Conservative pundits defending Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas, bruised and bloodied, crawling on hands and knees, gasping: “but…Soros…”
Meanwhile, Ginni is cracking the bubbly and making her own party. Loathsome as she is, she's right -- let the motherfuckers eat cake, flaunt it baby. This time next year Clarence Thomas will still be on SCOTUS, and everyone who is paying attention knows it.
Heh. You think Ginni is in a good mood now, just wait until tomorrow when the Supreme Inquisition upholds the mifepristone ban. She’s gonna party like it’s 199. Which is more or less where we’re going.
I'm so old that I remember when Thomas was nominated, there was of course references to his wife regarding whom it was reported that she was a right wing political operator (and that they were members of a politics-oriented church). I therefore wondered whether Ginny's business and connections and stuff didn't help Clarence get the nomination in addition to, of course, being Danforth's protege and, of course, whatcha call the color of skin. (Very cynical nomination by GHW Bush and of course the Dems responded weakly.)
Don't know how Roy managed to get inside Ginni's head, but I would bet serious folding money that this little scene is precisely what she thinks. Drunk or sober.
Ginny can do her best Marie Antoinette, but she's never going to beat Kevin McCarthy making a speech about how we need to cut food stamps - on Wall Street. I know "optics" is an overused word in politics today, but Kevin couldn't have done better if he'd grown a mustache, waxed it and then twirled the ends while evicting a widow from her tenement.
I think I sent that delightful line into the re-stack ether somewhere, but gotta put it here too because damn.
For all you non-locals this is close to home, in a snootiest-of-the-snooty Georgetown whitier-than-thou sort of way. The folks there even brag about how the ancestors treated the people they owned better than some other folks did.
This just in from Jacobin, re: the courtroom travails of Schmucker Carlson-land:
"Thanks to an arcane line in the tax code, Fox can deduct that settlement payment from its income taxes, according to a company spokesperson and tax experts consulted by the Lever. That’s because federal law allows taxpayers to write off many legal costs, providing that they are “ordinary and necessary” business expenses. The IRS has repeatedly affirmed that for major corporations, paying out settlements is just part of the cost of doing business."
So, bottom line: you, me and the magats down the block gotta pay more in taxes to make up for FoxSnooze shortin' the IRS.
I'd like to hear it from the horse and not just horsing around. Maybe we can get Hannity or even Trump to start saying this stuff openly and slaves to authority and corruption nodding along.
I work with such people. Some believe in corruption and hierarchy, with some above the law. Others have elaborate rationalization schemes to explain why God chooses some to have power.
In both cases, common sense goes out the window. The emperor may be naked but they never saw a finer outfit.
Holy shit. You’ve disclosed the conservative spell to keep the media at bay:
[GINNI raises her hands – grandly:]
Invisible force field! You have no power here.
Conservative pundits defending Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas, bruised and bloodied, crawling on hands and knees, gasping: “but…Soros…”
Meanwhile, Ginni is cracking the bubbly and making her own party. Loathsome as she is, she's right -- let the motherfuckers eat cake, flaunt it baby. This time next year Clarence Thomas will still be on SCOTUS, and everyone who is paying attention knows it.
Heh. You think Ginni is in a good mood now, just wait until tomorrow when the Supreme Inquisition upholds the mifepristone ban. She’s gonna party like it’s 199. Which is more or less where we’re going.
Someone say Ginny? I gift you:
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I'm so old that I remember when Thomas was nominated, there was of course references to his wife regarding whom it was reported that she was a right wing political operator (and that they were members of a politics-oriented church). I therefore wondered whether Ginny's business and connections and stuff didn't help Clarence get the nomination in addition to, of course, being Danforth's protege and, of course, whatcha call the color of skin. (Very cynical nomination by GHW Bush and of course the Dems responded weakly.)
Wait 'til her husband holds their marriage illegal.
Don't know how Roy managed to get inside Ginni's head, but I would bet serious folding money that this little scene is precisely what she thinks. Drunk or sober.
When did you start writing documentaries?
Bravo, you've conjured the dark goddess of the right in all her ghastly, appalling anti-splendor. Now I gotta barf.
A true story!
“…my li’l Sally Hemings”. o_O
Ginny can do her best Marie Antoinette, but she's never going to beat Kevin McCarthy making a speech about how we need to cut food stamps - on Wall Street. I know "optics" is an overused word in politics today, but Kevin couldn't have done better if he'd grown a mustache, waxed it and then twirled the ends while evicting a widow from her tenement.
"Like Dum-barton Oaks."
I think I sent that delightful line into the re-stack ether somewhere, but gotta put it here too because damn.
For all you non-locals this is close to home, in a snootiest-of-the-snooty Georgetown whitier-than-thou sort of way. The folks there even brag about how the ancestors treated the people they owned better than some other folks did.
This just in from Jacobin, re: the courtroom travails of Schmucker Carlson-land:
"Thanks to an arcane line in the tax code, Fox can deduct that settlement payment from its income taxes, according to a company spokesperson and tax experts consulted by the Lever. That’s because federal law allows taxpayers to write off many legal costs, providing that they are “ordinary and necessary” business expenses. The IRS has repeatedly affirmed that for major corporations, paying out settlements is just part of the cost of doing business."
So, bottom line: you, me and the magats down the block gotta pay more in taxes to make up for FoxSnooze shortin' the IRS.
I'd like to hear it from the horse and not just horsing around. Maybe we can get Hannity or even Trump to start saying this stuff openly and slaves to authority and corruption nodding along.
I work with such people. Some believe in corruption and hierarchy, with some above the law. Others have elaborate rationalization schemes to explain why God chooses some to have power.
In both cases, common sense goes out the window. The emperor may be naked but they never saw a finer outfit.