The GOP establishment’s puzzlement over the Trump phenomenon seems centered mostly on the absurdity of the tangerine-hued blow-hard muscling in on their hustle rather than serious disagreement with Trumpism. Considering the utter dearth of policy proposals on offer from Trump, it’s astonishing how little his opponents have said about the poverty of his vision. Jeb meeps incredulously about it occasionally, but then Trump gives him an atomic wedgie and he clams up again.
It makes more sense if you think of it in terms of a primate linear dominance display. Here’s the definition as applied to olive baboons, according to the University of Wisconsin:
Have you ever read “Skinny Legs and All” by Tom Robbins? It’s a whimsical look at the illusions and self-deceptions that keep people from figuring the important shit about life out. Robbins identifies politics as one of the roadblocks because he says it’s futile to cede control of anything important to “stentorian baboons.” He’s at least half right.
Anyway, here’s a link to the transcript of last night’s debate. I defy you to find anything coherent uttered by Trump. But it doesn’t matter what he says: He is the most adept at chest-beating and fang displays. It’s really as simple as that.
goblue72
Cool cartoon. You draw that?
Betty Cracker
@goblue72: Yes. Thank you.
Matt
It’s hard for them to manage that – the GOP hasn’t had any vision apart from “MOAR WAR MOAR JEEBUS LESS GUBMINT LESS TAXES” for nigh-on thirty years.
DanF
Yup. My wife asked me this morning who I thought won the debate. I replied that Trump was the clear alpha male, so he won.
Oatler.
Thanks for using “stentorian” in this era. It used to be a common word in journalism.
Mai.naem.mobile
@goblue72: cartoon would be funny if there was another candidate,say,Cruz or even Christie, grooming Trump’s hair like baboons groom each other. Trump should also be eating a banana and Jeb down below should be in the process of slipping on a banana peel dropped by Trump.
Thoughtful Today
RawStory:
“Conservative commentator: GOP voters just want a dominant personality — facts don’t matter.”
goblue72
@Mai.naem.mobile: Its says “Blah Blah Blah” but when I read it, I just see “Bark Bark Bark Bark Bark”
ThresherK (GPad)
@Betty Cracker: I know it’s easy to overdo things. Glad to see you’ve left yourself room to draw him more agitated and crazier as the weeks pass.
Mai.naem.mobile
@Matt: that’s actually ‘MOAR WAR FOR YOUR KIDS,MOAR JEEBUS FOR YOU,LESS GUBMINT FOR YOU,MOAR GUBMINT $$$ FOR ME, LESS TAXES FOR ME’
Amir Khalid
It’s not really surprising that the Donald’s opponents have so little to say about the poverty of his vision. Their own vision is afflicted by an identical poverty. They are forced to compete with him where he is strong, namely chest-beating and baring of fangs. So they’re losing. Maybe, just maybe, that will change when the primaries start in earnest. But they have hardly any more to offer in policy terms than he.
redshirt
We’re a “Post-Fact” Society now.
We make our own facts. Truth is what you want it to be.
Enhanced Voting Techinques
@srv:
Anway, aren’t you a Jebs! fan boi? So what is Jeb! right now, a cluck or a liberal?
trollhattan
@srv:
Step away from the bong. Now dial the county mental health office and ask for a ride. Say, “please” and “thank you.”
Thank you
robert thompson
@goblue72:
The lowest chicken eating egg sucking mongrel cur has more dignity than Trump. Dog Libel.
trollhattan
@Enhanced Voting Techinques:
DougJ’s app gets more sophisticated with each election cycle. The rants don’t get more sophisticated, but the “personas” do.
bemused
Just looking at Trump makes me laugh. It’s hard to take my eyes off those tiny, pouty lips. Maybe that looks tough and macho to some folks but he just reminds me of a toddler in a perpetual tantrum. I saw a clip of him from a side view and the pout, lower lip stuck out, is even more hilarious.
Anoniminous
It’s the culture, stupid.
gogol's wife
@Enhanced Voting Techinques:
No, you’re confusing him with RtR. This one’s always been for Trump.
Yeah, Trump will do really well up against Putin.
Goblue72
@srv: I agree. Donald Trump has proven himself very adept at failing in business, filing for bankruptcy, and stiffing his creditors and bond holders.
