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"Masha" Yavonovich: When You Think About It, I'm Just Like the Four Diplomats Being Murdered in Benghazi. I'm a Hero!!!

This is how all civil servants really conceived of themselves.

They're all superheroes. Marvel should make movies about them.

We are people who repeatedly uproot our lives, who risk and sometimes give our lives for this country. We are the 52 Americans, who, 40 years ago this month, began 444 days of deprivation, torture, and captivity in Tehran. We are the dozens of Americans stationed at our embassies in Cuba, and consulates in China whom mysteriously and dangerously, and perhaps in some cases, perhaps even permanently, were injured and attacked from unknown sources several years ago.

And we are Ambassador Chris Stevens, Shawn Patrick Smith, Ty Woods, and Glen Doherty, people rightly called heroes for their ultimate sacrifice to this nation’s foreign policy interests in Libya eight years ago.




"Masha" said she had Teh Sadz because Trump made her move out of "my house."

By "my house," she meant the US-owned ambassador's residence.

This is like Trump whining that impeachment is an effort to kick him out of his house.

My God, CNN would shriek about that.

Julie Kelly googled to find pictures of what "Masha's house" looks like.

Maybe she has Teh Sadz because she used to get to live in a palace:



This is about the earlier "I have the sads" testimony, but it's good:



I think Joel Pollack must be one of those Alt-Right Nazis I keep hearing so much about.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 05:05 PM




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1 ?

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 15, 2019 05:07 PM (ECrgQ)

2 Again? Where is everyone??

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 15, 2019 05:07 PM (ECrgQ)

3 Okay, I'll go call the Corgis.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 15, 2019 05:08 PM (ECrgQ)

4 Did she cry when she was shot and killed like them?

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 15, 2019 05:08 PM (JUOKG)

5 How nice is this house exactly?

Posted by: Someguy at November 15, 2019 05:08 PM (O+iVW)

6 Did she cry when she was shot and killed like them?
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Was she sad and upset as her corpse was being raped?

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at November 15, 2019 05:09 PM (JcXHH)

7 She haz the sadz because she's missing out on that fresh caviar. Oh, the huge manatee!

Posted by: Old Blue at November 15, 2019 05:09 PM (VNmG1)

8 The balls on these guys.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:09 PM (pcbAL)

9

This is how all civil servants really conceived of themselves.



The Trump Era has really highlighted how many groups think They're Better Than You.

Even to the point of inventing their own Right to Rule.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 15, 2019 05:09 PM (oVJmc)

10 that placard is a fucking lie. what is she the ambassador to? hobotown?

Posted by: x at November 15, 2019 05:10 PM (nFwvY)

11 Maybe it's a good thing that Krauthammer died before he made an ass of himself during impeachment.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 15, 2019 05:10 PM (xPl2J)

12
CBS News

@CBSNews

Stewart: Do you have any information regarding the president of the United States accepting any bribes?

Yovanovitch: No.

Stewart: Do you any have information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the United States has been involved with at all?

Yovanovitch: No.

Posted by: Ha at November 15, 2019 05:10 PM (jKqaK)

13 Brunches are fraught with danger, Ace.

Fraught.

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:10 PM (JSFuc)

14 I'm a government employee (state government) and most of my coworkers have that arrogance. It pisses me off daily.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 15, 2019 05:10 PM (wCmLp)

15 Masha, Masha, Masha!

Posted by: Jan Bradyvovich at November 15, 2019 05:11 PM (U7k5w)

16 This part wasn't funny, this part was stomach-turning. What a self-serving bitch.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 15, 2019 05:11 PM (NVYyb)

17 After seeing the picture of this person, I now fully understand why ze uses the masculine "ovitch" ending on zim's surname, rather than the feminine "ovna".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:11 PM (oQp6r)

18 Honestly, are Chrissy Wallace and Brett Baier exchanging frilly panties with each other?

Posted by: He's on Gypsy at November 15, 2019 05:11 PM (F73W5)

19 Here I come to save the day!

Posted by: Masha Potatovich at November 15, 2019 05:11 PM (EgshT)

20 12
Maybe it's a good thing that Krauthammer died before he made an ass of himself during impeachment.


Posted by: Mark1971 at November 15, 2019 05:10 PM (xPl2J)

Can you imagine how much fun Christopher Hitchens would be having with all of this?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (TLxpZ)

21 She really called it "my house"???

These people are in an alternate reality.

Posted by: cpurick at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (7NboP)

22 "This is how all civil servants really conceived of themselves."

Not even remotely true.

Posted by: Apostate at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (z2FAZ)

23 Five will get you ten she started her career in the CIA, and has worked for Brennan at some point.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (NVYyb)

24 Hey Brett Baier. This isn't a soap opera, you sop.

Posted by: He's on Gypsy at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (F73W5)

25 We're gonna need more trees and rope.

Posted by: filbert at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (NiXyF)

26 Her house? That's sort of acting like term limits made Obama move out of "his house". Fuck this Masha

Posted by: CN at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (U7k5w)

27 Who goes into their hairdresser and asks for the 'Orangutan Look'?

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (JSFuc)

28 She seems entitled.

Posted by: freaked at November 15, 2019 05:13 PM (Tnijr)

29 Democrats accuse the president of witness intimidation. I have to ask...WHAT WITNESS? She has absolutely no pertinent information to this case. She neither has first hand testimony, nor does she have any apparent evidence that ties into these accusations.

Posted by: Mirror Universe Phil Collins at November 15, 2019 05:13 PM (A2eXZ)

30 Mean tweets are now impeachable. Un Fucking unreal.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 05:13 PM (U7cQ/)

31 She really played the Ambassador Stevens card?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 15, 2019 05:13 PM (cqNba)

32 'You ever seen Every Which Way But Loose?

Good.

Gimme the Clyde, Gutav.'

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:13 PM (JSFuc)

33 Who goes into their hairdresser and asks for the 'Orangutan Look'?

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (JSFuc)

Right turn, Masha!

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 15, 2019 05:14 PM (xPl2J)

34 I see Brett Baier has now taken over Shep's role.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at November 15, 2019 05:14 PM (F73W5)

35 Leave shiff alone as he's doing yoemans work in destroying hisself.

Posted by: The Art of War at November 15, 2019 05:14 PM (nPKGb)

36 Isolationism is a valid concept if only to get rid of the communists that represent all of our interests abroad.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 15, 2019 05:14 PM (fYi9j)

37 Can you imagine how much fun Christopher Hitchens would be having with all of this?
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (TLxpZ)


I lament that he didn't live to see 2016. He wouldn't have liked Trump, would likely have thought the man a corrupt buffoon, but he would have loved to see the Clintons ruined and the corrupt establishment make fools of themselves.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 15, 2019 05:14 PM (wCmLp)

38 What a peach!

What is "Masha" - is that a Russian nickname? Ukrainian?
Isn't it a bit odd to keep putting these witnesses of regional Russian descent against Trump after 3 years of Russia Russia Russia???

Posted by: Lizzy at November 15, 2019 05:14 PM (bDqIh)

39 There is no self-regard that is too far for these people.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at November 15, 2019 05:15 PM (qC1Sy)

40 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 15, 2019 05:15 PM (arJlL)

41 You'd think that this attitude would make them more upset and more determined to get to the bottom of the Benghazi murder then, wouldn't you? I mean he was one of them, they feel connected to this event, its a blight on the State Department... where was the pressure and outrage to do something and make people pay? Where was the fury and the outrage? Why didn't they make a big fuss about that?

Almost as if they were, you know, part of it, or something.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:15 PM (KZzsI)

42 And we are Ambassador Chris Stevens, Shawn Patrick Smith, Ty Woods, and Glen Doherty,



Don't you fucking DARE to equate yourselves to Patrick Smith, Ty Woods and Glen Doherty.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 15, 2019 05:15 PM (dEvh1)

43 Memo to future Republican presidents: Fire every single one of these parasites on day 1.

Posted by: Benji Carver at November 15, 2019 05:15 PM (OD2ni)

44 Her house? That's sort of acting like term limits made Obama move out of "his house".
Posted by: CN at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (U7k5w)


Trump kicked a black family out of public housing!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 05:15 PM (le94c)

45 I'm curious, did Chrissy Wallace day that with pursed lips?

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at November 15, 2019 05:15 PM (F73W5)

46 Trump is amazing. He's like the physician hero of Camus' "The Plague", laboring on in service to the nation and all of us, despite knowing there is no stopping these completely irrational investigations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 15, 2019 05:15 PM (NVYyb)

47 This is how all civil servants really conceived of themselves.

That sounds nice, but it isn't remotely true.

Posted by: pep at November 15, 2019 05:16 PM (T6t7i)

48 My give-a-fuck-o-meter is pegged at zero. This Schiff show is nothing more than a campaign commercial. A poor one at that.

Posted by: DR.WTF at November 15, 2019 05:16 PM (aS1PU)

49 Boy, did I earn my wodka today.

Posted by: Masha Potatovich at November 15, 2019 05:16 PM (EgshT)

50 Well, the constitution clearly states "high crimes and mean tweets".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 15, 2019 05:16 PM (+y/Ru)

51 Yep, I no longer give bureaucrats the benefit of the doubt. Safe to assume they're actively working to destroy you, your family, and your way of life.

Every single one of them should be fired.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at November 15, 2019 05:16 PM (ayFCE)

52 The graveyard is full of irreplaceable people.

Masha will NOT be on that list.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 15, 2019 05:16 PM (Z4rgH)

53 Didn't see or hear anything much in TIN's Kangaroo Kourt today. What little I did hear about Marsha Marsha Marsha is that she's another brain-dead Prog leftover from teh SCOAMF's Reign of Error. She didn't know anything about anything, and she sounds like an entitled elitist.

PDT should've cleaned house completely on Day One of his presidency. But I suppose he's offering himself up as their target so they can be found and shown to the rest of us. If it weren't for him, The Swamp/Deep State would still be just a kooky conspiracy theory.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 15, 2019 05:16 PM (HaL55)

54 45
I'm curious, did Chrissy Wallace day that with pursed lips?

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy


I didn't see it, but I'd guess it was more of a beestung pout.

Posted by: pep at November 15, 2019 05:17 PM (T6t7i)

55 "This is how all civil servants really conceived of themselves."

Not even remotely true.



The 99% give the others a bad name.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:17 PM (pcbAL)

56 Leave Masha alone you brutes!

Posted by: G marks the spot at November 15, 2019 05:17 PM (GXoKW)

57 Memo to future Republican presidents: Fire Begin executing every single one of these parasites on day 1.

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Suggested fix.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 15, 2019 05:17 PM (NVYyb)

58 'This is how an alarming number of civil servants really conceived of themselves"

Is that better?

Posted by: freaked at November 15, 2019 05:17 PM (Tnijr)

59 I remember for 3 years the DC elite and NYC FNM called anyone who used the term "the Deep Stage" to refer to the entrenched bureaucrats as a conspiracy nut. And now they are having 'impeachment inquiry' of DJT because he went around the deep state inter-agency group to push the "america first" agenda he got elected on.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at November 15, 2019 05:17 PM (cDw3P)

60 Brett Baier is a comically unserious person.

By the way, the stock market exploded again today, huge gains. Its almost as if -- now bear with me here -- almost as if business is utterly unconcerned with this faux impeachment nonsense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:17 PM (KZzsI)

61 Certifiably insane and extremely dangerous to other life forms!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:17 PM (BiNEL)

62 My give-a-fuck-o-meter is pegged at zero.

-
However my rage-o-meter is off the charts!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 15, 2019 05:18 PM (+y/Ru)

63 The Democrats really are bringing out the comfy chair for this Inquisition!

My gawd, somebody appoint me ambassador so I can endure this exquisite pain of luxury living in exotic locals with no less than 30-time servants on hand to cater to my every need!!

Won't someone please torture me thus!!

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at November 15, 2019 05:18 PM (AMrK2)

64 I'm curious, did Chrissy Wallace day that with pursed lips?

Eh.. his lips are permanently pursed. The guys a fucking clown. He would be more comfortable at CNN. I wish he would just make the move already.

Posted by: Jewells45 at November 15, 2019 05:18 PM (dUJdY)

65 Yep, Apostate is correct. This is actually the [contemptible, ridiculous] mindset of a certain portion, but far from universal.



Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2019 05:18 PM (QDnY+)

66 Shorter Masha: "WE'RE ENTITLED!"

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 15, 2019 05:18 PM (oVJmc)

67 >>Brett Baier is a comically unserious person.


Apparently he can't leave a Cheese Plate unattended.

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:18 PM (JSFuc)

68 I see Brett Baier has now taken over Shep's role.


Cocksucker?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:18 PM (pcbAL)

69 This is Wine Box Aunt times 1000.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 15, 2019 05:19 PM (j3npP)

70 60 Brett Baier is a comically unserious person.
-------------

He used to be good.

One thing I've noticed is that he hasn't had Molly on the panel since she named the whistle blower last Saturday.

