That would have seemed risible just a few weeks ago.
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These scams, risible as they seem, bring in serious money.
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The interrogation would have been risible were it not so serious.
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It's also time to ignore Trump's risible efforts to change the subject.
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The questions are likely to be risible and the answers will be worse.
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But the claim that it has a monopoly over content providers, is risible.
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When the dialogue isn't flat and mechanical, it veers into risible noir-speak.
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They suggested risible penalties such as having your company's name inscribed in a book.
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In the ensuing years, bitcoin has matured, become far less risible and grown massively.
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But the book's promise of eroticism ends up involving only some risible sex writing.
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And perhaps most the risible reason yet: if we compensate athletes, their educations will suffer.
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The notion that Kim Jong-un is going to abandon his nuclear arsenal is risible.
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The extremism of his attacks on liberalism and his glorification of Thomas are continuously risible.
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It's absurd, it's painfully stupid, and I hope that Gavin's forthcoming appeal overturns this risible idiocy.
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The demand that China cut its trade surplus by $100bn is, in a technical sense, risible.
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It's a risible misconception that rugby is populated by athletes inferior to high-level American footballers.
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" It helps, he added, that "this administration produces more risible material than any one in history.
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Then there are the booming salaries for support staff, but even more risible are the inexplicable bonuses.
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"White Cargo," in which she plays the campiest femme fatale since Theda Bara, is, however, exceptionally risible.
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Equally risible is the idea that his regime will ever abide by the terms of a deal.
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Most of the administration's arguments are risible, and even many Republican judges will have trouble swallowing them.
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The current state of our politics would be risible if the stakes were not so terrifyingly high.
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And the sometimes risible mock-medievalism of "Outsiders" goes way beyond a few vaguely Welsh and Gaelic coinages.
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He is one of dozens of opposition figures detained in the past two months on similarly risible charges.
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It's both lovely and risible at once, all this fussing over a collar prized for its unfussy appearance.
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In this, cricket also resembles every other sport: It claims a statistically risible number of openly gay players.
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Maybe asking someone to describe the current online dispensation to a medieval farmer isn't so risible after all.
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The first idea, that Trump could be in any way trained or guided, was risible then and remains ridiculous.
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And pretty soon, its current level of risible gold-plating won't be enough to keep up with increasing revenues.
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It's risible to think that in 2018 a woman's character can be impugned by suggesting she might have sex.
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"Eso es risible", dijo Mohamed Alyahya, editor jefe de Al Arabiya English, un sitio de noticias en Arabia Saudita.
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Change UK looks as if it will get the Palme d'Or for the most risible projects in recent political history.
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Fortunately, the woman playing Elle is French actress Isabelle Huppert, who makes even the film's more potentially risible sections fascinating.
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Ms. Nixon and other progressive activists argue the notion of Mr. Cuomo as an anti-Trump standard-bearer is risible.
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He is promising to abuse the power of the office Holder's implied claim to rule-of-law purity is risible.
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The bien-pensants mistook Hitler for a clown; but the likes of Trump and Boris really are Pagliacci: they're tragically risible.
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Mr Xi's talk of a "community of common destiny" for mankind is risible if China is acting like a playground bully.
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Some may call this a "double-Brexit", but the graveness of the first contrasts with the risible absurdity of the second.
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Deutsche Bank's already risible annualised return on tangible equity slipped by half a percentage point to 2.7 percent year-on-year.
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Then when the memo's text was finally revealed, I found myself surprised by what a pile of risible nonsense it was.
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At first HUAC was considered something of a joke, but as time passed, the committee's antics became more scary than risible.
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But pointing accusatory fingers at risible ICOs is almost too obvious, and too easy, and there are too many to choose from.
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Brattle found risible the idea of an unprecedented, infernal assault on the New England orthodoxy, an idea to which the justices subscribed.
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The Syrian opposition however declined to congratulate Assad on capturing Palmyra and suggested the sight of the city changing hands again was risible.
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Speaking of hypocrisy ... The president lamenting a lack of due process for men accused of wrongdoing is certainly risible, as several commentators noted.
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Some of his earlier choices didn't help, like "Legends of the Fall," a risible dud that turns him into a golden sex pony.
