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I turn on the computer and what do I see? President Impeachment has run a bus over Rick Perry several times
"I was talked into my crime by Rick Perry" is the most implausible alibi I've ever heard/ https://t.co/Y1eddWxPSq
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 5, 2019
I’m sorry, but Rick PERRY? Please. You need a much more credible patsy than that. https://t.co/R1PCxoUQjT
— NotOutlandishHat (@Popehat) October 5, 2019
Frog/Scorpion and all.
Open thread
I’m very much of the “what pisses off Republicans pleases me” crowd these days. In that vein, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is my heroine:
Republican hypocrisy at its finest: saying that Trump admitting to sexual assault on tape is just “locker room talk,” but scandalizing themselves into faux-outrage when my sis says a curse word in a bar.
GOP lost entitlement to policing women’s behavior a long time ago.
Next.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 5, 2019
It hasn’t sunk in yet for the political establishment — and by that I mean not just the electeds, but the whole infrastructure of consultants and wingnut welfare types and staffs and so on — and the elite political media ecosystem, that they are a day late and a dollar short in the face of those who simply don’t accept their asserted authority.
AOC and many more did not come to the arena to play. She is no where near dumb enough to acquiesce to the pre-existing “rules”. Those norms are intended both to constrain policy, but, as important, to channel political warfare into forms that favor incumbent power.
This is the one true lesson Donald Trump absorbed, and now others have learned: don’t apologize. Attack.
Which is, of course, ever more vital when you are on the right side of history.
Image: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1890.
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Tomorrow’s @washingtonpost A1 — wow pic.twitter.com/OZ5wFcCho8
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) August 22, 2018
An admitted felon is "saying that his co-conspirator and/or his aider and abetter was the president of the United States. That is something that I think is basically without precedent in American history" —@JeffreyToobin
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 21, 2018
If only there were precedent for a Republican Congress impeaching a President for crimes associated with covering up an affair
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 22, 2018
In case you're wondering: the third member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump in '16 was then-Sen. Jeff Sessions. https://t.co/l56mPOGNJo
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 21, 2018
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: MOAR POPCORN!Post + Comments (143)
Remember the Ebola scare in May?
As 42 days (two incubation periods) have passed since the last possible exposure to a confirmed Ebola virus disease case, on 24 July 2018, the Minister of Health, Dr Oly Ilunga announced the end of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from the World Health Organization)
Lessons were learned from the West Africa epidemic of 2014 to 2016 and applied in the Congo. Additionally, a vaccine was available this time around. Nobody who was vaccinated became ill with Ebola. The response was coordinated by the Democratic Republic of Congo and the World Health Organization. Much more at the link about the public health response.
That’s pretty good in a nation that is still torn by war. Congratulations and thanks to all who stopped the epidemic.
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We have an early entrant in the bizarre things that occur on New Year’s Eve contest. This one courtesy of Ireland Man (like Florida Man, but with a better accent!).
(h/t: https://twitter.com/AMoCS/status/815302062829404160)
Hope everyone’s festivities or quiet night’s in are going to plan!
Stay frosty!
Yo Yo Ma and Lil Buck would be draw enough, I’d say. But manohmanohman — check out what Lil Buck does to draw his performance to a close:
My every joint and ligament screams in mute sympathy. Human bodies shouldn’t be able to do that. An extraordinarily gifted human has done I have no idea how much constant, brutal, consuming work to make it look…well, not effortless, but graceful. Beautiful.
Enjoy, for just a moment, before resuming our regular coverage of the Trumpocalypse.
Oh — and open thread, also too.
PS: I thought about the “not normal” tag, for obvious reasons, and for equally obvious ones, declined to use it.
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.@HillaryClinton: "Tonight let's embrace the spirit of the evening…remember what unites us and just rip on @tedcruz." #AlSmithDinner pic.twitter.com/zmNI7kBVWT
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 21, 2016
Well, that went well… assuming you weren’t Donald Trump. He said himself that he’s been attending these dinners ‘for years, with my father, since I was a young man’, and he still hasn’t picked up a feel for what would be acceptable? Does the man listen to anything other than the sound of his own voice?
… What began as the expected ribbing of presidential candidates at the white-tie Al Smith Dinner Thursday turned to boos as Donald Trump described Hillary Clinton as “corrupt” at the event, which is a major fundraiser for the Catholic charities connected to the Archdiocese of New York…
… Trump was quick to take some campaign trail attacks with him to the dais at the annual dinner. He called Clinton “so corrupt she got kicked off the Watergate Commission” and lobbed his usual line that Clinton has been in politics for 30 years and accomplished little. “I can fix it, she says,” he deadpanned as the crowd’s mood noticeably shifted.
As the boos rolled in Trump wondered who they were booing. “I don’t know who they’re angry at Hillary, you or I?” he said. Someone in the crowd yelled out “you!”
Trump’s next line struck a nerve. “Here she is in public, pretending not to hate Catholics,” Trump said, referencing an apparent email exposed by WikiLeaks in which a Clinton spokeswoman seemed to joke about Catholics and evangelicals…
The Democratic nominee, for her part, poked fun at herself while also taking searing jabs at her opponent. Clinton didn’t hesitate to slam Trump for his past comments on women and his ambivalence about accepting next month’s election results.
In contrast with Trump, Clinton also made a point of acknowledging both the purpose and the history of the Al Smith dinner and closed her speech with a big-picture campaign message that was tied to the positive focus of Thursday’s Catholic fundraiser…
Me, I think this was the most interesting photo from the evening:
I'm not saying the Cardinal prefers Hillary, but… #AlSmithDinner #imwither pic.twitter.com/opv1cGoV1G
— LilRedTweetsALot (@MeganBigMouth) October 21, 2016
Now, Timmy Cardinal Dolan is not a good man — to steal a Donald Westlake line, I’d trust him alone all night in bed with a ten-year-old, as long as the kid didn’t have more than five dollars cash on them — but he has a nose for power like a pig for truffles. If he’s willing to put aside his public histrionics over baby-murdering lesbian feminist God-denying Democrats who don’t care about suffering women to suck up to Hillary Clinton in public, that’s another leading indicator as to which party will be on the podium at the inaguration in January.
Late Night Open Thread: Catholics, No CharityPost + Comments (104)