Don't forget making as much money from the ruination and oppression of "little" people. I* think the editors cut that chapter, but it's there in spirit...
I haven’t encountered so many idiots and criminals since I read The Rise And Fall of The Third Reich; I finished the Rise part just before the inauguration. I know about the fall…so I put it on the back burner.
The criminality of the Mush and Dump partnership - Mush and PINO - is salted by the cast of useful idiots. But I’m confident they will have more than one opportunity to defend their activities, in and out of courts everywhere.
Witkoff sounds more like a character who’s strayed into diplomacy from the world of Restoration Comedy 😂The usual gang of idiots,the diabolical Putin and now add an antagonistic and feisty Ayatollah to this toxic brew ! What indeed can possibly go wrong 😉Thanks Andy for your brilliant exposé
Pete Hegseth couldn't come up with the name of even one member of the Southeast Asian Alliance when asked. If you asked Witkoff the 2 countries that fought in the American Civil War the strain of coming up with an answer might cause a neurological event.
And I finally laughed so hard at a post that I snorted out some excellent English IPA (as opposed to coffee). Even while visiting the kid and grandkids, I can’t tear myself away from politics and my TBR team.
Me either. I have a lot of subs and it's hard to keep up, but TBR is my happy place. We've had serious talks and then just some of the best comedy gold on so many threads. I can,t possibly keep up, but I do try. This board. People are witty. I know Andy publishes early, and even when I get the email.snd start write s comment at 7 or 8 am in NYC there are lots already. We're from all over. . Glad when I check in later if there are more. Every time I read it again (especially with Phil M from above and the OP about the 'neurolgical.event LMAO" . I'm laughimg so much again..it's entertaining. It wad a fun thtead.
PLEASE, PLEASE don't do that to the penguins. They don't deserve it. The only positive I see in your suggestion is that she would be breathing in the scent of tons of penguin poop. I doubt that she would last very long from that, plus I'm sure the penguins would avoid her like the plague she is.
Sorry, my understanding is that Laura Loomer is busy providing special services to King Donald to soothe his feelings concerning Melania’s distancing from King D. And she did say she thought that those islands were for the birds 🐦.
If you want craters, how about Ascension Island? That's most of what it is. There is one town, Georgetown, which is the capital. Apart from that there is an air field, where our space shuttles can land. If you landed him on the far side of the island, he might never find Georgetown.
No, Al, it is not. It is in the south Atlantic, north of St. Helena, and is a British possession, along with St. Helena & Tristan de Cunha (who knows how a British possession ends up with a Portuguese name), which is quite a ways south of St. Helena. After writing all that, I finally get what made you ask that. Sorry, I'm very slow at times these days. That location would be very appropriate, obviously.
KEN -- that assignment could be combined with being Special Envoy to the Pittsburgh Penguins who are valiantly battling the Philadelphia Flyers for last place in their NHL division.
Alan, as a native Philly guy, I’m pretty certain that the Flyers have a lock on last place. They have 76 points, in honor of the 76ers, who, while unable to secure a last place finish, were impressively in the hunt for a good portion of the season
Ken, it's amazing how in the NBA an injury to one player (Joel Embiid) can make a huge difference. As you know, with the draft lottery you can be lucky and get the first draft pick even when you don't finish last.
True 'dat! As a semi-Mainer (moved here when 15; over 50 years ago now), if Cooper Flagg declares, I'd love to see them pick this kid. It's been quite a story in Maine, watching his progress through high school and of course, at Duke!
Old New Yorker cartoon (geographically impossible, but funny): A group of walruses hauled out on the ice. Approaching them a line of penguins. One walrus to another: "Here come the suits."
Pillow magnate Mike Lindell should be cajoled into leaving his downy Xanadu in Shakopee, MN, the better to bring his gracious social skills into play. His efforts could bolster the MAGA creed in diplomatic hotspots, and cushion international friction.
Mr. Lindell has recently expanded into Young Adult Fiction with his autobiographical book, “The Wind in the Pillows”, a tale In which a Gopher State lad learns that love can be a sham. And a duvet.
G.E.P., you are so good. And I did notice what you did a bit earlier -- "Pillow magnate...downy Xanadu...bolster the MAGA...cushion international friction."
But I draw the line at "Pot o' Piss." On behalf of platypuses everywhere, I demand that you not even remotely imply that we have anything to do with any 'murkin or human crap.
