Rolin’ rollin’ rollin’ Rolin’ rollin’ rollin’ Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ Though the streams are swollen Keep them dogies rollin’ Keep them dogies rollin’ Keep them dogies rollin’
Rawhide Don’t try to understand them Just rope, throw and brand ’em Soon they’ll be kneeling high and wide
“At this point it might be easier just to list the names of foreign leaders he hasn’t tried to extort, because what could Trump threaten to withhold from Australia — the Hemsworths? I’m sorry, but we’re keeping Liam until we figure out what the hell’s going on.” — JIMMY KIMMEL
“Let’s not pull Australia into this. They’re our cool, laid back friends. You don’t ask them to get involved in your politics; you ask them to D.J. your pool party.” — JAMES CORDEN
“Once upon a time, Donald Trump called the president of Ukraine and asked the foreign leader to investigate Joe Biden. The end — of his presidency, you would think.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
“Meanwhile, down in Washington, D.C., the president and his allies journeyed to the mountains of madness, where all meaning was devoured in the cavernous maw of stupid. And they all got on the crazy train for one reason: to try and confuse everyone about a very simple story. It’s ‘Don and the Giant Impeach.’” — STEPHEN COLBERT
“But in the next few days, top White House aides are going to present Trump with an impeachment response strategy. Just in time, yeah. That’s like the captain of the Titanic going, ‘Oh, we should have taken a left, I’m sorry. Is it too late?’” — JIMMY FALLON
“But Democrats now say that they’re going to vote on impeachment by the end of the year and — this is nice — they have already hired Ryan Seacrest to host their Impeachment Rockin’ Eve party.” — JIMMY FALLON
“The only thing stopping our system from collapsing is that everyone just ignores it. We’ve all gotten to the point where we have to treat the president of the United States like a guy taking a [expletive] in a subway car. At some point everyone’s just going to move to the other end of the country.” — SETH MEYERS
[…]
“Over one weekend, the president of the United States sent out more than 100 tweets — or as they will soon be known, Exhibits A through Z.” — JAMES CORDEN
“It’s so bad, at one point last night, Trump’s iPhone threw itself in the toilet.” — JIMMY FALLON
“And he’s playing all the hits. He called this ‘the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.’ Even his witch hunts are the greatest in history.” — JIMMY KIMMEL
“But Trump tweeted he wants to meet the whistle-blower in person, however their identity and whereabouts are unknown. They are probably hidden in a place no one ever goes — so most likely, they’re at a Forever 21.” — JIMMY FALLON
“I would say the president is starting to unravel, but that would imply he was raveled in the first place. I think he might be smoking black-market vapes.” — JIMMY KIMMEL
“He’s losing what little was left of his mind. He even retweeted a comedy Twitter account called ‘Trump but About Sharks.’ This is an account that takes his tweets and makes them about sharks. So he retweeted it. He’s so rattled, for lunch today aides say he ate a bucket of Adderall and snorted his fried chicken.” — JIMMY KIMMEL
“I know it seems careless, but in Trump’s defense he does just automatically retweet anything as soon as he sees the words ‘great white.’” — JAMES CORDEN
hope people got to see this interview on cnn with lizzie and her husband:
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and her husband Bruce Mann share the story of how they met with CNN’s MJ Lee.
bruce, our first First Laddie?
he really came across as a very likable guy (one of the few times this can be said of a law prof most of whom are superassholes). good for middle America to see her in that setting to offset the elitist and radical leftist charges thrown at her.
let’s not stop there, impeach Pence too and it’s President Pelosi!
so our first 1st laddie would be Paul? and if prez. Nancy selects Liz for veep, then Bruce could be our first 2nd laddie. we’re moving up the ladd-er so to speak.
Pat, I enjoyed that CNN interview via your link–thanks! It appears to me that the three of them have a good chance of maintaining their sanity whatever may occur.
Craig – I keep thinking SFB is going to toss bobble-head under the bus wheels very soon. He already said something about the calls BH makes. It could be a clean sweep and Speaker Pelosi gets a well deserved government position.
If that uptick in impeachment support among Republicans is a trend and not an anomaly assumptions about what would happen with Senate Republicans might need revisiting. They hate the guy and if they see blood they’ll pounce.
Looking deeper into CNN poll above 22 percent of Republicans under 50 years old favor impeachment AND removal. Up from 9pts in May. Something is happening.
The legend of Judy Garland is getting a real workout this year. First with the movie Judy and now with Head Down the Yellow Brick Road with Paper Mill’s “Chasing Rainbows” about her early vaudeville days leading to teenage fame at MGM.
pence first, then trump. Ms Pelosi should be president for a few months before either Warren or Biden get sworn in.
