May 19, 2020

Do people who want Trump to fail ever get tired of posing as if they're offering to help him avoid failure?

I'm reading Eugene Robinson over at WaPo:
President Trump’s increasingly frantic attempts to smear former president Barack Obama reek of panic. As disgusting as these efforts are, they are likely to backfire, perhaps in spectacular fashion.
Maybe there are readers at WaPo who lap this stuff up. They want Trump to be going nuts and they'd like to see his attacks backfire spectacularly. But there's no way an interpretation like this could influence Trump. He's not going to think: I'd better calm down and realize that attacks on Obama will only hurt me. It makes much more sense for him to interpret a column like that to mean that his attacks are effective.
Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate, respected around the world, while he has had to endure being snickered at by world leaders and portrayed as hapless and ignorant by the “fake news” media he claims to hate yet compulsively devours. Increasingly, his imagined victimizer is Obama himself. Trump even tries to blame Obama for his own administration’s botched response to a disease that did not exist when Obama was in office.

I thought everyone knew you don’t tug on Superman’s cape....
And yet, you're doing just that.

By the way, the line "you don’t tug on Superman’s cape" comes from Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," and the question why Superman wears a cape — what good does it do him? — has long plagued readers of comic books who think too much.

IN THE COMMENTS: Calypso Facto said:
"Jim" also gets his ass handed to him by the upstart "Slim" at the end of Croce's song. Maybe more on point than Eugene Robinson intended? (And isn't Slim a great nickname for Trump in response to Pelosi's failed fat-shaming?)

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Jake said...

What did they give BO the Nobel Prize for again? Was it all the drone strikes?

gspencer said...

Lefty Robinson wrote, "As disgusting as these efforts are, they are likely to backfire, perhaps in spectacular fashion."

Right, just after the walls finally close in on Trump.

Sebastian said...

"Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate"

LOL, as they say.

As if we didn't know lefties don't have a clue about us or about Trump. Their obtuseness is our strength.

But the reemergence of Obama is interesting, and so are MSM efforts to spin a protective cocoon. Feeling a little heat, Barry?

Hypothesis: Though Brennan engineered most of the sabotage, Obama was well aware of, and signed off on, anti-Trump weaponization of federal resources during and after the election.

I'm Not Sure said...

"They want Trump to be going nuts and they'd like to see his attacks backfire spectacularly."

In other words, they want him to become a Democrat. Because that's clearly how the Democrats roll these days.

MadisonMan said...

Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate
Good Lord. I cannot imagine anyone writing that sentence and believing it.

Iman said...

BIG ZER0 as Nobel laureate... for making the seas recede?

This cheapened every previous award, and cheapens every one given since.

Tommy Duncan said...

Eugene Robinson is a graduate of the Nancy Pelosi School of Journalism. There is no cheap shot too low for Eugene.

Superman? Really? Come up for air, Eugene.

traditionalguy said...

The Kenyan Candidate without a real Hawaiian birth certificate already knows Trump is on to him. And what the Global Governance America haters all over the world think is irrelevant. What does it matter at this point. Guantanamo Bay awaits

mccullough said...

Trump is Willie McCoy.

Calypso Facto said...

"Jim" also gets his ass handed to him by the upstart "Slim" at the end of Croce's song. Maybe more on point than Eugene Robinson intended? (And isn't Slim a great nickname for Trump in response to Pelosi's failed fat-shaming?)

Jason said...

LOL @ "Nobel laureate."

narciso said...

well he made the world safe for Islamic state and the mullahs, meanwhile trump managed to knock off suleimani, Baghdadi and al rimi in short order, the third apparently was the one who sent the Pensacola shooter, the bureau and the company were focused on weightier matters,

Limited blogger said...

Is Obama still cool? I guess so.

I don't sense any downside to Trump for slagging him, though.

Since Obama only cares about Obama, this little 'sword fight' will not help Biden.

BothSidesNow said...

Surprising blog post. Surprising because I had no idea anyone reads Eugene Robinson anymore. I read the Washington Post every morning without fail, pretty much cover to cover, except that I skip Robinson. He has been writing the same column for the last three years. What is the value in it? How does someone get up every morning and write essentially the same broadside against Trump? You might ask how do I know it is the same, given that I do not read him? The title and the first line always give the game away.

Dave Begley said...

WaPo, "Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate, respected around the world …."

And Obama's legacy is going to come crashing down on him this year. Comey, Clapper, Brennan et alia to be indicted. Obama ordered the government to spy on Trump without a warrant and then tried to remove him from office. As Joe Biden would say, "That's a big fucking deal."

Bilwick said...

Criticizing the Lightbringer is obvious heresy, and should not be tolerated.

narciso said...

now Obama turned the cdc into a sjw agency and channeled all testing protocols, through Obamacare, he emptied out the stockpile and didn't refill it, the official responsible didn't raise a peep,

Bay Area Guy said...

1. Did the Obama administration wiretap the Trump campaign?

Answer: Yes. See Carter Page FISA application

So, Trump was right about this. He was spied on.

2. Was this wiretap legal (or in AG Barr's inimitable words, was there a proper legal predicate?)

Answer: Very dicey. The Steele Dossier was used to get the FISA Warrant, and it was riddled with lies. More so, Two of the four FISA warrants have been held invalid by the DOJ/FISA court . Does that mean the other two are kosher? Not necessarily. We'll have to see what Durham finds.

It is clear that Obama allowed and/or directed his FBI to weaponize the FISA systems to spy on the Trump campaign/early administration, based on a bullshit Russian collusion theory. And, worse, they leaked out the product of the spying to the Media (a major felony) to frame Flynn. And Carter Page -- the original Russian spy justifying all this FBI work, of course, was never arrested, nor expelled to Mother Russia.

He was a pretext to spy on the Trump campaign.

Can Eugene Robinson handle all this? It ain't hard.

Ken B said...

Or, perhaps, the evidence of wrongdoing suggests actual wrongdoing occurred.

FWIW I told friends years ago that Trump had access to information they did not and it was wrong to just say he is lying about Obama spying. So my perception might be affected by the prospect of a container ship sized load of “I told you so” in the offing, but I do believe the Obami spied on and tried to undermine their replacement.

Big Mike said...

Maybe there are readers at WaPo who lap this stuff up.

Ya think!?!?!

They want Trump to be going nuts and they'd like to see his attacks backfire spectacularly.

It hasn’t happened in 3 1/2 years. Robinson and the rest of the the Post writers must be thoroughly uneducable.

It makes much more sense for him to interpret a column like that to mean that his attacks are effective.

Yup. 8-D

Mike Sylwester said...

Democracy Dies in Darkness!

Lucien said...

By the way both “Jim” and “Leroy Brown” wind up getting beaten up and maybe killed in Croce’s songs, so maybe tugging on that cape isn’t such a bad idea. Let’s tear back the cape on this line of reasoning.

Mike Sylwester said...

How did President Obama become a Nobel laureate?

Did his being half-Black have anything to do with it?

Gahrie said...