Posted by: WisRich at November 15, 2019 05:19 PM (G0vdT)

71 PDT should've cleaned house completely on Day One of his presidency.

Yeah Obama and Clinton did, why on earth did he not? Bush made the same idiot mistake. I expected a lot more firing from the man whose tag line was "you're fired." Apparently he changed that to "what utterly treacherous piece of crap can I hire next?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:19 PM (KZzsI)

72

What's this about the fake witness getting a standing ovation when she was done??

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 15, 2019 05:19 PM (bW2bs)

73 I'm so sick of this "public servant" bullshit. These people get well paid, stuffed pensions and live like kings. Get f%cked indeed.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 15, 2019 05:19 PM (jUVms)

74 She also donated a kidney, saved a cat from a tree. Stormed the beaches at Inchon, was instrumental in the Berlin airlift. Sniffed for wounded in the WTC after 9-11. She hasn't done enough? Why can't that meanie head Trump leave her alone!

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 05:19 PM (U7cQ/)

75 Yeah Obama and Clinton did, why on earth did he not?

he was getting shit-tastic advice from somebody

I'm gonna guess Sessions

Posted by: BlackOrchid..A.E.D.K.H. at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (Rarvo)

76 Spent 90 minutes today on the phone with a friend explaining the relationship between Ambassadors and Presidents.

An the hierarchy between the rolls of the State Department and POTUS.

In the end, I did get a


"I can see your point".

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (cqNba)

77 Masha is a Russian diminutive for Maria. That isn't the Ukranian ambassadors first name, is it. In the play by Anton Chekov "Three Sisters" Wikileaks describes her as he middle sister, she is 23 at the beginning of the play. She married her husband, Kulygin, when she was 18 and just out of school. When the play opens she has been disappointed in the marriage and falls completely in love with the idealistic Lieutenant-Colonel Vershinin. They begin a clandestine affair. When he is transferred away, she is crushed, but returns to life with her husband, who accepts her back despite knowing what she has done. She has a short temper, which is seen frequently throughout the play, and is the sister who disapproves the most of Natasha. Onstage, her directness often serves as a tonic to the melodrama, and her wit comes across as heroic. Her vitality provides most of the play's surprisingly plentiful humour. She was trained as a concert pianist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (WI7YS)

78 Eh.. his lips are permanently pursed. The guys a fucking clown.

His only claim to any job in reporting was his dad. Nepotism is very alive and well in the news and entertainment business, no matter how incompetent or awful people are.

Chris Cuomo is exhibit A.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (KZzsI)

79 The woman was given multiple chances, failed, yet, whines that she's being picked on.

Then has the audacity to compare herself to heroes.

I thought she was a run the mill Dem operative.

I'd no idea she was the low-life pond sucking scum eater that she actually is.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (qC1Sy)

80 I'm glad my handlers never asked me to pee on a bed.

Posted by: Masha Potatovich at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (EgshT)

81 >>"Maybe it's a good thing that Krauthammer died before he made an ass of himself during impeachment."--Posted by: Mark1971

Destroying whatever credibility he might have had.

A lot of that happening these last few years--and the biggest demolitions are yet to come..

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (YVDiH)

82 Oddly, a lot of jobs require that you move a lot.
Military comes to mind.

Roughneck too.

Lot of construction trades.

'Course they are short of cucumber sandwiches and only deal with long hard hours and dangerous equipment.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (1glZx)

83 71. It is almost like the GOP presidents get very, very poor advice from people like Andy Card and Reince Preibus,

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (fYi9j)

84
As I've mentioned before - Baier strikes me as the kinda fella who'd try to thumb your butthole in the locker room.

Don't know why. Just the vibe I get whenever I see his weird face.

I bet he was the fratboy none of the other brothers would fall asleep around.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (fUqBx)

85 I see Brett Baier has now taken over Shep's role.

-
Well, those cocks aren't going to suck themselves.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 15, 2019 05:21 PM (+y/Ru)

86 Why would she be worried about being killed? Obama and Hillary aren't running the show anymore

Posted by: DJ3way at November 15, 2019 05:21 PM (bhPL1)

87 Would someone be so kind as to alert Pixy as to a very annoying bit of scamware loading with the front page?

I can only "defeat" it by pulling up "In Private" mode on the browser.

Mostly, a NORTON antivirus (which I've never used) "notification" (scam notice, to be sure), that NORTON is expired, gotta renew, all files are lost, etc.

Total bullshit, but it's popping up, even after full anti-malware routines.

Help a Moron out?



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 15, 2019 05:21 PM (QzJWU)

88 I see Brett Baier has now taken over Shep's role.


Cocksucker?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:18 PM

That thing he promised not to do to Stelter's mouth? Yea, he lied.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 05:21 PM (U7cQ/)

89 No Nut November was a massive flop.

Schiff still has a microphone.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 15, 2019 05:21 PM (Z4rgH)

90 19
Here I come to save the day!


Posted by: Masha Potatovich


I can't compete here ...

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at November 15, 2019 05:21 PM (XzVUd)

91 Some heroes don't wear capes. It's true.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 15, 2019 05:21 PM (xptlg)

92 58
'This is how an alarming number of civil servants really conceived of themselves"



Is that better?

Posted by: freaked


Yes.

Posted by: pep at November 15, 2019 05:21 PM (T6t7i)

93 All of this nonsense shows the world that despite our noble posturing, we are just as corrupt as everyone else on the planet. We elected a man to cleanse the scum from Washington, but he will not be allowed to succeed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 15, 2019 05:21 PM (a4EWo)

94 In the end, I did get a

"I can see your point".


That means next time the topic comes up, they'll be back to exactly where they started last time. The left is remarkably impervious to changing minds when data changes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:21 PM (KZzsI)

95 Lots of 'interns' are available in those 'houses'.

Posted by: torabora at November 15, 2019 05:22 PM (Y274z)

96 > Why would she be worried about being killed? Obama and Hillary aren't running the show anymore


Yeah? Ask me how that works.

Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein at November 15, 2019 05:22 PM (oQp6r)

97 If you want to see something hilarious, watch Scott Adams read Kim Jong Un's statement on Biden and then absolutely losing it for about 5 minutes (laughing, crying, giggle-snorting).


Starts around 13 minute mark:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yfnhzdvx

Posted by: Lizzy at November 15, 2019 05:22 PM (bDqIh)

98 Yesterday at a presser Pelousi said about this that all roads lead back to Putin. I'm telling you, that Putin character is Lex Luther, Blofeld, and Moriarty all rolled up into one nice little package.

Posted by: Old Blue at November 15, 2019 05:22 PM (VNmG1)

99 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (KZzsI)

Oh hell yes. Without the Wallace name he'd be lucky to be doing a late night gig at some podunk local station.

Posted by: Jewells45 at November 15, 2019 05:22 PM (dUJdY)

100

Someone on Tucker last night said this is not impeachment, it is early Festivus for us....the airing of grievances.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 15, 2019 05:22 PM (bW2bs)

101 Star Khan Reince Preibus was a disappointment. I wanted him to be good just for the name, and he turned out to be a traitor and a leaker.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:22 PM (pcbAL)

102 Minnfidel, LOL.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2019 05:22 PM (QDnY+)

103 Orangehairwomanbad

Posted by: Regular joe at November 15, 2019 05:22 PM (6/uwW)

104 Bret Baier is a pussy.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at November 15, 2019 05:22 PM (CLteG)

105
Here is what I see when I look for local weather forecast from ABC affiliate WFAA channel 8 in Dallas.

BREAKING NEWS
Ousted Ukraine ambassador criticized by Trump during hearing says she felt threat.

Posted by: Glenn John at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (LilNs)

106 Please!!; What has Masha done that could ever be compared to the hostages in Iran or the death of Chris Stevens and the others who died?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (WI7YS)

107 Did you know her family fled the Soviets AND the Holocaust? I'm sure she's great friends with Vindman.

Seriously, how did so many "refugees" end up in the center of this?

Posted by: trev006 at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (FoV3c)

108
I forgot who Baier was. I looked him up -- oh yeah, beady eyed plastic mannequin, talks like a retard. Really covered himself in glory there. How can anybody take these people seriously?

I want to dismiss the whole thing as doomed and ridiculous, but look how far they've gotten. The deep state has successfully jailed several people on made-up offenses.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (DEzr3)

109 Trump made a black family move out of their house.

Posted by: torabora at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (Y274z)

110 Being in the military is service to the country. Pushing papers and policies to impede the progress of humanity is not.

Posted by: freaked at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (Tnijr)

111 Hey Brett Baier. This isn't a soap opera, you sop.
Posted by: He's on Gypsy at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (F73W5)
*******
Brett Baier is compromised & a Bigtime Deep State Useful Idiot

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (BqBId)

112 Real heroes aren't afraid to cry!

Posted by: Ambassador Karen at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (l7udz)

113 Well, these guys were superheroes:

Shawn Patrick Smith, Ty Woods, and Glen Doherty

The people they died protecting?

Not so much.

Posted by: Sharkman at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (OqsNP)

114 > Masha is a Russian diminutive for Maria. That isn't the Ukranian ambassadors first name, is it.

Actually, yeah, it is. Marie Louise Yovanovitch.


Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (oQp6r)

115 These people get well paid, stuffed pensions and live like kings. Get f%cked indeed.

Posted by: Seems Legit


I was a Fed for 35 years. When do I get to start living like a king?

Posted by: pep at November 15, 2019 05:24 PM (T6t7i)

116
Yeah Obama and Clinton did, why on earth did he not? Bush made the same idiot mistake. I expected a lot more firing from the man whose tag line was "you're fired." Apparently he changed that to "what utterly treacherous piece of crap can I hire next?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:19 PM (KZzsI)

-----------

As we've seen with Kelly, Tillerson, Mattis and many others, Trump hires people, gives them orders, and they immediately do the exact opposite thing.

I expect he's told every one of his top people something along the lines of "I want you to clear out problem people. People who aren't team players, or are loyal to the last administration, or who aren't on board with my goals."

At which point they turn around and fire every person who doesn't meet those criteria.

Just a guess.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:24 PM (fUqBx)

117 They made me peel onions for over an hour before my testimony.

Posted by: Masha Potatovich at November 15, 2019 05:24 PM (EgshT)

118 106 Please!!; What has Masha done that could ever be compared to the hostages in Iran or the death of Chris Stevens and the others who died?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (WI7YS)
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Well, Trump Tweets evidently give her the vapors, so, there's that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at November 15, 2019 05:24 PM (qC1Sy)

119 Civil service are "super heroes" for the self-styled "fire fighters" in the Press.

American "leftism" is feelgoodism.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:25 PM (DuZls)

120 Ex prosecutor Schiff is running his Schiff Show like a one-sided grand jury proceeding. Hearsay and everything.

He's fucked up by getting the Left and Media into a frenzy song bat Nancy has to Impeach. Nancy is crazy and has a personal hard on for Trump

So there will be a trial in the Senate and the Rs turn tables by showing that the Bidens are crooks, Schiff set up his Schiff Show, and the Ukrainians played games inour 2016'election

This is a reality TV show up that Media has to cover. How can D Senators vote to convict?

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 15, 2019 05:25 PM (weNqD)

121 Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM (oQp6r)

O.K Thanks for the information. Seems kind of pall-sy depending on who's using it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2019 05:25 PM (WI7YS)

122 Bret Baier's tweet show him to be quite the dum dum too. Sad. Thought news readers were smart. They always say they are.

Schiff pointed out the tweet. Had he not done that, she never would have known until after her testimony. So, who is actually trying to influence the witness?

OrangeManBad!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 15, 2019 05:25 PM (z79tQ)

123 Our betters, the best and brightest, cream of the Jivey League crop, on display for the rest of the third world to see ... as they laugh their asses off at the result of a century of nationwide emasculation and infantilization.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 15, 2019 05:25 PM (RGTnM)

124 At which point they turn around and fire every person who doesn't meet those criteria.

Just a guess.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:24 PM (fUqBx)

You can't just fire most civil servants(firing them without "cause").

Posted by: Someguy at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (O+iVW)

125 brett baier sucks piss wallace's shriveled, bent, cheesy, cock. i'm a superhero too. i paid my fuckin taxes.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (KP5rU)

126 Wait, didn't she just perjure herself before Congress?

She said no Obama admin person talked to her about Burisma, and then said that the Obama Admin PREPPED her using it.

That, is a lie, and so, like Roger Stone, she should be jailed.

Posted by: Don Quixote, Tilting at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (NgKpN)

127 The undeserved self-regard is sickening.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (NWiLs)

128

Incidentally, anyone else notice part of the exact same script from christine blasey's fake testimony?

When Blasey was asked how she felt after Brett Kavanaugh did nothing to her, she said she didn't remember BUT HER FRIENDS TOLD HER she was blah blah blah blah.

Marsha used the same bullshit when her rehearsed answer of how she felt because of what the president said: "my friends said the color left my face, blah blah blah."

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (bW2bs)

129 Yeah Obama and Clinton did, why on earth did he not? Bush made the same idiot mistake. I expected a lot more firing from the man whose tag line was "you're fired." Apparently he changed that to "what utterly treacherous piece of crap can I hire next?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:19 PM (KZzsI)

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You seem to think there is an ample supply of non-treacherous people (to Trump) who want to work for the government.

