I know this is a challenge, but what is the stupidest thing you’ve seen today?
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Nothing. It’s 6:19 in the morning here.
Look harder.
The youtube video’s title:
just too hard. What with the intensity of the competition ‘n all.
The way that Melania Trump wrote her speech herself, but it was those damn staffers who are responsible for copying lines from Michelle Obama.
BTW did anyone else hear the way that NPR had mixed the two women’s voices? You can hear Ms. Trump speaking “over” Ms. Obama–speaking the same words.
I got stuck on Christie to Matt Lauer:
I don’t think it can possibly get any stupider than that. It’s like absolute zero.
any doubt remained!) that Christie will lie like a rug when called to.
93% of Christie’s emails contained nothing about the closure of the GW Bridge. 93% of Christie’s diet is healthy and slimming. 93% of Christie’s public statements are truthful. 93% of NJ public contracts under the Christie administration are clean. Let’s just call him Mr. 93%.
On a related note, Sean Spicer used Akon, John Legend, and My Little Pony to defend Melania’s speech.
John Legend tweeted “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative.” Tara Strong, who voices Twilight Sparkle, tweeted “This is not Pony Princess approved. I’m Twilight Sparkle & do not approve this message.” She then tweeted “Plagiarism is NOT magic”! It’s only the second day and Twilight Sparkle is reading the Riot Act to the Trump campaign.
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I don’t know if that’s stupid, but it sure is silly.
This was a close second.
>>John Legend tweeted “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative.”
smart man.
That is hard, but I’m going with the article Mike Pence wrote in ’99, complaining that the Disney movie Mulan is a liberal plot to get more women in the military. Not only did he not recognize a 1500 year old Chinese myth, but his lurid imaginings of the behaviors of our “nubile, 18-year-old” soldiers makes me think he’s a pedophile. https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mister-ill-make-a-man-out-of-you?utm_term=.mxrYoy3nPl#.qxQA
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oh, that explains why there’s a diary about Mulan at dkos now. I hadn’t really caught the motivation.
Yep. It’s worth checking out.
But can that beat naughts panic over a cartoon sponge? Pence demonstrates historical ignorance while other rightwingers fantasize the sexuality of a cartoon sponge.
The stupidist? All politicians are stupid now. All political media is stupid now. All america is stupid now.
The other day Booman asked how it was that people would be content to vote for Trump and blow up the world. Well, all the stupid ought to give a clue. I’m about there. I won’t vote for trump, but I don’t much care about a country so stupid to even think about electing him.
this is more hateful and nasty than stupid, but it’s stupid too
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/rnc-forced-to-close-online-convention-chat-after-anti-semites-turn-i
t-into-a-jew-bashing-hatefest/
Saw that. Sadly, I am not surprised, given the company Trump keeps.
My neutered, 25lb Pharaoh hound trying to hump my spayed, 65lb Old English Sheepdog.
Much competition.
Personally?
I think it’s Trump allowing Manafort, Roger Stone and the rest of the Roy Cohn disciples run his campaign. (If of course it isn’t the other way around…the’ve been running him the whole time.)
If he goes down, it will be due the the stench of evil emanating off of those people.
AG
P.S. Donald Trump Is Entering a Dark and Tangled Forest. Roger Stone Is His Guide.
Breakfast with the most elegant ratf*cker alive. Charles S. Pierce.,
Read it.
AG
>> If he goes down, it will be due the the stench of evil emanating off of those people.
disagree. When he goes down, plenty of the blame will belong to the utterly unqualified candidate himself.
Listening to another progressive one-time Bernie supporter tell me Trump is okay because “he’s better on trade than Hillary” only to get home and read this:
http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/trump-auctions-himself-wall-street
Projection is strong these days, I guess.
the Bernie-or-Bust crew isn’t the place to look for reality.
It’s a wrap. NBC news It’s Official: Trump Wins GOP Presidential Nomination . In a mere 13 months secured a presidential nomination. Something that has eluded a few professional politicians for decades. Hells bells, it even Obama required an official campaign of eighteen months to get there.
The Telegraph – US air strike in Syria kills up to 85 civilians ‘mistaken for Isil fighters’
Will western leaders rush to condemn this air strike equivalent of the terror in Nice? Will people rush to honor the victims with makeshift flower memorials?
Stupidest thing I’ve SEEN today? Well, fortunately saw no TV today so that makes it much harder. If you’d asked yesterday I unfortunately saw a portion of the RNC while in the airport, so that of course provided a slew of options. But today ….
Well, it’s going to have to be one of a half a dozen or so interesting traffic-related maneuvers I witnessed on I-95 in north Philly this morning.
Okay — the “My Little Pony” defense wins the stupid award.
No, Mr. Spox — stringing together (almost verbatim) several phrases in the exact same order combined with very loose paraphrasing between before and between those phrases is plagiarism. Exactly the sort of thing students attempt to do using Wikipedia entries and get busted for doing.
OTOH — the 76 year old Ailes is getting a $40 million resignation payoff from Fox.
When you’re making the “my little pony” defense, you’re losing.
ssh — let them keep digging. They may hit hell by November.
Billmon reflects on the past:
A boring Catholic that opposes abortion. Why not nail down PA and go with Bob Casey? Vilsack wouldn’t be anymore exciting, but at least he’s a pro-abortion Catholic.
And the hits keep coming.
Reuters – Emily Flitter — EXCLUSIVE-Trump could seek new law to purge government of Obama appointees
Could make the Erdogan purges look like chump change.
So, I’m guessing that unlike Obama, Trump wouldn’t hire his immediate predecessor’s appointees.
A multiple gold star day for Mr. 93%: The Guardian – Republican convention live: Chris Christie whips crowd into frenzy over ‘guilty’ Clinton. The chutzpah of Crispy. (Where the hell is the US Attorney on his investigation of Christie?)
the old spoils system returns. as you note, some of us think Obama should have cleaned house much more than he did, but there are laws now about what’s political and what’s civil service.
Yesterday The Donald flew to NYC after the Convention was done and came bake today. Aide said he prefers to sleep in his bed in Trump Tower.
He has his standards. No Cleveland hotels offered a room with sufficiently ostentatious and tacky gilded appointments. He’ll feel right at home when he visits Erdogan and the new presidential palace in Turkey.
Easy one to answer. Paul Manafort basically blaming Hillary Clinton for Melania Trump and her speech last night. The king of stupid. 2nd place was Chris Christie saying Trump could not have plagiarized her speech last night saying that 93% of the speech were her own words. Gutless!!
only second place?
He is, after all, a former prosecutor, which at least should imply some ability to assess evidence and the validity of conclusions drawn from the available evidence.
Yet his “93%” claim was utterly transparent nonsense to the entire Reality-Based Community, as now confirmed by Melania’s own speechwriter.
It appears at this point that there is simply no bottom to Christie’s willingness for self-abasing toadyism in service to Trump. (Why that is is another question entirely, especially after his humiliating rejection for Veep running mate. Still angling for AG, despite how this episode demonstrates his utter self-disqualification for the office?)
Raw Story — `Daily Show’ catches Donald Trump Jr. plagiarizing part of speech from right-wing mag. Ahh, just when he was getting such high praise for his delivery.
Oh wait. The Canadian law professor that wrote the article, FH Buckley, has disclosed that he helped write junior’s speech. So, he was recycling his own work and therefore, was free to hand it off to junior.