The story in Don't Mess Around with Jim is about a tough guy named Jim. (Obama) But a tougher guys comes along named Slim (Trump) who takes him down and becomes the new tough guy.

Original Mike said...

"Maybe there are readers at WaPo who lap this stuff up."

Probably pretty much all of them.

Marty said...

Do ya one better, BSN: WaPo has been publishing a version of the same "Us liberals good/Them conservatives bad" columnar dreck for decades. Every one of them these days is recycled from their cherished anti-American, pro-Communist credo of the 60s. (Wasn't Robinson around then, too?) Democracy dies in darkness: in a moment of inadvertent honesty they've made their projection their motto.

Lyle Sanford, RMT said...

" has long plagued readers of comic books who think too much." - that made me laugh out loud - thanks!

madAsHell said...

Yeah.....I used to tuck towels into the collar of my T-shirt to make a cape, and then jump off the garden wall.

I had better luck with the X-Ray glasses.

Kevin said...

Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate

I thought even Obama was uncomfortable about that.

TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...

Looks like Trump and Barr are over the target. They've flushed Obama from hiding and all of the fake news flackers are flacking flack in a way that reeks of desperation.

Big Mike said...

Increasingly, his imagined victimizer is Obama himself.

Takes no imagination at all. I’ll ask again. What did Obama know about spying on Trump’s campaign, and when did he know it? And to what extent did he, in fact, orchestrate it.

Kevin said...

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who the WAPO says you are not allowed to criticize.

bgates said...

the line "you don’t tug on Superman’s cape" comes from Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim,"

And at the start of the song "Superman" is "Jim", the toughest guy in the neighborhood - but by the end of the song, he's learned the trouble you can get in, "hustlin' people strange to you", when an outsider who's been wronged by Jim shows up and beats him half to death.

Nonapod said...

They want Trump to be going nuts and they'd like to see his attacks backfire spectacularly. But there's no way an interpretation like this could influence Trump. He's not going to think: I'd better calm down and realize that attacks on Obama will only hurt me. It makes much more sense for him to interpret a column like that to mean that his attacks are effective.

As you said, the WaPo is just providing their Trump derranged readership with what they want (Trump downfall fanfiction). It doesn't matter if it has any bearing in reality or not, it's function is to keep its readers happy in their delusions.

As for Trump himself, assuming he's even aware of the article, obviously it's only the the eleventy billionth article fantasizing about Trump panicing and the walls closing in around him ect. At this point I can't imagine he'd react too much to it. I mean, yeah, he's President Thin Skin who supposedly strongly reacts to everything negative said about him all the time. But I mean there's just an endless supply of this crap, all day, every day. At some point it's just background noise.

Original Mike said...

Doesn't it embarrass Eugene that Obama was given his Nobel before he had actually done anything?

mezzrow said...

"President Trump’s increasingly frantic attempts to smear the Chinese Communist Party reek of panic. As disgusting as these efforts are, they are likely to backfire, perhaps in spectacular fashion."

As his business continues to fail, Mr. Robinson can be thankful that he will be collecting his pension when it all goes toes up. I hope he has invested well.

Bots will be doing his job for the remainder of the 21st century.

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...

I am happy to give some advice. It's over, buddy - four trillion dollar debt, a hundred thousand dead, 25% unemployment.

It's a dead presidency.

This presidency has passed on! This presidency is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This presidency is a stiff! Bereft of life, This presidency rests in peace! If you didn't insist on nailing it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies! It's metabolic processes are now history! This presidency is off the twig! This presidency has kicked the bucket, It's shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PRESIDENCY!!

Harsh Pencil said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6SymBZL_vg

bagoh20 said...

Nobel laureate? I don't know what kind of fancy rope they gave him, but that seems kinda racist, especially since I doubt Obama can even ride horse, let alone rope a calf.

Wince said...

"I thought everyone knew you don’t tug on Superman’s cape.... And yet, you're doing just that."

Where have I heard that before?

The new leader of Democrats in the Senate says Donald Trump is being "really dumb" for picking a fight with intelligence officials, suggesting they have ways to strike back, after the president-elect speculated Tuesday that his "so-called" briefing about Russian cyberattacks had been delayed in order to build a case.

"Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday evening on MSNBC after host Rachel Maddow informed him that intelligence sources told NBC news that the briefing had not been delayed.

"So, even for a practical supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this," he added.

Trump has repeatedly expressed skepticism about the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia was in all likelihood involved in a hacking plot aimed at interfering in the election. He claimed over the weekend that he knew "things that other people don't know" and hinted that further information would soon be on the way. "You'll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday," he told reporters.

That information was expected to be provided to Trump mid-week via an intelligence briefing. But Tuesday evening, Trump said his briefing was delayed until Friday, and speculated that the spooks might need more time to build their case. "Very strange!" he added.



Hidden Over 2 Years: Dem Cyber-Firm's Sworn Testimony It Had No Proof of Russian Hack of DNC
By Aaron Maté, RealClearInvestigations, May 13, 2020

CrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s server.

Big Mike said...

Comey, Clapper, Brennan et alia to be indicted.

@David Begley, I will believe it when I see it.

bagoh20 said...

"I am happy to give some advice. It's over, buddy - four trillion dollar debt, a hundred thousand dead, 25% unemployment."

How'd that work out for FDR?

Fernandinande said...

Obama is a Nobel laureate, respected around the world

That so many Officially Special People were either fooled by, or pretended to be fooled by, that clown is one of the things which makes makes me worry about humanity's future.

Mr Wibble said...

How did President Obama become a Nobel laureate?

Did his being half-Black have anything to do with it?


No, just being an academic progressive who spouted all the correct things, regardless of any actual accomplishments. Giving him a Nobel was their way of giving themselves a Nobel.

Mr Wibble said...

How did President Obama become a Nobel laureate?

Did his being half-Black have anything to do with it?


No, just being an academic progressive who spouted all the correct things, regardless of any actual accomplishments. Giving him a Nobel was their way of giving themselves a Nobel.

Howard said...

Yeah well the moral of the story is anybody can get got that's why the song ends with you don't mess around with Slim, not Jim

Howard said...

Lucien beat me to it. I still wouldn't recommend spitting into the wind

narciso said...

only the truth embarrasses robinson, that's why he covers it with a pillow, until it stops moving, Obama pardoned the general, cartwright, who leaked the stuixtnet, they went after the entire ap director to finger an fbi contractor, to cover for brennan's leak, brennan's major contribution were the Syrian rebels that we paid 500 million for, who split or defected to the islamists as soon as the check cleared,

Michael K said...

Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate

Even Robinson knows that Nobel Peace Prize was Affirmative Action run amok.

Speaking of run amok, I see ARM is awake.

Andrew said...

Edna (from The Incredibles): "No capes!"

For anyone to boast that Obama won a Nobel Prize, and to imagine that Trump is intimidated by it, shows complete elitist detachment from reality.

AllenS said...

"Obama is a Nobel laureate" -- Eugene Robinson

That there is some funny stuff.

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...

bagoh20 said...
How'd that work out for FDR?


