the thing is, you compare the differences in “policy” between the GOP candidates and you’d wonder how in the hell anyone could actually support these positions that these folks have.
no belief in any kind of social contract, it’s the embodiment of IGMFY as both a social and foreign and monetary policy.
2.
Oatler.
Stupid, obvious and FUCKING HILARIOUS
3.
Keith G
The subtlety of the dialogue in this bit makes it fun. It also reminds me about the observation about the banality of evil.
I would thank Mr. Cole, but I am a loyal BJ blog reader and that would be polite and gratitude shows weakness.
Hey, how about a Spaceballs version, huh?
But, thanks.
Unless this gets out among the Trumpites and it gives him another boost, in which case the results will be on Cole’s head.
5.
Emerald
Imagine how much Trump audio these people had to listen to in order to produce this video.
One’s mind. It boggles.
They are heroes.
6.
Bill E Pilgrim
So Trump is just doing Star Wars characters — well that would explain why he has a Wookie perched on his head.
7.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
That was hilarious! I think it’s funny that no one notices that JEB? said after the Paris attacks that we should only let in Christian refugees, but he’s outraged OUTRAGED I tell you! when Trump says we should keep Muslims out of the country. Like, isn’t that saying what you just said? The whole party is rotten with bigotry to the core.
8.
SiubhanDuinne
It’s funny, but it’s not nearly as funny as the “Trump as Your Drunk Neighbor” video I linked to twice yesterday.
no belief in any kind of social contract, it’s the embodiment of IGMFY as both a social and foreign and monetary policy.
But IGM doesn’t really apply to most of his followers. They’re happy enough with FY.
18.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Dear Sir, I believe you have an extra E in the word Betsy. :-)
He may have a point though, when Trump can get this far along and so many people are on board with his hate, some days it does feel like we are so fucked.
@WaterGirl: First of all, no, I don’t. (Not as far as the world can see)
Second, Trump is leading among likely Republican primary voters. How many people vote in primaries? So, 40-45% of people are GOP. Fewer than vote in the primaries. Trump is getting 35% of that group.
24.
p.a.
@Omnes Omnibus: Gallup 11/2015 28% self i.d. Republican, + 14% more Gallup i.d.’s as R-leaning.
I don’t actually see how anyone can predict anything this time around. It will be quite illuminating to see how republicans actually VOTE in the first four primaries.
27.
Citizen_X
@Keith G: My favorite part is him going on about Trump Steaks to Lando Calrissian. A perfect non sequitur.
28.
Schlemazel
@piratedan7:
I work with an ammosexual, a nice enough guy except for the fatal flaw. We were discussing state rehab services for accident victims & he stated flatly the world would be better with no services at all. I told him Dickens wrote books about that world & it is not one civilized people would want to live in. He changed the subject.
29.
amk
so did alain, the fixer, fixed it yet?
eta: looks like nope. back button is still effed up.
I think it’s funny that no one notices that JEB? said after the Paris attacks that we should only let in Christian refugees, but he’s outraged OUTRAGED I tell you! when Trump says we should keep Muslims out of the country.
See, but ¿Jeb? was saying we should keep out Muslim refugees from Syria because they’re especially likely to be Daesh plants, while Trump is saying we should keep out all Muslims period because they’re all a bunch of jihadis. They’re both awful suggestions, but it’s hard to claim that Trump’s isn’t worse.
31.
Schlemazel
@amk:
must have, no more green text. OTOH, I miss comment numbers, they make it easier to find my spot when I come back.
While I am whining I’d also like next & previous thread buttons and I was just getting used to have the most recent comments field. But I’m just happy the joint is stable
32.
Schlemazel
@Roger Moore:
A difference without much distinction. JEB? always does stuff half-assed
Thanks for posting that link. It’s perfect. I’ve been thinking from the start of the Trump campaign that he reminds me of all those loud, obnoxious booze hounds that hang out at the bars. Trump does this sober.
