It’s no secret that Donald Trump thrives on conflict, chaos, and crisis. It’s also no secret that normal people find the constant chaos exhausting. I’m only marginally normal but find myself waking up and wondering what shit has hit the … Continue reading Your President* Speaks: The Daily Constitutional Crisis
Graham Greene blurred the lines between literary and genre fiction. He was fascinated with the criminal element and spies but had an elegant prose style. He was quite simply one of the best writers of the mid-20th Century. Here’s a … Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Graham Greene
In which Adrastos paraphrases Russell and Huey Long. Continue reading The Finger Of Blame
In 1968, everyone had psychedelic album covers even the King of Salsa, Tito Puente. In Spanish-speaking countries, of course, the tile was El Rey. Whatever you call it, it’s a swell record with a groovy cover, baby or is that bebé ? … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: The King Tito Puente
Joshua Green’s new book, Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency, is the gift that keeps on giving. This is the third time I’ve quoted from it. I guess that means I should pick up a copy at some point unless someone wants to send me a freebie, that is. It’s obvious that Bannon was one of Green’s main sources, especially of a story like this one about Paul Manafort and the Insult Comedian: After Trump decided to demote his campaign chair Paul Manafort, who drew negative attention to the campaign as reporters scrutinized his previous work for Ukrainian … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Stay Up Late
It’s the anthropologists of Real America, again, making sure we hear from a guy who carries Grover Norquist’s bags around! In 1997, Patterson was riding in a car that was hit by a drunk driver, and the bones of his left arm were shattered into several dozen pieces. After six surgeries, he suffered permanent nerve damage, decreased arm mobility, and no future as a closeup magician. Having acquired his G.E.D., he enrolled in classes at the University of Miami. The quality of Patterson’s writing impressed an instructor, who persuaded him to apply to Columbia. The year that Patterson turned thirty, … Continue reading Look Who Just Showed Up, Everybody!
Adrastos on Mitch McConnell’s very bad day. Continue reading Instant Analysis: When The Spell Is Broken
I’ve spent the last 177 days feeling like we’re living through a Marx Brothers movie. Until last week, I was certain it was Duck Soup wherein Groucho is the lecherous President of Freedonia, Rufus T. Firefly. The more we learn … Continue reading First Draft Potpourri: Sanity Clause Edition
Well, that’s what I get for trying to take some time off. I was going to extend my sabbatical for another week, since Barbara is up in Seattle visiting her brother, and I’m well-stocked on hookers and blow – and then some Freeper has to post THIS :
Wow : Donald Trump Jr. Releases the Emails — and They Look a lot Like, Um, Collusion
Townhall ^ | July 11, 2017 | Guy Benson
Posted on 7/11/2017, 4:54:35 PM by righttackle44
Earlier today, here at Townhall and on Fox News, I said that more information needed to be gathered before anyone should declare the Donald Trump, Jr. story a bombshell or a dud. First and foremost, I argued, it would be very helpful to see the actual emails that preceded the now-infamous June meeting, which the New York Times claimed would demonstrate that the president’s son was well aware of the alleged source and nature of the promised anti-Clinton information (which never materialized) in advance.
The Times story was rooted in unnamed sources who characterized, but apparently did not produced, the messages in question. In order to determine if the documents were being mischaracterized, we should see them, I said. About an hour later, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted the full four-page exchange, which Cortney relayed here. Trump Jr. cast his tweets as efforts at full transparency, but one can’t help but wonder if there was another pressing motive at play: He preempted the Times, which had the chain and was about to run with it. In any case, the content of these emails was, in my case, literally jaw-dropping.
Trump Jr’s associate alerted him to the supposed existence of highly sensitive information regarding wrongdoing tied to Mrs. Clinton, telling him that it would be furnished by a “Russian government attorney” who was representing “Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump” (who now claims she wasn’t tied to the Kremlin). To which Trump Jr. replied, “if it’s what you say I love it.”
This couldn’t be much clearer: And these shifts look really bad, especially when you read the quote from March in which Trump Jr. flatly denies meeting with any Russian nationals in arranged meetings: .
And the comment from the Freeper who posted this heresy??
Wait for it…..
Not good.
To: righttackle44
Show me where collusion in a campaign is against the law.
3 posted on 7/11/2017, 4:56:07 PM by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There’d be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: hal ogen
I was going to post that but I’ve been on the floor after reading this…
To: righttackle44
To: righttackle44
To: righttackle44
It IS a matter of credibility. It may not be against the law or policy, but we would condemn the same series of events if the Clintons or Barack the Pretender or Schumer, or any other of the leftist beasts did it.
9 posted on 7/11/2017, 4:59:59 PM by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Collusion Confusion edition”
She’s a wolf. Forget that at your peril.
Spoilers within.
