the sport of it.
You have to do it early in a thread though; this site is indexed by google a lot and sometimes the late parts of an old thread don’t get indexed. (Probably should get John Cole to request an index every few months; google supports this I’ve read.)
A lot of people do, including reporters. This is one reason why I always including the byline for linked news pieces. (Another is simple politeness. I know there are tools for determining linkage, but this makes it easier.)
I’m inclined to think that was just somebody posing as Jake Tapper tbh
We’ve also had some high profile commenters here using nyms. (If your mind ids people by their writing style and/or hints, please don’t dox them unless they’re super-deserving of it.)
There’s even a name for the practice.
I try to do the opposite, and make sure text written by me and associated with my name (which is common) is not found in the first 10 or 20 pages of google search results for a simple quoted name search.
Geoboy
Jake hasn’t been one of my favorites in the past, but damn that’s a serious beat down.
Quinerly
LOVE THIS. THANK YOU.
pinacacci
Indeed
Punchy
I find it encouraging that Barr subordy has been in place 10 days and not a peep about Special Counsel for Hunter B and election fooferall and the like. If the guy was a total Trumpy, he’da hinted (or acted ) on all these things by now. Tells me the DOJ is in proper shut-it-down-till-Biden mode at this point.
Mo Salad
I am not good at embedding tweets, but Jason went all “Say that to my face”, and AJ Delgado (the mom) tweeted back that Jason is 5 10 on a good day and overweight and she’s met Jake Tapper as well, who is 6 2 – 6 3 and broad shouldered.
PsiFighter37
I wonder if we are hitting a tipping point with media hacks. Tapper has been good the past 4 years, on balance, but even Chuckles was calling Ron Johnson an arsonist to his face today. Methinks the media finally is realizing what authoritarianism means for their line of business…
Also read that Devin Nunes and Gym Jordan are in line to get the Medal of Freedom. I wonder if Biden can get Congress to pass a law revoking every single handout made under Trump – the honor is worth less than nothing when you look at the POS that he has handed it to over the past 4 years.
Patricia Kayden
West of the Rockies
@Punchy:
I hadn’t thought about Barr’s replacement, but now that you mention it, yes, it’s surprising and good that things have been quiet. I hope it stays that way.
ThresherK
@Geoboy: I have said (perhaps here) that it seems Jake Tapper has given up the false equivalence Beltway schtick for a certain time now.
@Psifighter has beat me to it.
We’ll see if he keeps this encouraging tack.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@PsiFighter37:
Yutsano
I’m so old I remember when Jake Tapper actually commented here once. We were less than kind as I recall, but maybe it was a spark. Jake, if you’re lurking, thank you for being better.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Dump will award himself, as well as Javanka the MOF
West of the Rockies
@Yutsano:
I did not know Tapper ever dropped by here. Have any other famous-ish folk checked in?
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oh, boy.
Bruuuuce
@PsiFighter37: Asterisks. MLB shamed Roger Maris with one for too many years; everyone who received a medal or an appointment under this Administration should be burdened with one forever.
Well, that and ostracism, blacklisting, and a complete ban from the airwaves
Punchy
@Yutsano: didnt Greenwald barge in here a few times back in the day?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think Charlie Pierce has posted in the comments a time or two?
Suzanne
@Punchy:
Is that how you spell that?
More to the topic: LOLOLOL at Jake Tapper.
My favorite cutdown I’ve seen in recent weeks, in response to either bigoted comments or batshit crazy comments (or both, I suppose) is, “So THAT’S why your grandchildren don’t call or visit!”.
debbie
WaterGirl
The full call is here and while I have your attention pay your child support.
Rotating tag material!
West of the Rockies
@Punchy:
Ugh.
Jeffro
Yeowch, Tapper!
Kelly
@West of the Rockies: John Rodgers once seconded someone’s TV show recommendation.
https://twitter.com/jonrog1
Kent
It’s pretty hard for an unqualified hack to get much done when his professional staff aren’t going along. “Yes sir, we are working on it. We have internal rules and processes that we need to follow. You aren’t asking us to BREAK THE LAW are you?”
Obvious Russian Troll
@Punchy: Greenwald googles himself and has waded into the comment section on more than one lefty blog. I stopped taking him seriously long before Snowden.
RSA
@West of the Rockies:
Freddie deBoer was a front pager for a short period, if I remember correctly.