Goblue72
@gogol’s wife: Trump will go moob to moob with Putin.
gogol's wife
I keep trying to get James Wolcott’s formulation to spread: “an orange Elvis squeezed from a can of Cheez Whiz.”
catclub
@Matt: Yep, nobody on that stage, or the panelists, will ask Trump:
“So the military is a disaster? What do you plan to do to fix that, how much would it cost, and where would you get the money?”
because they are all in saying in some many words, that the military is a disaster – and ending right there.
gogol's wife
@Goblue72:
brain bleach, please
catclub
@Amir Khalid: I meant much the same thing as you wrote.
dedc79
Little Red Riding Hood, NRA-style:
jl
” the utter dearth of policy proposals ”
For Baud’s sake, what part of Big Wall, Keep Muslims Out, and Make Great Deals, don’t you understand, BC?
And anyway, Cruz wrapped it all up with his “We Win They Lose’ plan.
What is the post about, anyway? You need to just listen.
trollhattan
I’d venture a guess Nevada is one of the top three or so states for rooftop solar. And as such one would think the state would be doing everything possible to encourage widespread adoption of solar. One, however, would be ignoring the clout of the consumer-friendly folks at NV Energy, the corporation supplying most of the state with electricity (from a mix of powerplants including ginormous coal-fired ones).
A punchline not addressed in the article: Solar City is an Elon Musk company and Nevada pulled out all the stops luring his Tesla Gigawatt battery plant to the state. Now they’re cutting off his nose? I’ll get the popcorn.
Pogonip
Game time! Finish this double bill: “The Stentorian Baboons will be opening tonight for our main act, the… ”
My entry: “…the Egg Laying Workers!”
Fester Addams
@gogol’s wife:
I miss that guy. I still think about his hashtag-FreshLook period. I LLOL’ed (literally laughed out loud).
Lord Baldrick
@dedc79: NRA2 Electric Boogaloo:
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen’s got a gun!
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen has got a gun!
Debbie’s smiling, and waving her gun
Picking off cheerleaders one by one
Oh! Buffy’s pom poms just blew to bits
Oh no, Misty’s head just did the splits!
My best friend is on a shooting spree
Stop it, Debbie, you’re embarrassing me!
How could you do what you just did
Are you having a really bad period?
I would pay to see this remake.
Matt McIrvin
@Enhanced Voting Techinques: You’re thinking of the guy with all the aliases beginning with R.
Iowa Old Lady
@Goblue72: Here’s an ad suggestion. Opening line: Donald Trump claims to be a good businessman. (Clip of Trump bragging) The truth is he started off rich (“small million dollar loan” clip), made money for himself, and ran his companies so badly that he presided over four bankruptcies (headlines). Don’t let him make the US his fifth.
bluehill
His gun control comments weren’t original, but made me think that you could apply the same arguments to nuclear proliferation. Nukes don’t kill people, people kill people. Nuke-free zones invite attacks, etc.
goblue72
@gogol’s wife: At least I didn’t mention the idea of Trump in a push-up bra.
jl
Also, nice Trump art, I assume a BC original.
Betty Cracker
@Lord Baldrick: Oh man, I haven’t thought about that song in a long time!
Brachiator
I didn’t watch the debate, but will look over the transcript, but this is a good point.
The main thing is that Trump is pushing the other contenders further to the right, especially with respect to immigration and the flirtation with outright bigotry, a bellicose foreign policy, and women’s reproductive rights. I have no idea whether Trump has said anything about gay marriage.
But the main thing here seems to be to repeal Obamacare, build a wall to keep Muslims and Mexicans out, and then to (somehow) make America greater and greater.
And when you get down to it, the other dopes have been vague as well. There ain’t much policy beyond “Obama bad! GOP great!”
Patricia Kayden
Many sensible people have already figured out that Trump is a fascist. I assume that’s his biggest appeal to Republican voters. They want someone who will allow and encourage them to rough up the inferiors like they did back in the 50s (otherwise known as the good old days).
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/11/donald_trump_is_a_fascist_it_is_the_political_label_that_best_describes.html
Botsplainer
@Mai.naem.mobile:
Sounds way too much like the introduction to “soft-on”-inducing slash fiction of the Brokeback Bundy variety.
I’d need a crate of blue pills and a crane to get it up if I ever saw such a thing.
Cacti
@srv:
Donald Trump managed to bankrupt a casino and a professional football league.
What kind of alleged business maven can’t make a buck at selling gambling and football to Americans?
ruemara
I can’t really mock too hard. This is a flaw that both sides have. The saving grace is that no matter who the candidate, the proposals are all fiscally sound and potentially doable with a great benefit to all. The only way trump could do that is if he jumped down a dragon’s throat and poisoned the poor beast.