A lot better than it did for Hoover. Someone has to take responsibility for this ridiculous failure. Trump is currently president, albeit in a dead presidency. It's his responsibility.

Fernandinande said...

If only Willie McCoy wore a cape to not tug on.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Yeah - spying on Trump and targeting his new hires for destruction, making up a wholesale lie to cover for HIllary's loss - that's the Obama way.

But again as usual, the D-party elites get a pass.

PM said...

Mother Obama won, according to the Nobel committee "...for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Everybody knows that's what he did, so all y'all need to stfu.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Obama is a Nobel Laureate - because says so, and D, and coffee colored skin.
and leftwing elites like to crown each other.

You know - all the smart stuff.

zipity said...


"Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate,"

Yeah, even Obama looked embarrassed when that was presented to him.

Sally327 said...

I suppose one idea would be that Robinson knows Trump will conclude that the attacks are working, he will continue and it will all backfire. But will they backfire? I don't get a sense that there is some great reservoir of love and adoration for Obama out here in reality land (feelings which were always more based on what people wanted Obama to be than what he actually ever was). Obama is so busy raking in the dough, he might have Trump level money one of these days. So it seems like just a couple of rich guys bickering with each other.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Shorter ARM - Hooray! Wuhan Hillary virus worked.

Sally327 said...

I suppose one idea would be that Robinson knows Trump will conclude that the attacks are working, he will continue and it will all backfire. But will they backfire? I don't get a sense that there is some great reservoir of love and adoration for Obama out here in reality land (feelings which were always more based on what people wanted Obama to be than what he actually ever was). Obama is so busy raking in the dough, he might have Trump level money one of these days. So it seems like just a couple of rich guys bickering with each other.

Original Mike said...

Hidden Over 2 Years: Dem Cyber-Firm's Sworn Testimony It Had No Proof of Russian Hack of DNC
By Aaron Maté, RealClearInvestigations, May 13, 2020

"CrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s server."


@BothSidesNow: Do you know if this was reported in WaPo? (I'm guessing no.)

Lurker21 said...

If "Obamagate" or whatever you want to call it wasn't such a big thing now, Robinson might have a point, but as things are, Trump's tweets about Obama aren't unreasonable or unexpected.

And that Nobel Prize was an embarrassment to Obama, who knew he hadn't done anything to deserve it. Robinson's bringing it up today suggests that the one who's desperate now isn't Trump

Virgil Hilts said...

From Tarantino's Kill Bill 2 (re superman's "costume"):
Superman:... "The mythology is not only great, it’s unique… Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there’s the superhero and there’s the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When that character wakes up in the morning, he’s Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic Superman stands alone. Superman didn’t become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he’s Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red “S”, that’s the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears – the glasses, the business suit – that’s the costume. That’s the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He’s weak, he’s unsure of himself, he’s a coward. Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the whole human race.

RK said...

Eugene Robinson is WaPo's token black fool whose only job is to find some black thing to whine about.

Do you know who else is respected around the world? That retarded girl from Sweden.

Lurker21 said...


Why does superman wear a cape?

Because without a cape, a guy running around in a skin tight body suit would have been considered gay back then.

Also, if Superman didn't have the cape, Lois would realize that he was really Clark Kent.

Original Mike said...


For almost a quarter of a millennium, the defining feature of the U.S. has been the peaceful transition of power from one administration to the next.

Obama and his team willfully and actively violated this critical trust.

This will forever be the Obama legacy.

Churchy LaFemme: said...

As comic writer Peter David pointed out years ago, it is perfectly safe to tug on Superman's cape. What's he going to do? Turn around and ask Yes, How can I help you citizen? most likely.

Whose cape you don't want to tug is Batman's. He's not that tightly wrapped.

DavidD said...

“...even if you do have a 2-piece, custom-made pool cue.”

narciso said...

Obamacare made things much worse, the death panels came to life,

Quaestor said...

This presidency has passed on!...blah, blah, blah

You certainly are an astute cookie, ARM. So witty. So jocose. Who by you would invent such a charming drollery?

We stand in awe.

mikee said...

Obama was beloved worldwide because his policies enabled others worldwide to gain sdvantages over the US at low to no cost. Trump is reviled for promoting US success, and thecsuccess of others only if they also support US goals. Obama didn't get NATO states to pay their dues; Trump did. Obama didn't stop Chinese trade advantages; Trump did.

Of course Trump is hated. He is winning.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

It's amazing the timing of the event that cripples the world, kills off the economy - all to get rid of Trump..

anything for the corruption party(D).

DanTheMan said...

>>Obama was well aware of, and signed off on, anti-Trump weaponization of federal resources during and after the election.

I see this as two distinctly different issues. Before the election, it's pretty typical "dirty tricks" territory... using the Feds to try to dig dirt.

Going after Trump and team AFTER he won is MUCH worse. That's directly trying to overturn an election and negate a 'peaceful' transition of power from one party to the next. That is damn near the definition of un-American.

Andrew said...

The disdain Trump expressed for the intelligence services and their conclusions about Russia interference was legitimate. Not only were they manipulating intelligence, but they were making a normal foreign policy impossible. Trump had every right to openly question their accuracy and their motives.

Remember the universal reaction against Trump when he dismissed his own intelligence agencies right in front of Putin? I thought it was a great moment, because screw these people.

Yancey Ward said...

Concern trolling is an easily recognized mode of pontificating. Let me demonstrate:

"Eugene shouldn't waste his time with this sort of effort- surely he has more productive things he could do."

It is the sort of thing most trolls do.

Bay Area Guy said...

I, too, don't believe Durham will indict anyone before the election. Barr could have already indicted Comey or McCable for lying under oath to FBI investigators, but chose not too. Yes, it is asymmetrical lawfare, but that's life.

Could be wrong, of course. And hope I'm wrong.

Here's the money quote from AG BARR, that certain dullards need to read, re-read, memorize, and understand:

What happened to the president in the 2016 election, and throughout the first two years of his administration, was . . . a grave injustice and it was unprecedented in American history. The law enforcement and intelligence apparatus of this country were involved in advancing a false and utterly baseless Russian collusion narrative against the president. The proper investigative and prosecutorial standards of the Department of Justice were abused in my view in order to reach a particular result. We saw two different standards of justice emerge, one that applied to President Trump and his associates, and the other that applied to everybody else. We can’t allow this ever to happen again.

Barr wouldn't say this, unless he had the evidence to back this up.

Howard said...

By going after Obama, Trump is just trying to boost the Klan turnout. All hands on deck.

DanTheMan said...

>>Comey, Clapper, Brennan et alia to be indicted.

>>> @David Begley, I will believe it when I see it.

It will never happen. Never. And what is the lesson the FBI, CIA, and DOJ will learn from all of this?

We can get away with anything. Even when we are caught, nothing happens.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

*Cough*

We know the truth.

brylun said...

ARM, you were wrong in 2016, you will be wrong again. Just look at the CNN Battleground States polls... Don't bet your house!

narciso said...

we discover Obama gave 350 million to tech companies, hence the 60 million dollar remuneration through bertelsman media arm, simon and Schuster,

wendybar said...

