Bill Kristol: "As a Republican, I find this photo in equal parts embarrassing, humiliating, and...

[Miles Archer]

...and nauseating. And infuriating."

Link to tweet

[mucifer]

1. But lying us into war in Iraq that's just fine mr bill.

[Grins]

29. And with one exception, you backed every one of those guys!

Every. Freaking. One!

[yellowwoodII]

35. Thank you

For reminding us. I won't forget his slimy smile as he pushed for the Iraq war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5527.htm


Project for the New American Century
William Kristol Co Founder and Chairman
Robert Kagan, Co-founder

[GeorgeHayduke]

49. No doubt you've seen the complete

list of PNAC henchmen.

[calimary]

50. And for a chaser, he inflicted Sarah Palin on us all.

Yep. The list of signatories is a real rogues gallery of fiends. Including Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Michael Bolton, Elliott Abrams, Rich Lowry of the National Review, Frank Carlucci, Stephen Cambone, Scooter Libby, Ken Adelman, Frank Gaffney, Ed Meese, Richard “the Prince of Darkness” Perle, Steve Forbes, Vaclav Havel, Richard Armitage, Charles Krauthammer, the dreaded Kagans, General Barry McCaffrey, and the media’s onetime token “go-to liberal” Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution (at one time the one and only viable think tank available to represent anything other than a CONservative worldview against a rapidly metastasizing cancer of wrong-wing establishments like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, Hoover Institute, and more).

Mostly a bunch of aggressive warmongers, overheated chickenhawks and self-inflated vainglorious knuckledraggers yearning for the bleary-eyed “good ol’ days” when (white) men were men, women knew their place, minorities were “the help”, and Commies were hiding everywhere. Sadly and with tremendous disappointment, I also found one Joseph R. Biden’s name on there, too. In a limited way, but still in there.

http://www.publiceye.org/pnac_chart/pnac.html

Madeleine Albright’s on there, too, unfortunately.

[Jim Lane]

57. That was actually a noble service that Kristol rendered to his country.

With a different running mate, McCain might have won.

[Cha]

2. Good.. I thought it was going

to be the thumbs up one.. where they all look like trump ordered them to stick 'em up like he does.. mini trumps with thumbs

They all look so GD stupid.. fucking robots.

[NurseJackie]

44. MENTOS! The Fresh-Maker!

They ALL look so stupid. Like a group of immature frat boys.

[Adrahil]

3. Glad to hear the change of heart....

But you made this possible.

[Your Waiter Tonight]

8. What Change of Heart?

He's never liked Trump for the presidency, and he still thinks we should attack Iran.

[duforsure]

4. I can hear his plea's from here...

Please save me or i'll screw you over.

[Scarsdale]

26. They really need to

put their thumbs down, and raise their middle fingers for what they have done to this once proud country. They should all follow Lyin' Ryan out the door.

[lagomorph777]

40. Nice to see they have their thumbs out of their asses for a change.

Probably they went right back after the photo. I hope they kept track of which thumb belongs in which ass.

[sharedvalues]

5. GOP built a propaganda machine for its donors. Trump took it over

Since Murdoch acquired the NYPost, the right has been building a propaganda machine. That machine is designed to use fear and division (against minorities, gays, women, immigrants liberals) to get votes for billionaires.

DJT came in and went full-hate, and the GOP base loved it. Because the billionaires’ propaganda machine had prepared them.



The GOP is DJT and DJT is the GOP. If you cared, Bill, you should have called out the divisive propaganda two decades ago.

[Freethinker65]

6. As an American, I find this photo perfectly captures the direction the GOP is taking this country

If a policy or action personally enriches old white conservative men in power, it will get a thumbs up. If Trump asks conservative men in power to degrade themselves in front of him, they will gladly and willingly participate to show their loyalty.

[lunatica]

7. No one worked harder than Bill Kristol to

make something like Trump happen. What? Buyer’s remorse?

He was the one who insisted on having Sara Palin as VP. Trump is just like her. What the fuck is he complaining about?

[Wednesdays]

17. The rats jumping the ship early are the ones who will rebuild it

People like Kristol, Coulter, etc. who are unaffected by scandal, will put the pieces of the party back together once tRump is gone. In ten years it will be as though nothing ever happened.

[Nitram]

19. It won't be so easy to live down a second Watergate Moment (X 1,000).

[Achilleaze]

9. repubes show their love for Dirty Donny*

* ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Deb]

10. "As a Republican"

may he find his dish ice cold and fellow comrades forever humiliating.

[dhol82]

11. Damn, do these guys not believe in having their suits tailored?

Paul Ryan and Scalise both need at least two inches taken off the length of their pants.
Guess they take their lead from their glorious leader.

[3catwoman3]

12. One of them can donate a couple inches...

...to McConnell's highwaters/

[irisblue]

22. Scalise got low gut shot last summer.

Might still be too tender for closer fitted clothing, or weight loss from the recovery. Lose weight in thigh area= baggy pant length. Speculation on my part.

[dhol82]

30. Yeah, especially since his jacket is tight across the gut

Bandages, maybe?
Could he have had a colostomy and needs to wear a bag?
Whatever, these guys make enough money so they don’t have to look like slobs.
Just look at Michael Cohen! Sartorial elegance!