Maybe he'll give Ambassadress Kimberly Gargoyle an extra assignment. Isn't it a hop, skip and a jump from Greece to Malta? And if anyone knows about pillows...it's her.
Keep them away from Malta!! It's one of my favorite places on the planet. They've been doing just fine for many thousands of years and it would be a shame to ruin that island just to get rid of our trash.
I know. I was brought up with National Geographic in my house looking at these places phographed from around the world. I do wish I had their archives. . when it was pristine and all these gorgeous places originally untouched by human hands or rudimentary..The Island or area with the penguins where he wants to charge a tariff it's sickening. What do we expect? . No empathy. Does not care. None of them. Never will.
She doesn't need to travel phsically from Greece to Malta. Her mouth is big enough that she can just shoutracross. Sort of reviving the legendary Stentor.
Robin, believe me, it was like buying a Tesla before we knew who e musk was, although a lot cheaper. 😆🤣
My friend’s husband got the pillows first and she told me she liked them. I ordered them online two for the price of one 😝. I think I donated them to an animal shelter shortly after.
Ellen, I'm reading this 5:20am on Wed morning. 😂 I am giggling . My Pillow has been Tesla'd <verb> Any company who has been driven into the ground by it's drug addled owner connected to Donald Trump
Awwww..you have a good heart and gave them to the animal shelter. That's actually a good idea. Where I live in NYC there's a doggy day care. I never thought to give them old bedding.
Ironically that 14.99 has something to do with Nazis or alt-right. When your pillows cost 1.99 probably made in sweatshops in China you have enough profits to bail them out. Hope he is bankrupt. Scum that he is.
Stevie Minniebrain as Special Envoy to the Mariana Trench. Howard Lootwick as Special Envoy to Hell. Krusty Abnorm as Special Envoy to Any Active Volcano.
MIKE TINKO -- DT's former golf caddy as Special Envoy to CANADA to negotiate their annexation as our 51st state.
IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS: Experience watching his boss cheat at golf up close. He revealed that "DT doesn't just tamper with his own [golf] balls," he tampers with the great shots of those he's playing with.
The mother was botoxed to the rafters later on. She looked like a prize fighter who had taken a few too many punches for a few too many years. Something from science fiction. No kidding. Really.
I suggest salsify. I had it once in a restaurant decades ago and I have never seen it again anywhere. But it ha a lovely purple flower worthy of Andy’s brilliant wit
My mother used to grow it in her front yard (and eat it) and we have a yellow-flowered variety that comes up in our back yard every year. I had no idea it was a desert plant.
As one who adores asparagus (and is thrilled that they are in season locally), I love your "fussy on top" description. It's especially perfect for their graceful swaying when still in the ground on a breezy day.
Not that this has anything to do with useful idiots, of course.
I really did not laugh when I was reading this, for once, because everything Andy wrote is actually true. It is a pathetic and horrifying time that we are being subjected to.
Marjorie Taylor Greene would be the ideal Special Envoy to Greenland.
Not only does her defunct married surname (from her EX) qualify her for the job but her demonstrated mastery of diplomacy while serving in Congress -- which will help her engineer a peaceful takeover.
Mon Dieu! Stormy is a Chartreux- a French cat. I guess we'll have to say "Au Revoir" to Les Ètats-Unis- the U. S.- we'll send you a postcard from Cîteaux.
Tom Homan, special envoy to the hell holes of El Salvador. In our local paper today, he disclaimed all responsibility for the removal of a mother and her three children from their home and school in Sacketts Harbor NY (where he has a summer home) to a holding facility in Texas. The illegal arrest was made on a warrant issued for a totally different and unrelated individual for his involvement with child pornography and the ICErs decided to sweep the family along for the ride- just because they could. When a thousand protestors on behalf of the family marched through town to Homan's home, he spluttered that he "had nothing to do with" the arrest and detention of the family, yet the family was brought back home two days later. As the immigration "czar", as he referred to himself, he further said that he "does not get involved in the immigration officers' arrests". Talk about idiocy and idiots. No, czars don't get involved in the human suffering, they just give the orders. What a lot of BS.
Has anyone read "It Can't Happen Here," by Sinclair Lewis in 1935? The publisher's note says 'It was originally intended that the British edition of this novel of a Fascist revolution in the United States should be entitled "It Can't Happen in America." But a reading of the manuscript soon showed that i essentials its story and lessons were not solely applicable to America. . .It is conceivable that the forces here shown at work in the the United States might, 'mutatis mutandis', prevail in England or in other parts of the British Empire.' Lewis was prescient about the U.S.