Let me correct Eugenes first paragraph. President Obama’s increasingly frantic attempts to smear President Donald Trump reek of panic. As disgusting as these efforts are, they are likely to backfire, perhaps in spectacular fashion.

Lewis Wetzel said...

Howard said...
By going after Obama, Trump is just trying to boost the Klan turnout. All hands on deck.
5/19/20, 10:41 AM


You are forgetting, Howard, that two out of three klan members are either FBI agents or FBI informants.

wendybar said...

This quote fits this post perfectly, and honestly. "“One of the reasons it has taken so long for some people to finally see through Barack Obama is that people do not like to admit, even to themselves, that they have been played for fools by a slick talking politician.” Thomas Sowell.

Big Mike said...

By going after Obama, Trump is just trying to boost the Klan turnout.

I’ll see if I can borrow Ralph Northam’s hood and robe.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

someone named "kambree" says...

(The reality and the real news. WaPo is not real news. WaPo is democrat party hack propaganda)

"For almost a quarter of a millennium, the defining feature of the U.S. has been the peaceful transition of power from one administration to the next.

Obama and his team willfully and actively violated this critical trust.

This will forever be the Obama legacy.


-Kambree on twitter.

Drago said...

ARM @ 10:09 AM

I think ARM's comment probably sounds slightly less deranged in its original mandarin form.

Ray - SoCal said...

Mentioning Superman reminds me of the Genesis video:
https://youtu.be/Yq7FKO5DlV0

With the lyric:
Superman - where are you now?

wendybar said...

Howard said...
By going after Obama, Trump is just trying to boost the Klan turnout. All hands on deck.
5/19/20, 10:41 AM

Why would Democrats turn out for that. The only person I know of who was klan was Senator Byrd, and Obama gave his eulogy at his funeral.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

"McCable"

hahahahaha. Thanks.

Iman said...

Blogger Mike Sylwester said...
Democracy Dies in Darkness!


Democracy Dies in Dystopia!

Lewis Wetzel said...

Blogger Lurker21 said...
. . .
And that Nobel Prize was an embarrassment to Obama, who knew he hadn't done anything to deserve it. Robinson's bringing it up today suggests that the one who's desperate now isn't Trump

5/19/20, 10:21 AM


Robinson probably wants to emphasize the fact that Obama was embraced by the world's elite, while Trump never will be. It doesn't matter what the Nobel was awarded for, it's just important that it was given to Obama. Obama's followers gain honor by proxy, they chose the very bestest man.

Todd said...

For a few decades now, the Nobel Prize for Peace has been nothing but a fancy "participation" trophy. Just look at who has "won" one. I would be more impressed by who turned them down...

Greg the class traitor said...

It must really suck to be as stupid as Eugene Robinson:

Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate, respected around the world, while he has had to endure being snickered at by world leaders and portrayed as hapless and ignorant by the “fake news” media he claims to hate yet compulsively devours.


1: Obama "won" his Nobel Peace Prize for winning the 2008 Presidential election. If ER still thinks that's an actual accomplishment, he's a moron

2: Wow, Obama's a more popular kid than Trump! Apparently ER is still in high school. I certainly can't think of any reason for an actual adult to care about those things.

3: What did Obama accomplish with all his "foreign leader love"? He got a crap deal with Iran that Trump is destroying, because it was such a crap deal that Obama didn't even TRY to make it a treaty that would bind his successors. Anything else?

Trump, OTOH, got Western European Nato countries to increase their defense spending, has cut an advantageous (to the US) deal with China, is seriously putting the squeeze on Iran.

4; The fake "news" organizations are facing massive losses and layoffs. And now one actually trusts them ("agree with them so long as their pushing my political agenda" != "trust").

Advantage Trump

Greg the class traitor said...

For the entire history of the US, we had peaceful exchange of power between Presidents. Until the Obama Admin.

Barack Obama is going to go down in history as the worst US President, ever, for destroying that tradition.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Nikki Haley Responds To Trump’s Actions Against China’s Huawei, Offers Grim Prediction For China

Pelosi-Clinton-Biden family stock portfolio hardest hit.

DanTheMan said...

>>By going after Obama, Trump is just trying to boost the Klan turnout.

Yes, he really needs those 300 votes.

Greg the class traitor said...

Bay Area Guy said...
I, too, don't believe Durham will indict anyone before the election.

Here's the money quote from AG BARR, that certain dullards need to read, re-read, memorize, and understand:

We can’t allow this ever to happen again.


If Barr actually believes what you quoted, there will be a large number of indictments of corrupt Obama Admin criminals this summer. If he's not willing to put up, then he needs to shut up

Todd said...

Kevin said...

Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate

I thought even Obama was uncomfortable about that.

5/19/20, 10:06 AM


LOL, facts NOT in evidence! If he were uncomfortable about anything related to that it would be the fact that he didn't "win" another...

Greg the class traitor said...

Gahrie said...
The story in Don't Mess Around with Jim is about a tough guy named Jim. (Obama) But a tougher guys comes along named Slim (Trump) who takes him down and becomes the new tough guy.


Actually, it's better than that.
"I'm a bull shooting boy, my name is Willy McCoy, but down home they call me Slim"

Now THAT is a Trumpian line

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Judge Sullivan has outed himself as completely corrupt.

Pookie Number 2 said...

It's a dead presidency.

It’s always helpful to hear the opinions of those unable to question the propaganda providers that have been so consistently and intentionally wrong over the last four years. Adds a lot to the collective wisdom.

gilbar said...

Do people like Eugene, ever (EVER!) think for a single second about what they're writing?

More importantly, do they ever (EVER!) listen to the songs they quote?

Iman said...

Howard said...
By going after Obama, Trump is just trying to boost the Klan turnout. All hands on deck.

Except for the Momjeans, Emperor BIG Zer0 had no clothes. And the KKK was a creation of Democrats, as was Jim Crow.

Drago said...

Howard: "By going after Obama, Trump is just trying to boost the Klan turnout. All hands on deck."

Yep.

The dems have circled back to this multi-attempted narrative failure because all the other lie-based narratives have failed even more spectacularly. The dems really don't have a thick playbook, do they?

They recently tried to resurrect the WBush/James Byrd tactic with the GA killing but that one petered out in about 20 minutes (more Smollett fall out).

After 5 straight years of impeachment lies Trump's polls are rock steady and Trump has expanded his battleground states lead from 48-47 in 2016 to 52-45 in even CNN's cooked polls! And that was amongst registered voters...and oversampled NY/CA!

The panicked dems then tried to handoff Believe All Women to republicans (the same way they tried to shift obamacare onto republicans) and that has already failed in a colossally hilarious way.

Biden campaign has already given up on expanding their hispanic vote (Biden aide admits the hispanic vote will not be core to the Biden effort) and Slow Joe says anybody who believes Tara should not vote for him.

Well alrighty then.

So now what?

As Howard the white guy who moved to Boston and thinks he is an "elite" because "geography" demonstrates, racism will always be the fallback.

