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

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."

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

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

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

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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."

excellent point
 

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.

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

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

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

I hope this is one thing everyone can get behind.

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

According to Axios, Roger Stone is nuts:

Lost without him
 

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

TM

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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

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O.

M.

G.

Sebastian was right!!!! This place is totes an echo chamber. Damn, James Brown could really wring every last bit of funk out of a groove. Amirite??? So funky.

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

I'm sure the career prosecutors at DOJ would be lining up to take these cases...

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

What about the docs at Bellevue?

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

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

Re: Lost without him
 

This is a big reveal? That Jr. was meeting with Russians promising intel on HRC? Wasn't that already assumed? And wouldn't it be political malpractice not to explore such a lead?

It's salacious, no doubt, but whatever... It's just more of the Trump Shitshow. Did you expect something else? Did we all assume this would be like the Ford Administration?

Nobody but people who already hate Trump care. All's fair in politics.

I'm more interested in HC and taxes.

Re: Lost without him
 

Ah. Thanks. That was just what I needed.

TM

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

Says the effete capicola eating elitist.

"Let them eat prosciutto."

Re: Lost without him
 

Flavius Stilicho defeated Alaric's Goth three times, twice in Italy, saving the Western Roman Empire. But his rivals persuaded the emperor, Honorius, to have him arrested and executed. All's fair in politics, right? Alaric later sacked Rome. C'est la vie.

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Perhaps, but it was certainly being repeatedly denied. And not just Jr. Also the campaign chairman and a now senior advisor to the president.

No, and it might have been felonious to do so if he was soliciting an in kind donation of opposition research. Oh, and even his cover story is that she was asking a quid pro quo regarding the lifting of sanctions.

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When Sebby says that all's fair in politics, he means that he has no problems with felonies. It's all fair. Because it's politics.

Re: Lost without him
 

Almost everything's a felony when the Feds want you. The fed crim code's a joke.

I don't care. If Jr. fucked up, he could be in serious trouble. Caveat emptor, novice. Time to call dad for lawyers, guns, and money!

(I've met Jr. Seemed like a quiet, almost shy sort. Didn't seem like the kind who'd do well in jail. But then, fed white collar jail is easy time, and he could make some good business connections.)

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Lying to the media's not a crime.

Manafort and Jared might be going to Club Fed. "Buy the ticket, take the ride...". Whatevs.

This is a carnival show. Just like HRC's emails.

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While loopy, this tends to put your view of the criminality of Hillary's email server arrangements in a somewhat better light. Not good, but better.

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Ho hum, his senior advisors and close family members are crooks.

Oh, and 45 said the evening that Don Jr confirmed the meeting that he was going to have a press conference with dirt on Hillary. And tweeted for the first time about the Russians finding Hillary's emails.

But sure. He didn't know. Just a coincidence.

You're truly a moron.

Re: Lost without him
 

It's a giant motherfucking nothing burger. You know why? Because the burger IS MADE OF NOTHING! Have you ever eaten a burger made of nothing? How would you even know? It is all meaningless meaninglessness that will lead to nothing because that is what is unfair in politics. Nothing. Take that and make a burger out of it and I think you'll begin to understand. Ask Tricky Dick. He didn't do shit. But the Feds decided they didn't like him so suddenly committing crimes while in the White House was a "felony." Felony shmelony. Treason shmeason. A giant load of bullshit is what this is. The only people who care about Trump committing "felonies" are the people who hate Trump already, and the people who hate Trump already only hate him because he commits "felonies." It's like a snake eating its own tail. After eating a whole fucking platter of nothing burgers.

Here is Funkadelic with "Red Hot mama" for the Daily Dose. You might want to skip to about 1:23 unless you're on acid, in which case you might want to only listen to the first minute and 23 seconds, over and over again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeNkRuYHy8k

Re: Lost without him
 

I did assume that. I guess I let myself get fooled by the people who posted here back in the fall that Trump, while unpredictable, would be almost completely reigned in by his cadre of seasoned moderate political advisors, who would prevent this administration from devolving into a daily fucking inside out clown car. But you know what they say . . . . fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice and I'm going to fucking stab you in the eye. Because you shouldn't be fooling me so much.

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Speaking of which, tomorrow's David Brooks column:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEdHdmRXkAAg20Y.jpg

Re: Lost without him
 

I'll still throw down on the criminality of Hillary's email, but my friend's dad literally spent 9 months in solitary confinement for doing far less than Hillary (or either of the Donalds Trump).

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

If Christie were the Attorney General, would he have to recuse from a prosecution of Jared, or could he be first chair?

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

Flyover Land, Where They Don't Care. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN19X2TN

Re: Lost without him
 

Wait, how was solitary part of the sentence, and what did he do to merit it? I sense a colorful story here.

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

I find the sudden plethora of "Jay-walking" articles about Trump supporters kind of bizarre. Still waiting to see some of the idiots I grew up with taking a break from their landscaping jobs and Italian lunch meats to answer some cub reporters' questions.

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

Wait, you think it only matters if it convinces his most ardent supporters?? You know that's not how politics works, right?

Re: Lost without him
 

I know you're trying your best to troll, but at a certain point you just look fucking stupid.

TM

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

You should move there. You could be their dumbass king.

TM

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

I'm telling you you're in a bubble.

Your hair remains on fire, you wonder how your message doesn't win elections. That article explains why. Ohio is a microcosm of the country.

You just don't get it.

But yes -- I like reminding you of that.

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

How odd. The article says that 76% of the county voted for Trump, but every single voter quoted in the story is a Trump supporter. It's almost as if the reporter went looking for them.

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

I know you're trying your best to troll, but at a certain point you just sound sanctimonious.

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

You are an imbecile. You think you're informing me that there are idiots out there who will believe ridiculous shit. If you think you're passing along news, you are in a bubble of your own creation. Everyone knows this shit.

Not only that, but this constant refrain that people who live in cities, who are well informed, and who share space with tons of different types of people with all sorts of experiences and opinions (from far right to far left) are the ones who live in a bubble (as opposed to the undereducated, misinformed, small town or rural, small-minded assholes whose only debate with the strictly white people they've known their whole lives is whether Trump is a great President or the greatest President) is beyond fucking stupid.

You can keep telling everyone they don't get it, but at some point you have to realize that the minute you turn your back, everyone is laughing at you.

TM

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

OMG, now you're going Charles Murray on us.

I grew up in the bubble that is rural America. A "bubble" occurs when one is not being open to ideas or to experiences that are unfamiliar. Bubbles are places where there is xenophobia and intolerance for others. The general sense that food might be better someplace other than Applebees or that it's worth actually reviewing a few facts instead of spouting Foxified platitudes is not living in a bubble.

The fact that I make fun of half-wit relatives who have never managed to see the Ocean while living five hours from it is not a bubble.

You do realize Murray is a buffoon? He's the Jeff Lord of the Harvard Faculty, who only has a job their because they needed a token conservative no matter how dumb?