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OH BOY, there is more news about Donald Trump’s prurient obsession with Mika Brzezinski’s face blood (which is a very important story you should be following while you ALSO are paying attention to how Kris Kobach is spearheading a national voter suppression effort to soothe Donald Trump’s deflated ego over his pathetic popular vote loss). Trump tweeted his bullshit lie about Mika B. getting facelift blood all over Mar-a-Lago during New Year’s a few minutes after “Morning Joe” ended Thursday morning, so they didn’t get to respond in real time. But good golly, they responded on the show Friday morning, and in an op-ed for the Washington Post, and they have a story to tell about just how creepy and disgusting Donald Trump actually is.

First of all, they need you to know they are personally fine. They were raised by their mamas to be Ford Tough, so don’t you worry about them. They’d much rather you worry for America, because JESUS FUCK, Donald Trump has LOST HIS GODDAMN MIND. In case you don’t understand what they are getting at, here is the hed for their WaPo piece:

They are just saying.

President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal. America’s leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president. We have our doubts, but we are both certain that the man is not mentally equipped to continue watching our show, “Morning Joe.” […]

The president’s unhealthy obsession with “Morning Joe” does not serve the best interests of either his mental state or the country he runs. Despite his constant claims that he no longer watches the show, the president’s closest advisers tell us otherwise. That is unfortunate. We believe it would be better for America and the rest of the world if he would keep his 60-inch-plus flat-screen TV tuned to “Fox & Friends.”

Better yet, he could turn his TV off and go be the president, but LOL he’s fundamentally unqualified for that job.

Joe and Mika explain that Trump’s tweets are full of lies, from his claim that they allegedly begged to stay with him at Mar-a-Lago for three days, to the part about how Mika was gushing face blood all over Trump’s gold-plated dildo collection. This is consistent with their account at the time. They say, despite the fact that it’s NONE YA GODDAMN BIDNESS, Mika has never had a facelift, but one time she got a little skin tuck thing under her chin, because she fucking felt like it.

They write that Trump’s attack was just part and parcel of his inability to treat women with respect, and assert yet again (it’s been a running theme lately) that they’re worried Trump’s brain has genital warts.

Now, you ready for the really creepy part? They allude to this in their WaPo piece, but it turns out that this year, Trump and his White House have been trying to blackmail them, to get them to stop criticizing Trump on TV. The National Enquirer, owned by Trump’s pal David Pecker, was working on a SALACIOUS STORY about the lovebirds, and White House staffers were constantly harassing them, saying if they would just call President Fuckhead McClownFarts and say how sorry they were, he would kill the story. Joe and Mika told them all to eat a bag of dicks:

JOE: I think we have to talk about it … because it explains the relationship and his really strange obsession with this show, and in particular, his really disturbing obsession with Mika. We got a call that hey, the National Enquirer is going to run a negative story against you guys, and … Donald is friends with the … guy that runs the National Enquirer. And they said if you call the president up, and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. I had … three people at the very top of the administration calling me, and the response was like “Are you kidding me?” I don’t know what they have, run the story, I’m not going to do it. The calls kept coming and kept coming, and they were like “Call! You need to call! Please call! Come on, Joe, just pick up the phone and call him!”

Gross. As for the three people at the top of the administration, we’re going to guess Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner and Reince Priebus, because you don’t get more “very top of the administration” than chief of staff, personal counselor and daughter-banger. Also they’re all little thugs.

Mika B. then talked about how the National Enquirer was harassing her teenage daughters, MAYBE at the direction of Pecker and Trump:

MIKA: They were calling my children. They were calling close friends. And they were pinning the story on my ex-husband, who would absolutely never do that, so I knew immediately it was a lie, and that they had nothing. And these calls persisted for quite some time, and then Joe had the conversations that he had with the White House, where they said, “Oh this could go away.”

Joe says on top of this, the tabloid literally staked out Mika’s house. Ultimately, though, they decided, “Screw it, let ’em run it,” because fuck that baby in the White House, they were not calling him to apologize.

The doubleplus unsmart thing in the White House tweeted Friday morning that Joe and Mika are big liars:

To which Joe Scarborough responded:

For the record, the Enquirer denies all this as well, so you just decide whether you believe serial liar Donald Trump and that tabloid freakshow, or whether you believe Joe and Mika. We’ll give you a minute to work through that if you need it.

Some final thoughts from Mika Brzezinski, from the beginning of Friday’s show:

It is unbelievably alarming that this president is so easily played. He’s so easily played by a cable news host. What is that saying to our allies? What is that saying to our enemies? That this president is so easily played?

Indeed. And it’s fucking stunning that we’re even having this conversation about the sitting president of the United States of America.

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  • kindness

    Now I’m being put in that really awkward place of having to support Joe & Mica.

    That’s a coyote trap. Which limb do I have to chew off to get out of this?

    • elviouslyqueer

      AOT, K.

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        Today we are all Stumpy

    • Finnabar87

      They could help bring down this piece of shit ‘president’.

      Don’t chew anything off just yet!

    • Courser_Resistance

      Speaking of Coyotes, I haven’t seen chicken_thief around lately.

  • elviouslyqueer

    Dear Congress:

    I believe the words “Uniquely Unfit and Unqualified to Continue Being President of the United States” are the exact ones you’re looking for.

    YOU ARE SO VERY WELCOME.

    EQ

  • William
  • RumAddled

    It’s a win for the Donald. No one is talking about Russia today.

    • Rags

      or healthcare?

  • OneWhiteWhisker

    I have zero doubt he made a move on Mika at some point and she turned him down.

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      Bingo

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Mika, please show us on the doll where the man-baby grabbed you.

    • armed_bears

      Yep.

    • CeeQ

      Yup.

  • WomanInThePersistence

    I always thought he was obsessed with pee. Apparently, that’s not the bodily fluid tha really gets him. Well, from females.

    I never thought I would type this, but the president is a creepy freakshow.

    • BeachBum

      As time goes on we learn way too much about his creepiness. Before he leaves office he will set some kind of Guinness Record for weird/sick/perverted shit for a politician. And that’s not a low record !

  • Vincent Ricola

    JOE: I think we have to talk about it … because it explains the relationship and his really strange obsession with this show, and in particular, his really disturbing obsession with Mika.

    DONALD: I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn’t get there. And she was married.

    Donald has a type and a well-established style of trying to take women “furniture shopping.” This fits. I completely believe the morning blow crew.

  • Msgr_MΩment

    Joe And Mika Explain What A Gross Fucking Creep Donald Trump Really Is

    Joe and Mika are my go-to experts on gross fucking.

  • armed_bears

    …Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner and Reince Priebus, because you don’t get more “very top of the administration” than chief of staff, personal counselor and daughter-banger.

    Sometimes, it’s actually fun-er when you ignore the construct of parallelism in lists!

    • Rags

      Isn’t that ‘other daughter-banger?’

      • armed_bears

        whichever is intended, that is a really unsightly 3-way…

    • BeachBum

      They will all be interchangeable before this shit hardens into dung bricks.

    • cmd resistor

      SO, I read a piece in the Daily Beast quoting 2 unnamed white house sources who say it was JOE who called up Jared, to ask him his advice about this National Enquirer story, and Jared helpfully suggested that Joe call Trump. I’m assuming Joe has stuff to back up his side of the story and that Trump and his minions don’t. I’d love to see old Jared in the hot seat. Also, too, Spicer blew off the story pretty much in today’s briefing.

      • BeachBum

        If Spicey blew it off, I take it to mean that Joe’s story is true. And I hate Pandering-flip-flop Joe.

        • cmd resistor

          This is what the Daily B had to say:
          White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Friday morning that he was “not aware” of efforts by senior White House officials to elicit an apology from Scarborough to Trump for Morning Joe’s coverage of the president.
          Neither Spicer nor deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders responded to follow-up questions from The Daily Beast on Friday morning, including a request for comment on Kushner’s conversation with Scarborough. Brzezinski and Scarborough declined to comment for this story.

    • Bebecca

      Bannon stays out of the sunlight?

    • SisterArtemis

      oxford comma says what?

  • Zippy W Pinhead

    Please don’t make me like Joe and MIka

    Please don’t make me like Joe and MIka

    Please don’t make me like Joe and MIka

    Please don’t make me like Joe and MIka

  • jesterpunk

    Howard Stern said this months ago and he was right,

    http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/02/media/kfile-stern-on-trump/index.html

    “I personally wish that he had never run, I told him that, because I
    actually think this is something that is gonna be detrimental to his
    mental health too, because, he wants to be liked, he wants to be loved,”
    Stern said. “He wants people to cheer for him.”

    “I don’t thinkit’s going to be a healthy experience. And by the way, he’s now on this
    anti-Hollywood kick. He loves Hollywood. First of all, he loves the
    press. He lives for it. He loves people in Hollywood. He only wants
    hobnob with them. All of this hatred and stuff directed towards him.
    It’s not good for him. It’s not good. There’s a reason every president
    who leaves the office has grey hair.”

    http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/28/media/howard-stern-donald-trump-interview/index.html

    • Msgr_MΩment

      What color does lichen turn when it gets old?

      • Vincent Ricola

        I’m not sure about old, but it’s a lovely shade of yellow in the spring.

      • BeachBum

        The color of brimstone.

    • WomanInThePersistence

      Well. How very fucking sad.

      • jesterpunk

        This is weird, I am agreeing with Howard Stern, Joe and Mika and even a little with BillO about Trump. WTF is going on here and how do I get off this ride and get back to the normal sane world?

        • Vincent Ricola

          I liked a Bill Kristol tweet this morning. I have obviously crossed over from the Berenstein Bears dimension.

        • BeachBum

          IKR. Yesterday I agreed with Tillerson. Before that Murkowski and (gasp) McCain.

          • C4TWOMAN

            Remember back during the Rep nomination? I was agreeing with Mitt Romney…ugh.
            *goes to take shower*

        • C4TWOMAN

          I must rethink my entire world view and life choices. Lager will help. Lost and lots of lager.

        • Bebecca

          See, Trump really is a uniter.

