“Trump Mah Dawg” could be a rotating tag, or even a dedicated day of action. If I could get her to stay in the room for the camera, I’d Trump Mah Dawg! I miss #TweetlikeTrump
That’s….um…..a lot of…..hmmmmm…..yeah…….gray hair…..Mrs. Cracker. I always pictured you as a firery redhead.
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Elizabelle
Putting in a plug, again, for folks to go see documentary out, this week and next few weeks around the country: Rosenwald. By Aviva Kempner.
About Julius Rosenwald, Sears & Roebuck owner/CEO who funded 5,000 plus schools for African Americans throughout the American South, and whose foundation supported notable artists and writers. History of the early and mid- 20th century that appears forgotten.
Link has film openings and backstory. Got to show a well made indie documentary some love. (Bonus: Rosenwald had some prescient words for the megabucks types of his day, and today.)
And Betty: thanks for fishing my comments out day before yesterday.
Am informed problem word might have been b o o k e r. (As in T. Washington)
@schrodinger’s cat: Not much change. Homer spends nights out in the garage, and days in the house when the other kitties are out. Dogs are fine although Jack is deaf, getting feeble, and going blind. Wait… did I say Jack? That’s me!
The New York Times Verified account
@nytimes How tiny Xavier University sends more African-American students to medical school than any other college in the U.S. http://nyti.ms/1JZIp1Z
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sections that spoke to me:
Around that time, a nun named Katharine Drexel, an heiress to a Philadelphia banker who has since been sainted, used part of her inheritance to open Xavier for black Catholics in New Orleans who were not allowed to attend the white Catholic colleges in town. It remains the only black Catholic college in the country. Its mission is the same as every other historically black college. While many colleges were started to groom the children of the nation’s elite, the goal of historically black colleges has always been to pull up through education the nation’s most marginalized — first the children of former slaves, then the children of sharecroppers and maids and today the children of America’s still separate and unequal K-12 educational system.
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Though the institutions account for just 3 percent of all colleges, they award 16 percent of the bachelor’s degrees earned by black students. Further, historically black colleges have always been incubators of black leadership; in the 1990s, the last time data was collected, graduates of these schools accounted for 80 percent of the nation’s black judges, 50 percent of black doctors and lawyers and 40 percent of black members of Congress. Along with Xavier, other historically black colleges like Morehouse, Howard, Hampton and Spelman are also among the top feeder schools for black medical students.
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Johnson graduated second in his class in 1998. He headed to Xavier full of confidence and expectations. As he moved into his dorm, he found it invigorating to be around so many smart young black people with similar goals. He felt as though he fit in. And then he took his first college science classes. ‘‘It was a pure shock,’’ he said. ‘‘I was extremely unprepared. Stuff that kids knew from high school, general physics and chemistry, I had no idea, none. I had never done poorly academically my whole life, and I realized for four years of high school, I had never been challenged.’’ Johnson’s high school did not offer the Advanced Placement chemistry and biology classes that some of his Xavier classmates had taken. But it was worse than that. Johnson’s high school did not even offer the basic high-school courses, like physics, that are needed to succeed in a typical pre-med program. ‘‘I wanted to be a doctor,’’ he said. ‘‘But I did not even know what the periodic table was.’’
Johnson’s experience is depressingly familiar to Francis. While many students at Xavier and other historically black colleges come from middle-class homes, have gone to good schools and have parents who graduated from college, too many do not. ‘‘I used to say there was no relationship between being poor and being bright. I watched all of my life young people who were poor and very bright. But research shows if you are black and born poor, you are going to live in a poor neighborhood, going to go to a poor school, and by and large, you are going to stay that way,’’ Francis said. ‘‘To come out of that system, you would have to rise much higher than other youngsters who had every resource.’’
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to this, I just shouted AMEN!!!
Carmichael’s candor caught Francis’ attention, and he chose him to run the pre-med program and implement his vision. Francis believed that Xavier should not follow the example of most pre-med programs — ‘‘Look to your left, look to your right; only one of you will still be here at the end’’ — which work to weed out students. To him, that model squandered the talent of far too many students, especially black ones. Instead of compelling students to compete against one another, he said, it made much more sense, both morally and practically, to encourage better-prepared students to help their classmates who weren’t as fortunate to catch up.
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These study groups encouraged just the sort of collaboration Francis had imagined. ‘‘It took the competition out of it,’’ Johnson said. ‘‘It wasn’t, ‘I’m mad because you got an A.’ It was, ‘How do we both do that on the next test?’ We had this feeling if we all stuck together and helped each other, we would make it.’’ Marybeth Gasman, an education professor and the head of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions, which does research on and assists colleges that serve large numbers of black, Latino, Asian and Native American students, has carefully examined Xavier’s program and says no school is better at developing students’ shared responsibility for one another’s success. ‘‘It is dumbfounding to see,’’ she said.
This was tweeted by a man who thinks it reflects well on the man he worked for, who let Osama get away so he could invade the wrong country
Ari FleischerVerified account
@ AriFleischer
“That’s what we’re paid for boys. We’re going to take care of this. When we find out who did this, they’re not going 2 like me as President”
ETA: clicking around, it looks like Ari is tweeting all kinds of would-be John Wayne-ish quotes from Commander Codpiece
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catclub
Romney hands reportedly getting together in a “stop Trump” effort. Wonder what that could mean?
