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Sunday, May 28, 2017

Open Thread -- #TheResistance #FollowParty Hangover Edition


Well, I don't know what we did last night, but you woke up next to us this morning, so you might as well stick around and go back for seconds...

New bedfellows from #TheResistance, tell us about yourselves in the comments!

 
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Earworm of the Afternoon -- Sick Again


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Another Sunday Morning, Another Incoherent Tweetstorm

Now that he's back Stateside, Trump's phone is off of roaming and he's making up for lost time this morning:


Of course we know if wasn't a big win.  It was much more of a Pyrrhic victory, winning by single digits in a state you normally win by 20+ ain't great. Plus Trump's essentially endorsing the beating of a reporter, like the good little tinpot dictator wannabe he is.



It was barely talked about until about a week before the election, and it's continuing to be talked about as a reasonably good sign for the Dems. By the way, let's see what he's got to say on June 7th; I think Jon Ossoff is going to win the special election on GA-06.

Here's a one-off about his trip to Europe:

The leader of the free world disagrees, Donald:

After attending a G-7 summit in which President Donald Trump split from other world leaders on issues of climate change, trade, and refugees, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her country that Germany could no longer rely on the US and UK for help.
“The times in which we could completely rely on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days," she said Sunday at an election rally in Southern Germany.
“We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands."

She also likes Emmanuel more than she likes you:

Merkel added that she hopes Germany's relationship with France will strengthen and flourish under new French President Emmanuel Macron, who is staunchly pro-European.

If you were hoping to alienate Western Europe, you did a really nice job. And Germany still likes the black guy and hates you:





And now that you're home, you've gotta figure out how do deal with the shitshow you left back in Washington:





Is this the strategy coming from your "war room?" Good luck with that..

All in all, I'm inclined to agree with Bill Kristol (yikes!):


He's shaking in his jackboots
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The Professional Left Podcast, 5/26/2017 -- Hey NATO, Why Don't You Keep Him?


I just absolutely loved a point the Blue Gal made about Barack Obama's standing in the eyes of America and the world... it's a thought I'd been swishing around in my head for a while that I couldn't put words to, and she did. Kudos, BG!

Listen to the whole thing here.
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A Billboard Put Up By #TheResistance?

Apparently, this has gone up on I-95 North near Richmond, VA sometime in the last month or so:


I'd really love to know who did it, but the photo here is too blurry. It's brilliant.
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Late Night Track -- Whipping Post


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Saturday, May 27, 2017

Open Thread -- RIP, Zbigniew Brzezinski Edition








Pour one out for the Notorious Z.B.I.G.. Dude saved the world. Probably made killer pierogis too, just like my Polish grandpa. Got any reflections about him?
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Earworm of the Afternoon -- She Don't Use Jelly

I really like the original version of this song, but this cover is priceless:


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Saturday Long Read -- Hillary Clinton Is Furious. And Resigned. And Funny. And Worried.



I continue to be really upset with pundits who waste ink and make noise around a caricature of Hillary Clinton. I think this (from the great @HillaryWarnedUs) encapsulates my feelings really well:


I was really pleased yesterday to read a profile of Hillary from New York Magazine's Rebecca Traister. The opening:

When I walk into the Chappaqua dining room in which Hillary Clinton is spending her days working on her new book, I am greeted by a vision from the past. Wearing no makeup and giant Coke-bottle glasses, dressed in a gray mock-turtleneck and black zip sweatshirt, Hillary looks less Clinton and more Rodham than I have ever seen her outside of college photographs. It’s the glasses, probably, that work to make her face look rounder, or maybe just the bareness of her skin. She looks not like the woman who’s familiar from television, from newspapers, from America of the past 25 years, but like the 69-year-old version of the young woman who came to the national stage with a wackadoodle Wellesley commencement speech in 1969. With no more races to run and no more voters to woo with fancy hair, Clinton appears now as she might have if she’d aged in nature and not in the crucible of American politics. Still, this is not Hillary of the woods. She is reemerging, giving speeches and interviews. It’s clear that she is making an active choice to remain a public figure.

Take the time to read the whole thing; I plan to break this article down a bit more during the week. You're not going to hear much more from me today, as I'm on the road, so I'm leaving y'all with homework!
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In Which I Advise Trump's Advisors



I think I may have touched on this story a couple of days ago, but I wanted to point something out to the members of Trump's brain (I use the word loosely) trust that are purportedly assembling a "war room" to combat negative messaging about the White House, particularly about #TrumpRussia:

Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to Trump, will be involved in the new strategic messaging operation, as will Steve Bannon, another top adviser who specializes in managing Trump’s populist appeal and shaping his political image, the sources said. Bannon and Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, have been laying the groundwork for the plan this week, they added.
On Thursday, NBC News and the Washington Post reported that Kushner, who held several meetings with Russian officials following the election, is a focus of the probe, making him the first current White House official to be caught up in it, although Kushner, who is Trump’s son-in-law, has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, is also expected to be part of the effort. Lewandowski, who has been seen in the White House recently, could join the administration as early as next week, a source close to him said. 

First of all, we all know that the second paragraph was proven wrong just two hours after this article hit the internet.

Second, Jared, Steve, Reince, and Corey, please let me level with you. You're not exactly a dream team. In fact, you really suck at most of this stuff. From the same article:

Lewandowski was fired by Trump in June 2016 over concerns that he was not experienced enough to oversee the general election fight against Democrat Hillary Clinton, but has remained a trusted adviser to Trump and a steadfast defender of the president on news programs.

Your only positive quality, apparently, is a slavish loyalty to a wannabe C-list autocrat. Unending subjectivity ain't a wonderful quality in a strategist.

Mr. Bannon, you lucked into some money and you appear to know how to appeal to neo-Nazis and other deplorables, but that's not the audience you need to convince right now. Other than that, your main talent is being a fat slob. (Steve M. at No More Mister Nice blog has more to say about this).

Reince, other than having a strange name that autocorrect appears to mangle in glorious ways, I've always known you as a halfwitted day drunk who somehow manages to sort of function thanks to some deep-pocketed donors bolstering your party's operations.

And Jared, just what the fuck are you supposed to be?

You think you're hot shit because Daddy Vladdy scooped you up in his talons and deposited you on the top of the mountain, but you have no idea how to climb down without skewering your dumb asses on the rocks below. I guess my advice isn't really to the four of you; you're stuck up there waiting for a few more leaks before the authorities bring their chopper and fly you straight to Leavenworth (or the rich white dudes' equivalent), no matter what you do, so have fun jerking each other off to entertain yourselves while you wait.

But to everyone who works under these guys, unless you've been secretly given immunity by the FBI because you're one of the leakers from inside the White House, jump off that sinking vessel quickly. Those four winners-so-much-your-heads-spinners are armed with cannons that they're most likely going to end up firing through each other and into the engine room of the ship:



Take every mention of this job out of your bio and your resume; I guarantee it'll look better to have a six month gap where it looks like you were unemployed than to have the urine-soaked regime associated with your names. Better yet, maybe you should legally change your names, just in case. Can't be too careful when it comes to being tied to the biggest clusterfuck that ever clustered or fucked.

There's a solid chance that this whole affair ends badly for everyone, but a near-lock guarantee that it'll end badly for any remaining residents of Trumpville. So please, do yourself a favor and leave before you're condemned to living under a bridge, or working at Fox News, which is pretty much the same thing these days.
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