        • BeachBum

          See, back in the Jurassic when I read Alice in Wonderland, I was impressed that Carroll could think that stuff up. Now I realize he prolly was just following politics.

    • Finnabar87

      Trump won’t leave with gray hair.

      He could well leave in handcuffs, however.

      • jesterpunk

        Hopefully, but that doesnt look like it will happen with the current congress.

      • William

        Dear Mr. Mueller
        Please hurry.
        The world.
        The world.

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        you misspelled straitjacket

      • Persistent Tennessee Rain

        Or a straight jacket.

    • Thiazin Red

      Its the same thing with NYC society. He desperately wants to be accepted by the older money, while also talking shit and having no class.

      • C4TWOMAN

        When in Rome–if you want to be liked that badly–you really have to act like a Roman.

        Or at least not talk shit about people….

  • Latverian Diplomat

    “I don’t know who to believe.”
    — Bat Boy

    • Thiazin Red

      Bat Boy was a hero who bravely served his country in the Marines. Trump is no Bat Boy.

    • P’jama Pahnts

      “Bat Boy”? Don’t you mean “Robin”?

    • msanthropesmr

      WTF does Rick Scott have to do with this?

  • Persistent Tennessee Rain

    We are doomed.

  • TJ Barke

    “Donald Trump is not well”
    No fucking shit! What do you think we’ve been trying to tell all you people?!

  • MynameisBlarney

    Should we start a pool on what day he goes batshit crazy and gets hauled off in a straight-jacket?

    https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029272200

  • Joe Beese

    Again:

    Joe Scarborough said Friday that a “very well-known congressman” called him after a meeting during which President Donald Trump ranted about his “Morning Joe” cohost, Mika Brzezinski. …

    Scarborough said though that the congressman called because Trump “scared” him.

    “He was vicious when he turned from you to Mika,” Scarborough recalled the congressman saying. “His face was red. He started talking about blood coming out of her ears, out of her eyes.”

    http://www.businessinsider.com/joe-scarborough-trump-mika-brzezinski-blood-face-lift-2017-6

    In the video clip, viewable in full here…

    http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/mika-fascinating-frightening-and-sad-for-the-us-980332099712

    … J-Scar adds that were were more than a dozen other Congresscritters present at the time.

    This needs to become a constant drumbeat in the media: Is The President Bugfuck?

    • BigCSouthside

      This may be the worst part.

      The man is deranged. I’m dumbfounded that no one steps up and says it. He’s sick. He’s always been a piece of shit but his sickness is exacerbating it.

      There should be a public conversation about his mental health, and then 25A.

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        As long as he is coherent enough to sign a tax cut bill, the fucking GOP won’t do shit

        • BigCSouthside

          If the could contain him like Reagan he’d be their perfect president. Incurious and just enough brain cells to hold a pen and sign

    • MynameisBlarney

      Well…
      Maybe turmp will give himself an aneurysm.

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      and yet not one of those cowards will go on record and confirm this- not one of them will go on record about how unhinged our president is

    • Indivisible Snark Tank

      I think you do bugs an injustice. I wouldn’t think ANY of them would fuck Dampnut.

  • Msgr_MΩment

    Even Putin, when Trump thinks he’s saying “хорошо”, is actually saying “horror show”.

  • Everrett Fanuelli

    Trump is a less charming Patrick Bateman

    • Three Finger Salute

      Huey Lewis is FAKE NEWS!

  • William
  • P’jama Pahnts

    Not the national enquirer. NOT THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER!!1!

    • armed_bears

      You’re the National Enquirer.

  • suziq

    And even though it doesn’t matter as far as this crazy story is concerned, when you have a face lift you don’t have blood spurting out all over the place. Your face gets puffy and bruised looking. Which Mika’s face was not during that period of time. So, not even accurate with that.

    • jesterpunk

      Its one of his favorite insults about women, they have blood coming out of their whatever.

      • suziq

        Yup, but it was weird to be specific about it being from a face lift when you don’t have blood coming out of your wherever from that. Obviously he said it because rude, but also implying the only reason she has an attractive face is because she had plastic surgery. If she has, it wasn’t then. And who cares?

    • Latverian Diplomat

      “Oh, you said period…I rest my case.”
      — Donald Trump

      • suziq

        If he didn’t keep trading his wives in on younger models he might be aware of menopause. But only because they wouldn’t be banished for a week every month.

    • azeyote

      surprised he didn’t go with – the blood coming out of her wherever – line that worked so well with the other blonde

  • Good_Gawd_Yall

    If it weren’t for the fact that one of these three minor-league twatwaffles, whose collective IQ may or may not reach the low three digits, had been awarded the presidency despite a 3-million-vote loss, I’d consider it all tabloid fodder and award it a healthy dose of “Who cares?” All I can glean from this is that we are well and truly fucked for the foreseeable future, since the repukes have all the power and none of the love of country that would be needed to get this walking ham sandwich out of office. (I know, I know, ham sandwich libel!)
    As for the idea that the “president” would try to use a friendly tabloid newspaper to coerce a tabloid television show’s hosts into being nice to him, there are no words that I can access right now to talk about that. I’m just going to try breathing into a paper bag for awhile.

    • Joe Beese

      I’ve been looking for more effective paper bags. What brand do you use?

      • Pinkham’s Law

        Brand doesn’t matter. What’s important is that you get a good coating of spray lacquer in it just before your deep breathing exercises.

      • BigCSouthside

        I use whatever my whiskey bottle comes in

      • Me not sure

        I’m considering duct taping a Glad bag over my head. …Too severe?

        • Shanzgood 7 Days

          That’s a little permanent, don’t you think?

          • Me not sure

            I guess so.

  • Crystalclear12

    David Pecker- was there anyone better named for the job he does?

    • Well, Harry Butt of Harry Butt Mobile Waxing might disagree.

      • msanthropesmr

        Seymore Butts portajohns also too.

      • Indivisible Snark Tank

        And superspy Ivana Humpalott.

    • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

      tee hee! I always have a snicker when I see his name.

    • armed_bears
      • Msgr_MΩment

        I thought the whole mother naming the child after the first thing she sees story was an old wives’ tale. Huh.

        • armed_bears

          Well, speaking as someone born in a teepee at the annual gay NRA nudist retreat for guys, I can say that it could be worse.

    • PubOption

      Flush toilet pioneer Thomas Crapper?

  • msanthropesmr

    The aristocrats!

  • Shanzgood 7 Days

    I kind of like how they said he’s not mentally prepared to continue watching their show. Nice backhand, that.

  • Bill D. Burger
    • Invisible Bunyip

      “Brain bleach required on aisle four”

      • Marion in Savannah

        Now you see why I buy it in 55-gallon drums.

  • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

    I’m a known Idiot, but didn’t Donnie’s tweet kind of confirm Scarborough’s account? He says Joe called HIM to ask HIM to stop the Enquirer story but he refused. Aside from the lying part about being called, doesn’t this imply that Joe and Mika were, in fact, being blackmailed by Donnie’s people? Help me out here, I can’t see it any other way.

    • Shanzgood 7 Days

      Sounds right to me and I’m pretty sure I’m not a idiot.

      • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

        Just not sure if I’m losing more of my mind lately or not.

        Don’t answer that. btw.

    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      It’s how he rolls. “No puppet! No puppet!” “Okay, puppet but who cares?”

    • NastyBossetti

      I think he’s trying to say that they got wind of the story some other way and went running to little Donnie to ask for help because he knows the guy who owns the enquirer? But he’s a dumbass.

    • Joe Beese

      It looks like this will be the WH spin:

      According to these [two White House] officials, Kushner and Scarborough had spoken “many weeks ago” regarding a then upcoming negative Enquirer article on Scarborough and Brzezinski. Scarborough had “calmly sought” advice from Kushner, who “recommended he speak with the president.”

      But White House sources’ accounts of the conversation differed from Scarborough’s description and suggestions of more sinister interactions. No hostile threat or attempt at blackmail was made, according to these officials.

      “This is getting blown up on Twitter and elsewhere as some kind of blackmail operation,” one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak freely, said. “The truth is far more mundane. In this case, Joe was talking to Jared about his [bad] relationship with the president and a Enquirer hit piece he was uneasy about.”

      http://www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushner-told-joe-scarborough-talk-to-president-trump-about-enquirer-dirt

      • Joe Beese

        Suffice it to say, given Trump’s history, he has no right to a presumption of innocence.

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        Spin, spin, spin

        • elviouslyqueer

          Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, more like.

      • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

        Oh, they’re spinning it into more of his “hope” bull. That’s really not going to fly with me.

      • P’jama Pahnts

        Wow. Even I could probably spin this better than that.

        • Zippy W Pinhead

          Why would Joe seek advice from Jared? Why would he wait several weeks to do so? Why would Jared recommend talking to the president about a damned Enquirer story?

          • cmd resistor

            Well, Jared IS SMRT.

    • Obstruction of justice, 2017 style.

  • Bill D. Burger
  • Latverian Diplomat

    For the 563,207th time, The Philadelphia Inquirer considers a name change.

  • Pinkham’s Law

    If only someone could have warned us!

    "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons." —Hillary— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 29, 2016

  • Yeesh

    I can’t wait until Minnie Mouse bad talks trump on the MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE so that Trump could tweet out a picture of a female mouse crushed and bloody inside the clutches of a mouse trap.. That will be the day Trump truly becomes presidential..

  • C4TWOMAN

    but it turns out that this year, Trump and his White House have been trying to blackmail them,

    And because shit gibbon is an imbecile and has nothing, he pushed it too far and they said, “Fuck it, we go public.”

    I’m positive they were trying the “rise above it” Michelle Obama play, and it wasn’t a bad thing to try: eventually, with no actual evidence, the Nat’l E would have wandered away(I suspect it was someone at the NE, not approved by owners/management).

    But then Trump pushed one time too many…dumb ass.

  • Good_Gawd_Yall
    • Msgr_MΩment

      Dog’s got a point.