From Washington Monthly. I am guessing Biff and Tagg are getting their blood angried up – maybe eating extra fried food.
36.
BGinCHI
There is no right answer.
Trump is a winner whether he licks his balls, has others do it for him, or just ensures that no immigrants balls are getting tax dollars they don’t deserve.
37.
Mandalay
It’s been a great week for unfortunate headlines for wingnuts.
First Tom Cotton, then Ted Cruz, and now George Will (who actually wrote a pretty good column).
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Quaker in a Basement
Dawg looks less than pleased.
39.
benw
@BGinCHI: Okay, then, why does Trump like to play with marbles?
@catclub:
Maybe someone slipped them Folgers crystals in place of their postum
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
from Steve Benen
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush unveiled his tax-cut plan this week, and when making the pitch to voters, the former governor has said it’s time “to let the big dog eat.” It’s a phrase Bush is apparently quite fond of.
He told reporters on Wednesday that “let the big dog eat” is a Florida phrase, though I can report that I’m a Florida native — and I haven’t the foggiest idea what he’s talking about.
(Betty, can we get a ruling? )
This makes the trickle-down/job creators rhetoric sound persuasive. Has Jeb Bush ever seen a dog eat? Does this acknowledge that all that will be left for the rest of the pack is scraps and bones (or an empty bowl) ? Or we can just eat dogshit?
@Mandalay: One of the 1st ones I’ve read by Will that didn’t have me gritting my teeth.
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Paul in KY
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I would say in football terms it would mean giving the ball to your best player a lot. Sorta like ‘if you got a cannon, fire it’.
47.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The first time I recall seeing that phrase, it was painted on the back window of an RV at a Florida-Georgia football game tailgate party, right before the Dawgs whooped my Gators. So no, I don’t think it’s a particularly Floridian phrase. Gated community-dwelling Jeb wouldn’t know an actual crackerism if it jumped up and bit him on the nutsack.
48.
Belafon
@rikyrah: I don’t remember shared success being part of the American dream. /sarc
Good on the school. I like it when schools, like my son’s, are focused on something more than just how many kids have paid their tuition.
49.
boatboy_srq
Far more attractive than the human[oid] version.
50.
JPL
Serena is playing and that’s all I’m gonna say. If you want to know more just click on usopen.com
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Sweet baby Jeebus, I hope the Twitter hordes are bombarding that disgraceful excuse for a shit funnel with the derision and contempt his pathetic attempts at braggadocio deserve.
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Jeffro
Reposted from previous because open thread, that’s why:
Kaisch tries to show his conservative cred by talking nonsense about Josh Earnest, Obama’s press secretary:
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Thursday said that the “American people will judge the Republican leaders by their actions” if they do not work with Democrats to avert a shutdown.
Kasich told Kilmeade that Earnest’s comments show that the Obama administration isn’t “willing to be constructive in their negotiations with Republicans.”
“I don’t like that kind of comment out of a Press Secretary from the White House. It’s just not the way you can do things in this country, just dismiss the Congress,” Kasich said. “That’s just not the way to handle things. Let me tell you, if he was my spokesman, and he said something like that, he would be in my office, and I would tell him, ‘Don’t you ever talk like that again.’”
Riiiiiight…because this Congress hasn’t been dismissive (to say nothing of way over the line, time and time again), with this President…
Hey Kaisch, remember W’s press secretary Ari Fleischer telling not just Dems but all Americans, “Watch what you say”?
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Elizabelle
@Paul in KY: Went to the movie yesterday in the Virginia burbs.
Met a woman raised in Waynesboro, VA (other side of Skyline Drive/Shenandoah National Park from me).
She knew of a Rosenwald school in her community, and said that when they desegregated the schools after Brown, it was noticed that the black teachers from the Rosenwald school had master’s and advanced degrees, while teachers in the white schools did not. (Would suspect some might have, but it was not the norm.)
Bush listened to the briefing [Bin Laden determined to strike in US], Suskind says, then told the CIA briefer: “All right. You’ve covered your ass!
George W. Bush, March 13, 2002:
[Bin Laden’s] just a person who’s been marginalized. … I don’t know where he is. I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you.
Dana Perino, November 24, 2009:
“We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term,” she told Sean Hannity.
Dick Cheney, May 13, 2013:
“In my past experience when we got into these situations — especially after 9/11 — we were always there, locked and loaded, ready to go on 9/11,” Cheney told Fox News Channel commentator Sean Hannity in a phone interview.
George W. Bush, April 25, 2015:
“In order to be an effective president … when you say something you have to mean it,” he said. “You gotta kill em.”
Jeb Bush, May 31, 2015:
[George Bush’s] successes clearly are protecting the homeland. We were under attack, and he brought — he unified the country, and he showed dogged determination, and he kept us safe.
The 12th Yalta European Strategy conference is taking place now (in Kiev, not Yalta, for obvious reasons.) In 2013 the American who addressed it (via video) was Hillary Clinton. In 2015 it was Donald Trump. While the reaction on Twitter is pretty memorable, the key insight came from another veteran east European correspondent who noted “progress is reversible.”
@Cervantes: I would like to see a golfing dog. have seen many things in my time, but never a golfing dog. He or she would have to be suitably attired though. My late uncle was a golf nut & boy could he go on a rant when someone was playing in cutoffs & a t-shirt. RIP, Uncle Harry.
