Re: Bad On Steroids

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To be fair, most people not on drugs also think Sessions is horrible.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 7:08 AM
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He's probably not using ketamine.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 7:12 AM
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But, what my screen play supposes is "What if he were?" I call it "A-hole in the K-hole".


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 7:14 AM
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I don't know how you tell drugs from dementia from just being a horrible person. I don't really care either.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 7:18 AM
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"Drugs from dementia from just being a horrible person" is the "stupid or evil" debate, updated for 2017.


Posted by: Nick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 7:33 AM
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I pick up bad habits from my children. But it's very hard not to respond to that with "Por que no los dos?"


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 7:59 AM
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Tres.


Posted by: Opinionated Spanish Mansplainer | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 8:04 AM
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cuatro, cinco, cinco, seis...


Posted by: Opinionated Offspring | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 8:17 AM
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This is how we count in Puerto Rico.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 8:23 AM
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We need to talk about Pickle. Great American or greatest American? Sure, he could probably get close to Trump for a photo op or something, but could he actually seize power? Pickle, you might spell like a drunken kindergartener and you might not exist, but damn it your country needs you.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 10:49 AM
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The problem with a Pickle photo-op is it will be tough to get six Russian agents into a boy costume.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 10:52 AM
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Why would an adult be using HGH?


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 11:00 AM
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Does it cure small-hand syndrome?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 11:03 AM
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"Data-minded" "lifehacking" Wall Street and Silicon Valley bros like the Mooch use HGH to counter the sad saggings and droopings, physical and mental, of age. The Bulletproof Coffee asshole is a chemistry experiment comparable in extent and self-satisfaction to Bill Romanowski.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 11:08 AM
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I understand nothing in 14, but love it anyway.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 11:11 AM
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12: Because it works. Fairly rampant in Hollywood. Do a Google image search on a well into his 50s Sean Penn.


Posted by: Gswift | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 11:32 AM
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You can just google the hospital bill of the guy who tried to take the photo.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 11:39 AM
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Transcript of his impromptu call-in to a CNN show where he was being discussed.

It verges on glossolalia.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 11:45 AM
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I should really stop being surprised about how many people watched movies in the 80s and identified with the villains.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 11:46 AM
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SCARAMUCCI: Well, let me push back on that. I didn't study that like Quincy. I wasn't a coroner studying that. Remember the Jack Klugman show?

CUOMO: He was a medical examiner, not a coroner, but continue.

SCARAMUCCI: Well, whatever it was. Medical examiner. I wasn't studying it back then. Okay, that's a narrative that I think is a false narrative and I'm going to push back for the President.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 11:48 AM
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16. There are sometimes side effects for new treatments that work. I wonder if these guys are going to Sloan-Kettering or rather some guy that doesn't ask too many questions. I don't know anything about HGH for the middle-aged, maybe it's fine.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 11:58 AM
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I will say that Mooch is one of the first "it's a distraction" things that's actually just a distraction. I mean, all of the (alleged) internal feuds are intentional distractions, but I'm not sure I've seen any of them take up this much oxygen.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 1:33 PM
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Is there an authentic New York type like Scaramucchi? I see him and think he must be parodying a New York type, but overdoing it.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 2:14 PM
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Which probably plays better in the sticks.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 2:16 PM
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Kind of like how in the 60s you could go to jail for being homosexual, but also get rich for being Paul Lynde.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 2:19 PM
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22: Sounds right.

Poor New Yorker fact-checker. "Yes, hello, Mr. Bannon, any comment on Mr. Scaramucci's statement to our publication that you are, quote, 'trying to suck your own cock'?"


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 2:25 PM
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We now have our own Malcolm Tucker, except without the competence.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 2:35 PM
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26: The Onion did it for them.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 6:12 PM
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I've just now realized The Mooch isn't Trump.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 7:22 PM
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It's much worse than that: The Mooch is what Trump aspires to be.


Posted by: DaveLHI | Link to this comment | 07-27-17 7:25 PM
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"President Scaramucci announced today..."
"Speaking on French television, President Scaramucci said..."
"On the second day of his Middle East visit, US president Anthony Scaramucci met today with the King of Saudi Arabia..."
"President Scaramucci met with Senate leaders last night to discuss the bill..."

Don't mind me. I'm starting now because I think it will take a long time for me to get used to writing it, and I don't want to be caught off guard like I was with the current one.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:38 AM
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Right. And you have to count the consonants each time.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:45 AM
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I mean, he legitimately is Trump without all the (from a Trump supporter's point of view) bad bits. Trump inherited his wealth and mismanaged it. Scaramucci really did build his own business and make himself extremely wealthy. Trump is old and unhealthy and obese. Scaramucci is twenty years younger (he's 53) and seems to be in decent shape (drugs aside). Trump shies away from face to face confrontation. Scaramucci doesn't. Trump is rambling and incoherent; Scaramucci is comparatively cogent. Trump has all that Russia baggage and a dysfunctional family. Scaramucci is insulated from Russia because three CNN reporters lost their jobs by mistakenly linking him to a Russian bank and now no one else will go near it, and he only has one wife, who he's still married to, and one son, who's still at school.

He's perfect, I'm telling you.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:51 AM
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And I don't think he's who Trump aspires to be; he's who Trump now, too late, realises he should have been aspiring to be, instead of trying to become a Manhattan aristo. (He'd never have been able to hack it at Goldman, but still.)


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:52 AM
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All of which means he is not long for this White House.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 3:10 AM
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Even better. He'll be there long enough to get name recognition and then move to a slot on Fox to avoid the final collapse.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 3:13 AM
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But will he do the fandango, or does he have to Gallicise his name first?