We may need martial law in some areas of the country. We’ll need bigger FBI and State Dep’t budgets. We’ll also need more a secure hospital prison than the one in Rochester, MN, cuz trump, his sister, manafort, julie annie, barr, steve nosferatu miller, ross, pompey, sarah hucksterbe sanders, brer kavanaugh, mickey mulvaney, pigman grassley and moskva midge really don’t look healthy.
Lock ’em ALL up !
Rollin’ heads sounds good to me
I’ve always thought Nancy P should be president
WH rats leaving the sinking ship?
@PeterAlexander
In other news: A mouse literally fell out of the ceiling in our White House booth and landed on my lap.
Other reporters, including Reuters correspondent Steve Holland, tweeted photos of White House reporters scrambling in the press room as they searched for the mouse as it ran around the booth.
One producer’s tweeted video shows the mouse running behind tables and equipment as it remained uncaptured.
The mouse later escaped the office area and was running free in the White House press briefing room.
It does not appear that the mouse has since been caught. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.
name the WH mouse contest
I name the WH mouse Stephen Miller…
I was just thinking the same thing
Jessye Norman – A Portrait – When I Am Laid In Earth (Purcel)
The mouse may have been on a mission from the “deep state”.
For those who do not get a chance to peek in obscure areas of the news, the manufacturing sector of the US economy is in a recession. The tariffs are taking a heavy toll. This is not good news.
I really really really want to see Truly Julieannie in jail in the basement of congress
bbronc, I think you’re right. the little whirring, beeping noises and photo flashes coming out of the filing cabinets should have given them a hint.
looks more like Jason Bourne than james bond though, less panache
A veteran federal judge on Monday warned U.S. prosecutors either to charge former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe or to drop their investigation into whether he lied to investigators about an unauthorized media disclosure, saying their indecision was undermining the credibility of the Justice Department.
If a decision is not made, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton of Washington, D.C., said at a hearing that he would order the Justice Department to release internal FBI documents related to McCabe’s firing by Nov. 15.
[…]
Walton spoke after Justice attorneys argued in private before him for the latest postponement in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over documents about the FBI’s investigation of McCabe, which the government has declined to release citing potential interference with a law enforcement proceeding.
The case against McCabe grew out of an investigation by the FBI’s inspection division, and the records might reveal the details of that inquiry. McCabe’s legal team has asserted, for example, that two inspection division agents disagreed about the appropriateness of asking certain questions in one conversation with McCabe.
“I would send this message to those in positions of authority in the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Justice Department . . . that I will not condone further delay,” Walton said, according to a transcript of the unsealed portion of the hearing.
Walton expressed “dismay” to Justice lawyers that the case “is just dragging too long,” adding: “You all have got to cut and make your decision. It’s not a hard decision, and I think it needs to be made. If it’s not made, I’m going to start ordering the release of information because I think our society, our public does have a right to know what’s going on.”
[…]
Weismann, a Justice Department attorney from 1981 to 2002 and former supervisor of government records litigation, argued against allowing further delays based on what she said looks like some “mad effort to find some way to indict Mr. McCabe to appease the president,” adding, “it’s more critical than ever that the public have information. We need to be able to restore our faith in the law enforcement community, in the FBI.”
Weismann appeared to strike a chord with Walton by saying: “We’re in dark times where there’s growing evidence that the president aided by the attorney general is using the power of his office to go after perceived political enemies. He’s going after the intelligence community. He’s going after the law enforcement community . . . ”
“Going after the courts, too,” Walton interjected.
“And he [Trump] is going after the courts, the press,” Weismann continued.
“I totally appreciate what you just said and share many of the same concerns,” responded Walton, a former senior official in the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office and defense attorney.
[continues]
Walton gave no explanation but spoke after the hearing in a sealed session….
Walton said: “This matter is a high-profile matter. And I think it does, while the matter hangs in limbo, it does undermine the credibility, not only of the Justice Department because it’s not making these hard decisions, but also the court, because Congress enacted this [open records] legislation for the purpose of the American public being made aware of what its government is doing.”
“So the government will have to make a call,” he concluded. “If it doesn’t, I’m going to start ordering the release of information on the next occasion.”
On Tuesday, nearly seven months after Ms. Warren first unveiled her plan, The Verge offered a window into what Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, thinks about it. In leaked audio recordings of open meetings with employees this summer, Mr. Zuckerberg can be heard saying that the company would sue if Ms. Warren were to enact the plan as president.