I would challenge that assumption.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (DuZls)

130 If Trump had not tweeted, the headlines would have been 'Trump Silent on Impeachment Charges'.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (pcbAL)

131 I get weepy when I think of Beria.

Posted by: Masha Potatovich at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (EgshT)

132 Trump's tweets made her sad? Well Trump's tweets make me happy. Guess we're all even!

Posted by: Weasel at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (oGXG7)

133 It is almost like the GOP presidents get very, very poor advice from people like Andy Card and Reince Preibus

Yeah I think that was his greatest flaw: trusting GOPe guys who had just held a damned cabal before the convention trying to figure out a way to destroy him.

But seriously, FIRE THEM WHEN YOU TAKE OFFICE, its really not a puzzler.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (KZzsI)

134 So there will be a trial in the Senate and the Rs turn tables by showing
that the Bidens are crooks, Schiff set up his Schiff Show, and the
Ukrainians played games inour 2016'election


And that's why McConnell is talking about a long trial in the Senate.

Posted by: pep at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (T6t7i)

135 This is how an alarming number of civil servants, northward of 98% really conceived of themselves"

Is that better?

Posted by: freaked


Fixed.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 15, 2019 05:27 PM (dEvh1)

136 Hey lets not forget that one of those fancy pants civil service perks seems to be not getting railroaded on process crimes for completely fabricated incidents, so long as you're a Dem.

I don't know about you guys but I'm not particularly down with being a serf.

Posted by: lurker (the other one, but spelled with a P) at November 15, 2019 05:27 PM (67XdO)

137 Bret Baier turned out to be such a cunt

Posted by: steevy at November 15, 2019 05:27 PM (KNsKs)

138 Rush Limbaugh devoted most of his show today to the Clown Congress, mostly having to do with this Masha woman. Who was fired in May, before the July phone call which is the basis for this supposed impeachment, and who hasn't talked to President Trump at all this year.

Devin Nunes basically said, why on earth are you even here.

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2019 05:27 PM (sTBcq)

139 > O.K Thanks for the information. Seems kind of pall-sy depending on who's using it.

I imagine Russian father and mother called her that, and it stuck.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:27 PM (oQp6r)

140 what on earth happened to Chris Wallace? Is he menopausal?

Posted by: IC at November 15, 2019 05:27 PM (a0IVu)

141 I'm glad my handlers never asked me to pee on a bed.
Posted by: Masha Potatovich

*********

The Soggy Bottom from Foggy Bottom!

Posted by: Muldoon at November 15, 2019 05:27 PM (m45I2)

142 "That means next time the topic comes up, they'll be back to exactly where they started last time. "

Usually yes.

This particular friend is fairly open minded to learning facts which they were unaware of previously.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (cqNba)

143 Wikipedia says Masha was ousted by a smear campaign..LOLGF, Wiki

Posted by: CN at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (U7k5w)

144 71 PDT should've cleaned house completely on Day One of his presidency.

Yeah Obama and Clinton did, why on earth did he not? Bush made the same idiot mistake. I expected a lot more firing from the man whose tag line was "you're fired." Apparently he changed that to "what utterly treacherous piece of crap can I hire next?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

the GOPers he would have to choose from would be just as Resistancey as Clyde here and they damn sure weren't rallying around him showing they were ready to carry out his policy, but I do see your point. If it were me as POTUS, you'd have to give me and the American people your letter of resignation up front which will be accepted at a time of my choosing. and if you can't pass that test, fuck off.

Posted by: x at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (nFwvY)

145 So there will be a trial in the Senate and the Rs turn tables by showing
that the Bidens are crooks, Schiff set up his Schiff Show, and the
Ukrainians played games inour 2016'election

And that's why McConnell is talking about a long trial in the Senate.
Posted by: pep


And we all know they can fuck up a one car funeral, so expect Trump to be convicted.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (dEvh1)

146 There is nothing that PDT has done that they can define as impeachable.

Posted by: freaked at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (Tnijr)

147 Trump's tweets made her sad? Well Trump's tweets make me happy. Guess we're all even!
Posted by: Weasel at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (oGXG7)

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They make me happy, too. Hey, guess what -- we win!

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (sTBcq)

148 During her tenure in Kiev did the embassy add a second front door?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (m45I2)

149 > You can't just fire most civil servants(firing them without "cause").


That needs to change. Bigly.
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Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (oQp6r)

150 You seem to think there is an ample supply of non-treacherous people (to Trump) who want to work for the government.

I think you could literally just like the old joke, hire random people from America using a lottery and they could and would do at least a good a job as these bozos. The pay is good, there are lots of benefits, you get to go to high end cocktail parties, I'm sure he could find people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (KZzsI)

151 147 Trump's tweets made her sad? Well Trump's tweets make me happy. Guess we're all even!
Posted by: Weasel at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (oGXG7)

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They make me happy, too. Hey, guess what -- we win!
Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (sTBcq)
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Yay, us!

Posted by: Weasel at November 15, 2019 05:29 PM (oGXG7)

152 I imagine Russian father and mother called her that, and it stuck.

Limbaugh noted that nobody called her "Masha" until Schiff did, and the media all snapped into line. It's clearly a way to make her seem more sympathetic.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 15, 2019 05:29 PM (ZGrMX)

153 Minnfidel - the earlier comment, I meant [more] - hilarious.


I can't imagine saying anything remotely as self-important and braggadcious as this mediocrity did in cited quote. And I've been in a lot more danger and gone through a lot more hardship conditions than I'll be she has.


And WTFF does that have to do with anything, anyway?


Of course in the low-budget Alice in Wonderland of the fauxpeachment [which the GOP has actually *not* mocked and dismantled as harshly as they could], a "witness" whose only knowledge was of the situation that *vindicates the allegedly improper actions being "investigated" for impeachment* has a certain insane hilarious self-refuting beauty to it ......

Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2019 05:29 PM (QDnY+)

154 >>I was a Fed for 35 years. When do I get to start living like a king?


Apparently you were peeing on the wrong people.

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:30 PM (JSFuc)

155 71 PDT should've cleaned house completely on Day One of his presidency.

Yeah Obama and Clinton did, why on earth did he not? Bush made the same idiot mistake. I expected a lot more firing from the man whose tag line was "you're fired." Apparently he changed that to "what utterly treacherous piece of crap can I hire next?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:19 PM (KZzsI**********

Trump had a bunch of weasels close to him leaking like a sieve when he moved in the White House.

POTUS has 5000 employees...exactly where was he going to get 5000 competent loyal replacements. He ran his rea; estate business as a sole proprietor so he simply didn't have the rolodex to fill presidential type 5000 jobs. He's the dog that caught the bus.

Posted by: torabora at November 15, 2019 05:30 PM (Y274z)

156 "Masha" said she had Teh Sadz because Trump made her move out of "my house."

By "my house," she meant the US-owned ambassador's residence.
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These fucking people need comeupance.

These "experts" don't understand shit and all they care about is the perks of the proximity to power.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:30 PM (DuZls)

157 You can't just fire most civil servants

Yet, strangely enough, both Clinton and Obama managed to clean house, somehow, and put their own people in. Like magic, somehow.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:30 PM (KZzsI)

158 Can you imagine how much fun Christopher Hitchens would be having with all of this?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans


Andrew Breitbart . . .

Posted by: Sharkman at November 15, 2019 05:30 PM (OqsNP)

159 During her tenure in Kiev did the embassy add a second front door?
Posted by: Muldoon at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (m45I2)
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Oooh, good question. They should answer. I'm sure it's embedded in her hippocampus.

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2019 05:30 PM (sTBcq)

160 I'm doing a little soft shoe dance on the forensic prostrate chalk outline of the Ukraine ambassador's body as we speak.

Posted by: Fritz at November 15, 2019 05:31 PM (wo3c/)

161
Misha is the Russian diminutive for Mikhail. Sasha is the one for Aleksandr.

Yet Americans name girls these names (including a former President.

Seriously. You're naming your freaking daughter, and don't bother to look it up and find out it's a dude's name? Why not just name her "Buck?"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:31 PM (fUqBx)

162 124 At which point they turn around and fire every person who doesn't meet those criteria.

Just a guess.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:24 PM (fUqBx)

You can't just fire most civil servants(firing them without "cause").

Posted by: Someguy at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (O+iVW)


But they can be given a desk in the basement, with no responsibilities other than counting the paperclips in the supply cabinet. That includes persons in "management" positions: GS-15s and people in the Senior Executive Service grades.

Posted by: Gref at November 15, 2019 05:31 PM (AMIL/)

163 Please!!; What has Masha done that could ever be compared to the hostages in Iran or the death of Chris Stevens and the others who died?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2019 05:23 PM

She had to have the chicken one night at the embassy dinner because they ran out of crab legs. Do you not care about the sacrifices this woman has made for America!

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 05:32 PM (U7cQ/)

164 I meant they should *ask her*. It sounded one way in my hippocampus but came out the wrong way via my fingertips.

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2019 05:32 PM (sTBcq)

165 Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:26 PM (DuZls)

IIRC, the lackluster Turtle wouldn't put the Senate in recess so the Republican President could make recess appointments to fill critical slots in government, slots filled by traitors that McConnell single-handedly enabled to stay in office!!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:32 PM (BiNEL)

166 There is nothing that PDT has done that they can define as impeachable.
Posted by: freaked


Impeachment is political, not criminal. Don't need a reason.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 15, 2019 05:32 PM (dEvh1)

167 > Yet, strangely enough, both Clinton and Obama managed to clean house, somehow, and put their own people in.
Clinton famously fired every single U.S. Attorney the moment he took office.
Why, it's almost like he wanted to have his own people in there to slow-walk or torpedo any charges that might come about.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:32 PM (oQp6r)

168 > You can't just fire most civil servants(firing them without "cause").
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You can fire them from their roles. They get relocated--but they lose that job.

That's all that happened to her. And she had to move out of "her house". ($**#&*@@#*#^!*@!!)

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:32 PM (DuZls)

169
157 You can't just fire most civil servants

Yet, strangely enough, both Clinton and Obama managed to clean house, somehow, and put their own people in. Like magic, somehow.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:30 PM (KZzsI)

That applies only to a small portion of the overall. This ambassador for instance can be fired without cause. All political appointees can be. The staff at the embassy? Not so much.

This is part of what stacks the deck so much against the right, the permanent bureaucrats are very left wing.

Posted by: Someguy at November 15, 2019 05:33 PM (O+iVW)

170 That this fucking waste of oxygen would even utter the name of Ty Woods and Glen Doherty is an insult to all Americans.

I equate her to something less than a janitor in a whorehouse.

RIHYSC

Posted by: Ben Had at November 15, 2019 05:33 PM (7qG7O)

171 But they can be given a desk in the basement, with no responsibilities other than counting the paperclips in the supply cabinet. That includes persons in "management" positions: GS-15s and people in the Senior Executive Service grades.

Posted by: Gref at November 15, 2019 05:31 PM (AMIL/)
]


Surely, there are Civil Service job listings from Adak

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:33 PM (BiNEL)

172 When this is over Trump should dismiss every Obama appointee.

There are a couple of beagles who swear they will be more loyal to the president than these creeps.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 15, 2019 05:33 PM (lkl+P)

173 christopher stevens wishes he would have been fired.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 15, 2019 05:33 PM (KP5rU)

174 > Seriously. You're naming your freaking daughter, and don't bother to look it up and find out it's a dude's name?

Meh... Beverly and Joyce used to be men's names, but now they aren't.
I think I've met more female Sidneys in recent years than male ones, too.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:34 PM (oQp6r)

175 Seriously. You're naming your freaking daughter, and don't bother to look it up and find out it's a dude's name? Why not just name her "Buck?"

I know a guy who named his daughter "Gregory." Its not even spelled a cute way, its just like Mr Peck. I think his largely insane wife came up with the name, personally.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:34 PM (KZzsI)

176 Yeah as I said last thread - the potential perjury/certain clumsy - and material - self-contradiction here is epic. The bit about not being aware of the Biden/Ukraine corruption/conflict of interest issue. Wow.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2019 05:34 PM (QDnY+)

177 Let's see...Misha gets approximately 130k for indoctrinating a dozen GeorgeyTown proggies? Maybe twice a week? Oh my. How awful. Oh, the humanity!

Meanwhile, did see actually WITNESS anything other than how many silver chaffing bowls the Embassy owns?

Posted by: Professor Shade at November 15, 2019 05:34 PM (JQlio)

178 REMFs gotta REMF. And Blue Falconing is just another day in the office.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at November 15, 2019 05:34 PM (tb1RC)

179 Julie Kelly: "You can see why leaving that post to teach a dozen kids at Georgetown..."

Hi, America. This is what you call a Red Flag. Maybe don't send your kids to Georgetown now either.