      • Good_Gawd_Yall

        He’s very smart. He votes Dem every time.
        .
        .
        .
        .
        Maybe I shouldn’t have said that last part.

        • Jim Johnson

          Evil has an odor that dogs can smell.
          He chose the lesser stink.

    • Blackest Noobs

      The Republicans KNOW….but unwilling to do the right thing for the country.

      • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

        “Can he still hold a pen and sign stuff? Then it’s fine.” – GOP

      • WomanInThePersistence

        Party before country. Always.

    • mardam422

      Unless it’s a sub-amendment of the 2nd (2.5?), NO.

  • Bill D. Burger
    • WomanInThePersistence

      Why would Trump worry about Russian cyber warfare? It worked out well for him.

  • NastyBossetti

    I don’t understand why anyone would think someone would allow themselves to be blackmailed over a fucking National Enquirer story.

    • Shanzgood 7 Days

      Maybe he thinks everyone is as sensitive to negative press as he is.

      • SisterArtemis

        I think there’s a lot of truth to that. He really only sees the world from his own vantage point; I think he’s done that for decades, and can’t imagine any other way to see the world.

      • NastyBossetti

        But it’s the National Enquirer.

        • Shanzgood 7 Days

          The paper equivalent of Fox News?

          • vivian

            Poor people’s Charmin.

          • NastyBossetti

            It’s not even Fox News, though. It’s more like TMZ, except TMZ is probably a better source if you’re into celebrity gossip. It’s so bizarre that the National Enquirer finds itself at the center of a political scandal involving the president. Not that anything is normal right now, but every time I think things can’t get weirder, they do.

        • P’jama Pahnts

          “This paper contains facts. And this paper has the eighth highest circulation in the whole wide world. Right? Plenty of facts. “Pregnant man gives birth.” That’s a fact.”

    • Jim Johnson

      Yeah, talk about Fake News. They almost invented it. Surely wallowed around in it.

    • P’jama Pahnts

      Unless you’re a Kardashian

  • WomanInThePersistence
  • Blackest Noobs

    Man Oh Man..Donald Trump seriously does himself no favors.
    what a moron.

    • Persistent Tennessee Rain

      For as tiny as it is, it’s amazing how he manages to constantly shoot himself in the dick.

  • Bill D. Burger
    • Indivisible Snark Tank

      She kinda looks like the love child of Robin Wright and Jennifer Coolidge in that shot on the left.

      • Latverian Diplomat

        “And it seems that we have to issue a birth certificate to that effect now.”
        — Arkansas

    • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

      I remember how Carrie White dealt with bullies. . .

      • Doug Langley

        Don’t make her angry. You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry.

  • Latverian Diplomat

    “Not to be hyperbolic, but your president seems more than a little eccentric.”
    — Ghost of Archimedes

    • mardam422

      Asymptotically approaching insanity? No, that’s wrong. He’d never get there that way.

      • Latverian Diplomat

        That comment crosses the line. :)

  • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

    Wouldn’t it be hysterical if this garbage is what succeeds in bringing this presidency down?

    Sure, I want prison and the Russia stuff too, but have long suspected he’d get nailed for some stupid unrelated thing. Maybe this one is that thing?

    • Shanzgood 7 Days

      What, blackmail? Works for me, where do I sign up?

    • P’jama Pahnts

      Let’s hope. I’m guessing Congress will continue to see him as a useful idiot though.

    • House0fTheBlueLights

      The only thing that will put out this dumpster fire is the Republicans deciding to be patriotic Americans instead whatever the hell it is they are.

      http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-enablers

    • AJ Milne

      Dunno. Presumes capacity for shame ‘mongst Republican lawmakers not in evidence…

      … but yeah, it would be kinda amusing. Turns out in retrospect it was self dealing, collusion, money laundering, inappropriate use of the office to profit, followed by outright treason… And they passed…

      Being an embarrassing, unhinged, sexist dick to an anchorperson? Right. This is getting too pathetic even for us. He’s gone.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      It won’t be.

      • You KNOW it’s going to be financial crap.

        • AnnieGetYerFun

          I’ll be amazed, honestly, if it’s anything other than an aneurysm. But I’m hoping it’s financial.

  • Crystalclear12

    You know. . . now that I think about it maybe the should treat him like Caesar.

    With votes, of course.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      With lots of anchovies and feta.

    • Latverian Diplomat

      I know you are thinking of Julius, but

      “Tell me more about this Livia person.”
      — Melania

    • Jim Johnson

      Et tu, Pence?

    • Jim Johnson

      Et tu, Priebus? Sounds more Roman.

    • C4TWOMAN

      Let him appoint a horse to the Senate?

      • Crystalclear12

        I was thinking more a meeting on the Senate steps.

        • C4TWOMAN

          Which one do you think has a “lean and hungry look”?

          • Seek

            Kushner for sure. Uday and Qusay won’t care so Jared will go for it and they’ll all split the “estate” while screwing over Tiffany and Barron.

    • La forza del resistino

      he has mastered Caesar word salad.

  • Latverian Diplomat

    Donald Trump’s election to the Presidency is the best proof yet that humans will never develop time travel.

    • SisterArtemis

      … or that we have finally found a compelling need to do so. Go science!

      • Latverian Diplomat

        “Without Trump’s election we wouldn’t have been so motivated to invent this time machine, so if we prevent his election then…”

        “I hate temporal mechanics.”

        • Zippy W Pinhead

          “Donald who?”

          “It worked!”

          • Latverian Diplomat

            “What worked…”

            “The uh…uh…hey, why are we both fading?”

      • C4TWOMAN

        Nope, if we had he wouldn’t be president…unless we’re in a redundant time line and it’s about to collapse, destroying everything we know.

        *double take*

        Aw fuck.

        • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

          “I hate temporal mechanics!” – past and future Miles O’Brien

        • Shanzgood 7 Days

          It would have to be invented for a different reason but with the same outcome of causing him not to exist.

          That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.

    • Jim Johnson

      Or, we’re in for a helluva dystopian future if they sent agents back to mind control the Republicans into nominating him and work with the Russians to hack the election.
      The mind boggles.

    • Doug Langley
    • MrTusks

      Uh, this is obviously the 1985A timeline from Back to the Future Part II. Someone has already used time travel to nefarious ends. The problem is our timeline will persist even if Marty goes back in time to fix his own.

      • Uncle Mark

        Or time travelers encouraged a raging looney to win the Presidency to shake up Americans enough to be on guard against more competent & sinister forces colluding with evil Republicans to usurp the nation in the future. I’d like to think of this as an inoculation against a more competent corruption taking over. Like all inoculations, no one like having to deal with the initial prick and nauseous side-effects.

  • Bill D. Burger
    • C4TWOMAN

      All that’s missing is that ubiquitous stinger at the end of campaign adds:
      “I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message.”

  • Bill D. Burger
  • La forza del resistino

    Donald takes a swing at a progressive MSNBC woman and a less progressive Greta takes the punch. Ain’t life wonderful.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    The calls kept coming and kept coming, and they were like “Call! You need to call! Please call! Come on, Joe, just pick up the phone and call him!”

    Desperate much? JFC, I wonder how many temper tantrums Donald must have been throwing to make his staff beg like that.

    I know, I know–all of them, Katie…

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/13bcd5012a7d6f08035b2bad2034ccdc28b2a1425281cfb164029d5c7b667dbb.jpg

  • Bill D. Burger

    Surra’ sez’ that Turnip is jist a hittin’ them whut’ hit him furst’! ___ And she wouldn’t lie.

    “Iffin’ you thank Ima’ lyin’ …. my brother’ull kill your dog. ”

    (Hell, even her own eyes don’t agree with each other.)

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ef7af7b274d6dbbdc938f75a55b382699fb0d52764bcf4680654fc9a43efadc8.jpg

    • Joe Beese

      Why should we support her lazy eye if it’s not willing to take responsibility for its own movements?

  • Joe Beese

    According to three sources familiar with the private conversations, what happened was this: After the inauguration, Morning Joe’s coverage of Trump turned sharply negative. “This presidency is fake and failed,” Brzezinski said on March 6, for example. Around this time, Scarborough and Brzezinski found out the Enquirer was preparing a story about their affair. While Scarborough and Brzezinski’s relationship had been gossiped about in media circles for some time, it was not yet public, and the tabloid was going to report that they had left their spouses to be together.

    In mid-April, Scarborough texted with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner about the pending Enquirer story. Kushner told Scarborough that he would need to personally apologize to Trump in exchange for getting Enquirer owner David Pecker to stop the story. (A spokesperson for Kushner declined to comment). Scarborough says he refused, and the Enquirer published the story in print on June 5, headlined “Morning Joe Sleazy Cheating Scandal!”

    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/what-happened-between-trump-morning-joe-and-the-enquirer.html

    • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

      Typical right wing smear campaign. Who here is surprised by this at all?

      • Joe Beese

        This version, in making everyone look bad, is likeliest to be true.

        • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

          I don’t doubt it’s truth. I was talking more about Donnie getting the Enquirer to help smear someone just so he could get a phone-in apology. It scans with what we know about Donnie’s “style”. He demands loyalty and “hits back ten times harder”, which is a fancy way of saying he’s a reactionary child who needs constant fluffing or he throws a tantrum.

    • Persistent Tennessee Rain

      who the fuck cares who’s zooming who? Jesus Hussein Christ, these people are adults and it’s none of our goddamned business.

      • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

        Childish gossip for childish minds.

  • Crystalclear12

    Well, Thank Gawd Hillary didn’t win!
    Just imagine!

    OK, I just gave myself a sad.
    Damn.

  • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

    OT: From Politico via WAPO:

    Tuesday Group co-chairman Charlie Dent
    (R-Pa.) is gathering signatures on a letter asking Speaker Paul Ryan
    (R-Wis.) to intervene in House Budget Chairwoman Diane Black’s plan to
    cut $200 billion in mandatory spending in the GOP budget.