@Omnes Omnibus:
He acts like he is coked up. I worked with a woman who was snorting & she was loud, cock-sure and hyper. A sweet girl from a prominent MN family who died in the 80s. She burnt out very fast
I heard a little bit of audio in the car just now from some interview he had earlier today, and realized that the “drunk neighbor” piece has ruined me forever. I literally cannot hear Trump say anything now without picturing that sloshed in-your-face guy in the patriotic wife-beater and a beer bottle sticking up between his legs. Trying to imagine a Trump inaugural or SOTU speech, and my mind gets all boggly.
40.
catclub
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Juan Cole pointed out that there is a long US tradition of excluding other people based on race and religion. It really did not end until about 1965.
Now that I know that, the chorus from all sides that such behavior is un-American is getting tiresome. It may be wrong and vile, but it is distinctly what we have done in the past.
When the US is appalled that other nations might dare to threaten to use nuclear weapons… there is some history there.
Have they done a Hitlers reaction to the Trump candidacy? They have to have.
44.
catclub
Also, existential threats. Daesh is not one. The closest one that comes to mind is … global warming. But if Democrats called it one they would not be taken seriously. Funny how that 1% doctrine (Cheney saying that he had to respond to any threat even if there was only a 1% chance of it being real) does not apply if oil companies might be harmed.
45.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Last thing I need around my place is a hookah smoking caterpillar.
My roommate rescued two kittens last night. 3 month old boys. I’d forgotten how tiny their little heads are. The active gray explorer is Mouse, which is just wrong. We’ve been calling him Space Mouse. The quiet, shy, won’t-make-eye-contact-people-are-BIG! black one is named Curly, because his tail does a weird curl thing. (I think he should be Corkscrew, personally, but whatever.) My roommate has also discussed fostering chickens, so look out Betty Cracker!
51.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Smoke bothers me. OTOH I do love me some mushrooms.
Can’t laugh anymore at anything to do with Trump. Now that Trump is trying to mainstream open declarations of bigotry and succeeding in some parts of the country, what do people think his supporters will do when he finally loses (in a general election – I’m assuming he wins the Republican primary)? There are a lot of emboldened, racist people who aren’t just going to quietly slither away because Trump gets defeated. What’s the plan for dealing with them? When people are this vocal and in-your-face about voting for people and things that hurt them as long as they hurt the others they hate even more, Hillary saying “Okay, now the election is over, let’s all try to get along and play nice” might not be enough. Wonderful as the first amendment is, I’m starting to see why some European countries have strict hate speech laws. In Nigeria, I devoured books by James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison and Richard Wright (Black Boy was required reading in my secondary school) before moving to the US. I understood on an intellectual level that the US has a complex history when it comes race. But I really didn’t get it. I didn’t feel the fear I feel now. It’s not a good feeling.
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Villago Delenda Est
@catclub: Oil companies are more important than millions of American lives and hundreds of million non-American lives.
@efgoldman:
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
. . .
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
@Omnes Omnibus:
The Dumpster wins & it will be time to start hitting the pharmas hard.
61.
Villago Delenda Est
@Felanius Kootea: It’s always been here, and it colors (if you’ll pardon the expression) nearly every aspect of what is wrong with this country. 2nd Amendment worship is rooted in the slaver’s need to keep the property under control, for example. Our idiotic drug laws have a lot to do with racial animus.
It’s an intractable problem, to be sure. We can only chip away at it, and constant vigilance is needed to prevent sliding back, as we’ve done over the past 35 years.
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imonlylurkening: The Sequel
@PurpleGirl: She says not. We already have 4 cats! We’ll see. Curly is funny-looking. I’m not sure how adoptable he will be.
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Mandalay
Guess which GOP presidential candidate told this story…..