The list of places to not get educated indoctrinated is getting longer.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at November 15, 2019 05:34 PM (6eEQ+)

180 POTUS has 5000 employees...exactly where was he going to get 5000 competent loyal replacements. He ran his rea; estate business as a sole proprietor so he simply didn't have the rolodex to fill presidential type 5000 jobs. He's the dog that caught the bus.
Posted by: torabora at November 15, 2019 05:30 PM (Y274z)
*******
Well there you go using FACTS Instead of emotion

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 15, 2019 05:34 PM (BqBId)

181 I thought Brett Bair was a good guy because Brett sounds like Britt and Britt Hume is pure awesomness.

And they are both on FNC. I was mistaken.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, camp fire pics welcome at e-mail in nic at November 15, 2019 05:35 PM (gd9RK)

182 Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2019 05:29 PM

No worries. I got what you were saying. The sacrifices this woman has made. Apparently hair care was one of them as well. This woman deserves a congressional medal of freedumb.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 05:35 PM (U7cQ/)

183 leaving that post to teach a dozen kids at Georgetown
-Julie Kelly
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Ouch! That smarts.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 15, 2019 05:35 PM (xptlg)

184 a boy named Sue

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 15, 2019 05:35 PM (d7Ww2)

185 Just curious why Trump didn't fire all the Obama Ambassadors. How many times does the swamp need to run this play before someday decides to take a day and fire all of them?

Posted by: Blago at November 15, 2019 05:35 PM (sjTfF)

186 I equate her to something less than a janitor in a whorehouse.

RIHYSC

Posted by: Ben Had at November 15, 2019 05:33 PM (7qG7O)


Much as I hate to disagree, BH, but a friend told me that a whorehouse janitor provides a useful public health service!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:35 PM (BiNEL)

187 Fuck these people in particular.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 15, 2019 05:35 PM (rBtIz)

188 Just make sure you know what Sidney's carrying in her purse.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 15, 2019 05:35 PM (lkl+P)

189

They did the masha. They did the monster masha.

Posted by: Bobby Boris Pickett at November 15, 2019 05:35 PM (aKsyK)

190 > Maybe don't send your kids to Georgetown now either.


Sending your kid to any Ivy, or near-Ivy (like Georgetown) should count as child abuse.
Sadly, the state universities aren't any better, but at least the kid will come out with a smaller debt.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:36 PM (oQp6r)

191
I know a guy who named his daughter "Gregory." Its not even spelled a cute way, its just like Mr Peck. I think his largely insane wife came up with the name, personally.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:34 PM (KZzsI)

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My grandfather had wanted a boy, and when my mom was born he tried to name her Henry. My grandma wouldn't let him.

He later had a son (named Henry, or course).

Funny thing: He adored my mom and she was his designated successor in matters of business and so forth. He couldn't abide my uncle.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:36 PM (fUqBx)

192 It was hard getting good help - as I recall, the main reason Trump fired Chris Christie from his transition team in the early days was that he found out that Christie was loading up the staff with Chris Christie cronies, lackies, and hangers on, regardless of whether they had any particular skills for the jobs they were being given.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (Kpl3J)

193 POTUS has 5000 employees...exactly where was he going to get 5000 competent loyal replacements. He ran his rea; estate business as a sole proprietor so he simply didn't have the rolodex to fill presidential type 5000 jobs. He's the dog that caught the bus.
Posted by: torabora

You don't have to fire all 5,000. Just the top 100. Let them deal with their employees.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (dEvh1)

194 fuck it, can't care.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (KP5rU)

195 The constant thanking her for her "service" was so utterly tiresome.

Posted by: ... at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (yokAj)

196 Just curious why Trump didn't fire all the Obama Ambassadors. How many times does the swamp need to run this play before someday decides to take a day and fire all of them?

Posted by: Blago at November 15, 2019 05:35 PM (sjTfF)
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Don't you think that would have been Doomsday of the Fascist Empire to the Screamers-at-the-Sky?

It would have panicked the hell out of Washington (not that I care). And I think at the point he came in Trump was still trying to show how he could be a Washingtonian and work with them.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (DuZls)

197 This is absolutely ridiculous. They don't like the President's approach to foreign policy. Although, they do agree with his aid package.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front, Unbanned Chapter at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (vGJY7)

198 He's the dog that caught the bus.

I think in a lot of ways, that is true, I honestly do not think he expected to win. But still, the transition is almost 3 months and he has hosts of people to help him out, not all of whom are traitors. And every one of them has seen how the Demcorat presidents clean house and prosper while the Republican ones don't, and suffer as a result. Even if you're a GOPe guy, you can see the wisdom of cleaning out Obama appointees.

Somehow that eluded their advice? Or he rejected it? This really isn't some kind of higher level of intellectual firepower here. It does not take a genius to go "boy, I bet my predecessor, whose policies I need to eliminate and were so caustic to the nation, hired a lot of very bad actors. I probably should clear those out first thing, huh?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (KZzsI)

199 Can you imagine what this fragile piece of garbage would do if someone said boo to her?

What a piss poor excuse of a so-called public servant.

Posted by: Marybeth at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (4pK1/)

200 I know a couple who nearly got divorced because the husband wanted to name the first-born son "Wolfgang".

This was a long time before Eddie Van Halen's spawn came along.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (oQp6r)

201 192 It was hard getting good help - as I recall, the main reason Trump fired Chris Christie from his transition team in the early days was that he found out that Christie was loading up the staff with Chris Christie cronies, lackies, and hangers on, regardless of whether they had any particular skills for the jobs they were being given.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (Kpl3J)

Sounds like the New Jersey Way!

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at November 15, 2019 05:38 PM (d6Ksn)

202 Suddenly Democrats want people to know who Chris Stevens is.

Posted by: ... at November 15, 2019 05:38 PM (yokAj)

203 Surely, there are Civil Service job listings from Adak

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:33 PM (BiNEL)


It's difficult to assign a Civil Servant to a different work location, if he/she doesn't want to go there. Can be done, but I never saw it done at NASA. It's easier to simply give them a lesser or meaningless job (at the same pay rate). I saw that done to many people, including astronauts, who crossed one of the NASA JSC Center Directors a couple of decades ago.

Posted by: Gref at November 15, 2019 05:38 PM (AMIL/)

204 She claimed 'hardship' posts...

Ya know whats a hardship post? Fallujah, Iraq with the marines. That's a hardship post. The Korengal Valley AFG with the airborne. That's a hardship post.

F'n twat.

Posted by: BluesFish at November 15, 2019 05:38 PM (WQZ1O)

205 I've known 2 women named Sidney.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (d6Ksn)

206 I know a couple who nearly got divorced because the husband wanted to name the first-born son "Wolfgang".

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It's an awesome name. It means "Way of the Wolf."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (fUqBx)

207 5 Sidneys in my family tree.

3 were men.

2 are women.

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (JSFuc)

208 Hrothgar, you are once again correct. My white hot rage is showing.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (7qG7O)

209 My Dearest Reginald,
My suffering for my country has gone beyond compare.
It would, I fear, be small compensation should they choose to chisel my likeness onto the granite of the Dakota foothills.
Just today, I had to relieve the manservant Hans of his station after misplacing the dessert fork below the dessert spoon!
But I shall endeavor to tarry on for America.
With All My Love,
Amb. Yakonovich

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (AMrK2)

210 > Ya know whats a hardship post? Fallujah, Iraq with the marines. That's a hardship post.


She did apparently do a tour in Mogadishu. That probably counts.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (oQp6r)

211 The constant thanking her for her "service" was so utterly tiresome.

Projection.

Posted by: mikeyG at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (XJkoT)

212 I think it could raise an appearance of a conflict of interest.
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Again, there is little value in calling it an "appearance of a conflict of interest" because a "conflict of interest" is only an appearance of potential corruption (that you can't represent both interests validly.)

Interests either conflict or they don't.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (DuZls)

213 Misha is the Russian diminutive for Mikhail. Sasha is the one for Aleksandr.

Yet Americans name girls these names (including a former President.

Seriously. You're naming your freaking daughter, and don't bother to look it up and find out it's a dude's name? Why not just name her "Buck?"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:31 PM (fUqBx)


Because they're idiots?

People of low intelligence think "Sasha" must be a girl's name because it ends in "a," little realizing that they might as well name her "Bill." Or "Dick."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (le94c)

214 192 It was hard getting good help - as I recall, the main reason Trump fired Chris Christie from his transition team in the early days was that he found out that Christie was loading up the staff with Chris Christie cronies, lackies, and hangers on, regardless of whether they had any particular skills for the jobs they were being given.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (Kpl3J)

Frankly though, was Christie's method wrong? Spoils system vs waiting till we can find the right people has left us with a lot of prior administration folk.

Posted by: Someguy at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (O+iVW)

215 I know a couple who nearly got divorced because the husband wanted to name the first-born son "Wolfgang".

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It's an awesome name. It means "Way of the Wolf."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (fUqBx)


I knew a guy with the last name "Dick". Named his son Dragan.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (wCmLp)

216 I had an Aunt Bill. I think her real name was Elizabeth though, not William.

Posted by: x at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (nFwvY)

217 Stolen Valor

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (CDGwz)

218 Look at the sacrifices her hair made. Why you people are hating on this patriot, giver of all. Shame!

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (U7cQ/)

219 The constant thanking her for her "service" was so utterly tiresome.
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Maybe she serviced them all.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (DuZls)

220 I think Christopher Hitchens was so in love with being a contrarian he would have pretended to like Trump at the very least.

Posted by: Max Power at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (q177U)

221 Tons of "Madisons" were named after Splash, not exactly a girl's name. But Americans are kind of stupid and crazy when it comes to naming kids. No tradition or logic to it at all.

I'm not buying this "our hands are tied, we can do nothing with federal employees, its destiny!" bullcrap.

Every boss knows how to make an employee suffer or get them out of the way if they are a problem.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (KZzsI)

222 > I knew a guy with the last name "Dick". Named his son Dragan.

That's a good one. I'd go with first name Hugh, middle name Mongous.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:41 PM (oQp6r)

223 It's sort of nuts when you think about it but literally everything other than the pee-pee dossier in this cavalcade of "Trump did a bad, bad thing" impeachment follies is pretty much about Trump firing, threatening to fire, and/or ignoring self-regarding bureaucrats.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at November 15, 2019 05:41 PM (hdzef)

224 Posted by: Tom Servo at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (Kpl3J)
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Christie is nothing less than a parasite. One of the slimiest human beings I've ever been in the presence of.

Posted by: BluesFish at November 15, 2019 05:41 PM (WQZ1O)

225 fuck me sideways, this day is getting on my very last nerve

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 15, 2019 05:41 PM (d7Ww2)

226 166 There is nothing that PDT has done that they can define as impeachable.
Posted by: freaked


Impeachment is political, not criminal. Don't need a reason.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 15, 2019 05:32 PM (dEvh1)

Yeah, that's why its for Crimes and Misdemeanors, and they have a Trial presided over by the Top Judge in the Country.

Just as with other Supreme Court stupidity, some things need to be overturned.

Posted by: Don Quixote, Tilting at November 15, 2019 05:42 PM (NgKpN)

227 My grandmother refused to allow my grandfather to use a family name 'Beaumont' as a given name for an uncle.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 15, 2019 05:42 PM (CDGwz)

228 76 Spent 90 minutes today on the phone with a friend explaining the relationship between Ambassadors and Presidents.

An the hierarchy between the rolls of the State Department and POTUS.

In the end, I did get a


"I can see your point".
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 15, 2019 05:20 PM (cqNba)


so, your friend never took a high school civics class?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 15, 2019 05:42 PM (sy5kK)

229
For some reason, Venezuelans like to pick super controversial names for their kids, like Hitler or Batman. I think they passed a law against it awhile back.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:42 PM (fUqBx)

230 The constant thanking her for her "service" was so utterly tiresome.

Posted by: ... at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (yokAj)


Did she get a sweet paycheck for that service?

Did she ever go into harm's way for that paycheck?

This thanking is the Deep State reinforcing the theme that we are so lucky to have people of this "caliber" working tirelessly on our behalf!

Fire every one that is not Civil Service, and shift the Civil Service traitors into make-work jobs with no authority and bad locations!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:42 PM (BiNEL)

231

My house was a very,very, very fine house.
With two Rolls in the drive.
I used to feel alive.
Now everything is awful cause of you.

Posted by: Crosby, Stills and Masha at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (aKsyK)

232 I work with a vendor named Erin - a man. Can't imagine what his parents were thinking.

Posted by: IC at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (a0IVu)

233 Every boss knows how to make an employee suffer or get them out of the way if they are a problem.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

those TPS reports aren't going to write themselves

Posted by: x at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (nFwvY)

234 Walk a mile in my shoes.

Posted by: Dick Gogzinya at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (U7cQ/)

235 Can you imagine what this fragile piece of garbage would do if someone said boo to her?

What a piss poor excuse of a so-called public servant.
Posted by: Marybeth at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (4pK1/)


And here's the thing: you'd count on an ambassador - especially to a fraught place such as Ukraine - to be someone of substance, prudence, and good judgment. If you're rewarding some campaign donor, make him ambassador to Liechtenstein, Monaco, the Vatican, or someplace like that that doesn't matter.

