Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) on First Lady Melania Trump’s GOP convention speech Tuesday night.
83 thoughts on “Go Claire Go”
colbert’s recap for night 2
conventional kissing
oops, forgot this one from 2016
I heard that on MSNBC about the attorneys fee judgement yesterday. I thought we were told by George’s wife that issue was litigated in 2016. Some things just never go away.
oh, and Claire is great. Love her comments when she’s on mojo.
So the new number for SFB is 44,100. Steven Miller still has 666 locked up.
Yes, we do deserve a President who tells the truth, Melania. It sounds like Joe just got an endorsement from the WH hostage. (Were here eyes blinking HELP in Morse code?)
Women admired Jackie Kennedy; they wanted to be like her, be her friend. I can’t imagine any large group of women who feel that way about Melania. At most, they might pity her…or not, since she wasn’t a minor when she agreed to enter into a relationship with the orange teletubby.
They are either scared sh/+less of Harris or they are going to unload on the last night. Republicans will lose in a fair election. Only voter suppression will help them.
I will not accept a second term of Orange Julius. Nope. I see it like this. As he lands at Mar-A-Ego when he leaves office, he will be led away from the chopper in handcuffs. Ivanker, JarJar and the boys will be charged, as well. The name tRUMP will be said with contempt and disgust, if at all, for eternity.
Be Best
Or something like that.
Hillary knows there is a good chance there was some form of trickery in her losing the Electoral College but she was decent enough not to contest as per tradition. Nixon did the same and even with the chad count so did Gore. Trump will not and now she has warned: DO NOT CONCEDE if it looks as if he has won.
She was right about everything in 2016. This would be a good year to believe her.
Are we all ready to be bored out of our minds and angry before bedtime tonight?
They reached a lot of base with last night’s efforts.
May have stiffened a few weakened spines.
BiD, the mouche also saw the hostage blinks and suggested people read the transcript carefully to see some well-placed snarks to an audience of one. here’s some of what he said reported by
Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Mr Scaramucci said: “I want to be fair to the First Lady, I thought she gave a very good speech, it was certainly empathetic.
“She was the first person to actually acknowledge the virus and the death toll.
“We have 178,000 people that have died, we’re on our way to about 250,000 by election day.
“She obviously can’t explain to the American people it’s because of the President and his failure to handle the virus and to take the epidemiology of the virus seriously.
“She did mention something very ironic about honesty.
“This is a president who has told 20,000 lies but the real pernicious lies were the ones about the virus and politicising things like wearing masks.
“She can’t bring all that stuff up but she did get a hidden jab in there with saying that we deserve honesty from the president.”
“I don’t want to use this precious time to attack the other side. That only serves to divide the country….My husband doesn’t waste time playing politics.” Melania Trump!
She’s a vicious liar like her husband and all the family. Remember, she’s also a “Birther”. I fucking hate them all!
NoelCaslerComedy
@CaslerNoel
Listen folks, Melania is cold as f*cking ice in person. She hates Trump and his kids almost as much as she hates minorities. You have no idea how dangerous she is and the true nature of why she is in the WH.
@FLOTUS
sturge, if casler is correct then perhaps she is the conduit to/for vlad since she has been in on some of their tête-à-têtes, reportedly speaks russian and she does seem to be the only one with brains in the family
Melania Trump’s accomplishments & love for this nation are estimable.
—Kellyanne C, tweet excerpt
…it’s like she stole the wardrobe from the Roger Moore “James Bond” films
All that’s missing is the officer’s cap with a red band to make the outfit perfect for one of the first two Bond films – as the Russian officer directing the soldiers who are after Bond.
Tony…. thanks for that clip of Melania and Joy Behar. It’s less than 2 minutes… but it speaks volumes of her actual character.
We actually did see a few minutes of the convention between periods of the hockey game last night. Saw Larry Kudlow talking about all those “booms”. Rick piped up and said… “yeah… the only thing there’s a boom of is bullshit.”