Yes, in my 20s and even wrote a play adaptation of it--it's a huge predicter of what is happening now. My play Impossible? about to be offered on youtube is similar.
Jack, Yes, I read that years ago, and I totally agree with you. It is, alas, one of Lewis' lesser known books, but, like Orwell's 1984, a really important piece of writing. I still have my parents' copy, think I'll re-read it.
He was bailed out of his massive debts by the Russian mafia from the mid 1990s to 2008. You do know what happens when a mafia pays your debts, right?
The stooge strategy has been a mafia tradition since before the Borgias: find a prominent but failed and indebted businessman, pay his debts, own him. Your agenda is now his. Or else. (The "or else" is another old mafia tradition.)
Russia's agenda since before Peter the Great has been driven by their intense jealousy of the West - and their consequent desire to destroy the West. That is now Trump's agenda.
But when it comes to the simplest, but scariest, explanations, Marshall McLuhan tells what happens: "Only the little secrets need to be protected. The big secrets are protected by public incredulity."
Reader, are you a member of the credulosia, the large part of the population that finds facing troubling facts to be too frightening and so comes up with explanations that avoid troubling facts? Or are you one of those select people who aren't afraid to face facts?
I apologize to everyone for bringing this clown to your attention. But this is the Home of Truth.
Literally mind-bending
It is your *job* to bring appropriately clownish News to our attention.
Sometimes the truth hurts, Andy.
The truth hurts, but only when it is supposed to.
Ohhh I like that. We need to make T-shirts. Then, my life is basically a t-shirt
There are so many clowns. Trump's idea of diplomacy is, act fast, strike a deal, claim success and leave. Maybe he should have read "Art of the Deal"
Chaos camouflage, and lots of blaming
Don't forget making as much money from the ruination and oppression of "little" people. I* think the editors cut that chapter, but it's there in spirit...
I haven’t encountered so many idiots and criminals since I read The Rise And Fall of The Third Reich; I finished the Rise part just before the inauguration. I know about the fall…so I put it on the back burner.
The criminality of the Mush and Dump partnership - Mush and PINO - is salted by the cast of useful idiots. But I’m confident they will have more than one opportunity to defend their activities, in and out of courts everywhere.
Candidate for Traitor of the Week!
trump was the best he ever coached. show pics. especially the one running for a touchdown while riding a golf cart
Witkoff sounds more like a character who’s strayed into diplomacy from the world of Restoration Comedy 😂The usual gang of idiots,the diabolical Putin and now add an antagonistic and feisty Ayatollah to this toxic brew ! What indeed can possibly go wrong 😉Thanks Andy for your brilliant exposé
Pete Hegseth couldn't come up with the name of even one member of the Southeast Asian Alliance when asked. If you asked Witkoff the 2 countries that fought in the American Civil War the strain of coming up with an answer might cause a neurological event.
Place in proper historical order:
(a) World War One
(b) World War Two
[you are permitted to use a calculator if you need to]
Screech!! :-) !!
Just because Trump wants a 3rd term doesn't mean we should allow him to enable a 3rd WW.
The American Civil War was fought between the North and South re slavery.
"Neurological event"? LMAO! Sounds like a Trump rally where he does his "stroking it" dance.
And his masterful "weave" of seemingly unrelated topics into a BRILLIANT conclusion.
PS It just occurs to me that I should check IMDB to see if Trump was one of the "creative forces" behind "Lost". That would explain a lot.
I had planned on reading this article by Andy about Witcoff at Thanksgiving dinner, so we could all be thankful for Andy.
I am laying in bed reading this with my pillow over my mouth so my neighbor doesn't hear me screaming from laughing 😂
And I finally laughed so hard at a post that I snorted out some excellent English IPA (as opposed to coffee). Even while visiting the kid and grandkids, I can’t tear myself away from politics and my TBR team.
Me either. I have a lot of subs and it's hard to keep up, but TBR is my happy place. We've had serious talks and then just some of the best comedy gold on so many threads. I can,t possibly keep up, but I do try. This board. People are witty. I know Andy publishes early, and even when I get the email.snd start write s comment at 7 or 8 am in NYC there are lots already. We're from all over. . Glad when I check in later if there are more. Every time I read it again (especially with Phil M from above and the OP about the 'neurolgical.event LMAO" . I'm laughimg so much again..it's entertaining. It wad a fun thtead.