And so my dad flew up to see me, and the two of us, we left our rings and our watches and our wallets and everything, because we were driving to a crack house to try to get my sister out. And, you know, we didn’t know if we’d be robbed or shot or what — what we were going to experience.
And we pulled her out. We went to a Denny’s and spent about four hours trying to talk to her, saying, Miriam, what are you doing? And she was just angry. She wouldn’t change.
And you can’t — with an addict, you can’t make them change if they’re unwilling to get treatment, if they’re unwilling to walk a different path.
Funny how that 1% doctrine (Cheney saying that he had to respond to any threat even if there was only a 1% chance of it being real) does not apply if oil companies might be harmed.
Look at the asymmetry. If there’s a 1% that we need to start a war, we have to start it on that tiny chance. If there’s a 1% chance we don’t have to worry about global warming, the science isn’t settled and we can keep on pumping out CO2 like there’s no tomorrow. The basic rule is that the Republicans will seize on any evidence- even transparently manufactured evidence- in favor of their viewpoint as conclusive.
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Corner Stone
That Abolitionist is fucking fast. Damn.
66.
raven
John Brown. . .damn. A Pittsburg State Gorilla !
67.
sparrow
@Keith G: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt
68.
Schlemazel
@Felanius Kootea:
The GOP is hoping for a split convention & while that is best in the short run the wingnuts are going to escalate the insanity when tRump goes in with a plurality of delegates but is denied the nomination. He can run as a 3rd (it would be great for the election) but the bitter, seething hatred will not be focused just on the GOP. They will get the first wave but the nation, the POTUS and Democrats will be attacked, seriously. The Dumpster will set this nation on fire. OK City and the Atlanta Olympic bombings will be looked back on as tame I am afraid. It would be better now for tRump to be the nom but the GOP ALWAYS puts party over nation & they are honestly stupid enough to either not see this coming or believe that can personally avoid the worst of it while the nation bleeds.
There are a lot of bad things we used to do that officially ended around 1965 but we sill have problems with today. Are we not supposed to denounce racial discrimination because we did it for a really long time and only passed effective laws against it in 1964?
Sorry, but it’s a silly argument to me. It’s like, Well, slavery was written into our constitution, so we can’t speak up if someone proposes bringing it back,
Apparently according to twitter Trump just announced in New Hampshire that anyone who kills a police officer automatically gets the death penalty. How can someone running for POTUS not know how the country actually works?
anyone who kills a police officer automatically gets the death penalty. How can someone running for POTUS not know how the country actually works?
The only thing his potential voters will hear is, “Black Lives Matter”.
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Patricia Kayden
It’s kind of strange how the media is so obsessed with Trump that no other candidate is really getting any coverage, especially any on the Democratic side. But since Trump is so divisive and destructive, this may be a great thing for our side.
74.
shomi
Canada is importing terrrrristsss. Time to build another wall!
Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.
Read more: Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side Lyrics | MetroLyrics
@raven: Isn’t there a Trump reference in Reed’s New York?
89.
catclub
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I didn’t say we could not talk about it. I said it was not helpful to pretend it had never happened before, and was completely unlike us.
Likewise, I think it would be more useful to say that we have done badly on race for centuries and we still need to work on it, and that curing that racism will be hard, than to say that racism is completely un-American.
If there’s a 1% chance we don’t have to worry about global warming, the science isn’t settled and we can keep on pumping out CO2 like there’s no tomorrow.
Sadly,you are correct. Miami Beach is spending $300 million on pumps right now to mitigate flooding as the sea level rises. What sea level rise? The one that the University of Miami has shown increased 3.7″ between 1996 and 2014 just east of Miami.
And why not build protective walls instead of buying pumps? Because they would be useless; South Florida is built on porous limestone. With an increase in sea level sea water will come up through the ground (with or without the walls), and some wells here are already containing salt water. And the streets here sometimes get flooded by water coming up through the drains, even when it’s not raining, during high tides.
