THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2025
And so was "Tampon Tim:" We couldn't help thinking of True Grit—more specifically, of the Coen Brothers' 2010 adaptation of the highly regarded Charles Portis novel.
Midway through the film, its admirable young heroine, evading the ferryman, rides Little Blackie across "a river of some width" into the Choctaw Nation—metaphorically, into an uncharted land.
At a tender age, she's gone there in pursuit of justice. This morning, the commander's astonishing press event took us across a different river and into a very strange land.
We thought back to the endless string of addled events he conducted during the first Covid year. Today, his rumination was possibly even more disordered than the string of ruminations he churned out at that time.
Then too, there was last evening's edition of the Fox News Channel's pseudo-discussion TV show, The Five. In this past month, it was the most watched TV show in "cable news," by a rather substantial margin.
We direct you to a tease by Judge Jeanine midway through last evening's program.
Governor Walz was back in the news, having been interviewed on a CNN program. Governor Walk was back in the news—and so was "Tampon Tim."
Judge Jeanine issued her tease. This is the garbage can the Fox News Channel pries open each night, on this and other programs
JUDGE JEANINE (1/29/25): Anyway, up next: Tampon Tim is back and giving advice to Democrats.
So announced the judge. When the gang returned from a commercial break, the silliest boy in all of cable started the segment as shown:
WATTERS: Remember Tampon Tim Walz? Kamala's jazz band's failed VP wannabe is back and handing out advice to a Democratic Party that according to the Times is getting frustrated by President Trump's "flood the zone" strategy...
Judge Jeanine is 73 years old. Within her head, Governor Walz had been back on TV, and so too for Tampon Tim.
Judge Jeanine is 73; this is all she has. Also, this is the business—perhaps more correctly, the imitation of life—the Fox News Channel has chosen.
Fox pries the lid off the can every night. The Times averts its gaze.
Fuller disclosure: Watters actually said, "Democratic Party." It might be time for Suzanne Scott to call him in for a bit of a chat, or perhaps for a mild reprogramming.
ReplyDelete"Fox pries the lid off the can every night. The Times averts its gaze."
Learn to cope, Bob. The Times has learned to cope, and so should you.
Besides, what has the Times got to do with your fabled Blue Tribe?
DeleteTrump previously sent $40 million of condoms in foreign aid, then lied about Biden sending $50 million of condoms to Gaza.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans are truly the weirdest organisms on the planet.
At 0.05 cents per condom x $50,000,000 = 1 billion condoms for Gaza. Do the maths people.
DeleteNothing could be more ironic than Trump blaming DEI on a plane crash and then introducing a reality TV show contestant as his FAA chief.
ReplyDeleteAnother take-down of Fox co-hosts. And this is how Somerby pushes his right-wing agenda?
ReplyDeleteYou keep repeating yourself Bob-L-Head. You're almost as repetitive as your idol.
DeleteWho is his idol?
DeleteBoth Kennedy and Gabbard deserve to be replaced. Both are kooks and both are unqualified by their experience.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately the Dems used up their ammunition on Hegseth, so these two poor choices will probably be confirmed.
Oh, David. I almost thought you were cognitive again, but then you blamed the Democrats for Republican mischief.
DeleteHow about the douchebag who nominated them? Should he be replaced?
DeleteIMO Trump has done an good job choosing appointees. He has two duds, but many others are terrific. No matter how bad Gabbard and Kennedy are, I don't think they can be as bad as Mayorkas and Austin.
DeleteWhat are the 5 most impressive credentials for the felons DUI hire DiC?, outside of talking Trump into becoming a war criminal by pardoning war criminals? Was it the sexual predation, the alcohol blackouts, running small non-profits into the ground. Please, I am dying to know why this inexperienced drunk christian nationalist creep is a good choice.
DeleteDon't forget flying monkey Kash Patel, who we can thank for bringing to us the melodic stylings of the J6 choir.
DeleteArty -- Here are my thoughts on Hegseth. His lack of high level management is a big weakness. OTOH
Delete-- People who actually worked with all say on the record that he never came to work drunk. An accusation made by some anonymous sources carries no weight with me.
-- He's smart and well-educated, shown by his Princeton and Harvard degrees
-- He's patriotic, shown by his decision to risk his life fighting for his country
-- He's brave, shown by his medals and awards.
-- He has a military background
-- Most important he has the right goal. The purpose of the military is be able to defeat our enemies. His decisions and policies will be based on how they impact our fighting ability. This is a huge change from the prior Administration. Their primary goal seems to have been social engineering.
Fuck you asshole. You know nothing about the fighting readiness of today's armed forces. Your addled brain soaks up propaganda spewed by right wing dirt bags like Tucker Carlsen. Trump called this country a garbage can and you voted for him. Your form of shit most certainly isn't worth fighting for.
