In baseball analysis there is the concept of "replacement-level players." I'm not sure where the baseline is when the doors revolve so quickly.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
“I feel very badly for Paul Manafort,” Mr Trump said. “Both his lawyer, a highly respected man, and a very highly respected judge, the judge, said there was no collusion with Russia. It had nothing with collusion. There was no collusion.He added: “It’s a collusion hoax, a collusion witch hoax. I don’t collude with Russia. The judge… made the statement that this had nothing to do collusion with Russia.”
He added: “It’s a collusion hoax, a collusion witch hoax. I don’t collude with Russia. The judge… made the statement that this had nothing to do collusion with Russia.”
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
it's weird and sorta hilarious how Dubya has been pretty much completely written out of right-wing orthodoxy in the past couple of years. meanwhile Reagan is still lionized. and it seems like the distinction is mostly just a matter of who Trump decided to bash.
This is ahistorical. George W Bush had already been more or less disappeared from the Republican hero chart by 2012. He didn't even go to the GOP convention!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
collusion witch hoax
without looking it up I rate the probability at about 20% that there is actually a Guided By Voices album called this
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I was going to post literally that!
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
Well, 'song' instead of 'album' so I guess I'm engaging in a witch hoax of my own.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
Beat me to it, both of you.
― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
The Fall: Live at the Witch Hoaxes
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
It just serves to underscore the extent to which his speech has devolved into an almost meaningless patchwork of words. I suppose it's only a matter of time before he starts regularly bringing his very own neologisms into the mix.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
a very highly respected judge, the judge,
what a coincidence that this very highly respected judge would be named "the judge"
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/arresteddevelopment/images/1/15/3x10_Fakin%27_It_%2867%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20130323184627
"devolved"
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
It's true! My gf noted that Trump sounded almost like a functional human in that Calamari clip from The Apprentice that was floating around last week. He's always been a moron, and especially so since at least the time when he started entertaining political notions, but I think it's safe to say at this point that he's firmly in the 'doddering' phase of his rapid mental decline.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 March 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
I see that, but must insist on the reams of Sopan Deb transcripts during the 2016 race which gave form to the advanced written Trump impression. The decline over the last three years isn't quite as meteoric as all that.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 8 March 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
No, I agree, it's isn't meteoric but it is progressive, like the degradation of elastin which with each passing day brings his wizened sac into measurably nearer proximity to the toilet water's surface.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 March 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
nobody striking imagery that
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 8 March 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 March 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
I still think "Very Rude Elevator Screamers" would make an excellent band name but the downside is it would always remind people of Donald Trump
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
lol
This is one of the most anti-semitic things I’ve ever seen. Also, this reveals so much more about you than it does me... https://t.co/IdfGuWcJZu— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 8, 2019
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/NiWT6cclPr— saeen (@_Saeen_) March 8, 2019
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
g_d bless eli
― maura, Friday, 8 March 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
He's always been a moron, and especially so since at least the time when he started entertaining political notions
NB: this was 1987
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link
I knew someone would go there, and it's only natural that that someone would be you, friend.
Okay, political notions that didn't include overtures to Oprah as a running mate.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
oh, I thought I was agreeing with you
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
was this before or after the brain spiders
How is ABC Television allowed to have a show entitled "Blackish"? Can you imagine the furor of a show, "Whiteish"! Racism at highest level?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2014
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
His political ambitions have always been so thoroughly mixed up with simple self-promotion that even in 2016, after he had the republican nomination, he apparently viewed the election as the world's biggest infomercial on his own behalf.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
2016, 2019
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link
he literally sends out emails hawking 2020 campaign merch
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
(well, the royal "he")
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:54 (five years ago) link
It's just a little stunning to look back at eg that interview that leaked prior to the election where he was praising Hillary Clinton, where he doesn't seem completely incurious or like he was raised in a box and only released into the sunlight for the first time somewhere in his twilight years. Yes, again, he's been a huge blowhard dummy throughout his existence as a public figure, but the erosion in recent years is noteworthy. And not dissimilar to the pre-/post-presidency mental decay seen in GWB.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
Parallel lines on a slow declinecollusion witch hoax
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
Another excellent Eli Valley cartoon:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0w7HNKX0AAkr00.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 8 March 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
Anyone post this amazingness?
https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 March 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
Shit, this:
The video is just jaw dropping pic.twitter.com/xRMxo1arwf— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) March 8, 2019
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 March 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
that fucking family should be put in front of a firing squad
― maura, Friday, 8 March 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
Prince, I discovered, seems to have a Trumpian relationship with the truth. He tried to suggest that a car bomb exploded at Baghdad’s Nisour Square “five minutes” before Blackwater guards shot and killed 14 innocent Iraqis on September 16, 2007. I reminded him that there was no such explosion at Nisour Square. He denied that his current company, Frontier Services Group, is planning to build a “training facility” in Xinjiang, China, where more than a million Uighur Muslims are being held in Chinese detention camps, dismissing a press release confirming the news as a mistranslation from Mandarin. I had to inform him that the press release was issued by his own company, FSG, in English.
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/08/erik-prince-trump-mehdi-hasan/
― maura, Friday, 8 March 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
Bold Prognostication: Not gonna be the last time we hear "Maybe the transcript is wrong"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 March 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
― maura, Friday, March 8, 2019 5:46 PM (ten minutes ago)
oh jesus, don't let treeship hear you
― 27 Discounts ILXors Get Only If They Know (WmC), Friday, 8 March 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
intreeshent proposal
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
Guys we gotta knock this off
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:10 (five years ago) link
The firing squad is going to be mega-overbooked in 2019, we need to give them some weekends and bump a few into 2020
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
I would be ok with some Katniss archery squads.
― Yerac, Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link
These suggestions of utilizing a firing squad against unpopular public figures are just disgraceful. Did you think for one second about how much more satisfying a public stoning would be? For shame.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:33 (five years ago) link
Can we just put them all on a diarrhea cruise ship for forever.
― Yerac, Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
Wait...is the ship going to be made of diarrhea?
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link
powered by
― j., Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
Helluva way to go
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link
Just everything on the cruise ship gives you diarrhea and everyone on it has diarrhea. And no one is there to clean. It's a diarrhea prison. I have never been on a cruise but this is how I imagine they could go.
― Yerac, Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link
poopship destroyer, in so many words, then
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
glad we got that sorted
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link