    The
    Tuesday Group letter — which sources say has about 20 signatories so far
    — warns that the Tennessee Republican’s proposal is “not practical” and
    “could imperil tax reform,” according to a draft of the letter obtained
    by POLITICO. The letter also encourages GOP leaders to work with
    Democrats to reach a budget agreement setting higher spending levels for
    fiscal 2018 — something the letter suggests could be paired with a vote
    to raise the debt ceiling. This comes on top of near universal
    rejection of the president’s budget which chopped away large sections of
    the government and largely eviscerated soft power resources (State
    Department and foreign aid).

    Is the Rethug fracture already here? Not holding my breath, but can’t stop hoping.

    • C4TWOMAN

      There comes a point in selling off assets for quick gain, eve the greediest will put their foot down:
      “No, you can’t auction off the roof of the house!”

      • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

        That was my thinking as well.

  • TJ Barke

    He wanted to fuck Mika. Couldn’t. So he hates her. It’s probably that basic. Because the Donnie is a simpleton.

    • C4TWOMAN

      Sadly you are probably right.

    • not_vh

      also the only outrage to which the missus has ever responded.

    • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

      It likely is that simple. Mika told him “no” and now she’s “bleeding from her whatever”. He seems to do this a lot to BLOND WOMEN!

      That last part seems very, very true right now.

      • Uncle Mark

        Let’s not forget his p-ssy-grabbing recording, where the shitgibbon is ultimately rejected at the end of the story…and then he recounts how he saw her recently and now he calls her ugly. Megan Kelly rejected his advances, and suddenly “she’s bleeding out her wherever.” The man never grew up, and clearly can’t handle rejection of any kind from women…as he does lash out quite excessively where the fairer sex is concerned.

        • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

          Makes me think that Rosie O’Donnell must have turned him down as well.

          Women aren’t people to him, they’re “arm candy”. If they don’t live up to his insane ideals, then THEY somehow deceived him and should be “punished” for it. He has the emotional intellect of a bald python mixed with the charm of a vole.

    • baconzgood

      Nail head hit.

    • elviouslyqueer

      And Donnie is also that basic.

  • Bebecca

    A very wise woman told us, oh about a year ago, that this man was unfit temperamentally to be president. Unfortunately not enough of us listened.

    • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

      Same wise woman wisely warned us about the very real vast right wing conspiracy.

      Wonder whatever happened to that wonderful, wise, educated, even tempered, reasonable, funny and talented woman? If you see her, tell her I miss her.

    • Who is this ‘us’ you speak of?

      • Bebecca

        People that don’t read Wonkette?

  • Joey Brill

    This sounds like “In-Laws” with or without breastesses painted on velvet or serpentine. Serpentine! Oh, and without Arkin’s hot son…

  • Bill D. Burger

    OT..but Wheelbilly Greg and his SCOT of TEXass’ gave their state this today:

    https://twitter.com/tlrd/status/880804385055543297

    Already doomed, court challenges were already prepared…..but TEXass won’t stop trying.

    • Bill D. Burger
    • ariel_gee_398

      Carrying on the fine Texas traditional of trying to deny gay rights, no matter how unconstitutional or expensive the efforts. It’s the cowboy way.

      • C4TWOMAN

        Rawhide Libelz!

    • elviouslyqueer
      • Werewolf

        Yeah, so he’s just gonna waste my damn tax money on this. Real stand-up guy.

        • PubOption

          I see what you did there.

      • Shanzgood 7 Days

        And SCOTUS just reconfirmed it by telling Alabama to fuck off with their thing against same sex married people on birth certificates.

        • Werewolf

          Arkansas, but yeah.

          • Shanzgood 7 Days

            Oops!

          • FlownΩver

            Potato, turdball.

  • ken_kukec

    Maybe prolonged exposure to gold-plating is mentally debilitating, like eating lead paint chips.

    • C4TWOMAN

      Gold is non-reactive. My money is on evil spirits.

      • ken_kukec

        Like turpentine?

      • Jennifer R

        Gold itself is nonreactive, but once you impurify it from 24 karat who knows what it has actually been cut with.

        • ken_kukec

          Maybe they whacked it with steroids; that would explain the waterbed-like bloating … and the rages.

        • C4TWOMAN

          This is true. Still, I think evil spirits play a vital role in this…

      • Shanzgood 7 Days

        Crown Royal?

    • elviouslyqueer

      Even money says arsenic. Because you know Melania’s been slipping some in his Diet Coke since Day One.

      • House0fTheBlueLights

        Nah, his skin’s not good– arsenic gives you beautiful skin (like Ivanka’s and Melania’s, hmmmm). I’m gonna go with belladonna, which both make your eyes bright and dilated, and has psychoactive effects.

        • FlownΩver

          Adrenochrome. Just ask Dr. Thompson.

      • ken_kukec

        Could be one of the 11 herbs & spices in his KFC.

  • MynameisBlarney
    • FlownΩver

      Fake Time, Fake News or Fake POTUS?

  • TJ Barke
  • Joe Beese
    • Ayep! No sympathy from me, but thank you for gathering proof about the mental incapacity of our president

  • baconzgood

    I just want to have them keep antagonizing him.

    Just to see how berserk he goes

    • Jennifer R

      Me too. I grew up being targeted by this kind of fuck, and pushing them to the breaking point is fun.

    • Joe Beese

      Megyn Kelly needs to do a big “Is Trump nuts?” story.

      That should move things along nicely.

    • P’jama Pahnts

      My DREAM is to get twitter-bitched by him.

    • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

      The man is Biff Tannen, after all. On more step and he’ll be detailing Hillary Clinton’s car.

      • armed_bears

        Kinda Happy Loman, too.

  • Good_Gawd_Yall

    An Open Letter to VP Mike Pence.
    Dear Mr. Vice President,
    Wouldn’t you get tingles in your down-theres if this letter had begun, “Dear Mr. President”? Well, it could have!
    There’s an exciting thing I’d like to make you aware of. I know that Civics was HARD and also that it was a long time ago. I get it. I’m over fifty myself. But there’s a thing that I think you’d like, if you could find someone to explain it to you. It’s called the 25th Amendment.

    Now, I know that 25 is a lot of Amendments, and maybe you haven’t read that far down yet. You’re a busy guy. But the gist of it is, if you want to, you can “transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and Speaker of the House . . .[your] written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” What that means, dear, is that you can tell Orrin Hatch (I know, I was surprised too that it’s not Mitch) and Paul Ryan that you think The Donald has gone a little nutty. You can even have a staffer, or Mommy, write it out for you so you don’t have to worry about picking up any new big words. And I’m sure that if you promised that you would sign allllll the tax cuts and take away healthcare from alllll the poors and olds, they would say, “Why, yes, indeed, Mr. Soon-to-be-President Pence, we are in agreement that the old boy needs to be retired to Mar-a-Lago to golf and tweet until the day comes for him to go to the farm upstate where he can play happily with all the other puppies.”

    Just think of it! You could get your friends to write alllll the bills targeting the ghey, and you could ban all the not-you people from voting, and you could eat all your steaks cooked to a normal temperature instead of how Donnie likes them. You could even have two scoops of ice cream if you wanted, if Mommy said it was okay. You could go visit the foreigns if you wanted to, or you could just have them come here to kiss your ring, and when you got tired from a long week of presidenting, you could buy a ranch and go pretend to clear brush on it, or you could golf or you and Mommy could go to a G-rated movie in the basement of the White House! It would be ever so neat. You would be the 46th President of the United States, which is a nice, even number, unlike that odd #45, you know.

    And the whole “Did he know about the Russia thing” question would go away, too. I promise nobody will care anymore once you send The Donald and Melanoma off to their gilded tower.
    Sincerely,
    America

    • uniquename72

      If Pence were smart, he’s resign in late 2018 (after the Congressional election bloodbath) with an “I can’t work with a liar” statement, and then run in 2020.

      That’s really the scenario Dems should worry about.

      • Joe Beese

        Pence wouldn’t win in an open primary.

        • BigCSouthside

          Yep, he’d get fucked up. He’s one of the least genuine or charismatic people in politics

        • Vincent Ricola

          He wasn’t even going to get reelected in Indiana. There’s a whole lot to hate about Pence and I kinda hope he tries to tricky primary Donald in 2020 (if charges aren’t filed by then, of course).

    • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

      Pence’s career is toast already. The best he can spin it is that he was complacent. That’s really the BEST he can hope for.

      Kills me how many trolls thing Donnie’s going to get re-elected. Short of completely rigging the election, which is just not possible the way I’m thinking of it, there is no way in hell he’d win a reelection bid. I have a hard time believing the GOP wouldn’t try to run someone else at this point.

    • ResistanceFictionista blondeiq

      Well now, what happened is, uh, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of – Well, he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing. Well, I’ll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes…to attack your country. (Merkin Muffley, a better president than this one by orders of magnitude)

  • SpudRaider

    I think Trump’s handlers should tune his TV to morning shows more in line with his mental state… Show’s like Sponge Bob Square Pants, or Bob the Builder. Maybe if he started off with positive shows truly aimed at his mental ability he’d behave better through out the day.

    • He can’t handle the Sponge

      • Spongebob is WAY too sophisticated for him. If he watches Bob the Builder, maybe he’ll get it into his tiny pea brain that we need INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.

        • Weird, wasn’t that ALSO one of his campaign promises?
          So weird he is now ignoring that particular one. HUH

          • Indivisible Snark Tank

            Hey, he had a whole WEEK devoted to Infrastructure. And I’m sure there were some…um….good….ideas….proposed that week. Surely, there was something good proposed. Something…..anything?

            Never mind.

      • Jon Sussex

        Definitely not sponge-worthy.

    • darnyoudarnyoutoheck

      SMALL CHILD LIBEL!!1!!11!!!

    • Bill D. Burger
    • SisterArtemis

      dude needs a serious dose of Mr Rogers

      • Indivisible Snark Tank

        Or Bob Ross. At least he’d get to paint happy little trees.

        • SpudRaider

          Yea but I’d hate to see what Trumps paints. I’m not sure I could handle his view of reality that may come out if he truly expressed himself through his art.