TreeJoe said...

Transition from Clinton to Bush: Removal of W's on keyboards, petty shit, went down in history as Clinton's admin hurting Bush's ability to govern.

Transition from Bush to Obama: Here I'll enjoy quoting wikipedia's article on it,

"President Bush invited Obama and his team to attend the 2008 G-20 Washington summit held between November 15 and 20 in order to introduce him to more than 20 world leaders who attended the event. However, Obama did not come, and his transition team instead sent former Republican Rep. Jim Leach and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to meet with the heads of state.

The Bush administration reportedly went out of its way to make the transition as seamless as possible for the incoming administration, earning accolades from Obama staff members and outside experts alike. According to nearly all accounts, the Bush administration streamlined the process for new officials to obtain security clearances and planned training exercises for the incoming national security team, to ensure that they would be ready to face a possible crisis on the first day in office. "

Transition Obama to Trump:

Hateful shit left and right, actively trying to subvert incoming admin, and now evidence shows they willfully withheld counter intel operations and investigations from what was at the time (and still) considered a major foreign adversary supposedly trying to infiltrate our government. As personally ordered by Obama.

....

Certain things I consider sacrosanct in this country: you fight dirty in elections but then you help the incoming elected executive succeed in their job even if you vehemently disagree with them. If there is ever anything that shows the character of a leader it's how they deal with losing.

bbkingfish said...

I don't usually read this guy, but I followed the link and I am not seeing where Robinson is trying to appear to be "offering to help Trump avoid failure."

Please amplify.

Kevin said...

I am happy to give some advice. It's over, buddy - four trillion dollar debt, a hundred thousand dead, 25% unemployment.

Didn't seem to bother Obama's reelection efforts.

Or was that just affirmative action at work once again?

TrespassersW said...

"President Trump’s increasingly frantic attempts to smear former president Barack Obama reek of panic."

Can you say "projection?"

I knew you could!

Kirk Parker said...

Iman,

I quite disagree: after they gave it to Arafat, no further cheapening was possible.

TrespassersW said...

Lurker21 said...
Also, if Superman didn't have the cape, Lois would realize that he was really Clark Kent.

Nope. It's the glasses. Totally the glasses.

From "Mystery Men:"
The Shoveller: If we had a billionaire like Lance Hunt as our benefactor...

Mr. Furious: That's because Lance Hunt IS Captain Amazing!

The Shoveller: Oh, here we go...

The Shoveller: Don't start that AGAIN. Lance Hunt wears glasses, Captain Amazing DOESN'T wear glasses.

Mr. Furious: He takes them off when he transforms...

The Shoveller: That doesn't make any sense, he wouldn't be able to see!

Greg the class traitor said...

Howard said...
By going after Obama, Trump is just trying to boost the Klan turnout. All hands on deck.

Wow, Howard, have you had your meds checked recently?

TrespassersW said...

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...
I am happy to give some advice. It's over, buddy - four trillion dollar debt, a hundred thousand dead, 25% unemployment.

It's a dead presidency.


That totally explains Trump's most recent approval numbers.

Said nobody.

wendybar said...

So, is it time to talk to Stacy Abrams about her "morbid obesity" before Biden picks her???

Lurker21 said...


Actually, it's "I am a pool-shooting boy ..."

Kyzer SoSay said...

"Good Lord. I cannot imagine anyone writing that sentence and believing it."

Most leftist journos are unimaginably stupid, so that fits.

Drago said...

Roy Jacobsen: "Can you say "projection?"

I knew you could!"

Indeed.

Just today, Ben Smith and Glenn Greenwald peel the bark off the idiot "resistance media" and the impact the continuous lefty paranoid smears and lies (and rewards given by institutions for those pushing those lies) have had on the media and why no one listens to the collusion-y smear-y media any longer.

wendybar said...

Kirk Parker said...
Iman,

I quite disagree: after they gave it to Arafat, no further cheapening was possible.
5/19/20, 11:27 AM

At least Arafat signed a peace agreement. What did President Mom Jeans do besides droning thousands of people and being good at it??

Kyzer SoSay said...

"I quite disagree: after they gave it to Arafat, no further cheapening was possible."

My verdict: quite true. Even handing one to Obama for absolutely nothing other than the leftist instinct towards slavering devotion wasn't nearly as bad as giving it to Arafat.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Long ago Trump read and integrated Sun Tzu’s classic into his life. Trump is a very sophisticated actor and he understands China better than his predecessors because of that. The chapter about appearing weak and stupid to your enemies in order to study them and confound them he obviously took to heart. He doesn’t really mind the Press portraying him as a boob, and Nancy treating him like one, because it shows how shallow they are in evaluating Trump. Conversely he has an amazing ability to size up competitors quickly and mock their weaknesses. Low Energy Jeb. Little Marco. Crooked Hillary. And how prophetic those silly names were, now, after the fact, when more people see it the way Trump called it. He uses the power forfeited to him by their underestimation of him. What legislative, judicial or inter-branch fights have the Femicrats won in the Trump era, led by Pelosi? An underwhelming non “sweep” in 2018 by historical terms, but one for which she still sports a tiny gold broom on her bosom. One I suspect she uses to travel around capital hill.

Mr Wibble said...

Yes, he really needs those 300 votes.


Yeah, but the FBI is already set against him so at best he can get maybe 50.

narciso said...

down with the new boss,


https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1262725253312253954?s=20

Drago said...

Kyzer SoSay: "My verdict: quite true. Even handing one to Obama for absolutely nothing other than the leftist instinct towards slavering devotion wasn't nearly as bad as giving it to Arafat."

I wonder if Howard considers Arafat an "elite"?

Lurker21 said...

When they gave it to Arafat they also gave it to Begin, perhaps picking up on something that often gets overlooked or ignored.

Temujin said...

I hate to resort to ad hominem attacks, but I have to here. Robinson is a hack and has been for years.

"President Trump’s increasingly frantic attempts to smear former president Barack Obama reek of panic."
These only seem like frantic attacks on Obama to Journalists! who just somehow cannot get up enough curiosity to investigate the facts about the Russia collusion BS story. It is a pretty serious chain of events that many of us can see leading up to the White House. Maybe not Obama? Well then, explain for one, his meeting of January 5, 2017.

Also seems pretty curious that Obama suddenly came out to back Joe Biden and attack Trump at the same time the investigation into his administration started to gain traction. Where was his backing of Uncle Joe at any time beforehand? Who's frantic now?

"Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate,..."
Honestly, no one can stand that fact. It's just another blight on the Nobel name. He was awarded the degree before his seat in the Oval Office had seen his butt for even 10 months. They announced this award earlier still. He got the award for being black and loved by Liberals. Hardly a standard, yet still in line with the Nobel standard set with such other notables as Rigoberta Menchu, Yassir Arafat, and of course, that glutton of fossil fuels, Al Gore.

Bilwick said...

"So, is it time to talk to Stacy Abrams about her "morbid obesity" before Biden picks her???"

That's what I was wondering--after I saw the backlit glamour shot of Abrams in a filmy gown and got through vomiting

Tomcc said...

