How’s The Other Side Holding Up?
Oh y’all, it ain’t pretty. At all. Republicans are fifty pounds of giant mad insane in a ten pound bag.
This is an actual screenshot from Fox News. I am promised that it has not been altered in any way.
It was only 7:00 Mountain time, but it was most assuredly Rocky Mountian high.
And then the guy you thought had disappeared, Marco Rubio, decided to go after Joe Biden’s family. Cool move considering how Trump’s offspring are Eagle Scouts and military veterans.
And there’s this one.
The person they were attacking wasn’t even on teevee yesterday. Because, you know, he hasn’t broken any laws.
But, I gotta admit that my favorite rolling thunder blades of knives dumb was Kevin McCarthy explaining how the top secrets files were perfectly safe in the trashy bathroom at Trump’s house because “bathroom doors have locks.” That’s not just dumb, Honey, that’s stoopid.
Yeah. Bathrooms lock from the inside. What a maroon.
1Just another day at the insane asylum known as the repugnantican party.
2One “defense” I have not yet seen from his camp, that the documents were over-classified and not worth all the bother. Iran’s nuclear development? Self-reflections on weakness in USA
3preparations to defend itself? Human intelligence providers? How could that be of concern?
Oh, and how #47 needed to study up on them so as to be ready day 1 of his reelection, right after cutting taxes.
Recall when Senators wanted to review nominee Kavanaugh’s last minute FBI investigation, they had to go to a locked room and read it there. No copies, no photos. So, it was like a bathroom too, except for no toilet.
4Yes, when I think of places to store valuables, a bathroom is always on my list. The only decision is, under the towels or behind the Costco 24 pack of tp?
5I guess his bathroom is his presidential library. Probably let his special friends read stuff in there- for a fee of course.
6Wonder if he’ll insist on a gold plated toilet in his cell.
Marco never was all that smart and he proves it every time he opens his mouth.
7Of late, Republicans have specialized in stoopid. I have seen no evidence that they know how to do anything else.
8“The Other Side” is as batshit crazy and massively stupid as always. Trumpanzees now and forever.
The PBS Newshour just did a segment today on the topic, by Judy Woodruff, about a Rethug focus group mostly discussing DiJioT’s indictment and arraignment.
Y’all need to watch or read the transcript [below] to fully appreciate how utterly mindless these braindead Trumpanzees still are.
Totally parroting whatever they’re being fed by the RWNJ media, without a single logical or original thought of their own.
And an utterly chilling fact is that there are over 70 million of these cretins out there; and they, unlike a significant portion of Democrats, –always vote in every election–.
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chester @3, Steve @6, Yes, the “over-classified” strawman tactic was parroted by a couple of them, and there was a cartoon on the ‘bathroom’ theme here recently.
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PBS-Newshour, 11 minute video segment, transcript, audio :
What Iowa Republicans are thinking after Trump’s federal indictment :
9https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-iowa-republicans-are-thinking-after-trumps-federal-indictment
BarbinDC @1, It does not matter. Facts, objective reality, immutable truths, all meaningless to the Trumpanzees.
10They believe whatever their mindmanagers have most recently programmed them to believe, real or not.
George Orwell, et al., nailed the mindset of these critters many decades ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP9OIEL35Es
11This link is an interview with the author of “Jesus and John Wayne” in which she lays out “how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation.”
Cartoon:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/jun/14/ben-jennings-on-a-troublesome-shot-for-golf-loving-trump-cartoon
12Read a story on A.P.’s site about the fox screen chyron.
13Apparently they (fox) issued a statement saying they didn’t know who was responsible, and that it was taken down after 20 some-odd seconds.
But oddly enough whenever the same program was rebroadcast later that night, it magically reappeared.
Whodathunkit
And yet, I seem to remember another son of a president who was reported to have been snorting cocaine at Camp David. Rubio forgot that “crack-head son” went on to become to president himself. But then, we all know it’s OK if you’re GQP.
14Fox didn’t say it does not know who did it;Fox knows.
It merely said it has been ‘addressed’; someone was admonished or, possibly, fired.
Based on similar experiences in newspapers, my guess is that some moron typed that up as an interoffice joke, but it got into the news feed.
At the newspaper, I used to say: If you don’t want to see it in 72-point type on page one, do not write it down.
A longish story on point. In the ’80s, we ran a series of profiles of semi-famous women. One was Sen. Howard Baker’s wife, a reformed drunk. Baker was, atvthe time, thought to be presidential timber.
I had to write the hedline, and did not have many counts (letters) to do it. My best effort was: WHY NOT EX-DRUNK FOR FIRST LADY?
In those more decorous times, the idea of calling a senator’s wife a drunk generated enormous protest from readers.
And, from my colleagues, much ridicule, which took the form of other hedlines that I could write:
Rosalyn Carter divorces Jimmy, who turns to bottle: WHY NOT FIRST LADY’S EX- FOR DRUNK?
And several other permutations that I cannot recall now.
15The sad irony is that Biden would rather run against Trump than any of those other morons; seeing Trump in jail is the last thing he wants.
16I suspect all these talking points are coming straight out of the Council for National Policy. Does Kellyanne still do their dirty work?
17Harry Eagar, I really wish I could have been a local subscriber for your journalism. As a young man working at the local steel mill I was acquainted with an old retired reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (AKA, the Startle-Gram). He dated back to the early 1900s and had all the juicy stories that could not be printed. One of them was when the paper sent out two reporters and a surveyor to show that Fort Worth’s “Hell’s Half-Acre” actually occupied 2.5 acres.
I was able to fill him in on what was happening in the town’s southern barrio, how the local drug trade functioned, and about a few scandals.
But I gotta admit, WHY NOT EX-DRUNK FOR FIRST LADY? is a great one. Savage, mean, vicious, and hilarious. It’s just the kind of thing that would have him slap the table and convulse with laughter.
18One more note, this tiem releveant to the post: Fox has dumped the genius who wrote the chyron:
https://www.nexttv.com/news/fox-news-producer-behind-wannabe-dictator-chyron-exits-the-network
… but they did not fire him. Nope, he quit instead. And I believe that as much as their “reporting”.
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