Countdown to #Trump Inauguration

The last week of our great nation before Donald Trump is inaugurated has been kind of a train wreck - for him.

Meryl Streep at the Golden Globe Awards:

Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017

Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never "mocked" a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him.......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017

This narcissistic immature 4-year old bully is the next president of the U.S. #Sad #MerylStreep #Priorities pic.twitter.com/km3iwj0hLQ

— бэnnydiэgø 📎 (@bennydiego) January 10, 2017

When Meryl Streep causes sensitive snowflake Trump to have a temper tantrum on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/u9iD3bWdmU

— Sam Kalidi (@samkalidi) January 9, 2017

Trump denies Meryl Streep’s claim that he mocked a disabled reporter last year. https://t.co/ZuVl0KLfD3 pic.twitter.com/sTZ1AHB2Mn

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 10, 2017

1/11/2017- The Transfer #PresidentBarackObama #Trump https://t.co/PfsCqqAjcB pic.twitter.com/ETjGtlowml

— Clay Bennett (@BennettCartoons) January 11, 2017

President Obama's Last Speech



Michelle Obama's Last Speech



Trump's Press Conference

CNN's @Acosta: Trump spokesman @seanspicer warned he'd be expelled from presser if he pushed for another question https://t.co/LcXOHDzpyb

— CNN International (@cnni) January 11, 2017

CNN’s Jim @Acosta said on the air that Trump’s team threatened to yank him from press conference if he tried to speak up again.

Full quote pic.twitter.com/HphCiByLS2

— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) January 11, 2017

We had a great News Conference at Trump Tower today. A couple of FAKE NEWS organizations were there but the people truly get what's going on

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2017

.@CNN is in a total meltdown with their FAKE NEWS because their ratings are tanking since election and their credibility will soon be gone!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2017

CNN’s Jim @Acosta on covering the Trump presidency: “I’m going to do the news. We’re going to keep doing the news.” https://t.co/hsh2W9L5FC pic.twitter.com/kbik0g8wNG

— CNN (@CNN) January 12, 2017

Thank you @ShepNewsTeam for speaking out about Trump's crazed trigger rant against @Acosta, CNN & our free press. pic.twitter.com/SsieojPehc

— RiotWomenn (@riotwomennn) January 12, 2017

Trump spokesman demands apology from CNN’s Acosta — and the internet tells him to ‘f*ck off’ https://t.co/nC4NG8nPio pic.twitter.com/0iWe5s3Em6

— McSpocky™ 👽 (@mcspocky) January 15, 2017

Alec Baldwin as Trump

Jane Curtin Slams Fox News on SNL Anniversary Show

On the 40th Anniversary of NBC's Saturday Night Live, famed comedian Jane Curtin, one of the original "Not Ready for Prime-Time Players," joined Amy Poehler and Tina Fey for "Weekend Update." And she used a one-liner to completely capture what is wrong with Fox News Network.

“Times have changed since I first sat at this desk. For example, I used to be the only pretty blonde woman to read the fake news. Now there’s an entire network devoted to that. And somehow, I showed less cleavage.”

Fox News is famous for (among other things) hiring blonde women who look and dress more like porn stars than journalists.

Jane Curtin's Fox News cleavage joke deserved a better response https://t.co/JN0o1eXPNV

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) February 16, 2015

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Jane Curtin: I used to be the only pretty blonde reading fake news. Now there's whole station devoted to that. #SNL40 pic.twitter.com/IwAunSd1OV

— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) February 16, 2015

#FoxNews Bringing You Fake News & Misinformation Since 1996. @FoxNews #UniteBlue #TNTweeters http://t.co/1VopXLGSov pic.twitter.com/zi6UWt1IUz

— W Smith (@wessmith123) February 17, 2015

Best Political Moments of 2013

Some of my favorite political videos from the past year.