I suspect that I'm just piling on at this point, but I have to ask: did Mr. Robinson use the word "transformative" in his column? Cause, if he did, I got BINGO!
Yes, Mr. Obama received a Nobel Prize. Ryan Leaf was a first round draft pick, too.

rcocean said...

Obama did something to Trump that no outgoing President has ever done. Instead of helping the new President, he spied on him and tried to damage him. Its unheard of. The Bushes were quite helpful to Clinton and Obama, as was Carter to Reagan. The point was that despite your differences, you acted for the good the country and respected the choice of the American people.

This tradition goes back a long ways. Truman and Ike didn't like each other, but they worked together in the transition for the good of the country.

Andrew said...

It should be pointed out that while it was not nearly as egregious, Bill Clinton did do several things to undermine George W. Bush during the transition of power. Remember Bush "adding arsenic to the water supply"? That was a dirty trick. Bush was merely putting a hold on an unfunded mandate.

bagoh20 said...

So, I hear we are in a war, and that we are all in this together. Lives are being lost and lives are being saved. Are we winning the war, or losing it? Have we already won, and are just in the clean up stage? It matters becuase Trump is supposedly a wartime President now, and if we are winning or have won by November, then ....

rcocean said...

I've always been an Obama agnostic. But his behavior toward Trump was WAY over the line. And his recent speech, shows he's a small man, trying to race bait and criticize Trump when there was little reason for it, except Politics. As for the Nobel Prize, well, Bob Dylan has one and so does Cordell Hull, Woodrow Wilson, Kissinger, Begin, Arafat, Al Gore, and Jimmy Carter.

How Robert McNamara, Stalin,or John McCain never got a Nobel Peace Prize is anyone's guess.

rcocean said...

And my favorite recipient of the NObel Peace Prize:

The European Union.

Take a bow EU! Too bad you weren't the 2012 Time Man of the Year.

Drago said...

Uh oh.

Looks like the Ukrainians have just released some audio of Quid Pro Joe forcing the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor AND mentioning Donald Trump by name.

Precisely what the dems falsely accused Trump of doing in their Sham-peachment II effort.

Gee, I wonder if that audio is going to go viral?........

Bay Area Guy said...

@Class Traitor Greg:

"If Barr actually believes what you quoted, there will be a large number of indictments of corrupt Obama Admin criminals this summer. If he's not willing to put up, then he needs to shut up."

You have a fair point. I have the same ongoing debate with a close friend, political muckety-muck who says the same thing. My opinion (but not a high confidence level) is that Barr is using the threat of Durham as leverage to tell Obama/Biden/Brennan -- stand down your deep state "whistleblowers" and trouble-makers for this upcoming election. Let the better candidate win on the merits. If you win, I'm gone, and we all know you will shut down Durham. If we win, well, we'll come hard at you or easy at you, depending on how you proceed this summer/fall.

rehajm said...

It's over, buddy - four trillion dollar debt, a hundred thousand dead, 25% unemployment.

It's a dead presidency.


How Underpants Gnomish this logic is.

Susan said...

Obama was So Very Loved by China that when he visited they didn't even move a staircase out to the plane. He had to walk out the tail stairs to disembark.

Contrast that embarrassing snub with the hero's welcome Trump and Melania received when they visited.

But yeah everyone knows Obama was loved the world over. Sure.

DanTheMan said...

As we seem to be doing 70's songs today...

>>Yeah, but the FBI is already set against him so at best he can get maybe 50.

"Well you may not know it but this man's a spy
He's an undercover agent for the FBI
And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan!"

- Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider"

Jerry said...

When evaluating a Presidential contest, you've got to look at the two candidates.

Trump's out and around, with lots of energy and actively governing. He's VISIBLE. You may not like what he does, but you can't say he's just sitting back and letting things happen.

Biden's near dead as far as 'Jo-mentum' goes. He doesn't dare do anything that isn't totally scripted, and even then he messes those things up. Live debates? Oh, that'll be fun, assuming he survives that long.

In November, there's not that many people who'll vote for a demented octogenarian. (Yeah, he's still a couple years short of that milestone. Don't see his cognitive abilities improving, though...)

And parachuting someone in at the Convention will to take his place will really make the committed Biden and Bernie supporters feel like idiots. That'll peel off a good 10% of the vote, I'd estimate.

So yeah - I think Trump's looking at the 'advice' the 'pundits' are giving him, and laughing while he does the opposite.

Paco Wové said...

I have to agree w/ bbkingfish here. Robinson's not concern trolling ("gosh, Trump must really be desperate to mount this attack on the Lightbringer"), he's just emitting trash talk to buck up the faithful, which appears to be 100% of the output of the WaPo these days. The only thing I find notable about Robinson's effort is how much the tone reminds me of the hysterical, over-the-top condemnations of traitors and class enemies by the likes of North Korea and the old-style PRC.

Skeptical Voter said...

Eugene Robinson--along with Charles Blow--Dana Milbank et al---they are truly useless idiots. But they have company among the clowns at the Los Angeles Times.

Lurker21 said...

Okay, they didn't give it to Begin when the gave it to Arafat. Begin got it with Sadat, and Arafat got it with Rabin and Peres, but there's long been controversy about the Nobel.

Leora said...

I assumed the cape was to cover his butt crack which would show in that leotard he wore.

stonethrower said...

Yeah, why does Superman wear a cape? Or, for that matter, since he is impervious to the elements, why does he wear anything other than shorts?

narciso said...


Interesting


https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/us-free-speech-meet-your-wealthy-chinese-fact-checker/

Big Mike said...

I see ARM is awake.

@Michael K., ARM may be “woke” in all the most despicable senses of the term, but he has been asleep since January 2017 and nothing will change.

Matt said...

I just cannot believe Robinson is employed as a political writer by one of the biggest media orgs in the country. His writing is awful and his "insights" pedestrian.

Affirmative action sucks.

Francisco D said...

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said... I am happy to give some advice. It's over, buddy - four trillion dollar debt, a hundred thousand dead, 25% unemployment.It's a dead presidency.

Question: Is ARM that stupid or does he think we are that stupid?

My Guess: He is a noted liar who thinks that people are stupid, buy his garbage and forget his lies.

After the election, ARM will hide out for a while (as he did before), modify his name and pretend that he never said what he said. BAMN.

cubanbob said...

What I love hearing is the very same Leftist who wish Trump dead scold him for taking Plaquenil as a prophylaxis as it might lead to a heart attack. No novelist would ever write what's going on now since fiction to be believable has to make some sort of sense whereas life doesn't. As noted above, if Obama actually had any shame he would be embarrassed in getting a prize won by Arafat. Obama and Biden don't have to worry about being indicted. They will never be indicted. What they do have to worry about is being called to testify under oath in one or more trials and be asked very uncomfortable questions. The I don't recalls will be epic. I hope Barr isn't playing us and really follows through with indictments and televised perp walks of those dirty swamp creatures like Comey and the rest. Howard, relax. There is going to be a million man Klan march on DC. That will win the election for Senility Joe.