And all our fuckwit senator who is running for president can say about the situation is: “Man, I’m not a scientist”. Fuck the Republicans; their clueless stance on climate change really does present a dangerous threat to the country.
They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps
And died being treated at Mt. Sinal
And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill
Some wired doctor prescribed for stress
.
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PurpleGirl
@imonlylurkening: The Sequel: Where are you? A rescue could possibly help you find homes for the kittens. The rescue I support in northeast CT will take kittens from people who can’t care for the kittens/cats and find them homes.
(In fact this weekend Cassie is taking in 16 little ones from a northern Alabama rescue whose founder she knows. If left in Alabama the kittens probably would be killed but sending them north means they’ll find homes. A few of them already have homes lined up. You never know what other people will find adorable and want to adopt.)
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Peale
@Litlebritdifrnt: that’s was the law in NYS from 1994-2007. Well I guess there might have been some discretion ion the charge.
When Donald took out the ad demanding that the Central Park 5 be executed, there was no death penalty in New York State and the kids were minors.
Remember Spy Magazine? It was like 50% Trump related content, if I recall correctly.
I hold in my hands somehow as I type a Spy Books publication from 1988 called “Separated at Birth”, which has Donald Trump compared to Elvis Presley. It’s the snarls.
I will be peeling off at 10:00 for Elementary. It’s appointment television this season.
Nice to see writers giving characters progressive views on gun control, drug laws etc. with no waffling.
99.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@The Other Chuck: There was some questioning and criticism of what JEB said about Syrian refugees (and it wasn’t just him, Failgunner Ted Cruz said the same thing), but there wasn’t outrage within the GOP over what he said. When Trump says something similar all the other candidates repudiate it.
@Roger Moore: I agree there’s a degree of difference but it’s basically the same sentiment applied to a larger group of people in Trump’s case. So why is JEB so Fauxtraged over what Trump is saying? Probably because what Trump is saying would keep the Saudis out and a large portion of the Bush family fortune is intertwined with the fortunes of Saudi princes. It’s all about the money.
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Eric
Please tell me they did Car Car Benks. Please, oh please…
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David Hopson
Whenever I see Darth Cheney smile, I know something evil has happened in this world
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piratedan7
the thing is, you compare the differences in “policy” between the GOP candidates and you’d wonder how in the hell anyone could actually support these positions that these folks have.
no belief in any kind of social contract, it’s the embodiment of IGMFY as both a social and foreign and monetary policy.
Oatler.
Stupid, obvious and FUCKING HILARIOUS
Keith G
The subtlety of the dialogue in this bit makes it fun. It also reminds me about the observation about the banality of evil.
jl
I would thank Mr. Cole, but I am a loyal BJ blog reader and that would be polite and gratitude shows weakness.
Hey, how about a Spaceballs version, huh?
But, thanks.
Unless this gets out among the Trumpites and it gives him another boost, in which case the results will be on Cole’s head.
Emerald
Imagine how much Trump audio these people had to listen to in order to produce this video.
One’s mind. It boggles.
They are heroes.
Bill E Pilgrim
So Trump is just doing Star Wars characters — well that would explain why he has a Wookie perched on his head.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
That was hilarious! I think it’s funny that no one notices that JEB? said after the Paris attacks that we should only let in Christian refugees, but he’s outraged OUTRAGED I tell you! when Trump says we should keep Muslims out of the country. Like, isn’t that saying what you just said? The whole party is rotten with bigotry to the core.
SiubhanDuinne
It’s funny, but it’s not nearly as funny as the “Trump as Your Drunk Neighbor” video I linked to twice yesterday.
Omnes Omnibus
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Honestly, that makes Trump the candidate with the more open border policy.
Bobby Thomson
I was wondering when that would make it here.
Russ
So, this is where we are. Politics and electability as entertainment. We are so fsucked.
Omnes Omnibus
@Russ: No one ever made political jokes or cartoon prior to this election season. You are right; the world has changed. Heavens to Betsy!
p.a.