Hi Robin, fun post. Just checking in; this thread looks promising.
Need my almost-daily dose i on f the Andy-man.
We do that here, too :-) !
Thank you. Glad to know it's not just me. I howl it's so funny...Lol.
TG for AB!! :-)!!
Better than coffee cleanup in the kitchen at my age !
I’m finding the news more reprehensible each minute…
Heard and McDonald Islands.
Tuxedo is required attire.
Laura Loomer should be named envoy to these islands.
I'm not sure that she is smart enough to communicate with the natives there.
But the *natives* are smart enough to flipper her into oblivion, perhaps?
And yes, they and she all have bird brains.
A girl can dream.
Ouch
Hilarious.
!!!
PLEASE, PLEASE don't do that to the penguins. They don't deserve it. The only positive I see in your suggestion is that she would be breathing in the scent of tons of penguin poop. I doubt that she would last very long from that, plus I'm sure the penguins would avoid her like the plague she is.
Permanent envoy!
as well as to the 9th circle of Hell
My precisely thought! Sadly, we'd have to apologize to the penguins.
She would wonder why everybody was so short and dressed up. She left her formal wear at home
Sorry, my understanding is that Laura Loomer is busy providing special services to King Donald to soothe his feelings concerning Melania’s distancing from King D. And she did say she thought that those islands were for the birds 🐦.
I nominate Steven Miller for this position.
send him to Yemen
Yemen, I'm in Yemen
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the craters that I seek
When we run together fleeing through the street
Brilliant!
If you want craters, how about Ascension Island? That's most of what it is. There is one town, Georgetown, which is the capital. Apart from that there is an air field, where our space shuttles can land. If you landed him on the far side of the island, he might never find Georgetown.
Is Ascension Island next to Easter Island?
No, Al, it is not. It is in the south Atlantic, north of St. Helena, and is a British possession, along with St. Helena & Tristan de Cunha (who knows how a British possession ends up with a Portuguese name), which is quite a ways south of St. Helena. After writing all that, I finally get what made you ask that. Sorry, I'm very slow at times these days. That location would be very appropriate, obviously.
I got the joke, Al...very clever.
😂
Priceless
The only evil anti immigrant whose grand parents escaped the Holocaust and immigrated to the US. Go figure his Hate?
He put the pig in Pygmalion.
At a loss for words here… and daily. These “people” make sewers look good.
AS the child of a survivor, all I can say is, "Das is nicht gut fur de Yuden" (my attempt at Yiddish)
Penguin pooper scooper.
KEN -- that assignment could be combined with being Special Envoy to the Pittsburgh Penguins who are valiantly battling the Philadelphia Flyers for last place in their NHL division.
Alan, as a native Philly guy, I’m pretty certain that the Flyers have a lock on last place. They have 76 points, in honor of the 76ers, who, while unable to secure a last place finish, were impressively in the hunt for a good portion of the season
Ken, it's amazing how in the NBA an injury to one player (Joel Embiid) can make a huge difference. As you know, with the draft lottery you can be lucky and get the first draft pick even when you don't finish last.
True 'dat! As a semi-Mainer (moved here when 15; over 50 years ago now), if Cooper Flagg declares, I'd love to see them pick this kid. It's been quite a story in Maine, watching his progress through high school and of course, at Duke!
The Birds flew!
"The Poughkeepsie Pandemic" is a good name for an expansion NHL team, Patti. Their mascot is a quarantine tent.
if you are the leader of Ukraine.
President Bukele, Elmo Musk, and Kid Off-of-his-Rocker are of course exempt.
Old New Yorker cartoon (geographically impossible, but funny): A group of walruses hauled out on the ice. Approaching them a line of penguins. One walrus to another: "Here come the suits."
Classic New Yorker humor …
I just noticed that you wrote the intro to my post, Ken. I identified you right away as a survivor of the recent demise of critical thinking.
Hannibal Lector to El Salvador's CECOT prison to consult on food service contracts?
Brilliant
🤮🤮
Marco Rubio to those penguin islands, because Trump Heard they had a McDonald's that needed to be checked out.
Fidel would be so proud of Liddle Marco. “An autocrat beyond even my aspirations.”
I see what you did there!
Pillow magnate Mike Lindell should be cajoled into leaving his downy Xanadu in Shakopee, MN, the better to bring his gracious social skills into play. His efforts could bolster the MAGA creed in diplomatic hotspots, and cushion international friction.