KellyM said...

I seem to recall Eugene Robinson writing for the Boston Globe a million years ago, and even then his spiel was tough to take. Doesn't surprise me that his took his act on the road and continues to flog it. The object of his ire may have changed but the scolding tone certainly hasn't.

Bob Loblaw said...

President Trump’s increasingly frantic attempts to smear former president Barack Obama reek of panic.

Hahahaha. That's not where the "reek" is coming from.

Churchy LaFemme: said...

Yeah, why does Superman wear a cape? Or, for that matter, since he is impervious to the elements, why does he wear anything other than shorts?

Dr. Manhattan says you are not thinking this all the way through..

Rusty said...

Eugene Robinson is the reason that the Washington Post is this nations high school newspaper of record.
Go Senators!

Jim at said...

Yeah. How DARE that Trump fellow push back against the smears spewed by Obama?

Why can't he be a nice, gentle Hitler like that W. guy?

Lurker21 said...

Yeah, why does Superman wear a cape? Or, for that matter, since he is impervious to the elements, why does he wear anything other than shorts?

Because the Supererections would just be too distracting.

Bay Area Guy said...

Joe-Mentum!

Iman said...

Dammit! I forgot about that greasy Arafart...

Martin said...

The funniest thing about this is the idea that Eugene Robinson has the slightest insight into Trump's thinking. He writes as if he is right inside Trump's brain, and comes up with the most ridiculous things imaginable.

How can it get any funnier than, "Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate"? Talk about Robinson projecting!

Howard said...

Ha, Drago. I got way more holes punched in my deplorable card than you do. You are the poster child for the effite elite having advanced technology degrees thereunto pertaining.

You people always react when a libber regurgitates and throws up your right-wing rhetoric in your face.

Dance Barney, dance.

Steven said...

Obama is, I believe, unique in Peace Prize history for having been nominated as an irrelevancy (having done nothing for peace) but winning as an irony (having promoted war, in particular the massively bloody escalation of the war in Afghanistan in 2009).

Big Mike said...

Obama is a Nobel laureate, respected around the world

Respected by those who don’t know him and haven’t seen him in action.

In 1906 Teddy Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a peace treaty between Russia and Japan. It was thought to be a scandal that he donated the financial portion of his award to a veteran’s organization. How much worse that they gave the award to an American President who boasted (boasted!) of personally selecting targets for assassination by Hellfire missiles launched from drones? And let’s not forget that one of his targets was a wedding procession that was mistakenly misidentified as a terrorist convoy.

Nevermind my question. Lefties are never embarrassed no matter how their actions turn out.

Greg the class traitor said...

@ Bay Area Guy said...
@Class Traitor Greg:

"If Barr actually believes what you quoted, there will be a large number of indictments of corrupt Obama Admin criminals this summer. If he's not willing to put up, then he needs to shut up."

You have a fair point. I have the same ongoing debate with a close friend, political muckety-muck who says the same thing. My opinion (but not a high confidence level) is that Barr is using the threat of Durham as leverage to tell Obama/Biden/Brennan -- stand down your deep state "whistleblowers" and trouble-makers for this upcoming election


Could be, but I don't respect him if that's what he's doing.

The Obama-Biden Admin utterly corrupted the DoJ and the IC. The American people have a right to know that, and a right to vote on whether or not they want to reward, or punish, that corruption.

The MSM will not willingly report on that. Therefore we need indictments and perp walks , so they can NOT cover it up.

It is currently quite reasonable to believe that the rule of law is dead in America. Prosecuting the high government officials who ran roughshod over the rule of law is the only way to give people any real hope that the rule of law can make a comeback.

Barr owes it to the American people, and his oath of office, to get those prosecutions out the door.

Like you, I don't know that he will. But I do firmly believe that he should

GRW3 said...

Remember a key driving force of the Amazon Washington Post is the fear that Trump will succeed in decoupling the US from China, and severely limit non-US production of key industrial good, and end up costing Jeff Bezos a lot of money. A good percentage of his fortune is built on the ruined lives of American workers.

Once Bernie was pushed out of the way (the corporate backers of the Democratic party don't mind socialism for us but it's not for them) the money class settled on Joe. They dearly want to get back to where we were before Trump came in. There telling him to agree to anything the fringe wants because, in typical fashion, they're not going to deliver for them anymore than they've delivered for any of their captured constituents. Free Lunch Tomorrow - that's their promise.

FullMoon said...

Navarro mocks Obama as 'Biden's press secretary' after ...

and, Superman's cape provides stability, duh!

Michael K said...

You people always react when a libber regurgitates and throws up your right-wing rhetoric in your face.

Howard is about to lose it. Get out of the way as TSHTF

Todd said...

stonethrower said... [hush]​[hide comment]
Yeah, why does Superman wear a cape? Or, for that matter, since he is impervious to the elements, why does he wear anything other than shorts?

5/19/20, 1:11 PM


Ray: For when they call.

Hancock: I an't wearing that Ray.

Ray: Yes you are

Handcock: Oh no I'm not.

Ray: No you are.

Hancock: No actually I'm not Ray.

Ray: You think you're not but you are.

Hancock: I will fight crime butta$$ naked before I fight it in that.

Iman said...

Howie sez... you people always react when a libber regurgitates and throws up your right-wing rhetoric in your face.

Dance Barney, dance.


Howie's a multi-tasker! His stubby, sausage fingers type as he watches his bootleg film of Bawney Fwank cavorting in the nude

SGT Ted said...

Eugene is just sticking up for his boyfriend.

hstad said...

AA states - "...Maybe there are readers at WaPo who lap this stuff up..."

Well yeah when you read ER's comments of - "... Maybe Trump just cannot abide the fact that Obama is a Nobel laureate..." and then the real zinger from WaPo writer Kevin Powell, on making this comment about Stacey Abrams - "...Did Stacey ... to the far left of the stage, like a runway supermodel, stops on a dime, poses, tilts..." Clearly any of one article would be laughable but the last one really - "...supermodel..." Fiction masquerading as news from two writers from WaPo.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Wuhan Chi-Com Hillary virus ready and waiting for second wave.

Woo hoo!

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...

Francisco D ... is a noted liar

Pookie Number 2 said...

Francisco D: Question: Is ARM that stupid or does he think we are that stupid?

If one assumes that the WaPo has abandoned journalism in the interests of reassuring the intentionally-ignorant of their alleged moral superiority, one must also assume that such intentionally-ignorant exist and require such reassurances.

wbfjrr2 said...

When I see the name Eugene Robinson I immediately think "stupid and a racist" and I move on. Life's too short to waste reading what morons have to say.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

anti-Trumpers who carry on like they want to 'help' Trump

...are like Hillary promoting assisted suicides

I'm Full of Soup said...

Does it make me a bad person if I say Robinson is just an affirmative action hire defending another affirmative action hire.

Francisco D said...

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said... Francisco D ... is a noted liar

Give me the date that you changed your screen name. That is when I last caught you in a blatant lie and you disappeared for a few months and came back with "Beloved Commenter" added to ARM.

