52 thoughts on “Oval Office Mic Drop”

  1. DODO’s response (something mumbled like “and I’d take it”) drew additional snickers from the attendees and his requisite sycophants.

    wonder what was behind the nickers, what grift he already extracted or is extracting from So. Africa?

  3. He should’ve said it dripping with sarcasm, a la Steve Martin. Well, excuse me!

    Craig – I was never able to sign up for your cooking channel.

  11. The court formerly known as supreme failed to a church school get tax money on a 4-4 decision. Justice Barrett recused. Seems she has some sort of humanity in her. She also has some sort of comity with the religious organization wanting to remove the church state division.

  13. Ivy just say that to your phone and upload.

    Here’s how:

    📱 HOW TO POST A VIDEO TO YOUTUBE
    ✅ Step 1: Get the YouTube App

    If you don’t already have it, download the YouTube app from the App Store (iPhone) or Google Play (Android).
    Then sign in with your Google account.
    🎥 Step 2: Record or Choose a Video

    Tap the ➕ plus sign at the bottom center of the screen.

    Choose “Create a Short” to record right now (or upload a clip under 60 seconds from your phone).

    You can also tap “Upload a video” if you recorded it earlier.

    ✍️ Step 3: Add a Title

    Tap where it says “Add a title”.

    Keep it short. Just tell us what it’s about.

    📤 Step 4: Post It

    Tap “Next”

    Choose “Public” so others can see it

    Tap “Upload Short” (or “Post” if it’s not a Short)

    That’s it. You’re on the internet now. Sorry.

    🍿 BONUS TIPS

    Try to keep it under 60 seconds if you want it to be a Short.

    Talk straight to the camera. No editing needed. Just one good idea.

    Don’t worry if it’s rough. That’s part of the charm.

  16. I don’t have a Google account, and I haven’t had a voice since Sunday. Gonna have to email my rants to my Republican Senators, the POSs.

  17. I’ve been trained to be camera shy, Craig, but I won’t rule it out just yet. More to be revealed. Thanks for moo-ving us heifers along the Trail. 🐄🐄🐄

  20. lol

    I just read an article about ICE detaining a productive tax-paying Danish father of five in an Orwellian, private, for-profit detention facility over a “paperwork miscommunication” from 10 years ago

    These trumpists do not give a fuck. The cruelty is the reason. no I do not want to be on their radar.

    meanwhile, they’re selling this country to Arab monarchists and nihilistic foreign billionaires

    a rant on YouTube from me won’t change their evil, dull minds

  21. ill start a youtube that’s exclusively me calling trumpers “stupid”

    …because it can’t be said enough

  24. Run-of-the-Mill Magas, you will not get to see any of this money in your personal wallets.

  27. One thing I learned a long time ago few people really want to listen to my opinion. But as an old man, I do notice they tend to be more polite lately, as they listen to my ramblings. I’ve got to where I thank them for being polite and listening to me.

    But good luck with your youtube hobby. Also, I only use my phone for limited things. I would be fine with a rotary dial phone that let me text and see if I had any important emails. Also if you can’t say it in text in 2 sentences give me a call.
    Jack

  28. Ivy
    Given the woes of the world. For my sanity’s sake, I’ve learned to ignore most of the worlds tragedies. There are ugly people in this world who do terrible things. There always have been and there always will be.
    Jack

  29. that’d become a meme right away

    My greatest fear.

    Jack, who just wants to be rich, not famous

  30. I am always a late-comer to technology but eventually get on board, not all of it, but some. I was an early-hater of Facebook back in the day when my daughter (*of blessed memory) insisted Mark Zuckerberg was really her actual friend. I stayed off it for the better part of a decade. Finally succumbed after she was gone and I needed to see all the things she’d posted over the years. Bittersweet now, but keeps her memory real and alive each day. I’m on there now and have learned to navigate around being the product, not the customer. All my best bird-watching places are on Facebook.

  32. Kristi Noem may have just been following orders when she botched her definition of habeas corpus, or she’s just ignorant or plain-stupid.
    It instantly reminded me of Dana Perino, that mental whiz, who shrugged off criticism when she knew nothing of the Cuban Missile Crisis when Bush43 was President. (Colorado Pols reported:)
    “White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, who answers tough questions daily about the president’s foreign policy, confessed over the weekend she didn’t know about the Cuban Missile Crisis when a reporter mentioned it in a recent briefing…

    “I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about…the Cuban Missile Crisis,” the 35-year-old Perino recalled, as retold by the Washington Post. “It had to with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure.”

    Perino added she then went home and asked her husband about the historical event.

    “I said, ‘Wasn’t that like the Bay of Pigs thing?’ And he said, ‘Oh Dana,’” she said.

    Perino, a University of Southern Colorado in Pueblo graduate who previously worked for former Colorado Reps. Scott McInnis and Dan Schaefer, became White House Press Secretary earlier this year after Tony Snow stepped down.

    It’s a shame, actually, because we’ve always understood Perino to be articulate and knowledgeable. But now she’s the butt of yet another joke about the Bush administration, destined to go down alongside the infamous Bush/Segway “malfunction” and Michael Brown’s wardrobe tips during Hurricane Katrina. She probably deserves better than that.

