A day without stupid?

[KeepTalking]

It's a bit sad that we don't have his idiotic tweets to laugh at anymore. It certainly brought the whole world together, in hatred of one man.

BTW, I was reading about Clement Atlee, the man who made Great Britain a socialist state and who dismantled the British Empire. What stood out what other prime minsters said about him. When Churchill was asked he said that Clement Atlee was incredibly effective in the War Cabinet during the war. Thatcher said "Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer. He was a serious man and a patriot. Quite contrary to the general tendency of politicians in the 1990s, he was all substance and no show".

This is people talking about their greatest enemies and the person they think did the most harm to the British economy. This is them putting a lid on their hatred and only saying nice things about a person they had no ideological connection to.

Those were the days. Trump was certainly a different kind of president.

This got me thinking that maybe part of what is giving Republican lawmakers the courage to stop calling out Trump for being an insurrectionist is his lack of social media presence. If Trump were still on Twitter talking about the election being stolen every day, and continuing to incite his base, perhaps they wouldn't be able to so easily turn away from holding him accountable.

 

[Keith&Co.]

It's a bit sad that we don't have his idiotic tweets to laugh at anymore. It certainly brought the whole world together, in hatred of one man.

BTW, I was reading about Clement Atlee, the man who made Great Britain a socialist state and who dismantled the British Empire. What stood out what other prime minsters said about him. When Churchill was asked he said that Clement Atlee was incredibly effective in the War Cabinet during the war. Thatcher said "Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer. He was a serious man and a patriot. Quite contrary to the general tendency of politicians in the 1990s, he was all substance and no show".

This is people talking about their greatest enemies and the person they think did the most harm to the British economy. This is them putting a lid on their hatred and only saying nice things about a person they had no ideological connection to.

Those were the days. Trump was certainly a different kind of president.

This got me thinking that maybe part of what is giving Republican lawmakers the courage to stop calling out Trump for being an insurrectionist is his lack of social media presence. If Trump were still on Twitter talking about the election being stolen every day, and continuing to incite his base, perhaps they wouldn't be able to so easily turn away from holding him accountable.

Meh. They're still meeting with him. Traveling to meet with him.
Parroting his lies. Or at least not denouncing them.
They're still very much aware that he's got a following and when he finds a really good way to connect to them, he'll be a power.
They're scared shitless he'll put them on his hit list of People To Punish for either embarrassing him or not sufficiently working to protect him from embarrassment. I doubt a Twitter presence would make any difference.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It's a bit sad that we don't have his idiotic tweets to laugh at anymore. It certainly brought the whole world together, in hatred of one man.

BTW, I was reading about Clement Atlee, the man who made Great Britain a socialist state and who dismantled the British Empire. What stood out what other prime minsters said about him. When Churchill was asked he said that Clement Atlee was incredibly effective in the War Cabinet during the war. Thatcher said "Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer. He was a serious man and a patriot. Quite contrary to the general tendency of politicians in the 1990s, he was all substance and no show".

This is people talking about their greatest enemies and the person they think did the most harm to the British economy. This is them putting a lid on their hatred and only saying nice things about a person they had no ideological connection to.

Those were the days. Trump was certainly a different kind of president.

This got me thinking that maybe part of what is giving Republican lawmakers the courage to stop calling out Trump for being an insurrectionist is his lack of social media presence. If Trump were still on Twitter talking about the election being stolen every day, and continuing to incite his base, perhaps they wouldn't be able to so easily turn away from holding him accountable.

Well, they didn't hold Trump accountable for illegal tariffs that they didn't even support, when he tried to use hundreds of millions of dollars to get Ukrainian President to announce a fake investigation into Biden, or raise a peep when the audio of the call between Trump and the GA SoS about finding him votes, I don't think that was going to change, because the GOP apparently had no end to their mercy on Trump's violations of the law.

 

[James Brown]

It occurs to me that if I wanted to start a wildfire in California...

And if I had the choice between launching laser satellites into space that self-identify as Jewish...

Or tossing a lit cigarette out a car window...

I'm pretty sure I'd choose the cigarette option.

That way I still have $100 billion or so in walking-around money.

 

[ZiprHead]

It occurs to me that if I wanted to start a wildfire in California...

And if I had the choice between launching laser satellites into space that self-identify as Jewish...

Or tossing a lit cigarette out a car window...