68.
boatboy_srq
@Paul in KY: Isn’t Golfing Dog the evil antithesis of Ceiling Cat?
Anyway, off to St. Louis for Loufest. Hope everyone has a great weekend!
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Gex
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Anyone who studies canine packs would attest to their ability to trickle down to the members at the bottom of the pack much more effectively and readily than our 1% ever would.
The NYT has some good education reporters. They had a great article last year about a program at one of the Ivies (I think) that was aimed at preventing smart kids who were the first in their families to go to college from dropping out. One of the really important things they had to teach them was that it was okay to need some time to learn new things — they had been told they were “smart,” but they’d never been taught good study habits and things like that. It sounded like a great program.
Dana Perino, November 24, 2009:
“We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term,” she told Sean Hannity.
She could’ve said it to David Gregory and probably had a fifty/fifty shot at him just rolling with it. Chuck Todd would say, “After 9/11, you mean?” as if that made it okay.
Because they’re SMOOTH and glassy! But I like your answer, too.
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Patricia Kayden
@Elizabelle: Sounds like a great documentary and a very interesting person. Hope it makes it to PBS soon.
76.
catclub
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I just heard on the radio about groups of ten or so disadvantaged kids at big university (or post private univ) being in an organized posse – and trying to modify it for ex military. They found out that ex-military usually had family obligations that kids right out of high school did not have. Had to try to re-work the idea.
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elmo
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Wish to FSM they’d had a program like that when I was at Harvard. Holy crap, the shock was awful, and it poisoned my whole college experience. I wanted to study physics because I loved it in HS. But what is this “calculus” of which you speak and why do my fellow freshmen look at me askance that I’ve never experienced it? What do you mean i’ll have to take summerschool classes for three years to catch up?
78.
Debbie
i just listened to Lindsey Graham use his scary voice to warn Democrats they own the Iran deal, and I couldn’t stop laughing.
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Patricia Kayden
@Debbie: And Republicans own the Iraq War and ISIS, so we’re even.
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catclub
@Schlemazel: I went and read the article. I feel the author has missed something about the difference between 2012 and now. Notice what is missing in this description?
For the Romney alums, there is a sense of we’ve-seen-this-before. During the 2012 campaign, Romney endured a string of flare-ups from other candidates who, at one point or another, challenged him in the polls by appealing to the party’s more conservative populist base: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum.
At each turn, Romney persevered, emerging with heavy political damage, but victorious nonetheless. Often, he won out because voters ultimately decided that the flavor-of-the-month candidate was not prepared to be commander-in-chief.
No mention that Romney could turn his vast advertising budget on the flavor of the month and destroy it. Which only works when the target has no money, no advertising, and not enough free media. None of those apply to Trump.
well, sort of, but only in the sense that he made it redundant for bin Laden to provoke any further attacks as GW was doing such a fine job of trashing the place himself.
At each turn, Romney persevered, emerging with heavy political damage, but victorious nonetheless. Often, he won out because voters ultimately decided that the flavor-of-the-month candidate was not prepared to be commander-in-chief.
I see two differences between 2012 and now.
1) There’s nobody quite so “victorious nonetheless” in this cycle as Trump. Opposing him would require some expectation of a victory even now and then; as of now there’s nobody else in the race who seems able to achieve that.
2) None of the Reichwing contenders are prepared to be commander-in-chief (assuming that’s what they’re going for). But it seems that the voters aren’t too bothered about that. Even assuming that there’s someone among the Very Serious Candidates (HEB!, Rubio, Graham, Walker, et al) who’s prepared for that role, they’re well behind the Crazy Caucus, who in turn are trailing Trump by significant margins. If anything, “prepared to be commander-in-chief” this time around is more liability than asset on that side of the aisle.
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Elizabelle
@Debbie: Reminds me of a bumpersticker on a wingnut assault vehicle in NoVA:
It was Democrats — and only Democrats — who voted for Obamacare.
Please proceed, wingnuts.
84.
Calouste
@catclub: Also, the reason there were all these flavors-of-the-month in 2012 is that the base hated Romney, and they were desperately looking for a savior. On the other hand, the base loves Trump. And Romney was able to destroy them because they were fairly undefined to the general public. Trump on the other hand has been a major media personality for decades.
tl;dr: The GOP establishment is fighting the last war.
85.
Matt McIrvin
@Debbie: The interesting thing is that the public actually disapprove of the Iran deal; they just don’t care enough about it to get seriously upset.
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Elizabelle
@Matt McIrvin: Does the public know enough about the Iran deal? Or they just heard that it’s bad?
ETA: How many of the public can identify Iran’s neighbors and find it on a map?
Is this like Obamacare, where they like the components, and they love Kynect. But none of that government healthcare.
The interesting thing is that the public actually disapprove of the Iran deal; they just don’t care enough about it to get seriously upset.
Nahal Toosi (Politico, August 3):
A week ago, for example, an Economist/YouGov poll showed that 51 percent of Americans support the agreement. On Monday morning, however, Quinnipiac released a poll showing 57 percent of Americans oppose it. Then, a few hours later, a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll came out showing that Americans are evenly divided: one-third back the deal, one-third oppose it, and one-third don’t know enough to offer an opinion.
The differences go beyond the usual explanations of margin of error or differences in sampling, yet the results are being selectively touted by both sides of the issue in ways favorable to their cause.