Tony, lovin the Behar Melania clip. Thanks
Ya know, the first lady paid some major bucks for that outfit. Makes you wonder if the designer was playing a joke on her. Fidel or a 60’s bond movie, I can see that except for the shoulder pads, that outfit is a drab 80’s look.
She needed some major bling to over come the basic dullness.
Jack
The belt-buckle shoots cyanide darts and there are spring-loaded daggers in the toes of those hideous shoes.
In all seriousness, there is something ominous about someone in a paramilitary outfit calling for national unity from a pseudo-official position in a quasi-government building.
Melania’s a red sparrow? She’s SFB’s handler? She didn’t even want to move to the WH.
It’s a message to America that her hubby is a dictatorial dick.
“She didn’t even want to move to the WH”
-‘cuz it’s too far from the Brighton Beach drop-house
So Laura has now been upgraded to Cat 4. WE don’t have any ‘mixers in the Eastern TX/Western LA area do we? If so, get the hell out.
CB, you can bet I’m glad I’m not on I-10 between Baton Rouge and Houston. I heard that cities as far away from that area as Austin are turning people away cuz there’s no room in the inns.
bob, spot on about FLOTUS natasha
The people wave will stretch through the mid-west and as far as Colorado and the Mid-Atlantic states. California already has its share of people moved around. Moving that many people out means a lot of full hotels and friends family rooms. If not for COVID-19 I would be packed up and ready to meet a lot of new friends. Too risky now, the youngsters need to step up and volunteer now.
now we hear D’ump will send his storm troopers to WI. guess he needed more video footage like the portland riot scenes his ads depict blaming on the dems. could it be those “outsiders” this article speaks of are campaign paid folk?
Rep. Bryan Steil said the violence that’s broken out in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after the police shooting of Jacob Blake is coming from outside influencers.
Steil, who represents Kenosha in his district, said he’s heard from local law enforcement that protesters are coming into the Milwaukee suburb from Chicago to try to cause chaos.
“This is not the Kenosha I know,” Steil said Tuesday on Fox News’s The Story With Martha MacCallum. “If you look at where Kenosha is located, it’s along the lake between Milwaukee and Chicago. I’m very concerned, and I’ve heard from local law enforcement that they’re very concerned large numbers of people are coming up from Chicago and trying to disrupt the public safety in the community of Kenosha.”
Kenosha became the center of protest after Blake was shot seven times by police on Sunday night. Violence escalated overnight on Sunday and Monday, with protesters smashing windows, lighting cars on fire, and confronting police officers in the area.
[continues]
and maybe those guys from chicago are the same ones the chi mayor says are the violators in her city. seems mighty convenient right now given the current goper ads we’ve been seeing.
Trump orders less testing for better numbers (which spreads virus), counting on lagging death toll surge won’t come until after Election Day.
CDC was pressured ‘from the top down’ to change Covid-19 testing guidance, official says – CNNPolitics https://t.co/EHBfrFUBKa
Pogo… our old friend Carol lives in Lake Charles LA. Laura is barrel assing straight toward there. She had a stroke several years ago and is now living with friends. Hopefully they’ve all gotten the hell out of that area.
Melania cut trees, turned Rose Garden into a parking lot for better camera angles last night.
Hatch Act enforcement comes in January. Judge Martin Noone presiding.
Noone cares.
I seem to remember john ehrlichman saying something like ‘no one cares’ back in ’73.
She made a desert and they called it rose garden.
I believe Kenosha used to have a ‘sundown law.’ I wonder if they still do. That was American Motors/romney country in the early ’60s.
They’ve opened up hotels in DFW as folks continue to spill up this way.
One of my coworkers just bragged about vacationing in Mexico last weekend. He also went to SD. He was the anti-masker who licked his fingers and contaminated paperwork on my desk. He thinks it’s a hoax and he’s trying to use vacation before he retires this fall. Wouldn’t it be fitting if he got sick? Yes, it would.