Brachiator
@srv:
This is weak stuff, even for you, Chuckles.
Let’s say that Trump is a Master of the Universe level businessman. Don’t mean squat when it comes to foreign policy chops or being commander-in-chief.
trollhattan
@Brachiator:
Considering our MBA president did such a bang-up job.
SiubhanDuinne
@Matt:
Fewer.
Anoniminous
@Brachiator:
They got nothing else. The ideas (what they mouthy-mouth) and policies (what they actually do) of the RayGuns Conservative Revolution have proven to be wrong-headedly disastrous for the US and the citizens of the US.
JPL
Ted Cruz failed to report a second loan… NYTimes
Iowa Old Lady
@SiubhanDuinne: Bless you.
SiubhanDuinne
@Iowa Old Lady:
:-)
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: Lower, actually.
Ohio Mom
@Goblue72: I’d love to see commercials where the little guys who got stiffed as a result of his various bankruptcies get interviewed: “Yeah, we had a small sign business and when we got the job to manufacture and install the interior signs at Trump’s casino — you know, restroom signs, the signs saying rooms 200-236 this way, 237-240 that way — we thought we had it made. It’s a big place and it was a big job for us.
Then he declares bankruptcy and we never got paid. It led to us going out of business. All the subs got hurt. Didn’t really hurt Trump though, did it?”
Because I’m guessing a lot of small guys were left holding the bag.
Mnemosyne
@dedc79:
Given that most authorities agree that Little Red Riding Hood is a warning tale about climbing into bed with a “wolf” and losing your virginity, I think the NRA version is a little too on the phallus … er, nose.
Gin & Tonic
@JPL: Oh, come on. Who among us doesn’t occasionally overlook a couple of half-million dollar loans?
Litlebritdifrnt
Did anyone watch MJ this morning? Apparently Trump had been up all night and didn’t have a chance to get his hair did cause when MJ filmed him from the side when he was being interviewed the massive bald spot on the side of his head where he obviously begins the combover was clearly visible. It made me giggle like a school girl.
Mike J
@JPL: Cabell Hobbs, who worked in the WH political office under Bush, is Cruz’s campaign treasurer now (and since at least 2013). Was he treasurer at the time? The treasurer is responsible for FEC filings. I haven’t seen any indication that the Times, or anyone for that matter, has tried to get a comment from him.
Patricia Kayden
@Brachiator: According to GLAAD, Trump is against marriage equality.
http://www.glaad.org/trump
bystander
@JPL: These job killing regulations!
lgerard
I think that the key to drawing Trump is to get the lighter colored circles around his eyes that make him look like a raccoon in reverse.
Sadly, I can’t laugh at his hair because I essentially have the same style.
Yellowdog
@SiubhanDuinne:Will you marry me? We could spend our declining days yelling at “10 items or less” signs. Sometimes I think people have forgotten that the word fewer exists.
WereBear
Still rooting for Trump becoming the nominee. We aren’t any worse off than any of the others, but he’s defenseless in debate. Either Democratic front runner would mop the floor with him.
And with that hair…
BillinGlendaleCA
@Ohio Mom: Ah, that won’t work; they tried that against Senator Fiorina here in CA… Oh wait…
Gin & Tonic
@Yellowdog: Props to the Stop & Shop supermarket chain, which correctly uses “fewer” in the express lanes.
Mike J
@WereBear:
It depends on how you score the debate. Answering questions, presenting supporting arguments? Of course Trump can’t do that. Yelling, looking tough, as tough as he’ll make America!!!? He can do that.
Gimlet
Has Obama appointed an “Emergency Governor” yet to manage affairs in Flint and the rest of Michigan?
KithKanan
@bluehill:
I’m pretty sure at least a few countries drew that conclusion after looking at the divergent experiences of the countries mentioned in Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech.
Mike J
KTVZ NewsChannel 21 @KTVZ 10m10 minutes ago
BREAKING: OSP arrests Crescent resident Kenneth Medenbach, 62, on charges in theft of two govt. vehicles from Malheur refuge. Details coming
Also:
John Sepulvado @JohnLGC 39m39 minutes ago
Wondering why power hasn’t been cut? Or the @FBI hasn’t gone in? Here’s @amandapeacher & my story for @OPB & @wweek
his story
BillinGlendaleCA
Looks like one of the loons up in OR got arrested at the Burns Safeway for driving one of the refuge’s vehicles into town by the OR state police.