          • Marion in Savannah

            It would probably make Hieronymus Bosch look pastoral.

          • Indivisible Snark Tank

            It worked for W.

        • aureolaborealis

          Bob Ross back when he was a screaming drill sergeant.

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        you misspelled Thorazine

  • Bill D. Burger
    • Joe Beese

      It’s too late for coy half-measures now.

      If Scarborough has texts and phone records, he needs to hand them over to The New York Times and The Washington Post – along with the names of the NBC executives he says he informed about the blackmail at the time. (Bonus points for naming the Congresscritter he claims told him about Trump foaming at the mouth about blood coming out of Brzezinski’s eyes.)

      • My money is on Nunes for that one.
        Come on Nunes! Jen needs a new kitchen sink!

        • Zippy W Pinhead

          Spicer threw the old one at the WH press corps

  • Bill D. Burger
  • Joe Beese

    RedState – which was NeverTrump – ain’t having any of this.

    Why we care about this falling out among thieves is beyond me. I didn’t vote for him and I have no skin at all in the squabble. But if you learned anything–and if you didn’t it means you haven’t been paying a lot of attention–at all from those tweets yesterday it was that Donald Trump today is exactly the same guy who was elected in November. He’s the same guy who ran in 2015-2016. He’s the same guy who operated in New York City for decades. He’s the same guy that Joe and Mika fawned over and supported and chummed about with. The only difference is now they are on the receiving end of the petulance and wrath that they cheered on and abetted when it was directed at Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. They don’t like it. Screw ’em. I’m going out to buy some popcorn.

    • John Thorstensen

      It’s a stopped-clock moment for RedState!

    • DesertedPictures

      What a wonderfull comment. Seems like a decent site: maybe I should check it out?

      • BeachBum

        Shore, but before you go could I interest you in some beachfront property in Kansas ? NO TAXES ! CHEEP !

    • FauxAntocles

      First, they came for the Mexicans…

    • Poorly Behaved Pérsistanista

      I don’t read it that way. Haven’t they been trashing Cheetolini for a while now? And their stance is that they don’t care what he says about them personally, it is that the man is unhinged. And I don’t really care what may have said or done in the past, the present matters far more.

      • It’s Red State. They claim over and over and over and over again how they are Never Trump!!!!
        And yet, they will defend each and every move and policy coming from the admin or the congress that comes down the pike.

  • Indivisible Snark Tank

    Would someone reassure me that this isn’t all an elaborate 11th-dimensional chess game that leads to the Republicans FINALLY looking “good” for canning Dampnut just before the midterm elections, so they can keep their majority (and maybe pick up enough for a supermajority in the Senate) AND have a right-wing Theocratic President (who ALSO would sign anything they put in front of him, as long as it slashes at the civil rights of women and minorities).

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      I don’t see how they could possibly make themselves look good, and anyway, none of them are sufficiently outraged.

      • Indivisible Snark Tank

        Yet, but it’s part of the plan. The important part is to time the impeachment/resignation to land next summer, and then run all the ads they can about how “brave” and “courageous” they were for finally getting rid of the big bad wolf.

        • Internet Hitler

          Not as brave as those that persisted from the start and weren’t turncoats for votes.

        • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

          Their base will be enraged and it will tear their party apart. They are like Thelma and Louise just holding on until that convertible hits the bottom of the canyon.

          • AnnieGetYerFun

            I find that idea easy to… well, you know.

          • SisterArtemis

            You stop that right now! Thelma and Louise are suspended in time FOREVER!

            Trump, on the other hand…

          • Chyron HR

            Yes, but Louise apparently suffered terrible brain damage and says stupid things nowadays.

          • Indivisible Snark Tank

            If Dampnut goes even nuttier between now at the hearings, they’ll look brave even to their base.

            I dunno, I’m starting to feel like Tom Clancy wrote this scenario.

          • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

            I don’t see how they come out of this looking good. The longer they stay with him, the worse this will get. They had a path-
            They could have refused to allow him to run as a candidate unless vetted (including the income taxes)
            The other 16 candidates could have banded together and shut him down
            The electoral college could have refused to seat him
            See how every step becomes a bigger problem and more difficult for the Republican Party?
            They’re stuck with him, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.

          • BeachBum

            Looking brave will not solve the base’s economic anxiety of nationalism and isolationism.

          • BeachBum

            I agree. The base supporting Der Trifflepeter is really all they have.

          • Three Finger Salute

            That’s the scary part though. If the Democrats do sweep in either ’18 or ’20, these lunatics have an arsenal and they’re not afraid to use it.

          • BeachBum

            Butch and Sundance.

    • Antonin Dvorak

      Considering the WH is attacking Heller and holding campaign rallies to stave off a primary in 2020, I doubt they have any feasible path to super majority.

    • resisting and persisting

      Could be…but Palmer Report says it is all a distraction from the imminent dropping of a collusion bombshell.

      • canes_pugnaces

        Palmer Report and Mensch and fine entertainment. But closer to Mars pedophilia rings than NYT.

        • resisting and persisting

          They have gotten some things right. Jones is batting zero.

    • canes_pugnaces

      The GOP can’t pass a single bill. I wouldn’t give them that much credit.

    • Poorly Behaved Pérsistanista

      Nope. It is no kind of chess, they are not smrt. I doubt these people could even pull of a legit game of checkers. Twister, maybe.

      • Mehmeisterjr

        Twister, under-aged hookers, Trump’s personal Viet Nam (not the actual Viet Nam) crisis. It all fits. They are suffering from PPSD (Post-Pedophile Stess Disease) also known as The Denny Hastert Thing and Jerry Sandusky Syndrome.

        Please donate generously for a cure that will rig elections and get them off the hook.

  • AnnieGetYerFun

    They should publish the texts.

  • Bill D. Burger

    Trump simply follows Republican Jesus…..it’s what the TEAlibangelical Lord would want.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDkkMh-W0AEmS0l.jpg

    • Joe Beese

      I thought that was from Two Corinthians.

      • Two Derpidians versus 10 and 12 and 13 and 21 and….

        • Hollandaise

          No, no, no it was Deplorables 6:66.

      • BeachBum

        So Trump and two Corinthians walk into a bar. The bartender says………

        • Mehmeisterjr

          “Hey, Donny Two Scoops, The Boss would like a word.”

          The Corinthians take off running.

          In the back room, there is The Boss. The Boss of All Bosses. Vladimir Putin himself, bare-chested and whatever is Russian mob slang for seriously pissed-off.

          “I am wery disappoint’ een you, Two Scops. You geev away game. You liv pyaper trail.”

          “I have the best paper trail. Nobody trails paper like I do. Everybody says so. It’s all Comey’s fault. Or Obama’s. Or Priebus, yeah, Priebus. Or Ivanka, she did it. Though she does have a great ass. Wanna grab it? It’s on the house.”

          “No, no, ees good. Have plyenty pee hookers awailable. I am, how to say, benyevoltent. Have a souvyenir Order of Stalin umbryella as my gyift to you. Remyember to open it agyenst a major artery.”

          Several blocks down the road, the two Corinthians pause to catch their breaths.

          Corinthian One: That was a close one!

          Corinthian Two: You think that was close one, wait until The Boss gets ahold of Flynn!

    • Mehmeisterjr

      And take away their health insurance.

  • Bill D. Burger
    • Indivisible Snark Tank

      But Bill, you ARE involved. Unless you don’t live in the US. Or on the Earth, since the nuclear fallout will be a global problem.

  • Marceline

    I’m going to say it for the rest of my life. To every person who helped put this lunatic in office – and, yes, that includes Joe and Mika….

    Fuck you.

    • Yup. As far as Joe and Mika are concerned, YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

      • Maree Martin

        This country is in such desperate times, I’m not ready to turn away anyone who has “seen the light” and joins the Resistance. Besides, Trump seems so fixated on Morning Joe, they can do the world a favor and troll him incessantly until he strokes out from impotent fury.

      • Poorly Behaved Pérsistanista

        Yes, but now they are helping to bring him down … and it’s not like they coulda stopped that train in that Trump voters don’t watch Morning Joe (though neither do I so I am making this shit up, but it sounds reasonable, maybe?).

    • Pre-Existing Condition Jack
      • JustDon’tSayShank

        AMEN MUTHAFUKKA!

    • OutOfOrbit

      ESPECIALLY Joe & Mika!

      • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

        More than anyone else, they tried to normalize this psycho. I will never forgive anyone who contributed to that.

        • BeachBum

          They sold their souls, dirty as they were, for ratings.

  • Mr. Blobfish

    Pecker? *snicker*

  • Internet Hitler

    It was the daughter-fucker and let’s hear Joe’s tapps!

  • Bill D. Burger
    • P’jama Pahnts

      It looks like his tweet-poops are a little bloody. Oh gawd I just made myself ill

      • ResistanceFictionista blondeiq

        Brain bleach brigade has been summoned. Looks like they’ll be working double shifts.

    • SisterArtemis

      the planes in the sky are a bit eery

  • Blanche Beecham

    My 75 year old mother is a die hard Trump supporter. She is very insecure and like Trump, will lash out when criticized or feels threatened. There is no cure.

    I have xanax and cats.

    • Is that you, sis?

      • Blanche Beecham

        lol

    • Ohhh idk. Did you tell her that he was planning on axing her SS and Medicare yet?
      That might turn the trick in the 75 yr old bracket

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        naw, they’ll blame it on Dems and liberals and teh gheys

        • lol, just had a high energy knuckle head in here claiming CO was all Liberal now because they smoke pot and want gay marriage!!!!
          And I blinked at him and went “you are aware gay marriage is just marriage now in all the states, right?”
          And he was all well argle bargle they started that!
          So I went huh, I thought it was those heathen Californians who did that shit? look, CO is no bluer than any other purple state: They just wanna smoke pot. Like Libertarians

      • Blanche Beecham

        Oh, she has an answer for that – it won’t happen. The “threat” to SS and Medicare is just to keep the dems in line and on edge.

    • Yr. Gma

      Narcissists do not age well. Mine was making life hell for 94 years. Outliving them is the best reward.

