Don’t you feel sad for Chris Christie? This was supposed to be a great weekend for him. He could showcase his state, while hobnobbing with dozens of major potential financiers of a national campaign as he skipped between skyboxes at MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands.
His big weekend has been ruined.
“Don’t you feel sad for Chris Christie?”
Actually, no!
Not even a little bit.
The wages of sin… and all of that.
I don’t feel bad for him at all. The dude was partying with Howard Stern last night, for pete’s sake. Plus, we all know he’ll land on his feet, with a gig at FOX or CNN, even if he does some jail time, which we all know he won’t.
:::sniff:::
Amazon is delivering my world’s tiniest violin today.
And yet, somehow, even though he hasn’t been accused of any felonies at all, Richard Sherman is the one being portrayed as the “thug” in the building. I wonder why.
Yes, I did notice that. So did Joan Walsh; she did a nice piece on it.
It’s Saturday night:
XTC tore it up in their early days.
Seems like a good time to repost this:
Thank you. This guy…and all the other people who might be involved in that series…are just so good!!!
Thanks again…
AG
Thank you!
“Piggie” is my project from start to finish. I’ve been learning under the best though. My colleagues are way more advanced at this than me.
Brendan!!!
Brilliant work. And you’re a bass player, too! Email me…my email address is on my profile here. We should talk.
Later…
AG
A great clip, but I do wish people wouldn’t malign pigs like that. The association with cops was bad enough.
I’m with the mayor of Fort Lee when he says that with all this reporting the people of Fort Lee and likely many other areas of NJ can breathe a sigh of relief that today and tomorrow they won’t have to wonder ‘what next’ when it comes to political arm twisting where they’re the pawns.
The Sandy relief funds will come under scrutiny and those that haven’t been able to get aid will have to wait longer but at least they can have hope Christie can’t spend what’s coming to them for his own private candy store.
Yes, maybe his weekend has been ruined. Though I doubt it.
And tomorrow, if there was really any justice, instead of hobnobbing with the elites, in my dreams I see him this way.
Thank you for sharing that visual. Not. 🙂
The funny thing is, what disgusts me most on a purely visceral level about Christy’s behavior is the way he treated Wildeman. Sure, sabotaging a city and even endangering people out of political spite is horrific. But I do feel shocked at how readily and enthusiastically he threw his old friend (I barely knew the man!) to the wolves to save his own hide. He gives thugs a bad name.
I had to laugh at Chris Hayes last night. He echoed the same thing I had been thinking when Christie denied remembering much of anything at all about Wildstein when they were in high school.
Translation: “Hey, I was popular and well known in high school. So I have no idea what the hell that big nerd was doing.”
Jackasses are the last to know that they are actually jackasses.
Yeah.
That was probably the capper for Wildstein. As my prescient young son told me when he was in Middle School, “Dad, did you ever notice that nobody likes the popular kids?”
Like dat.
This Wildstein geek has been sucking up to Christie for years. Bet on it. And inside, the hatred and envy has been festering. Bet on that as well.
Here are their class pictures:
Now you tell me…which one was the bully and which the bullied?
Right.
Wildstein’s been carrying this around all of his life. Christie was the star athlete and he was the “statistician” in high school. 25+ years later? Same same. He’s been acting as Christie’s snitch and petty enforcer at the Port Authority for years.
Now he’s been thrown under the bus after doing his dirty little job and he’s desperately trying to avoid yet more injury.
Lovely.
Ever wonder why Obama didn’t try to throw James Clapper under a bus after that blatant series of lies to the Senate regarding the extent of NSA eavesdropping?
Hmmmmm…
Betcha Clapper has the goods, too. Only Obama is smarter than Christie.
As above, so below.
Watch.
Them chickens always come home to roost eventually.
The bigger the chickens, the slower the flight is all.
Watch.
Watch and wait.
AG
LOOOOOOOOVE the chicken. Where is the Original? Do you know if its for sale?
I have no idea. Found it on the net.
AG
It’s the moment when the ship is sinking and the captain is counting heads in the lifeboat. “Wildeman, you know how to breaststroke, right?”
Never had a shred of empathy for Haldeman, etc. A component of being a courtier is that you take a dive or get thrown under a bus whenever needed to take some heat off the big thug they serve.
Obama’s got a bus, too.
Only he’s so busy playing the artful dodger that he can’t afford to stop long enough to do any under-the-bus throwing.
So it goes.
AG
The list of people that Reagan, the Bushes, Clinton, and Obama threw under the bus is very long. Unfortunately they were all still to loyal or didn’t know enough to disclose all they knew.
this was years in the making and there must be lots of there there. in case you feel like researching some more
http://www.northbergenreporter.com/view/full_story/24496627/article-OOPS–No-one-told-city-of-Hoboke
n-that-they-re-getting-a-new-train-station?instance=top_story
http://www.northbergenreporter.com/view/full_story/24450917/article-The–Power-List–The-Reporter-s-
third-annual-ranking-of-Hudson-County-s-most-influential-people–?instance=latest_story
the new train station might be the non-development of the Rockefeller land
A NJT approval for a new train station that would benefit the proposed Rockefeller Group development in Hoboken is interesting. So, that makes how many public agencies involved in the Rockefeller Group quest? (I’ve only been casually noting this scandal and not doing any research on it or Hoboken. Perhaps you could take up this one.)