ETA: Damn you Mike J, beat me by that much?
Gimlet
@Mike J:
Wondering why power hasn’t been cut? Or the @FBI hasn’t gone in?
You obviously don’t play much eleventy-dimensional chess.
Roger Moore
@dedc79:
We’ve spent some time mocking them on Twitter under #NRAFairyTales. Things like the witch shooting Hansel and Gretel for vandalizing her house, then being acquitted based on the castle doctrine, or the wise woman who was left out of Sleeping Beauty’s christening feast shooting the place up instead of cursing her. Though as somebody else pointed out, the biggest NRA Fairy Tale is the Big Bad Obama who’s coming for your guns.
Brachiator
@Anoniminous:
Trump, maybe even Cruz may not need much else to at least get the nomination. They are riding the crest of the wave of the anger of a good chunk of the Republican base. Of course, the GOP mainstream is largely responsible for stoking the fires of this anger in the first place, but then they were so stupid that they sent a mealy-mouthed mild mannered dope like Jeb! to gather in the sheep. The job was way too much for him.
Soylent Green
Linky.
Protester arrested in Burns, driving stolen refuge vehicle
Schlemazel
Anyway, here is a brick wrapped in a used diaper, I defy you to hit yourself repeatedly in the head with it and remain coherent.
Ah, that would be “NO THANKS!”
Ripley
@trollhattan: Having recently become a Nevada resident, I’ve been following this; thanks for the info. This state, despite a notable lack of water, is positively shark infested. The human variety, anyway.
dedc79
@Roger Moore: Obama is most definitely the NRA’s fairy tale villain.
Soylent Green
There’s a petition up on the White House’s “We the People” petition board, with many more signatures needed.
Arrest Ammon Bundy and the armed occupiers of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge
It’s currently running well behind “Commute the sentences of the Hammonds.”
Bill Arnold
@bluehill:
I know you’re talking about government-owned nukes, but I do wonder whether the NRA would approve of citizens owning personal Casaba-Howitzers.
Eat hot nuclear plasma at 100 kilometers per second, scum!
(It’s a one-shot device and not to be used nearby, if it actually does exist. The launcher might loosely be called a howitzer I suppose.)
Schlemazel
I saw a video of some kids all dressed in red white and blue singing for the Dumpster at one of his rallies. I am sure the song sounded better in the original German (Man do I miss Molly!)
All I hear however was:
Oh Fatherland, Fatherland,
Show us the sign
Your children have waited to see.
The morning will come
When the world is mine.
Tomorrow belongs to me!
Brachiator
@Patricia Kayden:
What a dope. And it’s weird that he doesn’t even bother to try to offer any reason for his views. He doesn’t even bother playing to religious conservatives. It just comes down to what he wants and is comfortable with.
piratedan7
@trollhattan: @29 and you can bet your ass that Nevada is selling the energy that they “get back” from solar to California at a tidy profit…. in this game, the consumer always loses.
redshirt
The whole Benghazi thing fascinates/revolts me. Read this account of attending the premier.
That the same exact person (typical Wingnut( doesn’t give a damn that Bush lied us into an utterly disastrous war in Iraq is SO FUCKING UPSET about Benghazi is just the height of cognitive dissonance.
geg6
Since this is an OT, I just want to say I’m done with this week. First Bowie, then Rickman and now I find out an old friend and one of the best guys I know just died from cancer. I got that news while already teary-eyed in a memorial service for our former campus chancellor who died last month from ALS.
Roger Moore
@Schlemazel:
Not:
I keep expecting to hear that kind of thing from Trump rallies.
trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
Spiffy matching brown uniforms shall be optional prior to super Tuesday, mandatory after.
Mary G
@geg6: I’ve been superstitiously waiting for the third shoe to drop; sorry it was your friend.
jl
I wonder if a simpler definition of ‘linear dominance hierarchy’ is ‘kiss up, kick down’. This connects two important domains where the concept rules: from gangs of non-human primates to sociopathic corporations.
Since the GOP has become an arm of sociopathic crony capitalist corporate governance, they might understand the latter term more easily.
Gimlet
House Republicans rented a movie theater to watch Hollywood’s new film about the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday, before the movie opened nationwide.
Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) coordinated the special showing of “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” for lawmakers attending a GOP retreat in Baltimore. Roughly 65 House Republicans attended, his office told The Hill.
