the trump gang

loved how all-caps made mooch's victory seem preordained back in November

OK who else voted McMaster

forgot when explaining my Felix Sater vote that he also went to jail for stabbing someone in the face with the stem of a martini glass TERRIFIC

Mooch is like the “let’s just do it, we’ll be legends” guy who somehow climbed the ranks and became press secretary (or whatever he was for) for 10 days

Mooch is like the "cool" guy from an '80s teen comedy who everyone now views as a total asshole.

You bump into him in the food court and invite him over to your table to catch up and then have to apologize to your companions afterward

Mooch is Poochie

You bump into him in the food court and invite him over to your table to catch up and then have to apologize to your companions afterward

"Yeah, sorry about that, our kids do ballet together, he's a total dick."

I'm seeing sitcom potential a la Laverne and SHirley

its a bit unfair that this poll was taken before the Carter Page hat pic

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/carter-page-800x430.jpg

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/snl/images/d/d1/Two-A-Holes.jpg

Trump supporters and haters both agree -- the new season of The Apprentice is smash hit!

really enjoying The Running Man reboot

Reverse Robin Hood is the best

"In 2017, after a worldwide economic collapse, the United States has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The U.S. government pacifies the populace by broadcasting game shows where convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where "runners" attempt to evade "stalkers", armed mercenaries, around a large arena, and near-certain death for a chance to be pardoned by the state."

In 2018, after a worldwide economic collapse, the United States has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The U.S. government pacifies the populace by broadcasting fake news where convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style Facebook, hosted by the ruthless Donald Trump, where "runners" attempt to evade "Mueller", armed mercenaries, around a large arena, and near-certain death for a chance to be pardoned by the state.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scaramucci-michael-cohen-wont-turn-trump

that's not how coin flips work

forgot cuban AND cohen :(

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/michael-cohen-upset-trump-didn-chief-staff-article-1.3956650

Later in the conversation, Cohen — who at one point expected to be named Trump's chief of staff, according to the Journal — vented to Trump about how he wanted to get out of New York.

"Boss, I miss you so much," Cohen said, according to the source. "I wish I was down there with you. It's really hard for me to be here."

;_;

we sure have been through a lot together, haven't we boss? boss, i love you. i need you closer. talk to you soon, boss. can't talk to you soon enough. goodbye for now, boss.

It's quite a tender declaration of the wistful longing for one's boss to which we all relate.

These coarse attorney's hands have been too long denied the electric thrill of tousling your wispy locks. I long to once again caress the hills and valleys of your crepey wattle flesh, boss.

*later that week, while waiting in line for an ATM*

i love boss

THE DOCTOR

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcIGKu7V4AEx5bQ.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkJOZOOXJWk

Bono with the mumps

steven spielberg and robert plant's love child

finally put my finger on who bornstein reminds me of - yoram globus

https://img.discogs.com/u5MhXEbCtkYq_XrkbTPk2Vqu87Q=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-5210996-1471526724-7384.jpeg.jpg

which seems appropriate since the trump admin is like the cannon films of politics

poor michael caputo :(

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/god-damn-you-to-hell-michael-caputo-tells-senate-intelligence-in-russia-investigation-testimony

it's roger stone's time in the barrel

the kenyan soetero has ruined so many lives, so many lives

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5775859/Ex-Trump-campaign-adviser-Carter-Page-claims-FBI-surveillance-ruined-life.html

no way

https://medium.com/@ScottMStedman/energy-investment-group-claims-350m-capital-commitment-from-carter-page-after-2016-election-414fe7ce33e0

curious how the jarvanka marriage dynamic might change when her dad's a convicted felon, too

more than words

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/michael-cohen-lying-to-congress-plea-deal-devin-nunes.html

Trump gang vs Turnbull ACs Fite!

the acorn doesn't fall far from the treason

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/blue-state-genocide-is-acting-president

^ all that does is take good original reporting by various journalists and run it through a rhetorical filter that spits out phrases like "kibboshing the national testing plan his own buddies had come up with, apparently hoping for a blue state genocide".