“Brighton Beach drop house” – Bink
Good one. Is she his drug supplier?
Ahh, right, Carol. I didn’t recall that she had a stroke – do remember her reports about being at the camp that I always envisioned as on a bayou. Ditto on the wishes that she’s the hell out of there – there ain’t shit above about 3′ tall other than trees in the swamp down there to stand between the hurricane and 30-50 miles inland.
Just learned today that an old friend from elementary and high school who came down with ALS about a decade ago passed away today. Guy always had a great attitude from what I could gather from his Facebook page. Sorry to hear he passed, but he had a good long run as those things go.
“Laws are for suckers”
Renee
I was just thinking about Ms Carol, her river and houseboat. Here is hoping they get out and find some place safe and covid free. right now Lake Charles is right in the center of things.
Jack
8pm ET convention thread tonight
“Is she his drug supplier?”
-microfiche
Derecho – He probably thought that was something to order to fill his pie hole.
Laura is supposed to make landfall near the same time as high tide.
…her Castro get-up has a deployable jeweler’s loupe in the lapel
I figured that’s what was in the soccer ball. Or, maybe a thumb drive. Or, just a thumb, as a warning to follow orders.
Just heard the NBA players have said I ain’t playing tonight, delaying the playoffs. Good on them.
Whatever Works
Anything said tonight should start everyone humming
I hope Carol stays safe. If anyone hears from her, it would be good to have an update.
Haven’t seen it confirmed yet, but supposedly the shooter last night was 17 years old from out of town and a white supremacist. If true, the hatred starts way too young.
Randy. Brilliant cultural musical critic. I love the man.
oh goddamn. Lara Trump is going to present her lies about the SFB we don’t see. Hard to fact check that.
A twitter question asked what was the first concert you ever attended? ( I knew the person asking) After a bit of thought I had to say, “Big John and Little Sparky”.
This is my favorite Randy Newman song. It is from his musical Faust and was been sung by Ronstadt. The original cast was unbelievable and this song always makes me cry
Mephistopheles: Randy Newman.
Lord: James Taylor.
Henry Faust: Don Henley.
Angel Rick: Elton John.
Margaret: Linda Ronstadt.
Martha: Bonnie Raitt.
Jamie, according to WaPo he was a resident of Antioch Illinois, about 20 miles from Kenosha. Little prick.
A police complaint filed in Lake County, Ill., by the Antioch police described him as a fugitive, saying that Rittenhouse had been charged with homicide in Wisconsin and fled “with the intent to avoid prosecution for that offense.” According to minutes from a hearing on Wednesday, he was held without bond and a hearing Friday will deal with his potential extradition to Wisconsin.
Really now, doesn’t this snap what’s going on in these “violent protests” into clear focus?
Randy does Charleston
Thanks for the info Pogo
Catch you all when the GOP lie fest starts
Kenosha Police Chief Miskinis responds to the murder of two protestors by saying it wouldn't have happened if people weren't out after curfew: "I'm not gonna make a great deal of it, BUT …" pic.twitter.com/GBRo8I5Zka
Stupid ass. It wouldn’t have happened if the fucking murderer wasn’t out after curfew. I guarantee that the fact that the little murdering prick was a kid from out of town and was out after curfew shooting people is a set of facts you’ll never fucking here on Faux snooze.
Randy does Birmingham
The sheriff said someone called and said they needed to deputize armed citizens to patrol the streets. “Oh, hell no.”
The same group released a statement Wednesday saying it did not know if Tuesday’s gunman was responding to their call.
“We are unaware if the armed citizen was answering the Kenosha Guard Militia’s call to arms,” the group wrote. “Just like with the shooting of Jacob Blake, we need all the facts and evidence to come out before we make a judgement.”
LINCOLN PROJECT on TV here! “Mourning in America” tRUMP has made America weak, sick and poor; we can not take another term of this monster. I don’t know if that ad will get folks to the polls, though. It may keep a few of SFB’s supported home. IDK. They are pretty rabid.
