A round up of Trumpian events 🖕🍊🤡

[ficuswhisperer]

@nungesser

what’s up with the Horseface jabs in these threads from so many people

If the horseshoe fits…?

(It’s completely juvenile but at least it’s cathartic.)

[Wanderfound]

Since it appears to be “dunk on Sorkin” day again, here’s a good piece from 2017:

How Liberals Fell In Love With The West Wing | Current Affairs

[MalevolentPixy]

@Wanderfound

Since it appears to be “dunk on Sorkin” day again, here’s a good piece from 2017:

Hey. He brought it on himself.

[ficuswhisperer]

This guy seems to have an almost pathological hate-on for Sorkin which undermines some of his arguments in my eyes. WW was good and smart TV - but it was a completely fictionalized and idealized look at US politics with its principled Democrats and their noble Republican adversaries.

This person seemed to pump an awful lot of words into trying to make something more out of it - so many words that I lost interest about halfway through.

[Wanderfound]

Happening tomorrow, hopefully it’ll go up on Youtube etc.

COMMON (common)

[Wanderfound]

@ficuswhisperer

WW was good and smart TV - but it was a completely fictionalized and idealized look at US politics with its principled Democrats and their noble Republican adversaries.

An alternate way of looking at it was that The West Wing was seven years of shameless propaganda for corrupt centre-right American imperialism.

CJ Cregg’s “hooray for assassinations and torture” speech during the 9/11 special was a particular lowlight.

[ficuswhisperer]

@Wanderfound

CJ Cregg’s “hooray for torture and assassinations” speech during the 9/11 special was a particular lowlight.

The less said about that episode the better. (It was bad and it was not canon.)

[Wanderfound]

Not really news, but it’s rare to see them admit it:

Andrew Lawrence (ndrew_lawrence)

Interesting bit starts about twenty seconds in.

[Wanderfound]

@Wanderfound

Today, AOC did this:

Gene Park

Gene Park

[anon48584343]

Hey Kids! Ain’t the Gov Shutdown Just Great?!

Final food stamps payment for now

Food stamps will be paid through February, but in order to get funds, states will have to pay February payments early, by or before January 20, which could create confusion for recipients who receive an abnormally large payment that is intended to last an extra month.

As Bob Marley’s mom once said (paraphrased): “If you’re hungry, just have another drink of water”

May every republican die an early horrible death.

[smulder]

@Melizmatic

Inaccurate

“Trump told Cohen to lie on Tuesday. And Wednesday and Friday and the following Sunday. But not on Thursday. Buzzfeed said he also did it on Thursday. That was inaccurate.”

[RickMycroft]

@Wanderfound

Uhhhhhhh…Fmr FBI Assistant Director just said “When I first got into the FBI one of the missions of the FBI in its counterintelligence efforts was to try to keep” progressives out of government

I assume he means February 1976. I don’t suppose that there’s a historical FBI document defining progressive, so I’ll just assume that this is his current mindset. Coupled with his weird opinion that it’s the progressives causing the current government dysfunction, I’ll lump him with late-former-FBI crackpot Ted Gunderson.

Actually, the fact that he agreed to be interviewed by “the reasonable white nationalist guy” Tucker Carlson is kind of a tip off.

FBI Tried to Keep 'Progressives' Out of Office | Law & Crime

[smulder]

@RickMycroft

reasonable

Fox News Stands Behind Tucker Carlson as More Advertisers Abandon Ship

[Wanderfound]

@RickMycroft

I assume he means February 1976. I don’t suppose that there’s a historical FBI document defining progressive, so I’ll just assume that this is his current mindset. Coupled with his weird opinion that it’s the progressives causing the current government dysfunction, I’ll lump him with late-former-FBI crackpot Ted Gunderson.

He’s just admitting to well-known FBI history.

COINTELPRO

[RickMycroft]

Except that well-known FBI history was supposed to over by then. I’ll wear my cynical glasses for that, but I’ll wonder if Terry Turchie isn’t back-projecting his current views.

Former FBI director Clarence M. Kelley later apologized for the agency’s lawlessness.

“Some of those activities were clearly wrong and quite indefensible,” Kelley told the American public in 1976. “We most certainly must never allow them to be repeated.”

[Wanderfound]

@RickMycroft

Except that well-known FBI history was supposed to over by then. I’ll wear my cynical glasses for that,

I’d be inclined to phrase that as “anyone who believes that the FBI really stopped COINTELPRO-style activities in 1971 is too naive to be allowed outdoors without supervision”.

[anon61221983]

@anon48584343

As Bob Marley’s mom once said (paraphrased): “If you’re hungry, just have another drink of water”

and of course, Bob Marley once said that a hungry mob is an angry mob…

[Melizmatic]

@anon61221983

and of course, Bob Marley once said that a hungry mob is an angry mob…

I’ve been quoting that line for ages; they really don’t want to go there.

You want guillotines? This is how you get guillotines…

[mr_raccoon]

Conservative radio hosts: Our kids aren’t working hard enough in school and refusing to excel. I’m saying that because we aren’t anti-intellectual

Also conservative radio hosts:

BuzzFeed (BuzzFeed)

[anon50609448]

@smulder

“Trump told Cohen to lie on Tuesday. And Wednesday and Friday and the following Sunday. But not on Thursday. Buzzfeed said he also did it on Thursday. That was inaccurate.”

Yeah, the Mueller statement was narrow. They might as well have confirmed that the majority of the article was true. I think the thing they probably were most unhappy about is that the article sort of implies without saying that the information came from the Mueller team (something like “agents familiar with the investigation”). My money is on the story being 100% true except for a few details about how they know it’s true.

@Wanderfound

Yesterday, Twitch streamer hbomberguy did this:

This stream (and the fact that AOC “called” into it) sounds amazing. It’s funny, when I saw this article I immediately tried to find out what his personal best time was, and it took me a few minutes to realize he wasn’t speedrunning it for the world record, but just playing the game.

I’m seeing it ended up raising $200k. That’s a hell of a lot for some guy to happen to raise over a few days.