Boy, did we whiff with this one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (le94c)

236 "I know a couple who nearly got divorced because the husband wanted to name the first-born son "Wolfgang".

-----

It's an awesome name. It means "Way of the Wolf."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (fUqBx)

I knew a guy with the last name "Dick". Named his son Dragan."

Still no love for Moon Moon?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (cqNba)

237 so over brett baier. They all have full schedules int the DMV. BTW, I can't believe millenials came up with "DMV" as the new term fror the DC area.

First of all, it shows the people consider it a stateless place. It is DC, MD, and NOVA, no real state, not state identity at all. Just an overgrown Leviathan with no state pride whatsoever.

Secondly DMV means the department of motor vehicles. It is the worst, most statist place you can end up. No one wants to be there, they only want to get out. But these dumb Millennials call the DC region the DMV. When i was there in the 80s and 90s, no one in their right mind would call it such a stupid name. What a bunch of statist no nothings.

Posted by: Quint at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (n13/j)

238 Did she ever go into harm's way for that paycheck?

She almost slipped on the marble floor once.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (NWiLs)

239 It does not take a genius to go "boy, I bet my predecessor, whose policies I need to eliminate and were so caustic to the nation, hired a lot of very bad actors. I probably should clear those out first thing, huh?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:37 PM (KZzsI)

Given how Michael Flynn was arrested, clearing out the Augean stables would have led to NEW HITLER, and it's getting old to hear you bang on about it.

Posted by: trev006 at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (FoV3c)

240 She proudly wore her bona fides like the military brass sport a chest full of medals.


I Deserve A Medal - a limerick

She came to the hearing and lied
When questioned she got moist and cried
But she did it by choice
In her quavering voice
Bedecked in her best bona fides!

Posted by: Muldoon at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (m45I2)

241 213 Misha is the Russian diminutive for Mikhail. Sasha is the one for Aleksandr.

Yet Americans name girls these names (including a former President.

Seriously. You're naming your freaking daughter, and don't bother to look it up and find out it's a dude's name? Why not just name her "Buck?"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:31 PM (fUqBx)

Because they're idiots?

People of low intelligence think "Sasha" must be a girl's name because it ends in "a," little realizing that they might as well name her "Bill." Or "Dick."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (le94c)



Considering the family, maybe they knew exactly what they were doing.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (lkl+P)

242 221, My grandfather was a high muckety muck federal civil service head of personnel. He told me that it would take him about one year of concentrated effort to fire an errant employee for even gross misconduct. Thus, he said, the time and effort spent in terminating one employee was better spent doing the rest of his job. Basically they would shunt these folks into do nothing jobs where they could do the least harm to the agency mission.

Posted by: whig at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (MItID)

243 > Tons of "Madisons" were named after Splash, not exactly a girl's name.


Heh. I'm still amused by imagining the reaction of all the "trendy" moms who named their daughters Danaerys, Khaleesi, or some horribly-misspelled variant of one of those, when they found out Bitch Be Cray-Cray in the series finale.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM (oQp6r)

244 >>Did she get a sweet paycheck for that service?


That right there is all that matters.

If you were drafted, I will thank you for your service.

If not, you signed up for a job.

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM (JSFuc)

245 Yeah, that's why its for Crimes and Misdemeanors, and they have a Trial presided over by the Top Judge in the Country.

Just as with other Supreme Court stupidity, some things need to be overturned.

Posted by: Don Quixote


Trial is in the Senate. He already been impeached by then. See Clinton.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM (dEvh1)

246 Probably not the first, but all those people she mentioned were put in peril by one of 2 people: Carter and a certain someone who will Never Be President.

Posted by: Texican ette at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM (gou4q)

247 Tons of "Madisons" were named after Splash, not exactly a girl's name. But Americans are kind of stupid and crazy when it comes to naming kids. No tradition or logic to it at all.


I know a guy who named his daughter Madison after a trout stream.

This is what you get with freedom. There are countries like Iceland and Germany that have approved lists of names. Not on the list, can't use the name. Upside, no Sh'aund-olays. Downside, Ulf is your best choice.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, camp fire pics welcome at e-mail in nic at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM (gd9RK)

248

"Masha, Masha, Masha!"

Posted by: Cindy Brady with a headcold at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM (sy5kK)

249 Yes and Donald Trump is just like Abraham Lincoln.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM (0V/8D)

250 OT/mentioned below - group that exposed Planned Parenthood baby parts merchandising activities fined $87OK by CA court. Wow. Loathsome, barbaric people.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM (QDnY+)

251 Every boss knows how to make an employee suffer or get them out of the way if they are a problem.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


The Nips have a way of doing this: they just keep changing the light bulbs in someone's office to be of lower and lower wattage.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM (le94c)

252 229
For some reason, Venezuelans like to pick super controversial names for their kids, like Hitler or Batman.


lol

Posted by: Batman Hitler at November 15, 2019 05:45 PM (nFwvY)

253 >>My house was a very,very, very fine house.
With two Rolls in the drive.
I used to feel alive.
Now everything is awful cause of you.



Hahaha!

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:45 PM (JSFuc)

254
Found an article about it from 2007:

While Stalin led hundreds of students on a march in solidarity with Nixon, authorities in Venezuela were drawing up a law to prevent parents from giving their children names that are invented, difficult to pronounce in Spanish, or exotic.

It was pure coincidence that Stalin Gonzalez, president of the students' federation at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas, led the protest this year in support of Nixon Moreno, the University of the Andes (ULA) student president and an opponent of the government who has spent months in asylum at the Apostolic Nunciature (the papal diplomatic mission).

Politics aside, Venezuela has been overrun in recent decades by people called Max Donald, Engelbert, Cleiderman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Edison and even Superman and Hitler, along with Yesaidu (Yes, I do), Yusnavy (U.S. Navy) and Yusleidy (U.S. Lady), or Taj-Mahal, Temutchin and Hochiminh.

Combinations of parents' names are common, such as Yolimar (Yolanda and Mario), Ramcel (Ramón and Celeste), Ligimat (Ligia and Mateo) and Johenry (Josefina and Henry). Then there are the merely inexplicable, like Derbinson, Naily, Udemixon and Hemeyer, or combinations like Hitler Adonis and William del Espiritu Santo.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:45 PM (fUqBx)

255 Hey look guys

The Amish Asshole just showed up.

Posted by: mikeyG at November 15, 2019 05:45 PM (XJkoT)

256 In 2016, if Trump had cleaned house (although I agree he should have) it would have been only to "put Putin's people in position".

And you *know* that would be the shriek ringing out from about 50% of our country.

These people who believe that Joe McCarthy "went too far" in trying to sniff out communists in the State Department, would actually believe that if somebody doesn't win the "popular vote" and rumors are the Putin helped him win, is going to sell the country over to The Russkies.

Because there is no feedback loop with these people. It was "right" when they said it, it's not going to be wrong ever.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:45 PM (DuZls)

257
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 15, 2019 05:45 PM (KCxzN)

258 >>>There is nothing that PDT has done that they can define as impeachable.
Posted by: freaked at November 15, 2019 05:28 PM (Tnijr)

Orange Man Bad!

REEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Posted by: Max Power at November 15, 2019 05:45 PM (q177U)

259
Still no love for Moon Moon?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (cqNba)

If I ever have a daughter.

Posted by: Someguy at November 15, 2019 05:45 PM (O+iVW)

260 The constant thanking her for her "service" was so utterly tiresome.
--------

Beto tried to play that card himself. "I’ve served in public office since 2005. I do my best to contribute to the success of my community, of my state, and now, of my country. There are ways that I do this that are measurable and there are ways that I do this that are immeasurable."

Yeah, immeasurably small.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 15, 2019 05:46 PM (CDGwz)

261 221, oh, and this was talking about civil service in the late 70's. With the current Merit board, it is much worse when trying terminate employees. The VA is finally cleaning house where they changed the law finally as one of the few Republican efforts during the 2016-18 era.

Posted by: whig at November 15, 2019 05:46 PM (MItID)

262 Given how Michael Flynn was arrested, clearing out the Augean stables would have led to NEW HITLER

Wait... you think they would have said mean things about him if he fired people? That they'd have called him Hitler? Gosh... that's so different than now. What a shock that would be to hear, since they've been so kind and sane about the man so far.

Heh. I'm still amused by imagining the reaction of all the "trendy" moms who named their daughters Danaerys, Khaleesi, or some horribly-misspelled variant of one of those, when they found out Bitch Be Cray-Cray in the series finale.

LOL guess that wasn't a good choice for fierce girl huh?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:46 PM (KZzsI)

263 We've been joking now for a long time about how it's like none of these people ever left high school...

...but I'm starting to really believe that they truly never left that stunted state of adolescent social-emotional development.

I can't tell whether I feel more disbelief, or contempt, or terror at the fact that people like this are running the country.

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at November 15, 2019 05:46 PM (q6jjE)

264 On a positive not on the name front I was at a fundraiser for our local youth service group doing the awards and the names were like an Elk's club meeting in 1956. Stan, Frank, Allen, Grace, Elise etc. I was encouraged not one kid had some BS name like Sky etc.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 05:46 PM (U7cQ/)

265 "God's truth. There I was, hip deep in the rice pilaf, pigeonholed by the Ukrainian Assistant Undersecretary of Transportation at a stand-up buffet..."

Masha "In Harm's Way" Yovanovich

Posted by: Muldoon at November 15, 2019 05:47 PM (m45I2)

266 Hrothgar, you are once again correct. My white hot rage is showing.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (7qG7O)


Deep breathing, with a pause for some Scotch might help!
I feel like I'm in a bad dream, where I don't think it will end well and can't seem to wake up!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:47 PM (BiNEL)

267 > It was pure coincidence that Stalin Gonzalez
Punchline to old joke:
"My name is Tonto. Tonto Goldstein."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:47 PM (oQp6r)

268 Surely, there are Civil Service job listings from Adak

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:33 PM


Well, there's...one.

https://tinyurl.com/vww4nza

Posted by: Bert G at November 15, 2019 05:47 PM (OMsf+)

269 She had to have the chicken one night at the embassy dinner because they ran out of crab legs.



and the chicken was dry. DRY!!!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:47 PM (pcbAL)

270 I had an Aunt Bill. I think her real name was Elizabeth though, not William.

Posted by: x at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM


Heck, the RMBS Mom's middle name is George. Greeks often name after the father, but they sometimes forget to feminize it. Her first name is appropriately feminine. This causes interesting moments when passports are examined.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 15, 2019 05:47 PM (rBtIz)

271 Heh. I'm still amused by imagining the reaction of all the "trendy" moms who named their daughters Danaerys, Khaleesi, or some horribly-misspelled variant of one of those, when they found out Bitch Be Cray-Cray in the series finale.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM (oQp6r)


Or SyPHILis, GoNORrhea, or Diarrhea.

Nah, don't look up what the word means. It sounds nice, that's good enough.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 05:47 PM (le94c)

272 Yep

Posted by: Hugh Jass at November 15, 2019 05:48 PM (3BlqQ)

273 My house was a very,very, very fine house.
With two Rolls in the drive.
I used to feel alive.
Now everything is awful cause of you.



Hahaha!
Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:45 PM

My house, Trump made me hit the street. My house, that was where we used to meet...

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 05:48 PM (U7cQ/)

274 My Dearest Reginald,
My suffering for America never ends!
Just today, the five-course meal--promised to start at precisely 5 pm--did not start until 5:07PM!
If it had not been for the caviar platter served in the anteroom, I may have collapsed from hunger!
With All My Love,
Amb. Yavonivich

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at November 15, 2019 05:48 PM (AMrK2)

275 "My name is Tonto. Tonto Goldstein."


but his friends call him Bubba.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:48 PM (pcbAL)

276 206 I know a couple who nearly got divorced because the husband wanted to name the first-born son "Wolfgang".

-----

It's an awesome name. It means "Way of the Wolf."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:39 PM (fUqBx)


agreed.

anyone hungry?

Posted by: Duran Duran at November 15, 2019 05:49 PM (sy5kK)

277
My grandmother refused to allow my grandfather to use a family name 'Beaumont' as a given name for an uncle.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.


Huge Beaumont!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 15, 2019 05:49 PM (aKsyK)

278 ...: "The constant thanking her for her 'service' was so utterly tiresome."

Absurd. She's an ambassador. That's it. You know, the job you get appointed to because you're traditionally a political ally of a president and raised money/votes but really don't have the gravitas to hold a truly important role. You greet/liaison with people on behalf of America and mouth the words of the current president who has his hands up your tuckus (so to speak). You're a puppet. That is all. And you get to live large on the taxpayer dime while doing it for the most part.

Oh, it was such a strain and sacrifice. Really? That's the argument? Then leave the damn post. No one is holding a gun to your head because "irreplaceable".

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at November 15, 2019 05:49 PM (6eEQ+)

279 Stan, Frank, Allen, Grace, Elise etc.


Elise sounds suspiciously French.