Any reason to dispute these characterizations?
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
John Fugelsang @ JohnFugelsang 3h3 hours ago
14 years ago today America was attacked by 0 Iraqis and 0 Afghans and 0 Iranians. #NeverForget
Gated community-dwelling Jeb wouldn’t know an actual crackerism if it jumped up and bit him on the nutsack.
I think I love you, Betty Cracker.
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Germy Shoemangler
I posted this in an earlier thread but what the hell, I’ll do it again
Making her 2015 debut in Scott Walker’s home state of Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton on Thursday unleashed her harshest and most extended diatribe yet against a Republican rival not named Donald Trump, accusing the governor of being a tool of the billionaire Koch brothers.
“It seems to me, just observing him, that Governor Walker thinks because he busts unions, starves universities, guts public education, demeans women, scapegoats teachers, nurses, and firefighters, he is some kind of tough guy on a motorcycle, a real leader,” Clinton said to a packed audience at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “Well, that is not leadership folks. Leadership means fighting for the people you represent.”
While Clinton frequently criticizes her Republican opponents on the campaign trail, her barbs are rarely so extended or pointed. She also mentioned Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, and Rand Paul on Thursday evening — but Walker faced the brunt of her fire.
“It looks like he just gets his marching orders from the Koch brothers and just goes down the list,” she added.
Shared with permission from Siva Vaidhyanathan, this is what I’ve been wanting to write all day, but couldn’t do so quite so eloquently:
Many people are posting versions of “never forget.”
So let’s review, shall we?
1) The 9/11 hijackers were funded by rich people in Saudi Arabia, none of whom have been punished for it.
2) President Bush had ample and direct warnings that Al Queda was a threat yet failed to take them seriously.
3) One security technology could have prevented the hijackings — secure and solid cockpit doors. The airlines fought FAA proposals for them for decades.
4) Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks but more than 10 years later more than half of Republicans still believed it did.
5) For one brief moment almost the whole world was united in horror about the slaughter. Yet our government dissolved that unity within 18 months.
6) The mania that gripped the White House in the wake of 9/11 generated massive violations of US and international law, significant violations of human rights, and a squandering of the moral high ground.
7) If the Supreme Court had allowed the voters to choose the president in the 2000 election we would have had sober, moderate, law-abiding, knowledgeable adults running the country and things would be a lot better now.
8) President Bush not only failed to defend us against Al Queda before 9/11, he let Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora and ceased serious efforts to capture or kill him while he shifted U.S. resources to a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.
The guy with the glasses. No one remembers it now but he was supposedly a huge threat in 2012. He was gonna beat Obama. On this very blog that was said.
Let’s speculate on who drops out next. I take Christie.
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Bobby Thomson
@Elizabelle: most have heard it’s bad. Some have heard Iran is getting billions of dollars, don’t know it’s Iranian assets being unfrozen from US banks, and think taxpayers are paying it. Some have heard of the notice requirement for inspections and don’t realize radioactive material leaves traces of radiation. Some just disagree in principle with making any agreement with any Muslims and especially one with Iran. Some really want to go to war with Iran. Some don’t like anything the president does.
@Kay: He look natural shaking hamds in cowboy boots at te state fair in Iowa. If it were socially acceptable to comment on TV about yhe firmness of a man’s-man’s buttocks, Tweety would have cetainly gone there.
Why are Gilmore and Pataki still in it? They aren’t even interesting enough to make fun of.
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dmsilev
@Calouste: Supporters. Surely he has at least two. Maybe not three, because that might tax his memory and counting skills.
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Bobby Thomson
@Kay: and he had the head spot at the kiddy table and everything.
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Calouste
@Kay: Does it count if a candidate is not really campaigning or getting invited to debates, like Gilmore?
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Schlemazel
@Kay:
I’d guess Gilmore but he has no money issues like Kusty does because he never had any hope of raising any money anyway. No need to drop out if you never really dropped in!
I don’t “count” them. We don’t have time for them, Baud. John Kasich alone is a full time job.
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Bobby Thomson
@Kay: Gilmore should be next, having been denied a seat at the kiddy table, but I’m not sure it would count if he’s never been running in the first place. He has still not had an official campaign event. From the “grown up table,” I agree Christie appears to be next. He’s lucky not to have been bumped by Fiorina.
I can’t believe Bush is trying to use a slogan of ‘let the big dog eat’.
All Trump has to say is,
yes! That’s me. It sure ain’t you. This is you getting out of the way, huh?
Or do you mean Bill Clinton? News flash, he can’t run again. If you mean the other Clinton, there’s a different word for female dogs, and either way they’re done eating. This is my time!
I can’t believe Bush thinks he can say that.
It does perfectly encapsulate modern Republican ‘just give the richest people everything, because you SHOULD give them everything because they’re just better’. It’s an amazing little phrase. Too bad he is running against one of the richest people who is completely ready to use that phrase against him. Bush is the lackey to the real rich, he’s the hired politican and guys like Trump literally do hire them, as Trump has publically said.
Bush is NOT the big dog, according to the entire Republican electorate Trump is (even for those who would prefer to support Bush). This is madness.
Yes, absolutely. I’d much prefer to face Bush over Kasich, despite Bush’s money.