Cheney = Jabba? Palpatine? Vader? (More machine than man)
W = Jar Jar? Or is Jar Jar more a Feith/Libby?
The Other Chuck
@piratedan7:
Actually, given much of the Republican base, it’s just FY. FY FY FY FY FY. Cleek’s law yunno.
The Other Chuck
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: That’s because no one notices or cares what ¿Jeb? says.
Omnes Omnibus
@p.a.: Vader was charismatic.
Poopyman
@piratedan7:
But IGM doesn’t really apply to most of his followers. They’re happy enough with FY.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Dear Sir, I believe you have an extra E in the word Betsy. :-)
He may have a point though, when Trump can get this far along and so many people are on board with his hate, some days it does feel like we are so fucked.
Poopyman
@The Other Chuck: What he said.
Steeplejack
@Russ:
I was fsucked once. Never again. Sensory overload. I have a delicate constitution.
Loneoak
@p.a.:
Jar Jar would be someone like Marc Penn: wrong, obnoxious, wrong, disastrous, wrong, horrible, but still not of the Dark Side.
Cheney is just obviously Palpatine.
The Other Chuck
@Loneoak:
You clearly haven’t read this analysis of Jar-Jar Binks as a Sith Lord (Please don’t take it as seriously as the people replying to the thread though)
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: First of all, no, I don’t. (Not as far as the world can see)
Second, Trump is leading among likely Republican primary voters. How many people vote in primaries? So, 40-45% of people are GOP. Fewer than vote in the primaries. Trump is getting 35% of that group.
p.a.
@Omnes Omnibus: Gallup 11/2015 28% self i.d. Republican, + 14% more Gallup i.d.’s as R-leaning.
boatboy_srq
Video is wrong. Wrong. WRONG!
OMEFFSM ROFLMAO.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Just teasing on Betsy/Betsey.
I don’t actually see how anyone can predict anything this time around. It will be quite illuminating to see how republicans actually VOTE in the first four primaries.
Citizen_X
@Keith G: My favorite part is him going on about Trump Steaks to Lando Calrissian. A perfect non sequitur.
Schlemazel
@piratedan7:
I work with an ammosexual, a nice enough guy except for the fatal flaw. We were discussing state rehab services for accident victims & he stated flatly the world would be better with no services at all. I told him Dickens wrote books about that world & it is not one civilized people would want to live in. He changed the subject.
amk
so did alain, the fixer, fixed it yet?
eta: looks like nope. back button is still effed up.
Roger Moore
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:
See, but ¿Jeb? was saying we should keep out Muslim refugees from Syria because they’re especially likely to be Daesh plants, while Trump is saying we should keep out all Muslims period because they’re all a bunch of jihadis. They’re both awful suggestions, but it’s hard to claim that Trump’s isn’t worse.
Schlemazel
@amk:
must have, no more green text. OTOH, I miss comment numbers, they make it easier to find my spot when I come back.
While I am whining I’d also like next & previous thread buttons and I was just getting used to have the most recent comments field. But I’m just happy the joint is stable
Schlemazel
@Roger Moore:
A difference without much distinction. JEB? always does stuff half-assed
Bobby Thomson
@Citizen_X: fuckin Lucas rewrites.
amk
@Schlemazel: we had green text??? daymn, missed it.
bemused
@SiubhanDuinne:
Thanks for posting that link. It’s perfect. I’ve been thinking from the start of the Trump campaign that he reminds me of all those loud, obnoxious booze hounds that hang out at the bars. Trump does this sober.
Omnes Omnibus
@bemused: How do you know he is sober?
Schlemazel
@Omnes Omnibus:
He acts like he is coked up. I worked with a woman who was snorting & she was loud, cock-sure and hyper. A sweet girl from a prominent MN family who died in the 80s. She burnt out very fast
redshirt
One of the Kochs is Palpatine.