I'm pretty sure I'd choose the cigarette option.

That way I still have $100 billion or so in walking-around money.

She probably saw Geostorm and imagined it was George Soros playing the Gerard Butler part.

 

[Shadowy Man]

It occurs to me that if I wanted to start a wildfire in California...

And if I had the choice between launching laser satellites into space that self-identify as Jewish...

Or tossing a lit cigarette out a car window...

I'm pretty sure I'd choose the cigarette option.

That way I still have $100 billion or so in walking-around money.

Oh, and make sure to do it under cover of a lightning storm. You know, the kind of lightning that typically causes forest fires.

 

[bilby]

It's a bit sad that we don't have his idiotic tweets to laugh at anymore. It certainly brought the whole world together, in hatred of one man.

BTW, I was reading about Clement Atlee, the man who made Great Britain a socialist state and who dismantled the British Empire. What stood out what other prime minsters said about him. When Churchill was asked he said that Clement Atlee was incredibly effective in the War Cabinet during the war. Thatcher said "Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer. He was a serious man and a patriot. Quite contrary to the general tendency of politicians in the 1990s, he was all substance and no show".

This is people talking about their greatest enemies and the person they think did the most harm to the British economy. This is them putting a lid on their hatred and only saying nice things about a person they had no ideological connection to.

Those were the days. Trump was certainly a different kind of president.

To be fair, it's difficult not to admire Atlee. He was a deadset legend.

 

[Angry Floof]

It occurs to me that if I wanted to start a wildfire in California...

And if I had the choice between launching laser satellites into space that self-identify as Jewish...

Or tossing a lit cigarette out a car window...

I'm pretty sure I'd choose the cigarette option.

That way I still have $100 billion or so in walking-around money.

But the Death Star of David is way cooler.

 

[Keith&Co.]

It occurs to me that if I wanted to start a wildfire in California...

And if I had the choice between launching laser satellites into space that self-identify as Jewish...

Or tossing a lit cigarette out a car window...

I'm pretty sure I'd choose the cigarette option.

That way I still have $100 billion or so in walking-around money.

But the Death Star of David is way cooler.

Cue Mel Brooks singing "Jews in Space..."

 

[bilby]

It occurs to me that if I wanted to start a wildfire in California...

And if I had the choice between launching laser satellites into space that self-identify as Jewish...

Or tossing a lit cigarette out a car window...

I'm pretty sure I'd choose the cigarette option.

That way I still have $100 billion or so in walking-around money.

But the Death Star of David is way cooler.

You have a point.

OK, six points.

 

[Elixir]

It occurs to me that if I wanted to start a wildfire in California...

And if I had the choice between launching laser satellites into space that self-identify as Jewish...

Or tossing a lit cigarette out a car window...

I'm pretty sure I'd choose the cigarette option.

That way I still have $100 billion or so in walking-around money.

But the Death Star of David is way cooler.

You have a point.

OK, six points.

Seven, including hers.

 

[James Brown]

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

That laser is green. I smell lizard people.

 

[Keith&Co.]

So, Trump belongs to the Screen Actor's Guild. Have to, to speak lines in a movie.

SAG-AFTRA's Disciplinary board move to review his conduct in inciting yyhe Jan Sixers, possibly to kick him out of the union.

Trump quit.

I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at revoking my union membership. Who cares!

While I’m not familiar with your work, I’m very proud of my work on movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; and television shows including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saturday Night Live, and of course, one of the most successful shows in television history, The Apprentice – to name just a few!

I’ve also greatly helped the cable news television business (said to be a dying platform with not much time left until I got involved in politics), and created thousands of jobs at networks such as MSDNC and Fake News CNN, among many others.

Which brings me to your blatant attempt at free media attention to distract from your dismal record as a union. Your organization has done little for its members, and nothing for me – besides collecting dues and promoting dangerous un-American policies and ideas – as evident by your massive unemployment rates and lawsuits from celebrated actors, who even recorded a video asking, “Why isn’t the union fighting for me?”

These, however, are policy failures. Your disciplinary failures are even more egregious.

I no longer wish to be associated with your union. As such, this letter is to inform you of my immediate resignation from SAG-AFTRA. You have done nothing for me.

SAG replied

Thanks.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I thought that was a joke when I first saw it. What a fucking puss!

 

[Keith&Co.]

Where the fuq does Bonespurs get his lawyers?