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Bobby Thomson
@Kay: I don’t know. Fox fluffed the shit out of him after the first debate and didn’t move the dial. Seems pubs aren’t buying what he and Jeb are selling except maybe in NH. I can’t see Kasich winning any southern primaries. He might be tough in a general election, but his appeal may be state-specific like Walker’s.
I;m so glad to hear that. I can’t tell because Ohio media just adore him. They make it seem like he’s tearing up the track. I agree with you about Bush and Kasich, though. They’re the same kind of Republican.
I appreciate your take and education for the rest of us on Kasich.
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Matt McIrvin
I keep hearing all sorts of establishment types talking about the coming Kasich surge, and Democratic pundits talking about how Kasich is the scariest Republican.
Here is my bold prediction: Kasich is not going anywhere. And the most electable Republican is Donald Fucking Trump.
redshirt
LOL.
Perfect, Betty.
Paul in KY
Jesus, that’s an evil thing to do, Betty. Funny, but eeeevvviiilllll!
Have you been drinking?
Germy Shoemangler
@Paul in KY: Trump your cat is an actual thing:
https://instagram.com/trumpyourcat/?hl=en
beltane
That’s so mean. I showed that to my dog and it made her sad.
Gin & Tonic
Since you like to draw on your computer, you need this.
WaterGirl
Well done, Betty!
@Germy Shoemangler: The third dog from the left in the first row (at your link) really caught the trump look, too.
benw
YOOGE and classy! Don’t let Jindal make fun of your dog, now.
Paul in KY
@Germy Shoemangler: I should have known. One or two of them didn’t look bad.
mtiffany
Calling the ASPCA on you for that, Cracker.
Cacti
Today’s news of why I prefer BJ to other lefty political blogs/why not every issue is economic:
Over at “progressive” and overwhelmingly pro-Sanders Democratic Underground (DU):
African-American members who aren’t “Feeling the Bern” are getting alert stalked, silenced, and now even real-time stalked.
C-r-e-e-p-y.
schrodinger's cat
I can has dignity?
I would sleep with one eye open if that were a kitteh
trollhattan
@Paul in KY:
And if not, why?
“Trump Mah Dawg” could be a rotating tag, or even a dedicated day of action. If I could get her to stay in the room for the camera, I’d Trump Mah Dawg! I miss #TweetlikeTrump
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
Heh. There goes the morning.
jeffreyw
Lunch time…
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw: How is the kitteh and the goggie crew?
Punchy
That’s….um…..a lot of…..hmmmmm…..yeah…….gray hair…..Mrs. Cracker. I always pictured you as a firery redhead.
Elizabelle
Putting in a plug, again, for folks to go see documentary out, this week and next few weeks around the country: Rosenwald. By Aviva Kempner.
About Julius Rosenwald, Sears & Roebuck owner/CEO who funded 5,000 plus schools for African Americans throughout the American South, and whose foundation supported notable artists and writers. History of the early and mid- 20th century that appears forgotten.
Link has film openings and backstory. Got to show a well made indie documentary some love. (Bonus: Rosenwald had some prescient words for the megabucks types of his day, and today.)
And Betty: thanks for fishing my comments out day before yesterday.
Am informed problem word might have been b o o k e r. (As in T. Washington)
gene108
Bill the Cat getting Donald Trump’s brain
one more link
Elizabelle
@jeffreyw: Oh, that looks good.
jeffreyw
@schrodinger’s cat: Not much change. Homer spends nights out in the garage, and days in the house when the other kitties are out. Dogs are fine although Jack is deaf, getting feeble, and going blind. Wait… did I say Jack? That’s me!
shell
How has Trump avoided becoming a Chia pet?
http://www.amazon.com/Chia-Obama-Handmade-Decorative-Determined/dp/B001PKU28E
Oh right, he’d probably just sue them.
Timare
Poor pup.
BGinCHI
Why does Trump lick his balls?
jeffreyw
@Elizabelle: Thanks! I like Reubens but my corned beef hash is one of the best things ever.
PurpleGirl
Brilliant, Betty Cracker. (And evil, too.)
trollhattan
@shell:
First, he would buy them, then he’d sue them, then he’d revamp them to make them super classy and sales would become yoooooge!
rikyrah
The New York Times Verified account
@nytimes How tiny Xavier University sends more African-American students to medical school than any other college in the U.S. http://nyti.ms/1JZIp1Z
………………
sections that spoke to me:
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to this, I just shouted AMEN!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/a-prescription-for-more-black-doctors.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
divF
@jeffreyw:
Very nice. Plus lunch time is approaching in this time zone.
Bobby Thomson
@BGinCHI: he doesn’t because he can afford to pay someone to do it for him.
We’re not talking about The Hedgehog here.
benw
@BGinCHI:
Because Tom Brady had them deflated!
Paul in KY
@trollhattan: I wish I was drinking! Here at work still.
Paul in KY
@Elizabelle: I hear there’s a Rosenwald school in Frankfort, KY (state capital)
Brachiator
@BGinCHI: Because they’re huge?
Great dog photo.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
This was tweeted by a man who thinks it reflects well on the man he worked for, who let Osama get away so he could invade the wrong country
ETA: clicking around, it looks like Ari is tweeting all kinds of would-be John Wayne-ish quotes from Commander Codpiece
catclub
From Washington Monthly. I am guessing Biff and Tagg are getting their blood angried up – maybe eating extra fried food.
BGinCHI
There is no right answer.