Not sure of Gloria Estefan’s political leanings, but “Get On Your Feet” was on the radio on my drive home tonight. It’s a good one to motivate folks to vote. “…stand up and take some action….”
Basketball seven minutes into every quarter,ball on the floor. Seven seconds for seven bullets.
Scary Fiorino is supporting Biden. Ugh!
Good for the sports guys who refused to play tonight. That has some weight with American sports fans. It’s a sports version of “Lysistrata “. Aristophanes would be proud.
Trump has pulled all advertising until September 8.
colbert’s recap for night 2
conventional kissing
oops, forgot this one from 2016
I heard that on MSNBC about the attorneys fee judgement yesterday. I thought we were told by George’s wife that issue was litigated in 2016. Some things just never go away.
oh, and Claire is great. Love her comments when she’s on mojo.
So the new number for SFB is 44,100. Steven Miller still has 666 locked up.
Yes, we do deserve a President who tells the truth, Melania. It sounds like Joe just got an endorsement from the WH hostage. (Were here eyes blinking HELP in Morse code?)
Women admired Jackie Kennedy; they wanted to be like her, be her friend. I can’t imagine any large group of women who feel that way about Melania. At most, they might pity her…or not, since she wasn’t a minor when she agreed to enter into a relationship with the orange teletubby.
They are either scared sh/+less of Harris or they are going to unload on the last night. Republicans will lose in a fair election. Only voter suppression will help them.
I will not accept a second term of Orange Julius. Nope. I see it like this. As he lands at Mar-A-Ego when he leaves office, he will be led away from the chopper in handcuffs. Ivanker, JarJar and the boys will be charged, as well. The name tRUMP will be said with contempt and disgust, if at all, for eternity.
Be Best
Or something like that.
Hillary knows there is a good chance there was some form of trickery in her losing the Electoral College but she was decent enough not to contest as per tradition. Nixon did the same and even with the chad count so did Gore. Trump will not and now she has warned: DO NOT CONCEDE if it looks as if he has won.
She was right about everything in 2016. This would be a good year to believe her.
Are we all ready to be bored out of our minds and angry before bedtime tonight?
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign released a new Facebook ad with an image of a group of protesters attacking a police officer alongside the words “public safety vs chaos & violence.”
Tried to pass it off as Portland. This isn’t the first time stock footage from Russian and/or Ukraine has been used purporting to be the US
Who Wore It Better?
Do not go gentle into that good night
But rage, rage against the dying of the light
The alternative GOP Convention of Founding Principles can be watched on You Tube
They reached a lot of base with last night’s efforts.
May have stiffened a few weakened spines.
BiD, the mouche also saw the hostage blinks and suggested people read the transcript carefully to see some well-placed snarks to an audience of one. here’s some of what he said reported by
daily express in UK:
“I don’t want to use this precious time to attack the other side. That only serves to divide the country….My husband doesn’t waste time playing politics.” Melania Trump!
She’s a vicious liar like her husband and all the family. Remember, she’s also a “Birther”. I fucking hate them all!
NoelCaslerComedy
@CaslerNoel
Listen folks, Melania is cold as f*cking ice in person. She hates Trump and his kids almost as much as she hates minorities. You have no idea how dangerous she is and the true nature of why she is in the WH.
@FLOTUS
sturge, if casler is correct then perhaps she is the conduit to/for vlad since she has been in on some of their tête-à-têtes, reportedly speaks russian and she does seem to be the only one with brains in the family
Melania Trump’s accomplishments & love for this nation are estimable.
—Kellyanne C, tweet excerpt
gop convention….
Melania’s Fidel Castro get-up definitely says “Hey, I’m the Russian mole.”
Her wardrobe is exclusively “villainess”.
…it’s like she stole the wardrobe from the Roger Moore “James Bond” films
All that’s missing is the officer’s cap with a red band to make the outfit perfect for one of the first two Bond films – as the Russian officer directing the soldiers who are after Bond.
