People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows -- US Politics September 2020

It is incredibly funny that this didn't make the cut for the 2012 GOP but Clint Eastwood yelling at a chair did.

^^Probably the real reason Trump ran, aside from Racism.

Sorry, Simon, I've seen way too many 'you gotta admit, this particular instance of Trump vomiting words is totes hilar' shit of late and jumped to conclusions.

no worries!

look, i know the corporate media had a rough 2016, but i'm sure that the major networks took a serious audit of their past wrongs and won't make the same mistakes this time around...oh no.

We're left with this dilemma: Jeffrey Goldberg, who authored The Atlantic piece insists the story is true. President Trump insists the story is false. Both of those views can't be right, writes Chris Cillizza https://t.co/dXfqFJFWLz

— CNN (@CNN) September 5, 2020

say what you will about the media -- most of it true, i'm sure -- but cillizza still stands out for his astonishing stupidity and uselessness. an intern could write this shit for a lot less money

I say we let goldberg and trump duke it out

i almost admire him for being so uniquely terrible at his job

Slizz hate-reads probably get CNN more clicks than anything else

Who's the actor? I want to check his IMDB page and see if he was properly credited. (There's a tiny part of me that believes work is work and is reluctant to criticize.)

― clemenza, Saturday, September 5, 2020 10:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Pareene's 2012 Salon piece led me to a Mediaite article where the actor is identified as Kevin Michel. He's not on IMDB. Since his social media accounts are now devoted to his self-published book about the power of the subconscious mind, I'm guessing that the Obama impersonation was just something he did for a few extra bucks back then.

just your periodic reminder that Chris “Ivanka is Such a Boss” Cillizza once bragged on Twitter that he makes 8 figures

Trump will literally steal the art off the walls of his hotel room.

After Donald Trump’s planned trip to a French cemetery for fallen Marines was canceled in November 2018, the U.S. leader had some extra time on his hands in a mansion filled with artwork. The next day, he went art shopping -- or the presidential equivalent.

Trump fancied several of the pieces in the U.S. ambassador’s historic residence in Paris, where he was staying, and on a whim had them removed and loaded onto Air Force One, according to people familiar with the matter. The works -- a portrait, a bust, and a set of silver figurines -- were brought back to the White House.

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The story unfolded like this: While in Paris with other world leaders to commemorate the centennial of the end of World War I, Trump stayed at the official residence of U.S. Ambassador Jamie McCourt, the palatial Hôtel de Pontalba. The mansion, in Paris’s chic 8th arrondissement, dates to 1842. It has served as a flagship of the State Department’s “Art in Embassies” cultural diplomacy program, and is open to tours.

The president’s planned visit to the Belleau Wood cemetery was canceled when rainy weather grounded the presidential helicopter, according to a redacted email the White House released to rebut the Atlantic story. The U.S. Secret Service ruled out a motorcade for the 56-mile drive, according to two people familiar with the matter.

That left Trump with about six hours of free time in the ambassador’s residence.

The next day, Trump pointed out a Benjamin Franklin bust, a Franklin portrait and a set of figurines of Greek mythical characters, and insisted the pieces come back with him to Washington.

McCourt, the ambassador, was startled, but didn’t object, according to people briefed on the incident. Trump later quipped that the envoy would get the art back “in six years,” when his potential second term in office would be winding down.

The art, worth about $750,000 according to one of the people familiar with the episode, was loaded aboard Air Force One while Trump visited another cemetery before the flight back to Washington.

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Trump’s move prompted some hair-pulling and a furious exchange of emails back home between the State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations and White House officials who organized the art transfer. Ultimately, because the art is U.S. government property, the move was deemed legal.

My boat sank in Lake Travis pic.twitter.com/EOsLk7sA9L

— Brent Terhune (@BrentTerhune) September 5, 2020

Shut up, it was insured

SS MAGARITAVILLE

One couldn't write a more hilariously stupid statement in parody... "A bunch of nautical terms happened... I'd be flying my flags at half mast if they weren't at the bottom of the lake."

Well, it *is* parody. He's a comedian and has a bunch of videos like that.

Was gonna say........

