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My watch says it’s time for Stephen Miller to be deported to Uganda.
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My watch says it’s time for Stephen Miller to be deported to Uganda.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
TR was all the things that Trump pretends to be.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Be sure to send me an invite, huh? And rent a big hall, there’s a lot of folks wanting to celebrate with you.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. (Pass it on.)
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Where have I seen that face before? Oh, yeah…… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Re...
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. Pass it on.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. Pass it on.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump is either incredibly stupid or possesses an unfathomably rich sense irony, me thinks. Maybe both.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. (Pass it on.)
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Very good, sir, very good. Tame the rest of the day off, you’ve earned it.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
But where’s the Third Reich? (Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I’ll let myself out ….)
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
He is a true-blue, 100% weenie for sure.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s pretty clear that Trump’s motive is to get Americans inured to the sight of armed troops patrolling major American cities, so he can call out the Guard/Military again when he tries to hijack the ‘26 midterms and ‘28 presidential elections.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Damn you, beat me to it!
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
An absolutely haunting movie, I highly recommend it. I thought about it for days after viewing it when it came out in 2008.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
A certified world-class ignoramus should be careful to never call anyone a moron.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Proving, once again, that idiocy and ignorance are truly international problems.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
"You sound like a nice Jewish boy," he said (I was). "I'll be glad to." He did. It remains one of my prized possessions. And I sing it every December. I grew up listening to his "That Was the Week That Was" record on vinyl. So many quotable lyrics — his unparalleled wit never lost its edge.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
and when I got back to work I got the research file for Tom Lehrer in the N/w library. Inside was an old 3-cent postcard with his home address that Lehrer had written to the magazine years ago. I called him and explained how much we had enjoyed "Hanukkah in S.M." and could send me the sheet music?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Some 30-odd years ago, my mother and I attended a Christmas-time broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion which featured a cast member singing Tom Lehrer's fabulous "Hanukkah in Santa Monica." We both nearly gleefully collapsed to the floor in hysterics. I worked at Newsweek at the time ...
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
It's also remarkable that the most powerful nation in global history with unprecedented military reach and economic influence is now being led by a dimwit who has never, ever read a book in his life.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
The know-nothing, retromingent jerks are running rampant, I fear. I deeply wish there were a cure. Maybe the NIH should be researching that?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Good ol’ Markwayne has a lot of good ol’ Louis Gohmert in himself, God bless ‘em.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to mention the absolute best Hanukkah song ever penned! (Ok, admittedly a rather small sample to begin with.) I’ll spend Hanukkah in Santa Monica thinking of him…
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
You do that while I do in a squirrel or two, ok?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
In the words of well known political scientist B. Bunny, “What a maroon!”
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump displays the same robust comprehension of math that enabled him to bankrupt four casinos.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
What a sad, pathetic little man our current Speaker of the House is. Tip O’Neil, Sam Rayburn or Nancy Pelosi would blow him away like a dandelion gone to seed.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. Pass it on.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
What a sad, tiny, and spineless little man he is.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I hear St. Helena has a vacancy.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
In any normal administration Noem would be ushered out the door so fast after her screw-ups over the Texas flooding that you’d need a high-speed camera to capture it. But this is no normal administration, needless to say. I mean, where is Michael Brown when we need him?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m firmly on Team Lula in this instance. Don’t buckle down Brazil!
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Guy whose prime qualification is having played the horn dog on MTV’s “Real World” 20 years ago is gonna take us back to the moon.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
“Grievances. Anger. Punishing the Establishment.” Sound familiar. Where else has that formula been employed successfully?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the biggest crock of manure I’ve heard since the last time Trump spoke yesterday….
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
What a sad, pathetic little man he is.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social)
Idea for a short story: Man wakes up and discovers that in his sleep he has mysteriously transformed into a world-famous Czech novelist.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social)
Serious question for the hive: Assuming the Dems take the House in 2024 and possibly the Senate, how likely is it they’ll b e able to repeal/revoke the worst elements of Trump’s horror-show #OBBB?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Serious question: who is actually responsible for actually drafting this horror show piece of legislation. Obviously it’s more than one person, but wonder who is the evil mind directing it all? Stephen Miller? Russell Vought? Surely not Trump himself—he’s the empty vessel.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social)
Jeeze, you cannot possibly imagine how desperately I'm looking forward to the 2026 mid-term elections. They can't get here soon enough....
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup, that's our president — the Juvenile in Chief!
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
That is like repainting the Mona Lisa. Enough, already. Let perfection be.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
For shame. Someplace Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and plenty of other journalistic legends are ordering doubles and cursing out Shari Redstone.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Simply incredible. Do these people have their own supply of clean air and water? That’s the only rationale I can come with.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social)
Great news! The guy who declared bankruptcy four times (for casinos even!) has just put the entire nation on course to go broke. Good times ahead!
