Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I am amazed at the levels of stupidity in Trump's circle (and family). That's saying something because I always knew he and his family are fucking stupid. But this is just overwhelming.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/u...one-share&_r=0

TM

(1) That stupidity may save us now. Assuming we can keep Trump away from the football.
(2) Isn't it even more amazing that there are a lot of people who actually like and applaud the stupidity? This may be our bigger long term problem.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Confession: I don't eat ham, so I'd want to do Mexican, too.

'splain please

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

'splain please

There is a David Brooks column today in which he talks about how he inconsiderately takes an uneducated "friend" to a place that serves fancy Italian hams with fancy names, and then realizes how she is out of her element, and so Brooks suggests Mexican instead.

Because working stiffs don't eat capicola.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I am amazed at the levels of stupidity in Trump's circle (and family). That's saying something because I always knew he and his family are fucking stupid. But this is just overwhelming.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/u...one-share&_r=0

TM

It is just mind-boggling.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

(2) Isn't it even more amazing that there are a lot of people who actually like and applaud the stupidity? This may be our bigger long term problem.

They're called Republicans, and what's amazing is that a little more than a year ago, he had minority support within the party. The extent to which they have circled the wagons around him now that he is their standard-bearer is just incredible and depressing.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

There is a David Brooks column today in which he talks about how he inconsiderately takes an uneducated "friend" to a place that serves fancy Italian hams with fancy names, and then realizes how she is out of her element, and so Brooks suggests Mexican instead.

Because working stiffs don't eat capicola.

Lots of parodies showing up on Twitter.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Lots of parodies showing up on Twitter.

This may be an urban myth, BUT when I lived in DC I had a good friend from Sterling Ok. His father visited him, and in a restaurant in Alexandria, supposedly, his father told a waiter, "I believe I'll have me a cup of that there chino."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

There is a David Brooks column today in which he talks about how he inconsiderately takes an uneducated "friend" to a place that serves fancy Italian hams with fancy names, and then realizes how she is out of her element, and so Brooks suggests Mexican instead.

Because working stiffs don't eat capicola.

Real Mexican would have all sorts of food names that would cause even worse heartburn (no pun intended).

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Real Mexican would have all sorts of food names that would cause even worse heartburn (no pun intended).

Yeah, but you know Brooks only uses the mild salsa and regularly punctuates his meal with statements like, "Now that is some hot stuff" .

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

It is just mind-boggling.



They're called Republicans, and what's amazing is that a little more than a year ago, he had minority support within the party. The extent to which they have circled the wagons around him now that he is their standard-bearer is just incredible and depressing.

We're now at the "sure it's collusion with Russia, but collusion is ok and everyone does it" point.

I'm really looking forward to the "sure he paid them to pee on him in Moscow, but that's not prostitution just peeing and, hey, everybody does it."

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Someone I don't know (Christina Wilkie) points out on Twitter that if the meeting began at 4 pm and ran 20-30 minutes, Trump tweeted his first-ever ask for Hillary's "33,000 emails" about fifteen minutes after the meeting ended.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

There is a David Brooks column today in which he talks about how he inconsiderately takes an uneducated "friend" to a place that serves fancy Italian hams with fancy names, and then realizes how she is out of her element, and so Brooks suggests Mexican instead.

Because working stiffs don't eat capicola.

I read this article. If you didn't go to college, you can't ask what the fuck "soppressata" is? I didn't grow up with any specific knowledge of fancy Italian names for cold cuts and yet, here I am, capable of ordering what I want in a gourmet sandwich shop. I also remember having to ask what certain things are that I've never seen before. Hell, I do this now in some restaurants. Sometimes, I outright google that shit (especially when it's in a different fucking language). "Pomodoro" is no less foreign a word than "chimifuckingchanga" until you know it.

I understand feeling out of place, for sure. But the answer isn't to get all paternalistic and protect that person from the embarrassment of not fitting in. This is hardly as overwhelming as if he took her to a group discussion on neoclassical architecture.

And "cultural signifiers" aren't the problem. The structure we have built in which those with money have separated themselves completely from those who don't is the problem. Send your kids to private school and watch the public school in your district go down the toilet--but, hey. My kid needs the best education possible. Parents in public schools? No better. Liberal Brooklyn parents lost their fucking minds when school districts were being redrawn. In Brooklyn. Legacy spots for kids in colleges are expected. Gated communities are bad. Expensive condos are just as bad. Cops patrol neighborhoods looking for people who don't belong instead of actual police work. His article addresses some of this (although he stole it from a similar, and much better written, piece I read weeks ago).

Brooks is an insufferable ass.

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Brooks is an insufferable ass.

TM

I hope this is one thing everyone can get behind.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

According to Axios, Roger Stone is nuts:

On the pushback:

There's an emerging strategy to turn this back around on the Democrats.

An extreme example of this approach is Roger Stone, who texted Axios: "The president can turn the tables and dominate the dialogue by ordering the indictment of [James] Clapper, [John] Brennan, [Susan] Rice and [former president Barack] Obama for the wholesale unconstitutional surveillance of Americans... I would seriously arrest [and] perp walk every one of these criminals, making as big a show of it as possible."

Although Stone is a longtime confidant of Trump, this in no way reflects the strategy preferred by current White House staffers. With that said, there are already internal conversations about turning this into a conversation about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and the way they handled sensitive intelligence.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

I need Sebby to comfort me by telling us that this is all a big nothing burger.

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

We're now at the "sure it's collusion with Russia, but collusion is ok and everyone does it" point.

I'm really looking forward to the "sure he paid them to pee on him in Moscow, but that's not prostitution just peeing and, hey, everybody does it."

Did you see Priebus the other day calling it all a "nothing burger"? It is like Sebastian is a Fox Talking Points robot with a pseudo-Thomson-eque patois. From this point forward, whenever I get caught doing something I shouldn't be doing, or get caught in a big mistake, or say something I shouldn't have said, I am going to just start shouting, "This is nothing but a big nothing burger! A. BIG. NOTHING. BURGER!!!!!!!!" over and over until everyone leaves me alone.

James Brown with "Talking Loud and Saying Nothing" for the Daily Dose. It's funky 'cuz it's true!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZkjo3mNmsA