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They organise for the illegal meeting of representatives in a castle outside of Norway's capital, with rented cars, decoy flights and risible cover stories.
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Its main weapon was, and remains, state control of television, which repeats endlessly the risible claim that Venezuela is a victim of an economic war.
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"I will live my life in this whirlpool of desire and betrayal," she declares, with a risible fervency amplified by Kalau Almony's poker-faced translation.
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It was given last rites in 1992, when Marc Jacobs unveiled his then-risible (now visionary?) "grunge" line that got him fired from Perry Ellis.
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This is a risible notion because pretty much all art is execution-dependent, despite the exceptional returns that some of the shoddiest pictures can yield.
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But the whole thing is a bummer, at times risible, as when swarms of law-and-order types conveniently overlook a laughably visible surveillance camera.
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Although it is tempting to ignore them in these circumstances—to see them as risible or parodic—it's worth taking stock of what they're saying.
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In his review of the film, the A.V. Club's A.A. Dowd says this is risible when it comes to the film's otherwise solid portrayal of depression.
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It is royale-y cheesy proof that the most risible clichés of dark American cable and streaming drama can be exported as easily as fast food.
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One lengthy sex-in-the-shower scene between the characters played by Mr. Jackson, Ms. Londo and Ms. Davis has a nearly risible box-checking quality.
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"Donald Trump is really Donald Drumpf / To give him his ancestral, and risible name," a stanza in the poem "President Donald J. Trump, World Emperor" began.
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Instead of a land of the moon, Nicole Garcia's mostly turgid, occasionally risible period piece, largely set in the 1950s, initially takes us to Lyon, France.
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The most recent effort is a risible call for "national dialogue" to "discuss" a vote that is already enshrined as black-letter law in the constitution.
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But directors are busy with other tasks, such as changing the corporate name to the risible Tronc to reflect its new direction as a digital-content curator.
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A downright risible blast of misanthropic dark comedy from Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, Elle begins with Michele (Isabelle Huppert) being raped by an intruder in her home.
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Instead, we have the risible Paul Ryan trying to excuse the president's sleazy behavior with Comey by painting the most powerful man in the world as Candide.
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Algunas de sus decisiones del pasado tampoco lo ayudaron, como Leyendas de pasión, un fracaso risible en el que se convirtió en un poni sexual de oro.
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The downside of this revelation, though, is that it leaves open the question of how a crooked, risible demagogue managed to commandeer the Republican Party, almost without trying.
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Just $2 million in trade was in line this month for the barter program, known as Instex — an amount that the Iranians regard as risible, Ms. Tocci said.
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" Those congressional sideshows became fountains of anti-Muslim disinformation, where King made the risible claim that "80% of the mosques in this country are controlled by radical imams.
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But since his risible assertion of "American carnage" in the streets during his Inaugural Address, Mr. Trump has continually fomented fear and bullied vulnerable groups, particularly unauthorized immigrants.
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A clown of a leader, Boris would have to follow the transatlantic lead of his fellow clown and every other risible authoritarian — they stop laughing when they fear you.
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You couldn't ban it if you tried, and legislation to do so has been so wrong-headed as to be risible even among the frequently ignorant ranks of Congress.
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The opening of TrumpLand suggests a stereotypical exploration of the dark heart of Red America, introducing us to Wilmington's rural charms along with Trump voters saying mildly risible things.
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There are, in fact, a few fairly risible moments, especially one near the end that's such a direct homage to an epic classic as to practically border on parody.
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But in an administration whose messaging is normally nonstop risible nonsense, Hassett stands out for a tendency to stick to ideas that are at least plausible and worth debating.
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He's not just successfully tapped into emotions in this campaign since day one with his risible comments about Mexican immigrants, he's expertly continued to stoke them with statement after statement.
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Trump is not conversant in the main issues of American public policy and doesn't bother studying for interviews, so every time he does one, he ends up spouting risible nonsense.
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The bank described U.S. GDP growth as "risible" and said this helped explain why Treasury yields remained trapped in a low trading range, prompting investors to go elsewhere for yield.
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Mocking them, however, will alert the disabled people in your vicinity -- some of whom may have conditions not visible to you, like mental illness -- that you consider such conditions risible.
