Can Brazil maintain its momentum or will Uruguay prevail?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.
And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires
Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.
Consistently wrong since 2002
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”
Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.
Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.
Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
Yatsuno
Isn’t Uruguay basically the butt of Brazil?
Amir Khalid
If I were a betting man, I’d bet on Brazil.But you never know.
Amir Khalid
A penalty for Uruguay but it’s saved. Nerves, must be.
Paula
Wow. This is looking like a knock-down drag out fight so far.
raven
confederations
Paula
I think … yeah. Despite underdog status of Uruguay I’d like for Brazil to go through. Spain v. Brazil in the final. Because almost everyone (excepting Uruguay and Italy) probably want to see that.
Amir Khalid
One-nil to Brazil. How does a Brazilian guy get the nickname Fred?
Randinho
@Amir Khalid: Short for Frederico. He was born in the same city where my wife was born.
rollSound
@Amir Khalid:
Because he knew the job was dangerous when he took it?
2liberal
any of these guys arrested for murder lately?
Amir Khalid
@rollSound:
Your link goes to http.com. Were you trying to link to this?
Cacti
@Amir Khalid:
Hulk has the best nickname of the bunch, and damned if he doesn’t look like the Hulk.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
As long as Diego Forlan- football’s embodiment of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, Stupor Mundi- is playing for Uruguay, I will root for them against anyone but the US, Suarez be damned.
Randinho
Meanwhile, outside Mineirão there’s this.
MikeJ
Brazil deserve to lose with play like that.
Amir Khalid
Meanwhile, the BBC reports clashes between protesters and cops outside the stadium. Tear gas, rubber bullets. Police barrier around the stadium.
raven
I assume this is in a dome?
Tokyokie
@rollSound: Dominant George of the Jungle reference (as well as a line I frequently use myself)!
Randinho
@raven: No it’s a large stadium (second largest in Brazil IIRC after Maracanã) in a very exclusive neighborhood of Belo Horizonte.
raven
@Randinho: Looks dark.
Amir Khalid
@Tokyokie:
Super Chicken, actually.
piratedan
@rollSound:
because everything is on the Internet……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y
EDIT: TY Amir, beat me to it!
Randinho
@raven: They’re an hour ahead of us and right now there it’s roughly equivalent to December 26 in terms of sunlight. The first time I went to Brazil, I went in June and that was the hardest thing for me to get used to: going from sunset at 8 p.m. to sunset at 5 p.m. – or earlier.
Tokyokie
@Amir Khalid: Yes, but Super Chicken was a regular segment (along with Tom Slick) on Jay Ward’s George of the Jungle series. And I’ve been scaring people for the last quarter-century with my ability to sing all the lyrics to the Super Chicken theme song.
Alas, I can barely remember Hoppity Hooper.
raven
@Randinho: I should know these things.
sb
As a Man City fan (y’know, the team that just sent Tevez to Juventus?) I have a serious man-crush on Cavani.
piratedan
@Tokyokie: ahhh yes……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtbhoYTHcI
Suspect that Jay Ward and the Monty Python troupe have had an undue influence on my particular sense of humor
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Randinho:
Man, I get screwed up being in the eastern part of any time zone. Sunset over Lake Michigan is between 9:30pm and 10:00pm near the summer solstice.
Randinho
@raven: Even i wasn’t prepared for it.
raven
@Randinho: Well, I froze my ass off in Sydney in August so I should have had a clue!
Amir Khalid
@piratedan:
Now you’ve got me searching for The Perils of Penelope Pitstop on YouTube. As the lady would say: “Hay-ulp!”
Amir Khalid
The ref’s been busy handing out yellow cards.
piratedan
@Amir Khalid: be careful, this could easily escalate into Jonny Quest theme song territory!
burnspbesq
Suarez kitted out in a Hannibal Lecter mask?
Amir Khalid
Brazil hanging on by a late goal in stoppage time.
ETA: and it’s the home team in the final.
brad
Neymar is off to Spain. How much will La Liga tolerate the incessant flopping, kicking the defender in the back of the leg then spinning wildly and grabbing his face while writhing to the ground? Not too much I hope. Barca has been my favorite team, but Neymar is a cheater.