“If she gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge,” he said.
“Does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to have a major lawsuit against our own government. That’s not like the position you want to be in. We care about our country and want to work with our government to do good things,” he added. “But look, at the end of the day, if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight.”
Shortly after The Verge published Mr. Zuckerberg’s remarks, Ms. Warren responded by renewing her criticism of Facebook.
“What would really ‘suck,’” she said, mimicking Mr. Zuckerberg’s language, “is if we don’t fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy.”
[continues]
Maxine, go girl!
“I’m calling on the GOP to stop Trump’s filthy talk of whistleblowers being spies & using mob language implying they should be killed. Impeachment is not good enough for Trump. He needs to be imprisoned & placed in solitary confinement. But for now, impeachment is the imperative,” Waters tweeted.
93F. 🥵
Don’t confuse mice and rats. Naming a mouse Stephen Miller would just offend mice.
Poobah, Mrs. P & I had that Barr disbarred discussion Sunday night – we are amazed that no one in the DC or NY bar (or wherever he’s licensed) seems to have filed an ethics complaint against the prick.
Shouldn’t Giuliani be disbarred, also? Asking sincerely- i’m surprised one can blatantly lie and admit to crimes, publicly, and keep their law-license.
Why not? His behavior is certainly licentious.
Last month we had a total of 0.69-inch precip on our back porch rain gauge. Today is the first day in weeks that didn’t reach into the 90’s–only 88-deg with a heat index of 96-deg. We are being told that season-normal weather will arrive by the end of the week. That will be nice.
In re: to miller don’t confuse the animal with the substance that comes out of his back side. there is big difference between rat shit and a rat. Just sayin’
jack
Flatus we set an annual record for rain fall. even then I for got to water the fall plants I bought and killed them. Oh well, next year
Jack
Bink, re Trudy, as they say in Bama, HELL YEAH.
The White House needs an exterminator…besides Trump & Miller.
The rumor is, trump and pompeo will be thoroughly burnt by State Department Inspector General Winnick tomorrow. The IG requested and got an emergency meeting, duces tecum, with three bipartisan, bicameral committees. This meeting will occur tomorrow, pray that he survives until he is safely in the Capitol.
You heard it here first.
barr should be disbarred, de-licensed, and imprisoned for life in a cage in Guantanamo.
pompeo should be imprisoned for life in a cage in Guantanamo.
trump, his adult kids, his latest wife, all his other appointees, julie annie, all his corporate officers, and his congressional partisans should all be imprisoned for life in a cage in Guantanamo.
One cage fits all. One commode, no door or curtain.
the trump of tomorrow
Instead of parking tickets, we should shoot overtime space hogs in the legs. People who take tags off pillows, cut off a hand. Second offense : take off a head.
It’s the east coast and the rosy fingers of dawn have yet to streak through the early morning gloom. It’s been a dark night, except for the glare from a naked incandescent bulb swinging lazily behind me; the shadows moving in sync with the crickets’ soulful medlies. I seem to be “up with the chickens” and but for the fact that I haven’t seen a live chicken in decades, I would be.
There’s much to ponder before I set myself into the dirty business which lies ahead this day.
sturge, classic
you should enter that in the next “it was a dark and stormy night” novel contest. .
Right now, I’ve set myself to writing “The Grand Gorge Tires Polka”. It’s going to wind up on every jukebox in the Catskills. I just don’t have time for frivolous endeavor.
Rolin’ rollin’ rollin’
Rolin’ rollin’ rollin’
Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’
Though the streams are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin’
Keep them dogies rollin’
Keep them dogies rollin’
Rawhide
Don’t try to understand them
Just rope, throw and brand ’em
Soon they’ll be kneeling high and wide
the big twit keeps on turnin’
proud Nancy keeps on burnin’
rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on Potomac river
rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on Potomac river
[apologies to john fogerty]
NYT best of late night:
hope people got to see this interview on cnn with lizzie and her husband:
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and her husband Bruce Mann share the story of how they met with CNN’s MJ Lee.
bruce, our first First Laddie?
he really came across as a very likable guy (one of the few times this can be said of a law prof most of whom are superassholes). good for middle America to see her in that setting to offset the elitist and radical leftist charges thrown at her.
let’s not stop there, impeach Pence too and it’s President Pelosi!
so our first 1st laddie would be Paul? and if prez. Nancy selects Liz for veep, then Bruce could be our first 2nd laddie. we’re moving up the ladd-er so to speak.
Pat, I enjoyed that CNN interview via your link–thanks! It appears to me that the three of them have a good chance of maintaining their sanity whatever may occur.