[irisblue]

33. I wondered about the ostomy bags

Either type; the patients I've taken care of after such extensive & several surgeries are tender for years.
Still you're right, top tailors in DC would know how to be discreet.

[malaise]

41. Is this a new picture or one from early in 2017? n/t

[irisblue]

43. It was last night, 4/11, at the WH.

Creepy mo-fos

[malaise]

47. Thanks

Creepy is right

[lunatica]

45. You can see Scalieses crutch

So it must be recent. They’re all swearing the emperor has clothes. You gonna believe your lyin eyes?

[malaise]

46. And he's using a walking aid as well

Thanks

[BlueJac]

13. Stick your thumbs up your ass fools!

[oberliner]

14. They couldn't get Diamond and Silk to join in the photo?

Or are they good with being the party of old white men?

[Farmer-Rick]

15. They look like little Trump puppets

Trump: Ok, we're going to see who can suck up to me the most. A thumbs up always looks like you're not worried about getting sent to jail. Right? So, I'm doing a thumbs up, how about the rest of you? Smile like you're not worried that you're a traitor.

[Lonestarblue]

16. The entire Republican Party is nauseating and infuriating.

This photo should be captioned “Your corrupt government leaders at work cheering their white male privilege and their screw-the-people policies.”

[Nitram]

18. Right, Bill. Are you going to take responsibility for your part in bringing this about?

I didn't think so. He'll apologize for Trump right after he apologizes for supporting Sarah Palin. (God, it has been so good not to see her name in the news. Please forgive me for dredging her up from the swamp)

[lunatica]

51. Shes the one who invited the teabaggerratti out from under their rock

President Obama was just a temporary glitch in their march towards making the MAGA swamp.

We must remember her, even though they’ve tossed her aside. She served their purpose. I’m sure even Bill Krystol has forgotten her because he sure isn’t taking credit for his part in this.

[Nitram]

53. She haunts his dreams...

[hibbing]

20. Uh... it's YOUR party n/t

[bullwinkle428]

21. YOU BUILT IT, Billy-Bob!

[47of74]

24. Yeah they own this.

I’m not interested in even full assed apologies at this point.

[onetexan]

23. the 6 idiots flanking DOTUS are enablers. If they had spines he'd have been impeached months ago.

[NJCher]

25. I hate these stupid gesture photos

Whose dumbass idea was this?

I also hate it when they are on camera and point at each other.

I hate it when any politician points at the audience, like they know someone and are acknowledging them. Ugh.

Yeah, it is nauseating and infuriating. I think you can feel embarrassment and humiliation only if you're a fellow republican.

[Pepsidog]

27. What assholes, there is Scalise with a cane and this merry group of traitors are gun loving dotards.

Wanted for Treason 7 dumb ass old white dudes who conspired to topple the United States of America. Their mere presence in The White House is an affront to the Founding fathers who met in Philadelphia and wrote some of the most remarkably durable and brilliant documents that created our republic. They can stick their thumbs up their ass.

[Hulk]

28. "tools"....nothing more.

These ignorant buttheads will be remembered.

[The Conductor]

31. It's Worse!

Folks, we see that photo an only see a bunch of immensely arrogant assholes. That is not what people in the Middle East see. There, plus Greece, Australia and a few other places, the "thumbs up" gesture has the same meaning as "Up yours!"

Watch for this ignorant photo to be featured on the front page of every newspaper through the Middle East; a visual demostration of just what Trump &co think about their region.

[MontanaMama]

32. This photo illustrates

how effing foolish, soulless and shortsighted these idiots are. 45 will go down in history as a lying thief and traitor and these assholes continue to hitch their wagons to him. History will not smile on this.

[magicarpet]

34. I stuck my thumb up the ass of the guy to my right...

.... you want to take a whiff and see what a lilly white racist full of shit Nazi Rethug smells like.

[Danascot]

36. I find Bill Kristol irrelevant

but he keeps showing up like herpes.

[usaf-vet]

37. There is not ONE person standing there with the stupid thumbs up pose that gives a

Fu*k about you or I.
They are the epitome of greed.

Put those same folks in a room filled with 1000 random US citizens and no security force and not a single one of them would have chosen to be so arrogant.

And I would predict they all would need medical attention before leaving the room.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. Stuck their thumbs in their bum

and pulled out a.................

[Angry Dragon]

39. What a line up

[KY_EnviroGuy]

42. K&R. Hell of a lot of evil in one photo. n/t

........

[KG]

48. ol' bill is just a butt-hurt PNACer , left out of the latest repub smash and grab

[nmgaucho]

52. Talk about a "basket of deplorables"

[DBoon]

54. Will they be publishing a revised photo with disgraced individuals removed

Like they did during Stalin's day

[mikeysnot]

55. A couple of the guys didn't get the memo

to wear powder blue ties.

[Initech]

56. I'd like to tell these guys where they can stick their thumbs!

[WhiteTara]

58. Stuck in his thumb, pulled out a plum

and said what a good boy am I.

[GeorgeGist]

59. Mighty white of them.