Punchy
Holy shit….I know none of yoose care about Vegas odds on this stuff, but offshore odds for the GA Sen elections have MASSIVELY changed (inverted!) to favor the Dems. Enormous swing to the Dems. And this was the site whose odds swings correctly predicted Trump’s FL, NC, Ernst’s surprise, etc. Not the end-all, but sumpin….
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@PsiFighter37:
Like Baud noted below, open, anti-democratic sedition appears to be a redline the MSM has. Also, I think Trump’s pandemic response has also floored many of them
Baud
@Obvious Russian Troll:
Is that what the kids call it these days?
central texas
Jason Miller, Trump2020 Senior Advisor.
Or as they say in the indictments, “accessory” .
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Punchy:
@Kent:
I’d really like to know specifically what caused Barr to resign a month before the Inauguration
Just One More Canuck
@central texas: or ‘known associate’
Barbara
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): His pandemic response has floored me. He doesn’t care. I mean, more than 10,000 people a week are dying and he, literally, doesn’t care at all.
dmsilev
Huh. About that op-Ed from all of the former SecDefs,
‘Dick Cheney is worried about where things are going’ is not really what I’d call a ‘good sign’.
West of the Rockies
@RSA:
Would we call Freddie famous?
The Moar You Know
@Yutsano: We were really not very nice to him, but I was holding a particular grudge about his bullshit “Obama’s secretly smoking and therefore can’t be trusted!” piece and felt I should get it off my chest.
I think Jake now has a proper perspective on what “bad behavior” by a president looks like no (PROTIP IT IS NOT SNEAKING SMOKES), so I’ll refrain from dick-punching him if he ever comes back here.
Mike in NC
Fat Bastard has cheapened every award he ever handed out. Joe Biden should retire several of them.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Yutsano:
I’m inclined to think that was just somebody posing as Jake Tapper tbh
Baud
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
There’s someone here who poses as Roger Moore.
rikyrah
@Patricia Kayden:
?????
Brachiator
@dmsilev:
Dick Cheney, a man who has no heart, vs Donald Trump, a man who has no soul.
WaterGirl
@Just One More Canuck: Or Individual 18.
RSA
@West of the Rockies:
Good point. No. Famous-adjacent, at best.
waratah
The Ladies on MSNBC and Ali Veshi that have been interviewing medical workers on COVID-19 and the people on long lines for food are very upset too. The low level Republicans that have been brave enough to turn up on their shows are demolished. They expected the usual reception and were glad when the time was up
WaterGirl
@dmsilev:
I laughed out loud. Not at the sentiment but at the wonderful phrasing.
rikyrah
@dmsilev:
Did you ever think that you would write that sentence?
Delk
Miller ran Jack Ryan’s campaign against Obama. Four years later Obama was President.
Kattails
@dmsilev: CHENEY??? If my gob gets any more smacked over the next couple of days, Imma gonna need an ice pack and bandages.
Tapper’s been pretty impressive lately.
I’ve been calling my (Dem) congresswomen to let them know how I feel about letting sedition slide this time around. I want it clear that I support maximum penalties for the garbage that is going down. Unfortunately they are Nice Ladies and don’t quite have the ovaries of, say, Katie Porter.
Hoodie
@PsiFighter37: The red line is that Trump’s obvious clinical psychopathy is finally sinking in, i.e., it’s not just performance art. The context of the tape is as important as the substance. He’s spending an hour doing this as 3000 people are dying each day and vaccine rollout stalls, neither of which even registers in his consciousness. I’m getting a sense that even Republicans are getting scared about what Trump (and his more whacked out supporters) would be willing to do to get what he wants, e.g., try to impose martial law and, most importantly to them, encourage his supporters to conduct violent attacks on pols and media types.
dexwood
@RSA: You dredged up a memory of the mediocre Famous Amos cookies when i read this.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Barbara:
I know. He doesn’t care and he never did. All he gives a shit about is keeping the powers of his office.
And then all of the morons trying to whitewash this clown: “It’s all China’s fault! Fake virus! Plandemic! It’s just the flu! 99% survival rate! Open up!” and on and on. It’s maddening and I’m so sick of people who will defend this asshole no matter what the fuck he does.
