Look who is about to meet with Pence:

[Kingofalldems]

https://twitter.com/VaughnHillyard/status/804050925077884928

What was her famous (lie) quote again?
Ah--"...But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

Get ready for another war.

[Liberal In Texas]

1. I feel like I'm living in an alternative universe. n/t

[saltpoint]

2. Things are bad. Time to summon a

Brahms specialist to the inner circles of the transition team!

[pangaia]

5. perhaps Berlioz is appropriate...

[saltpoint]

9. : ) And right on theme, too.

As an aside, my god what a fine performance. A pleasure to hear, no matter what.

[pangaia]

14. Yeah, a slower than usual tempo which is good.

I have heard one recording, oddly enough, on my car radio on the way to work that was even slower.. Berlin and I now forget who conducted.. was not Gergiev, I dodn' think..

But that really slow tempo by the Berliers was the most frightening performance I have ever heard.. a true nightmare !!!

I've played it numerous times and ALWAYS wanted to go slower. As a former timpanist I got together with my assistant on more than one occasion and tried it but.. eh, to no avail..

[saltpoint]

15. I liked hearing it and sensed how close

the musicians were to each other, to the conductor... such a strong volt of inspiration underneath just the notes on the page.

I love it that you are a timpanist.

[pangaia]

18. I loved it too. :))))

As a dear friend of mine and a Pulitzer prize winning composer said to me many years ago, about playing timpani.... " Play often and play loud !" I always tried to follow his advice.

Oh, I know both those timpanists. They are very good. Duddy?? Eh... maybe not so much.... LOL !!

Thanks...

[pangaia]

16. Oh, and BTW she doesn't know shit about Brahms.

[saltpoint]

17. : ) eom

[saltpoint]

3. If you blur your eyes, the woman to Condi's

left with the two handbags -- it looks like she's about to guzzle some Alka Selzer in her right hand while in her left hand she appears to be holding a flamingo's neck. Which is, you know, kind of odd.

[Roland99]

4. Oh Jesus h fucking christ

Not that heinous liar!!

[cureautismnow]

6. This one?

"I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile."

or this one?

"Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York."

[Kingofalldems]

7. It was something about a nuclear bomb.

[cureautismnow]

13. Bingo?

"The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

[Kingofalldems]

19. Yep.

[spanone]

8. all of the deplorables are back

[Travis_0004]

10. Am I supposed to know who that is? Michelle Obama?

[saltpoint]

12. It is Condoleezza Rice --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice

-- noted Brahms expert and Secretary of State under George W. Bush.

[tanyev]

11. "Do you have these Ferragamos in red? Crap, there goes my phone again--I'll just turn it off."*

*not intended to be an actual quote from Condi's awesome vacation during Hurricane Katrina

[poli-junkie]

20. KindaSleezy Rice -- ahhh! that fucking war criminal