I’m guess there’s no point in parodying these people anymore

I guess

haha, really did fool me at first, up until "A bunch of nautical terms happened"

I want to call cillizza 'sillyzilla' all the time but I also know that's like a trump-level insult.

anyway I abhor that guy. I'm so tired of clicking on an 'analysis' on CNN and finding out that he wrote it, where he vomits words for 20 paragraphs, says a bunch of obvious shit, and comes to no conclusions. Buzzfeed listicles are of more value and I don't have to look at his laughing face at the top of them.

It's not even a conscious misreading but it always scans as 'Clitzilla' to me.

Chris Cilizza reminds me of local clowned sports reporter Mike Bianchi, in that he says some things you agree with (but this is not impressive as they are fairly obvious things) but then he concern-trolls leftist readers in a shit attempt to create the illusion that he's impartial in a way none of them are.

that and the way he writes as if he's the first to cross the finish line where in reality, thousands of people got there hours earlier which is why it's so empty that he thinks he won.

I'm just waking up, someone smarter rewrite that in a way that makes me sound witty, I'll pay you in boxes of Nerds

xxp lollll

https://files.cults3d.com/uploaders/13382474/illustration-file/90aa9a4a-cfb0-4cf2-8659-a80e706b7eda/20200312_111822_medium.jpg

oh dear Gorn

now will never be able to read that any other way

tbf it was a killer Blue Oyster Clit song

that's Clït to you

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/louis-dejoy-campaign-contributions/2020/09/06/1187bc2c-e3fe-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

Louis DeJoy’s prolific campaign fundraising, which helped position him as a top Republican power broker in North Carolina and ultimately as head of the U.S. Postal Service, was bolstered for more than a decade by a practice that left many employees feeling pressured to make political contributions to GOP candidates — money DeJoy later reimbursed through bonuses, former employees say.

seems like this guy might not be on the level

Anyway, as hilarious as this is, maybe not great for the country that another figure with a crucial election security role will almost definitely go to prison if Trump doesn't win!

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) September 6, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza#Campaign_finance_violation,_felony_guilty_plea,_conviction,_and_pardon

“Trump held a meeting at Trump Tower with prominent evangelical leaders, where they laid their hands on him in prayer. Afterward, Trump allegedly said: ‘Can you believe that bullshit? Can you believe people believe that bullshit?’”

- Michael Cohen https://t.co/mnZcYafpzN pic.twitter.com/ulStycHBvi

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) September 6, 2020

when he's right, he's right

COVID makes those photos even more uncomfortable

maybe they'll all die

Cohen also depicts Trump as being crude toward women, including inadvertently commenting on Cohen’s then-15-year-old daughter as she finished up a tennis lesson: “Look at that piece of a--,” Trump said, according to Cohen. “I would love some of that.”

Wait til his supporters find out he said things like this

The bigger scoop would be all the evangelical preachers who said the same thing as they were leaving.

i walk through the garden alone
that 15 year old I would bone

Remember the revenge porn kid in Kansas? He's still around:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhPmcF8XgAMY-fa.jpg

Looking forward to Glenn Greenwald's next fawning interview with him.

"ok ok you got me, I was abusive, but in a DIFFERENT WAY THAN IS BEING DESCRIBED IN THE MEDIA"

every time that guy opens his mouth it gets worse. he needs to be run out of town.

That kid showcases all the hallmarks of a true POS.

Afterward, Trump allegedly said: ‘Can you believe that bullshit? Can you believe people believe that bullshit?’”

I've always thought this was literally his one saving grace--not the hypocrisy or ridicule of others, of course, but his lack of all religious conviction. (Not a principled atheism or anything, just a 100% attachment to himself and to things.) And why I believe Palin would have been even more dangerous as president if it ever came down to a Cuban Missile-type crisis. (Something like COVID, who knows?)

"Saving grace" might be the wrong phrase--not implying that supersedes Everything Else.

Speaking of Greenwald...

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/05/journalisms-new-propaganda-tool-using-confirmed-to-mean-its-opposite/

But if one looks at what they actually did, at what this “confirmation” consists of, it is the opposite of what that word would mean, or should mean

What is increasingly wrong with this person’s brain? The opposite of “comfirm” would be “disprove” or “refute.”

Obviously what these add’l media are “comfirming” is the existence of the original sources—that they were not made up out if whole cloth. They are “confirming” the original reporting.

iow Goldberg reported that four highly placed sources *said* Trump said these things