Yes, I’m just guessing that once Hoboken did not approve development for Rockefeller’s parcel they may be trying to get their huge profits by using it for a train station. Or, angling for redevelopment status by threatening with an unneeded train station [Hoboken needs park space; the city is a mile square, has 2 light rail stations and there’s another in Weehawken a few blocks from the Rockefeller land
I’ll keep my eye out for info – the link with Hoboken seems to be Samson’s law firm; there’s also another Hoboken Port Authority building project underway- will try to find a link to it; unfortunately right now my work situation is such that I’m essentially living in my office so can’t do the indepth unravelling of threads that you are.
As I read that article, that new light rail station was in anticipation of approval of the Rockefeller Group project. What warrants digging through is the Port Authority funded study of the potential development sites in Hoboken that “found” on the Rockfeller Groups sites were suitable.
No, rethinking. The station was approved last year. Probably means Rockefeller grp assumed they’d get their development project; residents of their new building would need very convenient commuting transportation. An extra train station just for their future residents seems likely.
There’s something about Christie that makes me think, as I mentioned a coupled days ago, it seems to me Christie is not acting on his own, that he must be the point man for someone else.
Oh, absolutely. He’s acting in ways that he at least thinks are for his own benefit, no doubt, but “on his own?” Please. the amount of under-the-table, well washed political money that has flowed his way for at least a decade is far beyond his means. Of course, that goes for any and every pol who successfully scrambles up the greased ladder of national notoriety as well. What kind of money? Any kind they can get. Who’s behind the money? I believe that they often don’t really know. Washed money can appear to be “from” quite respectable-looking people. But then one day the muscle knocks on the door.
Like dat!!!
Could be the Israelis, could be the CIA, could be the mob, could be Wall Street. It could be anybody with real clout. Everybody with real clout, actually. They’re all in the same general game or they wouldn’t have that kind of clout. Big time clout. For keeps clout. Bet on it.
Watch.
It’s about all’s we can do is watch.
And pray.
And try to wake up a few motherfuckers while we’re at it.
Bet on it.
Station WTFU signing off yet again.
As the debt collector said above…have a nice day.
And switch channels or at least turn off the sound when the hypno-ads come on during Stupor Bowl Sunday.
You be bettah off.
Bet on that as well.
Later…
AG
I don’t mean acting in ways he thinks are for his benefit. I don’t think he is; he’s getting perks, [schmoozing w Bon Jovi, meeting Springsteen, helicopter to his son’s game], but this isn’t his plan he’s carrying out I mean he is specifically a point man for someone/ some ppl else.
Yes. Christie is a witting participant in the scam. He’s not “stupid,” exactly. Just crude. Front man? Of course. Look at the big donors to every national or state-wide pol and you will see very clearly for whom he, she or it is fronting. That’s how it works. The smart ones are quite aware of this. The dumb ones? And that includes a good 90% or more of the American people…don’t have a clue. Not a clue. They have a hard-wired “position”…take Rep. Peter King from Long Island, NY for example. He is a hard-wired, jingoist right winger with a genetically controlled hatred for all antiwar peaceniks of any persuasion. He’s dumb as a stick but he’s the right man for the job so the money flows his way. Does he know he is being used? Does he even care? I doubt it. He’s a big man and that’s all that’s really important to him.
I personally await the almost inevitable exposure of some level of mob-type criminality in Christie’s support system. He’s a wiseguy’s dream. Hard-charging, totally w/out scruples and on the take to the highest bidder.
Any day now.
Aaaany day now…
Let us pray.
Later…
AG
well I disagree with your analysis, 1) politicians vary as far as how much they are in charge of their own project; and of course their projects differ depending how much they are in line with corporate interests [Bush, for example] and how much they go against the grain to whatever degree. most are somewhere in the middle, threading that needle. re: people in charge of their own project, I’d say the Clinton’s pretty much are, Obama pretty much is, and Christie is not.
2) I would never write off 90% of the American ppl the way you do; ppl may have different opinions, different interests and completely different lives. writing them off as dumb is wrong for one and there are many more adjectives that pertain
“Dumb” may not have been the best choice of words here. “Hypnotized” would have been better. TV is a hypnotic media. It repeatedly seduces people into a form of passivity… a kind of hypnosis. It then implants suggestions during that passive state which the sleeper cannot resist because he or she is not really present at that time . Whether it’s “Take this drug,” “Eat this cereal,” “Elect this one over that one” or “Let’s invade Iraq!!!” the same thing is happening. A non-hypnotized person is quite unlikely to jump up on a chair in front of an audience of strangers and quack like a duck in heat at the command of another stranger, but a hypnotized subject can be commanded to do any number of things that would not be acceptable in an unhypnotized state.
