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Reldas's avatar

I could eat this with a spoon. You're a good storyteller.

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Nick's avatar

Joe - whatever you are paid is not nearly enough to cover this shit show.

Tim, give the man a raise.

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Kathy Balles's avatar

Love the fashion commentary - might be the first inauguration related laugh I’ve had in two days.

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D.'s avatar

Why does a Russian need the help of a French lawyer to obtain US or Mexican citizenship?

The question almost answers itself: to facilitate the expatriation of money stolen from Russia, and the laundering of same through real estate purchases in his newly "adopted" country.

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Laura Haule's avatar

Aha, very astute. Thanks.

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Julia Cooper's avatar

This is one of your very best pieces, Joe, I appreciate the detailed critiques of Republicans' sartorial choices. Thought you were going to be Kari Lake's new Bulwark target but she seems obsessed with Tim. Thanks.

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Scott Murphy's avatar

I've become a shameless Perticone fanboy. You're combination of sharp observation and desert dry humor is irresistible.

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Andrew's avatar

I'm shocked--shocked--that people were ripped off at a Trump-themed event. Who could foresee that? And “George Washington in the style of James Bond and Thome Browne" is perfect.

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pamela's avatar

I was delighted because you know none of these clowns have ever even heard of Thome Brown.

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Mike Addertion's avatar

The Bulwark is so loaded with talent. Joe is such a keen observer and an even better writer.

We need him in the trenches for the next two years. So yes, he needs a raise.

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Timothy M Dwyer's avatar

And a lifetime supply of Zoloft

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David Krupp's avatar

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosened upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosened, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

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NLTownie's avatar

All of that except it feels like we're stumbling towards Bethlehem to throw up.

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Heather's avatar

Sadly, we just lost a poetry-loving president. When Biden won last time, the RTE news in Ireland paid this tribute of him reading a poem by Seamus Heaney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i37IjTV4J0o Brought me to tears then, and makes me terribly sad now, however, this poem ends in hope. I still believe we will see brighter days again. Do not go softly into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Jilll's avatar

As tempting as the offer is, thank you for staying the course! Tim really has taken time and space in Lake's mind🤣

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bulletinboard's avatar

and hopefully will continue to do so.

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Timothy M Dwyer's avatar

And there is a lot of available space in there to rent!

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JM's avatar

Spew alert!

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Glenn Reynolds's avatar

Getting the future global authoritarian axis and their allies warmed up. Inviting right wing German party crazies, being a little nicer to Xi all of a sudden, inserting a Ukraine death knell intel committee head and purging Turner, pretending to be tough on Putin on the way to handing him Ukraine. Playing the angle of “you take Ukraine, you take Taiwan, I get Panama and Greenland and lean on Canada. “ they also will kill NATO next. Dark days. Beware intent.

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Glenn Reynolds's avatar

Notice how he has Canada and Mexico more in his Day 2 tariff rhetoric than China? Softer talk on China? Make Authoritarians Great Again!?

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Cathy G's avatar

"Between the refusals at the door and the fights over chairs, I couldn’t help but see a metaphor for the next four years. People are fighting for places to sit in the Trump White House while others are being left in the cold."

Just before I read the above statement, I was having almost the exact same thought.

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Timothy M Dwyer's avatar

It’s funny- all I could think of was the bar-room scene from Star Wars (# 2 I think?).

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Cathy G's avatar

I've thought of that every time I hear a new nomination for his cabinet.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Hmm, another busy night at the Confederacy Shoppe, I see.

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Heather's avatar

Thanks for this well written look into MAGAland. Glad to see some younger people still creating written content that is not just a simplistic rant. This is definitely a dying art form, as I am often left reading oldtimers like Charles Pierce at Esquire, or Lucian Truscott at Slate for similar snark. I am sure you must be wondering, as we all are, if this is real life now? The last anecdote is also a good metaphor for the sense of entitlement that is now de rigueur on the right.

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Tom Owens's avatar

If I ever come across Kari Lake, I will absolutely introduce myself as *Tim Miller*

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Laura Haule's avatar

Thank you for your service, Joe. This is hilarious, laughing even though I am so angry.

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