He lives in Shack O' Pee?
Yes. It used to be Pot o’ Piss but they had a municipal make over.
Mr. Lindell has recently expanded into Young Adult Fiction with his autobiographical book, “The Wind in the Pillows”, a tale In which a Gopher State lad learns that love can be a sham. And a duvet.
G.E.P., you are so good. And I did notice what you did a bit earlier -- "Pillow magnate...downy Xanadu...bolster the MAGA...cushion international friction."
But I draw the line at "Pot o' Piss." On behalf of platypuses everywhere, I demand that you not even remotely imply that we have anything to do with any 'murkin or human crap.
Merkin!
Why am I not surprised by your knowing this, you dog?
very clever!
That about covers it.
Hahaha 😂
lol 😺😺😺
Glenn, please, we're trying to drink some coffee here.
Time to start hoarding the coffee!
Glenn, keep up the good work.
Promise you’ll never quilt!
<snort laugh>
Glenn-
Hilarious - " It used to be Pot o’ Piss but they had a municipal make over."
Glenn -- Lindell could be appointed Special Envoy to the Mediterranean nation of SLEEP-APNEA off the coast of Malta.
He'd be a breath of fresh air to another one of DT's imaginary countries and could always tap Dr. Oz as an advisor.
Maybe he'll give Ambassadress Kimberly Gargoyle an extra assignment. Isn't it a hop, skip and a jump from Greece to Malta? And if anyone knows about pillows...it's her.
Keep them away from Malta!! It's one of my favorite places on the planet. They've been doing just fine for many thousands of years and it would be a shame to ruin that island just to get rid of our trash.
Sorry. I hear you. No place is safe. Sad.
Thank you, Robin. It is sad that no place is safe, not even islands populated only by penguins.
I know. I was brought up with National Geographic in my house looking at these places phographed from around the world. I do wish I had their archives. . when it was pristine and all these gorgeous places originally untouched by human hands or rudimentary..The Island or area with the penguins where he wants to charge a tariff it's sickening. What do we expect? . No empathy. Does not care. None of them. Never will.
She doesn't need to travel phsically from Greece to Malta. Her mouth is big enough that she can just shoutracross. Sort of reviving the legendary Stentor.
Still laughing
Me too haha!
Crap pillows… I’d bought two and threw them away. Another guy like trump who knew how to bamboozle people with his snake oil sales pitch.
I stuffed my crappy uncomfortable My Pillow into an armadillo hole in my yard. The animal never came back. Thank you, Mike Lindell!
You bought them? I am😂 😂 I.can barely type! From an infomercial, or a store?
I’m afraid I bought two for my daughter & her husband as one of the Christmas gifts-they gave them away and only told me years later!
Awwww...they didn't want to hurt you. How sweet. We forgive you too. LOL. 🙏
Robin, believe me, it was like buying a Tesla before we knew who e musk was, although a lot cheaper. 😆🤣
My friend’s husband got the pillows first and she told me she liked them. I ordered them online two for the price of one 😝. I think I donated them to an animal shelter shortly after.
Ellen, I'm reading this 5:20am on Wed morning. 😂 I am giggling . My Pillow has been Tesla'd <verb> Any company who has been driven into the ground by it's drug addled owner connected to Donald Trump
Awwww..you have a good heart and gave them to the animal shelter. That's actually a good idea. Where I live in NYC there's a doggy day care. I never thought to give them old bedding.
His penguins.
His sales pitch sounded really good, and I did give some thought to buying them. I'm grateful that I never got around to acting on that impulse.
Last year I got so much spam from Mike Lindal and his $14.99 pillows so I honestly wanted to know. I kept reporting it. It's stopped for now.
14.99? How can he afford to bail murderous nazi boys out of jail with so little profit margin?
Ironically that 14.99 has something to do with Nazis or alt-right. When your pillows cost 1.99 probably made in sweatshops in China you have enough profits to bail them out. Hope he is bankrupt. Scum that he is.
What is that steaming pile doing these days? Oh, I forgot - everything the psychopath touches dies.
Yeah!
I see what you did there--"downy," "bolster" & "cushion." LOL
Yes, he could bring pillows to negotiations.
I wonder which other former sycophants would come back...47 may need them!
Isn't he going to be busy after he beats Tim Walz in the WI governor's race?
Or maybe not.