Buy drugs even when the list of nasty side-effects is as long as your arm and is listed (in a very non-threatening voice) at the end of the command sequence? (Also known as “a commercial.”)
Invade a foreign country under the flimsiest of excuses?
Eat food that is plainly bad for you?
Over and over and over again, starting at pre-linguistic levels of infanthood for most of us.
Hypnotists tend to claim that some percentage of people are not able…or not willing…to be hypnotized. They also say that there are certain stresses that make people more hypnotizable than they would be without those stresses.
Keep the pressure on high enough and more people will trance out.
And here we are today.
“Dumb?”
“Weak-minded” might also be better.
Every time I see a cigarette smoker today it occurs to me that they have been hypnotized into smoking despite a plenitude of information…right on the goddamned packages…that there is probably nothing else readily available to human beings that is more ruinous to their health. They say “But it’s a physical addiction!!!” Bullshit. That’s part of the trance state. Heroin is a physical addiction. Smoking is a trance-induced habit. If one were to try to physically stop that quacking-like-a-duck-in-heat audience member I mentioned earlier that person would become quite upset. He or she might even have stress symptoms for a long time afterward…like a smoker’s stress symptoms while quitting. That’s the “physical” part. How to stop those symptoms? Let the quacker go back to quacking under the permission of a hypnotist and let that smoker light up another Marlboro.
Duh.
“Dumb?”
No. I was wrong.
“Dumbed!!!”
Dumbed down by media saturation.
So it goes.
Later…
AG
I agree with you about the criminality and I hope they get to it. On one level seems to be about making $$ off development, but needn’t be mob type in any way. Hope they do uncover what it is.
I’m in tears.
Wait.
Sorry, that’s just from the onions I’m chopping for lunch.
Naw…my eyes are dry as cacti.
On the other hand, I’m thinking it may be time to put Mika and JoeScar on suicide watch.
Joey Scar is standing by his friend Chris Christie better than Christie stood by his “friend” Wildeman. So how soon before Joey Scar throws his friend Christie under the same bus?
Sometimes Boo….you are hilarious
OT, because this story should go viral
….
Caught On Video: Police Hit, Tie Down, Then Chop Off Possible Rape Victim’s Hair (VIDEO)
Warren Michigan police officers were caught on camera, strapping a 22-year-old mother into a chair and cutting off her hair. The officer with the scissors, Bernadette Najor, can be seen hitting the young mother, before having her restrained. The video shows her grabbing the woman’s hair, repeatedly jerking her head back, while she hacks off the woman’s weave. Najor has been fired. All of the male officers, who can be seen helping to restrain this young woman, remain on the police force. Every one of them stood by while this was done. None seemed shocked, upset or even concerned about what is happening two feet away from them.
Here’s the video.[….]
There’s more to the story as well. The young mother in the video, Chandra Greggory, had been at a party in Detroit earlier in the evening. When she woke up in a Motel with no idea how she got there, she told police she thought she had been drugged. Instead of investigating a possible rape, it appears that the cops arrested Greggory instead. She was accused of destroying the hotel room. All of the charges against her have been dropped. If she is telling the truth, this young woman was a victim of abduction and possible rape, just prior to being abused, restrained and humiliated by the Warren police.[….]
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/01/31/police-video-mom-rape-victim-chop-hair/
I have been struck by how frequent stories like this have become, and as one of the Olds, I can’t decide whether cops have indeed become more abusive and out of control during my lifetime, or if the internet and the ubiquity of video cameras/smart phones have made the stories better known. I’m hoping the latter, since we need a lot more outrage about how common this treatment seems to be.
One thing that makes me despondent, however, is the ho-hum attitude of the media and and high govt officials (cough*Holder*cough) toward the widespread and very visible mistreatment of Occupy protesters in 2011. Don’t know how we get off chiding Egypt or Ukraine when apparently the punishment here for unauthorized camping in the park is a vicious extrajudicial beating.
The media didn’t respond because that’s been the planned law enforcement response to left demonstrators, locally and nationally, since post-WTO. 9-11 amped it up further. For the last decade civic (let alone federal) planning for protests includes a budget for paying out for the inevitable lawsuits afterwards.
The media yawned in 2010 because by then that’d already been “normal” for several years. And still is. And the overall strategy – to discourage protests from being organized, or if organized attended, because too many people think they’re either unsafe or ineffective or both, has worked quite well. Even the significant exception of Occupy was comprised largely of privileged (ie white) younger people with not as much to lose.
A significant assist to media who reflexively paint police riots as the protesters’ fault, meaning that a lot of people who’d otherwise be sympathetic, and might even turn out to a protest, not only stay away but don’t think of the protesters as representative or even allies. And the idiots who show up itching for a street fight with cops don’t help, either. (Some of them even do it for free.)
It’s a very smart strategy if you have fascist leanings. And left organizers have yet to figure out an effective counter-strategy that can scale up.
Like everyone else, I am weeping sweet tears of schadenfreude over fat man’s suffering – to the dismay of many on the left.
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That made me smile, but the story about the woman in Michigan made me sick.
And to think, this is where his lap-band surgery has ended up …….