Aug. 28 Open Thread: Google Is RIGGED!
I’m old enough to remember the mockery when President GHW Bush was photographed looking baffled by the then-newfangled grocery store laser scanners. That sprang to mind this morning after Trump apparently Googled himself for the first time. His reaction was classic: “They have it RIGGED” (the caps lock makes it art) to show only the bad news. Imagine how he’d react if he drove himself in one of those cars that brakes automatically — I’m sorry, is RIGGED to brake automatically.
Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman always has the Page Sixiest take on the White House backstairs gossip, and his account of Trump on the phone all weekend screaming at people is an exemplar of the form. You’ll want a mop to wipe up all the schadenfreude.
Kudos to Sen. Chuck Schumer for using John McCain’s death to troll the GOP. Schumer proposed renaming the Russell Senate Building (named for a Georgia segregationist) to instead honor McCain. That put Republican senators, Mitch McConnell in particular, in the unenviable spot of having to dishonor McCain if they don’t want to piss off Trump.
Speaking of McCain, Josh Marshall has a thoughtful piece on how the McCain “maverick” myth came to be, and how McCain destroyed it himself.
The midterms look good for Democrats almost everywhere in the country — with the notable exception of Florida, where Trump has lost less support than almost anywhere else in the country.
Finally, a woman in Kent County died of rabies. No word on when Trump bit her.
Somebody has to tell the Big Orange about those services you buy to elevate the favorable posts to the top of the rankings.
The wingnut bubble is thick. Two Trumpers were near me at Cab last night. They hung around after the leathery Gene Truono gave his 30 minute stand up routine about the economic miracle that is trickle-down.
Anyway, the Trumpers seems genuinely bewildered when they discovered that literally everyone else in the auditorium agreed that Trump sucks and is doing a horrible job.
(BTW – Best Truono moment was when he accidentally got big applause for mentioning Medicare-for-all. ).
Was he as tan as he looked on the video feed?
Yes.
My missus had a good laugh at that.
Honestly the guy has a very solid 10 minutes. He could do a set on a late night show…
Then we realized he wasn’t kidding. Guy’s a total joke.
Brisk 10 points for the rabies comment there Alby. As noted McCain was no “maverick”, if anything he was another version of Mike Castle. Periodically he would vote against the party line, probably with permission, and proclaim “I’m a “moderate”. Change that to McCain and you get “Maverick”.
@bam: Thank you sir. I confess to finding it well nigh impossible to pass up a cheap shot.