Continue reading “Every Winter That Ever Came Has Ended: Game of Thrones Thread”
Not everything sucks, guys. On the second day of the Keystone State Gay Rodeo, about 60 contestants arrived at New Holland Arena — which sits inside the massive Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex — but they weren’t alone on the grounds. Next door, a gathering of Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan. On the other end of the building, whistles could be heard as hundreds of youth basketball players took part in a tournament. The arena, though, belonged to the gay rodeo. It had been nearly a year in the making, the brainchild of Adam Romanik, … Continue reading Love at the Rodeo
I’ve been thinking about this for a while: There were like 40 people in that room. It was overwhelming. Did he run away and hide? No. He sat down and ate his dinner, like a man. — Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) July 12, 2017 Trump is an old racist dumbass. I know it’s fashionable to psychoanalyze him but he’s an old racist dumbass who rose to prominence through inherited wealth and a messy divorce. I know 20 of him and so do you. They don’t interact with anyone different from them not because they objectively hate non-white people or would even … Continue reading The Uncertainty Principle
The two great jazz keyboard players had, of course, met before this joint appearance on Soundstage in 1974. The show features short sets by Return To Forever and the Headhunters followed by a Chick and Herbie piano duet. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Chick Corea Meets Herbie Hancock
This week Adrastos discusses the Trashanova. Trump in Paris. Marc Kasowitz, and Warren Zevon. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: Miles From Nowhere
Della Street is plugged in and Oscar is leaning in. So it goes. Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Floor Show
Joyeux Quatorze Juillet is the correct way to say Happy Bastille Day even though the latter makes me want to storm a prison and free some prisoners. The French merely refer to it as La Fête Nationale and dispense with … Continue reading Joyeux Quatorze Juillet
Prosciutto is the problem per pompous pundit. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: David Brooks
Don Siegel week continues here at First Draft. The Big Steal was Siegel’s first opportunity to direct a first rate cast and he made the most of it. It’s trailer time: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: The Big Steal
In which Adrastos tells Republicans to stop invoking Reagan until they dump Trump. Continue reading The “Everybody Does It” Defense
Don Siegel meets Sofia Coppola and emerges victorious. Continue reading The Beguileds
Romeo’s Escape was Dave Alvin’s attempt to make a hit album. Things didn’t go as planned but it’s a helluva record with a swell collagey cover. The album is only available on YouTube in the playlist format. It’s worth dealing with: Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Romeo’s Escape
I just can’t wrap my mind around why the GOP won’t defend the fundamental conservatism of Obamacare: Republicans are engaged in a brutal civil war between hard-liners and moderates as they struggle to craft legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare. The episode invites an almost existential question for the GOP: Why, after seven years of nearly endless war against Obamacare, is the party unable to deliver a more conservative policy that provides access to health care to a similar number of Americans? Give me a minute. It’ll come to me. As a life-long Republican who has spent months contemplating this … Continue reading Say It With Me … RACISM!
Remember during the heyday of the Daily Show, when reporters would anonymously carp at the supposed freedom Jon Stewart had to call bullshit on bullshit? The stifled contemptuous jealousy with which they talked about him and his team? “Oh, he’s a comedian, not a journalist, and he’s on a cable network, not at an august publication run by someone with a numeral after his name, so he can question authority and we can’t, woe is helpless little us.” Here we go again. Paul Farhi of the Washington Post is JUST ASKING if maybe Jim Acosta treating the White House with … Continue reading This Entire Story on Jim Acosta is Bullshit
Steve Bannon meets Tony Soprano. Continue reading Life Imitates The Sopranos: Steve Bannon Edition
The Earl of Louisiana knew how to STFU. Continue reading Unsolicited Advice For Trump Junior From Earl Long
I used to think of July as the dog days of summer when not much happened. Those days appear to be gone, doggone it, We’ve had another news-heavy weekend so I’m going to run several flags up the pole and … Continue reading First Draft Potpourri: I’ll Be Doggone Edition
Hi, folks – taking a break this week. Combination of nothing new in Freeperville (besides the inevitable crowing that The Darnold was all alone in that G20 pic because he’s better than everyone else there and they’re just jealous) and general fed-upness. Speaking of fed up, here’s the surf and turf portion (broccoli was still steaming) of last night’s dinner. Congratulations – my contribution to First Draft has now turned into a bad Facebook page. There’s an APB out on my muse, and hopefully they’ll find her before she gets a new identity and a plane ticket to Fiji. If … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Can’t Even – Runaway muse edition
This was rightly roasted all over the place this week: Bigger government handouts won’t win working-class voters back. This is the fallacy of the left, believing that voters just need to be shown how much they are getting in government benefits. In reality, these voters see themselves as being penalized for maintaining the basic values of hard work, religion and family. And I made the point myself that “Democrats” like Penn have no idea where the center is in this country and no financial incentive to find out. If they can cash in without providing any kind of data, why … Continue reading Want to #Resist, Rich Liberals? Buy Some Fucking Newspapers
I know they don’t call themselves the Alvin Brothers. Whatever they call themselves, this is a helluva set. Enjoy. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Alvin Brothers Live
The first week of July is when it really heats up in New Orleans. The air is thick and smacks you upside the head when you venture outside. The pace of life slows to a crawl and Oscar and Della can be found sprawled out on our wood floors hoping to cool themselves. Nice work if you can get it.
Later today, I’m going to the silliest annual event in New Orleans. It’s a non-violent running of the bulls thingamabob. The “bulls” are roller girls wielding soft paddles. I do not run. Dr. A and I hang out with our friend Cait and the child army of darkness whilst her husband Dave runs. We all sweat. It’s minosas and donuts for me, y’all. Perhaps I should take a Spank paddle to liven things up:
This week’s theme song is inspired by our Boschian theme. You may have noticed that Hieronymus Bosch’s prot0-surrealist The Garden of Earthly Delights is the featured image. There will be more Bosching about later but I will never head to the mountains and drink Busch beer. You say Busch, I say Bosch. Let’s call the whole thing off. Stop me before I quote Ira Gershwin again.
Back to the theme song. It comes from XTC’s Oranges and Lemons album whose cover was featured of a Wednesday in 2014. That feature was sidelined this week but will return next Wednesay: bad scout’s honor. Welcome to the garden of earthly delights, y’all.
I have another Boschy song for your listening pleasure. It was written and recorded by that self-described “awful little man,” Graham Parker.
Now that we’ve listened to some late-Eighties alternative rock, you deserve a break today. OMG, I sound like Ronald Fucking McDonald. That simply will not do.
Continue reading “Saturday Odds & Sods: Garden Of Earthly Delights”