Or maybe both of them.
SiubhanDuinne
@bemused:
I heard a little bit of audio in the car just now from some interview he had earlier today, and realized that the “drunk neighbor” piece has ruined me forever. I literally cannot hear Trump say anything now without picturing that sloshed in-your-face guy in the patriotic wife-beater and a beer bottle sticking up between his legs. Trying to imagine a Trump inaugural or SOTU speech, and my mind gets all boggly.
catclub
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Juan Cole pointed out that there is a long US tradition of excluding other people based on race and religion. It really did not end until about 1965.
Now that I know that, the chorus from all sides that such behavior is un-American is getting tiresome. It may be wrong and vile, but it is distinctly what we have done in the past.
When the US is appalled that other nations might dare to threaten to use nuclear weapons… there is some history there.
catclub
@Schlemazel: How old was Trump in the 80’s?
Did he have any access to cash then?
Schlemazel
@Schlemazel:
OH! just found the recent comments – OK thats one. Thanks
mai naem mobile
Have they done a Hitlers reaction to the Trump candidacy? They have to have.
catclub
Also, existential threats. Daesh is not one. The closest one that comes to mind is … global warming. But if Democrats called it one they would not be taken seriously. Funny how that 1% doctrine (Cheney saying that he had to respond to any threat even if there was only a 1% chance of it being real) does not apply if oil companies might be harmed.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Last thing I need around my place is a hookah smoking caterpillar.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Happily, I just love mushrooms!
Botsplainer
@p.a.:
Even in a Trump Vader universe, JarJar cannot be tolerated to exist, his species genocided to death.
Starfish
I think Beowulf Trump has some really great lines.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
WHOO-OO-OOO
R
U
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imonlylurkening: The Sequel
My roommate rescued two kittens last night. 3 month old boys. I’d forgotten how tiny their little heads are. The active gray explorer is Mouse, which is just wrong. We’ve been calling him Space Mouse. The quiet, shy, won’t-make-eye-contact-people-are-BIG! black one is named Curly, because his tail does a weird curl thing. (I think he should be Corkscrew, personally, but whatever.) My roommate has also discussed fostering chickens, so look out Betty Cracker!
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Smoke bothers me. OTOH I do love me some mushrooms.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: You got it.
PurpleGirl
@imonlylurkening: The Sequel: The kittens sound adorable. Is your roommate going to keep them?
SiubhanDuinne
@mai naem mobile:
Natürlich.
Felanius Kootea
Can’t laugh anymore at anything to do with Trump. Now that Trump is trying to mainstream open declarations of bigotry and succeeding in some parts of the country, what do people think his supporters will do when he finally loses (in a general election – I’m assuming he wins the Republican primary)? There are a lot of emboldened, racist people who aren’t just going to quietly slither away because Trump gets defeated. What’s the plan for dealing with them? When people are this vocal and in-your-face about voting for people and things that hurt them as long as they hurt the others they hate even more, Hillary saying “Okay, now the election is over, let’s all try to get along and play nice” might not be enough. Wonderful as the first amendment is, I’m starting to see why some European countries have strict hate speech laws. In Nigeria, I devoured books by James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison and Richard Wright (Black Boy was required reading in my secondary school) before moving to the US. I understood on an intellectual level that the US has a complex history when it comes race. But I really didn’t get it. I didn’t feel the fear I feel now. It’s not a good feeling.
Villago Delenda Est
@catclub: Oil companies are more important than millions of American lives and hundreds of million non-American lives.
Joel
Auralnauts did well with their Bane freestyle as well.
Corner Stone
That was a crazy ass TD run by AP.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
But the dormouse said, “Feed your head.”
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
. . .
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
@Omnes Omnibus:
The Dumpster wins & it will be time to start hitting the pharmas hard.