Correction: Tim Walz is our beloved Minnesota Governor.
P.S. We are thrilled with the outcome of WI Supreme Court race.
Whoops! So sorry for my mistake - and congratulations for the Supreme Court win!
Thank you for reminding me of wonderful comedian Mike Lindell. I had more or less forgotten about his hilarious antics.
Mike Lindell never takes adversity lying down; he was always willing to go to the mattresses with Donald Trump, to offer support and comfort.
Rudy Giuliani to the International Criminal Court
Rob -- nice choice who could serve in that role with an Assistant Special Envoy: BORAT.
They'd make a dynamic team!
See, now we’re coming up with some good ideas! Except Borat was sincere.
Ellen -- Another advantage: All the interactions and Rudy's dripping hair dye would be captured on entertaining video!
Has ANY justice been visiting upon this steaming pile? I mean REAL justice?
Nope.
I had forgotten all about him! I wonder if they are still in touch🤔
Stevie Minniebrain as Special Envoy to the Mariana Trench. Howard Lootwick as Special Envoy to Hell. Krusty Abnorm as Special Envoy to Any Active Volcano.
Howard Lunatwick?
Nutlick
Slutnik? (with apologies to sluts, who at least know what they're about.)
MIKE TINKO -- DT's former golf caddy as Special Envoy to CANADA to negotiate their annexation as our 51st state.
IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS: Experience watching his boss cheat at golf up close. He revealed that "DT doesn't just tamper with his own [golf] balls," he tampers with the great shots of those he's playing with.
True? Wouldn't surprise me.
Elizabeth, it has been verified by several others.
Krusty Abnorm... LOL
Kudos for that. Lot of brilliant people writing here today!
And leave 'im at the bottom of the Trench
And leave Krusty in the active volcano
I feel really stupid here. Who is Krusty Abnorm?
Kristi Noem, a Barbie who comes with many outfits.
Thank you, Barbara. My mind never went that direction. I'll bet all those outfits have their own matching Rolex.
Not to mention botox lips, a pronounced characteristic of ALL tRump women.
Does Ivanka do that, too? She looks just like her mother, and I don't know that botox was available for such procedures back then.
Yes, along with wives Ivana, Marla and Melanoma; daughters Ivanka, Tiffany; and Pam Bondi, Laura Loomer Kimberly Guilfoyle
The mother was botoxed to the rafters later on. She looked like a prize fighter who had taken a few too many punches for a few too many years. Something from science fiction. No kidding. Really.
Love these recommendations 🤣
Andy should get a job at the NYT editorial board!😀
How about freelancing for "The Onion?"
Andy is his own ONION... I love it...hmmm what vegetable would work for his "paper"?
Habanero pepper. For his ability to burn the gringo supremacists.
Tomatoes to hurl at him
Is there one that makes you laugh while you’re crying? Or cry while you’re laughing? Crying alone is not enough, but these days…
Horseradish!!
Rutabaga came to mind as well as an Eggplant... Onion really does cover all the bases though
Barth has eggplant covered.
You need an "Onion".
I suggest salsify. I had it once in a restaurant decades ago and I have never seen it again anywhere. But it ha a lovely purple flower worthy of Andy’s brilliant wit
My mother used to grow it in her front yard (and eat it) and we have a yellow-flowered variety that comes up in our back yard every year. I had no idea it was a desert plant.
How about a garlic bulb?
or a brand new crisp bunch of asparagus spears; tall, firm, fussy on top-the King of Vegetables!
As one who adores asparagus (and is thrilled that they are in season locally), I love your "fussy on top" description. It's especially perfect for their graceful swaying when still in the ground on a breezy day.
Not that this has anything to do with useful idiots, of course.
Bearnaise on my asparagus is better than roses on my piano.
It needs to be an entire string. We have a lot of vampires to repel.
I really did not laugh when I was reading this, for once, because everything Andy wrote is actually true. It is a pathetic and horrifying time that we are being subjected to.
we only cry . . . with laughter :)
Pleeeeze make it so. Let Andy replace Douthat or Stephens.
He would do exceptionally well with a traditional (print only) weekly, Joel. I submit "The Leek" for consideration.
MTG is next.
Marjorie Taylor Greene would be the ideal Special Envoy to Greenland.
Not only does her defunct married surname (from her EX) qualify her for the job but her demonstrated mastery of diplomacy while serving in Congress -- which will help her engineer a peaceful takeover.
