In which we post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing - or neither - tweets

Definitely.

I have to admit, I'm going to enjoy watching the MAGA crowd doing cheetah flips trying to figure out how this can happen after continuously claiming the Biden Administration has weaponized the DoJ against them.

 

I am not happy either with his dealings with the Saudis. Having said that, Joe is easily in my top 2 presidents in my lifetime.

 

Reason #234 that is despise the GOP and anyone who claims to still be a republican. They are all unredeemable. If you have an ounce of decency, you can't be in this cult/criminal gang. This dude is being sold as a rational one....GMAFB.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said he would still support Donald Trump in a rematch against President Biden, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Said Kemp: “Despite all of that, despite all of his other trials and tribulations, he would still be a lot better than Biden. And the people serving in the administration would be a lot better than than Joe Biden. And it has nothing to do with being a coward. It has everything to do with winning and reversing the ridiculous, obscene positions of Joe Biden and this administration that literally, in a lot of ways, are destroying our country.

 

They won't flip, even if the DOJ prosecuted every Democratic Senator. The Democrats could give the Trump Party the benefit of the doubt on 10 straight tennis shots, calling each of them in, and the first time that a Democrat's shot falls within 3 feet of a line the Trump Party will call it out. The Trump Party will never do fair play, and will never show shame while crying about how the other side is unfair.

******** them entirely.

That said, the DOJ should go after Menendez because it's the right thing to do.

 

What would be those ridiculous and obscene positions? Letting the Federal Reserve do its job? Supporting Ukraine? Lowering drug prices?

 

Yes. pic.twitter.com/xgKhfKXBKa

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 22, 2023

 

Why are you quoting me? I didn't post this.....
Where is quote coming from?

 

I always liked Herb Hoover.

 

Dishonest hacks are going to be dishonest:

https://x.com/DougJBalloon/status/1705600900943811029?s=20

 

It is clear he was taken aback by by the reactions. This pompous ass didn't expect to get dragged around that much.

 

This x1,000,000

 

Good translation:

how to do white identity politics pic.twitter.com/rv5ngpBu38

— Victor Ray (@victorerikray) September 23, 2023

 

He calls himself upper middle class. I suspect he's in the top 1%, and is not upper middle class. To me, that one single ******** up just makes the whole thing worse.

 

Starting a new political party for people who don't give a shit either about how Robert Menendez stashes bribes of solid gold bar and wads of cash or that David Brooks spends $80 on morning double bourbons in a airport. – Nate Silver

— MMO (@MLKMXObama) September 23, 2023

 

I've been listening to David Brooks on the NewsHour for years...he's a reasonable Republican and a decent guy. He's probably at the top of the RINO list for MAGA's everywhere and quickly written off by them. I wish the right was more like this guy.

 

Yep. Sorry Charlie. I messed up the quote function.

 

He has his moments. Making a joke while drunk about "the Biden economy" isn't one of them, because if his brain cells weren't drowned he would have realized that MAGAs would run with his comment as if it were the gospel truth.

 

I'm sure that's right. my experience with him is mostly all from PBS. I've listened to him carefully though and he's usually very measured and sensible in his commentary which is rare for Republican pundits.

 

I'm still trying to figure out what the "joke" was. I just can't see how it was intended as a joke at all. Just another example of a Republican doing stupid things and not taking any responsibility or wanting any accountability for having done it.

 

1) He was surprised that his bill was so high.
2) He knows that Biden is overly blamed for inflation, by people who believe that Magic Shaman Presidents control global prices.
3) So, see ... a joke!

Now I don't know that is what he was thinking, but it could well be. I mean, we do stuff like that on this board, writing about how something is Barack's fault when we mean the opposite.

Or maybe he really does think that Biden caused those prices, in which case he would be a dolt.

 

There's just a lot that doesn't make sense to me, even if we assume he is oblivious to the need for emojis, etc., when using sarcasm or cracking a joke.

For example, he took the picture before eating the food. At the airport restaurants I've been to in Seattle and LAX they give you the bill after you finish, not before.

Now, I can't eat burgers in airport restaurants, so let's say they gave him the bill with the food. In that case he would have had to have a heck of a lot to drink before the food arrived to get the bill that high. In which case the "joke" was more "I'm going to blame Biden for my drinking problem".

 

Based on his PBS remarks, I think that he was trying to simultaneously make a self deprecating remark about how out of touch with the lives of the middle class he is, while also saying that the middle and working classes experience inflation as a series of sticker shocks.

 

That sounds much more like a post-flub explanation than a pre-flub explanation. I mean, how many journalists deliberately make jokes about how out of touch with the real world their social commentary is? If they really believed that, they would write very differently.