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While also faulting Trump for his actions, she made the risible assertion that Trump "has learned from this case," as if to suggest that he won't do anything like it again.
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The idea that Council staff came up with the idea to give a corrupt dictator a "Global Citizen Award" with no influence from Attias or others with Gabon interests is risible.
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Still, none of it really adds up to much, and the sensual flourishes -- like sneaking off together during a masked ball -- can't obscure the laughs that the most risible dialogue elicits.
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One State Department official told reporters last Thursday, "I'm not aware of any Iranian involvement in that, per se" — an assessment the Kurds find risible at best and iniquitous at worst.
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"Destroyer" was among the most unexpected, just because the premise — Ms. Kidman plays Erin Bell, a dissolute, alcoholic Los Angeles detective with a sordidly violent past — sounded preposterous, even faintly risible.
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And although many of the memo's assertions were risible, such as the idea that women are not coders because they are less intrigued by "things" than men are, others made more sense.
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That old apple of Mr. Blodget's eye, Amazon, which recently became the country's second trillion dollar company, with a stock price more than four times Mr. Blodget's once-risible $400 price target.
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The sentence contained one misstatement—it was actually afternoon—which was the first of dozens of misstatements, ranging from the trivial to the risible ("I never get phone calls from the media").
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Elle is such a brazen repudiation of think piece culture, and its desire to boil everything down to a series of political talking points, that it could feel downright risible in other hands.
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There are other plays about rape in which a woman's experience is unquestioned, from the devastating, like "Nhirbaya," to the luridly risible, like "Extremities," though stranger rape typically helps make these assaults more credible.
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"Defendants' assertion that Makaeff anticipated in 2011 the degree to which this case would attract public attention due to the 2016 presidential campaign is risible," Curiel wrote in a 24-page order issued Tuesday.
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This week, Mr. Mnuchin repeated the risible fantasy that the Trump administration's 2017 tax cuts will bolster economic growth sufficiently for the government to recoup the revenue it has lost by lowering tax rates.
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Cheerleading may be the most naturally risible thing in the whole film, but it also simply is what it is, without, at least in Christian's experience, a theoretical apparatus, a budget, or a jargon.
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While Mr. Trump long ago embraced Mr. Bannon's politics, he would be wise to reconsider allowing him to run his White House, particularly after the fiasco over the weekend of the risible Muslim ban.
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Not all of the shows deserve that showcase — a fair share of the Netflix offerings are risible melodrama of interest strictly for variety's sake, or to homesick expats from the show's countries of origin.
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That said, the ineptitude of the authorities is risible even by standards of the genre, as is Laurie's rather undisciplined adherence to the plan that she's allegedly been laboring over since the Carter administration.
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For its first 20 minutes, the film seems a risible — if predictable — send-up of essentialist feminism; the FLA gals close their dinner prayer with "A-(wo)men" and shun all things male with stilted disgust.
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But if you were to take this shot in isolation and, say, post it on social media, it would seem risible, as if someone had made a very expensive period comedy about a cranky, violent senior.
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There's a subplot with a "friendly" cop that goes exactly where it obviously will, and the book's depiction of "Antifa"-type protesters is almost risible, blaming them for the violence the police inflict on peaceful protesters.
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While not all of its intentionally risible politically incorrect content has aged well, what distinguished writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon's series, both then and now, is its acute eye for character interaction and development.
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Above all, his years of drudging at the dictionary had taught him humility: he knew he was sure to commit "a few wild blunders, and risible absurdities, from which no work of such multiplicity was ever free".
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An appealing performer who popped off the screen as the enigmatic android in "Ex Machina," Ms. Vikander never settles comfortably into Lara, whether she's delivering the empty, often risible dialogue or running the movie's endless obstacle course.
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Aster clearly worships at the altar of Stanley Kubrick (a hexagonal design here is right out of the Overlook Hotel collection), and he seems too meticulous to let avoidable mistakes — risible lapses in logic — happen without reason.
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One of the #NeverTrump crusade's great ironies is that in trying to stop a candidate they perceive as an imposter, conservatives have embraced liberal assumptions and lines of attack that they would normally decry as baseless or risible.