Villago Delenda Est
@Felanius Kootea: It’s always been here, and it colors (if you’ll pardon the expression) nearly every aspect of what is wrong with this country. 2nd Amendment worship is rooted in the slaver’s need to keep the property under control, for example. Our idiotic drug laws have a lot to do with racial animus.
It’s an intractable problem, to be sure. We can only chip away at it, and constant vigilance is needed to prevent sliding back, as we’ve done over the past 35 years.
imonlylurkening: The Sequel
@PurpleGirl: She says not. We already have 4 cats! We’ll see. Curly is funny-looking. I’m not sure how adoptable he will be.
Mandalay
Guess which GOP presidential candidate told this story…..
via Digby
Roger Moore
@catclub:
Look at the asymmetry. If there’s a 1% that we need to start a war, we have to start it on that tiny chance. If there’s a 1% chance we don’t have to worry about global warming, the science isn’t settled and we can keep on pumping out CO2 like there’s no tomorrow. The basic rule is that the Republicans will seize on any evidence- even transparently manufactured evidence- in favor of their viewpoint as conclusive.
Corner Stone
That Abolitionist is fucking fast. Damn.
raven
John Brown. . .damn. A Pittsburg State Gorilla !
sparrow
@Keith G: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt
Schlemazel
@Felanius Kootea:
The GOP is hoping for a split convention & while that is best in the short run the wingnuts are going to escalate the insanity when tRump goes in with a plurality of delegates but is denied the nomination. He can run as a 3rd (it would be great for the election) but the bitter, seething hatred will not be focused just on the GOP. They will get the first wave but the nation, the POTUS and Democrats will be attacked, seriously. The Dumpster will set this nation on fire. OK City and the Atlanta Olympic bombings will be looked back on as tame I am afraid. It would be better now for tRump to be the nom but the GOP ALWAYS puts party over nation & they are honestly stupid enough to either not see this coming or believe that can personally avoid the worst of it while the nation bleeds.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@catclub:
There are a lot of bad things we used to do that officially ended around 1965 but we sill have problems with today. Are we not supposed to denounce racial discrimination because we did it for a really long time and only passed effective laws against it in 1964?
Sorry, but it’s a silly argument to me. It’s like, Well, slavery was written into our constitution, so we can’t speak up if someone proposes bringing it back,
redshirt
@Joel: LOL. That was awesome.
Litlebritdifrnt
Apparently according to twitter Trump just announced in New Hampshire that anyone who kills a police officer automatically gets the death penalty. How can someone running for POTUS not know how the country actually works?
Corner Stone
@Litlebritdifrnt:
The only thing his potential voters will hear is, “Black Lives Matter”.
Patricia Kayden
It’s kind of strange how the media is so obsessed with Trump that no other candidate is really getting any coverage, especially any on the Democratic side. But since Trump is so divisive and destructive, this may be a great thing for our side.
shomi
Canada is importing terrrrristsss. Time to build another wall!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/refugees-depart-lebanon-to-canada-1.3358543
Calouste
@Litlebritdifrnt: Carson is running for Potus and he doesn’t know how most things in the world work.
Trump is a fascist, he doesn’t care about laws and things like that. The Leader says things, they get done.
Corner Stone
@Patricia Kayden: Maybe if the D’s had 6 more debates it would change the coverage dynamic?
Steeplejack (phone)
MN-AZ game pretty good so far. I will be peeling off at 10:00 for Elementary. It’s appointment television this season.
Calouste
@Mandalay: If I had Cruz Sr. as my father and Cruz Jr. as my brother, I would probably also have ended up in a crack house.
redshirt
@Patricia Kayden: It’s true, they can’t really attack Clinton when they have to cover Trump 24/7.
gogol's wife
@Oatler.:
I am in tears. So funny.
Omnes Omnibus
OT: Holly Woodlawn died this week. RIP
Edited thanks to raven.
gogol's wife
@mai naem mobile:
You mean one of those Bruno Ganz Untergang parodies?
gogol's wife
@SiubhanDuinne:
Didn’t read the whole thread yet. I’ll have to look at it.
raven
Hi kids
this is the bear
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Fixed. Thanks.
