Trump

[morepork]

Did Uncle Sam notify anyone prior to offing Bin Laden in Pakistan?

[Mellsblue]

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[Coco]

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I love it...

Alexa, how many bottles of red did Mellsblue chug tonight?

[Mikey Brown]

[Mellsblue]

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I love it...

Alexa, how many bottles of red did Mellsblue chug tonight?

Dry January. So, sadly, none.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Just the three to go then.

Four?

Two drivers and two close protection team.

[Digby]

Just the three to go then.

Four?

Two drivers and two close protection team.

Ah, I was counting the main man as the 4th of 7, this suggests it was Suleimani and 7 others

[morepork]

A fucking masterclass in rambling incoherence and poor decision making in the complete absence of strategy. Utter, utter incompetence for all the world to see. Just astoundingly bad, at everything.

[Sandydragon]

That’ll end well.

[Mikey Brown]

I'm not sure I'll ever stop finding it fascinating to watch the people in the background of these videos. Who are they? Where did they come from? Surely it would be career suicide for any gigging actor to take a job doing this? Are they real?



Are these the people that really are having to run their dishwasher 10 times in a row? Flush their toilet 15 times? Who stand for hours and hours under a shower that is barely dripping? Is this a thing? I'm genuinely curious.

He is clearly connecting with these people on some level, the woman to the right of him for example clearly finds every single word he says hysterical, particularly "toilet" and "faucet".

[morepork]

United by bigotry Mikey boy. That's the only consistent narrative coming out of the government toilet at the moment. Only a very special snowflake could frame household water pressure as an example of an attack on the christian values of middle America by elitist overlords that sympathise more with foreign invaders than they do with the second amendment. They are under attack by their own shadows. It is literally that ridiculous. Both comical and absurdly terrifying at once.

[gransoporro]

First of all, Rupar is a never Trumper. His clips take the comments out of contest.

You must watch the entire 3 hours and a half (average duration) of the rally to understand correctly.


Hey, I am joking: don’t do it. Seriously, don’t, I don’t want you on my conscience.


Selective hearing works like this.

Do I like what I hear?
Yes : yeah, I agree with this man! He is great!
No: yeah, he is trolling the liberals! They will go crazy! He is great!

[Digby]

He is clearly connecting with these people on some level, the woman to the right of him for example clearly finds every single word he says hysterical, particularly "toilet" and "faucet".

I recognise her from the TV, maybe he was hold he needed to impress that ultra booming, all consuming type

[morepork]

Certainly edited for comic effect, but its just too easy:

[Mikey Brown]

First of all, Rupar is a never Trumper. His clips take the comments out of contest.

You must watch the entire 3 hours and a half (average duration) of the rally to understand correctly.


Hey, I am joking: don’t do it. Seriously, don’t, I don’t want you on my conscience.


Selective hearing works like this.

Do I like what I hear?
Yes : yeah, I agree with this man! He is great!
No: yeah, he is trolling the liberals! They will go crazy! He is great!

Ha. That’s one of the other baffling parts. Trolling now just seems to be about behaving in a very strange way and then celebrating when your opponents are confused by it. I’m not sure what the end goal is.

If that’s what is happening here it is a very odd approach.

[Digby]

What the blazes is Lev Parnas doing, and why? And does this mean there needs to be another Special Prosecutor? On the face of it supposing the evidence released in the last day or so isn't utter hogwash I don't see how they fail to appoint a Special Prosecutor, Barr can't investigate himself and would at minimum be a witness, and whether tracking the movements of an ambassador, or noting the surprise Nunes took part into a hearing about himself does warrant a follow up.

[morepork]

Trump assembling a defence team with a definite rapey old man feel to it. Its history playing out but it looks like shitty reality TV.

[Digby]

Trump's penning his own defence?

[Digby]

So it's a no to hearing new evidence, and if the rules are what I heard Mitch doesn't even intend to write into the Senate record all the evidence Congress had. If so Mitch could scan the House records for the words no collusion and no quid pro quo and only enter them as evidence.

Justice is never blinder than a GOP trial

[Mikey Brown]

"Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it."

I thought for a moment when I saw the quote this was going to be about assassinating Hillary Clinton. Not quite as exciting as that, but oh well.

[Digby]

You can get anything in Ukraine for a price someone recently said.

[morepork]

They've got him occupied rarking up gun nuts and anti-abortion zealots while the teevee lawyers get angry at conspiracy. Probably a sound strategy, if not a little irresponsible given the history of armed anti-government whackos in USandA. It is depressing how easily these fanatics are swayed by an obviously cynical performance by an extremely bad actor.

This country is a wee bit broken....

[Digby]

Looks an entirely partisan set of proceedings. Shameful, almost amusing were it not so shaming.

[morepork]

Pretty fucking flaccid fare from Team Rapey. I'm half expecting them to bring in Prince Andrew as a character witness.

[Digby]

We would be willing for you to keep Andrew as part of the Brexit negotiations