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 3:25 AM
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That plan didn't work so well for Röhm.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 3:30 AM
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38: He took it all too seriously, rather than being a-Pauled.


Posted by: Doug | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 3:49 AM
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First the Toast and now a new post up at B&T.

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Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 4:15 AM
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B&T? I'm blanking.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 5:48 AM
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Thanks. I hated to ask if I was the only one with no idea.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 5:58 AM
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http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 7:04 AM
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OT: Academic journal spam is getting shittier. Today I got one with the subject line "Publication without you is merely farce" and a request to submit an article by three days ago.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 9:59 AM
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Anyway, into the mix next: More North Korean missiles.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 10:02 AM
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Fairly entertaining look at the Mooch through his horrible self-help books.

When I was fresh out of college, I dated a guy who thought he had a great sense of humor. What he really had was a Chappelle's Show DVD box set, Family Guy on DVR, and a photographic memory. He didn't have wit, he had quotes from Anchorman, and because his friends were all idiots, they would have entire conversations completely in Will Ferrell's voice, and then they would laugh and laugh.

This, minus the laughter, are Scaramucci's books. He is a guy who is acting like how he saw a guy act in a movie about a guy.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 11:26 AM
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Anchorman was a really great movie.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 11:46 AM
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Priebus out. Replaced by John Kelly.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:10 PM
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No matter what Sean Spicer was doing with his unemployment this week, it was better than whatever he'd be doing at the White House while Scaramucci was making his phone calls.

Priebus may be similarly grateful soon.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:25 PM
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It'll be interesting to see if Trump appoints Priebus ambassador to Greece, as has occasionally been suggested in the rumors of his imminent ouster.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:28 PM
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Ugh. I think we should have our eyes on John Kelly, as one of the few who hasn't feuded with Trump, and has overseen the ICE crackdown. If anyone presently in the cabinet could start using federal law enforcement to 100%-arbitrarily lock up enemies, it's probably him. (I know this is probably pretty unlikely, but as a demi-Jew I want to see it coming.)


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:36 PM
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I think given their relatively modest government salaries vs. the hourly rates of defense lawyers, Spicer and Priebus come out ahead by no being longer parties to things that will require a lot of testimony.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:44 PM
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51: Well, as WH COS he won't be directly overseeing law enforcement to the same degree he does as DHS Secretary. A lot depends on who Trump taps to replace him, of course.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:48 PM
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No, but he'll be entrusted with a lot more political work.

Best case, he is no better at it than Scaramucci is at handling political journalists.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:55 PM
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Yeah, fair enough.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-28-17 2:56 PM
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33: The Mooch isn't a proven bigamist, but the wife leaving him now is his second wife.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-29-17 7:07 PM
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56 Keeping up with the Trumps.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-29-17 7:12 PM
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The wife who is just leaving him is his Marla Maples.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-29-17 7:15 PM
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"Publication without you is merely farce"

This is almost poetic.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 12:15 AM
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56: I stand corrected.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 12:16 AM
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56, 60: and she just gave birth to I think their second child, the first of whom was born a few months before their wedding and his first divorce. (Not slut-shaming, just if correcting ajay is now the thing to do thenI sure don't want to miss what may be my only chance.)


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 3:35 AM
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61: wow. Charming chap.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 4:06 AM
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On the post title, I remain mystified by people who can find steroids tolerably pleasant. I'm to take one every other day for throat swelling and now 24 hours after the first I think I will soon drift off to sleep to improve on the two restless hours I had in the night. At least these don't make me weepy or furious.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 4:08 AM
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Maybe you'll feel better if you use your bulging muscles to crush things?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 4:24 AM
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The times I've had prednisone for poison ivy or oak, I felt great. Maybe the dosing matters. They gave me a great big bunch on the first days, followed by a tapering dose.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 7:26 AM
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My minor, old man-style joint problems did not bother me and I had more energy.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 7:31 AM
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I do okay with steroid shots. The pills I've had tend to make me sleepless and furious and weepy, though this managed only the first plus queasy. I didn't end up sleeping because my next-door neighbor called to say that my front door was open and what did I want her to do? So I rushed over and no people had gone in but the kitten may have gotten out or may have just been snoozing like his mother and not interested in more food since I've just been leaving it out while at my parents'. (I've come home daily to check mail and water the plants and feed them, and apparently not lock the door yesterday.) I'm kind of inclined to keep the girls here with my parents one more night so I don't stress them about the cat situation, but I'm not sure if I'm making it more dangerous for him if he IS out not to give him a chance to come in sooner. I Amy go over this afternoon to scope things out more. Damnit.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 7:50 AM
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Also Jesus Christ I used the same two adjectives to describe what steroids do to me without even realizing? I would like to think it's medicines and not my true self making me a total idiot.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 7:51 AM
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I don't think you're supposed to feed cats every day. Or maybe that's snakes?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 8:03 AM
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I googled. You are supposed to feed cats every single day. Sorry.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 8:06 AM
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Thanks, Moby. You may not control the weather but I knew I could still count on you.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 8:13 AM
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I also learned that turtle shells don't protect them from fire.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 8:20 AM
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Apologies to Mr. Slowjangles.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 8:29 AM
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"Because it works. Fairly rampant in Hollywood. Do a Google image search on a well into his 50s Sean Penn."

I would 100% do this if I had the money.

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2012/03/human-grown-hormone-hollywood-201203


Posted by: lemmy caution | Link to this comment | 07-30-17 3:59 PM
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