Marco Rubio: A Thirst for Glory


Jim Carrey Sings "Cold Dead Hand" to #NRA

Cold Dead Hand with Jim Carrey from Jim Carrey

Reporter Dana Bash Tries to Catch Michele Bachmann
  via gfln tumblr


Michele Bachmann: Repeal Obamacare or it will Kill Us


CNN anchors Feel Sorry for Steubenville Rapists



Grover Norquist at CPAC: GOP traitors are "Rat Heads in a Coke Bottle"



Tennessee State Senator Stacey Campfield Calls Child a "Prop"



Rand Paul Offers to Fire Hillary Over Benghazi



President Obama Calls Benghazi Flap a "Sideshow"



Glenn Beck: "Today I declare Myself a Rodeo Clown"



Ted Cruz Mis-Explains Green Eggs and Ham During Filibuster



Saturday Night Live Mocks Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and
60 Minutes Benghazi Reporter Lara Logan

Thugs and Raptures - The End Time Visions of Michele Bachmann

From Right Wing Watch

President Obama waived a ban on arming terrorists in order to allow weapons to go to the Syrian opposition,” Bachmann said. “Your listeners, US taxpayers, are now paying to give arms to terrorists including Al Qaeda.”

Bachmann said that the Al Qaeda funding (which isn’t happening) is a sign of the End Times: “This happened and as of today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s end times history.”

“Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand,” Bachmann continued. “When we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this; these days would be as the days of Noah.”

Bachmann Via PoliticusUSA

“I think here we could be on the cusp of seeing some civil disobedience. I’m not saying I want civil disobedience, but people aren’t going to take the thuggery of this president much longer, and that’s part of what we’re trying to do as the people’s voice in the House of Representatives. Give voice to the fact that we see thuggery going on in the White House. We’re not going to take it, we’ve drawn a line in the sand, and we’re telling the president you need to recognize this isn’t just about Article II, the President of the United States. This is also about Article I, the Congress of the United States, and you’ve gotta recognize, you are a co-equal branch of government. You are not a dicatator.”

From Talking Points Memo

Speaking on a conference call with conservative talk show host Rusty Humphries and TheTeaParty.net, Bachmann estimated that she's been lampooned on SNL six or seven times. She assured that she has a "good sense of humor" and never takes the sketches "personally."
The SNL parody reworked the lyrics to Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" around the government shutdown, with Cyrus and cast member Taran Killam impersonating Bachmann and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). Bachmann said after the show aired, she received calls in her office from people who believed it was her appearing in the video.
“I will tell you, as a 57-year-old woman, it’s been a long time since I’ve been confused for a 20-year-old,” Bachmann said. “I’ve never done twerking in my life and I don’t intend to take it up.”

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Michele Bachmann's Bible is actually just Revelation, Golden Calf & 2 lines of Leviticus duct-taped to a Left Behind book.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 8, 2013

When ppl like Bachmann publicly cheer the "arrival" of end of times, how is that different than al Qaeda cheering for suicide bombing?
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 9, 2013

The fact that Michele Bachmann is on TV shows Republicans are in complete WTF mode.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 4, 2013

This is what a hypocrite looks like. #UniteBlue #P2 #P2b #LibCrib #GOPshutDown #EnoughAlready pic.twitter.com/q0A1BicUhI

— Ivan Roberson (@Ivanroberson) October 6, 2013

But now times have and a faction of . . . (the House has) shifted into Bachmann-Gohmert Overdrive and are threatening to burn the whole country down in order to save it at the behest of the Tea Partiers who figure they have enough bullets, bibles, and cans of Vienna sausages to ride out the Fiscal End Times when either Jesus or Sarah Palin returns.
~ TBogg on RawStory

So it's the best of all possible news, America: it's the apocalypse! Praise the secret Muslim Barack Obama for unleashing it!
~ Hunter on Daily Kos

LOL, the loon is my state bird. Both on the water, lovely and haunting in their cries, and on land via Bachmann, screechy, nutsy, and equally haunting in different ways.
~ StellaRay on Daily Kos

In other news, Jesus said "Father, this woman's nuts!"
~ chrismorgan on Daily Kos

Maranatha - a premium brand of nut butter.
~ Elijah Greenleaf on Daily Beast

I hope she's right. May all the Christian Tea Party be swept off this planet in one instant and may it happen soon. Those of us who will not be going (See the Left Behind series) will roll up our sleeves and get to work greening the world, working to make it a more peaceful place and cooperating around the globe to feed all of the people all of the time.
We know how much you hate us for wanting to do that and would do anything to stop such wide-eyed loving generosity, which actually can be profitable for all, not just one group. As soon as God takes you wherever you're going, life on Earth will have a chance again.
~ jibberjabber on Daily Beast

