US Politics, November 2018: "There is no blame. There is no anything."

That's the kind of bold flavor they enjoy in...Albuquerque!

Troika? Sigh. Does it feel like they just included Nicaragua because they wanted to get to three?

The ALBA Autocrats.

surprised they didn't go with the three enemigos, though I guess that wouldn't play in Miami

The White House probably announced this farrago thinking he might help Curbelo, Scott, etc. Who the fuck knows.

Three Enemigos is great.

Red Lobster Create Your Own Scapegoat Trio

oh what the hell

watch now: John Bolton smacks down on three countries with three words and they're left reeling

Troika? Sigh. Does it feel like they just included Nicaragua because they wanted to get to three?

― Frederik B, Thursday, November 1, 2018 3:02 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I assume it has to do with Bolton's love of the film Red Dawn

Troika has anti-EU connections too - though obviously Bolton and anyone in Trump's cabinet is too stupid to realize that.

... connotations not connections.

I’m worried that we’ve done immense harm to the marginalized in the name of God. You realize it is not good news at all if you are just baptizing certain inequalities or biases.

I don’t feel so much like I am leaving conservative evangelicalism. I worship like one, I talk like one. It’s not like I can pull myself out of this relationship. I feel incredibly guilty for attending a church I can’t invite people to. But I love the community that raised me. A lot of evangelical parents are judged by the successful transmission of values to their children. I haven’t wanted to shame them.

I am very excited to vote for Andrew Gillum. It is not that you have conservative evangelicals suddenly becoming liberal. It is more a realizing that you could be practicing something that isn’t even Christian at all.

run away, Alexandria! it's not too late! you can pull yourself out of this relationship!

someone 'scoping the Jacob Wohl press conference lmao

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1MYGNyrreaQKw

hahahahahaha, just as predicted

http://i63.tinypic.com/zl95ag.jpg

oh my god he's taking questions guys

did Wohl actually just admit Surefire Intelligence is real now

"sometimes people go to jury duty, but they're also somewhere else"

"Sometimes people go to jury duty, and they're also somewhere else! ... Stop laughing, this isn't a laughing matter."

idk if this wound up in the other thread but

https://i.imgur.com/uijRows.png

for masochists, Rush Lumbago will be interviewing DeSantis on his show in a half hour

"my opinion is that jacob is a child prodigy who has surpassed mozart"

What was that about Jacob having an honourary Harvard law degree?

xxxxpost this is the schadenfreude I needed. my god. about 40,000 Twitter users predicted the "no show due to fear" (including me) publicly on Wohl's feed yesterday and that's the route he chose to go anyway.

some have said they think the person blotted out in the pic is Gateway Pundit writer Cassandra Fairbanks, which would be hilarious.

jacob wohl, in the midst of getting laughed at, said "this is not funny. it's not a laughing matter"

later, his lawyer/co-presenter took the mic and said that he is 52 years old, and that in his 52 years he has never met a brighter young man, and then...

"jacob is a child prodigy that has eclipsed mozart"
*reporter yells out "He can't even open an eTrade account*

Look, I wasn't the brightest 20 year old by any stretch of the imagination. But this dude plays poker with his cards facing the wrong way.

eclipsed mozart, eh? name five of his arias

Why would he even care? He's eclipsed him.

BREAKING: I have acquired an unedited photo of the woman with Wohl in the above photo:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTM4MDk3OTYxOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDk5OTUwOQ@@._V1_UY317_CR9,0,214,317_AL_.jpg

maybe he meant he got between Mozart and the sun

Please tell me that this press conference is being archived somewhere so that I can watch it later, please. Oh please.

thaaaaaaat's a-

this dude, who from what i can see/hear appears to actually be Dennis Hayden in Die Hard, is easily good enough to be trump's lawyer.

I'm reminded of the group project I had in college where this one dude did no work at all and never came to any of the group meetings but actually got up and stood with us on the day we presented. I was, in roughly equal measure, repelled by the audacity and in awe of the chutzpah.