But hey, if you go for that sort of thing, knock yourself out!

i'm not sure how i'd characterize this. i feel like, they weren't actively trying to kill blue staters but they liked the idea of "blaming" democratic governors.

these people don't believe they have a responsibility to govern, just to get elected. i was infuriated watching this for three years. now i feel contempt. i feel they did tremendous damage to our society at large, their zero sum thinking infecting even the way people behave with one another online, right and left. (i'm sorry but it's true, point-scoring is the only operative value on twitter and it was not as bad in the before-times).

"if someone else looks bad, that's all that matters! we're even. i cannot be held to any standards while other people—people on your side—can also be criticized." ----- this is the thought trump has hundreds of times per day and other people seem to be thinking this way too, increasingly.

that article about Kush isn't even a new wrinkle to the story, I thought Trump funneling resources to save lives away from governors who criticized him was well-known even before that

absolutely horrendous. i wish he was impeached for this sort of thing rather than nonsense with Ukraine that i don't care about.

punishing american citizens for political disagreements he has with their governor.👍

totally agreed and I think that's a good example of the Dem's failings - like yes the Ukraine thing was pretty clear cut and yes it is effectively treason but I do not think the majority of Americans care about that, not with all the various health & education & climate crises going on and the implicit suspicion that "that's what they all do anyway", hell if challenged I'd bet a lot of people don't actually know it's illegal to do what Trump did. putting all your chips on that and stuff like Russia is dumb. he lies to the American people every day, he's constantly self-dealing on the taxpayers dime, his incompetence is leading a thousand Americans to die each day as we head towards our fifth month of lockdown...that's the shit that matters to people

they make him seem more powerful than he is. (a RUSSIAN AGENT conspiring with FOREIGN POWERS to OVERTHROW DEMOCRACY). like, his authoritarian instincts are borne of the same impulse that motivates everything he does -- ignorance and spite. bannon's not there; it's not a grand reactionary project. he's a deeply disturbed and weak person who loves firing people so much that the government can't operate.

not to say he isn't opening the door to dark political forces. he certainly has done that, and continues to do so. but that is too abstract for a campaign message. and it's unnecessary in a situation where his stupidity and instinctive cruelty has plunged the nation into the worst shape it's ever been in.

the Ukraine thing was pretty clear cut and yes it is effectively treason but I do not think the majority of Americans care about that

I hear this sort of argument a lot and it seems a bit wrongheaded to me. Shouldn’t the Dems only put Trump’s feet to the fire for his corrupt and dangerous behavior regardless of whether the public is paying attention? Or should they only do these things for political benefit?

Sorry, that first “only” shouldn’t be there

well, yeah. that's why such a narrowly focused impeachment hearing was a mistake.

democratic leadership was still playing by the rules and expectations of the watergate era. they thought that if they went with a really broad impeachment (including other obvious things like emoluments clause, tax fraud, the pee tape (jk)), the focus of their charges would be lost and they'd open themselves up to attacks and distractions on multiple fronts. instead, they thought that if they focused on a clearly impeachment-worthy offense (the Ukraine shit), the elephant would be too large to ignore, the dominos would start falling, and they could convince a handful of senators - the susan fucking collins and ben sasse's of the chamber - to join them out of shame. rong!

my immediate thought was oh he's straight aping his dad now, it's a v weird contrivance

Don Jr's puppetmaster put his hand up further than usual today

The way he says "tied to China".

He sounds like a bad imitation of James Austin Johnson's Trump impression.

Is there a German word for 'recognizing and having a microscopic glimmer of empathy for the fact that a broken person is the product of abuse but still being all like fuck that shitty walking garbage pile who's chosen to shit their damage all over other people rather than doing a single thing to fix themselves'?

well, there is such a thing as Trümpferhaufenmitleidenschaftsschadenfreude...

It looks to me like a bad imitation of the Bad Lip Reading videos that were popular during the 2016 campaign. The voice doesn't match the lip motions.

Does he have somewhere to stay tonight? Poor guy.. maybe he can crash in Randy Quaid's double-wide.

Appears to be quarantining in a Motel 6.

If what he says is true, I don't see how the Electoral College in good conscience can vote for Hunter Biden.