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. No shit.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait a second! Wasn’t John McCain born under similar circumstances while his admiral father was stationed in the Canal Zone in Panama?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I gotta say that his is not a face that automatically inspires trust. Amirite?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder who will get custody of the kids?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social)
Awww, if these two crazy kids can’t make things work, what hope is there for the rest of us? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m shocked — shocked!! — by the end of this beautiful friendship!
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Boy, I never saw this coming. NOT!
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. Pass it on.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Basically, the GOP vision for America is as a Third World country with great tech and an unsurpassed military, no?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social)
“Emma Lazarus, please call your office STAT!” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. Pass it on.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Reading the news nowadays is like being caught in a demonic rendition of “Groundhog Day.”
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Point of order, Mr. Chairman. The great Herblock was a longtime employee and fixture of the Washington Post, not The New Yorker.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Go on. You know you want to. Personally, I vote for the USN Tom Collins. A happy ship where every day is happy hour.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Close. Say hello to the USS Tom Collins.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
+5 Rep. Raskin. Well done. And 2 extra bonus points for correctly spelling “ketamine.” You can go home early.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Dear Sen. Ernst: You first.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Hot, muggy, utterly flat, and infested with giant bugs and termites? No thanks!
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
If true, this proves my long-standing contention that the late Buck Henry is now filling in for God.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Does anyone else find it extremely odd the the Sec’y of Transportation is speaking out against a form of transportation that’s been effectively working for almost 125 years? What’s next? Deporting the Wright brothers?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Dear Sec. Duffy: Aw, shaddup!
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope he runs and wins. That will keep him far away from the Capitol and while allowing Marsha Blackburn to rightfully claim the mantle of Dumbest Person in the Senate. She’s worked hard for the title and deserves it.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
The gentleman from Looney Tunes said it best.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Like we don’t want clean air or clean water, huh?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
If I had any musical talent at all and had a band, I’d call it “Lumber Camp Nympho.”
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
But, but, but … she’s got great hair.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Seriously now, why have no arrests been made in this case? Are we to believe that four years on no progress has been made to learn the bomber’s identity? (And yes, I’ve always harbored the suspicion it actually was MTG. I would put nothing past her.)
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. Pass it on.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Welcome to the Chinatown School of Branding. “She’s my sister.” (Whap!) “She’s my daughter!” (Whap!) “She’s my sister!” Actually a smart remedy to an incredibly boneheaded decision to toss away HBO’s decades of public recognition in the marketplace.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
A pittance, when you consider letting disinformation to flow freely without a rebuttal. That works out to about €1 per Portuguese citizen. I’d call it a bargain.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Alright, who’s gonna tell the senator whom Trump has lined up for the job next?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t believe this. A shaggy duck story? I cry fowl!
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Is it just me, or does AG Pam Bondi look exactly like White House Press Sec’y Karoline Leavitt except 25 years older? Does Trump have a secret factory pumping out these blonde accomplices?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
While they’re at it, I certainly hope they don’t forget to include a presidential suite….
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. Pass it on.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Question: Is Marc Andressen actually the missing Conehead family member? Or is he just from France? Asking for a friend.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. Pass it on.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait a sec! Volume 2 of the trilogy is finally published? 🎶”Ah, sweet mystery of life at last I’ve found you!”🎵
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller is a fascist dweeb. Pass it on.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
What’s next? Budget tickets for the Titanic’s second voyage?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Who woulda thought? Next thing you know, we’ll learn that J. Pierpont Morgan was a secret member of the Comintern. But I’ll accept help from all quarters at this point.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Long live the New Beverly Cinema! Back in 1988 I lived a few blocks away and went there frequently. One of my most memorable nights in a cinema was the time I watched The Godfather Parts I and II there back-to-back. Long but powerful.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
But Ron Varro is a friggin’ genius….
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Ol’ Tommy is so lacking in brains I’m kinda surprised he can remember to breathe. He makes former Rep. Louis Gohmert look like Albert Einstein.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social)
Turns out Trump’s bankrupting of those Atlantic City casinos was just a dry run, huh?
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
I believe the word that Musk is desperately trying to avoid is “accountability.”
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
God bless Rep. Raskin!
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Remember when Der Trump said, “We love the uneducated”? He’s making more recruits for MAGAland.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
Surprised? Not me. This what you get when you make a third-tier weekend TV talk-show host SecDef.
Mark Frankel (@mark-frankel.bsky.social) reply parent
So, merely talking hypothetically, but if Hesgeth were to resign tomorrow how many Scaramuccis did he remain in office? Anyone?