Craig – I keep thinking SFB is going to toss bobble-head under the bus wheels very soon. He already said something about the calls BH makes. It could be a clean sweep and Speaker Pelosi gets a well deserved government position.
If that uptick in impeachment support among Republicans is a trend and not an anomaly assumptions about what would happen with Senate Republicans might need revisiting. They hate the guy and if they see blood they’ll pounce.
As I went out a riding
One dark and stormy day
I saw the Prez go sliding
Impeachment on the way
Jessye Norman, Regal American Soprano, is Dead at 74
Looking deeper into CNN poll above 22 percent of Republicans under 50 years old favor impeachment AND removal. Up from 9pts in May. Something is happening.
The legend of Judy Garland is getting a real workout this year. First with the movie Judy and now with Head Down the Yellow Brick Road with Paper Mill’s “Chasing Rainbows” about her early vaudeville days leading to teenage fame at MGM.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-Head-Down-the-Yellow-Brick-Road-with-Paper-Mills-CHASING-RAINBOWS-20191001
Amber Guyger found guilty of murder. Almost restores my faith in the TX judicial system
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2019/10/01/jurors-begin-second-day-of-deliberations-in-amber-guyger-s-murder-trial/
pence first, then trump. Ms Pelosi should be president for a few months before either Warren or Biden get sworn in.
We may need martial law in some areas of the country. We’ll need bigger FBI and State Dep’t budgets. We’ll also need more a secure hospital prison than the one in Rochester, MN, cuz trump, his sister, manafort, julie annie, barr, steve nosferatu miller, ross, pompey, sarah hucksterbe sanders, brer kavanaugh, mickey mulvaney, pigman grassley and moskva midge really don’t look healthy.
Lock ’em ALL up !
Rollin’ heads sounds good to me
I’ve always thought Nancy P should be president
WH rats leaving the sinking ship?
In other news: A mouse literally fell out of the ceiling in our White House booth and landed on my lap.
9,699
the hill:
Other reporters, including Reuters correspondent Steve Holland, tweeted photos of White House reporters scrambling in the press room as they searched for the mouse as it ran around the booth.
One producer’s tweeted video shows the mouse running behind tables and equipment as it remained uncaptured.
The mouse later escaped the office area and was running free in the White House press briefing room.
“Chase underway,” tweeted CNBC correspondent Eamon Javers.
It does not appear that the mouse has since been caught. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.
name the WH mouse contest
I name the WH mouse Stephen Miller…
I was just thinking the same thing
Jessye Norman – A Portrait – When I Am Laid In Earth (Purcel)
The mouse may have been on a mission from the “deep state”.
For those who do not get a chance to peek in obscure areas of the news, the manufacturing sector of the US economy is in a recession. The tariffs are taking a heavy toll. This is not good news.
I really really really want to see Truly Julieannie in jail in the basement of congress
bbronc, I think you’re right. the little whirring, beeping noises and photo flashes coming out of the filing cabinets should have given them a hint.
looks more like Jason Bourne than james bond though, less panache
wapo:
A veteran federal judge on Monday warned U.S. prosecutors either to charge former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe or to drop their investigation into whether he lied to investigators about an unauthorized media disclosure, saying their indecision was undermining the credibility of the Justice Department.
If a decision is not made, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton of Washington, D.C., said at a hearing that he would order the Justice Department to release internal FBI documents related to McCabe’s firing by Nov. 15.
[…]
Walton spoke after Justice attorneys argued in private before him for the latest postponement in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over documents about the FBI’s investigation of McCabe, which the government has declined to release citing potential interference with a law enforcement proceeding.
The case against McCabe grew out of an investigation by the FBI’s inspection division, and the records might reveal the details of that inquiry. McCabe’s legal team has asserted, for example, that two inspection division agents disagreed about the appropriateness of asking certain questions in one conversation with McCabe.
“I would send this message to those in positions of authority in the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Justice Department . . . that I will not condone further delay,” Walton said, according to a transcript of the unsealed portion of the hearing.
Walton expressed “dismay” to Justice lawyers that the case “is just dragging too long,” adding: “You all have got to cut and make your decision. It’s not a hard decision, and I think it needs to be made. If it’s not made, I’m going to start ordering the release of information because I think our society, our public does have a right to know what’s going on.”
[…]
Weismann, a Justice Department attorney from 1981 to 2002 and former supervisor of government records litigation, argued against allowing further delays based on what she said looks like some “mad effort to find some way to indict Mr. McCabe to appease the president,” adding, “it’s more critical than ever that the public have information. We need to be able to restore our faith in the law enforcement community, in the FBI.”
