If your family is anything like mine, you can’t get everyone together on Christmas, so the grandparents and uncles and nieces and cousins have to enter into protracted negotiations until a date acceptable to all can be found. Today is that day and we’re hosting, so pretty soon our log cabin will be brimming with kin.
I hopefully will find some time to write in the late afternoon, but for now I need to be brief. I expect you will enjoy this chuckle, at least if you have any sense of humor:
Yes, that is an actual New York Times article. My favorite response did not come from an historian, however:
“Sure. Churchill served his country 55 years in parliament, 31 years as a minister and 9 as pm,” Kristian Tonning Riise, a member of Norway’s Parliament, wrote in a tweet liked more than 19,000 times. “He was present in 15 battles and received 14 medals of bravery. He was one of history’s most gifted orators and won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writing. Totally same thing.”
Mike Huckabee likes everything in the Old Testament except the ban on pork, and he plays the bass guitar. He says dumb stuff and it merits a whole write-up in the Gray Lady.
Happy New Year.
Next thing you know Huck will be comparing Trump to FDR, Lincoln and Washington.
It really is hard for me to overstate what an utterly horrible person Mike Huckabee is. His bible-thumping, far-right spew is bad enough, but then he’s also responsible for spawning the unquestionably worst Presidential Press Secretary in U.S. history, a serial liar so brazen and petulant I can barely watch her.
He also peddles fraudulent cancer cures. Guy belongs in jail actually.
Thanks for this. I just used it to, again, taunt Maggie Habersham or whatever her name is.
ADDING, I HAVE A NEW HOBBY. I USE BIBLE VERSES TO TAUNT CONSERVATIVES ON TWITTER.
Love it. Every time I contact Cory Gardner I call him a Potemkin Christian.
To be fair, he’s not a completely horrible bass player.
I’m a professional bass player. He’s awful. His lines are trite and obvious. His rhythm sucks. His bass is a piece of shit, an afterthought. Awful defined
Its as if they have a competition going to see who can pay Trump the most ridiculous compliment.
Who was it that called George W. Bush “magnificent”? One of the majors, in one of the big newspapers.
Wasn’t it Chucklehead who was the first to break ranks and go bend his knee to kiss Trump’s big flatulent heinie? Not kidding. I seem to recall him running from the R-Team debate stage to one of Trump’s rallies and giving Trump a giant suck up.
So, eh? Color me unsurprised, especially given how his hell-spawn continuously snearingly lies and lies and lies again about her deplorable boss.
UGH. What a disgusting family.
Winston Churchill had many faults, but Trump is not fit to kiss Churchill’s fat flatulent azz.
And he gave us Sarah, too…
I have always hated those protracted negotiations. My family is small or at least, the number of members within 2000 miles is small so mostly we just had Christmas on Christmas Day. So the background is that it’s very different than how I grew up.
My wife’s family however has crazy negotiations because so many of the women are nurses and nurses have crazy schedules. That’s fine, but I also do not have the easiest schedule but I’m ALWAYS the one asked to sacrifice not them and it annoys me mightily.
There’s nothing sacred about the day. We’ve had deaths, major health and weather events, etc. that made it imperative we become flexible about the date. The important thing, religious or not (we aren’t) is to gather as a family.
Most of us are secular in my family, but we are just enough of a drive away from each other that winter weather is always an issue, as are the usual winter health ailments and so on. I’ve made holiday visits days or even weeks after the “official” day. I am with you – as long as we all connect as an extended family at some point, it’s all good.
Huckabee has his English history mixed up.
I’m assuming he meant Charles I? James II?
Churchill isn’t someone who I want my leaders to emulate.
Don’t believe the Churchill comparison will help get the Donald that wedding invite.
Paeans of hyperbolic ass-kissing to the Great Leadr are part and parcel of all totalitarian/authoritarian movements, and the American Fascist movement is surely not going to be an exception.
Fascists like Hucksterbee know this is what our poor-man’s Mussolini expects, so they give it to him, quite happily. As do Der Trumper’s Crackpot Cabinet and VP Pence, our hapless Hess figure.
Just more abject humiliation for FailedNation, Inc., which merits recordation by the Paper of Record, ha-ha.