To catch it, some lawmakers had to skip out on Thursday evening’s Republican presidential debate.
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
In fairness, I think that’s a lot closer to most people’s objections to gay marriage than anything about Leviticus. The real objection to marriage equality- and to LGBTQ people in general- is that they’re weird and icky and different from what we’re used to. Quotes from the Bible are used to justify those beliefs, but they aren’t the source of them.
MomSense
I’m sorry to go off topic but I turned kn the tv to find Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix just as Alan Rickman makes his entrance as Snape to teach Harry how to defend himself against occlumency. He is so good. That voice. What a week it has been.
Mnemosyne
@redshirt:
What’s been pissing me off about that dumbass movie is that these supposed superheroes LOST TRACK OF THE GUY THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SAVING. The ambassador ended up being abandoned by them and taken to a local hospital instead, where he died of smoke inhalation.
We go from “Saving Private Ryan” to “What Ambassador?”
Mnemosyne
@geg6:
Fuck cancer.
dedc79
Hope (but highly doubt) this gets some traction:
Mike J
@Mnemosyne:
Prolly cause Hillary ordered them to “lose” him
At least she didn’t send a DMCA takedown to wikipedia.
Anoniminous
A little theme music for the thread.
@Brachiator:
Agree.
I thought we’d be looking at theo-fascism a la Franco instead of the straight Conservative/Nationalist fascism of Mussolini. Fortunately (so far) Trump doesn’t seem to have the cojones to go full bore black shirt. I’m really not sure why. There’s enough “there” there at his rallies to organize a para-military group.
George Hayduke
@srv: @srv:
If Trump had put his inheritance in a savings account, he would have more net worth than he currently does, and would not have had to suffer his multiple business failures and subsequent bankruptcies…moron.
redshirt
@Anoniminous: The election season is young! Plenty of time to organize some color themed supporters.
gex
@geg6: Oh no. Hugs.
Cancer can eat a bag of Trump hair, as far as I’m concerned.
trollhattan
@dedc79:
“recovering Republican.” Heh.
debbie
I thought what he said to Cruz about NYC was plenty coherent. Now, whether he actually meant it…
debbie
@JPL:
Good news! Let’s see how he smarms his way out of that.
MomSense
@geg6:
Damn. Fuck fucking cancer. Really sorry. I’ve lost several good friends my age in the last three years to cancer and it’s just awful.
jake the antisoshul soshulist
@Matt:
That is their policy for every issue. More God, more guns, less government, less taxes.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Anoniminous: So, you’re saying that we need to feed Republicans food laced with tuberculosis?
I could get behind that proposal.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yellowdog:
No one has ever before proposed marriage based on my knowing the difference between “less” and “fewer.” I’m ridiculously flattered.
Roger Moore
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
Sporulating Clostridium botulinum would be a much better choice.
Satby
@geg6: Condolences geg6, that’s hard.
lol chikinburd
@geg6: This month, man. Damn, I’m sorry. The moonshot ought to be nuclear-tipped. Fucking fucking FUCK cancer.
David *Rafael* Koch
@Mike J: check out this gif of the seahawks motorcade: 4 buses + 6 motorcycle cops clearing all traffic
SiubhanDuinne
@lol chikinburd:
“This month,” indeed. Not sure whether anyone saw (I kind of buried it in an off-topic in some thread downstairs), but fans of the old TV show Grizzly Adams will be sad to learn that Dan Haggerty died earlier today at age 74.
Cancer.
Cancer can go drink all the water in Flint and take a swim in the Flint River and then ask Rick Snyder for help. Fuck cancer.
David *Rafael* Koch
@geg6: sorry to hear that, man. it so sad losing someone early.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
I’m so sorry. It just sucks.
Mike J
@David *Rafael* Koch: Thanks for that. I was actually off looking for footage of them getting on the buses to see if Marshawn got on. Still listed as a “probable”, so I guess he did.
debbie
@geg6:
Jeez, I hate cancer. I know so, so many people who have fought it (or tried to). I wish the world would direct all the frenzied tribal hatred energy at finding a cure.
SiubhanDuinne
Ah, SHIT, y’all.
Bob Denver dead.
Cancer, of course.
RIP, Gilligan.
Fuck fuck fuck.
J R in WV
@srv:
Typical stupid know-nothing remark from you, again.
Was this before or after the first bankruptcy?
Was this before or after the second bankruptcy?
Was this before or after the third bankruptcy?