      • Blanche Beecham

        I even married and divorced a narc. Good for you for finally getting free.

        • Yr. Gma

          The fact that I waited for her to die on her own is a testament to my patience (or lunacy, one of those.)

  • Mr. Blobfish

    Pivot,

  • DainBramage
    • oooooo time for the SEC right?
      Or are they not the ones to handle that

      • OutOfOrbit

        Securities Exchange Commission?

        • Zippy W Pinhead

          Southeastern Conference

          • That’s the one! The footballing things.
            Whomever gets to tackle extortions.

      • AnnieGetYerFun

        I think it’s FBI.

      • FauxAntocles

        FBI, I would guess…

        • Mehmeisterjr

          Mr. Mueller. Joe and Mika on line one.

      • AnnieGetYerFun

        You’re thinking of the FCC, though. It rhymes, and I mix them up all the time.

        • friggin alphabet soup.
          What’s the DOA do again?

        • Indivisible Snark Tank

          FCC? Federal Communications Commission?

          Or FEC, Federal Election Commission?

          • Why not all of them? Seems to be enough for them all!

          • Zippy W Pinhead

            FTC

            federal trade commission

      • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

        What does college football have to do with anything? ;)

    • jodyleek

      Trump’s media buddy is named David Pecker. David Pecker?!? Who wrote this script that we are now living? Dickens? Heller? Who?

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        at least his name isn’t Richard

      • Mehmeisterjr

        He comes from a long line of Peckers.

      • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

        *Gravelly Movie Voice*
        “One’s a Pecker, and so’s the other one. DON’T MISS THE SMASH SUMMER HIT”

    • Jamoche

      Not surprising: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/the-national-enquirers-fervor-for-trump
      The guy who owns the Enquirer is best buds with Trump, owns USWeekly (hence the gushing over Ivanka recently) and wants to own Time too.

    • elviouslyqueer

      I. am. SHOCKED.

  • Bill D. Burger
    • ResistanceFictionista blondeiq

      First and last time I will laugh at that, but…dayum!

    • Still say it looks more like Wilson

    • Yr. Gma

      That’s the first thing I thought of when I heard the face lift line.

    • Poorly Behaved Pérsistanista

      She was ahead of her time.

      • Bill D. Burger

        ‘Look in the road…a head…uh…ahead.’ ;)

      • She really was – that would have gotten way less flack if it had been released last night or today, I bet.

    • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

      I still am amazed she managed to get it out of his ass.

  • Bill D. Burger

    ot…but I just saw this: Love It!

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

  • Zippy W Pinhead

    In the meantime, this is what the boy king is up to…

    https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-plots-trade-wars-2450764900.html

    • SisterArtemis

      and to think, “boy king” was my pet name for George Jr.

    • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

      You know, he could have gotten away with his obfuscation technique were it not for the very thing he says he loves so much, social media. There’s infinite space and only finite stories to fill it. There’s little he can do that doesn’t get attention somewhere. That’s kind of ironic, isn’t it?

      What helped him get elected might help him get impeached.

  • SpudRaider

    I can proudly state that I never tuned in to the Trump’s “the Apprentice.” I feel we Americans are now forced to participate in a long running episode of his terrible show, not just watch it.

  • Claire

    OT: Jesus Christ. I just figured out why Emmanuel Macron invited Trump to Bastille Day.

    Remember how Trump wanted all sorts of tanks rolling down the street and planes flying overhead at his inauguration, and the DOD or whoever told him to get stuffed? Fans of Macron and brutal, soul-crushing European trolling, I bring you the Bastille Day Parade, which will be presided over by our new European boyfriend:

    https://en.parisinfo.com/discovering-paris/major-events/bastille-day-in-paris/military-parade-champs-elysees/military-parade-on-the-avenue-des-champs-elysees

    • Bastille day is the day where the French traditionally celebrate the victory of the French people over tyranny, no?
      I can guess why he invited him….

      Edit: Also, why I am no big fan of military might on parade, an independence/victory type day would be appropriate for such. Unlike, say, the inauguration of an elected representative.
      I fully expect there to be Blue angles and a jeep or two rollin around for the 4th. Not to mention the hours and hours of TV show casing the singing talents of the 5 branches of the military.
      Wish they didn’t go with that though.

      • Claire

        The…singing talents?

        Yeah, it partly commemorates the storming of the Bastille and the downfall of feudalism in France. The military parade appears to be a big-ass show of the military might and grandeur of the French state. According to Wikipedia it sometimes involves representatives of the military of other countries. The opportunities for sending a message even Trump can’t miss are legion, as well as just rubbing his face in the helicopters and airplanes.

    • PersianOregano

      WTF in the third pic of the slide show? Off the shoulder butcher’s aprons? I don’t understand Frenchy parade memes but I still love me some Macron

      • NastyBossetti

        And axes! What exactly do those guys DO?!

      • Claire

        I have no idea, but they sure look festive.

      • OrdinaryJoe

        They are part of the French Foreign Legion. They unit is call the Pionniers. A throw back homage to the sappers, woodsman really, who were used to lead infantry charges by clearing away obstacles. The Pionniers dress is a traditional unitorm, including the beards. They lead the FFL units in all parades. The FFL is traditionally the last military unit in the parade. They have this very unusual off cadence march and if they were in front they would throw off the whole thing. One of kind, the FFL.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Legion_Pioneers_(Pionniers)

  • FauxAntocles

    Funny, when you try to run the White House like you’re a Mafia Don people take exception.

    • DainBramage

      He could break his old marks financially. He’s in a different game now, but is too stupid to realize it.

    • jesterpunk

      Mafia Don libelz, they have rules and are better at hiding the illegal shit they do.

      • Pisto75666

        And they dress better.

        • jesterpunk

          Their suits even fit, Trump makes the suits he wears and cant even get one that fits. SAD!!!!

          • OrdinaryJoe

            A Don would not use Twitter to get his message out. Ya know what I mean. It would just be all “You won’t see him around here anymore.”

          • Saxo the Grammarian

            Dominic: Times are changing. You’ve got to change with the times.

            Paul Vitti: What, am I supposed to get a fuckin’ website?

        • Shanzgood 7 Days

          Seriously. They would kneecap someone for doing what Trump has done with his ties alone.

  • canes_pugnaces

    This is our national shame, brought to us by a bunch of assholes who didn’t like the idea of black man being president. It’s that simple.

    • Shanzgood 7 Days

      Or a woman at all.

      • In all fairness, she talked to bankers AND sent emails.

        • Vincent Ricola

          GOLDMEN. SACKS. SPEECHES.

          • Goldmen also puts up good cabinet members :D Good thing we didn’t elect the woman who talked to them and instead elected the guy who hires them!

          • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

            Of a guy who was hired BY them ;)

          • Three Finger Salute

            Gold men’s sacks? I prefer Canuck men’s… socks.

          • Persistent Demme

            Not just emails: “BUT HER SPEECHES!”
            (I wish I was technically savvy enough to make a meme about this.)

        • MynameisBlarney
          • calliecallie

            Ah, the Vagenda of Manocide. Never forget!

          • Miles Monroe

            Probably been noted already, but Vagenda of Manocide would’nt be a bad name for a garage band …

        • Shanzgood 7 Days

          Didn’t she also divulge Podesta’s top secret risotto recipe?

          • The pant suits are what did it really. Good womins should wear heels and skirts, duh

          • NastyBossetti

            In high school, we had a substitute teacher who was a retired teacher. She used to brag about how she was the first teacher in our district to wear pants to school back in the day, and I never appreciated that that could be a revolutionary act. I didn’t understand why she was telling us that. I just thought it was weird.

          • Shanzgood 7 Days

            I worked for a firm in the late 80s that banned slacks for women. That was AFTER I had the gall to start wearing them to run errands downtown in the winter. In snow.

            No, I didn’t stay there.

          • Hollandaise

            I graduated high school in 1998 and our public school didn’t let girls wear pants to the ceremony until I embarrassed the Principal in front of the class’s parents over it. Men are weird.

          • Shanzgood 7 Days

            Good for you! I can’t believe your generation has to deal with the same battles we fought. It’s such bullshit. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1baa91d7dd9c9de0c793d6caf9fa9b679b67bd371d23c267b6cd97f62ee74541.png

          • Shanzgood 7 Days

            But when she wore skirts, they made fun of her cankles. Assholes.

        • Persistent Demme

          All those “But her emails!” memes should be changed to:
          “But her speeches!”

  • MynameisBlarney
  • MynameisBlarney
    • Yr. Gma

      Does he have a point?

    • Shanzgood 7 Days

      No, I don’t want anyone related to his regime to even THINK his death would absolve them of their sins.

    • Persistent Demme

      My first thought was: get a new pastor!
      But then I read it again.
      Great, (if subtle), burn.
      (Or is it shade?)

  • Zippy W Pinhead
  • Mavenmaven

    Hopefully, in order to get to the bottom of this story, the Senate will subpoena Bat Boy for his testimony.

  • GunToting[Redacted]

    They tried to make me stop the story,
    I said no, no, no…

    • cmd resistor

      Just like yesterday he said no to MIka’s bloody face trying to get into Mar a Lago.

  • Bitter Scribe

    This is all part of being a tough bizman who tells it like it is.

    • BoatOfVelociraptors

      Moral Hazard, thy name is Trump.

      • Marion in Savannah

        Awww… Don’t be mean to Bobo’s Irish setter.

  • Nasty Girl Brianna
  • OrG

    He’s even a weak sad thug.

    • Vincent Ricola

      Leader of the idiot mafia.

      • Debbie the Unpaid Protester

        He is like the dumb person’s idea of a Mafia Don.

  • Daniel Hooper

    “As for the three people at the top of the
    administration, we’re going to guess Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner and
    Reince Priebus, because you don’t get more ‘very top of the
    administration’ than chief of staff, personal counselor and
    daughter-banger.”

    Doesn’t Jared do all those roles? Why mention the other two?

    • Mehmeisterjr

      Jared might have been busy for a few days, solving all the problems in the Middle East.