DeleteHegseth has exactly zero qualifications to lead this country's armed forces. Thousands of students graduate from Ivy league schools annually. That is not a qualification. Enlisting in the armed services is not a qualification. Graduating from a service academy and rising to a high rank in the military overseeing servicemen would be a qualification. He is by far the least qualified individual to be nominated for that position perhaps ever.
DeleteThere is a capitol police officer who was beaten with a metal pipe, had bear spray sprayed directly in his eyes and suffered a heart attack after being tazed multiple times on January 6. He now gets harassed and his mother has shit thrown at her in her yard because he testified in the Jan. 6 hearings. This is what testifying non anonymously gets you when you are dealing with Trump's cultists, so no one gives a shit whether you believe the accounts given by people who have legitimate fears, especially since the asshole
you voted for freed the criminals that did that to capitol police officer Michael Fannone. You are the lowest form of a dirt bag masquerading as some kind of concerned citizen here. Go fuck yourself.it
DeleteEveryone who is not an idiot-Democrat pervert is disqualified.
They all need to be deprogrammed and turned into idiot-Democrat perverts. Somerby is an ass.
I am Corby.
"the Dems used up their ammunition on Hegseth"
DeleteWait. Because Dems asked Hegseth questions, they don't get to challenge these plainly unqualified nominations? What "ammunition" are you even talking about?
David in Cal,
DeleteIn your opinion, do the people who buy the idea that DEI caused a plane crash stupid or bigots?
Both Kennedy and Gabbard deserve to be replaced. Both are kooks and both are unqualified by their experience.
DeleteAnd I crawled naked through the sewer to vote for the maniac who campaigned promising to place both these unqualified kooks in his cabinet.
Because, I am DiC, Imbecile.
People who actually worked with all say on the record that he never came to work drunk.
DeleteYou really are a fucking idiot, Dickhead. I just can't fucking believe there are people as stupid as you who would claim this as a qualification to lead the Department of Defense.
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News.
Two of those people said that on more than a dozen occasions during Hegseth’s time as a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” which began in 2017, they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air. Those same two people, plus another, said that during his time there he appeared on television after they’d heard him talk about being hungover as he was getting ready or on set.
One of the sources said they smelled alcohol on him as recently as last month and heard him complain about being hungover this fall.
None of the sources with whom NBC News has spoken could recall an instance when Hegseth missed a scheduled appearance because he’d been drinking.
"Everyone would be talking about it behind the scenes before he went on the air,” one of the former Fox employees said.
David in Cal,
DeleteHow can Hegseth be qualified to run the Department of Defense, if he hasn't even stolen money from a children's cancer charity?
Not FAA chief, transportation secretary. Who said “ … obviously it’s not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that.” Thanks for clarifying. This is what you get when your resume includes 2 MTC reality shows, and zero experience in transportation, or managing large groups of people.
ReplyDeleteMTV reality shows
DeleteAstonishing press event?
ReplyDeleteIt was a disgusting, repulsive screed invoking the very worst instincts of humanity.
The malevolent jackass just finished skewering the FAA before this tragedy.
The fact so many libs really thought Tim Walz appealed to men is all you gotta know about how deep in the hole they are with male voters.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Only a real man like Trump appeals to men. And he'll be even more manly once he drops 60 pounds and those bone spurs heal.
DeleteIt was dumb to put tampons in the boys bathroom. I wonder if Minnesota hospitals have a men-only obstetrics room
ReplyDeleteStrapping young Minnesotan men are in need of tampons and the succor they can provide their hemorrhaging and fetid vaginas.
DeleteOh so I assume that you have seen tampons in a men's bathroom in a school (those were the original story's locations) in the state of Minnesota. Because 3 things: 1) vandalizing boys bathrooms is a thing that unfortunately became popular after it was propagated on tic tok about 4 years ago 2) tampon dispensers are easily vandalized and 3) I have friends in Minnesota (MPLS/St. Paul) , one of whom is a teacher, who say that this right wing meme is bullshit.
DeleteThe world’s greatest hospital is in Minnesota.
DeleteBoys never get nosebleeds, even when rough housing or playing a contact sport.
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DeleteWithout tampons boys will not grow up to be idiot-Democrats perverts.
Obviously, this was the work of the same people who put litterboxes in school restrooms for students who "identify as cats."
DeleteRight?
The Democratic party platform resonates with men more than ever because men see that finally a political party is willing not only to talk about but actually do something about their vaginas.
DeleteThe Republican Party is going to save us all with their manliness. As soon as they come out from hiding under their beds because a drag queen read a story to a school age child.
DeleteI'm trying to picture a Republican who isn't afraid of their own shadow, but I keep coming up blank.
DeleteTrump has already killed more figure skaters than all our other Presidents combined. And it took him less than two weeks.
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