Posted by: pep at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (T6t7i)

280 EDKH shirts for sale on etsy...

Posted by: Max Power at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (q177U)

281 I like this one. Don't have to be Venezuelan, I think.


Posted by: Hitler Adonis, AKA rhomboid at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (QDnY+)

282 231
My house was a very,very, very fine house.
With two Rolls in the drive.
I used to feel alive.
Now everything is awful cause of you.
Posted by: Crosby, Stills and Masha at November 15, 2019 05:43 PM (aKsyK)

Horde on a roll.

Posted by: m at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (UZ8BZ)

283 i thank your for your service Q tip. Now name just ten of your Marine Guards while doing all this service abroad. And I mean their first and last names and i want it now. That would have been my question.,

Posted by: Quint at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (n13/j)

284
She almost slipped on the marble floor once.
Posted by: Insomniac
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Embassy parties are notorious for spilled Champagne.

I think Al Gore got a medal for surviving that at the Saigon Embassy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (CDGwz)

285 You have to wonder if these people have any clue how they sound to people who do not worship the government.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (GbPPJ)

286 Look, we can all see the toll that the hard water did to her hair and complexion. And you ingrates want to overlook that? Bastards! All of you!

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (U7cQ/)

287 Beaumont is a cool name I like a lot of those old, forgotten men's names, just avoid Gaylord or Percy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (KZzsI)

288 [I know a guy who named his daughter Madison after a trout stream.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, camp fire pics welcome at e-mail in nic at November 15, 2019 05:44 PM

The Madison River in Montana is legendary for fly fishing.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (tb1RC)

289 Oh, it was such a strain and sacrifice. Really? That's the argument? Then leave the damn post. No one is holding a gun to your head because "irreplaceable".
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at November 15, 2019 05:49 PM (6eEQ+)

--------

Yeah, and it's Ukraine. All you're there to do is facilitate graft for the Party.

It's not like you're in Israel, constantly trying to balance war and peace on a razor's edge, or in China, in the middle of an ugly trade standoff.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:51 PM (fUqBx)

290 I have a girl cat named Buckshot George

Posted by: Batman Hitler at November 15, 2019 05:51 PM (nFwvY)

291 229
For some reason, Venezuelans like to pick super controversial names for their kids, like Hitler or Batman. I think they passed a law against it awhile back.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:42 PM (fUqBx)


Living off a 400 calorie a day diet will do that kind of thing to people.

Posted by: Duran Duran at November 15, 2019 05:51 PM (sy5kK)

292 "I feel like I'm in a bad dream, where I don't think it will end well and can't seem to wake up!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:47 PM (BiNEL)"
..
..
Whole lot of relevant lessons from other cultures in this mess. The most Russian of which is to make sure that if it's not going to end well, it ends less well for your opponents.

Posted by: lurker (the other one, but spelled with a P) at November 15, 2019 05:52 PM (67XdO)

293
The Madison River in Montana is legendary for fly fishing.
Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (tb1RC)
---
*nods knowingly*
I have caught many of the young ladies with my fly.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 15, 2019 05:52 PM (DuZls)

294 Absurd. She's an ambassador. That's it. You know, the job you get appointed to because you're traditionally a political ally of a president and raised money/votes but really don't have the gravitas to hold a truly important role.

Yeah the embassy staff does all the hard work and diplomatic stuff, the ambassador sips champagne and does the public appearance stuff. You know, going to the little village for the "hit each other on the head with gourds" festival, dancing with the lords and ladies, that crap. You're just a face.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:52 PM (KZzsI)

295 OT: The Ricochet Podcast is unimpressed with the "impeachment" hearings. They're kinda' Trump skeptical, but rolling their eyes at just how non-sensical this farce is.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 15, 2019 05:52 PM (xptlg)

296
Elise sounds suspiciously French.
Posted by: pep
--------

German. Furry Elise.

Posted by: L. Beethoven at November 15, 2019 05:52 PM (xSo9G)

297 Stan, Frank, Allen, Grace, Elise etc.


Elise sounds suspiciously French.
Posted by: pep at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM

Hey I was just encouraged there were no weird off the wall names. Heck, they even had a Judy and if I remember right a Steve.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 05:52 PM (U7cQ/)

298 Beaumont is a town. Madison is a town. Maybe towns names are the way to go. But Madison has been big on the baby name list for years. Not so much Beaumont.

Posted by: Quint at November 15, 2019 05:52 PM (n13/j)

299 >>The Madison River in Montana is legendary for fly fishing.


It''s pretty.


...for an irrigation ditch.

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:53 PM (JSFuc)

300 > If you're rewarding some campaign donor, make him ambassador to
Liechtenstein, Monaco, the Vatican, or someplace like that that doesn't
matter.


I want to be ambassador to one of those South Pacific island nations where the wimmenz still run around topless, where I can have regular afternoon staff meetings involving drinks served in cups made out of whole pineapples or coconuts, involving much high-proof rum, and served by said topless babes.
Fuck Mogadishu. Fuck Kabul. Fuck whatever the current capital of Outer Jackoffistan is.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:53 PM (oQp6r)

301 For some reason, Venezuelans like to pick super controversial names for their kids, like Hitler or Batman. I think they passed a law against it awhile back.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:42 PM (fUqBx)

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Just think if you pick the name "Hitler" to be unique and your kid ends up in kindergarten with 5 other Hitlers.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:53 PM (DuZls)

302
Fire every one that is not Civil Service, and shift the Civil Service traitors into make-work jobs with no authority and bad locations!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:42 PM (BiNEL)

There is a massive shortage of janitors in federal buildings in central Wyoming.

This could solve that.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 15, 2019 05:53 PM (sy5kK)

303 "Don't you fucking DARE to equate yourselves to Patrick Smith, Ty Woods and Glen Doherty."
**********
A-FFING-MEN

Posted by: Cosda at November 15, 2019 05:53 PM (jCB/s)

304 The constant thanking her for her 'service' was so utterly tiresome.
-

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but this is no different than their approach on gay marriage, cross dressing, global warming, and who knows what else.

It's equal. We will insist its equal until you begin agreeing that it's equal

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a Proud Black Woman - my word as a Biden at November 15, 2019 05:53 PM (Ua91j)

305 Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:45 PM (DuZls)

Senator McCarthy had the right instincts about Communist infiltration of the DoS, he just didn't have the completely incontrovertible documentary proof, because the Communist vanguard were in lock step and didn't need to do any documented coordination.

And frankly, he would never had guessed how low his estimate of the number of Communist DoS employees actually was!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:53 PM (BiNEL)

306 Just think if you pick the name "Hitler" to be unique and your kid ends up in kindergarten with 5 other Hitlers.


Imagine their struggle.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:53 PM (pcbAL)

307 Beaumont is a town. Madison is a town. Maybe towns names are the way to go.

Posted by: Quint



C'mere Old Dime Box!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 15, 2019 05:53 PM (dEvh1)

308 > But Madison has been big on the baby name list for years. Not so much Beaumont.

Brooklyn is common, but Newark doesn't seem to be all that popular either.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:54 PM (oQp6r)

309 Just think if you pick the name "Hitler" to be unique and your kid ends up in kindergarten with 5 other Hitlers.


Imagine their struggle.
Posted by: Grump928(C)


Count the nuts!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 15, 2019 05:54 PM (dEvh1)

310 I think the natural human tendency is to believe we are all the heroes of our own personal epic.

One of the reasons I think liberals want to eliminate the past is that they look at the struggles of previous generations (Polio, childhood mortality, The Somme) and find their own struggles (out of arugula, Twitter bans, Orangemanbad) and find themselves hopelessly outclassed and outManned.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 15, 2019 05:54 PM (2B9A/)

311 There is a massive shortage of janitors in federal buildings in central Wyoming.

"You know, we'd rather have messy buildings than them DC folks moving in"
--Wyoming residents

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:54 PM (KZzsI)

312 If you don't have to come to your federal job on snow days then you are part time without benefits effective by 5pm tomorrow.

Next problem?

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a Proud Black Woman - my word as a Biden at November 15, 2019 05:54 PM (Ua91j)

313 285 You have to wonder if these people have any clue how they sound to people who do not worship the government.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (GbPPJ)

They've been in the bubble for so long I doubt they even think about it.

How old is this lady? 70? Even if she grew up in flyover country that was about 50 years ago before she went to an Ivy and then into government work. Even if she has surviving family out in the sticks she probably only sees them for the holidays maybe every other year or so.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 15, 2019 05:55 PM (j3npP)

314 The just don't name kids like Kennisaw Mountain Landis anymore.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:55 PM (pcbAL)

315 If you do not have DC folks moving in, your buildings stay a lot cleaner anyway.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 15, 2019 05:55 PM (2B9A/)

316 307 Beaumont is a town. Madison is a town. Maybe towns names are the way to go.

Posted by: Quint



C'mere Old Dime Box!
Posted by: rickb223 at November 15, 2019 05:53 PM (dEvh1)

Beaver Utah!

Posted by: Don Quixote, Tilting at November 15, 2019 05:55 PM (NgKpN)

317 Brooklyn is common, but Newark doesn't seem to be all that popular either.

This is my daughter Brooklyn, she's just starting 3rd grade. And this is my son Newark. We're not sure he's going to go to school, to be honest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:56 PM (KZzsI)

318 Nevermind she's 61 and was born in...

Montreal, Canada.

WTF? Somebody give this Canuck the hook.

She's got to go back.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 15, 2019 05:56 PM (j3npP)

319 "
I'm not buying this "our hands are tied, we can do nothing with federal employees, its destiny!" bullcrap.

Every boss knows how to make an employee suffer or get them out of the way if they are a problem.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:40 PM (KZzsI) "



Exactly.

They don't want to. They're all down with #TheResistance.
Or if not, let 'em prove it beyond a doubt, lol.

Corrupt, rotten, top to bottom.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at November 15, 2019 05:56 PM (JwHjN)

320 I wanted to have twins....
Starbuck and Apollo
My wife gave me a look that assured I'd never broach that subject again. So, dogs.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at November 15, 2019 05:56 PM (t41dG)

321 That woman Yankasumbitch is not fit to be a fluffer on a low rent gay porno movie.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 15, 2019 05:56 PM (Z+IKu)

322 You have to wonder if these people have any clue how they sound to people who do not worship the government.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 15, 2019 05:50 PM (GbPPJ)
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American Heretic!

Burn her!

Posted by: Government Expert at November 15, 2019 05:56 PM (DuZls)

323
If I were Trump I'd quietly request that foreign countries house my diplomatic staff in buildings slated for demolition, in the very worst neighborhoods of their capitals.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:56 PM (AzW6q)

324 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:42 PM (BiNEL)

Unreal, right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Posted by: ... at November 15, 2019 05:56 PM (yokAj)

325 I wanted to have twins....
Starbuck and Apollo
My wife gave me a look that assured I'd never broach that subject again. So, dogs.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at November 15, 2019 05:56 PM (t41dG)
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You have to pick your battlestars.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 05:57 PM (DuZls)

326 A lot of names were originally surnames.
Gary is one of them.
It didn't become popular as a given name until Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper) came along.

His first agent was from Gary, Indiana.




Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:57 PM (oQp6r)

327 Beto tried to play that card himself. "I've served in public office since 2005. I do my best to contribute to the success of my community, of my state, and now, of my country.

And yet he's still breathing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 05:57 PM (le94c)

328 323
If I were Trump I'd quietly request that foreign countries house my diplomatic staff in buildings slated for demolition, in the very worst neighborhoods of their capitals.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 15, 2019 05:56 PM (AzW6q)

In Europe that means in with the Gypsies. Oh they'll love that experience.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 15, 2019 05:57 PM (j3npP)

329 You have to wonder if these people have any clue how they sound to people who do not worship the government.

I remember reading some clueless newsreader's account of the time she was called for jury duty. They asked her if she was trustworthy and she said something like, "I'm a reporter, so that means I have to tell people the truth without introducing my personal biases."

Everyone laughed.

She wrote about this to illustrate the problem of people no longer trusting reporters and how popular culture and Trump have created an environment where trustworthy reporters aren't trusted.

That's basically the level of cluelessness Yovanovitch is displaying.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 15, 2019 05:57 PM (9t0Zz)

330
and the chicken was dry. DRY!!!
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 05:47 PM (pcbAL)


know what else is dry?

Posted by: surprise Otter at November 15, 2019 05:58 PM (sy5kK)

331 ...for an irrigation ditch.


I've never been there. Is the Madison channelized and diverted and the things?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, camp fire pics welcome at e-mail in nic at November 15, 2019 05:58 PM (gd9RK)

332 She's a buffah. She got the big buffah job by doing little buffah jobs good.

She gives good buffah.

Posted by: Cicci at November 15, 2019 05:58 PM (l3+k2)

333 Surely, there are Civil Service job listings from Adak

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:33 PM

Well, there's...one.

https://tinyurl.com/vww4nza

Posted by: Bert G at November 15, 2019 05:47 PM (OMsf+)


Make them compete!
Now let's do Mogadiushu...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at November 15, 2019 05:58 PM (BiNEL)

334 By the way I'm gonna be honest about it, I swipe some of the best and wittiest comments here and put them on twitter without any attribution at all. I don't think most of my followers would understand some of the nick names anyway. Charlie Brown's Dildo would just confuse or upset them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:58 PM (KZzsI)

335 aBrazilians like odd historic/classic names.