Tony…. thanks for that clip of Melania and Joy Behar. It’s less than 2 minutes… but it speaks volumes of her actual character.
We actually did see a few minutes of the convention between periods of the hockey game last night. Saw Larry Kudlow talking about all those “booms”. Rick piped up and said… “yeah… the only thing there’s a boom of is bullshit.”
Tony, lovin the Behar Melania clip. Thanks
Ya know, the first lady paid some major bucks for that outfit. Makes you wonder if the designer was playing a joke on her. Fidel or a 60’s bond movie, I can see that except for the shoulder pads, that outfit is a drab 80’s look.
She needed some major bling to over come the basic dullness.
Jack
The belt-buckle shoots cyanide darts and there are spring-loaded daggers in the toes of those hideous shoes.
In all seriousness, there is something ominous about someone in a paramilitary outfit calling for national unity from a pseudo-official position in a quasi-government building.
Melania’s a red sparrow? She’s SFB’s handler? She didn’t even want to move to the WH.
It’s a message to America that her hubby is a dictatorial dick.
“She didn’t even want to move to the WH”
-‘cuz it’s too far from the Brighton Beach drop-house
So Laura has now been upgraded to Cat 4. WE don’t have any ‘mixers in the Eastern TX/Western LA area do we? If so, get the hell out.
CB, you can bet I’m glad I’m not on I-10 between Baton Rouge and Houston. I heard that cities as far away from that area as Austin are turning people away cuz there’s no room in the inns.
bob, spot on about FLOTUS natasha
The people wave will stretch through the mid-west and as far as Colorado and the Mid-Atlantic states. California already has its share of people moved around. Moving that many people out means a lot of full hotels and friends family rooms. If not for COVID-19 I would be packed up and ready to meet a lot of new friends. Too risky now, the youngsters need to step up and volunteer now.
now we hear D’ump will send his storm troopers to WI. guess he needed more video footage like the portland riot scenes his ads depict blaming on the dems. could it be those “outsiders” this article speaks of are campaign paid folk?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wisconsin-congressman-blames-protesters-coming-in-from-chicago-for-kenosha-unrest
and maybe those guys from chicago are the same ones the chi mayor says are the violators in her city. seems mighty convenient right now given the current goper ads we’ve been seeing.
Trump orders less testing for better numbers (which spreads virus), counting on lagging death toll surge won’t come until after Election Day.
CDC was pressured ‘from the top down’ to change Covid-19 testing guidance, official says – CNNPolitics https://t.co/EHBfrFUBKa
Pogo… our old friend Carol lives in Lake Charles LA. Laura is barrel assing straight toward there. She had a stroke several years ago and is now living with friends. Hopefully they’ve all gotten the hell out of that area.
Melania cut trees, turned Rose Garden into a parking lot for better camera angles last night.
Hatch Act enforcement comes in January. Judge Martin Noone presiding.
Noone cares.
I seem to remember john ehrlichman saying something like ‘no one cares’ back in ’73.
She made a desert and they called it rose garden.
I believe Kenosha used to have a ‘sundown law.’ I wonder if they still do. That was American Motors/romney country in the early ’60s.
They’ve opened up hotels in DFW as folks continue to spill up this way.
One of my coworkers just bragged about vacationing in Mexico last weekend. He also went to SD. He was the anti-masker who licked his fingers and contaminated paperwork on my desk. He thinks it’s a hoax and he’s trying to use vacation before he retires this fall. Wouldn’t it be fitting if he got sick? Yes, it would.
“Brighton Beach drop house” – Bink
Good one. Is she his drug supplier?
Ahh, right, Carol. I didn’t recall that she had a stroke – do remember her reports about being at the camp that I always envisioned as on a bayou. Ditto on the wishes that she’s the hell out of there – there ain’t shit above about 3′ tall other than trees in the swamp down there to stand between the hurricane and 30-50 miles inland.