The good people of Greenland would find an ice chunk, broken off from a melting glacier, and send her out to sea on it.
We can only hope. Really hope. Really hard…
Yep, second that!
My 2nd Choice
COREY LEWANDOWSKI as Special Envoy to China.
He has screwed up every other job assigned to him by DT so why not as envoy to our largest and most dangerous economic rival and foe?
Maybe as special envoy to the Middle East, she could find some of those Jewish Space Lasers.
Charles -- Those imaginary space lasers may be easier for her to find at the Space Force Station Justa visited in Greenland 😉
Oh No!! They're going to deport the dogs and cats! My Persian cat...my Turkish guard dog...my Shetland sheep dog. What to do???
They're deporting the dogs. They're deporting the cats. They're deporting the pets, of the people who live there.
Eating the Cats https://g.co/kgs/EQAebrP
OMG! My dog is a pure-bred Bolognese.....I"ll have to move to Italy with him!
Mon Dieu! Stormy is a Chartreux- a French cat. I guess we'll have to say "Au Revoir" to Les Ètats-Unis- the U. S.- we'll send you a postcard from Cîteaux.
Leave my Shetland Sheepdog alone!
Go with them.
Tom Homan, special envoy to the hell holes of El Salvador. In our local paper today, he disclaimed all responsibility for the removal of a mother and her three children from their home and school in Sacketts Harbor NY (where he has a summer home) to a holding facility in Texas. The illegal arrest was made on a warrant issued for a totally different and unrelated individual for his involvement with child pornography and the ICErs decided to sweep the family along for the ride- just because they could. When a thousand protestors on behalf of the family marched through town to Homan's home, he spluttered that he "had nothing to do with" the arrest and detention of the family, yet the family was brought back home two days later. As the immigration "czar", as he referred to himself, he further said that he "does not get involved in the immigration officers' arrests". Talk about idiocy and idiots. No, czars don't get involved in the human suffering, they just give the orders. What a lot of BS.
May the people of Sackets Harbor be an inspiration to all of us. A thousand people, in a town of 10,000, turned out.
The technique is to grab people then hustle them off to a distant state. That makes it harder for the lawyers.
The Disappeared are now our shame.
Has anyone read "It Can't Happen Here," by Sinclair Lewis in 1935? The publisher's note says 'It was originally intended that the British edition of this novel of a Fascist revolution in the United States should be entitled "It Can't Happen in America." But a reading of the manuscript soon showed that i essentials its story and lessons were not solely applicable to America. . .It is conceivable that the forces here shown at work in the the United States might, 'mutatis mutandis', prevail in England or in other parts of the British Empire.' Lewis was prescient about the U.S.
Yes, in my 20s and even wrote a play adaptation of it--it's a huge predicter of what is happening now. My play Impossible? about to be offered on youtube is similar.
Yes and so was Orwell…why didn’t we listen to them???
Essential reading. I see rampant Babbitry under every veneer of decency.
Jack, Yes, I read that years ago, and I totally agree with you. It is, alas, one of Lewis' lesser known books, but, like Orwell's 1984, a really important piece of writing. I still have my parents' copy, think I'll re-read it.
Send Melania in her I Don't Care cloak. Dimwits of the world unite. Andy, How I love thee!
Elon Musk permanently to Mars like in the movie The Martian
Only unlike the movie, we won’t bring him back.
My bad, I forgot the ending. I just pictured Elon growing potatoes in his own turds.
Why are people puzzled by Trump's behavior?
He was bailed out of his massive debts by the Russian mafia from the mid 1990s to 2008. You do know what happens when a mafia pays your debts, right?
The stooge strategy has been a mafia tradition since before the Borgias: find a prominent but failed and indebted businessman, pay his debts, own him. Your agenda is now his. Or else. (The "or else" is another old mafia tradition.)
Russia's agenda since before Peter the Great has been driven by their intense jealousy of the West - and their consequent desire to destroy the West. That is now Trump's agenda.
See? Simple.
The simplest explanation is usually the correct one
Often, yes. That's called Occam's razor.
But when it comes to the simplest, but scariest, explanations, Marshall McLuhan tells what happens: "Only the little secrets need to be protected. The big secrets are protected by public incredulity."
Reader, are you a member of the credulosia, the large part of the population that finds facing troubling facts to be too frightening and so comes up with explanations that avoid troubling facts? Or are you one of those select people who aren't afraid to face facts?