It's the Cruelty Stupid

by Ugh

Poor now former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen quit yesterday (or, rather, was shoved out the door) as it seems that, despite separating thousands of children from their parents at the border and then admitting it might take two years to reunite them all (which, really, if you were 2 when you were separated from your parents is only 100% of your life, so shruggy), she wasn't quite as cruel as Trump and salt of the earth adviser Ramsay Bolton Stephen Miller wished her to be, and now she shall ascend to the great Fox News commentariat post in the sky.

Two years ago I thought noting the United States might put up a sort of reverse Berlin Wall on the border where machine gun nests were set to shoot anyone crossing the border on sight was (kind of) an absurd illustration of Trump's approach to the border.  Not so sure anymore.

When W left I worried that the worst dregs of his administration would return to play significant roles the next time the GOP "won" the presidency.  If only.

 

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[John D. Thullen]

See Bannon's new Eagle's Nest in Kilgore's embedded twitter feed here:

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2019/04/18/late-night-open-thread-depth-of-the-gop-field/

I'll bet the security ain't so good.

The world should too.

[hairshirthedonist]

The radio in my office is on very thin ice right now, with Barr's words emanating from it and causing my adrenaline to spike.

[John D. Thullen]

p refuses to testify under oath to his "total innocence".

America is the charred spire of Notre Dam.

[John D. Thullen]

Dame, not a female goat.

Damn.

[John D. Thullen]

Reporter: Is it improper for you to attempt to spin the report before anyone has read it?

Barr: "No"

[hairshirthedonist]

Everyone was being super mean to the president, but he was really, really cooperative, anyway, even though people were trying to undermine him the whole time. Profile in courage.

[Nigel]

Curious that he was so unwilling to testify about his complete innocence under oath.

[John D. Thullen]

The big baby was frustrated. You do things when you are frustrated.

I get it.

Stalin was frustrated with the Ukraine.

The Saudis with al Khashoggi.

The Jews drove Hitler to drink.

Savonarola was such a thorn in the side that frustrated popes hung him, and then, to totally relieve their anxiety, burned him in a fit of pique.

All of those four-eyed Cambodians made Pol Pot myopic.

Larry Fine and brother Curly caused Moe Howard to come up with the Moe-slap and the eye poke. Put yourself in his place, especially if you need a sight gag.

Think how locks and combination safes have thwarted bank robbers into tunneling, wearing masks, and pistol-whipping bank tellers thru the ages.

Yoko. Nuf said.

I need to start breaking the law in big, big ways to take advantage of this beautiful window of opportunity as the Rule of Law is suspended.

Umbrella manufacturers need to start dipping the points of the things in polonium and Novichok right as a factory-setting.

[John D. Thullen]

https://juanitajean.com/uh/

Today is like the scene in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" when Liberty's snide little prairie scum adjutant, played by Strother Martin slits the John Wayne character's throat just before the latter can shoot Liberty dead in the street like the dog he is, and then Liberty, in celebration, carves his initials in Jimmy Stewart's forehead, has his gang bang Vera Miles, and then convenes the new "acting" city council to introduce "reforms" into the city charter, and that's how the West was won, little doggies.

Next up, we remake "High Noon", in which Gary Cooper, playing the deserted Sheriff, throws in his lot with the cowardly townspeople, tosses his badge into the dust, marches over to the saloon, watering trough, bughouse, shebang, cantina, grogshop, and gin mill and dresses up like a saloon girl and awaits the bad guys entry into town with his skirts hiked up and his lips in the whistling position. Just blow.

Kill America.

[cleek]

"The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."

the italicized part is what Barr quoted.

[John D. Thullen]

At least we've narrowed the case down to the correct field of medicine, given the patient:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/conway-mueller-probe-political-proctology-exam-on-trump

Then what has been causing this explosive diarrhea of lies, obstruction and threats from this lout and his fellow filth for the past three years?

There's a mass visible up there on the scan and rectal bleeding from the Republican Party's large corrupted bowel.

I don't think dietary changes are going to prevent the tumor from metastasizing to the entire body politic.

[John D. Thullen]

At least we've narrowed the case down to the correct field of medicine, given the patient:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/conway-mueller-probe-political-proctology-exam-on-trump

Then what has been causing this explosive diarrhea of lies, obstruction and threats from this lout and his fellow filth for the past three years?

There's a mass visible up there on the scan and rectal bleeding from the Republican Party's large corrupted bowel.

I don't think dietary changes are going to prevent the tumor from metastasizing to the entire body politic.

[John D. Thullen]

Try to redact reality and we'll kill the redactors:

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/04/mueller-found-corrupt-intent-repeatedly-in-donald-trumps-actions-toward-the-russia-investigation/