I will totally admit I didn’t really know the reason behind the current sanctions until Planet Money covered it a few weeks ago. If you could have seen me, I was literally driving around in my car with my mouth dangling open in horror.

It really does bear repeating, because it’s so batshit: the solution to leaks is to call a journalist and leak information to them. No wait, that’s the *opposite* of the solution.

Here’s the thing about the Mooch: he’s not just coked-up, he’s irony-deficient.

I agree. Here is the text of his pre-testimony statement. Far more shocking and infinitely more important than Scaramucci’s vulgar, deranged outburst.

Honestly, I’m just so sad all the time now. The Trump regime just keeps getting worse. And apathy keeps growing.

Don’t be distracted by the Wiseguy Variety Hour. The real story this week is Bill Browder’s Senate testimony and the dots that he links together between Putin’s kleptocracy racket and the “adoption” meetings.

What’s the big fucking deal cocksuckers?

It’ll get bad reviews. “Too unrealistic.” “Unsympathetic characters.” “No one is THAT orange.”

The best comment about Scaramucci I’ve seen from any journalist so far:

I wonder if EPA quack Michael Dourson ever wears cotton-poly or linen-silk blends - you know, as explicitly prohibited in Leviticus?

i hope HBO is still around after the inescapable coming apocalypse, because their movie about all this is gonna be tip-top.

he went off on Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, calling him a “fucking paranoid schizophrenic,” ... “Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll be asked to resign very shortly,” he said. He also said this, for some reason: “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock.

If they do that without thinking through either

I don’t know if it was an actual story or my partner and I riffing off of early American history but we talked about the fact that the founding fathers modeled a fair bit of American government off off Iroquois systems and there was a fairly close relationship between the Iroquois confederacy and the early US - what…

You know, there’s an alternate American history that I think about sometimes. Thomas Jefferson said that slavery was like holding a wolf by the ears—you don’t dare hold on, but you don’t dare let go. I think about, what if the founding fathers had “let go”? What if they actually had believed that all men are created…

In addition to GoT just going completely off the rails (but in an entertaining way as long as you don’t care about it making sense) after they ran out of book material, they have handled the controversy around it with anything but sensitivity every time it has presented itself. It makes me seriously doubtful that they…

You’re giving them too much credit - in Weiss and Benioff’s case I don’t think they’re particularly smart. They claim to be History buffs who know a lot about the Civil War period but what they have shown so far doesn’t lead me to believe they are geniuses. Their treatment of Game of Thrones is average at best,…

But, uh, did you not read the article? They have black friends! So it’s okay. Their mistake was not making it clear before that they had black friends. The show will be good.

I mean, or ever. Roxanne Gay’s NYT OpEd really explains this well.

Words cannot express how horribly bad of an idea this show is right now. I mean, these are smart people- do they lack any sense?