  • Notreelyhelping

    This seems awfully familiar: it’s just like Trump during the 80s in New York. A constant churn of scandals and gossip with a more or less common purpose–to keep the Donald in the press. *sigh* Fuck these awful people.

  • darnyoudarnyoutoheck
    • *applaud*

    • OutOfOrbit

      Ding Ding Ding BRAVO!

    • OrdinaryJoe

      I know I supported the Leopards That Eat Your Face Party but I never thought they would want to eat MY face.

    • Ryan Denniston

      They’ve actually been attacking trump and a number of the others for awhile, even before Jan 20. Certainly not with this much intended for the public, but the lying from Spicer, Trump, Stephen Miller, they’ve been harping on all of that for months.

      • Poorly Behaved Pérsistanista

        I’m with you and I think the “me and mine” attacks are bullshit.

    • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

      “He crossed the line! He attacked a conservative!” basically.

    • Vincent Ricola

      I think they were treated very badly and Donald obviously tried to work his skeevy moves, but I also think Mika and Joe are somewhere thrilled that they are getting so much attention. They’ll be fine.

      • Kooolest G

        I’m guessing their bosses at NBC are happy about their ratings from this mornings show too

      • To their credit, they were pretty clear that they were fine. They didn’t come off like they were angling for sympathy – I mean, they do seem weirdly delighted to be news, but I got the impression they know it isn’t all about them.

    • Bill D. Burger

      Yup! All during the primaries: “He he he he….That’s our Donald!”

      Now: ♫♫ Oh, but it’s sad when a love affair dies….♫♫

  • MynameisBlarney
  • Remember when the biggest political scandal was when Obama wore a tan suit? Good times.

    • Poorly Behaved Pérsistanista

      Never forget the latte salute. Never forget.

    • Nasty Girl Brianna

      Or the time he (gasp!) used BROWN mustard instead of good old fashioned American Yellow mustard?

      https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/873282991505551360/pu/img/rRs1xb55bP0biLZ4.jpg

      • I think we should gather all these stories and throw them at Hannity every time he talks about FAKE NEWS!!!! They’re trying to Tear the President Down!!!!

      • MrTusks

        Grey Poupon is a dijon! That’s wunnem Frechy words!

        • Three Finger Salute

          MOAR LIKE GHEY POUPON, AMIRITE GERALDO?!?

      • Three Finger Salute

        Now, now. Sean Hannity is a tremendous, incredible, outstanding journalist from a highly well-regarded news organization.

        FOR ME TO POUPON!

      • BigCSouthside

        Dijon is elitist. Do they know you can buy that shit at Aldi?

  • Bill D. Burger
    • OrG

      Do it jomika!

      • Vincent Ricola

        Team morning blow!

    • Nasty Girl Brianna

      That’s some Republican diplomacy for you.

    • DainBramage

      Sounds like more blackmail.

      • Werewolf

        That might actually be extortion. Hard to say.

        • Shanzgood 7 Days

          Doesn’t extortion involve money, though?

    • MarsNeedsWomen

      So don’t talk about Trump blackmailing you, or we’ll blacklist you. Damn their Vulcan logic.

      • Nasty Girl Brianna

        That’s some eleventy dimension chess they’re playing there.

      • demit, I type way too slow today

      • BeachBum

        They lost me at “cogito ergo sumthing, sumthing, sumthing,………”

    • Don’t you release that blackmail proof or…we’ll blackmail ya!

  • Jeff Mc Donald

    Wait, wait, wait. So you’re saying that Trump attacked someone with something that wasn’t even true, and then his family and supporters hypocritically defended the man? I don’t get it. How is this different from any other day?

    • Antonin Dvorak

      There appears to be concrete evidence of blackmail this time.

    • Nasty Girl Brianna

      Today ends in Y.

  • So tomorrow is Canada Day and the official party day for our 150th birthday. Best present ever would be a full on surprise War of 1812 redo

    • Yr. Gma

      Gonna have salmon salad sandwiches to celebrate!

      • Needs moar timbits. (Also, Timmies’ is running surprise bonus roll up the rim this week)

        • Happy Bday Oh, Canada!

        • Yr. Gma

          Sigh. No Timbits down here in the Republic of California, alas.

          • Persistent Demme

            But we have Happy Donuts!!
            And lawyer-daughter in Portland has Voodoo Donuts!!

    • Nasty Girl Brianna

      Gonna slap me some moose on the barbie! If I can find moose in LA, that is.

      • BeachBum

        Poor Barbie !

      • Persistent Tennessee Rain

        That sounds a little kinky.

      • BeachBum

        Look for Boris and Natasha and you’ll find Moose and Squirrel. Barbie IDK, maybe tiny pink corvette.

    • Hollandaise

      I fear a revisiting of the 1860s Fenian Raids is more likely.

    • Persistent Demme

      Tell me about it.
      I live on Lundys Lane, and we “re-enact” the battle from the war of 1812 (San Francisco style, which means: not seriously at all) at the annual block party.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lundy's_Lane

      • NastyBossetti

        For a second I thought you meant you live on the actual Lundy’s Lane in Niagara Falls, and I got all excited because that is where MrBossetti is from.

        • Persistent Demme

          Sorry.
          But I visited there.
          Spectacular!

    • Three Finger Salute

      “Your Royal Hotness, Prince Trueheart of Disneyland North, in the days and months leading up to the nationwide legalization of recreational cannabis, why did you decide to ‘blaze up’ the White House?”

      “Because it’s 1812!”

  • Here’s what I want to know: how do we know there aren’t reporters out there being successfully blackmailed by this White House? I mean, let’s be real – Joe and Mika don’t break a lot of news. If I’m being generous, I’d say that they do more news analysis, but most mornings, that pretty much looks like shooting the shit with their friends over the morning paper. Which is fine. That’s not a knock, they’re a morning show. That’s what a lot of morning shows look like.

    But if Trump can’t handle freaking Joe&Mika and was willing to go to blackmail to stop them, what’s to stop him from going after someone who has harder news to report?

    • Shanzgood 7 Days

      Hmmm…like Megyn Kelly claiming she got death threats over the debate questions?

      • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

        Yup! I think you all have a great point.

        I’d take it a step further, if he’s willing to blackmail reporters, whose to say he hasn’t blackmailed senators?

        • Kooolest G

          or former FBI directors

        • Shanzgood 7 Days

          Isn’t that Russia’s job?

          • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

            Whose to say the two are mutually exclusive?

          • Mehmeisterjr

            Technically, yes but what a great example of bilateral cooperation.

        • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

          TINFOIL HAT TUXEDO TIME!

          Trump threatened Jeff Flake. http://theweek.com/speedreads/634555/donald-trump-reportedly-threatens-republican-senator-gop-unity-meeting

          Flake was one of the people shot at during baseball practice.

          CONNECT THE DOTS SHEEPLE!! AND GOATPLE TOO, I don’t judge.

        • BeachBum

          Nobody can blackmail our honest, pure, and holy choirgirl and altar boy sena…… oh…… you said “Senators.” Sorry, never mind.

        • Or Speakers of the House? I mean, who knows? This is why he shouldn’t be president. The longer he’s in there, the more of this shit there will be, and we’re never going to know if the surface stuff we see is all there is, or if there’s some deep rabbit hole of corruption we should be following. He’s full of both deep corruption and surface stupidity, so who can know?

    • Someone below mentioned there is plausible proof that the Enquirer might be doing just that

    • Panika MCD

      Tsarina Von Clownstick doesn’t follow hard hitting journalists.

  • Yr. Gma

    Donnie has a very unhealthy obsession with lady blood.

    • Vincent Ricola

      It’s a really strange fetish.

    • Bill D. Burger

      Hooker can pee on him. ___ He LOVES it!

      Bleed anywhere near him? …. Nuh uh!

    • Mehmeisterjr

      And lady fluids in general. It is only a matter of time before the Trumpian equivalent of the Pentagon Papers emerges and it will be the Menstrual Papers.

      “They bleed. From their whatevers. Sad.”

  • Panika MCD

    I’m not entirely sure the president can sit. he always looks like he’s squatting. I read on the internet that he has massive hemorrhoids–so it must be true! we have not a sitting president, but a squatting one.

    • Yr. Gma

      Perhaps that’s why his butt looks so big in all his pictures.

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      Donnie is America’s hemorrhoid

    • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

      I am pretty sure he IS a massive hemorrhoid.

      Someone should tell the Secret Service of the plot to eliminate President Trump mentioned in all of Preparation H’s advertising.

  • MarsNeedsWomen

    So blackmailing members of the press, can we get Bobby Mueller investigating this as well?

    • Yr. Gma

      I’ll bet it’s already on the list.

    • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

      Probably embarrassingly small potatoes compared to the other violations. He’ll hire a law clerk.

    • Panika MCD

      do we want him investigating for the rest of his life and probably ours as well? some things are better left to be lampooned now and dug up by historians later so Mueller can stick it to him and his administration for being traitors.

  • Jenny

    So wait. Assaults women? No big. Launders money? That is ok. Steals an election with a foreign power and hopes to ruin 22 million people.l? Just politics. Harass shitty talk show hosts who boink each other? IMPEACH!

    • *I think it is the accusation that he was blackmailing the press that is the o.O thing*

    • Panika MCD

      I don’t see much of a difference in the way the GOP is reacting now compared to the pussgrab tape…

      • Tut tut, uncouth, disappointed…waiting for the “he is new at this. He didn’t know blackmail was a no go! They do it all the time in New York!”

        • NastyBossetti

          It’s just how people relate to each other in NY! What’s a little blackmail between friends?

  • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

    Pffft not even competent blackmailing. Putin will be sending some instructors for a bit of “remedial training”.

    • Panika MCD

      “REPORT TO SIBERIA.”

      • AnnieGetYerFun

        I hear it’s lovely this time of year.

        • Shanzgood 7 Days

          And getting more temperate.

  • Bill D. Burger
  • Bill D. Burger

    Just a second for reflection on The Yam and The Media:

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

    • Nasty Girl Brianna

      “But National Enquirer is totally accurate!”

