Landsnark

Joe is suited and sober this morning. No bloviating or hysterics. Aside from his hair, there are no hysterics.

Elise. She's on Nicole's show right now with a different top. The sweater in question is black and is kind of a mock turtleneck with big weird buttons angled from her armpit region up toward her neck. Extraneous buttons on clothing befuddle me. Buttons as decoration makes no sense. I am severely embarrassed I pay such close attention to matters so silly.

This is petty. I'm embarrassed to write it. Here goes... I've seen her wear that exact sweater with the extraneous buttons on at least 6 other occasions. I don't feel great about myself.

What. the. fuck???

It's a fund raiser, so you could apply any value to anything. If it cost $900 to attend, then that's a $900 bottle, or a $900 plate, or a $900 seat cushion, or $900 air conditioning, or whatever.

Me too! We now live in a world where you can't be successful and like wine, and be progressive. I imagine SNL will lay waste to Warren this weekend.

Did the gang say anything more about Warren? In that clip where she tries to attack Mayor Pete she looks exactly like all the worst insults of her. I would be very surprised if the whole panel didn't punch down on her and dunk on her.

Joe's rant at 6:35am or so was a nice try on his part. He followed up on Tom Nichols mourning the death of conservatism, and Joe wasn't to be outdone. He ranted and ranted and ranted and ranted. There must be a Big Gulp of iced coffee under their breakfast nook's table. Next to another one. My wife's random comment on Mika, "I don't know why she wears those dumpy shirts." Meachem was good today.

As does Low Energy Mika. She has said this four times for the last four guests: "Ok [title, name] Thank you VERY MUCH [kicks to commercial]" I had to laugh out loud the last two times she did it. Yes, it's minor, but it shows how totally unengaged she is with the conversation and the show's content. She can't add, she isn't listening.

What did he do in Ukraine? Lobby? Office work? Act as a figurehead? Nothing? Something? This smells like Joe wants Trump to win again.

Mika interrupted him when he was laying waste to Stop and Frisk to change the subject about "But don't you think he'd make a good President?" or something similar.

Is there a link? That woman is limited only by the extent of her ambition. The next 20 years of her career are only going to go up up up. I wonder if she needs a manager?

Why are they talking about Baron and Melania and what an amazing family the Trumps are? Mike tells a moronic story about knowing someone who knew someone who heard from someone on the upper east side that Melania is a devoted mother. Mika sat there and made all the faces. Then she Knows Yer Value it up and says something about pets and how people actually wrote about their pets and omigosh there is a shepherd named... MIKA! This is what happened in the 20 seconds I watched before I changed the channel in disgust. Some mornings it's like riding a bucking bronco.

We like women who run? What the fuck does that even mean? Why do you love them? Why didn't you love Secretary Clinton, you nitwit? She gets ripped apart in the comments.

i had to change the channel here. That was pretty icky.

Joe would play himself in the role, in a southern accent of course. He'd also write and direct and score it himself. He's this generation's Atticus Finch.

Why was Karine Jean Pierre not offended when Donnie said Bernie Sanders is neither likeable nor electable? I would have liked to hear from Karine Jean Pierre how she sees Warren winning NC, PA, MI, OH, WI, FL by lecturing to blue collar voters. Donnie is being practical.

How good was today's show? Those two guys were great. With Joe's oversized ego out of the room for two full days and for the foreseeable future, you can see others' egos begin to take shape and characters try to assert themselves. Very enjoyable, informative TV.

She is out of her goddamned mind. The doctor she should be seeing is a psychiatrist, not a weight specialist. JFC

Woke ass Adnan was on this morning being rude and wrong. He made up some woke story about how "we're all tired of plutocrats, "blah blah blah and how Bloomberg and Trump are the same. Obama isn't a plutocrat. Clinton wasn't. Mrs Clinton isn't. Carter wasn't. There are no left wing plutocrats in the party, aside from Bloomberg, and none have made any policy in the modern world. It's a fake woke argument. When he says that the American Dream is simply a phrase that has no actual meaning to most of Americans, that's correct. Nothing else he said is. He wants Bloomberg to be punished for being rich, and blames Bloomberg at once for being rich, for others being poor, and not having fixed all economics in America. He is the reason Democrats lose elections. He's in the business of being woke and ideologically pure, not in winning elections.

It appears she had a speaking gig a few floors away. Looks like an NBC human resources thing - https://twitter.com/hashtag/KYV2019 - that she's wrapped with the KYV shaminar branding. Um... why couldn't she have worked from 6am to 8:30am and then gone to the other floor an hour before her speaking slot? Perhaps she had to practice because it appears she's reading from a script on the teleprompters about how she judged all their essays. UGH, what a soullessly corporate event. Can you imagine? Writing KYV essays to be judged and the reward is an hour of Mika? Hey, know what? It must be someone's cup of tea, right? Good for them I guess.

Joe is bloviating at breakneck speed. Elyse and Willie are going to have PTSD after today's show. Joe's campaign to be captain of the US Men's Olympic Bloviating Team is really firing on all cylinders.

"Mika is on assignment this morning." Thanks for the giggles!

https://www.nbcnews.com/know-your-value/feature/i-feel-so-lucky-google-s-leigh-gallagher-shares-her-ncna1083041 Can someone please explain to me how this article helps other people? My takeaway from it is this, if Google offers to make you an executive, you take the offer and figure out the rest. I guess the point behind all of it is that Meeks got to hold a baby.

Donnie was on a roll there making great points. He pointed out a long list of elected officials currently in prison for soliciting bribes, even if the event they were to have been paid for never took place. Donnie was tying up his points to produce a cogent sequence of thoughts, and on cue, Joe just suddenly bloviated over Donnie, interrupting him fully, mid-sentence. There as a chaotic few moments where nothing anyone said was intelligible. Did they just say they are staying on air through the hearings? Must miss TV Imagine the hissy fit he must have thrown Wednesday and yesterday for this to happen.