The roast beef in her pants

Laura Loomer suing Bill Maher for defamation?  Is it my birthday?  How can we keep this going for the rest of the year?  When it ends, could he sue her for something?  Loomer got deposed by HBO attorney Katherine Bolger and it went something like this...

BOLGER:  Can you explain to me what it means to say to [Marjorie Taylor Greene] that "the Arby's in her pants"?

LOOMER:  Arby's sells roast beef.

BOLGER:  Right.  Can you tell me what -- why you were talking about "the Arby's in her pants"?

LOOMER:  Well, it's just a -- an expression.

BOLGER:  What is the expression trying to convey?

LOOMER:  It conveys the reason why she got a divorce by her own admission.

BOLGER:  Because she had roast beef in her pants?

LOOMER:  Yeah.

BOLGER:  She'd put roast beef in her pants; that's what you're trying to say there?  You're literally saying she put Arby's in her pants?

LOOMER:  I'm saying she literally -- it's so ridiculous.  I'm saying she literally put Arby's in her pants.  Yes.

LOOMER'S LAWYER:  Objection!  Relevancy.

Their next exchange turns on Loomer's assertion that Kamala Harris had an "infested snatch" and what one's interpretation of "vagina" is.  I assume they'll get around to Maher eventually, but this late summer SNL sketch goes on for some billable hours.   It doesn't help that Loomer's lawyer is Larry Klayman, who spent a lot of time trying to get Barack Obama deported over NSA mass surveillance.

Trump found another boss for the Bureau of Labor Statistics who has plans to hold onto his job.  E.J. Antoni can smell what's coming thanks to a combination of unhinged tariffs, the violent deportation of people who performed vital work and the Billionaire Bastards' Benefit Bill, so he wants to "suspend" the monthly jobs report.  Investors who need the report to plan will just have to consult astrologers.

Do your holiday shopping early!  Just in time for TACO Tuesday the absurdly high tariff on Chinese imports has been delayed by 90 days, with no explanation.


In the last academic year it cost $93,417 to attend Columbia University.  Before you sell a kidney, read this letter that Professor Rashid Khalidi sent to acting president Claire Shipman.  Professor Khalidi will no longer teach his course in modern Middle Eastern history because the university has accepted the definition of antisemitism created by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which conflates it with criticism of Israel and Zionism.  It's the price of capitulation to those who "love the poorly educated" and continue to demand tribute and obedience from Harvard, UCLA and many other once-distinguished institutions.   In all the discussion of endowments and federal funds we overlook their intellectual impoverishment, with Brian and Nina Srinivasan Rathbun leaving USC and Jason Stanley, Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder abandoning Yale to seek academic freedom in Canada.  How much will your diploma from one of these craven institutions be worth?






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