Just learned today that an old friend from elementary and high school who came down with ALS about a decade ago passed away today. Guy always had a great attitude from what I could gather from his Facebook page. Sorry to hear he passed, but he had a good long run as those things go.
“Laws are for suckers”
Renee
I was just thinking about Ms Carol, her river and houseboat. Here is hoping they get out and find some place safe and covid free. right now Lake Charles is right in the center of things.
Jack
8pm ET convention thread tonight
“Is she his drug supplier?”
-microfiche
Derecho – He probably thought that was something to order to fill his pie hole.
Laura is supposed to make landfall near the same time as high tide.
…her Castro get-up has a deployable jeweler’s loupe in the lapel
I figured that’s what was in the soccer ball. Or, maybe a thumb drive. Or, just a thumb, as a warning to follow orders.
Just heard the NBA players have said I ain’t playing tonight, delaying the playoffs. Good on them.
Whatever Works
Anything said tonight should start everyone humming
I hope Carol stays safe. If anyone hears from her, it would be good to have an update.
Haven’t seen it confirmed yet, but supposedly the shooter last night was 17 years old from out of town and a white supremacist. If true, the hatred starts way too young.
Randy. Brilliant cultural musical critic. I love the man.
oh goddamn. Lara Trump is going to present her lies about the SFB we don’t see. Hard to fact check that.
A twitter question asked what was the first concert you ever attended? ( I knew the person asking) After a bit of thought I had to say, “Big John and Little Sparky”.
This is my favorite Randy Newman song. It is from his musical Faust and was been sung by Ronstadt. The original cast was unbelievable and this song always makes me cry
Jamie, according to WaPo he was a resident of Antioch Illinois, about 20 miles from Kenosha. Little prick.
Really now, doesn’t this snap what’s going on in these “violent protests” into clear focus?
Randy does Charleston
Thanks for the info Pogo
Catch you all when the GOP lie fest starts
Wow!!!!!
Stupid ass. It wouldn’t have happened if the fucking murderer wasn’t out after curfew. I guarantee that the fact that the little murdering prick was a kid from out of town and was out after curfew shooting people is a set of facts you’ll never fucking here on Faux snooze.
Randy does Birmingham
The sheriff said someone called and said they needed to deputize armed citizens to patrol the streets. “Oh, hell no.”
This vigilante crap is tRUMPsky/Poo-tin.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/kenosha-sheriff-says-vigilante-group-asked-him-to-deputize-them/2329038/%3famp
Fromm BiD’s link:
Sorry, but … stupid fucks…
Randy doing my home town. Does it get any better?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/us-troops-injured-collision-russian-vehicle-syria/story?id=72626089
A pro crumb-lin website posted the video of Rushunz sideswipe a US vehicle, injury four of our troops.
Still not a peep about bounties on our troops from tRUMPsky.
LINCOLN PROJECT on TV here! “Mourning in America” tRUMP has made America weak, sick and poor; we can not take another term of this monster. I don’t know if that ad will get folks to the polls, though. It may keep a few of SFB’s supported home. IDK. They are pretty rabid.
Not sure of Gloria Estefan’s political leanings, but “Get On Your Feet” was on the radio on my drive home tonight. It’s a good one to motivate folks to vote. “…stand up and take some action….”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/8/26/21402571/kenosha-guard-shooting-facebook-deplatforming-militia-violence
FB is complicit…again…even though it’s trying act responsibly after the fact.
Music motivates.
Basketball seven minutes into every quarter,ball on the floor. Seven seconds for seven bullets.
Scary Fiorino is supporting Biden. Ugh!
Good for the sports guys who refused to play tonight. That has some weight with American sports fans. It’s a sports version of “Lysistrata “. Aristophanes would be proud.
Trump has pulled all advertising until September 8.
Jamie
did they say why
The teen terrorist double killer tiktok-ed his participation in the trump rally.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/08/kyle-rittenhouse-trump-tiktok-video/