Eh, things are scary these days. I can understand use of “eek”.

When he said “I’ll go through line by line” Cantwell should’ve said “Okay, let’s do that. Now.”

#MAGA CAPS?

I’ve also seen it on the comments section of the NY Times article on Tillerson being fired, referencing Pompeo.

$$$ or ₽₽₽?

Agreed. It’s as if the damage he’s doing is accruing, like interest, or rot on an uncleaned surface.

Unless you’re also the two people who have posted on two separate Facebook groups I belong to, at least three people have used the word ‘sycophant’ to describe Pompeo.

Nor am I. Birther from way back.

Agreed on just about all points. I was noting the odd timing of the firing.

And this, just a day or so after he called out Russia/Putin/FSB for the attempted assassination in Salisbury, England, of former (double-agent) Russian intelligence agent Sergei V. Skripal and his daughter. Better to protect Putin than a decades-long major ally. (Not surprising, though, I guess, since 45 never…

Of course. Silly me. Thank you for disabusing me of my hifalutin’ ideas.

Thorn ‘co-hosted’ the final hour of Lauren Laverne’s show on BBC6 last Wednesday. It’s available on their website for the next 24 days. It’s a good interview; they touch on some of the themes above and on some other items too. Scroll to the 2-hour mark for the start of the interview.

I listened to snippets of the interview on the radio this AM and this one sentence popped to me the most. If you don’t invest in bringing the fucking buildings into the 2000s (in addition to the heat issue you bring up) with telecom, with working lights, with working bathroom fixtures, with staircases that are safe,…

Meanwhile, his wife (or her lawyers) is mulling what this does to the prenup..

How Clear Is Your Love (For Miscavige)?

I messaged a friend in England to pick me up a copy today. Apparently they’re going out with a wrap cover advert:

Mind if I join? I can bring chips and dips (and I make a mean salsa!).

This is where I’d usually pull out the old “why not both” meme.

Indeed. This lifting of the ban is being done just to undo an Obama-era mandate (most of 45's work is undoing Obama-era stuff, as if to erase him from history). That, and as a gift to Idiot Jr, and The Other One.