Trump is a winner whether he licks his balls, has others do it for him, or just ensures that no immigrants balls are getting tax dollars they don’t deserve.
Mandalay
It’s been a great week for unfortunate headlines for wingnuts.
First Tom Cotton, then Ted Cruz, and now George Will (who actually wrote a pretty good column).
Quaker in a Basement
Dawg looks less than pleased.
benw
@BGinCHI: Okay, then, why does Trump like to play with marbles?
Schlemazel
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Thanks! You made me throw up . . . a lot
catclub
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: wow.
Schlemazel
@catclub:
Maybe someone slipped them Folgers crystals in place of their postum
Jim, Foolish Literalist
from Steve Benen
(Betty, can we get a ruling? )
This makes the trickle-down/job creators rhetoric sound persuasive. Has Jeb Bush ever seen a dog eat? Does this acknowledge that all that will be left for the rest of the pack is scraps and bones (or an empty bowl) ? Or we can just eat dogshit?
Schlemazel
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Nope! We be the dog food
Paul in KY
@Mandalay: One of the 1st ones I’ve read by Will that didn’t have me gritting my teeth.
Paul in KY
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I would say in football terms it would mean giving the ball to your best player a lot. Sorta like ‘if you got a cannon, fire it’.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The first time I recall seeing that phrase, it was painted on the back window of an RV at a Florida-Georgia football game tailgate party, right before the Dawgs whooped my Gators. So no, I don’t think it’s a particularly Floridian phrase. Gated community-dwelling Jeb wouldn’t know an actual crackerism if it jumped up and bit him on the nutsack.
Belafon
@rikyrah: I don’t remember shared success being part of the American dream. /sarc
Good on the school. I like it when schools, like my son’s, are focused on something more than just how many kids have paid their tuition.
boatboy_srq
Far more attractive than the human[oid] version.
JPL
Serena is playing and that’s all I’m gonna say. If you want to know more just click on usopen.com
No spoilers for those who have to watch it later.
rikyrah
the dog looks cute
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Sweet baby Jeebus, I hope the Twitter hordes are bombarding that disgraceful excuse for a shit funnel with the derision and contempt his pathetic attempts at braggadocio deserve.
Jeffro
Reposted from previous because open thread, that’s why:
Kaisch tries to show his conservative cred by talking nonsense about Josh Earnest, Obama’s press secretary:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l…..tdown-work
Riiiiiight…because this Congress hasn’t been dismissive (to say nothing of way over the line, time and time again), with this President…
Hey Kaisch, remember W’s press secretary Ari Fleischer telling not just Dems but all Americans, “Watch what you say”?
Elizabelle
@Paul in KY: Went to the movie yesterday in the Virginia burbs.
Met a woman raised in Waynesboro, VA (other side of Skyline Drive/Shenandoah National Park from me).
She knew of a Rosenwald school in her community, and said that when they desegregated the schools after Brown, it was noticed that the black teachers from the Rosenwald school had master’s and advanced degrees, while teachers in the white schools did not. (Would suspect some might have, but it was not the norm.)
Schlemazel
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: George W. Bush, August 6, 2001:
Bush listened to the briefing [Bin Laden determined to strike in US], Suskind says, then told the CIA briefer: “All right. You’ve covered your ass!
George W. Bush, March 13, 2002:
[Bin Laden’s] just a person who’s been marginalized. … I don’t know where he is. I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you.
Dana Perino, November 24, 2009:
“We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term,” she told Sean Hannity.
Dick Cheney, May 13, 2013:
“In my past experience when we got into these situations — especially after 9/11 — we were always there, locked and loaded, ready to go on 9/11,” Cheney told Fox News Channel commentator Sean Hannity in a phone interview.
George W. Bush, April 25, 2015:
“In order to be an effective president … when you say something you have to mean it,” he said. “You gotta kill em.”
Jeb Bush, May 31, 2015:
[George Bush’s] successes clearly are protecting the homeland. We were under attack, and he brought — he unified the country, and he showed dogged determination, and he kept us safe.
Elizabelle
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: What is Ari tweeting about? What’s topic?
boatboy_srq
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: @Betty Cracker: Transplanted cracker-wannabe (HEB!, for clarity,) says whut?
Gin & Tonic
The 12th Yalta European Strategy conference is taking place now (in Kiev, not Yalta, for obvious reasons.) In 2013 the American who addressed it (via video) was Hillary Clinton. In 2015 it was Donald Trump. While the reaction on Twitter is pretty memorable, the key insight came from another veteran east European correspondent who noted “progress is reversible.”
Cervantes
@Betty Cracker:
It’s not.
It’s from golf.
@Paul in KY:
Similar, yes.
JPL
Headline at NYTimes… Hillary Clinton’s Long Road to ‘Sorry’ Over Email Use
I didn’t bother to read the article.
BGinCHI
@benw: Well, first he has to borrow some….
Gin & Tonic
@Cervantes: It’s from golf.
They play golf with dogs now? I really haven’t been keeping track, I guess.
Cervantes
@Gin & Tonic:
Well, not everywhere.
Shana
@catclub: Extra fried food? Nah man, Jello all the way. Highest per capita consumption in the nation is in Utah.
Trinity
I lol’d!!
Betty FTW.
boatboy_srq
@Gin & Tonic: Best ask HEB!’s brother the 3 Wood.