Ulysses Guimaraes. Washington Fernandes. Etc.


My favorites are in anglophone southern Africa, like Zimbabwe. Lookout Masuku. Justice Mgabwe.


And let's not forget the classic trendy early Soviet names.


Elektrifikatsiya [oh, yes - at least easily shortened to "Elektra"]


Traktor


And my favorite later one - Atomic [best all-time name, running back for Fresno State in the late 196Os - Atomic Torosian]


Dzhorez [from Jaurez, Spanish commie] and Roy [Russian imperative for "to dig", slogan from the canal hero project era] Medvedev, dissident intellectuals/historians.



Posted by: Hitler Adonis, AKA rhomboid at November 15, 2019 05:59 PM (QDnY+)

336 298: Chicago. or Sault Ste Marie ?

Posted by: CN at November 15, 2019 05:59 PM (U7k5w)

337 "How did you ever get the name 'Blue Balls'?"

"My folks were from Pennsylvania. You should meet my sister, 'Intercourse'".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:59 PM (oQp6r)

338 Muskegon?

Posted by: CN at November 15, 2019 05:59 PM (U7k5w)

339 This is like the old show Yes Prime Minister, where the Civil Servants undermine what the Prime Minister wants, but that was a comedy and is playing out in real life.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 15, 2019 06:00 PM (dKiJG)

340 Trump should reassign her from the EU (Ewwww) to Somalia.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 15, 2019 06:00 PM (U7cQ/)

341 "My folks were from Pennsylvania. You should meet my sister, 'Intercourse'".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 15, 2019 05:59 PM (oQp6r)
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A lot of men have.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 06:00 PM (DuZls)

342 The constant thanking her for her 'service' was so utterly tiresome.

Maybe she serviced them all before the hearing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 06:00 PM (le94c)

343 This is like the old show Yes Prime Minister, where the Civil Servants undermine what the Prime Minister wants, but that was a comedy and is playing out in real life.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 15, 2019 06:00 PM (dKiJG)
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It was based on real life.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 06:00 PM (DuZls)

344 So in a country of over 300 million people we have to send a foreigner over there? We can't find anyone born here who speaks Russian for the job?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 15, 2019 06:00 PM (j3npP)

345 Muskegon?
Posted by: CN at November 15, 2019 05:59 PM (U7k5w)
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What?

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 06:01 PM (DuZls)

346 I don't think most of my followers would understand
some of the nick names anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 05:58 PM (KZzsI)

Fuck you.

Posted by: ... at November 15, 2019 06:01 PM (yokAj)

347 I swipe some of the best and wittiest comments here and put them on twitter without any attribution at all.


******

This place is like the Betty Crocker Test Kitchen of witty comments.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 15, 2019 06:01 PM (m45I2)

348 > This is how all civil servants really conceived of themselves.

No, not really. This should be retracted.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 15, 2019 06:01 PM (3H9h1)

349 >>I've never been there. Is the Madison channelized and diverted and the things?


Yeah. Not a lot of natural banks left. It's still loaded with fish.

But it's a big synthetic riffle, essentially.
People get a hardon for it, but there are better rivers to fish right there in the same valley.

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 06:01 PM (JSFuc)

350 This is like the old show Yes Prime Minister, where the Civil Servants undermine what the Prime Minister wants, but that was a comedy and is playing out in real life.

Yeah but it was partly funny because of how painfully real it was. They were illustrating the Deep State long before it was even a term.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 06:02 PM (KZzsI)

351 bonhomme: "She wrote about this to illustrate the problem of people no longer trusting reporters and how popular culture and Trump have created an environment where trustworthy reporters aren't trusted."

So she's a dishonest AND stupid reporter. Or, simply, a reporter.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at November 15, 2019 06:02 PM (6eEQ+)

352 Wait. The people in Benghazi were murdered? I heard it was all a big misunderstanding over a video.

Posted by: ... at November 15, 2019 06:02 PM (yokAj)

353 By the way I'm gonna be honest about it, I swipe some of the best and wittiest comments here and put them on twitter without any attribution at all.
-

(presses little uptwinkle button next to this comment and contributes nothing else to the discussion)

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a Proud Black Woman - my word as a Biden at November 15, 2019 06:03 PM (Ua91j)

354 This place is like the Betty Crocker Test Kitchen of witty comments.

Well it certainly is a good source for making me seem witty, having little ability in humor to begin with.

I guess I could slip an "Ace of Spades Commenter" attribution or something in there. Problem is character limit.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 06:03 PM (KZzsI)

355 i just poured a left over beer into my last glass of Johnnie walker blue. That was my last shot I was saving. Just wasted it with some really pissy beer. Arggh.

better than the time i kept pouring beer into a glass and wondering why there were these odd dark specks. I kept drinking and then sticking my hand in the mess and pulling up dark specks

Posted by: Quint at November 15, 2019 06:03 PM (n13/j)

356 Bauer sure let his mouth overload his brain.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 15, 2019 06:03 PM (axyOa)

357 I'm fairly pro synthetic rifles.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a Proud Black Woman - my word as a Biden at November 15, 2019 06:04 PM (Ua91j)

358 Charlie Brown's Dildo would just confuse or upset them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Hmm. Well, I haven't seen Pete around lately.

Posted by: L. Beethoven at November 15, 2019 06:04 PM (CDGwz)

359 Damn. Missed the Jonah thread.

I'd like these remarks added to the record:

There should be a betting pool on how long it takes before Goldberg goes all-in and says that the GOP has *always* been racist and harboring racist thoughts and he's glad he got away from it.

Because that's where this path leads. He can't do the "everyone is crazy but me" when it includes luminaries who are ten times as accomplished or smart as he is. Roger Kimball could grind this guy up and daintily sprinkle him over some french toast with less effort than it takes Jonah to pick his nose.

Basically Jonah's arguing that Norman Podhoretz, David Horowitz, Victor Davis Hanson etc. are now all brainwashed alt-righters.

He and he alone has remained pure, along with a select band of grifters who only punch to the right.

Oh, and newsletter subscriptions are now marked down to only $1450 per year, a big savings!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 15, 2019 06:04 PM (cfSRQ)

360 Oops /Furry Elise composer

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 15, 2019 06:04 PM (CDGwz)

361 342 The constant thanking her for her 'service' was so utterly tiresome.

Maybe she serviced them all before the hearing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 06:00 PM (le94c)

Can you imagine having one of these insufferable prigs move in next door?

"Hey can you pick up your garbage cans they're blowing into my yard."

*nasally voice*

"I'll have you know I devoted my life to public service and was an ambassador to Ukraine before I retired."

"Oh yeah. Hey Ambassador Shithead you wanna get those cans out my fucking yard?"

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 15, 2019 06:04 PM (j3npP)

362 Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister were brilliant. Have to give the BBC credit there. If you want to understand government, understand that show. It's as subversive to the State as anything put to film.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at November 15, 2019 06:04 PM (6eEQ+)

363 Local guy is out of prison for four days, attacks one woman and rapes another. They only gave him 50 years cause he can be rehabilitated.

Posted by: freaked at November 15, 2019 06:05 PM (Tnijr)

364 my bro looked at me and said. "dude, you are drinking from my spittoon".

i held it in for a couple hours and am proud of that. I was a kid at the time so there is that.

Posted by: Quint at November 15, 2019 06:05 PM (n13/j)

365 Oh, and newsletter subscriptions are now marked down to only $1450 per year, a big savings!



You can't afford NOT to subscribe!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 06:05 PM (pcbAL)

366 Budweiser has a special holiday 99-pack of beer. Seriously, its like 6 feet long. I don't know how anyone is supposed to carry it, has to weigh like 70 pounds.

Plus, its filled with Budweiser so its crappy beer anyway.

He and he alone has remained pure, along with a select band of grifters who only punch to the right.


I think late at night, when they lie in bed while their wife is busy with another dude, this does haunt them. That they're at the shallow end of the pundit pool and are drifting crazier and crazier away.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 06:06 PM (KZzsI)

367 350, There is a special that you can play in 3 parts on Youtube where they out their sources for the writers. These folks had high staff positions in the British PM's office and many of the events were true with the names and conditions changed a bit.

Apparently the scene at the foreign embassy reception in a non-alcohol liking country in the ME where the intrepid minister and aides get drinks on the sly actually happened if I remember correctly

Posted by: whig at November 15, 2019 06:06 PM (MItID)

368 bonhomme: "She wrote about this to illustrate the problem of people no longer trusting reporters and how popular culture and Trump have created an environment where trustworthy reporters aren't trusted."

So she's a dishonest AND stupid reporter. Or, simply, a reporter.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at November 15, 2019 06:02 PM (6eEQ+)
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Hoo boy. That is so stupid.

Reporters are supposed to report fact. That she's talking about "trust" kind of shows that there's a problem.

If you're reporting fact and we don't "trust" you, we will eventually be hit in the face with the fact you reported.

That all is reported is an never-ending narrative--where the other side must be shut down--is illustrative of the problem.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 06:06 PM (DuZls)

369 Maybe she serviced them all before the hearing.



Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 06:00 PM (le94c)

Go long on Cialis Futures in the DC area today.

Posted by: ... at November 15, 2019 06:06 PM (yokAj)

370 27 Who goes into their hairdresser and asks for the 'Orangutan Look'?
Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (JSFuc)
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Yeah, this ^.

Girl, you know that you're going to be on TV, right?

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 15, 2019 06:07 PM (xptlg)

371 O/T, Has anyone seen RBG doing wind-sprints on The Mall today? My God, can you imagine the gnashing of teeth if that hag goes tits up?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 15, 2019 06:07 PM (7Fj9P)

372 >> "Wait. The people in Benghazi were murdered? I heard it was all a big misunderstanding over a video."--Posted by: ...

That the stupid lie blaming their deaths to a YouTube video was actually believed by idiots was the "misunderstanding."

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at November 15, 2019 06:07 PM (YVDiH)

373

Here's a real goofy song from 1971 Loop Di Love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8Q1Jik_ms

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 15, 2019 06:08 PM (bW2bs)

374 She wrote about this to illustrate the problem of people no longer
trusting reporters and how popular culture and Trump have created an
environment where trustworthy reporters aren't trusted."
-----------

This isn't too much winning, but it's in the orbit.

Posted by: ... at November 15, 2019 06:08 PM (yokAj)

375 You can't afford NOT to subscribe!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2019 06:05 PM (pcbAL)

---
Think about the stupidity of this guy claiming he never heard about a #1 bestseller by his TV colleague.

Wow! The Dispatch is really wired into the nation's political pulse! You can get yesterday's news in only three weeks if people nag me enough on twitter!

I'm waiting for his new line of Lewinsky jokes and early 90s Simpsons references. Oh, and Star Trek. Yeah, he's all about that show that's so old most of the cast members have died.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 15, 2019 06:08 PM (cfSRQ)

376 When trump was murdering her career, Masha called the state department for help and was ignored. Never before has an ambassador faced such violent treatment and had their pleas for help fall on deaf ears at State.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 15, 2019 06:08 PM (f/PM+)

377 During the hearings my closed caption translated Yovanovich as "you want a bitch" it was great.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'if you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of oher people' at November 15, 2019 06:08 PM (oY5lM)

378 O/T, Has anyone seen RBG doing wind-sprints on The Mall today? My God, can you imagine the gnashing of teeth if that hag goes tits up?
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 15, 2019 06:07 PM (7Fj9P)


That must have been after she finished doing power cleans.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 15, 2019 06:09 PM (le94c)

379 Local guy is out of prison for four days, attacks one woman and rapes another

I have a solution for a guy like that. Takes no time at all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 06:09 PM (KZzsI)

380 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at November 15, 2019 06:09 PM (1XAal)

381 Masha is how you say in this country a beeetch

Posted by: vmom is on her last nerve with these traitors at November 15, 2019 06:09 PM (G546f)

382 27 Who goes into their hairdresser and asks for the 'Orangutan Look'?
Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (JSFuc)
=======
Yeah, this ^.

Girl, you know that you're going to be on TV, right?
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 15, 2019 06:07 PM (xptlg)

"So, what are we doing today?"

"Hear me out: Charlie Sheen, Men At Work. You picking up what I'm putting down?"

Posted by: Vanya at November 15, 2019 06:09 PM (U7voe)

383 During the hearings my closed caption translated Yovanovich as "you want a bitch" it was great.


Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'if you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of oher people' at November 15, 2019 06:08 PM (oY5lM)

That's obviously her wolf name.

Posted by: ... at November 15, 2019 06:09 PM (yokAj)

384 Coming this Fall to Disney+

THE BUREAUCRATS!"


Five Superheroes in the Fight Of Their Lives against The Horror of ORANGEMANBAD!