    • Sorta keeps wingin the same ones out eh?

    • Wellstone En Resistencia, Coño

      See, Donnie? At some point every single media outlet has called you up on your bullshit. No one believes a fucking word that comes out of your cock holster and the media likes to point that out–even Fox fucking News, from time to time. This is all your fault. You’re doing this to yourself because you’re pathologically full of shit. The only thing you can do to not make it worse is shut the fuck up for a good long time and go the fuck away where no one can see you. Can you understand that, you dumb piece of shit? Can you?

    • Three Finger Salute

      You know this guy is a fraud when BuzzFeed — a fucking meme blog with listicles about ’80s Happy Meal toys and personality quizzes about Friends characters that uses the word “bae” a lot — has more credibility than he does.

  • Persistent Demme

    SQUIRREL!

  • Bill D. Burger
    • Throwin his own son in law under the bus.
      Nice.

      • cmd resistor

        So according to Vanity Fair, when Trump tweeted lst summer that MIka was neurotic and a not very bright mess and threatened to tell the real story about her and Joe, Kushner arranged a meeting at which Trump actually apologized….?? And also, too, Trump asked Mika several times about the doctor who performed her neck procedure, noting that you couldn’t even tell — which seems to discredit his “blood” story. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/mika-brzezinski-trump-tweets

        • Mehmeisterjr

          That makes sense in a sort of everything-he-does-is-nonsensical kind of way.

          • cmd resistor

            Maybe at that point he thought he could get back on their good side with benefits of free press.

  • calliecallie

    The National Enquirer guy’s name is Pecker? That seems so appropriate.

    • Wellstone En Resistencia, Coño

      You said pecker.

  • Gussie Jives

    Dammit, Trump, stop making me feel pity for Joe and Mika! It’s not natural!

    • Poorly Behaved Pérsistanista

      They don’t want you to pity them. They’re just fine, it’s the fucking country that needs our concern.

  • Bill D. Burger
  • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

    Michael Flynn seems to have at least encouraged the hacking of DNC emails in order to prove the dumbest conspiracy theory on the planet. Meanwhile, POTUS is blackmailing journalists who basically talk about the Russia affair. On the back end of that is a push toward voter suppression that comes on the heels of growing concern over partisan gerrymandering. Then we have a hugely unpopular congress with all indications pointing towards a huge loss in 2018 if people are allowed to vote, that is.

    It’s hard not to sink down the rabbit hole with this.

    • Shanzgood 7 Days

      It’s hard not to feel a bit tinfoil hattish sometimes, isn’t it?

      • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

        Still feel like most of this is because the black guy won twice and the “nasty woman” still won the popular vote. All of their redistricting, Russian interference and personality assassinations still did not win them the hearts and minds of a majority.

        • Shanzgood 7 Days

          Smear campaigns seem to be fairly effective still, though. Ugh.

          • Every year they ask Americans, is there too much negativity??? And they go hell yeah. And more and more of them do not vote because both sides and whatever.

          • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

            Only because they’ve had an entire generation to mainstream them. They destroy our schools, create a societal revolt against intellectualism, promote blatant racism, sexism and xenophobia by isolating the most vulnerable among us to fill their heads with poison via talk radio and cable news.

            Basically, Roger Ailes did this to us.

          • I blame Ronnie Reagan and his Cadillac Queens

          • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

            Then let’s take that all the way back to Nixon and the Southern Strategy. Roger Ailes was Nixon’s media guru. He’s the one who crafted Nixon’s media skills, booked appearances, greased reporters to tell favorable stories. Nixon started the politics that led us to Reagan and, now, the same Voodoo Economics and cruelty of the 80’s in this bastardized form of populism. What’s old is new again.

        • Three Finger Salute

          America at its core is still a very bigoted, sexist and racist nation. It’s possible that we might have avoided all this and have a Democrat in the White House if they hadn’t run a woman so soon after the demographic precedent of a black guy that already led to Helter Skelter. I’m not blaming Hillary or Obama; I’m saying that, to borrow from the annoying Tory attack ad against Trudeau, America is Just Not Ready™ for that sort of thing.

          Bernie would not have won because he’s too “Seinfeld” and refused to disavow the word socialist. Joe Biden might have, though. Or, he might have faced the Al Gore treatment, of having the albatross of a president who didn’t “play in Peoria” around his neck. But he would have had a better chance than Hillary. The popular vote notwithstanding, Trump might not have even come close.

          If we want to win in 2020, we have to nominate another white, straight, married with kids Christian guy. And he has to be so spotless as to make Mister Rogers look risqué. Suffice it to say, most Americans like Democrats’ policies — but only when they’re being presented by an “American™” — a white, straight, married with kids Christian guy, or even a straight, married with kids Jewish guy if he isn’t “too Jewish.”

          The Kimmel clip about Obamacare vs ACA speaks volumes about the pitchman making all the difference. Obama is very idealistic and therefore very wrong. We’re not going to have a “President Rodriguez” (we already failed bigly on our challenge of having a “President Hussein”), and there will never be a “first husband” — especially if he also has another husband.

          We simply have to accept that most voters are not rational and that issues do not come first in their minds. Image matters — and by image I mean status quo. Trump got a penis pass all the way to the White House, because he was the right formula against the “wrong” candidate. Orange is not the new black. Orange is the old white. Obama is an outlier. We have to make that concession if we’re going to get our agenda passed. Do not nominate Warren or Harris or Cicilline or Ellison and FFS tell Bernie to go retire in Havana already. Otherwise, people will continue to vote irrationally for Republicans and willingly condemn millions to die.

      • Yellerduck

        I’m considering something along the lines of a tinfoil burka.

  • Three Finger Salute

    #ThanksPutin

  • ralphteb

    I’m starting to think that having serious professional politicians is a good thing now , thanks Obama

  • Ωbjectifier

    I’m feeling sympathetic to Joe Scarborough. That ain’t normal.

    • JustDon’tSayShank

      IK,R? When can we go back to “Fuck off, Joe”? When?

      • Mehmeisterjr

        2018, I’m hoping.

    • Aunt PithyPat

      It’s all deeply disturbing. I’m used to tweeting snotty #MorningJoe tweets at Mika and Joe in the morning, instead of yelling “RIGHT ON!” at the TV screen. It’s putting me right off my feed.

  • Flashman

    I am definitely not worried about Joe and Mika. Their egos are as healthy as a horse, and they screw on a mattress stuffed with Benjamins.

  • Flashman

    I’ll get to this story in the Enquirer right after I finish the one about Hillary’s baby by an alien.

  • Randy Riddle

    “For the record, the Enquirer denies all this as well, so you just decide whether you believe serial liar Donald Trump and that tabloid freakshow, or whether you believe Joe and Mika.”

    I can’t really form an opinion on this until Alex Jones weighs in.

  • JohnW

    I would have a little more sympathy had they not been his biggest cheerleaders throughout much of 2016. Something about what goes around, comes around, blah, blah, blah…..

  • whitroth

    My analysis is that Trumpo really *has* gone over the edge. I read, a week or two ago, that he was having an 06:30 phone call *every* *day* with his lawyer about the Russian investigations, and he’s gone over the top on stress. He knows it won’t last, and so he’s said, “fuck it”, and has decided to do whatever the fuck he feels like, and tells himself that they were out to get me, all of them, and they were going to do whatever it takes to get me, so screw ’em. (Trans: nobody loves me, everybody hates me, guess I’ll go eat worms.)

    Much more of this, and there will be serious talk of the 25th Amendment.

    • Marceline

      He’s supposed to go to the G20 next week. I think that will be the straw that sends him into a full psychotic break.

    • Three Finger Salute

      He’s going to shoot himself in the middle of Fifth Penn Avenue, isn’t he.

    • Poorly Behaved Pérsistanista

      Strawberries? Where are the goddamned strawberries?!

      • Yellerduck

        Right over there, next to the elephant with the red toenail polish.
        What? You can’t see the elephant?

  • Mehmeisterjr

    My favorite insult-my-intelligence-why-don’t-ya tabloid headline, repeated over and over again, is “The Secret [ insert name of recently deceased celebrity] Took to the Grave.”

    My second-favorite insult-my-intelligence-why-don’t-ya tabloid is the evergreen “The Sad Last Days of [living celebrity who lives for another ten or twenty or thirty years.]

    What puzzles me is that I have never seen anyone buy one these rags. Who buys this crap?

    • Joel Dent

      Old people and the local gossip hound.

    • Aunt PithyPat

      I used to buy the Weekly World News on the regular. Good for a few laughs, then makes excellent gift wrap! Haven’t seen it by the supermarket checkout in years. Sad.

  • DainBramage

    Donald Trump promised to create jobs. Who knew that they would all come from investigating him?

  • Three Finger Salute

    Mama Trudeau called it in October. Should have listened to Maggie. He’s a peroxide-laden hair’s breadth away from a complete and utter breakdown — one that won’t only affect himself and his family, but the nation and probably the entire world.

    Oh, and as for the equally deranged asshole Ezra Levant’s disgusting lowlife bullshit story about she tried to seduce Trump and he turned her down? Yeah. Knowing this sick creep’s history and how he stalked Princess Diana to the point where she became terrified that he was going to just show up out of nowhere and attack her, I’m going to say it’s definitely the other way around.

  • Aunt PithyPat

    Sorta OT, but I think Mika’s gonna make Joe a Democrat. Wait for it….

  • JD Mulvey

    If they’re blackmailing Joe and Mika about unflattering news coverage, how many others have they tried the same thing with? How many have gone along with it?

  • JParkerSD46

    Still think Joe and Mika are at least partially responsible for putting the orange dung heap in the WH. He was a frequent guest early in the campaign when they were all BFFs. Still, I’d love to see Mika walk up to Dear Leader and knee him in whatever is left of his balls.

  • JD Mulvey

    Never been a fan of Scarborough before, but the segment on Morning Joe today gave me a new respect for him. Between Joe and Ana Navarro, there may still be some uncorrupted Republicans left in this country.

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