Paul in KY
@Cervantes: I would like to see a golfing dog. have seen many things in my time, but never a golfing dog. He or she would have to be suitably attired though. My late uncle was a golf nut & boy could he go on a rant when someone was playing in cutoffs & a t-shirt. RIP, Uncle Harry.
boatboy_srq
@Paul in KY: Isn’t Golfing Dog the evil antithesis of Ceiling Cat?
Paul in KY
@boatboy_srq: Not sure.
Anyway, off to St. Louis for Loufest. Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Gex
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Anyone who studies canine packs would attest to their ability to trickle down to the members at the bottom of the pack much more effectively and readily than our 1% ever would.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@rikyrah:
The NYT has some good education reporters. They had a great article last year about a program at one of the Ivies (I think) that was aimed at preventing smart kids who were the first in their families to go to college from dropping out. One of the really important things they had to teach them was that it was okay to need some time to learn new things — they had been told they were “smart,” but they’d never been taught good study habits and things like that. It sounded like a great program.
germy shoemangler
@Paul in KY:
Golfing dog
Jim, Foolish Literalist
She could’ve said it to David Gregory and probably had a fifty/fifty shot at him just rolling with it. Chuck Todd would say, “After 9/11, you mean?” as if that made it okay.
benw
@BGinCHI:
Because they’re SMOOTH and glassy! But I like your answer, too.
Patricia Kayden
@Elizabelle: Sounds like a great documentary and a very interesting person. Hope it makes it to PBS soon.
catclub
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I just heard on the radio about groups of ten or so disadvantaged kids at big university (or post private univ) being in an organized posse – and trying to modify it for ex military. They found out that ex-military usually had family obligations that kids right out of high school did not have. Had to try to re-work the idea.
elmo
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Wish to FSM they’d had a program like that when I was at Harvard. Holy crap, the shock was awful, and it poisoned my whole college experience. I wanted to study physics because I loved it in HS. But what is this “calculus” of which you speak and why do my fellow freshmen look at me askance that I’ve never experienced it? What do you mean i’ll have to take summerschool classes for three years to catch up?
Debbie
i just listened to Lindsey Graham use his scary voice to warn Democrats they own the Iran deal, and I couldn’t stop laughing.
Patricia Kayden
@Debbie: And Republicans own the Iraq War and ISIS, so we’re even.
catclub
@Schlemazel: I went and read the article. I feel the author has missed something about the difference between 2012 and now. Notice what is missing in this description?
No mention that Romney could turn his vast advertising budget on the flavor of the month and destroy it. Which only works when the target has no money, no advertising, and not enough free media. None of those apply to Trump.
gelfling545
@Schlemazel:
well, sort of, but only in the sense that he made it redundant for bin Laden to provoke any further attacks as GW was doing such a fine job of trashing the place himself.
boatboy_srq
@catclub:
I see two differences between 2012 and now.
1) There’s nobody quite so “victorious nonetheless” in this cycle as Trump. Opposing him would require some expectation of a victory even now and then; as of now there’s nobody else in the race who seems able to achieve that.
2) None of the Reichwing contenders are prepared to be commander-in-chief (assuming that’s what they’re going for). But it seems that the voters aren’t too bothered about that. Even assuming that there’s someone among the Very Serious Candidates (HEB!, Rubio, Graham, Walker, et al) who’s prepared for that role, they’re well behind the Crazy Caucus, who in turn are trailing Trump by significant margins. If anything, “prepared to be commander-in-chief” this time around is more liability than asset on that side of the aisle.
Elizabelle
@Debbie: Reminds me of a bumpersticker on a wingnut assault vehicle in NoVA:
Please proceed, wingnuts.
Calouste
@catclub: Also, the reason there were all these flavors-of-the-month in 2012 is that the base hated Romney, and they were desperately looking for a savior. On the other hand, the base loves Trump. And Romney was able to destroy them because they were fairly undefined to the general public. Trump on the other hand has been a major media personality for decades.
tl;dr: The GOP establishment is fighting the last war.
Matt McIrvin
@Debbie: The interesting thing is that the public actually disapprove of the Iran deal; they just don’t care enough about it to get seriously upset.
Elizabelle
@Matt McIrvin: Does the public know enough about the Iran deal? Or they just heard that it’s bad?
ETA: How many of the public can identify Iran’s neighbors and find it on a map?
Is this like Obamacare, where they like the components, and they love Kynect. But none of that government healthcare.
RK
OMG you crackered me up.
Cervantes
@Matt McIrvin:
Nahal Toosi (Politico, August 3):
Any reason to dispute these characterizations?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Quaker in a Basement
@Betty Cracker:
I think I love you, Betty Cracker.
Germy Shoemangler
I posted this in an earlier thread but what the hell, I’ll do it again
catclub
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: From LGM:
Shared with permission from Siva Vaidhyanathan, this is what I’ve been wanting to write all day, but couldn’t do so quite so eloquently:
Kay
@Germy Shoemangler:
Because we loathe him
Me ‘n Hillary :)
Kay
@JPL:
I think it’s good though. There’s a story arc. This means we’re on the downside.
Kay
Giant, breaking news:
Schlemazel
@catclub:
Not my link. Now you have me wondering who’s it was.
Peale
@Kay: who?
trollhattan
@catclub:
Letter perfect. Never forget.
Schlemazel
@gelfling545:
No fair bringing reality into this!!
OBL knew the old maxim: never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake!