Was this before or after the fourth bankruptcy?
What a proven businessman! Totally invested in cash-inos and hotels – with the demand plummeting everywhere. Best of luck to him! Well, not really. I’ve been into a cash-ino twice, and hated it both times. And I hate Trump’s politics, whatever they are. So screw him!
redshirt
I had cancer and survived! Many do.
Cancer is part of life like death is part of life.
Brachiator
@Roger Moore:
I disagree in part. I think that some people may indeed have sincere religious objections to gay marriage. And some people I’ve talked to seem to have this notion that somehow accepting gay marriage would be a major act of disobedience to their Deity even though this fear is crazy inconsistent, compared to, say, condoning adultery.
But I kinda don’t care. I think all objections to gay marriage are stupid.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Never mind. It seems he died 11 years ago. My bad for not independently confirming the report I saw (although fuck the trolls who make us do that). Anyway, yeah, he’s dead, but it didn’t happen this week. Apologies to all.
Mike J
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes, Bob Denver died in 2005.
Brachiator
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’ve been watching an old TV show, The Adventures of Dobie Gillis.
Before Gilligan, there was Maynard G Krebs.
An underrated comedian.
Safe travels, Little Buddy.
ETA: RE: Yes, Bob Denver died in 2005.
What, old obits resurfacing? All right, a moment of rembrance.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike J:
I posted a correction at #118.
SiubhanDuinne
@Brachiator:
I remember Maynard G. Krebs from the original airings of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. For a TV sitcoms in the late 1950s-early ’60s, it was quite astonishingly surrealistic.
David *Rafael* Koch
@Mike J: no news is good news. Plus he told Kenny Mayne earlier in the day that he’s ready to go
Jay C
@SiubhanDuinne:
Seems to be an instant artifact of the Internet Age: obits of noted celebrities often get posted (usually with sincere condolences) long after said celeb has departed. I read just last week about the demise of Harry Morgan (M*A*S*H) – even though he died in 2011.
redshirt
People die every day, in fact.
Villago Delenda Est
@SiubhanDuinne: We’re talking wingnut here. “LESS TAXES” is perfectly cromulent in wingnut.
Villago Delenda Est
@SiubhanDuinne: Bob Denver died 11 years ago. Dick Cheney still “lives”.
There is no motherfucking justice in this universe.
The Golux
@Brachiator:
I can easily imagine Trump saying, “I’m not in favor of two queers getting married – that’s just sick. Two lesbos, though – that’s kinda hot.’
Villago Delenda Est
@geg6: DAMN IT ALL TO HELL!
Condolences to you, and to the family.
Fuck cancer. Fuck it.
Mike J
@David *Rafael* Koch: King5 says they saw him get on the plane.
Mnemosyne
@redshirt:
Strangely, that was not much consolation to my brother’s four kids, three of whom are under the age of 18. But, hey, 9-year-old child whose father just died, people die all the time, so what are you crying about?
redshirt
@Mnemosyne: Sad, but true. It’s one of life’s unfortunate consequences.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
FUCK! Jeebus!
ETA: Those damn FB posts from months or years back!
graham
@srv:
ROTFLMAO – Stop, please. That is a good one.
Wait, ur srs?
David *Rafael* Koch
@Mike J: Just saw a news update on the half hour on the NFL channel and the ran video of him boarding the bus.
Central Planning
@redshirt:
Me too!
Steeplejack
Why wouldn’t he go to the game, even if he can’t play? It’s the playoffs, and he’s a member of the team. He may not be able to suit up, but does that mean he can’t ride the bus and travel with the rest of the team?
Matt McIrvin
@Anoniminous: I’ve been wondering when he actively hooks up with these Posse Comitatus types and starts sending them out to fuck some shit up. They may be too dimwitted to accomplish much nationwide, though.
Matt McIrvin
@Jay C: An obit of Annette Funicello is going around again as we speak, three years after she died. I think some news sites cough up links to these things on anniversaries, and people who either hadn’t heard or forgot the first time pass on the story without checking the year in the date.
Woodrowfan
Geg6, I am so sorry.
Ramalama
@Brachiator: I like reading the transcripts because Trump particularly has very good delivery. Or should I say ‘tremendous’ delivery. He’s doing stand up. But looking at the text, he repeats himself, and then certain words. Crafty.
I made word clouds – link is hiding here on the last Republican debate, and then the Democratic debate. Kind of fun, but I don’t know that I’ll do it again with this latest transcript.