Now give me ONE example of when I lied. Just one.

Sorry folks. I should not feed the trolls, but I have less patience with blatant liars than I do with fools and bullshitters.

bagoh20 said...

Minor question: What exactly is Obama admired for? I had the same question before he was elected too, and I would ask people who supported him. I never got any substantial answer then or now. The answer is of course "I admire the way that supporting him makes me feel like I'm not racist." Of course that's racist itself.

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...

Trump has run the country into the ground, and the WaPo is the problem?

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...

Fran D you are an idiot to whom I almost never respond. I formerly believed that even you could not be so stupid as to believe that adding 'Beloved Commenter' constitutes a name change. I have change my view.

Trust me, a dummy like you has exactly zero effect on whether or not I post here.

Pookie Number 2 said...

Trump has run the country into the ground, and the WaPo is the problem?

The problem is the willfully ignorant who eagerly accept demonstrably false assertions of Trump running the country into the ground. The WaPo’s just catering to those simple-minded partisans.

Drago said...

Francisco D: "Give me the date that you changed your screen name. That is when I last caught you in a blatant lie and you disappeared for a few months and came back with "Beloved Commenter" added to ARM"

ARM is in full panic mode now that Biden's poll numbers are collapsing in the battle ground states and there has been a Global Awakening to what ARM's Beloved and Heroic People's Republic of China ChiComs have been up to and a Great Reckoning for ARM's Beijing buddies is on the way.

Here's the latest on that front:

Recall that ARM spent months regurgitating ChiCom "Generosity Campaign" propaganda and hoax ChiCom flu lies, even so far as ARM insisting that the virus could just as easily come from the US as China. ARM actually argued that...and he still believes it.

Well, now well over 110 nations want an independent (non WHO-led) investigation of ARM's Beloved and Heroic ChiComs.

It appears the Italians have fully figured out what Beijing's minions like ARM have been doing:

"Italy feared to be 'China's Trojan horse' in propaganda weapon as Beijing eyes 'big prize'"

"Italy is believed to be the target area for Chinese propaganda, as Beijing has reportedly identified Italy as "the soft belly of the West". Some claim this is why China readily agreed to assist Italy in its deadly fight against the virus, as the European state quickly became the worst-hit country on the continent at the beginning of the outbreak.

For example, a Financial Times investigation found China had manipulated video footage of Italians applauding Beijing for sending medical supplies to Italy.

The clips, broadcast by Chinese state media, showed images of Italians applauding along to the Chinese national anthem on their balconies and streets.

Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese State Department, shared one of the videos on Twitter and wrote: "In Rome, while the Chinese anthem was being played, some Italians shouted 'Grazie, Cina!' on their balconies and their neighbours applauded."

Remember, ARM referenced these clear hoax images of Italians applauding the ChiComs multiple times on these boards.

And he did it gleefully.

ARM is to ChiCom propaganda what Inga is to hoax russia collusion lies.

Original Mike said...

"What exactly is Obama admired for?"

The crease of his pants.

Bilwick said...

An Irrational State-fucker writers: "Trump has run the country into the ground, and the WaPo is the problem?"

No, statism is the problem, you schmuck.


narciso said...

apparently imperial college is teaming up with the Chinese govt,

Gk1 said...

Just ignore the rodeo clowns folks. They are slipping in their own flop sweat. Its beyond dispute that Obama spied on the Trump campaign and now the underlying basis for that is being laid bare week after week. Any liberal with a conscience is slowly admitting it to themselves.

I am in a minority in heralding AG Barr's steadiness in not being drawn into condemning Obama or Biden until Durham is ready to indict. We already know what the democrats pre-canned talking point will be the minute McCabe, Page, Priesap and Comey are indicted. This is all "retribution by Trump!"

Brennan's main defense is he's a dumbfuck that couldn't find his ass with 2 hands and a flashlight. No one will ever convict that bumblefuck.

Michael K said...

Trust me, a dummy like you has exactly zero effect on whether or not I post here.

Please tell us which dummy you would prefer to tell you to fuck off. I have not seen a useful comment from you in a year or more.

Pookie Number 2 said...

Gk1: Any liberal with a conscience is slowly admitting it to themselves.

I admit to being a little disappointed in the scarcity of that combination. Not with regard to the trained seals commenting here; they’ve never expressed a single thought deviating from the party line. But there are legitimately good progressive people out there, and it’s sad to witness their acquiescence to corruption.

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...

Drago Mental Stability Index (DMSI™) Report

DMSI 5: McDonalds on a typical day
DMSI 4: Republican National Convention
DMSI 3: Bedlam Level
DMSI 2: Arkham Level ***
DMSI 1 : Dark Side of the Moon

It is my sad duty to report that after a brief period of relative lucidity Drago has slipped back to DMSI-2.

madAsHell said...

Recall that ARM spent months regurgitating ChiCom "Generosity Campaign" propaganda

No, why do you read what ARM writes?

ARM was the little shit that always found his ass hanging from a towel hook in the locker room. He was on a first name basis with the school janitor because no one else would un-hook him.

narciso said...

well close enough,


https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/19/imperial_college_huawei/

Birkel said...

Obama's minions (likely ordered by Obama) spied on Trump's kids on Inauguration Day.

Obama: It was just business.
Trump: This shit is personal.

This is the sort of crap that can get out of hand.
And I hope it does.

Big Mike said...

Any liberal with a conscience is slowly admitting it to themselves.

Both of them?

Drago said...

narciso: "apparently imperial college is teaming up with the Chinese govt,"

Not surprising.

They collaborated nicely together along with the democratics and the US media on the ChiCom flu operation.

rcocean said...

I always get "Jim" mixed up with "Bad Bad Leroy Brown".

narciso said...



Another scoop of lawfare

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/19/investigative_issues_erik_prince_sues_the_intercept_for_alleging_proposed_alliance_with_russian_mercenaries_123692.html

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...

madAsHell ... the little shit that always found his ass hanging from a towel hook in the locker room. He was on a first name basis with the school janitor because no one else would un-hook him.

Tell us more about your life story.

It's over. Trump is over. Not my fault. If Trump were half-way competent it wouldn't be over, he might have even turned it to his advantage as Cuomo has done. But he is not half-way competent and now it is over.

Michael K said...

It is my sad duty to report that after a brief period of relative lucidity Drago has slipped back to DMSI-2.

Gone from sniffing jockstraps to posting nonsense.

narciso said...

And the difference there is...

Birkel said...

If it is repeated often enough, reality will intrude more violently.

Francisco D said...

ARM has entered Chuck territory and should be ignored. The only purpose he serves is to distract and annoy. It must be due to a sense of desperation, but that is no excuse.


Howard,

You are starting to enter that territory. I used to find your posts amusing, but the teenaged homophobic stuff is puerile.

Pookie Number 2 said...

It's over. Trump is over.

It’s not uncommon for the simple-minded to confuse their credulity with actual credibility. It’s not a compelling argument to those that can actually think, but the foot-stomping is adorable.

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