Betty Cracker
@Germy Shoemangler: Wow, way to strip the bark off the goggly-eyed homunculus, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, etc. Well done, Hillz!
@Kay: Sometimes there just aren’t enough glasses.
Kay
@Peale:
The guy with the glasses. No one remembers it now but he was supposedly a huge threat in 2012. He was gonna beat Obama. On this very blog that was said.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That’s a good one!
Calouste
@Kay: We can now go and speculate who his supporter is going to vote for next.
Peale
DMAIC SIPOC QTC HoQ…..can I stop training now?
Schlemazel
@Kay:
If life has taught me anything it has taught me to always plan for the worst. Hope for the best, plan for the worst
raven
@Kay: He’s railing about his support for black folks.
Kay
@Calouste:
Let’s speculate on who drops out next. I take Christie.
Bobby Thomson
@Elizabelle: most have heard it’s bad. Some have heard Iran is getting billions of dollars, don’t know it’s Iranian assets being unfrozen from US banks, and think taxpayers are paying it. Some have heard of the notice requirement for inspections and don’t realize radioactive material leaves traces of radiation. Some just disagree in principle with making any agreement with any Muslims and especially one with Iran. Some really want to go to war with Iran. Some don’t like anything the president does.
Peale
@Kay: He look natural shaking hamds in cowboy boots at te state fair in Iowa. If it were socially acceptable to comment on TV about yhe firmness of a man’s-man’s buttocks, Tweety would have cetainly gone there.
Baud
@Kay:
Why are Gilmore and Pataki still in it? They aren’t even interesting enough to make fun of.
dmsilev
@Calouste: Supporters. Surely he has at least two. Maybe not three, because that might tax his memory and counting skills.
Bobby Thomson
@Kay: and he had the head spot at the kiddy table and everything.
Calouste
@Kay: Does it count if a candidate is not really campaigning or getting invited to debates, like Gilmore?
Schlemazel
@Kay:
I’d guess Gilmore but he has no money issues like Kusty does because he never had any hope of raising any money anyway. No need to drop out if you never really dropped in!
Kay
@Baud:
I don’t “count” them. We don’t have time for them, Baud. John Kasich alone is a full time job.
Bobby Thomson
@Kay: Gilmore should be next, having been denied a seat at the kiddy table, but I’m not sure it would count if he’s never been running in the first place. He has still not had an official campaign event. From the “grown up table,” I agree Christie appears to be next. He’s lucky not to have been bumped by Fiorina.
Kay
@Calouste:
No! They don’t count. So glad you understand the “counts” rules.
Amir Khalid
A not-unexpected footnote to the Republican party’s 2016 presidential mass-start: Rick Perry is the first contestant to drop out.
ETA: Well beaten to it by Kay the front-pager. Pout.
Bobby Thomson
@Kay: still not sure what those rules are, since evidently Perry cleared the bar.
Baud
@Kay:
You’re doing a stellar job with Kasich, Kay. We want you on that wall. We need you on that wall.
Kay
@Bobby Thomson:
I was torn between those two but I think Christie because he’s cagier so he’ll want to get out before he’s a complete joke.
Amir Khalid
@Bobby Thomson:
I’m kind of mystified: why did Gilmore file a candidacy at all, if he couldn’t/wouldn’t put together even one campaign event?
Bobby Thomson
@Amir Khalid: ?
I was thinking he’d be LIFO. Beats me.
ETA. I guess he’s running for VP badly.
Applejinx
I can’t believe Bush is trying to use a slogan of ‘let the big dog eat’.
All Trump has to say is,
I can’t believe Bush thinks he can say that.
It does perfectly encapsulate modern Republican ‘just give the richest people everything, because you SHOULD give them everything because they’re just better’. It’s an amazing little phrase. Too bad he is running against one of the richest people who is completely ready to use that phrase against him. Bush is the lackey to the real rich, he’s the hired politican and guys like Trump literally do hire them, as Trump has publically said.
Bush is NOT the big dog, according to the entire Republican electorate Trump is (even for those who would prefer to support Bush). This is madness.
Kay
@Baud:
Kasich would be scary but for Bush, so we should hope that big, low energy lump keeps taking up the whole road so Kasich can’t get around him.
Baud
@Kay:
Yes, absolutely. I’d much prefer to face Bush over Kasich, despite Bush’s money.
Bobby Thomson
@Kay: I don’t know. Fox fluffed the shit out of him after the first debate and didn’t move the dial. Seems pubs aren’t buying what he and Jeb are selling except maybe in NH. I can’t see Kasich winning any southern primaries. He might be tough in a general election, but his appeal may be state-specific like Walker’s.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@germy shoemangler: rofl!
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kay
@Bobby Thomson:
I;m so glad to hear that. I can’t tell because Ohio media just adore him. They make it seem like he’s tearing up the track. I agree with you about Bush and Kasich, though. They’re the same kind of Republican.
rikyrah
@Germy Shoemangler:
that was good
rikyrah
@Kay:
I appreciate your take and education for the rest of us on Kasich.
Matt McIrvin
I keep hearing all sorts of establishment types talking about the coming Kasich surge, and Democratic pundits talking about how Kasich is the scariest Republican.
Here is my bold prediction: Kasich is not going anywhere. And the most electable Republican is Donald Fucking Trump.
Paul in KY
@germy shoemangler: Uncle Harry would want him in plus fours ;-)