Personally, I can't wait for the Rapture to take her and all the cuckoobirds away. Praise God!
~ loblow on Huffington Post

Well, it is the end of the GOP. Is that what she means?
~ Godzilla1 on Huffington Post

From the woman who thinks we should sell Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, to pay off the debt and do away with the ACA. Need I say more?
~ TJax123 on Huffington Post

She's not running again. She's got her Swiss citizenship and I'm sure she already bought her airline ticket to Geneva. Just before the Feds pick her up, she'll split.
~ nh3man on Huffington Post

I didn't know that we were arming Congressional Republicans now. That is something I'm totally against.
There have always been crazy people trying to hasten the Second Coming but those people in history were quickly seen and marginalized. In today's world, they become elected Republicans to Congress and actively work to destroy society so they can show everyone the world's demise.
~ foxymoxy73 on The New Civil Rights Movement

Where Was Mitt on Inauguration Day? Drinking Milk? Evading Taxes?

source: snl via gifsfln
Mitt may be drowning his sorrows with glasses of milk, probably non-fat.
~ Robert F. on Talking Points Memo

Romney is at home eating chocolate goodies while his wife rides her dressage horse. Tagg is crying, eating fruit roll ups.
~ tytheeman20 on YouTube

Who's Mitt Romney?
~ TopQuark on New York Mag

An assistant will give him binders full of inauguration pics.
~ PaulG85 on Mediaite

Instead, Mitt and Ann dressed in ermine robes and played White House all afternoon.
~ MitchMcTurtle on Mediaite

I hear he is in La Jolla riding up and down on the car elevator...
~ patsysocal on Mediaite

Mitt not attending his own inauguration? Karl and Dick must be crestfallen.
~ PopeOfTheAmericas on Mediaite

He thought it was tomorrow.
~ Jersey Jeff on NY Daily News

First State Bank in Norton, Kan. houses a second-floor gallery full of those, like Romney, who have tried, but failed to become president.
"I've tried to make it a party and a little inauguration," Lee Ann Shearer, the gallery’s director, told the Salina Journal. "After a welcome, I will have a little talk about the rejected candidate."
Romney’s portrait will join those of 59 other presidential losers, including John Kerry, Bob Dole, Al Gore, and John McCain.
The 10 a.m. “Inaugural Event and Reception,” will also include coffee and cookies.
~ NY Daily News

Mitt Romney kept his mind off the Inauguration by spending the day amending his 2011 tax return to get the rest of his writeoffs.#inaug2013

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 21, 2013

Somewhere, right now, a ceiling fan slowly turns above as Mitt Romney staggers around a room in his underpants, hopped up on Diet Coke.

— Damon Lindelof (@DamonLindelof) January 21, 2013

Please don't feel the least bit sorry for Mitt Romney today.He has his $250 million and binders full of women to occupy his time.

— Abraham Lincoln (@Mr_Lincoln) January 21, 2013

"I would have chosen a different Tabernacle Choir" -- Mitt Romney #inaug2013

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 21, 2013

MSNBC Discussion During Inagural Coverage

Rachel Maddow: Mitt Romney did not attend today, and that's not unprecedented - Michael Dukakis did not attend when he was defeated by George H.W. Bush. But Mr. Romney didn't attend and put out word through people close to him that he wasn't even planning to watch today, that he was going to be home in La Jolla, and wasn't even planning on participating in that degree. Do you think that's significant or just a personality point?

Lawrence O'Donnell: I think going to the extent of saying 'and I'm not going to watch' - we don't actually have to know that. (laughter) I don't think anyone's asking what you're doing. (more laughter) You know, I think the question is 'Are you here or are you not here?' ... It's an understandable choice to not come here. I get that, especially if you're not a man of Washington government. You know, this is a former governor, and so he didn't really have a presence in Washington. So I get that.
But I don't get why you'd have to take that extra step and say 'I'm not gonna watch.' I, by the way - I have no problem with him not watching. I can understand that from a human level, losing an election like that - I get it. But this is not the moment in which someone who participated in the greatest drama in our national politics ... should have announced that about himself.

Rachel Maddow: (laughs) Making himself the story.