    On the other hand, we learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis in 9th grade history…”

  33. Dexter, it is like I learned very little about history of my recent past , the 1950’s. As to Cuba, I remember it happening because I lived it, I remember it being of such importance at the time that when we did a geography lesson to name the continents a number of us listed Cuba. I also remember the winter we couldn’t make snow icecream because of bomb test fall out. Things like snow icecream are important to a 6 yr old.
    History teachers rarely teach about things they remember as “just yesterday”. After all we all remember the Y2K scare. Right?
    Jack

  35. Love that, Craig. You are getting the hang of it.

    Kristi Knowmnothing did that on purpose, no doubt. Telling the truth gets you in trouble in this Cabinet.

  36. Some of us are old fogeys

    The Old Man and the iPhone: Our modern conveniences are exhaustingly inconvenient
    Yes, I’m old, and younger sorts are more adept at the various facets of our wireless ways. Codgers and technology go together like peanut butter and sardines. But it’s also true that baby boomers, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z alike muddle through a morass of inputs, outputs, passwords, password validations, password resets, QR codes, notifications and nudges that didn’t exist a quarter-century ago. Those cyberannoyances accompany innovations that undeniably streamline a range of experiences — summoning a ride, plotting a route, buying a movie or concert ticket, changing the thermostat, checking in for a flight — to a degree that I wouldn’t be foolish enough to wish away. But the innovations seldom live up fully to their promises of ease and expedition, and they introduce intricacies and imperfections all their own. The troubleshooting accretes; for every three minutes you gain, you give one back. And your head fills with a kind of noise that can sap your energy with a special and sinister potency.

    https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render?

  39. Paying for a parking spot the most inconvenient. Most of the others you’re not standing outside in the cold or rain.

  40. Apple has done some weird thing of putting emails into “categories.” Annoyed me at first but now I see it’s easier to delete messages with Trump in the headline without opening it further.

  41. https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-trump-permit-extraction-2075673

    Greenland signs lucrative minerals deal with Europe in blow to Trump

    Greenland has allowed a Danish-French consortium to mine a rock which is key to the production of aluminum.

    Greenland Anorthosite Mining (GAM) was granted permission to extract anorthosite, a white rock composed mainly of aluminum, micro silica, and calcium. The firm plans to ship crushed anorthosite from the west of Greenland for use by the fiberglass industry.

    In announcing the 30-year permit, Greenland’s Mineral Resources Minister Naaja Nathanielsen said the goal was to scale the project to become a climate-friendly alternative to bauxite in producing aluminum for aircraft, vehicles and defense.

    GAM, which is backed by French company Jean Boulle Group and real estate investment firms bodies from Denmark and Greenland, was granted a 30-year permit, Reuters reported.

    *Thirty years!

  42. The jokes are sick and sickening.

    The White House’s defense of the president’s memecoin sweepstakes private access dinner at his club on Thursday is to say that he is doing it on his “personal time.” Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, was pressed about this on Thursday.

    “It’s absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency,” she said.

    -NYT

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-plane-south-africa-gifts.html

  44. Will this shit never end

    The Supreme Court on Thursday granted the Trump administration’s request to pause orders by federal judges that required government officials to allow board members at two independent federal agencies to stay in office after President Donald Trump tried to fire them. Chief Justice John Roberts had already issued an administrative stay, which temporarily put those orders on hold to give the justices time to consider the government’s request, so Thursday’s order extends that hold while the litigation continues in a federal appeals court and, if necessary, the Supreme Court.

    In an unsigned two-page order, the court explained that the decision to put the lower courts’ orders on hold “reflects our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty.”

    Supreme Court allows Trump to remove agency heads without cause for now

  45. Other cultures are very experienced with doing bribes and corruption. Maybe they’re relieved we’re finally on board with rules they know.

  46. No matter how long you’ve used an iPhone, there are always new (or new-to-you) features to discover. And stumbling upon a time-saving trick after so many years is, quite frankly, a delight.

    Here are 18 tips and tricks that Wirecutter staffers rely on all the time. If you don’t already know about them, we hope they make your life a lot easier.

    https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/iphone-tips-tricks/?

  47. Rep. Sarah McBride voiced hope the worst cuts in the Maga Mike Bill can be mitigated by the Senate.

  52. CO-08. State Rep. Shannon Bird announced Tuesday morning that she would seek the Democratic nomination to face GOP Rep. Gabe Evans in Colorado’s swingy 8th District.

    Bird, who was first elected to the legislature in 2018, was characterized as “a moderate voice in the House Democratic caucus, with a focus on business legislation” by Colorado Politics earlier this year. Bird had launched a bid for the state Senate over the winter, but she switched races Tuesday and excoriated Evans and Donald Trump for promoting “an agenda that’s making lives harder.”

    Bird joins a primary that already includes fellow state Rep. Manny Rutinel and former Rep. Yadira Caraveo, who narrowly lost to Evans last year.

    Several other Democrats could also run, but two notable local pols who’d been mentioned as possible candidates, Adams County Commissioner Julie Duran Mullica and her husband, state Sen. ​​Kyle Mullica, both endorsed Bird on Tuesday.

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