I'm reminded of the time where someone paid me $2 to write a report for them about the Beatles so I fabricated a bio stating that Maximilien Robespierre was their bass player

that was a mix of barry zuckerhorn and the arrested development tubas

sorry, meant the curb your enthusiasm tuba song

Jacob's explanation for denying any knowledge of Surefire: "I preserved that level of pseudonymity."

Great twitter thread on the Wohl press conference

The hapless Jacob Wohl / Jack Burkman press conference on Robert Mueller is about to kick off!

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 1, 2018

Lmao Burkman’s fly was down the entire time.

at the end they were like "any more questions?" and someone yelled "are you prepared for federal prison?"

TRL but make it hateful pic.twitter.com/NpgTwsbIr4

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 31, 2018

that ted cruz / zodiac cryptogram tweet posted upthread is real lmao

ted cruz, go on chapo

Please tell me that this press conference is being archived somewhere so that I can watch it later, please. Oh please.

― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch)

whole thing is here, i think

Its on Periscope: https://t.co/Xf2oTyTVE9

— Barry Nelson (@realbarrynelson) November 1, 2018

This is like watching someone start a fistfight with a grizzly bear. You know how it's going to turn out but, hey, I'm sure my last minutes on earth won't be quite as thoroughly entertaining.

Wohl is fuming again that someone photoshopped him into a corncob: "One of them had a picture of corn!"

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 1, 2018

"im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

— wint (@dril) November 11, 2011

v grateful that hellworld can still throw us the occasional treat #blessed

wint, a man for all seasons

i'm guessing the corncob photoshops are direct references to the dril tweet but i'm delighted at how wohl keeps reinforcing it xp

this was basically a real life Nathan For You episode

NPR is not liberal media.

Woah I cursed him : /

Who next?

Kissinger. Fingers crossed.

"he had a dazzling resume... he was a very nice person"

lol this is objectively true

The glitter on the resume is ashes

is that a mars volta song?

* solos *

(solo continues)
(skip to next song)
(solo continues)

second least awful GOP President of the Past 50 Years.

Who was least awful -- Ford? Ford was our most conservative president since Coolidge, and he pardoned Nixon. Big ups for nominating John Paul Stevens, I guess.

Incredible thread about how Bush's WH compelled the DEA to entrap a black high schooler from SE DC into selling crack in Lafayette Square in front of the White House, after which he sat in jail for almost a decade.

https://www.twitter.com/JoshClarkDavis/status/1068889697999568897

NY Times homepage blurb:

He made his share of mistakes, but he worked for a safer, more democratic world, the editorial board writes.

"he had a dazzling resume... he was a very nice person"

lol this is objectively true

Alfred, I didn't know he was a genial pal of yours. I guess he served you dessert first?

"a safer, more democratic world." Jesus Christ

His crimes as President aside, George H.W. Bush was also CIA Director, overseeing Indonesia's genocide in East Timor, and Operation Condor, which bolstered South American fascists. An awful, awful man.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) December 1, 2018

Good morning!

This week just got better as it went along

Alfred, I didn't know he was a genial pal of yours. I guess he served you dessert first?

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius)

In my job I see a lot of resumes; his looks good by any standard, not that he did anything with them except warm the seat preparing for more pats on the head from men more powerful than he. And he was a nice man by all accounts. That's like saying "It's objectively true" that Reagan liked jellybeans and napped during Cabinet meetings.

Ford was, on the whole, "mostly harmless". maybe we should call him Ford Prefect.

yeah he pardoned Nixon but in retrospect I don't know that that made any real difference.

he was so nice he loved to touch the girls' rumps! in a nice way!

He was once, like every one of us, an innocent and unsullied child. And I think it's only proper that we memorialize him in just that way.

(Don't mistake Bush's niceness for kindness.)

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/81074642.jpg?quality=90&strip=all

is Bill goosing him?

ventriloquist

US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~