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Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist Of all the arguments for the Trump administration to honor the nuclear deal with Iran, none was more risible than the claim that we gave our word as a country to keep it. "Our"?
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The first episode introduces the stock characters (loyal son, too-perfect daughter, rebel, cynic, screw-up) in lively fashion, but then the story bogs down in anemic mystery and filler, like a risible detour into the Vietnam War.
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When three out of four teenagers are plugged into social media (and teen depression rates skyrocketing), her plight is risible only insofar as we can dismiss her as "crazy"—which, thankfully, the dark comedy never lets us (completely) do.
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There's something risible about the idea of these two straight, well-intended, politically hapless women providing the dismount for a plea for equal rights while actual gay people have just been throwing gay-wedding cake all over each other.
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It's understandable that the Biden camp would want to devote resources to pushing back on Trump's risible claims: The president's willingness to try to browbeat Kyiv into launching an investigation into a political rival is as impeachable as it is unprecedented.
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Mr. Glaser's Starsky looked extremely happening — or at least, extremely '70s — in his trademark south-of-the-border shawl cardigan, which was, if nothing else, less risible than the cop duo's red Ford Gran Torino with the faux-Nike white swoop.
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I brought up his debut in January, in which he insistently defended Trump's risible claim that he had drawn ''the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe,'' and then left without taking questions.
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Its benign charisma wafts out from delicate black-and-white photographs, and from a text that can only be read — if it is not to be found entirely risible — as an allegory of the relation of royalty to its people.
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The Simple Life was originally a risible midseason replacement for the Fox network; when the sex tape, later commercially released as 22011 Night in Paris, leaked weeks before the show's December 215 premiere, it seemed to some like a savvy marketing ploy.
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Five writers actually put their names on the script, including Mr. Emmerich and his longtime collaborator Dean Devlin, and the results are predictably predictable if rarely entertainingly risible, with swaths of exposition and dialogue that sounds like ads ("one people, one world").
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I didn't know before I arrived that I wouldn't see meat for three months; that the idea of easy access to a store, even a modest fuwushe , would be risible; or that hunger could feel like a demon clawing at your stomach.
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In a political age defined by two strains of populism—Trump's on the right, and Senator Bernie Sanders's on the left—New Democracy should be viewed by any sentient political observer as little more than a risible relic with a fancy budget.
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Moscow has denied so many strange and sinister things that have turned out to be true — or at least far more plausible than the Kremlin's often-risible counter stories — that even the most seemingly far-fetched speculation about Russian mischief tends to acquire traction.
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The leagues themselves can be confused in their understanding of how valuable this is, and confusing in how they try to sell it back to us; think of the NFL's towering and risible corporate grandiosity or the prickly falseness college football's righteous con artistry.
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For many Americans, especially non-Christians, the thought that Christian morality is a useful guide to much of anything these days is risible, particularly since so many evangelicals have thrown in their lot with a relentlessly solipsistic American president who bullies, boasts and sneers.
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Indeed "The Second Plane" is such a weak, risible and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
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Perhaps the strangest revelation, tucked within Clinton's warm blanket of an oration, was the fact that he and daughter Chelsea had watched all six movies in the risible Police Academy franchise in one day—an impressive-enough feat that caused "Police Academy" to briefly trend on Twitter.
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Still, the high profile of the Masters, as an athletic competition and a cultural event, has often made Augusta National's desire to be otherwise left alone seem risible, especially in light of the prominence—in business, in politics, in public life—of so many of its members.
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On that note is the third reason this FUD will be risible: If we are going to address the problem of dark money influencing politics, using bitcoin for hacking activities doesn't even amount to a rounding error and it is cynical prestidigitation that makes it appear more than such.
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With his tangerine skin and white-circled sun-bed-goggle eyes, his candy-floss blond comb-over and too-long bright red ties and blowzy Brioni suits, he is a cartoon of a politician straight out of late-night TV: risible and seared into your retinas at the same time.
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One item considered particularly risible in certain corners was a pitch to the co-chairwoman of Sony Pictures Entertainment from a sort of youth consultant, averring that "NBD," shorthand for no big deal, was popular text speak among millennials and that it should be used as dialogue in a new "Spider-Man" movie.
