Month: August 2017

 
From nojo at Stinque:

And yet this fascinates us. This lie, this least consequential of all his lies. Nobody will die because of this lie, unlike his others. No harm will be caused. Nothing will come of it at all.

Nor would this lie have made any difference to his reputation, not to a man who repeatedly insists his election was historic, his presidency second only to Lincoln’s. A world-historical figure need not worry about the reaction to a speech to a crowd of boys.

And yet Donald Trump felt deeply compelled to lie about it anyway. He could not let it go.

Why?

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From driftglass:

And when you started to notice that, year after year after year, the last resort defection/alibi that every single one of them proffers every single time one of their lies blows up in their face is “Everyone does it”, did you ever bother ask yourself where in the world these people all learned to mindlessly cop the same, identical, reprehensible plea?

Seriously, Matthew, didn’t you ever wonder for a single second to how in the name of Phineas T. Barnum every one of these meatheads all glommed onto the same idea?

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From our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit:

On Tuesday, the same day campus carry was officially implemented at Texas community colleges, a geography instructor at San Antonio College came to class dressed to express exactly what he thought about the new law.

“I was just saying I don’t feel safe,” Charles K. Smith told mySA.com.

Smith came to class on Tuesday dressed head to waist in protective combat gear – a bulletproof vest and helmet.

I’ll pass over the obvious point that handguns are close-range weapons and that anyone who wanted to whack that moron could easily pop him in an unprotected spot. But this is the quote that got my ire:

“There is nothing on this planet worth a human life.”

Reallly.

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From Frances Langum:

Joe Scarborough doesn’t want to believe it, but he’s beyond that now. We all are.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: “Leakers will be held accountable.” I mean, that’s great. I love that. I mean, that’s exactly what the attorney general should be saying, and that was the Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday talking about stopping the leaking of classified information and it’s what the president has been talking about, right?

Well, the problem is the President of the United States may have just retweeted a story that relied on — we know it relied on anonymous sources, but it looks like could have been classified information as well.

NBC News Reporter Peter Alexander pointed out the real problem:

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Wondering why a few conservative friends are less than impressed.

 
From tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:

When Rod Rosenstein, the acting Attorney General (because the actual Attorney General is likely scooped-up in the investigation), says that the Special Investigator Robert Mueller can go where’er the facts lead (including into the dark web of Comrade Stupid’s finances), things are mosdef not normal.

Let’s put it this way: if he is ordered by Hair Führer to fire Mueller, it sounds like he will refuse. When the AG preemptively refuses an order, IN THE MEDIA, things are not normal.

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From The Onion:

THE HEAVENS—Responding to concerns about the safety of the celestial domain, a spokesperson for God confirmed Monday that guardrails were being added along the perimeter of the Kingdom of Heaven after a fifth angel plunged over its edge in as many months.

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From Iron Knee at Political Irony:

Some of you might be thinking that having a new communications director get fired before he even officially starts his job because of a profanity-laced (possibly drunken) tirade to a reporter sounds more like something out of a reality show than an actual presidential administration. After all, who could come up with names like these?

Well, maybe you’re right, this is a reality show, and this is what is actually going on…

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