THEY ARE:

Paper Pusher!!! with the Power to...uh...Push Paper! with His Mind!!!!!.......and hands.

Staple Lass! gifted in All Things Stapley!!!!

The Collator! able to assemble of keep papers and other office supplies in Perfect Order!

Van der Graft Generator!! Generating funds and power with Her Abuse of Power!

And last But. Not. Least. -

Hunter Biden - useless, untalented coke monkey and humorous sidekick!

Together they are....

THE BUREAUCRATS"


Coming this Holiday Season to Disney+!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 15, 2019 06:09 PM (9X624)

385 Anyone get the tell when Bret Bair and Chrissy Wallace were talking about how emotional it was when the Chia-Head was testifying? For progs, it's all about the feelz.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 15, 2019 06:10 PM (7Fj9P)

386 371 O/T, Has anyone seen RBG doing wind-sprints on The Mall today? My God, can you imagine the gnashing of teeth if that hag goes tits up?
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 15, 2019 06:07 PM (7Fj9P)


Even crazier, can you imagine the gnashing of teeth when the Left finds out about it?

Her clerks can write opinions into 2024, and John Roberts won't check attendance, so we may never actually know.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 15, 2019 06:10 PM (sy5kK)

387 someone is going to respond to what i said upthread. I am sure of it. even a that is gross would suffice.

Posted by: Quint at November 15, 2019 06:10 PM (n13/j)

388 "I have a solution for a guy like that. Takes no time at all"

On final face tat.

Posted by: freaked at November 15, 2019 06:11 PM (Tnijr)

389 So 'ya wanna bitch', teaches one class with 14 students and makes the same money as she did as an Ambassador. Man sucks to be her, poor baby.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'if you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of oher people' at November 15, 2019 06:11 PM (oY5lM)

390 Her clerks can write opinions into 2024, and John Roberts won't check attendance, so we may never actually know.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 15, 2019 06:10 PM (sy5kK)

He'll be having conversations with her like Norman Bates with his mom.

Posted by: Vanya at November 15, 2019 06:11 PM (U7voe)

391 Geez Meghan McCain should have a box of Snickers and feel better.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at November 15, 2019 06:11 PM (F73W5)

392 Posted by: Quint

******

Ewww. That IS gross.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 15, 2019 06:11 PM (m45I2)

393
Anyone get the tell when Bret Bair and Chrissy Wallace were talking about how emotional it was when the Chia-Head was testifying? For progs, it's all about the feelz.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 15, 2019 06:10 PM (7Fj9P)

I called her used q tip. But changed it to jsut q tip because I am nice.

Posted by: Quint at November 15, 2019 06:11 PM (n13/j)

394 Isn't "being forced to move out of my house" something every damn active duty military person does every three years or so?

I love how bureaucrats try to cloak their "service" when in fact they get rich in the SES and then get richer doing lobbying.

Hardship pay. We need to give them hardship pay.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 15, 2019 06:12 PM (cfSRQ)

395 They're all superheroes. Marvel should make movies about them.


Each and every one asked for the job.

No one smashed in to their homes in the middle of the night, abducted them and forced them into a life of toil and misery in some foreign land.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy
Julianne Assange didn't kill himself. at November 15, 2019 06:12 PM (lD3vL)

396 When I was writing about the ever-expanding narrative the news keeps spinning, it hit me that the Orangemanbad Impeachment is simply a Sorceror's Apprentice-style of narrative.

And we are seeing two takes on a splitting reality before our eyes. One side pantomimes to the imaginary guests at the tea party and the rest of us shake our heads in sheer disbelief.

Posted by: Axeman at November 15, 2019 06:12 PM (DuZls)

397 That's obviously her wolf name.


Posted by: ... at November 15, 2019 06:09 PM (yokAj)

ahhhhh....makes sense.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'if you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of oher people' at November 15, 2019 06:12 PM (oY5lM)

398 someone is going to respond to what i said upthread. I am sure of it. even a that is gross would suffice.

-

I honestly thought it would prompt a "Yeah, once I did this..." cascade.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a Proud Black Woman - my word as a Biden at November 15, 2019 06:12 PM (Ua91j)

399 Nothing but Otter farts right there.

Posted by: Yo! at November 15, 2019 06:12 PM (1XAal)

400 Think about the stupidity of this guy claiming he never heard about a #1 bestseller by his TV colleague.

Yeah Praeger appeared on the Bill Maher show. He was asked what lies the Dems were telling (sneering pff yeah right, lies what lies???) and Prager listed some but he hit them with saying men can menstruate. Maher got this puzzled look on his face, and everyone on the show claimed they'd never heard of it.

And they looked completely honest and baffled, like this was utterly out of the blue and ridiculous, nobody would say that!

But I mean it was all over the news and has been reported repeatedly. So how could they possibly miss it?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 06:12 PM (KZzsI)

401 Wife & I used to love Bret Baier. Now we can't stand his fat smug face.

Posted by: Caliban at November 15, 2019 06:12 PM (QE8X6)

402 I have named the boy Caleb, in accordance with your wishes.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 15, 2019 06:13 PM (LWu6U)

403
During the hearings my closed caption translated Yovanovich as "you want a bitch" it was great.


That was brutally accurate of them.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 15, 2019 06:13 PM (HaL55)

404 I called her used q tip. But changed it to jsut q tip because I am nice.
================
Her hair does have that rusty hue, and greasy sheen of ear wax, so...go with the original.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 15, 2019 06:13 PM (7Fj9P)

405 Brave, brave public servants. The heroes we deserve. Every fucking inch of them, good and hard.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 15, 2019 06:14 PM (Av1aj)

406



nood

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 15, 2019 06:14 PM (bW2bs)

407
I honestly thought it would prompt a "Yeah, once I did this..." cascade.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a Proud Black Woman - my word as a Biden at November 15, 2019 06:12 PM (Ua91j)

that would be cool

Posted by: Quint at November 15, 2019 06:14 PM (n13/j)

408 On final face tat.

A really realistic one, with a 10 gauge tattoo gun.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 06:14 PM (KZzsI)

409 Posted by: Quint

******

Had to go back and see what was gross. My son-in-law did that once. He did not manage to "hold it in".

Posted by: Muldoon at November 15, 2019 06:14 PM (m45I2)

410 Levin is saying Schitt didn't read DJT's entire tweet to That Bint.

Posted by: kallisto (I Am Troll Bitch) at November 15, 2019 06:15 PM (80Uh3)

411 359, Jonah is used to being the one to "other" people via his NR perch and the same with the rest of the crew there. Frum was at least smart enough to make the jump early enough to be accepted at the Atlantic. Jonah waited too long at NR.

He has to know that his rep is now permanently damaged on the right and he will never be trusted again. By failing to make the jump when Frum did, the left will never accept him except as a sideshow. Eventually the media gigs will dry up.

Essentially he is a person without a party and blames Trump for his ills. His desperate hope is that Trump goes down and he can reclaim his influence via I told you so. Social ostracism stings and he would not be the first to crumble into lashing out. His acceptance of what is essentially propaganda money would have to further cognitive dissonance between his "principles" and his act of selling out. He is blaming Trump for the person he has become and perhaps always was deep down.

Kristol was never part of the right to begin with. I think he believed that he was the next incarnation of Henry Kissenger except without a Sov. Union to fight anymore. When Quayle went down, he went into influence peddling along with Kagan, Nuuland, McCain, etc. for an imperial U.S. project.

Posted by: whig at November 15, 2019 06:15 PM (MItID)

412 Now they want to arrest Alex Jones... Wtf

Posted by: Pliney at November 15, 2019 06:16 PM (nzKWW)

413 And they looked completely honest and baffled, like this was utterly out of the blue and ridiculous, nobody would say that!



But I mean it was all over the news and has been reported repeatedly. So how could they possibly miss it?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 15, 2019 06:12 PM (KZzsI)

Because they probably think they are too good to watch the new. They think the ARE the news. Their social circle is one big circle jerk a where they cum all over each other.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'if you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of oher people' at November 15, 2019 06:16 PM (oY5lM)

414 382 27 Who goes into their hairdresser and asks for the 'Orangutan Look'?
Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2019 05:12 PM (JSFuc)
=======
Yeah, this ^.

Girl, you know that you're going to be on TV, right?
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 15, 2019 06:07 PM (xptlg)

"So, what are we doing today?"

"Hear me out: Charlie Sheen, Men At Work. You picking up what I'm putting down?"
Posted by: Vanya at November 15, 2019 06:09 PM (U7voe)
=======

So she is either a gabage-man who stumbles across major crime at city hall. . .
or maybe-
she occupies the passenger seat and learns sign language in a big-rig, while Clint Eastwood punches people

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 15, 2019 06:17 PM (xptlg)

415 Brave Sir Robin: "Anyone get the tell when Bret Bair and Chrissy Wallace were talking about how emotional it was when the Chia-Head was testifying?"

Someone on either Hannity or Ingraham predicted that last night. Said there's no facts or evidence and everyone was tuning out of the shampeachment and that the DNC/MFM needed fireworks and spectacle. The tool they needed to implement was "emotion", so they wanted more crying by the ambassador because OrangeManBad recalled her. So, dutifully, Baier and Wallace step in to make some sellable sausage because ratings.

The national disgrace that is the news media plunders ever on and wonders why America loathes their every breath. They're so very, very clever obviously.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at November 15, 2019 06:17 PM (6eEQ+)

416 Just think. If Hillary had won, Masha would have had more of a chance of ending up like Amb. Stevens. Darn her luck.

Posted by: abbynormal at November 15, 2019 06:18 PM (I849g)

417 Had to go back and see what was gross. My son-in-law did that once. He did not manage to "hold it in".

Posted by: Muldoon at November 15, 2019 06:14 PM (m45I2)

the bad part was it was the other guys spittoon and we were drinking Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull.

Posted by: Quint at November 15, 2019 06:21 PM (n13/j)

418 >>"But I mean it was all over the news and has been reported repeatedly. So how could they possibly miss it?"--

Posted by: Christopher R. Taylor


About ten years ago I was conversing with a leftist online and he vigorously defended the fact that he was getting most of his political information from "The Daily Show."

"So you're getting your "news" from the Comedy Network", I said.

At that point I just cut him off.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at November 15, 2019 06:23 PM (YVDiH)

419 401 Brittany Baier is a company guy promoted beyond his competence by Bill Sammon who also was behind the idiotic Repub. debate attempts to get Trump.

I suspect both are sympatico with the Murdochs globalism and Sammon was also Marco Rubio's secret weapon and a Bushie. Believe Sammon plan at fox was to get Jeb #1 with Marco his VP.

Posted by: whig at November 15, 2019 06:24 PM (MItID)

420 1h
NEW: Prince Andrew says he "let the side down" by staying at home of convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein - BBC

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 15, 2019 06:33 PM (BqBId)

421 338
Muskegon?

Posted by: CN at November 15, 2019 05:59 PM (U7k5w)

Borculo?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 15, 2019 06:37 PM (ufFY8)

422 >>>The Madison River in Montana is legendary for fly fishing.<<<

If you were more at-one with the River that Runs Thru It, you'd catch more fucking fish. Or maybe, as a tourist, you've been sold a bill of goods.

Posted by: Fritz at November 15, 2019 07:00 PM (wo3c/)

423 Typical ambassador. All so full of themselves. Never accomplished anything but think they are the best of the best. Never met one who was worth two cents. I could have been rich if I could have sold them for what they thought they were worth and bought them for what they were worth.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at November 15, 2019 07:47 PM (Ju2mK)

424 Wait a minute.

First. Benghazi didn't happen.
Second, it's a punchline. Anybody who says anything about it is such a joker and an idiot we're supposed to laugh at him.
Third, what difference does it make at this point.
She should try to keep up.
Maybe the Clintons will have her jailed or something.

Posted by: Richard Aubrey at November 16, 2019 06:10 AM (fikzx)

425 Thanks, Ace, for slapping the faces of several million men and women who serve in every agency in the federal government whose job it is is to carry out the mission and the tasking of their respective agency with this statement: "This is how all civil servants really conceived of themselves."

No, Ace, it's not how the vast majority of us see ourselves. The Bell Curve all by itself should predict that.

Now, if you want to argue that civil service appointees see themselves that way, fine. Or, if you want to say that the senior executive service level cadre fantasizes themselves heroes, I'd also argue that their military counterparts at the flag level should be included in that sweeping generalization.

Frankly, I think Trump would do well to take off that top layer in every agency, and even disestablish some agencies.

But to insult every single one of us in the federal government is a dick move, Ace. Frankly, it's something I'd expect from a lib/prog.

Posted by: StillWaiting at November 16, 2019 07:53 AM (9//Ek)

426 As an Army veteran, I'm disgusted by her desire to make State Dept personnel look like heroes. In Iraq, you needed a crowbar to get the State Dept personnel away from the pool and luxurious cafeteria. They wouldn't move out of the Green Zone without a 6 vehicle, US Army soldier escort.
Heroes, my ass.

Posted by: Diggs at November 16, 2019 11:50 AM (Sr3Ym)

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