The NYT published an opinion article on Trump, based on the Muelker investigation, saying Florida Man had a 'quid pro quo' arrangement with the Russians in 2016, that they'd help him win, he'd do Russia+ governing.. The Bonespurs re-election campaign sued the NYT for defamation, animosity towards the campaign on the part of the Times
A judge just tossed the case.

It's an opinion, so not actionable, the language used was not defamatory, and, by the way,

The article was about Florida Man. But the plaintiff listed in the lawsuit was The Re-election Campaign, not the man. So even if there had been a case hrre, it wasn't their case.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...0PADegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw0EPPXfIKCq7VdXfK1V53On

 

[Shadowy Man]

Where the fuq does Bonespurs get his lawyers?

The NYT published an opinion article on Trump, based on the Muelker investigation, saying Florida Man had a 'quid pro quo' arrangement with the Russians in 2016, that they'd help him win, he'd do Russia+ governing.. The Bonespurs re-election campaign sued the NYT for defamation, animosity towards the campaign on the part of the Times
A judge just tossed the case.

It's an opinion, so not actionable, the language used was not defamatory, and, by the way,

The article was about Florida Man. But the plaintiff listed in the lawsuit was The Re-election Campaign, not the man. So even if there had been a case hrre, it wasn't their case.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...0PADegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw0EPPXfIKCq7VdXfK1V53On

But It would mean he could spend his political donations on it instead of his personal money.

 

[Swammerdami]

Meh. They're still meeting with him. Traveling to meet with him.
Parroting his lies. Or at least not denouncing them.
They're still very much aware that he's got a following and when he finds a really good way to connect to them, he'll be a power.
They're scared shitless he'll put them on his hit list of People To Punish for either embarrassing him or not sufficiently working to protect him from embarrassment. I doubt a Twitter presence would make any difference.

Given the chance to show any virtuous qualities — integrity, compassion, respect for their party, constituents or country, hope for future, concern for the unity and prosperity of the U.S., or even simple rationality — the Republicans have been tried and found wholly wanting.

Shame!

Shame not just on the liars, crooks and morons who are hanging on to a crime family for personal profit; But also Shame on the few Republican leaders who are not licking the Orange Ass, but still unwilling to abandon a party that has no convictions left but criminality and treason.

 

[Keith&Co.]

But It would mean he could spend his political donations on it instead of his personal money.

Meh. He uses them both. Just takes more steps to move between one pile and the other.

 

[Ford]

Meh. They're still meeting with him. Traveling to meet with him.
Parroting his lies. Or at least not denouncing them.
They're still very much aware that he's got a following and when he finds a really good way to connect to them, he'll be a power.
They're scared shitless he'll put them on his hit list of People To Punish for either embarrassing him or not sufficiently working to protect him from embarrassment. I doubt a Twitter presence would make any difference.

Given the chance to show any virtuous qualities — integrity, compassion, respect for their party, constituents or country, hope for future, concern for the unity and prosperity of the U.S., or even simple rationality — the Republicans have been tried and found wholly wanting.

Shame!

They don't have any of that. Integrity, compassion, respect, shame...especially not the shame.

Remember, Ted "Cancun" Cruz was brutally lambasted by Trump (who also insulted his wife) when he was a candidate in the primaries, but when Trump won the nomination Cruz tried real hard to be Trump's number one lap dog. A job which eventually went to Lindsey Graham, who had spent the time before the nomination calling Trump every name in the book.

And as Keith pointed out, part of this is fear. Look, most of these people know full well that Trump's claim of election fraud is completely false. Yet they're echoing his claims and kissing the ring because if he turns on them, their political careers are in danger, and perhaps even their lives. When riled up, it took Trump supporters mere hours to go from "Mike Pence is a great VP" to "let's hang that traitorous bastard Mike Pence." Mitt Romney had to run from them, and if Trump whips them up again, some of them will contemplate violence. At the very least anyone who turns on Trump faces a primary from a QAnon Caucus challenger, and given the level of support Trump has among the GOP base, it would work.

They're also caught between a rock and a hard place. They can't turn on Trump, but they also know that following him is a dead end. He got beat handily by the safest, most establishment candidate the Democrats could offer, he embarrassed himself on the way out of office, and his chances for coming back and being anything but a failure in 2024 are slim and none, but they hung that albatross on their own necks.