ETA: Otis died 48 years ago today in a lake not far from me. RIP as well.
Corner Stone
Turnover Vikes?
TO VIKES!
raven
@Omnes Omnibus:
Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.
Read more: Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side Lyrics | MetroLyrics
redshirt
@raven: Isn’t there a Trump reference in Reed’s New York?
catclub
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I didn’t say we could not talk about it. I said it was not helpful to pretend it had never happened before, and was completely unlike us.
Likewise, I think it would be more useful to say that we have done badly on race for centuries and we still need to work on it, and that curing that racism will be hard, than to say that racism is completely un-American.
The Other Chuck
@Litlebritdifrnt:
It’s not that he doesn’t know, it’s that he doesn’t care, and he’s pandering to supporters who fall into both categories.
SiubhanDuinne
@gogol’s wife:
That link above is to Hitler learns about Trump’s candidacy. But the one I’ve been pushing so hard is Trump as your drunken next-door neighbor, right here. One of the funniest things I have yet seen.
Mandalay
@Roger Moore:
Sadly,you are correct. Miami Beach is spending $300 million on pumps right now to mitigate flooding as the sea level rises. What sea level rise? The one that the University of Miami has shown increased 3.7″ between 1996 and 2014 just east of Miami.
And why not build protective walls instead of buying pumps? Because they would be useless; South Florida is built on porous limestone. With an increase in sea level sea water will come up through the ground (with or without the walls), and some wells here are already containing salt water. And the streets here sometimes get flooded by water coming up through the drains, even when it’s not raining, during high tides.
And all our fuckwit senator who is running for president can say about the situation is: “Man, I’m not a scientist”. Fuck the Republicans; their clueless stance on climate change really does present a dangerous threat to the country.
raven
@redshirt:
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PurpleGirl
@imonlylurkening: The Sequel: Where are you? A rescue could possibly help you find homes for the kittens. The rescue I support in northeast CT will take kittens from people who can’t care for the kittens/cats and find them homes.
(In fact this weekend Cassie is taking in 16 little ones from a northern Alabama rescue whose founder she knows. If left in Alabama the kittens probably would be killed but sending them north means they’ll find homes. A few of them already have homes lined up. You never know what other people will find adorable and want to adopt.)
Peale
@Litlebritdifrnt: that’s was the law in NYS from 1994-2007. Well I guess there might have been some discretion ion the charge.
When Donald took out the ad demanding that the Central Park 5 be executed, there was no death penalty in New York State and the kids were minors.
redshirt
@raven: That’s it.
Remember Spy Magazine? It was like 50% Trump related content, if I recall correctly.
I hold in my hands somehow as I type a Spy Books publication from 1988 called “Separated at Birth”, which has Donald Trump compared to Elvis Presley. It’s the snarls.
George Schultz…. and the Cowardly Lion? YES!
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Short fingered vulgarian.
p.a.
@Steeplejack (phone):
Nice to see writers giving characters progressive views on gun control, drug laws etc. with no waffling.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@The Other Chuck: There was some questioning and criticism of what JEB said about Syrian refugees (and it wasn’t just him, Failgunner Ted Cruz said the same thing), but there wasn’t outrage within the GOP over what he said. When Trump says something similar all the other candidates repudiate it.
@Roger Moore: I agree there’s a degree of difference but it’s basically the same sentiment applied to a larger group of people in Trump’s case. So why is JEB so Fauxtraged over what Trump is saying? Probably because what Trump is saying would keep the Saudis out and a large portion of the Bush family fortune is intertwined with the fortunes of Saudi princes. It’s all about the money.
Eric
Please tell me they did Car Car Benks. Please, oh please…
David Hopson
Whenever I see Darth Cheney smile, I know something evil has happened in this world