Weismann appeared to strike a chord with Walton by saying: “We’re in dark times where there’s growing evidence that the president aided by the attorney general is using the power of his office to go after perceived political enemies. He’s going after the intelligence community. He’s going after the law enforcement community . . . ”
“Going after the courts, too,” Walton interjected.
“And he [Trump] is going after the courts, the press,” Weismann continued.
“I totally appreciate what you just said and share many of the same concerns,” responded Walton, a former senior official in the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office and defense attorney.
[continues]
not bad comeback for little ole lady in tennies
nytimes:
[…]
Ms. Warren rolled out a proposal to break up Facebook, Amazon and other tech giants in March. To ensure that tech workers got her message, her campaign paid for a billboard near a major transit station in San Francisco. It read “Break Up Big Tech,” in capital letters.
On Tuesday, nearly seven months after Ms. Warren first unveiled her plan, The Verge offered a window into what Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, thinks about it. In leaked audio recordings of open meetings with employees this summer, Mr. Zuckerberg can be heard saying that the company would sue if Ms. Warren were to enact the plan as president.
“If she gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge,” he said.
“Does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to have a major lawsuit against our own government. That’s not like the position you want to be in. We care about our country and want to work with our government to do good things,” he added. “But look, at the end of the day, if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight.”
Shortly after The Verge published Mr. Zuckerberg’s remarks, Ms. Warren responded by renewing her criticism of Facebook.
“What would really ‘suck,’” she said, mimicking Mr. Zuckerberg’s language, “is if we don’t fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy.”
[continues]
Maxine, go girl!
93F. 🥵
Don’t confuse mice and rats. Naming a mouse Stephen Miller would just offend mice.
Winthrop SC Poll 10/1
https://www.winthrop.edu/winthroppoll/current-findings.aspx
Barr should be ‘disbarred’
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-dangerous-position-of-william-barr
Poobah, Mrs. P & I had that Barr disbarred discussion Sunday night – we are amazed that no one in the DC or NY bar (or wherever he’s licensed) seems to have filed an ethics complaint against the prick.
Shouldn’t Giuliani be disbarred, also? Asking sincerely- i’m surprised one can blatantly lie and admit to crimes, publicly, and keep their law-license.
Why not? His behavior is certainly licentious.
Last month we had a total of 0.69-inch precip on our back porch rain gauge. Today is the first day in weeks that didn’t reach into the 90’s–only 88-deg with a heat index of 96-deg. We are being told that season-normal weather will arrive by the end of the week. That will be nice.
In re: to miller don’t confuse the animal with the substance that comes out of his back side. there is big difference between rat shit and a rat. Just sayin’
jack
Flatus we set an annual record for rain fall. even then I for got to water the fall plants I bought and killed them. Oh well, next year
Jack
Bink, re Trudy, as they say in Bama, HELL YEAH.
The White House needs an exterminator…besides Trump & Miller.
He really is insane. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/trump-border-wars.html#click=https://t.co/p607ZH21f9
The rumor is, trump and pompeo will be thoroughly burnt by State Department Inspector General Winnick tomorrow. The IG requested and got an emergency meeting, duces tecum, with three bipartisan, bicameral committees. This meeting will occur tomorrow, pray that he survives until he is safely in the Capitol.
You heard it here first.
barr should be disbarred, de-licensed, and imprisoned for life in a cage in Guantanamo.
pompeo should be imprisoned for life in a cage in Guantanamo.
trump, his adult kids, his latest wife, all his other appointees, julie annie, all his corporate officers, and his congressional partisans should all be imprisoned for life in a cage in Guantanamo.
One cage fits all. One commode, no door or curtain.
the trump of tomorrow
Instead of parking tickets, we should shoot overtime space hogs in the legs. People who take tags off pillows, cut off a hand. Second offense : take off a head.
It’s the east coast and the rosy fingers of dawn have yet to streak through the early morning gloom. It’s been a dark night, except for the glare from a naked incandescent bulb swinging lazily behind me; the shadows moving in sync with the crickets’ soulful medlies. I seem to be “up with the chickens” and but for the fact that I haven’t seen a live chicken in decades, I would be.
There’s much to ponder before I set myself into the dirty business which lies ahead this day.
sturge, classic
you should enter that in the next “it was a dark and stormy night” novel contest. .
Right now, I’ve set myself to writing “The Grand Gorge Tires Polka”. It’s going to wind up on every jukebox in the Catskills. I just don’t have time for frivolous endeavor.
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