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The regime's rationale will come under pressure if civilians start getting killed in Iran's major cities by IS veterans from Syria and more Iranians start asking why more than 22019,000 soldiers have been killed in Syria since 2011, and questioning the regime's risible cover story: they are fighting in Syria to defend religious shrines.
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It's hard to imagine a better demonstration of the state of AAA gaming today than Assassin's Creed Odyssey, a game where the whole of the wine-dark Classical Aegean is available for you to ply with your oars — but which operates according to a risible, cartoonish video game logic that seems, if possible, even more anachronistic.
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And in the defenses of Moore from various Alabama Republicans you can see the way conservative impulses protect this kind of figure — both in the suggestion that a man of his religious reputation should be trusted over his accusers, and in the risible invocation of Biblical examples to defend an older man's lust for a 14-year-old girl.
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Since the last time the General Assembly met for a special session on drugs, in 22006 — when countries convened under the risible slogan "A Drug Free World - We Can Do It" — harm reduction methods, including needle exchange programs and opioid substitution therapies such as methadone, have become mainstream in many parts of the world, backed by countless studies showing their efficacy.
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Since the last time the General Assembly met for a special session on drugs, in 1998 — when countries convened under the risible slogan "A Drug Free World - We Can Do It" — harm reduction methods, including needle exchange programs and opioid substitution therapies such as methadone, have become mainstream in many parts of the world, backed by countless studies showing their efficacy.
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The 11th season of The Bachelorette may have kicked off with the risible conceit of allowing the male suitors to choose between two protagonists for whose love they'd be competing for, but once the dust settled, Kaitlyn Bristowe's stint as the show's focal point challenged the nasty double standards that female participants have faced throughout the series when it comes to sexual conduct.
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Some of his current contentions about booze are clearly untrue (that he was of legal drinking age in Maryland as a senior), disingenuous (that he and his friends referring to themselves as "Renate Alumni" was a gesture of friendship, not a smear on the name of fellow high schooler Renate Schroeder), or simply risible (that admission to Yale Law School proves he wasn't much of a partier).
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There is a great deal of enthusiasm for this kind of theory, on social media especially, and on many days I think it's embarrassing or risible — a birtherism of the center-left, an exculpatory fantasy from an establishment thrashing about to evade its own responsibility for the rise of populism, a "brown scare" about an omnicompetent Putin and a fascist international that mirrors similar paranoias on the right.
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What's more, there is no reason to think the Fed would provide the service more efficiently or be less expensive — the notion that a quasi-governmental entity will enter the market and be able to outperform the private sector is risible, and the law is clear that the Fed cannot cross-subsidize any of its activities, so if it hews to the letter of the law it likely would have trouble even meeting the price of the Clearing House.
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THE IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T CONVINCE, TELL AN EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS TALE AWARD FOR RISIBLE SATOSHI NAKAMOTO CLAIMS To Craig Wright, who has long claimed in the face of mocking industrywide disbelief to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, and especially for his claims that, now work with me here, the keys to 1 million of Satoshi's bitcoin were put in a "Tulip Trust" by a long-deceased collaborator and will be delivered to him by a "bonded courier" on January 1, 20193, i.e.
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But here's the thing: For all the risible and irresponsible cries of "Treason!" and "Obstruction of justice!" there is not really much reason to believe that Trump has done much of anything wrong — though perhaps the special counsel will learn otherwise — certainly nothing that rises to the level of a treason charge (this is ridiculous talk, but it nonetheless must be taken seriously), or the "high crimes and misdemeanors" that would lead to impeachment, or to the incapacity that would allow for his removal under the 25th Amendment.
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The episode rises above the banality of a premise as old as Grendel, and some creature effects that are truly risible—even to a ten-year-old in 1973, the homicidal Horta looked like an ambulatory slice of Stouffer's French-bread pizza—by making an honest effort to imagine nonorganic life and then, in the characteristic turn that gives the "Star Trek" franchise its enduring beauty and power, by insisting that fear and prejudice were no match for curiosity and an open mind, that where there was consciousness there could be communication, and that even a rock, if sentient, had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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