BTW, I'm listening to All The President's Men on my commute. First of all, there's a lot more to Watergate than I knew. Second of all, the parallels are really strong. Replace the ratfuckers (not my term) with Russian operatives and it starts to look really similar at least at a surface level.
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Jul 28, 2017 4:47:04 am PDT #14541 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
Gudanov - Jul 28, 2017 4:49:32 am PDT #14542 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
about the Mooch's call to the New Yorker
My wife told me I had to read that New Yorker article, and I was blown away. That's who the White House has running the comms department?
Jesse - Jul 28, 2017 4:51:06 am PDT #14543 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I KNOW! COMMUNICATIONS!!
billytea - Jul 28, 2017 4:51:26 am PDT #14544 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I was busy yesterday, so I'm still laughing about the Mooch's call to the New Yorker and Steve Bannon sucking his own cock.
This is of course a blatant misrepresentation by the New Yorker. What he really accused Steve Bannon of doing was cucking his own sock.
Gudanov - Jul 28, 2017 4:54:02 am PDT #14545 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
I KNOW! COMMUNICATIONS!!
It reminds of FireFly when someone asks Mal what Jayne does on the ship and he says 'PR'.
Fiona - Jul 28, 2017 4:55:35 am PDT #14546 of 30002
That's who the White House has running the comms department?
Ha ha yes, it's beyond parody. Though thank heavens Colbert, Meyers, Oliver et al are still giving it their best shots.
I don't think that conservative pundits have any idea what this whole orange fiasco is doing to the US's reputation in the world. Or perhaps they are just so convinced of American Greatness that they can't imagine anything could affect it. But the current administration seems to be doing its darndest.
I do have a question though. By most metrics, the US healthcare system is one of the worst in the developed world, and Obamacare was at least a step in the right direction. But 45 and many Republican Senators, including McCain in his statement, repeatedly claim that it is "failing". On what evidence? I mean, other than "rich people have to pay more".
Edited for clarity.
billytea - Jul 28, 2017 4:58:17 am PDT #14547 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My wife told me I had to read that New Yorker article, and I was blown away. That's who the White House has running the comms department?
In tonight's sketch, the part of Sean Spicer will be played by John Cleese, Anthony Scaramucci by Graham Chapman and the White House Press Corps by Michael Palin. [link]
Laura - Jul 28, 2017 4:59:08 am PDT #14548 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
The White House infighting is amazing to watch. Once again, every day, they keep surprising me.
WindSparrow - Jul 28, 2017 5:13:48 am PDT #14549 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
But 45 and many Republican Senators, including McCain in his statement, repeatedly claim that it is "failing". On what evidence? I mean, other than "rich people have to pay more".
These are people who think school lunch programs and Meals on Wheels aren't getting results. What other metrics would they use than how much rich people might conceivably be paying and whether or not it causes them to become richer?
WindSparrow - Jul 28, 2017 5:16:44 am PDT #14550 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
And let's be serious: if we could develop a single-payer system that rich people could opt-out of the taxes for so it would not cost them anything but that in any way shape or form put limits on the profits of health care corporations, they'd fight like it was Omaha Beach. Let's be realistic: they'd fight not because it might cost them anything but because they strong,y believe they have insufficient control over who prospers and who lives in abject misery.