I still think back to that 2019 WH Dinner where he invited college athletes and he fed them fast food slop because he was too much of a cheapskate to properly cater it after the shutdown. And his dumbass supporters defended it by saying Trump understood college age kids love fast food and that critics were elitists. I know in the grand scheme of things this is minor, but it still pisses me off that these pathetic cretins couldn’t just admit Trump fucked it up
zhena gogolia
@Yutsano:
I remember that too. He wasn’t happy with us.
zhena gogolia
@West of the Rockies: Charlie Cook.
zhena gogolia
@dmsilev:
lol, me too
zhena gogolia
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
As I recall, it was pretty clearly him. He wasn’t so famous back then.
WaterGirl
@Kattails:
Yes, I have been starting to un-hate him lately. Or at least moving in that direction.
dmsilev
@rikyrah: No, definitely not. 2008 Me would be pretty surprised, that’s for sure.
burnspbesq
@Obvious Russian Troll:
Speaking of that crew, according to the Guardian the English trial court is set to announce tomorrow whether Assange is to be extradited.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Heh, that’s actually his name.
zhena gogolia
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
We very seldom give him a hard time about Octopussy.
Citizen Alan
And I’m in Twitter time-out. I don’t even know specifically what for, as I’ve called lot of perfect strangers “treasonous swine” over the last hour or so.
Amir Khalid
@RSA:
Freddie found us to be an unsympathetic crowd. He basically got booed off the stage here.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@zhena gogolia: I did give him a bit of a hard time when Sir Roger Moore died.
Starfish
@Amir Khalid: Someone that I followed on Twitter was always going on about how smart Glenn Greenwald and Freddie de Boer are and how they are wrongfully persecuted by people trying to cancel them. I unfollowed him.
RSA
@Amir Khalid: I think it was justified. For me, I don’t follow either deBoer or Greenwald nowadays, and their views may not have much in common, but good God were they long-winded, self-important bores.
(I will be judgmental, having similar flaws. :-)
Starfish
@RSA: The inability to admit that they might be wrong or uncertain really is a character flaw.
gwangung
@RSA: Yeah….poor fit for this blog. The best you an say about them is that the blog is not kind to people who take themselves too seriously. Pompous and self-important are not survival traits here.
RSA
@Starfish:
@gwangung:
These are good characterizations of our front-pagers, I think. Our host Cole being the ur-example of someone willing to re-evaluate his views.
Starfish
@RSA: Wow. I never really thought about it that way. It is an over-arching theme of the blog.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Deservedly so.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Delk:
I did not know that. The first part, I mean. The second part, I remember. /sigh/
any word on the plan to do some kind of book club on BO’s memoir?
Gin & Tonic
Because you need this. Pépito the cat has a cat door, so he can go in and out, and that door reports his comings and goings on Twitter. https://twitter.com/PepitoTheCat
Subsole
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Being too weak to admit error is the atomic force that binds conservatism. It is their defining feature, all the way down the chain.
chrome agnomen
@RSA: the Geraldo of front pagers here.
Mike in NC
@Gin & Tonic: We had a cat door installed between the study and the sunroom. Greatest invention since sliced bread.
Bill Arnold
@Obvious Russian Troll:
Sometimes people mention his name just for the sport of it.
You have to do it early in a thread though; this site is indexed by google a lot and sometimes the late parts of an old thread don’t get indexed. (Probably should get John Cole to request an index every few months; google supports this I’ve read.)
WaterGirl
@Mike in NC: Why between two indoor rooms?
WaterGirl
@Bill Arnold:
I have never heard of doing that. Tell me more?
Bill Arnold
@Baud:
A lot of people do, including reporters. This is one reason why I always including the byline for linked news pieces. (Another is simple politeness. I know there are tools for determining linkage, but this makes it easier.)
cain
@Bill Arnold:
Do we really want to have this guy show up ? I mean, talking about a downer.
Bill Arnold
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
We’ve also had some high profile commenters here using nyms. (If your mind ids people by their writing style and/or hints, please don’t dox them unless they’re super-deserving of it.)
NotMax
@Bill Arnold
There’s even a name for the practice.
;)
Bill Arnold
@NotMax:
AnotherBruce
@Quinerly:
@RSA: Wowser, that’s a name from the past.
Dupe1970
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I wonder if that was the thinking of a lot of the Bush and Trump appointed judges.
“If I make Trump President-for-life, then will he really need judges or as many judges….”